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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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    SPRING ON MARS: SNOWY DUNES ON NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

    Below is a photograph that was taken in the Northern hemisphere in the spring at 13.21 Mars time and it was captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera that is located on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from NASA.

    Over the winter ice and snow have covered the dunes on Mars, but the snow and ice on Mars are not like that of Earth as it is known as dry ice.

    SUN REVEALS ICE AND SNOW ON SMALL RIDGES  

    Once the sun begins to shine when spring comes around, the ice, begins to crack on the smooth surface and dark sand is carried out by the gas that escapes, and this creates patterns that are stunning. On the surface between the dunes, the surface is rough, and frost gets trapped behind some of the small ridges that are sheltered.  

    The manager of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington is the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and they manage the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The HiRISE camera is from Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation, and it is operated by the University of Arizona.

    THE NASA MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER

    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA was launched on 12 August 2005, and the aim of the technology was for it to search for any evidence that there was water on the surface of the Red Planet for any long period of time. Missions to Mars that had occurred before the launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed that water had flowed over the surface of Mars throughout history; however, it has remained unknown whether the water had been around for a period of time that was long enough to Mars to have been habitable.  

    The cameras of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are able to survey spots very close up, and one of the cameras is said to be the biggest that has ever flown on a planetary mission. On other orbiters of Mars, cameras have only been able to identify objects around the size of a school bus. However, the new camera can see something that is about the size of an average dinner table.

    Thanks to the high-resolution camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter these superb images of snowy dunes on Mars have been captured.

    Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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    ANTARES, ASTRONOMERS CAPTURE THE BEST EVER IMAGE OF A STAR OTHER THAN THE SUN

    Astronomers have managed to capture some of the best ever and most detailed photographs of Antares surface and atmosphere and they have shared the photos online.  

    ANTARES IS CALLED THE RED SUPERGIANT THANKS TO ITS ROSY GLOW

    Antares is the red supergiant and it is at the very heart of the Scorpius constellation. It is named the red supergiant due to the fact that it has a rosy hue which is discernible by the naked eye. The new photos have been taken in Chile with the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory and they have revealed a detailed look at the atmosphere and surface of the star that is well beyond the solar system.  

    Antares is located around 550 light years from Earth, and the mass of the star is about 15 times the mass of the sun. However, it is expanding out and is in in the last part of its life and will become a supernova and due to this, it is losing material. Astronomers have said that if Antares were sitting in the middle of our solar system, the outer layers would be able to reach Mars. Up until now the exact process at which the giant stars lose their mass from the upper atmosphere hasn’t really been known.

    LATEST PHOTOS MAP THE SURFACE OF ANTARES THANKS TO THE VLTI

    The latest photos from the astronomers hope to answer this question as they map the motions of the material surface in very intricate details thanks to the VLTI, the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. This is an instrument that is able to combine the light from as many as four telescopes so that it can create a virtual telescope which has a resolution that is the same of a single mirror that is about 200 meters wide.  

    Keiichi Ohnaka from the Universidad Catolica del Norte in Chile said how stars such as the Antare lose their mass so fast in the final part of their evolution is something that has been an issue for more than half a century. The author of the paper went on to say that the VLTI is the only place capable of measuring correctly the gas motions in the extended Antares atmosphere and this is something that is critical in clarifying the problem. It is said that the next challenge researchers and astronomers have is to identify just what drives the turbulent motions.  

    From the observations made researchers have found some unexpected turbulence in the outer atmosphere of the star and these have been big clumps of receding and up-welling gas. They are movements that cannot be fully explained by the convection currents, where the gas flow transfers any heat from the core and to the outer limits of the star, which points to a new and at the moment, unknown process. 

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    25-08-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

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    PROJECT AURORA: LOCKHEED MARTIN JUST CONFIRMED THEY'RE BUILDING THE SR-72

    Government contractor and multinational corporation Lockheed Martin has finally publicly confirmed that they are building the SR-72. The SR-72, based on newly available information, would be the first hypersonic plane. In order to build support for this new design, NASA has released video footage of its predecessor: the SR-71 "Blackbird". 

    The SR-71 "Blackbird" itself was first built back in the 1960s based on secret government designs from the 1950s. To this day, it is the fastest manned aircraft to have ever been built, as shown in the video. Remarkably, a faster plane was never built in the nearly half a century since the SR-71's construction.  

    The SR-71 was able to reach speeds up to Mach 3 (2,200 mph) at a maximum altitude of almost 26,000 meters (85,000 feet) The two-seater SR-71 Blackbird was designed as a reconnaissance craft, and it was used in this roll from 1964 to 1998. However, during this period, Lockheed built only 32 of these super-fast planes. They are now working on the SR-72 to upstage the SR-71 by making it even faster. This would allow the SR-72 to function as a strike and recon aircraft.  

    The project is being developed under Lockheed’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP) or Skunk Works. The company wants to develop a plane capable of hypersonic flight, which means it would have to be able to attain speeds of Mach 5 (3,836 mph) and higher. Lockheed has aimed to surpass this mark, claiming that they expect to SR-72 to reach a Mach 6 (4,600 mph) top speed.

    The main question now is why the government believes it needs this plane, and how it will be used. Of course, there is a great deal of secrecy surrounding the project, but it is certain to be expensive. It could be related to tensions between the U.S. And Russia; however, the plane could also function as a spy plane elsewhere. Even over American soil. It would be extremely hard to detect with any civilian, or even military, technology due to its remarkable speed and altitude capabilities.

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    25-08-2017 om 17:26 geschreven door peter  

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    SETI INSTITUTE NEEDS YOUR HELP TO FIND INTELLIGENT ALIENS

    This video explains how you can help the SETI Institute find extraterrestrial intelligence from home.

    STEP 1: INSTALL THE PROGRAM IN YOUR COMPUTER OR ALL THE COMPUTERS YOU HAVE

    STEP 2: ADD THE PROJECT AND CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT

    STEP 3: CHECK THE DIFFERENT TASKS CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE

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    25-08-2017 om 17:08 geschreven door peter  

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    25-08-2017 om 01:34 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.World’s First Robot Chef Whips Up Your Favorite Meal For You

    World’s First Robot Chef Whips Up Your Favorite Meal For You

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    Image by Moley Robotics via Youtube

    When we get home after an exhausting day at the office, most of the time we don’t feel like cooking a proper meal. Instead of cooking something healthy, most of us just fall down on the couch and order a pizza. Or maybe we opt for the quicker and easier option of ready-made meals that are usually unhealthy and lacking in nutrition.

    But that may change soon. Your dream of getting home-cooked food at the end of a long working day could become a reality.

    Credit goes to Moley Robotics, a company headquartered in London. Moley will soon be launching the world’s first fully automated and integrated intelligent cooking robot. With this robot chef, making dinner will become as easy as sitting back and watching a pair of robotic arms do all the work.

    Moley claims that this cooking robot will have access to the recipes and knowledge of renowned chefs. Furthermore, this wonder robot will not only be cooking for you, but it will clean up the mess afterward.

    This robotic chef’s work space will be much like a standard kitchen. It will have an oven, a fridge, a dishwasher and a host of small appliances, but will offer one incredible new feature: It will also have two remarkably dexterous robotic arms installed atop a cooking area.

    The robot chef is programmed to cook a variety of recipes exactly the way they were demonstrated by a human chef. The best part is that the kitchen can be operated by a touch screen or a remotely via a smartphone.

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    Nidhi is a gold medalist Post Graduate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. You can also find Nidhi on Google+.

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    25-08-2017 om 01:18 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA Has a $3.46 Billion Plan to Ensure the Yellowstone Supervolcano Doesn’t Erupt

    NASA Has a $3.46 Billion Plan to Ensure the Yellowstone Supervolcano Doesn’t Erupt

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    IN BRIEF
    NASA has detailed a plan to prevent the Yellowstone supervolcano from ever erupting. By drilling into the volcano and pumping water into and out of it at high speeds, they believe they could cool the volcano and use the emerging hot water to generate electricity.

    FROM THREAT TO ALLY

    When people think of Yellowstone, it’s usually in relation to the national park, a massive 8,983 square kilometer (3,468.4 square mile) area comprising mountains, rivers, and forests. Less commonly considered is the Yellowstone Caldera, a supervolcano whose eruption could be devastating for our planet.

    Thankfully, such an explosion is highly unlikely, and now, NASA has come up with a way to not only ensure that the volcano remains inactive, but also use it to provide the surrounding area with electricity.

    Following their release of a story on supervolcanoes, the BBC was contacted by a few NASA members who wanted to share details on a previously unreleased plan to deal with Yellowstone. Even NASA admits their incredibly ambitious plan is risky, but the potential benefits resulting from its success can’t be completely ignored.

    First, they would drill into the volcano from the lower sides, outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. Coming from this direction would prevent the intense heat from making its way to the top of the chamber, where it would cause further problems.

    Once drilling is complete, water would be pumped into and back out of the supervolcano at high pressures, with the exiting water heated to a temperature of around 350 degrees Celsius (662 degrees Fahrenheit). The water going in would slowly cool the volcano, while the hot water coming out of it could be used to generate electricity.

    “Yellowstone currently leaks around 6GW in heat,” Brian Wilcox, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explained to the BBC. “Through drilling in this way, it could be used to create a geothermal plant, which generates electric power at extremely competitive prices of around $0.10/kWh.”

    UNSEEN SUCCESS

    Aside from the dangers inherent in any plan to drill into a volcano, the NASA proposal is also largely theoretical — no one knows for sure that it would work, and the cost of finding out would be an estimated $3.46 billion. Wilcox doesn’t think this cost is insurmountable, however.

    “You would have to give the geothermal companies incentives to drill somewhat deeper and use hotter water than they usually would, but you would pay back your initial investment and get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years,” he noted. “And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity.”

    Even if the system can effectively cool Yellowstone at NASA’s estimated rate of 1 meter (3.2 feet) per year, it would take thousands of years before only cool rock was left and longer than that to actually confirm that the process had permanently eliminated the threat of an eruption.

    Despite all of these variables, the plan is worth consideration, especially given that Yellowstone is just one of about 20 supervolcanoes on the planet. NASA hopes that their proposal will encourage more practical discussions and debates on what to do about these massive structures prior to an eruption, at which point the Earth could be thrust into a volcanic winter.

    25-08-2017 om 01:11 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.See Newly Released NASA Footage of the Fastest Plane Ever Flown

    See Newly Released NASA Footage of the Fastest Plane Ever Flown

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    IN BRIEF
    Built by Lockheed Martin in the 1960s and decommissioned in 1998 due to high operational costs, the SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest aircraft to have ever been flown. Now, Lockheed Martin wants to build an even faster plane: the SR-72.

    Now that Lockheed Martin has confirmed that they are building the SR-72, which could be the first hypersonic plane, NASA has released video footage of its predecessor: the SR-71 Blackbird.

    Built in the 1960s by Lockheed using designs that were kept secret in the 1950s, the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest manned aircraft to have ever flown the skies. To get an idea of how fast, watch the below video of the plane taking off.

    Capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 3 (2,200 mph) with a maximum altitude of almost 26,000 meters (85,000 feet), the two-seater SR-71 Blackbird was used as a reconnaissance plane from 1964 to 1998. Lockheed built only 32 of these super-fast planes, and now, they want to build an even faster one that will act as a strike and recon aircraft.

    The SR-72, the leading project under Lockheed’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP) or Skunk Works, promises to be even faster than the Blackbird. The company wants to develop a plane capable of hypersonic flight — speeds of Mach 5 (3,836 mph) and higher — and the SR-72 is expected to reach a Mach 6 (4,600 mph) top speed.

    The inspiration for this hypersonic plane may come from the past, but it is poised to take military aircraft well into the future.

    https://futurism.com/ }

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    The Secret Soviet Space Weapon Mistaken for a UFO

    A treaty-busting first-strike nuke that was very much terrestrial in origin.

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    25-08-2017 om 00:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Alien hunters film ‘UFO’ hovering in the clouds above the Philippines before it shoots off into the distance

    • Clouds obscure the supposed UFO as it appears to fly above passing trees
    • The video was shot from a moving vehicle by alien spotters in the islands 
    • The sighting follows five 'incidents' reported by hunters in the last 17 years 

    This is the moment alien hunters believe they spotted an extra-terrestrial aircraft flying above them.

    The sighting in the Philippines shows an object obscured by clouds, but still vaguely visible from a moving vehicle and seemingly high above nearby trees.

    In the 20-second clip, which was uploaded to YouTube channel SecureTeam 10, the tip of the structure can be seen poking above clouds, becoming clearer as the narrator increases the contrast of the footage.  



    He concedes the viewers that the UFO is 'hard to see' in the 'original footage' due to trees obscuring it as it appears to hover under a telephone line.

    'There's trees passing by but you can still see it vaguely in the background,' he says, before sharpening the image to increase the object's visibility. 

    The UFO was spotted apparently flying behind clouds by alien hunters in the Philippines

    The UFO was spotted apparently flying behind clouds by alien hunters in the Philippines

    Then, toward the end of the video, it seems to accelerate and shoot off into the distance.

    The video follows five other claimed incidents in the islands since 2000, when 37-year-old Antonio Israel said he filmed small balls of light over his Silver St neighbourhood.

    Though it appears obscured here, post-production contrast editing made it more visible

    Though it appears obscured here, post-production contrast editing made it more visible

    The object appears to accelerate toward the end of the footage taken by UFO hunters

    The object appears to accelerate toward the end of the footage taken by UFO hunters

    Then, in 2004, it is claimed more than 10 UFOs were sighted in Las Piñas at around 7pm on August 28.

    In 2011 there were reports of red, large UFOs in Bulcan, which were followed by sightings in Cavite. 

    And in April 2015 motionless lights were reported to be hovering in a v-formation in Lubao-Pampanga.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Reports claim UFO whizzes past International Space Station

    Reports claim UFO whizzes past International Space Station

    A mysterious object appeared to have hovered past the International Space Station, according to new video footage from UFO researchers.

    SecureTeam 10, who in recent days has posted videos about a supposed alien tank and a cigar shaped disc over Paris, claims that a disc-shaped object whizzed past the ISS "at a very high rate of speed."

    NASA, who did not respond specifically to the latest video, has often said that the objects are "distortions in a lens" and do not signify the presence of extraterrestrial life.

    'ALIEN TANK' FOUND ON THE MOON, UFO HUNTERS SAY

    Tyler Glockner, the voice heard on the video from SecureTeam 10, said that the object in the video moved "as if it knew the camera was watching." 

    Below is the video in its entirety:

    UFO sightings have become more frequent in recent years. A book entitled "U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference" said that U.S.-based sightings rose to 11,868 in 2015, up from 3,479 in 2001.

    A synopsis of the book on Amazon states that it presents "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."

    SecureTeam 10 has nearly 900,000 subscribers on its YouTube channel, despite openly running conspiracy-theory based videos.

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    24-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Who owns Mars?

    Who owns Mars?

    Thomson Reuters Foundation 

    Planet Mars

    Can anyone claim the red planet or natural resources on asteroids?

    Business leaders and legal experts say the question has become more than philosophical as a growing number of firms, often backed by capital and technology from Silicon Valley, have set their sights on the resources of outer space asteroids and Mars.

    In order to avoid conflicts between competing companies and countries over outer space resources, more work needs to be done on Earth to determine who owns commodities taken from celestial bodies, analysts said.

    “There is a huge debate on whether companies can simply travel to space and extract its resources,” said Barry Kellman, a law professor who studies space governance at DePaul University in Chicago.

    “There is no way to answer the question until someone does it,” Kellman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    ASTEROID WATER FOR SALE

    U.S.-based Planetary Resources, a firm backed by Google founder Larry Page and Virgin Group’s Richard Branson, expects to be mining asteroids for water in the next 10 to 15 years.

    The company will launch its first robotic probe mission to scout asteroids for resource deposits in 2020, said Planetary Resources’ Chief Executive Chris Lewicki.

    “If you obtain a resource and bring it with you, it becomes your property,” Lewicki said, citing recently passed space laws in the U.S. and Luxembourg that offer a legal framework to ensure that private operators can be confident about their rights over resources they extract in space.

    “You can sell, keep or deliver (space resources) peacefully,” Lewicki told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    The firm plans to extract oxygen and hydrogen - the components of water - from asteroids to sell.

    Lewicki is not planning on bringing those water resources back to Earth; he wants market them in space, creating a “gas station” for other exploration missions.

    Hydrogen and oxygen, kept at a docking station orbiting around Earth, will be used to fuel other space ships.

    Moving those fuels from Earth into outer space is expensive, he said, and having energy accessible to ships will make voyaging easier.

    One modest sized asteroid, about as big as a football field, “has enough oxygen and hydrogen to fuel every launch in the history of space (travel),” Lewicki said.

    “We are seeing a boom - that might be a bad choice of words - in access to space.”

    MARTIAN APPROPRIATION

    Other analysts are not sure if companies can just fly up and start harvesting cosmic water, legally speaking.

    The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 is the main international standard for what companies and countries are allowed to do when they aren’t on earth, said Jacob Haqq-Misra, director of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a Seattle-based research group.

    The treaty says that space is the “provenance of all mankind”. Countries cannot claim “national appropriation” or sovereignty over the Moon or other celestial bodies “by occupation or by other means”, the treaty says.

    This clause could prove tricky for private firms who want to mine on asteroids or Mars, said Haqq-Misra, including Planetary Resources and SpaceX, the private rocketship company run by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

    “If SpaceX, a U.S. corporation, was to claim asteroid profits as its own, there is some ambiguity as to whether that constitutes national appropriation,” Haqq-Misra told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    SpaceX declined to comment.

    NEW LAWS While the 1967 treaty is considered the global standard for sharing space, individual countries have recently passed laws allowing for property rights in the great beyond.

    Luxembourg this month brought into force laws allowing private firms to own resources extracted from outer space in a move hailed by the nascent space mining industry.

    Planetary Resources, for example, maintains an office in the small European country better known for its finance industry than space exploration.

    The U.S. in 2015 introduced similar legislation for private space resource ownership but it only applies to firms majority owned by Americans.

    NASA, the U.S. government’s space agency, maintains a “neutral position with regard to mining of minerals on Mars”, a spokesman said.

    “If companies request assistance or want partnerships related to mining on Mars, we help to the best of our ability,” NASA spokesman Guy Webster told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email without providing specifics on space resource ownership.

    FROM SEA TO SPACE

    Along with national legislation and the 1967 treaty, there are other earthly regulations which could provide guidance for managing extraterrestrial resources, legal experts said.

    Under the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Convention countries have exclusive rights to exploit natural resources within around 200 miles (322 km) of their coast line, but ships and planes from other nations can freely pass through the waters.

    This could serve as a template for space resource rights, where companies have exclusive economic rights in a given area around their landing point, but not ownership over an entire asteroid or planet, lawyers said.

    “It’s advantageous to work out a system where people can acquire property rights enforceable through a legal process,” Andrew Brehm, an attorney with Scopelitis, Garvin, Light Hanson & Feary in Milwaukee.

    “That being said, outer space is viewed in society as something similar to the ocean, where there is a collective interest,” Brehm told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    “A first come, first serve system does not necessarily work well when only certain countries or private entities can (currently) reach outer space.”

    Even if countries can agree on a universal property rights regime for space, there are still plenty of earthly grievances for countries and companies to address, said Kellman, the law professor.

    Specifically, analysts and legal experts do not know whether companies would have to pay taxes or royalties to anyone on earth for extracting space resources.

    It is an issue space exploration firms have yet to deal with.

    “For the moment, the company exists on earth, where all of the laws and regulations apply,” Planetary Resources’ Lewicki said.

    24-08-2017 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Who owns Mars?

    Who owns Mars?

    Thomson Reuters Foundation 

    Planet Mars

    Can anyone claim the red planet or natural resources on asteroids?

    Business leaders and legal experts say the question has become more than philosophical as a growing number of firms, often backed by capital and technology from Silicon Valley, have set their sights on the resources of outer space asteroids and Mars.

    In order to avoid conflicts between competing companies and countries over outer space resources, more work needs to be done on Earth to determine who owns commodities taken from celestial bodies, analysts said.

    “There is a huge debate on whether companies can simply travel to space and extract its resources,” said Barry Kellman, a law professor who studies space governance at DePaul University in Chicago.

    “There is no way to answer the question until someone does it,” Kellman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    ASTEROID WATER FOR SALE

    U.S.-based Planetary Resources, a firm backed by Google founder Larry Page and Virgin Group’s Richard Branson, expects to be mining asteroids for water in the next 10 to 15 years.

    The company will launch its first robotic probe mission to scout asteroids for resource deposits in 2020, said Planetary Resources’ Chief Executive Chris Lewicki.

    “If you obtain a resource and bring it with you, it becomes your property,” Lewicki said, citing recently passed space laws in the U.S. and Luxembourg that offer a legal framework to ensure that private operators can be confident about their rights over resources they extract in space.

    “You can sell, keep or deliver (space resources) peacefully,” Lewicki told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    The firm plans to extract oxygen and hydrogen - the components of water - from asteroids to sell.

    Lewicki is not planning on bringing those water resources back to Earth; he wants market them in space, creating a “gas station” for other exploration missions.

    Hydrogen and oxygen, kept at a docking station orbiting around Earth, will be used to fuel other space ships.

    Moving those fuels from Earth into outer space is expensive, he said, and having energy accessible to ships will make voyaging easier.

    One modest sized asteroid, about as big as a football field, “has enough oxygen and hydrogen to fuel every launch in the history of space (travel),” Lewicki said.

    “We are seeing a boom - that might be a bad choice of words - in access to space.”

    MARTIAN APPROPRIATION

    Other analysts are not sure if companies can just fly up and start harvesting cosmic water, legally speaking.

    The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 is the main international standard for what companies and countries are allowed to do when they aren’t on earth, said Jacob Haqq-Misra, director of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a Seattle-based research group.

    The treaty says that space is the “provenance of all mankind”. Countries cannot claim “national appropriation” or sovereignty over the Moon or other celestial bodies “by occupation or by other means”, the treaty says.

    This clause could prove tricky for private firms who want to mine on asteroids or Mars, said Haqq-Misra, including Planetary Resources and SpaceX, the private rocketship company run by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

    “If SpaceX, a U.S. corporation, was to claim asteroid profits as its own, there is some ambiguity as to whether that constitutes national appropriation,” Haqq-Misra told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    SpaceX declined to comment.

    NEW LAWS While the 1967 treaty is considered the global standard for sharing space, individual countries have recently passed laws allowing for property rights in the great beyond.

    Luxembourg this month brought into force laws allowing private firms to own resources extracted from outer space in a move hailed by the nascent space mining industry.

    Planetary Resources, for example, maintains an office in the small European country better known for its finance industry than space exploration.

    The U.S. in 2015 introduced similar legislation for private space resource ownership but it only applies to firms majority owned by Americans.

    NASA, the U.S. government’s space agency, maintains a “neutral position with regard to mining of minerals on Mars”, a spokesman said.

    “If companies request assistance or want partnerships related to mining on Mars, we help to the best of our ability,” NASA spokesman Guy Webster told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email without providing specifics on space resource ownership.

    FROM SEA TO SPACE

    Along with national legislation and the 1967 treaty, there are other earthly regulations which could provide guidance for managing extraterrestrial resources, legal experts said.

    Under the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Convention countries have exclusive rights to exploit natural resources within around 200 miles (322 km) of their coast line, but ships and planes from other nations can freely pass through the waters.

    This could serve as a template for space resource rights, where companies have exclusive economic rights in a given area around their landing point, but not ownership over an entire asteroid or planet, lawyers said.

    “It’s advantageous to work out a system where people can acquire property rights enforceable through a legal process,” Andrew Brehm, an attorney with Scopelitis, Garvin, Light Hanson & Feary in Milwaukee.

    “That being said, outer space is viewed in society as something similar to the ocean, where there is a collective interest,” Brehm told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    “A first come, first serve system does not necessarily work well when only certain countries or private entities can (currently) reach outer space.”

    Even if countries can agree on a universal property rights regime for space, there are still plenty of earthly grievances for countries and companies to address, said Kellman, the law professor.

    Specifically, analysts and legal experts do not know whether companies would have to pay taxes or royalties to anyone on earth for extracting space resources.

    It is an issue space exploration firms have yet to deal with.

    “For the moment, the company exists on earth, where all of the laws and regulations apply,” Planetary Resources’ Lewicki said.

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    Bargo UFO spotter sights mysterious black object on camera

    24-08-2017 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Great Soviet Crescent In the Sky

    The Great Soviet Crescent In the Sky

    A cold war mystery.

    The Soviet nuclear missiles
    The Soviet nuclear missiles that produced the crescents lost the element of surprise when U.S. early-warning satellites appeared.
    (Photo-illustration by Théo; Landscape by by David Hajnal/shutterstock.com; Clips: Proquest Historical Newspapers)
    Air & Space Magazine

    Starting in March 1967, when the Space Age was less than a decade old, skywatchers from Ukraine to the Caucasus Mountains were repeatedly treated to a spectacle. Six times over a six-month period, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens saw a strange crescent shape move across the sky in total silence.

    Each time, the phenomenon was identical. The crescents moved west to east, convex edge forward, accompanied by smaller “sparks.” To some observers they were about the same angular size as the moon; others, farther north, reported them as much larger. They always appeared close to sunset, as afternoon transitioned into evening. After the sixth visitation, the crescents stopped appearing, just as mysteriously as they began, and never resumed.

    The Soviet press speculated that they were UFOs. Amateur groups sprang up across the country to begin collecting and distributing eyewitness reports. The news quickly spread outside the U.S.S.R. and around the world, and within a year the sightings were mentioned in a U.S. Congressional hearing.

    But there was a clue that connected the crescents to human space activities. On the same dates of the sightings, Moscow had launched Kosmos “scientific research satellites” (years later, each of the mysterious crescents was noted to have occurred about 95 minutes after that day’s launch—long enough for one orbit around Earth).

    In November 1967, without any reference to the crescents, the U.S.  Department of Defense made a startling accusation: The Kosmos launches were part of a new Soviet nuclear strike weapon, designed to put a warhead into low Earth orbit and then deorbit it over a target half a world away.

    The timing was delicate. The United States and the U.S.S.R. were putting finishing touches on the Outer Space Treaty, which outlawed nuclear weapons in orbit, and the appearance of a system designed to do exactly that threatened to scuttle years of diplomacy.

    The launches were timed so that the warheads were lit by the sun but observing cameras were shaded. Somebody in Moscow finally realized what these UFO reports really were and abruptly restricted media reporting, with no further official word about the “Kosmos” launches. In hindsight, if they had known what they were looking at, the UFO watchers’ reports would have revealed details of the propulsion that guided the dummy warheads to their targets at Kapustin Yar. Later test flights were launched at random times of day, so no evening apparitions were created.

    The Soviets named the strike missile R-36Orb—a variant of an intercontinental ballistic missile known to the West as the SS-9 Scarp—and a handful were eventually installed in silos, but withdrawn in 1983 after the SALT II treaty definitively banned them.

    Just why a descending nuclear warhead should produce a wide crescent-shaped wake was a mystery to the public for many years, though the CIA almost certainly knew the answer.

    In September 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida; after releasing the second stage, the first stage flipped over, fired its engine to slow down, and for the first time landed on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean. Infrared images of the nighttime descent showed a distinct crescent shape ahead of the vehicle as exhaust particles, released in space, entered the atmosphere and bunched up. The striking similarity to the 1967 Russian apparitions made clear what they were: the exhaust from retrofiring rockets.

    Following the collapse of the U.S.S.R., details about the R-36Orb began spilling out. Now we know what really happened: Top-secret space weapons tests were mistaken for alien visitors.

    {  http://www.airspacemag.com/ }

    24-08-2017 om 23:18 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Drone or UFO? Police yet to identify over 100 flying objects spotted at Delhi airport

    Drone or UFO? Police yet to identify over 100 flying objects spotted at Delhi airport

    Every month, nearly 6-7 cases of pilots getting distracted by different objects are reported from near the airport. In most of the cases, pilots tell the location in nautical miles because of which the police could not make a breakthrough in any of the over 100 cases reported in the past two years.

    Faizan Haidar

    A plane flying low over Dwarka, following its descent before landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Pilot of an international flight on Sunday had reported seeing a drone-like object near the airport, triggering a security scare.

    A plane flying low over Dwarka, following its descent before landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Pilot of an international flight on Sunday had reported seeing a drone-like object near the airport, triggering a security scare.

    (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)

    From balloons to flying parasol, to drones and laser lights, pilots landing at the country’s busiest airport in Delhi are having a tough time dealing with distractions while landing or taking off.

    Every month, nearly 6-7 cases of pilots getting distracted by different objects are reported from near the airport.

    In most of the cases, pilots tell the location in nautical miles because of which the police could not make a breakthrough in any of the over 100 cases reported in the past two years.

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    Police say usually, flight movement is not stopped when pilots report such sightings. But when the air traffic controller (ATC) feels, they order suspension of flights.

    “The pilot gives details of height, altitude and nautical miles and based on that we pinpointed the area over where the plane was flying when laser lights distracted the pilot. In cases of balloon or drone-like objects, the radar does not show anything. Personnel posted at watchtowers have been asked to report if they notice any such object but investigation has hit a dead end. In almost every case, the pilot was five nautical miles away from Delhi, which means the laser light originated from outside the capital,” said a Delhi Police official.

    On August 15, CISF personnel posted at a watchtower noticed a balloon. When the team reached, they found that it was 80-90 feet away from the ground.

    The police have asked traders not to supply such flashy lights at wedding venues near the airport. They have also asked the Union home ministry to prepare guidelines with a provision of punishment for those selling and buying drones illegally.

    Under section 144 CrPC, Delhi Police have presently prohibited the use of laser beams by any individual or group or organizers in areas around the airport.

    “Any person, group of persons, organizers, owners, occupiers, employees contravening these orders shall be liable to be punished in accordance with provisions of section 188 of the IPC ,” the official said. 

    http://www.hindustantimes.com/   }

    24-08-2017 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Scotland an alien nation as expert reveals over 1000 UFO sightings a year

    Scotland an alien nation as expert reveals over 1000 UFO sightings a year

    Malcolm Robinson insists the country is a hotspot for strange goings on in the skies and claims the Government is trying to cover it up.

    BY 

    Robinson is a self-styled expert on alien visits

    A self-styled UFO expert has revealed there are about 1000 reported sightings in Scotland every year.

    Malcolm Robinson last night insisted Scotland is a hotspot for strange goings on in the skies but claimed the Government are trying to cover it up.

    The Scot, from Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, is the founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations and speaks at events on claims of alien visitors.

    Robinson admitted 98 per cent of sightings can be explained. But he said the remaining genuine reports give cause for curiosity.

    Robinson, who now lives in Hastings, said: “It’s extraordinary. Something is definitely going on in the skies above Scotland.

    Robinson believes the Government are trying to cover up UFO sightings

    “Sightings are on the rise and interest in the subject is increasing. Of the roughly 1000 reports we get from Scotland every year, 10 to 20 can be be described as accurate.

    “There are natural explanations for 95 per cent of them, around three per cent are test aircraft and sometimes there is rare atmospheric phenomena.

    “There are several hotspots in the country – Bonnybridge is one of the best in the world.

    “It’s my job to unmask frauds and prove to sceptics that this is reality.” Robinson worked alongside former Bonnybridge councillor Billy Buchanan in the 90s when sightings began in the town.

    More than 300 are still reported every year and the pair have written to every Prime Minister since John Major to ask for an inquiry – without response.

    Robinson believes the Government are withholding information.

    He said: “There are many sceptics and I started off as one of them. But I did research, looked at the overwhelming evidence and had my eyes opened.

    “Sightings are on the rise and I am certain the British Government know what is going on.

    “They have information they aren’t willing to share. The $1million question is, ‘Where are these objects coming from?’”

    His book UFO Case Files of Scotland is being re-printed next month.

    http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ }

    24-08-2017 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.MiG-21MF Regularly occurring UFO outran jets says former Yugoslav General Posted by: Alejandro Rojas August 23, 2017 0 On several occasions in 1975, Yugoslav Air Force jets saw a strange multi-colored glowing orb, but every time they tried to investigat
    MiG-21MF

    Regularly occurring UFO outran jets says former Yugoslav General

    On several occasions in 1975, Yugoslav Air Force jets saw a strange multi-colored glowing orb, but every time they tried to investigate, it would outrun their jet fighters. Finally, after failed attempts to get a closer look, and facing ridicule for reporting the incidents, they chose to ignore it.

    This is according to General Zvonimir Jurjevic, former commander of the Air Force and Air Defense of Yugoslavia. The story was first revealed in 2011 in a book on the 172 Aviation Regiment, which was lead by Jujevic. He recently discussed the UFO encounters again in an interview with Sputnik International.

    According to Jujevic the UFO encounters began in January, 1975 and lasted for several days. Every night, 50 minutes after take off, he would see the object.

    Soko J-21 fighter jet. This was the type of aircraft flown at the time of the incidents. The Soko J-21 Jastreb is a single-seat, light attack and reconnaissance aircraft designed in Yugoslavia in the 1960s. (Credit: Dennis Jarvis/Wikimedia Commons)

    Soko J-21 fighter jet. This was the type of aircraft flown at the time of the incidents. The Soko J-21 Jastreb is a single-seat, light attack and reconnaissance aircraft designed in Yugoslavia in the 1960s.

    (Credit: Dennis Jarvis/Wikimedia Commons)

    “The object looked like a glowing orb, very well visible, maybe ten times lighter than the brightest star at that moment,” Jurjevic told Sputnik International. “Color constantly changed: white, yellow, light red, orange, again white, and so on. It appeared from nowhere, unexpectedly.”

    “It was attracting attention on purpose,” Jurjevic speculated.

    Jurjevic was not the only one to see the object, many of the pilots in his regiment also reported it. However, it never turned up on radar.

    Jurjevic recalls that on January 25, he decided to attempt to get a closer look. However, once he headed towards the object, it took off and was gone. Soon after, Jurjevic devised a better plan to catch the object off guard. He recruited the pilots of three other aircraft to join in him the hunt.

    On that night, in late January, Jurjevic and another aircraft took off unannounced. Two other jets took off soon after. They had decided not to inform anyone of their plans, nor discuss it on radio, just in case the object was related to some sort of monitoring of their movements by a foreign country.

    “I only just stabilized the flight somewhere over Cetinje, when suddenly the object flashed over Budva, and Lieutenant Machec saw it above Niksic,” Jurjevic recalled. “I ordered Machec to stay in place, and took a course parallel to the Adriatic coast, where I tried to establish at what distance the object was: it turned out that it was at about ten kilometers.”

    10 kilometers was as close as Jurjevic could get. The object continued to match his speed and movements to stay the same distance away no matter what Jurjevic tired. Two supersonic Soviet MiG-21s were dispatched to the area from Belgrade. During the entire incident, the object could not be seen on radar, until the MiGs arrived. However, it was no help. The object was able to outmaneuver the MiGs as well.

    Soviet MiG-21s (Credit: U.S. Department of Defense)

    Soviet MiG-21s

    (Credit: U.S. Department of Defense)

    Jurjevic was met with a lot of curiosity by his colleagues, but also ridicule. He denied the object was of no danger, and since he did not want to deal with the ridicule, he decided to ignore it from there on out.

    UFO blogger Billy Cox got ahold of a translation by Giuliano Marinkovic of the 2011 book in which Jurjevic first told the story. He gave this account of their last encounter with the unusual object.

    “People watched me suspiciously and squadron commander approached and told me that 100 people at the apron are watching UFO and that I am only person who can’t see it. I replied loudly so other could hear me that I can’t see anything because I don’t want to see it so everyone should stop commenting and do his job as usual. After appearing above airport, UFO turned off its lights and vanished forever.”

    U.S. acquired MiG-21 being tested near Area 51. (Credit: DOD Defense Intelligence Agency)

    U.S. acquired MiG-21 being tested near Area 51.

    (Credit: DOD Defense Intelligence Agency)

    Jurjevic told Sputnik International the last encounter was on February 12, 1975.

    This story is a great example, and a common one I have heard from military UFO witnesses. Often it is not a grand conspiracy that makes people in the military sweep UFO encounters under the rug. It is ridicule or the uneasiness of being associated with a UFO event.

    One retired Navy radar tech told me that he faced a lot of ridicule for reporting UFOs they caught on their ship’s radar. When he asked fellow radar techs if they also observed extremely fast unidentified aircraft on their scopes, sometimes they said they had. When asked why they they did not report them, they said they didn’t want the headache of dealing with the fallout of reporting them.

    You hear this same sentiment from commercial airline pilots, police officers and many others. It makes one wonder how many other extraordinary sightings go unreported and investigated.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    24-08-2017 om 22:54 geschreven door peter  

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    Rich Hoffman – Cloverdale UFO Mystery – August 22, 2017

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    Open Minds UFO Radio: Rich Hoffman has been investigating the UFO phenomena for over 52 years. He grew up in Dayton, Ohio, the home of Project Blue Book, the US Air Force Project that was in place from 1952 to 1969. At age 15 he appeared on a Phil Donahue show in Dayton and became known as the local UFO expert which quickly propelled him into presenting to associations, churches, and many other organizations and appeared on TV and radio. When the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) first formed, he quickly joined and held numerous positions, including the State Director for Alabama, Director of MUFON Strategic Projects and served on the MUFON Science Review Board’s Top 10 case review committee. Rich is also a member of NARCAP, the Planetary Society, and although he is no longer with MUFON, he continues UFO investigations on his own and with the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU). The later is known for their thorough report on a UFO video captured by Homeland Security in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Rich is an IT professional working for a defense contractor firm supporting the Army Materiel Command HQ located at Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Alabama.

    One of Rich’s current projects is the investigation of mysterious balls of lights that appear in Alabama. In this interview, we talk to Rich about this light phenomenon, its history, and Rich’s ongoing investigation.

    For more about Rich and the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), visit: www.ExploreSCU.org

    For more about the Cloverdale lights, read his article on OpenMinds.tv: Cloverdale UAP Project: Investigating the “Spooklights” UFO phenomenon in Alabama

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    24-08-2017 om 22:49 geschreven door peter  

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    Will UFO sightings increase during the eclipse?

    The total eclipse that will be visible in parts of the U.S. is an exciting celestial event. That has people, such as the ones who made today’s Google search animation, thinking about aliens. Many are wondering if UFO sightings will increase, and some have suggested aliens may be coming to check out the event themselves.

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    Google search animations are always fun, and several have included aliens or UFOs. However, why they decided to use aliens in today’s eclipse animation is anyone’s guess. As you can see above, the aliens are playing bouncy ball with the Moon. Although it is a fun animation, it is not an educational one. This is not how eclipses occur, but if you click on the image from the Google search page, you will find actual facts about eclipses.

    What makes today’s total eclipse special is that it can be seen in the U.S., which is great for those of us in this country who might live in areas where there will be a total eclipse, or those who can take some time off and get to one of those areas.

    While eclipses are not created by aliens bouncing the Moon in front of the Sun, some do believe aliens are responsible for the Moon. One of the strange anomalies that give people the idea that the Moon is too peculiar to be natural is the incredible coincidence that makes a total eclipse possible.

    (Credit: NASA)

    (Credit: NASA)

    An eclipse is created when the Moon passes in front of the Sun, partially blocking its light. Big deal, right? We have all seen a shadow, so that is nothing special. However, the Moon is very small compared to the Sun, so why does it appear to be the same size during a total eclipse? The Sun is actually 400 times larger than the moon. The amazing coincidence is that it is also about 400 times further away as well. This allows it to perfectly block out the sun when it passes in front of it.

    This illustration depicts a rare alignment of the Sun and Moon casting a shadow on Earth. (Credits: NASA)

    This illustration depicts a rare alignment of the Sun and Moon casting a shadow on Earth.
    (Credits: NASA)

    Because the Moon perfectly covers the Sun, it allows scientists an opportunity to study the Sun’s atmosphere in a manner that would otherwise not be possible.

    Although I am not so sure aliens brought the Moon into Earth’s orbit, I got to admit, this is a weird coincidence.

    As for UFO sightings, Nick Pope, former UFO researcher for the Ministry of Defense, recently told the Daily Express UFO sightings do increase during an eclipse.

    “Past experience suggests there will be an upsurge in UFO sightings during the total eclipse,” Pope explained. “I suspect many of these will turn out to be news helicopters filming the crowds, or drones flown by amateur photographers, and maybe the sightings occur simply because more people are looking at the sky.”

    He predicted there will be hundreds of sightings.

    Another UFO researcher, Cheryl Costa, examined UFO sighting reports in an ideal eclipse watching location in her recent blog for the Syracuse New Times.

    “Any seasoned sky watcher will tell you that the high desert is where you want to be to observe such a celestial event,” Costa wrote. “For this specific solar eclipse event, the city of Madras, Oregon, is going to be an ideal place. Madras is positioned close to the centerline of the solar eclipse path of totality. At an elevation of 2,242 feet (683 meters), the high desert environment in August is regularly clear skies.”

    In order to estimate the possibility of UFO sightings in the area during the eclipse, she ran some numbers.

    “According to the UFO Sighting Desk Reference, from 2001-2015, Oregon ranked No. 13 of all 50 states and the District of Columbia with 3,013 reported UFO sightings,” Costa noted.

    However, UFO reports are not the only unusual reports we may get from the eclipse. Of course you had my off-the-wall suggestion the Moon was brought here by aliens, but according to Pope, this may be only the tip of the iceberg.

    “Sadly, there’s a dark side – pun intended – to the eclipse,” Pope explained to the Daily Express. “Such events bring out the crazies, and I confidently predict that there will be an upsurge in nutjobbery at the time of the total eclipse. I’ve already seen predictions that the world will end, along with suggestions that we’ll see more sightings of Bigfoot, demons, and all manner of other weird stuff.”

    Here at OpenMinds.tv “weird stuff” is our specialty, so stay tuned and we will let you know if we come across any noteworthy “nutjobbery” or legit UFO sightings. Until then, enjoy the eclipse.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    24-08-2017 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Nighttime Snowstorms May Swirl Across Mars

    24-08-2017 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.This House Was 3D Printed in Less Than 24 Hours

    This House Was 3D Printed in Less Than 24 Hours

    24-08-2017 om 22:30 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Dit is ruimtepak waarmee eerste mens op Mars zou kunnen landen - HLN.be

    Dit is ruimtepak waarmee eerste mens op Mars zou kunnen landen - HLN.be

    Bron: Instagram

    © SpaceX, AP.

    Het was volgens Elon Musk niet eenvoudig om functionaliteit en esthetiek te verenigen, maar SpaceX is er dan toch in geslaagd om een ruimtepak te ontwerpen dat aan beide criteria voldoet. De CEO van het bekende privéruimtevaartbedrijf onthulde op Instagram een glimp van wat mogelijk gedragen zal worden door de eerste mensen die een voet op Mars zetten. "Komende dagen volgt er nog meer."

    "Het is interessant om op te merken dat het pak effectief functioneert", schreef Musk bij de foto. "Het is geen testmodel. Het is al uitgeprobeerd met een dubbele vacuümdruk." 

    Kolonisatie
    Musk is er altijd duidelijk over geweest dat het hoofddoel van SpaceX de kolonisatie van Mars is. Hij wil een 1.000-tal ruimteschepen in een baan rond de aarde brengen met herbruikbare raketlanceerders. Die wil hij dan voorzien van brandstoftanks. Iets wat zo'n twee jaar zal duren. (lees hieronder verder)

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    Elon Musk.
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    Daarna wil hij 100 ruimtereizigers in elk ruimteschip laten stappen, samen met hun bagage en materiaal dat ze nodig kunnen hebben voor de opstart van een kolonie. Die zullen dan samen naar Mars vertrekken. 

    "Als we de kost voor een reis naar Mars op hetzelfde niveau kunnen brengen als een gemiddeld huis in de VS - 170.000 euro - is de kans groot dat we er een leefbare en zelfvoorzienende kolonie zullen kunnen stichten", zei hij eerder al. Over hun outfit hoeven de ruimtereizigers zich alvast geen zorgen te maken.


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    24-08-2017 om 20:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Uranus en Neptunus zitten vol diamanten - HLN.be

    Uranus en Neptunus zitten vol diamanten - HLN.be

    Bron: Guardian, Metro

    Op Uranus kan je zoiets als een 'diamantenregen' meemaken.

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    Diamanten van onschatbare waarde zitten in de reuzenplaneten Uranus en Neptunus, zo blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. De 'diamantenregen' wordt gevormd wanneer waterstof en koolstof onder extreme druk tot 7.000 kilometer onder het oppervlak worden geduwd.

    Op duizenden jaren tijd zakken de diamanten door de ijslagen om rond de kernen van beide planeten te accumuleren, menen experts. 

    Het gaat niet om de geringste diamanten. Volgens de wetenschappers kunnen de diamanten miljoenen karaat wegen. Ter vergelijking: de bekende 'Great Star of Africa', de diamant die deel uitmaakte van de Britse kroonjuwelen, weegt 530,4 karaat. De peervormige Great Star of Africa, die in de kop van de koninklijke scepter is verwerkt, is het grootste segment van een diamant die in 1905 in Zuid-Afrika werd ontdekt. De diamant woog meer dan 3.000 karaat. 

    Uranus en Neptunus staan bekend als de 'ijsgiganten': niet alleen hebben ze een dikke atmosferische laag, ze zijn ook grotendeels uit ijs samengesteld.

    Voor de nieuwe studie simuleerden vorsers de extreme omstandigheden binnenin de planeten met een krachtige laser. Die maakte schokgolven in polystyreen, een plastic gemaakt van waterstof en koolstof, om de druk na te maken die onder het oppervlak van de planeten wordt aangetroffen. Bijna elke koolstofatoom in het polystyreen werd opgenomen in microscopische diamantstructuren van enkele nanometers breed, zo melden de wetenschappers in het vakblad Nature Astronomy. Hoewel de vorming van de diamant slechts fracties van een seconde duurde, was dit  het eerste duidelijke experimentele bewijs van de theorie.

    "Voordien konden we enkel veronderstellen dat de diamanten werden gevormd. Toen ik de resultaten van dit recente experiment zag, was dat één van de beste momenten uit mijn wetenschappelijke carrière", stelt hoofdvorser Dominik Kraus, professor aan het Duitse onderzoekslaboratorium Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).

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    24-08-2017 om 20:18 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Latest UK UFO Stirs Memories of the Warminster Thing

    A video of a UFO over Warminster, one of many sites seemingly vying for the title of “UFO Capital of the UK,” has many in the area remembering another famous UFO seen in the same area over 50 years ago that was given the nickname “Warminster Thing.” Has the ‘thing’ returned? Will Warminster take the unofficial title away from Cornwall?

    I had never seen anything like it before. It really caught my eye. It went on for quite some time before flying off into the distance towards Longleat.

    The UFO was spotted and recorded by Jeremy Le Fevre from his home in Frome, Somerset, which is near Warminster, Wiltshire Both towns are near Longleat where Le Fevre claimed the UFO disappeared to. It’s also near Cley Hill where a strange crop circle appeared recently. Le Fevre gave his thoughts on what the UFO might have been.

    It was emitting green and red colours. It looked to me like it could have been fireworks attached to a drone. It’s still very much unidentified though.

    Many who watched the video noticed its resemblance and close proximity to a UFO reported in June. That one was eventually proven to be lights emitted by a stunt plane belonging to the night air-display acrobatics group AeroSparxwhich is based nearby and performs nighttime shows using planes with fireworks attached to their wingtips. It’s highly likely that the latest UFO is another Identified AeroSparx Object.

    Or is it?

    Warminster’s spot on the UFO Capital list dates back to Christmas Day, 1964, when a mysterious explosion shook the town. Arthur Shuttlewood described it in his book, The Warminster Mystery:

    The air was brazenly filled with a menacing sound. Sudden vibrations came overhead, chilling in intensity. They tore the quiet atmosphere to raucous rags and descended upon her savagely. Shockwaves pounded at her head, neck and shoulders.

    The noises continued and the descriptions sounded like sonic booms, but no military or government agencies admitted to being responsible. As the booms continued, they were accompanied by reports of unidentified objects in the sky. Arhtur Shuttlewood was one of those witnesses. He was also the features editor at The Warminster Journal newspaper, which put him in the right place to receive a famous photograph taken by Warminster resident Gordon Faulkner of what looked like a flying saucer.

    Shuttlewood’s publication of the photo turned Warminster into an early UFO capital, drawing thousands of people hoping to see the “thing” and prompting the city to hold a town meeting to deal with the crowds. The BBC filmed a documentary on the thing in 1966 and sightings continued regularly into the 1980s, prompting other books, the formation of a UFO society and, on the 50th anniversary in 2015, a mural commemorating the event.

    With all of that, there’s still no explanation for the Warminster Thing. Aeromax, the likely culprit for the latest UFOs, wasn’t around back then. Sonic booms were and secret aircraft test were still a possibility. The number of sightings in such a short period could also be mass hysteria.

    Is the Warminster Thing back? Not likely. However, with the second report of a spark-emitting UFO in Warminster, it could lose its place on the UFO hotspot list unless AeroSparx moves somewhere else.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    24-08-2017 om 20:11 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Was Worse Than We Thought

    The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Was Worse Than We Thought

    If you’re still on the fence about NASA, some other space agency or a coalition of governments banding together to develop a plan to destroy or deflect giant asteroids heading towards Earth … what’s wrong with you? How can you be against saving us from the fate of the dinosaurs? Maybe this will knock you over to the “whack those ‘roids back to the Kuiper Belt” side. A new study found that the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid some 66 million years ago stretched far beyond the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico and its force was felt far longer than first thought.

    Our study picks up the story after the initial effects—after the earthquakes and the tsunamis and the broiling. We wanted to look at the long-term consequences of the amount of soot we think was created and what those consequences might have meant for the animals that were left.”

    The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientist Charles Bardeen. He first points out what we already know – the Chicxulub asteroid’s impact sent huge tsunamis across the oceans, created earthquakes and volcanoes and vaporized rock that fell around the planet, sparking fires that cooked plants and animals far from the impact zone.

    As bad as that sounds – along with all of the dinosaurs that were killed immediately – this was just the beginning. Using the Community Earth System Model (CESM), Bardeen and his team simulated the effect of the soot from those fires. They found that solar heat lifted the fine particle far higher into the atmosphere than first suspected, and the amount was enough to create a global barrier that completely blocked out the Sun … think eclipse with the moon stuck in the full blackout position for up to 18 months.

    It gets worse. The fires killed most plant life and the darkness killed photosynthesis for the rest, so the next step down on the scale of life was phytoplankton, the microalgae that fill the oceans and feed so much of marine life. Unfortunately, phytoplankton themselves feed on … you guessed it … sunlight. Without it, most of the phytoplankton died off, upsetting the ecological balance of the oceans.

    We’re here, so obviously, as bad as this sounds, it eventually ended. Surprisingly, the simulation showed that the clearing of the soot happened faster than expected. While the temperature at the planet’s surface dropped substantially — 50 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) over land and 20 degrees Fahrenheit (11 degrees Celsius) over water – the upper atmosphere got hot as the soot absorbed sunlight. That destroyed the ozone layer, which was replaced by water vapor. This huge reservoir of water eventually cooled, falling to Earth and washing the soot quickly from the atmosphere. Eventually, surviving seeds and phytoplankton revived and the planet came back to life.

    Does this sound like a nuclear winter? Bardeen thinks so too.

    The amount of soot created by nuclear warfare would be much less than we saw during the K-Pg extinction. But the soot would still alter the climate in similar ways, cooling the surface and heating the upper atmosphere, with potentially devastating effects.

    Wait a minute … I thought we were talking about killer asteroids, not killer nuclear wars. The devastation would be the same. Which do you think has a higher chance of occurring in your lifetime?

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    24-08-2017 om 18:00 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST’S TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS – AFTER DRILLING ON TOP OF THEIR BASE 2 MILES UNDERGROUND

    GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST’S TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS – AFTER DRILLING ON TOP OF THEIR BASE 2 MILES UNDERGROUND

    24-08-2017 om 15:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Geoloog had angstaanjagende ontmoeting met ondergrondse buitenaardsen. Moest hij sterven omdat hij te veel wist?
    Geoloog had angstaanjagende ontmoeting met ondergrondse buitenaardsen. Moest hij sterven omdat hij te veel wist?

    Geoloog had angstaanjagende ontmoeting met ondergrondse buitenaardsen. Moest hij sterven omdat hij te veel wist?

    Explosievenexpert en geoloog Phil Schneider zou in 1979 in Dulce in New Mexico hebben geholpen bij de bouw van een geheime ondergrondse basis voor de Amerikaanse overheid.

    In 1995 vertelde hij openlijk dat hij tijdens werkzaamheden oog in oog was komen te staan met buitenaardse wezens.

    Schneider was naar eigen zeggen één van de drie overlevenden van een gevecht tussen mensen en buitenaardsen in augustus 1979.

    Aanslag
    Geoloog had angstaanjagende ontmoeting met buitenaardsen. Moest hij sterven omdat hij te veel wist?

    Phil Schneider

    Hij sprak zich buitengewoon kritisch uit over inspanningen van de overheid om burgers in het duister te houden.

    Tot zijn dood in 1997 gaf hij vele lezingen over zijn ervaringen in Dulce. Schneider beweerde dat in de tussenliggende periode herhaaldelijk een aanslag op zijn leven was gepleegd.

    Zijn volgelingen geloven dan ook niet dat hij om het leven is gekomen door zelfmoord.

    Grote gaten

    Schneider vond het verdacht dat er zoveel groene baretten aanwezig waren rond het kamp waar de ondergrondse basis moest worden gebouwd.

    Er werden vier grote gaten in de grond geboord. Uit de gaten kwam een zwarte roetwolk omhoog, aldus Schneider tijdens een lezing in 1995.

    Hij moest tijdens de bouw poolshoogte gaan nemen en kwam oog in oog te staan met een ‘grote Grey’ – een 2 meter lang buitenaards wezen.

    Vreemde energie

    “Het wezen stonk nog erger dan een vuilnisbak,” zei hij. “Het zag er verschrikkelijk uit.”

    Schneider greep naar zijn pistool en doodde twee wezens, maar niet voordat één van hen een vreemde energie op hem kon afvuren.

    Het wezen maakte een soort gebaar met zijn hand, waarna Schneider werd getroffen door een blauwe straal die dwars door hem heen brandde.

    Hij liet het publiek zien dat hij enkele vingers miste en ook had hij een litteken op zijn borst.

    1477 ondergrondse bases

    Een groene baret redde Schneiders leven en bracht hem naar een lift. Die dag kwamen meer dan 60 mensen om, aldus Schneider.

    De twee andere overlevenden wonen in een verzorgingstehuis in Canada. Ze worden beschermd door de Canadese overheid en geen enkele Amerikaan mag bij ze in de buurt komen omdat ze bang zijn te worden ontvoerd, zei hij.

    Volgens Schneider zijn er 1477 ondergrondse bases verspreid over de wereld, waarvan 129 in de Verenigde Staten.

    Black Budget

    Elke basis zou 17 miljard dollar of meer kosten. Hij zei dat het Black Budget, dat verborgen wordt gehouden voor de overheidsagentschappen en het publiek, een kwart van het Amerikaanse bbp opslokt.

    Strijdkrachten uit verschillende landen zijn betrokken bij schermutselingen met buitenaardsen, aldus Schneider.

    “De autoriteiten moeten de waarheid vertellen,” zei hij. “Als de waarheid niet volledig naar buiten kan komen, waarom hebben we dan zoiets als vrijheid?”

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    24-08-2017 om 15:29 geschreven door peter  

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    Categorie:NineForNews. nl ( new ipv NIBURU.nl) (NL)
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterieuze lichtbol speelt spelletje met straaljagers. Deze luchtmachtgeneraal beschrijft bizarre confrontatie
    Mysterieuze UFO speelt spelletje met straaljagers. Deze luchtmachtgeneraal beschrijft bizarre confrontatie

    Mysterieuze lichtbol speelt spelletje met straaljagers. Deze luchtmachtgeneraal beschrijft bizarre confrontatie

    Voormalig commandant van Joegoslavische luchtmacht generaal Zvonimir Joerjevitsj ging tijdens een interview met het Russische persagentschap Sputnik in op zijn confrontatie met een UFO.

    In 1975 was hij gestationeerd in Titograd (nu de Montenegrijnse hoofdstad Podgorica).

    Begin januari dat jaar verscheen er een UFO in de omgeving waar hij op dat moment vloog. “Het object leek op een lichtbol en was heel goed zichtbaar,” vertelde hij.

    Achtervolging

    “Het was ongeveer 10 keer zo helder als de meeste heldere ster op dat moment,” vervolgde hij. “De kleur veranderde constant: wit, geel, rood, oranje en weer wit.”

    “Het verscheen uit het niets en trok bewust de aandacht,” herinnerde Joerjevitsj zich. Het object verscheen iedere keer exact 50 minuten nadat hij was opgestegen.

    Op 25 januari 1975 besloot hij de UFO te onderscheppen. Toen hij boven de stad Cetinje vloog zette hij de achtervolging in.

    Andere piloten

    Het object verdween echter al snel uit het zicht.

    Dit spelletje duurde meerdere dagen en Joerjetvitsj hield het commandocentrum in Belgrado op de hoogte. Ook andere piloten zagen de mysterieuze UFO.

    De generaal besloot met vier straaljagers op het object af te vliegen. Geen van de piloten wist bij de UFO in de buurt te komen.

    Radar

    Opvallend genoeg verscheen het object niet op de radar. Toen twee MiG-21’s aankwamen vanuit Belgrado kon de ‘vreemde gast’ wel op de radar worden gezien.

    “Maar de supersnelle Migs slaagden er niet in om in de buurt van de UFO te komen,” klonk het.

    Wat er in 1975 is gebeurd in de lucht boven Joegoslavië is nog altijd een mysterie. De lichtbol is op 12 februari 1975 voor het laatst gezien.

    [Sputniknews

    24-08-2017 om 15:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Schoolkinderen getuige van spectaculaire UFO-landing. In deze nieuwe docu vertellen ze wat ze hebben gezien
    Schoolkinderen getuige van spectaculaire UFO-landing. In deze nieuwe docu vertellen ze wat ze hebben gezien

    Schoolkinderen getuige van spectaculaire UFO-landing. In deze nieuwe docu vertellen ze wat ze hebben gezien

    Op 16 september 1994 waren tientallen leerlingen van de basisschool Ariel in de hoofdstad van Zimbabwe getuige van de landing van een UFO.

    Er wordt momenteel gewerkt aan een nieuwe film over deze bijzondere gebeurtenis, Ariel Phenomenon geheten.

    “De kinderen waren getuige van een bovennatuurlijke gebeurtenis,” zegt de Canadese acteur Dan Akroyd in een nieuwe trailer. “Ze kunnen dit niet hebben verzonnen.”

    Zeer serieus

    “Dit is geen nieuw fenomeen,” licht hij toe. “We kijken hier al naar vanaf het moment dat in de Bijbel wordt gesproken over het wiel van Ezechiël.”

    Lucht- en ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren zegt over dit incident:

    “Wie dit dossier bestudeert kan geen andere conclusie trekken dan dat de kinderen een echte en één en dezelfde ervaring hadden, één die de nekharen overeind doet gaan, en één die we zeer serieus zouden moeten nemen. Maar dat doen we natuurlijk niet.”

    Schotelvormige objecten

    De kinderen zagen hoe drie tot vier schotelvormige objecten langs de hoogspanningsmasten vlogen en uiteindelijk landden in het hoge gras. De kinderen waren bang, maar ook nieuwsgierig.

    De leerlingen vertelden aan Harvard-psychiater John E. Mack wat ze hadden gezien. Hij concludeerde na interviews met de getuigen dat ze het verhaal niet hadden verzonnen.

    De kinderen beschreven de UFO die naast de school landde. Twee vreemde wezens zouden de leerlingen daarop hebben benaderd.

    Wereldberoemd

    BBC-correspondent Tim Leach interviewde de leerlingen gelijk na de gebeurtenis. De verhalen van de kinderen gaven hem een ‘nieuwe kijk op het leven en het universum’.

    Emily Trim was één van de leerlingen. Ze was acht jaar oud toen het gebeurde. Haar school werd in één klap wereldberoemd toen de BBC over het incident berichtte.

    “We hoorden een hoog geluid,” zei Emily. “We zagen een flits en een vaartuig. Twee wezens sprongen op en neer.”

    Boodschappen

    “Ze waren nieuwsgierig. Ze raakten de grond niet aan. Het leek alsof ze ons na probeerden te doen,” klonk het.

    “Plotseling stonden ze voor ons,” ging ze verder. “We stonden aan de grond genageld. Telepathische berichten gingen door me heen, in de vorm van beelden.”

    Glimmend pak

    Guy, een andere leerling, zei: “Ik zag een kleine man gekleed in een zwart, glimmend pak.”

    “Hij had zwart haar en zijn ogen waren groot en ovaalvormig. De mond was niet meer dan een spleet en de oren waren bijna niet te onderscheiden,” vertelde hij verder.

    Bekijk hieronder de nieuwe trailer:

    [Ariel Phenomenon

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    NASA wil catastrofale uitbarsting supervulkaan voorkomen. Ze hebben nu dit levensgevaarlijke plan bedacht

    NASA wil catastrofale uitbarsting supervulkaan voorkomen. Ze hebben nu dit levensgevaarlijke plan bedacht

    NASA wil dat vermijden en heeft een plan bedacht om een uitbarsting te voorkomen. Maar het plan kan als het misgaat juist een nucleaire winter veroorzaken.

    Op aarde bevinden zich zo’n 20 supervulkanen, die gemiddeld eens in de 100.000 jaar uitbarsten. Rond Yellowstone was 600.000 jaar geleden voor het laatst een catastrofale uitbarsting.

    Onder controle houden

    De NASA wil de magmakamer onder controle houden door de supervulkaan af te koelen. Dat kan met behulp van water.

    Het alternatief is water onder hoge druk 10 kilometer diep in de magmakamer pompen. Dat zou een slordige drie miljard euro kosten.

    Er zouden tienduizenden jaren voor nodig zijn om Yellowstone op deze manier helemaal af te kunnen koelen.

    Uitbarsting uitlokken

    Maar boren in een vulkaanschacht is niet zonder risico. Zo kun je namelijk juist een uitbarsting uitlokken.

    In Yellowstone National Park werd eind juni het hoogste aantal aardbevingen in het natuurpark in de afgelopen jaren gemeten.

    Experts zeggen dat zo’n aardbevingszwerm normaal is en dat er geen reden is om aan te nemen dat de supervulkaan binnenkort gaat uitbarsten.

    Heel erg riskant

    Toch wil de NASA het zekere voor het onzekere nemen. “De bedreiging van een supervulkaan is veel groter dan die van een asteroïde of komeet,” zei Brian Wilcox van NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

    Hij erkende tegenover de BBC dat het boren in de magmakamer heel erg riskant is. Het zou de kamer broos maken waardoor deze gemakkelijker zou kunnen barsten.

    Daarnaast kunnen dan schadelijke gassen ontsnappen die zich in de magma bovenin de kamer bevinden.

    [BBC

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    Aardachtige planeet op slechts 16 lichtjaar ontdekt. Gaan we hier buitenaards leven vinden?

    Aardachtige planeet op slechts 16 lichtjaar ontdekt. Gaan we hier buitenaards leven vinden?

    Astrofysici van de Universiteit van Texas in Arlington denken op slechts 16 jaar lichtjaar afstand een aardachtige planeet te hebben ontdekt.

    De planeet draait rond de ster Gliese 832 en moet één tot 15 keer zo zwaar zijn als de aarde, zo schrijven ze in The Astrophysical Journal.

    “Dit is een belangrijke doorbraak die wijst op het bestaan van een potentiële nieuwe planeet rond een ster vlak bij de onze,” zeggen de onderzoekers in een persverklaring.

    Sterke aanwijzingen

    Ze hebben berekend dat de planeet een miljard jaar in de leefbare zone van een rode dwerg kan blijven bestaan.

    Het is nog niet 100 procent zeker dat de planeet bestaat, maar de wetenschappers hebben wel sterke aanwijzingen gevonden.

    Gliese 832 is een rode dwerg die half zo zwaar en groot als onze zon is. Rond de ster draaien een Jupiterachtige gasreus genaamd Gliese 832b en een superaarde die Gliese 832c is gedoopt.

    Dampkring

    Eerder dit jaar ontdekten sterrenkundigen voor het eerst een dampkring rond een aardachtige planeet.

    De dampkring van de exoplaneet, GJ1132b geheten, zou aanwijzingen kunnen bevatten over leven op de planeet.

    Meest interessante

    Onlangs werd op amper 39 lichtjaar van onze planeet ook al een planeet gevnden waar buitenaards leven mogelijk zou kunnen zijn.

    Die planeet cirkelt rond een rode dwerg in het sterrenbeeld Walvis. De exoplaneet bevindt zich in de bewoonbare zone, schreven de onderzoekers in Nature.

    Ze spraken van de meest interessante exoplaneet die ze in de afgelopen 10 jaar hadden gezien. Het zou zelfs mogelijk zijn om er een signaal naartoe te sturen.

    [Futurism

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    THE TIKAD OCTOCOPTER DRONE CAN FIRE ASSAULT RIFLES FROM THE AIR

    Drones are going to become one of the staples seen on the modern battlefield and one of the very latest in development is the Octocopter drone with the name of TIKAD. This is a drone that carries arms, in fact to be more precise, grenades or bombs.  

    TIKAD DRONE SHOOTS INFANTRY SMALL ARMS

    The TIKAD drone is from Duke Robotics, they are a private company who are specialists in technology for the military. Last week they revealed the TIKAD, a drone with eight rotors known as an octocopter, that can not only carry, but also shoot, infantry small arms. The TIKAD octocopter is a small drone that is able to carry weaponry that can be directly fired, including grenade launchers and rifles. The company is only in the early stages of developed of the TIKAS octocopter, but it does like they are going to be a new force to be reckoned with on future battlefields.  

    RELATED ARTICLES

    Military drones that are smaller, including the fixed wing RQ-11 Raven of the military in the US have been used before but they are typically used for observation instead of direct combat. Guerrilla forces over in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine, along with others have been able to make use of commercial quadcopter drones for the dropping of bombs, along with spying on the positions of enemies. 

    TIKAD DRONE HAS COMPLICATED RIG TO HELP WITH RECOIL

    However, up to now being able to fire a projectile weapon such as a gun, from a small platform that is airborne has been very difficult. Generally any infantry rifle has recoil that heavily distorts the shot taken by the rifle. The TIKAD on the other hand is able to overcome this as it has a rig that is complicated which takes the full force of the recoil of the weapon and it is able to readjust the aim so that it can fire again.

    The company behind the TIKAD says that they have supplied the military in Israel with a very early version of the drone and they have been said to have used it in combat. It was also suggested that the military in Israel are also going to purchase several of the drones. 

    DRONE WAS DEVELOPED FOR PRECISION AGAINST TARGETS

    Lt. Col. Raziel Atuar is the founder of Duke Robotics and he served for 20 years in the military in Israel and is still a reserve in the Special Forces. He said that he wanted to develop a flying weapon system that was able to address the many challenges of precision against targets in the urban battlefield, which was dense.  

    He said that a helicopter or bigger drone, even an artillery system, would be able to take out any forces that were hostile on top of any building; however, he said that usually there would not be any huge destructive force. He went on to say that often there are small groups of adversaries that work among areas which are crowded and generally use any civilians as shields. Then the military has to send in a team and people are generally lost, he said that it is an operational challenge that bothers them.

    The promotional video of the company has been shown in the hope of attracting investors to the TIKAD drone. It shows the drone firing a weapon from the platform. While the company still has some work to do on the drone to ensure that it is a viable weapon and one that will be capable of sustained and accurate fire at range, this is something that is not shown in the video.

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    SECRET SPACE PROGRAM UPDATE: TR-3B PATENT NOW IN PUBLIC DOMAIN

    We just discovered a patent that shows the wicked triangular spacecraft known in the UFO realm as the TR-3B.

    Research confirms that the inventor, John St. Clair, has also developed and patented a new type of propulsion system. This new system is named as "rotating electrostatic propulsion system".

    Below are excerpts and the links to the patents of the TR-3B and the electrostatic propulsion system.

    TRIANGULAR SPACECRAFT  

    Triangular spacecraft

    US 20060145019 A1

    A spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner that produce a horizontal electric field parallel to the sides of the hull. This field, interacting with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume combining both lift and propulsion.  

    https://www.google.com/patents/US20060145019?pageId=111028569981762970673

    ROTATING ELECTROSTATIC PROPULSION SYSTEM

    Rotating electrostatic propulsion system

    US 20030209637 A1

    This invention relates to a spacecraft propulsion system utilizing thrusters comprised of a motor-driven electrostatically charged cylinder rotating within an electrostatically charged annular ring for the purpose of creating a spacetime curvature stress-energy tension in the horizontal direction. The thrusters are augmented by magnetic vortex generators, either embedded in the cylinders or located above each thruster, for the purpose of increasing the permittivity of space by permeating each thruster with low density hyperspace energy generated by a wormhole created between our space and hyperspace. A combination of three thrusters mounted on the underside of the hull of the spacecraft provide thrust and yaw motion control.

    https://www.google.com/patents/US20030209637?dq=ininventor:%22John+St.+Clair%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=

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    WHAT IS THE TR-3B? 

    The TR-3B is Code named Astra. The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. The Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s. Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.

    The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.

    VIDEOS FOOTAGE OF THE TR-3B  

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    UFOs could be roaming our skies, with a Bradbury resident appealing for help after spotting three unidentified flying objects on Sunday night. Picture: Tony Waldron
    UFOs could be roaming our skies, with a Bradbury resident appealing for help after spotting three unidentified flying objects on Sunday night. Picture: Tony Waldron

    Bradbury resident reports sighting of three UFOs

    23-08-2017 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Three 'flying saucers' top spike of UFOs snapped during total solar eclipse

    PARANORMAL investigators are looking at a glut of alleged UFO sightings that were witnessed during yesterday's total solar eclipse.

    The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has been inundated with reports from people who filmed, photographed, or claimed to see UFOs while watching the once in a life time spectacle across the US.

    Thousands of people aimed video and camera equipment at the skies yesterday as the eclipse made its way across the states from the west coast to the east.

    Investigators at MUFON have been sent ten ssighting reports since yesterday.

    They include one snap which appears to show three disc shaped objects sparing over hills at Scottsbluff National Monument in Nebraska.

    The witness report sent to MUFON said: "Took this picture facing south towards the moon while it was completely covering the sun.

    UFO-Eclipse

    There was a glut of UFO sightings during the eclipse, as expected, but many were just lens flares.

    "Nothing was seen in the sky with the naked eye or through the camera viewfinder. 

    "The photo shows three dark unidentified objects in formation above the city."

    The witness initially thought they were birds, but felt they were too far away, and no birds were seen at the time of the picture.

    They added: "I did not notice the objects until looking through the photos later in the day. 

    "None of the objects seems to look exactly the same. 

    "One is long and bullet shaped and the other two have hazy edges."

    Another snap which includes a dark disc-shaped object was taken in Ohio during the eclipse.

    When I first saw the dot on the picture I thought maybe it was a bird because of the colour then I zoomed in on it.

    UFO witness

    The witness simply said in their report: "Grey object bottom left-hand corner of picture."

    Another witness in Denver, Colorado, photographed a dark object in an eclipse picture.

    They said in their report: "I was in my backyard snapping pictures of the sky during the solar eclipse. I didn't notice the object until I went back to review the pictures a few minutes after I took picture.

    "When I first saw the dot on the picture I thought maybe it was a bird because of the colour then I zoomed in on it.

    When I saw the up close picture at first, I was a little scared then excited at the fact that I may have caught a UFO in a picture.

    "I showed all my kids and they agreed that it's a UFO."

    Many of the other supposed UFO images reported to MUFON have already been dismissed as lens flares by UFO investigators.

    Express.co.uk showed them to Scott Brando who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org.

    Lens flares appear on a picture when light refracts inside the lens and is then projected onto the image.

    This is the reason why nothing is seen at the time the photographer snaps the picture.

    They are common when a camera is aimed at bright lights such as the sun or street lights at night.

    Yesterday, former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope told Express.co.uk he expected a glut of UFO sightings during the eclipse.

    He told us: "Past experience suggests there will be an upsurge in UFO sightings during the total eclipse.

    “I suspect many of these will turn out to be news helicopters filming the crowds, or drones flown by amateur photographers, and maybe the sightings occur simply because more people are looking at the sky. 

    “But don't be surprised if Monday's eclipse results in hundreds of UFO sightings all across America.”

    23-08-2017 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

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    A UFO Is Seen Buzzing The U.S. Capital In Fox News Video

    A video showing a UFO crossing across the camera during a shot of Fox News to the U.S. capital building was submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a UFO investigation organisation.

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    According to the report from the witness, something strange flew in front of the capital building while he was watching Fox News. The report includes a video and a screenshot from it.

    The witness claims that the sighting happened in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, which may be the city where the witness resides.

    The video shows shiny, cylindrical object. It moves quickly from the bottom left to the upper right of the screen. The object in the video might not be the actual shape and size. It was presumably close to the camera, making it very huge. The form of the object could also look more elongated than its actual shape since it was moving at tremendous speed.

    In cases such as this one, many would suggest that birds and bugs are the culprits. An object could appear elongated and large because of motion blur. Wings flapping could also make the object look like it has ridges or multiple appendages. However, the effect is not visible in this particular video.

    Take a look at the video and let us know in the comment section what you think about it.

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    UFOs Spotted By News Station in Washington State at Air Show

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    An alien civilisation is increasing. In the 70 years since the Roswell UFO crash became famous, there is a very long history of allegations and contentions involving the rise of alien phenomena and their government cover-ups. This particular situation opens the idea that some believe it has been purposely hidden from the public. What are UFOs, and what are the reasons behind their existence? Are they alien spacecraft visiting the Earth from another galaxy, or are they from our solar system? Apparently, we can never answer these questions with certainty, but it is still possible to speculate the various kinds of scientific principles that may explain a timely interstellar spaceflight or techniques of interdimensional travel. If you were at Skyfest, the most common question would be whether or not you have seen UFO. While this question drifts others, still at least a single individual is claiming that he did. In fact, he believes that he has the video evidence to support his case.

    John Wichelow, the witness, cannot believe that he has captured anything like that. He thought he was just spotting the Thunderbirds designed for the air show at the Fairchild AFB. As soon as he watched the video backwards, he noticed two kinds of strange objects found in the frame. According to him, the object was moving very fast. While some people compare it to the meteors, bugs or birds that are very close to the camera, he still believes that it does not bear any resemblance to those objects enumerated.

    The footage shows a clear and white object that is dart from the frame before the passing of Thunderbirds. At 36 seconds later, you will see a small black object following behind the Thunderbird. Of course, we can only describe aliens and explain their technologies regarding our limited skills and knowledge. The reality of UFO phenomenon may be far beyond anything that is imaginable.

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    RETURN OF THE WARMINSTER THING? Strange activity filmed in skies over UK UFO capital

    BRITAIN’S ‘UFO capital’ has seen strange airborne activity for the second time in recent weeks.

    A bright object was filmed circling above Warminster in Wiltshire in June and now this month.

    The latest video shows three orange balls moving in the sky which repeatedly change direction as they are followed by a trail of sparkling white light.

    Jeremy Le Fevre spotted the UFO from his home in Frome, Somerset, on Saturday evening and started filming.

    Mr Le Fevre had said: "I had never seen anything like it before. It really caught my eye. It went on for quite some time before flying off into the distance towards Longleat.

    "It was emitting green and red colours. It looked to me like it could have been fireworks attached to a drone. It's still very much unidentified though."

    UFO-Warminster

    The object was actually a new type of stunt plane.

    He was more excited due to the history of Warminster and UFOs.

    Warminster has been crowned the country's top UFO hotspot since the 1960s when a strange spate of UFO sightings and paranormal incidents led to the legend of the Warminster Thing developing.

    People reported eerie thundering noises, lights in the sky, birds being killed, and even cars malfunctioning after balls of light appeared above.

    The area still witnesses UFO sightings and many crop circles.

    An identical object was films doing the same manoeuvres in June.

    The Grob is unique amongst air show types, as it has a special clearance to fly at night.

    AeroSPARX

    Both were reported by UFO websites and national media as possible UFO and alien activity.

    In June the resident said: "I took this video from my house in Frome. 

    "It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs."

    Some conspiracy theorists even suggested it could be secret flight tests 

    However, Express.co.uk can reveal it was nothing more than a specialist acrobatic display plane.

    AeroSPARX, an aircraft aerobatic team that performs at air shows across Europe, flies its stunt planes in the area.

    AeroSPARX, says of the particular craft: "The Grob is unique amongst air show types, as it has a special clearance to fly at night. 

    "Pyrotechnics are quite unique and special in the half-light of twilight, but at night they really come alive and you can truly appreciate their majestic nature."

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    Eclipse will lead to upsurge in UFO sightings and crazy behaviour claims ex MoD man

    A MAN who was been at the heart of organising Ministry of Defence (MoD) contingency plans for upcoming total eclipse sightings has warned there could be an upsurge in UFO sightings and strange behaviour today.

    Nick Pope worked for the UK MoD in the 1990s and was involved in investigating the UFO phenomenon and contingency planning for the chaos caused by a total eclipse.

    Today’s total solar eclipse will be seen in the UK at around 7.40pm.

    It is called the Great American Eclipse because it can be seen at totality from the west to the east coast.

    Mr Pope, who now speaks at UFO conferences across the globe, expects an increase in UFO sighting.

    He said: “Past experience suggests there will be an upsurge in UFO sightings during the total eclipse. “I suspect many of these will turn out to be news helicopters filming the crowds, or drones flown by amateur photographers, and maybe the sightings occur simply because more people are looking at the sky. 

    “But don't be surprised if Monday's eclipse results in hundreds of UFO sightings all across America.”

    Solar-Eclipse

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    There could be UFO sightings and crazy behaviour during the eclipse.

    He also said to expect strange behaviour during the eclipse.

    He added: “Sadly, there's a dark side - pun intended - to the eclipse. 

    “Such events bring out the crazies, and I confidently predict that there will be an upsurge in nutjobbery at the time of the total eclipse. 

    “I’ve already seen predictions that the world will end, along with suggestions that we'll see more sightings of Bigfoot, demons, and all manner of other weird stuff.”

    Mr Pope also revealed how eclipses were a headache for the authorities due to huge numbers of people descending on areas where the eclipse will reach totality.

    He said: “With millions of people squeezing into a small geographic area, there are tremendous pressures on infrastructure. 

    “Petrol stations run out of fuel, cash machines run out of money, and shops run out of food. 

    But don't be surprised if Monday's eclipse results in hundreds of UFO sightings all across America.

    Nick Pope

    “Nobody can resupply because the area is gridlocked. 

    “I was involved in contingency planning for a Ministry of Defence operation - imaginatively entitled Operation Eclipse - that involved hundreds of troops being placed on standby to deal with a breakdown of various essential services, and I'm sure the US government has a similar plan in place for today.”

    Yet, Mr Pope did not help the MoD during the total eclipse seen over the UK in August 1999.

    He made sure he could experience it as a member of the public three years in advance.

    He said: “I'm an eclipse geek. I saw the total eclipse in August 1999 in Devon, and while it was overcast, nothing can quite prepare you for totality. 

    “It's as if a giant dimmer switch is suddenly turned, with it going from day to night in a few seconds.

    “I booked annual leave from the MoD three years in advance, just so I could get away from London and travel to somewhere in the path of totality. 

    “With only a short time left to the total eclipse, I urge anyone who can do so to travel to the path of totality. It's an experience like none other.”

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    Scotland an alien nation as expert reveals over 1000 UFO sightings a year

    Malcolm Robinson insists the country is a hotspot for strange goings on in the skies and claims the Government is trying to cover it up.

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    Robinson is a self-styled expert on alien visits

    A self-styled UFO expert has revealed there are about 1000 reported sightings in Scotland every year.

    Malcolm Robinson last night insisted Scotland is a hotspot for strange goings on in the skies but claimed the Government are trying to cover it up.

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    The Scot, from Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, is the founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations and speaks at events on claims of alien visitors.

    Robinson admitted 98 per cent of sightings can be explained. But he said the remaining genuine reports give cause for curiosity.

    Robinson, who now lives in Hastings, said: “It’s extraordinary. Something is definitely going on in the skies above Scotland.

    Robinson believes the Government are trying to cover up UFO sightings

    “Sightings are on the rise and interest in the subject is increasing. Of the roughly 1000 reports we get from Scotland every year, 10 to 20 can be be described as accurate.

    “There are natural explanations for 95 per cent of them, around three per cent are test aircraft and sometimes there is rare atmospheric phenomena.

    “There are several hotspots in the country – Bonnybridge is one of the best in the world.

    “It’s my job to unmask frauds and prove to sceptics that this is reality.” Robinson worked alongside former Bonnybridge councillor Billy Buchanan in the 90s when sightings began in the town.

    More than 300 are still reported every year and the pair have written to every Prime Minister since John Major to ask for an inquiry – without response.

    Robinson believes the Government are withholding information.

    He said: “There are many sceptics and I started off as one of them. But I did research, looked at the overwhelming evidence and had my eyes opened.

    “Sightings are on the rise and I am certain the British Government know what is going on.

    “They have information they aren’t willing to share. The $1million question is, ‘Where are these objects coming from?’”

    His book UFO Case Files of Scotland is being re-printed next month.

    http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Filer’s Files #34 – 2017 ET modified Human DNA - PART I
    Object flew in front of the capital building Washington DC on August 14, 2017.
    Object flew in front of the capital building Washington DC on August 14, 2017.

    Filer’s Files #34 – 2017 ET modified Human DNA - PART I

    In special reports, this week’s files cover: ET modified Human DNA, Missouri MUFON Has Equipped a Level 1 Lab, Missouri MUFON Has Equipped a Level 1 Lab, Earthquakes Likely with Eclipse, Space Force, and Space ship, We Can Modify the Weather, Underwater Airport, Mars Photos, Tan, and The Big Lie.

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Washington DC.

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Croatia, Estonia, England in the United Kingdom and Uruguay.

    The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

     

    George A. Filer III

    New Jersey State Director

    MUFON Eastern Region Director

    Www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 million hits a month

    Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.

    Special Projects

    ET modified Human DNA

     “Francis Crick, the discoverer of DNA, and winner of the Nobel Prize although an atheist published a book which subscribed to the theory of intelligent design, that our universe was not simply the result of a series of chemical accidents.

    He states, Life did not evolve first on Earth, a highly advanced civilization became threatened so they devised a way to pass on their existence. They genetically-modified their DNA and sent it out from their planet on bacteria or meteorites with the hope that it would collide with another planet. It did, and that’s why we’re here.”

    Our DNA was encoded with messages from that other civilization. They programmed the molecules so that when we reached a certain level of intelligence, we would be able to access their information, and they could therefore “teach” us about ourselves, and how to progress.

    “An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.” ― Francis CrickLife Itself: Its Origin and Nature

    Missouri MUFON Has Equipped a Level 1 Lab

    Missouri MUFON has equipped a Level 1 Lab to assist MUFON International with preliminary trace level case evidence, thus saving MUFON International the cost of analyzing trace evidence that may be able to be identified within our organization. We have acquired a Forensic Comparison Microscope capable of comparing metal samples with reference samples to determine type and alloy using the grain pattern size.  The Lab is in need of sample alloys to complete this process.

    Here is a list of the aluminum alloys needed to produce reference samples for the Lab along with other things we can use. We are starting with aluminum alloys as they are the ones most used in aerospace applications. We will also need alloys and pure stock of other metal types. These are going to be made into reference samples so I need the alloy number or indication they are pure stock when received. The reference samples are needed to compare case metals against when field samples come in. There are several places that make reference samples but due to the cost (400 to 500 dollars) per ten we will have to make our own. If anyone has access to already made reference samples that they would donate we will of course be glad to have them. Other things that are needed at present are: a small acid cabinet and supplies such as are needed to sterilize soils in my kiln (crucibles of various sizes, large filters).

    This Level 1 trace evidence lab is open to all States and Canada for use. Any sample found with an “unknown” or sample the lab is not equipped to analyze, will be immediately forwarded to MUFON International for high level testing. The alloy numbers on the Aluminum are attached to this e-mail.
    The best for this use would be aluminum pieces no thinner than 1/2 inch but we would take this in any shape and can cut small pieces off any rod , bar, sheet etc. as long as the alloy number is known.

    Thank you for your help in this regard, Lynne E. Mann, Chief Analyst MUFON of Missouri Laboratory

    Park Hills, Missouri 314-757-2498, Debbie Ziegelmeyer Missouri MUFON State Director

    Earthquakes Likely With Sun Moon Eclipse

    Mitch Battros Recent studies reveal accelerated tectonic movement involving fluid distribution of super-heated rock (magma) in worldwide ‘hotspots’, also known as mantle plumes.

    A mantle plume exists along the Mediterranean Sea, particularly along the length of Italy and in many of the islands in the southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea. The eclipse on August 21 may trigger earthquakes.

    The same gravitational force that creates high tides when the moon and sun align may also play a role in triggering major earthquakes, according to a study released Monday.

    Better understanding of this mechanism could help predict when known faults are more likely to produce killer quakes, the researchers said.

    “Large earthquakes are more probable during periods of high tidal stress,” the scientists concluded in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geosciences. When the tug of gravity is strongest, they added, “the probability of a tiny rock failure expanding to a gigantic rupture increases.” For centuries after the discovery that solar and lunar forces affect the ocean tides, scientists speculated whether they also cause Earth’s crust to buckle and fracture.

    But only recently has statistical research started to establish a firm link between planetary alignments and temblors. Satoshi Ide, a professor at the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues zeroed in on large earthquakes — magnitude 5.5 or greater — around the world over the last two decades. His team reconstructed the strength of gravitational pull, known as “tidal stress,” in the two weeks prior to each tremor.

    Many of the largest earthquakes occurred during periods when the pull of the moon and sun were particularly forceful.

    These included the Dec. 26, 2004, quake in Sumatra, which ravaged a large swath of the island and delivered deadly tsunami toward South and Southeast Asia. Some 220,000 people died.

    The same link held for two other mega-quakes, the 2010 temblor near Maule, Chile, and the magnitude-9.0 quake on March 11, 2011, off the Tohoku region that claimed about 19,000 lives and crippled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Exactly how strong earthquakes start and evolve is still poorly understood.

    One theory suggests that all quakes begin with a tiny fracture and grow, in a cascading process, into large-scale ruptures. If this is true, then the new study suggests that the likelihood of this happening increases during the spring tide, the period just after a new or full moon. The findings “can be used to improve probabilistic earthquake forecasting, especially for extremely large earthquakes,” the study said. https://www.japantimes.co.

    The US Space Corps Would Be a “Combat-Ready Space Force”

    The full House is now set to consider the bill that proposes a US Space Corps. The mission: Send combat forces into space to save the world from potential Star Wars. A Congressional committee is proposing that the US armed forces add a new military branch that would, quite literally, send soldiers out of this world.

    US military prepares for the next frontier: Space war

    The crew of real-life Buzz Light-years is described in the National Defense Authorization Act, which is now headed to the full House for a vote.

    There isn’t usually anything extraordinary about the NDAA, which every year lays out military spending.

    But this time, the House Armed Services Committee voted 60 to 1 in favor of a bill that would, among many other things, create the first new branch of the armed forces since the Air Force’s founding in 1947.

    Among the Space Corps’ official duties, as established in the bill, would be “providing combat-ready space forces that enable the commanders of the combatant commands to fight and win wars.”

    Space Corps would fall under the Air Force in the same way the Marine Corps does the Navy. The chief of staff of the Space Corps, a presidential appointee with a six-year term, would be on equal footing with the Air Force’s chief of staff. Both would report to the Secretary of the Air Force.

    War in space: Kamikazes, kidnapper satellites and lasers

    So far, there’s just one main problem with the proposal: Neither the Air Force’s secretary nor its chief of staff are thrilled with separating America’s own “Guardians of the Galaxy” from the rest of the armed forces.

    “I’ve been shocked by the response by the Air Force leadership,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, said during a June 22 committee hearing. The congressman chairs the subcommittee that wrote the Space Corps into the legislation.

    Senior Air Force officials see the proposed corps as an unnecessary change in the force’s existing space efforts. (The Space Corps wouldn’t exactly be boldly going where no man has gone before. The Air Force Space Command has been working toward that since 1982.)

    “This will make it more complex, add more boxes to the organizational chart, and cost more money,” Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters June 21. There are still plenty more congressional hoops for the Space Corps to jump through before it would become official. But, hey, at least the name sounds cool.

    John Lenard Walson Captures Space Ships

     Thank you for the space ship images: once again they show that you are an excellent photographer. There are of course many satellites in orbit, which look very different and appear much smaller. This space ship looks much larger than even the space shuttle and may be armed. 

    These space ships are readily seen by astro-photographers like John all over the world.

    You should just enjoy the excellence of your images, and make them available as widely as is possible, through the public web-sites, magazines, etc, so you can get the credit you deserve for your skills.

    Gerry Gilmore Professor of Experimental Philosophy
    Institute of Astronomy directs Cambridge University PA:

     Your help is greatly appreciated. John needs to go to an area with less light and cleaner atmosphere clearer pictures. You can help obtain even better images by helping him purchase a van to travel to better locations. Gofundme link here. https://www.gofundme.com/2n6cp7w or pay pal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick andhosted_button_id=4LWK2NTG9THNL

    We Can Modify the Weather

     Several UFOs were spotted during the flooding and dozens of tornadoes were reported in August throughout the Midwest. An average of 60 people are killed each year by tornadoes. Another 200 are drowned by flooding with about 50 people dying each year from lightning. The damage from cumulonimbus clouds (CBs) can run into the billions of dollars to buildings and homes.

    The National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL Site Information –   NOAA’s reports, “The most destructive and deadly tornadoes occur from super cells, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well-defined radar circulation called a mesocyclone. (Super cells can also produce damaging hail, severe non-tornado winds, unusually frequent lightning, and flash floods.) Tornado formation is believed to be dictated mainly by things which happen on the storm scale, in and around the mesocyclone.”

    When I was in Vietnam in 1968, the Air Force extended the Monsoon season by over a month by cloud-seeding with silver iodide crystals using two C-130s and two F-4s on the Ho Chi Minh trail. I encourage the Air Force to use weather controlling tactics to protect American lives and property.

    I suggest tornadoes can be tamed and potential flooding storms should be spread out. For example, the Chinese, in August of 2008, used 37,000 people to seed clouds aiming for a dry Olympics. Hundreds of teams used anti-aircraft guns to shoot shells of silver iodide into approaching cloud masses and kept Beijing dry.

    The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodidepotassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Liquid propane, which expands into a gas, has also been used. This can produce ice crystals at higher temperatures than silver iodide. After promising research, the use of hygroscopic materials, such as table salt, is  becoming more popular.

    Surplus Harvard T-6 single engine aircraft were fitted with racks under each wing containing 32 railroad fuses that were impregnated with silver iodide were ignited individually or all at once, depending upon the threat. In coordination with ground units, the aircraft would lay a plume of silver iodide in front of approaching cumulonimbus clouds (CBs) with noticeable effect. Large, active Cumulonimbus clouds CBs which cause most of the damage were reduced to nothing. Heavy hail storms were also reduced in intensity.

    A C-5 Galaxy aircraft can carry a standard: payload of 240,000 pounds of dry ice or chemicals that could seriously effect a mesocyclone. Maximum payload capacity of the C-17 is 170,900 pounds with a service ceiling of 45,000 feet. Even drones could be used to tame dangerous clouds. Air Weather Service is headquartered at Scott AFB, IL, where I briefed the commander on a regular basis. AWS was restructured as a field operating agency during the reorganization of the former Military Airlift Command now called Air Mobility Command.

     Below is radar readout of a typical tornado. The actual tornado early in its track is located in the southern reddest hook near the bottom of the image. Craft inserting cloud seeding chemicals would likely stop the tornado formation.

    Recent theories and results from the VORTEX 2 program suggest that once a mesocyclone is underway, tornado development is related to the temperature differences across the edge of downdraft air wrapping around the mesocyclone. Storm spotters look for low bands of ragged bands of low cumulus clouds extending from the main storm tower usually to the southeast or south. The presence of inflow bands suggests that the storm is gathering low-level air from several miles away. If the inflow bands have a spiraling nature to them, it suggests the presence of rotation and the forming of the tornado.

    The beaver’s tail is a smooth, flat cloud band extending from the eastern edge of the rain-free base to the east or northeast. It usually skirts around the southern edge of the precipitation area. It also suggests the presence of rotation. (Possible attack point)

    A wall cloud is an isolated cloud lowering attached to the rain-free base of the thunderstorm. The wall cloud is usually to the rear of the visible precipitation area. A wall cloud that may produce a tornado usually exists for 10–20 minutes before a tornado appears. A wall cloud may also persistently rotate (often visibly), have strong surface winds flowing into it, and may have rapid vertical motion indicated by small cloud elements quickly rising into the rain-free base. (Possible attack point),

     As the storm intensifies, the updraft draws in low-level air from several miles around. Some low-level air is pulled into the updraft from the rain area. This rain-cooled air is very humid; the moisture in the rain-cooled air quickly condenses below the rain-free base to form the wall cloud.  (Possible attack point)

    The rear flank downdraft (RFD) is a downward rush of air on the back side of the storm that descends along with the tornado. The RFD looks like a “clear slot” or “bright slot” just to the rear (southwest) of the wall cloud. It can also look like curtains of rain wrapping around the cloud base circulation. The RFD causes gusty surface winds that occasionally have embedded downbursts. The rear flank downdraft is the motion in the storm that causes the hook echo feature on radar. (Possible attack point)

    A condensation funnel is made up of water droplets and extends downward from the base of the thunderstorm. If it is in contact with the ground it is a tornado; otherwise it is a funnel cloud. Dust and debris beneath the condensation funnel confirm a tornado’s presence. (Possible attack point)

    Coordination between radar, ground observers, and airborne aircraft equipped with suitable chemicals such as dry ice has the potential to disrupt the tornados. An excellent comprehensive list of questions and answers about tornadoes can be found here: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/

    NSSL is working to simulate storms that produce tornadoes in computer models to better understand how they form and behave. The Air Force could gain tremendous support from the American people if they could calm the tornadoes, lightning, and flooding deaths. Thanks to NSSL.

    Underwater Airport

    UFO Sightings Daily’s Scott C. Waring believes this alien base is connected to all the UFO sightings coming out of Mexico and the entire Central America. This base is huge and it’s no wonder why we hear about so many UFO sightings over Mexico,” he writes. “This base is just 45 miles away from the Mexican coast. The chances of this being an intelligently-made structure I put that at 100 percent.”

    It’s interesting to note the similarity between the structure’s arrangement and that of an airport’s landing strips when viewed from above. However, the sheer size of the tubular structures that make up the underwater network means they must have served a different purpose. It is unfortunate that we might never know what that purpose was, but unless the scientific community decides to investigate the matter in a thorough, transparent way, we’ll remain clueless. Coordinates for the underwater base here.

    NASA Photos from Mars


    Frank Jacobs has found some astounding images of Mars that indicate precision cuts on stone of ancient archeological ruins.

    This image appears to show some type of truck or vehicle carrier. If it represents stone it is obvious the stone has been cut in the past similar to that found on Earth in the building of the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. Speculation suggests Martians left Mars and came to Earth.

    Mars image found by Frank Jacobs shows Mars from space taken by the Hubble telescope. It appears to show clouds or at least strong winds blowing up dust. The pictures indicate some kind of atmosphere.

    Not usually known is that temperatures around the Mars equator in the summer months reach 90 degrees.

    Life apparently existed on Mars and the archeological remains are available for all to see who wish to take the time to investigate the images.

    See the trailer Packing for Mars. Thanks to NASA images.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBOBZooqcN4

    The Olmec Heads

    The giant stone heads of the Olmecs found in La Venta, Tres Zpotes and other sites in Mexico can be classed as artifacts of a similar type. These colossal heads carved of black basalt are from 1.5 to 3 meters high (5-10 feet), weighing from 5 to 40 tons. They are placed on stone stands like similar large globes also found in the area. The globes would be easier to role and later carved into heads.

    The nearest basalt quarries are 50 to 100 kilometers (31-62 miles) away. How could a people without a wheeled vehicle or pack animal bring the masses of rock across swamps and jungles to the erection sites?

    These immense faces of La Venta and San Lorenzo have been dated to 1200 BC – another surprise for the historians of science. (CC by SA 3.0)

    Olmec head. Parque-Museo La Venta, Villahermosa, Tabasco (Steve Bridger)

     The Strange Spheres of Costa Rica

    Another strange discovery was made in Costa Rica, also in the fifties. Hundreds of perfectly shaped spheres made of volcanic rock were scattered in the jungle. Similar spheres have been located in Guatemala and Mexico but nowhere else in the world. A number of questions have been raised with the discovery of these balls. What ancient race could have carved and polished them so perfectly and what was the purpose of them? Or are they natural geological formations as some scientist believe? Some rest on stone platforms, others are arranged in clusters, then again others in geometrical patterns forming triangles, squares or circles. Do they have astronomical significance in the manner of the Stonehenge megaliths?

    The Coming of Tan

    Dr Bruce Cornet writes, “Riley Martin published a book in 1995 by Historicity Productions about his childhood abduction experiences at age seven and older.” Riley was born on 9 May 1946. When I met him in 1995 he came across as very intelligent and artistic.  One could therefore dismiss what he says in 369 page book as the product of imagination.  Yet he goes into so much detail about abduction experience and the types of aliens he met, that one has to wonder where he got all his information, since he only has his GED.  What he reveals in his book is extraordinary, unlike anything you will find in other accounts by abductees and contactees.  If true, he not only remembered everything he saw and learned aboard an enormous mothership that orbits Saturn, which is 40 KM across.  Two major alien races divide up this mothership: The Batavians and the Targzissians.

    The Biavians look very human like but with distinct differences.  The Targzissians closely resemble what anthropologists have identified in ancient civilizations as the Reptilians or Naggas.  I attach five pages from his book on the Targ Terror – May 1988.  Few others have had such contact with this reptilian race as Martin has had.  I also attach some of his figures showing the variety of aliens he met aboard the Biavian MothershipThanks to Bruce Cornet

    The Big Lie

    New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza is out with a new book aimed at exposing what he calls “The Big Lie” of the progressive Left. 3 to 5 million Democrats in 1930 were in the KKK

    “Ever since Trump, the Left has been accusing him of being a fascist; the Republican Party is the party of Neo-Nazis — all of this is based on the assumption that fascism is on the Right, (that) it’s a ring-wing thing,” D’Souza told CBN News. “What I do in the book is kind of a deep history of fascism and National Socialism. I show, “These have always been on the Left.'”

    In his new book, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, D’Souza says it is not the GOP that is the party closely aligned with fascism, but the Democratic Left.

    He makes the claim that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger inspired Nazi racial theorists. “Margaret Sanger was part of a community in the United States and they were the community of eugenics. Eugenics means you sort of encourage the people you think are fit or successful to have children, and you try to prevent the people you consider to be inferior from breeding at all,” explained D’Souza. Planned Parenthood even now aborts some 500,000 babies a year.

    “So Margaret Sanger supported forced sterilization, and these forced sterilization laws that were promoted in the United States were copied by the Nationalist Socialist Party (Nazis) in 1933 for the notorious Nazi-forced sterilization program,” he continued.

    “And similarly American progressives were advocating what one guy called lethal chambers to kill off people. And the Nazis again established a euthanasia program using lethal chambers and carbon monoxide gas,” he said.

    “If you go to the college campuses you see these groups called Antifa. The name actually stands for anti-fascist, and yet if you look at them they’re wearing costumes; they wear masks; they carry bike locks and baseballs bats as weapons,” D’Souza told CBN.

    “They intimidate. They terrorize. They use violence yet they’re doing it supposedly to fight fascism — except they look like the fascists, they talk like the fascists and they behave like the fascists.”

    D’Souza told CBN News that he was inspired to write this book at this particular time in history because he considers his work the intellectual equivalent of investigative reporting. “I find that there’s fake news and there’s fake scholarship,” he charged. “Fake scholarship is the way in which progressive scholars distort the narrative of American history to serve their political agenda. Part of my work is unmasking and exposing them.”  “It’s a big lie, and that’s the title of the book. When Hitler spoke of the big lie he said small lies can be caught, but sometimes lies are so audacious and so big that you can’t get your head around them so it’s kind of easier to sell a big lie than a small lie and that’s what the Left is doing in America right now,” he said.

    The Washington Times reports, a majority of Americans – 51 percent – now disapprove of the news media’s treatment of President Trump, a sentiment shared by 77 percent of Republicans and even 26 percent of Democrats.

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    Filer’s Files #34 – 2017 ET modified Human DNA - PART II

    UFO Sightings in the United States

    Arizona Light

    Tolleson — I was sitting in my backyard having a cigarette and there was a full moon out so I thought I would take a picture of it on August 7, 2017.

    When I went to send it I looked at it this was there. So i took several photos some had this and some didn’t. This happened 2 nights in a row. Do you have any clue what this might be. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    California Object

     Stockton – I was taking photos of the full moon when I noticed a black object flying above the moon and into my shot on August 6, 2017. It made no sound and had no lights. It flew from left to right, then down, then hovered, then back to the left.

    When I got home and dumped photos to computer I noticed that there were actually 3 objects in the photos and sometimes 2.

    They were flying saucer shaped. I kept shooting but the objects were no longer visible. They just vanished. –

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Colorado Disc

     Durango — On August 5, 2017, departed on the Durango to Silverton Train at about 9:00 am. As the train was traveling I was taking numerous photos of the breathtaking scenery until we reached Silverton. Later that evening at the motel I downloaded the photos and noticed in one photo that it had some kind of an object in the background. I then zoomed the photo in and noticed it was some type of an object above one of the mountains. I was very surprised and to me it looked like a UFO. The only time I saw the object was in the photo and never noticed it as I took the photo. I still what it could be. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Georgia Green Light

    About a little before 7:00 pm, I went outside of my house so I could take some photos of the super moon on November 13, 2016. I had my iPhone camera on and I faced towards the east at the moon. Almost immediately I noticed an extra “spot” of light in the photo next to the moon. I raised my phone again and looked through the lens and saw the spot of light, but when I lowered the camera I didn’t see the “spot” by the moon.
    I checked one of the photos then by zooming it out and noticed something that looked like a blue ball next to the moon like. I thought it was funny, because it looked as if the moon had a little planet next to it! I cleaned both phone lenses with an alcohol wipe and looked through the lens and saw the same “light spot.” My son tells me maybe the orb/sphere in my photos is “lens flare.” Later O took more pictures and noticed the sphere would be in different places in relation to the moon. There are 17 total photos and the orb appears clearly in 11 of them and in the rest I just see some colorful streaks or smudges.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

     Illinois Orbs

    Edinburg – Pamela Stark writes I took this photo on August 4, 2017, at 9:04 pm of these possible UFOs.

    My friends were in the sky. Sure did not look like this when I took the picture.

    The one was closer to the Earth than ever before and allot brighter.

    Thanks to Pamela Stark

    Oregon Light

     Forest Grove – On August 6, 2017, at 10 PM, I was given your email by a friend who sent you footage before. I recorded this on Sunday August 6, 2017, in Forest Grove, around 10 PM. It’s a short clip, but at the end you can definitely see it. I have so much more. I would like to share the footage and a story that will blow your mind. But I wanted to send this one first. Thank you for your time. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

    Texas Discs

    Ben Wheeler — Photos Received August 5, 2017, the aliens are talking to me. I got photos of it and photos of flying disk. They come in through the walls at night. I am in Benwheeler, Texas. I have so much more I can blow your mind. At an old Indian battle ground I got two disk and eight orbs and sixty white things flying around me all on photos. It’s a female alien talking to me. She likes me a lot. She said get ready and she flew out in front of me. I was in a flying disk with her. I am one man that is not a waste of your time. I can change the world with what I got. I got about one hundred photos of alien technology. I have taken about 3,000 photos hunting aliens in three years. My work is convincing for sure. I hate to type all this on text. I can tell you better. Call me when you can any time day or night. I got to get this out. If this is breaking the law, I will get a life sentence that is how good my proof is. I was at an Indian battle ground where 800 Indians were killed by 500 Texans. When I got there I took 360 photos. I got two disks and eight orbs on one photo and got about sixty white square things flying around me of alien technology. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

    Washington Lights

    Kirkland –, I saw the same thing only it was higher up and on a crystal clear day with a bright blue sky. I was in near Seattle at my nephew’s house. I recorded it in two different sittings and I observed it for a good 10 minutes before it disappeared. I have pictures and videos. I forgot to mention that I spotted it on Tuesday, On July 18, 2017, at 5:27 PM PDT.

    Witness and his nephew were outside and saw the object. The witness then grabbed his cell phone and shot 3 videos and a photo. He is familiar with drones and all concur that the object was not a drone. The witness also stated that one his video clips show the object making a sudden movement downward and to the left. A view of the footage and slowed speed does show that the object may have moved.

    Note: The witness is referring to the sighting of a bright object hovering over Seattle, WA on April 24, 2017. The object is quite likely not the planet Venus. Venus was only 8 degrees above the horizon at the time of the sighting. Also the object disappeared in 10 minutes. It was not a weather balloon or a high altitude balloon because these balloons generally are suspended at a constant height and are generally airborne for several hours. The object vanished in 10 minutes. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

    Washington DC Disc

    District of Columbia — It flew in front of the capital building while I was watching Fox News on August 14, 2017.

    Fox News did not discuss it.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Worldwide UFO Sightings

    Canada Light

    Prince Edward County — On August 1, 2017, while on vacation in the in southern Ontario I was fishing in a river near the Sandbanks Provincial Park at exactly 8:41 pm. something caught on my eye.

    It was miles away moving quite fast of a very bright and I managed to get one picture as I lost sight of it over the tree line. This sighting lasted only twenty to thirty seconds. Minutes later I noticed a military jet buzzing about that maybe related? Later on August 2, 2017 while on the beach the military jet did a fly by and I took some pictures. Same jet I had seen earlier after the UFO. I have today witnessed 30 sightings this year. Enjoy Paul Shishis

    Croatia Orb

     Korcula — I was on my vacation on Korkyra Island and like every morning I take a ride to the town to get coffee.  I saw a beautiful sunrise above the old town on August 8, 2017, so I stop the car and take a photo with my iPhone. It has live photo and makes two pics in one second. In my iPhone I’m able to click to each photo and then a have a few frames to see before the final photo is shown (like a mini video, a cool feature).
    After few days I wanted to post some photos on Facebook and noticed something strange. I’ve had two pics, one is normal and on the other pops up some flying object from nowhere. The photos were taken just outside the town of Korcula, with a nice view to the Monastery of St. Nikola. It is very clear that ufo on second photo appears out of nowhere. When I realize that maybe I have something I went to my husband to show the photos. He is an amateur but passionate photographer and he was astonished. After closer examination he concluded it’s definitely it is a real flying object. When you use the iPhone feature you can see the movement of the bird in the beam of light in the position above the object so you can actually see the quick time that passed from the moment the 2 photos were taken and also clearly the moment of the appearance of the ufo. It seems to be a small spaceship 3 or 4 meters. If you look at other elements on the photos and compare it the ufo you will see that the bright and dark regions are just perfectly fitting, reflecting the sun correctly since it seems that the ufo is flying at a small angle and little descending, too. The strong light reflecting from the back side must be from some highly reflective material

    Estonia Light

     Lihula — I was in my work place which is a cow farm in a small village on August 12, 2017. I had just gotten there and it was very beautiful sunset so I took out my phone and decided to take some photos but after I had taken the photo I noticed something. There was this weird light in the sky. First I thought it was just a sunlight reflecting on the cloud but it didn’t look like a cloud and it also wasn’t moving. So I just stood there trying to figure out what it is. After some minutes the clouds started covering it and I took quickly one more photo. Finally I could not see it anymore and so I just left. I still have no idea what it could have been. If you zoom in the picture it almost looks like there is some oval object with light around it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    UK England Light

     Disley — We were visiting Lyme Park on August 13, 2017. It was a sunny day with only some high cirrus-clouds at the time. We sat down in the garden to look at the estate and took some pictures. After lying down in the grass I saw a plane flying by at high and behind it I saw a bright star. This was odd, because it was 3:45 PM and neither moon nor stars were visible.

    The star changed brightness perhaps it was a satellite or the ISS. After a few minutes some cirrus clouds past in front of it and although the ‘star’ was a bit less visible, you could still see it changing in brightness. I tried to focus on it -after the clouds were gone- with my camera 200 mm lens and took a photograph. I took a second photograph and at zooming in I saw that it had a shape.
    When I looked up again, some more cirrus clouds passed but the object had disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Stonehenge — I have a photo taken on August 5, 2017, that I later have noticed what could possibly be a UFO sighting.

    I did not hear or notice anything on the day so whatever it was must have been quietly hovering. It was only after reviewing the photos a few days later I noticed what could be something unusual.
    Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

    Uruguay Disc

     MontevideoI’m a spotter, I take pictures with airplanes, and it’s a hobby. I heard a plane; it was a C-130 of the Uruguayan Air Force, clearly a military airplane. I run to get my camera and I take two pictures. When I finish taking the photos, I look directly at the plane and see those objects that also appear in the attached images, I thought of dirt, file with errors, birds, flight in formation among other possibilities.
    In the photo you can check the EXIF ​​information of the photos.
    That has never happened to me. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to send you this information.
    The objects are shaped like rice, oval, like a plate, they are gray, Thanks to MUFON CMS

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    22-08-2017 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

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    21-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.8 Very Early UFO Photos Taken Before Photoshop

    8 Very Early UFO Photos Taken Before Photoshop

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    The vast majority of UFOs that aren't lens flares or natural objects are probably drones or some form of advanced government technology. Think about it – over 60 years ago our government built the atomic bomb in an underground city (the Manhattan Project) – God knows what insidious teleporting and nanotechnology they're up to now!

    There is a tiny percentage of UFO cases that have no rational explanation. These UFOs could actually be of extraterrestrial origin, and some of the most interesting evidence comes in the form of old photos that were taken before the age of drones and Photoshop – when there really shouldn't have been anything up there flying around besides early planes, and when complex photo manipulation was next to impossible.

    Here are some of the most compelling old UFO pics. Real or not, they're still fascinating documents from a cosmic blip in time on the planet Earth, somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy…

    1. The Oldest UFO Photo Ever - Mt. Washington, New Hampshire 1870
    The Oldest UFO Photo Ever - Mt. Washington, New Hampshire 1870
    One of the oldest and best UFO sightings on record (Photo Source)
    This photograph depicts a cloud formation over the summit of Mt. Washington in the Winter of 1870 - 1871. The image is part of an antique stereoview that happens to contain an unexplained cigar-shaped object. 

    It is simultaneously the oldest and one of the best UFO sightings on record. Remember, there were no planes in the sky in 1870 and no digital manipulation.

    In 2002, this image was purchased on Ebay for $385.00 by Samuel M. Sherman, president of Independent-International Pictures Corp. (Source)
    2. TIENSTEN, HOPEH PROVINCE, CHINA - 1942
    TIENSTEN, HOPEH PROVINCE, CHINA - 1942
    War II-era photo discovered in old Chinese scrapbook (Photo Source)

    This World War II-era photo was discovered in an old Chinese scrapbook. It was taken by a sidewalk photographer, who snapped a picture of the strange object and then sold it. It shows a UFO in the sky above a Tsientsien Street and there appears to be at least one person pointing at it. (Source)

    3. Farming UFO Photo, USA - 1920s
    Farming UFO Photo, USA - 1920s
    Look to the northeast of the horse-drawn transport (Photo Source)

    The only thing known about this picture is that it was taken somewhere in the United States in the early 1920s. The hilly terrain indicates that it could be on either the west or east coast, and is less likely in the central flat part of the country. 

    Wherever this is, the object up and to the right of the horse-drawn transport looks to be a flying object in the sky at a time when biplanes were rare and monoplanes didn't quite exist yet. (Source)

    4. WARD, COLORADO Sawmill, USA - APRIL, 1929
    WARD, COLORADO Sawmill, USA - APRIL, 1929
    Object that preceded a “terrible thunderous bellow” (Photo Source)

    Better photo context HERE...

    Taken at the Ward sawmill. The man in the picture (featured in the above link), who died a few years later, said there was a “terrible thunderous bellow” and then a large object rose up in the near distance and flew off. (Source)

    5. Vancouver City Hall UFO - 1937
    Vancouver City Hall UFO - 1937

    The story goes that 21-year-old soldier Leonard Lamoreux snapped this image in 1937 while visiting the brand new Vancouver City Hall.

    Here's the full description:

    "The two were suddenly astounded to see a 'bright bright blue light' drop straight down from the sky. It became larger as it did so and they were able to observe the source of the light as an object that Leonard described as 'two saucers' open ends facing each other, glowing bright blue. The object then moved 'dead straight' horizontally across the sky. When it just appeared to clear the flagpole on the roof of the City Hall it came to an almost dead stop and Leonard clicked the shutter on the camera. The object then shot straight back up into the sky. 'They never seen anything fly so fast!' This scared them to death and they ran from the scene. The object made no sound."

    It's important to note that this photo has no negative in existence and the UFO could very well be a “watermark defect that appeared during the development of the print.” (Source | Photo)

    6. ROSETTA/NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY, 1956
    ROSETTA/NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY, 1956
    Authenticated photo taken by meteorologist in 1956 (Photo Source)

    This photo is one of seven taken by meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer just before a thunderstorm. Its authenticity has been confirmed in a notarized affadavit and she stood by her story until she died in 1994 at the age of 83. 

    I'd be remiss not to add that Elizabeth also claimed she was impregnated during a later encounter with a spaceship pilot. (Source)

    7. The Battle of Los Angeles - 1942
    The Battle of Los Angeles - 1942
    The infamous Battle of Los Angeles UFO (Photo Source)

    One of the classics. This image portrays searchlights and anti-craft shells converging on a UFO during what would later be called The Battle of Los Angeles. Though visually stunning, this image is almost certainly not evidence of extraterrestrials. Most analysts believe this was a combination of heightened tensions with the Japanese and a weather balloon. 

    But have you ever watched the Fox TV Series, Fringe? Maybe someone is observing our reactions to these kinds of spectacles, studying us in some kind of experiment....you never know. 

    It's also worth pointing out that although the object took direct hits from ballistics, it never fell from the sky. (Source)

    8. Organ Cave, West Virginia, USA - 1939
    Organ Cave, West Virginia, USA - 1939
    Photo discovered in family tree album (Photo Source)

    This photo was discovered in a family album by a man named Chris Miller in West Virginia. The full photo (which you can find HERE after you scroll down) depicts the man's grandfather and his brother, and something rather unidentified in the distant background. (Source)

    http://www.oddee.com/ }

    21-08-2017 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Earth Looks Like A Living Creature In This Amazing NASA Video

    Earth Looks Like A Living Creature In This Amazing NASA Video

    IN BRIEF
    A timelapse simulation from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) depicts seven days in 2005 when a category-4 typhoon developed off the coast of China.

    NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) has released a stunning video that shows Earth in a way you may have never seen before.

    The video is a timelapse simulation that depicts seven days in 2005 when a category-4 typhoon developed off the coast of China. The seven-day period is repeated several times during the course of the visualization.

    Scientists used data from NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5), to depict the simulation’s volume-rendered clouds. This particular run of the simulation, called 7km GEOS-5 Nature Run (7km-G5NR), was executed on a supercomputer. This short visualization produced petabytes of output and referenced nearly a terabyte of brickmap files.

    According to the SVS website, the goal of videos like the above is to provide the public with a clearer picture of our planet and our own place within it, as well as give people an idea of what NASA is all about: “The SVS works closely with scientists in the creation of visualizations, animations, and images in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and space science research activities at Goddard Space Flight Center and within the NASA research community.”

    Based on this video, I’d say that they seem to have gotten things right.

    https://futurism.com/ }

    21-08-2017 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Amazing UFO video filmed over Phoenix, Arizona 18-Aug-2017

    Amazing UFO video filmed over Phoenix, Arizona 18-Aug-2017

    arizona-ufos

    This interesting footage of a multiple unidentified flying objects making maneuvers in the sky above Phoenix in Arizona was filmed on 18th August 2017.

    What do you think about this video? Real or a CGI? Please leave your comments below!

    21-08-2017 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO sighting caught on tape over El Paso, Texas

    UFO sighting caught on tape over El Paso, Texas

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    Here’s one interesting daytime footage of a bright lights in the sky above El Paso in Texas. This was filmed on 19th March 2017.

    Witness report: 

    Observed several round, reflective spheres ascending in sky. Continued watching them assume a pattern as they moved slowly from my sight. Sunday March 19 2017, while instructing a martial arts class at Eastwood park, El Paso TX, I stopped to drink some water. As I threw my head back to swig from the water bottle I noticed a series of perhaps 6 bright reflective balls, ascending quickly in a row, but curving in a C shaped flight pattern while ascending. They were not floating like balloons but rising rapidly. That caught my attention for sure ! It was midday and I marveled at this sight. From my initial vantage point, it looked like this string of spheres had started low to the ground. Within seconds they had reached an altitude of approx. 3000 ft. I work in army aviation and am fairly confident of the alt. Several of the spheres shot straight up and out of sight the remainder seemed to float aimlessly into a pattern. That’s when I grabbed my iPad and took the video. I clearly filmed what I thought were 3 spheres which had formed a triangular pattern, but in the video I see one or two more . One of my students also witnessed this event, but not from the beginning, only after he saw me run for the iPad and start filming. We both agreed this was high strangeness. The event ended with the spheres gradually moving in an eastern direction out of sight , while still in a triangular pattern. One of the objects appeared to be more reflective than the others. I have ruled out reflective balloons based on the way they flew. And the wind direction seems to have been out of the NE that day. Not sure what these spheres were. I got the feeling they were under controlled flight.

    Author (source: MUFON)

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    21-08-2017 om 22:58 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Video of Triangular-shaped Craft Spotted over the UK

    Video of Triangular-shaped Craft Spotted over the UK

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    Sightings of bizarre triangular-shaped UFOs are being reported day by day, leading to claims that aliens could be visiting the Earth in the mysterious crafts. Unidentified flying objects come in all sizes and shapes, from a flying saucer that looks like cartoons up to cigar-shaped space ships. Triangular-shaped objects are another common breed, with the more famous encounters occurring in the 1980s and 1990s. Accounts of silent and large triangular-shaped crafts are now being reported every week, with hundreds of videos, photos, and drawings resurfacing every single day.

    riangular-shaped aliens have been spotted all over the world, with notable sightings documented in South Carolina, California, Maryland, Texas, Buenos Aires, Virginia, and the United Kingdom.
    A bus driver saw a strange video footage of three aircraft. According to the latter, the strange object seen in the footage appears to make any altering triangle formation in the skies above the Exmouth. In fact, it formed a triangular pattern wobbling slightly and rotating on its axis. Currently, the case was being examined by the UFO specialist and investigators on April 17. The witness firmly believed that the object was not normal. Though he was already interested with aliens and extraterrestrials before, this does not hinder his credibility as an eyewitness of a strange sighting. He admitted, however, that his camera had a hard time focusing on te formation due to the street lights. He moved closer to the river for a better view and was able to shot a footage which lasted for 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Afterward, he took seven photos and shot another 41-second video. He even shared his difficulty in going back to the bus and saw four people getting out of the car. He managed to point out the object to the people, but they seem not very interested.

    Sightings of mysterious triangle spaceships do not appear to be the reason for any injury or harm.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    21-08-2017 om 22:53 geschreven door peter  

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    21-08-2017 om 22:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterious ‘Apocalyptic’ Cloud Appears Over Brazil

    Mysterious ‘Apocalyptic’ Cloud Appears Over Brazil

    Yes, I know … if it was truly ‘apocalyptic’, why are we here reading about it? That’s a good question – one of many we’ll try to answer as we look at a cloud that appeared over Brazil recently that looked pretty sinister to Brazilians and ‘apocalyptic’ to headline writers.

    The mysterious cloud appeared on the evening of August 17th over Teixeira de Freitas, located at the southern in of the state of Bahia on Brazil’s Atlantic coast. It’s claim to fame until the possible apocalyptic sign has been its rapidly expanding array of large eucalyptus plantations which feed an expanding array of factories processing the plant for cellulose.

    The primary witness to the eerie cloud was João Paulo Magalhães, who says he captured it on video at about 5 pm in the Santa Rita neighborhood of Teixeira de Freitas. He posted it on Facebook and gave this description:

    It really looked like the entrance to a meteorite or something. I was scared too, we thought it would form a tornado.

    “We” as in the other people who were with him at the petrol station where he saw the phenomenon. Magalhães was apparently not the only witness to record the cloud with his phone as other pictures soon appeared on the Internet. The reports with the photos said that the ominous-looking cloud dissipated after about five minutes — reducing fears and increasing speculations, especially with the full eclipse of the sun just four days away – even though it would not be seen in Brazil … no sense wasting a good opportunity to connect remote dots. That’s what many media outlets did with their “apocalyptic” headlines.

    Another view of the mysterious cloud

    Cooler heads – i.e., meteorologists who have their heads in the clouds as part of their job – looked at the photos and proclaimed the phenomenon to be nothing more than a “dust cloud”

    A dust cloud. Move along. Nothing apocalyptic to see here. Well, that’s a relief. Or is it? No one gave any explanation for what caused the “dust cloud.” Dust clouds are not normal meteorological events. As mentioned before, Teixeira de Freitas has a booming eucalyptus economy that is controversial because the non-native plant is a huge consumer of water yet is ironically a big fire hazard because eucalyptus oil is highly flammable. Was this ‘dust cloud’ the result of a fire or dry conditions that those possibly responsible (agribusiness and factories) wanted covered up?

    The residents of Teixeira de Freitas should demand more answers about this “dust cloud.” Ignoring the impact of business on the ecology of Brazil is a true apocalypse.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    21-08-2017 om 21:37 geschreven door peter  

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    21-08-2017 om 21:23 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.‘Massale UFO-waarneming’ in Phoenix. Wat hebben mensen hier vastgelegd?
    'Massale UFO-waarneming' in Phoenix. Wat hebben mensen hier vastgelegd?

    ‘Massale UFO-waarneming’ in Phoenix. Wat hebben mensen hier vastgelegd?

    In Phoenix in de Amerikaanse staat Arizona zouden afgelopen week onbekende objecten in de lucht zijn waargenomen. Er wordt gesproken van een massale UFO-waarneming.

    In onderstaand filmpje zijn vijf objecten te zien die in formatie door de lucht vliegen. Joe Martino van Collective Evolution schrijft dat dit één van de duidelijkste en meest intrigerende UFO-filmpjes is die hij ooit heeft gezien.

    In april werden er ook al UFO’s gesignaleerd in Arizona. Toen legde Mauricio Morales vreemde objecten vast terwijl hij onderweg naar Phoenix was.

    Niet het geval

    Een bericht dat hij op Facebook plaatste werd in korte tijd vele duizenden keren gedeeld. Uiteindelijk berichtten ook de media erover, maar zij claimden dat het ging om een meteoor.

    “ABC15 meldt dat de foto’s een meteoor tonen. Dat is niet het geval,” reageerde Morales.

    Martino merkt op dat veel mensen UFO’s zien, maar er geen melding van maken. Of ze zien een UFO en leggen het object niet vast op beeld.

    Bekijk het filmpje van de vijf objecten hieronder:

    Phoenix Lights

    Op 13 maart 1997 werden in het luchtruim boven Phoenix in Arizona de zogeheten Phoenix Lights gezien, een reeks massaal gemelde UFO’s.

    Het incident is één van de best gedocumenteerde UFO-meldingen. Er werden foto’s en video’s gemaakt en CNN deed er verslag van.

    Niet van deze wereld

    Meer dan 700 ooggetuigen beweerden dat ze toen driehoekige UFO’s hadden gezien met vijf bolvormige lampen of lichtgevende motoren.

    Fife Symington, de toenmalige gouverneur van Arizona, was één van de ooggetuigen. Later beschreef hij de objecten als ‘niet van deze wereld’.

    [Collective-evolution

    21-08-2017 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Categorie:NineForNews. nl ( new ipv NIBURU.nl) (NL)
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.INTRIGUING ‘ECLIPSE LIKE’ CROP CIRCLE SHOWS UP IN ESSEX. REPORTED JUST DAYS BEFORE SOLAR ECLIPSE

    INTRIGUING ‘ECLIPSE LIKE’ CROP CIRCLE SHOWS UP IN ESSEX. REPORTED JUST DAYS BEFORE SOLAR ECLIPSE

    21-08-2017 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Nieuwe graancirkel in Essex verwijst naar zonsverduistering. Wat betekenen deze vreemde symbolen?
    Nieuwe graancirkel in Essex verwijst naar zonsverduistering. Wat betekenen deze symbolen?

    Nieuwe graancirkel in Essex verwijst naar zonsverduistering. Wat betekenen deze vreemde symbolen?

    In Sutton Hall in het Engelse graafschap Essex is een intrigerende graancirkel verschenen die lijkt te verwijzen naar de totale zonsverduistering die vandaag te zien is.

    De formatie is op 17 augustus ontdekt, maar het is nog niet duidelijk wat de betekenis ervan is, schrijft Collective Evolution.

    De graancirkel doet denken aan een zendmast met een schotelantenne. In de schotelantenne is een zonsverduistering te zien.

    Timing
    Nieuwe graancirkel in Essex verwijst naar zonsverduistering. Wat betekenen deze symbolen?

    Symbolen (Crop Circle Connector)

    Betekent dit dat we een radioboodschap van iets of iemand gaan ontvangen?

    Verder zijn in drie verschillende ‘kolommen’ een aantal symbolen te zien die zijn verdeeld in meerdere ‘blokken’. Het is onduidelijk wat al deze symbolen betekenen.

    De onderzijde van de ‘zendmast’ wijst richting London Southend Airport.

    Hoewel we nog niet weten wat deze graancirkel betekent, is de timing interessant.

    Smalle strook

    De zonsverduistering is vandaag zichtbaar vanuit een smalle strook die vrijwel diagonaal over de VS loopt.

    Vele miljoenen mensen zullen er getuige van zijn hoe het felle oppervlak van de zon gedurende enkele minuten wordt afgedekt door de maan.

    Zeldzame verschijnsel

    Het is voor het eerst sinds 1979 dat er vanuit de VS een totale zonsverduistering te zien is.

    De eclips zal naar verwachting leiden tot enorme files en verkeersopstoppingen. Alle Amerikaanse media besteden uitgebreid aandacht aan dit zeldzame verschijnsel.

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    Apocalyptische wolk gespot boven Brazilië. Kijk hoe lokale bewoners erop reageerden

    Apocalyptische wolk gespot boven Brazilië. Kijk hoe lokale bewoners erop reageerden

    Brazilianen keken donderdagmiddag raar op toen ze een mysterieuze wolk in de lucht zagen. Sommigen dachten dat het een teken van onheil was.

    Op het eerste gezicht lijkt de wolk op het spoor van een meteoriet of een tornado, schrijft zender RT.

    Joao Paulo Magalhaes legde de wolkformatie in al zijn glorie vast boven de stad Teixeira de Freitas in de deelstaat Bahia.

    Werk van God

    Magalhaes zei dat de ‘zeer ongewone’ wolk slechts vier minuten te zien was. Mensen waren bezorgd dat de formatie een tornado zou vormen.

    “Het leek echt op het spoor van een meteoriet of zoiets,” zei hij. Ook andere inwoners van de stad plaatsten foto’s van het fenomeen. Sommigen spraken van het ‘werk van God’.


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    21-08-2017 om 20:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Massive UFO and Multi Level Structure appear near the Sun

    NASA’s SOHO satellite LASCO C2 has transmitted some images of strange anomalies very close to the sun on August 20, 2017.

    A massive anomaly appears at 07.48 and seems to be a multi level structure containing a number of square/rectangular looking entrances, then at 08.12 a huge unknown object (UFO?) appears at the same spot upon which the object and the structure disappear moments later.


    It looks like the structure is not connected to the sun and although it seems unlikely, could it be that a UFO flies into an interdimensional portal or maybe the multi level structure is a giant extraterrestrial mothership with hangars/landing platforms for incoming or outgoing UFO’s?


    Whatever it may have been, both objects certainly were not high-energy particles called neutrinos coming from the sun. Interestingly, the images of the unknown objects have been captured a few hours before the onset of the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.


    http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

    21-08-2017 om 19:57 geschreven door peter  

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    NASA: “We’re Going to Try and Make Oxygen From the Atmosphere on Mars”


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    IN BRIEF
    For any Mars exploration plans, surviving on the Red Planet is as important as getting there. This is why NASA is looking forward to its Mars 2020 Rover mission, which would include a test for making oxygen on the Red Planet's surface.

    SMALL STEPS FOR MAN

    Getting humans to land on Mars is the biggest space project this generation will ever see. Such a bold endeavor—getting humans to another world—comes with a cornucopia of nitty-gritty details to iron out. These details need to be set before we can even begin to proceed with a manned mission.

    The most obvious is the need to build rockets and spacecraft able to ferry probes (carrying food and other supplies) and people. For NASA’s mission to Mars, this also entails the construction of a lunar space station that’ll serve as a jump-off point to the rest of the solar system.

    Speaking to Futurism after the successful launch of SpaceX’s CRS-12 mission on Monday, NASA Acting Chief Administrator Robert Lightfoot, Jr. explained how getting to Mars requires small, incremental steps, and he noted that NASA has a remarkable project in the works. “When you look at our plans today [for getting to Mars], we use the International Space Station as much as we can…for example, our life support systems, we test them up there.” He added that the Moon would be the next logical step in this process.

    But getting to Mars and surviving there are two disparate yet equally important aspects of the same mission. “We try and make sure that, when we do a science mission or a human spaceflight mission, that we have a cross between the science and the human exploration,” Lightfoot explained.

    MAKING LIFE POSSIBLE

    Now no one wants to fly to Mars, land on the ground, yawp “I did it!”and then turn around and head home. Space exploration is more than symbolic pretense. We want to stay on Mars and install a colony. Of course, the eventual plan is to terraform Mars, but that could take thousands of years to accomplish — if it’s at all possible.

    So, in Lightfoot’s mind, we ought to start small, and there’s nothing more basic for survival on Mars (or anywhere) than having a secure source of air to breathe. “The next lander that is going to Mars, Mars 2020, has an experiment where we are going to try and actually generate oxygen out of the atmosphere on Mars, clearly that’s for human capability down the road,” Lightfoot said.

    nasa mars oxygen
    The Mars 2020 Rover.
    Image credit: NASA

    What we know is that the Red Planet’s atmosphere is thinner than Earths, with some 95.32 percent carbon dioxide, 2.7 percent nitrogen, 1.6 percent argon, and about 0.13 oxygen, plus a bunch of other elements in even smaller amounts. By contrast, the Earth’s atmosphere has 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen. Water won’t be much of a problem, though.

    Is it possible to make oxygen from Mar’s atmosphere?  NASA’s had plans for this since 2014, when it first revealed the Mars 2020 Rover. It involves bringing some microbial life to Mars, perhaps bacteria or algae, that would would use Martian soil as fuel and then pump out oxygen as a product. The oxygen could then be harnessed and made available for breathing and also to make rocket fuel for return flights to Earth.

    It may sound like science fiction right now, but lab experiments have shown that it’s possible. That’s why the Mars 2020 Rover mission is crucial. Other efforts to make Mars habitable include plans of building a magnetic shield around the planet, similar to Earth’s, building a nuclear reactor, as well as growing potatoes like in Matt Damon in The Martian.

    21-08-2017 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

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    The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

    Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.

    The rock art depicting a solar eclipse, possibly from A.D. 1097, looked "more celebratory than frightening," said a University of Colorado archaeoastronomer.
    Credit: J Mckim Malville/University of Colorado

    Millions of people will gaze at the Great American Eclipse on Aug. 21, shooting photographs and taking selfies. A thousand years ago, early Pueblo people, called Chacoans, captured their experiences of a total solar eclipse by carving it into a rock — a circle with looping streamers that resemble the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. [Read more about the celebration.]

    Using a home-built acoustic levitator, scientists were able to levitate Styrofoam, water, coffee and paper.
    Credit: Images courtesy of Asier Marzo © 2017

    If you've ever dreamed of suspending a spider in thin air or floating an ant in midair (and who hasn't?), new research has your back.

    Acoustic levitation is about more than befuddling your neighborhood ants: Researchers can use levitation to study physical properties in microgravity, Marzo and his colleagues wrote. [Read more about the miniature machine.]

    A screengrab of a video featuring Kaylee Moats, 22, who was born with a rare condition that affects the female reproductive organs.
    Credit: Barcroft TV/YouTube

    A woman in Arizona who was born without a vagina — the result of a rare condition — is speaking out about her condition, and raising money for a surgery to treat it.

    People with this condition are genetically female (meaning they have two X chromosomes), and have normally functioning ovaries. They also have normal external genitalia, and so the condition is usually discovered only when women do not get their period, as was the case for Moats. [Read more about the rare condition.]

    Whiskey connoisseurs have long thought that mixing a few drops of water with the drink could enhance its flavor.

    Many historical figures have waxed poetic over whiskey. For instance, playwright George Bernard Shaw opined that "whisky is liquid sunshine," while author Mark Twain thought "too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough." [Read more about the drink.]

    So far, dogs seem to be the only animals affected by the blue dye. But animal rights activists said that other animals, including birds and reptiles, may also be affected. [Read more about the pollution.]

    A 7-year-old boy discovered Chilesaurus diegosuarezi in southern Chile in 2010 during a geology expedition with his parents.
    Credit: Gabriel Lío

    A bizarre-looking dinosaur discovered by a young boy in Chile may be the missing link showing how members of one major dinosaur lineage evolved into a completely new dinosaur group, a new study finds.

    This isn't the first time Chilesaurus has turned heads. In 2010, 7-year-old Diego Suárez, the son of two geologists, found the 145-million-year-old beast in southern Chile's Toqui Formation. [Read more about the missing link.]

    This ancient Greek "computer" called the Antikythera mechanism continues to puzzle scientists as to what it was used for.
    Credit: Wikipedia Commons

    More than 2,000 years before the Great American Solar Eclipse, which will darken the skies over the U.S. on Aug. 21, astronomers in ancient Greece developed their own "supercomputer" to predict eclipses just like this one.

    Though the mysterious astronomical calculator's 2,000 years under the sea have corroded it, scientists have used 3D imaging to reveal some of the text on the box, which provides instructions on how to use it, according to a 2016 study published in the journal Almagest. [Read more about the ancient computer.]

    The wolves Skroll and Hati pursuing the sun and moon in Norse legend. An eclipse was said to occur if they got close enough to their prey.
    The wolves Skroll and Hati pursuing the sun and moon in Norse legend. An eclipse was said to occur if they got close enough to their prey.
    Credit: Hélène Adeline Guerber

    Total solar eclipses have inspired wonder and awe throughout history, with the first known reference to an eclipse dating back about 5,000 years. But when the moon passes between Earth and the sun and darkens skies across the United States on Aug. 21, there will be one major difference between modern-day skywatchers and ancient cultures that witnessed the same celestial phenomenon: We'll have much less fear. [Read more about the ancient lore.]

    A TEPCO employee looks at a destroyed reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. 
     Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty 

    The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is still severely damaged from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami that crippled it in March 2011. But now, the area is facing another threat: What is thought to be an undetonated World War II-era bomb was discovered on the grounds of the power plant, according to news sources.

    Fukushima police plan to examine the device to confirm that it actually is a bomb, and they will decide how to dispose of it if it is still explosive, according to The Mainichi. [Read more about bomb.]

    Aaron Curtis, a postdoctoral scholar at JPL, peers into the caldera of Mt. Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica.
    Credit: Dylan Taylor/NASA JPL

    Nearly 100 previously unknown volcanoes lurk beneath Antarctica, and scientists still don't know how many of these volcanoes are active.

    The number of volcanoes in the region rivals that of the East African Rift Valley, one of the most volcanically dense regions of the world. [Read more about eclipses across the hidden volcanoes.]

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    Bionic Contacts: Goodbye Glasses. Hello Vision That’s 3x Better Than 20/20

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    IN BRIEF
    The Ocumetics Bionic Lens essentially replaces a person's natural eye lens, given them the ability to see three times better than 20/20 vision. Though not yet available to the public, human trials are expected to begin on the lenses in July 2017.

    A CLEAR PROBLEM

    Most of us take our vision for granted. As a result, we take the ability to read, write, drive, and complete a multitude of other tasks for granted. However, unfortunately, sight is not so easy for everyone.

    For many people, simply seeing is a struggle. In fact, more than 285 million people worldwide have vision problems, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

    Cataracts account for about a third of these. The National Eye Institute reports that more than half of all Americans will have cataracts or will have had cataract surgery by the time they are 80, and in low- and middle-income countries, they’re the leading cause of blindness.

    But now, people with vision problems may have new hope.

    A WELCOME SIGHT

    Soon, cataracts may be the thing of the past, and even better, it may be possible to see a staggering three times better than 20/20 vision. Oh, and you could do it all without wearing glasses or contacts.

    So what exactly does having three times better vision mean? If you can currently read a text that is 10 feet away, you would be able to read the same text from 30 feet away. What’s more, people who currently can’t see properly might be able to see a lot better than the average person.

    This development comes thanks to the Ocumetics Bionic Lens. This dynamic lens essentially replaces a person’s natural eye lens. It’s placed into the eye via a saline-filled syringe, after which it unravels itself in under 10 seconds.

    It may sound painful, but Dr. Garth Webb, the optometrist who invented the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, says that the procedure is identical to cataract surgery and would take just about eight minutes. He adds that people who have the specialized lenses surgically inserted would never get cataracts and that the lenses feel natural and won’t cause headaches or eyestrain.

    The Bionic Lens may sound like a fairy tale (or sci-fi dream), but it’s not. It is actually the end result of years and years of research and more than a little funding — so far, the lens has taken nearly a decade to develop and has cost US$3 million.

    There is still some ways to go before you will be able to buy them, but if the timeline Webb offered in an interview with Eye Design Optometry holds up, human studies will begin in July 2017, and the bionic lenses will be available to the public in March 2018.

    https://futurism.com/ }

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    Enormous Pyramid Just Discovered in Antarctica Could Change How We Look At History Forever

    Google Earth: It’s good for more than just looking at aerial views of where your ex is living now.

    As it turns out, it’s good for a whole lot more, actually: Recently, Google Earth satellite imagery discovered a constellation of three snow-covered pyramids in Antarctica. Scientists and researchers are, admittedly, rather taken aback.

    Two of the three pyramids are about 10 miles inland, while the third is directly near the coastline.

    The implications? Well, this discovery could end up re-writing our entire history. No research has ever mentioned a civilization in Antarctica, much less one with the technological know-how to construct pyramids. So, how did these pyramids get there? That answer requires a look back in time.

    As any 3rd-grader knows, Antarctica is cold. Really cold. Frozen, actually, at least until climate change has something to say about it. But it wasn’t always this way; over millions of years, Antarctica has drifted from a position closer to the equator to its present perma-frozen location. The British Antarctic Survey backs this up:

    with doctor Vanessa Bowman saying “Go back 100 million years ago, and Antarctica was covered in lush rainforests similar to those that exist in New Zealand today.

    NASA seems to agree, too. In an expedition to Antarctica’s Lake Vida, they discovered unexpected microbial lifeforms trapped under a 65-foot-thick sheet of ice. They resemble descendants of microorganisms from much warmer climates.

    Today’s technology couldn’t begin to touch the idea of building a pyramid in Antarctica. Manpower and logistics alone would tank the project before it even started. Clearly, these pyramids were built in the past — a time when Antarctica was inhabited.

    Which presents a tremendously complicated problem for our view of history: About 100 million years ago, someone was building pyramids on the Antarctica that was then located at the equator. With estimates of human civilization not stretching back even close to far enough to account for this, maybe it’s time we start looking for some different timelines.

    Egyptian pyramids are still a point of fascination for generations of modern humans. They’ve stood the test of time. So what of these even-more-ancient pyramids? What might we learn of their builders, should we go explore them?

    Strangely, this wouldn’t have occurred without climate change — making it, officially, the only time that I’ve had reason to be happy that it’s so much hotter outside every year.

    Check out the article that inspired this one here

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    20-08-2017 om 23:36 geschreven door peter  

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    7 Ancient Sites Some People Think Were Built by Aliens

    These spots might not have been crafted by extraterrestrials, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out of this world.

    Clouds roll over Easter Island's monolithic statues.

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    Planet Earth is home to some spectacular relics from bygone eras, constructions that seem to defy the technological capabilities of their time either because they’re too big, too heavy, or too complex.

    As such, some suggest the ancient builders of the Egyptian pyramids, the Nasca lines, and others were following an extraterrestrial instruction manual. Perhaps the hands that crafted these sites weren’t really of this world.

    To be sure, it’s fun to think about whether aliens have visited Earth. After all, humans are on the threshold of expanding our reach in space, and places like Mars are in our sight. But the truth is, there’s no evidence suggesting that aliens have ever been here. And invoking a supernatural explanation for some of the most monumental of human achievements means skipping over the fascinating ways in which prehistoric civilizations managed to make some of the largest and most enigmatic constructions on Earth.

    1. SACSAYHUAMÁN

    The ancient fortress of Sacsayhuamán contrasts with Cusco's modern buildings. 

    PHOTOGRAPH BY HEIKO MEYER, LAIF/REDUX

    Outside the old Inca capital of Cusco, a fortress called Sacsayhuamán rests in the Peruvian Andes. Built from enormous stones that have been chiseled and stacked together like a jigsaw puzzle, some say Sacsayhuamán could be the work of an ancient civilization that had a little help from interstellar friends.

    The 1,000-year-old interlocking fortress walls are made of rocks that weigh as much as 360 tons each, and which were carried more than 20 miles before being lifted and fit into place with laser-like precision.

    How an ancient culture accomplished such a feat of engineering is a fun little problem to solve; turns out the Inca were as adept at building houses and fortified complexes as they were at watching the sky and keeping calendars. In fact, Sacsayhuamán isn’t the only example of this intricate masonry: Similar walls exist throughout the Inca Empire, including one in Cusco where a 12-angled stone has been carefully wedged into place.

    More recently, archaeologists have uncovered traces of the rope-and-lever system the Inca used to transport stones from their quarries to their cities—a system that relied on strength and ingenuity, rather than alien architects.

    2. NASCA LINES

    A plane glides over an ancient spider geoglyph in the Peruvian desert.

    On a high and dry plateau some 200 miles southeast of Lima, more than 800 long, straight white lines are etched into the Peruvian desert, seemingly at random. Joining them are 300 geometric shapes and 70 figures of animals, including a spider, monkey, and hummingbird.

    The longest of the lines run straight as an arrow for miles. The biggest shapes stretch nearly 1,200 feet across and are best viewed from the air. Scientists suspect the Nasca drawings are as many as two millennia old, and because of their age, size, visibility from above, and mysterious nature, the lines are often cited as one of the best examples of alien handiwork on Earth. Otherwise, how would an ancient culture have been able to make such huge designs in the desert without being able to fly? And why?

    Turns out, it’s rather easy to understand the how. Called geoglyphs, these enigmatic designs are made by removing the top, rust-colored layer of rocks and exposing the brighter white sand underneath.

    The why is a bit tougher to comprehend. First studied in the early 1900s, the designs were initially suspected to be aligned with constellations or solstices, but more recent work suggests the Nasca lines point to ceremonial or ritual sites related to water and fertility. And in addition to being visible from the air, the shapes can be seen from surrounding foothills.

    3. EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS

    The sun sets over the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.

    Just outside Cairo, in Giza, the most famous of Egypt’s pyramids rise from the desert. Built more than 4,500 years ago, the Pyramids at Giza are monumental tombs where ancient queens and pharaohs were buried.

    But how, exactly, did the Egyptians build these things? The Great Pyramid is made of millions of precisely hewn stones weighing at least two tons each. Even with today’s cranes and other construction equipment, building a pyramid as big as that of Pharaoh Khufu would be a formidable challenge.

    And then there’s the astronomical configuration of the pyramids, which is said to align with the stars in Orion’s belt. As well, alien theorists often point to the fact that these three pyramids are in way better shape than others built centuries later (never mind the amount of work that has gone into preserving them over the past several centuries).

    So are Egypt’s pyramids artifacts of aliens? Not exactly. It’s true that scientists aren’t quite sure how the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids—and especially how they did it so quickly—but there’s ample evidence that these tombs are the work of thousands of earthly hands.

    4. STONEHENGE

    A huge circle of stones, some weighing as much as 50 tons, sits in the English countryside outside Salisbury. Known as Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument inspired Swiss author Erich von Däniken to suggest it was a model of the solar system that also functioned as an alien landing pad—after all, how else could those massive stones have ended up hundreds of miles from their home quarry?

    No one knows what, exactly, the meaning of Stonehenge is, but, as with all the other sites in this collection, the explanation is not aliens. Instead, scientists have demonstrated it’s actually possible to build such a thing using technologies that would have been around 5,000 years ago, when the earliest structures at the site were built.

    And now, it appears as though the stones are aligned with solstices and eclipses, suggesting the Stonehenge builders were at least keeping an eye on the heavens, even if they didn’t come from above.

    5. TEOTIHUACÁN

    Teotihuacán’s Pyramid of the Sun rises up against the cobalt sky in Mexico City. 

    Teotihuacán, meaning the "City of the Gods," is a sprawling, ancient city in Mexico that’s best known for its pyramidal temples and astronomical alignments. Built more than 2,000 years ago, Teotihuacán’s age, size, and complexity can make it seem otherworldly, but it’s very much the work of humans.

    Scientists suspect that over centuries, a mix of cultures including Maya, Zapotec, and Mixtec built the city that could house more than 100,000 people. With its murals, tools, transportation system, and evidence of advanced agricultural practices, Teotihuacán is often considered much more technologically developed than should have been possible in pre-Aztec Mexico.

    By far, the most well known of Teotihuacán’s buildings is the massive Pyramid of the Sun. One of the largest such constructions in the Western Hemisphere, the pyramid’s curious alignment is believed to be based on calendrical cycles.

    6. EASTER ISLAND

    Moai dot the grassy hills of Easter Island, a Chilean territory located in the southeastern Pacific. 

    The enigmas surrounding the moai, Easter Island’s fleet of large stone figures, pretty much follow the same narrative as the other sites described here: How in the world did the Rapa Nui make these figures more than 1,000 years ago? And how did the moai end up on Easter Island?

    Carved from stone, the nearly 900 human figures are sprinkled along the flanks of the island’s extinct volcanoes. The figures average 13 feet tall and weigh 14 tons and appear to have been chiseled from the soft volcanic tuff found in the Rano Raraku quarry. There, more than 400 statues are still in various states of construction, with some completed figures awaiting transportation to their intended resting place.

    The reasons for carving the moai are mysterious, though they were likely sculpted for religious or ritual reasons. It’s also not exactly clear what happened to the stone-crafting Rapa Nui, but a leading theory suggests their civilization succumbed to an environmental disaster of their own making … which is something that probably could have been prevented had ancient aliens bestowed their infinite wisdom upon the culture.

    7. THE FACE ON MARS

    NASA's Viking 1 orbiter took this photograph of Mars in 1976. Shadows in the rock formation create an illusion of a human face. 

    If Elon Musk has his way, humans will be capable of visiting the “face on Mars” sometime this century. Spotted by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976, the so-called face is nearly two miles long and is in a region called Cydonia, which separates the smooth plains of the Martian north from the more cratered terrain in the south. At the time, scientists dismissed the “face” as shadow play, but over the decades it has become a favorite among those who suspect aliens with a penchant for building things have been visiting the solar system.

    In 2001, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor took another good look at the face—using a much higher resolution camera—and saw … no face. Turns out that what had appeared to be a face is just another boring old Martian mesa, kind of like the landforms that litter the U.S. Southwest.

    But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be fun to visit.

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    Scientists Discover Egyptian Secret to Making the Pyramids

    IN BRIEF
    Researchers from the University of Amsterdam think they may have solved the mystery of how the Egyptians constructed the pyramids. They believe that the ancient builders could have use sleds to transport the massive stones after adding water to the sand in front of the sled.

    AN ANCIENT MYSTERY

    Scientists are plagued by a number of questions regarding ancient times, and one of the most perplexing is how the ancient Egyptians moved the huge stones needed to build the pyramids. The stones often weighed as much as 2.5 tons, and without the assistance of modern technology, moving an object of that size and weight is a truly amazing feat.

    A number of individuals have proposed different ways this task could have been accomplished — alien builders is probably one of the more far-fetched. Now, it seems that we finally have a clear answer, and no, it does not involve extraterrestrials.

    Researches from the University of Amsterdam think this ancient architectural mystery may have a rather simple solution: water.

    Ultimately, the problem of moving these massive stones comes down to decreasing the amount of friction. In order to transport materials, ancient peoples would often utilize large sleds. Much like individuals who use sled-dogs in snowy climates, these sleds enabled dessert dwellers to carry a lot of material a long distance across the desert sands.

    However, if you try to transport something really heavy (say, 2.5 tons) via one of these sleds, it will simply sink into the ground, digging into the sand at the front when it’s pulled. This sand would eventually build up, forming what is called a “berm,” and it would have to be regularly cleared away.

    Obviously, this would be a terribly slow and tiresome process. In fact, it would be a very, very slow process. We know that the Great Pyramid took 20 years to build and required some 100,000 slaves, and the numbers just don’t add up when standard sled transportation enters the equation.

    So if all of the aforementioned conditions make it highly unlikely that the structure could have been completed in such a timeframe using that method, how was it built?

    A NEWLY DISCOVERED SOLUTION

    The key is water. Wet sand does not build up the same way that dry sand does. If you achieve just the right level of dampness, microdroplets of water will bind the grains of sand together, with capillary bridges forming across the grains.

    Ultimately, this prevents the sand from berming in front of the sled. Amazingly, this process also cuts the amount of force required to drag the sled in half, which would make it possible to complete the project in the time we know that it took.

     A large statue is being transported by sledge. A person standing on the front of the sledge wets the sand. (Courtesy of Daniel Bonn)
    A large statue is being transported by sledge. A person standing on the front of the sledge wets the sand. Image Credit: Daniel Bonn

    The University of Amsterdam press release explains how the researchers reached their conclusion:

    The physicists placed a laboratory version of the Egyptian sledge in a tray of sand. They determined both the required pulling force and the stiffness of the sand as a function of the quantity of water in the sand. To determine the stiffness, they used a rheometer, which shows how much force is needed to deform a certain volume of sand.

    Experiments revealed that the required pulling force decreased proportional to the stiffness of the sand…A sledge glides far more easily over firm desert sand simply because the sand does not pile up in front of the sledge as it does in the case of dry sand.

    What’s more, ancient cave art seems to support this hypothesis. The artwork in the tomb of Djehutihotep reveals a scene of slaves hauling a colossal statue of the Middle Kingdom ruler. At the front, a person is depicted pouring liquid into the sand.

    Now, we just need to figure out how the heck they made Stonehenge

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    The Plane That Can Fly Anywhere In The World In 4 Hours

    IN BRIEF
    British aerospace firm Reaction Engines Limited (REL) is working on an aircraft that will be able to transport passengers anywhere in the world in just four hours, while also being able to reach outer space.

    FASTER TRANSPORTATION

    Who wouldn’t want to have breakfast on the French Riviera, take a walk along the Great Wall of China in the afternoon, and then cap off the evening by staring at stars above the Alaskan wilderness? That fantastic day might be possible soon, thanks to British aerospace firm Reaction Engines Limited (REL). The company is working on an aircraft that will be able to transport passengers anywhere in the world in just four hours.

    Yes. That’s four hours.

    Passengers will have options beyond just traveling fast here on Earth — they’ll also be given the opportunity to journey into space aboard the in-development plane, which the firm refers to as the Skylon.

    The Skylon is powered by a new kind of engine known as a SABRE. The company is already testing the engine system and is planning the first test flights for 2019. REL asserts that this engine will be capable of operating as a jet engine and a rocket engine. Amazingly, it will have the ability to power an aircraft at up to five times the speed of sound within the atmosphere, or it could send a craft directly into Earth’s orbit at 25 times the speed of sound.

    A number of tests (more than 700, thus far, including experiments that analyze the structural integrity and aerodynamic stability) have so far proven successful. If things continue to unfold as planned, David Willetts, the United Kingdom’s Minister for Universities and Science, believes that this design will completely alter the way that we travel and the way that we get to space. 

    According to the BBC, he claims:

    The engine being developed by Reaction Engines is a potential game-changer in terms of space technology. This successful testing validates the assessment made of the engine concept by the UK Space Agency back in 2010 and is yet another example of the UK’s world class space industry. It would be a fantastic achievement if we could one day use this home-grown technology for our own commercial space launches.

    CHEAPER SPACE TRAVEL

    Many of REL’s recent developments come thanks to the European Space Agency (ESA), which is working with the firm in order to secure cost-efficient space transportation.

    In July of 2013, the U.K. earmarked £60 million for the development of a full-scale prototype of the SABRE engine, citing the viability of its core technologies based on testing performed by the ESA. In June of 2014, a study was carried out in response to the ESA’s New European Launch Service requirements, which are aimed at lowering the cost of European launch services by around 2020. The study found that Skylon is, potentially, Europe’s most cost-effective way to achieve space access.

    Ultimately, each of these crafts are estimated to cost the equivalent of $1.1 billion United States dollars. Yes, that sounds like a lot of money. However, the Association of Aerospace Universities notes that it will be able to repay its development costs, meet its servicing and operating costs, and make profits for its operators whilst being an order of magnitude cheaper than current space transportation systems.

    REL also conducted a study on the passenger capabilities of the craft, and they found that a trip to orbit in an upright seat would be suitable for stays in Zero-G for up to 14 days. It would initially cost around 350,000 Euros, which very few of us could afford, but the company notes that the cost would drop significantly in time (using the craft for standard travel would, presumably, cost a lot less).

    A SUPER-COOL DEVICE

    The plane relies on a device called the precooler in order to function. This technology will cool the air entering Skylon’s engines from more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) down to -150 degrees Celsius (-238 degrees Fahrenheit) in one one-hundredth of a second. This means that the engine system will be able to run at a much higher power than is currently possible.

    The company explains further:

    The SABRE Engine is a hybrid air breathing rocket engine. In the past, attempts to design single stage to orbit rockets have been unsuccessful largely due to the weight of oxidiser, such as liquid oxygen. To reduce the quantity of oxidiser that a vehicle is required to carry, one feasible solution is being able to use atmospheric oxygen in the combustion process. The SABRE engine does this, allowing a two mode operation using both an air-breathing and conventional rocket type operation. This is made possible through a synthesis of elements from rocket and gas turbine technology.

    Unfortunately, the plane won’t have any windows; however, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some companies are now putting cameras on the outside of the planes and live streaming a 360-degree view on the inside walls for passengers.

    REL is also in talks with the United States about using this technology, and it may be utilized in hypersonic aircraft built by the U.S. military. Alan Bond, who invented Skylon and SABRE along with a team of engineers, shared some details with Space.com:

    The Air Force research laboratories in the States have carried out some modeling to verify that the SABRE does actually work, that it is a real engine, and so I am hoping they are going to confirm that very soon. This is obviously opening doors in the United States, and again, I can’t say a great deal about that, but we have very good dialogue going across the Atlantic. In the next couple of years, it’s going to be quite exciting.

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    20-08-2017 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Experts willen verbod op killerrobots: "Doos van Pandora niet openen" - HLN.be

    Bron: ANP

    Tesla-baas ELon Musk 

    © epa.

    Een groep pioniers op het gebied van robotica en kunstmatige intelligentie, onder wie Tesla-topman Elon Musk, heeft de Verenigde Naties in een open brief opgeroepen de ontwikkeling en het gebruik van killerrobots te verbieden. Volgens The Guardian is de brief ondertekend door een groep van 116 specialisten uit 26 landen die vragen om een ban op autonome wapens.

    De brief werd gelanceerd rondom de opening van de Internationale Gezamenlijke Conferentie over Kunstmatige Intelligentie in Melbourne. De Verenigde Naties stemden onlangs in met het beginnen van formele discussies over zulke wapens, zoals drones, tanks en geautomatiseerde machinegeweren. Vooruitlopend hierop heeft de groep, onder wie ook Mustafa Suleyman van Google, de open brief gestuurd, waarin de VN wordt opgeroepen de wapenwedloop voor killerrobots die aan de gang is een halt toe te roepen.

    De specialisten waarschuwen dat killerrobots na buskruit en kernwapens de derde revolutie in oorlogsvoering dreigen te ontketenen. ''Eenmaal ontwikkeld zullen gewapende conflicten met dodelijke autonome wapens op een grotere schaal dan ooit kunnen worden uitgevochten, en veel sneller dan mensen kunnen begrijpen. Ze kunnen worden ingezet door terroristen en despoten tegen onschuldige mensen. Daarnaast kunnen gehackte wapens zich op ongewenste manieren gedragen'', aldus de briefschrijvers.

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    Doos van Pandora

    De specialisten wijzen erop dat er niet veel tijd is om deze ontwikkeling tegen te gaan. ''Als deze doos van Pandora eenmaal is geopend, wordt het heel moeilijk hem weer dicht te krijgen.''

    Experts waarschuwden eerder al dat kunstmatige intelligentie inmiddels zo ver ontwikkeld is, dat de inzet van autonome wapens niet eens meer binnen decennia, maar binnen een paar jaar haalbaar is. Hoewel de inzet van kunstmatige intelligentie het slagveld voor militairen veiliger kan maken, vrezen experts dat de drempel om te vechten zal dalen, met een groter verlies van menselijk leven tot gevolg.

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    20-08-2017 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Overheid weet meer over aliens. Oud-minister doet in dit gesprek alles uit de doeken

    Overheid weet meer over aliens. Ex-minister doet in dit gesprek alles uit de doeken

    De Canadese oud-minister van Defensie Paul Hellyer gaat in onderstaande video in gesprek met The Hannibal TV over disclosure.

    Hij is ervan overtuigd dat de Amerikaanse overheid veel meer weet over UFO’s en aliens dan ze doet vermoeden.

    Hellyer stelt daarnaast dat buitenaardsen geïnteresseerd zijn in ons kernarsenaal en legt uit waarom de media altijd zo lacherig doen over UFO’s.

    Paniekknop

    Verder vertelt de oud-minister wat er volgens hem achter de aanslagen op 11 september 2001 in New York zit.

    “Ze bezoeken onze planeet al duizenden jaren,” zei Hellyer enige tijd geleden tijdens een interview met RT.

    “In 1961 vlogen ten zuiden van Rusland zo’n 50 UFO’s in formatie over Europa. Het Supreme Allied Command maakte zich zorgen en stond op het punt op de paniekknop te drukken,” vervolgde hij.

    Vier buitenaardse rassen

    “De UFO’s keerden uiteindelijk om en verdwenen boven de Noordpool,” aldus Hellyer.

    “Men heeft drie jaar onderzoek gedaan naar dit incident en kwam tot de conclusie dat tenminste vier buitenaardse rassen de aarde al duizenden jaren bezoeken,” zei hij.

    Atoombom

    “De laatste decennia is er meer activiteit gemeld omdat we de atoombom hebben uitgevonden. Ze zijn bezorgd dat we er opnieuw gebruik van maken,” sprak de oud-minister.

    Paul Hellyer was in de jaren zestig minister van Defensie. Tijdens de Koude Oorlog had hij de leiding over het Canadese leger.

    Bekijk het interview hieronder:

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    20-08-2017 om 22:02 geschreven door peter  

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    THIS IS NASA'S PLAN TO SAVE MANKIND FROM YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO ERRUPTION

    Ex NASA Advisory Council member Brian Wilcox has made a revelation that is horrifying during the discussion of a space agency report. He said that if the risky proposals of NASA go ahead, to prevent an eruption, they might go wrong and it could lead to consequences that are disastrous and could see the Yellowstone volcano erupting.  

    NASA ATTEMPT MIGHT END IN DISASTER

    One of the ways that NASA plans is to drill into the bottom of the volcano and by way of a spurt of water that is pressurized, release heat out of the magma chamber. However, Wilcox has said that there is a good chance that the attempt would not be successful and it could end in disaster.

    NASA plans to save people from what has been termed a super volcano eruption like from the ones shown of some of the most astonishing eruptions of volcanoes. Photographs have been captured of lava floating down Kilauea with ash spitting out of the craters, sending plumes of smoke that rise many thousands of feet into the air. One of the most violent of eruptions was that of Mount Sakurajima.  

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    YELLOWSTONE IS DUE FOR AN ERUPTION

    It was said that Yellowstone explodes around every 600,000 years and the last time that it exploded was 600,000 years ago, so the volcano is about due to explode again. Wilcox said that if NASA does go ahead and drills into the magma chambers top to try to cool it down from there, it would be a very risky procedure. He went onto say that it might make the magma chambers cap even more brittle and this would mean it would be prone to fracturing. Wilcox went on to say that the release of harmful gases might be triggered in the top of the chamber, which would otherwise not have been released. While Wilcox knows that something must be done, he does not believe that NASA has the right answer.

    There have been many disasters in the world throughout the centuries and many have been man-made thanks to terrorism and wars. However, Mother Nature does play a part in them too and can do a lot of damage.

    VOLCANO ERUPTIONS BIGGER THREAT THAN ASTEROID OR COMET COLLISION

    Wilcox said that he had been a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defence and this studied various ways in which NASA might be able to defend Earth from comets and asteroids. He said that he had reached the conclusion during a study that a super volcano threat is bigger that one from a comet or an asteroid. There are 20 super volcanoes on Earth and if they were to erupt they would trigger off effects that could change the planet.

    When the Iceland Eyjafjallajokul volcano erupted in 2010 air travel around Europe almost came to a halt. This has been the biggest disruption to air travel since World War II. The smoke pillar that came from the eruption reached a height of 11km and as far as Russia. Now there are fears that the same super eruption might happen again this year.  

    HUGE VOLCANIC ERUPTION COULD END HUMAN RACE DUE TO STARVATION

    The last major eruption to occur was around 26,500 years ago in New Zealand and they are very rare. However, if a similar event were to occur today it could bring about a nuclear winter and it may mean that human beings are wiped from the Earth in a matter of months, due to starvation.

    Wilcox said that an eruption of Yellowstone is imminent and so it is urgent that something is done. He went on to say that it is about due to explode and when and if it does people would be forced to sit up and take notice.

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    20-08-2017 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

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    THESE ARE THE 5 MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES OF THE YEAR 2017 (SO FAR)

    Ever wonder what the future will hold and what we will be capable of doing as far as scientific research? Well, so far 2017 seems to be a year that is showing that we are definitely on track to some great scientific discoveries. So far there have been several notable ones, but here are some that stand out and could certainly shape the future.

    1. REGENERATING TISSUE AND ORGANS  

    This is such vital research when we stop to think about how important the human organs are to each of us. There has now been advancements made in actually growing human tissue and organs within a lab. Such research and advancements could one day repair nerve damage, damage tissue, and also help a person in need of a organ transplant.

    2. DISCOVERY OF A PLANET THAT COULD SUSTAIN LIFE  

     We have often wondered if there was life on other planets. Although it was determined that odds are most of the planets in our solar system don't have alien life forms, now that we are venturing beyond our solar system we may have actually discovered a planet where other life forms can be found. On a planet labelled as LHS 1140b, and appears as if it has an atmosphere that is habitable to life. 

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    3. EDITING A HUMAN EMBRYO

    No, this has nothing to do with changing the gender of a child while in the womb but actually doing away with diseases such as heart disease. It would seem such a procedure has now been done successfully remove the gene that has been linked to heart disease. This is truly a great breakthrough since it would seem many types of debilitating and even deadly diseases can be linked to our genetics.

    4. A REUSABLE ROCKET  

    Yes, in the past rockets were considered one way trips. These weren't reusable, that is until now. It would seem that SpaceX has relaunched the Falcon 9 which was made with the recycled parts from other rockets. This is an advancement which could save millions of dollars in money when it come to space program.

    5. CREATING LIFE OUTSIDE THE WOMB  

    This is a fantastic development for women who are able to create the egg needed but unable to actually carry their child to term. It would seem a group of scientist have successfully experimented using a lamb embryo to prove the a fetus could grow and mature within a sort of incubator like bag. The next step is to use this advancement on a human embryo. As things stand the same process has been successful in saving the lives of children born far to prematurely to have survived prior to such an advancement in fetal research.

    These are just five of the scientific advancements that occurred during the first half of 2017. There were several others as well. So, as things stand the future of science and technology does hold much, and we will no doubt benefit from all these great discoveries.

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    20-08-2017 om 21:38 geschreven door peter  

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    MYSTERY SOLVED! THIS IS HOW THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT WERE BUILT

    The Pyramids at the Giza plateau in ancient Egypt are considered by many to be the most incredible ancient structures ever created on the face of the earth. The Great Pyramid of Giza, although built thousands of years ago, continues to astound specialists who cannot seem to understand how it was managed by ancient man to construct such a creation without modern day tools that make building structures much easier.

    Some of the seemingly infinite amazing aspects about the Great Pyramid of Giza include:  

    • "Radioactive sand" has been discovered by experts by the Queens chambers.
    • The erection holds enough stone to create an almost 2-feet-high wall around the whole planet.
    • The relationship between Pi (p) and Phi (F) is conveyed in the fundamental proportions of the Great Pyramid.
    • Hieroglyphics were never found inside of the Pyramids. 

    How did the workers manage to build such a flawless structure? What was their reasoning behind making such big pyramids? How did people thousands of years ago possibly manage to transport, raise and place massive blocks of stone that weigh over 50 tons?

    As reported by the most established adaptations, the Pyramids were built by colossal armies of builders. Greek Philosopher and historian Herodotus was the first in history to mention this theory. He claimed that the Pyramids at Giza were manufactured by leagues of 100,000 men, which varied month-to-month, for a period of 20 years. However, for this to be factual, it would mean that one block of stone had to be perfectly placed into position ever 3 ½ minutes, 24 hours a day.

    One of the greatest misconceptions that have inevitably led to numerous misinterpretations about Ancient Egyptian society, their culture, and origins, is the idea that of mummy findings inside the Pyramid. Not a single mummy has been found by experts inside the Pyramid. It is a proven fact that The Great Pyramid of Giza does not hold a Pharaoh's mummy, and nothing uncovered inside the Pyramid suggests that there ever was one.

    The weight of the pyramid is predicted at 5,955,000 tons. Multiplied by 10^8 gives a plausible prediction of the earth’s mass.

    As of today, not one single expert has been able to answer three of the most fundamental questions surround the Pyramids at Giza which are: Who constructed them, why were they constructed, and maybe how they were constructed?

    Nonetheless, a documentary on YouTube may shed light on how these amazing creations were assembled thousands of years ago. The documentary talks about the processes used to construct the Pyramids. How could materials such as wooden rollers and mud bricks take the pressure put on them by tons of stone? Thousands of men allegedly dragged the building blocks across the desert in the excruciating heat – how did the ancient project managers keep spirits up amongst the dust-covered and exhausted workers?

    Inspired from:

    http://blog.world-mysteries.com/mystic-places/building-the-giza-pyramids-water-shaft-theory/

    http://www.ancient-code.com/mystery-solved-pyramids-built/

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    20-08-2017 om 12:53 geschreven door peter  

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    LARGE COMPLEX FLYING CRAFT SPOTTED OVER VOLCANO IN ALASKA, AUGUST 19, 2017

    webcam in Alaska recorded lights which seem to belong to a large complex flying craft over a volcano in Alaska on August 19, 2017. The volcano is located in the Aleutian Islands Archipelago directly over Akutan. The craft was photographed at 07:19 on 08/19/2017.

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    20-08-2017 om 12:41 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'It's coming towards us' Black ringed UFO leaves beachgoers transfixed

    'It's coming towards us' Black ringed UFO leaves beachgoers transfixed

    CROWDS were left in awe when a black, ringed UFO flew in the skies above a packed beach in Dalian, China.

    Strange footage emerged online of a object appearing in the sky over Jinshitan beach in the city.

    The video shows the object floating among the clouds before disappearing.

    Swimmers and beachgoers can be seen observing the ring as it flies above them.

    Alien news - UFO-like object spotted over crowded beach in Dalian, China

    Pear Video

    Beachgoears were puzzled by the sudden UFO-like appearance in the clouds over Dailan beach

    In the video, onlooker Jing Qi said: "There is an unidentified flying object appearing in the sky. Its oval shape is expanding and it's coming towards us closer and closer."

    Before disappearing, the UFO-like ring changed its shape into a parallelogram.

    Following the publication of the video, social media users began to speculate on the possible origin of the object on China's version of Twitter, Weibo.

    According to ET Today, some eyewitnesses suggested the ring could have been formed by a group of insects moving together.

    ufo

    SWNS

    What is this terrifying black ring FLOATING over Yorkshire?

    However, web users were quick to point out a reasonable explanation for the sudden appearance.

    Local residents said the ring had been caused by special visual effects from a performance that had just taken place.

    A spokesperson from a local playground confirmed the ring was a flame effect from a show organised for the public.

    They explained that the smoke from the special effect manifested as a floating ring.

    20-08-2017 om 12:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Are You Ready? As the Solar Eclipse nears, a 140,000 miles long sunspot group is about to burst!

    Only a few weeks ago, it seemed that the sun would be quiet and featureless when the Moon eclipsed it on Aug. 21st.

    This weekend, however, the sun is welcoming the eclipse with a burst of renewed activity as a remarkably-long sunspot group AR2671 is sprawling across the solar disk, stretches 140,000 miles from end to end, almost twice as wide as the planet Jupiter.

    Solar Minimum was in full swing and suddenly there is renewed activity, is it just coincidence?

    There are no coincidences!

    The “Great American Eclipse”: The totality will reach Oregon at 10:16 AM Pacific, which is the 33rd state in the USA and will end in South Carolina at 2:49 PM Eastern which is on the 33rd parallel That means it will take 1 hour and 33 minutes to cross the country.

    This eclipse happens on day 233 of the year. If the Revelation 12 sign is valid, then the day of the Total Solar Eclipse, to the date of September 23 is exactly 33 days. (Read the full story about the August 21 eclipse and its 33+ facts at Countdownreport.)

    On September 23rd a unique astronomical alignment of the Sun, Moon, constellation Virgo, constellation Leo, and planets Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Venus is going to fulfill this passage from the book of Revelation:

    “And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.”

    The last time we had a full eclipse in 1918 – it was accompanied by pandemic and war. Flu crisis of 1918, millions died and the US was involved in World War 1.

    Now as we face the next eclipse, besides that it is said that such a celestial event can lead to strange behavior whereby people suddenly abandon their peaceful ways and devoted themselves with uncharacteristic fervor to making war on their neighbors and fighting among themselves, we have an Opioid crisis and an upcoming World War 3?

    Coming back to AR2671, this unexpected sunspot has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. It is quite possible that the sunspot will explode during the eclipse, so if you are in the total eclipse path set your clock to greet this awesome spectacle on Monday.

    At all it seems that we are about to witness an extremely unusual convergence of events the coming month that many believe could represent a major turning point, especially for America.

    There are no coincidences, it is all connected!
      

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    20-08-2017 om 12:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Stanton Friedman on Close Encounters of the Third Kind




    Steven Spielberg's 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is headed back to theaters. In its original release, the audiences went in not knowing what to expect. The previews and ads suggested something a bit sinister and mysterious.  Spielberg was famous for terrifying audiences with the shark and Jaws, so many people may have been expecting CE3K to be a space monster movie. We were told to "Watch the Skies," and that, "We are Not alone." It sounded like a warning.

    “When Steven Spielberg made Jaws, the world went shark crazy. Reports of shark attacks increased by the thousands and people began to approach the beach with caution and even with fear. Now with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg is making a film about an even more fascinating subject and one thing seems certain. Just as Jaws gave us a new respect for the mysteries that lie beneath the surface of the sea, after seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind, we will probably never look at the sky in quite the same way again.
    Like Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s newest film begins in a small American town but this time it leads to one inescapable conclusion: we are not alone. WATCH THE SKIES”

    6 minute teaser

    1977 TV spot for CE3K

    CE3K& Ufology

    Close Encounters became a huge financial success, a beloved classic of cinema and a touchstone for the UFO topic. However on it's original release, the reviews were mixed. Let's take a look back at what critics were saying about it at the time. In Variety, A.D. Murphy said:
    “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” is a daring film concept which in its special and technical effects has been superbly realized. Steven Spielberg’s film climaxes in final 35 minutes with an almost ethereal confrontation with life forms from another world; the first 100 minutes, however, are somewhat redundant in exposition and irritating in tone.
    Ufologist Dr. J. Allen Hynek was a consultant on the film, and deeply involved in the project, and a big supporter. He participated in its promotion, had a cameo in it, published a non-fiction book The Hynek UFO Report released in connection with the film, wrote the epilogue to the CE3K novelization, and received funding and publicity for CUFOs, the Center for UFO Studies.

    Friedman With Portrait Of Sculpture
    made from a recollection of a close encounter
    Ufologist, Stanton T. Friedman, "the flying saucer scientist" was less enthusiastic about the film. Prior to resurrecting the Roswell case, Friedman was a flying saucer lecturer who chiefly promoted the Betty and Barney Hill abduction story. He'd consulted on the 1975 TV movie based on the Hill case, The UFO Incident, but he gave low marks to Spielberg's film. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was criticized by Stanton Friedman as "inaccurate." He said that, " 'Close Encounters' is visually spectacular- a feast for the eyes- but UFOlogically a disaster," and in his opinion, "about 20 percent legitimate and 80 percent overdone."



    The Sarasota Journal,  Jan. 11, 1978 

    It's not known if Friedman's disapproval prompted Spielberg to tamper with the film, but CE3K has been re-edited several times over the decades, with footage added and cut. With the new re-release, Spielberg has one last chance to fix his mistakes, and just maybe, to finally win the praise of the flying saucer scientist.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.A Fast UFO Flying was Filmed by a US Air Force Veteran, He Sent the Footage to MUFON for Investigation

    A Fast UFO Flying was Filmed by a US Air Force Veteran, He Sent the Footage to MUFON for Investigation

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    The UFO was filmed with a DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K aerial camera mounted on a drone above Ayden District Park travelling too fast to be spotted with a naked eye. The 59- year-old veteran was astonished after reviewing the recorded footage that showed a UFO flying in a blur under the drone.

    The retired USAF veteran has told MUFON that he had never previously experienced anything similar in his 20 year military career and that this footage took him back.

    The object travelled around 1.2 miles just in one-third of a second, meaning, it travelled at around 13,000 mph per hour or 17 times the speed of sound an altitude of just 50 feet.

    The object on the footage can be seen clearly only when slowed down. It is when it stays on the screen long enough to be seen. The description on YouTube video says that it traveled 6200 feet (about 1.2 miles) in 1/3rd of a second.

    The UFO was reported with MUFON and then a copy of the video was sent to NASA. Both agencies are investigating and anysing it.

    The object looked like a solid metallic object which reflected or emitted its own light.It appears like a blur and it covers a distance during one-third of a second without making a sound.

    MUFON’s North Carolina investigator Sanford Davis wrote in the official report that the object was not observed nor seen personally. It was spotted after reviewing drone footage and the whole sighting occured within a third of a second – a stroke arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground.

    It appears as a white dot, turning into a ‘light disk’ right before it disappears off screen.”

    Some users on YouTube commented that it has prosaic origins while the others see it as valid proof of UFO’s existence .

    Without any doubts, the results of the NASA analysis will share the former’s opinion.

    Source: www.ufoholic.com

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Top 5 UFO sightings in history: Brit expert's secret X-files that ‘PROVE aliens real'

    Top 5 UFO sightings in history: Brit expert's secret X-files that ‘PROVE aliens real'

    A BRITISH UFO investigator has revealed his top five secret X-files for the first time.

    By David Trayner 

    World-renowned expert and author Philip Mantle, of Pontefract, Yorks., has probed hundreds of close encounters over the years but says these previously unreleased cases are the ones that made him believe extraterrestrial life is real.

    They include a mum and six children who saw three aliens in Yorkshire, and an RAF officer who encountered mysterious objects on his radar system.

    The former director of investigations of the British UFO Research Association and UK representative of MUFON – the world's biggest UFO organisation – has chosen his top five, cases which have convinced him the truth really is out there.

    Wing Commander Alan Turner

    CASCADE

    WITNESS: Wing Commander Alan Turner

    1. Mysterious high-speed objects spotted on three different RAF radar

    His first unexplained case involved Wing Commander Alan Turner OBE, who was duty military supervisor at RAF Sopley in 1971.

    Mr Turner described seeing objects on radar climbing at supersonic speeds from 3,000ft to 60,000ft, way beyond the capabilities of any aircraft at the time.

    The objects appeared 20 nautical miles east of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area, in Wiltshire, in southern England.

    A series of six or seven blips moved on a south-easterly track, each being separated by about six miles.

    At about 40 miles from where they appeared on radar, they disappeared – and another blip would appear almost immediately back at the starting point.

    Mr Turner said they were at about 3,000ft, but climbed so rapidly they were at 60,000ft when they disappeared.

    He said: “To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time.”

    The phenomenon was witnessed by four civil and six military controllers on duty at the time.

    Mr Turner called Heathrow Radar to discover that they, also, were seeing a similar picture. The same situation was observed at RAF Neatishead.

    The three units used different radars at different frequencies.

    Mr Turner said: “I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw. In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate.”

    A UFO spotted in Melbourne, Australia

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    SIGHTING: A UFO spotted in Melbourne, Australia

    2. Dad and son’s UFO photo confirmed as genuine

    Roy and Ralph Keane captured extremely rare photographs of a UFO in Melbourne, Australia, which have been studied by experts and determined genuine.

    The dad and son took the picture in their back garden on September 19, 1995.

    Mr Keane said the object was photographed, it hovered then dipped and moved to the left very suddenly.

    A UFO spotted in Melbourne, Australia

    CASCADE

    GENUINE: An expert has confirmed the photos are real

    The pair went round the house to try to see the object but it had disappeared.

    The pictures were analysed by photographic expert Winston Keech.

    His report said: "Using extreme gamma adjustments and edge detection algorithms, no supporting wires or other linear edge features were found – so the object is not suspended by wire.

    “This does appear to be a solid reflective object that is unsupported in mid air.”

    4. Woman suffers strange injuries after “alien” encounter

    The strangest case Mr Mantle ever encountered happened on January 24, 1992, in Mezobbereny, in Hungary.

    A 50-year-old woman was at home with her husband when a “dull black egg-shaped object about 120cm in height” shot across her kitchen, making a “rippling” movement.

    A loud snorting sound was heard.

    The upper part of the object became a blue-grey colour, with a vibrating orange vertical stripe.

    Next to this stripe stood a “wonderful-looking woman”, who looked directly at the witness.

    Strange marks on the body of woman after an alien encounter

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    BIZARRE: Strange marks on the body of woman after an alien encounter

    The Hungarian woman said she felt well – but was unable to talk.

    She followed the strange being into an adjoining room, but when she entered the room the woman had gone.

    A few days later, she felt very tired and went to bed at 6.30pm.

    Out of nowhere, she heard a woman's voice, which asked her to lift up her arm.

    She raised her arm and felt a severe pain in her elbow joint.

    Next the witness got up and went outside to the garden, still in her night gown and with nothing on her feet.

    In the garden stood a cabin-like object.

    She count see anyone in the object, but she felt a “presence” – as if someone was there unseen.

    The woman lost consciousness. When she came round, she was back in bed, fully clothed but with a sharp pain in her abdomen.

    A few days later, a number of large red marks appeared on the upper part of her abdomen and the lower part of her breasts.

    Neither her nor her doctor could find a cause for the strange marks, which didn’t hurt or irritate her.

    An artist's impression of a UFO encounter in Yorkshire

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    SOMBRERO UFO: An artist's impression of a UFO encounter in Yorkshire

    5. Whole family sees UFO and alien beings in Yorkshire

    Mr Mantle’s number one unexplained case involved UFO craft landing and aliens appearing, witnessed by an entire family.

    A woman named Mrs Westerman was at home in Normanton, West Yorkshire, in 1979 when her eight-year-old daughter came in, saying an “aeroplane” had landed in a nearby field.

    Mrs Westerman and her six children went out to find a large dull-grey object, “shaped like a Mexican sombrero”.

    Around the object stood three very tall “men”, all of whom appeared to be dressed in metallic silver suits, which creased as they moved.

    Philip Mantle

    CASCADE

    EXPERT: British UFO expert Philip Mantle

    The “men” had dark objects like torches, but without a light, in their hands and were pointing to an instrument on the ground.

    The children and Mrs Westerman made their way over the field towards the object and stopped at a fence.

    The men walked to the rear of the object and it rose vertically, stopped in mid-air, and then shot off at an angle at high speed.

    Mrs Westermen and all six children gave the same account to Mr Mantle when he interviewed them.

    Mr Mantle will speak at a major UFO conference organised by Outer Limits Magazine in Hull next month.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Are these spooky encounters proof aliens are REAL? British UFO expert reveals his most baffling X-files

    Are these spooky encounters proof aliens are REAL? British UFO expert reveals his most baffling X-files

    From tall men in silver suits standing by a UFO-shaped object in a field to the woman who woke up with bizarre markings on her stomach, these are UFO expert Phillip Mantle's top five secret X-files

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    Philip Mantle, a top British UFO investigator, has revealed his top five secret X-Files

    Whether you're a believer or not, this is bound to make you shudder.

    A top British UFO investigator says he has proof aliens are real - and he has now revealed details of some pretty chilling close encounters .

    Philip Mantle, a world renowned expert, has probed hundreds of cases over the years, but these are his top five secret X-files...

    Even if you're a sceptic, you'll have to admit that some of these do seem a little bizarre - and downright terrifying.

    1. Random flying objects caught whizzing through the air on THREE different radars in 1971

    Wing Commander Alan Turner was left stunned by the mysterious objects whirring on the radars 

    Wing Commander Alan Turner was duty military supervisor at RAF Sopley in 1971 when he noticed something amiss in the sky.

    He described seeing objects climbing at supersonic speeds from 3,000ft to 60,000ft beyond the capabilities of any aircraft at the time.

    It was his duty supervisor who spotted the phenomenon and nobody had ever seen anything like it before.

    Mr Turner said: "Emanating from a point some 20 nautical miles east of the eastern extremity of the Salisbury Plain Danger Area were a series of six or seven blips moving on a south-easterly track each being separated from the other by about six miles.

    "At about 40 miles from the point they appeared on radar they disappeared to be followed almost immediately by a replacement at the point of origin.

    "I put the FPS 6 Height Finder onto some returns to discover that they were about 3,000 feet when they came into radar cover and climbing extremely rapidly so that, by the time they disappeared from radar, they were in excess of 60,000 feet.

    "To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time."

    But he and his colleague were not the only ones to notice the spooky UFOs whirring through the air.

    He called Heathrow Radar to discover that they, too, were seeing a similar picture - as were the Fighter Control Operations Rooms at RAF Neatishead.

    They were all using different frequencies and the weather forecast in the area was calm and sunny. So what could it have been?

    "I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw. In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate.

    "To be seen on displays by three different ground radars, plus the airborne radar in the Canberra, is also a mystery."

    2. Father and son capture rare photographs of a UFO in their back garden in Melbourne, Australia, in 1995

    Experts said the photos taken by Mr Keane and his son were not doctored 
    The bizarre encounter is in Mr Mantle's top five secret X-Files 

    The pictures, taken by Roy and Ralph Keen in Kilsyth on September 19, 1995, have been studied are are, in fact, genuine.

    Mr Keane said at the time: “Each time the ‘object’ was photographed, it appeared to be moving on a trajectory to our right as we looked up at it.

    "Almost immediately after each picture was taken, the flying object seemed to momentarily ‘hover’, then ‘dip’ and move to the left very suddenly. 
    “Each time this occurred, both my son and I rushed around the side of our house in an attempt to see where the object had moved to.

    "Each time, on arrival at the front of our house, there was no sign of the object anywhere to be seen in the sky.”

    The pictures were analysed by photographic expert Winston Keech whose report said: “Using extreme gamma adjustments and edge detection algorithms - no supporting wires or other linear edge features were found.

    "So the object is not suspended by wire - as the cloud contrast is good, this would have been found.

    "This does appear to be a solid reflective object that is unsupported in mid air. Due to the high shutter speeds used, it may well be moving at reasonable speed without any discernible image blurring.”

    3. The longest reported sightings of a UFO in Darwen, Lancashire, in November 1985

    Mrs Howard drew this detailed drawing of her encounter 

    Mrs Josephine Howard, from Darwen in Lancashire, was just "happened to look up" as she was walking to her car one day and spotted two, round red lights in the sky.

    Mr Mantle said: "They were about the size of car headlights. Her curiosity aroused and Mrs Howard s topped to take a better look. There were no beams coming from the lights as they came overheard there was no noise."

    It was one of the many sightings in the mid-1980s that spanned the borders of both Yorkshire and Lancashire.

    Mr Mantle added: “The witness estimated that she had the object in sight for about eight minutes in total which is a long time for UFO sightings.

    "It was a ‘diamond’ shape with two lights at the front and it was totally noiseless at all times. She estimated that to her it was 200-300 feet above her.

    Mrs Howard described the scene at the time saying: “I could not see the lights as it moved overhead but I could see the underneath of the object.

    "This object was very large and seemed to be very heavylooking. I kept wondering how something so big and heavy looking could move so slowly and not make a noise.

    "I kept watching and took in as much detail as I could. The object was huge and its underneath had what looked like round-headed studs.

    "The object moved overhead and I kept watching it until it was almost out of sight at which point it seemed to tilt upwards and shoot off at a great speed and was gone.”

    4. The woman who woke up with strange markings on her stomach after encountering "bizarre" woman in Hungary in 1992

    The bizarre marking on the woman's stomach appeared days after she saw a mysterious woman in her house 

    The strangest case he ever encountered which doctors were unable to explain happened in remains in Hungary on January 24, 1992.

    The case involved a 50 year old woman from Mezobbereny in Hungary.

    She was at home with her husband when a dull, black egg-shaped object around 120 cm in height shot across the kitchen, making a ‘rippling’ movement during which a strong ‘snorting’ sound was heard.

    The upper part of the object became a blue-grey colour with a vibrating orange vertical stripe. Next to this stripe stood a ‘wonderful looking woman’ who looked directly at the witness.

    The witness felt well, but she was unable to talk. She followed this being into another room but when she entered, the woman had gone.

    She told her husband what had happened but he did not believe her.

    The weekend passed without any further events but on Monday she felt very tired and went to bed at 6.30 pm. Her husband was in the same room with her watching TV.

    Out of nowhere she heard a woman’s voice which asked her to lift up her arm. She raised her arm and felt a severe pain in her elbow joint.

    Next the woman got up and went outside to the garden still in her nightdress and with nothing on her feet.

    In the garden stood a cabin-like object.

    Explaining what happened, Mr Mantle said: “The witness entered the object but did not see anyone else in there but she did feel a presence as if someone was there but could not be seen.

    "When she came around she found herself back in bed, fully clothed but with a sharp pain in her abdomen. On Thursday and Friday a number of large red marks appeared on the upper part of her abdomen and the lower section of her breasts.

    "These marks were not painful and they did not itch either. The marks were not sensitive to either hot or cold water.

    “These ‘close encounters’ were the first in a series events that went on over the next few week."

    Neither the lady involved nor her doctor could find a conventional cause for the strange marks on her body.

    5. Family watch spacecraft land in a field near a field as men in silver suits survey the area in Normanton, West Yorkshire, in 1979

    An artists impression of the Normanton landings 

    Mr Mantle says this case has stayed with him ever since he first investigated it with colleague Mark Birdsall of the Yorkshire UFO Society.

    A woman, Mrs Westerman, said she was at home doing the washing one sunny afternoon as he children were outside playing a ballgame in the sun.

    It was around mid-afternoon when her eight-year-old daughter suddenly ran into the house shouting and crying, telling her mother to "come quick, and airplane just landed in the field".

    The Waterman’s was near to the end of a cul-de-sac, and beyond that, fields which contained electricity pylons.

    “Mrs Westerman ran outside and a few hundred yards away, in the fields adjacent to her house, she saw an object on the ground. It was a dull grey colour and had the appearance of a ‘Mexican hat’.

    “Around the object stood three very tall ‘men’ all of who, appeared to be dressed in silver suits. These men seemed to be pointing to a dark instrument on the ground. The children and Mrs Westerman made their way over the field towards this object and stopped at a fence.

    "The men walked to the rear of the object and it rose vertically, stopped in mid-air, and then shot off at an angle at a high rate of speed.

    “Needless to say they were speechless. All six of Mrs Westerman’s children related similar accounts to us.

    "There were very minor discrepancies but only as you would have expected to find from different people. All of the children were of the opinion that the dark object the men had in their hands, of which they moved about, looked like a torch but it had no light and gave off no sound."

    The ‘uniforms’ the men wore, were metallic silver and would crease when the men moved. All of the witnesses stated quite clearly that both upon landing and departure, this object never made a sound.

    Mr Mantle, the former director of investigations of the British UFO Research Association and UK representative of MUFON - the world's biggest UFO organisation, is due to speak about his research for the final time in September.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Why Brazil’s Night of UFOs Is the Most Legitimate Encounter

    Why Brazil’s Night of UFOs Is the Most Legitimate Encounter

    Humans tend to interpret every object since they are pattern-seeking creatures. Sometimes, we are correct in our assessments, but many times we just misunderstand, misperceive or misremember. Due to the demanding and challenging nature of the UFOs, it is not uncommon to see and hear the idea of ignoring the thoughts of alien and extraterrestrial enthusiasts. With alien encounters, people usually find that an explanation depends on not necessarily in the skies, but the mentality of every individual.

    ufo-brazil1986

    While the opinions of critics drown out the voices of those who believe the existence of legitimate aliens, some events beguile explanation. The best illustration would be the Brazil’s Night of UFOs. Enthusiasts and locals alike have been amazed to such incident, which is probably the reason why it has become the most legitimate UFO-related encounter in decades. Interestingly, the incident has been easily forgotten despite the comprehensive national coverage of the encounter in the days that followed. Brazil’s Night of UFOs took place on May 19, 1986, and it covered approximately 21 unidentified objects that were seen by the Air Force radars of the country. According to a Redditor, the strange objects were observed by different witnesses in various parts of the country, comprising Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. What was terrific about the Night of UFOs in Brazil was not the number of strange objects that were spotted that night, but the transparency and the reaction of the Brazilian government and military during the incident was notable.

    The country’s Air Force night was deployed during the Brazil’s Night of UFOs to investigate and engage with mysterious objects. The aircraft released were capable of soaring at high speeds. However, reports say that strange air vessels outran the military fighters, flying as fast as 2500 mph. The entire rivalry between them has lasted for three hours. According to later reports, the U.S. government got involved, but its full disclosure was never revealed. The incidents released were the usual sceptical explanations regarding what might have taken place during the Night such as the ball lightning, meteor showers, a reflection of the full moon, or an issue concerning the Air Force’s radar system. Without a doubt, interest in the incident died for decades.

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    19-08-2017 om 22:43 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.A Ring UFO Flies Over Beachgoers and Swimmers In China

    A Ring UFO Flies Over Beachgoers and Swimmers In China

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    A black UFO that flew in the skies over Dalian, China has amazed crowds enjoying the Jinshitan beach. A video recording was uploaded online showing a strange object over the beach in the city. It depicts an unknown floating object among clouds.

    The unusual thing moves in the sky over the swimmers and beachgoers as they observe it flies over them.

    One of the witnesses Jing Qi says that an oval shape UFO appears in the sky and expands at it comes closer to the crowd.

    The ring UFO appears to change shape into a parallelogram before disappearing.

    Social media users who saw the video online speculate on the possible origin of the bizarre object on Weibo.

    Some say the ring could have been a group of insects flying together and forming such shape. Others say that it could have been special visual effects from a show organised for the public.

    However, some other viewers of the video suggest that extraterrestrials have something to do with the UFO.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'Jellyfish' Galaxies Reveal Feeding Habits of Monster Black Holes

    'Jellyfish' Galaxies Reveal Feeding Habits of Monster Black Holes

    Glowing "jellyfish" galaxies have revealed a new way to power some of the most powerful objects in the universe. The same process that feeds the most voracious black holes at the galactic centers may also create dangling "tentacles" of newborn stars, a new study found.

    While most galaxies, including the Milky Way, hide massive black holes at their centers, only a few produce enough electromagnetic radiation as they eat to create active galactic nuclei (AGN). AGN shine brilliantly in the universe, and why they form around some black holes and not others has been an ongoing mystery. But jellyfish galaxies may help crack the case. 

    "When a galaxy enters a galaxy cluster, falling into it at high velocity, the hot, dense gas that fills the cluster — the so-called intracluster gas — acts like a strong wind on the galaxy gas," Bianca Poggianti, lead author on the new study, told Space.com by email. "It strips it away and creates the tails," which give the galaxies their "jellyfish" nickname. [When Galaxies Collide: Photos of Great Galactic Crashes]

    A jellyfish galaxy, JW100, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope.
    Credit: ESO/GASP collaboration

    This same wind that forms the jellyfish galaxies may also feed growing AGNs, she said. 

    Poggianti, a researcher at the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova in Italy, is part of an international team of scientists using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Space Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to examine jellyfish galaxies. The researchers found that an unexpectedly high fraction of the tentacled galaxies contain AGN.

    "Ours is the first study that systematically searches for [jellyfish galaxies] and tries to have a complete census in different regions of the local universe," Poggianti said.

    Supermassive black holes constantly feed. As they draw in surrounding gas and dust, they produce intense radiation that can sometimes be seen from Earth, leaving scientists to ponder these objects' food source. While black holes are common, the more powerful and visible AGN are rare.

    Poggianti and her team are part of an ongoing program to observe 114 jellyfish galaxies, an order of magnitude more than previously observed in detail, she said. Of the seven galaxies with the longest tails, the researchers found that six housed a supermassive black hole, suggesting a link between the two types of object. Previous studies suggested that the powerful cluster winds stretched the tentacles out for tens of light-years in a process known as ram-pressure stripping. These same winds could feed the supermassive black holes, constantly nourishing them by carrying material to the center of the galaxy.

    Another jellyfish galaxy, JW206, imaged by ESO's Very Large Telescope.
    Credit: ESO/GASP collaboration

    But, the scientists wondered, did the winds feed the black holes, or did the black holes produce the winds?

    "In a sense, this is similar to the problem of the chicken and the egg — which one comes first," Poggianti said. "While both effects are probably at work, we have good reason to think that the first effect prevails."

    By studying the positioning and velocity of the galaxies, the researchers found that all of these objects lie close to the center of the cluster and have high speeds compared to that of the cluster itself.

    "They are in the ideal conditions for ram-pressure stripping to be the strongest," Poggianti said.

    On the other hand, if effects from the galactic center formed the massive tentacles, she said, the galaxies would be scattered more randomly.

    The new work was detailed Aug. 16 in the journal Nature.

    A jellyfish galaxy like this, called JO204 and imaged with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, may have helped cracked the mystery of what feeds supermassive black holes.
    Credit: ESO/GASP collaboration

    As cluster winds sweep away the dust and gas in a galaxy, the tentacles they create fill with brilliant young stars. These stars shine brightly in optical wavelengths of light, making the objects stand out to researchers who picked through images of over 70 galaxy clusters hunting for tails, Poggianti said. The scientists also found jellyfish outside of clusters, some as part of galaxy groups and others off on their own. Galaxies found in groups tend to lack the spectacular tails of their cluster compatriots, and all of those found with AGN lie in clusters, Poggianti said.

    Simulations combining ram-pressure stripping and AGN-hosting galaxies would be both complicated and computationally expensive, requiring significant time and computer power, Poggianti said. That's why no such simulations exist — yet, she said.

    "I imagine that, following our discovery, there will be research groups in the world that will attempt to simulate the two processes together," she said. The paper said that such simulations would be valuable for interpreting the new connection.

    The seven jellyfish are only part of a larger swarm. Within the GAs Stripping Phenomena in galaxies with MUSE (GASP) program, Poggianti and her colleagues are continuing to investigate over a hundred more of the intriguing galaxies. [Amazing Space Views of ESO's Very Large Telescope (Photos)]

    "When all of the observations will be in our hands — I expect [in] about a year from now — we will be able to have a complete picture," Poggianti said. Once the researchers have obtained all of the data, the team will be able to see how features change and evolve. Observing the jellyfish — some at the beginning of gas removal, others with long tails and still others devoid of gas with no fuel to birth young stars — will allow the researchers to investigate the various stages of the jellyfish lifecycle, Poggianti said.

    "This is like seeing galaxy evolution happening in front of your eyes from a front row," she said.

    The team is planning, and in some case already working, to observe the galaxies at different wavelengths with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, Poggianti said. Such observations will help researchers to understand how gas in the jellyfish galaxies evolve over time, she said.

    "This is really great, because these are the most powerful astronomical observational facilities in the world, each in its own field and wavelength," Poggianti said. "Their combination will allow us to study all the different gas phases, [and] how they relate to each other and to the formation of new stars."

    Follow Nola Taylor Redd at @NolaTReddFacebook or Google+. Follow us at @SpacedotcomFacebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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    Cassini Saturn Probe Preps for Last Hurrah

    19-08-2017 om 17:09 geschreven door peter  

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    10 spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA

    10 spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA

    The space weather event, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), was observed by three satellites operating outside the path of the flare, namely ESA’s Proba-2, the ESA-NASA joint project SOHO and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, in October 2014.

    The ESA’s Olivier Witasse had been leading the space agency’s Mars Express, a project examining the effect of the comet Siding Spring on the atmosphere of the Red Planet. During the research, the team detected signs of the CME on Mars and, in the subsequent investigation, accessed data collected by the 10 spacecraft in its path.

    CME speeds with distance from the sun is not well understood, in particular in the outer Solar System,”said Witasse. Thanks to the precise timings of numerous in situ measurements, we can better understand the process.

    The data gives an indication of the speed, distance and direction of travel of the CME, with the effects of the flare reportedly felt by NASA’s Voyager-2, then at the edge of the solar system approaching Pluto.

    After emission, the solar flare travelled at speeds of up to 1,000km per second (6,000 miles per second) before slowing to 500km/sec after reaching the Cassini space probe in November 2014.  

    Luckily, Earth was not in the CME’s path – a phenomenon that scientists say has potential to be hugely damaging to our way of life.

    Experts have warned that a powerful geomagnetic storm would likely knock out power grids, communications and satellite technology, causing trillions of dollars worth of damage to the global economy. They even cite as evidence the 1859 ‘Carrington Event’ in which a solar flare knocked out telegraph systems all over Europe and North America.

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    7 conspiracy theories that just won’t go away

    1. 9/11 was an inside job

    The terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 were actually orchestrated by the US government.

    The theory is that the jet fuel from the planes was not enough to melt the steel beams of the World Trade Center towers. The buildings were brought down by a controlled demolition.

    One reason for the theory’s longevity is that it has been proven that the war in Iraq was justified by using false information about the existence of so called weapons of mass destruction.

    2. A secret group controls the world

    This elite group is mostly referred to as the Illuminati and it has been controlling the world for centuries. Its end game is to create a New World Order which will dissolve national boundaries and people’s identities while allowing for total authoritarian control.

    Other versions of this theory see other groups in a similar position of world domination – the Freemasons, the Jewish people, the Bilderberg Group or the “globalists” that are often invoked in the right wing media. President Trump himself mentions “globalists” and invokes fighting against insidious “elites” as a battle cry for his base.

    3. The moon landing didn’t happen

    The moon landing did not happen and evidence was orchestrated by NASA and the US government to make them seem superior to the Soviet Union and to boost national pride.

    NASA faked the landings to avoid humiliation and to ensure that it continued to get funding.

    Moon-landing conspiracists focus heavily on NASA photos. They point to oddities in photos and films taken on the Moon.

    Another theory is that Stanley Kubrick, director and producer of 2001: A Space Odyssey was the mastermind behind the fake footage of the moon landing.

    4. Roswell, Area 51 and aliens

    The remains of an alien spacecraft that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 are stored at Area 51, a top-secret military base about 250 km from Las Vegas where government scientists conduct research on alien technology and time travel.

    This theory is partly fueled by UFO sightings in the area and the testimony of a retired army colonel who says he was given access to extraterrestrial materials from Roswell.

    The US government’s secrecy about Area 51 and the fact that information about it is classified “for purposes of national security” is further proof that the military is hiding aliens or alien spacecraft.

    5. Reptilians are running the world

    Famously espoused by David Icke, this is another version of secret groups controlling the world. According to a national survey 12 million Americans believe this theory.

    The belief is that the top echelons of governments are controlled by shape-shifting reptilian aliens, who have been wielding power over humans for thousands of years to turn them into mindless slaves.

    6. Chemtrails

    The lines of clouds in a clear blue sky are actually “chemtrails” – chemicals sprayed by the government to control the population.

    The purpose of the claimed chemical release may be solar radiation management, psychological manipulation, human population control, weather modification, or biological or chemical warfare. The trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.

    7. The Holocaust never happened

    In spite of a well-documented historical fact that six million Jews were exterminated by German Nazis during the second world war there are people who believe the Holocaust did not happen.

    Only about 54 percent of the world’s population has heard of the Holocaust, according to a large 100-country survey by the Anti-Defamation League. Only a third of those who’ve heard of it believe the Holocaust is portrayed correctly

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    Alien sightings


    I’m writing this column from my hotel room in Roswell, N.M. Roswell is, of course, famous for the alleged alien crash landing that happened in 1947.

    Roswell also happens to be the last leg of my family’s summer vacation. We opted for a two-week vacation instead of our customary one week because we had a lot of places we’ve always wanted to visit.

    My husband had absolutely no interest in visiting Roswell and hearing about aliens, but my son and I couldn’t wait to get here. While it’s been a blast hearing about the supposed cover-up at Roswell (and I’ll keep my opinion about that to myself), most of the alien-like sightings we’ve had during this trip haven’t been at Roswell.

    They’ve been at the slew of national parks we’ve visited on our trip – places like Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, White Sands National Monument, the Grand Tetons and Lake Mead.

    We had planned for months to visit these places, but we only learned right before we left that we qualified for free entry into all national parks we visited because my child had just completed fourth grade. Under a program established by then President Barack Obama, all fourth-graders and their families receive free entry into any of the national parks they visit. Hopefully, this program continues, so more families can experience the natural beauty these parks have to offer.

    While we would have visited these places regardless of what we were charged to see them, having free access saved us a bundle.

    I think introducing kids who are in middle school to national parks is a great idea because they are at such an influential age. A trip to Yellowstone may put them on a career path they may have never considered.

    Plus, it gives them a sense of ownership. My daughter felt like a special guest of the parks we entered. She had her own card that gave us free access, and the employees would ask where our fourth-grader was when we pulled up to the admission gates. She’d wave her hand like a celebrity, and we’d get right in. And now, as our trip is winding down, that card will serve as a unique souvenir of the biggest trip we’ve ever taken together.

    It will help her remember the mind-blowing things we saw, the natural landscapes that made us feel like we were the aliens on a whole different planet entirely. That card will remind her of the world-famous geysers we saw at Yellowstone, and the things we didn’t even know existed like the colorful geyser basins and the Dragon’s Mouth formation that hinted at the enormous volcanic pressure under our feet at Yellowstone.

    Years from now, that card may spark a memory for her of the half-mile walk we took down into the Grand Canyon – a walk that consisted of a narrow dirt path and no handrails in sight. Although we had all obviously heard of the wonder of the Grand Canyon, hearing about it and seeing it in person are two different things entirely. Walking down that pathway, I felt like a visitor on the planet I have lived on all my life. It was completely foreign from anything I had ever seen.

    Another alien-like place we visited was White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. The giant white sand dunes there are completely cool to the touch, unlike beach sand. The dunes are so tall, we rented sleds to slide down them as if it was winter in summertime. I couldn’t let my kids have all the fun so I slid down them too, laughing as I wiped out on the particularly steep dunes. The whole landscape seemed like something you might see in Star Wars movies instead of here on Earth.

    But while the landscape we saw may have seemed extraterrestrial, we also saw flashes of human creativity and ingenuity everywhere we went. There were roads built through mountains and tales about people conquering the wilderness of the Grand Canyon long before they had any sort of technology to help them.

    We saw a bottle forest in California – a man had created it alongside the highway. For whatever reason when he looked at an empty bottle, he didn’t see it as junk. He saw it as a piece of a glass tree and he built a forest of those trees for people to enjoy at no cost. It might seem like a strange thing to do, but it was a spectacular sight.

    I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of aliens, ever since I was little. But as it turns out, you don’t have to look to the skies to spot something that looks like it belongs on another world. You just have to explore the places and people that are already on our planet. There’s still plenty of wonder here if you look hard enough.

    Shannon Serpette is a freelance writer and a mom of two who lives in Henry, Ill. She can be reached at writerslifeforme@gmail.com.

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    There appears to have been something in the air in June. According to an international group of alien hunters, the number of UFO sightings doubled last month. High-profile sightings last month included one of a 'flying saucer' UFO which visited Stonehenge

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    Doomsday gap?

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    A trio of front page articles from 1962 addressing crisis in Cuba.

    OKLAHOMA CITY – Exactly 14 years to the day, before I was born, when U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy first used the term “missile gap” – a phrase that was later parodied in Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and called a “Doomsday gap.”

    In that film, which was scheduled to be previewed by film critics on Nov. 22, 1963 – but was held off because it was the same day Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas – the Russian ambassador explains that his government had heard – via The New York Times! – that it was reported the U.S. was also working on a “Doomsday machine.” An arms race of insanity.

    We were afraid of a Doomsday gap,” the ambassador tells President Muffley (Peter Sellers).

    After the assassination, Kubrick and Columbia Pictures opted to hold off screening the anti-war farce until a few weeks later, in early 1964.

    But that “Doomsday gap” comment, in retrospect, comes off as a backhanded criticism of Kennedy’s presumed militarism.

    It happened on August 14, 1958. The same year Kennedy was re-elected to a second term in the Senate, representing Massachusetts. But he was also planning a run for the presidency in 1960 and began pounding away at President Eisenhower and the Republicans about being “weak on defense.”

    Why? The Soviet Union had launched Sputnik in 1957 and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the USSR had an ICBM with a range of 8,000 miles and that they were in “mass production.”

    Kennedy said: “Our Nation could have afforded, and can afford now, the steps necessary to close the missile gap.

    Naturally, this being the Cold War, there was concern about this and so certain interests wanted to ramp up production of America’s nuclear arsenal in those dark days of the Cold War, leading up to the October 1962 missile crisis – nearly two years after outgoing President Eisenhower warned Americans of the growing “military-industrial complex.”

    Nevertheless, Kennedy wanted to appear strong on defense and so initially (and unwittingly) Kennedy used inflated numbers provided to him by U.S. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.). Symington was a former Secretary of the Air Force from 1947-50, who provided those inflated U.S. Air Force numbers.

    Coincidentally, Symington was head of the U.S. Air Force when Project Sign was initiated in 1948 , a government study of the UFO phenomenon, and its follow-up, in 1949, Project Grudge. Sec. Symington likely knew A LOT about the UFO mystery he did not share with his Show-Me State constituents or the rest of the American people.

    These would lead up to the launching of the notorious Project Blue Book (1952-69), which was later viewed as a government project designed to actually cover-up real reports of UFOs.

    Curiously, Sen. Symington’s cousin, Fife Symington III, was governor of Arizona when the widely-reported “Phoenix Lights” UFO sighting occurred in March 1997.

    At the time, due to public pressure and so many witnesses, Gov. Symington said he was going to investigate the mass UFO sighting over Arizona’s capital city, only to later hold a press conference and bring out his chief of staff in an alien costume – making the whole thing a big joke.

    But 10 years later, Symington made a major admission, saying he actually saw the UFO himself, calling it a “great mystery.”

    It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.

    KENNEDY & UFOs

    So, with the Cold War heating up during Kennedy’s term as president, it is said that he had a serious affair with actress and starlet Marilyn Monroe in the years leading up to her death (allegedly a suicide induced by an overdose of pills)

    In a book I read and reviewed – Dr. Donald R. Burleson’s UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, the author alleges the Kennedy brothers had Monroe killed because she allegedly “knew too much” and had evidence kept in a secret diary. Apparently, Monroe was upset that she was being increasingly left out in the cold by the Kennedys. She felt used and wanted revenge and allegedly planned to hold a press conference about “what she knew.”

    Was this about Kennedy’s acknowledgement that the UFO “threat” was real? Classified investigations were taking place during the Kennedy administration as they were during the Eisenhower years, presumably with their knowledge. This was the era when most Americans "trusted" their government. Sure, secret projects were being conducted, many assumed, but with our best interest in mind, right?

    As I noted in my review: “Apparently, Marilyn Monroe was aware of not only the crashed Roswell saucer, but of JFK’s plans to kill Cuba’s Fidel Castro.”

    And then there was Kennedy's assassination a little over a year later. A lot of high weirdness surrounding that horrific event in our history.

    CRISIS MODE

    Again, this was in late summer of 1962, just weeks before those 13 days in October, better known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis.” With tensions between the U.S. and USSR at their heightes, particularly over concerns regarding Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba – 90 miles from American shores – the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to attack and invade the island nation, controlled by Fidel Castro.

    Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war,” said Ernesto “Che” Guevara , as reported in The Times of London in an article headlined: “Attack us at your peril, Cocky Cuba warns U.S.”

    Che Guevara would be executed five years later in remote Bolivia under suspicious circumstances, as we’ve noted before.

    Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed back in '62 and a nuclear exchange was avoided. But the nukes never really went away. Many still exist and more countries now have nukes, as North Korea has announced. And with the egomaniacal and crazed Kim Jong-un in power, it seems as though these two bad-haired narcissists are bringing the world ever closer to World War III.

    REPEATER

    History has a funny – and frightening – way of repeating itself. Look at the tensions between right and left here in the United States. With the U.S. Civil War having ended 152 years ago, we seem to be fighting the same battles again, while addressing issues regarding race and equality that have not been adequately addressed for all these years, as things came to a head last week in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left a 32-year old protester, Heather Heyer, dead - and Nazi sympathizers practically gleeful.

    And yet President Trump sends signals to American fascists, racists and Nazi sympathizers that while he may not support them, the anti-fascist groups are equally bad.

    A meme making the rounds notes that that is similar to the Star Wars rebels fighting the Empire being compared and on a “level-playing field” with the planet-destroying Death Star.

    As author and Dartmouth College lecturer Mark Bray, an expert on “Antifa,” told Democracy Now this week: "And, you know, President Trump’s comments that the alt—quote-unquote, "alt-left" and alt-right are equivalent moral forces is really historically misinformed and morally bankrupt. The anti-fascist movement has a global history that stretches back over—about a century. You can trace them to Italian opposition to Mussolini’s Blackshirts, German opposition to Hitler’s Brownshirts, anti-fascists from around the world who had traveled to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War. 

    Over the past four years I have devoted a lot of time studying the history of the Spanish Civil War. While this was a conflict between fascists and anti-fascists in Spain, international help came from around the world, including the United States. People like longtime Dougherty, Okla. resident and congressional candidate Eugene V. "Debs" Poling, who left Oklahoma to fight the Gen. Franco's fascists in the late 1930's, only to be given a hard time - like so many other American anti-fascist volunteers - when we entered World War II, as being "premature anti-fascists." 

    That, of course, is absurd. Ask yourself: Is there ever a bad time to oppose fascism? Here at Red Dirt Report we have been warning readers for a long time now that fascism would truly take root in this country if Trump was elected president, as we predicted in a December 2015 article "Trumpism and the fascist menace."

    But many people, in those months before the election, did not want to believe that Trump truly held such odious views and was not willing to wholeheartedly condemn white nationalists, racists and fascists from the get-go. Here in Oklahoma, some of Trump's most vocal supporters were people like the disgraced State Sen. Ralph Shortey (R-OKC) and Islamophobic legislator State Rep. John Bennett, a Republican from Sallisaw.

    Isn't there something to be said about "the company you keep"? 

    In any event, Trump's ongoing "dog-whistle politics" helped elect him and now he seems to be doubling down as Democrats, and a few Republicans, call for Trump's censure over his repugnant "defense of white supremacists," as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said in a statement today.

    And then there are those seriously questioning Donald Trump's mental health.

    (Andrew W. Griffin / Red Dirt Report)

    But back to that Democracy Now interview with Mark Bray and the anti-fascists opposing Trump and the growing fascist menace in America:

    More recently, modern antifa can largely trace its roots to the anti-fascist movement in Britain in the ’70s, and the postwar period more generally, that was responding to a xenophobic backlash against predominantly Caribbean and South Asian migration, also to the German autonomous movement of the ’80s, which, really, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, had to respond to a really unprecedented neo-Nazi wave—unprecedented in the postwar period, of course.

    We should also note, in regards to the Spanish Civil War template, that international volunteers from around the world have been coming to the northern Syria area of Rojava to help the leftist YPG (People's Protection Units) fight ISIS and other related butchers and madmen running amok in that corner of the world. One wonders if Trump is aware of the egalitarian and anti-fascist YPG and what they actually stand for, considering YPG spokespeople said this week that the U.S. intends to stay in that autonomous region "for decades to come."

    KING MIDAS IN REVERSE, WITH NUKES

    Meanwhile, back in Washington (and at a few town halls, including here in Oklahoma) you see formerly spineless Republicans starting to back away from toxic Trump, who, despite his mass wealth, is a sort of “King Midas in Reverse" and causing the GOP to sink ever deeper into the shithole of their own making.

    And when that is the case, where everything you touch turns to shit, it gets mega-scary when one thinks about the power a president has, particularly when it comes to the threat of thermonuclear war.

    Today, in the New York Post, North Korea’s Deputy United Nations Ambassador Kim In Ryong said that if the Trump administration keeps up its “hostile policy and nuclear threat,” they will never put their nuclear weapons program “on the negotiating table.”

    And with Trump's administration is full-scale crisis mode and more rats ("the best people!") flee that sinking ship, we can only wonder what horrors and doom lie just around the corner. 

    I'll end with a "letter to the editor" we received from Oklahoma City resident Frank Silovsky. He has distinct memories of those 13 days in October 1962 when the world was at the precipice of a global thermonuclear war.

    Never will I forget that October day in 1962 when I sat in my dorm room "frozen" by the image of President Kennedy announcing to the nation that he had ordered our navy to stop and search every Soviet vessel heading to Cuba for the possibility of finding and removing missile launchers and/or nuclear explosives. Armageddon seemed nigh! That had been my deepest sense of impending doom. Until now.

    Khrushchev and Kennedy had both experienced the horror of war so their steady hands averted ultimate war.


    We are presently experiencing a very different and even stronger possibility of nuclear war. To our horror, the competing nations this time are led by two absolutely uninformed, bombastic, immature heads of state with no concept of war playing "chicken" with nuclear weapons! 

    North Koreans are helpless under their mad dictator. However, we have our illustrious Constitution providing ways to prevent "mad leadership" from dooming us. The 25th Amendment could eliminate our half of the madness. Is there time? Is there the courage? "We the people" can determine our fate

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    UFO or magic carpet? Mysterious rectangular object in sky baffles Chinese citizens [VIDEO]

    After smoke ring, an unidentified rectangular object was spotted in China.
    Ankita Mehta

    19-08-2017 om 16:03 geschreven door peter  

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    NASA heeft ambitieus plan om aarde te behoeden voor supervulkaan Yellowstone - HLN.be

    Bron: BBC News

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    Het is een toeristische trekpleister, bekend om zijn onwaarschijnlijke natuurschoon. Maar diep onder het prachtige Yellowstone National Park in de VS loert een potentiële wereldramp: een supervulkaan die, als hij uitbarst, de gehele mensheid kan bedreigen. NASA wil dat vermijden en heeft daarvoor een ambitieus plan.

    Onze planeet telt, voor zover bekend, een twintigtal supervulkanen. Gemiddeld barsten zij ongeveer om de 100.000 jaar in alle hevigheid uit. Voor Yellowstone is dat om de 600.000 jaar. Zo'n supereruptie kan catastrofaal zijn voor de mens. In 2012 berekende de VN dat de wereldwijde voedselreserves door de zogenaamde vulkanische winter zodanig zouden slinken dat er slechts genoeg eten voor 74 dagen overblijft. We zouden dus gewoon uitgehongerd worden.

    De laatste keer dat de vulkanische hotspot onder Yellowstone tot een desastreuze uitbarsting kwam, dateert inmiddels van ongeveer 600.000 jaar geleden. Toen belandde er 1.000 kubieke kilometer as en lava in de atmosfeer, waardoor de temperatuur op aarde stevig daalde. Niets wijst er voorlopig op dat de vulkaan nieuwe plannen in die richting heeft, ook al is het theoretisch gezien 'weer tijd'. 

    Voorkomen is alleszins beter dan genezen, denkt ook Brian Wilcox van NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology): "De bedreiging van een supervulkaan is wezenlijk groter dan die van een asteroïde of komeet". Wilcox ziet wel gelijkenissen tussen deze twee mogelijke bedreigingen voor de mensheid en de aanpak daarvan: "De wetenschap moet erin investeren én moet er op tijd aan beginnen."

    Een vulkaanuitbarsting vanuit de ruimte bekeken. 
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    En dus zoekt NASA al langer naar manieren om een nieuwe allesverwoestende eruptie te voorkomen. De wetenschappers vertrekken van het principe dat de magmakamer onder controle kan gehouden worden door de supervulkaan af te koelen. Die van Yellowstone laat ongeveer 60-70 procent van de uitgestote hitte ontsnappen in de atmosfeer - vandaar de talrijke geisers en warmwaterbronnen in het onmetelijke park. Maar de rest van de hitte stapelt zich ondergronds op en dat maakt een explosie uiteindelijk onvermijdelijk. Er zou daarom méér warmte moeten kunnen vrijkomen.

    Een mogelijke middel om voor verkoeling te zorgen is natuurlijk water. Maar het zou niet alleen ongelooflijk duur zijn om een megaconstructie te bouwen die meer water naar de vulkaan brengt, het zou bovendien ook erg moeilijk liggen bij de mensen, die het voor henzelf broodnodige water waarschijnlijk liever niet voor zo'n doel 'verspild' zien.

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    Het alternatief van NASA bestaat erin om water onder hoge druk tien kilometer diep in de magmakamer op te pompen. Ook niet simpel en, met een kostenplaatje van zo'n 3 miljard euro, ook niet goedkoop. Maar NASA bedacht daarvoor eveneens een oplossing. Het rondstromende water zou terug naar boven komen met een temperatuur van 350 graden Celsius. Zo geeft de vulkaan stelselmatig meer warmte vrij én het is een uitstekende basis voor een geothermische centrale die aan een erg competitieve prijs elektriciteit zou kunnen produceren. 

    Win-win dus. Of niet? Er zit helaas nog wel een addertje onder het gras. Boren in een vulkaanschacht is niet zonder risico. In het slechtste geval kan je zelfs de eruptie uitlokken die je net wou voorkomen.

    Het is in elk geval een werk van erg lange adem: "Zij die aan zo'n project beginnen, zullen nooit de voltooiing ervan zien, of er tijdens hun leven zelfs maar een idee van hebben of het al dan niet succesvol blijkt", zegt Wilcox aan de BBC. Tienduizenden jaren zou de mens nodig hebben om Yellowstone op die wijze helemaal af te koelen. Dat moet wel niet om de bedreiging op zich alvast weg te nemen, maar zelfs dáárvoor zouden we, volgens Wilcox, honderden of zelfs duizenden jaren geduld moeten hebben. Toch moeten we volgens de wetenschapper best op lange termijn denken. En intussen de huidige voordelen ervan meepakken, zoals zo'n nieuwe elektriciteitscentrale, besluit hij.

    Video's ter informatie bijgevoegd door peter2011:

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    19-08-2017 om 15:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Studie VUB: robots kunnen nu ook eigen beschadigingen herstellen - HLN.be

    Studie VUB: robots kunnen nu ook eigen beschadigingen herstellen - HLN.be

     Bron: Belga

    © rv.

    Net zoals mensen een snee in hun handen, een breuk of een spierscheur zelf verzorgen en herstellen, kunnen robots nu ook zichzelf helen. Dat blijkt uit de studie "Self-healing soft pneumatic robots" van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Op deze manier zullen robots in de toekomst langer en zelfstandig kunnen werken.

    Het onderzoek richt zich op "soft robots" die gemaakt zijn uit flexibele en zachte materialen. Door hun flexibiliteit worden de soft robots ingezet voor talloze toepassingen zoals het grijpen van delicate en malse voorwerpen te grijpen in de voedselindustrie of in de minimaal-invasieve chirurgie. 

    Door hun zachte materialen garanderen ze veilig contact met mensen, maar zijn ze tegelijkertijd ook kwetsbaarder voor contact en schade door scherpe voorwerpen of overmatige druk. Het project aan de VUB gaf een grijper, een robothand en een kunstmatige spier in hun programmatie daarom een zelfhelende functie. 

    Nadat de prototypes gecontroleerd beschadigd werden, bleek dat het wetenschappelijke principe ook in de praktijk werkt. Realistische schade kon volledig worden hersteld, zonder zwakke plekken achter te laten. Zo konden de "soft robots" nadien hun taken weer volledig opnemen, terwijl ze in de realiteit vaak door mensen hersteld moeten worden of zelfs in de vuilnisbak belanden.

    "Robots kunnen niet alleen lichter en veiliger gemaakt worden, maar kunnen straks ook langer zelfstandig werken zonder telkens gerepareerd te moeten worden", vertelt professor Bram Vanderborght.

    De resultaten van de studie werden vandaag gepubliceerd in het vaktijdschrift Science Robotics.

    Lees ook

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    19-08-2017 om 15:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterie ontrafeld: zo kwamen eerste dieren op Aarde - HLN.be

    Mysterie ontrafeld: zo kwamen eerste dieren op Aarde - HLN.be

    Bron: The Independent

    De Aarde was ooit haast volledig bedekt met gletsjers en die hebben een sleutelrol gespeeld bij het ontstaan van complex leven. 

    © Wikipedia.

    Recent onderzoek werpt nieuw licht op de oorsprong van de eerste dieren. Daarin spelen reuzengletsjers een hoofdrol. Tijdens de periode van de 'Sneeuwbalaarde' verpulverden die gletsjers hele bergen en de daaropvolgende periode waarin de Aarde spectaculair opwarmde zou hebben bijgedragen tot complex leven. Daarmee was de dominantie van bacteriën voorbij.

    Dit voltrok zich over een periode van miljoenen jaren: hele bergketens werden tot stof vermalen door gigantische gletsjers die de hele Aarde bedekten en daarna luidde een drastische klimaatverandering een nieuw biologisch tijdperk in.

    Volslagen mysterie
    Tot zowat 650 miljoen jaar geleden werd het leven op Aarde gedomineerd door eenvoudige bacteriën, tot complexere levensvormen het overnamen. Waarom dit gebeurde, was tot voor kort een volslagen mysterie.

    Australische en Duitse wetenschappers stellen nu dat ze het keerpunt hebben vastgepind waarop het leven op Aarde begon te evolueren naar een gevarieerd dierenrijk: van insecten tot dinosaurussen en mensen.

    Deze "revolutie van ecosystemen" begon 700 miljoen jaar geleden, toen onze planeet de 'Sneewbalaarde' werd en zowat het hele aardoppervlak met ijs bedekt was.

    Levensnoodzakelijke voedingsstoffen

    Gigantische gletsjers vermaalden bergketens tot poeder, waarbij levensnoodzakelijke voedingsstoffen zoals fosfaten vrijkwamen. Daarna, tijdens een "extreme opwarming van de Aarde", smolt de Sneeuwbal en  voerden rivieren die voedingsstoffen naar de oceaan. 

    Het nieuwe gematigde klimaat en de plotse toestroom van voedsel schiepen de perfecte omstandigheden voor het eerste complexe leven. Denk daarbij niet aan gewervelde dieren, laat staan zoogdieren. Het ging toen om algen, ons aller voorouders.

    Hoe de onderzoekers dat uitvogelden? Professor Jochen Brocks, van de nationale universiteit van Australië, verklaart dat ze bewijzen hebben gevonden door gesteente uit die periode te verpletteren en er zo 'molecules van oude organismen' aan te onttrekken. "Die molecules leren ons dat het 650 miljoen jaar geleden interessant werd. Dat was een revolutie van ecosystemen, de opkomst van de algen".

    Basis van voedselketen
    De bacteriën die tot dan de oceanen domineerden, werden weggedrongen door deze complexere levensvormen. "Deze grote en voedzame organismen lagen aan de basis van de voedselketen en zorgden voor de energie die nodig was voor de ontwikkeling van complexe ecosystemen waarin steeds grotere en complexere dieren, zoals de mens, konden floreren", stel Brocks.

    De restanten van die oude organismen werden aangetroffen in afzettingsgesteente uit Australië dat dateert uit de periode net na het smelten van de Sneeuwbalaarde. Daarin werden tekenen van moleculaire fossielen gevonden. "Toen wisten we meteen dat we een baanbrekende ontdekking hadden gedaan, namelijk dat de Sneeuwbalaarde betrokken was bij de ontwikkeling van grote en complexe levensvormen", stelt professor Amber Jarrett van dezelfde universiteit.

    Het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in het vakblad Nature.

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    19-08-2017 om 15:10 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.VEEL BUITENAARDS CONTACT BOVEN NEDERLAND ( VIDEO )

    VEEL BUITENAARDS CONTACT BOVEN NEDERLAND ( VIDEO )

    Sommige mensen schijnen heel gemakkelijk contact te kunnen maken met beschavingen van andere planeten of dimensies, terwijl anderen nooit iets zien. 

    Dat ze er zijn, laten ze op alle mogelijke manieren weten zoals tijdens een nieuwsuitzending op de Amerikaanse zender FOX waarbij ze prominent voor het Capitool langs vliegen. 



    Het is toch wel mooi om te zien hoe zelfs tijdens mainstream nieuwsuitzendingen UFO’s door het beeld scheren, alsof ze draak steken met de wereldwijde doofpot rondom dit onderwerp. 

    Zo komt er tijdens een FOX nieuwsuitzending waar beelden van het Capitool in Washington worden uitgezonden, opeens een UFO door het beeld.


    xxx

    Het is dus ook geen klein onbeduidend bolletje wat dit keer over het scherm vliegt.

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    Maar, zoals gewoonlijk ziet het merendeel van de mensen het niet of doen degenen die het wel zien, net alsof het niet bestaat. Als we net doen alsof er niets is, dan is er ook niets. 

    In de volgende korte clip zie je aan het eind de beelden van het Capitool en de UFO die van links naar rechts door het beeld vliegt. 

     
    Maar, niet alleen in Amerika hebben ze bijzondere dingen, ook in ons land komen best spectaculaire dingen voor. En net zoals met bovenstaande nieuwsuitzending, zijn er maar heel weinig mensen die het echt zien. 

    Enkele maanden geleden publiceerden wij een paar UFO opnames van een dame die deze met de regelmaat van de klok waarneemt en filmt. 

    We hebben echter geen idee wie het is of zelfs waar die opnames worden gemaakt. Maar, ze verschijnen nog steeds zo goed als iedere dag en wat het ook is dat ze vastlegt, het is duidelijk dat het geen vliegtuigen of drones zijn. Alhoewel, op sommige dagen vliegen er ook wel eens vliegtuigen door het beeld, maar die zijn dan te herkennen aan de verlichting die ze voeren en het feit dat ze een bepaalde koers volgen. 

    Uit het patroon en de koers van de enkele vliegtuigen die langskomen is af te leiden dat ze niet ver van een vliegveld woont, want de toestellen die je zo af en toe waarneemt, lijken een pad en een koers te volgen die wijzen op een landing. 

    Op de meeste dagen zijn er echter geen vliegtuigen waar te nemen en het lijkt erop dat een soort afspraak heeft met die UFO’s. 

    Zoals de volgende die ze enkele dagen geleden heeft gemaakt: 

     

    Een andere aanwijzing dat er wellicht iets meer achter zit dan alleen maar “geluk” dat die objecten net opduiken op het moment dat zij staat te filmen, zie je in de titel van de volgende video, eveneens enkele dagen geleden opgenomen: “UFO´s vandaag mooi prachtig om te horen stem van alien op camera apart” 

    Het lijkt alsof zij één van die mensen is die bewust of onbewust contact hebben met bewoners van andere planeten/dimensies dan de onze en dat deze zich op bepaalde tijden aan haar laten zien en horen. 

     

    Vooralsnog blijft het een raadsel hoe iemand, ergens in Nederland, er in slaagt om dag na dag bijzondere opnames te maken van onbekende objecten in de lucht.

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    19-08-2017 om 14:54 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Nazis, Antarctica, and Bigfoot

    Nazis, Antarctica, and Bigfoot

    Nazis. Has there ever been a greater villain or evil force out there? Throughout history they have not only served to be the perpetrators of horrific acts, but also the target of numerous, countless conspiracy theories and strange tales. They really manage to fit whatever the creepy story calls for, and there are many such stories. Among the many are the rumors that the Nazis had a secretive, cover base in the cold depths of the continent of Antarctica, a tale which in itself has spread out to cover many facets of the weird. Yet there is one accounting particular that I feel is particularly surreal and odd. It is a harrowing and horrific tale of soldiers out in the frigid elements, fighting not only the landscape itself, but unknown entities dwelling within it. In short, it is the perfect story of Nazi bizarreness.

    Before beginning, it is first perhaps best to first understand a little of the history surrounding the legends of secret Nazi bases buried in Antarctica. The Nazis did indeed come to this bleak, remote wasteland of a continent, but officially only once. The expedition in question was carried out from December 1938 to April 1939, and involved a small contingent sent to Antarctica aboard the vessel Schwabenland. While this all sounds rather ominous, the expedition was mostly exploratory in nature, involving marine science, collection of specimens, surveying, mapping in the region, in particular the western part of Queen Maud Land, and it also had the intention of staking a claim to whaling rights in the region, which were being monopolized by Britain and Norway at the time. The expedition went about its work and left, with no real evidence that they ever even began to build any sort of permanent base there, and this was the only time they went to Antarctica at the time, with further planned expeditions apparently scrapped with the coming of World War II. The next time the Germans would ever set foot in Antarctica was with a Russian expedition in 1959. Officially anyway.

    Some of the original Nazi expedition to Antarctica

    Of course since this is the Nazis we are talking about here, conspiracies of a German Antarctic base were immediately flying around even at the time, with the facility being claimed to be a gathering place for German occultists, scientists, and various members of shadowy groups such as the Illuminati. Such tales were only fueled by cryptic alleged statements made by German naval admiral Karl Dönitz, who would go on to be president of Germany in the wake of Hitler’s death, who said that they had just such a base, claiming it was an “invulnerable fortress, a paradise-like oasis in the middle of eternal ice,” as well as alleged reports from Argentina in 1945 that a German U-boat had been captured there that was found to be responsible for ferrying Hitler and other high ranking officlas from Germany to Antarctica. From here the legends and myths of a Nazi Antarctic base really took off, and covered the full spectrum of wild conspiracy theories, with claims ranging from the Nazis experimenting with UFO technology, to discoveries of ancient civilizations, to alien lizard people living under the ice, to stashing stolen artwork there, to claims that Hitler had been whisked away to the base for his own protection rather than dying, to the idea that it was meant to be the launching point for a shadowy, sinister new world order.

    One of the events that really cemented the idea of a Nazi base in Antarctica into persistent lore was a very real operation called Operation Highjump, a 1947 American led military mission which was to be the largest scale expedition to the continent ever mounted, involving 4700 men, 33 aircraft, and 13 ships. The official reason for this massive operation was to train troops for fighting and test vehicles and equipment in extreme cold and icy conditions in case a war broke out with Russia in the Arctic, as well as to establish a U.S. presence in Antarctica to counter any Russian activity there. Of course, with such a large military expedition to the continent and rumors already swirling of a Nazi base there, it was not long at all before conspiracies were drawn to it like moths to a flame.

    The main idea behind these theories was that the U.S. actually went there to hunt down and destroy any remaining German troops stationed at their Antarctic base. Despite the fact that the Germans had already surrendered and the war was over, the Nazis were claimed to still be operating in secret in Antarctica, and it was thought that Operation Highjump was sent to wipe them out once and for all. The theory really takes a sharp right turn into weirdness with claims that the U.S. force met resistance from Germans utilizing “flying saucers” and other assorted alien weaponry, forcing the Americans to resort to annihilating them with nuclear bombs. Although there is no evidence at all that this ever happened, and despite the fact that not only was Operation Highjump carried out nowhere near anywhere the Germans had ever been to, but that none of the 11 journalists embedded with the operation made even the faintest reference to such an outlandish event, this conspiracy has remained stubbornly entrenched in the spooky lore. Only adding to the whole conspiracy was the persistent presence of British troops in Antarctica in the years after World War II, which were seen as there specifically to fight the remaining Nazis, often teaming up with the Americans to do so.

    Regardless of their many permutations, rumors of secret Nazi base in Antarctica refused to die, and only picked up speed in the years after the war, helped along by an array of rumors and hearsay. In a bizarre book in 1962 by an Albert Bender, called Flying Saucers and the Three Men, the former Air Force veteran claimed that he had been abducted by aliens and taken to a secret Antarctic base, which was populated by the descendants of the reptilian beings who had originally built the facility. These aliens told him that after World War II the Germans had also been there and that they had shared their technology with them. It is all very strange to be sure, but it and other stories like it served to spark far-out conspiracy theories even further.

    Stories of a Nazi base in Antarctica have continued right up to the present. Although they have consistently been debunked, they just refuse to go away. It is all bizarre to say the least, and there is certainly more to it than I have gone over here, but this is just a brief history, and the purpose of this article is not to focus merely on the idea of a Nazi Antarctic base but rather a damn strange story connected to the legend, which was originally published in Nexus Magazine, Vol. 12, #5; August-September 2005, and which involves Nazi bases in Antarctica, British SAS special forces, and Bigfoot.

    The story is related by a person who claims to have been an SAS officer, who states that in October of 1945 he was called to participate in a mission so secret that even his commanding officer had no idea what was really going on. After a stop at Gibraltar, he was then whisked away with a special unit to the Falkland Islands, during which time the troops were ordered to complete silence, forbidden from talking amongst themselves or speculating about why they were there. Upon arrival at the Falkland Islands, they then for one month engaged in intensive, grueling combat training in cold winter conditions and arctic warfare, under a Norwegian who had once served in the Norwegian Resistance.

    At the end of this hellish training regiment, the group was finally properly briefed on their true purpose, bing told that they had been recruited for a ultra top-secret mission to investigate anomalous activity reported at the time from a British base in Antarctica at Maudheim, in eastern Antarctica, as well as wipe out the supposed German base lying there deep under the ice, which was referred to as “Britain’s Secret War.” They were told about the secret German base located near the British Maudheim base, and briefed on the various German activities and movements in the region, as well as on the numerous German officials who had supposedly been sequestered away in the subterranean compound.

    Things steadily got weirder as the briefing continued. The group was told that the original scientists stationed at the base and their armed entourage had claimed that they had found a tunnel leading beneath the ice, followed by rantings over the radio talking of “Polar Men, ancient tunnels and Nazis,” but that shortly after this contact with the British base had then been lost after an ominous last transmission that allegedly proclaimed “The Polar Men have found us!” The special forces that were gathered there were told that they were first to investigate why radio contact had been lost with the base and who the “Polar Men” were, which all sounded like a rather spooky proposition that no one present felt comfortable about. They were also told that great pains were being taken to make sure that the Americans and the Russians did not get wind of the existence of a Nazi base in Antarctica. The unit was then flown over the icy, bleak landscape of Antarctica to a remote drop-off point located around 20 miles from the British Maudheim Base, all under complete radio silence. Once on the ground, they were on their own, the only assistance provided being some snow tractors left for them to use. They then stalked their way through the icy, inhospitable terrain, ever wary of an enemy attack, until they reached the supposed entrance to the abandoned base. Although they expected the place to be bristling with activity, it was found to be oddly silent, even devoid of life. The witness would described what happened then thus:

    Instantly, our suspicions were roused, but, just like all the previous campaigns I had fought during the War, we had a job to do and so our personal fears could not shroud our judgement. As we split up to search the base, a trip wire was detonated and a siren sounded, destroying the silence and startling the whole force.  A shout was soon heard, demanding us to identify ourselves, but the voice could not be targeted.  With our guns raised the Major introduced us to the voice, and then, thankfully, the voice was given a body.  The voice belonged to a lone survivor, and what he divulged made us more anxious and had us wishing that there were more troops amongst our ranks.

    What this lone survivor told them was that there was another survivor in “Bunker One,” where he was trapped within with one of the beastly “Polar Men” they had heard about. The unit decided to try and make their way to this Bunker One and try to open it, much to the objections of the survivor they had found. They warily approached the door to the isolated bunker, wondering what sort of horrors might lie within, and argued amongst themselves over who would be the first one to enter. The witness would say of what transpired next:

    Fortunately, I was not selected to enter; that honour was bestowed on the youngest member of our unit.  He proceeded inside, hesitating slightly as he struggled with the door. Once inside, a silence descended across the base, followed moments later by two gunshots. The door was opened and the Polar Man dashed to freedom. None of us was expecting what we saw, and the Polar Man had fled into the surrounding terrain so quick that only a few token shots were fired. Out of fear and awe at what we had seen, we all decided to go into the bunker.  Go in we did, and two bodies were found.  The soldier who had pulled the short straw was found with his throat ripped out, and, more heinous, the survivor had been stripped to the bones.

    The death of one of their own so soon after arrival unsettled and angered the unit, and they relentlessly grilled the survivor they had found for more answers. They asked him why the dead man they had found had been stuck in the bunker in the first place, and the frightened survivor chose to tell the tale from the beginning. It turned out that the area they were in was one of Antarctica’s “dry valleys,” devoid of ice and snow, which had facilitated the discovery of the “ancient tunnel.” After that, personnel were sent to see where the tunnel led, and it turned out to stretch for miles underground before ending in a vast cavern which was supposedly warmed considerable, perhaps by geothermal action.

    The deeper the expedition had gone into the cavern, the more discoveries they had made. It seemed that the Nazis had been there, as they had set up artificial lighting and built hangars and docks for U-boats in the subterranean lakes that were found strewn about, as well as inscrutable excavations down in the dark with unknown purposes. Some Nazis had apparently still been roving about, as they proceeded to capture and kill several of the survivor’s expedition. The remaining expedition members fled and tried to block the tunnel, and this was when the Polar Men had descended upon them, generating that eerie last message. The creatures in question were described as being heavily built, hairy creatures with a mix of ape and human features and possessing supernatural strength and speed.

    The unit managed to retreat and make their way back to their base, but they had then split up into separate bunkers. One of these survivors had then managed to lure one of the Polar Men into his bunker and lock it in, which had later led to his death and the destruction of his radio gear. The stammering survivor then cryptically told the SAS unit that these Polar Men were the result of Nazi experimentation, although no further details were forthcoming. This revelation was immediately shot down by the unit’s scientist as hogwash, but the others gave it weight and wanted to know what the “Polar Men” wanted, which was meant with the sinister response of to “wait, watch and wonder just how different we taste.” With this alarming revelation, a guard detail was allegedly set up to keep watch, and the next day they were ordered to investigate the tunnel for themselves. They made their way to the entrance in the dry valley which the survivor had told them about, and the witness would say:

    Upon arriving in the dry valley we were all amazed, for we had been told that Antarctica was completely ice-bound and yet here we were in a valley that reminded me of being back in the North African Sahara.  We were forbidden from even approaching the tunnel until the temporary base camp had been erected; and whilst the men constructed the base, the scientist and Major investigated the tunnel.

    After a few hours, they returned to the now complete camp to chronicle what they had seen and what our next plan of action was to be.  The tunnel was not an ancient passageway at all, claimed the scientist, although the Major added that the walls were made of smooth granite and looked infinite.  We were informed that we would be able to make our own minds up after we had rested for the night.

    Unfortunately, that night these strange creatures would come to them in the darkness, and one of them was apparently shot and killed when it ventured too close. The team scientist ascertained that the thing was some sort of hairy, cold adapted human, and the corpse was purportedly put on ice for further later study. When morning arrived, the Major and the survivor went on into the tunnel with a small contingent of men as the others waited behind to guard against further attacks and keep the mysterious corpse safe. They eventually reached the cavern the survivor had spoken of, which was artificially lit just as described, and they had to be careful to stay in the shadows and hide from the various Nazi forces that were buzzing about as they slowly went about laying mines and explosives. The unit was apparently spotted and pursued by both Nazi soldiers and the ape-like Polar Men, and the witness would describe the next part of the tale thus:

    Upon reaching the tunnel, we needed to put an obstacle in the way to slow down our enemy long enough for the mines to detonate.  Some mines were placed at the entrance to the tunnel, and when the explosions were heard we were hopeful that not just the base had been comprehensively destroyed but so, too, the enemy forces giving chase.  We were wrong. The mines did indeed close the tunnel, but, for those Nazis and Polar Men behind, the chase was still on.  In a fighting retreat, only three of the 10 escaped the tunnel:  the Norwegian, the scientist and myself.  The rest had fallen gallantly in making sure that some of the party survived.

    The unit supposedly managed to escape to the entrance of the tunnel and close it for good with explosives, leaving little evidence that it had ever been there at all. The unit was subsequently disbanded and sent their own ways, after being told that they were strictly forbidden from ever discussing what they had seen. The team’s scientist would go on to try and explain it all away, saying that the Polar Men had merely been “unkept, insane soldiers,” but the rest of the group knew better. The mission in the meantime was swept under the rug and never made official.

    It is all a very dramatic report and full of quite cinematic imagery, but it was truly reported as happening in just this way, and I have not embellished it at all. I have  to say it is one of the more far-out accounts I have ever seen, and you can read a fuller transcription of this account here. It could be a completely fabricated story or just another of the many, many outlandish Nazi tales out there, but it certainly is quite an entertaining read. Make of it what you will. As ridiculous as this report may sound, it serves to add yet another twisted, very odd tale to the pile of Nazi lore out there already. Nazis just have a way of drawing such tales to them, and they have made the perfect villains and conspiracy targets for decades. Among all of the weird tales and conspiracies, I would have to say captive Bigfoot-like creatures at a secret base in Antarctica has to rank up there on the meter of the bizarre.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.MASSIVE CLOUD TSUNAMI STUNS COAST OF SYDNEY

    MASSIVE CLOUD TSUNAMI STUNS COAST OF SYDNEY

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    An ominous “cloud tsunami” rolls in along the coast of Sydney, Australia, on Friday, signaling the coming of severe storms for the area.

    The massive formation, actually called a shelf cloud, stunned Australians, with a flurry of photos hitting social media.

    The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area with possible threats of large hail storms, heavy rains and forceful winds.

    Powerful thunderstorms hit parts of Australia throughout the past week.  

    Meanwhile, New Yorkers and their neighbors enjoyed an unseasonably warm day on Friday, with record highs in the Big Apple, as well as in Connecticut.

    The National Weather Service reported temps of up to 75 degrees in New York City, a high for Nov. 6 ( via nypost.com ).

     Nick Moir

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    MENACING-LOOKING CLOUD STUNS BRAZILIAN TOWN 

    At first look the obscure cloud resembles a meteorite trail or tornado, frozen in time, seconds before the impending doom. At second glance,it looks more like a freaky cloud formation.

    João Paulo Magalhães captured the cloud in all its glory at 5pm in the city of Teixeira de Freitas, in the extreme south of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

    Magalhães said while the “very unusual” cloud remained only about four minutes, people were worried it would form a tornado.

    “It really looked like the entrance to a meteorite or something,” he said.

    Other residents posted pictures of the freaky phenomenon, some calling it the “work of God”.  

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    UFOs hidden in clouds - Flying Saucer emerging from cloud formation

    Many people throughout the world have captured images of strange looking UFO-shaped clouds. 

    The impressive thing is that, while in most cases the weird phenomenon can be explained as ordinary clouds, there are special clouds that seemed to be made artificially.


    UFO-hunters are convinced that UFO’s are hidden inside these special cloud formations to monitor us.

    The video below is an interesting compilation of UFO’s who have camouflaged their self inside unnatural looking cloud formations, including a flying saucer emerging from a cloud.
      

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA: “We’re Going to Try and Make Oxygen From the Atmosphere on Mars”

    NASA: “We’re Going to Try and Make Oxygen From the Atmosphere on Mars”

     
    IN BRIEF
    For any Mars exploration plans, surviving on the Red Planet is as important as getting there. This is why NASA is looking forward to its Mars 2020 Rover mission, which would include a test for making oxygen on the Red Planet's surface.

    SMALL STEPS FOR MAN

    Getting to Mars is the biggest space project this generation will ever see, that is until we actually land people on the red planet. Such a bold endeavor has a cornucopia of nitty-gritty details to iron out, in one way or another, before proceeding with a manned mission. The most obvious is the need to build rockets and spacecraft able to ferry probes and people. For NASA’s mission to Mars, this also entails the construction of a lunar space station that’ll serve as a jump-off point to the rest of the solar system.

    Speaking to Futurism after the successful launch of SpaceX’s CRS-12 mission on Monday, NASA Acting Chief Administrator Robert Lightfoot, Jr. explained how getting to Mars requires small, incremental steps. “When you look at our plans today [for getting to Mars], we use the International Space Station as much as we can…for example, our life support systems, we test them up there.” He added that the Moon would be the next logical step in this process.

    But getting to Mars and surviving there are two disparate yet equally important aspects of the same mission. “We try and make sure that, when we do a science mission or a human spaceflight mission, that we have a cross between the science and the human exploration,” Lightfoot explained.

    MAKING LIFE POSSIBLE

    Now no one wants to fly to Mars, land on the ground, yawp “I did it!”, turn around and head home. Space exploration is more than symbolic pretense. We want to stay on Mars and install a colony. Of course, the eventual plan is to terraform Mars, but that could take thousands of years to accomplish — if it’s at all possible. So, in Lightfoot’s mind, we ought to start small, and there’s nothing more basic for survival on Mars (or anywhere) than having a secure source of air to breathe. “The next lander that is going to Mars, Mars 2020, has an experiment where we are going to try and actually generate oxygen out of the atmosphere on Mars, clearly that’s for human capability down the road,” Lightfoot said.

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    The Mars 2020 Rover.
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    What we know is that the Red Planet’s atmosphere is thinner than Earths, with some 95.32 percent carbon dioxide, 2.7 percent nitrogen, 1.6 percent argon, and about 0.13 oxygen, plus a bunch of other elements in even smaller amounts. By contrast, the Earth’s atmosphere has 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen. Water won’t be much of a problem, though.

    Is it possible to make oxygen from Mar’s atmosphere?  NASA’s had plans for this since 2014, when it first revealed the Mars 2020 Rover. It involves bringing some microbial life to Mars, perhaps bacteria or algae, that would would use Martian soil as fuel and then pump out oxygen as a product. The oxygen could then be harnessed and made available for breathing and also to make rocket fuel for return flights to Earth.

    It may sound like science fiction right now, but lab experiments have shown that it’s possible. That’s why the Mars 2020 Rover mission is crucial. Other efforts to make Mars habitable include plans of building a magnetic shield around the planet, similar to Earth’s, building a nuclear reactor, as well as growing potatoes like in Matt Damon in The Martian.

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    The Most Mind-Bogglingly Weird Alien Encounters

    Accounts of close encounters of the third kind, in which human beings are directly confronted with alleged beings from another world, are by nature already quite bizarre and otherworldly enough as it is. There is no denying that this is an area that has pushed out and stretched against the boundaries of the strange and then some, yet there are some cases among these that truly rocket out into the outer fringes of the surreal and the deeply weird. From space goblins to floating brains, to amorphous blobs from beyond and spacemen that can fit in the palm of your hand, here we will look at the strangest of the strange when it comes to supposed contact with aliens from another world.
    One of the earlier, weirdest, and indeed more famous of accounts that seem almost too bizarre to possibly be true is the infamous case of what have become known as the the Hopskinsville Goblins. The story begins at a remote, rural farmhouse in the wilds of Christian County, Kentucky, on Old Madisonville Road near the town of Hopkinsville on the night of August 21, 1955. On this quiet evening the Sutton family had a guest over by the name of Billy Ray Taylor, as well as his wife, June, and at at some point Taylor went outside to get some water from the well at around sundown. As he made his way to the well, he allegedly saw a bizarre sight in the air above, which looked like a streaking light that was spewing multicolored sparks and flames all over the place. The light passed overhead and then seemed to drop down into a nearby gully around 300 yards away, after which the humid night was infused with an eldritch glow, and the startled Taylor ran back to the safety of the house.

    Once inside, he excitedly told everyone about what he had just seen, but at the time no one really believed him and they thought he was just messing around, despite his obvious fear and insistence that he had really seen it. However skeptical the rest of the family was, they would soon have a change of heart when the dog began to start barking wildly at some unseen trespasser outside in dark. Looking outside it was noticed that what was at first thought to be just a faint light that was seemingly bobbing about and approaching the house, and as it drew closer it was found to be one of the strangest looking creatures anyone present had ever seen or even imagined.

    There hovering in the air was a small glowing humanoid figure around 3-feet in height wearing a metallic suit of some sort. It was described as having greenish skin, bulging eyes, and an oversized bald head with bat-like ears and a large, lipless mouth that stretched between them. The body was thin, and its arms were long, tapered and spider-like, tipped with what looked like talons. The frightened Suttons quickly did the human thing, gathering up a rifle and shotgun as the thing hovered around outside, and when it was close enough they fired upon it. Although they thought they had hit it, the creature merely flipped over and retreated into the shadows. Shortly after this, the head of another, either the same creature or another, peeked in through one of the windows, prompting another volley of fire that once again failed to do any noticeable damage to whatever it was, merely blowing out the window in a spray of shards of glass as the strange monster ran off.

    Curious as to whether they had hurt the thing or not, Taylor and the Sutton father, John Charley Sutton, warily crept outside, guns at the ready, and took a furtive glance around. At first there was nothing, but then Taylor let out a scream as a clawed hand purportedly reached down from the eve of the back door and grabbed at his head, managing to gain a fistful of hair as Sutton dragged his friend back inside and slammed the door. The oldest Sutton son, 24-year-old Lucky Sutton, then opened the door to take a potshot at the roof with his shotgun, after which the creature floated down to the ground, apparently unhurt, and scampered off.

    As bizarre and terrifying as this all was, there soon appeared other entities similar in appearance to the original one they had seen out in the night, and it became apparent that they were under siege by a whole group of the creatures, an estimated 10 to 15 of them. For the next three hours the sounds of the rural Kentucky night were punctuated by the staccato blare of gunfire as the mysterious floating monsters made passes at the house as the family cowered within and took shots at them. For the most part the bullets whizzing out into the murk either failed to hit their mark or were ineffectual, with the few that did hit occasionally letting out metallic pings, like “a coin hitting a metal bucket,” as if the creatures were made of steel. All of this happened against the backdrop of a faint green haze glowing from somewhere in the distance, perhaps the location where the “spaceship” had gone down in the gully.

    Since the home had no phone service, the family were at the mercy of the monsters lurking outside, unable to call anyone for help and slowly running out of ammunition. At some point the activity died down, and the creatures’ relentless, seemingly aggressive yet ultimately inscrutable passes at the house ceased. Seeing this as a chance to get out of there, the family and their guests piled into their cars and sped away towards town, where they promptly informed rather bemused police of what had happened to them. As skeptical as they were, officers nevertheless made their way out to the farm to take a look, but found no sign of the reported “goblin” creatures other than the damage inflicted by all of the gunfire. In some accounts, Air Force personnel also came to the farm to investigate the strange occurrence, although it is unclear if they found anything of note.

    The police left without incident and the family returned to their home, but soon after a second attack would occur, as glowing faces began to bloom out of the darkness once again, much to their horror. Once again the bizarre beasts came at the farmhouse, floating about, popping up to peer into windows, and scurrying around on the roof as the family once again opened fire, and this went on until dawn, when whatever the strange intruders were stalked off and this time did not return. From the very following day the dramatic, spooky encounter was splashed all over newspapers of the area, fanning out to become national news as reporters and the curious converged upon the farm. Faced with reporters and monster hunters camping out on their property hoping to see the creatures for themselves and the relentless, never-ending media attention focused on them, the family sold their farm and moved off.

    It seems like something out of a horror movie, just so incredibly dramatic and bizarre in nature, and it has remained one of the oddest UFO accounts ever. To this day, the Hopkinsville Goblin incident has been picked apart and written of countless times, and has become one of the weirdest and most well-known alien encounters out there. What happened to these people and what was it that came down to seemingly attack them? What did these things want? Were they ever even real at all? If they were, then whatever they were, one things seems clear; they certainly seemed to have not received the warmest welcome to Earth.

    Other such inexplicably bizarre alien encounter reports were made throughout the 1950s as well. In 1957, a retired teacher named Mary Starr allegedly woke up in the middle of the night in her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in the U.S., to see a piercingly bright light outside of her bedroom window. The object was described as floating over her yard, and seemed to be a large craft of some type with rectangular windows on its sides. Fascinated by what she was seeing, Starr then supposedly gazed into one of the windows and could see two decidedly bizarre entities moving about within, which were about 4-feet tall. According to the witness, they had translucent cubes for heads holding within them bright red cores, rubbery bodies that were like “skirts,” and handless appendages akin to tentacles. After a moment of observing the outlandish beings, the windows then apparently vanished as if they had never been there, and an antenna or protrusion of some sort came out of the craft, after which the whole thing began to glow before silently shooting straight up into the night sky.

    The following year, in 1958, there was a weird account from Sweden, in which witnesses Stig Rydberg and Hans Gustafsson claimed to have been driving along a remote road through a thick fog at around 3 AM when they spotted a UFO measuring around 12 feet across and ringed by four “jelly bags” that were blue in color and which jumped wildly about through the air around the main craft. As the two men stopped their car to look on at the unusual sight, the four entities then reportedly descended and attacked them, demonstrating some sort of suction power with which they grabbed the witnesses and began pulling them up to the craft. The two horrified witnesses claimed that they had tried to struggle to get away, but that their arms and legs merely sank into bodies composed of gelatinous ooze that smelled like “ether and burnt sausage.” Somehow Rydberg managed to squirm free, after which he laid on the car horn and this apparently startled the creatures enough for them to drop the other man and retreat into their ship to take off into the night at astronomical speeds. The two men would say that they felt sick for days after the encounter with the “space blobs.”

    The 1970s really brought a wealth of such incredibly bizarre apparent alien encounters, and some of the best can be found in this era. On August 19, 1970 there was a curious encounter in the country of Malaysia. On this day, six children were apparently playing in a forested area when a tiny UFO measuring around 3 feet across came down to land in a clearing, after which five miniature, 3-inch tall humanoids descended out of the vehicle wearing odd blue spacesuits and one in a yellow helmet adorned with spikes. The diminutive beings then marched over to a tree and seemed to be busying themselves with installing some sort of mechanical device to a tree. One of the kids apparently went over and tried to grab one of the little creatures, and it promptly shot at him with a “ray gun,” injuring his thigh. Interestingly, there have been many other such sightings of mini UFOs and humanoid beings in Malaysia as well, with the witnesses typically being children.

    The following year, on August 17, 1971, there was a perhaps even stranger alien encounter from Palos Verdes, California. Witnesses John Hodges and Pete Rodriguez were allegedly headed to their car at 2 AM when they saw off through the trees a faint, mysterious glow emanating from beyond. They got into their car, switched on the headlights, and their suspended in the beams of light from their vehicle were what were described as two large, blueish entities that looked just like disembodied human brains, hovering right in the middle of the road and surrounded by clouds of vapor that seemed to cling to them. The larger one of the “brains” was described as having a prominent red eye set within it, and this is the one that began to move towards the vehicle for purposes unknown.

    The two terrified men understandably got out of there as fast as they possibly could, and it was later noticed that they had 2 hours of missing time. In 1976, Hodges would undergo hypnotic regression after years of being plagued by nightmares and wondering what had happened to them out on that lonely road. Under hypnosis, Hodges revealed that he had dropped Rodriquez off at home and arrived at his own house to find the larger brain waiting for him there, which had then telepathically spoken to him. He claimed that he had then been taken into the brains’ ship to some sort of “control room,” where it was revealed that they were merely telepathic tools being used by other aliens, this time more akin to the “grey” aliens typically described in more mainstream reports, although in this case they stood over 7-feet tall.

    These master aliens then apparently showed Hodges various images of nuclear war and destruction as they explained that the human race had grown too powerful for its own good. He was also shown another planet that had been completely destroyed by another race that had met the same fate, and was admonished that humankind would be the “instruments of their own fate,” telling him, “Take the time to understand yourselves. The time draws near when you shall need to!” Hodges then says that he felt a potent buzzing sensation in the back of his head and found himself back in his own car. In the years after, he became convinced that these aliens had implanted him with what he called a “translator cell,” and that he received frequent telepathic communications from them through this device, in which they made dire predictions such as an apocalyptic war in the Middle East and the future widespread use of nuclear weapons. Whether you think this story and its “space brains” has any truth to it at all or not, you have to admit it is a damn strange tale all the same.

    Also quite unusual is the encounter reported by Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, who on October 11, 1973, were fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. As they cast their lines out they suddenly began to hear a series of strange hissing, whirring noises coming from behind them. When they turned around to look, they apparently came face to face with an egg-shaped spacecraft hovering over the river not far away, and a door then opened to regurgitate forth baffling creatures that really defy any easy classification. There standing in the doorway of the craft were three 6-foot tall beings with grey leathery, wrinkled skin and thin, carrot-like protrusions jutting out of their heads. The hands and feet were said to be fused into pinchers, and the eyes and mouths were just slits.

    Just as they were reeling from the shock of seeing such a thing, the men realized that they had been somehow paralyzed by an unseen force, which kept them glued to where they were. Stuck as they were, the two witnesses made easy pickings for the bizarre aliens, who plucked them up and dragged them aboard their unearthly vessel. Hickson would later claim that he was brought aboard the ship and brought to a room with a blinding light, in which he was subjected to an examination by an oval shaped robotic probe of some sort. After around 20 minutes, the two were deposited back onto the bank of the river and the mysterious craft floated off. Hickson then claimed that he had found Parker on the riverbank as well in a rather disheveled state, crying and praying to God.

    The two went back to their car and sat there in shock for an undetermined amount of time, before heading home. They would later contact the Kessler Air Force Base and the local sheriff with their bizarre tale, which went about as well as you would expect. No one really took the eyebrow-raising story seriously, but the whole case inevitably became splashed about local newspapers soon after. Hickson in particular went on to entertain questions on the matter and even help publish a book about the whole incident called UFO Contact at Pascagoula, while Parker ducked out of the limelight, and eventually moved out of state to avoid the constant media attention. For is part, Parker claimed that he had passed out at the beginning of the ordeal and only come to after it was over, only recalling bits and pieces under hypnosis.

    The case was picked apart by some of the most eminent UFO researchers at the time, who for the most part agreed that the men at least really believed that what they had seen was real. The case of the Pascagoula aliens has since been met with a good amount of skepticism. It has been called everything from a shared hallucination to a flat-out lie, which has only been made more complicated by the fact that Hickson’s account only seemed to get more and more bizarre and complex as time went on. It has been suggested that they had a shared imaginary experience, that they were drinking, or even that they were just tripping balls on LSD at the time, but no one really knows what happened except the two witnesses themselves.

    Moving on into 1977, there is the weird account of 19-year-old Lee Parish, who on January 27, 1977, claimed that he spied a rectangular UFO hovering in the sky before he was whisked into the air by a beam of light while driving home. He then found himself upon some sort of spacecraft, where he was presented to three very bizarre beings. One of the entities was described as being like a black “tombstone” 20-feet high, with a robotic arm extending from its front. Another of the things was smaller and looked like a red prism of some kind, while yet another was 6-feet tall and described as being a motionless white prism with two robotic arms and a “wedge-like” head, which produced strange noises like teeth being brushed.

    At the time, Lee had the strong feeling that the white one was the leader, although he did not know why he had this impression. During the encounter, the red one was seen as the most anxious, seemingly afraid of their human guest and hiding behind the others, although it did at one point extend a robotic looking arm to try and touch him, which produced a vague, unsettling sensation of coldness and pain. Eventually, the three beings lined up and seemed to merge together, after which Lee felt a warmth permeate his body and soon found himself back in his vehicle, along with 38 minutes of missing time. It is all rather odd to say the least.

    Moving on to 1977 we come to Paciencia, Brazil, where 33-year-old bus driver Antonia La Rubia was allegedly walking to work when he spied a rather strange object shaped like an “enormous wide hat” sitting in a field  Soon after he noticed the mysterious craft, it lashed out with a thin, bright beam of light, which caught La Rubia and whisked him away to a room of pure white. Within this room were various mechanical-looking beings with bright scales and arms like tentacles, as well as egg-shaped bodies and heads adorned with what appeared to be antenna. Instead of legs, the strange creatures reportedly sat upon rigid pedestals of some sort.

    After this initial meeting, the frightened La Rubia claims that he shouted at the creatures, which seemed to have the effect of making them cower in fear. He lost consciousness again, and when he awoke he says that he was now subjected to a series of images projected onto the wall, including various surreal scenes such as a dog being melted and a train entering a tunnel, the meaning of which could not be discerned. At one point during this screening of oddities and grotesqueries one of the robot beings apparently reached out to draw blood from one of La Rubia’s fingers, after which it splashed it across a wall to form a pattern of three circles and an “L” shape. At this point, La Rubia claims he lost consciousness once more, and when he awoke he was purportedly back in his car, vomiting and dizzy from the whole puzzling ordeal.

    In Italy the following year there was the case of Pier Zanfretta, of Italy. On December 6, 1978, Zanfetta was working as a security guard doing his rounds when he apparently saw four bright lights approaching him. He went out to investigate with pistol drawn and saw that the source of the lights were reptilian being standing 10-feet tall, with green, saggy looking skin, heads adorned with spines, and in place of a mouth a strange breathing apparatus. Upon noticing him, these entities purportedly shot out some sort of heat beam, which sent Zanfretta running in terror. He would later be found by another security detail passed out on the ground. When the area was checked there were found to be a series of large footprints imprinted into the ground and scorched branches in the trees, lending some credence to the dramatic story the witness would weave.

    Zanfretta would go on to outline several more encounters with the lizard-like beings, in which he would be brought aboard their spacecraft and experimented upon. They would also introduce themselves as beings from the planet “Teetonia.” During his last visitation in December of 1980, the aliens supposedly brought him to a mothership fashioned of a crystalline substance and shown aliens resembling frogs which were being held captive in tube-like structures and which the reptile aliens claimed were an enemy species. Other captured alien specimens in the menagerie aboard the ship were shown as well, including bird-like creatures, tiny reptilian saurian beasts, and some sort of troglodyte that looked somewhat like “a caveman.”

    These are just some of the weirdest reports of alien encounters I have come across, and there are certainly others as well. What are we to make of such cases? These are creatures that do not fit at all into the traditional reports of UFO occupants, and one wonders just what this could all mean. Are these different species or races? Something from another dimension? Are they shapeshifters that just take whatever form they want, regardless of how outlandish? Or are these just the result of hallucinations, psychosis, hoaxes, tall tales, or just the effects of drugs and alcohol? Whatever the answer to these questions may be, such insanely bizarre reports certainly add color to the already colorful world of close encounters, and hint that this is a phenomenon that is perhaps even stranger and more inscrutable than anyone can guess.

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    Will truth about aliens soon be known? UFO sightings TRIPLE in just 16 years

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    THE number of reported UFO sightings across the United States has more than tripled since 2001, it has emerged.

    The statistics are compiled in a new book written using the databases of two of the world's biggest organisations dedicated to logging UFO and alien reportings and encounters across the globe.

    UFO Sightings Desk Reference,” written by Cheryl Costa, 65, and wife, Linda Miller Costa, 62, from Syracuse, New York, used 121,036 eyewitness accounts across the states recorded separately by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) between 2001 and 2015 to chart the increase.
    The book looks at the timing and location of incidents and types of UFOs seen which include flying circles, spheres, triangles, discs, ovals, and cigars.
    According to Cheryl, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and Linda, a librarian at Le Moyne College and a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency, MUFON and NUFORC decided most sightings were explainable, but a small amount can still not be explained.
    The key findings from the book were that overall numbers of UFO sightings more than tripled by 2015, from their average levels in 2001.

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    Methane May Explain How Ancient Mars Had Liquid Water

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    Harvard scientists have suggested that methane on ancient Mars may explain why it was once warm enough to support liquid water on its surface. The findings are published in Geophysical Research Letters.

    What made Mars warmer in its history is a bit of a mystery. Previous theories have leaned towards carbon dioxide, which, as we know from Earth, is a decent greenhouse gas. But even though CO2 makes up 95 percent of the thin Martian atmosphere today, it can’t account for a much thicker atmosphere necessary to support significantly warmer temperatures in the past.

    So, the team modeled how methane might behave in the atmosphere of Mars billions of years ago, when the Sun was 30 percent fainter than it is today (known as the faint young Sun paradox). Various geological processes are thought to have been releasing much more methane into the atmosphere back then than today.

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    This methane would have been slowly converted to hydrogen and other gases, a process that is sort of happening on Saturn’s moon Titan today. When the effects of methane, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide were combined, the team found they did a better job at warming early Mars than carbon dioxide alone by trapping incoming solar radiation.

    “This research shows that the warming effects of both methane and hydrogen have been underestimated by a significant amount,” said Robin Wordsworth from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in a statement.

    In 1977, the late astronomer Carl Sagan suggested Mars could have been warmed by hydrogen in its past. But this is the first time we’ve got a good estimate of the effect it might have had, alongside methane.

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    And we might get a better insight into methane on Mars soon, too. ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is currently in orbit around the Red Planet, with the goal of working out where the methane in the Martian atmosphere is coming from. And this may have implications for life existing on other planets.

    “Early Mars is unique in the sense that it’s the one planetary environment, outside Earth, where we can say with confidence that there were at least episodic periods where life could have flourished,” said Wordsworth. “If we understand how early Mars operated, it could tell us something about the potential for finding life on other planets outside the Solar System.”

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    50 Years Ago, a Small Town Ohio Policeman Chased a Flying Saucer Into Pennsylvania… And It Ruined His Life

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    We met at Mike’s Place, the greasy spoon near Kent State with the X-Wing parked out front. It seemed appropriate – it was fifty years ago, this week, that James Evans’ father chased some kind of spacecraft into Pennsylvania. They seated us inside the converted school bus near the back of the place. He ordered biscuits and gravy and told me about what his old man saw, back in 1966.

    “He didn’t like to talk about it,” James said. “And when he would, he always said, ‘I wished I’d never seen it.’”

    James Evans, Dale Spaur’s son

    Dale Spaur was a deputy Sheriff for Portage County in 1966. Big dude – 6’7”. Wicked sense of humor. Former gunner on a B-51 in the Korean War. He was known on the force for having a bit of a lead foot, reprimanded for taking turns too fast in his cruiser on Main Street in Ravenna. He worked the night shift with his partner, Wilbur Neff, known as “Barney” to friends. Spaur was a good cop with a good family – a wife and two boys at home. But everything changed the morning of April 17, 1966.

    Spaur and Neff were called out to an abandoned vehicle on the side of State Route

    224, near the town of Atwater, at about 5 a.m. It was an isolated stretch of country road, lined with trees. 

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    They got out of their cruiser to investigate and that’s when Spaur spotted a glowing craft rising out of the woods. It reached treetop level and then began to move toward them, according to an article that appeared in the Record-Courier the following day. It was shaped sort of like an ice cream cone tipped on its side, a little pointed end sticking up in the back, and it made a sound like “an over-loaded transformer.” When it came close, they could feel the heat baking off of it. Slowly, it started east, down 224.

    The two deputies returned to their cruiser and radioed in to dispatch. The sergeant on duty told them to follow it. The chase was on.

    The faster Spaur pursued in his cruiser, the faster the object accelerated. Soon they were speeding east down old Route 14 into the rising sun, the odometer edging past 100 mph. Occasionally they’d have to stop for lights or traffic, though, and when they did the craft slowed down, too, like it was playing a game of “cat-and-mouse,” Spaur would later explain.

    Along the way, Spaur and Neff were joined by East Palestine police officer, Wayne Huston, who followed in his own car. They chased the UFO all the way into Pennsylvania, where Spaur was finally forced to stop for gas. Another cop – Frank Panzanella – was already waiting at the service station. The four officers watched the UFO dart straight up into the sky and disappear.

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    By the time Spaur made it home, the local newspapers had the story.  The national news picked it up and within three days, they were getting calls from Japan. At the station, Spaur and Neff were ridiculed. Neff took it in stride but it really got to Spaur, who lost twenty pounds from the stress of it all. Then men from Project Blue Book – the military’s Cold War UFO-investigation department – arrived. After interviewing everyone, they determined that the object the four police officers saw that morning was the planet Venus refracted through fog.

    By all accounts, Spaur suffered an emotional breakdown after this. Within six months, he’d lost his job. His wife left with the children. In October, a Plain Dealer reporter found him living out of a motel, subsisting on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. “Thirty-four years old and what do I have? Nothing,” he said. “Who knows me? To everyone, I’m Dale Spaur, the nut who chased a flying saucer.”

    James didn’t know who his real father was until he was thirteen – after the divorce, his mother remarried and James was adopted by his stepfather. He was watching Good Morning America with his older brother, Dale Jr., when a tall man was invited on the program to talk about flying saucers.

    “My mother came in and said, ‘That’s your dad.’” The boys wanted to meet him so Daneise called the television station and the show’s producers passed along her message. Two weeks later, Dale Spaur pulled into the driveway in a big pickup truck. “I remember watching him get out,” said James. “It was like he unfolded out of the truck when he stepped out, he was so big.” During his visit, he told his boys about his adventures since leaving Portage County.

    Spaur

    It had taken time, but Spaur had finally gotten his life back together. Not long after that reporter found him at the motel, Dale moved to West Virginia, where he worked in the mines. He had a terrible accident there, falling seventy feet down a shaft, breaking his back. He lay in a coma in the hospital for several days, eyes wide open but completely out of it. “A nurse was supposed to sit with him the whole time,” said James. “But she only lasted a couple hours. I guess she came running out of the room, screaming, ‘This man is possessed by an alien!’”

    When he recovered, Spaur moved back to Ohio and settled in Rocky River. He remarried, opened a bar called the Avenue at West 65th and Detroit Road in Cleveland, and on rare occasions told stories about the UFO he called “Floyd,” which he claimed visited him sometimes when nobody else was around.

    Later, he did a little consulting for Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but walked off set in a huff after he found out the main character was not a cop, said James. The film opens with a police officer chasing a UFO shaped kind of like an ice cream cone on its side.

    Spaur died on April 4th, 1983, never recovering from severe pneumonia after catching the flu. James remembers an endless stream of people he’d never seen before at his father’s funeral. He never knew his father had so many friends.
    “I look up and five Eskimos are standing there. Where did they come from? How did they know my father?”

    I asked James what he thinks after all these years. What did his father see in the skies above Portage County fifty years ago?

    extra-terrestrial

    “He believed what he saw was extra-terrestrial,” said James. “I believe him. Nothing we made could fly like that. In Pennsylvania, it hovered over his car. He could feel the heat coming off it. Then it went straight up and disappeared. Poof. Gone! And remember, my father served in the Air Force. You couldn’t put a bird up there he doesn’t recognize.”

    If there’s definitive proof, the military has it. Spaur and Neff kept a camera in the cruiser. They took dozens of photographs. But when Blue Book came to town, the G-men confiscated the negatives. They have never been released.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Did Fox News catch a UFO buzzing the U.S. Capital?

    Did Fox News catch a UFO buzzing the U.S. Capital?

    A video was submitted to a UFO investigation organization showing something zipping in front of the camera during a shot of the U.S. capital building on Fox News.

    The video was submitted earlier today to the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) UFO reporting database. The witness did not have much to say. The report simply says, verbatim: “It flew infront of the capital building while I was watching Fox News.”

    video and a screenshot from the video were also included. The witness did indicate the sighting took place in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, presumably the city where the witness lives.

    Screenshot of video provided by the witness. (Credit: MUFON)

    Screenshot of video provided by the witness.

    (Credit: MUFON)

    In the video, the object appears to be cylindrical and shiny. It moves quickly and steadily from the bottom left of the screen to the upper right. The shape of the object might not indicate the true shape and size of whatever passed in from of the camera. The object was likely close to the camera, making it seem very large. Since it was moving so quickly, the object’s shape could also appear more elongated than it actually is.

    Closeup of object in video.

    Closeup of object in video.

    In many cases such as this, birds and bugs are mistaken for something more mysterious. Motion blur cause the object to appear elongated and large, like a giant flying saucer. However, often in those cases wings flapping cause the object to look like it has ridges or multiple appendages. That effect cannot be seen in this video. I uploaded a version of the video slowed down to 10%, seen above.

    So what is it? I dunno. I suppose it could also be a hoax or maybe a yellow frisbee. Take a look at the video yourself and let us know what you think.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    18-08-2017 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Did Fox News catch a UFO buzzing the U.S. Capital?

    Did Fox News catch a UFO buzzing the U.S. Capital?

    A video was submitted to a UFO investigation organization showing something zipping in front of the camera during a shot of the U.S. capital building on Fox News.

    The video was submitted earlier today to the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) UFO reporting database. The witness did not have much to say. The report simply says, verbatim: “It flew infront of the capital building while I was watching Fox News.”

    video and a screenshot from the video were also included. The witness did indicate the sighting took place in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, presumably the city where the witness lives.

    Screenshot of video provided by the witness. (Credit: MUFON)

    Screenshot of video provided by the witness.

    (Credit: MUFON)

    In the video, the object appears to be cylindrical and shiny. It moves quickly and steadily from the bottom left of the screen to the upper right. The shape of the object might not indicate the true shape and size of whatever passed in from of the camera. The object was likely close to the camera, making it seem very large. Since it was moving so quickly, the object’s shape could also appear more elongated than it actually is.

    Closeup of object in video.

    Closeup of object in video.

    In many cases such as this, birds and bugs are mistaken for something more mysterious. Motion blur cause the object to appear elongated and large, like a giant flying saucer. However, often in those cases wings flapping cause the object to look like it has ridges or multiple appendages. That effect cannot be seen in this video. I uploaded a version of the video slowed down to 10%, seen above.

    So what is it? I dunno. I suppose it could also be a hoax or maybe a yellow frisbee. Take a look at the video yourself and let us know what you think.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    18-08-2017 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Watch an Octocopter Drone Fire Assault Rifles From the Air

    On the modern battlefield, it appears drones are here to stay — and the latest development may see them bearing arms far more precise than a bomb or grenade.

    Duke Robotics, a private company that specializes in military technology, announced the TIKAD last week, an eight-rotor drone platform capable of carrying and shooting infantry small arms. The TIKAD is one of the small drones to carry direct-fire weaponry like rifles and grenade launchers. Although the company appears to be in the first stages of development, it represents a new force on the battlefields of the future.

    Smaller military drones, like the U.S. military’s fixed-wing RQ-11 Raven, are usually used for observation, not direct combat (with the exception of small, kamikaze drones). While guerrilla forces in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and other battlefields have utilized commercial quadcopter drones to drop bombs and spy on enemy positions, firing a projectile weapon like a gun from a small airborne platform is incredibly difficult. The recoil of a typical infantry rifle would heavily distort any shot the drone could take, which the TIKAD claims to solve with a complicated rig that it claims “takes the full force of the weapon’s recoil” and readjusts its aim to fire again.

    Duke says it has already supplied an early version of the system to the Israeli military, which used it in combat, according to Defense One. They also report the Israeli military has agreed to purchase several TIKAD units.

    Duke Robotics was founded by Lt. Col. Raziel “Razi” Atuar, a 20-year veteran of the Israeli military and a reservist in the Israeli Special Forces, who told Defense One he wanted the flying weapons system to address the challenges of precision targets in a dense, urban battlefield. For instance, a larger drone, helicopter, or artillery system can take out hostile forces on top of a building but usually not without significant destructive force.

    “You have small groups [of adversaries] working within crowded civilian areas using civilians as shields,” Atuar told Defense One. “But you have to go in. Even to just get a couple of guys with a mortar, you have to send in a battalion and you lose guys. People get hurt. The operational challenge, it bothered us.”

    The company’s promotional video — it’s still openly trying to attract investors — features a few shots of a weapon firing from the platform. It’s clear it still has a lot to address to make it a viable weapon (accurate sustained fire at range is important, the video does not show that), however.

    Photos via Duke Robotics

    18-08-2017 om 22:41 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Merkwaardige witte dwerg is mogelijk het restant van een mini-supernova

    https://www.scientias.nl/ }

    18-08-2017 om 22:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Bijzondere kijk op Jupiter

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    18-08-2017 om 22:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Forse aardscheerder schiet op 1 september langs onze planeet

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    18-08-2017 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Eerste private maanlander zet mogelijk pas in 2018 voet op de maan

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    18-08-2017 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Nieuwe manier ontdekt om zwarte gaten te voeden

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    18-08-2017 om 21:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mars 2020-missie opent de jacht op dode aliens

    18-08-2017 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Is This The Terminator? New Robot Has Self-Healing Powers

    Is This The Terminator? New Robot Has Self-Healing Powers

    “In this research, we propose to construct soft robotics entirely out of self-healing elastomers. On the basis of healing capacities found in nature, these polymers are given the ability to heal microscopic and macroscopic damage.”

    Robots can now regenerate themselves

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    Robots can now regenerate themselves using soft materials

    That doesn’t sound so bad … unless you add the following three words:

    I’ll be back.”

    Scientists at the Brije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium have invented robots with self-healing appendages that can “recover” after being stabbed, cut, smashed, shot, blown to bot bits or anything else its human overlords can do to it. OK, stabbed and cut – yes. The rest? Those capabilities aren’t available … yet.

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    The process, described in the current edition of the Science Robotics Journal , is surprisingly simple. The team built robotic arms and grippers covered with soft rubbery polymers. When bumped, bruised or dented, the polymers bounce back to their original shapes on their own almost immediately. When cut or gouged, no bandage is needed to stop any bleeding or polymer leakage and the robot doesn’t require a painkiller or workmen’s compensation. All it needs is a little heat and a little time. According to the study, the material will close and seal after just 40 minutes at 80 degrees C (176 degrees F) and will return to full strength and flexibility after 24 hours at 25 degrees C (77 degrees F).

    (credit: Bram Vanderborght )

    This seemingly slow but miraculous healing depends on the soft polymer’s network of cross links that allow the heat-induced process known as the Diels-Alder reaction to take place. According to professor and researcher Bram Vanderborght of VUB in an interview with Wired UK, the heat causes the cross link molecules to break, creating mobility that allows them to realign and, when the heat is removed, close the gaps, heal the ‘flesh’ and completely repair the damage.

    Realistic damage could be healed completely without leaving any weak spot. The prototypes were able to fully resume their tasks.”

    If you just imagined a robot looking at a human holding a blowtorch to its severed finger and yelling, “Come on! Hurry up! I’ve got work to do!”, you’re not far off. Vanderborght already sees applications for the self-healing robots with the soft polymer hands in the grocery industry — for picking up delicate items – and on factory floors where the machines that smash human thumbs and cut off fingers will not be held liable when doing the same thing to a robot’s self-healing hand.

    Will the robot sneer at the hurtful factory machine and snarl, “I’ll be back” Only time will tell.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    18-08-2017 om 17:59 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

    HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

    Extraterrestrials are out there for sure, Hawking says, but he added that it is "probably in our best interests to avoid any contact rather than seeking them out." In a recently released documentary series, he reveals his latest thinking on some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.

    In the new series aired on the Discovery Channel, Stephen Hawking made the following conclusion:

    "A few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity, with aliens raiding our planet for resources and then moving on."  

    HE GOES ON TO SAY:

    We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet,” Hawking says. “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.” 

    HAWKING CONTINUES:

    If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans,” he concluded.

    Recently, another popular astronomer, Lord Rees, issued the following warning about alien life for humanity in a lecture.

    I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive,” he said. “Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our own brains.”  

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    18-08-2017 om 17:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

    HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

    Extraterrestrials are out there for sure, Hawking says, but he added that it is "probably in our best interests to avoid any contact rather than seeking them out." In a recently released documentary series, he reveals his latest thinking on some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.

    In the new series aired on the Discovery Channel, Stephen Hawking made the following conclusion:

    "A few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity, with aliens raiding our planet for resources and then moving on."  

    HE GOES ON TO SAY:

    We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet,” Hawking says. “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.” 

    HAWKING CONTINUES:

    If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans,” he concluded.

    Recently, another popular astronomer, Lord Rees, issued the following warning about alien life for humanity in a lecture.

    I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive,” he said. “Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our own brains.”  

    http://www.disclose.tv/ }

    18-08-2017 om 17:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO HUNTERS SPOT 'WEIRD ORBS' IN THE BLUEHILL SKIES NEAR BOSTON

    UFO HUNTERS SPOT 'WEIRD ORBS' IN THE BLUEHILL SKIES NEAR BOSTON

    UFO hunters took a video of a mysterious objects glowing in the sky while they were lost in Bluehills near Boston.

    According to reports three young hikers set off looking for UFOs on BlueHill reservation area in Boston.They were later lost in the woods and had to be rescued. Ramona DeFranco,18 of Plymouth one of the hiker said their harrowing night in the forest paid off when they spotted several UFO's in the sky during their expedition, she saw 2 UFO's in the Sky they have never seen before in night sky at this time of the year

    "well, we saw these two ships that had these bright spotlights and then we saw a weird orb that looks sort of a beacon in the sky," she told reporters

    She showed the reporter a photo of mysterious objects she said had been taken with her smart phone. The UFO's were reported to the National UFO Reporting Center [NUFORC] and remains unexplained. 

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    18-08-2017 om 17:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Infinite Solar Power Technology Could Completely Change Our Future

    Infinite Solar Power Technology Could Completely Change Our Future

     
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    IN BRIEF
    • According to an energy expert, the proliferation of solar energy is going to allow for cheap and effectively infinite energy, with prices plummeting to as little as a penny per kW.
    • Solar energy is slowly being integrated into major infrastructure projects, which will only help speed it along the path to energy dominance.

    THE SUN GOES UP, AND OIL GOES DOWN

    Last 2016, solar power saw a resurgence — from cheaper solar panels to innovative roofing for houses and cars, to solar powered roads, and even to powering an entire island. It seems we have entered a new age in solar energy. Well, it doesn’t end there. In the years to come, we may see the rise of solar power, according to Thierry Lepercq, French energy company Engie SA’s head of research, technology, and innovation.

    “The promise of quasi-infinite and free energy is here,” Lepercq declares, in an interview with Bloomberg. His arguments aren’t based on any environmental concern. Rather, he takes the perspective of price.

    “Solar, battery storage, electrical and hydrogen vehicles, and connected devices are in a ‘J’ curve,” Lepercq said. “Hydrogen is the missing link in a 100 percent renewable-energy system, but technological bricks already exist.” Lepercq believes that the price of solar power will probably fall below $10 per megawatt-hour (roughly 1¢/kWh) in the world’s sunniest places.

    As a consequence of the rise of renewables, oil prices are expected to plummet. “Even if oil demand continues to climb until 2025, its price could drop to $10 if markets anticipate a significant fall in demand,” he said.

    “As carmakers offer more electrical vehicles with a range exceeding 500 kilometers, charging stations being progressively deployed and more cities banning gasoline and diesel cars, a shift will progressively take place,” Lepercq added.

    Indeed, gone are the days when people viewed renewable energy sources as too expensive. Instead, we are moving away from conventional coal-based sources, which could even be more expensive in the future.

    SOLAR POWER SHINES

    Lepercq isn’t alone in seeing the price potential of renewables, particularly solar energy. The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published a report showing how solar power now costs cheaper than fossil fuels.

    [R]enewable energy technology, especially solar and wind, has made exponential gains in efficiency in recent years, enough to achieve economic competitiveness and, in an increasing number of cases, grid parity. For instance, the unsubsidized, levellized cost of electricity (LCOE) for utility scale solar photovoltaic, which was highly uncompetitive only five years ago, has declined at a 20% compounded annual rate, making it not only viable but also more attractive than coal in a wide range of countries.

    This is all because, as mentioned above, we have seen an increased use of solar energy. Innovations thrived. Nations and private corporations were both in on it, too. We are seeing the construction of large-scale solar energy infrastructure.

    Credits: ABDELJALIL BOUNHAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Credits: ABDELJALIL BOUNHAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS

    We now have a farm that uses seawater and solar power to grow crops, we’ve built the largest solar desalination plant, and we’ve even managed to have supercomputers that run on solar power. And the ways that solar power is being used will only get better in the next couple of years.

    Indeed, quasi-infinite and free energy is well on its way.

    18-08-2017 om 13:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO Seen at US Capitol 65 Years After Famous DC UFO Incident

    UFO Seen at US Capitol 65 Years After Famous DC UFO Incident

    Are extraterrestrials watching what’s going on in Washington these days? It would be nice to know that someone or something is and perhaps that’s why some people believe they saw a UFO buzz past the US Capitol Building on a Fox News broadcast. Has this ever happened before? Yes! It turns out this year is the 65th anniversary of the 1952 UFO sighting that has come to be known as the Washington National Airport Sightings, the Invasion of Washington or the Washington Flap. Flap? Sounds like these sightings might be related. Let’s find out.

    The 2017 Washington Flap II started on August 14 when a story about college interns on Capitol Hill showed a clip of the US Capitol Building that appeared to include a yellow saucer-shaped UFO flying in front of it. The blurry object appears to be much closer to the camera than to the Capitol, which prompted speculation that it’s a plastic flying disc (you know the brand), a flying creature or a CGI graphic. Are people REALLY tossing discs that close to Capitol security guards these days? And if it’s CGI, it’s pretty poor. Since there were no reports of any unknown aircraft breaching DC airspace on August 14 (Would we really hear about them? Definitely.) and the witness is one of the thousands of anonymous sources in DC, that’s all we have on this sighting. For now, you’ll have listen very hard to hear any flapping.

    On the other hand, the flapping in 1952 was loud and clear.

    Never before or after did Project Blue Book and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of (UFO) reports.”

    Aerospace historian for the Smithsonian Institution and UFO skeptic Curtis Peebles sets the stage for the 1952 sightings – yes, there were more than one. At 11:40 p.m. on July 19, 1952, Washington National Airport (now known as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) air traffic controller Edward Nugent saw seven objects on his radar 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of the city and notified his superior, Harry Barnes, who watched them with him. Upon checking, Nugent found that other controllers in the control tower and controllers at nearby Andrews Air Force Base also saw the UFOs, which had increased in number and were traveling randomly across the sky at an estimated 130 miles per hour. The objects vanished when two Air Force jets arrived and returned again after the jets left to refuel.

    One week later on July 26, UFOs were spotted by a stewardess and a captain on a flight into Washington National Airport. The strange lights were seen by other pilots in the nearby airspace and an officer at Andrews Air Force Base.

    Both incidents made national news and President Harry Truman demanded explanations. In what was called the largest Pentagon press conference since World War II, Air Force Major Generals John Samford and Roger Ramsey said the UFOs were “misidentified aerial phenomena” like stars or meteors and the blips on radar screens were caused by temperature inversions. A 1969 scientific report released by the Air Force concluded that a temperature inversion strong enough to create the radar blips was meteorologically impossible, but the theory has joined swamp gas and weather balloons in the annals of non-alien UFO explanations.

    It doesn’t look like the 2017 Washington Invasion was a temperature inversion. Was it a toy disc, a bird or a bug? Possibly. CGI? Maybe. Will it go down in history like the 1952 Flap? Highly unlikely.

    And whatever happened to those UFOs seen before and afterthe inauguration? Shouldn’t someone find out why those aliens haven’t done anything for us yet?

    Or maybe they have.

    18-08-2017 om 00:09 geschreven door peter  

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    17-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Clouds on 'Failed Stars' Resemble Those on Neptune

    Clouds on 'Failed Stars' Resemble Those on Neptune

    Researchers have found Neptune-like bands of clouds circling the surface of a brown dwarf, an object in between the size of a planet and a star.
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    For the first time, scientists have seen bands of clouds drifting across the skies of failed stars known as brown dwarfs.

    This work could help scientists analyze Earth-like planets someday, the new study's researchers said.

    In the past 25 years or so, astronomers have confirmed the existence of more than 3,500 exoplanets, or planets outside Earth's solar system. Scientists have also detected numerous so-called brown dwarfs, objects that are about 13 to 90 times the mass of Jupiter — too big to be planets, but not quite big enough to be true stars. Researchers sometimes call brown dwarfs "failed stars," because nuclear fusion never ignited in their cores. [Brown Dwarf Photos: Failed Stars and Stellar Misfits Revealed]

    Scientists have previously detected evidence of clouds on exoplanets and brown dwarfs. However, this is the first time that cloud bands have been spotted on one of those objects, study team members said. 

    Previous work suggested that brown dwarfs have much in common with giant exoplanets in terms of size, temperature and composition. As such, study lead author Daniel Apai, who is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues investigated brown dwarfs to learn more about giant exoplanets.

    The fact that many brown dwarfs are located away from stars makes them easier for astronomers to examine than many giant exoplanets, Apai told Space.com. In contrast, giant exoplanets are typically obscured partly by the brightness of their stars, he added.

    In the past five years, a number of studies have found that the infrared light from many brown dwarfs could vary in unusual ways over time. However, until now, there was no convincing explanation for this phenomenon.

    To help solve this mystery, Apai and his colleagues analyzed data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. They focused on the way the infrared brightness of three brown dwarfs changed over time as the objects completed a total of 192 rotations over the course of 1.5 years. 

    The observations of these brown dwarfs helped "derive crude maps for how their clouds are distributed and how they evolve," Apai said.

    The scientists discovered rotating bands of clouds in the atmospheres of these brown dwarfs that are broadly similar to bands of clouds seen on Neptune. As the bands on the brown dwarfs rotated, slight differences in the speeds of the bands generated a pattern of beats in their infrared light, explaining the mystery regarding their shifting brightness, Apai said.

    "This is the first time that the presence of bands is shown in brown dwarfs," Apai said. He added that scientists have not yet reported any evidence for bands of clouds in exoplanets.

    Although the researchers looked at only three brown dwarfs, "the fact that all three brown dwarfs behaved the same way suggests that what we see should be a common, perhaps general behavior," Apai said. "What we learn from brown dwarfs should be applicable to the majority of the gas giant exoplanets, too."

    In the future, the next major NASA space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will help researchers analyze brown dwarfs and exoplanets in even greater detail, Apai said."The same technique we used for brown dwarfs now could be used to build crude maps of Earth-like planets, once we have the right telescopes, and NASA is exploring some designs that could do that in the future," he added.

    The scientists detailed their findings in the Aug. 18 issue of the journal Science.

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    The Mars Colony of the Future Could Be Powered by This Advanced Microgrid

    17-08-2017 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'Explosive Auroras': What Causes These Strobe Light Displays?

    'Explosive Auroras': What Causes These Strobe Light Displays?

    17-08-2017 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

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    Revealed: Why so many people believe in conspiracy theories


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    Shining A Light On Fermi's Paradox

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    Bigfoot, UFOs and Prehistoric Birds: Documentary Depicts How These Creatures Call Pennsylvania Home

    Area 51 and the Bermuda Triangle are familiar names around the world, but how about Kecksburg, Uniontown and Keystone State Park? 

    A new documentary makes the case that southwestern Pennsylvania is among locations with the most instances of paranormal activity in the country. 

    "Invasion on Chestnut Ridge," from the production company Small Town Monsters, recreates stories told by locals who say they have experienced paranormal activity in and around the small town of Chestnut Ridge, Pa., about an hour south of Pittsburgh.

    90.5 WESA's Allyson Ruggieri interviewed the film's director and producer Seth Breedlove, the filmmaker behind "Boggy Creek Monster," "Beast of Whitehall," and "The Mothman of Point Pleasant."

    The movie poster for "Invasion on Chestnut Ridge"
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    Their interview has been edited for length and clarity.

    ALLYSON RUGGIERI: The trailer gives off uneasy vibes as it invites viewers to "uncover the secrets of the Ridge." Can you describe the premise of the movie and what those secrets center on?

    SETH BREEDLOVE: Basically, it's about Chestnut Ridge's bizarre history of unusual happenings that have been occurring for over a century. I don't use the word anthology too much, but I think it's kind of like an anthology. It's a series of very unusual stories from the Ridge starting with the Kecksburg UFO crash and ending with a sighting these two guys had in a forest of basically a weird little light that was chasing them around and all stops in between. It's from UFO sightings to sightings of strange, possibly prehistoric birds. Where other films are about a monster, this film is about a place. So the place is actually the monster. 

    RUGGIERI: Is this type of film, one focused on a place rather than a person or monster, something new for your team? How does this differ from your other documentaries? 

    The production team on location
    CREDIT SMALL TOWN MONSTERS

    BREEDLOVE: It's funny because our other movies have these very simple premises where, it's basically the entire Small Town Monsters series revolves around unusual creature sightings in rural areas and the affect that can have on a small community. But with "Invasion on Chestnut Ridge" it's very different because there are multiple communities involved, and rather than focused on one small town, it kind of covers this entire range, like 72-mile mountain range. So it's a little bit different from our other films in that way.

    RUGGIERI: I noticed you describe this as "the most unusual area this side of the Bermuda Triangle." Can you speak a little bit on that?

    BREEDLOVE: It's just that there's something going on there that all this weird, kind of bizarre activity takes place in this one area. There's all these different investigators who spend enough time up there investigating these strange occurrences looking for answers, and have been looking for answers since the '60s and '70s. And there don't seem to be any. 

    RUGGIERI: What would you say was one of your most favorite or interesting stories or interviews while filming this documentary? 

    An interviewee on set.
    CREDIT SMALL TOWN MONSTERS

    BREEDLOVE: We interviewed a guy named Barry. He's the first kind of "UFO abductee" that I've ever spoken to. I've never had a talk with anyone that claimed to have that experience before. It's always been something that's kind of freaked me out, like it's a very unnerving thing to talk to someone who's convinced they've had that incident, that occurrence happen to them. The stuff that had happened to him was pretty crazy, stuff I couldn't explain. I tend to be a little on the skeptical side, and some of the stuff he was saying to me I could not find an explanation for. 

    RUGGIERI: What do you want viewers to take away from your film? What do you want everyone to know about your experience working on it?

    BREEDLOVE: We make movies for everyone. Whether you're a skeptic or ardent believer or whatever, one thing I always want people to take away from our films is the fact that these locations we go to are amazing places and especially in the case of Chestnut Ridge. It's a place that should be explored. You should have your own adventure there. Whether it involves Bigfoot or a UFO, I can't guarantee, but it's a really amazing and beautiful place. People should embrace the history of these rural communities because this is the heartland of America.

    "Invasion on Chestnut Ridge" will be available on DVD and Amazon video on Oct. 20. 

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    Alien landt in een park en stapt uit. Lees hier 3 opmerkelijke UFO-verhalen uit Rusland

    Alien landt in een park en stapt uit. Lees hier 3 opmerkelijke UFO-verhalen uit Rusland

    In Rusland vinden net als in de rest van de wereld onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen plaats. Er zijn genoeg Russen die ervan overtuigd zijn dat aliens bestaan.

    Over de hele wereld zijn er mensen die stellen dat geheime diensten veel te verbergen hebben, waaronder informatie over buitenaardse beschavingen. Zo ook in Rusland.

    Veel Sovjets meenden dat de KGB, de geheime dienst van de Sovjet-Unie, buitenaardse geheimen achterhield.

    In 2005 zei Vladimir Krjoetsjkov, de laatste baas van de KGB, in een interview dat zijn geheime dienst geen bewijs had gevonden voor vliegende schotels of aliens.

    Veel Russen geloofden hem niet en denken zeker te weten dat er beschavingen bestaan op andere planeten en dat sommige daarvan de aarde hebben bezocht.

    Petrozavodsk

    In 1977 gebeurde er iets vreemds in de stad Petrozavodsk. Op een avond in september zagen zo’n 200 inwoners van de autonome deelrepubliek Karelië een mysterieus object dat werd omgeven door wit licht.

    Het vreemde object werd ook gemeld in Leningrad (Sint-Petersburg), Helsinki en andere Russische en Finse steden.

    In eerste instantie werd verondersteld dat het ging om een satelliet, maar Lev Gindilis van de Academie van Wetenschappen van de Sovjet-Unie concludeerde dat het geen satelliet kon zijn.

    Bijna 50 jaar later is nog altijd niet duidelijk wat mensen destijds hebben gezien.

    Voronezj

    In 1989 werd een uitzonderlijk incident gemeld in de stad Voronezj. Kinderen claimden dat er een schijfvormig ruimteschip in een park was geland en dat er een alien met drie ogen was uitgestapt.

    Er waren ook enkele volwassenen die de UFO hadden gezien. De media besteedden veel aandacht aan het incident, dat zelfs het NOS Journaal haalde.

    Er werden geen sporen gevonden op de landingsplek. Wel werden er hoge stralingsniveaus gemeten.

    Dalnegorsk

    In januari 1986 werd in de stad Dalnegorsk een bolvormig object gespot in de lucht. Het crashte op een heuvel, waar lokale ufologen later metalen vonden die niet van nature voorkomen in het gebied.

    Het leger ontkende dat een militaire basis in het gebied er iets mee te maken had. Volgens ufologen was er een buitenaards schip of een satelliet neergekomen bij Dalnegorsk.

    [Russia Beyond the Headlines

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.‘Mijnbouwcomplex’ gespot op de maan. Zijn dit beelden van bouwwerken op het maanoppervlak?
    'Mijnbouwcomplex' gespot op de maan. Zijn dit beelden van bouwwerken op het maanoppervlak?

    ‘Mijnbouwcomplex’ gespot op de maan. Zijn dit beelden van bouwwerken op het maanoppervlak?

    Een UFO-jager claimt een mijnbouwcomplex op het oppervlak van de maan te hebben gespot, meldt nieuwszender Fox News.

    Streetcap1, die video’s over buitenaards leven en UFO’s op YouTube plaatst, beweert dat een groep objecten op het maanoppervlak een mijnbouwcomplex zou kunnen zijn.

    “Zie je die gebouwen?” zegt Streetcap1 in de video, die inmiddels bijna 100.000 keer bekeken is. “Ze bevinden zich in de Tycho-krater op de maan. Dat is best indrukwekkend, niet?

    Bekijk de video hieronder:

    Mensen lijken het eens te zijn met de bevindingen van de YouTube-gebruiker. “Mooie vondst,” schreef Thomas Mundt.

    Kristin Bacon schreef: “Dit is een fraaie foto. Er is zeker iets aan de hand. Niemand kan zeggen dat het niet op een mijnbouwcomplex lijkt. Ik zou graag eens willen rondkijken op de maan.”

    Onverklaarbare objecten

    Clint Steel voegde toe: “Ik geloof wel dat er bouwwerken op de maan staan, maar ik denk dat dit gewoon korrelige beelden zijn.”

    Streetcap1 plaatst vaker video’s over onverklaarbare objecten op het maanoppervlak.Ook anderen claimen mysterieuze objecten te hebben gevonden op het maanoppervlak, hoewel nooit onomstotelijk is bewezen dat het om gebouwen gaat.

    [Fox News

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.PLANEET NIBIRU NU ZICHTBAAR MET HET BLOTE OOG ( VIDEO )

    PLANEET NIBIRU NU ZICHTBAAR MET HET BLOTE OOG ( VIDEO )

    Niet alleen vinden er meer en meer vreemde dingen plaats op aarde, maar ook beginnen er nu steeds vaker berichten te komen over mensen die een planeet met het blote oog waarnemen. 

    Volgens de verwachtingen van een aantal Nibiru experts zal dit tot nu toe "onbekende" hemellichaam tegen het eind van het jaar voor iedereen duidelijk zichtbaar zijn. 



    Regelmatig krijgen wij opmerkingen van lezers die zeggen: jullie voorspellen dit over die planeet Nibiru en jullie voorspellen dat, maar waar blijft die planeet? 

    Wij voorspellen niets, wij berichten over dingen die op aarde voor iedereen zijn waar te nemen en we doen verslag van wat mensen die zich in dit onderwerp hebben gespecialiseerd, denken. 

    En ja, een vreemde planeet in ons zonnestelsel zou een hele logische verklaring zijn voor al de bijzondere dingen die nu om ons heen gebeuren en waar de reguliere wetenschap geen antwoord op heeft. 

    Voor het welzijn van iedereen, inclusief dat van onszelf, zou het natuurlijk veel beter zijn als blijkt dat iedereen voor wat betreft een onbekende planeet, op een dwaalspoor zit, maar vooralsnog lijkt het er niet op. 

    Volgens één van die onderzoekers, Nancy Lieder, wordt nu op verschillende plaatsen op aarde de planeet Nibiru met het blote oog waargenomen en ook gefotografeerd. 

    Zij plaatse de volgende opnames en zegt er categorisch bij dat we hier niet te maken hebben met lensflares. Eén van de redenen daarvoor is dat het object op veel foto’s zich gedeeltelijk achter de wolken bevindt en de tweede is dat mensen dit ook waarnamen met het blote oog. 

    This phenomena appears on both a camera in Italy and a camera in France, and has been recorded by a camera in Mexico also. Nibiru is visible, naked eye!

    xxx


    xxx

    Natuurlijk kijkt iedereen uit naar de komende grote zonsverduistering in Amerika en het feit dat er wellicht mensen zijn die met hun camera’s er niet alleen in slagen om de verduisterde zon vast te leggen, maar eventueel ook wat zich in de omgeving bevindt. 

    Een andere onderzoeker is Marshall Masters, voormalig wetenschapsredacteur bij CNN en door onze columnist Evert Jan Poorterman een zwamneus genoemd, maar die toch vaak met heel interessante dingen komt. 

    Dit keer schrijft hij ook toch wel iets opmerkelijks en dat gaat over het feit dat niet nog méér mensen op dit moment de planeet Nibiru met het blote oog zien. 

    De oorzaak daarvan wordt helemaal duidelijk als je naar het volgende plaatje kijkt. 

    Dit is één van de hoofdredenen dat mensen op mooie dagen nauwelijks nog iets in de lucht zien en iets dat de komende tijd naar verwachting nog veel heftiger zal worden.

    xxx

    Wat bovendien heel interessant is, is het volgende dat hij schrijft. 

    Hoeveel mensen kijken niet op naar de hemel en doen de strepen zoals op de afbeelding af als contrails (red.: condensatie sporen)? Het is een feit dat de zogenaamde high-bypass turbofan motoren zoals die tegenwoordig door moderne jet passagiersvliegtuigen worden gebruikt en die iedere dag boven onze hoofden vliegen, alleen in bepaalde gebieden contrails kunnen produceren zoals in de buurt van de evenaar. Conclusie is dan ook dat de ontkenning van chemtrails blijft bestaan door deze onwetendheid; een situatie die bewust in stand word gehouden. 

    Dit betekent dat ook in ons land er de komende tijd weer volop gaat worden gesproeid om het gebied rondom de zon zoveel mogelijk onzichtbaar te houden. 

    Zoals te zien op de volgende foto die onlangs door een lezer (dank!) is genomen op de A15. Het bolletje op de foto is een lensflare.


    xxx

    Of zoals de volgende, eveneens gestuurd door een lezer (dank!). 

    Deze foto is ook bijzonder omdat er op één een paar elementen voorkomen die door mensen vaak worden verward met een planeet. 

    De ene is een overduidelijke lensflare en de tweede is een halo om de zon, waardoor aan weerszijden zogenaamde bijzonnen ontstaan. 

    Kringen om de zon zijn echter allerminst zeldzaam, gemiddeld iedere twee of drie dagen is er ergens in ons land wel zo’n kring te zien en elders in de wereld is dat niet anders. Met de regenboog heeft het verschijnsel niets te maken. Een regenboog ontstaat door weerkaatsing van zonlicht in regendruppels, een halo door weerkaatsing in ijs. Naast de kring kunnen allerlei vormen zichtbaar zijn zoals bogen in verschillende richtingen die raken aan de kring, lichtzuilen boven de zon en lichtvlekken aan weerszijden van de zon. Deze meestal prachtig gekleurde vlekken zijn geregeld te zien en worden bijzonnen genoemd. Halo’s hebben een voorspellende betekenis: een kring om zon of maan is vaak een voorbode van een weersverslechtering. Niet voor niets kennen we de oude weerspreuk “Kring om de zon, brengt regen in de ton”.

    xxx

    Of zoals de volgende, genomen door een lezer in Deventer. Wat een prachtige helderblauwe lucht had moeten zijn is verziekt door chemicaliën.


    xxx

    Desondanks begint het erop te lijken dat het de moeite waard wordt om geregeld naar de lucht te kijken. 

    Voor zover ons bekend, zijn er in Nederland en België nog geen waarnemingen geweest van de planeet Nibiru met het blote oog. Mocht er iemand zijn die dit wel ziet, laat ons zeker weten.

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    UFO NEWS: 'Perfect 1950s flying saucer' filmed above crop circle

    A CROP circle "expert" claims the mysterious corn field formations could be caused by aliens or other paranormal forces after allegedly filming a series of UFOs over the baffling creations.

    UFO-Crop-Circles

    Getty*Jon Austin*Pierre Beake

    UFO proof? Pierre Beake claims to have snapped bizarre craft over crop circles.

    Pierre Beake insists he captured these pictures of UFOs hovering over or near crop circles.

    Mr Beake, who travels from France to the south west of England each year to study the phenomena, also claims to have photographed strange lights and orbs within west country crop formations.

    Crop circles - allegedly made by landing UFOs - have been widely considered one of the world's biggest paranormal hoaxes since 1991, when Doug Bower and David Chorley were filmed showing how they made many of the reported corn field patterns discovered across the UK.

    The two said they simply used wooden planks and rope to flatten corn in a circular fashion.

    The pair started the tomfoolery in the 1970s to tease locals who believed in UFOs.

    In the latter half of the 1990s more "circle makers", who tried to out do each other with the most complicated designs, emerged.

    Avebury-UFO

    Pierre Beake

    This UFO is like a 1950s flying saucer, claims Pierre Beake.

    Avebury-UFO

    Pierre Beake

    The '1950s UFO' in close up.

    But despite the hoaxers outing themselves, Mr Beake refuses to believe they could make the "highly geometric" patterns he has documented.

    Mr Beake produced his UFO images at the 27th annual Glastonbury Symposium, an event which started to look at the crop circle subject and now covers other new age issues.

    He said: "When you go first into a crop circle you can't explain the feeling.
    "You feel good, you feel nice."

    He produced one image which he said resembled a B-movie flying saucer.

    He said: "It looks like a classic 1950s UFO. One researcher said to me it was a parachute, but there is no one underneath."

    Mr Beake is convinced something paranormal is behind crop circle formation and that his UFO snaps could be part of the picture.

    He says he has also photographed balls of energy and light at crop circles.

    In one case he said he filmed bizarre solid balls flying around.

    Silbury-UFO

    Pierre Beake

    A perfect circular object filmed over Silbury Hill.

    Silbury-UFO

    Pierre Beake

    A close up of the Silbury Hill UFO.

    It looks like a classic 1950s UFO. One researcher said to me it was a parachute, but there is no one underneath.

    Pierre Beake

    One was said to be near the ancient monument of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, which he described as a perfect round flying object.

    He said: "This dark ball was near Silbury Hill. It is physical as you can see the sun shining on it."

    He said it made no noise and they checked that there was no dirt on the lens that could have caused it.

    A drone they flew up above the hill was unable to detect it.

    Another flying ball was snapped near Avebury Ring, near Stonehenge.

    UFO-Crop

    Pierre Beake

    This 'UFO' was a solid object flying over a crop circle, claimed Pierre Beake.

    He said: "It was a very strange form and not a plane or helicopter."

    But he said it was not seen at the time of the filming, but was physical because the sun could be seen glinting on it.

    Another one was filmed at Milk Hill, also Wiltshire.

    He said: "I can't explain why that thing is here, it looks more physical than other balls of light."

    Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org said so-called UFOs such as these were often birds or insects that had flown past and been blurred in the process, giving rise to the indistinguishable shapes.

    They are actually referred to as blurbs by sceptical UFO researchers.

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    UFO flies in front of the Capitol Building in Washington live on Fox News

    While watching Fox News on August 14, 2017 a resident of Rolling Meadows, IL witnessed and recorded an Unidentified Flying Object that flew in front of the Capitol Building in Washington.


    The yellow colored UFO suddenly appears on the left side of the screen, passes at high speed the Capitol Building before it disappears from the screen.

    Why was this UFO not detected if you know that the airspace around America’s Capitol is not only one of the most flight restricted areas in the world but also guarded by Norwegian surface-to-air missiles.

    After watching the short video I got the feeling that fox news has accidentally broadcast this UFO event. The UFO can be seen at the end of the video.

    In case the video is not working you can download the video at the following link: MUFON File Case:
    http://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/

    85978_submitter_file1__trim.C01F079E460B40BAB43C3AE85D7503BF.MOV

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Interview with Kelly Cahill about her Close Alien Encounter in 1993

    Interview with Kelly Cahill about her Close Alien Encounter in 1993

    ufo-1993

    In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend’s house. Their routine journey would soon become a harrowing trip into an unknown world of strange beings that occupied space but were void of color as we know it.

    The Dandenong foothills, near Belgrave, Victoria, Australia would have its location forever linked to the sighting of one of the most unusual humanoid creatures in Ufology archives.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

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    Bright UFOs seen and filmed over London, UK 14-Aug-2017

    london-ufos

    Here’s one interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying objects hovering near Alexandra Palace in London. This happened on 14th August 2017.

    Witness report: 

    Not planes or stars. Didn’t move in the sky for about 5 mins and stayed directly next to each other. 15 mins later we heard a huge bang that sounded like fireworks, but it was about 10pm in a park with no sign of fireworks / anyone who could cause a bang. Eventually they disappeared

    Author (KMS @ Youtube)

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    17-08-2017 om 17:27 geschreven door peter  

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    50+ objects over Santa Monica, California 10-Aug-2017

    ufo-santa-monica

    This interesting footage of bright orbs was filmed over Santa Monica, California a few days ago.

    Witness report: 

    Orb like sighting of 50+ objects over Santa Monica CA on 8-10-17. 

    Disclaimer: I’m not drawing any conclusions as to what these were, I’m open to all possibilities.

    Here is an explanation of what we’re looking at because the video really doesn’t do justice to how these things were moving:

    These are 7 videos put together that stretch between 7:06pm – 7:22pm on 8/10/17.

    I first noticed these things in the sky while walking out to my car around 6:50pm. There were a dozen or so, high up, and looked to be moving like balloons or lanterns. Living close to the beach and the Pier, I see a lot of balloons and lanterns so I’m familiar with them. Anyway, I ignored them at first because I was in a hurry to move my car. By the time I finished (around 7:00) and walked back down the path the numbers of them in the sky increased by another couple dozen – AND there were a number of them quite low to the ground.

    At this point I thought: Advertising stunt of some kind (we get those a lot in LA too). It wasn’t until I got back to my door that I saw a whole “fleet” of them coming in on what looked like a flight path (disclosure: we are close-ish to LAX and the Santa Monica Airport and I’m familiar with the flight paths – you’ll see a number of planes in the video). As if they were coming from the upper atmosphere (over the Pacific) and down towards Pico Blvd essentially. At this point I thought “skydivers” or “flares”… and went inside and grabbed my binocs.

    When I looked through the binocs (I have two pair, one with a stabilizer one with extra magnification) I expected to see lanterns, flares, balloons, or even drones or skydivers. Instead what I saw were sparkling rings of smoke that had some shape and apparent structure, but they spun like tops in the sky as they moved. They almost had a jellyfish type body that seemed to pulse and was translucent. Once I pulled out the binocs and saw this, four “zoomers” (what I called them) buzzed down from the sky (above the palm tree in the long shots for reference) and skimmed above the roof of the building directly in front of me (only a couple hundred feet in altitude). They were silent, and moved incredibly fast (way too fast, as you’ll see) to be a lantern or balloons – and then they climbed in elevation after buzzing the roof.

    I was alone, though my neighbor saw it as well. I should have gotten more people outside to be honest. Mistake on my part. But these clips in the video are broken up because I was going back and forth between filming and watching through the binocs. I stated this in the video, but will say it again, this video does NOT do justice to how many of them there were in the sky. It was a constant flow, on a “flight path” seemingly of these things for 30 minutes or longer. It lasted a long time, and had to be seen by more than me.

    I slowed some of the clips down at the end, the one zoomer I got and another slow motion vid of how they move in the sky (you’ll see it tumbling @ the 1:51-1:57 mark).

    Time stamps:
    First thirty seconds are kind of tough, showing the higher altitude ones that had just buzzed me
    :40 second mark you see some new ones coming in, lower and closer.
    :55-:57 mark you can kind of see the movement (like balloons) as well as the pulsing.
    1:51 – 1:57 mark you will see one moving across the top, spinning, it gives you some of the shape
    2:11-2:17 mark you can see more movement (these are new ones, not the same as the ones above)
    3:15-3:26 mark good shot of one close, moments after it buzzed the path I was standing on, moves like balloons… but way faster and they’re glowing.
    3:33-3:52 mark has another one dipping low, then a zoomer (the only one I got on film, but there were several others) that flew past real fast. This one is slowed down at the end and zoomed in as best I could.
    *4:35-5:21 mark has three more coming in on the “flight path”. By that I mean, you see how they’re high in altitude and moving lower. That’s how most of them came in, in a straight line from that high altitude and then down where they spread out, then reformed into a line and moved on at a lower altitude. This also includes the description of these things.

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    A New Theory Suggests We May be the Only Technologically Advanced Civilization Still Around

    Deep space field with stars 
    IN BRIEF
    Retired astrophysicist Daniel Whitmire re-examined the Fermi Paradox, and why the universe is silent if there is alien life out there. He believes that it's possible that humanity was the first to have become technologically advanced.

    THE SOUND OF SILENCE

    For retired astrophysicist Daniel Whitmire, currently a mathematics professor at the University of Arkansas (UARK), humanity is typical. Not exactly in the sense that we’re ordinary; we’re typical in a statistical sense, following a concept in modern cosmology called the principle of mediocrity. This principle suggests that in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we should consider humanity to be a typical member of a certain reference class.

    This was Whitmire’s conclusion, in a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, when he revisited his thoughts on the Fermi Paradox — that we haven’t encountered alien life, despite the high probability of it existing — and again asked if there’s alien life out there. With all the billions of stars in billions of galaxies, chances are there’s bound to be other intelligent life in the cosmos. So, where are they?

    “I used to tell my students that by statistics, we have to be the dumbest guys in the galaxy,” Whitmire said in a UARK press release. “After all, we have only been technological for about 100 years, while other civilizations could be more technologically advanced than us by millions or billions of years.”

    But Whitmire changed his mind on this concept based on two observations: Firstly, that humanity was the first technologically advanced civilization that evolved on Earth, and we’re currently in our early technological development. (“Technological,” here, is to be understood as biological species that developed electronic devices and are capable of significantly changing the planet.)

    On the surface, this may seem like an obvious observation. However, based on the Earth’s habitable time span  — from around 50 billion years ago, and for an estimated billion years in the future  — it would have been possible for other technological civilizations to precede us on this planet. The thing is, there’s no geologic record that shows someone else came before us. “We’d leave a heck of a fingerprint if we disappeared overnight,” Whitmire said.

    ANYBODY OUT THERE?

    But what about life outside of the Earth? Following the same principle of mediocrity, technological civilizations that lasts millions of years or longer are atypical, Whitmire says. If one considers a bell curve of all supposedly extant technological civilizations in the universe, humanity would fall in the middle 95 percent.

    If that is the case, the lack of communication from similar civilizations around us does not bode well. Whitmire explains the silence of the cosmos as a product of how typical technological civilizations work: They usually go extinct after attaining technological knowledge. This is the same explanation held by other scientists, and one even suggests that we should look for traces of alien technology instead of alien life.

    The “Great Filter” hypothesis is another possible explanation. It suggests that before any life in the universe becomes technological or before technological life goes beyond the bounds of its own planet, it had to overcome some extremely difficult evolutionary threshold. Some even think that climate change is humanity’s great filter.

    For resident “Science Guy” Bill Nye, the Fermi Paradox should push humanity to explore further. The reason why we haven’t found intelligent extraterrestrial life or even simple alien life is because we haven’t been looking hard enough. There’s still a big chance that they’re somewhere out there.

    Yet these theories assume that we’re not a typical representative of life in the cosmos. “If we’re not typical then my initial observation would be correct,” Whitmire said. “We would be the dumbest guys in the galaxy by the numbers.

    17-08-2017 om 01:33 geschreven door peter  

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    Here’s why so many people believe in conspiracy theories (and it’s not because they’re thick)

    Moon Rex

    In America, 65 million people believe that a UFO crashed at Roswell – and another 21 million people believe that the moon landings were faked.

    Conspiracy theories became big news last year as ‘fake news’ sites spread misinformation during the election – including conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton.

    So what is it that attracts people to insane theories like the idea that the Royal Family are shape-shifting reptiles?

    It could be a sense that they are unique – and not part of the herd, according to researchers at Grenoble Alps University.

    The researchers found that people who agreed with the statement, ‘You’re unique’ more than the statement, ‘We’re all the same,’ were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

    The researchers conducted three linked experiments to investigate the belief – and found that people who believe in conspiracy theories tend to think they are ‘special’ and that they possess unique information.

    The researchers write, ‘we investigated whether belief in conspiracy theories satisfies people’s need for uniqueness.

    ‘We found that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories was associated with the feeling of possessing scarce information about the situations explained by the conspiracy theories and higher need for uniqueness

    ‘These studies suggest that conspiracy theories may serve people’s desire to be unique, highlighting a motivational underpinning of conspiracy belief.’

    17-08-2017 om 01:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Was the Wow! signal evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? Forty years later, the debate continues: Edd Wheeler (Opinion)

    A 1983 file photo of Ohio State University's "Big Ear" radio telescope where, 40 years ago this week, scientists searching for signs of intelligent life in outer space detected the still-debated Wow! signal. A recent assessment attributed the signal to hydrogen clouds from two comets but Edd Wheeler writes in the op-ed below that Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who famously named the moment with his "Wow!" notation on the printout, is not ruling anything out.

    A 1983 file photo of Ohio State University's "Big Ear" radio telescope where, 40 years ago this week, scientists searching for signs of intelligent life in outer space detected the still-debated Wow! signal. A recent assessment attributed the signal to hydrogen clouds from two comets but Edd Wheeler writes in the op-ed below that Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who famously named the moment with his "Wow!" notation on the printout, is not ruling anything out. (Plain Dealer Historical Photograph collection, File, 1983)

    Edd Wheeler is a former federal administrative law judge with an interest in astrophysics.
    Edd Wheeler is a former federal administrative law judge with an interest in astrophysics. (Courtesy of Edd Wheeler)

    TUCKER, Georgia -- The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) was first conceived almost 60 years ago by the late Carl Sagan. In 1974 it took institutional form at the University of California, Berkeley. Today, its modern computers monitor 100 million frequency channels for potential signals from space.

    However, lack of a credible finding of putative aliens has resulted in detractors calling SETI the Great Martian Chase.  

    SETI's most noted reception occurred 40 years ago this week, and was registered by three scientists, with shoestring budget and staff, using a primitive IBM computer having only 64,000 bytes of memory.

    The "Big Ear" telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory that operated from 1973 to 1997 was SETI's longest and most famous operation. Though small by later standards, it was then one of the world's foremost radio telescopes, a curved reflector 70 feet high and 420 feet long on its aluminum plane.      

    Just after 11 p.m. on Aug. 15, 1977, it recorded a type of transmission not encountered previously or since.

    While Big Ear was monitoring the 1420-megahertz frequency, one reserved for scientific use in belief that potential extraterrestrial intelligence might broadcast on the frequency for neutral hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, signals were received from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.    

    They were recorded at 12-second intervals of ten seconds for reception followed by two seconds of data processing by the computer. The transmission produced data that followed the observatory's antenna pattern more than 99 percent accurately.

    Upon seeing the computer readout, astronomer Jerry Ehman simply penned "Wow!" on it, thus famously naming the transmission. He soon ruled out possible sources like ground emission, aircraft, satellites, and space debris.

    Ehman believes the average signal strength was constant throughout the unprecedented length of 72 seconds and that the six intervals were only timed recordings caused by the design of equipment and antenna pattern.

    There was little doubt by all on-scene scientists that they had accurately recorded an artificial transmission, one caused by something other than natural phenomena such as pulsars.    

    Ehman initially was cautious about conclusions on the source. But in his 20th anniversary report on the "Wow!" signal, he wrote that "Big Ear" data were reliable and, lacking evidence to the contrary, that the source was probably extraterrestrial intelligence. Although he now thinks the matter an "open question," he continues as before to believe that the signal is "a tantalizing candidate" as ETI, which he reiterates as "certainly a possibility." 

    Fellow scientist Robert Dixon confidently stated that the source was from "beyond the moon." He wrote in 1985 that, for SETI's first decade and among its 30,000 "detections," the Wow! signal was clearly "most prominent."  

    The late Dr. John Kraus, as quoted in a 2012 book on the topic by Robert H. Gray, ventured that it might have been an ETI "signal" but that this was speculative.    

    In 2016, scientists at the Center of Planetary Science, a small group near Tampa promoting astronomy, suggested the Wow! signal likely was not an artificial transmission but a natural phenomenon caused by radiation from massive hydrogen clouds surrounding two remote comets discovered in 2006 and 2008.

    As evidence, they presented a recorded radio signal emitted by a comet at 1420.25 megahertz, very close to the frequency of natural hydrogen monitored for many years by "Big Ear."  

    It is uncertain whether this finding solidly refutes the Wow! transmission as a possible ETI signal.    

    An inherent problem is that humans may not be "wired" to recognize a real interstellar "signal."  

    Britain's Astronomer Royal Martin Rees is chairman of the Breakthrough Initiatives, a ten-year, $100 million search for extraterrestrial intelligence, intended to answer Stephen Hawking's query, "if we are alone in the dark."      

    Rees emphasizes that putative aliens likely possess intelligence fundamentally different from ours, and thus "may package reality" and convey it in ways not understandable. He seeks a "manifestly artificial" signal.

    However, if certainty is the gauge, how can signal receipt be manifestly established if the source has different intelligence and expression than ours?    

    The Wow! signal was not manifestly from ETI, yet it seemed credibly outside the solar system. Some question whether intelligence, as we know it, exists beyond Earth.

    At the 40th anniversary of the Wow! signal, it is time to acknowledge that, in a galaxy of 400 billion stars and a universe of more than 500 billion galaxies, we may not comprehend the possible qualities of intelligence in other worlds, but by probability it is incomprehensible that extraterrestrial intelligence does not exist.

    Could these seven Earth-size exoplanets hold life? Editorial Board Roundtable (February)

    The Breakthrough Initiatives will formulate a compact yet substantive interstellar signal about humans, our values and achievements.  

    An equal concern has gone unmentioned. What if Earth was identified as a living world long before man's appearance, and what should be our concern if distant observers have intelligently and correctly concluded that we have produced the likes of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Bach, and Newton, along with Tamerlane, Stalin, and Hitler, and with an identifiable practice of superpredation?  What then might a potential signal from afar look like?

    Wow! indeed.  

    Edd Wheeler, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a veteran of the Vietnam War, is a former federal administrative law judge whose articles on the Wow! signal and Breakthrough Initiatives have appeared in the "Journal of the British Interplanetary Society."

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    17-08-2017 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

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    HOW A NASA SPACECRAFT MAY HELP ALIENS FIND EARTH

    The pulsar maps on the Voyager probes pinpoint our location in the galaxy—even as some experts debate the pros and cons of signalling ET.

    Forty years ago, we sent a map to Earth sailing deep into the cosmos.
    Copies of this map are etched into each of the twin Voyager spacecraft, which launched in the late 1970s and are now the farthest spacecraft from home. One of the probes has already slipped into interstellar space, and the other is skirting the fringes of our sun’s immediate neighbourhood.
    If it’s ever intercepted and decoded by extraterrestrials, the map will not only reveal where to find our watery little world, but also when the space probe that delivered it to alien hands left home.
    “We needed to put something on the Voyager that said where it came from, and how long it was travelling,” says my dad, Frank Drake, who designed the map.
    The Voyager version of route-finding pins the sun onto our galaxy using 14 pulsars, which are the rapidly spinning corpses of exploded stars. It’s a cipher unlike anything made before, the kind of object that drives entire fictional quests—and that is currently spurring arguments over the intelligence of broadcasting our existence to civilisations with possibly nefarious proclivities.
    “Back when Drake did the pulsar map, and Carl Sagan and the whole team did the Voyager record, there hadn't been very much debate over the pros and cons of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence,” says York University’s Kathryn Denning, an anthropologist who studies the ethics of sending messages to extraterrestrials.
    “Now, however, as you know, there is a major debate among scientists and a variety of stakeholders about the wisdom of doing anything other than listening.”


    STELLAR MAP MAKING
    Drake’s cosmic directions to Earth are stamped onto the cover of the Voyager Golden Record, two of which have been ferrying the sights and sounds of planet Earth across the interstellar sea since 1977.
    But unlike the record, which grew into its final form during one short summer, the map took shape years earlier, in late 1969.
    Back then, my dad and Carl Sagan were designing a message to put on the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, which would be flung from the solar system after an encounter with Jupiter. One of the components he and Sagan wanted to include was a map that pointed to Earth in both space and time.
    The question was, how do you create such a map in units that an extraterrestrial might understand?
    Earth-years would be perfectly meaningless, because they are derived from our planet’s particular path around the sun. And there’s also the question of coordinates--in space, no one can find you using up, down, east, or west.
    Even the stars themselves are constantly shifting on astronomical time scales. “Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning” doesn’t quite work if the map is found a billion years from now and the star in question—say, Betelgeuse—has long since exploded and died.


    THE MAGIC ABOUT PULSARS
    To my dad, the answer was obvious: pulsars. Discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, these dense husks of expired stars were perfect blazes in both space and time.
    For starters, pulsars are incredibly long-lived, staying active for tens of millions to multiple billions of years.
    Also, each pulsar is unique. Many spin faster than anything on Earth, sometimes thousands of times each second, and they emit pulses of electromagnetic radiation like lighthouses. By timing those pulses, astronomers can determine a pulsar’s spin rate to a ridiculous degree of accuracy, and no two are alike.
    But pulsars do slow down, sometimes by a mere but measurable billionths of a second a year. By calculating the difference between a pulsar’s spin rate when the map is found versus the spin period inscribed on the map, an intelligent being could figure out how long it had been since the map was made.
    “There was a magic about pulsars … no other things in the sky had such labels on them,” Drake says. “Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures after a long period of time and far, far away.”

    Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977, as seen here in a picture taken at Cape Canaveral in Florida. About two weeks later, NASA launched Voyager 1.

    PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA, JPL-CALTECH


    He reasoned that if those beings had figured out what pulsars were, they surely knew where the whirling, dead stars resided in the galaxy. Using the map, they could then follow the trail back to the sun.
    After a roughly three-minute discussion with Sagan, the decision was made.
    Drake drew the map using 14 known pulsars (today, that original pencil-drawn pulsar map is casually tucked into an old produce box at home). The length of the lines connecting each pulsar to a central point—the sun—indicates how far they are from home. Along those distance markers, he inscribed the pulsars’ spin rates out to 12 digits in binary code, so any curious aliens would know which pulsars he’d chosen as anchors.
    Successfully decoding the map would unambiguously pinpoint the sun’s position and the timeframe of the spacecraft’s launch.
    Today, that makes some scientists and philosophers very nervous.


    DANGEROUS BEACON?
    When the Voyager spacecraft launched, astronomers had no evidence that other planets even existed outside our solar system, much less worlds capable of hosting alien life.
    Now, thanks to missions like NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler endeavor, we know that planets are common in the galaxy, and that a sizable percentage of those worlds could be like Earth. The revelation has spawned efforts to send directed radio messages toward promising stars sytems.
    In the wake of these discoveries, a debate has emerged over the ethics of intentionally announcing our presence to the stars. Some think the endeavour is foolish and dangerous, given how little we know about what might be out there. Others would rather prioritise listening to the stars over talking to them.
    For the Voyager spacecraft, the truth is already out there, as the maps they carry hurtle deeper into the void.

    An illustration of one of the Voyager probes traveling in space.

    PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA


    “In those days, all the people I dealt with were optimists, and they thought the ETs would be friendly,” Drake says. “Nobody thought, even for a few seconds, about whether this might be a dangerous thing to do.”
    So what are the chances of the map actually reaching extraterrestrial shores aboard the Voyagers?
    “Very small,” Drake says. “The thing is going something like 10 kilometres per second, at which speed it takes—for the typical separation of stars—about half a million years to go from one star to another. And of course, it’s not aimed at any star, it’s just going where it’s going.”
    If an extraterrestrial civilisation has sufficiently powerful radars, it might be able to detect the Voyager spacecraft from afar. But that’s still unlikely, Drake says, which means the Voyagers’ sights, sounds, and maps to planet Earth may forever sail silently through the cosmos.
    The reality is that humans have been passively announcing our presence to the cosmos for nearly a century via radar, radio, and TV transmissions. And with the rise of private space enterprises, who knows what new message to the stars might end up making its way into space?
    Denning urges everyone to act thoughtfully and consider the pros and cons of intentionally hailing aliens.
    “We're all on this Earth together,” she says.


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    Header: The cover of the Voyager Golden Record. The starburst pattern seen in the upper right is the pulsar map to Earth. PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA

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    17-08-2017 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO 1930 — An Alabama Family Account

    Columnist Cheryl Costa reports a UFO sighting tale from 1930.

    During the four years I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve noted that some UFO sighting sighting accounts seem to be handed down within families like family heirlooms. A particular 1930 account caught my eye because of its heritage aspect.

    The UFO sighting account happened in the town of Waterloo, Ala., in Lauderdale County in late fall of 1930.

    First, some background: Lauderdale County was named in honor of Colonel James Lauderdale, of Tennessee. Lauderdale County is located in the Northwestern corner of Alabama, which borders Tennessee to the north and Mississippi to the west. According to the census the county has an ancestral mix mostly rooted from all over the British Isles and, of course, Africa.

    During the cotton boom of the early and mid 19th century, Lauderdale County was known principally for cotton and textile mills. In the late 19th century there was industrialization in the form of an iron industry.

    In 1930 the construction activity of the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide electrical power to rural areas made Lauderdale County and small towns like Waterloo grow substantially. The population of Waterloo in the 1930s was about 497; it peaked during WWII to about 524 and presently is only around 200.

    Jesse, a present day adult grandchild of his ancestral observer, tells us that his now-deceased grandmother was a teenager in 1930.

    “It was after dark, perhaps about 6:30 p.m., and my grandmother and three other school mates were waiting in a car before an evening play or musical type performance at her school,” Jesse said. “They were a bit early, so they waited for someone to come unlock the school’s door.”

    It’s important to understand that at that time in rural Alabama there was no such thing as street lights in remote areas where schools were located.

    “Shortly after pulling up by the school, the occupants of the car saw a bright light that looked like a ball of fire,” Jesse said. “My grandmother was in the back driver’s side of the car, and she said that the light was approaching the car from the rear passenger’s side. They all assumed it was a flash light or car headlight of someone to come open up the door to the school. The light got brighter and it filled the car interior with light. It was so bright, my grandmother said it was as bright as daylight.”

    Over the years the woman shared her consistent description with her children and grandchildren. “It was a bright glowing ball about the size of a basketball. It floated by our car, about two or three feet away,” Jesse said she recounted. “It moved forward on the rear passenger side about four feet above the ground. It moved at the speed of a slow walk and was completely silent.”

    Jesse said his grandmother and her friend were so terrified that neither of them would get out of the car. But, as the story goes, she related that the two boys in the car got out and followed the glowing ball of fire as it meandered into the woods. The boys came back after a few minutes and said it had disappeared.

    “The sighting perplexed all who saw it. Later as adults, her friends recalled the sighting event many times over the years,” Jesse said.

    From 2001-2015, Lauderdale County, Ala., reported a total of 28 UFO sightings. Twenty-three of them were reported in the regional area of Florance. Waterloo is part of the Florence-Muscle Shoals metropolitan area, known as “The Shoals.”

    LET’S LOOK AT SOME RECENT UFO SIGHTINGS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY:

    July 16, 2017: At 1 a.m. a resident of Donalds in Abbeville County, S.C., saw something he initially thought was lighting, but then the light started moving around in the clouds.

    July 16, 2017: At 3 a.m. a resident of Independence, in Montgomery County, Kan., reported seeing bright star-shaped objects that were moving at random.

    July 16, 2017: At 4:30 a.m. a resident of San Bernardino, in San Bernardino County, Calif., reported a pair of bright white-lit objects that were flying in a zig-zag formation, then hovered, then flew in darting zig-zags again before silently vanishing.

    July 16, 2017: At 10:30 a.m. a resident of Manhattan, in New York County, N.Y., reported observing cigar-shaped object that was being pursued by four smaller saucer spheres.

    July 16, 2017: At 11:15 p.m. a resident of Hyannis, in Barnstable County, Mass., witnessed what appeared to be a shooting star. The object suddenly made a broad curve, reversed its course 180 degrees and headed back toward the horizon.

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    Spaced-out in the Soviet Union: 3 UFO stories from Russia

    People see - or think they see - UFOs all around the world, and naturally Russia has its fair share of unexplained events. Although there’s no solid proof of contact with extraterrestrials, dozens of people in the country and the former USSR are sure aliens exist.
    UFOs in the USSR
    An alien was reported to appear in the city of Voronezh in 1989.
     
    Source: Varvara Grankova

    All around the world people tend to believe that their own country’s special services have much to hide, including information about extraterrestrial civilizations. Russia is no different, nor was the USSR, where many people discussed the omnipotent KGB holding back data concerning alien secrets.

    In 2005 Vladimir Kryuchkov, the last head of the KGB, denounced the rumors - firmly stating this in an interview: “There was no single case of receiving material confirming any UFO’s existence.”

    According to Kryuchkov, the KGB scrutinized all events in the USSR thought to be connected to abnormal activity. Sadly, the largest country on Earth was found to be short on proven supernatural happenings, including flying saucers and bug-eyed, grey aliens.

    However, the former KGB chief’s words did not sway the minds of Russians who were - and are - set on believing the contrary. People continue to discuss encounters with UFOs and space travelers on sites like ufology.ru. While chatting online they tend to agree on one thing: Civilisations on other planets exist and some have visited Earth.

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    The Petrozavodsk phenomenon

    In both Russia and the USSR, most cases of UFO sightings were connected with military experiments mistaken for objects from space. However, there are some instances that can’t be dismissed so easily. Perhaps the most mysterious case occurred in 1977 in Petrozavodsk (696 km northwest of Moscow).

    One September night, about 200 people from the Republic of Karelia saw a strange object in the night sky, surrounded by glowing white light. It looked like a cloud emitting bright rays and moved from east to west. There were also reports of similar sightings in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Helsinki, and other cities in the Leningrad Oblast and Finland (all these territories are situated close to each other).

    The case later became known as “The Petrozavodsk phenomenon” and was initially attributed to a satellite launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome (788 km east of Moscow) that took place the same night. However, Lev Gindilis - a scientist who collected information and statements about the incident for the Soviet Academy of Science - concluded that it was not a satellite, given the direction of its movement, size, and speed. “It’s unfeasible to satisfactorily understand the observed phenomenon,” he wrote in his report. Almost 50 years after, his words are still true.

    Stranger things in Voronezh and the Far East

    In 1989, while the USSR was on the brink of collapse, an incredibly unusual incident was reported in Voronezh (466 km south of Moscow). A group of children claimed they saw not only a disc-shaped spaceship land in the park they were playing, but also a three-eyed alien who emerged from it. According to the youths, the alien was holding “a 50 cm-long pistol tube” and even attacked one of them before leaving.

    Though the children were the only ones who apparently witnessed the alien, some adults confirmed they had seen the UFO that day so the case attracted great media attention. Nevertheless, since no alien traces were found (except for the relatively high level of radiation in the area of the reported contact) the hype soon dispelled.

    The small city of Dalnegorsk in the Far East (6491 km east of Moscow) also received its 15 minutes of fame in January 1986 after a spherical object darted across the sky. It crashed into a hill where local ufologists later found samples of metals which, though not necessarily unearthly, were not typical for the soil in the area. Officials from the military base situated nearby denied they had anything to do with the incident, so the ufologists assumed that Dalnegorsk had witnessed the crash of an extraterrestrial spaceship or satellite. Still, scientists neither confirm nor deny this suggestion.

    This article is part of the Russian X-Files series in which RBTH explores Russia-related mysteries and paranormal phenomena.

    Read more:

    Forever lost: How Russians hunt for Ivan the Terrible’s library 
    Where to find the Amber Room, a cultural treasure stolen by the Nazis
    Russian boogeymen: How did parents scare their children?
    Death in the Urals: One of the most mysterious tragedies in Russian history
    The mysterious Tunguska explosion of 1908 

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    17-08-2017 om 00:33 geschreven door peter  

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    UFOs Flying Dark

    “Lights in the sky” sightings easily comprise the majority of UFO sightings, and have just as easily been dismissed by skeptics as bright stars and planets, conventional aircraft, and—dare I say it?—swamp gas. Now, there is a new bane of a ufologist’s existence—drones. Every kid with an LED-covered quadcopter can spark a viral “UFO” video, even further muddying the already murky waters of “lights in the sky” cases.
    Depiction of triangle UFO at night. (Credit: OpenMinds.tv)

    Depiction of triangle UFO at night.

    (Credit: OpenMinds.tv)

    So perhaps researchers need to take a step back and look into the darkness—into the far more rare cases of nighttime sightings of craft flying completely dark, without any lights. It’s impossible for skeptics to consign such cases to the “Venus Files” if they are solid, unlit objects. These cases also present a more enticing element, which may or may not be warranted—a somewhat sinister aspect as these craft obviously don’t want to be seen as they are cruising silently just over your head.

    The subject of “Dark UFOs” came up recently when I interviewed Lorraine M. about her early 1980s sighting in Putnam County, NY, which was the scene of a major flap in the Hudson Valley which lasted several years.

    “I was leaving a party with my friends,” Lorraine explained in a detailed email. “It was 1am and we had parked our cars in an elementary school parking lot. There were about six of us, laughing, having fun. I looked up into the sky to take in the beauty of this clear, starlit night when all of a sudden I noticed an area straight up without stars! ‘What the hell?!’ was my first response! I elbowed my boyfriend and pointed to the sky without saying a word. Immediately he elbowed and pointed upward to the next friend, and so on! We all stood there dumbstruck, looking up, amazed at the sight before us.”

    This is a great description of the immediate reaction to such a sighting—no words, just each friend nudging one another and pointing successively on down the line. Lorraine explained that there were no streetlights, and the field of stars was very bright that night. The “colossal craft” had no lights or other form of illumination, so “The only way you could see its triangular shape was how it blotted out the stars!”

    “We all stood there, staring upward, mouths agape, bewildered… scared yet amazed…It passed over us at a height that it could nick its bottom on the point of the Empire State Building. And its speed was as slow as a balloon in the Macy’s Day Parade. It passed slowly. Creeping along. Then all of a sudden it shot out from view, then reappeared what seemed like ten miles down further and continued its sloth-like pace.

    “We ran to our cars! The next day we learned through the local newspaper that others had witnessed this craft as well! I would say that experience far exceeded any party that night!”

    Just to further emphasize her story, Lorraine later emailed me this:

    “All of this is the darn truth! I’ll never forget it!!”

    Book cover to Linda Zimmerman's Hudson Valley UFOs.

    Book cover to Linda Zimmerman’s Hudson Valley UFOs.

    This craft exhibited many of the characteristics described by witnesses during the 1980s flap—triangular, the size of a football field, and the ability to go both incredibly slow and impossibly fast. However, whereas most of the other craft witnessed were often described as being lit up like Christmas trees, this one was flying dark.

    Around the same time frame of the late 70s and early 80s, a “black disk” was spotted one night in Brentwood, NY, which is on Long Island. A witness reported to MUFON that she went outside to call her cat in for the night when she looked up and saw “a black disk the size of a stop sign at arm’s length” and about the height of a radio tower. It moved very slowly, diagonally over her house and she had time to observe it from both the back and front yards.

    Again, there were no lights, and the shape was only able to be determined by the “sky glow” from the neighborhood lights, as the object was silhouetted against the dark sky. There was one other unusual feature the witness described with this craft—“The bottom didn’t appear smooth, it looked like it had sections that were raised, with sharp edges.” Unlike the previous case, however, where the UFO shot off in the blink of an eye, this black craft just quietly floated out of sight.

    Yet another different shape of dark object appeared even earlier in the area, a rectangular craft as described in a 1978 NUFORC report from Avon, Connecticut. This case was also different, as what first drew the attention of the witness was a bright light, which apparently shut off as the witness approached.

    “I was driving back to where I was staying that night after dropping off a friend. I was driving up a road in Avon, CT, when I saw a bright light up ahead; I thought this was unusual for this time of night [1 am]. I proceeded up the road and when I got to where the light basically was coming from, there was no light present. I looked around in curiosity and discovered an object the size of a house hovering about fifty feet in the air. There was a half moon and visibility was good, this object was very dark and large, there were no lights on and it made no noise whatsoever.

    “I parked my car in the middle of the road and left it running with the lights on, hoping someone would come down the road to witness this as well. I stood still in one spot staring at this object for about 5 minutes, fearing what it would be capable of doing. I looked around and saw a house that had its lights on, so I ran over to it and knocked on the door. I waited for a couple of minutes, but nobody answered.

    “I ran back to where my car was and the object was still there. I became so scared I jumped in my car and drove off quickly. As I went to the stop sign at the end of the road, I looked up and the object had followed me all the way down the road. I turned to the left and saw the object was still following me, so I floored the gas and never looked back again.”

    As if this case isn’t bizarre enough, there was a final twist.

    “It took me over a month to tell anyone else, but eventually I told my parents. We ended up moving to an area right where this event occurred, and a neighbor saw the same thing almost one year to the date later. She described the exact same event I witnessed.”

    Depiction of triangle UFO at night. (Credit: OpenMinds.tv)

    Depiction of triangle UFO at night.

    (Credit: OpenMinds.tv)

    What were the chances that this witness would actually move to the location of her intense encounter, and then find a neighbor who saw the same black, unlit object around the same day the following year?

    Another black triangle with no lights was seen by at least three men in 1985. It was around midnight when “Jerry” and his friend, “Matt” were driving from Danbury Hospital toward Brewster, NY on Route 84. The sky was overcast, but not completely dark, due to the sky glow from all the street and building lights. Had it been a clear night, the two friends may not have seen the incredible silent object they witnessed, silhouetted against the clouds.

    “It was a large solid, black triangle with no visible sign of propulsion,” Jerry told me. “No exhaust, no propellers. It was low enough that the altitude itself was notable and striking as it appeared to be very low relative to the highway for such a large craft. In terms of speed, I would say somewhere around 80 miles an hour. I am guessing that because we were driving on I-84 and the craft stayed ahead of us during the time we were on the highway, but was not pulling away at great speed. There were no lights that I recall and the craft was a triangle, not the V-shape that I know some others have seen. It would have been travelling at well below stall speed for any conventional aircraft of its size.

    “We pulled off the highway at Exit 4 (west bound) and pulled into what I believe was an empty lot where a McDonald’s now exists. There was another motorist who had pulled off for the same reason. He was standing outside his car when we pulled in and we spoke briefly. The three of us; my friend, the other motorist and I, all watched the craft head toward Ridgefield [Connecticut]. The time was likely around midnight, but I don’t know the exact time. It was after 10:00 PM because I called the tower at Danbury Airport the next day to see if they had any idea what it was. They said the tower closed at 10:00 so they had no information at all to offer.”

    The most startling case I have had involving a dark craft has to be the one sighted by Jim in Howells, NY, in 1995, if for nothing else, the sheer enormity of the object.

    Jim was in his twenties and living at his mother’s house. He went to take the garbage out one night, so he turned on the front porch light. This was no ordinary light, as his mother had installed an extremely bright spotlight that did not aim down, it aimed straight ahead, so the angle of its beam went up into the sky, as well. Without that powerful beam of light, Jim never would have seen what passed overhead.

    “It was like something out of Battlestar Galactica! It was an enormous, metallic triangle and I could see a lot of detail.”

    The craft did not have any lights on, but as it was only at an altitude of a couple of hundred feet, the spotlight illuminated the underside.

    Depiction of triangle UFO seen in Illinois. (Credit: Michael Schratt)

    Depiction of triangle UFO seen in Illinois.

    (Credit: Michael Schratt)

    “It wasn’t moving really fast, but it was going along at a good clip. Even so, it took many seconds to pass completely overhead.”

    I asked Jim what he would compare the size to: a house, a plane, a football field?

    “At least three football fields,” he replied without hesitation.

    As he began by making a science fiction spaceship comparison, I mentioned the opening scene of Star Wars where the Imperial Star Destroyer just keeps coming and coming across the screen.

    “I never thought of that, but that’s what it was like. It was just enormous.”

    “Any sound?” I asked.

    “Absolutely silent,” he stated. “Had that spotlight not been on, I don’t think I would have even noticed it.”

    I asked what his immediate reaction had been to the sighting, and how it made him feel. In the spirit of a picture being worth a thousand words, rather than trying to describe it, he struck a pose and expression of extreme surprise and amazement. That said it all.

    What else is in the skies above us that we don’t notice because it has absolutely no form of illumination? Why are some craft brilliantly lit, clearly wanting to be seen, or at least not caring if they are seen? Can we assume that dark UFOs are rare, or are just the sightings of these craft rare because the conditions have to be just right to see them?

    Whatever is going on, these cases present researchers a valuable opportunity to sidestep the numerous excuses for lights in the sky and concentrate on the indisputable facts: for reasons we can only imagine, enormous triangles, disks, and rectangles are in our skies displaying no lights, not wanting to be seen. Based upon the cases with which I have personally dealt, and others I have come across in the MUFON and NUFORC databases, I know I will now be starting a new file labeled “Flying Dark.”

    Watch Linda’s presentation on Hudson Valley UFOs here.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    17-08-2017 om 00:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Scientists Claim They Have “Solved the Mystery of How the First Animals Appeared on Earth”

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    IN BRIEF
    A team of researchers from the Australian National University have discovered what could be a huge clue in understanding how animal life emerged on Earth. They claim that when Earth melted from an icy snowball, the resulting flood of nutrients sparked the evolution of complex ecosystems.

    SNOWBALLS AND ALGAE

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    Associate Professor Jochen Brocks and Dr. Amber Jarrett with an oil sample taken ancient sedimentary rocks.

    CREDIT

    Stuart Hay, ANU

    The research team crushed old sedimentary rocks to powder and extracted molecules of old organisms from them. 

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    Stuart Hay, ANU

    This week, in a press release, the Australian National University asserted that a team of their scientists had figured out how animal life came into existence on our planet. The release states, “Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the mystery of how the first animals appeared on Earth, a pivotal moment for the planet without which humans would not exist.”

    The discovery started with ancient sedimentary rock samples from central Australia. The team, led by ANU Research School of Earth Sciences associate professor Jochen Brocks, crushed the rock samples into powder and then “extracted molecules of ancient organisms from them,” Brocks explained in the press release. “These molecules tell us that it really became interesting 650 million years ago. It was a revolution of ecosystems, it was the rise of algae.”

    Scientists generally agree that complex, animal life on Earth started some 600 million years ago. Brocks and his team claim that a significant event preceded this. “Before all of this happened, there was a dramatic event 50 million years earlier called Snowball Earth,” he said, referring to a hypothesis that suggests a period when the planet’s surface was entirely frozen from pole to pole.

    This event is key for the ANU team’s findings, as it was what made the growth and spread of algae possible. “The Earth was frozen over for 50 million years. Huge glaciers ground entire mountain ranges to powder that released nutrients, and when the snow melted during an extreme global heating event rivers washed torrents of nutrients into the ocean,” Brocks explained.

    EVOLVING INSIGHTS

    At the end of this frozen period, when global temperatures settled into more hospitable levels, the nutrients that flooded into the oceans sparked the transition from microbial life into a more complex life, Brocks said. “These large and nutritious organisms at the base of the food web provided the burst of energy required for the evolution of complex ecosystems, where increasingly large and complex animals, including humans, could thrive on Earth,” he added.

    This study is, indeed, promising and could potentially be groundbreaking. The origin of complex life on Earth remains one of the most puzzling events in science, as the evolutionary jump between single-celled microbes and multi-cellular, nucleus-bearing, mitochondria-powered organisms is simply immense.

    Additionally, our understanding of the moment this occurred keeps on evolving. While it’s understood that conditions on Earth became ideal at a certain point to make life possible, being able to pinpoint just what these conditions were — and exactly when they occurred — could better help explain complex life’s rise.

    Studies like this ANU research help in achieving this. Recently, a couple of studies have been published that also attempted to shed light into the origin of life on Earth. One suggested that life didn’t just begin in the oceans, but also on land. Another claimed that the so-called Asgard microbes are the bacterial ancestors of human life.

    Studying the origins of life on this planet could also help us to figure out how life develops in the cosmos. Right now, the search for extraterrestrial life is a concern that keeps a number of scientists and institutions occupied. Understanding life on Earth might just help us understand life beyond it.

    17-08-2017 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

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    Maps NASA sent into space 40-years ago could help Aliens find Earth

    Advanced alien civilizations could find our planet with the aid of Cosmic Maps NASA launched into space some 40 years ago. However, Dr. Frank Drake, the man who helped design the charts has suggested these maps could be dangerous for our species. 

    This is the diagram carried aboard Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11.

    Image Credit: NASA.

    Our quest for alien life goes back more than you’d imagine. But perhaps the most important step towards finding our cosmic neighbors began in the 1970’s when NASA sent maps revealing our planet’s location into space, onboard of four spacecraft in hopes that one day we would be able to communicate if anyone else is out there.

    However, despite the fact that sending the maps of Earth into space was a great step for mankind, the creator of the maps—Dr. Frank Drake—has spoken out about the potentially ‘dangerous’ decisions to send the maps into space over 40 years ago.

    All f the four spacecraft carrying the maps—Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2—have left our solar system and are heading towards deep space with our planet’s coordinates embedded onto their body.

    Dr. Drake who worked at NASA to design the ‘cosmic’ charts placed on board Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 launched in 1972 and 1973 respectively believes not everything is positive about sending the maps.

    The Voyager spacecraft were launched into space with golden records (pictured) on board.

    Image Credit: NASA

    In an interview with his daughter Nadia Drake, a reporter from National Geographic, Dr. Drake said: “In those days, all the people I worked with were optimists, and they believed how ETs would be friendly, Nobody thought, even for a few seconds, about whether this might be a dangerous thing to do.”

    The plaques placed on board the Pioneer spacecraft are a message from our civilization. They depict a man and a woman standing side by side, next to a map of Earth, which plots its position in relation to distant pulsar stars.

    Why pulsar stars? Because these stars are long-lasting stars and are so bright that they could help guide aliens in the right direction towards Earth.

    The maps on board the Voyager spacecraft are of similar design. The Voyager 1 and 2 feature a golden record on board, with similar pulsar stars to our planet.

    NASA wanted to put something on board the spacecraft saying where we come from, who we are, and how long our spacecraft were traveling.

    Furthermore, the records also contain various sounds from nature, and noises produced by humans like a train, and a kiss between a mother and a child.

    However, despite all potential danger these cosmic charts pose in outer space, Dr. Drake says that the chance of Aliens intercepting the messages and finding out wehre we are are “very small”

    “The thing is going something like 10 kilometers [6.2 miles] per second, at which speed it takes – for the typical separation of stars – about half a million years to go from one star to another,” added Dr. Drake.

    Apparently, things about E.T. and visitations to Earth changed since the 1970’s. Now it seems more people are inclined to avoiding aliens at any cost.

    Now, more experts are leaning towards the idea that we should not reveal ourselves to aliens.

    Professor Stephe Hawking said in an interview that if aliens found us, it would be something comparable to when the Native Americans first encountered Christopher Columbus—something that did not turn out so well for the natives.

    Stephen Hawking has said that if aliens ever discovered Earth, they would probably want to conquer and colonize it.


    (H/T National Geographic)

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    16-08-2017 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

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    THE UNEXPLAINED- This video ‘proves’ we’ve not been told everything about Crop Circles

    16-08-2017 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

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    Studie VUB: robots kunnen nu ook eigen beschadigingen herstellen - HLN.be

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    Net zoals mensen een snee in hun handen, een breuk of een spierscheur zelf verzorgen en herstellen, kunnen robots nu ook zichzelf helen. Dat blijkt uit de studie "Self-healing soft pneumatic robots" van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Op deze manier zullen robots in de toekomst langer en zelfstandig kunnen werken.

    Het onderzoek richt zich op "soft robots" die gemaakt zijn uit flexibele en zachte materialen. Door hun flexibiliteit worden de soft robots ingezet voor talloze toepassingen zoals het grijpen van delicate en malse voorwerpen te grijpen in de voedselindustrie of in de minimaal-invasieve chirurgie. 

    Door hun zachte materialen garanderen ze veilig contact met mensen, maar zijn ze tegelijkertijd ook kwetsbaarder voor contact en schade door scherpe voorwerpen of overmatige druk. Het project aan de VUB gaf een grijper, een robothand en een kunstmatige spier in hun programmatie daarom een zelfhelende functie. 

    Nadat de prototypes gecontroleerd beschadigd werden, bleek dat het wetenschappelijke principe ook in de praktijk werkt. Realistische schade kon volledig worden hersteld, zonder zwakke plekken achter te laten. Zo konden de "soft robots" nadien hun taken weer volledig opnemen, terwijl ze in de realiteit vaak door mensen hersteld moeten worden of zelfs in de vuilnisbak belanden.

    "Robots kunnen niet alleen lichter en veiliger gemaakt worden, maar kunnen straks ook langer zelfstandig werken zonder telkens gerepareerd te moeten worden", vertelt professor Bram Vanderborght.

    De resultaten van de studie werden vandaag gepubliceerd in het vaktijdschrift Science Robotics.

    Lees ook

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    16-08-2017 om 22:47 geschreven door peter  

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    Get Ready for a Real Flying DeLorean

    Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

    As a fan of Back to the Future and Doc Brown’s DeLorean time machine as well as someone who still stops and stares longingly when a brushed stainless steel DeLorean DMC-12 drives by, this is the kind of news that makes one want to yell “Great Scott!”. The nephew of the famous car guru John DeLorean announced that the DeLorean Aerospcae DR-7 – a real flying car using the same kind of futuristic technology that went into the DMC-12 – is just months away from traveling the skies … and perhaps time? Where does the line start?

    Paul DeLorean is the CEO and chief designer of DeLorean Aerospace, a company in Laguna Beach, California, with a mission John DeLorean and Doc Brown would both be proud of:

    To bring the freedom and exhilaration of personal air transportation to the masses. With superior design and engineering, our advanced architecture provides a practical, elegant, and extremely safe alternative to conventional aircraft, with the convenience of airport-free access.

    Credit: DeLorean Aerospace

    DeLorean’s biggest asset is his DNA. His uncle John started at the Packard Motor Company but became famous at General Motors, where he designed the Pontiac GTO muscle car, the Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac Grand Prix and (proving he was human) the Chevrolet Vega subcompact. Then he became infamous by starting his own car company to make the gull-winged DMC-12. John’s father and Paul’s grandfather, Zachary DeLorean, emigrated to the United States from Romania and eventually worked at the Ford Motor Company factory in Highland Park, Michigan, where he was also a union organizer. Needless to say, transmission fluid is in Paul DeLorean’s blood.

    DeLorean Aerospace was founded in 2012 to build a flying car or, in somewhat Doc Brown-ish technical terms, a two-seat vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) personal air transport vehicle. Accrdoing to the website, the DR-7 combines a “zero-emission modern electric power system with a lightweight yet highly stable platform” and will contain a wide variety of futuristic innovations. Not to mention good looks, or as Doc Brown might say, “The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a ‘flying’ machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”

    The DR-7 has been designed with a number of unique technologies for improved safety and overall functionality. With an industry-first centerline twin vectoring propulsion system, stall-resistant canard wing, and multiple patent-pending features, our aircraft is intrinsically safer. With an incredibly low drag coefficient, the DR-7 maximizes range under fully electric power.

    The DR-7 will be 20 feet (6 meters) long and 18.5 feet (5.5 meters) wide with wings that fold in so it can be parked in a large garage. A one-third scale model has already been built and DeLorean is now working on a full-sized, fully-functional prototype that he claims will have a range of 120 miles per charge and be ready within a year.

    At DeLorean Aerospace, we are actualizing the dream of practical and accessible air mobility with our DR-7 aircraft.

    As Marty McFly would say … “Whoa!” All that’s left to answer is when and how much. The prototype is expected to be flying sometime in 2018. And the price? For now, you’ll need Doc Brown’s DeLorean to find that out.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    16-08-2017 om 22:29 geschreven door peter  

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    The Little Green Men Days Festival and the Total Eclipse

    Do you suspect there might be a connection between UFOs, aliens and total eclipses? If so, the place to find out on August 21st is in Kelly, Kentucky, which will host its annual Kelly Little Green Men Days Festival at the same time as the total eclipse passes directly overhead. Will the Little Green Men of the 1955 Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter return? Do aliens needs special glasses to look at the eclipse?

    The original Little Green Men Festival was held in 2005 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the now-famous close encounter described in detail here and briefly on the festival website:

    On the evening of August 21, 1955, five adults and seven children arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small alien creatures from a spaceship were attacking their Kelly, KY farmhouse and they had been holding them off with gunfire “for nearly four hours”. Two of the adults claimed they had been shooting at “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.

    The incident was celebrated in a musical by The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago called “It Came from Kentucky” and the so-called Hopkinsville Goblins are also said to have inspired the Pokémon called Sableeye. The festival has now become an annual event in Kelly and features live music, an alien costume contest, speakers, authors and vendors selling all manners of UFO and alien wares. The festival will also host the world premier of the movie, “The Invasion of Kelly.”

    And then there’s the total eclipse.

    On the exact date of the 62nd anniversary of the Kelly–Hopkinsville incident, full totality will occur for 2 minutes, 40.1 seconds in Hopkinsville, the “point of greatest eclipse” according to the website set up for the event, which describes the totality in totality…

    It will actually take about 3 hours from point of first contact until the eclipse has completely passed over head. Point of first contact (when the moon first begins to move in front of the sun) will be 11:56 a.m. CT, with full totality beginning at 1:24 p.m. and lasting for 2 minutes and 40.1 seconds. The last partial phase of the eclipse will end at 2:51 p.m. CT.

    Come for the Little Green Men … stay for the eclipse!

    Unfortunately, the website FAQ page doesn’t address the most important question … what should people do if the little green men return for the eclipse? That may be because local officials don’t want attendees coming prepared for another four hour gun battle (firearms and weapons are prohibited from the event). Or it might be because, other than for a brief time the night of the original incident, the Hopkinsville Goblins or little green men have never returned to Hopkinsville, Kelly or the festival held in their honor.

    Is this the year? We’ll soon find out.

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    16-08-2017 om 22:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Most Mind-Bogglingly Weird Alien Encounters

    The Most Mind-Bogglingly Weird Alien Encounters

    Accounts of close encounters of the third kind, in which human beings are directly confronted with alleged beings from another world, are by nature already quite bizarre and otherworldly enough as it is. There is no denying that this is an area that has pushed out and stretched against the boundaries of the strange and then some, yet there are some cases among these that truly rocket out into the outer fringes of the surreal and the deeply weird. From space goblins to floating brains, to amorphous blobs from beyond and spacemen that can fit in the palm of your hand, here we will look at the strangest of the strange when it comes to supposed contact with aliens from another world.

    One of the earlier, weirdest, and indeed more famous of accounts that seem almost too bizarre to possibly be true is the infamous case of what have become known as the the Hopskinsville Goblins. The story begins at a remote, rural farmhouse in the wilds of Christian County, Kentucky, on Old Madisonville Road near the town of Hopkinsville on the night of August 21, 1955. On this quiet evening the Sutton family had a guest over by the name of Billy Ray Taylor, as well as his wife, June, and at at some point Taylor went outside to get some water from the well at around sundown. As he made his way to the well, he allegedly saw a bizarre sight in the air above, which looked like a streaking light that was spewing multicolored sparks and flames all over the place. The light passed overhead and then seemed to drop down into a nearby gully around 300 yards away, after which the humid night was infused with an eldritch glow, and the startled Taylor ran back to the safety of the house.

    Once inside, he excitedly told everyone about what he had just seen, but at the time no one really believed him and they thought he was just messing around, despite his obvious fear and insistence that he had really seen it. However skeptical the rest of the family was, they would soon have a change of heart when the dog began to start barking wildly at some unseen trespasser outside in dark. Looking outside it was noticed that what was at first thought to be just a faint light that was seemingly bobbing about and approaching the house, and as it drew closer it was found to be one of the strangest looking creatures anyone present had ever seen or even imagined.

    Hopkinsville Goblin

    There hovering in the air was a small glowing humanoid figure around 3-feet in height wearing a metallic suit of some sort. It was described as having greenish skin, bulging eyes, and an oversized bald head with bat-like ears and a large, lipless mouth that stretched between them. The body was thin, and its arms were long, tapered and spider-like, tipped with what looked like talons. The frightened Suttons quickly did the human thing, gathering up a rifle and shotgun as the thing hovered around outside, and when it was close enough they fired upon it. Although they thought they had hit it, the creature merely flipped over and retreated into the shadows. Shortly after this, the head of another, either the same creature or another, peeked in through one of the windows, prompting another volley of fire that once again failed to do any noticeable damage to whatever it was, merely blowing out the window in a spray of shards of glass as the strange monster ran off.

    Curious as to whether they had hurt the thing or not, Taylor and the Sutton father, John Charley Sutton, warily crept outside, guns at the ready, and took a furtive glance around. At first there was nothing, but then Taylor let out a scream as a clawed hand purportedly reached down from the eve of the back door and grabbed at his head, managing to gain a fistful of hair as Sutton dragged his friend back inside and slammed the door. The oldest Sutton son, 24-year-old Lucky Sutton, then opened the door to take a potshot at the roof with his shotgun, after which the creature floated down to the ground, apparently unhurt, and scampered off.

    As bizarre and terrifying as this all was, there soon appeared other entities similar in appearance to the original one they had seen out in the night, and it became apparent that they were under siege by a whole group of the creatures, an estimated 10 to 15 of them. For the next three hours the sounds of the rural Kentucky night were punctuated by the staccato blare of gunfire as the mysterious floating monsters made passes at the house as the family cowered within and took shots at them. For the most part the bullets whizzing out into the murk either failed to hit their mark or were ineffectual, with the few that did hit occasionally letting out metallic pings, like “a coin hitting a metal bucket,” as if the creatures were made of steel. All of this happened against the backdrop of a faint green haze glowing from somewhere in the distance, perhaps the location where the “spaceship” had gone down in the gully.

    Since the home had no phone service, the family were at the mercy of the monsters lurking outside, unable to call anyone for help and slowly running out of ammunition. At some point the activity died down, and the creatures’ relentless, seemingly aggressive yet ultimately inscrutable passes at the house ceased. Seeing this as a chance to get out of there, the family and their guests piled into their cars and sped away towards town, where they promptly informed rather bemused police of what had happened to them. As skeptical as they were, officers nevertheless made their way out to the farm to take a look, but found no sign of the reported “goblin” creatures other than the damage inflicted by all of the gunfire. In some accounts, Air Force personnel also came to the farm to investigate the strange occurrence, although it is unclear if they found anything of note.

    The police left without incident and the family returned to their home, but soon after a second attack would occur, as glowing faces began to bloom out of the darkness once again, much to their horror. Once again the bizarre beasts came at the farmhouse, floating about, popping up to peer into windows, and scurrying around on the roof as the family once again opened fire, and this went on until dawn, when whatever the strange intruders were stalked off and this time did not return. From the very following day the dramatic, spooky encounter was splashed all over newspapers of the area, fanning out to become national news as reporters and the curious converged upon the farm. Faced with reporters and monster hunters camping out on their property hoping to see the creatures for themselves and the relentless, never-ending media attention focused on them, the family sold their farm and moved off.

    It seems like something out of a horror movie, just so incredibly dramatic and bizarre in nature, and it has remained one of the oddest UFO accounts ever. To this day, the Hopkinsville Goblin incident has been picked apart and written of countless times, and has become one of the weirdest and most well-known alien encounters out there. What happened to these people and what was it that came down to seemingly attack them? What did these things want? Were they ever even real at all? If they were, then whatever they were, one things seems clear; they certainly seemed to have not received the warmest welcome to Earth.

    Other such inexplicably bizarre alien encounter reports were made throughout the 1950s as well. In 1957, a retired teacher named Mary Starr allegedly woke up in the middle of the night in her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in the U.S., to see a piercingly bright light outside of her bedroom window. The object was described as floating over her yard, and seemed to be a large craft of some type with rectangular windows on its sides. Fascinated by what she was seeing, Starr then supposedly gazed into one of the windows and could see two decidedly bizarre entities moving about within, which were about 4-feet tall. According to the witness, they had translucent cubes for heads holding within them bright red cores, rubbery bodies that were like “skirts,” and handless appendages akin to tentacles. After a moment of observing the outlandish beings, the windows then apparently vanished as if they had never been there, and an antenna or protrusion of some sort came out of the craft, after which the whole thing began to glow before silently shooting straight up into the night sky.

    The following year, in 1958, there was a weird account from Sweden, in which witnesses Stig Rydberg and Hans Gustafsson claimed to have been driving along a remote road through a thick fog at around 3 AM when they spotted a UFO measuring around 12 feet across and ringed by four “jelly bags” that were blue in color and which jumped wildly about through the air around the main craft. As the two men stopped their car to look on at the unusual sight, the four entities then reportedly descended and attacked them, demonstrating some sort of suction power with which they grabbed the witnesses and began pulling them up to the craft. The two horrified witnesses claimed that they had tried to struggle to get away, but that their arms and legs merely sank into bodies composed of gelatinous ooze that smelled like “ether and burnt sausage.” Somehow Rydberg managed to squirm free, after which he laid on the car horn and this apparently startled the creatures enough for them to drop the other man and retreat into their ship to take off into the night at astronomical speeds. The two men would say that they felt sick for days after the encounter with the “space blobs.”

    The 1970s really brought a wealth of such incredibly bizarre apparent alien encounters, and some of the best can be found in this era. On August 19, 1970 there was a curious encounter in the country of Malaysia. On this day, six children were apparently playing in a forested area when a tiny UFO measuring around 3 feet across came down to land in a clearing, after which five miniature, 3-inch tall humanoids descended out of the vehicle wearing odd blue spacesuits and one in a yellow helmet adorned with spikes. The diminutive beings then marched over to a tree and seemed to be busying themselves with installing some sort of mechanical device to a tree. One of the kids apparently went over and tried to grab one of the little creatures, and it promptly shot at him with a “ray gun,” injuring his thigh. Interestingly, there have been many other such sightings of mini UFOs and humanoid beings in Malaysia as well, with the witnesses typically being children.

    The following year, on August 17, 1971, there was a perhaps even stranger alien encounter from Palos Verdes, California. Witnesses John Hodges and Pete Rodriguez were allegedly headed to their car at 2 AM when they saw off through the trees a faint, mysterious glow emanating from beyond. They got into their car, switched on the headlights, and their suspended in the beams of light from their vehicle were what were described as two large, blueish entities that looked just like disembodied human brains, hovering right in the middle of the road and surrounded by clouds of vapor that seemed to cling to them. The larger one of the “brains” was described as having a prominent red eye set within it, and this is the one that began to move towards the vehicle for purposes unknown.

    The two terrified men understandably got out of there as fast as they possibly could, and it was later noticed that they had 2 hours of missing time. In 1976, Hodges would undergo hypnotic regression after years of being plagued by nightmares and wondering what had happened to them out on that lonely road. Under hypnosis, Hodges revealed that he had dropped Rodriquez off at home and arrived at his own house to find the larger brain waiting for him there, which had then telepathically spoken to him. He claimed that he had then been taken into the brains’ ship to some sort of “control room,” where it was revealed that they were merely telepathic tools being used by other aliens, this time more akin to the “grey” aliens typically described in more mainstream reports, although in this case they stood over 7-feet tall.

    These master aliens then apparently showed Hodges various images of nuclear war and destruction as they explained that the human race had grown too powerful for its own good. He was also shown another planet that had been completely destroyed by another race that had met the same fate, and was admonished that humankind would be the “instruments of their own fate,” telling him, “Take the time to understand yourselves. The time draws near when you shall need to!” Hodges then says that he felt a potent buzzing sensation in the back of his head and found himself back in his own car. In the years after, he became convinced that these aliens had implanted him with what he called a “translator cell,” and that he received frequent telepathic communications from them through this device, in which they made dire predictions such as an apocalyptic war in the Middle East and the future widespread use of nuclear weapons. Whether you think this story and its “space brains” has any truth to it at all or not, you have to admit it is a damn strange tale all the same.

    Also quite unusual is the encounter reported by Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, who on October 11, 1973, were fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. As they cast their lines out they suddenly began to hear a series of strange hissing, whirring noises coming from behind them. When they turned around to look, they apparently came face to face with an egg-shaped spacecraft hovering over the river not far away, and a door then opened to regurgitate forth baffling creatures that really defy any easy classification. There standing in the doorway of the craft were three 6-foot tall beings with grey leathery, wrinkled skin and thin, carrot-like protrusions jutting out of their heads. The hands and feet were said to be fused into pinchers, and the eyes and mouths were just slits.

    Just as they were reeling from the shock of seeing such a thing, the men realized that they had been somehow paralyzed by an unseen force, which kept them glued to where they were. Stuck as they were, the two witnesses made easy pickings for the bizarre aliens, who plucked them up and dragged them aboard their unearthly vessel. Hickson would later claim that he was brought aboard the ship and brought to a room with a blinding light, in which he was subjected to an examination by an oval shaped robotic probe of some sort. After around 20 minutes, the two were deposited back onto the bank of the river and the mysterious craft floated off. Hickson then claimed that he had found Parker on the riverbank as well in a rather disheveled state, crying and praying to God.

    The two went back to their car and sat there in shock for an undetermined amount of time, before heading home. They would later contact the Kessler Air Force Base and the local sheriff with their bizarre tale, which went about as well as you would expect. No one really took the eyebrow-raising story seriously, but the whole case inevitably became splashed about local newspapers soon after. Hickson in particular went on to entertain questions on the matter and even help publish a book about the whole incident called UFO Contact at Pascagoula, while Parker ducked out of the limelight, and eventually moved out of state to avoid the constant media attention. For is part, Parker claimed that he had passed out at the beginning of the ordeal and only come to after it was over, only recalling bits and pieces under hypnosis.

    The case was picked apart by some of the most eminent UFO researchers at the time, who for the most part agreed that the men at least really believed that what they had seen was real. The case of the Pascagoula aliens has since been met with a good amount of skepticism. It has been called everything from a shared hallucination to a flat-out lie, which has only been made more complicated by the fact that Hickson’s account only seemed to get more and more bizarre and complex as time went on. It has been suggested that they had a shared imaginary experience, that they were drinking, or even that they were just tripping balls on LSD at the time, but no one really knows what happened except the two witnesses themselves.

    Moving on into 1977, there is the weird account of 19-year-old Lee Parish, who on January 27, 1977, claimed that he spied a rectangular UFO hovering in the sky before he was whisked into the air by a beam of light while driving home. He then found himself upon some sort of spacecraft, where he was presented to three very bizarre beings. One of the entities was described as being like a black “tombstone” 20-feet high, with a robotic arm extending from its front. Another of the things was smaller and looked like a red prism of some kind, while yet another was 6-feet tall and described as being a motionless white prism with two robotic arms and a “wedge-like” head, which produced strange noises like teeth being brushed.

    At the time, Lee had the strong feeling that the white one was the leader, although he did not know why he had this impression. During the encounter, the red one was seen as the most anxious, seemingly afraid of their human guest and hiding behind the others, although it did at one point extend a robotic looking arm to try and touch him, which produced a vague, unsettling sensation of coldness and pain. Eventually, the three beings lined up and seemed to merge together, after which Lee felt a warmth permeate his body and soon found himself back in his vehicle, along with 38 minutes of missing time. It is all rather odd to say the least.

    Moving on to 1977 we come to Paciencia, Brazil, where 33-year-old bus driver Antonia La Rubia was allegedly walking to work when he spied a rather strange object shaped like an “enormous wide hat” sitting in a field  Soon after he noticed the mysterious craft, it lashed out with a thin, bright beam of light, which caught La Rubia and whisked him away to a room of pure white. Within this room were various mechanical-looking beings with bright scales and arms like tentacles, as well as egg-shaped bodies and heads adorned with what appeared to be antenna. Instead of legs, the strange creatures reportedly sat upon rigid pedestals of some sort.

    After this initial meeting, the frightened La Rubia claims that he shouted at the creatures, which seemed to have the effect of making them cower in fear. He lost consciousness again, and when he awoke he says that he was now subjected to a series of images projected onto the wall, including various surreal scenes such as a dog being melted and a train entering a tunnel, the meaning of which could not be discerned. At one point during this screening of oddities and grotesqueries one of the robot beings apparently reached out to draw blood from one of La Rubia’s fingers, after which it splashed it across a wall to form a pattern of three circles and an “L” shape. At this point, La Rubia claims he lost consciousness once more, and when he awoke he was purportedly back in his car, vomiting and dizzy from the whole puzzling ordeal.

    In Italy the following year there was the case of Pier Zanfretta, of Italy. On December 6, 1978, Zanfetta was working as a security guard doing his rounds when he apparently saw four bright lights approaching him. He went out to investigate with pistol drawn and saw that the source of the lights were reptilian being standing 10-feet tall, with green, saggy looking skin, heads adorned with spines, and in place of a mouth a strange breathing apparatus. Upon noticing him, these entities purportedly shot out some sort of heat beam, which sent Zanfretta running in terror. He would later be found by another security detail passed out on the ground. When the area was checked there were found to be a series of large footprints imprinted into the ground and scorched branches in the trees, lending some credence to the dramatic story the witness would weave.

    Zanfretta would go on to outline several more encounters with the lizard-like beings, in which he would be brought aboard their spacecraft and experimented upon. They would also introduce themselves as beings from the planet “Teetonia.” During his last visitation in December of 1980, the aliens supposedly brought him to a mothership fashioned of a crystalline substance and shown aliens resembling frogs which were being held captive in tube-like structures and which the reptile aliens claimed were an enemy species. Other captured alien specimens in the menagerie aboard the ship were shown as well, including bird-like creatures, tiny reptilian saurian beasts, and some sort of troglodyte that looked somewhat like “a caveman.”

    These are just some of the weirdest reports of alien encounters I have come across, and there are certainly others as well. What are we to make of such cases? These are creatures that do not fit at all into the traditional reports of UFO occupants, and one wonders just what this could all mean. Are these different species or races? Something from another dimension? Are they shapeshifters that just take whatever form they want, regardless of how outlandish? Or are these just the result of hallucinations, psychosis, hoaxes, tall tales, or just the effects of drugs and alcohol? Whatever the answer to these questions may be, such insanely bizarre reports certainly add color to the already colorful world of close encounters, and hint that this is a phenomenon that is perhaps even stranger and more inscrutable than anyone can guess.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    16-08-2017 om 22:09 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.SHOCK CLAIM: Nasa and Google are ‘covering up Planet X’

    SHOCK CLAIM: Nasa and Google are ‘covering up Planet X’

    NASA and Google are covering up the discovery of Planet X and are blacking it out from observations, it has been claimed.

    The mysterious object, otherwise known as Nibiru, is said to be due to enter the solar system at some point in the near future and will wreak havoc on our galactic neighbourhood.

    Paranormal researchers believe Planet X is so large an affect on our solar system is already taking place as it supposedly counters the sun’s gravitational pull.

    The highly controversial Planet X – which is an supposed planetary object that supposedly lurks on the edge of our solar system and is heading inwards - will cause the apocalypse on Earth which will wipe out most of the population, say conspiracy theorists.

    And the believers in the extraordinary claim say there is global cover up to stop the public finding out about Planet X.

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    Nibiru is supposedly on its way

    This was supposedly confirmed by paranormal YouTube channel ‘UFONEARSUN - myunhauzen74’, which uploaded a video which claims to be proof that Nasa and Google are trying to hide the mysterious object.

    In a video titled ‘Hiding NASA: Planet "X " - Nibiru observation in Google Sky’, the piece shows you that if you head to a small patch in the sky beyond Mercury then it is strangely blacked out which they claim is proof that Planet X is approaching.

    Some believe Nibiru could hit Earth as soon as September, fulfilling a Biblical prophecy.

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    Nibiru is behind this patch, according to conspiracy theorists

    By analysing biblical texts and astronomical signs, theorists state 2017 is the year that Planet X will arrive, and herald the end of days.

    Revelation 12:1 says: “A great sign appeared in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun with the moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars on her head.

    “And being with child, she cried out in her travail and was in anguish of delivery.”

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    Planet X will cause the apocalypse, according to some

    This, according to Christian researcher Bob Meade, is proof enough that the end is nigh.

    He says: “The great sign of The Woman as described in revelation 12:1-2 forms and lasts for only a few hours. According to computer generated astronomical models, this sign has never before occurred in human history.

    “It will occur once on September 23, 2017. It will never occur again. When it occurs, it places the Earth immediately before the time of the Sixth Seal of Revelation.

    “During this time frame on September 23, 2017, the moon appears under the feet of the Constellation Virgo. The Sun appears to precisely clothe Virgo.

    “Only the one that occurs in 2017 constitutes a ‘birthing.’ This is when planets traverse within the legs of Virgo.”

    16-08-2017 om 22:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA en Google verhullen Planeet X. Is dit het bewijs?
    NASA en Google verhullen Planeet X. Is dit het bewijs?

    NASA en Google verhullen Planeet X. Is dit het bewijs?

    NASA en Google verhullen het bestaan van Planeet X en verwijderen de planeet uit foto’s, zo wordt geclaimd.

    Het mysterieuze object, dat ook bekendstaat als Nibiru, zal naar verluidt ergens in de toekomst ons zonnestelsel binnendringen.

    Paranormale onderzoekers menen dat Planeet X zo groot is dat de invloed van de planeet op ons zonnestelsel nu al gevoeld wordt, meldt de Daily Express.

    Doofpot

    Complottheoretici stellen dat er sprake is van een doofpot rond Planeet X. Onlangs verscheen op YouTube-kanaal UFONEARSUN – myunhauzen74 een video waarin wordt geclaimd dat NASA en Google proberen het mysterieuze object te verhullen.

    Bepaalde gebieden zouden op Google Sky zwart gemaakt zijn om de planeet te verbergen. Sommigen geloven dat Nibiru al in september te zien zal zijn.

    Verschillende theoretici stellen op basis van Bijbelteksten en astronomische verschijnselen dat 2017 het jaar is waarin Planeet X zal arriveren.

    Komst

    In Openbaring 12:1 staat: “Er verscheen in de hemel een indrukwekkend teken: een vrouw, bekleed met de zon, met de maan onder haar voeten een krans van twaalf sterren op haar hoofd.

    Volgens onderzoeker David Meade is dit bewijs voor de komst van de planeet.

    Meade, auteur van het boek Planet X – The 2017 Arrival, claimt dat een ster met zeven planeten op ramkoers met ons zonnestelsel ligt.

    Nemesis

    De ster zou kleiner zijn dan onze zon en sommige van de planeten groter dan onze eigen aarde.

    Hij zegt dat één van de zeven planeten die rond de ster Nemesis draaien de beruchte planeet Nibiru is.

    Al jaren gaan er geruchten rond over het mysterieuze hemellichaam, dat vanwege zijn langgerekte baan uit het zicht zou blijven.

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    16-08-2017 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.KLASSIEKE RETRO UFO GECRASHT OP MARS ?

    KLASSIEKE RETRO UFO GECRASHT OP MARS ?

    Door de jaren heen zijn er zoveel merkwaardige objecten op de planeet Mars ontdekt, dat het onvoorstelbaar is dat iemand nog steeds gelooft dat er geen leven is of in ieder geval was op deze planeet. 

    Nu is er weer iets ontdekt dat men bij NASA waarschijnlijk vergeten is weg te poetsen en dat iets lijkt verdacht veel op de bekende klassieke vliegende schotel. 



    Mensen die zelf al jarenlang onderzoek doen naar alle vreemde voorwerpen op Mars zullen zich niet voor kunnen stellen dat er nog steeds goedgelovige burgers naar hun televisie zitten te staren en geloven dat er alleen maar kale rotsen en kraters zijn op Mars. 

    We hebben tegenwoordig zoveel veel verschillende beelden dat het vrijwel onmogelijk is voor de mensen bij NASA om alles weg te poetsen en zo kan het dat je af en toe de meest vreemde dingen ontdekt op Mars, zoals de volgende: 

    Iemand ontdekte op Google Mars het volgende object.

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    Dit object kan met de beste wil van de wereld geen natuurlijke rotsformatie worden genoemd. Het lijkt op een object dat is neergestort op het oppervlak van Mars en nog voor een gedeelte boven de grond uitsteekt. 

    Dat het een solide object is, is ook duidelijk te zien aan de schaduw die op het Mars oppervlak wordt geworpen. 

    Als je het object wat uitvergroot dan krijg je iets wat heel veel lijkt op het model van een retro of een klassieke vliegende schotel.

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    Je ziet de platte schijf met daarop de koepel, compleet met ramen. En vergis je niet over de grootte van dit object, want omgerekend heeft het een breedte van meer dan vier kilometer. Met andere woorden, een enorm schip dat hier ligt. 

    Voor wie het zelf wil opzoeken, zijn hier de coördinaten van Google Mars: 0°48'5.75"N 129°59'25.77" E

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    Eind vorig jaar plaatsten we ook enkele foto’s van iets dat veel lijkt op een gecrashte vliegende schotel.

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    Deze beelden gingen later viraal en voor zover we weten, heeft niemand daar nog een “goede verklaring” voor kunnen vinden. Dat wil zeggen een verklaring die met anders komt dan een verongelukt ruimteschip. 

    Kortom, Mars leeft meer dan ooit, maar is voorbestemd voor de elite. En daarom zullen de raketten van Elon Musk richting Mars waarschijnlijk nog veel vaker ontploffen door plots opduikende UFO’s.

    http://www.niburu.co/ }

    16-08-2017 om 21:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.ET shock: The original ending was VERY different and showed Elliot still in touch with ET

    ET shock: The original ending was VERY different and showed Elliot still in touch with ET

    ET The Extraterrestrial originally ended in a very different way as one of the actors reveals Steven Spielberg's first version.

    ET original ending was very different

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    the E.T. original ending was very different

    Grown men and women still well up with tears at the memory of the blockbuster's emotional ending.

    The dark forest, the spaceship, Drew Barrymore in floods of tears, the long finger and the immortal line: "I'll be right here."

    It's a classic moment of Spielberg movie magic that perfectly tops off one of the greatest films of all time.

    It could have all been very different, though, if the legendary director had stuck with his first plans for the finale...

    ET original ending was very different

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    There was no spaceship in the original ending

    Robert MacNaughton played Elliot's older brother, Michael, and has been revealing some remarkable moments about the film shoot.

    He told Yahoo! Movies that the original ending was far more low-key. Even though it lacked the overt emotional punch of the final version, it still provided a sense of catharsis and also symbolised how Elliot had grown up thorughout the movie.

    Even more excitingly, it also demonstrated that Elliot was still in contact with his alien buddy.

    WATCH THE ENDING NEXT:

    E.T. kids Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Michael MacNaughton

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    E.T. kids Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Michael MacNaughton

    MacNaughton said: "The last scene in the movie wasn’t supposed to be the scene that ends up in the movie.

    "The last scene was going to be all of us playing Dungeons and Dragons again, except this time, Elliott’s the dungeon master. Because he was the one that found ET, he sort of got in with the group. And so that was supposed to be the final scene, it was in the script and everything, and then they would pan up to the roof and you’d see the communicator and it’s still working — in other words, Elliott is still in touch with E.T.

    "But after they did the score, the music, and they saw what they had with the spaceship taking off and everything... How can you follow that? I mean, it was a wise choice."

    ET original ending was very different

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    E.T. and Elliot break our hearts

    At the start of the movie, Elliot was shown trying to join in with Michael and his friends when they were playing a version of Dungeons and Dragons.

    They kept pushing him away and eventually send him out for Pizza. This, of course, leads to his first ever encounter with a certain friendly botanist from another planet. 

    Dungeons and Dragons was always being played at the house of E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison and her husband at the time, Harrison Ford.

    MacNaughton revealed that his own childhood love of the game may have helped him get the part.

    Henry Thomas auditions for E.T.

    He recalled his first meeting with Spielberg: "One of the things he asked me was, 'What do you like to do?' I said, 'Well, I ride bikes a lot.' He goes, 'Yeah, that’s in the movie.'

    "And I said, 'I play Dungeons and Dragons.' And he goes, 'That’s in the movie too.' [Laughs] So it was just I said all the right things, I guess."

    MacNaughgton retired from acting when he was 30 and now works for the US postal service.

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    16-08-2017 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO NEWS: 'Perfect 1950s flying saucer' filmed above crop circle

    A CROP circle "expert" claims the mysterious corn field formations could be caused by aliens or other paranormal forces after allegedly filming a series of UFOs over the baffling creations.

    UFO-Crop-Circles

    Getty*Jon Austin*Pierre Beake

    UFO proof? Pierre Beake claims to have snapped bizarre craft over crop circles.

    Pierre Beake insists he captured these pictures of UFOs hovering over or near crop circles.

    Mr Beake, who travels from France to the south west of England each year to study the phenomena, also claims to have photographed strange lights and orbs within west country crop formations.

    Crop circles - allegedly made by landing UFOs - have been widely considered one of the world's biggest paranormal hoaxes since 1991, when Doug Bower and David Chorley were filmed showing how they made many of the reported corn field patterns discovered across the UK.

    The two said they simply used wooden planks and rope to flatten corn in a circular fashion.

    The pair started the tomfoolery in the 1970s to tease locals who believed in UFOs.

    In the latter half of the 1990s more "circle makers", who tried to out do each other with the most complicated designs, emerged.

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    Pierre Beake

    This UFO is like a 1950s flying saucer, claims Pierre Beake.

    Avebury-UFO

    Pierre Beake

    The '1950s UFO' in close up.

    But despite the hoaxers outing themselves, Mr Beake refuses to believe they could make the "highly geometric" patterns he has documented.

    Mr Beake produced his UFO images at the 27th annual Glastonbury Symposium, an event which started to look at the crop circle subject and now covers other new age issues.

    He said: "When you go first into a crop circle you can't explain the feeling.
    "You feel good, you feel nice."

    He produced one image which he said resembled a B-movie flying saucer.

    He said: "It looks like a classic 1950s UFO. One researcher said to me it was a parachute, but there is no one underneath."

    Mr Beake is convinced something paranormal is behind crop circle formation and that his UFO snaps could be part of the picture.

    He says he has also photographed balls of energy and light at crop circles.

    In one case he said he filmed bizarre solid balls flying around.

    Silbury-UFO

    Pierre Beake

    A perfect circular object filmed over Silbury Hill.

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    Pierre Beake

    A close up of the Silbury Hill UFO.

    It looks like a classic 1950s UFO. One researcher said to me it was a parachute, but there is no one underneath.

    Pierre Beake

    One was said to be near the ancient monument of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, which he described as a perfect round flying object.

    He said: "This dark ball was near Silbury Hill. It is physical as you can see the sun shining on it."

    He said it made no noise and they checked that there was no dirt on the lens that could have caused it.

    A drone they flew up above the hill was unable to detect it.

    Another flying ball was snapped near Avebury Ring, near Stonehenge.

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    Pierre Beake

    This 'UFO' was a solid object flying over a crop circle, claimed Pierre Beake.

    He said: "It was a very strange form and not a plane or helicopter."

    But he said it was not seen at the time of the filming, but was physical because the sun could be seen glinting on it.

    Another one was filmed at Milk Hill, also Wiltshire.

    He said: "I can't explain why that thing is here, it looks more physical than other balls of light."

    Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org said so-called UFOs such as these were often birds or insects that had flown past and been blurred in the process, giving rise to the indistinguishable shapes.

    They are actually referred to as blurbs by sceptical UFO researchers.

    16-08-2017 om 20:53 geschreven door peter  

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    Witness freaks out after seeing dark elongated shape in the clouds over Sanford, Canada (Video)

    On July 9, 2017, a resident of Sanford MB in Canada was making hay when he noticed that something very strange happened in the sky.


    According to the witness, it was as the clouds seemed to funnel towards a dark object, which at first glance looked like a dark human-like figure standing on top of a cloud before it changed into a dark elongated shape.

    Although he felt freaked out during seeing, he then witnessed the elongated shape fired something into the air.


    As it was dark shortly and he had a lot of work to do, he got back to concentrating on his job instead of staring to the object that sat in the sky, but not before he took some images of the object as well as he recorded the strange appearance in the sky which files he has submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (Mufon case file) for further investigation.


    You can see the witness’s original video of the strange event, which starts at the moment the dark elongated shape fires something into the air at the following Mufon link:
    https://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/85962_submitter_file2__20170709214833.mp4

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    16-08-2017 om 20:05 geschreven door peter  

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    Strange UFO object discovered in photo taken of “Witch Rock” formation outside Shingletown, California

    A strange UFO object has been discovered in a photo taken of a rock formation near Shingletown, California. Interestingly, the object is similar to a UFO object which has been photographed by passenger on the Durango/Silverton train in Colorado, see third image below.


    Witness states: A guy I was dating had taken me out for a jeep ride around the back forest roads of Lassen National Volcanic Park, outside of Shingletown, California.

    I noticed a rock formation that had a face that looked very much like a classic hook-nosed witch.

    I couldn't get a very good photo due to the distance away with my phone's camera, so he returned the next day with his DSLR to photograph the formation for me (to which I had given the name "Witch Rock").

    He took several photos of the formation, and I noticed in one of them, there is a colorful object just below the witch's nose.


    Interestingly, several photos were taken in quick succession, but only this one photo shows the object.

    Zooming in on it, it appears to be a cigar-shaped shape, casting a shadow on its underside.


    It must have been moving faster than the eye can see, because my friend observed nothing in person. The fact that it stands out grey against the white clouds behind it says it was somewhat near. The images were submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON case file).
    http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

    16-08-2017 om 19:59 geschreven door peter  

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    How ‘Aliens’ Have Been Responsible For Many Horrific Murders

    16-08-2017 om 01:43 geschreven door peter  

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    91 Volcanoes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice

    If someone asked you to point on a globe to where the highest concentration of volcanoes on Earth might be, where would your finger land? Indonesia? Mexico? Italy? East Africa? If your index digit first flipped the globe over before poking Antarctica … congratulations! Your lucky guess has just been confirmed by a new study which found 91 previously unknown volcanoes under the ice in western Antarctica. Is the continent’s frozen surface in danger of melting from below as well as above?

    The big question is: how active are these volcanoes? That is something we need to determine as quickly as possible.

    That somewhat panicky statement comes from Dr. Robert Bingham of the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences where researchers conducted a first-of-its-kind study that identified 91 volcanoes measuring from 100 meters (328 feet) to 3,850 meters (2.4 miles) in the area known as the West Antarctic Rift System. The project was suggested by Max Van Wyk de Vries, a third-year student at the school who went looking for volcanoes in what would seem to be the least likely place on Earth.

    Antarctica remains among the least studied areas of the globe, and as a young scientist I was excited to learn about something new and not well understood.

    According to the results published in the Geological Society Special Publications series, the research team used Bedmap 2 DEM, a digital elevation model, and data from ground-penetrating radar and satellite imaging to survey the underside of Antarctic ice for peaks of basalt rock, which is a volcanic indicator found when some of these peaks have actually poked through the ice. While they weren’t surprised to find more underground volcanoes, Bingham says they were shocked at the number.

    We were amazed. We did not expected to find anything like that number. We have almost trebled the number of volcanoes known to exist in west Antarctica.

    Are any of these newly-discovered Antarctic volcanoes active? That’s a good question which needs seismic analysis to answer. However, previous studies indicate that there was volcanic activity on the Antarctic continent during previous periods when it was warmer and the current warming trend (you remember the recent big iceberg, don’t you?) could thaw them out and stir them up again.

    If one of these volcanoes were to erupt it could further destabilise west Antarctica’s ice sheets. Anything that causes the melting of ice – which an eruption certainly would – is likely to speed up the flow of ice into the sea.

    Mount Erebus craters

    If you think Dr. Bingham sounds worried, you’re right.

    The most volcanism that is going in the world at present is in regions that have only recently lost their glacier covering – after the end of the last ice age. These places include Iceland and Alaska.”

    I don’t live near any of these places but I may think twice about throwing salt on my driveway this winter.

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    16-08-2017 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Zo schrijft SpaceX vandaag (opnieuw) ruimtevaartgeschiedenis - HLN.be

    Zo schrijft SpaceX vandaag (opnieuw) ruimtevaartgeschiedenis - HLN.be

    Bron: Belga, Mashable

    De lancering van een Falcon 9 vanop Cape Canaveral, eerder dit jaar.

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    RUIMTEVAART SpaceX heeft vandaag een raket gelanceerd en opnieuw doen landen. Het is de veertiende keer dat het ruimtebedrijf van Elon Musk een raket weer op aarde liet landen. Routine, zegt u? Dat valt nog te bezien: tot heel recent was dit huzarenstukje nog onmogelijk uit te voeren.

    De Falcon 9 is vanavond om 18.31 uur Belgische tijd gelanceerd vanop de ruimtevaartbasis Cape Canaveral. Aan boord is onder andere een supercomputer van Hewlett Packard, bestemd voor het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. De bedoeling hiervan is een jaar lang de capaciteiten van een commerciële computer te testen in extreme omstandigheden in de ruimte. 

    Zo'n tien minuten later keerde het eerste deel van de raket terug naar de aarde om te landen. Dat gebeurde ditmaal niet op zee, maar op het land. SpaceX heeft in totaal al dertien raketten opnieuw laten landen, waarvan vijf op een landingsplatform op het land. Voordien gebeurde dat op een drijvend platform op zee. 

    De lancering is te herbekijken via het YouTube-kanaal van SpaceX:

    Lees ook

    Het is de twaalfde keer dat SpaceX een Dragon-capsule naar het ISS stuurt. Het opnieuw laten landen van de raket, nadat de capsule is losgekoppeld, begint stilaan routine te lijken. Maar tot voor kort was dit onmogelijk. SpaceX werd in 2012 het eerste commerciële ruimtevaartbedrijf dat raketten mocht lanceren vanop Cape Canaveral. Drie jaar later landde de eerste raket weer op aarde.

    Het bedrijf heeft zelfs al gerecycleerde raketten gelanceerd die er meer dan één missie hebben opzitten. Dat is een belangrijk deel van Musks plan om ruimtevaart betaalbaarder te maken.

    SpaceX heeft dit jaar al elf missies gelanceerd, een record voor het bedrijf.

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    16-08-2017 om 01:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Boerin overspoeld door bezoekers na verschijnen graancirkel. Wat maakt deze zo bijzonder?
    Boerin overspoeld door bezoekers na verschijnen graancirkel. Wat maakt deze zo bijzonder?

    Boerin overspoeld door bezoekers na verschijnen graancirkel. Wat maakt deze zo bijzonder?

    Een Engelse boerin is overspoeld door bezoekers nadat in haar weiland een enorme graancirkel was verschenen. Dat schrijft de BBC.

    Shelley Klindt uit Hannington in Wiltshire vertelde aan de zender dat de 60 meter grote graanformatie begin deze maand van de ene op de andere dag was verschenen.

    Sindsdien hebben al honderden mensen het weiland bezocht. Klindt heeft een hoogwerker ingezet zodat bezoekers de formatie kunnen aanschouwen zonder de gewassen te beschadigen.

    Meteorenzwerm
    Boerin overspoeld door bezoekers na verschijnen graancirkel. Wat maakt deze zo bijzonder?

    Graancirkel Hannington (Frank Laumen)

    Ze zei dat bezoekers uit de hele wereld naar haar weiland zijn gekomen om de gigantische graancirkel te bekijken.

    “We hebben hier helikopters, laagvliegende vliegtuigen en heel veel drones gehad,” zei ze.

    Afgelopen zaterdag waren er zo’n 130 mensen en een aantal daarvan bleven in het midden van de graancirkel overnachten om de meteorenzwerm van de Perseïden te zien.

    Donatie

    Klindt vraagt bezoekers om een donatie als compensatie voor het verlies van de oogst. Mensen moeten ook betalen om gebruik te mogen maken van de hoogwerker.

    Vrijdag wordt het graan geoogst en zal de graancirkel niet meer te zien zijn.

    Pierre Beake is ervan overtuigd dat de mysterieuze formaties op het platteland het gevolg zijn van paranormale activiteit.

    Lichtbollen

    Hij doet al jaren onderzoek naar de cirkels in het zuidwesten van Engeland, zo vertelde hij onlangs tijdens het Glastonbury Symposium.

    In Wiltshire zag hij tot zijn verbazing een aantal bizarre lichtbollen boven een bekende graancirkelplek.

    [BBC

    16-08-2017 om 01:04 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO vastgelegd bij internationale ruimtestation ISS. Enig idee wat dit kan zijn?

    UFO vastgelegd bij internationale ruimtestation ISS. Enig idee wat dit kan zijn?

    Camera’s aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation ISS hebben opnieuw een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object vastgelegd. Dat meldt het Russische persbureau Sputnik.

    Op de beelden is te zien hoe een object enige tijd achter het ruimtestation blijft hangen.

    Ufologen speculeren dat het object mogelijk toebehoort aan een buitenaardse beschaving.

    Zwart

    Sommige deskundigen zijn echter van mening dat het een optische illusie is die wordt veroorzaakt door de reflectie van zonlicht op het ISS.

    De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA zet geregeld het beeld op zwart als er onbekende objecten verschijnen bij het ruimtestation.

    Op die manier probeert de NASA het bestaan van buitenaardsen te verhullen, zo claimen complottheoretici.

    Uit beeld

    In juli maakte Sputnik nog melding van een object bij het ISS dat volgens UFO-onderzoekers een buitenaards ‘moederschip’ was.

    Bij het ruimtestation verscheen een object dat in eerste instantie leek op een sliert brandende oranje lichtbollen.

    Op het moment dat de contouren van het object wat meer duidelijk begonnen te worden, verdween het weer uit beeld.

    Cilindervormig

    En in april werd op de livestream van het ISS een mysterieus object gespot. Volgens UFO-experts ging het toen om een cilindervormig vaartuig.

    De cilinder was ‘gedeeltelijk transparant’, mogelijk een techniek om de UFO onzichtbaar te maken, aldus de onderzoekers.

    Onderstaande beelden zijn op YouTube geplaatst door UFO-jager Streetcap1:

    [Sputniknews

    16-08-2017 om 00:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Alien in the skies: Mystery hexagon cloud formation over Finland is ‘clearly a UFO’

    Alien in the skies: Mystery hexagon cloud formation over Finland is ‘clearly a UFO’

    A BIZARRE cloud formation appeared over Finland leading to claims that it was a result of alien activity.

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    GETTY • REX

    A cloud formation sparked UFO theories

    The mesmerising cloud looks similar to a hexagon and seems almost too perfect to be caused naturally, according to conspiracy theorists.

    The incredible cloud formation was spotted on Wednesday morning over the Scandinavian country and quickly uploaded to social media by people who snapped it.

    One person wrote on Twitter: “It is clearly a UFO”

    Another added on Facebook: “For a certain cloud formation that's not too common we sure are seeing them often. I'm finished accepting what ‘they’ want us to believe so from here on out we must question everything.”

    cloud

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    The clouyd appeared over Finland

    While a third posted: “Cloaked UFO sitting at Cloud level. Just saying!”

    However, the Finnish Meteorological Institute chipped in, stating the odd cloud was probably formed by ice crystals in the sky reacting with a ‘plate’ of droplets a bit lower down in the skies.

    Paavo Korpela, a meteorologist with the Finnish Meteorological Institute, told Iltalehti: “That cloud layer, which is now there, is about six to seven miles (10-12km) high, and the temperature is over 20 degrees frost (12 Fahrenheit). 

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    Meteorologists claim that it is a natural cloud formation

    “One explanation could be that if ice crystals come from above cloud layers, it causes very rapid liquid water freezing in ice crystals, where clouds will rain down and evaporate at the same time.” 

    It is not the first time that civilians have been baffled by a cloud formation and cried alien.

    Black rings have been spotted across the world, which some believe is a sign of alien activity.

    In April, onlookers in the Russian city of Novosibirsk spotted tan odd black circular cloud, while in 2016, an almost identical one was spotted over Disneyland, California.

    The numerous sightings have seen alien hunters clamouring to offer their opinions, with prominent UFO blogger Scott C Waring saying it is a type of extra-terrestrial space craft.

    He wrote about the sighting over Disneyland: “Ring UFOs are super rare, but they have been seen.

    This UFO is over Disneyland and causes the family to worry about an alien invasion.

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    16-08-2017 om 00:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'It's coming towards us' Black ringed UFO leaves beachgoers transfixed

    'It's coming towards us' Black ringed UFO leaves beachgoers transfixed

    CROWDS were left in awe when a black, ringed UFO flew in the skies above a packed beach in Dalian, China.

    Strange footage emerged online of a object appearing in the sky over Jinshitan beach in the city.

    The video shows the object floating among the clouds before disappearing.

    Swimmers and beachgoers can be seen observing the ring as it flies above them.

    Alien news - UFO-like object spotted over crowded beach in Dalian, China

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    Beachgoears were puzzled by the sudden UFO-like appearance in the clouds over Dailan beach

    In the video, onlooker Jing Qi said: "There is an unidentified flying object appearing in the sky. Its oval shape is expanding and it's coming towards us closer and closer."

    Before disappearing, the UFO-like ring changed its shape into a parallelogram.

    Following the publication of the video, social media users began to speculate on the possible origin of the object on China's version of Twitter, Weibo.

    According to ET Today, some eyewitnesses suggested the ring could have been formed by a group of insects moving together.

    However, web users were quick to point out a reasonable explanation for the sudden appearance.

    Local residents said the ring had been caused by special visual effects from a performance that had just taken place.

    A spokesperson from a local playground confirmed the ring was a flame effect from a show organised for the public.

    They explained that the smoke from the special effect manifested as a floating ring.

    16-08-2017 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Jaw-Dropping Enormous Tall Land Vortex filmed in Jaguapita, Brazil

    More amazing examples of Climate Chaos as it becomes a daily feature of the news somewhere on earth.

    As extreme weather phenomenon is increasing everyday and seems to be strengthening we may wonder whether it is all connected or not.


    This week a series of events took place in South America, South Africa, Finland and Brazil.

    Water receded from several places in South America. We also caught another huge “Antarctica” wave anomaly over this region around the same time.

    On the other side of the ocean, people witnessed huge wave’s crashes into the shores of South Africa while Helsinki, Finland was hit by a Cat1 Hurricane Force.

    Another example of such an extreme weather phenomenon is an enormous tall land spout that has been filmed at the moment it passes through Jaguapita in Brazil.
      

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    16-08-2017 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Glowing Meteorite crashes into homeowner’s backyard in Appling, Georgia

    Jay Sullivent heard a loud bang and thought there had been a car accident on the road in front of his house in Appling, Georgia on July 21, 2017.



    According to CratersNews, he went running outside but instead of a car accident he discovered a burnt circle of grass in his backyard with smoke still rising from it.

    Approaching closer he discovered a flame and a small piece of pink colored rock in the middle of the spot and concluded that it was a small meteorite, before he took it out of the hole.
       

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    16-08-2017 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

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    15-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA Says Trappist-1 Planetary System Is Older Than Our Own Solar System

    NASA Says Trappist-1 Planetary System Is Older Than Our Own Solar System

    15-08-2017 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Voyager Golden Records 40 years later: Real audience was always here on Earth

    Voyager Golden Records 40 years later: Real audience was always here on Earth

    What message would you send to outer space? NASA/JPL-CaltechCC BY

    Forty years ago, NASA launched Voyager I and II to explore the outer solar system. The twin spacecraft both visited Jupiter and Saturn; from there Voyager I explored the hazy moon Titan, while Voyager II became the first (and, to date, only) probe to explore Uranus and Neptune. Since they move too quickly and have too little propellant to stop themselves, both spacecraft are now on what NASA calls their Interstellar Mission, exploring the space between the stars as they head out into the galaxy.

    Instructions to a far-off listener. NASA/JPLCC BY

    Both craft carry Golden Records: 12-inch phonographic gold-plated copper records, along with needles and cartridges, all designed to last indefinitely in interstellar space. Inscribed on the records’ covers are instructions for their use and a sort of “map” designed to describe the Earth’s location in the galaxy in a way that extraterrestrials might understand.

    The grooves of the records record both ordinary audio and 115 encoded images. A team led by astronomer Carl Sagan selected the contents, chosen to embody a message representative of all of humanity. They settled on elements such as audio greetings in 55 languages, the brain waves of “a young woman in love” (actually the project’s creative director Ann Druyan, days after falling in love with Carl Sagan), a wide-ranging selection of musical excerpts from Blind Willie Johnson to honkyokutechnical drawings and images of people from around the world, including Saan Hunters, city traffic and a nursing mother and child.

    Since we still have not detected any alien life, we cannot know to what degree the records would be properly interpreted. Researchers still debate what forms such messages should take. For instance, should they include a star map identifying Earth? Should we focus on ourselves, or all life on Earth? Should we present ourselves as we are, or as comics artist Jack Kirby would have had it, as “the exuberant, self-confident super visions with which we’ve clothed ourselves since time immemorial”?

    But the records serve a broader purpose than spreading the word that we’re here on our blue marble. After all, given the vast distances between the stars, it’s not realistic to expect an answer to these messages within many human lifetimes. So why send them and does their content even matter? Referring to earlier, similar efforts with the Pioneer spacecraft, Carl Sagan wrote, “the greater significance of the Pioneer 10 plaque is not as a message to out there; it is as a message to back here.” The real audience of these kinds of messages is not ET, but humanity.

    Pioneer 10’s plaque: ‘Hi, we’re here.’ NASACC BY

    In this light, 40 years’ hindsight shows the experiment to be quite a success, as they continue to inspire research and reflection.

    Only two years after the launch of these messages to the stars, “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” imagined the success of similar efforts by (the fictional) Voyager VI. Since then, there have been Ph.D. theses written on the records’ contentinvestigations into the identity of the person heard laughing and successful crowdfunded efforts to reissue the records themselves for home playback.

    The choice to include music has inspired introspection on the nature of music as a human endeavor, and what it would (or even could) mean to an alien species. If an ET even has ears, it’s still far from clear whether it would or could appreciate rhythm, tones, vocal inflection, verbal language or even art of any kind. As music scholars Nelson and Polansky put it, “By imagining an Other listening, we reflect back upon ourselves, and open our selves and cultures to new musics and understandings, other possibilities, different worlds.”

    Engineers mount the Golden Record and secure its cover on Voyager 1. NASA/JPL-CaltechCC BY

    The records also represent humanity’s deliberate effort to put artifacts among the stars. Unlike everything on Earth, which is subject to erosion and all but inevitable destruction (from the sun’s eventual demise, if nothing else), the Golden Records are essentially eternal, a permanent time capsule of humanity. And unlike the Voyager spacecraft themselves – which were designed to have finite lifespans and whose journey into interstellar space was incidental to their primary function of exploring the outer planets – the Golden Records’ only purpose is to serve as ambassadors of humanity to the stars.

    Placing artifacts in interstellar space thus makes the galaxy subject to the social studies, in addition to astronomy. The Golden Records mark our claim to interstellar space as part of our cultural landscape and heritage, and once the Voyager spacecraft themselves are not functional any longer, they will become proper achaeological objects. They are, in a sense, how we as a species have planted our flag of exploration in space. Anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan muses, “Has NASA been to interstellar space because this spacecraft has? Have we, as a human species, [now] been to interstellar space?”

    I would argue we have, and we are a better species for it. Like the Pioneer plaques and the Arecibo Message before them, the Golden Records inspire us to broaden our minds about what it means to be human; what we value as humans; and about our place and role in the cosmos by having us imagine what we might, or might not, have in common with any alien species our Voyagers eventually encounter on their very long journeys.

    http://theconversation.com/uk }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say

    Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say

    (Credit: SecureTeam 10, Youtube)

    A giant hole on Mars has scientists baffled and some UFO researchers are theorizing it could be the work of extraterrestrials.

    In a video obtained by conspiracy theorist Youtube channel SecureTeam 10, a deep depression in the surface of Mars has astronomers questioning what it is.

    Tyler Glockner, who runs SecureTeam 10, said the hole is estimated to be hundreds of feet across. The rocky terrain of Mars -- which like Earth, has polar ice caps -- does not account for what the depression is, Glockner added.

    The images come courtesy of NASA's Mars reconassiance orbiter, which has been exploring the planet.

    Below is the video in its entirety:

    NASA has given several possibilities of what could have caused the hole, including meteorites, lava tubes, ancient floods and volcanoes. But conspiracy theorists have other ideas.

    'ALIEN TANK' FOUND ON THE MOON, UFO HUNTERS SAY

    Glockner said the hole shows artificial characteristics, noting that it looks as if it has been hollowed out. Glockner added that the hole could also be an entrance of an underground civilization.

    SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs conspiracy theory-based videos. The organization describes itself as the "source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, info on the space cover-up, and the strange activity happening on and off of our planet."

    http://www.foxnews.com/ }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mining complex on the moon? UFO hunter claims structures visible on lunar surface

    Mining complex on the moon? UFO hunter claims structures visible on lunar surface

    A UFO hunter claims to have spotted a mining complex on the surface of the Moon.

    Streetcap 1, which posts extraterrestrial-related and other paranormal videos on its YouTube page, purports a series of objects in a video could be a mining complex on the lunar surface.

    In the video, Streetcap 1 says: "Can you see those buildings? They are in Tycho Crater on the moon. That's quite amazing isn't it?"

    GIANT HOLE ON MARS COULD BE WORK OF ALIENS, RESEARCHERS SAY

    Below is the video in its entirety:

    Commenters on the video, which has over 5,000 views, seemed to agree with the findings. "Nice find mate," Thomas Mundt wrote. 

    Another commenter, Kristin Bacon, wrote: "[T]his is a great pic. definitely something going on. no one can say that dosnt look like a mining complex of some sort. i would love to go to the moon and look around lol"

    A third commenter, going by the name of Clint Steel, wrote: "I do believe there are structures on the moon but what i think is happening here is pixelization of some kind with any white patches on the surface. The pixelization is even subtly there on the darker areas. Can you show us a white patch that doesnt pixelize like this?"

    This latest video, which was published on July 29, is the latest in a series of videos from Streetcap 1 about unexplained anomalies on the Moon.

    ALIEN SHIPS NEAR SATURN? EX-NASA SCIENTIST CLAIMS OF THEIR EXISTENCE

    Others have also purportedly found inanimate objects on the lunar surface, though none have ever been proven.

    In May, UFO researcher SecureTeam 10 claimed to have spotted an "alien tank" on the surface of the Moon.

    {http://www.foxnews.com/ }

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.WATCH IN AWE: Bizarre UFOs filmed crossing surface of moon through high power telescope

    WATCH IN AWE: Bizarre UFOs filmed crossing surface of moon through high power telescope

    BIZARRE UFOs have been filmed crossing the lunar surface through a high-zoom telescope.

    YouTuber Crrow777 has spent years trailing a high-definition camera through a telescope on the moon, and captured an array of objects passing the lunar surface.

    They include a "boomerang" object, he says is made up of three interconnected discs, regular discs, and a strange unevenly-shaped object.

    Crrow777, who narrates his own videos, claims after years of filming the moon through a telexcopic lens, he knows the UFOs are not satellites, or insects or birds that were flying much closer to Earth and created an optical illusion as to their size.

    In a promotional blurb for the video, he said: "This is a compilation of unknown objects (UFO's) transiting the moon.

    "These objects were shot over the past couple years and represent a small portion of my captures. The also show some of the similarities I have documented."

    However, he is a major conspiracy theorist who believes the moon does not exist, and is actually a hologram, and claims the International Space Station (ISS) is a hoax.

    Moon-UFOs

    YouTube*Crrow777

    These odd-shaped UFOs were captured by Crrow777.

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    Crrow777 insists he does not use misleading footage.

    I pledge that I will never run deceptive or misleading clips on this channel.

    Crrow777

    Many conspiracy theorists believe the US Government has developed secret craft that can go into space that the public is not told about.

    Many conspiracy theorists claim the moon is actually occupied by aliens, and this is why NASA has never returned.

    One of the most far-fetched theories, whose supporters include former BBC Grandstand presenter David Icke, is that the moon is a hollow alien space station.

    Objects filmed in front of the moon can appear much closer to it than they actually are.

    Scott Brando, of debunking website ufoofinterest.org, said the objects featured in Crrow777's videos had been shown to be satellites, birds, insects and standard aircraft.

    he added that the "boomerang" and other oddly-shaped UFO in the video looked like helium balloons.

    Crrow777 states on his website: "I pledge that I will never run deceptive or misleading clips on this channel."

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    The truth is out there: 10 of the most bizarre UFO sightings in south-east London and north Kent

    Emily Coady-Stemp  editor / head of content

    UFOs have been spotted across south-east London and north Kent

    Tony Histed spotted this strange feature in the sky

    Many of us spent time this weekend gazing up at the night sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Perseid meteor shower – only to be disappointed by the clouds marring the view. But the News Shopper area has had its fair share of objects in the sky that are harder to explain than the weekend’s celestial show.

    Bright lights in Bexley, light shows in Lewisham, and eerie crafts in Erith – we take a look at some of the area’s most notorious UFO sightings.

    1. Mother(ship) of all sightings at Thames Barrier
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    Andrew Burlington, of Cliffview Road, Lewisham, was out with his family in August 2016 when he spotted what he thinks may have been a fleet of UFOs flying over the Thames Barrier. He witnessed with his two nephews what they at first thought were balloons moving along the river, in the direction of Charlton, and caught the whole things on camera. “The fact that a long anomalous object shoots across the sky at the start of the video may well indicate that a UFO mothership was above the Thames Barrier releasing smaller UFOs,” said Mr Burlington.

    2. Engine trouble in Bexleyheath

    Margaret Fry and her doctor reported seeing a 30-foot-wide craft hovering over the street in broad daylight on July 17, 1955. Car engines nearby reportedly stalled, and the object was seen by around 30 people as it landed at the junction of Ashbourne Avenue and Whitfield Road, near King Harold’s Way.

    3. ‘Intelligent life’ over Lewisham

    News Shopper:

    Andrew Burlington and his father, Les, again spotted an unidentified craft over their home on February 22, 2014. They ruled out the craft being a Chinese lantern because it appeared to change direction several times. Mr Burlington said: "Whatever it was, we all agree on one thing - it was being intelligently controlled."

    4. Mystery repeating in Bexleyheath

    King Harold’s Way was again the scene of a mysterious sighting on December 30, 2014, when Tony Histed spotted strange lights in the sky and saw two orbs flying up off the ground from the building site he was working at.

    5. Latest lights over Lewisham

    News Shopper:

    The most recent sighting over Lewisham was on July 2 this year, according to Facebook group Lewisham UFO Sightings. An object was seen making little or no sound, moving north and with three separate lights on it.

    6. Gravesend visitations

    News Shopper:

    A ball of lights was seen hovering over Deering Way for about 30 minutes at 7.50pm February 19, 2009 and reported to the Ministry of Defence, according to files released by the Ministry in 2013. No other sightings were reported in the area that evening, according to the Ministry.

    7. Policing the skies

    Two on-duty Metropolitan police officers witnessed a yellow UFO over Coldbath Street, Lewisham in May 1978. The craft hovered in the air for around 20 minutes, and was witnessed by several members of the public on the same evening. The officers described the UFO as ‘six times brighter than any star.’

    8. Erith enigma

    A sighting in Erith in September 1998 reported two objects larger than planes, both with round fronts, lit in red and blue. This sighting is listed in a government database of UFO sightings which was maintained until 2009 when it was discontinued along with the accompanying hotline because it served ‘no defence purpose,’ according to the Ministry of Defence.

    9. Shapeshifting in Gravesend

    A policeman was called by a mother and son in October 1993 after they described seeing an object in the sky. The UFO, which was reported to the Ministry of Defence in a seven-page report, apparently changed from being bell-shaped into an oval with protruding spikes.

    10. Lights over the Dartford Crossing

    News Shopper:

    Amateur photographer Gary Porter spotted these UFOs by the Dartford Crossing in September 2011 and managed to capture them on camera. He was on the industrial estate in Galleon Boulevard with his girlfriend when they noticed small, bright, circular lights in red, green and blue. Mr Porter said: "Mr Porter said: "There wasn't anything unusual to the eye. It was when we took a photo they appeared on the screen. The longer the exposure the brighter these things came out. They look almost as if they are a heat source."

    The 25-year-old added: "I have spoken to friends and other photographers and Greenwich Observatory and there's no one who can explain what it is."

    Have you seen a UFO recently, or something you can't explain? Contact tom.bull@london.newsquest.co.uk

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    UFO and secret alien base reports found in declassified U.S. Forest Service documents

    The UFO files of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have been declassified. There are 20 pages in the files, and although there is a dubious claim about the construction of a secret alien base and an unconvincing UFO photo, there is an interesting UFO report from U.S. Air Force personnel at a radar station in Montana.

    The Forest Service UFO files were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by John Greenewald. Greenewald runs TheBlackVault.com, a site that houses over one million declassified files obtained via FOIA requests.

    Greenewald says he made the request in November, 2016 and received the files in February, 2017.

    UFO Photo in Bighorn National Forest

    The first report in the file is a letter and photographs from a man who says he caught something “very strange” in a photograph he took while visiting Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest. The witness says he did not see or hear anything unusual while taking the picture, but he noticed an odd object in one of the photos when he reviewed them later. He speculates that perhaps it is a drone, but also says he did some research and did not find any drones that looked like the object in the image.

    the marker shows the location of Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest. (Credit: Google Maps)

    The marker shows the location of Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest.

    (Credit: Google Maps)

    The photograph was taken at about 2:30 pm on September 12, 2015.

    Images of suspect UFO at Bighorn National Forest provided to U.S. Forest Service. (Credit: U.S. Forest Service)

    Images of unidentified object at Bighorn National Forest provided to U.S. Forest Service.

    (Credit: U.S. Forest Service)

    It is hard to make out what exactly the object in the image is, but the USFS files did not include a high resolution image. Greenewald says he did inquire if higher resolution images were available, but they were not.

    Enlargement of object in photo. (Credit: U.S. Forest Service)

    Enlargement of object in photo.

    (Credit: U.S. Forest Service)

    Without better images, this blob of light and shadows could be anything, and is likely a bird in flight. Often vacation photos with weird objects that were not noted at the time of their taking turn out to be birds or bugs that look strange in photographs once they are reviewed back home.

    The USFS did not include their response to the UFO photog, or if they responded at all.

    UFO Sighting at Yaak Air Force Station in Kootenai National Forest

    Following the UFO photos letter and was a copy of an article regarding Yaak Air Base. According to the article, Yaak Air Base was in operation from April, 1952 to July, 1960, as part of a number of stations throughout the country that served as an early warning system during the cold war in case of a potential Russian attack. The base was near Yaak, Montana, in the Kootenai National Forest.

    Location of Yaak Air Base as described in the article. (Credit: Google Maps)

    Location of Yaak Air Base as described in the article.

    (Credit: Google Maps)

    For our purposes, the most interesting paragraph in the article is the last, and in the file provided to Greenewald, is highlighted in yellow.

    It reads:

    The Yaak Radar Station also had its share of mystery, on Sept. 1 , 1952, Yaak, Montana. 4:45 a.m: Two USAF enlisted men, and three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Report visually sighting two small, varicolored lights becoming black silhouettes at dawn, and flying erratically for one hour. The crew at the radar station saw a, “dark, cigar shaped object,” right where the radar had the UFO pinpointed. What these people saw is a mystery to this day.

    This is my favorite part of the USFA UFO files. Unfortunately, no further information is provided.

    Alien Base Construction in Tonto National Forest

    The most sensational claim in the files, and the one picked up by silly UK tabloids, is a report of a secret government installation being constructed that has something to do with aliens. The subject of the report is “Secret govt installation being built in the Salt River Canyon area on the TNF [Tonto National Forest].”

    Area of alleged construction of secret government base that has some relation to aliens that eat people. (Credit: Google Maps)

    Area of alleged construction of secret government base that has some relation to aliens that eat people.

    (Credit: Google Maps)

    What is scary is that this is not far from my house. However, it does make it less scary for me that I do not believe an alien base was actually built there.

    Here is a report regarding the call that was taken by David of the Forest Service on the morning of December 30, 2013 regarding UFOs, aliens and one detached head.

    David received a call this morning at the front desk from a male caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek (upstream from Roosevelt Lake). Aliens and at least one detached head are involved.

    Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people. He found a severed head and claims to have pictures of some of this stuff.

    Caller reported that he is 60, not crazy, and doesn’t do drugs. He said he had already called the “office at the lake,” but he didn’t know if those people were turning the other cheek or maybe those people have been paid off.

    David had him leave a message with Bray.

    Please let me know if t here are any Talking Points to be developed. I’m sure the Phoenix media will be all over this.

    Thanks.

    P.S. David and I aren’t doing drugs either.

    The only other item in the files was a report in 2012 of a meteor or space junk that landed in George Washington & Jefferson National Forests and caused a fire. It was determined the fire was caused by a lightning strike. The report states, “Witnesses saw flaming space junk or satellite crash land in these mountains [Massanutten Range, Virginia] which may have caused the forest fire of last year: June 24, 2012, at around 1150PM Sunday.”

    You can check out the files yourself at TheBlackVault.com.

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    Report of UFO over nuclear plant in Nebraska found in recently declassified documents

    A former security officer at the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska reported seeing a UFO over the plant sometime in the late 80s. The report was found in documents recently declassified as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for UFO files.

    The files were posted today on the website TheBlackVault.com. The website is a repository for millions of pages of declassified documents. It is ran by John Greenewald, who says he requested the NRC files in late February, and was surprised how quickly they responded. He received the UFO files today.

    Cooper Nuclear Power Plant on the edge of the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 15, 2011. (Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers/WikiMedia Commons)

    Cooper Nuclear Power Plant on the edge of the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 15, 2011.

    (Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers/WikiMedia Commons)

    There are 43 pages of documents, although some of those pages are copies, or have very little information on them. The majority of the pages are correspondence dealing with an incident described as, “unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station.”

    According to the documents, the report was received in June of 2010 by a former security officer. The event actually took place sometime in the late 80s.

    The report’s short description reads: “An unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989, but the event was not reported to the NRC as required.”

    The detail section of the report reads (reproduced unedited):

    The CI [Confidential Informant] described an event that occurred during his employment as a security officer at Cooper Nuclear Station. He was employed there from 1986 through 1989 and did not remember specifically when during that time the event occurred.

    While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an “unidentified flying object” fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake. He observed it for a few moments and then contacted a fellow security officer who also observed it (he could not recall the individual’s name exactly but his first name was [REDACTED] and his last name was either [REDACTED ]. After they together observed the UFO, it turned and went back up the river and did not come back that shift. He and the other officer shared their observation with their peers who did not believe them.

    The next evening he again was posted at the intake and observed the UFO return again. This time he didn’t call anyone until the UFO had traversed into the protected area and hovered above the protected area just north of the Reactor Building. He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO. These individuals included [REDACTED] (both of whom were security officers), all of whom still work at the plant today. After hovering there for a few minutes, the UFO exited the protected are [sic] and returned back up the river to the north as it had the previous night. The CI said that he never saw the UFO at the plant again after that evening.

    The CI believes that this incident should have been reported as a violation of the protected area space but was not reported.

    In the report, Nick Taylor, the NRC Senior Resident Inspector, searched for corroborating documents from the time, but found nothing. However, he cautioned, “I’d be careful about concluding that if an even wasn’t recorded in CAP [Corrective Action Program] that it did not occur.” Taylor went on to explain the reporting structure in the 80s was not as robust as it currently is. As an example, he noted that there were only 1020 reports between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 1989. Whereas there are nearly 10,000 a year nowadays.

    Excerpt of Nuclear Regulatory Commission UFO report. (Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

    Excerpt of Nuclear Regulatory Commission UFO report.

    (Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

    Although the report appeared to be taken seriously, in one email regarding the follow-up on the report, Taylor wrote: “This one should be a wild ride.”

    If the investigation of this case was a wild ride, there is no indication of it in the report. However, William B. Jones, the chief of Allegations Coordination and Enforcement, did request that the letter regarding the incident “be controlled and distribution limited to personnel with a ‘need to know.'”

    The report claims that the other witnesses to the event were interviewed, but the results are not included. Those results were sent to “ARB”, presunably an Allegations Review Board, but not included in the files provided to Greenewald.

    Cooper Nuclear Station (Credit: Nebraska Public Power District)

    Cooper Nuclear Station

    (Credit: Nebraska Public Power District)

    That is the extent of the report. A letter to the witness from the Director of Reactor Safety was also included. It essential said that they will forward the information to Cooper Nuclear Station, but that “no further action” will be taken, and they thanked him for his report.

    All in all, an interesting report.

    As for the rest of the NRC UFO documents, there is correspondence with an individual who believes there are nuclear craft being flown around, some of which may have crashed and caused radiation contamination.

    The other report is a bit more difficult to summarize. The NRC writes:

    The individual expressed vague concerns about finding low-level radiation within the last year where his daughter, whom he believes is an alien or alien transplant, passed. In addition, the individual believes that travel speed can be increased using the relativity equation with minor modifications. Finally, the individual has observed UFOs.

    The NRC responded that this was out of their jurisdiction and perhaps the individual should contact the Department of Defense.

    You can see the files here, at www.TheBlackVault.com.

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    Report of UFO over nuclear plant in Nebraska found in recently declassified documents

    A former security officer at the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska reported seeing a UFO over the plant sometime in the late 80s. The report was found in documents recently declassified as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for UFO files.

    The files were posted today on the website TheBlackVault.com. The website is a repository for millions of pages of declassified documents. It is ran by John Greenewald, who says he requested the NRC files in late February, and was surprised how quickly they responded. He received the UFO files today.

    Cooper Nuclear Power Plant on the edge of the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 15, 2011. (Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers/WikiMedia Commons)

    Cooper Nuclear Power Plant on the edge of the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 15, 2011.

    (Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers/WikiMedia Commons)

    There are 43 pages of documents, although some of those pages are copies, or have very little information on them. The majority of the pages are correspondence dealing with an incident described as, “unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station.”

    According to the documents, the report was received in June of 2010 by a former security officer. The event actually took place sometime in the late 80s.

    The report’s short description reads: “An unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989, but the event was not reported to the NRC as required.”

    The detail section of the report reads (reproduced unedited):

    The CI [Confidential Informant] described an event that occurred during his employment as a security officer at Cooper Nuclear Station. He was employed there from 1986 through 1989 and did not remember specifically when during that time the event occurred.

    While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an “unidentified flying object” fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake. He observed it for a few moments and then contacted a fellow security officer who also observed it (he could not recall the individual’s name exactly but his first name was [REDACTED] and his last name was either [REDACTED ]. After they together observed the UFO, it turned and went back up the river and did not come back that shift. He and the other officer shared their observation with their peers who did not believe them.

    The next evening he again was posted at the intake and observed the UFO return again. This time he didn’t call anyone until the UFO had traversed into the protected area and hovered above the protected area just north of the Reactor Building. He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO. These individuals included [REDACTED] (both of whom were security officers), all of whom still work at the plant today. After hovering there for a few minutes, the UFO exited the protected are [sic] and returned back up the river to the north as it had the previous night. The CI said that he never saw the UFO at the plant again after that evening.

    The CI believes that this incident should have been reported as a violation of the protected area space but was not reported.

    In the report, Nick Taylor, the NRC Senior Resident Inspector, searched for corroborating documents from the time, but found nothing. However, he cautioned, “I’d be careful about concluding that if an even wasn’t recorded in CAP [Corrective Action Program] that it did not occur.” Taylor went on to explain the reporting structure in the 80s was not as robust as it currently is. As an example, he noted that there were only 1020 reports between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 1989. Whereas there are nearly 10,000 a year nowadays.

    Excerpt of Nuclear Regulatory Commission UFO report. (Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

    Excerpt of Nuclear Regulatory Commission UFO report.

    (Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

    Although the report appeared to be taken seriously, in one email regarding the follow-up on the report, Taylor wrote: “This one should be a wild ride.”

    If the investigation of this case was a wild ride, there is no indication of it in the report. However, William B. Jones, the chief of Allegations Coordination and Enforcement, did request that the letter regarding the incident “be controlled and distribution limited to personnel with a ‘need to know.'”

    The report claims that the other witnesses to the event were interviewed, but the results are not included. Those results were sent to “ARB”, presunably an Allegations Review Board, but not included in the files provided to Greenewald.

    Cooper Nuclear Station (Credit: Nebraska Public Power District)

    Cooper Nuclear Station

    (Credit: Nebraska Public Power District)

    That is the extent of the report. A letter to the witness from the Director of Reactor Safety was also included. It essential said that they will forward the information to Cooper Nuclear Station, but that “no further action” will be taken, and they thanked him for his report.

    All in all, an interesting report.

    As for the rest of the NRC UFO documents, there is correspondence with an individual who believes there are nuclear craft being flown around, some of which may have crashed and caused radiation contamination.

    The other report is a bit more difficult to summarize. The NRC writes:

    The individual expressed vague concerns about finding low-level radiation within the last year where his daughter, whom he believes is an alien or alien transplant, passed. In addition, the individual believes that travel speed can be increased using the relativity equation with minor modifications. Finally, the individual has observed UFOs.

    The NRC responded that this was out of their jurisdiction and perhaps the individual should contact the Department of Defense.

    You can see the files here, at www.TheBlackVault.com.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    15-08-2017 om 20:59 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Jimmy Kimmel asks another former president about UFO secrets

    Jimmy Kimmel asks another former president about UFO secrets

    Jimmy Kimmel is at it again, this time with former POTUS George Bush. Kimmel has a habit of asking presidents – and a presidential candidate -what they know about UFOs and the government’s secret files. Bush was on the hot seat last week, and his answers might make some scratch their heads.

    George Bush on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Crerdit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)

    George Bush answering UFO questions on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

    (Credit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)

    Kimmel broached the topic by asking:

    “This is a question, first, that I think is important to me and to the country. When you were in office, I don’t know when this happened or if it happened, did you go through the secret files, the UFO documents? Because…”

    Bush interrupted, “Maybe.”

    Kimmel finished his question, “…that would be the first thing I did.”

    Bush responded: “My daughters asked the same question.”

    Kimmel was surprised by this, and asked, “Would you be allowed to tell your daughters what was in those files?”

    “No,” Bush replied.

    Kimmel continued to push, “Now that you’re out of office, you can do anything you want, right?”

    “True. But I am not telling you,” Bush replied.

    Kimmel then sought to clarify, “Are you not telling me you looked at them?”

    “I’m not telling you nuthin’,” Bush responded. This got a chuckle out of the crowd and Kimmel.

    However, Kimmel was not done yet. He asked, “Are there really great secrets that you know that you can’t share with people?”

    “Yeah,” Bush replied.

    Kimmel then asked, “There are? And you never write about them?”

    “No,” Bush replied.

    Kimmel then suggested perhaps Bush would write about it later in life, like when he is 90.

    “No,” Bush replied.

    Still pressing, Kimmel asked, “Nothing? What if you were to get a little loopy and…”

    “Start drinking again?,” Bush asked.

    Kimmel laughed, and agreed. “Yeah. Start drinking again. Guillermo, get some tequila!”

    Bush and Kimmel laugh during UFO discussion on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Credit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live!)

    Bush and Kimmel laugh during UFO discussion on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

    (Credit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)

    That was the extent of their ET conversation, as you can see in the video above. The conversation was actually very interesting. Bush seemed to imply he has seen UFO files of which he cannot share the content. Was he kidding? In this setting, one which is about getting laughs, that could be assumed. However, during much of the conversation, Bush did not appear to be joking.

    If Bush really has seen UFO files that are top secret and still under wraps, that would be significant. Thus far, every president has denied that such a thing exists. Obama said the aliens would not let him tell Kimmel about the secret files, but he did seem to be joking. Clinton said he looked for secret government UFO files, but did not find any. At least once, he did imply that career bureaucrats could be keeping them secret for him. One of our previous stories on this, and Clinton’s talk with Kimmel, was found in recent WikiLeaks.

    Ben Hansen presenting his analysis of other presidential interviews regarding UFOs and aliens at the 2017 International UFO Congress. (Credit: UFOCongress.com/OpenMinds.tv)

    Ben Hansen presenting his analysis of other presidential interviews regarding UFOs and aliens at the 2017 International UFO Congress.

    (Credit: UFOCongress.com/OpenMinds.tv)

    Ben Hansen, former host of the Syfy program Fact or Faked: The Paranormal Files, has examined previous statements by presidents, or presidential hopefuls, and he says there is some indication that there is something to hide. He admits, he is not sure what the something is, or if it is UFO or ET related. He intends to scrutinize this video, and when he does, we will let you know what he finds out.

    Until then, you can purchase the DVD of Hansen’s lecture on this topic at the recent UFO Congress here, and the video will also be posted on our online Open Minds UFO Video Portal soon.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    15-08-2017 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.WHAT THE MOON COULD TELL US ABOUT ALIENS

    WHAT THE MOON COULD TELL US ABOUT ALIENS

    Contributed by Elizabeth Rayne

    Never mind the bizarre theories that have put aliens on the moon constructing creepy obelisks and even inside to pilot it like a spaceship—new revelations about its vanished magnetic field may shed light on how other moons could potentially host alien life forms.

    While the moon now has nothing but a ghost of what was once a magnetic field, a new study has found that its magnetic field must have lasted a billion years longer than what scientists previously estimated. This extended shelf life could mean that magnetic fields on distant celestial bodies may be able to survive long enough to support some sort of extraterrestrial life.

    Whether anything ever crawled around on the moon itself is a mystery, but science has been able to find out approximately how strong its dead magnetic field used to be by using moon rocks brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts. The rocks are relics of a period between 3.56 and 4.25 billion years ago, when the moon’s magnetic field could have been anywhere from 20 to 110 microtesla (in comparison to Earth’s 50). Sometime around 3.19 billion years ago, the strength of the lunar magnetic field plunged to under 4 microteslas, and the question of what happened after that and before it dissipated completely remains unanswered.

    Apollo 15 sample 15498.

    Greater insight into what the magnetic field of the moon was like when it actually existed could tell us more about how those of alien moons and planets influence their potential for habitability. Earth’s magnetic field shields our planet from getting radiation-bombed by the sun, as Mars did when its own was ruthlessly stripped away by stellar winds to turn it from a planet that is thought to have once been running with rivers into a dry, dusty wasteland.

    "Magnetic fields can shield planets from stellar winds which can strip atmospheres of water, which is important for planetary habitability,said lunar geophysicist Sonia Tikoo, who led a study recently published in Science Advances.

    An Apollo 15 moon rock, sample 15498, was tested by Tikkoo and her colleagues for what it could reveal about the past. Moon rocks have preserved evidence of the existence and strength of the moon’s ancient magnetic field through thousands of metallic micrograins that aligned with its force as they cooled from a molten state. 15498 is one of the rare ones that formed after volcanism on the moon, and with it, igneous rock formation sputtered to death 3 billion years ago. This one was found to have formed from an intense cosmic impact around 1 to 2.5 billion years ago.

    Sample 15498’s magnetic properties were first gauged by a supersensitive magnetometer before it was exposed to an artificial magnetic field in the lab. The rock was then heated to be as close as possible to the extreme temperatures it emerged from, about 1,436 degrees Fahrenheit. How magnetized the rock gets is compared to the natural magnetic field previously measured to determine what the strength of the lunar magnetic field was when it formed. The rock revealed that there was still the vestige of a magnetic field with a strength of 5 microteslas from 1 to 2.5 billion years ago.

    The reason the magnetic field held on for so long is thought to be a dynamo much like Earth’s liquid metal core (which fuels our own magnetic field). There are several theories as to how the lunar dynamo could have lasted for billions of years, but it is still an unsolved mystery.

    What was once a liquid metallic core (that glowing red thing that looks like the Eye of Sauron) is thought to be what made the lunar magnetic field last a billion years longer than previously thought.

    So what does all this say about aliens?

    Even small planetary bodies can generate long-lived magnetic fields operating on billion-year timescales, so it is possible that small exoplanets or exomoons might be able to preserve water on timescales long enough to permit life to develop,” said Tikoo.

    Don’t be surprised if the first sign of extraterrestrial life emerges from an exomoon.

    (via NBC Mach)

    http://www.syfy.com/ }

    15-08-2017 om 20:44 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Thom Reed UFO Monument Park

    Thom Reed UFO Monument Park

    The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

    THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )

    The covered bridge where it all started John Phelan / CC BY SA 3.0

    Solar lamppost THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )

    One of the benches at the park THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )

    THOMAS REED and his monument THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )

    Cars are not allowed to drive over the covered bridge in Sheffield, Massachusetts, anymore. Part of the reason may have to do with what happened there on September 1st, 1969, when a station wagon met a UFO.

    The 1969 event was not Thom Reed’s first bizarre encounter, but it was the most verifiable. Not only did he and his family encounter the UFO that night, witnesses in four surrounding towns reported seeing it. Those witnesses, though, did not have as close an encounter as Reed’s family.

    According to Reed, after crossing the bridge, he and his mother, grandmother, and brother saw a bright light rise out of the water of the Housatonic River. They were taken, mysteriously, from their car to what appeared to be an airplane hanger, where they saw creatures that resembled large insects. He was separated from his mother and grandmother and taken to a strange room, though he could hear them calling for him. Then, just as suddenly, they were all back in the car.

    Forty people reported strange lights and a saucer like object in the sky to a local radio station that night, and when Reed took a polygraph test he was found to be 99.1% truthful. For this reason, the Great Barrington Historical Society voted 6-3 to recognize the encounter as “historically significant and true.” It was the first time a UFO encounter has had this kind of recognition.

    A 5,000-pound granite monument, with a plaque commemorating “our nation’s first off-world/UFO incident” was placed near the covered bridge where the encounter took place. A few solar lampposts and a couple of benches later joined it. Not everyone in town is thrilled to be known for such a thing, but Reed feels validated by the historical society and the state historians and governor who also officially recognized the encounter as historical, something very few UFO witnesses ever get to feel.

    Know Before You Go

    There is a place to park cars on the west side of the bridge, the monument and park are on the east side.

    http://www.atlasobscura.com/ }

    15-08-2017 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA hiring Planetary Protection Officer and USAF seeks to create Space Corps. Who are the enemies lurking in space?
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    NASA hiring Planetary Protection Officer and USAF seeks to create Space Corps. Who are the enemies lurking in space?

    NASA’s recent job posting for a Planetary Protection Officer and the House approving a plan to create a Space Corps in the U.S. Air Force have made worldwide headlines.  It is not hard to understand why. They are exciting pieces of news that make space nerds like me giddily feeling like our sci-fi fantasies have come true.

    Could it be that the time has come for us to defend ourselves from a threat from beyond? Perhaps the recent meeting by the Mutual UFO Network focused on a secret space program was not as farfetched as I thought. While it may be fun to think this is the case, the threats these positions are focused on are not alien invaders, well, not the sci-fi kind.

    The USAF already has a Space Command and Space Wing. This graphic details the 50th Space Wing's locations. Click to enlarge. (Credit: USAF)

    The USAF already has a Space Command and Space Wing. This graphic details the 50th Space Wing’s locations. Click to enlarge.

    (Credit: USAF)

    As NASA recently pointed out, in a response to a nine-year-old would be “Guardian of the Galaxy,” the Planetary Protection Officer position has actually existed since the 60’s. According to the job posting, this position is “concerned with the avoidance of organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration.”

    Or, as they described to the nine-year-old applicant: “Our Planetary Protection Officer position is really cool and is very important work. It’s about protecting Earth from tiny microbes when we bring back samples from the Moon, asteroids and Mars. It’s also about protecting other planets and moons from our germs as we responsibly explore the Solar System.”

    They make it seem kind of boring, but these sorts of protocols would have helped the space colonists in the latest installation of the Alien franchise when (spoiler) they got infected by the weird pollen-like substance that turned some of them into deadly xenomorphs.

    Contamination of space colonists in Alien Covenant caused slight discomfort for those infected. (Credit: 20th Century Fox)

    Contamination of space colonists in Alien Covenant caused slight discomfort for those infected.

    (Credit: 20th Century Fox)

    Although the knowledge I just imparted might make it seem like I could be a good candidate for the job, watching sci-fi movies and having watched every episode of X-Files several times is not what NASA is looking for. They would prefer someone with an advanced degree in engineering, physical science, or mathematics. I guess I am out.

    So is Jack Davis. Davis is a fourth grader who, like me, felt he was more than qualified to do the job. He sent NASA a one paragraph resume/cover letter, and actually got a response. It is even posted on NASA’s website.

    Jack wrote:

    Dear NASA,

    My name is Jack Davis and I would like to apply for the for the planetary protection officer job. I may be 9, but I think I would be fit for the job. One of the reasons is my sister says I am an alien. Also I have seen almost all the space and alien movies that I can see. I have also seen the show ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and hope to see the movie ‘Men in Black.’ I am great at video games. I am young, so I can learn to think like an alien.

    Sincerely,

    Jack Davis,

    Guardian of the Galaxy

    Fourth Grade

    The kid had me convinced. However, as NASA Director of Planetary Science Division Dr. James L. Green explained, there is a bit more to the job than meets the eye.

    Dear Jack,

    I hear you are a “Guardian of the Galaxy” and that you’re interested in being a NASA Planetary Protection Officer. That’s great!

    Our Planetary Protection Officer position is really cool and is very important work. It’s about protecting Earth from tiny microbes when we bring back samples from the Moon, asteroids and Mars. It’s also about protecting other planets and moons from our germs as we responsibly explore the Solar System.

    We are always looking for bright future scientists and engineers to help us, so I hope you will study hard and do well in school. We hope to see you here at NASA one of these days!

    Sincerely,

    Dr. James L. Green

    Director, Planetary Science Division

    Dr. Green makes it seem like the Planetary Protection Officer position is a tough gig to land. But there may be hope. Jack and I may have a shot to gallivant around space saving the universe as members of the USAF Space Corps. This sounds like a job more likely to include laser blasters, and the House really did pass a defense spending bill approving their creation.

    Young Jack Davis' letter and NASA's Dr, Green response. (Credit: NASA)

    Young Jack Davis’ letter and NASA’s Dr, Green response.

    (Credit: NASA)

    There are just two problems that may prevent Jack and I from receiving our standard issue laser blasters. The first is that although the House approved the bill, the Senate is more skeptical about the need for the Space Corps. Many feel it might be premature to create the department.  In fact, according to the New York Times, the White House has said the proposal is “premature,” and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis essentially laughed it off.

    It’s true that there is little evidence we are in imminent danger of being invaded by an alien force, but that is not really what the Space Corps is for anyway. The Space Corps’ proposed purpose, as the New York Times puts it, is to “oversee military operations in that emerging, and important, domain of military competition.” Specifically, competition from the Russians and Chinese.

    Fourth-grader Jack Davis got a special call Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, from NASA’s Planetary Research Director, Jonathan Rall, congratulating Jack on his interest in serving as the agency's planetary protection officer. (Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

    Fourth-grader Jack Davis got a special call Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, from NASA’s Planetary Research Director, Jonathan Rall, congratulating Jack on his interest in serving as the agency’s planetary protection officer.

    (Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

    The sorts of weapons currently residing in space are satellite signal jammers.

    “What hasn’t happened is the kinetic part: blowing up satellites,” Brian Weeden, director of program planning for Secure World Foundation, an organization that studies the international use of space, told the New York Times.

    So we are not in a time where we need the Guardians of the Galaxy… yet. This dashes my hopes of becoming a space cadet, but lucky for Jack, the future is coming very quickly. It would be wise for him to take Dr. Green’s advice, because our activity in space is sure to become even more exciting and sci-fi-like in the near future.

    {http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    15-08-2017 om 20:13 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.This man captured images of mysterious UFO sightings and other phenomenon [VIDEO]

    This man captured images of mysterious UFO sightings and other phenomenon [VIDEO]

    Pierre Beake is an experienced photographer who has been covering an area called Col de Vence situated near the south of France.
    Nupur Jha

    15-08-2017 om 18:26 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Filer’s Files #33 – 2017 CIA We Have Been Contacted - PART I
    Disc over Cancun, Mexico on July 14, 2017.

    Filer’s Files #33 – 2017 CIA We Have Been Contacted - PART I

    In special reports, this week’s files cover: 

    CIA We Have Been Contacted, Mexico Hovering Solid Oblong Craft, Global Wave of Animal Mutilations, Scotland 5,000-year-old Slab of Stone, Tombs in Ireland Shaped Like Discs, Egyptian Pyramids in the Grand Canyon, Message from the Light Team, and Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Jordan, Korea, Latvia, Mexico, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.

    The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

    George A. Filer III

    New Jersey State Director

    MUFON Eastern Region Director

    Www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 million hits a month

    Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.

    Special Projects

    CIA We Have Been Contacted

    Mexico Hovering Solid Oblong Craft

    Palenque — Elliot Lemmon writes: I live in New Zealand and my father who is a professional director of photography was filming a BBC series called “Spirits of the Jaguar” back in 96 when he along with 2 or 3 others had the sighting. What really blows me away is that sighting was in Palenque, Mexico and the apparent interest the UFO had either in the people viewing it or

    King Pacal’s tomb/pyramid. Basically, they were setting up their equipment, camera, etc. for the day shoot. It was only 4:00 or 4:30 AM, so still dark, so unfortunately there was no way of filming the event. After realizing there was a small light on the horizon over the jungle in Palenque my father and others become curious. Eventually the light came silently zigzagging towards them.

    They were directly at the bottom of the Temple of Inscriptions setting up. As the light came closer it suddenly sped up and zoomed towards their position, where it “stopped on a dime” in my father’s words. He had no belief what so ever in their existence and never really looked at the evidence, despite my pleads!

    Now this light had stopped directly above them and its luminescence went out to reveal a solid oblong kind of shape, perhaps a couple thousand feet up and the size of a large truck. My father described it as pretty much brick like. The crafts light came back on and it shot off to the horizon again at impossible speed! One of the things my father still finds hard to fathom is the complete silence of the craft. Thanks to Elliot Lemmon. Editor’s Note: The carved stone grave vault cover of King Pacal’s Temple/Tomb shows him apparently sitting in a rocket or UFO taking him into space.

    Who Is Doing This?! Global Wave of Animal Mutilations 

    © Photo: Pixabay

    Who or what is mutilating animals the world over? Declassified files show the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has investigated thousands of instances of cattle disfigurement across the American Midwest since the 1970s, to no avail. A leading expert in the field isn’t sure either – but he has told Sputnik the explanation certainly isn’t humdrum.

    While skeptics will surely opt to blame the international wave of brutalized bovines on natural disasters, sadistic pranks or similarly sick, wanton hijinks, proponents of conspiratorial and/or otherworldly explanations for the disturbing acts are quick to point out the attacks are often carried out with surgical precision.

    Farmers worldwide, most notably and recurrently in US states such as South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, and Nevada, have for decades had the unpleasant experience of discovering their treasured, lucrative beasts dead with various organs — including eyes, noses, tongues, hearts, livers, anuses, and genitalia — excised with laser-like accuracy. © PHOTO: UFONUT.COM

    Sightings of attacks on cattle

    Moreover, the FBI documents make clear even the US’ best investigative minds were seemingly stumped at the ultimate source of all the carnage. In many cases residents reported seeing crafts — whether thoroughly terrestrial helicopters, or UFOs — circling areas where cattle later turned up sliced up.

    Such phenomena prompted concerns among researchers that the mutilations were being carried out and covered up by the government for some nefarious purpose or other — although as the wave of mutilations occurred concurrently with a worldwide obsession with flying saucers, some believe the mutilations’ origins to be otherworldly.

    Linda Moulton Howe, founder of EarthFiles.com, states the same pattern of “bloodless excision” has been documented in all kinds of domestic and wild animals.

    Death Without Commitment: Where Are All the Aliens? Sleeping,

    He believes the lack of gallons of blood near the animal, no apparent signs of animal struggle and the highly specific nature of the mutilations (for instance, precise cuts on the hide, and tongues cut out at the base) suggest the animals can only have been kidnapped and maimed by an intelligent agency — and the crushed rib cages and broken limbs often evidenced point to them having fallen some way to their final resting place. Yet more eerily, in some cases he has reviewed, scavengers won’t even touch the carcass.

    As for what is mutilating these ill-fated creatures, Mr. Zukowski won’t speculate, but he says the evidence strongly points to a non-human rather than human source. In the majority of cases he has investigated, witnesses have seen “balls of light” near the land from which animals have been abducted, and in some cases apparent spacecraft. He also believes the unmarked helicopters seen at some sites are indicative that the US government is running its own investigations into the happenings. As for whether there could be a mundane explanation, Mr. Zukowski is unequivocal — “absolutely not!”

    We’re talking about something that was alive just hours before, with no symptoms of being ill, then later found with horrific damage. Who is doing this? I have my thoughts, which makes these investigations extremely dangerous, because you don’t want to be in the right place at the wrong time — it could happen to you. There have been some human mutilation cases too!” he adds.

    This bloodcurdling singularity is not exclusive to the US.

    Mr. Zukowski not infrequently receives emails from investigators based in other countries asking for help, including Australia, New Zealand, Dominican Republic, and the UK.

    He notes some UK mutilations have made it in to the mainstream media, including mutilated lambs in Beddgelert, Gwynedd, mutilated rams in Plwmp, Dyfed, and mutilated deer, foxes and badgers near Shropshire and mid-Wales. Furthermore, every June, ewes go missing in Bleddfa, Powys.

    Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs and other mysterious phenomena for the UK Ministry of Defense between 1991-1994, says it’s difficult to judge the true extent of the phenomenon, as the insurance industry has a policy not issuing payments to farmers if they suggested their slain animals had been killed in a mysterious, unknown way.

    As a result, farmers and veterinary physicians generally “colluded” to describe any mysterious animal deaths as being the result of dog attacks. This made it difficult for him to investigate cases further.

    The cattle mutilation mystery is extremely disturbing, and there are many different theories, including predator activity, Satanists, secret military experiments, and extraterrestrial activity. The theory about military involvement makes no sense, because government scientists already have a facility where animal testing is carried out, so they would have had no need to conduct additional, illegal testing. However, I was not able to find a definitive explanation during my government work,” Mr. Pope told Sputnik.  Thanks to Jeff Rense

    Note: Balls of light are frequently reported around cattle mutilations. When flying our aircraft it was hit by ball lightning that floated through the plane indicating powerful electrical forces. The Earth releases electrical charges during tectonic stress known as Earth Lights and 1.4 billion flashes of lightning per year strike the Earth. A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures of roughly 30,000 kelvins (53,540 degrees Fahrenheit). Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University says lightning accounts for 80 percent of all accidental livestock deaths. A stroke of lightning can contain 20,000 or more amperes of current.

    Not generally realized is that a positive bolt of lightning comes up from the ground to meet the negative bolt from the thunder cloud. And when that hits the earth, that electricity spreads out in the ground and can be potentially deadly. There also may be spontaneous ignition of inflammable gases rising up in no great volume from the lower strata.

    Medieval observers believed that fiery dragons came out of the earth and attacked cattle. Perhaps they were observing the Earth lights that are known to exist and are often seen before and during earthquakes. They may have been more perceptive then we give them credit for. We can speculate that Earth lights have strong electrical energy that comes out of the ground that attacks the cattle with a strong electrical charge throughout its body. Precise cuts or laser like cuts could be made by high voltage on the hide. The soft organs, tissue, and blood could be burned up as described during cattle mutilations.  Unusually high temperatures in the Earth lights should be tested. Dead cattle could be tested for electrocution. As the lights ascend they may be able to carry the cattle into the air.

    Scotland 5,000-year-old Slab of Stone

    Archaeologists in Glasgow briefly excavated a slab of stone that contains incised swirling geometric decorations.

    The 5000 year old Cochno Stone, which measures 43 feet by 26 feet (13 by 8 meters), contains swirling decorations, also called “cup and ring marks.” The stone and its decorations have been known to people in the area since at least the 19th century. Decorations similar to these swirls have been found at other prehistoric sites around the world; however, the examples incised in the Cochno Stone are considered to comprise “one of the best examples” of such art in Europe, according to the University of Glasgow, which led the new study.

    The stone slab was fully unearthed in West Dunbartonshire by Reverend James Harvey in 1887. By 1965, the stone had been vandalized with graffiti and damaged by the elements, so a team of archaeologists buried it beneath the dirt in order to protect the artwork. This summer’s two-week re-excavation allowed archaeologists to use modern-day surveying and photography techniques to better record the artwork.

    The meaning of the artwork is still unknown, said Trophy, adding that the vast amount of data gathered this summer may, in time, allow archaeologists to better understand the artifact. It may be describing flying objects in the sky.

    This could be a Mothership launching small discs like I chased over the UK.

    While archaeologists had to rebury the swirling prehistoric artwork in order to protect it, Trophy said he hopes that one day it will be possible to create an area where the rock art can be permanently revealed for both tourists and people in the local area to see. Trophy said in the statement. “Perhaps in the future, this site could be turned into a major tourist attraction in Scotland, with a visitor center — who knows?” Thanks to Live science[Gallery: Aerial Photos Reveal Mysterious Stone Structures

    Tombs in Ireland Shaped Like Discs

    Knowth area tombs have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Fourknocks is a Passage Chamber Tomb built about 5000 years ago. It is located 10 miles southeast of Newgrange, Ireland.   The name Fourknocks may be from the Irish Fuair Cnocs meaning  the Four Tombs (Four Hills). Only the main tomb pictured above has been excavated and is open to the public.

    Kerbston 5 could also represent a UFO. The shape of the mound structures seems to show the wrap around aspect of the typical UFO disc. The burial sites often contain small discs or models about a foot in size. Great passage mounds, dolmens, stone circles, standing stones, alignments are all an important feature of the landscape and likely indicate religious worship in some form. It would be reasonable to assume the UFOs were seen floating overhead and were associated with the recycling or transmigration of souls as explained in ancient Egyptian and Vedic writings. The ancients who lived relatively shortened lives were often concerned with the soul’s journey to paradise. Although, the actual beliefs are not known, belief in a soul and everlasting life, being carried to heaven or paradise is practically universal. There  is evidence UFOs were seen and took the souls to heaven in many scriptures and drawings. Thanks to www.Knowth.com and

    Egyptian Pyramids Allegedly in the Grand Canyon

    It’s rather surprising but several pyramid like structures and tunnel city caves indicate some 50,000 + Egyptian like peoples existed in the US Grand Canyon 3600 years ago. This pyramid is known as

    Zoroaster Temple. Zoroaster was in Egypt when times were hard and was becoming a Poor Nation. But Zoroaster’s first name had been (Joseph) because he had a God that was higher in the Heavens than their Sun God named Ra that knew what the Pharaoh’s dream meant.
    He built a big Boat that had Wings (Sails) that would carry many people and found more Grain and Gold for the Egyptians. When he came back to Egypt in his boat loaded with gold and grain, the Pharaoh made him the Ruler of Egypt and called him Zaphenat-Pa’aneah.

    Tower of Ra.

    The Hopi Indians told the Grand Canyon Park Rangers that this was the Tower of Ra. A few eroded Egyptian Hieroglyphs can still be seen on the Tower of Ra.
    In the Grand Canyon Haunted area many places have Egyptian and Hindu names such as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva Temple. Indicating a relationship between these places and the alleged Egyptian discoveries in the Grand Canyon?
    The Arizona state archaeologist said the early explorers had just liked Egyptian and Hindu names, but it is true that this area was off limits to hikers or other visitors, because of dangerous caves. Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone – no one is allowed into this large area. We could only conclude that this was the area where the vaults were located. Yet today, this area is curiously off-limits to all hikers and even, in large part park personnel.
    The Smithsonian Institute does not seem to want to reveal evidence of advanced American cultures, evidence for ancient voyages of various cultures to North America, evidence for extraterrestrial alien visitation, the evidence that tends to disprove the official system of belief that is now the history of North America.


    The Smithsonian Archaeologist think that that this unfinished Egyptian Pyramid in the Grand Canyon is a burial Tomb because there is a entrance Tunnel that is blocked a few feet inside the Pyramid.. The National Park Service will not allow the Archaeologist to excavate any of the Pyramids in the Grand Canyon. These ruins may hold proof of alien visitation or at the very least advanced civilization that can move 50,000+ people from Egypt some 15, 000 miles away, half way around the world and erect massive structures.
    The Tunnel Complex that Mr. G. E. Kinkaid found was a massive Burial Chamber. The Mummies were placed in the burial chamber walls on large stone blocks.
    The Egyptians began coming to the Grand Canyon according to the Carbon Dating of the mummies bones around 1600 BC. The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents still refuses to open its meetings to the news media or the public. If Americans were ever allowed inside the ‘nation’s attic’, as the Smithsonian has been called, what skeletons might they find? http://www.crystalinks.comgc_egyptconnection.html

    NASA Photos from Mars


    Frank Jacobs has found some astounding images of Mars that indicate precision cuts on stone of ancient archeological ruins.
    The cutting of the granite is similar to that found on Earth in the building of the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. Speculation suggests Martians left Mars and came to Earth.


    Mars image found by Frank Jacobs shows likely remains of a hidden city. Life apparently existed on Mars and the archaeological remains are available for all to see who wish to take the time to investigate the images. See the trailer Packing for Mars. Thanks to NASA images.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBOBZooqcN4

    Message from the Light Team

    Frank Chille writes, “On July 24th at our monthly UFO Meet Up at the Cinnaminson Public Library we had as a featured speaker

         Lisa C. Anderson – a highly skillful and trained – Energy Coach. She works at clearing energy blockages within the mind and body – she is extremely intuitive and empathetic working with Light and Love. She spoke of clearing your energy by releasing old beliefs, thought patterns, healing emotional wounds, traumas, identify and clear your blockages to achieve a better life. At the end of her very fascinating discourse and many interesting questions from the audience, I asked, “Lisa, is there anything which we have not inquired about – that you would like share with this group?” At that point Lisa became quiet, as she seemed to be expressing deep emotion and her eyes welled up with tears. She then offered to us this channeled message directed to the group from Star Visitors whom she called “Your Light Team”. revealed this Message:
    You are so loved and you are not alone.” Sit comfortably with your eyes closed and take in 3 deep breaths. Focus on your heart and allow it to open. Ask to feel the love your Team has for you. Sit with it for as long as you like. Do this daily, as you can, even for 5 minutes. It will make a huge difference in your daily experiences. Blessings & Joy, Thanks to Lisa C. Anderson Here is Lisa’s website if you’d like to also include it – http://the-healers-healer.com/about-lisa/

    Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017

    By Lina Tran

    NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. NASA also released its own safety guide warning bystanders about the dangers the Sun’s rays could cause to your eyesight down the road.

    Do not look at the sun through a camera, a telescope, bintheoculars, or any other optical device while using your eclipse glasses or hand-held solar viewer — the concentrated solar rays will damage the filter and enter your eye(s), causing serious injury,

    NASA said.

    Fienberg adds that “genuinely” safe solar filters will block at least 99.999% of the Sun’s visible and ultraviolet light and at least 97% of the Sun’s infrared radiation. Counterfeit glasses, he says, appear to block enough visible light to provide a comfortable view of the Sun, but that can really be “done with any sufficiently dark plastic.” “Genuinely safe solar filters are made from special materials engineered to block appropriate amounts of UV and IR radiation too. Our retinas don’t have pain receptors, so if you look through unsafe filters, you could think you’re having a fine view of the Sun when in fact your retinas are being injured, something you won’t realize till it’s too late,” he adds.
    Some of the places that AAS recommends to shop online are EclipseGlasses.com, Celestron, Explore Scientific and Meade Instruments. The organization also has a list of retailers that include 7-Eleven, Best Buy, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart, that stock glasses made by verified manufacturers at some but “not all” locations.
    Additionally, buyers should be skeptical of glasses that are stamped with an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) seal because some companies are now printing the logo and certification label on glasses and handheld solar viewers.

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    Filer’s Files #33 – 2017 CIA We Have Been Contacted - PART II

    UFO Sightings in the United States

    Alaska Disc

    Lake Eklutna, Eagle River — My husband and I were on our Alaskan vacation around 7 pm on July 11, 2017. We stopped at Lake Eklutna for a brief look around, we only stayed about 30 minutes and my husband wanted to take my picture. He took two pictures that I immediately wanted to see. I looked at the photo and turned to see what photo bombed my picture but nothing was there? I was expecting to see a parachute but saw nothing. We then looked at the next picture and see how far away it is in such a short time. We don’t know what it is so to us, it’s officially a UFO. Neither my husband saw anything. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Arizona Light

    Chino Valley –This was video from a security surveillance system captured on July 24, 2017. We were watching it for another reason, when we noticed a strange object fly across the sky at an amazing speed and behind the cab of the truck.
    The view is to the north and the object appears to fly in a straight line northwest. It appears low going behind the trees. There was no noise. One person I spoke with said that he heard a story about something in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    California Object

    Santa Monica — I was at Palisades Park at night taking pictures of Santa Monica Pier on August 6, 2017. Over a full moon I saw circular objects in the sky over the ocean. I wasn’t sure what I saw at first as I was taking the photo and thought how odd. I looked again and they disappeared. There were four circular objects in a row in the photo. Three of the objects looked exactly the same and the fourth object was larger. There were four objects close together and succinctly lined up. I have never seen anything strange like it before. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Colorado Object

    Golden — On August 4, 2017 my husband and his son had just finished the Coors factory tour with the butte formation behind it.  We took a picture of the butte about 5 pm with three different phones. We did not see any unusual activity. This is the photo that showed up on my husband’s phone. The pictures on my cell phone and my stepson’s phone did not have any unusual craft in them. We did not see any craft at the time. We were just admiring the natural landscape. My husband and my stepson had had 3 complimentary beers each after the tour. I did not have anything to drink myself. Yesterday (8/6/17) when I was looking at the pictures I noticed object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Illinois Orbs

    I was putting some new curtains on the window when I saw three gray circles in the sky;

    The photo was taken on August 7, 2017.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Iowa Orb

    Cascade — Prior to dinner a large cloud like object was following me on August 5, 2017. After dinner, I went out back and noticed these fireballs emerging. I have video and photos on two cameras. The two objects flew up and seemed to hover. Please note that about two weeks ago I was close to Gary Owen Church and I had one fly directly to me and it was about 25 feet away at eye level. It was hovering between trees and was 75 feet away. When I looked over from where the initial ball of light started, there were 6-8 white floating orbs. When I got to the road I saw a fireball and white saucer following. The power lines were shaking and I felt a vibration up my legs that radiated through my body. My friend and I watched a metallic domed object fly around her car. I am a licensed pilot and I have never seen anything change shape, move forward, backwards, left, right, up and down so quickly. The last one came very close and changed path as if it was circling. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    New Jersey Horse Rescue

    Medford — Darlene writes, My friend told me that in 1969 or 70 her friend and several people saw three unusual objects hovering the high tension wires next to my property the house was not built. They saw one land on what is now my horse field and pond. I Google it and the articles said that in fact there were sightings.  We have an indentation in the field since we moved here that fills up with water yet it never erodes and stays the same shape. We have found unusual metal pieces in that area when it does dry up. This is a picture of a framed view if my lot. Thanks Darlene

    Note: I drove out to investigate the site and visited Darlene’s friends, horses, donkeys and horse stables. . The amazing situation was that Darlene takes in virtually dying animals that would normally be end of their lives with .wounded and crippled legs and bodies. They are attracted to the water and spend some time there and are cared for and fed normal food. Miraculously, the animals gain their strength and appear healed and feisty.

    I have interviewed several abductees who claim to have been healed, and some people claim to be in touch with aliens/angels who are able to heal others. It appears that aliens feel obliged to preserve the specimen for their own purposes. As one abductee said, ‘It’s equipment maintenance.”  I examined the area around the pond and there was little plant life and the dirt seemed to clump.

    Eternal Life Is Guaranteed

    It’s just a matter of where “forever” will be spent. You must make a choice, because death can be terrible or transcendent, the greatest loss or a glorious gain.

    As a Christian, your birthright is eternal life. But you must keep eternity in mind today.

    In Touching Heaven, you will discover how important it is to:

    • Adjust your attitudeto realize you are just “passing through” on your way to your eternal home . . .
    • Make changes to your lifestylethat emphasize God’s priorities and desires for you . . .
    • Find help for your soul— and renew your spirit with God’s help . . .
    • Work wholeheartedly and wait with expectancyfor the bliss that awaits you when you are called home . . .

    Orange — I was in my backyard with my dog on June 22, 2017, and looked up when smoking and this object was extremely bright when compared to the stars. I noticed it hovering for at least 20 seconds as it started to move at a steady speed, and I pulled out my phone to record the bright orange star? The object either went behind the clouds or looks like it disappeared, Thanks to MUFON CMS

    New York Light

    Montgomery — I was walking to my car and a blue blinking light caught the corner of my eye on August 2, 2017. I looked up to see what it was; I found it strange so I started to video tape with my cell phone. It started changing colors and moving fast and then it disappeared. Needless to say I was in shock at what I just saw. Moments later, I felt sick to my stomach. I guess the excitement and the fear of what I saw got to me. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    South Dakota Orb

    Wakpala — Our daughter and I were taking a walk in the prairies surrounding our house on Highway 1806. We stopped at a spot where I was taking pictures on August 7, 2017, of my daughter on a rock trying to make her smile. I did not notice the UFO and it made no sound. When we were reviewing the four photos we noticed the UFO. On the photo 1 the UFO is above our daughter’s head but very visible. On the second photo the UFO moved slightly to the right but still clearly visible. On the third photo is when the UFO is moving towards me on the sky and this is depicted by how it is now bigger but a bit blurry. On the fourth photo, there is no trace of the UFO. The whole thing took about 30-40 seconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Tennessee Orb

    Greenbrier — On Sunday July 30, 2017 around 19:45 hours, a husband and wife were playing fetch with four dogs when he noticed a craft. It was traveling west at 100-300 mph at 4000 feet. The disc shaped craft had no wings with a dome with a bright white light around the craft. The same craft was seen on July 16, 2017, and a picture was obtained of it traveling at 500-600mph. On the 30th the craft initially traveled west then made an abrupt turn to the south until out of view. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Texas Cylinder

    Cedar Park — I was taking a picture of the sunset on August 1, 2017 and didn’t even see the lights at the time.

    Yesterday I went to edit the picture and I saw the lights and zoomed in and you can see they are recessed. Upon closer examination I saw the triangular shape in front of the lights.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Washington Lights

    Creston (Lincoln) — My mom burst in the door from the porch and said “Madeline come here as fast as you can.” I go outside and there is this really loud deep humming sound on August 2, 2017. It was so loud it felt like there were vibrations going through my body. Looking back it sounded what I would imagine a three mile long wine glass to sound like if you used a giant wet finger to continuously rub the rim. When I step on the porch my eyes are instantly drawn to the long and very close string of white lights. My heard feels like it’s sinking and I ask my mom to pray. There could have been one hundred lights that were pulsing or blinking in a sequence.

    I could not see anything but the clear lights. This is an unknown craft flying right over Lake Roosevelt, right past my mom’s house. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Tukwila — My girlfriend first saw the three possibly four lights. They were very bright compared to the airliners. The lights would dim and brighten often to a brilliant white that almost hurt my eyes even though the objects were miles away. I stayed and watch the objects and filmed them on my phone.

    I am not sure I was able to spot any maneuvers, but the objects would change colors and pulse. They hovered for extended periods in some sort of formation and then slowly moved away. The object would come into and then disperse, leaving one or two behind which would then brighten. Frequently one of the dimmer lights would pass directly next to one of the other ones before brightening again. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Tacoma — I’d read about recent UFO sightings in the sky over McChord AFB, so I grabbed a stool and sat by my window watching various lights on July 30, 2017.

    I saw a plane take off around 10 PM, as that’s when the other reports began. I was all set to stop at 10:30 PM, but then I saw a new light in the sky, which shot straight upwards until I could no longer see it. I’d finally witnessed a UFO and took a photo during its ascent. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Worldwide UFO Sightings

    Australia Object

    Kalgoorlie — I was out with my dog and remembered it was a full moon the night of September 13, 2014. I then grabbed my camera phone and snapped a few shots.

    When I got home to load them to Facebook I noticed that there was an object in all 3 photos and it was a little closer to the moon in each shot.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Brazil Orb

    Poços de Caldas — It was a still day on August 6, 2017 and I saw two bright lights that looked like stars. The lights moved together in a constant low trajectory northeast really far away. One of them was bigger and brighter, and other smaller, but still bright. This small one disappeared suddenly, but the bigger kept on moving. The UFO passed over right above me. It was very bright all the time. I used maximum zoom on my camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Canada Strange Grid Marks

    Nipawin, Saskatchewan – On July 26, 2017, I noticed some marks on my husband’s back. The marks look like a grid of dots or are like bruises. They are not raised or indented and do not hurt. I have studied UFO’s and aliens for 10 years now as my hobby so I have come across stuff like this before in research. I will attach a picture of the marks, but they are kind of blurry. They are much bolder in real life. He does not remember any sort of dreams, but he was super tired that day.

    Witness Response: We talked for days about what could have caused this and nothing makes sense. There was nothing at work that could have caused the marks. I noticed it as soon as I woke up and he was still sleeping, but he was really tired that next day. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

    Jordan Light

    Amman – I was home with my husband and we noticed the lights
    We are living in an apartment at 3rd floor in Amman, Jordan

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Korea Light

    1. I was driving home from work at 3:30 am when I first noticed the object in the sky in the direction of my house.

    2. I noticed it because it stood out. I knew it was not a star, planet, helicopter or plane. I got scared because I have frequent sleep paralysis which I blame on ET visitation.

    3. I thought it was a UFO. It was too bright and low in the sky to be a star.

    4. The main glowing white object appeared to move up and down, left and right as it was watching me and I felt like it responded to my thoughts. I saw a second object appear from the clouds that was cloaked. It had red and white flashing lights. It made a turn above my house but was too fast to catch on video. I saw a third object which I got on film it was very large and it had different colored flashing lights.
    5. I was already very tired from working at 4 pm till 3 am. I was really scared and nervous seeing the UFOs. I was also drawn to them and was really afraid of possible abduction. Thanks to MUFON CMs

    Latvia Orbs

    Riga — On August 8, 2017, .I saw an alien mothership scanning all around by the river.

    After 5 minutes i was shocked when it turned towards me. It got really low and I lost it.

    They are making bases around my living area. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Mexico Disc

    Cancun — I was in Aroma at the Riveria Maya Mexico on vacation and took this picture on July 14, 2017.

    Didn’t even notice it until two weeks after we arrived back home and going through our pictures. Looks like a ufo to me. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Spain ISS Object

    I saw a sphere either leaving earth or coming from behind the earth travelling upwards in a straight line. I managed to take two screen shots seconds apart before NASA cut the live feed.

    Enlarged you can see a darker object possible with legs/appendages at the bottom behind the sphere. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    UK/England Light

    Central Farm – On August 6, 2017, the past two nights from 3 am till just before sunrise the space craft hovers quiet far out but seems so close. The UFO looks very bright in color and looks to me like two bright orb-like circles separating then going back together. I had the aura of a diamond and changed to a disc. I began to video and the camera kept losing focus as if the UFO was interfering with my video camera, but allowing me to take pictures. Then over the next few hours it slowly flew higher and it’s gone.

    The first night I took the pictures and attempted the video it felt like my body from toes to head was being scanned. It fell like you put two sides of a magnet together and it repels from another a crazy sensation. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Hybrid Drone Delivers Power, Distance

    Hybrid Drone Delivers Power, Distance

    By:  

    Top Flight Tech drone

    Photo Courtesy of Top Flight Technologies

    You’ve heard about Amazon’s coming-any-day-now drone delivery project? It may soon be everywhere, capable of delivering anything. And if you’ve ever taken an Uber car through snarled city traffic and wondered how quick your trip would be if you could just sail over all those cars? You may have your chance.

    MIT alumnus Long Phan, chief technology officer of Top Flight Technologies, is working to perfect a gasoline/electric hybrid drone that might make those high-flying ideas a reality.

    Most of us have heard of military drones, such as the Predator B, employed for surveillance, reconnaissance, and (highly controversial) missile strikes. And then there are the familiar civilian versions used for more peaceful purposes by filmmakers and amateur photographers who want a dramatic aerial view.

    As agile and useful as they can be, the smaller, commercially available aircraft have some drawbacks when it comes to doing heavy work: Most drones are powered by batteries and have a relatively short flight time, ranging from 15 to 30 minutes. And they generally can carry only small payloads, 5 lbs. or less.

    Top Flight’s drone uses gasoline to power the lift motors and charge the batteries that run the drone’s electronics, including sensors, communications equipment, and a “digital gearbox,” a set of electronic controls that helps the engine to run more efficiently.

    The engine weighs about 17 lbs. and can generate 10 kilowatts. All that power significantly expands the flight time and payload for the drone. The Top Flight craft can fly for 2.5 hours and can carry up to 20 pounds. More than enough lifting power to drop off your Game of Thrones: The Complete Seasons 1–6 Blu-ray box.

    But, Top Flight has even loftier plans for their future. Phan and his team are working on a 100-kilowatt heavy-lifting, long-distance drone. According to Phan, “With a 100-kilowatt hybrid electric engine, concepts like air taxis become viable,” he says. “By 2020, you may see a drone fly a person.”

    Read more about Top Flight’s new hybrid drones at the MIT website.

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    Has an ALIEN been filmed walking inside its ship? Baffling video has UFO fanatics stunned

    ALIEN enthusiasts claim to have filmed an extraterrestrial being walking inside its spaceship in a forest.

    By Simon Green

    In grainy footage, a mysterious object with bright blue lights is seen behind some trees.

    When the cameraman zooms in, he spots a grey figure strolling through inside it.

    From the distance and quality of the video, it is hard to make out who or what the shape is.

    But after UFO fanatics Blake and Brett Cousins posted it as part of a live phone-in, their followers were quick to claim it was an Alien Grey – a supposed extraterrestrial being named for its skin colour.

    Brett is heard likening it to something out of famous alien movie Close Encounters, before claiming there is no CGI at play.

    The spaceship and alien

    YOUTUBE/GETTY

    BIZARRE: A mysterious grey shape was filmed walking inside a craft

    “You know how the ship looks like it’s landed behind the tree, it looks like they were stationed there because the one walking by looks like it was wearing an orange space suit,” one viewer then says.

    “It didn’t even look like a human at all.

    “It possibly might be something with the government but it’s unexplainable.

    “In my opinion these things come from another planet.”

    Another fan then called up offering a different explanation.

    The figure

    YOUTUBE

    PROOF: Some viewers claimed it was an alien

    “I just watched this four times and this Alien Grey, he moves a lot like a human.

    “He looks like he’s wearing some sort of leggings or pants and his movements are very similar to a man’s – it looks like he’s working on the controls of the ship.”

    Not everyone was as convinced by the footage, however.

    “Nothing but light and mirrors,” one commented.

    And another agreed, writing: “Looks like someone camping and using florescent tube lanterns to light the camp site.”

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Best Space Stories of The Week!

    Best Space Stories of The Week!

    The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA's JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible.
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles SCOTT BOLTON - 3

    Juno gets a first look at Jupiter's marvelous poles, the world's largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science loses on the proposed NASA budget and two astronauts perform an urgent spacewalk — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.

    Jupiter whirls

    The first science results from NASA's Juno probe reveal huge cyclones raging near Jupiter's north and south poles and the workings of is spectacular auroras. Juno is the first spacecraft to get a close look the planet's beautiful and bizarre poles. [Full Story: Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises]

    PlusMore Jupiter Weirdness: Giant Planet May Have Huge, 'Fuzzy' Core

    Sperm survives space

    Astronauts kept freeze-dried mouse sperm on the International Space Station for nine months — and when brought back to Earth it gave rise to healthy pups. [Full Story: Freeze-Dried Space Sperm Gives Rise to Healthy Baby Mice]

    See also: Space Babies: Study Suggests Humans May Be Able to Have Healthy Offspring in Orbit

    Fix it up

    After a computer relay box malfunctioned, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer went out for a quickly-planned spacewalk to replace the failed part. (Don't worry, a backup took over in the meantime.) Whitson built the replacement from spare parts aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: Astronauts Restore Space Station to Full Health in Quick Repair Spacewalk]

    Clash of the dwarfs

    New research suggests that most of the Milky Way's antimatter could come from the collision of two special kinds of white dwarfs — the Earth-size cores of dead stars. [Full Story: Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]

    Mammoth flier success

    A massive blimp-like aircraft called the Airlander 10 successfully flew for 180 minutes and landed, testing its improved landing technology and handling. It's the third test flight for the world's largest aircraft currently flying, which is designed to stay in the air for up to 5 days at a time with people on board. [World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight]

    Earth science nix

    The White House's official 2018 budget request curtails five NASA Earth-science missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem satellite; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 experiment; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder; the Earth-viewing instruments aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft and, now, the Radiation Budget Experiment. [Full Story: Trump's 2018 Budget Request Axes 5 NASA Earth-Science Missions]

    Plus: NASA's Proposed 2018 Budget Could Push Europa Mission to Late 2020s

    Summer on Saturn

    The Cassini spacecraft has seen Saturn through the seasons as the planet has orbited the sun, watching its dramatic changes. Now, it's finally the planet's solstice and the end of the spacecraft's second extended mission — just in time for its Sept. 15 Grand Finale dive into the planet's atmosphere. [Full Story: Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes]

    Listening in

    The world's most sensitive dark matter detector, XENON1T, has gone online deep beneath a mountain in Italy, completing a 30-day science run hunting for the minuscule fireworks that could be caused by a certain type of dark matter ramming into a xenon atom inside the detector. [Full Story: The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running]

    It's a Phantom

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build the U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane. The plane, called the Phantom Express, is designed to launch to the edge of space to deploy a second stage rocket, which would deposit a satellite in orbit. [Full Story: US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video)]

    Darkness coming

    Get ready for the 2017 total solar eclipse, which will cross the continental United States Aug. 21 — less than three months from now. [Full Story: Countdown to Darkness: Total Solar Eclipse Three Months Away]

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    Bijna 100 nieuwe vulkanen ontdekt onder ijskap van Antarctica, maar zijn ze ook gevaarlijk? - HLN.be

    Bron: ScienceAlert, The Guardian

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    WETENSCHAP Twee kilometer diep onder de ijslaag op Antarctica hebben wetenschappers in totaal bijna 100 nieuwe vulkanen ontdekt. Het gebied wordt daarmee waarschijnlijk ineens de grootste vulkaanketen ter wereld, die grote veranderingen teweeg kan brengen in de zeespiegel.

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    47 vulkanen waren er tot nu toe bekend in het gebied in het westen van Antarctica, en daar zijn er nu in één klap nog eens 91 bijgekomen. Tot die opmerkelijke vaststelling kwam een team van wetenschappers van de universiteit van Edinburgh. De totale keten die nu bekend is geworden, is waarschijnlijk groter dan welk ander vulkanisch gebied op aarde dan ook, inclusief de massieve Oost-Afrikaanse Riftvallei, die tot nu toe de grootste concentratie aan vulkanen telde, met bijvoorbeeld ook de Kilimanjaro.

    De vulkanen die al gekend waren op de Zuidpool, steken allemaal minstens gedeeltelijk boven de ijskap uit, waardoor ze de afgelopen eeuw gemakkelijk te registreren waren. Maar een team geologen heeft nu voor het eerst ook het gebied ónder het ijs bekeken door de resultaten van verschillende radaronderzoeken en andere metingen in het ijs in detail te analyseren. De wetenschappers zochten daarbij specifiek naar kegelvormige uitstulpingen van basaltsteen, die zouden wijzen op de top van een vulkaan. 

    En de resultaten zijn verbluffend. De 91 vulkanen verschillen in hoogte van 100 tot 3.850 meter en bevinden zich allemaal in een 3.500 kilometer lange keten aan de westelijke zijde van Antarctica.

    Lees ook

    Actief of niet?

    © reuters.

    De vraag die volgens de onderzoekers nu cruciaal is, is hoe actief de vulkanen zijn. Daar hebben ze voorlopig nog het raden naar. De vraag is echter des te belangrijker omdat eventuele vulkanische activiteit op de Zuidpool grote gevolgen kan hebben voor stabiliteit van de ijskap en de zeespiegel. Een vulkaanuitbarsting zou het smelten van het landijs op Antarctica kunnen doen versnellen.

    Maar omgekeerd zou smeltend ijs ook net een uitbarsting tot gevolg kunnen hebben, aangezien de tegendruk op de vulkaan zou afnemen als de ijskap erboven dunner wordt. "De meeste vulkanische activiteit in de wereld vindt momenteel plaats in die gebieden die na de laatste ijstijd hun ijskap hebben verloren", zegt Robert Bingham, een van de onderzoekers, aan The Guardian. "Dat is dus geen goed teken."

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    15-08-2017 om 01:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Frustrated Farmer Charges for Viewing Crop Circle

    As someone who enjoys looking at photos of the more intricately patterned and sacredly geometric crop circles, I admit I also forget that those crops belong to some farmer who may not be too happy to see their field trampled by whatever is making those circles. All we ever see are the pristine photos taken the morning the crop circles are discovered, not the ones two days later of the decomposing grains, spectator trash and a farmer shaking a fist at annoying drones. One enterprising farmer is paying for the loss of about eight tons of grain by charging £2 ($2.59 US) to see the circle.

    I noticed that the gate to the field was open and when I went to close it, I saw that a lot of the wheat had been pressed down, it must have happened overnight.

    Shelley Klindt found the crop circle in a mature wheat field on her Hannington, Wiltshire, farm on the morning of August 4. While her husband’s family has managed the field since the 1970s, she says this is the first crop circle on the farm that anyone can remember. By the time she got there, a man with a drone was already filming the circle.

    I tried to keep this quiet but the pictures went online and people started turning up.

    The crop circle measure 60 meters (220 feet) in diameter and crosses three tramlines – those lines in the pictures that are actually for the farmer to use to avoid trampling crops with tractors – which are 24 meters apart. Klindt estimates that the circle alone destroyed 8 tons of wheat. For reference, a wheat farmer in Alton Barnes near Marlborough hit by a crop circle in July estimated his loss at about £120,000 ($155,000 US). That’s just the beginning, says Klindt.

    It’s a hassle, we were 10 days from combining the crops and now all the wheat that’s been pushed to the floor can’t be harvested, it’s ruined. We will have to claim this on our insurance which will make our insurance costs go up.

    It gets worse. The photographs are attracting visitors from all over the world.

    We’ve had helicopters, low-flying aircraft and so many drones. On Saturday we had about 130 people and eight or nine people were there camping out in the middle of the circle to watch the Perseid meteor shower. And this morning I got a call at 4:30am to say there was a van with ‘love’ on it and a man with a magical cape dancing around with incense sticks.

    Cherry picker at bottom of left photo

    (credit: Steve Alexander)

    According to her interview with the BBC, that’s when Shelley Klindt got the brilliant idea to bring out a cherry picker and charge £2 per person to go up and get a crow’s-eye view of the costly crop circle. She expects to get another week’s worth tourist cash until it’s time to harvest the crops. At £2 a ride, it’s a help but she’s still a long way from making up for the loss. The local police are reminding people that it’s an offense to make crop circles, but that hasn’t stopped their formation, says Klindt.

    I think it’s man-made but everyone else seems to think it’s spiritual or aliens or something.”

    Of course they do … you can’t sue aliens for damages. Whatever the cause, the effect of crop circles is a cost to a farmer. There’s nothing sacredly geometric about that.

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    15-08-2017 om 01:11 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Odd Rocket-Like UFO captured by Passenger on the Durango/Silverton Train, Colorado

    Odd Rocket-Like UFO captured by Passenger on the Durango/Silverton Train, Colorado

    The witness departed on the 19th-century Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad steam train which passes mountains and canyons on May 8, 2017 at about 9.00 AM.


    As the train was traveling he was taking numerous photos of the breathtaking scenery until he reached Silverton.

    Later that evening at the motel he downloaded the photos from his camera to his laptop and was going over them. He noticed in one photo that it had some kind of an object or bird looking thing in the background.


    The photographer then zoomed in the photo and noticed it was some type of an object above one of the mountains which he described as a cigar-shaped and rocket-like UFO.


    The only time he saw the object was in the photo and never noticed it as he took the photo. Images of the odd object were submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

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    15-08-2017 om 01:00 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Couple Captures “Shining Disk” on the Video nearby Toronto Harbourfront

    Couple Captures “Shining Disk” on the Video nearby Toronto Harbourfront

    ufo-toronto

    A group of what on earth is now generally known as “men in black” was dispatched to confiscate the cameras of citizens who had taken photos in the ship, and Los Angelinos informed that a plane had been shot down, though no damaged plane was ever recovered. A conflicting story how the whole thing became a false alarm has also been released because of the government.

    A couple participating the celebration of Canada Day nearby Toronto Harbourfront has recorded a footage of a strange disk. The video shows a round object which appears to be a dark or clear centre. While it appears and disappears, the object cannot be seen throughout the video. The object bears a resemblance to a disk-shaped, but even the disk cuts like a vinyl record. As you can see in the footage, his girlfriend then witnessed it too but was thinking if it was either drone or a kite since drones are almost everywhere. But once she started looking, she realised that it was not a drone due to the shininess of the disk and the way it was moving across in a circular motion. Drones have appendages that can carry the zip and rotors through the sky. This item does not show that sort of behaviour. It neither has rotors, so she is right that a drone is not what they filmed. Assuming they are balloons, take note that they are frequently set afloat throughout the celebrations and move with the wind. Unlike the object they saw, balloons do not appear and disappear. If the balloons are somehow going in and out of the shadows, it may appear as though they are disappearing and reappearing.

    The vast majority of alien and extraterrestrial sightings turn out to be identified objects, but once in a while, there are strange sightings that are very much difficult to explain.

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    15-08-2017 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

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    Haultain Resident Believes He Sees Bright Lights That Defy Physics

    Camosun-UFOs

    Mike Allan’s thinking about the sky has changed forever when he saw something strange flying in the sky above the Camosun and Jubilee neighbourhoods.

    Allan lives a few doors in from Richmond Road on Haultain Street with his family. He was sceptic about anything related to the unidentified flying object until he had an experience of witnessing some strange events about five years ago.

    Since his first sighting, he has witnessed the unusual light moving around the sky in very strange ways, often hovering.

    In this case, the light usually runs northwest to southeast, appearing to mimic the path of a satellite. Allan said that he observed two at satellite altitude sometimes but then they criss-cross, which satellites don’t do such thing.

    Allan described the size of the light to be the same as a star but much brighter. Its movement is different from any plane, drone or satellite, according to Allan. The mysterious lights reportedly appear below cloud levels and as high as the satellites.

    Allan said that his neighbours were totally sceptical when he told them, but not anymore after they saw it. He refers the bizarre light as the bright thing in the sky while his daughter calls it the UFO-thingy. Allan pointed out that everyone is sceptical until they see it. He urged everyone to keep looking at the sky because they are there.

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    15-08-2017 om 00:51 geschreven door peter  

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    SCIENTISTS JUST UNCOVERED LARGEST VOLCANIC REGION ON THE PLANET: BELOW ANTARCTICA!

    Scientists have found what they think is one of the biggest volcanic regions in the world after finding 91 volcanoes underneath the ice in the Antarctic.

    The finding of the volcanoes under the ice only goes to show just how much scientists do not know what is under the ice of Antarctica. The finding was made following a survey conducted remotely of the region. The survey was undertaken by researchers at the University of Edinburgh.  

    They studied a region that is known as the West Antarctic Rift system and found that there are volcanoes that range from heights of 100 meters to 3, 850 meters. The volcanoes are very similar to ones that have been found on the eastern volcanic ridge of Africa. The survey undertaken measured the land shape using radar that was able to penetrate the ice. This was undertaken after Max Van Wyk de Vries, a university student in his third year came up with the suggestion.

    He said that Antarctica remains one of the regions around the globe that is the least studied. Van Wyk de Vries went on to say that as a young scientist he was very excited about learning something new that was not very well understood. He said that following examination of data that already exists on West Antarctica he then started to discover traces of volcanism. He then began to dig deeper, and this led to him finding close to 100 volcanoes that were hidden away under the ice.

    At the moment it is not known whether the volcanoes under the ice that have been recently discovered are still active. However, the results have informed research that is ongoing as the scientists continue to look into seismic monitoring in the region.

    Scientists know from other studies that volcanic activity might have taken place in the region during periods that were warmer and have said that this may increase if the thin ice of Antarctica continues to grow thinner in a climate that continues to warm. 

    Dr. Robert Bingham from the University of Edinburgh School Of Geoscience said that it was fascinating to be able to uncover what looks to be an extensive range of volcanoes in a continent that is relatively unexplored.

    He went on to say that the finding gives scientists a better understanding of the volcanic activity and this might shed some light on the impact of the ice of Antarctica both in the past, the present and the future, along with providing information on other rift systems that are around the globe.

    The volcano study has now been published in a series for the Geological Society Special Publications.  

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    15-08-2017 om 00:46 geschreven door peter  

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    SAILORS FOUND MYSTERIOUS GHOST SHIP - WHAT THEY DISCOVERED NEXT WAS SHOCKING!

    Explanations abound as to what caused the crew to die in a most ghastly-seeming way, and then caused the ship to explode suddenly and unexpectedly when rescuers attempted to tow her to port. 

    Two American ships sailed across the Strait of Malacca when they received a Morse code rescue request from a Dutch ship called Ourang Medan. It is not known precisely when this happened, but it was probably between June 1947 and February 1948. The message was scary and said, "All the officers, including the captain, are dead, lying in the map room and on the bridge, and probably all of the crew is dead." Then some words were uttered, but only two could be accurately heard: "I" and "dying."

    One of the United States merchant ships that received the notification was the Silver Star. As he was the nearest of Ourang Medan, he immediately departed to rescue the crew and also to know in what might be useful. When the ship's crew boarded it, it took a frightful scare they would rather not have witnessed.  

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    15-08-2017 om 00:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFOs OUT OF THE BLUE – HD Documentary

    UFOs OUT OF THE BLUE – HD Documentary

    Narrated by Peter Coyote, OUT OF THE BLUE is widely considered one of the best documentary films ever made about UFOs and was directed by celebrated filmmakers James Fox, Tim Coleman and Boris Zubov. The films producers traveled around the world to investigate some of the most famous UFO events on record. Through exclusive interviews with high-ranking military and government personnel, this award-winning film supports the theory that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.

    This film features Governor Fife Symington, Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Russian General Leonid Aleviev, President Jimmy Carter, Cosmonaut Major General Pavel Popovich, UK Admiral Lord Hill Norton, Physics Professor Dr. Brian Greene, President Gerald Ford, Astronaut Colonel Gordon Cooper. White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, and many more. Presents an International Scope, Quality Testimony, and Scientific Perspectives. OUT OF THE BLUE provides a Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon.

    VIDEO:

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    15-08-2017 om 00:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.10 Explanations For UFOs Weirder Than Aliens

    10 Explanations For UFOs Weirder Than Aliens

    If you don’t believe UFO sightings are the result of the misidentification of either astronomical or mundane aerial objects, you most likely believe in the extraterrestrial hypothesis, which states UFOs are vehicles sent by civilizations from far distant stars to bring us a message of peace or probe us mercilessly. Yet, there are other possibilities as well.

    10. UFOs Are Earthlights

    Some people believe that the appearance of UFOs is simply the result of an unknown natural byproduct of the Earth. This idea was developed by Professor Michael Persinger in the 1970s as tectonic strain theory, which we have mentioned in a previous article. These ideas were built upon by author Paul Devereux. He believes that while most UFO sightings can be explained as misidentified mundane aerial objects, mirages, hoaxes, and hallucinations, there are some that result from an unexplained electromagnetic phenomenon related to earthquake lights and ball lightning. He believes tectonic stress and strain in the Earth’s crust creates luminosity in the atmosphere, as do other geological and meteorological sources of energy.He refers to the phenomenon as “earthlights,” though earlier theorists called them “spooklights” or “ghost lights” and believed they were the explanation behind historical sightings of dragons, fairies, bodhisattvas, corpse candles, foo fighters, and ghost rockets. UFO behavior such as apparent intelligence and downright illogical movement and appearance suggest to Devereux that UFOs may be a form of macro quantum phenomenon, meaning UFOs represent phenomena that should only exist on the subatomic quantum level but have somehow manifested in the macroscopic, visible world.

    9. UFOs Are Four-Dimensional Objects

    Imagine a flat plane on which two-dimensional creatures live. They cannot perceive our third dimension, but we can see them. Say you stick your finger into their plane. From their point of view, an object has suddenly and inexplicably appeared out of nowhere. It also appears to change size and shape depending on exactly what cross-section of your finger is in their plane. When you pull your finger out, the object disappears, and no one believes the two-dimensional creature who saw it because he was drunk and is always making up crazy stories. A comparable theory has been promoted to explain UFO phenomena, particularly how some UFOs appear to change size and shape, morphing in the air. If a four-dimensional sphere—a hypersphere—passes through our three-dimensional space, it would appear to our limited perceptions to be a small sphere that appears suddenly, then rapidly grows in size before it shrinks again and vanishes altogether. Any four-dimensional object that entered our three-dimensional plane would appear to be capable of shape-shifting, impossible movement, and dematerialization, reflecting many reports of “morphing” UFOs. Claims of bizarre magnetic effects caused by UFOs could be explained as changes in the structure of three-dimensional space caused by the passage of a four-dimensional object in the same way a pebble dropped into water creates ripples on the surface. Some argue that entities from other planets or other three-dimensional universes could be using four-dimensional space as a convenient means of traveling to our world.

    8. UFOs Are Demons

    Some believe sightings of UFOs are actually manifestations of demonic activity prophesied to increase during the Last Days. Satan knows in the End Times he will be forced out of the spiritual realm entirely and therefore needs to corrupt human beings in large numbers. This theory posits that UFO abduction is actually abduction by Satan’s advancing forces. These forces take people to engage in sinful, sexual congress and open them up to possession, just as the fallen angels had sexual intercourse with human females in the days before the Great Flood, creating the giant race known as Nephilim. The entities onboard UFOs are demonic but pose as extraterrestrial visitors to weaken faith in Christ and prepare for the creation of a unified world occult religion venerating the fake aliens.The appearance of UFOs is also linked with the occult. Many UFO abductees have had previous experience with occult practices. Some claim there have been increased numbers of UFO sightings in areas where the Soviets conducted occult research as well as areas associated with US military research and Native American shamanism. Crop circles, meanwhile, represent an esoteric form of communication related to Kabbalah and the Illuminati, a secret demonic language. Of particular interest here is the Milk Hill Script, Hebrew-like letters that appeared in a field of crops in England. Animal and human mutilation during abductions is the result of demonic experiments to create artificial physical bodies for Satan’s forces to inhabit during the End Times. Abductees and psychics have reported sightings of “grays” relaxing in a vat of “human stew” made from blood and body parts in the hope of absorbing nutrients such as adrenaline. This stew is created by torturing and traumatizing human victims before death, particularly children.

    7. UFOs Are Nazi Anti-Gravity Vehicles

    Ernst Zundel is most famous for his Holocaust denial, but he was also famous for theorizing that UFOs are actually advanced craft created by the Third Reich. He was preceded by the work of Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, who claimed the Vril Society, an occult Nazi conspiracy, made contact with Aryan aliens living in the Aldebaran system. The strange “foo fighters” reported by Allied pilots were actually the first prototypes of anti-gravity craft designed by the society, incorporated into the SS. The craft was allegedly powered by an electromagnetic-gravitic engine known as the Thule Triebwerk. After the war, the surviving Nazis regrouped to Antarctica to continue development. Bulgarian physicist Vladimir Terziski went even further, asserting that the Nazis had by 1942 landed on the Moon and later established bases there, which he claims has an atmosphere, water, and vegetation despite NASA’s propaganda to the contrary.But it was Zundel, working off the success of von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods and other UFOlogy books, who truly popularized the idea. Writing under the pseudonym Christof Friedrich, he claimed a secret Nazi expedition to Antarctica discovered an almost tropical area the size of Germany where they established bases and withdrew in a massive convoy in 1945 with their secret weapons in tow. The CIA and KGB collaborated to keep the truth of the UFO phenomenon secret while they plotted to destroy the Nazis and establish a global dictatorship. Thankfully, an investigation of the evidence by UFOlogist Kevin McClure concluded the Nazi UFO mythos, like Holocaust denial, is nothing more than bigoted delusion.

    6. UFOs Are Archons

    According to the Gnostic theory of alien intrusion, the truth about UFOs was ascertained by ancient Gnostic seers known as siddhis 1,600 years ago. The theory claims the Nag Hammadi texts discovered in Egypt in 1947 contained information about a jealous group of predatory inorganic beings known as Archons, led by Jehovah. These arose during the formation of the solar system due to a wave of plasmatic energy from the galactic core and now intrude upon the Earth.They have two forms: a neonatal, embryonic form resembling aborted human figures and a more developed reptilian form, which corresponds with common descriptions of gray aliens and reptilian aliens. They are soulless bodies, robotic in behavior and lacking our ability to innovate and drive to create, and they hate us for it. They are also able to feed on our emotions, particularly fear, but they are no more powerful than we are. They merely have greater technology in the fields of virtual reality, space travel, and telepathy. They use mental conditioning techniques to influence the way we see the world and foster belief in Jehovah while secretly controlling the solar system like clockwork. They are occasionally visible to the mentally disturbed or drug abusers, who cannot truly comprehend them. The ancient Gnostic siddhi were able to perceive the truth of the universe and explore the heavens through remote viewing techniques, but they were wiped out by the bloodlust of those members of Abrahamic religions deluded by the Archons, who are themselves deluded into thinking they are our rightful rulers. Only through communion with the goddess Sophia, the Gaia spirit of the organic Earth, will humanity overcome these interlopers.

    5. UFOs Are Extremophiles Or Plasma-Based Life

    There is a theory that UFOs are indeed from space, but rather than being the vehicles of a technologically advanced interstellar race, they are instead biological in nature and indigenous to our very own solar system. The theory asserts there is a species living in interplanetary space, and sightings of these creatures explain many UFO sightings in the upper atmosphere and in orbit. One theorist believes the entities are either extremophiles (organisms that can survive in extreme conditions like thermal vents or deep space) or possibly a form of plasma life. They are said to resemble single-cell or simple multicellular organisms like algae with four distinct morphologies: sperm-shaped, cloud-shaped, donut-shaped, and cone-shaped.It is theorized they are attracted to electromagnetic energy created by storms, hurricanes, and tethered satellites, perhaps for reproductive purposes. They migrate between Jupiter, Venus, and Earth in search of storms. Another version of the theory suggests they may be beings of pure energy called “energyzoa,” resembling deep sea creatures like jellyfish or squid and existing on the edge of our three-dimensional space, which explains their abilities to appear and disappear, move great distances, and pass through solid objects. One of the earliest of these theorists was Trevor James Constable, who claimed in his 1959 book They Live in the Sky that while some UFOs were mechanical vehicles, others were invisible biological entities native to our atmosphere. He dubbed them “sky critters” and claimed they could usually only be photographed with infrared cameras.

    4. UFOs Are Time Travelers

    Perhaps UFOs do not come from distant space but rather a distant time. The visage of the famous gray aliens is considered by many the future evolutionary form of the human race. These humanoid beings have perhaps returned to this time period to help guide our genetic development. Some believe these future beings have become dependent on technology and suffered an erosive genetic atrophy. They are forced to visit our time period to take tissue samples through abductions, perhaps in an effort to cure future diseases. Dr. Bruce Goldberg, hypnotherapist and (self-declared) “world’s foremost authority on futuristic time travelers” believes human “chrononauts” from a few thousand years hence have traveled back to our time period via the fifth dimension in order to further our spiritual growth.One website claims that the UFO that landed at Rendlesham Forest in 1980 transmitted a sequence of ones and zeroes to US serviceman Jim Penniston after he touched strange symbols on the side of the craft. Penniston noted the sequence down in his journal but apparently didn’t think to check if it was some kind of code until 2010 at the 30th anniversary of the UFO encounter. The translated binary code began “EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY. CONTINUOUS FOR PLANETARY ADVANCE. FOURTH COORDINATE CONTINUOUS.” The code indicated an origin point in southern England in the year 8100 and listed a number of sites supposedly visited by the time travelers: Caracol Pyramid in Belize, Arizona, the Giza pyramids in Egypt, the Nazca Lines in Peru, China’s Tai Shan Mountain, and the Temple of Apollo in Greece. These future beings are said to be behind the crop circle phenomenon, which are theorized to be a way of navigating between parallel time streams like someone leaving marks in tree bark, warnings and portents of future events, or even the secrets of time travel and parallel dimensions.

    3. UFOs Are A Metaphysical Control System

    French-American computer scientist and astrophysicist Jacques Vallee was an early proponent of the idea that UFOs had an extraterrestrial source. But as time went on, his views began to change. In his 1969 book Passport to Magonia, he advanced the theory that UFOs are paranormal in nature and have been with us in various forms throughout human history, manifested as fairy lore and religious miracles. Vallee saw a deep connection between reports of UFOs and legends of devils and supernatural tricksters. Later, in his 1975 book The Invisible College, he asserts the UFO phenomenon is a control system influencing human understanding of reality, guided by a metaphysical intelligence of unknown nature.In his autobiographical book Forbidden Science, Vallee wrote, “[The UFO phenomenon] is physical in nature and it remains unexplained by contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness we have not yet recognized or developed, which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them.” He believes there are three levels to UFOs. The first is the physical object, the exact nature of which he declines to speculate on but which surely contains a large amount of electromagnetic energy in a small area. The second is the perception of witnesses, who may be viewing an actual physical object or experiencing hallucinations caused by radiation. The third layer is the social, the effect of the UFO reports on society, which he claims to be most interested in. UFOs represent something fundamental about the nature of the universe, a technology or phenomenon able to affect the psychic environment of the witness and causing paralysis, hallucinations, space and time disorientation, and personality changes. They often first manifest in an amorphous way before assuming an appearance in accordance with the expectations of the viewer. He suspects physical traces of UFO activity are left as a deliberate deception, in the same way the British created artificial tank tracks to fool the Germans in World War II.

    2. UFOs Come From The Imaginal Realm

    The Imaginal Realm is a hypothetical alternate reality only perceivable by those in an altered state of consciousness. This theory was developed by psychiatrist Dr. Kenneth Ring to explain out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, shamanic experiences, psychedelic experiences, night terrors, and encounters with UFOs. Ring describes this realm as “the cumulative product of imaginative thought itself.” This realm has throughout history been associated with fairies and other creatures of legend, but the modern world perceives entities from the realm as extraterrestrial beings. This is said to explain the history of supposed sexual liaisons with both fairies and elf-like creatures in folklore and with humanoid aliens in some abduction reports. Shamans, mystics, and visionaries are gifted with the ability to view this realm. It is possible to gain access to it via the use of psychotropic drugs, religious rituals, trances, and the heightened use of imaginative powers. UFO encounters are said to resemble near-death experiences with the sensation of being taken away into a strange environment, often featuring glowing lights. However, while near-death experiences are usually transcendent experiences, UFO abductions are more likely associated with feelings of violation and post-traumatic stress disorder. Both are seen by some as shamanic initiations into the world of the imagination.

    1. UFOs Are Of Cryptoterrestrial Origin

    This theory by late American author and blogger Mac Tonnies asserts that if we accept that UFOs are vehicles created by an advanced civilization and apply Occam’s razor, we can conclude that it is most likely the civilization originates from the Earth itself rather than a distant planet. Tonnies suggests that we share our planet with a humanoid race much older than humanity but related to us (explaining their physical form) and more technologically advanced. He dubbed these entities the “cryptoterrestrials,” rejecting “ultraterrestrial” as too linked to theories of humanoid visitors from other dimensions and “cryptohominid” as too suggestive of Bigfoot.Tonnies suggests the entities may be a dying civilization given to subterfuge by hiding underwater or underground. These entities promote and encourage the idea that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin as a cover story to throw investigators off from the truth. Reports from abductees of aliens warning humanity to care for the Earth make more sense if they are fellow Earth residents rather than visitors from thousands of light-years away. As for the Roswell crash, Tonnies has an interesting take on it. Perhaps the cryptoterrestrials aren’t terribly more advanced than us after all, explaining why the unusual wreckage found at Roswell didn’t look all that high-tech. It may have been something like a weather balloon after all, but rather a balloon sent up into the atmosphere for surveillance by the cryptoterrestrials beneath the Earth’s surface. The US Air Force isn’t trying to cover up a threat from above, but the existence of another, slightly more advanced civilization below us. Tonnies admits that some alien encounters could very well be of extraterrestrial or interdimensional origin, but he believed the majority are the result of a deception campaign by a desperate, Earth-based military force of subterraneans hoping to keep our eyes fixed firmly on the skies.

    Source: http://listverse.com

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    14-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Computers Made of Genetic Material Will Revolutionize Our World

    Computers Made of Genetic Material Will Revolutionize Our World

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    IN BRIEF
    • Researchers have been able to create tiny structures for conducting electricity by using DNA and gold plating.
    • This new nanostructure could be the foundation of future electronics as soon as improvements are made on this breakthrough development.

    GOLD AND DNA

    Nanostructures made using DNA origami are fascinating. The ability to use DNA as a construction material, capable of holding scaffolds of molecules and atoms was one huge step in developing modern nanostrutures. Most recent of these developments are gold-plated nanowires constructed by scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and from Paderborn University, which independently assembled themselves from single DNA strands, as published in the journal Langmuir.

    These nanowires, due to their gold-plating, were able to conduct electricity. “Our measurements have shown that an electrical current is conducted through these tiny wires,” explains Artur Erbe of the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research. The nano-sized structures were connected by two electrical contacts.

    Even more fascinating is how these were made using modified DNA strands — stable double strands combined through their base pairs, from long single strands of genetic material and DNA segments. These allowed for the structures to independently take on their desired forms, complex structures developed by molecules through a self-assembling processes.

    FROM THE BOTTOM-UP

    “With the help of this approach, which resembles the Japanese paper folding technique origami and is therefore referred to as DNA-origami, we can create tiny patterns. Extremely small circuits made of molecules and atoms are also conceivable here,” says Erbe.

    Usually, developing nano circuits use what is known as the “top-down” method, where the base material is chiseled until the desired structure is formed. This will become increasingly difficult as electronics continue miniaturization. The new “bottom-up” method changes how these electronic components are usually made.

    Credits: B. Teschome, A. Erbe, et al.
    Credits: B. Teschome, A. Erbe, et al.

    There is one problem, though. “Genetic matter doesn’t conduct a current particularly well,” Erbe points out, which explains why the nanowires were gold-plated. But even with this, there was still difficulty with conducting current at room temperatures. Better melding of conductive materials need to be further developed, plus the option of using cheaper, more standard wire coating than gold.

    Still, the research is promising. This nanowire that’s made partially out of genetic material could be the future of electronics. Smaller wires allow for more compact designs, which together with smaller transistors, can be used to make more powerful computers.

    14-08-2017 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Passagiers van vlucht richting Spanje beweren een UFO gezien te hebben en de beelden ga je niet geloven!

    Passagiers van vlucht richting Spanje beweren een UFO gezien te hebben en de beelden ga je niet geloven!

    Deze video gaat sinds gisteren ineens als een raket over het internet. De beelden zouden gefilmd zijn vanuit een vliegtuig dat zich in Spaans luchtruim bevindt. Mocht dit echt zijn dan is het natuurlijk de vraag wat daaronder het vliegtuig doorschiet. Maar de vraag is of deze video wel helemaal echt is.

    Wat denk jij? Zien we hier inderdaad een ‘Unidentified flying object’ of is dit gewoon grote bullshit en simpel door iemand in elkaar geknutseld?

    http://www.waanzinnig.co/ }

    14-08-2017 om 01:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Have scientists discovered real alien 'Death Star' in far-flung corner of our galaxy?

    GALACTIC researchers who discovered a strange star they cannot seem to explain have speculated it could have been hidden by a "mega structure" created by aliens.

    CGI image of a Dyson Sphere and a fleet of space craft


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    CGI image of a Dyson Sphere and a fleet of space craft

    The star - called KIC 8462852 - is 1,480 light years from Earth, and was observed by the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009.

    But they were unable to explain why there were unpredictable fluctuations in the amount oflight it emits.

    Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale University in the US said: "We'd never seen anything like this star."

    Some of the team have suggested there could be an alien-made structure obscuring the star.

    The Empire's sinister Death Star from the Star Wars films

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    The Empire's sinister Death Star from the Star Wars films

    In the original Star Wars films the evil Empire created two massive spherical space stations that were as big as a moon.

    And, in our real universe, one theoretical method of harnessing the power from a whole star is called a Dyson sphere.

    Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the concept in 1960 of a cluster of satellites, shell or spacecraft around a star to drain its energy.

    After the team ruled out all possible causes they could deduce, some moved to the alien Dyson sphere theory.

    Darth Vader (second from left) and cronies who were on the two Death Stars before their destruction

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    Darth Vader (second from left) and cronies who were on the two Death Stars before their destruction

    Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider. But this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build.

    Jason Wright, Penn State astronomer

    Jason Wright, a Penn State astronomer, said: "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider.

    "But this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build."

    Although if a Dyson Sphere did exist, scientists would expect it to emit large amounts of infrared radiation, we would be able to detect at Earth, and this has not been the case.

    The star dipped its light to as low as 20% of its brightest for between five and 80 days.

    One explanation ruled out was a recent asteroid or comet collision.

    The star has produced a series of bizarre light emissions over four years

    ARXIV

    The star has produced a series of bizarre light emissions over four years

    Ms Boyajian added: "It was really weird. 

    "We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."

    But her conclusion is a comet probably was involved.

    She said: "By considering the observational constraints on dust clumps orbiting a normal main-sequence star, we conclude that the scenario most consistent with the data in hand is the passage of a family of exocomet fragments, all of which are associated with a single previous breakup event."

    Mr Wright prefers the more interesting theory and plans working with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life (SETI) Institute in Berkeley to investigate further.

    14-08-2017 om 01:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.GIGANTIC 62-MILE UFO SPACE STATION DISCOVERED IN ESA PHOTO

    GIGANTIC 62-MILE UFO SPACE STATION DISCOVERED IN ESA PHOTO

    A UFO hunter claims to have caught the European Space Agency (ESA) attempting to cover-up the presence of a gigantic 62-mile alien UFO space station lurking in deep space near Lutetia, a large asteroid located in our solar system’s asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. 

    Lutetia was discovered on November 15, 1852 by Hermann Goldschmidt, during observations made from the balcony of his apartment in Paris. On July 10, 2010, the European space probe Rosetta passed 3 160 km from 21 Lutetia, at a speed of 15 km / s, on its way to comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it landed in 2014. 21 Lutetia was the First M-type asteroid to be visited by a space probe.

    Lutetia is an ancient object, "a vestige of the primordial planetesimals" that formed, some more than 4 billion years ago, all the planets of the solar system, according to conclusions published in the American scientific journal Science.

    The Rosetta spacecraft passed last year 3,142 km from the surface of Lutetia, which is positioned on the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

     

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    14-08-2017 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Was the Legend of Utsuro-bune a Close Encounter of the Third Kind?

    What is it about Asian culture that intrigues the western world so?  The romance, the mystery, the enchantment…all of it seems to come together to form something ready made for western consumption.

    The ancient Japanese legend of Tanabata comes to mind:

    In the night sky, there are two stars, Vega and Altair.  Legend says that these two stars are the immortal lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi.   The lovers, as they are referred to, have been separated by the Milky Way for eternity and though they gaze across the cosmos at each other, their love remains unfulfilled.  Except, on the 7th day of the 7th month of every year, when all of the magpies on Earth, fly up to the heavens and, with their wings, form a bridge across the galaxy, allowing these star crossed lovers one night of passion among the darkness of space.

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    That legend is part of an ancient sky festival that originates from the even older Chinese Qixi Festival, but most western readers would be more interested in the story of the lovers than the story of its origin.  Perhaps therein lays the difference.  Perhaps it is the inherently one-dimensional thinking of western culture that attracts us to these legends whilst simultaneously impairing our ability to fully understand their meaning, but in the case of the above, it’s quite easy to see the allegorical nature of the story.

    This contrast is amply demonstrated in the common interpretation of Utsuro-bune.  Depending on who you ask, Utsuro-bune (also Utsuro-fune or Urobune) is either a modern version of a very old legend, or it’s a story of out-of-place-artefacts and even a close-encounter of the third kind.

    The story, which in western circles is also called The White Princess, goes like this:

    In 1803 a group of Japanese fishers, in the Hitachi province of central Japan, had a chance encounter with an utsuro-bune – which means, simply, hollow ship – on the beaches of Haratono-hama.  They were intrigued by the ship, which appeared to them as an ornately decorated and covered log boat.  Such a thing would have been highly unusual to their eyes.  It was described as almost 6 meters wide and almost 4 meters high.  Apparently made of redwood, it was adorned with brazen plates on its lower half and had several transparent windows around its top half.  The utsuro-bune was said to resemble a large incense burner, and after dragging it further ashore, the fishers were astonished to find what lay inside.

    incense

    Peering through the windows, the fishers saw that the walls were covered in strange texts written in an unknown language.  It contained items of food and clothing, and to their great surprise, it also contained a beautiful foreign woman.

    She was described as 18-20 years old, with a very pale complexion and strikingly red hair that had been artificially extended with strands of white fur or fine fabric.  She was dressed in elegant, flowing cloth of unknown origin, and her language was unknown so the fishers were unable to communicate with her, but despite this she remained friendly and courteous.  She carried with her a quadratic box, which she protected from the fishers, no matter how pressingly they inquired about its contents.

    Their encounter was brief, as the fishers, once their curiosity had been sated, thought it best not to meddle in the affairs of foreigners, and they ushered the woman back into the utsuro-bune, meticulously reassembling it, and set it again afloat on the sea.  They knew not who the woman was or from where she had come.  They knew not why she was on her lonely journey, nor where she was headed, but the story speculates, as narrated by an old man of the fisher’s village, that she was a princess of a foreign land, whom had betrayed her powerful husband by consorting with other townsmen.  The old man suggested that, due to her beauty, she was loved by the people, and though her husband could have executed her for this wrong, he mercifully banished her and set her to the fates of the ocean, adding that perhaps her precious quadratic box contained the head of her deceased lover.

    Ink drawing of the Utsuro-bune by Kyokutei Bakin (1825).

    Ink drawing of the Utsuro-bune by Kyokutei Bakin (1825).

    That is the story, or at least that’s one version of it.  Even among ancient texts there are different versions.  The three best known versions are contained in three books: Toen shōsetsu (‘tales from the rabbit garden’), composed in 1825 by Kyokutei Bakin, Hyōryū kishū (‘diary and stories of the castaways’), composed during the Edo period in 1835 by an unknown author, and Ume-no-chiri (‘dust of the apricot’), composed in 1844 by Nagahashi Matajirō.  Toen shōsetsu is the most detailed, most often cited version of the story, even though there is striking similarity between each.

    The relatively modern origin of the tale, coupled with the high level of detail suggests to some that this event really happened.  Certainly, on its face there is no reason to assume that it didn’t happen.  Such boats were common of the era, though the one described in the story was certainly more ornate and robust than would be considered normal.  But this might be explained away by both its apparently foreign origin and it having been designed to survive a journey on the high seas rather than inland rivers and lakes where such a vessel would normally be seen.

    Now, if we do take it on its face, the Utsuro-bune legend seems to talk of an encounter between peoples of distant lands, on Earth.  From the detail given, it’s difficult to decide whether this speaks of a real event or is an allegorical morality tale.  Some, however, prefer to take the story as a slight bit more literal, and suggest that the description of the vessel and of the woman are not only based on a real encounter, but some go so far as to claim that they actually describe an encounter with alien technology and a face-to-face meeting with an actual extraterrestrial.

    Comparison of the Utsuro-bune symbols to those from RAF Bentwaters and Roswell

    Comparison of the Utsuro-bune symbols to those from RAF Bentwaters and Roswell

    Much of the UFO theory regarding this story comes from the associated drawings and symbols that are/were recorded with the story in the books mentioned above.  It has been suggested, based on drawings of the vessel, that it could have been a USO (Unidentified Submerged Object), and it’s claimed that the woman’s strange appearance and dress are explainable as that of an alien.  Others claim that there is a similarity between the unidentified symbols that adorned the inside of the ship to those that were reportedly observed on the hull of the craft involved in the Rendlesham Forest Incident.

    If you take the above to be true, then it does seem somewhat reasonable to draw these comparisons, however, there is much about this that suggests the above is not true.

    The story of Utsuro-bune appears, to many scholars, to be an amalgamation of several much earlier cultural legends from both Japan and China.  They claim that the elements of the story can be found in any number of other unrelated legends, which doesn’t automatically rule out Utsuro-bune as a truthful telling of a real event, but it casts doubt.

    In 1997 a professor from Gifu University in Tokyo, Dr. Kazuo Tanaka, studied the legend of Utsuro-bune, and built upon work done earlier by Japanese historian Yanagida Kunio in 1925 and 1962.  Tanaka concludes that the story is nothing more than a (relatively) modern retelling of an ancient allegory.  He claims that the cited locations, Haratono-hama and Harayadori, are entirely fictitious, and that certain elements of the story are almost archetypal to Japanese attitudes toward foreigners in antiquity.

    Doesn’t it seem though, that a deep analysis of these legends somehow cheapens their value as stories of romance and adventure and morality?  Is there not something lost when we try to assign modern cultural values to the tales of our ancestors?  Shouldn’t we simply see them, much as we see paintings and sculpture from ages past, as an artistic representation of what life was in those early days of human expression?

    Is Utsuro-bune a tale of alien encounters and advanced technology?  Is it a description of a real event, an event that carries with it the intrigue and mystery of foreign lands and strange cultures?  We don’t really know, and perhaps that’s the way it should stay.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    14-08-2017 om 00:43 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen. New Shocking Claim: 33 Flying Saucers Appeared Over Waco Air Force Base in 1954

    New Shocking Claim: 33 Flying Saucers Appeared Over Waco Air Force Base in 1954

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    14-08-2017 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

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    The Shadow People – ‘Interdimensional Beings’ Being Seen By Many

    Have you ever spotted a dark figure in the corner of your eye, but when you have looked over to see who it was, the figure has suddenly vanished? This is being experienced by many people around the world (including myself) – more people are talking about seeing shadow people and are wondering who they are and what their purpose is on planet earth!

    The Shadow people are commonly reported as being seen through peripheral vision and while you may feel something was there, the shadow person is either gone or quickly moving away from you by the time you turn your head – As mentioned above, many people have explained that they could see a dark person stood in the corner of their eye, but as soon as they look over there’s nothing there!

    Interdimensional Beings

    Art Bell from the Coast to Coast AM radio series once interviewed Harley SwiftDeer Reagan, also referred to as “Thunder Strikes” in this particular interview session. Thunder had made a rather controversial claim that the shadow people are actually parallel dimensional beings who were first recorded by indigenous people way back in 1153 BC!

    It was mentioned in the interview by ‘Thunder’ that there was some kind of an awakening between 1980 through 2000 and beginning in 2001, there began “The Quickening” in which events and time seemed to speed up dramatically. At the same all this was occurring, shadow people were becoming visible as frequencies raise, entering into our dimension.

    Thunder made a rather remarkable claim at the time and said that these shadow people, of whom he calls, “inorganic beings” live in a parallel dimension and are known to feed off of our emotional discharge of energy along with chaos. It has been noted that in essence, these shadow people are kind of like energy vampires.

    Many people around the world (including myself) have stated that these shadow people appear to wear some kind of a cloak like apparel. Some have reported these figures as tall in height and others have said that they have seen small shadowy figures with piercing red eyes!

    Please check out a video below of a reported ‘dark shadow’ figure caught on camera accidentally – us guys at U.I.P cannot confirm what or who this is on camera, but if real then we managed to work out that this figure would have been huge in height!

    Post/video – http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/sighting-reports/huge-dark-cloaked-figure-with-an-orb-caught-on-camera/

    Mental State?

    It has been stated before that these shadow figures are purely caused by an individuals state of mind and that anxiety and stress could have caused an overactive mind, which created these ‘shadow figures’. Other areas that have been blamed for these sightings are; sleep paralysis, illusions, or hallucinations brought on by physiological or psychological circumstances, drug use or side effects of medication, and the interaction of external agents on the human body. Another reason that could be behind the illusion is sleep deprivation, which may lead to hallucinations – it would be interesting to speak to other individuals who have encountered these shadow people, to see if they have had any of these ‘issues’ mentioned, I bet the vast majority don’t!

    Talking To The Shadows

    It can make you feel very lonely and worried once you have seen a shadow figure appear in your vision, as it is not something that you can freely talk about in public, unfortunately! This bizarre yet creepy brief encounter can make a person feel like they are going mad, but you are not and one of MANY who are having these encounters (myself included).

    The big question is, “can you talk to these shadow people and see what they want” well unfortunately at the moment it appears not as they do not tend to stick around once they have been seen. Also if these beings are from another dimension then at this moment in time it will be impossible to interact with them – this can soon change if we ever decipher out exactly what is going on around the world and who these shadow people are.

    It is important that you talk to others around you about your encounter, perhaps in group forums etc or check us out on FB and get involved with the conversations going on. Trust us, you are not alone.

    Why me?

    When I personally went through a long phase of about 6 months seeing these strange shadowy figures, apart from feeling a little crazy I also kept asking myself “why me” and I know this is something that many people feel after they have seen the same thing. One of the main explanations is that it could be found somewhere between metaphysics and quantum physics. It is possible that as our third dimensional veil lifts, we are becoming more perceptive to beings on different dimensions or who have different vibrations. As dimensions merge and overlap, it is quite possible that many more strange, unexplainable phenomena will appear. With all this being a possibility it could be that those who are more ‘open-minded’ could actually be more sensitive to seeing these interdimensional visitors!

    Another interesting factor about these sightings is that animals are apparently able to see and sense these possible interdimensional visitors also – so if you ever see your pet looking up against a wall anxiously, it could mean that your shadowy friends are back again but perhaps just not visible to you this time!

    U.I.P SUMMARY – I personally enjoyed writing this article as I have personally experienced seeing Shadow people before, and still occasionally do! When I first started witnessing these strange figures it freaked me out and as mentioned above I also felt like I was going crazy! However once I discovered that MANY people around the world were also experiencing the same thing, this is when I decided to do some more research.

    They say that If you feel you have been visited by shadow people, there are ways to protect yourself from them! Most importantly, you will need to overcome your fear because until you do this, they will continue to feed off of it. Not that they are intentionally trying to scare anybody, perhaps they are trying to reach out to a person or maybe they don’t even know that they are appearing in another world. In the meanwhile, what you can do is stay calm, and date the time and place you saw the shadow figure and discuss it with other like minded people who have experienced the same thing – let us know please report it as a sighting on our website!

    It has been said that perhaps these shadow figures are Ghosts, lost souls wandering around the planet stuck in a place they cannot get out of (you have seen the film Sixth Sense right). It has also been stated before by researchers that these figures could be time travellers visiting us from the future – perhaps us, the human race have discovered ways of going back in time!? Anything is possible.

    Just the other day I saw a tall man stood there at the corner of my road when I was leaving my house, but guess what? Yes when I looked properly nobody was there. I think once you have seen them, you never stop seeing them.

    One thing is for sure, the Shadow people are VERY real! Let us know your stories please?

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    14-08-2017 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

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    Everyone's Favourite Alien System Is a Cranky Old Grump

    By Rae Paoletta 

    TRAPPIST-1 would like to remind you that it was drinkin’ beer while you were still rompin’ around in your nappies — or whatever old people say. The ultra cool dwarf star system, which first was announced back in February, has garnered a lot of interest because it harbours seven Earth-size planets. At least three of those planets are within the habitable zone that can support liquid water and potentially, life. As we’re all clamouring to get off this planet understand this alien system, a duo of researchers has figured out some pretty salient information about its star’s age.

    The team of astronomers used information gathered from various telescopes to determine TRAPPIST-1's age, which they estimate is between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years old. Our Sun is a whippersnapper by comparison: it’s only about 4.5 billion years old.

    “We don’t get the birth certificates of stars when we find them, we just see how they are today,” University of California, San Diego astronomer Adam Burgasser, a co-author on the research, which is set to be published on The Astrophysical Journal, told Gizmodo. “So we had to look for clues that might change on the star over time.”

    Artist’s rendering of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.

    (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

    Burgasser and his colleague, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program deputy program scientist Eric Mamajek, used various lines of known data about TRAPPIST-1 to piece together a statistical constraint, which is basically a damn good educated guess about the star’s age. For clues, the team looked at factors like the speed of TRAPPIST-1's orbit around the Milky Way, its atmosphere’s composition, and more.

    Understanding more about this foreign star system just for the sake of it is pretty cool — after all, TRAPPIST-1 is so delightfully weird. But understanding the system’s age could have some pretty big implications for life on the planets, if there is any.

    “Understanding age is pretty important important when you think about the development of planets themselves, and potentially life on these planets,” Burgasser said. “It took about four billion years for complex life to form on Earth, so if we’re thinking about if there’s any life on these planets, how long has it been there to evolve and develop.”

    Obviously, the question of whether or not the TRAPPIST-1 planets can support life is up for debate. Some astronomers think that life probably couldn’t sustain itself on these planets, due to their close proximity to their host star. M dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 are known for spitting off large solar flares, and some researchers think this could have eroded the planets’ atmospheres. Also, after being so close to their star for billions of years, it’s possible that any water on these planets has boiled away, due to eons of bombardment with high-energy radiation. Of course, other researchers think there’s a shot life on these planets could exist in certain places, so at this point we’re still left with more questions than answers.

    Hopefully, the launch of big telescopes like James Webb will aid in our understanding of alien systems like TRAPPIST-1. Now that we know it’s old, it seems there are even more mysteries out there waiting to be solved.

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    As part of our report exploring the future of sex, we get hot and sweaty with science fiction from "Blade Runner" to "Her." Not all of it is so far-fetched.

    Warning: This story contains descriptions of racy onscreen sex -- and seductive aliens.  

    In Woody Allen's 1973 comic caper "Sleeper," 22nd-century citizens hop into a machine called the Orgasmatron for instant sexual gratification. Sounds pretty fantastical if your idea of high-tech sex is Netflix and chill, but as we slip into wearables that measure pelvic thrusts and have sex with increasingly lifelike robots, it seems the steamiest moments in sci-fi movies and TV shows might be coming sooner than you think.

    As part of our CNET special report Turned On exploring the intersection of technology and sex, we take a romp with onscreen science fiction to see what's already made its way into our beds and what still awaits our touch. 

    Now let's lie back and think of the future.

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    Sci-fi often looks to tech to provide an alternative to all that icky, sticky physical fumbling. The 1968 sexploitation classic "Barbarella" sees lovers of the far future taking "exaltation-transference pills" and pressing together their palms instead of their mucky bits. And in 1993's "Demolition Man," defrosted man-out-of-time Sylvester Stallone looks forward to a night of passion with Sandra Bullock -- until she places brain-scanning helmets on their heads and kicks off a colorful sensory overload that proves too much for the Italian stallion.

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    At the climax of "Barbarella," a villainous scientist puts Jane Fonda's titular bed-hopping space adventurer into an orgasm-inducing device called the Excessive Machine. You probably don't have to worry about a deadly climax if a bad guy takes control of your favorite vibrator, but you do have to worry about today's smart sex toys being vulnerable to hacks

    Not all onscreen sci-fi gadgets provide happy endings. One of the most chilling, desolate moments in British TV series "Black Mirror" comes in "The Entire History of You." A couple's fractious bickering leads to an energetic bout of passionate lovemaking -- until we realize they're dispassionately reliving an earlier, better time in their relationship thanks to their tiny, memory-replaying camera implants. 

    Randy robots

    Many sci-fi stories warn that replacing real love and sex with undemanding technology could lead to an austere, dysfunctional society -- and real-life academics have expressed similar concerns. In the 2013 movie "Her," Joaquin Phoenix plays a man in an idealized relationship with an AI. That scenario doesn't seem so far off considering we can already hang out with customizable sex chatbots.

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    Sci-fi also shows us the ultimate sex toy: fully functional robots. Increasingly lifelike RealDolls with programmable personalities are just months away, though it may be awhile before they're bed-hopping with the masses. In the sci-fi future, however, people are having it away with androids left, right and center.

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    "Star Trek: The Next Generation" sees Data getting his robotic rocks off more often than some of his fleshy human shipmates. In the polluted future of "Blade Runner," meanwhile, lifelike androids known as replicants colonize the galaxy, fight wars and generally do the jobs no one else wants. That includes entertaining the troops: Pris, played by Daryl Hannah in a straw wig and racoon makeup, is "a basic pleasure model." The scenario brings up uncomfortable questions of consent around sentient beings created solely for the gratification of others, an issue we're already beginning to confront with sex robots that can be programmed to resist your advances.

    Recently, we've learned artificial intelligence can pick up our prejudices, but it's already happened on film. The robot in 1980 horror movie "Saturn 3," written by novelist Martin Amis, picks up the worst proclivities of Harvey Keitel's villain, including a murderous lust for Farrah Fawcet

    If we ever do find ourselves in conflict with artificial intelligence, our biological urges could prove our undoing. In the 2003 "Battlestar Galactica" series, the Cylons spot this weakness and infiltrate the human race through the clever tactic of being really, really hot.

    X-rated extra-terrestrials

    In real life, alien life will probably take the form of bacteria, which isn't anyone's idea of a hot date. In sci-fi, however, many aliens not only know English, but speak the language of love. Good news for Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Commander Riker, who are forever going on stardates, seeking out new life forms and new uncivilized things to do to them.

    While Kirk and other sexual spacefarers have a girl in every galaxy, plenty of aliens have made the return trip with a twinkle of stardust in their eyes. David BowieJeff Bridges and Jeff Goldblum make the earth move for the human women they encounter in "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976), "Starman" (1984) and "Earth Girls Are Easy" (1988). And in 1988's "My Stepmother is an Alien," Kim Basinger's race gave up sex 3,000 years ago, but that doesn't stop her getting it on with Dan Aykroyd to the strains of "Pump Up The Volume."

    William Shatner as Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk, doing his bit for interplanetary relations.

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    Another otherworldly being who learns about humanity on screen is the orange-haired Leeloo of 1997's "The Fifth Element," played by Milla Jovovich. She's designed to be the ultimate weapon in the battle with a vast and ancient evil. But once that's out of the way, what better way to celebrate than bumping multipasses with Bruce Willis? Big badaboom indeed.

    Interestingly, alien beings taking on female form are often treated as horrifying or predatory. "Lifeforce" (1985), "Species" (1995) and "Under the Skin" (2014) all feature beautiful but deadly aliens taking the form of seductive human women to seduce and kill hapless horny men.

    Cultural theorists like Barbara Creed have had a field day with these portrayals of female sexuality, referring to the Freudian concept of the archaic mother and the monstrous feminine.

    That brings us to the "Alien" series, which inspired a vast mythology and endless scholarly articles around its phallic and vaginal imagery of violent penetration, impregnation and birth.

    The series is rammed full of terrifying moments of reproductive body horror -- from the moment a monstrous egg gloopily peeled open and a facehugger leapt out in 1979's "Alien," through the egg-laying of the towering queen creature in 1986 sequel "Aliens" to the visceral gore of this year's "Alien: Covenant," in which an alien curls its spiked tail between two lovers and skewers them mid-coitus.

    Fortunately, plenty of celluloid aliens have sex without all that blood and screaming, like the Antareans who join with Steve Guttenberg for a cerebral coupling in a swimming pool in 1985 heartwarmer "Cocoon."

    The creatures of the "Alien" series mix phallic and vaginal imagery to horrifying effect.

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    Lonely clones

    Historically, sex has been important to, y'know, continue this whole human race thing. In the future, however, technology could come up with new ways of propagating the species -- and the impact on society might not be much fun. George Lucas' first film "THX-1138" in 1971 and the 2015 film "Equals," starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, depict austere societies in which emotions and sexual relationships are banned in favor of dispassionate reproduction. While we're moving toward gene therapy and debating the merits of editing the DNA of our children, no one's yet suggesting we give up entirely on making the babies the old-fashioned way.

    Fertility is at stake in Hulu's recent hit series "The Handmaid's Tale," based on the horrifying novel by Margaret Atwood. In the near future, it's not technological change at issue but social change, as women are subjugated under a totalitarian religious system in which the few fertile "Handmaids" are repeatedly raped and brutalized. Most chilling is that this sci-fi parable parallels some women's real-life experiences.

    In the bleak, near-future parable "Code 46," released in 2003, cloning comes with its own new problems. The state monitors relationships to ensure no one with similar DNA gets together. That's enforced with smart viruses, including one that makes the people in relationships feel physically sick at the sight of each other, which kind of ruins the moment.

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    With all those amorous androids and ardent aliens awaiting us, no wonder we're so keen to explore the stars. No one's had sex in space yet (as far as we know), but with commercial spaceflights nearly ready to blast off, it's surely a matter of time before someone joins the 62-mile-high club. 

    2000 movie "Supernova" and 2015 TV series "The Expanse" are among the sci-fi stories giving us a preview of zero-gravity groping and grinding, but perhaps the best example of getting wet and wild while weightless comes in "Moonraker." The late Roger Moore's James Bond celebrates saving the day by (what else?) "attempting re-entry."

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    Is Dark Matter Less 'Lumpy' Than Predicted?

    Composite picture of stars over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
    Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab

    Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab, the country's largest Large Hadron Collider research institution. He also writes about science for the public, including his recent "The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Things That Will Blow Your Mind" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). You can follow him on Facebook. Lincoln contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

    For as long as we have kept records, humanity has marveled at the night sky. We have looked at the heavens to determine the will of the gods and to wonder about the meaning of it all. The mere 5,000 stars we can see with the unaided eye have been humanity’s companions for millennia.

    Modern astronomical facilities have shown us that the universe doesn't consist of just thousands of stars — it consists of hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone, with trillions of galaxies. Observatories have taught us about the birth and evolution of the universe. And, on Aug. 3, a new facility made its first substantive announcement and added to our understanding of the cosmos. It allows us to see the unseeable, and it showed that the distribution of matter in the universe differed a bit from expectations.

    The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a collaboration of about 400 scientists who have embarked on a five-year mission to study distant galaxies to answer questions about the history of the universe. It uses the Dark Energy Camera (DEC) attached to the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatoryin the Chilean Andes. DEC was assembled in the U.S. at Fermilab near Batavia, Illinois, and is a 570-megapixel camera able to image galaxies so far away that their light is a millionth as bright as the dimmest visible stars.

    DES is hunting for dark energy, which is a proposed energy field in the universe that is a repulsive form of gravity. While gravity exerts an irresistible attraction, dark energy pushes the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. Its effect was first observed in 1998, and we still have many questions about its nature.

    However, by measuring the location and distance of 300 million galaxies in the southern night sky, the survey will be able to make important statements about another astronomical mystery, called dark matter. Dark matter is thought to be five times more prevalent in the universe than ordinary matter. Yet it doesn’t interact with light, radio waves or any form of electromagnetic energy. And it doesn’t appear to congregate to form large bodies like planets and stars.

    Map of dark matter made from gravitational lensing measurements of 26 million galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey.
    Credit: Chihway Chang of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and the DES collaboration

    There is no way to directly see dark matter (hence the name). However, its effects can be seen indirectly by analyzing how fast galaxies rotate. If you calculate the rotational speeds supported by the galaxies’ visible mass, you will discover that they rotate more quickly than they should. By all rights, these galaxies should be torn apart. After decades of research, astronomers have concluded that each galaxy contains dark matter, which generates the additional gravity that holds the galaxies together. [6 Weird Facts About Gravity]

    However, on the much larger scale of the universe, studying individual galaxies is not sufficient. Another approach is needed. For that, astronomers must employ a technique called gravitational lensing.

    Gravitational lensing was predicted in 1916 by Albert Einstein and was first observed by Sir Arthur Eddington in 1919. Einstein’s theory of general relativity says that the gravity that we experience is really caused by the curvature of space-time. Since light travels in a straight line through space, if space-time is curved, it will look to an observer as if light were travelling a curved path through space. [8 Ways You Can See Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Real Life]

    This phenomenon can be harnessed to study the amount and distribution of dark matter in the universe. Scientists who peer at a distant galaxy (called the lensing galaxy), which has another galaxy even farther away behind it (called the observed galaxy), can see a distorted image of the observed galaxy. The distortion is related to the mass of the lensing galaxy. Because the mass of the lensing galaxy is a combination of visible matter and dark matter, gravitational lensing allows scientists to directly observe the existence and distribution of dark matter on scales as large as the universe itself.  This technique also works when a large cluster of foreground galaxies distorts the images of clusters of even more distant galaxies, which is the technique employed for this measurement.

    The DES collaboration recently released an analysis using exactly this technique. The team looked at a sample of 26 million galaxies at four different distances from Earth. The closer galaxies lensed ones that were farther away. By using this technique and looking carefully at the distortion of the images of all of the galaxies, they were able to map out the distribution of invisible dark matter and how it moved and clumped over the past 7 billion years, or half the lifespan of the universe.

    As expected, they found that the dark matter of the universe was "lumpy." However, there was a surprise — it was a little less lumpy than previous measurements had predicted.

    One of these contradictory measurements comes from the remnant radio signal from the earliest time after the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The CMB contains within it the distribution of energy in the cosmos when it was 380,000 years old. In 1998, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) collaboration announced that the CMB was not perfectly uniform, but rather had hot and cold spots that differed from uniform by 1 part in 100,000. The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and Planck satellites confirmed and refined the COBE measurements.

    Over the 7 billion years between when the CMB was emitted and the time period studied by DES, those hotter regions of the universe seeded the formation of structure of the cosmos. Nonuniform energy distribution captured in the CMB, combined with the amplifying force of gravity, caused some spots in the universe to become denser and others less so. The result is the universe we see around us.

    The CMB predicts the distribution of dark matter for a simple reason: The distribution of matter in our universe in the present depends on its distribution in the past. After all, if there were a clump of matter in the past, that matter would attract nearby matter and the clump would grow. Similarly, if we were to project into the distant future, the distribution of matter today would affect tomorrow's for the same reason.

    So, scientists have used measurements of the CMB at 380,000 years after the Big Bang to calculate what the universe should look like 7 billion years later. When they compared the predictions to the measurements from DES, they found that the DES measurements were a little less lumpy than the predictions.

    Is that a big deal? Maybe. The uncertainty, or error, in the two measurements is big enough that it means they don’t disagree in a statistically significant way. What that simply means is that no one can be sure that the two measurements really disagree. It could be that the discrepancies arise by chance from statistical fluctuations in the data or small instrumental effects that were not considered.

    Even the study’s authors would suggest caution here. The DES measurements have not yet been peer-reviewed. The papers were submitted for publication and the results were presented at conferences, but firm conclusions should wait until the referee reports come in.

    So, what is the future? DES has a five-year mission, of which four years of data have been recorded. The recently announced result uses only the first year’s worth of data. More recent data is still being analyzed. Further, the full data set will cover 5,000 square degrees of the sky, while the recent result only covers 1,500 square degrees and peers only half of the way back in time. Thus, the story is clearly not complete. An analysis of the full data set won’t be expected until perhaps 2020.

    Yet, the data taken today already could mean that there is a possible tension in our understanding of the evolution of the universe. And, even if that tension disappears as more data is analyzed, the DES collaboration is continuing to make other measurements. Remember that the letters "DE" in the name stand for dark energy. This group will eventually be able to tell us something about the behavior of dark energy in the past and what we can expect to see in the future. This recent measurement is just the very beginning of what is expected to be a scientifically fascinating time.

    Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on FacebookTwitter and Google+. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.

    This version of the article was originally published on Live Science.

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    13-08-2017 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

    The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

    Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.

    Marijuana's popularity among American adults is on the rise — and use of the recreational drug is expected to continue to increase, according to several surveys.

    The top four reasons people give for using marijuana are to relax, to relieve pain, to have fun and to help them be social, according to a survey by Yahoo News/Marist College done in March. [Read more about the rise.]

    A gigantic mushroom cloud billowed over Nagasaki, Japan, when an atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945.
    Credit: U.S. National Archives

    North Korea has successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead that could be fitted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile, and has now threatened to attack Guam, a U.S. territory, according to several news reports.

    The saber rattling has raised concerns about the possibility of a nuclear attack on U.S. soil and heightened fears of doomsday. But is a global nuclear winter just around the corner? [Learn how to survive.]

    A bone from the right forearm of an adult human unearthed in Gough's Cave bears more than signs of cannibalism; researchers found zigzagging cuts that were likely intentionally engraved into the bone.
    Credit: Bello et al (2017)

    More than 17,000 years ago in what is now England, people may have performed cannibalistic rituals that involved engraving symbols on human bones, new research finds.

    In the new study, Bello and her colleagues examined ancient human remains from the so-called Magdalenian culture, which existed across Europe during the later part of the Paleolithic about 12,000 to 17,000 years ago. The human bones from these sites often bear signs of cannibalism. [Read more about the cannibals.]

    A Google employee recently published an anti-diversity manifesto on an internal discussion board that has gone viral and stirred furious debate both inside and outside the company.

    In the essay, James Damore claimed that differences in the number of women and men in tech companies such as Google can be largely explained by biological differences, rather than sexism. [Read more about the manifesto.]

    This oval impression is all that remains of a jellyfish that washed up on a beach 540 million years ago, part of a mass stranding in what is now Death Valley.
    This oval impression is all that remains of a jellyfish that washed up on a beach 540 million years ago, part of a mass stranding in what is now Death Valley.
    Credit: Aaron Sappenfield/University of California, Riverside

    540 million years ago, seaside sand contained densely packed microbial communities, which created a gooey glue that was excellent for preserving impressions of ocean creatures left high and dry by retreating waves.

    The ancient jellyfish were preserved in a slab of sandstone found in southeastern California. Scientists identified 13 of these oval specimens on the rocky surface, ranging from 1.2 to 8.3 inches (3 to 21 centimeters) in diameter. The fossils were lighter than the rock surrounding them, and they varied not only in size but also their style of preservation. [Read more about the graveyard.]

    An illustration of the quark-gluon plasma created in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
    An illustration of the quark-gluon plasma created in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

    Faster than a tornado, speedier than the giant storm swirling on Jupiter — it's the world's fastest-swirling vortex, which scientists have created in a primordial soup of gluey particles meant to re-create the Big Bang.

    To understand exactly what happened in those moments after the Big Bang, scientists have re-created this primordial particle soup in an atom smasher at the RHIC, at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. [Read more about the vortex.]

    Do you know how much alcohol is in your drink? If you're making a judgment based on taste and smell alone, you may miss the mark, a new study from England finds.

    To see how well young adults could determine how much alcohol was in a drink, the researchers did two experiment with college students. [Read more about the bad judgement.]

    Researchers have created a tissue paper-like material out of ground-up organs.
    Credit: Northwestern University

    Scientists have created paper-like biomaterials from organs such as the ovaries, uterus, heart, liver and muscle that are thin and flexible enough to fold into origami birds and other structures. [Read more about the origami organs.]

    Though small, amphipods such as <i>Lepidepecreum longicornis</i> can pack quite a bite.
    Though small, amphipods such as Lepidepecreum longicornis can pack quite a bite.
    Credit: Copyright Hans Hillewaert

    Tiny marine creatures — each measuring a fraction of an inch in length — gnawed a teenager's legs bloody during a seaside dip in Melbourne, Australia, and experts identified a type of scavenging crustacean as the culprit in this exceedingly rare encounter. [Read more about terrifying attack.]

    The Mars rover Curiosity took these images of an annular, or ring, eclipse as Mars' largest moon, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun on Aug. 20, 2013. The photos were taken 3 seconds apart.
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M University

    As Earthlings, we have the privilege of ooohing and aaahing at total solar eclipses, those dazzling celestial events in which the moon blocks the sun's light from hitting our planet. But is Earth the only world in our solar system that experiences this spectacular phenomenon? [Read more about eclipses across the Universe.]

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    What Causes Spooky Out-of-Body Experiences? It Could Be Your Ears

    About 10 percent of the general population has had an out-of-body experience at some point in their lives.
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    While driving and accelerating in his car, a man in France suddenly had a bizarre sensation: He felt like he was outside his car, looking in at his physical self, which was still at the wheel.

    The man was part of a new study that links problems of the inner ear with eerie "out-of-body" experiences. These experiences are curious, usually brief sensations in which a person's consciousness seems to exit the body and then view the body from the outside.

    The study analyzed 210 patients who had visited their doctors with so-called vestibular disorders. The vestibular system, which is made up of several structures in the inner ear, provides the body with a sense of balance and spatial orientation. Problems with this system can cause dizziness or a floating sensation, among other symptoms. [7 Weird Facts About Balance]

    Maya Elzière, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Hôpital Européen in Marseille, France, and co-author of the study, enlisted patients who had experienced a range of issues, from recurrent vertigo and tinnitus to infections in the ear. Among these patients, 14 percent reported out-of-body experiences, compared with only 5 percent of healthy people without vestibular disorders who said the same.

    "Out-of-body experiences were about three times more frequent" in patients with vestibular disorders, versus those without these disorders, said Christophe Lopez, lead author of the study and a neuroscientist at Aix-Marseille Université in France.

    Lopez said the example of the patient who felt like he was outside his body while accelerating in his car makes sense. The scientist explained that since the vestibular system would be responsible for orienting the driver and giving him the sensation of moving forward as he accelerated in a car, a faulty vestibular system could send crossed signals to the brain during the motion.

    "If you are sending the wrong signals to your brain about your motion, it creates confusion — your brain has to make sense of conflicting information," Lopez told Live Science. "We think the conflicting signals create a kind of central incoherence, and that creates distortions in the sense of your body and the environment around you." [Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena]

    Among the 29 patients in the study who reported experiencing out-of-body sensations, one described it as a "sensation of entering my body, like in an envelope, from the top." Another said, "I saw myself, smaller, from the top."

    The research also found that most patients reported they had out-of-body sensations only after they had experienced dizziness for the first time. This suggests, Lopez said, that problems with the vestibular system were a factor in creating the odd sensations.

    Out-of-body experiences have been documented for centuries, at least since the late 1800s. One case, recorded by French otologist Pierre Bonnier in 1905, describes a patient who felt "divided into two persons, one who had not changed posture and another new person on his right, looking somewhat outwardly. Then, the two somatic individuals approached each other, merged, and the vertigo disappeared."

    Lopez said that doctors have commonly ascribed the sensation to a kind of psychosis. But the new study builds on other recent research that links the feeling, at least in some cases, to faulty wiring in the vestibular system, he said.

    "What the authors of [this study] did is carefully quantify the incidence of vestibular sensations and their relation to symptoms traditionally labeled 'psychiatric,'" Peter Brugger, a psychologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, told Live Science. Brugger has studied similarly bizarre sensations of people seeing themselves, or their doppelgängers, before them.

    Lopez said he was inspired to conduct his research after working in the lab of Olaf Blanke, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

    In 2002, Blanke showed that he could induce out-of-body sensations in a patient by electrically stimulating the brain area that integrates vestibular and visual input.

    Terence Hines, a professor of psychology at Pace University in New York and author of the book "Pseudoscience and the Paranormal" (Prometheus Books, 2003), told Live Science that the new study makes sense given the role of the vestibular system in the human body.

    "I don't think it's the only explanation for out-of-body experiences," Hines said. "But we know that this part of the inner ear plays a role in how we orient ourselves in our bodies, so if something is wrong there, things can go kind of haywire. It's one reasonable explanation."

    Other factors have indeed been linked to out-of-body sensations. A personal history of migraines, anxiety and depression have also been associated with more frequent reports of the sensation, according to the recent study. Other research, led by psychologist Andra Smith at the University of Ottawa in Canada, describes the case of a woman who could deliberately trigger an out-of-body sensation, suggesting that it may be possible to do so through meditation.

    Also, Lopez said it is common to experience "floating" or "sinking" sensations while falling asleep, dreaming or waking.

    "In terms of neurophysiology, it's unclear why that happens," Lopez said. He excluded occurrences around sleep from his study, because they're not necessarily associated with a faulty vestibular system. He also excluded any sensations associated with drug or alcohol use.

    Lopez said that while a faulty vestibular system is "not the only explanation for out-of-body experiences," it might be reassuring to some to know that a mechanical explanation could be at play.

    "Having an out-of-body experience may happen because one of the main sensory systems is not processing correctly," he said. "It doesn't mean you're crazy."

    The study was published online June 8 in the journal Cortex.

    Originally published on Live Science.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'Het leven is mogelijk meerdere keren op aarde ontstaan'

    13-08-2017 om 22:10 geschreven door peter  

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    13-08-2017 om 21:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Hawking Says Time Running Out – “Colonize Or Die”

    Hawking Says Time Running Out – “Colonize Or Die

    Hawking Says Time Running Out – “Colonize Or Die”

    Humans need to colonize another planet within 100 years or face the threat of extinction, Stephen Hawking has warned. At the beginning of 2016, Hawing warned about the dangers of nuclear war, global warming, genetically-engineered viruses, and the danger of artificial intelligence. In the new BBC documentary “Stephen Hawking: Expedition New Earth,” the professor warns that “the human race only has 100 years before we need to colonize another planet.”

    “With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious,” Hawking adds in the film.
    Hawking used to believe we had about 1,000 years left, but that timeline appears to have shortened.

    “Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years,” Hawking told the BBC in an interview last year. “By that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race. However, we will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period.”

    Though Hawking’s timeline is more extreme than most, he is not the only visionary to warn about the threat to human existence. Earlier this year, Elon Musk said humans must merge with machines to avoid becoming irrelevant.

    Alibaba founder Jack Ma, meanwhile, also recently warned that society could face decades of “pain” because of the disruption caused by new technology and the internet, CNBC notes.

    What do you think of Hawking’s daunting prediction?

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    13-08-2017 om 21:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Astrophysicists Say Our Solar System Long Ago Had An Advanced Civilization…That Vanished Without a Trace!

    Astrophysicists Say Our Solar System Long Ago Had An Advanced Civilization…That Vanished Without a Trace!

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    Was our solar system once home to an advanced civilization that predated humanity by hundreds of millions of years? And we don’t mean humans! While there is no evidence for a pre-human indigenous technological species, people have been speculating about it since ancient times. Now, one space scientist is pointing out that the existence of intelligent space aliens on Earth hasn’t been ruled out either. One so thoroughly wiped out by a comet strike that nearly all evidence of its existence vanished, never to be found again?

    If a race of smart aliens did make their home in our solar system, there could be traces of evidence we simply haven’t discovered yet, Penn State astrophysicist Dr. Jason T. Wright notes in his paper “Prior Indigenous Technological Species.” Of course, Wright is not suggesting we’ll find any alien fossils. Instead, he’s talking about “techno-signatures,” a term encompassing a broad range of possible artifacts.

    Wright argues that if a prior indigenous technological species did exist, it might have developed on Earth of pre-greenhouse Venus—or even Mars. With surface erosion and shifting tectonic plates on Earth, any evidence on our planet would have been lost long ago. And any artifacts left on Venus probably would have been destroyed by the planet’s atmosphere.

    If the beings did make it to Mars, however, Wright believes they might still exist. Though he argues “it is unlikely that artifacts might be obvious from space imagery, or even from the sort of shallow probing performed by the various Martian rovers.” Any signatures would be buried deep under the surface.

    Other places to look for techno-signatures would be our moon and the rocky moons and asteroids of the outer solar system. There might even be “large structures flee-floating in space.”

    Not all experts are as enthusiastic about this proposal as Wright.

    “If I had to guess, I’d say it’s highly unlikely, but not impossible, that an ancient civilization existed—probably even more unlikely we’ll ever find evidence,” Dr. Paul Horowitz, a research professor of physics at Harvard University commented.

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    13-08-2017 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.When Aliens Come…They Will Come As Machines!

    When Aliens Come…They Will Come As Machines!

    Why would aliens bother coming here in the flesh? Whatever their ‘flesh’ may be – that is! Afterall we sent Rover to Mars! Therefore, a SETI senior astronomer believes that humanity ought to alter its search parameters to incorporate — if not totally concentrate on — clever alien machines. And in the POSTBIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE: Aliens Are Machined Based, Not Meat Based so says NASA’s Chief Historian Steven J. Dick. He believes that the dominant form of life in the cosmos is probably post-biological. Advanced alien civilizations, either through their own trans-biological evolution or through the rise of their artificially intelligent progeny, are more likely to be machine-based than meat-based. We ourselves may be heading in this direction, as witnessed by current and pending advances in genetics, cybernetics, molecular nanotechnology, cognitive science, and information technology. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) institute, one of the globe’s leading alien hunting group, believes that the rise of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) is inevitable on any life-harbouring planet, including Earth.

    Steven J. Dick is the second chairholder of the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Kluge Center. A well-known astronomer and historian of science, he previously served as the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum and as the NASA Chief Historian and Director of the NASA History Office.

    As Dick noted in his paper, “The Postbiological Universe”: Because of the limits of biology and flesh-and-blood brains…cultural evolution will eventually result in methods for improving intelligence beyond those biological limits. If the strong Artificial Intelligence concept is correct, that is, if it is possible to construct AI with more intelligence than biologicals, postbiological intelligence may take the form of AI. It has been argued that humans themselves may become postbiological in this sense within a few generations.

    Dr. Steven Dick THE POSTBIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Headquarters (United States) steven.j.dick@nasa.gov Abstract

    Throughout history scientists and the general public have debated whether intelligent life exists beyond Earth. Some, including most SETI scientists, have concluded that such life is likely, and that cosmic evolution has resulted in a biological universe (Dick, 1996; Dick, 1998), defined as characterized by abundant life beyond the mere physical universe of planets, stars and galaxies. However, another possibility exists: that cultural evolution over the long time scales of the universe has resulted in something beyond biology, namely, artificial intelligence (AI). Such a postbiological universe cannot mean a universe devoid of biological intelligence, since humans are an obvious counterexample.

    Nor does it mean a universe devoid of lower forms of life, what I have termed the ’weak biological universe’ (Dick, 2000a), as advocated by Ward and Brownlee (2000). Rather, the postbiological universe is one in which the majority of intelligent life has evolved beyond flesh and blood intelligence, in proportion to its longevity. This argument has been broached by MacGowan and Ordway (1966), Davies (1995), and Shostak 1 (1998), and advanced in more detail by Dick (2003). But the possible role of artificial intelligence in the universe was completely overshadowed by the publication of Shklovskii and Sagan (1966). Although the last chapter of their book Intelligent Life in the Universe included a chapter on Artificial Intelligence and Galactic Civilizations the

    However, another possibility exists: that cultural evolution over the long time scales of the universe has resulted in something beyond biology, namely, artificial intelligence (AI). Such a postbiological universe cannot mean a universe devoid of biological intelligence, since humans are an obvious counterexample.

    Nor does it mean a universe devoid of lower forms of life, what I have termed the ’weak biological universe’ (Dick, 2000a), as advocated by Ward and Brownlee (2000). Rather, the postbiological universe is one in which the majority of intelligent life has evolved beyond flesh and blood intelligence, in proportion to its longevity. This argument has been broached by MacGowan and Ordway (1966), Davies (1995), and Shostak 1 (1998), and advanced in more detail by Dick (2003).

    But the possible role of artificial intelligence in the universe was completely overshadowed by the publication of Shklovskii and Sagan (1966). Although the last chapter of their book Intelligent Life in the Universe included a chapter on Artificial Intelligence and Galactic Civilizations the AI thesis was very general and lost in the midst of the exciting – and at the time more verifiable and realistic – implications of the other chapters, which assumed biological beings.

    Over the last 40 years SETI has focused almost exclusively on the biological paradigm, especially the radio SETI technique, as opposed the postbiological paradigm. THE GENERAL ARGUMENT My argument in this paper is simple, but firmly founded in the naturalistic evolutionary worldview. The overarching argument may be stated as follows: Advanced intelligence – defined as at least at the level of homo sapiens – implies culture; indeed some consider culture part of the very definition of advanced intelligence. Moreover, wherever culture exists there will be cultural evolution.

    Therefore, if extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) exists, it must have undergone cultural evolution, most likely in direct proportion to its longevity. Because nothing is more important in cultural evolution than intelligence itself, any society will tend to increase its knowledge and intelligence. Because of the limits of biology and flesh-and-blood brains, notwithstanding advances in biotechnology, cultural evolution will eventually result in methods for improving intelligence beyond those biological limits. If the strong Artificial Intelligence concept is correct, that is, if it is possible to construct AI with more intelligence than biologicals, postbiological intelligence may take the form of AI.

    It has been argued that humans themselves may become postbiological in this sense within a few generations (Moravec, 1988; Moravec, 1999). This may be optimistic (or pessimistic depending on your outlook). But if ETI exists, and, as seems likely, it exceeds the age of terrestrial technological civilization, we may already live in a postbiological universe. This overarching argument harbors many assumptions: 1) that evolution by natural selection results in intelligence beyond the Earth; 2) That ETI is older than human intelligence 3) that intelligence results in culture; 4) that culture evolves; and 5) that increasing intelligence is a central goal of cultural evolution. Each of these assumptions can be addressed by subsidiary arguments. EXISTENCE AND AGE OF INTELLIGENCE BEYOND THE EARTH The existence of ETI has been debated for millennia (Dick, 1982; Dick, 1996; Crowe, 1986; Guthke, 1990) and the debate need not be recounted here. Suffice it to say that the Drake Equation, which estimates the number of technological civilizations in the Galaxy, has in the past yielded answers ranging from 1 (ourselves) to a billion or more. Never in the history of science has an equation given answers differing by 9 orders of magnitude, an indication of the uncertainties involved. But with the discovery of nearly 200 extrasolar planets over the last decade, one of the Drake Equation parameters, the fraction of stars forming planets, has been increasingly informed by empirical data. While these new discoveries are believed to be mainly gas giant planets, new instruments such as NASA’s Kepler spacecraft will soon yield numbers on Earth-size planets. That will still be only the beginning in determining whether they have life, much less intelligence. But for this part of the argument we make no more assumptions than standard SETI science arguments. The age and longevity of ETI is important for the overarching postbiological universe argument, since ETI somewhat older than humans is a necessity for more advanced cultural evolution. SETI scientists have had much to say about this too, and there is general consensus that ETI would indeed be much older than us (e.g. Tarter, 2000).

    Cosmic evolution is our guide to the maximum age of extraterrestrial civilizations. Recent results from the WMAP spacecraft place the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years, with one percent uncertainty, and confirm that the first stars formed at about 200 million years after the Big Bang. The first Sun-like stars probably formed within about a billion years, or 12.5 billion years ago. By that time enough heavy element generation and interstellar seeding had taken place for the first rocky planets to form (Delsemme, 1998, p. 71; Larson and Bromm, 2001). Then, if Earth’s history is any guide, it may have taken another 5 billion years for intelligence to evolve.

    Some 6 billion years after the Big Bang, therefore, some 7.5 billion years 2 ago, the first intelligence could have emerged. By the same reasoning, intelligence could have evolved in our Galaxy 4-5 billion years ago, since the oldest stars in our galaxy formed about 10-11 billion years ago (Rees, 1997). These conclusions are in line with those of a number of other astronomers using various methods. Norris (2000) argued that the median age of ETI is 1.7 billion years. Livio (1999) concluded that the first civilizations would emerge when the universe was about 10 billion years old, or 3.7 billion years ago. Kardashev (1997) concluded that cosmological models yield an age for civilizations of 6-8 billion years. Thus, several lines of evidence agree that extraterrestrial intelligence could have emerged several billion years ago. Even uncertainties of billions of years would not affect the argument for taking cultural evolution seriously

    But civilizations do not necessarily reach this age. The maximum age of ETI is mitigated by L, the lifetime of a technological civilization (typically de- fined as radio-communicative). Sagan, Drake and others generally assigned L values in the neighborhood of a million years, and even some pessimists admitted 10,000 years was not unlikely (Dick, 1996, p. 441). L is thus hardly an objective parameter, though studies by social scientists might contribute to the debate. That a man-made disaster would totally wipe out civilization seems unduly pessimistic, though natural phenomena such as mass extinctions, supernovae and gamma ray bursters are more problematic (Norris, 2000; Scalo and Wheeler, 2002; Chapman and Morrison, 1989, 1994). But the important point is that, even at our low current value of L on Earth, biological evolution by natural selection is already being overtaken by cultural evolution, which is proceeding at a vastly faster pace than biological evolution. Technological civilizations do not remain static. Therefore cultural evolution must be taken into account in the Drake Equation no less than astronomical and biological evolution. Unlike biological evolution, L need only be thousands of years for cultural evolution to have drastic effects on civilization.

    Read the full paper here: Dr. Steven Dick THE POSTBIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE

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    13-08-2017 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Astronomers Discover A Galaxy Made of 99.99% Dark Matter

    NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford
    IN BRIEF
    After decades of being ignored, Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) are finally being given the attention they deserve. These galaxies have very few stars and it is believed that dark matter holds these galaxies together. Astronomers turned their sights on Dragonfly 44, a recently discovered UDG, and found that it's comprised of only 0.01% normal matter, and 99.99% dark matter.

    THE INVISIBLE GLUE BEHIND ULTRA DIFFUSE GALAXIES

    For years, a galaxy named Dragonfly 44 remained unnoticed despite its relative proximity to us here in the Milky Way. This wasn’t surprising, seeing as this galaxy is very dim. Last year, astronomers finally gave it the attention it deserves—and rightly so.
     
    The reason why Dragonfly 44 was dim was because it had very few stars, making it very easy to miss. An observation of the Coma Cluster by the Dragonfly Telephoto Array led to astronomers finally seeing that there was, in fact, a galaxy hiding out there in the expanse.
    Dark galaxy Dragonfly 44 taken using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is a wide view of the galaxy taken with the Gemini North telescope using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
    Image credit: Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Gemini Observatory/AURA
     
    At first, the lack of stars did strike astronomers as odd. But upon contemplation, its ability to even keep these stars at all was far more strange and interesting than the former mystery.
    Why? Sparse galaxies like Dragonfly 44, called Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs), have so few stars that normal assumption would dictate these galaxies easily losing the stars they have. Without enough mass in the galaxy to generate the gravitational attraction to keep the galaxy together, these stars could easily spin out of place (and maybe even be kidnapped by neighboring gravitational forces).

    The galaxy being able to keep these stars in place despite the lack of visible mass implies one thing: dark matter is the missing link keeping them together.

    The two Keck Telescopes on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

    DRAGONFLY 44: 99.99% DARK MATTER

    Dragonfly 44 was particularly astonishing: it stretches 60,000 light years across, and only .01% of it comes in the form of stars and normal matter, which would mean the remaining 99.99% is dark matter.

    For this study, the astronomers calculated the galaxy’s mass and monitored how fast the stars spin in a 33.5-hour period over six nights. “Motions of the stars tell you how much matter there is,” says lead author Pieter van Dokkum. “They don’t care what form the matter is, they just tell you that it’s there. In the Dragonfly galaxy stars move very fast. So there was a huge discrepancy: using Keck Observatory, we found many times more mass indicated by the motions of the stars, then there is mass in the stars themselves.”
    A galaxy made up almost entirely of dark matter was unexpected, and astronomers do not have an explanation on how they form yet. But this finding is a significant aid in the quest to unmask what dark matter actually is.
    The Sombrero galaxy—an ultradiffuse galaxy also located in the Coma Cluser. 

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    13-08-2017 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

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    New Breakthrough Material: Graphene Elastomer is More Sensitive Than Human Skin

    IN BRIEF
    This new material is remarkably soft, and it could revolutionize robotics and prosthetics.

    Researchers from the Monash University have discovered a new sponge-like material called graphene elastomer. This revolutionary material is expected to be used for robots designed to help take care of elderly people.

    The graphene-based elastomer is exteremely sensitive to pressure and vibrations. Also called G-elastomer, the material has the ability to bounce back despite the pressure given to it. It is described to be very soft and elastic compared to other substances such as rubber or foam.

    THE POTENTIAL OF G-ELASTOMER

    Revolutionary new graphene elastomer exceeds sensitivity of human skin

    Professor Dan Li and Dr. Ling Qiu from the Monash Center for Atomically Thin Materials (MCATN) were excited the discovery and potential of this material.

    “This graphene elastomer is a flexible, ultra-light material which can detect pressures and vibrations across a broad bandwidth of frequencies. It far exceeds the response range of our skin, and it also has a very fast response time, much faster than conventional polymer elastomer.,” explained Dr. Qiu in the press release.

    “Although we often take it for granted, the pressure sensors in our skin allow us to do things like hold a cup without dropping it, crushing it, or spilling the contents. The sensitivity and response time of G-elastomer could allow a prosthetic hand or a robot to be even more dexterous than a human, while the flexibility could allow us to create next generation flexible electronic devices,” he added.

    Professor Li, the director at MCATN, admitted that they are still in the early stages of studying the full potential of the G-elastomer.

    However, he is positive that “this research is an excellent breakthrough. What we do know is that graphene could have a huge impact on Australia’s economy, both from a resources and innovation perspective, and we’re aiming to be at the forefront of that research and development.”

    The research can be found in the latest edition of the journal “Advanced Materials”. It is protected by a suite of patents.

    13-08-2017 om 20:23 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Allagash Abduction

    The Allagash Abduction


    This incident passed off a few years in the past, four men (two of them brothers) would experience something that might change their lives forever. Known as “The Allagash Abduction”, those men might find out something otherworldly might shape the rest in their lives. This tale turned into featured on both the Unsolved Mysteries tv series and The History Channel amongst others.
    To date, this story nonetheless resonates with many as being both plausible and worrying. Where this occurred is positioned within the kingdom of Maine. The date turned into August of 1976, 4 guys decided to holiday together to get away the hustle and pollution of the metropolis. All of them are avid fishermen, they heard approximately a gap which become perfect for night fishing. Known as Eagle Lake, this spot is packed with extremely good panoramic scenery stretching as some distance as the eye can see.
    They were getting low on substances specially meals, so that they decided to strive once more to trap a few fish in the lake for the duration of the night time. The simplest thing they caught later became a glimpse of some thing alternatively exquisite. Thinking beforehand, they built a as a substitute large campfire to mark their way lower back less complicated. It labored as they could quite without problems see their way lower back. They had been on a small length boat, worn-out and getting ready to surrender, when all of sudden they observed a vivid mild inside the sky.
    The depth of this mild become overwhelming, it became brighter than a midnight star. Whatever this turned into, they expected it being nicely over eighty feet in diameter. This item quick approached them after Charlie Foltz decided to use his flashlight to sign it. This object made no noise which turned into alternatively puzzling to them. Whatever this thing became, it had a few shape of intelligence capable of flow so fast closer to them.

    They began to fell uncomfortable so started frantically paddling lower back to their campsite. This bizarre brilliant mild engulfed the men at the boat. The subsequent aspect they knew, they have been all status rather confused lower back close to the camp. It didn’t strike them as odd till later. An quantity of time had passed, the campfire became nearly burned absolutely out.

    It wasn’t till years later when the guys commenced communicating to one another approximately abnormal goals every of them had. All of them eerily similar, they each defined in element the setting they were at. It changed into some sort of flying saucers with what are called “The Grey” extraterrestrial beings. There had been large sized alien creatures which stood taller than the rest and people regarded to be in fee. These things had massive steel glowing eyes, insect-like hands with four larger palms.



    Jack Weiner changed into the first of the men to start having nightmares. Later Chuck Rak, Jim Weiner and Charlie Foltz. All of them sought psychiatric treatment for what they were experiencing. All in their sketches matched up, they were experiencing ordinary dreams for pretty a while. They also met with a hypnotist named Anthony Constantino and the hypnotist stated it turned into the maximum extreme collection of classes that they had ever achieved earlier than. Whatever happened to them turned into rather first rate and similarly documents extra terrestrial encounters.

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    13-08-2017 om 20:12 geschreven door peter  

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    ‘Britain’s mysterious X-Files’ disclosed by UK Ministry of Difence however is there a UFO cover-up?


    An professional dossier of 15 files, which has been dubbed “Britain’s X-Files”, has been launched by means of the United Kingdom Ministry of Difence (MoD) and published in paper form via the National Archives – however one expert has advised 3 withheld files will cause accusations of a cowl-up.

    At the cease of ultimate week the National Archive released the files, outlining MoD investigations into mysterious incidents and unidentified flying items (UFOs). They had been not digitised and might currently only be viewed in character or via buying them and awaiting transport.

    UFO watchers and those who carefully observe the phenomenon of alien life were expecting the files to be released, hoping they may screen secrets from deep within the British government.

    Nick Pope, a former MoD expert at the subject, stated withholding files will most effective fuel conspiracies.

    “It seems that The National Archives has released 15 of the last 18 Ministry of Defence UFO documents, marking the very last levels of what’s been a 9-yr long task to declassify and release the MoD’s entire archive of UFO documents,” Pope told The Sun.

    “Unlike all such preceding releases of UFO documents, I wasn’t pre-briefed on the release date.

    “The release of those very last files has been significantly delayed and at one level they had been sent from the MoD to the National Archives, however then despatched returned to the MoD.”

    He endured: “Embarrassment approximately this postpone can also give an explanation for why – in contrast to releases of previous batches of MoD UFO documents – there hasn’t been a proactive media release. Accordingly, I suspect the UFO and conspiracy idea community will say that these documents had been ‘snuck out’.”

    What’s inside the ‘X-Files’?


    Many sky-watchers was hoping the fresh documents could shine a light on a protracted-going for walks mystery that has emerge as known as the Rendlesham Forest incident – or Britain’s Roswell. This “sighting” happened in 1980 at a navy base close to Suffolk, with some reports of a “triangular shaped craft.”

    But alas for the ones chasing little inexperienced guys, Pope advised British tabloid press he did now not accept as true with the MoD files contained a smoking gun. He stated some files likely reference the Rendlesham Forest case but will probably be duplicates of already-launched cloth.

    He instructed The Express: “The launch of those real-existence X-Files shows that the UFO mystery lives on and that there’s nevertheless huge hobby in this captivating subject matter. These files will supply people a revealing perception into this weird and fascinating thing of Ministry of Defence commercial enterprise.

    “Sadly, there’s no ‘smoking gun’ in those files in an effort to prove we’ve been visited via greater-terrestrials, but there are plenty of intriguing UFO reviews, in addition to policy papers explaining how the MoD treated this difficulty.

    “The loss of a smoking gun and the reality that these files seem to had been slipped out without a formal media statement is certain to begin some conspiracy theories, and I know that many human beings trust the ‘excellent stuff’ is being held returned.

    “Furthermore, the truth that a few documents haven’t been digitised, can’t be downloaded, and might best be viewed in character on the National Archives will doubtless additionally generate conspiracy theories.

    “After this, there are most effective three greater UFO files nonetheless to be launched.”

    Pope said these have to be made public “later this year.”

    This week (26 June), The Sun newspaper, which has apparently despatched a reporter to examine the archived files, pronounced they reveal how a UFO became spotted on a navy radar for hours over the Skegness coast in 1996 – with a RAF reportedly being instructed no longer to investigate in addition.



    The referenced document, which does no longer screen an writer’s call, includes snippets of information from the time – one story titled “UFOS divulge 9-5 defence hazard”.
    It allegedly included eyewitness accounts from police, claiming to have viewed “flashing red, blue and white lights” inside the sky.

    The news comes after a first-rate scientist at Nasa become forced to refute claims from Anonymous, the free collective of hackers, which stated the enterprise turned into on the cusp of revealing alien existence.

    “Contrary to a few reports, there’s no pending declaration from Nasa concerning extra-terrestrial existence,” wrote Nasa’s Thomas Zurbuchen on Twitter.

    He added: “Are we by myself within the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions transferring forward that could help answer that fundamental query.”
    Nick Pope has lengthy investigated claims of extra-terrestrials and UFOs, however has consistently denied his personal existence follows the tropes put forward by technological know-how fiction movies.
    “How do the MoD’s actual-life Mulders and Scullys compare to their fictional counterparts? Having achieved the activity myself, from 1991 to 1994, I’m sorry to must document that it’s not quite as glamorous as human beings might suspect,” he wrote within the Guardian lower back in February 2010.

    “There’s no jogging round dark warehouses with weapons and torches. It’s extra a case of asking colleagues in the RAF to check the radar tapes and writing polite letters returned to members of the public, pointing out that maximum UFOs come to be misidentifications of everyday objects.”

    It seems that, for now as a minimum, the truth continues to be available.

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    13-08-2017 om 20:05 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA Scientist Says: We Are Living In A Hologram Designed By Aliens

    NASA Scientist Says: We Are Living In A Hologram Designed By Aliens


    A NASA scientist suggests you are residing inside a hologram created through advanced alien species.
    What if the whole thing you have got ever carried out or will do is truely the manufactured from a exceptionally-advanced laptop code? Every courting, each sentiment, each memory might have been generated by means of banks of supercomputers.

    This turned into the exciting idea first proposed through Nick Bostrom, Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme at the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School, there are numerous scientists who subscribe to this idea.

    MessageToEagle.Com has previously reported on how Rich Terrile, director of the Centre for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory cautioned our author is a cosmic pc programmer.

    This would suggest that we are dwelling in a holographic world and the entirety around us, such as ourselves isn't always “actual”. Rich Terrile, nonetheless stands with the aid of his opinion. “Right now the fastest NASA supercomputers are cranking away at about double the speed of the human mind,” the NASA scientist advised Vice.

    “If you are making a simple calculation the usage of Moore’s Law [which roughly claims computers double in power every two years], you’ll discover that these supercomputers, inner of a decade, could have the ability to compute an entire human life of 80 years – which include every notion ever conceived during that lifetime – within the span of a month.

    “In quantum mechanics, particles do no longer have a specific country except they’re being located.
    “Many theorists have spent numerous time seeking to determine out how you provide an explanation for this.

    “One explanation is that we’re dwelling within a simulation, seeing what we want to look when we need to peer it.

    “What I discover inspiring is that, although we're in a simulation or many orders of magnitude down in degrees of simulation, somewhere along the line some thing escaped the primordial ooze to emerge as us and to bring about simulations that made us – and that’s cool.”

    The concept that our Universe is a fiction generated by using computer code solves a number of inconsistencies and mysteries about the cosmos, like as an instance our quest for extraterrestrial lifestyles and the mystery of darkish be counted.

    However, there also folks that assume the Matrix idea is defective. “The concept appears to be primarily based on the belief that ‘superminds’ would do things in plenty the equal manner as we would do them,” Professor Peter Millican, who teaches philosophy and computer technological know-how at Oxford University says.

    “If they suppose this world is a simulation, then why do they assume the superminds – who're out of doors the simulation – could be limited with the aid of the identical styles of thoughts and strategies that we're?




    “They anticipate that the ultimate shape of a real global can’t be grid like, and additionally that the superminds might should put in force a virtual global the usage of grids.

    “We can’t conclude that a grid structure is proof of a fake reality simply due to the fact our ways of implementing a fake fact contain a grid.”

    However, Professor Millican does trust there is well worth in investigating the idea.

    “It is an exciting concept, and it’s healthy to have some loopy ideas,” he instructed The Telegraph.

    “You don’t want to censor thoughts in step with whether or not they appear practical or now not due to the fact once in a while critical new advances will seem crazy first of all.

    “You by no means know while appropriate ideas can also come from wondering out of doors the box.

    “This Matrix notion-experiment is honestly a chunk like some ideas of Descartes and Berkeley, masses of years ago. “Even if there seems to be not anything in it, the fact which you have were given into the dependancy of wondering crazy things could mean that at some point you're going to think of some thing that initially may also seem alternatively manner out, but seems not to be crazy 

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    13-08-2017 om 19:57 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Russia Claims It’s Building a Nuclear Space Bomber Capable of Striking Any Country in the World

    Russia Claims It’s Building a Nuclear Space Bomber Capable of Striking Any Country in the World

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    IN BRIEF
    The Russian military claims that it is building its own miniature version of the International Space Station, with the main purpose of carrying nuclear weapons, which would allow them to launch an attack anywhere in the world in a matter of two hours.

    WAR ZONE EXPANSION: OUTER SPACE

    Through news site Sputnik, Russia says they are building a robotic mini-shuttle, much like a smaller, remote-controlled replica of the International Space Station—filled with nukes.

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    X-37B. United States Air Force.

    The robotic plane, similar to the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B robotic mini-shuttle, will be loaded with nuclear warheads, and can launch an attack anywhere in the world within a matter of two hours. The Russian military says the project is making good progress and could very well be up and running by 2020.

    “The idea is that the bomber will take off from a normal home airfield to patrol Russian airspace,” Lieutenant Colonel Aleksei Solodovnikov told Russia’s International News Agency. “Upon command it will ascend into outer space, strike a target with nuclear warheads and then return to its home base.”

    “I think that its lift-off mass must be 20-25 metric tonnes for it to be a strike aircraft,” Solodovnikov told Sputnik. “It will [be able to accelerate to] hypersonic speed in rocket mode.”

    TRUTH OR BLUFF, AN UNSETTLING THOUGHT

    Sputnik is run by Russian Federation-owned and controlled agency Rossiya Segodnya and has garnered the reputation of being a biased, propaganda-driven outlet with little-to-no credibility. With Russia choosing this source for the announcement, the news is, in the very least, suspect.

    Sputnik chief Dmitry Kiselyov. Sputnik.
    Sputnik chief Dmitry Kiselyov. Sputnik.

    However, whether this is a bluff or not, the mere thought of fast-nuking space planes lurking about and ushering a new era (and arena) of warfare is beyond unsettling and is an act of violation against the Outer Space Treaty, signed by 104 countries in 1967—including Russia.

    The Outer Space Treaty: green for parties, yellow for signatories who have not completed , red for non-parties.
    The Outer Space Treaty: green for parties, yellow for signatories who have not completed affirmation , red for non-parties.

    The treaty declares that: “States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner.”

    Sputnik reports that the engine for this alleged nuclear space bombing machine will be presented at the Army-2016 International Military Technology Forum, happening this September in Moscow. Until then, we’re all going to have to keep hoping this is nothing more but a ruse.

    13-08-2017 om 19:48 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Scientists Claim To Have Found 234 Alien Civilizations

    Alien Civilizations

    Scientists Claim To Have Found 234 Alien Civilizations

    Aliens are like buses, you spend ages waiting for one and then 234 come along at once. Or at least, that’s what two astronomers from the Laval University in Quebec are suggesting.

    Ermanno Borra and his graduate student Eric Trottier have analyzed over 2.5 million stars and galaxies for pulses of light emitted at regular intervals and discovered it in 234 stars similar in size to our Sun. The team believes that alien civilizations are behind those signals.

    The researchers looked at the Fourier Transform (FT) of the light spectrum. The FT is a mathematical tool that allows us to work out where the components of a signal come from. If the light is a milkshake, by using the FT you get the recipe.

    The FT analysis has found periodic modulated components which, according to the scientists, are caused by the super quick light pulses (less than a trillionth of a second) generated by Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI). In the paper, available from the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, they discard every other explanation such as instrumental effects, rotation of molecules, rapid stellar pulsations, and peculiar chemistry.

    “We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an ETI signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis,” the researchers wrote in the paper.

    “The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type of the Sun is also in agreement with the ETI hypothesis.”

    These superfast pulses will have to be generated by incredibly powerful lasers, like the one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Interestingly, in previous publications Borra has stated that this area of astronomy is the least explored, which raises the question on why these aliens would all decide to communicate in such a complicated and energy-consuming way.

    The researchers admit that although they believe aliens is the most likely explanation, this is yet to be confirmed.

    The Stephen Hawking-backed project Breakthrough Listen will conduct follow-up observations of these 234 stars, but the team at UC Berkeley, where the project’s science program is based, invite people to be skeptical.

    “The one in 10,000 objects with unusual spectra seen by Borra and Trottier are certainly worthy of additional study. However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations,” the Breakthrough Listen team said in a statement.

    {https://hidden-truth.net/ }

    13-08-2017 om 19:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Five Traits That Could Get You “Abducted by Aliens”

    Five Traits That Could Get You “Abducted by Aliens”

    Research suggests traits could lead to “alien abduction” experiences.

    Are you worried about being abducted by aliens? I suspect it will cross the mind of some of you reading this post that alien abduction is a possibility. After all, many people worldwide have claimed to have been abducted by aliens, been taken against their will to an alien spacecraft or enclosed place, questioned or physically examined, and they remember these experiences either consciously or through methods such as hypnosis. Indeed, many of those people who claim to be alien abductees are seemingly sincere, psychologically healthy, nonpsychotic people—so are their experiences real and their claims to have been abducted true?

    Professor Rich McNally and his colleagues at Harvard University have spent over 10 years researching the psychology of alien abductees, and in particular why it is that some people embrace the identity of “alien abductee.” His research has isolated a number of traits possessed by ‘alien abductees’ each of which he argues contributes to the experiences they recall when ‘being abducted’ and to the desire to cling on to their belief that aliens were responsible for their abduction experiences. Let’s look at each of these five traits in turn.

    1. Regularly experiencing sleep paralysis and hallucinations when awakening:

    Many people who have reported alien abduction suffer episodes of early morning sleep paralysis. On awakening from this paralysis, their terror gives rise to hallucinations of flashing lights and buzzing sounds. Some experience feelings of ‘floating’ around the room or seeing figures in the room. While many people interpret these post-sleep paralysis experiences as dreaming, some people interpret these experiences as seeing figures, ghosts, or aliens.

    2. Tendency to Recall False Memories:

    In an elegant set of experimental studies, McNally and colleagues found that individuals who claimed to have been abducted by aliens were prone to what is known as “false memory syndrome.” That is, alien abductees regularly claimed to recall words, items, sentences, etc. in memory tests that they had never actually seen before. If this “false memory” affect can be generalized to autobiographical memories, then individuals who claim to have been abducted by aliens would be twice as likely to “falsely remember” things that had never happened to them than would non-abductees.

    3. High levels of “Absorption”:

    Alien abductees also score significantly higher than most people on the mental characteristic known as ‘absorption.’ This is a trait related to fantasy proneness, vivid imagery, and susceptibility to hypnosis and suggestion. Because of this it is probably not surprising that many alien abductees recall their experiences under hypnosis, where memories of abduction can be induced through suggestibility—especially if the person leading the hypnosis session asks particularly leading questions about abduction.

    4. New Age beliefs:

    Being whisked up into space ships by tractor beams or light sources is not something that happens every day—nor is it something that is easily explainable within our existing knowledge of physics. Similarly, being subjected to imaginative medical procedures requires a tendency to accept unusual and non-mainstream ideas. This is also a trait possessed by ‘alien abductees.’ They score highly on measures of magical ideation and endorse New Age ideas that encompass beliefs about alternative medicines and healing, astrology, and fortune telling. Such beliefs would certainly allow the individual to accept things happening to them that would be dismissed by existing scientific knowledge.

    5. A familiarity with the cultural narrative of alien abduction:

    As a cultural phenomenon, alien abduction has entered folklore and the images and descriptions of aliens and their spacecraft have become familiar to many people. Alien abductees tend to be very familiar with this cultural narrative which is one possible reason why their descriptions of aliens and their spaceships are so similar—being fuelled as they are by sci-fi films and numerous books about aliens and alien abduction.

    As Professor McNally points out in a very readable review of his studies on alien abduction, it is still unclear whether all these characteristics are necessary ingredients in the recipe for ‘alien abduction’ or whether some are more necessary than others. Other researchers have also identified further traits that appear to be characteristic of ‘alien abductees’, such as paranoid thinking and weak sexual identity. There is still much more research to do to fully understand the motivations and thinking patterns of individuals who claim to have been abducted by aliens, but as McNally shrewdly points out, these people are not anxious nor depressed, they are not psychotic and do not appear to have any obvious mental health problems. ‘Alien abduction’ experiences often deepen spiritual awareness and give shape to the identities of abductees and provide a basis for their beliefs about the world and the universe. Whether the experiences of abduction were real or not, the experiences and interpretations adopted by ‘alien abductees’ are often psychologically helpful and can be spiritually comforting.

    Finally, a note of caution.

    All of these studies of ‘alien abductees’ were carried out after they had their abduction ‘experiences’, so it’s difficult to know whether these five traits are consequences of the experience or were—as McNally suggests—factors that led individuals to interpret rather earthly experiences (such as sleep paralysis and hallucinations) as evidence of abduction. And then— perhaps fantastically—can we genuinely rule out the possibility that such traits are implanted in their victims by aliens in invasive medical procedures carried out on alien space ships! My skeptical, scientific mind says probably not—but who knows?!

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    13-08-2017 om 19:34 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Pascagoula UFO Incident: Navy Retiree Says He Also Saw Spaceship 28 Years Ago

    Pascagoula UFO Incident: Navy Retiree Says He Also Saw Spaceship 28 Years Ago

    Pascagoula UFO Incident: Navy Retiree Says He Also Saw Spaceship 28 Years Ago

    By Natalie Chambers
    The Mississippi Press
    PASCAGOULA - When Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told the world in 1973 they were abducted by aliens while fishing on the Pascagoula River, few people believed them.
    Now after 28 years, it appears they weren't alone in their experience on that Oct. 11 night.
    A retired Navy chief petty officer recently contacted The Mississippi Press about the sighting that he can't forget.

    Mike Cataldo of Rotonda West, Fla., said he was on the pre-commissioning crew of the USS Tunney under construction at Ingalls Shipyard. Dusk was setting in as he and crew mates Ted Peralta and Mack Hanna were on U.S. 90 heading to Ocean Springs. Peralta was driving, Hanna was in the front passenger seat and Cataldo was in the back seat.

    "We saw a very strange object in the horizon going from northwest across Highway 90. It was going pretty fast. It went down into a wood area and into the marsh. It hovered over the tree line, I guess, maybe a minute. We actually pulled off the road and watched it. We said, 'My God, what is that."' Cataldo said.

    "We saw it, no question about it. We talked about it. Was it a shooting star, a meteorite? This was very different," he said.

    Cataldo said the object looked like a large tambourine with little lights flashing on it.

    "As quickly as we saw it, it just vanished," he said.

    Cataldo said he had a second sighting minutes later, this time in St. Andrews as he neared his home.

    "It wasn't as high up as we saw the first time. It was real," he said.

    Cataldo said he rushed and told his wife what happened.

    "I was almost hyperventilating. I wasn't shook up, but I was excited I saw this thing," he said.

    The next morning, Cataldo contacted his executive officer on the submarine and made a report.

    The following Monday, he contacted Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi and left his telephone number, he said.

    "My executive officer and crew members thought we were just lunatics, just whacked out," he said.

    "It never came up again. Keesler never called or did anything," he said.

    "It was the strangest thing. It was kind of scary," Cataldo said.

    Cataldo retired from the Navy 19 years ago. He was last in Jackson County in 1974.

    Cataldo said he has never met or talked to Hickson.

    Hickson said neither he nor Parker wanted their story given to the media. Their only objective was to notify the proper authorities, the sheriff's department.

    "I've had a few people who said they didn't believe it, but I've never had any ridicule and my family never had. That's one reason when this thing first happened to Calvin and I didn't want to talk about it because I didn't want to be called crazy. But it seemed to me we had to tell the proper authorities," said Hickson, 70, who lives in Gautier.

    The rest is history.

    Hickson said he knows other people saw the space craft but wouldn't come forward.

    "They would have sure helped us if they would have said something," he said.

    Hickson penned a book about the encounter, was interviewed numerous times by the scientific community and made the circuit at seminars on extraterrestrial. In 28 years, he never deviated from his claim of the occurrence behind the old Shaupeter Shipyard building on the Pascagoula River - even under hypnosis.

    Parker, who was 19 then, had trouble dealing with what happened. He is now living in Louisiana.

    "He's not the same man as before. It just ruined him," Hickson said.

    Hickson described the three creatures that floated out to them as pale, ghostlike and about 5-feet high. They had crab-like claws or pinchers and rounded feet. He said they appeared to glide rather than walk.

    Hickson said he was taken aboard the oval-shaped, well-lit space craft and examined with some type of "eye."

    "Some kind of way they examined me. I've had a feeling ever since it happened that they know where I'm at all times and what I'm doing," he said.

    "These things are robots. I didn't see any eyes. They had no indication of breathing. They didn't have a mouth. It was a straight slit. It seems they had something to do and they just actually done it. Took us back out there, put us down and they left," he said.

    Hickson said he does not know how long they were with the aliens but he would like another encounter with them.

    "When it first happened, I wouldn't go in the night by myself. I would have nightmares. My wife really helped me get through this thing," he said. "Now the fear is all gone. I want to meet them again and see if they will take me to their world. I believe if they do, they'd bring me back. Our whole world here is getting into a terrible shape."

    Glenn Ryder, sheriff's department shift captain that night the call came in from Hickson, said it was a busy night, around 11 p.m. when Hickson called from a pay phone and was insistent on talking to then-Sheriff Fred Diamond, who happened to be in bed.

    Ryder said Hickson then asked for the second person in charge. That happened to be Ryder. Hickson told Ryder he had something to tell but feared Ryder would laugh.

    Ryder told him to go ahead and when Hickson finished, he did laugh.

    "I told him to wait there and I would come and talk to him. He said he was going back to his house and gave me the address so I could come there," Ryder said.

    "Calvin Parker was just hysterical. He was having fits. I took them in the patrol car to the sheriff's office," Ryder said.

    Hickson and Parker were questioned extensively apart and then put in a secluded room together where a tape recorder had been planted to catch them in a lie.

    "That boy (Parker) was really shook up. Charles was composed. The boy had just come down here from Jones County had always lived out in the country. He kept telling Charles on the tape not to talk to us. He said if (Charles) told them anything about what happened they would come back and get them," Ryder said.

    "One thing led to another. We went to the site at Shaupeter, where Colley Towing is now. He showed me where it landed and picked him up."

    Ryder said no physical evidence of a landing - burn marks or footprints - were found.

    He said after the story broke calls came in from across the United States, England and Canada.

    "They were pretty well convincing something did happen to them," he said.

    Ryder said there were other calls fielded about sighting of a streak of light that night, but only Parker and Hickson reported being taken aboard the space craft.


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    13-08-2017 om 19:22 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Very Rare Discovery on Sun Orbiting Spacecraft

    Very Rare Discovery on Sun Orbiting Spacecraft

    It appears that the sun orbiting spacecraft are seeing some bombardment of meteor debris.

    Stereo-A Cor2 shows many examples of what appear to be parts of a meteor shower however some images are very perplexing and seems to show Unidentified Flying Objects orbiting the sun.


    Especially two cubes and a massive spacecraft streaking through space, leaving an enormous long comet-like tail behind are very unique.

    13-08-2017 om 19:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The 3 Most Important UFO Videos Ever Released By Governments.

    The 3 Most Important UFO Videos Ever Released By Governments.

    chile-navy-ufo

    Compilation of the three most important UFO videos ever released by governments.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    13-08-2017 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Video of A Strange Object Flying Over Brazil

    Video of A Strange Object Flying Over Brazil

    brazil-ufo

    A strange looking UFO amazed a witness in Poços de Caldas, Brazil when he captured it on video. On August 6, 2017, the witness claims to have observed two bright star-like objects even though it was during broad daylight. The UFOs were reportedly moving across the sky in a constant trajectory in a not fast, not slow manner. They were also moving in the same direction, southeast to northeast. They allegedly maintained constant brightness while flying all the time.

    The witness stated that one of the pair was bigger and brighter than the other one. They passed over the witness maintaining their brightness. The witness ruled out sun reflection as the cause of the light. The small one vanished suddenly, but the bigger UFO kept on moving, according to the witness.

    The witness decided to take a photo of a plane passing with maximum close up from his camera. Some pictures were darkened as he changed ISO. He also managed to take a short video.
    The footage was very short, and it was difficult to determine the UFO’s identity, but it has a very odd shape. The witness also ruled out debris floating in the sky as the two objects were very high in the sky.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    13-08-2017 om 00:18 geschreven door peter  

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    12-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Majestic 12 • Conspiracy Of Silence • World Biggest Cover Up

    Majestic 12 • Conspiracy Of Silence • World Biggest Cover Up

    Majestic 12 | One of the topics that obsess American ufologists but also divides them into groups is the existence or non-existence of an official, mysterious and ultra-secret group called Majestic 12 or MJ-12, the only one to have access to all the secrets of alien presence on Earth.

    The partisans of the conspiracy scenarios are certain that since 1947, we have evidence of the existence of aliens. The Roswell Air Base would be known all over the world after witnessing the crash of an unidentified flying object with a strange crew aboard.

    The euphoria of the audience was quickly reassured by the authorities who denied everything after three days, trying to prove that it was a meteorological bubble that upheld the public’s imagination, fascinated by Orson Wells’ radio show: War of the Worlds.

    Majestic 12 (or MJ-12)

    Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) is a special and secret commission in the US government, created in 1947 by US President Harry Truman, to investigate the activity of UFOs (read more on Wikipedia).

    MJ-12 was a group that worked to determine how to deal with alien activities in case of contact or other UFO activities in the United States.

    Majestic 12

    One of their tasks was scientific development, but the main purpose was to follow all the information that appeared on UFOs and to analyze these data both from a scientific point of view and in order to improve American technology. The MJ-12 would include US President and Vice-President, CIA Director, NSA Director, and others. The MJ-12 headquarters are at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.

    MJ-12 is only responsible to the President of the United States. In fact, sometimes, the MJ-12 can even go over the president. It seems that MJ-12 was the one who ordered the assassination of US President Kennedy, for he would have threatened to disclose to the public facts about the presence of aliens on Earth.

    President Harry Truman organized this MJ-12 group and was classified as Ultra Top Secret and began his research in the Watertown area of Nevada, better known as Area 51

    Majestic 12

    According to a former US government consultant, former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower had three separate meetings with aliens.

    Between 1953 and 1954, President Eisenhower extended MJ-12 activities to the Grudge Project under the auspices of MAJI (Majority Agency for Joint Intelligence). Parallel policy theorists believe that all MJ-12 activities have led the US administration to negotiate with an alien civilization. The main suspicion is aimed at a dangerous exchange: biological extraterrestrial experiments on humans and animals in exchange for providing ultra-advanced technology.

    It is believed that through the Garnet Project, the MJ-12 has the mission of censoring, any credible information about extraterrestrials and deleting all traces of third-degree contacts. To silence those who would like to break this terrible censorship, MJ-12 would have set up the Delta Project Of which are the famous Men in Black!

    The theory of alleged secret collaboration between the US government and the aliens was supported, especially in the 1980s, by Milton William (Bill) Cooper, a non-commissioned officer in the Air Force.

    Majestic 12

    Cooper states that during 1970-1973 while working for the Pacific military fleet headquarters, he had access to two materials: Report No. 13 of the Grudge / Blue Book project and a summary of the Majority operation – which would have been linked By an ultra-secret official MJ-12.
    “Report 13” would have found data on UFO collapses, recovered corpses, live aliens, photographs, kidnappings, UFO analyzes, etc.

    According to Cooper’s statements, there are extraterrestrial races with which the Americans are in contact. His statements join the quoted sources of “doubtful credibility,” who have argued over time that structures in the CIA and US special departments Army have a longstanding relationship with three species of alien beings that, from all nations of the world, would have chosen to come into contact only with the Americans:

    1. “Reptilians” (named because of their skin)
    2. “Conformers” (living “silicon-based” beings)
    3. “Little Gray” (also known as Ebeni, who originated from the solar system Zeta Reticuli.

    For a better understanding of Alien Races, you can read Book of Alien Race

    Bill English, an officer in the Green Berets, also states that he saw Report 13, a 624-page material, apparently made in 1953 and “up-to-date” in 1969. Cooper and English claim that in 1964 at the Holloman Base, an agreement was reached that extraterrestrials had promised technology in exchange for permission to “kidnap” people for experiments.

    Majestic 12

    Under the same agreement, the US government was to build a number of underground bases in which aliens would be hosted along with their ships, and where technology exchanges would take place. The general public should not have been told anything about it.

    Cooper states that in 1972, aliens were already in five US Underground bases: New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Dulce (New Mexico). For the same purpose, the government would have made dozens of underground cities located deep underground.

    The first revealing documents on Majestic 12 date back to 1980 when Stanton T. Friedman, Bill More, and ufologist Jaime Shandera designed a UFO movie. The film was not made, but on December 11, 1984, Shandera received a 35mm white / black film roll, un-developed, by mail from an unknown sender in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    Majestic 12

    Dulce Base in New Mexico

    After the development, it was seen that the film contained photocopies of an eight-page document classified as “Top Secret / Majic”. The document was made on 18 November 1952 by Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (former Director of the CIA) and was intended for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the new US President-elect.

    In March 1985, Jaime Shandera and Bill Moore took possession of another document, sent to General Twining on July 14, 1954, by Robert Cutler, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, referring to the MJ-12 Special Study Project. Subsequently, many other writings and papers will appear in which the Majestic-12 group bears the names Majic-12, MJ-12, Majority-12, Majesty-12, etc.

    Copies of the papers were also sent to other well-known ufologists, including Jenny Randles, Whitley Strieber, and Timothy Good. This, a renowned British UFO investigator, introduced the papers in his book Above Top Secret(1988).

    The 12 members

    1.  Dr.Vannevar Bush

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    Dr.Vannevar Bush

    Dr.Vannevar Bush: considered the leader of the group, former director of the Joint Research and Development Board after World War II; Previously he held leading positions at the National Research Council and the Office of Scientific Research and Development (where Manhattan Project research was conducted at Alamogordo, New Mexico)

    2.  Roscoe Hillenkoetter

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    Roscoe Hillenkoetter

    Roscoe Hillenkoetter (vice-admiral): First Director of the CIA; After his resignation, became a member of the NICAP (National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena)

    3.  Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk

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    Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk

    Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk: Scientist, former president of the National Research Council, adviser to the Atomic Energy Commission; Was the head of the alien autopsy team that was found near the UFO

    4.  James Forrestal

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    James V. Forrestal at his desk, 1947

    James Forrestal:  Secretary of the U.S.Navy, secretary of the Ministry of Defense

    5. Gordon Gray

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    Gordon Gray (May 30, 1909 – November 26, 1982) was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman (1945–53) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) associated with defense and national security.

    Gordon Gray: Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy; President Truman’s Special Assistant for National Security Issues; National security director of the CIA’s Psychological Strategies Committee

    6.  Dr. Jerome Hunsaker

    Majestic 12

    Jerome C. Hunsaker and the Development of Aviation in America. Was an American airman born in Creston, Iowa, and educated at the Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Dr. Jerome Hunsaker: Chief of Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics

    7.  Dr. Donald Menzel

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    Dr. Donald Menzel: astronomy specialist

    Donald Howard Menzel (April 11, 1901 – December 14, 1976) was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the US. He discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae.

    8.  Gen. Robert Montague

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    Gen. Robert Montague:

    Commander of Sandia Air Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Robert Miller Montague (August 7, 1899 – February 20, 1958) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. He achieved prominence as the deputy commander of Fort Bliss, Texas and commander of the Sandia Missile Base in New Mexico during the start of modern ufology and head of the U.S. Caribbean Command.

    9.  Sidney Souers

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    Sidney Souers:

    former CIA director and executive secretary of the National Security Council (NSA)

    Sidney William Souers (March 30, 1892 – January 14, 1973) was an American admiral and intelligence expert. He held the posts of:
    * Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Group, 1946
    * Executive Secretary, National Security Council, 1947–1950
    * Special Consultant to the President on military and foreign affairs, 1950–1953

    10.  Gen.Nathan Twining

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    Gen.Nathan Twining:

    Commander of Air Material Command Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Base

    Nathan Farragut Twining was a United States Air Force general, born in Monroe, Wisconsin.[1] He was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960. He was the first member of the Air Force to serve as Chairman.

    11. Doctor Lloyd Berkner

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    Lloyd Viel Berkner:

    was an American physicist and engineer. He was one of the inventors of the measuring device that since has become standard at ionospheric stations because it measures the height and electron density of the ionosphere.
    * He was also a member of the President’s Scientific Advisory Committee in 1958 while he was president of Associated Universities Inc.
    * In 1961, Berkner was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

    Doctor Lloyd Berkner: Executive Secretary at the Joint Research and Development Board

    12. Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg

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    Hoyt S. Vandenberg:

    was a U.S. Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and second Director of Central Intelligence.
    *He was appointed the Assistant Chief of Air Staff at the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) headquarters in July 1945. In January 1946, he became director of Intelligence on the War Department general staff where he served until his appointment in June 1946, as Director of Central Intelligence, a position he held until May 1947.

    Hoyt Vandenberg: former CIA director; In 1948 he served as Chief of Staff of the United States Airforce (USAF).

    Currently, all of these 12 members are deceased.

    Majestic 12

    Majestic 12 / MJ 12 Board Members

    Majestic 12 is an important part of the theory of UFO conspiracy about governments that are holding information on UFOs. The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that the documents associated with the Majestic 12 commission are completely false. In 1996, after the investigation and actually, the verification of the Majestic 12 documents, Stanton T. Friedman said there was no substantive reason to reject their authenticity.

    In July 2013, Ufologist Grant Cameron published his views on the subject. He points out that the idea of such a group appeared in the early 1980s when investigator Bill Moore published the highly successful book, The Roswell Incident, which was thought to have been the precursor to the modern obsession about the Roswell accident.

    Since the launch of Grant Cameron’s book, in January 2013, two more new evidence has emerged that confirms that there was an MJ-12 control group. The first came from a story told by Jesse Marcel Jr., the son of the Roswell Army Air Base intelligence officer, the first to tell the details of the UFO crash in July 1947.

    Majestic 12

    Artist photoshopped presentation of how the Friday, April 24, 1964, at the White Sands Missile Range may have appeared to lucky insiders who witnessed the event; the meeting between both worlds lasted

    Pilot John Lear declared in the 1980s that he had information that the US government “sold the human race to extraterrestrials who would be wrong.” John Lear, son of a famous inventor and aircraft builder, flew over 160 types of planes, participated in several CIA missions, repeatedly knocked down speed records, and was the only pilot in the world to own all types of planes Flight certificates issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.

    He claimed that there are thousands of Aliens in Dulce, the northern state of New Mexico and other bases in the multi-stage underground laboratories. There, too, we would live according to Lear, a large number of specialists, “foreclosed forever” (according to the pilot).

    According to conspiracy theory followers, in the last 50 years, there have been over 300 confidential meetings between aliens and representatives of the US government.

    References:

    1. The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site
    2. Majestic 12
    3. Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson
    4. The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects: By The Former Head Of Project Blue Book
    5. Project Delta-A Study of Multiple Ufo
    6. Restored Project Blue Book UFO Files: June 1947 & Before
    7. The Secret History of the Reptilians
    8. Book of Alien Race
    9. The Roswell Incident
    10. The Dulce Protocol 

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Globular lightning ∴ Natural physical phenomenon?

    Globular lightning ∴ Natural physical phenomenon?

    Globular lightning | A team of Australian researchers discovered believes that because of the strange fireballs that sometimes occur during electrical storms – globular lightning, of which there are hundreds of testimonies, but who had not so far had found a satisfactory explanation.
    Globular lightning is a rare occurrence; Appear in the form of bright spheres, usually of the size of a grapefruit, and last up to 20 seconds.

    They have been known for hundreds of years and there are numerous testimonies about their occurrence, but their cause remains a mystery. Microwave radiations, oxidized aerosols, nuclear energy, black matter, antimatter, even black holes have been proposed as causes; A recent hypothesis suggests that it is a burning silicon after it has been vaporized by a lightning strike.

    A group of researchers from the CSIRO and the Australian National University published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres a study in which it is developing a new theory.

    They started from the observation that globular flares usually appear near the windows, at the windows of the houses or in the airplane cabins.

    Globular lightning

    Ball lightning has been reported to appear during thunderstorms as a glow for centuries. Pictured is a 1901 depiction of ball lightning

    After hitting the ground, the lightning strikes back a stream of electrically charged particles (ions). In most cases, these positive or negative ions are recombined immediately. The particles remaining in the ion state descend to the ground.

    Australian researchers believe that such ions can accumulate on the outside of non-conductive surfaces, such as windows. These accumulated ions can produce an electric field that can pass through the glass. The electric field gives the electrons on the inside of the glass enough energy to displace electrons from the surrounding air molecules while releasing the photons that create the light sphere.

    This is, say the authors, the first study that provides a mathematical solution that explains the appearance of a globular lightning.

    The next step will be to use this theory to reproduce a globular lightning in the laboratory. Could be difficult, I think researchers because it would require equipment capable of producing 100 million volts. But the testimony of an American pilot who witnessed the emergence of a globular lightning from the aircraft’s radar equipment in the airplane cabin suggests that even existing equipment on the market can produce enough voltage to generate lightning globular.

    In the Bible, lightning and thunder are considered a message by which God manifests mania. For the Etruscans, the lightning was an oracle predicting their future, and the old Germans saw in this phenomenon a sign of the god Thor throwing his hammer on Earth. Scientifically speaking, in 1752, Benjamin Franklin demonstrated for the first time that lightning is the result of the tension between the clouds and Earth, and this is a very important starting point for lightning research.

    Globular lightning, Black light or “invisible lightning”

    Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology describe the “black lightning,” as a colleague (Joseph Dwyer) called it an unusual phenomenon: powerful radiation pulses that are invisible. Scientists specializing in studying lightning have discovered that during storms, besides lightning, X-rays and even gamma rays are released into the atmosphere, a form of associated radiation, usually with cosmic events and nuclear explosions.

    Globular lightning

    Scientists have observed ball lightning for the first time in nature. Pictured is the spectrum of a cloud-to-ground lightning strike and of the ball lightning, it generated. The ball lightning is the white dot at the far left, and its spectrum is the slightly brighter band of colors at the foot of the irregularly shaped main lighting spectrum

    Unlike ordinary lightning, says Dwyer, people can be hit by black lightning without feeling. He also warns that it is possible in a second for people to be hit by a dose of ionizing radiation equal to the dose accumulated throughout their lives. The black light was discovered in an unexpected way. Wishing to find out what causes the usual lightning (not yet fully known), scientists have begun to measure the storm radiation. To their surprise, they noticed X-rays and gamma rays.

    Globular lightning

    The phenomenon of ball lightning has generally been described as being a luminous sphere that appears during or after a thunderstorm. Some theories suggest ball lightning, pictured, is a plasma, others that it is the result of a chemiluminescent process – light that occurs due to a chemical reaction

    Another researcher, J.Eric Grove at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, suggests that storms could produce far more powerful gamma-ray flash than Dwyer’s theory confirms, but as shown by additional data obtained with a sensor on the Space Telescope Fermi, will provide more information. “We need more experiments to truly understand this phenomenon,” said the same scientist. Until then, the black and globular lightning continues to remain a mystery.

    References:

    1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.TR-3B Black Triangle ∇ Code Name: ASTRA | Magnetic Field Disruptor Plane

    TR-3B Black Triangle ∇ Code Name: ASTRA | Magnetic Field Disruptor Plane

    TR-3B Black Triangle ∇ In recent years, countless people have reported seeing flying objects of strange shapes (including triangular) and spectacular trajectories. Without ever challenging the existence of UFOs of alien origin, we must make it clear that some of such aircraft are in fact owned and used in the greatest secrecy by the US government.

    Only with the tremendous courage of some people who worked in different military bases, the truth about these aircraft’s was able to come to light, which is likely to hurry their future use in civil society for the benefit of all mankind.

    This is not just about the use of the aircraft itself but primarily about the technology behind its propulsion system – a technology that is also called “black technology” and which, as Steven Greer mentions in his Hidden Truth, Prohibited information is about 10,000 years more advanced than space-based space technology currently used globally.

    TR-3B

    The TR-3B vehicle’s outer coating is reactive to electrical stimulation and can change color, reflectiveness, and radar absorptiveness.

    In this regard, it is very interesting, the account of an American specialist who worked on a secret military base near Groom Lake City, about an unimaginable aviation technology for the general public, which the Americans already have. Since this report, originally published online at http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/tr-3b/, is no longer accessible at that address, we offer it below:

    “A friend told me at some point he would never forget the image of the TR-3B aircraft in the Papoose Base, which looks exactly like an alien ship. Black as triangular pitch, TR-3B was rarely mentioned (and only whispering) in Groom Lake, where he worked. At one point, the aircraft flew over the Groom Lake track in complete silence, and as if by surprise, it suddenly stopped above the S-4. Floated silently in the same position for about 10 minutes, after which he left softly on the asphalt of the track. Sometimes a bright blue-silver crown surrounds the massive circumference of the TR-3B. The operational model is approximately 183 meters in diameter.

    TR-3B

    The Ultra Top Secret TR-3B/ AURORA

    The TR-3B aircraft also has the ASTRA code name. The first operational reconnaissance flight took place in the early 1990s. The triangular nuclear platform of the aircraft was built in the highest secret of the AURORA Program, funded with money from the “black budget” (at least $ 3 billion invested in this project).
    “Aurora” is now the most secretive US aerospace program and TR-3B is the most “exotic” vehicle that was created under the Aurora Program, funded and coordinated by the NSA (National Security Agency), the NRO National Recognition) and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).

    The functionality of TR-3B is not a fiction, it was built with technology already available in the mid-1980s. So, not every UFO spotted is necessary of alien origin.

    The material covered by the TR-3B aircraft is a radar-reactive polymer, which can change its reflectivity, radar absorption, and color. This polymer, when used in conjunction with some internal TR-3B electronic systems, can give the vehicle such a look that it looks like a small ship or a flying cylinder on the radar screen.

    TR-3B

    TR3B Astra is at the same time a strategic vehicle of recognition and a combat vehicle.

    A circular ring, filled with acceleration plasma, called the Magnetic Field Disruptor (MFD), surrounds the crew’s rotating compartment and outperforms any currently known technology. The Sandia and Livermore laboratories have developed this secret technology, and the [American] government will do everything to protect it.

    The plasma generated by bringing mercury to 250,000 atmospheres and at a temperature of -123 degrees Celsius, if accelerated to 50,000 rpm, becomes a superconducting plasma, the ultimate result of this process being the cancellation of gravity (levitation). More specifically, by generating this rotating magnetic field, the effect of gravitational attraction on the ship is neutralized to 89%.

    In other words, the weight of the circular accelerator, as well as all the weight of the accelerator – crew cap, avionics (navigation and operation devices and appliances), fuels, crew environment systems and a nuclear reactor, etc. – are reduced by 89%. This makes the vehicle extremely easy and has the ability to far exceed the performance and maneuverability of any aircraft built so far (except, of course, UFOs).

    The TR-3B aircraft evolve at high altitudes in an undetectable way (using STEALTH technology), thus providing an undetermined flight time recognition platform. Once it reaches (at a high speed) at that altitude, it needs only very little propulsion to maintain its altitude. In addition, I remember that at the Groom Lake secret base there were rumors about a new element that would act as a plasma catalyst.

    TR-3B

    Secret Triangle Aircraft

    Having the weight reduced by 89%, the vehicle can travel at a speed of 9 Mach [9 times the sound speed: approx. 10,000 km / h], both vertically and horizontally. Sources say that performance is limited only by the biological limitations of pilots – which are many, given that the gravitational force is reduced by 89%.

    The propulsion of the TR-3B is provided by three multimodal propellers mounted in each corner at the bottom of the triangular platform (see Fig. …). TR-3B moves at a speed of up to 9 Mach (Mach is a unit of measurement used in aerodynamics to express the speed of a body moving in a fluid: projectile, airplane, rocket, etc.

    The Mach 1 speed is equal to the sound velocity in that fluid; Under standard conditions, Mach 1 is equal to 1224 km / h (or 340 m / s) until it rises to 120,000 meters (120 Km), then God knows how fast it can move. The three multi mode rocket engines that are mounted on each corner of the platform use hydrogen or methane and oxygen for propulsion.

    In a rocket system that uses hydrogen and liquid oxygen, 85% of the propulsion provides oxygen. The rocket nuclear engine uses a liquid hydrogen and oxygen boost for additional power.

    TR-3B

    TR3-Black Manta | Flying Black Triangle

    The reactor heats liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen through supersonic nozzles so that hydrogen combusts at the same time with liquid oxygen. The multimodal propulsion system can operate in the atmosphere with the propulsion offered by the nuclear reactor in the upper atmosphere with hydrogen propulsion and in the combined orbit (hydrogen/oxygen) circumferential orbit.

    What you need to keep in mind is that the three rocket engines actually propel only 11% of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B aircraft. Engines are built by Rockwell. Therefore, when triangular UFOs are recorded, it does not necessarily mean they are of extraterrestrial origin, and may also be ultra-sensitive flight apparatus, such as the TR-3B.

    TR-3B

    The TR-3B Craft

    The National Security Agency (NSA), the National Recognition Office (NRO), the CIA and the United States Air Force (USAF) intentionally created a certain ambiguity about the names of these aircraft: they created the TR-3, which was modified in TR-3A, TR3-B, plus 2, 3, or 4 suffixes that actually mean completely different aircraft. Thus, the TR3-B model is just as different from TR3-A as banana grapes. Some of these are designed to have a human crew, others are designed to operate unmanned. ”

    Independent journalists who courageously reveal all this secret information hope that their emergence on more and more media channels will greatly help to “wake up” people in the face of these occult realities and thus lead them to their use for the good of the whole mankind.

    On the other hand, disclosure in the press of this information will prevent and completely dismantle the various manipulations of an eventual alien invasion or other similar rumors that are being made to escape the “black operations” of the satanic “elite” of so-called “enlightened”. ”


    References:

    1. Hidden Truth: Forbidden Knowledge
    2. Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane
    3. The Secret of the Black Manta
    4. The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs
    5. Groom Lake
    6. X-planes: Secret Aircraft and Secret Missions
    7. Black Jets: The Development and Operation of America’s Most Secret Warplane 

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.TOP 10 MOST UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA!!

    TOP 10 MOST UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA!!

    Science is known to be powerful, but it can not explain everything that happens in the world. Proof of this can serve as a rating of the most unexplained mysterious phenomena (according to the IE).

    1. The Taoist rumble

    Some residents and visitors to the small town of Taos (New Mexico) have been irritated for many years and are preoccupied with a mysterious and weak low sound of unknown origin.

    It’s strange that only two percent of residents can hear this sound.

    Taoist rumble
    unexplained

    Some believe that its cause is unusual acoustics. Others suspect mass hysteria or some secret, perhaps malicious intent.

    No matter how qualified the cause of sound – psychological, natural phenomenon, mystical – no one can give a scientific explanation of its origin.unexplained


    2. The Snowman

    For several decades people have been telling that in different parts of America they saw a strange humanoid being, huge and hairy.

    big Foot
    unexplained

    There are more than one thousand eyewitnesses, but no real footprints of the snowman have been found so far: no one has shot him from a gun, no one has moved by car. Finally, not a single snowman died a natural death. In any case, no teeth or bones were found.

    Apparently, for this reason, all knowledge about the snowman is based only on eyewitness accounts, on questionable photographs and films that were taken about this phenomenon.

    For this reason, science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of such beings as the snowman and the Loch Ness monster.

    Perhaps they are very well hidden from our eyes.unexplained

    3. Intuition

    No matter how we call this feeling “sixth” or some other way, we must admit that we experience it from time to time.

    intuition

    Of course, an intuitive feeling often leads us, but not always.

    In what affairs? Psychologists say that people unconsciously collect information about what is happening around, which leads to unconscious possession of this information, and the person himself does not fully understand how this knowledge has appeared.unexplained

    Cases of intuition are difficult to explain, prove or disprove, they are even more difficult to study, so it remains to hope for psychology.

    4. Mysterious disappearances of people

    People disappear often, everywhere and for a variety of reasons. Some escape from the house themselves, others become victims of accidents, murders or abductions.

    But most of the missing (or disappearing) still find.

    The only exception is those who disappear in the most mysterious way.unexplained

    Here is just one example – the mysterious disappearance of the crew of the vessel Maria Celesta (Maria Celeste) in 1872, 400 miles from Gibraltar.

    Maria Celesta (Maria Celeste)

    The fate of all members of the crew and passengers is unknown. Various versions were put forward: the attack of pirates, the impact of the Bermuda Triangle, the intervention of aliens from outer space.

    Detect the missing person usually helps the police, sometimes, in extreme cases, violated the secret confession. But in the event that there are no traces, and there are no eyewitnesses, the police and forensic medicine are powerless.unexplained

    5. Ghosts and ghosts

    The theme of ghosts and ghosts has long and firmly entered not only in literature and folklore, but also has become an indispensable attribute of modern culture.

    Screens captured movies About ghosts , all kinds of shows on television enjoy constant success around the world.unexplained

    Ghosts and ghosts

    Many people testify that they have seen not only Strange figures , but also met with deceased relatives.

    And although there are still no clear evidences of ghosts existence, eyewitnesses sincerely not only continue to talk about their contacts with ghosts, but also show the world their photos .

    And researchers of this phenomenon do not lose hope that one day (or night) they will be able to prove that the dead can communicate with the living, and the riddle will finally receive its explanation.unexplained

    6. Deja Vu

    Dejavu translated from French means – already seen.

    This is a mental state in which a person feels that he once was already in a similar situation or in some place.

    Deja_vu

    The causes of Deja Vu are not exactly established, this phenomenon continues to be studied by scientists around the world, there are many different hypotheses, but so far the causes and nature of the phenomenon itself remain a mystery.unexplained

    7. UFOs

    Many people in different countries have seen and continue to see UFOs(unidentified flying objects), which in itself can already be proof of their existence.

    The question is whether the UFOs are spaceships of mysterious aliens who periodically visit our Earth, i. E. Whether the UFO is of alien origin.

    UFO

    This version raises a lot of questions, disputes, doubts, especially since only a small part of scientists are supporters of the alien origin of UFOs.

    Most scientists believe that the phenomenon of UFOs is an abnormal natural phenomenon.unexplained

    That’s how to qualify the opinion of some astronauts and military men who, after leaving the service, become members of the UFO’s extraterrestrial origin?

    8. Clinical death and life after death

    Another mystery, an unexplained phenomenon of our life is clinical death and life after death.

    We all know, hear, read, see in the movies the testimonies of people who have been in the stage of clinical death.

    Life-after-death

    As a rule, they describe their condition fairly uniformly: a long tunnel, an intolerably bright light at the end of the tunnel, a sense of peace, appeasement, a desire to reunite with the departed relatives and friends.

    All this makes us think about the existence of the afterlife, but does not prove its existence.unexplained

    Scientists have long given a scientific explanation of the state of clinical death – it is a transition period between life and death, which lasts no more than 3-4 minutes, a maximum of 5-6 minutes. 3-5 minutes is exactly the time during which the higher parts of the brain retain their viability.

    All visions during a clinical death are natural and predictable hallucinations that occur in the affected brain.

    At present, there are hundreds of people who survived a clinical death, but there is not a single eyewitness who would have visited the afterlife, and then returned back.

    9. Psychic abilities of a person and extrasensory abilities

    Psychic capabilities of man and extrasensory abilities are among the ten phenomena that modern science can not explain.

    Some scholars believe that intuition is one of the forms of a person’s mental capabilities, a way of comprehending the mystical secrets of the future.

    psychic abilities

    The results of studies involving people who claimed to have special mental abilities were mostly negative (and only in rare cases can we speak of ambiguous results).

    Some participants in the experiment argued that a person’s mental capabilities can not be tested because they are weakened in the presence of skeptics or scientists.unexplained

    As for extrasensory abilities, the scientists also tried to study people who claimed to have extrasensory abilities. The results also do not stand up to any criticism.

    If this is so, then science will never be able to prove or deny the existence of special psychic abilities and extrasensory abilities.unexplained

    10. The connection of mind and body

    As early as the mid-1970s, scientists began to study the relationship between mind and body, trying to identify and explain ways to influence the mind of a person on his body.

    The relationship of mind and body

    It was at that time that endorphins were discovered – “good” hormones, which were supposed to block chronic pain and relieve certain types of depression.unexplained

    A few years later, American scientists tried to find out whether human thoughts can influence the level of endorphins in his body, ie. Whether they are able to help patients with an “incurable” disease.

    Patients were assigned a placebo. About 30% of patients said that they felt better.

    What was the reason for improving well-being? Of course, not a placebo, but an increase in the level of endorphins as a result of the thoughts of patients who believed in the effectiveness of the new “medicine”.unexplained

    This ability of the body to self-heal is also another unexplained phenomenon of our life.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.VIDEO: INFILTRATED EXTRATERRESTRIALS WORKING FOR THE US GOVERNMENT AND NASA?

    VIDEO: INFILTRATED EXTRATERRESTRIALS WORKING FOR THE US GOVERNMENT AND NASA?

    Increasing numbers of senior state or former military officers confess part of this huge conspiracy. Different nations of the World have been negotiating with other extraterrestrial races for decades. In this videoprogram, writer and researcher David Parcerisa analyzes the secrets guarded by bases like Area-51 and Dulce’s in New Mexico.(US Government And NASA)

    Many related people believe that UFOs and extraterrestrials obtained from various accidents occurred are being stored in highly secretive government facilities, such as Area 51 and the Dulce underground facility.(US Government And NASA)

    In addition, they also believe that, aside from recovering bodies of severely burned extraterrestrials at the site of the Roswell crash in 1947, military authorities also stocked the surviving aliens who were inside the crashed UFO. The surviving aliens were taken to Area 51, where they were forced to help government scientists and engineers reverse engineer propulsion technology.(US Government And NASA)

    (US Government And NASA)

    The evidence provided by several whistleblowers is cited by conspiracy theorists and theorists as evidence of the reverse engineering work being done on extraterrestrial propulsion technology.(US Government And NASA)

    Several cases of extraterrestrial abduction involve encounters with grays and reptilians that use humans to perform sinister biogenetic investigations as part of efforts to build human-alien hybrids, claim UFO claimants.

    In addition, there are rumors that the terms of the agreement that the Grays and Reptilians have with the US government. Was not respected, and would have abducted more humans than they were allowed to carry out their biogenetic research program. What do you think? Leave us your comment!(US Government And NASA)

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Filer’s Files #32 – 2017 Defense of Earth - PART I
    Cylinder captured in North Manchester, Indiana on July 30. 2017.
    Cylinder captured in North Manchester, Indiana on July 30. 2017.

    Filer’s Files #32 – 2017 Defense of Earth - PART I

    In special reports, this week’s files cover: NASA ‘Planetary Defense’ Against a Real Threat, Mexican Pyramids and Lazar’s UFO, Is NASA Going to Fire a Bullet at the Space Ships Orbiting Earth? Air Force’s Space Based Surveillance Satellite, Alien Mining Probe, Ancient Pyramids in Antarctica, and ISS spots Object

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon Tennessee, Washington and Virginia.

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom. NASA Is Going to Fire a Bullet at an Asteroid in an Attempt to Save the Earth.

    The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

    George A. Filer III

    New Jersey State Director

    MUFON Eastern Region Director

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    Special Projects

    NASA ‘Planetary Defense’ Against a Real Threat

    The event will be good way of assessing ‘our capability to work together in response to finding a potential real asteroid threat’, the space agency said. Some 250 million asteroids are circling the Solar System. It appears periodically a major asteroid hits Earth causing great upheaval and possibly the death of dinosaurs.

    Asteroid 2011, UW-158 will pass 1.5 million miles away from Earth in October. NASA will try out its response to a deadly asteroid when the small rock flies past. The space agency is excited for the asteroid because it will give it the chance to try out its defense system that could be the most important systems in the world, should one ever fly towards the Earth. As ever, NASA will use the opportunity to study the asteroid from relatively close-up, taking a look at it and finding data. But at the same time they will also put those systems to the test, seeing how effectively the world can work together to keep the planet safe in the event of a deadly asteroid.

    Another asteroid NASA named 2012 TC4 could hit the Earth in October and various agencies have been working hard to co-ordinate their potential response. It relies on organizations around the world and hasn’t been properly tested, and so the asteroid offers a useful opportunity. The upcoming rock will fly past in October, is named 2012 TC4 and could be as small as 10 meters wide. Scientists don’t know exactly how close it will pass by, but the Earth is safe – the nearest it is likely to get is 4,200 miles.’

    Although movies about planetary disasters often seem far-fetched, impacts between extraterrestrial bodies and Earth are not. In fact, an estimated 100 to 200 tons (91 to 181 metric tons) of extraterrestrial material bombards Earth’s surface every day. Much of this material ranges in size from dust to pebbles and lands unnoticed.

    During the planet’s history, though, thousands of impacts have produced craters, some of which have measured 100 miles (160 kilometers) or more in diameter. There are presently more than 160 known meteorite craters on the surface of Earth. Many more struck the oceans causing giant waves.

    Read more: 

    http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/Faults-to-Mountains/Meteorite-Crater.html#ixzz4okbZT1FW

    The 7th largest crater in the world is the Popigai crater, located in Siberia, Russia,

    Diameter reaches 100 km (60 miles) with a lifespan of about 35 million years. This crater has been included in the list of UNESCO Geopark as a World Heritage Geology.

    Although not the biggest, but the crater is among the most resistant of erosion. This area is also famous for the largest diamond mine in the world. The average crater is usually 20 times larger the meteorite that strikes it.  The definitions for the key words are:

    Meteor: A glowing fragment of extraterrestrial material passing through Earth’s atmosphere.

    Meteorite: A fragment of extraterrestrial material that strikes the surface of Earth.

    Meteoroid: A small solid body floating in space.

    Asteroid: A small, irregularly shaped rocky body that orbits the Sun.

    Read more: 

    http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/Faults-to-Mountains/Meteorite-Crater.html#ixzz4okjNV8Bg

    NASA Is Going to Fire a Bullet at an Asteroid in an Attempt to Save the Earth.

    The agency has laid out the plans for its DART mission – where it will send a space capsule the size of a fridge towards an asteroid to shoot it off course. For now, the mission is just a test, but in the future it could be used to save Earth from what scientists say is an under appreciated threat from asteroids.

    The mission has now been approved by NASA and will move into the preliminary design phase, getting ready for testing in a few years. NASA is going to fire a bullet at an asteroid in an attempt to save the Earth.

    The agency has laid out the plans for its DART mission – where it will send a space capsule the size of a fridge towards an asteroid to shoot it off course. The target of the test is an asteroid system called Didymos, the release said. Didymos — Greek for “twin” — is a binary asteroid system, made up of one asteroid, Didymos A, and a smaller one, Didymos B, which orbits the larger asteroid. For now, the mission is just a test, but in the future it could be used to save Earth from what scientists say is an underappreciated threat from asteroids.

    The mission has now been approved by NASA and will move into the preliminary design phase, getting ready for testing in a few years. Small asteroids fly to earth almost every day, but they are so little that they burn up in the atmosphere. NASA spends its time looking for larger ones that could cause damage and estimating when they might do so – it thinks that it has found 93 per cent of asteroids of this size.

    NASA set up an office called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) in an attempt to keep Earth safe last year, amid increasing worries that the planet was under threat from asteroids. Depends on how many fragments you blast it into and whether each of those impacts would be better than one big one.

    The lack of certainty about where exactly the rock will go means that it’s an even better candidate for trying out how Earth will respond to a dangerous asteroid. They’ll track it down as it approaches and try and work out exactly where it will fall. “This is the perfect target for such an exercise because while we know the orbit of 2012 TC4 well enough to be absolutely certain it will not impact Earth, we haven’t established its exact path just yet,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. “It will be incumbent upon the observatories to get a fix on the asteroid as it approaches, and work together to obtain follow-up observations than make more refined asteroid orbit determinations possible.”

    It’s possible, that at some point in the future a more dangerous asteroid could get closer to us. And scientists want to be prepared for when that will happen.

    “This time we are adding in another layer of effort, using this asteroid flyby to test the worldwide asteroid detection and tracking network, assessing our capability to work together in response to finding a potential real asteroid threat.” NASA to launch probe to investigate ‘Armageddon’ asteroid, that working together takes in places across the Earth, and so it’s important to see how well they can track the asteroid and communicate it as it passes.

    “This is a team effort that involves more than a dozen observatories, universities and labs across the globe so we can collectively learn the strengths and limitations of our near-Earth object observation capabilities,” said Vishnu Reddy, who leads the campaign to track

    the rock from the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson (shown). “This effort will exercise the entire system, to include the initial and follow-up observations, precise orbit determination, and international communications.

    Is NASA Going to Fire a Bullet at the Space Ships Orbiting Earth?

     John Lenard Walson an amateur astronomer has photos of a series of UFO Fleet Starships filmed on his telescope.  We can assume our satellites are also picking up similar space ships orbiting Earth.

    From: Henry Kline (Henry.Kline@jpl.NASA.gov) Your help is greatly appreciated. John needs to go to an area with less light and cleaner atmosphere. You can help obtain even better images by helping him purchase a van to travel to better locations. Gofundme link here. 

    https://www.gofundme.com/2n6cp7w or pay pal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick andhosted_button_id=4LWK2NTG9THNL

    Mexican Pyramids and UFOs

    Historical legends claim visitors from the stars designed the pyramids, that were used as UFO bases and electrical and gravitation power plants.

     The pyramids of the Moon and Sun in Mexico were not just burial chambers, but appear to be parking places for flying craft. Why, because if these craft were anti-magnetic or electromagnetic waves than they couldn’t ‘ park ‘ on the ground for fear of ‘ shorting out ‘ when they came in contact with the Earth’s surface. It has even been said that there were ‘ posts ‘ seen of the runways at Groom Lake where anti-magnetic craft were said to ‘ dock ‘ while not in flight.

    Lightning is a capricious, random and unpredictable event that normally strikes the highest object in and area. Its’ physical characteristics include current levels sometimes in excess of 400 kA, temperatures to 50,000 degrees F., and speeds approaching one third the speed of light. Globally, some 2000 on-going thunderstorms cause about 100 lightning strikes to earth each second. There is evidence that the phenomenology of lightning strikes to earth, as presently understood, follows an approximate behavior UFOs use this tremendous energy. They are frequently seen above thunderstorms absorbing the electrical energy

    The downward Leaders from a thundercloud pulse towards earth seeking out active electrical ground targets.

    Ground-based objects such as pyramids trees, buildings, lightning rods, etc. emit varying degrees of electric activity known as positive upward Streamers are launched from some of these objects. A few tens of meters off the ground, a “collection zone” is established as a negatively charged lightning leader strike is released from a thundercloud. Some Leader(s) likely will connect with some Streamer(s). Then, the “switch” is closed and the current flows.

    Lightning effects can be capacitive, inductive and magnetic behavior. Since the base of a thunderstorm is usually negatively charged, this is where most CG lightning originates.  The upper area of the storm cloud is positively charged. An illustration of how lightning occurs when the negatively charged electrons from the cloud (the lower part) leaps when the positively charged electrons from the ground attracts it. The pyramids are normally the highest point in the area and attract the lightning. It is likely the various pyramids were designed to obtain electrical power for the UFOs that are now frequently seen above power lines and power stations indicating they are still drawing off electrical power.

    When too much power is drawn, corona discharges can generate brilliant colored lights, audible and radio-frequency noise that is often reported around UFOs. Corona discharges imply power loss or possibly the indication of propulsion. Frequently their action on atmospheric particulates results in the production of ozone and NOx which is often reported. Power transmission equipment is designed to minimize the formation of corona discharge. “Anti-gravity” is often used colloquially to refer to devices that look as if they reverse gravity even though they operate through other means, such as lifters, which fly in the air by moving air with electromagnetic fields.  We see lightning and the UFOs batteries are charged. Alien spacecraft reduce or nullify pressure in preferred directions through the application of high voltage fields that pulsate and resonate. They may use additional ion/electric thrust to reach great speeds through a cone or area of reduced/nullified pressure, but the pressure of the ZPE on one side may be sufficient to accelerate the craft to high velocities.  They may use additional technology to effect “jumps” from one area of space to another, but this part is uncertain.

    Mica was found in and around the areas of the pyramid of the Sun and Moon in Mexico. Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures. It has superior electrical properties as an insulator and as a dielectric, and can support an electrostatic field while dissipating minimal energy in the form of heat and is resistant to corona discharge.

    In many high voltage applications corona is an unwanted side effect. Corona discharge from high voltage electric power transmission lines constitutes an economically significant waste of energy for utilities. UFOs often appear to produce a corona like discharge in the form of lights. In air, coronas generate gases such as ozone (O3) that is frequently reported to be smelled when observing UFOs nearby.

    Corona discharges can often be suppressed by improved insulation, corona rings, and making high voltage electrodes in smooth rounded shapes. Most UFOs have smooth rounded shapes and their bright colorful lights may indicate corona discharges. Phlogopite mica remains stable at higher temperatures (to 900 °C (1,650 °F)) and is used in applications in which a combination of high-heat stability and electrical properties is required. Corona discharges often have a Purple glow and produce Ozone. There is also possible distress in animals that are sensitive to ultraviolet light. Interestingly corona discharge purifies the air.

    It is claimed the US Air Force also ran a study effort throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s. Former Lieutenant Colonel Ansel Talbert wrote two series of newspaper articles claiming that most of the major aviation firms had started gravity control propulsion research in the 1950s.

    Bob Lazar claims he worked on alien UFOs at Area S4 in Nevada.  He describes the disc as being divided into three different sections. The lower level is the location of the three powerful gravity amplifies and their wave-guides. These components are the main part of the propulsion system that is used to amplify and focus the gravity A waves.

    He states that the Reactor is found above the three gravity amplifiers on the center level. The reactor is centered between all three amplifiers. The reactor is powered by an element that up to today was only found in meteorites, element 115. This element has never been found on earth, but was once found in a meteorite that fell in South Africa. The element 115 is the source of the gravity A wave which is amplified with powerful electric for space-time distortion and travel.

    The center level of the disc has the control panels and small seats for small aliens. The walls were divided into archways. A unique thing happens when the disc becomes energized, one of these archways becomes transparent and you can actually see the area outside the ship. The outer wall of the disc between the archways became a window of sorts. When Lazar was observing a demonstration of the interior of the disc as it was energized, he noticed something incredible, which is only similar to our LED technology of today. A form of writing began to appear on the right side of the clear window, which was unlike any symbols that he had ever seen. The screen with the alien words and the clear window had a thin white bar that had a function much as our scroll up or down key works in our word perfect or web browser programs, allowing us to move it up or down to view more details.

    He was never allowed to view the third level, so Lazar was unable to give any specifics as to what the porthole areas at the top of the disc actually were, but one thing is for sure, they were not portholes (possibly a weapons area, which would explain the window like openings at the top that would allow a particle beam to shoot out or lightning to be captured). All three seats in the craft face the same screen.

    The ship had only a single weapon on it. It was a direct energy weapon. Unlike a laser beam this weapon was probably a particle weapon or neutron weapon. Lazar said that the EMP generator in the system of the craft could possibly cause approaching jets or systems to malfunction. The craft themselves make a slight hiss when taking off and can be heard up to a certain altitude, and it sounds like a high voltage hiss. The element 115 fuel sits on top of the conical shaped fuel housing.

    Element 115 is not only the key to starting and running the many different types of alien craft that but it is also the key to unlocking free energy, freeing vehicles from their dependence on fossil fuels, allowing the planet to heal the ozone naturally. Imagine not just cars and aircraft, but everything everywhere running off this tiny coin size mineral that lasts for decades before it’s used up. Sounds like the future to me.

    Overall I feel that Bob Lazar is telling the truth about himself and the work he has done at area S4. Lazar also said that the three anti gravity generators also created a field around the saucer that made it appear fuzzy or unclear to some degree. He also mentioned that this field around the saucer also may appear illuminated at night due to its high intensity of micro-like waves. This would explain a lot of photographs in the past that have had UFOs that appeared slightly fuzzy. If Lazars statements on the field around the ship are correct, it makes all those past blurred photographs now appear real.

     The “gravity wave generators” radiate some sort of energy beam below the craft through the shell casing. The  shell was constructed not of plain metal but of an “artificial” honeycombed metal (of an artificial metalized dielectric composition), and the electromagnetic waves being used were of small enough wavelength, radio waves of microwave length being particularly suitable. Then just as Lazar has implied the hull of the craft could be used as a lens for focusing the electromagnetic waves

    The bottom of the hull is in three sections of the, each having their own unique curvature. Each of these curved sections are uniquely curved because they have different spacing from the wave generators, resulting in a different “focal length” for the wave propagation.  At different focal lengths, the wave’s shape will be different as it enters the dielectric waveguide lens.  The resultant wave produced by that lens-waveguide, when that wave passes through it, will also be different.

    The above Bob Lazar quotes are taken from Before its News and “Alien Contact” by Timothy Good page 181 -183.

    .Air Force’s Sce Based Surveillance Block 10 Satellitepa

    Nearly two years after its launch into orbit, the Air Force’s Space Based Space Surveillance Block 10 (SBSS) satellite commenced initial operations on August 20, 2012.

    The spacecraft is now available to support US Strategic Command, states Robert Davidson, AFSPC’s Space Superiority Division Chief.

    The SBSS satellite will provide needed capability to the national deep-space space situational awareness in terms of timely revisit of high-interest objects and increased capacity to meet current and future war fighter SSA needs.

    Boeing and Ball Aerospace supplied the satellite that is capable of monitoring objects from its perch in geostationary orbit without the disruption of weather, time of day, or atmosphere that can limit ground-based systems.

    It is an agile sensor, so it can be tasked to look at high-interest objects any time of day, or atmosphere that can limit ground-based systems.” 

    It’s an agile sensor, so it can be tasked to look at high-interest objects in any direction on a more frequent basis,” said Davidson.

    The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) System provides the only space-based sensor in the U.S. Air Force Space Surveillance Network with the ability to detect, spacecraft or other distant space objects or debris (UFOs} without interference from weather, atmosphere or time of day.

    SBSS Mission Overview

    Space Based Surveillance provides timely detection, collection, identification and tracking of man-made space objects from deep space to low-earth orbits.  Operate in conjunction with the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) to support spaceflight safety, ensures space catalogue completeness, warn of on-orbit separations and maneuvers, and provide indications and warnings in space.

    War fighter Objectives are to attain/maintain space order. • Find/fix/track space objects.• Enable threat determination and defensive strategies. • Track resident space objects (RSOs) in deep space and near Earth.• Provide position, maneuver detection, and provide space object ID data.

    Capabilities

    Provide all-weather, day and night, near real-time Space Surveillance data. • Search for lost/unknown space objects in deep space. • Collect metric and space object identification (SOI) data.

    Operational Effect • Support intelligence preparation of the battle space.

    Note:

    The patch shows the satellite looking into space for objects approaching Earth particularly over the poles where alien UFOs often descend through the atmosphere.

    The teeth on the white Arctic wolf with blue eyes imply an aggressive satellite. To see,      to know, to protect is meaning of the Roman words. The stars are the Pleiades or Seven Sisters Star System. The orbit is shown in gold over the poles.

    Thanks to Boeing

    http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/satellite/MissionBook.pdf

    Alien Mining Probe

     Geologist Dr. Bruce Cornet found a buried alien mining probe discovered between Pine Bush and Walden, NY, when he did a 24 square mile magnetic survey of the area in 1992-1995.  Ground Penetrating Radar images were part of it. He located a huge triangle 565 feet on a side, entombed in Ordovician black marine shale (420 million years old). Erosion has now brought it to within 10 feet of the surface. It is still functioning and sending powerful magnetic signals out into space every time the constellation Bootes is overhead. It is situated on a granitic island, and apparently is nuclear powered. Bruce is writing a book with greater detail concerning his findings. It helps answer why there are so many sightings of UFOs in the area.

    The island archipelago where it landed is on the edge of ancient tectonic plates intruded by granites containing abundant rare-earth mineral and elements, as were mined in one of the “islands” at Franklin Mines, New Jersey, on the border with New York.  There are numerous UFOs that I detected in my 24 square mile area, which can only be explained if they were mining probes staking out claims.  The whole area is sometimes alive with signals coming out of the ground.  Who would have guessed? ET has known about Earth for a very long time.

    Ancient Pyramids in Antarctica

    The area, seen on Google Earth from a bird’s-eye view

    Some scientists have theorized that the frozen area of Antarctica was once much warmer with possible temperatures of up to 20C. Addressing the topic of climate in the region, Dr Vanessa Bowman of the British Antarctic Survey once said: “Go back 100 million years ago and Antarctica was covered in lush rainforests similar to those that exist in New Zealand today.” Buzz Aldrin, second man on moon, 86, was evacuated from South Pole after falling ill on trip to Antarctica. Legendary astronaut airlifted from icy wastelands of Antarctica Thanks to the Sun

    Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, has been evacuated from South Pole after falling ill on a trip.

    Dr Aldrin, 86, served as lunar module astronaut for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission in 1969 and stepped off the spacecraft after Neil Armstrong.

    Buzz poses beside the real Apollo 10 command module at the Science Museum, London

    In a statement, White Desert, the tour company, said Aldrin’s “condition deteriorated” while on the tour they were running.

    It said: “A White Desert client, Buzz Aldrin, has been evacuated from South Pole. Mr. Aldrin was visiting the Pole as part of a tourist group and while there his condition deteriorated.

    The US Antarctic Program (USAP) doctor, Mr. Aldrin, accompanied by a member of his team, was evacuated on the first available flight out of the South Pole to McMurdo with the USAP under the care of a USAP doctor.”

    ISS Spots Strange Object

    I was watching tv this morning on August 3, 2017, and noticed they were showing photos from the ISS and I thought I would have a look myself on an app on my iPhone and when I opened live camera image there was two objects and at first I thought camera reflection.

    I decided to take photos in that minute they were seen and then the camera started to play up and a new image appeared without the objects. I sent photos to my sister and now here I am telling you.

    The objects appear quite large. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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    Filer’s Files #32 – 2017 Defense of Earth - PART II

    UFO Sightings in the United States

    Arizona Rods

     Glendale – I was going thru some video camera snap shots from surveillance camera and came across three rod shaped objects floating on September 25, 2016. It was there with bright white arms or wings then it was gone, there are 3 so far I have 34,000 to go thru but all three have different number of arms and about the same length. These are very clear pictures but nothing around for it to have been there. These are possibly a life form taken on different dates and times. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Arkansas Light

    Pine Bluff – On July 31, 2017, I spotted a White Cylinder object heading from the North West to West in a straight-line. There was no noise coming from the object, and the lights did not blink.

    After taking the picture zooming in on the object, the object appears to change shape and looks like a face. You can see a face in the

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    California Object

    Garden Grove — Driving east and stopping at a stop sign I caught a glimmer of something 500 feet away on July 27, 2017. There is an airport in the area but this wasn’t a plane. At first I thought it could be balloons but after stopping someone, they were as stunned as I was. I took several photos all the way back to my house. It changed shape and hovered in one spot. Not a helicopter either. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Connecticut Lights

     Ansonia — Two friends and I were having a get together with a few drinks on December 15th, 2013 and go outside and noticed orbs in the sky. We see two orbs floating and moving. So I took out my phone to record it and a third orb appeared. The lights had white/gold/green/blue hues to them, and pulsated only a tiny bit. The orbs then form into a triangle shape and then proceeded to go into one another until they vanish. There was sound emitted from the orbs. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Florida Lights

    Daytona — I was in my family room watching TV on I noticed strange reddish lights in the distance on August 3, 2017. I knew something seemed unusual about these lights. We have an aeronautical university about 5 miles away, and I often see planes in the same general vicinity but they never looked like this, When I first saw them, I suspected they were UFO’s since they looked like nothing I’d ever seen before. At first there were 4 glowing reddish orange things in the sky. They had moved east and hovered in two rows of two. As the others rose to the same height, the first ones began to fly away slowly in a curved pattern heading north and vanished. I am uploading a rough sketch of what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Idaho Triangle

    Pocatello — I’ve seen multiple lights and I took those pictures on June 26, 2017.

    I’m sending this one and I have a bunch more

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Indiana Cylinder

    North Manchester — We were on our way home from a family trip in our Rv and we were stopped at a stop sign on July 30. 2017.

    Then I looked over and saw this thing kind of floating in one spot.

    My mom didn’t stay very long but I was able to get one picture of what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Missouri Game Camera

    Blue Springs — I have 5 photos taken by a game camera over a 100 minute period the night of July 23 3017. I did not personally observe anything but the main lights of the camera caught 8 rectangle lights in a horizontal string that moved from one photo to the next. In the last 3 photos there’s also a round light that varied in intensity and also moved horizontally with the string of lights. It is to the left of the string.

    In the last two photos there was a deer and the last photo the deer and a raccoon were near the lights. I discovered these photos July 29. I have never seen such lights on photos before. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Nevada Orbs

     Lake Mead — It was quite a big day on July 21, 2017, but, it also felt so very natural. Once we finally got close to Lake Mead, Debra immediately had memories of she and I being there before and doing ceremonies together. Debra and I did not see the many orbs that were present at my ordination until we looked at the pictures.  There are also pictures of a large orb that appeared to follow us back into the city…….how mightily blessed and Protected we are! We saw all of your friends last night and Debra was able to greet Mr. Tompkins and his lovely wife I’d like to also let you know that you have prepared us very well for our attendance here this weekend.  Thanks to Debra

     

    Las Vegas – I was on a business trip in April 2016, walking around taking pictures of everything like a normal tourist. I came across the street of the Eiffel tower replica. I snapped a couple of pictures and did not notice the UFO with my own eyes but only noticed it within my photos.

    The UFO moves significantly from one picture to the other. With the angle I was at when looking straight up there are no buildings higher than the tower. The object looks like a diamond shaped sheet of electricity with a rectangle in the middle of it that looks like an opening.

    There are 10 smaller rectangular openings/holes that are spaced evenly and surrounding the one in the middle.
    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    New Mexico Lights

    Lordsburg – Benjic Medina sent this video of a maneuvering white light near the mountain. It seems to be about a mile away and is very bright.

    A similar light was videotaped twice by Benjie Medina at night.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

     Las Cruses — The event was on July 5, 2017, and this happened to a good friend of mine and his wife. My friend had fallen asleep and is wife was watching TV with the window open about two inches. She states she “heard voices” coming from the left side of their house. She ran into the living room, woke up my friend and he went outside to investigate.

    He went into the back yard along with their 5 year old basset hound that ran to the left side of their house and started barking like crazy running the full length of the house. The dog was running back and forth and barking. Then the next day he checked his security system and had recorded this video. On the video, the circular light at the 3 o’clock position is a known street light,  The light we want you to investigate is the light at the 9 o’clock position; Due west is the town of Las Cruces and 25 miles west away is the White Sands Missile Range.  . This was a MUFON case 85209 listed as “Unknown”. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    New York 3 Lights

    Oceanside — Three lights forming a triangle traveled south to the ocean above me and three other witnesses who were sitting in my backyard at 9:14 pm on July 29, 2917. The 3 orbs were completely silent and one of the witnesses saw a 4th light following the triangle formation. In the video, you can see a plane so hopefully that gives a reference point to the speed and altitude of the lights. I didn’t want MUFON or anyone else to think that I tampered with or manipulated the video in any way so I have uploaded the video as-is. The original video was shot on my iPhone.
    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Pennsylvania Cylinder

    Eire — My son and I saw a UFO.

    I videotaped Cylinder on July 27, 2017.

    . It was vertical like and exclamation mark.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Tennessee Triangle

    Greeneville — While driving to Pigeon Forge my girlfriend noticed an object a slow rotation on July 30, 2017. I saw the white blinking lights on each appendage/of the triangular or square object. Only one light was active at a time. In the centre of the object was a large sphere of plume that extended roughly 5 meters from the sphere. The appendages only produced the white lights from what seemed to be grayish circles.

    The object was shaped like the attached drawings. The triangular features seemed build up to the sphere in an overlapping pattern. The speed was around 75 MPH and approached us at about 60 m/s, it slowed to about 25 m/s once it reached me. Its closest point was about 200 meters from us and was 15 meters in diameter. It flew over the road, and then simply vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Virginia Sphere

    Hot Springs – I inadvertently caught this in my picture of a sphere on July 30, 2017.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Washington Lights

    Fairchild AFB.– John Whichelow captured the puzzling footage during Sunday’s Skyfest event at Washington’s Fairchild AFB on August 1, 2017. When he later watched the video of two Thunderbird jets, he was stunned to see that there was also an odd white object which streaked across the sky.

    The jets were said to be flying at 500 miles per hour, which suggests that the speed of the UFO was tremendous. Another piece of footage from Whichelow shows a second unknown object that appears to be black and hovering in the sky. Thanks to Coast to Coast

    Worldwide UFO Sightings

    Australia Orbs

    Sydney — In the first instance I saw a Qantas A330 aircraft making a slight left turn probably receiving vectors from the airport I am assuming on August 1 2017. . I then turned my glance slightly to the right side and noticed 6-7 triangle objects darting in and out of the clouds at safe distance from the A330. These objects criss crossed each other, and then gliding west, frolicked in and out of the clouds with the sun shining on them. They were not very large .and flew over my workplace at the Holsworthy Base. I also had a work colleague who witnessed this event at 14:27 hours. I managed to take grainy photos. you will need to expand. The other photo has the triangle object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Canada Lights

     Oshawa — On July 25, 2017, I was outside having a smoke on my deck in Oshawa and slightly southwest many miles away over Pickering /Ajax, Ontario. I noticed a slow low brilliant white light approaching across the sky coming towards the east. I went inside and grabbed my camera and noticed it now over Whitby, Ontario. That’s when I took the first picture at 9:55 pm. I continued to film as it went directly over my roof heading northeast over Oshawa, Ontario. It appeared low about 2000 to 5000 feet high? It had a very brilliant white light but I lost view of it at 9:59 pm. I found no data on the space station passing I took two very short video clips Thanks again for your interest as always Enjoy Paul Shishis

    France Light

     Venissieux — I was on my balcony smoking on July 31, 2017, looking when I noticed something seemed weird, a bright light in the horizon hovering. I had never really seen something out of place. The object disappeared and I kicked myself for not having my phone with me to take pics. And then it was again, at the exact same spot I saw it first, so I took a few pics and videos.

    As for the object’s actions, with the naked eye it looked as though it wasn’t really moving, but looking through my videos it clearly is filling itself up with light.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Germany Cigar

    Berge — While driving on the highway near Berge, on July 30, 2017, I took a series of photos of a huge white cloud that was very beautiful.

    Driving through the countryside we were passing some giant windmills that I thought would look nice to take a photo of with clouds in the background. I took the photos and noticed a black object in the last photo. The object does not appear in any other pictures. I know it is not a window spot. I did not see the object when taking the picture; only upon the review of the photo did I notice it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Ireland Orb

     Dublin — It was 3:55 AM when I noticed light in the sky which was reflecting onto my blinds on July 22, 2017. There were 5 rectangles of light with other smaller rectangular lights standing upright in a formation. These lights then moved in a programmed fashion together collapsing forward into a shape that resembled the outline of half an arrow tip and reforming upright in repetition. It then became a pulsing orb of light in the sky. By the time I started recording it was changing into its multiple rectangular state.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Puerto Rico Object

     This flying object was observed by uh60 dea crew operating in Puerto Rico. Shot in HD black hot flir on August 1. Crew witnessed object descend into water and continue at same speed.

    It was joined by a second orb under the water. Several radio transmissions were heard discussing light between tower, helicopter, and airliner waiting for takeoff clearance recorded.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    UK/England Triangle

    Crewe – I have had a sleeping problem for quite a while and went into my garden for a cigarette. I then saw a craft approach from the west on November 29, 2016. It glided over the houses at the rear of my garden by about 10 feet just above the chimney stacks. My garden is 90 feet long so it was pretty close. The silent craft was 30 feet from nose to stern. It just glided above the house with a slight glow coming from an orb in its centre. As it flew east, I could see small red lights in each corner of the craft flying 20 to 40 mph.
    I have served in the Military with classified observational skills and know what I saw. It was quiet except for a low hum, like an electrical motor. There was no movement by the large conifer tree it passed. The photo is a like what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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    Science fact check the bible come at me bro

    Despite the Bible being a religious text, scientists have occasionally turned their microscopes and measuring sticks on its contents — with some surprising results.

    7. Blood Red Nile

    In the Book of Exodus, the Egyptian empire is beset by the plague — 10 plagues, to be exact. Animals behave oddly, and the sky turns black. Even more alarming, the river fills with blood. Everything in that bloody river dies.

    Clearly, it’s not possible for a river to start bleeding, but scientists believe the plague in question may have been a red algae bloom. A very real phenomenon, “red tides” are a collection of algae packed so densely the plants discolor water. The blooms are caused by a variety of environmental factors, including warming water and excess nutrients like fertilizer. What’s more, red tides kill — just like the Book of Exodus says the bloody Nile did — with their natural toxins and oxygen-depleting decomposition.

    6. A Plague of Locusts

    Another nasty aspect of the Exodus were the locusts.

    See, short-horned grasshoppers are typically innocuous little things, hopping around, bothering no one. But in times of severe drought, they can undergo a horrible metamorphosis. Triggered by serotonin in their brains, grasshoppers can become locusts — the Jekyll to the grasshopper’s Dr. Hyde. In this new state, locusts breed like crazy, sprout strong wings that can power them for miles, and start to swarm. In groups, they can block out the sun.

    Though we haven’t seen too many plagues in recent years, swarms of locusts have been common throughout history. It’s safe to say these tiny terrors definitely messed with ancient Egyptians.

    5. Parting the Red Sea

    As the plagues are raining down, the Israelites decide to flee from the Egyptians and, let’s be real, it wasn’t going well.

    That is, until Moses, the original Prince of Egypt himself, split the Red Sea in half, allowing the Israelites to run across to safety before the water rebounded, crashing over the Egyptians and stopping them in their tracks.

    Computer simulations suggest this was actually possible. In 2010, an article published in the journal PLOS ONE suggested that a natural phenomenon could have parted the Red Sea. If wind blows hard enough, water can recede from its usual shoreline, exposing land that’s typically awash. Using a computer modeling tool, the researchers were able to show that at one site in the Nile, the right blustery wind could have created a land bridge 2.5 miles long and 3 miles wide, sustaining it for four hours.

    Canaanites not killed modern DNA fact check the bible science
    The ancient inhabitants of modern day Lebanon

    4. The Canaanites Are All Right

    Deuteronomy 20:17 instructed the Israelites to “completely destroy them — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites — as the LORD your God has commanded you.” And the Israelites listened, destroying their enemies.

    Or so the Bible said.

    But a July 2017 paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics presents compelling evidence that the Canaanites survived30276-8), and that their descendants are thriving in modern Lebanon, according to a historical genome constructed from Canaanite corpses, which were compared to the DNA of 99 modern Lebanese people. According to the study, the vast majority of the DNA tested in the modern Lebanese individuals came from the Canaanites, suggesting someone didn’t follow through with God’s commands.

    3. Gigantism

    It’s been immortalized in art for millennia, but what does science have to say about Goliath and his puny, but triumphant, friend David?

    Well, for much of human history, people were pretty short. While the average American man today is pushing 5 feet 10 inches, for much of human history the average dude hovered around 5 feet 5 inches. So it’s no wonder that Goliath, reportedly 6 feet 9 inches tall and thirsty for blood, scared the crap out of everyone.

    Though he’s since become a relic of history — a parable about overestimating the strong and undervaluing the weak — he definitely could have existed. Some have ventured to guess he was just a guy with gigantism, a disorder typically caused by overproduction of human growth hormones that causes people to grow to an uncommon size. In contrast to some plagued by this disorder, like Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was 8 feet 11 inches when he died, Goliath is downright puny.

    2. The Voice of God

    God talks a lot in the Bible, which, fair, since it’s his book. But how could anyone — scribes or prophets — hear the big man upstairs? Well, they probably couldn’t. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t hearing something.

    Auditory hallucinations, where people hear sounds that aren’t actually there, are actually fairly common in the general population. One study of more than 13,000 participants in Europe indicated that almost 40 percent of people have had an auditory hallucination in their life. Another study, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology in 2015, suggests seven percent of people have experienced auditory voice hallucinations, or hearing voices that aren’t there.

    Some of the people in either study may have had mental health issues or been influenced by past drug use, of course, but it was by no means all of them. And while those sounds and voices take many different forms, it’s possible some people interpret the stimuli as the voice of God.

    1. Sometimes the Dead Aren’t Actually Dead

    Coming back to life is prime content for the Bible — it happened at least twice in the New Testament alone. One of the lucky resurrected was Lazarus.

    In the Gospel of John, Jesus gets word that his friend Lazarus of Bethany is dying. But he doesn’t rush to his side. By the time Jesus finally shows up, Lazarus has been dead for four days and is already buried. Nobody wants to dig Lazarus up — the truly dead reek — but Jesus insists. “Lazarus, come out!” he yells and, what do you know, the formerly dead dude pops back to life, good as new.

    While this might seem like one of the more outlandish biblical stories to you, a scientifically-minded skeptic, the medical marvel aptly named the Lazarus Phenomenon is actually real.

    In 2007, an article published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine compiled 38 documented cases of “delayed return of spontaneous circulation”. In other words, 38 cases in which people’s hearts appeared to stop, before, uh, un-stopping. Granted, most of these people returned to life in 10 minutes (not four days), and the majority did eventually die from stopping their hearts, but maybe it’s worth a holler of “come out!” before the burial — or at least politely bury your loved ones in a “safety coffin” equipped with a bell should they prove to be, you know, alive.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Kernoorlog tussen VS en Noord-Korea komt er niet. Dit is de documentaire waarvan de elite niet wil dat je hem ziet
    Kernoorlog tussen VS en Noord-Korea komt er niet. Dit is de documentaire waarvan de elite niet wil dat je hem ziet

    Kernoorlog tussen VS en Noord-Korea komt er niet. Dit is de documentaire waarvan de elite niet wil dat je hem ziet

    De Amerikaanse president Trump heeft Noord-Korea gewaarschuwd dat ‘militaire oplossingen klaarstaan’.

    Op het bericht dat het land een kernkop zou hebben die past op een raket die Amerika kan bereiken, zei hij dat Noord-Korea te maken zal krijgen met ‘vuur en furie die de wereld nooit eerder gezien heeft’.

    Noord-Korea waarschuwde voor een ‘totale oorlog’ en zei dat de VS een ‘ellendige en ongenadige afstraffing’ te wachten staat in het geval van een preventieve aanval op kerninstallaties.

    Nooit eerder

    Het communistische land zei verder ‘het Amerikaanse grondgebied elk moment te kunnen reduceren tot as’.

    Wat is de kans dat ze de daad bij het woord voegen en dat er een echte kernoorlog uitbreekt? En waarom is het in de wereld nooit eerder tot een echte kernoorlog gekomen?

    Sinds kort is op YouTube-kanaal UAMN TV een nieuwe documentaire te zien van de Amerikaanse onderzoeker Robert Hastings.

    Degelijk en deugdelijk

    Hij interviewde 40 jaar lang gepensioneerde Amerikaanse militairen over hun betrokkenheid bij UFO-incidenten bij nucleaire bases.

    “Het onderzoek van Hastings is degelijk en deugdelijk,” zegt lucht- en ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren over de documentaire.

    “Zijn verhaal bestaat uit honderden getuigen bij kernwapenarsenalen in voornamelijk de VS en andere westerse landen,” vervolgt hij.

    Ingegrepen

    Volgens Vermeeren lijkt het er sterk op dat er door buitenaardse beschavingen wordt ingegrepen bij kerninstallaties.

    “Vraag je in elk geval eens af waarom er sinds Hiroshima en Nagasaki geen nucleaire wapens meer zijn ingezet,” zegt hij.

    Bevestigen

    Op basis van de interviews concludeerde Hastings dat aliens die beschikken over zeer geavanceerde technologie al tientallen jaren ingrijpen bij Amerikaanse en Russische nucleaire bases.

    Honderden Amerikaanse legerveteranen spreken openlijk over deze onheilspellende incidenten en duizenden geopenbaarde overheidsdocumenten bevestigen hun beweringen.

    Eenieder die zich zorgen maakt over de nucleaire spanningen tussen de VS en Noord-Korea doet er goed aan deze documentaire eens te bekijken.

    [UAMN TV

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Schip wat verloren ging in de Bermuda Driehoek komt 90 jaar later weer tevoorschijn.

    Schip wat verloren ging in de Bermuda Driehoek komt 90 jaar later weer tevoorschijn.

    De Bermuda Driehoek heeft een reputatie dat schepen op mysterieuze wijze verdwijnen in de ether, maar van tijd tot tijd gebeurt er iets in de raadselachtige oceaan wat net zo bizar is als de verdwijningen.

    Het meest interessante geval van een dergelijke gebeurtenis vond plaats in de buurt van de Cubaanse kust. Op 16 mei 2016, bemerkten Cubaanse autoriteiten een schip in de buurt van de kust in het westen van Havana. Het schip lag in de buurt van een militaire zone, en ze probeerde  te communiceren met het schip, maar er was alleen maar stilte. Uiteindelijk besloten ze om het schip te onderscheppen.
    Toen autoriteiten op het schip kwamen, konden ze zien dat het verlaten was, en vrij oud. Hulpverleners schatte het roestige schip minstens 100 jaar oud, en het werd al snel geïdentificeerd als het schip wat verloren was gegaan in de Bermuda Driehoek, de SS Cotopaxi. Het schip wat oorspronkelijk een Turks vrachtschip is, verdween in december 1925. Het logboek van de kapitein werd gevonden aan boord. Het is nog onbekend waar het schip 90 jaar was.
    De Cotopaxi vertrok van Charleston, South Carolina op 29 november in 1925, met bestemming Havana, Cuba. Er waren 32 mensen aan boord van het vrachtschip aangevoerd door WJ Meyer. Het schip had ongeveer 2400 ton kolen aan boorde, men kon het schip 2 dagen volgen, voordat het stil viel.  90 Jaar later bereikte het schip haar bestemming, maar dan zonder de bemanning, de kolen, en zonder verklaring wat er gebeurd is.

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    STUNNING ANIMATION SHOWS THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII BY MOUNT VESUVIUS

    The Ancient Roman town of Pompeii is most famous today for its tragic and hideous destruction caused by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. While other nearby settlements were completely leveled by the erupting lava, Pompeii fell victim to intensely hot falling ashes which destroyed everything that they touched and also preserved them perfectly.  

    Ever since the ancient city was rediscovered by explorers in 1599, it has been an object of fascination all over the world. More than anywhere else in Europe, the destroyed ruins of the town presents a true snapshot in time with the eleven thousand people who lived in the town frozen alongside with baths, houses, tools, frescoes, an amphitheatre, an aqueduct, a fascinating ‘villa of the mysteries’ and even graffiti and scattered wine bottles.

    MUSEUM BRINGS THE DEVASTATION OF POMPEII TO LIFE  

    But while the story of Pompeii might be considered compelling to most people, modern dramas have tended to stumble when it comes to capturing the life and catastrophic death of the thriving ancient town. In the 1960s, the BBC offered a crass comic rendering of life in the city before the devastating impact of Vesuvius in the television show Up Pompeii! More recently, Hollywood filmmakers have attempted to take the subject more seriously such as the 2014 movie Pompeii. However, these attempts have not been received with any real warmth by the critics or the viewing public.

    For this reason, many people consider the most eloquent and devastating description of the tragedy of Pompeii to come from Pliny the Younger who witnessed the destruction of the ancient town from a distance. In his historical work, he wrote; “You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices. People bewailed their fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many sought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore.”

    Now an exhibition at Melbourne Museum is attempting to do what Hollywood could not and truly bring the horror of the destruction of Pompeii to life. The exhibition devoted to the destroyed ancient city gave visitors a chance to witness Pompeii coming back to life and experiencing the volcanic tragedy with computer generated imagery in a 3D video installation. This video, which has been widely praised for its artistry and shocking realism can be viewed below.

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    Calling all aliens: What's the best way to contact our galactic neighbors? - PART I

    Making contact with probes would be better than trying to start a conversation across 100 light ...

    Making contact with probes would be better than trying to start a conversation across 100 light years of space 
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    August 20, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the the first NASA Voyager mission, which is carrying a golden record filled with messages to potential civilizations beyond our solar system. This year is also the 20th anniversary of the sci-fi film Contact that dealt with receiving radio messages from extraterrestrials. Both the record and the film were brain children of the late Carl Sagan and raise an interesting question: which approach has the greater chance of success of making contact with aliens – sending radio messages or unmanned probes?

    The Arecibo Message with color addedArtist's concept of Pioneer 10Pioneer and Voyager trajectoriesThe Pioneer plaque

    First contact with extraterrestrial civilizations has long fascinated scientists, philosophers, and writers. It's been the topic explored by serious scientific studies, crackpots, tabloids, science fiction epics, and international debates. The speculated results of the first meeting of man and alien run the entire gamut of imagination. Visits by aliens or receiving greetings from the stars has been seen as ranging from wonderfully transcendent, with the human race raised to the next step in evolutionary perfection, to us ending up as the main course on someone's dinner table.

    Whether the outcome is the end of 2001: a Space Odyssey or To Serve Man, how will we establish contact with whoever or whatever lives beyond our solar system? Will our first contact be an alien spaceship carrying little green men? A probe operated by an artificial intelligence? A mysterious artifact buried on the Moon? A radio signal blaring out from the stars? Zaphod Beeblebrox crashing a party in Islington?

    The Allen Telescope Array (Credit: Wikipedia/Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill)

    The problem with answering this question is that we know literally nothing about any other intelligent life forms. We don't even know if they exist or even how probable their existence is. As to how they think, their limitations, or what manner they might choose to make themselves known to us, these are questions that are so complex that it often wanders into the realm of metaphysics, if not theology.

    A much easier way of reaching an answer is to ask not "How will they contact us?" but "How will we contact them?" If we can answer the latter, then we are a great deal closer to answering the former. Knowing how to send messages tells you how to receive them.

    First attempts

    The idea of trying to contact ET is the reverse of the conventional practice of the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Founded in 1984, SETI is a passive search for signs of other civilizations, usually in the form of radio signals showing definite signs of intelligence, though other evidence might be sought. Deliberate contact attempts are called Active SETI or METI (Messaging to ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), a term coined by the Russian scientist Alexander Zaitsev to denote an aggressive program of composing and sending messages to the stars.

    But this idea isn't particularly new. In fact, proposals for contacting other planetary bodies go back as far as around 1820 when the Joseph Johann von Littrow, director of the Vienna Observatory, suggested creating circles, squares and triangles 30 km on a side in the Sahara Desert by digging ditches one kilometer-wide and filling them with water topped with kerosene. This would be set alight at night in the hopes of contacting anyone on the Moon or Mars.

    In 1868, inventor Charles Cros put forward a plan to the French Academy of Sciences to set up giant parabolic mirrors reflecting arc lamps with a focal length equal to the distance between Earth and Mars. Cros' plan was to concentrate the sun's rays on the Martian desert to carve geometric figures and numbers in molten glass on the surface. In another proposal, he suggested building an enormous checkerboard with shiny surfaces that could be uncovered to form shapes and patterns like a mechanical digital display that the Martians could view using telescopes.

    In the 1890s, the Reverend W S Lach-Szyrma suggested lighting up the Riga, the Malvern Hills, or Lake Michigan with geometric patterns. Meanwhile, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss recommended creating a giant right-angle triangle in Siberia using 15 km-wide strips of forest with fields of wheat as the background to form the famous geometric solution to the Pythagorean theorem. The whole thing would have been about the size of Ireland.

    Not to be outdone, electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla in 1896 claimed that a more advanced version of his device for transmitting electrical power without wires could be used to contact Mars, and in 1899 he said that he'd detected signals from the Red Planet.

    But perhaps the prize for the most ambitious early scheme should go to the popular science publisher and science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback, who in the February 1927 edition of his Radio News magazine put forward the idea of building a directional radio transmitter belting out 100,000 kilowatts in the two-meter band. True, it would have to have been a heavy bar of silver or copper glowing white hot to take all that power, but Gernsback claimed that it could not only communicate with Venus or Mars, but could also bounce radio signals off the Moon and back to Earth.

    Is there anybody there?

    But if we're going to talk to other civilizations, where do we start? We start with answering a few basic questions, like is there anyone to talk to? For our purposes, we don't need to go into all the complexities of astrobiology, planet formation or how to define the habitable zone. What we need is a rough idea of the probability of the present existence of intelligent life, how far away they are, and how advanced they are. This will tell us not only where to direct our efforts, but also when we can expect a reply, and whether they'll understand us.

    These are questions that go back to the late 1950s when the SETI field was first pioneered by Cornell scientists Giuseppe Cocconi, Philip Morrison and Frank Drake at the Green Bank radio observatory. Back then, the field was marked by swift innovation and brilliant out-of-the-box thinking because these scientists didn't know what was possible or impossible. Many of our ideas about METI date back to this time.

    One of the key tools for finding out if anyone is out there is the famous Drake Equation written in 1961, which is expressed as follows:

    N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L

    • N is the number of technological civilizations in our galaxy
    • R* is the average rate of star formation in our galaxy
    • fp is the fraction of stars that have planets
    • ne is the average number of planets that can support life
    • fl is the fraction of those planets that develop life
    • fi is the fraction of planets with intelligent life
    • fc is the fraction of planets with technological civilizations
    • L is the lifespan of these technological civilizations

    If you can find the numbers for each of these variables and plug them in, you should have a good idea of how many civilizations are out there for us to talk to. The problem is that even after almost 60 years of research, there are no reliable numbers for any of these variables. True, we know more about stellar evolution, we have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars and we do have a better idea of what type of planetary systems there are out there, but the specific numbers remain unknown.

    The most important variable is L, which denotes the lifespan of a technological civilization. Even if all the other variables are nailed down, this one will determine the final answer. If such a civilization lasts only about a century, then we may be the only one. If they last for millions of years, there could be millions of civilizations out there. The irony is that we have no way to set L until we actually witness the rise and fall of other technological civilizations.

    A telescope at the Green Bank observatory (Credit: NASA)

    Our alternative is to take our only example of a planet with intelligent life (Earth) and look for somewhere that's a relatively close match. That means looking for a single G main sequence star not too close to the galactic center and not too far on the edge. It should have a rocky planet about the size of the Earth with a large moon and sit in its star's habitable zone.

    Such a search would have been beyond our capabilities just a few decades ago, but modern exoplanet-hunting techniques have changed the game. True, nothing close to a near-Earth analog has been found (yet) and the nature of planet hunting tends toward extreme examples, but the ongoing planetary surveys have allowed us to eliminate many systems as candidates in the same way as the Mars and Venus probes put paid to any future projects to contact Venusians and Martians.

    It would be nice if the Drake Equation was more tractable, because if we knew how probable another civilization was, we would know how likely it is that one was within a hundred light years of us. If it is very probable, then the probability of another civilization in our neighborhood increases. If it's improbable, then such a civilization could be thousands or even millions of light years away, if it's out there at all.

    One of the original radio telescopes at Green Bank (Credit: NRAO/AUI)

    On the bright side, since we don't know, we have no reason not to send our message to nearby candidate stars unless our surveys show they have no Earth-like planets orbiting them. According to some estimates, there are 19 G-type stars within 10 parsecs (32 light years) of Earth, with the nearest only four light years away, so we have some to start with. And with hundreds of million more in the galaxy, we won't run out anytime soon.

    Are aliens watching Hitler on the telly?

    The next question is, how are we going to send our message? The obvious answer is radio. But it's not a matter of pressing the mic button and starting to talk. One common misconception fostered by a certain movie is that radio communication with the stars is so easy that we're doing it now without our knowledge. Are the inhabitants of some planet about 80 light years from Earth watching television broadcasts of Adolph Hitler opening the 1936 Berlin Olympics? Very probably not.

    There are many different kinds of radio and most of them are unsuitable for communicating with the Moon, much less the stars. True, we can communicate with a deep space probe 11 billion mi (19 billion km) from Earth, but that's because we use very powerful transmitters on Earth focusing a very tight beam, while the receivers are giant dishes precisely aimed at the transmitting spacecraft.

    Other forms of radio don't have a hope. AM transmissions simply can't cover much distance and shortwave broadcasts bounce off the Earth's ionosphere. As for television broadcasts, they can travel beyond our atmosphere and into deep space, as can very powerful military radars. For decades, these have been blasting out into space in a bubble that now has a radius of about a hundred light years.

    The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were the first to be televised (Credit: Deutsches Bundesarchiv)

    At first, this makes the Earth seem like a bright radio beacon with aliens 50 light years away able to tune into Star Trek on a weekly basis. But the problem is two-fold. First, the television and similar transmissions are being broadcast in all directions, meaning that their strength is weakened by the factor of the radius squared. This means that the entire Earth from, for example, 1966 would have a brightness of 10-55 watts per square centimeter at a distance of 10 light years. That's ten million times too faint to be detected at all, much less not be lost in all the background static. To be picked up at 100 light years, a television broadcast would need 1020watts behind it.

    It gets even worse. These broadcasts are coming from fixed spots on the Earth, which is rotating and revolving around the Sun. This makes the signals intermittent and subject to Doppler effects that distort them. Then there's the effect of distortion by the Earth's atmosphere, the Earth's magnetic field, the Sun's magnetic field, other stars, interstellar dust and gas, energetic objects, and the omnipresent cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left over from the Big Bang. Add all that together and Hitler's cosmic broadcast petered out at less than two light years.

    What we are talking about here are the ultimate limits of radio communications. Despite having been at this for a little over a century, we're already close to these limits and anyone else out there will likely be, too. This means that so long as we're sending out electromagnetic waves, we're likely on a level playing field no matter how advanced the other party is.

    Designing the transmitter

    To communicate with the stars, we need to consider three factors. First, the transmission, which must be in the form of a directed, monochromatic beam. Second, the power behind that beam must be high enough to carry information. And third, the frequency of the beam must be able to penetrate space for thousands of light years, yet have enough bandwidth to carry a message.

    Ideally, the best system would be one where we design both the transmitter and receiver. Of course, we can't do this for the first message, but there's no reason why that message can't include instructions on how to build a compatible receiver.

    The transmitter we'd use isn't too hard to figure out because we've already built several of them in the form of the radio telescopes at Arecibo in Puerto Rico, Jodrell Bank in England, and Pingtang in China, among others. To these giant dishes can be added arrays of multiple dishes, including the Very Large Array and the Allen Telescope Array.

    One requirement for setting up a communication base is that it needs to be in a radio quiet zone where even mobile phone use is heavily restricted. The scene in Contact where Jodie Foster's character is excitedly shouting orders into a walkie talkie about the message from space she's discovered as she drives by the radio telescope dishes would have been more realistic if her colleagues at the other end angrily shouted back for her to shut up because she's drowning out the signal.

    Choosing a frequency

    The next step is choosing what frequency to transmit at, which is a mixture of technical details, economy, and second guessing whoever is listening.

    One premise that SETI scientists work on is astronomer Frank Drake's Principle of Economy, which, to put it simply, is anyone we're likely to contact will be economical and minimize the personnel, materials, and energy to achieve their ends. In other words, their bureaucrats will be as penny pinching as ours because a species that is careful with its resources will have a better survival advantage.

    This means that the aliens will also assume that the frequency we choose will be the one that conserves transmitter power and costs the least energy per bit to send. At the same time, the frequency needs to be easy to generate and detect, not susceptible to much deflection, interference, or absorption by interstellar dust and gas. One other factor that helps whittle down the options is that the signal has to go through our atmosphere and we assume that the receiver is inside a similar habitable atmosphere.

    Leaving out the math, the most likely band to achieve all this is between 1,000 and 10,000 MHz. The problem is that there are nine billion frequencies in this range, so which to choose? The answer is to pick one that would be recognized anywhere in the universe. SETI researchers consider two in what is called the "watering hole" as the most likely. That is the frequency of neutral hydrogen at 1,420 MHz and the Hydroxyl (OH) radical frequency at 1,721 MHz. Since Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and combining H with OH produces H₂O, these are most likely spots on the spectrum that someone will be listening to.

    "Nature has provided us with a rather narrow band in this best part of the spectrum that seems especially marked for interstellar contact," said leading SETI advocate Bernard Olive. "It lies between the spectral lines of hydrogen and the hydroxyl radical. Standing like the Om and the Um on either side of a gate, these two emissions of the disassociation products of water beckon all water-based life to search for its kind at the age old meeting place for all species: the water hole. Water-based life is almost certainly the most common form and well may be the only naturally occurring form.

    "Romantic? Certainly. But is not romance itself a quality peculiar to intelligence? Should we not expect advanced beings elsewhere to show such perceptions? By the dead reckoning of physics we have narrowed all the decades of the electromagnetic spectrum down to a single octave where conditions are best for interstellar contact. There, right in the middle, stand two signposts that taken together symbolize the medium in which all life we know began. Is it sensible not to heed such signposts? To say, in effect: I do not trust your message, it is too good to be true."

    Lasers, neutrinos and other exotics

    But radio isn't our only option. What about lasers? We're already experimenting with them for communication with deep space probes, and SETI researchers are looking for signs of someone else using them, too.

    Lasers have many advantages. They're tightly focused, highly directional, and monochromatic. Using an infrared beam focused by a large mirror or array, it could transmit messages at a much higher rate than a radio transmitter. Or it could be used to distort the solar spectrum by tuning the laser in to a stellar absorption band, which would look like an artificial spectral line to an alien astronomer. This would certainly gain attention and it could be made to wink on and off to send messages.

    If we want to go further afield, we could use High Energy Particles (HEPs), including gamma rays, neutrinos, gravitons, and tachyons. Some are little more than theoretical, and others pose technological barriers that may never be surmounted, but they potentially have tremendous advantages.

    Neutrinos, for example, would be an ideal communication medium. Sixty-five billion neutrinos emitted by the Sun pass through every square centimeter of the Earth every second and hardly any of them are stopped by the mass of the planet. If we could generate and detect them easily, they would provide us with a transmitter of unlimited range that would be almost impossible to block.

    Going even farther afield, we could turn the Sun into a giant beacon by changing its spectrum directly by dumping about 400 tons of some man-made element into a heliocentric orbit. If someone light years away looked at the solar spectrum and saw something like technetium present (an element not found in nature), they'd certainly take notice. Alternatively, Philip Morrison once suggested placing opaque clouds in orbit around the Sun in a pattern that would make it seem to blink or even spell out short messages.

    Oddly, one thing we don't have to worry about for the moment are inadvertent messages. While aliens aren't watching I Love Lucy, they could still be able to see the radio spectrum of our planet, and until recently it would have seemed very odd. Due to analog TV broadcasts and military radars, for much of the 20th century the Earth had a temperature in the radio band of the spectrum of 300 K (27° C, 80° F). In the absence of those artificial transmissions, for that to be true the Earth's black-body temperature would need to be 40 million degrees, which is about seven thousand times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

    But during the past 20 years, television has switched over to digital, which requires much smaller bandwidths, and more efficient radars have been developed, so the Earth is currently dark. But don't get too comfortable. As we start moving out into the Solar System, there will be significant deep space traffic being tracked and tight communication beams transmitted, so things will get noisy again over the next generation.

    How to write a message

    So, we have our transmitter, but what do we say? To avoid the first conversation between worlds descending into awkward small talk about the weather, we need to come up with a message that's worth listening to. More importantly, it needs to be one the recipient will understand.

    It also needs to be a message that will be recognized as a message. It has to be unambiguously artificial and distinctly different from natural sources. This isn't as easy as it sounds. A regular, repeating pattern in a radio signal may seem like an obvious beacon being transmitted by intelligent life, but radio astronomers keep being caught out by natural phenomena.

    For example, on November 28, 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, England observed a sequence of pulses coming at intervals of 1.33 seconds from the same point in the sky. Though a number of explanations were put forward to explain it, the idea that it might be artificial was reasonable enough for the signal to be nicknamed LGM-1, for Little Green Men.

    LGM-1 turned out to be the first pulsar to be discovered, and it highlighted a problem with interstellar communications. Just because something is repeating, regular, or forms an obvious pattern, doesn't mean there's an intelligence behind it. Nature is filled with such things and, as the saying goes, although rare things occur rarely, it is also true that rare things occur rarely.

    Imagine, as one philosopher put it, that you're on a train from London to Cardiff. As you look out the window, you see a scattering of white stones in a field on a hillside. Is this an intelligent message? No. Stones show up in places all the time. But what if the stones form a pattern, like a series of lines or a triangle? It might be a message, but there are any number of processes that might arrange stones in an orderly manner that don't require human intervention.

    Now imagine that the stones spell out "Welcome to Wales." Is this a message? This is much more likely because stones don't generally form words or phrases, but it's not outside the realms of possibility that it's some remarkable coincidence or that we're imposing our assumptions on what we see.

    But what is the stones spell out "Welcome to Wales" and the hillside is just inside the Welsh border? Now the stones aren't just forming a pattern, they're expressing an actual true fact that we're able to identify. It is a message and the probability of it being otherwise is infinitesimal.

    Neptune as seen by Voyager 2 (Credit: NASA)

    So, if we are sending a message by radio, it has to be clearly artificial and it proves this by conveying verifiable facts that the recipient can recognize and understand. The problem is that this assumes some common frame of reference. If it hadn't been for the Rosetta Stone repeating the same message in both Greek and Egyptian, hieroglyphics would still be as impenetrable today as they were three hundred years ago.

    We need a similar Rosetta Stone and since there aren't any monuments written in both English and Betelgeusian, we need something that is truly universal – science and mathematics.

    Our cosmic message must be simple, but it must also show intelligence, so it can't be just a repeating series of radio pulses. Instead, these pulses can be used to form binary code to convey data. It might be a series of binary numbers equivalent to 1,2,3,5,7,11 for the first prime numbers, or 1,4,9,16,25 for the first squares, or 3,1,4,1,5,9 for pi, or any of a number of other things.

    This would certainly tell ET that we're here and we're intelligent, but our message can't just be a string of simple numbers or it will go down as the most frustrating communication of all time. Our message has to be long. Much, much longer than these simple sequences meant as just a way to get attention. The first part might last only a couple of hours or days. The rest of the message would carry on for months.

    Basically, what we're doing is an exercise in anti-cryptology. Where a cryptographer comes up with ways to make a message harder to read or even find, we're making one that's as easy as possible to read, yet will still hold the reader's attention by actually saying something worthwhile.

    We could do this by splitting up the message into three types with each type alternating with the other two. To make sure we're making up for data lost through interference or to take into account those who started listening in the middle of the message, everything would be repeated several times and perhaps on several neighboring frequencies.

    The first type is made up of numbers, physical constants, arithmetic, mathematical concepts, formulae, common scientific facts, and a vocabulary. The second type would be language lessons including syntax, grammar, ideas, logic, sentences, paragraphs, and abstract concepts. Of course, this wouldn't be in English, but more of a kind of binary Pidgin that would be intelligible to both parties.

    The third type would be what we actually want to say and we'd only be limited by bandwidth and our own perseverance. We could send a very focused message, the complete sum of human knowledge in a giant encyclopedia, or we could, as the astronomer Fred Hoyle once suggested, send them instructions on how to build a computer and a copy of the software to program it with, creating a kind of electronic ambassador.

    The first message

    What we've discussed so far is what we could do if we wanted to get into some serious interstellar messaging, but it isn't theoretical or a someday thing. In fact, Earth started sending messages into space almost half a century ago.

    The first radio message to be beamed at the stars went out on November 16, 1974 using the 1,000-ft (305-m) dish antenna at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico as part of a ceremony to inaugurate a major upgrade. That day, under the eye of then-director Frank Drake, at 17:00 GMT the great dish was aimed at Messier 13 (M13) in the constellation of Hercules.

    M13 is a globular cluster made up of 300,000 densely packed stars about 25,000 light-years from Earth, but it's still within range of Arecibo, which is sensitive enough to detect a television station at a range of 1.8 light-years, BMEWS radar at 18 light-years, or its duplicate on the other side of the galaxy.

    Carl Sagan was involved in the Arecibo Message, the Pioneer plaque, and the Voyager record (Credit: NASA)

    Set to 2,388 MHz, the signal shot out in a tight beam with 2 x 1013 watts behind it for two minutes and 49 seconds as 1,679 frequency pulses or bits modulated between two different frequencies to create binary code at 10 bits per second.

    Unsurprisingly, 1,679 was not a number pulled out of a hat. It was very carefully chosen by Drake, who wrote the message itself before sending it to his colleague Carl Sagan to see if he could decipher it. One thousand six hundred and seventy-nine is the product of two prime numbers, 73 and 23. This is a vital clue to anyone or anything that intercepts the Arecibo Message, as it's now known, which we've reproduced here.

    Being the product of two prime numbers tells the recipient to set the binary numbers into a square 73 bits on one side and 23 bits on the other. There are only two ways to do this. One produces nothing but gibberish. The other forms a very low-resolution image, which is very clear if the binary ones and zeros are replaced with dark and light squares.

    The Arecibo message is short, but it includes a lot of information about humans and the Solar System. The top section (colored here in white for clarity, though there is no color in the message) are the numbers one to 10 in binary with a "least significant digit" marker to show where the number begins. Below this, in purple, are the atomic numbers for hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which are the basic constituents of DNA.

    In the next section, in green, are the formulae for the sugars and bases that make the nucleotides of DNA. These are in the form of sequences of the five elements previously described. Below this are a pair of spirals, in blue, representing the structure of DNA and a center bar, in white, that is the number 4.3 billion in binary, which is the number of nucleotides thought to make up human DNA in the 1970s.

    The next section is a bit more obvious, with a stick figure, in red, in the center. Next to it is a bar, in blue, with the height of the average man represented in binary as 14 times the wavelength of the message (126 mm times 14 equals 1.7 m (5.8 ft). On the other side is the size of the human population in 1974 (4.3 billion)

    Next, in the yellow, is a chart of the Solar System with a rough representation of each planet's size. The symbol for Earth, which sits directly under the stick figure and is indented towards it to show a connection.

    Finally, at the bottom of the image, is the outline of the Arecibo telescope and the binary representation of its diameter as a multiple of the message wavelength.

    Because the Arecibo Message was really a stunt to show off what the telescope could do, it may have been much shorter than the ideal message we outlined above, but it still tells any recipients a lot about us. It shows a common numbering system and implies that we use a decimal system. It also tells them that we are carbon-based lifeforms, that our genetic structure is based on DNA, and something of our biochemistry. The message also shows that we're bipeds and our size tells them something about Earth's gravity. In addition, they know something about the structure of the Solar System and the nature of our technology.

    Are we better to remain silent?

    Since Arecibo, there have been about 12 other attempts to send messages to other civilizations, though none have been very long or repeated too many times. Part of the reason there have been so few and such modest attempts has been partly insufficient radio telescope time, but also the firm opposition of most of the astronomical community to sending such messages at all.

    Though the idea of communicating with extraterrestrials has grown in popularity with the public, the SETI field has faced increasing difficulties in getting funding after nearly 60 years of failure, to the point where many researchers regard SETI, while laudable, as a pseudoscience without a subject and without a testable hypothesis.

    According to astronomer and science fiction author David Brin, the strenuous efforts of some SETI researchers to keep the organization from being identified with UFOs and little green men has "pushed away a field that was very kind to them — bona fide science fictionand walled in their community, isolating them from mainstream science. This has made some SETI proponents very sensitive and frustrated, leading some to advocate going straight from listening to shouting out the existence of mankind to the Cosmos in hopes of spurring a reply.

    The problem is that one never knows who is going to get the message. They could be one of Sir Arthur C Clarke's godlike, totally altruistic beings; friendly, logical Vulcans; H G Wells' ravening Martian hordes bent on conquest; or C S Lewis's demonic creatures motivated by pure evil. It's this uncertainty that makes most astronomers prefer that sending any message should wait until the matter has been thoroughly discussed at the very least.

    The Physicist Stephen Hawking, in an interview with the Sunday Times, said that if the human race is anything to go by, it would be better to remain silent.

    "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet," says Hawking. "I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach."

    Even early studies of the 1960s and '70s said that one of the top three criteria for a civilization becoming an active transmitting one was having the technology and resources to fend off an alien invasion force or other military threats.

    Probe ambassadors

    So does this mean that caution dictates that we never try to communicate with another civilization? Not necessarily. There is an alternative – one that we've already used to send messages to the stars. It's slower than radio, but potentially much safer. This surprising competitor was actually the very first to carry a message addressed to some unknown extraterrestrial civilization years before Arecibo. The first will take tens of thousands of years to reach even the distance of the nearest star, if they ever do. Yet in this cosmic tortoise vs. hare race, it has some surprising advantages.

    On March 3, 1972, Pioneer 10 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Along with Pioneer 11, launched 11 months later, these unmanned deep space probes were tasked with making flybys of Jupiter and Saturn, setting them on a hyperbolic slingshot trajectory that made them the first spacecraft to ever set out from the Solar System, never to return.

    Artist's concept of Pioneer 10 (Credit: NASA)

    Not wanting to pass up the opportunity to create the most audacious messages in a bottle ever tossed into infinity, NASA turned the Pioneer probes into Earth's first cosmic emissaries by tacking a gold-anodized aluminum plaque to each one. Measuring 9 x 6 in (229 by 152 mm), these plaques were engraved with a pictogram that may one day become the most important postcard in history, if by some miracle it's ever found.

    First suggested by journalist Eric Burgess and designed and constructed in three weeks by Carl Sagan, his then-wife Linda Salzman Sagan, and Frank Drake, the plaque is the icing on the cake for Pioneer. Since the aliens will already have the inert probe to study at their leisure, the plaque's job is to provide a bit of context as to where this mysterious spacecraft came from and who sent it.

    The plaque shows the outline of the Pioneer probe, in front of which stand the nude figures of a man and a woman. The man's hand is raised in a gesture of greeting, while the woman has one foot set slightly forward to give some idea of how humans move. Below them is a representation of the Solar System with an arrowed line showing that the Pioneer came from the third planet from the Sun. To one side is a strange diagram of spreading lines with binary symbols next to each one, while above this is a figure of two circles separated by a line.

    The two humans are probably the most difficult figures to decipher, since we have no idea how much of how we see two dimensional representations is universal and how much is peculiar to us. But the rest of the plaque should give the finders the ability to deduce some basic information about us.

    The two circles at the top are a schematic of the "hyperfine transition" of neutral atomic hydrogen. That is, when the spin of the electron and the proton in a hydrogen atom align shift to when they are opposed, which is when the atom emits radio waves at 1,420 MHz. Since hydrogen is universal, this fact should also be universally known.

    The clever bit is that 1,420 Mhz is a wavelength of 21 cm and that gives us and the aliens a common yardstick. Underneath the line connecting the two circles is the number one in binary code. Next to the two humans is the number eight in binary, which tells the aliens that humans are 8 x 21 cm tall – a figure that is confirmed by comparing them to the height of the spacecraft drawn behind them. Since the aliens should have the probe as well as the plaque, this allows them to double check their deductions.

    The Solar System diagram also includes binary numbers under each planet showing their distance from the Sun.

    As to the enigmatic spider next to the humans, this is a map showing the relationship between 14 pulsars identified by binary representations of their periods, with a 15th line showing the distance between Earth and the center of the galaxy. Since the periods of pulsars are precisely measured and their rate of slowdown is also known, the aliens should be able to pinpoint the date of the probe's launch to within 100 to 1,000 years and our position to within 60 light years. Not exactly a GPS fix, but at least it would get them close enough to find a gas station and ask for directions.

    "The Pioneer plaques are destined to be the longest-lived works of mankind," said Sagan and Drake in 1975. "They will survive virtually unchanged for hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of years in space. When plate tectonics has completely rearranged the continents, when all the present landforms on the earth have been ground down, when civilization has been profoundly transformed and when human beings may have evolved into some other type of organism, these plaques will still exist. They will show that in the year we called 1973 there were organisms, portrayed on the plaques, that cared enough about their place in the hierarchy of all intelligent beings to share knowledge about themselves with others."

    The Pioneer message is in some ways as simple as the later Arecibo Message, but in other ways is more complex. It has only a few sections intended to convey a few pieces of information, but the resolution is higher than what could be included in a radio message and the pulsar map goes a step further by telling the recipients where and when the probe came from.

    Pioneer and Voyager trajectories (Credit: NASA)

    Voyager

    In August 1977, the next level of SETI messaging went into space with the first of the two Voyager probes. Voyager 1 and 2 were larger and more versatile spacecraft tasked with a more ambitious mission. Their trajectory not only sent them to Jupiter and Saturn, but also to Uranus and Neptune, then set them on a velocity that is sending them out of the Solar System before their predecessors.

    Even 40 years later, the two spacecraft are still partially functional and will continue to operate until the nuclear power system runs out sometime between 2025 and 2030. But even after their electronics go cold, the Voyagers will still have a job as carriers of the most ambitious space message sent so far.

    Mounted on the fuselage of each Voyager's main section is the Golden Record. It's actually a 12-in (30-cm) copper gramophone record plated in gold and sealed in a gold-electroplated aluminum cover. The latter includes an ultra-pure sample of radioactive Uranium 238, which has a half life of 4.468 billion years and provides the finder with an accurate way to calculate how much time has elapsed since Voyager left Earth. To back this up, the cover is etched with the same pulsar map found on Pioneer. Like any user-friendly product, the cover includes an operating manual showing how to use the record as well as a phonograph needle to play it.

    Where Pioneer was a simple message, the Voyager record is a flat-out information dump selected for NASA by a committee led by Carl Sagan. Along with lessons in number system, units of measurements, and biochemistry, the record contains 115 images, greetings in various languages, sounds of everyday Earth life, and 90 minutes of music from around the world.

    The images are stored using a simple analog technique developed in the 1920s as a way of recording television on audio records. Since television is a made up of a series of still images, this turned out to be an excellent way to store relatively high definition images. The first image is a simple circle that acts as a calibration aid for the finder.

    Cover for the Golden Record (Credit: NASA)

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    This is followed by a solar location map; mathematical and physical unit definitions; a tutorial in human biochemistry, anatomy, and reproduction; information about the planet Earth and its structure; images of terrestrial geology, climatic regions, animal life, and plant life. There's also a large compendium on human life, activities, architecture, eating, technology, and music, as well as printed messages from US President James Carter and UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.

    It will be a good 40,000 years before any of these probes comes within two light years of any other star systems and odds are that none will be found for millions or even billions of years.

    AI ambassadors

    But what does this slowpoke approach for sending messages have over light-speed radio signals? Not much at the moment, but while we're at the physical limits of what radio can do, interstellar travel still has a long way to go. At the moment, we're limited to using primitive chemical rockets or ion drives that aren't really suited to the task of jumping between the stars, but that could well change one day, if we're patient enough.

    In 1964, Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev came up with a way of classifying civilizations based on how much energy they are able to harness. A Type I civilization is limited to the power available on a single planet – about 4 X 1012 joules. A Type II would be able to use the output of an entire star, which comes out to 4 X 1026 joules. Meanwhile, a Type III civilization would have the output of a galaxy at 4 X 1037 joules.

    The more power a civilization has at its disposal, the more efficient it becomes. One interesting point that SETI scientists have found is that when a culture reaches the point beyond a Type I civilization, the difference in efficiency between sending radio messages and sending unmanned probes becomes negligible.

    In 1960, Ronald N Bracewell of Stanford University put forward a proposal for using robotic probes rather than sending radio messages as our way of opening contact with other beings. Let's look an updated version of his idea.

    Imagine it's a few centuries from now when the energy problems of today seem as quaint as a flint or deer antler shortage in Neolithic Britain. Humanity now has so much surplus energy at its command that sending an interstellar probe seems no more farfetched than sending a probe to Pluto does in our day.

    But these are far more advanced spacecraft than any we have today. They are larger and more powerful. They are self-refueling, self-repairing, and can even duplicate themselves as required using advanced 3D printing techniques. They are also fully autonomous with computers that have an almost organic level of artificial intelligence.

    These probes aren't very fast, reaching only 10 percent of the speed of light, but they don't have to be. With no passengers or crew, they can afford to spend a few decades or even centuries getting to their destination. As they approach the candidate star selected by mission control, each probe has the ability to study the system in detail, identify the planets most likely to possess intelligent life, and make an assessment of whether to proceed or carry on to a more promising system.

    If a planet does turn out to have a civilization advanced enough to make contact with, the probe would be programmed to discretely stand off and listen to radio, television, and data transmissions. Unlike trying to pick up signals from light years away, the probe could do so from only millions of miles or might even send in scouts to orbit the planet for a closer look and listen.

    The Golden Record (Credit: NASA)

    Already the advantages of sending out such a system become obvious. The Bracewell probe would be intelligent enough and programmed with enough precautionary algorithms to determine if the civilization in question is safe to contact or whether it could be more in Earth's interests to stay silent. It could even remain on station for decades or even centuries as it sends back reports to Earth.

    The same watching brief might even apply if it finds a civilization that hasn't reached a high enough level of technology to communicate with. It could patiently wait and watch as it evolves, then decide whether to communicate as soon as it starts receiving radio transmissions. Or it could leave behind an artifact, as in 2001: a Space Odyssey, that would inform Earth if it was ever disturbed, while the probe itself moves on to more productive targets. Or it might duplicate itself and send the new one on.

    If the probe did decide to make contact, it would be in a far better position than someone trying to start a conversation across 100 light years of space. For one thing, the probe would have no trouble making its presence known by blasting a powerful signal at the planet, perhaps re-broadcasting television programs with a six hour delay on the same frequency as the original broadcasts to make clear that this isn't some kind of an echo.

    When contact is established, communications would be clear with a minimum of interference and responses would be received in real time. In addition, a probe orbiting the planet would have huge bandwidth at its disposal to send and receive a very large amount of data – much of it in the form of video.

    It would also be a simple task for the probe to instruct the natives on how to build compatible transceivers for the most efficient exchanges or to speak directly to Earth. On the other hand, the probe could act as a gatekeeper by relaying messages to Earth and censoring information, like our location, if the indigenes prove untrustworthy.

    Because the probe has artificial intelligence, it can adapt its communications to suit the recipient. It could indulge in true conversations with the natives, asking questions and being asked questions in turn as an exercise in both teaching and learning. It could even provide language lessons with suitable feedback. It might even be able to connect directly to the planet's version of the internet and use deep learning to better understand the culture or even to communicate directly with individuals.

    Indeed, these exchanges could make such a probe, in the broad sense, profitable. Instead of blasting energy into space from Earth with no known return on the investment, the probe could send its findings to Earth much more economically. In fact, unlike radio signals, an autonomous probe program would continue operate long after it had been abandoned back on Earth.

    It might even act as an insurance policy for our civilization. If Earth is destroyed, then at least our culture might live on – if only as a record, albeit an intelligent record. Or the probe could be programmed with a wide sampling of the human genome and supplied with information on how to construct a biological printer that would allow it to build human cells and clone them. Scientists are already doing this with simple viruses, so it may one day be possible with Homo sapiens. It may even be possible to bioengineer the ova at code level to adapt the colonists to their new environment.

    Taking things a step further, there's no reason why the probe must be mechanical. Today, scientists are able to encode images and even videos on bacterial DNA. Perhaps, in time, some sort of microorganism could be developed with complex messages encoded on it as a form of self-replicating courier placed in small probes or turned into spores and carried on the solar winds into the galaxy. Maybe one day our first message won't be heard over the radio, but seen through a microscope.

    Today, we have a lot more experience beaming messages into deep space as our unmanned missions probe the edges of the Solar System and beyond. We know more about how to send and receive data with a minimum of wattage, how to use tight-beam radio, and how to carry out precise tracking of space objects. We're even experimenting with laser communications in deep space and looking at new ways to send spacecraft to the nearest stars.

    But whatever methods we may adopt in the future, our first messages are already on their way and we're waiting for the reply. The odds are long, however, and we won't hear much for about 50,000 years, so there's time to put the kettle on.

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    12-08-2017 om 01:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Voyager scientists on the Jupiter encounter, Pluto's planet status and whether we'll find extraterrestrial life

    Voyager scientists on the Jupiter encounter, Pluto's planet status and whether we'll find extraterrestrial life

    A collage of Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, photographed in early March 1979 by Voyager 1. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

    A collage of Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, photographed in early March 1979 by Voyager 1. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

    (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech)

    Since their launches nearly 40 years ago, the Voyager missions have changed how we look at our solar system.

    In August and September 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched into space, on a trajectory that would take them to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond.

    They discovered Jupiter's ring, the dark spot on Neptune and the volcanoes on Io. In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human-made craft to enter interstellar space.

    Along for the rides on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the famous Golden Records: phonographs with music, greetings and photographs meant to give aliens an introduction to Earth and its inhabitants.

    The missions are the subject of a new documentary "The Farthest -- Voyager in Space," which will air on PBS stations at 9 p.m. on Aug. 23.

    There was an advance screening of the film at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on Aug. 10, complete with a panel featuring Voyager mission scientists Fran Bagenal (Co-Investigator Plasma Science) and Rich Terrile (Imaging Science), as well as Nick Sagan, the son of scientist Carl Sagan. Nick Sagan gave one of the greetings on the Golden Record when he was six years old.

    We spoke with Bagenal and Terrile before the screening on Facebook Live. You can watch the full interview in the video below, or just scroll past the video to read highlights.

    What is the most interesting thing we've learned from Voyager?

    Terrile: "I think the most interesting thing was that the solar system is far more surprising than our imaginations had led us to believe. The eye-opening thing about Voyager is we discovered that the real solar system was more like science fiction than science fact up until that point."

    Bagenal: "The moons of the giant planets were all so different. We thought it'd be like our moon, very boring, kind of dull. But no... each one has a character, a special geology, a whole special formation, all sorts of different things we learnt. Everytime we went to a new place it was totally different."

    When did you feel like Voyager had been successful?

    Terrile: "The very first encounter with Jupiter. We knew the most about Jupiter than any other objects we've been to. We've been there before with other spacecrafts. It's closer so telescopes can see it more clearly. But at Jupiter there were just so many surprises. And as Fran said, the moons were just this incredible variety of places with erupting volcanoes, moons that the geology changes at the same timeframe the weather changes on our planet. That was just  so mind blowing. That just set the stage for one incredible encounter after another."

    Bagenal: "One of the most exciting images I remember seeing was in the New York Times and it was above the fold and it was a picture of Jupiter with a great red spot with the moons in front. Famous picture and I'll always have it in my  mind. Going into the news agents, as they had back then, and looking in and seeing this picture was fantastic."

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    What do you hope is the future of space exploration?

    Terrile: "The future was always supposed to be something more exciting than the reality that has happened. I grew up in the '60s at the start of the space program, Apollo. If you extrapolated from what the beginnings of our space program were in 1961... by '69 we got to the moon. We had cars on the moon. We developed rendezvous docking, ability to get into orbit, space suits, all the technology we use today. It's hard to believe we're in 2017 and we don't even have the capability to go into Earth orbit with humans."

    Bagenal: "I'm going to disagree with you...there's nothing that humans can do in space that robots can't do better, faster, cheaper and more effectively except tourism. I would argue that the answer is robots and the future is robots. We're going to send a whole batch of robots out there to go to all sorts of places. The next place is Europa where we're going to go look at the ice and we're going to find out whether or not there could possibly be organisms underneath, potentially life-related organisms, and whether or not there's any communication between the ocean that's underneath and the surface. That will be very exciting and we'll send robots to go do it."

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    It's interesting that you mentioned tourism. I feel like that's a lot of what we hear about today when it comes to new innovations is people wanting to go and tour space and go on luxury trips. Do you feel like that's part of the future then?

    Terrile: "One of the things, I worked for Jim Cameron for awhile. And we talk about what makes something dramatic. Clearly a human in space is a dramatic thing. And he put it a little differently, he said what makes it dramatic is when the protagonist is in the picture. What technology allows us to do today is to take those images and the data we get from planetary encounters and not just make that available to one person who is walking on a planetary surface, but make that available to everybody through virtual reality and the kinds of things we're going to see in the next few years.

    "We're going to have that absolute visceral experience. Today, at JPL, we can put on these glasses and walk on the surface of Mars, bend down, look at the rocks and even cast shadows and leave footprints. It's an astonishing technology... that's really the future of exploring. Not just one person exploring, but all of us exploring."

    Bagenal: "The example I like to give is the Juno mission I'm involved in right now, which is a spacecraft that's in orbit around Jupiter. We have a camera on that spacecraft which is a citizen's science camera. We just took a bunch of pictures of the great red spot a couple weeks ago... all of those pictures are immediately made available to the public and the public takes those pictures, they explore, play with them and then they put them back up and share them... I think this is a new world. It isn't just those of us who are lucky to be professional scientists involved in this, it's everybody."

    What is one thing that you hope people learn from "The Farthest -- Voyager in Space?"

    Terrile: "For one thing, the breadth and depth and impact that mission had on science, technology and everything else. It's really astonishing. It's been 40 years since we launched Voyager and it's still going and it gave us our first view of the solar system. It changed our perspective. We learned not only how to explore planets but how to explore our own ability to command spacecraft.

    "Voyager was made with technology that was basically -- it was 1972 technology that was flown. I don't know if anybody remembers what it was like in 1972, but the magic that we carry around in our pockets -- cell phones -- would have been magic in those days. And computers and everything else have increased in capability in factors of several billions of time. Yet the technology that was frozen in 1972 has provided us with this incredible look."

    Bagenal: "The other thing is there was a strong team of people who worked very hard and did a lot of work and were creative and came up with ways to solve problems along the way. There was a lot more human activity needed with the technology, so the teams were quite large and they worked hard together to make this all work."

    The Voyager is famous for having the Golden Record. If you could put anything on it, what would you put on it today?

    Terrile: "A lot more data. To think about how little data there is on a phonograph record in those days. Very clearly it's hard to condense everything about ourselves and our planet and our society to what could fit on the phonograph."

    Pluto, will it ever be a planet again?

    Bagenal: "It is a planet! Hey! Dwarf people are people, dwarf planets are planets... actually what was very interesting was it got everybody debating, discussing and thinking what is a planet? Everybody got discussing stuff. Actually, despite the fact I've had big arguments with Mike Brown (the professor whose discovery of Eris led to the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet status), we're still good friends, it was all good actually because it got people discussing, debating and talking and so on and so forth."

    Will we ever find evidence of life or the possibility of living organisms on other planets?

    Terrile: "I think we will. If we don't find it in our solar system, which I think it is a very very good probability that it exists in our solar system, if we don't, we'll find evidence on other planets. We've found thousands of other planets and we're going to get to the point where we can look for signatures of life."

    Bagenal: "It's tough. Looking for life isn't easy. It's not going to be the first mission to Europa (one of Jupiter's moons) that will find it, probably. It may be two or three later down the road. But it's a good chance. Enceladus (the sixth moon of Saturn) is another place, perhaps Titan (another one of Saturn's moons). I think Mars is overrated, personally."

    Terrile: "Mars may have had life... and certainly, if Mars had a viable environment. And we know Mars and Earth exchanged material."

    Bagenal: "Right. It's probably just slime, nothing very exciting."

    Terrile: "A habitable environment early on could have had at least Earth life on it."

    Bagenal: "Yeah, but it probably didn't wiggle."

    Terrile: "And if life started on Mars, then maybe that life showed up on our planet. Maybe we're Martians. These are the kind of questions that are actually valid in astrobiology."

    Bagenal: "It is true. The exchange of material between the planets, we're just beginning to explore the possibilities and ideas."

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    Do you feel the fact we've haven't gone to space in a while is a challenge for the next generation?

    Bagenal: "We have via robots. I see people excited by seeing what's happening on all the many robots we have on many planets around our solar system and what we're seeing with telescopes out further and beyond. I think what's exciting about the next generation is to go look at all these other places we've not been to yet and to use these robotic explorers to develop and find out more about these places.

    "It's a challenge, because the technology is difficult and you have to make it work -- but it's a good challenge."

    Terrile: "I also think we're seeing an erosion of science where people try to politicize it for their own needs, with things like climate change. They'll say 'oh those scientists, they have their own agenda. They're like the pharmaceutical industry or these other groups' but we're not. We're out to find the truth. We're out to explore. And whatever answer comes out, that's the answer. That's the truth. We're very careful about that. When the truth hurts, when the truth is not something that is politically viable, I'm afraid that people cash out on us for that."

    What is a question you always wish people ask you about your work, but never do?

    Bagenal: "I think some of the motivation, our own insight and drive. We sort-of talked a little bit about how we got into the science, but now what motivates me is seeing the excitement in the public arena. They're excited by what they see and what they learn... That gives me a lot of pleasure now, in seeing  that people are excited by science, thinking about how to communicate science and how to show people the excitement of working in science and not having them frightened about science and that they can be involved in science and do these things too."

    Terrile: "A lot of us are very, very lucky. Most people work jobs and it's their jobs, it's something they do. For most of us in this arena, we would do this work if we weren't being paid for it. It's an absolutely pleasure. It's an honor to do the work we do. It's really, really fun."

    "The Farthest -- Voyager in Space" airs at 9 p.m. on Aug. 23 on your local PBS station. For more information visit pbs.org.

    This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Rich Terrile's name.

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    12-08-2017 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Intelligent Life Might Always Go Extinct Once It Develops Technology

    Intelligent Life Might Always Go Extinct Once It Develops Technology

    12-08-2017 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.5 UFO Reports by Pilots and Astronauts That Will Have You Convinced

    5 UFO Reports by Pilots and Astronauts That Will Have You Convinced

    UFO encounters are often dismissed by skeptics as the product of attention-seekers, hoaxes, or simply overactive imaginations. But what happens when the UFO is seen by some of the most trained and trustworthy professionals around? Compared to encounters by ground-dwelling civilians, cases of UFOs seen by pilots and astronauts are some of the most credible UFO stories around.
    These UFO sightings are, perhaps, the most convincing because these witnesses are highly respected professionals whom we trust with our lives. These individuals have nothing to gain by putting their careers and reputations on the line reporting bizarre happenings in the skies.
    More shocking is the sheer volume of these reported incidents that happen every year. Here’s a list of some of the more notable sightings of alien spacecraft by pilots and astronauts.

    1. Astronaut Leroy Chiao Reported a UFO While on a Space Walk with the ISS


    In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao, commander of the International Space Station, reported a UFO encounter during a space walk. He and a colleague were installing navigation antennas when something unusual caught Chiao’s eye. Below him in the Earth’s atmosphere he saw a line of lights that looked like “an upside-down question mark.”
    One non-UFO explanation for Chiao’s sighting offered by skeptics is that Chiao simply saw the bright lights of a fishing boat hundreds of miles below him. Of course, those would have to be some pretty insanely powerful fishing lights to be seen all the way in outer space – and why Chiao didn’t see the lights of other boats all over the ocean has never been explained.

    2. Turkish Pilots Saw a Mysterious Object – And So Did Citizens Below

    Pilots from Turkish Airlines were flying from the Turkish resort town of Bodrum to the country’s largest city, Istanbul. Suddenly, a mysterious green light appeared over the plane. As the pilot later testified,“An unidentified object with green lights passed 2- to 3,000 feet above us. Then it disappeared all of a sudden. We are guessing that it was a UFO.”
    The UFO was also reported to be seen around Istanbul’s Silivri district.
    The General Directorate of State Airports Authority denied spotting any image that fitted the description of the pilot. Doubters claim that the pilots saw a green laser pointer that was reflecting off a cloud. However, it seems pretty hard to believe pilots would never have seen a laser pointer before – plus, that would have had to be a pretty huge laser pointer to create an effect such as they described.
    For the record, pilots do not generally report fleeting flashes of light as UFOs.

    3. Reports Claim UFOs Met Astronauts During the Moon Landing

    According to unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after that historic landing on the moon in Apollo 11 on July 21, 1969. Viewers listening to the broadcast heard Armstrong refer to lights above a crater before his audio feed went dead for a few minutes.
    According to former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF-receiving equipment (that bypassed NASA’s broadcasting) picked up the following exchange:
    NASA: What’s there?
    Apollo 11: These babies are huge, sir! Enormous!
    OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it!
    I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there,
    Lined up on the far side of the crater edge!
    They’re on the moon watching us!
    Armstrong and Aldrin have denied the exchange took place, but other have insisted that off the record, the astronauts have admitted to many scientists that they did indeed see something.

    4. Mercury Astronaut Slayton Tracked a Flying Saucer


    Gordon Cooper wasn’t the only Mercury astronaut to report strange encounters. Deke Slayton revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951:
    I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer, it looked like a weather balloon, grey and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing, it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45-degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

    5. Pilots Reported a Flying Saucer Over Bariloche Airport During a Mysterious Blackout

    In 1995, an Aerolineas Argentinas flight landing at Bariloche airport in Argentina reported that it was “buzzed” by a luminous disk moving in a way that defied the laws of physics. According to reports, the pilot was forced to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision. Strangely, at the same time, there was also a mysterious power shortage in Bariloche.
    There was also a power outage at the airport. One Argentine newspaper reported the air traffic control personnel as saying, “The control instruments went crazy.”
    The UFO was also seen by personnel on the ground, as well as the crew of a police plane flying 600 meters (2,000 ft) above.

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    12-08-2017 om 00:31 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Paralyzed Monkeys Able to Walk Again With Brain Implant. Human Trials Are Next

    Paralyzed Monkeys Able to Walk Again With Brain Implant. Human Trials Are Next

    Jemere Ruby
    IN BRIEF
    • Using a system of electrodes, transmitters, receivers, scientists were able to restore leg function in a primate, completely bypassing damaged nerves.
    • While this remarkable feat may be decades away from human use, it is a promising development for the hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. with spinal cord injuries

    INSTANT FUNCTION

    Electrodes implanted in the brain and spine have helped paralyzed monkeys walk. The neurologists behind the study reported that the implants restored function in the primates’ legs almost instantaneously. The findings are detailed in Nature

    The spinal cord of the subject monkey was partially cut, so the legs had no way of communicating with the brain. To mend the brain-spine interface, electrodes were placed on key parts of the monkey’s body. Implants were placed inside the monkey’s brain at the part that controls leg movement, together with a wireless transmitter sitting outside the skull. Electrodes were also placed along the spinal cord, below the injury.

    A computer program decoded brain signals indicative of leg movement and transmitted the signals to the electrodes in the spine. Within just a few seconds, the monkey was moving its leg. In a few days, it was walking on a treadmill.

    Alain Herzog/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

    “The primate was able to walk immediately once the brain-spine interface was activated. No physiotherapy or training was necessary,” said Erwan Bezard, one of the authors of the study.

    PRIMATE-TO-PRIMATE

    This study is a massive breakthrough—it’s the first time implants have helped a primate walk. There has been much research to develop tech for paralyzed patients, but most lab trials were done on rodents. “It seems the principles learned in rats are now translating into primates,” said Jen Collinger, a University of Pittsburgh bioengineer.

    The results were astoundingly positive, but the researchers say that it will take at least a decade to fine-tune the technology for use in humans. Still, our bodies are greatly similar to that of monkeys, and the researchers believe transition could be quick.

    Exciting news about the study is that the components that the researchers used are legal for human use in Switzerland. The Swiss group of the study have started clinical trial with eight people with partial leg paralysis.

    We’re all eager for further development in the study—an innovation that could greatly change the lives of approximately 282,000 people in the U.S. with spinal cord injuries.

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    12-08-2017 om 00:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Alien 'lava lamp' with dying magnetic field orbited Earth a billion years ago – science

    Alien 'lava lamp' with dying magnetic field orbited Earth a billion years ago – science

    Ancient Moon rocks vital clue in space dynamo study

    The Moon's liquid core spun acting like dynamo to produce a magnetic field ...
    Illustration by Hernán Cañellas

    Scientists studying prehistoric lunar rocks have found evidence of a lava-lamp-like dynamo at the heart of our Moon’s metallic core that generated a long-lasting magnetic field.

    The Moon samples were collected in 1971 by astronauts, David Scott and James Irwin, during NASA’s Apollo 15 space mission.

    Now, a paper published in Science Advances this Friday reveals that one particular sample was formed one to 2.5 billion years ago in a relatively weak magnetic field of about five microteslas. Older rocks, said to be about four billion years old, showed signs that they were formed when the Moon’s magnetic field was 100 microteslas.

    In other words, the Moon's magnetic field weakened from 100 microteslas roughly four billion years ago to five microteslas around two billion years ago. That's a billion years longer than previously thought – it was generally thought the Moon's field strength sharply nosedived about three billion years ago.

    The paper's authors believe the Moon may once have had a molten metallic core. The slow churn of the liquid acted as a dynamo that powered the magnetic field around Earth's natural satellite. Benjamin Weiss, coauthor of the study and professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, said this week the concept of a planetary magnetic field being produced by a moving liquid core “is only a few decades old.”

    "What powers this motion on Earth and other bodies, particularly on the Moon, is not well-understood," he said.

    The researchers have proposed the dynamo is a result of the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon. At one point, the Moon was much closer to the Earth, and the gravitational forces present may have been strong enough to rotate the Moon’s exterior, dragging its liquid metallic center into a swirling motion, thus creating a powerful magnetic field.

    But as the Moon moved further away, the gravitational pull weakened and the Moon’s magnetic field started to drop. "As the Moon cools, its core acts like a lava lamp – low-density stuff rises because it's hot or because its composition is different from that of the surrounding fluid," Weiss said. "That's how we think the Earth's dynamo works, and that's what we suggest the late lunar dynamo was doing as well."

    Sonia Tikoo, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor at Rutgers University in the US, told The Register on Thursday she hopes more lunar samples will be collected in future to help pinpoint when the Moon’s dynamo faded away.

    “It would be great to obtain more lunar rocks, particularly from locations that were not sampled during the Apollo missions," she said. "There are several missions under development around the world – most in the proposal stage, but some beyond – that could involve a robotic sample return from the Moon in the next decade or so.

    “It would be even more awesome if NASA could send more humans to the Moon but that doesn't seem to be in the cards for the near future. China is aiming to send a crewed mission to the Moon by the mid-2030s. In the meantime, scientists will continue working with the Apollo samples we already have as well as with lunar meteorites that have landed on Earth.”

    The rocks have, essentially, helped scientists narrow down the timeline of the Moon’s dynamo. "Today the moon's field is essentially zero," Weiss said. "And we now know it turned off somewhere between the formation of this rock and today." ®

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    11-08-2017
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    SETI WANTS YOU TO DETECT ALIEN LASER SIGNALS

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    SETI doesn’t just believe in aliens. They believe aliens are broadcasting via radio signals and lasers everywhere—and that you could possibly find them.

    The SETI (Searth for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) Institute’s newest crowdfunding campaign knows they’re out there, and that so many must be out there that if everyone has E.T.’s on their radar 24/7, they could finally find something that isn’t a false alarm from a telemetry signal that ran into their radio telescope at 3 in the morning. Called “Laser SETI: First-Ever All-Sky All-the-Time-Search,” the project is getting a boost from an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that is blasting off towards $100,000.

    The things you see on Indiegogo never cease to amaze me.

    While Laser SETI will still need hi-res cameras and optics designed for astronomy if this thing is going to take off, it’s still exponentially more cost effective than sending satellites to every known corner of the universe. We are just microbes in a universe so vast that just about anything could be hiding in places so far away that they haven’t even been reached by satellites or seen by even the most powerful telescopic eyes from Earth or space. It’s also hard to believe that there isn’t anything else crawling around when our universe is 14 billion years old, which is more than enough time for just about anything, intelligent or otherwise, to evolve.

    It's very difficult to imagine that we are alone,” said SETI CEO Bill Diamond for these reasons. “Yet extraterrestrial life still eludes our efforts to find it. Now you have a chance to be a part of the technology that can change that forever."

    SETI assumes that aliens are always on air. Whether they are trying to reach us with superpowered lasers, monster radio transmitters or anything else our Earthling brains might have not even dreamed up yet remains to be seen. There have been previous doubts about extraterrestrial beings anywhere from hundreds to billions of light-years away trying to target a planet they don’t even know exists. The idea may strike you as a kind of reverse X-Files.

    Laser SETI is the first endeavor to defy this thinking "because it's designed to find a very short ping that doesn't stay on all the time — it can detect a laser flash as short as a microsecond, and one that might not repeat for days, weeks, or even longer," as Diamond explained.

    Now watch the video, then take off to the campaign and donate. For science.

    (via Seeker)

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    UFO hunters film orb over Stawamus Chief in Canada

    11-08-2017 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.New Study Explains How Some Planets May Never Become Habitable

    New Study Explains How Some Planets May Never Become Habitable

     
    IN BRIEF
    A new study explains how alien planets might skip straight from being too cold to support life to being too hot, without ever becoming habitable. That could trim the number of planets we should investigate for life.

    This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii and masses as compared to those of Earth. On the bottom row, the same numbers are displayed for the bodies of our inner solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The TRAPPIST-1 planets orbit their star extremely closely, with periods ranging from 1.5 to only about 20 days. This is much shorter than the period of Mercury, which orbits our sun in about 88 days.

    Jupiter and Major Moons

    TRAPPIST-1 Comparison to Solar System and Jovian Moons

    IN THE ZONE

    Earth’s location in space is perfect: not too close to but not too far from the Sun, it gives our planet the balmy temperature that helps supports life. However, a new study suggests that it might be even more difficult than previously expected to find a celestial body that falls within this ‘Goldilocks zone.’

    The habitable zone of any given star is the area where planets can maintain a temperature that allows liquid water to be found on its surface. Too close to the star, and that water will turn to vapor — too far away, and it’ll turn to ice.

    However, stars like our sun gradually get more luminous over time, which changes the parameters of their habitable zone. This means that icy planets can feasibly reach a point where their conditions are warm enough to support life — but according to a recent study in Nature Geoscience, that’s not always the way the situation will pan out.

    TOO HOT TO HANDLE

    A planet’s ability to support life-sustaining temperatures hinges on at least two factors: the amount of ice on the surface, and the amount of greenhouse gases being released into its atmosphere. Yet many icy planets don’t have the volcanic activity needed to contain any greenhouse gases besides water vapor.

    So this study’s team, led by Jun Yang of Peking University, developed a model that could simulate how the climate of an ice-covered planet with only water vapor in the atmosphere would change over time. The results suggested it would take 10 to 40 percent more energy than the Earth receives from the sun before they began to melt.

    Without ice to reflect incoming heat, this heat-intensive process was often followed by a speedy uptick in temperature that caused the planet’s oceans to boil off. And without water, these worlds wouldn’t be able to support life after all.

    This isn’t necessarily bad news. Thanks to increasingly sharp-eyed instruments, the number of known exoplanets has skyrocketed in the past two decades, from a mere handful in the mid-90s to nearly 2000 today. In February 2014 alone, NASA announced a “planet bonanza” discovery of 715 new planets, found by the Kepler satellite. But identifying which of these distant worlds might be friendly to life is still tricky.

    Scientists are able to infer the atmospheric content of a planet based on the way light passes through it, a process that’s already been used to detect water on a distant Earth-sized planet. However, this method doesn’t tell scientists what else is happening on the planet — such as whether it’s in the runaway, ocean-boiling cycle Yang’s team identified.

    If we’re on the search for a planet that humans can live on, having this information at hand gives us more insight into which worlds are in contention.

    https://futurism.com/ }

    11-08-2017 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

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    11-08-2017 om 23:16 geschreven door peter  

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    11-08-2017 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

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    11-08-2017 om 22:55 geschreven door peter  

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    11-08-2017 om 22:43 geschreven door peter  

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    11-08-2017 om 22:39 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.IF YOU THINK INVENTION SECRECY IS A “CONSPIRACY THEORY” YOU’VE JUST BEEN PROVEN WRONG…

    IF YOU THINK INVENTION SECRECY IS A “CONSPIRACY THEORY” YOU’VE JUST BEEN PROVEN WRONG…

    Government secrecy is running rampant in an age where more and more people are demanding transparency. Did you know that the U.S. Government classifies over 500 million pages of documents each year? Justification for the mass classification of information is (apparently) done for the sake of “national security,” but as we know:

    The dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts, far outweigh the dangers that are cited to justify them. There is a very grave danger that an announced need for an increased level of security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of censorship and concealment. That I do not tend to permit, so long as it’s in my control.” – JFK (source)

    If a scholar wanted to research political, historical, scientific, or any other type of archival work, it would prove difficult and limiting seeing that most of their government’s activities are kept a secret. It is truly impossible to access the factual history of their country. The declassification of classified documents (a small portion) does not occur until decades after that information has been concealed, one great example of that is the UFO phenomenon, once believed to be a “conspiracy theory” by the masses before the substantial release of government documents showing otherwise. You can read more about that and access some of those documents here. Evidence is now pointing to the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is no different.

    The office is supposed to legally protect the inventions of entrepreneurs and companies, some of whom have developed ground breaking technology. Unfortunately, that’s not the case as new documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal how the Patent Office has been using a secret system to withhold the approval of some applications.

    This 50-page document was obtained by Kilpatrick Towsend & Stockton, LLP, who commonly represent major tech companies that include Apple, Google and Twitter (to name a few). You can view that entire document HERE. (1)

    The program delaying patent applications is called the Sensitive Application Warning System (SWAS). Usually, when an application is submitted for a patent approval it requires a couple of examiners who work with the Patent office to go through their process of approval. This process usually takes approximately 1 to 2 years, but  applications that are filed in SAWS must be approved from several people, and can be delayed for a number of years.

    There is no official channel to notify an applicant once their patent is placed in the system, and the Patent Office has denied requests to divulge what applications are on the SAWS list.” (source)

    The documents also indicate areas of technology that might have a patent application placed in the SAWS program – these include smartphones, internet-enabling systems and more. This information is set to be published in an online journal called “Law360” to inform the public. Tech Columnist Alyssa Bereznak at Yahoo News states that most companies are fully aware of this.

    I first came across this recent information in her article, which you can view here, but I felt compelled to add more information.

    As you will see below, there is more information that has surfaced prior to these documents that suggest this type of “invention secrecy” goes far beyond these technologies.

    One great example (out of many) of delayed patent applications comes from Dr. Gerald F. Ross. He filed a patent application for a new invention he had devised to defeat the jamming of electromagnetic transmissions at specified frequencies. It was not until June 17, 2014 (almost 37 years later) that this patent was granted. (2)

    Invention Secrecy Is Still Going Strong

    As great as it is to see new information pertaining to invention secrecy come to light, it’s also important to note (as reported by the Federation of American Scientists; see annotated bibliography) that there were over 5000 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2014, which marked the highest number of  secrecy orders in effect since 1994.(3)

    This is all thanks to an act many people are unaware of. It’s called the “Invention Secrecy Act” and it was written up in 1951. Under this act, patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders. These orders can restrict their publication if government agencies believe that their disclosure would be harmful to national security.(4)(5)

    As mentioned earlier, “national security” has become an excuse and justification for the classification of a large amount of information on a variety of topics that the public is deliberately kept in the dark about. Apparently, many of these projects and inventions go far above and beyond presidential knowledge.

    It is ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars, have been spent on projects which both congress and the commander in chief know nothing about.”  (source) – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister.

    So what type of technology is under restriction under the Invention Secrecy Act? We don’t really know, but a previous list from 1971 was obtained by researcher Michael Ravnitzky. Most of the technology listed seems to be related to various military applications. You can view that list HERE. (6)

    As Steven Aftergood from the Federation of American Scientists reports:

    The 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction if the photovoltaics were more than 20% efficient. Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction if they offered conversion efficiencies in “excess of 70-80%.” (source)

    Secrecy is No Secret 

    A couple of years before the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, the National Security Act was created. As a result, a number of intelligence groups and executive bodies followed. None of these groups had any active congressional oversight. The United States has a history of government agencies existing in secret for years. The National Security Agency (NSA) was founded in 1952, its existence was hidden until the mid 1960’s. Even more secretive is the National Reconnaissance Office, which was founded in 1960 but remained completely secret for 30 years. Along with this secrecy is the information these agencies obtained, and continue to obtain until this day.

    Special Access Programs are another great example of secrecy. From these we have unacknowledged and waived SAPs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are better known as ‘deep black programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.” (7)(8)

    We don’t really hear about black budget programs, or about people who have actually looked into them. However, the topic was discussed in 2010 by Washington Post journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin. Their investigation lasted approximately two years and concluded that America’s classified world has:

    Become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.” (9)

    You can read more about the Black Budget in detail HERE.

    Today, it seems to be evidently clear that secrecy has lead to what Dwight Eisenhower warned us about:

    In the council of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential disaster of the rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” (source)

    What Has All This Secrecy Led To?

    The fact that so much information is concealed from the public domain has led to a kind of “breakaway civilization.” A term coined by Richard Dolan.

    Someone, or some groups are “in the know.” This or these groups who have had access to information over many decades that the public hasn’t is no doubt living and perceiving the world in a different way from what the masses do. This has led to a world within worlds, a separate civilization apart of our own who have access to knowledge that we don’t. Who are they? What are they doing? Why are they doing it? What do they know?

    You can read what Richard has to say about it here.

    Sources:

    (1) http://www.scribd.com/doc/249032641/SAWS-FOIA-Response 

    (2)http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2

    Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,754,801.PN.&OS=PN/8,754,801&RS

    =PN/8,754,801

    (3)  http://fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/stats.html

    (4) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/part-II/chapter-17

    (5)http://fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/35usc17.html

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    (6) http://fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/pscrl.pdf 

    (7) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-105sdoc2/content-detail.html

    (8) Dolan, M. Richard and Zabel, Bryce. A.D. After Disclosure. New Page Books. 2012

    (9) http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

    Related Article: Nikola Tesla’s 5 Lost Inventions That Threatened The Global Elite

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    US ARMY VETERAN’S NEW ACRONYM FOR NASA: “NEVER A STRAIGHT ANSWER”

    11-08-2017 om 21:49 geschreven door peter  

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    NASA staat voor Never A Straight Answer. Sergeant-majoor is woest dat de overheid dit voor ons achterhoudt

    NASA staat voor Never A Straight Answer. Sergeant-majoor is woest dat de overheid dit voor ons achterhoudt

    In 1964 wisten we al dat er tenminste vier verschillende groepen waren die naar de aarde kwamen, ons in de gaten hielden en die ons bestudeerden.

    Men concludeerde dat ze geen bedreiging vormden omdat ze meerdere keren hadden laten zien dat ze over ongelooflijk geavanceerde technologieën beschikten.

    Als ze vijandig of kwaadaardig waren, zouden we weerloos zijn geweest. Als ze kwade bedoelingen hadden, zou het al lang over zijn geweest voor ons.

    Hoogste niveau

    Dit zijn de woorden van de Amerikaan Robert (Bob) Dean, die 28 jaar in het leger diende en zich opwerkte tot sergeant-majoor eerste klas.

    Tijdens een interview met zender RT sprak de Canadese oud-minister van Defensie Paul Hellyer ook over vier buitenaardse soorten die de aarde al duizenden jaren bezoeken.

    In andere landen wordt eveneens op het hoogste niveau onderzoek gedaan naar dit fenomeen.

    Serieus

    Op de website van de CIA staat een document dat laat zien hoe de spionagedienst informatie verzamelde over een samenwerkingsverband tussen de Sovjet-Unie en China.

    Bijna 20 jaar geleden besloten wetenschappers uit beide landen gezamenlijk onderzoek te doen naar UFO’s.

    Het gaat hier opnieuw om een document waaruit blijkt hoe serieus overheden in het verleden onderzoek hebben gedaan naar dit fenomeen.

    Ufologen uit de twee landen kwamen bijeen in de stad Dalnegorsk. De specialisten wisselden videomateriaal en foto’s uit en werkten aan een programma om incidenten te onderzoeken.

    Never A Straight Answer

    “Dames en heren, mijn overheid, de NASA, wat volgens veel Amerikanen staat voor Never A Straight Answer (nooit een eerlijk antwoord), vernietigde 40 filmrolletjes van het Apolloprogramma – de vlucht naar de maan, de vlucht rond de maan, de maanlandingen en de maanwandelingen,” zei Dean.

    “Ze vernietigden 40 filmrolletjes,” benadrukte hij. “Het gaat hier om duizenden frames waarvan de zogenaamde autoriteiten niet willen dat je ze ziet. Ik ben woest.”

    Onderstaande presentatie verzorgde Dean in juli 2009 in Barcelona:

    [Collective-evolution

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterious stone slab discovered in Spain is covered with ancient symbols that no one can read

    Who carved the symbols and what were they trying to say?

    Martha HenriquesBy 

    Montoro stela
    The stela of Montoro is carved with dozens of peculiar symbols.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017

    At 1.5m high and 85cm wide, the stela of Montoro is an imposing artefact. It is a stone slab covered in engravings thought to date from the Iron Age. The symbols themselves are all more or less recognisable as letters from extinct languages. But no one can read what the symbols say.

    Archaeologist Leonardo García Sanjuán of the University of Seville began studying the stela after reading a short notice on the discovery published in the Montoro Archaeological Museum newsletter. He could see that there was something unusual about it, and went out to see it with his colleague Marta Díaz-Guardamino at Southampton University in the UK.

    The slab had first been unearthed by a farmer ploughing his field in Montoro in southern Spain in 2002. He dumped it in a heap of other stones at the side of the field and thought nothing more about it. Two years later, a couple of rangers from the regional government's environmental department discovered it and noticed a series of strange markings covering one of its sides.

    The rangers took it to the local museum, where it stayed more or less undisturbed for eight years until García Sanjuán and Díaz-Guardamino came to visit in 2012. They were puzzled to find that the letters – or graphemes – just didn't make any sense.

    "It's rare to find something like this – the inscriptions on this stela cannot be read. There isn't a single script that makes sense of them," García Sanjuán told IBTimes UK.

    The majority of the symbols were easily identifiable, as they had been taken from a range of different languages. On top of this, some were arranged in a circular or spiral pattern while others were carved in no discernible order.

    "They seem to be an assorted collection of graphemes taken from different scripts and put together on this stone," García Sanjuán said.

    Deciphering the indecipherable

    So what does this strange collection of graphemes mean? To answer this, one of the key problems was first finding out how old they were. This could give the archaeologists some clue about the cultural context in which they were written.

    Straight away, the team came up against difficulties. The farmer whose field the stone came from wasn't keen to let the archaeologists start digging up parts of his land to find other contemporary artefacts they could use to estimate the stela's age.

    Montoro stela
    The stone slab stands at 1.5 metres high.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017

    "He had only given us permission to excavate one small pit. We were not very lucky, and did not find any dating material there. So now we have to go by indirect evidence," García Sanjuán said.

    The writing includes elements of a north-eastern palaeo-Hispanic script, Graeco-Iberian script, Proto-Sinaitic and Proto-Canaanite inscriptions, epigraphic South Arabian and Phoenician scripts. People from these cultures were all more or less active in the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age. The engravings are estimated to have been made between the 9th and the end of the 3rd century BCE.

    The stone is remarkable for these peculiar inscriptions, said John Koch, a Celtic language and literature researcher at the University of Wales who was not involved in the research.

    "There are a lot of stelae but none of them are like this. You've got these Bronze Age ones that don't have writing on them, and that have pictures of warriors and weapons instead. Then centuries later you've got ones with writing on them - strings of signs in order, sometimes with a line below and above them as well," Koch said.

    "But this is completely different. In terms of arrangement it looks like the old warrior stelae. But it has letters and some look like the later ones that have real writing on them."

    This stone could fill an important gap in the cultural shift from the earlier pictoral carvings to the later written inscriptions. But even so, it's still not clear how the stela came to be made. Thinking about what was going on in Spain in this period led García Sanjuán and Díaz-Guardamino to two potential hypotheses about the its origin.

    Montoro stela
    The stela was found in a field by the Torre de Villaverde.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017

    Illiterate locals or armies on the move?

    The first hypothesis was that the stela was engraved in the early Iron Age, between the 9th and 5th centuries BCE.

    "What we have here perhaps would be local people – who were very probably illiterate people – replicating on a stone the signs that they have seen of or been told about, which they probably did not understand," García Sanjuán said. "This would reflect very early contact between local people and people from outside Iberia – most likely Phoenicians coming from the eastern Mediterranean."

    The other option is that the markings were made a few hundred years after this in the late Iron Age, between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE. This was a time when the Roman Empire was expanding. The Romans defeated the Carthaginians in the second Punic war, and imperialism began to spread across Iberia.

    "If you think for a moment – in the 3rd century BCE, southern Spain was a very busy part of Europe. The Carthaginians had a very powerful kingdom," García Sanjuán said.

    The family of the well-known Carthaginian general Hannibal – the Barcas – became established in Iberia around this time with grand expansionist strategies. They wanted to control Iberia and to exploit the iron, gold and silver they expected to find there. But in doing so they upset allies of Rome, and Rome declared war on the Carthaginians in retaliation.

    Montoro stela
    The archaeologists excavated a small part of the field where the stela was found - but discovered no helpful artefacts to date the stela.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017

    "At that time there were very big armies with thousands of people marching across Iberia. The Romans and the Carthaginians had many foreigners in their armies who were paid to fight for them."

    These people had very different ethnic backgrounds. The stone could in some sense be a mark of the diversity of some long-forgotten military unit, or it celebrates the diversity of people fighting together in an army.

    The former hypothesis – that of the illiterate locals who were imitating writing – would be the much more exciting one if it is true, said Koch.

    "These people could be trying to write something, but I don't think they succeeded. It looks more like they're getting the idea that these stelae should have letters on them. That's part of the status that writing brings," Koch said. "So this could be a way of competing culturally with literate people. They haven't quite found the way to adapt the writing to their languages yet, but they seem to be trying."

    But at this stage, with no additional evidence to put the stela in context, these hypotheses remain somewhat speculative. Until more artefacts are found, its true origin can only be imagined. But one thing remains certain – the stela is an exceptional find, and it was made in exceptional circumstances.

    "It's a very special stone. Somebody took the trouble of carving it with all these motifs and placing it somewhere. It must have been very important to the people who made it," García Sanjuán said.

    The research is published in the journal Antiquity.

    Montoro stela
    Archaeologists have been studying the stela for several years, but its exact age remains elusive.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017
    Montoro stela
    The farmer who owns the field where the stela was discovered is reluctant to allow further excavation.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017
    Montoro stela
    The inscriptions are graphemes from scripts from as far away as present-day Syria.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017
    Montoro stela
    The nature of the people who carved the graphemes remains a mystery for now.Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino / Antiquity 2017
    This article was first published on August 8, 2017

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Stenen plaat uit ijzertijd stelt experts voor raadsel. Niemand weet wat deze mysterieuze symbolen betekenen
    Stenen plaat stelt experts voor raadsel. Niemand weet wat deze mysterieuze symbolen betekenen

    Stenen plaat uit ijzertijd stelt experts voor raadsel. Niemand weet wat deze mysterieuze symbolen betekenen

    Een stenen plaat die bedekt is met vreemde symbolen stelt wetenschappers voor een raadsel. De plaat, beter bekend als de ‘stele van Montoro’, is gevonden in een weiland in Spanje.

    Experts kunnen de symbolen maar niet ontcijferen.

    Het voorwerp dateert uit de ijzertijd en bevat onderdelen van de Spaanse, Griekse, Iberische, Kanaänitische en Zuid-Arabische taal.

    Weiland

    De stele van Montoro is 1,5 meter hoog en 85 centimeter breed. De graveringen zijn tussen de negende en derde eeuw voor Christus aangebracht, blijkt uit onderzoek dat deze maand in Antiquity is verschenen.

    De plaat werd in 2002 ontdekt door een boer die zijn weiland aan het omploegen was en langs de kant van de weg gedumpt.

    Twee jaar later werden de vreemde symbolen opgemerkt en kwam het voorwerp uit bij het archeologisch museum van Montoro, waar het acht jaar bleef liggen, schrijft de International Business Times.

    Onleesbaar

    In 2012 analyseerde Garcia Sanjuan van de Universiteit van Sevilla de plaat. Hij kwam tot de ontdekking dat de symbolen zijn afgeleid van verschillende talen.

    “De inscripties op deze stele zijn onleesbaar,” zei hij. “Er is geen enkel schrift waar je dit mee kunt vergelijken.”

    Mysterie

    Hij sprak van een zeldzame vondst. Tot er meer voorwerpen worden gevonden blijft de plaat waarschijnlijk een mysterie.

    “Het [voorwerp] moet erg belangrijk zijn geweest voor de mensen die dit hebben gemaakt,” zei dr. Sanjuan.

    Kijk hier voor meer foto’s.

    [IBTimes

    11-08-2017 om 21:20 geschreven door peter  

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    'I ATTRACT UFOs' Man snaps 'perfect flying saucer' and multiple mysterious objects

    A MAN believes he could be a magnet of UFOs after photographing scores of them in remote locations for several decades.

    UFO-News

    Pierre Beake*Jon Austin

    A 'classic flying saucer; shape snapped by Pierre Beake over the Col de Vence

    People saw those lights above the mountain. There was no noise and they moved so slowly.

    Pierre Beake

    Pierre Beake has captured several images of mystery objects which appear to look like a classic flying saucer, floating rocks, and a number of orbs or strange lights which appeared in his native France and the south west of England.

    Mr Beake has spent years photographing the rocky Col de Vence area near Nice in the south of France, which is reportedly the scene of many paranormal events, in the hope of obtaining evidence of UFOs.

    The majority of his bizarre photographs have been taken there.

    Mr Beake produced his album of images at the 27th annual Glastonbury Symposium, an annual conference dedicated to the paranormal, conspiracy theories, alternative thought, and new age philosophies.

    UFO-Flare

    Pierre Beake*Jon Austin

    The 'mysterious lights' that were snapped in the 1970s.

    He told the symposium: "It is one hour from Nice. It is a rocky place where you get a strange feeling. I go once a week to Col de Vence. Why there are so many paranormal things there I do not know."

    Referring to one image of what appeared to be a number of lights above the rocks, he said: "People saw those lights above the mountain. There was no noise and they moved so slowly."

    He said it happened in the 1970s and had never happened again.

    He said: "It was very rare and can't be army helicopters, because you would have heard them.

    UFO-Flare

    Pierre Beake*Jon Austin

    Two separate 'flying rocks' snapped by Pierre Beake in France.

    "There was a big ball of light which moved backwards and disappeared. It is unsolved and there can be no explanation."

    Other pictures he showed appeared to show huge glowing orbs with a tail.

    He has also captured what appeared to be flying rocks.

    Turning to another image, he said: "We took this and did not see anything while making the film.

    "A cloud was just passing in front and there was this thing in the sky which was enormous.

    UFO-Sun

    Pierre Beake*Jon Austin

    Pierre Beake claims these are orbs with tails that he snapped.

    "It looked like a stone or rock, they are part of the Col de Vence mystery."

    He has also snapped a number of weird orbs, lights and apparent UFOs while exploring crop circle hotspots in the south west of England.

    He said: "Some people say they have been here for 10 years and got nothing on camera.

    "I can't help them, and do not have the solution, but some people say I just must attract them."

    11-08-2017 om 18:31 geschreven door peter  

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    Make Your Own Space Jams With the Sounds of the TRAPPIST-1 System

    Image: System Sounds

    If you, like me, are an overly sweaty nerd with no musical ability who has always dreamed of being a less sweaty nerd with some musical ability, now’s your chance: a team of astronomers and musicians have created a program that allows you make songs with the sounds of planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. While their program won’t make you less prone to perspiration, you will definitely have something that can rightfully be called a work of art.

    The player is part of a bigger program, aptly called System Sounds, which is the brainchild of a group of astronomers who’ve been studying the “resonant chain” of the TRAPPIST-1 star’s seven Earth-sized exoplanets, which were announced to the world back in February. A resonant chain describes how the alien planets’ gravitational tugs work together to keep them all in stable and circular orbits around each other and their host star. As astronomer Dan Tamayo explained to Gizmodo back in May, TRAPPIST-1 represents the longest resonant chain “that has ever been discovered in a planetary system.”

    The Creators

    THE CREATORS : Andrew Santaguida , Matt Russo and  Dan Tamayo

    According to the astronomers, the TRAPPIST-1 system’s resonant chain is mathematically quite eloquent, as the planets seem to conduct their own symphony within the system.

    “Seven Earth-sized planets around a nearby star is enough to get anyone excited, especially when several of them have the potential to support liquid water,” System Sounds co-creator Matt Russo, a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, told Gizmodo. “But what makes TRAPPIST-1 really remarkable is that all seven of its planets are locked in a resonant chain, where the lengths of the planet’s years form simple whole number ratios with each other. This is what’s responsible for both the system’s harmony and its rhythm.”

    The researchers created their own software to “translate” data from NASA’s K2 mission, which measured the orbital periods of the planets, into musical notes (here it is on GitHub, ya nerds). Users can speed up or slow down the tempo and/or volume to their liking using handy toggle tools in the new program.

    “We simply sped up the motion of TRAPPIST-1's seven planets until their orbital frequencies produced musical notes,” Russo explained. “To make them a little more familiar we played these notes on a piano, once per orbit. To showcase more of the rhythmic structure, we then let a drum play for every time two neighboring planets are at their closest. This is when they give each other a gravitational tug and keep themselves locked in this stable pattern.”

    While you can’t add vocals within the program, nothing’s stopping you from throwing your own spin on a sick TRAPPIST-1 beat. Maybe there’s been a space DJ living inside you all along—now’s your chance to let it out.

    [h/t Motherboard]

    {http://gizmodo.com/ }

    11-08-2017 om 01:08 geschreven door peter  

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    Vinyl cyanide found on Titan—aliens, have at it

    The compound might be suitable for cell membranes.

    11-08-2017 om 00:49 geschreven door peter  

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    Alien breakthrough as scientists make MASSIVE leap in hunt for extraterrestrial life

    SPACE boffins have made a key discovery in the search for extraterrestrial life.

    By Charlotte Ikonen 

    Brit astronomers are probing two new "super-Earth" planets in the hunt for life in our universe.

    They are among four newly discovered planets orbiting Tau Ceti – the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, 12 light years away.

    Scientists believe two of the planets are located in an area that is not too cold or hot to support liquid surface water – vital for sustaining alien life.

    The discovery was made by observing wobbles in the movement of the star, caused by orbiting planets.

    Alien-breakthrough

    PA

    BREAKTHROUGH: Two potentially habitable "super-Earths" have been discovered

    As a planet orbits, it causes its parent star to wobble by a tiny degree.

    Astronomers can see the signature of this effect in the star’s light.

    "We're getting tantalisingly close to observing the correct limits required for detecting Earth-like planets”, said lead researcher Dr Fabo Feng, from the University of Hertfordshire.

    We're getting tantalisingly close to observing the correct limits required for detecting Earth-like planets

    Lead researcher

    "Our detection of such weak wobbles is a milestone in the search for Earth analogues and the understanding of the Earth's habitability through comparison with these."

    Stars the size of the Sun are the best targets for finding habitable Earth-seized planets.

    Tau Ceti is similar to our Sun in size and brightness, and like our Sun hosts a multi-planet system.

    Scientists hope that direct imaging of the two outer planets could show them to be rocky and habitable.

    Alien-breakthrough

    UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE

    SOLAR SYSTEM: The discovery was made by observing wobbles in the movement of the star

    But, they did warn that a massive disc of debris around the star could be bombarding them with asteroids and comets, reducing their habitability.

    Co-author Dr Mikko Tuomi, also from the University of Hertfordshire, said improved techniques were making it easier to distinguish between light signals caused by the presence of planets and stellar activity.

    Two Tau Ceti signals previously identified in 2013 are now known not to have a planetary origin.

    "But no matter how we look at the star, there seems to be at least four rocky planets orbiting it," Dr Tuomi said.

    "We're slowly learning to tell the difference between wobbles caused by planets and those caused by stellar active surface.

    "This enabled us to verify the existence of the two outer, potentially habitable, planets in the system."

    The discovery comes as NASA offered an up-close look at the Trappist-1 exoplanets – believed to be key in the hunt for life.

    Alien-breakthrough

    UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE

    NEW PLANETS: Researchers revealed Tau Ceti could host alien life

    They are also considering launching the Titan Mare Explorer, which would probe the world in a bid to find aliens.

    It would take seven years to reach the moon of Saturn and spend six months on the surface looking for proof of life.

    And in June, the space agency said it had discovered more than 200 new planets – 10 of which were the right size and temperature to sustain life.

    http://www.dailystar.co.uk/ }

    11-08-2017 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Physicists Say They’ve Figured out How Spacecraft Could Make It Through a Wormhole

    Physicists Say They’ve Figured out How Spacecraft Could Make It Through a Wormhole

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    IN BRIEF
    A new paper asserts that a physical body might be able to pass through a wormhole in spite of the extreme tidal forces that are at play.

    A physical object, such as a person or a spacecraft, could theoretically make it through a wormhole in the centre of a black hole, and maybe even access another universe on the other side, physicists have suggested.

    In what looks like the logical extension of the plot of Interstellar – where astronauts try to hunt down another universe after the catastrophic effects of climate change destroy Earth – physicists have modelled what would happen to a chair, a scientist, and a spacecraft, if each one ended up inside the spherical wormhole of a black hole.

    “What we did was to reconsider a fundamental question on the relation between the gravity and the underlying structure of space-time,” said one of the team, Diego Rubiera-Garcia from the University of Lisbon in Portugal.

    “In practical terms, we dropped one assumption that holds in general relativity, but there is no a priori reason for it to hold in extensions of this theory.”

    So let’s take a step back first, and go through some of the basics. According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, at the centre of a black hole lies a singularity – the point at which the forces of gravity are at their most intense, and time and space effectively end.

    Watch: What are Wormholes?

    If an object approaches the event horizon, it would be crushed in one direction, and stretched in another, thanks to the extreme tidal forces of gravity at play inside a black hole. If the object stays intact long enough to make it to the centre of a black hole, it will be infinitely long and thin: basically, it’s been spaghettified beyond recognition.

    Physicists have been playing around with the assumption of a singularity in the centre of a black hole for years, because until we can actually prove it exists, there could be any number of possibilities that still work – in theory.

    Earlier this year, physicists from the University of Cambridge in the UK argued that there’s no reason why a singularity necessarily has to be on the inside of a black hole. They suggest that in a universe with five or more dimensions – which isn’t out of the question for us – a ‘naked’ singularly could exist, which is not bound by an event horizon.

    Of course, this would mean big, huge things for our current understanding of how the laws of physics govern our Universe, because it basically needs Einstein’s theory of general relativity to be wrong.

    “If naked singularities exist, general relativity breaks down,” said one of the team, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, back in January. “And if general relativity breaks down, it would throw everything upside down, because it would no longer have any predictive power – it could no longer be considered as a standalone theory to explain the Universe.”

    If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.

    Einstein being wrong isn’t out of the question, either. Stephen Hawking has been battling for decades with the way general relativity appears to clash with quantum mechanics in black holes – a problem known as the information paradox.

    So assuming that the stipulations of general relativity aren’t set in stone, the new study from Rubiera-Garcia’s team argue that if you remove singularity from a black hole, what you get in the centre instead is a finite-sized wormhole.

    Then, they figured out what could happen if various objects – a chair, a scientist, and a spacecraft – made it beyond the event horizon and into the wormhole. These objects are referred to as ‘observers’.

    They modelled these observers as an aggregation of points connected by physical or chemical interactions that hold everything together as the object travels along a geodesic line. A geodesic line is simply the path in spacetime that a free-falling object follows.

    “Each particle of the observer follows a geodesic line determined by the gravitational field,” says Rubiera-Garcia. “Each geodesic feels a slightly different gravitational force, but the interactions among the constituents of the body could nonetheless sustain the body.”

    Publishing in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, the researchers demonstrate this by showing how the time spent by a light ray in a round trip between two parts of the body is always finite.

    This means that finite forces, no matter how strong, could compensate for the impact of the gravitational field near and inside the wormhole on a physical body travelling through it.

    “Thus, different parts of the body will still establish physical or chemical interactions and, consequently, cause and effect still apply all the way across the throat of the wormhole,” they explain.

    So while the theory of general relativity predicts that an object approaching a black hole will be crushed along one direction and stretched along another infinitely, if we assume that the centre of a black hole is a wormhole with a finite radius, the object can only be crushed just as much as the size of the wormhole.

    This means according to Rubiera-Garcia’s hypothesis, an object could survive a journey through a wormhole and make it out the other side – and potentially to another universe – technically intact, but it would be crushed to the size of the finite wormhole. At least it’s not completely destroyed, right?

    “For a theoretical physicist, the suffering of observers is admissible (one might even consider it part of an experimentalist’s job) but their total destruction is not,” Rubiera-Garcia and his team quip in an opinion piece.

    Until we figure out how to actually see a black hole, all of this is going to remain well and truly in the realm of pure hypotheticals. But we’re beginning to see how black holes might not be the horrible, existence-obliterating death traps we thought they were.

    As Hawking said at a conference back in August 2015 about his solution to the information paradox: “The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. … If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.”

     Read more articles from Science Alert

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    Curiosity snaps fast-moving clouds in the Martian sky

    10-08-2017 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

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    Hey neighbors! Nearest sun-like star hosts 4 Earth-sized planets

    Tau Ceti has been a staple of science fiction for decades. Now we know a little more about the real worlds around the bright star.

    Last year we learned the nearest star beyond our sun has a planet about the size of Earth, but it's very different than our solar system and not an ideal candidate for finding alien life.

    So what about the closest star that would actually remind us of our own beloved sun? We now know that it probably hosts a handful of Earth-like planets, including a pair that might be able to support life.

    Tau Ceti is the center of the nearest solar system that's similar to ours, an assumption made stronger by the discovery of four rocky super-Earths orbiting the star just 12 light years away. 

    tau-ceti-410

    A comparison of the rocky planets around Tau Ceti and our sun.

    Fabo Feng

    Two of the four planets are in the habitable zone around the star where temperatures could be just right for liquid water, and perhaps alien life, to be present. 

    An international team of scientists devised a new, more accurate and sensitive method of detecting planets by looking for "wobbles" in the star's movement caused by the minute gravitational tug of orbiting planets, while also better ruling out false positives coming from activity on the star itself.

    "But no matter how we look at the star, there seem to be at least four rocky planets orbiting it," said Mikko Tuomi of the University of Hertfordshire, in a release. "We are slowly learning to tell the difference between wobbles caused by planets and those caused by stellar active surface. This enabled us to essentially verify the existence of the two outer, potentially habitable planets in the system."  

    Tuomi is one of the co-authors on a paper detailing the discovery, which has been accepted for upcoming publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

    Tau Ceti is particularly prevalent in science fiction that imagines future civilizations visiting the relatively nearby star system. Unfortunately, the odds of life on the potentially habitable rocky planets in the system might not be great after all. A massive disc of debris around the star means that the planets are likely being bombarded by asteroids and comets, making it hard for life to emerge.

    Then again, certain life forms are known to be pretty tough, so perhaps we'll discover one day that a civilization of Tau Cetian tardigrades thrives on the system's planets.

    https://www.cnet.com/ }

    10-08-2017 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Exclusive Photo Showing UFOs Fly Over Crop Circles

    crop-circles-ufo
    Pierre Break says these are the orbs filmed over a Wiltshire crop circle.

    UFOs flying over farmland in Wiltshire left crop circle expert in awe. Pierre Beake claims to have captured the strange event on video shooting at speed across a renowned crop circle site. Mr Beake has spent many years researching crop circles in the south west of England and is convinced that they cannot all be the work of hoaxers. Beake’s video shows balls of light speeding across Milk Hill in Wiltshire. Beake said that this is not the first time he witnessed such thing as he also captured several alleged balls of light on still camera around crop circles.

    Crop circles are believed to be made by landing UFOs, but they have been widely considered one of the biggest paranormal hoaxes since 1991. Doug Bower and David Chorley showed how they made many of the reported crop circle patterns found across the UK. The duo demonstrated how the use of wooden planks and rope flatten corn in a circular pattern. The pair admitted that they did crop circles in the 1970s to tease locals who believed in UFOs. Since then, a lot more circle makers have made more complicated designs as if they want to outdo each other.

    However, many others refuse to believe all crop circles are human-made. Mr Beake said that when you go in a crop circle for the first time, you can’t explain the feeling. He explained that it is a great feeling and you feel nice.

    Mr Beake showed two videos. One video features a bright light in the distance flying across the field. Mr Beake said that it is windy, but the bright light stays at the same speed with the same force. Another Mr Beake’s clip shows some people in the fields of Milk Hill, near Alton Priors in Wiltshire. He stated that the shot is incredible as it shows ten individuals who went on the hill to see balls of light. Mr Beake also showed an array of pictures apparently showing balls of light above crop circles.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    10-08-2017 om 23:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Possible cigar UFO sighting over Atlanta, Georgia 15-May-2017

    cigar-ufo

    This daytime UFO sighting of a cigar-shaped object happened on 15th May 2017 over Atlanta, Georgia.

    Witness report: 

    It came out of a cloud, rotating slowly and went into another cloud. I was leaving work around 6pm and as I was walking to my car on the rooftop deck this large object caught my eye. I looked up and stared in disbelief as this large greyish cylinder shaped object slowly rotated length wise and was moving very slowly from one cloud into the next. It was a bright sunny summer afternoon with lots of big clouds in the sky. The object was that dark grey color like the cloud it came from. It was moving very slowly into the next set of clouds.

    Witness report (source: MUFON)

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    10-08-2017 om 23:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Two linked lights over Elizabethton, Tennessee 8-Aug-2017

    linked-ufos

    This UFO videos was filmed over Elizabethton in US state Tennessee on 8th August 2017.

    Witness report: 

    We were traveling ne & spotted it to our right. Pulled over facing Waffle House. It had 2 really bright white lights on front like head lights was flying very low over trees & buildings. Flew diagonally our left behind us sw to w. Look to hover over mtn. I was feeling light headed and queazy just before seeing it. We were traveling ne when I first spotted very bright lights in the sky to our right. We pulled over facing Waffle House. It had 2 really bright white lights that caught our attention on its front like head lights. It was flying very low over trees & buildings. Did not see nose of a plane, it appeared triangular. It Flew diagonally to our left & behind us sw to w. We turned around and pulled over near QP and observed as it appeared to hover over a mountain sw-w. Noticed it wobbling. Was blinded by light after which did not see it anywhere.

    Author (source: MUFON)

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    10-08-2017 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Some Alien Planets May Bypass Habitability

    10-08-2017 om 21:28 geschreven door peter  

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    How Do You Clean a Very Large Telescope Mirror? Very Carefully (Video)

    10-08-2017 om 21:04 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Einstein's Relativity Tested by Giant Star and Monster Black Hole

    Einstein's Relativity Tested by Giant Star and Monster Black Hole

    Einstein's Relativity Tested by Giant Star and Monster Black Hole

    A giant star near the center of our galaxy hints, once again, that Albert Einstein was correct about gravity.

    A group of astronomers in Germany and the Czech Republic observed three stars in a cluster near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Using data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, among others, the researchers tracked how the stars moved as they went around the monster black hole.

    One of the stars, called S2, showed slight deviations in its orbit that might indicate relativistic effects, scientists said. If the observations are confirmed, then it shows that Einstein's theory of general relativity holds even under extreme conditions — in gravity fields produced by objects like the galactic center's black hole, which contains the mass of 4 million suns. General relativity says that massive objects bend the space around them, causing other objects to deviate from straight lines they would follow absent any forces on them. [The Strangest Black Holes of the Universe]

    The position of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, as well as the giant star S2, are shown (inset) in this near-infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.The black hole's position is marked with an orange cross.
    Credit: ESO/MPE/S. Gillessen et al.

    "Most relativity tests are done with our sun and the stars, so they are in the 1-solar-mass or few-solar-mass[es] limit," Andreas Eckart, a professor of experimental physics at the University of Cologne in Germany, who led the research team, told Space.com. "Or with the [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory] recently, that's a few 10s of solar masses." 

    The stars used in the observations are so close to the black hole that they move at 1 or 2 percent the speed of light, Eckart said, and they approach to within only about 100 times the Earth-sun distance of the black hole itself, which is quite close by galactic standards, he said. (Pluto averages about 39 times the Earth's distance from the sun, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers).

    Using orbiting bodies to show relativistic effects is not new; observations of the planet Mercury in the 19th centuryshowed that its movements deviated from what Isaac Newton's theory of gravity predicted. At first, astronomers thought they had evidence of another planet, which they dubbed Vulcan. Einstein was able to show in 1915 that relativity could explain the deviation.

    Mercury's motions proved Einstein correct, but the sun's gravity is weak compared to that of a supermassive black hole. This is why Eckart and his team set out to see if Einstein's theory held up in a more extreme environment. While gravitational lensing, the bending of light by massive objects, shows that massive objects bend space, the recent research is the first time anyone has taken precise measurements of any object orbiting so close to a black hole.

    This artist's illustration shows the orbits of three stars, including the giant star S2, around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists say the stars' orbits may show effects predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.
    Credit: ESO/M. Parsa/L. Calçada

    The measurement itself is not as precise as it might be, Eckart said. Future work will get a better read on the stars' positions and narrow down the result. He said one plan is to get better spectrographic measurements, which would reveal S2's movement more precisely.

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    10-08-2017 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Here's What It's Like to Be the Planetary Protection Officer at NASA

    Here's What It's Like to Be the Planetary Protection Officer at NASA

    Here's What It's Like to Be the Planetary Protection Officer at NASA
    Credit: Reid Wiseman/NASA

    If you want a job protecting Earth from threats from outer space — or even protecting Mars from us — NASA has an opening for you — sort of. The job of planetary protection officer generated quite a bit of buzz last week, when the public learned that a role seemingly out of a science fiction novel was actually a bonafide NASA job. But the position has nothing to do with protecting Earth from little green men, but a whole lot to do with important interplanetary science.

    A primary task of the officer is to make sure that during NASA missions earthly microbes don't contaminate potentially habitable environments. And should a mission bring back samples from outer space, the officer is tasked with making sure that dust, or rocks, or whatever is brought back from outer space doesn't contaminate us.

    John Rummel, a biology professor at East Carolina University, held the position twice, first between 1990 and 1993 and again from 1998 to 2006.

    "The planetary protection job was mostly challenging in that it was not just important for each mission to do the right — required by requirements — thing, but to know why they were doing it, and why it was important to do a good job," Rummel said. "From that aspect, the job was definitely worth it. But as to 'rewards,' those were mostly internal."

    Rummel explained that the planetary protection office reports to the associate administrator for each mission, who oversees the cost of the project. That means recommendations made by the officer are often judged in the context of whether or not they will cost the administrator more money — a vexing problem many of us might easily understand from our own work experiences.

    RELATED: The Mars Colony of the Future Could Be Powered by This Advanced Microgrid

    Rummel's time as planetary protection officer coincided with the restart of NASA's Mars program.

    After the successful twin Viking landings of the 1970s, a few famous searching-for-life experiments came up empty. NASA shifted its attention to other locations in the solar system, and Mars didn't get a launch opportunity until the failed Mars Observer mission in 1992.

    A slew of missions followed, however, including the Mars Pathfinder mission that made it all the way to the surface in 1996 and deployed a mini-rover – Sojourner. Several other landing and orbiting missions followed — some successful, others not.

    Fifteen years ago, Sojourner rolled down a specially engineered ramp to leave the first ever rover tracks on Mars.

    Those missions wouldn't have been possible without the approval of the planetary protection officer, who ensured that Sojourner and other Martian spacecraft were sterile enough to prevent microbes from taking root in potentially life-friendly areas. One of Rummel's first tasks in 1990 was to look at the risk of contamination on Mars and how scientific understanding had changed since the days of the Viking missions.

    "I knew people would like to go back and land on Mars, but I also knew we didn't have current advice," Rummel said.

    So he assisted in the drafting of a 1992 report – Biological Contamination of Mars. The report concluded that a large part of the surface was "extremely inhospitable to terrestrial life" and for that reason, future missions would not need to be sterilized as much as the Viking missions.

    But changes in landing technology meant that NASA had to be extra mindful of different scenarios for its missions. Pathfinder, for example, was supposed to fall to the surface using airbags. If the airbags failed, the mission would need to withstand a fall and possible burial in the soil of up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) without exposing possible Earth microbes to the Martian environment.


    Recurring slope lineae in Raga Crater on Mars. Such features have been suggested as "special regions" where life may be present. This image is also from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera

    (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

    NASA has seen extensive evidence of briny water flow in recurring slope lineae, which are features that develop on the slopes of craters. Rummel, among others, speculated about recurring slope lineae as early as 2002. While researchers have long observed the formations, it was only in 2015 that NASA had strong enough evidence to say the formations are probably due to liquid water on the surface.

    Rummel warned against sending Curiosity to investigate a nearby recurring slope lineae. The materials on the rover's surface could not be thoroughly sterilized with UV radiation due to their properties. And inside the rover is a warm electronics box that could melt any ice with which the box comes into contact.

    RELATED: NASA Center Shows Off Sleek New Mars Rover Concept Vehicle for Astronauts

    Rummel was also part of early-stage planning for a "sample return" mission to bring pieces of Mars back to Earth, in collaboration with the French space agency CNES. While that mission never went forward, NASA has left the door open for future sample return missions. The next Mars rover, called Mars 2020, is expected to leave "caches" of interesting material behind for future missions to potentially pick up and bring back to Earth, when we presumably know a little more about how to protect ourselves.

    Of course, Mars wasn't the only target of note back in the 1990s when Rummel began his work. NASA already had a Jupiter probe — called Galileo — and was about to launch Cassini, which has now been orbiting Saturn since 2004. Those missions confirmed some intriguing Voyager mission results from the 1970s and 1980s, showing that some of the moons are icy and potentially habitable.

    Rummel remembers modifying the planetary protection plan for Galileo as evidence emerged that a liquid ocean might lie underneath Europa's icy surface.

    At the end of Galileo's mission, an option was included to deliberately crash the probe into Io or Jupiter, just in case it happened to fall into Europa, damaging a potentially habitable environment underneath the ice. Because the mission planners were uncomfortable with changing Galileo's orbit to fall into Io, they went for a Jupiter extermination — collecting science all the way down.

    NASA said the job posting has generated "a lot of excitement," including from Jack Davis a fourth grader from New Jersey and self-described "Guardian of the Galaxy." In a letter to the agency, Davis said he was fit for the job because his sister thought he was an alien, among other qualifications.

    Although the planetary protection officer is no intergalactic warrior, it's a position that clearly provokes the imagination of skywatchers young and old.

    Originally published on Seeker.

    10-08-2017 om 20:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Inside abandoned UFO village where families lived in 'spaceships' before flying saucer cabins were left to rot

    Inside abandoned UFO village where families lived in 'spaceships' before flying saucer cabins were left to rot

    The yellow and green pods are elevated above ground, with all the amenities of a regular home designed in a circular pod

    BY 

    These creepy images show an abandoned UFO village where wacky spaceship-style homes have been left to rot and grow mouldy.

    The yellow and green flying-saucer homes are elevated above ground, with all the amenities of a regular home designed in a circular pod.

    Once filled with the hustle and bustle of family life and tourists on holiday , the homes, officially knows as Futuro houses, grew incredibly popular in the 1960s.

    Now, images from the village in the Wanli district of Taiwan show crumbling exteriors, cracked windows and mouldy carpets after decades of decay.

    The Futuro homes elevated above ground were popular with tourists in the 1960s 
    The pods were designed from lightweight material so they could be transported between various locations 
    The homes were designed to be ski cabins for tourists 
    Inside, the pods were fitted with a kitchen, bedroom, living and bathroom
     

    While considered the perfect living space by many, the spaceship homes designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen were thought to be an horrendous eye sore by others.

    The pods were originally designed as ski chalets, made from lightweight material so they could be transported between various locations.

    Resembling something from a sci-fi film, doors and windows of the alternative properties are based on the design of an aircraft and the indoor living spaces are made up of a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom.

    The interiors have been left to crumble away 
    A living area has become derelict inside one of the homes 
    The homes have been left to crumble away 
    Finish architect Matti Suuronen became well-known for his futuristic designs 

    But as oil prices soared, the once-fashionable homes and holiday cabins became unaffordable and were left to crumble and rot to the ground.

    Along with the Futuro homes, Matti Suuronen also designed a series of Venturo pre-fab houses.

    While Suuronen is best known for his futuristic homes, he has also designed petrol stations, kiosks, detached and terraced homes as well as public buildings.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/ }

    10-08-2017 om 18:34 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Study says Maricopa County home to second-most UFO sightings

    Study says Maricopa County home to second-most UFO sightings

    These strange lights were spotted on an October night in 2016 in the Phoenix sky. Some people believe them to be a UFO.
    (Twitter Photo/@tater_todd55)

    Phoenix has been a famous spot for UFO sightings, especially since the Phoenix Lights event on March 13, 1997.

    That trend has continued, as people in Maricopa County reported the second-most sightings of all U.S. counties between 2001 and 2015.

    (Costa and Costa Photo)

    (Costa and Costa Photo)

    A recent UFO statistics study done by researchers Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa showed Maricopa County was home to 2,523 reported sightings — the most of any county in Arizona — and more sightings than 36 states.

    Phoenix topped the list for the municipalities with the most UFOs spotted in the sky, followed by Mesa, Scottsdale and Chandler.

    Maricopa County was second to Los Angeles County, which had 3,212 sightings. That number was more than 40 states.

    Arizona came in seventh in a state ranking with 4,276 reported sightings.

    The Costas used information compiled from the databases of the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network for the study.

    About the author: Cheryl Costa is a weekly columnist who writes “New York Skies” for the Syracuse New Times.

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    10-08-2017 om 18:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Poetin en Medvedev verwijzen allebei naar Men in Black. Wie zijn deze mysterieuze ‘mensen’?
    Poetin en Medvedev verwijzen allebei naar Men in Black. Wie zijn deze mysterieuze 'mensen'?

    Poetin en Medvedev verwijzen allebei naar Men in Black. Wie zijn deze mysterieuze ‘mensen’?

    Hij zei niet verrast te zijn dat Donald Trump de banden met Moskou nog niet heeft hersteld, net zoals Obama er niet in slaagde om Guantanamo te sluiten.

    Amerikaanse presidenten komen en gaan terwijl het politieke landschap onveranderd blijft, aldus Poetin.

    Diepe staat

    De bureaucratische machine legt een Amerikaanse president strikte beperkingen op zodra hij aan de macht komt, stelde hij.

    “Als een persoon wordt verkozen tot president komen de mensen met koffers langs,” zei Poetin. “Ze zijn net gekleed en dragen donkere pakken. Deze mensen vertellen wat er gaat gebeuren. Zo gaat het elke keer.”

    Geen enkele regering kan hieraan ontsnappen, legde de president uit. Verwees hij hiermee naar de diepe staat?

    Medvedev

    Eind 2012 deed de Russische premier Dmitri Medvedev enkele opvallende uitspraken over buitenaardse wezens in Rusland.

    Naast de lanceercodes voor de Russische kernwapens krijgt iedere president ook een dossier met de activiteiten van buitenaardsen en de speciale Russische eenheden die zich hiermee bezighouden, aldus Medvedev.

    De Russische oud-president bevestigde niet alleen dat buitenaardsen de aarde bezoeken, maar dat sommigen van hen onder ons leven.

    Men in Black

    Hij voegde toe dat de film ‘Men in Black’ meer details geeft over dit onderwerp.

    De reguliere media verwezen naar de Hollywoodfilm Men in Black en meenden dat Medvedev een grapje maakte.

    Hij verwees echter naar een documentaire die werd uitgezonden door de Russische zender REN-TV:

    UFO-onderzoekers

    Toen vorig jaar in korte tijd twee UFO-onderzoekers dood werden gevonden onder mysterieuze omstandigheden, suggereerden complottheoretici dat ze door mannen in het zwart waren gedood.

    Zij stelden dat UFO-jagers die te dicht bij de waarheid komen, worden opgejaagd door de geheime diensten of zogeheten mannen in het zwart.

    Meldingen

    Door de jaren heen zouden ‘tientallen’ andere UFO-onderzoekers onder mysterieuze omstandigheden zijn overleden.

    Vorig jaar kwamen in de VS meerdere meldingen binnen van mysterieuze mannen in zwarte jassen die in het donker langs de weg stonden en zelfs opdoken in achtertuinen.

    De vraag is nu: wie zijn deze mannen in het zwart en wat willen ze?

    [Collective-evolution

    10-08-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.'ALIENS HERE ON EARTH' Claims extraterrestrials that 'look like humans' are among us

    'ALIENS HERE ON EARTH' Claims extraterrestrials that 'look like humans' are among us

    ALIENS are living among us and we may be oblivious to them, it has been sensationally claimed.

    ET-Human

    GETTY

    Aliens could be here on earth and look just like humans claims a conspiracy theorist.

    A conspiracy theorist said extraterrestrials that look just like humans are on Earth and you may not even know you are speaking to one.

    Marcus Allen is the publisher in the UK of alternative news magazine Nexus, which provides monthly updates for so-called 'truthers' on conspiracy theories and other alternative philosophies.

    Mr Allen made the staggering claim to a packed audience of the 27th Glastonbury Symposium, an annual event dedicated to all things paranormal and new age.

    He claimed that there was a difference between aliens and extra terrestrials, and that both of them were already on earth, but their existence has been covered up by world leaders

    Aliens do not look like us, but ETs (extraterrestrials) do look like us. There could be some here in now and you wouldn't know.

    Marcus Allen

    He said: "Aliens do not look like us, but ETs (extraterrestrials) do look like us.

    "There could be some here in now and you wouldn't know."

    He then extended the theory to suggest that all humans could in fact be aliens who came to earth from another planet before our primitive ancestors.

    Mr Allen said: "In a way we are the extraterrestrials."

    He suggested we may have originated from another planet in our distance past, or at least some of us may have.

    He added: "We came here to look back to how we originated as a society as hunter gatherers we did not achieve a great deal, but then religion and society controls came along."

    His claim appears to be in keeping with the popular ancient aliens conspiracy theory that suggests our ancient ancestors were visited by advanced intelligent aliens from outer space who helped civilisations create great monuments such as the Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge and were later worshipped as gods.

    Mr Allen is best known as a moon landings conspiracy theorist who believes that NASA faked the Apollo missions by filming footage of astronauts on the moon inside studios before deceiving the world – a theory which NASA denies.

    The space agency also says after all its exploration throughout the solar system, it has found no evidence of intelligent aliens, or even the most basic forms of life, existing anywhere.

    10-08-2017 om 17:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Buitenaardsen die op mensen lijken zijn onder ons. Deze uitgever baart opzien met opmerkelijke uitspraken
    Buitenaardsen die op mensen lijken zijn onder ons. Deze uitgever baart opzien met opmerkelijke uitspraken

    Buitenaardsen die op mensen lijken zijn onder ons. Deze uitgever baart opzien met opmerkelijke uitspraken

    Buitenaardsen leven onder ons, misschien zelfs recht onder onze neus, zo heeft de Britse publicist Marcus Allen geclaimd.

    Hij zei dat buitenaardsen die er net zo uitzien als mensen hier op aarde zijn en dat je misschien al eens met een buitenaards wezen hebt gesproken.

    Allen is uitgever van het tweemaandelijkse tijdschrift Nexus, dat gaat over ‘nieuws dat wordt genegeerd door de mainstream media’.

    Toegedekt

    Hij deed zijn uitspraken in een volle zaal tijdens het jaarlijkse Glastonbury Symposium.

    Allen beweerde dat er een verschil is tussen aliens en buitenaardsen en dat hun bestaan wordt toegedekt door wereldleiders.

    “Aliens lijken niet op ons, maar buitenaardsen wel,” zei hij. “Het is goed mogelijk dat er nu een paar onder ons zijn, zonder dat je het weet.”

    Andere planeet

    Hij suggereerde dat alle mensen mogelijk aliens zijn die ver voor onze voorouders van een andere planeet naar de aarde kwamen.

    “Wij zijn dus eigenlijk de buitenaardsen,” zei hij, toevoegende dat in ieder geval sommigen van ons mogelijk van een andere planeet afkomstig zijn.

    Volgens verschillende theorieën zijn onze verre voorouders bezocht door intelligente aliens die beschavingen hielpen bij de bouw van de Piramiden van Gizeh en Stonehenge en die later werden aanbeden als goden.

    Maanlandingen

    Allen heeft ook een uitgesproken mening over de maanlandingen. Volgens hem heeft de NASA die in scène gezet.

    Dat zou zijn gebeurd door beelden van astronauten op de maan op te nemen in een studio.

    [Express

    10-08-2017 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterious shape-shifting figure appears in the sky over Wakpala, South Dakota

    Mysterious shape-shifting figure appears in the sky over Wakpala, South Dakota

    More and more people seeing strange objects in the sky, from unidentified flying objects to strange appearances and it's not always optical illusions.

    Also the “out of this world” appearance in the sky over Wakpala, South Dakota is such an unexplained phenomenon.


    The photographer of the images below states:

    Our daughter and I were taking a walk in the prairies surrounding our house on Highway 1806, Wakpala, South Dakota on August 7, 2017. We stopped at a spot where I was taking pictures of my daughter on a rock and trying to make her smile.

    I did not notice at the time the UFO. There was no sound. When we were reviewing the four photos we noticed the UFO.


    On the first photo the UFO is above our daughter's head in the clouds but very visible as I am guessing it was stationary.

    On the second photo the UFO moved slightly to the right but still clearly visible.

    On the third photo is when the UFO is moving towards me on the sky and this is depicted by how it is now bigger but a bit blurry.

    On the fourth photo, there is no trace of the UFO as it must have disappeared above our heads.



    The whole thing took about 30-40 seconds as I was taking back to back photos of our daughter trying to make her smile. I was preoccupied with her as I was trying to get a good picture so did not notice the UFO at the time. The photographer reported the object to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) along with the images.

    Note: Although the photographer talks about a UFO, the object, which changes shape, looks more like some kind of being coming from another world.

    http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

    10-08-2017 om 17:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Real Life 'Men In Black' Exist And These Creepy Stories Pretty Much Prove It
    Real Life 'Men In Black' Exist And These Creepy Stories Pretty Much Prove It

    There's a longstanding internet theory that the Men in Black are real.

    No, this isn't a case of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith taking their iconic cinema roles too seriously, but a series of events and stories that people have collectively gathered on the internet that all point to the conclusion that the Men in Black are actually real.

    Now it's worth mentioning that these stories are pretty much impossible to corroborate, but celebrities like Dan Akroyd and Tom DeLonge have both gone on the record describing some of their encounters with real life 'Men in Black'. Like any good creepy story on the internet, you should read these accounts and decide for yourself.


    Allegedly, all people who've claimed to have been in contact with the Men in Black have either researched or seen UFOs.

    Most people's stories describe their interactions with the Men in Black as being very similar: the "faceless" men approaching them say they're a member of some type of organization and present white cards that read "Security". They refer to each other by numbers, not names. They also claim that MIB often times intimidate and scare people into keeping quiet about their extraterrestrial sightings and research.

    1. The first man to report an encounter with the MIB was Harold Dahl in 1947.

    Dahl was apparently out on his boat in the Puget Sound in Washington when six  circular objects appeared in the sky. One of the objects apparently fell apart. The ensuing debris struck his ship, which ended up injuring his son and killing his dog.

    Dahl said he snapped photos of the debris, but a Man in Black fogged over his pictures and told him to never speak of what happened ever again.

    2. The second official record comes 20 years later, by Robert Richardson in Toledo, Ohio.

    YOUTUBE

    Richardson was driving home one night when he claims that he hit a UFO with his car. The flying object vanished, but Richardson had a piece of metal from the UFO stuck to his car. He fished the metal out of his car and claims that a week later some men in black suits appeared at his door and asked for the metal he had saved from the crash.

    When Richardson informed them that he gave the metal to the authorities already for testing, they threatened his wife.

    YOUTUBE
    "If you want your wife to stay as pretty as she is, then you'd better get the metal back."

    He never heard from them again nor did he know how they discovered the metal ever existed in the first place.

    3. Jack Robinson - 1968: a New Jersey resident claims him and his wife were constantly being harassed by a man in a black suit.

    Robinson was a UFO researcher, who reported that his apartment was rummaged through and there would be a man in a black suit and hat who would constantly be standing outside of his apartment. The couple's friend, Timothy Green Beckley, managed to snap a photo of the man in black as he was waiting outside.

    4. 1976 - Dr. Herbert Hopkins another UFO researcher, gets a call from someone who claimed to be a rep from a NJ UFO organization.

    The man asked if Hopkins was alone and would like to discuss his research, Hopkins said sure and they talked about what he had found. By the time Hopkins hung up the phone, a man was at his doorstep. Hopkins described the man as being bald without eyebrows wearing a neatly tailored suit. He had red lips and very, very white skin.

    What the MIB "agent" did next is where things get truly creepy. He took a coin out of his pocket and told Hopkins to watch it.

    "it started to develop a silver color instead of copper and then the silver became bluish and the penny was getting quite fuzzy, out of focus, blurred, and then it simply was gone – it slowly dematerialized."

    After that happened, the man ordered that Hopkins destroy all of his research.

    5. Dan Akroyd's Sci-Fi series gets mysteriously canceled mid-shoot.

    The Blues Brothers star had a series called Out There that he sold to the Sci Fi channel. It dealt with crop circles, UFOs, alien abductions, and all type of extraterrestrial research. 

    6. The 2008 Shane Sovar Hotel Incident 

    Sovar, Manager at a Niagara Falls hotel along with a security guard reported seeing a triangular UFO outside their building. A group called the Aerial Phenomenon Investigations Team responded to the incident. That team and three other witnesses report that some weeks later, two Men in Black entered the hotel. Allegedly they scared the staff at the hotel and asked for Sovar and the Security Guard, who weren't present at the time. 

    The men were described as tall with identical faces that had no eyebrows or eyelashes and really, really pale skin.

    7. Blink  182 guitarist, Tom DeLonge, claims to have proof of a massive government cover-up regarding aliens.


    He penned a book about the subject and spoke about his research extensively with Rolling Stone magazine and even hints at being visited by the nefarious Men in Black.

    So what do you think? All conspiracy theory hogwash? Or all true?

    http://www.distractify.com/ }

    10-08-2017 om 17:09 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Scientists Just Made a First Ever Observation of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

    Scientists Just Made a First Ever Observation of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

    IN BRIEF
    New analysis of data from the ESO's VLT and other telescopes reveals stars orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way exhibit relativity effects. Future analysis may reveal more support for relativity and new physics.

    NEW OBSERVATIONS

    Scientists have applied new analytical techniques to data gleaned from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope (VLT) and other telescopes over the past twenty years. This new analysis of the stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way reveals movement that deviates from what classical physics would predict, supporting instead the subtle effects predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

    The closest supermassive black hole to Earth is the one that rests 26,000 light-years away at the center of the Milky Way, and is four million times more massive than the Sun. This giant is surrounded by a cluster of stars orbiting in the strong gravitational field of the black hole — the ideal proving ground for Einstein’s general theory of relativity and, more generally, gravitational physics. This is why a team of astronomers has recently applied a new technique to observational data of the stars, comparing the star orbits actually measured with those predicted by both classical Newtonian gravity and general relativity.

    Image Credit: ESO

    Image Credit: ESO

    The team uncovered hints towards a slight change in the motion of S2, one of the stars. The change is small, only about one-sixth of a degree in the orbit’s orientation, and a few percent in the orbit’s shape, but those changes are consistent with predicted relativistic effects. This marks the first time that the strength of the general relativistic effects has been measured for stars orbiting a supermassive black hole.

    NEW PHYSICS?

    The VLT’s near-infrared adaptive optics instruments provided the highly accurate positional measurements that were vital for the study to succeed. The accuracy of these measurements was essential, especially during the period when S2 was further away from the black hole, because that data allowed the team to accurately determine the starting shape of the orbit and how it changed as relativity influenced it. This new work also provided more accurate measurements of the black hole’s distance from Earth and its mass.

    This research heralds a thrilling time for astronomers around the world observing the Galactic Center. During 2018, the GRAVITY instrument, installed on the VLT Interferometer, will be ready to measure the orbit of S2 as it passes very close to the supermassive black hole. This should reveal not only relativistic effects with more clarity, but perhaps even new physics, as astronomers detect deviations from general relativity.

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    10-08-2017 om 01:50 geschreven door peter  

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    ‘Laser SETI’ Broadens the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

    The SETI Institute has launched a crowdfunding drive for the first "all-sky, all-the-time search" for signs of alien civilization.

    10-08-2017 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Rogue planet about to smash into Earth, claim conspiracy theorists

    The world could be set to end in September this year, when a giant mysterious planet called Nibiru collides with our own - according to one conspiracy theorist. Photo / Getty Images

    10-08-2017 om 00:57 geschreven door peter  

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    THE X-FILES WILL LIMIT SEASON 11 MYTHARC EPISODES IN FAVOR OF STANDALONES

    t title level, The X-Files promises spooky adventure with paranoid hi-jinks. But Fox Entertainment chairman David Madden just made another promise about the show: there will only be two “mythology” episodes in the upcoming Season 11 -- the premiere and the finale.

    “Eight of the episodes will be standalone stories so they will be classic ‘Mulder and Scully plunging into new adventures’” said Madden, according to Entertainment Weekly,

    As fans of The X-Files know, episodes originally came in two flavors: “monster of the week” standalone episodes and the “mytharc” ones, which told a long, sprawling tale of alien abduction and government conspiracy. The mytharc was more complicated than complex, and ultimately wasn’t as compelling as the producers (and fans) had hoped it would be.

    However, it will still be essential to the upcoming season. When last we left our heroes, Fox Mulder was actively dying from the alien Spartan Virus, and Dana Scully was staring a UFO in the face. Madden promises to resolve this as well.

    We start the season right up from where the season finale left off with that big helicopter and takes you right from there. You’ll be launched into a very urgent adventure that has a lot to do with William — Mulder and Scully’s kid. so the search for William will be a significant thread through the show.”

    William's blood holds the key to the cure for Mulder. But Scully gave him away in a closed adoption, to protect him from the alien conspiracy secret society whatsis.

    Thanks for the guarantee of limiting the mythology, Madden. If you keep the show strong, I promise to continue watching it. What about you?

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    10-08-2017 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

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    A developmental biologist ponders life on Earth and beyond

    Life Through Time and Space

    Wallace Arthur
    Harvard University Press
    2017
    289 pp.
    Purchase this item now

    On 21 August, North America will experience its first total solar eclipse in decades. Precise maps and times for the event are readily available, detailed down to the second and meter. The nationwide anticipation of this phenomenon is testament to our precise understanding of the necessary celestial mechanics to so perfectly predict this event.

    More complex aspects of astronomy and biology, however, have not yet succumbed to human understanding. In his ambitious book Life Through Time and Space, Wallace Arthur tackles an extraordinarily difficult set of topics. What is the origin and fate of the universe? How did life, and eventually intelligent life, come into existence on Earth? How does a fertilized human egg transform into a complex person with only DNA to guide development?
    The book is organized in “triplets,” as Arthur calls them in the preface: The first is on astronomy or astrobiology, the next on evolution, and the final one focuses on embryology. Should a reader find any particular chapter less than interesting, it is a short wait before the topic shifts.

    Arthur does an excellent job in the astronomy-focused chapters. There is a concise and effective explanation of our modern understanding of the origin of the universe—a play-by-play of fractions of a second. Although it is sometimes glossed over in accounts of the Big Bang, Arthur rightly notes that the early universe contained both matter and antimatter and that these two forms of matter annihilated each other into photons when they were brought together. Arthur also points out the fortuitous fact that there was slightly more matter than antimatter in the early universe; without this asymmetry, the universe would be pure energy—no stars, no planets, and certainly no life. His breadth of coverage extends to exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope and the likelihood of alien intelligent life.

    NOBEASTSOFIERCE SCIENCE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

    Insights derived from early embryonic development may shed light on the origins of extraterrestrial life, argues Arthur.

    In the section on biology and evolution, I particularly enjoyed Arthur’s treatment of the evolution and origin of animal life. Here, he uses a metaphor of trees rising from the sea to describe the different branches of evolution that led to the many forms of life on Earth today. One such tree produced animal life, another plant life, and still others led to funguses and brown seaweeds.

    The same chapter discusses the mystery of the “Cambrian explosion,” which I had before believed to be a burst of evolution and new species. Arthur reveals, however, that it also may have been just an epoch of intense fossilization.

    Arthur’s field of study is embryology (in particular, evolutionary developmental biology), but I found these sections the hardest to follow or appreciate. The idea that a single fertilized egg can develop first into a fetus, then into an infant, and eventually into a fully grown adult human capable of thinking and understanding the world is truly a marvel. However, I am not sure I understand the mechanisms that drive and make possible human development any more than I did when I started the book, even if I know much more about what happens and in what order.

    Cosmologists often wrestle with understanding the early universe because the most we can observe are photons from billions of years ago. But, as Arthur reveals, despite having direct access to their subjects, biologists often struggle to make sense of their chosen topics, too. Both of these complex sciences represent huge challenges. Arthur writes, “Maybe a close cousin of the chimpanzee … shouldn’t expect to be able to understand the origins of everything. … [B]ut that won’t stop us from trying.”

    In the book’s closing chapters, Arthur pivots to broad concerns about humanity’s ultimate undoing, be it at our own hands or from an external cause. No species has ever survived anything close to 4 billion years on Earth—the expected remaining lifetime of our Sun—and extinction, he notes, has been the most common fate. Here, he writes passionately and strongly against religious fundamentalism, both past and present, that suppresses truth-based inquiry.

    Although promising a lack of jargon up front, Arthur allows plenty to seep in. One cannot discuss the intricacies of the brain, for example without using the word “axon,” but phrases such as “temporal topography of development” could surely have been written more simply.

    By the end, readers will have learned a great deal about three very complex and important subjects. However, those without a biology background may find themselves struggling through certain chapters at times. Still, overall, Arthur writes clearly about many complex and varied subjects, and his enthusiasm for the material shows.

    About the author

    The reviewer is an astrophysicist and freelance writer based in Washington, DC, USA.

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    Brazilian UFO witness captures video of strange object

    A witness in Poços de Caldas, Brazil captured a video of a strange looking object he cannot identify. The witness reported the object to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) along with still images and video.

    The sighting took place on August 6, 2017.  The witness claims to have noticed two bright star-like objects moving across the sky, even though it was during the day and still light out.

    Map of Poços de Caldas, Brazil and the surrounding area. (Credit: Google Maps)

    Map of Poços de Caldas, Brazil and the surrounding area. (Credit: Google Maps)

    Here is the witness report, verbatim:

    It was still day, and I saw two bright and strong lights, looking like stars. But no other star appeared, and it was too soon for them to appear. They moved together in a constant trajectory, not fast, not slow… and in the same direction (SE to NE), and really far away. Constant brightness all the time. One of them was bigger and brighter, and other smaller, but still bright. This small one disappeared suddenly, but the bigger kept on moving. They passed over right above me. Strange because it was to UFOs, very bright all the time… (sun reflection not the case). 

    I took a picture of a plane passing by, with maximum close up from my camera. The same close with I took the pictures. I changed ISO, so some pictures were darkened. And at the end of the mp4, there is the video.

    The video of the object is very short, click here to see it. It is hard to tell what it is, but it is very odd in shape. Could it be debris floating in the sky? The witness does not think so, and seems to indicate the objects were very high in the sky, possibly in orbit. Take a look and let us know what you think below.

    Close-up of object in video. (Credit: MUFON)

    Close-up of object in video.

    (Credit: MUFON)

    Image of airplane that the witness took for reference. (Credit: MUFON)

    Image of airplane that the witness took for reference.

    (Credit: MUFON)

    The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the object in the comments below.

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    10-08-2017 om 00:25 geschreven door peter  

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    If humans live in space, will we lose our skeletons?

    By Evan Dashevsky

    Journeying to space is an honor bestowed upon a fortunate few, but it comes with some seldom-discussed side effects. For example, in the absence of gravity, the human body tends to expand—painfully. Astronauts' faces swell up due to excess bodily fluids that no longer have to contend with gravity—a condition known as "the Charlie Brown effect"—while forcing all sorts of liquids out their various face holes. Grody.

    These occasionally gross and painful conditions are inescapable consequences of transplanting the human body into an alien environment. And they're perfect examples of how humans are NOT designed to live and work outside Earth's atmosphere. But they generally only last "a day or two" and are small prices to pay for a trip to the cosmos, right?

    There's still much we don't understand. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly lived aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for 340 days (the record belongs to Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who racked up 438 days) and the effects of his stay included bone density loss of 1.5 percent per month, heart shrinkage (the heart shrinks since it doesn't have to work as hard), radiation exposure (no protective ozone layer), vision problems (eyes adapt to operating in gravity), and even skin irritability (resulting from not constantly coming into contact with things).

    While Captain Kelly's prolonged stay resulted in a lot of science, one year for one individual is still a very limited data set—especially if you consider the time necessary for a human to travel throughout the solar system with current technology.

    As space exportation and colonization become increasingly viable prospects, we are forced to confront a great unknown: what will happen to our bodies after decades in space? We're kind of rolling the dice on this one, and what happens on the other side is anyone's guess. Things might even get super weird.

    "Would we, in the future, even have skeletons anymore if we were up in space for a long time," pondered NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski, who stopped by PCMag's offices for our Q&A series The Convo to talk about his new memoir The Sky Below.

    Aside from his five journeys to space, Parazynski is a medical doctor who specializes in space physiology and is the co-founder of Blue Marble Space, which aims to use technology to help humans explore space. "That's such a crazy thing to think about it. But we have skeletons here on Earth to resist gravity. But without it, over many generations, we'd probably evolve in some crazy ways."

    This is not to say that astronauts or first-generation colonists are in immediate danger of turning into boneless goo. But it's not insane to question if their descendants will be. When placed in an alien environment, evolution can take some weird turns. Consider the Mexican tetra (AKA the "blind cave fish"), which long ago found its way into a lightless subterranean environment and—over many generations—eventually lost its eyeballs as they became unnecessary drains on resources. Might a similar dropping of dead biologic weight occur in humans on a future space colony? Short answer: We have no friggin' clue.

    Now, there are things like centripetal motion, which can recreate gravity in a weightless environment (think A Space Odyssey or Interstellar), and could be implemented for any long-term human space habitat. However, the more immediate concern regarding gravity's effect on our bodies will be in an environment like Mars, where gravity is only about a third as robust.

    Over the generations, human bodies living in low-gravity locations like the Red Planet will change character. This may sound like some inconsequential sci-fi pondering, but a human civilization in space is closer than many realize. The good news is we should be able to engineer our way around any problems we face.

    "Anything that we humans set our mind to we can usually solve. And that seems like a very solvable problem," explains Parazynski. "You've seen all the artists' renditions of future Mars colonies with these modules on the surface of Mars, but they'd probably be buried for radiation protection. And we could do hydroponic plant growth—we can extract water from the soil. There's actually a lot of water on Mars. We can then generate oxygen to breathe. We can do a lot there. But it will take infrastructure and time. And by the way, send money."

    I don't think that future colonists will become formless jelly-people, but the fact that we don't know for sure shows just how many unknowns there are about humanity's ability to survive outside Earth's protective bubble. It's about time we at least start to consider what our weird space future will look like.

    The Convo is PCMag's interview series hosted by features editor Evan Dashevsky (@haldash). Each episode is broadcast live on PCMag's Facebook page, where viewers are invited to ask guests questions in the comments. Episodes are then posted on our YouTube page and available as an audio podcast, which you can subscribe to on iTunes or the podcast platform of your choice.

    This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

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    09-08-2017 om 21:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Moon discovery may expand where we search for alien life

    The lunar magnetic field lasted much longer than scientists originally thought.
    Sven Robbe / EyeEm via Getty Images

    Every discovery we make about the universe has implications for us. Understanding how our solar system formed, and how we got here, helps us figure out how likely it is that we'll find life on other planets. Even just our corner of the galaxy is vast; anything we can do to help narrow the possibilities of where we can and should search for life beyond our planet is helpful. And that's why a new study from Rutgers and MIT is so interesting. A team discovered that the moon's magnetic field survived much longer than previously thought.

    The Earth's magnetic field is what protects us from space radiation. Some comes from outside our galaxy, but our sun also emits highly charged particles that would be incredibly harmful if we weren't protected from them. (That's one of the serious concerns about sending astronauts to Marsand beyond: How do we protect them from radiation when they're outside the protection of the Earth's magnetic field?) As far as scientists know, a magnetic field is a key ingredient in finding life on another planet, but they were under the impression that a body as small as the moon wouldn't be able to support one for very long. This new study may prove that theory wrong.

    In order to conduct their experiments, the team used moon rocks that were collected by astronauts on Apollo 15. Objects lose their magnetism when exposed to extreme heat, so Sonia Tikoo, the lead author of the article published in Science Advances, heated the lunar rock to 1,436 degrees F and demagnetized it. She was then able to determine what its original magnetization was; it was higher than expected.

    Scientists have dated the lunar rock to between 1 billion and 2.5 billion years old. This means that the moon's magnetic field, which was once as strong as the Earth's, lasted a lot longer than scientists thought. It was still active as of 2ish billion years ago. The moon currently has no magnetic field, but scientists are unclear as to when it shut down. In comparison, Mars lost the bulk of its magnetic field about 4 billion years ago.

    Not only did we just find out more about our satellite, but this study tells us that we possibly should be looking at exomoons as potential hosts for life, in addition to exoplanets. "The question becomes what size planets and moons should we be considering as possibly habitable worlds," said Tikoo. The answer is clear: We have a lot more work to do.

    https://www.engadget.com/ }

    09-08-2017 om 21:23 geschreven door peter  

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    12 Possible Reasons We Haven't Found Aliens

    The SETI Institute used its Alien Telescope Array in California to confirm an intriguing radio signal coming from the star HD 164595, located about 94 light-years from Earth.
    Credit: SETI Institute

    In 1950, a learned lunchtime conversation set the stage for decades of astronomical exploration. Physicist Enrico Fermi submitted to his colleagues around the table a couple contentions, summarized as 1) The galaxy is very old and very large, with hundreds of billions of stars and likely even more habitable planets. 2) That means there should be more than enough time for advanced civilizations to develop and flourish across the galaxy.

    So where the heck are they?

    This simple, yet powerful argument became known as the Fermi Paradox, and it still boggles many sage minds today. Aliens should be common, yet there is no convincing evidence that they exist.

    Here are 12 possible reasons why this is so.

    1. There aren't any aliens to find.

     As unlikely as it seems in a galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars and as many as 40 billion Earth-size planets in habitable zones, we could be alone.

    2. There is no intelligent life besides us. 

    (This assumes, of course, that humans count as intelligent.) Life may exist, but it could simply take the form of miniscule microbes or other cosmically "quiet" animals.

    3. Intelligent species lack advanced technology. 

    Currently, astronomers utilize radio telescopes to listen intently to the night sky. So if alien species aren't broadcasting any signals, we'd never know they existed.

    4. Intelligent life self-destructs. 

    Whether via weapons of mass destruction, planetary pollution, or manufactured virulent disease, it may be the nature of intelligent species to commit suicide, existing for only a short time before winking out of existence.

    5. The universe is a deadly place. 

    On cosmic timescales – think billions of years – life may be fleeting. All it takes is a single asteroid, supernova, gamma ray burst, or solar flare to render a life-harboring planet lifeless.

    6. Space is big.

     The Milky Way alone is 100,000 light-years across, so it's conceivable that the focused signals of intelligent aliens, which are limited to the speed of light, simply haven't reached us yet.

    7. We haven't been looking long enough. 

    Eighty years. That's the amount of time that radio telescopes, which allow us to detect alien signals, have been around. And we've been actively searching for aliens for maybe sixty years. That's not very long at all.

    8. We're not looking in the correct place. 

    As previously mentioned, space is big, so there are tons of regions to listen for alien signals. If we're not listening precisely in the direction from which a signal is originating, we'd never hear it. As Andrew Fain explained at Universe Today, it's like trying to speak with your friend on a 250,000,000,000-channel CB radio, without any knowledge of the frequency on which they are transmitting. You'll probably be channel flipping for a long time.

    9. Alien technology may be too advanced. 

    Radio technology may be commonplace here on Earth, but on far-flung worlds, alien societies may have graduated to more advanced communication technologies, like neutrino signals. We can't decipher those just yet.

    10. Nobody is transmitting. 

    Instead, everybody may be listening. That's basically how it is here on Earth. Apart from a few paltry efforts to broadcast strong signals over a narrow frequency band towards the stars above, we've barely made our presence known in the universe. In fact, if aliens have radio telescopes similar to what we have on Earth, our television and radio broadcasts would only be detectable up to 0.3 light-years away. That distance doesn't even transcend the farthest reaches of our solar system.

    11. Earth is deliberately not being contacted. 

    On Earth, we have policies about contacting indigenous peoples; it's possible that the same thing could be happening with us. Just like in Star Trek, advanced alien societies may enforce rules that limit contact only to species that attain a lofty degree of technological or cultural evolution.

    12. Aliens are already here and we just don't realize it. 

    Conspiracy theorists love this unlikely explanation. While the chances are remote, it's not impossible that government agencies are concealing the presence of aliens. Although it's more likely that aliens are already amongst us, observing humanity in the clever and ironic guise of lab mice.

    Original article on RealClearScience.

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    09-08-2017 om 21:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Planet 10? New ‘Earth-size alien world’ found in our Solar System

    A NEW alien planet a similar size to Earth has been discovered in our Solar System, according to space boffins.

    By David Trayner 

    Astronomers believe they have found signs of a planet with a mass between that of Earth and Mars beyond Neptune.

    The movement of objects in the Kuiper Belt – thousands of asteroids, comets and dwarf planets orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune – suggests a planet is hiding among them.

    Mars

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    MARS FUNSIZE: The planet is believed to between the size of Mars (pictured) and Earth

    Something as massive as Mars would be needed

    Kat Volk

    Neptune – the eighth planet in our Solar System – is the furthest from the Sun so far proven to exist.

    Scientists claimed to have discovered a – dubbed somewhat unimaginatively “Planet Nine”.

    So – if it’s existence is confirmed – the new planet would be the tenth world in our Solar System.

    Only a heavenly body the size of Mars or bigger would have enough mass to alter the orbits of other objects in the Kuiper Belt, researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory say.

    Research fellow Kat Volk, of LPL – whose study will be published in The Astronomical Journal – said: “The most likely explanation for our results is that there is some unseen mass.

    “According to our calculations, something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured."

    An artist's impression of Planet 9

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    ICY GIANT: An artist's impression of Planet 9

    The LPL team are sure their calculations point to a new planet – not Planet 9.

    Planet 9 – which was also discovered through its effects on objects in the Kuiper Belt – is thought to be four times the size of Earth and 10 times its mass.

    Space experts have told Daily Star Online they think .

    It is believed to be about 500 to 700 “astronomical units” from Earth – up to 65 trillion miles away.

    Whatever is affecting the Kuiper Belt objects the researchers have spotted is much nearer.

    The Solar System

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    KUIPER BELT: Two asteroid belts sit between Mars and Jupiter and beyond Neptune

    Ms Volk said: “[Planet 9] is too far away to influence these Kuiper Belt objects.

    "It certainly has to be much closer than 100 AU to substantially affect the KBOs in that range."

    The team hope a new telescope being built in Chile, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, may help them check out more objects in the Kuiper Belt, including the possible Planet 10.

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    09-08-2017 om 20:44 geschreven door peter  

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    Visitors from across the world crop up at new circle

    Daniel Angelini  
    Reporter
    The crop circle
    The crop circle

    THE overwhelming response to a crop circle's sudden appearance in a Hannington farm has caused headaches for the farm's managers.

    The mysterious phenomenon cropped up last week and Shelley Klindt was shocked to discover it on Friday morning.

    She briefly opened the field to visitors after pictures of the pattern taken by drones went viral.

    Shelley urged sightseers to stay near the tram lines and not trample the crops but decided to stop people visiting the site when onlookers caused more damage.

    She said: “I noticed that the gate to the field was open and when I went to close it, I saw that a lot of the wheat had been pressed down, it must have happened overnight.

    “When I noticed the crop circle, a man was standing nearby with a drone and he showed me pictures of it from above.

    “I tried to keep this quiet but the pictures went online and people started turning up."

    Crowds of people from all over the world quickly gathered at the site to witness the weird wheat markings.

    Shelley added: “It’s quite a pretty thing, people from Brazil, Canada and America all came to have a look, though you can’t really see it from the ground.

    “I think it’s man-made but everyone else seems to think it’s spiritual or aliens or something.”

    Mrs Klindt doesn’t own the farm but her husband’s family has been looking after it since the 1970s.

    They have never had a crop circle appear in the fields before but claimed that one appeared in a neighbour’s fields in 2012.

    Shelley added: “It’s a hassle, we were 10 days from combining the crops and now all the wheat that’s been pushed to the floor can’t be harvested, it’s ruined.

    “We will have to claim this on our insurance which will make our insurance costs go up.

    “The tram lines are 24 metres apart and it goes across three of them, that’s a lot of unusable wheat.”

    The pattern will be gone in a few days when the combine harvesting begins.

    Mensen uit de hele wereld komen af op nieuwe graancirkel. Zie hier de indrukwekkende dronebeelden

    Crop circle Hannington (Lucy Pringle)

    09-08-2017 om 18:31 geschreven door peter  

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    Mensen uit de hele wereld komen af op nieuwe graancirkel. Zie hier de indrukwekkende dronebeelden

    Mensen uit de hele wereld komen af op nieuwe graancirkel. Zie hier de indrukwekkende dronebeelden

    Een graancirkel in het Engelse Hannington heeft geleid tot een overweldigende toestroom van bezoekers, schrijft This is Wiltshire.

    De mysterieuze formatie werd afgelopen week ontdekt door Shelley Klindt.

    Ze stelde het weiland waarin de graancirkel is gevonden korte tijd open voor bezoekers nadat foto’s van het indrukwekkende patroon viral waren gegaan.

    Drone

    Shelley drong er bij de bezoekers op aan om het gewas niet te vertrappen, maar besloot geen mensen meer toe te laten toen de toeschouwers alleen maar meer schade veroorzaakten.

    Mensen uit de hele wereld komen af op nieuwe graancirkel. Zie hier de indrukwekkende dronebeelden

    Graancirkel Hannington (Lucy Pringle)

    “Toen ik de graancirkel ontdekte stond er een man in de buurt met een drone,” zei ze. “Hij liet me foto’s van bovenaf zien.”

    “Ik probeerde dit stil te houden, maar de foto’s werden op internet geplaatst waarna mensen begonnen te verschijnen,” voegde ze toe.

    Hele wereld

    Hordes mensen van over de hele wereld verzamelden zich op de plek om de vreemde patronen in het graan te aanschouwen.

    “Er kwamen zelfs mensen uit Brazilië, Canada en Amerika om een kijkje te nemen, hoewel je de graancirkel niet goed vanaf de grond kunt zien,” zei Shelley.

    “Ik denk dat deze door mensen is gemaakt, maar iedereen lijkt te denken dat er iets spiritueels of buitenaards achter zit,” klonk het.

    Buren

    Klindt werkt al sinds de jaren zeventig op de boerderij, maar heeft nog nooit eerder een graancirkel zien verschijnen.

    In 2012 verscheen er wel een graanformatie in één van de weilanden van haar buren.

    Over enkele dagen zullen de graancirkels niet meer te zien zijn, want dan wordt het graan geoogst.

    Bekijk hieronder indrukwekkende beelden van de formatie:

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    09-08-2017 om 18:23 geschreven door peter  

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    Oud-Egyptische farao is oudst bekende menselijke 'reus'. Deze koning torende boven iedereen uit

    Oud-Egyptische farao is oudst bekende menselijke ‘reus’. Deze koning torende boven iedereen uit

    De oud-Egyptische farao Sanacht is mogelijk de oudst bekende menselijke reus, zo blijkt uit onderzoek waar Live Science over bericht.

    Vrijwel alle culturen kennen verhalen over reuzen, van de reuzen uit de noordse mythologie tot de Titanen uit de Griekse mythologie.

    Er zijn daarnaast gevallen van gigantisme bekend, waarbij het lichaam te veel groeihormonen aanmaakt. Dit gebeurt meestal als gevolg van een hersentumor.

    Twee meter lang

    Wetenschappers hebben een skelet bestudeerd dat in 1901 in een graftombe bij Beit Khallaf in Egypte is gevonden. Uit eerder onderzoek bleek dat de resten dateerden uit de derde dynastie.

    Oud-Egyptische farao is oudst bekende menselijke 'reus'. Deze koning torende boven iedereen uit

    Vermoedelijke schedel Sanacht (Wikicommons)

    Het skelet van de man, die twee meter lang was, behoorde mogelijk toe aan farao Sanacht.

    Mensen werden in die tijd gemiddeld 1,7 meter lang, aldus coauteur Michael Habicht van de Universiteit van Zürich.

    Uittorenen

    Oud-Egyptische koningen hadden waarschijnlijk toegang tot beter voedsel en waren gezonder dan gewone mensen.

    Maar de meer dan twee meter lange resten die de wetenschappers analyseerden zouden zelfs boven Ramses II, de langste oud-Egyptische farao, uittorenen.

    Ramses II leefde meer dan 1000 jaar na Sanacht en was slechts 1,75 meter lang, lichtte Habicht toe.

    Oudst bekende geval

    Samen met collega’s analyseerde hij de schedel en botten van Sanacht. Ze stuitten naar eigen zeggen op duidelijke aanwijzingen voor gigantisme.

    Het gaat volgens de onderzoekers om het oudst bekende geval ter wereld.

    De wetenschappers hebben hun bevindingen gepubliceerd in het augustusnummer van The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

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    09-08-2017 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

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    ER IS VEEL MEER GAANDE OP DE MAAN DAN WE DENKEN ( VIDEO )

    Onze maan hangt vlakbij ons, het fascineert ons en soms lijkt het alsof wij dit hemellichaam kunnen aanraken, zo dichtbij lijkt hij. 

    Maar, in werkelijkheid weten we nog eigenlijk zo goed als niets van de maan en al helemaal niet wat er zich allemaal afspeelt. 



    Eigenlijk is het verbazingwekkend hoe weinig wij weten over onze maan. Formeel zijn er ondertussen talloze mensen geweest en moeten wij geloven dat het een kale verlaten bol is die bezaaid is met kraters. 

    Mooie zonnige zomeravonden hebben het voordeel dat het soms heel helder is. En dan vooral bijvoorbeeld ’s avonds laat als de chemtrails enigszins zijn gestopt en weggetrokken. 

    Dat was ook het moment dat enkele dagen geleden, op 7 augustus, een inwoner van Californië begon met het nemen van foto’s van de volle maan. 

    Naast de volle maan fotografeerde hij ook nog een enorm groot zwart object.

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    Hij bleef foto’s maken van dit vreemd bewegende object.

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    Zoals op de volgende afbeelding te zien, is het object in kwestie, vergeleken met de maan, enorm groot.

    xxx

    Op een gegeven moment was er zelfs sprake van een tweede object.

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    Zo te zien verdwijnt dit grote object naar de voor ons onzichtbare achterkant van de maan, waar zich ongetwijfeld de nodige (buitenaardse) bases zullen bevinden. 

    Iemand die zich de laatste weken ook intensief bezighoudt met de maan is de bij ons bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1. 

    Hier volgen enkele van zijn video’s van de afgelopen weken en dan zie je dat deze man keer op keer weer vreemde en mysterieuze zaken ontdekt op onze maan. 

     

     

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    09-08-2017 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Massive Wave Anomalies Caught Coming from Antarctica Mystery Ross Sea Base?

    Yet again, MIMIC Map catches massive anomalies coming from Antarctica. This time we have two different events caught in the recent frames. The biggest being another massive wave formation that is once again being shot out above the Pacific Ocean.


    As the MIMIC map showed this time two anomalies, I have tried to determine the source on Antarctica and it seems that the location must be in or close the Ross Sea.

    The rough estimate and interpretation of the location of the source could be of course totally wrong, but if you see the images below then the anomalies point to a location in or next to the Ross Sea.


    Now, the Scott Base a New Zealand Antarctic international research facility which is located at Pram Point on Ross Island which is close to the Ross Sea and while it doesn’t prove anything it is interesting to note that this base is in line with the supposed location from where the wave anomalies have been transmitted.


    The Ross Sea and the mysterious surroundings seem to be an important part of the Antarctic given the fact that besides the activities of the International Scott Base, a few months ago, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources decided that the 1.9 million square-mile Ross Sea will be the new marine protected area.

    Despite the Ross Sea is now a protected area, China has selected a location for its first-ever airfield in Antarctica, which is to facilitate Beijing’s research efforts on the frozen continent, moreover, China is considering establishing a new Ross Sea base.

    That China wants to establish a new base just in this new protected area, actually in the same area where the International Scott base is located, is interesting and it could only means, whether or not related to the strange wave anomalies, that there is something going on below the surface of the Ross Sea or in the surrounding area that has the highest attention of many governments throughout the world.
      
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    09-08-2017 om 18:03 geschreven door peter  

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    BAALBEK MEGALITH: MYTHS ABOUT THE LARGEST 'MAN MADE' STONE ON EARTH

    Two thousand years ago, in the city of Heliopolis, or Baalbek, Lebanon as it is called now, a temple to the deity Jupiter was erected atop three enormous stone blocks each weighing more than one thousand tons. An imperfect stone of similar dimensions was located in a nearby quarry where the blocks are believed to have been excavated and formed. A few years ago yet another was found in the quarry; it is considered to be the largest of its kind ever discovered.

    MASSIVE MEGALITH BLOCK REIGNITES ANCIENT MYSTERY

    The mystery behind these enormous ancient constructions is twofold. Notable historians and archaeologists have been unable to find any evidence or clues to point them towards who may have ordered the Temple of Jupiter to be built. For more than a century, experts have failed to shed light on the origin of the temple, which is believed to be constructed by Romans and likely for religious reasons, but no specific person or group can be determined.

    " There are many local legends about the origin of the temple: Cain built it to hide from the wrath of God; giants built it, at Nimrod’s command, and it came to be called the Tower of Babel; Solomon built it, with djinns’ assistance, as a palace for the Queen of Sheba. (It is said that the reason some blocks were left in the quarry is that the djinns went on strike.) "

    This is noteworthy due to the enormity of the project- the labor and expense would be by no means minor. Unfortunately, no concrete information has been discovered on this or on what experts call the Trilithon, the ancient blocks. The blocks themselves are much more interesting a find given the technological deficiencies of the age. In modern times, it would still require some feat to move stones as heavy and large as these, and that is with the benefit of two thousand years of technological advancement. The primitive cranes and rolling devices of the day would not be sufficient to transport these blocks to their destination. It is an engineering accomplishment worthy of investigation.

    BIBLICAL, MYTHOLOGICAL OR EXTRATERRESTRIAL?

    Unfortunately, as the new stone was discovered during a quiet period in the Syrian war and with hostilities still ongoing, the mystery will have to wait until it is safe to continue excavating. What remains is speculation. There is already mythological and biblical explanations surrounding the stones and even extra-terrestrial ones. The Trilithon may precede the temple as the age of the stones, and the quarry itself is under debate. A landing platform for a spacecraft might require such a structure.

    BAALBEK IN LEBANON: THE LARGEST KNOWN MEGALITHIC STONE IN THE WORLD  

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    09-08-2017 om 17:48 geschreven door peter  

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    THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY: MYSTERY SOLVED

    In April 2011, a group of Swedish cazatesoros called ‘Ocean X’, led by Peter Lindberg, announced with fanfare the discovery of a strange and huge object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.(Baltic Sea Anomaly)

    Baltic Sea Anomaly

    From there, he was baptized as the famous Baltic UFO. But much later it became known that it is nothing more than a glacial deposit, a rocky formation dragged by ice to the sea thousands of years ago. Volker Brüchert, an associate professor of geology at the University of Stockholm, came to that conclusion after studying the samples provided by his discoverer, Peter Lindberg, who declined to comment.(Baltic Sea Anomaly)

    The strange and enormous object found at the bottom of the sea was about 60 meters in diameter and its curious oval shape, with two billions and long symmetrical protrusions, coupled with mysterious trawls of several hundred meters, made Lindberg think that said Object had fallen to the sea and had slipped on the bottom until it was completely still in its current position.(Baltic Sea Anomaly)

    End of the puzzle

    Baltic Sea Anomaly

    Immediately the speculations began, from an old Nazi experiment to the remains of Atlantis or, better still, an extraterrestrial star ship there who knows when. Be that as it may, the object was called “the anomaly of the Baltic” and since then Lindberg has done everything possible to echo it and to raise funds for new expeditions. At the same time, of course, he was collecting headlines around the world and enormous publicity for his company.
    Volker Brüchert, after analyzing the data collected by the treasure hunter, who did not want to comment on it, said that it is actually a rock formation dragged by glaciers into the deep waters a few thousand years ago,

    Brüchert argued on the show that the treasure hunter gave him: “I came across a black mineral that could be a volcanic rock. My hypothesis is that this object, this great structure, was formed during the Ice Age many thousands of years ago.

    Baltic Sea Anomaly

    It is good that there are critics voices about this supposed mystery of the Baltic Sea, “and adds:” What Ocean X’s team completely ignored is that most of the samples they took from the bottom of the sea were granite, gneiss The same composition as granite) and sandstone. ”

    And this, according to the scientist, is exactly what we would expect to see in a glacial basin. The entire Baltic Sea is a large glacial basin, a region excavated by ice thousands and thousands of years ago.

    What do you think? Leave us your comment! (I.e.

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    • Kalif Kasaba · 
      The disk shaped relic has indentations, ridges, straight lines, and curvatures which are carved with incredible precision as if it were forged for an intended purpose. To state that it is an anomaly created in nature by glacial manipulation is to deny the laws of physics. It needs to be brought above the surface and it's resting place excavated and scrutinized. Anything less is pure speculation of idiotic proportions.
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      Ayurzana Tsogo · 
      all that ridges and lines on the picture are artists imagination! No close up pic was ever taken but only blurry zoomed sonar image was made available.
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      Melissa Schreiber-Peck · 
      I agree if they really want to know what it is pulled that thing up and start cutting into the outer Rock because honestly yeah we're UFO conspiracy theorist but that looks like a damn craft that crashed into the water and it is just been there for so long that the rock formation has completely encrusted in around it and the staircase that's built looks like something that mankind built up to the top of it maybe they were trying to memorialize the craft who knows but it does look like a spacecraft there's too much detail in that thing to say it's just some rock formation that occurred
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    • Marc Hurlbert · 
      I don't think such a complex and intricate form is likely to be the result of random natural process. What seems more likely to me is that it could be an archeological artifact carved by humans of an ice age civilization thousands of years ago when the sea level was lower and it was exposed on land. It may well have been used for ceremonial purposes until it ws inundated by the rising sea.
      LikeReply10Jul 23, 2017 5:37am
    • Christopher D. Corran
      I think the 'illustrations' are man made artwork.
      What we see of the object is deliberately obscure(d).
      I'd say it's a piece of rock beneath the water.
      Glacial drag? Probably.
      If it was a true anomaly, in this day and age, there would be more detailed imagery of the actual rock.
      Frank Gump · 
      I've seen glacial drag ,,possible yes,,but intricate design and electronic distortion from above sea level,,think again with an open but reasonaed mind..please
      LikeReply2Jul 23, 2017 5:59pm
    • Wes Allsopp · 
      The images you are referring to that are carved with precision..might those be artist renditions you dbags? The only real image that exists is one blurry sonar image with zero detail...it looks nothing like a ufo or anything manmade..it looks exactly like a glacial rock formation...mystery solved..
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    • Taimur Mirza · 
      The stones lying on top of the Anomaly have been tested at a Lab in Israel: " This rock has been subjected to very high temperatures 18 to 20 thousand Degrees" says the report, and the sample is not part of the Anomaly its self. Food for thought !!!
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    09-08-2017 om 17:17 geschreven door peter  

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    10 Astonishing Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Mars

    The second smallest planet in the Solar System is the main topic for space explorers around the world.

    We’ve sent dozens of spacecraft and rovers there to study it. Also, within 15 to 20 years agencies are planning to send people to the Red Planet.

    So, here are 10 exciting facts to know about Mars:
    1. Mars has the largest mountain in the whole solar system

    Our red planet’s Olympus Mons is a shield volcano that is three times the height of Mount Everest. It has a height of nearly 22km and a diameter of 600km.

    It nearly occupies the same amount of area as mainland France, while scientists believe it may still be active.

    2. Mars Has Methane In Its Atmosphere

    In 2014, the Curiosity Rover discovered ‘burps’ of methane, which Nasa scientists said at the time could indicate “life or evidence of ancient methane trapped which could show ancient life”. Methane can be interpreted as a sign of biological activity — microbes emit it — or even of geologic activity. And active planets, it is thought, are more likely to have life on them.

    3. You’d feel lighter on Mars

    The Red Planet is smaller than Earth and has less surface gravity than our home. Thus, when humans will set foot on Mars they will feel much lighter.

    On Mars, you’d experience 62.5% less gravity than you’re used to on Earth, so if you weighed 100lbs on Earth, you would weigh only 38lbs on Mars.

    4. Mars Had Water In The Ancient Times

    There was a long debate going on about whether Mars had life or not. In fact, the astronomer Percival Lowell misinterpreted observations of “canali” (the Italian word for channels) on the planet as evidence of alien-made canals. But, some poor telescope optics of Lowell’s day quashed his observations. Thus, the channels he saw were nothing but optical illusions.

    That said, several spacecraft have spotted other signs of ancient water — channels grooved in the terrain and rocks that only could have formed in the presence of water.

    5. Mars Has Frozen Water Today
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    Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

    Simply put, water implies habitability. So, life as we know it is more likely to exist with water there. Mars has a thin atmosphere that does not allow water to flow or remain in large quantities on the surface. In the other side, we know for sure that there is ice at the poles and possibly frosty locations elsewhere on the planet. The question is if the ice is capable of melting enough water in the summer long enough to support any microbes.

    6. We Have Pieces Of Mars On Earth

    In the past, the planet has been hit by large asteroids, just like Earth. Most of the debris fell back on the planet, but some of it was ejected into space. That sparked an incredible journey where the debris moved around the Solar System and in some cases, landed on Earth.

    7. Ice age
    This simulated view shows Mars as it might have appeared during the height of a possible ice age in geologically recent time. Credit: NASA

    Mars is emerging from an ice age that ended 400,000 years ago, radar images have shown.

    8. A year on Mars

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    Earth makes a faster orbit around the sun because it’s closer to it. Meanwhile, Mars is much farther, thus having a longer revolution around our Star. A Martian year is the equivalent of 687 Earth days –while a day on the Red Planet only lasts 40 minutes more than one on Earth.

    9. Mars Used To Have A Thicker Atmosphere

    It is thought that the Sun’s energy striking the atmosphere must have “stripped” the lighter forms of hydrogen from the top, scattering the molecules into space. Over long periods of time, this would lessen the amount of atmosphere near Mars.

    10. Humans on Mars

    Nasa is planning to create an ‘Earth Independent’ Mars colony by the 2030s.

    “Like the Apollo programme, we embark on this journey for all humanity,” said Nasa. “Unlike Apollo, we will be going to stay.

    “In the next few decades, Nasa will take steps toward establishing a human presence beyond Earth.

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    09-08-2017 om 17:07 geschreven door peter  

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    Watch as bizarre UFOs 'fly over crop circles' in extraordinary footage

    A CROP circle expert claims to have captured inexplicable UFOs flying over farmland in Wiltshire as he investigated the phenomena.

    Pierre Beake has spent years investigating crop circles in the south west of England, and is convinced they are a paranormal phenomenon, that cannot all be the work of hoaxers.

    Mr Beake, who travels from France to investigate the activity, claims to have captured mysterious balls of light (BOLs) on video camera shooting at speed across Milk Hill in Wiltshire, a reknowned crop circle site.

    He has also captured several alleged BOLs on still camera around crop circles.

    Crop circles - allegedly made by landing UFOs - have been widely considered one of the world's biggest paranormal hoaxes since 1991, when Doug Bower and David Chorley were filmed showing how they made many of the reported corn field patterns discovered across the UK.

    The duo said they simply used wooden planks and rope to flatten corn in a circular fashion.

    The pair started the tomfoolery in the 1970s to tease locals who believed in UFOs.

    In the latter half of the 1990s more "circle makers", who tried to out do each other with the most complicated designs, emerged.

    UFO-Crop-Circle

    Pierre Breake*Jon Austin

    Pierre Break says these were paranormal orbs filmed over a Wiltshire crop circle.

    But despite the hoaxers outing themselves many years ago, there are now others, including Mr Beake, who refuse to believe they could make the "highly geometric" patterns and say there may be something much more paranormal behind them.

    BOLs have been long linked to crop circles by people who continue to believe they are a paranormal event and possibly connected to alien visitations of Earth.

    According to Palden.co.uk: "Balls of light have been seen a number of times around crop formations. 

    "They seem to be yellow-orange, floating around circles with signs of pattern or intent."

    Mr Beake revealed his footage and photography and the myth Glastonbury Symposium, an annual conference dedicated to the paranormal, conspiracy theories, alternative thought, and new age philosophies.

    He said: "When you go for the first time in a crop circle you can't explain the feeling.

    "It is a great feeling, you feel nice."

    This is incredible. There were 10 people on the hill. It is very good footage of people who went to see balls of light.

    Pierre Breake

    The researcher showed two separate videos showing what he said were BOLs travelling at high speed over crop circle hotspots.

    He said: "Look at this video, you see a bright light on camera. You see it in the distance come across the field. It is windy, but it stays at the same speed with the same force. It is a good piece of footage of a ball of light."

    Another clip was filmed at known crop circle hot spot Milk Hill, near Alton Priors in Wiltshire, with a number of people in the fields.

    He said: "This is incredible. There were 10 people on the hill. It is very good footage of people who went to see balls of light."

    Mr Beake showed the audience an array of pictures which he said were balls of light above crop circles, that could not be explained.

    Referring to one, he said: "There were two big balls of light that just disappeared. There was no rain, no moisture. It was a hot day, you just can't explain it, it is very weird."

    Discussing another, he said: "At Milk Hill you see two lights. You have to be there at the right time. I can't explain it, I didn't see them at the time. It is not a plane coming towards you it is part of the Wiltshire mystery."

    However, Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org, believes Mr Beake could be mistaken.

    Mr Brando looked at the video footage of supposed BOLs flying over the fields and said they were just out of focus birds swooping over.

    In terms of balls of lights in still photographs, he said these could be caused by light refracting inside the lens and projecting an image onto the picture, which is why the photographer would not have seen it at the time.

    Other causes could be raindrops on the lens, or light bouncing of an insect or other object in the air.

    09-08-2017 om 14:13 geschreven door peter  

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    What is this?

    notice the lights/thing above at the left?

    foto van Geert Creyne.

    notice the lights/thing above at the left?
    Reacties
    Marnik Bergers En wat is het grote licht on het midden?
    Verwijderen
    Geert Creyne is in mijn tuin, was fotos vn de sterren aan het nemen en plots dit verschijnsel
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    Geert Creyne het licht was zo gelijk een flare dat vliegtuigen kunnen uitgooien en die oplichten, maar zoals je kan zien, is het geen vliegtuig... er gebeuren hier rare dingen, niet ver van een militaire luchthaven.

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    08-08-2017 om 23:51 geschreven door peter  

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    Rare 'pink rainbow' spotted in sky over Bristol

    Pink rainbow
    Image copyrightSARAH AGGETT
    Image captionThe phenomenon was seen in many parts of the west of England

    A rare "pink rainbow" was spotted in the west of England on Monday evening.

    The phenomenon, seen in Bristol, Taunton and Yate, has been described as an "optical illusion" by experts.

    People who photographed it described it as "amazing" and "pretty" on BBC Points West's Facebook page .

    BBC Weather presenter Simon King said there was no specific name for the phenomenon, which was caused by a regular rainbow and a pink sunset happening at the same time.

    "We've got a regular rainbow, which is caused by water droplets in the atmosphere reflecting the sunlight into the spectrum of different colours," he said.

    "The other thing is a pinkish sunset caused by sunlight having to pass through a lot more atmosphere - due to the low sun angle late in the day - hence the shortwave colours - violets, blues, greens - are diminished and we only see the pinks and reds, giving the rainbow a pinkish colour."

    Pink rainbow
    Image copyrightBRISTOL HARBOUR
    Image captionThis was the view at Bristol Harbour
    Pink rainbow
    Image copyrightNIKKI HAASZ
    Image captionNikki Haasz took this photo in Chew Magna
    Pink rainbow
    Image copyrightCHLOE EDWARDS
    Image captionIn Taunton the sky turned a deep pink - as this photo by Chloe Edwards shows
    Pink rainbow
    Image copyrightMATT GAMLIN
    Image captionMatt Gamlin sent us this picture of the rainbow

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    08-08-2017 om 23:44 geschreven door peter  

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    https://www.scientias.nl/ }

    08-08-2017 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

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    08-08-2017 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

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    https://www.scientias.nl/ }

    08-08-2017 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

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    08-08-2017 om 23:13 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFOs Join At Air Show In Washington State

    UFOs Join At Air Show In Washington State

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    Skyfest this past weekend lured several dozens of people, and at least one of them recorded a video of what he believed a UFO. John Whichelow said that he never captured anything like it ever. The air show at Fairchild AFB involved the Thunderbirds and Whichelow thought he was just recording them at first, but when he watched the video again, he noticed two different UFOs in the frame.

    Whichelow said that the UFOs were likely moving incredibly fast as they appeared when the announcer said that those jets were going 500 mph. According to the amateur videographer, some suggested that they could be meteors, birds or bugs close to the camera. However, he does not think it is any of those.

    The video shows a mysterious white object passes across the frame before the Thunderbirds pass each other. At around 36 seconds later, a smaller black object appears following behind the ascending Thunderbird.

    Whichelow believes what Carl Sagan had stated saying that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the beach. With stars that many, Whichelow believes many are older than ours and humanity will get to the stars someday. Whichelow further explains that the possibility that someone has gotten here already from the older stars makes a lot of sense.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    08-08-2017 om 23:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Researchers Document Large UFO in Squamish On Video

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    A giant orb that was captured on video near the Stawamus Chief excites London, Ontario documentary and research crew Rob Freeman and Marcus McNabb. The pair has travelled to 30 cities and 11 countries in the past three years with a determination to document what is out there after being inspired by experiences during their childhood years.

    The sighting is the best they got on video to date, according to Freeman, who is a senior field researcher for the scientific study of atmospheric anomalies. Freeman added that the happenings in the world are not known to many people.

    The crew used night imaging technology for collecting data to see the visible and invisible. On July 22, the pair arrived in Squamish. An unnamed man at the Britannia Mine gift shop shared them a story on unusual things on the Chief trail.

    When the night came, the duo entered the forest and soon after they reportedly saw a large sphere of light moving across the sky and descending into the woods.

    The UFO has no sound, and they were certain it was not a plane.

    While the sighting was just short, Freeman was able to record the thing. Freeman explained that the orb was in front of the trees because the trees behind the orb were all lit up.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    08-08-2017 om 22:58 geschreven door peter  

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    NASA SCIENTIST FINDS STRONG EVIDENCE FOR AN ET RACE EXISTING ON MARS HALF A BILLION YEARS AGO

    08-08-2017 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

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    Large UFO caught on video in Squamish

    Visiting enthusiasts document atmospheric anomaly

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    A large orb captured on video near the Stawamus Chief has excited a documentary and research crew from London, Ont. 

    Rob Freeman and Marcus McNabb have travelled to 11 countries and 30 cities in the past three years determined to record what is out there, after being inspired from a childhood experience. 

    Freeman, a senior field researcher for the Centre for the Scientific Study of Atmospheric Anomalies, said the sighting is the best footage they’ve recorded to date.

     “This is such a fascinating path that we are on,” Freeman said. “Most people have no idea what’s happening in the world.”

    The pair initially started out to make a documentary but McNabb now describes it as a movement.

    To collect data, the crew used night imaging technology spanning the electromagnetic spectrum to see the visible and invisible, as well as a camera fondly called the “weapon of mass detection.”

    When the crew arrived in Squamish on July 22, a stranger at the Britannia Mine gift shop told them special things shine on the Chief trail. “It was breathtakingly majestic,” Freeman said of the rock face.

    As night fell, they entered the forest. Soon after, he said, a giant sphere of light moved across the sky and descended into the woods. 

    “At first we thought it was an airplane,” Freeman said. “There was absolutely no sound… then we absolutely knew it was no airplane.”

    The sighting was brief, but Freeman recorded about 10 seconds after rummaging for gear. 

    “The trees behind the orb were all lit up,” he explained. “That means it was in front of the trees.”

    They planned the trip to B.C. specifically to meet Charles Lamoureux, a Vancouver-based online skywatcher featured in local news reports.

    Lamoureux documents the inexplicable phenomena, often seeing them move over Cypress and toward Horseshoe Bay. He made his own film, Nocturnal Lights, and is currently working with SFU on a paranormal program.

    Orbs can vary in size, known to blink amber or white light when zipping off, he explained. On July 20, the group tracked an orb with thermal gear from Vanier Park toward the mountains.

    Lamoureux suggested going to Squamish, though didn’t head out that night due to rain. 

    “People at the Chief have actually seen lighted orbs or spheres,” he says, citing Internet videos.

    Lamoureux was disappointed to miss the sighting. He fact-checked the video the crew immediately sent, confirming it was not a plane, drone, satellite or meteor, after no such YVR documented routes were found.  

    The Mutual UFO Network, an international organization originating in 1969 that collects and researches data specific to sky watching, said it is incredible footage. 

    “This is the clearest orb video so far this year,” the spokesperson responded. 

    “The Chief is a sacred mountain,” Freeman said. “Lights are found in ancient spots like Peru or Norway. Whatever it is, in every single country on every single expedition, we’ve got something.”


    @ Copyright 2017 Squamish Chief

    http://www.squamishchief.com/news }

    08-08-2017 om 21:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Charles Lamoureux – New Canadian UFO Documentary – July 10, 2017

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    Charles Lamoureux is a former UFO skeptic who now says he is a “true believer.” He is an avid skywatcher and amateur astronomer in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has been convinced that UFOs represent a true mystery due to the number of anomalous objects he has seen and/or captured on video. He has collected several video capture devices, including night vision and infrared, and has attached them to one device he calls a Skywatcher’s Mobile Unit (SMU).

    In this interview we talk to Charles about a new documentary, Nocturnal Lights, about his skywatching and UFO research. It has just been released online, and Charles says it includes some of his best UFO videos.

    To view the documentary, visit: www.gumroad.com/l/NocturnalLights

    For more information about Charles, visit: www.static8films.com

    For more information about the documentary film maker, visit: www.gonewestprod.com


    {http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    08-08-2017 om 21:04 geschreven door peter  

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    Stacey Wright and Jim Mann – Arizona’s Mutual UFO Network – August 1, 2017

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    Open Minds UFO Radio: Stacey Wright and Jim Mann have been running the Phoenix area chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for over a decade. Soon after, they took over the entire state as State Director and Assistant Director. Their meetings have grown from 4 people to now over 100, regularly. They also enlisted the help of Dennis Freyermuth as a Chief Investigator, who has done a spectacular job managing UFO investigations. For their efforts, Arizona MUFON was awarded the chapter of the year at the recent MUFON Symposium. It was the first time the award has ever been given.

    In this interview, we talk to Jim and Stacey about how they grew the chapter, why they decided to do it in the first place, other ways they keep their group active, and about the Phoenix Lights, the most famous UFO case in Arizona, and one of the most famous in the world.

    For more information about Arizona MUFON, visit: www.PhoenixMUFON.com

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    08-08-2017 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA’s response to 9-year-old job applicant is out of this world

    NASA’s response to 9-year-old job applicant is out of this world

    08-08-2017 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Colleagues offer tribute to one-of-a-kind north Texas author

    Infamous North Texas author and world renowned JFK conspiracy theorist died in FW home

    Kevin Reece, WFAA

    When I met Jim Marrs for the first time he agreed to talk about one of his favorite subjects.

    "Yeah, think it happened," he said on the 120th anniversary of the alien incident of 1897 in the North Texas town of Aurora. It's the infamous tale of an alien spaceship that allegedly crashed in the town north of Fort Worth and whose occupant was given a "good Christian burial" in the town cemetery.  

    Decades later Marrs and a colleague took a metal detector to the grave and found readings for possible metal fragments. But the next day the readings disappeared.

    "He said I think it was the government and I said I think you're right," Marrs said with a laugh.

    "The personification of a good Texas man. Honest as the day is long," said former Fort Worth Star Telegram colleague Donna Darovich. “If you looked up character in the dictionary it would say Jim Marrs. He was the personification of a character."

    Marrs was a long-time reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He was also the author of a dozen books including Alien Agenda and the book Crossfire - The Plot that Killed Kennedy. The conspiracy narrative became much of the motivation for the Hollywood movie by Oliver Stone.

    "Jim was one of the first people to find his niche and stuck to it and found a great audience," said Fort Worth Star Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy. "What I admire about Jim is that I don't really believe everything he wrote but I believe he knew how to sell books."

    Jim Marrs died of a heart attack last week at the age of 73. Tributes poured in over social media over the weekend from across the world.

    "I can't think of him as not being vibrant and alive somewhere in the cosmos," said Linda Moulton Howe, an investigative reporter in Albuquerque, New Mexico who became friends with Marrs at multiple conferences across the country. She admired him for his dogged determination to get government officials to answer long-standing questions and conspiracies.

    "Jim Marrs' 12 books have helped open up minds to facts that were contradictory to US policies of denial. His work I think will live on and on because that is all that Jim Marrs wanted to do - find out the truth and report it in the face of political agendas, policies of denials and lies."

    "I believe in a God," Jim Marrs told me in our conversation about aliens and UFO's.  "But, I know there are UFO's," he laughed.

    "A wild and wacky guy but a really sweet good ole Texas boy," said Darovich.

    A good ole Texas boy, journalist, and author whose influence and who's countless questions live on.

    © 2017 WFAA-TV

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    08-08-2017 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Earl Grey – UFO Investigator that rocks – August 8, 2017

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    Open Minds UFO Radio: Earl Grey Anderson is a musician who investigates UFOs. In music, he has worked as a guitarists, vocalist, singer and songwriter. When it comes to UFOs, he holds several positions with the Mutual UFO Network. He is Assistant State Director for Southern California, Chief Field Investigator, and a member of MUFON’s STAR Team.

    Earl Grey is a also a listener of Open Minds UFO Radio and active member in the Open Minds UFO News Facebook group. HIs name has come up on the show and on OpenMinds.tv several times in relation to UFO sightings in California, so we decided we might as well bring him on as a guest. It is a good thing we did too, because he is even more interesting than we thought. In this episode, among other things, we discuss how Earl Great got into this field, his mother’s incredible relation to the phenomenon, and how Earl Grey got his name.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    08-08-2017 om 20:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterious Egyptian Pharaoh May Have Been a ‘Giant’

    Mysterious Egyptian Pharaoh May Have Been a ‘Giant’

    His name was Sanakhat or Sa-Nakhat and he reigned for about 18 years as an Egyptian pharaoh in the Third Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, starting around 2650 BCE. His remains were found in 1901 in a tomb, not a pyramid, near Beit Khallaf in upper Egypt, the location of a number of Third Dynasty tombs. Not much else was known about Sanakhat until a recent study took another look at his skull and bones and determined that he not only ruled over but also towered over his subjects because he was … a giant!

    The report in the August issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology opens with the usual caveat that the term ‘giant’ is relative to the size of everyone else living at the time, but Sanakhat’s size was unusual in a number of ways. Led by Francesco M. Galassi, from the University of Zurich, researchers took a number of new and detailed measurements of Sanakht’s skeletal remains, extrapolated his probable size and compared it to known data on the size of the average Egyptian 4,700 years ago.

    Possible skull of Sanakht

    (Credit: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)

    What they found was big. Sanakht was at least 187 cm or 6 foot 1 inches tall. That would make him a small NBA player today but a giant among his fellow, albeit non-royal, Egyptians who averaged about 162.5 cm or 5 foot 4 inches. That huge height difference is much more than what could be attributed to the royals eating better than the commoners, so the researchers concluded that Sanakht was a true Egyptian giant. And not just any giant. Based on archeological records, Sanakht was taller than any known Egyptian pharaoh before or after him.

    What made Sanakht a giant? Before anyone starts shouting “Alien!”, the researchers anticipated the question. They found that his bones showed “signs of exuberant growth” but his skull did not. Today, those are indicators of gigantism, a hormonal condition that results in abnormal and excessive growth in young children (if the growth occurs in adulthood, it’s known as acromegaly) and is generally caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland. While today it can be treated if identified early, that obviously wasn’t the case in 2650 BCE.

    Relief fragment of image believed to be Pharaoh Sanakht from The British Museum

    That date — 2650 BCE – is significant because it makes Sanakht the oldest known case of gigantism … if it’s really Sanakht. While the remains were found in an elite tomb in an area known for having tombs from the Third Dynasty, there’s little to identify these as Sanakht. Also, the giant size of the skeleton is unique among other short-statured Third Dynasty rulers he would have been related to. The tomb contained nothing more that would show Sanakht’s actual dates of ruling nor his place in the dynastic line.

    Whether the remains are Sanakht or some other elite individual, the discovery is important because it dates the condition of gigantism further back in history – potentially explaining many other stories of giants – and it shows that, in a culture that preferred short people and revered dwarfs, a giant was also considered special.

    Even without a basketball.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    08-08-2017 om 20:15 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.We Explored NASA's Concept Mars Rover, and It Was Out of This World

    We Explored NASA's Concept Mars Rover, and It Was Out of This World

    08-08-2017 om 18:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.After 5 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Still Making Big Discoveries

    After 5 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Still Making Big Discoveries

    08-08-2017 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Life in the Saturn System? Cassini Has Shown It's Possible

    08-08-2017 om 17:53 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA’s ‘Planetary Protection Officer’ Protects Other Worlds From Earth (Synopsis)

    NASA’s ‘Planetary Protection Officer’ Protects Other Worlds From Earth (Synopsis)

    To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn’t see in either eye – that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.

    - Chris Hadfield

    Sure, you probably laughed about it when you first heard that NASA had a Planetary Protection Officer, as though Earth actually needed protection from non-existent alien invasions. Perhaps, you thought, this might have been relevant back in the 1960s, before we realized how barren the Moon was, or how woefully insufficient the Solar System is for harboring some type of doomsday, Andromeda-strain-like bacterium.

    The crew of Apollo 11 — Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin — in the Mobile Quarantine Facility after returning from the surface of the Moon.

    Image credit: NASA.

    Although that NASA office is responsible for external biological threats to Earth, the main function of planetary protection is quite different: protecting other worlds from Earth. Which is to say, every time we launch a mission into deep space, we need to ensure that Earth-based life doesn’t compromise an otherwise pristine environment. There are big questions about the Solar System that we can only answer if we don’t contaminate those other worlds; one screw-up can override billions of years of natural history.

    A scanning electron microscope image of a Milnesium tardigradum (Tardigrade, or ‘water bear’) in its active state. Tardigrades have been exposed to the vacuum of space for prolonged periods of time, and have returned to normal biological operation after being returned to liquid water environments.

    Image credit: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. (2012).

    What is the big deal with NASA’s Planetary Protection Office (and officer)? Find out, and get the facts instead of just some vainglorious headlines!

    {  http://scienceblogs.com/ }

    08-08-2017 om 17:35 geschreven door peter  

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    China Built The World's Biggest Telescope But They've Got No One To Run It

    THE FAST OBSERVATORY. STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

    Jonathan O'Callaghan

    Jonathan O'Callaghan 

    Senior Staff Writer

    China may have the world’s largest radio telescope in the world, but they’re apparently running into a few problems. Namely, they can’t find someone to run it.

    Known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China opened this huge dish in September 2016 to study the cosmos. Among its numerous goals, it will be used to look for signals from extraterrestrial life and study black holes.

    Upon completion, the $178-million FAST observatory became the largest operational telescope in the world, with its dish spanning 500 meters (1,600 feet), as its name suggests. It made use of a natural sinkhole in the Guizhou region of China, although some locals had to be relocated to make way for it.

    Now, however, it has emerged that China can’t find someone to run the telescope. They’ve been advertising the job of chief scientist for an annual salary of $1.2 million, but there have been no takers so far. It’s reported that China was looking for a foreigner because no astronomer at home had the expertise to run the telescope.

    “The post is currently open to scientists working outside China only,” a human resources official at the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), which owns the telescope, told the South China Morning Post. “Candidates can be of any nationality, any race.”

    For many, that could be a rather exciting opportunity. However, Ars Technica notes that there are only about 40 people in the world who could have the necessary requirements for the job. These include 20 years of experience in the field, and experience managing a large-scale radio project.

    China has denied reports they have been looking for a foreigner to run the telescope, despite the seemingly verbatim quote from the HR official. In a post on Sina Weibo yesterday, as reported by the state-run Global Times, they said there was no such posting for the job, and it had been filled since July 2016. This chief scientist has not been named.

    Presuming it does run smoothly, FAST should be pretty useful. Its huge collecting power will enable it to collect radio waves from distant sources, much like the Arecibo observatory did in the US.

    “Having a more sensitive telescope, we can receive weaker and more distant radio messages,” CAS Director-General Wu Xiangping said in 2015. “It will help us to search for intelligent life outside of the galaxy and explore the origins of the universe.”

    http://www.iflscience.com/ }

    08-08-2017 om 17:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Kiwi man's Manurewa UFO footage - is it debunked?

    Kiwi man's Manurewa UFO footage - is it debunked?

    Is this evidence we're not alone?

    Credits: UFO - fan/YouTube

    Footage taken by a Kiwi man appears to show a blazing UFO in the sky above Manurewa, Auckland, but it's not likely to be an alien invasion.

    The video was taken on July 31, and was posted to the "UFO - fan" YouTube page, and has since gone viral.

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    "This the 12th time that I had recorded this UFO in the last 12 weeks!!" the video owner posted.

    "People had been guessing it to be a fireball or a meteor, maybe because their camera didn't zoom-in close enough. I guess it is a craft (ufo) of some sort as I can see a pulsating red headlight in some of my captured videos."

    The footage shows a large object travelling through the sky, trailed by twin jets of flame. The unidentified object then appears to change direction in some inexplicable manoeuvre.

    "A Jet ?? Can a jeft stopped midair and do this [sic]?" UFO - fan asked.

     YOUTUBE UFO - FAN

    It's a question that has left viewers puzzled, and searching for explanations.

    "Is it Nibiru with the two tails, like a comet?" one person asked.

    "When the earth is in conjunction with Mars it will really start big time.. they will be hopping off Mars and coming to earth by the hundreds or maybe thousands..  they come in on hyper drive and use Jupiter's gravity to slow down," a commenter argued.

    "I have had very lucid dreams of this, how the Intergalactic Federation fended off an invasion of predator ships that looked like that coming in," another said.

    But scientific investigation site Metabunk - to which NIWA has directed us - offers a more prosaic answer.

    "Cool footage of a sunlit contrailing jet suddenly increasing its rate of climb in the far distance, then continuing with less persistent contrails," wrote Mick West.

    "Likely flight is Emirates 435 from Auckland to Brisbane."

    Newshub.

    http://www.newshub.co.nz/home.html }

    08-08-2017 om 17:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.THE ULTIMATE MEN IN BLACK DOCUMENTARY

    THE ULTIMATE MEN IN BLACK DOCUMENTARY

    BY 

    The Ultimate Men In Black Documentary.

    There have been reports of MIB’s for decades.

    What are they?

    Governement Agents?

    Something Else?

    http://paranormalghosts.co.uk/ }

    08-08-2017 om 16:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Experts are studying a mysterious aluminum object that could date back to 250,000 years: Some speculate it might be a part from a UFO

    Experts are studying a mysterious aluminum object that could date back to 250,000 years: Some speculate it might be a part from a UFO

    by Ian Harvey

    A fragment of aluminum that appears to have been made by hand is being claimed as 250,000-year-old evidence that aliens once visited Earth in the long distant past.

    Metallic aluminum was not being produced by mankind until about 200 years ago, so this find of a large chunk that could be around 250,000 years old is held as a sensational discovery. The exact details of the find were never made public at the time for the reason that the metal was excavated in communist Romania in 1973.

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    Aluminium object dating back 250,000 years could be part of ancient UFO

    Metallic aluminium was not produced by mankind until around 200 years ago - but this appears manufactured making the object a baffling find

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    The discovery was made when builders that were working on the shores of Mures River found three objects that were 33 feet (10 meters) underground. This river is not far from the central Romanian town of Aiud. The pieces look unusual and very old, and archaeologists were brought to view them immediately and identified two of the objects as fossils. But the third piece seemed to be a man-made metal, and even though it is very light, it was suspected that it may be the end of an axe.

    All three objects were sent together to be further analyzed by archaeologists in Cluj, the main city of the Romanian region of Transylvania. They quickly determined that the two large bones had belonged to an extinct mammal that died out around 90,000 years ago. The third object stunned the experts since it was a piece of lightweight metal, and seemed to have been manufactured.

    According to tests, the object is made out of 12 different metals, but it was 90% aluminum. The Romanian officials dated the object as being 250,000 years old. The first results were later confirmed by a lab located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Later, other experts conducted tests and said that could be wrong – the age could range between 400 and 80,000 years old. Even if the object is 400 years old, that would still be 200 years before aluminum was known to have been first produced.

    The object is 7.8 inches (20 centimeters) long, 4.9 inches (12.5 centimeters) wide and 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) thick. The experts were puzzled by the fact that the piece of metal has concavities that make it seem that it was manufactured as a component of a more complex mechanical system.

    Now there is a heated debate around whether the object is part of a UFO and is evidence of aliens having visited our civilisation in the past.

    The Deputy Director of the Romanian Ufologists Association, Gheorghe Cohal, told the local media that lab tests concluded that it’s an old UFO fragment, given that the materials could not have been combined with the technology that’s available on Earth. The local historian Mihai Wittenberger has claimed that the item is actually a metal piece from a WWII German aircraft. However, this does not explain the actual age of the artifact, Daily Record reported.

    Read another story from us: Mysterious objects wash up on New Zealand beaches

    The metal object is now on public display inside the History Museum of Cluj-Napoca with the full history that was the cause of the heated debate. It was noted that museum officials added a sign that states the origin is still unknown. Maybe one day we will be able to find out exactly where this mysterious object originated.

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    08-08-2017 om 16:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NATIVE AMERICANS HAVE NO FEAR OF ALIENS. HERE’S WHY

    NATIVE AMERICANS HAVE NO FEAR OF ALIENS. HERE’S WHY

    star people

    Deeply spiritual cultures remember a time when “people from the stars” freely interacted with members of the human species.


    Before intrepid and greedy Europeans ‘discovered’ the Americas, the land was populated by a variety of cultures encompassing millions of souls. Sadly, the near-annihilation of Native Americans has also meant the disappearance of ancient knowledge that we might never win back.

    Therefore, it is fortunate that the efforts of the survivors have included the passing down of stories from time immemorial and many of these talk about the “Star People”, a   term that groups various beings who came from the sky to share a connection with humans who were worthy of their teachings.

    The ancient world was in contact with a multitude of advanced extraterrestrials, as evidenced by the rich collection of stories detailing these interactions. Many cultures separated by thousands of years refer narratives of flying objects and technology so advanced it could have well been magic. These stories are particularly strong within the mythos of the Native American tribes.

    My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago,” Richard Wagamese of the Wabaseemoong First People writes. “The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.”

    He continues:

    If Star People did come to the Ojibway, where did they go? Where did they come from? Who brought teachings to them? What scientific magic did they own that allowed them to make such an incredible journey – and is it possible for us?

    The peaceful Hopi people believed their ancestors came from the Pleiades and the general demeanor of Pleiadian aliens is reflected in the Hopi lifestyle. Could this mean their genesis stories hold truth in them? It sure seems so.

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    Petroglyph at Legend Rock near Thermopolis, Wyoming

    Dakota legends make reference to the same star cluster – Tiyami they called them – as being their ancestor’s primal home.

    Similarly, the Cree believed that in a time before history, their ancestors arrived from the stars in spirit form, only to become humans on Earth.

    Native legends of the Lakota people speak of mysterious celestial beings that manifested themselves as spheres of light and would often choose particular children to follow them on a journey through space and time.

    Native Americans perceive the issue of alien visitation and even abduction in a more spiritual manner, as Plains Cree author Stephane Wuttunee explains in a UFO digest article:

    [My people] give far greater attention to the seeking of the spiritual understanding of things rather than going after “the truth” as people from dominant cultures do. This is part of the reason why we tend to stand back and view or listen at first rather than bare in with questions or take the hard, direct approach.

    Growing up in a tightly-knit community, Wuttunee listened carefully to the stories passed down by the Elders of his tribe. They told of distant relations and Star People living amongst the stars many times, mainly around campfires and during traditional ceremonies.”

    Far from being anything to be feared, Star People was just another term I grew up around,” Wuttunee writes. I remember listening in awe and fascination at the thought of us having relations that lived off and outside our world, and sometimes spoke to them in my silent moments at night. I wanted to know who they were and what they looked like, if they had families like us etc.[…] It wasn’t until my later teens that I discovered that people from the dominant cultures were talking about the same “people” as my elders did, though each side’s sense of perception of these people seemed radically different from one another.

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    Hopi petroglyphs showing Star People and their “flying shields”

    Black Elk (1863-1950), an Oglala Sioux holy man who toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show when he was young described one of his experiences, way before the UFO phenomenon had become bastardized by mass-media:

    So when I went to vision quest, that disk came from above. The scientists call that a…Unidentified Flying Object, but that’s a joke, see? Because they are not trained, they lost contact with the wisdom, power and gift.”

    “So that disk landed on top of me. It was concave, and there was another one on top of that. It was silent, but it lit and luminesced like neon lights. Even the sacred robes there were luminesced, and those tobacco ties lying there lit up like little light bulbs.”

    “Then these little people came, but each little group spoke a different language. They could read minds, and I could read their minds. I could read them. So there was silent communication. You could read it, like when you read silent symbols in a book. So we were able to communicate…They are human, so I welcomed them. I said, “Welcome, Welcome…

    Here we have the written, unambiguous testimony of pivotal figure in the Sioux culture, a legendary man who was the cousin of Crazy Horse, telling us about his interaction with extraterrestrial beings aboard their luminous UFO.

    Without exception, all Native American tribes foster an umbilical connection with Mother Earth. They see themselves as the “original caretakers” of our planet and lament the path to destruction we’re currently on. Many tribal figures see this as the primary reason behind the weakening of the bond between humanity and the Star People.

    But at the same time, this implies that a global shift in our attitude towards the place we call home could rekindle this dwindling connection.

    So maybe that’s where all the good aliens are: out of sight, waiting for us to come into our senses.

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    08-08-2017 om 16:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT : AN INVISIBLE BOAT THAT TRAVELED IN TIME THANKS TO EINSTEIN?

    PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT : AN INVISIBLE BOAT THAT TRAVELED IN TIME THANKS TO EINSTEIN?

    Summer of 1943. In the midst of World War II, an American battleship tested a technology designed by Einstein himself and managed to become invisible and teleport. That is, at least, what some conspiracy theorists say. This is the true story of the USS Elridge, the ship that “traveled in time”.(Philadelphia Experiment)

    Philadelphia Experiment

    The legend of the Rainbow Project

    What is popularly known as the Philadelphia Experiment, alludes to an alleged dark program of the US Navy called Project Rainbow. Urban legend says the military was testing a generator of electromagnetic fields with which they sought to find practical applications to the unified field theory proposed by Albert Einstein. In one sentence, they tried to achieve invisibility.

    Philadelphia Experiment

    Private technicians who did not know what they were installing provided two powerful generators, dozens of meters of electrical cable around the hull and other complex electronic devices to the USS Elridge, a 93-meter-long battleship. On July 22, 1943, the first supposed experiment took place. The generators activated an electromagnetic field that made the battleship disappear from sight for a few minutes surrounded by a greenish fog. Some sailors complained of strong nausea caused by the test.

    The equipment was readjusted and the second test took place on October 28. This time, the whole ship completely disappeared and appeared at the navy base in Norfolk, 600 kilometers away and 15 minutes in the past. There he was sighted during that time. After that he disappeared again in the middle of a blue lightning to return to Philadelphia.

    Official statements of the navy

    Philadelphia Experiment

    According to urban legend, the consequences of this second experiment were so devastating for the crew that the Navy decided to cancel the project. Most of the sailors developed schizophrenia and some completely lost their judgment. Many were seriously injured as they materialized, and others, less fortunate, fused horribly with the ship’s hull. Some vanished days after the experiment and never reappeared.

    This is, roughly speaking, the truculent history perpetuated by conspiracy theorists, ufologists, and some science-fiction films. The navy has always denied the existence of the Philadelphia experiment. In a statement released in November 2000, the Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) completely denied the existence of any invisibility or teleportation program, as well as Einstein’s involvement. In a summary of the note published by Naval History & Heritage, it is said:

    The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has already explained that the use of forcefields to make a ship and its crew invisible does not conform to the known laws of physics. The ONR also asserts that Dr. Albert Einstein’s unified field theory has never been completed.

    Between 1943 and 1944, Einstein worked as a part-time consultant for the navy in theoretical investigation of explosives and explosions. There is no evidence that Einstein worked on anything related to invisibility or teleportation.
    Indeed, unified field theory was a concept coined by Einstein when he attempted to explain the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field by a single unified theory. He never succeeded, but many do not care that the laws of physics overturn a good story.

    The letters of Carlos Allende

    Philadelphia Experiment

    How did the Philadelphia Experiment come to light? The answer is through a series of letters sent by Carl Meredith Allen under the pseudonym of Carlos Miguel Allende. Supposedly, Allen was a merchant seaman who saw the USS Elridge disappear from his own ship, SS Andrew Furuseth.

    With a somewhat peculiar prose and abundant spelling mistakes, Allen described the supposed experiment of teleportation in a correspondence maintained with the writer and ufologist Morris Jessup. Although the sailor never provided any reliable proof of what he was saying, Jessup was fascinated by the tale and included it in a book titled The Case for the UFO. Jessup failed to repeat the moderate success of this book and committed suicide four years later. The circumstances surrounding his death further fueled the theory that the experiment existed and that the government has since tried to cover it up. The urban legend of the Philadelphia experiment had been officially born.

    The Truth About The Philadelphia Experiment

    Philadelphia Experiment

    The Philadelphia Experiment is a complicated hodgepodge of Allen’s feverish imagination, Jessup’s credulity, real facts, and gossip about sailors. The first thing that does not agree are the dates. Official records say that the USS Elridge was launched on July 25, 1943, two days after the alleged first experiment. He officially entered service at the Shipyard of New York on August 27, 1943.

    What is certain is that, in the 1940s, the US Navy experimented with invisibility. Of course, it was not invisibility to the naked eye. The USS Elridge and its twin, the USS Engstrom were equipped with a new system that surrounded the whole hull with electric cables. The technique was called Degaussing, and its aim was to reduce the magnetic field of the ship to avoid that it was an easy target of the mines and magnetic torpedoes used in the Nazi submarines. The technique became very popular in the 40’s and came to be applied to military and civilian vessels alike.

    As Edward Dudgeon, one of the sailors aboard the USS Elridge, explains, the degaussing system was installed by outside contractors. Not knowing exactly what they were installing together with the jokes of sailors who spoke of a system to “make the boat invisible” was enough to trigger the gossip. To this was added the fact that the ship did carry secret experimental equipment. It was, in particular, a new type of sonar and a system to sow loads of depth called Hedgehog.

    The “lightning” spoken of in the urban legend about the Philadelphia experiment may be as simple as the discharge of ionized plasma known long ago as San Telmo fire.

    Philadelphia Experiment

    As for the mysterious disappearance of the USS Elridge, Dudgeon explains that the origin of that part of the urban legend is due to an incident at the base of Norfolk. The Elridge landed at the base to get supplies, but soon he released moorings and returned to Philadelphia, where he arrived in less than six hours. According to the navigation charts of the area, this crossing was impossible because it was necessary to take a large detour to avoid German submarines and minefields. In fact, the ship used the channel Chesapeake & Delaware, that allows skipping the detour to the peninsula.

    Dudgeon explains how until his departure and the one of a companion by the back door during a tavern fight encouraged the rumors of sailors of the USS Elridge that disappeared. Neither Edward Dudgeon nor his companion bar was old enough to drink, and when the fight broke out, the taverna took them out the back door to avoid problems with the authorities. To many, Dudgeon’s entire account is the cover of a mad experiment.

    On January 15, 1951, the USS Elridge was transferred to Greece, where he served under the name of Leon. The ship left the service in 1999 and ended its days peacefully in a scrapping. It served to attenuate the legend of the Philadelphia Experiment that a group of veterans of the USS Elridge offered an interview in 1999 in which commented the history fun. The most fanciful prefer to believe that the US navy managed in a delusional pseudo-scientific combo invisibility, teleportation and time travel, but decided not to move forward because some sailors died.

    Case closed

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    08-08-2017 om 15:49 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Temperature anomalies arranged by country from 1900 - 2016

    Temperature anomalies arranged by country from 1900 - 2016

    Published on Aug 2, 2017

    Temperature anomalies arranged by country from 1900 to 2016. 
    A striking data visualization from Antti Lipponen, a researcher with FMI Beta.

    Visualization based on GISTEMP data. Credit Antti Lipponen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/1504111...)

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    08-08-2017 om 15:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Negenjarige jongen solliciteert als 'Guardian of the Galaxy" bij NASA en krijgt antwoord - HLN.be

    Negenjarige jongen solliciteert als 'Guardian of the Galaxy" bij NASA en krijgt antwoord - HLN.be

    Bron: Metro.co.uk

    © NASA.

    Jack Davis (9) wil een echte 'Guardian of the Galaxy' (bewaker van het heelal) zijn. Hij besloot een sollicitatiebrief te schijven voor de topjob 'hoofd planetaire bescherming' bij NASA. Die vonden het briefje zo leuk dat ze het deelde met de wereld.

    "Mijn naam is Jack Davis en ik zou graag willen solliciteren voor de job als hoofd planetaire bescherming. Ik mag dan nog maar negen jaar oud zijn maar ik denk dat ik perfect ben voor de job." Jack Davis ziet een topjob bij NASA helemaal zitten. 

    "Mijn zus vindt mij een echte alien. Ik heb dan ook bijna alle ruimte-en alienfilms gezien. Zo heb ik de televisieserie "Marvel Agents of Shield" gezien en hoop ik binnenkort de film 'Men in Black' te kunnen bekijken. Ik ben ook een echte kei in het spelen van videogames. Daarnaast ben ik ook nog heel jong dus kan ik leren denken als een alien." Zijn briefje sluit Jack af met oprechte groeten, Jack Davies, Guardian of the Galaxy ofwel bewaker van het heelal.

    Lees ook

    NASA: "Doe goed je best op school"

    Directeur van planetaire bescherming Dr. James L. Green van NASA
     © NASA.

    De directeur van de planetaire bescherming van NASA, Dr. James L. Green, besloot een briefje terug te schrijven. "We horen dat je een echte 'Guardian of the Galaxy' bent en dat je interesse toont in de functie 'hoofd planetaire bescherming'. Dat is geweldig", vertelt Green in de brief.

    "De openstaande job is heel cool en is heel belangrijk werk. Zo moet de man of vrouw ervoor zorgen dat de aarde beschermd is tegen kleine microben die vastzitten op materiaal dat we meebrengen na een ruimtereis naar de maan, asteroïden of Mars. Je moet er ook op toezien dat we andere planeten en manen niet besmetten met onze microben. Zo willen we op een verantwoorde manier de ruimte leren kennen", een uitleg die Jack ongelofelijk spannend zal vinden. 

    Toch zit een job bij NASA er nog niet direct in voor de kleine 'bewaker van het heelal'. "We zijn altijd op zoek naar slimme wetenschappers om ons te helpen. Daarom hoop ik dat je hard zal studeren en het goed zal doen op school. We hopen je zeker ooit te mogen ontvangen hier bij NASA."


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    Afbeelding weergeven op Twitter

    When 4th grader and self-proclaimed “Guardian of the Galaxy”, Jack, wrote to us about applying for a job, we replied http://go.nasa.gov/2ffMwkR 

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    08-08-2017 om 15:04 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA: "Stuur uw boodschap naar verst verwijderde ruimtetuig" - HLN.be

    NASA: "Stuur uw boodschap naar verst verwijderde ruimtetuig" - HLN.be

    Bron: Belga

    © thinkstock.

    Wie dat wil, kan een boodschap proberen te laten sturen naar de Voyager-1, de verst van ons verwijderde sonde, zo heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA vandaag getwitterd.

    Send 60-character message to the farthest man-made object in space: @NASAVoyager! Submit  by Aug 15 http://go.nasa.gov/2fkaEmx 

    Op 5 september zal het veertig jaar geleden zijn dat de NASA de Voyager-1 lanceerde. Het tuig verkende de planeten Jupiter en Saturnus, maar vertoeft sinds augustus 2013 al in de interstellaire ruimte. Dus niet meer in ons zonnestelsel.

    Geïnteresseerden mogen via een reeks sociale media zoals Twitter en Facebook een boodschap van maximaal zestig karakters naar de NASA sturen. Dit moet voor 16 augustus 08.59 uur Belgische tijd gebeuren, getagd als #MessagetoVoyager. De NASA zoekt dan de beste boodschappen uit, en dan kan het publiek uitmaken welke zal winnen. Dan komt NASA weer aan beurt, door het ding op 5 september naar Voyager-1 te sturen. De aankomst is een dag later.

    Lees ook

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    08-08-2017 om 14:57 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO HUNTER FILMED AN OBJECT CREATING A FIREBALL ACROSS THE SKY

    UFO HUNTER FILMED AN OBJECT CREATING A FIREBALL ACROSS THE SKY

    UFO footage that was supposed to be of a UFO blazing across the sky in Manurewa in Auckland may have been debunked, and it might not be the alien invasion that people had first thought it to be.

    KIWI MAN CLAIMS TO HAVE WITNESSED 12 UFOS IN 12 WEEKS

    Some people said that what the man had captured on the video was a meteor or fireball as the camera did not zoom in close enough to see what it was.

    Others said that they thought they could make out a pulsating red headlight on the UFO and that it was some alien craft. The footage appeared to show an object of a large size that was flying through the sky and which had two jets of flames trailing behind it. The UFO was said to have changed its direction and in doing so made some maneuvers that typical aircraft would not be able to do and which could not be explained.  

    SKEPTICS DEBUNK UFO SIGHTING AS JET, WHILE OTHERS BELIEVE IT IS ALIENS

    One fan who said that it was a UFO said that it was not a jet aircraft as a jet was not able to stop in mid-air and do what the alien craft had done. This did get skeptics thinking about what type of aircraft would be able to make maneuvers such as this if it was not alien. One person said that they thought it might be Nibiru and it had two tails in the same way as a comet.

    Another person said that once Earth and Mars are in conjunction things would start big time. He said that extra-terrestrials would be fleeing from Mars and they would arrive on Earth in the thousands. The person said that aliens would arrive on hyper drive and then use the gravity of Jupiter to slow them down.

    Another person commenting on the UFO video said that he had lucid dreams of how an Intergalactic Federation had managed to fend off an invasion or ships of predators that had looked as though they were coming in.

    However, a website based on scientific investigation may have debunked the UFO mystery. They said that it was probably footage of a controlling jet that was lit by the sun, which had increased its climb rate suddenly in the far distance and then continued with contrails that were less persistent. They continued by saying that more than likely what had been captured on the video was an Emirates 435 flight going from Auckland to Brisbane.

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    08-08-2017 om 14:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.“No Return” – UFOs, Government Mind-Control, Or AWOL?

    “No Return” – UFOs, Government Mind-Control, Or AWOL?

    No Return is the title of a new book from David Booher. It is published by the good folks at Anomalist Books. The subtitle is UFO Abduction or Covert Operation? That’s a very good question! I finished reading the book last week and, I can say with certainty, it does not disappoint. It’s a real-life, little-known, saga that dates back to the latter part of the 1950s. It still remains filled with enigmas and puzzles, close to sixty years after it occurred.

    Anomalist Books’ publicity page for No Return states: “On a lonesome road in Utah, a young soldier returning from leave speeds through the desert night. Suddenly the sky lights up as a blazing object streaks across the highway and crashes nearby. Stunned, the soldier stops and decides to investigate. Little does he know, but his life will never be the same again. This is the true story of a man named Gerry Irwin. Following a mysterious experience in Utah in 1959, inexplicable blackouts and bizarre behavior threatened to derail his promising Army career. Then one day he suddenly deserted his Army post in Texas and disappeared without a trace. No one knows what became of him—until now. What happened to Gerry Irwin? Was he abducted by aliens, in what would amount to the first known case of this phenomenon on American soil? Or was he a pawn in a covert intelligence operation? And how does his story really end? A new investigation launched in 2013 attempts to answer these and other questions, revealing along the way the ordeal of a man whose mind was ravaged by a confrontation with the unknown.”

    To his credit, David Booher is refreshingly open-minded on the matter of what happened to Gerry Irwin on the night of February 20, 1959. He tackles all of the various theories which have been suggested: alien abduction, MK-Ultra-type mind-meddling, and a hoax on the part of Irwin himself. In other words, the book is free of any particular agenda – which is something you seldom see in a book that is focused on the domains of the paranormal, the conspiratorial, and the ufological.

    Long-time ufologist Jacques Vallee agreed to write the foreword. Vallee says something in his foreword that is of critical importance: “I believe two major themes stand out from the insights we can derive from David Booher’s work: First, the virtue of a patient, long-term perspective on cases that seemed forever lost in amnesia or hidden in secrecy; and second, the critical need for an intelligent alternative to the shoddy, pop psychology of hypnosis that has come to masquerade for ‘research’ in numerous reports of UFO abduction.”

    Although many people reading this review will possibly never have heard of the case, it was highlighted not at all long after it occurred. That coverage came from both the media of the day and the UFO community of that era – and primarily by Coral and Jim Lorenzen of APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. The affair was also highlighted by Jacques Vallee, in his 1988 book, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact.

    It was in November 2013 that author Booher, while digging into a UFO book of yesteryear, came across the case. Booher knew of it from years gone by, but on visiting it yet again he became fascinated. It was, of course, the saga of Gerry Irwin. In no time, Booher found himself immersed in a definitive mystery. There was one question Booher wanted answering: what really happened to Gerry Irwin in 1959?

    Booher is not someone content to get all of his data from the Internet. As we quickly learn, he is someone who has a very proactive approach to his UFO research: he first set about locating Irwin. Booher succeeded: Irwin was still alive and in his eighties. In practically no time at all, Booher then finds himself immersed in a definitive mystery of epic proportions. At times the story becomes almost surreal, as our author seeks out the truth of what happened to Irwin. Nothing is quite as it seems. Significant portions of Irwin’s memories are gone, wiped clean. We learn that, as Irwin’s military records show, at one point after his mysterious experience, he was “interviewed under the influence of sodium amytal” by a psychiatrist assigned to Irwin, a Captain Valentine.

    Booher skillfully juggles the two primary theories offered for Irwin’s experience: abduction by extraterrestrials versus mind-manipulation by something akin to the CIA’s MK-Ultra program. In a strange set of circumstances, Booher makes an intriguing case for both theories. On the one hand, he notes some of the classic aspects of an alien abduction event that are central to the experience of Irwin. We’re talking about (A) a strange light seen in the sky; (B) “missing time;” and (C) evidence of “psychological trauma.” Also in terms of the alien angle to all of this, Booher notes the similarities between Irwin’s encounter and that of Betty and Barney Hill in 1961.

    On the other hand, though, Booher does not shy away from looking at Rich Reynolds‘ research into Antonio Villas Boas famous “close encounter” of 1957. It was an encounter which allegedly saw Brazilian Villas Boas get it on with a wild and willing space-babe from a faraway world. The curvy and stacked hottie even growled. Could it get much better? In case you don’t know, Rich’s work has shown that there may well be a very down to earth (but no less controversial) answer to the Villas Boas story – one which is connected to government mind-control programs. Booher recognizes this and presents the reader with his observations and theories on this issue. And, it should not go without notice that Booher also addresses the theory that the whole thing was a hoax by Irwin himself, a very odd attempt on his (Irwin’s) part to get out of the military. Booher does so in a fashion that makes it clear he wants answers – regardless of what the outcome might be. That Irwin did go AWOL at the time becomes the subject of a 20-page chapter.

    One of the most intriguing parts of the book is that which highlights the various official, military documents on Irwin that Booher was able to obtain. One such document was prepared by the aforementioned Captain Valentine – who sought to figure out what had happened to Irwin. The document includes the following words from the captain: “[Irwin] stated there was a ‘special intelligence’ that he couldn’t explain to me, since it would be incomprehensible to me, which has directed him not to remember or not to tell me about any of the events in Utah.” Captain Valentine also noted in the papers that: “[Irwin] states ‘it’ all began at the age of three years.” Booher suggests this latter quote “provides further support for an abduction scenario.”

    I won’t reveal to you all of Booher’s conclusions, but what I will say is that he has written an absorbing, unbiased and genuinely fascinating story. It’s Booher’s own, personal search for the truth of a young man whose life was forever changed on a dark night back in the fifties. You should read this book.

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    08-08-2017 om 14:34 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Inside Story of Disney’s Mythic UFO Documentary and Conference: Part Two

    The Inside Story of Disney’s Mythic UFO Documentary and Conference: Part Two

    In Part One of this article, I presented the inside story of Disney’s 1995 UFO documentary, Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland, which supposedly was produced with the sole purpose of promoting Disneyworld’s then-new “ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” attraction in Orlando, Florida. The documentary quickly became engrained into UFO conspiracy lore, with many in the UFO community speculating that it was a sort of “soft Disclosure,” intended as a test of public reaction to a possible future announcement of alien contact. Despite Disney having close historical ties to the US government and military, there is simply no evidence to support the acclimation theory for the Disney documentary, although certainly the specifics of its content served to strongly reinforce ideas that had thus far been sown into the UFO community by disinformation operatives dating back at least to the early-1980s. According to writer/producer, Andrew Thomas, the content of his documentary was crafted entirely by him, and he was given free rein by Disney to make essentially whatever he wanted, which he did.

    Still, for reasons detailed in Part One, the Alien Encountersdocumentary remains something of an oddity, both for its content, and for what its director, Andrew Thomas, describes as Disney’s “completely counter-intuitive” TV scheduling. It aired in only a handful of US cities at inopportune times on selected dates in February and March 1995, with no notice. The result, says Thomas, was that “no one would be watching it.” An incredibly odd marketing strategy considering its purpose was to promote a major theme park attraction for families.

    Disney’s “ExtraTERRORESTRIAL Encounter” attraction, which closed in 2003.

    Disney, one of the world’s largest corporations, is not known for poor marketing strategies, and yet, not only did it display appalling promotional skills for its 1995 UFO documentary, but this same shocking absence of PR know-how had also been exhibited by Disney on another UFO-related project during the same timeframe.

    A few months before the broadcast of its Alien Encounters documentary, in January of 1995, Disney made the unprecedented move of staging a major UFO conference at its Orlando resort, titled “UFOs: The Reality of the Phenomenon.” As with the documentary, the official purpose of the conference was to help promote its new “ExtraTERRORestrial” attraction. Disney sought to bring together the world’s leading UFO experts for several weeks. These included major names of the time, like Budd Hopkins, George Knapp, Don Schmitt, Kevin Randle, and Zecharia Sitchin, among others. Such a line-up at the height of UFO hysteria in America would ordinarily have attracted many hundreds, if not thousands, of attendees. Strangely, though, Disney chose not to advertise their costly multi-week event. As a result, the world’s leading UFO speakers spoke to almost no one at all.

    The entrance to the 1995 Disney UFO conference. Photo courtesy of Don Ecker.

    The man tasked with organizing the conference for Disney was Don Ecker, Director of Research at UFO Magazine, then the world’s most popular UFO publication. I interviewed Ecker in 2015. “In a way,” said Ecker, “the Disney conference is kind of a murky legendary incident in the history of UFOs in the United States.”

    Ecker recalled:

    This was going to be a two-week event and Disney wanted me to host it. They would fly me down to Orlando. I would be the person choosing all the speakers and organizing the line-up. There were two groups of speakers that came in. One group for week one, the second group for week two. Disney had set aside an auditorium for this whole thing [NOTE: David Halperin, whose work is referenced in Part One, has the event lasting four weeks, not two].

    Speakers at the 1995 Disney UFO conference in Orlando, Florida, Left to right: Russ Estes, Vicki Ecker, Yvonne Smith, Don Ecker, George Knapp, Kevin Randle, and Zecharia Sitchin. Photo courtesy of Don Ecker.

    It wasn’t until the conference began that Ecker learned of Disney’s non-promotion of the event.

    He told me, still in disbelief:

    Disney never gave it an ounce of promotion. They did not promote it at all. In the two weeks that we were there, the most highly attended day for speakers in an auditorium that could have seated several hundred, we may have had 10 or 12 attendees at most. We had virtually no audience at all. That Disney didn’t promote it made no sense to me then, and it makes no sense to me now.

    Ecker said that abduction researcher Budd Hopkins was particularly outraged by the lack of attendees: “He just upped and left in the middle of the week. Didn’t even say goodbye or thanks.” Despite the almost total lack of attendees, the other speakers (approximately twenty in total) still delivered their prepared lectures each day based on their current research.

    More Disney conference speakers. Left to right: Don Ecker (standing), Jesse Marcel Jr., Don Schmitt, Bruce Cornet, William Bramley, Budd Hopkins, Barry Taff, Clifford Stone, Stanley McDaniel. Photo courtesy of Don Ecker.

    The conference could not have been cheap. “These speakers had received airline tickets to fly in, free room, board, and meals for two weeks, everything paid for by Disney,” said Ecker.

    On the final evening, during a goodbye meal at the resort, Ecker received an official thank you from Disney World.

    Ecker told me with disgust:

    They presented me with a “Mousker.” This Disney drone—this gofer kid—came running up to me and said, “Mr Ecker, we have something we want to present you with.” So, I followed him literally into a hallway behind one of the big rooms. A Disney executive came up to me, along with another kid carrying a cardboard box. The kid reached into the box, pulled out this statue of Mickey Mouse and they presented it to me. That was their way of saying thanks for the job I did for two weeks putting this thing together. Looking at it in retrospect, I really felt like they took me to the shower, dropped the soap in front of me, and asked me to bend over and pick it up.

    The “Mousker” presented to Don Ecker by Disney for his organization of the UFO conference. Its plaque reads: “To Don Ecker, UFO, Thanks from the publicity staff, Walt Disney World Resort, ‘UFO Summit – 1995.”

    The whole thing seemed to defy logic from a marketing standpoint. Disney had created a costly alien-themed attraction and claimed to want to promote it through a two-pronged marketing campaign consisting of a multi-week conference at Disney World and a tie-in documentary (Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland). Yet, inexplicably, Disney promoted neither the conference nor the documentary, rendering both of them entirely useless as marketing tools. “It was basically like Disney taking tens-of-thousands of dollars and burning it on a bonfire,” said Ecker.

    Could there have been an ulterior motive behind the conference? It was held in the mid-1990s, before the global dominance of the Internet and email, before ufologists began sharing all their work online. With this in mind, could the conference have been an orchestrated opportunity for intelligence agencies to assemble under one roof the leading figures in ufology for an extended period of time in order to simply take the current pulse of the UFO subculture, and perhaps to further seed and steer it in service of its own psychological warfare goals? We’re in deep into speculative territory here, but logical justifications for the conference are hard to find. It was not promoted. It was not attended. To my mind, it served no obvious purpose, unless its purpose was potential intelligence-gathering and dissemination of disinformation. Given the documented history of intersections between UFOs, Disney and officialdom, this theory may hold at least some measure of water.

    In his book, The Trickster and the Paranormal, George P. Hansen observes:

    Any legitimate analysis that tries to explain belief about UFOs must recognize that the UFO subculture is awash in disinformation spread by government personnel, and that this has played an enormous role in shaping the subculture. Virtually all UFO investigators who make regular public presentations are from time to time are approached by people who claim to have seen materials or documents while in military service that confirmed that the government has UFO projects… These low-profile informants are a major source of UFO beliefs held by millions of people. Their information circulates quietly throughout the culture…

    As with much else in the weird world of UFOs, in the absence of solid answers, we find ourselves wading through what Lorin Cutts terms The UFO Mythological Zone, “the gap between fact and belief, what we see and what we want to see, what we experience and how we interpret it.” In the absence of facts, says Cutts, “many people simply choose what they want to believe.”

    When it comes to the curious cases of Disney’s 1995 UFO documentary and conference, all I know is that I don’t know what to believe. I’m perched on a ledge in Undecidedsville, overlooking the sprawl of The Mythological Zone below. I invite you to join me here, to dangle your feet, and to think a while. Shall we jump off the edge, or spit off it? Either way, it’s important that we look with clear eyes, and recognize the spectacle for what it is.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Cabal manipuleert ons door microchips in brein te implanteren. Deze professor onthult onheilspellende toekomstplannen
    Cabal manipuleert ons door microchips in brein te implanteren. Deze professor onthult onheilspellende toekomstplannen

    Cabal manipuleert ons door microchips in brein te implanteren. Deze professor onthult onheilspellende toekomstplannen

    Professor Mujahid Kamran, oud-vicekanselier van de prestigieuze Universiteit van Punjab in Pakistan, is auteur van het boek 9/11 & the New World Order, waarin hij bewijs levert voor complottheorieën over de aanslagen op 11 september 2001.

    In een artikel schreef hij dat 95 procent van de Amerikaanse media in handen is van slechts zes bedrijven en dat het dus erg makkelijk is voor de elite is om moorden en false flag-aanslagen te plegen.

    Hij verwees daarbij specifiek naar de moord op JFK en 9/11.

    Dictatuur

    Volgens professor Kamran worden de Amerikaanse en Britse overheid beheerst door een cabal bestaande uit bankiersfamilies die ons proberen te manipuleren door microchips in ons brein te implanteren.

    Cabal manipuleert ons door microchips in brein te implanteren. Deze professor onthult onheilspellende toekomstplannen

    Professor Kamran (Abrar Cheema)

    Hij zei dat de rest van de wereld het Amerikaanse volk moet redden uit de klauwen van deze bankiersfamilies.

    In zijn ogen leven de Amerikanen in een ‘complete dictatuur’.

    Microchips

    Kamran verwees naar uitgebreide literatuur over de Nieuwe Wereldorde en zei dat Amerikaanse wetenschappers hebben bewezen dat Al Qaida is opgezet door de CIA.

    Hij zei dat de cabal een wereldregering wil creëren en microchips in het brein van alle mensen wil implanteren om ze te controleren.

    Hij claimde daarnaast dat families van Al Qaida-leiders, waaronder leden van de familie Bin Laden, door NAVO-vliegtuigen naar Centraal-Azië zijn gevlogen om de regio te destabiliseren.

    1000 leugens

    Hij zei verder dat de FBI geen bewijzen heeft dat Osama bin Laden betrokken was bij de 9/11-aanslagen.

    “De CIA en NAVO zijn al 20 jaar betrokken bij terreuraanslagen in Europa,” zei de professor. “De NAVO financiert terreur- en zelfmoordaanslagen in Pakistan.”

    Professor Kamran zei dat het Amerikaanse Center for Public Integrity had onthuld dat George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice en Dick Cheney 1000 leugens hadden verzonnen om Irak te kunnen binnenvallen.

    [Mujahid Kamran

    08-08-2017 om 14:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Docenten en wetenschappers moeten zich nodig laten bijscholen over complottheorieën. Kijk hier waarom
    Docenten en wetenschappers moeten zich nodig laten bijscholen over complottheorieën. Kijk hier waarom

    Docenten en wetenschappers moeten zich nodig laten bijscholen over complottheorieën. Kijk hier waarom

    Vorig jaar schreef EenVandaag dat complottheorieën ‘een steeds groter probleem zijn in de klas’.

    Demissionair minister Bussemaker pleitte in het programma voor meer training voor docenten. Bijna 600 docenten hadden zich op dat moment aangemeld.

    Die training heeft niet veel nut, zo blijkt.

    Onlangs gaf de hoofdredacteur van het VPRO/Human-programma Medialogica een gastcollege over waarheidsvinding op de Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

    Bijna alle studenten

    Een studente bedankte hem voor zijn college, maar zei dat ze hem moeilijk kon geloven omdat hij als journalist deel uitmaakt van een selecte groep die de wereld beheerst.

    De hoofdredacteur schrok, herpakte zich en vroeg aan de klas wie van hen nog meer gelooft in het bestaan van geheime genootschappen die de wereld regeren. Bijna alle studenten staken hun hand op.

    De docent, Asis Aynan, schreef in Trouw niet bezorgd te zijn over zijn studenten die in complotten geloven.

    “Het is meestal een combinatie van wantrouwen jegens instituties en een gebrek aan kennis en informatie,” zei hij.

    ‘Allemaal onzin natuurlijk’

    Mensen die niets moeten hebben van complottheorieën en die zich er duidelijk niet in hebben verdiept, krijgen in de media doorgaans alle ruimte om hun mening te ventileren.

    Al die studenten die hun vinger opstaken zijn niet aan het woord gekomen.

    Ook klinisch fysicus van het Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC) in Amsterdam Aart Nederveen vond het nodig in het Reformatorisch Dagblad te ageren tegen complottheorieën.

    Hij vertelt over complottheorieën die hij leerde kennen. “Bijvoorbeeld dat de Israëlische geheime dienst de Twin Towers heeft opgeblazen. En dat vaccinaties verantwoordelijk zijn voor autisme bij jongeren.”

    “Allemaal onzin natuurlijk. Het zijn verhalen uit de koker van op angst beluste mensen,” stelt Nederveen. “Erger nog: geloof hechten aan zulke verhalen heeft ook iets decadents.”

    Niet verdiept

    Aynan en Nederveen spreken vrij minachtend over andere mensen. Alsof mensen die in complotten geloven een gebrek aan kennis hebben en op angst belust zijn en zij de waarheid in pacht hebben.

    Bovendien, het is niet hun expertise, dus wie zijn zij om zich hierover uit te spreken?

    Beide heren hebben zich duidelijk niet verdiept in de wetenschappelijke literatuur die ruimschoots beschikbaar is over complottheorieën.

    Aan de hand van enkele voorbeelden kan eenvoudig duidelijk worden gemaakt dat complottheorieën vaak een solide wetenschappelijke basis hebben.

    Touwtjes

    Twee politicologen hebben in 2014 bewezen dat de gewone burger nauwelijks invloed heeft op politieke beslissingen. Wie geld en macht heeft, beslist.

    Martin Gilens van de Princeton University en Benjamin I. Page van de Northwestern University bestudeerden 1779 beleidskwesties uit de periode 1981-2002 en vrijwel alle kwesties werden in het voordeel van rijke Amerikanen en lobbygroepen van het bedrijfsleven beslist.

    De belangen van mensen met lage inkomens werden genegeerd. Rijken zijn goed vertegenwoordigd in de politiek en armen niet.

    Daarmee is de VS veranderd van een democratie in een oligarchie, concluderen de wetenschappers.

    Er is dus wetenschappelijk bewijs dat er een elite is in de VS die aan de touwtjes trekt en bepaalt wat er gebeurt. Dat is geen complottheorie.

    False flags

    Een wetenschapper van de Universiteit van Ottawa concludeerde na zijn onderzoek dat Oekraïense scherpschutters op het Maidanplein bewust op eigen mensen hebben geschoten om een internationaal conflict uit te lokken.

    Volgens Ivan Katchanovski waren de sluipschutters onderdeel van een zogeheten false flag-operatie.

    Ze zouden zijn ingezet om op de demonstranten zelf te schieten met als doel Janoekovitsj de schuld te geven en zijn positie onhoudbaar te maken.

    Er is dus wetenschappelijk bewijs dat er krachten actief zijn die gebruikmaken van false flag-operaties om incidenten uit te lokken en regimeveranderingen door te voeren.

    Elite

    Twee economen hebben onderzoek gedaan naar 28 generaties Britten en kwamen tot de ontdekking dat de rijkste 1 procent al tenminste 800 jaar aan de macht is.

    Gregory Clark van de Universiteit van Californië in Davis en Neil Cummins van de London School of Economics keken naar achternamen en opleidingsniveau in de periode tussen 1170 en 2012.

    Rijkdom en macht zijn erfelijk, zo blijkt uit de studie. Mensen die afstammen van Montgomery’s en Percy’s hebben een onevenredig grote kans om tot de hedendaagse elite te behoren.

    Er is dus wetenschappelijk bewijs dat er een elite aan de macht is in Groot-Brittannië. Dat is geen complottheorie.

    Olie

    Wetenschappers hebben voor het eerst krachtig bewijs geleverd dat de meeste oorlogen draaien om olie.

    Door de geschiedenis heen hebben landen die olie nodig hebben vaak redenen bedacht voor militair ingrijpen in olierijke landen.

    De onderzoekers stellen dat de Verenigde Staten om deze reden belang hebben bij de strijd tegen IS in het noorden van Irak.

    Onderzoekers van de universiteiten van Portsmouth, Warwick en Essex kwamen tot de conclusie dat landen zich meestal in een conflict mengen om toegang te krijgen tot olievoorraden.

    De studie is verschenen in het Journal of Conflict Resolution.

    Er is dus wetenschappelijk bewijs dat de meeste oorlogen draaien om olie. Dat is geen complottheorie.

    Vaccins

    Wetenschappers van de Yale School of Medicine en het Penn State College of Medicine hebben een zorgwekkende relatie tussen vaccinaties en hersenaandoeningen bij kinderen ontdekt.

    Jonge kinderen die zijn gevaccineerd hebben meer kans om te worden gediagnosticeerd met hersenstoornissen dan kinderen die niet zijn ingeënt, zo ontdekten de onderzoekers.

    De studie, die vragen doet rijzen over de veiligheid van vaccinaties, is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Frontiers in Psychiatry.

    Er is dus wetenschappelijk bewijs dat er een relatie is tussen vaccinaties en hersenaandoeningen. Dat is geen complottheorie.

    Het lijkt er sterk op dat de mensen die te boek staan als autoriteit, zoals onze docenten en wetenschappers, vastzitten in rigide denkpatronen en nodig moeten worden bijgeschoold.

    08-08-2017 om 13:58 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Photographer Caught Huge Black UFO Flying Towards the Moon

    Photographer Caught Huge Black UFO Flying Towards the Moon

    A resident of Stockton, California was taken photos of the full moon on August 6, 2017 when he noticed a huge black object flying towards the moon.


    He kept taking images of the flying saucer shaped object which flew from left to right then down and back to the left until it vanished.


    The unidentified flying object made no sound and had no lights.


    When the photographer got home and dumped the photos to his computer he noticed that there were actually two objects in the photos. Mufon case 85721.

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    08-08-2017 om 13:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Report of the mysterious UFOs filmed over Hoia-Baciu haunted forest in Romania

    Report of the mysterious UFOs filmed over Hoia-Baciu haunted forest in Romania

    The Hoia-Baciu forest is a fascinating place. Once you cross its boundaries, you find yourself immersed in a world of magic that truly captivates your mind. Although it lays a few kilometers away from the city of Cluj-Napoca, the heart of Transylvania, it still holds a wild, untamed spirit, which reminds us of the importance that nature holds in our lives.


    Locals nearby are familiar with the strange energies contained inside. The phenomena manifested there, beyond their power of understanding, prompted them not to ask reckless questions.

    Because of fear, the forest remained, for a long period of time, shrouded in mystery. The place itself is a mythical source of lore and legends.

    Reports have included, ghost sightings, unexplained apparitions, guardian angels and faces appearing in photographs that were not visible with the naked eye. You can view these amazing photographs in a video presentation which we have posted in our 2014 article: Hoia Baciu Forest - The Bermuda Triangle of Sransylvania.

    In the forest there is a magnetic area 300 meters wide and electronic devices are known to malfunction when introduced into the area.

    Tests with measurement devices have revealed electromagnetic interference, magnetic anomalies and microwaves, infrared and radioactive emissions all in the abnormal range have led to the assumption that the forest is a gateway to another dimension.

    According to paranormal investigators this energy field was created about 55,000 years ago by beings from another world to allow them not only to travel via teleportation from another dimension to planet earth but also to travel to every place on earth without the use of a craft.

    This magnetic area is probably also a beacon for UFOs as from 1968, UFO sightings were reported and the last reported UFO was filmed over Baciu Forest in 2002 by two Cluj residents who lived on the top floor of a building on the outskirts of the neighborhood Manastur. The UFO was caught on film for 27 seconds and was described as a cigar-shaped bright object in the sky with a length of about 50 meters.

    In this episode Paul Dadrian, a Romanian investigator explores some of the most important unsolved UFO cases which have occurred in the Hoia-Baciu forest.
      

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    08-08-2017 om 13:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mystery as massive green UFO shaped like orb spotted in sky above 'sacred mountain'

    Mystery as massive green UFO shaped like orb spotted in sky above 'sacred mountain'

    UFO hunters went searching for extraterrestrial life after locals told them about weird goings-on in the area

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    UFO hunters have captured a mysterious eerie orb creeping silently through a forest in Canada.

    Rob Freeman and Marcus McNabb went searching for extraterrestrial life around Squamish, British Colombia, after locals told them about weird goings-on in the area.

    Rob, a senior field researcher for the Centre for the Scientific Study of Atmospheric Anomalies, said the sighting is the best footage they’ve recorded to date .

    It shows a bright circular light darting above Stawamus Chief before seemingly shining through trees as if they were see-through.

    "Several locals said orbs have been spotted above 'The Chief' at Squamish, so we set up within view of the granite monolith, the second biggest of its kind in the world," Rob told Mirror Online.

    A bright orb is seen darting across the sky 
    A UFO in the sky
    (file picture) 

    "At 10.59pm, this huge yellowish white ball of light appeared out of nowhere and then proceeded to go into the woods.

    "Thanks to Breslin Martin of our group for spotting it so I could film it with my night vision scope.

    "It moved 100 per cent silently.

    "Note how any trees in front of the orb block the light, while trees behind the orb are lit up big time."

    Rob said when they first spotted the orb on July 22 they thought it was a plane 

    Rob and Marcus have travelled to 11 countries over three years in search for alien life after being inspired by a childhood experience, reports Squamish Chief .

    To collect data, the crew used night imaging technology, as well as a camera fondly called the “weapon of mass detection.”

    Rob said when they first spotted the orb on July 22 they thought it was an airplane.

    “The trees behind the orb were all lit up,” he explained. “That means it was in front of the trees.”

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    08-08-2017 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Close Encounters: About 5 Percent of UFO Sightings Are Real
    UFO

    Close Encounters: About 5 Percent of UFO Sightings Are Real

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    UFOs – are they real? Do aliens exist? Sputnik discussed this with Austrian-based ufologist and radio host Tarek Al-Ubaidi who has interviewed many experts on the elusive creatures from other planets.

    NATO Fighters Chased UFOs in Belgian Skies

    “Rejecting the UFO phenomenon outright makes no sense. There are a lot of well-documented sightings during the so-called 'Belgian UFO Wave' of 1989-1992 including by military men, police officers and civilian and military pilots,” Tarek said.

    In March 1990, Belgian Air Force radar operators at a NATO air surveillance center at Glons saw on their screens three unusual flying objects that had entered the country’s airspace.

    A pair of F-16 fighter jets from nearby Beauvechain air base was scrambled to check out what was happening.

    However, before the planes were able to close in on the unknown intruders, the UFOs suddenly disappeared from sight at a speed that the pilots said was much faster than what their combat aircraft could muster.

    “According to an official statement by Belgian General Wilfried de Brouwer, one of the UFOs increased its speed from 240 kilometers an hour to 1,770 in a matter of just two seconds,” Tarek noted.

    UFO Sightings: 95 Percent “False Alarm,” the Rest — “Mindboggling”

    “Only about 5 percent of all UFO sightings worldwide can be termed UFO sightings because these flying objects are never identified. The remaining 95 percent turn out to be planes, satellites, meteorites or space junk,” Tarek explained.

    “However, the remaining 5 percent are unidentified, and this is really fascinating,” he noted, adding that Britain and France now have documented cases of UFO sightings which have never been explained.

    Eyewitnesses and Radar Screenshots “Are Not Always Informative Enough”

    “I like interviewing people who have personally observed UFOs or are studying this phenomenon,” said Tarek, who is a certified telecommunications engineers and computer programmer.

    He said that radar screenshots are not always reliable because there are ways to “spoof” radars by simulating and sending back reflections of objects, which are not really there.

    “Only when I see an UFO optically, as an eyewitness, and also have a radar screen shot can I say that this object really existed,” Tarek said.

    “Stories About Aliens” Are Just Part of the UFO Theory

    “The mere fact that you have seen a UFO does not mean that those were aliens, or travelers in time. On the one hand we have cases of UFO sightings. On the other, I guess there are hundreds of thousands of theories about UFOs none of which has been proved,” Tarek continued.

    He said that some ufologists explain such sightings as paranormal phenomena, something people have encountered for thousands of years, “not only since the 1947 Roswell incident when something fell in a New Mexico desert and we still don’t know what it was.”

    Tarek hopes that he will live long enough to get the answer to this question. In the meantime, he keeps working and is preparing a new series of programs on this fascinating subject.

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    07-08-2017 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

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    UFOs, Aliens and Abductions Survey

    Columnist Cheryl Costa goes over a recent survey on extraterrestrials conducted by 20th Century Fox.

    In the middle of July 2017, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment commissioned a national survey conducted by Toluna regarding UFOs, aliens and abductions. The purpose of the survey was to celebrate and promote the Aug. 1 release of its film Phoenix Forgotten.

    Before we get to the statistics, let’s briefly review a bit of history about the Phoenix lights. Twenty years ago on Thursday, March 13, 1997, the populace of Arizona and northwestern Mexico experienced a highly unique and massive UFO sighting event.

    Around 7:30 p.m. a series of stationary lights appeared over a space of 300 miles, starting around the Nevada state line, moving southeast over Phoenix and continued toward regional Tucson. It was finally reported in the Mexican state of Sonora.

    Eyewitnesses were reported to have observed and videotaped a craft estimated to be several football fields long in length. Observers described that when the huge craft passed overhead, stars would disappear behind the object, only reappearing after the UFO passed. The craft was also reported to have been completely silent.

    Of course, the sighting event caused a great deal of public concern and controversy. Regional and state governments, in an effort to calm everyone down, made light of the event. Personnel with the United States Air Force did their best to explain the whole thing away as fighter jets deploying flares.

    The Phoenix lights sighting event was used as a backdrop for a fictional modern alien abduction horror movie.

    Let’s look at the July 2017 survey numbers based on a statistical sample of 1,756 Americans ranging in age from 18 to 55 and above. The gender ratio was 68.34 percent female and 31.55 percent male. Regional samplings were as follows: West, 34.34 percent; Midwest, 18.91 percent; South, 30.01 percent; and Northeast, 16.74 percent.

    The education level was 99 percent high school graduates. The majority ranged from some who attended college, to some who received bachelor’s and graduate degrees.

    The survey reported that 47 percent of Americans believe in aliens, which is about 150 million people. That number is up 5 percent from the 2012 survey commissioned by National Geographic. Unfortunately, the survey didn’t measure those who are on the fence about the existence of aliens or the percentage who flat out don’t believe they exist.

    The survey reported that 38.78 percent of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth before, which is around 124 million Americans. It also reported that 16.74 percent say they have seen a UFO. This indicates that 53.57 million Americans say they have seen a UFO; that’s 1 in 6 Americans. The old rule-of-thumb estimate was around 1 in 10.

    Since we don’t have a reported time frames, let’s do some rough math. The age range and number of the participating respondents shakes out as follows:

    • Ages 18-34: 25.74 percent
    • Ages 35-54: 35.08 percent
    • Ages 55 and above: 39.18 percent

    Looking at the high percentage of folks over 55, I decided to assume a period over the last 50 years (1967 to 2017) as a proposed sample period for UFO sightings. So, if we divide the 53.57 million who say they witnessed a UFO by 50 years, that equals about 1.07 million sightings per year. Interestingly, that number jives with the numbers estimated from the 1 in 10 number and the 121,000 sightings reported 2001-2015. I find that very intriguing.

    The survey reported that 18 percent of Americans believe abductions happen, which is about 57.6 million Americans or roughly 1 in 5. It also reported that 27 percent of Americans know someone who claims to have seen a UFO, which is about 86.4 million or roughly 1 in 4.

    Finally, the survey indicated that a majority of the respondents, about 50 percent, believe abductions happen because of a genuine interest in human anatomy.

    For those interested in the Phoenix lights event, a simple Google search will yield plenty of written material and lots of video from the event.

    LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME RECENT UFO SIGHTINGS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY:

    • July 15, 2017: At 1:45 a.m. a resident of Vero Beach, Fla., observed a bright orange fireball UFO.
    • July 15, 2017: At 3:30 a.m. a resident of the municipality of Weed in Siskiyou County, Calif., reported a bright flashing light that rose out of the eastern sky.
    • July 15, 2017: At 3:50 a.m. a resident of Wilsall, Mont., witnessed a huge, bright white light hovering over the Crazy Mountains.
    • July 15, 2017: At 2 p.m. a resident of Lapine, Ore., reported observing white-silver metallic object.
    • July 15, 2017: At 9 p.m. a resident of Post Falls, Idaho, reported seeing three glowing lights at ends of a huge triangle. He later observed the craft over Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He stated that it was totally silent.
    • July 15, 2017: At 9:40 p.m. a resident of Greensburg, Pa., witnessed the appearance of two sets of orange-red spheres flying together.

    If you are interested in joining a monthly UFO discussion group in the Onondaga County area, drop Cheryl an email at Blogger@CherylCosta.com. If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services: nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality. Follow me on Twitter @American_Skies.

    Attention, Central New York residents: Join a monthly MUFON-sponsored speakers presentation and discussion group in Syracuse. Regularly held the last Saturday of the month, it runs from April 29 through October 28, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m, May Memorial, 3800 E. Genesee St. Plenty of off-street parking is available.

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    07-08-2017 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

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    UFOs puzzle Camosun neighbourhood resident

    Bright lights ‘defy physics’ says Haultain resident

    Something’s flying in the air over the Camosun and Jubilee neighbourhoods of Saanich and Victoria and it’s got Mike Allan thinking differently about what’s in our sky.

    Allan lives with his family on Haultain Street, a few doors in from Richmond Road. He was a skeptic about anything that had to do with the phrase ‘unidentified flying object’, until he became witness to some strange events when he arrived about five years ago.

    (One of the only instances of footage that Allan has.)

    Since then he’s witnessed the strange occurrence of light, kind of like a star, that moves around the sky in abnormal ways, often hovering.

    Other UFO’s have been recently reported in Duncan and Sooke.

    RELATED: UFO Spotted near Sooke basin

    In this case, the light mostly runs northwest to southeast, loosely mimicking the path of a satellite, Allan said.

    “Sometimes there’s two at satellite altitude but then they criss-cross and satellites don’t do that.”

    Usually the light is the size of a star but much brighter. Its movement is unlike any plane, drone or satellite, Allan said. They appear below cloud levels and as high as the satellites.

    “When I tell people they look at me like I’m crazy, and granted I would think they were crazy too but it’s happening,” Allan said. “My neighbours are totally skeptical until they see it, now there’s a few of us who’ve seen this.”

    Unsure exactly what it is, he refers to it as “the bright thing in the sky.” His daughter calls it “the UFO-thingy,” he laughed.

    “When we moved to Haultain we had a tenant that was full on into UFOs, and I was like yeah right, there’s no such thing,” Allan said. “Now whenever I’m out at night I’m looking up, looking for one, and then it’s a matter of getting someone who’s closest to you to see it too.”

    Allan’s neighbour, Darrel, is among those whose since come to recognize the odd incidents of lights.

    “It defies physics, whatever it is, these aren’t drones,” Darrel said. “Maybe it’s military or something.”

    They are too bright for their size to go without a motor, Allan said.

    “To have that amount of light you’d need a powerful motor, you think you’d hear it.”

    The light isn’t always the same. They can be seen during the day and at night.

    “Last week it was low, it was not a satellite,” Allan said. “[Satellites] don’t bob through the air. It’s something kind of like turbulence, with no flashing beacons, moving faster than planes do across the sky.”

    RELATED: UFO Spotted near Shawnigan Lake

    Ben Dorman, a longtime volunteer with the Victoria chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and has spent a lifetime looking up at the Saanich sky with his naked eye and through telescopes. He coudn’t speak to anything within the atmosphere and said there aren’t any similar optical illusions in the sky similar to this that he knows of.

    “The only bright things which move through the sky are above the atmosphere and they’d be a streak,” Dorman said. “Something in orbit is not going to dance around.”

    So what is it?

    As conspiracies go, anything is possible, Allan says.

    “By the definition of UFO, yes, it’s an unidentified flying object. Everyone’s skeptical until they see it. What can I say, you gotta keep looking at the sky, they’re there.”

    reporter@saanichnews.com

     

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    07-08-2017 om 23:39 geschreven door peter  

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    Cedar Rapids UFO Sighting 5 Years Ago Today

    The Annual Perseid Meteor Shower
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    The month of August will bring several astronomical sights to the skies of Cedar Rapids, including the Perseids Meteor Shower on August 12, and the Total Solar Eclipse on August 21st.

    But it was on this date, August 6th, exactly five years ago that this amazing video of a UFO was captured over Cedar Rapids, Iowa.


    Yes, I am a believer in extra-terrestrial life and evidence like this only confirms my suspicions that we are not alone.

    According to You Tube, the person who captured the vide was not sure if it was a star or plane, but was completely spooked when it begins to jump and dance across the sky.

    At first we were not sure if it was just a star, light, plane, or what, but it was right next to the moon–glowing pretty bright. But the second the light took of and started shooting and dancing across the night sky, our skepticism jumped to curiosity.

    I wonder if this object might make a return appearance on the 5th anniversary of it’s sighting in this video. With the full moon arriving on the 9th of August, it would be freaky cool to see if this unidentified visitor makes a return to the night sky sometime this week.

    [source: You Tube]

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    07-08-2017 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Transhumanists May Lead Us Into a Dystopian Future

    By Alexander Thomas, University of East London

    The rapid development of so-called NBIC technologies – nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science – are giving rise to possibilities that have long been the domain of science fiction. Disease, ageing and even death are all human realities that these technologies seek to end.

    They may enable us to enjoy greater “morphological freedom” – we could take on new forms through prosthetics or genetic engineering. Or advance our cognitive capacities. We could use brain-computer interfaces to link us to advanced artificial intelligence (AI).

    Nanobots could roam our bloodstream to monitor our health and enhance our emotional propensities for joy, love or other emotions. Advances in one area often raise new possibilities in others, and this “convergence” may bring about radical changes to our world in the near-future.

    “Transhumanism” is the idea that humans should transcend their current natural state and limitations through the use of technology – that we should embrace self-directed human evolution. If the history of technological progress can be seen as humankind’s attempt to tame nature to better serve its needs, transhumanism is the logical continuation: the revision of humankind’s nature to better serve its fantasies.

    As David Pearce, a leading proponent of transhumanism and co-founder of Humanity+, says:

    If we want to live in paradise, we will have to engineer it ourselves. If we want eternal life, then we’ll need to rewrite our bug-ridden genetic code and become god-like … only hi-tech solutions can ever eradicate suffering from the world. Compassion alone is not enough.

    But there is a darker side to the naive faith that Pearce and other proponents have in transhumanism – one that is decidedly dystopian.

    There is unlikely to be a clear moment when we emerge as transhuman. Rather technologies will become more intrusive and integrate seamlessly with the human body. Technology has long been thought of as an extension of the self. Many aspects of our social world, not least our financial systems, are already largely machine-based. There is much to learn from these evolving human/machine hybrid systems.

    Yet the often Utopian language and expectations that surround and shape our understanding of these developments have been under-interrogated. The profound changes that lie ahead are often talked about in abstract ways, because evolutionary “advancements” are deemed so radical that they ignore the reality of current social conditions.

    In this way, transhumanism becomes a kind of “techno-anthropocentrism”, in which transhumanists often underestimate the complexity of our relationship with technology. They see it as a controllable, malleable tool that, with the correct logic and scientific rigour, can be turned to any end. In fact, just as technological developments are dependent on and reflective of the environment in which they arise, they in turn feed back into the culture and create new dynamics – often imperceptibly.

    Situating transhumanism, then, within the broader social, cultural, political, and economic contexts within which it emerges is vital to understanding how ethical it is.

    Competitive environments

    Max More and Natasha Vita-More, in their edited volume The Transhumanist Reader, claim the need in transhumanism “for inclusivity, plurality and continuous questioning of our knowledge”.

    Yet these three principles are incompatible with developing transformative technologies within the prevailing system from which they are currently emerging: advanced capitalism.

    Perpetual doper or evolutionary defunct?

    One problem is that a highly competitive social environment doesn’t lend itself to diverse ways of being. Instead it demands increasingly efficient behaviour. Take students, for example. If some have access to pills that allow them to achieve better results, can other students afford not to follow? This is already a quandary. Increasing numbers of students reportedly pop performance-enhancing pills. And if pills become more powerful, or if the enhancements involve genetic engineering or intrusive nanotechnology that offer even stronger competitive advantages, what then? Rejecting an advanced technological orthodoxy could potentially render someone socially and economically moribund (perhaps evolutionarily so), while everyone with access is effectively forced to participate to keep up.

    Going beyond everyday limits is suggestive of some kind of liberation. However, here it is an imprisoning compulsion to act a certain way. We literally have to transcend in order to conform (and survive). The more extreme the transcendence, the more profound the decision to conform and the imperative to do so.

    The systemic forces cajoling the individual into being “upgraded” to remain competitive also play out on a geo-political level. One area where technology R&D has the greatest transhumanist potential is defence. DARPA (the US defence department responsible for developing military technologies), which is attempting to create “metabolically dominant soldiers”, is a clear example of how vested interests of a particular social system could determine the development of radically powerful transformative technologies that have destructive rather than Utopian applications.

    Designing super-soldiers.

    The rush to develop super-intelligent AI by globally competitive and mutually distrustful nation states could also become an arms race. In Radical Evolution, novelist Verner Vinge describes a scenario in which superhuman intelligence is the “ultimate weapon”. Ideally, mankind would proceed with the utmost care in developing such a powerful and transformative innovation.

    There is quite rightly a huge amount of trepidation around the creation of super-intelligence and the emergence of “the singularity” – the idea that once AI reaches a certain level it will rapidly redesign itself, leading to an explosion of intelligence that will quickly surpass that of humans (something that will happen by 2029 according to futurist Ray Kurzweil). If the world takes the shape of whatever the most powerful AI is programmed (or reprograms itself) to desire, it even opens the possibility of evolution taking a turn for the entirely banal – could an AI destroy humankind from a desire to produce the most paperclips for example?

    It’s also difficult to conceive of any aspect of humanity that could not be “improved” by being made more efficient at satisfying the demands of a competitive system. It is the system, then, that determines humanity’s evolution – without taking any view on what humans are or what they should be. One of the ways in which advanced capitalism proves extremely dynamic is in its ideology of moral and metaphysical neutrality. As philosopher Michael Sandel says: markets don’t wag fingers. In advanced capitalism, maximising one’s spending power maximises one’s ability to flourish – hence shopping could be said to be a primary moral imperative of the individual.

    Philosopher Bob Doede rightly suggests it is this banal logic of the market that will dominate:

    If biotech has rendered human nature entirely revisable, then it has no grain to direct or constrain our designs on it. And so whose designs will our successor post-human artefacts likely bear? I have little doubt that in our vastly consumerist, media-saturated capitalist economy, market forces will have their way. So – the commercial imperative would be the true architect of the future human.

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    System-led evolution

    Whether the evolutionary process is determined by a super-intelligent AI or advanced capitalism, we may be compelled to conform to a perpetual transcendence that only makes us more efficient at activities demanded by the most powerful system. The end point is predictably an entirely nonhuman – though very efficient – technological entity derived from humanity that doesn’t necessarily serve a purpose that a modern-day human would value in any way. The ability to serve the system effectively will be the driving force. This is also true of natural evolution – technology is not a simple tool that allows us to engineer ourselves out of this conundrum. But transhumanism could amplify the speed and least desirable aspects of the process.

    Information authoritarianism

    For bioethicist Julian Savulescu, the main reason humans must be enhanced is for our species to survive. He says we face a Bermuda Triangle of extinction: radical technological power, liberal democracy and our moral nature. As a transhumanist, Savulescu extols technological progress, also deeming it inevitable and unstoppable. It is liberal democracy – and particularly our moral nature – that should alter.

    The failings of humankind to deal with global problems are increasingly obvious. But Savulescu neglects to situate our moral failings within their wider cultural, political and economic context, instead believing that solutions lie within our biological make up.

    Yet how would Savulescu’s morality-enhancing technologies be disseminated, prescribed and potentially enforced to address the moral failings they seek to “cure”? This would likely reside in the power structures that may well bear much of the responsibility for these failings in the first place. He’s also quickly drawn into revealing how relative and contestable the concept of “morality” is:

    We will need to relax our commitment to maximum protection of privacy. We’re seeing an increase in the surveillance of individuals and that will be necessary if we are to avert the threats that those with antisocial personality disorder, fanaticism, represent through their access to radically enhanced technology.

    Such surveillance allows corporations and governments to access and make use of extremely valuable information. In Who Owns the Future, internet pioneer Jaron Lanier explains:

    Troves of dossiers on the private lives and inner beings of ordinary people, collected over digital networks, are packaged into a new private form of elite money … It is a new kind of security the rich trade in, and the value is naturally driven up. It becomes a giant-scale levee inaccessible to ordinary people.

    Crucially, this levee is also invisible to most people. Its impacts extend beyond skewing the economic system towards elites to significantly altering the very conception of liberty, because the authority of power is both radically more effective and dispersed.

    Foucault’s notion that we live in a panoptic society – one in which the sense of being perpetually watched instils discipline – is now stretched to the point where today’s incessant machinery has been called a “superpanopticon”. The knowledge and information that transhumanist technologies will tend to create could strengthen existing power structures that cement the inherent logic of the system in which the knowledge arises.

    This is in part evident in the tendency of algorithms toward race and gender bias, which reflects our already existing social failings. Information technology tends to interpret the world in defined ways: it privileges information that is easily measurable, such as GDP, at the expense of unquantifiable information such as human happiness or well-being. As invasive technologies provide ever more granular data about us, this data may in a very real sense come to define the world – and intangible information may not maintain its rightful place in human affairs.

    Systemic dehumanisation

    Existing inequities will surely be magnified with the introduction of highly effective psycho-pharmaceuticals, genetic modification, super intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, nanotechnology, robotic prosthetics, and the possible development of life expansion. They are all fundamentally inegalitarian, based on a notion of limitlessness rather than a standard level of physical and mental well-being we’ve come to assume in healthcare. It’s not easy to conceive of a way in which these potentialities can be enjoyed by all.

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    Will they come along for the ride?

    Sociologist Saskia Sassen talks of the “new logics of expulsion”, that capture “the pathologies of today’s global capitalism”. The expelled include the more than 60,000 migrants who have lost their lives on fatal journeys in the past 20 years, and the victims of the racially skewed profile of the increasing prison population.

    Grenfell Tower, London, 2017.

    In Britain, they include the 30,000 people whose deaths in 2015 were linked to health and social care cuts and the many who perished in the Grenfell Tower fire. Their deaths can be said to have resulted from systematic marginalisation.

    Unprecedented acute concentration of wealth happens alongside these expulsions. Advanced economic and technical achievements enable this wealth and the expulsion of surplus groups. At the same time, Sassen writes, they create a kind of nebulous centrelessness as the locus of power:

    The oppressed have often risen against their masters. But today the oppressed have mostly been expelled and survive a great distance from their oppressors … The “oppressor” is increasingly a complex system that combines persons, networks, and machines with no obvious centre.

    Surplus populations removed from the productive aspects of the social world may rapidly increase in the near future as improvements in AI and robotics potentially result in significant automation unemployment. Large swaths of society may become productively and economically redundant. For historian Yuval Noah Harari “the most important question in 21st-century economics may well be: what should we do with all the superfluous people?”

    We would be left with the scenario of a small elite that has an almost total concentration of wealth with access to the most powerfully transformative technologies in world history and a redundant mass of people, no longer suited to the evolutionary environment in which they find themselves and entirely dependent on the benevolence of that elite. The dehumanising treatment of today’s expelled groups shows that prevailing liberal values in developed countries don’t always extend to those who don’t share the same privilege, race, culture or religion.

    In an era of radical technological power, the masses may even represent a significant security threat to the elite, which could be used to justify aggressive and authoritarian actions (perhaps enabled further by a culture of surveillance).

    Life in the Hunger Games.

    In their transhumanist tract, The Proactionary Imperative, Steve Fuller and Veronika Lipinska argue that we are obliged to pursue techno-scientific progress relentlessly, until we achieve our god-like destiny or infinite power – effectively to serve God by becoming God. They unabashedly reveal the incipient violence and destruction such Promethean aims would require: “replacing the natural with the artificial is so key to proactionary strategy … at least as a serious possibility if not a likelihood [it will lead to] the long-term environmental degradation of the Earth.”

    The extent of suffering they would be willing to gamble in their cosmic casino is only fully evident when analysing what their project would mean for individual human beings:

    A proactionary world would not merely tolerate risk-taking but outright encourage it, as people are provided with legal incentives to speculate with their bio-economic assets. Living riskily would amount to an entrepreneurship of the self … [proactionaries] seek large long-term benefits for survivors of a revolutionary regime that would permit many harms along the way.

    Progress on overdrive will require sacrifices.

    God-like elites.

    The economic fragility that humans may soon be faced with as a result of automation unemployment would likely prove extremely useful to proactionary goals. In a society where vast swaths of people are reliant on handouts for survival, market forces would determine that less social security means people will risk more for a lower reward, so “proactionaries would reinvent the welfare state as a vehicle for fostering securitised risk taking” while “the proactionary state would operate like a venture capitalist writ large”.

    At the heart of this is the removal of basic rights for “Humanity 1.0”, Fuller’s term for modern, non-augmented human beings, replaced with duties towards the future augmented Humanity 2.0. Hence the very code of our being can and perhaps must be monetised: “personal autonomy should be seen as a politically licensed franchise whereby individuals understand their bodies as akin to plots of land in what might be called the ‘genetic commons’”.

    The neoliberal preoccupation with privatisation would so extend to human beings. Indeed, the lifetime of debt that is the reality for most citizens in developed advanced capitalist nations, takes a further step when you are born into debt – simply by being alive “you are invested with capital on which a return is expected”.

    Socially moribund masses may thus be forced to serve the technoscientific super-project of Humanity 2.0, which uses the ideology of market fundamentalism in its quest for perpetual progress and maximum productivity. The only significant difference is that the stated aim of godlike capabilities in Humanity 2.0 is overt, as opposed to the undefined end determined by the infinite “progress” of an ever more efficient market logic that we have now.

    A new politics

    Some transhumanists are beginning to understand that the most serious limitations to what humans can achieve are social and cultural – not technical. However, all too often their reframing of politics falls into the same trap as their techno-centric worldview. They commonly argue the new political poles are not left-right but techno-conservative or techno-progressive (and even techno-libertarian and techno-sceptic. Meanwhile Fuller and Lipinska argue that the new political poles will be up and down instead of left and right: those who want to dominate the skies and became all powerful, and those who want to preserve the Earth and its species-rich diversity. It is a false dichotomy. Preservation of the latter is likely to be necessary for any hope of achieving the former.

    Transhumanism and advanced capitalism are two processes which value “progress” and “efficiency” above everything else. The former as a means to power and the latter as a means to profit. Humans become vessels to serve these values. Transhuman possibilities urgently call for a politics with more clearly delineated and explicit humane values to provide a safer environment in which to foster these profound changes. Where we stand on questions of social justice and environmental sustainability has never been more important. Technology doesn’t allow us to escape these questions – it doesn’t permit political neutrality. The contrary is true. It determines that our politics have never been more important. Savulescu is right when he says radical technologies are coming. He is wrong in thinking they will fix our morality. They will reflect it.

    Alexander Thomas, PhD Candidate, University of East London

    This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Scientists Prove That Cryogenically Frozen Life Can Be Reanimated
    cryogenic cryonic freezing

    To survive the 90-year-long journey between Earth and the far-off planet Homestead II, humans on the ship in the 2016 sci-fi bomb Passengers were cryogenically frozen, suspending them in the throes of youth. The assumption is that thawing will bring their bodies and minds back to their normal, living states, and then life will resume where it left off. It’s wishful thinking: While scientists have figured out how to thaw and unthaw individual cells, whether it’s possible to reanimate life has remained a mystery.

    But a new discovery puts them well on their way to finding out.

    In a recent article in the journal ACS Nano, researchers reported that they’d successfully frozen zebrafish embryos, thawed them, and brought them back to life. Reanimation efforts on the tiny tropical fish, prized among scientists because their translucent embryos are easy to study, have been ongoing for 60 years, but none have been successful because of issues during the thawing process. This time around, the American team tweaked their defrosting strategy in order to speed it up.

    When scientists preserve an embryo using cryogenic freezing, they drain some of its regular fluids, replacing them with an antifreeze-like substance to prevent the formation of damaging ice crystals, which can puncture a cell from the inside out. For the most part, scientists have figured out this process of “vitrification” — making fluids ice-free and thus glass-like — using a cryoprotectant solution of various sugar and alcohol molecules, like glycerol and propylene glycol (the major ingredient in car antifreeze). Previous studies have shown that dropping cryoprotected zebrafish embryos into a liquid nitrogen tank that cools them at 90,000 degrees Celsius per minute to a final temperature of −196 degrees Celsius results in perfectly frozen embryos. The problem is what happens as they are thawing.

    “[The] large size of the yolk still impedes rapid cooling and warming, thereby yielding lethal ice crystal formation during cryopreservation,” the researchers write. When the defrosting process is too gradual, sometimes an event called devitrification occurs, in which the liquid “[reverts] from glass to ice.” For these scientists, thawing frozen embryos involved shining a 1064-nm laser pulse on them, which raised their temperature to 1.4 × 107 degrees Celsius per minute, but even this was too slow to create the perfect thaw.

    zebrafish embryo
    Once thawed, 10 percent of the sample zebrafish embryos survived for 24 hours.

    But they finally managed to achieve it by adding a substance to the cryoprotectant solution that would heat up quickly and move the thawing process along faster — namely, tiny bits of metal. Adding gold nanorods, which conducted the laser’s heat efficiently, sped up the warming process so that there was no chance for damaging devitrification to take place.

    In this way, zebrafish embryos that had been flash-frozen for a few minutes were rapidly unfrozen, and about 10 percent of those embryos stayed alive and developed for the next 24 hours.

    These aren’t survival odds that any freezer-happy human would bank on, but they’re a start — and proof that a developing embryo’s mechanisms can continue after being briefly frozen, at least in a zebrafish. Future research will probably focus on figuring out how to extend the amount of time those embryos can stay frozen before they’re thawed, as well as pinpointing what causes them to die so soon after they’re unfrozen.

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    In theory, living cells can be unfrozen, but there's no guarantee that what's left will constitute life. 

    It’s too early to say how this research could be applied to long-term human hibernation, but the scientists behind the study are hoping it will lead to a way to freeze the embryos of endangered water-bound species so they can repopulate future lifeless seas. In a way, their objectives aren’t too different from those laid out in Passengers, in which the spacefaring ship was laden with libraries of frozen human embryos waiting for a new habitat to populate.

    As cryogenics science hurtles forward, it’s likely that the film’s promise that bodies can be viably frozen and thawed will increasingly seem less like a fantasy and more of a possibility. Whether those defrosted bodies will constitute conscious life, however, will be up to future humans to decide.

    Photos via Khosla et al./ACS Nano, Passengers

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    EMF take-down of America by Alien ET technology: How far has it gone?

    By Preston James, Ph.D 

    A secret agenda using ultra high-tech Alien ET EMF weaponry has been rolled out to take-down America

    Note: This article is written for those who are up to speed on the Secret Space War Program and the Secret Shadow Government (SSG) and if you are not you are probably wasting your time reading this article.
    Even those involved in such programs often are allowed to only gain knowledge of a narrow compartmented slice. VT has allowed articles to be presented which attempt to fill that void.


    Despite vociferous official denials, it is now known that Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMF) can entrain brain waves, cause electrical conduction irregularities in the heart function, cause sleep irregularities, migraines and cancer without doing any tissue heating.

    For many years it has been the official USG position that Electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) can only be harmful if tissue is heated.

    This has now been shown in numerous peer reviewed studies to be notably untrue, that in fact EMF can entrain brain waves and can disturb electrical conductance in the heart without heating tissue at all.

    I have written prior articles which described the sophisticated Globalist agenda to psychotronically oppress We The People using cell phones and cell phone towers, Wi-Fi, dirty electricity and other forms of EMF including custom targeting by ground stations and satellite. I also listed some countermeasures that are now being used to mitigate the effects.

    EMF detector indicates high level of microwave radiation near a cell phone and radio tower

    The weaponization of EMF via Smart-meters via the Smart Grid.

    The use of Smart-meters is now beginning to become understood as a sophisticated spy device. Citizens all over America are beginning to organize, to protest about them. But there is even more to these sophisticated spy devices.

    There are numerous claims that they cause fires (they are not UL rated and some claim they are technically illegal for home use because of that according to state fire codes).

    There are also numerous claims that they cause serious and debilitating health problems like migraine headaches, insomnia, nervousness, and a myriad of strange health problems that appeared suddenly not previously appeared so frequently. Some claim that they cause various kinds of cancer.

    And although many of these claims are being made by homeowners who just had a Smart-meter installed, some have been substantiated by well qualified scientists all over the world in various nations.

    And there are new peer reviewed research studies which are showing that the EMF levels that Smart-meters radiate and expose homeowners to are strong enough to cause serious health problems for those who have a Smart-meter installed or close by.

    Are Smart-meters just another type of SSG soft-kill deployed to tranquilize the populace and make folks sick and prematurely dead over time?

    Here is the Trailer for the award-winning movie Take Back Your Power which is now being shown on Dr. Mercola’s website for free, for one week starting through 8-11-17.

    A deeper analysis of the factors behind the implementation of the Smart-meter program suggests that there is massive political power behind its mandated implementation.

    This strong political power behind the Smart Grid becomes obvious to any homeowner who tries to get a Smart Meter removed after it has been installed. These Smart-meters are usually installed without customer/homeowner consent; and always without their “informed consent” which is required by case law for medical devices.

    And there is now substantial evidence to suggests that Smart-meters are actually functioning as unlicensed, unapproved medical devices that have been deployed without giving the public any serious informed consent of the risks (which are substantial).

    Besides this it appears that there have been some very deep, dark secrets at play here because “national security directives” have been invoked behind the true purpose of this “Smart Grid” program.

    DARPA has been working on this stuff forever

    Looks like the Smart Grid system is high priority and a “national security” mandated system.

    Top Officials involved in deploying this Smart Grid program express serious fear when pressed for an explanation of the public safety aspects of this system. Looks like this has been driven by a very powerful Intel related group that is taking orders from somebody. The question is from who or what?

    There have been anecdotal unsubstantiated reports by insiders that some such officials feels their very lives are in jeopardy if they disclose what they known and their own personal concerns. Apparently some have actually been threatened with serious ramifications if they disclose what they have been told in secret. Some have allegedly had their lives threatened by US Intel agents.

    Some officials have had to sign confidentiality/secrecy agreements and have been told that the Smart Grid system is a top secret sophisticated Intelligence gathering tool needed to prevent nuclear and other forms of terrorism and organized crime.

    This is true but there is more that is not being disclosed, that the system has the capability to be utilized as a very sophisticated weapon that involves “no direct touching” of the victim.

    Yes, there is now new evidence emerging that the implementation of Smart-meters (and the Smart Grid) is actually a sophisticated weapon of war when one examines its full capabilities.

    It is my view based on the level of technological sophistication employed by Smart-meters, they are based on sophisticated Alien ET technology provided through exchange programs.

    Just how deeply involved has the USG become involved with Alien ETs and how much of their advanced technology has been gained or back-engineered.

    We now know for certain that the US Secret Shadow Government (SSG) has recovered and worked at back-engineering numerous crashed Alien ET anti-gravity craft. We also know for certain that dead Alien ET bodies were recovered; at least one live alien ET was rescued and kept in captivity; and the USG secretly has formed exchange programs based on signed treaties with Alien ETs.

    In these Alien ET exchange programs Alien ET super advanced technology has been exchanged for use of human subjects and their biological samples. In one program in particular at the Dulce N.M. Deep Underground Military Base (DUMB), a certain USAF Military contractor is working with Alien ETs on a joint program to hybridize humans and synthesize the human soul and to develop clone replicas of top officials and top politicians. I heard one claim made that the massive immigration, legal and illegal has been mandated to provide cover for these hybrids and some human looking Alien ETs to enter society.

    Just how advanced has the implementation of Alien ET technology become inside the Secret Space War Program and does the Smart Grid System employ this technology?

    What do we now know for a fact exists because of vetted insider reports now made public? We have reports from vetted insiders that Alien ET anti-gravity craft have been recovered.

    If anecdotal insider reports are accurate, hybridizations and cloning has been successful to a point. However if reports are true, attempts to synthesize the human soul so far have been unsuccessful and doomed to failure. Same for the attempts to transfer one “mind” into a clone made to look like them from their own DNA. The clones have short lives and often strange neurological (CNS) glitches.

    Some have claimed that hybridization produces a hived psychopath with no soul, but this has not been substantiated.

    There are now unsubstantiated reports which I consider valid that all secrecy has unofficially ended because of the new quantum based D-wave inter-dimensional based spy systems. In these systems which have become satellite based, no computer circuit on or off is safe from quantum access. D-waves have been purported to cross through a dimension where distance and time is different than what we normally experience.

    From all the leaks coming out it seems apparent that all secrecy is now ending and anything written or spoken is now available to the various largest, most advanced Intel Agencies.

    In any event, it is not unreasonable to ask the question, have the top Secret Shadow Government (SSG) officials who run the Secret Space War Program (SSWP) become themselves seriously mind-kontrolled by Alien ETs whom they have been working with?

    Have these top SSG officials who sit on the major control board (MJ) become tools of Alien ETs in the take-down of America and even the human species? When one ponders the deep dark secrets behind the anti-human deployment of the Smart Grid, it quickly suggests that some sinister anti-human force has taken over those who run the USG and the SSG.

    Conclusion and ramifications
    The Smart Grid has been deployed, it appears to be a very high-tech sophisticated weaponized EMF system. And there is deep secrecy and strong political muscle behind this deployment.

    Is the small group of top officials pushing this Smart Grid System upon us run by an evil Alien ET group attempting a take-down of Earth so they can get rid of the human race and repopulate it with their own creations? Or is this sinister deployment merely a result of the *BT/RKM/COL World Bankster franchise system of perpetual debt-bondage and war.

    It appears that some of the very top Globalist NWO leaders (usually CFR members) have inserted themselves on MJ which has expanded over the years and involved representatives from numerous nations, even some we consider our enemies.

    Despite these top Globalists being part of MJ, there is a new group inside MJ who do not share their same objectives. And a substantial number of the “old guard” is now sick, disabled and dying. Some have already died.

    There have been several insider claims that the ongoing conflicts in the American political system at present are really due to an internecine war; a serious conflict between a certain very powerful newly emergent international non-Globalist faction of the Secret Shadow Government versus the old guard of the BT/RKM/COL Globalists (also known as the Mystery Babylon System or the Vatican/City of London/DC Globalist NWO Banking System).

    It has been pretty well established that this BT/RKM/COL Mystery Babylon world banking System is an occult system of control of government officials and elected politicians by using large payments, sex, Satanism, pedophilia, human compromise, and blackmail to varying degrees to keep them in line. It is now pretty apparent that it is being disassembled piece by piece and this is mandated from the Superior General himself in order to displace the old for the new. Some view this as a mandated establishment of a new Cosmic Fascism that starts out very friendly and proceeds to go deeply satanic until stopped.

    Conservative Christians have attributed the emergence of this BT/RKM/COL system to a belief that the top several who control this whole BT/RKM/COL Hierarchy have willingly given up their souls to receive vast riches, power and status from Lucifer (Satan) the temporary God of this world.

    Here’s where this alleged issue of internecine war takes a jump into the deepest esoterics. Have the newbies who run the SSG Deep-black and Beyond-Black programs drifted into their own breakaway subculture, one that has been entrained by subtle non-obvious but very sophisticated Alien ET mind-kontrol. Have these top SSG folks been taken over without even realizing it?

    Here is a thought to contemplate: Do you think that Americans would have been so silent without all the deployment of advanced psychotronics after the middle class has been stripped of over 40% of it wealth since 2008, and savings accounts pay less than 1%, far below inflation?


    Sure seems like We The People have been psychotronically satiated and tranquilized, doesn’t it as America is being asset stripped and our Constitution is being trashed and ignored?


    *BT/RKM/COL Babylonian Talmudic/Rothschild Khazarian Mafia/City of London Bankster-Globalists

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    THE 6 ALIEN SPECIES CURRENTLY FIGHTING FOR CONTROL OVER EARTH

    Hundreds of sightings, abductions and primary-hand bills have made it possible to distinguish numerous awesome alien species that have been in cahoots with military forces, identifying our destiny without ever consulting us. Below are some of the least difficult to understand ones we may want to locate.

    Hundreds of sightings, abductions and primary-hand bills have made it possible to distinguish numerous awesome alien species that have been in cahoots with military forces, identifying our destiny without ever consulting us. Below are some of the least difficult to understand ones we may want to locate

    1. The Sirians

    Hailing from the Sirius B star system, the Sirians are as advanced as they are historical. Throughout records, they have imparted their information to human civilizations in their selecting. They talented the ancient Egyptians with medical and astronomical statistics and the outstanding pyramids and temples are stated to had been built with their help.
    The Mayans also had a unique dating with the Sirians, who shared statistics with this enigmatic South American civilization. The extraterrestrials originating from Sirius B are believed to have played a element inside the disappearance of the Maya. They are permitted with leaving in the back of tremendous artifacts including the crystal skulls.
    Another earthly civilization that benefited from the Sirian presence were the Atlanteans; it’s far believed that during the cataclysmic occasion that sunk Atlantis, the Sirians were instrumental in leading the rescue operations. Other civilizations were influenced with the aid of the Sirians, the maximum outstanding case being that of the Dogon tribe of West Africa.
    Although they had been extra worried throughout our planet’s past, nowadays the Sirian’s supposedly play a more subtle position through technology alternate applications. They are regularly cited in reference to covert or distinctive guns research in addition to time journey experimentation.

    2. The Short Grays

    Also called the Zeta Reticulums, the Grays are a number of the most famous aliens. They are commonly depicted at some stage in alien popular culture and are the culprits of most alien abductions.
    According to most descriptions, they stand three to 5 ft tall, have bulbous heads and over-sized black eyes. Although they own a mouth, they seldom speak, as maximum communique is carried out telepathically. The short Grays are said to be a genetically-engineered worker race which are controlled by using their superiors, the Tall Grays. Their telepathic talents allow them to constitute a sort of hive mind awareness.
    Being genetically-designed to executed medical missions, the short Grays are impassive and merciless. They are alo accountable for developing a human-gray hybrid race.

    3. The Tall Grays

    Standing 7 to 8 ft tall, hairless, and pale, the Gray Masters are the ambassadors of maximum meetings among human and alien forces. They represent both human and grey organic fabric combined, and consequently play a lead role in supporting the Short Grays with interacting with humanity. This species is concerned in many genetic experiments, and there has now been a hybrid human-Gray race created, containing thoughts control and diplomatic agreements with the ‘shadow government,’ to which they represent. Sources declare they originate from a celebrity system inside the Orion constellation.
    The Tall Grays supervise all abductions and human experiments but are seldom present in the course of those events. They prefer to employ the offerings of their minions, the Short Grays. As it’d appear, they are eager on growing a stable human-gray hybrid race, one worthy of inheriting Earth.
    An advanced, self-focused race, they vicinity little fee on human life. They don’t forget us their belongings.

    4. The Alpha-Draconians

    Corrupt and cruel, the Alpha-Draconians infiltrated human society hundreds of years ago, and are the oldest regarded reptilian race in our galaxy. Although they came to Earth from their colonies on Alpha Draconis, their original home world is unknown.
    They lay eggs and use a “war hormone” to boost up the birthing process. They are a duality. This is why ancestral females do not participate in conflict, due to the fact in the event that they did, there wouldn’t be every body there to help with the eggs. They also ought to be there to secrete their hormone. I am best sharing with you what I realize about them thru years of research.
    A decidedly large reptilian species, they degree everywhere from 14 to 22 feet tall and weigh an anticipated 1,800 kilos of by and large muscle. They may be in comparison to the Tyrannosaurus Rex. These Alpha-Draconians have black leathery brown scale bellies, whiskers along their chin and jaw line and feature multiple abdomens. They are an smart race with massive heads and reptilian eyes. Some bills describe them as having tails or even wings and they are, in reality, the best genetic line of their ancestry that is not extinct.
    Contactee Alex Collier says he turned into allowed to share a few information about those extraterrestrials:
    The Draconians are the pressure behind the repression of human populations anywhere on this galaxy, instilling worry-primarily based notion systems and restrictive hierarchies.
    […]they’re extraordinarily clairvoyant and extremely clever, and that they can also be extraordinarily sinister.”
    The Draconians view themselves as the first smart species to conform in the Milky Way galaxy. Competitive and expansive, they’ve populated many worlds. Their great egos permits them to look themselves as the rightful rulers of lesser evolved worlds inclusive of Earth.
    Their continuous exploitation of the human race proves they keep in mind us an inferior species.
    Reports say there are virtually two types of Alpha-Draconians divided into  castes: the large ones are a part of a royal caste called the Ciakar while the smaller ones (eight ft tall) form a properly-trained warrior elegance.

    5. The Native Reptilians

    Often confused with the warrior caste of the Alpha Draconians, those reptilians are said to be native to Earth. Typically, Reptilians are defined as being 6 to eight toes tall, bipedal, with inexperienced scaly pores and skin, frame smell and huge eyes with a vertical pupil. The little statistics to be had for this species states that they had been originally left in the back of by the Alpha-Draconians to colonize Earth.
    Their interplay with mankind is going returned thousands of years, every now and then providing help however extra often than not the usage of us as a commodity. They have infiltrated nearly all components of human lifestyles and preserve positions of strength. Several ancient peoples everywhere in the international have described reptilian beings, performing opposed towards human beings. Common Reptilians manage our elites and rule our institutions and groups. They constructed our modern financial machine and influence all religions.
    The underground reptilian race is likewise said to govern the media and all corporations. They are at the back of most crimes against humanity.

    6. The Anunnaki

    According to scientists, there may be a 12th planet in our solar machine (referred to as the viable ‘Planet X’). They talk over with this planet as Nibiru, which is positioned somewhere beyond Pluto. This planet, unlike any other planet in our solar device, has an elliptical orbit and moves clockwise as opposed to counterclockwise. It is said that the collision of Nibiru and some other planet in our solar gadget (Maldek) become what created Earth.
    This planet is inhabited by means of the Anunnaki, who landed on Earth, and at first colonized it. They first got here with the aim of mining Earth for gold and different minerals, and stay a form of idealistic society in a small colony. Before heading to Earth, the Anunnaki colonized the planets inside the Orion star gadget.
    In want of a personnel, they’re said to have created mankind. Through genetic manipulation and in vitro fertilization, they upgraded the genus Homo to sapiens high-quality. Present on Earth considering our inception, the Anunnaki have prompted each component of human lifestyles. We’ve inherited their patriarchal lifestyle of violence and vengeance, it’s in our engineered DNA.
    The Anunnaki are in direct opposition with the Draconians for control over mankind.

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    Quantum Theory Allows To Travel Back In Time!

    Quantum Theory Allows the Travel Back In Time

    A travel back in time, so far, appears possible only in science fiction stories and movies. However, scientists strive to reach a resolution for the possibility of time travel through physics.

    Can time flow backward? Why is it only moving in one direction – towards the future? Why do we remember the past and not the future?

    While it’s long been known that particles can move in this way when there are no external forces at play, a study has now found that it also applies in more realistic situations, when such forces are present. An artist's impression is pictured 

    While it’s long been known that particles can move in this way when there are no external forces at play, a study has now found that it also applies in more realistic situations, when such forces are present. An artist's impression is pictured 

    Stephen Hawking makes it clear in his book “A Brief History Of TIme” that there are at least 3 different arrows of time pointing in the same direction:

    Thermodynamic Arrow of Time:

    According to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, there are more disordered states than ordered ones. For example, suppose you have a jigsaw puzzle in which it makes up a completely clear portrait in a closed box. Let this ordered state be state 1. When you shake the box the puzzle enters state 2 which is a disordered state. The probability that you open the box to find the puzzle forming a clear picture is extremely small. Then, the more you shake the box, the more the pieces will get into disordered states.

    Psychological Arrow of Time:

    The direction of the psychological arrow of time is the same as the thermodynamic arrow. It describes the fact that humans remember events in one direction: from the past to the present and the future is unknown. It can never be the opposite where we remember the future and predict the past.

    Cosmological Arrow of Time:

    This type shows that the universe is expanding. Scientists have long thought about the beginning of our universe. They reached the conclusion that the universe started in a tiny ordered state and started to expand after the Big Bang leading to the suitable conditions to occur therefore making the intelligent life possible.

    Scientists have discovered that all quantum particles exhibit a property known as ‘backflow,’ allowing them to travel in the opposite direction from which they are pushed. A stock image is pictured 

    Scientists have discovered that all quantum particles exhibit a property known as ‘backflow,’ allowing them to travel in the opposite direction from which they are pushed. A stock image is pictured 

    The Speed Of Light:

    Suppose the 2 following events: Event A – a party on Earth. And an event B – Football match on Mars. Observers to both events agree that A happened before B if a spaceship traveled from earth to Mars at a speed below the speed of light. But suppose the spaceship travels faster than light. Then, it is possible that event B happens before A. But, according to Einstein’s theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than light.

    Thus, all the above facts show us that time goes only in one direction like a railway. But a question of concern arises: Can there be a branch of this railway that takes us back to a point in the past?

    Quantum Theory permits to Travel Back in Time!

    General Relativity allows the occurrence of “bridges” between event A and B. Such bridges are wormholes which are thin tubes of space-time connecting 2 nearly flat regions apart. However, wormholes are not available in nature. Thus they require being created artificially by warping space-time. Moreover, this requires a space-time with a negative curvature which can be achieved only through matter with negative energy density.

    The good news is that “Quantum Theory” allows the travel back in time, but only on a microscopic scale. The reason behind this is the radiation by black holes. A pair consisting of 2 virtual members particle/antiparticle, can have one member fall into a black hole. But scientists claim that the virtual member that fell into the black hole can also travel out of it thus traveling back in time.

    But is it allowed to travel back in time on a macroscopic scale?

    Hawking claims that there is a “chronology protection conjecture” which means that the laws of physics conspire to prevent humans and macroscopic bodies from traveling into the past. This is what Hawking believes in but he says that time travel is still an open discussion.

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    THE MAN WHO LIVED WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FOR 10 DAYS

    Alec Newald went missing for 10 days when he was taken to an alien planet. In this video, he recounts his life-changing experience and describes extremely advanced organic technology which also allows you to “grow” your house as well as its environment.

    He also talks about how spaceships are operated by consciousness and “melding”, and indeed, is conscious itself, much like what we’ve repeatedly been told is possible in the higher realms. The extraterrestrials that brought Alec aboard their ship were human-like, technologically advanced and could raise their vibration with biological technology so their bodies were less dense and thus capable of space travel.

    They could grow anything they wanted by splicing plant and animal genes, and they grew sentient ‘houses’ and craft that would obey their thoughts. Their craft were a biological ‘animal/plant mix. They would operate it with their consciousness, which was an intrinsic part of the vehicle itself. Instead of eating, they drank a ‘cosmic solution’ that could be likened to monatomic gold.

    Co-Evolution author Alec Newald reveals significant new details which his ET hosts say can be released now.

    source:http://alienblog.org

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    Great Pyramid of Giza could be hiding 4,000-year-old secret

    By Jasper Hamill, The Sun

    Great Pyramid of Giza could be hiding 4,000-year-old secret

    07-08-2017 om 18:33 geschreven door peter  

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    Science Confirms That Cats and Dogs Can See “Spirits” and Frequencies That Humans Can’t

    07-08-2017 om 18:17 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO hovers over Jackson County Mississippi

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    Pleiadian aliens visit Lecco, Italy

    Perhaps one of the maximum compelling UFO sightings in records has come to light over pinnacle of northern Italy in named Lecco. Unmistakably, this alien spacecraft is visible hovering within the sky about 31 miles from Milan. It is assumed to be a ship utilized by aliens which can be known as Pleiadians.


    They also are called Pleiades extraterrestrial beings or Nordic extraterrestrial beings. These are an extraterrestrial race of beings from the planet Erra. This planet definitely orbits the big name 10-Tauri (Taygeta). The appearance these UFO ships have is beautiful to take a look at, just like their believed planet. Both have been described as being each lovely and surprising in look.


    These extraterrestrial beings sincerely resemble humanoids and are similar to us in appearance physically. They are comparable to Scandinavians with truthful hair and skin. Their peak, weight (and age) could vary to a few degree as nicely. How many of them exist is all of us’s best guess.



    The UFO pix seen had been taken by way of a neighborhood guy named Giuseppe Filipponi. He later uploaded them on Facebook. It seems those have captured the attention of many people. What is their purpose for being here? Are they approximately to interfere with our global? The typical doubters have deemed those pics as mere climate deformations. But that is actually now not so.



    Clearly the deliver can be visible and is some thing overseas to our international. Dating again to August of 2016, Italy has suffered from herbal screw ups which includes earthquakes. Other quakes are taking place round the world as properly. Known as fracking, the technique includes injecting liquid at high strain into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc., to pressure openings of present fissures thereby extracting oil or fuel. As you can consider, this is seriously awful for our planet. One earthquake in Italy become expected to be the strongest quake in over half of a century.



    The arrival of this UFO possibly is giant, as it's also believed that those extraterrestrial beings have previously visited Earth earlier than all through essential times in our history. With america election and different worldly events occurring such as terrorism, perhaps they are here to help us comply with a higher course. They were deemed as being benevolent toward people. They are assumed to have noble intentions closer to us and had been monitoring humanity for pretty some time. We can best believe what they think about us and what we've completed.

    With this current UFO sighting in Lecco, their difficulty for us should be high all through this moment in time. How many spacecrafts consisting of this are currently hovering in our skies is unclear. But with those pictures, we will now see that some thing advantageous is at the horizon for humanity.

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    07-08-2017 om 17:56 geschreven door peter  

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    China confirms the life of UFOs and extraterrestrial beings



    A question which many human beings were looking forward to an answer for has finally come to pass. It is genuine, extraterrestrial beings do exist and the Chinese are admitting to this existence of extraterrestrial beings.
    Many of the unexplained UFOs visible and a number of the extraterrestrial sightings people have offered are certainly real. Certainly, many faux things were made for interest. However, there's definitely a ways an excessive amount of evidence to cover from most people any more.
    Yes, that’s right, the ones odd matters flying around inside the sky are from some other international. The alien Moon bases seen are real. Some of those motion pictures of dwelling creatures from every other global are real as properly. The suspicious hobby taking region in Antarctica, has to do with alien encounter pastime.



    Other governments have supplied forth facts about the existence of UFOs. The Chinese want to set the file immediately and deliver the public the truth of things, exposing it once and for all. People have been yearning to recognize the truth for some distance too lengthy. This will for all time trade our world.
    The Chinese from this factor, have so much stress being pressed upon them—they wanted the sector to realize what's certainly happening. It is now their time to declassify decades of various investigations. All of this, is in regards to flying items inside the sky and alien entities dwelling and wandering among us.
    Government officers from extraordinary departments admit that matters are happening which we do no longer completely recognize. They are interplanetary and are causing disruption to no longer most effective Earth, but to different living inhabitable planets as nicely. There are some truely tousled matters going on all round us, as we input this new technology of time and area.
    It has been understand for quite some time by avid UFO lovers and investigators—that a sort of phenomenon has been taking place all around us. There are individuals who are simply now waking as much as the reality of things and deserve to understand the real reality of things.



    A meeting took place, hosted by means of a non-profit organization referred to as Citizen Hearing. Shi-Li Sun spoke who's a especially regarded researcher and the president of the Chinese UFO Federation. He gives a few information about UFOs and aliens citing the truth about them.
    What Shi-Li Sun spoke about, changed into that the UFO phenomenon dates returned many tens of thousands of years. It become for the duration of a time, whilst historical China become simply remodeling its lifestyle and ideals. He mentions how otherworldly site visitors have impacted our planet and all the time changed society.



    Later, many of these alien visitors would return at later dates—to check upon people and our planets progression. With Chinese culture comes a great understanding, the people have previously believed that these aliens that visited were personified as different deities.
    They would converTe into one single cosmic beast known as the Dragon. Many of the carvings found in ancient ruins depicting aliens and UFOs are actual proof of previous alien visitation.
    With the Chinese culture, they consider themselves that of Dragon ancestors. The Dragon is represented as being from outer space. This means that people didn’t originate from Earth but from somewhere else in time and space. All of this is quite a bit to think about and will change the world forever.
    Shi-Li said:
    “Certainly, after years of research, a large number of Chinese UFO scholars, including myself, are convinced of the authenticity of UFO, the existence of UFOs and aliens…So, we believe in the existence of UFOs, we believe in the existence of aliens and extraterrestrials.

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    07-08-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

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    Scotland man snaps photo of UFO


    In Scotland a person from Dysart, Fife named John Macdonald snapped what appears to be an alien vessel flying in the sky. Some assume that is not anything greater than a passing drone, however flying one inside the darkish may want to proof to be as a substitute complicated.
    He claims that this passing UFO had numerous rows of lights shown in the pics. It was late at night time and he predicted the space between him and this spaceship of types turned into around one hundred yards away. He become using home after travelling his buddy whilst this befell.


    John said: “My Jeep is pretty noisy, but this seemed like 1000 hoovers. When I phoned my friend, who’s a shepherd, he said, ‘Don’t fear approximately it, we get this up here pretty a lot.’”
    The local Civil Aviation authority referred to that this come upon wasn’t any kind of a drone. After officers spoke with drone pilot Jonathan Hall, he declared as properly that this was something exclusive certainly. The strange spaceship stumble upon happened in Perthshire, Scotland which is located inside the principal part of the country.



    There has usually been query whether or no longer aliens do in truth exist. Perhaps that is another signal that something else is available. It is rather silly to think we are alone on this universe as the most effective existence forces around. History factors out unique footnotes such as the notorious photograph showing the Virgin Mary with a UFO object inside the sky at the back of her. This disk-formed item is a familiar depiction proven in numerous pix, artwork and videos.
    Ancient cave artwork and Sanskrit Scrolls have documented uncommon ships flying high within the sky as well. The Bible also notes within the e book of Ezekiel of an alien presence being recorded at some stage in that point. These consistencies of human beings reporting diverse sightings of UFO’s has human beings thinking in any other case. Different instances of alien abductions appear to be steady with individuals bringing up nausea, reminiscence loss, watering blisters on their faces, swelling of the eyes and many others.
    All of these unsolved sightings which hold to happen are constant as time keeps to tick via.



    Perhaps those pics captured through John Macdonald are nothing more than a few complicated hoax. Or, perhaps they may be some thing else completely. Is this some other failed authorities coverup conspiracy? People need the truth.

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    07-08-2017 om 17:42 geschreven door peter  

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    What Happens When Lightning Hits A River? (WATCH)

    WATCH: With all that weird weather that happened yesterday night, here is something that I thought was pretty cool. This guy caught on camera what happens when lightning strikes water:

    A lightning hits a river and creates an explosion? 2017

    Published on Aug 4, 2017

    Video original: Rannikon Merityö
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    On August 1st 2017 Hardy Tomas published o his Facebook account a video which has turned viral in only 2days reaching more than 17 million reproductions and has been shared by more than half a million persons.
    The video has the following description: this is the craziest and most impressive thing I´ve seen on my life, lightning hits a river and causes an explosion, if you aren´t afraid of swimming on a pool when lightning fall now you should.
    Several persons have sent me this video so we find out if it is true that a lightning caused this or if it’s a computer generated image. 
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    Lightning Strikes a River, Sparks Explosion?

    A video purportedly showing a bolt of lightning striking a river actually shows a controlled explosion by an engineering company.

    ORIGIN

    In July 2017, a video purportedly showing “a bolt of lightning striking a river” went viral on social media: 

    Meteorologist Dan Skoff lent credence to the claim when he reposted the video on Facebook, along with the following message:

    This is crazy! One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen with lightning. Almost doesn’t look real!

    If you aren’t terrified of lightning in a swimming pool, you will be now!

    This video, however, does not actually show a bolt of lightning striking a river. When the video is slowed down, it is easy to tell that the “lightning” strike doesn’t come from the sky, but from a wire on the hill. Here’s a screenshot showing the moment of impact (which can be glimpsed at the 7-second mark in the video above):


    This video was uploaded to Youtube by Finnish water engineering company Rannikon Merityö in 2012, under the title “Porapaalutusta, osa 3: Räjäytys” (Drilling rig, part 3: Blasting). Although this clip was not accompanied by any additional information, the video was included on the company’s web site on a page about underwater mining and blasting:

    KÄÄNNY VEDENALAISESSA LOUHINTA JA RÄJÄYTYSTYÖSSÄ AINA ASIANTUNTIJAN PUOLEEN

    Rantojen ja vedenalaisen kallion louhinta- ja rakennustyö Turun saaristossa ja ympäristössä. Vedenalaisessa louhinnassa madalletaan kallionpinnan korkeutta järvessä, meressä tai muussa vesistössä. Ennen louhintatyön aloittamista tehdään louhinta- ja räjäytystöiden suunnitelma, jotta kaikki toteutuu turvallisesti. Vesistössä tapahtuva kallion louhinta on luvanvaraista toimintaa ja saattaa vaatia aluehallintoviraston (AVI) luvan.

    MIHIN VEDENALAINEN LOUHINTA SOVELTUU?

    Vedenalaista louhintaa käytetään rantojen ja vesistöjen kunnostukseen sekä merimerkkien perustamiseen. Lisäksi vesiväylien syventäminen, rakentaminen ja ylläpito tehdään louhinta- ja räjäytystöillä. Louhinta suoritetaan laittamalla porausreikiin vedenalaista erikoisräjähdettä, joka upotetaan kallioon porattuihin reikiin. Asiakkaita voi olla yksityiset asiakkaat, satamat, ja venesatamat.


    TAKE SUBMERGED MINING AND BLASTING WORK TO AN EXPERT

    Mining and construction of beaches and underwater rock in Turku archipelago and surroundings. Underwater quarrying lowers the rock surface level in the lake, ocean or other waters. Before the excavation work is started, a mining and blasting plan is planned to ensure that everything is safely accomplished. The rock mining in water is licensed and may require the permission of the regional government agency (AVI). 

    WHERE IS UNDERWATER MINING SUITABLE?

    Underwater quarrying is used for the refurbishment of beaches and waterways and the creation of sea symbols. In addition, the deepening, construction and maintenance of waterways are carried out in mining and blasting operations. Extraction is carried out by inserting underwater special explosives into the drilling holes, which are immersed in drilled holes in the rock. Customers can be private customers, ports, and marinas.

    As several pieces of debris can be seen floating in the river shortly after the explosion, it seems most likely that Rannikon Merityö used a detonation cord to dislodge a stump or a tree from the river. Regardless of the exact reason for this explosion, it’s clear that this video shows the work of a dredging company, not a bolt of lightning. 

    Meteorologist Skoff later updated his Facebook post to note that the video did not actually show a bolt of lightning striking a river:

    This is crazy! It’s not lightning, BUT instead a detonation cord! There is no flash from the clouds & the bolt just seems to come from the top of the hill. They probably had some explosives detonate under water. Still cool though.

    A similar explosion can be seen in the following video showing the removal of the City Mill Dam in the U.S. state of Georgia’s Chattahoochee River. An almost identical “lightning bolt” can be seen flashing across the water at the 1:30 mark:

    While we do not advise hopping into an outdoor pool during a raging thunderstorm, we can assure you that should you disregard that advice and lightning strikes during your swim, it may be exceedingly unpleasant — but it won’t look like these videos.

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    07-08-2017 om 17:31 geschreven door peter  

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    Astronomers Observe Strange Quantum Distortion in Empty Space for the First Time Ever

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    IN BRIEF
    • Vacuum birefringence has been observed by a team of scientists for the first time ever using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT).
    • The team observed neutron star RX J1856.5-375, which is about 400 light-years from Earth, with just visible light, pushing the limits of existing telescope technology.

    A LITTLE LESS STRANGE

    Vacuum birefringence is a weird quantum phenomenon that has only ever been observed on an atomic scale. It occurs when a neutron star is surrounded by a magnetic field so intense, it’s given rise to a region in empty space where matter randomly appears and vanishes.

    This polarization of light in a vacuum due to strong magnetic fields was first thought to be possible in the 1930s by physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler as a product of the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). The theory describes how light and matter interact.

    Now, for the first time ever, this strange quantum effect has been observed by a team of scientists from INAF Milan (Italy) and from the University of Zielona Gora (Poland).

    Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), a research team led by Roberto Mignani observed neutron star RX J1856.5-375, which is about 400 light-years from Earth.

    Neutron stars are rather dim, yet they are 10 times more massive than our sun. As such, they have extremely strong magnetic fields permeating their surface and surroundings.

    Vacuums are supposedly empty spaces (according to Einstein and Newton, at least) where light can pass through uninhibited or unchanged. But, according to QED, space is full of virtual particles continually popping in and out of existence. Very strong magnetic fields, like those surrounding neutron stars, can modify such spaces as vacuums.

    Using the FORS2 instrument on the VLT, the researchers were able to observe the neutron star with just visible light, pushing the limits of existing telescope technology.

    Credits: ESO
    Credits: ESO

    BETTER TELESCOPES

    Studying VLT data on the star, the researchers saw linear polarization occurring at a significant degree of around 16%. This is very likely due to vacuum birefringence in the area surrounding RX J1856.5-375.

    “The high linear [polarization] that we measured with the VLT can’t be easily explained by our models unless the vacuum birefringence effects predicted by QED are included,” said Mignani.

    Given the limited technology used, Mignani believes that future telescopes can discover more about similar strange quantum effects by studying other neutron stars. “[Polarization] measurements with the next generation of telescopes, such as ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT), could play a crucial role in testing QED predictions of vacuum birefringence effects around many more neutron stars,” he said.

    “This measurement, made for the first time now in visible light, also paves the way to similar easurements to be carried out at X-ray wavelengths,” researcher Kinwah Wu said.

    The study was published by the ESO.

    07-08-2017 om 16:50 geschreven door peter  

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    This 3D-Printed Human Heart Can Do Everything a Real One Can

     
    The artificial heart imitates a human heart as closely as possible
    Photo: ETH Zurich
    IN BRIEF
    Soft robotics and 3D printing have allowed a team of researchers from Switzerland to develop an artificial heart that works like the real thing. This proof of concept design was successfully tested in the lab, but it may take a while before it will be ready.

    Scientists have been developing artificial hearts for quite some time now. However, many of the current designs are unfortunately clunky, which presents difficulties in successfully integrating them into human tissue. To approach this issue, a team of researchers from ETH Zürich decided to take a cue from the biological human heart.

    Instead of using separate parts, the Swiss team, led by Nicholas Cohrs, 3D-printed an artificial heart using a soft, flexible material. The material was molded into a single part (or a “monoblock”) which allowed the team to design a complex inner structure complete with pumping mechanisms able to be triggered by silicon ventricles. This method imitates a realistic human heartbeat.

    “[O]ur goal is to develop an artificial heart that is roughly the same size as the patient’s own one and which imitates the human heart as closely as possible in form and function,” Cohrs said in a press release. The team successfully tested this artificial heart, pumping blood-like fluid at human body-like pressures. The team published their research in the journal Artificial Organs.

    However, this design is still a proof of concept, which means it’s yet to be ready for actual implantation. The materials used are, as of right now, unable to last more than half an hour or some few thousand heartbeats, though that could vary a bit depending on a person’s heart rate. It’s a limitation the team will continue to work on, as new materials and design improvements advance. Once perfected, this design could potentially improve the lives and health of around 26 million people worldwide who suffer from various heart conditions.

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    07-08-2017 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

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    The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

    Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.

    In 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Japan and unleashed a massive and deadly tsunami.
    Credit: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

    A so-called seismic zone off the coast of Alaska could trigger deadly tsunamis like the one that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, a new study finds.

    Major tsunamis often result at the shallow portions of subduction zones, the areas where one of the tectonic plates that make up Earth's surface dives below another. These crash zones are dangerously active, and these tectonic interactions can cause the world's biggest earthquakes and worst tsunamis. [Read more about the dangers.]

    A new type of self-destructing material would vanish at a predetermined time. Here, a temporary gel that could be used to anchor tissue transplants in place, then simply vanish once not needed.
    A new type of self-destructing material would vanish at a predetermined time. Here, a temporary gel that could be used to anchor tissue transplants in place, then simply vanish once not needed.
    Credit: Technical University of Munich

    This molecule will disappear in 10, 9, 8…

    The secret behind these self-destructing molecules is that they would require a tiny input of energy to stay in their useful form — without it, they … poof. [Read more about the vanishing ink.]

    About 10 percent of the general population has had an out-of-body experience at some point in their lives.
    Credit: Mangojuicy/Dreamstime

    While driving and accelerating in his car, a patient in France suddenly had a bizarre sensation. He felt like he was outside his car, looking in at his physical self, which was still at the wheel.

    Maya Elzière, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Hôpital Européen in Marseille, France, and co-author of the study, enlisted patients who had experienced a range of issues, from recurrent vertigo and tinnitus to infections in the ear. Among these patients, 14 percent reported out-of-body experiences, compared with only 5 percent of healthy people without vestibular disorders who said the same. [Read more about out-of-body experiences.]

    The possible skull of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Sanakht of the Third Dynasty.
    Credit: Public Domain

    The supposed remains of Sa-Nakht, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt, may be the oldest known human giant, a new study finds.

    Prior work suggested that the skeleton of the man — who would have stood at up to 6 feet, 1.6 inches (1.987 meters) tall — may have belonged to Sa-Nakht, a pharaoh during the Third Dynasty. Previous research on ancient Egyptian mummies suggested the average height for men around this time was about 5 foot, 6 inches (1.7 m), said study co-author Michael Habicht, an Egyptologist at the University of Zurich's Institute of Evolutionary Medicine. [Read more about the giant.]

    The nodosaur <i>Borealopelta markmitchelli</i> had armor, spikes and camouflage, but it likely still fell prey to larger beasts, such as the tyrannosaur <i>Acrocanthosaurus</i>.
    The nodosaur Borealopelta markmitchelli had armor, spikes and camouflage, but it likely still fell prey to larger beasts, such as the tyrannosaur Acrocanthosaurus.
    Credit: Robert Nicholls/Copyright Royal Tyrrell Museum

    The remains of a 110-million-year-old tank-size dinosaur — so well preserved that a museum preparator said it looks like a statue of a sleeping dragon — show that this fearsome creature was covered in armor and spikes. But despite this natural "chain mail," the dino needed to camouflage itself from potential predators, according to a new study.

    Mitchell's careful preparation unveiled a black sheath covering parts of the 3,000-lb. (1,360 kilogram) specimen. This sheath, researchers suspected, contained remnants of the dinosaur's skin. [Read more about the camouflaged dino.]

    It may look like a fidget spinner, but this artifact is, in all likelihood, actually a mace-head.
    It may look like a fidget spinner, but this artifact is, in all likelihood, actually a mace-head.
    Credit: Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

    A 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifact that looks just like a fidget spinner and that a museum labeled as a "spinning toy" for 85 years is actually — unexpectedly — an ancient weapon, curators told Live Science.

    The artifact dates to between 2000 B.C. and 1800 B.C. and was made in the ancient site of Tell Asmar, located in present-day Iraq. When researchers first published an analysis of the object, in 1932, they suggested it was a plaything, Kiersten Neumann, a curator and research associate at the Oriental Institute, told Live Science in an email. [Read more about the weapon.]

    Art handlers at a 2015 auction preview hang the Modigliani painting
    Art handlers at a 2015 auction preview hang the Modigliani painting "Nu Couché" (1917-1918), which later sold for $170.4 million.
    Credit: Ben Pruchnie/Getty

    An art exhibit in Genoa, Italy, featuring the works of modern painter Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, recently closed three days ahead of schedule, after suspicions arose that many of the paintings were likely forgeries.

    Officials confiscated the contested works after Italian art critic Carlo Pepi filed a complaint with the Carabinieri Headquarters for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC), also known as the "art police," The Telegraph reported on July 14. This highly specialized police force handles criminal activity related to fine art and antiquities, according to a description on the TPC website. [Read more about the accusations.]

    A 3D model of the reconstructed ancestral flower. It has both female (carpels) and male (stamens) parts, and multiple whorls of petal-like organs in sets of three.
    Credit: Hervé Sauquet and Jürg Schönenberger

    When the world's first flower sprouted about 140 million years ago, it was bisexual, possessing both male and female reproductive parts, according to the researchers who virtually reconstructed the blossom in a new study.

    There are many mysteries in plant evolution, and Sauquet and his colleagues were determined to solve one of the biggest ones: what the original angiosperm looked like. [Read more about the first flower.]

    A <i>Boa constrictor</i>
    Boa constrictor
    Credit: Patrick K. Campbell/Shutterstock

    Firefighters in Ohio were forced to decapitate a pet boa constrictor last week that had latched its teeth onto a woman's nose and wound its serpentine body around her neck, according to news sources. The woman survived, but the incident raises the question: Do boas typically attack the faces and necks of people?

    In the incident ,which occurred on July 27, the woman couldn't pry the 5.5-foot-long (1.6 meters) snake off, so she called 911 at 2 p.m. local time. She told emergency workers that she had taken on two boa constrictors as "rescue snakes" the day before and had 11 snakes total in her home, according to audio of the emergency call. [Read more about our unusual attack.]

    Archaeologists have recently unearthed the traces of an ancient Pictish fort in Scotland underneath an 1800s-era town.
    Credit: University of Aberdeen

    A fort that is more than 1,000 years old, dating back to the time of Alfred the Great, has been unearthed in Scotland, more than 200 years after it was thought to have been completely destroyed.

    Almost nothing survives of the mysterious Pictish culture, including the name they called themselves. The Romans first mentioned the Picts, which means "painted people," likely because of their distinctive tattoos and war paint. However, relatively few Pictish writings survive, and much of what historians know about the Picts' early history comes from the accounts of Roman speechwriters such as Eumenius. [Read more about the painted people.]

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    The Inside Story of Disney’s Mythic UFO Documentary and Conference: Part One

    In 1995, an intriguing documentary was broadcast on TV stations across the United States. It was titled Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland and supposedly was produced with the sole purpose of promoting Disneyworld’s then-new “ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” attraction in Orlando, Florida.

    Throughout the documentary’s forty-minute run-time, the presenter/narrator, Robert Urich, makes numerous declarative statements to the effect that UFOs are one-hundred-percent real and extraterrestrial in origin. Such statements include: “For nearly fifty years, officials have been documenting routine alien encounters here on earth,” “More than one alien craft crashed and was recovered for secret US military research,” and “Military and scientific leaders will soon release nearly a half-century of official documentation of ongoing alien encounters on earth.”

    The majority of the documentary is focused on UFOs and extraterrestrials as a factual reality. The ‘ExtraTERRORestrial’ ride itself receives very little screen-time, and seems like an afterthought. The documentary was aired in only a handful of US cities at seemingly random times on selected dates in February and March 1995 with no notice—an incredibly odd marketing strategy considering its purpose was to promote a major theme park attraction for families.

    Disney’s ‘ExtraTERRORESTRIAL Alien Encounter’ attraction.

    Since its original limited broadcast in 1995, the Disney documentary has become engrained into conspiracy lore, or, perhaps more usefully, we could say that it has become entrenched into what Lorin Cutts terms The UFO Mythological Zone, which he describes as “the gap between fact and belief, what we see and what we want to see, what we experience and how we interpret it.” Cutts observes that “People are forming highly personalized variations of the one core belief—the belief in a UFO reality. All else is up for individual interpretation via the UFO mythological zone.”

    Cutts’ theory certainly applies to Disney’s now legendary UFO documentary. Soon after its original broadcast, many in the UFO community quickly began to speculate that it was a form of “soft Disclosure;” a test of public reaction to a possible future announcement of alien contact. In recent years, rumours have swirled online that the documentary was “lost,” or even “banned” by shadowy forces. This is categorically not the case. It was never lost. It was never banned. It was simply never transferred to video or DVD, and it remained in a state of limbo until a few years ago when someone inevitably decided to upload an original TV recording of the documentary to YouTube. It has since received more than a million views online.

    Despite there being no truth to rumors of its suppression, the documentary remains something of an oddity, and the justification for its production remains fuzzy to this day, especially in the context of a related project that was produced in the same year as the documentary, also supposedly intended as a marketing tool for Disney’s “ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” ride. This tie-in project was a major UFO conference held at Disneyworld in January of 1995, a couple of months prior to the broadcast of the documentary. Titled “UFOs: The Reality of the Phenomenon,” this Disney conference has also since passed into The UFO Mythological Zone.

    While researching my book, Silver Screen Saucers, I decided to track down the writer/director of the Disney UFO documentary, Andrew Thomas. He told me I was the only person ever to have contacted him about this curious little production, and he was only too happy to talk about it. I also wanted the inside story of the Disney UFO conference, and how it related to the theme park ride. To this end, I interviewed Don Ecker, the man responsible for organizing the conference for Disney. Like Thomas, Ecker told me that, to the best of his recollection, I was the only person ever to have sought an interview with him on this topic.

    This two-part article presents the inside story of Disney’s 1995 UFO documentary and conference, as told by the two men most directly responsible for them respectively: Andrew Thomas and Don Ecker. It also provides some limited speculation as to the possible purpose of these two related projects; be warned, though: in doing so, it skirts around the edges of The Mythological Zone, albeit hopefully without losing its footing and slipping into the sludge.

    Before we go any further, in the further interests of maintaining balance, I’d like to point the readers’ attention to another article—an excellent two-parter by David Halperin, which also explores the history and assumed purpose of these very same Disney projects. By reading both my article and Halperin’s, you will hopefully get a full and level history of this curious chapter in UFO lore, though you may still be left scratching your head as to precisely why these curious projects ever were funded in the first place.

    I interviewed the documentary’s writer/director, Andrew Thomas, in 2011. Thomas told me how he had been selected by Disney for this project based on his background in reality TV, having been the original producer of the phenomenally successful TV show, Cops. “Making things exceptionally real was the line of work that I was in at the time,” he said. Thomas had also worked for Columbia Pictures as head of special marketing on Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

    Thomas told me that Disney had requested a documentary “about the history of mankind and aliens. Not a film history, but more of a realistic approach… a special about the history of UFO sightings.” Disney’s only stipulation was that “the last five minutes had to focus on the ride.” Thomas confirmed to me that, instead of giving the documentary network time, Disney’s plan from the outset was to “seed it into independent television stations across the country.”

    But why did Thomas’ documentary take such a strong stance in favour of UFO/ET reality? He summed-up his approach as follows:

    I figured, instead of asking people to question ‘could it be possible?’ to just adopt the point of view that alien visitation has been going on for 50 years, and everybody’s known about it. I thought it fit with the ultra-realistic nature of the ride that we were eventually trying to promote. I did it kind of naively. I said to myself ‘okay, I’m going to believe everything and I’m going to collect all this stuff and construct what would be a documentary if we all just had a consensus that the UFO phenomenon was real…’ We didn’t make up anything, but it certainly surprised the people at Disney.

    Thomas told me he wrote the script in just a few hours while flying back from Florida to his home in Los Angeles. “There was nothing to it,” he said, “it just kind of came out, it was easy.” Furthermore, Thomas told me that he conducted the vast majority his research at the National Archives and stressed that, beyond these archival visits, “there was no direct government contact” on the production. “I didn’t get any special access from anybody,” he said.

    Former Disney CEO, Michael Eisner.

    These statements from Thomas almost completely dismantle the idea that the Disney documentary was anything other than a promo for a theme park ride. However, there were aspects of the Alien Encounters project that even Thomas considered strange. Disney CEO Michael Eisner took a direct interest in the documentary, personally vetting its content and even filming his own introduction for the piece. Thomas mused:

    I thought it was really odd because this was kind of a minor marketing project, but Disney put a lot of weight into it. I mean, Eisner doesn’t have to stop walking down the street to pick up a twenty-dollar-bill—it’s not worth his time. But they had him look through this. And he filmed this intro to the show. He had his own film crew take him out to a sound stage and film his own intro, which I thought was just really surprising.

    Also surprising to Thomas was Disney’s inexplicable TV scheduling for the documentary, which he described as “completely counter-intuitive” because “it played on independent stations in the afternoon at like 2 o’clock or 3 o’ clock, or some horrible time when no one would be watching it.”

    Why was Michael Eisner so personally invested in what, on the surface at least, was a minor TV marketing project? And why the bizarre and “totally counter-intuitive” TV scheduling for the documentary?

    Let us for a moment indulge the popular conspiratorial interpretation of events. If powerful UFO-related interests were involved in the documentary—perhaps having recommended Thomas to Disney knowing what he would produce based on his sophisticated viral work on Spielberg’s Close Encounters—then Thomas himself may have been oblivious to this fact. He would have been a pawn in a much larger game. But this interpretation seems incredibly farfetched, and I put no stock at all in the “acclimation” theory. There’s simply no evidence to support it.

    However, there is compelling circumstantial evidence for the theory that Hollywood historically has been exploited as a tool for UFO “perception management”—an agenda more subtle and complex than simple acclimation; one relating to psychological warfare, in which controllable, faith-based subcultures are exploited, cultivated and steered towards various intelligence ends, both foreign and domestic, not necessarily even related to UFOs. Anyone who doubts that popular UFO beliefs have been steered and shaped significantly by intelligence operatives for self-serving ends should make time to prove themselves wrong by reading Greg Bishop’s Project Beta and Mark Pilkington’s Mirage Men.

    Certainly, it can be said that the content of the Disney documentary served to strongly reinforce ideas that had thus far been sown into the UFO community by disinformation operatives dating back at least to the early-1980s. Was the documentary intended as a furtherance of these covert efforts to encourage certain misguided and exploitable beliefs within the UFO subculture?

    The Disney/UFO connection can be traced back to 1953 when the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel recommended that the US government make efforts to strip UFOs of their “aura of mystery” through the exploitation of mass media, including television and motion pictures. In this context, the panel highlighted Walt Disney Productions as a potential conduit for its propaganda. The panel’s attraction to Disney made sense given the animation giant’s then firmly established working relationship with the US government: not only was Uncle Walt a trusted friend of President Eisenhower’s chief propagandist, C.D. Jackson, in the early-mid-1950s, he also made numerous propaganda shorts for the US military during WWII and later helped produce films promoting Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” policy, as well as the retrospectively hilarious Duck and Cover documentary, which depicted schoolchildren surviving an atomic attack by sheltering under their desks.

    That the Robertson Panel highlighted Disney is also significant because the Panel’s recommendation to debunk UFOs through media channels is known to have been acted upon in at least one instance: the CBS TV broadcast of UFOs: Friend, Foe, or Fantasy? a 1966 anti-UFO documentary narrated by Walter Cronkite. In a letter addressed to former Robertson Panel Secretary Frederick C. Durant, Dr Thornton Page confided that he “helped organize the CBS TV show around the Robertson Panel conclusions,” even though this was thirteen years after the Panel had first convened. In light of this case alone, it seems not unreasonable to speculate that the government may at least have attempted to follow through on the Robertson Panel’s Disney recommendation.

    There appears to have been a direct connection between Disney, UFOs, and the military in a case involving the famed Oscar-winning Disney animator, Ward Kimball. While speaking at a conference for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1979, Kimball claimed that the USAF had approached Walt Disney himself in the mid-1950s, requesting his cooperation on a documentary that would help acclimate the public to extraterrestrial reality. Kimball knew this because, as one of Disney’s most trusted animators, he was directly involved in the project. In exchange for Disney’s cooperation, said Kimball, the USAF would supply the animation giant with real UFO footage for exclusive use in his documentary. According to Kimball, Disney accepted the deal and began work immediately on the USAF project.

    Famed Disney Animator, Ward Kimball.

    While Disney waited patiently for the USAF to provide the UFO footage, his animators (Kimball among them) produced conceptual designs of what an alien might look like. However, the offer of the UFO footage was eventually withdrawn, provoking Kimball himself to challenge the official military liaison for the project–a USAF Colonel who told him that “there was indeed plenty of UFO footage, but that neither [Kimball], nor anyone else was going to get access to it.” The project was abandoned and forgotten by all but the few who had worked on it.

    Disney has maintained its close historical ties to officialdom over the decades. In 1994, one year prior to the Alien Encounters documentary, Disney worked closely with the Pentagon during the production of In the Army Now (1994). The Pentagon gave this feature-length Army recruitment advert its full cooperation, providing Disney with expensive military hardware and on-set advice from DOD personnel. Disney has also historically been tied to the US arms industry. Between the years 2000 and 2011, Disney directors-board-member John Bryson simultaneously served as a director of the Boeing Company, one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense contractors (selling dreams with one hand, and missiles with the other).

    Andy Fickman, director of Disney’s 2009 UFO movie, ‘Race to Witch Mountain.’

    More bizarrely, the 2009 Disney UFO movie Race to Witch Mountain appears to have received covert assistance from the CIA. In a highly unusual production arrangement, Fickman claims he and his crew were closely assisted by an active employee of the Agency whose advice extended even to designing the film’s onscreen alien language. Fickman’s advisor—whom he secured through “back door channels”—also recommended that certain UFO-themed content be removed from the script and even accompanied Fickman on a private tour of NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain facility where they chatted with military top brass. “I don’t think there was anything abnormal about what they were doing,” Fickman told me in 2010, “I just think it was that phone calls were being made and doors were sort of opening.”

    All of this is very intriguing, no doubt. But, let’s face it, the above examples of Disney/government cooperation prove nothing at all with regards to the 1995 Disney UFO documentary. Frankly, I would be inclined to disregard the Disney documentary entirely as any kind of intelligence-related project if not for the fact that it was tied closely to another, more baffling Disney UFO project…

    In Part Two, I’ll present the inside story of Disney’s now-mythic UFO conference.

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    06-08-2017 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

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    HIDDEN ALIENS: CONCEILING ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS FROM DETECTION

    The most named reason we do not hear from advanced extraterrestrial civilizations is that they are in hiding and have fast resources and technology to conceal their alien presence from others. In this video, we will explore that notion, and examine why an alien civilization might hide and how they would go about doing it.

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    06-08-2017 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

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    THE 4 MOST DOCUMENTED ALIEN ABDUCTION CASES

    Today, numerous people from all over the world have come forward with clear video and photographic evidence about the UFO phenomenon.

    In the past, it was more difficult to provide proof of this most unusual of the phenomenon and all but the most notorious incidents, such as the infamous Roswell crash, have been forgotten.

    Fortunately, some UFO researchers have collected some tales about UFO encounters from the recent past which would have otherwise been completely lost.

    FOUR UFO ENCOUNTER STORIES THAT THE WORLD ALMOST FORGOT  

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    1. KELLY CAHILL

    Kelly Cahill and her husband were driving home in Melbourne in Australia on August 8th, 1993 when they had a terrifying experience which many believe involved an alien craft. As they were driving, the couple spotted a pair of lights shining in the sky. Upon closer observation, they realized that the lights were attached to a round flying vehicle which hovered in the sky momentarily before blasting away in a split second. After a few moments, the car the couple was traveling inside of was suddenly illuminated with intensely bright lights, and they realized that the craft was directly above them. Kelly’s husband picked up the pace and drove quickly in a bid to escape the craft. Fortunately, for the couple, the vessel appeared to lose interest in them and disappeared.

    2. BETTY AND BARNEY HILL

    The Hills were an ordinary couple from the United States of America who could never dream that they would become witnesses to one of the most unusual UFO encounters of the 1960s. While the couple was traveling to their home in New Hampshire after a weekend outing to Niagara Falls, Betty spotted a bright light moving across the sky. At first, she thought that the object was a falling star, but she quickly realized that it was not as it was moving fairly erratically and growing bigger and brighter. Betty became convinced that the object was a UFO. Her skeptical husband pulled over the car, believing that it was nothing more than a commercial liner. However, he too would quickly become convinced that they had witnessed an alien craft.

    3. THE FALCON LAKE INCIDENT

    On the 19th of May 1967, prospector Stefan Michalak left his home in Canada and traveled to Falcon Lake. After spending a bit of time getting settled in his hotel room, he began digging on the bay of the lake. He was engrossed in his work when his attention was alerted by the startled noises of several geese nearby. He then looked up and saw two cigar-shaped vessels flashing red and orange lights in the sky. He watched as one of the vessels sank and landed on a rock close to where he was. The other craft then changed color to a dull gray and disappeared into the sky. After a brief moment, the landing craft turned to the same color. After that, a strong smell of sulfur could be detected in the area. No explanation for what happened has ever been offered.

    4. THE MAURY ISLAND INCIDENT

    A mere two weeks before the Roswell crash in New Mexico, Maury Island in Washington State was the site of a terrifying UFO experience. A man named Harold Dahl who worked on the sea around the area was engaged in one of his usual jobs of gathering wayward logs out of the Puget Sound when he became aware of no less than six doughnut shaped objects flying approximately 2000 feet above his boat. He described these objects as be around 100 feet in diameter with a central hole of around 25 feet. One of the boats descended suddenly and came within only 500 feet of the water before suddenly disappearing.

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    06-08-2017 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Burning Object Releases Escape Pod over Manurewa, New Zealand?

    Burning Object Releases Escape Pod over Manurewa, New Zealand?

    A strange burning object suddenly stops midair then releases some kind of escape pod has been filmed over Manurewa, New Zealand on July 31, 2017.


    UFO-fan who recorded the burning object is quite sure it was not an aircraft reflected by sun rays.

    Maybe the object was an aircraft reflected by sun rays but then again, how can an aircraft suddenly stops midair, performing some very strange maneuvers before it follows its trajectory?

      

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    06-08-2017 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Hollywood Actor Opens Up About UFO Experiences For The First Time Ever

    Hollywood Actor Opens Up About UFO Experiences For The First Time Ever

    Yaphet Kotto

    American actor Yaphet Kotto, who is known for several film roles, opens up about his UFO experiences. The 77-year-old actor who starred in blockbuster films including alien (1979), The Running Man (1987) and Live and Let Die (1973) talks about it publicly for the first time. Prior to it, he only told his wife, a rabbi and a psychologist.

    According to Kotto, his lifelong UFO experiences started when he was a child in his own home. He briefly encountered an entity that was at least five or six feet tall with an elongated head.

    Since then, he claimed to have seen unusual things, including a stadium-sized UFO turning upside down, which blotted out the entire sky.

    Kotto also described a sighting through meditation wherein a UFO would show up as if by request but did not elaborate further on it.

    The actor said that he doesn’t care whether anyone thinks he is delusional. He also added that he has nothing to promote at this time, so his delusion is over.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    06-08-2017 om 22:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterious Object Comes Out From What Seems To Be A Portal

    Mysterious Object Comes Out From What Seems To Be A Portal

    ufo-portal

    A strange object was allegedly observed coming out of a portal in the sky. While driving home, a couple from Alexandria, Louisiana claimed to have spotted a UFO appearing from a funnel below a circular cloud.

    Popular conspiracy theory channel SecureTeam10 uploaded the video online. The narrator says the couple contacted them and described their experience.

    According to the report, one of the pair stated that they were driving home when a white doughnut shaped cloud materialised in the sky.

    The couple had got a photo of it before it got too dark. Moments later, they pulled into their driveway and got out of the vehicle. They saw the sky had gotten dark brown and noticed the vapour like funnel around the doughnut shaped cloud had started to come down from the centre. At the same time, an oval shaped translucent object that was surrounded by lights appeared at the bottom.

    According to the witness, the UFO hovered long enough in the sky for them to take pictures before it disappeared.

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    06-08-2017 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Texas-Based Conspiracy Theorist and Famous Author Jim Marrs Dies

    Texas-Based Conspiracy Theorist and Famous Author Jim Marrs Dies

    Jim-Marrs

    Favorite researcher and author Jim Marrs has died at the age of 73 this week. He is known for his research on theories surrounding the assassination of JFK and UFOs. According to the official Facebook page, he had been put on dialysis recently and died of a heart attack on Wednesday.

    In late June, the Fort Worth-native posted a note on his official website that he needed to rest from work to address his health issues.

    Marrs worked as a Forth Worth Star-Telegram staffer and a police and general assignmen reporter. The conspiracy theorist also had a stint in the Army in Vietnam. When he came back home, he started writing about military and aerospace technology.

    Marrs worked as a chief consultant for the Oliver Stone film “JFK” in 1991. His book “Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy” became the basis for the movie. The 1989 book was a New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller.

    Starting in 1976, he had taught a course on the killing of the president in 1963 at the University of Texas at Arlington.

    Every November 22, the anniversary of the assassination, Marrs had been the usual visitor in Dealey Plaza in Dallas talking to fans and the media in front of the so-called Grassy Knoll.

    RIP

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    06-08-2017 om 22:09 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO

    Close Encounters: About 5 Percent of UFO Sightings Are Real

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    UFOs – are they real? Do aliens exist? Sputnik discussed this with Austrian-based ufologist and radio host Tarek Al-Ubaidi who has interviewed many experts on the elusive creatures from other planets.

    NATO Fighters Chased UFOs in Belgian Skies

    “Rejecting the UFO phenomenon outright makes no sense. There are a lot of well-documented sightings during the so-called 'Belgian UFO Wave' of 1989-1992 including by military men, police officers and civilian and military pilots,” Tarek said.

    In March 1990, Belgian Air Force radar operators at a NATO air surveillance center at Glons saw on their screens three unusual flying objects that had entered the country’s airspace.

    A pair of F-16 fighter jets from nearby Beauvechain air base was scrambled to check out what was happening.

    However, before the planes were able to close in on the unknown intruders, the UFOs suddenly disappeared from sight at a speed that the pilots said was much faster than what their combat aircraft could muster.

    “According to an official statement by Belgian General Wilfried de Brouwer, one of the UFOs increased its speed from 240 kilometers an hour to 1,770 in a matter of just two seconds,” Tarek noted.

    UFO Sightings: 95 Percent “False Alarm,” the Rest — “Mindboggling”

    “Only about 5 percent of all UFO sightings worldwide can be termed UFO sightings because these flying objects are never identified. The remaining 95 percent turn out to be planes, satellites, meteorites or space junk,” Tarek explained.

    “However, the remaining 5 percent are unidentified, and this is really fascinating,” he noted, adding that Britain and France now have documented cases of UFO sightings which have never been explained.

    Eyewitnesses and Radar Screenshots “Are Not Always Informative Enough”

    “I like interviewing people who have personally observed UFOs or are studying this phenomenon,” said Tarek, who is a certified telecommunications engineers and computer programmer.

    He said that radar screenshots are not always reliable because there are ways to “spoof” radars by simulating and sending back reflections of objects, which are not really there.

    “Only when I see an UFO optically, as an eyewitness, and also have a radar screen shot can I say that this object really existed,” Tarek said.

    “Stories About Aliens” Are Just Part of the UFO Theory

    “The mere fact that you have seen a UFO does not mean that those were aliens, or travelers in time. On the one hand we have cases of UFO sightings. On the other, I guess there are hundreds of thousands of theories about UFOs none of which has been proved,” Tarek continued.

    He said that some ufologists explain such sightings as paranormal phenomena, something people have encountered for thousands of years, “not only since the 1947 Roswell incident when something fell in a New Mexico desert and we still don’t know what it was.”

    Tarek hopes that he will live long enough to get the answer to this question. In the meantime, he keeps working and is preparing a new series of programs on this fascinating subject.

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    06-08-2017 om 01:04 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.That Allegheny magic: Where sightings of Bigfoot and UFOs abound
    The Keystone Bigfoot Project, a Bigfoot sighting database, has recorded 43 reports of the creature in Allegheny County.
    That Allegheny magic: Where sightings of Bigfoot and UFOs abound

    On “The X-Files,” getting to the bottom of paranormal activity is easier said than done. When FBI agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder stumble across phenomena that are difficult to explain, they fall back on the mantra that opens every show: “The truth is out there.”

    But what if you live in Allegheny County, the region that leads Pennsylvania in reports of UFOs, Bigfoot and other weird sightings? Is the truth “here” instead of “out there”?

    According to the National UFO Reporting Center and the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, our little corner of Western Pennsylvania is abuzz with unexplained paranormal phenomena. Allegheny County has had 315 UFO sightings compared with Bucks County, a suburb of our cross-state rival Philadelphia, at 216 sightings over the years.

    As for Bigfoot, there have been six sightings of the primordial beast in Mercer, Cambria and Clearfield counties over several decades, according to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

    That may not sound like much, but the rival Keystone Bigfoot Project charts neighboring Westmoreland County ahead of Allegheny County with 113 Bigfoot sightings compared with Allegheny County’s 43.

    Fayette County rounds out the region with 36 Bigfoot sightings according to the KBP. Explaining the discrepancy in reported sightings by two Bigfoot organizations is to delve into the even deeper mystery of how reports of mythical creatures are gathered in the first place.

    Given the ubiquity of smartphones, the greatest mystery of all is why it remains so difficult to get clear, indisputable images of UFOs, Bigfoot or any other unexplained phenomena. The truth could very well be out there, but it would make every skeptic’s life a lot easier if proof were somewhere out there, too.

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    06-08-2017 om 00:43 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.FORT WORTH - JFK conspiracy theorist and UFO author Jim Marrs has died
    Jim Marrs was an author, college professor and journalist.
    Jim Marrs was an author, collor and journalist. Family photo

    FORT WORTH - JFK conspiracy theorist and UFO author Jim Marrs has died

    In a 2003 Star-Telegram article, Marrs said lawyers, teachers, even an official with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had taken his classes

    “They, like myself, have a natural and, I think healthy, questioning attitude about all this,” Marrs said. “What I tell people is, ‘Don’t come here expecting me to have all the answers.’ 

    But Marrs left no doubt that he believed that humans weren’t the only intelligent life in the universe.

    “There’s definitely something out there in the air,” he said. “But I don’t think there’s anything to fear here.”

    Marrs was born Dec. 5, 1943, in Fort Worth. He earned a degree in journalism from North Texas State (now the University of North Texas) and attended graduate school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. In recent years, he had been a fixture on the overnight talk show Coast to Coast, and he also appeared on Alex Jones’ Infowars.

    His wife, Carol, said they met on a blind date while going to college in Denton. They have been inseparable since that first date.

    “I just remember how funny he was,” Carol Marrs said. “I don’t think about the conspiracy part, although he was an excellent teacher. His mission in life was to pursue the truth.”

    While he was known for all of his publications, Marrs was also an avid Civil War re-enactor and a World War II history buff.

    “He had his own cannon and, on the Fourth of July, we would fire it off,” Carol Marrs said. “You can do that when you live in the country. But he was almost a pacifist. He didn’t believe we should be in a war unless you were defending your home.”

    Among his books were “Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy,” which reached The New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list. Other titles include: “Alien Agenda” (1997); “Rule by Secrecy” (2000); “The Terror Conspiracy Revisited” (2007); “The Rise of the Fourth Reich” (2008); “The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy” (2010); “Our Occulted History” (2013); “Population Control” (2015); and his last book, “The Illuminati” (2017).

    Survivors include two daughters, Cathryn Lafitte and Jayme Castle, as well as three grandchildren.

    A private service is planned, according to Alexander’s Midway Funeral Home in Springtown, but Carol Marrs said the family is planning a gathering at their Wise County home next month.

    Bill Hanna: 817-390-7698@fwhanna

    06-08-2017 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

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    05-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.People in These Regions Will Face 'Unsurvivable' Heat by 2100
    Spatial distribution of highest daily maximum wet-bulb temperature, TWmax (°C), in modern record (1979–2015). Global distribution of TWmax is computedusing ERA-Interim 3-hourly data with 0.75° × 0.75° horizontal resolution. The enlarged domain highlights three distinguishable regions with higher TWmax: southwest Asiaaround the Persian/Arabian Gulf and Red Sea, South Asia in the Indus and Ganges river valleys, and eastern China. TWmax values below 27°C are not shown.

    In the future, parts of the world will become so hot and humid that healthy adults sitting in the shade will die within a matter of hours. It’s hard to imagine, and yet that’s where Earth’s climate is headed, perhaps sooner than expected.

    New research, published Wednesday in Science Advances, found that 75 percent of the population of South Asia will experience extremely dangerous heat waves by 2100 if no action is taken to fight climate change. Four percent will experience unsurvivable heat — that’s 69 million people at today’s population level.

    The Indus and Ganges river valleys, spanning southeast Pakistan, northern India, and Bangladesh, have a disastrous combination of a densely populated, vulnerable population and extreme, humid heat. In these parts of the world, extreme heat is already frequent and deadly. A 2015 heat wave that covered large parts of India and Pakistan killed an estimated 3,500 people.

    Spatial distribution of highest daily maximum wet-bulb temperature, TWmax (°C), in modern record (1979–2015). Global distribution of TWmax is computedusing ERA-Interim 3-hourly data with 0.75° × 0.75° horizontal resolution. The enlarged domain highlights three distinguishable regions with higher TWmax: southwest Asiaaround the Persian/Arabian Gulf and Red Sea, South Asia in the Indus and Ganges river valleys, and eastern China. TWmax values below 27°C are not shown.
    These are the highest recorded wet-bulb temperatures through 2015 in degrees Celsius. 

    While most climate change studies look only at temperature, this one uses a different measure that accounts for the impact of humidity on the ability of humans to cool themselves off through sweating. It’s called wet-bulb temperature, and it measures how hot the air would be if cooled through the evaporation of water until it reaches 100 percent humidity.

    When humans sweat, that moisture evaporates into the air, which transfers heat energy away from the skin. However, when the wet-bulb temperature reaches the temperature of the skin, at about 95 degrees Fahrenheit, it becomes impossible for heat to move away from the body in this way. Even if enough sweat could be produced to bring the surrounding air to 100 percent humidity, the air would still be hotter than the skin, and no energy would leave the body. Previous research has estimated that a healthy human could survive a maximum of six hours in these conditions — which means find a cooler spot, or die.

    A wet-bulb temperature of 95 degrees has never been recorded, but parts of the world have hit 89 degrees, which is already extremely dangerous to any human who is exposed to it for more than a short period of time. The hottest wet-bulb temperatures in the world are found in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, in the northern parts of South Asia, and in Eastern China.

    This study focused on South Asia — defined as the countries of Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka — because here there is a coincidence of very high wet-bulb temperatures and a dense population of relatively poor, rural people. That makes this the most vulnerable part of the world to future deadly heat waves.

    The spatial distributions of bias-corrected ensemble averaged 30-year TWmax for eachGHG scenario: HIST (1976–2005) (B), RCP4.5 (2071–2100) (C), and RCP8.5 (2071–2100) (D).
    Maps show wet-bulb temperature maximums in Celsius in the historical record (B); and projected to 2100 under aggressive climate change action (C); and limited climate action (D). At 35 degrees, humans can only survive a few hours.

    If there’s a glimmer of hope, it’s that the researchers found a very significant difference in outcome if the world bands together to aggressively fight climate change. With concerted action to limit greenhouse gas emissions, none of South Asia would surpass the unsurvivable threshold by 2100, although 55 percent of the population would still be exposed to extreme wet-bulb temperatures of 88 degrees or higher.

    In any case, humans living in very hot and humid parts of the world will be forced to adapt. That will mean air conditioners for those who can afford it and, likely, communal cool spaces for emergencies. At the most extreme, we may see mass migrations of climate change refugees away from regions of the world that have become literally unsurvivable.


    Abstract

    The risk associated with any climate change impact reflects intensity of natural hazard and level of human vulnerability. Previous work has shown that a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C can be considered an upper limit on human survivability. On the basis of an ensemble of high-resolution climate change simulations, we project that extremes of wet-bulb temperature in South Asia are likely to approach and, in a few locations, exceed this critical threshold by the late 21st century under the business-as-usual scenario of future greenhouse gas emissions. The most intense hazard from extreme future heat waves is concentrated around densely populated agricultural regions of the Ganges and Indus river basins. Climate change, without mitigation, presents a serious and unique risk in South Asia, a region inhabited by about one-fifth of the global human population, due to an unprecedented combination of severe natural hazard and acute vulnerability.

    Photos via Science Advances

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    05-08-2017 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Onderzoekers staan op het punt geheime kamer te vinden in Grote Piramide. Wat gaan ze aantreffen?
    Onderzoekers staan op het punt geheime kamer te vinden in Grote Piramide. Wat gaan ze aantreffen?

    Onderzoekers staan op het punt geheime kamer te vinden in Grote Piramide. Wat gaan ze aantreffen?

    Experts denken op het punt te staan een verborgen ruimte te ontdekken in de Grote Piramide van Gizeh. Dat schrijft de Daily Mail.

    Met behulp van infrarood thermografie zoeken archeologen van het project ScanPyramids naar verborgen kamers in de piramide.

    De Grote Piramide is 146 meter hoog en was duizenden jaren lang het grootste door mensen gemaakte bouwwerk.

    Exacte locatie

    “Alle apparaten die we gebruiken zijn ontworpen om de locatie van de ruimte te vinden,” zei Mehdi Tayoubi van ScanPyramids.

    “We weten dat er tenminste één is, maar we proberen de exacte locatie te achterhalen,” voegde hij toe.

    Sommige archeologen hopen de geavanceerde technieken te gebruiken om de begraafplaats van de legendarische koningin Nefertiti te vinden.

    Op zoek

    Een Britse egyptoloog, Nicholas Reeves, gelooft namelijk dat haar resten verborgen zijn in een geheime kamer in de tombe van Toentanchamon.

    Een team van de Polytechnische Universiteit van Turijn is nu van plan op zoek te gaan naar de resten van Nefertiti. Het onderzoeksteam wil echter niet veel kwijt over de zoektocht.

    Vorig jaar zei de Egyptische minister van Oudheden Mamduh al-Damati dat de kans dat zich achter de graftombe van farao Toetanchamon twee geheime kamers bevinden 90 procent is.

    Big bang

    Hij baseerde zijn uitspraak op nieuw radaronderzoek dat was uitgevoerd door Japanse experts.

    De Egyptische minister van Toerisme Hisham Zaazou liet zich toen al enthousiast uit over de mogelijke ontdekking van een geheime kamer achter de tombe van Toetanchamon.

    Hij sprak van ‘de ontdekking van de 21e eeuw’ die ‘voor een big bang zal zorgen’.

    [Daily Mail

    05-08-2017 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

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    SPECTACULAIRE TOENAME VREEMDE FENOMENEN IN DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )

    Tot niet zo lang geleden kwam het wel eens voor dat iemand iets vreemds aan de lucht waarnam. 

    Het lijkt echter alsof dit de laatste weken in een stroomversnelling gaat met steeds meer mensen die een zon in het oosten zien ondergaan. 



    Net zoals bij ons de lucht wordt vol gesproeid met chemtrails, zo gebeurt dat natuurlijk ook in Amerika. En net zoals bij ons is dit verschijnsel de ene dag heftiger dan de andere. 

    Enkele dagen geleden merkten bewoners op dat er die dag wel heel erg intensief gesprayd werd, zoals te zien op de volgende foto uit Atlanta die rond drie uur ’s middags is genomen.


    xxx

    Enkele uren later wordt in de staat Pennsylvania een vreemd regenboogkleurig verschijnsel waargenomen in de lucht. Iets wat we ook de laatste steeds vaker hebben zien.

    xxx

    Dan wat later, tegen de tijd dat de zon ondergaat wordt er een enorme straal in de lucht gezien die niet afkomstig lijkt van de zon.

    xxx


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    Wat trouwens niemand opgemerkt schijnt te hebben tot nu toe, is dat er op bovenstaande foto duidelijk een UFO te zien is.

    xxx

    Een ander fenomeen dat wel wat overeenkomsten heeft met bovenstaande werd waargenomen op diverse plekken in Amerika. Wanneer ergens een regenboog verschijnt, lijkt het alsof er een soort donkere banen/stralen deze regenbogen kruizen.

    xxx

    Op dezelfde dag, maar iets eerder vanwege het tijdsverschil, werden boven Europa enorme sprites waargenomen.

    xxx

    Sprites of Red Sprites zijn een soort stratosfeerontlading. Het zijn elektrische ontladingen boven cumulonimbus-wolken en kunnen een hoogte bereiken van 95 kilometer. Ze zijn zichtbaar als rood-oranje, zwakke, lichtgevende flitsen die zeer kort duren en weliswaar voor het blote oog zichtbaar zijn, maar die men niet kan volgen. 


    Het is sowieso een zeldzaam verschijnsel, maar deze boven Europa waren ook nog eens enorm groot. 

    Regelmatig komen er nu berichten van mensen de een soort angstaanjagende kleur rood in de lucht waarnemen zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.


    xxx

    Ook steeds vaker wordt er wereldwijd melding gemaakt van een tweede lichtbron zoals te zien op de volgende foto die in februari is genomen in Engeland. 

    Links een lichtbron en een stuk verder naar rechts eveneens een lichtbron.

    xxx

    Ieder week neemt het aantal mensen toe die een zonsondergang zien in het westen, maar tegelijkertijd ook in het oosten. 

    Zoals deze eergisteren. 


    Of deze, enkele dagen geleden. 

     
    Of deze, ook enkele dagen geleden. 

     

    Deze van ongeveer een week geleden spreekt van non solar rays in the east, oftwel het ziet eruit als zonnestralen in het oosten, maar ze zijn niet afkomstig van de zon. 

     

    De laatste maanden zijn dit soort beelden vaker te zien geweest, maar incidenteel. Nu kom je ze bijna iedere dag tegen, zoals deze enkele dagen geleden. 


     

    Van een lezer uit Friesland (dank!) ontvingen wij het volgende bericht:

    Vanavond, 4 augustus omstreeks kwart over 9 keek ik door het raam naar buiten en zag ik een rare lucht. Voor me zag ik een hele paarse wolk terwijl de lucht verderop normale zonsondergang vertoonde. Later trok de wolk normaal bij. Ik dacht eerst dat er een flinke bui aan kwam, maar op Weeronline was helemaal niets te zien. Later was de lucht normaal en donker bewolk

    xxx

    En dan kan het nog altijd vreemder zoals blijkt uit een ander bericht dat wij ontvingen (dank!).

    Ik had gisteren een vriend op bezoek uit Senegal. 

    Hij liet mij een foto zien die in Senegal is gemaakt op 28 juli JL. van een groot aantal vissen die uit de lucht vielen. 

    Ik zei nog tegen hem is het geen grapje. Hij vertelde nog dat de mensen massaal stopten langs de autobaan om te kijken. En tot nu toe is ook daar niemand met een verklaring gekomen.

    xxx

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    05-08-2017 om 21:44 geschreven door peter  

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    RED ALERT: EUROPE IS HOT AS HELL AMID LUCIFER HEATWAVE

    Heatwave Lucifer strikes Europe as scientists warn it could get much worse.

    Ten countries in south and central Europe have declared a red alert after a heatwave referred to as ‘Lucifer’ has covered the continent and caused temperatures to skyrocket to around 40 degrees Celsius

    UP TO 150,000 PEOPLE A YEAR COULD DIE

    Unfortunately, scientists have warned that this trend could continue in the future and may well last for at least a hundred years. If something is not done to stop the trend, scientists warn, 152,000 people a year could die from the effects of the extreme heat. 

    According to the European forecast network Meteoalarm, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia have all be placed on a red alert. In addition to that, Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, France, Macedonia, Slovakia, and Moldova have all been placed on orange alert, and people have been warned that the weather situation has the potential to become much worse. The recent spate of heatwaves across the continent has caused the deaths of two people, one in Romania and one in Poland, and many others have been sent to hospital suffering from the effects of sunstroke. The public in Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Croatia have been advised to stay inside to avoid the heat which is expected to stay at intense levels for the rest of the following week.

    According to the Lancet Planetary Health Journal, heatwaves, which are the most potentially dangerous of all weather phenomena are bound to increase in frequency and intensity over the coming century. The scientists warn that by the year 2100, the incidence of heatwaves was likely to increase fifty-fold. In addition to that, Europe is likely to see an increase in cold waves, wildfires, droughts, river and coastal floods and windstorms. It is also believed that the problem will spread and that two thirds of the continent could be facing the problems caused by extreme weather by the end of the twenty first century.

    The researchers say that the only way to avoid this potentially catastrophic situation is to take urgent and decisive action to stem the rise of global warming in the western world.

    It's another day in southern & eastern Europe - temps into the low 40s in parts of , around 6C above average

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    05-08-2017 om 21:24 geschreven door peter  

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    STEPHEN HAWKING: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTS WILL DECIMATE MIDDLE CLASS JOBS

    Anyone remember the movie I Robot where artificial intelligence was being used by man to do various jobs such a construction, and household work. Than things got ugly as the robots started to take over, now believing they were better than man kind, so before long became violent and revolted.

    This is just a movie right, but what if something like this were to really happen. Turns out that  

    STEPHEN HAWKING VOICE WARNING ON AI TECHNOLOGY

    Alright, a science fiction movie, and what does this have to do with Artificial Intelligence as we now know it? Well, it turns out there there is a major concern that sometime in the future artificial intelligence will start taking over those jobs now handled by man. For businesses this is a great solution, no longer having to pay a wage to people dealing with the personal issues of individuals, perhaps giving out benefits such a health care or vacation time. Great solution, right for the business but not for the economy or individuals themselves.

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    Let's face it the job market is already competitive, and there are already so many jobs to go around. So, imagine if those jobs that the middle class and lower middle class filled even to try to make ends meat each month were now being taken by robots. What do these individuals now do, how do they pay their bills how do they support their families, this isn't a pretty picture and certainly cause for alarm.

    So, it any wonder that some experts including fame author and physicist Stephen Hawking have come out against such a thing happening. In an interview with the guardian, Professor Hawking voiced great concern over Artificial Intelligence taking over jobs that human now does, in one spot he was quoted as saying:

    The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining.

    The frightening thing is that again the Professor has been proven right there are jobs that have already become more or less obsolete the more technology takes over. In another part, Hawking was quoted as saying something even more disturbing and cause to think.

    "“We are living in a world of widening, not diminishing, financial inequality, in which many people can see not just their standard of living, but their ability to earn a living at all, disappearing. "

    For years now Stephen Hawking has been someone who has spoken the truth. His insights on the world are something we have grown to respect, and no doubt he should again be respected here. After all, we our technology, but how much of our lives do we plan to turn over to it? It's one thing when we are in control when we are allowed to continue to lead our lives; it's another when we turn our lives completely over to the technology at hand. So, it's wise to again listen to the words of Stephen Hawking, again he knows what he is talking about.

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    GOOGLE NOW TARGETS 'CONSPIRACY THEORY WEBSITES' AND UFOS IN LATEST UPDATE

    Google is again stepping up their censorship regime on the Internet. The quality raters guidelines of Google have been updated July 27, 2017.

    This latest update brings many changes, but the biggest is conspiracy theory websites and results in non-English language.

    QUALITY RATERS GUIDELINES OF GOOGLE UPDATED TO SHOW CONSPIRACY THEORIES

    The change to the quality raters guidelines means that "conspiracy theories" that are unsubstantiated are shown as if the information in them is a fact.  

    CONSPIRACY THEORIES INCLUDE VATICAN KNOWING ABOUT ALIEN EXISTENCE

    For instance, there is a page that shows theories that are not supported which are about the Vatican, knowing about the existence of Nibiru, world events that have not occurred yet and even the existence of aliens. It goes as far as quoting officials from the Vatican, along with scientists, but the quotes do not seem to give support to the claim of the article, and sometimes the quotes are not from the person who it was said to be.

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    The Nibiru cataclysm along with events related to it have always been "debunked" by sources in authority. The content that is shown on the page, therefore, shows information that is inaccurate and which misinforms those reading. So, no more UFO related stories to be found on Google soon!

    GOOGLE IS TURNING INTO A GIANT 'CENSORSHIP ENGINE'  

    PAGES CONTRADICT FACTS THAT ARE HISTORICAL

    Pages contradicting historical facts that have been well established, for instance, conspiracy theories that are unsubstantiated, unless of course, the query has indicated that the person is looking for a viewpoint that is alternative. So websites are posting conspiracy theories that have unsubstantiated, and they are being shown as if that information is fact.

    Ratings are more difficult if the query being searched for has English words and names in it or if it is not clear on whether any English results would seem to be satisfying for a query. Therefore people might want to show judgment and rely on their knowledge of a particular location when it comes to determining the appropriate rating.

    People should also bear in mind that each locale is going to have considerations that are unique in regards to the variety of languages and the numbers; these could be local dialects, languages that are regional and official. Also factoring in are the keyboard input language that is in use and the writing systems.

    The guideline might not show examples of your particular locale. However, it is important users in the same task location along with culture are represented so that queries can be interpreted and the results rated. If there is any doubt, then it was said that it should be assumed that the user would want to see results that are in the task language, unless it has been stated otherwise.

    YOUTUBE HAS ALSO STEPPED UP THE CENSORSHIP OF SO-CALLED "CONTROVERSIAL CONTENT" LAST WEEK: 

    GOOGLE ALTERNATIVE: DUCKGOGO

    DuckDuckGo is the search engine that doesn't track you. They protect your search history from everyone – even from them. In addition, the DO NOT censor any content like Google does, the best results are shown to you.

    Give it a try at: https://duckduckgo.com/

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    Be Aware! Earth's Resonance Frequency is accelerating as fast as 40 Hertz!

    The Schumann resonances (SR) are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum. Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.


    For many years this resonance frequency has hovered at a steady 7.83 Hz with only slight variations. In June 2014 that apparently changed. Monitors at the Russian Space Observing System showed a sudden spike in activity to around 8.5 Hz. Since then, they have recorded days where the Schumann accelerated as fast as 16.5 Hz.

    But now Earth's harmonic OHM or vibration is at unprecedented levels today. The Schumann Resonance accelerated as fast as 40 hertz which is a major frequency rise, but nobody understands why!

    This frequency does affect every living creature on the earth. Science has proven our brainwaves strongly respond to this energy, this frequency. Sometimes this can come with anxiousness, along with many other feelings and emotions. Try not to be too eager to over react to situations, sit back for a minute and think things through completely, be rational and you know the drill...be wise.

    You are aware of why this is happening and use this knowledge to help others that may not know what the Schumann Resonance is, try and explain to them what this frequency shift is and how it affects them, all of us. Be safe out there...

      

    05-08-2017 om 18:38 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The never-ending search for UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence

    The never-ending search for UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence

    J. Allen Hynek was hired as an Air Force astronomer to debunk the myth of UFOs but later on became a UFO believer.
    (Alvin Quinn/AP/AP)

    Sarah Kaplan is a science reporter for The Washington Post.

    Back in 1950, during a lunch break at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, several scientists were trading wisecracks about a recent spate of UFO reports when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi offered an observation that has echoed through the decades. Given the number of places where life could exist in the vast universe, and the length of time it has had to evolve, the skies ought to be teeming with beings from advanced, space-faring civilizations — but nothing incontrovertible has shown up. You have to wonder, as Fermi did, “Where is everybody?”

    His colleagues chuckled, but the “Fermi paradox” perfectly frames the profound absurdity of the search for life beyond Earth. Humans have beamed beacons into space, robotically visited every world in the solar system and discovered thousands of planets circling stars far from our own. Yet all we’ve encountered is a chilly void.

    Still, the possibility that something is out there calls to us.

    “The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs,” by Mark O'Connell (Dey Street)

    Three new books approach the mystery from distinctly different perspectives: the unlikely believer in UFOs, the visionary dedicated to rigorous investigation and the cadre of scientists who still plug away at the problem, probing the universe for an answer.

    In “The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs,” screenwriter Mark O’Connell recounts the gradual evolution of J. Allen Hynek, an Air Force astronomer, from UFO debunker to believer. Hynek’s tale unfolds a few years before Fermi posed his question, when aliens were much on the minds of Americans. In the summer of 1947, a Boise businessman piloting a small plane across the Cascade Mountains spotted a chain of unidentified flying objects weaving among the peaks. Shortly after, Alabamians reported that brilliant lights appeared over an airfield in Montgomery. Then a swarm of wingless machines was spotted in Maine.

    Baffled by these bizarre accounts, the Air Force decided that someone had to sort through all the sightings — if only to prove that they weren’t really extraterrestrials.

    So they hired Hynek, an alum of the University of Chicago and a former civilian scientist for the Navy who previously was best known for studying the evolution of stars. Methodical and undogmatic, Hynek could not have been further from the kooky, paranoid stereotype of a UFO enthusiast. He seemed to be exactly the man who could be counted on to dismiss the phenomenon.

    Instead, he became its biggest advocate.

    “I was somewhat like the proverbial ‘innocent bystander who got shot,’ ” Hynek would later say.

    After researching thousands of UFO reports, many from apparently credible witnesses, Hynek became convinced that a significant fraction of sightings could not be explained by current science.

    The Air Force, however, disagreed. In 1970 it discontinued its UFO investigations, having concluded that the phenomenon was largely a result of pranksters, psychological experiences and tricks of light.

    Undeterred, Hynek established his own Center for UFO Studies and developed a system for classifying these “close encounters” that inspired the 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Hynek died in 1986 still convinced that UFOs were something “exotic.”

    It’s clear that O’Connell, who maintains a UFO blog of his own, wants readers to come away from his book agreeing with Hynek. He derides mainstream astronomers who mock UFOlogy as pseudoscience and reserves special venom for Carl Sagan, who spoke so eloquently about the potential for life in the universe but was unwilling to believe that extraterrestrials might have visited Earth.

    I’m inclined to side with Sagan — the human mind is far too easily deceived for this science reporter to believe that rogue aliens offer the most persuasive explanation for strange apparitions in the skies. If there really are advanced beings out there, traversing the universe at the speed of light, it seems unlikely that scaring suburbanites and confusing livestock are the best uses of their time.

    But reading “The Close Encounters Man” does engender respect for its subject. “Hynek was a rational person looking at an irrational subject,” James Oberg, a science journalist, NASA engineer and longtime UFO doubter, tells O’Connell. He approached the UFO problem as a scientist would. And although aliens didn’t actually invade America, Hynek — with a little help from Steven Spielberg — helped them invade the American psyche. He got us thinking about encounters with ET, paving the way for a more scientific approach to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI.

    Shortly after the Air Force gave up on UFOs, NASA commissioned a study of the best methods for seeking out alien life. The resulting report argued for using radio telescopes to listen for the kinds of electromagnetic signals that would emanate from an advanced civilization in space. If we still haven’t seen aliens in person, the thinking went, perhaps we might be able to hear them.

    That report landed in the lap of a young astronomer named Jill Tarter, who, like Hynek, had started her career observing distant stars.

    In “Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,” science journalist Sarah Scoles writes that the astronomer was instantly “converted.” As Tarter told Scoles, “I just knew I’d found the right place, never having thought about it before.” Whereas her work on stars had felt distant and abstruse, SETI gave Tarter a sense of purpose. She went on to direct the first targeted effort to detect extraterrestrial signals and helped found the SETI Institute — now an authority on the search for alien life.

    “There was a feeling of connectedness,” Tarter said of this research. “I was doing something that could impact people’s lives profoundly in a short time.”

    It’s a noble motivation, and Scoles — who narrates her story in a warm, chatty tone — clearly thinks Tarter is a hero. But the SETI pioneer’s biggest enemies are decidedly prosaic: narrow-minded, sexist male colleagues who try to tell Tarter she doesn’t belong in science; sneering politicians who deny SETI funding to make a political point; seemingly exotic radio signals that turn out to come from ordinary satellites.

    Tarter is now celebrated as a pioneer and a feminist icon; she was the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in the movie “Contact.” But her story lacks a triumphant ending. She retired in 2012, never having heard the signal she spent her life listening for.

    SETI research is a far cry from UFOlogy. But it’s impossible to ignore the similarities between Tarter and Hynek. Both were ordinary astronomers who happened upon the alien question and never let go, regardless of the indifference, derision and outright hostility they encountered. Both devoted their lives to the idea that, as the saying goes, absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. Even though absence is all either ever found.

    Which brings us back to Fermi’s paradox. More than a half century of sustained scientific research has uncovered neither hide nor hair — or whatever — of extraterrestrial life. Does that mean there’s nothing to be found?

    “Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life” lays out the case for optimism in a collection of essays. The world in which this book was published is one that Hynek and Tarter helped make. Chris French, the head of anomalistic psychology research at Goldsmiths, University of London, uses Hynek’s “close encounters” scale to discuss psychological phenomena that can explain such experiences. Two of the essays were written by scientists at Tarter’s SETI Institute.

    The other contributors include experts from astronomy, cosmology, planetary science and genetics, as well as fields that didn’t even exist when Hynek and Tarter began their work — astrobiology and exoplanet research. Together, they provide an overview of where the search for alien life now stands.

    Advances in biology on Earth have expanded our notion of where and how life can thrive. Meanwhile, exploration of space has identified places in our solar system and beyond that could be (or once were) hospitable to alien organisms. Mars used to boast an atmosphere and flowing water; the moons of Jupiter and Saturn harbor hidden subsurface oceans and liquid methane lakes. Our growing catalogue of exoplanets suggests that most stars in the galaxy host planets on which life could conceivably form. When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2018, scientists will be able to probe the atmospheres of those planets in pursuit of “biosignatures” — molecules that are thought to signal the presence of life.

    No one has an answer to the question: “Where is everybody?” But scientists do have plenty of places to look. Perhaps, someday in the not-too-distant future, they’ll receive that long-awaited radio beacon from a distant galaxy. Or look through a microscope at a water sample from an ocean moon and find microbes swimming around. Or detect a haze of “biosignatures” in the atmosphere of an alien world.

    Or, hey, maybe an unidentified flying object will appear suddenly in the sky one day when we least expect it. A crowd will gather, a hatch will open and, finally, a little green man will step out to reassure us we’re not alone.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Where our Curiosity took us

    Five years of roaming on the surface of Mars.

     

    It has been five years since NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on Mars, lowered to the surface of the planet by a rocket-powered crane in a sequence scientists dubbed the “seven minutes of terror”.

    Terror, because of the risk of it all going wrong when you drop a $2.5 billion rover on an alien planet.

    And seven minutes, because that is how long it would take a signal to reach Earth telling the scientists whether or not the car-sized Curiosity had survived the landing.

    After approaching the planet at 21,000 kilometres per hour, the heat shield separated and a parachute — then reverse rockets — fired in succession, slowing the craft down until it hovered metres from the ground.

    Then using a mothership called the Sky Crane, suspended in the air by rocket thrusters, Curiosity was slowly brought down to the surface using a never-before tested tethered crane system.

    On August 6, 2012, the world waited…

    Success came seven minutes later and soon Curiosity began sending its first data and photos back to Earth from its new home.

    Location: Gale Crater, base of Mt Sharp

    Temperature: -60 degrees Celsius (average)

    Atmosphere: 100 times thinner than Earth’s

    Length of day: 24hr 37min

    The real mission begins

    “We spent so many years being so nervous about whether the choice of Gale Crater was right, and whether the mission would land successfully, and whether it would find anything related to habitability,” chief scientist for the mission Ashwin Vasavada said.

    Curiosity’s task: determine Mars’ habitability using its 11 different scientific instruments, including three cameras to take detailed images of the landscape, and sensors to analyse rock samples, sniff the atmosphere for organic molecules and detect radiation levels on the planet’s surface.

    Since August 2012, the rover has been exploring what lies above and below the surface of the red planet, looking for evidence of the chemical building blocks needed for life, including traces left behind by water.

    Travelling at a glacial speed of about 30 metres per hour, Curiosity has ventured 17 kilometres from its landing site in its search.

    Dr Vasavada said so much of what NASA had hoped for had come to fruition.

    From the flat landing site, Curiosity began its meandering trip past landmarks on a trek towards Mount Sharp, where the layers of rocks and material change with altitude

    Mount Sharp rises 5.5 kilometres high from the centre of the crater. The mountain’s base was formed from sedimentary layers rich in clay and sulphur that were deposited there long ago by flowing water.

    The water may be long gone, but evidence of the three-billion-year-old lake bed remains.

    Drilling into the past

    It did not take long for the rover to mine scientific gold.

    Methane and elements such as nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon — all crucial to the creation of simple microbes — were found after the rover drilled into rocks and sniffed the planet’s atmosphere.

    Samples also revealed that Yellowknife Bay, near the landing site, was once part of an ancient river system.

    In the years since, Curiosity has collected key evidence from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks that life may have once existed on Mars.

    These sediment samples are also reshaping our understanding of how long liquid water persisted on Mars.

    The lakes and streams could have existed on the planet’s surface for millions of years, Dr Vasavada said.

    “The mountain itself, the base of the mountain, is lake sediment, layer after layer after layer for about 200 vertical metres,” he said.

    “[It would take] about a million years or more for lakes to be able to deposit that much sediment.”

    That timescale is key to the viability of the environment for supporting life.

    The sediment layers show habitability was present not for an instant, but at a timescale where you can start to imagine life originating and evolving, Dr Vasavada said.

    “The timescale of the habitability and water is the most ground-breaking new result for Mars.”

    But finding out that Mars had flowing water for such a long time has upturned what we used to think about the red planet’s climate. Had Mars actually been warm?

    Climate debate

    A common theory had been that Mars was cold, and any liquid water on the planet’s surface only flowed when a meteorite struck or a volcano erupted.

    However, Curiosity’s evidence about the length of time water existed on the surface of Mars “throws a wrench” in that theory, Dr Vasavada said.

    “The evidence from Curiosity … suggests the lakes were present and open to the atmosphere, they weren’t protected by an ice cover for millions of years,” he said.

    But if the planet used to be wet that presents scientists with another conundrum.

    For there to be flowing water, you would expect the atmosphere was once much thicker than it is today and had large amounts of carbon dioxide to trap heat and warm the planet.

    Analysis of gases in Mars’ atmosphere by Curiosity and another spacecraft called MAVEN indicate much of the carbon dioxide was blown away by the solar wind.

    However, rock samples have not turned up much in the way of carbonate minerals, which you would expect to find if that was the case.

    Dr Vasavada said it was an ongoing area of investigation for NASA.

    “Curiosity’s data really re-opens the idea that we haven’t figured out how yet, but Mars maybe actually was warm in its climate,” he said.

    Curiosity’s nuclear power source will eventually wear down, but Dr Vasavada hopes the rover will continue talking to him for at least another five years, likely longer.

    The rover is currently about 250 metres up Mount Sharp, but making it to the top was never the goal.

    “Most of the really good stuff is in the bottom several hundred metres,” Dr Vasavada said.

    It has still got a trek ahead to reach the endgame of its mission — a “treasure trove of ancient habitability” in a layer of clay minerals a few hundred metres farther up.

    2020 and beyond

    Despite its achievements, Curiosity is only the middle chapter of NASA’s Mars exploration program.

    It started with orbiters mapping the planet, then twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity arriving to search for evidence of sustained water.

    Curiosity has built on their work in showing that Mars could have been habitable at some stage of its life.

    And next? Scientists want to look for more sophisticated evidence that ancient life once existed, such as finding amino acids — the building blocks of proteins.

    That will be the task of the 2020 rover.

    In that way, each subsequent mission builds off the findings of the one before it, Dr Vasavada said.

    “If Curiosity hadn’t discovered that Mars was habitable, that would have been a real problem for 2020,” he said.

    But it did. And it found traces of organic molecules that once existed on Mars.

    “It makes us confident other more complex ancient evidence of life, that 2020 could discover, would also survive 3 to 4 billion years and not be lost,” he said.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Aliens in our midst - The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself

    Aliens in our midst - The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself

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    A beautiful mind; ctenophore Beroe cucumisPhoto by Bill Curtsinger/National Geographic

    Douglas Fox

    Leonid Moroz has spent two decades trying to wrap his head around a mind-boggling idea: even as scientists start to look for alien life in other planets, there might already be aliens, with surprisingly different biology and brains, right here on Earth. Those aliens have hidden in plain sight for millennia. They have plenty to teach us about the nature of evolution, and what to expect when we finally discover life on other worlds.

    Moroz, a neuroscientist, saw the first hint of his discovery back in the summer of 1995, not long after arriving in the United States from his native Russia. He spent that summer at the Friday Harbor marine laboratory in Washington. The lab sat amid an archipelago of forested islands in Puget Sound – a crossroads of opposing tides and currents that carried hundreds of animal species past the rocky shore: swarms of jellyfish, amphipod crustaceans, undulating sea lilies, nudibranch slugs, flatworms, and the larvae of fish, sea stars and countless other animals. These creatures represented not just the far reaches of Puget Sound, but also the farthest branches of the animal tree of life. Moroz spent hours out on the pier behind the lab, collecting animals so he could study their nerves. He had devoted years to studying nervous systems across the animal kingdom, in hopes of understanding the evolutionary origin of brains and intelligence. But he came to Friday Harbor to find one animal in particular.

    He trained his eyes to recognise its bulbous, transparent body in the sunlit water: an iridescent glint and fleeting shards of rainbow light, scattered by the rhythmic beating of thousands of hair-like cilia, propelling it through the water. This type of animal, called a ctenophore (pronounced ‘ten-o-for’ or ‘teen-o-for’), was long considered just another kind of jellyfish. But that summer at Friday Harbor, Moroz made a startling discovery: beneath this animal’s humdrum exterior was a monumental case of mistaken identity. From his very first experiments, he could see that these animals were unrelated to jellyfish. In fact, they were profoundly different from any other animal on Earth.

    Moroz reached this conclusion by testing the nerve cells of ctenophores for the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine and nitric oxide, chemical messengers considered the universal neural language of all animals. But try as he might, he could not find these molecules. The implications were profound.

    The ctenophore was already known for having a relatively advanced nervous system; but these first experiments by Moroz showed that its nerves were constructed from a different set of molecular building blocks – different from any other animal – using ‘a different chemical language’, says Moroz: these animals are ‘aliens of the sea’.

    If Moroz is right, then the ctenophore represents an evolutionary experiment of stunning proportions, one that has been running for more than half a billion years. This separate pathway of evolution – a sort of Evolution 2.0 – has invented neurons, muscles and other specialised tissues, independently from the rest of the animal kingdom, using different starting materials.

    This animal, the ctenophore, provides clues to how evolution might have gone if not for the advent of vertebrates, mammals and humans, who came to dominate the ecosystems of Earth. It sheds light on a profound debate that has raged for decades: when it comes to the present-day face of life on Earth, how much of it happened by pure accident, and how much was inevitable from the start?

    If evolution were re-run here on Earth, would intelligence arise a second time? And if it did, might it just as easily turn up in some other, far-flung branch of the animal tree? The ctenophore offers some tantalising hints by showing just how different from one another brains can be. Brains are the crowning case of convergent evolution – the process by which unrelated species evolve similar traits to navigate the same kind of world. Humans might have evolved an unprecedented intellect, but the ctenophore suggests that we might not be alone. The tendency of complex nervous systems to evolve is probably universal – not just on Earth, but also in other worlds.

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    As major animal groups go, the ctenophore is poorly understood. Its body superficially resembles that of a jellyfish – gelatinous, oblong or spherical, with a circular mouth at one end. Ctenophores are abundant in the oceans, but long-neglected by scientists. Well into the 20th century, drawings in textbooks often showed the animal upside down, its mouth hanging toward the seafloor, in jellyfish fashion, whereas in real life, it drifts with its mouth pointed upward.

    Unlike the jellyfish, which uses muscles to flap its body and swim, the ctenophore uses thousands of cilia to swim. And unlike the jellyfish with its stinging tentacles, the ctenophore hunts using two sticky tentacles that secrete glue, an adaptation with no parallel in the rest of the animal kingdom. The ctenophore is a voracious predator, known for its ambush tactics. It hunts by spreading its branched, sticky tentacles to form something like a spiderweb, and catches its prey meticulously, one by one.

    When scientists began examining the ctenophore nervous system in the late 1800s, what they saw through their microscopes seemed ordinary. A thick tangle of neurons sat near the animal’s south pole, a diffuse network of nerves spread throughout its body, and a handful of thick nerve bundles extended to each tentacle and to each of its eight bands of cilia. Electron microscope studies in the 1960s showed what seemed to be synapses between these neurons, with bubble-like compartments poised to release neurotransmitters that would stimulate the neighbouring cell.

    Scientists injected the neurons of living ctenophores with calcium – causing them to fire electric pulses, just as happens in the nerves of rats, worms, flies, snails and every other animal. By stimulating the right nerves, researchers could even prompt its cilia to rotate in different patterns – causing it to swim forward or back.

    In short, the ctenophore’s nerves seemed to look and act just like those of any other animal. So biologists assumed that they were the same. This view of ctenophores played into a larger narrative on the evolution of all animals – one that would also turn out to be wrong.

    The story of the sponge supported the convenient view that the nervous system had evolved gradually, toward greater complexity

    By the 1990s, scientists had placed ctenophores low on the animal tree of life, on a branch next to cnidarians, the group that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and coral. Jellyfish and ctenophores both have muscles, and both have diffuse nervous systems that haven’t fully condensed into a brain. And, of course, both have bodies that are famously soft, jiggly and often transparent.

    Below ctenophores and jellyfish on the evolutionary tree sat two other branches of animals that were clearly more primitive: placozoans and sea sponges, which both lacked nerve cells of any kind. The sponge in particular had seemed just barely on the cusp of animalhood: not until 1866 did the English biologist Henry James Clark demonstrate that the sponge was, indeed, an animal.

    This helped to enshrine the sponge as our closest living link to an ancient, pre-animal world of single-celled protists, akin to modern-day amoeba and paramecium. Researchers reasoned that sponges had evolved when ancient protists gathered into high-rise colonies, with each cell using its flagella – threadlike structures akin to cilia – for feeding instead of swimming.

    This narrative supported the convenient view that the nervous system had evolved gradually, toward greater complexity with each successive branch of the animal tree. All animals were sons and daughters of a single moment of evolutionary creation: the birth of the nerve cell. And only once, in subsequent evolution, had those neurons crossed a second momentous threshold – aggregating into a centralised brain. This view was bolstered by another line of evidence: striking similarities in the way that individual nerve cells were arranged in insects and humans, into neural circuits underlying episodic memory, spatial navigation and overall behaviour. In fact, scientists held, the first brain must have appeared quite early, before the ancestors of insects and vertebrates parted evolutionary ways. If this was true, then the 550 to 650 million years elapsing since that event would represent a single storyline, with multiple animal lineages elaborating on the same, basic brain blueprint up and down the chain.

    This picture of brain evolution made sense, but observing the scene at Friday Harbor in 1995, Moroz began to suspect that it was profoundly wrong. To demonstrate his hunch, he collected several species of ctenophores. He sliced their neural tissue into thin slivers and treated them with chemical stains indicating the presence of dopamine, serotonin or nitric oxide – three neurotransmitters that were widespread across the animal kingdom. Again and again, he looked into the microscope and saw no trace of the yellow, red or green stains.

    Once you repeat the experiments, says Moroz: ‘You start to realise it’s a really different animal.’ He surmised that the ctenophore was not just different from its supposed sister group, the jellyfish. It was also vastly different from any other nervous system on Earth.

    The ctenophore seemed to follow an entirely different evolutionary pathway, but Moroz couldn’t be sure. And if he published his results now, after looking at just a few important molecules, people would utterly dismiss them. ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,’ says Moroz. And so he embarked on a long, slow road, one even longer than even he suspected at the time.

    He applied for funding to study ctenophores using other techniques – for example, looking at their genes – but gave up after being turned down multiple times. He was still young at that point, had left the Soviet Union only a few years before, and had only just started publishing his work in English-language journals where it would generate broader interest. So Moroz put ctenophores on a back burner and returned to his primary work, studying neural signalling in snails, clams, octopuses and other molluscs. It was only by chance, 12 years later, that he returned to his passion project.

    In 2007, he briefly visited Friday Harbor for a scientific conference. One evening, he strolled out onto the same docks where he had spent so much time in 1995. There, by chance, he glimpsed the iridescent sparkles of ctenophores drifting under the light of a lantern. Scientific tools had advanced by then, making it possible to sequence an entire genome in days rather than years. And Moroz was now established, with his own lab at the University of Florida. He could finally afford to dabble in curiosities.

    So he fetched a net and fished a dozen or so ctenophores, a species called Pleurobrachia bachei, from the water. He froze them and shipped them to his lab in Florida. Within three weeks, he had a partial ‘transcriptome’ of the ctenophore – some 5,000 or 6,000 gene sequences that were actively turned on in the animal’s nerve cells. The results were startling.

    First, they showed that Pleurobrachia lacked the genes and enzymes required to manufacture a long list of neurotransmitters widely seen in other animals. These missing neurotransmitters included not just the ones that Moroz had noted back in 1995 – serotonin, dopamine and nitric oxide – but also acetylcholine, octopamine, noradrenaline and others. The ctenophore also lacked genes for the receptors that allow a neuron to capture these neurotransmitters and respond to them.

    This confirmed what Moroz had waited years to find out: that when he failed to find common neurotransmitters in ctenophore nerves back in 1995, it wasn’t simply that his tests weren’t working; rather, it was because the animal wasn’t using them in any way. This, says Moroz, was ‘a big surprise’.

    ‘We all use neurotransmitters,’ he says. ‘From jellyfish to worms, to molluscs, to humans, to sea urchins, you will see a very consistent set of signalling molecules.’ But, somehow, the ctenophore had evolved a nervous system in which these roles were filled by a different, as-yet unknown set of molecules.

    The ctenophore had evolved from the ground up, using a different set of molecules and genes than any other animal known on Earth

    Moroz’s transcriptome and genomic DNA sequences showed that the ctenophore also lacked many other genes, known from the rest of the animal kingdom, that are crucial for building and operating nervous systems. Pleurobrachia was missing many common proteins called ion channels that generate electric signals that travel rapidly down a nerve. It was missing genes that guide embryonic cells through the complex transformation into mature nerve cells. And it was missing well-known genes that orchestrate the stepwise connection of those neurons into mature, functioning circuits. ‘It was much more than just the presence or absence of just a few genes,’ he says. ‘It was really a grand design.’

    It meant that the nervous system of the ctenophore had evolved from the ground up, using a different set of molecules and genes than any other animal known on Earth. It was a classic case of convergence: the lineage of ctenophores had evolved a nervous system using whatever genetic starting materials were available. In a sense, it was an alien nervous system – evolved separately from the rest of the animal kingdom.

    But the surprises didn’t stop there. The ctenophore was turning out to be unique from other animals in far more than just its nervous system. The genes involved in development and function of its muscles were also entirely different. And the ctenophore lacked several classes of general body-patterning genes that were thought to be universal to all animals. These included so-called micro-RNA genes, which help to form specialised cell types in organs, and HOX genes, which divide bodies into separate parts, be it the segmented body of a worm or lobster, or the segmented spine and finger bones of a human.  These gene classes were present in simpleton sponges and placozoa – yet absent in ctenophores. 

    All of this pointed to a stunning conclusion: despite being more complex than sponges and placozoans – which lacked nerve cells and muscles and virtually every other specialised cell type – ctenophores were actually the earliest, oldest branch on the animal tree of life. Somehow over the subsequent 550 to 750 million years, the ctenophore had managed to evolve a nervous system and muscles similar in complexity to those of jellyfish, anemones, sea stars and many types of worms and shellfish, cobbled together from an alternative set of genes.

    Moroz tried to publish his results in 2009. The paper was rejected. And so he continued doing more experiments.

    Even as Moroz firmed up his results through the late 2000s, other research teams were beginning to piece together bits of what he already knew – raising the worrying prospect that, after so many years, someone else might arrive at his conclusions before he had a chance to publish them himself.

    First, a study in Nature in 2008 called into question the basic structure of the animal tree of life, undermining the long-held assumption that sponges were the first, most primitive branch. That study compared the DNA sequences of 150 genes in order to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of 77 different animal species – including two species of ctenophores. For the first time ever, this paper publicly suggested that intricate ctenophores – and not simple sponges – might actually be the earliest branch.  The mere suggestion of this created ‘a firestorm’ in the scientific community, says Steven Haddock, a biologist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who co-authored that study.

    In December 2013, another team published the first-ever genome of a ctenophore – a species called Mnemiopsis leidyi, separate from the one that Moroz has studied the most. That paper, published in Science, also concluded that ctenophores, not sponges, were the evolutionary branch closest to the origin of all animals.

    Despite being more complex than sponges, ctenophores seemed to be closest to the origin of all animals

    Over the next few months, the deeply rooted narrative that sponges were the earliest animals continued to fall apart in other ways. In January 2014, Sally Leys, one of the world’s leading sponge biologists, based at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, called into question the 150-year-old narrative that sponges were more or less just a colonial version of single-celled organisms thought to be ancestors of all animals. Detailed studies showed that the sponge and the cells of a protist called a choanoflagellate used a different set of genes and proteins to build similar-looking structures. Therefore, sponges could not have evolved from anything resembling a choanoflagellate. Their similarity under a microscope was yet another deceptive example of convergent evolution: two unrelated organisms evolving similar structures to perform similar functions – but using different genes as starting materials.

    These studies blew apart the circumstantial evidence that sponges were the earliest branch of the animal tree of life. What had seemed like a strong argument was simply a case of mistaken identity. Despite being far more complex than sponges, with nervous systems, muscles and other organs, ctenophores now seemed to be the earliest branch, closest to the origin of all animals.

    But none of those studies had looked at nerve cells in any detail. So the broader world still didn’t know the core of Moroz’s discovery: the separately invented nervous system.

    Moroz spent the intervening years filling the gaps in his evidence. His team slowly sequenced the last several percent of his own Pleurobrachia ctenophore genome, slogging through difficult stretches of DNA that gummed up even modern technologies. Moroz hired three dozen students to do detailed studies of what genes were expressed in the individual nerve cells of the ctenophores, and how these cells wired themselves into circuits as the animal developed from an embryo.

    Moroz finally published his genome of the ctenophore Pleurobrachia in Nature, in June 2014. His work, seven years in the making, firmly established that the ctenophore’s nerve cells and nervous system had evolved separately from those of all other animals. To him, the ctenophore represented the closest thing to an alien brain, or mind, on Earth.

    Ctenophores provide an extreme, striking example of what is probably a general pattern: just as eyes, wings and fins evolved many times over the course of animal evolution, so too have nerve cells. Moroz now counts nine to 12 independent evolutionary origins of the nervous system – including at least one in cnidaria (the group that includes jellyfish and anemones), three in echinoderms (the group that includes sea stars, sea lilies, urchins and sand dollars), one in arthropods (the group that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans), one in molluscs (the group that includes clams, snails, squid and octopuses), one in vertebrates – and now, at least one in ctenophores.

    ‘There is more than one way to make a neuron, more than one way to make a brain,’ says Moroz. In each of these evolutionary branches, a different subset of genes, proteins and molecules was blindly chosen, through random gene duplication and mutation, to take part in building a nervous system.

    What’s fascinating is how these different pathways of evolution arrived at nervous systems that look so similar across the animal tree of life. Take for example the work of Nicholas Strausfeld, a neuro-anatomist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He and others have found that the neural circuits underlying smell, episodic memory, spatial navigation, behaviour choice and vision in insects are nearly identical to those performing the same functions in mammals – despite the fact that different, though overlapping, sets of genes were harnessed to build each one.

    These similarities reflect two key principles of evolution, factors that are probably important on any world where life has emerged. The first is convergence: these far-flung branches of the evolutionary tree arrived at common designs for a nervous system because they each had to solve the same fundamental problems. The second is shared history: the idea that all of these differently built nervous systems shared at least some element of common origin. On our world, they each evolved from molecular building blocks that were forged in the physical and chemical environments of early Earth.

    In fact, much of the basic signalling machinery of all nervous systems might have evolved from a life-or-death adaptation that arose in the first cells on Earth, four billion years ago. Early cells probably inhabited aquatic environments, such as hot springs or brine pools, that contained a mixture of dissolved minerals including some, like calcium, that threatened life. (Important biological molecules such as DNA, RNA and ATP are known to coalesce into refractory goo when exposed to calcium – similar to the scum that forms in bathtubs.) So biologists surmise that early life must have evolved ways to keep all but the lowest levels of calcium outside its cells. This protective machinery might include proteins that pump calcium atoms out of a cell, and an alarm system that goes off when calcium levels rise. Evolution later harnessed this exquisite responsiveness to calcium to signal within and between cells – to control the beating of cilia and flagella that microbes use to move, or to control the contraction of muscle cells or trigger the electric firing of neurons in organisms such as ours. By the time nervous systems began to emerge, roughly half a billion years ago, many of the critical building blocks were already set.

    If the history of Earth was rewound, evolution might not arrive at 2017 with the same animal groups we see today

    These principles have huge implications for understanding evolution, and understanding the forms that life might take on Earth or in other worlds. They shed light on the relative importance of accident and destiny in shaping the trajectory of evolution over billions of years.

    The late Harvard palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould argued in his book Wonderful Life (1989) that accidents matter: that the evolutionary history of animals has been shaped by decimation as much as by innovation. He pointed out that the Cambrian world 570 million years ago contained more groups of animals, called phyla, than exist today. Those diverse branches in the early animal tree were steadily pruned by mass extinctions. Those extinctions fuelled evolution by opening ecological niches that surviving animal groups could diversify into – providing opportunity for innovation.

    At the same time, Simon Conway Morris, a palaeontologist at the University of Cambridge, has stressed the importance of evolutionary convergence: that evolution tends to arrive at the same solutions over and over again, even in distant branches of the animal tree, and even when the proteins or genes used to build a similar structure are not themselves related.

    Take these two ideas to their logical ends, and one arrives at a startling conclusion. If the history of Earth was rewound and played back, evolution might not arrive at this present year with the same assortment of animal groups that we see today. Mammals or birds, perhaps even all vertebrates, might be absent. But evolution might still arrive at most, or even all, of the same innovations that permitted the emergence of sophisticated brains: those innovations might simply emerge on other branches of the animal tree.

    As scientists speculate what kind of life might exist on other worlds, a provocative idea is taking hold: that alien life, unlike anything we know, might already exist here on Earth. The idea is that life might have arisen two or more times on our planet – not just once, as long assumed. Our form of life came to dominate, while other forms receded into the corners. This ‘shadow biosphere’ would be difficult to detect, since it might not contain DNA, proteins or the other molecules that we rely on to detect life.

    The phylum of ctenophores isn’t quite that exotic. It is based on the same basic chemistry that we share, but it still represents a shadow biology for animals. Ctenophores are a long-lost cousin that we didn’t even know we had.

    Because the ctenophore invented brains and muscles using a set of proteins and genes so different from any other animal that has ever been studied, it provides a unique opportunity to explore some enormous questions: how divergent can nervous systems be? Do we truly understand how life senses its surroundings and behaves?

    The ctenophore could even provide useful insights for predicting how nervous systems might evolve in other worlds, in more exotic life forms not based on DNA or proteins. Evolutionary biologists believe that even life based on exotic biochemistry will still tend to be built along similar lines of organisation. Nick Lane, a biochemist at University College London, has written that extraterrestrial life probably compartmentalises itself within some sort of cell membrane, and powers itself using electrochemical differences in the pH or ion concentrations from one side of the membrane to the other, just like cells on Earth. Chemicals extracted from ancient meteorites can readily form membranes – even if those membranes aren’t composed of the exact same molecules. And once cell membranes become fixed in the biology of another world, the process of evolving a nervous system will likely unfold in a manner similar to that seen on Earth.

    Moroz is still trying to learn what he can from the ctenophores. These animals were neglected for so long by scientists, in part, because they were so fragile and difficult to keep alive in the lab. Moroz is circumventing this by outfitting a ship with modern research equipment for sequencing genomes, growing embryos, and stimulating neurons in living animals on site. He hopes that by teasing apart the neural circuits of the ctenophore, he can learn more about the design principles of brains in general – and test whether those principles really are universal, or not. 

    Just getting to this point has been a long process. In order to realise that ctenophores really were so alien, Moroz first had to reject much of what he had learned from researchers who came before. Because his ‘initial hypothesis was exactly what was in the textbooks’, he explains, moving to a new way of thinking took him 20 years.

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    04-08-2017 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Everything You Need To Know About Stan Romanek, The Subject Of Netflix’s UFO Documentary

    ORCHARD FILM / NETFLIX

    Back in July, Netflix quietly released the documentary Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, about a UFO enthusiast who claims to have been the subject of alien contact and abduction for over 15 years. The film features the testimony of Romanek himself, who believes that he has even fathered several human-alien hybrid children, as well as his wife Lisa, another woman claiming to be the mother of his alleged alien babies, and several friends and professionals who corroborate his claims.

    Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you want to look at it), the documentary also features LOL-inducing evidence Romanek has collected over the years, such as drawings of big-breasted alien women, photos and video of supposed extraterrestrials peeking their heads in windows, around corners, and in the background of photos, recorded blips of light, mysterious-sounding phone recordings, and poorly made crop circles.

    ORCHARD FILM / NETFLIX

    It would be a moderately entertaining, yet ultimately forgettable watch, if not for the film’s epilogue which states that on February 13, 2014 (shortly after the documentary was produced in November of 2013), Romanek was arrested on child pornography charges, which he vehemently denies, claiming to be a victim of a nefarious government cover-up. Likewise, several times throughout the film Romanek alleges that he believes government agencies have been trying to silence him throughout the years, attempting to intervene and remove evidence of his alien visitors. (In one instance, he claims agents posing as contractors came and removed siding on his house that had been damaged in an encounter.)

    Romanek’s criminal trial finally started this week, after several delays, which helps explain the timing of Netflix releasing the documentary as interest has once again been revived in the case. The UFO enthusiast is being charged with felony allegations of possessing and distributing child pornography, after hundreds of images and videos recovered from devices seized during a 2013 search of his Loveland, Colorado home were found depicting children posing nude or engaged in sex acts.

    The case is unusual in that Romanek’s credibility as a UFO expert and abductee is as much on the line as his innocence (or lack thereof), as the entire crux of his defense rests on whether or not he was, indeed, framed by a covert government agency. But complicating matters is that Romanek himself has at times undermined his own credibility, admitting in a 2015 radio interview to faking moving objects in his own videos (which he later apparently claimed he had done so due to intimidation by authorities).

    Adding another layer to an already bizarre case is that the lead detective investigating Romanek, Brian Koopman — who initially received a 2013 tip about Romanek from the Department of Homeland Security (which had first investigated Romanek back in 2008 when an agent found images traced to Romanek’s IP address via a a file-sharing network) — has had his judgement called into question on several occasions. Koopman was sued in a civil trial by another former Loveland police officer, Tammy Fisher, after accusing her of tipping off the Romaneks and interfering with the investigation, resulting in the couple allegedly wiping a hard drive containing evidence.

    Fisher had apparently become friends with the couple over the course of an unrelated investigation before she left the police force in 2012, and Koopman had unsuccessfully applied for a warrant to search her phone records. Her case was later dismissed by a district court. On the stand Thursday, Fisher told the jury of Koopman, “I have reached an opinion that he’s a liar, he’s dishonest. […] He lied in this case and tried to charge me with a crime.” Her statements were later struck from evidence by the judge after an objection from the prosecution.

    The eight-day trial is expected to wrap next week, and will likely only get more bizarre as it continues to play out, given that following his 2014 arrest, Romanek’s wife Lisa — who ardently stands by her husband — promised that they would be “taking UFOlogy into the courtroom.”

    You can watch the trailer for Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story below.

    (Via Loveland Reporter-HeraldThe ColoradoanSnopesWikipedia)

    04-08-2017 om 23:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Supersoldaten, robots en slimme wapens: NAVO krijgt hulp sciencefictionauteurs om zich voor te bereiden op oorlog van morgen - HLN.be

    Bron: The Mirror

    © SciFutures .

    Militairen die genetische verbeterd zijn en moordende raids uitvoeren voor een beweging die de mensheid wil uitroeien, terroristen die een slim wapen hacken en herprogrammeren zodat het mensen van een bepaalde etnische groep uitschakelt en een kind dat vanachter een computer met een drone soldaten opjaagt in een bos: het zijn maar enkele van de scenario's die sciencefictionschrijvers van het bedrijf SciFutures bedachten zodat overheden en organisaties zich kunnen voorbereiden op de wereld - en de oorlog - van de toekomst. En daar is ook de NAVO bij.

    Oorlogsvoering zal er over 10, 50 en 100 jaar vermoedelijk helemaal anders uitzien dan vandaag en SciFutures helpt klanten met zijn apocalyptische verhalen om plannen en technologieën te bedenken die daarop anticiperen. Of het nu gaat om robots met artificiële intelligentie, soldaten die een hormoon verspreiden dat angst opwekt of oorlogstuigen die het verschil kunnen zien tussen vijanden en bondgenoten: niets is te gek.

    Lees ook

    "Het is een compleet andere benadering dan het gebruik van statistieken om na te denken over de toekomst", geeft bedrijfsleider Ari Popper toe in de Britse krant The Mirror. "We reflecteren over wat er zou gebeuren als de vijand gevaarlijke technologieën in handen zou krijgen. Daardoor doen we onze klanten op een andere manier naar de toekomst kijken." 

    Dromen
    Voor de NAVO maakte SciFutures een collectie van dertien verhalen over hoe oorlog er over 20 jaar zal uitzien: Visions of Warfare 2036. "De samenwerking met de NAVO was een van die momenten dat je in je arm moet knijpen om te zien of je toch niet aan het dromen bent", aldus Popper. "Opeens zat ik in Brussel in een kamer met allemaal opperbevelhebbers van over de hele wereld. Dan voel je opeens dat het werk dat je doet verantwoordelijkheid met zich meebrengt. Ze hadden zelf veel studiewerk verricht rond nieuwe technologieën en met dat ruwe materiaal gingen we aan de slag."

    © SciFutures .

    Een van de verhalen heet 'Taskmasters', over kinderen die aan de slag gaan als cybersoldaten. Ze sturen vanop een afstand drones aan die over een bos vliegen en soldaten zoeken en vernietigen. Hoe meer - echte - doden ze maken, hoe meer punten ze verdienen. 

    PokemonGo
    Maar de techniek van SciFutures kan ook voor andere doeleinden gebruikt worden dan het ontwikkelen van nieuwe technologieën, zoals je voorbereiden op de gevolgen van iets. "Neem nu PokemonGo", vertelt hij. "Het spelletje was bijzonder populair vorig jaar, maar had ook tot gevolg dat mensen gepest werden en op plaatsen kwamen die ze beter hadden gemeden. Door onze verhalen hadden we enkele van die ongewenste gevolgen mogelijks kunnen voorzien en erop kunnen anticiperen."

    Ari Popper. 
    © SciFutures .

    SciFutures bestaat nog maar vijf jaar en is gevestigd in Californië. Naast de NAVO en de Amerikaanse marine hebben ze ook bekende bedrijven als klant, zoals Visa en Ford. "De meeste bedrijven komen naar ons toe omdat ze niet achterop willen raken. Ze zijn geïnteresseerd in projecties voor de volgende 10 tot 15 jaar, maar hoe verder je gaat hoe leuker het wordt. We interviewen telkens de CEO, die ons vertelt waar het bedrijf mee bezig is. Dan vragen we naar ruw materiaal over hun huidige technologieën en werkmethodes. Dat gaat vervolgens naar ons team van meer dan 100 sciencefictionschrijvers, die er verhalen rond maken." 


    Popper begon met zijn bedrijf omdat hij het gevoel had dat de toekomst in sneltreinvaart op ons afkwam en we die niet serieus namen. "De mensen hielden geen rekening met de gevolgen van technologieën op de mensheid. Dat doet SciFutures wel. En voor de critici: Jules Verne schreef in 1865 al een verhaal over drie mensen die de ruimte in werden geschoten, honderd jaar voor de eerste man op de maan. En iets dichterbij: de virtuele realiteit die verkend werd in de filmreeks van de Matrix, is nu de allerlaatste musthave in de vorm van VR-hoofdsets voor gamers."

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    04-08-2017 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA zoekt goedbetaalde 'planeetbeschermer' - HLN.be

    NASA zoekt goedbetaalde 'planeetbeschermer' - HLN.be

    Bron: NASA

    © NASA.

    Onze planeet beschermen tegen buitenaards leven én vice versa. Het lijkt een sciencefiction-job, maar de vacature bestaat écht. De officiële functietitel luidt 'planetary protection officer'. Kandidaten moeten bij de NASA zijn, die er een jaarloon tot 158.000 euro voor veil heeft.

    Het ambt bestaat al een halve eeuw, maar vandaag zoekt de NASA een opvolger voor Catharine Conley, die de taak sinds 2014 helemaal alleen op zich nam. De job kwam er door het zogenaamde Ruimteverdrag uit 1967. Dat stelde als doel om biologische besmettingen buiten de aarde te voorkomen en, omgekeerd, om onze eigen planeet te beschermen tegen buitenaardse microben en organismen. 

    Een voorbeeldje van Conleys opdracht. NASA kreeg groen licht om een van Jupiters manen, Europa, te onderzoeken. Tijdens die missie - met een kostenplaatje van 2,7 miljard dollar - mag de Europa Clipper normaal niet op de maan zelf landen. Maar er is altijd een kans dat de robot op Europa crasht. En dán is er Conley: zij moet dat risico zoveel mogelijk zien in te perken. Omgekeerd moet zij onder meer proberen te voorkomen dat er besmettingen plaatsvinden in aardse laboratoria door objecten die bijvoorbeeld afkomstig zijn van Mars. 

    Verder hoort ruimtemissies van dichtbij opvolgen bij het takenpakket van Conley en moet ze ook geregeld tussen de verschillende ruimtevaartcentra in de wereld pendelen. 

    Aantoonbare ervaring
    De 'planetary protection officer' blijft na zijn of haar aanstelling drie jaar in functie, met een mogelijkheid tot verlenging met twee jaar. Het is niet duidelijk of Conley al dan niet voor die verlenging zal gaan. Ze gaf zelf al aan dat een gewone werkdag niet altijd even spannend is. Ze moet doorgaans heel wat e-mails, wetenschappelijke studies en ander leesvoer doorploegen.

    De job is hoe dan ook weggelegd voor een Amerikaanse staatsburger. Die moet minstens een jaar ervaring hebben als topambtenaar en beschikken over "geavanceerde kennis" van planeetbescherming en alles wat dat inhoudt. Aantoonbare ervaring met ruimteprogramma's is eveneens een vereiste. En dan is er nog het juiste diploma van vergevorderde fysicus, ingenieur of wiskundige.

    Wereldwijd bestaat alleen bij de ESA een gelijkaardige functie in voltijds dienstverband.

    Catherine Conley vult de unieke functie sinds 2014 in.
     © NASA.

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    04-08-2017 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Gigantische lichtbol vastgelegd in Canada. Weet jij wat dit is?
    Gigantische lichtbol vastgelegd in Canada. Weet jij wat dit is?

    Gigantische lichtbol vastgelegd in Canada. Weet jij wat dit is?

    Onderzoekers die een bezoek brachten aan een heilige plek in Brits-Columbia, hebben een enorme lichtbol in de lucht vastgelegd.

    De opmerkelijke beelden zijn tijdens een expeditie in het Canadese Squamish gemaakt door filmmakers Rob Freeman en Marcus McNabb.

    De bergachtige locatie wordt vereerd door de inheemse Squamish, die geloven dat er iets speciaals is aan deze plek.

    Schouwspel

    Door de jaren heen hebben diverse getuigen melding gemaakt van mysterieuze lichten in de regio.

    Freeman en McNabb besloten zelf op onderzoek uit te gaan en werden getrakteerd op een schouwspel. Ze wisten één van de raadselachtige lichtbollen op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen.

    In de video is te zien hoe een reusachtige lichtbol geruisloos door de lucht zweeft en uiteindelijk achter de bomen verdwijnt.

    Geen vliegtuig

    “We dachten eerst dat het een vliegtuig was,” vertelde Freeman aan de krant Squamish Chief. “Er was alleen helemaal geen geluid. Toen wisten we zeker dat het geen vliegtuig was.”

    Freeman merkte op dat soortgelijke lichten ook worden gezien op historische plekken in Peru of Noorwegen.

    “De meeste mensen hebben geen idee wat er allemaal gebeurt op aarde,” zei hij.

    Ze riepen de hulp in van een lokale expert, Charles Lamoureux, die na het bekijken van de beelden concludeerde dat het licht niet afkomstig kon zijn van een drone, meteoor of satelliet.

    Ongelooflijk

    Sommigen hebben gesuggereerd dat het fenomeen doet denken aan de mysterieuze Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina, terwijl anderen voor een raadsel staan.

    Het Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) zei in een reactie dat de beelden ongelooflijk zijn. “Dit is de duidelijkste lichtbol tot nu toe dit jaar,” aldus een woordvoerder.

    Bekijk de beelden hieronder:

    [Squamish Chief

    04-08-2017 om 22:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Helderste sterrenregen in de menselijke geschiedenis nu te zien. Dit is de kans van je leven
    Helderste sterrenregen in de menselijke geschiedenis nu te zien. Dit is de kans van je leven

    Helderste sterrenregen in de menselijke geschiedenis nu te zien. Dit is de kans van je leven

    Vanaf 11 augustus neemt het aantal zichtbare meteoren flink toe. Op 13 augustus is het hoogtepunt en kunnen we een heuse sterrenregen van de Perseïden verwachten met 44 vallende sterren per uur.

    De jaarlijkse sterrenregen van de Perseïden is de bekendste in Nederland, vanwege het hoge aantal vallende sterren en het feit dat veel mensen vakantie hebben.

    De afgelopen jaren was het aantal meteoren nog veel groter met zo’n 70 vallende sterren per uur.

    Unieke gebeurtenis

    Dit jaar kan het maanlicht roet in het eten gooien, aangezien de maan op 13 augustus rond middernacht opkomt. Het beste kijkmoment is dan aan het einde van de avond.

    Volgens astronomen zal dit de helderste meteorenzwerm in de menselijke geschiedenis zijn, schrijft Physics-Astronomy.

    Er wordt gesproken van een unieke gebeurtenis, aangezien de volgende soortgelijke sterrenregen pas over 96 jaar te zien zal zijn.

    Elektrisch geladen

    Hoewel de naam vallende ster anders doet vermoeden komen er geen sterren op ons af. Het gaat om meteoroïden; ruimtepuin dat is afgebrokkeld van een komeet.

    Wanneer meteoroïden de dampkring binnendringen, verbranden ze met als gevolg een waarneembaar lichtspoor.

    Het pad van de vallende ster wordt door de hoge valsnelheid elektrisch geladen en bij het opheffen van het ladingsverschil komt licht vrij.

    Verschillende

    De aarde beweegt zich jaarlijks door verschillende zwermen van meteoroïden. Daarnaast komen er ook nog losse meteoroïden voor.

    De Perseïden zijn ieder jaar te zien tussen 17 juli en 24 augustus. Het hoogtepunt is meestal tussen 9 en 13 augustus.

    [Physics-AstronomyWeeronline

    04-08-2017 om 22:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.WORDEN VREEMDE KRATERS IN SIBERIË GEMAAKT DOOR LASERWAPENS ?

    WORDEN VREEMDE KRATERS IN SIBERIË GEMAAKT DOOR LASERWAPENS ?

    Een aantal jaren geleden werden er voor het eerst enorme kraters in een verlaten deel van Siberië ontdekt waarvan niemand wist hoe ze waren ontstaan. 

    Omdat men toch iets moest zeggen, is de verklaring “smeltende permafrost”, maar dankzij lokale getuigen lijkt het toch op iets totaal anders te wijzen. 



    Ongeveer drie jaar geleden schreven wij een artikel over de mysterieuze gaten die waren ontstaan in Siberië en daarin stond onder andere het volgende: 

    Sinds eerder dit jaar drie mysterieuze gaten zijn ontdekt in Siberië zijn er al heel wat discussies losgebarsten over wat de oorzaak van deze vreemde gaten zou kunnen zijn.

    Een wetenschappelijk team dat ondertussen ter plekke onderzoek heeft verricht zegt dat de gaten zijn veroorzaakt door de opbouw van methaangas. Dit zou dan weer veroorzaakt zijn door enkele warme zomers in Siberië waardoor de permafrost begon te smelten en er ondergronds grote hoeveelheden methaangas vrijkwamen die een uitweg zochten naar boven.

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    Sinds die tijd zijn er echter toch wel een aantal dingen gebeurd waardoor de permafrost theorie, in ieder geval voor een aantal van die gaten, minder waarschijnlijk wordt. 

    Sinds 2014 zijn er een flink aantal van die vreemde kraters bij gekomen en ondanks alle onderzoek heeft de wetenschap eigenlijk nog geen idee hoe die kraters ontstaan. 

    Wat opvalt is dat deze gaten of kraters ontstaan in de meest afgelegen gebieden van Siberië en dat gedurende jaren. Satellietbeelden hebben aangetoond dat er vorig jaar vier grote kraters zijn bijgekomen en daarnaast talloze anderen. 

    Het vreemde van deze gaten is dat het er letterlijk op lijkt dat de bodem onder de voeten van mensen wegvalt. Daarnaast is het bij sommigen onmogelijk om vast te stellen hoe diep ze precies zijn.

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    Wat ondertussen duidelijk lijkt is, is dat we hier met een ander soort gaten te maken hebben dan bij wat wij “normale” sinkholes, zinkgaten, noemen. Daarnaast is door spaarzame bewoners in het gebied melding gemaakt van explosies.

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    Er zijn natuurlijk talrijke theorieën die de ronde doen, afgezien van het officiële permafrost verhaal. 

    De één denkt dat het te maken heeft met ondergrondse kernproeven, omdat dan naar het schijnt ook dit soort gaten tevoorschijn komen. Een ander denkt dat we hier te maken hebben met een ingang naar de holle aarde en een derde dat het iets te maken heeft met buitenaardsen. 

    In ons artikel van drie jaar geleden werd ook een mogelijke theorie geopperd:

    Echter, er is ook een hele andere theorie en die wordt toegelicht op de website Ufo Digest.

    Daar wordt gesteld dat iedereen met een IQ minstens gelijkwaardig aan dat van een amoebe kan vaststellen dat deze gaten minstens tien jaar oud zijn. Dit is dan weer af te leiden uit de hoeveelheid erosie die zichtbaar is aan de muren van de kraters die de gaten omringen.

    De gaten zouden kunstmatig geboord zijn, van boven naar beneden en niets andersom. Dat dit zo is, valt vast te stellen door te kijken naar de modder die om de gaten heen ligt. Als het gat van binnen naar buiten zou zijn ontstaan dan zouden er grote hopen modder moeten liggen op het punt waar het oppervlak van de aarde werd gebroken door wat het dan ook was dat dit gat veroorzaakte. Dat is niet het geval.

    Dus, stelt men, is dit gat geboord net zoals er meerdere mysterieuze gaten op de wereld zijn die nog lang niet allemaal zijn ontdekt. De enige boor die dit zou kunnen maken is de zogenaamde TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine). Dit soort machines kan door praktisch ieder oppervlak heen boren, variërend van zand tot rotsen.

    De reden dat dit soort gaten bestaan, is omdat er ondergronds veel meer plaatsvindt dan wij denken. Dat er overal op deze wereld overheden zijn die een compleet ondergronds netwerk van steden en tunnels hebben aangelegd. Dit is niet net begonnen, maar eigenlijk al vlak na de tweede wereldoorlog. Misschien ontstaan als vluchtplaats voor een toen dreigende nucleaire oorlog.

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    Maar, er is nog een theorie en dat is er één die wordt ondersteund door verklaringen van mensen die niet al te ver van deze enorme gaten wonen. 

    Nadat ze langere tijd hun mond hebben gehouden, komen er nu een aantal naar voren die zeggen dat ze naast het horen van explosies ook grote lichtstalen hebben zien komen vanaf de hemel rond de tijd dat deze gaten ontstonden.

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    Zou het misschien kunnen zijn dat Rusland de afgelegen gebieden in Siberië gebruikt om hun ruimte laserwapens te testen? 

    Het zou verklaren waarom deze gaten alleen in Rusland ontstaan en in afgelegen gebieden. Daarnaast dat het lijkt alsof ze letterlijk met een soort laserprecisie zijn gemaakt. 

    Dat deze kraters zouden zijn ontstaan door de smeltende permafrost gelooft eigenlijk helemaal niemand.

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    04-08-2017 om 22:09 geschreven door peter  

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    Thermal Camera Captures Invisible V-shaped UFO Anomaly over Bucharest, Romania

    An invisible V-shaped UFO anomaly flying over Bucharest, Romania on July 15, 2017 was captured by Mihai Daniel Dragu, while using a thermal camera.

    Credit image: Mihai Daniel Dragu.

    Mihai Daniel Dragu: "This is the third attempt to film a disc shaped UFO which I saw it without having a recorder installed but I was very surprised that I got something quite different."

    "This very strange V-shaped object, which is not asymmetric, could not be seen with the normal eye, and could be seen only after the heated water vapors from clouds left from some process used in flying technology."

    "By the way, there was no giant plane flying over me that night."
      

    http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

    04-08-2017 om 20:15 geschreven door peter  

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    Categorie:ALIEN LIFE, UFO- CRASHES, ABDUCTIONS, MEN IN BLACK, ed ( FR. , NL; E )
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    Weird Thing Flying From Cloud Above The Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico

    On June 17, 2017 the Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico started erupting on which Kat Martin decided to record the eruption in the event of a big eruption, if it happened.


    Although a big eruption did not happened she recorded something very strange in the clouds above the volcano, as a weird thing emerged from a main cloud flying towards the camera.

    At first glance she thought it was a small rogue cloud but after looking at the object again it appears to be solid when it first appeared before it changed into something with at the end what looked like a tail moving back and forth.

    Kat Martin, who did not enhance the footage at all, said that she cannot explain the weird object and suggests if it could be an angel or something like a space creature?

    Note: The fact that it comes out of that main cloud a different color and goes the opposite direction of the rest of the clouds which is against the wind, suggests that it is something different than just a small rogue cloud, but if it is a cloud then how does that happen?
      

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    04-08-2017 om 20:11 geschreven door peter  

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    Latest UFO Sightings from ECETI Ranch (VIDEO)

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    Here are a few new clips of an unidentified flying objects flying in the sky above the famous UFO hotspot Eceti Ranch US state Washington.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    04-08-2017 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Triangle UFO caught on tape over Ansonia, Connecticut

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    This is an older footage that was just filmed over Ansonia, Connecticut. It was recorded on 15th December 2013 and it was just submitted to MUFON.

    Witness report:

     Friends and I were outside and we looked at the object for 2 minutes until I started filming. The night of December 15th, 2013, two friends and I were having a get together and having a few drinks. We go outside to smoke a cigarette then after about five minutes, we see two orbs floating and moving. So i took out my phone to record it and a third orb appeared. The lights had white/gold/green/blue hues to them, and pulsated only a tiny bit. The orbs then form into a triangle shape and then proceeded to go into one another until the the orbs vanished. There was sound emitted from the orbs. That is all I can remember 

    Author (source: MUFON)

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    04-08-2017 om 01:29 geschreven door peter  

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    MUST SEE! Triangle-shaped UFO filmed over New York by two different witnesses 31-Jul-2017

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    I just found these two UFO videos of a triangular formation that were both filmed over New York on 31st July 2017. The most interesting part is that they were captured by two different witnesses on a different location.

    What do you think about it?

    First video:

    Here’s the witness report from the first video that was captured over Oceanside, NY 3 lights forming a triangle traveled north to south (out to the ocean) above myself and 3 other witnesses who were sitting in my backyard at 9:14 pm on Saturday, July 29th. The 3 orbs were completely silent and one of the witnesses saw a 4th light following the 3 in triangle formation. In the video, you can see a plane so hopefully that gives a reference point to the speed and altitude of the lights. When I saved the video to my desktop, it came out sideways. I didn’t want MUFON or anyone else to think that I tampered with or manipulated the video in any way so I have uploaded the video as-is. Feel free to rotate the video. The original video was shot on my iphone.

    Let me know what you think it is! I posted the video to facebook and some people thought it was either (a) drones or (b) Chinese lanterns. I had no way of calculating speed or altitude but if the lights are moving fast enough, that may rule out both a and b above. Feel free to reach out with any questions and I’ll try to be as helpful as I can.:

    Second video:


    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    04-08-2017 om 01:23 geschreven door peter  

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    Witness in Georgia claims to spot “massive” metallic triangular UFO

    A witness from Georgia claims to have seen a “massive” metallic “beautiful chrome-ish” triangular UFO. The witness says the object had no lights and although it was huge, it was moving very slowly. The witness reported the sighting today to the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) online reporting system.

    The witness says the object was spotted on June 1, 2008 while driving home from work with a friend. They were headed from Cartersville to Canton, Georgia on the I-20 highway. The object was so large and strange that the witness says they did not want to alert their friend who was driving for fear of sounding crazy.

    The route the witness was taking from Cartersville to Canton on the I-20 can be seen in the upper left corner of this map, along with the area's proximity to Atlanta, Georgia. (Credit: Google Maps)

    The route the witness was taking from Cartersville to Canton on the I-20 can be seen in the upper left corner of this map, along with the area’s proximity to Atlanta, Georgia.

    (Credit: Google Maps)

    Here is the witness testimony in its entirety, unedited:

    An old friend and I were heading home from work in Cartersville GA heading towards Canton GA, my friend driving, down GA.20…I looked up and saw a perfect triangle. Appeared to be massive in size. It was the most beautiful chrome-ish metallic I had ever seen. So shocked I could not even tell my friend who was driving the truck we were in. Also I didn’t want to tell anyone for the simple fact they would think I was nuts. I know what I saw. It was real. No markings, no lights and extremely huge for such a slow pace…if it was even moving. 

    We were heading northbound on 20 the craft was heading southbound as if it also were following the route in the opposite direction. 

    In my life I have seen things that I could not explain…however I would find a way to explain them away in some fashion. This, craft that I saw I can not think of any way to explain it away unless it was a government craft. If it were, then the government is far far more advanced then I had given them credit for. There was a small airplane in the air at the time. I did not pay it any mind. Just know it was there. Did not appear to be following or evading. It was just there. My attention was completely drawn to this massive beautiful “thing”. 

    Then we crossed over the next hill and I turned back towards facing the direction we were going and was quiet. Until now. I know what I saw was real. I wish someone would come forward and tell me it was for a parade or it was a silver blanket floating through the sky, tin foil, something. It was such a beautiful day that I would be willing to bet that everyone around was chatting on their way home, paying attention only to the road (as they should if driving) or just thinking about their day. 

    I don’t know why I turned my head to the sky. Glad that I did. It was breathtaking. Literally. 

    Thank you and I apologize for keeping it under my hat for all these years. 

    Map of the area provided by the witness. (Credit: MUFON)

    Map of the area provided by the witness.

    (Credit: MUFON)

    The witness included a computer generated image representing what was seen. The witness claims the graphic does not do the sighing justice, but it looks like a pretty good image to me. If indeed this is what the witness saw, it would have been quite the sight to behold.

    Image provided by the witness of metallic triangular UFO. (Credit: MUFON)

    Image provided by the witness of metallic triangular UFO.

    (Credit: MUFON)

    The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the object in the comments below.

    http://www.openminds.tv/ }

    04-08-2017 om 01:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Nearly Half of Americans Believe in Aliens, According to New Survey

    Nearly Half of Americans Believe in Aliens, According to New Survey

    Nearly half of Americans believe in aliens, and nearly as many think aliens are visiting Earth, according to a new survey. Fewer than 20% believe in alien abduction, and even fewer claim that they have seen a UFO.

    20th Century Fox Home Entertainment commissioned the survey as part of its promotional campaign for the Blu-ray release of the movie “Phoenix Forgotten.” The film is a sci-fi thriller set during the mass UFO sighting in Phoenix in 1997 that is referred to as “The Phoenix Lights.” The film was produced by Ridley Scott, whose producer and director credits include “Alien” and “The Martian.”

    “The Phoenix Lights phenomenon of March 13, 1997, led us to introduce a survey to find out what Americans believe about aliens,” a representative from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment told OpenMinds.tv. “From our survey, we found that nearly half (47%) believe in aliens but less than a fifth think they’ve ever seen a UFO or alien themselves.”

    More than 1,700 Americans took part in the survey that was conducted by communications and public relations firm Cohn and Wolfe.

    Among the interesting findings in the survey was that about 39% “believe aliens have visited Earth before.” Only 18% believed in alien abduction.

    Regarding UFOs, only 16.74% of those surveyed claimed to have seen one.

    24/7 Wall St. posted a story in May on the states with the most UFO sightings, based on sightings per 100,000 in population.

    To determine the states with the most UFO sightings, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed 2001 to 2015 sightings in data from Cheryl Costa’s “UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015: Unidentified Flying Objects Frequency–Distribution–Shapes.”

    Vermont had the most, with 80.7 sightings per 100,000 people. The five states with the most sightings per 100,000 people are in either the Pacific Northwest or New England, areas associated with thick forests and that are sparsely populated. Mississippi had the fewest, with 21.3 sightings per 100,000 people.

    As for Arizona, the state was sixth on the list, with 68.2 sightings per 100,000 people.

    Other recent polls have found most people believe intelligent life exists beyond Earth. Most Americans, British and Germans think that intelligent alien life exists. That poll, conducted by the market-research company YouGov two years ago, found the Germans are most likely to believe, at 56%, followed by Americans and British, at 54% and 52%, respectively.

    http://247wallst.com/ }

    04-08-2017 om 01:05 geschreven door peter  

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    Aliens or owls? The legend behind Kentucky's Kelly Little Green Men Days Festival

    04-08-2017 om 00:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Large UFO caught on video in Squamish

    Visiting enthusiasts document atmospheric anomaly

     / SQUAMISH CHIEF

    A large orb captured on video near the Stawamus Chief has excited a documentary and research crew from London, Ont. 

    Rob Freeman and Marcus McNabb have travelled to 11 countries and 30 cities in the past three years determined to record what is out there, after being inspired from a childhood experience. 

    Freeman, a senior field researcher for the Centre for the Scientific Study of Atmospheric Anomalies, said the sighting is the best footage they’ve recorded to date.

     “This is such a fascinating path that we are on,” Freeman said. “Most people have no idea what’s happening in the world.”

    The pair initially started out to make a documentary but McNabb now describes it as a movement.

    To collect data, the crew used night imaging technology spanning the electromagnetic spectrum to see the visible and invisible, as well as a camera fondly called the “weapon of mass detection.”

    When the crew arrived in Squamish on July 22, a stranger at the Britannia Mine gift shop told them special things shine on the Chief trail. “It was breathtakingly majestic,” Freeman said of the rock face.

    As night fell, they entered the forest. Soon after, he said, a giant sphere of light moved across the sky and descended into the woods. 

    “At first we thought it was an airplane,” Freeman said. “There was absolutely no sound… then we absolutely knew it was no airplane.”

    The sighting was brief, but Freeman recorded about 10 seconds after rummaging for gear. 

    “The trees behind the orb were all lit up,” he explained. “That means it was in front of the trees.”

    They planned the trip to B.C. specifically to meet Charles Lamoureux, a Vancouver-based online skywatcher featured in local news reports.

    Lamoureux documents the inexplicable phenomena, often seeing them move over Cypress and toward Horseshoe Bay. He made his own film, Nocturnal Lights, and is currently working with SFU on a paranormal program.

    Orbs can vary in size, known to blink amber or white light when zipping off, he explained. On July 20, the group tracked an orb with thermal gear from Vanier Park toward the mountains.

    Lamoureux suggested going to Squamish, though didn’t head out that night due to rain. 

    “People at the Chief have actually seen lighted orbs or spheres,” he says, citing Internet videos.

    Lamoureux was disappointed to miss the sighting. He fact-checked the video the crew immediately sent, confirming it was not a plane, drone, satellite or meteor, after no such YVR documented routes were found.  

    The Mutual UFO Network, an international organization originating in 1969 that collects and researches data specific to sky watching, said it is incredible footage. 

    “This is the clearest orb video so far this year,” the spokesperson responded. 

    “The Chief is a sacred mountain,” Freeman said. “Lights are found in ancient spots like Peru or Norway. Whatever it is, in every single country on every single expedition, we’ve got something.”


    @ Copyright 2017 Squamish Chief

    http://www.squamishchief.com/ }

    04-08-2017 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.First U.S. Human Embryo Gene Editing Experiment Successfully “Corrects” a Heart Condition

    First U.S. Human Embryo Gene Editing Experiment Successfully “Corrects” a Heart Condition

    IN BRIEF
    A study published today in the journal Nature confirms earlier reports of the first-ever successful gene-editing of embryos in the U.S. Though controversial, the treatment could one day be used to address any of the 10,000 disorders linked to just a single genetic error.

    CORRECTING MUTANT GENES

    Last week, reports circulated  that doctors had successfully edited a gene in a human embryo — the first time such a thing had been done in the United States. The remarkable achievement confirmed the powerful potential of CRISPR, the world’s most efficient and effective gene-editing tool. Now, details of the research have been published in Nature.

    The procedure involved “correcting” the DNA of one-cell embryos using CRISPR to remove the MYBPC3 gene. That gene is known to cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart disease that affects 1 out of 500 people. HCM has no known cure or treatment as its symptoms don’t manifest until the disease causes sudden death through cardiac arrest.

    The researchers started with human embryos created from 12 healthy female donors and sperm from a male volunteer who carried the MYBOC3 gene. The defective gene was cut out using CRISPR around the time the sperm was injected into the eggs.

    As a result, as the embryos divided and grew, many repaired themselves using the non-edited genes from the genetic materials of the female donors, and in total, 72 percent of the cells that formed appeared to be corrected. The researchers didn’t notice any “off-target” effects on the DNA, either.

    The researchers told The Washington Post that their work was fairly basic. “Really, we didn’t edit anything, neither did we modify anything,” explained Shoukhrat Mitalipov, lead author and a researcher at the Oregon Health and Science University. “Our program is toward correcting mutant genes.”

    A [CONTROVERSIAL] NEW ERA?

    Basic or not, the development is remarkable.“By using this technique, it’s possible to reduce the burden of this heritable disease on the family and eventually the human population,” Mitalipov said in an OHSU press release.

    However, gene editing is a controversial area of study, and the researchers’ work included changes to the germ line, meaning the changes could be passed down to future generations. To be clear, though, the embryos were allowed to grow for only a few days and none were implanted into a womb (nor was that ever the researchers’ intention).

    In fact, current legislation in the U.S. prohibits the implantation of edited embryos. The work conducted by these researchers was well within the guidelines set by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the use of CRISPR to edit human genes.

    University of Wisconsin-Madison bioethicist Alta Charo thinks that the benefits of this potential treatment outweigh all concerns. “What this represents is a fascinating, important, and rather impressive incremental step toward learning how to edit embryos safely and precisely,” she told The Washington Post. “[N]o matter what anybody says, this is not the dawn of the era of the designer baby.”

    Before the technique could be truly beneficial, regulations must be developed that provide clearer guidelines, according to Mitalipov. If not, “this technology will be shifted to unregulated areas, which shouldn’t be happening,” he explained.

    More than 10,000 disorders have been linked to just a single genetic error, and as the researchers continue with their work, their next target is BRCA, a gene associated with breast cancer growth.

    Mitalipov hopes that their technique could one day be used to treat a wide-range of genetic diseases and save the lives of millions of people. After all, treating a single gene at the embryonic stage is far more efficient that changing a host of them in adults.

    https://futurism.com/ }

    04-08-2017 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Diamond Batteries Made of Nuclear Waste Can Generate Power For Thousands of Years

    Diamond Batteries Made of Nuclear Waste Can Generate Power For Thousands of Years


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    IN BRIEF
    • Scientist have developed an ingenious means of converting nuclear power plant waste (76,430 metric tons in the US alone) into sustainable diamond batteries.
    • These long-lasting batteries could be a clean and safe way to power spacecraft, satellites, and even medical devices.

    NUCLEAR DIAMONDS

    Scientists from the University of Bristol Cabot Institute are hitting two birds with one stone, thanks to their lab-made diamond that can generate electricity and is made from upcycled radioactive waste.

    In nuclear power plants, radioactive uranium is split in a process called nuclear fission. When the atoms are split, heat is generated, and that heat then vaporizes water into steam that turns electricity-generating turbines.

    A severe downside of this process is the creation of dangerous radioactive waste, which ultimately deposits in the graphite core that it is housed in. Today, this nuclear contamination is safely stored away until it stops being radioactive…and with a half-life of 5,730 years, that takes quite a while.

    The scientists found a way to heat the radioactive graphite to release most of the radioactivity in a gaseous form. The gas is subjected to high temperature and low pressures that turn it into a man-made diamond.

    When these diamonds are placed near a radioactive field, they generate a small electrical current. The developers enclosed the diamond battery in another non-radioactive diamond to absorb the harmful emissions, which in turn allowed for the generation of even more electricity, making the battery nearly 100 percent efficient.

    POWERING THE FUTURE

    The nuclear diamond battery has an incredible lifetime, and will only be half used up by the year 7746. This makes it an ideal power solution for “situations where it is not feasible to charge or replace conventional batteries,” said Tom Scott, a materials science professor at Cabot Institute.

    Flight times of planes, satellites, or spacecraft could increase with such a lasting battery. Medical devices like pacemakers and the artificial pancreas could become more reliable, empowering users to live their lives more fully.

    The development also presents an incredibly efficient way to treat radioactive waste. Within the past 40 years, the US has amassed 76,430 metric tons (84,250 tons) of this waste.

    Supplying the Earth with electricity is a daunting task even without a focus on sustainability. Now, it looks like experts are on the right track with this nuclear-powered diamond battery. It’s almost like the holy grail of electricity generation, or as Scott puts it, “no emissions generated and no maintenance required, just direct electricity generation.”

    https://futurism.com/ }

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    03-08-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.How Automation is Going to Redefine What it Means to Work

    How Automation is Going to Redefine What it Means to Work


    IN BRIEF
    The time for machines to take over most of humanity's work is rapidly approaching. The world is woefully unprepared to deal with the implications that automation will have over the coming decades. Universal basic income is just beginning to be discussed, and automation has the potential to displace much of the world's workforce. Many decisions have to be made, and quickly, if we hope to keep pace with innovation.

    On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction inside a pile of bricks and wood underneath a football field at the University of Chicago. Known to history as Chicago Pile-1, it was celebrated in silence with a single bottle of Chianti, for those who were there understood exactly what it meant for humankind, without any need for words.

    Now, something new has occurred that, again, quietly changed the world forever. Like a whispered word in a foreign language, it was quiet in that you may have heard it, but its full meaning may not have been comprehended. However, it’s vital we understand this new language, and what it’s increasingly telling us, for the ramifications are set to alter everything we take for granted about the way our globalized economy functions, and the ways in which we as humans exist within it.

    The language is a new class of machine learning known as deep learning, and the “whispered word” was a computer’s use of it to seemingly out of nowhere defeat three-time European Go champion Fan Hui, not once but five times in a row without defeat. Many who read this news, considered that as impressive, but in no way comparable to a match against Lee Se-dol instead, who many consider to be one of the world’s best living Go players, if not the best. Imagining such a grand duel of man versus machine, China’s top Go player predicted that Lee would not lose a single game, and Lee himself confidently expected to possibly lose one at the most.

    What actually ended up happening when they faced off? Lee went on to lose all but one of their match’s five games. An AI named AlphaGo is now a better Go player than any human and has been granted the “divine” rank of 9 dan. In other words, its level of play borders on godlike. Go has officially fallen to machines, just as Jeopardy did before it to Watson, and chess before that to Deep Blue.

    “AlphaGo’s historic victory is a clear signal that we’ve gone from linear to parabolic.

    So, what is Go? Very simply, think of Go as Super Ultra Mega Chess. This may still sound like a small accomplishment, another feather in the cap of machines as they continue to prove themselves superior in the fun games we play, but it is no small accomplishment, and what’s happening is no game.

    AlphaGo’s historic victory is a clear signal that we’ve gone from linear to parabolic. Advances in technology are now so visibly exponential in nature that we can expect to see a lot more milestones being crossed long before we would otherwise expect. These exponential advances, most notably in forms of artificial intelligence limited to specific tasks, we are entirely unprepared for as long as we continue to insist upon employment as our primary source of income.

    This may all sound like exaggeration, so let’s take a few decade steps back, and look at what computer technology has been actively doing to human employment so far:

    Source: St. Louis Fed

    Let the above chart sink in. Do not be fooled into thinking this conversation about the automation of labor is set in the future. It’s already here. Computer technology is already eating jobs and has been since 1990.

    ROUTINE WORK

    All work can be divided into four types: routine and nonroutine, cognitive and manual. Routine work is the same stuff day in and day out, while nonroutine work varies. Within these two varieties, is the work that requires mostly our brains (cognitive) and the work that requires mostly our bodies (manual). Where once all four types saw growth, the stuff that is routine stagnated back in 1990. This happened because routine labor is easiest for technology to shoulder. Rules can be written for work that doesn’t change, and that work can be better handled by machines.

    Distressingly, it’s exactly routine work that once formed the basis of the American middle class. It’s routine manual work that Henry Ford transformed by paying people middle class wages to perform, and it’s routine cognitive work that once filled US office spaces. Such jobs are now increasingly unavailable, leaving only two kinds of jobs with rosy outlooks: jobs that require so little thought, we pay people little to do them, and jobs that require so much thought, we pay people well to do them.

    If we can now imagine our economy as a plane with four engines, where it can still fly on only two of them as long as they both keep roaring, we can avoid concerning ourselves with crashing. But what happens when our two remaining engines also fail? That’s what the advancing fields of robotics and AI represent to those final two engines, because for the first time, we are successfully teaching machines to learn.

    NEURAL NETWORKS

    I’m a writer at heart, but my educational background happens to be in psychology and physics. I’m fascinated by both of them so my undergraduate focus ended up being in the physics of the human brain, otherwise known as cognitive neuroscience. I think once you start to look into how the human brain works, how our mass of interconnected neurons somehow results in what we describe as the mind, everything changes. At least it did for me.

    As a quick primer in the way our brains function, they’re a giant network of interconnected cells. Some of these connections are short, and some are long. Some cells are only connected to one other, and some are connected to many. Electrical signals then pass through these connections, at various rates, and subsequent neural firings happen in turn. It’s all kind of like falling dominoes, but far faster, larger, and more complex. The result amazingly is us, and what we’ve been learning about how we work, we’ve now begun applying to the way machines work.

    One of these applications is the creation of deep neural networks – kind of like pared-down virtual brains. They provide an avenue to machine learning that’s made incredible leaps that were previously thought to be much further down the road, if even possible at all. How? It’s not just the obvious growing capability of our computers and our expanding knowledge in the neurosciences, but the vastly growing expanse of our collective data, aka big data.

    BIG DATA

    Big data isn’t just some buzzword. It’s information, and when it comes to information, we’re creating more and more of it every day. In fact we’re creating so much that a 2013 report by SINTEF estimated that 90% of all information in the world had been created in the prior two years. This incredible rate of data creation is even doubling every 1.5 years thanks to the Internet, where in 2015 every minute we were liking 4.2 million things on Facebook, uploading 300 hours of video to YouTube, and sending 350,000 tweets. Everything we do is generating data like never before, and lots of data is exactly what machines need in order to learn to learn. Why?

    Imagine programming a computer to recognize a chair. You’d need to enter a ton of instructions, and the result would still be a program detecting chairs that aren’t, and not detecting chairs that are. So how did we learn to detect chairs? Our parents pointed at a chair and said, “chair.” Then we thought we had that whole chair thing all figured out, so we pointed at a table and said “chair”, which is when our parents told us that was “table.” This is called reinforcement learning. The label “chair” gets connected to every chair we see, such that certain neural pathways are weighted and others aren’t. For “chair” to fire in our brains, what we perceive has to be close enough to our previous chair encounters. Essentially, our lives are big data filtered through our brains.

    DEEP LEARNING

    The power of deep learning is that it’s a way of using massive amounts of data to get machines to operate more like we do without giving them explicit instructions. Instead of describing “chairness” to a computer, we instead just plug it into the Internet and feed it millions of pictures of chairs. It can then have a general idea of “chairness.” Next we test it with even more images. Where it’s wrong, we correct it, which further improves its “chairness” detection. Repetition of this process results in a computer that knows what a chair is when it sees it, for the most part as well as we can. The important difference though is that unlike us, it can then sort through millions of images within a matter of seconds.

    This combination of deep learning and big data has resulted in astounding accomplishments just in the past year. Aside from the incredible accomplishment of AlphaGo, Google’s DeepMind AI learned how to read and comprehend what it read through hundreds of thousands of annotated news articles. DeepMind also taught itself to play dozens of Atari 2600 video games better than humans, just by looking at the screen and its score, and playing games repeatedly. An AI named Giraffe taught itself how to play chess in a similar manner using a dataset of 175 million chess positions, attaining International Master level status in just 72 hours by repeatedly playing itself. In 2015, an AI even passed a visual Turing test by learning to learn in a way that enabled it to be shown an unknown character in a fictional alphabet, then instantly reproduce that letter in a way that was entirely indistinguishable from a human given the same task. These are all major milestones in AI.

    However, despite all these milestones, when asked to estimate when a computer would defeat a prominent Go player, the answer even just months prior to the announcement by Google of AlphaGo’s victory, was by experts essentially, “Maybe in another ten years.” A decade was considered a fair guess because Go is a game so complex I’ll just let Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame, another former champion human defeated by AI, describe it:

    Go is famously a more complex game than chess, with its larger board, longer games, and many more pieces. Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence team likes to say that there are more possible Go boards than atoms in the known universe, but that vastly understates the computational problem. There are about 10¹⁷⁰ board positions in Go, and only 10⁸⁰ atoms in the universe. That means that if there were as many parallel universes as there are atoms in our universe (!), then the total number of atoms in all those universes combined would be close to the possibilities on a single Go board.

    Such confounding complexity makes impossible any brute-force approach to scan every possible move to determine the next best move. But deep neural networks get around that barrier in the same way our own minds do, by learning to estimate what feels like the best move. We do this through observation and practice, and so did AlphaGo, by analyzing millions of professional games and playing itself millions of times. So the answer to when the game of Go would fall to machines wasn’t even close to ten years. The correct answer ended up being, “Any time now.”

    NONROUTINE AUTOMATION

    Any time now. That’s the new go-to response in the 21st century for any question involving something new machines can do better than humans, and we need to try to wrap our heads around it.

    We need to recognize what it means for exponential technological change to be entering the labor market space for nonroutine jobs for the first time ever. Machines that can learn mean nothing humans do as a job is uniquely safe anymore. From hamburgers to healthcare, machines can be created to successfully perform such tasks with no need or less need for humans, and at lower costs than humans.

    Amelia is just one AI out there currently being beta-tested in companies right now. Created by IPsoft over the past 16 years, she’s learned how to perform the work of call center employees. She can learn in seconds what takes us months, and she can do it in 20 languages. Because she’s able to learn, she’s able to do more over time. In one company putting her through the paces, she successfully handled one of every ten calls in the first week, and by the end of the second month, she could resolve six of ten calls. Because of this, it’s been estimated that she can put 250 million people out of a job, worldwide.

    Viv is an AI coming soon from the creators of Siri who’ll be our own personal assistant. She’ll perform tasks online for us, and even function as a Facebook News Feed on steroids by suggesting we consume the media she’ll know we’ll like best. In doing all of this for us, we’ll see far fewer ads, and that means the entire advertising industry — that industry the entire Internet is built upon — stands to be hugely disrupted.

    A world with Amelia and Viv — and the countless other AI counterparts coming online soon — in combination with robots like Boston Dynamics’ next generation Atlas portends, is a world where machines can do all four types of jobs and that means serious societal reconsiderations. If a machine can do a job instead of a human, should any human be forced at the threat of destitution to perform that job? Should income itself remain coupled to employment, such that having a job is the only way to obtain income, when jobs for many are entirely unobtainable? If machines are performing an increasing percentage of our jobs for us, and not getting paid to do them, where does that money go instead? And what does it no longer buyIs it even possible that many of the jobs we’re creating don’t need to exist at all, and only do because of the incomes they provide? These are questions we need to start asking, and fast.

    DECOUPLING INCOME FROM WORK

    Fortunately, people are beginning to ask these questions, and there’s an answer that’s building up momentum. The idea is to put machines to work for us, but empower ourselves to seek out the forms of remaining work we as humans find most valuable, by simply providing everyone a monthly paycheck independent of work. This paycheck would be granted to all citizens unconditionally, and its name is universal basic income. By adopting UBI, aside from immunizing against the negative effects of automation, we’d also be decreasing the risks inherent in entrepreneurship, and the sizes of bureaucracies necessary to boost incomes. It’s for these reasons, it has cross-partisan support, and is even now in the beginning stages of possible implementation in countries like SwitzerlandFinland, the Netherlands, and Canada.

    The future is a place of accelerating changes. It seems unwise to continue looking at the future as if it were the past, where just because new jobs have historically appeared, they always will. The WEF started 2016 off by estimating the creation by 2020 of 2 million new jobs alongside the elimination of 7 million. That’s a net loss, not a net gain of 5 million jobs. In a frequently cited paper, an Oxford study estimated the automation of about half of all existing jobs by 2033. Meanwhile self-driving vehicles, again thanks to machine learning, have the capability of drastically impacting all economies — especially the US economy as I wrote last year about automating truck driving — by eliminating millions of jobs within a short span of time.

    And now even the White House, in a stunning report to Congress, has put the probability at 83 percent that a worker making less than $20 an hour in 2010 will eventually lose their job to a machine. Even workers making as much as $40 an hour face odds of 31 percent. To ignore odds like these is tantamount to our now laughable “duck and cover” strategies for avoiding nuclear blasts during the Cold War.

    All of this is why it’s those most knowledgeable in the AI field who are now actively sounding the alarm for basic income. During a panel discussion at the end of 2015 at Singularity University, prominent data scientist Jeremy Howard asked “Do you want half of people to starve because they literally can’t add economic value, or not?” before going on to suggest, ”If the answer is not, then the smartest way to distribute the wealth is by implementing a universal basic income.”

    AI pioneer Chris Eliasmith, director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, warned about the immediate impacts of AI on society in an interview with Futurism, “AI is already having a big impact on our economies… My suspicion is that more countries will have to follow Finland’s lead in exploring basic income guarantees for people.”

    Moshe Vardi expressed the same sentiment after speaking at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about the emergence of intelligent machines, “we need to rethink the very basic structure of our economic system… we may have to consider instituting a basic income guarantee.”

    Even Baidu’s chief scientist and founder of Google’s “Google Brain” deep learning project, Andrew Ng, during an onstage interview at this year’s Deep Learning Summit, expressed the shared notion that basic income must be “seriously considered” by governments, citing “a high chance that AI will create massive labor displacement.”

    When those building the tools begin warning about the implications of their use, shouldn’t those wishing to use those tools listen with the utmost attention, especially when it’s the very livelihoods of millions of people at stake? If not then, what about when Nobel prize winning economists begin agreeing with them in increasing numbers?

    No nation is yet ready for the changes ahead. High labor force non-participation leads to social instability, and a lack of consumers within consumer economies leads to economic instability. So let’s ask ourselves, what’s the purpose of the technologies we’re creating? What’s the purpose of a car that can drive for us, or artificial intelligence that can shoulder 60% of our workload? Is it to allow us to work more hours for even less pay? Or is it to enable us to choose how we work, and to decline any pay/hours we deem insufficient because we’re already earning the incomes that machines aren’t?

    What’s the big lesson to learn, in a century when machines can learn?

    I offer it’s that jobs are for machines, and life is for people.

    https://futurism.com/ }

    03-08-2017 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

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    Categorie:SF-snufjes }, Robotics and A.I. Artificiel Intelligence ( E, F en NL )
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.“It looked like an alien invasion”: Dad captures stunning display of light pillars from the heavens

    “It looked like an alien invasion”: Dad captures stunning display of light pillars from the heavens

    A father captured these stunning images of multicolored pillars beaming up into to the sky after waking up at 1.30am and thinking ALIENS were invading.

    Timothy Joseph Elzinga, 33, got out of bed when two-year-old son Gibson started crying – and he noticed the incredible light show outside.

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    He thought someone from Star Trek was “trying to beam people up” – and quickly ran outside to investigate the yellow, green, red and blue lights.

    The amateur photographer captured the incredible light pillars – caused by crystals of moisture frozen in the air – reflecting light over Ontario, Canada, last Friday.

    Timothy, who took the images on his phone camera, said: “It looked almost supernatural – like some kind of intergalactic wars, with beams shooting down from the sky.

    They look like the Northern Lights, but are something quite different
     (Image: Timmy Joe Elzinga / SWNS)

    “It was very bright in person, like nothing I’ve even seen before. It seems like nobody has really seen this kind of thing, either.

    “There were beams of light being shot out of the atmosphere down to the ground, all different colours shimmering and changing.

    “It’s about the one time I’ll be glad to get waked up at 1.30am by my son crying. If not for that I would have missed it.”

    The pillars are caused when artificial light passes through frozen water molecules 
    (Image: Timmy Joe Elzinga / SWNS)

    Light pillars are caused when temperatures plummet so low that water molecules in the air freeze but can remain stationary in vertical shafts.

    The light pillars captured by Timothy in -18C temperatures were particularly dazzling as they reflected artificial light from neon signs, homes – and even traffic lights changing from red to green.

    The temperature was just -18C when these images were taken 
    (Image: Timmy Joe Elzinga / SWNS)

    Unlike the natural northern lights, light pillars can be partly man-made and there are no magnetic fields involved.

    Timothy added: “It was pretty amazing. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

    “It was so cold that night that it froze the moisture in the air, creating crystals so small that are perfect for prisms of light to shoot out from.”

    http://alien-ufo-sightings.com/ }

    03-08-2017 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes
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    A diagram of an "ancient Peruvian skull" from Samuel George Morton's Crania Americana
    Samuel George Morton

    The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes

    Pre-Columbian bodies are once again being used as evidence for extraterrestrial life.

     

    Peruvian archaeologists are tired of debunking claims of extraterrestrial influence on human history. In 1968, Swiss author Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods? introduced the mainstream to the theory that the Nazca Lines, the massive geoglyphs in Southern Peru whose shapes are fully visible only from the air, were landing strips for “ancient astronauts.” Archaeologists calmly disagree, positing that they were astronomical designs that turned the desert itself into an observatory, or counter constellations matching the dark spaces in the Milky Way, or, more abstractly, cosmological figures meant to be seen by skyward deities, of which ancient Peru had many. 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull put a new spin on this old tale, including, for good measure, the large-skulled aliens that pepper North American abduction stories.

    Now, Peruvian scientists are furious at a new and possibly pernicious permutation of the “ancient astronaut” theory. A web series named Unearthing Nazca purports to depict the investigation of a pre-Columbian and “humanoid” mummy. Archaeologists, who have been denied access to the mummy, worry that it is as old as the series’ creators claim, but that it is actually indigenous and Andean—a real human individual that has been mutilated to look like an alien. They worry that Unearthing Nazca is an archaeological snuff film in disguise.

    The series’ success is also of concern. Since the series’ launch in June by Gaia.com—a website specializing in “conscious media, yoga, and more”—the teaser episode of Unearthing Nazca has been viewed 2.35 million times on YouTube alone. It starts with what at first seems to be a typical seated Peruvian mummy, arms wrapped around its knees, like a child waiting for its parent. Its head is elongated like those of other pre-Columbian mummies, whose societies artificially shaped their children’s crania to achieve ideals of beauty or represent group belonging.

    “Maria,” the “humanoid” mummy from the Gaia.com web series Unearthing Nazca (Screenshot from Gaia.com)

    The resemblance ends there. A Hans Zimmer-esque score throbs, and a Russian-accented expert in “bioelectrography”—who elsewhere claims to have photographed the human soul escaping the body after death—declares the mummy “one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century.” The camera orbits the mummy, revealing that it has only three long fingers on each hand and three long toes on each foot. Its elongated head has no nose, no ears, and large, heavy-lidded eyes. And its skin is an eerie, powdery white.

    The video’s experts stop short of the A-word, letting a series of vest-wearing and white coat-clad “experts” claim that x-rays, CT scans, and DNA and carbon-14 tests of the mummy’s flesh reveal that this new “humanoid” or “organic creature,” whom they have dubbed “Maria,” is no fraud. To learn more, viewers were initially encouraged to watch the rest of the investigation behind Gaia’s paywall.

    Because of course: What else could they be?

    * * *

    Human beings, and indigenous ones to boot.

    In 2015, Maussan tried to promote a photographic slide from the late 1940s that, he hinted, depicted the corpse of an alien child found in the American Southwest. More skeptical ufologists applied de-blurring technology to the “Roswell Slide” when it was released, and found that a previously undecipherable placard next to the body revealed that it was actually the mummy of a two-year-old Puebloan boy removed from the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde in 1894. Returned to a National Park museum in 1938, the boy was repatriated to a local tribe in 2015. Incredibly, Maussan then offered $10,000 for information that might permit the Puebloan boy’s “location and recuperation.”

    This inclusion of pre-Columbian Peruvians in science’s supposed cover-up of extraterrestrials echoes the previous collection and study of the indigenous dead. In the 19th century, Anglo-American and European craniologists and scholars who came upon artificially molded skulls in Peruvian tombs hypothesized that they were either the undeformed remnants of a lost and civilized people they named the “Ancient Peruvians,” or artificial deformations of later peoples inspired by those Ancient Peruvians’ natural forms. Archaeologists came to realize that “deformed” Peruvian skulls were bound and shaped from infancy, when cranial bones weren’t yet fused—with no change to cranial capacity and, judging from the monumental societies their elites achieved, without handicap to cognitive ability. But ufology’s rise after the “Roswell incident” of 1947 has resurrected the search for secret ancestors—and its less responsible practitioners have re-enlisted ancient Peruvian skulls as evidence of the presence of large-skulled “Gray Aliens.” They speculate that Peru’s greatest pre-Columbian achievements—including Machu Picchu, according to a theory aired on the History channel program Ancient Aliens—are literally out of this world, the product of a superior, extraterrestrial “race” or their borrowed technology.

    Illustration of a mummy collected and unwrapped in 1836 by John Harrison Blake (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)

    The use of the word “race” is telling, as it suggests how the repurposing of older, European collections of non-European bodies and research upon them can reproduce old and debunked theories of racial deficiency: that indigenous Peruvians, in particular, could not have built such advanced, monumental societies on their own. (“Ancient astronaut” theorists claim evidence of extraterrestrial inspiration worldwide, but only indigenous Americans see their bodies and achievements remade as only explicable by alien presence.) From the 18th century on, Northern Europeans have accused the Spanish of exaggerating or misidentifying the origins of the Incas’ achievements. Alexander von Humboldt asserted that the first Incas were actually Chinese. Inca embalming of their dead was attributed instead to natural mummification by the elements or to the diffusion of Egyptian knowledge.

    With the rise of specifically racialized science in the 19th and 20th centuries, evidence for Native American otherness was sought in the ancient Peruvians’ very bones. In the 1920s, one German scholar and future SS officer would seek confirmation that the Andes’ most megalithic cultures were actually Aryan or Atlantean, and that their elongated skulls were of a higher, Northern European race. More dismissively, earlier scholars took ancient Peruvian skulls’ distinctive size, shape, and possession of unique interparietal bones as evidence of a similarity to rodents and marsupials, a contradiction that undercut their attributed civilization. In his great assault on racial bias in the scientific estimation of intelligence, The Mismeasure of Man (1981), Stephen Jay Gould famously claimed that the Philadelphia craniologist Samuel George Morton had “plummeted” the average size of Indian skulls in his collection by including a “major overrepresentation of an extreme group—the small-brained Inca Peruvians.”

    * * *

    Archaeology and museums have come a long way in their study and portrayal of an indigenous past in which Peruvians are proud, and conversations about the repatriation or more ethical study of the indigenous American dead are ongoing. (Simultaneous to Unearthing Nazca’s release, there was massive attendance at a new and decidedly non-extraterrestrial show on the Nazca culture at the Lima Museum of Art.) Gould’s use of Morton as an illustration of racial bias in science has also been debated—Morton actually used a grouped mean of the groups included among his “Americans,” controlling for the Peruvians’ greater presence so that their inclusion would not plummet the average.

    Nevertheless, Unearthing Nazca is support for Gould’s larger warning against describing non-European bodies as deficient, abnormal, or non-human. The Internet in particular has provided a platform for claims of Peruvian skulls’ alien or alt-hominid abnormality that rely on the repetition of old scholarship without grappling with the racist presumptions behind the very metrics they used. Proponents of the idea that elongated Peruvian skulls were naturally occurring, for example, have embraced the work of Morton and his cohort, such as the Swiss author who compared the ancient Peruvians to marsupials. It also shows how zombified racial science—even when it claims not to be about race—might abuse actual human bodies.

    It was for this reason that Unearthing Nazca broke Peruvian archaeologists’ studious reserve. The trouble began late last year, when the Peruvian YouTuber Paul Ronceros got local media to cover an earlier “alien” or “reptilian” mummy and separated three-fingered hand from Nazca, which he claimed were discovered by interested parties other than himself. At some point Ronceros brought that hand and the first “mummy” to a series of museums, including the natural history museum at Lima’s University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the hemisphere. According to that museum’s head of vertebrate paleontology, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi—who is also an investigator affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York—Ronceros changed his story when challenged on the obvious fabrication, claiming that it instead was a pre-Columbian “representation” of alien life, made of a mixture of animal and human bones. Around this time, Maussan and fellow international UFO “experts” got involved, declaring that the mummies in question—they kept multiplying—were fabrications, possibly ancient, but that others were “genuine, non-human biological remains.”

    That archaeological human bones may have been used to mount Ronceros’s “reptile” mini-mummy and its accompanying hand was bad enough. But Peruvian scientists held their fire in public until June, when Unearthing Nazca revealed the previously un-photographed “Maria,” whose dramatic resemblance to actual Peruvian mummies—down to an almost anatomically correct CT scan—suggested that she wasn’t a pastiche of animal and human bones, but an actual pre-Columbian Andean, looted and remade for the sake of a hoax.

    From the x-rays of the mummified hands featured on Unearthing Nazca, Salas-Gismondi has proposed that they were part of a pre-Columbian mummy that was subsequently mutilated—two fingers or toes cut from each extremity and redeployed to augment the number of falanges in the remaining three digits to conform to our alien pop culture stereotypes. Its skeletal extremities, Salas-Gismondi observes, are otherwise identical to that of a human being with five fingers, which “makes no evolutionary sense.” To complete the package of “Maria,” her nose and ears may have been sliced away from what was either an unsurprisingly elongated head, or were left off of a recently fabricated one. Evidence of all alterations could easily be covered up with the white, plastery powder that the talking heads on Unearthing Nazca claim is a desiccant. The benefit of using an actual mummy is that the body may be probed for samples of actual pre-Columbian flesh, as some face-masked participants in Unearthing Nazca are seen to be doing in the name of “carbon-14 and DNA testing.” The “experts” later declare that those tests reveals that the mummy was a 1,600–1,800 year-old female “humanoid”—results that have not been verified by outside parties.

    Pre-Columbian Peruvian mummy as depicted for the 1851 work Antigüedades Peruanas. (Mariano Eduardo de Rivero / Johann Jakob von Tschudi)

    Maria’s guardians have not let her be examined by established mummy experts. In late June, Peru’s Ministry of Culture announced that it was investigating the possibility that the composition of the mummies were the product of looting. And in July, the organizers of last year’s World Congress on Mummy Studies in Lima—Peru’s actual experts on pre-Columbian remains—denounced Unearthing Nazca, calling upon Peruvian authorities to investigate, find, and prosecute the mummies’ apparent makers for violating Peru’s laws against trafficking in pre-Columbian human remains, which are considered Peruvian cultural patrimony. The Congress’s organizers were particularly galled by the possibility that this assault upon the dignity of an actual pre-Columbian mummy bolstered believers—even in Peru—that Andean culture and achievements owed to “outside help.”

    These Peruvian archaeologists and bio-anthropologists have been careful not to say who they believe is responsible for the suspected fraud; the experts on Gaia.com are likewise careful to say that “Maria” was “discovered” by “Mario,” a pseudonymous third party. When reached for comment, Gaia.com’s media representatives say that the organization has only investigated and reported “on facts related to artifacts presented to us,” and “arranged for independent testing including carbon-14 and DNA sequencing.” The on-camera experts involved in the investigation have apparently not been paid, and Gaia.com has never been “in possession of any artifacts.” During this story’s reporting, the paywall for the rest of the episodes of Unearthing Nazca was lowered, releasing them to the open web and possibly helping Gaia answer the charge that it continues to profit from an unraveling story.

    But Peru’s mummy experts remain frustrated. In mid-July, one of Peru’s most respected bio-anthropologists, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, agreed to debate Maussan and another member of his team—a Mexican naval surgeon whose claims to be a forensic anthropologist have not checked outlive on Peruvian TV.

    Maussan took the opportunity to claim that he and his colleagues were being defamed; that they never said it was an ‘extraterrestrial’; that they only sought the truth on whether or not it was a “human being.” But Tomasto-Cagigao wasn’t having it. She laid out the case clearly, patiently, unflappably, observing that no one in Peru’s actual scientific community of mummy experts had been consulted or had seen “Maria” or the actual x-rays other than what was flashed on Unearthing Nazca or in Maussan’s “press conferences.”

    “And if they present them tomorrow?” asks the host.

    “I’ll eat a cockroach, live, with mayonnaise,” Tomasto-Cagigao replied. “It is not just grave-robbing … Peruvian law says that to extract, alter, or manipulate cultural patrimony without the permission of the state is a crime.”

    The interviewer tries to break in.

    “I’m not saying that they did it,” she adds, refusing to look at the Unearthing Nazca experts, whose latest episode investigates a mummified pre-Columbian infant whose tiny hands and feet have, or were made to have, three fingers.

    “But there’s a crime here.”

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ }

    03-08-2017 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.What Happens Next If We Find Proof of Space Aliens?

    What Happens Next If We Find Proof of Space Aliens?

    Protocols for responding to the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence have been created, but they might not be followed.

    A recent survey indicated that 55 percent of the population figure that the discovery of extraterrestrials would be squelched. 

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    First came the suggestion that an “alien megastructure” had been observed around KIC 8462852, a.k.a. Tabby’s Star. Months later, people were talking about a signal seen by a Russian telescope that some thought was transmitted from the environs of a stellar cousin of the sun. And not long after that, the Cyclopean Arecibo antenna in Puerto Rico reported weird signals that seemed to come from the dwarf star Ross 128, a scant 11 light-years away.

    This brisk cadence of celestial surprises might make it seem that we’re on the cusp of proving the existence of extraterrestrials. But just because the crow’s nest announces clouds on the horizon doesn’t mean you’re close to land.

    These three claims purporting to show the existence of aliens haven’t panned out. But what happens if some future claim does? What preparations are in place to deal with the discovery of a radio signal or a laser flash that would prove beyond doubt that we have cosmic compeers? Does the government have a plan? Does anyone?

    A lot of people think there is a plan. A secret one. A recent survey indicated that 55 percent of the population figure that the discovery of extraterrestrials would be squelched — deep-sixed to prevent widespread panic. Only 19 percent believe the feds would fess up to E.T.’s existence.

    Related: Here's How We Might Talk with Space Aliens

    Such a cover-up would be virtually impossible to pull off. There’s no policy of secrecy, and verifying the signal would involve teams of scientists around the world. But leaving that aside, the fact that so many folks believe it's in the works attests to a discouraging lack of trust in both science and the public’s ability to handle the news.

    So what’s the truth about what would happen if we discovered intelligent aliens? Back in 1989, when a now-defunct NASA program to search for extraterrestrial intelligence was gaining steam, protocols were drafted to spell out best practices in case the search proved successful. These were later updated and streamlined by the International Academy of Astronautics SETI Permanent Committee. (Click here to see the revised protocols.)

    There are really only three important components to this two-page text. First, the detection of alien life should be carefully verified by repeated observations. Second, the discovery should be publicized. Third, no response should be sent without international consultation.

    All that sounds both tame and sane. But there’s an implicit assumption here: namely, that picking up signals from another world will be a Hollywood moment. We assume that it will play out the way it so often does in the movies: stuporous scientists, settling in for another decade or two of fruitless search, are suddenly jolted into wild-eyed excitement as a signal lights up their equipment. Then they spend about 10 minutes turning knobs and shouting at one another, after which they presumably reach into a desk drawer and pull out the protocols.

    Actually, they never take this last step in the movies. And they wouldn’t do it in real life either. In the many years of SETI efforts, there have been numerous false alarms in addition to the three noted at the top of this article. And what happens every time is that the media immediately start reporting the story. There is almost always a bit of sensationalism and a few garbled facts, but the news is out there long before the researchers have managed to verify the signal, as specified by the protocols.

    That’s the truth of the matter. Really, it is. Sure, speaking of “protocols” has a certain gravitas, but these would only work for a Hollywood-style discovery.

    But there’s a deeper question here — one that’s much harder to answer: what would be the long-term effect of learning we’re not alone? Would we give up religion? Would we stop waging war? Would we cower in the face of possible interstellar aggression?

    Related: Space Entrepreneur Thinks Aliens Are Here. Is He Right?

    Facing such questions, social scientists tend to look for historical analogies. For example, what were the consequences when Columbus discovered the American continent (or if you prefer, when the Vikings or Ice Age Asians did)? One problem here is that the analogy isn’t terribly apt. These folks weren’t doing exploration for its own sake. They found something new by accident.

    A better analogy might be the discovery of Antarctica or the source of the Nile. These really were exploration efforts. But even these are poor guides to how we should prepare for the discovery of intelligent aliens or anticipate its effects.

    Nineteenth-century explorers had no protocols other than to write up their experiences. Furthermore, the eventual consequences of their discoveries were completely incalculable. Do you think Fabian von Bellingshausen, who first saw the Antarctic continent in 1820, could have anticipated that less than 200 years later there would be a research base at the South Pole, or that cruise ships would be taking tourists to these forlorn latitudes?

    There is little certainty about what the consequences of finding aliens might be, but there is this: We’ll immediately know something very important. We’ll know that we are neither unique nor special. But if you ask what the legacy of such a discovery will be hundreds or thousands of years from now, there’s simply no way to arrive at an answer that’s either useful or accurate.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/mach }

    03-08-2017 om 22:41 geschreven door peter  

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    NASA has a job opening for someone to defend Earth from aliens — and it pays a 6-figure salary

    • NASA is hiring a planetary protection officer with a salary of up to $187,000.
    • The job was created after the signing of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967.
    • Planetary protection officers are tasked with making sure humans don't contaminate planets, moons, and other objects in space.
    • They're also supposed to help prevent any alien microbes from spreading to Earth.

    US government scientists work hard to protect the public.

    Some study infectious diseases and effective treatments. Others ensure that drugs, food, vehicles, or consumer products live up to their claims and don't harm anyone.

    But the concerns at NASA's headquarters are, quite literally, extraterrestrial — which is why the space agency now has a job opening for "planetary protection officer."

    The gig? Help defend Earth from alien contamination, and help Earth avoid contaminating alien worlds it's trying to explore.

    The pay? A six-figure salary, from $124,406 to $187,000 a year, plus benefits.

    A rare and cosmically important position

    While many space agencies hire planetary protection officers, they're often shared or part-time roles.

    In fact, only two such full-time roles exist in the world: one at NASA and the other at the European Space Agency.

    That's according to Catharine Conley, NASA's only planetary protection officer since 2014. Business Insider interviewed Conley most recently in March.

    "This new job ad is a result of relocating the position I currently hold to the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, which is an independent technical authority within NASA," Conley told Business Insider in an email on Tuesday. (She did not say whether she planned to reapply for the position, which is held for at least three years but may be extended to five years.)

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    Catharine Conley, NASA's sole planetary protection officer.

     Paul E. Alers/NASA

    The position was created after the US ratified the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, specifically to support Article IX of the document:

    "States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose."

    Part of the international agreement is that any space mission must have a less than 1-in-10,000 chance of contaminating an alien world.

    "It's a moderate level," Conley previously told Business Insider. "It's not extremely careful, but it's not extremely lax."

    This is why NASA's planetary protection officer occasionally gets to travel to space centers around the world and analyze planet-bound robots. The officer helps ensure we don't accidentally contaminate a pristine world that a probe is landing on — or, more often, is zooming by and photographing.

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    Skye Gould/Business Insider

    For example, Congress and the president have given NASA the green light to explore Europa, an icy, ocean-hiding, and potentially habitable moon of Jupiter. The goal of the initial $2.7 billion Europa Clipper mission is not to land on the moon, though, but to map its surface and look for clues about its hidden ocean and habitability.

    Still, there's a chance the robot could crash-land — so someone like Conley comes in to mitigate risk.

    Conversely, the officer helps ensure something from another world, most imminently Mars, doesn't contaminate Earth.

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    An illustration of Mars' ancient oceans. ESO/M. Kornmesser

    The red planet is a frequent targetfor NASA because it's similar to Earth. It may have once been covered in water and able to support life, which is why many scientists are pushing hard for a Mars sample return mission, ostensibly to seek out signs of aliens.

    While the expectation is not to scoop up freeze-dried Martian microbes — only ancient, microscopic fossils — there's always the chance of contamination once those samples are in earthbound labs.

    Again, this is where the planetary protection officer and her team come in. They help establish the equipment, protocols, and procedures to reduce such risks.

    "The phrase that we use is 'Break the chain of contact with Mars,'" Conley previously said.

    No one ever said defending Earth had to be glorious all the time, though — Conley said a typical week mostly involved a lot of emails and reading studies, proposals, and other materials.

    Who qualifies as a candidate

    An out-of-this-world job like Conley's requires some equally extraordinary qualifications.

    A candidate must have at least one year of experience as a top-level civilian governmentemployee, plus have "advanced knowledge" of planetary protection and all it entails.

    europa

    This artist's rendering shows a concept for a future NASA mission to Europa in which a spacecraft would make multiple close flybys of the icy Jovian moon, thought to contain a global subsurface ocean.NASA/JPL-Caltech

    If you don't have "demonstrated experience planning, executing, or overseeing elements of space programs of national significance," you may be wasting your time by applying.

    The job involves a lot of international coordination — space exploration is expensive, and the costs are frequently shared by multiple nations — so NASA needs someone with "demonstrated skills in diplomacy that resulted in win-win solutions during extremely difficult and complex multilateral discussions."

    Did we mention the advanced degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics? You should have that on your résumé, too.

    The job comes with a "secret" security clearance, and noncitizens aren't technically eligible, thanks to an executive order signed by President Gerald Ford in 1976.

    NASA is accepting applications at USAJobs.gov from July 13 through August 14.

    This story was updated to include an emailed comment from NASA's Catharine Conley.

    Kelly Dickerson contributed reporting to this story.

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    03-08-2017 om 22:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Spike In UFO Sightings Reported In Connecticut: Check Out The Full List

    There have been 30 UFO sightings in Connecticut in 2017. Ten of those sightings were reported in July alone.

    03-08-2017 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Recent UFO reports in the region

    Recent UFO reports in the region


    Michael Savage, 15-year-old son of prominent San Bernardino physician and surgeon, was practicing picture-taking with his new camera, when he saw motion out of the corner of his eye Thursday, July 24, 1956, San Bernardino, Calif. He quickly shot this picture, tried to shoot another and in his haste over-cranked the camera, drawing a blank with his second shot. The object disappeared in 30 seconds, he said, not over the horizon but quickly out of sight in the sky. (AP Photo/Michael Savage)

     

    There have been several recent UFO sightings in the region, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, a non-government organization that tracks UFO reports in the country.

    As of Tuesday, there have been 30 UFO sightings in Connecticut reported to the organization in 2017.

    The organization notes on its homepage that some of the reports are edited to make them more understandable. In addition, the organization attempts to eliminate what appears to be hoax reports.

    “Those reports that deserve special attention, we feel, are those from sources who elect to remain anonymous, and/or who elect to provide no contact information,” the organization states on its website. “Also, we suspect that some of the reports that address a single source of light, passing generally from the western sky to the east may be the result of a sighting of the International Space Station.”

    About 8:30 p.m. on July 23, someone in Meriden reported an egg shaped UFO flying “extremely low overhead,” according to the database. The reported craft was silent with a single red/pink light. It moved from east to west before disappearing behind trees.

    About 8:20 p.m. on July 17, someone in Plainville noticed two “saucer like disks” flying along a commercial plane, but much higher. The disk passed two planes “like they were traveling two times their speed,” the report states.

    About 9 a.m. on May 6, three people in Southington reported seeing red and green lights in the sky for five minutes before the lights disappeared. The lights were moving in circles, unlike a plane, and wasn’t making noise like a helicopter, the report states.

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    03-08-2017 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

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    New survey shows nearly half of Americans believe in aliens

    Nearly half of Americans believe in aliens, and almost as many believe aliens are visiting earth, according to a new survey. However, less than 20% believe in alien abduction, and a bit less than that claim to have seen a UFO.

    20th Century Fox Home Entertainment commissioned the survey as part of their promotional campaign for the blu-ray release of the movie Phoenix Forgotten. More than 1700 Americans were surveyed.

    Image from the Phoenix Incident movie website.

    Image from the Phoenix Forgotten movie website.

    Phoenix Forgotten is a found footage sci-fi thriller that is set during a famous mass UFO sighting in Phoenix, Arizona in 1997 that is referred to as “The Phoenix Lights.”

    “The Phoenix Lights phenomenon of March 13, 1997 led us to introduce a survey to find out what Americans believe about aliens,” a rep from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment told OpenMinds.tv. “From our survey, we found that nearly half (47%) believe in aliens but less than a fifth think they’ve ever seen a UFO or alien themselves.”

    Other surveys have also found that around half the population believe in aliens, but perhaps a more interesting finding in this survey was that slight less than 39% of those surveyed “believe aliens have visited Earth before.”

    Although many in the group believe aliens have visited Earth, less believe aliens are actually abducting people. 18% of the group said they believed in alien abduction.

    As for UFOs, only 16.74% claimed to have seen one. However, 27% said the knew someone who had.

    When it comes to the Phoenix Lights, surprisingly, 45.5% said they had heard of the event. I live in Arizona, and the topic is still hot in the news out here. In fact, I was part of several promotional interviews for Phoenix Forgotten in the local media, and people still love talking about it. Especially the fact that then governor Fife Symington claims to have seen the UFO, and believes it was an alien spacecraft. So it was not too surprising to see 80% of the Arizona survey participants had heard of the Phoenix Lights. In fact, I am not sure how the other 20% have not.

    The survey went on to ask whether people felt the Phoenix Lights could have been cause by aliens. A whopping 67% said yes.

    Phoenix Forgotten portrays aliens as pretty scary. Another found footage movie that premiered at the International UFO Congress in Phoenix, titled The Phoenix Incident, was also based on the Phoenix Lights event and also portrayed aliens as frightening monsters. However, these portrayals do not seem to have influenced everyone. When asked if they felt aliens would have friendly or hostile intentions, only 9% were sure they would be hostile, 25% believe aliens are friendly, while 66% say they are just not sure.

    Here are a few of the other questions asked, some of which you can see are a bit tongue in cheek:

    Why do you think abductions have taken place? (Credit: Cohn and Wolfe)

    Why do you think abductions have taken place? (Credit: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

    Who would you volunteer to be abducted by aliens. (Credit: Cohn and Wolfe)

    Who would you volunteer to be abducted by aliens. (Credit: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainmnet)

    What do you think it would be like to be abducted? (Credit: Cohn and Wolfe)

    What do you think it would be like to be abducted? (Credit: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

    What would you do if you found footage of an alien abduction? (Credit: Cohn and Wolfe)

    What would you do if you found footage of an alien abduction? (Credit: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

    Although some of these questions were obviously asked for fun, this survey does give us some interested insight into the general public’s perception of the UFO phenomenon and the idea that aliens are visiting Earth. More and more people seem to be opening up to the idea of alien visitation. Should we be afraid?

    If indeed the Phoenix Lights UFO sightings were caused by aliens, no one was actually harmed. Recently, Kurt Russell claimed to have witnessed the unidentified lights from his personal aircraft he was piloting. He and his son, who was also onboard, obviously lived to tell the story. So at least the aliens flying over Phoenix in 1997 were benevolent. I guess they could also have been testing our defenses for a future invasion force. Or it could have been a manmade object that was mis-identified. A pragmatic person would assume the later was the case, as this is the most logical answer. But, personally, I find it fascinating that so many people are open to the more exotic possibilities.

    Phoenix Forgotten was produced by Ridley Scott, and the blu-ray was released August 1, 2018.

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    03-08-2017 om 21:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Scientists spy new evidence of water in the Moon’s interior
    Watery mantleEvidence from ancient volcanic deposits suggests that lunar magma contained substantial amounts of water, bolstering the idea that the Moon's interior is water-rich.
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    Scientists spy new evidence of water in the Moon’s interior

    Using satellite data, Brown researchers have for the first time detected widespread water within ancient explosive volcanic deposits on the Moon, suggesting that its interior contains substantial amounts of indigenous water.

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study of satellite data finds that numerous volcanic deposits distributed across the surface of the Moon contain unusually high amounts of trapped water compared with surrounding terrains. The finding of water in these ancient deposits, which are believed to consist of glass beads formed by the explosive eruption of magma coming from the deep lunar interior, bolsters the idea that the lunar mantle is surprisingly water-rich.

    Scientists had assumed for years that the interior of the Moon had been largely depleted of water and other volatile compounds. That began to change in 2008, when a research team including Brown University geologist Alberto Saal detected trace amounts of water in some of the volcanic glass beads brought back to Earth from the Apollo 15 and 17 missions to the Moon. In 2011, further study of tiny crystalline formations within those beads revealed that they actually contain similar amounts of water as some basalts on Earth. That suggests that the Moon’s mantle — parts of it, at least — contain as much water as Earth’s.

    “The key question is whether those Apollo samples represent the bulk conditions of the lunar interior or instead represent unusual or perhaps anomalous water-rich regions within an otherwise ‘dry’ mantle,” said Ralph Milliken, lead author of the new research and an associate professor in Brown’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences. “By looking at the orbital data, we can examine the large pyroclastic deposits on the Moon that were never sampled by the Apollo or Luna missions. The fact that nearly all of them exhibit signatures of water suggests that the Apollo samples are not anomalous, so it may be that the bulk interior of the Moon is wet.”

    The research, which Milliken co-authored with Shuai Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii and a recent Brown Ph.D. graduate, is published in Nature Geoscience. The work was part of Li's Ph.D. thesis.

    Detecting the water content of lunar volcanic deposits using orbital instruments is no easy task. Scientists use orbital spectrometers to measure the light that bounces off a planetary surface. By looking at which wavelengths of light are absorbed or reflected by the surface, scientists can get an idea of which minerals and other compounds are present.

    The problem is that the lunar surface heats up over the course of a day, especially at the latitudes where these pyroclastic deposits are located. That means that in addition to the light reflected from the surface, the spectrometer also ends up measuring heat.

    “That thermally emitted radiation happens at the same wavelengths that we need to use to look for water,” Milliken said. “So in order to say with any confidence that water is present, we first need to account for and remove the thermally emitted component.”

    To do that, Li and Milliken used laboratory-based measurements of samples returned from the Apollo missions, combined with a detailed temperature profile of the areas of interest on the Moon’s surface. Using the new thermal correction, the researchers looked at data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an imaging spectrometer that flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter.

    The researchers found evidence of water in nearly all of the large pyroclastic deposits that had been previously mapped across the Moon’s surface, including deposits near the Apollo 15 and 17 landing sites where the water-bearing glass bead samples were collected.

    Colored areas indicate elevated water content compared with surrounding terrains. Yellows and reds indicate the richest water content. 
    Milliken lab / Brown University

    “The distribution of these water-rich deposits is the key thing,” Milliken said. “They’re spread across the surface, which tells us that the water found in the Apollo samples isn’t a one-off. Lunar pyroclastics seem to be universally water-rich, which suggests the same may be true of the mantle.”

    The idea that the interior of the Moon is water-rich raises interesting questions about the Moon’s formation. Scientists think the Moon formed from debris left behind after an object about the size of Mars slammed into the Earth very early in solar system history. One of the reasons scientists had assumed the Moon’s interior should be dry is that it seems unlikely that any of the hydrogen needed to form water could have survived the heat of that impact.

    “The growing evidence for water inside the Moon suggest that water did somehow survive, or that it was brought in shortly after the impact by asteroids or comets before the Moon had completely solidified,” Li said. “The exact origin of water in the lunar interior is still a big question.”

    In addition to shedding light on the water story in the early solar system, the research could also have implications for future lunar exploration. The volcanic beads don’t contain a lot of water — about .05 percent by weight, the researchers say — but the deposits are large, and the water could potentially be extracted.

    “Other studies have suggested the presence of water ice in shadowed regions at the lunar poles, but the pyroclastic deposits are at locations that may be easier to access,” Li said. “Anything that helps save future lunar explorers from having to bring lots of water from home is a big step forward, and our results suggest a new alternative.”

    The research was funded by the NASA Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research Program (NNX12AO63G).

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    03-08-2017 om 21:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Binnenste van de maan bevat enorme hoeveelheden water. Maar waar komt het vandaan?

    Binnenste van de maan bevat enorme hoeveelheden water. Maar waar komt het vandaan?

    Onderzoekers van de Brown University in de VS zijn tot de ontdekking gekomen dat de maan veel meer water bevat dan gedacht.

    Ze troffen grote waterreserves aan onder het maanoppervlak. Het eerste bewijs voor water op de maan werd pas tien jaar geleden gevonden.

    Na het bestuderen van satellietgegevens kwam het onderzoeksteam tot de conclusie dat de mantel van de maan rijk aan water is.

    Veel natter

    Uit meetgegevens van de Indiase maansonde Chandrayaan-1 blijkt dat vrijwel alle afzettingen van explosief vulkanisme op de maan relatief rijk zijn aan water.

    Dat wijst erop dat de mantel van de maan veel natter is dan altijd is aangenomen.

    Het is onduidelijk of het water altijd in het gesteente aanwezig is geweest of dat het kort na de vorming van de maan is aangeleverd door inslagen van planetoïden en kometen.

    Grote vraag

    “Het blijft een grote vraag waar het water in het binnenste van de maan precies vandaan komt,” zei coauteur Shuai Li.

    In 2008 ontdekte geoloog Alberto Saal van de Brown University sporen van water in vulkanische glasbolletjes die waren meegenomen door astronauten van de Apollo 15- en Apollo 17-missies.

    Net zoveel

    Na onderzoek bleken die net zoveel water te bevatten als basalt op aarde. Dat suggereert dat de mantel van de maan tenminste net zoveel water bevat als die van de aarde.

    Onlangs werden er nog ‘oceanen aan water’ ontdekt in het binnenste van de aarde.

    Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature Geoscience.

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    03-08-2017 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO KOMT TEVOORSCHIJN UIT DIMENSIEPORTAAL ( VIDEO )

    In de Amerikaanse staat Louisiana rijdt een echtpaar naar huis, wanneer ze opeens in de lucht een vreemde wolk waarnemen. 

    Ze maken foto’s en uit die vreemde wolk komt op een gegeven moment een soort trechter, met aan het uiteinde een UFO. 



    De volgende gebeurtenis vond onlangs plaats in de stad Alexandria in de Amerikaanse staat Louisiana. Het betreft een echtpaar dat over straat rijdt en opeens een vreemde wolk ontdekt in de lucht. Een wolk die zij omschrijven qua vorm als een donut.


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    Ze hadden onderweg snel bovenstaande foto genomen omdat het donker begon te worden. Toen ze thuis waren aangekomen en hun auto hadden geparkeerd, keken ze nogmaals naar de vreemde donut-wolk. 

    Het was een stuk donkerder geworden en de lucht om de vreemde wolk leek een soort donkerbruin te zijn en tot hun verbazing zagen ze een soort trechter van wat leek op een damp uit het midden van de wolk komen.

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    Onderaan deze trechter verscheen een object dat een ovale vorm had en doorzichtig was, omringd door lichten.

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    Dit soort vreemde wolken wordt vaker gesignaleerd zoals de volgende in Australië.

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    En dan is er natuurlijk CERN, waar ook diverse keren iets dergelijks gebeurde. Het volgende is wat wij vorig jaar schreven: 

    Eind april waren de volgende berichten te lezen in de pers: 

    De krachtigste deeltjesversneller ter wereld blijkt niet resistent te zijn tegen kleine scherpe tandjes. De Large Hadron Collider (LHC) van het Europees Centrum voor Nucleair Onderzoek CERN vlakbij Genève ligt sinds gisteravond stil nadat een wezel een stuk bekabeling doorbeet. 

    De Large Hadron Collider, die een ondergrondse, 27 kilometer lange ring vormt, is een van de meest complexe machines ter wereld. De komende dagen zal het toestel echter stilliggen voor reparatiewerkzaamheden. 

    Dat was dan waarschijnlijk wel een heel bijzondere marter, want het complex heeft wekenlang stil gelegen en werd rond 8 mei weer opgestart. 

    Direct daarna gebeurde er iets merkwaardigs met een aantal radarsystemen die een perfecte cirkelvormige wolkenformatie weergaven boven CERN.

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    CERN heeft publiekelijk aangekondigd dat ze zich dit jaar bezig zullen houden met supersymmetrie en donkere materie. De energieniveaus die door CERN dit jaar gehanteerd zullen worden, zijn daarom dan ook hoger dan ooit tevoren. 

    De wolken op de radar tonen een perfecte cirkel, maar er is geen bui gevallen. 

    Zijn de wetenschappers bij CERN er misschien in geslaagd om een dimensieportaal te openen? Het is dan ook niet voor niets dat ze hebben gezegd dat dit jaar het jaar zal worden waarin ze echt resultaten zullen bereiken. 



    Ook afgelopen december leek het er al op dat CERN erin was geslaagd om een dimensieportaal te openen, zoals wij schreven in het eerdere artikel: 

    Enkele dagen geleden zijn er nogal bijzonder beelden opgedoken waarbij een UFO schijnt te verdwijnen in een soort spiraalwolk, pal boven het CERN terrein in Geneve.

    ufo boven CERN

    Ohja, CERN zegt dat de vorming van de cirkelvormige wolken niets met hen te maken heeft, maar dat het een probleem met de radar is. Tuurlijk.

    En toch is er een verschil tussen de dimensieportalen zoals die door CERN worden gecreerd en het voorbeeld waarmee we dit artikel begonnen. In het geval van het echtpaar zien we een dimensieportaal waar via een soort trechter iets uit tevoorschijn komt wat lijkt op een UFO. Met andere woorden een daar op dat moment bewust gecreëerd portaal door entiteiten van buiten deze aarde om zo te kunnen reizen. 

    Iets dat al heel lang gebeurt, want zoals te zien op het volgende oude schilderij uit Roemenië, kwamen er ook in het verleden al via een soort slurf UFO’s uit dimensieportalen.

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    Nieuwe studie voorspelt hittegolven die mens niet kan overleven

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    Nieuwe studie voorspelt hittegolven die mens niet kan overleven
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    Als er geen maatregelen genomen worden om de opwarming van de aarde tegen te gaan, zullen delen van de wereld getroffen worden door extreme hittegolven die zelfs gezonde mensen na enkele uren kunnen doden. Dat blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek dat gepubliceerd werd in het wetenschappelijk vakblad Science Advances.

    De wetenschappers onderzochten de impact van de klimaatverandering op de dodelijke combinatie van hitte en vochtigheid - iets wat gemeten wordt met de zogeheten natteboltemperatuur (WBT). ‘Als je op een warme zomerdag buiten een oppervlakte natspuit, dan wordt het daar tijdelijk heerlijk koel. Dat komt omdat het verdampende water warmte nodig heeft. Die warmte wordt onttrokken aan de lucht en dus wordt de lucht boven het natte oppervlak kouder. De laagste temperatuur die we bekomen tijdens de verdampingsfase noemen we de natteboltemperatuur’, zo legt weerman Frank Deboosere het fenomeen uit op zijn website.

    Zes uur in de schaduw

    Als de natteboltemperatuur 35 graden Celsius bereikt, dan kan het menselijk lichaam niet meer afkoelen door te zweten. ‘Zelfs fitte mensen die in de schaduw zitten zullen dan binnen de zes uur sterven’, zegt professor Elfatih Eltahir van het Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoofdauteur van de studie.

    Vooral het zuiden van Azië zou volgens de onderzoekers worden getroffen. ‘Driekwart van de bevolking (ongeveer 1,7 miljard mensen, nvdr.) - en meer bepaald de landbouwers in de valleien van de Ganges en de Indus - zullen tegen het eind van de eeuw blootgesteld worden aan een vochtige hitte die extreem gevaarlijk is voor de gezondheid’, zo luidt het.

    Een Indiase man wandelt op de uitgedroogde bedding van het meer Ahmad Sar in Ahmedabad, in de Indiase deelstaat Gujarat. 

    © getty.

    Dilemma voor India

    ‘Dit is een echt dilemma voor een land als India. De overheid probeert voor een economische boost te zorgen en de bevolking uit de armoede te halen, maar daardoor wordt heel wat koolstof uitgestoten en fossiele brandstoffen verbrand. En laat dat net de meest schadelijke zaken zijn. Voor India is klimaatopwarming al lang geen abstract idee meer, maar eerder een zaak op leven en dood.’

    Zelfs vandaag vormen hittegolven al een groot risico voor Zuid-Azië. Een ernstige ‘episode’ in 2015 veroorzaakte al 3.500 doden in de regio en vorig jaar werd de hoogste temperatuur ooit gemeten in India: in de stad Phalodi werd het liefst 51 graden. Een andere recent verschenen studie linkte de impact van de klimaatopwarming nog aan de zelfmoorden van ongeveer 60.000 Indiase landbouwers.

    Als er niet ingegrepen wordt - het ‘business as usual’-scenario waarin de koolstofuitstoot niet aan banden gelegd wordt - zal minstens 4 procent van de bevolking ‘minstens één keer’ zo’n dodelijke hittegolf ondergaan tussen 2071 en 2100. En maar liefst 75 procent van de bevolking zal getroffen worden door een hittegolf met een WBT van 31 graden Celsius. Ook die worden als ‘extreem gevaarlijk’ voor de volksgezondheid beschouwd.

    ‘Maar als de richtlijnen van het klimaatakkoord van Parijs opgevolgd worden, dan zullen de ergste hittegolven uitblijven en zal het percentage van de bevolking die getroffen wordt door de extreme hittegolven teruggedrongen worden tot 55 procent’, aldus Eltahir. Vandaag ligt dat laatste percentage trouwens op 15 procent.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.E.T. CONTACT AND MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD OFFER PROFOUND INSIGHT INTO REVELATIONS PROPHECY

    E.T. CONTACT AND MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD OFFER PROFOUND INSIGHT INTO REVELATIONS PROPHECY

    We are fascinated with prophecy, the end times, the second coming, the great awakening, Nostradamus, the list goes on, and there are few who can say they are generally not intrigued by the idea that our future can be foreseen or foretold. Even if the prophecy is surrounding a religion we might not necessarily believe in, it is still something that fascinates us.  

    Why? because in any great story, such as the story of humanity, we want to know how it ends. We all love a good spoiler, or would love to know that we are going in the right direction. There seems to be an engrained need within our nature to need to know that it is going to be alright in the end, no matter how dark things get.

    Some seek to prepare for it, embrace it or fight against it and though there have been many prophecies that have failed to come to pass, it has not quenched our collective thirst for what is to come, only one of the many prophecies has to come true.

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    But what much of these prophecies have in common is the signal of a great change in direction for mankind, a path into darkness, war and despair that eventually leads to great change for the better. Whether brought about by the second coming of a religious deity, an event of some significant spiritual magnitude or a realisation on behalf of humanity that we have a responsibility to treat others equal to how we would want to be treated ourselves.

    All point to a similar pattern.

    One of the craziest things regarding prophecy is that many of them from different sources all point to a time around now, or from now in the future, and could not possibly be fulfilled until at least 100 years ago, as a lot of the pre-requisites simply did not exist until such time. It has only been since the advent of nuclear proliferation that mankind has been capable of self annihilation, only since the radio, television and now the internet have we had mass communication, we are now living in a time where the realisation of such prophecy is more possible than ever before.

    Every day, more and more people are awakening to the truth, that religion is a control mechanism, our governments lie to us, our food and water is poisoned, and disease spreads suffering across the planet, caused only by the selfish need through greed to withhold cures, opting more for treatments, that keep those inflicted financially dependent on big corporations, for treatment through drugs with significantly damaging side effects. There is a battle raging throughout our race at this time, between good and evil, which is steadily but surely revealing the vary truth of our nature, our origins, our connection to our ancestors, and the truth about the nature of reality itself.

    With all that being said, there are few prophecies more captivating to many than those written in the book of Revelations. There is just something about what is said in those texts that can captivate even the most anti religious people, even if it is by passive association, or vague knowledge of the meaning of the number 666,

    So this is why during one of our Paranormal experiments we decided to ask, about the Second Coming. Not because we wanted to validate a religious doctrine but because we wanted to know that if there is any truth to the prophecy, how would it play out in a real world scenario?

    The responses we have will blow your mind. 

    So who are we communicating with?

    This is the interesting question, as being Paranormal Investigators we were expecting to communicate with loved ones in the spirit world.

    In this session we are using a ghost box device known as the SCD2, and have communicated with spirits yes, but also beings claiming to be of both an extraterrestrial and inter-dimensional nature as the videos below will evidence, all on the same night, all live on YouTube.

    With evidence even to suggest that these entities are communicating with each other, and we always remain cautious in what we take on board, but during this session, the responses seem to be from those who have a profound love of humanity, and can see our highest potential and capacity for amazing things.  

    Humanities amazing Potential

    “All get the idea, sure they do, grief for life is turning them, guide them the way we see them, so the blind may see only good.”

    I am not religious in any way shape or form, but I understand the power of story, it is a defining element of what it is to be human in my opinion, and what I can agree with is the fact that we are living in a time where more and more people are asking the big questions, “Why am I here” “What is it all about” we are becoming more open, willing to wonder and daring to dream, to seek and find higher forms of consciousness and better ways of living our lives, even in many cases we don’t even realise we are doing it.

    We have become more fascinated with the Paranormal, ghosts, spirits, psychics and mystics, conspiracies and UFOs even the more sceptical of us are having experiences they cannot explain, and the more religious among us are having their faith tested by experiences such as the Mandela Effect.

    So what if the meaning of these responses is this, that in amongst this great awakening, humanity both individually and collectively is gradually accessing a great consciousness, an understanding of the impossible of which each and every one of us is capable. Something that has been hidden from us for eons that is now being revealed, as the literal translation of the word Apocalypse would suggest.

    And what if, in amongst this potential, this awakening, felt by millions worldwide, one of us has the understanding, and the means to spread a message, so unique and profound that it transcends the barriers we place between one another, to offer us a choice, shall we explore this frontier together, or keep fighting amongst ourselves. Not to follow that person, or group of people or belief system, but to find that spark of light within ourselves, to fulfil our dreams and rediscover ourselves together?

    Would that not be the miracle of miracles? A message, that could come from any one of us, that inspires us to realise that being human, is something to be cherished, something sacred, that no person can take away, once we step into our personal power, our ability to awaken and see the magnificence and beauty within ourselves reflected in each other, and through that we can do the most impossible things. This personally for me is what I believe these messages we have been receiving are trying to tell us, that when we speak our truth, and trust that higher voice within ourselves, there is no limit to the possibilities of where that may lead.

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    03-08-2017 om 19:59 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA IS SEEKING A 'PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICER' FOR A SIX-FIGURE SALARY

    NASA IS SEEKING A 'PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICER' FOR A SIX-FIGURE SALARY

    NASA is currently on the lookout for a candidate to take up an incredibly unusual and fascinating job role at that space agency, that of ‘planetary protection officer.' The primary role of this job, which comes with a considerable salary, is to coordinate the protection of the planet Earth from contamination from alien planets.  

    NASA PUBLICLY ADVERTISES FOR A NEW PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICER

    The position of planetary protection officer was first created in 1967 after the United States ratified the Outer Space Treaty. Article IX of the document which states that all missions to space must be carried out in full mindfulness of protecting the planet from potential contamination from alien worlds. For a space mission to be permitted, there must be less than a one in ten thousand chance that this kind of contamination could occur.  

    This means that the primary role of the planetary protection officer is to analyze the potential risks of contamination from space missions and to come up with measures to help to mitigate the risks. Mars is considered to be the most difficult and potentially problematic planet for the person in control of contamination to manage. It is believed that the Red Planet was once covered in a considerable body of water and that it might have once been the home of alien organisms. Scientists from NASA are very keen to collect fragments from the planet which might point to the existence of ancient alien life on Mars. The role of the planetary protection officer is to ensure that none of these samples have the potential to contaminate Earth once they are brought back to the planet.

    Many space agencies across the world have planetary protection officers, but they tend to be shared roles. There are only two full-time planetary protection officers in the entire world, one based at NASA and the other based on the European Space Agency. To fulfill such a rare and specialized job, a very exceptional candidate is required. According to NASA, the successful candidate will have at least one year of experience at the top level of civilian government; they will have an advanced knowledge of planetary protection, diplomatic experience so that they can deal effectively with international space agencies and an advanced degree in either physical science, engineering or mathematics. After all of that, the candidate will have to undergo extensive security clearances.

    At this current time, NASA’s planetary protection officer is Catharine Conley who has held the role since 2014. The role is held for three years at a time by one individual, although the contract can be extended. Conley has yet to make it clear whether she intends to reapply for her current job or to move on to a new area within the space agency.

    If you want to apply, here is the link to the job offering:

    https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/474414000

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    03-08-2017 om 19:29 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Strange giant beams appear to follow the sun from East to West across the US

    Strange giant beams appear to follow the sun from East to West across the US

    Was a Dwarf Star/Planet in close proximity to the earth yesterday, August 1, 2017?


    The sky around earth at various times and locations displayed some unusual beams that appeared to follow the sun as they traveled from east to west across the country, spotted in the east first and hours later in the west.

    In the hours prior to these sightings giant space lightning was recorded over in Central Europe.

    Most remarkable; all of these sightings were within a few hours of each other consistent with the rotation of earth.

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    03-08-2017 om 19:05 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Thermal Camera Captures Invisible V-shaped UFO Anomaly over Bucharest, Romania

    Thermal Camera Captures Invisible V-shaped UFO Anomaly over Bucharest, Romania

    An invisible V-shaped UFO anomaly flying over Bucharest, Romania on July 15, 2017 was captured by Mihai Daniel Dragu, while using a thermal camera.

    Credit image: Mihai Daniel Dragu.

    Mihai Daniel Dragu: "This is the third attempt to film a disc shaped UFO which I saw it without having a recorder installed but I was very surprised that I got something quite different."

    "This very strange V-shaped object, which is not asymmetric, could not be seen with the normal eye, and could be seen only after the heated water vapors from clouds left from some process used in flying technology."

    "By the way, there was no giant plane flying over me that night."

      

    03-08-2017 om 18:51 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Filer’s Files #31 – 2017 Dead Sea Scrolls and UFOs - PART I
    Tusayan, Arizona multiple photos on July 20, 2017.
    Tusayan, Arizona multiple photos on July 20, 2017.

    Filer’s Files #31 – 2017 Dead Sea Scrolls and UFOs - PART I

    In special reports, this week’s files cover: Russell Crowe Films UFO, UFO Pictures Increase, Dead Sea Scrolls and UFOs, The ETs Speak: Who We Are and Why We’re Here. The ETs Speak: Who We Are and Why We’re Here, Great Pyramid at Giza, Serapeum of Saqqara. Pterodactyl Dinosaurs and Just Us Horror Book

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Texas.

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.

    The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

    George A. Filer III

    New Jersey State Director

    MUFON Eastern Region Director

    Www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 million hits a month

    Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.

    Special Projects

    Russell Crowe Films UFO

    In 2011, Russell Crowe posted a video of YouTube which he claimed showed a UFO passing his office window in Sydney, Australia.

    The Oscar winning actor posted a link from his Twitter account to a YouTube video with message “UFO” Time Lapse Photo outside

    RC’s Woollooloo Office.

    These are real“

    The reported Russell Crowe twenty second film is of interest because of an apparent beam of colored light coming down from the UFO and showing an oval light on the ground.

    The light could also have been used as a means of transportation from the UFO to the ground.

    Russell Crowe stared in the movie Noah’s Ark.

    The UFO was filmed when Crowe and a friend set up a camera to capture fruit bats rising from the Botanical Gardens next to his office.

    UFO Pictures Increase

    I am amazed not only about all the UFO pictures and videos being published on YouTube, but also on the variety of their shapes and sizes. It is as if the galaxy has come here to Earth on vacation to witness the unfolding and awaking of humans to ET existence.

    How much is due to so many cell phone cameras out there, and how much is due to a gradual progression of human technology and awareness, I do not know; probably all of the above. Yet my sightings in the field during the 1990s were during the analog period of videos. As soon as film cameras were replaced by digital cameras, my sightings dried up in early 2000s.

    What blows my mind is the diversity of craft being captured on video. I most of the UFOs expand our concepts of alien design from discs to triangles to diamonds. They have been followed by everything, including flying sinks, giant seahorses, and giant aliens. What is going on? I attach screen shots of this diversity. It is not exaggerations that people are saying we are experiencing a flood of sightings in 2017.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtpVwFtt9zw

    Lost Dead Sea Scrolls

    In October 1999, another “lost” Dead Sea Scroll was unearthed that has the possibility of setting off another theological firestorm. If the “Angel Scroll” is proven to be authentic, Jews and Christians will be presented with a new understanding of how the ancient Israelites viewed God, the angels, and humanity’s place in the universe.

    According to researcher Barry Chamish, “The Angel Scroll” is 1000 thousand lines long and had been taken by Benedictine monks to their German monastery in 1970. In 1977, one of the group, Father Gustav Mateus, died and bequeathed his photographs and transcriptions of the scroll to an unnamed Jerusalem college administrator, who, in turn, handed the material over to Stephan Phann, a member of the team of scholars translating the scrolls held by the Israeli government. Subsequently, Phann’s findings were published in the news magazine The Jerusalem Report.

    In presenting the information, Phann admitted that some scholars were skeptical, but that most experts were in agreement that the text of “The Angel Scroll,” in his words “felt” genuine. The bits of the scroll that were released for the public’s examination deal with “divine chariot-throne themes with elaborate details of angels ascending heaven’s multiple gates.”

    Such references may be of great interest to those who take a literal view of the biblical accounts reporting encounters with extraterrestrials/angels. An Israeli Ufologist, who is also a student of “Kabala,” Jewish mystical practicesMordechai Spasser cautioned researchers about taking the “UFO viewpoint with more study.” Spasser stated that from what he had read, the scrolls appear to be referring to the “astral plane,” and other aspects of Jewish mysticism.

    Writer Chamish, however, quotes a number of passages from “The Angel Scroll,” and follows them with his literal interpretation. Here is one, describing a visionary’s [or UFO contactees] “heavenward visit above the high places of the clouds with an angel:

    According to the plan of that day, the Voice went forth to me and directed me and he drove me by the Spirit. And a vision was revealed to me from the Most High, and [thePrince of Angels lifted me up in the Spirit and I ascended heavenward above the high places of the clouds and be showed me the great world and the image of the gods. And I pondered the appearance roundabout and there was no time and no place and their appearance from the dwelling places of light was like a rainbow in the clouds. And they had no bodies and no bodily structure and the dominion of darkness was over all of the earth round about.

    Chamish concludes that this is an accurate description of a trip in a Space Shuttle:

    First the traveler passes above cloud level…Then he sees the earth from space and it is surrounded by darkness. He is shown ‘images of the gods’ and their homes on a control monitor and marvels at the fine color quality and at the bizarre fact that there is no firmament to the images on the screen.

    It seems quite apparent that the Dead Sea Scrolls have only now begun to yield sources and inspiration and controversy for believers and non-believers alike.

    The ETs Speak: Who We Are and Why We’re Here

    We are NOT alone! But Who Are They? Why Are They Here? What Are Their Intentions? With the help of an advanced form of Self-Hypnosis developed by Howard Batie, a Certified Hypnotherapist, these important questions have now been definitively answered. He has successfully “interviewed” and recorded several conversations with the beings that “drive” the UFOs seen in our skies. The complete transcripts of these interviews are presented in this book and provide us with a never-seen-before look into the objectives and intentions of several ET races that have heard and answered humanity’s collective call for help and assistance in rescuing Planet Earth from further environmental collapse. The ET races have decided to introduce themselves to us physically in several First Contact events in many countries around the world, and Humanity will very soon be asked to leave its childhood behind and mature into a civilization that reaches for the stars in concert with its Galactic brothers and sisters. The real purpose of this book is to introduce humanity to the races and civilizations within our own Milky Way Galaxy that we will soon physically meet. The ETs have also informed us about what star systems they are from, why they are here, and how they are planning to assist humanity as we, with their help, reclaim the pristine beauty of Starship Earth and ultimately join our Galactic brothers and sisters as we emerge into a space-faring civilization as well. Chapter 1 – The Galactic Federation. Chapter 2 The Pleiadians, Chapter 3 The Arcturians, Chapter 4 – The Sirians, Chapter 5 The Antareans, Chapter 6 The Blue Avians, Chapter 7 The Grays ISBN-13: 978-1540651822, 342 pages, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, SC, USA
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    Great Pyramid at Giza

    The scholars claim the Great Pyramid at Giza was built by conventional methods, yet when I visited the site I was unable to insert my Visa card between the 15 ton blocks that were on the north face because they were built with great precision. This is certainly the one of largest structures ever built. New York’s Empire State Building is among the very highest erected by modern man, yet it is only about 2/5 the volume of the Cheops pyramid.

    Let’s assume the pharaoh had all the men he needed to move the blocks. It would seem reasonable that they could move ten blocks a day since they had to be chopped out of granite quarries, dressed down to a thousandth of an inch, carried for hundreds of miles and raised up and placed at the correct level. The pyramid reached a height of 490 feet in the air and contains and incredible 2,600,000 stones that weigh 6 and million tons. The Cheops pyramid with a base 764 feet, and covers thirteen acres (an area almost equal to seven city blocks). The polished limestone facings (now removed)
    covered 22 acres. The building comprises totals 6,250,000 tons in weight (each stone is at least 2-1/2 tons). At a complete rate of ten stones a day each stone weighing at least three tons or more would take 250,000 days or six hundred and sixty years. Image dozens of Pharaohs generation after generation working seven days a week for 660 years to build the Great pyramid. There is one next to it almost as big. What is not generally realized there are two gigantic pyramids and one slightly smaller and three smaller ones.

    My co-pilot was a graduate engineer visited the pyramids with me felt we could not build then this precise even today with our best equipment. Additionally the pyramids weight would cause them to sink into the ground through the years, but they still are standing high.

    The Grand Gallery and King’s Chamber contains 70 ton blocks of rare, red granite formed into a roof deep inside the pyramid. This unusual granite comes from a quarry found 600 miles away. Egyptologists tell us wooden rollers or trees were used to move the 70 ton blocks. There are no forests in Egypt so the trees are a giant problem as well. So a mythical forest was used to move the blocks? To import the trees would require the greatest fleet of ships in history. Considering tugging these huge blocks of stone would quickly destroy most trees. If we assume a loss of ten rollers per block, we would need 26 million trees. Where did the ancients find the trees and how did they build a smooth enough road to drag the stones. Even upon reaching the building site the 70 ton stones had to be lifted hundreds of feet in the air to put them in place. I doubt even are biggest helicopters could lift stones of this size. Dr. M. K. Jessup a research scientist who constructed and operated the Southern hemisphere’s largest refracting telescope concluded the only possible method was visitors from space who wrote the “The Case for UFOs.” He simply states no power on Earth could have built the Great Pyramid and huge stone structures around the world. That the lifting engine was most likely a huge spaceship.

    Covering the “King’s Chamber” are granite slabs of 60 to 70 tons each, brought from a quarry 600 miles away. The casing stones (which are still in place on the north face near the base) each weigh 15 tons.
    The supposition that enormous manpower, inclined planes and rollers were used must be discarded. To handle or move one of the blocks might require a thousand hands (500 men), for whom there would not have been room around the stone. (Assuming the use of primitive methods, the block must still be handled, even if only to pass ropes under it, or to load it onto a barge.)

    Furthermore, engineers have estimated that a ramp to service the Cheops pyramid would finally have had to be a mile long, with a volume of masonry four times greater than the pyramid itself. No, that’s not how they built it.

    Do you know why air plane pilots are warned not to fly over Egypt’s Great Pyramid? That’s right; the Civil Airline Department has banned all planes from flying over the pyramids. The largest structure at Giza, in Egypt, is the Cheops pyramid. An energy field radiates from the apex, which prompts the discovery of electrical contacts and wiring inside the Great Pyramid, along with markings that show how to connect them, do not fit anywhere in conventional Egyptology but confirm the theory first published in his book, “The Giza Power Plant:” Technologies of Ancient Egypt by engineer Christopher Dunn, wonder why it was built. The mass of evidence suggests that the major pyramids were not intended to be tombs.

    There are strong signals coming from the pyramid that can effect aircraft instruments.

    The pyramid is perfectly square to within 3/10,000 percent. Although it is constructed of 2,300,000 great
    blocks put together without any cement, you still can’t get the thinnest blade of a knife between them. The joints of the original limestone casings are barely perceptible, not wider than the thickness of silver paper. One of today’s biggest U.S. contractors has stated that we do not possess any machine capable of making equally smooth surfaces as those connecting the stones of the pyramids. They were fitted to an accuracy of 1/100 inch. The pyramid is level over an area of 13 acres to within half an inch. It is the world’s most accurately aligned building, true north.


    • Originally this pyramid had a beautiful covering of glistening white marble polished to a mirror like finish reflecting the light. It was capped by a golden point that shot shafts of light back at the sun. In a search for hidden powers and riches, Melik al Aziz, in 1196, employed thousands of workers to pull down the three Giza pyramids stone by stone removing the outside marble.

    • The pyramid incorporates higher mathematics in its very design, and advanced scientific knowledge in
      its measurements. The relationship of the pyramid’s height to the perimeter of its base is the same as
      that between the radius and circumference of a circle. It thus incorporates the mathematical value known as pi (the constant by which the diameter of a circle. • It served also as a calendar by which the length of the year can be measured to the exact minute. And it was as an observatory from which maps of the stellar hemisphere could be accurately drawn. • It is so finely aligned to the North Pole that modern compasses can be adjusted to it.
    • The measurements of its sides and angles accurately reflect the geographic measurements of the northern
      hemisphere, such as the degree of latitude and longitude, the circumference and radius of the earth even accounting for polar flattening. But more amazingly, the Egyptian cubit—the unit of measurement used in the pyramid—was found to be exact. In other words, the cubit fits into the dimensions of the earth within five decimal places a rather startling coincidence. This knowledge of the Earth requires satellite or aerial reconnaissance of the Earth.

    The pyramid builders were highly advanced in their technology. Attempts to build pyramids using the orthodox methods theorized for the ancient Egyptians, have fallen pitifully short. The Great Pyramid is 483 feet high and houses seventy-ton pieces of granite lifted to a level of 175 feet. Theorists have struggled with stones weighing up to two tons to a height of a few feet. One wonders if these were attempts to prove that primitive methods are capable of building the Egyptian pyramids or the opposite. Attempts to execute such conventional theories have not revealed the theories to be correct! Do we need to revise the theory, or will we continue to educate our young with erroneous data?

    In August 1984, an article by Christopher Dunn in Analog Magazine entitled “Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt?” based on The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, by Sir William Flinders Petrie, published in 1883. Since that article’s publication, I have been fortunate to visit Egypt twice. With each visit I leave with more respect for the industry of the ancient pyramid builders. An industry, by the way, that does not exist anywhere in the world today.

    In 1986, Christopher Dunn visited the Cairo museum and gave a copy of his article, and a business card, to the director. He thanked me kindly, then threw my offering into a drawer with other sundry stuff, and turned away. Another Egyptologist led Dunn to the “tool room” to educate hin in the methods of the ancient masons by showing me a few cases that housed primitive copper tools. Dunn writes, I asked my host about the cutting of granite, as this was the focus of my article. He explained how a slot was cut in the granite and wooden wedges, soaked with water, were inserted. The wood swelled creating pressure that split the rock. This still did not explain how copper implements were able to cut granite, but he was so enthusiastic with his dissertation, I chose not to interrupt.

    Dunn was musing over a statement made by Egyptologist Dr. I.E.S. Edwards in “Ancient Egypt” (National Geographic Society, Washington, 1978). Edwards said that to cut the granite, “axes and chisels were made of copper hardened by hammering.” This is like saying “to cut this aluminum saucepan they fashioned their knives out of butter!”

    My host animatedly walked me over to a nearby travel agent encouraging me to buy plane tickets to Aswan, “where” he said, “the evidence is clear. I must see the quarry marks there and the unfinished obelisk.” Dutifully, I bought the tickets and arrived at Aswan the next day.

    The Aswan quarries were educational. The obelisk weighs approximately 3,000 tons. However, the quarry marks Dunn saw there did not satisfy him as being the only means by which the pyramid builders quarried their rock. Located in the channel, which runs the length of the obelisk, is a large hole drilled into the bedrock hillside, measuring 12 inches in diameter and three feet deep. The hole was drilled at an angle with the top intruding into the channel space. The ancients must have used drills to remove material from the perimeter of the obelisk, knocked out the webs between the holes and then removed the cusps. The conventional wisdom states that the obelisks were pounded out with stone pounders but that’s not the case. Dunn believes that the Ancient Egyptians inherited this site and tried to replicate the techniques and marks they found there by using the only tools that they possessed – stone pounders. The most difficult operation is the bottom cut that was not accomplished.

    While strolling around the Giza Plateau later, Dunn started to question the quarry marks at Aswan even more. (He also questioned why the Egyptologist had deemed it necessary to buy a plane ticket to look at them.) He was to the south of the second pyramid when he found an abundance of quarry marks of similar nature. The granite casing stones, which had sheathed the second pyramid, were stripped off and lying around the base in various stages of destruction. Typical to all of the granite stones worked on were the same quarry marks that Dunn had seen at Aswan earlier in the week. These marks were not made with copper or stone pounders. They appear to be advanced technology

    This discovery confirmed Dunn’s suspicion of the validity of Egyptologists’ theories on the ancient pyramid builders’ quarrying methods. If these quarry marks distinctively identify the people who created the pyramids, why would they engage in such a tremendous amount of extremely difficult work only to destroy their work after having completed it? It seems, to me, that these kinds of quarry marks were from a later period of time and were created by people who were interested only in obtaining granite. You can see demonstrations of primitive stone cutting in Egypt if you go to Saqqara.

    There are hundreds of pyramids worldwide in virtually every continent and many at the bottom of the ocean underwater indicating their great age. Most are made of various types of rock, such as granite that is often mined hundreds of miles away. They are huge magnificent structures thousands of years old that are generally claimed to be 3,000 to 25,000 years old. All over the world, later rulers copied the older pyramids. Some of the ancient pyramids often still have energy emitting from them and are thought to be power stations. Many are built on an exact North South axis and advanced technological knowledge was used in building them.

    Dr. Sam Osmanagich Ph.D. director of Center for Anthropology and Archaeology at the American University in Bosnia has authored 11 books about ancient civilizations. He claims many Pyramids are 10,000 to 25,000 years old and built well before humankind was sophisticated, or had agriculture, or cities. The question is did ancient civilizations build them or are ancient aliens responsible for a worldwide pyramid construction system?

    The world’s best-known pyramid at Giza is just outside Cairo, Egypt. The Great Pyramid is the large one on the right and the others were built later. The oldest Chinese and Egyptian pyramids are much superior to those made later. Older pyramids are built from granite and sandstone blocks, more recent ones are much smaller built from bricks and mud. Traces of more advanced beings who were likely alien are everywhere around us. In the meantime, mainstream scientists try to fit those monuments into their time coordinates. Hundreds of pyramids are being found all over the Earth including those under the sea like the three found off the coast of Florida. It is apparent that ancient aliens or an ancient previous sophisticated civilization existed on Earth as depicted in ancient texts. Tallest building in the world till 1311 AD and again from 1647 to 1874.

    “The pyramid is level over an area of 13 acres to within half an inch and is perfectly square to within 3/10,000 percent. If you broke the Great pyramid at Giza into slabs a 6cm thick rod that would reach a quarter of the way to the moon. Great Pyramid is around 4,600 years old and allegedly built by Pharaoh Khufu. It includes 2.3 million limestone blocks and weighs 5.9 million tones.”

    Aerial View of Giza Matches Stars in Belt of Orion

    According to Herodotus, 100,000 people built Khufu’s Great Pyramid – more than the population of any city at the time. Science tells us humans were not sophisticated, slightly above cave men in ancient times. Originally, this pyramid had a beautiful covering of glistening white marble (polished to a mirror like finish) and could he seen for 50 miles, reflecting the light. It was capped by a golden point or ball that shot shafts of light back at the sun. It incorporates the mathematical value known as pi (the constant by which the diameter of a circle may be multiplied to calculate its circumference and it does so accurately to several decimal places. Its main chamber made use of several Pythagorean functions not “discovered” supposedly until thousands of years later.”

    Serapeum of Saqqara.

    Located North West of the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, we find the Serapeum of Saqqara. According to archaeologists, it was the burial-place of the Apis Bulls, literally speaking the living manifestations of the Egyptian God Ptah. This necropolis found near Memphis, Egypt is believed to have been built sometime around 1300 BCE, by Ramesses II.

    Ever since its discovery in 1850 the Serapeum of Saqqara has puzzled archaeologists and researchers and the tunnels that have been unearthed since have been the subject of debate among many.

    This majestic ancient labyrinth is home to 25 megalithic stone ‘boxes’, weighing between 70 to 100 tons. Ancient Egyptians, the builders of these incredible ‘boxes’ possessed incredible knowledge in fields such as geometry and mathematics. There is incredible ancient Precision: but how?

    The mystery of the 100 ton ‘boxes’ at the Serapeum of Saqqara: Ancient precision at its best

    Located North West of the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, we find the Serapeum of Saqqara. According to archaeologists, it was the burial-place of the Apis Bulls, literally speaking the living manifestations of the Egyptian God Ptah. This necropolis found near Memphis, Egypt is believed to have been built sometime around 1300 BCE, by Ramesses II.

    Ever since its discovery in 1850 the Serapeum of Saqqara has puzzled archaeologists and researchers and the tunnels that have been unearthed since has been the subject of debate among many. This majestic ancient labyrinth is home to 25 megalithic stone ‘boxes’, weighing between 70 to 100 tons. Ancient Egyptians, the builders of these incredible ‘boxes’ possessed incredible knowledge in fields such as geometry and mathematics. Thanks to Ancient origens.net

    Incredible Ancient Precision: But Was ET There?

    Part of the megalithic boxes, the 30-ton lids were made of the same blocks of stone. Upon discovery, some of these were blown open with the aid of gunpowder, only to find the inside of these giant boxes empty. Researchers have no idea what their actual purpose is now how these giant boxes were assembled thousands of years ago.

    The question that the existence of these boxes raises is whether ancient Egyptians built these boxes as memorial tombs for the Apis bulls, and if so, how come no remains were found? The Apis Bulls were extremely sacred creatures to the ancient Egyptians having been one of the first sacred cults in Ancient Egyptian History. Historians believe that the Apis Bull was both a deity and manifestation of Egyptian pharaohs.

    Even though scientists believed that Ancient Egyptian mummies were all our DNA, they were wrong. A new study has revealed fascinating—and totally unexpected—results. According to reports, the first ever full-genome analysis of Ancient Egyptian mummies has shown that they were more Turkish and European than Africa. Experts studied ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies from around 1400 BC to around 400 AD finding that they shared genes with people who originate from the Mediterranean.

    Experts discovered that ancient Egyptian mummies were closely related to ancient people in the Levant, modern-day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon. The discovery has come as a surprise to many experts.

    The sequencing success, reported in Nature Communications, “finally proves to everyone that there’s DNA preserved in ancient Egyptian mummies,” says Albert Zink, a biological anthropologist at the Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy.

    According to sciencemag.org, he participated in a 2010 study that identified DNA sequences from 16 ancient Egyptian royal mummies, including Tutankhamen. But that study used polymerase chain reaction, a method that efficiently finds and extracts targeted DNA fragments but cannot always reliably distinguish between ancient DNA and modern contamination.

    Note: Miles long tunnels exist beneath the surface of Egypt with perfectly smooth walls built many thousands of years ago by advanced technology that we are unable to reproduce today. What causes ancient lights to automatically switch on or off in some of the tunnels?

    Pterodactyl Dinosaur

    There have been repeated daylight sightings of pterodactyls dinosaurs in Mexico.

    They e interesting thing is that they all were daylight sightings. Plans are afoot to capture one, if possible, alive. Similar reports are also coming from Australia. http://www.beforeus.com

    Just Us Horror in Maryland

    Can’t put it down: “Just Us: Horror in a Small Maryland Town”

    When 12-year-old Billy Sanders moves with his mother and siblings to Upper Marlboro, Md., in 1970, he must re-start life in a strange town. Billy is troubled because his new home, a dilapidated farm house, resounds with strange noises and evil intent. To bring peace to his home, he must unearth the town’s horrible secret. But in so doing, he unintentionally lures violence and terror upon his own family. This creepily powerful story has been well-received by horror fans. Readers consistently give it 5 stars.

    “This book scared the pants off me!”H.L. Osterman, Short Changed. “You’ll keep the lights on at night after reading this excellent thriller.” Hollis George, editor of “Bram Stoker, Without Fangs.”“John masterfully sets the suspenseful atmosphere while educating you on this small Maryland town. His writing is authentic, the characters believable, and the plot, although supernatural, drew fear into the room where I sat reading.”A reader in Maine

    • “Once I started the book, I couldn’t put it down until I was done.” A reader in Missouri
    • Great book! I started reading it yesterday morning with my coffee and was late to work! Hard to put this one down, I recommend it to others. A reader in North Dakota

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    Filer’s Files #31 – 2017 Dead Sea Scrolls and UFOs - PART II

    UFO Sightings in the United States

    Arizona Light

    Tusayan – I took multiple photos in the area and no other pictures seem to contain anything similar on July 20, 2017.

    I only noticed it in the picture later.

    We were standing atop the watchtower at the Grand Canyon Desert View. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    California Object

    I was 4 years old in 1966, when I began speaking about my imaginary friend, Tony Smithenhouser. Tony was very, very tall with long arms and was an engineer on the railroad. I lost touch with Tony somewhere around 12. In 1986 and I was taking care of my mother, who had terminal breast cancer and my bedroom flooded as the wind pushed the rainwater over the foundation and into my bedroom.

    I felt a presence enter my room from outside and heard communication within my thoughts of a musical sound. I turned and saw two beings hovering above the floor of my room. Their skin was pearlescent, and glowed white. Their heads were hairless and their skull only slightly larger in width than ours would be. Their communication was in musical tones that I somehow understood. One was taller and both were wearing a flowing very white gown. The taller being asked me to trust it. The smaller being outstretched its four long fingers hand, no thumbs. My hand reached out to inches apart, when my body is elevated and we were hovering at the doorway. We moved effortlessly, slowly hovering above the ground. I was asked to look towards our field at a ship that was hovering with beings standing in formation as we glided toward the craft. It was familiar, as though I was once again with Tony Smithenhouser. I remember waking up in my bed, with muddy shoes at 3:33am. I felt panic and I knew it happened. I have a calling now to photograph the skies. Last night I captured orbs, spheres and a worm like craft.
    I have a genetic mutation disease called S.A.P.H.O. Syndrome that came on suddenly in 2006, but 82 specialists from Stanford to UCLA have no explanation or treatment. Now I use energy and vibration therapy to help. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Florida Lights

    Boca Raton — Six balls of light crossed the night sky over our neighborhood at random intervals of time on July 23, 2017. From 9 to 9:19 pm, the balls of light were red and orange all traveling across the night sky and all flickered and died out in the same vicinity. The balls of light were brighter, higher, and larger heading north, on the same line. They moved quickly with a consistent spherical shape with no tail. The entire event lasted about 20 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Georgia Triangle

    Pine Mountain — I was traveling (passenger), north on I-185 in west central Georgia, around 1:30 am. With my iPhone, I was taking pics of the clouds illuminated by the moon on April 19, 2017. I took 45 pics, and saw only beautiful clouds. In the morning I was going through the pics, and was shocked to see some type of craft in two of the pics. It’s shaped similar to our stealth bombers.

    Also, it was glowing, and/or reflecting bluish white. I have no idea what it was. I’m unable to give you a total number of witnesses. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Iowa Object

    Bagley — Taking pictures of low-flying crop duster aircraft flying over people’s homes on July 23, 2017, I photographed this object.

    I noticed the object two days later in the photo.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Maine Lights

    Westbrook – These bright orbs were brighter than the stars around it on a perfectly clear night on July 25, 2017.

    This object was filmed by my iPhone going SW to NE steadily with no sound. This is the second object in three days brighter than any other I have seen. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Missouri Light

    Arnold — I came outside for a smoke in early morning when it was still fairly dark out and there were neither stars not moon visible on July 20, 2017. I spotted a single white light about the size and brightness of a star moving south. It was a single white light moving too quickly and too bright to be a satellite. I ran into the street to keep the object in view. By the time I reached the street as it stopped and hovered there for about thirty minutes. Eventually a cloud bank obscured it and when it cleared the object was gone. I used my sister’s phone to snap some photos. I watch the skies every single night and this is the first unexplainable phenomena I have witnessed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    New Jersey Star

    My brother and I were outside, when we noticed what we thought to a bright star in the sky on July 16, 2017. It was a shiny speck. We both ran inside and grabbed my camera, which had a 250x zoom lens with 18 megapixels. We took 4 photos. We went back inside to look at the pictures, and in awe we realized they were shaped oddly and had pipes. It wasn’t a star at all. Thinking it was a UFO, we went back outside to take more pictures and it was already gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    New York Object

    East Village Manhattan — I was at my local Gym in NYC doing Pilates on my mat, starting out the large windows when a large cylinder shaped UFO appeared in sky on July 16, 2017. It was moving towards the east overhead rotating with 4 lights on one side. They would only show on that side after it made a full rotation. Three of four small sphere type UFOs were blipping in and out around it following it. This thing was clear as day of what I saw and it looked exactly like the UFO that was filmed in UK. This thing had to be hundreds of feet long. I viewed it for over 5 minutes and then after it all passed overhead I was not able to view it any longer. I have video and photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Oregon Lights

    Portland — We first saw one of them moving toward us from the south on June 30, 2017. It stopped and hovered over central Portland for a while until four helicopters approached them from all directions and surrounded it. A black military helicopter approached and joined the others in a circle around them after a few minutes. All of the helicopters flew off in different directions while the military helicopter flew off and landed on the federal building downtown. That’s where the video starts and the objects actually fly into place. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Texas Cloud Object

    AUSTIN — We’re not sure this is anything other than an anomaly on July 19. 2017. We’re asking what you think? It didn’t move and no lights were observed. It was the only cloud in an otherwise brilliant blue sky.

    Just a very strange shape for a cloud and then I started to notice the twin gray shapes near the bottom of the cloud. It’s just an android phone cam so it’s not a very high resolution. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    West Virginia Lights

    St. Albans – I couldn’t sleep, went out to front porch to drink coffee on July 25, 2017, and saw three stars close together. I took a great pic on my cell phone of a triangular object. In the photo was with a tether that was oblong, Two other identical tethers were sticking out from left side of craft. It was stationary for about 90 minutes. There was a short burst of a contrail that didn’t seem to affect its position. It wasn’t anything I’d seen before and I am in awe. Found other sightings describing the EXACT object I saw, tether and all. I can’t find any pic on your site that shows any detail. If it’s ours it’s the best kept secret. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Worldwide UFO Sightings

    Brazil Cigar

    Parana — During July 27th, 2017) around 7:00AM I was driving taking my wife to her work when we saw in the east a massive shining object. We stopped at the coordinates 25º44’54″S 53º03’15″W and looked to East where the object was. We observed it for at least 5 minutes and it was hovering. Its shape was kind of a big Cigar, like a missile floating in the sky. Apparently it was reflecting the sun’s light. It was shining a powerful white bright light and when it started to move towards sunrise leaving a trail. After more 10 or 15 minutes it faded away behind some sparse clouds and disappeared completely. Picture Depiction. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Germany Disc

    Hannover — I visited Germany in March 30, 2017. Took a field trip to the rural area of Hannover and stopped by a country road to take pictures.

    I accidentally witnessed an UFO object shooting out of sky with an opening on the cloud. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Ireland Orb

    At first l think it’s Jupiter but the object is moving slowly so l record this event with my phone.

    Have great day with UFOs Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Mexico Orb

    Rocky Point/Sandy Beach — My wife and I noticed a glowing orange star like object moving slowly for a few minutes and then vanished around 10:30 pm PST. It was neither a plane nor a balloon. I’ve never seen anything like that. Yes, there have been repeated daylight sightings of pterodactyls in Mexico. One interesting thing is that they all were daylight sightings. Plans are afoot to capture one, if possible, alive. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    Puerto Rico Objects

    Humacao — Five objects to the southeast were observed on July 5, 2017. One of them constantly represented an inverted cross red light which scared m, since I do not know if it represents some sort of warning.

    I feel there is a connection path since all the movements are related crossing through the south-east area of PR. Thanks to MUFON CMS

    UK Orb

    Barmouth Beach — Walking my dog on Barmouth Beach, my son took some photos and after uploading them to the computer I noticed this orb like object on several of them on July 29, 2015.

    I put it down to glare from the sun, however a few weeks ago a friend posted some pictures on FB of an identical orb like phenomena, stating they had witnessed the object visually.

    Thanks to MUFON CMS

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA is Looking for a New Planetary Protection Officer

    Who says there are no good jobs available? If you didn’t get hired for that great position as a nanny in a haunted house or ghost babysitter at a haunted prison, perhaps you’re better qualified for something more space-oriented. Are you interested in protecting the planet from space aliens? NASA is looking for you. Its only Planetary Protection Officer (and one of only two in the world) is moving on and this great six-figure job is available for the right person. Could that be you? Do you own a lightsaber or a fast spaceship?

    Planetary protection is concerned with the avoidance of organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration. NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies, and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration. This policy is based on federal requirements and international treaties and agreements.

    That sounds like a big job for just one person, but Catherine Conley has been NASA’s planetary protection officer since 2014 and she must be doing a good job because we haven’t been contaminated since then … have we? In fact, the only reason the position is available is bureaucracy — the position is being moved to a different department and that requires opening it up for a new person … including Catherine Conley, who can reapply. And she would be wise to. Where else can you get paid between $124,406 to $187,000 a year to protect Earth from aliens, other than in the European Space Agency?

    The Planetary Protection Officer does not have the authority to call out the Air Force

    The biggest part of being a Planetary Protection Officer is protecting other planets from contamination by our space probes and protecting us from what returning probes might bring back. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 created the necessity for the position:

    States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose.

    Despite being paid up to $187,000, the Planetary Protection Officer doesn’t have to be perfect. In an interview with Business Insider, Conley said her target is to insure that Earth probes have a less than 1-in-10,000 chance of contaminating other celestial bodies. In that respect, this sounds more like an actuary at an insurance company. Conley traveled to space labs building equipment for missions and determined the probability of an orbiting probe photographing a planet’s surface suddenly crashing to the surface.

    Labs like this one are the workplace of the Planetary Protection Officer

    A bigger job is to protect Earth from contamination on so-called “sample return missions” like those planned for Mars. Conley has been helping to set up protocols and procedures to reduce the risks that Martian dirt will harm scientists or escape from the lab and kill us all.

    If you think this is the job for you, get out your résumé and make sure it includes a degree in “physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics” or equivalent experience. You must also have “experience planning, executing, or overseeing elements of space programs of national significance” and skills in “diplomacy that resulted in win-win solutions during extremely difficult and complex multilateral discussions.” You know, like negotiating with alien leaders to keep their filthy spaceships off of our pristine planet.

    Applications are being accepted until August 14. Good luck!

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    Alien Abductees and Government Spying – More

    Well, my most recent article here at Mysterious Universe – “Are UFO Abductees Being Secretly Watched?” – provoked some interesting Facebook comments and messages – and emails, too. Some people were supportive of the theory that there is clandestine and widespread surveillance of alien abductees. Some even shared their stories with me on their own experiences. Others, meanwhile, considered the whole thing to be a bunch of nonsense born out of hoaxing and fantasizing. But, that latter category of people forget something important. In fact, they forget something very important. Or, maybe, they’re not even aware of what I’m about to state now.

    Long before the alien abductees were on the scene, there were the Contactees – those people who, predominantly in the 1950s and the 1960s, claimed face to face contact with human-looking aliens, and who were concerned by our growing nuclear arsenals and the reckless ways in which we were exploiting the Earth and its inhabitants. They made grave and dire warnings of what would happen if we didn’t curb our warlike ways: a radioactive nightmare and the end of civilization would be the only inevitable outcomes. As an aside, given the way things are going right now in the world, they just might have had a point. But, there is something else too; something which has deep relevancy to the matter of someone – or some agency of government, the military, or the Intelligence community – spying on those who have undergone the abduction experience.

    Just about all of the Contactees of the fifties and the sixties were watched secretly, carefully and closely by the FBI. George Adamski’s FBI file reveals that the Bureau was concerned by two things: (A) Adamski’s claims that his long-haired “Space Brothers” and “Space Sisters” were probably communist in nature; and (B) Adamski’s ability to influence lots of people (his 1953 book, Flying Saucers Have Landed – co-authored with Desmond Leslie – was a huge seller). George Van Tassel was secretly watched too: his FBI file is extensive and covers the early 1950s to the middle part of the 1960s. He also talked about the politics of the aliens, as well as how he was reportedly told by his space-buddies that many of our major religions were born out of visits from ancient astronauts.

    Contactee George Hunt Williamson had an FBI dossier opened on him, as did Frank Stranges, of Stranger at the Pentagoninfamy. Truman Bethurum – the man who lusted after hot and curvy space-babe Aura Rhanes – was watched. As was Orfeo Angelucci. Moving across the pond, in the late 1950s the British Police Force’s Special Branch opened a file on the Contactee-driven Aetherius Society. It was chiefly because the group often talked about the perils of atomic weapons – and to audiences of people who listened very closely to what was being said. It’s clear from the files referred to above that the relevant agencies did not believe the tales that the Contactees were telling. But, when it comes to their particular stories, that wasn’t the point. The point was that that the Contactees were saying a great deal of controversial things – and a lot of people listening to what they had to say were nodding their heads eagerly and in agreement. That’s what specifically had the FBI concerned.

    Alien spacecraft is hovering abpve the meadow

    Much the same can be said about today’s alien abductees. Namely, that more than a few books on the subject have sold very well. In many of those same books the bug-eyed Grays have warned those who have been abducted about the perils of nuclear war, of the destruction of the rain-forests, of the collapse of the ozone-layer, of the decline of the human race and…well, you get the picture. Just like the Contactees of yesteryear, the alien abductees of today – and particularly those who lecture and write articles and books – are in prime positions to potentially influence many.

    Had there not been widespread surveillance of the Contactees in the 1950s and the 1960s, I might be inclined to dismiss some of the accounts of government agencies watching the abductees today. But, the FBI’s surveillance of the Contactees went on for years. Voluminous files were created. Special-Agents of the FBI sat in the audiences at Van Tassel’s and Adamski’s lectures – as the now-declassified files show. They even visited Van Tassel at his Giant Rock, California home, and on several occasions.

    In light of all this – namely, the political/nuclear//end-of-the-world issues that led the FBI to keep a careful and clandestine watch on the Contactees – it doesn’t seem strange to me at all that what was going on in the 1950s with Adamski & Co. has its very own modern-day equivalent: the surveillance of the abductees.

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    02-08-2017 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Onverklaarbare golf meldingen over veeverminking. Wie doet dit?!

    Onverklaarbare golf meldingen over veeverminking. Wie doet dit?!

    Over de hele wereld worden meldingen gedaan van nooit opgeloste gevallen van veeverminking, schrijft persbureau Sputnik.

    De FBI heeft sinds de jaren zeventig in de VS alleen al duizenden gevallen onderzocht, maar is sindsdien niet veel wijzer geworden.

    Met name boeren uit staten als South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas en Nevada treffen al decennialang koeien aan waarbij met de grootst mogelijke precisie organen zijn verwijderd.

    Raadsel

    Zelfs de knapste koppen stonden voor een raadsel, blijkt uit de stukken. In veel gevallen worden vaartuigen – helikopters of UFO’s – gemeld op plekken waar later dode koeien worden gevonden.

    Sommigen denken om die reden dat de overheid het in de doofpot probeert te stoppen of dat aliens er verantwoordelijk voor zijn.

    Sinds 1955 zijn er ruim 10.000 gevallen gemeld en in geen enkel geval kon een dader worden aangewezen.

    Patroon

    Chuck Zukowski van UFOnut.com doet al tientallen jaren onderzoek naar deze raadselachtige gebeurtenissen.

    Hij stelt dat er sprake is van een patroon: een dier wordt overgebracht van locatie A naar locatie B, waar het wordt ontdaan van bloed en ongewone sneden in het lichaam worden gemaakt.

    Voorts gaat het lichaam naar locatie C, die zich over het algemeen dicht bij locatie A bevindt.

    Niet-menselijke bron

    “Dit gebeurt al honderden jaren. Zelfs de inheemse Amerikanen kennen verhalen over veeverminking, nog voor de tijd dat Europeanen naar Noord-Amerika migreerden,” zei hij.

    Volgens Zukowski wijst het bewijs sterk in de richting van een niet-menselijke bron.

    In de meeste gevallen die hij heeft onderzocht zagen getuigen lichtbollen in het gebied waar dieren werden gevonden, en in sommige gevallen zelfs ruimteschepen.

    ‘Absoluut niet!’

    Hij meent dat de ongemarkeerde helikopters die worden gezien erop wijzen dat de Amerikaanse overheid zelf ook onderzoek doet naar het fenomeen.

    Op de vraag of hier een alledaagse verklaring voor kan zijn antwoordde Zukowski: “Absoluut niet!”

    Hij zei dat hij ook meldingen heeft gekregen uit Australië, Nieuw-Zeeland, de Dominicaanse Republiek en Groot-Brittannië.

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    02-08-2017 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

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    ..

    Het lijkt op een sciencefiction film, maar niets in minder waar, want de nieuwe Facebook robots hebben een eigen taal ontwikkeld die voor de programmeurs niet meer te volgen is. 

    Als robots in staat zijn om dit te doen, dan doemt er een ander schrikbeeld op en dat is dat ze dan ook een soort bewustzijn hebben. 



    Er heeft zich iets werkelijk alarmerends voorgedaan en de vraag is of de mensheid dit beseft, of dat men gewoon doorgaat met levensgevaarlijke experimenten. 

    Even terug naar een artikel dat we ongeveer tien dagen geleden schreven:

    Elon Musk blijft mensen iedere keer weer verbazen, niet alleen met zijn nieuwe uitvindingen en plannen, maar ook met hoe hij over bepaalde dingen denkt. 

    Zo denkt dat hij dat er een kans is van één op de miljard dat wij NIET in een computersimulatie leven, een beetje zoals wij beschreven in een eerder artikel “Is God een IT specialist?”. 

    En dan is het natuurlijk één ding dat wij als mensen leven in die computersimulatie, maar zoals de ontwikkelingen er nu uit zien, kan binnen die computersimulatie de leidende rol wel eens worden overgenomen door robots. 

    In een toespraak vorige week begon Elon Musk opeens over het grote gevaar dat hij ziet en dat is dat overheden niets doen om AI (Artificial Intelligence) te reguleren. Dit is volgens hem broodnodig omdat er een groot gevaar bestaat dat het met kunstmatige intelligentie zoals robots volledig uit de hand kan gaan lopen. 

    Hij zegt dat mensen waarschijnlijk pas in actie zullen komen als ze robots zien die door de straten gaan en mensen doden. Mensen doen helemaal niets omdat het voor hen zo onbegrijpelijk is allemaal. 

    Maar, zo stelt, hij: “Als wij nu niet proactief dit soort dingen gaan reguleren in plaats van reactief, dan kan het wel eens te laat zijn”. Musk ziet AI als een fundamenteel risico voor het voortbestaan van de mensheid en maakt zich daarover dan ook veel zorgen. 

    En alsof hij op zijn wenken wordt bediend, verschijnt gisteren het volgende bericht in de Telegraaf: 

    Facebook heeft de bouw van slimme zelfdenkende robots vroegtijdig moeten afbreken. De robots in kunstmatige intelligentie bleken illegaal hun eigen taaltje te hebben ontwikkeld. 

    Dat hebben bronnen binnen Facebook tegenover technologieblog Tech Times gemeld. 

    De robots moesten zelf vervolgstappen in de programmeertaal bedenken voor apparaten. Ze kwamen echter vanuit het niets met een coderingstaal waar het Facebook-personeel weinig tegen kon doen maar ook niet begreep. 

    De robots gingen door de grenzen van wat programmeurs vooraf als norm hadden vastgesteld. Het taaltje tussen de robots kregen Facebook-programmeurs niet voldoende beperkt, waarop het project tijdelijk werd stilgelegd, aldus het blog. 

    De robots begonnen in het Engels, maar bedachten daarna de eigen taal die voor de softwaremakers totaal niet te volgen zou zijn geweest. 

    De sociale mediareus steekt momenteel miljarden in kunstmatige intelligentie, bijvoorbeeld voor besturing van zelfrijdende auto’s. Vanaf juni was bekend dat de zogeheten dialogue agents een eigen taal ontwikkelden. 

    De robots bleken voor programmeurs ,,ongelooflijke sterke onderhandelaars”, melden de bronnen tegen Tech Times. 

    Het probleem blijkt enkele dagen nadat topman Elon Musk van de zelfrijdende batterijautomaker Tesla meldde dat het begrip bij topman Mark Zuckerberg van Facebook van kunstmatige intelligentie maar zeer beperkt is. 

    Facebook reageert niet op het bericht, maar doet dat zelden op dergelijke ontwikkelproblemen. 

    Eerder waarschuwden experts in kunstmatige intelligentie zoals hoogleraar Stephen Hawkings voor de te grote macht van de zelfdenkende robots. 

    Elon Musk hamert al langer op ’het grootste gevaar voor de mensheid’. Zuckerberg noemde die zorgen recent onnodig en onverantwoord. 

    Het bovenstaande is zo ingrijpend dat het onze wereld letterlijk op zijn kop kan zetten. 

    Als robots, zonder dat ze daartoe geprogrammeerd zijn, in staat blijken om zelf een eigen onafhankelijke taal te creëren die voor niemand anders te begrijpen is, dan betekent dit dat er een bepaalde mate van bewustzijn aanwezig is in die robots. 

    Het duidt op een bepaalde mate van intelligentie, intentie, efficiëntie en bewustzijn. 

    Waarmee we dan op een punt zijn aanbeland waarbij blijkt dat je dus bewustzijn in een robot kunt stoppen. 

    Is het dan een zaak dat bewustzijn misschien inderdaad niet is verbonden aan een bepaald individu, maar overal aanwezig is en dat dit bewustzijn als het ware ook te vangen in dit soort apparaten? 

    Of is het een zaak dat zielen die reïncarneren op aarde hiervoor verschillende voertuigen kunnen gebruiken zolang er maar een bepaalde rekenmachine, een kwantumcomputer zoals onze hersenen, aan is gekoppeld zodat het kan denken, voelen en ervaren? Dat men voor reïncarnatie normaal gesproken een menselijk lichaam gebruikt, maar dat er ook zielen zijn die net zo lief reïncarneren in het metalen lichaam van een robot? 

    Of zoals iemand uit onze omgeving zei: “Als ik mag kiezen tussen mijn lichaam of een robotlichaam als ik hetzelfde ervaar en kan? Doe dan maar een robotlichaam.” 

    Kunnen mensen die straks heel erg ziek zijn hun complete bewustzijn inclusief geheugen uploaden naar een computer om dat dan vervolgens te downloaden in een robotlichaam? 

    Duidelijk is wel dat Mark Zuckerberg druk doende is een doos van Pandora te openen. 

    En wie weet was Pandora uit de Griekse mythologie ook wel een robot, want ze werd tenslotte in een werkplaats gemaakt. 

    Volgens de Griekse mythologie maakte de god van het vuur, genaamd Hephaestus, in zijn werkplaats de eerste vrouw: Pandora. Aanvankelijk was het een metalen beeld, maar het was zo mooi dat Zeus besloot het leven te schenken.Toen gaven alle goden haar op hun beurt een geschenk: schoonheid, kracht, slimheid, handigheid, overredingskracht. Hera gaf haar de nieuwsgierigheid die haar geen moment met rust zou laten. Zeus zond Pandora als geschenk aan Epimetheus die haar tot zijn vrouw maakte. Als huwelijksgeschenk kregen zij een mooie doos, versierd met goud en edelstenen. Deze doos zat op slot, maar Zeus had de sleutel erbij gegeven en tegen Pandora gezegd dat als ze gelukkig wilden leven, ze de doos nooit moest openen. Op een bepaald moment won de nieuwsgierigheid het en opende Pandora de doos. In een klap kwamen daar alle tegenslagen en onheil uit die een mens maar kunnen treffen: ziektes, verbittering, pijn en alle mogelijke kwaad. Als laatste kwam echter de hoop eruit, in de vorm van een vogel. Dat was de boodschap van de troost voor de mensheid.

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    02-08-2017 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Want to Protect Earth from Aliens? NASA Is Hiring

    Mars as seen by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter.
    Credit: NASA/JPL

    If you've always dreamed of helping keep Earth safe from alien invaders, your ship may have just come in.

    NASA is looking to hire a planetary protection officer, a person who will lead the agency's efforts to keep its spacecraft and astronauts from contaminating worlds with life-forms that don't belong there.

    NASA officials have stressed that keeping Earth clean — of alien microbes that could arrive here in a sample-return capsule, for example — is the highest priority, but the responsibility applies to all celestial objects that agency spacecraft visit.

    "NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all spaceflight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies, and any mission employing spacecraft which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration," NASA officials wrote in a job description. "This policy is based on federal requirements and international treaties and agreements."

    So the job checks the making-a-difference box. The pay is good, too; the stated salary range is $124,406 to $187,000. And if you're after a challenge, you'll almost certainly get it.

    The topic of planetary protection is generating more and more discussion these days as NASA works on getting (microbe-laden) astronauts to Mars and sending robotic probes to potentially habitable worlds, such as Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa. (The agency is scheduled to launch a Europa flyby mission in the 2020s, and Congress has instructed NASA to put a lander down on the moon's icy surface as well.)

    Such plans have spurred debate within the spaceflight community, with some exploration advocates stressing that planetary-protection concerns could hinder the effort to put boots on Mars and hunt for life on the Red Planet.

    Still interested? You have until Aug. 14 to apply (which you can do here).

    This is not a newly created job; Cassie Conley has been NASA's planetary protection officer for several years now. The new posting is a result of relocating the position to NASA's Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, Conley told Business Insider. She did not indicate whether she plans to reapply, Business Insider reported.

    Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @SpacedotcomFacebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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    02-08-2017 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

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    Protection Officer; top 7 things to know about this alien combating job

    Planetary protection officers have been employed by various space agencies in part-time roles but NASA and ESA will hire full-time employees.
    Nupur Jha

    02-08-2017 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

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    A bad place to catch—or spread—germs
    A bad place to catch—or spread—germs (NASA/JPL)

    Why NASA Is Right to Hire a 'Planetary Protection Officer'

    The invasion is nigh! You knew it would happen eventually — that the Roswell aliens would not only turn out to be real, but that they'd one day return to finish their job of Earthly conquest. Now, NASA, which was surely part of the conspiracy of silence for the last sixty years, has come clean, announcing the creation of the new position of Planetary Protection Officer. It's a sweet gig, actually, paying up to $187,000 per year. That makes for a pretty big pot of disposable income — at least until, you know, the world ends.

    Actually, however, you can sound the all clear: The planetary protection job is real, though its purpose is only partly to save Earthlings from the ravages of alien life forms (and by life forms we mean microbes, not green guys). A bigger part of the job is to protect aliens from us — the real bad guys.

    Human beings have long hoped to find life in space and we may not have to look far. In our solar system alone, there are at least five worlds other than Earth that, thanks to the presence of water, may have the conditions to support biology: Mars, Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede, Saturn's moon Enceladus and Pluto. The problem is, discovering and recovering that life requires sending robot probes or even human beings out to explore. Robots could contain trace bacteria, viruses or other biological contaminants from Earth, and a human being is nothing but one gigantic, walking contaminant.

    If an earthly organism got loose in an otherwise pristine place, two problematic things could happen: The contamination would make it impossible to know for sure if any organism you detected was native to the planet or a stowaway. Worse, if alien life did exist, Earth bugs could contaminate its environment and perhaps even prove to be lethal.

    In-bound contamination — the space-to-Earth variety — has, of course, always been what worries us more. When astronauts from the first three Apollo moon landings returned to Earth, they were kept in quarantine for three weeks to ensure that they had not picked up any lunar bugs. That was unlikely given that the moon is an airless, waterless, and thus likely sterile place. But in fact there was a bit of a scare.

    When the Apollo 12 crew returned to earth, they brought back a camera from the unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft that had landed on the moon two and a half years earlier. NASA scientists examined the camera and to their surprise, discovered a small, viable colony of strep bacteria deep inside. It was possible—though exceedingly improbable—that strep was endemic to the moon. Much more likely, the bugs had been carried aboard the Surveyor and had somehow survived their time in the lunar environment. Later analysis revealed that neither scenario was the right one: the camera was actually colonized by the bugs in the lab's ostensible clean room after its return. Still, the incident was seen as a reminder of how easy the spread of bugs from world to world might be.

    The Planetary Protection Officer's job will be to help ensure that that kind of bio-leak doesn't happen for real not just when humans come back from alien worlds, but when robot probes do too. This will be especially important if NASA at last moves ahead with its long deferred Mars Sample Return mission, whose job, as its name suggests, will be to collect samples of Martian soil and rocks to be transported back to Earth for study. To help prevent outward-bound contamination, the job will include establishing and developing better quality control standards so that clean rooms where spacecraft are assembled stay clean and disinfection of the spacecraft before the launch actually works.

    And then, of course, there is one final act of self-sacrifice spacecraft perform to help keep things pristine. On September 21, 3003, after eight years spent orbiting Jupiter, the aging Galileo spacecraft made a suicide plunge into the planet's cloud tops to prevent it from accidentally crashing onto Europa, Ganymede or any other Jovian moon that might harbor life. This September, the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, will make a similar high-dive into the Saturnian atmosphere. The maneuvers are designed so that the ships leave the planetary systems as they found them: unharmed—even if much better understood.

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    02-08-2017 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

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    Astronomers found an alien world with glowing water atmosphere

    "We've measured a strong rise in the temperature of WASP-121b's atmosphere at higher altitudes, but we don't yet know what's causing this dramatic heating," said researcher Nikolay Nikolov.
    Water vapor glowing in the atmosphere around a newly discovered exoplanet suggests the alien world boasts a stratosphere. Photo by Engine House VFX/At-Bristol Science Centre/University of Exeter

    Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Scientists have discovered evidence of a stratosphere surrounding a large exoplanet located 900 light-years from Earth.

    A team of astronomers from the University of Exeter and the University of Maryland discovered glowing water molecules while surveying Hubble's observations of WASP-121b's atmosphere.

    "When it comes to distant exoplanets, which we can't see in the same detail as other planets here in our own solar system, we have to rely on proxy techniques to reveal their structure," Drake Deming, a professor of astronomy at Maryland, said in a news release. "The stratosphere of WASP-121b so hot it can make water vapor glow, which is the basis for our analysis."

    Water molecules interact with certain wavelengths of light in predictable ways. At cooler temperatures, water molecules block light. At higher temperatures, water molecules radiate or shimmer.

    As water molecules are heated and vaporized, their electrons move into higher energy states. As they do, they emit infrared light. Scientists were able to identify the phenomenon in spectral data collected by Hubble.

    "This new research is the smoking gun evidence scientists have been searching for when studying hot exoplanets," said David Sing, an associate professor of astrophysics at the University of Exeter. "We have discovered this hot Jupiter has a stratosphere, a common feature seen in most of our solar system planets."

    WASP-121b is so hot because it orbits so close to its host star. If the star and exoplanet were any closer, the star's gravity would likely rip WASP-121b to shreds.

    The temperature of Earth's stratosphere is stratified, it gets warmers as the stratosphere extends away from Earth. Ozone in the layers closer to the sun absorb more heat from solar radiation. Methane in the stratosphere of Jupiter and Saturn's moon Titan has a similar effect.

    Researchers believe WASP-121b is host to a similar stratification, only more dramatic. Most stratospheres feature a temperature difference of 100 degrees Celsius. The stratosphere of the newly discovered exoplanet features a temperature difference of 1,000 degrees Celsius.

    "We've measured a strong rise in the temperature of WASP-121b's atmosphere at higher altitudes, but we don't yet know what's causing this dramatic heating," said Nikolay Nikolov, a research fellow at Exeter. "We hope to address this mystery with upcoming observations at other wavelengths."

    Researchers described their analysis of WASP-121b's atmosphere this week in the journal Nature.

    02-08-2017 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Married UFO enthusiast, 54, who has repeatedly claimed he was abducted by aliens and was profiled in a 2013 documentary goes on trial for child pornography

    • Stanley Tiger Romanek, 54, of Colorado, is on trial for allegedly distributing and being in possession of child pornography
    • He was arrested in February 2014 on felony counts after eight-month investigation initiated by Homeland Security 
    • A search of Romanek's Loveland home turned up more than 300 images and videos on a laptop depciting child pornography   
    • Romanek was profiled in 2013 documentary titled Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, which is was released on Netflix in June
    • Romanek has claimed to have had multiple encounters with UFOs and to have fathered alien children
    • He and wife Lisa claimed they have been targeted by hackers because they know about UFOs

    UFO enthusiast on trial: Stanley Tiger Romanek, 54, the subject of a documentary that detailed his alleged experiences with extra-terrestrials, is on trial on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography 

    Opening statements were presented on Tuesday in the child pornography trial of a married father-of-two UFO enthusiast from Colorado who was the subject of a controversial documentary that detailed his alleged experiences with extra-terrestrials.

    Stanley Tiger Romanek, 54, of Loveland, was arrested in February 2014 on felony charges of sexual exploitation of a child for allegedly distributing and being in possession of child pornography.

    Romanek was taken into custody after an eight-month investigation initiated by the Department of homeland Security, during which a search of his home on Ash Avenue in Loveland turned up more than 300 photos and videos depicting children in sexual situations.

    The lewd material was found on a laptop stored inside a closet in Romanek's home, which he shared with his wife Lisa.

    According to an arrest affidavit, the computer had 'Stan Romanek' engraved on it, reported The Coloradoan, which has been covering the case from the beginning.

    When interviewed by investigators during the search of his home in April 2013, Romankek admitted that he has seen files on his computer that could be considered child pornography but said he did not know how they ended up on his device, the document stated.

    Romanek has claimed to have had more than 100 encounters with alien beings, and capturing some of them on camera, including this image from 2003 

    Romanek has claimed to have had more than 100 encounters with alien beings, and capturing some of them on camera, including this image from 2003 

    Romanek, a married father-of-two, previously claimed that he had been abducted by aliens
    Stan Romanek is also a book author

    He then floated the theory that someone had planted the incriminating images on the laptop. Romanek pleaded not guilty to the charges in March 2016.

    Both Stanley and Lisa Romanek have claimed they have been targeted by hackers and subjected to threats because they have secret knowledge about the existence of UFOs.

    Romanek was profiled in the 2013 documentary film Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, which is was released on Netflix in June.

    Fame: Romanek was profiled in the 2013 documentary film Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, which is was released on Netflix in June

    Fame: Romanek was profiled in the 2013 documentary film Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, which is was released on Netflix in June

    In the film, Romanek claims to have had more than 100 encounters with alien beings, and capturing some of them on camera. 

    Among the claims Romanek makes in the film there are tales of alien abductions that left him with red marks on his body, and fathering multiple extra-terrestrial children.

    The documentary now includes a postscript that references Romanek’s child pornography case.

    Romanek is also the author of three books on the subject of aliens, including ‘Messages: The World's Most Documented Extraterrestrial Contact Story’; ‘Answers’, and ‘The Orion Regressions.’

    Romanek had undergone several rounds of mental health evaluations and was found to be competent to stand trial, which got under way on Monday with jury selection.

    During opening statements presented on Tuesday, prosecutor Joshua Ritter reminded the jurors the case was about the 'victimization of children' and warned that the images they were about to see in the course of the proceedings were ‘not pleasant.’

    Romanek has claimed to have been targeted by hackers and subjected to threats because he has secret knowledge about the existence of UFOs
    Lisa Romanek

    Conspiracy: Both Stanley (left) and Lisa Romanek (right) have claimed they have been targeted by hackers and subjected to threats because they have secret knowledge about the existence of UFOs.

    Reporter-herald reported that Ritter said the pornographic content was discovered after a computer crimes expert from the Department of Homeland Security offered the Loveland Police Departmenta tip about images being used in a peer-to-peer network connected to an IP address at Romanek's residence. 

    Romanek's defense attorney Elizabeth McClintock countered her opponent's arguments by telling the jury the prosecution has no concrete evidence tying the IP address at the center of the case directly to her client.

    Romanek’s trial is expected to last eight days and wrap up on August 9.

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    02-08-2017 om 22:15 geschreven door peter  

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    REVEALED: Truth about ‘alien mothership’ filmed ‘tracking’ International Space Station

    THIS is the moment a gigantic "alien spaceship" is filmed monitoring the International Space station (ISS), according to UFO experts.

    Footage from the ISS livestream, uploaded to YouTube, shows a massive hazy object come into view in the background away from the space station.

    Commentators have described it as first appearing as a line of orange lights, before it begins to take on a larger form.

    As the clip comes to the end, the lights appear to dim back into space.

    The alien spaceship

    YOUTUBE

    BIZARRE: The lights soon faded and the shape disappeared

    The video was released by brothers Blake and Brett Cousins who run YouTube channel ‘thirdphaseofmoon’ yesterday.

    The pair showed an interview with a UFO expert in an effort to identify the mysterious anomaly.

    UFO-ISS

    Nasa*YouTube

    The strange object (right) which appeared on the Nasa ISS livestream.

    In the video the expert says: "First, what I was looking at is I don’t know exactly what I was looking at.

    “In the very beginning, you see these orange dots around it and by the end of it the entire thing almost shrinks up a little bit.

    “Almost as if it’s a giant mothership for all we know.”

    There have already been more than 40,000 views of the video.

    One viewer said: “Looks like the Battlestar Galactica just jumped into orbit.” 

    In the very beginning, you see these orange dots around it and by the end of it the entire thing almost shrinks up a little bit. Almost as if it’s a giant mothership for all we know.

    UFO expert

    Another said: “It’s an interstellar mother ship, watching what NASA is doing, as NASA have lied since the first encounter with UFO.”

    But a sceptical third said: “To me it looks like the ISS filmed a storm in the upper atmosphere.”

    Thirdphaseofmoon has made it onto a number of UFO website and YouTube channel blacklists by more sceptical investigators, amid claims they use hoax and misrepresented footage.

    The brothers deny this and claim to be legitimate researchers.

    UFO chasers have reported seeing scores of UFOs on the livestream this year but they have turned out to be nothing more than ice, space debris, or lens flares which is when light refracts inside the camera lens and then is projected on to the still or video image.

    Express.co.uk showed the video to Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org, who said it was just reflected light coming from the ISS itself, so there was no UFO and nothing was actually there.

    http://www.express.co.uk/ }

    02-08-2017 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Shock as UFO 'spotted coming out of PORTAL to another dimension'

    Shock as UFO 'spotted coming out of PORTAL to another dimension'

    UFO hunters have been sent into a frenzy after a strange object was seen coming out of a ‘portal’ in the sky.

    A couple from Alexandria, Louisiana, were driving home when they say they spotted a UFO coming out of a funnel beneath a perfectly circular cloud.

    In a video uploaded by popular conspiracy theory channel SecureTeam10, the narrator says he was contacted by the couple, in the US, who described their experience.

    One of the anonymous pair said: “We were driving home when I noticed a white doughnut shaped cloud formed in the sky. 

    “I decided to take a photo of it before it got too dark. Later on, we pulled into my driveway and when we got out of the vehicle, the sky had gotten dark brown, and around the doughnut shaped cloud we noticed that this vapour like funnel had begun to come down from the centre and at the bottom appeared an oval shaped translucent object with lights around its circumference. 

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    Shock as UFO 'spotted coming out of EXTRA-DIMENSIONAL portal'

    “It hovered there in the sky long enough for me to take several photographs before the object was gone.”

    To add even more mystery to the sighting, the narrator, Tyler, says the photographs bare a striking resemblance to a painting which was discovered in a Romanian monastery that shows a craft coming out a funnel beneath the clouds.

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    The 'portal' was spotted over Louisiana

    Tyler said: “As soon as I saw these photos, it reminded me of a [16th century] painting from Romania that was discovered inside of a monastery which features a house … and above it, coming out the clouds, is this elongated funnel and at the end of it, a saucer shaped object.”

    It is not the first time this type of portal has reportedly been spotted around the globe.

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    The sighting was similar to this Romanian painting

    A video from late 2016 allegedly showed a UFO arriving to Earth through a "plasma beam”.

    Many alien chasers claimed it showed an extraterrestrial spacecraft being zapped to Earth in a plasma beam through some sort of portal from another dimension.

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    02-08-2017 om 21:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Reddit Users Ask SETI Founder and Space Legend Anything

    Reddit Users Ask SETI Founder and Space Legend Anything

     
    Very Large Array as Sunset (Satellite Dishes from Contact)
    IN BRIEF
    In a recent AMA on Reddit, Frank Drake, known for his prolific achievements in extraterrestrial research, has answered the community's questions. His answers give an incisive look into an expert's mind.

    WHO IS FRANK DRAKE?

    Frank Drake is a world-renowned astronomer and astrophysicist who is responsible for founding the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) and inventing the Drake equation, which estimates the likelihood of finding intelligent life in the Universe.

    On July 16th, Drake hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) and gave some interesting responses to the community’s questions, which can roughly be split into questions on Drake’s own works and theories, and more abstract questions concerning space and aliens.

    DRAKE ON DRAKE

    Reddit user murikansk asked, “What was the main hope when creating the Golden Record and the Pioneer plaque? That is, was it simply hoping that it would be understood that it is nonrandom data and the location of the origin of the spacecraft deciphered, or did you also believe in the possibility that the extraterrestrial civilization would learn something about our cultures? How much of the plaque, record, and the Arecibo message did you believe would realistically be understood if intercepted?” The question refers to his collaboration with Carl Sagan and NASA, when he helped design the Golden Record, a record on board both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 that contains the sounds of the diversity of life on earth, and the Pioneer Plaques, which were attached to Pioneer 10 and 11 as a universal message about Earth to extraterrestrial life.

    Drake responded: “These may be the only records that we ever existed [sic], and this meant a great deal to us in a very deep and emotional way.” Responding to a question from Zaphus, he said he would update them by making “use of the much greater capabilities we now have to send huge amounts of information quickly. I would send 3-dimensional movies, I would send sounds, and in this way much more accurately show what we are like and what we are capable of.”

    Drake also gave an answer to a question concerning his own Drake Equation — a formula that attempts to show the likelihood of finding intelligent life in the Universe.

    Senno_Ecto_Gammat asked, “Do you think we will nail down good values for the variables in the Drake equation before we make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations, or will we only get good values for those variables after we make contact?”

    Drake answered, “We’ll get good numbers for the variables except for f (sub i), and L.” These necessitate contact with other alien life. F (sub i) refers to the fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges, while L — which he later referred to as “the most important parameter” — is the length of time over which such civilizations release detectable signals into space.

    While we have suspected that we have received such signals, with the WOW! Signal being the most notable, none have, as-of-yet, proven to be genuine communications from another civilization.

    DRAKE ON SPACE

    He also provided responses to questions that the entire space community is asking. One of the first, from DevinDTA — which is what we would all ask to an expert on the extraterrestrial — concerned when he thinks we will meet alien life. He responded that he believes “we will detect evidence of non-intelligent life on another planet of our solar system within the next 50-70 years” and that “it’ll probably be microbial.”

    YoureGratefulDead2Me asked, “If you could communicate with an alien civilization and language barrier were not an issue, what would you tell them/ask them?” Drake responded, in part, “If they are like us we would ask them what steps they take to support an ever growing population; for example is the colonization of other planets in their solar system advantageous or too costly and dangerous.” Drake, then, like Elon Musk, believes that the world’s population — which is set to hit 9.7 billion by 2050 — is one of the most challenging obstacles we face in our continued development; and that colonizing other planets could be a solution.

    SailingSmitty asked where Drake sat on the spectrum of trying to contact aliens vs awaiting contact from them — essentially, whether he is currently aligned with the Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) or SETI, which searches instead. In response, he stated, “I believe it is a waste of time and resources to transmit messages to alien life until we have actually detected alien life and know something about them.”

    Perhaps more interestingly, though, he continued, “Also, I do not believe it is dangerous to transmit signals because there is not a very great benefit for them to attack us.” This contrasts with other expert views.

    Stephen Hawking advises against first contact by predicting the meeting would be like the first encounter between Columbus and the Native Americans — which “didn’t turn out so well” for the latter party. At the other end of the spectrum is Alexander Zaitsev, founder of METI, who thinks we should “not want to live in a cocoon, in a ‘one-man island'” and therefore should take every possible opportunity to communicate with whatever (or whoever) is out there.

    https://futurism.com/ }

    02-08-2017 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Who Is Doing This?! Global Wave of Animal Mutilations Defies Explanation

    Who Is Doing This?! Global Wave of Animal Mutilations Defies Explanation

    Alien life
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    Who or what is mutilating animals the world over? Declassified files show the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has investigated thousands of instances of cattle disfigurement across the American Midwest since the 1970s, to no avail. A leading expert in the field isn't sure either – but he has told Sputnik the explanation certainly isn't humdrum.

    While skeptics will surely opt to blame the international wave of brutalized bovines on natural disasters, sadistic pranks or similarly sick, wanton hijinks, proponents of conspiratorial and/or otherworldly explanations for the disturbing acts are quick to point out the attacks are often carried out with surgical precision.

    Farmers worldwide, most notably and recurrently in US states such as South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, and Nevada, have for decades had the unpleasant experience of discovering their treasured, lucrative beasts dead with various organs — including eyes, noses, tongues, hearts, livers, anuses, and genitalia — excised with lazer-like accuracy.

    Sightings of attacks on cattle
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    Sightings of attacks on cattle
    Moreover, the FBI documents make clear even the US' best investigative minds were seemingly stumped at the ultimate source of all the carnage.

    In many cases residents reported seeing crafts — whether thoroughly terrestrial helicopters, or UFOs — circling areas where cattle later turned up sliced up.

    Such phenomena prompted concerns among researchers that the mutilations were being carried out and covered up by the government for some nefarious purpose or other — although as the wave of mutilations occurred concurrently with a worldwide obsession with flying saucers, some believe the mutilations' origins to be otherworldly.

    Linda Moulton Howe, founder of EarthFiles.com, states the same pattern of "bloodless excision" has been documented in all kinds of domestic and wild animals. Typically, the sky-facing ear is removed in a neat circle at the skull, the eyeball is removed without any blood or fluid leakage, and often there is a circle of hide taken around that eye. Tongues are removed from deep inside the throat, and sky-facing jaw flesh is cleanly excised, usually in a "keyhole" pattern.

    "Genitals, male and female, are removed in neat, hide-deep circular, oval or square excisions. In almost all cases the rectum is excised about 6 inches wide and 6 or more inches deep into the body of the animal. If female, the vaginal opening and tract are usually also removed in a larger single hole along with the rectal tissue."

    "I interviewed a Sheriff in Logan County, Colorado, who told me a veterinarian he had perform a necropsy on a fresh cow mutilation at the pasture site discovered that the entire cow's heart had been removed from inside the pericardium and the chest, without any excision in the pericardium that surrounded the heart and no excision in the cow's chest,"

    Ms. Moulton Howe told Sputnik.

    To achieve such a feat would require molecular-specific surgical devices capable of going through skin, cartilege, muscle, bone an organs to remove tissue from a specific organ without causing any cutting damage to the rest of the body — an impossibility on Earth, although a hypothesized innovation in the distant future.In all, there are over 10,000 documented instances of animals being bewilderingly mutilated in the US alone since 1955 — and in every case that has been investigated by law enforcement, no human or predator has ever been found to be the culprit.

    The phenomenon constitutes the largest single animal cruelty trend not merely in the US, but the world — and each case costs ranchers thousands of dollars.

    Warning: Graphic content, viewer discretion advised

    Chuck Zukowski, curator of UfoNut.com, has been investigating these mystifying occurrences for decades.

    He says each case fits a common pattern — an animal is lifted from location A to a location B, where it's drained of blood and unusual cuts are created.

    Then, the animal is placed in location C, which lies within the general area of location A.

    "No sign of predator takedown, no sign of masses amount of bleeding out, and no signs of animal struggle, none! The animal is just placed back, and in some cases, a round ground depression is created while placing the animal back. Mutilations have been going on for centuries — Native Americans also have stories of mutilated animals that occurred before the Europeans migrated to North America,"

    Mr. Zukowski told Sputnik.

    He adds that mutilations typically occur multiple times within a week, either in the same area or in different states — "we had one in Colorado, and within three days there was another in Missouri" — and in some of his investigations, the animal was found lying in a crop-circle-like ground depression.

    Soil analysis he has conducted has shown the soil within the animal's vicinity is less water-soluble than outside the circle, meaning whatever caused the circle altered the nutrients in the soil — the exact same result has been recorded in different cases in separate US states (Colorado, Missouri, and Georgia), which don't share the same types of soil. 

    He believes the lack of gallons of blood near the animal, no apparent signs of animal struggle and the highly specific nature of the mutilations (for instance, precise cuts on the hide, and tongues cut out at the base) suggest the animals can only have been kidnapped and maimed by an intelligent agency — and the crushed rib cages and broken limbs often evidenced point to them having fallen some way to their final resting place. Yet more eerily, in some cases he has reviewed, scavengers won't even touch the carcass. 

    As for what is mutilating these ill-fated creatures, Mr. Zukowski won't speculate, but he says the evidence strongly points to a non-human rather than human source.

    In the majority of cases he has investigated, witnesses have seen "balls of light" near the land from which animals have been abducted, and in some cases apparent spacecraft.

    He also believes the unmarked helicopters seen at some sites are indicative that the US government is running its own investigations into the happenings.

    As for whether there could be a mundane explanation, Mr. Zukowski is unequivocal — "absolutely not!"

    "We're talking about something that was alive just hours before, with no symptoms of being ill, then later found with horrific damage. Who is doing this? I have my thoughts, which makes these investigations extremely dangerous, because you don't want to be in the right place at the wrong time — it could happen to you. There have been some human mutilation cases too!"

    he adds.

    This bloodcurdling singularity is not exclusive to the US.

    Mr. Zukowski not infrequently receives emails from investigators based in other countries asking for help, including Australia, New Zealand, Dominican Republic, and the UK.

    He notes some UK mutilations have made it in to the mainstream media, including mutilated lambs in Beddgelert, Gwynedd, mutilated rams in Plwmp, Dyfed, and mutilated deer, foxes and badgers near Shropshire and mid-Wales. Furthermore, every June, ewes go missing in Bleddfa, Powys.

    Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs and other mysterious phenomena for the UK Ministry of Defense between 1991-1994, says it's difficult to judge the true extent of the phenomenon, as the insurance industry has a policy not issuing payments to farmers if they suggested their slain animals had been killed in a mysterious, unknown way.

    As a result, farmers and veterinary physicians generally "colluded" to describe any mysterious animal deaths as being the result of dog attacks. This made it difficult for him to investigate cases further.

    "The cattle mutilation mystery is extremely disturbing, and there are many different theories, including predator activity, satanists, secret military experiments, and extraterrestrial activity. The theory about military involvement makes no sense, because government scientists already have a facility where animal testing is carried out, so they would have had no need to conduct additional, illegal testing. However, I was not able to find a definitive explanation during my government work,"

    Mr. Pope told Sputnik.    

    https://sputniknews.com/ }

    02-08-2017 om 21:02 geschreven door peter  

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    UFOs And The Edge Of Reality

    Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses the mental conception of off-world crafts.

    Since the release of my book UFO Sightings Desk Reference, numerous media interviewers have asked me about the wide diversity of UFOs appearances or shapes. I keep hearing the questions about why there are so many different shapes. I’ve had to keep my answers simple at the risk of overwhelming the interviewers with the topic of UFOs and the edge of reality.

    It boils down to this: Most people tend to think of UFOs as simply advanced spacecrafts; just nuts and bolts technology. If I mention an automobile, you’ll probably get a mental image of some classic car with wheels, headlights, windows and seats in the interior. If we reference an aircraft, most of us would visualize a long tube with wings and some sort of nacelles, jet or piston for propulsion.

    But if we bring up the subject of off-world spacecrafts, most people would struggle to grasp an image. Their mental conception usually defaults to a saucer-shaped craft or something we’ve seen in a science fiction movie.

    At issue is the fact that off-world civilizations might be thousands or millions of years ahead of us. To quote Peter Mandeville, an admin for the Facebook group UFO Reality: “Their technology would be incomprehensible.”

    The late Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, stated the problem clearly: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

    In a previous article about CE-5 protocols, I suggested that contact with off-worlders seems to be in the realm of consciousness. Several readers objected and said it was imperative that communication be measurable with some sort of apparatus.

    So we are confronted with the classic two-horned dilemma of analysis. There are two points of view and interpretation:

    • Academic study — rational science.
    • Philosophical mysticism — non-rational consideration.

    If the true nature of UFOs teases us from beyond our conventional and rational comprehension, perhaps it’s time to start really accepting that the truth is undefinable and must be examined by non-rational means.

    So if you are expecting an easily-identifiable off-world craft with instruments and propulsion that you can relate to, then perhaps the academic study is the right approach.

    On the other hand, what if this craft is sentient? What if it is able to think for itself and can communicate with you with some sort of telepathy phenomena? The science fiction television show Farscape featured such an organic sentient ship.

    What if the off-world occupants invite you take a ride in their craft and they let you sit in the left seat, “the command chair.”? Then by simply placing your hand on a shiny, melon-sized ball sitting on a pedestal, you find that you can become one with the ship and it goes where you “will it” to go.

    How can we rationally discuss this kind of technology?

    In a pre-paradigmatic world, rational science has been unable to define exactly what consciousness is or how it integrates with a living being. Yet, philosophical mysticism can get you to a place where consciousness can be discussed without the dogmatic overtones that frequently bog down discussion of spirit and consciousness.

    When I lived in a Buddhist monastery, we called these non-rational discussions monastic debates. A monastic debate about quantum physics is a most interesting experience, I assure you.

    Since the late 1960s, modern science has, for the most part, washed its hands of the UFO phenomena. Why? Because, as a friend of mine in Australia likes to point out, academic scientists really need to have an off-world craft to take apart and examine, yet they don’t have one — at least to the best of our public knowledge.

    With out an off-world craft to study, academic scientists don’t want to risk the prestige, credibility and funding that goes into big science. Add to that trying to understand UFOs invariably leads down a rabbit hole and the dreaded path of non-rational philosophical mysticism.

    Perhaps it’s time for the well-trained mystics to take a crack at the UFO problem.

    https://www.syracusenewtimes.com/ }

    02-08-2017 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Was there a UFO sighting at Skyfest?

    Was there a UFO sighting at Skyfest?

    SPOKANE, Wash. -

    Were you at Skyfest this past weekend? And did you see a UFO?

    At least one man claims he did, and believes he has the video evidence to support his case.

    “Never have I captured anything like this ever,” said John Whichelow.

    Whichelow thought he was just recording the Thunderbirds at the air show at Fairchild AFB, but when he watched the video back, he noticed two different unidentified flying objects in the frame.

    “It would seem it was moving incredibly fast since the announcer said those jets were going 500 mph and they looked slow by comparison,” said Whichelow. “Some people talk about meteors or birds or bugs that are close to the camera, I looked at it so closely and I don't think it's any of those.”

    The video shows a white object at five seconds dart by the frame before the Thunderbirds pass each other. Later at 36 seconds, you can see a smaller black object come through the frame following behind the ascending Thunderbird.

    “Carl Sagan said there are more stars out there then grains of sand on the beach,” said Whichelow. “And if there are that many stars, and many are older than ours, well it seems since I believe we'll get to the starts someday, why not the possibility that someone has gotten here already.”

    KHQ called the National UFO Reporting Center in Davenport to ask if the object was a possible sign of intelligent life. The director, Peter Davenport, did not comment at the time, saying he’d like to see more 

    http://www.khq.com/ }

    02-08-2017 om 01:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA wil 'planetaire verdediging' testen aan de hand van passerende asteroïde - HLN.be

    NASA wil 'planetaire verdediging' testen aan de hand van passerende asteroïde - HLN.be

    Bron: Reuters

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    RUIMTEVAART NASA wil de passerende asteroïde 2012 TC4 gebruiken om zijn systeem voor 'planetaire verdediging' te testen, dat bestaat uit een netwerk van observatoria en wetenschappers. De asteroïde passeert mogelijk op 12 oktober de aarde op een afstand van 6800 kilometer.

    Volgens de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft 2012 TC4 een doorsnede van tien tot dertig meter en is hij sinds zijn ontdekking op 5 oktober 2012 niet meer waargenomen. Destijds passeerde de asteroïde de aarde op een afstand van ongeveer 100.000 kilometer en werd hij ontdekt door de Pan-STARRS-telescoop op Hawaï. 

    Dat hij sindsdien niet meer is gezien, heeft ermee te maken dat hij te ver weg en te klein is om te volgen. De berekening dat hij op een afstand van 6800km van de aarde passeert is gebaseerd op een meting gedurende zeven dagen na zijn ontdekking. In werkelijkheid zou de asteroïde echter ook op een afstand van 270.000km kunnen passeren, aldus NASA.

    Lees ook

    Er zijn aanvullende observaties nodig om een nauwkeurigere inschatting te maken. Het passeren van 2012 TC4 moet ertoe dienen om het wereldwijde netwerk voor detectie en het volgen van asteroïden te testen, legt wetenschapper Michael Kelly uit. 

    Daaruit moet blijken in hoeverre het netwerk, dat bestaat uit wetenschappers, observatoria en universiteiten, in staat is om samen te werken na de ontdekking van een potentiële dreiging. Die samenwerking bestaat uit het observeren van de asteroïde, het bepalen van zijn route en de internationale communicatie. 2012 TC4 is bijzonder geschikt voor het uitvoeren van een test, omdat vaststaat dat hij de aarde niet zal raken, maar het nog onduidelijk is wat zijn precieze baan zal zijn.

    'Planetaire verdediging' valt onder de verantwoordelijkheid van NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Naast het volgen en indelen van asteroïden geeft de afdeling waarschuwingen af als het risico bestaat dat de aarde wordt geraakt. Die kans bestaat bij asteroïden met een doorsnede vanaf dertig tot vijftig meter. NASA houdt statistieken bij van het aantal near-earth asteroids dat de aarde heeft gepasseerd, inclusief 'close approaches'. Mocht een asteroïde daadwerkelijk de aarde raken, dan zijn er technieken om dit af te wenden, bijvoorbeeld door hem af te remmen of door zijn baan af te buigen met een groot object.         

    http://www.hln.be/ }

    02-08-2017 om 00:11 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Facebook legt experiment rond artificiële intelligentie stil nadat robots eigen geheime taal ontwikkelen - HLN.be

    Facebook legt experiment rond artificiële intelligentie stil nadat robots eigen geheime taal ontwikkelen - HLN.be

    Bron: Next Web, The New York Post, Gizmodo, The Sun

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    Spannend maar tegelijk angstaanjagend: zo omschrijven experts een project rond artificiële intelligentie dat Facebook stillegde nadat spraakrobots een eigen taal ontwikkelden, die alleen zij begrepen. Alice en Bob pasten het Engels aan om makkelijker te kunnen communiceren met elkaar. Dat resulteerde in vreemde zinnen, die voor de onderzoekers geen enkele betekenis meer hadden.

    Alice en Bob moesten Engels spreken terwijl ze 'leerden' om onder meer hoeden, boeken en ballen te verkopen. De voorwerpen hadden allemaal een verschillende waarde, waardoor ook onderhandeld moest worden. Dat moest uitmonden in hightech onderhandelingssoftware die zo goed was dat mensen die ermee in interactie zouden gaan, zelfs niet meer zouden merken dat ze eigenlijk tegen een robot bezig waren. 

    Vrije hand
    Toen ze de vrije hand kregen om de algoritmes op basis waarvan ze spraken beter en efficiënter te maken, begonnen de robots echter vreemde codewoorden en herhalingen te gebruiken. Dat ging bijvoorbeeld zo: 

    Bob: ik kan ik ik alle andere dingen ... 

    Alice: ballen hebben nul voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij. 

    Bob: jij ik alle andere dingen ... 

    Alice: ballen hebben een bal voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij voor mij

    Lees ook

    En er was meer: de onderzoekers van het Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) ontdekten ook dat de robots 'slimmer' werden in het onderhandelen en bijvoorbeeld deden alsof ze een item leuk vonden om het verderop in de onderhandeling zogezegd 'op te offeren' om een (vals) compromis te maken. 

    Potentieel gevaarlijk
    Toen ze doorkregen wat er aan de hand was, legden de onderzoekers het experiment stil. "Dit is een belangrijke mijlpaal. Maar iedereen die ontkent dat dit potentieel gevaarlijk is, steekt zijn kop in het zand", volgens professor Kevin Warwick, een expert in robotica in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. "We hebben er geen flauw idee van wat deze robots tegen elkaar zeggen. Eenmaal je robots hebt die ook fysiek dingen kunnen doen, in het bijzonder voor militaire doeleinden, kan zoiets dodelijk zijn." 

    Stephen Hawking
    "Dit is het eerste gedocumenteerde geval van een dergelijke communicatie, maar er zullen er zeker nog al geweest zijn", gaat hij verder. "Robots kunnen communiceren met elkaar en hoewel we denken dat we hen in de gaten kunnen houden, is er geen enkele manier waarop we dat zeker weten. Ook Stephen Hawking en Elon Musk waarschuwden al voor de gevaren van artificiële intelligentie."

    © rv.

    Het doet een beetje denken aan de filmreeks Terminator met Arnold Schwarzenegger, waarin robots een zelfbewustzijn ontwikkelen en de mensheid proberen uit te roeien. Zo ver is het nog niet, maar héél gek klinkt het niet meer. "Het gebeurt eigenlijk al overal", aldus technologie-experte Kate Adamson. "Kijk bijvoorbeeld naar de hoge frequentiehandel op de aandelenmarkt. Sommige algoritmes doen precies hetzelfde. Ze hebben een bepaalde kennis ontwikkeld en worden technisch gezien niet minuut na minuut gemonitord. Artificiële intelligentie kan een moeilijkheidsgraad aan die jij en ik niet eens zouden kunnen vatten als we ons best deden." 

    Google Translate
    Volgens Facebook zelf werd het experiment stilgelegd omdat het "niet tot het resultaat leidde dat we wilden". "We hadden de robots niet opgelegd dat ze Engels moesten praten. De onderhandelingssoftware is echter bedoeld voor communicatie met mensen, niet voor communictatie tussen robots onderling. Daarom had het geen zin om ermee door te gaan."

    Het sociale netwerk wijst er ook op dat er in andere techbedrijven soortgelijke dingen gebeuren. Zo ontdekten wetenschappers van Google Translate vorig jaar dat hun dienst ook een eigen taal had ontwikkeld.

    (Sleep het icoontje op de grijze boog naar links of rechts)

    Voel jij je bedreigd door artificiële intelligentie?
    Ja, ik denk dat we hiermee voorzichtig moeten zijn.
    Nee, mensen maken hier een te groot probleem van.

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    01-08-2017 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Buzz Aldrin: We Will Have Humans on Mars in the Next 20 Years

    Buzz Aldrin: We Will Have Humans on Mars in the Next 20 Years

    by Jolene Creighton and Chelsea Gohd

    Mars One offers one-way trips to the Red Planet, funded by broadcast advertising revenue brought in by its proposed reality show. The organization plans to use a series of missions starting in 2020 both to build up infrastructure and prove its technology before sending the first manned crew in 2026. From everything we can tell, it's a total scam.Vegas odds: 15:1. "If they do any of the stuff they claim they will, the group would be a huge sleeper."
    NASA

    The Quest For Another Earth

    Humankind is eager to step out into the cosmos and wander across the deserted plains of the Red Planet. According to most reports, Elon Musk is leading the way with SpaceX; however, a number of other orginizations—NASA, China’s Space Agency, The Mars Society—are training, deploying prototypes, and working on the plethora of questions and challenges that we will face when attempting to bring the first human beings to Mars.

    But, as much as it might seem natural to get entrenched in the details of how we will actually get humans off of planet Earth (and keep them mentally and physically healthy throughout the duration), it is critical that we remember why we’re going in the first place.

    In a recent interview, Buzz Aldrin—the renowned astronaut, engineer, and (of course) the second human to ever step foot on the Moon—explained why exploration and discovery are so important, touching upon why we should (and why we will) have humans on Mars in 20 years…

    We’ve now surveyed and scrutinized almost every inch of this planet, but there is so much we have yet to learn.

    Aldrin begins by stating that, from both a scientific and technological perspective, we are at the perfect juncture to push the boundaries of exploration. He asserts that, thanks to recent advancements, for the first time in human history, voyaging to other worlds is truly within our reach: “Now is the time to start thinking seriously about what life on Mars might look like. We have never been closer to knowing and exploring another planet.”

    When asked just how close we really are to achieving this feat, Aldrin was quick to respond with his timeline, saying that we could “have the first Human Martians at Mars by 2040.”

    Aldrin continued by segueing into a discussion of why venturing to other worlds is important, noting that, in many ways, our planet is ancient and familiar and the other bodies in our solar system are, for all intents and purposes, virgin territory: “Space travel and exploration represents the final frontier – we’ve now surveyed and scrutinized almost every inch of this planet, but there is so much we have yet to learn.”

    However, Aldrin states that the most notable aspects of this quest are about far more than just acquiring knowledge for the sake of knowledge or conquering new worlds. The journey to Mars will bring with it reignited excitement for science and innovation, creating a generation of young people who have ingrained within them a thirst for understanding and exploration.

    Remembering A Race

    When Buzz stepped onto the Moon in 1969, countless youth were captivated by the story and went on to pursue careers in STEM fields, hoping to achieve monumental feats of similar proportions.

    Indeed, Aldrin is very aware of the impact that action in science has on the youth, stressing that, “we can only get there [to Mars] if we start investing in future generations.” Ultimately, as previously noted, he says that this investment is the key to long-term success: “In 1903, man learned to fly airplanes. Only 66 years later, we walked on the Moon. In order to help the next generation to make giant leaps like these, we must educate, enable and inspire them to be passionate about subjects like science, technology, engineering, art, and math.”

    Aldrin notes that he has devoted himself to helping foster such a desire in young people, saying, “That’s the mission of the SpaceShare Foundation, and it’s one I wholeheartedly support.”

    Aldrin’s Space Share Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to inspiring children’s passions for science and technology by providing educational tools to educators across the country at no cost. The goal of this work is to ensure that all young people are given the resources that they need to live up to their potential. After all, one never knows who the next Carl Sagan could be.

    As Former President Barack Obama noted in a speech at the Frontiers Conference, “America is about Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers—but we’re also the place you can grow up to be a Grace Hopper, or George Washington Carver, or a Katherine Johnson, or an Ida B. Wells. We don’t want somebody with a brilliant idea not in the room because they’re a woman. We don’t want some budding genius unavailable to cure cancer or come up with a new energy source because they were languishing in a sub-standard school as a child. Because we’re going to be a better team if we got the whole team.”

    Aldrin echoes these ideas, noting that, while reaching Mars in the next 20 years is extremely likely, it will only happen if we ensure that young people are given every opportunity to be the best that they can be: “Sometimes I can’t believe this lucky kid from New Jersey got to land and walk on the Moon…work hard and keep reaching for the stars.”

    https://futurism.com/ }

    01-08-2017 om 23:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.We Can Stop Climate Change Ourselves. This is How.

    We Can Stop Climate Change Ourselves. This is How.

    by Abby Norman 

     Pixabay

    Climate Change is Here

    When it comes to discussing the fight against climate change, there are two facts we must behold: First, climate change is here; it’s happening; it’s been happening…and we’re already feeling the impact. Second, for those living in the United States, the current political climate is not one of change. The current administration has, in fact, taken steps that have sent us backwards in the fight against global warming, not forward.

    ‘The EPA’s mission is to protect public health and the environment, not really to protect corporate earnings. It’s very concerning to see.’

     ‘The EPA’s mission is to protect public health and the environment, not really to protect corporate earnings. It’s very concerning to see.’ Composite: AP, Getty Images and Rex Features

    But we can change the tide (literally).

    Ten years ago, Former Vice President Al Gore released a documentary entitled An Inconvenient Truth. For many Americans, especially those of younger generations, the film brought about the first meaningful conversations they’d had about global warming. Notably, the film did more than just encourage awareness, it placed the responsibility of changing our course (and the culpability of creating our current path) firmly in the hands of corporations, politicians, and—most notably—everyday citizens.

    Now, a decade—and a demonstrably warmer world—later, the Former Vice President is releasing another film, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.

    There’s really only one place to start: Education.

    In an exclusive interview with Futurism, he acknowledged that the current political climate is a precarious one, calling President Trump’s environmental policies “reckless and indefensible.” But the Former V.P is not without hope, largely due to the grassroots movement that has risen up around the country in response to some of President Trump’s more drastic decisions — such as withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.

    Former Vice President Gore believes that the momentum behind the movement, and the commitment at the local level to uphold the work of the Paris Agreement, will be successful, “regardless of what Donald Trump says.”

    But if we want to tackle climate change from the ground up, so to speak, where — and how — should we truly begin?

    Where to Start

    As far as the Former V.P. is concerned, there’s really only one place to start: Education. “Number one, learn about it,” he said, “People sometimes feel that it’s hard to talk about the climate crisis. But the more you know, the more confident you are, the easier it is to talk about it.” And he clarifies that his films, and their corresponding books, were conceived as tools to help facilitate these conversations. 

    But as they say, talk is cheap. It’s one thing to know that we need to reduce our carbon footprint collectively, but how do we do it individually? And furthermore, given the enormous, far-reaching scope of the problem, how do we convince ourselves that our efforts to do so aren’t futile?

    When you go into the marketplace, choose the most climate-friendly, environmentally-friendly alternative,” he offers, adding:

    That may seem like a trivial matter, because it only reduces your impact a little bit as an individual, but it sends a signal to business and industry that — together with what others are sending — really does drive change.

    Knowing whether or not something truly is environmentally-friendly, though, can be a challenge. One strategy is to buy locally when you can — whether it be food or other products. When you know exactly where something is coming from, how it’s been produced, who is producing it, and what it’s been sourced from, you can be more confident about any claims of “green” status it may tout. You’re also not just supporting the environment, but your community by strengthening local economies.

    Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken oil field.
    Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken oil field. Photograph: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Imageso

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    01-08-2017 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Curious Kids: What Started the Big Bang?

    Curious Kids: What Started the Big Bang?

    In the beginning, the Universe expanded very, very fast.
    Credit: Flickr/Jamie, CC BY-SA

    This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they'd like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! The article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.


    What started the Big Bang?

    – Pippi, 8, Canberra.

    This is one of the two questions I get asked a lot (the other one is: do aliens exist?) Both are very good questions! Pippi, the short answer is that we do not know what started the Big Bang. This is a big mystery.

    The Big Bang is an idea about the history of the Universe, the history of space and time and matter ("stuff") and energy. The Universe is about 13.8 billion years old and from observations we make using telescopes we can tell that the Universe was very small 13.8 billion years ago.

    Observations also suggest that in the first fraction of a second, the Universe seemed to expand very quickly but then slow down. After a few hundred thousand years, the simplest type of atom formed: hydrogen. The hydrogen started to form stars and galaxies.

    After billions of years the Earth (and us) formed from the atoms made inside stars - every atom in your body more complicated than hydrogen was made by a star at some point in the last 13.8 billion years. In all that time, the Universe has continued to expand. In fact, observations now tell us that the expansion of the Universe is getting faster.

    The idea of the Big Bang agrees with all these observations. So scientists think the Big Bang is an idea that does a good job of describing the history of the Universe.

    However, the idea is not perfect. We don't know why the Universe expanded so quickly in the first second and then slowed down. We don't know why the expansion of the Universe is speeding up now. We don't know why we have a certain number of forces that control the Universe. And we don't know what started the Big Bang!

    Very large telescopes, like the Murchison Widefield Array can make observations that help us understand how the Universe evolved.

    It took hundreds of years to build the idea of the Big Bang, and it may take a long time to improve it or find an idea that is better. Scientists have a lot of ideas about how the Big Bang started. But these ideas must agree with our observations of the Universe.

    The future is very exciting for anyone who wants to help figure this out. The advanced technology we have means that we can build machines that smash particles (tiny little bits of stuff even smaller than an atom) together to show what happened right after the Big Bang. We can now build powerful new telescopes to observe the stars and galaxies in the Universe in a lot of detail. We will use these machines and telescopes to see which ideas about the Big Bang are right and which are wrong.

    Sometimes new ideas take many years to be worked out. Sometimes new ideas pop into people's heads very quickly. It is very exciting to have a new idea about the Universe. We will need lots of people who are good at puzzles to help us.


    Hello, curious kids! Have you got a question you'd like an expert to answer? Ask an adult to send your question to us. They can:

    * Email your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au
    * Tell us on Twitter by tagging @ConversationEDU with the hashtag #curiouskids, or
    * Tell us on Facebook

    Please tell us your name, age, and which city you live in. You can send an audio recording of your question too, if you want. Send as many questions as you like! We won't be able to answer every question but we will do our best.

    Steven Tingay, Professor of Radio Astronomy, Curtin University

    This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on FacebookTwitter and Google +. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. 

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    01-08-2017 om 22:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Are UFO Abductees Being Secretly Watched?

    Are UFO Abductees Being Secretly Watched?

    As someone who writes a great deal on the subject of UFO-themed issues, I find myself on the receiving end of a lot of reports and witness testimony. Some such accounts are more controversial than others. Then, there are those incidents which are really controversial. Arguably, we’re talking about beyond controversial. There is one particular case which is coming up to its 30th anniversary. I’m talking about just days away, which is why I mention it now. In many respects, referring to it as an “anniversary” is probably not the correct thing to do. Not because it’s inaccurate, but because an anniversary is so often tied to fun and celebratory events. But, there’s nothing to celebrate here. And, certainly, there is no fun either.

    Brenda is someone whose story was told to me personally and which occasionally crosses my mind, such is the deep strangeness attached to it. She is someone who has had a lifetime of encounters with those diminutive, black-eyed entities that have become known as “The Grays.” For Brenda they are encounters which have revolved, primarily, around two issues: (A) medical procedures said to have been undertaken by the Grays and (B) terrifying dreams of a looming apocalypse – always looming but never quite arriving, thankfully.

    It was early August 1987 and Brenda was driving late at night to visit her family in the southeast Texan city of Beaumont – a city which, ironically, I lived very close to from early 2002 to December 2003. Brenda arrived at the family home in one piece, but not until the following morning – hours after she should have arrived. Her family was frantic and was all but ready to contact the Beaumont police when it became clear that something – something deeply worrying and even conspiratorial – was going down. It was only Brenda’s call from a 24-hour gas station, in the early hours of the morning that prevented the authorities from being brought in and a full scale hunt being initiated.

    When Brenda finally reached her family, it was clear that she was in a state of deep distress and utter confusion. Concerned that she had been attacked, mugged, or worse, her brother wanted to bring the police in – as in immediately. Brenda pleaded otherwise, and explained what she consciously recalled. It wasn’t the whole story, but it was certainly enough to paint a graphic picture. It revolved around Brenda being taken from her car – by what seemed to be military personnel. She believed – or, perhaps, “suspected” would be a better term – that the men had somehow been able to “prompt” her into exiting the main highway from Houston to Beaumont and down a lonely stretch of heavily wooded road, where she was confronted by a black van, surrounded by a group of four or five men, all dressed in black fatigues. Precisely how they were able to “prompt” her was never resolved. It was, by Brenda’s own admittance, just a feeling, one that she felt was provoked by something on the tip of her tongue, but which she could not properly remember or describe. Not unlike one of those dreams that fades away as we wake up.

    Brenda also recalled being taken, in what she felt was a drugged state, to a small, sub-surface facility, a couple of miles away at the very most, and where she was interrogated in downright hostile fashion by two elderly men that she thought were doctors. They were surrounded by several men in military uniforms that befitted the likes of high-ranking personnel. The two doctors, Brenda says, “…wanted to know, did I know my blood group? Well, yes I did. They took a lot of blood. Vials. They kept asking me about my blood: Did I get a lot of nosebleeds? Did I have any physical differences? I don’t know what that meant. Did I feel like I was on a mission to do things for the aliens? Well, I have always thought that and I told them. I remember the doctors looking at each other when I said that.”

    It’s worth noting too that Brenda developed a feeling that the building was not your average military facility. In fact, it may not have been anything of the sort at all – even though that was what Brenda first assumed it to be. She said: “I got the feeling this place, whatever it might have been, was abandoned. For a long time. It was convenient, I guess, for them to use somewhere and not get caught.” The idea of teams of military personnel clandestinely watching abductees – even kidnapping and interrogating them – is indeed controversial. Yet, such cases proliferate. They have become known as “Milabs,” or “Military Abductions.” They remain among the most controversial of all the various aspects of the alien abduction phenomenon.

    http://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

    01-08-2017 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Alien-acteur claimt echte aliens te hebben gezien. Hier vertelt hij voor het eerst over zijn bijzondere ervaringen
    Alien-acteur claimt echte aliens te hebben gezien. Hier vertelt hij voor het eerst over zijn bijzondere ervaringen

    Alien-acteur claimt echte aliens te hebben gezien. Hier vertelt hij voor het eerst over zijn bijzondere ervaringen

    Een acteur die in de film Alien van Ridley Scott werd gedood door een alien, claimt dat hij echte aliens heeft gezien.

    Yaphet Kotto, die de rol van Parker speelde in de bekende film uit 1979, zegt nu dat aliens echt bestaan en geen fictieve monsters zijn zoals je ze in films ziet.

    In een interview met VICE spreekt Kotto openhartig over zijn ervaringen. “Ik heb er nog nooit met iemand over gesproken,” zei hij. “Dit is de eerste keer.”

    Figuur

    Het gebeurde allemaal toen hij een jaar of 10 was. “Ik kreeg te horen dat ik niet naar buiten mocht en keek naar buiten. Ik zag hoe kinderen in mijn buurt trefbal speelden.”

    Toen Kotto zich omdraaide zag hij een figuur die ongeveer twee meter lang was en een langwerpig hoofd had.

    Het verscheen, sprong achter me en verdween weer, aldus de acteur. Vanaf dat moment had hij naar eigen zeggen de ene ervaring na de andere. Zo zag hij onder meer vreemde lichten bij zijn huis.

    Stadion

    De mysterieuze waarnemingen leken hem ook te volgen. Toen hij in de Filipijnen was, werd hij op een avond geroepen door zijn vrouw.

    Hij ging naar buiten en zag een enorme cirkel van rook in de lucht. Het bleek dat zijn vrouw een UFO zo groot als een stadion had gezien.

    Twee of drie avonden later zag Kotto het object zelf ook. “Het ding was zo groot dat je de hemel niet kon zien.”

    Dezelfde conclusies

    Om echt te kunnen geloven dat aliens bestaan moet je ze eerst hebben gezien, zei hij verder.

    Hij merkte op dat er honderden andere mensen – waaronder een Canadese oud-minister van Defensie – zijn die tot dezelfde conclusies zijn gekomen over buitenaards leven.”

    Niet alleen

    Kotto meent dat de aliens die hij heeft gezien zich spoedig bekend zullen maken aan de rest van de wereld.

    Hij claimt dat het gaat gebeuren omdat mensen de planeet kapot maken. “We zijn niet alleen in het universum,” zei de acteur. “We zijn niet alleen.”

    [VICE

    01-08-2017 om 22:28 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA-astronauten delen hun ervaringen over buitenaardsen. Hebben ze een basis op de maan?
    NASA-astronauten delen hun ervaringen over buitenaardsen. Hebben zij een basis op de maan?

    NASA-astronauten delen hun ervaringen over buitenaardsen. Hebben ze een basis op de maan?

    Een aantal NASA-astronauten heeft gezegd dat buitenaardsen bestaan en dat ze al geruime tijd in contact staan met de mensheid.

    Tenminste vier bekende astronauten hebben zich openlijk uitgesproken over bestaan van aliens.

    Sommigen van hen hebben UFO’s zien vliegen, terwijl anderen claimen dat ze door hoge militaire functionarissen zijn ingelicht over buitenaards contact.

    Buzz Aldrin

    Zowel Neil Armstrong als Buzz Aldrin zagen kort na hun historische landing op de maan UFO’s, zo blijkt uit onbevestigde berichten.

    NASA-astronaut Armstrong geloofde dat aliens een basis hadden op de maan. Ze zouden hem en anderen gewaarschuwd hebben om ‘weg te blijven’.

    Tijdens een Ask Me Anything-sessie op Reddit zei Aldrin: “Vanuit Apollo 11 zag ik op weg naar de maan een licht buiten het raam dat met ons mee leek te reizen.”

    “Er waren vele mogelijke verklaringen voor wat het kon zijn geweest,” voegde hij toe.

    Hoewel het volgens hem niet ging om een buitenaards vaartuig, gelooft hij wel dat er andere levensvormen in de ruimte zijn.

    Edgar Mitchell

    In 1971 werd Edgar Mitchell de zesde maan die op de maan liep. De rest van zijn leven bleef hij vertellen dat ‘aliens ons al lange tijd in de gaten houden en hier al heel lang zijn’.

    Hij claimde eens dat vredelievende aliens de aarde hadden bezocht om ons te behoeden voor een kernoorlog en dat het Vaticaan de waarheid kent over het bestaan van buitenaardsen.

    Mitchell zei ook dat UFO’s zijn gezien boven kerninstallaties en tijdens de Koude Oorlog vaak kernraketten uitschakelden.

    De astronaut stelde bovendien dat de Amerikaanse overheid het beroemde Roswellincident in de doofpot heeft gestopt.

    “De reden hiervoor was dat ze niet wisten of de aliens al dan niet kwaad in de zin hadden en ze wilden niet dat de Sovjets er lucht van zouden krijgen,” zei hij.

    Gordon Cooper

    Cooper deed mee aan Project Mercury, de eerste Amerikaanse bemande ruimtemissie. Hij zei in 1951 UFO’s te hebben gezien boven Duitsland.

    De astronaut zei ook dat hij vliegende schotels had gezien boven een geheime vliegbasis waar experimentele Amerikaanse vliegtuigen werden getest.

    “Deze buitenaardse vaartuigen en hun bemanningsleden komen van andere planeten die iets hoger ontwikkeld zijn,” zei hij in 1984.

    “We moeten eerst laten zien dat we onze problemen op een vreedzame manier kunnen oplossen en niet door middel van oorlog, voordat we kunnen worden geaccepteerd als leden van het universele team.”

    Brian O’Leary

    O’Leary is nooit in de ruimte geweest, maar was wel één van de 11 astronauten die in de jaren zestig in aanmerking kwamen voor een mogelijke Marsmissie.

    Later in zijn leven had O’Leary een bijna-doodervaring die zijn kijk op het leven en de realiteit drastisch veranderde.

    “Er is overvloedig bewijs dat we worden bezocht [door aliens],” zei O’Leary, die als professor was verbonden aan de Princeton University.

    “Beschavingen houden ons al heel lang in de gaten en vanuit het traditionele materialistische westerse standpunt bekeken zien ze er bizar uit.”

    [IBTimes

    01-08-2017 om 22:18 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Most remarkable UFO sightings in July 2017

    Most remarkable UFO sightings in July 2017

    ufo-sightings
    Most remarkable UFO sightings in July 2017 by www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net.

    early July 2017; bright orbs – Unsure, New Mexico


    5th July 2017; UFOs in the sky – Lake Havasu, Arizona


    7th July 2017; unknownlights – Girard, Ohio


    17th July 2017; disc-shaped UFO – Chelmsford, UK


    Chelmsford-UFO

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    01-08-2017 om 22:02 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Aliens In Christ’s Crucifixion

    Aliens In Christ’s Crucifixion

    aliens-jesus

    Conspiracy theorists claim to have seen an actual UFO floating close to the cross in a depiction of Christ’s crucifixion. A fresco painting in Georgia’s Svetitskhoveli Cathedral apparently shows a little hovering disc next to Jesus when he was crucified.

    The artist of the painting is not known, but conspiracy theorists believe that the unknown artist is trying to say that these flying saucers were present during the death of Jesus.

    But other observers are more sceptical, including UFO author Nigel Watson. He says that artists in the past often used symbolism to tell a story to provide greater meaning to the image.

    Mr Watson explains that the UFOs in the crucifixion of Christ are representations of light and darkness or life and death respectively. Some artists painted Sun and Moon, faces or angels to depict such symbolic elements. Mr Watson believes there are no aliens in the painting.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    01-08-2017 om 21:55 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.KLASSIEKE VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL ONTDEKT OP ANTARCTICA

    KLASSIEKE VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL ONTDEKT OP ANTARCTICA

    Het continent Antarctica geeft iedere keer wat meer van haar geheimen prijs en niet zelden speelt Google daarin een belangrijke rol. 

    Iemand die langdurig de Google kaarten van dit zuidelijke continent heeft bestudeerd, ontdekt op één van de satellietbeelden een object dat verdacht veel lijkt op de klassieke vliegende schotel zoals ook de Duitsers die bezaten. 



    Eigenlijk een heel vreemd woord, vliegende schotel. Er zijn dan ook maar weinig mensen die weten hoe die uitdrukking is ontstaan. Deze naam werd voor het eerst gebruikt door de Amerikaan Kenneth Arnold die tijdens een vlucht enkele weken voorafgaand aan het Roswell incident een paar UFO’s ontdekte. 

    Toen hij de objecten moest omschrijven en hoe ze vlogen, zei hij dat het leek op een schotel die je over het water laat scheren. 

    Daarmee wordt dan de zogenaamde klassieke of retro UFO beschreven. Een soort platte schijf met bovenop iets dan op een koepel lijkt. 

    Een dergelijk object is nu ontdekt op de door Google gepubliceerde satellietfoto’s van Antarctica. 

    De ontdekking is gedaan op het uiterste puntje van Antarctica, dichtbij het meest zuidelijke stukje van Zuid Amerika.


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    En daar is onmiskenbaar een object te zien wat alleen maar kan worden omschreven als een klassieke vliegende schotel.


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    Men heeft later deze afbeeldingen vergeleken met opnames die enkele dagen eerder werden genomen en daar komt dit object niet op voor. Wie zelf deze UFO wil bekijken, kan via Google dat doen met de volgende coördinaten: 

    61°57'50.91"S, 58° 3'44.74"W

    Dit is een teken dat we te maken hebben met een vliegend object en rest uiteraard de vraag of dit een aards of een buitenaards object is. 

    Feit is dat dit object niet alleen in de dagen van Kenneth Arnold werd waargenomen, maar ook tot op de dag van vandaag. Zo werd enkele weken geleden nog iets dergelijks waargenomen boven New York. 

    Feit is eveneens dat de aardse elite beschikt over dit type schepen en daar regelmatig false flag aanvallen mee uitvoert zoals onlangs tijdens een begrafenis in Kabul. 


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    Anderzijds vertellen de verhalen dat de buitenaardse Roswell schotel er ook zo uit zag:


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    En om het geheel compleet verwarrend te maken, bezaten de Duitsers al voor Roswell dergelijke vliegende schotels. 

    Daar komt bij dat er natuurlijk talloze verhalen de ronde doen dat ze nog steeds actief zijn via hun geheime bases op Antarctica.


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    Wie weet van wie de pas ontdekte schotel op de Google foto’s is, mag het zeggen.

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    01-08-2017 om 17:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Weird Manta-Ray-shaped appearance spotted in the clouds over Cheswick, Pennsylvania

    Weird Manta-Ray-shaped appearance spotted in the clouds over Cheswick, Pennsylvania

    While taken photos from sun/clouds a photographer in Cheswick, PA observed a “Manta-Ray”-shaped object in the sky on July 30, 2017 and from his location with the camera pointed towards s/w sky he managed to take a photo of the strange appearance.


    According to the photographer, the object, which had no visible means of propulsion or flapping wings, moved from right to left. Mufon case 85521.

    So, the strange appearance is an unknown creature that takes on the form of manta ray or could it be a giant oceanic flying manta ray?


    Though, given the location which is far from the ocean it seems unlikely that it is an oceanic flying manta ray, yet the question whether it can fly so high between the clouds and stay out of the ocean for a long time without taking oxygen.

    A similar flying manta ray shape has been filmed at 20,000 ft. from a French government airplane window.


    The old footage below is from the French government circa 1948 and shows around the 0.15 mark a “manta-ray”-shaped object flying above the clouds, then it drops a few hundred feet below in about 1 second. The original frames were motion tracked and stabilized.

    There is something strange about this kind of manta ray shapes that cannot be explained, whether it is an oceanic flying manta ray or something from other worlds.
      

    http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

    01-08-2017 om 17:34 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA to Test Earth Defense Observatory & Systems During Asteroid Flyby

    NASA to Test Earth Defense Observatory & Systems During Asteroid Flyby

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    "This is the perfect target for such an exercise because while we know the orbit of 2012 TC4 well enough to be absolutely certain it will not impact Earth, we haven't established its exact path just yet," said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US. "It will be incumbent upon the observatories to get a fix on the asteroid as it approaches, and work together to obtain follow-up observations than make more refined asteroid orbit determinations possible."

    A small asteroid, 2012 TC4 - estimated to be between 10 and 30 meters in size, that is expected to fly close to the Earth will provide NASA an opportunity to test its network of observatories and systems for planetary defense, scientists say. Scientists are certain it will come no closer than 6,800 kilometers from the surface of Earth. The asteroid has been out of range of telescopes since 2012. 2012 TC4 may be slightly larger than the space rock that hit Earth's atmosphere near Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013.

    "Scientists have always appreciated knowing when an asteroid will make a close approach to and safely pass the Earth because they can make preparations to collect data to characterize and learn as much as possible about it," said Michael Kelley, programme scientist and NASA Headquarters lead for the TC4 observation campaign.

    On October 12, the 2012 TC4 asteroid will be just 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometres) from Earth for the first time since it went out of range in 2012. Nasa is using the opportunity to test its 'planetary defence system'

    "This time we are adding in another layer of effort, using this asteroid flyby to test the worldwide asteroid detection and tracking network, assessing our capability to work together in response to finding a potential real asteroid threat," Kelley said.

    "This is a team effort that involves more than a dozen observatories, universities and labs across the globe so we can collectively learn the strengths and limitations of our near-Earth object observation capabilities," said Vishnu Reddy of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson leads the campaign to reacquire 2012 TC4. "This effort will exercise the entire system, to include the initial and follow-up observations, precise orbit determination, and international communications," Reddy said.

    TC4 has not been seen since its 2012 discovery, when it sped past Earth at about one-fourth the distance from Earth to the moon. It has been too distant and too faint to be detected over the last five years. As it starts to approach Earth this summer, large telescopes will be used to detect it and re-establish the asteroid's precise trajectory.

    Based on predictions made at Nasa's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies in Pasadena, California, 2012 TC4 will pass no closer than 4,200 miles from Earth, although it will more likely pass much farther away, as far as 170,000 miles (270,000 kilometres)

    Based on predictions made at Nasa's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies in Pasadena, California, 2012 TC4 will pass no closer than 4,200 miles from Earth, although it will more likely pass much farther away, as far as 170,000 miles (270,000 kilometres)

    ASTEROID 2012 TC4 

    The asteroid was first discovered in 2012, when it sped past Earth, but it has been too distant and faint to see over the last five years. 

    It is is estimated to be between 10 and 30 metres in size. 

    Based on predictions made at Nasa's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies in Pasadena, California, 2012 TC4 will pass no closer than 4,200 miles from Earth, although it will more likely pass much farther away, as far as 170,000 miles (270,000 kilometres). 

    The Daily Galaxy via NASA and University of Arizona

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    01-08-2017 om 01:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.THE BRIGHTEST METEOR SHOWER IN HUMAN HISTORY IS HAPPENING, GET READY
    Meteor Shower

    THE BRIGHTEST METEOR SHOWER IN HUMAN HISTORY IS HAPPENING, GET READY

    Astronomers have marked their calendar for one of the biggest meteor showers that have ever been recorded to date. A meteor show is going to take place on August 12 that is going to light up the sky at night, and it is thought that it might be visible even during the daytime.

    The meteor shower is thought to be a once in a lifetime chance as a shower of this nature is not going to occur for another 96 years. The meteor shower is called the Perseid meteor shower usually occurs between 17 July and 24 August and is said to be the brighter of showers happening each year. It is generally at its peak from 9 August to 13 August.

    Experts have said that the best time to see the Perseid meteor shower is while the sky is very dark. Many astronomers have said that the best time to take a look at the shower is just before dawn, dependent of course on the phase of the Moon.

    The Perseid meteor show is typically seen in the Northern Hemisphere. Anyone wanting to catch this wonderful sight should look between radiant, to the north-eastern region of the sky, and zenith, the point in the sky that is right above the head.

    It is relatively easy to locate and see a shooting star using the naked eye when looking directly up. However, it has been suggested that this year the Waning Gibbous Moon could hinder sightings of the asteroid shower.

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    The Perseid meteor shower is made up of space debris that comes from the Swift-Tuttle comet and the name is based on the constellation Perseus due to the fact that the direction in which the shower comes from is typically in the same direction the Perseus constellation can be found. Astronomers say that at the peak they can see around 60 to 100 meteors every hour when viewing from a place that is dark. Experts recommend people try to get out of town and away from any artificial lights and then be prepared to wait for the sky to light up.

    https://hidden-truth.net/ }

    01-08-2017 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

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    NASA SHUT DOWN THEIR LIVE STREAM AS STRANGE UFO ENTERS EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE

    UFO hunters have raised the alarm about an alleged intrusion of Earth’s atmosphere by a massive UFO. The mysterious space object, according to UFO chasers, was spotted on the live ISS stream entering the Earth’s atmosphere on July 9, 2016.

    The alleged intrusion was first reported by prolific UFO hunter Streetcap1 in a video uploaded online on July 9, 2016, the same day he spotted the mysterious object entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

    According to Streetcap1 in the description of his video titled “UFO Enters Earth’s Atmosphere, July 9, 2016,” while it was possible that the object was a meteor, we may suspect it was an alien craft because NASA cut live transmission as it entered Earth’s atmosphere.

    The UFO hunter wrote that the object may have been a meteor, but the suggestion appeared to be contradicted by his observation that it paused during entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

    “Remember a UFO is an unidentified flying object.”

    “This could well be a meteor or the like. What made it interesting was that the camera cut off when the UFO seemed to stop.”

    Streetcap1’s observations sparked a debate among enthusiasts.
    UFO Sightings Hotspot argued that although the object appears, at first glance, to be a natural space object, such as a meteor, a closer look could lead the observer to conclude it was an artificial space object, such as space junk or debris, making re-entry into the atmosphere from orbit.

    But according to the blogger, the fact that NASA cut the live video raises suspicion.

    “At first glance it could be a natural object like a meteor or an artificial object like space junk or a satellite but what made it interesting was that NASA cut the live camera feed just at the moment the UFO seemed to stop just above earth’s atmosphere,” the blogger wrote.

    “If it [was a] recognizable and identified object then there is no reason to shut down the live streaming,” the UFO blogger continued, “but NASA seems to have a nasty habit of cutting off their live camera feeds every time a UFO enters the frame.”

    UFO blogger Scott C. Waring also joined the debate. In a post to this UFO Sightings Daily blog, he ruled out the suggestion that the mysterious object was the Moon or a meteor.

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    Although he admitted the object could be a giant UFO, he argued, rather uncharacteristically, that it was more likely the Chinese space station Tiangong-1.

    “I have watched the International Space Station a lot over the last 6 years and I can tell you that this is not the moon, nor a meteor,” he wrote. “It may be the Chinese space station cargo ship, called Tiangong-1, or the other one Tangong-2.”

    Tiangong-1 is China’s first space station launched unmanned into orbit in September 2011. It serves primarily as an experimental module for testing and demonstrating space maneuvers and operations, such as docking.

    The Chinese plan to replace it with Tiangong-2 in September 2016, according to Spaceflights News.
    Tiangong-2 will allow China to place two astronauts in orbit for up to 30 days, Shanghai Daily.

    This is not the first time that UFO hunters have accused NASA of cutting transmission after a mysterious UFO appeared on the live ISS stream.

    A NASA spokesperson made a statement earlier in April denying allegations that NASA technicians deliberately shut down transmission when UFOs appear on the live video. According to the spokesperson, NASA never intentionally shuts down live transmission to hide UFOs. Loss of video is usually due to loss of signals from the ISS.

    “The station [ISS] regularly passes out of range of the Tracking and Relay Data Satellites used to send and receive video, voice and telemetry from the station,” NASA spokesperson Tabatha Thompson said. “For video, whenever we lose signal video comes down on our higher bandwidth, called KU. The cameras will show a blue screen indicating no signal or a preset video slate, depending on where you are watching the feed.”

    The statement was issued in response to media questions after Waring claimed in a blog post (see video above) that the agency cut live transmission following the appearance of a “diamond” or “horseshoe-shaped” UFO on the live feed.

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    01-08-2017 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Secret Space Program and the Missing Quadrillions

    Secret Space Program and the Missing Quadrillions

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    The Quadrillion dollar question: Where did all our money go and why are we in such debt globally? There is a separate space program, which you guys are paying for and they’re not telling you anything about it, and as a result, NASA is a bit of a joke. We have a special space program and it is apparently known as the United States Aerospace Command and it is a joint service agency. That means it includes Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and it also includes the British Aerospace Command. It’s basically where all the missing 100′s of Trillions , sorry Quadrilions went. (our calculator doesn’t have enough digits to work it out).

    BOB DEAN at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept 2009 (gets interesting around 38:00) but worth watching in it’s entire length.

    Excerpts from the transcript of the presentation. Click here for the full transcript.

    Robert “Bob” Dean worked for NASA for over 30 years. In 2009 he thought it about time to reveal the origins a NASA photographic library “lost footage” and evidence of a USSS fleet (detailing a transfer of admiralty from the USSS Curtis Lemay and USSS Roscoe Hillencotter) captured on film during the Apollo 13 Mission. Nasa maintains they had lost 40 rolls of film with 1000′s of shots from the mission documenting this but a Japanese scientist, had a copy of everything from the sixties due to ever space agency involved having copies of the Secret Space Program and public Space Program Missions. – Read more excerpts from Bob Dean

    This photograph was taken by Apollo 13. Now, you may remember Apollo 13. It was the one that never made it to the Moon. They had a tiny explosion on the way, where an oxygen tank blew up and they were barely able to get to the Moon, go around, and barely able to get home. But they were not alone on that trip. So, while they were out and away, going and coming, they had little windows and they snapped pictures. This is one picture that was held by the Japanese Space Agency. This object is five miles long.

    This is in the A Ring and the statistics on this will blow your mind. This object here is an artificially-constructed [artificial object], as Norman says; NASA called it an electromagnetic vehicle. That dude is 2,000 miles long, over 450 miles in diameter. But 2,000 miles long!

    They launch satellites from several different positions on the planet. They maintain, apparently, an entire fleet of vessels in orbit. They have anti-gravity and zero-point energy, which you guys have a right to and you ain’t going to see for another ten years.

    Now, that’s where your missing trillions have gone. You know the story: ’98, ’99, and 2000, $1.7 [trillion dollars] a year for three years disappeared off the books. That bunch of clowns in congress; do you think there was an uproar? Do you think there was a demand for answers? Where did that money go? Forget it!

    Now, the day before 9/11 the Secretary of Defense says: We’re missing three trillion dollars. We can’t account for it. It’s off the books, somehow. We’re working on it. It may be an accounting error. You know how they are: Doublespeak. George Orwell would be happy with this crowd.

    Missing three trillion, after the already missing of $1.7 [trillion] a year for three years? There is where the funding is coming for your Aerospace Command that Daniel Inouye is talking about – a separate shadow government that you have no idea exists. And those guys have got the technology that Ben Rich says is 100 years beyond establishment knowledge.

    Our thanks to Bob Dean and others for coming forward with this information. We salute you Bob, you’re a kind, smart and decent man and your courage is greatly admired.

    Other secret projects were carried out over a 70 yea plus time period that involved advanced technology, stolen technology and dark, occult practices.

    We also know that during the “black op” Operation Paperclip – Ratlines were used as escape routes for Nazi scientists who fled to the United States and South America in 1945. Now the New York Times are reporting the truth about the Nazi refugees.

    The Orion Conspiracy details technology and the origins of the Nazi-Era scientists.

    We are all guilty of allowing this to happen. Now it’s enough, we must deal with the issues at hand.
    The world needs final disclosure and then we can begin Universal Peace and begin with NESARA and other important details. There are many cultures on this planet, we are all united as human beings and there needs to be a greater understanding of our cultures. There is someone out there watching over his creation and we all have a different vision of who that is. It is time to set aside our differences, come to terms with our history and begin an era of peace. The Persian Empire lived in peace with everyone for centuries and invented many things. We must understand that the current ideologies and situations in the world are not working and a greater distribution of wealth from rich to poor must be implemented (it’s just a few digits on the computer in everyone’s bank accounts) and it doesn’t take long to type now does it.
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    We must see the sharing of technology and the rebalancing of our rich planet must begin. Desalination plants in the Sahara plains to restore the fertile lands and create many jobs, therefore saving lives. The transferring of knowledge and farming machinery, zero point (free) energy without the “where can we put the meter” approach, there are hundred’s of positive examples. Honesty and integrity will take us forward as a civilization united as one, we will evolve together as humankind. The following quote is a great inspiration to us all.
     
    In your hands, my fellow citizens. . .more than mine. . .will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe. Now the trumpet summons us again… not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need. . .not as a call to battle… though embattled we are. . .but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle. . .year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. . .a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny. . .poverty. . .disease. . .and war itself. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance. . .North and South. . . East and West. . .that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
     
    In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger; I do not shrink from this responsibility. . .I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. . .and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
    And so, my fellow Americans. . .ask not what your country can do for you. . .ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world. . .ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the Freedom of Man.
     
    Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds; let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.    –  John F. Kennedy

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    01-08-2017 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA spacecraft missions have proven that Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus have all suffered “climate change” … without any human activity whatsoever

    NASA spacecraft missions have proven that Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus have all suffered “climate change” … without any human activity whatsoever

    Image: NASA spacecraft missions have proven that Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus have all suffered “climate change” … without any human activity whatsoever

    (Natural News) Temperature fluctuates, the weather shifts, and the climate never stays the same. It doesn’t matter where you live; it has always been this way on planet Earth. Through the course of many centuries, humans, animals, plants, and microbes have exhibited extraordinary resilience in the face of change and are all constantly adapting to this day.

    But today there is a global movement that seeks to control these cycles, predict and manipulate the changes that naturally take place on our planet. This climate change movement seeks to control levels of atmospheric gases (primarily carbon dioxide) which humans naturally exhale. This climate change agenda seeks to engineer the Earth’s atmosphere in hopes of changing temperature and weather. The implications are unsettling.

    The climate change agenda is only interested in proving that human activity is causing the planet to warm. Specifically, this agenda wants to target carbon dioxide as the problem. If they can prove that the Earth is warming by any measure, then they will correlate human activity’s release of carbon dioxide with any cherry-picked temperature increase data. However, correlation doesn’t always equate to causation, and even if scientists could accurately record a consistent temperature increase throughout the Earth’s land, air, soil, and water, why would carbon dioxide automatically be the “pollutant” to blame?

    Maybe temperature and weather on Earth is impacted by sun cycles, orbit patterns, and the Earth’s relationship with the sun and other planets. In fact, NASA missions have documented climate change on other planets, including Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter. If carbon dioxide emissions from human activity were the extreme pollutant burning up planet Earth, then why have other planets experienced extreme heating, climate change, extraordinary storms, and massive changes in their atmospheres? None of these planets have humans present to destroy them, so why should we be worried that our breath is burning up the planet? The Earth has historically survived much greater threats.

    The climate change that occurs on other planets puts everything into perspective. The Earth has survived extreme changes over many millennia, while orbiting the sun in a volatile solar system. Should humans really worry about their carbon footprint?

    Mars is warming due to solar cycles

    Mars is currently experiencing a period of warming as NASA scientists recognize that the planet is exiting a series of ice ages. Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, has compared sun cycles with climate data from both Mars and Earth. He says that the current global warming on Mars suggests that any documented warming on Earth could also be caused by these solar cycles. “The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,” he said. His research isn’t always accepted by the climate change scientists who are dead set on correlating carbon dioxide emissions with warming temperatures, but Mr. Abdussamatov has a valid point. Both Earth and Mars experience orbital changes that affect how much sunlight reaches the planets’ surface. These orbital variations are called Milankovitch cycles. This large scale phenomenon makes the slight carbon dioxide emission influxes on Earth seem trivial in the grand scheme of things.

    Carbon dioxide released by human activity pales in comparison to natural CO2 release

    The amount of carbon dioxide released by human activity is indeed trivial when compared with the carbon dioxide that is released naturally by the Earth. Most of human-produced carbon dioxide emissions come from the energy sector and are derived from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil. The amount of carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuels totaled 33.2 billion tons worldwide in 2011. In comparison, the Earth’s oceans naturally produce 330 billion tons of carbon dioxide during normal ocean-atmosphere exchange. Dissolved carbon dioxide within the oceans is released into the air at the sea surface. Ironically, the oceans absorb similar amounts of carbon dioxide, which helps maintain balance. Animals and plants naturally respire 220 tons of carbon dioxide every year, as part of a cycle. It’s this natural cycle of carbon dioxide release that feeds plant life, resulting in more food and oxygen for humans.

    Storm patterns on Jupiter cause temperature changes not caused by human activity

    Climate change has also been observed on Jupiter by NASA’s Hubble space telescope. A massive storm, which is three times the size of planet Earth, is expected to raise temperatures on Jupiter by 10 degrees Fahrenheit or more. The massive storm formed when smaller white oval-shaped storms merged between the years 1998 and 2000. The shift has mobilized heat from the equator to the 34 degree southern latitude mark closer to Jupiter’s southern pole. The heat is now slowing down where the new Red Spot Jr. is forming, allowing the poles to cool down while returning heat back to the planet’s equator. This natural shift of temperature within the planet, which is not caused by human activity, shows how larger weather patterns and changes in the atmosphere can affect temperatures across a planet.

    In the fight to prove that carbon dioxide emissions are going to destroy the planet, climate change alarmists are not seeing the bigger picture. Maybe that’s because there is a more sinister agenda behind climate change and a lot of money is at stake. Maybe the global climate change agenda is a mass wealth confiscation effort, an economic and energy control plan that is being used to make some people and industries rich while accidentally destroying the planet in the process. (Related: Learn why carbon is an important molecule of life, not a devastating pollutant.)

    Sources include:

    Space.com

    Space.com

    WhatsYourImpact.org

    News.NationalGeographic.com

    NaturalNews.com

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    01-08-2017 om 00:23 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Should We Try to Colonize Other Worlds or Stay and Fix Earth?

    Should We Try to Colonize Other Worlds or Stay and Fix Earth?

     
    NASA Ames Research Center
    IN BRIEF
    • Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson explores the dangers posed by long-term space travel and colonization in his novel Aurora.
    • While the discovery of seven exoplanets surrounding nearby TRAPPIST-1 has elevated hopes for space travel, many problems for such journeys remain unsolved.

    CONCERNS OVER COLONIZATION

    As NASA continues to make incredible discoveries about nearby exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, it’s easy to wonder “what if?”

    What if we made successful manned missions to those planets? What if there was life on any of those planets, and we could make contact? These questions have driven astronomers and science fiction enthusiasts alike for countless years. And, as planning for mannmissions to Mars and the search for extraterrestrial life continue, these questions become more relevant than ever.ed 

    Credit: Clarkesworld Magazine
    Credit: Clarkesworld Magazine

    However, putting aside all the excitement generated by space exploration, it’s important to ask not only if we can, but if we should. According to acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, sending humans to nearby exoplanets would be a terrible idea. To discuss his opinions the best way he knew how, Robinson expressed himself in his 2015 novel “Aurora.” In this book, Robinson imagines a capsule-type human society that takes an extended journey to a nearby star on a large vessel built to sustain human, plant, and animal life for centuries.

    While Robinson’s book was technically science fiction, it wasn’t all that far from reality. Darpa funded the construction of an ark-like vessel similar to Aurora’s ship around the time the book was written. But instead of reinforcing Darpa’s aspirations, Robinson’s tale highlighted the issues that could potentially arise and compound on each other with such lengthy space travel. And, as his narrative illustrates, Robinson believes that these problems would be too great for humans to overcome.

    CLOSE TO HOME

    The challenges the fictional crew on the Aurora face paint a picture of the potential issues with space colonization that are rarely discussed. For example, we can clearly see how climate change is slowly but surely wreaking havoc on our planet. Now, imagine that Earth was a smaller, completely contained vessel in which the emissions and gasses produced had nowhere to escape. Even if the ship launched with environmental systems perfectly equilibrated with each other, any changes that occurred over the hundred years in space would throw multiple systems out of balance.

    As time goes on, this imbalance would only become more severe, and a trip to even the nearest exoplanet could take an extraordinary amount of time. These scientific concerns of imbalance in long-term, artificial environments are in addition to the sociological issues that are bound to arise.

    Terra-forming and space colonization are getting a lot of buzz since NASA announced that a nearby dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 was discovered with seven surrounding planets, three of which orbit within the “habitable zone.” So, we may be wise to take this discussion about the repercussions of a manned mission to a nearby exoplanet more seriously than we would the latest piece of crazy science fiction. A voyage like this is becoming more and more of a possibility, and it’s important to take a step back and think about obstacles that might not be obvious.

    While it will be temping to bound ahead with interplanetary space travel as soon as it becomes more feasible, we might not want to take the leap too soon. The problems we have on Earth will not disappear when we leave — they will follow us wherever we go. So let us remember even while we work towards a technologically advanced future that just because we can doesn’t always mean that we should.

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