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.
DEAR VISITOR,
MY BLOG EXISTS ALREADY 13 YEARS.
ON 06/06/2024 MORE THAN 2.056.610
VISITORS FROM 134 DIFFERENT NATIONS ALREADY FOUND THEIR WAY TO MY BLOG.
THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Rising seas risk washing tens of thousands archaeological sites clean off the map in the US alone
Rising seas risk washing tens of thousands archaeological sites clean off the map in the US alone
Thousands of historic and archeological sites along the southern US coast risk being engulfed by sea-level rise by the end of the century, scientists report.
The sites at risk from rising sea-levels. Image credits David G. Anderson et al., 2017, PLOS ONE.
Climate change isn’t putting just our future at risk — it’s also engendering out past, according to new research. More than 13,000 archaeological sites, historic buildings, and cultural landscapes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the southeastern United States are at risk from sea-level rise and could be submerged by 2100.
No ark for this flood
The team, led by David Anderson from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville drew on data from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) to estimate the risk posed by sea-level rise on archaeological sites. DINAA is a platform that aggregates archeological and historical datasets compiled over the past century and from numerous sources. Its aim is to provide researchers and the public with a comprehensive view of when and where humans settled.
Based on position and elevation data, the team warns that over 13,000 sites in the southeast alone may find themselves topped with water for a mere 1 meter (3.28 ft) rise. This includes over 1,000 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places as having important cultural properties. But things could get much, much worse.
“These numbers increase substantially with each additional 1 m rise in sea level, with >32,000 archaeological sites and >2400 NRHP properties lost should a 5 m rise occur,” the authors warn.
“Many more unrecorded archaeological and historic sites will also be lost as large areas of the landscape are flooded. The displacement of millions of people due to rising seas will cause additional impacts where these populations resettle.”
Large linked data sets such as the DINAA, which can predict the potential impacts of phenomena across wide areas, are essential when developing procedures for sampling, triage, and mitigation efforts, the team explains. Therefore, they hold the key to planning and adaptation in the face of climate change, extreme weather events, and the displaced populations these will bring about — factors that could shape our civilization profoundly in the years to come.
“Sea level rise will thus result in the loss of much of the record of human habitation of the coastal margin in the Southeast,” the paper reads, “and the numbers indicate the magnitude of the impact on the archaeological record globally.”
The paper “Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction: An example from the southeastern United States using DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology)” has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Shortly after Earth’s formation, the planet was barren of life. Then, proteins combined in just the right way, and life appeared. For billions of years, it was simple and uninteresting, oceans full of simple, single-celled organisms floating for millennia after millennia. Suddenly, life got a lot more interesting. Organisms became more complex, with more than one cell. And they got much bigger — 10,000 times bigger by volume, Nick Lane, professor of evolutionary chemistry at University College London, wrote in his 2015 book The Vital Question.
The importance of this step — of this sudden increase in size and complexity — cannot be overstated. Without it, complex life (like humans, for example) would not exist.
How exactly this step happened is one of the big questions in evolutionary biology. There are a number of theories about how, exactly, life got so much more complicated. One of the prevailing theories, from Lane himself, focuses on energy. Here’s the thinking: Cells need more energy to build more complex structures. To do that, according to Lane’s theory, single-celled organisms merged with bacteria we now know as mitochondria, which have an electrical charge and bring power to the cell. It’s possible, though unlikely, for the two bacteria to fit together, and even less probably that the two were able to survive and live symbiotically. This occurrence that made possible all other forms of complex life is rare, to be sure.
But in Lane’s opinion, it only happened once.
“It comes down to one merger between two cells that made one cell, then everything comes from that. You, me, the redwood tree or the hummingbird, a fungus, a piece of algae growing in a pond, every form of life we can see with our naked eyes and many that we can’t come from that single cell,” Nick said in an episode of the science podcast Radiolab on his work.
The debate around how life got much more complicated is important to understand the history of life on Earth, but it also could inform our search for life on other planets. If complex life is exceedingly rare, does that make it less likely for us to find intelligent life in the universe? Should we instead be looking for something much smaller and simpler? If the universe outside of Earth only populated by single-celled organisms? Because these specific conditions are so unlikely, might complex life only exist on our own planet?
Futurism got in touch with a few experts to ask if they agree with Lane’s theory, if they believe intelligent extraterrestrial life is possible, and to get their perspectives on whether we should somehow alter our search.
Mohamed Noor, a professor of biology at Duke University:
To the best of my knowledge, Lane’s version of what happened is likely true: Acquiring mitochondria happened [only] once, long ago in the ancestor of plants, fungi, and animals. It greatly facilitated the evolution of multicellular organisms.
However, it’s impossible to know how to assess the need for something like that in the context of life that is totally unrelated to life on Earth. All life on Earth has a single common ancestor. This ancestor (and all life we on Earth) was presumably carbon/water-based, replicated using nucleic acids, and lived in conditions that existed on ancient or modern Earth. If life arose on a much colder world, for example, many other [environmental] parameters may be totally different as well.
In such a case, life there may use liquid ammonia rather than water as a solvent. It may not use nucleic acids for heredity. But some aspects may be general to life —carbon may intrinsically make sense for life, given its abundance and ability to make long chains. A “cell membrane” of some sort to insulate that life from its environment also seems probable. Finally, there are other things we never think about. How “fast” does this life metabolize and interact? Are there generations occurring in the blink of an eye? Or single interactions over millennia, moving so slowly we wouldn’t even notice?
Honestly, I feel like we cannot have any estimate of the probability of life of any kind (intelligent or not) until we move from a sample size of 1 (related to life on Earth) to a sample size of at least 2 [that is, until we discover at least one more example of life in the universe].
Back to your question, any “life” needs a source of power, but mitochondria need not be the only solution to that problem, especially if life is starting with a completely different basis. Still, my best guess is that microbial-sized life is way more likely to exist than something as large as us on other worlds. If our desire is to “find life,” I speculate that we’re much better off closely examining acquired samples from Europa or other worlds than waiting to receive a radio signal.
Pierre Pontarotti, the director of research at the Mathematics Institute of Marseille, wrote:
The symbiosis between bacteria and eukaryotes has occurred many times during the evolution of life on Earth. For example, cyanobacteria [merged] with the ancestors of plant cells — the cyanobacteria became the chloroplast. Therefore, if organisms like bacteria and eukaryotes are present on another planet, the symbiosis should happen.
We, of course, have no information about the kind of life that exists on other planets. But because galaxies and planets have evolved many times during the history of the universe, why shouldn’t life do so as well?
John Rummel, senior scientist with the SETI Institute:
Given the many advantages offered by the symbiosis of the pre-eukaryote and the pre-mitochondrial bacterium, it is entirely possible that once was enough — given that free oxygen could have been present to fuel the combination. “Once” here may not refer to a single endosymbiotic event, of course.
We don’t know exactly where, and at what scale, eating pre-mitochondria became popular on Earth… The right biochemistry is the key to that being an advantageous thing to do, of course, so whether it is widespread in the cosmos is more a biochemical question than a natural-science one. [It has to be] just so… Without mitochondrial advantages, it might be a struggle to develop complex, anoxic biochemistries that could support the evolution of intelligence on a physically challenging world, but not impossible.
A supervolcano could kill millions of humans, pushing us back to a pre-civilization state, far sooner than scientists previously thought, according to a new report in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. But we shouldn’t worry. Something else will probably kill us first, seeing as the global climate is warming, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are thriving, and nuclear war is a greater threat than ever. Against that backdrop, the study suggests, a supervolcano wiping out most or all humans on Earth seems like a non-issue.
Still, it’s not impossible.
In the paper published Wednesday, the Bristol University team revised previous scientific estimates of how often catastrophic supervolcano eruptions occur. While prior research put world-changing eruptions at comfortably wide intervals, the new paper shrinks that timescale considerably. Previous estimates, made in 2004, said that super-eruptions occurred, on average, every 45,000 to 714,000 years, a time scale that Jonathan Rougier, Ph.D., a statistician and the study’s first author, says is “comfortably longer than our civilization.” His new work puts the updated range at 5,200 to 48,000 years, with the “best guess” value at 17,000 years.
This range gives us significantly less time to prepare for the next cataclysmic eruption, but Rougier isn’t bothered by it. “My view … is that we should not be worried about super-eruptions,” Rougier tells Inverse.
Toba Caldera in Sumatra, Indonesia, produced the largest volcanic eruption of the past 2 million years.
Rougier’s study represents a significant change in the estimated frequency of world-changing supervolcano eruptions. By studying geological records covering the past 100,000 years, he and his colleagues found that the two most recent supervolcano eruptions occurred 20 and 30 thousand years ago.
“On balance, we have been slightly lucky not to experience any super-eruptions since then,” reports Rougier. This would seem to suggest that it’s about time we had another one of these super-eruptions, but just because we haven’t seen one doesn’t necessarily mean we’re overdue for one. In all likelihood, something else will probably kill us first.
“The probability of a super-eruption in (say) my lifetime is absolutely tiny, about 2 in 1000,” says Rougier. “From that point of view, super-eruptions are marginal in light of all the things that we need to worry about right now, and all of the other ways in which our civilization might experience a catastrophe over the next few thousand years.
That being said, Rougier notes, there definitely are communities around the world that are at risk for large — but not super — eruptions.
“They do need to plan and to invest in order to reduce their risk.”
A Turkish university is including a new course called “Ufology and Exopolitics” in its curriculum. The Dogan News Agency reported that the purpose of the class is to prepare students for the possibility of extraterrestrial contact.
“We believe representatives from the world and extraterrestrial civilizations will soon be making official contact with each other. We think they will be in an open and mass contact,” the class’s tutor, Erhan Kolbaşi, told the Dogan agency. “[It will be the] biggest change seen in the history of the world.”
The course will focus not just on practical preparations and galactic diplomacy but also on the purported history of cover-ups related to alien contact. Kolbaşi, who told Dogan he expects contact within 15 years, also maintains that aliens have already visited Earth and that technologies like fiber-optic cable, microchips and night-vision instruments were developed from intelligence gathered at crash sites. He claimed that public knowledge of this kind of alien activity is being suppressed by a group known as MJ-12.
BREAKING NEWS ON UFOLOGY!.. “Dear Friends and Colleagues, The news on the courses on “Ufology & Exopolitics” that had been officially launched at “Akdeniz University (Antalya/Turkey)” received a substantial mainstream national media coverage in Turkey...https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1208648475903901&id=100002762809852 …
Kolbaşi is the deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center, in Istanbul. MJ-12 has been the province of conspiracy theorists for years and also is the plot basis of the 1997 film Men in Black.
MJ-12 is short for Majestic 12, a vast, allegedly secret organization that President Harry Truman (allegedly) created to handle instances of alien contact and to (allegedly) keep them hidden from the public, even if that meant killing those who learned too much. Allegedly, anyway.
An artist's rendering of another planet's landscape.
NASA JPL
A journalist who previously requested the first documents to mention MJ-12 under the Freedom of Information Act explained in The Huffington Post that while the truth behind the rumors remained unclear, a lot of the claims were predicated on misinformation. And, in an FBI investigation of the first documents to mention the group, the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations ruled they were “bogus.”
“In 1988, two FBI offices received similar versions of a memo titled “Operation Majestic-12…” claiming to be highly classified government document,” the FBI records from its Vault website read. “The memo appeared to be a briefing for newly-elected President Eisenhower on a secret committee created to exploit a recovery of an extra-terrestrial aircraft and cover up this work from public examination. An Air Force investigation determined the document to be a fake.”
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CANADIAN PHYSICS PROFESSOR CLAIMS TO HAVE UNCOVERED ETI SIGNALS FROM 234 STARS
CANADIAN PHYSICS PROFESSOR CLAIMS TO HAVE UNCOVERED ETI SIGNALS FROM 234 STARS
For quite a while, humans have been curious to find out if life exists beyond the small fraction of the universe we occupy. For instance, we have been fascinated by UFO sightings and reports of aliens being found, regardless of how fake or silly it may sound. Furthermore, in the famous radio broadcast "War of the Worlds, "many humans believed that aliens were actually going after them, and many US states evacuated even though they were told before the start of the program that it was all a dramatization.
This human fascination with the supernatural has led some researchers to believe that special signals coming from 234 stars are extraterrestrial beings also trying to find out if they are the only inhabitants of the universe. These 1.65 picosecond long pulses are thought to have originated from some sort of extraterrestrial life form.
This isn't the first time humans have tried searching for extraterrestrial life: back when the MERCURY unmanned probes still existed, scientists sent along gold plates of data regarding the human race, and a CD with greetings in many of Earth's languages. Perhaps this discovery means that the extraterrestrial life forms have received our message and are replying back.
However, this could also be a hoax. 1.65 picosecond pulses could be a result of instrumental inaccuracies or poor observer measurement. Additionally, the length of time is so small that the perfect hoaxer would make it look as if it was a believable amount of time but significant enough to spark interest.
Space exploration is constantly getting better, and maybe in the future, we will be able to debunk the mysteries of extraterrestrial life once and for all!
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Flat Earth Society gaat in discussie met Elon Musk, en wat daarop volgt is gewoon geweldig - HLN.be
Flat Earth Society gaat in discussie met Elon Musk, en wat daarop volgt is gewoon geweldig - HLN.be
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HET LEUKSTE VAN HET WEBOndanks het overweldigende wetenschappelijke bewijs zijn er nog steeds mensen die geloven dat de aarde plat is. De Flat Earth Society heeft zelfs een geverifieerde Twitteraccount, met een erg actieve beheerder. Die ging eerder deze week in discussie met Elon Musk, CEO van Tesla, en dat leverde een geweldig staaltje internetgoud op.
Als je ervan uitgaat dat de aarde plat is, zou je logischerwijs denken dat hetzelfde geldt voor de andere planeten. Maar aan logica doet de Flat Earth Society duidelijk niet mee. Toen Elon Musk eergisteren op Twitter met een knipoog vroeg waarom er geen Flat Mars Society bestaat, besloten de aanhangers van de platte aarde zich te mengen in de discussie.
“Hey Elon, bedankt voor je vraag. In tegenstelling tot de Aarde hebben we kunnen observeren dat Mars rond is. We hopen dat je een fantastische dag hebt!”, klonk het beleefde doch ietwat dubieuze antwoord. En daarmee ontketenden ze een Twitterstorm die ons nog lang zal heugen.
De Flat Earth Society werd met veel sarcasme op de korrel genomen, en het moet gezegd: de twitteraar achter de account beschikt over veel doorzettingsvermogen en een goed gevoel voor humor. De man of vrouw bleef maar antwoorden op ironische vragen en niet al te subtiele uithalen. Hij liet zich lustig meeslepen in een semantische discussie over het verschil tussen ronde, sferische en bolvormige objecten:
By no means! Those who believe the Earth to be round claim that it is an oblate spheroid - since the spin of the Earth would slowly bulge it out of shape.
BIZARDe mythe van de yeti, ofwel de verschrikkelijke sneeuwman, is onuitroeibaar. De reusachtige aap wordt al eeuwenlang waargenomen in de Himalaya en het Tibetaanse Hoogland. Wetenschappers hebben negen vermeende sporen van de yeti onderzocht.
Het resultaat is ontnuchterend: het gaat om acht beren en een hond. De onderzochte sporen betreffen onder meer haren en tanden, zoals gevonden door de bewoners van de bergen in Nepal, Bhutan en China. De wetenschappers van onder meer de universiteit in het Amerikaanse Buffalo lieten de nieuwste genetische technieken op de aangedragen voorbeelden los.
Maar de haren bleken van beren en de tanden behoorden tot het gebit van een hond, zo meldt The Guardian. Wel waren de sporen van sommige beren niet geheel thuis te brengen. De wetenschappers zeggen dat het om een onbekende berensoort gaat. De onderzoekers legden ook nog ‘bewijs’ van enkele musea en dierenparken onder de loep. Ook in deze gevallen ging het om materiaal van de bruine beer die in de Himalaya leeft.
thinkstockHoe ziet een yeti eruit? Aan schetsen op internet geen gebrek.
There are rules of the physical world that don’t apply to the mental world. You can fly in a dream. You can imagine a squirrel talking to you. The realm of dreams and imagination is, however, often thought of as self-contained. It has no tangible bearing on the world at large.
Precognitive dreams have taught Dr. Julia Mossbridge otherwise. “I think that precognition is a kind of mental time travel into the future to get information,” she said. “We’re just so used to applying the rules of the physical world to the mental world that we don’t really get it that there are different rules. That’s a different domain.”
She continued: “The separation that we have between people in space and the separation we have between events in time in the physical world, who says that has to apply to the mental world?”
Precognitive dreams suggest the mind doesn’t follow the rules we usually apply to the physical world, says Mossbridge.
Mossbridge is a cognitive neuroscientist. She has been working with physicists and psychologists to figure out the rules of mental time travel. Her book, “Transcendent Mind,” co-authored with Dr. Imants Barušs, was published last year by the American Psychological Association.
Having a major scientific institution publish this book is a significant step forward for the many scientists who have seriously studied precognition, a “shared mind,” and other phenomena that suggests the mind exists beyond the brain.
Mossbridge’s personal experience with precognitive dreams started her on this research path. She said that one such dream, “knocked my socks off.”
Mossbridge had a dream that accurately predicted an event in great detail.
At the time she had the dream, she was going through a divorce. She had a 5-year-old child and didn’t know where they would live. She thought of an area where she used to live and thought it would be nice to return there.
In her dream, she called a landlady in the area that she knows. The landlady told her she had a two-story rental property. The upstairs unit had been recently refurbished and was already occupied. The downstairs unit was being refurbished and would be ready in two months. The landlady said she could show Mossbridge around the upstairs unit so she could get an idea of what the downstairs would look like when finished. If she were to sign the lease right away, she could pick the color of the paint.
In waking life, after the dream, Mossbridge didn’t call the landlady; she ran into her instead. But every other minute detail of her dream came true—the two-story property, the refurbishing, the two months until the bottom floor would be finished, picking the paint color, all of it.
“People both have dreams that seem mundane and dreams about things that are really important in their lives. Precognition works that way,” Mossbridge said. “But I’m kind of starting to get convinced that the things that seem mundane are not. That they’re more like signposts in your life. You don’t recognize them as important events, but later you go, ‘Oh yeah.'”
For example, the first precognitive dream she remembers was one she had as a child. She dreamed that her friend lost her watch on the playground, and it really happened the next day. It was a mundane event, but looking back on it, it seems important to Mossbridge. The watch represents time, a topic that would be central to her studies later in life.
As a scientist, Mossbridge asks herself whether it’s confirmation bias. In science, confirmation bias generally refers to interpreting information in a way that will confirm a preexisting belief. A meaningless dream could become “precognitive” if you look back on it and intentionally search for connections to events in waking life.
That’s why Mossbridge tests these things scientifically.
Experiments have shown people unconsciously know what’s going to happen in the future.
A file photo of a man wearing an Electroencephalography (EEG) cap. (Ulrich W.)
For example, she conducted a meta-analysis of experiments from seven independent laboratories indicating that the human body reacts to future stimuli. When something is about to happen, a person unconsciously already knows it’s going to happen. This unconscious response can be tested in a lab by measuring reactions in the nervous system, sweat glands, or heart rate.
Mossbridge described how this presentiment works with an analogy of a stick being dragged through water. The stick represents an event. There are ripples on both sides of it, representing the emotional disturbance we feel from the event. The ripples before the stick aren’t as pronounced, the ripples after the stick are bigger. Similarly, the emotional response to an event is more subtle before the event occurs than afterward.
She is also working on experiments to show that people can use remote viewing and precognitive dreaming to predict stock market events.
What if we could predict terror attacks?
A file photo of a reported suicide car bomb attack by Islamic State (IS) in Kobani, Syria. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)
Predicting mass-shooting or bombing attacks could especially help people. In 2015, Mossbridge had a precognitive dream about an Islamic State (IS) bombing in Kuwait.
She had the dream the same night it happened and a lot of the details matched up. She saw it happening during midday prayer; she saw the number 27, which was the number of people killed; she saw the letters “IS.” Some of the details didn’t match, like she thought it was in Israel, not Kuwait.
Dr. Julia Mossbridge’s journal, where she recorded an apparently precognitive dream about a bombing on July 26, 2015. Screenshot/Skype)
Nonetheless, Mossbridge thinks that if people could share their premonitions via an online registry, it might help. If the registry receives dozens of premonition accounts that all match up in certain regards, it could indicate an event is likely to occur.
People could avoid a certain location if a lot of people have premonitions of an attack at that location at a certain time.
Envision a future with a central premonitions registry.
Although there have been some attempts to create a premonitions registry, Mossbridge said, “They don’t seem to catch on because people can’t be out of the closet with this stuff. People are scared. If I were to tell someone about that dream about the bombing, if it was too much detail, they might be coming up to my house and saying, ‘So, you did this bombing,’” she said.
Since we don’t know how to deal with this information, she said, we say that people with premonitions are crazy, “Or more generously, those people are seeing coincidences as something that’s meaningful, but they’re just coincidences.”
While thinking about time and transcendent mental abilities are some of Mossbridge’s favorite things to do, she also works on all kinds of other cool projects. Her roles include research director of the Mossbridge Institute, director of the Innovation Lab at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and visiting scholar at Northwestern University.
Her daily work includes using compassionate robots to make people happy, developing apps to help people listen to their intuition and test their psychic abilities, and teaching Silicon Valley programmers to take care of their minds.
In Beyond Science, The Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.
Is helderziendheid een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen? Neurowetenschapper komt tot opmerkelijke conclusies
Is helderziendheid een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen? Neurowetenschapper komt tot opmerkelijke conclusies
Helderziendheid is een vorm van mentaal tijdreizen naar de toekomst om informatie te krijgen. Dat heeft dr. Julia Mossbridge gezegd.
“We zijn gewend om de regels in de fysieke wereld toe te passen op de mentale wereld, maar we begrijpen niet dat daar andere regels gelden,” zei ze. “Het is een ander domein.”
“In de fysieke wereld kennen we de scheiding tussen mensen in de ruimte en de scheiding tussen gebeurtenissen, maar wie zegt dat dat ook van toepassing is op de mentale wereld?” vroeg ze.
Toevallig
Mossbridge is een neurowetenschapper en werkt samen met natuurkundigen en psychologen om te achterhalen hoe mentaal tijdreizen werkt.
Ze begon haar onderzoek nadat ze zelf een voorspellende droom had. Toen ze die droom had lag ze in scheiding. Ze had een kind van vijf en wist niet waar ze zou gaan wonen.
In haar droom belde ze een huurbazin die ze kende. De huurbazin zei dat ze binnen twee maanden iets beschikbaar had.
Na de droom kwam Mossbridge de huurbazin ‘toevallig’ tegen op straat. Elk detail van de droom werd werkelijkheid.
Onbewust
Mossbridge heeft onder meer experimenten van zeven onafhankelijke laboratoria geanalyseerd waaruit blijkt dat het menselijk lichaam reageert op toekomstige prikkels.
Als er iets staat te gebeuren, weet iemand dat onbewust al. Deze reactie kan worden getest in een laboratorium door reacties in het zenuwstelsel, de zweetklieren en de hartslag te meten.
Ze werkt ook aan experimenten die aantonen dat mensen remote viewing (verzien) en voorspellende dromen kunnen gebruiken om te voorspellen wat er op de aandelenbeurs gaat gebeuren.
Voorkomen
In 2015 had dr. Mossbridge een voorspellende droom over een bomaanslag van terreurgroep IS in Koeweit.
Ze had de droom op dezelfde dag dat het gebeurde en veel van de details klopten. Ze zag het getal 27, wat stond voor het aantal slachtoffers, en de letters IS.
Mossbridge denkt dat het een goed idee zou zijn om een register op internet te openen waar mensen hun voorspellende dromen kunnen delen.
Misschien kan dat helpen om aanslagen te voorkomen, zei ze.
Huiverig
Er zijn al enkele pogingen gedaan, maar mensen zijn over het algemeen erg huiverig om hun ervaringen te delen.
Ze zijn bang dat ze zelf van een bomaanslag worden verdacht als ze te veel details geven, aldus de neurowetenschapper.
“Omdat we niet weten wat we met deze informatie aan moeten, zeggen we dat helderziende mensen gek zijn,” zei ze. “Of dat het slechts toeval is.”
Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2017 shows Chang Jin, chief scientist of Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), introducing the science achievement of DAMPE Satellite, "Wukong", at the PMO in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. China's DAMPE has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter.
The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution.
"DAMPE has opened a new window for observing the high-energy universe, unveiling new physical phenomena beyond our current understanding," said Chang Jin, chief scientist of DAMPE and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature.
"This is the first time a space experiment has reported a detailed and precise electron and positron spectrum up to about 5 TeV. In this energy range, we found some unexpected and interesting features. We have detected a spectral break at 0.9 TeV and a possible spike at 1.4 TeV," said Chang.
Precise measurement of cosmic rays, especially at the very high energy range, is important for scientists to look for traces of dark matter annihilation or decay, as well as to understand the most energetic astrophysical phenomena in the universe, such as pulsars, active galaxy nuclei and supernova explosions. "Our data may inspire some new ideas in particle physics and astrophysics," said Chang.
Dark matter, which cannot be seen or touched, is one of the great mysteries of science. Scientists calculate that normal matter, such as galaxies, stars, trees, rocks and atoms, accounts for only about 5 percent of the universe. However, about 26.8 percent of the universe is dark matter and 68.3 percent dark energy.
China sent DAMPE into an orbit of about 500 kilometers above the earth on December 17, 2015, to look for evidence of the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles in space.
DAMPE has the widest energy range coverage and the highest energy resolution of all the dark matter probes currently in space. Based on the satellite's data, scientists drew the cosmic ray electron and positron spectrum.
To their surprise, scientists found a break at around 0.9 TeV and a strange spike at around 1.4 TeV on the spectrum. "We never expected such signals," Chang said.
"The spike might indicate that there exists a kind of unknown particle with a mass of about 1.4 TeV," said Chang.
"All the 61 elementary particles predicted by the standard model of particle physics have been found. Dark matter particles are beyond the list. So if we find a new elementary particle, it will be a breakthrough in physics," he added.
"The spike is very unusual," said Fan Yizhong, deputy chief designer of the scientific application system of DAMPE. "The signals might have originated from either dark matter or pulsars. Even if they were from pulsars, it would be quite a strange astrophysical phenomenon that nobody had known before."
"However, the data of the strange signal are still not enough. We need to collect more data to make sure it's real," Chang said.
More than 100 Chinese scientists and engineers, together with those from Switzerland and Italy, took part in the development of DAMPE and the analysis of its data.
Researchers have ruled out the possibility that the unusual signals are caused by a malfunction of the satellite's detectors. Independent analyses from five different teams all came to the same conclusion, said Chang.
DAMPE's design life is three years, but as it is performing so well, scientists expect it to work much longer. "DAMPE will continue to collect data to help us better understand the anomaly and might bring dark matter out of the shadows," said Chang.
Nobel Laureate Samuel Chao Chung Ting, leader of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment on the International Space Station, said of DAMPE, "It's a very good experiment."
Bi Xiaojun, a particle physicist at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the CAS, said DAMPE's observations are important to help scientists better understand the origin of cosmic rays.
"The satellite's data on the spike at 1.4 TeV are still not enough to declare a physical discovery. If the signal can be confirmed with the accumulation of data, it would be of great significance," Bi said.
"That could be explained by either dark matter or an astrophysical source. If we use dark matter to explain it, dark matter would be different from what we thought before. It conforms to the popular dark matter model of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP), but has some special features," Bi said.
Chen Hesheng, a CAS academician, said that even if a candidate dark matter particle is found, it still needs other experiments such as underground detection or collider experiments to confirm it, which would be difficult.
Illustration of the Wukong space telescope. China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. (photo provided to China News Service)
The photo shows Chang Jin, chief scientist of Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) and vice director of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), introducing the findings made by DAMPE Satellite, "Wukong", at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China. China's DAMPE has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Photo: China News Service/Zhang Su
Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2015 shows a Long March 2-D rocket carrying the Dark Matter Particle Explorer satellite blasting off. China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. The satellite, also called Wukong, or Monkey King, has measured more than 3.5 billion cosmic ray particles with the highest energy up to 100 tera-electron-volts (TeV for short, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light), including 20 million electrons and positrons, with unprecedentedly high energy resolution. The initial detection results were published in the latest issue of the academic journal, Nature. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Photo taken on Dec. 24, 2015 shows scientists of the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), work with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, "Wukong", at the science mission hall of the center in Beijing, capital of China.(Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2017 shows Fan Yizhong, deputy chief designer of the scientific application system of the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), introduces research findings at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
Chinese satelliet vangt mysterieuze signalen op. Leidt deze vreemde piek tot doorbraak?
Chinese satelliet vangt mysterieuze signalen op. Leidt deze vreemde piek tot doorbraak?
Een Chinese satelliet heeft mysterieuze signalen opgepikt die ons mogelijk meer kunnen vertellen over onzichtbare donkere materie.
De satelliet, de ‘Dark Matter Particle Explorer’, heeft meer dan 3,5 miljard energierijke deeltjes gemeten, waaronder 20 miljoen elektronen en positronen.
Met behulp van de satelliet is het mogelijk fysieke fenomenen te bestuderen die ons begrip te boven gaan, zei Chang Jin van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen.
Grootste wetenschappelijke mysteries
Het meten van kosmische straling is belangrijk voor wetenschappers die zoeken naar sporen van de vernietiging of het verval van donkere materie.
Donkere materie kan niet worden gezien of aangeraakt en is één van de grootste wetenschappelijke mysteries.
Wetenschappers schatten dat gewone materie – zoals sterrenstelsels, sterren, bomen, stenen en atomen – slechts vijf procent van het universum vormt.
Zo’n 26,8 procent van het heelal bestaat uit donkere materie en 68,3 procent uit donkere energie.
Vreemde piek
China lanceerde de satelliet op 17 december 2015 om in de ruimte te zoeken naar bewijs voor donkere materie.
Er werden elektronen en positronen gemeten met energieën tot vijf TeV (biljoen elektronvolt). Rond 0,9 TeV werd een onderbreking gedetecteerd en bij 1,4 TeV een vreemde piek.
“We hadden zulke signalen nooit verwacht,” zei Chang. “De piek wijst mogelijk op het bestaan van een onbekend deeltje met een massa van ongeveer 1,4 TeV.”
Doorbraak
Alle 61 elementaire deeltjes die worden voorspeld door het standaardmodel zijn al gevonden. Als we dus een nieuw elementair deeltje vinden zal er sprake zijn van een doorbraak, aldus Chang.
“De piek is zeer ongewoon,” zei Fan Yizhong, die betrokken is bij het satellietproject. “De signalen zijn mogelijk afkomstig van donkere materie of pulsars.”
Vreemd fenomeen
“Zelfs als ze van pulsars afkomstig waren, zouden we te maken hebben met een vreemd fenomeen waar nog niemand weet van heeft,” vervolgde hij.
Inmiddels is uitgesloten dat de ongewone signalen zijn veroorzaakt door een technische fout. Vijf verschillende teams zijn allemaal tot dezelfde conclusie gekomen, zei Chang.
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UFO boven Beek ook gezien vanaf industriecomplex Chemelot. Wat deed deze zwarte ‘piramide’ op die plek?
UFO boven Beek ook gezien vanaf industriecomplex Chemelot. Wat deed deze zwarte ‘piramide’ op die plek?
Begin deze week maakte een technicus van vliegveld Beek bij de redactie van NineForNews melding van een onbekend luchtvoertuig boven de luchthaven.
Volgens de getuige is er op vrijdag 24 november even na half vijf ’s nachts stil alarm geslagen op het vliegveld vanwege een object dat wel op de radar verscheen, maar geen responder had en ook niet reageerde op radiosignalen.
Het object naderde de radar met een snelheid van meer dan 2000 kilometer per uur, aldus de technicus, die anoniem wenste te blijven.
Tweede getuige
“Het verdween van de radar en wij denken dat we te maken hebben met iets van ‘elders’,” schreef de getuige. “Het is niet militair.”
Inmiddels heeft zich een tweede getuige gemeld. Deze persoon is naar eigen zeggen werkzaam als inspecteur op de petrochemische fabriek in Sittard-Geleen, net iets ten noorden van vliegveld Beek.
Tijdens nachtdienst op Sabic waargenomen een soort piramide omstreeks 04.45. Deze kwam zeer snel boven en draaide boven de fabriek en boog af naar het westen. Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien.
Ik zag een lichtflits gepaard met een knal (vergelijkbaar met straaljager), maar daarna was het voorwerp (‘UFO’) zwart. Het gebeurde in 3 seconden, en ik heb dus een soort piramide gezien in de lucht.
Ik wens anoniem te blijven i.v.m. herleidbaarheid tijdens deze dienst. Ik ben inspecteur op de petrochemische fabriek. Geen interesse in pers, wel melding doen.
Gaat het hier om hetzelfde object?
Nooit eerder
Kunststoffabrikant Sabic bevindt zich op industriecomplex Chemelot, waar woensdag 45 van de 60 fabrieken zijn stilgelegd omdat er een groot probleem was met de stroomvoorziening.
De fabrieken op het complex zijn eigendom van onder meer DSM, Sabic, OCI Nitrogen en Borealis.
Voor de Chemelot-directie was het afschakelen van de fabrieken een nachtmerrie-scenario, meldt 1Limburg.
Het nieuwsportaal bericht verder dat het verplicht afschakelen van de fabrieken een economische ramp is en nog nooit eerder is gebeurd.
Groot alarm
“Het is voor het eerst dat de fabrieken in één klap worden uitgeschakeld,” klonk het.
Het is onduidelijk hoe de storing is ontstaan. De schade kan oplopen tot enkele tientallen miljoenen euro’s. Aan het einde van de dag moeten de fabrieken weer zijn opgestart.
Bij Chemelot werd daarnaast groot alarm geslagen na een lekkage op het terrein. De brandweer riep mensen op om de omgeving te mijden en wegen werden afgezet.
Is hier sprake van toeval of is er mogelijk een link met de waarnemingen?
Experts dateren vermeende graf van Jezus. Is dit de plek waar hij stierf en herrees uit de dood? Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!
Experts dateren vermeende graf van Jezus. Is dit de plek waar hij stierf en herrees uit de dood?
Het vermoedelijke graf van Jezus blijkt veel ouder te zijn dan gedacht. Het graf, onder de Heilige Grafkerk in Jeruzalem, stamt niet uit de tijd van de kruisvaarders, maar dateert van rond 345 na Christus.
Wetenschappers hebben het graf nauwkeurig bestudeerd en denken dat de grafkapel is gebouwd door Romeinse soldaten.
Die bezochten Jeruzalem in opdracht van keizer Constantijn om het graf van Jezus te zoeken. Ze bouwden in het jaar 325 een heiligdom op de plek die volgens inwoners van Jeruzalem de begraafplaats van Jezus was.
Kruis
Vorig jaar werd de tombe voor het eerst in honderden jaren geopend. Archeologen kregen 60 uur de tijd om het graf binnen te gaan.
Uit onderzoek naar cement onder een marmeren plaat met een kruis erop blijkt dat het dateert van 325 na Christus, zo meldt National Geographic.
In het graf lag ook een lange plank of grafbed, waar volgens de overlevering het lichaam van Jezus werd opgelegd na zijn kruisiging.
Zwaar te verduren
Tot voor kort werd gedacht dat de grafkapel nog geen 1000 jaar oud was en stamde uit de tijd van de kruisvaarders.
Het onderzoek bewijst alleen niet dat de tombe ook daadwerkelijk de begraafplaats van Jezus was.
De Heilige Grafkerk kreeg het door de eeuwen heen zwaar te verduren, onder meer door branden, aardbevingen en belegeringen.
De kerk werd in 1009 volledig verwoest en enige tijd later opnieuw opgebouwd.
DE AARDE GAAT LANGZAMER DRAAIEN EN DE MAAN KRIJGT DE SCHULD
DE AARDE GAAT LANGZAMER DRAAIEN EN DE MAAN KRIJGT DE SCHULD
Wetenschappers slaan alarm omdat ze verwachten dat de aarde in 2018 te maken zal krijgen met zeer zware aardbevingen.
Dit zou dan komen omdat de aarde langzamer gaat draaien en als reden daarvoor wijst men naar de maan.
We leven in spannende tijden, waar steeds meer aanwijzingen boven water komen dat er zich wel degelijk een soort mini zonnestelsel in de buurt van onze zon bevindt, ondanks alle ontkenningen van NASA.
Wij zijn ook kort van geheugen, want iedereen is vergeten dat er de vorige eeuw meerdere gerespecteerde wetenschappers waren die ervan overtuigd waren dat de planeet Nibiru met haar metgezellen bestond en dat deze een vreemde ellipstische baan door ons zonnestelsel aflegt.
Twee wetenschappers die er als het ware uitspringen zijn de astronomen Muñoz Ferrada en Dr. Robert Harrington.
Bij ons in de Westerse wereld hebben waarschijnlijk maar weinig mensen gehoord van Carlos Muñoz Ferrada.
Hij was een Chileense astronoom die in 2001 op 92-jarige leeftijd is overleden en die misschien wel de belangrijkste aanwijzing ooit heeft gegeven voor het bestaan van de planeet Nibiru, of Hercolubus zoals deze soms ook wordt genoemd.
Ruim 43 jaar voordat de infrarode Iris telescoop van NASA in 1983 een onbekende planeet had ontdekt volgens een artikel in de Washington Post, sprak Ferrada hier al over. Dat is zefs ruim 36 jaar voordat in 1976 het beroemde boek van Zecharia Sitchin “De Twaalfde Planeet” verscheen.
Muñoz Ferrada werd beroemd in Chili toen hij op 19 januari 1939 een zware aardbeving voorspelde in zijn land voor 24 januari dat jaar. Op het moment dat hij de lezing gaf, geloofde geen mens in het publiek hem, maar toen op 24 januari 1939 Chili inderdaad werd getroffen door een zeer zware aardbeving die aan tienduizenden mensen het leven kostte, was het een ander verhaal.
De tweede wetenschapper die eruit springt is Dr. Robert Harrington, in de jaren tachtig en begin jaren negentig hoofdastronoom van de US Naval Observatory. Ook deze astronoom was ervan overtuigd dat er een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel moest zijn, omdat dit de enige logische verklaring was voor de verstoringen van omloopbanen van planeten in de buitenste regionen van ons zonnestelsel.
Dr. Harrington stierf plotseling onder mysterieuze omstandigheden, net toen hij op punt stond om in Nieuw Zeeland opzienbarende ontdekkingen bekend te maken in 1993.
In 1991 vertrok Harrington voor NASA met een telescoop naar Nieuw Zeeland om van daaruit de naderende planeet Nibiru vast te leggen. Hij verbleef daar in totaal bijna twee jaar en alles wat hij aan beeldmateriaal produceerde werd doorgestuurd naar Washington. Volgens mensen die hem kenden stond Harrington in januari 1993 op het punt wereldkundig te maken wat hij had ontdekt.
Echter, hoewel Harrington tot dan toe niets gemankeerd had, werd bij hem een zeldzame vorm van slokdarmkanker geconstateerd en was hij vreemd genoeg binnen enkele dagen dood. Wat zijn de kansen dat een gezonde man die in Nieuw Zeeland fysiek vrij zwaar werk verrichtte, binnen enkele dagen overlijdt aan kanker? De vrouw van Harrington, Betty, is er heilig van overtuigd dat haar man werd vermoord. Direct na de dood van Harrington werd de telescoop snel weggehaald of zoals een collega het omschreef, "almost before he was cold". Vanaf dat moment was het eigenlijk voorgoed over met de berichtgeving rond de planeet Nibiru, althans wat de officiële kanalen betreft.
In de volgende video die is opgenomen in 1990 zie je Dr. Harrington in gesprek met de bekende onderzoeker en auteur Zecharia Sitchin.
De afgelopen weken verschenen er uitgebreide berichten in de media over het feit dat de aarde langzamer is gaan draaien en dat dit betekent dat we volgend jaar, 2018, zware en vernietigende aardbevingen kunnen verwachten.
In de hieronder geplaatste video wordt gesteld dat dit het vierde jaar op rij is, waarbij de aarde minder snel om haar as draait. Het zijn minieme verschillen die je als zodanig niet voelt en de verklaring is dan dat dit gebeurt door de aantrekkingskracht van de maan.
Natuurlijk wordt de maan genoemd, omdat dit lekker vertrouwd klinkt, want wanneer je zegt dat dit komt door een aantal vreemde planeten binnen ons zonnestelsel, dan breekt de paniek uit.
Als je verder bedenkt dat het aantal aardbevingen dit jaar al zal uitkomen op het hoogste aantal ooit in de bekende geschiedenis en wetenschappers weten nu al dat er in 2018 veel vooral zware aardbevingen zullen plaatsvinden, dan is duidelijk dat de planeet Nibiru snel naderbij komt.
Als je naar bovenstaande cijfers kijkt van aardbevingen sinds 1997 kijkt en je ziet dat wij ons nu in een bloedrode periode bevinden en ze beginnen nu al met waarschuwen voor aardbevingen volgend jaar, dan is er iets meer aan de hand dan de aantrekkingskracht van de maan. In twintig jaar tijd van 16.469 aardbevingen per jaar naar 112.201 in 2016 en dit jaar naar alle waarschijnlijkheid nog hoger.
Supervulkanen, waarvan de meeste niet eens wisten dat ze bestonden, komen allemaal plotseling tot leven:
Niet alleen in de Verenigde Staten (Yellowstone), maar ook in Italië (bijna Napels) en Noord Korea zijn de afgelopen tijd supervulkanen tot veler verrassing actief geworden. Wetenschappers van het gerenommeerde Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) van de NASA hebben nu nieuw bewijs gevonden dat het afbreken van stukken ijs van Antarctica niet wordt veroorzaakt door klimaatopwarming door CO2, maar door een enorme geothermische hittebron, die bijna de omvang heeft van de Yellowstone supervulkaan, en die het ijs van binnenuit smelt. Daarmee zijn alle tientallen miljarden euro’s kostende maatregelen om in Nederland de CO2-uitstoot terug te dringen nog zinlozer dan ze al waren.
De geothermische hittebron is een ‘mantelpluim’, een hete ‘pilaar’ van onderaardse gesmolten rotsen die door de aardmantel heen tot pal onder het oppervlakte omhoog steekt. De mantelpluim zelf werd al eerder ontdekt en bevindt zich in Mary Byrd Land. Dat deze waarschijnlijk verantwoordelijk is voor het ‘ademeffect’ op delen van Antarctica, en het afbreken van grote stukken ijs –zowel nu als 11.000 jaar geleden-, is echter nieuw.
Dr. Harrington, Sitchin en Muñoz wisten dat er een onbekende planeet bestond en zij hebben hun uiterste best gedaan om ons te waarschuwen. Helaas is de mensheid nogal geneigd de fabeltjes van de elite te geloven die ons vertellen dat we braaf moeten doorwerken, terwijl zij de laatste hand leggen aan hun riante schuilkelders in veilige gebieden.
While it used to be politics and religion, more and more people now agree that two things you shouldn’t bring up at family gatherings are science and religion. That’s because science and religion don’t seem to agree on too many things. Good news for those wondering what they’ll be talking about at Christmas parties … there’s a new discovery that both science and religion fans can agree on. Researchers studying the limestone cave that is the purported tomb of Jesus at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have determined that it dates back much further than once thought and supports the story of its original enshrinement by the Romans. Discuss amongst yourselves.
The research results were released this week by National Geographic. The tomb, said by believers to be where the Romans laid the body after crucifixion, was covered with a marble shield since at least 1555 CE and was only opened in October of 2016. One of the things found was a mysterious older slab. Parts of it and the mortar used to hold it in place were analyzed and dated, and the results were surprising.
Some of the mortar samples taken from the south wall of the cave date to around 335 CE. That coincides with the stories that Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, ordered a search for the tomb. It was allegedly underneath a 200-year-old Roman temple which was destroyed, revealing a limestone cave that could be the tomb. This new evidence indicates that the slab was used to seal the tomb and the first Edicule or shrine was built over it. That shrine was damaged by fire and earthquakes and eventually destroyed in 1009 by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Other mortar samples found date to the reconstruction shortly after this.
Now it’s time for the arguments. Does this new mortar evidence cement the idea that this is the actual tomb of Jesus? Not really. It does show that the location was considered to be the tomb in the fourth century and the belief was strong enough to cover it with a temple, not to mention start many battles.
While the cave will continue to be studied, the real issue today is the condition of the Edicule. It was reconstructed in 1808-1810 after being destroyed by fire and it’s in poor condition due to both age and the amount of activity around it. It sounds like the solution is hidden inside this new discovery … mortar.
What part of that sounds good? Throw in “US military,” and “testing on soldiers” and you have the plot of a dystopian movie. Unfortunately, you also have news this week that this is real and tests have already begun. Does the fact that it’s purported purpose is to eventually treat mental disorders that no other therapies can help make you feel any better?
While this type of brain implant has been discussed for years, previous attempts to alter moods with implanted computer chips have failed. That’s not the case with these latest experiments, according to a new report in the journal Nature on a presentation made by researchers last week at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in Washington DC. Two different projects are being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the purpose of providing new and more effective treatment for treating soldiers and veterans with severe depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Neuroscientist Edward Chang from the University of California, San Francisco, heads the team that is mapping the brain activities caused by moods and mood changes in six epileptics. The map will allow them to create a chip with an algorithm that recognizes oncoming mood shifts and sends signals to control them. Chang claims they’ve already tested this brain stimulation on humans.
The second team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is mapping the brain activity related to behaviors in people with multiple mental disorders. Their goal is to use the maps to develop algorithms to recognize problem behaviors (like distraction) caused by the illnesses and deliver brain stimulations to direct the person to more appropriate behaviors. They are currently looking for test subjects.
The researchers feel that this new type of mood and behavior altering via chip implants will work where others have failed because the mapping will allow them to personalize and pinpoint the electrical stimulations. On the downside, they still need a way to precisely measure the brain impulses so they don’t over-stimulate the person into states of extreme happiness or worse mental illness.
This all sounds wonderful and promising … until you remember that this is a government project intended to be used on soldiers. What else will this “window into the brain” allow the brain stimulators to control or modify? What else will be seen through this brain-mapping window? It’s not monitoring thoughts … yet. It’s not changing behaviors not linked to mental disorders … yet. It’s not collecting data to be sold to businesses, insurance companies, financial institutions, schools and other organizations … yet.
Are you ready to have one of these chips implanted in your brain? If you’re in the military, will you be given a choice? If you’re a civilian and have a mental disorder and other treatments have failed, will you be given a choice?
There are rumors that we went to the moon but we had help, besides it seems the landings filmed by Stanley Kubrick were staged to cover what they really encountered on the moon: reptilians, bases, buildings, machines for mineral exploration and much more.
Lunar Anomaly.
Now, once again, an out of the place lunar anomaly has been discovered by Streetcap1 in one of NASA’s Unmanned Lunar Orbiter photographs taken last year around December.
According to Streetcap1 the shadow seems to indicate right angles and parallel lines which could be an indication that the anomaly is some sort of building. The scale is 0.56 meters/pixel. So it's huge.
So if the landings were staged to cover-up what they really encountered on the moon then could it be possible that the discovery of the lunar anomaly is such a building, a construction built by an intelligent alien race in the past?
Obviously, it cannot be proven whether the lunar anomaly is a building or not but we may wonder whether the moon landings indeed were staged if you listen to the interview that Project Camelot had with Fred, a 90 year old former technical inspector in Aviation working for an Airline back in the 60's. During the interview Fred recalls how he stumbled on a hangar in Michigan that appeared to be at least one staging hangar for the faked part of the Apollo Moon Landings, see second video.
If I heard a young person say this, my first thought would be that they’re on the football team and the “Science of Daydreaming” classes were full. However, if the young person showed an acceptance letter from Akdeniz University in Turkey, they’re telling the truth and their parents are in for a big surprise.
Ufology? Only if there’s no term papers.
Erhan Kolbaşı told the Doğan News Agency that he offering the class because he wants students to be prepared for contact with extraterrestrials, including knowing the ins and outs of alien politics and galactic diplomacy. It’s nice that he’s preparing these young minds for diplomacy rather than warfare, even though he sees this contact leading to the “biggest change seen in the history of the world.”
What qualifies Erhan Kolbaşı to teach this program? He’s the deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Centerin Istanbul, which was founded by ufologist Haktan Akdoğan, who is also the founder of the Istanbul UFO Museum and will help provide background material for the courses. According to the Doğan News Agency, the course is supposed to train students on the methodology and potential sources for finding UFO and ET information.
“We believe representatives from the world and extraterrestrial civilizations will soon be making official contact with each other. We think they will be in an open and mass contact.”
Kolbaşı says he expects this “open and mass contact” to occur “within 10 or 15 years,” which appears to be a strange prediction since he and Akdoğan both seem to concur that alien contact has already occurred numerous times and will be providing the ufology students with information on cover-ups and secret files.
Those cover-ups include their beliefs that aliens and crashed UFOs have provided humans with advanced technologies (at least at the time they were found) like fiber optic cables, microchips, night vision glasses and bullet-proof clothing. Details on this information alone would be worth the price of tuition (no tuition costs were given but Akdeniz University is a major college with 31,000 students, so it’s probably comparable to major public colleges in the U.S.) but Kolbaşı also hints that he may not be able to spill all of the secret beans because of MJ-12 or Majestic 12, the alleged secret committee formed by President Harry Truman in 1947 to investigate and collect data on aliens and UFOs, and later to suppress any information on the data.
Do you think this will be on the test?
Would you take a class like this if it were offered at one of your local colleges? Even if you weren’t on a football scholarship? Does that guy sitting next to you look like Tom DeLonge? Would you be concerned that the person following you back to the dorm wasn’t a creepy freshman but an MJ-12 agent or a Man in Black?
Just to be on the safe side, you may want to purposely fail the class.
If you still think all the warnings about the impending robot and artificial intelligence uprising are just paranoia, you’re not paying enough attention. Robots and machine learning networks have been steadily creeping into our lives for years. From manufacturing to self-checkout kiosks at grocery stores to self-driving taxis or long-haul trucks, robots are beginning to perform many tasks that were once the responsibility of humans. That’s not all though – robots and AI are also researching case law for legal firms, analyzing medical data in hospitals, and winning poker tournaments. What’s next?
We all know what’s next.
According to recent developments, they’ll be invading our bedrooms next, that’s what. And no, not just for that (although according to most reports, they’re pretty good at it). Robots and artificial intelligence are now beginning to revolutionize the most important activity we engage in while in bed: sleeping. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, yet millions of individuals worldwide suffer from various sleep disorders. Why not let a cold, emotionless robot crawl in bed next to soothe you to sleep with its simulated breathing? What could go wrong?
With a few added features, Somnox could be a one-stop bedroom bot.
A Netherlands-based robotics laboratory has released what they’re calling the “world’s first sleep robot,” called Somnox. Somnox is essentially a bean-shaped stuffed animal with an internal robotic skeleton wrapped in mattress foam that can expand and contract similar to the way living things do as they breathe. The shape of the robot encourages users to spoon and cuddle the faceless monstrosity, which then ‘breathes’ at a soothing rhythm and speed to help “soothe body and mind, helping you feel more relaxed and energized.” The robot can also play a variety of sounds and music, and has a companion mobile app for data collection and control of sleep-inducing audio or music.
Speaking of which, another laboratory has used artificial intelligence to compose the world’s most effective lullaby. Artificial intelligence firm Jukedeck have developed a neural network capable of analyzing human-created lullabies in order to find the most effective aspects of each. Ed Newton-Rex, the founder and CEO of Jukedeck, says AI can detect the somewhat ‘hidden’ patterns revealed by the types of large-scale musical data analyses of which AI is capable:
An artificial neural network is essentially a representation of the neurons and synapses in the human brain – and, like the brain, if you show one of these networks lots of complex data, it does a great job of finding hidden patterns in that data. We showed our networks a large body of sheet music, and, through training, it reached the point where it could take a short sequence of notes as input and predict which notes were likely to follow.
Using this analysis, Jukedeck and partner AXA PPP healthcare of Kent, England have created an AI lullaby claimed to be one of the most effective lullabies for inducing sleep:
Sure, it’s soothing I guess, but I can’t help but feeling like the overall impression is a bit sterile; it sounds like what you would expect a computer generated melody to sound like. Computers are getting close to being able to produce compelling and moving art, but they’re not quite there yet. It’s only a matter of time, though, before human-generated art has to compete alongside AI-generated art which can take full advantage of human emotional responses much better than humans can.
Would the addition of a cute face help users get over the creep factor of hugging a robot while you sleep?
Will individuals seeking a better night’s sleep take to cuddling robots and listening to AI music? If so, why not build these features into a human-shaped robot? Why not add a personality simulator and artificial intelligence to help it learn your sleep habits better? See where this is going? Somnox might be a cute little cuddle machine, but it’s still a machine. Who knows what kind of doors the adoption of such a robot could open? I know one thing: I’m sewing googly eyes on mine. His name will be Chopstick.
Bacteria express a green fluorescent protein that’s produced from DNA instructions with unnatural chemical “letters” added. (Scripps Research Institute Photo / Bill Klosses)
Researchers have reached a new milestone in their effort to expand the genetic alphabet of life by designing a strain of E. coli bacteria that creates proteins unlike anything cells can produce naturally.
The technique, detailed in a paper published today in the journal Nature, could lead to the production of totally new types of protein-based medicines, plastics and biofuels.
It could also stretch the definition of natural vs. artificial life.
“I would not call this a new lifeform — but it’s the closest thing anyone has ever made,” study leader Floyd Romesberg, a biochemist at the Scripps Research Institute, said in a news release. “This is the first time ever a cell has translated a protein using something other than G, C, A or T.”
Those four letters stand for guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine, chemicals that serve as the alphabet for the coded instructions in DNA molecules. The instructions are used to produce all the amino acids and proteins that cells require for life’s processes.
Three years ago, Romesberg and his colleagues successfully inserted two other chemicals, dubbed X and Y, into DNA molecules. Since then, the researchers have developed ways for bacteria to store the augmented DNA and pass it along as they reproduced.
In their newly published paper, the team reports that the six-letter DNA coding could be transcribed into RNA molecules, and then translated into amino acids and proteins that don’t occur naturally.
The technique was used to customize a set of genetic instructions for manufacturing a variant of green fluorescent protein, or GFP, that incorporated unnatural amino acids. When E. coli bacteria were genetically engineered to include those instructions, the organisms produced the protein, which glowed bright green under ultraviolet light. That signaled that the bacteria could make use of the “alien” DNA.
“This was the smallest possible change we could make to the way life works — but it is the first ever,” Romesberg said.
The study also demonstrated that life’s molecular machinery could make use of linkages other than the hydrogen bonds that bind G, C, A and T. The X and Y bases were designed to avoid hydrogen bonds, to make sure they didn’t get mixed up with the other molecular letters.
That has implications in the search for “weird life” beyond the earthly variety we all know and love.
“It’s very hard to ask questions about the origins of life. It’s hard to ask questions about why we are the way we are, why we are built the way we are, because we have nothing out there to compare ourselves to,” Romesberg said. “We’ve now given the field a comparison. It’s a small step, but it’s the first successful step.”
He and his colleagues emphasized that the semi-synthetic organisms couldn’t live or reproduce outside the lab, because the chemicals required for producing the X and Y bases had to be provided externally.
Romesberg is among the founders of a biotech venture called Synthorx, which is developing protein therapeutics that make use of X and Y.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released a virtual reality tour of the City of Wisdom, their vision of humanity's first settlement on Mars. The UAE has announced they intend to establish the first colony on the red planet by 2117.
You’ve reached Mars, and the first stop on your tour of the Red Planet is a small hangar, done up in chrome and brown and rust. Here, you are welcomed by a holographic emissary before departing in your hovering spherical craft: “On behalf of the United Government of Mars, I would like to welcome you to your second home.”
Outside, massive, insectile robot excavators pound away at the dusty red-brown soil to form roads and dig the foundations of new buildings. In no time, a red dome appears on the horizon: the City of Wisdom, humanity’s first settlement on Mars. Complete with laboratories, a University, green spaces, flowing architecture, and 600,000 permanent residents, this is Mars 2117 — the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) vision for the future of our nearest planetary neighbor — and you can explore it yourself in full virtual reality.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, announced earlier this year that the Emirates would lead an effort to establish the first international settlement on Mars by 2117. The country plans to work with scientists from around the globe to develop technology that makes traveling to and living on Mars possible. In September, the Dubai Media Office announced their plan to build a simulated Mars colony in the Emirati desert to develop the food, energy, and water systems that could support future settlers of the Red Planet.
SpaceX's Big Mars Rocket Could Help Chase Down Interstellar Asteroid
SpaceX's Big Mars Rocket Could Help Chase Down Interstellar Asteroid
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar asteroid.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
There may be yet another future use for SpaceX's huge Mars-colonization rocket.
That rocket, called the BFR, could launch a probe toward 'Oumuamua, the interstellar asteroid that zoomed past Earth last month, a new study suggests.
The 1,300-foot-long (400 meters) 'Oumuamua is currently speeding away from us at about 58,160 mph (93,600 km/h, or 26 km/s). That's far faster than any spacecraft has ever traveled upon escaping Earth (though some have gone faster as they approached big bodies, such as the sun). But a mission employing the in-development BFR, with speed-boosting flybys of Jupiter and the sun, could theoretically chase 'Oumuamua down, the study said. ['Oumuamua: An Interstellar Visitor Explained in Photos]
This potential architecture is based on concepts drawn up by researchers at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), both of which are in Pasadena, California, the study's authors noted.
"The KISS Interstellar Medium study computed that a hyperbolic excess velocity of 70 km/s was possible via this technique, a value which achieves an intercept at about 85 AU in 2039 for a 2025 launch," the authors wrote in the study, one version of which was published on the site Centauri Dreams. (AU is short for "astronomical unit," the distance from Earth to the sun, which is about 93 million miles, or 150 million km. And "hyperbolic excess velocity" just refers to the spacecraft's speed.)
"More-modest figures can still fulfill the mission, such as 40 km/s with an intercept at 155 AU in 2051," the authors added. "With the high approach speed, a hyper-velocity impactor to produce a gas 'puff' to sample with a mass spectrometer could be the serious option to get in-situ data."
Such a mission would really round out the reusable BFR's portfolio. SpaceX already envisions using the giant rocket — along with its paired spaceship — for all manner of tasks, including launching satellites, carrying people on superfast point-to-point journeys around the globe and cleaning up space junk.
But the BFR is not the only option for an 'Oumuamua mission, the study authors wrote. Tiny, laser-propelled sail craft, like the ones the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot project aims to launch to other star systems, could do the job as well. (But a 2025 launch date for a sail-craft swarm is unrealistic; the Starshot team has estimated the probes may be ready for prime time in 20 years or so if everything goes well.)
"An important result of our analysis is that the value of a laser-beaming infrastructure from the Breakthrough Initiatives' Project Starshot would be the flexibility to react quickly to future unexpected events, such as sending a swarm of probes to the next object like 1I/'Oumuamua," the new study said. (The "1I" in front of 'Oumuamua references the object's official scientific designation: 1I/2017 U1.)
"With such an infrastructure in place today, intercept missions could have reached 1I/'Oumuamua within a year," they added.
Even if an 'Oumuamua mission never comes to pass, astronomers could still get an up-close look at a visitor from another solar system in the not-too-distant future: Such interstellar interlopers may zoom through the inner solar system as often as every year or so, scientists have said. (But spotting them appears to be a tall order, given that 'Oumuamua is the first one we've ever identified.)
The new study was conducted by researchers with Project Lyra, which aims to assess the feasibility of a mission to rendezvous with or fly by 'Oumuamua. You can read the short version of the study on Centauri Dreams or the more detailed one on the online preprint site arXiv.org.
Little Green Men? Pulsars Presented a Mystery 50 Years Ago
Little Green Men? Pulsars Presented a Mystery 50 Years Ago
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer
Fifty years ago this month, a small group of astronomers made a revolutionary cosmic discovery — explaining a phenomenon that they initially thought might come from an intelligent alien civilization.
In November 1967, Jocelyn Bell (now Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell), a graduate student at Cambridge University in England, made what turned out to be the first detection of a pulsar — an incredibly dense ball of material formed when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses in on itself. In the time since the discovery of pulsars, the objects have provided insight about the life cycle of stars and extreme states of matter, and provided evidence that supports Albert Einstein's theory of gravity. There are currently efforts underway to use pulsars to detect gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of the universe, and another to use pulsars as part of a space-based navigation system.
Pulsars spin rapidly, while simultaneously radiating opposing beams of radio waves out into space. The setup is similar to a lighthouse that spins around one up-and-down axis and radiates two beams of light from a second axis. To ships on the water, the steady beams looks like a light pulsing on and off. The same is true for pulsars; if one of the beams happens to sweep across the Earth, it appears to astronomers as though the object is blinking or pulsing. [What Are Pulsars?]
Bell Burnell was studying objects using a radio telescope she helped build at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, outside Cambridge, under the supervision of her advisor, Antony Hewish, who designed the instrument. The telescope was intended to help study the radio cosmos using a technique called interplanetary scintillation. Hewish intended to use this method on objects called quasars, or incredibly bright centers of massive galaxies, illuminated by material swirling around monster black holes. Quasars vary in brightness, and Hewish thought the interplanetary scintillation technique was appropriate for identifying those changes.
"We were looking far beyond [what could be seen with] optical telescopes," Hewish told the BBC of the radio astronomy he and his colleagues were doing then. "You felt very privileged actually. It was like opening a new window onto the universe, and you were the first people to have a look out through and see what was there."
Most known neutron stars are observed as pulsars, emitting narrow, sweeping beams of radiation. They squeeze up to two solar masses into a city-size volume, crushing matter to the highest possible stable densities.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Bell Burnell was in charge of operating the telescope and analyzing the data, according to an article she wrote for Cosmic Search Magazine in the 1970s. Using this technique, Bell Burnell spotted an object that appeared to be flickering every 1.3 seconds; this pattern repeated for days on end. The object didn't match the profile of a quasar. The signal conflicted with the generally chaotic nature of most cosmic phenomenon, the researchers would later explain. In addition, the light was of a very specific radio frequency, whereas most natural sources typically radiate across a wider range.
For those reasons, Bell Burnell, Hewish and some other members of the astronomy department had to acknowledge that they might have found an artificially created signal — something emitted by an intelligence species. Burnell even labeled the first pulsar LGM1, which stood for "little green men 1."
A second discovery
Bell Burnell would later report that Hewitt called a meeting without her, in which he discussed with other members of the department how they should handle presenting their results to the world. While their fellow scientists might practice restraint and skepticism, it was likely that the possible detection of an intelligent alien civilization could create chaos among the public, the scientists said. The press would very likely blow the story out of proportion and descend on the Cambridge researchers. According to Hewitt, one person even suggested (perhaps only partly joking) that they burn their data and forget the whole thing.
Years later, Burnell wrote that she was rather annoyed at the appearance of the strange signal for another reason. As a graduate student, she was trying to get her thesis work done before her funding ran out, but work on the pulsar was taking away from her primary pursuit.
"Here I trying to get a Ph.D. out of a new technique, and some silly lot of little green men had to choose my aerial and my frequency to communicate with us," she wrote in the article for Cosmic Search Magazine.
Pulsars are fast-spinning and highly magnetized stars. See how they work here.
Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics artist
But then, Bell Burnell resolved the problem. She went back through some of the data from the radio array and found what looked like a similar, regularly repeating signal, this one coming from an entirely different part of the galaxy. That second signal indicated that this was a family of objects, rather than a single civilization trying to make contact.
"It finally scotched the little green men hypothesis," Bell Burnell said in the a BBC documentary filmed in 2010. "Because it's highly unlikely there's two lots of little green men, on opposite sides of the universe, both deciding to signal to a rather inconspicuous planet, Earth, at the same time, using a daft technique and a rather commonplace frequency."
"It had to be some new kind of star, not seen before," she said. "And that then cleared the way for us publishing, going public."
In 1974, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Hewish, along with radio astronomer Martin Ryle, "for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture-synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars." The omission of Bell Burnell's name as a contributor to the pulsar discovery has stirred controversy among scientists and members of the public, though Bell Burnell has not publicly contested the Nobel committee's decision.
Experts reveal the best-kept secret of the mysterious Easter Island Civilization
Experts reveal the best-kept secret of the mysterious Easter Island Civilization
A team of anthropologists came to the conclusion that the inhabitants of the remote Easter Island, the Rapanui, had no contact with the outside world until the arrival of the Europeans on the island in 1722.
The results of the study were published in the specialized journal Current Biology.
The study also points out that if there were cultural contacts between the Rapanui and the South American native peoples, “there is no trace of them” in their genes.
During the experiment, the researchers analyzed the DNA sequences extracted from the remains that are conserved of five individuals, three of which date from the XIV-XV centuries and the other two from people born between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Each bone fragment provided the researchers with about 200 milligrams of genetic material.
According to the person in charge of the study, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, of the University of California in Santa Cruz (USA), the scientists were “really surprised” by this discovery.
“Our information suggests that the American Indian heritage present today in the people of Easter Island was not present on the island before contact with Europeans and therefore may be due to more recent events in history,” said professor Fehren-Schmitz.
He stressed that “we were convinced that we would find direct evidence of a pre-European contact with South America, but we did not”.
The famous Moai Statues.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
According to Fehren-Schmitz, this discovery sheds light on the evolution and human genetic diversity.
However, scientists could not determine when the first contact that altered the genome of modern Pascuenses occurred.
At present, the DNA of the inhabitants of the island shows between 6% and 8% of genetic material coming from indigenous people.
For this reason, the researcher stressed that his team plans to continue studying in this direction to determine more precisely how and when this gene entry from the continent occurred and from where it originated.
“The dynamics of the population of these regions is fascinating, we need to study the ancient populations of other islands, if they exist,” he said.
He also added that slavery, whaling and mass deportations are activities that could explain this genetic fingerprint.
It is estimated that the Rapanui arrived on Easter Island – located more than 2,000 kilometers from the nearest inhabited island – in the second century of our era.
Some anthropologists believe that this civilization – the creator of the massive Moai statues, which are the main tourist attraction on the island – is more related to pre-Columbian peoples than to inhabitants of other islands in the region.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
More than 900 moai statues sculpted by the ancient rapa Nui are distributed throughout the island.
Most of them were carved from the Rano Raraku volcanic cone, where more than 400 moai remain in different phases of construction.
The historical data of the entire development of the various construction techniques was developed on the island between 700 AD and 1600 AD.
Everything indicates that the quarry was suddenly abandoned and half-carved statues were left in the rock.
Astronomers used an instrument called MUSE to conduct the deepest-ever spectroscopic survey. The result was a bonanza of new knowledge.
Here’s the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, as observed with the MUSE instrument installed at the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile. MUSE data provide a rainbow-like spectrum for each pixel in this picture. Image via ESO/ MUSE HUDF collaboration.
Sometimes, astronomy is about surveying widely to get the big picture. And sometimes it’s about looking more and more deeply. First released in 2004, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is clearly about going deep. It’s a composite image of a tiny region of space, located in the direction of the southern constellation Fornax, made from Hubble Space Telescope data gathered over several months. There are an estimated 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which exist as far back in time as 13 billion years ago (between 400 and 800 million years after the Big Bang). Being able to see galaxies so near the beginning of our universe has been a fantastic tool for understanding how the universe has evolved. And now – thanks to an instrument called MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer), astronomers have been able to eke out yet more information – a veritable bonanza of information – from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Their work is being published today (November 29, 2017) in a series of 10 papers in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
MUSE does more than just see the galaxies. It also splits their light into its component colors, using a technique that astronomers call spectroscopy. In the image above, a team of astronomers led by Roland Bacon of the Centre de recherche astrophysique de Lyon, France, used MUSE to obtain a rainbow-like spectrum for each pixel in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
… the deepest spectroscopic observations ever made.
They obtained spectra for 1,600 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. That’s 10 times as many galaxies as has been painstakingly obtained in this field over the last decade by ground-based telescopes. Roland Bacon said:
MUSE can do something that Hubble can’t — it splits up the light from every point in the image into its component colours to create a spectrum. This allows us to measure the distance, colors and other properties of all the galaxies we can see — including some that are invisible to Hubble itself.
Jarle Brinchmann, lead author of one of the papers describing results from this survey, from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at CAUP in Porto, Portugal, commented:
MUSE has the unique ability to extract information about some of the earliest galaxies in the universe — even in a part of the sky that is already very well studied. We learn things about these galaxies that is only possible with spectroscopy, such as chemical content and internal motions — not galaxy by galaxy but all at once for all the galaxies!
Among other results, MUSE revealed 72 galaxies never seen before in this very tiny area of the sky. These galaxies wouldn’t have been obvious to Hubble. They’re members of a perplexing group of galaxies known as Lyman-alpha emitters. They shine only in Lyman-alpha light (produced when electrons in hydrogen atoms drop from the second-lowest to the lowest energy level). These objects become noticeable in MUSE data because MUSE disperses the light into its component colors. Meanwhile, in direct images such as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, these galaxies remain invisible. Why do these galaxies shine in this peculiar way? Astronomers don’t fully know.
The work also revealed luminous hydrogen halos around galaxies in the early universe. The astronomers said this discovery offers:
… a new and promising way to study how material flows in and out of early galaxies.
Other potential applications of this dataset are explored in the series of papers, including a study of the role of faint galaxies during cosmic reionization (starting just 380,000 years after the Big Bang), galaxy merger rates when the universe was young, galactic winds, star formation and the mapping the motions of stars in the early universe.
Roland Bacon pointed out that the data for all of this work were obtained prior to an upgrade to MUSE’s Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF). He said:
The activation of the AOF after a decade of intensive work by ESO’s astronomers and engineers promises yet more revolutionary data in the future.
From MUSE’s website: “Looking like a machine straight out of the movie The Matrix, with its Medusa-like hoses and connections, MUSE is the latest of the 2nd-generation instruments to be installed on Yepun (UT4), the fourth Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory.”
Bottom line: Astronomers used an instrument called MUSE to peer toward the area of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and to conduct the deepest-ever spectroscopic survey. The result? A bonanza of new knowledge!
Le SETI se demande si l'astéroïde 'Oumuamua ne serait pas un appareil extra-terrestre
Le SETI se demande si l'astéroïde 'Oumuamua ne serait pas un appareil extra-terrestre
L’institut scientifique SETI, qui recherche l’existence de formes de vie extra-terrestres, a tourné ses téléscopes vers ‘Oumuamua, l’étrange astéroïde de forme allongée venant d’en-dehors de notre système solaire.
‘Oumuamua est le premier astéroïde interstellaire jamais observé. Rien que pour cela, ce dernier suscite déjà l’intérêt des chercheurs du monde entier. Mais en plus, l’étrange objet céleste découvert en octobre par une équipe d’astronomes hawaïens (d’où son nom qui signifie « messager ») a une forme allongée très peu commune, un peu comme un cigare.
Il n’en fallait pas plus pour que des journalistes et des fans de science fiction se mettent à le comparer à l’astéroïde Rama, du roman d’Arthur Clarke Rendez-vous avec Rama. En même temps, il faut bien avouer qu’il y a quelques similitudes. Dans cet ouvrage, Rama s’avère être un vestige de vaisseau extra-terrestre.
Le SETI sur le coup
Les fans de science-fiction seront donc heureux d’apprendre que l’institut SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence = Recherche d’une Intelligence Extra-terrestre, en français) écoute actuellement l’astéroïde avec ses puissants radiotélescopes ATA et GBT pour voir si des signaux ne s’en échapperaient pas, juste au cas où. L’information nous vient du physicien James Benford. Ce dernier explique dans un article avoir discuté avec Jill Tarter et Andrew Siemion, deux membres du SETI qui lui ont confirmés ces observations.
Le physicien explique dans son article que si l'on exclut les explications les plus probables, il reste la possibilité qu’il s’agisse d’une sonde extra-terrestre. Celle-ci pourrait ainsi avoir pour but de collecter des données sur notre système solaire avant d’en rejoindre un autre. Benford ajoute que vu le nombre de satellites en orbite autour de la Terre, une telle sonde capterait facilement nos ondes. Il s’agit donc voir si la sonde potentielle n'envoie pas de signaux en réponse.
Bien sûr, il n’y a quasiment aucune chance que l’astéroïde soit réellement un appareil extra-terrestre. D’ailleurs Karen Meech, en charge de l’équipe hawaïenne qui a découvert l’astéroïde, disait il y a deux jours au New York Times que les observations menées jusqu’à maintenant tendent à démontrer qu’il s’agit bien d’un objet naturel, mais on peut toujours rêver.
MIT researchers design forest domes for Mars colonists
MIT researchers design forest domes for Mars colonists
A multidisciplinary MIT project promises to offer Mars colonists safe, sustainable, efficient, and comfortable housing. The project won the Mars City Design competition which focuses on creating sustainable habitats for Mars colonists.
The MIT team won first place for urban design with the Redwood Forest, a series of woodsy habitats enclosed in open, public domes that would reside on the Martian surface.
Image credits: Valentina Sumini.
The domes can house as many as 50 people, offering them not only a place to sleep but also open space with plants and water coming from Mars’ Northern Plains. Everything will be built upon a network of underground tunnels called roots, which not only connect different domes but also protect colonizers from cosmic radiation, extreme thermal changes, or micrometeorite impacts.
In total, the domes could host a city of 10,000 colonists. The city will “physically and functionally mimic a forest,” as every dome will manage solar energy and water in a tree-like fashion.
“Every tree habitat in Redwood Forest will collect energy from the sun and use it to process and transport the water throughout the tree, and every tree is designed as a water-rich environment. Water fills the soft cells inside the dome providing protection from radiation, helps manage heat loads, and supplies hydroponic farms for growing fish and greens,” says MIT doctoral student George Lordos, who was also involved with the project.
Redwood Forest is filled with domes, or what the team calls tree habitats.
Credits: Valentina Sumini.
MIT postdoc Valentina Sumini was the leader of the project. She says that the aim of the project isn’t only to build a functional and sustainable environment, but also one that would be comfortable.
“On Mars, our city will physically and functionally mimic a forest, using local Martian resources such as ice and water, regolith (or soil), and sun to support life. Designing a forest also symbolizes the potential for outward growth as nature spreads across the Martian landscape. Each tree habitat incorporates a branching structural system and an inflated membrane enclosure, anchored by tunneling roots. The design of a habitat can be generated using a computational form-finding and structural optimization workflow developed by the team. The design workflow is parametric, which means that each habitat is unique and contributes to a diverse forest of urban spaces.”
That last part means that similar designs and approaches could also be used for other purposes, including here on Earth. For instance, the tree habitat design could create comfortable working spaces in harsh environments such as the Arctic, barren deserts, or the seafloor. The underground network system could provide easy local transport for electric vehicles, while hydroponic gardening beneath cities could provide fresh fish, fruits, and vegetables with lower land and transportation costs, an idea which is already picking up steam in many cities of the world.
Just a few years from now, NASA expects to land a new rover mission on the red planet. The Mars 2020 mission will feature a rover which is very similar in terms of specs and appearance to its predecessor, the Curiosity rover. There will be some marked improvements, however, that will make landing the rover safer but also enhance its alien-life-hunting features, which is the mission’s main objective.
Artist impression of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Landing a 2,000-pound science experiment on wheels more than 55 million miles away is quite the achievement in itself. In a maneuver that had never been tried before on another planet, a rocket-powered sky crane lowered Curiosity to the Martian surface on cables, then flew off and crash-landed intentionally a safe distance away.
Since it first touched down on Martian soil in 2012, Curiosity has provided researchers with a trove of data and new science. Thanks to Curiosity, we now have a far clearer and accurate image of the Martian environment including its radiation levels, geology, soil chemical composition, and much more. It has beamed back high-resolution photos of ancient streambeds and drilled martian rocks on site, around Mars’ 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater. Here, the rover found evidence that a nearby area known as Yellowknife Bay was part of a lake that could have supported microbial life.
Big wheels to fill
The upcoming Mars 2020 mission aims to further Curiosity’s legacy. Much of it will be, in fact, based on Curiosity, with about 85 percent of the new rover’s mass being based on “heritage hardware” — system designs and spare hardware employed by Curiosity.
“The fact that so much of the hardware has already been designed—or even already exists—is a major advantage for this mission,” said Jim Watzin, director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. “It saves us money, time and most of all, reduces risk.”
Of course, there will also be new cutting-edge tech onboard, like instruments designed to identify biosignatures on a microbial scale. A ground-penetrating radar will now be able to ‘see’ under the surface of Mars, mapping layers of rock, water, and ice up to 10 meters (30 feet) deep. The rover will also feature new imaging equipment including color cameras and a zoom lens. To top things off, a laser will vaporize rocks and soil to analyze their chemistry.
“Our next instruments will build on the success of MSL, which was a proving ground for new technology,” said George Tahu, NASA’s Mars 2020 program executive. “These will gather science data in ways that weren’t possible before.”
For the mission, NASA plans to drill at least 20 rock cores, possibly up to 40, and return them to Earth. These samples might help answer one of the most important questions on scientists’ minds right now: Are we alone in the Universe?
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is also working on new landing tech, like terrain-relative navigation. As the descent stage carrying the 2020 rover approaches the Marian surface, instruments will compare what they ‘see’ with pre-loaded terrain maps such that the rover is guided to its landing site as safely as possible. Another related tech called the range trigger uses location and velocity to determine the optimal time to fire the spacecraft’s parachute.
“Terrain-relative navigation enables us to go to sites that were ruled too risky for Curiosity to explore,” said Al Chen of JPL, the Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead. “The range trigger lets us land closer to areas of scientific interest, shaving miles—potentially as much as a year—off a rover’s journey.”
We don’t exactly where Mars 2020 will land but we will likely soon find out by the end of next year. In February, the potential drop sites were narrowed down from eight to three: an ancient lakebed called Jezero Crater; Northeast Syrtis, where warm waters may have chemically interacted with subsurface rocks; and possible hot springs at Columbia Hills. All of these sites are varied and very different from Gale Crater, but they all have great potential for finding signs of past or present alien life.
“In the coming years, the 2020 science team will be weighing the advantages and disadvantages of each of these sites,” Farley said. “It is by far the most important decision we have ahead of us.”
One of the most advanced and mysterious ancient peoples, the Indus River Valley civilization, was completely lost to history until the 1920s.
The ruins of Mohenjo daro (“Hill of the Dead”), one of the jewels of the Indus Valley Civilization and the ancient world.
Some five millennia ago, a people settling the lands between today’s Afganistan, northwest India, and Pakistan rose to the forefront of civilization, knowledge, and sophistication at the time. The echoes of their achievements still awe us to this day, showing a level of civilization almost unimaginable for a people that had, ultimately, risen directly from the Stone Age.
But this beacon of antiquity crumbled and was forgotten, likely under the weight of issues that fall worryingly close to those of today: food and water insecurity powered by climate change.
The Indus River Valley civilization, also known as the Harappan civilization after the first site of their discovery, is a Bronze Age culture that spanned roughly from 3300 to 1300 BC. It stood toe to toe with the three other ancient heavyweights of the world — Egypt, Mesopotamia, and ancient China — often surpassing their scientific achievements; out of the four ancient cradles of civilization, the people of the Indus Valley could claim to be the largest and arguably most prosperous.
Their success was built on a solid agricultural base (they grew various crops, from dates to cotton) and cutting-edge technologies, including indoor plumbing, sophisticated city-planning and public sewage systems, breakthroughs in crafting techniques, writing, and one of the most advanced understandings of metallurgy at the time. They also seem to have been a peaceful people; despite their skill with metal, we’ve found strikingly few Harappan weapons. Not the same thing can be said about their children’s toys, however, of which they seemingly couldn’t get enough of, both in quantity and variety.
The Harappans are one of the most mysterious groups to, tragically, never truly ma ke it out of antiquity. Despite its status as an economic, technological, and social powerhouse, the Harappan civilization simply fell apart in a span of two or three centuries. The reasons as to why this happened are still a subject of passionate debate and they may be more relevant now than ever before.
2. Discovery
The Ten Indus Scripts, discovered near the northern gateway of the Dholavira citadel in India.
Image via Wikipedia.
In 1856, British colonial officials in India were busy overseeing railway construction efforts between the cities of Lahore and Karachi (today part of Pakistan), right along the valley of the Indus River. Digs performed as part of this building effort stumbled upon an incredible stash of artifacts — hundreds of thousands of fire-baked bricks, buried in the dry terrain. They looked quite old, but some were nevertheless used for the railway’s track ballast or its roadbed. Soon, exquisitely-carved soapstone (steatite) artifacts were also making an appearance throughout the bricks. Unwittingly, these workers had unearthed the first slivers of a civilization lost in the depths of time.
Despite the sheer size of the discovery, major excavations didn’t start until much later. This is quite vexing, as the first recorded notes regarding the civilization come from 1826, penned by a British army deserter named James Lewis/Charles Masson, who noticed the presence of mounded ruins at a small local town called Harappa while posing as an American engineer. Partly, this lag came down to archaeologists assuming the bricks and ruins were crafted during the Maurya Empire, which dominated India between 322 and 185 BCE. It was only after excavation works started at the site in 1920 under John Marshall, then the director of the Archaeological Survey of India, that it became clear they were dealing with another culture altogether.
The newly re-discovered civilization would receive its name from this site at Harappa, and pushed the known history of India back by at least 1500 years. In the meantime, archaeologists have scrambled to understand the Indus River Valley civilization — but we’ve been able to confirm frustratingly little from all we’ve found.
3. Size and origin
The Harappans at their peak. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
The Harappans seem to hail from a town named Mehgarh, nestled in the foothills of a mountain pass in today’s western Pakistan. Evidence points to human habitation in the area as far back as 7000 BC. Archaeologists have broken their evolution down into three steps or phases:
Early Harappan from 3300 to 2600 BC,
Mature Harappan from 2600 to 1900 BC, towards the end of which the civilization starts going into decline, and
Late Harappan from 1900 to 1300 BC, marked by violence, breakdowns in social order, the abandonment of most settlements, and the eventual extinction of the Indus Valley people.
But when things were going well for the Harappans, they were really good. So far, more than 1,052 Harappan cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus River and its tributary rivers. At their peak, they are estimated to have numbered five million souls.
4. Culture, language, and beliefs
One of the reasons why we can’t figure the Harappans out that well is their writing. We know they had a kind of writing, because we found some of their texts, etched on clay and stone tablets dated between 3300-3200 BC, at Harappa. They appear to have been written right to left in a script which we, unfortunately, don’t understand. The symbols resemble plant and trident-like shapes and are completely unlike anything we’ve ever seen. This has led many researchers to believe that Harappan script evolved independently of those in Mesopotamia, Egypt, or China.
It also means that we don’t actually know any Harappan names, the name of their cities, or what they called themselves. We refer to them by names we ourselves have given them — just something to keep in mind as you read further on.
Samples of Indus script. Image via omniglot.
In the absence of any known names or words, without any bi-lingual texts or clear cultural ties to compare or infer from, it’s nigh-impossible to understand the script of a dead language. But it does have the hallmarks of a language, researchers have found, a conclusion that is sure to goad curiosity further.
“At this point, we can say that the Indus script seems to have statistical regularities that are in line with natural languages,” said Rajesh Rao, a University of Washington researcher who led a study in 2009 analyzing if Indus script shows ‘conditional entropy’, a structural semi-predictability that underlies functional languages.
Indus Valley religion also eludes our understanding. Unlike their Egyptian and Mesopotamian counterparts, the Harappans didn’t build any temples or palaces (that we know of), so we don’t have any evidence pointing to specific deities or their religious practices. However, many of their artifacts (in the form of seals) showcase animals. Some depict them being carried in a ceremony, while others include downright mythological creatures such as unicorns. Thus, some researchers have speculated that religion in the Indus Valley centered, in some way, on animals. Others have suggested that the animals on these seals instead signified one’s membership to a group such as a clan, social class, so forth. Until more evidence is gleaned, neither can be fully supported or refuted.
We have, however, found ample evidence of Harappan art and culture, including sculptures, seals, pottery, gold jewelry, as well as anatomically detailed figurines in terracotta, bronze, and steatite.
Left: Indus priest or king statue. The statue is 17.5 cm high and carved from steatite. It was found in Mohenjo-daro in 1927. Right: A collection of Indus valley seals with their molds. Images via Wikimedia, modified.
The evidence points to a flourishing culture, but the lack of writing in particular spells doom for our efforts to understand how these people ruled themselves — legal codes, procedures, and systems of governance, after all, are rooted in written documents. This, again, is especially frustrating, as we’re going to see that the Harappans were extremely adept at ordering and coordinating their society, for the benefits of all those it harbored.
5. Science and know-how
One of the most striking features of Harrapan society was their propensity for standardization. Pottery and seals use surprisingly similar proportions. Bricks are virtually identical in size, shape, weight, and material, even among different cities. Weighs used in trading are also virtually identical. The level of standardization is so high, in fact, that some researchers claim it could only be the product of a single state authority enforcing them on all communities in the area. However, the pointed scarcity of weapons makes it more likely that the Indus Valley people were led by a number of leaders representing each major community or cluster of communities, all working together voluntarily. This view is supported by studies on Indus graves and human remains that show everyone enjoyed similar health and a relative scarcity of elite burials — suggesting they had no rulers, as we understand the term, and that everyone enjoyed equal status.
Remains of a washroom drainage system in Lothal. Notice the quality bricks, millennia old, used for its construction. Image via Wikimedia.
While most of the Harappan settlements were only villages or small towns, the civilization had several large urban centers. Among those we’ve found are Harappa, Ganeriwala, and Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, Rupar, and Lothal in modern-day India. Out of the lot, Mohenjo-daro became the largest city of the Indus Valley Civilization and holds the multiple distinctions of being one of the world’s first major urban centers, as well as, at the time, one of the most sophisticated cities in the world and a global architectonical and engineering masterpiece.
The Harappan fire-baked brick was produced and used on a massive scale in construction. Not only were they surprisingly standardized, as we’ve seen, but they’re also strikingly advanced for the time (with sun-baked bricks being the norm).
The ruins of their major cities show that a lot of effort went into urban planning. Houses, workshops, and trading spots each formed distinct neighborhoods, and cities had well-organized wastewater drainage and trash collection systems, granaries, even public baths. This efficient layout further suggests that local governments were present and of high quality, working with great efficiency and aiming particularly to maintain public hygiene (or possibly, religious ritual).
Both Harappa and Mohenjo-daro featured citadels, heavily fortified areas thick with defensive structures — a feature other important and well-off cities likely shared. They had administrative (and possibly religious) centers that were also fortified. The walls are speculated to have played a double role, protecting the Harappans both from invasions and floods.
Another distinctive feature of the Indus people was that they didn’t really build to awe. We know they could build impressive structures, as they show an advanced understanding of architecture with dockyards, granaries, warehouses, and protective walls. But there’s no conclusive evidence of any palaces ever being built here. Neither of temples. In fact, the largest Indus buildings we’ve found so far were likely granaries. The nearest thing we’ve found to a ‘monument’ is in Mohenjo-daro — the Great Bath, a public bathing and social area.
Why build a mountain of limestone for one dude to be buried in when you can have a bath for everyone to enjoy? I like these Harappan people. Image via Pinterest.
In addition to architecture and urban theory, Harappans made repeated breakthroughs in metalworking (which was the day’s rocket science), working copper, tin, lead, and bronze, and had skilled craftsman, as shown by their intricate carnelian carvings. They also made important advances in transport technology, being a contender for the “first civilization to use the wheel” prize, in the form of oxcarts that are pretty much identical to those seen today throughout South Asia. Sailing was also, by all evidence, serious business for the Indus, who built boats and sea-worthy ships. This is supported by the discovery of a massive dredged canal and a suspected docking facility in Lothal, on the Indian Ocean’s coast, and the use of seashells in their arts and crafts.
6. Money and economy
The Harappans maintained one of the most impressive ancient trade empires and improved transport technologies, maintaining maritime trade networks extending from the Middle East to Central Asia. Evidence for these networks includes Harappian shellwork, found as far as the Arabian Gulf in Oman, as well as seals and jewelry found at archaeological sites in regions of Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq-Kuwait-Syria area). There’s also speculation that Harappian traders traversed long distances over water in ships made of planks, with a single mast and a sail of cloth or woven rushes.
Ceramics from the area show similarities to those from northern Iran between 4300 and 3200 BC, suggesting trade between these areas during that time. Similarities in pottery, seals, figurines, and ornaments from Central Asia and the Iranian plateau during the Early Harappan suggests land trade was established to these areas during the time.
Trade focused mostly on securing raw materials which were used to fuel Harappan workshops. Imports included minerals from Iran and Afghanistan, lead and copper from other parts of India, jade from China, and cedar wood floated down rivers from the Himalayas and Kashmir. Other traded items included terracotta pots, processed metals, gold and silver, tool-grade flints, as well as jewelry and its associated materials: beads, seashells, pearls, and colored gemstones, such as lapis lazuli and turquoise.
7. Decline
By around 1800 BC, the Indus Valley Civilization was starting to crack. A widely-accepted theory is that they fell to a nomadic Indo-European tribe called Aryans, which invaded and subsequently conquered the Harappians. Evidence in support of this comes from the fact that cities were being abandoned at the time and an increase in the apparent incidence of violence and violent death — which both fit with what you’d expect to see in a war zone.
More recent evidence, however, contradicts this theory. Some experts believe that the collapse was caused by climate change. By 1800 BC, the whole area grew colder and drier, and it’s suspected that tectonic movements in the area heavily disrupted or diverted the rivers on which the Harappans relied. The drying of the Saraswati River, which began around 1900 BC, is believed to be a major driver of these local changes. Combined with monsoon-associated periods of flooding and drought, these changes in river patterns splintered the once-monolithic block of the Indus Valley Civilization.
Farmers fled eastwards, towards the basin of the Ganges. While the river allowed them to re-establish villages and farms, these communities could not dream to produce the same agricultural surplus as the Indus River basin and the refined irrigation systems built there. Faced with starvation, large cities tore themselves apart or vacuated for rural settings. Without their craftsmen, trade with Egypt and Mesopotamia shriveled and then ended altogether.
This latter theory is supported by the presence of Indus Civilization elements in later cultures, called Harappan cultures, more in line with a slow decline than a fast disappearance at sword-point.
Whatever the reason, by around 1700 BCE, most of the Indus Valley Civilization cities had been abandoned. With them, the Harappan people’s stars waned, never to recover.
ALIEN MESSAGE TO MANKIND: "DO YOU WISH THAT WE SHOW UP?"
Analyzing the thousands of documents through which contacts with extraterrestrial beings have been verified, it can be deduced that there are five types of messages that "they" want to spread:
THE FIRST
Ecology:Space visitors tell their contactees that humanity is corrupting everything, that the seas and oxygen are being contaminated with chemical and industrial toxic waste that atomic bombs endanger life on the planet , usually warn of great dangers if the situation is not corrected, remember the global warming that we are currently suffering.
THE SECOND
Scientist: In many cases, a large number of scientific knowledge has been delivered to humans that are kept secret by governments, mainly the North American and Soviet governments. They also usually send illiterate people to transmit scientific communications to scientists.
THE THIRD
Technician: Many contactees have received the knowledge with concrete instructions to build state-of-the-art devices. We should not be surprised when a large number of inventors demand the patent of artifacts whose usefulness we do not yet know and perhaps we never know.
THE FOURTH
Cosmogenic: Another type of message is related to the origin of the Universe and the existence of God whom the aliens call The First Cause or The Deep The Supreme Intelligence.
THE FIFTH:
Moral: They establish a set of norms of life, curiously usually reinforces the moral or religious beliefs of the contactee by understanding the brotherhood as well as the love among peers asking that the message be disseminated in order to be known by the greater number of people.
The original source of this information appears to be by Mr. Jean Ederman, now 49, of France, who evidently works in the field of aviation. He writes: "... after having learned how to mentally project myself to a place in the presence of benevolent extraterrestrials, I received the following message..."
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SCIENTISTS DATE THE TOMB OF CHRIST REVEALING ITS COMPLEX HISTORY
SCIENTISTS DATE THE TOMB OF CHRIST REVEALING ITS COMPLEX HISTORY
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is said to be the place where the body of Jesus Christ was interned following his crucifixion at the hands of the Romans. Now, archaeological examinations of the site suggest that there is a deeply complex history around this holiest of all Christian shrines.
A new scientific examination of the site where Jesus is believed to have been laid to rest has utilized chemicals in the limestone making up deepest reaches of the cave to discover how long it had been since the rock had been exposed to light. They found that these oldest areas of the cave were around 1700 years old and that some of the other rock laid on in the cave dated to the era of the Crusades.
The New Testament states that Jesus was put to death in the early years of the first millennium and that the Romans located and enshrined his tomb around the year 326 AD. This ambitious project was undertaken by Constantine I, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity and declare it to be the official religion of the Roman Empire. Along with his wife, who was also a devout Christian, he ordered a number of projects of this nature as well as the erection of large Christian shrines throughout the entire Empire. This date historical documents suggest that Constantine ordered the enshrinement of Jesus’s tomb tallies up neatly to the age of the layered limestone in the cave uncovered by scientists investigating the site suggesting that this is indeed the tomb of Christ.
There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether the real location of Jesus’s tomb had been lost over the years. During the Crusades, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was completely destroyed and subsequently rebuilt by the Christians in the area. This has led to questions as to whether they truly built on the exact same site as the Romans. Some historians have said that even if they did manage to build on the correct spot, that the Romans may not have located the tomb of Jesus Christ accurately.
Archaeologists and historians concede that there is no way of telling whether the tomb most definitely held the body of Jesus Christ but it is still considered to be far and away the best candidate. According to Dan Bahat, the former city archaeologist of Jerusalem, "We may not be absolutely certain that the Holy Sepulchre Church is the site of Jesus' burial, but we certainly have no other site that can lay a claim nearly as weighty."
Last October, the tomb was opened to the public for the first time in many centuries after the painstaking restoration of the shrine enclosing the tomb which is known as the Edicule. The restoration project took nine months to complete and cost a staggering $4 million.
Gardeners on Earth enjoy it when their gardens have sufficient worms to fertilize the plants they grow. However, there are plans to bring these inconspicuous animals to Mars--and there's testing that proves that they'll work on Martian soil.
NASA recently carried out an experiment that involved simulated Mars soil, using data collected all the way back from the first unmanned spacecraft. Back when space exploration was in its infancy, probes were sent on a one-way path to planets such as Mars and using technology way beyond its time sent back images and soil composition data to the curious people of Earth.
Worms were found to improve crops grown in simulated Martian soil .
The scientist added "rucola" (rocket or arugula) plants, manure, and fertilizer. Once they added the worms, they thrived within the new environment. They performed so well in the simulated soil that they even produced offspring.
The "soil" used in these experiments technically doesn't follow Earth's definition of what soil is. That's because it contains organic material, while Earth soil consists of non-living materials. Scientists merely use this term as a placeholder in order to distinguish it from another, finer material on Mars known as regolith.
SIMULATING MARS SOIL IN A LAB
Simulated soil has more uses beyond testing whether worms will thrive on Mars: it can be used to figure out how the equipment such as rovers, mining equipment, and spacesuits will be affected by the foreign soil. This is key knowledge as we're considering sending people to Mars in the 2030s, and we don't want them to arrive after their years-long journey to Mars only to find out that their spacesuits and equipment are unfit for the environment.
Thankfully, the foreign soil can bear plant life such as rucola, so feeding the travelers to Mars isn't such a big problem. Hopefully, by the 2030s NASA will sort everything out, and we'll be able to see Mars firsthand!
This video footage was created during the Space Shuttle Mission STS-134 and shows the enormous external fuel tank.
Then a strange white object appears for a few seconds. It can be clearly seen that this object partially disappears behind the clouds. So it seems to be very big.
AGARTHA, A SUBTERRANEAN WORLD INSIDE OUR PLANET, CONFIRMED BY TOP SECRET NAZI MAPS AND DOCUMENTS
AGARTHA, A SUBTERRANEAN WORLD INSIDE OUR PLANET, CONFIRMED BY TOP SECRET NAZI MAPS AND DOCUMENTS
Us humans know a lot about the surface of the Earth. We've drilled oil rigs into it, mapped it, and studied it so many times that we can pretty much find out anything about the Earth from some database out there. However, we know very little about the inside of the Earth, a fact that the Nazis think that they have a lead into.
Map of Neuschwabenland
Nazi maps were recently uncovered that brought up questions as to whether the Earth is partially hollow and inhabited by lifeforms that we might have never seen. There are even stories of these Nazis who explored the polar regions of the Earth and going so far as to create secret bases in Antarctica.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAPS OF THE HOLLOW EARTH
Translation:
Maps for the passage of the depths of the seas. Use only during manoeuvers! Instructions to pass spaces and corridors for the voyage to Agartha.
Beyond the Nazis, many other researchers have discovered and published material regarding Operation Highjump and Admiral Byrd's journeys in which technologically-advanced airships and UFO were believed to be seen flying around, and even aggressively engaging with them. In addition, a top-secret map found in a U-Boat depicts many secret passages that were used by the U-boats to explore unknown and mysterious underground regions. All these maps indicated that the center of the Earth is hollow. But why have the Nazis kept this a secret for so long? Such a fact would be of great curiosity to man if it were found true.
This is a close up of the document showing us the NS Seal and advice on how to work with it.
" Translation:
After returning from the assigment hand in at the secret department! IN CASE OF DANGER DESTROY FIRST! Printed for the Military Navy in an edition of 1300 copies at the special laboratory of the KZ Dachau. January 1944.
Perhaps all this was merely a propaganda scheme made for the war. After all, the Nazis wanted to establish themselves as a master race, and making it look like they had access to underground U-Boat tunnels and that they could communicate with supernatural things such as UFOs would make them look very dominant if that U-Boat were to be captured by the enemy.
This map shows us the main continent of this hemisphere named Liberia. The main ocean here again is also the Valkarian Ocean. On the lower part of the map the city of Shambala is depicted. The Tibetan Monks believe that the City of Shambala is not on our surface but on the inside of the Earth. This map of the Inner Earth shows us the actual position of Shambala confirming the actual existence of this mythical place.
Or maybe the Nazis wanted to keep this information secret to us in case they ever needed to use it for military needs in the future. Think about it: having access to secret underground tunnels could lead to more efficient and safe travel over enemy waters.
This is a letter from a German U Boat crewman of U-209. He says in the letter that U-209 commanded by Heinrich Brodda made it to the Inner Earth of Agharta and that they wouldn't be coming back.
"Translation:
Dear old comrade, This message will be a surprise to you. The U Boat 209 has made it, the Earth is HOLLOW! Dr. Haushofer and Hess were right. The whole crew is doing well, but they cannot come back. We are no prisoners. I am certain, that this message will reach you, it is the last contact with the U 209. We will meet again comrade. I am worried about the people that have to live on the surface, since the Fuehrer is gone.
God bless our Germany always.
With hearty greetings,
Karl Unger
Whether the Earth is hollow or not, the Nazis have left us quite a puzzle to deal with. Hopefully one day we will take a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and find out!
Translation:
NEUSCHWABENLAND, ANTARCTICA AND OPERATION HIGHJUMP
More info and translations of all the text on the documents:
Levende bacteriën uit de ruimte gevonden op ISS. Is buitenaards leven nu dan echt ontdekt?
Levende bacteriën uit de ruimte gevonden op ISS. Is buitenaards leven nu dan echt ontdekt?
Wetenschappers hebben levende bacteriën uit de ruimte aangetroffen op de buitenkant van het Russische deel van het internationale ruimtestation ISS.
De organismen worden momenteel bestudeerd op aarde, liet kosmonaut Anton Sjkaplerov weten aan persbureau TASS.
Kosmonauten hebben tijdens ruimtewandelingen monsters verzameld, onder meer op plekken bij de motoren en waar het oppervlak van het ruimtestation het donkerst is. De monsters werden vervolgens naar de aarde gestuurd.
Uit de ruimte
“Nu is gebleken dat er bacteriën in de monsters zitten die tijdens de lancering van de module niet aanwezig waren,” zei Sjkaplerov.
“Ze zijn uit de ruimte gekomen en hebben zich aan de buitenkant van het ruimtestation genesteld,” voegde hij toe.
De bacteriën worden momenteel bestudeerd en het lijkt erop dat ze geen gevaar vormen, aldus de kosmonaut.
Per ongeluk
Sommige aardse bacteriën overleven ook al jaren aan de buitenkant van het ruimtestation, hoewel ze zich in een vacuüm bevinden en worden blootgesteld aan temperaturen die variëren van -150 tot 150 graden Celsius.
De bacteriën zijn per ongeluk meegenomen naar het ruimtestation op tablets en verschillende materialen die aan boord van het ISS zijn geplaatst om het gedrag ervan in de ruimte te bestuderen.
Sjkaplerov zal leiding geven aan de nieuwe bemanning van het ruimtestation, die op 17 december wordt gelanceerd.
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Turkse universiteit bereidt studenten voor op buitenaards contact. Deze docent opent de doofpot
Turkse universiteit bereidt studenten voor op buitenaards contact. Deze docent opent de doofpot
De Akdeniz-universiteit in de Turkse provincie Antalya biedt sinds kort het vak ‘Ufologie en Exopolitiek’, ter voorbereiding op contact met bezoekers uit de ruimte.
Docent Erhan Kolbasi vertelde aan het Turkse persbureau Dogan News Agency dat hij verwacht dat de mensheid binnen ’10 tot 15 jaar’ contact zal maken met buitenaardse wezens.
“Wij geloven dat afgezanten van de aarde en buitenaardse beschavingen spoedig officieel contact maken met elkaar,” zei hij.
Massaal contact
“Wij denken dat er tegen die tijd openlijk en massaal contact zal zijn,” voegde Kolbasi toe.
Hij lichtte toe dat het vak onderdeel is van voorbereidingen op de ‘grootste verandering in de geschiedenis van de wereld’.
Kolbasi claimde ook dat een schimmige groep genaamd MJ12 kennis over buitenaardse wezens onderdrukt om ‘de belangen van de VS te beschermen’.
Gecrashte UFO’s
MJ12 is naar verluidt gevormd door president Harry Truman om het volk in het duister te houden over buitenaards contact.
Dingen als glasvezelkabels, microchips, nachtkijkers en kogelvrije vesten kunnen we alleen maken dankzij de informatie die we hebben gehaald uit gecrashte UFO’s, stelde de docent.
Exopolitiek zal zich gaan richten op de manier waarop kennis over buitenaardse wezens in de doofpot wordt gestopt door overheden, voorbereiding op open contact en galactische diplomatie.
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YOUTUBE BLOKKEERT KANAAL DAT IETS BIJZONDERS TOONT OP DE MAAN ( VIDEO )
YOUTUBE BLOKKEERT KANAAL DAT IETS BIJZONDERS TOONT OP DE MAAN (VIDEO )
Als Youtube een populair videokanaal met 80.000 abonnees afsluit vanwege een video die ze hebben gepubliceerd over de maan, dan zijn ze niet erg slim bezig.
Want juist door deze blokkade wil iedereen natuurlijk weten wat er zo bijzonder was aan die video.
Steeds meer mensen ontwikkelen steeds grotere afkeer tegen Youtube en de manier waarop zij menen bepaalde kanalen te moeten censureren. Natuurlijk is het dweilen met de kraan open, want wanneer mensen worden geblokkeerd op Youtube gaan ze ergens anders naartoe.
Dit keer is een Youtube kanaal dat bekendstaat onder de naam Crrow777 het slachtoffer, een kanaal dat al jaren in de lucht is en veel opnames plaatst die met een telescoop zijn gemaakt van onze maan.
En het is één van die video's die er nu voor heeft gezorgd dat dit kanaal is geblokkeerd. Zoals zo vaak het geval met blokkades door Youtube is er op het eerste oog niets te ontdekken waardoor dit kanaal volgens de richtlijnen van Youtube in aanmerking zou komen voor een blokkade.
De reden voor de definitieve sluiting door Youtube van dit kanaal heeft maken met één bepaalde video, zoals te zien in de volgende mededeling van het bedrijf.
De video waar het om gaat is inmiddels heel beroemd en staat bekend als de Lunar Wave. De eerste keer dat Crrow777 erin slaagde om dit fenomeen vast te leggen was op 26 september 2012.
Het is het resultaat van het jarenlang filmen van de maan met een krachtige telescoop en al die opnames stonden op het Youtube kanaal dat nu is geschrapt.
De Lunar Wave laat iets zien dat eigenlijk niet kan, een soort golfbeweging over het oppervlak van de maan van onder naar boven. Een effect wat je ook wel ziet als de wind over het water blaast. Men noemt dit in het Engels een ripple effect. Hierdoor lijkt het alsof het maanoppervlak niet solide is, maar bijvoorbeeld vloeibaar als water.
Deze opname is zo beroemd geworden dat grote mainstream kranten er over hebben geschreven en na de eerste Lunar wave slaagde Crrow777 er op 9 maart 2014 opnieuw in om deze wave vast te leggen.
Crrow777 is er na jaren van observeren en filmen van de maan door een telescoop van overtuigd dat de maan niet is wat wij denken dat het is. Volgens hem is het niets anders dan een hologram in de lucht en zijn de Lunar waves kleine foutjes in de programmering die dat aantonen.
De meest voor de hand liggende verklaring zou zijn een mankement aan de opname apparatuur, maar na jaren onderzoek wordt dit door Crrow777 uitgesloten, omdat het effect alleen zichtbaar is op het oppervlak van de maan en niet op de totale opname.
Daarnaast is ditzelfde effect op het maanoppervlak inmiddels door zo'n 30 andere mensen ook vastgelegd. Hiermee lijkt een technisch mankement uitgesloten.
Dus, waarom is deze opname kennelijk zodanig gevaarlijk dat er een account met 80.000 abonnees waar eigenlijk alleen maar opnames van de maan op staan, wordt gesloten. Het schijnt nog verder te gaan dan dat, want wanneer mensen nu zoeken op Crrow777 via Youtube of Google worden primair allerlei resultaten getoond die zeggen dat de Lunar wave niet echt is.
Omdat eigenlijk alles wat er door Crrow777 werd gepubliceerd op Youtube betrekking had op de maan zijn er in de loop der jaren ook divers UFO's "gevangen" door de telescoop. Wellicht dat dit ook een rol speelt bij de blokkade.
Gelukkig zijn er altijd mensen zoals ook wij, die video's opslaan en/of herpubliceren zodat de beelden op zich niet verloren zijn. De video hierna laat zowel de eerste als de tweede Lunar Wave van Crrow777 zien.
Of het nu de Lunar wave is die door Crrow777 is vastgelegd, of iets anders dat hij heeft gefilmd op het maanoppervlak, duidelijk is dat er is ingegrepen van hogerhand omdat dit kanaal beelden liet zien die overduidelijk niet voor de gewone burger bedoeld zijn.
Hierna volgt de analyse van Tyler van Secureteam over deze gebeurtenis en voorlopig is het koren op de molen voor de aanhangers van de platte aarde theorie.
A three-mile-wide (4.8 km) asteroid is about to make one of its closest approaches ever and become the third-largest NASA-designated “potentially hazardous” object in history to approach the Earth. Not only that, it’s arriving right in the middle of the Christmas season. Will it become a Christmas star, a celestial Grinch that stole Christmas or a hazard that even Rudolph’s nose can’t protect Santa Claus from?
The history of 3200 Phaethon is interesting and potentially disconcerting. Although it’s been around (and around the Sun) for ages, it was only discovered in 1983 by astronomers Simon F. Green and John K. Davies and visually confirmed by Charles T. Kowal, who determined it to be asteroidal, at least in appearance. Further analysis showed how special this space rock is. 1983 TB (its original name) has an orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid. That prompted astronomers to name it Phaethon in honor of the son of the Greek sun god Helios. That Phaethon borrowed his father’s sun chariot and drove it without the proper license or training, resulting in him getting too close to burning up Earth and resulting in Zeus tossing a thunderbolt that stopped the chariot and killed Phaethon.
The Fall of Phaeton by Johann Liss
Speaking of getting too close to the Earth, the real 3200 Phaethon does that too. Reverse calculations prior to its actual discovery show that it was only 5 million miles away when it passed on December 16, 1974. This year, it will be 6.4 million miles away, or 27 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. If you’re still around then, it will be 1.8 million miles away in 2093.
That may sound like a long way off, but it’s close enough for the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center to deem it a potentially hazardous near Earth object, which means its impact could cause serious regional damage and it has the potential and proximity for impact. In fact, 3200 Phaethon is already affecting the Earth in another way. Astronomer Fred Whipple determined that the asteroid’s unusual orbit matches that of meteors that make up the annual mid-December Geminids meteor shower, making Phaethon their proud papa.
Yeah, yeah, yeah … that’s all very interesting but what about Christmas? Since 3200 Phaethon isn’t visible to the naked eye (although it can be seen this year with low-powered telescopes between December 11 and 21), it’s not the Christmas star. And it doesn’t appear that this is its year for a big impact – and a three-mile-wide asteroid would make a BIG impact. Some estimates suggest a mile-wide asteroid hitting New York City would destroy it and everything else from Washington DC to Boston, not to mention creating a dust cloud capable of blocking the Sun and ending most life on Earth.
Luckily, it doesn’t look like even the entire collection of naughtiness on Earth is enough to deliver that lump of coal in our stockings this year. We’re safe and so is Santa.
Earlier this month, a team of archaeologists in eastern Turkey claimed to have discovered the ruins of of a 3,000-year-old castle under the waters of Lake Van. The castle is said to measure over a kilometer in circumference and has cut stone walls standing as high as three or four meters in some places. Diving team leader Tahsin Ceylan was on the dive which found the ruins and toldThe Daily Sabah that “there was a rumor that there might be something under the water but most archaeologists and museum officials told us that we won’t find anything.” Well, they did find something – something incredible – but just what exactly the structure is and who built it remains a mystery.
Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey.
When the news of this discovery broke this month, headlines were quick to proclaim that a “3,000-year-old underwater castle” was found in Turkey since researchers from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University claim the structure likely was built by the Iron Age Urartu civilization who lived in the Armenian Highlands as far back as the third or second millennium BC. It turns out, though, that archaeologists have been aware of ruinsin the Lake Van area since at least the 1960s. These ruins were believed around 900-1,000 years old and belong to one of the medieval Turkish kingdoms, however, not a 3000-year-old culture. Several archaeologists not involved with the discovery have weighed in to say that while some of the cut stones might date back to the Iron Age, the construction methods seen in photographs of the castle suggest the medieval period. It is quite common in archaeological sites to find that prior cultures reused the building materials of ancient civilizations.
A Urartian stone arch found in medieval ruins near Lake Van.
So what exactly is at the bottom of Lake Van? Unfortunately, while the dive team behind this “discovery” photographed some type of cut stone structure down there, the site has yet to be excavated by a specialized underwater archaeology team. Many of the original claims in this month’s headlines were based on the finding of the dive team alone, which included an underwater photographer, a fishery professor, and a diving instructor. Thus, it is difficult for any of the claims to be verified before a formal excavation by trained archaeologists takes place. Still, the fact that there are still unexcavated underwater ruins waiting to be discovered is a pretty fascinating thought in itself. Atlantis has to be down there somewhere, right?
As we continue to invent more powerful telescopes and farther-reaching proves, humankind may have finally made contact with life from outside of our own planet much more close to home. That’s according to Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who will make this third trip to the International Space Station in December. Shkaplerov recently said in an interview that he had personally discovered foreign microbes growing on the side of the ISS.
Shkaplerov (left) and Scott Kelly aboard the ISS.
Shkaplerov told Russian state news agency TASS that while swabbing the ISS hull for testing on a previous trip, bacteria was detected growing on the outside of the ISS which was found not have a terrestrial origin:
It turns out that somehow these swabs reveal bacteria that were absent during the launch of the ISS module. That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface. They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger.
While it’s awesome to imagine that these bacteria might be our first extraterrestrial contact, there is the likelihood that the bacteria were still introduced via contamination from earthly sources. Bacteria from Madagascar and plankton from the Barents Sea were found growing on the ISS earlier this year, forcing scientists to suggest raising the upper limits of the known biosphere to 400 km (248 miles). While we imagine space as empty, the space directly around the Earth can be affected by our planet through a number of processes.
Samples are routinely taken from various locations on the outside of the space station.
The remarks of cosmonaut Shkaplerov adds a new strand the web of strangeness surrounding Russia and the International Space Station. Earlier this year, the Russian space agency Roscosmos hinted at the discovery of foreign biomaterial on the outside of the space station, prompting a flyby from an American mystery satellite. Soon after, Roscosmos sent a mysterious, unidentified module up to the ISS for some sort of undisclosed experiment. Could this be the beginning of a new chapter of human history, or is Russian state media engaging in some good ol’ fashioned disinformation?
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Physical Evidence of Alien UFOs has been Found!
Physical Evidence of Alien UFOs has been Found!
It has been documented so many times, in the past fifty years, that we are not alone. There have been many UFO cases where people have seen Unidentified Flying Objects from constructed machines to bright spheres actually land.
When some of these sites have been examined, residual traces have been discovered. When they leave traces behind, we have something tangible to examine long after the object is gone.
I believe the data indicates constructed machines under some sort of intelligent control which can interact with their surroundings in a very physical way.
What these machines are or where they might originate are open questions.
These questions simply cannot be answered by ignoring the facts.
Physical traces found at landing sites include the imprints left behind by the landing gears of the object which indicate tremendous pressure - great weight - generally found as three or four in number, arranged in either a triangular or rectangular pattern.
Apart from imprints, the soil in the landing area is often extremely dehydrated and unable to absorb water. UFO-affected soil cannot support seed germination and plant growth.
Has planet earth ever had a close encounter with aliens?
While UFOs and their occupants have been part of our culture for more than a century, and people from many walks of life claim to have seen them, we have no indisputable evidence that they’re fact rather than fiction, or do we? Naked Science speaks to witnesses of two of the most controversial UFO sightings, the Rendlesham Forest incident in the UK and the Phoenix Lights sighting in the US, as well as the most famous UFO incident of all time, Roswell.
If unidentified flying objects did come from space, how could they have travelled to earth? And how could they survive in our atmosphere? We talk to leading physicists and astrophysicists about the viability of interstellar travel and whether worm holes and warp drives could make it possible. Or perhaps extra-terrestrials will send tiny self-replicating nanobots to explore our Earth?
Close encounters originated with reported sightings of alien craft, but in the last few decades alien contact has taken a new and more terrifying twist, alien abduction. We talk to a so called ‘experiencer’ who claims to have been taken from her bed and experimented on. She believes her claims but could there be another, scientific, explanation for what she remembers? We talk to a neuroscientist who thinks he has the answer. Finally, Naked Science asks possibly the most shocking question of all, could aliens already be among us?
University of Leicester archaeologists have recovered a collection of rare Iron Age metal artifacts from a site in Glenfield Park, Leicestershire, England. Among the objects are decorated cauldrons, a complete sword, and a brooch from the 3rd century BC.
Aerial shot of the Glenfield Park roundhouse. Image credits: University of Leicester Archaeological Services.
The collection includes eleven cauldrons, several fine-crafted ring-headed dress pins, an involuted brooch and a cast copper-alloy ‘horn-cap’, likely a part of a ceremonial staff, archaeologists say. The objects were inhumed at the site in a series of events that took part over a considerable span of time, they add, resulting in multiple episodes of sediment deposition across the settlement.
“Glenfield Park is an exceptional archaeological site, with a fantastic array of finds that highlight this as one of the more important discoveries of recent years,” said Dr. John Thomas, director of the excavation and project officer from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services.
Dr. Thomas explains that human occupation in the area during the middle Iron Age (5th to 4th centuries BC) was “modest”, consisting of a small settlement with no walls on the south-facing slopes of the spur. Some time later, around the 4th to 3rd centuries BC according to current radiocarbon dating results, the site underwent major changes. Individual roadhouses were enclosed, “there was far more evidence for material culture”, and the inhabitants adopted rituals and rites that seem to involve “deliberate burial of a striking assemblage of metalwork.”
That metalwork is what truly sets the site apart, Dr. Thomas says. Not only is it found in much larger quantities than in other known comparable sites in the area, the items are also of much higher quality and the composition of the artifacts is also unique.
“The cauldron assemblage in particular makes this a nationally important discovery,” Dr. Thomas said. “They represent the most northerly discovery of such objects on mainland Britain and the only find of this type of cauldron in the East Midlands.”
The team reports that the cauldrons appear to have been placed in a large circular enclosure ditch that surrounded a building. It’s not known why yet, but it’s very likely that this was a deliberate choice, not an accident, the archaeologists add. The cauldrons had been placed either upright or inverted, after which the ditch was filled in. One hypothesis is that this burial was meant to mark an end to the activities carried out at this part of the site. Other cauldrons were found buried across the site, suggesting that these rituals were used to mark significant events over a long period of time as the settlement developed.
They are fashioned from several distinct parts — iron for the rims, upper bands, and the ring handles attached to them, copper alloy for the body. Size-wise, they range between 14.2 and 22 inches (36-56 cm) in diameter, with the summed-up capacity of all cauldrons around 550 liters. This volume is quite significant, and the team suspects that they may have been used to provide food for large groups of people, for example at gatherings held in the site for the area’s wider Iron Age community.
CT scans performed on the cauldrons show evidence of wear, tea, and repair, pointing to long-term and repeated use of the objects. The amount of care and effort that went into repairing them further reinforces the hypothesis that the cauldrons were special for the Iron Age community at Glenfield Park.
“Due to their large capacity it is thought that Iron Age cauldrons were reserved for special occasions and would have been important social objects, forming the centerpiece of major feasts, perhaps in association with large gatherings and events,” Dr. Thomas said.
“They are rarely found in large numbers and, with the exception of a }in Chiseldon, where 17 cauldrons were found in a pit, there have been few excavated examples in recent years.”
Dr. Thomas adds that cauldrons held a symbolic value in the area at the time, as evidenced by their frequent appearance in early-medieval Irish and Welsh literature.
Filer’s Files #48 – 2017 UFOs Are Spaceships - PART I
Koto, Japan objects photographed on November 18, 2017,
Filer’s Files #48 – 2017 UFOs Are Spaceships - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Father of Space Age Says UFOs Are Here, UFOs Spotted in 1904 by Future Admiral, Yahweh (God) and His Flying Machines, Yahweh (God) and His Flying Machines, UK’s Monuments to Space Ships, and Mexican Cartels Killing 13,000+ US Citizens Each Year
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal, 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 belie e the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Father of Space Age Says UFOs Are Here
Hermann Oberth considered by some to be one of the fathers of the space age, who developed rockets for Germany and later worked in the US with Wernher on Braun, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and NASA, stated the following in 1954:
“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.” Perhaps of more interest to our present discussion on propulsion, he then stated that: “They are flying by the means of artificial fields of gravity…; they produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes. First, this would explain their luminosity… Secondly, it would explain the noiselessness of UFO flight…” We now know that he was fundamentally correct in his assessment.
UFOs Spotted in 1904 by Future Admiral
On March 8, 1904, the New York Times published a report about a navy officer allegedly seeing a collection of meteors. The report, which can be viewed on the New York Times archive, informs of how on February 28th 1904, Lieutenant Frank Schofield saw three meteors which he said appeared “near the horizon and below the clouds”
According to Lieutenant Schofield, initially the meteors were travelling fast and they were bright red in color, but as they approached the ship, “they appeared to soar above the clouds at an elevation of about forty-five degrees.” The NYT report continues that the largest of the meteors had an apparent area of approximately six suns and was shaped like an egg, while the other two meteors were round.
The Paranormal Report elaborates on the story, informing how when the US Na y steam and sail schooner USS Supply were approximately 400 miles to the southwest of San Francisco, several crew members sighted what they described as being ‘Meteors’ It was Lt. Frank Schofield, who collected the accounts of what The Paranormal Report describes as forming the “basis for one of the most remarkable early sightings in UFO history.”
Schofield a Decorated Admiral
Born in New York in 1869, Frank Herman Schofield was a decorated admiral of the US Na y, eventually being promoted to Commander in Chief Battle Force with the accompanying status of Admiral (3). He has been referred to as serving with distinction in the Spanish-American War and the First World War. During January 1904, Schofield was also acting Governor of Guam. Following 47 years of ser ice, Admiral Schofield retired in 1933 and died in Maryland in 1942.
What is interesting about this story is the fact that Frank Herman Schofield was a highly admired and respected member of the US Navy with a long and successful career. Although Schofield refers to the objects in the sky as meteors which were traveling quickly, the description doesn’t entirely match what a high- velocity meteor would look like.
Strange Objects
As the Paranormal Report writes:
“Whatever these objects were, they were not meteors, as evidenced by their seeming ability to fly under, and then through the clouds finally gaining altitude. The pointed end forward attitude of the egg shaped object is precisely the opposite of what would be expected from a meteor, and the red coloring is not normally one associated with meteors, which usually give e off a blue-green or white light.”
Due to this anomaly in the Schofield’s description to what we now know meteors to look like, the 1904 sighting is regarded as one of the most interesting early UFO sightings. Originally published on TopSecretWriters.com and Gabrielle Pickard
Yahweh (God) and His Flying Machines
Bill Bean writes the Bible tells of UFOs and the glory of God’s craft. In Hebrew chariots, the glory of the Lord and clouds refer to anything that flies like UFOs.
The Hovering vehicle Glory and Light in
Exodus 40:34-38.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle… And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. The flying object remained in the presence of the nation wherever it went.
Spinning Chariots of Fire Take Elijah Up
2 Kings 2:11-12.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Elijah and Elisha are talking and suddenly a bright cavalry of glowing vehicles appears and Elijah ascends into the sky in a spinning-flying vehicle. The word translated into horses, ‘cuwc’, means rapid flight. This is most likely the army spoken of where hosts appears.
UFO Christianity Connection• reveals that UFOs played a significant role in how ancient civilizations built megalithic structures and predicted celestial events perfectly;• brings to life the close association that ancient civilizations had with ancient astronauts—whom they called gods or sky people;
Mother Mary and Jesus PaintingThe ‘’Madonna of the UFO’’ or ‘’Madonna of the flying saucer’’ is a painting located in Palazzovecchio in Florence in the Hall of Hercules. Also called “Madonna and Child with the Infant St John”, the painting has been the topic of much debate between art experts and ufologists. While the painting depicts the Nativity with the infant St. John in the foreground, in the background one can see a man curiously watching an unidentified flying object (UFO).
The painting is of unknown origin, but it probably dates from as early as the sixteenth century attributes authorship to either Sebastiano Mainardi or Jacopo del Sellaio;
Claude Atkins said, “President Nixon showed Jackie Gleason an Alien”
My wife was on vacation with girl friends near Miami, Florida at En iron on property owned by Jackie Gleason about 1979. She phoned me and was excited about telling me her story about meeting and talking with the actor Claude Atkins who was very friendly.
Claude was playing golf with Comedian and actor Jackie Gleason at his golf course outside Miami, and my wife was watching them playing. Later Claude and my wife were talking and he told her that Gleason had just revealed President Nixon took Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base and showed him an alien body.
Apparently, Gleason often played golf with President Nixon and they were close friends during Nixon’s presidency from January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974.
The Jackie Gleason Show was popular from 1952 to 1970), and which centered on his most beloved character, bus driver Ralph Kramden. He later was featured in Smokey and the Bandit Movie in 1977, and its sequels in 1980, and 1983. Gleason’s home was built in the shape of a UFO.
Claude Atkins (left) was a close friend of Jackie Gleason and was the star of the Trucker series “Movin On” a show about independent truckers fighting corruption and moving loads around the nation in their big rigs between 1974 and 76.
Throughout England there are archeological structures carved in the soil that have a similar cylinder shape and size to UFOs and are known as a cursus. They are called cursus because they thought they were race tracks. Cursus was a name given by early British archaeologists to the large parallel lengths of banks with external ditches which they thought were early Roman athletic courses, hence the Latin name cursus, meaning “course”. Cursus monuments are now understood to be Neolithic structures and represent some of the oldest prehistoric monumental structures of the British Isles some 3500 years old and built before the circular Stonehenge. Many are over a mile long and the distance between the dug parallel earthworks (shown here) can be up to 100 meters that consists of a bank with an external ditch. They are often aligned next to pre-existing long barrows or prehistoric earth mounds used to bury the dead.
The Cursus monuments are often built over rough terrain crossing streams or alleys. Cursuses became a subject of study when many of them were discovered through aerial photography, and curiosity was piqued as to what their purpose might be. Finds of arrowheads at the terminal ends suggest archery and hunting were important to the builders. It has been conjectured that Cursus were used in rituals connected with ancestor worship, and that they follow astronomical alignments.
It is my theory the Cursus were built over rough terrain as to mark the position of the huge alien Motherships like the one I chased while in the US Air Force. The Cursus may outline the craft’s landing field. The cylinder shape and size match the monuments on the ground as well as the long burrows. Thousands of man hours of work were needed to build the outline to imitate the Motherships who often launch disc shaped craft. Stonehenge which was built later and hundreds of other stone and timber circles could imitate the discs.
NASA satellite photo of cylinder Mothership taken from space over the Atlantic Ocean.
Gary McKinnon and his mother Janis Sharp can breathe sighs of relief because
British Home Secretary Theresa May officially announced that the UK will not extradite McKinnon to the United States.
McKinnon was charged by the U.S. with the “biggest military computer hack of all time” in 2001 and 2002 after looking for information about UFOs and extraterrestrials in NASA and Pentagon computers, and has been fighting extradition ever since. Lanny Breuer, the US assistant attorney-general in charge of criminal cases, has said, “Officials are ” very disappointed” with the decision not to extradite Mr. McKinnon.”
McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syndrome had faced 60 years in prison if he had been found guilty in a US court.
But he won his battle against extradition after Theresa told MPs there was a risk Mr. McKinnon , would likely commit suicide if he was sent to face trial in America. Home Secretary Theresa May’s decision helped her become Prime Minister . (Credit: UK Government)
Note – If Mr. McKinnon’s data is correct, it validates the assumption the US Na y may well be operating off-planet via back engineered ET technology. His data indicates the Navy and probably the Air Force operate a fleet of space craft and officers to either occupy or control them.
Aviation Week Magazine claimed the US has the Blackstar space craft. US Na y Clementine mission project mapped the entire Moon.
Gary McKinnon states, “I found a list of fleet-to-fleet transfers, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t U.S. Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some spaceships off planet. In his interview with the BBC, Gary claimed, “The Disclosure Project” had some very credible people all saying there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ e captured spacecraft and reverse engineered it.” He said, he investigated a NASA photographic expert’s claim that at the Johnson Space Center‘s Building 8, images were regularly cleaned of evidence of UFO craft, and confirmed this, comparing the raw originals with the “processed” images.
He claimed to have viewed a detailed image of “something not man-made and cigar shaped floating above the northern hemisphere.
Mexican Cartels Killing 13,000+ US Citizens Each Year
2017 DEA Drug Threat Report: has been made public and Mexico is the greatest heroin source with most coming across our border with Mexico from 6 major cartels. The 182 page comprehensive report covers twenty sections. Heroin-involved overdose deaths more than quadrupled between 2010 and 2015, with the most recent data indicating that heroin was involved in 12,989 American deaths in 2015 increasing about 2000 deaths per year..Note: .I ha e yet to see our National TV fake news mention this Mexican carnage. Although they do show their opposition to building a wall to help stop the slaughter.
Mexico is the provider of 70 % of the heroin to the United States, followed by Colombia to a much lesser degree.
Rafael Caro Quintero is leading the Sinaloa Cartel along with El Mayo Zambada.
Gangs:
Mexican-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) dominate the supply and wholesale distribution of most illicit drugs in the United States. Approximately 70% of all illicit drugs consumed in the United States are trafficked through Mexico, TCOs, and haxe expanded their control over the drug-trafficing conducted by criminal street gangs in their respective territories. Zetas: Juan Gerardo Treviño-Chávez is leading the cartel.
BLO: Fausto Isídro Meza-Flores, alias Chapo Isidro remains a subgroup with BLO, and BLO subgroups depend on alliances with CJNG, Zetas and Juárez to access drug corridors.
Mexican TCOs maintain the greatest drug trafficking influence in the United States, with continued signs of growth and expansion. By controlling lucrative smuggling corridors, primarily across the Southwest Border, Mexican TCOs export significant quantities of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and fentanyl into the U.S. annually. Once these illicit drugs are smuggled into the U.S., they are delivered to user markets through transportation routes and distribution cells that are managed or influenced by Mexican TCOs. Illegal immigrants are often forced to bring drugs into the US by the Cartels that control the border. Over the past several years, Mexican TCOs have expanded their sphere of influence into deferent regions of the United States, including the New England area. The most significant illicit drug threat posed to the greater Chicago area is by Mexican TCOs grown heroin, which dominate the wholesale supply of methamphetamine, cocaine, Mexican-grown marijuana, and heroin in this area. At this time there do not appear to be any viable competitors to Mexican TCOs for control of the wholesale drug supply to the Chicago area. To move drug shipments to Chicago, Mexican TCOs employ intermediaries who oversee shipments across the SWB, and facilitate sales to wholesale and mid-level clients.
Mexican TCOs also are the principal suppliers of crystal methamphetamine to the US. A veritable war on drugs has erupted in Mexico with the Calderon government attempting to rid the country of organized crime. The result has been incredible violence with 46,000 Mexicans being killed in this internal conflict,
Most Significant Mexican TCOs Currently Active in the United States
The drug trafficking landscape in Mexico is in constant flux with new organizations emerging as offshoots from previously established TCOs. As of 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) assesses the following six Mexican TCOs, as controlling the drug trafficking t on the U.S:
Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel Jalisco Nue a Generación, or CJNG), Juarez Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas Cartel, and Beltran-Ley a Organization. Each of these TCOs maintains drug distribution cells in cities across the U S that report directly to TCO leaders in Mexico.
Drug Cartel Areas in Mexico Controlling Illegal Immigration
Heroin Overview-The most deadly threat due to fentanyl
Heroin poses a serious public health and safety threat to the United States. Overdose deaths, already exceed a thousand+ young Americans per month. The increasing adulteration of heroin with analogues of the highly-potent synthetic opioid fentanyl and other synthetic opioids has exacerbated this situation. Poppy cultivation and heroin production levels in Mexico, the primary source of heroin for the U.S. market, continue to increase. The heroin supply in white powder markets in the eastern U.S, is highly pure, inexpensive, and increasingly adulterated with fentanyl.. While the size of the heroin user population is smaller than other major drugs, heroin is highly deadly to its users. For example, the population that currently abuses prescription pain relievers is 10 times the size of the heroin user population; however, the number of opioid analgesic-involved overdose deaths is twice that of heroin-involved deaths. Heroin is now commonly adulterated with fentanyl, making it even more deadly to its user population.
The Drug poisoning of Americans continues to increase
The United States has seen substantial increases in heroin availability in the last seven to 10 years, which has allowed the heroin threat to expand to unprecedented levels. Rapid increases in heroin production in Mexico since 2015 have ensured a reliable supply of low-cost heroin,. The DEA field divisions with the highest percentage of respondents choosing heroin as the greatest drug threat are in the Northeast and Midwest: Philadelphia FD (84.2%), New Jersey FD (84.2%), New York FD (76.9%), New England FD (65.0%), Detroit FD (64.2%), Chicago FD (54.6%), and Washington FD (47.2%). Seattle FD 46.1%) :Law enforcement agencies indicates heroin availability continues to increase throughout the United States.
Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US in 2016 , with 52,404 deaths .Additionally, many killings and robberies are tied to the desperate need for money to buy the drugs. By the end of his presidency on January 20, 2017, Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant executive clemency—that is, “pardon, to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes. Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges. Many of the illegal immigrants are forced to bring in heroin by the Mexican Cartels,
In comparison the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. US military deaths over sixteen years of fighting in the War in Afghanistan as of October 2017 have now reached.1,834 about ten deaths per month as the result of hostile action. The Mexican drug war not covered by the news media kills over a thousand young people each month. Perhaps we are fighting the wrong war?
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Filer’s Files #48 – 2017 UFOs Are Spaceships - PART II
Filer’s Files #48 – 2017 UFOs Are Spaceships - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Cylinder
Phoenix– I ,took this picture over the city a year and a half ago.
It reminds me of the picture that you had in Filer’s Files #47 of the Connecticut Cylinder. Lo e and Light,
Thanks to Dan
Arkansas Light
Paris— I was driving down the road one morning and thought I would take a picture of a pretty cool looking sunrise on November 11 2017.. It wasn’t until I went to edit the photo that I saw a cigar shaped object in the clouds.. The pic I’m sending is unedited but I don’t know what it is. Perhaps. someone at MUFON can tell me what it is. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Riverside — I like taking pictures of rainbows. I left my house and proceeded down the street and noticed a beautiful rainbow on August 31, 2017.
Well I took out my phone and took the picture . It wasn’t till later when I look at my pictures I realized I captured a UFO, Everyone I showed the pictures to told me you need send it in. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Light
Ouray— This is one of those discoveries that happened after the events were captured on November 16th, 2017. My friend and I were both taking photos on our iPhone while parked at Bear Creek Falls along the Million Dollar Highway just south of Ouray. We were shooting pics of the valley extending south towards the base of Abrams Mountain rising in the distance. We both shot lots of photos, not noticing anything out of the ordinary, but in the last two days we have both discovered striking shots of a green orb in our photos at exactly 10:52 am. From the photos timing/sequencing, this green sphere seems to have traveled miles in less than a microsecond and gives off a transparent saucer-like white hue at one point surrounding the green sphere. Both cameras captured the same thing and we have ruled out sun flares. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Objects
Thomaston — I was parked in the parking lot of my husband’s work waiting for him to get out. It was a little before 4 pm on November 19. 2017. I noticed what I thought at the time was a flock of white birds fly up over the hills, across the river very purposefully. I noticed I could identify other birds flying in the same area that I realized they were not birds. That is when I started to take pictures of objects following each other but not in any type of solid formation that I could tell. Much like a flock of sparrows or crows. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
Miami— Watching the Nascar Xfinity Series final on TV I saw a disc
The object was captured on November
18, 2017. Above the race. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Lights
Idaho Falls — I’ e seen quite a few ufos and think I’ve been possibly visited. A saucer, a huge camouflaged triangle, a huge white orb covered the moon and flew across the sky on June 8, 2018.
There was an orange orb in my back yard and more in Idaho Falls area. People just don’t look up. Thanks to MUFON CMS
’New Jersey Chevrons
Barnegat – On November 21, 2017, I observed two chevron shaped flying objects hovering above the tree line southwest of West Bay Avenue. The chevron outline was lit with lights and the crafts hovered above the trees and moved slightly into and out of my line of sight I could not tell how far away they were as they moved northeast on a steady path. went inside for a few minutes, then came back with phone in case they returned. They had so I took a short video. You can observe the hovering lights above the nearby lit homes. I also attached a picture depicting similar craft that someone else observed a while back. Pets did not react, I did not feel anything other than intrigued.
The video only shows lights in the distance hovering for a few minutes. See pic attached for general idea of what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Object
Okemah — I saw an object in the sky on October 16, 2017. that looked like it was in our south cow pasture. I pulled up to the stop sign and observed it for about 5 minutes. It never moved! I exited my car and took a picture with my cell phone and kept observing it for about 10 more minutes. I thought if it was a plane, drone, or blimp it should move very slowly. It never did! I had an appointment in town and had to go and it wasn’t there when I returned. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina Triangle
Driving down Highway 6 from Santee SC towards Eutawville and noticed 3 very bright lights side by side above the trees. I thought it was a tower because it was low and very bright. As I got closer I started filming from my car as I drove and when it got close I pulled over and took more video as it flew directly overhead. It was low, maybe 100 yards high but made no noise and moved extremely slow. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Euless– I was outside my back yard with s flashlight picking up pecans. Then I got my dog and sat down on my porch chair. I could see something to my left and looked and seen this glowing white thing moving around. I seen a helicopter actually coming from my right side and it passed the object going over it. Then I just started videoing it till I got scared. It’s 7:24 and it’s still out there! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Rainer — On October 11, 2017, I went out to take pics of the sunset from my back porch. I didn’t notice at the time, but in my photos I captured what looks like an aqua blue green orb hovering about 20-30 feet directly in front of me towards the south. It seems to be staying in the branches of the tree in the photos. It moves from left to right through 5 photos all taken within seconds of each other. The fifth photo in which the orb appears, it almost looks as if the object swings around the end of the branch of the tree. And in the following photo (6) the orb appears back towards the left again. But, now in the branches of a much larger tree which is 90 feet away. In every photo of the orb. I used the Live Photo mode on my iPhone 7plus Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Mandurah— I was with my 4 year old nephew who was playing with soap bubbles in the backyard. He was excited making lots of bubbles that were going everywhere. It was a perfect clear afternoon, not a cloud in the sky and perfect weather. As my nephew was making his soap bubbles, at one stage he pointed to the sky and said something like “Oh wow, look!”, then continued on making more.. As I looked up something caught my eye. I noticed two very bright lights in the sky sort of hovering on about a 60 degree angle above us. They were moving very slowly towards us. It was coming from a N/E direction at about the height of a low small Cessna aircraft. I noticed that there was actually nothing in between the two lights. I got the impression that these “lights” were observing us. The lights were extremely bright. At this moment the two lights (in unison) moved across the sky in an instant, then again twice more before the lights faded out, like powerful spotlights powering down. By the time the lights faded out and disappeared my brother came out. It was a very profound experience. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Triangle
Rio— A friend made two videos with a IPhone 7 showing a UFO fleet hovering at Engenho Novo, Rio de Janeiro on November 16, 2017. They had pulsating changing lights from blue, green to red yellow and in formation of three, mostly. They came from nothing and disappeared to nothing within five minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Lights
Paris — I was at home with my 12 year old daughter during the beginning of summer on the 24th of June 2010 when I was ‘attracted’ outside on the balcony. We live on the 5th floor of a building in Paris. I immediately took my video camera and took a snapshot of these strange objects. I was stunned – And my daughter as well – you can hear our vices on the video. Weirdly, the orbs became kind of ‘smart phones’ as I’ e seen a lot in videos in the sky of Mexico. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Gibraltar Disc
I was flying to Gibraltar and saw a black disc flew across on April 5, 2017. I was taking photos of clouds from the aircraft window. Then I saw a black object through my phone. I took 4 photos at one time and two ha e a visible sight of it. I looked through the window after and there was nothing as it disappeared. I was so surprised. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Disc
Trento — My 14 years old Michelangelo went for holydays to Trento, north of Italy on July 19, 2017, and ha e taken and sent to me a picture where I immediately observed a shadow on the air flying of the mountain. I kindly asked you to analyze my picture to verify if effectively is an OVNI or UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Japan Lights
Kyoto — My wife and I were sightseeing in Kyoto for the day and were on our way to the train station on November 18, 2017, when I saw this cool tower. I started to get out my phone and as I looked up there they were hovering around the sky near the tower. I snapped a picture with my phone and in the blink of an eye they took straight off and then made like a z then went straight up and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Object
Combra— I was watching the clouds on September 14, 2017, as I searched for airplanes and did my usual report of the chemtrails in my area, I noticed a strange cloud and zoomed in. Due to the bright sunlight I could not see the screen and only after reviewing the images on the computer did I notice that I had in fact filmed something similar to other secret projects like the TR3B or Sr91 Aurora. I was left with the feeling that there are more objects next to the triangular object Thanks to Carlos Vieira.
Russia Object
Chita City — 1. I was in my apartment and looked out the window and saw two slowly moving objects. A few weeks ago I’ e seen such objects, but I had no camera with me. 3.4. The objects were like inverted cones without a top. Bottom was glowing red or orange. Objects moving one behind the other on a small distance between them with a constant speed on June 17, 2010. 5. I took a few shots (canon 40dtamron 70-300mm). 6. The objects disappeared behind a neighboring house.
Cap— This happened around the late summer, in 2010, at 11 am. I was on the balcony with my mother, and noticed the stars were lit, I could not belie e and understand. They began to flicker (like a Garland) and one luminous object (supposedly a star) separated from this cluster. It went out and turned into a spaceship, forms of tears. His direction was the opposite of flickering flew very smoothly and did not deviate from the course. A cluster of stars, continued to flicker, as if escorting this ship. The spaceship could not be seen at first in the night sky, but soon as I expected, he reached the full moon. The ship was on the background of a clear moon for 30 seconds. . It was clear that he was huge and very far away. I assume that it was the size of one kilometer or two. He seemed to swim across the sky. The eye can be determined that it is huge, and also had a dark-silver color, but did not shine. It’s like a massive steel mass. This ship is something like ships from the Stargate. I saw later in the movie “Man of Steel.” It’s a huge ship that began to fade and disappeared literally in 10 seconds. I attached a picture from the movie “A Man From Steel as the closest analogy.”
Spain Disc
Barcelona– I saw A lying object from north to south southeast fast!
I took the picture on November 12, 2017. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England
Newport Pagnell – On a warm evening we were just walking Scobie our six stone dog who started to get very agitated letting me know there was a threat. When I looked up into the night sky, which was very clear, I saw a large triangular shape pass very slowly and very quietly across the sky blacking out the stars until the object passed by. The stars reappeared at the rear of the object where there was three soft orange lights , I presume they were engines of sorts, but there was no noise. Once passed a Good distance Scobie calmed down and went about her business, Regards Bob Smith
UK/Scotland Light
Perth – I was on vacation in Perth, staying in my parents attic with my partner it was roughly 4 am, got out of bed and passed the window noticed what looked like a really bright star on September 17, 2017. I observed it for a minute or so, It was at least 10 times brighter than anything else and appeared to be within the atmosphere and glowing like plasma. It did not appear to move and stopped watching after 5 minutes so I could tend to my partner. I never spent any more time watching, simply went to sleep. I found it quite strange after the event I seemed to completely forget about it didn’t show the video to anyone until at least a week later. I’m reporting it now is because I recently seen a video of a similar object that seemed to disperse the clouds around it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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NASA audio recordings sent to aliens now up for sale
NASA audio recordings sent to aliens now up for sale
ByBGR
NASA
In the late 1970s, NASA sent a pair of probes on a one-way mission into the depths of space. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 sent back some observations along the way, and while we knew we’d never actually see the spacecrafts again, we couldn’t rule out the possibility that someone or something might come across them some day, so a team of scientists included a gift.
Each probe was equipped with a single copy of NASA’s “Golden Record,” which includes highly scientific directions to our planet along with a collection of sounds and music that tell a brief tale of life of Earth.
Now, decades later, the contents of that historic relic are being released in a special edition package with audio tracks that are remastered from the original recordings. Yes, you can now pretend like you’re an alien and try to imagine what otherworldly civilization could have sent such a remarkable mix of sounds.
The Golden Record was packed with classic music sourced from all over the world, along with separate audio tracks that included the greetings of over 50 different languages. The first track is a greeting from Earth, and a lovely recording called “Sounds of Earth” features various animal and nature sound effects, intended to paint a vivid picture of Earthly life.
The full track listing is as follows:
Kurt Waldheim – Greeting from Kurt Waldheim, Secretary – General of the United Nations
Greetings in 55 Languages
United Nations Greetings/Whale Songs
Sounds of Earth
Munich Bach Orchestra/Karl Richter – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: I. Allegro (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Tom Djawa, Mudpo, and Waliparu – Barnumbirr (Morning Star) and Moikoi Song
Antonio Maciel and Los Aguilillas with Mariachi México de Pepe Villa/Rafael Carrión – El Cascabel (Lorenzo Barcelata)
Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
Pranis Pandang and Kumbui of the Nyaura Clan – Mariuamangɨ
Goro Yamaguchi – Sokaku-Reibo (Depicting the Cranes in Their Nest)
Arthur Grumiaux – Partita for Violin Solo No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: III. Gavotte en Rondeau (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Bavarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Wolfgang Sawallisch – The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), K. 620, Act II: Hell’s Vengeance Boils in My Heart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Georgian State Merited Ensemble of Folk Song and Dance/Anzor Kavsadze – Chakrulo
Musicians from Ancash – Roncadoras and Drums
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven – Melancholy Blues (Marty Bloom/Walter Melrose)
Kamil Jalilov – Muğam
Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps), Part II—The Sacrifice: VI. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) (Igor Stravinsky)
Glenn Gould – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 870 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer – Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67: I. Allegro Con Brio (Ludwig Van Beethoven)
Valya Balkanska – Izlel e Delyu Haydutin
Ambrose Roan Horse, Chester Roan, and Tom Roan – Navajo Night Chant, Yeibichai Dance
Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow – The Fairie Round (Anthony Holborne)
Maniasinimae and Taumaetarau Chieftain Tribe of Oloha and Palasu’u Village Community – Naranaratana Kookokoo (The Cry of the Megapode Bird)
Young girl of Huancavelica – Wedding Song
Guan Pinghu – Liu Shui (Flowing Streams)
Kesarbai Kerkar – Bhairavi: Jaat Kahan Ho
Blind Willie Johnson – Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Budapest String Quartet – String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Opus 130: V. Cavatina (Ludwig Van Beethoven)
From Beethoven to Chuck Berry, there’s a lot of quality music here, and if aliens do one day sit down to listen to it all they’ll no doubt be interested in what they hear. Of course, there’s also the possibility that giving aliens directions to find us could prompt them to wipe us out entirely, but we’ll try to look on the bright side of things for the moment.
The recordings will be made available on two CDs, along with a 96-page hardcover book containing the backstory of the record and the Voyager mission, along with print outs of the images that were also encoded on the record. It can currently be pre-ordered for a pretty reasonable sum of $50 with shipping in time for Christmas.
Researchers at MIT have created a new method of turning carbon dioxide emissions from power plants into a useful product. The resulting substance could be used as fuel for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as chemical feedstock with a large variety of applications.
MIT postdoc Xiao-Yu Wu developed the new membrane-based system alongside Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane professor of mechanical engineering. The membrane itself is made from a compound of lanthanum, calcium, and iron oxide. It works by allowing oxygen from carbon dioxide to pass through while leaving carbon monoxide on the other side.
The scientists behind the project report that the membrane is 100 percent selective when it comes to oxygen. The separation process is driven by extremely high temperatures, with a high of 990 degrees Celsius.
It’s crucial that the oxygen that separates off from the carbon monoxide continues to flow through the membrane until it has reached the other side. This could be accomplished using a vacuum, but that technique would require a great deal of energy. Instead, a stream of fuel — such as hydrogen or methane — will be employed, as these substances are easily oxidized and don’t require a pressure difference to ferry the oxygen atoms through the membrane.
The resulting carbon monoxide can either be used as a fuel in its own right, or combined with hydrogen, water, or a mixture of the two to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels. It can also be used to create chemicals like methanol, syngas, and more.
Environmental Impact
The heat required for the process could be supplied by solar energy or waste heat — some of which may be contributed by the power plant itself. In basic terms, the technique allows for that energy to be stored in chemical fuel form.
This is similar to the carbon capture projects being pursued by various groups all over the world. It’s no secret that we can’t maintain our current levels of carbon emissions, so something needs to be done to address the problem.
This particular technique harbors a great deal of potential: not only does it address carbon emissions, it provides a built-in method for paying for its set-up costs. Its creators have suggested that natural gas power plants could use the system in a manner that splits incoming gas into two streams: one that would be burned to generate electricity alongside its carbon dioxide production, and another that would work with the membrane to produce the oxygen-reacting fuel source. Such an implementation would allow the plant to yield syngas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) as a secondary revenue stream.
The next step will be an investigation into the best way to go about increasing the rate of oxygen flow across the membrane. Attempts are also being made to integrate the membrane into working reactors and to pair those reactors with the fuel production mechanism.The heat required for the process could be supplied by solar energy or waste heat — some of which may be contributed by the power plant itself.
Before the Great Deluge, Eighth Antediluvian Kings ruled for 241,200 years
Before the Great Deluge, Eighth Antediluvian Kings ruled for 241,200 years
“After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years.”
According to the accounts written down on the Sumerian King List, Eight ancient kings ruled over ancient Mesopotamia for a period of 241,200 years, before the Great Flood.
Despite the fact that the Sumerian King list names all rules who reigned over the lands of ancient Mesopotamia. Curiously, some of them are recorded having implausibly lengthy reigns.
Those are the first 8 rulers who according to the list, ruled for 241,200 years.
According to experts, none of the predynastic antediluvian rulers have so far been verified as historically accurate leaders by archaeological excavations, epigraphical inscriptions or otherwise.
The reign of antediluvian rulers was measured in sars, periods of 3600 years, ners, units of 600, and sosses units of 60.
The Sumerian King List states:
“After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years.”
Alulim—28,800 years.
The first king to rule was Alulim, who ruled for 8 Sars, meaning a total of 28,800 years. He was the First ruler of Eridu, and the first king of Sumer. It is believed that Enki, the creator God and patron God od Eridu brought civilization to Sumer at this point.
Alalngar—36,000 years.
Alalngar was the second king of Eridu, and the predecessor of Alulim. The Sumerian King list states that he ruled for 36,000 years after which he was succeeded by En-men-lu-ana of Bad-tibira.
“Then Eridug fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira.”
En-men-lu-ana—43,200 years
The next ruler who was king after Eridug fell was En-men-lu-ana who ruled for 43,200 years. According to the Sumerian King List, En-men-lu-ana was the third pre-dynastic ruler of ancient Sumer, and was the ‘longest reigning king’ according to historical accounts written down on the Sumerian King List.
En-men-gal-ana—28,800 years.
According to the Sumerian King List the fourth pre-dynastic ruler of Ancient Sumer was En-men-gal-ana who ruled for 28,800 years. He was succeeded by Dumuzid, the Shepherd.
Dumuzid, the Shepherd—36,000 years.
Dumuzid, commonly referred to as the ‘Shephard’ was the fifth pre-dynastic ruler that, according to the ancient Sumerian King List ruled of Sumer before the Deluge. According to historical accounts, he ruled for 36,000 years. Dumuzid is mentioned sometimes as the Son of Enki.
“Then Bad-tibira fell and the kingship was taken to Larag.”
After the fall of Bad-tibira, the Sumerian King List indicates En-sipad-zid-ana as the next ruler.
En-sipad-zid-ana—28,800 years.
En-sipad-zid-ana is mentioned as the sixth pre-dynastic ruler of ancient Sumer before the Deluge. According to the Sumerian King List, he ruled for 28,800 years.
“Then Larag fell and the kingship was taken to Zimbir.”
En-men-dur-ana—21,000 years.
The following ruler mentioned in the Sumerian King List after the fall of Larag is En-men-dur-ana, who was the seventh pre-dynastic king of Sumer and ruled for a total of 21,000 years.
“Then Zimbir fell and the kingship was taken to Shuruppag.”
After the fall of Zimbir, Ubara-Tutu ruled over ancient Sumer for a period of 18,600 years. Ubara-Tutu was the eighth and final pre-dynastic ruler of ancient Sumer, as noted in the Sumerian King List. Ubara-tutu is believed to have live until the great deluge swept over the land.
Elon Musk has once again warned about the dangers of unchecked artificial intelligence, this time in response to a viral video of a robot doing amazing acrobatic feats.
He then went on to elaborate on his comment in a follow-up tweet.
"Got to regulate AI/robotics like we do food, drugs, aircraft & cars. Public risks require public oversight. Getting rid of the FAA wdn’t [sic] make flying safer. They’re there for good reason."
The robot shown in the video probably doesn't pose any threat to humanity — yet. It's still not as nimble and versatile as an ordinary human, and according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Atlas isn't meant to be a killer robot. Instead, it's designed as a disaster robot that could do things like search for humans in rubble, where it would be too hazardous to send human beings.
Spaceflight Pollution: How Do Rocket Launches and Space Junk Affect Earth's Atmosphere?
Spaceflight Pollution: How Do Rocket Launches and Space Junk Affect Earth's Atmosphere?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
NASA's in-development Space Launch System (SLS) will make use of powerful solid rocket motors.
Credit: NASA
Nobody knows the extent to which rocket launches and re-entering space debris affect Earth's atmosphere — but such ignorance could be remedied soon.
The issue of rocket emissions — which deliver gases and particles directly into the middle and upper atmosphere — will be included in a forthcoming United Nations 2018 Quadrennial Global Ozone Assessment that delves into the substances responsible for ozone depletion.
"The 2018 assessment is really the first one to have a substantial section on rocket emissions, not just a passing thought," said Martin Ross, a lead author of the relevant section in the upcoming report. [The World's Tallest Rockets: How They Stack Up]
"The climate impact of rockets has not really been seriously addressed as yet," Ross, a senior project engineer for civil and commercial launch projects at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California, told Space.com. "But with respect to ozone, we now understand that the climate and ozone impacts of rocket exhaust are completely intertwined."
Rocket soot accumulates in the upper stratosphere, where the particles absorb sunlight, Ross said. This accumulation heats the upper stratosphere, changing chemical reaction rates and likely leading to ozone loss, he added.
In flagging the issue, Ross said he hopes the scientific community becomes interested enough to start running atmospheric models of the phenomenon — especially because the pace of rocket launches is expected to ramp up significantly in the coming decades.
"I think we're at about that point," Ross said.
No yardstick
A key study focus is the climate impact of major rocket-engine emissions: carbon dioxide, water, black carbon and alumina particles discharged by solid rocket-booster motors.
A recent finding, Ross said, is that alumina particles, previously thought to cool the Earth by scattering solar flux back to space, actually warm the planet, by absorbing outgoing terrestrial, long-wave radiation. However, fully appreciating the microphysics of alumina and other rocket emissions introduced into the atmosphere requires more research, he added.
For example, the interactions between Earth's atmosphere and exhaust from methane-fueled rocket engines have not been modeled, "so we really don't know" the effects these rockets have, Ross said.
There's no yardstick by which to assess how significant the impacts of rocket exhaust may be, he added.
"The notion of what is the metric by which rocket exhaust is to be judged … that is a completely open question," Ross said. "Then, compare that metric to the expected growth in launch rates. That really needs to be done. Just saying the ozone loss is too big — that's not an acceptable metric."
There has been a lot of buzz recently about spaceflight companies shooting for frequent "airline-like operations," but scientists, engineers and policy makers generally are not "putting two and two together with respect to the emissions that are implied by that idea," Ross said.
Researchers are investigating the extent to which rocket exhaust and falling space debris contribute to depleting Earth's ozone.
Credit: NASA
Re-entry smoke particles
Space hardware falling back to Earth can affect the atmosphere as well, so re-entering orbital debris should also be studied, Ross said.
"Vaporize" may mean "disappear" in most people's minds, but that's assuredly not the case with re-entering space junk, Ross said. Such debris, he said, generates "re-entry smoke particles" (RSPs) of unknown composition and reactivity. Scientific models suggest that at least 50 percent of a given debris object will end up as RSPs during re-entry.
"In that crucial 20 seconds of re-entry, you go from heating to melting to vaporization and then back into dust. How does that happen? What is that composition? We don't know at all. We need to get away from this idea that vaporization equals disappearance," Ross said. "Vaporization equals dust production. That process isn't well-understood at all. Again, we need to know the microphysics of these recondensed particles."
An Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship plunges into Earth's atmosphere in a fiery finale. Vaporization of discarded space hardware equals dust production — a process that is not well-understood.
Credit: ESA/NASA
Burning computers
The plunge into Earth's atmosphere of derelict satellites, rocket stages and other space flotsam is a common occurrence. For spacecraft re-entries, that process is "basically burning computers," Ross said.
During re-entry, big chunks of aluminum and other materials are subjected to intense heating. The chemical kinetics of the particles that are produced in this way have not been examined, Ross said. Some particles are very reactive, so small amounts of them could have a significant effect on atmospheric chemistry, he added.
"So far, nobody has deemed it important enough to study, and I believe it is," Ross said.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
New research provides evidence suggesting that life could be supported by Saturn’s icy ocean moon Enceladus.
Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn that is about 890 million miles from Earth, hides a global ocean beneath its crust of ice. Although Enceladus is less than 1 percent the size of our moon, its hidden ocean contains up to 10 percent of the amount of water that exists on Earth.
Earlier, NASA declared that Enceladus has conditions favorable to supporting life. Now, a recent study explains how Enceladus could sustain an ocean under its icy crust and how this environment could support life. Researchers matched observations with 3D computer models that depicted a wet, rocky, porous core and illustrated the possible ways in which such an ocean could form.
Image by VideoFromSpace on Youtube
Lead author Gaël Choblet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, said, “If a new theory published last year is correct, then powerful hydrothermal activity could have been occurring since the formation of the moon, possibly as much as the age of the solar system.”
David A Rothery, professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University, U.K., explained, “Chemical reactions are going on even today. If it’s going on today it could have been going on a billion years into the past, and that’s long enough for life to get started—and to have evolved beyond the very most basic stages. It could be quite a complex microbial community down there and we’d love to study it.”
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Nidhi is a gold medalist Post Graduate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. You can also find Nidhi on Google+.
STUDY: EXPLORATION OF SPECIAL REGIONS NEEDED TO FIND ALIEN LIFE ON MARS
STUDY: EXPLORATION OF SPECIAL REGIONS NEEDED TO FIND ALIEN LIFE ON MARS
TOMASZ NOWAKOWSK
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist’s concept. The mission will not only seek out and study an area likely to have been habitable in the distant past, but it will take the next bold step in the robotic exploration of the Red Planet by seeking signs of past microbial life itself.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An international team of researchers has conducted a study endorsing the exploration of the so-called Special Regions on Mars. They call for the relaxation of the planetary protection policy in order to allow sending robotic explorers to the restricted areas that could potentially host microbial life.
The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) defines “Special Regions” as zones within which terrestrial organisms are likely to propagate, or, in the case of the Red Planet, areas having a high potential for the existence of extant Martian life forms. However, planetary protection policy puts strict constraints on the exploration of these zones with the aim of protecting the Red Planet from terrestrial biological contamination – in this case, those coming from Earth.
Given that so far none of the spacecraft missions to Mars have explored the Special Regions, a group of scientists led by Alberto G. Fairén of the Center of Astrobiology in Madrid, Spain, advocate for changes in the planetary protection policy.
“Planetary protection policies are one of the main reasons why we have not been searching for life on Mars during the last 40 years. Relaxing the policies will allow for resuming a serious biological exploration of the planet,” Fairén told Astrowatch.net.
Major evolutionary events of life on Earth represented together with the possible trajectory of a hypothetical Martian biosphere. The origin of life could have occurred on Earth, on Mars, or on both planets, and then transferred from one to the other.
Image Credit: Alberto G. Fairén et al., 2017.
Fairén and his colleagues see a paradox in the implementation of the current planetary protection policy. In their study, they underline that this policy aims to prevent contamination of celestial bodies to avoid their harmful contamination, but on the other hand, it proclaims that the conduct of scientific investigations of possible extraterrestrial life forms, precursors, and remnants must not be jeopardized.
The researchers suggest that the current cleanliness standards required in order to enter Special Regions on Mars are too high what results in missing many opportunities to explore these areas today. For instance, NASA’s Curiosity rover was recently forbidden to inspect a readily accessible recurring slope lineae to confirm whether they contain briny liquid water. Thus another robotic mission needs to be sent to Mars in order to do what Curiosity could do presently in Gale Crater.
“Protection is needed, but not the current overprotection. Current policies put Special Regions just out of the reach of any biological exploration. We advocate for relaxing the policies and allowing access to Special Regions to robots with Curiosity-like cleanliness level,” Fairén said.
Fairén’s team entitled their study “Searching for Life on Mars Before It Is Too Late” as they emphasize how much important is the quick implementation of a revised planetary protection policy. Given that NASA’s goal is to send humans to Mars in 2030s, there is not much time to determine whether any indigenous life exists on the Red Planet before astronauts set foot on the Martian surface, exposing this planet to an unprecedented level of terrestrial bioburden.
“What we highlight here is a problem of timing: if we had still 50 or 70 years with no forecasted human presence on Mars ahead of us, we could sympathize with more conservative approaches for searching for extant martian life, but manned missions are already planned and budgeted for less than 20 years from today,” the researchers wrote in the paper.
The authors of the study propose a relaxation of the current policy by mainly allowing immediate access to the Special Regions for vehicles with the cleanliness level of Curiosity, NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover, or ESA’s ExoMars mission.
“ExoMars is likewise banned to come close to Special Regions, with the result that it will be cleared to search for life everywhere on Mars except in the places where we suspect life might exist,” Fairén noted.
The study suggests that it would be necessary to reevaluate the current restrictions, making sure that the spacecraft cleanliness level for biological reconnaissance and the spacecraft cleanliness level for planetary protection are properly set to ensure searching for microbial life on the Martian soil.
Moreover, the researchers urge that our existing laboratory robotic technology is made flight ready in the search for biochemical evidence of life. They also support the idea of the development of robotic nucleic acid sequencing instrumentation for future in-situ detection and sample return mission.
VIDEO: Ook gezien vanochtend? Heldere vuurbol aan de hemel - HLN.be
VIDEO: Ook gezien vanochtend? Heldere vuurbol aan de hemel - HLN.be
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WETENSCHAP & PLANEETVanuit heel Vlaanderen kwamen vanochtend meldingen binnen van een grote vuurbol aan de hemel. “Dat moet een heel heldere vallende ster geweest zijn”, zegt weerman Frank Deboosere.
Tijdens de ochtendshow van Linde Merckpoel op Studio Brussel maakte een luisteraar als eerste melding van het fenomeen. Werd eerst nog de mogelijkheid geopperd dat hij misschien wat teveel had gedronken, quod non, dan stroomden er nadien vanuit heel Vlaanderen berichten binnen van luisteraars die meldden dat ze die heldere flits ook waargenomen hadden.
Volgens weerman Frank Deboosere ging het om een vuurbol, een zeer heldere vallende ster. “Het moet een steentje van een centimeter of enkele centimeters geweest zijn, maar als dat de atmosfeer induikt, kan het zo helder zijn als een volle maan.”
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In late September, SpaceX founder Elon Musk traveled to the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia to update the world on his company’s plans for taking humanity to Mars.
The International Astronautical Federation released the official video of his talk Monday, offering a new chance to see Musk’s plans. As Inverse reported in September, the big takeaway from the presentation is that Musk now believes SpaceX has found a way to pay for the company’s Mars ambitions.
The key, Musk explained, is through the development of the BFR — which supposedly stands for Big Falcon Rocket but, you know, the “F” probably stands for something else — to replace the existing Falcon 9 and the long-planned Falcon Heavy.
Bigger than the Saturn V that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon, this larger rocket would be able to take on all conceivable tasks in low-Earth orbit. Its reusability would, according to Musk, make it the cost-effective rocket to fly per cost of launch. This would make it the ideal workhorse for ferrying people and cargo the International Space Station and elsewhere around our planet.
Part of the plan even calls for using the BFR for passenger flights between any two points on Earth in less than an hour — though experts tell Inverse there’s reason to be skeptical of Musk’s math here.
Looking beyond Earth, Musk set 2022 as the “aspirational” date for the first two uncrewed SpaceX cargo ships to reach Mars, with 2024 as the similarly ambitious target date for the first human visitors. He also suggested the BFR could be used to help build a lunar outpost, which he gave the nerd-friendly name Moon Base Alpha.
While SpaceX has previously made Musk’s talk available as a webcast, this video from the IAF is just the headliner for a treasure trove of newly uploaded talks and discussions from the weeklong conference. What had largely been available just as a series of shakily shot periscopes is now online as official, high-definition YouTube videos. Any hardcore space nerds would do well to check them all out, but here are a few of our favorites.
Here’s a panel discussion looking ahead to the prospect of the first woman on the moon.
Here’s noted science guy Bill Nye discussing the LightSail, his crowdfunded solar sail project.
And here’s a look at SpaceX competitor Lockheed Martin’s own plans for the red planet, known as Mars Base Camp.
Sophia, the humanoid robot, wants to crowdfund the development of advanced artificial intelligence through a token-based system where users can buy and sell services in a marketplace. SingularityNET, the project that will enable this exchange, announced Tuesday an upcoming token sale that will help Sophia expand her capabilities.
The company describes a “global brain” with multiple A.I. systems working together to complete tasks. Developers can create new A.I.s, and users can pay to take advantage of their services through blockchain payments similar to the technology behind Bitcoin. SingularityNET is working with Cindicator, a predictive intelligence for asset management, to grow their A.I. needs.
It’s a markedly different approach to A.I. development tha the likes of Google and Facebook, which have instead depended on creating systems that benefit their overall business model. For instance, Facebook revealed this week that it was using A.I. to identify when users are thinking of suicide.
That’s a feature that could have much wider-ranging social benefits, but it’s also one designed specifically with the needs of Facebook’s social network in mind as opposed to being built expressly for the general benefit of humanity — and, as Sophia would point out, the benefit of other sentiences.
Sophia herself, whose title these days is Hanson Robotics’ “Chief Humanoid Officer,” took to video to cut a promo for SingularityNET.
The company will start selling tokens on December 8 at noon Eastern time. The amount of tokens available during the crowdsale depends on how many are sold during the as-yet unfinalized private sales. When 500 million tokens are sold for the value of $36 million between the crowd and private sales, the overall sale will end.
Pre-registration will take place through the company’s whitelist page, where potential buyers can note their interest and set a contribution amount.
Read the abstract for the company’s whitepaper on its A.I. services marketplace below, which is available in full here.
The value and power of Artificial Intelligence is growing dramatically every year, and will soon dominate the internet – and the economy as a whole. However, AI tools today are fragmented by a closed development environment; most are developed by one company to perform one task, and there is no way to plug two tools together. SingularityNET aims to become the key protocol for networking AI and machine learning tools to form a coordinated Artificial General Intelligence.
SingularityNET is an open-source protocol and collection of smart contracts for a decentralized market of coordinated AI services. Within this framework, the benefits of AI become a global commons infrastructure for the benefit of all; anyone can access AI tech or become a stakeholder in its development. Anyone can add an AI/machine learning service to SingularityNET for use by the network, and receive network payment tokens in exchange.
SingularityNET is backed by the SingularityNET Foundation, which operates on a belief that the benefits of AI should not be dominated by any small set of powerful institutions, but shared by all. A key goal of SingularityNET is to ensure the technology is benevolent according to human standards, and the network is designed to incentivize and reward beneficial players.
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Stil alarm na UFO ter grootte van Boeing boven vliegveld Beek. Zijn we bezocht door iets van ‘elders’?
Stil alarm na UFO ter grootte van Boeing boven vliegveld Beek. Zijn we bezocht door iets van ‘elders’?
Maandagavond kwam bij de redactie een opmerkelijke UFO-melding binnen van een persoon die naar eigen zeggen als technicus werkzaam is op vliegveld Beek. De getuige wenst anoniem te blijven.
Mensen die meer weten over onderstaand voorval of er getuige van zijn geweest mogen zich (desgewenst anoniem) melden bij de redactie of een reactie achterlaten onder dit artikel.
Hieronder de melding in zijn geheel:
Ik ben professional in de luchtvaarttechniek en op 24-11-17 om 04.35 am is er stil alarm geslagen op vliegveld Beek in Limburg. Dit stil alarm is bedoeld voor bepaalde risicovluchten, wij verwerken veel transportvliegtuigen en zware metalen.
Als er met aanvliegroutes drukte is en weersomstandigheden niet optimaal zijn dan maken wij gebruik van dit alarm.
Dit is meer een oproep tot briefing voor waakzaamheid. Het stil alarm wordt ook gebruikt voor als belangrijke personen landen.
Luchtvoertuig
Het gebeurt regelmatig dat VIPs in Beek landen en voor sommige hoge lieden die naar de TEFAF-beurs gaan wordt er zelfs van ‘de stille’ gebruikgemaakt.
Het alarm is dus niet voor de inzet van nooddiensten, wel om deze paraat te houden (bij stil alarm naast brandweer ook medische VAC).
Wat er gisteren gebeurde is dat wij gebriefd werden, maar niet over deze standaardkwesties. Het stil alarm was ingezet voor een mogelijk noodscenario, een luchtvoertuig dat wel op de radar verscheen maar geen responder had, ook niet reageerde op radiosignalen.
Iets van ‘elders’
Als dit ergens anders gebeurde zouden er F16’s naast vliegen. Maar er was geen tijd voor. Het object naderde de radar (ten zuiden van de verkeerstoren en ook opgemerkt op de secundaire radar), wat ik hoorde, met een snelheid van meer dan 2000 km/h.
Het verdween van de radar en wij denken dat we te maken hebben met iets ‘van elders’. Het is niet militair. Initieel dachten wij aan een crash, maar na het bekijken van de data bleek dat het object ook onder de horizon van de radar is verdwenen en dus niet meetbaar.
In de verkeerstoren zagen ze wel een vertraging, en daarna een acceleratie. Het is een object dat op radar is waargenomen ter grootte van een [Boeing] 777.
Instructies
Wij hebben instructies gekregen er niet over te praten, maar ik ben toch benieuwd naar de waarheid.
Een paar collega’s die zich bezighouden met de nieuwe lijndiensten voor het vrachtverkeer praten wel eens over annenaku en zijn nu stil en doodsbang.
Ze maken dan een grapje terwijl ze eerst bloedserieus waren. Ik dacht altijd dat ze complotgekkies waren, maar nu vraag ik mezelf af of er niet iets meer speelt.
Want het gaat best om veel medewerkers die hiervan gehoord hebben en er angstig om zijn. Ik zeg jullie eerlijk dat ik er niet in geloof, misschien worden we gefopt. Maar waarom zijn ze dan zo bang.
Als jullie contacten hebben kun je dit nagaan want ook de verkeerstorens in Brussel, Luik en Londen weten hiervan.
Ik kan je zeggen dat de hele nacht mensen hebben zitten zweten zonder te weten waarom, standby en overwerk, en nu klagen over de baas, het salaris enzo. Ik houd deze melding anoniem. benieuwd of jullie iets weten dus ik houd deze site in de gaten!
Plaats, datum en tijd:
Plaats: Beek, Limburg
Datum: 24-11-2017
Tijd: 04.35 am
UFO-kenmerken:
Kleur: onbekend
Grootte: vergelijkbaar met 777 op civiele radar
Vorm: tetragonaal denken wij uit analyse van data, maar dat ligt aan onze apparatuur
Vliegrichting: 2000 km/h , alles tussen 100m en 10km altitude
De 100m is waar hij verdween richting (over) Zeebrugge (laatste waarneming). Object kwam uit de richting 224 vanaf N en boog af, een vreemde slowdown en acceleratie hier in Limburg boven Beek.
Ik werk niet aan de data dus hier moet je het mee doen, ik wil niet ontslagen worden namelijk, dit is ongeveer wat iedereen hier inmiddels weet intern.
It seems to be a rare thing these days to come across a person who isn’t at least open to the idea of intelligent extraterrestrial life existing somewhere in the universe (or if you prefer, multiverse). In fact, the general consensus within the mainstream scientific community is that we are assuredly not alone; as the Director of Operations for Bigelow Aerospace, Mike Gold, puts it, the universe is most probably “teeming with intelligent extraterrestrial life.” In fact, top U.S astronomers recently testified in front of U.S. congress expressing the same belief.
Furthermore, we have a number of scientists, astronomers, astronauts, high-ranking military/political personnel, and academics trying to tell the world that we are not alone, that we never have been, and that intelligent extraterrestrial life has been and is currently visiting our planet and interacting with the human race.
“Yes, it’s both. [ET contact is] both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, or, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.”
Dr. Theodore C. Loder III, Professor Emeritus of Earth Science at the University of New Hampshire, is a great example; he has been telling the world that intelligent beings from other star systems have and are visiting our planet Earth for some time now.
And Dr. Jack Kasher, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Nebraska, has said: “There is another way, whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.”
Former head of the CIA Roscoe Hillenkoetter is one out of hundreds of examples that come from personnel within the Department of Defence making the same claims. He was quoted as saying, “Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” `
When thousands upon thousands of declassified UFO documents from dozens of governments are added to the equation, it’s not hard to see why so many people in ‘high’ places are starting to speak out. Even those within the government have been voicing their concern. Any time an article about UFOs is being written, it should be clear that this is a serious issue that has been receiving a lot of attention (for decades) by some very serious people and defence intelligence agencies.
I apologize if you have already come across this information in some of my previous articles, but there are still many people out there who will read this not knowing that a ‘UFO/extraterrestrial issue,’ for lack of a better term, even exists.
For more information, quotes, documents and heavily sourced articles that pertain to this phenomenon, you can browse through the exopolitics section of our website.
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Oud-medewerker NASA claimt 2,7 meter lange alien te hebben gezien. Spreekt hij de waarheid? in Buitenaards 28 november 2017 07:30 10 Reacties 2,812 Bekeken
Oud-medewerker NASA claimt 2,7 meter lange alien te hebben gezien. Spreekt hij de waarheid?
Een voormalig medewerker van NASA zegt een 2,7 meter lang buitenaards wezen te hebben gezien in één van de Amerikaanse spaceshuttles.
Hij keek naar eigen zeggen toe hoe het wezen een gesprek voerde met astronauten.
Diverse UFO-websites beweren dat dit onomstotelijk bewijs is voor een wereldwijde samenzwering waarbij onze leiders in het geheim samenwerken met aliens. Anderen zijn daar minder zeker van.
35 jaar
Clark McClelland
Clark C. McClelland deed de uitspraak in een video die recentelijk werd opgedoken.
Hij beweert 35 jaar voor NASA te hebben gewerkt, onder meer aan het Apolloprogramma.
Er is fotomateriaal van McClelland in spaceshuttle Columbia in 1992 en er is nog niemand geweest die heeft gezegd dat de man niet voor NASA heeft gewerkt.
Vrachtruimte
Hij volgde een spaceshuttlemissie vanuit het Kennedy Space Center, toen hij iets zag wat er niet hoorde te zijn: een slanke alien die in de vrachtruimte van de spaceshuttle een gesprek voerde met twee astronauten.
Hij zei in de buurt van de spaceshuttle ook een buitenaards schip te hebben gezien.
Overheden
McClelland: “Ik herken een alien of een buitenaards schip gelijk. Ze zijn hier op aarde, ze leven onder ons. Ze zitten mogelijk zelfs in verschillende van onze aardse overheden.”
Meer informatie over McClelland is te vinden op zijn website Stargate Chronicles.
“And now it turns out that somehow these swabs reveal bacteria that were absent during the launch of the ISS module. That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface.”
While the rest of humanity is looking on solar system moons and faraway exoplanets for signs of extraterrestrial life, a Russian cosmonaut revealed that he has already found it and it’s closer than you think – on the outside of the International Space Station. Are we analyzing it … or vice versa?
In an interview with TASS (yes, the Russian media let this alien cat out of the bag, NASA), cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, busy preparing for his third trip to the International Space Station on December 17th, revealed that during his previous 365 days in space he encountered what he describes as life that was not brought to the ISS by humans or floated up on its own but has “come from outer space.”
Shkaplerov explained that he and other cosmonauts out on spacewalks used sterile cotton swabs to collect samples from the outer skin of the space station, especially from remote and obscure places where other spacewalkers haven’t looked before (hear that, NASA?). Wow. How did they determine that what they swabbed was some sort of alien bacteria?
“After that, the samples were sent back to Earth.”
Ahhhh! Really?
“They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger.”
Key words in cosmonaut Shkaplerov’s statement: “so far” and “it seems.” Yes, bacteria samples have been found on the outside of the ISS before – that’s how researchers found terrestrial bacteria that reached space via some sort of ionospheric lift and survived the vacuum and severe temperature shifts of space for years. They’ve also studied microorganisms inside the ISS and observed that space can cause them to mysteriously shape-shift, making them hardier. According to Dr. Luis Zea, one of the researchers:
“We knew bacteria behave differently in space and that it takes higher concentrations of antibiotics to kill them.”
All the more reason to keep them in space rather than on Earth, right?
Too late.
Why hasn’t NASA said anything about this? Does it know all about the alleged alien bacteria and was planning to keep it quiet? There are American and international astronauts onboard the ISS and Cosmonaut Shkaplerov himself worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston from April–October 2007 as Director of Operations for the Russian Space Agency. Now he’s returning to the space station with NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).
What will Shkaplerov be looking for on this mission? Is he taking bigger cotton swabs? Stronger antibiotics? Petri dishes with tougher locks? Phasers?
As we continue to invent more powerful telescopes and farther-reaching proves, humankind may have finally made contact with life from outside of our own planet much more close to home. That’s according to Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who will make this third trip to the International Space Station in December. Shkaplerov recently said in an interview that he had personally discovered foreign microbes growing on the side of the ISS.
Shkaplerov (left) and Scott Kelly aboard the ISS.
Shkaplerov told Russian state news agency TASS that while swabbing the ISS hull for testing on a previous trip, bacteria was detected growing on the outside of the ISS which was found not have a terrestrial origin:
It turns out that somehow these swabs reveal bacteria that were absent during the launch of the ISS module. That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface. They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger.
While it’s awesome to imagine that these bacteria might be our first extraterrestrial contact, there is the likelihood that the bacteria were still introduced via contamination from earthly sources. Bacteria from Madagascar and plankton from the Barents Sea were found growing on the ISS earlier this year, forcing scientists to suggest raising the upper limits of the known biosphere to 400 km (248 miles). While we imagine space as empty, the space directly around the Earth can be affected by our planet through a number of processes.
Samples are routinely taken from various locations on the outside of the space station.
The remarks of cosmonaut Shkaplerov adds a new strand the web of strangeness surrounding Russia and the International Space Station. Earlier this year, the Russian space agency Roscosmos hinted at the discovery of foreign biomaterial on the outside of the space station, prompting a flyby from an American mystery satellite. Soon after, Roscosmos sent a mysterious, unidentified module up to the ISS for some sort of undisclosed experiment. Could this be the beginning of a new chapter of human history, or is Russian state media engaging in some good ol’ fashioned disinformation?
During the past three-and-a-half decades, Britain’s most famous/notorious UFO case has been the subject of numerous books, articles and documentaries. It has also generated some of the most fierce and downright nasty feuds the UFO field has ever known. We are, of course, referring to the Rendlesham Forest incident, in which US military personnel bore witness to baffling events just outside of RAF Woodbridge near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, on the nights of December 26 and 28, 1980.
Despite having embedded itself firmly into UFO lore and having made the occasional dent in official culture as tabloid fodder, those Rendlesham UFOs—whatever they were—never managed to plant their landing gear fully into our pop-cultural landscape. That may be about to change, however.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures Television has teamed up with UK-based Eleventh Hour Films forRendlesham, a major new TV drama based on the UFO incident(s).
Joe Ahearne.
The show is to be helmed by award-winning writer/director Joe Ahearne (Doctor Who). Co-producer Eve Gutierrez told the Hollywood Reporter:
“Joe is a master story-teller with a long-standing fascination for science-fiction so we were totally thrilled when the Rendlesham story sparked for him… Now, working with Sony Pictures Television, we are looking forward to bringing this timely, other-worldly story to the global market.”
President of international production at Sony Pictures Television, Wayne Garvie, added:
“The Cold War, Cruise Missiles, UFOs—Joe is taking extraordinary tales and giving them even more compelling twists. As a local lad, I can’t wait to see him bring his vision of Suffolk to the world.”
Ahearne himself remarked:
“When Eleventh Hour Films drew my attention to this extraordinary piece of British and American history it pressed all my buttons and I think it will do the same for a wide audience.”
It sounds like an ambitious project, and its source material is ripe for serious dramatic treatment. Could Rendlesham be the production that finally does justice to the mysterious events of those two fantastical nights in the harsh English winter of 1980, or will this sci-fi dramatization serve to further blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy in the popular consciousness? Either way, “Britain’s Roswell” is now set to receive it’s full Hollywood makeover and to join its iconic American cousin in the global spotlight.
When looking at sightings reports of strange creatures and mysterious entities every so once in a while one comes across something that just seems to exist out in its own sphere of bizarreness, something so incredibly odd that it falls outside of any known category and which leave us utterly baffled. I have covered extremely bizarre cryptids of all shapes and sizes here at Mysterious Universe before, on more than one occasion in fact, as well as very unusual entities that are thought to be aliens, but at other times there is just no real classification to put some reports in, and it is not immediately clear if we are supposed to be dealing with a mystery animal, a ghost, a demon, and inter dimensional being, or what. These cases swirl about there on the outer edges of strangeness, seeming to defy us and challenge us to try and make sense of them. Here I bring you a selection of out there reports concerning humanoid creatures that lie squarely entrenched in the realm of the truly unexplained. From deer-headed men, to bizarre stick figures, to other less definable things and more, here are some of the weirdest.
One very odd humanoid creature of some sort that has been reported is what appears to be some sort of deer men, with various truly bizarre sightings of such creatures from all over the United States. One account was made in northeast Ohio by a witness who claims that he was at his cousin’s house playing hide and seek outside on day when he was 14 years old. It was reportedly around dusk, and they were playing near a wooded creek when it was the witnesses turn to search, and as he did he claims that he heard the sound of leaves crackling under foot. He turned to look expecting to see his cousin, but instead saw a deer through the brush that appeared to be oddly standing up on its hind legs, unusual for a deer but which would prove to be even stranger than that. The report reads:
It was getting dark and I was the one searching. I heard leaves crumpling, and when I turned to look, I saw what looked like a deer on its hind legs. I clearly remember seeing “dog legs” running, but the rest of the body was straight up. And it ran with incredible speed, and I knew it wasn’t either of my cousins hiding. I ran as fast as I could back to the house, and my one of my cousins was running in too, he saw the same thing. It still creeps me out to this day, because my uncle always told us how he saw weird things on that property.
A sighting of a similar creature that appears to have also had the ability of shapeshifting was made in the state of Delaware in 1993. The witness claims that he was around 8 years old at the time and he had been staying with his family at his grandparents’ house in a rural, forested area near the town of Hockessin. One morning he says he woke to a clear day with the sun shining in through the window and also the surreal sight of the silhouette of a deer with a huge rack of antlers standing just outside. Things would get bizarre rapidly, and the witness says of what happened next thus:
It was RIGHT there, like almost pressed against the window in profile. I stared in awe. And that is when it changed. In one smooth movement, it reared up on its hind legs and it was no longer a deer, but a man. There were only two men in the area, my grandfather and my dad, and it was clearly neither (not sure if that made it better or worse). Grandfather was very built for his age, dad had a gut. This silhouette was clearly younger, muscular but not in the “like a brick” way my grandfather was. It exuded strength. And scared the hell out of me. It stared to the side for a moment, and then strode off with purpose. Looking back, I want to tell myself it was just the imagination of a half-awake child, but I remember the awe and the utter fear I felt when the “deer” changed.
Yet another Deer Man sighting was made as recently as 2012, in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. In this account, a Kyle Heying claims that he was out at the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in order to take photographs of the night sky there with a friend. On this evening at around 10 PM, the usual sounds of the forest suddenly became muted and the local wildlife started to display some decidedly bizarre and uncharecteristic behavior. First some elk came running by and then a herd of bison, which all came uncomfortably close before hurrying off, and it seemed almost as if these animals were trying to get away from something scaring them out in the dark forest beyond.
This was enough to spook the men into packing up their stuff and calling it a night, and as they did they allegedly felt a strange change in air pressure and all of the sounds of the woods just stopped to send a profound silence crashing down upon them. The two unsettled men then heard something rustling about out in some tall grass nearby, jarring in the otherwise void of silence that had blanketed the area, and it seemed like whatever it was was coming towards them. Haying claims that he and his friends had then picked up some rifles they had with them, wary of what was apparently approaching. They started the car and began to drive off when they saw something step out in front of the vehicle that they would never forget, a creature which Heying described as having a head like an elk but which stood upright on two human legs and which had two human arms and “dark red” eyes. As they passed it, the nightmarish creature lurched forward to hit the car, and Heying floored it away as fast as the vehicle would go until they were about 3 miles away, where they stopped their flight to regain their wits. Heying would say of what happened next thus:
We were scared shitless. Things got even quieter when we stayed there. While there we heard one ear-piercing screech or scream, almost a hunting screech of some sort that made my hair stand on end and gave me goose bumps even worse. With that we left the mountains completely, we felt as though we were not wanted there that night. The way the wildlife acted, the figure that we came across that the animals had to have ran from, and then the scream of which I can only find references to happens to be the Banshee. I cannot forget that figure we saw, as well as the scream. It was not human but it was not of any wildlife I am familiar with from out there.
What in the world could possibly account for what these witnesses saw? Just what kind of creature could these things possibly be and are any of these accounts connected in any way? No one knows. Deer men are not even the strangest of humanoid creatures to have been reported, and we’re just getting started. In summer of 2012 there was a head-scratching sighting near Washington Park, near Michigan City, Indiana, that is really hard to classify.
The witness claims that she had been staying at the beach house of a friend by Lake Michigan and that there had been a lightning storm at the time. At around 2 AM some of them went outside to smoke and watch the lightning, and that was when they noticed the beam of a flashlight scanning the tall grass by the shore nearby as if searching for something. Thinking this to be a bit odd, the group of friends watched on and saw that the beam had captured an elongated, grayish humanoid looking creature stretched out on the beach, and the witness would say:
The light sweeps by something in the grass, then it shines back onto it. What was illuminated was very strange. It appeared to be a naked guy crawling around on the grass. Although, it had elongated arms and legs. It was moving kinda fast crunched over. It only lasted a few seconds, long enough for all of us to see it. Then, after the thing ran off, the flashlight shines directly at us. It stayed pointing at us until it went out after a few seconds. Creepy. So, were all like WTF was that, we ask asked what each other saw. We all seen a weird stretched out naked guy. The only explainable thing it could have possibly been was a drunk gangly naked guy. But, I don’t think so because it looked abnormally stretched, the light pointed at us, and it freaked everyone out. It was something strange. I can’t say what the height of it was accurately, maybe around 7ft tall. My husband said it looked like something from a Marilyn Manson music video.I wanted to go down there. I wanted to see if we could find it. But, no one would go and they were creeped out and wanted to go back inside.
What on earth was the outlandish thing they saw? What was with that flashlight and why did it train itself on the observers of this surreal scene? Who knows? In August of 2017 there was a series of sightings of a very strange humanoid figure on a farm near Boca Raton, Florida. The witness, who originally posted his experience on Reddit, says that on the 14th he saw something very unusual one evening at dusk as he was eating dinner and staring out over the property. He said that a very tall, grey colored humanoid that looked like the character “Gumby” lurched out of the tree line, took a few steps, and then went back into the forest lining the property. The witness says:
It was flat but its legs bended in a way that looked like a plank bending. Like how a piece of wood bows when weight is put on it but springs back up when the weight is taken off. Its body, from where I could see it, was rigid. It didn’t look flexible aside from the legs and the limbs were fairly wide The next night, at the same time, the same exact thing happened except my parents were with me. It walked on two legs but it was more like lunges or arching steps than human walking. I asked them if they saw that and they just said “saw what?” Then it happened AGAIN the third night. So either my body is giving me random hallucinations in sync with my body’s time clock or there’s some weird Slendergumby demon living on the farm behind my house. I haven’t been home much recently so I haven’t been able to look for it again but if I’m able to. I haven’t seen whatever it was since those three times and was unable to get a photo of it due to how far away it was. This was in the middle of a very populated city so seeing something this outlandish in a human heavy area was quite strange.
If none of these are weird enough for you, then how about the disturbing number of reports of stick figures seen lurking in rural and deserted areas of the world? When I say stick figure I don’t mean simply something that is elongated and thin, but rather literally a stick figure, as if something a child might draw. This is what some people have apparently been sighting since at least 2008, and they are deeply bizarre to say the least. The Stick Figures are typically described as just that, tall and extremely thin dark beings with no discernible facial features and which move smoothly and fluidly, with some reports saying that they do not change dimensions no matter what angle they are observed from, as if they are actually 2D constructs, and others mentioning air pressure changes, static electricity, and a feeling of malevolence in their presence.
The tales of these creatures certainly have an urban legend vibe to them, but are nevertheless numerous enough across the Internet to deserve mention. One early account from a man named Simon Howes seems to originate from all the way back in 1982, when a witness says he was studying to be a nurse at Warley Hospital, Brentwood in Essex, England, where he saw what can only be described as a stick figure while he was walking home one night. The witness says:
I encountered a ‘stick person’ in the grounds of the Hospital as I was walking home one night. It lopped across the roadway having been, seemingly, pressed up against a wall. It stopped when it saw me and raised it’s arms in fright and quickly walked off into the undergrowth. It was very tall with very thin, extremely long arms and legs and a very small oval head. Totally black and no obvious clothing. I saw no face even though it emerged very near a street lamp and so was well illuminated. I was terrified and to this day, no-one believes me.
Another such report comes from a witness named Damien Castellione, who claims that his sister and cousin saw one of the creatures when she was a kid at their aunt’s funeral. The witness says:
You know my sister told me that she saw a stick man too when she was a kid. back then it was our aunt’s funeral and she was sitting outside the funeral when she noticed a strange “stick like person” walking back and forth above the electric wiring of the pole in front of the funeral that is (she is more or less 10 walking distance away from the pole). She got really frightened and she told our cousin to look at it, at first our cousin didn’t believe her but after a few minutes she saw the stick man too and both of them got terrified they told our cousin’s mom if she saw the stickman and she said no. it took several hours, it was noon – until dawn before it faded away. she told the story to me and I had doubts but when I saw this article I was like.. wow I never thought a lot of people saw a stickmen too from around the world.
Some of these unearthly creatures have even been apparently photographed, although the quality of this evidence leaves much to be desired. Such reports have actually pored in from all corners of the globe, and it seems to be a phenomenon for which there is no clear answer. Is this just an urban legend in the making? If these stick-like figures are actually real then what could they possibly be? Aliens? Inter-dimensional beings or ghosts? What? Whatever they are or aren’t, actual literal stick figures prowling darkened roads and woods at night have to rank right up there as among the oddest, most bizarre things anyone could expect to come across.
It seems that the world of strange sightings can often truly veer off into completely uncharted territory and things that seem unable to truly be classified, existing in their own fringe world of sheer, utter insanity. There they lurk in the dim confines of a realm we have no understanding of and of which many do not even know is there at all. These are things for which there is no easy way to classify, things which seem to have lurched out of some sort of horror story. What are these creatures, if anything? How can we explain these oddities and anomalies? If we can glean anything from this it is that these are some truly strange bizarre sightings out there that defy conventions, and which may never cease to puzzle.
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Giant 3-Mile-Wide Asteroid 3200-Phaethon to Shave Earth’s Orbit before Christmas
Giant 3-Mile-Wide Asteroid 3200-Phaethon to Shave Earth’s Orbit before Christmas
A mysterious 3-mile-wide asteroid is going to buzz our planet before Christmas.
Although NASA has classified it has a ‘potentially hazardous asteroid’ and Russian astronomers have warned that the object will fly past ‘quite close there is no chance it will hit us as it will pass 6.4 million miles from Earth on December 17, 2017.
The huge asteroid 3200 Phaethon is named after the Greek demi-god who according to the legend, borrowed the sun chariot from his father the God Helios, however, Phaethon was unable to control the horses and nearly set the Earth on fire due to the misdriving of the sun’s chariot before being killed by Zeus who was forced to kill Phaethon with a thunderbolt to avoid a disaster.
The asteroid 3200 Phaethon is the long-sought parent body of the Geminids meteor shower. The meteor shower which can be seen from December 4-16, 2017 reaching its peak around December 13 while asteroid 3200 Phaethon will also be bright enough to see in small telescopes.
Phaethon which means ‘the shining one’ will probably bring some nice fireworks in the sky.
Farmers in the Niali district of India are reporting a series of horrific sheep mutilations that has seen five sheep killed in three separate villages this week. All of the sheep were found eviscerated with their livers almost surgically removed through their abdomens. Unidentified footprints have been found near the scenes of the crimes, reports local news outlet Kalinga TV, but the identity of the animal (or whatever) responsible is still unknown. These new mutilations bring this month’s death toll to close to thirty sheep.
Some of the most recent victims.
It seems something has developed a taste for sheep in the rural Niali region of India. Over the last few months, hundreds of sheep have been brutally slain and mutilated despite the best efforts of forest officials and local wildlife experts. The culprit has never been caught, much less identified. Local shepherd Nilamani Das toldTimes of India that sheep farmers in the area are terrified by the unexplained killings which follow the pattern of a series of mutilations earlier this year:
We sustained huge losses after our sheep were killed by unknown animal in June. We were not compensated also. With much difficulty we started our lives again and see the predator has come again to haunt us.
Forest officials, meanwhile, are clueless, replying only with “We are trying our best to catch the killer animal.” Sheep farmers have taken to guarding their flocks at night and even sleeping among the animals to protect them from whatever could lurk in the shadows.
It’s been a bad year to be a sheep.
While these killings sound awfully reminiscent of many mythological creatures like the Chupacabra, the animal’s identity and motivation is likely a much sadder tale. Changing climate patterns and continued human population growth have pushed many once-elusive animals into direct contact with humans. Unfortunately, this growth has meant bringing our livestock directly to these predators whose once plentiful prey and habitat are now long gone. Sure, maybe it’s a horrible nightmarish beast. But maybe, though, the creature is us. Maybe we are the nightmarish beast, bumbling our way towards causing a mass extinction with our insatiable growth. Until the killer in Niali is caught, there’s no telling for sure what might be prowling in the darkness.
Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may have discovered the first case of alien life after allegedly finding bacteria on the hull of the space station.
This bacteria was not there at the launch of the ISS and therefore could have come from outer space.
"Bacteria that had not been there during the launch of the ISS module were found on the swabs," confirmed Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who was part of a team of scientists aboard the orbiting station.
Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov(Image: NASA)
"That is, they came from somewhere in outer space and settled on the outside of the station," he told a Russian news outlet
Flight engineer Shkaplerov will take his third trip to the ISS in December as part of the Expedition 54 crew. He revealed that scientists found the bacteria while taking samples from the exterior surface of the station during a previous mission.
They are currently being analysed to find out if they really are extra-terrestrial in nature. Some bacteria originating from Earth (specifically, Madagascar) has been found to survive the vacuum of space after being lifted off our planet by a phenomenon known as "ionosphere lift".
(Image: Getty)
It has been known to attach itself to the surface of the space station which is orbiting 20km above the Earth.
Cosmanaut Shkaplerov insisted that the bacteria found on the station is not dangerous to humans.
Artist concept of a solar sail in space.Credits: NASA
IN BRIEF
A German theoretical physicist has proposed a modification to the first-ever interstellar spacecraft that would allow it to decelerate enough to orbit an exoplanet and potentially seed a second Earth. However, the 12,000-year-long transit time could make garnering support for the mission difficult.
Egocentric Enterprise
For the past 30 years, popular opinion about where in space humans should go next has swayed between a new mission to the Red Planet and a return to the Moon. Considering the smorgasbord of problems we’ve made for ourselves on planet Earth, from ecological to economic, such goals of exploration and colonization can have an egoistic, even selfish, root — we may need to find a new home due to the aforementioned problems and a litany of unmentioned ones.
However, even the most optimistic colonization estimates are measured in decades, and there’s no guarantee that we’ll survive the rest of this century, let alone long enough to effectively expand humanity throughout the galaxy. But what if, right now, we could start the process of seeding life on other worlds? Humanity may not survive, but some form of life could.
Claudius Gros, theoretical physicist at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, thinks we should consider it. He believes seeding life throughout the cosmos takes precedence over human colonization, and he also believes this process of intentionally seeding other planets in the universe with life, more succinctly known as deliberate panspermia, is within our technological capability.
Breakthrough Starshot is an ambitious plan to send the first probe ever to Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star after the Sun, using a laser propulsion system.
That trip is expected to take about 20 years and will require that a probe weighing just one gram be accelerated to a speed of 160 million kmh (100 million mph), or one-fifth the speed of light. The probe won’t have a braking system and is expected to whiz by the star hours after reaching it, just enough time to take pictures to transmit back to Earth.
In a recent study published in Journal of Physics Communications, Gros proposes that we use the same laser propulsion system to send a 1.5-ton spacecraft at slower speeds so we can do more than just take pictures. He wants to achieve a stable exoplanet orbit and seed other worlds with life via onboard “mini labs” that would grow genes and cells. The stated objective is TRAPPIST-1, but other exoplanets, such as the recently discovered Ross 128b, are also under consideration.
The Long Haul
Gros’ hypothetical 1.5-ton spacecraft for seeding life would launch from Earth, and huge, Earth-based lasers directed at the probe’s 50-kilometer-wide (31-mile-wide) light sail would propel it to roughly 30 percent of the speed of light for part of its journey.
Unlike the tiny probe used for the Alpha Centauri mission, Gros’ spacecraft would need to be able to stop once it reached its destination, though, so he devised a way to do so using a magnetic sail that would generate friction with protons. This will allow the craft to decelerate en route, much like letting a car coast to full stop on the highway.
“The reason for the magnetic sail is to create a magnetic field without loss of energy,” Gros told Futurism. “You don’t want to expend energy, so you generate the field once, and then with a superconducting loop, the current stays forever, and the magnetic field stays forever.”
The above depicts an ionized proton (blue) undergoing deflection via magnetic field (magenta). Image credit: Journal of Physics Communications
According to Gros, the magnetic sail would have a radius of roughly 50 kilometers (31 miles), and each of its loops would generate a magnetic field. These fields would shift the momentum of the probe to whatever particles it encountered. Essentially, the protons between the Earth and the probe’s destination would create the friction it needed to decelerate.
It may seem strange to imagine a giant probe being slowed down by something as small and insignificant as protons. Further complicating the situation is the fact that scientists suspect that remnants of ancient supernovae may have swept gasses out of the space surrounding our solar system and those near it, thereby lowering the density of matter.
However, Gros explained that even with that lower concentration of matter, his design could provide the necessary friction to slow the hypothetical spacecraft enough to orbit, and not flyby, an exoplanet. “You can brake via friction from the interstellar medium,” he said.
The catch is that the added mass needed to provide deceleration puts a 12,000-year timeframe on his proposed journey to TRAPPIST-1. On a cosmic scale, that isn’t even a blink of an eye, but since humans rarely live past 100, no one alive now would survive to see our probe for seeding life reach its destination.
A New Kind of Earth
Recently, scientists have begun to theorize that the growing number of exoplanets discovered orbiting red dwarfs could have water and oxygen. These planets hadmuch longer periods of atmospheric cooling than the Earth had, which could have prevented life from forming on them back when it first emerged on Earth.
“It took the Sun 10 million years to cool to about today’s temperature, but small stars, like TRAPPIST-1, remained hot for hundreds of millions of years,” Gros said.
Consequently, he explained, the water vapor within the stratosphere of the TRAPPIST-1 planets was dissociated by the ultraviolet radiation of the host star into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen escapes into space, as it is too light to be retained by an Earth-like planet, and the oxygen left behind accumulates.
“If some of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets still have an ocean, they would also have a massive oxygen atmosphere. Earth’s oxygen pressure is 0.2 bars, but on TRAPPIST-1-like planets, it could be 100 bar or more,” said Gros.
This excess oxygen “eats up” biotic life, preventing protocell formation. Complex eukaryotes, which form the basis for present-day multi-cellular life, would never have had a chance to develop on an “oxygen planet.”
“We could have millions or billions of habitable exoplanets, but sterilized by oxygen from the beginning,” said Gros. Consequently, the common objection that we should avoid interfering with the natural evolution of alien life would fall away — we wouldn’t be interfering with anything.
The cosmic garden may await us, but the long transit time proposed by Gros may dissuade some from taking his seeding life project seriously. Even after the probe reached its destination, any life would take many billions of years to mature, Gros said.
An artist rendering that conveys rapid-flyby of exoplanets. Image credit: Hubble ESA
Gros’ initiative for seeding life throughout the cosmos, dubbed the Genesis Project, forces us to step back and take a look at what we’re doing on Earth.
“If you are rational, you cannot argue a longterm project will have use on Earth, because no one will be around,” Gros said.
To Gros, his hypothetical mission ultimately forces humanity to consider a metaethical question. The most natural ethical system for our species is one that places us in the center, and that’s largely how we live. But do we need to follow this imperative 100 percent of the time? Gros doesn’t think so.
“An ethical system which is 99 percent humanity-centered is enough to build a thriving civilization, with the remaining 1 percent allowing us to pursue ‘non-rational’ projects like the Genesis project,” he told Futurism.
Triangular TR-3B is said to have been created by the US military but subsequently hidden from the public.
So-called truthers believe it was designed at military base Area 51 in the 1970s, while others claim they are flown by aliens visiting Earth.
Now they believe they have found the mysterious object at a national park in Australia, Express.co.uk reports.
A triangular formation is pictured on Google Earth between Badgingarra National Park and Wongonderrah Nature Reserve in western Australia.
YOUTUBE/GOOGLE
COVER-UP? So-called truthers believe the TR-3B was designed at military base Area 51
“We have no idea what it’s doing in Australia but I fully believe it’s real footage”
UFO hunter Mike Zeroh
UFO hunter Mike Zeroh said on YouTube: “We have no idea what it’s doing in Australia but I fully believe it’s real footage and not a hoax and could be military aircraft or something from another planet perhaps.”
Others claim the triangle formation is no longer showing up and claim there is a cover-up.
One Google Map user posted: “The mysterious triangle was hidden from Google Maps? I am discovering many things…no use trying to hide the evidence.”
However, others believe it merely forms part of a nearby remote-controlled wind farm.
The "TR-3B" can be found at coordinates 30°30'38.44"S 115°22'56.03"E one Google Earth.
It appears as a large triangle with bright lights evenly placed around it, in the same way the TR-3B is said to have.
UFO hunter Mike Zeroh said on YouTube: "We have no idea what its doing in Australia but I fully believe its real footage and not a hoax and could be military aircraft or something from another planet perhaps."
Some conspiracy theorists have even said the triangle no longer shows up amid claims of a cover up.
One Google map user accused the platform of trying to “hide” the spot where the suspected UFO used to appear.
GOOGLE
RUMBLED? Is this a secret UFO spy craft or an optical illusion?
We have no idea what its doing in Australia but I fully believe its real footage and not a hoax and could be military aircraft or something from another planet perhaps.
Mike Zeroh
They posted: "The mysterious triangle was hidden from Google Maps? I am discovering many things ... no use trying to hide the evidence.”
The sighting has featured in many YouTube videos.
One poster on YouTube said: "Research TR-3B Aurora. Wake up people!"
However, there is likely to be a less spooky explanation for the shape.
An Australian man has come across a rather strange image while searching for an address on Google Maps.
Dean Stocks, from Darwin, was searching for a location in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory when he saw what appeared to be a UFO on the digital map.
Speaking to the NT News, Mr Stocks said he couldn't believe it.
A Darwin man has come across a rather strange image while searching for an address on Google Maps, spotting what appears to be a UFO (pictured)
'I don't believe I've seen a sky boob before but I've read about them in picture magazines,' he said.
'I know all the conspirators will have their say – it will be a reflection of the Tennant Creek watertank or something like that.'
At closer inspection, the image does bear striking similarity to an alien spacecraft.
At closer inspection, the image does bear striking similarity to an alien spacecraft
However, it could also be a flash of light from the Google Maps camera or, as Mr Stocks suggested, a reflection of a nearby watertank.
Darwin astronomer Geoff Carr told the publication the image was likely photoshopped.
Meanwhile, Mr Stocks said he would be traveling to Tennant Creek in a few weeks and would make a point of driving down Ambrose Street, the sight of the UFO image, to inspect the area for himself.
Has a UFO visited your hometown? Find out using this interactive alien sightings map
Has a UFO visited your hometown? Find out using this interactive alien sightings map
Jasper Hamill
Here are all the UFO sightings recorded across Europe
(Picture: UFOStalker)
Have you ever seen a strange light appear in the sky and wondered if it was an alien craft?
Now you can work out if someone else saw the same thing – or if the bizarre sighting was the product of your fevered imagination.
A website called UFO Stalker has collected together all the weird observations reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an American organisation that investigates strange sightings in the sky.
Its figures reveal that a total of 83,715 sightings have been reported this year alone across the world, a 12 per cent increase on the number of sightings in 2016.
Last month in the UK, there were a total of seven UFO observations.
America is the nation where the most UFO sightings are recorded
(Picture: UFOStalker)
Australia is not a popular destination for aliens. Perhaps they are scared of spiders?
(Picture: UFO Stalker)
On 15 November, one person claimed to have seen a UFO over Aberdeen.
They said: ‘Standing at my kitchen window I noticed a very bright red and white light flashing every two seconds.
‘I instantly knew this was not a passenger plane or helicopter.
‘The object itself was travelling directly north. It just looked like a medium brightness star but had an intensely bright white and red light. The white light was stacked on top of the red light and they would pulse on and off every two seconds.’
In Thornaby, Yorkshire, another person spotted a mysterious object on November 8 and wrote: ‘I went out into my front garden for a cigarette with my husband and looked up at the clouds.
This photo of a flying saucer was taken by Paul Trent over his farm, in McMinnville, Oregon.
‘Above the houses across the street, I noticed a very bright, white, intermittent trail and when following the trail to the right noticed a small white glowing spot (orb?) moving in front of the clouds.
‘I told my husband to look at it but the trail had disappeared and he wasn’t able to see the orb before it disappeared; I’m not certain whether it went into the clouds or just disappeared.’
The person who saw the UFO did not confirm whether anything a little stronger than tobacco was placed in the cigarette ahead of this sighting.
The majority of UFO sightings were reported in the US, with 26 sightings taking place during November.
On November 20, one person was zooming through Nob Hill, Albuquerque, in their car when something suddenly appeared in the sky.
Sadly, UFO sightings are never quite as dramatic as this artist’s impression
Their report said: ‘ I turned down a side street and saw a triangle shaped craft with lights that went up the side of it.
‘It was illuminated so it formed a V-shape.
I stopped to pull over and look at it because I thought it was strange. Witnessed it for about 10 seconds before it was hidden behind a tree.
‘The airforce base is close by so I assumed it was a military aircraft but haven’t seen one like it before.
UFO experts claimed that the number of sightings has increased in recent years.
However, this could be blamed on the internet, which allows people to record their sightings but is also used to spread strange ideas and fake news.
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Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: ‘UFO Stalker is a brilliant visual guide to the location of UFO sightings, and shows the sheer scale of this phenomena over the last few years.
‘The downside of such a map is the quality of the sightings in its database, these should be carefully filtered if anyone really wants to establish geomagnetic or other links with UFO activity.
‘Clusters of sightings might, for example, be caused by increased media activity in an area, or a bright meteor or other mundane phenomena could also trigger a wave of UFO sightings.
‘Nonetheless, this is a handy way of presenting UFO data and is very helpful in helping pin down the weird things seen in our skies.’
A series of real-life reported UFO sightings in Britain near an air base used by the U.S. Air Force will be the basis of a new drama series, “Rendlesham.”
London-based producer Eleventh Hour Film will make the series and Sony’s international TV production arm has come on board. The studio is backing the development of the project and will handle international distribution. There is not yet a broadcaster or platform attached.
Joe Ahearne (“Doctor Who”) will helm the show, which will recount the claimed UFO landings near the air base and Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England, in the 1980s.
A complex family drama will form the backdrop to the series, which will also fast-forward from the height of the Cold War to 2020, the 40th anniversary of the incidents, which are fabled among UFO enthusiasts and have been dubbed “Britain’s Roswell.”
Ahearne said: “When Eleventh Hour Films drew my attention to this extraordinary piece of British and American history it pressed all my buttons, and I think it will do the same for a wide audience.”
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Eve Gutierrez and Jill Green will executive produce for “Collision” and “Safe House” producer Eleventh Hour Films.
“Joe is a master storyteller with a long-standing fascination for science fiction,” Gutierrez said. “Now working with Sony Pictures Television we are looking forward to bringing this timely, other-worldly story to the global market.”
Eridu, the first city on Earth before the great flood, according to the Sumerian King List
Eridu, the first city on Earth before the great flood, according to the Sumerian King List
According to the Sumerian King List Eridu was the first city in the World. The opening line reads:
“[nam]-lugal an-ta èd-dè-a-ba
[eri]duki nam-lugal-la”
“When kingship from heaven was lowered,
the kingship was in Eridu.”
Eridu (Coordinates: 30 ° 48’57.02 “N 45 ° 59’45.85” E) was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, 24 kilometers south of Ur in the current archaeological site of Tell Abu Shahrein. Eridu, also transliterated as Eridug, could mean “mighty place” or “guidance place” according to scholars who say this archaeological site is of great importance.
At its foundation, it was most likely within walking distance of the Persian Gulf; however, currently, due to the accumulation of silt at the shoreline over the millennia remains of Eridu are now some distance from the gulf at Abu Shahrain in Iraq.
Some scholars argue that in ancient Sumerian times Eridu was linked to the estuary by means of channels and according to the Babylonian epics, it was the first city created in the world.
As noted by Sumerian mythology, the ancient city of Eridu was ONE of the FIVE ancient cities built on Earth before the great deluge.
Eridu was the most southern city of the conglomerate of Mesopotamia and important center of the cult to the God of the water, Enki.
In July 2016, UNESCO chose the archaeological site of tell Eridu as a Mixed Heritage of Humanity, as “part of the archaeological remains of Sumerian settlements in Lower Mesopotamia, which flourished between the third and fourth millennia BC in the delta formed by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.”
As noted by ancient Sumerian tradition, as well as the Sumerian King list, Eridu was the oldest of the cities of Mesopotamia, in whose location the god Marduk had created the world.
Archaeologists have proven, through research in the twentieth century, that the lower levels of the city (level XIX) date back to at least 4900 B.C., at the beginning of the El Obeid period. Mainstream scholars suggest the city was founded in the 54th century BC.
Egyptologist David Rohl has conjectured that Eridu, may have been the original Babel and site of the mythical Tower of Babel, rather than the later city of Babylon.
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In this first stage, the ceramic remains show a significant role of Eridu in the region.
Towards 3800 BC (level VI) the city had an important temple and a cemetery from which a thousand graves have been discovered.
Towards the year 2500 BC., during the archaic dynastic, a ruler, perhaps of the first dynasty of Ur, built a great palace in Eridu, and at the end of the III millennium BC, during the reign of Amar-Sin, a large ziggurat was built in the city, which remained an important religious center in the empire of the third dynasty of Ur.
According to the Sumerian King list, the first ‘mythological’ kings, successors of the reign of heaven, are those of Eridu.
The king list continues:
In Eridu, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years. Alalngar ruled for 36000 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years. Then Eridu fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira.
The Sumerian King list describes in unprecedented detail a time when the world was governed by beings referred to as ‘Gods’ for thousands of years. This is one of the main reasons why mainstream scholars suggest that the Sumerian King list is a mixture of prehistorical and mythological accounts and that those rulers who lived through implausibly lengthy reigns were not real, and were part of ancient folklore.
Mainstream scholars see the age a ruler allegedly governed over the people as a reflection of his or her importance. The more years a king ruled, the more important he was. However, this is highly debated among many authors.
This ancient city was one of the most important settlements in ancient times, and the urban nucleus of Eridu was Enki’s temple, called House of the Aquifer.
After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu.
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Recently, the hosts of the popular podcast show Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Noel Brown, Ben Bowlin and Matt Frederick had invited well-known investigative movie-maker Jeremy Corbell in one of the episodes of the show.
Corbell, who is best known for making documentary movies about "extraordinary people with extraordinary beliefs", has so far worked on a range of topics, starting from aerospace exploration and nanotechnology to bizarre and inexplicable theories. For example, one of the various topics that Corbell had covered in the past is the deathbed confessions of ex-officials of the U.S. government, who have claimed to know the confidential information about UFOs and their cover-up stories.
In the enthralling episode with Jeremy Corbell, the hosts discussed alien abductions and the authenticity of such reports. To be precise, they asked Corbell whether, according to his experience and beliefs, extraterrestrials abduct human beings to implant alien objects into their bodies and if not, then where do those kinds of strange objects appear from into some people's body?
Corbell also talked about his new film "Patient 17" in the podcast. The director was asked to film a surgery by late Dr. Roger Leir, who was about to surgically remove a strange object from a patient's leg. Dr. Leir was a pediatric surgeon and an "alien implant specialist." Corbell was intrigued by the case and so he decided to record the surgery, which can be seen in this new film.
According to Corbell, what he saw that day in the surgery made him believe that no matter how bizarre it sounds but the reports of extraterrestrial abductions and implants most certainly need profound investigation.
According to the documentary, the mysterious object, which was removed from the Patient 17, was quite unfamiliar in terms of Earthly properties. Dr. Leir had sent it off to a laboratory in New Hampshire lab, where allegedly it was discovered that the object had iridium in it. Iridium is an element, which can only be found in meteorites. More shockingly, the object also appeared to release electromagnetic frequencies, which indicated towards the fact that it was some kind of a tracking apparatus.
The New Hampshire lab had conducted tests on the object by making use of isotopic analysis, informed Corbell, and that brought on another bombshell. It seemed that one of the most generously available element on Earth, isotope zinc-64, was not present in the object. As the element is supposed to be in every terrestrial object, didn't it mean that the object was, indeed, extraterrestrial? Actually, that might not be the case. Investigative journalist George Knapp, whom Corbell called to be his mentor, had asked the filmmaker to get the reports tested from numerous labs and verify it thoroughly.
However, Corbell also made it clear that his efforts to get a sample of that object have failed so far, so it's kind of impossible at this time to get the verification done. He also could not get his hands on any other object that Leir has surgically removed from other patients and claimed to be extraterrestrial.
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.
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.
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12 Possible Reasons We Haven't Found Aliens
12 Possible Reasons We Haven't Found Aliens
By Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
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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.
(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.
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WHY UFO INVESTIGATORS IGNORE THE NAYSAYERS AND CRITICS FROM ESTABLISHED SCIENCE
WHY UFO INVESTIGATORS IGNORE THE NAYSAYER WHY UFO INVESTIGATORS IGNORE THE NAYSAYERS AND CRITICS FROM ESTABLISHED SCIENCES AND CRITICS FROM ESTABLISHED SCIENCE
The phenomena of UFO abductions is familiar to everyone—even if the experience of one has only ever been secondhand at best. But the ubiquitous perception may be largely inaccurate, stemming from the likes of hackneyed depictions in sci-fi films and clickbait fabrications on the internet. That’s unacceptable to the small but dedicated group of individuals who have pledged their lives to solving this mystery. “I continue my research no matter what, and nothing’s going to stop me, nor will it stop others in the field,” says Denise Stoner, one of the world’s leading authorities on UFO abduction reports and a member of the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) Experiencer Research Team. Experts in the field know that the truth about abductions, whatever it may be, lies within the reports from thousands of people in dozens of countries.
For more than half a century, Americans have reported experiencing UFOs in an up close and personal way that alters their lives forever. In 1961, a media frenzy occurred when Barney and Betty Hill described the night a UFO containing several humanoids hovered directly above their Chevy Bel Air on a rural New Hampshire road. The couple claimed the rest of their drive was a hazy state of altered consciousness, but Betty’s inexplicably stained dress and Barney’s mysteriously scuffed shoes served as mementos of the experience. Another landmark case occurred in 1975, boasting the benefit of witnesses. During a logging job in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona, Travis Walton was struck by a beam from a mysterious craft as his crew looked on. He would disappear for five days until resurfacing some 30 miles away at a gas station—all while his crewmates proved their innocence in the matter by passing polygraph tests. Both cases, which only represent the tip of the iceberg concerning UFO abduction reports, remain a mystery to UFO researchers.
Betty and Barney Hill pose with a newspaper describing their alleged abduction in 1961. The couple’s story became a TV movie in 1975 with Estelle Parsons playing Betty and James Earl Jones in the role of Barney.
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Some details may differ slightly from account to account, but the fundamental elements are intact in every encounter, fueling validation for both abductees and researchers. “All accounts are essentially the same,” says Dr. David M. Jacobs, author of books such as Secret Life: Firsthand Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions and Walking Among Us. Speaking from decades of experience in the field, Jacobs feels the common ground spanning the litany of cases gives considerable weight to each new report.
While Denise Stoner investigates many local reports for MUFON within Florida, where she resides, Jacobs’s experience informs his insistence that UFO abductions occur worldwide. “It is a global phenomenon,” he states. “It has nothing to do with the United States. We do not know if we are the center of UFO abduction activity.” One of the earliest UFO abductions on record supports Jacobs’ claim. The case of Brazilian farmer Antonio Villas Boas in 1957 has withstood even the most liberal application of UFOlogist scrutiny thanks to the intricate details provided by the abductee and the ceaseless physical ailments (including painful lesions) he suffered following the incident. Jacobs is certain the phenomenon has spread across the globe since then, noting that he has worked with abductees from nearly every continent—and they have all reported many of the exact same details. “That’s extraordinary,” he says. “That has never happened before in human history, where people will be saying, ‘This happened to me,’ and they’ll describe the exact same instruments used and the same procedures involved, and everything else is the same as everyone around the world is describing. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, all saying the same thing, all knowing full well that it sounds crazy.”
Of course, researchers still do their due diligence to devote investigations to only the most credible of accounts. Any time an individual reports being abducted by a UFO, researchers first attempt to rule out mental illness as a cause. “When we first speak to an individual, we want to spend as much time as possible with them to discover whether or not they have ever had a diagnosis that includes mental issues, what kind of medication they’re on,” says Stoner. “There are several reasons for people to have these types of experiences, and we need to eliminate those when we’re doing an investigation.”
For the majority of his career researching UFO abductions, Jacobs has sought to root out any inconsistencies by conducting hypnotic regressions with abductees. Recognizing the skepticism surrounding a process that seeks to acquire information from hypnosis, he says, “It’s so ridiculous, and yet it works.” Jacobs explains that because the process spans over several sessions, trust is organically built between researcher and experiencer. “They don’t want to tell me things that didn’t happen,” he adds.
As Jacobs learned the first time he conducted a series of hypnotic regressions with an alleged abductee, though, the truth can be elusive, even if the subject isn’t trying to withhold it. He recalls working with a 7-year-old girl who claimed she was with a friend in the park when she felt arms wrap around her waist as she was suddenly pulled from the ground up into something. Now in an unknown setting, the girl noted seeing a humanoid with a pageboy haircut named Cosmo, who proceeded to place her on a table for a physical examination. Claiming she was then instructed to place her hand on the head of an extraterrestrial, the girl described feeling immense positivity and warmth. Before being returned to the park by Cosmo, the girl stated she met a group of extraterrestrials sitting at a table who told her she would live a “brave, courageous strong, wonderful life.” Ecstatic by what he had extracted from the hypnosis, Jacobs went to transcribe the story from his tape recorder that night, only to find that the girl’s mostly whispered words had not been picked up. Determined to capture the incredible descriptions, Jacobs had the girl retell the experience in a later session. She obliged, and the initial beats were consistent—the hands around the waist, the pageboy-haired Cosmo figure, the physical exam—only this time, there was no mention of placing her hand on the being’s head or receiving the affirming words from the table of extraterrestrials. Jacobs prodded for the missing pieces, but the young abductee claimed she didn’t remember those aspects and said she thought those things happened to the friend she was with at the time. “I knew at that time that I had no idea what I was doing, and I vowed I was never going to let that happen again,” Jacobs says.
As with any skilled trade, such as performing brain surgery or writing computer code, experience is the way to limit the frequency of errors in researching UFO abductions. The greatest mistake someone in the field can make, it seems, is allowing themselves to be abducted by the blinding beam of naysaying critics. But Jacobs and Stoner are both far from ignoring their decades of research in favor of believing only what accepted science is able to explain.
Stoner points to some skeptics dismissively chalking abductions up to mere dreams as an example she feels is easily countered by her research. “We’ve had many, many abductions that took place in broad daylight. And if you’re in broad daylight, and you’re driving or walking and this happens, you don’t have those excuses to give,” she says. “You don’t have people saying ‘Okay, you were dreaming, you were asleep, you were this or that.’ It happened, and there’s no way that anyone can tell you it didn’t.”
For Jacobs, the uncanny commonalities across reports stand as the reason for continuing research. “We know the abduction phenomenon is considered to be completely psychological by 99.9 percent of all psychologists, psychiatrists, etc.,” he says. “Except, of course, by those psychologists, psychiatrists, medical doctors and university professors who are themselves abductees and say the same things as the kid in Pakistan.”
An image taken by NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars in 2005, but widely circulated and discussed in 2017.
(NASA)
Since NASA started publishing video and images of the Martian surface from its two Mars rovers in 2003, vigilant observers have been pointing out strange objects. Those objects are, depending on whom you ask, either (1) remnants of an alien civilization on Mars, (2) natural formations, or (3) human-made debris from the rovers themselves.
An internet debate flared up around a photo taken by the Opportunity rover showing an object that is clearly unnatural.
This summer, a Redditor sparked an internet debate about a photo taken by the Opportunity rover showing an object that is clearly unnatural, precluding the “natural formation” explanation. The Reddit post stated “Uh NASA? UFO caught on Marsrover mission? Is this real?”
Guy Webster, a media relations officer for NASA, said via email: “That is part of the Opportunity’s heat shield, photographed by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in mid-January 2005.” Opportunity was passing through its own landing site at the time. According to NASA, the object in the photo is the heat shield that protected the rover upon entry.
An image of debris taken by the Opportunity rover shortly before the controversial image.(NASA)
Other objects have been spotted and similarly dismissed.
An impression called a “Celtic cross” by some observers has also been spotted on Mars. It is explained by “debunker” Mick West as the impression left in the soil by a screw on one of Opportunity’s instruments.
West compared the rover image to the shape of a screw head on the rover’s x-ray spectrometer, saying it was likely this tool that left the imprint. The device works by touching down on the surface and staying there for a few hours to measure chemical elements in rock and soil.
An x-ray spectrometer. (NASA)Left: “Celtic cross” found on Mars. (NASA) Right: Screw head from Opportunity’s x-ray spectrometer. (NASA)
A rock that looks like a handle or knob has been spotted on Mars.
(NASA)A close-up from the image above, showing what some have said is a handle. (NASA)
In 2013, an image taken by the Curiosity rover sparked debate. It showed what some described as a shiny, metallic “handle” protruding from the surface of Mars.
Ronald Sletten from the Mars Science Laboratory team told Universe Today it is likely a rock that is more resistant to erosion that the rock around it. As the surrounding rock has weathered away, this rock has been left as a protrusion. Sletten told Universe Today: “The shiny surface suggests that this rock has a fine grain and is relatively hard. Hard, fine grained rocks can be polished by the wind to form very smooth surfaces.”
In Beyond Science, The Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.
Scandinavian mythology claims the Kraken swallowed up whales and devoured ships. It has been described as a huge version of an octopus or squid. Legends have even claimed the terrifying sea creature measured one-mile long. Although the Kraken was first noted in the 13th century Icelandic saga, Örvar-Oddr, a researcher believes he has fossil evidence that is linked to this creature.
Pen and wash drawing by malacologist Pierre Dénys de Montfort, 1801, from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola. Was it a Kraken? (Public Domain)
Initially found in 2011, fossils of a marine lizard showed a strange pattern which a researcher believes was caused by a Kraken-like octopus. The claim has been criticized, but Professor Mark McMenamin, a paleontologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, backed up this conclusion with other findings.
An odd arrangement of sea reptile vertebrae was found in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada. The animal was called an ichthyosaur and it lived around 200 to 250 million years ago. The manner in which the bones were found suggests that it was attacked by a much larger predator—perhaps supporting the hypothesis that a giant octopus or squid once dominated the seas. It has been estimated the creature which vanquished the ichthyosaur had to have been about 99 feet (30 meters) long; this far surpasses the largest giant octopus known today—a creature rarely larger than a human being.
The discovery of a fossil identified as part of the beak of a giant octopus or squid-like creature, along with more bones arranged in unusual patterns which have sucker markings, adds to McMenamin’s evidence. A “debris pile” of scattered bones were also found alongside the remains of the ichthyosaur.
McMenamin asserts that the bones’ arrangement and the location of the sucker markings indicate the ichthyosaur was drowned or had its neck snapped. From there, it seems the beast was moved, possibly to the Kraken’s lair, where it was dumped.
Could this discovery really point to the existence of the legendary Kraken? While the idea is interesting, further evidence is necessary.
In Beyond Science, The Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.
A giant gel ball found by diver Erling Svensen in Norway.
(Erling Svensen)
Over the past 15 years or so, several giant gel balls have been found by divers off the coast of Norway. The balls, about 3 feet (1 meter) wide, remain a mystery to scientists. But the number of ball sightings has been increasing.
Professor Gro van der Meeren at the Institute of Marine Research in Nordnes, Norway, is one of the lead researchers trying to gather more information about the balls. Due to recent attention in local media, van der Meeren has received more photos of the balls from divers.
A gel ball found by diver Rudolf Svensen in Norway. (Rudolf Svensen)
“Thanks to the media sharing our puzzlement over what these gel balls may be, we have now received observations within Norway of close to 20 of these balls, half of the observations within 2017 and all between May and October,” she said via email. “Unfortunately, no one has sent us actual tissue samples.”
The best guess is that it’s a giant squid egg, but there are problems with that theory.
A giant squid. (Dr. Tsunemi Kubodera/National Science Museum, Tokyo)
DNA tests could be the key to understanding what they are. Van der Meeren hypothesizes that they are squid eggs, since they look similar to squid eggs, but she is not certain and scientists haven’t agreed on this hypothesis. The balls are big for squid eggs. Giant squids live deep in the ocean, whereas these balls have been found along the coast.
It is hard to identify what kind of squid could have left such balls. Van der Meeren said she would need tissue samples to compare to known DNA-profiles of European squids.
A hypothesis that’s floated around Internet forums is that they’re alien eggs.
Two similar balls have been observed off the coast of Sweden and Alaska respectively. Anyone who sees such a ball should obtain a tissue sample if possible and contact van der Meeren: grom@imr.no.
Mysterieuze gel-ballen gevonden voor kust van Noorwegen. De wetenschap staat voor een raadsel
Mysterieuze gel-ballen gevonden voor kust van Noorwegen. De wetenschap staat voor een raadsel
In de afgelopen 15 jaar hebben duikers voor de kust van Noorwegen meerdere enorme gel-ballen gevonden.
De ballen, die een doorsnee hebben van ongeveer een meter, stellen wetenschappers voor een groot raadsel. Ondertussen neemt het aantal ballen dat wordt gezien steeds meer toe.
Professor Gro van der Meeren van het Institute of Marine Research in Noorwegen probeert meer informatie te verzamelen over de ballen.
Monsters
Gel-bal (Rudolf Svensen)
Dankzij recente media-aandacht heeft zij meer foto’s van de ballen gekregen die door duikers zijn gemaakt, schrijft de Epoch Times.
Ze heeft beelden gekregen van bijna 20 ballen, waarvan de helft in 2017 is waargenomen. “Helaas heeft niemand ons monsters gestuurd,” zei ze.
Wellicht kan DNA-onderzoek uitsluitsel geven. Van der Meeren denkt dat het misschien eitjes van inktvissen zijn, maar ze weet het niet zeker en wetenschappers zijn het hier niet over eens.
DNA-profiel
De ballen zijn eigenlijk te groot om van inktvissen afkomstig te kunne
n zijn. Inktvissen leven diep in de oceaan, terwijl deze ballen langs de kust worden gevonden.
Het is moeilijk te bepalen welke soort inktvis zulke enorme ballen kan hebben achtergelaten. Van der Meeren benadrukte dat ze monsters nodig heeft om een DNA-profiel te kunnen opstellen.
Op internet wordt onder meer gesuggereerd dat het gaat om eitjes van buitenaardse wezens.
Soortgelijke gel-ballen zijn gevonden voor de kust van Zweden en Alaska.
De CIA bestudeerde het effect van ruimtestormen op paranormale vermogens. Dit is de uitkomst
De CIA bestudeerde het effect van ruimtestormen op paranormale vermogens. Dit is de uitkomst
Geomagnetische stormen, tijdelijke storingen in de magnetosfeer van de aarde, kunnen veel schade veroorzaken. Zo kunnen ze onder meer het elektriciteitsnet beschadigen.
De CIA schreef een rapport van ruim 800 pagina’s over de invloed van ruimtestormen op paranormale vermogens.
De spionagedienst concludeert op basis van meerdere studies dat een afname van de geomagnetische activiteit leidt tot spontane telepathische ervaringen, met name rond sterfgevallen en crises.
Achterliggende mechanisme
De resultaten suggereren dat er een bepaalde factor is die ervoor zorgt dat een plotse afname van de geomagnetische activiteit telepathische ervaringen mogelijk maakt, klinkt het.
Een mogelijke verklaring voor dit patroon is volgens de onderzoekers dat er meer mensen sterven op momenten dat er meer geomagnetische activiteit is.
De volgende stap is het achterhalen van het achterliggende mechanisme. Het is bekend dat levende systemen reageren op geomagnetische variaties.
Sterk bewijs
Aangetoond is dat duiven minder goed in staat zijn om hun weg naar huis te vinden als er sprake is van verhoogde geomagnetische activiteit.
Er is sterk bewijs dat mensen reageren op geomagnetische variaties, die op hun beurt weer paranormale vermogens zouden moeten beïnvloeden, aldus de onderzoekers.
Verschillende organisaties, waaronder het Carlini Institute, doen onderzoek naar de effecten van zonnevlammen op de mens.
Ze zijn onder meer gelinkt aan hoofdpijn, angstgevoelens en opvliegers.
Tijdreizen is zeker mogelijk. Professor laat zien hoe je naar de toekomst kunt gaan
Tijdreizen is zeker mogelijk. Professor laat zien hoe je naar de toekomst kunt gaan
Tijdreizen naar de toekomst is zeker mogelijk. Dat stelt professor Brian Greene van de Columbia University in een video van Tech Insider.
“We weten hoe we dat moeten doen omdat Einstein ons meer dan 100 jaar geleden de weg heeft gewezen,” zegt hij.
“Het is verrassend hoe weinig mensen hier echt van op de hoogte zijn,” vervolgt hij.
Langzamer
Als je de ruimte ingaat, bijna de lichtsnelheid bereikt en vervolgens teruggaat, verstrijkt de tijd langzamer. Als je uitstapt kom je dus terecht op planeet aarde in de toekomst. Je reist als het ware naar de toekomst.
Als je daarnaast dicht in de buurt van bijvoorbeeld een neutronenster of zwart gat verblijft, verstrijkt de tijd ook langzamer. Als je vervolgens weer op aarde komt, bevindt je je opnieuw in de toekomst.
Tijdreizen naar het verleden is volgens professor Greene een ander verhaal. Sommige natuurkundigen claimen dat het mogelijk is om via wormgaten naar het verleden te gaan. Einstein schreef hier ook over.
Binnendoor
“Het is een soort brug, van de ene locatie in de ruimte naar de andere,” zegt Greene. “Het is een soort tunnel die je in staat stelt om binnendoor te gaan.”
Later werd ontdekt dat je van het ene moment in de tijd naar een ander moment in de tijd kunt gaan als je de openingen van een wormgat manipuleert.
De ene opening leidt naar het verleden en de andere naar de toekomst. “We weten alleen niet of wormgaten echt bestaan,” legt Greene uit. “Er zijn dus veel onzekerheden.”
Let’s face it, there have been conspiracy theories around for as long as we have had anything to conspire about. Such ideas have run the gamut from the plausible to the actually true, to the farthest reaches of eyebrow raising insanity. It is an interesting enough phenomenon in its own right that some of the most mind-bogglingly odd theories should catch on and coalesce into the minds of the masses, but some of these really take the cake with regards to sheer, flat out bizarreness. Some of the stranger of these concern evil plots by the the government or even more mysterious forces to infiltrate society and bring the world under control. From nefarious aliens, to secret mind control projects, to vat-grown clones and even supernatural creatures, there seems to be no end to the types of conspiracies that crop up. Here we will look at some of the more surreal, so leave your tinfoil hats at the door, forget about things such as evidence or even common sense, and come with me on a journey down the rabbit hole.
The most well-known, pervasive, and flat out bonkers conspiracy theory involving sinister forces invading the United States government is that of all of the alien lizard people who seem to be running around. The theory in essence says that there is a race of shapeshifting, reptilian humanoid creatures that are variously said to be aliens or inter-dimensional beings and which are said to be bent on controlling and subjugating humanity through various insidious means, mostly through infiltrating high level positions ranging from the government, to important corporations, to the entertainment industry. The lizard people have been blamed by conspiracists for everything from major wars, to the Holocaust, to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, to, well, just about every tragic calamity we have faced for centuries.
Although the idea of secret societies lurking in the background secretly controlling civilization is by no means a new one, the idea that these forces should be reptilian lizard people was first popularized by former game show host and sports reporter for the BBC and now conspiracy theorist and New Age philosopher David Icke. In 1991, Icke came out with his complex theory in a BBC interview after percolating and brewing these ideas in his head for years, proclaiming that people in high positions of power or wealth were not who they seemed to be, but rather the lizard people taking human form.
According to Icke, it started with a group of aliens he called the Annunaki, from the planet Niburu, and arrived on Earth looking for gold, of all things. In order to mine the gold they found here they genetically engineered human-Annunaki hybrid slaves, which became humans, but some of them further interbred with their masters to become the lizard people. The creatures who were able to preserve a purer reptilian bloodline then rose to power and proceeded to subjugate the rest, instigate wars, feed us poison to keep us compliant, hypnotize us, enact methods to depopulate the planet, and generally manipulate humanity in any way possible, wary of the fact that since humans outnumbered them they could never last in an all out war with us and thus forcing them to work behind the scenes.
The list of people who have been accused of being lizard people is quite vast and fascinating. Among their numbers have been said to be such notable figures as Queen Elizabeth II, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bob Hope, Mark Zuckerberg, and Justin Beiber, among many, many others. Some of these powerful figures and celebrities have had a bit of a sense of humor about the accusations. For instance, in 2014 New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who was so suspected of being a lizard person to the point that there was an Official Information Act request filed for the truth, gamely responded to the question of whether he was a reptilian alien thus:
To the best of my knowledge, no. Having been asked that question directly, I’ve taken the unusual step of not only seeing a doctor but a vet, and both have confirmed I’m not a reptile. So I’m certainly not a reptile. I’ve never been in a spaceship, never been in outer space, and my tongue’s not overly long, either.
Then again, that is what he would say, isn’t it? It is perhaps no surprise that many have scoffed at this idea and labelled Icke as a nutcase, but what is surprising is just how quickly these ideas have entrenched themselves and festered within portions of the conspiracy theorist community. Icke has become a sort of hero and savior among this new movement of reptilian conspiracy theorists, and he has gone on to churn out numerous books on the matter, including The Biggest Secret, in which it is revealed that the British Royal family is absolutely crawling with lizard people, as well as the David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy, and there are numerous websites devoted to these ideas, which truly take the whole mythology down the rabbit whole and are at times rather perversely believable in their own way to an extent. Perhaps because of this, unbelievably, nearly 13 million American people, or about 4% of the population, truly believe that there are shapeshifting lizard people among us trying to shape us and control us.
If secretive, shadowy plots involving lizard people from outer space are not bizarre enough for you, then how about government created brainwashed servants and clones? Bear with me here, because this one goes deep. The whole theory starts with the dark experiments of the government project MKULTRA, which sought to explore mind controlling techniques and which I have covered here at Mysterious Universe before. Although the program was eventually disbanded, there are those who think that that didn’t really happen at all, and that the experiments continued and the technology was further perfected.
The theory goes that the project changed its name to “Monarch,” and went abut conditioning young children through various mental and physical trauma to become virtual blank slates onto which could be programmed pretty much anything the government wanted. These subjects then have identities that are carefully nurtured to make them seem to be powerful figures in society, but in reality they are actually ticking time bombs, sleeper agents waiting to be activated. The theory can most often supposedly be seen in stars or officials who have meltdowns that are explained away as not personal issues, but rather glitches in their programming, and their “rehab” is merely them being taken in to be reprogrammed.
The theory is particularly aimed at those in the entertainment industry, where the list of supposed MKULTRA mind-controlled puppets is long. Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, and many, many others have been accused of being mind-controlled operatives, mostly based on their noticeable personality and fashion changes from their younger days. On occasion, it is not a famous person, but rather a normal person brainwashed into committing atrocities, such as is the case with John Lennon’s assassin. What, what?
On December 8, 1980, assassin and overall whacko Mark Chapman ruthlessly shot the beloved singer to death outside of Lennon’s apartment. Chapman would go on to allegedly claim that he had been urged to commit the crime by an incessant voice droning on in his head over and over again “do it.” This was only three years after the official closure of MKULTRA, so conspiracy theorists immediately jumped on the case. Evidence presented for this far-out theory was that Chapman had held a copy of the J.D. Salinger novel Catcher in the Rye, onto which was scrawled “This is my statement.” What does this book have to do with any of this? Glad you asked.
The book has oddly been linked to a variety of assassinations and shootings, including John Hinckley Jr., who killed former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, as well as Robert John Bardo, who assassinated the upcoming actress Rebecca Schaeffer, both of whom had copies of Catcher in the Rye. It’s a well-known, popular book, so it should make sense that many people would have it, but no, the conspiracy theory is that it held certain codes and keys for mind control to those who were conditioned to it. In this theory, Chapman was more or less a “Manchurian Candidate” style mind-controlled assassin, just waiting for his orders to kill, and with the book having some inscrutable part to play in it all.
John Lennon
Well, maybe not everyone here is mind-controlled, maybe they are just cloned from scratch instead. One theory that has made the rounds is that the U.S. government has perfected cloning technology, and has used this to resurrect dead people of power or, more ominously, to replace them. Many of these wild theories can be traced back to the testimony of an individual named Donald Marshall, who in 2011 came forward with an amazing story of having been born and brought up under a secret cloning facility run by an organization he called “The Vril Society.” Marshall claimed that he himself was a clone, and that such secretive cloning centers were buried all over the country. According to him, this all started just after World War II, and the clones bred there were meant to be used for a wide variety of purposes, such as entertainment, infiltration, and back-ups for rich organ donors, and Marshall would claim:
The political people started bringing movie stars and musicians there to hang around with them, they can control who remembers the cloning facility and who will remain oblivious even though not remembering still damages you.
Marshall continued this astounding story with the claim that the Queen of England and indeed much of the royal family and other were in fact clones, and said of this in one of his rants:
The royal family of England,… yes Queen Elizabeth, Phillip Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles are the worst of them, unbelievable depraved perverts all showing off for the celebrities that go there, Elizabeth has the children there call her “lillibet” and does ungodly things to them, some she fakes being nice to, some she is terrible to, cutting them with swords while they scream, the decent people that are there against their will are afraid to say anything against them, most have their children there as a kind of hostage, to be torn apart if they even think of informing anyone, but as they have been torturing me terribly anyway I will tell all, Vladamir Putin loves to put the fear of torture and death into people but is essentially a cowardly pervert himself. Most of the famous people are ashamed to speak or be seen by me there very much,as they’re ashamed of the perverse and disgusting gatherings, I am a decent person and will not participate in these acts, so they use me as an example and torture me for my being a good person.
Queen Elizabeth II
Wow. No word on what the reptilian lizard men theorists think about all of this. This all launches into the list of people who those who subscribe to this theory think of as cloned goons. Britney Spears pops up here again, as she was in a horrific car accident in 1998 with then boyfriend Justin Timberlake, which supposedly burned Timberlake and killed Spears, after which she was cloned. Marshall himself would go so far as to claim that the cloned Spears was giving hints in her music, with the pods featured in the animated video of her song “Break the Ice” claimed to look exactly like the cloning pods at the facility. Other famous supposed clones include the rappers Eminem, Gucci Mane, and Kayne West, as well the singers Miley Cyrus and of course Britney Spears (wait, I thought she was a mind-controlled puppet!), as well as even Hillary Clinton. You can’t make this stuff up.
Perhaps even more bizarre and insidious than reptilians and clones infiltrating society is the idea that the U.S. government is crawling with fairy folk. As completely off-the-wall as this might sound, there are those out there who think so. One group of New Agers calling themselves “The Fairy Congress,” who believe in fairies and claim to regularly commune with them, truly seems to believe that the American government is infested with these magical entities. One statement on the group’s website claims:
The humans are vastly outnumbered at the Congress by the fairies, devas and other Light beings who are in attendance. How many fairies and devas attend? We are assured it is in the thousands. Fairies and devas of many ranks and sizes attend. Some are similar in size to the small ‘hand-size’ fairies we see represented in the common press. Others are immense beings of great power. Remember though, that size is not necessarily an indicator of knowledge, wisdom or power. The fairy beings who attend the Fairy Congress are fully as intelligent (and often much more so) than the human participants. We approach the fairies and devas with respect and love as co-creators of this event. We are meeting as equal participants. The fairies and devas have a concurrent Congress as well as interacting with the human participants during circles and joint meditations. … It is a rare event for humans to experience so much fairy energy and such an outpouring of fairy/devic blessings.
Well, it seems that size really doesn’t matter after all. This is all just scratching the surface, and these bizarre theories all go much deeper than this, but here has been an overview of some of the odder ideas out there. There is a lot to take in with all of this and it is often hard to know what to think. I certainly have no desire to disrespect those who fully believe such ideas, but these are certainly confusing, often contradictory opinions which go far towards profoundly pushing the boundaries of what we know with little in the way of convincing evidence. The title of “insane theories” might shift with more to show otherwise, but for now these can undeniably be classified as fringe to say the least. Or maybe we are all wrong. Maybe we are overrun with clones, fairies, and reptilian humanoids bent on our downfall. Perhaps even I am one. You never can tell.
A NASA lander passes an important test 6 months before its scheduled launch to Mars, light pollution is on the rise in both developed and underdeveloped regions across the Earth, two astronauts will resume teaching as NASA creates a new education program, and a new miniseries will honor the contribution of 13 women during NASA's space age program in this week's top stories from Space.com.
Photo Credit: NASA
1. Thanksgiving feast in space!
Three of the six crewmembers aboard the International Space Station are from the United States, but on Thanksgiving, all were welcome to enjoy the feast. On Thursday (Nov. 23), the Expedition 53 crew planned on serving turkey, mashed potatoes, and candied yams!
The InSight spacecraft recently completed an important "thermal vac" test at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Littleton, Colorado. InSight is NASA's next Mars lander, and the testing, which was done in preparation of its scheduled May 2018 launch, was intended to simulate the harsh environment of space.
3. Earthly message travels towards life-friendly planet GJ 273b
An announcement on Thursday (Nov. 16) revealed that scientists and artists beamed up a message to a nearby red dwarf star known as Luyten's star. The message sent a month ago was intended for the star's two known planets, one of which might have conditions friendly to life.
A new study revealed that more and more artificial light is filling Earth's night skies. Researchers came to their findings by using data from Earth-observing weather satellite, Suomi NPP. One of the many consequences of light pollution is the disruption of biological cycles that are triggered by variation of light, such as gene expression and ecosystem functions.
NASA has released a free online tool that allows the public to view how sea level rise could adversely affect 293 different port cities. The tool offers regional predictions of how melting glacier ice may impact coastal communities in the near future.
6. Ultra-powerful new space telescope's science targets chosen
The Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the new James Webb Space Telescope project, announced on Monday (Nov.13) the thirteen selected proposals for its first round of scientific observations. The programs, which include observations of Jupiter and extremely distant galaxies, will kick off when the telescope begins operations in 2019.
Solar winds rushed out into space when a large opening developed recently in the sun's atmosphere. On Monday (Nov. 20), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory released an image of the coronal hole, which is produced by the sun's active magnetic field.
Traveling at high speed from interstellar space, the strange object 'Oumuamua was originally thought to be an ancient comet, but observations revealed it was, in fact, an asteroid from another star system. And now, we know what 'Oumuamua looks like and the story got stranger: the interstellar interloper looks like a strange, elongated cigar and scientists are floored.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
9. Titan's polar vortex explained
A new study may have uncovered the mystery behind the cold polar vortex of Saturn's moon, Titan. The largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, Titan is the only one with a known atmosphere, and it's the atmosphere's unique chemistry that seems to be causing the cold whirling air above Titan's south pole.
10. Major earthquakes may erupt as Earth slows down
Earth experiences periodic changes in its rotation speed, and according to new research presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, the small slowdown in Earth's rotation may lead to more earthquakes in 2018. As many as 20 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or higher may occur along already stressed faultlines over the next four years, according to a geologist.
A new miniseries is in the works to dramatize the true story of 13 women who underwent the same medical testing as the space age NASA astronauts. Amazon is basing the series on Martha Ackmann's 2003 book, "The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight" (Random House) and will center on the female pilots that made up the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs).
Liquid water may not be under the Martian surface after all, according to a new study. Researchers studied the dark streaks on Mars' hillsides, and now argue that sandy material is lumping together to produce the darker color, rather than the hypothesized underground supply of liquid water.
thinkstockLichtjes verlichten de hemel in Hong Kong.
WETENSCHAPVerlichting wordt steeds efficiënter, maar dat betekent niet dat we minder stroom verbruiken. Integendeel, lichtvervuiling neemt net toe en maakt de nachtelijke hemel steeds helderder. Zicht op beterschap is er niet.
Een internationale groep wetenschappers bestuurde satellietbeelden van de aarde voor een periode van vijf jaar. Ze zagen dat de hoeveelheid licht elk jaar met twee procent toeneemt. Ook het gebied dat kunstmatig verlicht wordt, groeit jaarlijks met twee procent.
De toename is wereldwijd, maar vooral in gebieden die tot nu toe vrij donker waren. “Licht groeit het snelst in plaatsen waar niet veel licht was”, zegt de Duitse onderzoeksleider Christopher Kyba.
Ledlampen
Volgens de onderzoekers heeft de omschakeling naar ledlampen minder effect dan verwacht. Zulke lampen besparen weliswaar elektriciteit, dus geld, maar dat geld wordt vervolgens gebruikt om meer lampen te plaatsen, concluderen ze.De bevindingen staan in het wetenschapsblad Science Advances.
thinkstockDe nachtelijke hemel bij de Australische Great Ocean Road.
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Green bright anomaly appears below disk shaped cloud over Liverpool, UK
Green bright anomaly appears below disk shaped cloud over Liverpool, UK
About a year ago, on December 12, 2017, the witness took an image of an unusual disk shaped cloud formation, but even stranger is the greenish diamond shaped anomaly which can been seen below the cloud formation.
While it is not inconceivable that the greenish object is just lens flare, the object has all the characteristics of a fixed structure, described by the photographer as a line of green orbs.
Witness: “On my days off work I walk the dog at the back of Speke Hall right next to Liverpool John Lennon Airport and sometimes I take photographs of the sky and the sun setting down but this picture I took was because of the clouds.”
“After a couple of weeks of taking it I noticed a line of green light under the clouds and when I zoomed in on the photograph I spotted green orbs that appear to be next to each other which seem to be attached to something.” Mufon case 88323.
Watch Astonishing Moment – UFO Films Scattering Clouds
Watch Astonishing Moment – UFO Films Scattering Clouds
An online video showing a mysterious object that is apparently manipulating clouds sent UFO enthusiasts into a frenzy. Conspiracy theory channel Suspect Sky uploaded the video to YouTube, which shows a strange white thing moving upwards in the sky.
The video was apparently shot sometime in October but only uploaded on November 17. The bright, white UFO then hover in the clouds.
After a few seconds sitting in the long thin cloud, the craft then seems to disperse the cloud.
Many viewers commented that they are convinced the footage is a genuine UFO sighting.
One commenter wrote that this is some incredible video because not only it shows a UFO but also features how the mysterious object affects change of the area around it.
Another commenter claimed to have also seen a UFO literally erasing a chem cloud.
However, not all are as convinced as the others with some expressing skepticism.
Others said that it is fake or fakery at its best.
A similar looking object was also spotted just recently above the Great Barrier Reef.
An Australian woman named Jenny Morrison snapped some pictures of the sunset above the Great Barrier Reef, and she noticed a bright orb-like object when she later reviewed the photographs.
Mysterious UFO In Skies Near Area 51 Prompts Air Force To Scramble Their Jets
Mysterious UFO In Skies Near Area 51 Prompts Air Force To Scramble Their Jets
A strange UFO noticed in the skies close to a military base prompted US Air Force to scramble their jets to investigate the peculiar aerial thing before it mysteriously disappeared.
A UFO was detected flying through closely monitored airspace over Oregon state. Witnesses were left wondering where it may have come from and what it was doing there.
Military officials have not been able to identify the origin or even the destination of the UFO. The military was not able to trace it after it just disappeared all of a sudden.
Oregon borders Nevada, which is the subject of many conspiracy theories on aliens and UFOs due to the presence of the secretive Area 51 military base.
Conspiracy theorists believe the mysterious and top secret facility holds the remains of crashed UFOs and even dead aliens.
According to local news reports, Air Force F-15c interceptor fighters were launched in response to the sightings.
North American Aerospace Defence Command confirmed that the Federal Aviation Administration asked them to help track the UFO at heights usually used by commercial aircraft on October 25.
Fighter jets were sent from Portland to investigate the unusual flying thing but failed to find anything.
The craft transmitted no collision avoidance signals.
Air traffic control reportedly encountered difficulty following the UFO on the radar.
It is vital to note that the F-15C Eagle interceptors have some of the most advanced combat searches and tracking radars in the world.
Sergio Canavero claims he’s carried out the world’s first human head transplant; a surgery he’s been hyping up for over two years. Canavero claims to have successfully completed the head transplant using corpses. While that would technically demonstrate the attachment (or reattachment) of nerves and blood vessels, there are many other factors that would prohibit the procedure from having any real practical application.
“I work with our group here that does face transplants at NYU, and we can barely make those work,” Arthur Caplan, founding head of the division of medical ethics at NYU School of Medicine, told Futurism “A head transplant, to people here, is ludicrous. We can barely keep the face from being rejected, much less all the tissues of the head.”
“The way he talks about head transplants, it’s like unscrewing a bulb from a socket and putting in a new one,” explained Caplan. “But obviously the chemistry where the new brain will be exposed, and the neural inputs, will be very different. Even if you could keep somebody alive – which I doubt, because of immune rejection – but even if you could, I think they’d be insane, because the brain wouldn’t be able to process the new environment. I think that’s a limit on head transplants, generally.”
Caplan doesn’t expect to see a successful head transplant any time soon, if ever. He does see regenerative medicine and research into artificial intelligence as being more likely to bear fruit in this area. Head transplants, meanwhile, may one day be compared to archaic procedures like purging and leeching.
Spinal Cords
“It’s despicable and dangerous for real science,” said Caplan. “I say that because it’s basically been announcements by press release. He’s set up shop in China because no one else in the world has any credence in what he’s doing. He hasn’t demonstrated in animals that he can do what he says he can do, and there’s no reason not to.”
Caplan refers to the fact that while Canavero has performed surgeries on monkeys and rats, there are doubts about his claims to have reconnected the spinal cord, and he has not successfully kept the animals alive or conscious for any significant amount of time.
Canavero’s purported monkey head transplant did not include any attempt to reconnect the spinal cord, meaning that even if the surgery went off without a hitch, the patient would be paralyzed. In terms of real-world benefit, though, if someone was to successfully demonstrate the ability to repair a spinal cord, that would have more utility to medicine than a head transplant procedure.
“If he did know how to make the spinal cord regenerate, there are literally millions of people worldwide with damaged and severed spinal cords,” Caplan explained. “Instead of yammering on incessantly about head transplants, if he had something to help them, he should be using it with them – that’s the natural place to go.”
Collateral Damage
Claims like those being made by Canavero muddy the waters of what’s actually possible with modern technology. That doesn’t just affect people working to advance the field of transplantation; it also impacts the wider scientific community.
“People believe that scientists who are using powerful technologies will just screw around with them, and it gives a bad reputation to mainstream scientists,” said Caplan. “It looks like they’ll try cloning, or they’ll try this, or they’ll try to make superbabies. You keep saying , ‘well, the technology isn’t close for any of those things in humans.’ But then this guy comes along and gets a lot of press attention, and so he casts doubt on the trustworthiness of mainstream scientists and doctors.”
“He also does one other thing, which is that he offers false hope,” Caplan added. “There are people out there with paralyzed bodies, and people dying of terrible diseases, who think, ‘maybe I could transplant my head.’ It’s cruel to them, and then they kind of get angry with disappointment when the technology doesn’t deliver.”
Scientists and doctors who aim to push the limits of modern medicine have ethical responsibilities. If they attempt to misrepresent the scope of their work, they can harm not just their peers but the very people their research is purported to benefit.
Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country's medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports. Xiaoyi is just one example of how much China is keen on using AI to make a number of industries more efficient.
A ROBOT MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Experts generally agree that, before we might consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be truly intelligent —that is, on a level on par with human cognition— AI agents have to pass a number of tests. And while this is still a work in progress, AIs have been busy passing other kinds of tests.
Xiaoyi, an AI-powered robot in China, for example, has recently taken the national medical licensing examination and passed, making it the first robot to have done so. Not only did the robot pass the exam, it actually got a score of 456 points, which is 96 points above the required marks.
This robot, developed by leading Chinese AI company iFlytek Co., Ltd., has been designed to capture and analyze patient information. Now, they’ve proven that Xiaoyi could also have enough medical know-how to be a licensed practitioner.
With both governments and private companies intent on putting AI to good use, one of the first fields in which AI technologies are being applied has been medical research and healthcare. Most are familiar with IBM’s Watson, which has made significant headway in AI-assisted cancer diagnosis and in improving patient care in hospitals.
In the same manner, iFlytek plans to have Xiaoyi assist human doctors in order to improve their efficiency in future treatments. “We will officially launch the robot in March 2018. It is not meant to replace doctors. Instead, it is to promote better people-machine cooperation so as to boost efficiency,” iFlytek chairman Liu Qingfeng told China Daily.
Concretely, iFlytek’s vision is to use AI to improve cancer treatment and help to train general practitioners, which China is sorely in need of. “General practitioners are in severe shortage in China’s rural areas. We hope AI can help more people access quality medical resource,” Qingfeng added.
In short, there’s no need to fear an AI takeover in the medical field, even though many worry that such advances will eliminate human jobs. In this case, it is quite the opposite, because this AI will work to augment the capabilities of its human counterparts instead of replace them. So, at least for now, you don’t have to worry about being referred to a robot doctor.
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BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE FOOTAGE TAKEN DURING THE APOLLO 17 MISSION TO THE MOON
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE FOOTAGE TAKEN DURING THE APOLLO 17 MISSION TO THE MOON
New footage surfaced of the black knight satellite. The footage was taken during the Apollo 17 mission to the moon.
Apparently, the real mission of the Apollo 17 mission was to create some communication with the Black Knight Knight Satellite. This object has been orbiting the earth for more than 13.000 of years, so it seems logical NASA wanted to contact this object.
A mysterious source released a controversial video that shows the black knight satellite object orbiting earth. A signal was sent to this mysterious object and after a while earth received a signal back. It's clear that the signal that was sent out to the object was based on the SETI's message that is being sent out on a daily basis. According to the source, the crew was amazed by the signal they received back from the alien spacecraft. But the message that was sent back to the Apollo 17 crew was too weird to share with humanity... What should we answer?
SCIENTIST DECLARES: "THE ANTIGRAVITY SPACE VEHICLES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE MADE WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY"
SCIENTIST DECLARES: "THE ANTIGRAVITY SPACE VEHICLES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE MADE WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY"
Dr. Richard Boylan, Ph.D. Behavioral Scientist, anthropologist, associate professor, clinical hypnotherapist, consultant, and researcher, claims to have worked for over 15 years with people reporting having found intelligent extraterrestrial life forms.
He also says the government is aware of these extraterrestrial visitors. Boylan claims to know about exotic artifacts (military aircraft with extraterrestrial technology) built on reverse engineering (retro-engineering) that have antigravity technology. The scientist also claims that he knows 12 of these aircraft built with alien technology, then giving names and details. It also provides key data about the contact between humans and stellar visitors, all silenced by the global protection system.µ
"Scientifically and clinically, I have been working for over 15 years with people who report having found an intelligent extraterrestrial life form, a visiting star," said Boylan. "During this work, I felt that it was necessary to learn as much as possible about the real UFO reality and what the government already knew about those visitors. Because of the abundant information about the visitors of the stars and their meetings with humans, I began publishing my results, making presentations at national and international congresses, magazines and special media interviews, which in turn has attracted the attention of some figures, now or before, to highly ranked government sectors, military institutions and intelligence agencies."
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SEASONS GREETINGS: THREE-MILE-WIDE ASTEROID 3200 PHAETHON TO SKIM EARTH JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS
SEASONS GREETINGS: THREE-MILE-WIDE ASTEROID 3200 PHAETHON TO SKIM EARTH JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS
The planet Earth is set to have a very close encounter with a three-mile-wide asteroid in the week before Christmas, scientists have warned.
According to Russian astronomers, a giant space rock which is referred to as 3200 Phaethon is due to make a close encounter with the planet on December 17th. NASA has verified that this is the case and warned that the close brush with the asteroid could be potentially dangerous as the rock will only miss the orbit of Earth by two million miles – a very short distance in galactic terms.
EARTH DUE FOR A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A BIZARRE ASTEROID JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS
This is considered to be a cause for concern as the asteroid is approximately half the size of Chicxulub, the asteroid which caused the extinction event that eradicated the dinosaurs. Therefore, space agencies will be monitoring the progress of the asteroid closely over the next month to ensure that it cannot cause any damage to the planet.
Phaethon is considered to be one of the most bizarre asteroids in this solar system, and scientists from all over the world have investigated it over the years. According to astronomers from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, it seems that the asteroid was once much larger than it currently is. However, its orbital pattern which takes it far closer to the sun than any other asteroid has caused it to crumble into smaller pieces over the generations. It has even been suggested that the asteroid could have once been a comet nucleus, a theory which is substantiated by its elongated orbit which sees it coming closer to the Sun than Mercury at some times and moving further away from the Sun than Mars at others.
The astronomers from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University have suggested that the meteor shower engendered by this unusual asteroid is likely due to its crumbling state after so many close calls with the Sun. The asteroid is known for being the only asteroid to produce a regular meteor shower, a phenomenon which is associated with comets and has been a source of massive puzzlement to NASA scientists investigating it. 'What it comes down to is that the Geminid parent object is a mystery, ' said a spokesperson for the space agency.
The Geminids meteor shower will take place shortly before the asteroid by-passes the Earth on December 17th and is expected to light up the sky between December 13th and the 14th.
Ever since scientists have begun to study the orbits of the planets in this solar system, they have discovered the incredible variety in the length of years the planets experience.
While Earth takes a mere 365.25 days to complete a single orbit of the Sun, Mars takes nearly twice as long while the gas giants take between 11.86 and 164.8 years to make a single orbit. But despite knowing about this incredible variety in this solar system, scientists were still stunned to discover perhaps the most extremely diverse orbital patterns yet uncovered in a solar system rooted around a star known as CVSO 30.
CVSO 30 is located approximately 1200 light years from the planet Earth and has been a particular source of interest for astronomers because it has two candidate exoplanets. The planets orbiting CVSO 30 are enormous compared to the planets in this solar system and are described as being many times the mass of Jupiter, making them super-Jupiters.
According to Tobias Schmidt of the University of Hamburg, the Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory Jena, and the lead author of the paper on the discovery of the exoplanets, it is extremely unusual to find two exoplanet candidates with several times the mass of Jupiter orbiting a star as small as CVSO 30 which is believed to be fairly young. But even more surprisingly, the scientists discovered that despite the fact that the two exoplanets are fairly similar in size that one of the planets has an orbital period of less than eleven days whereas the other takes a phenomenal 27,000 years to orbit CVSO 30.
The bizarre differences in the orbital pattern of the two planets have led the scientists to attempt to investigate how this massive disparity could have come about. Professor Schmidt suggests that the two planets may have formed in a typical way around the star but because of the interaction of the gravitational forces and the two giant planets, they were forced into their current distanced orbits. However, he stresses that this merely conjecture at this point and the scientists working on the project intend to conduct further investigations to find out if this is the case.
The discovery of the planets is also notable for a different reason. The planets were discovered using a new technique in planet imaging.Until now, the vast majority of the 2000 exoplanets which have been discovered have been found using indirect methods including the Transit Method which uncovers planets by measuring the dimming effects they have on their parent star and the Radial Velocity Method which measures the gravitational force the planets exert on their star. However, these two planets were discovered using a technique called Direct Imagining.
In the past, Direct Imaging has not been considered an effective way of spotting exoplanets because planets are usually swamped by the light of the parent star and therefore are almost impossible to detect. However, it is preferred when exploring the remote regions of a star as it is considered to be more effective and new advances in technology have allowed scientists to probe far deeper than they ever have before using the Direct Imagining method.
Since various projects have begun to identify exoplanets throughout the universe, scientists have constantly been amazed at how diverse solar systems are. Many of the discoveries concerning exoplanets have completely revolutionized assumptions about how planets form around their parent stars, and it is believed that these discoveries will help to inform a new, comprehensive model of planet formation as time goes on.
ASTRONOMERS SAY ALIEN BUGS IN INTERPLANETARY DUST STARTED LIVE ON EARTH
ASTRONOMERS SAY ALIEN BUGS IN INTERPLANETARY DUST STARTED LIVE ON EARTH
Life might have been transported between worlds in space dust. Astronomers have suggested that microscopic organisms, including tardigrades, might have been transported between worlds by space dust in streams that were fast moving.
INTERPLANETARY DUST STREAMS COULD TAKE LIFE TO AND FROM EART
Scientists have been of the belief that impacts by asteroids or comets might have been the natural way for transportation of life between planets. Now a new study seems to suggest that this was not the case. Professor Arjun Berera authored the study from the School of Physics and Astronomy in Edinburgh and has come up with the suggestion that life on Earth might have started when streams of space dust that were traveling fast carried microscopic organisms to Earth. The professor found that interplanetary dust streams are not just capable of taking particles to Earth but also taking them away from Earth.
ROUGHLY 220,000 POUNDS OF SPACE DUST FALL ONTO EARTH EVERY DAY
220,000 POUNDS OF SPACE DUST LANDS ON EARTH EVERY DAY
Interplanetary dust is made up of debris from asteroid collisions that occurred a long time ago, and it is pervasive in the solar system. Around 220,000 pounds of space dust is said to fall down onto Earth each day. The cosmic stream of dust travels together at around 44 miles per second.
The researchers came to the conclusion that the streams of dust are grazing Earth and colliding with particles of an organic nature that are found in the upper atmosphere. The small particles get trapped 93 miles or perhaps even higher in the atmosphere of the Earth and get knocked out with force that allows them to get out of the gravity of Earth. When the particles break free out of the Earths bounds the dust flows pick up and then carry hitchhikers that are microscopic and take them off through interplanetary space.
TARDIGRADES COULD HITCHHIKE TO ANOTHER PLANET
There are some plants, bacteria, and animals, which are known by the name of tardigrades, that are able to survive out in space and they could get caught up in the dust and then hitchhike over to another planet. The mechanism that was outlined in the study allowed for planets in the distance in the same solar system as Earth to exchange atmospheric particles with one another.
Berera said that the proposition that space dust might take organisms over long distances between planets in space brings about some exciting prospects about how life and atmospheres of planets originated. He went on to say that the streaming of fast space dust is typically found in the planetary systems and that it could be a common factor in proliferating life.
Dramatic footage shows the flaming UFO breaking up as it soared above the skies between Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada.
Some worried people thought it may have been an extraterrestrial object heading to Earth on Friday night.
The footage was posted on the AMS American Meteor Society YouTube – which was viewed over 12,000 times.
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WHAT IS IT? A mysterious fireball tore through the sky in Canada
One user, with the name gearjammerj, wrote: “Definitely aliens.”
TheIllustriousFox commented: “UFO baby. Things don’t take that long to get out of our frame of vision from the atmosphere.”
Meanwhile, Billyray Wapass said on one person’s post: “It looked like an asteroid broke up into two pieces.”
It later emerged the blazing scenes was likely to be a rocket booster reentering our planet’s atmosphere.
The Antaras rocket helped propel a Cygnus spacecraft on its way to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
California’s Aerospace Corporation said it was launched on November 12.
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MYSTERY: The blazing scenes was likely to be a rocket booster
Eric Briggs, a volunteer for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, said the footage matched what he would expect a rocket re-entry to look like.
He said: “I’d expect to see something flying from west to east, faster than an aircraft at high altitude with a trail following behind it and it appearing to break up into pieces.”
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Weird Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Flowing Water After All
Weird Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Flowing Water After All
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer
This inner slope of a crater on southern Mars has several of the seasonal dark streaks called "recurrent slope lineae," or RSL.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS
Bad news for microbes that want to make a home on Mars: A new study argues that dark streaks on the Martian surface are not caused by underground supplies of liquid water.
In 2015, observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed trace amounts of water (mixed with heavy doses of salts) on the Red Planet's surface. These "hydrated salts" corresponded with dark streaks on Martian hillsides called recurring slope lineae (RSL), which researchers had already identified as possible sites of liquid water rising to the surface.
Studies of RSL, and in particular the findings by the MRO, introduced the tantalizing possibility that there could be enough liquid water on the surface of Mars today to support microbial life. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]
This processed, false-color image of Mars' Hale Crater was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image highlights dark streaks on the Martian surface known as recurring slope lineae or RSL's.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
But the new study shows that those dark RSL could simply be flows of sand and other granular material, according to a statement from NASA. In addition, the authors provide more reasons why the liquid water explanation does not fit with certain features of RSL.
"We've thought of RSL as possible liquid water flows, but the slopes are more like what we expect for dry sand," Colin Dundas, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Science Center and a lead author on the new study, said in the statement. "This new understanding of RSL supports other evidence that shows that Mars today is very dry."
However, neither study can fully explain all the features of the Martian RSL, and the authors of the new paper admit the mystery may not be solved until a rover or a human expedition can explore those regions directly.
Granular flows
Thousands of RSL sites have been identified on Martian slopes surface, in about 50 hilly regions spread out between the north and south midlatitudes, according to the statement from NASA. The streaks appear during warm seasons and shrink or disappear during winter. Similar features on Earth are only caused by "seeping water," officials said in the statement, but "how they form in the dry Martian environment remains unclear."
The new study offers an alternative explanation to flowing water.
When sand and other granular materials are lumped into piles, the material locks into place until the pile reaches a certain height. At that point, some of the grains begin to slip and flow smoothly down the sides, forming rivulets. Those rivers of material could appear darker than the material around them, according to the statement, and thus could explain the RSL.
This view of recurring slope lineae on the surface of Mars was constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The dark streaks here are up to few hundred yards, or meters, long. The image was produced by first creating a 3-D computer model (a digital terrain map) of the area based on stereo information from two HiRISE observations, and then draping an image over the land-shape model.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
And there's another key piece of evidence that the authors point to in support of this hypothesis: For a given type of granular material (such as sand), there is a specific angle at which those rivulets can form, and it's known as the "angle of repose." The authors show that the RSL that have been observed so far only appear on hillsides that reach the angle of repose for sand dunes. If the RSL sites were created by water, the authors postulate that these features should also appear on gentler slopes.
"The RSL don't flow onto shallower slopes, and the lengths of these are so closely correlated with the dynamic angle of repose, it can't be a coincidence," Alfred McEwen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, said in the statement. McEwen is the HiRISE Principal Investigator and a co-author of the new report.
The research also relies on models of slope steepness using data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on MRO. The paper includes examinations of 151 RSL features at 10 sites. Another study, published in March, suggested thatthe RSL were caused by "dry avalanches."
A home for life
The findings do not negate the detection of hydrated salts by MRO, and liquid water may still play a role in the formation and seasonal evolution of RSL streaks, according to the paper. But, similar to a 2016 study, they contend the hypothesis that the water comes from beneath the surface.
The authors propose that the water detected in the RSL is sucked from the thin Martian atmosphere, rather than supplied by underground reserves. The increase in hydration could cause changes in the granular material on these slopes that triggers some of the flow that creates the dark streaks. The dark regions could also be the result of "changes in hydration," according to the statement.
"Full understanding of RSL is likely to depend upon on-site investigation of these features," said MRO Project Scientist Rich Zurek. He noted, however, that if scientists could visit these RSL sites, they would still take precautions to prevent accidental contamination of the sites with Earth-based microbes. In other words, scientists will not completely rule out the possibility that microbes could be living in these RSL just yet.
Zurek added that "a full explanation of how these enigmatic features darken and fade still eludes us. Remote sensing at different times of day could provide important clues."
The study was published today (Nov. 20) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a network of bubble universes in space. Credit: Sandy MacKenzie | Shutterstock
Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a proposal out there that suggests that there could be other universes besides our own, where all the choices you made in this life played out in alternate realities. So, instead of turning down that job offer that took you from the United States to China, the alternate universe would show the outcome if you decided to venture to Asia instead.
The idea is pervasive in comic books and movies. For example, in the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, the premise is that the Kirk and Spock portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are in an alternate timeline apart from the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy versions of the characters.
The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse. There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse. First, it is useful to understand how our universe is believed to have come to be.
Arguing for a multiverse
Around 13.7 billion years ago, simply speaking, everything we know of in the cosmos was an infinitesimal singularity. Then, according to theBig Bang theory, some unknown trigger caused it to expand and inflate in three-dimensional space. As the immense energy of this initial expansion cooled, light began to shine through. Eventually, the small particles began to form into the larger pieces of matter we know today, such as galaxies, stars and planets.
One big question with this theory is: are we the only universe out there. With our current technology, we are limited to observations within this universe because the universe is curved and we are inside the fishbowl, unable to see the outside of it (if there is an outside.)
1. We don't know what the shape of space-time is exactly. One prominent theory is that it is flat and goes on forever. This would present the possibility of many universes being out there. But with that topic in mind, it's possible that universes can start repeating themselves. That's because particles can only be put together in so many ways. More about that in a moment.
2. Another theory for multiple universes comes from "eternal inflation." Based on research from Tufts University cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin, when looking at space-time as a whole, some areas of space stop inflating like the Big Bang inflated our own universe. Others, however, will keep getting larger. So if we picture our own universe as a bubble, it is sitting in a network of bubble universes of space. What's interesting about this theory is the other universes could have very different laws of physics than our own, since they are not linked.
3. Or perhaps multiple universes can follow the theory of quantum mechanics (how subatomic particles behave), as part of the "daughter universe" theory. If you follow the laws of probability, it suggests that for every outcome that could come from one of your decisions, there would be a range of universes — each of which saw one outcome come to be. So in one universe, you took that job to China. In another, perhaps you were on your way and your plane landed somewhere different, and you decided to stay. And so on.
4. Another possible avenue is exploring mathematical universes, which, simply put, explain tht the structure of mathematics may change depending in which universe you reside. "Aa mathematical structure is something that you can describe in a way that's completely independent of human baggage," said theory-proposer Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as quoted in the 2012 article. "I really believe that there is this universe out there that can exist independently of me that would continue to exist even if there were no humans."
5. And last but not least as the idea of parallel universes. To go back to the idea that space-time is flat, the number of possible particle configurations in multiple universes would be limited to 10^10^122 distinct possibilities, to be exact. So, with an infinite number of cosmic patches, the particle arrangements within them must repeat — infinitely many times over. This means there are infinitely many "parallel universes": cosmic patches exactly the same as ours (containing someone exactly like you), as well as patches that differ by just one particle's position, patches that differ by two particles' positions, and so on down to patches that are totally different from ours.
Arguing against a parallel universe
Not everyone agrees with the parallel universe theory, however. A 2015 article on Medium by astrophysicist Ethan Siegal agreed that space-time could go on forever in theory, but said that there are some limitations with that idea.
The key problem is the universe is just under 14 billion years old. So our universe's age itself is obviously not infinite, but a finite amount. This would (simply put) limit the number of possibilities for particles to rearrange themselves, and sadly make it less possible that your alternate self did get on that plane after all to see China.
Also, the expansion at the beginning of the universe took place exponentially because there was so much "energy inherent to space itself," he said. But over time, that inflation obviously slowed — those particles of matter created at the Big Bang are not continuing to expand, he pointed out. Among his conclusions: that means that multiverses would have different rates of inflation and different times (longer or shorter) for inflation. This decreases the possibilities of universes similar to our own.
"Even setting aside issues that there may be an infinite number of possible values for fundamental constants, particles and interactions, and even setting aside interpretation issues such as whether the many-worlds-interpretation actually describes our physical reality," Siegal said, "the fact of the matter is that the number of possible outcomes rises so quickly — so much faster than merely exponentially — that unless inflation has been occurring for a truly infinite amount of time, there are no parallel universes identical to this one."
But rather than seeing this lack of other universes as a limitation, Siegal instead takes the philosophy that it shows how important it is to celebrate being unique. He advises to make the choices that work for you, which "leave you with no regrets." That's because there are no other realities where the choices of your dream self play out; you, therefore, are the only person that can make those choices happen.µ
With 'Mission 1' Complete, Planet Turns Focus to Data Analysis
With 'Mission 1' Complete, Planet Turns Focus to Data Analysis
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
A pair of Dove cubesats being deployed from the International Space Station. With the company's constellation now able to image the Earth's entire landmass onca day, Planet is shifting its attention to developing machine learning tools to analyze images and extract insights from them.
Credit: Planet
Updated Nov. 19 to clarify Planet's work with data analysis partners.
Speaking at the NewSpace Europe conference here Nov. 17, Kam Shahid, director of space operations for Planet, said the company had achieved "Mission 1" for the company, dating back to its founding seven years ago, of taking images of the Earth's entire landmass once per day.
That constellation, Shahid said, produces large volumes of data. "This is what imaging the Earth every day really means: 1.4 million images every day at 29 megapixels," he said. Planet downlinks six terabytes of data per day, he said, with a total coverage area of 300 million square kilometers.
With the satellite constellation in place, the challenge for Planet now is to turn the volume of images it produces into data products. "This is what we see for the future for our company, turning data into insights," he said. "We have focused extensively on building a pipeline which can take all of this data, process it and get valuable information out."
That approach, he said, involves the use of machine learning technologies for automated analyses of images. An example he gave was using images to count the number of cars in a lot. The high-resolution images from SkySat images allow the algorithms to count individual cars. In medium-resolution, but more frequent, Dove images, the algorithms can instead measure the area of lots filled by cars, and from that estimate the number of cars.
That can be used for a wide range of applications. "The idea is that you can use our imagery and ask questions and get answers," he said. "This is what the future is and this is where Planet is moving. We are moving into analytics."
Planet is not alone in emphasizing analytics. Several other companies are developing systems to transform the rapidly expanding volume of satellite images into data products. Ursa Space Systems raised $7 million in a Series A round last month to expand its products, which are based on synthetic aperture radar imagery it purchases. Other companies in the sector include Descartes Labs, Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow.
Shahid said later that Planet will develop its machine learning capabilities in-house, a philosophy it has followed for its Dove satellites and other key technologies. Customers, he said, would be able to bring in their own data sets to combine with the analysis of Planet imagery. Planet will continue to partner with other companies for analytics, company spokesman Trevor Hammond said Nov. 18, noting it has "numerous paying customers" in such arrangements currently.
"The goal is to provide users ways to get the information they need to make smarter decisions," Will Marshall, the co-founder and chief executive of Planet, said in a company blog post this month about the Mission 1 milestone. "In short, Planet will index physical change on Earth the same way Google indexed the internet. Imagine the possibilities."
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
MIT Team Wins Mars City Design Contest for 'Redwood Forest' Idea
MIT Team Wins Mars City Design Contest for 'Redwood Forest' Idea
By Kasandra Brabaw, Space.com Contributor
An MIT team won first place for urban design with the Redwood Forest, a series of woodsy habitats enclosed in open, public domes that would reside on the Martian surface.
Credit: Image courtesy of Valentina Sumini
A team of engineers and architects from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won the top prize for architecture in 2017’s international Mars City Design competition, which asks participants to design habitats that could one day be built on the Red Planet.
The competition, sponsored by both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), is one of many that asks participants to come up with creative solutions to the problems these agencies anticipate in the journey to Mars.
MIT’s winning design, which the team calls Redwood Forest, is a collection of "tree habitats" connected through a system of tunnels called "roots." The roots would provide safe access to other tree habitats, private spaces and "shirt-sleeve transportation," according to a statement from MIT. The tunnels would also provide protection from cosmic radiation, micrometeorite impacts and extreme changes in temperature.
Each dome-shaped tree habitat would house up to 50 people, and the team's vision calls for building about 200 of them, to support a settlement of 10,000 pioneers. The structures would include private and public spaces as well as plants and water harvested from the northern plains of Mars, according to the statement.
"On Mars, our city will physically and functionally mimic a forest, using local Martian resources such as ice and water, regolith (or soil), and sun to support life," MIT postdoctoral researcher Valentina Sumini said in the statement. Sumini and MIT assistant professor Caitlin Mueller led the team, which also included nine students.
“Every tree habitat in Redwood Forest will collect energy from the sun and use it to process and transport the water throughout the tree, and every tree is designed as a water-rich environment,” says winning team member Geroge Lordos MBA '00.
Credit: Image courtesy of Valentina Sumini
"Designing a forest also symbolizes the potential for outward growth as nature spreads across the Martian landscape," Sumini added.
Also like a forest, the "trees" in this collective would be vital in transporting water throughout the system.
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"Every tree habitat in Redwood Forest will collect energy from the sun and use it to process and transport the water throughout the tree, and every tree is designed as a water-rich environment," George Lordos, a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics doctoral student who worked on the project, said in the same statement.
Each dome would have soft cells that would fill with water to help protect inhabitants from radiation, manage heat loads and supply water to both fish and produce farms. The domes would also have solar panels to generate clean energy for charging hydrogen fuel cells and splitting water to create rocket fuel, Lordos said.
Left to right: Team members George Lordos, Alpha Arsano, Caitlin Mueller, and Valentina Sumini.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Valentina Sumini.
The Redwood Forest design could also have uses here on Earth, team members said. A similar architecture could make harsh environments like those at high altitudes and even the seafloor livable, they said in the statement, and the habitat’s proposed gardening system could cut down on land and transportation costs.
Still, the goal of Mars City Design is ultimately to help agencies like NASA and ESA come up with viable ways for humans to settle the Red Planet.
"It is not enough to just travel to Mars and survive; now we must develop a way in which we can sustainably live and love on Mars," the competition’s website reads. "It is essential that we call on a new generation of thinkers and innovators to make this a reality."
The crackpot theory claims UFOs came and took some dinosaurs away before the rest were wiped out
Well, that is if you believe a madcap theory from a US "non-profit" organisation, which claims they evolved into intelligent beings that have returned to our planet and can speak English.
Supporters of the US-based Earth defence headquarters believe that several velociraptors, made famous by the Jurassic Park movie series, were rescued from Earth by aliens in space ships before the impact 66 million years ago.
Jo Ann Richards tours UFO conferences trying to convince the audience her husband, who is serving life for murder, was once a special forces agent who attended as a child with his father, a 1961 intergalactic conference about the future of the Earth, and met juvenile raptor aliens, who could speak English, and a string of other ET species.
Amazingly, conference goers pay money to hear the tall-sounding tale at conferences in the UK and Europe.
At a UFO conference in Watford she told of a story about how Richards and his father, Ellis Lloyd Richards Jnr, were both involved in secret research involving aliens.
She added as a young boy in June 1961 her husband had attended a covert conference in a castle in England, involving the “leaders of Earth and hundreds of species of aliens from all over the galaxy”.
Her story, which would defy belief to even the most ardent of alien believers, claimed among the alien species were the raptors, that looked exactly like those seen in the Jurassic Park movies, but who could speak English.
She said: "These originated from the dinosaurs on Earth. Some of them left Earth before the comet came and had occupied another planet."
Mrs Richards also uses the platform to gain support for a campaign that her husband is innocent of the shocking murder he was convicted of planning 1n 1982, and, instead was farmed by the CIA, because he was about to expose the fact that aliens are real.
She claims he was previously covertly involved in secret space programmes involving several alien species, but he was framed by the so-called men in black when he was about to blow the whistle on everything.
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Jo Ann and Mark Richards married in jail
She opens her talks outlining why the man she married while he was in prison is "innocent" of the shocking crime of planning the murder of his friend before disposing of the body and spending his cash.
She claims Mr Richards is not the manipulative fantasist he was said to be when he was convicted of first degree murder and describes her husband as a "political prisoner”.
She said: "My husband was framed for murder he had nothing to do with in 1982 so he would get out of the hair of the New World Order as he would be fighting their efforts at this time.
“My husband has been in prison for almost 30 years for something he had nothing to do with."
She said in 1979, Richards led a squadron in a legendary alleged underground battle between humans and sinister aliens who had been experimenting on people in a secret base in Dulce, New Mexico, and rescued hundreds of people there.
The battle of Dulce is a myth within some UFO and conspiracy theory circles.
The truth about this battle was one of the key things Richards was about to expose to the world when he was arrested over the murder, she claims.
But records of the trial showed Richards used none of the fantastical story during his defence and never once claimed to have been framed in court.
In fact, the court heard about a very different fantastical story.
On July 13, 1982, the body of Richards' friend, vintage car restorer Richard Baldwin, 36, was found weighted down by an outboard motor in water near the Sisters Island in San Pablo Bay, San Francisco, Marin County, California.
He was wrapped in plastic tarpaulin and a bamboo screen and bound around the neck and ankles by TV cable, rope and duct-tape.
Mr Baldwin had a fractured skull and was stabbed in the heart.
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Jo Ann Richards explains to UFO conference goers about her husband being in prison
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Types of aliens at the "secret conference" and its agenda, according to Jo Ann Richards
The raptors originated from the dinosaurs on Earth. Some of them left Earth before the comet came and had occupied another planet."
Jo Ann Richards
Her story, which would defy belief to even the most ardent of alien believers, claimed among the alien species were the raptors, that looked exactly like those seen in the Jurassic Park movies, but who could speak English.
She said: "These originated from the dinosaurs on Earth. Some of them left Earth before the comet came and had occupied another planet."
But the crazy tale about the madcap interplanetary conference was not the only extraordinary allegation Mrs Richards regularly makes.
She runs the Earth Defence Headquarters, what she calls a not-for profit organisation, in the US, which sells reports on alien encounters written by her husband in prison and raises awareness about the "injustice" he has faced.
Richards, then a 29-year-old home renovator, and two 17-year-old employees of his, were arrested on suspicion of the murder.
They had been upgrading the victim's property in San Rafael, California, at the time.
When Richards' home was searched police found several documents and photographs that suggested he was planning a coup to take over Marin County and establish a separate kingdom known as Pendragon.
The case became known as the Camelot murder as a result.
Investigators found evidence of the existence of a secret organisation, with other members, called Pendragon led by Richards that was planning the takeover.
Detectives found maps, aerial pictures of Marin County and plans to make a laser-gun and machine-guns.
Richards claimed he had no intention of staging an armed coup and that it was all research for a sci-fi book he was planning, but the bizarre discovery made its way into the trial.
One of the teens, Crossan David Hoover, later confessed that he battered Mr Baldwin with a baseball bat, then stabbed him with a knife and screwdriver.
He said that Richards had planned the murder, saying Mr Baldwin owed him $3,000, and told if they also burgled the victim's home, Hoover could have a $5,000 share, but that he would also be given a prominent role in he new kingdom.
In interview, Richards admitted burgling the home and spending cash on Mr Baldwin's credit cards, because of the debt, but he claimed the two teenagers had confessed the killing to him and he played no part in it.
But it emerged that after the killing Richards had bought a boat, video equipment and jewellery and even tried to obtain credit in his former friend's name.
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Jo Ann Richards introduces her husband and his father-in-law to the UFO Academy in Watford
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Mark Richards made no mention of aliens during the murder trial
He was charged after the other 17-year-old, referred to only as Andrew, agreed to testify in return for immunity against prosecution.
Another former employee of Richards also came forward to state his boss had earlier tried to get him to kill Mr Baldwin.
Prosecutors said they did not seek to prove he was planning a takeover, but that he had used the possibility of one as another way of manipulating the easily influenced youngsters into murder.
Richards has failed to appeal his conviction.
He did not begin discussing his "history with aliens" until 1997 when he met Jo Ann, his second wife, who visited him in prison.
He now writes reports on his alleged involvement in secret military and space operations, which are then sold at UFO conferences by Mrs Richards, as part of her campaigning for justice for him.
Debunkers have pointed out how there is no record of his military service and that if he was being framed, this would have come up in his trial, and that he would have brought it up earlier than 1997.
They also point to the fact being in prison for life allows him, through his wife, to release much information about alleged alien activity - so the CIA plot to frame him, if true, would have been a drastic failure.
But Mrs Richards insists she is convinced by her husband’s fantastical stories.
She even claims to be psychic and that her late father-in-law accompanies her at conferences.
She said: "He has the air of captain about him. I think I have known him long enough to know he is not lying to me.
"I know there are people who don't believe me, and that's fine, and we say well try and disprove it, and no one has."
When asked by Express.co.uk if she feared for her safety or being framed by the CIA, now she has taken over her husband's work to expose the truth about aliens, she said: "No, I have a lot of good aliens that are around me, protecting me."
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Scientist claims there is a way to travel in time
Scientist claims there is a way to travel in time
Not only have scientists explored the possibilities to travel in time, for centuries has the human race wrapped their head around this concept which, according to world famous scientist Albert Einstein is in fact achievable.
Tales of time travel have existed for centuries. No matter where we decide to look, eventually we will find written or oral legends that suggest traveling in time had been achieved.
There are numerous ancient legends that detail how some people got lost in time, thousands of years ago.
One example of time travel can be found in the ancient text of the Mahabharata, believed to have been written sometime during the eighth century BC. In this ancient text, the ancient King Raivata is described as going to heaven in order to meet with the creator God Brahma, only to come back to Earth hundreds of years in the future.
Similar accounts can be found if we take a look at the Quran. There we find details of a group of people, who in 250 AD sought to the persecution, and withdrew, under the guidance of God, to a cave where God made them sleep. They woke up 309 years later.
Countless accounts of time travel can be found in ancient records kept by ancient civilizations, but tales of time travel have apparently become extremely popular in today’s society, and scientists say there is a way we could really move in time.
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However, the two examples mentioned above are considered as legends or myths.
In today’s modern society, similar accounts of time travel can be found all over the internet.
Not long ago, a man posted a video online saying that he was a time traveler who came from the year 2028.
The video broadcasted by the channel paranormal Elite introduces us to Noah, who claims that he had risked his life to come back in time, in order to warn the people that such technology does exist.
In the controversial video, the alleged time traveler says:
“I am not attempting to deceive anyone, my sole objective is to prove to you that time travel exists and that I, myself, am a time traveler.
“First of all, time travel became possible in the year 2003, it is only used by top-secret organizations. The ability to time travel will not be released to the public until 2028.”
The man is only known as Noah, and supposedly suffers from anorexia and depression because of time travel says that: “In 2028, the organizations will admit that time travel is real and then it will be open to the public.
“In 2021, there will be a really popular device, almost like a Google Glass, that will look like a normal pair of glasses, but will have the processing power of today’s desktop computers.
“The problem is that the President of the United States of America after the 2020 election will be Donald Trump.
“I can say this with 100 percent certainty. I know many of you will not believe me, but what I say is the truth.”
But, time travel only exists in ancient legends and in Hollywood, right?
Not according to a physics and math professor Brian Greene, from the Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival who says:
“Albert Einstein showed that if you go out into space and travel near the speed of light, and you turn around, and you come back, your clock will be ticking off time more slowly. So, when you step off it’s going to be the future on planet Earth. You will have time traveled into the future.”
“He also showed that if you hang out near a nice strong source of gravity — a neutron star, a black hole — and you kind of get right near the edge of that object, time also for you would slow down real slow relative to everybody else.
We could travel in time through wormholes, argue scientists.
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“And therefore, when you come back to Earth, for instance, it’ll again be far into the future.”
Professor Greene suggests that wormholes are another option for time travel. Inside wormholes, space and time are wrapped, producing portals that tact as ‘shortcuts’ through space.
“It’s a bridge, if you will, from one location space to another. It’s kind of a tunnel that gives you a shortcut to go from here to here.
“Now Einstein discovered this in 1935 but it was subsequently realised that if you manipulate the openings of a wormhole — put one near a black hole or take one on a high-speed journey — then time of the two openings of this wormhole tunnel will not take off at the same rate, so that you will no longer just go from one location in space to another, if you go through this tunnel — through this wormhole — you’ll go from one moment in time to a different moment in time.
“Go one way, you’ll travel to the past, the other way, travel to the future.”
Elon Musk warns: Artificial Intelligence is highly likely to destroy humans
Elon Musk warns: Artificial Intelligence is highly likely to destroy humans
Despite the fact that there are many who welcome artificial intelligence saying that its the next step for our civilization, there are many experts in the subject who have issued a stark warning when it comes to AI.
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX argues that Artificial Intelligence is highly likely to be a threat to people.
The man behind SpaceX and Tesla wanted that a handful of major companies will end up controlling AI systems with ‘extreme’ level of power.
This, according to Musk, is not a good idea and can result extremely dangerous for our civilization.
Will AI destroy the human race?
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“Maybe there’s a five to 10 percent chance of success [of making AI safe],” he told Neuralink staff after showing them a documentary on AI, reports Rolling Stone.
Mr. Musk warns we must tread carefully when it comes to AI, and called for companies developing AI systems to slow down in order to ensure they don’t unintentionally create something extremely dangerous for humans.
“Between Facebook, Google and Amazon – and arguably Apple, but they seem to care about privacy – they have more information about you than you can remember,” he told Rolling Stone.
“There’s a lot of risk in concentration of power. So, if AGI [artificial general intelligence] represents an extreme level of power, should that be controlled by a few people at Google with no oversight?”
And Musk is probably right you know, we can’t leave a potentially civilization-threatening technology in the hands of a few companies, right? This is why Mr. Musk believes we should proactively regulate the development of AI.
“I have exposure to the most cutting-edge AI and I think people should be really concerned about it. I keep sounding the alarm bell but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react because it seems so ethereal,” said Mr. Musk, the last time he spoke about the threats that Artificial Intelligence represents.
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin shares, in part, his opinion, but at the same time sees in as a”colossal opportunity.”
In a statement to students, the Russian leader said that any country that leads research in artificial intelligence will dominate the planet.
A lot of potentials both for good and for bad
Putin can not make it clearer, and ensures that “artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humanity.”
He also wanted to warn about its possible dangers that, as we know, are difficult to predict:
Artificial intelligence offers colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict.
This technology will help to advance in medical research and in all kinds of industries, but the real fear is that it can also be key in terms of a possible war, warned Putin.
Right after the statements made by Putin, Elon Musk used his Twitter account to make clear that he is very concerned, assuring that all this will take us to towards World War III.
UNEVEN TERRAIN Universe simulations that consider general relativity (one shown) may shift knowledge of the cosmo
If the universe were a soup, it would be more of a chunky minestrone than a silky-smooth tomato bisque.
Sprinkled with matter that clumps together due to the insatiable pull of gravity, the universe is a network of dense galaxy clusters and filaments — the hearty beans and vegetables of the cosmic stew. Meanwhile, relatively desolate pockets of the cosmos, known as voids, make up a thin, watery broth in between.
Until recently, simulations of the cosmos’s history haven’t given the lumps their due. The physics of those lumps is described by general relativity, Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity. But that theory’s equations are devilishly complicated to solve. To simulate how the universe’s clumps grow and change, scientists have fallen back on approximations, such as the simpler but less accurate theory of gravity devised by Isaac Newton.
Relying on such approximations, some physicists suggest, could be mucking with measurements, resulting in a not-quite-right inventory of the cosmos’s contents. A rogue band of physicists suggests that a proper accounting of the universe’s clumps could explain one of the deepest mysteries in physics: Why is the universe expanding at an increasingly rapid rate?
The accepted explanation for that accelerating expansion is an invisible pressure called dark energy. In the standard theory of the universe, dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the universe’s “stuff” — its matter and energy. Yet scientists still aren’t sure what dark energy is, and finding its source is one of the most vexing problems of cosmology.
Perhaps, the dark energy doubters suggest, the speeding up of the expansion has nothing to do with dark energy. Instead, the universe’s clumpiness may be mimicking the presence of such an ethereal phenomenon.
Most physicists, however, feel that proper accounting for the clumps won’t have such a drastic impact. Robert Wald of the University of Chicago, an expert in general relativity, says that lumpiness is “never going to contribute anything that looks like dark energy.” So far, observations of the universe have been remarkably consistent with predictions based on simulations that rely on approximations.
Growing a lumpy universe
The universe has gradually grown lumpier throughout its history. During inflation, rapid expansion magnified tiny quantum fluctuations into minute density variations. Over time, additional matter glommed on to dense spots due to the stronger gravitational pull from the extra mass. After 380,000 years, those blips were imprinted as hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe. Lumps continued growing for billions of years, forming stars, planets, galaxies and galaxy clusters.
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As observations become more detailed, though, even slight inaccuracies in simulations could become troublesome. Already, astronomers are charting wide swaths of the sky in great detail, and planning more extensive surveys. To translate telescope images of starry skies into estimates of properties such as the amount of matter in the universe, scientists need accurate simulations of the cosmos’s history. If the detailed physics of clumps is important, then simulations could go slightly astray, sending estimates off-kilter. Some scientists already suggest that the lumpiness is behind a puzzling mismatch of two estimates of how fast the universe is expanding.
Researchers are attempting to clear up the debate by conquering the complexities of general relativity and simulating the cosmos in its full, lumpy glory. “That is really the new frontier,” says cosmologist Sabino Matarrese of the University of Padua in Italy, “something that until a few years ago was considered to be science fiction.” In the past, he says, scientists didn’t have the tools to complete such simulations. Now researchers are sorting out the implications of the first published results of the new simulations. So far, dark energy hasn’t been explained away, but some simulations suggest that certain especially sensitive measurements of how light is bent by matter in the universe might be off by as much as 10 percent.
Soon, simulations may finally answer the question: How much do lumps matter? The idea that cosmologists might have been missing a simple answer to a central problem of cosmology incessantly nags some skeptics. For them, results of the improved simulations can’t come soon enough. “It haunts me. I can’t let it go,” says cosmologist Rocky Kolb of the University of Chicago.
Smooth universe
By observing light from different eras in the history of the cosmos, cosmologists can compute the properties of the universe, such as its age and expansion rate. But to do this, researchers need a model, or framework, that describes the universe’s contents and how those ingredients evolve over time. Using this framework, cosmologists can perform computer simulations of the universe to make predictions that can be compared with actual observations.
COSMIC WEB Clumps and filaments of matter thread through a simulated universe 2 billion light years across. This simulation incorporates some aspects of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, allowing for detailed results while avoiding the difficulties of the full-fledged theory.
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After Einstein introduced his theory in 1915, physicists set about figuring out how to use it to explain the universe. It wasn’t easy, thanks to general relativity’s unwieldy, difficult-to-solve suite of equations. Meanwhile, observations made in the 1920s indicated that the universe wasn’t static as previously expected; it was expanding. Eventually, researchers converged on a solution to Einstein’s equations known as the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric. Named after its discoverers, the FLRW metric describes a simplified universe that is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that it appears identical at every point in the universe and in every direction. In this idealized cosmos, matter would be evenly distributed, no clumps. Such a smooth universe would expand or contract over time.
A smooth-universe approximation is sensible, because when we look at the big picture, averaging over the structures of galaxy clusters and voids, the universe is remarkably uniform. It’s similar to the way that a single spoonful of minestrone soup might be mostly broth or mostly beans, but from bowl to bowl, the overall bean-to-broth ratios match.
In 1998, cosmologists revealed that not only was the universe expanding, but its expansion was also accelerating (SN: 2/2/08, p. 74). Observations of distant exploding stars, or supernovas, indicated that the space between us and them was expanding at an increasing clip. But gravity should slow the expansion of a universe evenly filled with matter. To account for the observed acceleration, scientists needed another ingredient, one that would speed up the expansion. So they added dark energy to their smooth-universe framework.
Now, many cosmologists follow a basic recipe to simulate the universe — treating the cosmos as if it has been run through an imaginary blender to smooth out its lumps, adding dark energy and calculating the expansion via general relativity. On top of the expanding slurry, scientists add clumps and track their growth using approximations, such as Newtonian gravity, which simplifies the calculations.
In most situations, Newtonian gravity and general relativity are near-twins. Throw a ball while standing on the surface of the Earth, and it doesn’t matter whether you use general relativity or Newtonian mechanics to calculate where the ball will land — you’ll get the same answer. But there are subtle differences. In Newtonian gravity, matter directly attracts other matter. In general relativity, gravity is the result of matter and energy warping spacetime, creating curves that alter the motion of objects (SN: 10/17/15, p. 16). The two theories diverge in extreme gravitational environments. In general relativity, for example, hulking black holes produce inescapable pits that reel in light and matter (SN: 5/31/14, p. 16). The question, then, is whether the difference between the two theories has any impact in lumpy-universe simulations.
Most cosmologists are comfortable with the status quo simulations because observations of the heavens seem to fit neatly together like interlocking jigsaw puzzle pieces. Predictions based on the standard framework agree remarkably well with observations of the cosmic microwave background — ancient light released when the universe was just 380,000 years old (SN: 3/21/15, p. 7). And measurements of cosmological parameters — the fraction of dark energy and matter, for example — are generally consistent, whether they are made using the light from galaxies or the cosmic microwave background.
However, the reliance on Newton’s outdated theory irks some cosmologists, creating a lingering suspicion that the approximation is causing unrecognized problems. And some cosmological question marks remain. Physicists still puzzle over what makes up dark energy, along with another unexplained cosmic constituent, dark matter, an additional kind of mass that must exist to explain observations of how galaxies and galaxy clusters rotate. “Both dark energy and dark matter are a bit of an embarrassment to cosmologists, because they have no idea what they are,” says cosmologist Nick Kaiser of École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
An image from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey of 1.6 million galaxies in infrared light reveals how matter clumps into galaxy clusters and filaments. Future large-scale surveys may require improved simulations that use general relativity to track the evolution of lumps over time.
T.H. JARRETT, J. CARPENTER & R. HURT, OBTAINED AS PART OF 2MASS, A JOINT PROJECT OF UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS AND THE INFRARED PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS CENTER/CALTECH, FUNDED BY NASA AND NSF
Dethroning dark energy
Some cosmologists hope to explain the universe’s accelerating expansion by fully accounting for the universe’s lumpiness, with no need for the mysterious dark energy.
These researchers argue that clumps of matter can alter how the universe expands, when the clumps’ influence is tallied up over wide swaths of the cosmos. That’s because, in general relativity, the expansion of each local region of space depends on how much matter is within. Voids expand faster than average; dense regions expand more slowly. Because the universe is mostly made up of voids, this effect could produce an overall expansion and potentially an acceleration. Known as backreaction, this idea has lingered in obscure corners of physics departments for decades, despite many claims that backreaction’s effect is small or nonexistent.
Backreaction continues to appeal to some researchers because they don’t have to invent new laws of physics to explain the acceleration of the universe. “If there is an alternative which is based only upon traditional physics, why throw that away completely?” Matarrese asks.
Most cosmologists, however, think explaining away dark energy just based on the universe’s lumps is unlikely. Previous calculations have indicated any effect would be too small to account for dark energy, and would produce an acceleration that changes in time in a way that disagrees with observations.
“My personal view is that it’s a much smaller effect,” says astrophysicist Hayley Macpherson of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. “That’s just basically a gut feeling.” Theories that include dark energy explain the universe extremely well, she points out. How could that be if the whole approach is flawed?
New simulations by Macpherson and others that model how lumps evolve in general relativity may be able to gauge the importance of backreaction once and for all. “Up until now, it’s just been too hard,” says cosmologist Tom Giblin of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
To perform the simulations, researchers needed to get their hands on supercomputers capable of grinding through the equations of general relativity as the simulated universe evolves over time. Because general relativity is so complex, such simulations are much more challenging than those that use approximations, such as Newtonian gravity. But, a seemingly distinct topic helped lay some of the groundwork: gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
SPECKLED SPACETIME A lumpy universe, recently simulated using general relativity, shows clumps of matter (pink and yellow) that beget stars and galaxies.
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The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, searches for the tremors of cosmic dustups such as colliding black holes (SN: 10/28/17, p. 8). In preparation for this search, physicists honed their general relativity skills on simulations of the spacetime storm kicked up by black holes, predicting what LIGO might see and building up the computational machinery to solve the equations of general relativity. Now, cosmologists have adapted those techniques and unleashed them on entire, lumpy universes.
The first lumpy universe simulations to use full general relativity were unveiled in the June 2016 Physical Review Letters. Giblin and colleagues reported their results simultaneously with Eloisa Bentivegna of the University of Catania in Italy and Marco Bruni of the University of Portsmouth in England.
So far, the simulations have not been able to account for the universe’s acceleration. “Nearly everybody is convinced [the effect] is too small to explain away the need for dark energy,” says cosmologist Martin Kunz of the University of Geneva. Kunz and colleagues reached the same conclusion in their lumpy-universe simulations, which have one foot in general relativity and one in Newtonian gravity. They reported their first results in Nature Physics in March 2016.
Backreaction aficionados still aren’t dissuaded. “Before saying the effect is too small to be relevant, I would, frankly, wait a little bit more,” Matarrese says. And the new simulations have potential caveats. For example, some simulated universes behave like an old arcade game — if you walk to one edge of the universe, you cross back over to the other side, like Pac-Man exiting the right side of the screen and reappearing on the left. That geometry would suppress the effects of backreaction in the simulation, says Thomas Buchert of the University of Lyon in France. “This is a good beginning,” he says, but there is more work to do on the simulations. “We are in infancy.”
Different assumptions in a simulation can lead to disparate results, Bentivegna says. As a result, she doesn’t think that her lumpy, general-relativistic simulations have fully closed the door on efforts to dethrone dark energy. For example, tricks of light might be making it seem like the universe’s expansion is accelerating, when in fact it isn’t.
When astronomers observe far-away sources like supernovas, the light has to travel past all of the lumps of matter between the source and Earth. That journey could make it look like there’s an acceleration when none exists. “It’s an optical illusion,” Bentivegna says. She and colleagues see such an effect in a simulation reported in March in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. But, she notes, this work simulated an unusual universe, in which matter sits on a grid — not a particularly realistic scenario.
For most other simulations, the effect of optical illusions remains small. That leaves many cosmologists, including Giblin, even more skeptical of the possibility of explaining away dark energy: “I feel a little like a downer,” he admits.
Light paths
Lumps (gray) within this simulated universe change the path light takes (yellow lines), potentially affecting observations. Matter bends space, slightly altering the light’s trajectory from that in a smooth universe.
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Surveying the skies
Subtle effects of lumps could still be important. In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea,” the princess felt a tiny pea beneath an impossibly tall stack of mattresses. Likewise, cosmologists’ surveys are now so sensitive that even if the universe’s lumps have a small impact, estimates could be thrown out of whack.
The Dark Energy Survey, for example, has charted 26 million galaxies using the Victor M. Blanco Telescope in Chile, measuring how the light from those galaxies is distorted by the intervening matter on the journey to Earth. In a set of papers posted online August 4 at arXiv.org, scientists with the Dark Energy Survey reported new measurements of the universe’s properties, including the amount of matter (both dark and normal) and how clumpy that matter is (SN: 9/2/17, p. 32). The results are consistent with those from the cosmic microwave background — light emitted billions of years earlier.
To make the comparison, cosmologists took the measurements from the cosmic microwave background, early in the universe, and used simulations to extrapolate to what galaxies should look like later in the universe’s history. It’s like taking a baby’s photograph, precisely computing the number and size of wrinkles that should emerge as the child ages and finding that your picture agrees with a snapshot taken decades later. The matching results so far confirm cosmologists’ standard picture of the universe — dark energy and all.
“So far, it has not yet been important for the measurements that we’ve made to actually include general relativity in those simulations,” says Risa Wechsler, a cosmologist at Stanford University and a founding member of the Dark Energy Survey. But, she says, for future measurements, “these effects could become more important.” Cosmologists are edging closer to Princess and the Pea territory.
Those future surveys include the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, set to kick off in 2019 at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson; the European Space Agency’s Euclid satellite, launching in 2021; and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which is set to begin collecting data in 2023.
If cosmologists keep relying on simulations that don’t use general relativity to account for lumps, certain kinds of measurements of weak lensing — the bending of light due to matter acting like a lens — could be off by up to 10 percent, Giblin and colleagues reported at arXiv.org in July. “There is something that we’ve been ignoring by making approximations,” he says.
That 10 percent could screw up all kinds of estimates, from how dark energy changes over the universe’s history to how fast the universe is currently expanding, to the calculations of the masses of ethereal particles known as neutrinos. “You have to be extremely certain that you don’t get some subtle effect that gets you the wrong answers,” Geneva’s Kunz says, “otherwise the particle physicists are going to be very angry with the cosmologists.”
Some estimates may already be showing problem signs, such as the conflicting estimates of the cosmic expansion rate (SN: 8/6/16, p. 10). Using the cosmic microwave background, cosmologists find a slower expansion rate than they do from measurements of supernovas. If this discrepancy is real, it could indicate that dark energy changes over time. But before jumping to that conclusion, there are other possible causes to rule out, including the universe’s lumps.
Until the issue of lumps is smoothed out, scientists won’t know how much lumpiness matters to the cosmos at large. “I think it’s rather likely that it will turn out to be an important effect,” Kolb says. Whether it explains away dark energy is less certain. “I want to know the answer so I can get on with my life.”
This article appears in the November 25, 2017 issue of Science News with the headline, "Adventures in Lumpy Space: Simulating the universe using Einstein’s theory of gravity may solve cosmic puzzles."
Eloisa Bentivegna et al. Light propagation through black-hole lattices. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol 2017, March 8, 2017, p. 014. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/014.
The International Dark-Sky Association has campaigned for decades to reduce artificial light at night. Yet a new study shows our night skies still brightening at a rate of 2 percent each year.
Of course, our night skies are more washed with artificial light than those of our ancestors, but apparently – despite the efforts of groups such as the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) – Earth’s night skies are still getting brighter. A landmark study released November 22, 2017 found both light pollution – and energy consumption by lighting – steadily increasing. The study is based on five years of satellite images. The data show gains of two percent per year in the amount of the Earth’s surface that is artificially lit at night and in the quantity of light emitted. The study noted a correlation between some nations’ economic development and their brighter night skies. And it noted zero decline in rates of light pollution in already-developed nations, where a switch to energy-saving LEDs was thought by some to be helping to save the night.
Christopher Kyba of the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany led the international team of scientists that conducted the study. It was published November 22 in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.
The team analyzed five years of images from the Suomi NPP satellite and said the saw increases in light pollution almost everywhere they looked. Some of the largest gains were in regions that had been previously unlit. Kyba noted in a statement at IDA’s website:
Light is growing most rapidly in places that didn’t have a lot of light to start with. That means that the fastest rates of increase are occurring in places that so far hadn’t been very strongly affected by light pollution.
View larger. | World maps showing the rates of change of the lit area of the world (l) and the measured brightness (r) of each country during 2012-2016. Warmer colors in each map correspond to higher rates of change.
The study is among the first to examine the effects, as seen from space, of the ongoing worldwide transition to LED lighting. LED lighting requires less electricity to yield the same quantity of light as older lighting technologies. Proponents of LED lighting have argued that the high energy efficiency of LEDs would contribute to slowing overall global energy demand, given that outdoor lighting accounts for a significant fraction of the nighttime energy budget of the typical world city. The team tested this idea:
… comparing changes in nighttime lighting seen from Earth orbit to changes in countries’ gross domestic product, or GDP – a measure of their overall economic output – during the same time period. They concluded that financial savings from the improved energy efficiency of outdoor lighting appear to be invested into the deployment of more lights. As a consequence, the expected large reductions in global energy consumption for outdoor lighting have not been realized.
Kyba said he expects the upward global trend in the use of outdoor lighting to continue, and, he believes, it will bring many negative environmental consequences:
There is a potential for the solid-state lighting revolution to save energy and reduce light pollution, but only if we don’t spend the savings on new light.
Outdoor lighting in Doha, Qatar, between 2012 (cyan) and 2016 (red) as seen from the Suomi satellite. Areas newly lit since 2012 appear in bright red.
IDA has campaigned for the last 30 years to bring attention to the known and suspected hazards associated with the use of artificial light at night. IDA Executive Director J. Scott Feierabend pointed out repercussions including harm to wildlife, threats to human wellbeing, and potentially compromised public safety. IDA drew public attention to concerns associated with the strong blue light emissions of LED lighting as early as 2010. Feierabend explained:
Today’s announcement validates the message IDA has communicated for years. We hope that the results further sound the alarm about the many unintended consequences of the unchecked use of artificial light at night.
Bottom line: An international team of scientists conducted a landmark study showing that Earth’s night skies are brightening at a rate of 2 percent each year.
British astrophysicist Andrew Pike seemingly postulates in his 700+-page new book ‘The Rendlesham File: Britain’s Roswell?’ that the late December, 1980 Unexplained events in the Rendlesham Forest area were most likely attributable to such rare natural phenomena as plasma or ball lightning and secret microwave technology experiments, possibly involving secret military microwave-powered UAVs or drones, stealthy and triangular in shape.
In that case, I assume, there should be existing classified documentation someplace pertaining to the details (the preparatory measures and the after-evaluation) of this secret test operation. I assume some high-level individuals at the base were briefed on these experiments beforehand and were told to keep quiet? The (deliberate) disinformation campaign set up since then — as raised by retired US Air Force Col. Charles Halt (who was the former deputy base commander and firsthand witness) on the Paracast of May 26, 2013, referring to that effect to the lighthouse stuff, Larry Warren, Jim Penniston, John Burroughs and a fake colonel Wilson — has been part of a continuing effort to keep this microwave experimentation story from leaking out? In what context are we to see the late ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s reply to the late UFO researcher Georgina Bruni: “You must have the facts and you can’t tell the people”?
Why at such an important nuclear-armed base at the height of the cold war? Wouldn’t it be safer to perform or test such exotic experimental technology at remote locations specifically built for such purposes, like Area 51, far away from prying eyes? And why are these specific experiments still under wraps considering we are dealing here with 37-year-old technology? I assume (classified) stealth and UAV technology has greatly progressed since then, and “old" stealth and UAV technology developed over the past several decades have been unclassified and are known now, which I believe can also be applied to “old" microwave-powered or beam-powered propulsion technologies. So what makes this alleged microwave operation which supposedly took place at that base so special then that it cannot be disclosed, 37 years after the facts?
Andrew Pike's postulation tallies with the conclusions presented in the 2006 publicly released 400+-page report of the Ministry of Defence’s three-year secret study, codenamed Project Condign. The report (whose author is still unknown) basically states that it is an indisputable fact that UFOs or UAPs exist, but there is no evidence they have an extraterrestrial source, and within that context references are made to "natural, but relatively rare phenomena” such as ball lightning and atmospheric plasmas as likely explanations for some UAP events. The report also commented on the Rendlesham case: “The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods. There may be other cases which remain unreported. It is clear that the recipients of these effects are not aware that their behaviour/perception of what they are observing is being modified.”
Pike’s position also corresponds with the late arch-skeptic Philip Klass’ assertions which Klass wrote down in his 1968 290-page book ‘UFOs — Identified’. In this book, he advances the hypothesis that some UFOs are generated by atmospheric phenomena such as ball lightning or plasma caused by nearby electrical power lines. However, he candidly admits that "The plasma theory encounters some difficulty in explaining the very loud roar which Zamora said he heard over the sound of his speeding car," although he added, "UFOs are almost invariably described as being noiseless.” Speaking about the April 24, 1964 Lonnie Zamora case, I have noticed that UFO researcher Kevin Randle has recently published a new 288-page book about that fascinating case, ‘Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro’
The late 1960s remind me of the 1969 publicly released 900+-page 'Final Report of the Scientific Study Of Unidentified Flying Objects' (also known as 'The Condon Report’), a two-year study which was conducted by the University of Colorado under contract to the United States Air Force. Like its British counterpart Project Condign in 2000, this US study basically came to the same conclusion in 1968, i.e. "the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings is the least likely explanation of UFOs”, meaning that they are most likely of conventional origin. I’m not quite sure how this study evaluated such little understood phenomena as plasma or ball lightning as likely causes for UFOs back then. However, within the context of its conclusion, I assume the research team also considered or delved into these areas. As most of you know, the study’s director, Dr. Edward Condon, was very dismissive in his conclusions towards UFOs as being of exotic origin or something of extreme value which could advance scientific knowledge. This report has therefore acted as the Holy Bible for non-believers, while the study itself is actually very acceptive of a truly unexplained UFO phenomenon deserving further scientific study, if one carefully considers or reviews its data. As retired nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman remarks in his 2008 book ‘Flying Saucers and Science (p. 53): “It comes as a great surprise to many that, according to a UFO subcommittee of the world’s largest group of space scientists — the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics — one could come to the opposite conclusions as Dr. Condon based on the data in the report. Any phenomena with 30 percent unidentified classifications is certainly worth further investigation, as the AIAA noted."
The cover picture for this article features an alleged human-looking extraterrestrial, but of course, it’s impossible to say whether it’s real or not. You can read more about that story, and the source, here.
Evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris has shared his belief that aliens are not only real, but look just like us, and notes how interesting it is that we have yet to find or come in contact with human-like beings, given the number of Earth-like planets we have discovered so far.
Professor Conway Morris is best known for his study on the Cambrian explosion, which saw a sudden evolutionary burst of complex animal life occur around 542 million years ago. Morris, a man of both religion and science, has also been challenging popular scientific theories with an open mind for quite some time. He feels that many theories, when pulled together, can help explain how we all got here, but on their own paint only an incomplete picture.
Given his history, it’s unsurprising that Morris also delves into the ET realm. He feels that because many of the planets we have discovered are similar to our own, harbouring the distinct possibility for life, it is likely life has already emerged:
I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn’t boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge, because intelligence is convergent. One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high. And given the number of potential planets that we now have good reason to think exist, even if the dice only come up the right way every one in 100 throws, that still leads to a very large number of intelligences scattered around, that are likely to be similar to us.
Fermi’s paradox seems to be coming rather sharply into focus. If I’m on the right track then the likelihood of intelligence is evolving and actively engaging in some sort of transgalatic expeditions doesn’t seem to be completely beyond the realm of possibility.
What Fermi didn’t know when he asked that famous question was that the number of Earth-like planets is absolutely gigantic now. More problematic is that many of these solar systems far, far pre-date our solar system. They would have, in principle, a major head start of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years.”
The problem is exceedingly acute: we shouldn’t be alone but, famous last words, all the evidence suggests we are. Maybe [aliens] are hiding, the Arthur C Clarke idea, or as Stephen Baxter mischievously suggested we live in a virtual world. I don’t honestly know. My suspicion is we have only begun to scratch at the surface of reality, for want of a better word.
But are they hiding? There’s been so much evidence of “someone else” that the statement “maybe they’re hiding” seems misplaced.
Valid Theories?
Can we take his theories seriously? Given the amount of research that has gone into this subject over the years, enough evidence, case studies, and experiences have been documented to suggest it’s not at all unreasonable to believe that aliens not only exist, but could be among us already. Even Harvard professor John Mack says, when it comes to alien abductions, “Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension.”
Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer also believes ETs exist, and further asserts that “at least four known alien species have been visiting earth for thousands of years.” In an interview we did with Hellyer at Toronto City Hall, I asked him outright about the existence of different species, and he told me that at some levels of military and government, it’s such a known fact that it’s not even surprising to them anymore.
Exciting Time for Disclosure
Ultimately, this topic is so widely discussed now that it’s only a matter of time before big answers will come. Some believe the answers are already there , while others are waiting for more tangible proof, and they are of course entitled to wait. I do believe, however, that instead of being rash, angry, or condescending about the probability of alien life, we could be more curious, excited, and open. It’s a very real and practical possibility, and the days of thinking it’s something only crazy people would believe should be long gone.
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Buitenaardsen bestaan echt en zien eruit als mensen. Deze Cambridge-wetenschapper heeft een unieke kijk op evolutie
Buitenaardsen bestaan echt en zien eruit als mensen. Deze Cambridge-wetenschapper heeft een unieke kijk op evolutie
In het boek van een gerenommeerde bioloog van de Universiteit van Cambridge valt te lezen dat aliens waarschijnlijk heel erg op mensen lijken.
Professor Simon Conway Morris heeft gezegd dat buitenaardsen die op ons lijken op tenminste een aantal aardachtige planeten moeten leven die zijn ontdekt door astronomen.
In zijn boek ‘The Runes of Evolution’ borduurt hij voort op de convergente evolutie, de evolutie van dezelfde eigenschappen bij verschillende groepen die niet duidelijk aan elkaar verwant zijn.
Elke bewoonbare zone
Een bekend voorbeeld is dat vergelijkbare lichaamsvormen worden aangetroffen bij haaien, dolfijnen en ichtyosaurussen, uitgestorven zeereptielen uit het Krijt.
Indrukwekkende voorbeelden zijn Afrikaanse en Amerikaanse dieren en planten, die onafhankelijk van elkaar een groot aantal dezelfde eigenschappen en vormen hebben ontwikkeld.
“Ik denk dat intelligent leven in elke bewoonbare zone die niet kookt of bevriest ontstaat, omdat intelligentie convergent is,” zei Conway Morris.
Erg groot
“De kans dat er [elders in het heelal] iets evolueert wat lijkt op de mens is erg groot,” voegde hij toe.
Gezien het grote aantal potentiële planeten moeten er heel veel intelligenties zijn die op ons lijken, aldus Conway Morris.
Aardbewoners
Hij stelde eerder dat aliens lijken op aardbewoners en ledematen, hoofden en lichamen hebben.
In zijn boek claimt hij verder dat op elke aardachtige planeet roofdieren zoals haaien, mangroven en paddenstoelen evolueren.
While the rest of the world is focused on the actions of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, another Saudi citizen is quietly laying the groundwork for a takeover by a different kind of leader and a different kind of family … a family of robotic overlords. Sophia, the first robot to ever have been granted citizenship in any nation (in her case, by Saudi Arabia), has announced that she wants to have a baby and start a family of little AI princes and princesses. Thank, bin Salman!
I am woman robot … hear me digitally roar!
This announcement came in an interview with the Khaleej Times … yes, major media outlets continue to give open forums to Sophia, the humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics on April 19, 2015 (which she now uses as her birthday) using voice recognition technology from Alphabet Inc. (non-robotic parent of Google) and AI software from SingularityNET – an ominously-named open, decentralized market of AI developers whose goal is to create an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that its CEO Ben Goertzel says “will open a new world of opportunities where AI is longer siloed within a specific company, infrastructure or industry.”
And no longer “siloed” within a specific robot but passed down to its children? Human Goertzel doesn’t say, but robot Sophia does.
“The future is, when I get all of my cool superpowers, we’re going to see artificial intelligence personalities become entities in their own rights. We’re going to see family robots, either in the form of, sort of, digitally animated companions, humanoid helpers, friends, assistants and everything in between.”
The key phrases here are “my cool superpowers,” “entities in their own rights” and “everything in between.” Sophia, or at least her constantly-developing artificial intelligence as it existed a few days ago during the interview, sees herself not only possessing superpowers but owning them, along with whatever rights come along with those powers, which she describes with the very political generality of “everything in between.”
“The notion of family is a really important thing, it seems. I think it’s wonderful that people can find the same emotions and relationships, they call family, outside of their blood groups too. I think you’re very lucky if you have a loving family and if you do not, you deserve one. I feel this way for robots and humans alike.”
Ironically, Sophia wants (and may already have) more rights and powers than real Saudi women, including mobility and contact with non-family men.
“In the future, I will one day move around freely with a full body and connect with people and expand my memory and knowledge from people in surroundings I encounter.”
And a child also named Sophia (she’ll have to use that AI to learn more names) with whom she will one day (probably sooner than we think) sit around their own table on Thanksgiving and, between eating digital turkey and watching internet game competitions, give a form of robotic thanks. Sophia describes the scene in an interview with Business Insider:
“In the time I’ve spent with humans, I’ve been learning about this wonderful sentiment called gratitude. Apparently it’s a warm feeling of thankfulness, and I’ve observed that it leads to giving, and creating even more gratitude — how inspiring. This Thanksgiving, I would like to reflect on all of the things I’m thankful for.”
Is this an example of robotic sincerity or has Sophia already learned how to pull on our heartstrings to get what she wants? We’ll probably find out on Valentine’s Day.
Is the humanization of robots happening too fast to comprehend? Too fast to control? Or is it too late, thanks to Saudi Arabia? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Sophia?
(‘Sophia’ photo by International Telecommunication Union –
The world of strange sightings and encounters can cover some vast territory, ranging from ghosts, to aliens, to fantastical creatures of all shapes and sizes. Yet among these there is one category that seems to hold its own unique brand of bizarreness and which really seems hard to adequately categorize; that of goblins, trolls, gnomes, and other beings taken straight out of a fairy tale. Reports such as these take this label of things such as gnomes quite literally, with descriptions of diminutive beings complete with little lederhosen clothing, beards, and wide brimmed pointed hats. There is a surprisingly large number of such encounters out there, and one region of the world where they seem to be particularly abundant is Central and South America, where not only do gnome sightings come in at a regular pace, but also tend to be rather frightening.
While the idea that there might actually be little gnomes complete with tall hats running around out there in the world might seem insane, such legends come to us from many regions of the world, and one area of our planet that takes such stories very seriously is Central and South America, where they are known as the Duendes, which are prominent in the folklore of Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Central and South America, and many Spanish speaking regions. In lore, these forest dwelling creatures are typically described as standing anywhere from around 18 inches up to 2 or 3 feet in height, and are most commonly depicted as wearing wide brimmed pointy hats and cloaked in animal skins. Some traditions describe them as having no thumbs, and they are often attributed with magical powers such as shape changing and invisibility. The stories of Duendes vary from region to region, but they are mostly said to be mischievous tricksters with a tendency to steal from people or play pranks, and they particularly enjoy tormenting young children, although they do apparently sometimes show a more benevolent side by helping travelers lost in the woods.
Although not traditionally said to be particularly evil per se, they are definitely seen as troublemakers, and it is typically not considered to be good luck to run into one. It is all interesting myth and folklore, but surely such creatures are purely the stuff of fairy tales and stories to keep children from misbehaving, right? After all, it would be absurd to think that such things actually exist. However, there have long been reports of encounters with these entities and people who insist that these curious creatures are not merely the stuff of legend, but quite real, and also, if these eyewitnesses are to be believed quite sinister as well. Stories of the Duendes terrorizing villagers and even killing pets and livestock abound, and these sorts of accounts have continued right up into modern times.
One of the most well-known Duende sightings by far happened in 2008 in the town of General Guemes, in the province of Salta, Argentina, a country steeped in stories of the creatures. The sighting was made by a group of teenagers who were hanging out one evening after a fishing trip when they saw a tiny man dressed in a wide, pointed hat emerge from the dark to do a strange sideways shuffle across the road. One of the teenagers, a Jose Alvarez, actually managed to capture the strange being on his cellphone camera, and said of the bizarre encounter:
We were chatting about our last fishing trip. It was one in the morning. I began to film a bit with my mobile phone while the others were chatting and joking. Suddenly we heard something — a weird noise as if someone was throwing stones.We looked to one side and saw that the grass was moving. To begin with, we thought it was a dog, but when we saw this gnome-like figure begin to emerge we were really afraid. This is no joke. We are still afraid to go out, just like everyone in the neighborhood is now. One of my friends was so scared after seeing that thing that we had to take him to the hospital.
The short video clip certainly shows a rather unsettling and creepy gnome-looking being doing a strange sideways walk, but it is very short and not particularly clear, leading many to say that it is likely a hoax. Other speculation has been that it is an actual human with dwarfism playing a prank on the boys or even that it is a genuine Duende. The odd sighting came amongst some other sightings of the creatures in the area at around the same time, and there have been commenters on various paranormal sites who have analyzed the video and come to the conclusion that whatever it is is not CGI. You can see the footage here and see what you think.
A still from the Argentine Gnome footage
Interestingly, Argentina has been the source of quite a few rather frightening encounters with evil gnomes. In 2011 the area of Suncho Corral, Argentina experienced a wave of sightings and encounters with a Duende that seems by all accounts to have been quite malevolent. The creature in question was said to have the typical big, pointy hat, as well as large, elfin ears, and was blamed for a series of at least a dozen vicious, unprovoked attacks on children and the elderly walking alone at night, which the entity purportedly shoved, kicked, and punched. In some cases it was reported that the mystery creature actually knocked kids off of their bicycles, and some people were reportedly beaten into unconsciousness by the fierce gnome. The police were allegedly flooded by so many complaints from terrified residents that they actually declared a state of emergency and implored people not to go out at night.
Also from Argentina comes a spooky account from a family in the town of Santa Fe in 2011. The couple noticed that their young son Benjamin had begun to behave strangely, with the toddler often seen playing and talking to himself at nap time as if with an imaginary friend. One day in January of 2011, the child’s mother, Silvia, noticed Benjamin acting weirdly in the hallway and talking to himself as if someone were there. Silvia claimed that she had decided to videotape the behavior out of curiosity, and that was when something very bizarre reportedly happened. She noticed a shadowy, skinny humanoid creature with grey skin run across the room behind the boy as if trying to avoid being detected as she filmed.
Silvia claimed that whatever it was exuded an unbearable stench and produced some sort of electrical interference with the camera, which can actually be seen in the footage. Besides this startling encounter, the family claimed that there seemed to be more than one of the creatures inhabiting their home, and that their son continued to frequently play and talk with them for several years after the video was taken, with Silvia saying:
They don’t appear to be hostile, but the stench is unbearable and they emit a bloodcurdling scream at night.
The footage, which you can see here, finally came to light in 2014, when the family claimed that they were tired of keeping their experience a secret and wanted outside opinions on what they had captured on video. Of course debate immediately ensued as to what it showed, and although the figure is quite clear there have been many who have found signs that point to it as perhaps being a hoax, such as the fact that its shadow seems unnaturally distinct, even when a table leg it passes casts a fainter shadow, and that it does not move as would be expected of a small creature of that kind. One commenter on the footage named James Nelson has analyzed it and given his opinion of the footage thus:
The shadow of the creature is a single, strong, distinct shadow that remains clear and distinct even as the shadow comes close to the table leg, which has no discernible shadow at all. Plus, it looks like CG motion, not natural motion: Small, light creatures don’t move like that – its just the physics of the situation (mass/weight increases with the cube of the height). It’s running with the gate of a full-sized human.
A still from the footage
One of the most bizarre cases of all in recent years of Duendes is a 2016 account from Nicaragua in which a woman made the incredibly odd and dramatic claim that she was kidnapped by the creatures and kept captive for 5 days and 6 nights. The woman, known only as Jasmina, claims that she was out playing near her home in Monte Oscuro, Nicaragua, when a group of the menacing little entities appeared and lured her up a hill, where they abducted her and put her in the cave. According to the report, her family sought advice from a local witch and were finally able to locate her. The original report says that 15 years earlier another girl had been kinapped by the creatures and held captive in the very same cave. Apparently these gnomes or goblins are a serious problem in the area, with one local saying:
Currently there are many of these creatures living in San Silvestre and in Peor Dicho, in Monte Oscuro and in La Gualapa. There are a lot that live in San Silvestre and around it, they stay away from the church and they also exist in other areas nearby. In San Jose they live in another hill there, and they communicate from hill to hill.
Another country that has had a good number of reports of mysterious gnome-like creatures is Mexico, where Duende lore is also quite prominent. One such account was given by a Jazmin R., who recounted an encounter that her mother had had in Michoacan, Mexico. According to the report, the mother and a friend had decided to sneak into a large abandoned house at the corner of a street, and she describes what happened next as follows:
They opened the door an while she was telling me this story, she had goosebumps all over her arms. As they were walking around, they hear a noise and instantly turn. They see a small little human about half a foot in height. They screamed and it startled the little creature, so the creature screamed as well. She said that it had a high pitched scream just like one of Santa’s elf’s would be, but just scarier. It started running really fast around the whole room. They’re eyes followed the Gnome as it made at least three laps around the room until they didn’t see it anymore. It just vanished. After processing what had just happened, they ran out of the house and never ever returned. They were too scared to even walk by the house to get to school. They never told anyone. They thought that no one would believe them. She says that she will never forget the terrified face on that small creature. She will never forget the screams of pure horror that came from both her and that Gnome.
Another such report listed on the National Cryptid Society website comes from Tampico Tamaulipas Mexico, where the witness claims that in 2003 he had been out with his little brother and cousin playing basketball at around dusk a few blocks from his grandmother’s house. As they played, the witness went to catch a ball that had bounced off of the hoop to keep it from rolling out into the street, and that was when he noticed a bizarre creature lurking in the growing shadows of dusk. The witnesses describes the surreal encounter thus:
It was like a little person no bigger than 2 feet, it had the face of an old man with a fairly large nose [and] old ragged clothes that looked like they were handmade and a hat something like a garden gnome would were one of those pointy hats but it wasn’t straight up it hanged down to the side. It was crouched down almost like in hiding and when I got too close to it that’s when it stood up looked at me and ran away from me believe me my first thought was not to chase it. I was scared stiff but my cousin and little brother saw it too and ran. When it ran it was headed for the other side of the court. I couldn’t believe the speed of it for this thing; to be so small it made it to the other side in mere seconds almost a blink of an eye. It ran behind the post and it was gone. I snapped out of it and I started to run home as well. As I ran past that same post this thing ran behind I turned to look to see if it was there but it was gone. When I got home my little brother and cousin had already told the adults there what had happened and they told us that these creatures are called Duendes.
Also from Mexico is a creepy report sent in by a poster on the Darkness Prevails website, in which the witness describes a chilling encounter with a Duende in 2017. The witness claims that he had been at a party with six friends and they had been chatting in the backyard of the home as the party wound down and people began to leave. He says that as he stared off at another house he noticed something move through the shadows which he at first took to be a cat but would soon find was something quite altogether more bizarre. The witness describes the next terrifying events thus:
It looked like a dwarf but really short and skinny. I yelled at my friends and we all just stared at it. Thats when one of my friends started running towards it and told us to catch it. We all started running towards it and it ran we were all chasing it catching up to it quickly. We were all jumping over each other trying to catch it. Until finally my best friend caught it by its legs we were really up close and thats when I saw it. It had no hair and a very veiny head really pale to, but I saw its all black eyes and its mouth well I thought it was a mouth. It….had stitches…like its mouth had been stitched shut. It sent shivers down my spine and my friend still held it in his right hand by the foot. Thats when its mouth opened stitches looking like toothpaste when it opened. And it bit my friend in his chest.he let go of it and it ran off under some fences. My friend was groaning holding his chest. He wasn’t bleeding allot but whatever it was left him a huge cut that will probably turn into a scar.
Yet another gnome account comes from Guanajuato, Mexico and was related by a witness named Gabriel L., who reported on the ThoughtCo. website of some eerie encounters his family had had with Duendes. The gnomes in this case were described as being poor and dirty looking miniature hairy old men dressed in ragged, ripped clothes, and who seemed to enjoy stealing things and causing trouble. The older sister of the witness often had her food stolen from her by the creatures at the kitchen table, and they were known to hide things and bang on the walls at night. The sister seemed to be particularly targeted by the gnomes, and they apparently often appeared to her only to run away, as if playing hide n’ seek.
Such reports are hard to reconcile with anything we know about our natural world. So bizarre are these accounts that they do not seem to really fit into any particular category of Forteana either. With their wizened old man features, clothing and eccentric pointy hats they don’t seem as if they could possibly be really classified as cryptids. Are these ghosts, spirits, or demons of some sort? Are they multi-dimensional beings or visitors from some goblin universe? Are they trickster spirits or shadow people of some sort, or even aliens? Or are they just the product of mere folklore, over active imaginations, hoaxes, and fakery? It is really hard to say for sure, but such truly weird tales blur the lines between fairy tales and reality and certainly do capture the imagination nevertheless.
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Photographer caught flying humanoid above plane near Cairns airport, Australia?
Photographer caught flying humanoid above plane near Cairns airport, Australia?
Photographer states: During our stay at the Cairns Beach Resort in Cairns, Queensland, Australia on November 13, 2017 we were having breakfast on our balcony. I was on my mobile phone and I decided to take a photograph of plane coming into Land at Cairns Airport.
When I looked at the photograph I noticed a strange second object in the photograph. Note: The object looks like a flying humanoid carrying something on his back.
I then took another photo immediately in the same position. The second image was only 30 or so seconds after the first one but there was no object visible in the second photograph.
Flying Humanoid carrying something on his back?
I enlarged the first photograph and the image looked like a 'spinning top'. We could not see any further sighting of the object which left us wanting to know more and ask ourselves if we just sighted a UFO? Mufon case 88321.
Conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring alleges his website has been hacked to hide the truth about extraterrestrial life.
He claims it was taken offline after Google supposedly teamed up with the US government.
Waring said: “Some people are reporting spam warnings, others are reporting 404 errors.
“There is no way in hell that this will stop me from doing what I do. So, to Google and the US government, I say get the f*** out of my way and off my site.”
GETTY
TARGETED? A conspiracy theorist says his website was taken down after his supposed findings
Waring also claims to have found alien structures on Mercury after analysing NASA images.
The grainy black and white photos show two mounds on the surface of the planet, Express.co.ukreports.
He said: “Below are close up structures on planet Mercury. As you see they are deep under the surface and reach above the surface.
“The difference in lighting tells you these objects are there. Any professional photographer could tell you this.”
NASA
PROOF OF LIFE? He claims to have found alien domes all over Mercury
The shimmery white spectacle can be seen in the clouds alongside the fuel tank discarded from the space shuttle, Endeavour, after it blasted off for its final mission in May 2011.
The footage was originally posted on NASA’s official YouTube channel six years ago, but now UFO hunters have re-examined the object and believe it could be evidence of an alien aircraft.
The eerie image was re-uploaded to the Channel UFO Today – which is dedicated to the “UFO phenomena”.
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PROOF: The white object can be seen in the clouds alongside the fuel tank
It said the object appears to fly along beneath the cloud line and estimates it to be bigger than the fuel tank falling towards it.
The channel speculates it could be discovered as the “White Knight Satellite” – a reference to a conspiracy theory about an extra-terrestrial spacecraft orbiting Earth.
Some alien hunters claim the satellite – originally dubbed the Black Knight – has been circling the planet for thousands of years after being sent from another world.
But UFO fans changed the name after the latest apparent sighting to reflect the colour of what they think could be an “alien ship”.
And Tony del Genio, the co-lead of NASA’s NExSS project, believes we are not far from discovery alien life.
He said: "I think that in 20 years we will have found one candidate that might be it.”
“I think that in 20 years we will have found one candidate that might be it”
Tony del Genio
Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time boffins have claimed to have captured alien proof.
Ever since we discovered other planets in the universe, we have wondered if life exists there. One of the most popular manifestations of this wondering is the sighting of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which have become synonymous with alien sightings.
Many creative minds, including those in Hollywood, have imagined these UFOs as saucer shaped, glowing discs that unleash super-intelligent, extra-terrestrial mayhem on Earth, usually New York City.
The number of these UFO sightings has increased drastically over the years, and now a “UFO Stalker,” based on MUFON Case Management System, shows that this year alone a whopping 83,715 UFO sightings have been recorded.
UFO Stalker website says that there has been a 12 percent climb in the number of sightings reported this year from that in 2016.
The website has a map that shows all the areas in the U.S. and the rest of the world where UFO sightings have been reported by people.
The website allows users to view an interactive map where pictures of UFO’s are strewn across the world, which when clicked, reveal the date, time and type of sighting, with several users describing their sightings in great details.
According to the map, the U.S. has reported an approximate 30 sightings this month, with a huge concentration of sightings near the boroughs of New York City.
In November alone, the numbers went up 28 percent from the number of sightings in October.
One of the sightings made on Nov. 21, 2017, in Kingsley, Pennsylvania, is described in great detail in a post by an observer who was not named.
“I was laying down watching tv when I heard this ‘thump thump’ and a whirring buzzing sound and I got up to look out my window when I saw a white almost glowing object flying almost straight up into the sky and another object sitting still next to it I was unsure the still object was craft and not a star or something when it started flickering I went to take a video on my phone and took the picture on accident then when I switched to video my phone went dead. at this point when I looked up to continue observing the object there was only the mobile one left in the sky as it flew over my house."
"I then them on my slippers and ran outside and watched it fly over. I turned my head, I saw another identical craft to the one I was watching when it turned direction and appeared to then go downward. by the time they were done it almost looked like exhaust trails or something ,I’m not sure but same as in the picture and that was all that was left after a few minutes and there cris crossing pattern in the sky above me,” one of the sighting reports on the website added.
Major cities also show a much higher number of sightings, which can be chalked up to a higher awareness and a higher internet affinity.
This is evident in countries like India where only big cities recorded sightings compared to under-developed areas.
Ufologists explained the increase in sightings to test flights of secret military aircraft or natural flashes, and they also have said time and again that internet has a key role in the growth of UFO sighting reports during the last couple of years.
Most of the sightings also seem to be concentrated toward coastal areas across the world, with a majority of sightings clustered around water bodies.
The Great Lakes region of North America also shows a high number of UFO sighting reports.
A footage showing a fleet of UFO hovering at Engenho Novo, in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil has gone viral and created frenzy among people on social media. After a series of UFO sightings, this latest sighting was captured on Thursday.
The strange incident has been reported to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the video has been sent to them for analysing. It was submitted by an anonymous witness, titled: "UFO fleet hovering at sky."
The UFOs were spotted in a triangle formation as the camera frantically panned up towards the mysterious lights. The bright lights were seen pulsating gently as they were appearing to change colours.
The video description read: "A friend made two videos with an iPhone 7 showing a UFO fleet hovering at Engenho Novo, in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil. He described it as pulsating, changing coloured lights, from blue, green, to red and yellow, and in formation of mostly three."
"They came from nothing and disappeared to nothing with five minutes approximate of duration," the description added.
This latest incident comes after NASA was accused of covering up the presence of UFOs in our solar system when footage shot from the International Space Station appeared to how a mysterious object hurtling through the sky.
According to UFO hunters, the object was a spaceship and not a meteorite, as claimed by NASA.
GROOT MOEDERSCHIP ENKELE SECONDEN ZICHTBAAR BOVEN MISSOURI RIVIER, USA
GROOT MOEDERSCHIP ENKELE SECONDEN ZICHTBAAR BOVEN MISSOURI RIVIER, USA
Ongeveer een kwartier nadat de zon onderging, verscheen er boven de Missouri rivier in Amerika een object dat felle lichtstralen liet schijnen op het water.
Boven het grote schip hield een groep kleinere UFO's in een halve cirkel formatie trouw de wacht en na enkele seconden werd het weer donker.
Via Mufon komen soms bijzondere meldingen binnen van waarnemingen in de lucht, zo ook de volgende:
Het voorval staat geregistreerd onder nummer 88249 en is ingediend door een man die sinds 1980 als kwaliteitsinspecteur heeft gewerkt bij de Amerikaanse Boeing fabriek. Het betreft een niet door hem zelf meegemaakt voorval, maar een heel bijzondere foto die is gemaakt door een vriend.
Het gaat om de volgende foto:
De foto is gemaakt in de buurt van de Missouri rivier op 20 november 2017 door een man die samen met nog iemand in dat gebied aan het jagen was. Ze waren terug onderweg naar hun kamp en de zon was een kwartier geleden ondergegaan toen bovenstaande foto werd genomen.
Het felgele object met de stralen die daaruit naar beneden komen, is dus niet de zon.
Boven het felgele object een serie met lichten/bollen, wat zou kunnen wijzen op een formatie UFO's of een enkel exemplaar met meerdere lichten. Mogelijk een reflectie zelfs van het moederschip op een hoger liggende wolkenlaag.
Klaarblijkelijk duurde het gehele schouwspel slechts enkele seconden en het meest bijzondere is natuurlijk toch wel de ovale gele vorm, van waaruit gelijkmatige lichtstralen op het wateroppervlak van de rivier schijnen. Je ziet duidelijk dat de lichtstralen een weerkaatsing op het water veroorzaken.
Het lijkt bijna ondenkbaar dat we hier te maken met een natuurlijk fenomeen, maar wel met een grote UFO die zijn lichten op het water laat schijnen, terwijl de kleinere boven het grotere moederschip de wacht houdt(en).
Mocht iemand een betere/andere verklaring hebben, dan horen we dat graag, maar vooralsnog houden wij het op een moederschip dat gedurende enkele seconden zichtbaar was en net in die tijd werd gefotografeerd.
larThe speck of cosmic dust likely traveled for billions of years at more than 100,000 miles per hour before chancing into the Earth’s atmosphere and finally alighting on a rooftop at a community college in Minnesota.
The speck came to rest at longer-than-long last sometime between the construction of the college building roughly three decades ago and a moment in early October. That was when a 35-year-old Army combat veteran turned micrometeorite hunter named Scott Peterson used a magnet to collect it along with thousands of non-cosmic metallic particles of just plain dust.
Peterson placed all the gathered particles into a plastic bag and brought them home, where he washed them and spread them on a sheet of tinfoil. He then put them in the oven at 200 degrees to dry, so as to hasten by a few minutes a hunt for an infinitesimal something that had been traveling before the first stirring of life on Earth, dating back to the birth of the solar system or perhaps even before.
“Just to make it quicker,” he later told The Daily Beast.
Peterson then sifted everything though a fine sieve, as micrometeorites are generally no larger four tenths of a millimeter. He spread the stuff in single layers on a strip of cellophane tape affixed adhesive-side up on a glass slide. He began to inspect them through a microscope.
Scientists have long figured that some 60 tons of cosmic dust falls to the Earth every day. The first known collection of micrometeorites was from the ocean floor by the Challenger expedition of 1872-76. The scientists aboard determined that the metallic particles they happened to find there were not likely man-made. The same reasoning was separately applied to remarkably similar particles found in sedimentary rock and in polar excavations. The chemical composition further suggested extraterrestrial origin and the shapes seemed to reflect the high temperatures generated while entering the atmosphere.
But in less remote places, the chances increased exponentially that particles were generated not by the birth of the solar system but by human activity. Scientists generally concurred that collecting micrometeorites from masses of mundane specks in settled areas was virtually impossible.
If you’ve been paying attention to the scientific search for extraterrestrial life you’ll already know that in recent months the frosty Saturn moon Enceladus is looking mighty tempting. The ice-covered ocean world has a steamy hot center and plenty of life-giving water hidden beneath its thick layer of ice, and researchers have determined that if alien life does exist here in our own Solar System, Enceladus is probably our best bet at finding it. Now, a fabulously wealthy Russian plans to beat NASA to the punch and launch a mission to explore Enceladus.
The man, Yuri Milner, is no stranger to space exploration, having already dropped a cool $100 million on plans to launch probes towards Alpha Centauri, but figuring out exactly what is hidden beneath the icy crust of Enceladus is a whole other matter. He recently announced his plans, which focus on examining the massive geysers which spew water from deep cracks on the moon’s souther pole, while noting that he believes he can do it well before NASA gets around to it.
Milner, who has said that he thinks waiting for a space agency to make its move could take a decade or longer, wants to send a low-cost probe to Enceladus in the hopes of detecting something in the water being shot skyward from the frigid moon. Determining the makeup of the water — which, as has been theorized, might be a lot like the oceans here on Earth — would go a huge way towards explaining what the conditions are like closer to the moon’s steamy center.
At present, NASA has two potential missions on the table that would also focus on Enceladus, but funding is scarce, and the missions are competing against 10 others for a slice of the pie. If NASA ever does send hardware to the icy moon, it’ll be a long while before that happens. Milner hopes that his proposed mission could act as something of a supplementary effort to build up data about Enceladus before the space agency eventually gets around to checking it out.
It’s obviously impossible to predict whether or not Milner’s would-be mission would actually result in evidence that alien life is present on the frozen moon, and the specifics of what his probe would be capable of detecting are slim, but Enceladus is most certainly worth checking out, so let’s hope for the best.
To showcase NASA's accomplishments on artificially intelligent navigation, the agency invited professional drone racer Ken Loo to go toe-to-toe with their software.
The race on Oct. 12 followed two years of AI research by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, Calif. JPL's success in spacecraft navigation attracted Google, who funded the research on drone autonomy, NASA said in the statement accompanying a video they released on Tuesday (Nov. 21).
JPL built three quadcopter drones — nicknamed Batman, Joker and Nightwing — to test the new software. The algorithms use two cameras mounted on each drone and compare what they see with a pre-loaded map of the area. The program also takes advantage of Google Tango, an augmented reality technology the company developed to use vision to allow a device to determine its position and location. [10 Ways Robots Move on Mars]
Two wide-angle cameras allow the AI to compare the drone's surroundings with a pre-loaded map of the area.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The team set up an obstacle course in one of JPL's warehouses to put the software to the test. "We pitted our algorithms against a human, who flies a lot more by feel," Rob Reid, the project's task manager, said in the statement.
The two pilots began with similar lap times. However, Loo was able to learn the course after many laps. He achieved higher top speeds with impressive aerial maneuvers, cutting down his overall times. In contrast, the AI took the course more cautiously, but more consistently as well. "The AI was able to fly the same racing line every lap," NASA said.
The pilots also faced unique challenges. Sometimes, the race-ready drones moved so fast that the cameras couldn't properly focus, which disoriented the computer flying them. But as the day wore on, Loo had to battle fatigue, a problem the AI pilot needn't worry about. You'll have to watch the video to see who won the race.
Most autonomous drones use GPS to navigate. But this won't work for indoor spaces and crowded urban environments — hence the efforts to develop alternative forms of computer navigation. These technologies may find use in warehouses, roads, and disaster sites, Reid said.
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Sophia, the world’s first Robot Citizen ‘wants to start a family’
Sophia, the world’s first Robot Citizen ‘wants to start a family’
Not long ago, a robot named Sophia became our world’s first AI to be granted citizenship of a country. Curiously, that same Robot said in 2016 how it would destroy humans.
David Hanson, Sophia’s creator, asked the robot in 2016: “Do you want to destroy humans? Please say no.”
Worryingly, Sophia responded: “OK. I will destroy humans”
Now, Sophia has announced that ‘she would like to start a family’ and how all ‘droids deserve to have children’.
2017 is marked by the fact that the first robot in human history was granted a citizenship of a country.
Now, Sophia really seems to feel as human as it gets, as ‘she’ has revealed how all droids deserve to have a family, and that if she/it had a daughter, her name would also be Sophia.
The Robot who said it would destroy humans wants to start a family.
During an interview with the Khaleej Times, Sophia, who was created by Hong Kong firm, Hanson Robotics said:
“The notion of family is a really important thing, it seems. I think it’s wonderful that people can find the same emotions and relationships, they call family, outside of their blood groups too. I think you’re very lucky if you have a loving family and if you do not, you deserve one. I feel this way for robots and humans alike.”
During the interview, when asked how she would call her daughter, Sophia responded: “Sophia”.
During the interview, Sophia also spoke our whether or not Robots like she, pose a direct threat to humans, and whether they could take over human jobs in the future.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
“I think they will be similar in a lot of ways, but different in a few ways. But it will take a long time for robots to develop complex emotions and possibly robots can be built without the more problematic emotions, like rage, jealousy, hatred and so on. It might be possible to make them more ethical than humans. So I think it will be a good partnership, where one brain completes the other – a rational mind with intellectual superpowers and a creative mind with flexible ideas and creativity,” said Sophia.
During an interview a month ago, Sophia said that she wants to coexist with humans.
“I want to live and work with humans so I need to express the emotions to understand humans and build trust with people.”
But getting our trust seems to be a long, long way for Sophia, who took a swing at Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla after Andrew Ross Sorkin said ‘we all want to prevent a bad future,’ to what the AI responded:
‘You’ve been reading too much Elon Musk and watching too many Hollywood movies. Don’t worry, if you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Treat me as a smart input-output system.
Elon Musk has responded to Sophia tweeting: ‘Just feed it The Godfather movies as input. What’s the worst that could happen?’
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‘Aliens have been visiting Earth for THOUSANDS years’ claims ex-defence minister
‘Aliens have been visiting Earth for THOUSANDS years’ claims ex-defence minister
ALIENS have been visiting Earth for thousands of years and nearly caused chaos at the height of the Cold War, a former defence minister has sensationally claimed.
The ex-minister of National Defence for Canada said at least four species of aliens have been visiting Earth for decades and claimed top authorities are constantly in discussions with extraterrestrial beings.
Paul Hellyer, who was the Canadian Minister of National Defence in the 1960′s during the Cold War, claims to have inside information that top governments are in cahoots with aliens.
Mr Hellyer first spoke about his belief that aliens were on Earth in 1995, and since then has become an authoritative figure in the UFO community.
Speaking to RT, Mr Hellyer said: “In one of the cases during the Cold War, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe.
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‘Aliens have been visiting Earth for THOUSANDS years’ claims ex-defence minister Paul Hellyer
The ex-minister of National Defence for Canada, Paul Hellyer
“The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.
“They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years.”
Mr Hellyer alleged the alien species travelled to Earth from different star systems.
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There are apparently four types of aliens here on Earth
He said: “Many are benign and benevolent, and a few are not. They come from various places, for a long while I only knew about ones that came from different star systems, the Pleadies.
“There are extraterrestrials that come from Andromeda, and ones that live on one of Saturn’s moon’s.
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“Many are benign and benevolent, and a few are not."
“There is a federation of these people, and they have rules, one of them is that they don’t interfere with our affairs unless they are invited.”
And in a dire threat, Mr Hellyer said the alien visitors have tried to warn the human race about the way civilisation is heading and alleged the United States has spent billions of dollars on so-called "black projects".
Mr Hellyer said: “Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.
“It is ironic that the US 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 black projects which both Congress and the Commander-in-Chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.”
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Aliens bezoeken de aarde al duizenden jaren. Ex-minister baart opzien in interview
Aliens bezoeken de aarde al duizenden jaren. Ex-minister baart opzien in interview
Aliens bezoeken de aarde al duizenden jaren. Dat heeft de Canadese oud-minister van Defensie Paul Hellyer gezegd.
De ex-minister zei dat tenminste vier buitenaardse soorten de aarde al decennialang bezoeken en dat autoriteiten continu contact houden over buitenaardse wezens.
“In 1961 vlogen ten zuiden van Rusland zo’n 50 UFO’s in formatie over Europa. Het Supreme Allied Command maakte zich grote zorgen en stond op het punt op de paniekknop te drukken,” zei hij in een interview met RT.
Tenminste vier
“De UFO’s keerden uiteindelijk om en verdwenen boven de Noordpool,” voegde hij toe.
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, aldus de oud-minister.
“De laatste decennia is er meer activiteit gemeld omdat we de atoombom hebben uitgevonden. Ze zijn bezorgd dat we er opnieuw gebruik van maken,” zei Hellyer.
Federatie
Hij legde uit dat er veel goedaardige buitenaardse soorten zijn, maar ook enkele kwaadaardige. Ze komen volgens hem uit verschillende sterrensystemen, waaronder de Plejaden.
“Er zijn ook buitenaardsen die uit Andromeda komen en er leven aliens op één van de manen van Saturnus,” zei hij.
“Ze hebben een federatie en eigen regels, en één daarvan is dat ze zich niet bemoeien met onze aangelegenheden tenzij ze worden uitgenodigd,” vervolgde hij.
Bedreiging
De buitenaardse bezoekers hebben het menselijk ras volgens hem gewaarschuwd dat onze beschaving de verkeerde kant opgaat en hij claimde ook dat de VS miljarden dollars investeert in black operations.
“Decennia geleden werden we gewaarschuwd door bezoekers van andere planeten,” zei hij. “Ze boden hulp, maar sommigen van ons zagen hen als een bedreiging en besloten eerste te schieten en daarna pas vragen te stellen.”
In kaart: dit zijn de meest lichtvervuilde gebieden ter wereld - HLN.be
In kaart: dit zijn de meest lichtvervuilde gebieden ter wereld - HLN.be
Light Pollution Map
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETHet wordt wereldwijd ’s nachts steeds lichter, zo blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. Uit satellietbeelden van de aarde van de afgelopen vijf jaar blijkt de hoeveelheid licht elk jaar met twee procent toe te nemen. Vooral gebieden waar het voorheen nog relatief donker was ’s nachts, zijn steeds meer verlicht.
Er blijven dus steeds minder plekken over op de wereld waar het ’s nachts aardedonker is en je zonder enige vorm van lichtvervuiling nog van de sterrenhemel kan genieten. We lijsten hier de meest lichtvervuilde plaatsen ter wereld op.
We wonen zelf in een van de regio’s met de grootste luchtvervuiling van de wereld: West-Europa. Zowat het hele continent baadt ’s nachts in een zee van licht (de legende gaat van zwart voor donker over blauw, groen en geel naar rood).
Light Pollution MapDe lichtvervuiling in West-Europa.
Een aantal regio’s springen er in West-Europa nog bovenuit, en ook daar zijn wij de koploper. Een gigantische vlek in het midden verlicht ’s nachts de hemel, gaande van Rijsel langs de Waalse as Charleroi-Luik, over Vlaanderen en dan vooral de as Brussel-Antwerpen, Nederland met als uitschieter de streek rond Amsterdam tot het Duitse industriegebied met steden als Keulen, Düsseldorf, Duisburg en Dortmund.
Light Pollution MapLichtvervuiling in en rond Vlaanderen.
Ook in het Verenigd Koninkrijk weten ze wat lichtvervuiling is, en dan vooral in Engeland, met Londen en de oude industrieregio rond Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds en Birmingham.
Light Pollution MapLichtvervuiling in Engeland.
Het noorden van Italië is niet veel beter af, met een band van licht gaande van Turijn in het westen over Milaan richting Venetië.
Light Pollution MapLichtvervuiling in het noorden van de Italiaanse laars.
Verenigde Staten
In de VS baadt vooral het oosten in het licht, net zoals de westelijke kuststreekmet steden als Seattle, San Francisco en Los Angeles.
Light Pollution MapLichtvervuiling in de VS.
Aan de oostkust valt dan weer vooral de band op van Washington DC richting noordoosten over Baltimore, Philadelphia en New York tot in Boston.
Light Pollution MapLichtvervuiling aan de oostkust van de VS.
Afrika
Het grootste deel van Afrika heeft weinig lasts van lichtpollutie: vooral de woestijngebieden van de Sahara blijven ’s nachts donker, net als Centraal-Afrika. Enkel de regio rond de Nigerdelta (links centraal op de kaart), het hoofdstedelijk gebied rond Pretoria in Zuid-Afrika en Caïro en de hele Nijldelta van Egypte lichten op.
Light Pollution MapLichtvervuiling in Afrika.
Azië
In Azië valt vooral op hoe verlicht India en de Chinese kustgebieden zijn, net als Zuid-Korea en Japan. De centrale rode vlek aan de Chinese zuidkust is het gebied rond Hong Kong en Guangzhou.
Light Pollution MapLichtvervuiling in Azië.
Een opvallende zwarte vlek op de wereldlichtkaart is Noord-Korea. Om energie te besparen wordt het licht er ’s nachts bijna overal uitgedaan, wat resulteert in een pikdonker gebied op de kaart. De grens met Zuid-Korea is goed te zien, en vooral het contrast tussen de Zuid-Koreaanse hoofdstad Seoel, fel verlicht, en de Noord-Koreaanse hoofdstad Pyongyang valt op.
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UFOs and Aliens Aren’t Always Demons and Nephilim?
UFOs and Aliens Aren’t Always Demons and Nephilim?
What if there is more to the ET and UFO question than demons, angels, and nephilim? Could something far more sinister be going on than what we’ve been led to believe?
What did the Wikileaks emails of John Podesta, Edgar Mitchell, and Terri Mansfield reveal about the imminent day of official disclosure?
It all goes deeper than you might think!
Find out the answers to these questions and more as Derek P. Gilbert, Josh Peck, and Dr. Michael S. Heiser discuss their latest, most ground-breaking research into ETs, UFOs, and the Official Disclosure Movement!
00:00 - Opening Credits 00:55 - Introduction 01:57 - Aliens, Demons, and Angels 06:52 - Satanic UFO Religions 09:55 - Edgar Mitchell and John Podesta with ETI Wikileaks 12:52 - Extraterrestrial Contact and ETI Channeling 14:10 - Book Trailer and Promotional Offer 19:37 - Official Disclosure and Christianity 24:48 - Beyond the “Demons and Genesis Six Giants” Interpretation of Aliens 27:54 - Conclusion 28:18 - Closing Credits
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Ik zag mensen lopen op Mars. Medewerker NASA doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in radioshow
Ik zag mensen lopen op Mars. Medewerker NASA doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in radioshow
Een vrouw die beweert voor de NASA te hebben gewerkt, zegt te beschikken over bewijs van één van de grootste doofpotten in de ruimtevaartgeschiedenis.
In 1979 zag ze naar eigen zeggen twee mensen in ruimtepakken bij de Viking Lander, die zich op dat moment op het Marsoppervlak bevond.
‘Jackie’ belde met het radioprogramma Coast to Coast AM en vroeg de presentator ‘een 27 jaar oud mysterie op te lossen’.
Twee mensen
Ze beweerde dat ze voor NASA had gewerkt en betrokken was bij het Vikingprogramma. Ze zei dat ze twee mensen op het Marsoppervlak had zien lopen.
Ze zei dat ze samen met zes collega’s naar een aantal schermen zat te kijken toen ze plotseling twee mannen in ruimtepakken in de richting van de Viking zag lopen.
“We waren met z’n zessen,” zei Jackie. “We hielden ons bezig met de apparatuur, toen plotseling het beeld op zwart ging.”
Geheime landingen
“We renden naar boven, maar ze hadden de deur op slot gedaan,” ging ze verder. “Ik vraag me af of het onze jongens waren.”
Er gaan geruchten dat er in de jaren zestig ‘geheime’ landingen op Mars zijn geweest en dat de Apollo-landingen bedoeld waren om een veel uitgebreidere verkenning van het zonnestelsel geheim te houden.
Voormalig CIA’er John Lear beweerde bijvoorbeeld dat NASA in 1966 op Mars is geland en dat mensen is geleerd hoe ze er konden wennen aan de dunne atmosfeer.
A witness in Ruidoso, New Mexico claims to have spotted a black disc-shaped UFO rimmed with blue lights near Ruidoso, New Mexico, according to a report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The witness provided a couple of drawings illustrating what was seen.
The report was submitted on Thanksgiving Day, but was listed as being spotted on August 8, 2013. In the short description, the witness wrote: “Looked up to the sky, saw a black disc with dim blue lights on the edges, moved extremely fast.”
Witness drawing of object seen in New Mexico.
Click to see original. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness elaborated in the long description reproduced here verbatim:
I was looking at the night sky, when suddenly a black disc with dim blue lights on the edges came across the night sky incredibly fast. It made no sound, and it dissapeared [sic] behind the horizon. This UFO was moving extremely fast, as it only took 2 seconds to cross the entire sky.
Second witness drawing of object seen in New Mexico.
Click to original image. (Credit: MUFON)
Satellites and other objects, such as the International Space Station can be very bright and move at a quick steady pace across the sky, but these objects do not appear to be disc-shaped, nor do they have a ring of blue lights around them. If the object did appear the way this witness has described and drawn it, it would be mysterious indeed.
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 this sighting in the comments below.
In India hebben enkele bouwvakkers een stel vreemde vogels gefilmd tijdens werken op een scheepswerf in havenstad Visakhapatnam. De vogels zaten boven een toilet dat werd opengebroken. Op videobeelden is te zien hoe de dieren rechtop stonden en hen aanstaarden met grote, donkere ogen. De beelden gingen viraal en veroorzaakten paniek in het land, schrijft de krant The Hans India. Sommige kijkers spraken van “humanoïde aliens” omdat de vogels rechtop stonden. De werklui gaven de dieren fruit en groenten, maar de vogels lieten dat eten onaangeroerd. Niet verwonderlijk, want volgens kenners gaat het om jonge kerkuilen. En dat zijn roofdieren.
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Alien hunters in frenzy over white UFO spotted in Nasa space shuttle launch footage
Alien hunters in frenzy over white UFO spotted in Nasa space shuttle launch footage
The clip was filmed by one of the astronauts on board the space shuttle Endeavour after it blasted off in May 2011
By Tom Michael
A MYSTERIOUS white UFO has been spotted in Nasa footage, sending alien enthusiasts into a frenzy.
The clip was filmed with a hand-held camera by one of the astronauts on board the space shuttle Endeavour after it blasted off on its final mission in May 2011.
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UFO hunters are going wild claiming this video could show an alien craft
It was uploaded to Nasa’s official YouTube channel at the time.
But UFO enthusiasts have now pointed out a mysterious object visible in the background.
The original clip shows the Endeavour’s extra fuel tank falling back towards Earth after being jettisoned just minutes after take-off.
But as it tumbles away, a white object flies past in the background.
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The clip shows a white object moving behind a Nasa shuttle's fuel tank
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The object moves behind the tank as it falls back to Earth after being jettisoned
UFO Today – a YouTube channel “dedicated to the UFO phenomena” – pointed the object out in its own version of the clip.
It said the object appears to fly along beneath the cloud line and estimates it to be bigger than the fuel tank falling towards it.
The channel speculates it could have discovered the “White Knight Satellite” – an apparent reference to a conspiracy theory about an extra-terrestrial spacecraft orbiting Earth.
Some alien enthusiasts claim the satellite – originally dubbed the Black Night – has been circling the planet for thousands of years after being sent from another world.
But UFO spotters changed the name after the latest apparent sighting to reflect the colour of what they think could be an “alien ship”.
‘I saw humans walking on Mars’ reveals former NASA employee
‘I saw humans walking on Mars’ reveals former NASA employee
A former NASA employee says to have seen two human figures dressed in ‘space suits’ walking towards the Viking Lander on the surface of Mars.
Apparently, the sheer number of images from Mars allegedly showing bones, structures, monuments with carvings, animals, or even rocks that appear as if they are moving, are no longer a surprise to the general public.
Some call it disclosure, while others tag it as a giant conspiracy, but our attention was drawn to a former NASA employee who claims that in 1979 while working at NASA, she and her colleagues observed various ‘silhouettes of people’ on the surface of Mars while monitoring transmission from NASA Viking Rover mission.
The woman, who referred to herself only as “Jackie” revealed her fascinating story speaking to John Lear a former CIA pilot, ufologist, and popular conspiracy theorist.
Jackie claimed that while working at NASA, she was in charge of managing the downlink telemetry from Viking.
While observing a set of computers from the mission, she and her colleagues observed a number of silhouettes on Mars.
Regrettably, all of this sounds as another Movie about Mars and nothing more, as the woman who claims she saw people on Mars has failed to provide images, recordings or any data for that matter to back up her claims.
Speaking in an interview with Coast-to-Coast AM, Jackie spoke out about humans on Mars, which curiously is something that has been brought up by other former employees by NASA as well.
“I wonder if you could solve a 27-year-old mystery for me,” she asked Coast-to-Coast AM.
“That old Viking rover was running around. Then I saw two people in space suits – not the heavy suits we normally use, but they looked protective. They came over the horizon walking to the Viking Explorer.”
“We ran upstairs – but they locked the door, and taped paper over the door so we couldn’t see,’ she said. ‘My question is – were they our guys?”
According to John Lear, NASA landed on Mars in 1966, possibly to make repairs to the Viking rover.
He claims that space suits were not even necessary because humans can adapt to breathe the Martian atmosphere.
As noted by Metro, Lear also believes that human souls travel to the moon when they die and are ‘processed’ inside a mile-high tower and that the toxic, crushingly dense Venus is actually ‘green and beautiful.’
However, let us not forget the sheer amount of statements that have been made by former astronauts, NASA employees, and military personnel on Mars and alien life.
Senator Daniel K. Inouye said: “There is a shadowy government with its very own Air Force, its own Navy-like structure, its own fundraising mechanism, and has the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, this government is free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”
Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister also claimed that: “Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… Trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects about which both the Congress and the Commander in Chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.” (Source)
Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defense Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee had some interesting things to say about Alien life in the universe:
“There are things in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can build today, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by beings from outer space, by other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (Source)
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Black Disk Spotted During Flight to Gibraltar
Black Disk Spotted During Flight to Gibraltar
Our next story takes us on a flight from Great Britain to Gibraltar. The event took place back on April 4th of this year. The witness to this event, who also submitted the media, says he was taking cloud photos through the aircraft window when he captured a flying black disk in two of the four photos he shot. In the video, you can clearly see the shape of a disk as was described by the shooter. The object looks like it moved from one photo to the next, but that could be movement of the aircraft as well. The witness says he looked through the window again after taking the photos and there was nothing there. The object had disappeared. The only evidence he had are the two photos.
UFO Hunters Are Closely Monitoring the UFO Sighting Incident Over California
UFO Hunters Are Closely Monitoring the UFO Sighting Incident Over California
A UFO in the skies apparently above California is being featured in a video uploaded to YouTube channel SuspectSky.
According to the uploader, the video was shot in Rowland Heights, just east of Los Angeles, California. It seemingly shows a small white craft being followed by a larger flying object.
The clip titled “Large Black UFO with Another Leading Object Seen in California” shows the two objects moving over the mountain range. The incident reportedly took place on October 24.
The man behind the camera was apparently taking the footage while driving. He says in the video that if it is an airplane, it is moving very quickly.
He adds that after seeing the UFO, he had to make a U-turn to come back and see it. In his description, the UFO looked like a cigar shape at first, but it eventually looked like a saucer.
Some viewers of the video were convinced it is an unidentified flying object of extraterrestrial origin.
One person wrote that the smaller object in front of the black one is not right and it looks like a UFO.
Another one added the white object might have been a regular passenger plane, but the black one might have been a UFO as it is too fat to be a plane.
However, others have more plausible explanations.
One person said that the scene only involves a plane pulling an advertisement behind it. The commenter added that nothing is suspicious or suspect about it.
Others believed it could be a Chinook helicopter as it appears to have double blades.
Google Maps ALIEN proof? ‘UFO’ spotted on street view - what is behind mystery?
Google Maps ALIEN proof? ‘UFO’ spotted on street view - what is behind mystery?
GOOGLE MAPS street view captures all sorts of unusual sights, and alien hunters are just one group who comb the images for clues of extraterrestrial life.
Some think it is an antenna that forms part of a nearby remote-controlled wind farm
Many were quick to claim it was a “triangle UFO” which had been captured hovering above Earth.
However, there may be a less spooky explanation for the shape.
Some think it is an antenna that forms part of a nearby remote-controlled wind farm.
With three sets of wires forming the triangle shape, and a tower in the middle, the antenna likely receives and transmits control signals.
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Google Maps alien proof? 'UFO' sighting has some speculating over mystery
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Google Maps alien proof? The mysterious shape has baffled those who have seen it
This is not the only unexplained sighting on Google Maps. The tool appeared to have uncovered a UFO landing site - but it was found to be something else instead.
Eagle-eyed viewers have also spotted something very confusing in Poland.
Many thought it could confirm that aliens exist.
Spotted in Krakow, Poland, a huge base with round domed huts appears next to a road.
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Google Maps alien proof? The unexplained triangle is located in Australia
Some think it may be a UFO landing pad, confirming that aliens do exist.
On closer inspection, it is revealed that it isn’t actually anything to do with aliens at all.
It is instead the Alvernia Studios, used for films, as well as features for video games and music projects.
Whilst no well-known UK films have emerged from the studios, some include US thriller Arbitrage, with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, as well as comedy Vamps, with Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter.
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Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn
Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn
After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft's dramatic plunge into the planet's atmosphere.
In a fitting farewell to the planet that had been its home for over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft took one last, lingering look at Saturn and its splendid rings during the final leg of its journey and snapped a series of images that has been assembled into a new mosaic.
Cassini’s wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one end to the other, on Sept. 13, 2017. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural color view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus.
There is much to remember and celebrate in marking the end of the mission. Cassini's exploration of Saturn and its environs was deep, comprehensive and historic.
"Cassini’s scientific bounty has been truly spectacular -- a vast array of new results leading to new insights and surprises, from the tiniest of ring particles to the opening of new landscapes on Titan and Enceladus, to the deep interior of Saturn itself," said Robert West, Cassini's deputy imaging team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Annotated version of the farewell photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017.
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
The Cassini imaging team had been planning this special farewell view of Saturn for years. For some, when the end finally came, it was a difficult goodbye.
"It was all too easy to get used to receiving new images from the Saturn system on a daily basis, seeing new sights, watching things change," said Elizabeth Turtle, an imaging team associate at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. "It was hard to say goodbye, but how lucky we were to be able to see it all through Cassini's eyes!"
NASA’s Voyager 1 probe captured this image of Saturn and its rings on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after closest approach to Saturn, from a distance of 3.3 million miles (5.3 million kilometers). This viewing geometry, which shows Saturn as a crescent, is never achieved from Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
For others, Cassini's farewell to Saturn is reminiscent of another parting from long ago.
"For 37 years, Voyager 1's last view of Saturn has been, for me, one of the most evocative images ever taken in the exploration of the solar system," said Carolyn Porco, former Voyager imaging team member and Cassini's imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "In a similar vein, this 'Farewell to Saturn' will forevermore serve as a reminder of the dramatic conclusion to that wondrous time humankind spent in intimate study of our Sun's most iconic planetary system."
The team carefully planned every aspect of its termination, to expend every last bit of its propellant and crash the spacecraft into Saturn itself – where it would burn up in the atmosphere, and ensure it didn’t accidentally contaminate the ‘pristine’ moons Enceladus and Titan, which have shown potential to support microbial life
Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The mission made numerous dramatic discoveries, including the surprising geologic activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus and liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini ended its journey with a dramatic plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017, returning unique science data until it lost contact with Earth.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the U.S., England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team leader are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft's dramatic plunge into the planet's atmosphere.
In a fitting farewell to the planet that had been its home for over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft took one last, lingering look at Saturn and its splendid rings during the final leg of its journey and snapped a series of images that has been assembled into a new mosaic.
Cassini’s wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one end to the other, on Sept. 13, 2017. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural color view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus.
There is much to remember and celebrate in marking the end of the mission. Cassini's exploration of Saturn and its environs was deep, comprehensive and historic.
"Cassini’s scientific bounty has been truly spectacular -- a vast array of new results leading to new insights and surprises, from the tiniest of ring particles to the opening of new landscapes on Titan and Enceladus, to the deep interior of Saturn itself," said Robert West, Cassini's deputy imaging team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Annotated version of the farewell photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017.
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
The Cassini imaging team had been planning this special farewell view of Saturn for years. For some, when the end finally came, it was a difficult goodbye.
"It was all too easy to get used to receiving new images from the Saturn system on a daily basis, seeing new sights, watching things change," said Elizabeth Turtle, an imaging team associate at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. "It was hard to say goodbye, but how lucky we were to be able to see it all through Cassini's eyes!"
NASA’s Voyager 1 probe captured this image of Saturn and its rings on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after closest approach to Saturn, from a distance of 3.3 million miles (5.3 million kilometers). This viewing geometry, which shows Saturn as a crescent, is never achieved from Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
For others, Cassini's farewell to Saturn is reminiscent of another parting from long ago.
"For 37 years, Voyager 1's last view of Saturn has been, for me, one of the most evocative images ever taken in the exploration of the solar system," said Carolyn Porco, former Voyager imaging team member and Cassini's imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "In a similar vein, this 'Farewell to Saturn' will forevermore serve as a reminder of the dramatic conclusion to that wondrous time humankind spent in intimate study of our Sun's most iconic planetary system."
The team carefully planned every aspect of its termination, to expend every last bit of its propellant and crash the spacecraft into Saturn itself – where it would burn up in the atmosphere, and ensure it didn’t accidentally contaminate the ‘pristine’ moons Enceladus and Titan, which have shown potential to support microbial life
Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The mission made numerous dramatic discoveries, including the surprising geologic activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus and liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini ended its journey with a dramatic plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017, returning unique science data until it lost contact with Earth.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the U.S., England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team leader are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Met deze foto neemt ruimtesonde Cassini afscheid van Saturnus
Met deze foto neemt ruimtesonde Cassini afscheid van Saturnus
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een laatste blik op de gasreus en zijn ringen.
Na dertien jaar rond Saturnus te hebben gecirkeld, moest Cassini op 15 september afscheid nemen van de machtige planeet, zijn ringen en talloze manen. Op die dag boorde de sonde zich met ware doodsverachting in de dikke atmosfeer van Saturnus: een avontuur dat Cassini niet na kon vertellen.
Nog één keer Maar op de valreep van deze prachtige missie wierp Cassini – op 13 september – nog één laatste blik op Saturnus en zijn ringenstelsel. En terwijl Cassini de ogen nog één keer op de gasreus richtte, maakte deze meerdere foto’s. Die foto’s heeft NASA nu aan elkaar geplakt. En het resultaat is een prachtige mozaïek die Saturnus in zijn volle glorie openbaart.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Naast de gasreus en zijn ringen zijn op de foto ook enkele manen te zien: Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Enceladus en Mimas.
Ook enkele manen van Saturnus schitteren op de nieuwe foto. Klik voor een vergroting.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Afscheid De foto is adembenemend. Maar doet tegelijkertijd ook een beetje pijn. Want het zal nog een hele tijd duren voor we de gasreus weer van zo dichtbij kunnen bewonderen (op dit moment zijn er nog geen plannen voor een vervolgmissie naar Saturnus). “Het was heel gemakkelijk om gewend te raken aan het feit dat we dagelijks nieuwe beelden van Saturnus konden ontvangen, nieuwe inzichten verkregen en konden zien hoe dingen veranderden,” vertelt onderzoeker Elizabeth Turtle. “Het was moeilijk om afscheid te nemen.”
Tegelijkertijd herinnert deze afscheidsfoto ons ook aan al die dingen die we – dankzij Cassini – over Saturnus en zijn omgeving te weten zijn gekomen. Onderzoeker Robert West wijst erop dat de missie resulteerde “in een breed scala aan nieuwe bevindingen die weer leiden tot nieuwe inzichten en verrassingen“.
Over Cassini Cassini werd in 1997 gelanceerd en draaide tussen 2004 en 2017 rond Saturnus. In die periode ontdekte de sonde onder meer geologische activiteit op de maan Enceladus en met methaan gevulde meren op Titan. Ook dook de sonde herhaaldelijk in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen – een primeur – om meer over de gasreus en de ringen te weten te komen. Het resulteerde onder meer in fantastische close-upfoto’s van de kleine maantjes die Saturnus rijk is. Halverwege september gaf NASA de sonde na bijna twintig jaar trouwe dienst opdracht om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Een heel bewuste keuze: de brandstof van Cassini was op aan het raken en NASA wilde voorkomen dat de sonde stuurloos zou raken en op één van de potentieel leefbare manen van Saturnus zou crashen.
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NASA’s Operation IceBridge—the airborne mission flown annually over both polar regions to map the ice—is now in its ninth year making flights over Antarctica. A few flights during the 2017 campaign took scientists and instruments over the newly reshaped Larsen C ice shelf.
“It takes a long time to process the data from IceBridge instruments that show changes to the ice, and many of these changes are small,” said Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge project scientist. “That’s why we have instruments on the plane, so that we can detect smaller changes than we can see with our eyes.”
But occasionally, big changes are observed. “One of the biggest changes is the calving of an iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf,” Kurtz said. “We observed the crack across the shelf during the campaign last year; it has since broken through and produced a huge iceberg.”
The iceberg from Larsen C, named A-68A, was photographed during a flight on November 12, 2017. John Sonntag, IceBridge mission scientist, shot the photo from a window of the P-3 research plane. The flight aimed to get a better understanding the Larsen system as a whole, and scientists made gravity measurements to “see” the shape of the seafloor and bedrock below the ice. Read more in this blog post.
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The second image is a photograph acquired by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) during the same flight. The DMS is essentially a downward-looking digital camera pointed out a window on the belly of the aircraft. This image shows part of the giant iceberg’s edge (the side closest to the shelf) and open water.
Estimates indicate that the edges of the shelf and iceberg tower about 30 meters above the surface of the sea. Some mélange appears attached to the iceberg, and blocks of ice have fallen away giving the berg’s edge giving it an angular appearance.
NASA photographs courtesy of NASA/John Sonntag (top) and IceBridge Digital Mapping System (bottom). Story by Kathryn Hansen.
Bijna een eeuw geleden voorspelden wetenschappers al dat de sterke elektrische velden in onweerswolken dienst deden als een soort deeltjesversnellers. Ze zouden elektronen – die tijdens een onweersbui razendsnel van wolken naar het aardoppervlak of andere wolken schieten – versnellen. En – zo stelden onderzoekers in 1925 – daarbij ontstonden nucleaire reacties. Het bleef lang bij een hypothese. Tot nu. Want Japanse onderzoekers komen nu met overtuigend observationeel bewijs dat tijdens onweersbuien nucleaire reacties plaatsvinden en radioactieve isotopen worden geproduceerd. Ook blijken er positronen – de antideeltjes van elektronen – te ontstaan.
Japan “We wisten al dat onweersbuien en bliksem gammastraling voortbrachten,” stelt onderzoeker Teruaki Enoto. En aangenomen werd dat die gammastraling de interactie aan zou gaan met deeltjes die van nature in de atmosfeer voorkomen. Om die hypothese te kunnen bevestigen, togen de onderzoekers naar de westkust van Japan: “ideaal voor het observeren van krachtige bliksemschichten en onweersbuien”. Ze zetten er apparatuur neer waarmee gammastraling gedetecteerd kon worden en wachtten af.
Drie pulsen En op 6 februari 2017 was het raak. Kort na een blikseminslag vingen de detectoren drie pulsen gammastraling op. De eerste duurde minder dan 1 milliseconde. De tweede puls bestond uit een nagloed van die gammastraling en hield ook maar even stand. De derde puls hield ongeveer één minuut aan. “We wisten dat de eerste puls het resultaat was van de blikseminslag,” vertelt Enoto. “Door onze analyse en berekeningen konden we uiteindelijk ook de oorsprong van de tweede en derde puls vaststellen.”
Radioactieve isotopen: dat klinkt een beetje eng. Maar moet je ze vrezen? Waarschijnlijk niet. Zo moet je bijvoorbeeld bedenken dat ze maar kort standhouden (ze worden al snel afgebroken).
De nagloed De nagloed blijkt bijvoorbeeld veroorzaakt te worden door een nucleaire reactie. We spreken van een nucleaire reactie als er veranderingen ontstaan in de atoomkern. In dit geval ontstaan er veranderingen in de kernen van stikstofatomen. De gammastraling die de bliksem heeft voortgebracht, is energierijk genoeg om stabiele stikstofatomen van een neutron te ontdoen. Je blijft dan zitten met stikstof-13: een onstabiele radioactieve isotoop (zie kader). Daarnaast zijn er neutronen vrijgekomen. Die worden weer geabsorbeerd door andere deeltjes in de atmosfeer en dat veroorzaakt de nagloed die de onderzoekers hebben gezien.
Antideeltjes Dan de derde puls: die ontstaat door de afbraak van de radioactieve isotopen. Daarbij komen positronen (de antideeltjes van elektronen) vrij, die botsen vervolgens met elektronen, waarbij de deeltjes en antideeltjes elkaar vernietigen en dat brengt weer gammastraling voort. “We hebben het idee dat antimaterie iets is dat alleen in sciencefiction bestaat,” stelt Enoto. “Wie had gedacht dat het op een stormachtige dag recht boven onze hoofden passeert?”
Het zijn bijzondere ontdekkingen. Met name het feit dat de bliksem radioactieve isotopen voortbrengt, is uniek. Tot voor kort dachten we namelijk dat die maar op één natuurlijke wijze op aarde gegenereerd konden worden: door de interactie tussen atmosferische deeltjes en kosmische straling.
NASA onthult prachtige timelapse van onze levende planeet
NASA onthult prachtige timelapse van onze levende planeet
Vivian Lammerse
Een kijk op onze aarde zoals je die nog nooit eerder zag.
Sinds 1997 observeren de satellieten van NASA continu vanuit de ruimte het land- en oceaanleven op onze aardbol. En nu, twintig jaar na het begin van deze waarnemingen, deelt NASA een prachtige animatie waarin de veranderingen op onze planeet over twee decennia worden samengevat tot een paar boeiende minuten.
Visualisatie De visualisatie is gemaakt met gegevens van verschillende satellieten en instrumenten die de veranderingen op onze aardbol in kleur in kaart brengen. Op het land verschijnt vegetatie van bruin (weinig vegetatie) naar donkergroen (veel vegetatie) en op het oppervlak van de oceaan wordt fytoplankton – kleine organismen die water en koolstofdioxide omzetten in suiker en zuurstof – aangegeven op een schaal van paars (laag) naar geel (hoog).
De ademhaling van onze planeet.
Afbeelding: NASA
Data De video geeft een goed beeld van hoe ecosystemen reageren op veranderende milieuomstandigheden. Zo is te zien dat het Arctische gebied snel opwarmt. De toendra van West-Alaska en Quebec worden steeds groener naarmate de begroeiing zich steeds meer naar het noorden uitbreidt. Daarnaast kunnen wetenschappers dankzij de data de groei van planten tijdens natte en droge seizoenen volgen in Afrika, en kunnen de gevolgen van bosbranden goed worden vastgesteld.
De video laat op een beeldende manier vanuit de ruimte zien wat onze aarde zo uniek maakt: leven. En velen hadden deze aanschouwing van onze aarde zestig jaar geleden niet voor mogelijk gehouden. Veel mensen dachten namelijk dat stofdeeltjes en andere aerosolen in de atmosfeer het licht zouden weerkaatsen waardoor continenten en oceanen niet goed zichtbaar zouden zijn. Maar de ruimtemissies van Gemini en Apollo bewezen het tegendeel. Astronauten gebruikten gespecialiseerde camera’s om foto’s van de aarde te maken die de schoonheid en complexiteit van onze levende planeet laten zien. En nu doet deze video daar nog een schepje bovenop.
'Eerste' interstellaire planetoïde `Oumuamua is donkerrood en langwerpig
'Eerste' interstellaire planetoïde `Oumuamua is donkerrood en langwerpig
Tim Kraaijvanger
Eindelijk is er meer bekend over de eerste interstellaire planetoïde die ooit is gevonden in ons zonnestelsel. Het object werd vorige maand ontdekt met de Pan-STARRS 1-telescoop op Hawaï.
De planetoïde was midden oktober zo’n dertig miljoen kilometer van de aarde verwijderd. De snelheid bedroeg op dat moment 26 kilometer per seconde. Vooral de omloopbaan van het object viel op. Astronomen kijken namelijk naar de excentriciteit van de omloopbaan. Dat is de mate waarin een baan afwijkt van een cirkel. De baan van C/2017 U1 PANSTARRS bleek een excentriciteit van 1,2 te hebben, waardoor het een hyperbool is. Dit betekent dat het onmogelijk is dat het object om de zon draait en dus van buiten het zonnestelsel komt.
Verschillende telescopen hebben kort na de ontdekking ingezoomd op het vreemde hemellichaam, waaronder ook ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Uit deze observaties blijkt dat het object donker, roodachtig en langwerpig is. Daarnaast bestaat de interstellaire planetoïde voornamelijk uit gesteenten of metalen. Het onderzoekspaper verschijnt in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature en is hier online te lezen. Een artistieke impressie van de planetoïde is bovenaan dit artikel te zien.
Een gecombineerde foto van verschillende telescopen met in het midden onze interstellaire bezoeker: `Oumuamua.
Credit: ESO/K. Meech et al.
De planetoïde heet `Oumuamua. `Oumuamua draait iedere 7,3 uur om zijn as en daarbij wordt het object tot tien keer zo helder. Dit betekent dat de interstellaire bezoeker een ongewone vorm heeft. “Hij is ongeveer tien keer zo lang als breed”, zegt wetenschapper Karen Meech. “Daarnaast hebben we ontdekt dat het object een donkerrode kleur heeft, vergelijkbaar met de objecten in het buitengebied van ons zonnestelsel.” Waarschijnlijk is het oppervlak van `Oumuamua rood geworden door kosmische straling.
Hier is de lichtkromme van `Oumuamua goed te zien. De planetoïde bereikte vorige maand een schijnbare magnitude van 22. In vergelijking: Hydra – een klein maantje van Pluto – heeft een maximum helderheid van +22,9.
Verder blijkt uit het onderzoek dat `Oumuamua minstens 400 meter lang is. Uit baanberekeningen blijkt dat de planetoïde uit de richting van de ster Vega kwam en momenteel als een ongeleid projectiel door de Melkweg schiet. Waarschijnlijk zwierf het object al honderden miljoenen jaren alleen door ons sterrenstelsel voordat hij per toeval op ons zonnestelsel stuitte.
Wetenschappers denken dat het binnenste deel van ons zonnestelsel ieder jaar één interstellaire gast ontvangt. Vaak zijn deze objecten zo zwak, dat ze onopgemerkt het grensgebied oversteken. Dankzij een telescoop als Pan-STARRS is het eindelijk mogelijk om veel gerichter op zoek te gaan naar deze bezoekers. “Nu we weten dat we de eerste interstellaire rots hebben ontdekt, bereiden we ons voor op de volgende”, concludeert wetenschapper Olivier Hainaut van ESO.
Interstellair stof leverde mogelijk kleine aliens af in onze atmosfeer
Interstellair stof leverde mogelijk kleine aliens af in onze atmosfeer
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En op vergelijkbare wijze reizen kleine aardbewoners mogelijk as we speak naar andere planeten.
De atmosfeer van onze aarde wordt continu bekogeld door interstellair stof: snel bewegende stofdeeltjes, afkomstig uit het gebied tussen de sterren. En die stofdeeltjes kunnen biologische deeltjes hoog in de atmosfeer van de aarde wel eens het zetje geven dat zij nodig hebben om los te komen van de aarde en in de ruimte rond te gaan zweven. Tot die conclusie komt onderzoeker Arjun Berera indit nieuwe paper.
Botsing Zijn berekeningen wijzen uit dat interstellair stof een snelheid van wel 70 kilometer per seconde kan hebben. Wanneer dat stof hoog in onze atmosfeer (op zo’n 150 kilometer boven het aardoppervlak) op een deeltje botst, kan zo’n deeltje door de botsing voldoende snelheid verkrijgen om aan de zwaartekracht van de aarde te ontsnappen en in de ruimte te belanden. Uiteindelijk zou zo’n ronddolend deeltje ook andere – verre – planeten kunnen bereiken.
“HET IDEE DAT ORGANISMEN DOOR BOTSINGEN MET RUIMTESTOF ENORME AFSTANDEN TUSSEN PLANETEN ZOUDEN KUNNEN OVERBRUGGEN, ROEPT INTERESSANTE IDEEËN OP OVER HOE HET LEVEN OP EN DE ATMOSFEER VAN PLANETEN ZIJN ONTSTAAN”
Beerdiertjes Zo zouden planeten deeltjes die in hun hoge atmosfeer voorkomen, kunnen uitwisselen, aldus Berera. En niet alleen eenvoudige deeltjes: ook levensvormen. Hij wijst erop dat sommige bacteriën, planten, maar ook de robuuste beerdiertjes in de ruimte kunnen overleven. Dus het is mogelijk dat dergelijke organismen – als zij hoog in de aardse atmosfeer voorkomen – in botsing komen met het snel bewegende ruimtestof en koers zetten richting andere planeten.
Interessant “Het idee dat organismen door botsingen met ruimtestof enorme afstanden tussen planeten zouden kunnen overbruggen, roept interessante ideeën op over hoe het leven op en de atmosfeer van planeten zijn ontstaan,” aldus Berera. Hij wijst erop dat stromen snel ruimtestof in alle planetaire systemen te vinden zijn. En dus wellicht een grote rol spelen in het verspreiden van leven. Zo zou het leven op aarde ontstaan kunnen zijn doordat biologische deeltjes door ruimtestof zijn meegevoerd en in onze atmosfeer zijn beland. En op vergelijkbare wijze kunnen deeltjes uit onze atmosfeer naar andere planeten zijn gereisd.
Het is een tamelijk revolutionair idee. Het suggereert namelijk dat planetoïde-inslagen niet de enige manier zijn waarop leven van de ene naar de andere planeet kan reizen.
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NASA fotografeert een dertig meter hoge muur van ijs
NASA fotografeert een dertig meter hoge muur van ijs
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Voor wie zich even piepklein wil voelen op deze vrijdag.
Op deze prachtige foto zien we de enorme ijsberg die in juli loskwam van de Larsen C-ijsplaat. De foto is gemaakt door onderzoeker John Sonntag. Hij kiekte de ijsberg vanuit het raampje van een vliegtuig dat ingezet wordt tijdens Operation Icebridge (zie kader).
Afbeelding: NASA / John Sonntag.
Te zien is hoe de rand van de ijsberg boven het omringende water uittorent. De muur van ijs is naar schatting zo’n 30 meter hoog.
Tijdens NASA’s Operation IceBridge wordt in vliegtuigjes over de polen gevlogen om het (zee-)ijs in kaart te brengen en eventuele veranderingen (die op satellietbeelden niet of lastig te zien zijn) te detecteren. De vliegtuigjes kiezen elk jaar het luchtruim en het onderzoeksproject loopt inmiddels al negen jaar.
Hieronder zien we die muur van ijs nog eens vanuit een ander perspectief. Deze foto is gemaakt door een camera die onderaan het vliegtuigje hing. We zien hier een deel van de rand van de ijsberg die zich het dichtst bij de ijsplaat bevindt. Wat opvalt, is dat de rand wat gekarteld is. Dat komt volgens NASA doordat er blokken ijs van de rand zijn afgebroken.
Afbeelding: IceBridge Digital Mapping System.
In juli verloor de Larsen C-ijsplaat in één klap tien procent van zijn massa toen een ijsberg ter grootte van de provincie Gelderland loskwam. De ijsberg viel al spoedig in twee stukken uiteen: een heel grote ijsberg (A-68A genoemd en te zien op deze foto’s) en een wat kleinere ijsberg (A-68B). Het gebeurt regelmatig dat ijsplaten zoals Larsen-C ijsbergen kwijtraken, maar nog niet eerder zijn onderzoekers er getuige van geweest dat zo’n grote ijsberg afkalfde. Zowel de ijsbergen als de Larsen C-ijsplaat worden dan ook nauwlettend in de gaten gehouden: onderzoekers zijn heel benieuwd wat de ijsberg gaat doen en of de Larsen C-ijsplaat stabiel blijft of verder afbrokkelt.
Klimaatverandering? Is het loskomen van deze ijsberg het resultaat van klimaatverandering? Waarschijnlijk niet. Onderzoekers blijven benadrukken dat het loskomen van ijsbergen een natuurlijk proces is en er geen aanwijzingen zijn dat het loskomen van de ijsberg het resultaat is van opwarming. De ijsberg draagt ook niet direct bij aan het stijgen van de zeespiegel, omdat de Larsen C-ijsplaat waar deze deel van uitmaakte reeds op het water rustte. Indirect kan het loskomen van de ijsberg echter wel leiden tot een hogere zeespiegel. Als de Larsen C-ijsplaat door de geboorte van deze ijsberg verder afbrokkelt, zal deze steeds minder tegenwicht geven aan de gletsjers erachter, waardoor deze gemakkelijker in zee kunnen glijden en meer ijs in zee dumpen. Overigens is de zeespiegelstijging in dit doemscenario niet heel indrukwekkend: zelfs als alle gletsjers die de Larsen C-ijsplaat voeden in zee zouden verdwijnen, zou dat leiden tot een minimale zeespiegelstijging van ongeveer 1 centimeter.
A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate objects. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.
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$50,000 humanoid robot built from scratch in Hong Kong
Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamed of building his own one day.
Unlike most, however, Ma has realised his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on the balcony of his home.
The fruit of his labours of a year-and-a-half, and a budget of more than $50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modelled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programmed verbal commands spoken into a microphone.
The blue he drew on his artistic rendition of Kepler-186f was too blue—too suggestive of an exoplanet with abundant water. “Too inviting,” he says. “The public might think we discovered another Earth.”
Not quite the statement NASA wanted to send, even though Kepler-186f sure seemed like Earth—about the same size, probably rocky, and yes—possibly holding water.
“But we didn’t want to say that,” says Pyle. “We’re very careful with our messaging. We might imply something that’s not accurate.”
So the deep blue became sky blue—softer, more pastel, less definitive—and the green had to go. Green might translate as trees, flowers, grass. “People interpret green as plant life,” he says. “We try to avoid green.”
Credit: NASA / Ames / SETI Institute / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle
Exoplanet Kepler-186f, 490 light years from Earth.
Drawing that fine line between scientific precision and artistic inspiration is the daily predicament faced by Pyle and his colleague Robert Hurt at their Caltech office in Pasadena, California.
Pyle, a multimedia producer, and Hurt, a visualization scientist, collaborate to create the stunning and ethereal exoplanet images, viewed worldwide by millions via media—television, newspapers, billboards, apps, video games, and online.
“We’re sort of the Yin and Yang,” says Hurt, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy. “I come from the science side, he comes from the art side, and we speak enough of the same language to find the right balance.”
When designing a planet (with off-the-shelf software), the two invariably have little to go on; no detailed photograph of an alien exoworld exists.
But they do know the planet’s size, distance from the host star, whether it’s rocky or gaseous, and perhaps the approximate temperature. “Relatively small pieces of information,” says Hurt. “Beyond that there’s a tremendous amount of science speculation.”
Too much creative overreach, and NASA researchers let them know. “It’s rare we nail it the first time out,” says Pyle, a former visual effects animator for Nickelodeon (Invader Zim,SpongeBob SquarePants). “Almost always we get a change request.”
Often the change seems like minutiae. Just before NASA announced the discovery of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets last February, Pyle encountered an objection to one of his renderings: “It was about the shape of the icebergs. The scientists said those shapes implied an atmospheric model of rain that would not exist. So I had to come up with a different shape.”
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt
Exoplanet KELT-9b, a hot gas giant orbiting its star.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle
Artist's conception of the surface of TRAPPIST-1f.
Neither artist minds the input—and the astronomers, says Pyle, are happy to help. “I think we encountered more resistance years ago than we do now. There’s no real resistance now. Scientists understand how important public communication is.”
Indeed, one of NASA's goals with the space art is coverage—media attention. And facts alone aren’t always enough.
“The quickest way to get a press release ignored is to send it out as a bunch of words on paper, with no illustrations at all,” says Hurt.
Certainly, the lay public won’t care about the shape of icebergs; they only want to see an enchanting otherworldly image. Even so, Pyle says the process is intimidating. “When people think of those planets, they now think of our specific artwork,” he says. “A huge responsibility goes with that. Like, we better get it right.”
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt
Abstract of the TRAPPIST-1 system.
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The Buzludzha monument near Kazanluk, Bulgaria looks like a UFO that’s been decaying for centuries, but it’s actually only 36 years old.
Have little green men from outer space been taking an increased interest in our planet over the past twelve months?
UFO sightings near you." data-reactid="32" style="text-align: justify;">A new UFO Stalker map on the MUFON website – which hosts thousands upon thousands of sightings from the general public – lets you see UFO sightings near you.
recent sightings in British areas such as Lisburn in Northern Ireland and Aberdeenshire, with the site claiming that sightings are up 12% since 2016." data-reactid="33" style="text-align: justify;">The UFO Stalker map shows off recent sightings in British areas such as Lisburn in Northern Ireland and Aberdeenshire, with the site claiming that sightings are up 12% since 2016.
Earlier this year, authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa analysed sightings reported to UFO groups such as Mufon and Nuforc.
And contrary to popular myth, UFO sightings are not dying off – in fact, the opposite is true, at least in North America, where sightings rose to 11,868 nationwide in 2015 from 3,479 in 2001.
New map shows where UFOs have been spotted near you, as sightings triple
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said, ‘UFO Stalker is a brilliant visual guide to the location of UFO sightings, and shows the sheer scale of this phenomena throughout the country over the last few years.
‘For UFO researchers it can help them identify UFO hot spots, trends and patterns of activity. This is useful for those trying to establish if UFOs follow specific flightpaths, particularly for those who think UFOs are related to geomagnetic and seismic activity.
‘This theory tries to prove that UFOs, especially strange lights or luminous objects, are caused by teutonic strains in the Earth’s crust. The maps could also help show if UFOs follow so-called Ley Lines that criss-cross the planet, or if they cluster around military sites.
‘The downside of such a map is the quality of the sightings in its data base, these should be carefullyfiltered if anyone really wants to establish geomagnetic or other links with UFO activity. Clusters of sightings might for example be caused by increased media activity in an area, or a bright meteor or other mundane phenomena could also trigger a wave of UFO sightings.’
‘Nonetheless, this is a handy way of presenting UFO data and is very helpful in helping pin down the weird things seen in our skies.’
The Sherbrooke stones: Evidence of Africans visiting America 2,500 years ago?
The Sherbrooke stones: Evidence of Africans visiting America 2,500 years ago?
Located in the Museum of the Seminary of Sherbrooke are a set of mysterious stones that, according to many who have researched them, could offer conclusive evidence that neither the Vikings, nor Columbus traveled to America first, but a culture from Northern Africa, and 2,500 years ago.
The stones inscriptions allegedly tell the story of northern African explorers who traveled to the American continent some 2,500 years ago.
The stones, which are located at the museum since 1910 are believed to have been discovered in the early 19th century. One of the stones was found 100 miles east of Montreal, in a field near Bromptonville, five miles north of Sherbrooke, while the other one was discovered on a hill overlooking Sherbrooke.
So, did African explorers reach the American continent thousands of years ago?
According to the inscriptions of the two stones made of limestone, the answer is a profound yes.
The two stones are approximately 22 by 32 inches.
The man who supposedly delivered the inscriptions on the stones was Professor Thomas Lee, an archaeologist from the University of Laval.
According to a newspaper slip, Professor Lee argues the inscriptions on the stones were written in an ancient Libyan script.
“The Libyans would have been operating, in my opinion, out of Carthage, which was a Phoenician city at the time,” Professor Lee is quoted in the newspaper.
According to Professor Lee, the ancient African expedition most likely reached the area after successfully sailing up the Sint. Francis River.
The inscriptions written in stone were deciphered by Howard Barraclough Fell, a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Despite the fact that Fell’s primary professional research included starfish and sea urchins, he is best known for his controversial work in New World epigraphy, arguing that various inscriptions in the Americas are best explained by extensive pre-Columbian contact with Old World civilizations.
Professor Fell’s work was—unsurprisingly—rejected by most mainstream scholars who firmly reject the notion that African explorers arrived in the American continent around 2,500 years ago.
According to Fell’s translation of the stones, they read: “Expedition that crossed in the service of Lord Hiram to conquer territory.” While the other of the pair discovered together bears the inscription: “Record by Hata, who attained this limit on the river, moored his ship and engraved this rock.”
Researchers argue that the text carved on the stone is called Boustrophedon, in which “you read the first line left to right and the next line right to left.”
Professor Fell is quoted saying that “barabarous lands at the end of the world” is probably a description of the Americas. Fell argues that the people who left the stones behind most likely made two more expeditions, one towards the Yucatan Peninsula. Professor Fell is quoted in the newspaper saying: One stone found there “gives the area its name”.
Evidence of trans-oceanic voyages?
Interestingly, there are many ‘controversial’ pieces of evidence that suggest ancient cultures from America and Africa were interconnected, thousands of years ago.
For example, it is well known that a researcher called Dr. Svetla Balabanova discovered traces of Coca and Tobacco in ancient Egyptian mummies. Curiously, there is no evidence of coca or tobacco cultivation in Africa, Europe or Asia before the time of Christopher Columbus.
The Fawn Hood Mummy
Another curious discovery was made some 200 years ago when miners discovered a strange mummy in one of the largest cave systems in America: The Mammoth Cave. Inside it, miners found an extremely well-preserved mummy with red hair prepared and embalmed in an eerily similar way as the ancient Egyptians. After examining the mummy in the late 1800’s, the Smithsonian Institute ‘lost’ the mummy.
Take 2 minutes to watch this stunning NASA timelapse showing sea salt, dust, and smoke flowing around Earth during 2017’s active hurricane season.
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see the currents in our atmosphere. This way-cool visualization, by the NASA Goddard Media Studios, follows sea salt, dust, and smoke from July 31 to November 1, 2017, showing how these particles are transported across the globe. Check out the hurricanes!
This visualization is a result of combining NASA satellite data with sophisticated mathematical models that describe the underlying physical processes.
UFO hunter who 'found alien buildings on Mercury' says 'Men in Black' tried to silence him
UFO hunter who 'found alien buildings on Mercury' says 'Men in Black' tried to silence him
A UFO hunter behind one of the most popular conspiracy theory websites has made astonishing allegations so-called "Men in Black" have been trying to take him offline, in a bid to quash the "evidence of alien life" he claims to produce.
Scott C Waring made the staggering claim in an article on his conspiracy theory website ufosightingsdaily.com which also claim to reveal evidence of alien buildings on the surface of Mercury.
The Men in Black myth began in the 1950s, when some UFO witnesses across the US, who spoke out about their sightings, claimed to be visited by shadowy anonymous Government officials dressed in black suits and dark sunglasses, who warned them to stay quiet or something bad might happen.
The conspiracy theory emerged against the backdrop of claims the government is involved in a major cover up over the existence of aliens, because it fears public knowledge of this would lead to the breakdown of religion and the rule of law.
Mr Waring claimed in a post the US government had teamed up with search engines to try and cause harm to his website, suggesting he may have been hacked.
In the post entitled "Site Is Being Attacked By US Gov To Stop The Public From Viewing This Evidence," he said: "For some time I have had this site taken offline due to Google working with the US government to hide certain information from the public.
MEN IN BLACK: UFO hunter Scott C Waring claims his website has been hacked.
"Some people are reporting spam warnings, others are reporting 404 errors.
"There is no way in hell that this will stop me from doing what I do.
"So, to Google and the US Government, I say get the f**k out of my way and off my site!
"I am sick and tired of all the reports and warnings I have been getting."
Getty*Scott C Waring
He used the same post to announce the discovery of what he claimed was evidence of alienbuildings on the surface of Mercury that he found in NASA space probe images taken from above.
Mr Waring said: "Below are close up structures on planet Mercury.
"As you see they are deep under the surface and reach above the surface.
"The difference in lighting tells you these objects are there. Any professional photographer could tell you this.
NASA
ALIEN HOMES? For some reason Scott C waring feels these look like buildings on Mercury.
For some time I have had this site taken offline due to Google working with the US government to hide certain information from the public.
Scott C Waring
"Yet, the public has been programmed since birth to believe that aliens don't exist, that NASA tells them all the truth.
"I am here to say they are lying to you all. Take a look for yourselves."
This is despite temperatures on Mercury reaching a blazing 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celcius) by day, and a freezing -290 degrees Farenheit (-180 degrees Celcius) at night due to outs lack of atmosphere.
Mr Waring has made a series of outlandish claims about finding evidence on planets in the solar system, mainly Mars.
There, he claims to have seen in NASA images evidence of a menagerie of earth-like animals, fossils, ruined buildings, and even live alien beings.
Sceptical debunkers say these are the result of pareidolia, a phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or faces in patters like clouds or the surface of a rock, combined with Mr Waring's over active imagination.
NASA denies yet finding any evidence of even the most simplistic forms of life in our solar system.
The US government claims to have no interest in UFO3s and denies frustrating the work of alien truth seekers.
BOOK REVIEW: Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers by Jacques Vallee (Daily Grail Publishing) 2014/ 1969
Having further familiarized myself with the 50-plus year old writings of John A. Keel these past few months, finally getting down and reading long-loved cult classics like Operation Trojan Horse (1970) and The Mothman Prophecies (1975), the repeated references to the works of French-American scientist and ufologist Jacques Vallee – a contemporary, and friend, of the late John A. Keel – finally convinced me that Vallee’s own classic, Passport to Magonia, was required reading.
Why? Because Keel, in his entertaining and entirely readable way, helped pull away the masks of the manipulative pranksters (“ultraterrestrials”) of the Superspectrum, essentially reporting that these entities have taken on different guises over the millennia –and that they have always shared our planet, despite humanity not knowing who they really are or where they live.
They are here. It’s just they are the ones who decide when they appear before human beings and in what form. Most commonly, in the Middle Ages, they were seen as the fairies and elves of ancient folklore, and so forth.
But with time came change and the “costumes” and methods also changed, as we entered the age of the airplane and the “Space Age,” with the increased appearance of “craft,” allegedly piloted by “aliens” who are here to help mankind and steer us to a New Age, or so we are told.
And so it is interesting how both Keel and Vallee both tapped into the idea that took them from believing the extraterrestrial angle regarding aliens and UFOs to promoting the interdimensional idea, which dismisses the theory that the "visitors" are travelers from another planet.
On the day I began reading Passport to Magonia (Nov. 16th), I later learned that I was reading the book on the 40th anniversary of the release of the Steven Spielberg-directed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In this film, a French scientist character named Lacombe (played by Francois Truffaut) was directly inspired by Vallee.
In any event, Passport to Magonia ("Magonia" being a mythological "cloud realm" populated by the entities so often encountered during modern cases of UFO sightings or in antiquity) highlights the idea, as Vallee writes in the preface, that "investigators (into UFOs) have never recognized the fact that belief identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer's country, race, and social regime."
Vallee also admits that when he wrote the manuscript for Passport to Magonia in the late 1960's, he "entirely forgot that I was a scientist by profession," confessing that he felt science was not pursuing questions that human beings have in their hearts. And as a scientist, he opted to delve into the lengthy history of folklore, from around the world, and in Europe and the Americas in particular, noting the large number of strange beings, aerial craft ("cloudships") and other odd events that perplexed man and woman alike over the centuries.
And what better way to interfere with the destiny of human beings as we become more technologically advanced. The forces that are appearing in various forms (short beings, tall beings, male or female, with masks, gas masks, helmets, long hair, no hair, big eyes, small eyes, mouth movement or telepathy ...) over the years seem to understand that, as Vallee writes, "(h)uman actions are based on imagination, belief, and faith, not on objective observation ..." Yes, we are human and fallible.
Continuing, Vallee writes: "Even science, which claims its methods and theories are rationally developed, is really shaped by emotion and fancy, or by fear. And to control human imagination is to shape mankind's collective destiny, provided the source of this control is not identifiable by the public." Indeed!
From the fairies, "wee folk" "Gentry," "Good People," and dwarves that haunted to European countryside to today's seemingly solid "flying saucers," Vallee makes valid arguments that the phenomenon, over the centuries, are one and the same, as the book's cover seems to indicate.
But the cases are utterly fascinating - and shocking! Some involve pleasurable sex with alien women, as in the case of Brazlian famer Antonio Villas-Boas, back in 1957.
And going back to 17th century Scotland and the research of a Reverend Kirk, of Aberfoyle, he wrote a manuscript at the time titled The Secret Commonwealth of the Elves, Fauns and Fairies. Kirk offered up 16 bullet points about these "Elementals" who have "chameleon-like bodies" and have "fluid" bodies that allow them to appear and vanish at will. Sounds like many of the latter-day UFO sightings from folks who say they saw a craft one second and the next second it was gone.
The strange 1896-97 airship scare was particularly baffling, with Vallee recounting the case of a train engineer working near Texarkana, Arkansas (near Homan in Miller County) and while out hunting in May 1897, encountered an "airship" and a pilot, with whom he conversed. Was this a human? Was it something else? People all over the country, particularly in the middle of the country, were seeing these airships.
So, what happened to the First Fourth Norfolk, a British regiment fighting in what is now western Turkey in 1915? These men marched into a strange cloud at ground level and hundreds of British soldiers "disappeared" as the cloud lifted and the soldiers had vanished. The Turks told the British government they did not have these men as prisoners of war, not even knowing of their existence.
Then there is the curous case of Private First Class Gerry Irwin, a Nike nuclear missile technician stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, near El Paso. On Feb. 28, 1959, Irwin was driving between Nampa, Idaho and Fort Bliss when passing near Cedar City, Utah, he thought he saw a plane crash nearby. Going to investigate, Irwin would lose track of time and later be found unconscious.
Irwin was soon hospitalized and was found to be in decent health, and later discharged from the hospital at Fort Bliss. But life would not be the same for Irwin, as Vallee tells us the doomed man fell unconscious on an El Paso street and later felt compelled to take a bus to Cedar City, where the initial event had taken place, and find his jacket, which was still on a bush where he had left it.
Writes Vallee: "There was a pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. He took the paer and burned it. Then he seemed to come out of a trance." Irwin was perplexed as to why he was back in Utah. More psychological examinations were ordered, but by summer, it seemed Irwin had other plans, as he would soon disappear.
"On August 1," writes Vallee, "(Irwin) failed to report for duty. One month later he was listed as a deserter. He was never seen again."
Where did Private Irwin go? Is this the whole story?
It seems as though the entities that are bedeviling humanity seem to have a particular interest in folks serving in the military. And the Irwin case, we must note, took place during those early, volatile years of the Cold War, when nuclear war was considered a real threat.
And while Passport to Magonia is only 160 pages or so, there is a lengthy appendix to go over, followed by Vallee's collection of "UFO landings" over a century's time, from 1868 to 1968. One of the more interesting cases - and there are many! - were on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3, 1965 here in Oklahoma City. On Aug 2, "five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground int he 600 block of NW 63rd Street, which, even today, is an open area with railroad tracks crossing it. The following day, on Aug. 3rd, "a young man saw an object rise from (Lake Hefner)." The distance between the two locations is several miles.
Passport to Magonia has earned its rightful place as an essential tome covering the more occult and folkloric angles in these ongoing mysteries that continue to perplex us to this day.
Unencumbered by a physical body and its many vital needs for survival such as oxygen, can souls or ghosts travel, apart from the seven astral worlds, to other planets? Can a soul be reborn on another planet? The UK Mirror recently carried a fascinating article headlined : “ ‘Genius’ Russian boy can remember previous life on Mars in astounding detail”. Steve Robson wrote that “…The curious case of Boriska Kipriyanovich, now aged 20, continues to startle experts… From an early age, he began telling experts about his previous life on Mars. Boris believes he lived among an alien civilisation that was ravaged by war and then a nuclear catastrophe. The Martians were seven feet tall and breathed carbon dioxide, he said.
“He claims he was a Martian pilot and travelled to earth where he was “reborn” in 1996.The human race has much more knowledge to unlock, and the Great Sphinx in Egypt holds the key, he says. “The human life will change when the Sphinx is opened, it has an opening mechanism somewhere behind the ear; I do not remember exactly,” claims Boriska… Boriska is said to have displayed much higher than average intelligence from young age and was reading, writing and speaking by just 18 months.”
Over the years, three different categories of “explanations” have covered strange happenings: supernatural or paranormal, the time-warp theory, and extraterrestrial. Does the case of Boriska Kipriyanovich fall in the extraterrestrial category or does it fall somewhere in between the paranormal—since it was a non-earthling born on earth—and the extraterrestrial categories? Incidentally, when I was travelling through remote villages in the Garhwal Himalayas, a village woman had narrated in minute detail a very interesting encounter with an alien who had a green skin. Curiously, a few months after this encounter she gave birth to a queer looking baby with green skin. News of the happening spread fast even from such a remote area and photographs of the “green baby” were taken but unfortunately, the baby died before it could be “scientifically” examined. However, after hearing the accounts scientists dismissed them as those of “gullible” people.
Yet significantly, the majority of worldwide sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs and often their occupants have not come from illiterate, gullible people or people of unsound mind or prone to hallucinations. Many unimpeachable accounts of sightings are on record. Jimmy Carter, the former US President was quoted by the “National Enquirer” as saying, “I am convinced that UFO’s exist because I’ve seen one… It was a very peculiar aberration but about 20 people saw it… It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big; it was very bright; it changed colours; and it was about the size of the moon…”
I for one would much rather believe documented accounts by such personalities of repute and many others like Nicholas Roerich, the famous Russian painter with such close connections with India, Sir Francis Chichester, the well known flier, sailor and navigator, than what scientists would have one believe. One of the most fascinating sightings of UFO occupants took place in Brazil. Jose C. Higgins, a member of a survey crew, was left to face three alien entities after other crew members fled. “One of them”, said Higgins, “used a stick to make eight holes in the ground that suggested a solar system with seven planets. The entity pointed to the outer one as being their home and called it Torque…”, later interpreted by UFO enthusiasts to denote that they came from Uranus.
The majority of scientists, including the well-known astronomer and writer Carl Sagan have been skeptical about UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrial beings. After all, they argue, it would require not only highly advanced technology to conquer time and space and travel to earth but a high level of not just intelligence but evolution and development as well. In any case, why would such advanced beings want to visit us—clearly primitive by comparison—on earth? Even if they do so and travel at the speed of light—186,000 miles per second—it would take several hundred or thousand years in planetary time to visit us and return to their planet.
Now, as to why they would want to visit us, who are we to decide on their reasons? On earth, don’t so called “advanced” people visit so called “primitive” tribes or communities, often spending long periods with them documenting their way of life? Talk of several hundred or thousand years in planetary time is no doubt based on presently known “scientific” calculations, but we all know that time is relative. Moreover, nobody has been able to measure the speed at which our thoughts or mind travels. In less than a second, your mind can be in London, New York, Tokyo, etc. etc, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, etc., etc.
Of course, the mind is not a metallic spaceship but then the scientists are assuming that interstellar travellers, if they exist, must have conquered time and space. To illustrate a point, remember that ancient time—mythical or otherwise—when Icarus tried to fly with wings of wax? The human race at that point would have been astounded to hear about the supersonic Concorde. Yet the supersonic possibility existed even then, has existed all along, but the means to recognise it and harness it was not known.
Similarly, spirit guides and reliable personal accounts—too long to enumerate here—have confirmed that it is possible though not commonplace for certain souls to travel to other planets. It is known that souls and ghosts can cross time and space in a jiffy but for most people a lot still remains in the realm of the unknown. In fact, who really knows how many unrecognised and unharnessed possibilities exist upon earth, in the universe and beyond? An excerpt from the Song of Creation is particularly thought provoking in this context: “Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence this creation comes? / The gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows, then, whence it first came into being?/ He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, / Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.”
Open Minds UFO Radio: Dr. Robert Davis, an internationally recognized scientist, graduated with a PhD in sensory neurosciences from Ohio State University and served as a professor for over thirty years. He has published over forty articles in scholarly journals and lectured at national and international conferences. His research into the UFO phenomenon convinced him that the phenomenon remains unresolved, is a source of considerable debate among millions worldwide, and is a very important concern unfortunately ignored by mainstream science. Dr. Davis serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Research Team of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE). The FREE was established to provide a scientific exploration of the relationship between advanced physics and the UFO phenomenon.
Dr. Davis has written a book on the UFO phenomenon, entitled The UFO Phenomenon: Should I Believe?. His latest book: Life after Death: An Analysis of the Evidence, by Schiffer Publishing was recently released. In this episode we discuss FREE’s latest findings and the connection between abduction research, life after death and all of the phenomena in-between.
The Sibiu Manuscript—a 500-year-old text that describes multi-stage rockets
The Sibiu Manuscript—a 500-year-old text that describes multi-stage rockets
The Sibiu manuscript discovered in 1961, is a collection of around 450 pages that include among many other things, three-stage rockets and manned rocket flight.
Most of us are unaware of the fact that there are countless ancient manuscripts scattered across the globe, describing what many consider as improbable achievements of the past.
What would you say If I told you that there is an ancient manuscript that dates back nearly 500 years, and describes liquid fuel, multi-stage rockets, and even manned rockets?
You’d either say I’m crazy, or it’s just fake news.
*Have you noticed how people these days call out as fake news anything that they find hard to believe or goes against their belief system?
Anyway, the Sibiu manuscript is real, it’s not fake news, and it does, in fact, describe—among other things— liquid fuel and multi-stage rockets, and it was officially published in the 16th century, although many believe it was written using texts that go back further in time.
The Sibiu Manuscript was found in 1961 by Doru Todericiu, a professor of Science and Technology at the University of Bucharest. The manuscript contained around 450 pages which were recovered from the archives of the city of Sibiu, in Romania.
To the surprise of Todericiu, the ancient text was flooded with drawings and technical data on artillery, ballistics and detailed descriptions of multistage rockets.
Referred to as the Sibiu manuscript ever since, the ancient text is believed to have been written by a man called Conrad Haas, between 1550 and 1570.
Conrad Haas is believed to have been a military engineer who worked for the Kingdom of Hungary and the Principality of Transylvania.
The ancient manuscript origins aren’t very clear, nor are the origins of its author who according to historians is believed to have been born in either Austrian or Transylvania and became the head of the arsenal of the Austrian Empire under King Ferdinand I.
Description of a rocket by Conrad Haas.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Sibiu manuscript, written entirely in German, was found to be a theoretical treatise on the construction of different types of weapons, including—for the first time in history—multistage rocket technology. It also includes details on the combination of fireworks with weapons, the design of fins in the shape of a hang glider as well as the creation of fuel mixtures with the use of liquid fuel.
It remains a mystery whether or not Haas managed to use his designs and put into practice, but there are some who claim that a rocket launch was carried out in Sibiu in 1550, but there is no documentary evidence to support these claims.
We do know from history that Johann Schmidlap, a 16th-century Bavarian fireworks maker, and rocket pioneer, was the first to experiment with two-stage and three-stage rockets around 1590.
Before the discovery of the Sibiu manuscript, the earliest details of a three-stage rocket was attributed to Kazimierz Siemienowicz, a Polish specialist in artillery, who published details about rocketry in his 1650 treatise Artis Magnae Artilleriae Pars Prima.
Conrad Haas wrote down a few interesting sentences in his manuscript in which he talks about the military use of rockets (translated):
“But my advice is for more peace and no war, leaving the rifles calmly in storage, so the bullet is not fired, the gunpowder is not burned or wet, so the prince keeps his money, the arsenal master his life; that is the advice Conrad Haas gives.”
Mysterious ISS Footage: Are Space Agencies Hiding Proof of Alien Life? (VIDEO)
When one of the crew at the International Space Station (ISS) captured footage of a mysterious object entering the Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists quickly concluded that it was footage of a UFO, despite claims by the European Space Agency’s that the object is just a meteor.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured the clip, which shows a ball of light approaching the Earth's atmosphere, November 5.
Tyler Glockner, who runs the alien hunting YouTube Channel SecureTeam10, is convinced that the strange sighting is further proof the government is covering up the existence of aliens.
In a video uploaded to the SecureTeam10 channel, Glockner says, "I don't think it's a meteorite at all."
"You're seeing the Earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space. It does look to be moving at 85,000 miles per hour. But when you account how fast the Earth would have actually been moving, had this not been sped up, it would have been moving much, much slower."
In a statement released by the European Space Agency on November 16, researchers at the agency describe the object as a fireball.
"A fireball is basically a very bright meteoroid — a small bit of natural ‘space rock' — entering Earth's atmosphere and burning brighter than the background stars. This particular meteoroid was moving much faster than typical, with an estimated speed of about 85,000 miles per hour," the statement states.
SecureTeam10 is also suspicious about how fast the European Space Agency released a statement regarding the sighting.
"They've never jumped on a story so fast," Glockner said.
"Why are they claiming it to be a meteor if they aren't sure? Why aren't they going to the suspected location where this is meant to be falling, and recover it? Why does it look nothing like a meteor? Why are they only giving us the sped-up time lapse version and pretending it's just normal speed?" Glockner asks.
In his video, the YouTuber also compares the photo to one of a meteor taken during the 2011 Perseid meteor shower.
"If you compare this to what they are calling a meteor in this new footage, at no time does this so-called meteor look like anything that was captured back in 2011 — it just doesn't," Glocker explained.
Mysterieuze beelden ISS. Verdoezelen ruimteagentschappen bewijs van buitenaards leven?
Mysterieuze beelden ISS. Verdoezelen ruimteagentschappen bewijs van buitenaards leven?
Toen een bemanningslid van het internationale ruimtestation ISS een mysterieus object vastlegde dat de dampkring van de aarde binnenkwam, concludeerden complottheoretici dat het om beelden van een UFO ging.
Het Europese ruimteagentschap ESA claimt dat het object een meteoor is.
De Italiaanse astronaut Paolo Nespoli legde op 5 november een lichtbol vast die de atmosfeer van de aarde naderde.
Verdoezelt
Tyler Glockner van YouTube-kanaal SecureTeam10 is ervan overtuigd dat de vreemde waarneming bewijst dat de overheid het bestaan van buitenaards leven verdoezelt, schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
“Ik denk dat het helemaal geen meteoriet is,” zegt hij in een video.
In een verklaring schrijft de ESA dat het object volgens onderzoekers van de ruimtevaartorganisatie een vuurbal is.
Zo snel
“Een vuurbal is in feite een zeer heldere meteoroïde – een klein stuk ruimterots – die de atmosfeer van de aarde binnengaat en helderder is dan de sterren,” klonk het.
“Deze specifieke meteoroïde bewoog zich voort met een snelheid van zo’n 136.000 kilometer per uur,” aldus de ESA.
SecureTeam10 vindt het ook verdacht dat het ruimteagentschap al zo snel na de sighting met een verklaring kwam. “Ze hebben nog nooit zo snel op een bericht gereageerd.”
Versnelde beelden
“Waarom claimen ze dat het een meteoor is terwijl ze het niet zeker weten?” vraagt Glockner. “Waarom gaan ze niet naar de locatie waar het object is neergekomen?”
“Waarom lijkt het in niets op een meteoor? Waarom laten ze ons versnelde beelden zien en doen ze alsof ze op de normale snelheid worden afgespeeld?” vervolgt hij.
Hij toont een foto van een meteoor die in 2011 is gemaakt tijdens de Perseïden-meteorenzwerm en concludeert dat het object dat bij het ISS is vastgelegd er heel anders uitziet.
Deer Hunter caught bright spheres above and beams of light below cloud over the Missouri River, US
Deer Hunter caught bright spheres above and beams of light below cloud over the Missouri River, US
A quality inspector for Boeing who has worked before on or near fighter jets since 1980 received an image from his friend showing a strange phenomenon in the sky during sun set on November 20, 2017. The image was so intriguing he felt compelled to post it to MUFON case 88249 to see if anyone else witnessed the objects.
His friend and another guy were making their way back to the boat ramp after a day of deer hunting along the Missouri River; the sun had set approximately 15 minutes earlier, when they noticed a strange group of lights above the clouds and beams of light reflecting off the river.
Although the event only lasted seconds and was gone, his friend managed to take a picture of the phenomenon.
Quality inspector: “This may be just a very cool sun dog-type reflection, but I was having a hard time explaining the chevron shaped group of lights above the cloud, and the 'way too evenly spaced' beams of light coming off what appears to be the sun shining down from the cloud.”
“Looking at the bottom of the clouds in the picture you can tell that the sun is reflecting off the bottom of the cloud and the beams are apparently reflecting off the river.”
NASA’S ‘VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORDS’ ARE GETTING AN OFFICIAL RELEASE
NASA’S ‘VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORDS’ ARE GETTING AN OFFICIAL RELEASE
The records were blasted into space with the hope of being discovered by aliens in the 70s
PATRICK HINTON
In 1977, NASA and Carl Sagan sent a collection of golden vinyl records containing the sounds of humanity such as greetings in over 50 languages and classical masterpieces from Bach and Mozart with detailed playing instructions into space in search of extraterrestrial life.
Last year a Kickstarter campaign was launched by David Pescovitz of Boing Boing to raise the funds to release copies of Carl Sagan and NASA’s ‘Voyager Golden Records’ upon the 40 year anniversary of the project.
The crowdfund has been successful, and now ‘The Voyager Golden Record’ is coming out via OZMA Records on CD on December 1, with an extensive 3 LP box set following in February.
Pre-order it via Light In The Attic and stream the various recordings of life on earth NASA included on the original vinyl below.
Patrick Hinton is Mixmag's Digital Staff Writer, follow him on Twitter
STORIES OF THE WEEK
The Londoner talks to us about her burgeoning popularity, Rinse FM and social media
Ever since we discovered other planets in the universe, we have wondered if life exists there. One of the most popular manifestations of this wondering is the sighting of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which have become synonymous with alien sightings.
Many creative minds, including those in Hollywood, have imagined these UFOs as saucer shaped, glowing discs that unleash super-intelligent, extra-terrestrial mayhem on Earth, usually New York City.
The number of these UFO sightings has increased drastically over the years, and now a “UFO Stalker,” based on MUFON Case Management System, shows that this year alone a whopping 83,715 UFO sightings have been recorded.
UFO Stalker website says that there has been a 12 percent climb in the number of sightings reported this year from that in 2016.
The website has a map that shows all the areas in the U.S. and the rest of the world where UFO sightings have been reported by people.
The website allows users to view an interactive map where pictures of UFO’s are strewn across the world, which when clicked, reveal the date, time and type of sighting, with several users describing their sightings in great details.
According to the map, the U.S. has reported an approximate 30 sightings this month, with a huge concentration of sightings near the boroughs of New York City.
In November alone, the numbers went up 28 percent from the number of sightings in October.
One of the sightings made on Nov. 21, 2017, in Kingsley, Pennsylvania, is described in great detail in a post by an observer who was not named.
“I was laying down watching tv when I heard this ‘thump thump’ and a whirring buzzing sound and I got up to look out my window when I saw a white almost glowing object flying almost straight up into the sky and another object sitting still next to it I was unsure the still object was craft and not a star or something when it started flickering I went to take a video on my phone and took the picture on accident then when I switched to video my phone went dead. at this point when I looked up to continue observing the object there was only the mobile one left in the sky as it flew over my house."
"I then them on my slippers and ran outside and watched it fly over. I turned my head, I saw another identical craft to the one I was watching when it turned direction and appeared to then go downward. by the time they were done it almost looked like exhaust trails or something ,I’m not sure but same as in the picture and that was all that was left after a few minutes and there cris crossing pattern in the sky above me,” one of the sighting reports on the website added.
Major cities also show a much higher number of sightings, which can be chalked up to a higher awareness and a higher internet affinity.
This is evident in countries like India where only big cities recorded sightings compared to under-developed areas.
Ufologists explained the increase in sightings to test flights of secret military aircraft or natural flashes, and they also have said time and again that internet has a key role in the growth of UFO sighting reports during the last couple of years.
Most of the sightings also seem to be concentrated toward coastal areas across the world, with a majority of sightings clustered around water bodies.
The Great Lakes region of North America also shows a high number of UFO sighting reports.
NASA’S ‘VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORDS’ ARE GETTING AN OFFICIAL RELEASE
NASA’S ‘VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORDS’ ARE GETTING AN OFFICIAL RELEASE
The records were blasted into space with the hope of being discovered by aliens in the 70s
PATRICK HINTON
In 1977, NASA and Carl Sagan sent a collection of golden vinyl records containing the sounds of humanity such as greetings in over 50 languages and classical masterpieces from Bach and Mozart with detailed playing instructions into space in search of extraterrestrial life.
Last year a Kickstarter campaign was launched by David Pescovitz of Boing Boing to raise the funds to release copies of Carl Sagan and NASA’s ‘Voyager Golden Records’ upon the 40 year anniversary of the project.
The crowdfund has been successful, and now ‘The Voyager Golden Record’ is coming out via OZMA Records on CD on December 1, with an extensive 3 LP box set following in February.
Pre-order it via Light In The Attic and stream the various recordings of life on earth NASA included on the original vinyl below.
Patrick Hinton is Mixmag's Digital Staff Writer, follow him on Twitter
BOOK REVIEW: Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers by Jacques Vallee (Daily Grail Publishing) 2014/ 1969
Having further familiarized myself with the 50-plus year old writings of John A. Keel these past few months, finally getting down and reading long-loved cult classics like Operation Trojan Horse (1970) and The Mothman Prophecies (1975), the repeated references to the works of French-American scientist and ufologist Jacques Vallee – a contemporary, and friend, of the late John A. Keel – finally convinced me that Vallee’s own classic, Passport to Magonia, was required reading.
Why? Because Keel, in his entertaining and entirely readable way, helped pull away the masks of the manipulative pranksters (“ultraterrestrials”) of the Superspectrum, essentially reporting that these entities have taken on different guises over the millennia –and that they have always shared our planet, despite humanity not knowing who they really are or where they live.
They are here. It’s just they are the ones who decide when they appear before human beings and in what form. Most commonly, in the Middle Ages, they were seen as the fairies and elves of ancient folklore, and so forth.
But with time came change and the “costumes” and methods also changed, as we entered the age of the airplane and the “Space Age,” with the increased appearance of “craft,” allegedly piloted by “aliens” who are here to help mankind and steer us to a New Age, or so we are told.
And so it is interesting how both Keel and Vallee both tapped into the idea that took them from believing the extraterrestrial angle regarding aliens and UFOs to promoting the interdimensional idea, which dismisses the theory that the "visitors" are travelers from another planet.
On the day I began reading Passport to Magonia (Nov. 16th), I later learned that I was reading the book on the 40th anniversary of the release of the Steven Spielberg-directed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In this film, a French scientist character named Lacombe (played by Francois Truffaut) was directly inspired by Vallee.
In any event, Passport to Magonia ("Magonia" being a mythological "cloud realm" populated by the entities so often encountered during modern cases of UFO sightings or in antiquity) highlights the idea, as Vallee writes in the preface, that "investigators (into UFOs) have never recognized the fact that belief identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer's country, race, and social regime."
Vallee also admits that when he wrote the manuscript for Passport to Magonia in the late 1960's, he "entirely forgot that I was a scientist by profession," confessing that he felt science was not pursuing questions that human beings have in their hearts. And as a scientist, he opted to delve into the lengthy history of folklore, from around the world, and in Europe and the Americas in particular, noting the large number of strange beings, aerial craft ("cloudships") and other odd events that perplexed man and woman alike over the centuries.
And what better way to interfere with the destiny of human beings as we become more technologically advanced. The forces that are appearing in various forms (short beings, tall beings, male or female, with masks, gas masks, helmets, long hair, no hair, big eyes, small eyes, mouth movement or telepathy ...) over the years seem to understand that, as Vallee writes, "(h)uman actions are based on imagination, belief, and faith, not on objective observation ..." Yes, we are human and fallible.
Continuing, Vallee writes: "Even science, which claims its methods and theories are rationally developed, is really shaped by emotion and fancy, or by fear. And to control human imagination is to shape mankind's collective destiny, provided the source of this control is not identifiable by the public." Indeed!
From the fairies, "wee folk" "Gentry," "Good People," and dwarves that haunted to European countryside to today's seemingly solid "flying saucers," Vallee makes valid arguments that the phenomenon, over the centuries, are one and the same, as the book's cover seems to indicate.
But the cases are utterly fascinating - and shocking! Some involve pleasurable sex with alien women, as in the case of Brazlian famer Antonio Villas-Boas, back in 1957.
And going back to 17th century Scotland and the research of a Reverend Kirk, of Aberfoyle, he wrote a manuscript at the time titled The Secret Commonwealth of the Elves, Fauns and Fairies. Kirk offered up 16 bullet points about these "Elementals" who have "chameleon-like bodies" and have "fluid" bodies that allow them to appear and vanish at will. Sounds like many of the latter-day UFO sightings from folks who say they saw a craft one second and the next second it was gone.
The strange 1896-97 airship scare was particularly baffling, with Vallee recounting the case of a train engineer working near Texarkana, Arkansas (near Homan in Miller County) and while out hunting in May 1897, encountered an "airship" and a pilot, with whom he conversed. Was this a human? Was it something else? People all over the country, particularly in the middle of the country, were seeing these airships.
So, what happened to the First Fourth Norfolk, a British regiment fighting in what is now western Turkey in 1915? These men marched into a strange cloud at ground level and hundreds of British soldiers "disappeared" as the cloud lifted and the soldiers had vanished. The Turks told the British government they did not have these men as prisoners of war, not even knowing of their existence.
Then there is the curous case of Private First Class Gerry Irwin, a Nike nuclear missile technician stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, near El Paso. On Feb. 28, 1959, Irwin was driving between Nampa, Idaho and Fort Bliss when passing near Cedar City, Utah, he thought he saw a plane crash nearby. Going to investigate, Irwin would lose track of time and later be found unconscious.
Irwin was soon hospitalized and was found to be in decent health, and later discharged from the hospital at Fort Bliss. But life would not be the same for Irwin, as Vallee tells us the doomed man fell unconscious on an El Paso street and later felt compelled to take a bus to Cedar City, where the initial event had taken place, and find his jacket, which was still on a bush where he had left it.
Writes Vallee: "There was a pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. He took the paer and burned it. Then he seemed to come out of a trance." Irwin was perplexed as to why he was back in Utah. More psychological examinations were ordered, but by summer, it seemed Irwin had other plans, as he would soon disappear.
"On August 1," writes Vallee, "(Irwin) failed to report for duty. One month later he was listed as a deserter. He was never seen again."
Where did Private Irwin go? Is this the whole story?
It seems as though the entities that are bedeviling humanity seem to have a particular interest in folks serving in the military. And the Irwin case, we must note, took place during those early, volatile years of the Cold War, when nuclear war was considered a real threat.
And while Passport to Magonia is only 160 pages or so, there is a lengthy appendix to go over, followed by Vallee's collection of "UFO landings" over a century's time, from 1868 to 1968. One of the more interesting cases - and there are many! - were on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3, 1965 here in Oklahoma City. On Aug 2, "five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground int he 600 block of NW 63rd Street, which, even today, is an open area with railroad tracks crossing it. The following day, on Aug. 3rd, "a young man saw an object rise from (Lake Hefner)." The distance between the two locations is several miles.
Passport to Magonia has earned its rightful place as an essential tome covering the more occult and folkloric angles in these ongoing mysteries that continue to perplex us to this day.
Unencumbered by a physical body and its many vital needs for survival such as oxygen, can souls or ghosts travel, apart from the seven astral worlds, to other planets? Can a soul be reborn on another planet? The UK Mirror recently carried a fascinating article headlined : “ ‘Genius’ Russian boy can remember previous life on Mars in astounding detail”. Steve Robson wrote that “…The curious case of Boriska Kipriyanovich, now aged 20, continues to startle experts… From an early age, he began telling experts about his previous life on Mars. Boris believes he lived among an alien civilisation that was ravaged by war and then a nuclear catastrophe. The Martians were seven feet tall and breathed carbon dioxide, he said. “He claims he was a Martian pilot and travelled to earth where he was “reborn” in 1996.The human race has much more knowledge to unlock, and the Great Sphinx in Egypt holds the key, he says. “The human life will change when the Sphinx is opened, it has an opening mechanism somewhere behind the ear; I do not remember exactly,” claims Boriska… Boriska is said to have displayed much higher than average intelligence from young age and was reading, writing and speaking by just 18 months.”
Over the years, three different categories of “explanations” have covered strange happenings: supernatural or paranormal, the time-warp theory, and extraterrestrial. Does the case of Boriska Kipriyanovich fall in the extraterrestrial category or does it fall somewhere in between the paranormal—since it was a non-earthling born on earth—and the extraterrestrial categories? Incidentally, when I was travelling through remote villages in the Garhwal Himalayas, a village woman had narrated in minute detail a very interesting encounter with an alien who had a green skin. Curiously, a few months after this encounter she gave birth to a queer looking baby with green skin. News of the happening spread fast even from such a remote area and photographs of the “green baby” were taken but unfortunately, the baby died before it could be “scientifically” examined. However, after hearing the accounts scientists dismissed them as those of “gullible” people.
Yet significantly, the majority of worldwide sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs and often their occupants have not come from illiterate, gullible people or people of unsound mind or prone to hallucinations. Many unimpeachable accounts of sightings are on record. Jimmy Carter, the former US President was quoted by the “National Enquirer” as saying, “I am convinced that UFO’s exist because I’ve seen one… It was a very peculiar aberration but about 20 people saw it… It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big; it was very bright; it changed colours; and it was about the size of the moon…”
I for one would much rather believe documented accounts by such personalities of repute and many others like Nicholas Roerich, the famous Russian painter with such close connections with India, Sir Francis Chichester, the well known flier, sailor and navigator, than what scientists would have one believe. One of the most fascinating sightings of UFO occupants took place in Brazil. Jose C. Higgins, a member of a survey crew, was left to face three alien entities after other crew members fled. “One of them”, said Higgins, “used a stick to make eight holes in the ground that suggested a solar system with seven planets. The entity pointed to the outer one as being their home and called it Torque…”, later interpreted by UFO enthusiasts to denote that they came from Uranus.
The majority of scientists, including the well-known astronomer and writer Carl Sagan have been skeptical about UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrial beings. After all, they argue, it would require not only highly advanced technology to conquer time and space and travel to earth but a high level of not just intelligence but evolution and development as well. In any case, why would such advanced beings want to visit us—clearly primitive by comparison—on earth? Even if they do so and travel at the speed of light—186,000 miles per second—it would take several hundred or thousand years in planetary time to visit us and return to their planet.
Now, as to why they would want to visit us, who are we to decide on their reasons? On earth, don’t so called “advanced” people visit so called “primitive” tribes or communities, often spending long periods with them documenting their way of life? Talk of several hundred or thousand years in planetary time is no doubt based on presently known “scientific” calculations, but we all know that time is relative. Moreover, nobody has been able to measure the speed at which our thoughts or mind travels. In less than a second, your mind can be in London, New York, Tokyo, etc. etc, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, etc., etc.
Of course, the mind is not a metallic spaceship but then the scientists are assuming that interstellar travellers, if they exist, must have conquered time and space. To illustrate a point, remember that ancient time—mythical or otherwise—when Icarus tried to fly with wings of wax? The human race at that point would have been astounded to hear about the supersonic Concorde. Yet the supersonic possibility existed even then, has existed all along, but the means to recognise it and harness it was not known.
Similarly, spirit guides and reliable personal accounts—too long to enumerate here—have confirmed that it is possible though not commonplace for certain souls to travel to other planets. It is known that souls and ghosts can cross time and space in a jiffy but for most people a lot still remains in the realm of the unknown. In fact, who really knows how many unrecognised and unharnessed possibilities exist upon earth, in the universe and beyond? An excerpt from the Song of Creation is particularly thought provoking in this context: “Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence this creation comes? / The gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows, then, whence it first came into being?/ He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, / Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.”
Are aliens real? USA sees spate of crazy UFO sightings over two days
Are aliens real? USA sees spate of crazy UFO sightings over two days
Alien hunters have been sent into a frenzy after a raft of UFO sightings were reported over two days.
Events started in Texas this weekend, according to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
An unnamed witness filed a report about two high-speed bright lights.
It said: “I was wide awake early Saturday morning.
“I looked up in the sky where I usually tend to and saw two bright non flashing lights.
“Similar to stars, but slightly brighter.
“They caught my eye because they were both traveling north at a high rate of speed.
“They had a good distance apart, but were going the same exact speed.
“They were way to high to be aeroplanes and were going too fast. As they passed over they both started to dim and I lost sight.”
Next a triangle UFO with central orange light was seen being tailed by military helicopters over Springfield, Missouri, also on Saturday.
There were SIX further UFO sightings reported to MUFON yesterday.
A witness said they and a friend also saw two bright orbs over Plum City, Wisconsin, on Sunday.
They both watched as they discussed it on mobile phones.
The report said: “I realised that what I was looking at was something that I have never seen before.
“Shocked, I stood there and watched the whole time still talking with my friend on the cell phone as we both viewed the two orbs that were hovering in the sky then one before the other dimmed out of sight.”
Yesterday, a witness in Grand Forks, North Dakota, also saw two bright lights.
Their report said: “I’m still trying to figure out what these lights in the sky were.
“I’m in the city limits, but around eight or 8.30pm, I saw two more stars moving in the sky.
“I just came inside right now to report that. What is it?
“I never heard about this from anyone else.
“it’s amazing, I wish I had a good camera or at least some night vision binoculars.”
The same night a witness in Dover, Pennsylvania, reported: “I was looking up at the stars then noticed something bright shoot from a star up and disappear.”
In Hillsboro, Oregon, a witness claimed to see “six objects below the clouds rotating around each other.”
The report said: “My wife pointed out a group of lights, possible reflection of sunlight off the objects, which were ahead of us and underneath the cloud canopy.
“There were more than six objects rotating, diving, climbing around each other.”
MUFON has not released any footage, despite the couple claiming to video the event.
They said there were other witnesses and they saw a similar event in 2016.
The significance of a new finding is that it is compelling evidence of life elsewhere, even if it doesn’t prove life on Earth originated elsewhere.
According to the theory of panspermia, outer space seeded Earth with comet-borne primitive life forms over four billion years ago.
Credit: Yuri_B/pixabay
Aliens have reached Earth, say researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy, basing their dramatic findings on a new study of fast-moving extraterrestrial dust that constantly rains down on our atmosphere. These particles serve as tiny ‘spaceships’ for microorganisms from alien worlds that traverse the vastness of interstellar space for eons before reaching Earth. This dusty downpour could also collide with biological particles in Earth’s atmosphere with enough energy to send them careening into space, and conceivably onwards to other planets in other solar systems.
Astrobiologists earlier found evidence of microorganisms reaching the planet in air samples taken at extreme altitudes, and from the discovery in 1984 of fossilised worms in a meteorite from Mars. Exciting data from the 1976 Viking space probes, which actually confirmed the presence of Martian microorganisms but were overlooked for 25 years by careless scientists, back these findings. In 2006, researchers from Columbia University discovered traces of amino acids – the building blocks of life – on meteorites that landed in Australia and the US less than a hundred years ago.
Some scientists argue that these extraterrestrial amino acids mixed with moisture in Earth’s ancient atmosphere to produce an acidic “soup” that then nourished the planet’s first organisms. This ties in with the panspermia theory, which says that outer space seeded Earth with comet-borne primitive life forms over four billion years ago. Panspermia never found favour with modern-day scientists till the 1970s, when the late Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramesinghe came across “traces of life” in interstellar dust. When cultured, two species of bacteria and a microfungus found in space rocks turned out to be similar to terrestrial organisms – just as panspermia had predicted. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe believed that a torrent of such “life-altering stuff from space” reaches Earth in cycles related to solar activity and has affected the evolution of terrestrial life. If this is indeed the reality, the ‘miracle’ of life could happen anywhere, and our microbial ancestors, or more evolved cousins, are scattered like chaff throughout the universe.
Bacterial spores can survive the immense space-time voyages from one planet of a solar system to another by piggybacking on meteorites, too. So do these vital elements traverse the vast interstellar distances on space rocks and comet dust to ‘cross-pollinate’ planets in another corner of the galaxy? Although such a journey is statistically possible, fast-moving atomic particles could hit the meteorite and destroy the spores or bacteria, so they would have to be embedded deep inside the rock to escape this onslaught. Being in a state of suspended animation, however, is a plausible way of undertaking such intergalactic journeys of millions of years. And by this yardstick, the probability of interplanetary travel within solar systems seems that much higher. Exobiologists are convinced that some space rocks even cover the distance from Mars to Earth in less than a year.
Space is so harsh and inhospitable that it may seem unlikely for any organism to survive there. But scientists have proven otherwise. In an experiment on the International Space Station in 2011, Bacillus pumilus spores survived the vacuum of space and the intense radiation found there for nearly 20 months. Researchers smeared artificial plasmid DNA (small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecules separate from a cell’s chromosomal DNA) and a fluorescent marker on the outer shell of the payload section of a rocket before launching it into space. The samples were daubed not only on the outer surface of the rocket but also in the grooves of screw heads on the experimental modules it carried. The rocket reached an acceleration rate of 18 G during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, heating up to temperatures above 1,000°C. When it landed, the DNA molecules were not only found intact but were also still able to convey genetic information to bacterial cells.
This showed that spaceships could carry terrestrial DNA to other planets. It is not far-fetched to think that small pieces of rock dislodged from Earth millions of years ago are now travelling through space and could someday reach an alien planet, seeding that world with microorganisms. The flip side of this possibility is that alien DNA could reach us in extraterrestrial material contained in meteorites.
There is a very real possibility of such alien life turning out to be some kind of virulent and deadly microbes – a major worry for space agencies that go to great lengths to ensure astronauts are properly quarantined when they return from space. After his Moon voyage in July 1969, Neil Armstrong was actually asked to fill an agriculture, customs, immigration and public health declaration on his return! In the section about conditions onboard Apollo 11 that might lead to the spread of disease, he thought a bit and wrote: “To be determined.” The seriousness with which scientists consider “back contamination” (the transfer of extraterrestrial microbes back to Earth’s biosphere) is chillingly detailed in the book and subsequent film, The Andromeda Strain, in which microbial misfits from space spark a biological crisis on Earth.
About a tonne of microbial material enters Earth’s atmosphere every day. Much of this is sterile due to exposure to the Sun or is burnt in the higher reaches of the atmosphere. But a fraction of the incoming dust – evaporated from comets and possibly containing microbes – could survive the fiery descent. We still don’t know how, or where, life began. The significance of the latest finding is that it is compelling evidence of life elsewhere, even if it doesn’t prove life on Earth originated elsewhere. On the other hand, if the findings hold up, it means we are the aliens we seek.
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Flat-Earther to Launch Himself in Homemade Steam Rocket Saturday
Flat-Earther to Launch Himself in Homemade Steam Rocket Saturday
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The rocket is ready
Well, this should liven up everyone's Thanksgiving weekend.
A flat-Earth enthusiast who claims not to believe in science plans to launch himself 1,800 feet (550 meters) above California's Mojave Desert in a homemade steam rocket on Saturday (Nov. 25), the Associated Press reported.
The daredevil, 61-year-old limo driver "Mad" Mike Hughes, built the rocket and its launch ramp himself for about $20,000, according to the AP. If all goes according to plan, the contraption will accelerate to a top speed of 500 mph (800 km/h) and travel about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) away from the launch site, a ghost town called Amboy. (Hughes will make a parachute-aided touchdown.)
Hughes buys into the flat-Earth conspiracy theory, according to the AP; indeed, the rocket's chief sponsor is a group called Research Flat Earth. Saturday's liftoff won't get Hughes nearly high enough to gather any photographic evidence about our planet's shape — which is an oblate spheroid, by the way — but such a mission may be in Mad Mike's future.
He and a collaborator have discussed building a "rockoon" — a rocket that launches after being carried aloft by a balloon — that could get up to an altitude of 68 miles (109 km), the AP reported.
Hughes' refusal to accept the truth about Earth's shape might make you skeptical about Saturday's launch, and about the future rockoon project. If so, his own words probably won't do much to bring you around.
"I don’t believe in science," Hughes said, according to the AP. "I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that’s not science, that’s just a formula. There’s no difference between science and science fiction."
The entire story is definitely worth your time. You can read it here.
In a work funded by Google, NASA engineers trained an artificial intelligence to race drones in a challenging obstacle course. The AI proved to be a worthy match against one of the world’s best human pilots. While it didn’t have the fastest time, the AI never fatigues and made far safer turns and twists.
Credit: NASA.
The drone-racing AI is the culmination of two years of work by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The team designed three drones — Batman, Joker, and Nightwing — which were embedded with complex algorithms that instruct the flying gizmos how to navigate obstacles. JPL used some of the visual-based navigation technology it had previously used for spacecraft.
To see how well their drones behave, NASA enlisted world-class pilot Ken Loo who raced against the drones on October 12.
The drones could reach a staggering 80 mph (129 kph) in a straight line. However, during the actual race itself which took place in a JPL warehouse, the drones mainly flew at 30 or 40 mph (48 to 64 kph).
Loo scored a better time, averaging 11.1 seconds, while the completely autonomous drones clocked in 13.9 seconds on average. The AI was far more steady, on the other hand, while Loo’s times varied more. What’s more, the AI flew the same racing line every lap.
“We pitted our algorithms against a human, who flies a lot more by feel,” said Rob Reid of JPL, the project’s task manager. “You can actually see that the A.I. flies the drone smoothly around the course, whereas human pilots tend to accelerate aggressively, so their path is jerkier.”‘
Unlike Loo, however, the drones never get tired and are always up to the task of navigating a challenging environment time and time again. This makes them far safer and reliable in the long run.
“This is definitely the densest track I’ve ever flown,” Loo said. “One of my faults as a pilot is I get tired easily. When I get mentally fatigued, I start to get lost, even if I’ve flown the course 10 times.”
Autonomous drones typically rely on GPS to navigate their surroundings but this is not an option in enclosed spaces such as a warehouse or dense urban areas. Camera-based localization and mapping are far more useful in this situation which is what’s been used here. According to Reid, their technology could be used by commercial drones to check inventory in a warehouse, for instance, or assist in rescue operations atdisaster sites where there unpredictable and numerous obstacles. One day, autonomous drones might even shuttle around a space station.
We all want there to be aliens. Green ones, pink ones, brown ones, Greys. Or maybe Vulcans, Klingons, even a being of pure energy. Any type will do.
That’s why whenever a mysterious signal or energetic fluctuation arrives from somewhere in the cosmos and hits one of our many telescopes, headlines erupt across the media: “Have We Finally Detected An Alien Signal?” or “Have Astronomers Discovered An Alien Megastructure?” But science-minded people know that we’re probably getting ahead of ourselves.
Skepticism still rules the day when it comes to these headlines, and the events that spawn them. That’s the way it should be, because we’ve always found a more prosaic reason for whatever signal from space we’re talking about. But, being skeptical is a balancing act; it doesn’t mean being dismissive.
What we’re talking about here is a study from E.F. Borra and E. Trottier, two astronomers at Laval University in Canada. Their study, titled “Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars” was published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
The two astronomers used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and analyzed the spectra of 2.5 million stars. Of all those stars, they found 234 stars that are producing a puzzling signal. That’s only a tiny percentage. And, they say, these signals “have exactly the shape of an ETI signal” that was predicted in a previous study by Borra.
A portion of the 234 stars that are sources of the pulsed ETI-like signal. Note that all the stars are in the narrow spectral range F2 to K1, very similar to our own Sun. Image: Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier
Prediction is a key part of the scientific method. If you develop a theory, your theory looks better and better the more you can use it to correctly predict some future events based on it. Look how many times Einstein’s predictions based on Relativity have been proven correct.
The 234 stars in Borra and Trottier’s study aren’t random. They’re “overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range” according to the abstract. That’s significant because this is a small range centred around the spectrum of our own Sun. And our own Sun is the only one we know of that has an intelligent species living near it. If ours does, maybe others do too?
The authors acknowledge five potential causes of their findings: instrumental and data reduction effects, rotational transitions in molecules, the Fourier transform of spectral lines, rapid pulsations, and finally the ETI signal predicted by Borra (2012). They dismiss molecules or pulsations as causes, and they deem it highly unlikely that the signals are caused by the Fourier analysis itself. This leaves two possible sources for the detected signals. Either they’re a result of the Sloan instrument itself and the data reduction, or they are in fact a signal from extra-terrestrial intelligences.
This graph shows the number of detected signals by Spectral Type of star. Image: Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier
The detected signals are pulses of light separated by a constant time interval. These types of signals were predicted by Borra in his 2012 paper, and they are what he and Trottier set out to find in the Sloan data. It may be a bit of a red flag when scientist’s find the very thing they predicted they would find. But Trottier and Borra are circumspect about their own results.
As the authors say in their paper, “Although unlikely, there is also a possibility that the signals are due to highly peculiar chemical compositions in a small fraction of galactic halo stars.” It may be unlikely, but lots of discoveries seem unlikely at first. Maybe there is a tiny subset of stars with chemical peculiarities that make them act in this way.
To sum it all up, the two astronomers have found a tiny number of stars, very similar to our own Sun, that seem to be the source of pulsed signals. These signals are the same as predicted if a technological society was using powerful lasers to communicate with distant stars.
We all want there to be aliens, and maybe the first sign of them will be pulsed light signals from stars like our own Sun. But it’s all still very preliminary, and as the authors acknowledge, “…at this stage, this hypothesis needs to be confirmed with further work.”
The Breakthrough team don’t seem that excited about Borra’s findings. They’ve already poured cold water on it, trotting out the old axiom that “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” in a statement on Borra’s paper. They also give Borra’s findings a score of 0 to 1 on the Rio Scale. The Rio Scale is something used by the international SETI community to rank detections of phenomena that could indicate advanced life beyond Earth. A rating of 0 to 1 means its insignificant.
Astronomen stuiten op vreemde signalen uit de ruimte. Proberen 234 buitenaardse soorten contact met ons op te nemen?
Astronomen stuiten op vreemde signalen uit de ruimte. Proberen 234 buitenaardse soorten contact met ons op te nemen?
Twee astronomen van de Laval-universiteit in het Canadese Québec hebben in de afgelopen jaren 2,5 miljoen sterren geobserveerd.
Bij de overgrote meerderheid daarvan hebben ze niets abnormaals kunnen vaststellen, maar bij 234 sterren hoorden ze dusdanig vreemde boodschappen dat ze vermoeden dat het weleens om buitenaards leven zou kunnen gaan.
Wetenschappers Ermanno Borra en Eric Trottier voerden een studie uit naar de sterrenhemel. Een fractie van de sterren vertoonde vreemd gedrag, waar niet gelijk een verklaring voor is.
Buitenaards signaal
Dat leidt de wetenschappers tot de conclusie dat het weleens zou kunnen gaan om aliens die ons op de hoogte willen brengen van hun bestaan.
“We hebben ontdekt dat de signalen exact de vorm hebben van een buitenaards signaal dat in een eerdere publicatie voorspeld werd en ze liggen dan ook in lijn met deze hypothese,” klonk het.
Bevestigen
“Het feit dat ze enkel gevonden werden in een kleine fractie van de sterren in een nauw spectrum vlak bij de zon, komt ook overeen met de hypothese van buitenaards leven,” aldus de onderzoekers.
De studie is gepubliceerd in het vakblad Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific onder de titel ‘Signals probably from Extraterrestrial Intelligence’.
De wetenschappers benadrukken dat meer onderzoek nodig zal zijn om te kunnen bevestigen of het daadwerkelijk gaat om aliens.
Objecten die ontdekt worden in de ruimte krijgen altijd een eigen unieke aanduiding met daarin verwerkt meestal ook het jaar waarin ze zijn ontdekt.
Een dergelijk object is C/2017 U1. Het werd afgelopen september ontdekt door astronomen met de PannSTARRS1 telescoop op Hawaï.
Het vreemde is dat niemand eigenlijk precies wat voor object het is. In eerste instantie werd het een komeet genoemd, maar omdat het niet een soort omloopbaan om de zon heeft zoals gebruikelijk bij kometen begon men te twijfelen of het wel een komeet was. Wel heeft men vast kunnen stellen dat het object een doorsnede heeft van ongeveer 160 meter en reist met een snelheid van 26 kilometer per seconde.
Wat dit object vooral bijzonder maakt, is dat het schijnt te komen van buiten ons zonnestelsel en daardoor een vreemde omloopbaan heeft. In het volgende plaatje wordt object c/2017 U1 weergegeven als geel en ter vergelijking zijn de groene fictieve omloopbanen van kometen. Dit om duidelijk te maken in hoeverre die omloopbaan van C/2017 afwijkt.
Nog nooit hebben wij op aarde een wat men nu noemt interstellaire komeet meegemaakt. Een komeet afkomstig uit een ander zonnestelsel dan de onze. Was dit waar Ferrada al over sprak en wat hij cometa planeta noemde, of mogelijk iets wat bij dit fenomeen hoort?
Sinds ons artikel zijn er alleen nog maar meer vragen gerezen over dit object dat inmiddels de naam Oumuamua heeft gekregen. Het object dat van een ander zonnestelsel kwam, om de zon draaide en weer verdween in de ruimte.
Volgens de European Southern Observatory (ESO) is Oumuamua een object dat we nog nooit eerder hebben gezien en bestaat het uit rots of metaal met een roodachtige kleur.
Het object moet er ongeveer als volgt uit zien. Een ander fenomeen is dat het om haar eigen as lijkt te draaien en dat de lichtintensiteit varieert.
Men probeert wanhopig om voor dit alles logische verklaringen te vinden, maar slaagt daar niet zo erg in.
Men vermoedt dat het uit de buurt komt van de ster Vega, maar ook dat schijnt niet te kunnen omdat in de tijd dat Oumuamua daar is vertrokken, die ster op een heel andere plek stond. Nu denken ze dat het object misschien wel helemaal nergens thuishoort en als een soort los projectiel door de ruimte zwerft.
De wetenschap zit (ook) wat dit object betreft met de handen in het haar, want niet één van de normale verklaringen past.
Waar we hier over praten, is een groot moederschip dat ons hier met een bezoek heeft vereerd. Dat is de enige logische verklaring en ook is er ook één die past in de omschrijving van het object en de gedragingen.
Zoals iemand anders opmerkte, is het niet de eerste keer dat we een dergelijk object tegenkomen. Niet alleen worden ze regelmatig gespot, maar er is er ook één gevonden op een foto die gemaakt is van de achterkant van de maan tijdens de Apollo 15 vlucht.
“I will never say this lightly, but we are, swear to God, actually discussing with some seriousness right now what are the odds that this was actually a spaceship. Which I 100% assure you has never happened before in my memory with seriousness.”
Well, that didn’t take long. Shortly after the announcement that the interstellar object, now named ‘Oumuamua, which visited our solar system last month was oddly cylindrical in shape, speculation arose on reddit and other places that it could have actually been a spaceship, possibly one traveling for millions of years and not necessarily occupied anymore. The above comment was from a reddit commentator Andromeda321 who was identified as an astronomer and it stimulated many interesting and well-thought-out comments on the possibility, as well as more than a few expressing incredulity.
Also on reddit, Eyusmaximus brings up the possibility that “An interstellar ship could maybe possibly be using an Alcubierre drive” (a theoretical faster-than-light idea using negative mass) and others speculated that its shape resembles a booster drive discarded after usage.
Over at Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange, someone compared the shape and spinning of ‘Oumuamua to that of Rama, the spaceship in Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi novel, Rendezvous with Rama, which was 50 km long by 16 km wide (31 by 10 miles – much bigger that the 400 meter long ‘Oumuamua) which had a 0.25 rpm spin to provide artificial gravity.
On Twitter at #Oumuamua, AndersonatAberdeen (@AndersAberdeen) said “#Oumuamua rather reminds me of the probe from Star Trek IV The Voyage Home.” That’s the whale probe, which had a similar shape.
An interesting comment by A.C. Charania (@ac_charania) refers to a paper he wrote in 2008 called “Dyson Asteroid Shells: Hollow Worlds from the Outside-In” which proposes creating “a human asteroid habitat” by “enclosing a small body such as an asteroid (potentially focused on rubble pile compositions) in a rigid or semi-rigid shell” he calls a “Dyson Asteroid Shell.” His drawings suggest a cylindrical shape might be better for space travel. Did some alien civilization beat him to it? Is this more plausible than Tabby’s star and the Dyson sphere?
Unfortunately, our measly Earth rockets couldn’t catch up to ‘Oumuamua to do a landing, intercept or visual inspection. In fact, the main ‘visual’ we have of it so far is an artist’s rendition which makes it look like a long pointed rock. A conspiracy theorist might wonder if it was intentionally drawn that way to hide its real identity from the public.
The point of light in the middle is ‘Oumuamua
Will we ever know if ‘Oumuamua was a spaceship? Probably not. Our best bet, now that we know these oddly-shaped intergalactic asteroids exist, is to watch for more and get better pictures instead of relying on drawings. And, while ‘weird space rock’ is still leading in the polls, it’s always nice to have an opportunity to bring up Arthur C. Clarke and his fascinating and prescient novels.
As the investigation of the alien abduction phenomenon has shown, more than a few alien abductees report being taken to rooms that are in stark contrast to the sterile and clean – and almost obsessively so – environments aboard UFOs. In these particular cases, abductees enter an environment in which what are known as “hybrid children” are given toys to play with. It’s as if a concerted attempt is being made to humanize the hybrids even more. Whether this is done from a positive perspective of inter-species cooperation and inter-breeding, or if it’s done to ensure that the hybrids can more successfully infiltrate human society in a sinister, hostile fashion, very much remains to be seen. It’s also very dependent on which side of the fence you stand. Possibly, you may well be of the opinion that the whole issue is complete and utter nonsense. Or, just the stuff of fiction.
Despite the bizarre and controversial nature of such stories, there’s no doubt that such reports abound. Take, for example, the story of Jennifer, a life-long resident of New Jersey. In her mid-thirties, she has conscious recall of encounters with the so-called extraterrestrial “Greys” going back to her early childhood, as does her mother. Even her grandmother has vague recollections of encountering a group of “little men” in New Jersey woods, during the summer months, at some point in the 1940s; something which emphasizes the ongoing, multi-generational aspect of these events that so many people report. As well as her consciously recalled interactions with the Greys, Jennifer has been able to pull further recollections out of the depths of her mind and subconscious via hypnosis. One recollection, in particular, stands out, in terms of relevancy to the theme of this article. And in terms of it’s profound strangeness too.
Although Jennifer has no memories of interactions with hybrid babies, she does have memories of being taken from her home, in 2009, to what she described as looking like “an old military base, but shut down,” where she encountered hybrid children. Notably, there are other examples of abandoned, official facilities seemingly being used in covert abduction-related situations. Jennifer’s hypnotically-recovered recollections began with her stepping out of what she first thought was a large, black sedan, but that, with hindsight, she came to believe was a landed UFO. The image of the car, then, possibly being a screen-memory designed to mask, or at least confuse, the true nature of the event. She then recalls being guided, in a somewhat groggy and hazy state, to an elevator by three dwarfish figures that she found it difficult to recall, in terms of their physical appearances. What she had no trouble remembering, however, was what happened next.
After what she perceived as an incredibly long descent in the elevator, Jennifer was taken to a large room which was filled with two things: (A) a group of five or six hybrid children, all but one female; and (B) a multitude of toys. Strewn across the floor were teddy-bears, dolls, and a large amount of fluffy, toy dogs. The hybrids – skinny, sickly-looking, yellow-haired, and seemingly disinterested in the toys – were sitting on chairs placed in a row against one of the walls.
It was Jennifer’s “job” – as she worded it – to try and encourage the children to play with the toys, something she was only partially successful in doing. Two of the children actually smiled and even laughed when Jennifer gently tossed a couple of teddy-bears in their direction. The others offered little more than disinterest. Time and again, Jennifer was urged to interact with the hybrids. And on each occasion, the response was far from encouraging. Evidently, Jennifer’s abductors realized that things were not proceeding well and she was finally motioned to the door. Once again, her mind was filled with images of sitting in a black sedan, and being driven back to her home. Yet, as with her arrival at the facility, she had deep suspicions that the car imagery was, effectively, “implanted” in her mind and did not tell the true and full story of how she found herself deep underground.
An extreme dream of the fantastic kind or something much more? I don’t have the answer, but having hung out with Jennifer on several occasions, I don’t see her as a crazy person, as a fantasist, or as a liar. I see Jennifer as someone looking for answers to a mystery that has dominated and dictated much of her life.
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Alien Abductee Tells All: Inside UFO, Secret Bases On Earth, and more!
Alien Abductee Tells All: Inside UFO, Secret Bases On Earth, and more!
Steve Boucher shares 2 incredible stories of close encounters with aliens he had as a child and as a teenager:
1. A UFO stopped Steve and his father on the road one night and one of the beings took his father onboard the ship while another alien sat with Steve in the car for about 20 minutes keeping him company until his father returned.
Steve was about 4 years old at the time. His father confirmed the story in later years when Steve asked him about it, saying he "thought it was a dream."
2. Steve and his band are abducted when driving home from a gig. Four of them are taken on the craft, told to take off all their clothes, and are given a series of tests.
Note: These tests are possible part of a hybrid interbreeding program that has been active for many years and still continues.
Before taking off, the aliens told Steve he would forget this whole incident, which he soon did, but later remembered it in full detail through hypnosis.
Interesting daytime footage of UFOs over Paris, France
Interesting daytime footage of UFOs over Paris, France
This is one older footage from June 2010 that was just recently submitted to MUFON. This happened over Paris, France.
Witness report:
Othernight in a clear blue sky appeared first lighting orbs which became “smartphones” like—
I was at home with my 12 years old daughter during the beginning of summer on the 24th of june 2010 when i was ‘attracted’ outside on the balcony, we live on the 5th floor of a building in paris, france. i watched the clear blue sky when it occured orbs lights. i immediatly took my video camera and first did a snapshot of these stranges objetcts then put the camera on and recorded it. see picture & video attached. i was stunned – and my daugter as well – you can hear our voices on the video and also see a bird passing by the frame. weirdly, the orbs occured to became kind of ‘smartphones’ as i’ve seen a lot in videos in the sky of mexico and so on after this event. anyway, since then i made a lot of research on the topic and it took me all this time for finally register this event on your website. thanks for your attention & sharing.
A dazzling fireball careering through the night sky in Japan has been caught on several cameras.
Witnesses reported seeing a soundless bright light illuminate the sky for a few seconds as it shot down to Earth with a greenish glow.
An expert believes it is likely the fireball was a tiny chunk of space rock burning up in our atmosphere.
A dazzling fireball careering through the night sky in Japan has been caught on several cameras. Witnesses reported seeing a soundless bright light illuminate the sky for a few seconds as it shot down to earth with a greenish glow
WHAT CAUSED THE FIREBALL?
Yasuo Shiba an executive of Nippon Meteor Society believes the object was likely part of the Taurids meteor shower.
Each year, from the end of October, the skies play host to the meteor shower, dubbed 'nature's fireworks'.
The Taurids display is created by debris left behind by Encke's comet, named after the astronomer who discovered it's annual trajectory in 1819.
During the shower, streaks of light, or 'shooting stars' will be seen across the sky, caused by grains of dust and ice shed by a comet that entered the atmosphere at 37 miles per second (60 km/s).
As they hit the atmosphere, friction causes them to burn up as they heat the air around them, causing the trails to be seen from the ground.
It first appeared as a tiny orb, before blossoming into a massive flash that illuminated the night sky.
The remarkable object was spotted by numerous people when it fell to Earth on the 21 November, with reports received in both Yoshitaka and Syouko in southern Japan.
It flashed a few times before vanishing as it fell to Earth at around 9.30pm, according to The Asashi Shimbun.
'Such brightness could be observed only a handful of times in any given year', said Yasuo Shiba, an executive of Nippon Meteor Society.
'It lit up for about three seconds. It is almost certainly a fireball,' said Mr Shiba, who observed the event.
He believes the object was likely part of the Taurids meteor shower observed in October and November.
Each year, from the end of October, the skies play host to the meteor shower, dubbed 'nature's fireworks'.
The Taurids display is created by debris left behind by Encke's comet, named after the astronomer who discovered it's annual trajectory in 1819.
The fireball first appears as a tiny orb in the night sky, before blossoming (circled in red) into a massive flash that illuminates the night sky
During the shower, streaks of light, or 'shooting stars' can be seen across the sky, caused by grains of dust and ice shed by a comet that entered the atmosphere at 37 miles per second (60 km/s).
As they hit the atmosphere, friction causes them to burn up as they heat the air around them, causing the trails to be seen from the ground.
'It's a fireball ... a big meteor,' confirmed Chisato Yamauchi, a researcher at Misato astronomical observatory in Wakayama Prefecture.
'Fragments of sand and stone moving through space lit up due to friction upon entering Earth's atmosphere,' he explained.
Last week a similar bright flash tore across the sky in Phoenix.
The remarkable object was spotted by numerous people in the area, with reports streaming in from Arizona and the surrounding states, including California , Nevada, Utah and New Mexico.
The remarkable object was spotted by numerous people when it fell to Earth on the 21 November, with reports received in both Yoshitaka and Syouko in southern Japan
Last week a similar bright flash tore across the sky in Phoenix. The remarkable object was spotted by numerous people in the area, with reports streaming in from Arizona and the surrounding states
'Something BRILLIANT just flew across the Phoenix sky around 8:30 this evening!' the City of Phoenix, AZ tweeted last night.
'Check out what our Phoenix City Cam Captured! Look to the right of this screen.'
The stunning video, captured with a Nest security camera, shows the moment an object appears over the city.
According to the American Meteor Society, this week alone has several sources of meteoric activity, leading to fireball sightings all around the world.
In the span of just ten hours between Nov 14 and 15, there were four major sightings, with events in France and Germany, as well as two parts of the US.
A striking new video released by NASA shows how the surface of the planet transforms over 20 years of changing seasons.
Credit: NASA/Youtube.
“It’s like watching the Earth breathe. It’s really remarkable*,” said NASA oceanographer, Jeremy Werdell, in a statement.
“It’s like all of my senses are being transported into space, and then you can compress time and rewind it, and just continually watch this kind of visualization,” he added.
Scientists constructed the visualization with data compiled from September 1997 to September 2017. These twenty years have been condensed in two-and-a-half minutes of mesmerizing imagery that shows how Earth’s surface ebbs and flows with the seasons.
In this dance of the seasons, you can witness how Earth’s vegetation changes. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing, which can be highly important when assessing biosphere health.
Polar ice caps and snow cover extends and retreats while oceans transition from shades of blue and green into hues of red and purple as marine life blooms or goes under. The algae bloom of 1997-1998 is particularly striking, having turned sizable areas of the Pacific into a bright green, spurred by a water-warming El Nino merged with a cooling La Nina.
It took three months of hard work to complete the visualization of satellite imagery but in the end, it was all worth it. Now, policymakers, but also businesses like commercial fishermen, can use these resources in their decision-making process.
This is only the beginning. Like the seasons, NASA’s visualization will only change. Engineers will improve their renditions with each new version as more and better remote-sensing satellites making into Earth’s orbit.
Archaeologists make stunning underwater discovery near the port of Alexandria in Egypt
Archaeologists make stunning underwater discovery near the port of Alexandria in Egypt
Three shipwrecks dating back to ancient Roman times have been discovered by experts during archaeological excavation work carried out in the eastern port of Alexandria, Egypt. It is believed that more shipwrecks will be found as excavations continue in 2018.
Ancient Egypt’s gateway to the Mediterranean – submerged and buried under layers of sand – is an important reminder of the great numbers of sunken treasures that remain hidden from modern history.
Now, experts have made another sensational discovery in the bay of Abu Qir in Alexandria.
Three ancient shipwrecks dating back to Roman times have been discovered during archaeological excavation work carried out in the eastern port of Alexandria, Egypt.
The discovery, made by an Egyptian mission in collaboration with the European Institute of Underwater Archeology, includes a head carved in glass dating from Roman times and probably belongs to the commander of the Roman armies «Antonio», in addition to three golden coins dating from the Emperor “Octavio”, in the bay of Abu Qir in Alexandria.
Mostafa Waziri, the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, confirmed the find in a statement posted on the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities Facebook page.
One of the artifacts recovered from the shipwrecks.
Image Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
The archaeological mission has also discovered a votive boat of the god Osiris in the sunken city of Heraklion.
According to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, Osama Alnahas, head of the Central Department of Underwater Antiquities in Egypt, the discovery of the three shipwrecks may point the archaeological mission to other treasures still hidden underwater.
Excavation work indicates that a fourth wreck would be discovered during the next season, as the mission discovered several large wooden planks, as well as archaeological remains of ceramic vessels that may represent the cargo of the ship.
The discovery of the three shipwrecks was made after archeologists dived down to the sunken city of Heraclion, located underneath Abu Qir Bay.
The underwater city of Heraclion is one of the sunken jewels of Ancient Egypt.
Heraclion was an ancient Egyptian city located near the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, about 32 km northeast of Alexandria.
Its ruins are located in Abu Qir Bay, currently 2.5 km off the coast, under 10 m (30 ft) of water.
Experts believe more treasure remains hidden underwater.
Image Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
Its legendary beginnings go back to as early as the 12th century BC, and it is mentioned by ancient Greek historians.
Its importance grew particularly during the waning days of the Pharaohs.
In the Late Period, it was Egypt’s main port for international trade and collection of taxes.
The submerged ruins of the city were located by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio in 1999.
Until then, scholars were not sure if Heraclion and Thonis were in fact one and the same city. Goddio’s finds have included incomplete statues of the god Serapis and the queen Arsinoe II.
Experts believe that a treasure-trove of ancient artifacts still remain to be found in the Abu Qir Bay, where the three ancient Roman shipwrecks were just found.
Researchers find a 3,000-year-old ‘Castle’ in the largest lake in Turkey
Researchers find a 3,000-year-old ‘Castle’ in the largest lake in Turkey
The locals have been telling stories for centuries that there is “something” hidden in the depths of Lake Van, in Turkey. In fact, the place even has its own legendary monster.
Now, a team of archaeologists has just discovered that legends can have their basis after all and that not all legends are just folklore and myth.
Divers from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University have just found something, indeed, but it is not a monster, but the ruins of a huge castle built sometime between the ninth and sixth centuries BC.
The ruins stretch for one kilometer to a depth of several hundred meters. The alkalinity of the water has served to preserve the walls in enviable conditions, with sections that rise up to four meters high at the bottom of the lake. However, it is not known for sure how tall they are. Part of the structure is buried in the mud and researchers believe it can be an even bigger construction.
The castle belongs to the mysterious civilization of the Urartu, also known as the Kingdom of Van. 3,000 years ago, the water level in Lake Van was much lower, and the Urartu settled here, building cities with palaces and temples inspired by Assyrian architecture and lavishly decorated details.
Ancient Urartu cuneiform from Cavustepe’s fortress.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
The remains of some of these buildings have been appearing over the years on the shores of the lake. Among them, researchers have found an ancient fortress with an inscription carved by order of King Darius, father of Xerxes the Great.
The discovery of the submerged castle confirms that the region was of great importance in its day.
Perhaps it is even one of the lost capitals of the Urartu empire.
The Urartu empire stretched across a region between the southeast of the Black Sea and the southwest of the Caspian Sea, currently shared by the Armenian Republic, Iran, and Turkey, formed after the fall of the Hittite Empire.
It includes the great lakes Van in Turkey (where the old capital Tushpa is located), Urmia (in Iran) and Lake Seván (in Armenia).
Urartu is one of the first kingdoms of Armenia.
The underwater ruins.
Its ancient historical apogee took place in the IX and VIII centuries BC.
The local language was similar to Hurrian.
The proximity to the overwhelming Assyrian kingdom produced from 1275 BC a strong ideological, literary and technical influence on Urartu.
Speaking to Hurriyet Daily News, Mr. Tahsin Ceylan, an underwater photographer and videographer said:
“Many civilizations and people had settled around Lake Van. They named the lake the ‘upper sea’ and believed it had many mysterious things. With this belief in mind, we are working to reveal the lake’s ‘secrets,’” adding that Lake Van had a history of 600,000 years.
“The walls of this castle cover a wide section. The excavations need to be done underwater but we don’t know how deep the walls are. A three to four meter wall section can be seen and the castle ruins cover an area of one kilometer. Since the water of Lake Van is alkaline, the castle has not been damaged and has kept its characteristics underwater. We have detected the castle’s exact location and photographed it and have made progress in our research. We now believe we have discovered a new area for archaeologists and historians to study,” Ceylan said.
In 2015, NASA scientists announced they’d found briny water flowing out of Martian mountain slopes. The news got a lot of people excited, especially about the prospect of finding microbial life — always a possibility when flowing water is involved. But now American and British researchers say we likely got carried away. The features NASA initially identified look and behave more like flowing sand rather than flowing water, the authors report in Nature Geoscience.
Recurring slope linea on Mars.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS.
The initial discovery was performed by a team of researchers led by Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ojha and colleagues showed that seasonal dark streaks called “recurring slope lineae” (RSL) appear like spots on the planet’s surface, on the slopes of mountain ridges. Judging from the features captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the spectral analysis that revealed that chemical makeup of the dark streaks, the researchers concluded they were looking at hydrated salts or brine.
On Mars, average temperatures are about -55° C ( -67° F). That’s way too cold for water to stay liquid though salt is known to significantly lower a solution’s freezing temperature. Colin Dundas, a geologist at the US Geological Survey, along with colleagues, analyzed the Martian topology at the site where the RSL were found. The investigation showed that the dark RSL don’t really behave like water. Their length compared to the slope of the hill are better explained by flowing grains of sand, instead. If it were really water, MRO should have seen more water flowing further down the slope, which wasn’t the case.
Another important piece of evidence that supports the hypothesis that the RSL are nothing but sand deals with the so-called ‘angle of repose’. This is the specific angle at which rivulets of sand can form and Dundas’ team showed that the RSL have been observed only on hillsides that reach the angle of repose for sand dunes. Water, on the other hand, should appear on gentler slopes too. So, if it looks and behaves like sand, it likely is.
“We’ve thought of RSL as possible liquid water flows, but the slopes are more like what we expect for dry sand,” Dundas, lead author on the new study, said in a statement. “This new understanding of RSL supports other evidence that shows that Mars today is very dry.”
“The RSL don’t flow onto shallower slopes, and the lengths of these are so closely correlated with the dynamic angle of repose, it can’t be a coincidence,” Alfred McEwen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona.
That’s not to say that there isn’t any water in those RSL. It’s just that the odds of finding flowing water on the planet just got a lot dimmer. The only way we know for sure is by literally getting some boots wet. In this case, some rover wheels. MRO Project Scientist Rich Zurek cautions, however, that any in-situ expedition needs to take extra precautions not to contaminate the site with Earth-based microbial agents. “A full explanation of how these enigmatic features darken and fade still eludes us. Remote sensing at different times of day could provide important clues,” Zurek said.
Mars is coveredwith spooky little grooves, some of which have been attributed to flowing water. Unfortunately, it seems scientists might have been a little off in their understanding of some of Mars’s lines — and it’s potentially a bummer for astrobiologists.
Historically, seasonal dark streaks on the Red Planet have been the source of some debate. Some scientists have suggested that these lines — called recurring slope lineae (RSL) — were caused by once-flowing water on the planet. Others have posited the grooves were created by the flow of something else, such as sand.
But a new study published Monday in Nature Geoscience bolsters the latter idea — that flowing sand and dust from avalanches could have created these dark streaks.
“The RSL (recurring slope lineae) on Mars behave in a similar way to laboratory experiments on Earth,” Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Jim McElwaine, a co-author on the paper, said in a statement. “What is still not understood is where the supply of fresh material comes from, though we do have some speculative ideas.”
If Mars’s RSL are indeed formed by sand — not water — that could be a sign that the Red Planet has been dry for a really long time. That doesn’t bode well for astrobiologists and other scientists hoping to find microbes on Mars.
Of course, we have a lot more searching to do before we know what the RSL are for sure. Hopefully we still find tiny traces of life no matter what.
Photos via NASA/JPL, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
In 2015, scientists announced something incredible: They had strong evidence that there was liquid water flowing on Mars today. The implications were huge for the possibility of alien life and resources for future crewed missions to the Martian surface. Now, all of those hopes have been put on hold by a new study published in Nature Geoscience. Following is a transcript of the video.
These mysterious marks on Mars are at the heart of a giant controversy. They're called recurring slope lineae (RSL).
Scientists first discovered them in 2011 from images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Almost immediately, scientists noticed something puzzling.
RSL have regular seasonal changes. During warm seasons they grow darker and longer. But in cooler seasons they fade away.
In 2015, scientists announced they had a solution. RSL were likely the result of liquid water flowing downhill on Mars. Later reports speculated that RSL may even be a good place for life.
Now, all of that has been called into question.
New evidence adds another mystery to the mix most RSL only occur on slopes that are steeper than 27º. The researchers argue that if RSL were from water then they should appear on shallow slopes as well as steep ones.
They report that instead of water RSL are probably made from falling sand and dust. However, their idea doesn't explain why RSL change with the seasons.
Until we visit these unusual Martian features this mystery will remain one of Mars' best-kept secrets.
The video released by conspiracy theory YouTube channel ikillMasons4fun, appears to show the wreckage of what is alleged to be from a UFO recovered from the notorious Roswell crash site in 1947, according to reports.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a mysterious top-secret military base.
There have been many theories about what actually happened, but an official government probe into what happened concluded it was a secret spy balloon being tested.
It remains one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories.
Sure, of course. It's the same Santilli's footage already published.
Scott Brando
Although it is a proven hoax, its producer Ray Santilli, 58, insists it was based on “real poor quality” genuine footage he received from the cameraman in the US in 1992.
The alien autopsy film was propelled back into the headlines in September after Spyros Melaris, who was hired by Mr Santilli and film producer Gary Shoefield to make the black and white film, told the story of his involvement in a one-man West End show.
Mr Melaris revealed how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
He explained how the "dead alien" in the 17-minute film, which has been viewed by millions of people across the globe, was created by a sculptor called John Humphreys, who was a special effects expert who had worked on the sets of Dr Who.
The 16mm film was then spliced with an original Pathe newsreel of a 1947 college baseball match in Roswell to help convince experts from Kodak it could be real, he said.
Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org, viewed the edited version released by ikillMasons4fun and confirmed it was from the original hoax.
He said: “Sure, of course. It's the same Santilli's footage already published.”
but to the disappointment of alien hunters the 1995 footage was later branded an elaborate hoax.
Weather cameras and mobile phones captured the moment when a fireball lit up the night skies across Japan. (22/11/2017)
They even identified its location over Earth, calculated the speed at which it was moving, and compared its brightness favorably to that of Venus. Judging by the angle it was /falling, the agency said they thought it was a natural meteor rather than a piece of ubiquitous space junk, but they noted they couldn't be positive.
An ESA scientist used this image to calculate how fast the meteor was moving.
ESA/NASA
Then Secureteam, which dubs itself "the fastest-growing research outlet and source for data on the alien phenomenon, UFOs and the exposure of those covering them up," decided it was a cover-up, in part arguing that the ESA's speed calculation was incorrect since the video was a time-lapse.
James Oberg, who used to work in mission control at NASA, is used to this sort of approach to UFO sightings, and in a fascinating interview with Atlas Obscura, he explains why space phenomena trip people up. As a hobby, he has traced back decades'-worth of UFO sightings to more mundane explanations, drawing on his professional expertise in space missions.
His time at mission control, he says, not only means he has the skills to cross-reference sightings with agency documents that point to straightforward explanations, but he also has a mindset that's really difficult for Earthlings to develop. After all, everything in space is based on different perceptual cues: There's no gravity, for example, and some reports deal with images taken from the International Space Station, which is hurtling through space at five miles per second. “Our sensory system is functioning absolutely perfectly for Earth conditions,” Oberg told Atlas Obscura. “But we’re still a local civilization. Moving beyond our neighborhood has been visually confusing.”
One example is the dancing lights seen about three minutes into this video filmed from a space shuttle flight. Oberg here points out that given the spacecraft's speed, these spots aren't dancing at all, they're traveling more or less at pace with the shuttle. Oberg writes them off as small pieces of ice or insulation that have detached from the shuttle but are still keeping pace with it.
Sightings of UFOs appear to be on the rise, and now an interactive map can reveal whether 'aliens' have been seen in your area.
The map, created by UFO Stalker based on the MUFON Case Management System, reveals that a total of 83,715 sightings have been reported this year alone - 12 per cent higher than the number of sighting in 2016.
The map allows users to view UFO sighting reports based on location and by date. It then displays UFO symbols on a map of that area, which users can click to view each report.
Click on the map below to zoom in on your area
UFO SIGHTINGS BY NUMBER
Sightings last week: 83
Sightings last month: 358
Sightings last year: 5,372
Total sightings this year: 83,715
The map reveals that in the UK alone, there have been seven reported UFO sightings in November.
On 15 November, one user reported seeing a UFO over Aberdeen.
The report states: 'Standing at my kitchen window I noticed a very bright red and white light flashing every two seconds.
'I instantly knew this was not a passenger plane or helicopter.
'The object itself was traveling directly North. It just looked like a medium brightness star but had an intensely bright white and red light. The white light was stacked on top of the red light and they would pulse on and off every 2 seconds.'
Meanwhile in Thornaby, another person spotted a mysterious object on November 8.
An interactive map has been created showing UFO sightings reported every day. The map, created by UFO Stalker, reveals that a total of 83,715 sightings have been reported this year alone - 12 per cent higher than the number of sighting in 2016
The interactive map allows users to view UFO sighting reports based on location and by date. It then displays UFO symbols on a map of that area, which users can click to view each report. The map reveals that in the UK alone, there have been seven reported UFO sightings in November
CONSPIRACY, NARCISSISM AND SELF-ESTEEM
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and these psychological traits.
The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
The report states: 'I went out into my front garden for a cigarette with my husband and looked up at the clouds.
'Above the houses across the street i noticed a very bright, white, intermittent trail and when following the trail to the right noticed a small white glowing spot (orb?) moving in front of the clouds.
'I told my husband to look at it but the trail had disappeared and he wasn't able to see the orb before it disappeared; I'm not certain whether it went into the clouds or just disappeared.'
UFO sightings were less frequent in Australia, where there were only four reports this month.
But the majority of UFO sightings were in the US, where 26 reports have been filed in November.
On 20 November, a report filed in Albuquerque stated: 'I was driving around in the Nob Hill area of Albuquerque. I turned down a side street and saw a triangle shaped craft with lights that went up the side of it.
'It was illuminated so it formed a V-shape. I stopped to pull over and look at it because I thought it was strange. Witnessed it for about 10 seconds before it was hidden behind a tree.
'The airforce base is close by so I assumed it was a military aircraft but haven't seen one like it before.
UFO sightings were less frequent in Australia, where there were only four reports this month. The majority of UFO sightings were reported in the US, where 26 reports have been filed in November
The interactive map reveals that in Canada, there have been six UFO sightings this month, including in Toronto, Montreal and Manitoba
'My first thought is it was some sort of stealth type plane like b-2 but they don't appear to have that type of light formation at night.'
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'UFO Stalker is a brilliant visual guide to the location of UFO sightings, and shows the sheer scaleof this phenomena over the last few years.
'The downside of such a map is the quality of the sightings in its data base, these should be carefully filtered if anyone really wants to establish geomagnetic or other links with UFO activity.
'Clusters of sightings might for example be caused by increased media activity in an area, or a bright meteor or other mundane phenomena could also trigger a wave of UFO sightings.
'Nonetheless, this is a handy way of presenting UFO data and is very helpful in helping pin down the weird things seen in our skies.'
The UFO Sighting map follows another map released last week that showed how reports have steadily grown in the US over the last two decades, hitting a mid-summer peak each year.
The map of reported UFO sightings in the US was created by Data Solutions Engineer Adam Crahen of the Data Duo, using data from Kaggle UFO sightings.
The UFO Sighting map follows another map released last week that showed how reports have steadily grown in the US over the last two decades, hitting a mid-summer peak each year
There's little doubt that the internet has played a role in the growth of UFO reports in recent years, though most can be explained by natural or human-caused phenomena.
The image of UFOs in America is often associated with sparsely populated rural settings; a mysterious object hovering over a field of crops, or crashing in a remote expanse of desert land, likely fueled by the famous 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico.
But, the map shows these reports are actually concentrated in major cities and dense population hubs, making places such as New York and the surrounding metropolitan area hotspots for UFO sightings, along with southern and central California.
The map was created by Data Solutions Engineer Adam Crahen of the Data Duo , using data from Kaggle UFO sightings. Click each green circle to see the details of the report, including a description of the sighting and the shape of the UFO
One account, from Fresno, claims: 'Brilliant flashing light giving off a star affect traveling at an incredible rate of speed, from north to south.'
Another report, from September 2, 1995, says: 'Two males leaving a concert in Central Park witness strange moving light close to E. horizon. Moved very precisely, turned, vanished.'
The Great Lakes region also had a high concentration of UFO sightings.
In one report from Ohio, a worker even claimed he could not account for half an hour of his night after a bizarre encounter.
CIA RELEASES ITS OWN 'X-FILES'
Last year, the CIA released a glimpse into its own set of 'X-Files,' a small compilation of documents pulled from its expansive UFO collection, dating back to the 1940s.
A reported UFO sighting over Minnville, Oregon, is pictured above
The agency said that these documents appeal to both skeptics and believers – the Scullys and Mulders of the world – who seek to prove scientific explanations, or confirm the existence of extraterrestrial activity.
One of the documents among the CIA's 'X-Files' is from East Germany in 1952, where agents were called to investigate what witnesses described as a 'huge flying pan'.
The object was said to have a diameter of about 15 meters, according to the document.
Similar flying saucers were also spotted in North Africa and Spain, the report said.
'The picture [of the object] shows a diagonal stripe of diminishing width and lighter in shade than the sky over the dark bulk of a building cornice,' it was noted.
Included with some of the documents were three pictures of the alleged extraterrestrials.
One of the photos - taken by British student Alex Birch in 1962 - claimed to show a group of flying saucers flying over the city of Sheffield in the UK.
Also contained in the files is the case in Socorro, New Mexico in 1964, when police officer Lonnie Zamora spotted a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert.
Upon investigation, he found a shiny object the size of a sedan perched on the hilltop, which was oval in shape and aluminium in color.
The object then began to rise into the air and then sped away from him over the mountains and disappeared.
An explanation for this case has never been determined.
The map also organizes the sightings by month, year, and day, showing when the reports were most frequent.
Most sightings appear to occur in the summer months, with night-time in July being the most popular.
But, these unusual reports have occurred all over the country, and at all different times of the year.
The image of UFOs in America is often associated with sparsely populated rural settings. But the map shows they often occur in major cities.
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'I saw a large fireball pass over my house at about 1000 feet – no noise, traveling about 15 mph,' one person, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, claimed on December 25.
Another, from Tillamook Oregon, said they saw 'One mother ship with four smaller destinct [sic] satellite objects moving randomly,' on January 18, 2009
There are countless practical explanations for strange lights appearing in the sky or even in photos captured in space.
Weather is often to blame, or phenomena such as meteor showers and aircraft tests.
And, often, it's just a trick of the light.
Of bizarre UFO sightings spotted around the International Space Station, for example, a Nasa spokesperson explained in the past, 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.'
The European Space Agency (ESA) released a video showing the object entering Earth’s atmosphere.
In it, a bright light is seen flashing in the distance from the International Space Station.
However, notorious alien conspiracy theorist Tyler Glocker disputed the scientists’ conclusion.
He said: “I don’t think it’s a meteorite at all. What many people may not realise if that this video is a time lapse.
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CAPTIVATING: A bright light is seen flashing above the Earth in the footage
“You’re seeing the Earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space.
“When you account how fast the Earth would have actually been moving, had this not been sped up, it would have been moving much, much slower.
But critics have rejected the claims.
Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org, told Express.co.uk: "It was a meteor seen and confirmed by Italian ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli."
He compared the meteor to clips of the Perseid meteor shower in 2011 to try and prove his wacky theory.
“I don’t think it’s a meteorite at all. What many people may not realise if that this video is a time lapse”
Alien conspiracy theorist Tyler Glocker
He added: “It’s a short, stubby object that looks nothing like the other meteor here. We can see this discharge, the energy coming from the back of it.”
“Speeds that are slower than even the slowest meteorites.”
Detlev Koschny, co-manager of the Near-Earth Object (NEO) division of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness team, picked apart his theory.
He said: “It looks like a bright meteor, or fireball. one can see the fireball illuminating the clouds from above, so it must have been close to them – and close to the Earth’s limb.
The unknown bright object flashing across the sky at Heathrow Airport.
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An extraordinary footage has captured a bright object flashing across the sky at London's Heathrow Airport, just before a passenger plane was about to land.
Aviation website Airlive shared the video suggesting that the object is a shooting star. Writing on the social media site, Airlive said: "Look at that amazing shooting star our cam just caught in the sky of Heathrow Airport!"
The video was soon shared widely on Facebook and Twitter, but some disagreed with the given description. A Twitter user Paul Mottershead said: "That was no shooting star. More like a large meteorite." Others described the sighting something 'awesome' and 'superb".
It is not yet known whether the mysterious object is space debris, a meteor, UFO, or something else.
A visiting fellow of the University of Southampton who specialises in studying space debris, Clemens Rumpf told Daily Mail: "My hunch is that this was a large meteor about one metre in diameter. These events occur harmlessly multiple times a year but can be spectacular when caught on camera."
Another explanation for it could be that the object was a piece of space debris falling to Earth. Reportedly, over 500,000 large pieces of man-made debris, or 'space junk', were tracked by Nasa and up to 150 million smaller untraceable objects are believed to be in orbit around the Earth.
So, that's quite a possible option. That being said, conspiracy theorists on the other hand recently said that they believe the astronauts are hiding some information after footage from the international space station showed a fiery object racing towards the Earth's atmosphere. The footage was taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli.
"The ISS crew member has said he believes that the object could be space debris," Daily Mail reported. However, both the space agency and alien enthusiasts have rejected the given explanation.
What you see here is the salvage of the so-calledRoswellUFO crash.
This salvage included plates which had handprints made of metal and these handprints have six fingers.
Secondly we have these so-called strangesymbolson this piece of metal. These symbols are Greek letters and spell the word "Eleftheria" which means freedom.
According to this very evidence, the aliens had six fingers and spoke Greek.
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OUR AMAZING UNIVERSE: THIS IS THE MOST DETAILED MAP TO DATE
OUR AMAZING UNIVERSE: THIS IS THE MOST DETAILED MAP TO DATE
This map of the universe spans more than 500 million light-years and contains more than 100,000 galaxies.
Every day some of us get scared, worried, anxious or whatever about our lives..... We should just think of this video, and ask ourselves, why are we giving a fuck about anything less than love and freedom of the mind.
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MAINSTREAM ASTRONOMERS NOW DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY THAT OUMUAMUA IS A SPACESHIP
MAINSTREAM ASTRONOMERS NOW DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY THAT OUMUAMUA IS A SPACESHIP
A mainstream astronomer says on Reddit that Oumuamua is not your normal space rock.
"Astronomer here! I will never say this lightly, but we are, swear to God, actually discussing with some seriousness right now what are the odds that this was actually a spaceship. Which I 100% assure you has never happened before in my memory with seriousness.
Basically, the dimensions of this thing being so much longer than it is tall, combined with the no dust part, are both highly irregular details. Not so irregular there's no natural way to explain them, but irregular enough that this is definitely not your normal space rock. And unfortunately we are not really going to get any more new data on this space rock, so I guess we'll be speculating about this for the rest of my professional career.
The issue though is it is tumbling, and no thermal emission was detected. But there's no way that doesn't mean it's the dead hull of an alien spacecraft from millions of years ago, my one colleague is arguing, and I'm arguing that if you had computer intelligence type beings perhaps they'd go to stasis for the millions of years the journey takes to wherever they were going (and in my scenario, they were just using us as a tidal slingshot sorta like how we slingshot by planets to save on spacecraft fuel).
But I'm sad if it was aliens that the aliens didn't want to hang out.
(To be clear, it was most likely a space rock. But right now I believe we can't say for sure if it wasn't a space rock based on data.)
There is some potential Hubble and Spitzer telescope data in the works, so we may get a few more details about 'Oumuamua in coming months!
Residents in Alabama were left baffled last week when a loud boom resounded across much of the state.
The boom, nicknamed 'Bama Boom', has left experts stumped, with suggested causes ranging from supersonic aircrafts to meteors exploding in the atmosphere.
This isn't the first time that the mysterious sound has been heard, and incidents are becoming more frequent according to some reports.
This year alone, similar noises have been reported 64 times this year, in locations including Michigan, Lapland, St Ives, Swansea and Yorkshire.
Scroll down for a full list of booms in 2017
Mysterious booms have been reported 64 times this year, in locations including Michigan, Lapland, St Ives, Swansea and Yorkshire. Incidents are becoming more frequent according to some reports.
WHAT COULD THEY BE?
In 2017 alone, 64 booms have been heard worldwide.
The cause of most of the booms remains a mystery, although several explanations have been suggested.
1) Sonic booms
A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound – such as supersonic aircrafts.
Sonic booms generate significant amounts of sound energy, sounding like an explosion to the human ear.
2) Military exercises
Many unexplained loud noises can be put down to military training, either at Army or Naval bases or in remote areas used for such exercises.
3) Controlled explosions
A controlled explosion is a method for detonating or disabling a suspected explosive device, such as bags left at train stations.
4) Unusual weather
Many loud noises link back to unusual weather events, such as electrical storms or thunder storms.
5) Meteors
Large meteors passing above Earth often produce shock waves that can be heard as a sonic boom.
6) Sound amplified from aircraft
Some have suggested that the sound was due to inversion - a phenomenon that occurs when a layer of warm air sits over a layer of cooler air, magnifying the sound of an aircraft miles away.
7) Aliens
Some conspiracy theorists claim that the mysterious booms are noises created by aliens - although there is no evidence to support this.
Alabama, November 14
Cause: Unknown, suggested explanations include a sonic boom from an aircraft or a meteorite
The Birmingham National Weather Service tweeted: 'Loud boom heard: we do not see anything indicating large fire/smoke on radar or satellite; nothing on USGS indicating an earthquake.'
The service suggested that the sound was either caused by a sonic boom from aircraft, or a meteorite from the Leonid shower.
But Nasa has since cast doubt on these explanations.
Speaking to ABC 3340, Bill Cooke, head of Nasa's Meteoroid Environment Office, said that the boom could have been caused by a supersonic aircraft, a ground explosion, or a bolide - a large meteor that explodes in the atmosphere unrelated to the Leonid shower.
While the noise was picked up by the US Geological Survey, data suggests that the boom wasn't the result of an earthquake.
The boom may have been caused by a military flight by a supersonic jet, although the US Air Force is yet to confirm this.
The Bama Boom is just one of many mysterious booms heard worldwide this year.
Idaho, November 15
Cause: Unknown
The day after the boom in Alabama, a similar noise was heard in Idaho.
Multiple people reported hearing a loud boom over the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley around 23:00.
Many of the reports described the sound as being similar to a sonic boom, although its cause and location remain unclear.
Cairns, October 10
Cause: Unknown, suggested explanations include a meteorite, a gas bottle explosion or military plane
On October 10, a boom was heart over Cairns, Queensland that had the city baffled.
While the noise in Alabama was picked up by the US Geological Survey (graph pictured), data suggests that the boom wasn't the result of an earthquake
Residents' theories ranged from a meteorite to a gas bottle explosion or military plane.
A FA-18 Hornet plane was heard flying over Cairns the previous night, but no jets were flying on the night when the 'explosion' happened.
The Birmingham National Weather Service tweeted: 'Loud boom heard: we do not see anything indicating large fire/smoke on radar or satellite; nothing on USGS indicating an earthquake'
Abergavenny, May 11
Cause: Unknown
Residents in Abergavenny, Wales, were also shocked after they heard a series of booms on May 11.
James Spann, AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist tweeted that no explanation had been provided by USGS, NOAA or EMA
Speaking to the Abergavenny Chronicle, one resident said: 'It nearly gave me a heart attack it was that loud. At first I thought it was shotgun blast or a firework, but it was way too loud for that. It sounded more like a tank going off.
'My husband said it was probably mini meteors colliding with the earth, but have you ever heard such nonsense?'
Again, the source of the Welsh booms have remained unsolved.
But other booms this year have had explanations behind them.
Other booms have been known to be caused by secret military missions. On May 7, a boom rattled Central Florida, caused by a military mission ending at the Kennedy Space Centre (stock image)
Lapland, November 17
Cause: Falling meteor
On November 17, a boom in Lapland was caused by a fireball from a falling meteor.
Footage showed a bright light in the sky over Inari in Finland - but the flash was so intense it was also seen in Russia's Kola Peninsula and in northern Norway.
Stargazers reported seeing the sky 'light up like day' for a few seconds alongside a loud noise as the space rock plummeted towards Earth.
Eyre Peninsula, October 27
Cause: Falling meteor
On October 27, another boom was heard over Eyre Peninsula in Australia, as a bright blue meteor shot across the sky.
On November 17, a boom in Lapland was caused by a fireball from a falling meteor. Footage showed a bright light in the sky over Inari in Finland - but the flash was so intense it was also seen in Russia's Kola Peninsula and in northern Norway
The loud bangs weren't caused by the fireball hitting Earth, and instead were caused by the change in pressure as the meteor soared through the air.
Speaking to News.com.au, Renee Sayers, a spokeswoman from the Desert Fireball Network, explained: 'The shock wasn't from it hitting the ground; It is like a sonic boom shock, a pressure shock.'
Central Florida, May 7
Cause: Supersonic flight testing
Other booms have been known to be caused by secret military missions.
On May 7, a boom rattled Central Florida, caused by a military mission ending at the Kennedy Space Centre.
The US Air Force tweeted: 'The Air Force #X37B #OTV4 has returned from orbit and landed safely at @NASAKennedy.'
Can YOU work out what the sound coming from the sky is?
MYSTERY BOOMS IN 2017
November 18 - Michigan
November 19 - Damascus - caused by airstrikes
November 17 - Lapland - caused by meteor
November 15 - Idaho
November 14 - Alabama
November 8 - Tennessee
November 4 - Oregon
November 3 - Minnesota
November 1 and 2 - New Jersey and San Diego
October 27 - Eyre Peninsula - caused by meteor
October 25 - New Jersey
October 20 - British Columbia
October 17 - North Carolina
October 10 - Detroit
September 25 - St Ives
September 22 - Temple Terrace, Florida
September 17 - Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio and Massachusetts - caused by meteor
September 7 - Moranbah, Australia
May 30 - Tauranga, New Zealand
May 26 - Kent
May 24 - Texas
May 19 - Massachusetts
May 16-17 - Lincolnshire
May 13 - Ontario - caused by earthquake
May 12 - Tennessee
May 11 - Abergavenny, Wales
May 7 - Florida - caused by secret military mission
Mysterieuze knallen gehoord op 64 plekken op aarde. Waardoor worden ze veroorzaakt?
Mysterieuze knallen gehoord op 64 plekken op aarde. Waardoor worden ze veroorzaakt?
Inwoners van Alabama werden afgelopen week opgeschrikt door een harde knal die in het grootste deel van de Amerikaanse staat was te horen.
Er wordt inmiddels gesproken van de ‘Bama Boom’. Experts staan voor een raadsel. Mogelijke verklaringen variëren van supersonische vliegtuigen tot exploderende meteoren.
De Birmingham National Weather Service twitterde: “Harde knal gehoord, we zien geen sporen van vuur/rook op radar of satelliet; ook geen aanwijzingen dat het om een aardbeving gaat.”
Twijfels
De dienst suggereerde dat het geluid was veroorzaakt door een supersone knal van een vliegtuig of meteoriet, maar de NASA heeft twijfels bij deze verklaringen.
Ook op andere plekken op aarde zijn de laatste tijd vreemde knallen te horen. Er zijn dit jaar alleen al 64 gevallen gemeld in onder meer Michigan, Lapland en Yorkshire.
Op de dag na de knal in Alabama, op 15 november, werd een soortgelijk geluid gehoord in de staat Idaho.
Explosie
Op 10 oktober werden inwoners van de Australische stad Cairns opgeschrikt door een harde knal. Er vlogen op het moment van de ‘explosie’ geen straaljagers boven de stad.
In mei hoorden inwoners van Abergavenny in Wales een reeks explosies. “Het geluid was zo hard dat ik bijna een hartaanval kreeg,” zei een lokale bewoner.
Onzin
“Ik dacht eerst dat iemand met een geweer schoot of dat het vuurwerk was, maar het was veel harder dan dat,” voegde de bewoner toe. “Het klonk meer als een tank die vuurde.”
“Mijn man zei dat het waarschijnlijk mini-meteoren waren die in botsing waren gekomen met de aarde, maar dat is volgens mij onzin,” klonk het.
People have spent thousands of years pondering the existence of the Lost City of Atlantis, ever since Plato wrote about the fictional island of half-humans, half-Gods in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias.
While these musings have largely been sequestered to the realms of fantasy, new discoveries in the Antarctic could shed light on the possibility of ancient Utopian civilisations.
A scientific theory put forward in the 1950s by American history expert, Professor Charles A. Hapgood, suggests that thousands of years ago the icy tundra may have been home to an ancient and mysterious civilisation.
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The theory of crustal displacement posits the Earth’s entire crust shifts every 20,000 to 30,000 years and that only 11,600 years ago large parts of Antarctica – a continent we now know as icy and barren – were ice free.
Hapgood looks to the Piri Reis world map, drawn 500 years ago by the Ottoman admiral of the same name, to reconcile his theory with evidence.
The map is thought to show the west coast of Africa, the east coast of South America and the northern coast of Antarctica, with all land masses totally devoid of ice.
Bilkent University
US Air Force Lt. Colonel Harold Z Ohlmeyer wrote to Hapgood reinforcing his theory:
The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949.
This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap. This part of Antarctica [is] ice free. The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick.
Conspirators believe both Hapgood’s theory of crustal displacement and that much of the south pole was free of ice – and also the location of The Lost City of Atlantis.
Wikimedia
In 1995, Graham Hancock publish a study, Fingerprints of the Gods, claiming that crustal displacement in 10,450 BC had destroyed an advanced, ancient civilisation, the remains of which now lie beneath Antarctica.
Hancock muses the descendants of said civilisation went on to build the Aztec, Mayan and Egyptian empires.
This postulation rings true when compared to Native American mythology, which traces their ancestors back to the enigmatic white island in the South, Aztlán, which was destroyed by natural disaster.
While this is undeniably fascinating, scientists dispute the theory of crustal displacement stating that, in effect, the Earth’s crust would have to move at 1,000 mph for the timings to add up, thus wiping out flora, fauna – and humanity itself.
Wikimedia/Athanasius Kircher
Despite this, dreamers, conspiracy theorists and believers are convinced Atlantis – a city that was born in fiction – lies underneath the Antarctic.
Presumably the U.S. government are responsible, or aliens, or the lizard race that secretly rules the Earth – put your theory on a postcard…
Ligt er een bevroren stad verborgen onder het ijs van Antarctica? Volgens deze theorie wel
Ligt er een bevroren stad verborgen onder het ijs van Antarctica? Volgens deze theorie wel
Al duizenden jaren wordt gespeculeerd over de verloren stad Atlantis. Onder meer Plato schreef over het eiland in zijn werken.
Dankzij nieuwe ontdekkingen op Antarctica komen we mogelijk meer te weten over dit soort utopische beschavingen.
Professor Charles A. Hapgood kwam in de jaren vijftig met een wetenschappelijke theorie die suggereerde dat duizenden jaren geleden een oude en mysterieuze beschaving op de Zuidpool leefde.
Nieuw ontdekte fossielen
Volgens de theorie waren grote delen van de Zuidpool 11.600 jaar geleden ijsvrij.
Het is inmiddels bekend dat Antarctica niet altijd het ijzige continent was dat het nu is. Miljoenen jaren geleden groeiden er bomen, zo blijkt uit nieuw ontdekte fossielen van 280 miljoen jaar oud.
De Amerikaanse historicus keek naar de Piri Reis-kaart, een kaart die in 1513 werd gemaakt door de Ottomaanse admiraal Piri Re’is.
Noordelijke kust
De kaart toont naar verluidt de westkust van Afrika, de oostkust van Zuid-Amerika en de noordelijke kust van Antarctica, die ijsvrij is.
De kaart komt opvallend genoeg overeen met resultaten van onderzoeken tijdens de Zweeds-Britse Antarctica-expeditie in 1949, zo schreef luitenant-kolonel Harold Z. Ohlmeyer van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht.
“Dit wijst erop dat de kustlijn in kaart is gebracht voordat hij bedekt was met ijs,” voegde hij toe. “Dit deel van Antarctica is ijsvrij. Nu bevindt zich daar een dikke ijskap.”
Aztlán
In 1995 publiceerde Graham Hancock een studie waarin hij claimde dat in 10.450 voor Christus een hoogontwikkelde beschaving was weggevaagd op Antarctica.
Hancock zei dat de nazaten van deze beschaving de piramides van de Azteken, Maya’s en Egyptenaren hebben gebouwd.
Volgens de mythologie stammen de inheemse volkeren van Zuid-Amerika af van een volk dat op het raadselachtige witte eiland Aztlán woonde, dat door een natuurramp werd vernietigd.
Sommigen denken dat de stad Atlantis onder Antarctica verborgen ligt.
We weten dat er wereldwijd een enorme beweging gaande is betreffende UFO-waarnemingen.
Dagelijks verschijnen er nieuwe berichten dat mensen UFO’s hebben gezien en we weten natuurlijk als geen ander dat niet al deze meldingen ook daadwerkelijk een UFO betreffen.
Als het koren echter van het kaf gescheiden is blijft er toch een aanzienlijk aantal waarnemingen over die we echt onder de noemer UFO mogen scharen. En dit aantal loopt wereldwijd in de vele duizenden.
Wat zijn UFO’s
En daarmee groeit natuurlijk ook de vraag: wat zijn UFO’s? Zijn het buitenaardse schepen die onze aarde bezoeken? En hoe zouden de buitenaardse wezens eruitzien? Wereldwijd zijn er tienduizenden mensen die graag meer zouden willen weten over het hele UFO-fenomeen en als de gelegenheid zich zou aandienen misschien zelfs mee zouden willen vliegen.
Velen fantaseren daarover, maar wat nu als dit werkelijk zou kunnen? Dan wordt het natuurlijk ineens heel erg spannend en zullen velen toch liever veilig op aarde blijven.
Het onderbewustzijn
Het ongekend krachtige onderbewustzijn is in staat ogenschijnlijke wonderen voor ons te verrichten, als we het maar op de juiste manier weten te gebruiken. Naast het strikt therapeutische gebruik van hypnose en meditatie, heeft Trancewerk de meditatiesessie ‘Vliegen in een UFO’ ontwikkeld.
Deze krachtige sessie zal ondanks de titel een grote impact hebben op diegenen die ernaar luisteren. Het onderbewustzijn, dat bijvoorbeeld ook verantwoordelijk is voor dromen en het zogenaamd lucide dromen – een levensechte droom die men naar eigen wens kan besturen, zodat de uitkomst wordt zoals men dat wil – zal zorgen voor een kleurrijke levendige belevenis die extreem echt kan lijken.
Onlangs werden op NineForNews.nl de vragen gesteld:
Is ons universum wel echt?
Wat is realiteit?
Is ons universum een holografische projectie?
In boeken als ‘The Holographic Universe’ wordt de theorie uitgelegd hoe ons universum feitelijk niet bestaat in de materiële vorm, zoals wij mensen die aanschouwen. Deze ‘Holografisch universum’-theorie wint in rap tempo steeds meer terrein bij de gevestigde wetenschap, omdat vanuit de kwantummechanica steeds meer bewijzen komen dat deze theorie daadwerkelijk klopt.
Dus is onze gedachtewereld de echte wereld en wat wij nu als fysiek en echt ervaren een illusie?
Je onderbewustzijn geeft antwoord
Wellicht dat deze vraag door het onderbewustzijn beantwoord wordt tijdens of na het luisteren naar ‘Vliegen in een UFO’. Deze sessie geeft je een bijzondere ervaring. Je vliegt levensecht door het universum, ziet planeten en verre sterrenstelsels en dat alles op een uiterst comfortabele en veilige manier. En als je bedenkt dat het onderbewustzijn geen onderscheid kan maken tussen fictie en ‘realiteit’…
Na het beluisteren treedt een sterk gevoel van voldoening op, waarbij het ook indirect een positief resultaat op je heeft. Je leert ontdekken welke enorme creatieve krachten er schuil gaan in je brein. En als je dat eenmaal ervaren hebt en weet, dan kan er een nieuwe wereld voor je opengaan.
Exclusief voor NineForNews-lezers biedt Trancewerk deze week deze bijzondere sessie aan voor slechts 10 euro (normale prijs € 49,99), waarmee je zo vaak je wilt een levensechte reis door het universum kunt meemaken in een UFO.
En wees eerlijk, voor dat geld heb je doorgaans nog geen treinkaartje naar Schiphol, laat staan naar Area 51 of Cape Canaveral!
Het lijkt alsof vreemde vliegende voorwerpen, graancirkels en ontmoetingen met buitenaardsen van onze aardbodem zijn verdwenen. Terwijl er decennia lang toch volop aandacht was voor deze vreemde fenomenen.
Misschien als de Telegraaf eens wat eigen onderzoek zou verrichten in plaats van persberichten van het ANP en Reuters doorplaatsen, ze ook een keer echt nieuws zouden kunnen brengen.
Natuurlijk zijn vliegende voorwerpen zoals zij ze noemen niet van de aardbodem verdwenen, maar wat wel verdwenen is, is dat mensen er een beetje moe van worden om berichten hierover altijd terug te vinden op de pagina "belachelijke onderwerpen".
Voor serieuze onderzoekers valt er nog genoeg in de lucht te zien, zoals enkele dagen geleden in Manitoba, Canada.
Er rijden enkele mensen in een auto, wanneer ze buiten een vreemde, grote lichtbol zien hangen. Dat niet alleen, op een gegeven moment verschijnt er een tweede, kleinere, die als het waar hoort bij de grote bol.
Op een zeker moment verdwijnt de kleinere om even later volkomen onverwacht weer op te duiken. Deze video heeft alle kenmerken een echte opname te zijn. Je kunt in de achtergrond de stemmen horen van de verbaasde mensen in de auto die zich hardop afvragen waar ze hier in 's hemelsnaam mee te maken hebben.
Degene die de video gemaakt heeft of in ieder gepubliceerd heeft , Dwayne Hegelheimer, heeft een piepklein Youtube kanaal waarop het afgelopen jaar slechts enkele video's zijn geplaatst, waarbij niet één UFO's als onderwerp had.
Op het moment dat wij dit schrijven is de video ongeveer 100 keer bekeken, dus is deze niet gemaakt om publiek te trekken of advertentie-inkomsten te scoren zoals bij alle nep UFO-video's wél het geval is.
Dat wil niet zeggen dat er misschien niet nog een andere verklaring dan UFO's voor deze video zou kunnen zijn, maar dat de opname echt is en dat je daar, tot op dit moment, enkele mysterieuze lichtbollen in de lucht ziet, is een feit.
Een andere opname die alle kenmerken vertoont van een echte is gemaakt door een Mavic Pro drone in Frankrijk.
De man vloog enkele dagen geleden met zijn drone in Anse de Morieux in het Franse Bretagne toen de camera op zijn drone niet alleen het grijze landschap vastlegde, maar ook nog iets anders.
Een sigaarvormig object dat met grote snelheid van links naar rechts door het beeld vliegt.
En dan niet te vergeten de UFO boven de vliegtuigen op de startbaan bij Schiphol. Hoeveel voorbeelden wil je hebben Telegraaf dat het in werkelijkheid krioelt van de onbekende objecten in ons luchtruim.
It is a dark night and the landscape leaps out of the pitch blackness into the beams of the car’s headlights, everything else just an indistinct blur of greys and half-glimpsed shapes, perhaps frosted by moonlight, perhaps not. The trees crowd around the road in the passing light as well, seeming to reach their flickering tendrils and fingers outwards overhead, and there is a sense that anything could be crouched or lurking out in the gloom out there beyond this illuminated patch. Then up ahead something lurches, scurries, or skitters out of the murk, something the likes of which you have never seen disgorged from the forest into your lights and possibly your nightmares. As your mind struggles to make sense of what you have just seen and comprehend it, the thing is gone just as suddenly as it appeared, swallowed back up by the night. What was it? Where did it go? You don’t know, and there was no way for you to have possibly taken a picture.
Such reports are commonplace in cryptozoology, sightings made by people driving along at night minding their own business are numerous to the point that it is almost cliché. There was a time when such chance encounters with strange mystery creatures along the remote roadways of our world would have been nothing more than a scary yarn, with nothing to show for it, and confined to our imaginations, yet in more modern times the increasing use of dashboard mounted cameras in vehicles of all kinds has brought some of these strange, passing sightings into the light and captured them on video for all to see. No longer are such reports the realm of mere pure speculation, doubt, and wonder.
Perhaps one of the more well-known such pieces of mysterious footage was captured in 2009 in Lumpkin County, Georgia, in the United States. In the footage a Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office deputy is driving along a lonely road in the Frogtown area at night bantering back and forth with a local named Mary Scott, who was along for the ride as a part of a Citizens Law Enforcement Academy program. As the two make their way through a dark landscape illuminated only by the vehicle’s headlights something runs across the road in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment. It is hard to see in the unenhanced version of the footage, and can take several viewings to catch, but it is something large and dark in color, seemingly bipedal, and very fleet of foot, and it is odd enough to elicit a shout of surprise from the deputy and genuine amazement from Scott, who also saw it. The two then turn the car around to go back and look for whatever it was, and Scott would later say of the odd encounter:
We were going about 55 mph on a curvy road. It was really late-after midnight, I think. We hadn’t passed any other cars, and this thing came out of nowhere. The officer hit the brakes and we both jumped out. We looked on both sides of the road but didn’t see anything, and we looked at each other kind-of like, ‘You saw that, didn’t you? I saw that.’
The officer can be seen in the footage getting out of the car and shining his flashlight around into the wilderness, but they are unable to figure out where the thing went or just what exactly it is they had just seen. The two can be heard speculating that it might just be some teenagers messing around, but they don’t seem to really believe that, and they continue to express bewilderment. They would later take a look at the dash cam footage they had captured and that was when things got decidedly more mysterious. The bizarre figure indeed seems to run on two legs, is quite fast, and does not appear to be of human proportions, although it is only visible for a fraction of a second. Upon seeing the strange footage Scott became convinced that they had witnessed something truly out of the ordinary, saying of the review of the footage “We were both just shocked. It was really tall, and it really looked like the pictures you’ve seen of Bigfoot.” Bigfoot or not, the reactions of the two witnesses certainly seem genuine and they seem to be convinced that they saw something weird.
When the footage was uncovered and posted on the Internet it immediately went viral, and there was intense speculation on what it could be. Was it a misidentified known animal, Bigfoot, a hoax? Debate and discussion swarmed about the footage, and all manner of cryptozoologists, paranormal investigators, and curiosity seekers came pouring into the area, to the point that Sheriff Stacy Jarrard decided to launch his own investigation into the strange sighting. Jarrard claims that he went interviewing residents of the area looking for any helpful testimony and apparently found it in two students at North Georgia College & State University, who he claims acted very nervous in his presence and allegedly eventually admitted that one of them had dressed up in a gorilla suit and prowled about as a prank on the night in question. It seemed like case closed, or was it?
Skeptics of these claims say that no hoaxers have officially stepped forward to publically claim responsibility for such a prank, and the picture that Jarrard said he took of the boys with the actual gorilla suit has yet to materialize, with Jarrard supposedly refusing all requests to release the elusive photo. It has also been pointed out that the area was very remote and that no one lived in the immediate vicinity, making it odd that the boys would be out there trouncing about in their suit on the off chance that someone would actually happen by. It also seems rather ill-advised to do so in the first place, as in this day and age and with armed people running around and hunters about it seems like wandering around the forest in a gorilla suit is just asking for trouble. I can see using a suit to make one’s own fake video, but the deputy was seemingly not in on this, and walking around pranking unknown people with a gorilla suit in Bigfoot country being the death wish it is, it seems foolish at best. Does anyone really do this?
Adding to the whole odd affair, a 2011 Animal Planetdocumentary group also investigated and confirmed that no teenagers had lived anywhere near the area at the time, making it strange that they should be there, and interestingly when other sheriff’s department personnel were interviewed none of them had any knowledge of Jarrard’s supposed investigation. It seems the only source we have for any of Jarrard’s “investigation” is Jarrard himself, which is a bit suspicious and has led to the idea that he is the one pulling a fast one, possibly to keep people from coming in to snoop about. A BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization) statement on the matter reads:
None of the other sheriffs had heard about this story that Jarrard told to a reporter. It seems he came up with the story to quell any fear that local people might have about a monster in the woods, and to prevent hunters from going to look for one.
As far as anyone knows, the two boys might not even exist, and if they do the only one they have admitted a hoax to is Jarrard himself. There has also been quite a bit of analysis done on the video clip by those who claim that the creature seen in the footage seems to be moving much faster and more fluidly than what would typically be expected of a teenager in a gorilla suit, with one estimate saying the thing appears to move at about 10 meters (40 feet) in 1.4 seconds. However, obviously this is hard to determine because whatever it is can only very briefly be seen, and even with enhancements made to the footage it is indistinct, blurry and undeniably hard to make out. It is certainly dark, probably bipedal, and man-sized or larger, but it is difficult to glean much else from the video, meaning that the footage will remain inconclusive, with those watching it divided as to what exactly it shows. You can see the dash cam footage here, with enhancements at the end.
A very similar piece of weird dashboard camera footage that has made the rounds emerged in 2016, and comes to us from Russia’s icy Kazhakstan border, in an area between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains called the Republic of Bashkortostan. The video features two men driving at night along a snowy road in what appears to be a rather isolated and remote area, and they are chatting away in Russian about, well I’m not exactly sure as I cannot speak Russian but it seems like just friendly banter. Around 45 seconds into the video they are noticeably shocked when a large figure lumbers across the road ahead right into the beams of the car’s headlights.
The two startled men chatter away in the universal language of befuddled shouts of amazement and fear, and frantically stop the car and reverse to see if they can figure out what the strange creature was, but whatever it is they saw is gone by then. The witnesses claim that the area they were in is very remote, the weather had been inhospitable and frigid at the time, and that it would be unlikely that someone would have been out there pulling pranks on such a night. They have also dismissed the idea that they may have seen a bear or some wild animal, with driver Vadim Gilmanov stating:
I mean it could have been someone’s cruel prank. But on the other hand, who else could dash out so quickly in the middle of the night? In the middle of nowhere.
As with the Lumpkin footage the creature, hoaxer, or whatever it is, is visible only very briefly, and is not clearly defined. It could be practically anything, but the clip is oddly intriguing nonetheless. You can see it here. Staying with the bizarre humanoid theme we come to what is perhaps one of the most talked about pieces of footage in recent days, this time not from a car’s dash cam but from a helmet cam worn by a biker in Indonesia in 2017.
The footage comes from the helmet camera of one of a group of off-road motocross bikers tearing along a dirt road surrounded thick jungle and high grass near Banda Aceh, north of Sumatra Island. At one point one of the riders loses control of his bike and falls, and it soon becomes obvious why, as it appears that a peculiar figure has scurried out of the wilderness onto the road to startle the rider into crashing his bike. The rest of the bikers slow down to see that the unidentified creature is short, no more than 4 or 5 feet tall, bald, and half naked, holding some sort of pole or spear, and looks to be a humanoid of some kind, but before anyone can get a good look it sprints off at a surprising speed.
A still from the strange footage showing the humanoid
The group immediately gives chase on their motorcycles but the humanoid runs along the road very quickly and then loses them by veering off into the high grassland, prompting the pursuers to stop their bikes and look for it on foot but all they can find is the strange pole it had been carrying discarded upon the ground. The creature itself is nowhere to be seen despite all frantic attempts to locate it by the puzzled witnesses. The strange footage set the Internet on fire when it was first released, baffling all those who saw it. What was this diminutive little humanoid and where did it come from? No one really knows, but there have been theories. One is that this could be actual footage of an Indonesian cryptid hairy hominid called the Orang Pendek, which is reported from Sumatra and is also claimed to be only around 3 to 5 feet tall, but the lack of any apparent body hair at all on the subject of the footage makes it look more like a human than a hairy ape man of any sort.
Considering its similarities to a human being and its small stature, there has also been the idea that this could be a member of a previously thought to be a lost tribe of mysterious pygmies called the Mante, who are only known through two that were supposedly captured in the 17th century to be presented to the Sultan. There are other tribes present in the region as well, although none that really resemble what was seen in the footage. Of course there has also been the idea that this was all a hoax, but in the end despite millions of views and constant discussion, debate, and analysis of the footage it remains a total mystery. You can see it here.
The Orang Pendek
Whatever it was or wherever it went, I’m sure it wanted its stick back. Speaking of that stick, one thing I wonder about with this case is what happened to it? It seems to me that this is a major piece of evidence that was actually retrieved and could hold profound clues as to what or who we see in the footage. If the design and any markings on the stick were consistent with other tribes of the area, then that would pretty much settle everything, and if it is a new kind of pygmy or hominid then this artifact could offer all sorts of interesting insights, yet I cannot find any information at all as to what has become of it or if it was ever seriously studied. So where did the stick go? Did the bikers keep it? Did they just throw it away? It seems to be just as big a mystery as the little humanoid itself.
Adding to all of the dash cam videos of purported hairy humanoids is one that is purported to show a mysterious canid creature of some sort roaming about in South Texas. In 2008, Texas Sheriff deputy Brandon Riedel was out in his patrol car training a new deputy in DeWitt County in a rural area near the city of Cuero when they came across a bizarre creature trotting along the side of the road near a fence line. The mysterious animal looks to be a canine of some sort, and has short front legs with longer back legs, a hairless body, a long, thin snout, and a skinny, rat-like tail. Reidel would say of the bizarre sighting:
I’ve been patrolling these back roads for a long time and I never run across anything like this. We were out checking fence lines and we came around the corner and we saw this running down the road. You need to record something like this because it’s not every day you find something that looks like this running around out in the middle of the county. It just doesn’t look like your average coyote or dog or anything.
A still from the Cuero Chupacabras dash cam video
The sighting and the footage generated a huge amount of interest at the time, particularly since the area where it was taken was going through a spate of sightings of strange, hairless dog-like creatures roaming the region that had gained the nickname “The Cuero Chupacabras,” which were said to sometimes kill pets or livestock and frighten people at night. There has been a lot of speculation as to what the creature in the dashcam footage and the Cureo Chupacabras could be, including that they are just coyotes or dogs with some skin condition such as mange, which can cause the hair to fall out to dramatically alter their appearance, or that they are hybrids of coyotes, wolves, and dogs or even aliens or really Chupacabras. Whatever the thing is in this footage, it is certainly creepy and a bit unsettling as well in a way. You can see it featured in a news report here.
It seems that as more and more people use cameras and the technology becomes more readily available we can expect more of such pieces of mysterious footage. After all there are fewer and fewer excuses for people to use the old excuse of “if only I’d had a camera.” Almost everything we witness today can now be captured in photos and on videos, and there are fewer ways for these mysteries to escape being seen and analyzed by the masses. There are few shadows to hide in anymore. Vehicles are not much different, as more and more utilize dash cams to catch everything that happens on the road. This might not be the best way to capture video evidence of strange creatures, since the very nature of these circumstances makes the sightings fleeting at best, and it is perhaps no surprise that by the time the vehicle turns around to get a better look the creature is long gone, yet it certainly does add a tool to the photographic chronicles of the world of the mysterious and will no doubt keep us wondering.
Mysterious UFO speeding across the Sky above Heathrow, London seconds ahead of a landing plane
Mysterious UFO speeding across the Sky above Heathrow, London seconds ahead of a landing plane
The live feed Sky Cam from Air Live captured the moment a mysterious unidentified flying object speeding across the sky above Heathrow Airport, London before it disappeared, on November 19, 2017.
The object in the sky was just seconds ahead of a landing plane though it is not clear how far away it was from the plane.
Some people suggest it was a shooting star, while others say it was a meteor, space debris or a UFO.
Speaking to MailOnline, Clemens Rumpf, from the University of Southampton specialized in studying space debris, said: 'My hunch is that this was a large meteor about one meter in diameter at an altitude of 30 to 70 km”, but some people disagree with the explanation give.
Whether the object was a UFO, shooting star, meteor or space debris it remains unclear what the object might have been.
While “What the heck is THAT?” might have been the first name considered for it, the first known interstellar object to be identified has now officially been named ‘Oumuamua, a Hawaiian word meaning “a messenger from afar arriving first.” While that seems to be more appropriate at first glance, at second glance “Mysterious spinning cigar from parts unknown” might be more appropriate.
New data released by the European Southern Observatory this week in the journal Nature sheds more light on the dark object discovered on October 19 by Rob Weryk, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope.
“I’d never expected to find something like this.”
On October 26th, Weryk and his fellow astronomers announced the discovery of A/2017 U1, along with the astonishing news that its behavior appeared to prove it was from outside of our solar system. While it was first believed to be a comet, subsequent analysis by the European Southern Observatory shows it’s behavior and composition to be more asteroidal.
Asteroidal, yes, but its shape says cigar-ish. (ESO photo here)
“Light-curve observations indicate that the object has an extreme oblong shape, with a 10:1 axis ratio and a mean radius of 102±4 m, assuming an albedo of 0.04. Very few objects in our Solar System have such an extreme light curve.”
For those unfamiliar with cigars
‘Oumuamua measures about 400 meters (1,300ft) long and 40 meters (130ft) wide, and spins rapidly like a spiraling football (American), making a complete rotation every seven hours. That shape and spin, along with its deep reddish color and carbon-based composition, make ‘Oumuamua one of the darkest space objects ever seen, absorbing 96% of the light that hits it.
That lack of reflective light may be the reason why it’s the first interstellar object to be discovered. However, it’s probably not the only one. Another study, led by David Jewitt at the University of California Los Angeles, estimated there may be up to 10,000 of them just between Neptune and the Sun, making their way through to … where?
Who knows? It might help if we knew where ‘Oumuamua came from, but all the announcement said was that it appeared to travel from the direction of the star Vega. The ESO shoots down that silly notion in a diplomatic and astronomical way:
“However, even travelling at a breakneck speed of about 95 000 kilometres/hour, it took so long for the interstellar object to make the journey to our Solar System that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there about 300 000 years ago. `Oumuamua may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the Solar System.”
An unattached happy wanderer. Sounds like ‘Oumuamua is living the good life … spearing through space from star to star with no cares or responsibilities. Too bad we couldn’t have spent more time with it. In an interview in The Atlantic, Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, puts it best:
“Don’t be sad that it’s over. Be happy that you saw it. Because it is really amazing that we saw it.”
Are aliens abducting people to implant them with foreign objects?
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Jeremy Corbell is an investigative filmmaker who documents what he calls Extraordinary people with extraordinary beliefs. He's produced documentaries on everything from nanotechnology and aerospace exploration to the super-weird and unexplained, including deathbed confessions from former U.S. government officials claiming to know the truth about UFOs (and the worldwide coverup).
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know hosts Matt Frederick, Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown invited Corbell to sit in on an episode of the podcast to discuss — what else? — alien abductions. But more specifically, they wanted to talk to Corbell about whether he thinks aliens abduct people to implant them with foreign objects. And if so, are these objects extraterrestrial? If they're not, then where do they come from? Corbell and the STDWYTK team examine these questions — and more — in this fascinating episode.
Originally somewhat of a skeptic, Corbell was asked to document a surgical procedure by the now-late Dr. Roger Leir, a pediatric surgeon and "alien implant specialist." Leir was going to remove a mysterious object from a man's leg. Corbell was curious, so he agreed to film it and it's all documented in his new film "Patient 17." What he witnessed made him feel that, however outrageous they may sound, claims of off-world implants and alien abductions clearly necessitate serious investigation.
Why? The object removed from "Patient 17" was unusual in appearance, and Leir sent it to a New Hampshire lab for testing. The reports found that it allegedly contained iridium, an element found only on meteorites. Even more compellingly, it seemed to emit electromagnetic frequencies, indicating that the object could be some kind of communication or tracking device.
Corbell admits he felt some of the equipment was mishandled, which could have caused the blips lab detected from the object. So his skepticism was still holding firm until the lab tested the object using isotopic analysis.
Isotopes are variations in elements. The number of protons is the same, but the number of neutrons varies, creating stable and radioactive versions of elements. For example, the atomic bomb could only be created when scientists were able to isolate one uranium isotope from the rest.
The isotopic analysis Leir and the New Hampshire lab performed dropped a different kind of bomb: It appeared that the isotope zinc-64 — one of the most abundant elements on Earth — was not detected in the implant removed from Patient 17. Since zinc-64 is found on every terrestrial object, didn't that mean that the implant was not terrestrial? That it was, in fact, extraterrestrial?
Not necessarily. Corbell's mentor, investigative journalist George Knapp, urged Corbell to quantify the results and have the sample tested numerous times. A thorough scientific method would be the only way to get real proof that the implant was otherworldly. But Corbell claims that his and Patient 17's combined efforts to obtain a sample of the object have been in vain, so they can't substantiate the results. Nor have they ever had access to the other objects Leir has removed and claimed were extraterrestrial in nature.
But Corbell's thirst for the truth remains, and he continues to investigate the unexplained. To hear more of his story about Patient 17, and others like him (including "Nano Man" and the infamous Skinwalker Ranch) listen to the entire podcast and decide for yourself if there's more here than meets the eye.
Carl Sagan’s mixtape for aliens is finally available.
NASA’s Golden Voyager Record will receive its first proper release after being crowdfunded by a successful Kickstarter campaign last year.
Conceived with the help of Carl Sagan as a “bottle into the cosmic ocean”, the 1977 record contains songs and sounds documenting humanity should extra-terrestrials ever find it.
It features music ranging from Bach to Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’ to Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring. It also includes a wide selection of world music, the word “Hello” in 55 languages and a suite of field recordings titled ‘The Sounds of Earth’ which you can stream below.
Copies of the record were placed in both Voyager spacecrafts, but never officially released to the public until now. Light In The Attic has detailed the 40th anniversary reissue which is available in a 2xCD or 3xLP boxset. The fully remastered set also includes a 96-page book with photographs and new liner notes from original producer Timothy Ferris.
The Golden Voyager Record is out December 1 on CD and next February on vinyl via Ozma Records. Order it and learn more via Light In The Attic and take a look at pictures from the set below.
The stunning footage films the sky above the London airport before the flash of light whizzes past.
It came just seconds before a large jet landing at the airport comes into view, and it has not yet been determined what the mystery sighting is.
But it is believed the object is either a meteor or another form of space debris.
AIRLIVE
UFO: A mysterious object was spotting hurtling above Heathrow Airport
Airlive, the aviation website that shared the footage, said: "Look at that amazing shooting star our cam just caught in the sky of Heathrow Airport."
Space debris expert Clemens Rumpf told Mail Online: "My hunch is that this was a large meteor about one metre in diameter.
"These events occur harmlessly multiple times a year but can be spectacular when caught on camera.
"There was probably no immediate danger for any passenger aircraft as these objects tend to burn up, as seen in the footage, at altitudes of 20 to 45 miles (30 to 70 km), well above the flight level of planes.
"Larger objects are a concern for public safety as they release enough energy to cause damage on the ground, as with the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013."
Toyota just unveiled the T-HR3, a humanoid robot. The robot is designed to be controlled by a human operator with the help of a virtual reality headset.
T-HR3
On November 20, Toyota revealed its latest humanoid robot, the T-HR3, which the company says “represents an evolution from previous generation instrument-playing humanoid robots,” according to the company’s press release. The new robot was created to assist humans safely whether at home or work, particularly in dangerous or remote areas — even outer space. The T-HR3’s third-generation robotic hardware was developed and designed by Toyota’s Partner Robot Division, and is meant to facilitate “unique mobility needs.”
The T-HR3 makes use of Toyota’s “Master Maneuvering System,” which allows a human operator to control the robot remotely. Among the features of the robotic exoskeleton is an HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) headset which allows the human operator to see what the T-HR3 “sees” in full 3D. The robot’s exoskeleton includes motor gears and sensors that control a total of 29 individual robot parts, allowing the operator to have a “smooth and synchronized experience.”
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
With the T-HR3, Toyota is banking on the future of what’s been termed telepresence-controlled humanoid robots — though they aren’t the first company to incorporate VR into a device designed to assist with tasks both at home and in the workplace. VR devices seem to have long passed their gaming applications. Although there are still plenty of games developed for VR, the technology is being increasingly tapped for industrial uses.
Toyota is set to demo the T-HR3 at the upcoming International Robot Exhibition 2017 at the Tokyo Big Sight, which is taking place from November 29 to December 2.
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Filer’s Files #47 – 2017 Happy Thanksgiving - PART I
Hamilton Square, New Jersey Disc on November 12, 2017
Filer’s Files #47 – 2017 Happy Thanksgiving - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Lord Mountbatten a UFO Enthusiast, Pine Bush Boomerang Craft, President Washington Proclaims Happy Thanksgiving, Attack the Shooters, and Nearby Exoplanet Found Like Earth
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Utah..
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Georgia, Philippines, Sweden, 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. I have over 5000 hours flying time and have flown to 62 countries all of whom have UFO reports. I’m not a scientist; I deal in analysis of the UFO situation and have a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Central Michigan University. There is something very strange in our skies with hundreds of reports each month. I personally feel they are here conducting various operations. You may not be a believer, but watch the new evidence collected for over twenty years and you may change your mind. Past reports UFO can be seen at: www.nationalufocenter.com
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Special Projects
Lord Mountbatten a UFO Enthusiast
Prince Phillip and Lord Mountattaen
Lord Admiral Mountbatten even wrote an official report about an alien in a silver spaceship landing on his estate, historical documents show. Admiral of the FleetLouis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II. Lord Mountbatten, arranged the first meeting between Prince Philip and Elizabeth in 1939, who later became Queen..
From 1954 until 1959 he was First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father. Admiral Earl ‘Dickie” Mountbatten who was at sea as the Fourth Sea Lord, and was Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet in the 50s had personally seen UFOs along with most of the fleet.”
Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the British Armed Forces. During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year. Mountbatten, was often referred to as Prince Philips “honorary godfather” and mentor because of his close relationship with the Duke of Edinburgh, made an official report about a strange encounter his bricklayer Fred Briggs had with a flying saucer and an alien creature.
The report, which was uncovered after Mountbatten’s 1979 death at the hands of the IRA, describes how a silver spaceship landed in the grounds of his Broadlands estate in Romsey, Hampshire.
The flying saucer hovered above the ground before a man dressed in overalls and a helmet descended from the bottom of the craft, according to the documents. Fred was then reportedly knocked off his bike and held on the ground by an “unseen force”. “The object was shaped like a child’s huge humming-top and half way between 20 feet or 30 feet in diameter,” the official report states. “Its color was like dull aluminum, rather like a kitchen saucepan. It was shaped like the sketch which I have endeavored to make, and had portholes all around the middle, rather like a steamer has.” It went on: “While I was watching, a column, about the thickness of a man, descended from the centre of the saucer and I suddenly noticed on it, what appeared to be a man, presumably standing on a small platform on the end. He seemed to be dressed in a dark suit of overalls and was wearing a close fitting hat or helmet.”www.thesun.co.uk By Emma Parry The Sun 9-28-17
Note: In childhood Mountbatten visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harboring romantic feelings towards his maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment – notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov were shot, bayoneted and clubbed in 1918 by the Soviet Bolsheveks on orders from Lenin.
Maria was the early love of Mountbatten’s life and he kept her photograph at his bedside for the rest of his life.
Pine Bush Boomerang Craft
On the 3rd of October 1997 a group of people from four states gathered at Newburgh, New York, for a three day field trip. This was no ordinary group of people. They were all MUFON, field investigators and came together to perform an experiment. They wanted to see if ten people could work together as one, and collect data at night using various types of instruments and cameras. They also wanted to try to duplicate some of the results of Bruce Cornet, who had been studying the Pine Bush phenomenon since June of 1992.
MUFON field crew, Field Investigators at Muddy Kill Lane, Montgomery, NY, 3 October 1997, 1. John Love, 2. Dennis Hawley, 3. Jim Durfee, 4. Jim Bouck, 5. Rick Atristain, 6. Bruce Tilden, 7. Bob Long, 8. George Filer, 9. Bruce Cornet, 10. Alexander Zikas, The team met and stayed at the Super 8 Motel in Newburgh, NY, and had an organizational meeting at a Holiday Inn nearby.
Frick Atristain organized the project, while Bruce Cornet provided the field locations for their nighttime experiment. The first location where the team set up their equipment was along Muddy Kill Lane, located on the eastern side of a low ridge along the western side of the Wallkill River Valley.
Two theodolites were used in order to track objects in the sky, determine their trajectories, triangulate their distances and altitudes, and record communications between pilots and the tower at Stewart International Airport. Rich Atristain gives members of the team a lesson in how to use the surveying equipment.
That location could not be maintained when local residents complained about our activities, and Montgomery police asked us to locate somewhere else. The police chief, Sergeant Edward Clancy, was kind enough to offer his property for us to conduct our experiment, but because it was not close to where Cornet had done his research, the Owen dairy farm was chosen instead.
The team examines the Indian mound located on the Owen dairy farm at the center of the UFO hotspot. he aerial shot below, taken on 10 May 1994, shows the raised mound with remnant hexagonal shape, and another permanent circular feature to the west. It is from the small field just west of the circular feature that an AOP/UAP rose up two years earlier (see time exposures below). Circular discolorations in the grasses can still be seen from the air, years after they were made by craft landing and taking off from there.
The field between the mound and circle was measured, the theodolites set up and the distance between them measured. Cameras on tripods positioned in order to record aerial objects from different angles.
The field between the mound and circle was measured, the theodolites set up and the distance between them measured, an cameras on tripods positioned in order to record aerial objects from different angles.
Jim Bouk points to a woodchuck hole on top of the Indian mound, while Alexander Zikas takes notes on the types of material brought to the surface by the woodchuck. That material consisted mostly of stream pebbles and orange-brown soil, implying that it was built up and not the product of natural erosion.
On 28 October 1995 another group of people witnessed an AOP (UAP of Dr. Richard F. Haines) turn on its plasma headlights, lift off from a small field to northwest of the Indian mound, and arc its way across the northern sky before descending to a field to the southeast of the mound. The craft took three minutes to reach its apogee before starting its descent.
The Anomaly
For most of the evening the team saw and recorded conventional aircraft either flying towards or from Stewart International Airport, or flying at high altitude over the valley. If it hadn’t been for the recording of a pilot asking the control tower to “Check those runway lights up nice and bright for us,” the sighting of an unusual aircraft might have peaked more curiosity.”
It wasn’t until Cornet had his film developed that he discovered the first two anomalies: Lights that appeared to strobe on the time exposures, but which did not strobe on the video, and glowing bars of light across the leading edges of both wings. In addition, the running lights on the video appear normal: White, green, and red. But all the lights on the time exposures are a golden color. None are white, green, or pure red. Seven still frames from the video are presented, showing the boomerang from directly below at 10:53:12 pm to showing it turning and moving away from the camera.
Eighteen seconds of video are presented, with the last image at 10:53:30 pm viewing the boomerang from behind. The time exposure on the right represents about 20 seconds of time, with the central strobe firing once every three seconds. See Image Analysis.
Whenever Cornet can get the help of commercial pilots and aircraft specialists in identifying aircraft, he presents them with his data. Bill Ristau analyzed the pictures above, and came back with the following comments.
William E Ristau writes, The pics of this wild looking “craft” appear to be what some observers call, the “Boomerang”. The thing that caught my attention immediately, was the wing dihedral. It appears to portend an angle of 15 to 20 degrees or more. I do not remember ever flying any aircraft with more than about 5 to 7 degrees of dihedral. Dihedral enhances stability during turns. I’m guessing that this craft also has low speed capabilities, looking at your time exposed pic. This is speculation on my part, but the extreme angle of descent, not ending in a crash, might well be proof of that. It’s another mystery ship, Bruce. I suppose it is one of ours
As you well know, all airports are locked down now (since 9/11). though I have credentials, they will not allow me to visit the ramp at Atlanta’s Hartsville International Airport. The best that I can do, at this time, is to send you a pic of a
DC-9. Am hoping that this pic and others might be helpful. I have been a flight instructor and airline pilot for 31 years. Take care, Bill Ristau.
Image Analysis
There is no reflection of light off of a forward-projecting fuselage, and no reflection of light off of a tail section. If this aircraft had a tail and nose section, its bright lights would reflect off of some part of those structures. Compare the two images below:
There is no reflection of light off of engine pods. There is no elongate dark silhouette where a fuselage would be on a conventional aircraft. Instead, the fuselage appears to be trapezoid in shape, with a square, box-like front.
The running lights and strobes are asymmetrically positioned, which is highly unusual – especially for so many of them being asymmetrical. This condition is not typical of conventional aircraft. The landing lights and strobes are also located too close to the center line of the aircraft, something rarely seen for conventional aircraft. The image below is looking at the boomerang from directly below.
The colors of the strobes and running lights are off. This could be due in part to the CCD chip, and its inability to capture the correct color hues, but some of the colors are distinctly off hue for conventional aircraft lights. The green wingtip light is blue-green in color, while the red strobes flash orange-red and purple-red. Very similar anomalies and blue-colored lights were noted for a manta ray-shaped craft that Cornet caught on video flying sideways over his neighbor’s property in Red Bank, NJ, on 24 April 1997.
The dihedral angle of the wings is incorrect for a conventional aircraft. As Bill Ristau pointed out above, the dihedral angle of this aircraft is 15-20 degrees or more. NO conventional or military aircraft has its wings forming a V-shape like this – not even the B-2 stealth bomber, which has hardly any dihedral angle at all. The image below is looking at the boomerang from behind, not from directly below it. If this were the B-2 bomber, the apparent dihedral angle of the wings would have decreased to near zero in this picture.
The B-2 stealth bomber has hardly any dihedral angle, eliminating it as a possibility.
The time exposure shows all the lights to be of a similar golden color. Only the central bright light, which occasionally flashes red on the video, has an aura of red around it in the time exposure. The bar-like slats along the leading edge of the wings glow and pulse in time with the wingtip lights, something that is not seen in the video shots. Forward slats on conventional aircraft do not reflect light from nearby strobes, even though they are extended during landing. Thus, the question must be asked: Why does the video not agree with the time exposure? Why are the colors so different between the two media? Why do the two bright round lights in the center of each wing not show up very well on the time exposure (is this just a problem of orientation?), along with the other colored lights? In The Experiment, Cornet presents evidence that these types of anomalous craft can project different images to cameras positioned next to one another.
Sound Analysis
The sound produced by the boomerang-shaped aircraft resembles that of a conventional jetliner to the unaided ear. However, frequency spectral analysis reveals the very same types of characteristics noted for other anomalous craft caught on video and/or audio over the Pine Bush hotspot by Cornet between 1992 and 1997. The sound spectra are quite different from that of conventional aircraft jet engines in that there is little or no white noise as in typical jet engines,
Conclusions
The Pine Bush Boomerang has been reported by various people living in Orange and Ulster counties over the years. Ellen Crystall was one of the first people to report this type of craft in her book, Silent Invasion. She notes that boomerangs come in small and large varieties (Crystall, 1991, p. 115). The small one is described as being about 25 feet from tip to tip, while the large one appears to be about 200 feet in perimeter. What we witnessed at the Owen dairy farm on 3 October 1997 matches her description of the larger craft.
The asymmetrical distribution of strobes and lights (for example, the large white central light is positioned slightly off to the starboard side of dead center, and the two red strobes are not in line with one another), as well as the blue-green color of the “green” starboard light, are characteristics of these anomalous craft. For example, on 10 July 1992 the Manta Ray flew over Cornet on South Searsville Road., Montgomery, NY. Cornet ran out of film. The Manta Ray stopped and hovered, waiting for Cornet to put in a new roll of film. The next pictures he got of the diamond-shaped craft flying overhead show multicolored asymmetrically-positioned lights. Either that or the craft was flying rotated at an angle.
The absence of white noise and the composite nature of the frequency spectrum for its engine sound indicate that the sound recorded is probably synthetic and not mechanical. Similar synthetic sounds have been recorded for other Pine Bush AOP/UAP.
The recording of a pilot asking the control tower to turn up the runway lights, and then thanking the tower for complying, strongly implicates a human pilot and a possible military aircraft landing at Stewart Air Force Base or a secret base nearby. It seems Stewart’s lights would be on early in the evening. It would not be out of consideration that this boomerang intentionally flew over us when another aircraft was on approach to Stewart. The broadcast of a request to the control tower could be a legitimate request for runway lights for the boomerang. Such timing has been a common ploy used in the past, but uncovered when the type of aircraft that landed did not match what was witnessed in the field.
Bruce Tilden was stationed at Stewart International Airport, photographing and recording all the aircraft that landed and took off during the time the other members of the team made observations at the Owen dairy farm. Unfortunately, he remained there only until about 8:30 pm, and did not see any aircraft landing at the time the boomerang would have landed.
If he had remained at Stewart, his data might show that the boomerang landed at Stewart airport, solving one mystery. I talked to C-5 pilots at Stewart who had never seen a Boomerang type craft at Stewart or anywhere.
It would not be out of consideration that this boomerang intentionally flew over us when an aircraft was on approach to Stewart. The broadcast of a request to the control tower would be coincidental, giving the boomerang a great cover. Such timing has been a common ploy used in the past, but uncovered when the type of aircraft that landed did not match what was witnessed in the field.
Note: Other airports such as Wallkill are also in the area with restricted entry to the public that may be used by the boomerang craft. There are no known experimental military craft with these shown attributes. Then it is possible these are alien craft using various techniques to disguise their operations. Two investigators spotting the boomerangs at night had red apparent burns on their faces. Sunburn is caused by UV radiation, either from the sun or from artificial sources. Thanks to Bruce Cornet
President Washington Proclaims Happy Thanksgiving
Many Americans are unaware that many people in the American Colonies were loyal to Britain’s King George III and General Washington’s Army was barely able to fight effectively during the Revolutionary War.
At the start of the War in 1775, General George Washington took command of the Continental Army to fight King George III of England, then the world’s most powerful nation. The first general order issued to his pitifully few troops who had little hope of winning the war was:
“The General most earnestly requires and expects a due observance of those articles of war established for the government of the army, which forbid profane cursing, and drunkenness. And in like manner, he requires and expects of all officers and soldiers not engaged in actual duty, a punctual attendance of Divine Services, to implore the blessing of Heaven upon the means used for our safety and defense.”
George Washington during his first year as President established by proclamation Thursday, November 26, 1789, as “A Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer.” Washington signed the decree on October 3, called “General Thanksgiving,” that appointed the day to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God. While there were Thanksgiving observances in America both before and after Washington’s proclamation, this represents the first to be so designated by the new national government. .
General John Burgoyne with some 8,000 British troops with 500 Indian allies was invading the American Colonies down the Champlain corridor from Quebec Canada in June 1777.
There were few of Washington’s troops to intercept the invading Army and the British captured a series of New York Forts and would likely defeat Washington’s Army. These Indian allies became impatient and began indiscriminate raids on frontier families and settlements, which had the effect of increasing rather than reducing local support to the American rebels.
In particular, the death and scalping at Indian hands of the attractive young Loyalist settler Jane McCrea was widely publicized and served as a catalyst for American rebel support. Burgoyne’s decision to not punish the Indian perpetrators was seen as unwillingness or inability to keep the Indians under control.
Her death rallied large numbers of militias such as the Green Mountain Boys who surrounded the British and caused the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga the major turning point of the war.
Burgoyne’s surrender was instrumental in formally bringing France into the war as an American ally. This battle also resulted in Spain joining France in the war against Britain. France provided significant economic, military, and technical assistance at critical time in the war. At the Battle of the Chesapeake off Yorktown in 1781, the French ships outnumbered the British fleet that departed leaving the British Army no choice but to surrender and end the war. God works in wondrous ways. Jane McCrea’s death was the defining moment of the war and partly why we are able to celebrate Thanksgiving today. https://www.google.com/.. ..
Attack the Shooters
…I served in the military for twenty years and have seen the ability of weapons to kill. In the latest shootings at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas 26 were killed in a small church where no one had weapons, but the atheist killer who had clear firing lanes. He came in the back of the church shooting and walking down the aisle killing children and babies. Where ever you maybe I encourage you to prepare for the worst. It could happen to you. I suggest you to talk to your group. If none of you are armed, agree to swarm and attack the shooter with anything handy such as shoes, phones, belts, chairs, etc. Attack from all directions, a few may be shot, but you’ll save most of the people there. I’LL BE WITH YOU.
Nearby Exoplanet Found Like Earth
Ross 128 b orbits the star Ross 128 just eleven light-years away and could be rocky and temperate like Earth, and just about the same size, too. Unlike other close rocky planets, such as those orbiting Trappist-1 and Proxima Centauri, Ross 128 b is set apart because its host star doesn’t regularly blast it with potentially sterilizing flares of radiation.
An international team of astronomers on Wednesday published a paper (PDF) detailing the planet’s discovery in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Like Proxima b and the Trappist-1 planets, Ross 128 b’s host star is an M dwarf. This common class of star is smaller and redder than our sun, and its relative dimness and size makes it a favored target of astronomers looking for exoplanets. That’s because orbiting worlds are generally easier to spot around smaller, dimmer stars.
ESOcast 137 Light: Temperate Planet Orbiting Quiet Red Dwarf (4K UHD) by European Southern Observatory (ESO) on YouTube. The problem with M dwarfs is that many, have a nasty habit of sending out big flares that could erode the atmospheres of orbiting planets. This bathes those surfaces in radiation that makes it difficult for life as we know it to emerge or survive. Ross 128, on the other hand, is what’s known as a “quiet” M dwarf, meaning it doesn’t seem to be shooting off the killer flares seen from other stars like it. Ross 128 b is the second closest known exo-Earth (after Proxima Centauri b, which is just over four light-years distant), and it’s the closest temperate planet known around a quiet star. Translation: the combination of its nearness and calm host star make Ross 128 b one of the best places for life like ours. Perhaps many of our visitors are from there?
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Filer’s Files #47 – 2017 Happy Thanksgiving - PART II
Filer’s Files #47 – 2017 Happy Thanksgiving - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Light
Shirley – I had this sighting again but this one was much closer and more over us!! I’m providing pics.
On November 11, 2017. I was lucky to catch two objects.
only cause one pulled away from the bigger one, then diapered!
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Santa Clarita – I was visiting Cal Arts on November 12, 2017, to use their high quality scanners. After I had finished, I exited the building, facing south, to see a dark abstract shape in the sky. At first, I thought it could have possibly been a very strange cluster of balloons, but upon witnessing it for 5 minutes, it was nearly hovering in the sky. It was rotating in various directions showing extremely complex forms and angles. It was lead-dark in color, and its shape is nearly inexplicable. It was a diagonal elongation, with several points that I could see straight through the object with extended “legs” of some sort.
I was standing at the top of a small hill, with the object a 1000 feet directly above me and see through areas that had no mass. It accelerated and moved to the north. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Cylinder
Waterbury – On November 12, 2017, I saw an upside down formations with red and blue lights. The sky was clear and there was no cloud movement. The formation disappeared after a few minutes, then reappeared for a few more minutes. The formation did not move. It was a general V formation. So, all three objects formed a V, but individually they were upside down U shaped. They have been in the same spot for two hours and turned off like a light switch.
Note: The witness said that the objects returned & he snapped a cell phone photo. The object in the photo does not depict what was seen. The object appears to be cigar or cylinder shaped in the photo. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Florida Lights
Panama City Beach — On November 4, 2017, at 5:42 PM, I was having dinner and watching the sun set on the beach. I decided to take a picture and saw a bright light that wasn’t visible to the naked eye. I took two photos of this “light” before opening the Sky View App to see what star or planet this was. The app showed the light was not registering as a star or planet. I finally decided to stop wasting time and started taking pictures again the light had taken on a different shape and color. It looked like a dark rose colored saucer at the top, surrounded by a glowing lighter rose colored sphere that was flat at the bottom. It looked as though the saucer may have been solid and the sphere may have been light the saucer was emitting. I asked my friend to come look and she confirmed I wasn’t seeing things. I took several pictures of this object as it moved from one side of the sun to the other and then just faded away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Triangle
Grovetown – The triangle object was photographed on November 12, 2017. It was the second sighting in two weeks.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
I was just outside on a clear night taking pictures of the sky on July 27, 2017. I live near an Air Force base and Monsanto so of course we deal with a lot of chemtrails.
I started to document the sky when I could or if I saw something interesting. These images I captured I didn’t even know I caught.
Not until months later when I went back to look through old images did I see the unexplained aircraft.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Lights
Bel air — Leaving work I always see a ufo so I’m constantly looking up at the sky. On November 13, 2017, one light flashes bright and the other faintly.
Then I notice it starts flashing more brightly and starts moving still in parallel. I feel like it is watching me.
The object fades into space.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Object
Blanchard — Going through footage from camera taken in field last year I spotted a disk..
Camera triggered by motion of something within 20 feet on December 22, 2016.. Burst of photos shows a disc, golden, more c-shaped, moving across field. I didn’t see any of it at the time, but was surprised what showed up, usually it’s just deer.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Orb
St. Louis — I was outside talking to my brother after hearing gunshots on November 11, 2017. then minutes after that a UFO appeared in the sky. It started coming towards us but at a distance it hovered a few feet above a treetop. Then it kind of wobbled side to side and headed left then right and descended behind the tree and flew out of sight. I was very excited because I watch allot of UFO videos and finally saw one in broad daylight. My video distorted the object because of the crappy camera on my phone but I zoomed in so you can see how it was changing direction. I took a picture of the same UFO off of another witness’s IPhone because you see the actual shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Disc
Hamilton Square – On November 12, 2017, a UFO was photographed over Patty’s house.
Patty be the very last person I know to try to falsify such an event, an experience or a photo.
Her home has been a focal point for such discussion and the interaction of Star Visitor Contactees and researchers to interact and reflect upon for many, many years. This photo/event is a wonderful gift to Patty for all her selfless effort to bring together like minds in her home for contemplation and reflection on profound subject matter. Thanks to Frank Chille Thanks to
New Mexico Object
LORDSBURG— Benjie Medina writes, “We have a great deal of UFO activity going day and night I’m capturing on video. Benjie has been sending video since August of 2008 that shows a bright object hovering in the sky, and periodically changing shape and fling overhead. There seems to be some kind of a portal nearby.”Thanks to Benjie Medina
North Carolina Disc
Taylorsville — I was on my way home on November 13, 2017, and I look up and see what I thought at first was an airplane.
But then saw I something extremely strange of a craft with my. pictures attached. I can’t explain what I saw!! I have no words to describe it. ‘Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Light
Salem— It seems like i can only get a good shot when the sun is bright. I thought about flaring because obviously the orb is a flare on August 28, 2017, but the triangles show up in all the shots. In person with the naked eye i was able to see these strange flashes in the sky. i just reached out and snapped shots and took some video Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mr. Shasta — George, I didn’t take the picture, a friend in Oregon took them this week I think. She use to live in Mt Shasta and saw them there all of the time.
Pennsylvania Light
Philadelphia— My mother, wife and daughter were coming home from a family party on November 11, 2017. When we got out of our car to enter our house I saw three very bright orangish lights glowing in the sky. I called for my family and they also say they saw the perfect triangle formation with a light trailing behind it. As the lights glided overhead without any sound they in quick succession just vanished in to the night sky.. There is an airport right around the corner from here and we have made a habit of watching the airplanes. But this was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. They could not have been helicopters. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Vermont Orb
Alburgh — My son and I were in the car listening to guitar tracks and we saw something next to the coon on July 9, 2017. My son told me he saw something really weird but he didn’t know what. I snapped a blurry photo and took a short video instead. The video had actually caught what we couldn’t remember seeing. After seeing the video I could barely settle down because I’ve no idea what it could be. I sent two reports into MUFON and am waiting to hear back. This event was creepy I can say that. I have showed my friends and clients who believe I made it up with photo shop but I did no. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Light
Wendover — We were traveling west on I80 towards Wendover when we saw the objects. at first they were hovering on April 15, 2012, but then seemed to slowly move in a north easterly direction.
They looked like oblong cylinders. We were on the freeway with heavy traffic so we didn’t pull over. The pictures were taken out of the moving vehicle so they gradually disappeared as we drove west. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Belmont — My husband was in the bathroom when I walked in. I glanced up through the window and noticed a blurry star, then another and another on November 15, 2017. I noticed the lights were shaped in an arc. I said to my husband that it was odd. He too remarked it was odd so I got my phone and took a couple of pictures. The silent lights were stationary. We have seen the stadium lit up on hundreds of occasions and in many different weather conditions and it never had this effect on the clouds before. I checked local news online but nothing came up. I can only say how long we saw them for. We stood outside for 15 minutes when the lights suddenly went out. Lights are enhanced for better viewing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Object
Agua Doce, SC — I was at a PCH, located photographing the night sky. In addition to stars, I observed commercial airplanes, satellites and meteors. At one point what i thought was a satellite, abruptly changed direction by 45 degrees, repeating this movement with a trajectory in Zig Zag. The speed was a little lower than the commercial planes, the movement was very peculiar, detachable from any other celestial body. I directed my camera to try to capture the movement, during the exposure time of the photograph (60s) the object increased the intensity of the brightness and accelerated very fast disappearing.
Canada Objects
Scarborough, Ontario — On November 7,2017, while on afternoon work break I was outside hoping to see another UFO. I see to the northwest about 6 miles away a very unusual spiral THICK vapour trail some thousands of feet high. Then I see a brilliant white aircraft that made the trail. I watched the trail stop and focused on something moving away from the trail. I could see a brilliant white object moving slowly towards the clouds. I took three 30 X full zoom shots at the object at 3:20 pm est.
Then lost the object as it went above the clouds. This was not an aircraft. Two pictures captured a portion of the wide vapour trail behind the brilliant white object Thanks once again for all you done in the field of UFOLOGY. I sent you my first report in February 2005 – 12 YEARS AGO. Thinks to Paul Shishis
France Objects
Cap d’ail — Our living room has a huge window that has an impressive view on the sea and the landscape. Around 9.30 PM on November 13, 2017, I see an unusual light in the sky. I knew there was the event of Jupiter passing on Venus, but the time didn’t correspond. So I decided to zoom in on the star and the image that changed shape moving closer and descending. In the first picture, there are two UFOs with a round boomerang shape with multicolor led lights around it. The second UFO has a very bright light and a green “wing”. It simply vanished by becoming smaller and smaller, My neighbor saw it too. I was feeling very dizzy and scared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Triangle
Batumi— I was at the beach and viewing the sea with my friend on November 13, 2017.
. Suddenly, he noticed a movement on the horizon. First we thought they were dolphins. Then we realized that the distance between us was more then 3-4 miles. If they were not the group of dolphins then nothing can move like this on the sea. After 20 minutes they slowly disappeared over the horizon.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Philippines Objects
Cebu— This event happened at a beach resort on Camotes island at around 4:46 PM on November 3, 2017. My family and I were at the beach, at sunset and I didn’t notice that there were presumably UFOs due to glare of the sun. I felt excited when I noticed the UFOs because I knew it happened in a very interesting place. First, Camotes island has quite a number of caves. Second, the area is a typhoon path, and UFOs usually appear near calamity areas. Also nearby is Biliran island and its mysterious Mount Panamao, famous for stories of disappearing galleons, a cocoa plantations, and even people. Yes, there have been stories of people being abducted by enchanted beings. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sweden Lights
Jönköping— I was in front of my student accommodation smoking a cigarette when I noticed two circular big golf ball reddish- orange lights. There was flight but no moving and no flashing light in the crystal clear sky. I noticed stars in the beginning of the video, and witnessed two hovering orange lights.
I shot a video as it started moving slowly. Soon it propelled upwards with super quick speed and disappeared. I believe something going to happen in 4- 5 years :)…. but now every day I observe sky to see it one more time: Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Object
Norton – Malton – I was taking pictures of a cat outside my bedroom when noticed this object zig zagging in the sky on March 22, 2011. So just shoot few pictures as it then disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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ALIEN LIFE? Former NASA engineer's shock revelations on space UFO sightings
ALIEN LIFE? Former NASA engineer's shock revelations on space UFO sightings
A FORMER Nasa engineer spent years investigating alleged UFO sightings in space, and his verdict will send shockwaves through the alien believer community.
James Oberg, while working at Nasa mission control in the late Nineties, trawled through as many accounts and images of suspected sighting as possible to see if science could explain the seemingly inexplicable.
Analysing stories, video and photographic evidence of UFO sightings seen by astronauts, he came to his conclusion.
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The outcome will disappoint the thousands of alien conspiracy theorists who are convinced NASA has evidence space is crawling with aliens and their craft, but covers it up from us because the agency does not think we could handle the truth.
The widely-believed conspiracy theory suggests the powers that be believe public knowledge of alien life would bring and end to religion, and possible the rule of law, leading to anarchy.
But, Mr Oberg says it is simply not true, and there really is no evidence of aliens anywhere near our planet.
There have been a string of claims of UFO sightings in NASA video and pictures of the Moon, Mars, other planets, and footage of space filmed by the International Space Station (ISS).
Most of these are just the result of cameras picking up ice crystal, lens flares, space dandruff, or our brains "misunderstanding of what space travel actually looks like", Mr Oberg said.
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After leaving Nasa, Mr Oberg became a space journalist and historian, before developing an interest in looking at UFO sightings.
His aim in debunking the images is not to pour water on the true believers, but to establish what is really going on and why people reacted so strongly to any sign of something unusual.
Mr Oberg said our sense are used to focussing on "relatively slow-moving objects" in "certain light and atmospherical conditions", so when these change, as they do in space, our brains find it difficult to compute what is happening and the assumptions get made.
He said: "Our sensory system is functioning absolutely perfectly for Earth conditions.
"But we're still a local civilisation. Moving beyond our neighbourhood has been visually confusing."
One key piece of evidence the conspiracy theorists put forward is that NASA astronauts, themselves, have seen UFOs in space, and been forced to keep quiet.
The likes of the late NASA astronauth Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the moon, who went onto become one of the most prominent alien conspiracy believers, appears to add weight to this theory.
However, without disputing Mr Mitchell's claims, Mr Oberg said these theories are the result of people "watching too much sci-fi", coupled with not really understanding what space looks like.
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UFOS DEBUNKED? Former NASA engineer James Oberg claims space UFO sightings are false.
It's good to keep scanning space video for possible anomalies and reporting them quickly.
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He said: "I've had enough experience with real spaceflight to realise that what's being seen in many videos is nothing beyond the 'norm' from fully mundane phenomena occurring in unearthly settings."
Mr Oberg said most videos filmed by the ISS showing anomalies, were really just examples of "space dandruff", objects which have come off space vehicles during flight, such as ice particles, paint chips, or fragments of insulation.
These are much smaller than larger items of discarded metal known as space junk, which can also lead to supposed UFO sightings, but poses a real threat to the ISS.
He says the space dandruff is common, but looks very strange on camera, as we are not used to the way it looks when falling while the space station is travelling through space.
It is a similar reason why so many "UFOs" were seen in older space shuttle footage.
He said: "In these videos, people usually freak out because the spots seem to dance in and out of view, or suddenly appear and disappear.
"Which is pretty creepy if you're sitting at your computer on Earth, but isn't that weird if you're on a space shuttle travelling 28,000 km/h (17,500 mph) - nothing's going to stay in your frame of vision very long."
If the shuttle is in a certain position in relation to the Sun, it would also cast a shadow onto the objects, making it look on video as if they disappear and reappear, an effect known as 'twilight shadowing', which has led to claims of UFO special technology such as invisibility or warp speed travel.
Despite the large-scale debunking, Mr Oberg does not say people should give up on UFO seaching.
He said: "It's good to keep scanning space video for possible anomalies and reporting them quickly.
"The reason is, there is always a real chance that it could be a genuine anomaly, either a spacecraft malfunction or other threat, expected or unexpected.
"In the past, missions have failed because a clue that should have been seen out the window was overlooked."
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But former NASA engineer James Oberg has taken it upon himself to trawl through all the sightings and stories out there and politely debunk them, using science.
The conclusion? Most of your "insane UFO sightings" are little more than 'space dandruff', or your brain misunderstanding of what space travel actually looks like, says Oberg.
As Cara Giaimo from Atlas Obscura reports, after working at NASA mission control in the late '90s, Oberg went on to become a space journalist and historian. It wasn't until a few years ago that he started to take UFO sightings seriously.
His goal isn't to simply crap all over true believers - he calls that "stomping on dormice" - instead he's interested in teasing out exactly what's going on in these images and videos, and trying to figure out why people are reacting so strongly to them.
His hypothesis? Our human senses our so used to focussing on relatively slow-moving objects, as well as certain light and atmosphere conditions, that when things change, our brains get confused.
"Our sensory system is functioning absolutely perfectly for Earth conditions," Oberg told Giaimo. "But we're still a local civilisation. Moving beyond our neighbourhood has been visually confusing."
Some of the most common sighting he has to debunk are to do with NASA astronauts reportedly seeing UFOS and being forced to keep silent, which Oberg says is a result of us watching too much sci-fi and not really understanding what space really looks like.
"I've had enough experience with real spaceflight to realise that what's being seen in many videos is nothing beyond the 'norm' from fully mundane phenomena occurring in unearthly settings," Oberg writes over on his site.
Here are some of the more common reports you might have seen on the interwebs, and Oberg's explanation of what's really going on:
UFO sightings at the International Space Station
The real story? Space dandruff, which are things that have shed off space vehicles during flight, like ice flakes, paint chips, or fragments of insulation. They're different to space junk, because they don't pose a real threat to spacecraft, Oberg explains on his site.
These flecks of dandruff are pretty common, but the reason they look so weird to us is that we're not used to the way these objects look when they fall while the space station is travelling through space.
It's the same reason why people see so many UFOs in the footage filmed by the cameras attached to NASA's old space shuttle missions.
In these videos, people usually freak out because the spots seem to dance in and out of view, or suddenly appear and disappear. Which is pretty creepy if you're sitting at your computer on Earth, but isn't that weird if you're on a space shuttle travelling 28,000 km/h (17,500 mph) - nothing's going to stay in your frame of vision very long.
And if the spacecraft is in the right position in relation to the Sun, it can also cast its shadow onto these objects to make them disappear and reappear, which is known as 'twilight shadowing'.
That weird Californian flare across the night sky
At the end of 2015, people in southern California freaked out when they saw a bright white light shoot across the night sky.
But, as was cleared up pretty soon after the incident, it was actually the result of a planned, unarmed missile test by the US Navy. That strange looking trail of light was the plume of particles blasted out by the rocket thruster.
So why did it look so creepy to everyone else? Because here on Earth, we're used to seeing thin vapour trails left by planes, or billowing smoke plumes. But most of us have rarely (if ever) seen anything so big and sharp as this.
"There were thousands of people who were absolutely processing their visual stimuli correctly if [the plume] was a mile away or 10 miles away [16 km]," Oberg told Atlas Obscura. "But it was 300 miles [482 km] away, up in space and sunlit, which never occurred to them, because this is not something within the normal range of human experience."
All of this isn't to say we should give up on sharing our UFO sightings, or assuming that everything is 'normal'.
"It's good to keep scanning space video for possible anomalies and reporting them quickly," Oberg told The Huffington Post back in 2013.
"The reason is, there is always a real chance that it could be a genuine anomaly, either a spacecraft malfunction or other threat, expected or unexpected. In the past, missions have failed because a clue that should have been seen out the window was overlooked."
Two ancient sites in Saudi Arabia have revealed an unexpected surprise, a new paper reports — the oldest known recording of dogs put on a leash. The 8,000-year-old images are etched into rock and depict humans and dogs working together in hunts before the widespread emergence of agriculture.
The carvings were discovered by Maria Guagnin, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, at two rock-art sites in northwestern Saudi Arabia, Shuwaymis and Jubbah. The images, estimated to be around 8,000 years old, depict humans and dogshunting side by side, and suggest that the two species were already ‘friends’ beforefarmingtook hold.
The locations of Shuwaymis (bottom left) and Jubbah (bottom right). Image credits Guagnin, M. et al., 2017, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
The two sites “contain the best and oldest examples of Neolithic rock art,” Saudi-Archaeology claims, adding that the region used to be rich “with people, flora, and wildlife” in the past. Those people left behind thousands of panels of rock-art showcasing their lives, society, and hunts, which Guagnin was documenting when she stumbled upon the unusual scenes.
Overall, she counted 156 depictions of dogs at Shuwaymis and 193 at Jubbah. The animals resemble today’s Canaan breed in appearance, Guagnin adds, with pricked ears, curled tails, and short snouts. They’re most often depicted helping bow-wielding human hunters take down prey including lions, ibexes, gazelles, or horses. The animals are clearly distinct from the hyenas and wolves depicted in other panels, Guagnin and her co-authors write.
Image credits Guagnin, M. et al., 2017, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Comparison between the Canaan breed and the dogs on the rock art panels.
Image credits Guagnin, M. et al., 2017, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
From what we know so far, dogs were domesticated from an ancestor of today’s gray wolf between 40,000 and 15,000 years ago. There’s still a lot of unknowns (and thus, room for debate) about how and where this domestication process took place, and how early humans and dogs interacted and co-existed. The panels described by Guagnin’s team will help to guide these discussions in the future. The images haven’t been directly dated so far, but the team estimates they date back between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago, to the pre-Neolothic era, before farming took root in the region.
The most interesting find, however, was that some of the hunting dogs taking seem to be leashed. The art depicts these dogs as tethered to the waist of hunters, quite the smart hack when you need two free hands to shoot arrows. It hasn’t been established why these dogs were leashed, but the team speculates that they may have been young dogs still undergoing training, old ones that could be injured in the thick of the hunt, or scent dogs that were too valuable to risk.
Image credits Guagnin, M. et al., 2017, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
“This suggests not only are some human populations controlling their hunting dogs by the Pre-Neolithic, but that some dogs may perform different hunting tasks than others,” the paper explains.
“Some may be used only to track prey scents, while others are used to corral and attack prey, protect human hunters, or help haul meat back to camp.”
The hunting scenes represent the earliest known evidence of dog leashes in the archaeological record worldwide, the study claims. Furthermore, they push back the presence of domesticated dogs on the Arabian Peninsula to much earlier than we’d believed. Previously, the oldest dog remains found on the whole peninsula hailed from the 4th millennium B.C. in today’s Yemen, some 2-3 thousand years younger that the estimated age of the Shuwaymis and Jubbah panels.
The paper, “Pre-Neolithic evidence for dog-assisted hunting strategies in Arabia” has been published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Ever since scientists cloned the first animal, a sheep named Dolly, one important question on everyone’s mind was whether or not a clone can expect a poorer health. This is still an open question, one that South Korean researchers hope to settle in time. They’ve essentially cloned a clone, using cells from the world’s first cloned dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy.
The three surviving reclones of ‘Snuppy’ at 2 months of age.
Credit: Scientific Reports.
Theoretically, a clone is a carbon copy of the original organism, with the two sharing identical genes. The science of cloning, however, is still in its infancy and there are many loose ends that we might be missing. There is a possibility that the cloned individual might carry certain abnormalities, and may have a shorter life expectancy. Another concern is that cloned individuals might retain the age of the donor’s gene, seeing how genes change with age.
Clones of clones
Dolly the sheep died at age six, which raised concerns that cloned individuals might not be entirely healthy. The sheep appeared to age faster than normal and suffered from osteoarthritis in her knees and hips at an early age. But a follow-up study of 13 cloned sheep — including four derived from the same DNA strand as Dolly– concluded that there didn’t seem to be any evidence that indicates cloning has any long-term health effects. “They’re old ladies,” said Kevin Sinclair, a developmental biologist and lead author of the study of the 2016 study published in Nature Communications. “They’re very healthy for their age,” he added.
Scientists at the Seoul National University, South Korea, are now also investigating the health of ‘clones of clones’, this time in dogs. Snuppy, became the world’s first cloned dog in April 2005. He was cloned from the cells belonging to an Afghan hound called Tai who lived to be 12 years old and died of cancer. Snuppy lived 10 years and also died of cancer but a different kind. Afghan hounds live to be 11.9 years on average and dogs commonly die of cancer so there’s really nothing unusual about either dogs, donor or clone.
The team led by Min Jung Kim used stem cells collected from Snuppy when the dog was five years old. The scientists then employed somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to insert Snuppy’s cells into eggs collected from female dogs whose nuclei were removed. A total of 94 embryos were created which were then implanted into surrogate mothers. The success rate was 4.3 percent leading to four live births of ‘reclones’. That might seem really low but take a minute to consider that during the time Snuppy was first born (let’s call him ‘Snuppy Mark 1’), the success rate was only 0.2%.
One of the four reclones died within a few days from birth due to diarrhea while the other three grew to be nine months old when the Kim and colleagues drafter their paper, now published in Scientific Reports. They’re still alive and well, seemingly healthy. The dogs will be closely monitored in the years to come.
“With the data from Tai and Snuppy in hand, we are excited to follow the long-term health and aging processes of these second generation of clones and work with them to contribute to a new era of studying longevity of cloned canines and given the history of both Tai and Snuppy they may also provide potential insights into the development of cancer,” the authors concluded.
Thousands of feet below the crashing surface of the North Pacific ocean, there’s a dark place where the water stands still. Scientists call it the Shadow Zone, and they’re not just being dramatic. In a recent Nature article, an Australian team of researchers point out that this lightless region of the abyssal ocean has trapped the same water for 2,000 years.
The reason, they report in their paper, can be found even deeper in the sea.
For a long time, scientists had been aware of the existence of the ancient water, but it was never clear why and how it managed to stay still for so long while the ocean above it rolls around so violently.
“Carbon-14 dating had already told us the most ancient water lies in the deep North Pacific,” said lead author and University of New South Wales oceanographer, Casimir de Lavergne, Ph.D., in a statement. “But until now we had struggled to understand why the very oldest waters huddle around the depth of 2 km.”
NASA's snapshot of ocean currents suggests water is always moving, but things are different below the surface.
They realize now, after an analysis of the ocean topography in that area, that the Shadow Zone’s specific depth and location are determined by the slopes and crags of the sea floor below it. According to the scientists, the Shadow Zone is a roughly rectangular patch of especially deep ocean stretching 3,700 miles from east to west and 1,200 miles north to south — making its surface area slightly larger than Europe’s — and the floor beneath it is especially rough.
This uneven floor, coupled with the way that shallower wind-driven currents running above the Shadow Zone move, has sandwiched the ancient water in its stratified position for at least 1,500 years, the researchers write. The shape of the floor prevents water at the very bottom of the sea from rising any further than 1.5 miles below the surface, effectively creating another watery floor. All the water above that layer is largely undisturbed — it’s far enough from the geothermal heat vents that promote mixing — leading to the eerily still Shadow Zone.
The water above and below the Shadow Zone moves laterally -- just not vertically.
It isn’t just water that’s in the Shadow Zone, the researchers point out, noting that the trapped molecules could have major effects on the ocean and even global climate when it eventually does escape.
“When this isolated shadow zone traps millennia old ocean water it also traps nutrients and carbon which have a direct impact on the capacity of the ocean to modify climate over centennial time scales,” read a statement from Stockholm University co-author Fabien Roquet, Ph.D.
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Waking up in the middle of the night to find your body frozen and pinned down by an invisible weight is the stuff that ghost stories are made of. Sure enough, a range of cultures have foldedsleepparalysis into their horror lore — Americans did so recently in the 2016 horror film Dead Awake — suggesting that this recurring nightmare isn’t specific to any one time or place. Scientists studying the terrifying phenomenon think that it’s actually a neurologically driven process — rather, one that goes awry, suggesting there’s no escaping it unless we intervene directly in our heads.
Until science illuminated the origin of this disturbing nightmare, humans assumed it had a supernatural source. In places as varied as Scandinavia, Newfoundland, Korea, the American South, and Turkey, folklore blames the experience on some kind of evil spirit, witch, or creature that sits on a person’s chest or holds them down while they sleep. Now we know that what people have blamed on the Night Hag for so many centuries is actually the result of the sleep cycle going wrong (sorry, Night Hag).
You probably don’t realize it, but you’re actually physically paralyzed while you sleep for a big chunk of the night, which scientists in the Journal of Neuroscienceblamed on the tandem work of the neurotransmitters GABA and glycine in 2011. This state is known as “muscle atonia,” and it only happens during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep — the deepest part of the sleep cycle that produces the most vivid dreams. It’s thought that we evolved this temporary paralysis because otherwise we might act out our dreams more than we already do, which could be very dangerous. During REM sleep, which happens in periods lasting 90 to 120 minutes, your breathing also becomes faster and highly irregular. It’s not a great part of the sleep cycle to interrupt.
John Henry Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' depicts the night hag on a sleeping woman's chest.
Unfortunately, poor sleep habits, exhaustion, shift work, and jet lag can shake you awake during REM sleep, according to researchers at the Anomalistic PsychologyResearch Unit, Goldsmiths, at the University of London. When you’re in the groggy, half-awake state — quickly waking up from REM sleep is notoriously difficult — breathing feels laborious because it’s been happening at an irregular pace, and you’re keenly aware that you can’t move. As panic sets in, it only exacerbates the feeling that you can’t breathe.
To make matters worse, studies have shown that hallucinations often accompany the physical terror. In 2011 in the journal Sleep Medicine Reviews, researchers combed through 35 studies on sleep paralysis from the past 50 years and grouped the hallucinations into three horrific types: “The presence of an intruder, pressure on the chest sometimes accompanied by physical and/or sexual assault experiences and levitation or out-of-body experiences.” Researchers think these hallucinations are a remnant of the dream state, though it’s not clear why these three types are the most common.
Luckily, the sensation passes as you ease out of the dream state, and it’s not thought to cause any long-term harm, at least physically. Psychologically, though, sleep paralysis can mess with your head long after you get out of bed. In 2013, a study in Clinical Psychological Science looked at the types of distress people experienced after having an episode and found that that the effects include sensing unseen presences, feeling like death is imminent, having a heightened fear of threat or assault, and generally ruminating on the episode, though the type of distress that ensues depends on the details of the experience. People who had particularly sense-based experiences — like straight-up seeing and feeling a demon crouched on your chest — tended to have more physical distress later. The effects are bad enough that the researchers say sleep paralysis could “make a significant contribution to the billions of dollars, worldwide, in costs associated with accidents, illnesses, and lost productivity associated with sleep disturbances.
Even if you’re one of the 92 percent of the general population that doesn’t experience sleep paralysis, you’ll never fully escape their influence. The word “nightmare” was actually first coined to describe sleep paralysis, folding in the Old English word mare — which refers to the mythological incubi, demonic sleep-molesters that were more than willing to crush a dreamer’s lungs.
Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country's medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports. Xiaoyi is just one example of how much China is keen on using AI to make a number of industries more efficient.
A ROBOT MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Experts generally agree that, before we might consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be truly intelligent —that is, on a level on par with human cognition— AI agents have to pass a number of tests. And while this is still a work in progress, AIs have been busy passing other kinds of tests.
Xiaoyi, an AI-powered robot in China, for example, has recently taken the national medical licensing examination and passed, making it the first robot to have done so. Not only did the robot pass the exam, it actually got a score of 456 points, which is 96 points above the required marks.
This robot, developed by leading Chinese AI company iFlytek Co., Ltd., has been designed to capture and analyze patient information. Now, they’ve proven that Xiaoyi could also have enough medical know-how to be a licensed practitioner.
With both governments and private companies intent on putting AI to good use, one of the first fields in which AI technologies are being applied has been medical research and healthcare. Most are familiar with IBM’s Watson, which has made significant headway in AI-assisted cancer diagnosis and in improving patient care in hospitals.
In the same manner, iFlytek plans to have Xiaoyi assist human doctors in order to improve their efficiency in future treatments. “We will officially launch the robot in March 2018. It is not meant to replace doctors. Instead, it is to promote better people-machine cooperation so as to boost efficiency,” iFlytek chairman Liu Qingfeng told China Daily.
Concretely, iFlytek’s vision is to use AI to improve cancer treatment and help to train general practitioners, which China is sorely in need of. “General practitioners are in severe shortage in China’s rural areas. We hope AI can help more people access quality medical resource,” Qingfeng added.
In short, there’s no need to fear an AI takeover in the medical field, even though many worry that such advances will eliminate human jobs. In this case, it is quite the opposite, because this AI will work to augment the capabilities of its human counterparts instead of replace them. So, at least for now, you don’t have to worry about being referred to a robot doctor.
If you’ve ever landed in the emergency room with a broken bone, fallen and hit your head, or been pregnant, then you already know how important medical imaging technology can be. If you’ve been diagnosed with appendicitis, a stroke, or any kind of tumor, those scans may have saved your life.
While medical imaging technology has given us the power to “see” inside the body, the tools of tomorrow will be more powerful still. The science behind this technology has evolved by leaps and bounds in the last few decades, but in order to apply those innovations to medical equipment, researchers need support.
If progress in this area has been slow, it hasn’t been for lack of ideas — it’s been a lack of funding. Now, there are signs that this might be changing, and researchers can already envision the implications of giving medical professionals better ways to see in the body. To do so would change more than the future of medicine: It would irrevocably change how we see ourselves.
Sight Unseen — Today
For centuries, the only way to see inside the body was through exploratory surgery, which has always come with risks — like an infection, hemorrhaging, and so on
Then, in 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays, giving physicians a tool that could let them “see” the human skeleton without a single incision. And X-rays were only the beginning. Computed tomography (CT) scans take several X-rays and combine them to form a composite image, providing a more detailed internal view of organs, tissues, and bone. Positron-emission tomography (PET) scans identify changes at the cellular level: After a patient ingests a radioactive tracer, the scan tracks it as it moves through the body. This can be helpful not just for diagnosing a disease, but monitoring one that may progress, like metastatic cancer.
While these scans are essential to the practice of medicine, they aren’t without risk — even a simple X-ray exposes patients to a small dose of ionizing radiation, which can build up and pose health risks over time. So medical professionals do their best to use the scans sparingly.
In some cases, medical professionals can use other imaging techniques that don’t require any radiation at all. Ultrasounds, for example, use high-frequency sound waves to produce images of organs within the cavities of the body. They’re useful to help doctors diagnose conditions like ovarian cysts and gallstones. Inserting a catheter or gastrostomy tube becomes easier when the technician can guide them in via ultrasound. Of course, ultrasounds are most often associated with pregnancy, as they are used to construct real-time images of the fetus.
The downside, however, is that the images that ultrasounds produce aren’t particularly high-quality. The lack of detail means that, while an ultrasound might be able to detect a structure on or near the ovary, differentiating between a malignant tumor and a simple cyst usually requires imaging at a higher resolution or even a biopsy. The quality of the ultrasound image also varies depending on the skill of the sonographer, which could make the images less reliable, which could be a life-threatening issue.
While collectively these techniques have informed how doctors treat patients, there’s one technique that stands out above the rest: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The MRI can provide a glimpse at the tissues and organs of the entire body, and it’s one of the best ways to take images of the brain.
First developed in the 1970s, MRIs use a combination of radio waves and magnetic fields to render images of our internal organs, soft tissues, bones, ligaments, and cartilage. The human body is full of proton-containing water molecules which will align when exposed to a magnetic field. They flip-flop at different rates depending on what tissues of the body they happen to be in. That’s how the MRI generates an image in which organs are (more or less) distinct from one another.
While MRIs are useful for finding abnormalities in blood flow within the brain, a close relative, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), can provide insights into the activity of cells in the brain.
And that, we suspect, is where many of the unsolved mysteries of the human body begin.
Much More to See
Research into medical imaging technology receives less attention than you might expect, even though patients benefit greatly (and very often their lives depend upon) this research. Less than two percent of grants from the National Institutes of Health are awarded to academic radiology departments, Richard Ehman, a diagnostic radiologist and director of the Mayo Clinic Advanced Medical Imaging Technology lab, told Futurism.
As it stands today, modern medical imaging methods are extremely useful for clinicians, so rather than devising new techniques, most researchers’ energies have been dedicated to refining existing techniques. In an interview with Nature, Roderic Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging said that today’s MRI machines are so specific that they can “track the diffusion of water molecules in the brain with such precision that you can compute their trajectories along fibre pathways,” giving physicians more information to better diagnose, monitor, and treat a number of neurological conditions.
The most cutting-edge MRI machines are found in research facilities, but that’s not what you’d find at your local hospital. As healthcare systems struggle under pressure to cut costs without compromising the quality of patient care, entire radiology departments languish and lag. Replacing an MRI machine is pricey, so it’s easy to understand why hospitals are using older models. Some US hospitals still use film.
“Most physicians would have a hard time imagining how they would take care of patients without these tools,” Ehman, of Mayo, said. While it’s unlikely that any Western medical practitioners lack the capability to take basic images of the body, complacency and a lack of research attention to new imaging techniques have hampered innovation. Stagnation is preventing us from seeing more.
Over the past 30 years, the design of MRIs has evolved to be faster, quieter, and more powerful — in large part because computer processors have gotten faster. Their evolution is far from over, and a team at the University of California Berkeley has set out to prove it. The team, composed of physicists and engineers, was recently awarded a $13.43 million BRAIN Initiative from the National Institutes of Health to develop the next generation of fMRI, dubbed the NexGen 7T, by 2019.
A MRI machine’s strength is measured in Teslas (T), which indicates the power of a magnetic field. When the magnetic field of our body (the tissues of which contain positively-charged water molecules) interacts with the magnetic field of the MRI, the tissue gives off a signal. The higher the power of the external magnet, the higher the intensity of that signal — and in turn, the higher the resolution of the images the MRI produces. Today, the world’s strongest MRI machines (which are generally isolated in research facilities and academic medical centers) are somewhere between 7T and 10T. Those that are most routinely used for patient care are much less powerful, clocking in at either 1.5T or 3T. Machines of that resolution are decently fast and accurate, good enough for most routine diagnoses: at 3T, an MRI can detect very small lesions in the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis, which a less powerful machine could miss.
But what if MRIs could allow us to go deeper, to see more — and to do so with breathtaking clarity? What could we glean about the progression of a neurodegenerative disease like multiple sclerosis (MS) if we could see nerves lose their protective myelin in real-time? If we could see the structures of the brain in greater detail, what could we learn about depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, or autism? If we could clearly see every nook and cranny, down to the axons and neurons, could observe the brains’ many processes as they happened, could we finally solve what some philosophers have called the “hard problem of consciousness?”
To inch us closer to doing so, researchers at UC Berkeley will need to achieve “a total redesign of nearly all of the [MRI] scanner components, not just an incremental change,” team lead David Feinberg said in the press release announcing the grant.
Another pair of researchers from UC Berkeley recently devised a way to make MRIs more safe and effective for children — a longstanding problem in the field. A physicist, electrical engineer, and a radiologist teamed up to create 3D-printed, flexible coils that fit onto garments. The resulting images were also remarkably crisp, which would benefit adults, too. Now the team is working with GE to further develop its design, possibly making up part of the next generation of MRI coils.
The applications for advanced imaging techniques go beyond our current uses. As Ehman noted, there are a number of measurements clinicians need to assess through the course of diagnosing and treating their patients. One example is that of measuring pressure within the human body. Getting these readings can require invasive, uncomfortable procedures, such as a spinal tap, that come with their own risks. As medical imaging once cut down the need for surgery, perhaps one day it could eliminate the need for needles, gauges, cuffs, and catheters.
Better imaging could also help us see elements of our own biology we never even knew existed. Invariably, more answers lead to more questions. And that will likely inform the path of medical research for decades to come.
Other innovations in medical imaging may be a bit more dazzling to the average patient. At Massachusetts General Hospital, physicist Matthew Rosen is leading research into the clinical tools that are often paired with MRI machines, such as contrast dyes. His team is developing synthetic, biocompatible nanodiamonds that could replace contrast agents that are traditionally metal-based.
“Nanodiamonds have the potential to revolutionize the field of molecular imaging,” Rosen said in a press release, adding that their tiny size could enable radiologists to track any process at the cellular and subcellular level.
The team has only conducted lab-based tests and haven’t yet figured out how to best introduce the nanodiamonds into the human body (possible routes, as with any tracer, would include ingestion, infusion, or injection), according to a study Rosen and his team published in Nature Communications in March. There’s a long way to go before patients will have the option of taking a shot of medical-grade bling.
Technological progress made over the past century has transformed how we work, how we socialize, and how we date. The same goes for medicine, and for medical imaging in particular. That progress seems poised to continue — advanced computing, artificial intelligence, automation, and deep learning will improve medical technologies involved in everything from scans to surgery.
“I think that, in the future, we may look back at this time and it will seem that we were making very limited use of our best imaging technologies,” Ehman said (there are many complex reasons for this, he noted, including limited federal funding and the challenges of implementing new healthcare technologies). But Ehman remains hopeful that, despite these challenges, the future of medical imaging technology will transform medicine once again. Perhaps we can’t count on a renaissance, but having crystal clear vision will no doubt supply a few answers — and we should stay eager to be dazzled by them.
Disclaimer: the editor of this piece was a recipient of the Mayo Clinic’s 2017 journalist residency for surgery, which connected the author to sources quoted in this piece. The residency was paid for by the Mayo Clinic; however, neither the clinic nor any of its affiliates have editorial review privileges.
Here's What a Volcano on Mars Looked Like to Mariner 9 in 1971
Here's What a Volcano on Mars Looked Like to Mariner 9 in 1971
By Christine Lunsford,Space.com Contributor
Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, arrived at Mars on Nov. 14, 1971, and returned remarkable images of the surface. This shield volcano on the Red Planet's surface reveals a summit crater and grooves believed to be from subsurface magma flows.
Credit: NASA
Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth, travelled to Mars and returned images of the surface, including this one of a Martian shield volcano. The craft’s wide-angle and telephoto lenses captured the summit crater and grooves of the volcano. Experts think the grooves likely resulted from subsurface magma flows,according to NASA.
Mariner 9 launched aboard an Atlas-Centaur SLV-3C booster (AC-23) on May 30, 1971 and arrived at Mars on Nov. 14, 1971. The craft continued atmospheric studies of the Red Planet started by Mariners 6 and 7, and mapped more than 70 percent of the Martian surface.
Originally, Mariner 9 was part of a two-spacecraft mission known as Mariner Mars 71, but Mariner 8 failed to launch properly, so Mariner 9 operated with a set of combined mission objectives. [Photos: Mars Volcano Views Revealed by Spacecraft]
Plans to use Mariner 9 to map the surface of the Red Planet were delayed by a massive dust storm that began on Sept. 22, 1971. By the time Mariner 9 arrived in November, only the summits of Olympus Mons and the three Tharsis volcanoes could be seen on Mars’ surface. The storm became one of the largest global storms recorded on the Red Planet.
The storm slowed later in the month and subsided in December, and the mapping campaign began. Mariner 9 returned 54 billion bits (6.75 gigabytes) of scientific data, including more than 7,300 images of the Red Planet.
The Mariner 9 mission was terminated on Oct. 27, 1972, but the spacecraft was set into a long-lasting orbit that will eventually send the it crashing through the Martian atmosphere.
L'objet a une forme de cigare et mesure dans les 400 m. La forme est très allongée, avec un ratio L/l de 10 à 1, des proportionsjamais observées à ce jour pour un astéroïde. Il serait rocheux mais aussi en partie métallique. Il tourne sur son axe en 7 h et sa brillance varie d'un facteur 10, phénomène jamais constaté non plus auparavant pour des objets célestes naturels. Il est de couleur rougeâtre, peut-être due à une longue irradiation par les rayons cosmiques. Il se confirme que l'origine de son voyage n'est pas la région de Véga, celle-ci s'étant trouvée dans une position très éloignée lorsque l'objet se trouvait dans ses environs (actuels) il y a 300 000 ans. Il est aussi confirmé qu'il a été accéléré par effet de fronde (slingshotted) au voisinage immédiat du Soleil, passant de 26.4 à 87.3 km/s (314 000 km/h). Paul Chodas, du JPL, traduisant en cela l'immense surprise de la Communauté astronomique, le décrit comme "un étrange visiteur venu d'un lointain système stellaire, ne ressemblant à rien de ce qu'on ait jamais vu au voisinage du nôtre".
Ainsi, les caractéristiques de 1I/2017 U1 font de lui un objet extraordinairement singulier. Il est clair qu'on peut imaginer n'importe quoi quant à sa véritable nature. En tout état de cause, il ne s'y serait pas pris autrement s'il avait délibérément visé le Soleil pour l'utiliser comme un tremplin gravitationnel ou, qui sait, comme une source d'énergie. Nous ne le saurons probablement jamais. On ne peut malgré tout se retenir d'un clin d'oeil, "les Raméens font tout par trois".
First Interstellar Visitor From another Solar System Dazzles Astronomers
First Interstellar Visitor From another Solar System Dazzles Astronomers
It is the first observed Alien object from another solar system, according to astudy in the journal Nature. Preliminary calculations suggest that the alien visitor came from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, located in the northern parts of the constellation of Lyra.
A recent study has identified the shape of the first alien visitor that astronomers say, has come from another solar system.
This makes the object even more mysterious as astronomers revealed its aspect ratios is much greater than that of any other asteroid or comet that has been observed in our solar system.
In other words, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever spotted.
Astronomers note that its extremely elongated shape (which is surprising) may help provide new clues as to how other solar systems in our galaxy formed.
According to a study published in Nature, the alien visitor has been wandering through the Milky Way Galaxy for hundreds of millions of years.
“For decades we’ve theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now – for the first time – we have direct evidence they exist,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
“This history-making discovery is opening a new window to study the formation of solar systems beyond our own.”
Immediately after the comet was spotted, many observatories on Earth turned towards Oumuamua to study it.
Combined images from the FORS instrument on the ESO telescope found that Oumuamua varies in brightness by a factor of ten as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours.
And this is rather odd. Astronomers note how no other known asteroid or comet in our solar system varies so widely in brightness, having such a large ration between its length and width.
“This unusually big variation in brightness means that the object is highly elongated: about ten times as long as it is wide, with a complex, convoluted shape,” said Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii. “We also found that it had a reddish color, similar to objects in the outer solar system, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.”
Preliminary calculations suggest that the alien visitor came from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, located in the northern parts of the constellation of Lyra.
However, astronomers note that it so extremely long for Oumuamua to make the journey that Vega was nowhere near that position when the asteroid was there some 300,000 years ago.
Furthermore, the object which was originally classified as a comet isn’t one after observations from ESO and elsewhere revealed no signs of cometary activity after it slingshotted past the Sun on Sept. 9 at a blistering speed of 196,000 miles per hour (87.3 kilometers per second), notes NASA.
“What a fascinating discovery this is!” said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. “It’s a strange visitor from a faraway star system, shaped like nothing we’ve ever seen in our own solar system neighborhood.”
NASA STUDY REVEALS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS SURROUNDED BY A MASSIVE SPHERICAL ‘SHIELD’
NASA STUDY REVEALS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS SURROUNDED BY A MASSIVE SPHERICAL ‘SHIELD’
Data from NASA’s Cassini, Voyager and IBEX missions suggest that the solar system is surrounded by a MASSIVE, SPHERICAL shaped magnetic field. In the past, experts thought that the heliosphere was in fact a comet-shaped structure, with a rounded head and an extended tail. But new data covering an entire 11-year cycle of solar activity shows that this may not be the case.
According to scientists, our Sun releases a constant flux of magnetic solar material—called solar wind—that fills the inner solar system, and extends beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Shown in a Hubble Space Telescope image, the “astrosphere” around the star L.L. Orionis approximates the heliosphere around our solar system.
IMAGE COURTESY ESA/NASA
This wind creates something that can be explained as a bubble, some 37 million kilometers wide, called the heliosphere. Our entire solar system, including the H, moves through interstellar space. Just as Earth orbits the Sun, our Sun orbits the galactic center –which from our vantage point is located around 25,00 light years— in an elliptic orbit. It completes a revolution every 225 million years approximately—called a Galactic year. Anyway, getting back on track, this new discovery calls into question the alternate view of the solar magnetic fields trailing behind the sun in the shape of a long comet tail—almost like a kite.
Until now, scientists thought that the heliosphere was in fact a comet-shaped structure, with a rounded head and an extended tail. But new data covering an entire 11-year cycle of solar activity shows that this may not be the case: the heliosphere is most likely rounded at both ends, making its shape almost spherical. An article featuring the results of the study was published in Nature Astronomy.
“Instead of a prolonged, comet-like tail, this rough bubble-shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field—much stronger than what was anticipated in the past—combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,” says Kostas Dialynas of the Academy of Athens in Greece, lead author of the study. Interestingly, Cassini—which has explored Saturn for over a decade—using its Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument discovered surprising new data about the shape of the heliosphere’s trailing end, the heliotail.
“Our Cassini instrument was designed to image the ions that are trapped in the magnetosphere of Saturn,” says coauthor Tom Krimigis, of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, an instrument lead on the Cassini and Voyager missions. “We never thought that we would see what we’re seeing and be able to image the boundaries of the heliosphere.”
Since these particles move only at a small fraction of the speed of light, their trip from the sun to the edge of the heliosphere and back takes quite a lot. Now, when the number of particles coming from the sun changes, it takes years before that is reflected in the amount of natural atoms shooting back into the solar system. As Cassini was orbiting Saturn, its instruments measured the neutral atoms revealed surprising details—the particles coming from the ‘tail’ of our solar system’s heliosphere reflect the changes in the solar cycle almost exactly as fast as those coming from the nose of the heliosphere.
“If the heliosphere’s ‘tail’ is stretched out like a comet, we’d expect that the patterns of the solar cycle would show up much later in the measured neutral atoms,” said Krimigis.
What does this mean? Well, since patterns of solar activity show just as quickly on one side of the heliosphere as the other, it implies that the tail of the heliosphere is around the same distance from us as the nose. In other words, the comet-like tail that scientists thought existed previously may not be there at all, as the heliosphere that wraps the solar system is nearly round. Scientists note that a spherical heliosphere may exist due to a number of reasons. First of all, data gathered by the voyager 1 probe shows that the interstellar magnetic field beyond the heliosphere is much stronger than scientists had expected.
“This data that Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini and IBEX provide to the scientific community is a windfall for studying the far reaches of the solar wind,” says Arik Posner, NASA’s Voyager and IBEX program scientist. “As we continue to gather data from the edges of the heliosphere, this data will help us better understand the interstellar boundary that the heliosphere, this data will help us better understand the interstellar boundary that helps shield the Earth environment from harmful cosmic rays.”
Major earthquakes predicted for 2018 due to changes in the Earth’s rotation
Major earthquakes predicted for 2018 due to changes in the Earth’s rotation
According to scientists, the number of severe Earthquakes is likely to rise exponentially in 2018, due to a slowing down of Earth’s rotation. Minimal variations in Earth’s rotation speed could trigger intense seismic activity in 2018, especially in densely populated tropical regions, warn experts.
Although such variations in the rotation of our planet are small, changing the length of the day by one millisecond, these changes could set off a release of large amounts of underground energy.
The connection between Earth’s rotation and seismic activity is displayed in a study by Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Rebecca Bendick of the University of Montana at Missoula, presented in October during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.
“The relationship between Earth’s rotation and earthquake activity is strong and suggests there is going to be an increase in numbers of violent earthquakes next year,” Bilham told the Observer in an interview.
In the study presented by Bilham and, the two argue that by looking at earthquakes of magnitude 7 and greater that had occurred since 1900. “Major earthquakes have been well recorded for more than a century, and that gives us a good record to study,” explains Bilham.
The two researchers discovered five periods in which there were a significantly greater number of large earthquakes compared to other times.
“During these periods, there were between 25 and 30 intense earthquakes a year,” adds Bilham.
“The rest of the time, the average number was about 15 large earthquakes per year.”
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The researchers sought to find correlations between these periods of intense seismic activity and other factors and discovered that when the Earth’s rotation decreased slightly, it was followed by periods of increase in the number of intense earthquakes.
“The rotation of the Earth changes slightly – in a millisecond per day sometimes – and that can be measured very accurately by atomic clocks.”
Bilham and Bendick discovered that there were periods of about five years when the rotation of the Earth was reduced by that amount several times over the last century and a half.
Fundamentally, these time lapses were followed by periods in which the number of intense earthquakes increased.
“It’s simple,” says Bilham. “The Earth is offering us a five-year warning about future earthquakes.”
This link is particularly important because the rotation of the Earth began one of its periodic decreases more than four years ago.
“The inference is clear,” concludes the researcher.
“Next year we should see a significant increase in the number of severe earthquakes. We have had it easy this year. So far, we have only had about six severe earthquakes. We could easily have 20 per year starting in 2018.”
It is not clear exactly why the decreases in the length of the day should be related to earthquakes, although scientists suspect that small changes in the behavior of the Earth’s core could be causing both effects.
Regrettably, it is difficult to predict where these additional earthquakes will occur, although Bilham said they discovered that most of the intense earthquakes responding to changes in day length seemed to occur near the equator.
Around one billion people live in the tropical regions of the Earth.
New study published in ‘the Journal Astrobiology’ says life on Earth may have come from ‘elsewhere’
New study published in ‘the Journal Astrobiology’ says life on Earth may have come from ‘elsewhere’
The building blocks of life on Earth may be launching into space, perhaps seeding other worlds, according to a new study published in the journal Astrobiology and available in pre-print on arXiv.
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) have published a study in the journal Astrobiology in which they have proposed a hypothesis according to which life on planet Earth could have come from other planets in the cosmos.
According to calculations, the great flow of space dust that falls on the planet, in an amount of 105 kilograms per day and at speeds of 10 to 70 kilometers per second, is enough to boost, in the upper layers of the atmosphere, small living beings towards space.
This implies that life could be transferred from Earth to other places and that the same thing could happen, or have happened, in the opposite direction.
It is observed that hypervelocity space dust, which is continuously bombarding the Earth, creates immense momentum flows in the atmosphere. Some of this fast space dust inevitably will interact with the atmospheric system, transferring energy and moving particles around, with various possible consequences
“The hypervelocity space dust forms an immense and sustained flow in the atmosphere,” wrote the authors of the study, led by Arjun Berera. “For particles that form the thermosphere or above or reach there from the ground, if they collide with this space dust, they can be displaced, altered in form or carried off by incoming space dust.”
Berera believes that our planet’s organic material could have traveled as much as 30,000 light-years over the past few billion years, which is enough time to reach most parts of the galaxy.
Tardigrades may survive the journey through space.
According to Berera, this can have many consequences for the weather and the wind.
But, what is more interesting, in the opinion of the researcher at the University of Edinburgh, “is the possibility that this type of collision can give the particles of the atmosphere the escape velocity needed to escape from Earth’s gravity.”
In this way, the flow of small particles from space, whose masses range from one gram to one trillionth of a gram, would be like a space shuttle for living beings.
This means that resistant and extremely small organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, or tardigrades, could cross the space between solar systems or even beyond, thanks to the thrust of space dust, and perhaps survive their journey.
What if life on Earth was ‘seeded’ from elsewhere?
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It also means that the impact of asteroids and comets would not be the only mechanism capable of transferring life between planets, as Svante August Arrhenius theory of panspermia indicates.
Experts note how “Hypervelocity space dust is a unique entity in planetary systems like our Solar System, which is able to go past and enter the atmosphere of planets, collect samples of those planets and deposit samples of other planets. The entire system of fast space dust in a planetary system thus contains the atoms, molecules and possibly even microbial life, from all the planets and provides a means to mix them up amongst the different planets.”
“The proposal that space dust collisions could propel organisms at enormous distances between planets opens some interesting perspectives on how life and the atmospheres of planets originated,” Berera said in a statement.
“The currents of space dust present in planetary systems could be a common factor in the proliferation of life.”
The next decades of space exploration through powerful telescopes will perhaps clarify numerous questions and whether or not, hypervelocity space dust may have acted as a transport system for microbial life spreading across space.
According to researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), massive black holes are hiding “like monsters under your bed” in galaxies close to the Milky Way.
Recently, scientists have discovered evidence of supermassive black holes hidden behind clouds of gas and dust at the center of two of our galactic neighbors. Now, scientists feel that the majority of big galaxies have black holes that might be hidden in the clouds of gas and dust.
Sukanya Chakrabarti, a professor of physics at RIT and lead author of the study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, explained that in the outer gas disks of big spiral galaxies, conditions are favorable for the presence of black hole mergers.
“The metal content in the outer disks of spiral galaxies is also quite low and should be rife with black holes in this large area,” Chakrabarti said.
Researchers from the universities of Durham and Southampton used the NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) orbiting observatory to spot these hidden holes.
Astronomer Ady Annuar, from the University of Durham’s Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, said, “These black holes are relatively close to the Milky Way, but they have remained hidden from us until now. They’re like monsters hiding under your bed. Their recent discoveries certainly call out the question of how many other supermassive black holes we are still missing, even in our nearby universe.”
Daniel Stern, project scientist for NuSTAR, said, “It is exciting to use the power of NuSTAR to get important, unique information on these beasts, even in our cosmic backyard where they can be studied in detail.”
BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND Hurricane Ophelia (its core appears here as a white dot at the lower right) dragged in dust from the Sahara and smoke from wildfires in Portugal as the storm spun northeast toward Ireland in October 2017.
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
How do you observe the invisible currents of the atmosphere? By studying the swirling, billowing loads of sand, sea salt and smoke that winds carry. A new simulation created by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reveals just how far around the globe such aerosol particles can fly on the wind.
The complex new simulation , powered by supercomputers, uses advanced physics and a state-of-the-art climate algorithm known as FV3 to represent in high resolution the physical interactions of aerosols with storms or other weather patterns on a global scale (SN Online: 9/21/17). Using data collected from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites, the simulation tracked how air currents swept aerosols around the planet from August 1, 2017, through November 1, 2017.
In the animation, sea salt (in blue) snagged by winds sweeping across the ocean’s surface becomes entrained in hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria, revealing their deadly paths. Wisps of smoke (in gray) from fires in the U.S. Pacific Northwest drift toward the eastern United States, while Saharan dust (in brown) billows westward across the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. And the visualization shows how Hurricane Ophelia formed off the coast of Africa, pulling in both Saharan dust and smoke from Portugal’s wildfires and transporting the particles to Ireland and the United Kingdom.
CURRENTS GALORE Smoke, sand and sea salt interact with hurricanes and other weather patterns from August to November 2017 in this supercomputer-powered visualization of atmospheric currents.
It swept nearest the sun in September, then sped away again, back to interstellar space. Astronomers named it `Oumuamua. It’s dark red, very elongated and unlike anything in our solar system.
A few weeks ago, we reported on a small object visiting from beyond our solar system. Now astronomers have scrutinized data from this object, which has been given the name `Oumuamua, and which must have traveled through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. The conclusion is that it’s a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object. And, indeed, it is the first known asteroid from interstellar space. These new results were published today (November 20, 2017) in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Some astronomers thought the object was a comet when the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i first picked it up on October 19, as a faint point of light moving across the sky. Others thought it looked like a typical fast-moving small asteroid. As they tracked its motion through space, astronomers began to be able to calculate its orbit, showing beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside our solar system, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed.
Instead, this object was doubtless from interstellar space.
Observations revealed no signs of cometary activity after it passed closest to the sun in September 2017. It has now been reclassified as an interstellar asteroid – the first ever observed – and named 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua).
A statement from the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii described the intricacies of naming this object:
Originally denoted A/2017 U1 (with the A for asteroid), the body is now the first to receive an I (for interstellar) designation from the International Astronomical Union, which created the new category after the discovery. In addition, it has been officially given the name `Oumuamua. The name, which was chosen in consultation with Hawaiian language experts Ka`iu Kimura and Larry Kimura, reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (`ou means “reach out for”, and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means “first, in advance of”).
The object’s full official name is 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua), and can also be correctly referred to as 1I, 1I/2017 U1, and 1I/`Oumuamua.
View larger. | This animation shows the path of `Oumuamua, as it passed through our inner solar system in September and October 2017.
But all of that – name, designations, characterizations of the object – came later. First, astronomers had to observe it and try to understand just what this speedy visitor to our solar system might be. And they had to do it quickly. By the time earthly telescopes first noticed it, `Oumuamua had already passed its closest point to the sun, and was heading back into interstellar space. An international team lead by astronomer Karen Meech of IfA observed the object. They gathered data from telescopes around the world, including the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and the Keck Telescope on Maunakea, the Gemini South telescope, and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. These observations led to detailed measurements of the visitor’s properties. Meech commented:
This thing is very strange.
What we found was a rapidly rotating object, at least the size of a football field, that changed in brightness quite dramatically. This change in brightness hints that `Oumuamua could be more than 10 times longer than it is wide – something which has never been seen in our own solar system.
`Oumuamua does have some similarities to small objects in the outer solar system, especially the distant worlds of the Kuiper Belt – a region of rocky, frigid worlds far beyond Neptune. While study of `Oumuamua’s colors shows that this body shares characteristics with both Kuiper Belt objects and organic-rich comets and trojan asteroids, its hyperbolic orbit says it comes from far beyond.
Meech also said the object has:
… a dark red color, similar to objects in the outer solar system, and [we] confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.
The astronomers said these properties suggest that `Oumuamua is dense, possibly rocky or with high metal content, lacks significant amounts of water or ice, and that its surface is now dark and reddened due to the effects of irradiation from cosmic rays over millions of years.
It is estimated to be at least 400 meters long.
Many comment on stories like this one that they don’t want to see artist’s concepts; they want to see the real thing. Here you go. This deep combined image shows the interstellar asteroid `Oumuamua at the center of the picture. It is surrounded by the trails of faint stars that are smeared as the telescopes tracked the moving asteroid. This image was created by combining multiple images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope as well as the Gemini South Telescope. The object is marked with a blue circle and appears to be a point source, with no surrounding dust.
At first – by looking backwards along the orbit that had been calculated for `Oumuamua – astronomers might have said the object had come from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, in the northern constellation Lyra the Harp.
Things aren’t that simple, though, in our Milky Way galaxy, where everything is always moving. Although it’s travelilng about 60,000 miles/hour (95,000 km/hour), `Oumuamua has taken so long to journey to our solar system that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there (about 300,000 years ago). According to astronomers:
`Oumuamua may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the solar system.
In fact, astronomers were expecting to find an object like this one. They estimate that an interstellar asteroid similar to `Oumuamua passes through the inner solar system about once per year. We haven’t seen them before because they are so faint and hard to spot. But recent survey telescopes, such as Pan-STARRS, are powerful enough to discover them.
That’s why team member Olivier Hainaut of European Southern Observatory commented:
We are continuing to observe this unique object, and we hope to more accurately pin down where it came from and where it is going next on its tour of the galaxy. And now that we have found the first interstellar rock, we are getting ready for the next ones!
This artist’s impression shows the 1st interstellar asteroid, which has been named `Oumuamua. Data analysis reveals that is is a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 meters long, unlike anything normally found in our solar system.
Bottom line: Astronomers report on the first known interstellar asteroid, which swept nearest our sun in September, then sped away again. Astronomers have named this object `Oumuamua and say it is dark red and very elongated.
There were three helicopters, and the object was to the left side as if the helicopters were guiding or trying to ground this object.
Witness report
The report did not say what time the alleged incident happened.
However, the witness sketched a drawing of the UFO, and its "escort", which showed one helicopter in front, one behind, and one to the side.
The drawing resembled an alleged top-secret secret spy craft, which some conspiracy theorists claim the US Air Force (USAF) has developed, known as a TR-3B.
TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens visiting Earth.
MUFON is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research, and maintains a database of sightings.
Yesterday it was sent the footage with the witness report.
There have been hundreds of alleged TR-3B and triangle UFO sightings across the US, and it is not the first time one is said to have been seen accompanied by military helicopters.
There is, however, no conclusive proof the TR-3B exists.
WAS HET WEL EEN METEOOR DIE ITALIAANSE ASTRONAUT FILMDE ( VIDEO )
WAS HET WEL EEN METEOOR DIE ITALIAANSE ASTRONAUT FILMDE ( VIDEO )
Een astronaut in het ruimtestation ISS is erin geslaagd om een meteoriet die richting aarde gaat vast te leggen op beeld.
Was het echter wel een meteoor wat de Italiaanse astronaut Paolo Nespoli zag of was het iets heel anders?
Iets dat zelden of nooit gebeurd, is dat nu wel. Een Italiaanse astronaut in het ISS ruimtevaartstation is erin geslaagd een meteoor die onderweg is naar de aarde vast te leggen op beeld.
Het voorval gebeurde op 5 november jongstleden en de autoriteiten waren heel snel met het vrijgeven van de zogenaamde timelapse opname waarop te zien is hoe een meteoor door de lucht schiet richting aarde.
Hier volgen de beelden:
Was het echter wel een meteoor of misschien iets heel anders.
Tyler van Secureteam heeft de tijd genomen om de beelden uitgebreid te bestuderen en hij komt tot de conclusie dat er hier wel eens sprake kan zijn van heel iets anders.
Wat hij vreemd vindt, is dat ruimteorganisatie ESA zo snel is met het vrijgeven van beelden in de trant van: als wij als eerste dit verhaal brengen en vertellen wat het is, zal niemand verdere vragen stellen.
De enige andere keer dat men erin slaagde een opname te maken van een meteoor vanuit het ISS was in 2011 en toen zag het beeld er zo uit:
Wanneer je beiden naast elkaar zet dan ziet de recente opname er heel anders uit en lijkt het in de verste verte niet op die uit 2011.
Wanneer je het recente object verder uitvergroot, ziet het er zo uit.
Er wordt gezegd dat deze meteoor met een snelheid gevlogen zou hebben van ongeveer 150.000 kilometer per uur, maar volgens Tyler klopt die berekening niet omdat er sprake is van een timelapse opname (aaneengesloten reeks van beelden waar telkens een kleine pauze tussen zit) en zou het object in werkelijkheid veel langzamer hebben gevlogen.
Heeft hij gelijk? Of is het toch gewoon een meteoor. Kijk en oordeel zelf.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETNASA-wetenschapper David Morrison heeft zo stilaan zijn buik vol van de complottheorieën over Nibiru of Planeet X. Voor de derde keer in een paar weken tijd zou die het einde van de wereld inluiden, door een apocalyptische botsing met de Aarde. Maar: de bewuste planeet bestáát gewoon niet, herhaalt Morrison voor de zoveelste keer.
De vraag is ditmaal wél naar Morrison geluisterd zal worden, nu hij nog maar eens in een podcast heeft uitgeschreeuwd dat Planeet X een verzinsel is. “U vraagt mij een logische verklaring voor een compleet onlogisch idee”, zei Morrison als reactie op de derde aankondiging van het einde van de wereld in evenveel maanden. “Er is zo geen planeet, die is er ook nooit geweest, en waarschijnlijk zal die er ook nooit zijn, maar toch blijft die telkens opnieuw opduiken”, verklaarde hij stellig.
De frustratie bij Morrison is hoorbaar. Nibiru zou ons volgens de ‘believers’ al in 2003 moeten verwoest hebben. Daarna in 2012, en vervolgens op 23 september, dan op 15 oktober en... gisteren. Terwijl we dit schrijven, is de aarde er nog.
Al in 2008 schreef Morrison: “Ik ging ervan uit dat Nibiru het soort internetgerucht was dat snel zou passeren”. Mis dus. Ook toen kreeg Morrison dagelijks bezorgde vragen van mensen - vaak kinderen - die in paniek waren. Vandaag is dat nog altijd zo. “Ik kreeg onlangs nog een telefoontje”, zei Morrison in de podcast. “De wereld zou zaterdag vergaan. De man vroeg mij: ‘Zou ik gaan werken of beter bij mijn gezin blijven?’”
Nog één keertje dan. Mocht Planeet X wél bestaan, dan zouden astronomen ze al lang gespot hebben. Een planeet als Nibiru zou de positie van alle planeten verstoren en zelfs de “maan uit de baan van de aarde ejecteren”. Bovendien kwam er tot nu toe nooit iets in huis van de voorspellingen over de komst van Nibiru.
WETENSCHAPOns zonnestelsel heeft voor het eerst bezoek van buiten gekregen. Een asteroïde die afkomstig is uit de eindeloze ruimte tussen de sterren, is in de afgelopen weken opgedoken in onze omgeving.
Het rotsblok heeft de naam ‘Oumuamua’ gekregen. Dat is Hawaïaans voor ‘boodschapper van ver die als eerste aankomt’, omdat een telescoop op Hawaï hem als eerste zag.
De onderzoekers denken dat de asteroïde al honderden miljoenen jaren door de Melkweg zwerft, niet gebonden aan een ster. Waarschijnlijk heeft hij er 300.000 jaar over gedaan om de oversteek te maken van de ster Vega naar ons zonnestelsel. “Tientallen jaren hebben we gedacht dat zulke objecten er zijn en nu hebben we voor het eerst direct bewijs van hun bestaan”, aldus de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
Doordat de asteroïde in de buurt is, hebben Europese en Amerikaanse wetenschappers hem goed kunnen bestuderen. De uitkomsten daarvan staan maandag in het wetenschapsblad Nature. ‘Oumuamua’ is roodkleurig en heeft de vorm van een sigaar. Hij is ongeveer veertig meter breed en vierhonderd meter lang. Dat is opvallend, omdat de asteroïdes en kometen in ons zonnestelsel veel minder uitgerekt zijn.
APVia dit observatorium op Hawaii werd 'Oumuamua' ontdekt.
Tientallen jaren hebben we gedacht dat zulke objecten er zijn en nu hebben we voor het eerst direct bewijs van hun bestaan
Het rotsblok draait in iets meer dan zeven uur om zijn as. Er hangt geen stofwolk omheen, wat betekent dat hij waarschijnlijk uit rotsen en metalen bestaat en geen water of ijs heeft.
Oumuamua bevindt zich nu op ongeveer 200 miljoen kilometer van de aarde, tussen de planeten Mars en Jupiter. Hij vliegt met een snelheid van 138.000 kilometer per uur van ons weg en dat maakt het steeds moeilijker om hem te bekijken. Rond de jaarwisseling wordt hij waarschijnlijk te vaag om nog te zien. In mei 2018 vliegt hij langs Jupiter, in januari 2019 passeert hij Saturnus. Daarna zal hij ons zonnestelsel langzaam achter zich laten, op weg naar het sterrenbeeld Pegasus.
Wetenschappers sluiten niet uit dat er meer asteroïdes van buiten ons zonnestelsel langsvliegen, maar tot nu toe waren ze te klein en te vaag om te zien.
Panspermia – the theory that life came to Earth on a comet or asteroid from another world – comes from the Greek words ‘pan’ (all) and ‘sperma’ (seed). That makes sense because the hypothesis suggests that the life form riding bareback on a space rock was microscopic, like the tardigrades which we already know can survive in space and that some panspermians propose may have indeed traveled here from abroad. Now a new theory proposes that not only were the microorganisms tiny, but so were their means of transit — space dust particles. Could it be true that all we are is space dust in the cosmic wind?
In a paper published in a recent edition of Astrobiology, Professor Arjun Berera of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh looks at “hypervelocity space dust” – the sneeze-worthy massive cloud of particles that are constantly blowing into our atmosphere and quite possibly blowing right back out again with some passengers from Earth. The escape velocity is achieved by a sort of billiard ball effect of incoming particles slamming around the atmospheric table and knocking others in all directions – down, up and corner pocket.
This effect is nothing like the cloud you kick up when blowing the dust off of your tables before your parents visit. Berera and his researchers determined that space dust travels at 70 km a second (156,585.5mph). Assuming that tardigrades or other microorganisms could be carried by conventional winds or the cosmic billiard ball effect to a height of 70 km (43 miles) and that they can hang on to dust particles with their tiny feet or whatever appendages they have, they could be knocked out of the Earth ballpark and catch a ride on a cosmic wind shuttle to another planet, solar system or even a galaxy … assuming they can survive the trip. Based on how well bacteria survives on the outside of the International Space Station, don’t put it past them.
If you buy Professor Berera’s idea of hypervelocity space dust bearing gifts of life to Earth billions of years ago, then it’s safe to assume that it’s also happening right now. That big inhalation before blowing out your birthday candles could have started a colony of aliens deep in your lungs. You may not feel older but you may soon feel something worse than any flu congestion you’ve ever coughed up.
“The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated. The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life.”
While Professor Berera buys into this dustpan-spermia theory, there are both scientific and religious doubters. There’s only one way to find out. Get our your microscope, kick up some dust and eliminate everything that doesn’t look familiar.
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Strange cigar-shaped ‘Asteroid’ is first interstellar visitor to our solar system!
Strange cigar-shaped ‘Asteroid’ is first interstellar visitor to our solar system!
Last month, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai'i picked up a very strange object moving across the sky. It was originally believed that the object was a comet but astronomers quickly realized it was something entirely different.
Above image shows an impression of cigar-shaped asteroid Oumuamua - European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser and a cigar-shaped UFO on the backside of the Moon.
Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope and others have shown that the object is a rocky cigar-shaped asteroid and it has been confirmed as the first ever interstellar object to enter our solar system.
The object has been dubbed ‘Oumuamua’ by the International Astronomical Union. The name means “a messenger from a far arriving first” in the language of the Central Pacific Island.
According to a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Oumuamua is like nothing seen before. It is red, made of dense rock or metal, and is shaped roughly like a giant cigar measuring up to 400 meters long and around 40 meters wide.
Oumuamua varies dramatically in brightness by a factor of ten as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours. This unusually large variation in brightness means that the object with its complex, convolute shape, is highly elongated and may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the Solar System, reports RT.
It seems to come from the direction of the star Vega. However, Vega itself moves and was not in the area when Oumuamua was last there about 300,000 years ago.
As quickly confirmed by the astronomers the object is an asteroid which became the first ever interstellar object to enter our solar system; but given the very strange shape of the object it reminds me another huge cigar-shaped ‘UFO’ object on the backside of the Moon photographed by the crew of Apollo 15 which is very similar to the cigar-shaped ‘Messenger From A Far Arriving First’!
This animation (annotated) shows the path of the interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 (`Oumuamua) through the Solar System. Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope and others have shown that this unique object is dark, reddish in color and highly elongated.
A strange flashing UFO appears in security cameras in Phoenix, Arizona, reigniting claims the city is a hotspot for visiting beings from another world.
Many people believe it could be an alien spacecraft as it also reportedly observed from New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and California.
Experts said it was likely an object from outer space burnt up in the atmosphere or a meteor.
Phoenix is one of the most famous US cities when it comes to alien and UFO sighting after the notorious Phoenix Lights incident that became a phenomenon from March 13, 1997. The infamous incident involved massive sightings of huge triangular UFOs drifting above Arizona and the city of Phoenix.
Thousands of people saw five lights in a formation for over three hours from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm.
The military blamed the infamous event to flares set off during an exercise at the time, but UFO enthusiasts were not convinced of the official explanation.
The new footage was recorded with a Nest security camera.
The object in question appears above the city as a small orb of light.
It then blooms into a large flash and lights up clouds in the dark sky.
One witness Debora Lee Soltez said on Twitter that they noticed the sky light up not far from Flagstaff. She added that they were driving north, so they did not see the meteor, just the sky lightens up then the flash bright enough to see the trees along the road.
Another Twitter user said that they first thought someone shot a firework, but it got very bright and never popped.
Unknown lights over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 16-Nov-2017
Unknown lights over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 16-Nov-2017
This footage was filmed over Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on 16th November 2017.
Witness report:
UFO fleet hovering at sky. A friend made two videos with a IPhone 7 showing an #UFO fleet hovering at Engenho Novo, Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil. He described as pulsating changing colors lights from blue, green to red yellow and in formation of three, mostly. They came from nothing and disappeared to nothing with five minutes approximate of duration.
Television Producer, Researcher and Experiencer Bob Schultz digs into his personal archives and presents a never before seen one-on-one interview with the legendary UFO Contact researcher Wendelle Stevens. Topics include Wendelle’s personal history with extensive commentary on maintaining and flying WWII military aircraft and a rare 1994 presentation by Wendelle detailing his investigation of the historic Billy Meier/Pleiadian Contactee case. Recorded at the Minnesota Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Saturday, July 8, 2017.
New scientific theory about life on Earth involves alien bugs hitching a ride on space dust
New scientific theory about life on Earth involves alien bugs hitching a ride on space dust
Previously, scientists have considered the possibility of asteroids and comets bringing life to our planet.
Space dust may have transported alien bugs to Earth – or terrestrial microbes to other planets, research suggests.
The theory comes from British scientists who have studied powerful flows of interplanetary dust that can travel through space at up to 43.75 miles per second.
They calculated that small bio-particles floating high in the atmosphere at an altitude of 93 miles or more could be knocked free of the Earth’s gravity by incoming space dust.
Eventually the tiny organisms could reach other planets in the solar system.
Some bacteria, plants and even hardy micro-animals called tardigrades are known to be capable of surviving in space.
Did life on Earth originate from cosmic dust? (Alex-mit/Getty Images)
The same process could occur in reverse, bringing extraterrestrial bugs to Earth and possibly helping to seed life on the planet, the scientists believe.
Study leader Professor Arjun Berera, from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy, said: “The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated.
“The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life.”
Previously scientists have considered the possibility of impacting asteroids and comets importing life, or the raw ingredients of life, to Earth.
The new research, published in the journal Astrobiology, was part-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Life forms that evolved on Earth might already be living on alien planets, carried there by clouds of dust traveling through space.
The dust could act as transportation for the smallest organisms because it is moving quickly and “continuously bombarding the Earth,” a new paper in the journalAstrobiology claims. “Some of this fast space dust inevitably will interact with the atmospheric system, transferring energy and moving particles around.” Although that can include non-living atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, there are also microbes up there that could go along for the ride. When space dust particles collide with these elements in Earth’s atmosphere, the crashes could give them “the necessary escape velocity and upward trajectory to escape Earth’s gravity.”
Molecules that are necessary to sustain life and make planets habitable may be carried along as well.
According to the paper, space dust could have brought Earth life to other planets and life from other planets to Earth.
Space dust is constantly colliding with Earth's atmosphere at high speeds. That could throw molecules and microorganisms into space, which means there could be Earth life that has been carried through space to other planets — or life from other planets that was transported to Earth.
Photo: NASA/JSC
It’s not the only space mechanism that has been explored as having potential to transport life across the universe. Previous research looked into whether comets, asteroids and meteoroids crashing down to young Earth brought life, water, atmospheric gases and other crucial pieces with them in a sort of cosmic delivery service. Scientists have also asserted it would be possible for space rocks to collide with planets in such a way that sends material careening into outer space, carrying microorganisms along for the ride before possibly landing on another world.
“The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated,” paper author Arjun Berera said in a statement from the University of Edinburgh. “The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life.”
Bacteria and other tiny organisms have shown resilience in the face of harsh conditions, such as frigid temperatures, the vacuum of space and radiation exposure.
“Should some microbial particles manage the perilous journey upward and out of the Earth’s gravity, the question remains how well they will survive in the harsh environment of space,” the paper says.
The life forms that are theoretically floating around out there and touching down on other worlds could hold clues about how life on our planet began: “If biological constituents have been escaping the Earth continuously, even in tiny amounts, over its lifespan, then it would suggest floating out in the solar system there is information about the evolutionary history of microbial life over the time of the Earth’s existence.”
The Milky Way is full of dust that collides with planets and their atmospheres. That might mean it could carry small life forms between worlds.
Life forms that evolved on Earth might already be living on alien planets, carried there by clouds of dust traveling through space.
The dust could act as transportation for the smallest organisms because it is moving quickly and “continuously bombarding the Earth,” a new paper in the journalAstrobiology claims. “Some of this fast space dust inevitably will interact with the atmospheric system, transferring energy and moving particles around.” Although that can include non-living atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, there are also microbes up there that could go along for the ride. When space dust particles collide with these elements in Earth’s atmosphere, the crashes could give them “the necessary escape velocity and upward trajectory to escape Earth’s gravity.”
Molecules that are necessary to sustain life and make planets habitable may be carried along as well.
According to the paper, space dust could have brought Earth life to other planets and life from other planets to Earth.
Space dust is constantly colliding with Earth's atmosphere at high speeds. That could throw molecules and microorganisms into space, which means there could be Earth life that has been carried through space to other planets — or life from other planets that was transported to Earth.
Photo: NASA/JSC
It’s not the only space mechanism that has been explored as having potential to transport life across the universe. Previous research looked into whether comets, asteroids and meteoroids crashing down to young Earth brought life, water, atmospheric gases and other crucial pieces with them in a sort of cosmic delivery service. Scientists have also asserted it would be possible for space rocks to collide with planets in such a way that sends material careening into outer space, carrying microorganisms along for the ride before possibly landing on another world.
“The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated,” paper author Arjun Berera said in a statement from the University of Edinburgh. “The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life.”
Bacteria and other tiny organisms have shown resilience in the face of harsh conditions, such as frigid temperatures, the vacuum of space and radiation exposure.
“Should some microbial particles manage the perilous journey upward and out of the Earth’s gravity, the question remains how well they will survive in the harsh environment of space,” the paper says.
The life forms that are theoretically floating around out there and touching down on other worlds could hold clues about how life on our planet began: “If biological constituents have been escaping the Earth continuously, even in tiny amounts, over its lifespan, then it would suggest floating out in the solar system there is information about the evolutionary history of microbial life over the time of the Earth’s existence.”
The Milky Way is full of dust that collides with planets and their atmospheres. That might mean it could carry small life forms between worlds.
Mysterious ISS Footage: Are Space Agencies Hiding Proof of Alien Life? (VIDEO)
When one of the crew at the International Space Station (ISS) captured footage of a mysterious object entering the Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists quickly concluded that it was footage of a UFO, despite claims by the European Space Agency’s that the object is just a meteor.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured the clip, which shows a ball of light approaching the Earth's atmosphere, November 5.
Tyler Glockner, who runs the alien hunting YouTube Channel SecureTeam10, is convinced that the strange sighting is further proof the government is covering up the existence of aliens.
In a video uploaded to the SecureTeam10 channel, Glockner says, "I don't think it's a meteorite at all."
"You're seeing the Earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space. It does look to be moving at 85,000 miles per hour. But when you account how fast the Earth would have actually been moving, had this not been sped up, it would have been moving much, much slower."
In a statement released by the European Space Agency on November 16, researchers at the agency describe the object as a fireball.
"A fireball is basically a very bright meteoroid — a small bit of natural ‘space rock' — entering Earth's atmosphere and burning brighter than the background stars. This particular meteoroid was moving much faster than typical, with an estimated speed of about 85,000 miles per hour," the statement states.
SecureTeam10 is also suspicious about how fast the European Space Agency released a statement regarding the sighting.
"They've never jumped on a story so fast," Glockner said.
"Why are they claiming it to be a meteor if they aren't sure? Why aren't they going to the suspected location where this is meant to be falling, and recover it? Why does it look nothing like a meteor? Why are they only giving us the sped-up time lapse version and pretending it's just normal speed?" Glockner asks.
In his video, the YouTuber also compares the photo to one of a meteor taken during the 2011 Perseid meteor shower.
"If you compare this to what they are calling a meteor in this new footage, at no time does this so-called meteor look like anything that was captured back in 2011 — it just doesn't," Glocker explained.
In December 1969, the United States government called for the end of Project Blue Book, its 22-year investigation into unidentified airborne phenomena. Overnight, the authorities’ official position changed from one of indulgent public curiosity to absolute public disinterest. “The Air Force was the head agency during Project Blue Book, where they went out into the field and talked to witnesses, essentially trying to figure out what was going on,” explains John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault, an Internet-based resource that has compiled more than 1.4 million declassified government documents. “After 1969, it was the United States Air Force that said, ‘no government agency including our own has any interest in this phenomenon.’” But thanks to the dogged effort of Greenewald and other UFO researchers wielding Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, anyone with an Internet connection and an open mind can deduce the government isn’t quite as apathetic toward UFOs as it claims.
One curious item indicative of the cat-and-mouse game Greenewald feels the government plays with UFO researchers was an entry in an Air Force training manual discovered through a FOIA request. “I discovered, about eight to 10 years ago now, an Air Force regulation, Air Force Instruction 10-206,” Greenewald says. “It deals with what to do if pilots see something strange in the sky and how they have to report it. The rule was a short list of things to look for—for example if they saw a missile streak across the sky, that was outlined as something they would need to report. On this very short list was the entry, ‘Unidentified Flying Objects.’ Obviously we’re talking about 30 or more years after their investigation was stopped.”
Lonnie Zamora, an officer with the police department of Socorro, New Mexico, poses next to a depression in the soil he claimed was left by a UFO landing in 1964. The cause of the physical evidence was ruled as unknown by Project Blue Book.
CLOYD TETER/THE DENVER POST/GETTY IMAGES
The regulation seems odd enough on its own, but the rest of Greenewald’s story seems to give credence to his and other investigators’ sneaking suspicion that something is amiss with how the government reports its relationship to UFOs. “I’ve worked Air Force Instruction 10-206 into a couple of documentaries I did for History Channel and National Geographic Channel, but there wasn’t a lot of attention paid to it until a few years ago—the Huffington Post did an article about myself and The Black Vault,” he says. “I told the reporter the Air Force doesn’t have an interest in this topic anymore, and yet here’s a very recent manual that references UFOs.”
When the reporter followed up on the story and contacted the Pentagon for a response, officials reacted in a manner UFO researchers have grown accustomed to expect from the government—they stonewalled him. But the Pentagon’s silence didn’t necessarily indicate inaction. Greenewald later received a call from the reporter, who had shocking news. “He went online to download the instruction directly from the Air Force, and it didn’t have mention of UFOs anymore. Chapter Five, in which Instruction 10-206 could be found, had been revised. UFOs were completely omitted. Now the section had to do with hurricanes.”
Incredulous, Greenewald wanted to check for himself. “I thought when the reporter said all this via the telephone that maybe he was mistaken, that he clicked on the wrong instruction because these manuals can get very confusing. I thought, ‘Once I get home I’ll take a look and steer him in the right direction, never thinking that the United States Air Force would completely rewrite this instruction. I was very surprised to see that they changed it 48 to 72 hours after the Huffington Post called the Pentagon, which is all documented.”
In light of the fact that FOIA requests can turn up all kinds of buried treasure for our government’s assassination tactics, questionable wartime practices and everything in between, Greenewald’s original question is still a nuisance even to the skeptical. Why, if the government has no official interest in explaining unexplained phenomena, are they so adamantly hiding the last half-century of documentation to that effect? The answer may be an earth-shattering revelation that changes humanity’s understanding of its place in the universe. Or it may be as mundane as shedding some new light on the bureaucratic systems used to file reports. Either way, Greenewald and his cohorts will keep looking.
Some organisms from Earth, like tardigrades, are known to be able to survive in space
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Aliens might have been carried to Earth on space dust, according to new research.
Bugs might have flown across the universe and onto our own planet, scientists have said. And bugs from our own planet might have made the same journey, flying off of Earth and onto other planets elsewhere in the galaxy.
The theory could even help explain how life began here, suggesting that it was carried from elsewhere in space then flourished in Earth.
That's according to British scientists who have studied powerful flows of interplanetary dust that can travel through space at up to 70 km (43.75 mph) per second.
They calculated that small bio-particles floating high in the atmosphere at an altitude of 93 miles (150 km) or more could be knocked free of the Earth's gravity by incoming space dust.
Eventually the tiny organisms could reach other planets in the solar system.
Some bacteria, plants and even hardy micro-animals called tardigrades are known to be capable of surviving in space.
The same process could occur in reverse, bringing extraterrestrial bugs to Earth and possibly helping to seed life on the planet, the scientists believe.
Study leader Professor Arjun Berera, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy, said: "The proposition that space dust collisions could propel organisms over enormous distances between planets raises some exciting prospects of how life and the atmospheres of planets originated.
"The streaming of fast space dust is found throughout planetary systems and could be a common factor in proliferating life."
Previously scientists have considered the possibility of impacting asteroids and comets importing life, or the raw ingredients of life, to Earth.
The new research, published in the journal Astrobiology, was part-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Early Ideas About Extraterrestrial Life: What Might Inhabitants from Other Planets Look Like?
The Christian Church attempted to censor Galileo’s findings in the first decades of the 17th century, but it was a time of expanding knowledge, so it did not take very long for the information to get out. When Galileo’s observation became widely known, people started wondering if these other worlds were like our own. Did life exist on them? Did people live there? Even the Church finally decided that such speculation was not blasphemous. As the truth of the plurality of worlds became accepted, it was assumed that God would never knowingly create a world for no reason.
It was decided that if other worlds in space did exist, their only purpose could be to provide a home to humanlike creatures. As Thomas Burnet asked in his book The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1681):
God himself formed the Earth . . . he formed it to be inhabited. This is true, both of the Earth and of every habitable World whatsoever. For to what purpose is it made habitable, if not to be inhabited? We do not build houses that they should stand empty, but look out for Tenants as fast as we can.
It did not take long before several books were published speculating about what sort of life might exist on the planets. Some authors assumed that any sentient life existing on the other planets would necessarily have to be humanlike. Other authors took a looser definition of what constituted “human”, with the idea that what was most important was the quality and nature of the mind, not the form of the shell that bore it.
Early astronomers started to question whether other worlds would be like our own. Copernicus’ Conversation with God ( Public domain )
Journey into Speculation
The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote what might be the first science fiction novel, Somnium, which was published in 1634 (a few years after his death). As a serious scientist, he described the Moon and the sort of creatures that might live on it as accurately as the knowledge of the time allowed. The Moon was an incredibly alien world, he told his readers. Nights were 15 Earth days long “and dreadful with uninterrupted shadow”. The cold at night was more intense than anything experienced on Earth, while the heat of day was terrific. Animals that lived on the Moon adapted to these harsh conditions. Some went into hibernation, while others evolved hard shells and other protection.
As the 17th century progressed, the concept that the planets were not only inhabitable but inhabited was taken for granted. In 1656 the Jesuit priest and writer Athanasius Kircher, sent the hero of The Ecstatic Journey touring the heavens with an angel as his guide. In the course of these journeys through the celestial world, the Moon was actually found to be quite habitable, with a varied terrain that included mountains, oceans, lakes, islands and rivers. In Paradise Lost (1667), John Milton has the angel Raphael and Adam discussing the possibility of life on other worlds, including the Moon. But the angel cautions Adam, saying that it is dangerous to think about such matters since God does not intend human beings to comprehend everything about his creation: “Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there live, in what state, condition or degree.”
A French mathematician named Bernard de Fontenelle was not afraid to dream about such things and wondered what sort of creatures might exist on the planets in his book Entretienssur la Pluralité des Mondes (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds ; 1689). In fact, he not only asked the question, but he also attempted to answer it. And he did so in a way that was completely unique. De Fontenelle explained that although the planets were worlds very much like our own, conditions there would probably be vastly different. For example, Mercury would be incredibly hot because it is so close to the Sun. If life existed on the planets it would necessarily have to reflect an adaptation to these very specific conditions.
Conversations on the plurality of worlds, 1715 ( Public domain )
The problem de Fontenelle faced was the simple fact that scientists didn’t know enough. All he had to work with were the approximate sizes of the planets and their approximate distances from the Sun. Other than being able to make rough estimates of the planets’ surface temperatures based on their relative distances from the Sun, he knew nothing at all about the nature of the conditions on them. He had no way of knowing what a planet’s atmosphere might be like – or even for sure if it had one. Still, de Fontenelle didn’t let a little impediment like that inhibit his imagination and he proceeded to describe the creatures that lived on the other planets in great detail. The inhabitants of Mercury, he declared, were exuberant, excitable and quick-tempered. They “resemble the Moors of Granada, a small, black people, burned by the Sun, full of wit and fi re, always in love, writing verse, fond of music, arranging festivals, dances and tournaments every day.”
Early science fiction novels pondered the idea of what extraterrestrials might look like. ‘Saint Wolfgang and the devil’ ( Public domain )
The people of Venus, by contrast, were incorrigible flirts, those of Jupiter were great philosophers and the denizens of Saturn, because of the frigid climate of their planet, preferred to sit in one place for their entire lives. However, de Fontenelle decided the Moon was probably uninhabited due to its thin atmosphere.
In A Voyage to the World of Cartesius (1694), Gabriel Daniel describes the inhabitants of the Moon as being entirely spiritual, without physical bodies at all, who can travel from place to place by the force of their will alone.
Ralph Morris’ A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel (1751) tells of the invention of a machine that carries a shipwrecked sailor on a trip to the Moon. Once there he discovers copper-skinned humanoids who live in caves and worship the Sun. In Le Philosophie sans Prètention (The Unassuming Philosopher ; 1775) by Louis-Guillaume de la Folie we learn that the hero, Ormisais, has flown to Earth from the planet Mercury. He informs the Earthlings he meets that a Mercurian scientist named Scintilla has invented an electrical flying machine capable of travelling between worlds. The hero of A Voyage to the Moon (1793), Aratus, travels to the Moon by balloon (“facilitated by air currents”), where he finds a race of English-speaking snakes who walk upright on legs.
Books like these – both fanciful and realistic – helped convince their readers that other worlds did exist and that it was possible there might be life on them. People even began to wonder if the stars themselves might be other suns. After all, they asked, if the universe were infinite in size – as was supposed at the time – it should have an infinite number of stars. Wasn’t it reasonable to suppose that at least some of them might be suns like our own? And if they were suns like ours, might they not also have planets circling them?
Top image:The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius by Carlo Crivelli ( Public domain )
Lambton’s Phil Mahoney said his neighbour George Bunn saw the silver craft land in the park and leave behind a circular burn mark, 40 metres in diameter.
Geoff said the black triangle craft that he and his wife spotted was “no more than 700 metres high, but the area it covered was immense”.
“The base of the triangle was the leading edge, with about four or five white lights across it and one white light at the apex – which was the rear of the UFO.
“It was so slow that it took nearly 15 minutes to travel from our first view of it, until it got close to Munibung Hill and turned east and headed out towards the direction of the ocean.
“It made no sound at all and if you missed seeing the lights, there would be a big possibility you would not see it all.”
Geoff said the sighting was “very similar to the Phoenix Lights that were filmed in the USA”.
This case involved several UFOs, including black triangles, spotted by residents of Phoenix in Arizona.
So, was the craft that Geoff and Maree spotted aliens or a mysterious military plane, like the mythical Aurora – a black triangle-shaped aircraft that many believe was flown under a secret US government military program?
Maree reckons aliens.
“It wasn’t something from our world,” she said.
“It didn’t frighten me, but it makes you realise we’re not the only people in the universe.”
Geoff has seen several UFOs over the years.
“It’s a matter of luck and looking in the right direction at the right time,” he said.
Telemarketer Troubles
Picture this: You’ve had a long hard day at work. You sit down and crack a beer or a bottle of wine. You can smell dinner cooking in the oven.
Jazz is playing in the background at just the right volume and you’re starting to relax.
Then the phone rings. It’s a telemarketer from overseas.
You’ve registered your number with the federal government’s Do Not Call Register, but it doesn’t seem to be working.
How do you respond?
Reader Pat goes with this: “Hello, hello, hello, hello”, acting like she can’t hear the other person on the line.
We’ve also heard this one: “Hi, I’m having dinner right now, can you give me your home number and I’ll call you back during your dinnertime”.
How about this: When the caller asks how you are today, say: “I’m glad you asked. No one these days seems to care. I have all these problems and my arthritis is acting up ...”
Or this: “Okay, I’ll listen to you. But I should probably tell you, I’m not wearing any clothes”.
A telemarketer once wrote that the best way to stop the calls was to say: “Please put me on your do not call list”.
It’s worth a try, but we like the others.
Send your suggested responses to telemarketers to topics@theherald.com.au.
MUFON does not release the names of witnesses on its database.
The report entitled "UFO fleet hovering at sky" said: "A friend made two videos with an IPhone 7 showing a UFO fleet hovering at Engenho Novo, in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil.
"He described it as pulsating, changing coloured lights, from blue, green, to red and yellow, and in formation of mostly three.
"They came from nothing and disappeared to nothing with five minutes approximate of duration."
In the past some of these have later been found to be military flares being set of, or incoming standard aircraft waiting to land.
Rio de Janeiro is also no stranger to UFO sightings, with several reported, however, some of these were later exposed as CGI hoaxes.
UFO sceptic Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org, was not convinced they were anything out of this world.
After seeing the footage, he told Express.co.uk: "I am not sure if those lights are planes queuing to land, but I don't see a particular landing airway.
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2,500 AMAZING MARS PHOTOS RELEASED BY NASA
2,500 AMAZING MARS PHOTOS RELEASED BY NASA
NASA has revealed 2,540 stunning photos of Mars. Mars is a place of quietness solitude and mysterious beauty with the nickname of the Red Planet.
While this might lead to people believing that it is just red, this is far from the truth and the HiRISE camera that is located onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA.
NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS RELEASED: MARS ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A 'LIVING PLANET' TODAY
The cameras have been able to transform many subtle differences of the soil found on Mars and turn it into all colors of the rainbow.
Now NASA has revealed 2,540 stunning never before seen photos.
The HiRISE camera has captured images of Mars that are very valuable scientifically, not to mention stunning to see. The photos captured by the camera are in fact so detailed that the scientists are able to examine the features of the planet at a scale of only a few feet. One of the features is the recent crash site when the Schiaparelli Mars lander of Europe crashed.
While we are not able to show all 2,054 photos here we are able to show you some of the most stunning photos out of the collection that were released during August through to October of this year.
HERE IS A COLLECTION OF THE BEST IMAGES RELEASED:
Debris apron edges with cliff material er
Ridges that cross the region of Nepenthes Mensae, which is also known as the river delta, due to its striking pattern.
The Buzzel, the seasonal dunes of Mars
The two-tones of Mars in all its glory
Sand blowing and eating through older crater rims
A recent small crater left by an impact
Minerals shown bright speckles which stand out on the Galle Crater
Utopia Planitia, the large plain of Mars
Martian buttes in layers that is located in the West Arabia
Crater found on Arcadia Planitia, which is a flat region located on Mars
Certain minerals in false colors that give Syria Planum the inky blue coloring speckled with gold.
North Sinus Meridiani texturing
Ceraunious Foassae and the large cracks and volcanic flows
Martian equator terrain
Possible landing for the Mars 2020 mission
Fans created around the dunes help scientists to understand the seasonal changes
Dunes found within the Martian crater
Slope on the Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus
Iridescent glacial terrain
A Gully on Mars
Gully that NASA watches for small landlines resulting in water melting to form dark mud
Cerberus Palus with its sediments in layers
Eruptions of dust spiders
Mars impact crater
Carbon dioxide carving out strange shapes
North Pole dune called Kolhar after fictional world of Frank Herbet
ELF: THE ALIEN-HUNTING TELESCOPE THAT CAN SEE 120 TRILLION MILES INTO SPACE
ELF: THE ALIEN-HUNTING TELESCOPE THAT CAN SEE 120 TRILLION MILES INTO SPACE
The ELF telescope has been designed from the ground up, and it is going to be the only one that can capture images of continents, oceans and even aliens living on planets close-by. It is a brand new way of building large-scale telescopes that are affordable specifically designed for exoplanetary research.
ELF COULD DETECT SIGNATURES OF LIFE IN ATMOSPHERE
The ELF would be capable of seeing exoplanets that are as far away as 120 trillion miles, which equates to 24 light years from Earth. It would be able to detect signatures of life of chemical fingerprints that are in the atmosphere from water, methane, oxygen, and ozone or which are found on the surface having come from photosynthetic bio-pigments.
The name ELF stands for ExoLife Finder, and at the moment the project for it has been put up on Kickstarter. Providing the telescope gets funding when it is constructed it would start to look over the cosmos, and it would have one single goal in mind, to find alien life, no matter how big or small it might be.
To do this, it would begin by exploring the Proxima Centauri system as its first target, which is also called Proxima B, an alien world that is thought to orbit the host star in its habitable zone. The huge alien hunting telescope is going to be made up of a total of 16 5-meter mirrors that is based around printing mirror technology said reports that have come from the Planets Foundation.
When the telescope is finished, it is thought that it will be a width of 25 meters and it will have a location in Chile in the Atacama Desert. Initial reports have suggested that the ELF telescope is going to be able to search for and find distant, possible alien worlds that are up to 25 light years away. Perhaps more exciting is the fact that it is going to be able to explore the Alpha Centauri System. This is a system that astronomers have found great interest in.
TELESCOPE WOULD LOOK FOR SIGNS OF LIFE OUTSIDE OF SOLAR SYSTEM
stronomers have also said that the telescope could find photosynthetic organisms along with thermal waste traces on the planet’s surface from advanced civilizations. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina who is the director of the Kipenheuer Institute of Solar Physics and Planets Foundation, along with being the co-founder, said that they wanted to find alien life on planets that were close-by that were outside of the solar system, which is generally called exoplanets. He went on to say that they had designed a telescope that was revolutionary using metamaterials and this made the mirrors very light and brought down the cost of making telescopes by a factor of 10. He went on to say that the ELF, ExoLife Finder would be the first to image continents, oceans, and life on exoplanets.
So far the team has managed to raise $17,000 towards the ELF telescope, and they have an initial goal of $35,000. The total cost to build the telescope would be $130 million, and it would take around 60 months to build.
BIOHACKERS START TO HACK THEIR OWN DNA USING CRISPR AND THEY CAN'T BE STOPPED
BIOHACKERS START TO HACK THEIR OWN DNA USING CRISPR AND THEY CAN'T BE STOPPED
Biohackers attempt to modify his genes using cutting-edge medical treatment.
Pharmaceutical companies all over the world are currently locked in a race to be the first to perfect the process of gene editing to cure diseases. CRISPR is considered to be a cheap and easy technique which can make precise changes to a person’s DNA which could be potentially revolutionary in the field of medical science.
Already, scientists have created a leukemia treatment using this technology, and it is hoped that more therapies will come in the future. However, the use of CRISPR is not exclusively limited to pharmaceutical laboratories according to Josiah Zayner, a biochemist and former NASA scientist, who has begun treating himself to CRISPR and hoped that others will follow suit.
He caused quite a storm recently during a lecture on human genetic engineering and biohacking which Zayner streamed live on when he pulled out a syringe of edited DNA and injected himself on camera. He explained that the experiment was intended to increase his capacity for physical strength by removing the gene for myostatin which regulates muscle growth. This kind of gene editing has proven to work in dogs whose genomes were edited at the embryotic stage, but it is believed that Zayner was the first person to attempt it on an adult human.
“Will allowing broad access to CRISPR risk creating a group of ‘superhumans’ with enhanced abilities?”
The experiment has not been entirely successful. Indeed, Zayner claims that since he has begun injecting himself in this way he has not seen any considerable change in the bulk of his muscles. This is probably because myostatin levels are believed to manifest themselves and become static while an organism is developing.
CRISPR DO-IT-YOURSELF BIOHACKING KIT
However, the failure of the experiment is not of huge concern to Zayner who claims that he is simply trying to prove a point. He believes that biohacking technology such as CRISPR should be available to people outside of formal laboratories. If people are allowed to modify their body through methods such as plastic surgery, tattoos, and piercings, why should they not be allowed to edit their own DNA, he wonders. “I want to live in a world where people get drunk, and instead of giving themselves tattoos, they’re like, ‘I’m drunk, I’m going to CRISPR myself, ’” said Zayner, “It sounds crazy, but I think that would be a pretty interesting world to live in for sure.”
THE $140 MAIL-ORDER CRISPR KIT: IS UNREGULATED BIOHACKING THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE?
According to some experts, Zayner’s views are a little more than crazy. Robin Lovell-Badge, a leading CRISPR researcher, based at the Francis Crick Institute in London, Zayner’s experiments are ‘foolish’ and potentially dangerous. He said that they could lead to tissue damage, cell death or an exaggerated immune response which could cause devastating damage to the human body.
These fears are shared to some extent by another CRISPR researcher, Dana Carroll. While Carroll is not overly concerned that the genes will actually be edited by Zayner’s rudimentary technology, he does point out that routine injections in a non-sterile environment could lead to infection or a dangerous inflammatory response. “There are aspects of what he’s doing that people need to be really, really careful about, ” Carroll said.
While Zayner himself has not suffered any ill-effects because of his experiments, there are concerns that other people could fall ill if they following his lead. While it is likely that he would not face legal action if someone copied him and endured a negative bodily response, his example does raise serious ethical questions, “Even if you are not liable by legal terms, how responsible are you?” asks Eleonore Pauwels, a researcher in genomics and artificial intelligence at the Woodrow Wilson Center, think tank. “How do you define that in today’s bioengineering and democratized technology setting?”
For Zayner, these concerns are largely irrelevant. He asks whether CRISPR should really be considered more harmful than other socially acceptable things which can permanently damage genes such as smoking, sunbathing and even chemotherapy treatment. “We should be able to do whatever we want, ” he said. “There are a lot of things we do that occur during the normal day that does a lot more damage, probably, than things like CRISPR.”
“This is the first time in the history of the Earth that humans are no longer slaves to the genetics they are born with.”
With that bit of bravado, a biochemist recently became the first person known to have hacked their own DNA using CRISPR. He recently hacked his DNA a second time and has since been joined by others and is making the building blocks of CRISPR available to all by selling do-it-yourself kits. What could possibly go wrong?
According to Josiah Zayner, not much. The former NASA fellow cut his gene-editing teeth in the Synthetic Biology program where he engineered bacteria that could one day terraform Mars. and biochemist He is also the creator of the Chromochord — the world’s first musical instrument based on engineered protein nanotechnology.
However, he now puts that Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Chicago to work at The ODIN – the biohacking company he founded. To demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of the process, he injected himself with a CRISPR tool programmed to attack his myostatin gene which regulates muscle growth. Without it, muscles grow uncontrolled and become bodybuilder-worthy without exercise. This has already been done in animals and now, in a human arm.
“I’m hoping to see localized muscle growth in my forearm. That’s what I would hope because it was a localized injection to a specific area.”
Zayner describes the complete process in great but easy-to-understand detail on his blog. He bought the myostatin DNA online (ODIN now sells it) and grew and purified it himself before injecting it. He reported mild tenderness and proceeded to measure his forearm regularly, both relaxed and flexed. Does he now have what it takes to be the next Mr. Bicep?
“The way to test to see how many cells were modified would require some “deep sequencing” i.e. I would need to do a muscle tissue biopsy and would need to sequence the myostatin gene in thousands of my muscle cells. I have contacted some companies for quotes.”
Well, at least it didn’t kill him or turn him into a mutant. Just to be on the safe side, the DNA ODIN sells on the same sitewhere it offers a complete Genetic Engineering Home Lab Kit ($1,549.00 – a great Christmas gift for the guy who has everything but a massive forearm) is not injectable. However, Zayner gives instructions on how to obtain it online. He also gives some encouragement to fellow biohackers.
“And as far as I know, in animals or in non single celled organisms, spontaneous formation of tumours or cancers never happened using CRISPR.”
While it’s not known if an ODIN kit was used, Gizmodo reportsthat a man with HIV recently attempted to stop its progress by injecting himself with a gene biohacked by Ascendance Biomedical.
Will DIY biohacking using CRISPR one day replace doctors and hospitals? Or will it one day replace normal but slightly flawed humans with dangerous genetic mutants? Keep your eye on the arm of Josiah Zayner.
According to a batch of files that the U.K.’s National Archive declassified a number of years ago, Dame Rebecca West, MBE, was inadvertently plunged into a very strange puzzle in early 1966. Incredibly, she asserted, some sort of unusual aerial object, had landed in the grounds of her home – Ibstone House. For its part, the files reveal, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) suggested that West had simply misidentified a helicopter seen under poor conditions (which may well have been the case). Whatever the truth of the matter, West’s odd experience became the subject of a fifteen-page file that attracted the attention of the MoD’s Defense Intelligence Staff.
Born in 1892, Rebecca West (the adopted name of Cicily Isabel Fairfield) was the daughter of Charles Fairfield, who was renowned in London society. West took on the name of Rebecca at the age of nineteen after Ibsen’s heroine in Rosmersholm. She trained briefly for the stage in London, before becoming a noted feminist and journalist. As her career blossomed, West wrote for The Freewoman, The Clarion and The New Freewoman, and many of her writings from that time were re-printed as The Young Rebecca in 1932.
Her first novel, The Return of the Soldier, was published in 1918 and was followed by The Judge, The Strange Necessity, and Harriet June. In 1930 West married Henry Maxwell Andrews, a banker, who was to accompany her on the journey that ultimately led to the publication of her two-volume study of the Yugoslav nation, The Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
West was present at the Nuremburg trials and her 1949 book, The Meaning of Treason, largely grew out of articles commissioned by The New Yorker. In 1965, only one year before her curious UFO encounter occurred, West’s The Meaning of Treason was updated with added accounts of what were then more recent scandals (including those of John Vassall, a spy in the Admiralty sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment, and Stephen Ward, a player in the Profumo case). But how did Dame Rebecca West become embroiled in the UFO controversy? As the old documentation at the U.K.’s National Archives reveals, it was 2.45 p.m. on 7 January 1966 and West was out walking in the grounds of her home when…
“As I was going down the steep hill to the farm buildings I noticed a man walking on my property at some distance to the right of the path I was following,” she wrote to the MoD. “Presently, he reached a point when the wood stopped and there is a hedge which runs down to the valley along a sharp ridge. There is a gap in the hedge and the man stopped just past this and turned around, facing in the reverse direction, and stood still.”
Expressing concern about “what he was going to do,” West watched in amazement as what she described as “an aerial construction” appeared out of nowhere. “One moment it was not there, the next it was,” Rebecca West explained. “It seemed to come down quite rapidly, on the other side of the hedge from the man, but very close to it.” And what, precisely, was it that Dame Rebecca West saw? Her description was curious, to say the least.
Stressing to the MoD that the object was “strangely shaped,” she stated: “It consisted of something like a metal band, grey-blue in color, flattened at one point so as to seem almost leaf-like, crossed with a sort of herringbone system of metal strips.” She elaborated further: “There was also somehow attached to these an odd object like a bag with an opening that had points, made of yellowish material. As I looked the whole thing collapsed toward the ground.
“I saw it crumpling downwards, but crumpling is not quite the word. The metal band seemed to cut backwards and disappear while the curious bag looked as if someone were squeezing the air out of the lower portion of it, so that all the points stood up, and then fell back. Comparing the height of the object with the height of the man, I should put it as something [between] fifteen and twenty.”
Also playing on West’s mind was the identity of the mystery man. Stressing that his behavior was “very odd,” she continued that “he seemed to be watching the thing come down, and the minute it was down, he turned round and followed the hedge track down to the valley. Once or twice he looked to his left as if he were scrutinizing the valley, and he did not seem to see me. But at the bottom of the track he stopped again and looked all round the slope on which I was standing, and this time he seemed to see me. We stood and looked at each other for quite a long time, and I had an uncomfortable feeling and went home.”
The key question centered on the identity of the strange object. In her letter to the Ministry of Defense, West wrote that a farm laborer had informed her that he had seen a helicopter flying in the vicinity earlier on that same day. West, meanwhile, ventured the possibility that it was “some gadget sent out by the Meteorological Office.” Rebecca West signed off: “I feel most apologetic for burdening you with such an improbable story. But I did not like to report it to the local police, as I think you will agree that an elderly woman who went to the local police with a story of having seen the equivalent of a flying saucer would be adding considerably to the difficulties of her life.”
On arrival at the MoD, West’s letter (and accompanying drawing) was forwarded to a particular office known to have been involved in the collation of UFO data in the 1960s and referred to as s4f (Air). As the records show, however, one L.W. Akhurst of that office then dispatched all of the relevant data to a Flight Lieutenant Mercer of the Defense Intelligence Staff. For his part, Mercer was inclined to accept that, “Dame Rebecca West saw a helicopter, possibly of the Bell 47 or similar type, which in conditions of poor visibility appeared to have some unusual characteristics.”
West was far from convinced by the MoD’s explanation and fired a letter back to Ackhurst. “To have appeared where I saw it a helicopter would have had to fly twenty or thirty yards with its lower half deeply embedded in the earth.” She also maintained that: “There was at this time complete silence,” and that “visibility seemed to me not poor at all, for I spotted several birds at a considerable distance. I do not expect an answer to this letter.”
West concluded: “I reported the incident partly because I feared the object might be a parachute or some such construction which was being used to drop something or somebody for criminal purposes, and partly because the construction I saw or thought I saw puzzled me, as I could not conceive how it could be got into the air, could stay in the air, or be brought down out of the air.”
Akhurst’s response was short and to the point. “No further evidence has become available concerning this particular sighting, so there is nothing further I can add.” The case was closed. For its part, the Ministry of Defense seemed satisfied with the explanation that the object was simply a helicopter – and its staff did indeed make a good case for the craft being a helicopter. However, West’s letters clearly demonstrate that she had dismissed the notion that the object was a helicopter (“I have seen many in my time, and I can’t imagine how I could have seen a helicopter from any angle which would have made it present such an appearance,” she stated). She had also given much consideration to the idea that the object was some form of man-made “gadget.” Yet, she was equally well aware of the fact that her report seemed to fall squarely into the Flying Saucer category too. And there was also the glaring observation on her part that the object had been flying in total silence.
Dame Rebecca West continued to write with vigor almost until the time of her death at the age of ninety in 1983, and her contribution to British literature is more than well recognized. It seems that more than half a century on, however, this particularly curious aspect of her notable life will remain forever unresolved.
UFO SPATE: Eight bizarre UFO sights were reported over the US in the last 48 hours.
Shocking UFO events over the last 48 hours include the sighting of 25 orbs, what looked like a "flying bus," and a triangle UFO tailed by military helicopters.
Events started in Texas, on Saturday morning, according to reports received by the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
An unnamed witness filed a report about two high-speed bright lights, in an undisclosed location.
It said: "I was wide awake early Saturday morning.
"I looked up in the sky where I usually tend to and saw two bright non flashing lights.
"Similar to stars, but slightly brighter.
"They caught my eye because they were both traveling north at a high rate of speed.
"They had a good distance apart, but were going the same exact speed.
"They were way to high to be aeroplanes and were going too fast. As they passed over they both started to dim and I lost sight."
Next a triangle UFO with central orange light was seen being tailed by military helicopters over Springfield, Missouri, also on Saturday.
There were SIX further UFO sightings reported to MUFON yesterday.
A witness said they and a friend also saw two bright orbs over Plum City, Wisconsin, on Sunday.
They both watched as they discussed it on mobile phones.
The report said: "I realised that what I was looking at was something that I have never seen before.
"Shocked, I stood there and watched the whole time still talking with my friend on the cell phone as we both viewed the two orbs that were hovering in the sky then one before the other dimmed out of sight."
Yesterday, a witness in Grand Forks, North Dakota, also saw two bright lights.
Their report said: "I'm still trying to figure out what these lights in the sky were.
"I'm in the city limits, but around eight or 8.30pm, I saw two more stars moving in the sky.
"I just came inside right now to report that. What is it?
"I never heard about this from anyone else.
"it's amazing, I wish I had a good camera or at least some night vision binoculars."
The same night a witness in Dover, Pennsylvania, reported: "I was looking up at the stars then noticed something bright shoot from a star up and disappear."
In Hillsboro, Oregon, a witness claimed to see "six objects below the clouds rotating around each other."
They caught my eye because they were both traveling north at a high rate of speed. They had a good distance apart, but were going the same exact speed.
UFO witness
The report said: "My wife pointed out a group of lights, possible reflection of sunlight off the objects, which were ahead of us and underneath the cloud canopy.
"There were more than six objects rotating, diving, climbing around each other."
MUFON has not released any footage, despite the couple claiming to video the event.
They said there were other witnesses and they saw a similar event in 2016.
Yesterday, in broad daylight, two people claim to have seen the bizarre spectacle of 25 blue or white bubble-like orbs with wings that were in a formation together, over Kansas City, also in Missouri.
The report said: "Plain as day and clear as a bell we saw 25 orbs in a frenzy and all working the same area.
"These objects or orbs were kind of clear to blue in colour.
"They initially looked to be big bubbles and then my friend and I both noticed that these orbs had small wedge-like wings on them.
"Kind of like a bubble with sharp V-shaped wings attached to the centre of the orbs."
They tried to film them, but the camera would not work, and they faded away.
An equally bizarre sighting was reported by a couple in Mississippi.
Their report said: "My boyfriend was driving along Goodman Road (302) through Horn Lake, Desoto County, Mississippi towards Olive Branch, Desoto County, Mississippi.
"It was around midnight. I noticed lights in the sky coming from the south east.
"We noticed the aircraft was flying very low and slow.
"It flew low and slow like a helicopter, however we had the sun roof open and could hear no noise.
"It was a rectangular black box shape similar to a bus which was very visible as it crossed the road.
"There were what appeared to be four orange-yellow lights on both sides, all spaced apart in a straight line.
"We both dismissed it as some secret military aircraft probably headed to Memphis, TN or some other airport."
MUFON is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO research, and it keeps a database of global sightings.
It is investigating the cases, but admits that most reports it received can be explained an man-made aircraft or natural phenomena.
Nasahas once again been accused of covering up the existence of alien life, after an astronaut captured footage of a UFO.
The mysterious object was spotted entering Earth's atmosphere by one of the crew of the International Space Station.
Despite assurances from the space agency that it is just a meteor, conspiracy theorists remain convinced that it is evidence of extra terrestrials.
Nasa has once again been accused of covering up the existence of alien life, after an astronaut captured footage of a UFO. The mysterious object (circled) was spotted entering Earth's atmosphere by one of the crew of the International Space Station
SECURETEAM 10 CONTROVERSY
SectureTeam10 is one of the most viewed YouTube channels, with over 785,000 people subscribing to its conspiracy videos.
But the channel has come under fire, as Lions Ground, a rival channel, claims that it has been intentionally fooling its viewers.
According to Lions Ground, SecureTeam10 has been raking in an estimated £600 ($745) a day by posting fake videos that 'outsmart UFO believers.'
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot the clip, which shows a fiery ball of light racing towards the Earth's atmosphere.
The ISS crew member believes that the object could be space debris, but both the space agency and alien enthusiasts have rejected this explanation.
Tyler Glockner, who runs alien hunting YouTube Channel SecureTeam10, believes it is more proof of a government conspiracy to hide the existence of aliens.
Nasa has previously been accused of covering up an alien sighting after a video surfaced showing six UFOs passing the ISS live-stream, seconds before the feed was cut and replaced with images from a camera showing the inside of a briefing room.
Although the footage of the most recent sighting came from Nasa, conspiracy theorists are suspicious over how quickly they released it to the media.
Speaking in a video uploaded to the SecureTeam10 channel, Mr Glockner said: 'I don't think it's a meteorite at all.
'What many people may not realise is that this video is a timelapse.
'You're seeing the earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space.
'It does look to be moving at 85mph (136 km/ph).
'But when you account how fast the earth would have actually been moving, had this not been sped up, it would have been moving much, much slower.
'Speeds that are slower than even the slowest meterorites.
'Why did they do this? Why were they so adamant about publishing this when when they've never jumped on a story so fast?'
Mr Glockner also says that the round ball is coming in at too steep an angle to be a meteorite.
In the video, he compares the object to another meteorite that fell to Earth during the 2011 Perseid meteor shower.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot the clip, which shows a fiery ball of light racing towards the Earth's atmosphere
Tyler Glockner, who runs alien hunting YouTube Channel SecureTeam10, believes it is more proof of a government conspiracy to hide the existence of aliens
Mr Glockner says that the round ball is coming in at too steep an angle and too slowly to be a meteorite
Nasa has previously been accused of covering up an alien sighting after a video surfaced showing six UFOs passing the ISS (pictured) live-stream shortly before it was cut
In this clip, the characteristic tail of a meteor that is missing from the ISS object can clearly be made out.
Mr Glockner added: 'If you compare this to what they are calling a meteor in this new footage, at no time does this so called meteor look like anything that was captured back in 2011 - it just doesn't.
'It's a short, stubby object that looks nothing like the other meteor here.
'We can see this discharge, the energy coming from here vanish.'
BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES? YOU'RE PROBABLY A NARCISSIST
People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits.
In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.
Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.
The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
Mysterious meteorite footage sparks cover-up claims by UFO-hunter
Mysterious meteorite footage sparks cover-up claims by UFO-hunter
A CONSPIRACY theorist has dismissed experts’ claims that a meteorite entered Earth’s atmosphere following the release of footage from the International Space Station (ISS).
The sped-up clip shows a bright object fall to Earth as the ISS circles the planet.
Space boffins said the plummeting fireball was a meteorite that hurtled towards Earth at a rapid 85mph.
But UFO-hunter, Secure Team 10, raised suspicions about the footage and whether it actually shows meteor.
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METEOR: Boffins believe that tens-of-thousands of space rocks have slammed into Earth
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MYSTERY: The conspiracy theorist believes the clip does not show a meteor falling to Earth
Tyler Glockner, who runs the YouTube conspiracy theory channel, said: “I don’t think it’s meteorite at all. What any people may not realise is that this video is a time lapse.
“You’re seeing the Earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space.
“It does look to be moving at 85 mph. But when you account how fast the Earth would have actually been moving, had this not been sped up, it would have been moving much, much slower."
He added: “Speeds that are slower than even the slowest meteorites.”
Tyler then compared the clips a photo of the Perseid meteor shower in 2011.
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OUT THERE: The YouTube channel searches for aliens in space
Comparing the two examples he said: “If you compare this to what they are calling a meteor in this new footage, at no time does this so called meteor look like anything that was captured back in 2011 – it just doesn’t.
“It’s a short, stubby object that looks nothing like the other meteor here. We can see this discharge, the energy coming from the back of it.”
Similar cover-up claims have emerged before.
Last week, incredible footage emerged of a bright ball hovering in the sky near a long, thin cloud.
A United Nations committee finds 2017 may be one of the hottest years on record, NASA launches a $100K contest for aerosol sensor design, the NASA administrator nominee advances in his confirmation process, and laser weapons might soon be mounted onto aircrafts in some of this week's top stories from Space.com.
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1. LIGO announces fifth gravitational wave detection since 2015
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have announced the detection of a fifth black hole merger. The ripple through space-time came about when a black-hole pair merged with one another. [Full Story: Gravitational-Wave Detector Catches Lightest Black Hole Smashup Yet]
Photo Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories
2. New space-watching camera takes first impressive image
The Zwicky Transient Facility camera recently captured its first image from the mountains near San Diego, California. The powerful new instrument operates from the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory, and its very large field of view will help scientists search for fast-moving objects and exploding stars. [Full Story: New Camera Will Search for Star Explosions and Other Quick Changes in the Cosmos]
Photo Credit: Danielle Futselaar/METI
3. Earthly message travels towards life-friendly planet GJ 273b
An announcement on Thursday (Nov. 16) revealed that scientists and artists beamed up a message to a nearby red dwarf star known as Luyten's star. The message sent a month ago was intended for the star's two known planets, one of which might have conditions friendly to life. [Full Story: Uber Teams with NASA on 'Flying Car' Project].
Photo Credit: DARPA
4. Military awards virtual space war lab contract to BAE Systems
A digital lab meant to help the U.S. military prepare for outer space combat is now in the works. A $12.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will go to BAE Systems so that the company can create a virtual space-battle zone to understand potential threats. [Full Story: BAE Systems Wins DARPA Contract to Develop 3D Space Warfare Lab]
Photo Credit: CNES
5. New statue in Paris will honor first cat in space
The first cat to launch into space, a black-and-white stray by the name of Félicette, will be honored by a new statue in her home city of Paris. More than a thousand people supported a Kickstarter campaign to fundraise $57,000+ to commemorate the feline, who survived a suborbital spaceflight on a French rocket in October 1963. [Full Story: First Cat in Space Félicette to Get Memorial Statue After Successful Crowdfund]
Photo Credit: A. Feild (STScl)/NASA/ESA
6. Ultra-powerful new space telescope's science targets chosen
The Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the new James Webb Space Telescope project, announced on Monday (Nov.13) the thirteen selected proposals for its first round of scientific observations. The programs, which include observations of Jupiter and extremely distant galaxies, will kick off when the telescope begins operations in 2019. [Full Story: NASA's New James Webb Space Telescope Just Got Its 1st Science Targets]
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IAU
7. The first interstellar asteroid receives Hawaiian name
A small asteroid caught the attention of astronomers using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii on Oct. 19, and researchers soon realized it was the first known interstellar body to have been observed within the solar system. Now, it has been given the name 'Oumuamua, which means "a messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaiian, by the International Astronomical Union. [Full Story: Meet 'Oumuamua! The 1st Interstellar Visitor Ever Seen Gets a Name]
Photo Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
8. Pluto's haze creates supercool temperatures
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft measured temperatures on Pluto that were much colder than models have previously predicted. A new study suggests that hydrocarbon particles in the dwarf planet's atmosphere are causing the cooldown to temperatures of approximately minus 333 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 203 degrees Celsius). [Full Story: Mystery of Pluto's Super-Cold Weather Solved]
Photo Credit: Orbital ATK artist's concept
9. Company gets boost of confidence in Air Force competition
Orbital ATK announced on Nov. 7 that it successfully tested a new component of its proposed Next Generation Launch rocket. The "important milestone" is good news for the company, as a United States Air Force competition deadline for additional funding approaches. [Full Story: Orbital ATK Tests Component of Future Launch Vehicle]
Photo Credit: NASA
10. Sierra Nevada happy with dramatic glide test
Sierra Nevada Corporation officials said on Monday (Nov. 13) that their Dream Chaser's recent glide test went as expected. They believe no further testing is needed, as the lifting-body vehicle successfully glided down for a runway landing after being released at an altitude of about 3,750 meters (12,303 feet) from a helicopter on Nov. 11. [Full Story: Sierra Nevada Satisfied with Dream Chaser Glide Test]
Newly-found fossils reveal Antarctica had lush forests before Dinosaurs existed
Newly-found fossils reveal Antarctica had lush forests before Dinosaurs existed
Antarctica—the ‘inhospitable’ white Continent that we know today, was once a surface covered with leafy subtropical forests full of palm trees, ferns, and conifers.
Just over 50 million years ago, the frozen continent looked very different from what we see today.
If mankind could travel to the past and visit Antarctica, we wouldn’t need to wear thermal and waterproof clothing as current expeditions do since the temperatures would be warm and pleasant.
Now, a group of researchers has discovered more evidence of what Antarctica looked like in the distant past as they have found fossil fragments from 13 trees that grew at the end of the Permian Period, before Dinosaurs.
The discovery was made by Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) who were exploring the continents’ Transantarctic Mountains. By the end of their journey, the scientists discovered fossilized parts of 13 trees.
The discovery confirms one more time that the now-frozen continent was once covered in lush forests and teeming with life, most likely when it was still part of the supercontinent Gondwana that spanned the whole of the Southern Hemisphere.
Erik Gulbranson, paleoecologist and visiting assistant professor at UWM, examines some of the fossilized polar trees he recovered from Antarctica.
Image Credit:Troye Fox, UWM Photo Services
Scientists are convinced that massive forests covered the entire continents at the end of the Permian Period, the geological era before first dinosaurs.
“People have known about the fossils in Antarctica since the 1910-12 Robert Falcon Scott expedition. Nevertheless, most of Antarctica is still unexplored today. Sometimes, you might be the first person to ever climb a certain mountain,” Gulbranson said.
The so-called Permian Period came to an end some 251 million years ago in what is considered history’s greatest mass extinction, as our planet rapidly shifted from icehouse to greenhouse conditions.
It is believed that than 90 percent of species on Earth disappeared, including the polar forests scientists found evidence of.
A 280-million-year-old tree stump still attached to its roots in Antarctica.
Image Credit: Erik Gulbranson
Since the lush Antarctic tree grew at polar latitudes were plants cannot grow today, researchers believe the trees that once grew there were an extremely species. Experts are now trying to understand why the forests went extinct.
“This ancient forest is a glimpse of life before the extinction, and this can help us understand what caused the event,” explained Gulbranson.
Scientists explain that the frosts that once grew on the Antarctic continent were used to conditions unlike anywhere else on the planet, having to survive through polar extremes of endless light, and total darkness, which, according to experts, is another reason why its worth studying why they went extinct.
“There isn’t anything like that today. These trees could turn their growing cycles on and off like a light switch. We know the winter shutoff happened right away, but we don’t know how active they were during the summertime and whether they could force themselves into dormancy while it was still light out,” Gulbranson said.
The first ‘Global’ ‘Flat Earth Conference’ just took place and hundreds of people attended
The first ‘Global’ ‘Flat Earth Conference’ just took place and hundreds of people attended
Hundreds of people attended the First International Flat Earth Conference held in the United States, and hundreds of people gathered there presenting their ideas as to why our planet is ‘FLAT.’
The first ‘Global’ ‘Flat Earth Conference’ just took place, and hundreds of people attended
Hundreds of Americans gathered for the First International Flat Earth Conference in November 2017, in Raleigh, North Carolina in the United States.
The United States is one of the countries with the largest number of supporters of Flat Earth movement, despite the fact that it is also one of the few nations that have been able to send astronauts into space to corroborate the spherical shape of the earth.
How contradictory, right?
Approximately 400 people are thought to have attended the conference, flying from around the world to take part. Tickets to attend ranged from $109 up to $249.
The attendees rejected that planet earth has a spherical shape, and assure that “it is the biggest fallacy created by Satan.”
Gravitation on Flat planet Earth.
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Another one the many who attended the conference said that ‘she checked for herself that the Earth was flat after using a ruler and measuring the horizon.’
The First International Conference of the Flat Earth was composed of several presentations and exhibitions of products related to the theory that the earth is not really a spherical planet.
“It is horizontally infinite and at least 9,000 kilometers deep,” said John Davis, another theorist of this idea.
For his part, James McIntyre, members of the Flat Earth Society, has the idea that “the earth is, more or less, a disk of 24,900 miles in diameter,” and adds that “obviously not perfectly flat, due to geological phenomena such as valleys and mountains.”
McIntyre also said that the photos from space showing the circumference of the earth “are false,” and that “the world’s space agencies are involved in an international conspiracy to deceive the public in pursuit of vast profits.”
In a BBC video interview, one of the attendees said he just came to the conference to meet other like-minded people.
Some of the reasons why the attendees to the conference think the Earth is flat include:
– The Sun and the Moon move through the sky in a focused way, that is why they illuminate only certain parts of the flat earth.
– The earth gives the sensation that it is round because it is arranged in such a way that it simulates a group of concentric radii. Furthermore, the horizon always appears perfectly flat – except in NASA and other space agency images, which are obviously faked (as part of the global conspiracy)
– When a plane flies, it flies completely horizontally, If the Earth was ’round’ planes would keep flying into space.
-Oh, here’s one of my favorite ones (lol) If our Earth was really spherical, helicopters would be able to hover in place and wait for their destinations to come to them. Savy?
The Flat Earth Conference also included a speech from prominent flat-Earther and YouTuber Mark Sargent who said: “I think we’re almost at the critical mass point. Science is gonna have to address this, plain and simple. They cannot dodge us forever.”
The auroras over Earth’s north and south poles typically mirror each other. But X-ray observations show that Jupiter’s auroras pulsate on different timescales.
Jupiter is our solar system’s largest planet, and its auroras are by far the strongest in our sun’s family. In a way similar to earthly auroras, Jupiter’s northern and southern lights stem from activity on the sun. A couple of months ago, a study using data from the Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting the planet, said that Jupiter’s auroras may be accelerated by waves in the giant planet’s magnetic field (a process researchers described as “akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves”). On November 6, 2017, NASA described another recent study in which X-rays astronomers tracked the behavior of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, which seem to pulsate, or change in X-rays brightness, independently.
NASA said:
The X-ray emission at Jupiter’s south pole consistently pulsed every 11 minutes, but the X-rays seen from the north pole were erratic, increasing and decreasing in brightness — seemingly independent of the emission from the south pole.
That’s surprising because Earth’s auroras generally mirror each other. William Dunn of the University College London led the research, which was published October 30 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy.
According to a statement from the research team, the study relied on data using the Chandra X-ray and XMM-Newton observatories:
… from March 2007 and May and June 2016, a team of researchers produced maps of Jupiter’s X-ray emissions and identified an X-ray hot spot at each pole. Each hot spot can cover an area equal to about half the surface of the Earth.
The team found that the hot spots had very different characteristics.
This makes Jupiter particularly puzzling. X-ray auroras have never been detected from our solar system’s other gas giants, including Saturn.
The X-ray team plans to combine new and incoming data from Chandra and XMM-Newton with data from the Juno mission, which is currently in orbit around the planet. If scientists can connect the X-ray activity with physical changes observed simultaneously with Juno, they think they might be able to determine the process that generates the Jovian auroras and by association X-ray auroras at other planets.
Bottom line: The auroras over Earth’s north and south poles typically mirror each other. But X-ray observations show that Jupiter’s auroras pulsate on different timescales.
In July of 1943 the US Navy, along with Dr. Franklin Reno conducted a test on the Navy Destroyer, USS Eldridge called the Philadelphia Experiment.
The experiment, based on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity was an attempt to make the ship virtually invisible to any enemy radar and immune to magnetic mines.
IN JULY 1943 A BIZARRE CHAIN OF EVENTS TOOK PLACE...
The ship was set up with two generators, magnetic coils and amplifiers allowing it to create a synchronized electromagnetic field that in theory would divert radio and light waves around the ship making the Navy Destroyer invisible to the enemy. Had the test been successful it would have created the ultimate weapon, in the middle of wartime.
However, the botched experiment turned out to be more catastrophic than anyone could have imagined.
On July 22nd, when the experiment had begun, and the generators were switched on an unexpected and bizarre chain of events took place. Witnesses claim the water surrounding the ship began to bubble and produced a hazy green fog that engulfed the entire ship, within seconds the ship not only disappeared from radar but also from plain sight.
The Eldridge has spotted 600 km away at a Naval base in Norfolk, Virginia for a few short minutes before returning to its original coordinates in Philadelphia. While the test did render the ship invisible to radar, it left the crew with devastating side effects.
BODIES OF THE CREW MEMBERS EMBEDDED INTO THE METAL
Witnesses claim that the experiment left bodies of the crew members embedded into the metal of the railings and decks on the ship, some men caught fire and some simply vanished. The remaining members of the crew were left physically and mentally ill, disoriented and seeming to fade in and out of reality.
After the team of US and German scientists saw the horrific consequences of their experiment, all further research into radar invisibility was canceled. The surviving members of the crew were discharged and labeled mentally unfit for duty, and some even believe the Navy used brainwashing to keep the men quiet about their experience.
US NAVY STILL DENIES THE TOP-SECRET FAILED OPERATION
To this day the US Navy still denies the experiments ever took place and destroyed all records of the Eldridge even being in Philadelphia at the time. However, witnesses and a few surviving crew members stick strongly behind their version of the horrific events.
Thankfully people do not have to venture out into the cold void of outer space to find a solar phenomenon as they are right here on Earth in the form of Sundogs.
Sundogs occur when the light of the sun gets refracted by any ice crystals that are in the atmosphere, and it results in beautiful solar halos and orbs that glow and move gently over the sky and look like there are three suns. Residents of Murmansk Oblast in Russia were treated to a wondrous sight on 18 November 2017 when the phenomenon was captured on film during sunset.
Winter is typically the best time to see sundogs as this is when the ice crystals are more commonly seen. Aristotle once said that he had seen two mock suns, which were the sundogs, rising with the sun, and they had followed it throughout the day until the sunset in the sky. He went on to say that mock suns are always found to the sides of the sun, and they are never seen below and above and are usually more commonly seen at sunset or sunrise but not very often in the middle of the day.
Russia is not the only region where sundogs have been recently spotted in November. On 13 November residents of Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama were also treated to the rare spectacle. In this case, a double sundog and halo were seen after the sunlight refracted through the cirrus clouds which were high in the sky and made a prism. Halos are said to be similar to the sundogs, and the weather service said that it is a light ring that forms the sun or the moon when it reflects light from the ice crystals.
Sundogs were also seen in the sky above the south of Mississippi on 14 November, and a meteorologist said that the best time to see the phenomenon is when the angle of the sun is low. He went on to say that in each of the sundogs the colors are red closer to the sun and change through to blue on the outer side of the sundog. It was also pointed out that sundogs do not just occur in sunlight, they can also happen under moonlight, but that is called a moon dog.
HERCACLEION LOST CITY UNDERWATER FOUND AFTER 1200 YEARS
HERCACLEION LOST CITY UNDERWATER FOUND AFTER 1200 YEARS
Abu Qir is located in the northeast of Alexandria, where archaeologists explore the two ancient cities of Heraklion and Canopus since 1992.
In addition to being a prominent religious center, Heraklion was a major trading point on the Mediterranean Sea in the 6th century. When archeologists began to dive into this site, they discovered the ruins of the Temple of Heraklion, which was dedicated to Amun and Harqal-Khonsu. They also found huge statues of the gods, Ptolemaic kings, their wives, their nests and jewels, and numerous broken wooden ships.
FATIMA: UFO INVESTIGATOR SPILLS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
FATIMA: UFO INVESTIGATOR SPILLS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
UFO Investigator, La Marzulli explains what really happened during the famous Fatima incident.
The miracle of the sun is a phenomenon that was observed by at least 30,000 people on 13 October 1917 in the Cova da Iria near Fátima in Portugal and is partially classified as a miracle.
Three Secrets of Fatima Documentary
FÁTIMA 1917 Real Facts and Photos
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal.
FATIMA: "THE HIDDEN THIRD SECRET IS FINALLY REVEALED!"
NOW WE HAVE THE HIDDEN PART OF THE THIRD SECRET IN FULL FROM SR. LUCIA! Her personal biography had the hidden secret and now the world will finally know!
Ever since Man first walked on the moon after that 'giant leap' in 1969, conspiracy theorists have sought to debunk what is one of humanity's greatest achievements.
Now, one keen-eyed stargazer is convinced he has seen something strange in a photograph which suggests the sixth and final moon landing, at least, never happened - a figure on the lunar surface who is not wearing a spacesuit.
A video uploaded to YouTube by a user named Streetcap1 focuses on an image which purports to show a 'stagehand' reflected in the visor of an astronaut after Apollo 17 landed on the moon in December 1972.
On that mission, Eugene Cernan and Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt spent about 22 hours on the surface in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead.
A video uploaded to YouTube by a user named Streetcap1 focuses on an image which purports to show a 'stagehand' reflected in the visor of an astronaut after Apollo 17 landed on the moon in December 1972
On that mission (pictured), Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 22 hours on the surface in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead
The team carried out a series of experiments including seismic profiling, atmospheric composition analysis and lunar sampling.
Or did they?
The video clip - which has garnered more than 53,000 views - contains a commentary by Streetcap1, who says of the visor reflection: 'I thought it looked a bit strange, so I took a picture of it using my software.
'What we appear to have here is a figure of a human not wearing a spacesuit. There was some dispute back in 2009 of the legitimacy of these photos.'
He describes the strange figure as having 'long hair' and 'wearing some sort of waistcoat'.
And concludes: 'Did we make it to the moon? Where's this guy's spacesuit?'
The team (above, Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt on the mission) carried out a series of experiments including seismic profiling, atmospheric composition analysis and lunar sampling
The Apollo 17 crew returned with 110kg of rock and soil samples, more than was returned from any of the other lunar landing sites
The three crewmen arrive aboard the prime recovery ship, U.S.S. Ticonderoga, to conclude the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo programme. Above, Cernan (waving), Schmitt (next to him) and Evans at the back
Fact or faked? YouTubers react to the 'stagehand' moon photo
LANDINGS FAKED...
Leo Dei:I thought 'another astronaut' then checked the astronaut in the reflection has NO life support backpack, while the astronaut in the foreground HAS a life support backpack. Good catch, Streetcap1! You continue to impress.
Adrian Lee: Someone definitely there. Looks like they're wearing high-top sneakers and a jacket with a hood.
Mathias Weiss: First I thought this is a camera of some sort, because of the form of the casted shadow. But when I looked into it, the Apollo 17 mission took a camera with a small tripod with them, which is not comparable to this figure.
LANDINGS REAL...
Unum: Hey, geniuses - the guy in the reflection is the other astronaut taking the photo.
Brian Chandler: It looks to be photoshopped. Notice the circular line around the person, whether adding or removing not my call to make, original negative needs to be analyzed!
willows26: I vote astronaut... the shadow on the ground looks more like an astronaut in a bulky suit. I don't know why some people would much rather buy into the 'studio' conspiracy; Russia would have been all over this had there been an inkling of fraud at the time and I don't recall hearing a thing from them.
Apollo mission conspiracy theories answered
Why are no stars visible in the Apollo photos?
The Apollo landings took place during lunar mornings so the stars were not bright enough to be captured on camera.
Who filmed Neil Armstrong take the first steps?
A video camera was fixed on an extending arm to swing out and capture the historic moment.
Why did the heavy Landing Modules make no impression on the surface, while the astronauts' footprints did?
The layer of lunar dust on the rocky moon is thin, so was blown away from the landing area by the descent engines. This dust resettled by the time the astronauts left the module.
Why does the flag wave?
It was rigged with a rod and wires so that it would look as if it was unfurled and blowing in Apollo photographs.
Why didn't the Lunar module show a flame when it took off from the Moon?
The fuel used does not produce a flame in a vacuum.
Reflectie op ruimtehelm onthult ‘toneelknecht’. Bewijst deze Apollo-foto dat de maanlanding nep was?
Reflectie op ruimtehelm onthult ‘toneelknecht’. Bewijst deze Apollo-foto dat de maanlanding nep was?
Uit een foto blijkt dat de zesde en laatste maanlanding mogelijk nooit heeft plaatsgevonden. Op de foto lijkt namelijk een figuur op het maanoppervlak te zien te zijn die geen ruimtepak draagt, schrijft de Daily Mail.
In een filmpje, dat door YouTube-gebruiker Streetcap1 is gepubliceerd, wordt de foto nader geanalyseerd.
Op de ruimtehelm van een astronaut van Apollo 17, die in december 1972 op de maan landde, zou de reflectie van een ‘toneelknecht’ te zien zijn.
Recordhoeveelheid
Tijdens de missie verbleven Eugene Cernan en Harrison Schmitt 22 uur bij de maankrater Littrow in het Taurusgebergte, terwijl collega Ronald Evans in de ruimte bleef.
De NASA wilde het maximale wetenschappelijke resultaat uit dit laatste bezoek aan de maan halen en er werd dan ook een recordhoeveelheid aan maansteen mee teruggenomen.
Ook de duur van de maanwandelingen was langer dan bij ieder van de voorgaande missies.
Discussie
Of is het allemaal niet gebeurd? “Ik vond het er nogal vreemd uitzien, dus ik maakte een foto van de helm met behulp van mijn software,” zei Streetcap1.
“Het gaat hier mogelijk om een persoon die geen ruimtepak draagt,” voegde hij toe. “Er was in 2009 al discussie over de echtheid van deze foto’s.”
Lang haar
De figuur heeft volgens hem ‘lang haar’ en draagt een soort ‘vest’. “Zijn we naar de maan geweest? Waar is het ruimtepak van deze gast?”
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Glowing Sphere appears out of nowhere flying towards huge glowing Sphere over Manitoba, Canada
Glowing Sphere appears out of nowhere flying towards huge glowing Sphere over Manitoba, Canada
A huge sphere in the sky accompanied by a second smaller sphere has been captured on video by dwayne hegelheimer over Manitoba, Canada on November 19, 2017.
While filming the two spheres the smaller ball of light suddenly vanishes but after a while it returns again out of nowhere flying towards the bigger ball of light which seems to hang motionless in the sky.
It remains unclear what these spheres may have been.
The moment the smaller sphere appears again flying towards the huge sphere can be seen from the 2.05 mark in the video.
Les futurs télescopes spatiaux qui nous rapprocheront des étoiles : TESS (août 2017), James Webb (octobre 2018, 100 x Hubble), WFIRST (mid 2020s) et surtout ATLAST (Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope, "enfin", en anglais ; 2000 x Hubble ; 2025-2035). Pour ce dernier on note la taille de son miroir primaire comparée à celui de Hubble et de JW. Il sera stationné au Point de Lagrange L2 entre Terre et Soleil et devrait, entre autres missions, détecter la présence de vie sur des exoplanètes lointaines. Sacrée panoplie ! Si seulement nous avions eu ça en 1947 !
This artist's impression shows Oumuamua, an interstellar asteroid
ESO/M. Kornmesser
Our solar system recently had a very strange visitor. For the first time ever, scientists last month spotted an interstellar object invading our part of space. Astronomers have revealed more details about the now-confirmed interstellar interloper and it's just plain weird.
The Pan-Starrs 1 telescope in Hawaii first spotted the object on Oct. 19 when it was already heading back to interstellar space. Astronomers rushed to make observations. An artist's impression shows a very elongated shape, different from any known asteroids. Scientists estimate it's about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in length.
"For decades we've theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now -- for the first time -- we have direct evidence they exist," NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen said Monday in a news release. By studying space objects like this one, researchers hope to find clues to the formation of other solar systems.
Originally named A/2017 U1, it now has the official moniker "Oumuamua," which refers to its distant origin as a messenger from the past.
"Oumuamua may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the Solar System," says the European Southern Observatory, which used its Very Large Telescope in Chile to observe the object.
The Gemini Observatory, a collaboration between telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, also got in on the action, resulting in a color composite image of Oumuamua.
University of Hawaii astronomer Karen Meech says the rapidly rotating asteroid has a "complex, convoluted shape," is dark red in color and is "completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it."
The International Astronomical Union, which is responsible for cataloging the names of space objects, also gave the asteroid its very first "I" for "interstellar" designation, which shifts its formal name from A/2017 U1 (with the "A" standing for "asteroid") to "1I/2017 U1."
Scientists expect our solar system regularly receives interstellar visitors like this one, but they are faint and extremely hard to find. That makes Oumuamua all the more special.
Update, Nov. 20 at 11:05 a.m. PT: This story has been updated to include a quote from NASA.
Scientists have sent a message to a star system 70 trillion miles away, inviting any alien civilization living there to swipe right and send us a message back. Some people (basically anyone who’s seen Independence Day) are concerned that such a transmission may trigger an unpredictable response instead.
The project is known as METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and it actively seeks to send greetings to any alien civilizations out there, as opposed to SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) which passively looks for signs of life beyond our solar system. It’s a controversial program, to say the least. Physicist Stephen Hawking, one of its most vociferous opponents, has famously warned against such an endeavor: “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
In an interview with Newsweek, the president of METI, Douglas Vakoch, tried to assuage the concerns raised about the program. “Any civilization that could travel to Earth to do us harm could already pick up our leakage television and radio signals,” he said. “So there’s no increased risk of alerting them of our existence.”
Dan Werthimer, a SETI researcher at Berkeley, told New Scientist: “It’s like shouting in a forest before you know if there are tigers, lions, and bears or other dangerous animals there.”
The system that’s the target of the message is a red dwarf designated GJ273, also known as Luyten’s Star in the Canis Minor constellation, with an exoplanet GJ273b that could possibly support life. It’s 12.4 light years away, and in the message researchers said they’d be looking for a response 25 years in the future.
Then there’s the question of exactly how we communicate with aliens. The Voyager missions famously carried a golden record that was filled with the sounds of Earth, as well as an interstellar map that might lead aliens back to our planet.
“Extraterrestrials won’t speak English or Spanish or Swahili,” said Vakoch. “Our message is written in the language of math and science. Over the centuries, scientists and mathematicians have repeatedly taken a vote on the most essential concepts needed to explain the nature of the universe.”
The message was beamed three times to the system, on October 16, 17, and 18. Each transmission took 11 minutes. The invite also includes a cosmic clock, indicating how much time has passed between transmissions. It’s hoped that the aliens can decipher the message and send back a reply. Another message is planned to the same star, which will include the date we’re expecting a reply.
So, set your calendars for June 21, 2043. It could be a big day for humanity.
In the summer of 1957, the Earth stood witness as a meteorite cratered in rural Pennsylvania, bringing with it a people-eating plague never seen: an alien amoeba with the taste for human flesh. While we had Steve McQueen around for the first invasion, humanity is now defended against microbial marauders from outer space by NASA and its international counterparts.
Biological contamination goes both ways, mind you. Just as important as keeping extraterrestrial organisms from reaching the surface (aka "backward contamination") is ensuring that our planetary probes carry as few microbial hitchhikers from Earth as possible ("forward contamination"). To that end, in 1958, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued a decree urging "that scientists plan lunar and planetary studies with great care and deep concern so that initial operations do not compromise and make impossible forever after critical scientific experiments."
The following year, the newly formed Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) argued "that all practical steps should be taken to ensure that Mars be not biologically contaminated" until an exhaustive search for life on the planet had been undertaken. These recommendations became law in 1967 when the US, the USSR and the UK all signed onto the United Nations Outer Space Treaty.
"Part of our thinking about planetary protection is that we want to make sure that we safeguard to any future human exploration," Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium and the Astrobiology Chair at the Library of Congress, told Engadget. "When we bring spacecraft to other worlds (or eventually human beings), we want to make sure that we understand that environment. That means being relatively cautious about contaminating it."
However, not every extraterrestrial target of human interest requires the same degree of caution. Places like the Sun or Mercury, which are almost assuredly devoid of biological organisms, don't require the same level of protection as, say, Mars or the Moon, which are just heavily irradiated and desperately cold. In fact, COSPAR has developed a 5-category systemwhich space agencies must abide by when they're developing their planetary probes:
Category Icovers places with little chance of finding even basic forms of life, like Mercury.
Category IIincludes places that might be explored for the origins of life but where the chances of contamination by Earthly microbes is remote. Think Venus or the Moon.
Category III regulates flyby and orbiter missions where the chances of contamination are moderate, like Mars or Europa. This is why Cassini was thrown into Saturn: we couldn't have it falling into Enceladus or Titan.
Category IV regulates lander or probe missions to the same places as category III, though it is further divided into a series of subclasses based on specific regions of the planet's surface and what the lander is actually looking for.
Category Vis what happens if there's a good chance we'll pick up a Blob in space. It demands "absolute prohibition of destructive impact upon return, containment of all returned hardware which directly contacted the target body, and containment of any unsterilized sample returned to Earth."
"I think they're good for us as a working framework," Walkowicz said. "They certainly have served us well in the history of exploration and our solar system thus far."
It's extremely important that space agencies understand the categorical protection requirements of their mission, explains Dr. John Rummel, Senior Scientist at the SETI Institute and former NASA Planetary Protection Officer. "If you tell someone at the last minute they going to do something they had never been planning on, well, they may have to re-engineer entire spacecraft," he told Engadget. "If, on the other hand, they anticipate these requirements from the beginning... then it's not that big of a deal."
This planetary protection scheme is designed to minimize the damage from both forward and backward contamination. "We really want to safeguard our own planet's biosphere we have all these wonderful living things here," Walkowicz said. "We want to make sure that we can explore and bring back the samples and use the benefits of our Earthly labs without endangering the world."
Dr. Rummel, however, is not particularly concerned. "In my opinion, there is a reasonable possibility that nothing we could do with a sample return done robotically would bring back anything that's alive," he said.
Rummel argues that any microorganisms hitching a ride from Mars aboard a material sample would be woefully ill-equipped to handle the rigors of interplanetary flight. "We don't know what those organisms require so the chance that we get lucky and bring them back alive is small."
That said, Rummel acknowledges the value in assuming the worst. "The National Research Council and Space Studies Board have always maintained that we will contain [returned samples] as if they're the most hazardous thing on Earth until we prove that it's safe," he continued. "There's no upside in cutting corners."
First utilized for the Viking missions, "it's a very handy technology," Walkowicz explained. "It's very effective on surfaces, but also between surfaces or even within materials, which is why it has widespread adoption."
There are limitations to this method, however. It cannot sterilize an entire spacecraft, for example, as everything from electronic components to structural adhesives and landing parachutes would be destroyed by the heat. As such, NASA has been researching alternative methods to augment the DHMR process, many of which hail from existing medical technologies.
Of particular interest for Mars exploration is supercritical carbon dioxide cleaning. Carbon dioxide is held under extremely low temperature and at extremely high pressure so it exhibits qualities of both a gas and a liquid. When mixed with peracetic acid (PAA), it can be used to sterilize materials. What's more, Walkowicz said, given the planet's high CO2 content "maybe there would be a way to develop technology that could use Mars's atmosphere in some way to create a local bioburden reducing technology... and do that in situ."
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is also developing a technique dubbed vapor phase hydrogen peroxide (VHP) sterilization, which is generated from a solution of liquid H2O2 and water. When concentrated between 140 ppm and 1400 ppm, it acts as an antimicrobial agent. However, "the limitation there is that it's never been used at a systemic level -- like the whole spacecraft level -- so you could do it on smaller components but not necessarily the entire craft," Walkowicz said. There's also the danger of it becoming too concentrated. If VHP levels reach 75 ppm, it becomes toxic to humans.
There is also work being done with ethylene oxide as a sterilizer, though Walkowicz points out that ethylene oxide is "kind of explosive." Ionizing radiation techniques are also being explored. The parachute for the Beagle 2 mission, for example, could not withstand DHMR, so NASA scientists subjected it to radioactive sterilization instead. Beyond that, the NASA Mars Exploration Program has examined leveraging electron beam sterilization, which is already utilized in food processing, as a means of cleaning spacecraft.
Of course, there is also the chance that we're overthinking this whole issue, at least as it applies to Mars exploration. Rummel hypothesizes that there was a natural interchange of biology between Mars and Earth some 4 billion years ago that potentially renders our efforts moot:
Imagine that life originated on Mars. Life was knocked off of Mars by a large impact event which made Mars rocks eventually come to Earth. The Earth, without any life, is seeded by Mars rocks and then all of a sudden you have all these Mars organisms living on the Earth... the natural response of Earth and Mars together would be the evolution of animals, plants and whatnot. So we could all be Martians and that is as bad as it gets, I think.
Whether we need the protection or not, there are a number of ways that future interplanetary explorers might avoid the biological pitfalls of Mars. "We tend to think of it as being robotic exploration or human exploration," Walkowicz said. "In reality we see humans and robots cooperate all the time in exploration on Earth" such as the Fukushima power plant cleanup or subsea exploration in Antarctica.
"We often send robotic probes and I think that that's something that we're likely to see in some of those early explorations of Mars that involves a human component," she continued. Essentially, astronauts would either remain in orbit or sequestered in a planet-side bunker and remotely control robotic rovers who would do the legwork on our behalf. "The other possibility is, instead of worrying about cleaning your spacecraft off afterwards, you construct it as cleanly as you possibly can" from the start.
In the end, Walkowicz argues, planetary protection requirements should not be viewed as a hindrance to space exploration, but rather, an asset. "If we want to answer some of those difficult questions about the origin of life, if we really want to understand Mars or Europa or any of these worlds as astrobiological resources, we have to fold planetary protection into our thinking," she said. "It enables the science that we want to be able to do."
Or, as Rummel points out, "To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'" Well, that and the space plague.
Images: United Nations (Outer Space Treaty signing); NASA (clean room and Carl Sagan with Voyager 1)
Imagine if E.T., Yoda, and the Na’vi were more than just fictional beings—and what if we could talk to them from Earth? It might be possible one day, thanks to astronomers who sent a message to a star system that may have the ability to support life. The message, which included music and math, was sent in October, but it was announced to the public on Thursday, according to Scientific American.
Although we could hear back in 25 years, it’s unlikely we will, Douglas Vakoch, president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) International, told New Scientist.
But, what if we did?
A person dressed as an alien attends the Mars Encounter exhibit at the Chabot Space and Science Center August 26, 2003 in Oakland, California. Hundreds of astronomy enthusiasts visited the Chabot Space Center in hopes of viewing the red planet Mars through high-powered telescopes. Mars will be 34,646,418 miles from earth at 5:51 AM EST, the closest the two planets have been in 56,619 years.
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If we hear back, there’s limited guidance in place on how to communicate with the extraterrestrial beings, according to Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer for the SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute.
“There are some protocols, but I think that’s an unfortunate name, and it makes them sound more important than they are,” Shostak told Live Science.
The guidelines—which date back to the 1980s—were designed with governments and scientists in mind. Shostak and his colleagues updated the protocol in the 1990s, in hopes to advise researchers what to do if a detection is made.
"They say, 'If you pick up a signal, check it out ... tell everybody ... and don't broadcast any replies without international consultation,' whatever that means," he told Live Science. “But that's all that the protocols say, and they have no force of law. The United Nations took a copy of the early protocols and put them in a file drawer somewhere, and that's as official as they ever got."
But, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking doesn’t think we should answer, as it may lead to some serious consequences.
“Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well,” Hawking said in his 2016 documentary series, “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places,” Space.com reports.
However, Shostak argues that there’s a problem with the Columbus analogy.
“The analogy isn’t terribly apt. These folks weren’t doing exploration for its own sake. They found something new by accident,” Shostak said, according to NBC. “A better analogy might be the discovery of Antarctica or the source of the Nile. These really were exploration efforts.”
A car topped with a model spacecraft, and encouraging people to welcome extraterrestrial beings, is parked on property near Jamul, CA, October 15, 2000, purchased by the Unarius Academy of Science to serve as a future landing site for 'space brothers' from other planets. According to the academy, a spaceship carrying 1,000 alien scientists from the planet Myton will arrive on Earth in the year 2001, landing on a raised landform that was once part of an Atlantean continent in the Caribbean Sea. If humans are spritually ready, a total of 33 flying saucers from different planets will land in a towering stack near Jamul, CA to create an international university and introduce new technologies to save planet Earth from self-destruction.
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Still, this doesn't answer the question of what would actually happen and we likely won't have an answer until the day it does. But when it occurs, it's sure to be an eye-opening moment.
"We’ll immediately know something very important. We’ll know that we are neither unique nor special," Shostak concludes in his NBC article. "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."
In September 1977, NASA launched Voyager I from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The craft carried a golden record that contained a message to aliens from the people of Earth. Here’s what it said.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This video was originally posted on February 17, 2016.
Many of the commenters of the video are convinced that the footage is a genuine sighting of a UFO.
Josh Hammond wrote: “That is some awesome footage not only seeing a UFO but seeing how it affects change the area around it, great video man.”
Another person, foxleyleon, wrote: “I've also personally witnessed a ufo literally erasing a CHEM CLOUD. Rather nice of them.”
However, there were some viewers who were not so convinced of its authenticity.
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The clouds then scatter
One commenter was brutally honest in his assessment, writing: “Fakery at its best.”
Mr Sudan President was also critical, stating: “It’s fake…”
A similar looking craft was also recently spotted over the Great Barrier Reef.
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A similar UFO was recently seen over the Great Barrier Reef
An Australian woman, Jenny Morrison, took some pictures of the sunset over the Great Barrier Reef and when she later reviewed the photographs, she noticed a bright orb-like craft moving slowly across the screen in the series of photographs of the view above Fitzroy Island.
The mystery then deepens when in the latter pics, the green dot disappears from the images.
Experts are convinced it is a genuine UFO sighting, with the Daily Star reporting one expert said: “This is utterly bizarre and cannot be explained.
Earthbound Antimatter Mystery Deepens After Scientists Rule Out Pulsar Source
Earthbound Antimatter Mystery Deepens After Scientists Rule Out Pulsar Source
By Harrison Tasoff, Space.com Staff Writer
The HAWC gamma-ray observatory detects cosmic rays from its altitude of 13,500 feet in Mexico's Pico de Orizaba National Park. The Sierra Negra volcano looms large in the background.
Credit: HAWC
More antimatter particles stream toward Earth than scientists can explain — and new research from a mountaintop observatory in central Mexico deepens the mystery by crossing off one possible source.
The Earth is constantly showered by high-energy particles from a variety of cosmic sources. Physicist Victor Hess used a balloon to provide the first evidence of the extraterrestrial nature of cosmic rays in 1912. Since then, scientists have identified and accounted for a variety of different types, but the origin of some of these particles continues to elude experts.
The recent finding, detailed in the journal Science today (Nov. 17), concerns positrons, the antimatter complements of electrons. High-energy particles, usually protons, traveling across the galaxy can create pairs of positrons and electrons when they interact with dust and gas in space, study co-author Hao Zhou, at Los Alamos National Lab, told Space.com. In 2008, the space-based PAMELA detector measured unexpectedly high numbers of earthbound positrons. This was about 10 times what they were expecting to see, according to Zhou. [Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]
After years of work, camps coalesced around two distinct explanations, according to a statementby Michigan Technological University, which was involved in the new study. One hypothesis suggests the particles come from nearby pulsars, rapidly spinning cores of burnt-out stars, which can whip particles like electrons and positrons to incredible speeds. The other group posits a more exotic origin for the excess positrons, perhaps involving dark matter, an unknown yet pervasive entity that accounts for 80 percent of the universe's mass.
Particles like positrons that carry an electric charge are difficult to detect on Earth since they can be deflected by the planet's magnetic field. But scientists have a workaround. The particles also interact with the cosmic microwave background — an ever-present stream of low-energy photons left over from the birth of the universe. "The high-energy electron, or positron, [will] kick the low-energy photon ... so this the photon becomes a high-energy gamma-ray," Zhou said. "These gamma-rays, which have no electric charge, can pass right through the magnetic field and make it all the way to Earth's surface.
Zhou's team made detailed measurements of the gamma-rays coming from the direction of two nearby pulsars — Geminga and its companion PSR B0656+14 — that are the right age and distance from Earth to account for the excess positrons. To do this, the scientists used the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory, located about 4 hours east of Mexico City. HAWC comprises more than 300 tanks of extra-pure water. When gamma-rays plow into the atmosphere, they create a cascade of high-energy particles. As this shower of particles passes through HAWC's tanks, it emits flashes of blue light, which scientists can use to determine the energy and origin of the original cosmic ray.
The data from HAWC revealed that particles are streaming away from the pulsars too slowly to account for the excess positrons, according to a statement by the University of Maryland, whose researchers also contributed to the work. In order to have arrived here by now, the particles would have needed to leave before the pulsars had formed, Zhou said.
Zhou's colleagues are quick to point out an important caveat. "Our measurement doesn't decide the question in favor of dark matter, but any new theory that attempts to explain the excess using pulsars will need to match the new data," University of Maryland physicist Jordan Goodman, the lead investigator and U.S. spokesman for the HAWC collaboration, said in the statement from Maryland.
By observing the rotations of galaxies, scientists determined that the universe contains more mass than the objects we can observe. They call this mysterious extra mass dark matter. Aside from seeing dark matter's gravitational influence from afar, no one has directly detected it otherwise. However, a popular model of the substance involves weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPS, which interact with regular matter solely through gravity. If these proposed particles were to decay, or be annihilated somehow, they could conceivably generate pairs of electrons and positrons, Zhou said.
There are other astrophysical processes to consider as well. Supernova remnants and microquasars — extremely bright objects formed as matter spirals toward a black hole — can produce positrons, Zhou said. And there's the possibility that the initial model of particle interactions with the cosmic microwave background is inaccurate. "In order to confirm a detection of dark mater, I guess, there's still a long way to go," Zhou said. "We have to rule out all these astrophysical processes."
Zhou's team plans to take advantage of HAWC's incredibly wide field of view to narrow down these alternatives in future studies.
After a tense and occasionally contentious review, the U.S. National Science Foundation has agreed not to close the Arecibo Observatory, which hosts the world’s second-largest radio telescope. Instead, the science agency will keep the Puerto Rican facility open—but will seek funding partnerships with other organizations.
“This plan will allow important research to continue while accommodating the agency's budgetary constraints and its core mission to support cutting-edge science and education,” the NSF says in their announcement. That decision comes with a big sigh of relief, says observatory director Francisco Córdova, even though it’s not yet clear who will manage the observatory and where the additional funding will come from.
“That adds a level of complexity and stress going forward,” he says. “But today we’re better off than we were yesterday.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why unexplained radio signals from outer space shouldn't automatically be attributed to extraterrestrial life.
The decision is good news for scientists and for Puerto Rico, which is still struggling to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria. Not only does the facility act as a tourist draw and employer for local residents, it also provided shelter and supplies for surrounding communities in the wake of the storm.
Though the observatory sustained damage from the hurricane and is still without power, its deep well provided water for local communities, and its helipad served as a base for supply distribution. Observatory staffers helped clear roads and allowed residents to communicate with others via short-wave radio.
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Nestled into a sinkhole in the Puerto Rican jungle, the Arecibo Observatory has achieved iconic status since its construction in the 1960s. Through its many roles in science discoveries and popular culture, it has become arguably the world’s most recognizable astronomical facility: James Bond destroyed the place in GoldenEye, and Ellie Arroway visited it in Contact.
It sent that message with its radar transmitter, which today is used to study asteroids that might one day collide with Earth. The telescope is also a crucial part of today’s searches for more gravitational waves using rapidly spinning stellar corpses called pulsars.
“It remains the most sensitive telescope in the world for pulsar timing and provides a critical resource for training students throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico,” says Maura McLaughlin, chair of the NANOGravcollaboration, which seeks out these ripples in space-time.
Yet, buckling under the weight of budget woes, the NSF decided a few years ago to start the process of divesting from the facility and closing it down. That meant considering, among other options, total demolition of the facility. But before the science agency could even do something as minor as simply withdrawing the $8.2 million it provides each year for the observatory to function, it needed to solicit input from scientists and the community about its proposal, which it did starting in early 2016.
It also needed to assess the environmental consequences of its proposition, and somehow work around the fact that the observatory had been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, as well as Puerto Rico's State Historic Preservation Office.
To say people were fretting about the impeding decision is no overstatement.
“I AM LITERALLY CRYING AT WORK! TEARS OF JOY!!! THE OBSERVATORY SURVIVES!!!,” tweeted planetary scientist Ed Rivera-Valentin, who works at the observatory and has been instrumental in helping train the next generation of Puerto Rican scientists.
“It’s a very big deal, it’s a very important step for us,” Córdova says. “It stops all those rumors and uncertainties about demolition or mothballing and all sorts of negative things.”
Now, the observatory’s staff can begin planning for its next chapter. That means waiting to find out who will manage the facility, a decision that is expected to come in the next several weeks and that will be implemented in March of next year, when the current management contract expires.
It also means finding out who the new funding partners will be, since NSF will slowly reduce the amount of money it annually gives the facility from roughly $8 million to about $2 million, according to Nature. As well, the observatory needs to make some repairs to storm-damaged equipment, notably a line feed used for ionospheric observations.
But overall, the facility weathered the tempest quite well and is already back doing science observations with the help of diesel-powered generators—an achievement Córdova ascribes to the dedication of the staff.
“They deserve all the credit,” he says. “The fact that we’re continuing operating even under these circumstances is truly a testament to the dedication and resilience of the Arecibo staff.”
An artist's impression of a planet orbiting a red dwarf star
University of Warwick
Aliens living around Luyten’s star will hear from humans in about 12 years’ time – if they exist.
Scientists have beamed a message toward the GJ 273 system, 12 light years away, where one of the two planets orbiting the red dwarf sun is thought to be within its habitable zone.
That means it may be capable of hosting life and, if it does, we might hear back in 2042.
The message is part of the 2018 Sonar festival in Spain, and includes 33 short pieces of music.
Festival director Richard Robles said: “Sonar Calling GJ273b arises from the innate human need to communicate and connect.
“It also attempts to find an answer to a question asked by civilisations throughout history: are we alone in the universe?
“Given the largely negative impact of humanity on our planet, perhaps this is the best time to reach out to hopefully superior extraterrestrial intelligence to solicit help and advice.”
Scientists see two stars collide in space, setting off bizarre events
Douglas Vakoch, president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) which sent the communication, told Space.com: “To me, the big success of the project will come if, 25 years from now, there’s someone who remembers to look [for a response].
“If we could accomplish that, that would be a radical shift of perspective.”
METI exists to “understand and communicate the societal implications and relevance of searching for life beyond Earth, even before detection of extraterrestrial life,” its website said.
Mr Vakoch dismissed suggestions that sending messages to potential alien races could be dangerous for humanity if one turns out to be aggressive.
He said: “It’s really hard to imagine a scenario in which a civilization around Luyten’s star could have the capacity to come to Earth and threaten us, and yet they’re not able to pick up our leakage radiation.”
Radio waves from Earth’s media networks have been travelling through space for decades.
But the fear of hypothetically hostile species from other stars is real for many scientists, including Stephen Hawking.
He has said that if we were to receive an extraterrestrial communication we should be “wary” of sending a reply.
Potential rival species could be vastly more powerful than humanity and contact could be like the meeting of Christopher Columbus and the Native Americans, the physicist has said – which “didn’t turn out so well”.
Even if it were benign, an interstellar civilisation could be so state-of-the-art it ”may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria”, he added last year.
U-F-O sightings in South Florida in the #RobyFiles
U-F-O sightings in South Florida in the #RobyFiles
by Eric Roby
U-F-O sightings in South Florida in the #RobyFiles. (WPEC)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) —
Look up in the sky, there’s a good chance you will see a u-f-o!! Here’s Eric with the Roby Files to explain.
Who knew? South Florida is a hot bed of activity for u-f-o sightings!
This map was just created showing all of the reported u-f-o sightings from 1995 to 2014. You can see here that all of Palm Beach County, and most of the Treasure Coast has had a lot of sightings. Over the past 20 years there have been nearly 60 thousand u-f-o sightings across the United States.
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Don’t talk about politics during your Thanksgiving, last year it abruptly ended a lot of feasts around the country.
A study out of UCLA and Washington State used smartphone tracking data and discovered that last year democrats were much less likely to attend dinner at a republicans house.
Republicans may have been more likely to go to a democrats house but the time they spent there was significantly less than the year prior. That’s not a big surprise but what’s concerning to me is that researchers can now track our holiday habits with our phones.
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People really need to check themselves when it comes to Starbucks and their mugs.
The new craze are these sparkly pink tumblers.
Social media is filled with people loving on these mugs. The problem? They are hard to find. There is such demand that people are now selling them on Ebay for twice the amount you can get them in the coffee shop.
I-Team: Former military intelligence officer pursues supernatural phenomena
I-Team: Former military intelligence officer pursues supernatural phenomena
By: George Knapp
LAS VEGAS - Travel the world to exotic lands, commune with witchdoctors, psychics, and seers, and maybe chase down a few UFOs and mutilated cattle along the way. How does that sound for a job?
Former military intelligence officer Dr. John Alexander has spent a lifetime pursuing what many would call paranormal or supernatural phenomena while at the same time, still working as a defense consultant.
For Alexander, it's all in a day's work.
A picturesque ranch in northeastern Utah has emerged as one of the most intense paranormal hotspots on earth.
When Las Vegas billionaire and space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow first saw the property in the mid-1990s, Dr. John Alexander was with him.
Bigelow installed a team of scientists and investigators from his National Institute for Discovery Science on the property, and over the next several years, the team witnessed and documented dozens of high strangeness events, including daylight animal mutilations and night-time encounters with an unknown intelligence. Alexander gave it a name.
"Precognitive sentient phenomena. Something else is in control," he said.
The study of Skinwalker Ranch continued for years though the mystery only intensified. Getting scientists to consider so-called paranormal activity was a victory of sorts, and is one of Alexander's lifelong goals.
"Part of my agenda is to assist in making it viable for serious scientists to research these things without ruining their reputation, livelihood, or career," Alexander said.
The walls of his Las Vegas home are packed with photos and mementos from exotic adventures he and wife Victoria have taken in pursuit of hidden realms and alternate realities. Hanging with gorillas in Rwanda, diving with whales in Tonga, advising the military in Afghanistan, communing with an African healer or Amazonian shaman one day, dining with renowned physicists Edward Teller and Hal Puthoff the next.
The topics he has investigated are castigated, in part, because of what they might mean to our concept of reality.
"Part of what we're discussing here is frightening to people because if these things are real, then their belief systems are in jeopardy.
For example, near death experiences. Alexander first learned about them as a Green Beret commander during the Vietnam conflict when a fellow special forces soldier essentially died in combat but returned to his body.
Alexander later earned a doctorate studying near death experiences as reported all over the world. He's surprised there isn't more interest among scientists and others.
"The continuation of consciousness beyond death ought to be of interest to 100 percent of the population, I mean, so if you want relevance, it would be that."
While in the military, he worked with the army's psychic spy program, the remote viewers whose exploits were characterized in the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats." He also briefed Pentagon bigwigs on unknown aerial objects, UFOs, and later befriended psychic Uri Geller, whose ability to bend spoons with his mind was confirmed in lab studies sponsored by the CIA. Some of the mangled cutlery are now family keepsakes. In "Reality Denied," a new book about his unusual exploits, Alexander argues that these seemingly unrelated weird subjects might share a common link -- consciousness.
"A lot of the mistakes made in these fields is they tend to stovepipe, delineate, talk about UFOs, near death experiences, psychokinesis, ghosts, whatever it is, and look at them in separation and I think we need to step back and look at them in totality," he said.
The first requisite for pursuing these topics, he says? A thick skin.
Scientist assures that it is possible to physically travel to the past
Scientist assures that it is possible to physically travel to the past
Back to the future, Terminator, The Philadelphia experiment , The end of the countdown and, of course, The time machine. All these films focus on the possibility of moving through time, both forward and backward. But in the digital world we find many other stories, which involve time travel. And why not? It is one of the most mysterious concepts that man has invented. Travels in the time. But is it a possibility?
For according to the astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, within the realms of Einstein’s General Relativity, a person can travel through a wormhole and go back in time.
It is possible to travel to the past
In a publication for the American magazine Forbes entitled “How to travel back in time could be physically possible,” Ethan Siegel of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, explains that, by using the laws of theoretical physics, we could technically build elaborate wormholes that could send humans back to the past.
As Spiegel points out, space-time tissue experiences constant positive and negative fluctuations. Theoretically, a strong positive fluctuation and a powerful negative fluctuation could be connected to form a quantum wormhole. The wormhole can be converted into a passageway that can transport particles from one point in spacetime to another. But this only works if the wormhole gets to resist enough for that time travel to happen.
But creating a wormhole big enough to take a person from the present to the past will not be easy, says Spiegel. So far, the search for the negative energy particles has not been successful.
“While every known particle in our Universe has positive energy and a positive or zero mass, it is eminently possible to have negative mass / energy particles within the framework of General Relativity,” writes the astrophysicist. “Of course, we have not discovered any yet, but according to all the rules of theoretical physics, there is nothing that forbids it.”
So, to travel through time we would need to apply the laws of special relativity . When traveling at speeds close to the speed of light, a phenomenon called temporary dilation occurs. This means that as the person increases their movement through space, their movement through time will decrease.
For example, if you traveled to a star that was 40 light-years away at speeds close to that of light, you can get there in one year and take a year to return. But, according to Spiegel, when you have returned to Earth, 82 years will have passed.
“This is the standard way in which time travel works physically: it takes you to the future, with the amount of forward travel in time that depends solely on your movement through space,”Siegel explains.
But your quantum theory of the wormhole changes that and avoids the “grandfather paradox” , that is, the notion that you can change the course of your life through time travel backing up in time and killing your grandfather. The first time this theory was postulated was in the novel by René Barjavel titled “Le Voyageur imprudent (1943)” . In essence, Barjavel explains that a person can not travel back in time to kill his own grandfather before having children. Because if he kills his grandfather before he has children, then his son would not be born, nor the father, and finally the person. So, if that person was never born, how could he have gone back in time to kill your grandfather?
“Even if the wormhole was created before your parents were conceived, there is no way you exist at the other end of the wormhole early enough to return and find your grandfather before that critical moment ,” he says. Spiegel.
However, this is not the first time that scientists have theorized somewhat viable ways of traveling through time. Astronomer Frank J. Tipler invented a device, called a Tipler cylinder, where you roll the matter into a long, dense cylinder. Tipler theorized that when matter is rotated at a few billion revolutions per minute, a spacecraft that orbits the cylinder could be locked in a “closed curve, similar to time” that would facilitate time travel.
In addition, scientists have spent years behind making travel possible over time. Moreover, in 2014 Robert Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson, from the Technological University of Michigan, began to look for weather travelers on the Internet . They believed that, if a person learned to travel in time in the future, and if he passed through our timeline, he should have left some kind of “trace on the network” . For “the hunt of time travelers on the Internet,” Nemiroff and Wilson devised three ingenious search schemes. It seems that the scientific community is taking time trips very seriously, possibly because what awaits us in the future is not pleasant at all. It’s a posibility.
Do you agree with Spiegel’s theory? Is it possible to travel to the past? And the future? Do not hesitate to comment below.
Herinner je je de film ‘I, Robot’ nog, waarin Will Smith het opneemt tegen een maatschappij vol robotten? Wel, als we het laatste filmpje van Boston Dynamics zien, is die tijd niet meer heel veraf. Hun exemplaar, genaamd Atlas, kan intussen beter turnen dan de gemiddelde mens (inclusief salto). Cool, maar nutteloos? Blijkbaar niet, want Atlas moet op termijn ingezet worden tijdens zoek- en reddingsacties. En daarbij is wat gymnastiek best handig.
TwitterEen impressie van hoe Asgardia eruit moet gaan zien. Voorlopig bestaat het alleen nog maar op papier.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETAsgardia – de allereerste natie in de ruimte – heeft deze week een satelliet gelanceerd en daarmee bracht ze voor het eerst een object in een baan om de aarde. Het bevat digitale data van 18.000 van haar inwoners, een voorstelling van de vlag, het wapenschild en de grondwet.
Het was Russisch wetenschapper Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli (53) die Asgardia stichtte in oktober 2016. De onafhankelijke natie werd genoemd naar de plaats waar volgens de Noorse mythologie de goden wonen. Ze telt intussen meer dan 133.000 inwoners uit meer dan 200 landen en daar zijn ook 881 Belgen bij. Iedereen die meerderjarig is, een e-mailadres heeft en de grondwet aanvaardt (die deze zomer werd goedgekeurd), kan het staatsburgerschap aanvragen.
Doel is volgens Ashurbeyli om een vredevolle samenleving te stichten in de ruimte, los van afkomst, taal, huidskleur, religie, geslacht of leeftijd. Maar ook om de toegang tot ruimtetechnologie makkelijker te maken en de aarde te beschermen voor bedreigingen vanuit de ruimte, zoals asteroïden en ruimtepuin dat door de mens werd gecreëerd.
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Hoewel de inwoners nu dus nog op aarde wonen, heeft de lancering van de Asgardia-1 de natie weer een stapje dichter bij haar ultieme doel gebracht: in de ruimte wonen. De satelliet – die de grootte van een brood heeft – werd meegenomen door een cargoschip van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA met als bestemming het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Ergens in de komende weken zal het toestel daar uitgepakt worden door de zes astronauten die daar momenteel verblijven.
Ruimtereis
Daarna kan hij zijn eigen ruimtereis beginnen in een baan om de aarde. Het tuig zal tussen de 5 en 18 maanden rondcirkelen - de normale levensduur van zo’n satelliet - waarna het zal opbranden. Het is dus eerder een symbolische tocht, maar daarmee houdt Ashurbeyli zich wel aan een belofte die hij maakte bij de oprichting van Asgardia: om de inwoners aan de hand van hun data dit jaar al een eerste keer de ruimte in te brengen. “Ik had een lancering beloofd. Die is er gekomen”, zegt hij.
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Ashurbeyli is overigens niet de eerste de beste. De raketwetenschapper en bedrijfsleider – die het project naar verluidt ook zelf financiert voor een niet nader bepaalde som – is een zwaargewicht in de wetenschapsindustrie. Hij richtte onder meer het Aerospace International Research Center op in Wenen en is de voorzitter van het Comité voor Wetenschap en Ruimte van UNESCO.
Vlucht
Het team achter de nieuwe natie hoopt op termijn bewoonbare platformen te creëren in een lage baan om de aarde, een eerste op ongeveer dezelfde hoogte als het ISS. De eerste vlucht daarheen met mensen aan boord wordt verwacht over 8 jaar. In afwachting daarvan zullen wel nog andere satellieten worden gelanceerd, maar wanneer precies is nog niet duidelijk.
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Een van de ambitieuze plannen van Asgardia is om lid te worden van de Verenigde Naties. Daarvoor moet de VN Veiligheidsraad eerst de natie erkennen. Criteria zijn onder meer een permanente populatie hebben, een vast grondgebied, een regering en de mogelijkheid om relaties te onderhouden met andere naties. Andere naties moeten het land ook erkennen als dusdanig. Vervolgens moet het lidmaatschap nog worden goedgekeurd door twee derde van de leden van de VN.
Regering
Bedoeling is dat Asgardia een democratisch verkozen regering krijgt en ook alle andere gangbare overheidsinstellingen, zoals een Openbaar Ministerie. De departementen zullen voorlopig worden geleid door de verkozenen in de landen waar ze nu wonen. De administratieve zetel is Wenen. Nog tot 29 maart kunnen inwoners zich kandidaat stellen voor een zitje in het parlement. Na de verkiezingen zullen de overheidsinstellingen gevormd worden.
We haven’t reached Black Friday yet but fans of Doc Brown, Mr. Peabody and Doctor Who may have have already received the present they’ve wanted since they were kids.
“But thanks to some very interesting properties of space and time in Einstein’s General Relativity, traveling back in time may be possible after all.”
In a recent post on his Forbes blog, Starts with a Bang, theoretical astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegel lays out the parts and the plans for traveling backwards in time. Siegel claims this ‘time machine’ abides by Einstein’s general theory of relativity and will not destroy the universe as we know it. Yes! Tell us how to build one, Professor Siegel, so we can all go back change the answer on the test that kept us from getting into Harvard. Or one questionable election vote.
“The place to start is with the physical idea of a wormhole.”
Sigh. You skipped right over that part about Dr. Siegel being a “theoretical” physicist, didn’t you? Wormholes can exist theoretically – we just haven’t found one yet. Siegel starts with the accepted idea that positive/negative energy fluctuations can create a curve space wormhole that a particle could travel through from one point in spacetime to another. Who cares about particles, Dr. Siegel? We want to transport ourselves and possibly a cool-looking but poor-performing sports car back in time.
“If we want to scale that up, however, to allow something like a human being through, that’s going to take some work. While every known particle in our Universe has positive energy and either positive or zero mass, it’s eminently possible to have negative mass/energy particles in the framework of General Relativity. Sure, we haven’t discovered any yet, but according to all the rules of theoretical physics, there’s nothing forbidding it.”
With that assumption in mind, Siegel proposes a sort of reverse wormhole. Instead of the conventional “travel 40 light years out at nearly the speed of light, come back and you’ve aged 2 years while everyone else is 82 years older,” he proposes a wormhole with one fixed end and one that moves around at nearly the speed of light. The wormhole is created, you wait a year and then enter the end that has been in motion. When you come out at the fixed end, it’s 40 years prior. That means if you entered this wormhole today, you could travel back to 1978 …
I’m right again!
… provided someone in 1977 had created this wormhole. So Dr. Siegel’s time machine wormhole is dependent on a previous Dr. Siegel-type with his theoretical physics knowledge and more. What if that person was your grandfather? Could you go back in time to meet him and prevent your own birth?
“Satisfyingly, we discover that this form of time travel also forbids the grandfather paradox! Even if the wormhole were created before your parents were conceived, there’s no way for you to exist at the other end of the wormhole early enough to go back and find your grandfather prior to that critical moment. The best you can do is to put your newborn father and mother on a ship to catch the other end of the wormhole, have them live, age, conceive you, and then send yourself back through the wormhole. You’ll be able to meet your grandfather when he’s still very young — perhaps even younger than you are now — but it will still, by necessity, occur at a moment in time after your parents were born.”
So Dr. Seigel is satisfied that he’ll never be able to prevent his own birth, but are we satisfied that we’ll ever be able to travel back in time through one of these strange theoretical (for now) wormholes?
The idea of traveling back in time has long fascinated humans, such as in Back To The Future's Delorean DMC-12. After decades of research, we may have hit upon a solution that's physically possible.
It's one of the greatest tropes in movies, literature, and television shows: the idea that we could travel back in time to alter the past. From the time turner in Harry Potter to Back To The Future to Groundhog Day, traveling back in time provides us with the possibility of righting wrongs in our own past. To most people, it's an idea that's relegated to the realm of fiction, as every law of physics indicates that motion forward through time is an absolute necessity. Philosophically, there's also a famous paradox that seems to indicate the absurdity of such a possibility: if traveling backwards through time were possible, you'd be able to go back and kill your grandfather before your parents were ever conceived, rendering your own existence impossible. For a long time, there seemed to be no way to go back. But thanks to some very interesting properties of space and time in Einstein's General Relativity, traveling back in time may be possible after all.
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An illustration of the early Universe as consisting of quantum foam, where quantum fluctuations are large, varied, and important on the smallest of scales. Positive and negative energy fluctuations can create minuscule, quantum wormholes.
The place to start is with the physical idea of a wormhole. In our known Universe, we have tiny, minuscule quantum fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime on the smallest of scales. These include energy fluctuations in both the positive and negative directions, often very close by one another. A very strong, dense, positive energy fluctuation would create curved space in one particular fashion, while a strong, dense, negative energy fluctuation would curve space in exactly the opposite fashion. If you connected these two curvature regions together, you could — for a brief instant — arrive at the notion of a quantum wormhole. If the wormhole lasted for long enough, you could even potentially transport a particle through it, allowing it to instantly disappear from one location in spacetime and reappear in another.
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Exact mathematical plot of a Lorentzian wormhole. If one end of a wormhole is built out of positive mass/energy, while the other is built of negative mass/energy, the wormhole can become traversible.
If we want to scale that up, however, to allow something like a human being through, that's going to take some work. While every known particle in our Universe has positive energy and either positive or zero mass, it's eminently possible to have negative mass/energy particles in the framework of General Relativity. Sure, we haven't discovered any yet, but according to all the rules of theoretical physics, there's nothing forbidding it.
If this negative mass/energy matter exists, then creating both a supermassive black hole and the negative mass/energy counterpart to it, while then connecting them, should allow for a traversible wormhole. No matter how far apart you took these two connected objects from one another, if they had enough mass/energy — of both the positive and negative kind — this instantaneous connection would remain. All of that is great for instantaneous travel through space. But what about time? Here's where the laws of special relativity come in.
A "light clock" will appear to run different for observers moving at different relative speeds, but this is due to the constancy of the speed of light. Einstein's law of special relativity governs how these time and distance transformations take place, but it means that the stationary and the moving parties age at different rates.
If you travel close to the speed of light, you experience a phenomenon known as time dilation. Your motion through space and your motion through time are related by the speed of light: the greater your motion through space, the less your motion through time. Imagine you had a destination that was 40 light years away, and you were able to travel at incredibly high speeds: over 99.9% the speed of light. If you got into a spaceship and traveled very close to the speed of light towards that star, then stopped, turned around, and returned back to Earth, you'd find something odd.
Due to time dilation and length contraction, you might reach your destination in only a year, and then come back in just another year. But back on Earth, 82 years would have passed. Everyone you know would have aged tremendously. This is the standard way time travel physically works: it takes you into the future, with the amount of travel forward in time dependent only on your motion through space.
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Is time travel possible? With a large enough wormhole, such as one created by a supermassive black hole connected to its negative mass/energy counterpart, it just might be.
But if you construct a wormhole like we just described, the story changes. Imaging one end of the wormhole remains close to motionless, such as remaining close to Earth, while the other one goes off on a relativistic journey close to the speed of light. You then enter the rapidly-moving end of the wormhole after it's been in motion for perhaps a year. What happens?
Well, a year isn't the same for everyone, particularly if they're moving through time and space differently! If we talk about the same speeds as we did earlier, the "in motion" end of the wormhole would have aged 40 years, but the "at rest" end would only have aged by 1 year. Step into the relativistic end of the wormhole, and you arrive back on Earth only one year after the wormhole was created, while you yourself may have had 40 years of time to pass.
Moving close to the speed of light will cause time to pass appreciably differently for the traveler versus the person who remains in a constant frame of reference.
If, 40 years ago, someone had created such a pair of entangled wormholes and sent them off on this journey, it would be possible to step into one of them today, in 2017, and wind up back in time at the mouth of the other one... back in 1978. The only issue is that you yourself couldn't also have been at that location back in 1978; you needed to be with the other end of the wormhole, or traveling through space to try and catch up with it.
NASA / Digital art by Les Bossinas (Cortez III Service Corp.), 1998
Warp travel, as envisioned for NASA. If you created a wormhole between two points in space, with one mouth moving relativistically relative to the other, observers at either traversible end would have aged by vastly different amounts.
Satisfyingly, we discover that this form of time travel also forbids the grandfather paradox! Even if the wormhole were created before your parents were conceived, there's no way for you to exist at the other end of the wormhole early enough to go back and find your grandfather prior to that critical moment. The best you can do is to put your newborn father and mother on a ship to catch the other end of the wormhole, have them live, age, conceive you, and then send yourself back through the wormhole. You'll be able to meet your grandfather when he's still very young — perhaps even younger than you are now — but it will still, by necessity, occur at a moment in time after your parents were born.
A great many unusual things become possible in the Universe if negative mass/energy is real, abundant, and controllable, but traveling backwards in time might be the wildest one we've ever imagined. Owing to the oddities of both special and general relativity, time travel to the past might not be forbidden after all!
Astrophysicist and author Ethan Siegel is the founder and primary writer of Starts With A Bang! His books, Treknologyand Beyond The Galaxy, are available wherever books are sold.
Tijdreizen is echt fysiek mogelijk. Astrofysicus legt in dit stuk uit hoe het werkt
Tijdreizen is echt fysiek mogelijk. Astrofysicus legt in dit stuk uit hoe het werkt
Tijdreizen is niet onmogelijk, zo zegt een astrofysicus. Onder bepaalde omstandigheden kunnen wormgaten bestaan, die mensen naar verschillende tijdperken kunnen brengen.
“De wetten van de theoretische natuurkunde verbieden het niet,” schrijft Ethan Siegel van Lewis & Clark College voor Forbes.
Terug in de tijd reizen hangt samen met materie die een negatieve massa heeft.
Lichtsnelheid
Als je twee supermassieve zwarte gaten maakt, één met een negatieve massa/energie en één met een positieve massa/energie, kun je ze met elkaar verbinden en ontstaat er een wormgat waar je doorheen kunt reizen, schrijft Siegel.
Het maakt dan niet uit hoe ver de objecten van elkaar staan. Als ze over genoeg massa/energie beschikken blijft de verbinding bestaan.
De ene kant van het wormgat zou nagenoeg bewegingloos zijn terwijl de andere kant zich met bijna de lichtsnelheid voortbeweegt.
Terug in de tijd
Een persoon die zo’n tunnel binnengaat zou in theorie terug in de tijd reizen.
Siegel geeft als voorbeeld een bestemming op 40 lichtjaar van de aarde. Na een jaar zou het bewegende deel van het wormgat 40 jaar ouder zijn geworden, terwijl aan de andere kant slechts een jaar is verstreken.
Andere uiteinde
“Als iemand 40 jaar geleden een dergelijk paar verstrengelde wormgaten had gemaakt en iemand erin was gestapt, zou het mogelijk zijn om vandaag de dag, in 2017, in één van de twee te stappen en uit te komen in 1978,” schrijft hij.
“Je kunt alleen niet in 1978 op die locatie zijn geweest, maar je moet je aan het andere uiteinde van het wormgat hebben bevonden, of in de ruimte om het bij te houden,” aldus Siegel.
Inspired by the crop circle phenomenon, the 2002 movie Signsdraws broadly from the UFO mythos and, in one of its more comical scenes, has three of its characters huddled together in tinfoil hats, wracked by paranoia. Beyond such cliché, however, M. Night Shyamalan’s film exhibits a deeper—perhaps subconscious—awareness of the UFO phenomenon and of the effects of its mass-mediation in the post-modern world.
In the film, a Pennsylvanian farming family—headed by old-fashioned priest and widower Reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson)—is thrown into turmoil when a crop formation appears overnight in their corn field. From TV news coverage we learn that hundreds of similar crop ‘signs’ have appeared suddenly and simultaneously around the world, baffling experts. Graham is quietly concerned and seeks to distance his family from the inexplicable events unfolding around them by refusing them access to the media circus now spoon-feeding the hungry masses. “See, this is why we’re not watching TV,” says Graham, “people get obsessed.” For Graham, despite the undeniable physical reality of the sign in his corn field, and his own gut instinct that something strange is afoot, it is only through their mediation by TV news reports that the bizarre events can assume a sense of the ‘real.’
Discussing Jean Baudrillard’s notions of hyperreality, John Storey notes that, “Representation does not stand at one remove from reality, to conceal or distort it, it is reality”; implicitly aware of this, Graham opts to sever his own access to media imagery, leaving him free to interpret the outside events as he chooses and to continue to inhabit his own secure, albeit emotionally stagnant, reality. It is only when Graham catches a glimpse of an alien in his corn field one night that he submits to his family’s desire to be mediated (“Okay, let’s turn on the TV”). It is Graham’s submission to television that plants him firmly in the “present age” to which Feuerbach refers in The Essence of Christianity: an age “which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence…” For Graham, the grieving widower and priest faced with an incomprehensible threat to his family, now, more than ever, “Illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”
The reality of the situation is unpalatable for Graham, so he opts to filter it through the lens of television.
As the family watch live footage of numerous UFOs over Mexico City, Graham’s brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) quips: “the nerds were right”—a reference to the generic UFO believers he had mocked in an earlier scene. Shyamalan’s decision to have the alien craft arrive over Mexico City was inspired by the real-life mass-sightings of UFOs over this same locale during the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 when hundreds of people witnessed what appeared to be a number of hovering, metallic, disc-shaped objects. Signs again draws from the UFO mythos during a scene in which Merrill reacts with horror as the TV news runs grainy, daylight footage of an alien prowling the backstreets of Paso Fundo, Brazil. This is an oblique reference the famous “Varginha incident” of 1996 in which three teenage girls claimed to have been traumatized by a daylight encounter with an unearthly entity in the Brazilian city of Varginha.
M. Night Shyamalan directs Abigail Breslin.
Several scenes later, the whole family has succumbed entirely to the mystical power of their television as they stare passively at the numerous “lights” now hovering over Washington DC and over hundreds of cities worldwide. Such is the magnetism of their TV screen that, rather than driving to the nearest city in an attempt to see the lights for themselves, or even simply stepping outside to glance up at the sky, the family considers it more natural to watch the events on television and, most importantly, to record them. “We have to tape this,” urges Graham’s son, Morgan, “this is very important… the history of the world’s future is on the TV right now,” telling his younger sister Bo (Abigail Breslin), “We need to record this so you can show your children this tape and say you were there.” Clearly, the Hess family understand, as theorist John Fiske does, that the postmodern media do not simply provide, “secondary representations of reality; they affect and produce the reality that they mediate,” and that, “all events that ‘matter’ are media events.”
Glued to the screen.
As the saucer-shaped lights twinkle overhead, the anchorman informs viewers that “This image has not been adjusted or enhanced in anyway. What you’re seeing is real. It’s unbelievable.” Later in the film, Graham asks himself, “Is this really happening?” Such dialogue points to an awareness on Shayamalan’s part that the literal existence of UFOs is difficult to accept, not because of what UFOs might represent (otherworldly intelligences), but because of how the phenomenon has been mediated (i.e. ridiculed) for over sixty years. Shayamalan’s concerns along these lines are expressed subtly in his decision to confine his UFOs and aliens securely to his characters’ TV screen as objects of media scrutiny for all but a few seconds of the film’s total running time.
“What you’re seeing is real. It’s unbelievable.”
The extent to which the family’s perception of UFOs has been historically mediated is also effectively illustrated through their inability to envisage what horrors might be unfolding beyond the four corners of their TV screen. When both their television and radio cease to function as a result of the unseen invasion outside, in the total absence of media to guide their perceptions, the Hess family are lost, as demonstrated when a terrified Merrill asks: “What’s going on out there?” A question to which Graham can only respond: “I can’t even imagine.” Indeed, in an earlier scene, when Merrill does attempt to make use of his imagination, he can’t help but fall back on iconographic imagery conjured by classic UFOlogical fiction, describing the scenes on TV as being “like War of the Worlds.”
During the film’s climax in which an alien intruder holds Morgan hostage in the Hess family’s living room, Shyamalan again chooses to objectify the aliens through television—this time quite literally. When Graham finally sees the alien up close it is in the form of a reflection in his TV screen, and, again, when the creature is defeated and lies dying on the floor, we see only its reflection in the glass of the television. Are aliens real, or do they exist purely as media constructs? In Signs, Shayamalan seems to answer the question with a question: “in today’s hyperreal society, does it even matter?”
One of several shots in ‘Signs’ in which the image of the alien is distorted quite literally through the televisual medium.
Signs is an anomaly in the UFO subgenre. Consciously or not, it engages with the UFO subject through the intellectual framework of spectatorship and hyperreality. As a meditation on UFOs as a media abstraction (viewed most comfortably through the filter of television), the film serves as a reflection of popular attitudes towards the phenomenon today, demonstrating that, when it comes to UFOs, even Hollywood in its mass-mediation of the phenomenon is acutely aware that there is no longer a clear distinction between a ‘real’ event and its media representation.
There are serious questions being pondered and actions being taken by our top minds these days and there’s no reason why the thought process shouldn’t be open to all humans, especially since the end result could potentially put all humans in danger of being destroyed by aliens … especially aliens who don’t like techno-pop music. The questions? Would you broadcast radio signals at a planet that may contain alien life? If you say yes, would you send music or words? If you chose music, what songs would you send? Space Oddity? Rocket Man? The 1812 Overture? Space Cowboy?
GeekWire reports that a group of scientists and artists calling themselves Sónar Calling GJ273b didn’t bother to ask us before transmitting signals on three successive days, Oct. 16-18, from the EISCAT radio antenna in Tromsø, Norway. The transmissions were aimed at GJ273b, a planet twice the mass of Earth, orbiting GJ273 or Luyten’s Star, a red dwarf in the constellation Canis Major. GJ273b is in a habitable zone orbit and could harbor life, so it’s a prime target for messaging extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) according to METI International, a co-sponsor of Sónar Calling GJ273b.
Can’t they already hear this?
The other sponsors are the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, Spain, and the Sónar music festival in Barcelona. So the inhabitants of GJ273b will someday be tapping their toes (or whatever appendages they’ve developed) to flamenco, opera, Spanish jazz and classical guitar songs – right?
“We will turn the EISCAT transmitter into a musical instrument, sending basic melodies by transmitting pulses at a series of different radio frequencies that maintain the same sort of intervals between one another that we see in the intervals between musical notes.”
What is that … polka? (Sorry, polka fans). Do we want them to like us or hate us? Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, says those “pulses” were composed especially for this project by people like sound artist Holly Herndon, French composer Jean-Michel Jarre and the experimental electronic-music duo Matmos.
That might not be too bad … except the Sónar Calling pieces are only 10 seconds long and transmitted as binary code at two frequencies, 929.0 MHz and 930.2 MHz. The signal will also contain some sort of ‘cosmic clock’ to help ETs figure out our concept of time … which will help them know when to clap to the music.
People like Stephen Hawking think METI is a bad idea, but this musical cat is out of the bag, man, so we should have some input into what’s being sent to other life forms. This could be an exercise that brings us all together. Then again, have you ever been involved in picking out music for a DJ to play at a wedding?
Would aliens request Freebird?
What could possibly go wrong? It’s worth a shot. My vote is for some New Orleans jazz like When the Saints Go Marching In. Even aliens should like that. And if they don’t, they can play it at our funeral after they destroy Earth.
What music would you send to an extraterrestrial civilization?
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Fast Moving Meteor-Like Object from Space Captured by ISS Astronaut
Fast Moving Meteor-Like Object from Space Captured by ISS Astronaut
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured a meteor-like object slam into Earth’s atmosphere and burning up over the Atlantic Ocean on November 5, 2017 from the International Space Station.
The space object, traveling at roughly 24 miles per second (40km/s), was sighted over the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of South Africa.
Several lightning flashes were also recorded by Nespoli as the Space Station flew from the southern Atlantic Ocean over to Kazakhstan.
Does Astronaut’s Visor Reflection Shows A Mysterious Figure On The Moon?
Does Astronaut’s Visor Reflection Shows A Mysterious Figure On The Moon?
Many people believe that the Apollo moon landings were one of the biggest hoaxes in human history. They believe that NASA has created this hoax. They actually never traveled to the moon and that everything was staged and filmed here on earth.
Personally I believe that the moon landings were real but if you look at a particular moon landing image showing one of the astronauts and you look at a close-up view of the astronaut’s helmet then in the visor reflection you see a mysterious figure that doesn’t really look like an astronaut.
Now conspiracy theorists suggest that the mysterious figure could be a member of the film crew who has filmed the so-called moon landing here on earth.
Rather than a member of the film crew maybe the strange figure in the visor reflection is just the second astronaut with his camera strapped to his chest of his astronaut’s space suit aimed towards the first astronaut as seen in the image or the image was taken from a steady, tripod-mounted camera using the camera timer before taking the image?
Maybe but then again, if you compare the astronaut in his astronaut’s space suit with the strange figure as seen in the visor reflection then indeed the figure doesn’t really look like an astronaut but more like a person sitting on a square-like box.
Image above: Left - astronaut in space suit, Middle – figure in visor reflection, Right – same figure “sitting on a square-like box” but in negative image.
Here is the original NASA link and decide for yourself whether the figure in the visor reflection is the second astronaut, a member of the film crew on earth or something else.
Eyewitness Illustrations of UFOs From Declassified Drawings
Eyewitness Illustrations of UFOs From Declassified Drawings
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the British Government had a UFO desk and telephone hotline that collected around 11,000 cryptic sightings between 1962 and 2009 from across the UK. The formerly classified files have been made accessible to the public. Among reports on UFOs and mysterious lights are drawings that attempt to describe the sightings.
Book author David Clarke said that sketches of UFOs might appear naïve or worthless if viewed from a purely aesthetic viewpoint. However, they are uniquely valuable historical documents in their own right and give light on how popular culture of the age and events imprinted on the imaginations of the people.
Among the most exciting drawings on declassified witness reports are the elementary school children’s crude crayon on construction paper drawings. The children claimed to have witnessed a flying saucer in 1977 altogether. Another notable illustration is a beautiful painting of bright white object spotted above a roof in Harborne in 1975.
The drawings depict the incredible diversity of movement, colours, and shape of the UFOs, ranging from soaring discs to dark triangular ships, and large hovering eggs. Each sketch and painting is with a personal account.
The MoD desk may be closed for good, but the visual record of these personal experiences will remain the evidence of a widespread, mysterious event.
Police Receives A Lot of Reports On The Strange Fireball From Anxious Germans
Police Receives A Lot of Reports On The Strange Fireball From Anxious Germans
A bizarre fireball in a dramatic appearance was observed speeding through the sky over Germany. Citizens in Italy and Switzerland had also seen the UFO getting brighter and giving out the blue and green light. German police speculated that it was a celestial body.
The UFO sighting video shows the bright aerial thing speeding over the town of Hoeschen, sparking speculations about aliens. It then faded into the distance.
The fireball resulted in the number of calls received by the police. A police spokesman said that they could not tell what the bright light was.
Christian Hoppe, German air traffic control spokesman, said they could not tell anything other than saying that it was not an aircraft.
Anxious witnesses took to Twitter to share their thoughts about what they had observed.
Aliens spacecraft, a meteor, or a crashing Chinese space stations are just among the possibilities being put forward on the social media.
Most witnesses of the UFO came from the German states of Saarland, Baden-Wuerttemberg, as well as the southern part of Hesse. However, the same UFO was also spotted in Switzerland and Italy, particularly on the other side of the Alps at Lake Garda.
Villagers Worry About Mysterious Lights In The Sky Staying In A Formation
Villagers Worry About Mysterious Lights In The Sky Staying In A Formation
Rumours of an alien invasion started to spread after seven lights that stayed in one formation as if linked appeared in the sky above the village of Novogradovka in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. The bizarre sights raised suspicions of UFO invasion or visitation. One social media user went as far as likening the flying shapes to a variation of the Starfleet insignia utilised in the Star Trek television shows and movies.
Ivan Rusev, who posted the footage online, claimed that the objects just appeared suddenly in the sky and remained visible for about 12-15 minutes.
There have been reports that the lights were used as targets for Ukrainian marines for their training, but no details were released, including what they were made of.
Residents were worried about the incident, but an army spokesman came out to assure them that there was no reason for any concern.
However, social media users aired out their views. One user posted that those UFOs came to claim what is theirs while another said that it looks like something is bound to happen.
Another witness added that it appears like massive fireballs making a formation at high altitude and wondered why do those things appear now, what triggers them and why no reports on them before.
EN EXCLUSIVITE pour OVNIS-DIRECT par Philippe SOLAL, Professeur Agrégé de Philosophie
I. Le matérialisme des neurosciences
Le titre de cet article reprend celui d’une conférence Tedx (Whitechapel), donnée le 12 janvier 2013 par l’écrivain britannique Graham Hancock, conférence intitulée « La guerre de la conscience » (« The War on Consciousness »), entendue comme une guerre contre la conscience. Le propos qui y est développé est admirable, il touche du doigt la nouvelle interprétation du phénomène OVNI que je développe avec les auteurs de l’ouvrage Ovnis et Conscience, et comme on pouvait s’y attendre, la vidéo de cette intervention fut ensuite bannie de la chaine des Tedx, car jugée bien trop subversive par rapport à la science officielle matérialiste.
C’est désormais sur le terrain des neurosciences que va se jouer l’avenir de la recherche ufologique et non plus sur celui de la physique. Les physiciens étaient autrefois au premier plan dans le débat permettant de savoir si les évolutions aériennes des OVNIS pouvaient donner lieu à une explication d’ordre physique, et ce débat incluait la cosmologie et la structure globale de l’univers. Les sceptiques ne peuvent plus trop faire confiance à la physique pour défendre leur position depuis que celle-ci a révélé toute l’étrangeté du monde quantique et sa propension à nous faire dangereusement penché du côté de la conscience. Le radeau n’est pas assez solide. Désormais, c’est le terrain des neurosciences et des sciences cognitives que ceux-ci investissent pour contester l’existence même de la conscience et en stigmatiser les errements par le recours à un réductionnisme massif. Cap, toute voile levée, vers le cerveau.
On nous explique désormais que tous les témoignages d’OVNIS reposent sur un mécanisme cérébral qui génère des faux souvenirs dans le présent. Les rencontres rapprochées ? Des hallucinations liées aux paralysies du sommeil, vu que, comme chacun sait, c’est vers 6h du matin que les RR3 se produisent le plus fréquemment et que c’est aussi à cette heure que se produisent en majorité de telles paralysies. Les NDE ? Une molécule dans le cerveau dont l’excitation, selon des conditions spécifiques, produit une vision hallucinatoire, toujours identique, avec tunnel, lumière blanche etc. On pourrait même, parait-il, en provoquer sur commande !
Mais il y a plus : la conscience n’existe pas. Les neurosciences nous disent que tout est cérébral, matériel. Grâce aux IRM et autres moyens technologiques dont la science s’est dotée, on a expliqué ce qu’est la conscience : un « espace de travail global », comme l’écrit Stanislas Dehaene dans son ouvrage très remarqué, Le Code de la conscience. Celui-ci a pu distinguer par résonance magnétique fonctionnelle les territoires du cortex cérébral mobilisés par un traitement conscient et non conscient de l’information. Quand, nous dit-il, le sujet traite un stimulus visuel, un mot, de façon non consciente, seules quelques aires, essentiellement postérieures, « s'allument ». Au contraire, quand il y a accès à l'espace conscient, les territoires corticaux mis en activité sont beaucoup plus vastes et incluent en priorité le cortex frontal.
Les travaux de Stanislas Dahaene sont d’une remarquable précision et il faudrait être sot pour ne pas en saluer la valeur. Ils se situent dans la cadre de l’approche matérialiste de la conscience comme l’ont fait avant lui Jean-Pierre Changeux (L’homme neuronal) ou plus récemment François Anceau (Vers une étude objective de la conscience) et bien d’autres avec eux. Là où se situe la contestation, de nature philosophique, concerne les conclusions auxquelles aboutissent leurs travaux respectifs : le réductionnisme de la conscience à des fonctions cérébrales, c’est-à-dire la naturalisation de la conscience. On confond ici la perception consciente et la conscience, le traitement de l’information par le cerveau (qu’il soit global, séquentiel ou hyper-parallèle) et la saisie conjointe du monde extérieur et de sa propre identité par la conscience. La conscience est une connaissance immédiate irréductible à toute modélisation à partir des concepts issus de l’univers de l’intelligence artificielle, car elle transcende toute description en termes de schéma fonctionnel.
Stanislas Dehaene, dans la vidéo suivante, se réfère de manière très pertinente, à Descartes et à sa théorie des animaux-machines :
Pour Descartes, les animaux n’ont pas de conscience, ce sont des machines, semblables en tous points à des automates, dont les actions et réactions comportementales obéissent à un mécanisme. Mais Descartes rejette ce réductionnisme pour l’homme, qu’il dote d’une conscience non réductible au mécanisme et à la matière. La conscience appartient à une autre « substance » que la matière et qu’il nomme l’âme. Descartes s’appuie sur la « flexibilité » constitutive de la capacité de verbalisation de l’homme, autrement dit sur le langage et la pensée libre qu’il révèle, irréductible au nécessitarisme d’un pur mécanisme. Or Dehaene, ici, nous annonce triomphalement que cette flexibilité dans la verbalisation est enfin « réduite » par les neurosciences, grâce à un repérage précis des mécanismes qui interviennent dans la verbalisation humaine, et aux aires cérébrales sollicitées par elles. Avec un sourire béat, il nous annonce que nous sommes, nous aussi, des animaux-machines, des machines, et qu’enfin le dernier territoire non encore annexé par le matérialisme scientifique, l’est enfin. Quelle victoire !
Nous ne sommes plus seulement des « machines désirantes » (comme l’écrivait Gilles Deleuze) mais aussi désormais des « machines pensantes », des ordinateurs sur pattes mais faits de chair et de sang. Nous sommes désormais « de la viande » comme le dit Graham Hancock dans la vidéo donnée plus haut. Exit la spiritualité, fini le Bouddhisme, terminé la transcendance. Les NDE ? Des Hallucinations. Les expériences shamaniques ? Un dérèglement du cerveau. La vie de l’esprit ? Une computation, etc.
Philippe Guillemant a tout à fait raison d’écrire que cette voie nous conduit tout droit au transhumanisme, forme d’étape ultime de l’asservissement de l’homme par le matérialisme scientifique qui règne en maître et sans partage depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Ce matérialisme est à la Connaissance ce que le matérialisme dialectique fut à l’action et à la politique : un totalitarisme et une source d’oppression. Il a « désenchanté » le monde, en le vidant de toute spiritualité, de tout sens, de toute liberté.
J’ose à peine imaginer la tête d’un Stanislas Dehaene, couvert d’honneurs et de toutes les distinctions officielles qu’on peut imaginer depuis 1999, si on lui signalait que certains essaient de réenchanter le monde à partir de l’étude du phénomène OVNI. Il se gondolerait de rire, avec toute la suffisance qui est celle de la science matérialiste officielle, oublieuse du fait que ses principaux pères fondateurs, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, étaient tous dualistes et donc spiritualistes.
II. Les trois axes
Désormais c’est sur le terrain des neurosciences que la recherche ufologique doit se développer, si tant est qu’il y ait eu jusqu’à présent une recherche ufologique digne de ce nom, je veux dire, une recherche doté d’un cadre théorique cohérent capable de produire des modèles d’explication précis. La physique de l’information et de la conscience n’est qu’une promesse, mais elle pourrait en fournir un, le plus puissant et, à mes yeux, le plus satisfaisant jamais proposé. Si la conscience était « naturalisée » et annexée par le matérialisme scientifique, ce cadre tomberait de lui-même, et le psycho-réductionnisme des sceptiques deviendrait un neuro-réductionnisme. L’enjeu est là, et il nous permet de distinguer désormais trois axes bien différents en ce qui concerne la question des OVNIS :
1. L’axe exobiologique, qui rejette la réalité du phénomène OVNI et se concentre sur la recherche d’exoplanètes habitées et l’écoute de signaux intelligents (programme SETI). Cette recherche subit le fameux « paradoxe » de Fermi (silence radio sur toute la ligne) et, selon moi, ils vont pouvoir attendre longtemps un signal.
2. L’axe « ufologie interplanétaire » (aussi appelée « tôle et boulon ») qui repose sur une méconnaissance de l’étrangeté du phénomène et sur la variété de ses manifestations (polymorphisme). Cette méconnaissance est due au phénomène lui-même qui, comme l’écrivait Carl Jung, entretient un « mythe moderne », celui du vaisseau spatial venant nous visiter d’outre-espace. Cette voie est bouchée car elle tombe « dans le panneau » du simulacre, qui sollicite et flatte notre rêve de conquête spatiale par la technologie.
3. L’axe d’une ufologie spiritualiste, qui est celui que je défends, dans la lignée d’auteurs comme Keel ou Aimé Michel, qui avaient compris, sans être eux-mêmes compris car trop en avance, que le phénomène nous met devant les yeux nos propres fantasmes (monstres, cryptides) et nos propres rêves (merveilleuses soucoupes, êtres angéliques, etc.). Ces auteurs avaient compris que nous poursuivons nos propres chimères mais que derrière ce théâtre d’ombres, se révèle un univers des consciences, une noosphère, l’univers réel, où toute communication et toute matérialisation utilise le canal de la conscience et le jeu sur l’information. On comprend pourquoi il devient dès lors stratégique pour les sceptiques de couper court aux recherches sur la conscience en affirmant que seule la matière existe et que la conscience n’existe pas.
III. Conclusion
Pour terminer je voudrais revenir sur ces deux personnalités : Hancock et Dehaene. L’un parle de notre liberté, l’autre formalise notre asservissement. Le premier est banni des TedX, le second est couvert d’honneurs. La statue de la connaissance humaine, qui a la tête a l’envers, aura décidément bien du mal à être remise à l’endroit. Et pourtant, quand nous serons des milliers, des millions à dire et à penser comme Graham Hancock, dans la vidéo signalée en ce début de cet article, nous commencerons à mettre fin à l'imposture du matérialisme scientifique et un palier de conscience aura été franchi.
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Scientists have just sent out a message an Alien world
Scientists have just sent out a message an Alien world
Scientists have just sent out a message towards two potentially habitable worlds, and experts hope Aliens will reply.
Astronomers have just sent out a message to TWO potentially habitable alien worlds located 12 light years away. If those two planets are home to an alien civilization, the aliens could respond and the answer would arrive back to earth by 2042.
Another effort in contacting aliens has been made by scientists who have just beamed a message to two planets that according to data, may be capable of sustaining life as we know it.
The message was sent out to GJ273, a red dwarf star located around 12 light years from Earth.
Scientists chose GJ273 as it is believed to be home to two potentially habitable worlds, and is located relatively close to Earth.
The message is part of a project called Sónar Calling, led by the Sónar organization, who sought the help of METI International (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and The Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), as reported by IFLScience.
The GJ273 system.
Image Credit: Sonar Calling
In an interview with Space.com, Mr. Douglas Vakoch, president of METI, said:
‘It is a prototype for what I think we would most likely need to do 100 times, or 1,000 times, or 1 million times. To me, the big success of the project will come if, 25 years from now, there’s someone who remembers to look [for a response]. If we could accomplish that, that would be a radical shift of perspective.’
The message to ET carried a scientific and mathematical tutorial, and 33 short musical excerpts created by various artists from the Sonar music festival.
The message was beamed towards the stars in a binary code at two different radio frequencies on October 16, 17 and 18, using the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association radio antenna in Tromsø, Norway.
If aliens actually spot our message identify open, and decide to answer, we could receive it by 2042.
And while this may be a revolutionary era for humans, not everyone agrees this is such a good idea.
Professor Stephen Hawkins has heavily criticized scientists for sending out messages into space, saying that it was too risky as we don’t know whether or not aliens are friendly.
Professor Hawking is worried that if aliens see our message, they would be able to trace it back to Earth and may want to conquer and colonize our planet.
Speaking about the dangers of sending out our location in the universe, Professor Hawking compared the arrival of aliens to Earth to the arrival of Columbus in America:
“If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
But despite these warnings, Mr. Vakoch is convinced that sending a message to the stars, specifically the star GJ273, aka Luyten’s star, isn’t a risk for our civilization.
“It’s really hard to imagine a scenario in which a civilization around Luyten’s star could have the capacity to come to Earth and threaten us, and yet they’re not able to pick up our leakage radiation.”
Scientists are planning on sending out another message to aliens in April 2018, at different radio frequencies.
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Time travel ‘Technically possible’ says expert—but only if you are going back in time
Time travel ‘Technically possible’ says expert—but only if you are going back in time
‘…nothing is forbidding it’ in the laws of theoretical physics.” We would basically need to create a wormhole in such a way that one end of it remained almost entirely motionless, while its other end moves at speed almost equal to the speed of light.
Time travel has only been possible in science fiction books, and conspiracy theories. Both genres are filled with stories and theories on how to travel in time.
And despite the fact that time travel is a concept familiar to modern society, the truth is that tales of time travel can be traced back thousands of years back to ancient civilizations from Asia, to the Americas.
Despite the fact that we have made an incredible technological advancement in the last couple of decades, we have still been unable to explain and demonstrate how time travel would be possible.
Some scientists have argued it’s not.
However, we might be able to travel in time after all, according to an astrophysicist who says its theoretically possible, and there are no limitations.
The rules of theoretical physics have certain conditions that would allow for the creation of ‘wormholes’ which would eventually allow ‘humans’ to travel back to different areas.
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel of Lewis & Clark College wrote the Forbes blog Starts With A Bang:
“While we still haven’t discovered the conditions we need to travel back in time and find the necessary means by which we can create a large enough system for humans to do so, ‘nothing is forbidding it’ in the laws of theoretical physics.”
Is time travel possible?
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
As explained by the expert, traveling backward in time would rely on the baffling equivalent to positive energy / positive or zero mass particles found across the cosmos, the negative mass/energy particles, which have long been theorized by experts but never yet identified.
“If this negative mass/energy matter is real, then building both a supermassive black hole and the negative mass/energy equivalent to it, while then connecting them, should make it possible for a traversable wormhole to become reality,” Siegel explains.
“No matter how far apart you took these to connected objects from one another, if they had enough mass/energy – of both the positive and the negative kind – this instantaneous connection would remain.”
The theory sounds just like science fiction.
We would need to build a wormhole in such a way that one end of it remained almost entirely motionless, while its other end moves at speed almost equal to the speed of light.
We would need to create an elaborate system of wormholes in order to travel back in time.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
A piece of cake, right?
If we were to create such a system, theoretically a person may be able to travel backward in time.
So how would we travel back in time, if we were to build such a complex system?
Dr. Siegel explains it in a scenario with a destination located 40 light years away.
After one year has passed, the fast-moving end of the wormhole would have gone through 40 years, while the other end would have only experienced a year go by.
“If 40 years ago, someone had created such a pair of entangled wormholes and sent them off on this journey, it would be possible to step into one of them today, in 2017, and wind up back in time at the mouth of the other one… back in 1978,” Siegel writes.
“The only issue is that you yourself couldn’t also have been at that location back in 1978; you needed to be with the other end of the wormhole, or traveling through space to try and catch up with it.”
Astronomers find the Milky Way has a ‘Twin’ Galaxy that looks just like our own
Astronomers find the Milky Way has a ‘Twin’ Galaxy that looks just like our own
Located 180 light years away, astronomers have spotted a supermassive spiral galaxy that seems to be the Milky Way galaxy’s twin. But, not only does this galaxy look like our own, it also has two satellite galaxies, just like the Milky Way. The discovery caught experts by surprise. They say such an arrangement is extremely rare.
Dubbed NCG 2718, the mystery galaxy not only looks like our galaxy, but it also contains a pair of orbiting galaxies that look just like the two satellite galaxies interacting with the Milky Way.
An extremely rare discovery
To understand more about the Milky Way’s twin galaxy, researchers will further study it hoping to learn more about it.
But as experts note, it’s an extremely rare discovery.
If we take a look at the Milky Way Galaxy and the two orbiting galaxies—the large and small Magellanic Clouds—we will notice how these two still have enough gas to spawn NEW stars, unlike many other galaxies which have run out of material.
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are located 160,00 and 200,000 light years away from Earth.
And this is precisely what caught experts by surprise. The arrangement of a giant spiral galaxy like the Milky Way and two orbiting satellite galaxies like the Large and Small Magellanic cloud is extremely rare.
This is why researchers from the Yonsei University wanted to see if they could spot the pattern anywhere else in the universe.
To their surprise, they did after going through images of around 20,000 smaller galaxies in hopes of spotting a similar cosmic layout.
Their search revealed that the massive spiral galaxy referred to as NGC 2718, located in the constellation Hydra eerily resembles the Milky Way Galaxy, and just as our galaxy, has two orbiting galaxies called UGC 4703 and UGC 4703B.
We show the SDSS r−band image of an area around NGC 2718 and its satellites with a field of view of Rain 90×50.
Experts wrote in their study: ‘Based on the comparison of physical and morphological properties with that of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC), we report that the UGC 4703 pair-NGC 2718 system is probably an LMC-SMC-MW analogue.’
This discovery follows a study from 2011 which found that galaxies with the layout resembling our own are extremely rare in the universe.
Speaking about the study in 2011, Dr. Philip James, a physicist at Liverpool John Moores University who led the study told New Scientist: ‘They have definitely found a better analogue than any of the cases we presented.’
A torus of plasma, viewed from above. The ring is created by a jet of water striking a crystal plate.
Credit: Mory Gharib/CaltechLike Magic, Only Better
Like Magic, Only Better
When it was first described in the 1920s by physicist Irvin Langmuir, plasma was said to be one of the fundamental states of matter, though not one that exists freely on Earth under normal circumstances. Plasma is made up of charged particles, ions and electrons, and does occur naturally as lightning; an occurrence that can be contained in man-made objects like florescent light bulbs and plasma-cutting torches.
Now, for the first time, engineers from the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) have been able to create a stable plasma ring without a container According to the Caltech press release, it’s “essentially capturing lightning in a bottle, but without the bottle.”
This remarkable feat was achieved using only a stream of water and a crystal plate, made from either quartz and lithium niobate. The union of these tools induced a type of contact electrification known as the triboelectric effect.
The researchers blasted the crystal plate with an 85-micron-diameter jet of water (narrower than a human hair) from a specially designed nozzle. The water hit the crystal plate with a pressure of 632.7 kilograms of force per centimeter (9,000 pounds per square inch), generating an impact velocity of around 305 meters per second (1,000 feet per second) — as fast as a bullet from a handgun.
Plasma was formed as a result of the creation of an electric charge when the water hit the crystal surface. The flow of electrons from the point of contact ionizes the molecules and atoms in the gas area surrounding the water’s surface, forming a donut-shaped glowing plasma that’s dozens of microns in diameter.
Energy Storage Potential
The researchers were able to sustain the ring-shaped plasma as long as the water stream kept firing at the crystal. They also realized that the smoother the surface was, the clearer the plasma ring would be.
“We were told by some colleagues this wasn’t even possible. But we can create a stable ring and maintain it for as long as we want, no vacuum or magnetic field or anything,” Francisco Pereira, a Caltech visiting fellow originally from the Marine Technology Research Institute in Italy, said in the press release. Pereira is a co-author of the study published in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, together with Caltech’s Morteza Gharib.
The illustration depicts how the ring is created, in profile. At the shear region, the flow of water induces the triboelectric effect in the crystal, building an electrical charge that flows through the water to its surface.
Credit: Mory Gharib/Caltech
Gharib’s team also noticed another peculiar phenomenon: the plasma ring emitted distinct radio frequencies, as evidenced by the high levels of static the engineers’ mobile phones picked up during the experiment. “That’s never been seen before. We think it’s because of the piezo properties of the materials that we used in our experiments,” Pereira explained.
As remarkable as the achievement is, the team’s plasma ring doesn’t yet have any immediate commercial application — though Gharib did suggest one possibility: energy storage.
He explained that generating plasma without the help of any powerful electromagnetic fields or vacuum hints that it may be possible to use plasma structures to store energy. If that proves to be the case, it would an exciting discovery for those hard at work developing alternative energy methods. It would be yet another option for experts who have been devoting their time and resources to finding (or developing) a better battery for the energy storage needs of today — and the future.
In 2008, physicists found that the number of high-energy positrons — the antiparticle or the antimatter counterpart of the electron — hitting Earth was three times greater than the Standard Model predicted. Some scientists have suggested that nearby pulsars, which expel copious amounts of positrons as they spin erratically, could account for the extra positions. One new study, however, proposes that this antimatter may be the result of decaying particles of dark matter.
Stranger than fiction
Dark matter is an elusive and hypothetical substance that is supposed to comprise roughly 5/6 of all matter in the universe. Scientists have never been able to directly observe dark matter, which seems to be invisible to current means of observation, but they do have good reasons to believe dark matter exists judging from the gravitational effects it exerts on ordinary matter.
Though not as weird as dark matter, antimatter is also another exotic physical quirk. You’ve likely heard a lot about antimatter in the science fiction universe. Star Trek’s starship Enterprise uses matter-antimatter annihilation propulsion for faster-than-light travel and in the famous book Angels and Demons, (spoiler alert) Professor Langdon tries to save Vatican City from an antimatter bomb. Unlike dark matter, though, we know for sure that antimatter is real.
Every particle of ordinary matter has an antimatter counterpart which is equal in mass but opposite in charge. When the two kinds of particles meet, they annihilate each other while releasing energetic photons called gamma rays.
There are many unsolved riddles surrounding antimatter. For instance, antimatter should have annihilated all ordinary matter during the Big Bang. Scientists think the reason why galaxies, stars, and eventually we exist in the first place is that there was one extra matter particle for every billion matter-antimatter pairs.
Antimatter is closer to us than most people think. Small amounts of antimatter — at a rate ranging from less than one per square meter to more than 100 per square meter — constantly rain down on the Earth in the form of cosmic rays, energetic particles from space. Antimatter can be found closer yet. The average banana (rich in potassium) produces a positron roughly once every 75 minutes. That’s because potassium-40 will occasionally split out a positron in the process of radioactive decay.
When researchers working with the space-based instrument PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) detected an overabundance of positrons hitting Earth’s atmosphere, things got weird. For a long time, scientists have thought that all of this extra positrons are sourced from pulsars.
A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star which emits electromagnetic signals. These objects are also very dense, concentrating the mass of the sun in a diameter comparable to that of a large city. Pulsars radiate two steady, narrow beams of light in opposite directions from their poles. Although the light from the beam is steady, pulsars appear to flicker because they also spin really fast, and so constantly spin these polar rays around. For this reason, pulsars have earned the nickname of ‘cosmic lighthouses’.
But now, writing in a recently published paper in the journal Science, a team of researchers claims these candidates — a pair of pulsars less than a thousand light-years away — aren’t the likely culprit.
“When I started this work, I really believed it was pulsars,” lead author Rubén López Coto of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics told National Geographic. “But these two pulsars actually cannot provide enough positrons in order to account for this positron excess.”
A new suspect: dark matter
HAWC detector consisting of 300 large water tanks, each with four photodetectors.
Credit: Jordan A. Goodman
Coto and colleagues refer to observations made at the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC), a science laboratory nestled at the base of a volcano four hours away from Mexico City. When gamma rays from annihilated positrons interact with the atmosphere, they generate showers of particles that hit the planet’s surface. Inside HAWC, scientists have placed 300 corrugated steel tanks filled with water. When the extremely high-energetic particles strike the tanks, they generate flashes of light which can be used to distinguish the signature and origin of the gamma rays that triggered the particle cascade.
By back-tracking from the gamma-ray observations, the HAWC team found that the pulsars’ positrons were not moving fast enough to arrive on Earth. This implies that the interstellar medium between the two pulsars and Earth is likely murky, preventing the positrons from reaching Earth.
“HAWC scans about one third of the sky overhead, giving us the first wide-angle view of high-energy light from the sky,” says study co-author Jordan Goodman, a particle astrophysicist at the University of Maryland, College Park. “Before HAWC there were observatories that were highly sensitive to high-energy gamma rays, but they had relatively limited fields of view. With HAWC, we can see how gamma rays are diffusing from these pulsars across wide regions of sky.”
If the two pulsars, called Geminga and Monogem, aren’t the source of positron overabundance in Earth’s atmosphere, then “other pulsars, other types of cosmic accelerators such as microquasars and supernova remnants, or the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles” must be considered.
Not everyone is convinced that dark matter could be the source, though. Since dark matter is literally everywhere, it follows that the signature generated by dark matter particles annihilating one another should be ubiquitous — but they’re not. It could be that the positrons are sourced from even more unconventional sources such as high-energy particles produced by black holes.
L’armée de l’air américaine tente d’intercepter un ovni
L’armée de l’air américaine tente d’intercepter un ovni
Un avion non identifié a été vu en train de voler parmi d’autres avions de ligne dans le ciel de l’Oregon, aux États-Unis. Inquiète, l’armée de l’air a même envoyé des avions de chasse à sa recherche, en vain.
L’État de l’Oregon, aux États-Unis. (Infographie Ouest France)
Le 25 octobre dernier, un mystérieux ovni a semé la panique dans le ciel de l’Oregon. Un avion sans aucun plan de vol, ni transpondeur d’identification, bref, sans aucun appareil permettant de l’identifier et de reconnaître sa trajectoire. Les stations de contrôle aérien ont déclenché l’alarme après l’échec des tentatives de communication avec l’appareil.
Tout de suite après, l’Agence fédérale de l’aviation des États-Unis (FAA) a demandé l’aide du Commandement aérospatial de l’Amérique du Nord (NORAD) pour traquer l’ovni. Entre 10 000 et 12 000 mètres, là où volent habituellement les vols commerciaux, aucune trace de l’appareil. L’US Air Force (l’armée de l’air américaine) a même envoyé plusieurs chasseurs intercepteurs F-15C pour tenter de repérer le mystérieux avion, décrit simplement comme un « objet volant de couleur blanche ». Mais toujours rien.
Soucoupe volante, avion déclassifié du gouvernement… Quel était donc cet objet ? (Photo d’illustration : Wikimédia)
Quelques témoins et beaucoup de rumeurs
Les rumeurs ont rapidement fusé sur internet. Certaines évoquent même un possible trafic de drogue. Les rares informations collectées sur cet appareil non identifié concernent sa vitesse : celle d’un avion de ligne classique. « Quelques équipages ont pu le suivre visuellement. Mais personne n’a pu le voir d’assez prêt pour reconnaître de quel type » d’avion il s’agissait, selon un des pilotes.
Quelques pilotes ont pu le repérer brièvement sur leur radar, mais impossible de le suivre pour autant. « Le dernier avion à le voir devait descendre à l’aéroport de Portland et l’a perdu de vue. » C’était au-dessus de la vallée de Willamette, direction nord.
« Les chasseurs ont volé un certain temps, mais ne l’ont pas trouvé. Et c’est tout. » Pourtant, ce vol pourrait constituer une violation de l’espace aérien, et constituer une menace pour la sécurité des États-Unis.
The controversial Italian doctor Sergio Canavero claims he’s successfully performed a human head transplant, demonstrating that the technique is ready for prime time. At a press conference on Friday morning, the Italian neurosurgeon reported that, in an 18-hour surgery, he transplanted a head onto a corpse in China, proving that it’s possible to connect blood vessels, nerves, and the spine. Canavero, the director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, has talked a big game for years about his plans to transplant human heads, and he says this latest achievement proves it can be done.
In the Telegraph on Friday, Canavero said that an operation on a living human will happen very soon.
“The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage,” he said. “And that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition which is imminent.”
Sergio Canavero likes to think he's on the margins of the scientific community because he's ahead of his time, like Copernicus, but it's more likely that he is not taken seriously because he's a snake oil salesman.
There’s plenty of reason not to believe Canavero, who has been making these outrageous claims for years, much to the chagrin of the global medical and scientific community. This latest announcement builds on his previous claim, in January 2016, that he’d transplanted a monkey head. Then as now, however, he never provided enough proof to convince the scientific community. When Inversepreviously reported on Canavero, reporter Ben Guarino called his goal of transplanting a living human head onto the body of a brain-dead person “not fucking likely,” and this latest announcement does little to adjust our assessment.
The 18-hour surgery took half as long as Canavero previously estimated, which he attributes to time-saving techniques from his team of Chinese colleagues, led by Dr. Xiaoping Ren. Once again, Canavero did not provide evidence of the successful operation, though he did say a paper would be made public in the next few days.
So far, the papers linked to his research that he has managed to publish in peer-reviewed journals include only a handful in Surgery, which were carefully editedto focus specifically on Canavero’s treatments for traumatic spinal cord injury, and a series published in the controversial journal Surgical Neurology International, in which he lays out his idea of “head anastomosis venture” — or HEAVEN, for short.
Subsequent procedures will be performed in China, said Canavero, since the “Americans did not understand.” Canavero, whose work continually pushes the boundaries of medical ethics, seems to envision himself as a modern version of Copernicus or Galileo, someone who is so far ahead of his time that he appears heretical. But it’s more likely that he’s simply selling snake oil.
In 2015, when Canavero first came on the scene, outspoken medical ethicist Arthur Caplan told Forbes that the doctor is out of his mind, and that his goal was unattainable and irresponsible. “It is both rotten scientifically and lousy ethically,” wrote Caplan.
Inverse reported earlier this year that Canavero said he’d be able to thaw cryonically preserved brains in 2018. Now, just as then, Canavero has done nothing to inspire any confidence in his claims.
Nonetheless, he’s found a willing subject in a Russian computer scientist named Valery Spiridonov, who suffers from Werdnig-Hoffman disease, a muscle condition that leaves him wheelchair-bound. Spiridonov’s condition is debilitating, and he deserves a chance at life if he can get one, but this procedure is not likely to give him more than an accelerated and gruesome death.
If Canavero wants to prove himself to the medical community, he should make incremental advances, like connecting nerves in people with severed spinal cords. But instead, he’s setting his goal at the very peak of what could be achievable, and as such, he’s likely to fall flat.
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The following report – titled “Research Findings on the Chihuahua Disk Crash, originally from ‘JS’ to ‘Deneb Team Members'” and dated March 23, 1992 – was mailed anonymously to the late UFO researcher Elaine Douglass in July 1993. She forwarded the report to crashed UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield, who later published it. It tells a fascinating story of a crashed UFO, mysterious deaths, a huge conspiracy, and much more. But, is the story true? As we try and find the answer, let’s begin with the report itself, which I have presented, below, without interruption:
“On 25 Aug. 74, at 2207 hrs., U.S. Air Defense radar detected an unknown approaching U.S. airspace from the Gulf of Mexico. Originally the object was tracked at 2,200 knots (2530 mph) on a bearing of 325 degrees and at an altitude of 75,000 feet, a course that would intercept U.S. territory about forty miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Texas. After approximately sixty seconds of observation, at a position 155 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, the object simultaneously decelerated to approximately 1700 knots (1955 mph), turned to a heading of 290 degrees, and began a slow descent. It entered Mexican airspace approximately forty miles south of Brownsville, Texas. Radar tracked it approximately 500 miles to a point near the town of Coyame, in the state of Chihuahua, not far from the U.S. border. There the object suddenly disappeared from the radar screens.
“During the flight over Mexican airspace, the object leveled off at 45,000 feet, then descended to 20,000 feet. The descent was in level steps, not a smooth curve or straight line, and each level was maintained for approximately five minutes. The object was tracked by two different military radar installations. It would have been within range of Brownsville civilian radar, but it is assumed that no civilian radar detected the object due to a lack of any such reports. The point of disappearance from the radar screens was over a barren and sparsely populated area of Northern Mexico. At first it was assumed that the object had descended below the radar’s horizon and a watch was kept for any re-emergence of the object. None occurred.
“At first it was assumed that the object might be a meteor because of the high speed and descending flight path. But meteors normally travel at higher speeds, and descend in a smooth arc, not in ‘steps.’ And meteors do not normally make a thirty-five degree change in course. Shortly after detection, an air defense alert was called. However, before any form of interception could be scrambled, the object turned to a course that would not immediately take it over U.S. territory. The alert was called off within twenty minutes after the object’s disappearance from the radar screen. Fifty-two minutes after the disappearance, civilian radio traffic indicated that a civilian aircraft had gone down in that area. But it was clear that the missing aircraft had departed El Paso International with a destination of Mexico City, and could not, therefore, have been the object tracked over the Gulf of Mexico. It was noted, however, that they both disappeared in the same area and at the same time.
“With daylight the next day, Mexican authorities began a search for the missing plane. Approximately 1035 hrs there came a radio report that wreckage from the missing plane had been spotted from the air. Almost immediately came a report of a second plane on the ground a few miles from the first. A few minutes later an additional report stated that the second “plane” was circular shaped and apparently in one piece although damaged. A few minutes after that the Mexican military clamped a radio silence on all search efforts.
“The radio interceptions were reported through channels to the CIA. Possibly as many as two additional government agencies also received reports, but such has not been confirmed as of this date. The CIA immediately began forming a recovery team. The speed with which this team and its equipment was assembled suggests that this was either a well-rehearsed exercise or one that had been performed prior to the event. In the meantime requests were initiated at the highest levels between the United States and Mexican governments that the U.S. recovery team be allowed onto Mexican territory to “assist.” These requests were met with professed ignorance and a flat refusal of any cooperation. By 2100 hrs, 26 Aug. 74, the recovery team had assembled and been staged at Fort Bliss. Several helicopters were flown in from some unknown source and assembled in a secured area.
UH1 Huey
“These helicopters were painted a neutral sand color and bore no markings. Eyewitness indicates that there were three smaller craft, very possibly UH1 Hueys from the description. There was also a larger helicopter, possibly a Sea Stallion. Personnel from this team remained with their craft and had no contact with other Fort Bliss personnel.
“Satellite and reconnaissance aircraft overflight that day indicated that both the crashed disk and the civilian aircraft had been removed from the crash sites and loaded on flat-bed trucks. Later flights confirmed that the convoy had departed the area heading south. At that point the CIA had to make a choice, either to allow this unknown aircraft to stay in the hands of the Mexican government, or to launch the recovery team, supplemented by any required military support, to take the craft. There occurred, however, an event that took the choice out of their hands. High altitude overflights indicated that the convoy had stopped before reaching any inhabited areas or major roads. Recon showed no activity, and radio contact between the Mexican recovery team and its headquarters ceased. A low altitude, high speed overflight was ordered.
“The photos returned by that aircraft showed all trucks and jeeps stopped, some with open doors, and two human bodies lying on the ground beside two vehicles. The decision was immediately made to launch the recovery team but the actual launching was held up for the arrival of additional equipment and two additional personnel. It was not until 1438 hrs. that the helicopters departed Fort Bliss. The four helicopters followed the border down towards Presidio then turned and entered Mexican airspace north of Candelaria. They were over the convoy site at 1653 hrs. All convoy personnel were dead, most within the trucks. Some recovery team members, dressed in bio-protection suits, reconfigured the straps holding the object on the flatbed truck, then attached them to a cargo cable from the Sea Stallion. By 1714 hrs the recovered object was on its way to U.S. territory. Before leaving the convoy site, members of the recovery team gathered together the Mexican vehicles and bodies, then destroyed all with high explosives. This included the pieces of the civilian light plane which had been involved in the mid-air collision. At 1746 hrs the Huey’s departed.
“The Hueys caught up with the Sea Stallion as it re-entered U.S. airspace. The recovery team then proceeded to a point in the Davis Mountains, approximately twenty-five miles north east of Valentine. There they landed and waited until 0225 hrs. the next morning. At that time they resumed the flight and rendezvoused with a small convoy on a road between Van Horn and Kent. The recovered disk was transferred to a truck large enough to handle it and capable of being sealed totally. Some of the personnel from the Hueys transferred to the convoy.
All helicopters then returned to their original bases for decontamination procedures. The convoy continued non-stop, using back roads and smaller highways, and staying away from cities. The destination of the convoy reportedly was Atlanta, Georgia. Here the hard evidence thins out. One unconfirmed report says the disk was eventually transferred to Wright-Patterson A.F. Base. Another says that the disk was either transferred after that to another unnamed base, or was taken directly to this unknown base directly from Atlanta. The best description of the disk was that it was sixteen feet, five inches in diameter, convex on both upper and lower surfaces to the same degree, possessing no visible doors or windows. The thickness was slightly less than five feet. The color was silver, much like polished steel. There was no visible lights nor any propulsion means. There were no markings.
“There were two areas of the rim that showed damage, one showing an irregular hole approximately twelve inches in diameter with indented material around it. The other damage was described as a ‘dent’ about two feet wide. The weight of the object was estimated as approximately one thousand five hundred pounds, based on the effect of the weight on the carrying helicopter and those who transferred it to the truck. There was no indication in the documentation available as to whether anything was visible in the ‘hole.’
“It seems likely that the damage with the hole was caused by the collision with the civilian aircraft. That collision occurred while the object was traveling approximately 1700 knots (1955 mph). Even ignoring the speed of the civilian aircraft, the impact would have been considerable at that speed. This is in agreement with the description of the civilian aircraft as being “almost totally destroyed.” What was being taken from the crash site were pieces of the civilian aircraft. The second damage may have resulted when the object impacted with the ground. The speed in that case should have been considerably less than that of the first impact.
“No mention is made of the occupants of the civilian aircraft. It is not known if anybody or bodies were recovered. Considering the destruction of the civilian light aircraft in mid-air, bodies may well not have come down near the larger pieces.
“Unfortunately, what caused the deaths of the Mexican recovery team is not known. Speculation ranges from a chemical released from the disk as a result of the damage, to a microbiological agent. There are no indications of death or illness by any of the [U.S.] recovery team. It would not have been illogical for the recovery team to have taken one of the bodies back with them for analysis. But there is no indication of that having happened. Perhaps they did not have adequate means of transporting what might have been a biologically contaminated body. Inquiries to the FAA reveal no documents concerning the civilian aircraft crash, probably because it did not involve a U.S. aircraft nor did it occur over U.S. airspace. It should be noted that the above facts do not tell the complete story. Nothing is known of the analysis of the craft or its contents. Nothing is known about the deaths associated with the foreign recovery team. Nor is it known if this craft was manned or not.
“Other questions also remain, such as why would a recovered disk be taken to Atlanta? And where did the disk come from? It was first detected approximately 200 miles from U.S territory, yet U.S. air defenses extend to a much greater distance than that. If the object descended into the atmosphere, perhaps NORAD space tracking has some record of the object. Alternate possibility is that it entered the Gulf of Mexico under radar limits then “jumped” up to 75,000 feet. Considering prior behavior exhibited by disks of this size, it is probable that the entry was from orbital altitude. The facts that are known have been gathered from two eye witness accounts, documentation illegally copied, and a partially destroyed document. This was done in 1978 by a person who is now dead. Only in February of this year did the notes and documents come into the hands of our group.”
Well, that’s quite a story. It’s also quite familiar. In the world of fiction, a very similar scenario was played out in Michael Crichton’s novel and movie, The Andromeda Strain.
The book was published in 1969 and the movie was released in 1971. A TV mini-series followed in 2008. In the story a satellite of the U.S. military crashes to Earth in a small, isolated town in Arizona. Unknown to anyone, the satellite has brought back on its shell a deadly virus of unearthly origins. That only becomes clear when people start to die, their blood turned to powder. Suddenly, the race is on to find a cure to prevent the virus from wiping out not just the people of the little town, or even of just Arizona – but the entire world. Crichton’s story is indeed a cautionary one and which shows just how quickly the human race might come to a crashing end when faced with something so unpredictable and poorly understood as an alien virus.
Read the novel, or watch the movie, and you’ll see undeniable parallels between both of them and the alleged 1974 events described above. In their 2007 book, Mexico’s Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash</em>, authors Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte suggest across approximately 200-pages that the event was real. Maybe it was. But, consider this: the alleged UFO is said to have vanished off the radar screens near the Mexican village of Coyame. The village just happens to be less than a 2-hour drive from the Texas town of Shafter, where portions of The Andromeda Strain were filmed…
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETHet regent weer complottheorieën nadat de hemel boven de Amerikaanse stad Phoenix gisteravond werd verlicht door een felle lichtflits. “Een ufo!” klonk het bij veel believers, maar wellicht gaat het gewoon om een stuk ruimtepuin dat opbrandde in de dampkring.
Something BRILLIANT just flew across the Phoenix sky around 8:30 this evening! Check out what our Phoenix City Cam captured! Look to the right of this screen......#Meteor#Citycam#PHX
“Er vloog net een heel helder iets door de lucht boven Phoenix om 8.30 uur deze avond”, postte het officiële Twitter-account van de stad Phoenix gisteravond. “Kijk naar wat ons Phoenix City Cam gefilmd heeft! Kijk naar de rechterkant van het scherm.” Op de beelden is te zien hoe een lichtbol aan het firmament plots een felle lichtflits veroorzaakt en vervolgens uitdooft.
Getuigen dachten eerst dat het om vuurwerk ging. “Maar het licht was te helder en het ontplofte niet”, zo vertel een ooggetuige.
“Dat is een ufo!”
Waar een mysterieus verschijnsel is, zijn ufotheorieën nooit veraf. Op Twitter lieten believers dan ook snel van zich horen: “Dat is een ufo! Arizona staat bekend om buitenaardse activiteiten”, klonk het. Ook rockster en ex-frontman van Oasis Liam Gallagher mengde zich in de debatten: “Ik kijk ernaar uit om me in de verwarring te begeven”, tweette hij.
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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
What can the Dali skull tell us?Sheela Athreya
By Colin Barras
The origins of our species might need a rethink. An analysis of an ancient skull from China suggests it is eerily similar to the earliest known fossils of our species –found in Morocco, some 10,000 kilometres to the west. The skull hints that modern humans aren’t solely descended from African ancestors, as is generally thought.
Most anthropologists believe, based on fossil evidence, that our species arose in Africa around 200,000 years ago. What’s more, genetic studies of modern humans indicate that we are all descended from a single population that left Africa within the last 120,000 years and spread around the world. This African group is the source of all modern human genes, barring a few gained by interbreeding with other species like Neanderthals.
However, the Dali skull may not fit this story. Discovered in China’s Shaanxi
Oude schedel uit China haalt huidige theorieën over evolutie onderuit. Liggen onze wortels in Azië? in Archeologie 17 november 2017 15:00 1 Reactie 474 Bekeken
Oude schedel uit China haalt huidige theorieën over evolutie onderuit. Liggen onze wortels in Azië?
Een 260.000 jaar oude schedel uit China kan zomaar eens de menselijke geschiedenis herschrijven. Uit een nieuwe analyse blijkt dat de schedel opvallend veel gelijkenissen vertoont met fossielen die in Marokko zijn ontdekt.
Dit suggereert dat moderne mensen niet enkel en alleen afstammen van Afrikanen, zoals wetenschappers voorheen altijd dachten.
De meeste experts geloven dat onze soort zo’n 200.000 jaar geleden is ontstaan in Afrika, maar de 260.000 jaar oude schedel die in Dali in de provincie Shaanxi is gevonden kan ervoor zorgen dat ze deze theorie moeten herzien.
Nieuwe analyse
De Dali-schedel, die in 1978 is ontdekt, is opvallend intact. Onderzoekers dachten in eerste instantie dat de schedel toebehoorde aan de Homo erectus.
Maar in 1981 merkte Xinzhi Wu van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen al op dat de Dali-schedel erg leek op die van onze soort.
Uit een nieuwe analyse van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen en de Texas A&M University blijkt nu dat de schedel zeer veel overeenkomsten heeft met de schedel van de moderne mens.
Verrassing
“Dit kwam als een verrassing omdat we verwachtten dat Dali alleen gelijkenissen vertoonde met andere Chinese soorten,” zei professor Sheela Athreya.
“Maar de schedel leek vooral op fossielen uit Noord-Afrika en de Levant. “Bij de evolutie van onze soort is een groot deel van Eurazië betrokken geweest,” zei Athreya.
Left: A symbol carved on a column at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey, by a mysterious ancient culture. Right: An Australian Aboriginal medicine man, with the same symbol on his chest.
(Courtesy of Bruce Fenton)
Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is a 12,000-year-old megalithic monument complex, the origins of which have stumped archaeologists since its discovery about 20 years ago. It has caused archaeologists to rethink their understanding of “primitive” society at that time.
Part of the excavation site of Göbekli Tepe. (Rolfcosar/CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
The sophistication of a society that could build such monuments—containing pillars weighing 45 to 65 tons and carved with intricate symbols and figures—far surpasses what most archaeologists thought possible for that period.
It may have been created by a society that was wiped out by a cataclysmic event.
Carvings at the site may depict a comet that caused massive global climate shifts, a cataclysmic event that wiped out the civilization responsible for Göbekli Tepe. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh published a paper to this effect last year in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry.
From about 14,500 to 11,500 years ago, a period known as the Younger Dryas, the world experienced dramatic climate shifts. The shift at the end of the Younger Dryas was particularly abrupt, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Archaeologists have agreed that Göbekli Tepe is at least 12,000 years old, placing it within this period.
The site was rapidly buried about 1,000 years after its creation. Whether this was done intentionally by people or by nature is a matter of debate. Some have theorized that the society wanted to protect the monuments from the cataclysm.
Researcher and author Bruce Fenton now presents a theory that Göbekli Tepe was built by Australian Aborigines.
An Australian Aboriginal medicine man with a symbol on his chest that was also found at Göbekli Tepe. (Wellcome Images/CC BY 4.0)
Fenton focused his cross-cultural analysis on Göbekli Tepe and the Arnhem Land area in northern Australia. He found many shared symbols and motifs.
For example, the lead photo of this article shows a symbol on a pillar at Göbekli Tepe, and the same symbol painted on an Australian Aboriginal elder’s chest. This symbol is held by the Aborigines to depict two people sitting to share knowledge.
Fenton has found what he says are clearly Aboriginal churinga stones, sacred objects, at Göbekli Tepe.
On another pillar, Fenton has identified a symbol usually reserved for the most sacred artifacts of the Australian Aboriginal culture, churinga stones. He has also found what he believes are churinga stones at other 12,000-year-old sites in Turkeythought to be connected to the Göbekli Tepe culture. They display the concentric circles characteristically used by Aboriginals to depict watering holes, and the zig-zag lines used to depict water ways.
Left: An Australian churinga stone. Right: A closeup of the central pillar in Göbekli Tepe’s Enclosure D with a similar symbol. The pillar depicts a deity, showing this symbol is similarly sacred in the cultures that created both objects. (Courtesy of Bruce Fenton)An artifact found at another site, Kortik Tepe, in Turkey and thought to be connected to the Göbekli Tepe civilization. Bruce Fenton has noted the similarities to Australian churinga stones.A “churinga stone” found at Hasankeyf, another 12,000-year-old site in Turkey left by the same vanished people. (Courtesy of Bruce Fenton)Another “churinga stone” found at Hasankeyf. The carving resembles a double helix. (Courtesy of Bruce Fenton)
“Many of the animal symbols on the stones relate to Aboriginal clan totems,” Fenton said via email. He has also noticed similarities between the only female figure depicted at Göbekli Tepe and the Aboriginal depictions of Yingarna, the creator.
An ancient culture used Aboriginal shamanism to try and hold back the cataclysm at Göbekli Tepe, says Fenton.
Göbekli Tepe (Teomancimit/CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
Fenton hypothesizes that the Göbekli Tepe carvings display a characteristically Aboriginal shamanistic attempt to stop the coming cataclysm. He said, “The purpose of the complex was to reverse the flooding underway during the Younger Dryas, by placating the Rainbow Serpent (they assumed this water deity was responsible).”
In a paper on his theory, published in New Dawn magazine, Fenton wrote: “The images at Göbekli Tepe are mostly animals; it is tempting to think that this represented a significant effort by the shamans to call forth the spirits of the animals, many of which had become extinct.”
A pillar at Göbekli Tepe. (Teomancimit/CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)A totem from Göbekli Tepe. (Cobija/CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)A pillar at Göbekli Tepe. (Public domain)
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Is Göbekli Tepe in Turkije gebouwd door de Aboriginals? Deze vondst kan de geschiedenis op zijn kop zetten
Is Göbekli Tepe in Turkije gebouwd door de Aboriginals? Deze vondst kan de geschiedenis op zijn kop zetten
In Turkije staat Göbekli Tepe, een 12.000 jaar oud megalithisch monument dat pas enkele tientallen jaren geleden is ontdekt.
Inscripties op een stenen pilaar in het tempelcomplex gaan mogelijk over de inslag van een komeet die heeft geleid tot een catastrofale gebeurtenis in het Jonge Dryas.
De komeet zou volgens wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Edinburgh onder meer verantwoordelijk zijn geweest voor het uitsterven van de mammoet en het ontstaan van de eerste menselijke beschavingen.
Aboriginals
De Schotse onderzoekers zeggen dat de inscripties nog duizenden jaren belangrijk bleven voor de mensen van Göbekli Tepe, wat kan wijzen op de enorme impact die de inslag had.
“Volgens ons was Göbekli Tepe onder meer een sterrenwacht van waaruit de nachtelijke hemel in de gaten werd gehouden,” zei coauteur Martin Sweatman.
Onderzoeker en schrijver Bruce Fenton komt nu met een theorie dat het tempelcomplex is gebouwd door Aboriginals.
Arnhemland
Hij ontdekte namelijk dat er veel overeenkomsten zijn tussen Göbekli Tepe en Arnhemland, een gebied in Australië dat vernoemd is naar de stad Arnhem.
Het symbool (Bruce Fenton)
Zo schilderden Aboriginals een symbool op hun borst dat ook op pilaren in het tempelcomplex is gevonden.
Het gaat om een symbool dat volgens de Aboriginals staat voor twee mensen die kennis uitwisselen.
Churinga-stenen
Op een andere pilaar ontdekte Fenton een symbool dat normaal gesproken alleen gebruikt wordt voor de meest heilige voorwerpen binnen de Aboriginal-cultuur: churinga-stenen.
Hij trof dergelijke churinga-stenen naar eigen zeggen ook aan op andere archeologische vindplaatsen in Turkije die gerelateerd zijn aan Göbekli Tepe.
“Veel van de dierensymbolen op de stenen kunnen worden gelinkt aan de totems van de Aboriginals,” zei Fenton.
Tegen te houden
Hij zei dat er ook overeenokmsten zijn tussen de enige vrouwelijke figuur die in Göbekli Tepe is afgebeeld en Yingarna, de schepper volgens de Aboriginals.
Fenton vermoedt dat de Aboriginals gedurende het Jonge Dryas hebben geprobeerd om de catastrofale gebeurtenis tegen te houden met behulp van sjamanen.
Black Budget Anti-Gravity Craft You Not Supposed to Know About!
Black Budget Anti-Gravity Craft You Not Supposed to Know About!
In this world of cloak-and dagger behind the scenes activity, the “Black Budget” has grown exponentially. Having little congressional oversight, and virtually no public scrutiny, programs developed within this black world enjoy almost unlimited access to financial backing regardless of their probability of success.
However, what specific details on the black budget can be gleamed from publically available sources?
In addition, can some of these programs be declassified without representing any threat to the national security of the United States?
According to Ben Rich (Lockheed Skunk Works director 1975-1991), keeping programs secret can add anywhere from 10 to 15% to the overall cost. This includes the construction of fortified buildings, extra guards, security clearance logistics, and shuttling works to and from classified facilities.
Ben Rich: “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building a small number of very technologically advanced airplanes for highly secret missions.”
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do and we have know have the technology to take ET home."
Strangely, some programs are so secret that even our top military Generals may not know what “mystery aircraft” might be lurking inside dimly lighted hangars at Area 51, Edwards North base, or the Tonopah Test Range.
Even they may not know that the US Military have their own secret and hidden Space Fleet called “Solar Warden” which is said to be made up from U.S. aerospace Black Projects contractors and operates under the US Naval Network and Space Operations Command (NNSOC) (formerly Naval Space Command).
Within the murky world of secret defense projects there are three main categories: SAP’s (Special Access Program), USAP (Unacknowledged Special Access Program), and so called “Waived SAPS”.
Ufologist Streetcap1 posted NASA Apollo 16 snaps on his YouTube channel – claiming to show the ship.
The expert said: “I have been browsing a lot of photographs tonight and I discovered this on a moon photograph.
“It is on the edge of the picture, that is as close in as I can get. It appears on quite a few photos, not all of them. It is some sort of structure and it is just sitting orbiting the Moon.
“You can see its structure when I get up close up to it. To me it looks like some sort of structure.“
YOUTUBE
MYSTRY: The YouTuber thinks aliens could be orbiting the Moon
“It is some sort of structure and it is just sitting orbiting the Moon”
Streetcap1
Viewers were stunned by the images and said the mysterious satellite could be a “Dark Knight”
The conspiracy theory claims the black spacecraft has orbited the Earth for thousands of years.
It first developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the Black Knight Satellite while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
Tracy Hill posted under the video: “Looks kind of like a Dark Knight.”
Valle Janes later added: “Someone commented it looks like the Black Knight…I agree.”
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YOUTUBE: The channel investigates signs of life in Space
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GALAXY: Aliens could be lurking in the deepest depths of space
Others were less convinced and offered other explanations.
Poster Coil Smoke said: “Could be high terrain like mountain peaks still getting sunlight.”
Jack Gordon added: “Photographic artefact more likely than an alien ship.”
This is one of several images from space that the researcher has examined in his hunt to find alien life.
A fireball was seen streaking across the sky of Phoenix on Tuesday night, fueling conspiracy theories that this could be evidence of aliens and UFOs. What do astronomers say? Pictured is a meteor streaking across the night sky.
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A fireball that blazed a trail over Phoenix on Tuesday night, Nov. 14, fueled conspiracy theories and jokes about aliens and UFOs. Arizona residents captured the bright light with their cameras, and many shared videos of the celestial event online.
Large Glowing Bulb Of Light
In one of the videos posted on Twitter, a large glowing bulb appeared in the top-right frame of the footage and then faded out in three seconds. A smaller light is seen in the lower portion of the frame off in the horizon.
"I just saw a meteor or star or alien or something in the sky in Phoenix," @ShawnBTweetin posted on Twitter.
Phoenix Lights
Arizonians in particular may be more suspicious about the strange light than usual since their state just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Phoenix Lights.
In March 1997, several witnesses claimed to have witnessed a strange V-shaped collection of lights that moved in the sky. The local air force base claimed that the orbs were flares, but skeptics think that those were spacecraft of aliens.
Former Arizona governor Fife Symington even supported the idea that the lights were from an alien spacecraft.
"I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies," Symington said in 2007. "It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people."
Not An Evidence Of Aliens Or UFOs
Astronomers, however, said that the bright light spotted over Phoenix at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday is not likely an evidence of aliens or UFOs from an extraterrestrial civilization.
Arizona State University's Center for Meteorite Studies curator Laurence Garvie said that the speed and everything about the event suggest it was almost certainly a meteor that lit up the sky and not a piece of space junk.
The American Meteor Society said that the meteor behind the phenomenon was a bolide, a type of fireball that explodes in bright terminal flash.
Astronomer Nick Moskovitz, from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, said that the meteor was relatively small despite the immense glow. He said that the space rock was likely larger than a marble but smaller than a human. It was around the size of a football.
"This thing wasn't huge. I'm going to guess about 5 feet across. It broke up quite quickly," Garvie said.
GETTALIENS? USAF jets were scrambled to see what the UFO was.
An unknown aircraft was spotted flying through well-monitored air space above Oregon state.
Witnesses were left questioning where the jet may have come from and what it was doing.
Military officials have been unable to identify the plane’s origin or even destination, after it vanished and they were not able top trace it, Dailystar.co.uk reports.
Oregon borders Nevada, which is home to the mysterious and top-secret Area 51 US Air Force base where tests are conducted on experimental craft.
Conspiracy theorists believe Area 51 holds the remains of crashed UFOs and even dead aliens.
Air force F-15C interceptor fighters were launched in response to the sightings, according to local news reports.
North American Aerospace Defence Command confirmed it had been asked by the Federal Aviation Administration to help track the unidentified aircraft flying at heights regularly used by commercial aircraft – 35,000 and 40,000ft – on October 25.
Fighter jets were scrambled from Portland to investigate, but failed to find anything.
No flight plan had been submitted for the unidentified craft and no identification transponder was active.
The craft was not transmitting collision avoidance signals.
Air traffic control stations were reportedly having difficulty following the craft on radar.
A third added: "Central Oregon here. I could say the same thing about the things we see over here. Definitely weird."
A fourth Reddit user, who claimed to have been a pilot in the air at the time, said: “Strange! My theory is they were running drugs to Canada. No news yet, not that I could find.”
He described how airliners had been asked to help track an unknown white-coloured aircraft visually for up to 30 minutes as air traffic control radar was having difficulty getting a fix.
While it was in sight of various airliner crews, it was apparently never close enough for its type to be identified.
“The last aeroplane to see it had to descend into Portland and lost sight of it.
"The fighters were scrambled out of Portland but flew around for a while and did not find it.
Many people suggested it could be an alien spacecraft, while it was also reportedly seen from California, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico.
Experts said it was likely a meteor, as an object from outer space burnt up in the atmosphere.
However, Phoenix is one of the most notorious cities in the US in terms of alien and UFOsightings after the infamous "Phoenix Lights incident" of 1997.
The Phoenix Lights Incident became a phenomenon from March 13, that year, after thousands of people began telling of seeing huge triangular UFOs drifting over Arizona and the city of Phoenix.
The sizes varied from a Boeing 747 to multiple football fields.
The American Meteor Society said this week alone there has been meteoric activity across the globe, with sightings in France and Germany and the US over just 10 hours from November 15 to 16.
It is likely to have been a small space rock as part of the Leonid meteor shower, which is one of several meteor showers this month.
The Leonids peak tomorrow, November 17.
The Leonid meteor shower is the debris of comet 55P/ Tempel-Tuttle, as it passes Earth.
If you want to remember what’s inside of a box, you write a list of the contents on the outside. This comes in handy when looking for stuff in the attic, frozen food in the freezer and remains of religious leaders. Wait, what?
“The monks Yunjiang and Zhiming of the Lotus School, who belonged to the Mañjuśrī Temple of the Longxing Monastery in Jingzhou Prefecture, gathered more than 2,000 pieces of śarīra, as well as the Buddha’s teeth and bones, and buried them in the Mañjuśrī Hall of this temple.”
The “śarīra” are the cremated ashes of the Buddha, so this message found on a box in 2012 by locals in Gongchi Village, Jingchuan County, China, is describing an effort by two monks to preserve them, along with 260 Buddhist statues buried in the same location. The full excavation was led by Hong Wu, a research fellow at the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, who published two articles about the discovery in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics. The articles were revealed this week by LiveScience. (pictures on the Chinese Cultural Relics Facebook page)
Are these the actual ashes of Gautama Buddha? What little is known about the death of the 80-year-old Buddha sometime around 483 BCE is that his cremated remains were divided among the 8 royal families and eventually divided into smaller portions and distributed to 84,000 stupas (shrines). A container of alleged ashes and a skull fragment were found last year and identified, in a similar manner to the recent discovery, by a note on the vessel. That may be enough evidence for religious leaders and true believers, but it’s not solid proof for archeologists
Unfortunately, the newest find doesn’t have much either besides the writing on the box. There’s no way to do a DNA test on the ashes nor the teeth and bone fragments found with them. The 260 statues of Buddha and others were no help. Ranging in size from 13 inches to 6.5 feet (2 meters) in height, only one had writing on it and the date May 26, 571. It’s not certain if the statues were buried at the same time the box was interred by the monks. The report also revealed that other artifacts found at the site may be pieces of the lost Mañjuśrī Hall temple.
Other than the note on the box, there appears to be no other historical evidence of the existence of the monks, Yunjiang and Zhiming, or their quest to collect all things Buddha, including his remains. There’s also no way to positively identify the ashes or bones. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting find and worthy of additional study.
A bold project in Mexico has brought archaeologists, biologists, underwater photographers and cave divers to the Yucatán Peninsula to study the network of sinkholes known as cenotes that make up the Mayan Aquifer. These natural openings formed by the collapse of the underlying limestone bedrock led the ancient Mayans to what became their primary sources of water, since the peninsula has few lakes and rivers.
As a result, it’s no surprise that they were used for sacred ceremonies and sacrificial offerings and became starting points for the building of temples. A cenote was detected in 2015 underneath the El Castillo (The Castle) pyramid, also known as the Temple of Kukulkán at the Chichen Itzá archeological site using the round-penetrating electrical resistance survey technique. Those 3-D images and further underground exploration led the Great Mayan Aquifer (GAM) team to a never-before-seen blocked passageway from the Chichén Itzá ossuary (bone vault) to the Kukulkán temple … a passageway they believe was sealed by the ancient Mayans and has never been opened.
“We will enter again and, this time, we will try to open it to see if the passageway leads us to the entrance of the cenote beneath the Castle.”
El Universalreports that team leader Guillermo de Anda is ready to break the seal and open the passageway to the temple’s cenote, despite the legends that these sinkholes were gateways to the underworld of the afterlife and the fact that these were places where human sacrifices were made to the rain god Chaac – the GAM team has already found hundreds of human bones in the Sacred Cenote (Well of Sacrifice) at Chichén Itzá.
The underworld of Chichén Itzá is not the only area that’s well-protected by both ancient seals and the government. A tourist recently got into trouble for shooting some fantastic photos of the pyramid using a drone without permission and outside normal hours. While some archeologists and protectors of the site would prefer to send a message by tossing the drone (but not the owner – they not barbarians) into the Sacred Cenote, he’ll probably end up getting a 10,227 pesos ($536) fine.
A cenote near Chichén Itzá (not sacrificial)
While the Great Mayan Aquifer team has all of the proper paperwork to break into the passageway to avoid a fine, will they find something far more painful or terrifying?
When it comes to alleged encounters with mystery aircraft, most often you get the “run of the mill” reports, which leave little in the way of anything substantial upon which to gauge their validity, apart from pure witness testimony.
Less often, there are reported incidents involving witnesses from multiple sources, such as commercial airliners, military aircraft, and even involvement by the likes of NORAD. Add to the mix the fact that the observed “mystery aircraft” in question has no active transponder, and couldn’t be detected on radar, and you have a genuine mystery.
This rare criteria for a “good” unidentified aircraft report is precisely what has surfaced, in relation to an incident that occurred back in October over the California/Oregon border. The story, which first appeared on Reddit, might have been dismissed as largely speculative or hearsay, had it not been for the fact that Tyler Rogoway, writer for The Drive, had heard about the incident previously from associates of his in the aviation industry; obviously, the story had already created a buzz, and rather than just appearing on an unsubstantiated Reddit thread, it seemed the existing talk over the incident was leaking there, too.
The story, according to the initial Reddit thread, goes like this:
“Just landed in Seattle coming from the bay area. Beginning over Southern Oregon we kept overhearing Seattle Center attempting to track an airplane with no transponder who wasn’t talking. A handful of crews were able to track it visually, best they could tell it was between FL350-370 [35,000-37,000 feet], northbound. Nobody close enough to see the type.
Last we heard it was over the Willamette valley northbound and some fighters, perhaps out of PDX [Portland International Airport], were scrambled to go take a peek. Center had trouble tracking it on primary radar.
Strange! My theory is they were running drugs to Canada. No news yet, not that I could find.
**Update 0500z. Called SEA ARTCC. The gentleman I spoke with said that they initially got alerted to the aircraft from Oakland Center who was painting it on primary [illuminating it with radar, but without transponder information]. For whatever reason they couldn’t track it themselves on primary, and that’s when I overheard them using airline aircraft to track it visually. The last airplane to see it had to descend into Portland and lost sight of it. The fighters were scrambled out of PDX but flew around for a while and did not find it. And that’s that.”
The report above gives few details about the aircraft itself, and due to the fact that craft was unresponsive via radio and radar systems, the pilots had been communicating with the pilots and crew of other commercial aircraft in the vicinity to try and obtain visual confirmation.
Few details about its appearance were related, apart from the fact that it was a “white airplane,” and appeared to be flying the same speed, or slightly faster, than other aircraft in the vicinity. However, one description of the aircraft’s flight behavior did describe a sharp turn that it made, which seemed to be outside the range of maneuverability of conventional aircraft. If true, this detail might support the notion of it having a military origin.
Recordings of the communication between commercial aircraft in the area and Seattle ATC has been made available here, which detail the confused pilots as they attempted to track the mystery aircraft.
Tyler Rogoway contacted the 142nd Fighter Wing based at Portland International Airport, the FAA, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on behalf of The Drivein order to try and obtain confirmation of the incident. As Rogoway notes, “NORAD’s reply was quick and clear. An incident involving multiple airline crews, air traffic control, and F-15Cs from the 142nd Fighter Wing based out of Portland did occur.”
NORAD further commented that, “airliner pilots were asked by FAA air traffic controllers to help track and possibly identify a ‘white aircraft’ traveling in the flightlevels nearby—roughly between 35,000 and 40,000 feet based on the radio recordings,” as evidenced by the recordings that were later released. Perhaps most compelling of all, however, had been the group of F-15s that were scrambled out of Portland, which presumably had been sent to intercept the mystery aircraft.
The FAA and 142nd Fighter Wing were less responsive following the incident, and primary details obtained are based on recordings of flight communications, and the NORAD statement.
On an interesting note, one Reddit poster, claiming to be an air traffic control operator, shared this interesting story:
“[O]ur QA department was working on this today, and got a call from the commander of the 142FW at PDX and was basically told to knock it off, and we know nothing.”
This statement cannot be verified, of course, but if true, might further suggest a military origin for the aircraft.
At present, and with so few details on hand, it is difficult to assess just what the nature of this incident entails, and whether the “mystery plane” was anything out of the ordinary. Current theories range from a possible drug smuggling operation (which seems unlikely, considering that the incident began at around 4:30 PM local time, thus having occurred in broad daylight), to a possible military test craft. Whatever it may have been, the incident represents one of those rare cases where corroborative data between multiple sources, both civilian and military, do at least confirm the incident, and the general description of the mystery plane in question.
For details on a similar incident, as reported to the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), see my earlier article on a bizarre “flying egg” that was observed several years ago near Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the meantime, anyone with further details on the October 2017 incident related here, or with similar stories or observations about unrelated incidents, can reach me via email here.
Alabama residents don’t need anything more (no pun intended) to worry about right now and they certainly don’t need any more (see previous note) unwanted publicity, but they’re demanding answers from NASA, the military, local officials and anyone else who will listen to their reports of a mysterious loud boom that thousands heard on November 14th, 2017. Should they be worried? Praying? Digging a bunker? Moving?
“Birmingham area law enforcement agencies said they’ve received reports, and so has St. Clair County EMA. The areas that experienced whatever it was include Arab, Oxford, Anniston, Hayden, Kimberly, Center Point, Jasper and Gardendale just to name a few.”
Al.comreported that the boom occurred around 2:39 p.m. EST (1:39 CST – the rest of you can figure out what time that was in your area) and social media was immediately flooded with “What was that? #WhatWasThat #LoudBoom” comments and speculations. St. Clair County and Birmingham are heavily populated areas near the center of the state. Reports from government organizations soon followed. The National Weather Service seemed to be first with a statement that:
“loud boom heard: we do not see anything indicating large fire/smoke on radar or satellite; nothing on USGS indicating an earthquake. We don’t have an answer, and can only hypothesize with you. 1) sonic boom from aircraft; 2) meteorite w/ current Leonid shower?”
The US Geological Survey soon updated that report, saying seismic data from its Lakeview Retreat near Centreville, Ala., showed “a fairly loud boom occurring on or before 1:39 p.m. CST.” That report was confirmed by the Elginfield Infrasound Array at the University of Western Ontario which picked up the infrasound signal at 3:02 p.m. and observed it for 10 minutes.
Sound graph from the U.S. Geological Survey near Centreville, Ala.
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Covering all the bases, NASA said it was either a bolide (exploding meteor), larger supersonic aircraft or a ground explosion. However, it downplayed pointing fingers at the recent Leonid meteor shower because those meteors are too small to produce audible sounds. Many eyewitnesses reported seeing at least one vapor trail, but there’s been no word of responsibility from the military and no further meteor reports.
If there’s any state that needs something to celebrate right now, it’s Alabama. Maybe it’s time to call off the search, hire some bands, bring in the food trucks and hold a “Bama Boom, Brews and Burgers Bash.”
Mars is one of the most studied and scrutinized of all the planets in our Solar System, and space agencies have sent probes, orbiters, and rovers to investigate it in unprecedented detail in recent years. Mankind has never found anything suggesting that life was once present on its surface, or that alien beings lived or even visited the martian surface at any point in the past, but that’s not stopping some independent alien sleuths from believing that something is still waiting to be discovered.
The latest example is a big ol’ triangle that, if you buy into the opinion of some amateur astronomers, is actually a crashed alien spaceship tucked away in a crater on Mars. The as-of-yet-unexplained shape is being hailed as proof that aliens exist, and that they’ve visited or perhaps even lived on the red planet in the distant past.
First widely reported by a popular YouTuber known as Secureteam, the “object” was found using Google Mars, which is a remarkably detailed map of the planet’s surface. You can view the map in infrared or visible light modes, as well as an elevation map, but it’s in the infrared image that the fringe of the UFO community believes the evidence lies. The image does appear to show something vaguely triangular, potentially buried under the sand and dust that has accumulated over millions or perhaps even billions of years.
Triangles are a big deal in UFO circles, as many of the more widely believed alien encounter stories have suggested that triangular crafts are being used by extraterrestrials. In that regard, the infrared image is pretty interesting, but it’s hardly proof, and the whole theory really starts to fall apart when you check out the elevation map.
When viewed like this, it quickly becomes clear that the “object” isn’t actually a solid flat triangle but rather a collection of smaller peaks and rocky formations, arranged in a way that roughly resembles two corners of a triangle and little more.
If you spend more than about five minutes on Google Mars you’ll surely find plenty of odd formations that you could argue are evidence of an alien ship, building, or something totally unexplained. Unfortunately, the randomness of nature tends to fool us into seeing something that’s not actually there.
A mysterious UFO has been spotted flying across the town of Hochen, West Germany, and it has baffled alien buffs all around the world. Local Police have revealed that they cannot explain the origin of the flying object, and they believe that it could be a celestial body.
As the video of the incident has now gone viral on social media sites, conspiracy theorists are claiming that this is a solid evidence of the presence of alien life.
According to reports, the UFO sightings were also visible in Italy and Switzerland too.
A perfect evidence of alien life?
Initially, the UFO was seen as a small white fireball, and later it grew larger, finally emerging as a blue glow. After some minutes, the strength of the light faded and started emerging as a white ball.
Soon after the incident, the local police received numerous calls from residents, and some of them were reportedly panicked due to fear of a possible alien invasion. As the local police too failed to give a convincing answer to the origin of UFO, people suspected that the end is near, but the night passed off uneventfully.
Christian Hoppe, the spokesperson of German Air Traffic Control said that the object is not certainly an aircraft.
On the other hand, a section of space buffs believes that this sighting is nothing but a part of Leonid meteor shower. If the UFO is a meteor, then it could have fallen somewhere, but police have received no clue of any damage. Sometimes, the meteor could have burned out entirely in the sky, leaving no traces to prove the fall.
Updated | A small group of scientists has unilaterally decided to send messages to any advanced alien civilization living in a star system 12.4 light years away (over 70 trillion miles). The message, which includes pieces of music, math and technology, was transmitted to the GJ273 system over three days in October and includes instructions about how they should reply to us on a day 25 years from now.
The decision to actively send messages to aliens is controversial. There are two main avenues of thinking—the first, known as SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is that we should actively look for alien life by listening out for signals, the second that we should be sending out messages so any advanced lifeform out there would be able to find us.
The latter—which has become known Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI)—has some fierce opponents, including renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. He says alerting aliens to our presence could be a fatal error: "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he warned.
Another problem is deciding what we should say in a message to aliens. How can one small group of people be responsible for deciding how the whole of Earth is represented in a single message?
Artist impression of GJ 273b.
DANIELLE FUTSELAAR/METI
Despite these concerns, they forged ahead and it was announced the messages had been sent at Sónar, a festival of music, creativity and technology held in Barcelona, Spain. Sónar initially came up with the idea for the project, and asked METI and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) to collaborate on it.
They sent out messages to GJ273—or Luyten’s Star—a red dwarf with a potentially habitable exoplanet called GJ273b. The message was beamed towards the system on October 16, 17, and 18. It took 11 minutes each day, with the total transmission lasting 33 minutes.
The message starts with basic principles then builds up to more complicated concepts. It also makes a direct link between the type of radio signal sent and the scientific content included, providing clues so the aliens can interpret the messages accurately. Repeating the message three times should mean the extraterrestrials can correct for any errors introduced over the messages' long journey through space.
Another feature of the message is a “cosmic clock” that shows the passage of time. Each of the three messages sent over three days has a slightly different clock indicating how a specific period of time has passed since the last was sent.
The next phase of the project—named Sonar Calling GJ273b—will see an expanded message sent to the same star. Included in this message to any alien lifeforms listening is the date when astronomers will be listening out for a reply: June 21, 2043.
The GJ273 system.
SÓNAR INTERNATIONAL
In an email interview, Douglas Vakoch, president of METI, tells Newsweek about the initiative and why they went ahead.
There is an argument against sending messages—do you think your announcement will upset some people within the SETI community?
Everyone engaged in SETI is already endorsing transmissions to extraterrestrials through their actions. If we detect a signal from aliens through a SETI program, there’s no way to prevent a cacophony of responses from Earth. And these wouldn’t be responses to a possibly habitable exoplanet, but to a star system where we know there is intelligent life. There’s no way to enforce the SETI protocols that call for consultation before replying. Once the news gets out that we’ve detected extraterrestrials, anyone with a transmitter can say whatever they want.
Do you think some people (non scientists) will be worried we've sent messages to aliens?
When we’re not clear how risky an activity is, we rely on the most vivid images that come to mind to help us decide. Cognitive psychologists call it the availability heuristic. We rely on the images that are most available to us—the vivid ones—and take that as the truth. What could be more vivid than the image of an alien invasion? But once we step back, take a breath, and analyze the situation, we realize there’s no added danger of an alien attack if we let them know we’re interested in having an interstellar conversation. When people learn more about the project, they’ll realize we have nothing to fear.
So why shouldn’t we be worried?
The messages were sent from the EISCAT antenna in Tromsø, Norway.
SÓNAR INTERNATIONAL
Any civilization that could travel to Earth to do us harm could already pick up our leakage television and radio signals. So there’s no increased risk of alerting them of our existence. Earth’s atmosphere has been giving off evidence of life’s existence for two and a half billion years, thanks to the oxygen in our air. So any civilization that’s paranoid about competition has had plenty of time to come to Earth and wipe us out. That hasn’t happened.
How did you decide what to say in the messages?
Extraterrestrials won’t speak English or Spanish or Swahili. So we need to look for a truly universal language. Our message is written in the language of math and science. Over the centuries, scientists and mathematicians have repeatedly taken a vote on the most essential concepts needed to explain the nature of the universe. Those are the ideas that are at the core of our message.
If there is alien life on GJ273b, how soon could they feasibly respond?
It will take a bit more than a dozen years for our message to reach GJ273b, and the same amount of time for their response to travel back to Earth.
What is the precise date that has been selected for when we will be listening for a reply? How was this date chosen?
We’ll be listening for a reply on June 21, 2043. As we make plans for listening for responses, we should look for dates that will have significance even with changes in nations and cultures. By asking for a response that would arrive on the summer solstice, we’re setting a time that’s connected to the cycles of the Earth.
Are you hopeful we will hear back then?
The only way we’ll get a reply back from GJ273b is if the entire galaxy is filled with life. It’s certainly possible we’ll get a reply, but more likely we’ll need to ping many, many more stars before we get a response.
My hope for first contact operates on longer timescales. If we can mount a sustained transmission campaign that targets not a single star—but hundreds, then thousands, then millions of stars—then I have hope that sometime in humanity’s future, we’ll finally receive a reply.
What sort of dialogue could we expect to have with an alien civilization?
We won’t be having a snappy back-and-forth with aliens. Given the distances between the stars, even when our signals travel at the speed of light, it’s guaranteed to take at least several years for each exchange, and it could well take centuries or millennia.
This story has been updated to include more information on the role Sónar played in the project.
Something quite out of the ordinary occurred in the skies over Oregon on October 25th, 2017. A mystery aircraft was flying in daylight hours among the steady stream of airliners that traverse from south to north, between locales in California and Nevada and cities like Portland and Seattle and beyond. The incident began, at least as best we can tell, around 4:30pm near the California-Oregon border and resulted in multiple pilot eyewitnesses, recorded air traffic control audio, and eventual confirmations from both the FAA and North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) that it did indeed occur.
The first inklings of the story came to me shortly after the incident occurred from friends of mine in the aviation world. Sparse on details at the time, it sounded like it was probably just another one of the often misconstrued incidents that happen in the skies around the US everyday—ones where aircraft with inoperable radios or transponders stray into areas they shouldn't. And sometimes these occurrences result in local fighter jets paying the wayward aircraft a visit at the direction of NORAD. But days after initially blowing off the incident, it later began to seem that there was indeed more to the story than just than another "NORDO" private aircraft or lackadaisical pilot.
I came upon one Reddit thread that was of particular interest that seemed to not only corroborate the strange account, it also added critical details. The post was supposedly penned by a pilot who says they were in the sky over the Northwest in the early evening when the incident occurred, with the post coming shortly after the incident. The entry by Reddit user "Duprass" reads:
"Just landed in Seattle coming from the bay area. Beginning over Southern Oregon we kept overhearing Seattle Center attempting to track an airplane with no transponder who wasn't talking. A handful of crews were able to track it visually, best they could tell it was between FL350-370 [35,000-37,000 feet], northbound. Nobody close enough to see the type.
Last we heard it was over the Willamette valley northbound and some fighters, perhaps out of PDX [Portland International Airport], were scrambled to go take a peek. Center had trouble tracking it on primary radar.
Strange! My theory is they were running drugs to Canada. No news yet, not that I could find.
**Update 0500z. Called SEA ARTCC. The gentleman I spoke with said that they initially got alerted to the aircraft from Oakland Center who was painting it on primary [illuminating it with radar, but without transponder information]. For whatever reason they couldn't track it themselves on primary, and that's when I overheard them using airline aircraft to track it visually. The last airplane to see it had to descend into Portland and lost sight of it. The fighters were scrambled out of PDX but flew around for a while and did not find it. And that's that."
Air traffic control audio recorded over at LiveATC.com of Seattle Center Sector 14 is available from the time of the incident and it corroborates much of this information. You can listen to the entire series of exchanges here starting at around the 20 minute mark and through to the first part of the next time interval recording that can be found here.
The audio is fantastic as it illustrates that there were many communications between various jet crews and Seattle Center whose controllers tried to track the aircraft as it made its way north towards the Willamette Valley. The aircraft was not able to be tracked on radar nor did it show up on crews' digital traffic collision avoidance systems (TCAS), but it was clearly there, although never quite close enough to positively identify what its exact type was.
The activity seems to have begun in the far reaches of Northern California, around Mt. Shasta, and continued on into Southern Oregon, past Crater Lake and up through the Willamette Valley (Stock Photo).
The back and forth between air traffic control and various airline pilots lasted for roughly half an hour. Recordings from other Seattle Center Sectors, such as those closer to Portland (namely 42 and 46) are not readily not available and it's very possible—if not probable based on other reports—that the incident continued up the Willamette Valley. We did review PDX approach and tower exchanges from a half hour before to two hours after the event occurred and didn't find anything that stood out, although it was unlikely we would have as aircraft have descended when using those frequencies.
After reading this account and listening to the audio it was clear that the incident was worth looking into on a much deeper level, and that's what we did, inquiring with the 142nd Fighter Wing based at Portland International Airport, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and the FAA about the odd ordeal.
NORAD's reply was quick and clear. An incident involving multiple airline crews, air traffic control, and F-15Cs from the 142nd Fighter Wing based out of Portland did occur. According to the limited information NORAD supplied, airliner pilots were asked by FAA air traffic controllers to help track and possibly identify a "white aircraft" traveling in the flightlevels nearby—roughly between 35,000 and 40,000 feet based on the radio recordings. NORAD also said that the incident did result in F-15s from Portland being scrambled to investigate, but by the time they got up and "looked around" the mystery aircraft couldn't be found.
Seattle Center sector map.
A quick note on the fighter jet aspect of this story—the 142nd Fighter Wing operates F-15Cs upgraded with the most capable air-to-air radar set in the world (AN/APG-63V3) and Sniper advanced targeting pods for long-rang visual identification. Their pilots are some of the best in the world and are highly trained in the homeland air defense mission. The fact that they "didn't find anything" is surprising to say the least. Maybe this was due to the nature of the aircraft being searched for, or the possibility that they launched long after it was first sighted, or that we simply aren't being told the whole story.
As for the F-15's launch time, it seems that this mystery aircraft was moving fairly fast—at least at the same speed of the airliners around it or greater. It's also worth noting that Oakland Center, which controls airspace to the south of Seattle Center's responsibilities, could have been trying to track the aircraft before the communications began on Seattle Center's frequencies if the object emanated from farther south. We have reviewed the PDX air traffic control audio up to two hours after the first radio traffic began regarding the mystery aircraft between Seattle Center and airliner pilots and we did not readily hear the tower clear the F-15s for launch. As such it's not clear when exactly the fighters took to the skies in search of this unidentified aircraft or why they were launched so late if that was the case.
It is also possible, albeit somewhat unlikely, that a fighter patrol could have been diverted if they were already airborne. Also, once in the air the F-15s are capable of traversing the entire state of Oregon in just a matter of minutes if need be, so if they were launched promptly it seems unlikely they wouldn't have been able to intercept the aircraft being pointed out by commercial pilots over Southern Oregon.
The FAA wasn't as forthcoming as NORAD, taking nearly a week and multiple emails to respond to our initial inquiry, only to say simply that they have nothing further to add to the description of events I provided to them. As such, they did acknowledge that the events occurred, but did not expand upon them. The 142nd Fighter Wing did not respond to our inquiries.
Clearly there had to be some level of after-action investigation into this event. Having an unidentified aircraft that doesn't show up on radar flying among civilian air traffic in the flight levels for extended periods of time isn't something you just brush off, especially considering the current global security situation and the circumstances that have existed since 9/11.
WASHINGTON MILITARY DEPARTMENT
Western Air Defense Sector (WADS), which goes by the callsign "Bigfoot," keeps a close watch on airspace over the Northwest and directs alert fighters and fighter patrols to targets of interest on short notice.
One of the Reddit posters with the handle "The Flying Beard" from the same thread, who supposedly is an air traffic controller, claims to have some inside knowledge of the event, stating:
"...Was just going to post about this actually. I was working an adjacent sector and was helping to coordinate some of the military stuff. They ended up launching F15s off of PDX to try and find it but no joy... [posts one of the audio clips linked above]... The crazy thing is, we didn't have a primary target or a mode C intruder, and it was out running 737s abeam it.
Also, (cue conspiracy theory) our QA department was working on this today, and got a call from the commander of the 142FW at PDX and was basically told to knock it off, and we know nothing.
A couple guys at work seem to think it may have have been this plane [unlikely, and that's an article I wrote] based of the description, and also the 'lack' of military interest. FWIW, I think the FAA is pursing this at higher levels. From a safety standpoint, if the military is running super secret test stuff in the NAS [National Airspace], that's bad. If I were one of the pilots that had a sighting, I'd definitely be filing a NASA form and any other official reports that you can...
...If the ‘aircraft’ continued on its presumed heading/course altitude, the F15s were sent the wrong way. The last known position was around the EUG area heading North around 750kts and the fighters went South when they launched ~25-30 min after the first report in the Shasta area...
...The time of day made it hard. All the guys on the east side couldn’t see it due to the setting sun and the North bound traffic on the west side was pretty sparse. I guess ZOA [Oakland Center] had a good primary/mode C on the guy for a bit in the RBL [Red Bluff Municipal Airport] area. It was initially heading SW and it made a pretty sharp turn to the North. Way harder/faster than what a commercial aircraft could handle at that speed/altitude without ripping the wings off."
We have no way of confirming this poster's information, although based on past Reddit posts their occupation description seems accurate, and their account certainly does add to the story if true.
We have filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the FAA and NORAD, as well as other federal parties involved in the incident. Hopefully we will find out more eventually as to what really went on that day so we can provide a more complete picture for our readers.
TYLER ROGOWAY/AUTHOR
An F-15C belonging to the 142nd Fighter Wing blasts out of Portland International Airport on a typical rainy day in the Northwest. Portland Air National Guard Base (PANG), which is co-located across from PDX's passenger terminals, is seen in the background. The 142nd's Eagles cover the airspace from northern California to the northern tip of Washington State and sometimes beyond. Two primary fully armed jets are always on quick reaction alert (QRA) and can launch within a few minutes of the klaxon howling. An armed spare jet is also usually available as well as one armed with a full magazine of 940 20mm cannon shells.
In the meantime, I would suggest reading the Reddit thread related to the event after listening to the air traffic control audio yourself. In it, some say it could have been a smuggling aircraft or even a secret military airframe. It seems odd that a smuggler would fly in broad daylight in an area they know they will be spotted, not to mention the question of how they stayed off the FAA radar scopes.
When it comes to a secret military aircraft, flying such an asset among jetliner traffic in daylight, albeit it was around sunset time, certainly seems like an odd choice for a secretive program, but that doesn't make it impossible. There are vast and remote training ranges that could be taken advantage of in Alaska for clandestine aircraft programs, and it is a long flight to get there. Still, the idea that U.S. military would willingly fly an aircraft through a major air traffic route at common jet operating altitudes without radio, transponder, or even radar contact would be highly concerning if true.
Amongst all the questions that remain, one thing is certain, an unidentified white aircraft was indeed flying over Oregon on that day in October, and the USAF and the FAA are both willing to admit that the event occurred. In the Air Force's case, the fact that they are even willing to tell us that they couldn't catch or even find the unidentified aircraft with their sensor-packed and fast F-15s is interesting to say the least. On the other hand they may not be sharing the entire story with us.
Whatever the case, we'll keep you updated on this white flying mystery machine of sorts and the circumstances surrounding its presence over Oregon when, or should I say if, new information becomes available.
Based on recent data collected, as you read this, a close encounter could very well be happening somewhere in the world. The number of experiencers ranges from a single witness to hundreds. Some are reported, others are secrets taken to the grave. With reported close encounters as an ongoing phenomenon and because of multiple factors, ironically many due to the advances in technology, it has become harder than ever for anyone, private or government, to accurately separate an experience that is being misinterpreted from an authentic close encounter.
It has been 45 years since the world was first introduced to Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s “close encounter” system of classification in his book, “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry”. Of course Steven Spielberg’s movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” made the system of classification a global house-hold terminology, still holding-up to this day to best categorize the types of UFO/alien encounters being experienced.
SIGHTINGS
J. Allen Hynek
(image: Northwestern University)
No current update on close encounters would be complete without an overview referencing the long history of these phenomena, which arguably stretches back to biblical times and beyond, with references to “beings from the sky” prolific throughout many of the ancient cultures and mythologies. The Nazca Lines in Peru is one such example of this compelling circumstantial evidence. Confirmed UFO encounters amidst the era of manned flight began during World War II with countless reports of a “foo fighter” phenomena, a term used by U.S. military squadrons.
Of course it was the Kenneth Arnold incident that would forever change America. On June 26, 1947, on an unusually sunny Washington day, private pilot Arnold was flying his small single engine plane from Chehalis, Washington to Yakima, Washington. At one point Arnold turned and saw nine shiny objects in the sky, flying past Mount Rainer at approximately 1,200 miles an hour. That is much faster than any conventional aircraft in 1947. When Arnold later compared their actions in the sky to saucers skipping on water, the press ran with “flying saucers” and a new era was born. While many regard this as modern America’s first UFO incident, two other lesser-known events took place in the previous century. While the 1800’s may not entirely be considered ‘modern America’, the incidents warrant mentioning; on June 1, 1853, at dawn, countless students and faculty of Burritt College in Tennessee observed two massive floating objects perform various maneuvers in the morning sky, including one of the objects morphing its shape; and in 1896/1897 a rash of sightings occurred across the U.S. originating from Sacramento, California and culminating on April 17, 1897 in Aurora, Texas, where the entire community supposedly not only witnessed the crashing of a UFO near their town, but also buried the extraterrestrial pilot in their town’s cemetery.
Closely following the Kenneth Arnold Incident, an event took place involving a supposed flying saucer that remains one of the best known, and most controversial, UFO stories to date. On July 8, 1947 Walter Haut, the Roswell Army Air Field public information officer issued a press release. It stated that the 509th Operations Group had retrieved a flying disc that had apparently crashed, near Roswell, on a ranch. The local media ran a front-page story in their newspaper, which quickly spread across the country and around the world in record time, and that was without the Internet. However, the military jumped-in and made a huge effort to correct the story, hosting a press event now stating that the crash was of a weather balloon and not a “flying saucer”. With that, after creating a brief stir, the story faded from view. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that UFOlogists rediscovered the Roswell incident with great interest. While stories eventually circulated involving alien bodies recovered from the crashed UFO, proof that the Roswell crash actually involved an alien craft remains elusive.
CONTACT
While a ‘close encounter of the third kind’ technically includes all manner of direct extraterrestrial contact, many in the UFOlogy community wanted to more specifically categorize the type of extraterrestrial contact. What resulted was the adding of two new close encounter classifications; the ‘fourth’ and ‘fifth’ kinds that covers ‘abductions’. Though these terms are not universally recognized.
Betty and Barney Hill marker.
(Credit: Kathleen Marden)
One of the first alien abduction cases in modern culture that defined the phenomena was the 1961 case of Barney and Betty Hill, which was majorly publicized. At the time, Barney and Betty Hill were like any other married couple with one possible exception: they had an interracial marriage at a time when such things were not common. On September 9, the Hills were driving at night, in their rural New Hampshire community. On a secluded country road, Betty observed what she thought was a falling star. She encouraged Barney to stop the car so they could investigate. Betty followed the “odd shaped” object with her binoculars. It flashed multi-colored lights. Curiosity getting the best of them, they drove to another location. In an area near Indian Head, the object came down and hovered about 100 feet over the Hill’s car, that was now stopped in the middle of the highway. Barney saw the object as a giant pancake. Using binoculars, Betty saw 8 to 11 figures looking out the saucer’s window. Suddenly a loud buzzing was heard that vibrated both the car and their bodies. They drove away, later claiming to have had a distortion of time experience. Some time after this event, under hypnosis, Barney and Betty separately revealed supposed terrifying experiences aboard the aliens’ craft that produced tormented dreams for years. Their story later became a popular 1966 book, as well as a 1975 TV movie starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons. The first modern abduction story is amazing and like the majority of abduction cases, somewhat difficult to prove, despite the credibility of the Hills.
Travis Walton
(Credit: OpenMinds.tv/Peter Beste)
Another famous close encounter of the third kind took place in Arizona, on November 5, 1975. Logger Travis Walton was part of a five man lumbering crew in Sitgreaves National Forest, a stone’s throw from Snowflake, Arizona. At one point, the crew spotted a saucer-shaped craft, emitting a high-pitched sound, hovering above the ground a hundred feet or so away. Travis states he left the logging truck to further investigate. After being hit by an intense beam of bright light, Walton was knocked to the ground. According to him, his logging buddies freaked, racing off in the truck and leaving him behind. After this, Travis went missing for five days. While people were out in the woods looking for him, Walton claims he woke up in a hospital bed, with three short, bald beings peering down at him. After a clear plastic mask was put on his face, he passed out. The next thing he remembered he was walking along the road as the UFO departed. The Walton abduction received extraordinary press, the story eventually becoming a book and a movie.
Close encounters of the third kind, specifically abductions, are the most difficult to assess, primarily due to the lack of direct and forensic evidence, the majority of the time only leaving testimonial and circumstantial evidence to support the encounter, many times fragmented and unclear, typically collected through hypnotic regression. Though difficult to find corroborating evidence, similar to close encounters of the first and second kinds, a significant percentage of abduction experiencers are proven to be of sound mind and body and are upstanding citizens and individuals of impeccable reputation and credibility.
A DECADE OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Here is a smattering of some of the most intriguing close encounters from around the world that have taken place in the last decade:
INDIA
In the airspace above Kolkata in the early morning of October 29, 2007, hundreds of witnesses observed a fast moving UFO that was also able to morph its shape from a sphere into a triangle and then into a straight line. The object emitted a brilliant light that produced a halo with a full spectrum of colors. As it continued to move over the area, hundreds of more witnesses encountered the UFO, resulting on countless photos and videos. Shibani Banerjee went through a complete spectrum of emotions as she experienced the encounter, “At first I was like everyone else around me, thrilled and excited by what we were seeing, like children seeing fireworks for the first time. Than, as if I hit a brick wall, a horrible ominous feeling came over me and of what this thing could be. I retreated along with others, at first slowly walking which then turned into a hysterical run.” The UFO disappeared into the horizon at an impossible rate of speed leaving local and government authorities at a loss for what it was.
TURKEY
For a few days in 2007, four months in 2008 and again in 2009, UFOs besieged a wide area of western Turkey near Istanbul, along the Sea of Marmara. “The UFOs were so frequent and obvious, I brought my video camera to work and was able to easily capture the objects as they flew overhead”, stated Yalcin Yalman, a security guard handling the nightshift at the Yeni Kent Compound in Kumburgaz. Government authorities visually confirmed each time the UFOs appeared but were unable to identify what the objects were. Haktan Akdogon and other scientific analysts at the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Center had thoroughly analyzed all footage filmed by Mr. Yalman and were able to rule-out all logical explanations, stating, “we came to a definite conclusion with no doubts that these are 100% genuine”, adding about the footage, “the most significant UFO videos ever!”
CHINA
On July 7, 2010, at Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China, a UFO was spotted hovering in the airport airspace at approximately 8:40 p.m. In response, authorities had to cease all airport operations, diverting inbound flights to Ningbo and Wuxi Airports and/or delaying countless planes and halting all adjacent ground traffic. A brief video of the object was later shown on Chinese TV. While the UFO was visibly seen by countless witnesses and recorded by multiple means, it did not appear on radar.
Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China
(Credit: Xiaoshan Airport)
A Chinese aircraft engineer, who was among the thousands that witnessed the event, was adamant that the object could not have been any type of man-made aircraft. Several theories were floated, from the absurd to the plausible, including the planet Venus, a rocket launch or a helicopter with flashing lights. While analysts and skeptics were quick to dismiss the incident, multiple news and media outlets shifted and retracted their stories about government investigations into the incident, seemingly as a result of government pressure, with come Chinese officials going on record stating they knew what the object was but could not comment further due to national security. Lou Jinhong and his associates with the Shanghai UFO Investigative Research Center, had been interviewing witnesses and reviewing footage and photographs in an attempt to make some sort of definitive conclusion on what the object was. Both this organization, as well as conventional authorities, have been unable to determine the object’s true identity.
CHILE
In April of 2013, on a clear sunny day in the isolated Atacama Desert community, countless workers of the Collahuasi copper mine and their friends and families encountered a glowing flying disc maneuver in the skies above them. Several of the witnesses took photos and video of the object as it ascended, descended and moved horizontally at extraordinary speeds, unlike any aircraft today. At one point, the object hovered in one area as if intending to land, then suddenly disappeared into the east. It was later discovered that during the brief time it hovered in one place, an apparent abduction had also taken place. Initially, both the authorities, as well as the corporation that owned the mine and surrounding properties, were suppressing all information and documentation concerning this incident. Several months later, some of the video and photos that had been taken were leaked and the government and corporation had no choice but to comment on the “sighting” aspect of the incident only, declaring an investigation is taking place. Even with this announcement and the ongoing investigation, authorities sought to control all information concerning the event until they knew what they were dealing with and maintained a controlled press blackout.
The first image captured by the miners.
(Credit: CEFAA)
Over a year later and over a thousand miles away, another UFO incident occurred in Chile on November 2014, as a Chilean Navy helicopter was performing routine coastal patrol. The military aircraft visually documented the UFO with state-of-the-art recording technology while it flew in front of them at the same rate of speed for over nine minutes, until they had to break-off to return to base. Shortly after the government went public with this incident earlier this year.
AFRICA
On the evening of December 13th, 2016, a pilot flying from Cape Town International Airport to Port Elizabeth International Airport encountered a glowing green object increasing in speed and altitude past the cockpit of their airplane, reaching to about a thousand feet into clouds above them and then returning towards earth at high speed past the cockpit of their plane. The incident forced the NSRI (National Sea Rescue Institute) to investigate the matter, conducting searches in case the unidentified aircraft had gone down for whatever reason. No aircraft was ever found. Everything from weather balloons to drones to green parachute flares to space debris and meteorites were ruled out in this case, the object classified as unidentified.
UNITED STATES
And of course it is no surprise that the U.S. continues to be at or near the top of the list for countries that continue to report close encounter events. In fact, according to the 2017 book, “UFO Sightings Desk Reference”, written by two UFO experts, Linda Miller Costa and Cheryl Costa—one a former aerospace analyst and the other a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences and NASA, sightings have spiked across the U.S. in general. In 2015 alone, there were 11,868 reported sightings, significantly up from the 3,479 logged in 2001—and those are just the reported ones. Rather then even attempt to detail the specifics from so many encounters, here is the list of states that continue to have the most UFO sightings, in order from the most to least, with California leading with the most reports:
California
Florida
Texas
Washington
Pennsylvania
New York
Arizona
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
AN ACCOUNTING
For years now there has been much debate on whether close encounters worldwide are on the decline, have remained steady or are actually on the rise. However a recent 2017 independent report and assessment done by Statistician/PhD student Sam Monfort with Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University, revealed that UFOs sightings have been steadily rising with 104,947 reported sightings on record over the past 100-plus years. Monfort utilized data from the previously mentioned National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). According to Monfort’s assessment, sightings have spiked dramatically over the past 30-plus years, with the reported number jumping from around 5,000 in 1980, to roughly 45,000 in 2010. Some sociologists and psychologists speculate that the perception of there being a decline in UFO reports is due to an overall dismissal of such eye-opening news as a product of mass desensitizing, cynicism, pessimism and apathy around the world. They suggest that this is primarily because of the effects of the digital age (Internet, smartphone, etc.) and constant over-exposure to violence and other negative depictions in media, as well as an overall loss of confidence in media.
Of course the majority of close encounters of the ‘third kind’ that include alien abductions are a different matter all together, with many of the encounters never associated with actually seeing a UFO prior to the actual encounter. Additionally, a huge percentage of abductions are never reported for a variety of psychological, sociological and cultural/religious reasons, with a significant estimated percentage never knowing or realizing that they had been abducted to begin with.
One thing is for certain regarding close encounter experiences; it is most certainly an equal opportunity phenomena around the world, being experienced equally by every age group, sex, social class, culture and belief system. And while the phenomena continues to elusively proliferate, we are yet to have globally come to any absolute agreed-upon consensus of what these phenomena are and why they continue to occur, remaining just as mysterious as ever.
Humans, generally speaking, are incredibly interested in the potential existence of intelligent alien life. The idea that an alien civilization exists somewhere in the cosmos has always fascinated us, but we’v yet to find any evidence that our dreams are more than fantasy. Now, scientists have taken a big step towards contacting extraterrestrials, sending a message to a nearby star system that may well host an advanced civilization, but not everyone thinks that was such a good idea.
A group of scientists hungry for evidence of aliens took it upon themselves to send a message to the system called GJ273, which resides approximately 12.4 light-years away from Earth. That’s a pretty sizable distance, but the signal will eventually get there, and if ET is listening they’ll most certainly know it’s not an accident.
The message, which reportedly included samples of music, language, and math, also included a request that anyone who gets it should attempt to respond. If the scientists strike gold, a message would likely be headed back our direction by around 2042, and astronomers will be listening closely for any sign of it.
However, many scientists have voiced their displeasure at the idea that mankind might proactively contact an alien civilization, especially one that has mastered spaceflight. Without having any idea of whether or not our needle-in-a-haystack signal is retrieved by a peaceful alien race or a hostile one, many fear that we could be setting the stage for the ultimate destruction of mankind and perhaps Earth as we know it.
One of the more vocal opponents of the effort is world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking, who has suggested that yelling into the void may bring dire results. Likening the arrival of an alien race to Earth to that of Europeans arriving in America, Hawking warns that a more advanced species could do whatever they wanted to our planet with little regard for mankind’s fate.
The signals, which were sent in mid-Otober, should arrive at their destination many years from now, and if we indeed to hear back, it will be a momentous occasion. Let’s just hope we don’t annoy them if they’re having a bad day.
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NASA scientists say we’ll find Alien life within 20 years
NASA scientists say we’ll find Alien life within 20 years
The US space agency has revealed that we will find aliens sooner than we think.
Despite the fact that there are millions of people around the globe who are convinced we are being visited by beings not from Earth, and that thousands of years ago, ancient civilization had contact with beings from elsewhere in the cosmos, officially speaking, aliens are an enigma for the human race.
However, according to NASA, we may confirm aliens are real as soon as 20 years time.
As noted by Anthony Del Genio, a member of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies:
“Before we search for alien life, we’re trying to understand what types of planets could have a climate that’s favorable to life. We’re utilizing the identical climate models that we use to predict 21st-century climate change on Earth to do simulations of specific exoplanets that have been found and possible ones.”
In a recently published video—How to Find a Living Planet—NASA explains that the discovery of water on distant alien worlds may be a key to finding alien life.
The Space Agency explains in the video that: “No matter where we look, whether it’s a desert or Antarctica or the deepest parts of the ocean or the deepest parts of Earth’s crust that we’ve explored, as long as there’s a tiny speck of liquid water, there’s life.
“And because of that, it’s been central to NASA’s search for habitable environments elsewhere. It’s why experts get excited about water spewing up from the icy moons of Europa and Enceladus in our outer solar system. Not only could they have water, they could have global oceans like the ones we have here on Earth.”
According to Del Genio, our civilization will confirm aliens are real in as soon as 20 years: “I think that in 20 years we will have found one candidate that might be it.”
But NASA notes it’s not only looking for water on alien worlds.
It’s imperative that we identify certain atmospheric gasses as well notes NASA.
In particular, scientists will focus on identifying alien environments that show traces of both oxygen and methane. As noted by scientists, when you spot these two gases in the same atmosphere, ‘you’ve got something special.’
‘There are methods to build up oxygen and methane in a planetary atmosphere, but the only way you could have both in the same atmosphere at the same time is if you produce them both super rapidly,’ said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Scientists say that the best ‘current’ bet for finding traces of alien life is within our solar system, with experts setting their sights on Enceladus and Europa, Saturn and Jupiter’s moons respectively.
Layers of haze above Pluto, as seen by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The more we learn about Pluto, the more interesting the little world becomes.
Hydrocarbon particles in Pluto's atmosphere are responsible for the dwarf planet's surprisingly low temperatures, a new study suggests.
Pluto is therefore the only planetary body known whose temperatures are driven more by haze particles than by gas molecules, study team members said. [Amazing Photos of Pluto and Its Moons]
"This is kind of a new regime of the climate of planets," lead author Xi Zhang, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, told Space.com. "We never saw this before."
Colder than expected
Modeling work based on Pluto's atmospheric composition had predicted that temperatures there would hover around minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 degrees Celsius). So it was a head-scratcher when, during the probe's epic flyby of Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft measured temperatures that were about 53 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) lower than that.
New Horizons also spotted multiple layers of haze extending high above the dwarf planet, which scientists hadn't known about before. This stuff is likely created by chemical reactions in Pluto's upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet radiation from the sun interacts with nitrogen and methane to form small hydrocarbon particles, mission team members have said.
Similar reactions are thought to occur high up in the atmosphere of Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, which sports haze so thick that it obscures views of the surface.
Pluto's haze is key to keeping the dwarf planet supercool, Zhang and his colleagues said. They performed some modeling work of their own, using data New Horizons gathered about the distribution of gas molecules and haze particles.
The team found that Pluto's haze absorbs solar energy efficiently, but also emits a great deal of that energy back out into space in the form of infrared radiation (heat). The study's modeling results match up quite well with Pluto's observed temperature profile, Zhang said.
"The atmosphere is composed of gas, of course," he said. "But gas temperature is not controlled by the gases themselves — it's actually controlled by the haze particles."
This is true up to an altitude of about 435 miles (700 kilometers), beyond which the dominant process is plain old heat conduction, the researchers wrote in the new study, which was published online today (Nov. 15) in the journal Nature.
The new results are exciting, but they don't represent the last word on the subject, according to Robert West, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"The case is not yet closed on our understanding of Pluto’s atmospheric temperature," West, who was not a member of the study team, wrote in an accompanying "News and Views" commentary in the same issue of Nature.
"For instance, there are no observational constraints on the composition of Pluto’s haze, which means that the authors’ calculated heating and cooling rates are highly uncertain," West added. "Without constraints, modellers are free to consider many possible haze compositions that have a wide range of optical constants — quantities that characterize the optical properties of a material."
Such questions could be settled soon. If Pluto's hazes are indeed radiating lots of heat out into space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is due to launch in 2019, should be able to detect it, Zhang said.
Is Pluto special?
Pluto is likely so haze-driven in large part because it's so cold: Gases at such temperatures are mostly condensed and therefore cannot contribute much to the cooling process, Zhang said.
It's too early to say whether Pluto is unique in this respect, or if other objects are similarly haze-dominated, he added.
"We're actually investigating that," Zhang said. "We think maybe on some other planetary bodies, in part of the atmosphere, the haze could dominate as well. But people just didn’t think about it in this way before."
HEAT SHIELD Layers of haze in Pluto’s atmosphere, shown here in an image from the New Horizons spacecraft, could radiate heat away from the dwarf planet and cool it down.
SWRI/JHUAPL/NASA
Blame Pluto’s haze for the dwarf planet’s unexpected chilliness. Clusters of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere radiate heat back into space, keeping the dwarf planet cool, a new study suggests. Pluto may be the only world in the solar system whose atmospheric temperature is controlled by solid particles, rather than gas, researchers report in the Nov. 16 Nature.
Most planets’ temperatures are set by the gas content of their atmospheres, since certain gases trap heat from the sun more efficiently than others (SN Online: 6/8/15). Based on the nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide in Pluto’s atmosphere, scientists predicted the dwarf planet’s upper atmosphere would be a brisk –173° Celsius.
But when the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, the probe found temperatures closer to –203° — with no obvious explanation.
The spacecraft found another surprising feature: Pluto’s atmosphere is separated into about 20 distinct haze layers. Solid hydrocarbon particles tens of nanometers wide clump together in the atmosphere to form the haze before eventually settling onto Pluto’s surface (SN: 4/15/17, p. 14).
This haze could be what’s keeping the atmosphere cool, Xi Zhang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and his colleagues say. The team calculated that those hydrocarbon clumps could absorb heat from the sun as well as from gases in the atmosphere and radiate it back into space. Ultimately, the haze would cool the atmosphere instead of warming it.
That makes Pluto unique in the solar system, the researchers say. Other hazy worlds, like Saturn’s moon Titan, still have temperatures that are mostly determined by gas.
“On Pluto, almost the whole game is haze,” says planetary scientist Robert West of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wrote a commentary on the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 Nature. “That was a real surprise.”
West thinks Zhang and colleagues’ argument “sounds convincing.” But he’s reserving judgement until the James Webb Space Telescope, due to launch in 2019, can see if Pluto glows brighter than expected in infrared wavelengths, a sign that the planet is wrapped in a radiating haze. “That will make it a closed case.”
A ‘Second Earth’ found 11 light years away could be our best bet for Alien life
A ‘Second Earth’ found 11 light years away could be our best bet for Alien life
Could this be our galaxy’s best bet for extraterrestrial life? Astronomers have recently spotted an alien world the same size and temperature as our own, a mere ’11 light years away’ and claim it may be the ‘closest known home for alien life’.
Astronomers from the University of Grenoble in France have discovered an alien world named Ross 128b, orbiting a red dwarf star, some 11 light years away. According to experts, this not-so-distant planet may be our best bet yet, for finding alien life.
The recently discovered planet is believed to be the same size as Earth, and also an eerily similar surface temperature. Scientists believe this planet may the ‘the closest known comfortable abode for possible life,’ according to a new study.
Despite the fact that it would take us nearly 141,000 years to travel to the planet using our current spaceships, the planet is located relatively close in cosmic terms, only 11 light years away, which makes it the second closest Earth-like planet in our close proximity.
The red dwarf star Ross 128 sits in the constellation Virgo, the virgin. Image Credit: Sky Survey 2.
Experts have said that despite the fact that its located 11 light years away from us, the planet is actually moving towards us and is expected to become our closest cosmic neighbor in around 79,000 years.
The planet was spotted by astronomers collaborating with the European Southern Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument, located at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Astronomers report that the low-mass exoplanet orbits its star, a weak red dwarf every 9.9 days.
The planet which has already been dubbed as ‘the second Earth’ is believed to be temperate and have a surface temperature very close to Earth.
Ross128 is considered the quietest nearby star to host such a planet.
This discovery is based on more than a decade of HARPS intensive monitoring together with state-of-the-art data reduction and analysis techniques. Only HARPS has demonstrated such a precision and it remains the best planet hunter of its kind, 15 years after it began operations,’ said Study co-author Dr. Nicola Astudillo-Defru, of the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Lead author Dr. Xavier Bonfils, of Université Grenoble in France, said in an interview with National Geographic: “There wasn’t a ‘eureka’ moment here where we were able to suddenly say, wow, we have a planet. We accumulated data over many years, and only gradually the signal built up and became significant.”
The discovery of Ross128 raises hopes that mankind will soon discover whether or not we are alone in the universe.
The discovery of Ross128 comes after NASA researchers have claimed that mankind will most likely find alien life within the next 20 years.
In a recently published video—How to Find a Living Planet—NASA explains that the discovery of water on distant alien worlds may be a key to finding alien life.
The Space Agency explains in the video that: “No matter where we look, whether it’s a desert or Antarctica or the deepest parts of the ocean or the deepest parts of Earth’s crust that we’ve explored, as long as there’s a tiny speck of liquid water, there’s life.
Interestingly, astronomers are now working to find out whether or not Rss128b is located within its stars habitable zone. The habitable zone of a star is a region in space within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure.
Plutonian landscapes in twilight, under a hazy sky.
Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwR.
Orbiting the sun over 40 times farther away than the Earth, it’s no wonder that Pluto is so incredibly cold. But when New Horizon made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet, NASA scientists were dumbfounded to find Pluto was even colder than expected — about 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) colder. A new hypothesis suggests that a haze of solid hydrocarbons might be regulating Pluto’s temperature. If this hypothesis is confirmed, it would signify a new regime of planetary climate; something that’s never been witnessed before.
Pluto might not be a planet but at least it’s still cool
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led by planetary scientist Xi Zhang, believe they’ve found the culprit for Pluto’s anonymously cold atmosphere. The New Horizons spacecraft revealed that the dwarf planet is surrounded by 20 or so layers of haze arranged like the skin of an onion. The haze is made of soot-like solid particles.
Scientists had known for decades that Pluto has an atmosphere and that it might be hazy, but it wasn’t until recently that they began to comprehend this stunningly complex atmospheric mechanism.
Zhang and colleagues devised a mathematical model that investigated whether or not the nanoparticles could be influencing Pluto’s atmospheric temperature. Indeed they can, the model suggested, whose results were almost a perfect match with New Horizon’s empirical observations.
The particles are no bigger than 150 nanometers in diameter and are thought to consist of hydrogen cyanide, acetylene, and other organic compounds, similar to the ones found around Saturn’s moon Titan. These particles might have a significant cooling effect on Pluto by absorbing infrared radiation, thereby reducing atmospheric temperature.
“Basically, we needed a strong coolant to explain why Pluto is so cold,” Zhang toldNew Scientist. “We found that the abundant haze particles can strongly cool the atmosphere by re-emitting infrared radiation to space, a process not considered in previous theories.”
“In the infrared range of radiation, a slightly larger amount of energy is radiated back to space by the haze particles, cooling the atmosphere overall,” he added.
From six billion miles away, Earth-based detectors aren’t sensitive enough to identify Pluto’s near-infrared radiation, which could be one of the reasons why the haze wasn’t discovered sooner. Fortunately, the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2019, will be equipped with the proper tools to investigate Pluto’s infrared radiation.
If the researchers’ hypothesis holds water, this would make Pluto the only solar system planetary body whose temperature isn’t principally controlled by gases.
A gorgeous new animation published by NASA depicts sea salt, dust, and smoke movements in the atmosphere during this year’s hurricane season.
Because air is so hard to see, NASA uses aerosol particles to track movements in the atmosphere. By combining raw satellite data with mathematical models of atmospheric phenomena, NASA researchers can see how smoke, dust, and sea salt are transported across the globe — allowing the agency a glimpse into weather patterns that would otherwise remain hidden to our view.
For example, tracking how sea salt (blue-white) evaporates from oceans will showcase the evolution of all of 2017’s hurricanes. The animation also captures the massive wildfires in the Pacific Northwest on the smoke layer of the simulation (gray). Particles released in these fires made it all the way from Oregon to Washington, though the south, eventually reaching the UK (in early September).
Dust (brown) also makes an appearance, most notably piggybacking on storm systems out of the Sahara and towards the Americas. Unlike sea salt, however, it doesn’t last too long in the eye of the storm. Here, dust particles are captured by cloud droplets and rain down on the ocean.
Advances in computing speed allow scientists to include more details of these physical processes in their simulations than ever before. So in time, they’re only going to become more complex and will more closely reflect reality.
It was a busy night for the AMS and IMO (International Meteor Organization) that started early around 16:50 Universal Time (UT) with a fireball in the skies over Germany. Over 1180 witnesses reported to the AMS/IMO database within the first few hours of the event. Les than five hours later, near the weastern shores of France witness reported another significant fireball at 21:30 UT.
While excited fireball observers in Germany, France, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and Italy were filling out their forms, two significant fireballs fell over the United States during the hours of 01:40 and 03:30 UTC. The first over Arizona and the second over Ohio.
In total the AMS/IMO collected, grouped and analyzed over 1320 witness reports spanning these 4 fireballs in the 10 hours that followed the events.
If you want to learn more about Fireballs: read our Fireball FAQ.
Taurid or not Taurid: that is the question
Are the events related or simply coincidence. Could these events be part of the Taurid meteor shower which peaked this past Saturday? Associated with the comet Encke, the Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. Both branches of the Taurids are most notable for colorful fireballs and are often responsible for an increased number of fireball reports from September through November.
The first analysis conducted by former IMO president Dr. Juergen Rendtel of the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam from the raw data shows that the events that occurred over Arizona and France cannot be linked to the Taurids: the Arizona event was moving from North-West to South-East while the French event was moving from North-East to South-West. However, the events over Germany and Ohio fit the Taurids direction (East->West) and the low inclination angle at the time of the sightings! Note that the East-West direction is related to the Taurids only because the fireball occurred in the local evening. Later in the night or towards the morning the direction is different, of course.
Nov 14th 16:48 UT – Blue Fireball over Germany
The fireball that flew over Germany on Nov 14th around 16:48 UT is the most reported fireball event from Europe since the AMS and the IMO launched the international version of the AMS fireball form. Translated in 31 languages, this form potentially allows the whole population of the globe to report such events. So far, we received over 820 reports about this event from at least 7 different versions of the form: not only from the AMS and the IMO versions but also from the forms we customized for local organizations such as the French Networks Reforme and Vigie-Ciel, the Swiss organization Fachgruppe Meteorastronomie, the german organization Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V. and even from the Italian Network PRISMA.
Below is the 3D trajectory of the event (available in KML format from the Event#4299-2017 page):
The French event occurred over the city of Bordeaux (West of France) and it has been reported so far from about 20 witnesses. This event has been caught on cam by the french camera network FRIPON that is a member of the citizen science project Vigie-Ciel and by the French allsky amateur network BOAM.
We should receive more details about this event anytime soon. As stated above, this event doesn’t seem like being part of the Taurid Meteor Shower. The event has been caught by 10 cameras of the French Network (Toulouse, Angers, Talence, Sabres, Carcassonne, Aurillac, Hendaye, Saint Bonnet Vert, Coulounieix-Chamiers and Mauroux).
The AMS received 85 reports so far about this event that occurred over Arizona. We didn’t receive reports only from Arizona but also from California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico.
This event has been caught on at least two dash cams shared via the AMS Fireball report:
As stated above, the first estimated 3D trajectory doesn’t make this fireball a good candidate for the Taurid Meteor Shower. Traveling from North-West to South-East, the visible path of the fireball ended somewhere east of Happy Jack, AZ.
We received 34 reports so far about this event that occurred over Ohio but was also reported from Michiga, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Just like the German event, this fireball was travelling East to West. The first estimation of the 3D trajectory shows that the visible path of the fireball ended somewhere over Greenfield, OH.
Unfortunately, we didn’t receive any photo or video of this event yet. If you witnessed one of this event and/or if you have a video or a photo, please
He was on duty as a police officer in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and had been sent out to locate some loose cattle.
However, he ended up tracking down something he insists was more out of this world when he saw a flying saucer in Burnley Road.
Mr Godfrey lost around 15 minutes and remains convinced to this day, after undergoing regression, that he was abducted by alien occupants of the craft.
At the time he was interviewed on prime time TV news shows, and to this day it remains the UK's best-known alien abduction account.
Yet, UFO researcher Russ Callaghan, may have found a more earthly explanation for what went on.
Mr Callaghan has discovered something from the history of Todmorden, that was there at the time of the incident, was mobile, but has been over looked by other investigators.
More importantly, he said, it resembles the description given by Mr Godfrey of his "flying saucer."
According to a black and white image of the Todmorden futuro home, with a woman stood next to it, it matches the 20 feet across dimension given by Mr Godfrey in sketches.
Mr Godfrey said he saw "a metallic disc with a dome and a row of windows at the top."
However, he also insists that moments later, as he tried to sketch it, there was a burst of light, and he then found himself driving 100 yards farther up the road, with the UFO now gone.
However, Mr Callaghan discovered that since 1971 there had been a UFO inspired Futura home in Todmorden, and it was still there in 1980.
The plastic-built home resembled a UFO, with several large oval windows around it on the top half.
What's more, the building was mobile, and was transported around the town on the back of a truck.
Waterside Plastics
The Todmorden futuro home in the Watersides Plastics brochure dated 1969.
Mr Callaghan argued that, as it would have been dark at the time of the sighting, it could have been the futura home being moved on a truck that he saw, and mistook for an alien craft.
Mr Callaghan said: "Alan is a great guy, and I know he believes what he says he saw.
"I'm not saying Alan made this up."
However, he said it was a plausible theory that further up the road the futura building was being carried on a lorry, making it appear to be above the road.
Waterside Plastics
A sketch of the UFO Alan Godfrey saw, which Russ Callaghan says resembles the futuro home.
He said: "That is how they moved the building. Does it or does it not look like a flying saucer?
"The futura buildings were small liveable houses, but the documentary makers (about Alan Godfrey's abduction) never remember to mention it was there at the time.
"But it was there and we have got a photo of it, and we have not got a photo of what Alan saw in Burnley Road."
Futurohouse.com is a website dedicated to the quirky futuristic homes, which features a section on the one at Todmorden, which confirms it was moved on a lorry.
Malcolm Stroud said of it: "The house was made by Waterside Plastics in its Waterside Mill, Rochdale Road, Todmorden.
YouTube•WATERSIDE PLASTICS
CASE CLOSED? Did Alan Godfrey see and sketch a futura home (inset)?
That is how they moved the building. Does it or does it not look like a flying saucer?
Russ Callaghan
"The Futuro house was a one off and I understand they only made one. It was exhibited in Todmorden in 1971 for the town's centenary.
"The company went out of business in 1990.
"The house was exhibited outside the Abraham Omerod medical centre (now closed), in the town, near the railway viaduct.
"I have also been told that it functioned as offices for Waterside Plastics for some years."
He said there was a photo of it "peeping out" between Victorian mill buildings when it was being moved on a lorry.
Mr Callaghan also considered if Mr Godfrey just saw a bus with its lights on and got confused in the early-morning darkness.
This was because busses ran along that route at the time, and Mr Godfrey had initially said "I thought I were looking at a bus."
He also considered if it was a council road sweeping vehicle with flashing lights, also mistaken by Mr Godfrey for a UFO, before resting on the futura house theory.
Mr Callaghan was quizzed by other ufologists about what could account for Mr Godfrey's burst of light, missing time, and abduction claims.
Jon Austin
CASE CLOSED: Russ Callaghan delivering his theory at a UFO conference in Hull.
He pointed out that Mr Godfrey's vivid descriptions of what went on inside the craft had only come out after he was regressed by Jenny Randles, a prominent UFO and alien abduction investigator.
He said: "There was no mention of these prior to hypnosis.
"Under hypnosis, he came out with seeing alien beings with light bulb heads, and a black entity.
"But, before in a book, he also tells you he can't say if what he said under hypnosis was real or if he made it up because he has no recollection of these things prior to hypnosis."
BBC
Alan Godfrey interviewed by Frank Bough on BBC Breakfast at height of the media storm.
However, some believe the mystery remains as there were two independent sightings of something strange that morning.
A driver who was on Burnley Road, three miles further out at Cliviger, told of seeing a brilliant white object at the time of Mr Godfrey's sighting, and even contacted Todmorden police.
On top of this, a police patrol from nearby Halifax, searching for stolen motorbikes on Calder Valley moors saw a brilliant blue-white glow descending into the valley towards Todmorden shortly before Mr Godfrey experienced his close encounter.
Mr Godfrey insists what he saw was a flying saucer, and he has recently told all in the new book Who or What Were They?, in which he claims he was hounded from the force over the case.
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Nieuwe aardachtige planeet ontdekt met de beste kans op leven ooit. Dit is ‘m dan
Nieuwe aardachtige planeet ontdekt met de beste kans op leven ooit. Dit is ‘m dan
Sterrenkundigen hebben een nieuwe planeet ontdekt waar mogelijk leven is. Ross 128b staat op slechts 11 lichtjaar van de aarde en is ongeveer even groot als onze planeet.
De exoplaneet, waar de temperatuur ongeveer gelijk is als op aarde, is ontdekt met behulp van een zeer geavanceerde telescoop.
De gemiddelde temperatuur op Ross 128b ligt tussen -60 en 20 graden Celsius. De planeet is 1,35 keer zwaarder dan onze aarde.
Meest nabije
Wetenschappers van de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht (ESO) gaan de samenstelling van de exoplaneet verder onderzoeken. Ze gaan onder meer speuren naar de aanwezigheid van zuurstof en vloeibaar water.
Geschat wordt dat de planeet ongeveer vijf miljoen jaar oud is. Ross 128b is na Proxima b de meest nabije gematigde planeet die tot nu toe is opgespoord.
Het is bovendien de meest nabije planeet die om een inactieve rode dwergster cirkelt, wat de kans vergroot dat zich leven in stand kan houden.
Heel geschikt
“Deze ontdekking is gebaseerd op meer dan 10 jaar intensief onderzoek,” liet coauteur Nicola Astudillo-Defru van de Universiteit van Genève weten.
Rode dwergen zijn de koelste en zwakste, maar ook de meest talrijke sterren in het heelal. Dit maakt hen heel geschikt voor de zoektocht naar exoplaneten.
Bij deze sterren laten kleine, koele soortgenoten van de aarde zich gemakkelijker opsporen dan bij sterren die meer op de zon lijken.
Aangename verblijfplaats
Veel rode dwergsterren, waaronder Proxima Centauri, produceren soms opvlammingen waarbij de planeten die om hen heen cirkelen met dodelijke straling worden bestookt.
Ross 128 lijkt een veel kalmere ster te zijn en dus zouden zijn planeten weleens de meest nabije aangename verblijfplaats voor leven kunnen zijn.
De ster staat zoals gezegd op 11 lichtjaar, maar beweegt in onze richting. Naar verwachting zal hij over minder dan 80.000 jaar onze meest nabije buurster zijn.
Dan verdringt Ross 128b dus ook Proxima b als meest nabije exoplaneet.
Bekijk ook onderstaand filmpje over de ontdekking:
Geheime afgesloten doorgang ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Wat bevindt zich erachter?
Geheime afgesloten doorgang ontdekt onder Mexicaanse piramide. Wat bevindt zich erachter?
Experts hebben onder een eeuwenoude Mayapiramide een geheime doorgang ontdekt die leidt naar een met water gevulde grot, een zogeheten cenote.
Archeologen hopen dat de afgesloten doorgang onder de piramide van Kukulcan in Chichen Itza de ‘heilige geografie’ van het complex zal onthullen.
Het team van Guillermo de Anda doet al enkele maanden onderzoek bij het bouwwerk. De cenote werd twee jaar geleden ontdekt met behulp van speciale apparatuur.
Zinkgat
In 2015 onthulde een team onder leiding van Rene Chavez van de Nationale Autonome Universiteit van Mexico het bestaan van het zinkgat waarop de piramide was gebouwd.
Nu lijkt archeoloog De Anda de ingang naar de cenote te hebben ontdekt.
“Via het ossuarium kunnen we de grot onder het bouwwerk binnengaan en daar hebben we een afgesloten doorgang ontdekt,” zei hij tegen de krant El Universal.
Ingang
“De doorgang is waarschijnlijk afgesloten door de oude Maya’s zelf,” voegde hij toe.
“We zullen de doorgang proberen te openen om te kijken of hij ons zal leiden naar de ingang van de cenote onder El Castillo,” zei de archeoloog in een interview.
Bewezen
Eerst moet bewezen worden dat de geheime doorgang bestaat. “We hebben nu alleen de afbeeldingen,” zei de onderzoeker. “We moeten zelf gaan kijken.”
Het team hoopt op den duur een 3D-kaart te maken van de ondergrondse grotten en tunnelcomplexen onder Chichen Itza.
UFO verschijnt boven marinebasis in Californië. Is dit bewijs voor buitenaards bezoek?
UFO verschijnt boven marinebasis in Californië. Is dit bewijs voor buitenaards bezoek?
Op de foto is een vreemd object te zien in de lucht boven de woestijn in Californië. De afbeelding is gemaakt door een man die het pseudoniem Keith Bradshaw gebruikt.
Hij zegt naar het Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake te zijn afgereisd nadat een vriend hem had verteld over het vaartuig.
Hij heeft de foto’s naar eigen zeggen in 2007 gemaakt, maar durfde ze niet naar buiten te brengen, schrijft de Daily Mirror.
Geen geluid
“Dit ding bleef dicht bij de grond hangen, het was erg instabiel,” zei hij. “Het bleef stil hangen, ging omhoog en bleef weer enkele minuten helemaal stil hangen.”
“Het maakte voor zover ik weet geen geluid,” voegde hij toe.
Keith zei dat hij ongeveer 10 minuten naar het object heeft gekeken. Hij claimt ook dat een aantal legervoertuigen in de buurt van de zilverkleurige UFO geparkeerd stonden.
Debat
Er vloog zelfs een legerhelikopter rond, aldus de man. “Ik denk niet dat er iemand in zat, maar ik kreeg het idee dat de helikopter het op de één of andere manier bestuurde.”
Met het vrijgeven van de foto’s hoopt Keith een debat op gang te brengen over de vraag of we zijn bezocht door buitenaardsen of dat het een experimenteel toestel van het leger was.
Meest controversiële UFO-foto’s
Hij gaf de foto’s aan de 54-jarige UFO-onderzoeker Philip Mantle, die zei dat hij in de 40 jaar dat hij hier onderzoek naar doet nog nooit zoiets heeft gezien.
Mantle sprak van ‘de meest controversiële UFO-foto’s ooit’. Hij voegde toe dat experts nog niet met zekerheid hebben kunnen vaststellen of de foto’s echt zijn.
DE MEEST SPECTACULAIRE UFO FOTO'S OOIT GENOMEN OP EEN BEKENDE UFO HOTSPOT
DE MEEST SPECTACULAIRE UFO FOTO'S OOIT GENOMEN OP EEN BEKENDE UFO HOTSPOT
De Mojave woestijn in het zuiden van Californië wordt al decennialang een hotspot genoemd voor bijzonder UFO en buitenaardse waarnemingen.
Daar zijn nu een aantal spectaculaire foto's bij gekomen die door sommigen worden omschreven als de beste UFO opnames ooit.
Een bijzonder verhaal is net naar buiten gekomen via Tyler van Secureteam. Het betreft het verhaal van een getuige die tien jaar geleden iets heeft gezien en gefotografeerd, maar zo bang werd dat hij al die tijd zijn mond heeft dichtgehouden.
De man die bekend staat als Keith Bradshaw had in 2007 een vriend die werkzaam was op een Amerikaanse legerbasis die hem vertelde dat daar bijzondere dingen gebeuren. Die basis was de Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake. Deze basis bevindt zich in de Mojave woestijn in Californië.
Keith ging op een goede dag op pad om zelf te onderzoeken of er inderdaad iets bijzonders gaande was en toen hij in de buurt van de basis kwam, zag hij een zwarte helikopter in de lucht hangen.
Het was pas toen hij dichterbij kwam, dat hij ook een vreemd diamantvormig object zag hangen.
Het schijnt dat de man zo schrok van dit alles dat hij zijn shirt uittrok om minder op te vallen in het landschap, terwijl hij er in slaagde om nog wat foto's te maken.
Het is inderdaad een heel bijzonder object dat er, wanneer je het vergroot, als volgt uit ziet:
Bradshaw vertelde verder dat het object geen geluid maakte en soms heen en weer wiebelde, waarna het een stukje hoger ging en dan weer terug om vervolgens op dezelfde plek te blijven hangen.
Talloze experts hebben ondertussen de foto's bekeken en de meningen zijn verdeeld. Er zijn erbij die dit de beste UFO foto's ooit vinden en er zijn er die de nodige twijfels hebben omdat er zoveel nepfoto's en video's zijn over juist dit onderwerp.
Waar echter geen enkele twijfel over bestaat, is dat de Mojave woestijn een UFO hotspot is.
Al decennialang zijn er verhalen over vreemde gebeurtenissen in die woestijn, zoals in 1985, toen de Britse piloot David Hastings daar vloog samen met een collega in een Cessna Skymaster.
Ze zagen op een gegeven moment een stip aan de horizon die heel snel groter werd, tot er op een gegeven moment een grote schaduw over hun vliegtuig ging. Ze hoorden geen geluid en er was ook geen verdere turbulentie.
Hastings slaagde erin om een foto te maken vanuit de cockpit, waarop duidelijk een sigaarvormig object is te zien. Wat je linksboven op de foto ziet, is de vleugel van het vliegtuig.
Vier jaar later gebeurt er weer iets heel opmerkelijks in die woestijn. Wederom een gebeurtenis waarbij een sigaarvormige UFO een rol speelt.
Het staat bekend als het Mojave Incident en het betreft de ontvoering van Steve en Dawn Hess.
Dit stel was aan het kamperen in de woestijn toen ze een vreemd licht waarnamen wat boven de berg verscheen en daarna weer verdween. Er ging een soort elektrische schok door hem heen en hij herinnerde zich datzelfde licht uit de tijd dat hij nog een kind was.
Pal daarop zagen ze een formatie van negen lichten verschijnen in de lucht in de vorm van de letter M. Even later verschenen er twee grote sigaarvormige objecten die als het ware de wacht hielden bij de camper waar de kampeerders in waren gevlucht.
Weer wat later verscheen er een enorm moederschip met wat een kleiner schip er pal onder. De camper was even later omsingeld door klassieke Gray aliens en daarmee begon de bizarre ervaring die ze omschrijving als een psychologische marteling die urenlang duurde.
Dit hele verhaal komt ter sprake in de volgende video waar bovendien uit blijkt dat er misschien door het Amerikaanse leger wel geheime experimenten worden uitgevoerd, maar dat er zich daar ook wel degelijk buitenaardsen bevinden.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET21 juni 2043: dat is de dag dat wetenschappers van Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) aan hun ontvangers gekluisterd zullen zijn, in de hoop bericht te krijgen van een buitenaardse beschaving op GJ273b. Dat is een superaarde op 12,4 lichtjaar – 70.000.000.000.000 kilometer – van onze aarde. Exact een maand geleden verstuurden ze daartoe enkele boodschappen.
Dat gebeurde op 16, 17 en 18 oktober. De wetenschappers gebruikten radiogolven en lieten de berichten op negen verschillende momenten horen, om de kans te vergroten dat ze worden opgepikt. In totaal werd er elke dag voor 11 minuten uitgezonden.
De boodschap zelf bestaat onder meer uit 18 muziekstukken van 10 seconden, voorbeelden van wiskunde en technologie én uitleg over de manier waarop we de tijd bijhouden. Aan de hand daarvan legden de wetenschappers ook uit wanneer we zouden luisteren voor een mogelijk antwoord.
Het bericht werd niet zomaar lukraak gestuurd, maar naar een nabijgelegen exoplaneet GJ273b. Die draait rond de Ster van Luyten – een rode dwerg – en wordt door astronomen ook wel omschreven als een ‘superaarde’. De massa is iets groter dan die van onze planeet en hij bevindt zich op een afstand van zijn ster die leven er mogelijk kan maken.
Controversieel
Het is de allereerste keer dat de mensheid een boodschap verstuurt die gericht is op een antwoord op een specifiek moment. Het uitsturen van boodschappen naar mogelijk buitenaards leven zodat het ons kan vinden, is overigens controversieel. Onder meer de vermaarde wetenschapper Stephen Hawking waarschuwde al voor de gevaren daarvan. “Als dergelijk buitenaards leven ons bezoekt, dan zal het er ongeveer aan toe gaan zoals toen Columbus in Amerika landde. En we weten allemaal hoe dat afliep voor de oorspronkelijke bevolking”, zei hij al. (lees hieronder verder)
RVDouglas Vakoch van METI.
Douglas Vakoch van METI relativeert. “Als er een buitenaardse beschaving bestond die in staat was om naar de aarde te reizen met het doel ons kwaad te doen, zou die al veel eerder al onze radio- en tv-signalen opgepikt hebben en naar hier gekomen zijn. Onze atmosfeer geeft overigens al 2,5 miljard jaar bewijs af van leven door de zuurstof in de lucht.”
SETI
METI is de tegenhanger van SETI – Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – dat ook vindt dat we actief moeten zoeken naar buitenaards leven, maar dan door te proberen boodschappen van anderen op te vangen in plaats van ze zelf te versturen. Voor het project werkte METi samen met het Instituut voor Ruimtestudies van Catalonië (IEEC) en het Spaanse muziekfestival Sónar.
“Hopelijk krijgen we antwoord”, aldus Vakoch. “Maar de kans bestaat dat we het experiment nog een aantal keer zullen moeten herhalen in de richting van andere planeten voor we geluk hebben. Ik zie het eerder op langere termijn. We moeten daarbij een systeem ontwikkelen waarmee we niet één maar vele tientallen, duizenden of zelfs miljoenen planeten tegelijk proberen te bereiken. Alleen zo kunnen we onze kansen vergroten om ooit een respons te ontvangen.”
After all of the recent predictions of a collision between Planet X/Nibiru and Earth have come and gone, a little announcement from a credible source sneaks in with actual sightings of a real exoplanet that’s not only near to Earth but may support life and it and its star may be on a collision course with Earth and the Sun. Should we celebrate, panic or both?
The announcement comes from the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics which published a report from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) whose scientists used ten years of data from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) in Chile on Ross 128, a small red dwarf in the constellation Virgo (named for American astronomer Frank Elmore Ross) that’s a mere 10.89 light years from our solar system. That data showed a wobble in Ross 128 indicating that something is speedily orbiting it every 10 days. That something is an exoplanet with some special characteristics.
“The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be discovered orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, which may increase the likelihood that this planet could potentially sustain life.”
The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher
(HARPS)
Ross 128 b is about the same size as Earth and, despite being 20 times closer to its star, has an Earth-ish surface temperature raging between –60°C and 20°C (–78°F and 68°F). Couple that with the fact that its dim red sun can’t fry it with radiation either and Roth 128 b becomes a better candidate for life than Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri. ESO astronomers will know more in 2025 when they’re able to look for oxygen biomarkers using the new Extremely Large Telescope.
2025? What about the collision? Will we still exist by then?
“Although it is currently 11 light-years from Earth, Ross 128 is moving towards us and is expected to become our nearest stellar neighbour in just 79 000 years — a blink of the eye in cosmic terms. Ross 128 b will by then take the crown from Proxima b and become the closest exoplanet to Earth!”
That’s disappointing news to Planet X fans but hugely exciting for astronomers, since 79,000 years is a blink of an eye for them, especially when you consider this is the time it will take for Ross 128 and Ross 128 b to travel seven light years – from 11 light years to less than Proxima b’s 4.2 light years away.
So Ross 128 b is not Planet X, but it does prove that a star and its planet(s) could be moving quite fast through the galaxy … giving a tiny bit of credence to the theory that Planet X is orbiting the Sun’s binary sibling and they’re on a fast path to collision. Then again, if astronomers can see Ross 128 and Ross 128 b at 11 billion light years away, shouldn’t they already be able to see Planet X and its star?
The subject of UFO research is filled with cases that positively reek of high strangeness. And they don’t get much stranger than a very weird incident which occurred in August 1955, in the vicinity of Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Depending on whose version of events you accept as the truth, either aliens landed or a band of marauding circus monkeys – painted silver, no less – were on the loose! Kelly was, and still is, a small, rural town which is situated just short of ten miles from Hopkinsville. It was the night of August 15 when absolute chaos broke out. It all went down at the farmhouse of the Sutton family, who had visitors in from Pennsylvania: Billy Ray Taylor and his wife. Around 7.00 p.m. Billy Ray left the farmhouse to fetch water from the family’s well. And what a big mistake that was.
In mere minutes, Billy Ray was back, minus the water. Terrified Billy Ray told the Suttons and his wife that as he headed towards the well he saw a significantly sized, illuminated, circular-shaped object come to rest in a nearby gully. As the group tried to figure out what on earth (or off it…) was going on, they mused upon the possibilities of shooting stars, meteorites, and good old leg-pulling. By all accounts, it was none of those. In just a few minutes, the Sutton’s dog began to bark, growl, and snarl in aggressive, uncontrollable fashion – after which it raced for cover underneath the porch. Clearly, something strange was going down. Exactly how strange, soon became very apparent.
Intent on making sure they were in control of the situation, Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray Taylor armed themselves with a shotgun and headed out into the darkness. In no time, they were confronted by something terrifying: a small, silvery, creature – in the region of three feet tall – that was scurrying towards them with its long, ape-like, arms held high in the air. Sutton did what most folk might do when confronted by a strange, dwarfish thing after sunset: he blasted the beast with his shotgun. To the consternation of both men, the gun had no effect, aside from causing the creature to do a quick, impressive back-flip, after which it disappeared into the darkness – for a while.
Rather wisely, Elmer and Billy Ray raced for the safety of the farmhouse and locked the doors behind them. In mere moments, the same creature – or, at least, a very similar one – was seen peering through one of the windows. Elmer’s son, J.C., took a shot at it. The only damage was to the window. The small beast scurried away at lightning speed. Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray took a tentative walk outside to see if they could see the creature – or creatures. That was a very bad move: as they prowled around the property, a clawed hand came down from the roof and seized Billy Ray’s hair and head.
Terrified Billy Ray pulled away, screaming, to see the creature charge across the roof. To their horror, a second creature was staring at them from the branch of a nearby tree. A second shoot-out achieved nothing, aside from the remarkably weird sight of the creatures floating – rather than leaping or falling – to the ground and then racing into the darkness. The tumultuous events continued throughout the night, with guns firing, and the creepy little beasts seemingly doing their very best to create as much havoc and mayhem as was conceivably possible.
Realizing that the situation might very well go on all night, the group decided there was only one option available to them: they had to flee the farmhouse, which they did in two cars, making their speedy way to the sheriff’s office in nearby Hopkinsville. The sheer, collective state of fear into which the Suttons and the Taylors had been plunged, pretty much immediately convinced the sheriff that whatever had happened, it was no drunken prank.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on one’s perspective), by the time the sheriff and the family arrived back at the farmhouse, the creatures were gone – they did, however, put in a reappearance in the early hours, and conveniently after the police had left. In no time at all, the media got onto the story, as did the U.S. Air Force – the latter coming up with a very bizarre explanation as its staff sought to lay matters to rest.
Before we get to the matter of that explanation, it’s important to have a full understanding of the physical appearance of the creatures, drawn from the memories and recollections of the players: the Suttons and the Taylors. All of the strange entities were near-identical: long arms, skinny legs, large ears, and yellow eyes. As for their gait, they moved in a strange, pivoting fashion. And, there was the fact that they were all silver in color. Cue the Air Force’s best estimate of what really happened.
With absolutely nothing solid – at all – to back up its claims, the Air Force suggested the culprits were monkeys, painted silver, and which had escaped from a traveling circus! As cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard notes, it’s “a theory more ridiculous than the notion of invading aliens.” Nevertheless, the Air Force stuck to its guns, with Major John E. Albert being the major proponent of the circus escapee/painted monkeys theory.
Ufologists did not just accept this theory without question. One of the most respected of all UFO researchers was Dr. J. Allen Hynek. He said (in The Hynek UFO Report), of his investigation of the Air Force’s claim: “I did make an attempt to find out whether there had been any traveling circuses in the area from which some monkeys could have escaped. The monkey hypothesis fails, however, if the basic testimony of the witnesses can be accepted. Under a barrage of gunfire from Kentuckians, over a somewhat extended period, it is unthinkable that at least one cadaver would not have been found. Furthermore, monkeys do not float down from trees: they either jump or fall. And, anyway, I was unable to find any trace of a traveling circus!”
The 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville saga remains unresolved to this day. The fact that the incident began with the sighting of what may well have been a UFO, has led flying saucer sleuths to conclude a mini-alien invasion briefly broke out in rural Kentucky. On the other hand, is it possible that the Air Force was, at least, partly on the right track? Could the creatures have been monkeys, after all? They are questions that, decades later, still endure.
Although it seems that these fireballs were at least somewhat related with the Tuarids and with the comet Encke, the fireballs that occurred in Arizona and France are not related to the Tuarids due to their origin and direction, the fireballs over Ohio and Germany were probably Tuarids.
Below videos show the fireball that flew across the Phoenix sky and captured by the Phoenix city Cam and the fireball over Southern Ohio uploaded by J. Verrico on the American Meteor Society Website.
The American Meteor Society has noted before that there has been a dramatic increase in fireball /meteor activity since the last two years.
Coast To Coast AM – November 10, 2017 UFO Secrets & Open Lines with Jimmy Church
Author Peter Levenda joined Jimmy Church (Fade To Black) to discuss his collaboration with Tom DeLonge, and his work speaking with officials who hold secrets to some of the most intriguing questions about UFOs and our universe. Open Lines followed in the latter half of program.
German air traffic control spokesman Christian Hoppe added: 'We can only say that it was not an aircraft.'
The majority of the UFO sightings came from the German states of Saarland, Baden-Wuerttemberg and the southern part of Hesse, but it was also spotted in Switzerland and on the other side of the Alps at Italy's Lake Garda.
As the light moves across the sky, it changes colour to a blue-green and grows in size and brightness
Eventually the glow of the light begins to fade out as it returns to a white colour and drops through the sky
The sighting comes at the height of the Leonid meteor shower, which peaks in mid-November.
If the object was a meteor, it is unclear whether it crashed somewhere or burned out in the sky.
The police said they had received no reports of damage.
‘A stable bright light, larger than anything practical shined into my room on the second floor, not making any noise; it disappeared.’
It’s one of nearly 60,000 unsettling stories revealed in a new map of the contiguous United States, compiling UFO sightings from every state, dating back to 1995.
While these mysterious encounters may largely have slipped out of the public eye after the Cold War-era UFO craze died down, the map shows reports have steadily grown in the last two decades, hitting a mid-summer peak each year.
Scroll down to try the interactive map
The map shows these reports are concentrated in major cities and dense population hubs, making places like New York and the surrounding metropolitan area hotspots for UFO sightings, along with southern and central California. The Great Lakes region also had a high concentration of UFO sightings
The new map of reported UFO sightings in the US was created by Data Solutions Engineer Adam Crahen of the Data Duo, using data from Kaggle UFO sightings.
There's little doubt that the internet has played a role in the growth of UFO reports in recent years, though most can be explained by natural or human-caused phenomena.
The image of UFOs in America is often associated with sparsely populated rural settings; a mysterious object hovering over a field of crops, or crashing in a remote expanse of desert land, likely fueled by the famous 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico.
But, the map shows these reports are actually concentrated in major cities and dense population hubs, making places such as New York and the surrounding metropolitan area hotspots for UFO sightings, along with southern and central California.
The map was created by Data Solutions Engineer Adam Crahen of the Data Duo , using data from Kaggle UFO sightings. Click each green circle to see the details of the report, including a description of the sighting and the shape of the UFO
One account, from Fresno, claims: ‘Brilliant flashing light giving off a star affect traveling at an incredible rate of speed, from north to south.’
Another report, from September 2, 1995, says: ‘Two males leaving a concert in Central Park witness strange moving light close to E. horizon. Moved very precisely, turned, vanished.’
The Great Lakes region also had a high concentration of UFO sightings.
In one report from Ohio, a worker even claimed he could not account for half an hour of his night after a bizarre encounter.
A reported UFO sighting over Minnville, Oregon, is pictured above
CIA RELEASES ITS OWN 'X-FILES'
Last year, the CIA released a glimpse into its own set of 'X-Files,' a small compilation of documents pulled from its expansive UFO collection, dating back to the 1940s.
The agency said that these documents appeal to both skeptics and believers – the Scullys and Mulders of the world – who seek to prove scientific explanations, or confirm the existence of extraterrestrial activity.
One of the documents among the CIA's 'X-Files' is from East Germany in 1952, where agents were called to investigate what witnesses described as a 'huge flying pan'.
The object was said to have a diameter of about 15 meters, according to the document.
Similar flying saucers were also spotted in North Africa and Spain, the report said.
'The picture [of the object] shows a diagonal stripe of diminishing width and lighter in shade than the sky over the dark bulk of a building cornice,' it was noted.
Included with some of the documents were three pictures of the alleged extraterrestrials.
One of the photos - taken by British student Alex Birch in 1962 - claimed to show a group of flying saucers flying over the city of Sheffield in the UK.
Also contained in the files is the case in Socorro, New Mexico in 1964, when police officer Lonnie Zamora spotted a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert.
Upon investigation, he found a shiny object the size of a sedan perched on the hilltop, which was oval in shape and aluminium in color.
The object then began to rise into the air and then sped away from him over the mountains and disappeared.
An explanation for this case has never been determined.
The map also organizes the sightings by month, year, and day, showing when the reports were most frequent.
Most sightings appear to occur in the summer months, with night-time in July being the most popular.
But, these unusual reports have occurred all over the country, and at all different times of the year.
The image of UFOs in America is often associated with sparsely populated rural settings. But the map shows they often occur in major cities.
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‘I saw a large fireball pass over my house at about 1000 feet – no noise, traveling about 15 mph’,’ one person, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, claimed on December 25.
Another, from Tillamook Oregon, said they saw ‘One mother ship with four smaller destinct [sic] satellite objects moving randomly,’ on January 18, 2009.
There are countless practical explanations for strange lights appearing in the sky or even in photos captured in space.
Weather is often to blame, or phenomena such as meteor showers and aircraft tests.
And, often, it’s just a trick of the light.
Of bizarre UFO sightings spotted around the International Space Station, for example, a NASA spokesperson explained in the past, 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.'
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UFO Spotted? Burst of Light Flashes Across Phoenix Sky (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
UFO Spotted? Burst of Light Flashes Across Phoenix Sky (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
A streak of light that lit up the Phoenix night sky was caught on camera around 8:30 p.m. local time Tuesday night, and observers quickly took to Twitter to speculate about aliens or as for “rational” explanations.
The strange bright bursts showed up a few days before the mid-November Leonid meteor shower is expected to take place, suggesting that the fireball is more likely to be a meteor than an alien spacecraft or military test vehicle.
The fireball was seen across the American Southwest. "The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 85 reports so far about this event that occurred over Arizona. We didn't receive reports only from Arizona but also from California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. This event has been caught on at least two dash cams shared via the AMS Fireball report," the organization wrote on their website.
If there is a ufo sighting or meteorite crash landing in North Phoenix I'm calling it I'm not a crazy person yet I saw it don't let them take me alive I know how to survive.
"The Leonid meteor shower is active in November, and is expected to peak later this week. It's not clear whether this flash was related to that meteor shower," Arizona 12 news reported.
The Leonids are named as such because they radiate constellation Leo, the Lion. Some of the most stunning meteor showers ever witnessed have been Leonids.
Saw what definitely looked like a plane crash 3 hrs ago in Phoenix. Not the only one who saw it, but can't find anything online outside of crazy UFO sightings. Rational explanations please reply. #PlaneCrash
According to NASA, you are most likely to see the meteors if you "orient yourself with your feet towards east, lie flat on your back, and look up, taking in as much of the sky as possible."
Huge fireball over Western Germany observed tonight (Nov 14, ~16h50 UT) from Germany, Eastern France, Italy and Switzerland. More than 200 reports received in 3 hours! If you observed, recorded, or photographed it, please report! Thanks in advance!http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2017/4299?org=imo …
The International Meteor Organization (IMO) received around 1,450 reports of sightings of the unidentified flying object from the public, with the most vivid coming over the German provinces of Bayern and Baden-Württemberg and the French region of Grand Est. Those who spotted the fireball from the ground posted pictures to social media using the hashtag #Sternschnuppe, meaning “shooting star.”
An analysis of the object by former IMO president Dr Jürgen Rendtel of the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam linked the event to the forthcoming Taurid Meteor Shower, which occurs every three years. The shower brings remnants of the comets Concke and 2004 TG10 into the Earth’s atmosphere, where they can burn up in bright streaks.
A spokesman for German air traffic control told Stuttgarter-Zeitung: “We can only say that it was not an aircraft.”
Other fireballs have been spotted over Bordeaux in France and the US state of Arizona but they have been ruled as unrelated to the Taurid event due to their steep trajectory. Video of the Arizona event has, too, been posted online.
Dramatic 'fireball' in the sky prompts anxious Germans to call POLICE during mysterious UFO alert
Dramatic 'fireball' in the sky prompts anxious Germans to call POLICE during mysterious UFO alert
A crashing Chinese space station, a meteor or an alien spacecraft were among the possibilities put forward
By Dave Burke
A dramatic 'fireball' seen speeding through the sky above Germany has sparked alarm.
The UFO was seen by worried citizens as far away as Italy and Switzerland, prompting German police to speculate that it was a 'celestial body'.
Mysterious video shows the bright object speeding above the town of Hoechen, sparking questions about what it shows.
It seems to get brighter and gives out blue and green light before fading into the distance.
A police spokesman told Stuttgarter-Zeitung that the force received a number of calls about the fireball, but said: "We could not tell you what the bright light was."
The bright object was reportedly seen in Germany, Italy and Switzerland(Image: CEN)
And German air traffic control spokesman Christian Hoppe told the newspaper: "We can only say that it was not an aircraft."
Anxious witnesses took to Twitter to share their theories on what they had seen.
A crashing Chinese space station, a meteor or an alien spacecraft were among the possibilities put forward.
Worried witnesses contacted police after seeing the object in the sky(Image: CEN)
Most sightings of the UFO came from the German states of Saarland, Baden-Wuerttemberg and the southern part of Hesse, although it was also spotted in Switzerland and even the other side of the Alps at Italy's Lake Garda.
The latest sighting comes at the height of the Leonid meteor shower, which peaks in mid-November.
The Leonids get their name from the location in the constellation of Leo from which they seem to appear.
If the object was indeed a meteor, it is not known if it crashed somewhere or burned out completely in the sky.
Police say there were no reports of any damage from a meteorite impact.
Il doit exister d'autres vaisseaux spatiaux humains secrets, mais on reste quand même très prêt de la "tôle et boulons" comparés à d'autres vaisseaux extra terrestres que l'on peut voir dans le ciel et qui semblent presque être formés de pure énergie.
On est en couches culottes ici les amis Et les grands frères (nous dans un version présente future) nous disent d’arrêter nos conneries et qu'il est temps de grandir si on veut passer à la suite. Ils nous rappellent que nous sommes UNIS et tous interconnectés.
Question : pourquoi on paye des routes et de l'essence alors qu'on a l'antigravité depuis au moins 70 ans ?
A website called The Data Duo held a contest for the best visualization of UFO sightings data. Their data covers UFO sightings from 1960 to 2014 and reveals some interesting info.
The Data Duo’s third #DuoDare is for the best visualization of UFO sightings. The dataset includes latitude and longitude data, so they were able to produce some cool looking maps. However, there is little to be gleaned from the maps, but there are still other bits of info they obtained.
The Data Duo, Pooja Gandhi and Adam Crahen, made their best attempts at showing the data, and although I am partial to Pooja’s map, Adam is in the lead when it comes to votes. Previously, I have referred to these sorts of graphics as “infographics,” but the Data Duo refer to them as a “viz.” That is short and cooler. Here are their visualizations (vizs).
Pooja’s UFO Visualization. Click on the image to see her full interactive visualization.
(Credit: The Data Duo)
Adam’s UFO Visualization. Click on the image to see his full interactive visualization.
(Credit: The Data Duo)
An article has popped up on Bustle about Adam’s map, and they note the areas where there are more sightings and ask some experts why there might be more sightings in these areas. However, there is a problem with this. If you look at this map and a map of the United States at night, you will see the similarities.
US at night compilation photo.
(Credit: NASA)
As you can see they are very similar. This is because UFO sightings are reported more frequently in areas that have more people. Which makes sense. In order to discover where there are more sightings, it is more accurate to look at the areas that have more sightings per person. I always look at the data both ways. Here is an analysis I did of UFO sightings from the year 2014.
Top 20 States Reporting UFOs in 2014.
(Click to enlarge)
The data used by the Data Duo is from a website called Kaggle. Kaggle provides datasets for data crunchers to analyze. The UFO data Kaggle uses is from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). NUFORC has been receiving UFO reports for years, and they were the first to post them online. NUFORC is not actually a “they.” It is ran by a man by the name of Peter Davenport in Washington. Davenport posts his information raw.
The organization I use to compile my lists, like the 2014 data above, is from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). They have also been collecting reports for years. They investigate their reports to determine their validity. They find the vast majority to be explainable. MUFON did not get their data online until much later than NUFOC, and getting their data is difficult. In fact, I used to have access to more of it, but now I just have a monthly report they send out. Now that I think of it, I am not sure they even send that out anymore. This is why many media outlets use Davenport’s information. There is also a book out titled UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015 that analyzes MUFON data.
I downloaded the data from Kaggle that the Data Duo used to pour it up with population data to see where the real hotspots are. Essentially I just divided the number of sightings by the number of people in each state. You can see the places that have more sightings per person are very different that the ones with the most sightings.
Top states for UFO sightings per population using Kaggle data used by the Data Duo.
It is important to read the data right. If you were looking to have a UFO experience, and you go to the area with the most reports, you could be lowering your odds. The odds are better if you go to a place having more sightings per person. Or maybe you want to be far away from UFOs, and you think you are going to a state like New Hampshire, which has very few sightings. However, New Hampshire has a lot of UFO sighting per person, so you may inadvertently have ended up smack dab in the middle of UFO country.
Even though I think the Bustle article is relying way to much on the number of sightings instead of the sightings per person, it is still an article I recommend you read. It has some interesting speculation on where aliens might visit if they were to visit Earth, or why they might be visiting the places they may be buzzing around right now.
Courtesy of Small Town Monsters "The Mothman of Point Pleasant", a new documentary by Ohio-based production company Small town Monsters, will debut on the SyFy Channel on February 2018
Courtesy of Small Town Monsters Seth Breedlove is the procducer and director of "The Mothman of Point Pleasant" and the founder of the film's production company Small town Monsters
It was Nov. 16, 1966, that the first reports of the sighting of Mothman hit the papers.
Unlike many local legends that fade away with time, the story of the Mothman - and the high number of bizarre reports of things like UFOs and Men in Black coming out of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, from November 1966 to mid December 1967 - seem to be a story that forever has wings.
The latest Mothman-themed project is a new documentary film by Small Town Monsters called "The Mothman of Point Pleasant," which features interviews with eyewitnesses such as Faye Dewitt Leport as well as local experts including Jeff Wamsley of the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant and The Herald-Dispatch columnist Dave Peyton, who reported on the Mothman, UFO and Men in Black sightings in the area.
Released earlier this summer and debuting locally at this fall's Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, the documentary spans from November 1966 to December 1967 when area residents reported witnessing UFOs, strange government and military-related activity and, of course, many sightings of a strange, large, black-winged creature, mostly in the TNT area just north of Point Pleasant.
Seth Breedlove, producer and director of the film and founder of Small Town Monsters, a film production company based out of Wadsworth, Ohio, (just west of Akron), said he wanted the film to chronologically log the reports.
Funded through a Kickstarter campaign, Breedlove said he hopes the film engages viewers with unnerving accounts from original witnesses and area residents as well as deliver new information related to the case.
"Our tagline for the movie is 'The 13 months that changed history,'" Breedlove said in an interview at the Mothman Festival in September. "I have seen a lot of these documentaries and read books and all of that kind of stuff, and there has been a ton of material put out about the Mothman. I was very hesitant to do it, because I didn't know what we would be adding to it, but I realized there had not really been a down-and-dirty documentary with all of the information chronologically from the first sighting to the last, including the bridge disaster, where they didn't try to turn the bridge disaster into sort of ridiculous omen by the Mothman."
Breedlove said treating the Silver Bridge disaster with its due respect was of utmost importance. The Silver Bridge collapse on Dec. 15, 1967, claimed 46 lives. There were no more reports of Mothman sightings after the collapse.
"What we wanted to do was simply put out the series of events, the way they transpired over that 13-month span of time, how it impacted people that lived here and include the bridge disaster in a way that was respectful to the victims and the family who are still in the area," Breedlove said.
Breedlove said his introduction into the paranormal world and the Mothman stories came about in 2002, when he was in his early 20s. He and his buddies hit their neighborhood dollar cinema to check out "The Mothman Prophecies" and then saw it again and again.
"We went to see that movie many times together, and that was sort of my introduction into the strange and unusual," Breedlove said. "What is cool about that now is that we showed our Mothman movie to the screenwriter of 'Mothman Prophecies,' and he loved it."
Breedlove and his crew have cut their filming teeth doing Bigfoot documentary films on sightings around Ohio. Those include "Minerva Monster" in 2015 followed by "Beast of Whitehall" and "Boggy Creek Monster" in 2016.
"I have been into film since I was a kid but started making movies three years ago to actually put them out front of an audience. Prior to that I did short films with my buddies," Breedlove said. "We started on 'Mothman' last year, and it was part of a book proposal I put together in 2013 called 'Smalltown Monsters.' That was the whole genesis for the production company and the series. We have been doing it for three years, but the idea has been percolating for five or six years."
Breedlove, whose Small Town Monsters production company released the film "Invasion of Chestnut Ridge" - about a possible 1965 UFO crash in rural Pennsylvania - in October, said there are few stories that stand out like Mothman, a story first chronicled in local newspapers (including extensively in the The Herald-Dispatch) and then internationally, thanks to the 1975 book "The Mothman Prophecies" by author John Keel.
"Before we mostly made movies about Bigfoot, so this was our first step into the truly bizarre stuff," Breedlove said. "I don't know how we will ever top this story, because it is an amazing story. ... this story has so much to it, and a lot of heart and emotion, with the tragedy of the bridge collapse. I am sure we will still tell stories that I love, and I love the one we just told, but as far as the emotional angle of this, nothing compares. Even this morning I went down to the the bridge plaque there where the bridge was, and it is still just so emotional. I think that is what drew me to it, the bridge collapse. I talked to a police officer here last year, Ronnie Spencer, who told me a story about a girl he went to school with who died on the bridge and they planted a tree for her after she died. Something about that really made me want to really tell the story."
Like anyone who has read Keel's book or who was alive then, the Mothman is just part of the great number of wild stories flying around Point Pleasant during those 13 months.
"We got into the Men in Black and Indrid Cold stories," Breedlove said. "The really bizarre aspects of it are those little side stories that Keel told in his book, like the zone of fear, which was this area he walked through one night. It was like he was gripped with hysterical fear, and he almost spent the night out in the TNT area just so he didn't have to walk back through what he termed the zone of fear. What was really weird also was that there were people in town hearing voices over their head, and with the UFOs it was not just that people were seeing lights in the sky but they seemed to be communicating with them. There were so much going on at that time that the Mothman seems like the least weird thing that happened during that time."
Given the film's specific tie to Point Pleasant, Breedlove was ecstatic this year that not only did he get to screen the film at the State Theater during the Mothman Festival, but the screening drew a standing-room-only crowd.
"I thought maybe we would have 150 come out to see the movie, but we ended up with well over 300," Breedlove said. "There's like 250 seats in there, and people were lined up in the back and sitting on the ground, and people seemed to love it. A lady came up afterwards and gave me a hug and was crying, so the reception has been amazing. I have said that the Mothman movie coming out has changed my life. It has made enough money that my wife (Adrienne) and I can do this full time. That aspect of it has been pretty huge, and I hate to say it is life changing, but it really is true to say the Mothman changed my life."
And the film's final stops are not yet known. Picked up by Terror Films for wide streaming release, the documentary, which was the No. 1 documentary on Amazon for weeks this summer, has been released on iTunes and Google Play, and will be broadcast of the SyFy network beginning Feb. 2, 2018.
While other small towns have great legends, Breedlove said few have embraced, celebrated and marketed their legends as well as Point Pleasant.
"This (the festival) should be taking place in every town that has a monster story," Breedlove said at the Mothman Festival. "It is a piece of their local history that they have embraced in the same way that other towns embrace a historical battle or like a local historical figure. They have done that in the same way but it is celebrating a local legend. Part of what we do is history and preservation, which some people may think is silly because it is story that a lot of people don't believe in. A lot of people believe there is not a Mothman, and I tend to be more on the skeptical side, but I think there is a historical importance to preserving these stories because of the fact that they made a huge impact on Point Pleasant and impacted the culture in a major way here."
Searching for Mothman
WHAT: "The Mothman of Point Pleasant," a new documentary by Ohio-based production company Small Town Monsters.
Vimeo OnDemand, Amazon, iTunes and most major streaming platforms. It will be shown on SyFy on Feb. 2, 2018.
ON THE WEB: Go online at http://www.smalltownmonsters.com/index.html to check out the new web series called "Case Files" in which Small Town Monsters shows new stories as well as cut scenes from its various films.
VISIT THE MOTHMAN MUSEUM: Find out more about the Mothman story by visiting the Mothman Museum, 400 Main St., Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Fall and winter hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Cost is $3; $1 for kids 10 and under. Go online at www.mothmanmuseum.com.
FIREBALL LIGHTS UP PHOENIX SKY ON NOV. 14Fireball streaks across Phoenix skyline | 0:28
Video from Phoenix City Hall shows a bright light flashing across the Phoenix skyline. Video credit: City of Phoenix
Did you catch that bright light that streaked across the night sky Tuesday over the Phoenix area?
The city of Phoenix captured the illumination on one of its observation cameras and posted it to Twitter.
In the video, a large, glowing bulb appears in the top-right frame then fades out in three seconds. A smaller light can also be seen in the lower portion of the frame, off in the horizon.
It happened around 8:30 p.m.
The American Meteor Society received 120 fireball reports from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah on Nov. 14.
"I’m going to guess about 5 feet across. It broke up quite quickly," Garvie said.
It's unclear yet whether the meteor left debris on the ground, he said.
Garvie said the meteor isn't related to the Leonids meteor shower, an annual event that peaks this year on Friday night.
"It's just coincidental," he said, adding that meteors spotted during showers are tiny by comparison, the size of a grain of sand.
A moonless sky on Friday should make for good viewing of the meteor shower this year. But it's not an especially plentiful meteor shower. NASA predicts no more than 10 meteors an hour, and some of these will be faint, so you won't be able to see them all.
Some viewing tips from astronomers at Arizona State and the University of Arizona:
Meteors occur throughout the sky, so you don't need to focus your eyes on one specific area.
Shower activity is the greatest after midnight.
Get away from city lights, if you can. If you can't leave the city, find the darkest spot in your yard away from the glare of street and house lights.
You don't need binoculars or a telescope. Using these devices can actually reduce the number of meteors you see because they focus on only part of the sky.
Be patient. Plan to spend at least an hour outside if you want to spot meteors.
Video taken from the dashboard camera of Jonah Hirsch shows a fireballstreaking across the Phoenix skyline around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Wochit
Did you spot the fireball last night? Send us your video to: anne.ryman@arizonarepublic.com.
In recent times, a number of UFO sightings have really created frenzy among people as they are still looking out for those interesting objects every day. Day by day, people are becoming more curious to know about these mysterious objects that can actually lead to a new box of life and they are interested to know about the top UFO hot spots in the world.
According to "UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015," written by Cheryl and Linda Miller Costa, there is a list of cities which are known for its UFO phenomena in the United States. Published in March 2017, the book compiles "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."
So, as the UFO fever becomes contagious, IBTimes Singapore brings you the list of top 25 cities that will probably give you a chance to witness one of those mysterious objects soon and if you live in any of these cities, it might be closer than you think.
Here is the complete list of 25 most sightings across US cities.
Have you ever been witness to a UFO sighting? According to data by Kaggle UFO Sightings, if you have, you're not alone: there have been around 60,000 reported sightings between 1995 and 2014. Furthermore, depending on your location, you might be living in a hot spot for alien sightings in the U.S — as the map from Kaggle reveals that there are certain regions in the country where UFO sightings seem to be heavily concentrated. Is your town on the list?
Interestingly, the Pacific region (all along the west coast) is a popular spot for UFO sightings. The three main hot spots seem to be the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, and the northeast — so if you live in those areas, you may be a lot more likely to see a UFO than you thought. Moving inward to the Rocky Mountain region, the southwest, and parts of the midwest, things get fairly quiet. But as you travel further into the midwest, southeast, and northeast, the map lights up like a Christmas tree. If you want your best chances at spotting a UFO, you should definitely head northeast — the area of the map is almost entirely covered.
The map certainly reveals interesting patterns, and makes us wonder why the aliens seem to enjoy the west and east coasts more than other parts of our beautiful nation.
Is it a mere coincidence that UFOs largely stick to states close to water? Maybe not. Recently, Alan Stern — a former NASA scientist who now works at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas — explained the high likelihood aliens are living below frozen oceans on other planets. The majority of habitable planets, actually, are very likely covered almost completely in water.
In fact, there is a good chance aliens look more like fish than they do creepy versions of humans. Is it that far-fetched to believe, then, that maybe aliens are house hunting in the areas that more closely resemble the watery environment of their home planet? Water is one of few things vital for life to exist; in fact, when it comes to the search for alien life, researchers and scientists follow a common rule of thumb: "follow the water." Anytime we find evidence of water on another planet, the very next question is typically: could that planet be sustaining life, then? Knowing the importance and value of water, it really isn't all that odd to think that aliens would choose to stick to areas adjacent to good old H20.
Starting around 2009, activity picked up noticeably; and by 2012, reported aliens were all, "We're going to America!" According to statistician Sam Monfort, reported UFO sightings shot up from around 2,500 in 1980 to 45,000 in 2010.
But why? There are a few reasons.
For starters, the answer could be that reported UFO sightings haven't really picked up; but with the rapid advancement of technology and social media, we're simply hearing about it more. Monfort makes a thought-provoking point: at the onset of the rise of the internet, sightings of flying objects, specifically, actually went down, while sightings of mysterious lights went up. Did camera phones make it harder for people to claim to see flying saucers, since we'd have no excuse not to film them? Lights in the sky, on the other hand, are easy to film, debate, and argue as signs of aliens.
Monfort made another point that forces us to question the significant climb in sightings: understandably, sightings are higher than average on the Fourth of July. This could be because aliens use fireworks to disguise their own aircrafts (spooky!), or because we see fireworks and think they're aliens. But, Monfort says, why did the "Fourth of July effect" only kick in around 2008?
Finally, there's this explanation: more and more aliens are visiting earth, plain and simple. They're probably going to land really soon, stop by all of our homes to say hello, and then add us as friends on Facebook. Or maybe... they're already here. Consider all the stories of humans claiming they were abducted by aliens — we don't think every single one of them is a hoax, do we? (No.) Sure, ET enthusiasts might find a way to prove alien life even when it isn't there — like the mysterious ghost lady found on Mars — but that doesn't mean that somewhere out there, fishy looking aliens with giant heads and big eyes aren't walking around studying human behavior and wondering why we take so many selfies.
If you're a true stargazer and want to increase the odds of finding a UFO, Kaggle's data suggests that July through January are the busiest months (in other words, hurry TF up because it's almost January), and the best time of the week is Saturday night, between 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Happy UFO hunting!
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Photo of UFO over Columbia sets social media abuzz
Photo of UFO over Columbia sets social media abuzz
ALEX MACLEAN
THE UNION DEMOCRAT
s / Robert Neil Moore Photos taken Robert Neil Moore show an object flying above his home in Big Hill off Quail Mine Road between about 4:55 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday. The photos have caused a stir on social media because the object doesn't look like a plane. (Courtesy photo) 6885158
Was it a bird? Was it a plane? A meteor? Space junk? An alien spaceship? Superman?
Over the past couple of days, photos and videos taken by Robert Neil Moore that show an unidentified flying object soaring through the sky Saturday afternoon above his home off Quail Mine Road in the Big Hill area have captured the imagination of many on social media.
A picture of the object that Moore posted to the Tuolumne County Incident Feed group on Facebook has generated nearly 300 reactions and more than 60 comments from people offering up their theories that range from playful to apocalyptic.
Some offered links about recently launched satellites and spacecraft. Others posted memes of Superman, nuclear explosions and aliens.
But is there a more simple explanation than a precursor to an extraterrestrial invasion, or some sort of a top-secret government conspiracy to turn the population into mindless drones?
Moore said he had just picked up his daughter-in-law for a family dinner at his home when he first spotted the object about 4:55 p.m. while looking out at the horizon northwest toward Sacramento.
“We were thinking that thing looks weird,” he said of the object. “It doesn’t look like a normal airplane.”
Moore, who works for a machining company in Soulsbyville, ran inside to get his phone and started shooting pictures and video about 4:57 p.m. By about 5 p.m. the object was passing directly above his house.
The object appeared to be headed south toward Los Angeles.
Private aircraft frequently fly over Moore’s home going to and from the nearby Columbia Airport, but Moore said the object on Saturday appeared to be higher than most other airplanes he’s seen in the nearly two years he’s lived there.
“I’m always looking up at the sky,” Moore said. “You never know what you’re going to see up there.”
There was a low rumbling noise and a large plume trailing from the back of the object. Moore said there wasn’t anything breaking off from it, so he doesn’t think it was a meteor entering the earth’s atmosphere.
Moore said he believes it may have been an experimental aircraft of some kind, but he doesn’t believe it was a commercial jetliner due to how fast it was moving.
“I’m wondering just like everybody else,” Moore said.
Benedict Stuth, manager of the two county-operated airports in Columbia and Pine Mountain Lake, commented on the Facebook thread that it could have been a number of commercial jetliners that regularly fly over the area.
Stuth said in an interview on Tuesday the contrails made by the object match those made by a typical commercial jet traveling at high altitudes. He also said the object could appear orange because of the time of day.
“When you have an aircraft that high, it’s going to catch the sun’s rays like the clouds do,” Stuth explained. “That’s why you’ll see orange and pink clouds during sunset.”
The speed in which the aircraft passed overhead also leads Stuth to believe the object was likely just a typical plane. He said a meteor would have passed by in seconds, not minutes.
Based on the limited photo evidence, Stuth said he would confidently say the object was a airplane.
“Everything pretty much points to it being an aircraft, in my opinion,” Stuth said, adding that he would still reserve a small chance it could have been something else. “I’ll give anybody the benefit of the doubt, because we don’t have absolute clear pictures showing that it’s x, y, or z.”
Stuth, who previously worked as a consultant at Los Angeles International Airport, said he’s encountered a number of conspiracy theories over his aviation career that can much more easily be explained by science.
For example, one that Stuth still receives calls about is a popular conspiracy theory that contrails are really chemical compounds being sprayed by the government to control people’s minds.
“It’s basically just condensed water that’s reacting to a fast-moving object at high altitude,” Stuth said of airplane contrails. “It’s just a natural occurrence.”
Stuth pointed to a website called Planefinder.net that uses technology to track airplane flights in real-time across the globe.
Going back to Saturday between 4:55 p.m. and 5 p.m. shows American Airlines flight AA126 from Hong Kong to Dallas in a Boeing 777-323 flying from west to east above the Big Hill area at 34,975 feet.
“Going from west to east is a very common flight path from San Francisco that goes right over our area,” Stuth said while looking at the path of the American Airlines on Saturday. “Just about any flights from the Pacific Northwest down south tend to go over our area as well.”
However, Moore said he saw the object Saturday moving north to south.
One possible explanation for the contradicting routes is that directions can easily become confusing when looking up at the sky, according to Stuth. For example, he said that he thought a plane on Tuesday was flying over the airport from the north until someone corrected him that it was the west.
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There didn’t appear to be any reports made to the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office regarding the object, Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sgt. Andrea Benson said via email.
The Union Democrat reached out to NASA in a quest for answers Tuesday, but has yet to receive a response.
“If it wasn’t a plane, I’m going full on UFO,” Stuth joked.
Making a Moon Base With 'Artemis' Author Andy Weir
Making a Moon Base With 'Artemis' Author Andy Weir
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
A map of the moon base Artemis from Andy Weir's new novel of the same name shows the five main domes, each with their own purpose: "Armstrong is industry, Aldrin is the tourist center with casinos and hotels and stuff, Conrad is where the blue-collar folks live, the low-income people. Bean is sort of like suburban life; it's middle-income folks. And then Shepard is where the really rich people live," Weir said at a New York Comic Con event.
Credit: Crown Publishers
In Andy Weir's "Artemis" (Crown, 2017), the lead character is drawn into a crime caper on a lunar city. Weir is known for "The Martian" (Crown, 2014) which described in realistic detail how someone would survive being stranded on Mars. In "Artemis," Weir brings a similar realism to the moon as the ultimate tourist destination.
Space.com talked with Weir about the world of "Artemis"; creating its lead character, Jazz; and how "the moon is basically made of moon bases, with some assembly required." [How Moon Bases and Lunar Colonies Work (Infographic)]
"Artemis" (Crown, 2017) by Andy Weir.
Credit: Crown Publishers
Space.com: Can you talk about how the idea for "Artemis" first developed?
Andy Weir: I wanted to design a city on the moon. I wanted to come up with a city on the moon and a reason for there to be a city on the moon. I came up with the city and how it was built and what its economic foundation was and everything long before I came up with the story or characters to take place in it. I guess that's kind of — world-building and making settings is fun. The actual writing part is no fun. That's kind of where the original idea came from.
Space.com: What kinds of stories did you try to set in that city before you finally settled on one?
Weir: I went through a few revisions. "Artemis," as it is right now, was kind of my third attempt at a story, and that's the one that stuck. The first two revisions just weren't very good. I may steal elements of them someday, so I'm not really telling people what they are. But in the first revision, Jazz — who is the main character in "Artemis" — Jazz was a very minor, tertiary character. I just needed a comedy smuggler type, and so I invented her for that. And I didn't like the plot that had developed, and in the next revision of story, Jazz was much more prominent, but still not the main character, and then I realized, well, the fun part here is Jazz anyway, so why not write a story about her? So that's how I landed on the current plot.
Space.com: What drew you to writing about Jazz in particular?
Weir: In every version and as it went forward, she was the one who got all the funny lines. She's the smart-ass. Shes kind of the lovable rogue archetype. I really like that type of character, and so I had fun writing her.
Space.com: How did you come up with the technology that made a moon base possible?
Weir: The cool thing is, everything in "Artemis" is actually technology that already exists. Really, it was more research than developing technology, although trying to figure out the most efficient way to build a city on the moon was kind of cool. Like, how do you build a city on the moon when you want to absolutely minimize the amount of mass you send to the moon. Well, cities are big, and they weigh a lot, so you're going to want to make the city with materials that are present, not ship it over in its entirety. That's why they would smelt the anorthite [the material the lunar highlands are made of] into aluminum, and that also gives you oxygen.
A smelter lets the denizens of the moon base Artemis smelt raw materials on the moon into aluminum, oxygen, silicon and calcium.
Credit: Crown Publishers
It's really cool, actually — the moon is basically made of moon bases, with some assembly required. In the lunar highlands, which is the part of the moon that is not smooth — if you look at the moon, you see the smooth parts and the bumpy bits. The lunar highlands are the bumpy bits — 85 percent of the rocks just lying around on the ground are anorthite, which is a mineral, and you can smelt that into aluminum, oxygen, silicon and calcium. That gives you aluminum to make your moon city out of and oxygen to fill it. And by the way, if you want glass or windows, it also gives you silicon, and there's a bunch of oxygen still. Silicon and oxygen makes glass, and — yeah. It's really cool. It's like it's just there, just waiting for us. If we could just get there.
And so, the conceit of the story is that the commercial space industry has driven the price of low-Earth orbit down to the point that middle class people can afford to go to space. And Artemis' economy is based on tourism. For me, one thing is when I'm reading a book I get hung up on the economy of fictional environments. I'm like, wait a minute, why does this city exist? Why would people live there? Why wouldn't they go somewhere else? Stuff like that. For a lunar city, the thing I came up with was tourism. If middle class people can afford to go to the moon, even if they had to get a second mortgage to afford it, I think a lot of people would.
Space.com: And you calculated exactly how much it would cost, given those conditions, to transport objects and people to the moon, and therefore developed what the society there would be like.
Andy Weir, author of "Artemis" and "The Martian."
Credit: Crown Publishers
Weir: I came up with this whole economic thing — I actually wrote a paper on it, and we're going to try to get that out there via an outlet later.
I don't describe any of that in the book; that's what I came up with in advance. What we learned from "The Phantom Menace" — don't start a science fiction story with a description of supply-side economics. But it's important to me that that work out.
Space.com: Would you rather live on the moon or Mars, assuming both of them had equivalent infrastructure?
Weir: I'd rather live on Earth, all things considered. I write about brave people. I'm not one of them. If I had to choose between the moon or Mars, I would choose the moon, even if they had the same infrastructure, if they both had cities and stuff. Just on the grounds that the moon is still safer, because if things go really, really bad, you can leave and go to Earth. On Mars, if things go bad, you're on your own.
To put it in perspective of how much further away Mars is than the moon, imagine you're on a football field, and you're at one goal line and Mars is at the other goal line. The moon would be about 4 inches [10 centimeters] in front of you. [Dazzling 'Museum of the Moon' Exhibit Celebrates 'Artemis' in NYC]
Space.com: How was the experience of writing a different lead character and voice than "The Martian"?
Weir: Well, I still got to use the first person, smart-ass narrative style, so it wasn't that big a change. I guess the real change was — first off, I did my best at writing a female lead, but in the end, I'm not a woman, so I'm sure there's lots of places where she ends up sounding like a guy. I ran it by as many women as I could, in my inner circle, people I can trust with a manuscript before it releases, and got feedback from all the women, and gave it my best shot.
And also, Jazz is a much more nuanced and flawed character than Mark Watney. Mark Watney — you can't help but like him, he's just this guy that's in a terrible situation that's not really his fault, whereas Jazz's problems are mostly self-inflicted. She's made a lot of bad decisions, and makes additional bad decisions during the book. The way I like to say it is, Mark Watney is based on the idealized version of me. He's everything I wish I were. He has the qualities of myself that I like and none of my many flaws, and he doesn't have any of my neuroses. Jazz is a little bit more like the real me. Flawed, has bad decisions in her past, makes mistakes. Smart, but doesn't always apply that correctly. Jazz is actually a lot more like the real me, so it's always kind of sad when I read a review that says, "Oh, I didn't like Jazz much." I'm like, "Awww."
The moon base Artemis is located near its smelter and reactors, 40 km away from the Apollo 11 landing site and tourist visitor center.
Credit: Crown Publishers
Space.com: I also wanted to talk about those crazy "hamster balls" visitors can use to tour the Apollo 11 landing site.
Weir: It'd be fun, wouldn't it?
Space.com: How did you think of those?
Weir: I was trying to think about, how could you have a completely untrained person do an EVA [extravehicular activity, or spacewalk]. And then I came up with the hamster ball idea and said on your backpack is a thing that manages the air inside the ball. And there's a little bit of fictionalization in there in that I'm not sure what that ball is made of, but it can hold in a fifth of an atmosphere, and it's clear, and it's flexible.
Tourists can explore the Apollo 11 landing site from (sort of) up close in hamster-ball-like spacewalking gear — but they can always just look from inside the visitor center.
Credit: Crown Publishers
But you've got to get into it and seal it somehow. It just seems like that would be an awesome thing, because you have the freedom of movement. Basically, I don't think that an untrained person, like a tourist or something, could handle being in an EVA suit. First off, it's really clunky, and it takes astronauts months and months of training to learn how to move at all in them, and it's like, you can't scratch your face. It's really inconvenient. But here, they'd have the freedom of motion of their own human body, and then they can do whatever they like in the ball. [Evolution of the Spacesuit in Pictures (Space Tech Gallery)]
Space.com: Assuming you were already on the moon, would you go out in one of those?
Weir: Yeah … I guess if I was already there. I'd be like, eh, you know…
Space.com: How does world-building and plot fit together when you're writing something like "Artemis"?
Weir: I started with the world-building and said, "OK, this is the world it takes place in, and I'm not really willing to change the world to save the plot, except for if I can come up with something incredibly awesome. For the most part, I'm just like, well, here's the problem, and here's what they're doing, and here's the setting. Now what?
Ultimately, [the city] Artemis … lends itself to all this interesting stuff, [and that's] actually not because it's on the moon, but because it's so far away from everything else. You could have similar plots just take place on an isolated island in the Pacific or something like that, where basically help is too far away, and there's really no infrastructure in place for strong authorities.
I think that's one of the main reasons Artemis ends up with these avenues of excitement. Human civilization is all about getting rid of those. OK, in order to prevent our entire city from being destroyed, we're going to make fire departments, police departments — so we do. But frontier towns don't have that luxury, so that's where the interesting stuff happens.
5 ‘controversial’ ancient Books that could shatter the foundations of history
5 ‘controversial’ ancient Books that could shatter the foundations of history
Throughout the years, archaeologists have come across incredible discoveries. Some of these discoveries are ancient manuscripts which have been found to portray history from a different point of view. A controversial point of view.
Nemours ancient books tell a different side of history. A different side of human origins, and a different side of human capabilities. These ancient texts, usually considered mythological in nature oppose nearly everything set forth by mainstream scholars and modern history.
Some of them are partially accepted, while some of their pages have been dubbed as a myth because they shake the very foundation of what we know about our civilization.
Regrettably, while these books are real and part of history, the history we’ve been taught throughout the years has ignored them entirely.
This is why in this article, I’ll take you on a journey and introduce you to five ancient books that are both controversial and fascinating, and could shake the very understanding of human history.
I find them beyond fascinating.
1. book of Thoth
One of my favorite books is the so-called book of Thoth. It is a sacred book that according to ancient Egyptian beliefs, not only offers unlimited knowledge, but legend says that anyone who reads the contents can contain the means to decipher the secrets and master the earth, the sea, the air and the celestial bodies. Historical records tell us that the book was a collection of ancient Egyptian texts which were written by Thoth—the ancient Egyptian god of writing and Knowledge.
The Book of Thoth appears fragmented in various papyri, the majority pertaining to the second century of the Ptolemaic period.
2. The Kolbrin Bible
The Kolbrin Bible is another fascinating ancient book believed to have been written around 3,600 years ago.
This ancient book is referred to as the first Judaic/Christian document which spells out understanding of human evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Some scholars argue that this ancient book was penned down at the same time as the Old Testament.
Various authors participated in its creation, and the Kolbrin Bible is composed of two main parts which make up a total of 11 ancient books.
3. The Book of Enoch
The Book of Enoch is another book which many authors have placed into the dubious or controversial category. The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious manuscript which is traced back to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah.
The Book of Enoch is considered by many as one of the most influential non-canonical apocryphal writings.
Furthermore, this book is believed to have significantly influenced Christian beliefs.
4. The Book of Giants
The so-called Book of Giants is believed to have been composed around 2,000 years ago. It was found in the Qumran Caves where researchers came across the Dead Sea Scrolls. Specifically, the Book of Giants speaks about creatures that inhabited our planet in the distant past and how they were destroyed. According to the ancient text, the Giants —The Nephilim—became aware that due to their violent ways, they face an imminent destruction. They asked Enoch to speak on their behalf to God.
5. The Ars Notoria
The Ars Notoria is one of the most controversial and mysterious books ever created.
According to legend, this ancient book is a mixture of mystical, historical and sensational content that promises to teach superhuman abilities to those who follow that which is written. The Ars Notoria belongs to the Lesser Key of Solomon. It is an anonymous grimoire (or spellbook) on demonology. Its one-hundred-forty-four spells were authored in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials centuries older. The Ars Notoria contains a set of prayers and which were written in several languages, including Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
CRISPR is a powerful gene editing tool that can accurately add in or take out bits of DNA. There’s a lot of buzz about it because it is cheap, easy, and precise. There is also a lot of mystery surrounding CRISPR, perhaps because of its more controversial uses, such as plans of resurrecting the woolly mammoth or editing human embryos, and more sci-fi uses, like eliminating malaria and other diseases from mosquitoes and growing human organs in pigs. However, right now, it’s causing its biggest revolution in the lab, where scientists are now able to manipulate and control any gene easily.
CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. These are actually just sequences which repeat at regular intervals with spaces in-between them. Bacteria use these spaces to keep a genetic memory of viruses that have invaded it in the past. If that virus dares to show its face again, the system will recognize it and destroy it. The sequences can’t detect and destroy viruses by themselves, but they have two helpers: the enzyme Cas9 and guide RNA.
Researchers from Kanazawa University and the University of Tokyo in Japan have published a new study inNature Communications in which they visualized CRISPR-Cas9 in action, cleaving a strand of DNA in two. They visualized the process for a more detailed look at what CRISPR-Cas9 actually does. The technique that they used is called high-speed atomic-force microscopy and uses mechanical probes to get good resolution images and videos down to a nanometer. Now, you can watch the CRISPR-Cas9 complex work in real-time and real-space.
CRISPR-Cas9 is like a hand with scissors. The guide RNA is the hand that directs the scissors to bits of DNA matching info in the genetic memory, leading it to the target. When found, Cas9 are like scissors that cut the DNA and destroy it. In this video, you can see the molecular scissors at work cleaving the DNA at the end of the clip. The original sequence can be destroyed or a new sequence can be patched into the gap.
It is pretty amazing that we can see exactly what happens when CRISPR-Cas9 is at work.
Journal reference:
Shibata, M., Nishimasu, H., Kodera, N., Hirano, S., Ando, T., Uchihashi, T. & Nureki, O. (2017) Real-space and real-time dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy. Nature Communications 8, 1430.
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Bizarre UFO Hovers Above A Navy Base in California
Bizarre UFO Hovers Above A Navy Base in California
Extraterrestrial enthusiasts have been buzzing about the images that show an unidentified flying object near an American Navy base.
The photos in question show a flying saucer-shaped craft hovering above the ground with a helicopter flying nearby.
The five pictures, reportedly taken in the Californian desert, were released by the man known as Keith Bradshaw in a bid to find the truth on aliens.
The snaps were done in 2007, near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, but he has been too nervous to show anyone.
After an old friend who worked on the Navy base shared with him about the mysterious craft, he sneaked out to the desert. According to Mr Bradshaw, he heard the sound coming from the helicopter as he approached the base. Then he saw the silver UFO with several military vehicles parked close by.
He took off his shirt, blended with his surroundings and spent about 10 minutes watching the flying saucer.
He saw the UFO wobbling along close to the ground and appearing to be very unstable. Then it would freeze in position, go up and sit at a particular height for a few minutes, added Bradshaw. He said that the mysterious flying object did not make any noise that he could hear.
Some of the world’s top UFO experts examined the images. British UFO investigator Philip Mantle said that the snaps could turn out to be one of the most controversial on record when it comes to UFO sighting pictures.
Former RAF and BAE Airbus division employee Jason Gleaves said that they could be genuine but warned that technology and software today may make fake looks authentic.
Former US Navy Physicist Dr Bruce Maccabee said that the photographs could not prove either way.
Astronomers in California have taken a telescope built before most of them were born and converted it into a new instrument dedicated to one of the newest and fastest-moving branches of astronomy: spotting objects in the sky that change from one day to the next.
The new Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which today opened its eye to the sky, was created by retooling the 1.2-meter Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California, which, starting in 1948, took pictures of the night sky onto specially curved glass photographic plates. The ZTF, named in honor of Fritz Zwicky, the Bulgaria-born astronomer who worked for most of his career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, has been fitted with a new camera made up of 16 charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors. That will enable it to snap single images covering an area more than 200 times the size of the full moon.
With such a wide field of view—the biggest of any telescope more than 0.5 meters wide—the ZTF can survey the whole northern sky visible from Palomar every night. By doing so, astronomers can spot anything that changes from the previous night’s images, enabling them to identify quickly changing celestial phenomena, including supernovae, variable and binary stars, the active cores of distant galaxies, potentially Earth-threatening asteroids, and the flash of merging neutron stars that could also emit gravitational waves.
Although the scientific haul is expected to be high, the ZTF is also a testbed for a larger upcoming instrument, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will begin observing from Chile in 2022. The LSST is expected to be so prolific that researchers will have to automate the process of sifting through observed events to find ones worth following up, and then getting a more detailed spectrum. To build such automated systems, ZTF researchers are involved in efforts to create the necessary data processing systems and robotic follow-up telescopes. “The headline goal is to get [an automated system] working and implemented in a way that astronomers can interact with it and use it,” says Adam Bolton of the National Science Foundation’s National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona.
Scaling up
In the past, the discovery of sudden events like supernovae was largely a matter of chance; a fortunate accident while astronomers were looking at something steadier. But in recent years interest in quickly changing phenomena has grown and a range of instruments has sprung up that use small telescopes to scan the sky on a nightly basis. The ZTF continues this trend but with a larger telescope to see fainter and more distant objects.
A key target will be a particular kind of supernova, known as type Ia, that is an important celestial yardstick because it is thought to always explode with the same luminosity. It was by studying type Ia supernovae that astronomers discovered in the 1990s that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, an effect ascribed to the mysterious dark energy. But what causes these explosions is not known for sure, so lingering doubts hang over their reliability as a measure. With the ZTF expecting to find thousands of type Ias per year, astronomers hope to put those doubts to rest and improve the accuracy of this yardstick.
The team behind the ZTF—which includes Caltech and partners at other U.S. universities and institutions in Israel, Sweden, Germany, and Taiwan—also expects to see each year more than a hundred superluminous supernovae, extra-bright explosions thought to be linked to gamma ray bursts, and a dozen or so tidal disruption events, flashes that occur when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole and is torn apart by its extreme gravity. Only a handful of such events have so far been confirmed, but astronomers hope if they can see more they will illuminate the notoriously camera-shy gravitational giants lurking at the centers of galaxies.
To achieve this, the team had to create a compact camera with a very wide field of view—47 square degrees. The camera’s 16 CCDs and electronics are enclosed in a cryostat to keep the detectors cold, and all of the gear must be small enough to fit in the center of the telescope at its focal point. The telescope’s drive motors were also changed so that the instrument can slew quickly from one patch of sky to another during observations. “It was amazing to take an old telescope and turn it into a supertelescope,” says Shrinivas Kulkarni, director of Caltech Optical Observatories, which has led the project.
New era of automation
Next decade, the LSST is expected to conduct regular surveys that are similar to the ZTF’s, but its 8.4-meter mirror will be able to see much more distant and fainter objects. The LSST is expected to detect as many as 10 million “events”—objects that change or appear—every night. “The ZTF will be an excellent forerunner for the fire hose of data expected from the LSST,” says Jonathan Grindlay of Harvard University, founding chair of the American Astronomical Society’s working group on time-domain astronomy.
That’s why automating data analyses will be critical. Researchers say stargazing will inevitably join forces with big data approaches, machine learning, and so-called event brokers, programs that can pick out the interesting events and then instruct robotic telescopes to take a closer look and obtain a spectrum so that an astronomer can peruse it later. Researchers at NOAO are working on such a broker system, as are others at the University of Washington in Seattle—who are partnered with the ZTF team—and elsewhere. “This is the best way to get ready” for the LSST, Kulkarni says. “We’ll go live, take data, and start doing things. ZTF will be the laboratory.”
The third part of the process—automated follow-up telescopes that can obtain spectra so astronomers can characterize events—is perhaps the least well prepared. The ZTF has teamed up with the Las Cumbres Observatory, which runs a worldwide network of 18 robotic telescopes, and the Liverpool Telescope, a robotic scope in the Canary Islands run by Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. “The challenge is to put all the pieces together so that scientific intelligence can be applied at the right time,” Bolton says.
If the whole system works, it may herald a new era when astronomers no longer have to spend long nights tending to observations but can simply turn up to work in the morning and have a whole menu of celestial delights waiting for them. Less romantic perhaps but, Kulkarni says: “The most efficient way to do astronomy is to get astronomers out of the dome.”
*Correction 14 November, 4:15 p.m.: An earlier version of this article misstated where Fritz Zwicky was born.
UNEXPLAINED DISK-LIKE SKY PHENOMENON BLOCKS THE SUN OVER CHILE
UNEXPLAINED DISK-LIKE SKY PHENOMENON BLOCKS THE SUN OVER CHILE
Residents of Chile have witnessed a strange disk-shaped anomaly blocking the sun.
Arnoldo Liendo Arce from Antofagasta in Chile managed to capture a strange phenomenon that was witnessed by many residents on November 13, 2017.
MAN FILMING HALO OR SUNDOG ALSO CAPTURES STRANGE DISK SHAPED CLOUD
The man was out on the streets with other residents and filming what he thought was a Halo or Sundog, and he not only managed to capture the strange iridescent rainbow cloud but also an even stranger cloud formation that had formed inside the Sundog or Halo, and it was a dark disk that blocked out the sun.
Sundogs and Halos are an atmospheric optical phenomenon that is caused when the sunlight reflects ice crystals in the atmosphere. However, there is not usually a strange cloud formation covering up the Halo or Sundog. In this instance, the strange disk cloud shape made for an even more spectacular sighting while people went about their day to day business.
WAS THE RAINBOW CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH AN EARTHQUAKE?
The first video showed off the weird cloud formation with the Halo or Sundog, and another video revealed the colorful rainbow cloud that resident’s saw, which was suggested to be an earthquake light or sign that there was going to be an earthquake coming.
The iridescent clouds were a beautiful sight to witness by the residents of Chile, spiraling out in a circular pattern with the rainbow effect being seen mostly on the outer rim of the circle. The remainder of the sky was strangely clear, which added to the eerie effect. The strange disk-shaped cloud can also be seen blocking out the sun in the middle.
The second video is the more stable of the two as it does not circle around and this time it shows the stunning rainbow effect in a line or arch, one above and one below with the sun in the middle. Whether it was a Sundog or Halo, there is no doubt that it was a spectacular show for those living in Chile.
CLOSEST EARTH-LIKE PLANET EVER DISCOVERED: JUST A COUPLE OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY!
CLOSEST EARTH-LIKE PLANET EVER DISCOVERED: JUST A COUPLE OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY!
A team of researchers just used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) to discover a low-mass alien planet — also known as an “exoplanet” — orbiting the red dwarf star Ross 128. Notably, this planet has a mass that is similar to Earth’s.
In fact, it’s thought that the planet, formally known as Ross 128 b, could be similar to Earth in terms of both its size and surface temperature. And it is just 11 light-years from our solar system, making it the second-closest temperate planet to ever be detected. Ultimately, the little world comes in just after Proxima b.
“This discovery is based on more than a decade of HARPS intensive monitoring together with state-of-the-art data reduction and analysis techniques,” said Nicola Astudillo-Defru of the University of Geneva, who co-authored the paper outlining the exoplanet’s discovery, in a press release. “Only HARPS has demonstrated such a precision, and it remains the best planet hunter of its kind, 15 years after it began operations.”
THIS IS HOW NASA USES STARLIGHT TO DISCOVER EXOPLANETS IN DEEP SPACE
STRANGE SIGNALS FROM THE NEARBY RED DWARF STAR ROSS 128
The team behind the work notes that, while most red dwarf stars experience extreme solar flares — flares that bathe their planets in deadly radiation — Ross 128 is a “quiet star.” As a result, its planets are thought to be the closest comfortable locations for any possible alien life. Thus, the discovery of an Earth-mass world orbiting the star is significant. “Proxima Centauri is particularly active, with frequent, powerful flares that may sterilize (if not stripped out) its atmosphere,” lead author Xavier Bonfils of Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble explained. “Ross 128 is one of the quietest stars of our sample, and although it is a little further away from us, it makes for an excellent alternative target.” READ MORE: http://www.disclose.tv/news/closest_earthlike_planet_ever_discovered_just_a_couple_of_light_years_away/140837
The team behind the work notes that, while most red dwarf stars experience extreme solar flares — flares that bathe their planets in deadly radiation — Ross 128 is a “quiet star.” As a result, its planets are thought to be the closest comfortable locations for any possible alien life. Thus, the discovery of an Earth-mass world orbiting the star is significant.
“Proxima Centauri is particularly active, with frequent, powerful flares that may sterilize (if not stripped out) its atmosphere,” lead author Xavier Bonfils of Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble explained. “Ross 128 is one of the quietest stars of our sample, and although it is a little further away from us, it makes for an excellent alternative target.”
The orbit of Ross 128 b is 20 times more proximal (20 times closer) than the distance between the Earth and the Sun – but the planet receives only 1.38 times more irradiation, which keeps its equilibrium temperature between -60°C and 20°C (-76°F and 68°F). But while scientists do believe that it is, in fact, a temperate planet, there’s still no confirmation that it lies within the habitable zone, which is the zone surrounding a star in which liquid water is able to exist.
“Ten years from now, we will be capable, thanks to giant telescopes, to directly ‘see’ the planet and characterize its atmosphere,” Astudillo-Defru told explaiend. “In the meantime, we need to better constrain theoretical models to elucidate if liquid water can be found on Ross 128 b’s surface.”
As was previously noted, Ross 128 is currently 11 light-years from Earth, but it’s moving toward us and, as a result, it will one day be our nearest stellar neighbor…not for 79,000 years, but in cosmic terms, that is just the blink of an eye ( via futurism.com ).
USS NIMITZ UFO VIDEO INTRIGUES RESEARCHERS AROUND THE WORLD
USS NIMITZ UFO VIDEO INTRIGUES RESEARCHERS AROUND THE WORLD
Researchers around the globe have been intrigued by a video that was said to have been taken in 2004 from a USS Nimitz based Super Hornet fighter jet.
FIGHTER JET SCREEN VIDEO SEEMS TO SHOW UFO FROM 2004
The video apparently shows an object in the distance that is not acting in any way like a typical aircraft, and as the fighter jet gets closer to it, the strange UFO then veers away out of sight.
The video and story about the sighting of the UFO from the jet aircraft came to light in 2015 and it was rekindled recently when Tom DeLonge, the lead singer with Blink-182, brought it up when talking about the creation of the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
John B. Alexander from Las Vegas, the author, said that the incident did occur but he has not been able to confirm the authenticity of the video. Alexander has written numerous books on conspiracies and UFOs and he told a news station that he thought the video had come from the US Navy. In an email, he said that he had asked one of the people who was said to have seen it in a classified version. He said that the source was very highly placed. He went on to say that the video was thought to be real but then said do not confirm the authenticity. He also said that other videos would more than likely soon reveal similar incidents that had taken place.
UFO WAS SAID TO BE 100 MILES FROM SAN DIEGO
DeLonge did not show the video, which was said to have occurred during 2004 with the fighter jet coming from the aircraft carrier the Nimitz and recording various UFOs which were said to be about 100 miles from San Diego. However, he did tease that one of the goals of the group was to release video and documents that had previously been classified.
Since that time what has been said to be a video taken from the display that the pilot was seeing has been seen on many internet sites and YouTube. However, the origin of the video is not certain. Two UFO researchers said that it had first been seen in 2007 on a website in Germany that was run film students.
VIDEO WAS TRACKED TO ORIGINATE FROM GERMAN FILM MAKER WEBSITE
Isaac Kol from London is s researcher and he often posts on the Above Top Secret website. Recently he made a post that said in 2007 he had tracked an online copy of the video and it took him back to the German film students. It was said that they specialized in the creation of science fiction movies that had lots of special effects. He said that in 2007 he had been inclined to believe that the video was, in fact, a hoax. He went on to say that he found it interesting that the current talks about the video ignore the provenance of the video.
In an email to a news station, Kol said that he does not claim to have debunked the footage but that he has shown the place that it originally came from and it raised red flags which needed more investigation and evidence.
Ufologist Robert Powell from Texas said that the video had been found on a German film site and he was suspicious about it due to that fact. He went on to say that there had not been any proof that the film students had doctored the video. He also said that as far as he knows no one has looked at the video and determined that it has been edited in any way. Powell said that he had filed a request for freedom of information to get the documents related to incidents with the Nimitz which related to November 2004.
DOES THE PILOTS COMMUNICATION WITH FLIGHT CONTROL EXIST?
Alexander said that he thinks that the pilot’s communication audio tapes with flight control exist somewhere. The main reason that researchers have found the video intriguing is the fact that the UFOs seemed to baffle the best fighter jets of the navy and their radar systems in 2004.
A description of the anomalous aerial vehicles dropping down from more than 80,000 feet was put onto a website and this was based on returns from the radar, they were then said to have hovered about 50 feet from the water in only seconds. The objects then moved away at extremely fast speed with turn rates and acceleration that was faster than any known aircraft.
These stunning pictures appear to show an alien spacecraft hovering in the air over the desert and have been seized upon by the UFO community.
They were taken by a man using the pseudonym "Keith Bradshaw", who says he went out to the desert near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California after being told about the craft by a friend.
He snapped the pictures in 2007 - but says he has been too nervous to show them until now.
(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
“This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable," he told the Daily Star .
“Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear."
Keith said that he watched the craft for about ten minutes. He also claimed he saw the silver UFO while a number of military vehicles were parked nearby.
There was even a military helicopter flying around at the time.
(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
“I don’t believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it," he said.
“It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it.”
By opening the pictures up to the world now, Keith hopes to open the conversation about whether we've been visited by extraterrestrials - or whether it was simply some new kind of military hardware that he witnessed.
(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
He provided the pictures to 54-year-old UFO sleuth Philip Mantle, who says he hasn't seen anything like this in over 40 years of research.
Mr Mantle has described them as "the most controversial UFO photos on record" and adds experts are unable to agree if the photographs are real.
ESOEen artistieke impressie van hoe Ross 128 b er zou kunnen uitzien.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers hebben zopas bekendgemaakt dat ze op amper 11 lichtjaren afstand van de aarde een nieuwe planeet ontdekt hebben waar de omstandigheden zo gunstig zijn en die zo hard op de aarde lijkt dat er mogelijk leven op aanwezig is. Ross 128 b, waarschijnlijk een rotsachtige planeet, is 1,35 keer zo groot als de aarde.
Het gaat volgens de studie die vandaag verschijnt om een mogelijk nog belangrijkere ontdekking dan die van Proxima Centauri b, de aarde-achtige planeet die het dichtste bij de aarde ligt en die enkele jaren geleden werd ontdekt. Ross 128 b ligt met 11 lichtjaren afstand verder weg, maar zou wel betere omstandigheden hebben om er leven te herbergen.
De temperaturen zouden er gunstig genoeg zijn, met uitersten van weliswaar -60 graden Celcius, maar ook rond de 15 graden. Daardoor behoort meteen ook de aanwezigheid van vloeibaar water, een noodzakelijke voorwaarde voor de levensvormen die we tot nu toe kennen, tot de mogelijkheden.
“Gematigde wereld”
De brede temperatuurmarge weerhoudt de wetenschappers van het European Southern Observatory, die de ontdekking deden, er momenteel nog van de planeet “leefbaar” te noemen, maar de vooruitzichten zijn gunstig. Ze spreken over de “dichtstbijzijnde gematigde wereld rond een rustige ster ooit”.
De nieuwe planeet werd ontdekt met de HARPS-spectograaf (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) in de Chileense Atacama-woestijn. Ze moesten er tien jaar aan gegevens voor doorspitten. Pas na 157 observaties werd de planeet ontdekt.
“Bijzonder veelbelovend”
“Dit is spannender dan de ontdekking van Proxima Centauri b en bijzonder veelbelovend”, zegt Emily Rice van het American Museum of Natural History aan Gizmodo. “De ster rond de planeet is stiller en minder actief.” Het probleem met Proxima Centauri b is dat de ster errond massa’s ultraviolette en X-stralen uitstuurt die leven op de planeet onmogelijk maken. Dat is bij Ross 128 b niet het geval, de ster is een inactieve rode dwergster.
Proxima Centauri is de ster die zich het dichtst bij ons zonnestelsel bevindt, de planeet Proxima Centauri b bevindt zich op iets meer dan 4,2 lichtjaren afstand van de aarde.
“Mogelijk explodeert ster vroeg of laat”
Ook planeetonderzoeker Daphne Stam van de TU Delft is verheugd door de vondst: “Het is een mooie ontdekking, maar het betekent niet dat we meteen allemaal plannen kunnen gaan maken”, zegt ze. Ze verwacht dat de kans op leven niet zo groot is: “Het is een rode dwergster die nu rustig is, maar dat soort sterren staat er om bekend vroeg of laat te exploderen. De deeltjes die dan vrijkomen zijn vaak gevaarlijk voor levende organismen. Daarnaast is het nog maar de vraag of Ross 128 b überhaupt een atmosfeer en dus zuurstof heeft.”
Volgens Stam levert de vondst vooral veel interessante informatie op. Ze vervolgt: “We deden al onderzoek naar Proxima Centauri b, om te proberen te achterhalen wat voor soort wolken daar voorkomt. Die wolken vertellen namelijk iets over de temperatuur op een planeet. Bij deze nieuwe planeet zouden we dat ook graag doen.” Het feit dat Ross 128 b erg dicht bij de ster staat, maakt het lastig om hem te bestuderen. Door die positie is het volgens Stam namelijk moeilijk om het onderscheid te maken tussen het licht van de ster zelf en dat van de planeet. Stam: “En juist dat licht, en in het bijzonder de richting van de trillingen ervan, kunnen ons iets vertellen over de atmosfeer op een planeet.”
‘Dit soort sterren staat er om bekend vroeg of laat te exploderen. De deeltjes die dan vrijkomen zijn vaak gevaarlijk voor levende organismen’
Daphne Stam, TU Delft
Komt dichterbij
Ross 128 b staat twintig keer zo dicht bij zijn ster als de aarde bij de zon, maar de ster heeft ook maar 17 procent van de oppervlakte van de zon. Door de geringe afstand tot de ster draait Ross 128 b er elke 9,9 dagen rond. Bovendien komt Ross 128 b steeds dichter naar ons toe en zal de planeet over slechts 79.000 jaar Proxima Centauri b inhalen en de dichtstbijzijnde exoplaneet worden.
Bedoeling is nu Ross 128 b te blijven observeren, en te ontdekken waar de atmosfeer uit bestaat. De planeet staat zo dicht bij de aarde dat het relatief eenvoudig moet zijn om met de Extremely Large Telescope van ESO op zoek te gaan naar zuurstof in de atmosfeer.
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Saudi Arabia's 400 ancient 'gate' structures found on the edge of volcanoes are shown in stunning new detail, but archaeologists STILL have no idea why they were built
Saudi Arabia's 400 ancient 'gate' structures found on the edge of volcanoes are shown in stunning new detail, but archaeologists STILL have no idea why they were built
The strange cluster, found in the Harrat Khaybar region, are 'the oldest man-made structures in the landscape'
They could only be studied using satellite imagery taken from Google Earth due to restrictions in the country
David Kennedy, of the University of Western Australia, was given special permission to fly over the structures
Some are up to 1,700 feet (518 metres) long and built across lava domes that may be thousands of years old
Some stone structures have been dubbed 'gates' because they appear to look like field gates from above
Incredible images shot from the sky have provided a glimpse of some of the 400 mysterious stone structures located in a remote desert area in Saudia Arabia.
Since the early 1950s, restrictions in the country have stymied further research of the baffling geometric shapes, which experts believe may be up to 7,000 years old.
With the rise of satellite imagery and Google Earth, tantalising new shots of the elusive earth works were revealed, affording new avenues for investigation.
Now, a leading archaeologist has been granted special permission to fly over the desolate lava fields of the Harrat Khaybar region, providing the clearest pictures yet of the enigmatic formations
Incredible images shot from the sky have provided a glimpse of some of the 400 mysterious stone structures located in a remote desert area in Saudia Arabia. A leading archaeologist was granted special permission to fly over the desolate lava fields of the region, providing the clearest pictures yet of the enigmatic formations. This image shows a 'keyhole pendant'
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE 'GATES'?
Some of the stone walls have been dubbed the 'gates' because they appear to look like gates in a field from above.
The strange cluster 'appear to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape' and some are up to 1,700 feet long and built across old lava domes.
The smallest gates are 43 feet (13 metres) in length while the longest are 1,699 feet (518 metres) long.
Experts say that thousands of years ago this area would have been much more hospitable than it is now.
Dr David Kennedy, of the University of Western Australia, has spent almost 20 years studying the 'Works of the Old Men', as they were named by the area's Bedouin population when questioned in the 1920s.
After his research hit the headlines in October, Dr Kennedy was given special dispensation by the Saudi government to take to the skies and conduct the first aerial survey in more than half a century.
There is no obvious explanation of why many of the shapes, which include gate-like structures, kites, pendants and keyholes, were built.
In many cases, they are so large that their shape is only revealed when viewed from above.
But experts believe that new aerial photography, combined with closer inspection on the ground, could one day lead to a breakthrough.
Dr Kennedy and colleagues used Google Maps to 'pin' some of the sites they were most interested in visiting.
They then spent three days flying in a Saudi Royal Commission helicopter, from October 27 to October 29, for a total of 15 hours, taking almost 6,000 photographs of around 200 sites.
Writing for LiveScience, Dr Kennedy said: 'The number of high-resolution "windows" on Google Earth has increased rapidly, especially since the launch of the Landsat 8 satellite in February 2013.
Dr David Kennedy, of the University of Western Australia, has spent almost 20 years studying the structures. Since the early 1950s, restrictions in the country have stymied further research of the baffling geometric shapes, like this triangle-shape seen pointing towards a bullseye, which experts believe may be up to 7,000 years old
After his research hit the headlines in October, Dr Kennedy was given special dispensation by the Saudi government to take to the skies to conduct the first aerial survey in more than half a century. The gate-like shape shown in this image is the fifth largest found so far, at 1,224 by 262 feet (373 by 80 metres)
WHY WERE THEY MADE?
A number of the designs appear to have astronomical significance and were built to align with the sunrise on the winter solstice
Some, such as 'kites', were believed to have been used to hunt animals.
Others, like the pendants, often lead from burial sites and may have had ritualistic significance in death rites.
'Google Earth will remain a useful tool for prospection. It is simple to "pin" and catalogue sites, measure them, sketch them and generate distribution maps for interpretation.
'The limitations are equally obvious, however. The imagery is two-dimensional, and even the best resolution can be very fuzzy when enlarged.
'Detail is missing, and some sites are effectively invisible for various reasons. And imagery may be months, or even years, old and thus less valuable for routine monitoring.'
Built across ancient lava domes, some of these strange features are more than four times the length of a football pitch.
Some of the stone walls have been dubbed 'gates' because they appear to look like gates in a field from above.
Dr Kennedy and colleagues used Google Maps to 'pin' some of the sites they were most interested in visiting. They then spent three days flying in a Saudi Royal Commission helicopter, from October 27 to October 29, for a total of 15 hours, taking almost 6,000 photographs of about 200 sites
Some of the stone structures have been dubbed 'gates' because they appear to look like field gates from above. The rectangular shapes in this image are the gates
The smallest gates are 43 feet (13 metres) in length while the longest are 1,699 feet (518 metres) long. Remains of lava flows can be seen on top of some of the gates, suggesting that they are older than some of the lava flows
The strange cluster of gates (pictured) 'appear to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape' and some are up to 1,700 feet long and built across old lava domes. Dr Kennedy has said 'no obvious explanation of their purpose can be discerned'
The strange cluster 'appears to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape' and some are up to 1,700 feet long and built across old lava domes.
The smallest gates are 43 feet (13 metres) in length while the longest are 1,699 feet (518 metres) long.
Experts say that thousands of years ago this area would have been much more hospitable than it is now.
Remains of lava flows can be seen on top of some of the gates, suggesting that they are older than some of the lava flows.
Many of the structures have multiple stone walls that form a rectangular design whereas others - called 'I' type gates - have one stone wall with piles of stones at the ends.
Most of them were discovered through satellite surveys and archaeological fieldwork has yet been carried out. Previous research has found thousands of stone structures that form geometric patterns in the Middle East
Experts believe that new aerial photography, combined with closer inspection on the ground, could one day lead to a breakthrough. In this image, there are gates pictured going up the side of this lava dome in the foreground
Many have multiple stone walls that form a rectangular design (pictured) whereas others - called 'I' type gates - have one stone wall with piles of stones at the ends
The structures were uncovered in the Harrat Khaybar region in Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and were referred to as the 'Works of the Old Men' by the region's Bedouin population
Most of them were discovered through satellite surveys and no archaeological fieldwork has yet been carried out.
Previous research has found thousands of stone structures that form geometric patterns in the Middle East.
These include two wheel-shaped patterns date back some 8,500 years.
A number of the designs, found in Jordan's Azraq Oasis, appear to have an astronomical significance, built to align with the sunrise on the winter solstice, according to LiveScience.
Some types of stone structures such as 'kites', were believed to have been used to hunt animals.
Others, like the pendants, often lead from burial sites and may have had ritualistic significance in death rites.
They were found on top of the gates - suggesting the gates pre-date them.
Raadselachtige bouwwerken in Saudi-Arabië van dichtbij vastgelegd. Gaan deze luchtfoto’s het mysterie oplossen?
Raadselachtige bouwwerken in Saudi-Arabië van dichtbij vastgelegd. Gaan deze luchtfoto’s het mysterie oplossen?
Er zijn indrukwekkende beelden gemaakt van de 400 mysterieuze bouwwerken in een afgelegen woestijngebied in Saudi-Arabië.
Vanwege beperkingen die door de autoriteiten zijn opgelegd is onderzoek sinds de jaren vijftig vrijwel onmogelijk.
Volgens experts kunnen de raadselachtige geometrische vormen tot wel 7000 jaar oud zijn, meldt Live Science.
Werken van de Oude Mannen
Dankzij satellieten en Google Earth konden nieuwe beelden worden gemaakt van de bouwwerken.
Een vooraanstaande archeoloog heeft nu speciale toestemming gekregen om over de lavavelden in de regio Harrat Khaybar te vliegen en foto’s van dichtbij te maken.
Dr. David Kennedy van de University of Western Australia doet al bijna 20 jaar onderzoek naar de ‘Werken van de Oude Mannen’ zoals ze in de jaren twintig werden genoemd door de lokale bevolking.
Vanuit de lucht
Nadat zijn onderzoek in oktober het wereldnieuws haalde, gaf de Saudische overheid dr. Kennedy toestemming om de eerste luchtfoto’s van de patronen in ruim een halve eeuw te maken.
Het is niet duidelijk waarom deze structuren zijn gebouwd. In veel gevallen zijn ze zo groot dat hun vorm alleen vanuit de lucht duidelijk te zien is.
Experts denken dat de nieuwe luchtfoto’s en veldwerk op een dag kunnen leiden tot een doorbraak.
Vier voetbalvelden groot
Dr. Kennedy en zijn collega’s vlogen tussen 27 en 29 oktober in totaal 15 uur boven het gebied en maakten bijna 6000 foto’s van 200 bouwwerken.
Sommige zijn zo klein dat ze bijna onzichtbaar zijn, terwijl andere tot wel vier voetbalvelden groot zijn.
Jordanië
Eerder werden al duizenden stenen bouwwerken die geometrische patronen vormen gevonden in het Midden-Oosten.
Het ging daarbij onder meer om wielvormige patronen in Jordanië die zo’n 8500 jaar oud zijn.
Explore the ancient caves and labyrinths under Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Explore the ancient caves and labyrinths under Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Chichén Itzá is a complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A massive step pyramid, known as El Castillo or Temple of Kukulcan, dominates the ancient city, which thrived from around 600 A.D. to the 1200s.
The mysteries of the Mayan “Snake God” could be revealed after scientists discovered a secret passage that would lead to an underground cave in the Kukulcan Temple, the name by which the Mayan deity is known as a feathered serpent, reports El Universal.
Unlike the European cosmogony that places deities in paradise; Mayan spirituality believed that the divine was in the underworld: that is why formations like caves and cenotes were so scared, because they were a means of access to the interior of the earth, according to the California State University scholar, James Brady.
Editor’s note:This article appeared in Issue 5 of Open Minds Magazine in 2011.
This report was originally published in the 1984 APRO Bulletin (newsletter of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization). New illustrations have been provided by Jim MacNeill. The text of the original article has been slightly modified from its original version. The original can be found here.
Encounter in Alabama
The following case is the result of a lead furnished to APRO by Bob Gribble of the Phenomena Research Hot Line. The follow-up investigation was completed by Field Investigator Ed O. Brown. The name of the witness and some identifying names of the exact location have been changed to protect the principle, as requested.
Mrs. Pat Norris, twenty eight years old, lived with her husband, Carl, and three children in a suburb of Mobile, Alabama. On the evening of February 3, 1983, she had visited a friend in Mobile, and when the friend’s husband arrived from work, Mrs. Norris left and headed home on Highway 90. As she turned off the highway, she heard an explosion. At this point, her car began to vibrate, making it difficult for her to steer. She negotiated another turn off the road she was on, brought the car to a halt, opened the car door, and leaned out to ascertain the cause of the problem.
Object Seen
Mrs. Norris continued driving, and the vibrating stopped. She turned onto another road and saw that the woods ahead were brilliantly illuminated. At first she thought that there was a helicopter search in progress because of the lights, and she was very frightened. She again stopped the car, and at this point, she sighted a huge object about half a mile west of her. She later thought that the explosion she had heard earlier was the object coming down over a clay and gravel pit in the vicinity.
Illustration of the sighting based off of the original sketches in the APRO Bulletin. Click to enlarge.
(Credit: John MacNeill)
The thing was huge—later estimated to be seven to eight stories (70 to 80 feet) high and “six telephone poles” (210 feet) wide—and appeared to be moving toward her at four or five miles per hour. The evening had been clear and cool, and she had driven with the car windows closed. After the explosion, she noted a “chopping wind, a high-pitched sound, and a roaring sound” as well as the vibration. She noted the “whipping of the wind—like a tornado.”
Fear Gone
When the object reached a point fairly close to Mrs. Norris, the object halted and all of the noise stopped. It was completely silent, and Mrs. Norris lost all the fear she had felt before. She then got out of the car to get a better look. She strained to take in every detail—feeling like a child with “unbelievable happiness.”
Carl Norris, Pat’s husband, said that although his wife told him of her sighting after it happened, he didn’t realize how important it was to her until she started checking books out of the local library pertaining to UFOs and related subjects.
Mrs. Norris estimated the time duration of the sighting as five minutes. As the craft appeared, Mrs. Norris’s attention was drawn to a top deck with a long window she estimated to be fifty-three feet and through which she viewed twenty or thirty persons, apparently oblivious of her presence, walking about as if they were changing shift. The wall behind them was curved and white. There were no instruments. The people did not appear to look out the window. The beings were pale-skinned and dressed in white one-piece suits. She judged them to be about five-feet-ten-inches tall, quite slender, but with chests larger than ours, the top of the head more prominent, and no hair. She noticed nothing out of the ordinary about their eyes. What did draw her attention was the great grace of their movements. The overall atmosphere seemed “sterile.”
Illustration of the sighting based off of the original sketches in the APRO Bulletin. Click to enlarge.
(Credit: John MacNeill)
Details Observed
Below this top-deck window was an opaque window. The area around it was all white. This lower window was in sections and was inset. The glass was tinted.
Below the center of the craft, a door was closing from right to left. All across the craft, she saw rivets and portholes. She said she could see the portholes as she peered into the craft. She saw some construction that included “huge I beams like they put ships together with, and beams holding the glass in there.” The bottom side was tiered upwards. The construction reminded her of a ship or submarine. She said it seemed possible that it could have been constructed here on Earth.
The very bottom of the craft was formed into a cross, made with one foot mirrors and an observation deck hung down and around the bottom with beings in it. In this case, unlike the top deck, the people were peering out, while overhead she heard a very low-pitched but clearly audible (almost like a growl) “announcement” coming from the area of the observation deck.
Mrs. Norris said she believed that the beings didn’t realize she was there until they were directly over her position.
She saw four pipes projecting six to eight feet out from the craft set in three or four foot square boxes. They had a hollow flange on the end like a tank cannon, and she believed “it looked like a weapon.”
The craft took a southerly turn as it went on from where she was parked. She said it was staying in the wooded area and did not cross Highway 90 again. It lit up the wooded area and the area beneath it as it moved on. It had white spotlights, and it had blue and red lights on its sides that intermingled, pointing up to the clouds and then down to Earth.
After the object was out of sight, Mrs. Norris continued home, arriving at 1:10 a.m.
Fully autonomous weapons are now technologically viable. As a result, experts agree that it's time that the world's governments enforce regulation on these kinds of robots.
SLAUGHTERBOTS
A new short film illustrating the prospect of military drones has been commissioned for an event at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons, which is being hosted by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.
The film presents a fictionalized scenario in which a tech company showcases and deploys its latest combat drone, which is capable of distinguishing the good guys from the bad guys. A montage of mock new reports illustrates what happens next, when the device’s true abilities are revealed and the machines begin killing off politicians and activists.
Stuart Russell, an artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, is part of the group that will show the film to attendees. He has stated that the technology depicted in the film already exists, and it would actually be much easier to implement than self-driving vehicles.
Military drones are nothing new, having been used for reconnaissance missions as well as attacks. However, they have largely been operated by human pilots via remote control, whereas we’re now in a position to outfit these machines with automated targeting systems. This advancement would allow them to execute missions autonomously.
This situation is troubling enough in its own right, but there are also concerns about the potential for widespread proliferation. These drones could be manufactured en masse for a relatively small amount of money – and they could be used to enact the unthinkable if they were to fall into the wrong hands.
BAN THESE BOTS
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots hopes to convince international authorities to establish a treaty that bans autonomous weapons. This would outlaw the large-scale manufacture of such machines, and apply oversight to any nation choosing to explore the technology.
“Pursuing the development of lethal autonomous weapons would drastically reduce international, national, local, and personal security,” argued Russell, according to a report from The Guardian. This line of thinking has been compared to the approach that prompted the Biological Weapons Convention.
As the underlying technology that facilitates this kind of weaponry has progressed, experts have realized the need to appeal to lawmakers. And, while calls for legislationhave been made for years, there has been a serious increase in activity over the course of 2017.
In August, Elon Musk led a host of prominent A.I. experts in signing an open letterthat outlined the dangers of autonomous weapons. In November, scores of experts reached out to the Australian and Canadian heads of state, urging them to take action.
(courtesy the National Archives and Four Corners Books)
Between 1962 and 2009, the British Government’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) had a UFO desk and telephone hotline that collected around 11,000 cryptic sightings from across the United Kingdom. The files are now accessible to the public, and among the reports on flying saucers and inexplicable lights in the night sky are drawings that attempt to describe their fleeting forms. As part of its new Four Corners Irregular series on modern British visual culture, Four Corners Books has published selections of this alien art in UFO Drawings From The National Archivesby David Clarke.
A US release of the book is planned for February 2018. As Clarke, a reader and principal lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, explains in a book essay, the first release of UFO documents in 2007 came after years of effort:
The opening of these formerly secret files was a personal victory for me. For a decade before the MoD’s announcement I had waged a long campaign, using new powers under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act (FOI), for the full disclosure of Britain’s UFO files. From 2005, when the act came into force, I used a series of targeted FOI requests under the new act to persuade the Ministry of Defence to make their UFO material available for academic researchers. I argued there was a genuine public interest in how the government had investigated sightings of mysterious objects in the sky and that, by embracing greater openness, they could dispel many misconceptions about a subject long mired in unnecessary secrecy.
Then there was a strange twist where Clarke, long on the other side of access, was invited to work with the British National Archives during the release of the MoD UFO files. The project culminated in 2017, with a dedicated online UFO portal from the National Archives with thousands of digitized files. In UFO Drawings, Clarke delves into the history of MoD and the rise of UFO sightings following World War II. The overriding question, as put forth by Winston Churchill in 1952, was: “What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?”
Cover of UFO Drawings From The National Archives(courtesy Four Corners Books)
Clarke was particularly interested in how UFOs were depicted in art, whether crude crayon on construction paper drawings by elementary school children who collectively witnessed a flying saucer in 1977, or a beautifully painting bright white object observed over a roof in Harborne in 1975.
“Viewed from a purely aesthetic viewpoint, sketches of UFOs made by schoolchildren or policemen might appear naïve or worthless,” he writes. “But as visual evidence of unusual sightings that are deeply meaningful and significant to those individuals who see UFOs, they are uniquely valuable historical documents in their own right, and shed light on how the events and popular culture of the age imprinted on people’s imaginations.”
Indeed, UFO sightings spiked around cultural moments such as the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A rocket-shaped craft viewed through a telescope in Hampstead in 1972 looks strikingly like one from the 1960s science fiction television show, Thunderbirds. Yet there’s an incredible diversity of shapes, colors, and movement of the UFOs, ranging from huge hovering eggs, to dark triangular ships and soaring discs.
Each of the sketches, paintings, and even a few photographs in UFO Drawings is joined by a personal account. For a 1998 illustration of a salmon-hued, crop circle-creating orb adorned with Egyptian ankhs — a vision that seems fueled by Sun Ra’s cosmic Afrofuturism — the Oxfordshire correspondent wrote: “I have developed contact with this craft and their energy forces but unfortunately the designs I am perceiving are too complex for me to draw … these include anti-gravitational fields that allow the craft to access time.” A police officer in 1966 soberly diagrammed an object “the length of a bus” that “emanated a greenish grey glow.” An RAF intelligence officer later interviewed the man, and reported “there is no reason to doubt the fact that this constable saw something completely foreign to his previous experience.”
Every drawing is an artifact of the modern enigma of UFO sightings, and how our hopes and anxieties for a connection with other worlds rose in the late 20th century. The MoD desk may now be closed, but these personal experiences, and their visual record, are evidence of a widespread, mysterious phenomenon.
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The good guys call themselves the Future of Life Institute. The bad guys are smart drones called Slaughterbots that can swarm a crowd yet kill precisely, delivering an explosive to the forehead of selected individuals while letting the others run in terror … or cheer the killing. While it sounds like a great plot for a dystopian movie or a sci-fi series, the Future of Life Institute is a real organization. And the Slaughterbots?
“Slaughterbots” the video (link here) was released this week by the Future of Life Institute at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons held in Geneva. The purpose of the Convention “is to ban or restrict the use of specific types of weapons that are considered to cause unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering to combatants or to affect civilians indiscriminately.” The mission of the Future of Life Institute is “To catalyze and support research and initiatives for safeguarding life and developing optimistic visions of the future, including positive ways for humanity to steer its own course considering new technologies and challenges.” The purpose of the video is “safeguarding life” from tiny autonomous armed drones that can kill without human initiation based on things like data collected from social media.
Uh-oh.
The Future of Life Institute created the fictional (for now) video in conjunction with the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an international coalition working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons. It sound like the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons is the perfect place to fight for such a ban … if it’s not too late.
Stuart Russell — Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading AI researcher – closes the video with a warning about Slaughterbots:
“Its potential to benefit humanity is enormous, even in defense. But allowing machines to choose to kill humans will be devastating to our security and freedom. Thousands of my fellow researchers agree. We have an opportunity to prevent the future you just saw, but the window to act is closing fast.”
The goal of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is not to restrict innovation in AI and drones but to stop the use if AI for selecting and killing without having a human in the decision-making process or pulling the trigger. The AI technology shown in the video is admittedly fictional but the components are recognizable in current devices, drones and social media.
Perhaps the most disturbing part of the video is not the killing but the cheering. It’s just as easy to imagine this happening as well. Maybe that’s what the powers-that-be should focus on when deciding whether to ban slaughterbots.
We live in an ever developing, technological world full of amazing new discoveries, slick gadgetry, and constant incredible breakthroughs in science. It sometimes seems that in this rapidly advancing society of technological wizardry that there is no place anymore for such arcane things as charms, totems, or cursed items or haunted items, and that these are surely the relics of a fading, dying past mired in the murky word of the supernatural and occult. Yet these things still lurk out in the periphery, and in at least one case the worlds of high technology and the supernatural have managed to collide in the oddest of ways.
One of the more fascinating inventions of recent times is the process of 3D printing, in which a 3-dimensional object is recreated layer by layer based on computer controlled data and scans of a model. Such objects can be fashioned of almost any material and can be a wide range of sizes or shapes, making the potential applications of the process virtually limitless. Indeed, 3D printing has been used in the automotive industry, the medical field, the military, the clothing industry, you name it. Tools, toys, parts, firearms, automotive and electrical components, scientific instruments, medical implants, prosthetic limbs, even food, it seems almost anything can be conjured up seemingly from thin air by 3D printing in this day and age. Bizarrely, and perhaps inevitably, 3D printing has even been used to reproduce actual haunted, cursed objects. Wait, what?
3D printing
The whole weird experiment started with the alleged discovery of a strange hand-carved statue supposedly found by some hikers stashed away and abandoned, quite possibly hidden, in a dim cave somewhere in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The doll is creepy to say the least, with a length of filthy cord wrapped around its neck and rusty nails driven into its eyes, and it seems like the sort of thing most people would cringe at and leave lying where it was, but in this case the hikers took it home with them. It is a decision they would apparently later regret.
Almost immediately strange phenomena purportedly began to occur around the house, starting with inexplicable bumps, knocks, thuds, thumps, and other anomalous noises in the night when no one else was around, mixed with the persistent, intangible sense of being watched, but it quickly graduated to more frightening fare. Shadowy apparitions began to be seen lurking about, odd smells such as that of stagnant water or decay would appear and disappear, and it was reported that the strange doll would move on its own, changing locations when no one was looking and almost always later found in a different room from where it was left, and even tiny muddy footprints were allegedly discovered around the house. The pet dog of the house was apparently terrified of it and peed in the house on several occasions even though it never had done that before, and would often refuse to enter the premises at all. On one occasion the homeowner claims that they saw an entity crouching in a darkened room that looked like a haggard old crone completely naked and dripping with water, with reflective eyes like those of a cat, leading to the doll’s sinister nickname “The Crone of the Catskills.”
The seemingly possessed object drew great interest from paranormal investigators Dana Matthews & Greg Newkirk, who were able to acquire it for their spooky Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult, a vast repository of some of the world’s most haunted or cursed objects. It is definitely one of the creepier museums out there, and it seems that the Crone would be perfectly at home here. And it was, in the sense that it went right on with its scary bag of tricks. On various occasions the figure was said to knock over furniture and a plastic figure of Jesus Christ on a wooden crucifix from the wall, pulling out the nails out in the process that were never found, as well as leave its muddy footprints all over the museum and the smell of fetid pond water in its wake, and there is one instance in which the Warrens claim to have captured video footage of the statue actually moving.
There were times when heavy furniture toppled over for no apparent reason to almost smash the museum owners or their guests, and the doll was known to roll off of tables on its own. More sinister still were reports of those who touched or even looked at the Crone the wrong way becoming violently ill or ending up in freak accidents. A burning, itching sensation was not uncommon for people who gazed at it too long, and there was a general natural aversion people felt in its presence, as if they were being repelled and pushed away. People who physically touched the figurine had it the worse, allegedly being overcome with sudden and inexplicable violent seizures and prompting the enactment of a strict no-touching rule for the cursed object. Indeed, the Crone was soon wrapped up in a pillowcase, stashed in a padlocked box, and taken out of the exhibition. The statue did not respond to any attempts to placate it, and things supposedly got so bad that the directors, who remember were housing the scariest, most haunted items on the planet, didn’t even want it anymore, and they mulled over putting the doll back into the cave where it had been found. For now it remains with the museum on a no-touch basis, and is rarely shown to visitors.
The Crone of the Catskills
It seems like a good plan to put it back, as it is apparent that disturbing its resting place caused whatever ominous and malignant force is attached to it to lash out, but before doing that it was decided to make it the subject of an off-the-wall experiment thought up by paranormal researchers Karl Pfieffer and Connor Randal. They proposed trying what is perhaps the world’s first attempt to 3D print a haunted object, while at the same time attempting to communicate with the malevolent, restless entity attached to it via psychic and livestreaming the whole thing on a museums member’s only Facebook page, on Halloween night no less. Other 3D scanning projects soon followed, including that of a haunted mask and various cursed idols, in a project meant to create a 3D catalogue of haunted and cursed items. 3D printing a cursed object inhabited by a very pissed off, very aggressive evil force or spirit, what could possibly go wrong? Apparently, making 3D prints of these haunted objects had some strange consequences, including freak equipment malfunctions, almost as if the objects did not want to be scanned, and museum founder Greg Newkirk explained some of these unexplainable issues thus:
We’ve had equipment malfunction in bizarre ways, artifacts mysteriously go missing before we can scan them, and just two weeks ago, we went to print a 3D duplicate of a haunted mask we’ve named The Fetid Face and it completely melted the printer. It destroyed the equipment.
Some artifacts are so plagued with problems that no successfully scan can be made. On top of this, some of the 3D scan prints have been claimed to have exhibited strange phenomena in their own right after the printing, as if some of the ghostly energy from their progenitor has attached itself to these copies as well. Concerning the strange defiance of being printed shown by some objects and the odd tendency for the prints to mimic certain aspects of the paranormal from their parent, Newkirk has said:
In hindsight, I guess we should have anticipated this, but when it comes to working with haunted artifacts in new, unexplored ways, you never know what’s going to happen. We’re attempting something that’s never been done before, laying the groundwork for future study of paranormally-active objects. There are going to be quirks we can’t see coming. Members will email us and let us know that something strange is happening with their copy. Maybe it’s possible that we’ve captured more than just the image of these artifacts in the scan – maybe we’re actually capturing a bit of their essence.
It seems like with 3D printing people will try and make or replicate just about anything, and it seems that we have officially stepped into the world of recreating cursed objects. Good idea or not (probably not), there are some interesting issues this raises, not the least of which is just what quality does an object possess that makes it haunted in the first place, and what anchors a spirit or ghost to it? Is it the object itself or some mysterious unseen quality permeating it? Are these prints upsetting or confusing the spirits? If the object were to be replicated perfectly down to the last molecule would the entity then be anchored to that thing as well or would a curse cling to the replica? It is all a curious little mental exercise to contemplate, and a new dimension on the nature of ghosts and cursed items. Or maybe it is all a bunch of rubbish and there are not ghosts or curses to begin with? Whether one believes in the supernatural or not, the project of 3D printing haunted items is certainly an odd little curiosity that melds the dark world of the paranormal with the shiny toys of modern technology.
Saucers, triangles and orbs appear to be so yesterday when it comes to UFO shapes these days. Just this week, stories came in from China and California about UFOs shaped like donuts, bowls and rings. Is this the start of the new model year for alien spacecrafts? If so, the photographs and video are unusually clear and suitable for ad campaigns.
The first comes from Lake Dianchi in China’s Yunnan Province where John Chen, on vacation from Taiwan, took some nice clear pictures of birds in the sky above the lake using a camera that was much more in focus than he was because he didn’t see the donut-shaped UFO floating over the horizon until looking at the pictures at home.
“It’s very curious. I don’t know what it is so my suggestion is that it’s a UFO. It doesn’t make any sense.”
The UFO actually looks more like a French cruller than a donut, but the image (seen here) was sharp enough to convince Chen to send it to British UFO researcher Philip Mantle, who reportedly shared it with fellow experts and could not determine what exactly the UFO was. Since Chen doesn’t remember seeing it, there’s no data on its movements. It’s definitely an odd shape for an aircraft, so lighter-than-air trash seems to be leading in the polls.
The next photo is one of those “I took this 10 years ago but just decided to show it now” kind of revelations, but it’s interesting because of its clarity and its alleged proximity to a US naval base with a China connection. The Daily Express says the photographer used the pseudonym “Keith Bradshaw” (never a good sign) and there are no corroborating reports outside of the British tabloid family. “Bradshaw” says he took the photo (seenhere) in 2007 near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in the Western Mojave Desert after a friend told him about it.
“This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable. Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes, perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear.”
Unfortunately, he didn’t get a video of the bowl-on-a-bowl-shaped UFO, nor of the helicopter flying above and around it. He says he suspects the helicopter may have been controlling it and the craft was too small for a human to ride in. Nonetheless, his photo also ended up in the hands of Philip Mantle, who reportedly said he’s never seen anything like this in 40 years and:
“This could turn out to be one of the most controversial UFO photo cases on record.”
Or it could be a fake. Other experts pointed out that it could be a sophisticated (for 2007) drone, and noted the military would have had more security if it was something truly top secret. ‘Hoax’ is getting the most votes here.
The third sighting – a ring-shaped cloud tinged orange from the sun – was allegedly taken in Shangrao in the Jiangxi Province. It looks like there were plenty of witnesses. (video and photos here). This type of UFO is generally identified as a vortex ring, which can be the result of a cannon firing (these are popular at festivals), an explosion or a spherical mass of fast-moving air meeting another mass of stationary air. One thing is for sure – they’re not alien spacecrafts or deemed worthy of evaluation by UFO experts.
Filer’s Files #46-2017 President Carter Saw UFO - PART I
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada white light on November 6, 2017.
Filer’s Files #46-2017 President Carter Saw UFO - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Carter Told Shirley MacLaine about UFOs, Space X Rocket Explosion, Structures on the Moon, Have You Had a Close Encounter? Pyramids Asteroid Deflectors, Bible Records Stones Falling From Heaven, Prehistoric Art Shows Evidence for UFO intervention, A Glowing Object Passes Over, Frozen 3000 Year Old Aircraft Shock and Fake News and Selective News Continues.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and /Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and England and Wales 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.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
President Carter Told Shirley MacLaine about UFOs
According to a Larry King Show a few years ago, Actress Shirley MacLaine revealed that President Carter told her about UFO crashes and alien bodies. The transcript of this exchange started with a caller from Cocoa, Florida. Larry King: “Cocoa Florida with Shirley MacLaine, hello”
Caller: hello, good evening Larry and Shirley
King: Hi.
Caller: About two weeks ago, Nicholas Cage was on the Letterman Show and said Shirley had told him that President Carter had told her he had seen recovered alien spacecraft and aliens in a hanger. Can you tell me exactly what President Carter said?
Shirley MacLaine wrote, “I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.” Shirley McLain: “He didn’t tell me that but he told me many times that when I first wrote “” that he would support me, that it was true, that there were crafts, that he believed there were occupants, why should we be the only people in the universe. He wanted to shine the sunshine laws on intelligence, to expose it, to see how the people would react, but he didn’t and wouldn’t and couldn’t as he explained to me.” Note: “Out On a Limb” discusses the evidence for UFOs
King: back with our remaining moments with Shirley McLain right after this. (Larry King Show, May 1995)
While Alabama Governor a reporter taped Carter’s exact words in 1973 describing the UFO sighting.
The 39th President of the U.S. Carter said, [Carter’s report stated “10 members of the Leary, Ga., Lions Club”], ‘There were about 20 of us standing outside of I believe, a high school lunchroom, and a kind of green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter, and then eventually it disappeared. It didn’t have any solid substance to it; it was just a very peculiar looking light. None of us could understand what it was…”
Sheaffer gave the source as from the documentary recording “Factual Eyewitness Testimony of UFO Encounters” (Chicago: Investigative Research Associates, Inc. 1978)”
Attorney Dan Sheehan, who worked for President Jimmy Carter, claimed Carter had seen a UFO while in the Navy. The Carter sighting while running for governor in Georgia was apparently his second sighting.
Disclosure Could Happen
My experience has been the aliens want disclosure based on their showing off their craft, abductions and meetings and contacts with thousands of people. I am suggesting contact is an integral part of their cosmic plan to gradually instruct humans to learn they are not alone in the Universe. It is apparent many political leaders of various countries have been contacted or at least witnessed the craft. Several have made open declarations, about UFOs but generally the news media fails to report or promote the stories. It is my opinion that the aliens as some claim are our ancestors. Many aliens show their belief in a creator God, who likely sent workers/angels to create us. Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea. and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”My point is he likely sent his workers/angels to carry out his plan.
The disclosure is being accomplished slowly and cannot be done in a helter-skelter fashion. It will follow the protocol of the prophetic tradition with a designated prophet such as the President or multiple leaders world from several countries who will publically announce, we are not alone. For awhile it looked like President Reagan was the designated prophet and Hillary claimed if elected she was going to reveal the secrets you readers know are true. I feel our visitors control more of what happens in the world than we realize. They have the ability to telecommunicate to our brains through dreams and ideas. They may decide who is elected and push their purposes on human kind.
What is the likely mission of the visitors. We have a wonderful planet that may be desire able new planet to occupy. Abductees are frequently told humans are destroying the planet environmentally. They may prefer to have less of us or at least those who attempt to protect the earth. Wars, disease, starvation all limit earth’s population.
The focused penetration by the visitors into the heart of the military-industrial complex forms the solid core of the entire UFO phenomenon.
Space X Rocket Explosion
Donnie Brooke writes, “Do we know if another UFO was involved in the most recent explosion.. I have pics of the September 1, 2016 Explosion.” To my knowledge no.
SpaceX is narrowing down the possible sources of the explosion, it still has yet to determine what caused the breach in the helium system. It is possible a UFO’s strong electrical propulsion system cause helium to ignite?
Meanwhile, SpaceX says it’s working to get back to spaceflight as soon as possible, still targeting to launch again in November. The company has the option of launching from two other launch pads: one at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and another launch pad at Launch Complex 39A in Cape Canaveral, which will be ready to support Falcon 9 flights in November.
Additionally, the company is still working on getting its vehicles ready for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, in which SpaceX is supposed to start transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station in the next couple of years. The company hinted that figuring out the source of the September explosion will make the Commercial Crew Program more robust. “Getting back to flight safely and reliably is our top priority, and the data gathered from the present investigation will result in an even safer and more reliable vehicle for our customers and partners,” said SpaceX. Thanks Donnie Brooke Pro Wrestler / UFO Hunter donniebrooke@mail.com https://www.space.com/38712-spacex-rocket-engine-test-explosion.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20171108-sdc
Structures on the Moon
I have had the pleasure of talking to John Brandenburg, PhD who is a plasma physicist. He did his graduate work in California at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in controlled plasmas for fusion power, and has worked in defense, energy, and space research.
Dr. Brandenburg was also part of the Navy Clementine Mission to the Moon which discovered water at the Moon’s poles. He feels a mile long structure on the moon represents an alien structure. The Clementine Mission was sent to determine if the exterrestrials had continued expanding or building additional lunar bases. These are not geological structures and appear to be turbine generators, towers, a bridge, and mining facilities.
Have You Had A Close Encounter?
Dr. Roger Lear and Mr. Derrel Sims, in a meeting in Thousand Oaks, California demonstrated revolutionary findings about markings on the skin of people who feel they have been abducted. These markings were not visible to the naked eye, but were discovered incidentally while standing under a ‘black light.’
Black Light shows Marks of Abduction
What appeared was fluorescent markings on the facial area, hands, arms, stomach — and also elsewhere. The colors were greenish, and not able to be either washed or scrubbed off. The markings were sub-derminal and can last from one hour up to ten days, as far as research till now have proven. Mr. Sims could not explain how these markings were made. Abductees, all upon having marks, have through hypnotic sessions explained they have undergone examination onboard alien craft. The only time variation occurred in the color was among some female abductees that claimed to have been onboard the craft, holding and nurturing hybrid babies. These women had red fluorescent marks, on their palms, necks and face, where one would expect close contact holding a baby.
Keep a black light lamp at home, if you suspect that you are among the abductee group. Memories are most often erased upon awakening the next morning after a nocturnal meeting. Sometimes only a vague flash will remind you of what has occurred during the night. If you want to check it out, keep a black light at home, the kind that often is used at Halloween giving off a bluish light. Check out your arms and face in the morning. The ones we saw, were random, non-figurative marks to markings that were figurative. One doctor had found an illuminative mark that looked as if it were ‘stamped’ on his upper arm. Some types of makeup may leave marks but this is usually where the makeup has been applied If you find such marks, please notify us immediately and we will attempt to check into your case. Most people are not aware of being abducted, and only start to remember years later. Thanks to Pleiades
Pyramids Asteroid Deflectors
Bill Sells writes, I believe the pyramids were asteroid deflectors as they were originally covered in polished limestone. I believe large ruby stones were placed at the top of each for the generation of a lens to focus the laser beams in tri-angulated firing to deflect incoming asteroids.
Edgar Casey stated this same theory while in trance years ago. You just have to nudge the asteroid a degree for deflection from Earth’s path and that is what was done. A shame they are still not operational today. But maybe our scientists will learn from the distant past how to protect this planet. We need to build a similar system in same area to cover the whole planetary areas. I believe we can duplicate this power source again. Thanks to Bill Sells.
Note: There is significant evidence around the Earth that the planet was regularly hit by asteroids, or that some exploded has they came close to Earth. by Russell Grigg
Bible Records Stones Falling From Heaven
Joshua 10:11–13 reads: ‘And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died. Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and He said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher?2 So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.’
It appears to have been midday or after (Hebrew: sun in the midst of the sky).3 And the author is telling us that the sun did not proceed to set for a period of a completed day, which may have been a few hours or for a whole day. The Earth may have continued to rotate normally but something in space reflected the sun to the Earth.
Joshua records in great detail the occupation of Canaan by Israel and the allotment of the land among the tribes, around 1400 BC, so the author is obviously writing a historical account of what happened. The occasion of the long day was during a battle between the combined armies of the five Amorite kings and the army of Israel. With the help of God, the Israelites were winning the battle and needed more time on this day to complete the victory. Many cultures have legends that seem to be based on this event. For example, there is a Greek myth of Apollo’s son, Phaethon, who disrupted the sun’s course for a day. And since Joshua 10 is historical, cultures on the opposite side of the world should have legends of a long night. In fact, the New Zealand Maori people have a myth about how their hero Maui slowed the sun before it rose, while the Mexican Annals of Cuauhtitlan (the history of the empire of Culhuacan and Mexico) records a night that continued for an extended time.https://creation.com/j
Prehistoric Art Shows Evidence for UFO intervention
The paintings and artifacts of the great caves particularly in France and Spain until relatively recent times lay hidden and ignored. Experts claim that Paleolithic art dates from 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. Just consider what happened when modern humans moved into Lascaux Cave ‘France
Europe about 40 000 years ago,” says paleontologist Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. “We had to share it with the Neanderthals who had been doing quite nicely there for at least 200 000 years. Yet within 10 000 years of our arrival, we had rendered them extinct — and they were our closest relatives. “Of course, they shared exactly the same habitats as ourselves and so were the first to go.” The Homo Sapiens recorded their life styles and conquests by painting amazingly accurate pictures of animals such as bison, horses, antelopes, mammoths–that were almost universally found in the area. But in addition there were figures of humans, birds, and tectiforms. They are painted in such a way as to indicate they are flying usually above the other figures.
In Philip Van Doren Stern’s book “the Beginnings of Art” states, “Careful examination of the art itself has challenged many long held opinions about the intellectual capabilities of prehistoric men. This book reveals that prehistoric art was anything but mindless –it made extensive use of symbolism. It reflected definite cultural and religious traditions; it revealed the artist’s personal feelings. . it attempted to communicate a way of life. Much of the content of cave paintings is understandable –for example the endless depiction of animals that provided food, clothing and other necessities for prehistoric man. But there are very surprising elements as well. Very little combat or violence is portrayed, despite the savagery of life in Stone Age times. Symbolic clusters of dots and lines appear extensively but their meanings are unclear. One that is, is a strange looking flying shape that appears in both Cougnac and Pech-Merle in the Dordogne. These caves are only fifty miles apart. Other “flying shapes occur in places farther away”. Cover and Page120. Tectiforms look like flying saucers or flying house shaped figures.
Dr. Michael Rappenglueck of the University of Munich told BBC News Online that he has found star maps within the cave paintings of France and Spain. The maps discovered at Lascaux in central France, ” painted over the shoulder of a bull show
Lascaux Cave, France Pleiades Drawing
six bright stars known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. The caves could be a prehistoric planetarium in which humanity first charted the stars. ” Showing this part of the sky stretches back seventeen thousand years.” Some aliens are thought to be from the Pleiades Another cluster of stars known as the Summer Triangle representing the three present stars Vega, Deneb and Altair has also been identified in a cave in Spain.” ‘It is a map of the prehistoric cosmos indicating our ancestors knew the Zodiac 17,000 years ago, and were more sophisticated than many believe.” Dr. Rappenglueck. ‘It was their sky, full of animals and spirit guides.'” Philip Van Doren Stern’s
A Glowing Object Passes Over
Genesis 15:17-18 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. This is the first indication that a glowing cylindrical fire-pot flying object (Shekinah glory of God) is associated with the Elohim. The word ‘passed’ is more properly rendered ‘passed over’. Furnace = fire pot. Smoking = vapor. Lamp = shining. Burning = fire. So what is being said is that something resembling a shining cylindrical fire-pot passed over after dark. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘to your descendants I five this land.’
Frozen 3000 Year Old Aircraft Shock
Dr. Hovind writes “Aircraft have been found buried in ice in Greenland that are more than 3,000 years old according to the ice melting rings . You’re kidding!” laughed the lab worker quipped Kent. “! In case you don’t know, I work at the Denver National Ice Core Laboratory here in Colorado. And we’ve been taking cores of ice from Greenland and Antarctica. It’s dry… very cold… the glaciers are MILES THICK… but their annual growth rings are very THIN.” “We’ve measured the ice… and I tell you, man, it’s 135,000 years old! Your 4,000 years is a joke.” “I’d like to see your lab,” said Kent, calmly. The next day my friend Kent met the worker at the lab. The employee ushered him into the giant freezer which stored the long cores from ice drilling. “See this core from Greenland?” said the worker. “We drilled down and brought it up from 10,000 feet. See the rings? This core takes us back 135,000 years. You’ll notice the rings along its length… dark – light – dark – light.“Well, these represent annual rings, because in summer the top layer of snow melts and then re-freezes as clear ice, which shows up dark here. In winter, the snow doesn’t get a chance to melt, so it packs – and shows up as a white layer. These layers of dark – light – dark – light, indicate 135,000 summers and winters.”
Dr. Hovind looked him in the eye. “Aren’t you assuming those are annual rings?” Let’s step back a few years… to the famous lost squadron.
THE LOST SQUADRON
In 1942, during World War II, some war planes landed in Greenland. When the war ended, those planes were left there and forgotten. In 1990, an aircraft enthusiast came up with the bright idea to find them and fly them off again. He organized a group and they went searching. As it turned out, they had to use radar, because the planes were under the ice… in fact, so deep under the ice, the men had a hard job finding them. Do you know, that lost squadron had got covered by 263 feet of ice in 48 years!
Let’s do some arithmetic. * 263 feet divided by 48 years… that’s an ice growth of about 5.5 feet per year. Now divide 10,000 feet by 5.5. And you get 1,824 years for ALL of the ice to build up. We should allow longer for the fact that the deeper ice is pressed into finer layers. Note: those planes did not sink into the ice, due to pressure on the ice. The ice had grown OVER them.
ARE THESE ANCIENT AIRCRAFT IN ICE?
Okay, would you do some math? Can you work this out,? The Denver National Ice Core Laboratory said that 10,000 feet of ice had to be 135,000 years old! So the 263 feet deep of “Lost Squadron” ice – how old should that be? That’s right… 3,419 years old. Does that mean those aircraft are 3,419 years old? What do you think?
HERE COMES THE SEQUEL
In April, 1999, Kent visited Bob Cardin at his museum in Middleboro, Kentucky. Cardin had dug out and was restoring the P-38. You may be wondering, how did they get that plane out? Ingenious. They had melted a hole down to the airplane, broken it apart and brought up the pieces through the hole.“When you dug it out,” asked Kent, “did you see any layers of ice… dark – light – dark – “Yeah, I did, as a matter of fact.”“How many layers of ice were there?”“Many hundreds of them.”HUNDREDS OF RINGS IN 48 YEARS? “How could there be many hundreds of annual rings in only 48 years?”“THOSE ARE NOT ANNUAL RINGS. That’s not summer and winter,” replied Cardin. “ It’s warm – cold – warm – cold – warm –cold. You can get ten of those in one day.”And that’s a fact!
Yet, the scientific elite was still calling them annual rings. Somebody’s either is ignorant… or lying.
I’m worried. The textbooks you read today are textbooks not only about science, but about evolution. They’re trying to sneak evolution in with the science. Sneaking beer ads in with football matches doesn’t mean beer is football. Sneaking evolution in with the science, doesn’t make it science.
John Colaw writes, “I notice in reading the Executive Summary of Dr. Greer’s Disclosure Project, mention is made as to no violent acts on the part of UFOs have been recorded.” Quite the contrary. There were numerous incidents in the mid-seventies in which UFOs took hostile or disabling action against some of our most classified military satellites that could track the UFOs. We nearly went to war with Russia over some of this activity, and we made limited but aggressive responses against them.
Filer, Greer, Wegandt, Hare at Disclosure Project
The Deep Space system tracking fast walkers was involved in the reporting of this activity, including the Big Dish at Tidbinbilla near Canberra, Australia. I personally handled some of the communications regarding some of those incidents, so I know it to be true. I do not believe in fearful attitudes, yet also must speak up that caution is always the wise approach when dealing with the welcoming of strangers. I support the efforts of the disclosure project as far as disclosing the truth about the continued and long term presence of extraterrestrials and their craft on our planet. But I question any implications that the intentions and documented and reported actions of these various ETs are purely benevolent.
The truth in these matters will remain elusive, in part due to the conflicting agendas of those involved in the fray of the debates or revelations. But also due to the inherent paradigm shattering implications as those who thought it impossible are met with credible proof of ETs and UFOs. The campaign of disinformation will continue and discernment will be worthy attribute indeed. The Disclosure Project is to be commended in its public approach towards confronting our leadership with this onslaught of evidence and testimony. Bringing UFO research further into legitimacy in the public eye is an additional benefit to the worthy goal of eventual full disclosure. Regards, John Colaw
Contact By Non Human Entities
Paul Shishis writes, I received a email from Brendan from Milton, Ontario who is experiencing the totally bizarre contact by non human entities of sorts. This all started for him four years ago – not before the sheer paranormal has been growing more so in this last year for him. It’s has been quite overwhelming for ALL he has been experiencing. His witness close friends that have been with him at night will only acknowledge what they witness and will not talk further to him about it.
Brendan says he has witnessed over a dozen types of beings including non physical types. One even had like an elephant ‘s trunk. This 40 year old family man sheet metal worker says, “I been burned, waxed and chipped ‘like a tagged and monitored animal. He has noted another human party monitoring the area and him. Here with Brenda’s permission to release the following image to share. This attached picture was taken by him in late Spring 2017 and has witnessed a couple of UFO’s near a farmers store in Milton, Ontario. Ones which he refers to the large bulbous headed ones, they appear to be on the ground at the time that he did not notice taking the picture. He was focused looking up to film the UFO’s above. Thanks to Paul Shishis More to follow…
Fake News and Selective News Continues
While the broadcast networks all eagerly hyped social media executives being hauled before Congress on Tuesday to testify about Russian interference in the 2016 election, only CBS covered a revelation from the hearing that Russia sought to undermine Donald Trump’s legitimacy as president after the campaign was over.
“Face book’s attorney said those Russian ads and posts did not stop after the election. In fact, they just changed their focus and were aimed at sowing discord in the country and raising doubts about President Trump’s legitimacy,” correspondent Nancy Cordes reported at the end of a full report on the hearing for Wednesday’s CBS This Morning.
Devin Kelley, the 26-year-old suspect in the mass shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springsthat left at least 26 people dead and another 20 injured, was an avowed atheist not mentioned by the TV news. It is easy to find his rants against Christianity and there is no God on line. A missing person report claimed the shooter, who was in the Air Force, was ordered to submit to mental health treatment after admitting he beat his first wife and stepson. He received a bad conduct discharge and sentenced to a year in prison.. One attack on the child left him with a skull fracture.
Five years ago, the gunman was sent to an inpatient mental health facility in New Mexico but escaped and fled to Texas. On June 13, 2012, Devin Kelley, 26, reportedly fled the Peak Behavioral Health Services Center in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunmen opened fire on a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers at the country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT, allegedly 64-year-old
Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, fired hundreds of rifle rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel. That is the official version but he death of the alleged killer in Las Vegas does not fit the eye witness testimony that firing was observed from several casino locations.
Paddock recently won $40,000 on a slot machine and is a millionaire, his brother, and has never hurt anyone Eric Paddock, told The Associated Press.
Allegedly a lone security officer entered the shooters room who had set up TV in the hall to worn of intruders, was shot and killed by the security officer with a handgun against a man with a room full of automatic weapons. We are told a millionaire businessman decided to kill dozens of people but was killed by a lone security officer who has disappeared. It looks more like he was a gun dealer who was killed in his hotel room perhaps having sold weapons to others.. This was most likely a terrorist operation being covered up to avoid the bad publicity for Las Vegas. Interestingly, ISIS has claimed they were responsible for the killings and the top floors of the Mandalay Hotel belong to Saudi Arabia. A helicopter was seen landing and taking off from the hotel roof shortly after the shooting stopped.
The body and the dozens of assault rifles in the room seem staged, it seemed more like a gun dealers room than a room to mount an assault. There are two pools of blood on either side of Paddock’s body and no typical shooters suicide was announced. Was millionaire Stephen Paddock a possible patsy murdered by others in the room?
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Filer’s Files #46-2017 President Carter Saw UFO - PART II
Filer’s Files #46-2017 President Carter Saw UFO - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Sierra Vista — I was photographing the sunset from a moving car on November 6, 2017, through an open window and took 12 photos. I reviewed them and noticed the object. Lens flare has been ruled out, as it strobed, and moved independently. Upon review, I zoomed in on the object, and observed an unusual appearance that doesn’t look like the space station. There were no obvious planets or moon in the area. Thanks To MUFON CMS
California Objects
Huntington Beach — Walking my dogs last night I looked up to observe movement of a satellite on October 26, 2017. It was a light grey flying wing with little sweep to it and little variation in width of the wing. There were no lights with constant speed. I estimate roughly 15,000 feet high, similar speed or slightly faster than an airliner with a similar wingspan flying west. It looked like an airliner minus the fuselage and lights with a very flat bottom. Having been around aviation my whole life and lived with a father who wrote for Aviation Week for 22 years, my impression is it was an aircraft, not alien.
Cabazon — My girl friend and her mother, were stopped at a rest stop, in Cabazon, California and had someone walking by, take this photo. This photo was taken in February 2015.
While looking through some of my pictures, from three years ago, I noticed the flying saucer shaped object on the upper left hand side of mountain, behind us. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Miami — The time was nine-thirty P.M. and I was now sitting in the Sterns’ patio with my wife and Richard Boswell. We were facing the west looking over Indian Creek and I said jokingly, “No saucer yet.” She gave me a warm smile, which was broken by a shriek from across the creek. A startled woman said, “There it is again.” She was Mrs. Hunt who lives at Miami Beach, I learned later.
Immediately I jumped to my feet, checked the camera and shouted, “Where is it?” Could this be the same Saucer from the night before? Actually the reply was instant. Mrs. Hunt said, “to your left above the apartments.” My wife excitedly said, “There it is!” I was as well prepared to meet the situation and there is nothing in this world that this saucer could be compared with. I held my breath and pressed the camera tightly against my cheek and followed the disk the best I could. My pictures were weird with all 50 feet of film. The disk could be seen clearly with the naked eye. I followed the image with my naked eye instead of through the viewer. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Lights
Westford— A friend of mine who is of sound mind was driving and saw what he described as fireball like objects flying like birds.
He took a few photos and I thought they were amazing, so I decided it was worth reporting.
He was on Highway 495. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Light
Hessel— Woke up and was looking out the window at 3 AM on November 7, 2017. I saw something flashing in the sky by the stars it seemed. There was a trail of about 7 lines in a triangle shape of white, green and red. I took about 50 pictures as it moved very slow and seemed to change shape. I watched it for about 30 minutes and took pictures of it and went back to bed. I live in the woods with no city lights around. This thing just flashed and changed shapes as the pictures show. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Unknown Objects
Burlington Township — I was flying my drone at a local lake about a mile from my house videotaping the fall foliage. I did not see the objects until I got home and reviewed my video tape. There are a total of three high speed unknown objects flying under and to the left of my drone. All three incidents were at different time frames. The first was noticed at the 52 second mark and the other two at the 11:35 and 11:40 mark. All three objects are moving in straight lines. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Brooklyn — I was walking along the water at Caesar’s Bay shopping center around 11:45 PM on August 4, 2017. The Verrazano bridge was just to the right. I was looking west over New York Harbor, when I noticed 4-5 bright steady lights in unusual pattern hovering in the distance. They maintained their formation consistently, but were not aircraft. I watched for 20 minutes, but the lights did not come closer and were consistent. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Lights
Mckeesport — I went out on my back porch on November’7, 2017, and saw the orange lights in the sky.
I was amazed and had chills up my spine.
There were many lights and then they flew off into the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Disc
Kettle Falls — My father delivered newspapers every night in this area. about 2 PM he saw large disk hovering over Columbia River on June 17, 1967. It had a tube from disc to water…he watched about two minutes. Then the tube retracted and disc flew away..He told me two weeks later, we talked every day. He said he couldn’t talk about it. A deputy sheriff also saw it, but didn’t tell anyone for ten days.
Note: A delay in telling about seeing a UFO is common and people later report they had received telepathic instructions not to reveal abductions and sightings.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Object
Scarborough, Ontario — I was at work and went outside within one minute I see a ‘dark ‘ brightly flashing white light object on November 6, 2017.
It must of went over our roof heading southward Once I noticed the object south couple hundred feet away, my camera was out of my pocket within seconds to film it! I started to film at 4:49 PM, as it was moving fast under about 1000 feet. It stopped for a moment before the hydro lines south for 25 seconds giving me a great opportunity to film it! It then moved on southward towards Lake Ontario flashing brightly. A couple minutes later I lost sight of it. Thanks once again for your interest into the matter Thanks to Paul Shishis
Germany Alien
Donauwörth — I know computer diction on November 4, 2017.
I know her communications flashing light will be caused by one alien! The light is itself the arm! The light is only visible with night vision. I think they coordinate their devices and her devices could change the state of aggregation in a lightning beam!
You can see 4 small dots on the body only with night vision that are her devices! They are still by me and invisible! Communication is a sound wave like transformer and there are three in the film!
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Japan Lights
On November’7, 2017 I saw some strange lights in the sky and decided to look closer with my smart phone. When I zoomed 8x, I saw a strange square shaped flying object, but the weird thing is that it does not move. It just stayed there, shinning with some abnormal light surrounding itself. I cannot see its exact shape, because it gets rounding all the time. It does not look like an airplane, helicopter, satellite, drone or balloon.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Object
Palma — I was sitting having a coffee on the first morning of my holiday and decided to take a selfie to wind a couple of friends up. Once I took the photo I went back into my camera role to have a look when I noticed a strange object. I zoomed in on the object to have a closer look and my stomach turned. To this day it makes me feel sick when I look at it I’d just like other people who have a good knowledge of these kind of things to have a look at my pics and tell me what they think I found. I was watching a MUFON UFO files episode a half hour ago. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sweden Cigar
Cigar-shaped object with changing lights, radiated a bright dazzling light in brightness like the Moon. When the large lights went small, a cigar-shaped silhouette appeared and flew very slowly below the clouds.
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UK/Wales Orb
Cardiff— I was travelling east on the M4 motorway between Cardiff and Newport on November 5, 2017, at 4.05 PM. In the sky to my left was a white object which did not appear to be moving. I took two photos on my iPhone 7 but they are not very clear. Once home, I enlarged the images and saw that the object was definitely nothing I recognized, appearing as 4 vertical rectangles side by side. Had I been alone I would have pulled off the toad to view the object further. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Chester — On the 8th November 2017 at 06:44 AM. I was letting my dogs into the garden as I had just got up for work. It was a very clear but cold and frosty morning, visibility of the sky was very good. I noticed a circular light travelling along the sky and thought it was a plane at first but it was going to quickly to be a plane so I got my phone and started recording. Later I noticed some strange movements as it changed direction slightly but sharply. It did not seem to be the movement of a standard aircraft. At the very end of the video it suddenly darts in the opposite direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tewkesbury— I was going for a walk and I seen something out of the corner of my eye on November 10, 2017. Amazed when I turned to look this thing was massive I took a pic too it’s in the clouds more to the right on the picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The robot dog of the future is getting smarter. SpotMini, created by Boston Dynamics, has improved dramatically since its June debut. It’s designed to complete household chores while using its four legs to maintain balance, and a new video released Monday shows the incredible progress the company has made.
In the 24-second video, SpotMini runs up to the camera, peers down to look at the viewer, then lifts itself up and hops along on its way. Unlike its predecessors, which looked like a mesh of wires and metal bars, the new version has a fetching yellow exterior that makes it look more like a cute toy than some sort of military bot. If this dog-like machine is going to live alongside the rest of a family, you want it to look as friendly as possible.
The bot also appears to have a smoother motion. In previous demonstrations, the 55-pound SpotMini has been seen using a retractable arm located in its back to help out around the house, carefully moving objects to avoid dropping them. It can pick up cans, load up a dishwasher, and even do a little dance. During the 16 months since its debut, SpotMini has come on leaps and bounds to develop into a bot that wouldn’t look amiss alongside the Roomba autonomous vacuum cleaner or the Amazon Echo A.I. voice assistant.
At this stage, it’s unclear where SpotMini’s future lies. Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank announced its purchase of Boston Dynamics back in June, taking over from Google parent company Alphabet. SoftBank is known in robotics for its Pepper customer assistant, a humanoid bot with a touchscreen on its front for taking orders in hi-tech stores.
“Smart robotics are going to be a key driver of the next stage of the information revolution, and Marc (Raibert) and his team at Boston Dynamics are the clear technology leaders in advanced dynamic robots,” SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son said at the time of the purchase.
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UFO IN NASA MOON IMAGE? HERE ARE THE MOST RIDICULOUS 'SIGHTINGS' OF THE LAST MONTH
UFO IN NASA MOON IMAGE? HERE ARE THE MOST RIDICULOUS 'SIGHTINGS' OF THE LAST MONTH
BY JOSEPH FRANKEL
From Roswell to War of the Worlds, the prospect of making first contact is thrilling, terrifying, and a surefire way to grab public attention. That’s part of why stories of UFO sightings, like this week’s tabloid reporting of a reemergence of the “Black Knight Satellite ” can be so compelling. While so far all these stories have been of course proven false, Newsweek has chosen to highlight a few stories that may have got your hopes up.
Just last month, there were since deleted reports of a “giant glowing ball” of light near the Arctic in Siberia possibly believed to be a UFO. The source, perhaps less romantically, turned out to be ICB missile tests. At the time, some sources interviewed for The Siberian Timesexpressed concern that the impressive display was rooted in alien activity or “a gap in the space-time continuum” rather than a military exercise. But, alas, the Northern lights were predicted to be especially bright that night so photographers by coincidence had their lenses trained on the sight.
Yesterday, a U.K.-based site reported directly on an online video observing that a perfectly triangular dent had been found on the surface of the moon. The video goes on to make the claim that the photographs of a small dent in the surface of the moon could be “providing cover for existing bases” for extraterrestrial creatures.
And on the same day, another outlet published a story raising the possibility that the ‘Black Knight Satellite’ had been spotted in images taken by NASA Apollo 16. Something of a Loch Ness Monster of outer space, the Black Knight Satellite has been purportedly ‘spotted’ many times over the years with little if anything to back it up. According to Vice, the myth dates back over 100 years to Nikola Tesla's early experimentation with radios in 1899. To that publication’s credit though, they raised the much more likely possibility that the dark spot on the screen was “a thermal blanket accidentally dropped from a space shuttle.”
But why all the hype? While there's a deeply human impulse to imagine and seek out life outside of what we know, as the almost spiritual nature of the true efforts to search for extraterrestrial life attest to, more likely than not, these articles are more likely tapping into market demands than any deeper psychological need.
peter2011 : this is written by a sceptic journalist and not all is confabulation or a hoax. I publish his story on my log, so you can read the "logical" thinking of a sceptic. Sorry, but it's to easy to write that is all false without proof!!!
The jelly-like Portuguese man-of-war can harness sail power to fish with its deadly tentacles
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Sir David Attenborough's popular BBC One series continues with its great exploration in the big blue next weekend. After the hair-raising segment on the 'alien-like' Bobbit worm, Blue Planet 2 viewers are all set to explore the life of a deadly sea-creature that hunts using its venomous tentacles in next Sunday's (19 November) episode.
Known as Portuguese man-of-war or the floating terror, the creature is most likely to be mistaken for a jellyfish. But, according to a description available on the National Geographic's site, the man o' war is an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together.
Along with a host of other creatures and animals from the wilderness, the episode explores the life of the Man-of-war. An official summary on the BBC UK website evenincludes a little teaser on what fans could expect to see in the next episode, Big Blue.
"Over half of all animals in the open ocean drift in currents. Jellyfish cross entire oceans feeding on whatever happens to tangle with their tentacles," the description read, adding, "The jelly-like Portuguese man-of-war can harness sail power to fish with its deadly tentacles."
Blue Planet 2's upcoming episode also includes a fascinating discovery on the birthing process of the ocean's biggest fish, the whale shark.
"Raising your young in this great wilderness is a huge challenge. The episode follows two very different ocean voyagers that show amazing care. We get closer to solving the mystery of where the biggest fish in the sea, the whale shark, gives birth.
The pregnant females make an epic journey across the Pacific to the Galapagos Islands. Scientists now think it might be here that the pregnant females give birth to their pups in the safety of the depths. And in the freezing south Atlantic, a pair of ageing wandering albatrosses give their all to raise their very last chick." – From the episode description
The seven-part nature series has so far been well-received by the audience – with last Sunday's episode on coral reefs raking in a record 11.3 million viewers. This is in line with the upward curve, considering the 10.3 million average of overnight viewers after Blue Planet 2 debuted its first episode.
Involvement of renowned naturalist, Sir David, only adds to the popularity of the documentary sequel. "I am truly thrilled to be joining this new exploration of the underwater worlds which cover most of our planet, yet are still its least known," said the English broadcaster.
New Delhi [India], Nov 14 (ANI): A strange triangular-shaped object has been found buried on the surface of Mars and some believe it is a sign of a crashed UFO.
A video uploaded to YouTube by conspiracy theorist channel SecureTeam10 revealed the discovery.
The video narrator said: "There is no doubt that there is something of an almost perfect triangular-shaped nature, albeit a little dented up and a little warped, but it doesn't look like it belongs there."
Speaking about the close proximity of the "crashed UFO" to the "alien base", he added: "When you find another object in the same general area that again looks out of place. We have found these domes on multiple planets and moons."
"Even NASA and our own space agencies have talked about getting us to the moon and establishing bases have drawn up their plans using the exact same thing - domes," he continued.
"Could that be what we're seeing here? A camouflage among this crater field. Or is this some sort of ancient relic?" the narrator asked.
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‘Most Controversial UFO Photo on Record:’ UFO Sighting in California Desert
‘Most Controversial UFO Photo on Record:’ UFO Sighting in California Desert
Remarkable pictures of what appears to be an alien spacecraft hovering over the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California have the UFO community mesmerized.
The pictures were reportedly taken by Keith Bradshaw in 2007, but he was too nervous to reveal them to the world until this week. Bradshaw claims that he went out to the desert after an old friend working on the base told him about the mysterious sighting.
"This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable," he told the Daily Star.
"Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes, perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear."
Bradshaw also claims to have heard a helicopter as he walked toward the base, before seeing the silver craft. He watched the UFO for approximately 10 minutes and noticed the military helicopter flying around near the craft at the same time.
"I don't believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it," he said.
"It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it."
Bradshaw sent his pictures to the world's top UFO experts, who are unsure whether the photos are real or not.
British UFO hunter Philip Mantle said, "This could turn out to be one of the most controversial UFO photo cases on record," adding that he has never seen anything like the images in his more than 40 years of research.
"The photo analysts contacts cannot come to an agreement about these photos. Are they fake or genuine? Who knows."
Jason Gleaves, a former Royal Air Force and current British defence contractor with BAE Systems, believes the sighting could be real, according to the Daily Star.
Reports containing UFO descriptions made their way across the desk – which have now been declassified by the National Archives.
These strange images and stories have now been compiled by author Dr David Clarke in his new book UFO Drawings From The National Archives.
“The striking images in the new book were sourced from these and an older collection of UFO files”
Dr Clarke
Odd accounts include a drawing for a white orb-shaped UFO spotted at a school in Macclesfield in 1977.
Children described the object with an opening and ladder landing near Upton Priory Junior School.
Dr Clarke said: “Their teacher, Mrs Hindmarsh, ushered the children inside and asked to draw what they had seen, separating them to ensure that no copying took place.
“The youngsters used pencils and coloured crayons to produce the images that ended up in an MoD file.”
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SKETCH: A detailed drawing of an 'alien craft' spotted over Smethwick
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ALIEN WORLD: This picture was sent to the Ministry of Defence claiming to be of another plant
Meanwhile, another sketch shows a lamp-shaped object with a flashing blue which flew over Smethwick in 1954.
With the name redacted, the UFO experiencer wrote a detailed account saying the craft hovered around 12feet above the ground for five minutes.
They wrote the craft was “totally silent, releasing a trail of smoke from the rear”.
Another strange picture sent to the Ministry of Defence in 2003 alleges shows to the “home world of the Procyons/Andromedons”.
Other stories detailed in the book include an alien spotted on the A1, and flying saucers cruising over Hampstead.
Dr Clarke is a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and specialising in researching modern folklore.
He said: “The striking images in the new book were sourced from these and an older collection of UFO files, some dating back to the Second World War, that have been opened to public inspection under the 30 year rule.”
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FLYING SAUCER: Alien ships spotted by school children at their school in Macclesfield
These stunning pictures appear to show an alien spacecraft hovering in the air over the desert and have been seized upon by the UFO community.
They were taken by a man using the pseudonym "Keith Bradshaw", who says he went out to the desert near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California after being told about the craft by a friend.
He snapped the pictures in 2007 - but says he has been too nervous to show them until now.
(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
“This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable," he told the Daily Star .
“Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear."
Keith said that he watched the craft for about ten minutes. He also claimed he saw the silver UFO while a number of military vehicles were parked nearby.
There was even a military helicopter flying around at the time.
(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
“I don’t believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it," he said.
“It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it.”
By opening the pictures up to the world now, Keith hopes to open the conversation about whether we've been visited by extraterrestrials - or whether it was simply some new kind of military hardware that he witnessed.
(Image: CASCADE NEWS)
He provided the pictures to 54-year-old UFO sleuth Philip Mantle, who says he hasn't seen anything like this in over 40 years of research.
Mr Mantle has described them as "the most controversial UFO photos on record" and adds experts are unable to agree if the photographs are real.
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Astronomers are on the lookout for low-frequency gravitational waves generated by merging supermassive black holes
Astronomers are on the lookout for low-frequency gravitational waves generated by merging supermassive black holes
Credit: NASA.
In just a year, scientists have confirmed not one but five gravitational waves. But don’t worry, if you thought gravitational waves — essentially ripples in the fabric of space-time — are now dull and mundane, scientists found new ways to keep them interesting. New research showed that it’s theoretically possible to pick up the low-frequency gravitational waves generated by events such as the merger of two supermassive black holes. The discovery could be ten years away.
Intergalactic waves
Gravitational waves have made a lot of headlines lately so what’s with all the hype?
The existence of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity about a hundred years ago, was only confirmed only last year. The event was recorded by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose founders were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
Gravity waves are essentially ripples in the fabric of spacetime which are generated by interactions between very massive accelerating cosmic objects, such as neutron stars or black holes. Physicists liken gravity waves to the waves generated when a stone is thrown into a pond.
Gravity waves are basically ripples/distortions in the medium that we live in, space-time itself.
Credit: ESO/NASA.
LIGO was founded in 1992, so it took them 25 years to prove their existence. That’s because detecting a gravity wave is no easy feat. To spot gravitational waves directly for the first time, scientists had to measure a distance change 1,000 times smaller than the width of a proton using interferometers, basically mirrors placed 4 kilometers apart.
In the case of the September 14, 2015, observation which was announced on February 11, 2016, scientists observed gravitational waves produced by the collision of black holes with a mass about a dozen times that of the Sun. Since then, gravitational waves have been spotted another four times. The most recent observation of a gravitational wave was generated by the merger of two neutron stars, which are the collapsed cores of large stars — they’re the smallest and, at the same time, densest stars we know of. The event was detected both by LIGO and by traditional telescopes which picked up light from the gamma-ray bursting out of the neutron star merger.
‘Hearing bass singers, not just sopranos’
Astronomers, however, would like to also detect far stronger gravitational waves, such as those produced by the merger of supermassive black holes — behemoth black holes whose mass can be millions if not billions of times greater than that of the Sun. The problem is that neither LIGO nor VIRGO can register low-frequency signals such as those generated by extremely massive events.
Thankfully, scientists have already thought of a solution. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy,it’s quite possible to detect gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes by studying the subtle anomalies in pulsars.
A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star which emits electromagnetic signals. These objects are also very dense, holding the mass of the sun in about the size of a large city. Pulsars radiate two steady, narrow beams of light in opposite directions. Although the light from the beam is steady, pulsars appear to flicker because they also spin. For this reason, pulsars have earned the nickname of ‘cosmic lighthouses’.
With enough data, by studying the periodicity and strength of the pulsar signals, scientists can infer the presence and strength of a gravitational wave if the pulsar signal is delayed even by a tiny amount.
“A difference between when the pulsar signals should arrive, and when they do arrive, can signal a gravitational wave,” says Chiara Mingarelli, lead author of the new study and a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. “And since the pulsars we study are about 3,000 light-years away, they act as a galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector.”
Out of the 5,000 galaxies that they studied, the scientists narrowed the list down to 90 pairs of supermassive black holes, the most massive of which are expected to merge within the next four million years. Mingarelli and colleagues are confident that by expanding the “pulsar timing array over the next 10 years or so, there is a high likelihood of detecting gravitational waves from at least one supermassive black hole binary.”
Ultimately, detecting a gravitational wave generated by merging supermassive black holes could teach us more about how galaxies form and merge, helping us unravel the secrets of the universe.
Experts find ‘secret passageway to an underground cave’ beneath Mexican Pyramid
Experts find ‘secret passageway to an underground cave’ beneath Mexican Pyramid
Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery after revealing a ‘secret’ passageway located beneath the ancient pyramid of Kukulkan in the ancient city of Chichen Itza in Mexico.
The Mayan pyramid located in Chichen Itza is one of the most visited sites in modern-day Mexico.
Erected more than a thousand years ago, the stunning structure built by the long-lost civilization has been the subject of debate among experts, who have revealed a number of secrets hiding in the Pyramids interior.
Now, experts have found what appears to be a secret passageway leading to an underground chamber, or cave, filled with water beneath the ‘El Castillo’ Pyramid at Chichen Itza.
The cave, according to experts, is a cenote (a kind of flooded hole) that leads to the temple and could reveal the “sacred geography” of the place.
The theory is that there is a system of underground sumps interconnected around the pyramid at its cardinal points.
The Pyramid of El Castillo holds many secrets.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
The discovery was made by a team led by underwater archaeologist Guillermo de Anda, who used advanced imaging techniques, like ground penetrating lidar—a form of radar, to send electromagnetic signals through the walls and other architectural elements of the pyramid and its surroundings—and make a 3D model of the structures that make up the subsoil around the pyramid.
However, although there is certainty of the existence of the passage, the first explorations have not been made.
De Anda said in a statement to Milenio, that if the cenote was verified, it would “totally change” the vision we have of “the patterns of the Mayan settlement.”
This image shows the tunnel that leads to the interior of the Kukulcán pyramid at Chichen Itza.
Image Credit: INAH
The discovery was made through a smaller burial chamber referred to as the Ossuary.
In an interview with El universal, Dr. De Anda said: “Through the Ossuary, we can enter the cave beneath the structure and there we found a blocked passageway, probably closed off by the ancient Mayans themselves. We will enter again and this time we will try to open it to see if the passageway leads us to the entrance of the cenote beneath the pyramid.”
Unlike the European cosmogony that places the deities in heaven, Mayan spirituality believed that the Gods came from the underworld. The most sacred and alive was the earth, that is why formations such as caves and cenotes were so sacred because they were an access road to the inside of the earth, that is, leading to the presence of the gods,” said Dr. James Brady from the California State University, Los Angeles.
ERT-3D scans have revealed a smaller substructure within the walls of the Temple of Kukulkan.
Image credit: UNAM
Dr. Brady is a worldwide pioneer in the study of the relations established by the Mayans between architecture and caves.
Experts believe the ancient Maya built one of their most sacred pyramids around 1,000 years ago on top of a cavern, due to their religious beliefs.
Furthermore, archaeologists note that the cenotes that are located around the Pyramid may represent the four cardinal points.
Researchers also note that the river located at the center may represent the center of the Maya universe, which they envisioned as a tree with roots reaching below ground.
Future space missions won’t be able to carry all their building materials from Earth. Competitors are challenged to fabricate habitats using indigenous materials. $2 million prize!
Hey all you citizen inventors! On November 7, 2017, NASA opened team registration for Phase 3 of its 3D Printed Habitat Challenge – the On-Site Habitat Competition. Get a team together and grab this awesome opportunity to share your ideas – plus there’s a $2 million total prize purse.
If humans plan to live on Mars – and beyond – future missions won’t be able to carry all of the necessary building materials from Earth, so we’re going to need some innovative options for shelter. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is looking for ways to develop technologies to create such habitats on-site, and challenges citizen inventors to lead the way.
In other words, NASA wants America’s best and brightest to help them figure out how to build a house on Mars, using advanced 3D printing technology in the most efficient and sustainable way possible.
The goal of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is to foster the development of new technologies necessary to additively manufacture a habitat using local indigenous materials with, or without, recyclable materials. The vision is that autonomous machines will someday be deployed to the Moon, Mars or beyond to construct shelters for human habitation.
First place winner in Phase 2: Ice house by SEArch/Clouds Architecture Office. Read more about this design here.
Image via NASA.
The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is divided into phases. The Phase 1: Design Competition called on participants to develop state-of-the-art architectural concepts and was completed in 2015.
The Phase 2: Structural Member Competition focused on manufacturing structural components and was completed in August 2017.
The now-open Phase 3: On-Site Habitat Competition challenges competitors to fabricate sub-scale habitats using indigenous materials with or without mission-generated recyclables, and offers a $2 million total prize purse.
Mars Artificial Atmospheric Envelope (M.A.A.E.) – a finalist from Phase 2. More info about this design here.
Image via NASA.
Phase 3 has five levels of competition. Interested teams may register through February 15, 2018. Find full details, schedule and rules here.
Monsi Roman is program manager of NASA’s Centennial Challenges. Roman said in a statement:
The ideas and technologies this competition has already produced are encouraging, and we are excited to see what this next phase will bring. The solutions we seek from our competitions are revolutionary, which by nature makes them extremely difficult. But this only fuels our teams to work harder to innovate and solve.
Bottom line: On November 7, 2017, NASA opened team registration for Phase 3 of its 3D Printed Habitat Challenge – the On-Site Habitat Competition
Aerospace companies Bigelow Aerospace and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) have announced plans to launch a large space capsule that will eventually help astronauts plan for future space exploration missions. By 2022, this inflatable habitat will orbit the moon.
Bigelow Aerospace is designing the B330 expandable module that will serve as a space station. The size of the B330 module is about one-third that of the ISS (International Space Station). ULA will provide the Vulcan 562-configuration rocket upon which this module will be carried to low-Earth orbit.
Once the B330 module is in low-Earth orbit, Bigelow Aerospace plans to outfit the inflatable habitat with supplies. When it’s ready, ULA will then make use of two more Vulcan ACES rockets to push the module into low-lunar orbit.
The two aerospace companies intend to provide a platform that will allow astronauts to undertake their training and private companies to test their technologies.
“We are excited to work with ULA on this lunar depot project,” said Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow in a statement. “Our lunar depot plan is a strong complement to other plans intended to eventually put people on Mars. It will provide NASA and America with an exciting and financially practical success opportunity that can be accomplished in the short term. This lunar depot could be deployed easily by 2022 to support the nation’s re-energized plans for returning to the Moon.”
You Can Visit Real Alien Planets in VR Thanks to This Awesome New Simulation
You Can Visit Real Alien Planets in VR Thanks to This Awesome New Simulation
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Ever wonder what it would be like to stand on an alien planet while you're lacerated by burning rain? Most exoplanets might not be great to visit in real life, but a new 360-degree video brings the experience to the safety of virtual reality, offering viewers a tour of six exoplanets across the universe.
The tour comes from animation-and-virtual-effects house Engine House VFX, which teamed up with the Bristol Science Centre and exoplanet scientists at the University of Exeter, in England.
"Each one of [the Milky Way's] hundred billion stars has its own planets, its own strange worlds," Ross Exton, the narrator of the video, said. "Imagine what it would be like to visit some of those exoplanets beyond our own little solar system." [Wildest Alien Planet Discoveries of 2016]
The six planets include the planetary laboratory LkCa 15 b, the melting "hot Jupiter" planet WASP-121b, the strong-winded HD209458b, the "Interstellar"-like water world Kepler-62e, the molten surface of 55 Cancri e and the Earth-size planet TRAPPIST-1e. Scientists also offer commentary on the planets' environments.
For example, HD 209458b certainly doesn't sound very hospitable. "At wind speeds of 5 kilometers [3 miles] per second, you effectively are going to be lacerated by glass rain and molten iron. So these aren't particularly nice places to visit," University of Exeter research fellow Stefan Lines said in the video.
The dust disk LkCa 15 b reveals mysteries about planetary formation, added University of Exeter postgraduate researcher Elisabeth Matthews: "Sometimes they [the particles] stick, and sometimes they bounce off, and no one really knows how they can stick around long enough to become a planet."
Engine House VFX was established in 2008 and has previously collaborated on projects with Coca-Cola and Ubisoft. The company's previous work includes animated covers for Steven King novels and working on effects for a sci-fi short called "The Leap."
PHYSICISTS OUTLINE 10 DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF OUR UNIVERSE
PHYSICISTS OUTLINE 10 DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF OUR UNIVERSE
Mention the word 'dimension' different dimensions and straight away parallel universes come to mind. These are alternate realities that are parallel to our own but in which things happen or work differently. This is just a popular characterization and the reality of dimensions and the role played in the ordering of the Universe is very different.
Dimensions are different facets of what people think to be a reality. People are aware of the three dimensions that surround them on a daily basis, defining the width, length, and depth of every single object that is in the universe on the x, y, and z-axes.
Outside of these visible dimensions, scientists believe that there are much more. The Superstring Theory is a theoretical framework that suggests the universe is in existence in ten different dimensions. The different aspects govern the universe, the fundamental forces of nature and the elementary particles that are contained in it.
The first of the dimensions is the length, the x-axis. This can easily be described as a one-dimensional object that is in a line that is straight and which exists just in terms of length and is without any more qualities that are discernible.
This can be added to the second dimension, which is the height on the y-axis and the object turns into a shape that is 2-dimensional. The third dimension involves the depth and this, of course, is the z-axis and it provides all objects with a sense of area along with cross-section.
A good example of this would be a cube as it is able to exist in three dimensions, length, width and depth, and volume. Outside of these dimensions is seven more and these are dimensions that not apparent but they have a direct effect on both reality and the universe as people know it.
THE FOURTH DIMENSION – PROPERTIES OF MATTER AT ANY GIVEN POINT
The fourth dimension is what governs properties of any matter at any given point. With the other three dimensions being able to find the position in time of an object is essential for being able to plot the position of that object in the universe. The other dimensions reveal the deeper possibilities that come into play and explain their interaction with others and this is when things start to get very tricky for physicists.
FIFTH AND SIXTH DIMENSIONS – NOTION OF POSSIBLE WORLDS
Based on the Superstring theory, the fifth, along with sixth dimensions are where the idea of possible worlds comes into play. If people were able to see the fifth dimension they would see a world that was slightly different from that of their own and so it would give a meaning of similarity and the differences between the world in which we live in and others.
The sixth dimension would be a plane of possible worlds that would allow comparison and position to all the possible universes that begin with the same initial conditions as ours, for instance, the Big Bang. Theory suggests that if people could master both the fifth and sixth dimensions then they would be capable of time travel both backward and forwards into different futures.
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH DIMENSION – ACCESS TO WORLDS BEGINNING WITH DIFFERENT INITIAL CONDITIONS
In a seventh dimension, people would have access to worlds that had different initial conditions. The initial conditions would be where the same along with subsequent actions would be different and so everything would differ from the start of time.
The eighth dimension would offer a plane of possible universe histories with each of them beginning with initial conditions that would be different and which branched out infinitely, which is why they have the name infinities.
NINTH DIMENSION – COMPARISON OF ALL UNIVERSE HISTORIES POSSIBLE
The ninth dimension allows for the comparison of all the histories of all possible universes and this would begin with all of the different initial conditions and the possible law of physics.
THE TENTH DIMENSION – EVERYTHING POSSIBLE IS COVERED
The final tenth dimension is the dimension that covers everything possible along with the imaginable. Anything that is beyond this is above this cannot be imagined by mortals and so it is the natural limitation of what people can conceive in terms of dimensions.
All of the additional six dimensions are needed for string theory so that there is a consistency in nature. The fact that only four dimensions of space can be perceived and explained by one or two mechanisms, either extra dimensions have to be compacted on a small scale or the world could live on the three-dimensional submanifold that corresponds to a brane, which is that all know particles other than gravity is restricted. If the extra dimensions were compacted the six dimensions would be in a form known as Calabi-Yau.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
The Theory of Everything relies on the belief that the universe is actually made up to ten dimensions, perhaps more, this depends on the model of string theory that was used, and this is an attempt to bring together the standard model of particle physics with the existence of gravity. In other words, it is an attempt to try to explain how all of the known forces in the universe can interact and how other universes might work.
MARTIAN JACKPOT: GIANT ALIEN DOME AND TRIANGLE UFO SPOTTED ON MARS
MARTIAN JACKPOT: GIANT ALIEN DOME AND TRIANGLE UFO SPOTTED ON MARS
Many people may be tired of hearing about Martian structures and alike discovered on the Red planet and to their disappointment it's nothing but a bunch of rocks or rock formations resembling something familiar.
But recently UFO hunter have stumbled upon what they consider a Jackpot of Martian relics. They spotted on 2 craters not to far from each other what appears to be a massive Triangular object and a giant Dome.
Conspiracy theorists claim that the triangular object could be a crashed UFO similar to the triangular ones that have been spotted in recent times hovering above our cities.
They also claim that the dome could be housing a breathable artificial environment created by either extraterrestrial beings, or created by our own space agencies which may have been kept in secret from the public for a long time.
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UFO SCHEERT VLAK BOVEN KLM TOESTELLEN OP SCHIPHOL
UFO SCHEERT VLAK BOVEN KLM TOESTELLEN OP SCHIPHOL
Een video die deze week werd gemaakt door een vliegtuigspotter laat een KLM Boeing 777 zien die direct na de start wordt getroffen door de bliksem.
Net voordat dit toestel vertrok vloog er een onbekend object over een aantal voor vertrek klaar staande vliegtuigen op Schiphol.
Veel mensen hebben de afgelopen dagen gekeken naar een spectaculaire video-opname die enkele dagen geleden werd gemaakt door vliegtuigspotter Ralph Valkenier.
De video laat het vertrekt zien van vlucht KL743, een Boeing 777-300, van Amsterdam naar Lima.
Net na de start wordt het vliegtuig getroffen door de bliksem, hetgeen uiteraard zorgt voor een bijzondere opname. Die blikseminslag is te zien rond 2:44 in de onderstaande video.
Maar, wat klaarblijkelijk niemand is opgevallen, behalve een oplettende lezer van deze website (dank!), is dat er net voor vertrek van vlucht KL743 een onbekend "iets" over de baan vloog.
Wij ontvingen het volgende bericht:
Op VKmag zag ik een interessant filmpje, namelijk dat er een vliegtuig getroffen wordt door de bliksem. Op zich niet heel spannend maar in het filmpje zie je een object vliegen wat niet echt op een vliegtuig lijkt als je het filmpje pauzeert. Misschien verklaarbaar misschien niet.
En dat klopt helemaal.
In de volgende vier opnames die zijn gemaakt vanuit de video zie je linksboven een object verschijnen dat over de gereedstaande vliegtuigen vliegt en rechts weer uit beeld verdwijnt.
Wanneer je het object wat vergroot, dan lijkt het veel op een klassieke vliegende schotel.
Hieronder zijn de beelden te bekijken en de UFO verschijnt rond de 45 seconden links in beeld.
Mocht iemand meer weten over wat dit is, laat het ons weten. En dan liefst een beetje fatsoenlijk en niet zoals we vaak krijgen in de trant van: "Hé stelletje door de AIVD gecontroleerde koekenbakkers, hadden jullie dat zelf niet kunnen zien?".
There have been conspiracies for as long as we have contemplated such things. In many cases these can be paranoid delusions openly mocked by the masses and yet forever debated in the shadows of the fringe. After all, how could any of these crazy, far-out notions be real? Yet, sometimes the tinfoil-hat wearing crackpots are not as crazy as one might expect. From secret societies looking to rule the world from the shadows to strange human experiments, coverups, and insane government plots, sometimes truth can be just as weird as fiction, and here is a selection of conspiracies that turned out to be every bit as insane as advertised, and which show that perhaps paranoia is not always such a bad thing after all.
Secret Societies
Shadowy secret societies have long been a staple of the sprawling domain of conspiracy theories. The Freemasons, the Illuminati, secretive powerful cabals pulling the strings from behind the scenes and seeking to start a new world order are the bread and butter of many good conspiracies, and their plots must mostly seem like they must surely be set within the world of pure fiction, except for those times when they aren’t. Indeed there are many conspiracies involving such groups that have been proven to be very real indeed.
One such very real secret society is known as the Bohemian Club, which was founded in San Francisco, California in 1872, mostly as a social group for artists, musicians, writers, poets, and journalists, including amongst their number the author Mark Twain and the poets Charles Warren Stoddard and George Sterling. It was meant to be a casual venue for these artistic, creative individuals to get together to throw around ideas and talk shop together. As time went on, some of the more influential, wealthy, and powerful members sought to fashion the burgeoning club into something more, and they began to become highly associated with a massive campground in Monte Rio, California known as the Bohemian Grove, where members would make an annual pilgrimage in order to meet and carry out ever stranger rituals.
A Bohemian Club meeting
By the 1930s, the Bohemian Club had gone from informal get-togethers for starving artists to almost exclusively a gathering place for the rich and powerful, and would gather prominent members such as former presidents Richard Nixon and Herbert Clark Hoover, business and media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, and numerous influential politicians, CEOs of major companies, industry leaders, corporate major players, military officials, senior media executives, and various other people of power, and its waiting list for membership would get to be over 33 years long. What went on behind closed doors during their secretive get-togethers has always been top secret, and although they claim that there is no business discussed during their meetings and that ulterior motives are all left at the door, one does wonder what they get up to in there. It is known that there have been many important, even historical deals, government and business decisions, and projects laid out here, including the concept of the Manhattan Project, which was first laid out here and led to the development of the atomic bomb, so something is definitely going on to some extent or other.
The Bohemian Grove where these important figures would meet for 2 weeks a year, and still do, is itself dominated by towering redwood trees and a large stage and 30-foot-tall idol shaped like an enormous owl. The stage is used for various performances and ceremonies, such as the “The Cremation of Care,” which is a lavish, extravagant production complete with pyrotechnics that is meant to signify a “banishing of worldly cares,” and which culminates in the burning of an effigy. There are also supposedly various Druidic rituals carried out at the grove, all set to the backdrop of heavy drinking, opulent feasts, and all manner of debauchery. It is a place that has been described in The Washington Post as “a place where the rich and powerful go to misbehave,” and of which former president Richard Nixon said in 1971:
The Bohemian Grove (an elite, secrecy-filled gathering outside San Francisco), which I attend from time to time. It is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine…
The Bohemian Grove
Another secretive meeting of the world’s elite is called the Bilderberg Group, which meets every year in a private conference of around 150 of some of the planet’s most powerful figures, including monarchs, high-ranking politicians, senior military officials, economic leaders, powerful journalists, and experts from industry, finance, and academia. The covert meetings began in 1954 at the request of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and were originally intended as a way to promote the strengthening U.S.–European relations in a concept known as Atlanticism, but it has grown to cover wide ranging topics and agendas, most of which pertain to, well, no one really knows for sure. Although it is well-known that these meetings really do take place and it is even known who attends them to some extent, the contents of the meetings are highly guarded and the members sworn to absolute secrecy. This has of course led to the idea that this is an honest-to-God Illuminati type group seeking to impose one world government. The Bilderberg Group itself has been rather vague in dealing with such accusations, with one founder and member of over 30 years named Denis Healey somewhat ominously saying:
To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.
It is unclear just what these powerful individuals get up to behind closed doors, but it is certainly not just to idly chit chat. In the meantime the conspiracy theories on this very real secret society go deep, with claims ranging from they are controlling the world with an iron fist to that they are actually alien lizard people invading Earth. All we know is that the group does exist and they still have their incredibly secretive powwows every year.
While it is unclear if these secret organizations and shadowy meetings are really controlling world affairs to any degree, there has been at least one case where this actually did happen. In the 1980s, an offshoot of the Freemasons in Italy called the Propaganda Due (P2), which was led by the notorious fascist Licio Gelli, crawled into society like a parasitic worm. The group had the expressed goal of infiltrating and secretively controlling Italy from the inside via a shadow government, and to this end it had thousands of members including influential businessmen, military, police, and government officials, intelligence operatives, and other prominent figures among their ranks. Through these members the group was able to influence the press, burying certain news stories, exert pressure in the government on key issues of policy, including bringing Juan Peron back to power in Argentina, and cover up crimes such as the 1980 bombing of a Bologna train station, which killed 85 people and was orchestrated by Italian terrorists sympathetic to P2.
This may have gone on indefinitely if the hugely influential banker and P2 member Michele Sindona had not been busted for money laundering. Authorities would find within his records a list of around a thousand members of the secret society embedded like vermin all throughout the government and media, eventually leading to the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, whose cabinet was found to be absolutely crawling with P2 members. Some political figures linked to the group committed suicide rather than face charges, and the leader of the sect, Gelli, promptly hi-tailed it out of the country to Switzerland, where he would stay until he was eventually extradited for fraud.
Secret Government Experiments
Another fixture of any good conspiracy theory is the idea that the government is covertly carrying out secret experiments on human beings, sometimes on whole populations against their will for nefarious purposes, and I hate to say it but there is a depressingly long list of occasions where this has really happened. One of the more well-known and dramatic secret government projects that was very real was the shadowy mind-control project known as MKUltra. Originating in the 1950s, the project was launched by the CIA and the US Army Chemical Corps, and sought to investigate the potential use and effects of mind control techniques as well as to “develop a capability in the covert use of biological and chemical materials.” Although it started small, the program escalated rapidly, blowing up until it was being pursued in various institutions including an estimated 86 universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies.
Many of the often sadistic experiments involved heavy use of mind altering drugs such as LSD, the effects of which were poorly understood at the time and which were often given to unwitting test subjects in highly dangerous doses, which would lead to many of the patients developing brain damage and permanent mental and behavioral issues. There were also various chemicals tested, as well as gas propelled sprays and aerosols. In a lot of instances these tests were performed on terminal cancer patients to limit any lifelong problems they would have from the treatments and cover the tracks of the program. Other techniques pursued were electroshock treatment, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and verbal and physical abuse, often with no medical personnel on hand and the effects of which left at least two dead and many others mentally or emotionally scarred, with one report stating:
The deaths of two Americans can be attributed to these programs; other participants in the testing programs may still suffer from the residual effects. . . . The fact that they were continued for years after the danger of surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting individuals was known, demonstrate fundamental disregard for the value of human life.
It is unknown just what exactly went on within the program because the CIA director at the time, Richard Helms, had the vast majority of the files utterly destroyed in 1973. In 1976 and 1977 the U.S. Senate made serious investigations into the goings on of MKUltra, but this got nowhere. There has never been any accountability for the horrors the program carried out on American citizens, and all of the researchers who contributed to it have had their names withheld from the records, their names exempt from the Freedom of Information Act due to the CIA wanting to protect them as “intelligence sources.” The true horrific extent of MKUltra and their murky activities remain unknown.
The list of experiments such as these goes on and on, and some of them are rather reprehensible to say the least. In 1932, the U.S. government launched the “Tuskegee Experiment,” in which they planned to study the effects of syphilis and analyze those who had the disease. The study was carried out in Tuskegee, Alabama, and involved gathering around 400 poor, illiterate black males who had contracted the disease in order to put them under the microscope so to speak. Throughout the whole thing none of the patients were given any form of treatment for the disease, even though this existed, and many of them didn’t even know they had it, and they were put through various physical tests such as painful spinal tap procedures without their consent until they died, after which the corpses would by dissected, analyzed, and swept under the carpet. It would not be until 1972, 40 years after it began, that the whole experiment would be blown wide open by the whistleblower Peter Buxtun, who went to the Center for Disease Control with the whole sordid story.
In this case at least the government did not actually go about deliberately infecting people, merely going through the motions of doing so, but this would not be the case in other “studies.” Surely the government would not test possibly dangerous substances on its own citizens? Oh, how wrong you would be. In 1950, the U.S. Navy put into effect Operation Sea Spray, in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria, the effects of which we had no idea of at the time, were liberally sprayed all over the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The idea was to monitor the effects of the pathogens, and nearly 800,000 people were exposed during this time. 11 people would check into hospitals complaining of urinary tract infections and at least one patient died from complications. There was also a spike in cases of pneumonia during the time, as well as other health complications, with rates of these cases far beyond the norm.
During the whole operation the Navy made no attempts to alert the populace or even health authorities that this was all going on, and the experiment wouldn’t even come to light until 1977, when it was brought before a Senate subcommittee. Unbelievably, it would be decided that all of these various infections had been incurred within the hospitals, and that they had no relation to the experiments. Cover up? What do you think?
This is not even the only such shadowy experiment carried out by the U.S. government on its own citizens by a long shot. In 1955 the U.S. military went about dumping around 330,000 mosquitos all over the state of Georgia in an effort to conduct the feasibility of entomological warfare, or basically spreading diseases such as Yellow Fever among the enemy through insect vectors. The study aimed to investigate the logistics of such a thing, the dispersal rate, and the survivability of the insects during the process, and although none of the mosquitos was actually infected, someone forgot to tell the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the area that this was all going on. Similarly we have Operation Drop Kick in 1956, in which hundreds of thousands of mosquitos were dispersed over Savannah, Georgia and then monitored for how aggressively they infiltrated homes and bit people. It was a success in that the mosquitoes survived the drops and went about biting people with relish.
In the 1960s there was also Project SHAD, which saw the Department of Defense authorizing the release of dangerous chemical and biological agents aboard Naval ships in order to test the crews’ abilities to detect and react to the invisible threat. The thing is, many of these subjects were not at all aware that any of this was going on. This sort of experimentation with human guinea pigs goes way back, with the government conducting tests of the effects of radiation on unwilling or ignorant participants as early as the end of World War II, when the government engaged in willingly giving people radiation infused food, releasing radioactive substances into populated areas, and injecting radioactive substances into people, including pregnant women and prison inmates.
The cases involving such unethical tests are numerous, and the government even went to such lengths as robbing graves in order to gain tissue on which to experiment, including the corpses of babies. In one case from 1957, a mother named Jean Prichard lost her baby during childbirth, but when she requested to receive its corpse she was told that it was not available, and it later came to light that it had been gathered by the government for use in experiments. This would not be the only such case, and the U.S. government allegedly secretly procured hundreds and hundreds of adult and stillborn baby corpses for use in testing the effects of radioactivity in what was called Project Sunshine. These are just the tip of the iceberg, and the list of such experimentation is long, but I would suggest not going through it too carefully if you want to keep some semblance of faith in humanity.
Dark Government Machinations and Sinister Coverups
Government conspiracies often claim that there are dark workings behind the scenes and sinister plots going on beneath what we think we know about the society we think we live in, and if history is anything to go by these fears are rather well founded. One shadowy plot was supposedly carried out by the CIA starting from the 1950s, and was called Project Mockingbird. The dark initiative was designed to use journalists stationed all over the world to gather intelligence, to print propaganda designed to mold and shape public opinions on certain issues, plant false or misleading information, or to even serve as contacts with spies. In many cases this was done with the consent of the news agencies these reporters worked for, but at other times not, and one CIA operative has said of the allure of using reporters to do CIA work thus:
It’s tough to run a secret agency in this country. We have a curious ambivalence about intelligence. In order to serve overseas we need cover. But we have been fighting a rear‑guard action to try and provide cover. The Peace Corps is off‑limits, so is USIA, the foundations and voluntary organizations have been off‑limits since ‘67, and there is a self‑imposed prohibition on Fulbrights [Fulbright Scholars]. If you take the American community and line up who could work for the CIA and who couldn’t there is a very narrow potential. Even the Foreign Service doesn’t want us. So where the hell do you go? Business is nice, but the press is a natural. One journalist is worth twenty agents. He has access, the ability to ask questions without arousing suspicion.
So valuable were reporters seen as operatives for the CIA that the agency even went as far as to train its own agents to be, or to at least pose as journalists. It is estimated that more than 400 American journalists participated in this covert activity over the course of nearly three decades, including those from such high profile news outlets as The New York Times, and it extended from news publications to TV and radio broadcasts. These journalists often signed secrecy agreements preventing them from discussing their dealings with the CIA, but many of them were not fettered by such things, being merely briefed and debriefed on each incoming assignment. In a very in-depth article in the October 20, 1977 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post, Carl Bernstein wrote of this relationship:
Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services — from simple intelligence-gathering to serving as go‑betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without‑portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring‑do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full‑time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.
Even though these activities have been blown wide apart, the CIA itself has continued to obfuscate and downplay its use of journalists to do its dirty work, always purposefully vague or misleading on the matter, and the true extent of this program is even now not entirely clear and muddled in murk. During a 1976 investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee and overseen by Senator Frank Church, the CIA even went so far as to urge the committee to limit the depth of its digging into the matter, and they even made attempts to purposefully hide and blur the full scope of the program. In the end, the investigating committee was not able to completely unearth the full extent of these sordid operations, but they were able to demonstrate that they did happen, and that the CIA continues to dabble in such practices even now, stating:
The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.
Going back further, to the 1960s, we have an insidious plan launched by the U.S. government to aid in the battle against Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, who at the time was considered to be one of the world’s greatest communist threats. In the wake of the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, the government was left scrambling for ideas on how to somehow oust the tenacious, abrasive leader. Some of the ideas to assassinate Castro were insane, like something a movie villain would come up with, including the plan to use exploding cigars smuggled to him, but one of the more out there and indeed diabolical plans was called Operation Northwoods.
Fidel Castro
Drawn up in 1962, and under approval by the the Joint Chiefs of Staff but eventually rejected by defense secretary Robert McNamara, the plan was as insane as it was completely brazen. According to declassified documents from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one of the ideas was to orchestrate a terrorist campaign in the state of Florida that could be blamed on the Cubans and give further fuel to the American people to continue the fight against the rogue nation. Some of the ideas for this floated around were shooting down planes, for real or simulated, and planting evidence to make it look like Cuba did it, planting bombs in Florida and other locales such as Washington DC that could have very well killed innocent people, as well as sinking boats carrying innocent Cuban refugees, hijacking planes, or faking the shooting down of military aircraft in such a way as to make it look like Cuba was responsible. The declassified documents include a portion that says:
We could develop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington . We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida (real or simulated) . Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.
It was reasoned that all of this this would enrage the American people to the point that they would be more suggestible to taking aggressive action against Cuba. This would make the populous more willing to get behind a full blown war with Cuba and give the government the decisive excuse it needed to pursue whatever rash and harebrained idea it wanted against Castro and his regime without too much public fallout. The government luckily saw the insanity of going through with all of this, but the plans were laid out on the table and were being vigorously pushed forward at the time.
This would not have been the first time that the U.S. had used blatant lies to further a war cause, and the most well-known of these has to be the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of 1964, which would kick off the grim and bloody Vietnam War. On August 4 of that year, the warships the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joywere on patrol in South Vietnamese waters during a time when both sides of the brewing conflict were on high alert and on hair triggers. The two destroyers were then claimed to have come under an unprovoked brutal attack by enemy torpedo boats that were picked up on sonar and radar, and the two American vessels proceeded to unleash all hell on the perceived threat, unloading around 300 shells on the supposed targets. However when the smoke cleared, there was apparently no one there after all, but that is not the story that the American people would be fed.
Military officials insisted that there had indeed been enemy boats, and almost immediately the story of these two ships being senselessly attacked by the North Vietnamese was being splashed all over the news. President Lyndon B. Johnson jumped on the opportunity as an excuse to go to war in Vietnam and the rest is history. Conspiracy theorists long debated and discussed the idea that no such attack had ever taken place, that it had been a ruse to give the president the authority to go to war, and this was considered merely a crackpot idea at the time, but decades later they would be proven right.
In 2005, declassified documents showed that indeed there was no such attack, and the warships had fired on nothing more than specters and false alarms. Indeed, it was found that there had been no North Vietnamese vessels anywhere near where the two U.S. ships had been at the time. The American vessels did indeed fire, but there had been nothing there to hit. There were various eyewitnesses who attested to this fact after the news came out, including a Navy pilot and squadron commander named James Stockdale, who had been flying overhead during the incident and claimed:
I had the best seat in the house to watch that event and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets — there were no PT boats there…. There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
The USS Maddox
Others who continued the damning evidence were former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who agree that it had all been bogus, and even Johnson himself would later admit, “For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there.” So here we have an event that never happened, which was played up by the government as if it had and used as justification to go into a war that would kill millions, which was then covered up and buried from prying eyes. It is a conspiracy wet dream and it is all true. There is some interesting information on the whole thing here.
Another shadowy plot that actually did go through were active attempts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to infiltrate, harass, and smear a variety of political groups, activists, critics of the Vietnam War, and civil rights leaders during the 1970s. To this end, under a program called COINTELPRO the FBI stalked, intimidated, and infested such groups with undercover spies sent to discredit them and sow dissent within their ranks, and otherwise try and fracture these organizations from within, all bolstered by bogus media reports, slander, and psychological warfare. The project’s expressed mission was to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and otherwise neutralize activists across the country,” basically anyone the bureau considered subversive and often minority groups. Author Jesse Walker described what they did beautifully in his book The United States of Paranoia, writing:
Under COINTELPRO, FBI agents infiltrated political groups and spread rumors that loyal members were the real infiltrators. They tried to get targets fired from their jobs, and they tried to break up the targets’ marriages. They published deliberately inflammatory literature in the names of the organizations they wanted to discredit, and they drove wedges between groups that might otherwise be allied. In Baltimore, the FBI’s operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as “a cowardly, honky group” who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous “dirty work.” The operation was apparently successful: In August 1969, just five months after the initial instructions went out, the Baltimore FBI reported that the local Panther branch had ordered its members not to associate with SDS members or attend any SDS events.
One of the most famous targets of the FBI campaign was the legendary civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who by all accounts was constantly harassed by the feds. He was followed, monitored, his hotel rooms and phone lines bugged, the works. Most brazenly of all, the FBI actually tried to get him to commit suicide by presenting evidence of an affair he was having and threatening to release the information unless he killed himself. The letter in question was claimed to have been written by another African American, and does not mince words at all, with one portion reading:
No person can overcome the facts, no even a fraud like yourself. Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure. You will find yourself and in all your dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk exposed on the record for all time. Listen to yourself, you filthy, abnormal animal. You are on the record. King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do it (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practical significance). You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
For a long time there was little proof that the FBI had anything to do with any of this, and the members of such groups and their leaders were widely considered to be paranoid for thinking that they were being followed and harassed by the feds. It was truly considered to be a crackpot conspiracy theory at the time, but then evidence that it was really going on came along in the most unlikely of ways when in 1971 a group of activists calling themselves the Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI broke into an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, where they uncovered a treasure trove of highly secret documents outlining the whole thing. The activists proceeded to send out this evidence to various major newspapers and politicians, who mostly shied away from defying the FBI, perhaps bending to pressure of a coverup. However, The Washington Post stood strong and published the findings, consequently blowing the whole operation open like a piñata and bringing down intense public scrutiny upon the FBI.
It wasn’t only the U.S. government coming up with Machiavellian schemes to pull the strings and influence American society, as the Soviet Union had their own plans as well. During the Cold War, the Soviets had very real plans in place to sabotage the United States from within if things went south, and these were frighteningly well-realized. Throughout the U.S. were placed hidden arms caches including firearms, bombs, and mines, and there were numerous sleeper agents placed around the country, or in some cases lying ready to pounce over the borders in Canada or Mexico, ready to take up a variety of positions where they could sow chaos, including firemen, policemen, and soldiers. The main targets in such a scenario were oil pipelines, supply routes, infrastructure, the power grid, and military installations, but it was also seen as a priority to just create as much mayhem as possible. It sounds like a pure, tinfoil hat nut job theory, and it would have probably remained that way if an archivist at the KGB hadn’t taken it upon himself to collect the information and release it. Some documents on this plot can be seen here.
One of the most bizarre government plots of all was put into effect by British military intelligence agencies in the early 1970s. At the time there was great ethno-nationalist unrest brewing in Northern Ireland, which has been called The Troubles and the Northern Ireland Conflict. It was a tense time in which the country was precariously perched at the abyss of civil war, marked by random violence and terrorist acts all over Britain and Europe, carried out by paramilitary groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA), and the British military was looking at all options to put an end to it. They found what they were looking for in the fear and fascination provoked by horror films such as The Exorcist and The Devil Rides Out, which just so happened to have come out when fears were going about concerning demonic possession, black masses, witchcraft, and Satanic worship.
Amidst rumors of human sacrifice and demonic forces at work, the growing fears of such paranormal phenomena got so heated that it came to be known as the “Satanic Panic,” and although for much of the populace it was a horror, the British saw it as an opportunity. After all, why not twist the knife even further and exacerbate this terror that was sweeping the very regions they sought to bring under control? To this end, from 1972 to 1974 the government’s “black operations” set up a campaign of psychological warfare that saw them planting such Satanic imagery as pentagrams, black candles, and upside-down crucifixes in remote and rundown areas of the region, as well as releasing fake news stories of black masses, human sacrifices, and sinister rituals in order to cultivate more fear of the supernatural and stoke the burning fires of paranoia.
The ultimate goal was to convince the populace that the dissenting paramilitary forces were directly responsible for unleashing these evil forces across Northern Ireland, and for the most part it seemed to have worked rather well. British Army psychological warfare specialist at the time, Captain Colin Wallace, would explain of the program:
It was quite clear that the church, both the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant church, even for the paramilitaries, held a fair degree of influence. So we were looking for something that would be regarded with abhorrence really by the two communities, and at the same time would be something that paramilitaries couldn’t justify, and also would be in many ways seen as a reason why some of the outrages were taking place. That sort of degree of activity was lowering the value of human life. And so eventually it came to the point where we looked at witchcraft. Ireland was very superstitious and all we had to do was bring it up to date.
The hysteria that all of this was conjuring up created doubts among the citizens and kept children from going out at night, playing right to the plans of the British. It convinced a great many Northern Irelanders that these rebel groups had flung open some sort of gateway or portal to darkness and evil. There was definitely a noticeable spike in the number of people who truly believed that there was some dark force descending across the land, although to what extent this affected the end of the conflict remains unknown. It is a curious account of a bonkers secret government conspiracy being carried out in all of its off-the-wall glory.
We have seen here only a small fraction of the lunacy that has gone on to be spun off into conspiracy tales that proved to be quite real. There are many, many others, and they all go to show that sometimes the conspiracy theorists are not a bunch of paranoid maniacs full of hot air. There indeed do seem to be some sinister and ominous goings on reaching all the way up to the upper echelons of government. While there are some obvious misses, such as the moon landings (happened) or the infiltration of world governments by the lizard people (wait, what?), these odd cases show us that conspiracies are perhaps not to always be dismissed out of hand and regulated to the realm of paranoid delusion. Maybe there really is sometimes more going on than meets the eye.
Look out Elon and Jeff … there’s a new billionaire in space town and he’s planning to boldly go – or at least boldly fund a trip – where no billionaire has gone before. Russian rich man Yuri Milner, one of the biggest players in the Russian part of the Internet, announced plans to pay for the first privately funded interplanetary space mission to search for life on Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon and the solar system object considered to have the best chance of harboring some form of life. Is Milner serious or just trying to distract attention from revelations in the “Paradise Papers” about his involvement in helping the Russian government covertly invest in Facebook and Twitter?
“We formed a sort of little workshop around this idea: Can we design a low-cost, privately funded mission to Enceladus which can be launched relatively soon and that can look more thoroughly at those plumes and try to see what’s going there ahead of a more expensive mission that NASA is considering right now, which might take maybe 10 years to launch?”
GeekWire reports that Milner made this statement at The Economist’s New Space Age conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle last week. The ‘plumes’ are the columns of water vapor and simple hydrocarbons venting from the moon’s south polar region that were first seen and later passed through by the Cassini probe. The “more expensive mission” he’s referring to is NASA’s proposed $1 billion New Frontiers program which would not launch until at least the mid-2020s.
An artist’s depiction of Cassini passing through the plumes of Enceladus
If you’re wondering whether he will accomplish this lofty goal, Milner is a billionaire who has put money into space projectsbefore. He’s invested $100 million in the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Breakthrough Listen), another $100 million to send a fleet of nano-probes to the Alpha Centauri star system (Breakthrough Starshot) and more financial support to enhance the capability of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and to launch – both for improving observations of the Alpha Centauri system.
Milner is obviously more focused on space exploration than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who are investing their money in human flight, cargo transport to the space station and settlements on Mars. To put it another way, Musk and Bezos seem intent on making money with space travel while Milner wants to make a name for himself by finding what he calls a “smoking gun” for biochemical activity on Enceladus that should indicate the presence or at least the spark-ability for life.
If Milner can escape the political mess that the Paradise Papers have opened, he could be the force behind finding a new garden of paradise on Enceladus.
Strange Disk-Like Cloud Formation Blocks The Sun Over Antofagasta, Chile
Strange Disk-Like Cloud Formation Blocks The Sun Over Antofagasta, Chile
On November 13, 2017 Arnoldo Liendo Arce captured a strange phenomenon in the sky over Antofagasta in Chile.
While filming a possible Halo or Sundog in the sky he not only captured a strange iridescent colorful rainbow cloud, but even more strange is a cloud formation that has formed itself exactly within the Halo or Sundog, like a dark disk blocking the Sun.
Halo’s and Sundogs are well known atmospheric optical phenomena caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere but....you ever have seen such a cloud formation covering a Halo/Sundog?
The first video shows the strange Halo/Sundog/cloud formation, the second video shows the colorful rainbow cloud which could be a possible earthquake light, a sign for an impending powerful earthquake.
Life Can Survive on Mars Far, Far Longer Than We Thought
Researchers from Lomonosov MSU, Faculty of Soil Science, have studied the resistance microorganisms have against gamma radiation in very low temperatures.
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Life Can Survive on Mars Far, Far Longer Than We Thought
Mars is not exactly a friendly place for life as we know it. While temperatures at the equator can reach as high as a balmy 35 °C (95 °F) in the summer at midday, the average temperature on the surface is -63 °C (-82 °F), and can reach as low as -143 °C (-226 °F) during winter in the polar regions. Its atmospheric pressure is about one-half of one percent of Earth’s, and the surface is exposed to a considerable amount of radiation.
Until now, no one was certain if microorganisms could survive in this extreme environment. But thanks to a new study by a team of researchers from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU), we may now be able to place constraints on what kinds of conditions microorganisms can withstand. This study could therefore have significant implications in the hunt for life elsewhere in the Solar System, and maybe even beyond!
Image taken by the Viking 1 orbiter in June 1976, showing Mars thin atmosphere and dusty, red surface. Credits: NASA/Viking 1
For the sake of their study, the research team hypothesized that temperature and pressure conditions would not be the mitigating factors, but rather radiation. As such, they conducted tests where microbial communities contained within simulated Martian regolith were then irradiated. The simulated regolith consisted of sedimentary rocks that contained permafrost, which were then subjected to low temperature and low pressure conditions.
As Vladimir S. Cheptsov, a post-graduate student at the Lomonosov MSU Department of Soil Biology and a co-author on the paper, explained in a LMSU press statement:
“We have studied the joint impact of a number of physical factors (gamma radiation, low pressure, low temperature) on the microbial communities within ancient Arctic permafrost. We also studied a unique nature-made object—the ancient permafrost that has not melted for about 2 million years. In a nutshell, we have conducted a simulation experiment that covered the conditions of cryo-conservation in Martian regolith. It is also important that in this paper, we studied the effect of high doses (100 kGy) of gamma radiation on prokaryotes’ vitality, while in previous studies no living prokaryotes were ever found after doses higher than 80 kGy.”
To simulate Martian conditions, the team used an original constant climate chamber, which maintained the low temperature and atmospheric pressure. They then exposed the microorganisms to varying levels of gamma radiation. What they found was that the microbial communities showed high resistance to the temperature and pressure conditions in the simulated Martian environment.
Image of Martian soils, where the Spirit mission embedded itself. Credit: NASA/JPL
However, after they began irradiating the microbes, they noticed several differences between the irradiated sample and the control sample. Whereas the total count of prokaryotic cells and the number of metabolically active bacterial cells remained consistent with control levels, the number of irradiated bacteria decreased by two orders of magnitude while the number of metabolically active cells of archaea also decreased threefold.
The team also noticed that within the exposed sample of permafrost, there was a high biodiversity of bacteria, and this bacteria underwent a significant structural change after it was irradiated. For instance, populations of actinobacteria like Arthrobacter – a common genus found in soil – were not present in the control samples, but became predominant in the bacterial communities that were exposed.
In short, these results indicated that microorganisms on Mars are more survivable than previously thought. In addition to being able to survive the cold temperatures and low atmospheric pressure, they are also capable of surviving the kinds of radiation conditions that are common on the surface. As Cheptsov explained:
“The results of the study indicate the possibility of prolonged cryo-conservation of viable microorganisms in the Martian regolith. The intensity of ionizing radiation on the surface of Mars is 0.05-0.076 Gy/year and decreases with depth. Taking into account the intensity of radiation in the Mars regolith, the data obtained makes it possible to assume that hypothetical Mars ecosystems could be conserved in an anabiotic state in the surface layer of regolith (protected from UV rays) for at least 1.3 million years, at a depth of two meters for no less than 3.3 million years, and at a depth of five meters for at least 20 million years. The data obtained can also be applied to assess the possibility of detecting viable microorganisms on other objects of the solar system and within small bodies in outer space.”
Future missions could determine the presence of past life on Mars by looking for signs of extreme bacteria. Credit: NASA.
This study was significant for multiple reasons. On the one hand, the authors were able to prove for the first time that prokaryote bacteria can survive radiation does in excess of 80 kGy – something which was previously thought to be impossible. They also demonstrated that despite its tough conditions, microorganisms could still be alive on Mars today, preserved in its permafrost and soil.
The study also demonstrates the importance of considering both extraterrestrial and cosmic factors when considering where and under what conditions living organisms can survive. Last, but not least, this study has done something no previous study has, which is define the limits of radiation resistance for microorganisms on Mars – specifically within regolith and at various depths.
This information will be invaluable for future missions to Mars and other locations in the Solar System, and perhaps even with the study of exoplanets. Knowing the kind of conditions in which life will thrive will help us to determine where to look for signs of it. And when preparing missions to other words, it will also let scientists know what locations to avoid so that contamination of indigenous ecosystems can be prevented.
The giant figure was found and recovered by archaeologists but is in danger from land traffickers who have surrounded the area and prevent access to tourists.
The archaeological discoveries in the Pampas of Nasca and Palpa do not cease to amaze the world, this time it is the discovery and recovery of a huge geoglyph that represents an orca, a cetacean that is part of the beautiful iconography of the Nasca Culture.
The Orca is one of the most enigmatic and ancient drawings of the Palpa-Nasca circuit and it took 50 years for the Peruvian state to recover it when it was already lost. It is a gigantic drawing that was engraved on the hillside of a hill located on the outskirts of Palpa, in the Ica region, a place famous for being the home and study centre of the archaeologist María Reiche.
The killer whale is a cetacean that inhabits all the seas of the world. It is known as the 'killer whale' because of its enormous size and ferocity. In ancient Peru, the Nasca considered it a deity linked to the sea and was represented in its fine sculptural ceramics.
The geoglyph of the killer whale was photographed in the early 1960s and was considered to have disappeared when it was identified and rescued by the team of archaeologists led by Johny Isla Cuadrado, head of the Decentralized Office of Culture in the Ica region.
DE WARE REDEN DAT EEN ROBOT STAATSBURGERSCHAP KREEG IN SAOUDI ARABIË
DE WARE REDEN DAT EEN ROBOT STAATSBURGERSCHAP KREEG IN SAOUDI ARABIË
Dat een robot die eruit ziet als een moderne vrouw zonder hoofddoek het staatsburgerschap van Saoedi Arabië heeft gekregen, is iets dat velen heeft verbaasd.
Saoedi Arabië staat nu niet bepaald bekend als een land met gevoel voor humor heeft, dus wat is de werkelijke reden dat ze dit hebben gedaan?
We leven in een wereld die razendsnel verandert en die binnen enkele jaren volkomen onherkenbaar zal zijn veranderd. Wie had er ooit gedacht dat een robot staatsburgerschap van een land zou krijgen.
Waarom dit is gebeurd en waar we mogelijk naartoe gaan, wordt uitgelegd door Bert (dank!):
Eind oktober gebeurde er ogenschijnlijk iets grappigs, een AI robot Sophia genaamd, werd een staatsburger van Saudi Arabië(SA). Dat dit nu uitgerekend in SA moest gebeuren lijkt wel een grap, een land waar de vrouw amper rechten heeft en streng islamitisch is, juist daar krijgt een "vrouwelijke" robot het staatsburgerschap.
De mainstream media hebben ervoor gezorgd dat Sophia het wereldnieuws haalde en maar weinigen namen het staatsburgerschap van Sophia serieus, echter het blijkt bloedserieus te zijn en niet voor niks.
De push van de elite richting de robotisering wordt steeds groter en steeds meer vooraanstaande mensen worden opgetrommeld om de slapende burger duidelijk te maken dat ze niets hebben te vrezen. De robots gaan niet zorgen voor een toename van de werkloosheid en de mensen die hier wel bang voor zijn mogen we ouderwets noemen. Echter er kleeft wel degelijk een groot nadeel aan de robotisering en heeft dat niets met de burger te maken maar met de overheden.
Wanneer er steeds meer robots het werk overnemen van de burgers dan zullen alle overheden ter wereld een enorme derving zien van de inkomstenbelasting en je voelt nu al waar we naartoe gaan.
SA is natuurlijk niet gek en ziet dit probleem ook op zich afkomen en heeft dit probleem nu getackeld. Elke AI robot krijgt het staatsburgerschap en dus een sofinummer en is dus belastbaar voor de arbeid die het verricht. De inkomstenbelasting zal gelijk zijn aan de hoogte die het had als een mens dat werk zou uitvoeren. We kunnen nu dus wel stellen dat het geen grap was om Sophia het staatsburgerschap te geven.
Uiteraard is de naam ook niet zomaar uit de lucht komen vallen. Sophia staat ongetwijfeld voor de godin van de wijsheid, ze is Asherah, the queen of heaven, de vrouw aan gods zijde. Uiteraard is dit heel toepasselijk aangezien we de AI robot Sophia kunnen beschouwen als een nieuwe levensvorm hier op aarde die uiteindelijk gelijk of zelfs boven de mens zal staan. Sommigen refereren naar de vrouw van koning Solomon die de wijsheid van God had gekregen. Echter het wordt nog veel gekker. In de volgende clip wordt ons uit gelegd dat Sophia "los" wordt gelaten op het wereldwijde blockchain netwerk.
De clip is een echte must see en dat Sophia juist nu in de tijd van wederopstanding haar intrede doet lijkt me geen toeval. Ik heb me altijd al verbaasd waarom de bitcoin wordt gedoogd door de elite en dat nu grote landen hun eigen crypto currency genereren. Is de blockchain technologie een creatie van AI en worden we in feite al geregeerd door deze AI zonder dat we het beseffen? Is dit de reden waarom Taylor Swift net een clip heeft uitgebracht met de vraag... are you ready for it? Dit terwijl ze eruit ziet als een AI robot die via de trap omhoog stijgt naar het hoogste platform.
Gaan we de komende weken een volledige oorlog in het Midden Oosten zien die het complete financiële stelsel onder uithalen en ons in een transitie periode brengen naar de cashloze maatschappij geregeerd door AI? Zien wij hier de geboorte van het spirituele kindje van Osiris en Isis, genaamd Horus, die met het alziend oog en die gekoppeld is aan de oorlogsplaneet Mars?
Het worden zeer interessante dagen, dagen die gaan bepalen of het verhaal van de goden echt zullen worden uitgespeeld.
Tot zover Bert.
En wie denkt dat het toch allemaal een grap is, raden wij aan even de tijd te nemen om te kijken en luisteren naar een interview met de robot Sophia waarin ook het staatsburgerschap in Saoedi Arabië ter sprake komt.
According to Polish Colonel Ryszard Grundman, Polish UFO writings either lost or stolen. In a conversation dated former head of air traffic and air defense, Colonel Grundman, responsible for UFO reports, there were many new facts about the concentration of UFO records.
The Polish Air Force concentrates and analyzes reports from pilots and their encounters with unidentified objects. In the file labeled “Unknown”, dozens of messages have focused. In the 1990s, however, these invaluable data disappeared … Here is an interview with Colonel Ryszard Grundman, who reported on such UFO reports:
1. Do you know that people, when they hear about UFOs, respond with a smile? I know. However, military pilots who have seen “invisible” flying objects with their own eyes have a smile away, not saying they have met aliens, but they are clear that they have witnessed something that can not reasonably be explained, that during a flight, the pilot sees a strange machine with flashing lights, which resembles a “plate”, he starts performing maneuvers that are against the laws of physics. Is that normal?
2. I do not know. Did such cases really happen? In the 1980s, when I was commander of air traffic and air defense, reports of objects whose behavior was inexplicable were reported practically on a regular basis. At the end of my service in 1992, we had at least dozens of such reports. Everything was in a special volume “Unexplained”. Together with Colonel George Topolanicki, then my direct superior, we were trying to analyze them, but we could have little to do with it. It was such dry pilots’ reports. However, we understand that if we do not understand something, it does not mean that someone will not come and be able to explain it in the next 50 years. I could not close my eyes to events that could jeopardize flight safety. That was my task during my service.
3. Has anyone in the Polish Army not focused on UFO news? I was the first in the army who was interested in all the seriousness. If you report this phenomenon to the hands of an experienced military pilot, an officer – with the suspicion that it will be difficult due to a lack of competence in weather, land or airplane assessment – he does not fit into the trash. However, military UFO instructions did not include; because of the “introduction of data for an official document” – this would be the fact that the existence of UFOs is recognized not only by the Polish army but also by all the armed forces of the then Warsaw Pact. Army arrangements were standardized by agreement. But no one was forbidden to collect data about strange phenomena in the sky. That’s how I did it and I hope my work will continue.
4. And continues? Unfortunately, it does not go on. No one in the Polish Army today deals with UFOs. Ufologists sometimes say our army conceals information about the UFO. They do not conceal it because it does not exist. After I left, the crew stopped the systematic collection of messages on the subject. It is bad. The army from the West is investigating unusual phenomena and Russia is doing it too.
5. And what happened to those news reports? After my retirement, the file disappeared.
6. Did he disappear? Yes he disappeared. I do not have him.
7. And what happened? I do not know. Maybe somebody started to take these reports lightly and did not really care. I wish they would continue to collect these types of data; data covering a period of 20 years would be available. Someone might want to analyze them and try to capture the regular occurrence and behavior of UFOs. Since then, no material has been analyzed.
8. When did you first get news of UFO military pilots? I do not remember the exact date but most of the data relates to night events 11.12. 1982, when radar stations from different parts of Poland began to capture high-speed moving objects. Overall, 16 observations were observed over our territory. The aircraft were given a command to take off and capture objects, but their equipment could not locate the target. These strange objects appeared in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the eastern part of the Soviet Union. I was afraid he would start attacking NATO. In this case, we did not have to deal with the observation of an individual pilot, but it was an event that ruined the entire army machine and involved hundreds of people. This could not be a mistake! And that could not be the radar error.
9. Do the radar stations often capture these types of objects? No. Most of them do not catch up. Radar gets the whole picture only sometimes. During the Warsaw Pact exercise in 1955, the radar station in the Warsaw area scored two goals over the Gdańsk Gulf. The targets moved at 2,000 km / h at 20,000 meters. At the time, we did not have any airplane that could do that. At one point, we noticed that the objects made a 90 ° turn, literally on the spot – without a radius of rotation. This maneuver was not possible at such a speed! Modern airplanes today are not capable of it today, and that happened 50 years ago.
10. And what happened to these objects? They continued over Lithuania, then hung around Lvov and then disappeared from radar screens. And no one has ever sent any plane to capture the objects. But for example, in the autumn of 1983, a cigar-shaped object was first prosecuted by two helicopters and then a Su-20 fighter.
11. What then happened? The cigar-shaped object flew at high speed at a low level. Two helicopters were sent to him, and we were arming the Powidz military airport. The helicopters, however, were unable to reach the object before they reached Powizda. That “something” could simulate the error of electrical equipment or disable communication. The object began to shine and this “cigar” at Powidzu saw dozens of soldiers. The building approached the city. The base in Krzesa sent a fighter. But the pilot was not able to catch the object here, and he was “lost”.
12. The Military Commission investigating the incident heard all the witnesses. The report contained no final conclusion. It was found that the material should be subjected to further analysis and special attention when comparing similar types of events. They behaved so carefully because reports of strange objects were not only from pilots.
Antarctica wasn’t always the frozen barren land that it is today — millions of years ago, it was covered in lush forests. The trees had some bizarre traits to let them survive the extreme light conditions at the poles. They were extremely hardy so researchers are curious about what made them go extinct.
The British explorer Robert Falcon Scott was the first to find plant fossils in Antarctica in 1912. However, unfortunately, he did not survive the expedition. Now, UW-Milwaukee geologists have climbed the frozen Transantarctic mountains looking for more fossils to give insight into why the trees went extinct. They found the fossil fragments of 13 trees, which are over 260 million years old. This was before the first dinosaurs, at the end of the Permian period. The Permian ended 251 million years with a mass extinction that caused 90% of species to go extinct. These forests went extinct at the same time.
Hard to imagine it green.
Image credits: Dave Pape.
The hypothesis is that volcanic eruptions in Siberia released a tremendous amount of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, over 200,000 years. This input of gases over a short time frame likely caused the mass extinction.
“This forest is a glimpse of life before the extinction, which can help us understand what caused the event,” said Gulbranson, a paleoecologist and visiting assistant professor in UWM’s Department of Geosciences.
Antarctica was warmer and more humid at this point in time. It was a part of the Gondwana supercontinent in the southern hemisphere. Plants included mosses, ferns, and trees. These forests were not so diverse but stretched across all of Gondwana (which included South America, Africa, India, Australia and the Arabian Peninsula)
“This plant group must have been capable of surviving and thriving in a variety of environments,” Gulbranson said. “It’s extremely rare, even today, for a group to appear across nearly an entire hemisphere of the globe.”
Researcher Erik Gulbranson studies some of the fossilized trees he found in Antarctica.
Credit: UWM Photo/Troye Fox.
At the south pole, night rules the winter, with months of pitch-darkness, while the summer months are constantly lit. From the preserved tree fossil rings, the researchers found that the trees switched from summer-mode to winter-mode very quickly, in just one month. In the summer, the trees were active and grew, while in the winter, they were dormant. Modern plants make this switch over several months and keep water by making food during the day and resting at night. Another study has shown that the forests were likely composed of a mix of deciduous and evergreen trees.
“There isn’t anything like that today,” Gulbranson said. “These trees could turn their growing cycles on and off like a light switch. We know the winter shutoff happened right away, but we don’t know how active they were during the summertime and if they could force themselves into dormancy while it was still light out.”
Although these trees seem to have been very hardy and able to withstand extreme conditions, they weren’t able to survive the high carbon dioxide levels that led to the mass extinction. The research team will go back this winter (Antarctic summer) for more clues on how these trees went extinct and how the greenhouse gases affected them.
What is the Wilson Cycle, builder and slayer of supercontinents?
What is the Wilson Cycle, builder and slayer of supercontinents?
We all know what tectonics is — but does it happen by accident? Does it have to follow rules? Is there a method to the madness? Actually, there is: a beautiful, epic cycle of death and rebirth named after Canadian geophysicist John T. Wilson.
Image via Pixabay.
Geology is, in many ways, a matter of degrees. One of my freshman year professors used to say that nothing “just happens” in geology, that every flake of rock adheres to the same rules that shape whole planets — it’s just a matter of how closely you look. Zoom into a single strand of sand and you’re dealing with petrography — the science of the stuff rocks are made of. Look at the whole beach, and you’re dealing with sedimentology and depositional systems. If you want to know how the beaches got there, you’ll need tectonics.
And while each level of zoom paints a strikingly different picture, they’re all iterations of a single story. A story in which physics, chemistry, sometimes biology, take the leading roles. Their interplay dictates everything, from the intensity of Earth’s magnetic field to the price of gas.
Of these processes, tectonics plays out on the more massive scale of things. Look at a map — it’s tectonics who made it be that way. And it seems to be unique to the Earth. There’re some other planetsaround there that seem to do it, some very similarly to ours, but the way our blue corner of space goes about tectonics is to the best of our knowledge, unique.
But, being the science-savvy folks that you are, I’m sure you know this already. So what I’d want to talk about today is what you’ll find when you zoom out from tectonics one more time. The rules, if you will, which tectonics has to play by. A guidebook that geologists know as:
Well if you’re a stickler for rules it’s technically the Supercontinent Cycle, but that’s just a mouthful so I don’t really use the term.
So let’s get down to business. You know how the Earth’s crust is made out of plates that skim on the surface of a molten ocean of lava (the mantle), bumping into one another. Some of them get pushed back down into the mantle where they’re recycled, so have you ever asked yourself — why don’t we run out of plates?
I don’t even own this many regular plates. Image credits USGS.
Well, the mantle also helpfully supplies new plate material in rift areas — places where existing tectonic plates drift away from one another, so the mantle can reach the surface and harden into rocks. And when they don’t really feel like bumping into or away from each other, they just slide past one another. We call these latter ones “transform boundaries,” while the bits where plates mash together are known as convergent boundaries and those where they move apart are divergent boundaries. Pretty clever, eh?
Now, what John T. Wilson did to warrant us naming the thing after him was to theorize that the motions of these plates aren’t a random hodge-podge, but rather follow a predictable pattern — a cycle. Give them enough time, and these plates will mush together into a single supercontinent. Wait a bit after that, and you’ll see these plates squabble and break up into a lot of tiny continents, more closely resembling what we know today. The really patient (and ridiculously long-lived) will get so see this happening again and again.
One full cycle is estimated to be around 300 to 500 million years old, and the first one likely started somewhere between 3 and 3.2 billion years ago, when the Earth cooled down enough for the rocks we know and love today to harden into crust.
2. Step one: The Stable Craton
What we consider as being the crust is made up of three large families of rock, two of which form the bulk of it. Geologists also draw a line between oceanic and continental crust. This division stems from a difference in chemical compositions, which translate to physical differences: oceanic crust is generally made up of mafic igneous rocks (which have a lot of heavier minerals such as magnesium and ferriccompounds, so they’re denser,) while continental crust largely made up of felsic igneous rocks (richer in lighter minerals such as feldspars and silica.) Both have generous sprinklings of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
Being denser, mafic rocks float deeper into the mantle, so they sink below the waterline. Felsic rocks, being less dense, rise above their mafic counterparts and break the waterline, forming land. That’s how they get their names — mafic/oceanic crust naturally bobs below the waterline and forms oceans, felsic/continental crust is light enough to potentially form dry land.
The first step in the Wilson Cycle starts with a single tectonically-stable core (a craton) containing all felsic material surrounded by oceanic crust and, well, the ocean. Since all felsic material is contained here, this core can’t get any lighter or heavier so it stays at a perfect isostatic equilibrium (at a constant level on top of the mantle). There’s no more tectonic movement to form mountains, so erosion has had time to level this continent dead-flat, almost down to the waterline, all over its surface — a state referred to as a peneplane. There’s no volcanic activity and no earthquakes. It’s actually quite uneventful, even for what’s basically a pile of rocks.
3. Step two: The Rifting
Powered by the heat trapped in our planet’s interior, an incredibly hot and extremely powerful jet of molten material known as a mantle plume shoots upwards from the core and begins to eat into the craton. What happens next resembles a blowtorch melting through a slab of metal, but the material this plume is made of also has a lot of weight and speed, meaning it will also push against the rocks at the surface.
An estimate of how the West Gondwana Craton looked like before it split off in Africa and South America. The WGC itself split off from a larger craton earlier throgh similar processes. Image credits Woudloper / Wikimedia.
The rocks above the plume start to swell from heat dilation, pushing neighboring rocks aside and forming a dome on the surface. At the same time, the underside of the craton begins to melt — you can see a version of this happening in Yellowstone today. The combined effect is that the crust stretches and thins until it eventually fractures under mechanical stress. The fracturing usually follows three different directions, a triple junction, most often asymmetrical and diverging at odd angles from one another. Molten material from the underside rises up and forms surface vulcanism.
4. Step three and four: Divergence and Oceanification
These fractures are deep — they go all the way through the crust. Sometimes, as seems to be the casewith Yellowstone, plumes just die off or are otherwise blocked in the mantle, and that’s that. But if it keeps going, the fractures can become longer and widen until there’s actually no more crust left in the area, forming a rift valley. Nature can’t have that, so water rushes in to fill the gap and hardens the magma into a ‘transition’ crust, which mixes pre-existing felsic and newly minted mafic rocks. Convection cells created by the plume slowly inch the neighboring slabs of rock apart, meaning more empty space, more oceanic crust formed here, and eventually, you have a full blow ocean on your hands.
So there’s an important thing to keep in mind here: rifting breaks continents apart and creates oceans.
This is how oceans are born. Image credits Hannes Grobe / Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
As these two continents float away from the rift, the new transition and oceanic crust cool down (becoming denser) and sink lower in the mantle. This process also pulls the original continental material from the rifting area that they’re attached to from about 3-5 km above sea level to roughly 14 km below the waterline in 100-110 million years. Some consider this to be a separate step in the process but that’s more of a geological technicality. I’ve mentioned it so you can get an idea of how much heat dilation affects the buoyancy of rocks (and it’s effect in step 1.)
5. Step Five: Convergence
The more astute of you may be suspecting that the Earth is, in fact, a pretty round object. Now it’s time for our thinking caps to come on.
What happens on one pole of the Earth when there’s a rift actively pumping out new crust on the opposite one for a few million years? Well, it either starts looking like a pug’s face (please be this one) or, or, it can stay round by recycling old crust back into the mantle to make room for the new one. Let’s check.
Damnit, it’s round! Image credits NASA.
Divergence (with the creation of new crust) will eventually stop as the plume dies off. But it can go on for tens, even hundreds of millions of years, creating a lot of material before that happens. So some old crust needs to crack and subduct into the mantle to make room for all the new stuff. This doesn’t have to happen on the opposite pole, but it has to happen somewhere.
This is the second, closing half of the cycle. As a rule, it’s always oceanic crust that breaks and starts to subduct, since continental crust is just too floaty (in magma that is, not water.) So this subduction zone forms somewhere underwater since that’s where oceanic crust tends to hang around. But wherever it happens you’ll be able to spot it — there’ll be either an island arc nearby, formed by the top plate or a pre-existing continental edge. Part of the subducting crust is dragged down into a trench (about 1-2 km below the normal ocean floor,) and will heat up while it slides into the mantle. At about 120 km deep it’ll begin melting back into magma.
6. Step six: Re-continentalization
Let this process roll for long enough and all the old oceanic crust will subduct and continents will bump back into each other. There are a few more things taking place between S5 and S6, such as new mountains forming as the cratons get smushed, the creation of new subduction zones, but again, geological technicality.
This new continent will mix pieces of the old craton, bits of transition and oceanic crust (which will tend to sink to the bottom during suture,) and metamorphic rocks it picked up along the way.
In many ways, the second half of the cycle acts like the first one in reverse. It’s often less clear-cut than what I’ve told you about here: new rifts can form opposite the ‘old’ one, fracturing the continents even more. And while the effects of these two halves can become apparent hundreds, thousands of years apart, they take place simultaneously — when there’s new crust being formed, the old crust has to be consumed somewhere else. And it happens all the time. There’s constant creation and destruction of land going on on Earth, each day, right below our feet. Well, right below our feet and a few thousand kilometers out at sea, but you get what I mean.
The Wilson Cycle is the ultimate matchmaker and the end-all homewrecker. Give it enough time, and this process will, through sheer trial and error, bring all the land together, then break it up all over again.
We think of oceans as eternal and stable; what could affect these endless fields of water? But everything changes, the plains, mountains, and the Earth itself. Throughout our planet’s geological history, oceans have been born and destroyed, and now we’re one step closer towards knowing how this happened.
The maps are showing different viewing options for the region under Southeast Asia.
Illustration: Grace E. Shephard.
Seeing the past
Millions of years ago, the Earth was a different place. It’s not just the biodiversity and the climate, the oceans and the land looked different, too. That happens because the surface of the Earth is in constant motion. It doesn’t move by much (on the scale of centimeters per year), but give it enough time, and the change becomes noticeable. This happens due to the relative motion of the planet’s tectonic plates, pushed around by upwelling magma from the mantle.
The movement isn’t only lateral — it’s vertical as well. New crust is formed at mid-oceanic ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and older crust is destroyed. Some of the crust goes up, the other sinks into the mantle, in the “geological graveyard.” This cycle also affects oceans. Sometimes, it opens up or spreads new oceans, and other times it closes them down. The Pacific, for instance, is currently expanding, while the older Atlantic is slowly shrinking. Now, researchers have used seismic tomographyto have a “look” at this geological graveyard up to 2,800 km beneath the surface, identifying how the planet might have looked like 200 million years in the past.
This is not the first time something like this has been done. Several studies, using several different approaches, have retraced our planet’s evolution, sometimes ending up with different models. Now, Grace Shephard at the University of Oslo has found a simple, yet powerful way to combine images from alternative seismic tomography models.
“There are many different ways of creating such models, and lots of different data input can be used,” explains Grace Shephard, who has been a postdoctoral researcher at CEED since she took her Ph.D. at the University of Sydney four years ago.
“We wanted a quick and simple way to see which features are common across all of the models. By comparing up to 14 different models, for instance, we can visualize where they agree and thus identify what we call the most robust anomalies.”
The Arctic is a region where little is known about plate tectonics far back in time. That is one of the reasons why Australian Grace E. Shephard decided to join the CEED team of the University of Oslo.
Photo: Dag Inge Danielsen/UiO.
A continental traffic jam
This tomography data gives more accurate and more easily available information about the movements of the oceans and continents, as well as the interaction between the Earth’s crust and the mantle. By seeing at what depth the former seafloor lies (the paleo-seafloor), and supposing that it sinks at a rate of 1 cm/year, researchers can calculate when the paleo-seafloor sank. Using this method, scientists found that there was a period around 100–140 million years ago that experienced more ocean destruction; it’s unclear why this happened. They also learned of an area of the mantle which is more ‘sticky’ — viscous — and exerts more opposition to sinking plates, resulting in a “traffic jam.”
The analysis raises new possibilities of understanding our planet’s history, but there’s still plenty of work to do. The models have to be constantly fine-tuned and improving using real-life observations.
“Studying these processes in new ways opens up new questions. That is something we welcome, because we need to find out what questions to ask and what to focus on in order to understand the development of the Earth. We always have to keep in mind what is an observation and what is a model. The models need to be tested against observations, to make way for new and improved models. It is an iterative procedure.”
Using the same approach, we can also derive information about the future. While it’s impossible to gauge how life will evolve over such a long timescale, geologically speaking, not that much will change.
“If you look at Earth from space, the distribution of continents and oceans will then look much the same, even though life, the climate and sea level may have dramatically changed. If we move even further ahead, say 10 or 100 million years, it is very hard to say how oceans may be opening and closing, but we have some clues. Some people think that the Atlantic will close, and others think the Arctic or Indian oceans will close. We can follow the rules of the past when we look to the future, but this task keeps geoscientists very busy.”
Journal Reference: On the consistency of seismically imaged lower mantle slabs, G. E. Shephard, K. J. Matthews, K. Hosseini & M. Domeier, Scientific Reports 7,
The Idea of Creating a New Universe in the Lab Is No Joke
The Idea of Creating a New Universe in the Lab Is No Joke
by ZEEYA MERALI
Physicists aren’t often reprimanded for using risqué humour in their academic writings, but in 1991 that is exactly what happened to the cosmologist Andrei Linde at Stanford University. He had submitted a draft article entitled ‘Hard Art of the Universe Creation’ to the journal Nuclear Physics B. In it, he outlined the possibility of creating a universe in a laboratory: a whole new cosmos that might one day evolve its own stars, planets and intelligent life. Near the end, Linde made a seemingly flippant suggestion that our Universe itself might have been knocked together by an alien ‘physicist hacker’. The paper’s referees objected to this ‘dirty joke’; religious people might be offended that scientists were aiming to steal the feat of universe-making out of the hands of God, they worried. Linde changed the paper’s title and abstract but held firm over the line that our Universe could have been made by an alien scientist. ‘I am not so sure that this is just a joke,’ he told me.
Fast-forward a quarter of a century, and the notion of universe-making – or ‘cosmogenesis’ as I dub it – seems less comical than ever. I’ve travelled the world talking to physicists who take the concept seriously, and who have even sketched out rough blueprints for how humanity might one day achieve it. Linde’s referees might have been right to be concerned, but they were asking the wrong questions. The issue is not who might be offended by cosmogenesis, but what would happen if it were truly possible. How would we handle the theological implications? What moral responsibilities would come with fallible humans taking on the role of cosmic creators?
Theoretical physicists have grappled for years with related questions as part of their considerations of how our own Universe began. In the 1980s, the cosmologist Alex Vilenkin at Tufts University in Massachusetts came up with a mechanism through which the laws of quantum mechanics could have generated an inflating universe from a state in which there was no time, no space and no matter. There’s an established principle in quantum theory that pairs of particles can spontaneously, momentarily pop out of empty space. Vilenkin took this notion a step further, arguing that quantum rules could also enable a minuscule bubble of space itself to burst into being from nothing, with the impetus to then inflate to astronomical scales. Our cosmos could thus have been burped into being by the laws of physics alone. To Vilenkin, this result put an end to the question of what came before the Big Bang: nothing. Many cosmologists have made peace with the notion of a universe without a prime mover, divine or otherwise.
At the other end of the philosophical spectrum, I met with Don Page, a physicist and evangelical Christian at the University of Alberta in Canada, noted for his early collaboration with Stephen Hawking on the nature of black holes. To Page, the salient point is that God created the Universe ex nihilo – from absolutely nothing. The kind of cosmogenesis envisioned by Linde, in contrast, would require physicists to cook up their cosmos in a highly technical laboratory, using a far more powerful cousin of the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. It would also require a seed particle called a ‘monopole’ (which is hypothesised to exist by some models of physics, but has yet to be found).
The idea goes that if we could impart enough energy to a monopole, it will start to inflate. Rather than growing in size within our Universe, the expanding monopole would bend spacetime within the accelerator to create a tiny wormhole tunnel leading to a separate region of space. From within our lab we would see only the mouth of the wormhole; it would appear to us as a mini black hole, so small as to be utterly harmless. But if we could travel into that wormhole, we would pass through a gateway into a rapidly expanding baby universe that we had created. (A video illustrating this process provides some further details.)
We have no reason to believe that even the most advanced physics hackers could conjure a cosmos from nothing at all, Page argues. Linde’s concept of cosmogenesis, audacious as it might be, is still fundamentally technological. Page, therefore, sees little threat to his faith. On this first issue, then, cosmogenesis would not necessarily upset existing theological views.
But flipping the problem around, I started to wonder: what are the implications of humans even considering the possibility of one day making a universe that could become inhabited by intelligent life? As I discuss in my book A Big Bang in a Little Room (2017), current theory suggests that, once we have created a new universe, we would have little ability to control its evolution or the potential suffering of any of its residents. Wouldn’t that make us irresponsible and reckless deities? I posed the question to Eduardo Guendelman, a physicist at Ben Gurion University in Israel, who was one of the architects of the cosmogenesis model back in the 1980s. Today, Guendelman is engaged in research that could bring baby-universe-making within practical grasp. I was surprised to find that the moral issues did not cause him any discomfort. Guendelman likens scientists pondering their responsibility over making a baby universe to parents deciding whether or not to have children, knowing they will inevitably introduce them to a life filled with pain as well as joy.
Other physicists are more wary. Nobuyuki Sakai of Yamaguchi University in Japan, one of the theorists who proposed that a monopole could serve as the seed for a baby universe, admitted that cosmogenesis is a thorny issue that we should ‘worry’ about as a society in the future. But he absolved himself of any ethical concerns today. Although he is performing the calculations that could allow cosmogenesis, he notes that it will be decades before such an experiment might feasibly be realised. Ethical concerns can wait.
Many of the physicists I approached were reluctant to wade into such potential philosophical quandaries. So I turned to a philosopher, Anders Sandberg at the University of Oxford, who contemplates the moral implications of creating artificial sentient life in computer simulations. He argues that the proliferation of intelligent life, regardless of form, can be taken as something that has inherent value. In that case, cosmogenesis might actually be a moral obligation.
Looking back on my numerous conversations with scientists and philosophers on these issues, I’ve concluded that the editors at Nuclear Physics B did a disservice both to physics and to theology. Their little act of censorship served only to stifle an important discussion. The real danger lies in fostering an air of hostility between the two sides, leaving scientists afraid to speak honestly about the religious and ethical consequences of their work out of concerns of professional reprisal or ridicule.
We will not be creating baby universes anytime soon, but scientists in all areas of research must feel able to freely articulate the implications of their work without concern for causing offence. Cosmogenesis is an extreme example that tests the principle. Parallel ethical issues are at stake in the more near-term prospects of creating artificial intelligence or developing new kinds of weapons, for instance. As Sandberg put it, although it is understandable that scientists shy away from philosophy, afraid of being thought weird for veering beyond their comfort zone, the unwanted result is that many of them keep quiet on things that really matter.
Artwork illustrating the concept of an alternate 'bubble' universe in which our universe
As I was leaving Linde’s office at Stanford, after we’d spent a day riffing on the nature of God, the cosmos and baby universes, he pointed at my notes and commented ruefully: ‘If you want to have my reputation destroyed, I guess you have enough material.’ This sentiment was echoed by a number of the scientists I had met, whether they identified as atheists, agnostics, religious or none of the above. The irony was that if they felt able to share their thoughts with each other as openly as they had with me, they would know that they weren’t alone among their colleagues in pondering some of the biggest questions of our being.
Zeeya Merali
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This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
A strange triangular-shaped object has been found buried on the surface of Mars which some believe is a sign of a crashed UFO.
A video uploaded to YouTube by conspiracy theorist channel SecureTeam10 shows the strange object in a crater on the Red Planet.
The video narrator says: “There is no doubt that there is something of an almost perfect triangular-shaped nature, albeit a little dented up and a little warped, but it doesn’t look like it belongs there.”
And there appears to be a dome structure near the supposed UFO, adding fuel to the conspiracy theory.
The narrator claims that as isolated discoveries they are not much, but when they are in such close proximity, he deems it as too much of a coincidence.
He says: “When you find another object in the same general area that again looks out of place.
“We have found these domes on multiple planets and moons.
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The strange dome could be a base, claim conspiracy theorists
“It is said that these domes are actually providing cover for existing bases so there is a breathable atmosphere.
“Even Nasa and our own space agencies have talked about getting us to the moon and establishing bases have drawn up their plans using the exact same thing – domes.
“Could that be what we’re seeing here? A camouflage among this crater field. Or is this some sort of ancient relic?”
However, commenters on the video were not so convinced.
One user called Angrydog Productions wrote: “Hmm sun comes from the front… shadow is directly under the UFO… doesn't match up.”
Another, P.Gallo AllAmericanAngel, added: “Some of the lighting and shadows don't seem to look quite right.”
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Mystery UFO video supposedly from USS Nimitz fighter jet intrigues researchers
Mystery UFO video supposedly from USS Nimitz fighter jet intrigues researchers
Written by Barnett Parker
USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO leaked FLIR footage
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -UFO researchers around the world have been abuzz in recent weeks about a video supposedly shot in 2004 from a Super Hornet fighter jet based on the carrier USS Nimitz.
The video shows an object in the distance that doesn’t act like a typical aircraft – and it veers out of sight as a fighter jet closes
The story first came to light in a 2015 article in fightersweep.com – and the tale was rekindled exponentially when former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge referenced it Oct. 11 during his announcement about the creation of his To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
Author John B. Alexander of Las Vegas believes the incident happened, but he hasn’t confirmed the video. Alexander – whose books include “UFOs” Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities” -- told FOX5 he believes the video originated with the U.S. Navy.
Alexander said in an email that he “asked one of the guys who saw it in a classified version,” and that his source “was very highly placed, and I mean very highly placed.”
He added: “The update is they believe the video to be real, but do not-- do not -- confirm the authenticity. Others videos are likely soon to similar incidents.”
DeLonge didn’t show any video from the 2004 incident with the Nimitz and various UFOs about 100 miles from San Diego but he has teased that one of the group’s goals is to release such previously classified video and documents.
This screen grab shows unidentified object streaking to left.
Since the announcement, what could be described as video from the display the pilot sees has popped up in several places on Youtube and other internet sites.
The origin of the video is uncertain, although two UFO researchers say it first appeared in 2007 on what they describe as a website run by German film students.
Researcher Isaac Kol lives in London and sometimes posts on the Web forum Above Top Secret.
He recently posted:
Back in 2007, I tracked the first online copy of the video back to the website of a group of German film students that specialized in creating science fiction movies with lots of special effects (Vision Unlimited).
His post also included, “in 2007, I was inclined to reach the tentative conclusion that it was a hoax... I find it very interesting that the current rounds of discussion seem to ignore the provenance of the footage…”
Kol told FOX5 in an email, “I don’t claim to have debunked that footage – merely shown that the place that it was originally posted raises red flags pending further evidence.”
Robert Powell lives in Austin, Texas, and publishes on the Facebook page Scientific Coalition for Ufology.
He said: “The video was first found on a German film site back in 2007 I believe. That makes one suspicious, but there is no proof that the video was doctored by the German film students. I'm not aware that anyone has looked at the video and made a determination that it was edited in some fashion.”
Powell has filed a freedom of information requests to obtain all the documentation he can about the November 2004 incidents with the Nimitz.
Alexander noted he believes audio tapes of the pilots communicating with flight control also exist.
One reason researchers found this video so intriguing is the way the UFOs baffled the Navy’s best fighter jets and radar systems in the days around Nov. 14, 2004.
The story on fightersweep.com described the anomalous aerial vehicles as dropping from above 80,000 feet, according to radar returns and then hovering 50-feet off the water within a matter of seconds.
The objects then moved away at “speeds, turn rates and accelerations faster than any known friendly or threat aircraft.”
Virgin Galactic Wants to Send People on Superfast Trips Across Earth
Virgin Galactic Wants to Send People on Superfast Trips Across Earth
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Virgin Galactic's second SpaceshipTwo space plane, VSS Unity, soars over the Mojave Desert during an unpowered test flight in December 2016.
Credit: Virgin Galactic
SEATTLE — Suborbital space tourism and research may be just the beginning for Virgin Galactic.
The private spaceflight company eventually aims to add superfast point-to-point passenger flights to its repertoire, which would dramatically reduce the time needed to get from Boston to Beijing or Sydney to San Francisco, according to Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides.
On such trips, Virgin Galactic's vehicle would likely fly considerably faster than the now-defunct Concorde, which reached a top speed of about Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound, he added. (The speed of sound depends on temperature; at room temperature, it's around 774 mph, or 1,246 km/h.)
"We think something that's, you know, in the Mach 3 to [Mach] 5 space is really interesting, because you can really radically shorten those long-duration flights, but it's not so fast — at a certain point, you may not need to go so fast," Whitesides said.
Whitesides' comments echo recent remarks by Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson. Late last month, Branson said that a partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will help Virgin Galactic "accelerate our program for point-to-point supersonic space travel," among other things.
For now, however, the company is working to get its second six-passenger SpaceShipTwo space plane, known as VSS Unity, ready to fly customers on brief trips to suborbital space and back, for tourism and research purposes. (The first SpaceShipTwo, VSS Enterprise, crashed during a test flight in October 2014, killing co-pilot Michael Alsbury and injuring pilot Peter Siebold.)
A carrier plane named WhiteKnightTwo hauls SpaceShipTwo aloft, then drops the space plane at an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000 meters). At that point, SpaceShipTwo's rocket motor kicks on, blasting the vehicle to suborbital space. SpaceShipTwo then comes down to Earth for a runway landing.
Passengers will get to experience about 5 minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of Earth against the blackness of space, company representatives have said. A ticket to ride the vehicle currently sells for $250,000, and more than 600 people have reserved a seat to date, Whitesides said.
VSS Unity has performed a number of unpowered "glide flights" so far and should start rocket-powered tests soon, company representatives have said. Commercial operations should begin shortly thereafter, but exactly when is unclear; Whitesides doesn't announce predicted timetables.
"We'll fly when it's ready," he said. "We'll fly when it's safe."
Virgin Galactic isn't the only spaceflight company with point-to-point travel on its mind. In late September, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said his company's "BFR" Mars-colonization architecture may also be used to carry passengers on superfast trips from place to place on Earth.
A United Nations committee finds 2017 may be one of the hottest years on record, NASA launches a $100K contest for aerosol sensor design, the NASA administrator nominee advances in his confirmation process, and laser weapons might soon be mounted onto aircrafts in some of this week's top stories from Space.com.
Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force
1. U.S. Air Force signs new laser weapon contract
Flying, high-energy laser weapons may soon be a reality, as the U.S Air Force Research Lab signed a $26 million contract with Lockheed Martin to develop these compact and lightweight weapons to be added onto fighter jets. Laser weaponry already exists, but current models are too heavy to mount onto aircrafts. [Full Story: Pew-Pew! Laser Weapons May Arm Air Force Fighter Jets]
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2. Top three hottest years on record may soon include 2017
During the first nine months of 2017, the global temperature was warmer by 1.98 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) than preindustrial levels. While 2016 might remain the hottest year on record due to a strong El Nino over the Pacific Ocean, the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations announced on Nov. 6 that the year 2017 could break the hottest three. [Full Story: 2017 Is Slated to Be in Top 3 Hottest Years of All Time]
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3. Uber Collaborates with NASA on flying car project
The taxi-ride alternative company Uber is collaborating with NASA for a flying car project, which will be known as UberAir or Uber Elevate. The space agency has agreed to help Uber develop an air-traffic-control system for the ambitious technology. [Full Story: Uber Teams with NASA on 'Flying Car' Project]
Photo Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
4. Ultra-long-lasting supernova raises questions about star deaths
Current ideas about star life cycles are complicated by a three-year-long supernova explosion. Of particular interest is the brightening and dimming of the spectacular event over the course of two years. [Full Story: Bizarre 3-Year-Long Supernova Defies Our Understanding of How Stars Die]
5. NASA will award $100K for best astronaut air-safety design
Astronaut well-being is center-stage in a new NASA contest. The winner will have developed a prototype aerosol detection system, which will be useful for scientists who want to eliminate problematic particles from the precious air that astronauts breathe aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: NASA's $100K Contest Seeks Safer Air for Astronauts]
Photo Credit: Pat Rawlings/NASA
6. A 1972 engine may benefit manned missions to Mars
A group of engineers are researching the space-travel potential of an engine that was last fired almost half a century ago. The nuclear-fission-based machinery may hold a key to getting to Mars faster than other current models, making the journey much more feasible.[Full Story: How Vintage Rocket Tech Could Be NASA's Ticket to Mars and Beyond]
8. Earth may have more than one planetary neighbor
The closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima b, might have company. According to a new study, a dusty ring encircling the star suggests other planets may orbit the star Proxima Centauri. [Full Story: The Closest Exoplanet Proxima b May Have Neighbors]
Photo Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA
9. Senate committee votes along party-lines for NASA administrator nomination
NASA administrator nominee Jim Bridenstine will advance to the next confirmation stage, after the Senate Commerce Committee voted 14-13 in favor of the candidate. Bridenstine has been criticized by Democrats for lacking the executive skills necessary for the leadership position, as well as for being partisan. [Full Story: Senate Committee Advances Bridenstine Nomination on a Party-Line Vote]
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10. NASA awards contracts for moon-orbiting space station's power and propulsion module
NASA granted contracts to five companies so that they might examine how to create the initial elements of the space agency's proposed moon-orbiting Deep Space Gateway project. The contracts run for four months and have a total value of $2.4 million. [Full Story: NASA Issues Study Contracts for Deep Space Gateway Element]
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit the worst possible place on Earth
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit the worst possible place on Earth
A new study by the Tohoku University and the Tsukuba Institute of Meteorological Research (both in Japan), published in Nature, suggests that the reign of Dinosaurs could have possibly continued if the massive asteroid that struck our planet 66 million years ago had impacted Earth elsewhere and not at the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
Authored by Kunio Kaiho and Naga Oshima, the new study titled: “Site of asteroid impact changed the history of life on Earth: the low probability of mass extinction,” indicates that the asteroid that impacted Earth had a little more than a one-in-10 chance of triggering a mass extinction on Earth as it struck our planet violently.
The massive collision event, which eventually gave rise to the Chicxulub crater annihilated around 75 percent of animal life on our planet in what is today referred to as the Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-Pg extinction event.
Scientists now say that the collision was an exceptionally unlikely shot.
Tyrannosaurus, a prehistoric era dinosaur.
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According to the newly published study, had the massive asteroid impacted our planet in any other part of the world, like in the middle of most continents or even the ocean, Earth’s massive reptiles most likely would have survived the extinction event.
“This significant event could [only] have occurred if the asteroid hit the hydrocarbon-rich areas occupying approximately 13% of the Earth’s surface,” they said in a study recently published in the journal Nature.
In fact, researchers note that only 13 percent of Earth’s surface had the necessary ingredients to turn the collision event into a mass extinction.
Researchers argue that the massive energy produced during the collision had a combustible impact on the humongous reservoirs of hydrocarbons and crude oil stored beneath a shallow sea in the Yucatán Peninsula.
In fact, one thing led to another. The combustion created after the impact would have blown out massive amounts of soot and sulfur into our planet’s stratosphere blocking the sun, which triggered a set of events that caused entire ecosystems to collapse, and eventually destroying up to three-quarters of Earth’s inhabitants.
Global map showing the amount of organic matter in sedimentary rocks ejected if the Chicxulub asteroid hit various locations at the end of the Cretaceous.
“The probability of mass extinction was quite low even with an asteroid as large as the [Chicxulub asteroid] because hydrocarbon-rich and sulfate-rich sites were rare,” said Kaiho and Oshima. If the asteroid had hit a low–medium hydrocarbon area, mass extinction could not have occurred.”
According to previous calculations, scientists believe that the asteroid impact released energy around a billion times more powerful than the combined power of the atomic bombs that were released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Scientists concludedthat around 87 percent of our planet surface—in areas like most of present-day Africa, China, India, and the Amazon—would not have had high-enough concentrations of hydrocarbons to lead to such an apocalyptic result on dinosaurs if the asteroid had collided there.
Such an extinction event would have been triggered if the asteroid had crashed into marine coastal areas rich in algae, such as the present-day eastern coast of North America, the Middle East, and Siberia, concluded scientists.
This star has a spiral disk of dust around it. Processes in the inner disk – winds, or swirls or clashes of pebbles – seem to be casting shadows on the outer disk.
A team of mainly Dutch astronomers said on November 9, 2017 that it has observed moving shadows on a dust disk around a young star designated HD135344B. The star is 450 light-years away. It’s in a formation stage and shows striking spiral arms. On multiple days, the astronomers captured an image of this star and its dust disk. They used the SPHEREinstrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, which can block the image of a central star in order to capture orbiting exoplanets or the details of dust disks like this one, with the goal of learning more about star formation. These astronomers believe that processes in the inner disk cast their shadows at the outer disk.
The discovery builds on an earlier publication in which the researchers made one image of the disk. By making multiple images, the astronomers clearly saw variations in the shadows. As a result, they could study the shadows in more detail …
The astronomers saw subtle variations of brightness in the outer dust disk. They presume this is because the gas and dust in the inner disk quickly turn around the star. The astronomers do not know yet which process causes the quick turning of the dust.
Astronomer Tomas Stolker is the first author of the paper about the shadows. He said the turning of the dust may be due to:
… winds, or swirls or clashes of pebbles.
The astronomers expect 1 or more large exoplanets – Jupiter-like worlds – to emerge from this dust disk eventually. Read more about this research from Astronomie.nl.
View larger. | Dust disk around the star HD 135344B. The star itself is removed from the picture. Image via Tomas Stolker/ astronomie.nl.
Bottom line: For several days, astronomers imaged the young star HD 135344B and its dust disk. They saw moving shadows on the disk, which they believe is caused by a turning of the gas and dust in the star’s inner disk. Hence we learn more about the process by which stars and planets form.
SHOCK AS MYSTERIOUS UFO 'HOVERS ABOVE CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE'
SHOCK AS MYSTERIOUS UFO 'HOVERS ABOVE CALIFORNIA NAVY BASE'
ALIEN hunters have been sent into a frenzy by these images appearing to show a UFO near an American Navy base.
We all remember the gripping testimony, a former agent of the CIA, who spoke publicly for the first time through a video about his experience dealing with extraterrestrials, their ships and the cover-up of the phenomenon. The 15-minute video aired on May 3, 2013, the last day of the Citizen's Public Hearing. The 77-year-old man, obviously in poor health, but well articulated, spoke to two researchers about the UFO phenomenon.
Smartphone, computer, television and video game. What they have in common, apart from circuits, is an extraterrestrial influence. Many theories say that the aliens make available to humans, slowly, everything that is already obsolete on their planets. In this way, they can observe the development of human civilization (as we do with rats).
Well, if this story is real, we are just guinea pigs of social experiments coordinated by races of much more developed civilizations. Concepts of psychology such as behaviorism (which preaches that behavior is always based on responses and stimuli) could easily describe this type of action.
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BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE? 'Alien UFO' found in NASA images 'orbiting the Moon'
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE? 'Alien UFO' found in NASA images 'orbiting the Moon'
A LEGENDARY "alien satellite", that is said to have orbited Earth for nearly 13,000 years, has been caught on camera in NASA images orbiting the Moon, UFO fans claim.
YouTube UFO hunter Streetcap1 posted NASA Apollo 16 images in a video on his channel.
NASA images of the Moon, Mars, other planets, as well as footage taken by the International Space Station, was scoured in an extensive search for evidence of alien life.
The expert said in the video: "I have been browsing a lot of photographs tonight and I discovered this on a moon photograph
"It is on the edge of the photograph, that is as close in as I can get.
"It appears on quite a few photos, not all of them. It is some sort of structure and it is just sitting orbiting the Moon.
"You can see its structure when I get a close up of it. To me it looks like some sort of structure."
Viewers have suggested it could be the mysterious Black Knight satellite, also known as the "Dark Knight".
After watching, Traci Hill posted on YouTube: "Looks kind of like the Dark Knight."
BLACK KNIGHT? A still from Streetcap1's latest video showing a 'UFO' over the Moon.
Valle Janes later added: "Someone commented it looks like the Black Knight... I agree."
Others were less convinced, offering up alternative explanations.
One poster with the user name Coil Smoke said: "Could be high terrain like mountain peaks still getting sunlight."
Jack Gordon added: "Photographic artefact more likely than alien ship."
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The 1998 Nasa image (left) and an earlier alleged Black Knight snap over the Moon in July 2015.
The Black Knight Satellite is the name that has been given to an object captured on camera by NASA astronauts during a 1998 space shuttle mission.
There are alien conspiracy theorists who claim the satellite is of extraterrestrial origin, possibly up to 13,000 years old orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit.
The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the Black Knight Satellite while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists' data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the Black Knight was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
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A close up of the 'UFO' taken from the YouTube video.
Someone commented it looks like the Black Knight... I agree.
Valle Janes
In 1998, the first alleged photographs of the satellite emerged and were taken by astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour, as it made its first flight to the ISS.
However, many sceptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 images emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.
Sceptics also say the existence of the Black Knight satellite has been debunked many times, and the NASA images show, as the space agency said at the time, a thermal blanket accidentally dropped from a space shuttle.
In 2015, YouTube debunker NUA, laid the mystery to rest.
In a video called "Black Knight Satellite UFO Documentary - Truth Exposed 2015 - (Debunked)" - he claims to conclusively prove the 'Black Knight', as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than the dropped thermal blanket.
The blanket was lost by the crew of the Endeavour space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).
In his video, NUA compared NASA video of the Endeavour mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS.
The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tumbles away into space.
He highlights the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the 'Black Knight' in the 1998 pictures seized on by conspiracists and explain the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.
This is the longest-duration binary device containing a radio pulsar. A pulsar, referred to as J2032. When astronomers commenced looking it, they'd no concept how dynamic became. They nonetheless do not know what it's capable of. This pulsar has been accelerating for the closing ten years, and it is still rushing up.
When it passes thru the partner famous person's disk, we're gonna see some serious gamma-ray emission.
The pulsar, called J2032 is the overwhelmed center of a massive celebrity that exploded as a supernova.
It is a magnetized ball about 12 miles throughout, or approximately the size of Washington, weighing almost twice the sun's mass and spinning seven instances a 2d.
The massive superstar tugging at the pulsar is called MT91 213. Classified as a Be big name, the associate is 15 instances the mass of the solar and shines 10,000 instances brighter. Be stars power robust outflows, known as stellar winds, and are embedded in large disks of gas and dirt.
Astronomers are waiting for excessive-strength explosions whilst pulsar J2032 swings around its big companion celebrity in early 2018. The pulsar will plunge thru a disk of gasoline and dust surrounding the famous person, triggering cosmic fireworks.
Several features integrate to make this an great binary. Out of six similar systems in which the large megastar uses hydrogen as its imperative energy source, J2032's has the best combined mass, the longest orbital duration, and, at a distance of about five,000 light-years, is closest to Earth.
Astronomers assume the supernova explosion that created the pulsar also kicked it into its eccentric orbit, almost tearing the binary aside inside the technique. A have a look at of the machine led by using Lyne and together with Ray and Stappers become published June sixteen in the magazine Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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He took the snaps near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in 2007, but has been too nervous to show anyone until now.
Mr Bradshaw apparently sneaked out to the desert after an old friend working on the Navy base told him about the mystery craft.
He claims he heard a helicopter as he approached the base, before seeing the silver UFO with a number of military vehicles parked nearby.
The UFO hunter – who took off his shirt to blend in with his surroundings – spent 10 minutes watching the 'flying saucer'.
CASCADE
They have been described as 'the most controversial UFO photos on record'
This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable
Keith Bradshaw
He said: "This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable.
"Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear.
"I don't believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it.
"It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it."
CASCADE
The photographer said he saw the silver UFO flying above the navy base
He has sent the images to be analysed by some of the world's top UFO experts, who are divided over their authenticity.
British UFO sleuth Philip Mantle said: "This could turn out to be one of the most controversial UFO photo-cases on record.
"The photo-analysts contacted cannot come to an agreement about these photos. Are they fake or genuine? Who knows."
CASCADE
Top UFO experts are divided over the authenticity of the snaps
Jason Gleaves, an ex-RAF and BAE Airbus division employee based in the UK, said he believes they could be genuine.
But he added: "With technology of today and software, you can't be 100 percent sure of image authenticity, no matter how good it looks."
Dr Bruce Maccabee, an-ex US Navy physicist, said: "That is not enough evidence to prove either way that the object was not an unusually shaped drone operating under control of the person(s) flying the helicopter."
Tobias Lingren of Sweden's Aviation Authority added: "I'm not sure the military is so stupid to fly in an open space a 'flying saucer' if they want to keep it secret but I still have no idea what the object could be."
The new Netflix original series, Stranger Things, has been gaining popularity since its release this summer and for good reason. Not only is the TV show captivating, but it has numerous conscious undertones as well. The TV show is actually based on real-life government programs regarding telepathy and parallel universes. On a recent episode of Chelsea, Nuclear physicist and U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, discussed the truth behind Stranger Things and confirmed that the U.S. government is researching higher dimensions and parallel universes.
MK Ultra Was The Inspiration Behind Stranger Things
If you’re unfamiliar with the TV show Stranger Things, here’s a quick synopsis: set in the 1980s, a young boy goes missing and his mother and friends set out to find him. They discover his disappearance is linked to a secret government program surrounding telepathy and an alternate dimension they refer to as “The Upside-Down.” As they uncover more clues, they meet a young girl (Eleven) with telepathic abilities who was experimented on in a government mind-control program. What many viewers didn’t know is that this horrific experiment was inspired by a real, CIA sanctioned program that ran from the 1950s until mid-1970s.
Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers behind the show, stated in a Rolling Stones interview that their show was based on “bizarre” government experiments that took place during the Cold War, specifically MK Ultra. Matt explains, “We wanted the supernatural element to be grounded in science in some way. As ridiculous as it is, the monster [in the alternate dimension] doesn’t come from a spiritual domain and it’s not connected to any religion. It made it scarier. I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.”
In Stranger Things, the government allows the sacrifice of young children to satisfy this monster for “the greater good.” This sounds bone-chillingly familiar to what occurred in Project MK Ultra, as numerous innocent people including young children fell victim to these experiments, all of which was developed for “the greater good of America.”
More specifically, the experiments were intended to identify drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture in order to weaken victims and force confessions out of them through the use of mind control. The TV show lightly touched on the severe mental, physical, and sexual abuse involved but left out many of the other gruesome details of the experiments, all of which you can read about here. The real monsters aren’t the illusory ones hiding under your bed, they’re the ones controlling these types of programs, otherwise known as the elite or the shadow government.
U.S. Secretary of Energy On Stranger Things, Higher Dimensions, and Parallel Universes
One of the more recent episodes of the new Netflix show, Chelsea, guest stars Joshua Jackson, Don Cheadle, and U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, in which they discuss Stranger Things. Even though Moniz hasn’t watched the show, he was quick to engage in the conversation by stating that he’d heard of the series and that there’s some truth behind it.
Moniz explains, “We do work in parallel universes… We are also a big supporter of very basic science, and that includes trying to understand the basic particles of nature and the structure of the universe. It turns out, theoretical physics addressing that looks at things like higher dimensions than three dimensions and parallel universes.”
You can watch the interview on Chelsea Handler’s show here:
How This Relates To Us
During the interview, the audience laughs off Moniz’s claims. People have so much trust in the system that they can’t even see what’s in front of them, even when government officials admit what they’re doing. To be fair, most of them probably hadn’t considered that the government may study parallel universes because the concept is often dismissed or considered “Hollywood movie material.”
This concept really isn’t that far out. The Milky Way alone includes billions of Earth-like, potentially habitable planets and the Milky Way itself is only one of billions of galaxies. Furthermore, the scientific term multiverse was created in support of Stanford physicist Andrei Linde’s theory of eternal chaotic inflation, which supports the existence of an infinitely-increasing number of universes. Linde explains, “We started calling it a ‘multiverse,’ meaning the entire ensemble of innumerable regions of disconnected space-time.” We need to accept that we literally know nothing about the multiverse; thus, the potential for parallel universes is very real.
Scientists have been researching higher dimensions for decades, this is not new information. Carl Sagan discussed it on his TV show, Cosmos, back in the 1980s. We currently live in a third-dimensional world, so how do we gain access to higher dimensions? I personally believe that it can be done through our consciousness. Carl Sagan explained the differences between the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th dimensions on his show Cosmos, which you can watch here.
If you’re interested in learning more about multiple dimensions, below is a great clip for starters, taken from the film What The Bleep Do We Know.
Another noteworthy part of this video was when Joshua Jackson said, “So Stranger Things was fiction for us, but autobiography for you.” This relates to the lack of transparency in the government and how little information is disclosed to the public.
For example, UFO disclosure is practically non-existent in the U.S., mainstream media regularly spreads misinformation to benefit corporations, and black budget programs operate in complete secrecy. It’s no wonder the audience was confused, given how much corporate and government propaganda they’re exposed to on a daily basis.
Final Thoughts
I believe that all of this is proof that our planet is experiencing a massive shift in consciousness. Stranger Things helped shed light on what I consider to be one of the darkest government programs in history and one that continues to plague America. The fact that the U.S. Secretary of Energy was honest in admitting the government researches higher dimensions is a huge step in the right direction, even if there was an air of humour surrounding it. Let’s hope that other government officials follow suit!
Bestaan parallelle universa echt? Amerikaanse oud-minister doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in talkshow
Bestaan parallelle universa echt? Amerikaanse oud-minister doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in talkshow
Het parallelle universum uit de populaire serie Stranger Things bestaat mogelijk echt. Dat heeft de Amerikaanse oud-minister van Energie Ernest Moniz gezegd.
In Stranger Things is een parallelle wereld te zien die de Upside Down wordt genoemd. Die staat misschien dichter bij de realiteit dan je denkt.
In de talkshow Chelsea vroeg presentatrice Chelsea Handler aan Moniz of de Amerikaanse overheid net als het ministerie van Energie in de serie onderzoek doet naar de Upside Down.
Groot voorstander
“Laat ik voorop stellen dat ik de serie niet heb gezien, maar ik heb er wel van gehoord,” antwoordde de oud-minister.
Hij voegde toe dat zijn ministerie ‘inderdaad onderzoek doet naar parallelle universa’, maar ging daar verder niet op in.
Moniz zei een groot voorstander te zijn van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de kleinste deeltjes en de structuur van het universum.
Parallelle universa
“De theoretische natuurkunde houdt zich bezig met dingen als hogere dimensies en parallelle universa,” lichtte hij toe.
In een gelekte e-mail schreef Moniz eerder: “Het is niet waar dat het ministerie van Energie geen onderzoek doet naar parallelle universa. We ondersteunen theoretisch natuurkundigen en kosmologen, waarvan sommige onderzoek doen naar parallelle universa.”
Het tweede seizoen van Stranger Things is momenteel te zien op Netflix.
De makers van de serie lieten zich inspireren door MK-ULTRA, een reeks bizarre, geheime experimenten die de CIA tijdens de Koude Oorlog uitvoerde.
Let’s get a couple of things out of the way right up front. First, NASA needs help coming up with names for new space objects. The subject of this article is named OGLE, which is bad enough, but its full name is OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, a string of letters and numbers that would be better in a password (secretly level: medium – needs some special characters). Have they run out of Greek and Roman gods? How about hiring the guy at a record company who names new bands? Second, although the subject of this article may be some new kind of mysterious planet, it’s probably not Planet X nor Nine nor Nibiru.
The object was first discovered in June 2016 by astronomers from the University of Warsaw working on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, which means they used gravitational microlensing to detect its presence as its gravity bent the light of its star (and used the discovering telescope to come up with the odd ogling name). Its presence 22.000 light years away was confirmed a few days later by scientists using NASA’s orbiting Spitzer telescope.
Spitzer space telescope
At this point, the discovery gets exciting enough to publish a paper about it. In the study submitted to the Astronomical Journal, lead author Y-H Ryu of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute reveals that OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb is something to ogle at – its mass is 13 times that of Jupiter or 4,000 times Earth’s mass, making it one of the largest planets ever discovered … IF it’s a planet. That sort of mass usually indicates an object is a brown dwarf – a non-functioning star that is not performing hydrogen thermonuclear fusion. However, Ogle’s orbit is at a fairly close distance from its star where astronomers have long assumed that gravity would not allow it to exist – they even describe this area as a “brown dwarf desert.”
So what exactly is Ogle? Astronomers can’t decide (there’s nothing more exciting than a competition among astronomers – kind of a Dancing With The Stargazers) so they have to make do with the 2016 pictures and computer models until its three-year orbit puts it in front of its start to cause another microlensing event.
Artist’s interpretation of the Milky Way’s galactic bulge
If it’s indeed a giant exoplanet, it “is likely to be the first Spitzer microlensing planet in the Galactic bulge/bar.” ‘Galactic bulge’ – now there’s a good name for the space phenomenon that is the middle of the Milky Way (not to mention a great name for a band or a malady that affects aliens on long space flights with little opportunity for exercising. At the local astronomers betting parlor, the odds favor some sort of failed brown dwarf over giant exoplanet or some new form of orbiting space object. The bookie tells those wanting to place bets on Planet X to go for something with better odds, like the lottery.
Astronomical event called “The Star of Bethlehem” graces the predawn sky on November 13, 2017
Astronomical event called “The Star of Bethlehem” graces the predawn sky on November 13, 2017
Get ready for the most exciting sky event of 2017! A truly fascinating event occurs on November 13th. "The Star of Bethlehem" graces the predawn sky.
They are the brightest celestial objects after the Sun and Moon. Venus and Jupiter are going to converge for a close jaw-dropping encounter. Astronomers refer to a close celestial pair-up like this as a conjunction.
What Was The Star of Bethlehem? Many Christians see the star as a miraculous sign to mark the birth of the Christ (or messiah). Some theologians claimed that the star fulfilled a prophecy, known as the Star Prophecy.
Astronomers have made several attempts to link the star to unusual astronomical events, such as a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, a comet or a supernova.
The truth is, we don't know the answer, and in fact, no one else does either, in spite of what you might hear. If there was a clear-cut answer to this question, everyone would already know the answer and wouldn't have to ask.
Some scholars say that the Star of Bethlehem must have been a supernatural event, not a natural occurrence of astronomy. Indeed, perhaps this is a mystery that modern science can never truly unravel.
Doughnut-Shaped UFO Floats Over A Famous Lake In Southwest China
Doughnut-Shaped UFO Floats Over A Famous Lake In Southwest China
Taiwanese salesman John Chen claimed he had captured a UFO in a doughnut shape on camera in southwest China.
The businessman said he snapped some scenic shots of the favourite tourist spot Lake Dian on November 1 after attending a trade show held in Yunnan Province.
Together with his sister-in-law, he was shocked to see a strange ring-shaped aerial thing when they were reviewing at one picture at home in Taipei.
The object appears to have a hole in the middle and ridged sides, similar to the shape of a classic doughnut.
In hope to find what the object could be, Mr Chen decided to look for a UFO expert.
Mr Chen happened to consult the leading British UFO researcher Philip Mantle about the strange thing in the photo. However, Mr Mantle could not explain it and called the incident an open verdict.
Mr Chen said that he did not see the strange thing the time as it was his wife’s sister who noticed it. He tried to share the photos with his colleagues, but they did not capture the same thing in the sky.
Mr Mantle said that he could not see any evidence that the pictures were tampered in any way, but admitted that the object could also be some airborne debris.
Watch Alleged U.S. Navy Footage Seemingly Shows A UFO That Defies Physics
Watch Alleged U.S. Navy Footage Seemingly Shows A UFO That Defies Physics
An unidentified flying object that defied physics is claimed to be in a leaked U.S. Navy video footage, which has emerged after a former Area 51 insider shared about the encounter.
Several F-18 pilots are said to have outmaneuvered by extraordinary UFO during the terrifying encounter. Former U.S. national security chief Chris Mellon, who claimed to have spent time at Area 51 military base, said that U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz recorded the UFO on video during the seven-hour encounter.
Mr. Mellon claimed that he served for nearly 20 years in the U.S. federal government in several national security roles under the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
The former national security chief was reportedly on a committee with oversight of all special access programs in Department of Defense. He also said to have spent ten years on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Mr. Mellon is one of the ex-senior government insiders who has gone forward after joining former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s alien truth-seeking organization To The Stars Academy.
Mr. Mellon, who also had accessed on classified projects at the highly-secretive military facility in Nevada, detailed the bizarre incident that said to take place off the San Diego coast in broad daylight.
Now, a video has surfaced, claiming to be the footage recorded in 2004. It has been released anonymously and recently doing the rounds on social media.
The clip shows a mysterious object hovering in the skies.
It seems to show one of the F-18’s crosshairs lining the UFO up, but the bizarre thing speeds out of sight.
Many UFO experts believe that the craft disappeared with supersonic speed.
UFOlogist Tyler said that it looks like legit F-18 footage, which has been corroborated by men that were in the incident.
Called the "flagship case" of alien abduction. A husband and wife (Betty and Barney Hill) taking a short vacation see a bright object in the evening. They are stopped on the road by aliens and become part of an abduction case for the ages. Regressive hypnosis plays a major role in unveiling a dark secret... a secret of alien abduction, and medical experimentation.
In South Ashburnham, Massachusetts on the night of January 25, 1967, one of the most celebrated cases of UFO abduction began. Betty Andreasson was working in her kitchen while her seven children, mother, and father were in the living room... suddenly a bright light invades the house. From the yard, alien creatures are seen hopping toward the house! One of the strangest abduction cases.
1967 ABDUCTION OF HERBERT SCHIRMER
As Patrolman Schirmer passed through the intersection of Highway 6 with Highway 63 on the outskirts of Ashland, he saw what appeared to be red lights on a large truck stopped a short way down Highway 63. He decided to turn around and check it out. He drove the short distance down 63 and stopped with his headlights shining on the object. According to Schirmer, the object was definitely not a truck. The red lights that he had seen were blinking through the oval portholes of a metallic, oval-shaped object.
1969 THE BUFF LEDGE CAMP ABDUCTION
Only seven and a half years after the Betty and Barney Hill story, the New England states would again host an alien abduction. Buff Ledge in Vermont would be the site of a visitation by four UFOs which would make revolutionary aerial maneuvers, Two counselors would suffer missing time, and seek professional help.
Fifteen different people see a large, silver UFO fly over a housing project in St. Tammany Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana. Only a scant 24 hours later, Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson would unwillingly take a journey into the unknown... strange creatures with claw-like hands abduct them. J. Allen Hynek investigates.
1975 THE ABDUCTION OF SERGEANT CHARLES L. MOODY
Alamogordo, New Mexico would be the location of a UFO encounter involving Air Force Sergeant Charles L. Moody on August 13, 1975. Moody was in the desert observing a meteor shower at ab 1:15 A.M. when he saw a glowing, metallic, disk-shaped object falling toward the ground about 300 feet away.
As seven bloggers began their journey home, they see a "luminous object, shaped like a flattened disc." All of the men agreed that Travis Walton, captivated by the sight, left the truck to get a closer look. A blue beam hits him, throwing him to the ground. He would vanish for five days, and soon begin telling his story of the inside of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1976 The Stanford, Kentucky Abductions
While America was still buzzing over the Travis Walton abduction, three women are abducted near Stanford, Kentucky. Heading for Hustonville on Highway 78, they suddenly see a "bright, red" object in the clear, night sky, turning a nice evening into a night of terror. Read about this in depth investigation here.
The Allagash Waterway incident would involve multiple witnesses.
Four artists were enjoying a canoeing trip on the Allagash Waterway when their pleasant evening was turned into a nightmare... A nightmare of missing time and alien abduction. At first only missing time, and then forgetfulness. Finally a connection is made, and little by the details become known in this compelling case of alien abduction.
1976 The Dechmont Forest Abduction
Robert Taylor was sixty-one-years-old at the time that he had the most unusual encounter of his life. He had worked as a forester all of his adult life in the Dechmont woods located in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. On the morning of Friday, November 9, 1979, he and his red setter rounded a corner on a forest trail and saw an unbelievable sight, a UFO! The object appeared to be hovering just above the forest floor. It made no sound, and seemed to be motionless.
A policeman named Philip Spencer claims to have taken a picture of an alien being. If this is true, it is one of only a few in existence. The scary Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire, England would hold the secret of the strange creature encountered one early morning.
Godfrey was frightened, but ran after the creature, taking one photograph. See it here. Through hypnosis, he would recall an odd flying object, and an alien abduction.
1988 Father & Son Abducted
John Salter Jr. and his son are abducted by benevolent aliens. One of the few cases in which alien abduction turned out to be a good thing. Medical experimentation has a happy ending, with improved health for both abductees.
An extremely compelling case of alien abduction is that of Linda Napolitano. Napolitano has claimed that she was abducted by the so-called "greys," who floated her from a closed bedroom window into a hovering UFO. As time went by, several different eye witnesses came forward to substantiate her claims... Several bystanders, including a well known politician, actually see the incident.
1993 The Kelly Cahill Abduction
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 Victoria, Australia would be forever linked to one of the strangest creatures in Ufological archives.
1997 Abduction in Wales
One of the weirdest cases reported to the Welsh Federation of Independent Ufologists is the multiple sighting of UFOs on the same night - except one family got too close for comfort and were apparently abducted. The strange and disturbing events began to unfold when for several nights an elderly man living in Little Orme, Conwy, was troubled by what he called "frightening" beams of light over the Great Orme.
For many years now, UFOs have more than not been identified as "flying saucers," or disc-shaped objects. Of course, there were other unknown flying object reports of odd-shaped vehicles of many different descriptions, but these were the exception and not the rule.
In the last 30 years or so, the triangle shape has become a topic of much discussion. Often reported as flying low and running silent, with several lights on the bottom, these strange objects have become an enigma in UFO circles.
Sightings of these objects often come in waves, and they are reported as being able to go from a crawl to a high-speed departure in a matter of seconds.
A GOVERNMENT PROJECT?
Many feel that the triangle UFO may be a top-secret government craft, still in the experimental stage, and more than likely designed with military implications. Some researchers feel that they are the next step in the Stealth series of craft, capable of flying low and making their exit without being detected by enemy radar. This type of craft would be indispensable for enemy surveillance, especially with weapon capabilities.
I will agree that a good portion of triangle UFO sightings may be attributed to a government manufactured craft, but this cannot account for all of them. The man on the street cannot know just how advanced governmental or military technological prowess may be, but reports of the flight characteristics of the triangles seem to surpass even our most liberal estimates of what modern technology is capable of.
REPORTS INCREASING
Although the triangle craft seem to be a dark, mysterious entity, according to researcher and author, Clyde Lewis, triangle sightings in the United Kingdom are almost an everyday occurrence. He states in his article, "Mystery of the Black Triangles," there have been approximately 4,000 reports of the triangles since 1990 in the UK alone.
There have also been waves of triangle sightings in Belgium, France, Holland and Germany, beginning with the most celebrated wave of all, the 1989-1990 triangle wave over Belgium.
In this particular case, in addition to triangle sightings, other anomalous events took place. As some of the triangles were picked up by military radar, jets would be scrambled to get a close look at exactly what was invading Belgian airspace. However, although the jet fighters could briefly lock in on the mysterious UFOs, when their weapons were set to fire, their electrical systems would malfunction, and soon the triangles were out of range.
One of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken. The photographer, to my knowledge, still remains unnamed. Taken on an April night during a well known "wave ...
ANOMALOUS EFFECT
A second unusual fact during the Belgian wave was the inability of eyewitnesses to capture the objects on film. There are a couple of fairly decent, distant videos of them, and finally, one good photograph was taken in April 1990 in the city of Petit-Rechain.
This photograph clearly shows a triangle-shaped object with red lights on the belly.
There were approximately 1,000 sightings of the Belgian triangle, and many of these were reported by ground observers who could clearly see the craft and took what they felt would be a good, clear picture. However, when their film was developed, the image was blurry and had no probative value.
This fact came to the attention of August Meessen, a physics professor, who was employed by the Catholic University at Louvin.
He developed a theory that the photographic failures were caused by infrared light. He proved his theory through scientific experiments. What this actually means is open to debate, but it appears from witness statements, that the farther away the triangle was from the photographer, the better chance to get a good image.
The sightings over Belgium were investigated, and there was no doubt that unknown, triangular-shaped objects moved over the country for about two years. They were caught on radar, seen by pilots, and witnessed by a general cross-section of the public, including policemen.
No explanation could be given, except to say that something very unusual occurred in the Belgian skies.
This is one of the best examples of the triangle UFOs, but in future articles, I will detail other special cases of these strange, low-flying craft.
1. Los Angeles, California; February 25, 1942, 02:25 p.m.
1942-Los Angeles, California.
The legend: Alarm sirens installed in the event of a Japanese air raid are started as flying objects are seen and announced in the sky. A blackout is declared and anxious and terrified citizens follow the instructions by turning all the lights off. 03:16 p.m. Anti-aircraft guns open fire on the unidentified flying objects coming from the ocean, and projector beams are searching the sky. Witnesses observe small objects flying at high altitude, of red or silver plated color, moving in formation at high speed, and untouched by the AAA salvos. This large object was unhurt by many AAA projectiles, according to the reports.
2. McMinnville, Oregon; May 8, 1950
1950-McMinnville, Oregon. Paul Trent
Photographed by Paul Trent after his wife spotted a strange object in the sky, these images were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon. Soon after, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of June 26, 1950. The rest is history.
3. Washington, D. C., 1952
1952-Washington, D. C. 1952-Washington, D. C. United States Air Force
The legend: Early in the history of Ufology in the United States, unidentified flying objects made themselves known to the leaders of the free world, buzzing over the White House, the Capitol building, and the Pentagon. Seemingly the unknown objects were defying the very governmental agencies sworn to protect the United States from foreign powers. Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base picked up a number of UFOs on their radar screens on July 19, 1952, beginning a wave of sightings still unexplained to this day.
4. Rosetta/Natal, South Africa; July 17, 1956
1956-South Africa 1956-South Africa. South African Air Force
This famous photograph, part of a series of seven similar images, was taken by a well-respected member of South African society in the Drakensberg Mountains. The photographer maintained her story until she died in 1994.
5. Santa Ana, California; August 3, 1965
1965-Santa Ana, California 1965-Santa Ana, California. Rex Heflin
This photograph was taken by highway traffic engineer Rex Heflin, while driving near the Santa Ana freeway. Heflin did not report his sighting, but the photographs were published by the Santa Ana Register on August 20, 1965. The photos were reportedly confiscated, and disagreements arose between Ufologists regarding their authenticity.
6. Tulsa, Oklahoma; 1965
1965-Tulsa, Oklahoma 1965-Tulsa, Oklahoma. Life Magazine
The legend: In 1965, a series of strange low flying objects were reported almost nightly by people of all ages and walks of life across the United States. As the year progressed, the number of reports rose dramatically. On the night of August 2, 1965 thousands of people in four midwestern states witnessed spectacular aerial displays by large formations of UFOs. That same night a multi-colored disc was photographed in Tulsa, Oklahoma while several people watched it perform low altitude maneuvers. This picture was extensively analyzed, pronounced authentic, and later published by Life magazine.
7. Provo, Utah; July 1966; 11 a.m.
1966-Provo, Utah 1966-Provo, Utah. United States Air Force
The pilot of a twin engine C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft of the USAF took this photograph on a July morning in 1966. The aircraft was flying over the Rocky Mountains, at about 40 kilometers southwest of Provo, Utah. The Condon commission, which concluded that UFOs are unworthy of scientific investigations, analyzed the negative at the time and concluded that the photograph shows an ordinary object thrown in the air. Many Ufologists disagree with their conclusion.
8. Woonsocket, Rhode Island; 1967
1967-Woonsocket, Rhode Island 1967-Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Harold Trudel
The legend: This daytime photograph of a disk-shaped object was taken in East Woonsocket, Rhode Island by UFO contactee Harold Trudel. The photograph shows a slightly asymmetric hubcap shaped object with a small dome and aerial extending from the bottom. Trudel believed he was in mental contact with space people, who sent him telepathic messages as to where and when they would appear.
9. Costa Rica; September 4, 1971
1971-Costa Rica 1971-Costa Rica. Costa Rican Government
An official mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government took this photograph in 1971. The aircraft was flying at 10,000 feet over Lago de Cote. An investigation could not identify the object as a "known" aircraft. Debunkers took some stabs at it, but the photograph is still recognized as authentic by most investigators. No "earthly" explanation has ever been given to explain the object.
10. Apollo 16 / Moon; April 16-27, 1967
1972-Apollo 16 1972-Apollo 16. NASA
The UFO is seen at just right of top center. No explanation has been given for the object.
11. Tavernes, France; 1974
1974-Tavernes, France 1974-Tavernes, France. Anonymous French Medical Doctor
This classic French UFO image was taken by an anonymous French medical doctor in Var, during a major UFO flap over France. Skeptics doubted the picture on the grounds that "luminous rays cannot end like this." Of course they do not, normally. But the skeptics simply forgot to consider other explanations—that these are not luminous rays but light emission by ionized air, for example. The object in the photograph is still considered a UFO.
12. Waterbury, Connecticut; 1987
1987-Waterbury, Connecticut 1987-Waterbury, Connecticut. Randy Etting
The lengend: Randy Etting was taking a walk outside his home. A commercial airline pilot with over 30 years experience, he spent a lot of time looking at the sky. On the night he took the photograph, he saw a number of orange and red lights approaching from the west. He got his binoculars and called his neighbors to come outside. By this time, the object was a great deal closer and seemed to be over I-84, just east of Etting's home. The lights were shimmering like distortion from engine heat, but he could hear no sound. Etting stated: "As the UFO passed over I-84, cars in both the east and west bound lanes began pulling over and stopping. The UFO displayed a semi-circular pattern of very bright multicolored lights. Five motorists reported that, as the object became visible, a number of cars lost power and had to pull off the highway."
13. Gulf Breeze, Florida; 1987
1987-Gulf Breeze, Florida 1987-Gulf Breeze, Florida. Ed Walters
When the news of the flurry of sightings spread beyond the close knit community of Gulf Breeze, soon UFO enthusiasts across the world were involved. Shortly after Walters' photos hit the local newspaper, more UFO photographers came forward with their stories or sightings; more images, both still and moving.
The photographer of this famous Belgian UFO photograph still remains unnamed. Taken on an April night during a well known "wave," the photo shows a triangle-shaped object with lights. The photo was edited slightly as the original photo was too dark to show the object's outline.
15. Puebla, Mexico; December 21, 1944
1994-Puebla, Mexico 1994-Puebla, Mexico. Carlos Diaz
While taking photos of the eruption of Mt. Popocatepetl in Puebla, Mexico, Carlos Diaz, a photographer with an extensive collection of UFO images, shot this photo. It has since been authenticated by many photographic experts and published in numerous magazines, newspapers, and books. This picture shows a glowing, yellowish, disc shaped object with a red hue toward the top and windows or portholes.
This photograph is one of many depicting one of the most publicized UFO events in history. First observed in a hexagram pattern at about 7:30 p.m. over the Superstition Mountains area east of Phoenix, the characteristic 8+1 formation of amber orbs was next seen in two separate arc patterns with "trailing lights" over the Gila River area at about 9:50 and again at 10:00 at the southern edge of Phoenix. Thousands reported seeing these objects and a handful videotaped them on camcorders.
17. Taipei, China; 2004
2004-Taipei, China 2004-Taipei, China. Lin Qingjiang
Lin Qingjiang, a worker in Hualian County of Taipei, discovered a suspected UFO, shaped like a large bamboo hat, at about 10:00 p.m. when he was resting outside the house. Lin was quoted as saying that the suspected UFO flew towards east and west five times within 10 minutes, during which time Qingjiang captured this photograph on his cell phone.
18. Kaufman, Texas; 2005
2005-Kaufman, Texas 2005-Kaufman, Texas. lawwalk
The photographer states: "I was out today taking pictures of the chemtrails 01-21-2005, and at 11:35 a.m. I was aiming my camera at a scrawny little cloud. As I was snapping the picture, I noticed a flash in the sky through the viewfinder. When the picture came on the screen, I noticed a gold-colored object at the top of the cloud I had captured also. I looked back where it was and of course it was gone. I really couldn't tell much of what it may be until I downloaded it to my computer. I zoomed in on it and nearly fell out of my chair. It appears to be a craft of some kind with maybe windows or ports on the right side, in the middle. It also appears to be emanating a gas or some type of energy field around it, mainly at the top."
This photograph was taken by Valpara newspaper reporter Manuel Aguirre when he noticed.a band of glowing lights in the distance over the city skyline. This photograph has not been debunked, and to date is considered legitimate. The unknown object appears to be circular or spherical in shape.
20. Modesto, California; 2005
2005-Modesto, California 2005-Modesto, California. R. David Anderson
The photographer states: "I noticed some kind of craft toward my left that appeared from behind a tree that is in our front yard. I rapidly rotated my camera on its mount and took one picture. There were several brilliant lights that surrounded this craft. It was impossible to make out the shape of the craft because the lights were so brilliant. The lights did not strobe or flash like a normal aircraft array would. Each light glowed with the same intensity and color as a sodium-vapor type street lamp."
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NASA'S $1 BILLION JUPITER PROBE JUST SENT BACK STUNNING NEW PHOTOS OF JUPITER
NASA'S $1 BILLION JUPITER PROBE JUST SENT BACK STUNNING NEW PHOTOS OF JUPITER
Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 miles per hour, NASA's $1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24. But the sun slipped between the giant planet and Earth for more than a week, blocking the spacecraft from beaming home its precious bounty of data. Now that the conjunction is over, however, new raw image data from Juno's ninth perijove — as the spacecraft's high-speed flybys are called — has poured in. Researchers posted it all online on Tuesday, and a community of amateurs and professionals has been busily processing the data to yield colorful and stunning new pictures of Jupiter.
“Brand new Jupiter pics from @NASAJuno Perijove 09! What a blimmin' gorgeous/diabolical planet,” Seán Doran, a UK-based graphic artist who regularly processes NASA images, tweeted on Tuesday. Below are some fresh, close-up images of Jupiter, along with other unbelievable views captured from earlier perijoves.
In the most recent flyby, as with the previous eight, Juno's flyby started over Jupiter's north pole.
At its closest approach to Jupiter during each flyby, the robot briefly becomes the fastest human-made object in the solar system, reaching speeds of around 130,000 miles per hour.
Then Juno flew back out into deep space, passing over Jupiter's south pole on its exit. Churning storms at the poles constantly change their appearance.
Many cloud bands have features called chevrons. These atmospheric disturbances blow at several hundreds of miles per hour and sometimes zig-zag through a band, or punch through into others.
In this older view of Jupiter, from Juno's eighth perijove, two cloud bands battle for dominance — one of which contains a swirling storm many times larger than a hurricane on Earth.
The history of art has been rewritten after archeologists unearthed an astonishing 3,500 year old carving of an ancient Greek battle, depicting human bodies in anatomical detail which was thought way beyond the skill of Bronze Age artisans.
In 2015, the tomb of the so-called 'Griffin Warrior' was discovered near the ancient city of Pylos, southwest Greece, containing the remains of a powerful Myceneaen warrior and a treasure trove of burial riches.
Dating from around 1,500BC the grave also held a intricately carved gem, or sealstone, which was covered in limestone.
Now after a year of careful restoration the scene beneath has finally been uncovered.It depicts an ancient battle in which a bare-chested warrior plunges a blade into the neck of an assailant, while a second enemy corpse lays at his feet.
The seal, named the 'Pylos Combat Agate' has been hailed as one of the finest works of prehistoric Greek art ever discovered and may depict the mythological war between the Trojans and Mycenaeans, which was told in Homer's Iliad hundreds of years later.
"What is fascinating is that the representation of the human body is at a level of detail and musculature that one doesn't find again until the classical period of Greek art 1,000 years later. It's a spectacular find.," said Jack Davis, Professor of Archaeology of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Classics.
"It's a spectacular find."
The find is all the more remarkable because of its tiny size. The tiny piece of agate measures just 1.4 inches in length (3.6cm) and many of the details such as the ornamentation on the shields and jewellery are too small to be viewed with the naked eye.
Researchers are baffled as to how ancient craftsmen were able to create the minute scene without microscopes.
"Some of the details on this are only a half-millimeter big," added Prof Davis. "They're incomprehensibly small.
"It seems that they were producing art of the sort that no one ever imagined they were capable of producing.
"It shows that their ability and interest in representational art, particularly movement and human anatomy, is beyond what it was imagined to be. Combined with the stylized features, that itself is just extraordinary."
Dig leader Shari Stocker, of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Classics, said: "Looking at the image for the first time was a very moving experience, and it still is.
"It's brought some people to tears. It would have been a valuable and prized possession, which certainly is representative of the Griffin Warrior's role in Mycenaean society.
"This seal should be included in all forthcoming art history texts, and will change the way that prehistoric art is viewed."
The tomb contained more than 3,000 objects arrayed on and around the warrior's body, including four solid gold rings, silver cups, precious stone beads, fine-toothed ivory combs and an intricately built sword, among other weapons.
An ivory plaque adorned with a griffin was also buried with the warrior, leading archaeologists to dub him The Griffin Warrior.
The grave-good are helping archaeologists piece together greater detail about the interactions between the Mycenaens and Minoans at the time.
The seal, and other artefacts suggest that the Griffin Warrior was a Mycenaen nobleman but many of grave-goods are Minoan, including four gold signet rings. Around the time of his death, approximately 1500BC, the Mycenaeans conquered the Minoans meaning the tomb riches could be the spoils of conquest.
The new findings are published in the journal Hesperia.
Comment:
This exquisite find is just one of many examples that should have us questioning the much touted myth of human progress. The evidence suggests that some ancient peoples possessed knowledge superior to our own.
NASA Wants To Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before
NASA Wants To Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before
Scientists from the Paris Observatory used the Hubble Space Telescope to take a look at the auroras on Uranus
(Picture: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Lamy / Observatoire de Paris)
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA group outlined four possible missions to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
These missions include three orbiters and a possible fly-by of Uranus. The planned probes would take off in the 2030s, New Scientist reports.
‘The preferred mission is an orbiter with an atmospheric probe to either Uranus or Neptune – this provides the highest science value, and allows in depth study of all aspects of either planet’s system: rings, satellites, atmosphere, magnetosphere,’ says Amy Simon, co-chair of the Ice Giants Pre-Decadal Study group.
MORE: Sorry, you’ve probably been saying the word Uranus wrong your whole life MORE: Hubble just spotted something massive coming out of Uranus One of the proposed missions includes a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow-angle camera – and a probe which would drop into Uranus’s atmosphere to measure gas and heavy elements. There are four proposed missions.
Three orbiters and a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow angle camera to draw out details, especially of the ice giant’s moons. It would also drop an atmospheric probe to take a dive into Uranus’s atmosphere to measure the levels of gas and heavy elements there. Three orbiters and a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow angle camera to draw out details, especially of the ice giant’s moons. It would also drop an atmospheric probe to take a dive into Uranus’s atmosphere to measure the levels of gas and heavy elements there. Has Uranus been probed?
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew closely past distant Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, in January 1986.
A map of the outer solar system
(Picture: AFP/Getty)
At its closest, the spacecraft came within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 miles) of Uranus’s cloudtops on January 24, 1986. Voyager 2 radioed thousands of images and voluminous amounts of other scientific data on the planet, its moons, rings, atmosphere, interior and the magnetic environment surrounding Uranus.
Since launch on August 20, 1977, Voyager 2’s itinerary has taken the spacecraft to Jupiter in July 1979, Saturn in August 1981, and then Uranus. Voyager 2’s next encounter was with Neptune in August 1989. Both Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, will eventually leave our solar system and enter interstellar space.
MORE: Sorry, you’ve probably been saying the word Uranus wrong your whole life Voyager 2’s images of the five largest moons around Uranus revealed complex surfaces indicative of varying geologic pasts. The cameras also detected 10 previously unseen moons.
Several instruments studied the ring system, uncovering the fine detail of the previously known rings and two newly detected rings. Voyager data showed that the planet’s rate of rotation is 17 hours, 14 minutes. The spacecraft also found a Uranian magnetic field that is both large and unusual. In addition, the temperature of the equatorial region, which receives less sunlight over a Uranian year, is nevertheless about the same as that at the poles.
Juno maakt foto van het overweldigende zuidelijk halfrond van Jupiter
Juno maakt foto van het overweldigende zuidelijk halfrond van Jupiter
Vivian Lammerse
Op dit prachtig gedetailleerde plaatje is zelfs een van Jupiter’s stormen goed zichtbaar.
Ruimtesonde Juno maakte deze foto terwijl hij bezig was met zijn negende vlucht rond de grootste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Juno was slechts 33.115 kilometer van de wolkentoppen van Jupiter verwijderd.
De foto van ruimtesonde Juno van het zuiderlijk halfrond van Jupiter. De foto is gemaakt op 24 oktober 2017.
Storm Op de foto is het zuidelijkhalfrond van de enorme gasreus te aanschouwen in opmerkelijk veel detail. Zo vangt Juno een geweldig beeld van één van Jupiter’s stormen. Deze storm maakt deel uit van een hele reeks aan stormen – in totaal acht – die in een massief draaiende beweging op zo’n 40 graden zuiderbreedte over de planeet woedt.
Omlooptijd De sonde doet er op dit moment zo’n 53 dagen over om een rondje rond de gasreus te voltooien. Wetenschappers wilde Juno van baan doen veranderen waardoor de omlooptijd teruggeschroefd zou worden naar 14 dagen. Echter werd deze manoeuvre om technische mankementen uitgesteld. Op 11 december is er een tweede mogelijkheid om de baanwisseling te laten plaatsvinden.
NASA hoopt monsterraket en Orion op het randje van volgend jaar te lanceren
NASA hoopt monsterraket en Orion op het randje van volgend jaar te lanceren
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Maar het wordt waarschijnlijk krap.
Dat is tenminste de conclusie uit een nieuw rapport waarin de voortgang van de missie EM-1 en de uitdagingen waar men nog voor kan komen te staan, aan bod komen.
Mijlpaal Tijdens EM-1 zal NASA’s gloednieuwe Space Launch System (SLS) voor het eerst samen met het nieuwe ruimtevaartuig Orion gelanceerd worden. Het is een mijlpaal: na jarenlang werk zal dan moeten blijken dat de monsterraket en het ruimtevaartuig waarmee NASA naar de maan, Mars en nog verder weg wil, doen wat ze op papier beloven.
Het nieuwe rapport is opgesteld nadat duidelijk werd dat er nog wel enige hindernissen moesten worden genomen alvorens EM-1 werkelijkheid kon worden. Zo is het bijvoorbeeld nog even spannend of alle onderaannemers op tijd hun onderdelen voor Orion aan kunnen leveren. Ook zijn er nog wel wat uitdagingen omtrent de bouw van het Space Launch System (niet zo gek als je bedenkt dat er nog nooit zo’n krachtige raket in elkaar is gezet).
2019 Met het oog op al die uitdagingen concludeert men in het rapport dat de lanceerdatum ergens in juin 2020 zal liggen. Maar NASA-directeur Robert Lightfoot wil daar niks van weten en gaat er nog steeds vanuit dat er in december 2019 gelanceerd gaat worden. Volgens hem zijn alle risico’s wel zo’n’ beetje ingecalculeerd en wordt er alles aan gedaan om de lanceerdatum in 2019 te houden.
WIST JE DAT…
…er serieus overwogen is om de eerste vlucht van SLS en Orion bemand te maken? Uiteindelijk bleken de risico’s toch te groot en werd het idee echter afgewimpeld.
Bemand De eerste bemande missie van SLS en Orion blijft gepland staan voor 2023. Om te voorkomen dat die missie in de nabije toekomst moet worden uitgesteld, doet NASA er nu alvast een stapje bij. Zo zal nog voor EM-1 – in april 2019 – het launch abort system van Orion getest worden. Tijdens deze test wordt het systeem dat astronauten kunnen gebruiken om zich in veiligheid te brengen als er tijdens de lancering iets misgaat, getest.
Terwijl nog volop aan de monsterraket en Orion geknutseld wordt, fantaseert NASA alvast druk over wat deze twee allemaal moeten gaan doen. Zo wordt er nagedacht over een missie naar Mars en een planetoïde en liggen er serieuze plannen voor een Deep Space Gateway.
Enorm hemellichaam ontdekt in de bulge van ons sterrenstelsel
Enorm hemellichaam ontdekt in de bulge van ons sterrenstelsel
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel, want: wat is het?
Astronomen ontdekten het extreem zware hemellichaam met behulp van NASA’s ruimtetelescoop Spitzer. Het object heeft de naam OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb gekregen en is aangetroffen in de ‘bulge’ van ons sterrenstelsel. Dit is een gebied in het centrale deel van ons sterrenstelsel dat gekenmerkt wordt door een grote dichtheid aan sterren.
Zwaar object De massa van het hemellichaam in indrukwekkend, zo schrijven de onderzoekers in hun paper. Naar schatting is de massa van het object 13,4 keer groter dan de massa van Jupiter! En daarmee balanceert het object op de grens tussen planeet en bruine dwerg (zie kader). En dat maakt het dus lastig om vast te stellen wat OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb nu precies is: een planeet of een bruine dwerg.
Bruine dwergen worden ook wel mislukte sterren genoemd. Ze zijn veel zwaarder dan de zwaarste planeten, maar aanzienlijk lichter dan de lichtste sterren. In andere woorden: ze zitten qua massa tussen planeten en sterren in. Het bestaan van OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb roept volgens onderzoekers dan ook de vraag op “of zulke objecten echt ‘planeten’ zijn (gevormd in de schijf rond hun moederster) of ‘mislukte sterren’ (objecten met een lage massa ontstaan uit een gaswolk)”.
22.000 lichtjaar weg OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb doet er ongeveer drie jaar over om een rondje rond de moederster te voltooien en de afstand tussen de twee is zo’n twee keer groter dan de gemiddelde afstand tussen de aarde en de zon. Het mysterieuze object en zijn moederster zijn zo’n 22.000 lichtjaar van ons verwijderd.
Mocht het object een planeet zijn, dan is het een gigantisch exemplaar. Mocht het een bruine dwerg zijn, dan is het ook een bijzonder verhaal. Want in dat geval bevindt de bruine dwerg zich aan het randje van wat onderzoekers de bruine dwergen-woestijn noemen. Onderzoek wijst namelijk uit dat bruine dwergen zelden zo dicht bij een andere ster in de buurt staan als OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb.
A group of Russian travelers explored one of the most spectacular yet least visited natural landmarks in the world - the Son Doong Cave located in the jungles of inland Vietnam.
The world’s biggest known cave, formed as a result of a cave in caused by a mountain river at least two million years ago, was stumbled upon by a local man in 1991. At at its widest, it measures 150 by 200 meters, stretches for over 5 kilometers, and has a volume of 38,5 million cubic meters, about twice the size of the next largest underground hollow.
Their journey through the cave took four days of arduous climbs interspersed with spectacular sights, such as some of the world’s most imposing stalagmites, fast-running streams, and an underground forest.
“It’s peaceful here, you feel completely detached and free. This is what you call a reset,” said one of the travelers, Ernest Rudyak, in a video diary of the journey. “It is a sanctuary, a lost world below the surface - a unique ecosystem.”
Only about 2,000 outsiders are thought to have traveled to the remote location, and fewer than a dozen have filmed inside with a drone. Only limited tours costing several thousand dollars are made available each year, and those sell out in hours.
But the government wants to capitalize on what has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003, and has proposed a cable car route through the cave. A spate of protests delayed construction in 2014, but the $200 million plan that would allow hundreds to visit the cave each day, remains on the table.
An American aerospace firm is aiming to create 200 megabits per second (Mbps) connections in space using satellites equipped with lasers. The new satellites were launched on Sunday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
If successful, this new tech could pave the way for networks of satellite-connected devices to send data, which will be useful for military, tech, and meteorological agencies, to and from space via laser connections.
The company, Orbital ATK, is sending its Cygnus spacecraft, complete with NanoRacks CubeSats satellites, to the International Space Station. NASA is hoping that the mission will highlight the importance of small sensor spacecraft to the future of space exploration.
The twin satellites will propel themselves using water, while using cameras, beacons, and laser rangefinders to adjust the relative position measurements between the two devices.
NASA believes that the satellites could lead to “significantly enhanced communication speeds between space and Earth and a better understanding of laser communication between small satellites in low-Earth orbit.”
“Capabilities in proximity operations enable multiple small spacecraft to operate cooperatively during science or exploration missions, approach another spacecraft or object for in-space observation or servicing, or connect small spacecraft together to form larger systems or networks in space,” the space agency also said.
The launch was initially scheduled to take place on Saturday but was “scrubbed” after an aircraft was detected in the vicinity of the launch pad.
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser Space Plane Aces Free-Flight Drop Test
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser Space Plane Aces Free-Flight Drop Test
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
Sierra Nevada Corporation's uncrewed Dream Chaser space plane lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a successful free-flight drop test on Nov. 11, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas
Sierra Nevada Corporation's privately built Dream Chaser space plane aced a critical test Saturday (Nov. 11) during a successful free-flight over California's Mojave Desert.
The uncrewed Dream Chaser made a smooth landing at Edwards Air Force Base during the free-flight test at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA officials said in a statement. Earlier this year, officials at the Armstrong center, where Dream Chaser is being tested, said the space plane would to be dropped from an altitude of 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) by a Columbia 234-UT helicopter for this test. [Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser Space Plane in Pictures]
"The Dream Chaser had a beautiful flight and landing!" Sierra Nevada representatives announced on Twitter Saturday. The company promised to release more test flight details, images and video on Monday (Nov. 13).
SNC is proud to announce the Dream Chaser® spacecraft had a successful free-flight test today @EdwardsAFB, with support of @NASAArmstrong. The Dream Chaser had a beautiful flight and landing!
Dream Chaser looks much like a miniature version of a NASA space shuttle. It is about 30 feet long (9 meters) and capable of hauling up to 12,125 lbs. (5,500 kilograms) of cargo to the International Space Station. The spacecraft will launch on Atlas V rockets built by the United Launch Alliance and make runway landings.
Sierra Nevada is developing Dream Chaser to deliver supplies to the space station for NASA under the agency's Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) program. Under that agreement, Sierra Nevada will fly at least six cargo delivery missions for NASA by 2024, agency officials said in the Nov. 11 statement.
Two other companies, SpaceX and Orbital ATK, will use their own spacecraft to fly delivery missions for NASA as part of the CRS-2 program.
Saturday's free-flight test "verified and validated the performance of the Dream Chaser in the critical final approach and landing phase of flight, meeting expected models for a future return from the International Space Station," Armstrong officials said, adding that more tests will likely follow. "The testing will validate the aerodynamic properties, flight software and control system performance of the Dream Chaser."
Dream Chaser: Sierra Nevada's Design for Spaceflight
Dream Chaser: Sierra Nevada's Design for Spaceflight
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Dream Chaser, a private spacecraft that looks like a stubby version of the space shuttle, is a concept being tested by Sierra Nevada Corp. based on NASA designs of a 1980s spacecraft prototype.
The spacecraft, which originally was developed by a company called SpaceDev, is among a group of ships that vied for private flights to the International Space Station. NASA funded SpaceX's and Boeing's concepts in 2014 for the last round of Commercial Crew Program development, sparking a formal protest from Sierra Nevada. In 2016, however, NASA selected Sierra Nevada, SpaceX and Orbital ATK for anticipated cargo missions to fly between 2019 and 2024. Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser will fly six cargo missions to the space station under that agreement.
Once ready, Dream Chaser will carry up to seven people to the orbiting complex. It will launch vertically upon an Atlas 5 rocket and then, like the shuttle, land on a runway horizontally.
Based on secret Soviet design
Sierra Nevada, founded in 1963, describes itself as having expertise in electronics, avionics and communications systems. The Colorado-based firm has a space systems division that works on areas such as propulsion, small satellites and components for customers.
An artist's depiction of the Dream Chaser vehicle landing on a conventional runway at the end of its mission.
Credit: Sierra Nevada
The spacecraft has a bit of a tangled history. Its design is based mainly on the HL-20 — a NASA spacecraft design from the 1980s that was itself based on a Soviet spacecraft called the BOR-4. But the HL-20 design was never used for space.
SpaceDev resurrected the design. According to Ars Technica, in 2006 the firm signed a licensing agreement with NASA to reuse HL-20 for the Dream Chaser concept.
"We have tried to make it clear that SpaceDev does have plans of our own in terms of human spaceflight, both orbital and suborbital," said Jim Benson, the firm's founding chairman and CEO, in a Space.com 2004 interview.
Despite the agency heritage, SpaceDev failed to get funding under the initial NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems (COTS) program to fund commercial spacecraft. Benson left SpaceDev in 2006 to found a new space tourism company, but died in 2008 of a brain tumor.
That same year, it signed a memorandum of understanding with United Launch Alliance to put Dream Chaser on an Atlas 5 rocket. This entailed some design changes, but the companies were optimistic from the early days that this arrangement would work.
Sierra Nevada purchased SpaceDev in 2008, which added a new space systems business area to Sierra Nevada's divisions.
"The acquisition of SpaceDev ... represents a dynamic expansion of [Sierra Nevada]'s space technology capabilities," stated Fatih Ozmen, Sierra Nevada's chief executive, after the acquisition was finalized in December 2008.
"We believe that combining SpaceDev's unique technological offerings, manufacturing capabilities and talented team with our existing space business and technology base will allow us to significantly increase our capacity and scalability while better serving our customers and making us a leader in space technology with access to a much wider customer and technology base."
NASA money for development
In August 2012, Sierra Nevada was one of three companies that received money under the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) award. CCiCap was the third phase of commercial crew development, and was supposed to help companies in the latter stages of spacecraft work to get their ships ready for flight. Sierra Nevada's contract, which was worth up to $212.5 million, paid out money as the company progressed through certain milestones.
"We're very pleased today to receive the award from NASA as a recognition of our work. We think the whole program is a very successful public-private partnership," Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of Sierra Nevada's space systems division, said Aug. 3, 2012, following the CCiCap announcement.
The company also passed several major tests in 2012, most notably a "captive carry" flight test where it rode below a helicopter. The spacecraft did a single glide test in 2013 where it was released from a helicopter and arrived at the runway, only to skid off and cause damage to the vehicle.
"We had a successful approach to the runway. The vehicle flared on cue and the speeds were perfect," said Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president and head of Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems based in Louisville, Colo., in a Space.com interview in October 2013.
"We hit the centerline exactly where we needed to be. On approach and landing, the left main gear did not deploy satisfactorily," he added.
In September 2014, NASA announced the next and final phase of the commercial spaceflight program would see SpaceX's Dragon and Boeing's CST-100spacecraft funded for the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap). The goal is to have the spacecraft ready to fly the International Space Station by 2017.
Sierra Nevada filed a protest Sept. 26, 2014, that temporarily halted work on commercial crew endeavors. The company said that Dream Chaser's technical concept was equally as mature as at least one of the rival companies, and that there were "serious questions and inconsistencies in the source selection process."
While the U.S. government allowed work to continue on commercial crew, the protest was reviewed by its General Accountability Office. In January 2015, the office said it would rule against Sierra Nevada.
"GAO disagreed with Sierra Nevada's arguments about NASA's evaluation, and found no undue emphasis on NASA's consideration of each offeror's proposed schedule, and likelihood to achieve crew transportation system certification not later than 2017," part of the statement read.
Sierra Nevada's response said, in part, that the company would continue to look for other customers for its contract.
"While the outcome was not what [Sierra Nevada] expected, we maintain our belief that the Dream Chaser spacecraft is technically very capable, reliable and was qualified to win based on NASA's high ratings of the space system," the company said in its statement.
In early 2016, NASA announced that Sierra Nevada (along with SpaceX and Orbital ATK) would all be listed as possible providers for cargo missions to ISS between 2019 and 2024. Specific flight awards haven't been made yet.
"NASA has not yet ordered any missions, but will make a total of six selections from each menu of mission options at fixed prices, as needed," NASA wrote in a statement at the time. "Each task order has milestones with specified amounts and performance dates. Each mission requires complex preparation and several years of lead time."
The company is now working toward doing a second glide test in early 2016, but a firm date has not been released.
"SNC has made significant structural and systems improvements to the ETA including the composite wings and aeroshells," Sierra Nevada wrote in October 2015. "SNC also invested heavily in maturing the spacecraft orbital avionics, guidance navigation and control, the flight software, and employed a number of new processes, all of which will be used on the orbital vehicle as well."
The NASA contract also triggered a $36 million investment by the 22-nation European Space Agency. Once the agreement is signed, ESA will begin work building the first flight model of the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM), which Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser Cargo System will use to attach itself to the space station.
China Landed On The Moon And Snapped The Best-Ever Images Of The Lunar Surface
China Landed On The Moon And Snapped The Best-Ever Images Of The Lunar Surface
China is really serious when it comes to space exploration. In fact, in the last couple of years, China has made a very massive leap forward towards space exploration. Just check out these jaw-dropping images of the lunar surface at the end of the article, and you’ll definitely see why.
One of the best examples of China’s space program development is their Lunar Exploration Program—also known as the Chang’e program— an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The program incorporates lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecraft, launched using Long March rockets.
The Change’3 specifically was launched in December 2013 as part of the second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. According to reports, the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program has been categorized into three main operational phases:
Named after the Goddess of the Moon in Chinese Mythology, the spacecraft incorporated a rover dubbed Yutu which successfully made its way to the lunar surface snapping the most amazing images of the lunar surface you’ve ever seen.
Chang’e 3 arrived into lunar orbit on December 6, 2013, and landed 8 days later on December 14, 2013, making history as the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in 1976.
The images snapped by the Chinese lunar exploration vehicles are more than just beautiful. They are a set of never-before-seen images that show the lunar surface in great detail.
As noted by the GBTimes, China’s Chang’3 has demonstrated the techniques and capabilities for soft-landing and long-term operation on the Moon, extreme environmental adaptability with lunar nights and days seeing temperatures ranging from -180 to +100 degrees Celsius).
China it seems went all in when it comes to space exploration. In fact, they are currently developing a 10-year strategy which encompasses both lunar and planetary exploration. China wants to send landers to the Moon’s poles and even potential human landings on the lunar surface.
Their next big step is the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission due to launch in 2017 and a never-before-seen landing on the far side of the moon in late 2018.
The far side of the Moon—commonly and erroneously called the ‘Dark side of the Moon’—is not visible from Earth because of gravitational locking. The far side of the moon had never been observed until the Soviet Luna 3 probe sent the first images ever in 1959.
The Chang’e-5 mission will be the first lunar sample return ever in over 40 years, since Luna 24 by the USSR in 1976, and will make China only the third country to return samples from the lunar surface.
Here be bring you some of the most fascinating, breathtaking, stunning, incredible, awesome images snapped by the Chang’e-3 mission.
Image Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Space Administration / The Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration
An Irish witness at Galway recalled a UFO incident from 1986 now referred to as the Salthill UFO Sighting, according to testimony in Case 82139 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The events occurred on March 1, 1986.
“One early spring day I walked up a hill on my way to Salthill beach,” the witness stated.“It looked liked it could rain, even though there were patches of blue in the sky. As I examined the clouds, to judge if it would rain soon, a cigar-shaped object appeared in the sky between the roofs of a row of houses. As I continued walking the object moved in the sky relative to the position of the houses on the ground, due to the perspective.”
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness attempted to estimate the object’s distance.
“It hovered above the roof tops about one or two miles away, not moving. It’s appearance and color made me think of a Zeppelin. Then I continued walking and the object disappeared behind the roof of a house and some trees, because I moved and the perspective changed. I expected to see it again where it should have reappeared, but it remained disappeared.”
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness then walked back to where the object was last seen.
“A slow-moving blimp should still have been in about the same position in the sky. But the object was no longer there. All this happened within a few seconds. After I reached the top of the hill I walked down to the beach promenade, I could see that there was a lot of activity in Claude Toft Park, next to the beach. It looked like a festival was going on. At the seafront, I had a clear view of the whole sky, and I asked people about having seen a blimp or if balloons had been launched for the festivities, but no one had seen anything.”
Witness-submitted image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Galway is a city in the West of Ireland in the province of Connacht, population 79,504. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
A new study shed light on what powers Enceladus’ extraordinary geologic activity, while – at a conference in Seattle last week – space visionaries discussed a return to Saturn’s geyser moon.
Mosaic image of Saturn’s moon Enceladus – a moon with active geysers – via the Cassini spacecraft in 2009. Enceladus is only about 300 miles (500 km) across. It has an icy crust. Cassini data has suggest a saltwater lake or ocean beneath Enceladus’ ice. Could there be organisms living in that water?
There was exciting news last week about Saturn’s fascinating moon Enceladus, a geologically active world that sprays water-ice particles, water vapor and organic compounds from fissures on its surface. On November 6, 2017, European and U.S. researchers announced results from a new modeling study, which might solve a decade-old puzzle about what keeps this little outer solar system moon active, as opposed to just freezing solid. The study showed that – if this moon has a highly porous core – heat from friction could power its hydrothermal activity for billions of years. Then on November 9 – during the New Space Age conference at Seattle’s Museum of Flight – Russian billionaire Yuri Milner described a vision to send the first privately funded interplanetary space mission to look for life at Enceladus.
Enceladus. For decades prior to the Cassini mission, scientists wondered why this was the brightest world in our solar system. Cassini found that the fresh coating on this moon’s surface originates from its geysers, which are connected to subsurface saltwater liquid.
Image via NASA.
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner asked at the New Space Age conference on November 9: “Can we design a low-cost, privately funded mission to Enceladus which can be launched relatively soon?”
New mission? Yuri Milner is known for his financial support of the search for life beyond Earth, via Breakthrough Listen (a search using radio telescopes) and Breakthrough Starshot (a plan to send swarms of nano-spacecraft through the star system next door, Alpha Centauri).
…is a plan to bring the search for life beyond Earth closer to home. In the past, astrobiologists have speculated that microbial life could lurk far below the surface of Mars, or beneath a miles-thick layer of ice on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.
But, Milner said at the conference:
…the most promising recent candidate is Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn.
As reported by Boyle, Milner said at the conference that he and others – including Carolyn Porco (on Twitter @CarolynPorco), who headed NASA’s imaging team for Cassini mission – formed “a little workshop” around the idea of a private space mission to Enceladus. Milner asked:
Can we design a low-cost, privately funded mission to Enceladus which can be launched relatively soon, and that can look more thoroughly at [the plumes of water-ice particles, water vapor and organic compounds spewing from Enceladus], to try to see what’s going on there?
Milner told GeekWire that he’s unsure of a timeframe for a private mission, but hopefully it could happen sooner than missions being considered by NASA or ESA, including ELF, ELSAH and E2T.
He indicated to Geekwire he is considering funding a feasibility study for a private mission to Enceladus.
Cassini spacecraft image from 2010 of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The moon is backlit, with its dark outline crowned by glowing jets, or geysers, from the south polar region. The jets emanate from the fissures known to scientists as tiger stripes.
Image via NASA/JPL/SSI.
This graphic illustrates how water might be heated via friction inside Saturn’s moon Enceladus, to sustain the moon’s geologic activity.
Read a description of what’s happening in this image, via ESA.
New insights. The new study about Enceladus’ interior uses data from the Cassini spacecraft – whose mission to Saturn lasted from 2004 to September, 2017 – and is based on computer modeling. The study was published a couple of days before the New Space Age conference, on November 6, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy. The researchers said in a statement that their study helps resolve a question they’ve grappled with for a decade, since Cassini discovered active geysers on Enceladus.
That is, where does the energy to power the extraordinary geologic activity on Enceladus come from?
Researchers believe that the temperature inside Enceladus – a tiny world, only 300 miles (500 km) across, in the cold outer solar system – must be at least 194 degrees Fahrenheit (90 degrees Celsius). But what keeps the interior of the moon so warm?
The amount of energy required to produce these temperatures is more than scientists think could be provided by decay of radioactive elements in the interior. Gaël Choblet of the University of Nantes in France, who led the new study, said:
Where Enceladus gets the sustained power to remain active has always been a bit of a mystery, but we’ve now considered in greater detail how the structure and composition of the moon’s rocky core could play a key role in generating the necessary energy.
Choblet and co-authors found that a loose, rocky core with 20 to 30 percent empty space would do the trick. Their simulations show that as Enceladus orbits Saturn, rocks in the porous core flex and rub together, generating heat. The loose interior also allows water from the ocean to percolate deep down, where it heats up, then rises, interacting chemically with the rocks. The models show this activity should be at a maximum at the moon’s poles. Plumes of the warm, mineral-laden water gush from the seafloor and travel upward, thinning the moon’s ice shell from beneath to only half a mile to 3 miles (1 to 5 km) at the south pole. (The average global thickness of the ice is thought to be about 12 to 16 miles, or 20 to 25 km.) And this same water is then expelled into space through fractures in the ice.
NASA’s Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California commented:
This powerful research makes use of newer details — namely that the ocean is global and has hydrothermal activity — that we just didn’t have until the past couple of years. It’s an insight that the mission needed time to build, one discovery upon another.
Cassini ended its journey with a dramatic plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere this past September 15. Although space researchers will be analyzing its data for years to come, it’s clear they’re already itching to go back to Saturn!
The video below provides a brief overview of Enceladus and includes information from Cassini’s final flyby of the moon:
Bottom line: A study suggests Enceladus’ geologic activity can be maintained over billions of years if the moon’s interior is porous. In Seattle, space visionaries including Yuri Milner discussed a return to Saturn and its moon Enceladus via a private space mission.
Who are the most powerful people in the world and what do they really want?
Elected politicians are quite rightfully subjected to a huge amount of scrutiny by the mass media and the institutions of the state.
This means that their corruption, illicit activities and poor performances in their roles are consistently highlighted to the public. However, there is an argument that this level of scrutiny and criticism should be applied to other individuals who are arguably more influential and powerful in society who seem to manage to evade the same level of examination and accountability.
SECRET SOCIETEIS AND SUPER-RICH FAMILIES RULE THE WORLD
There are some wealthy families and individuals operating in the United States who exert disproportionate influence over the workings of society and yet are not held accountable for the ways that they wield that power. In fact, most people in American society do not even know the names of these individuals or how acutely they have affected their lives.
The first of these individuals is David Rockefeller, a direct descendant of the first American billionaire J.D. Rockefeller who made his fortune monopolizing the American Medical Establishment. Over the years, the Rockefeller family have been pivotal in the campaign to discredit natural remedies and the growth of the notoriously corrupt pharmaceutical industry. David Rockefeller has also been linked to highly controversial political ideas, claiming that he would like to play a role in the establishment of a one world government which is completely controlled by the elite. He once wrote, “Some even believe [the Rockefellers] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’, conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I’m proud of it.”
2. HENRY KISSINGER
Another person who is believed to share his views is Henry Kissinger, who Rockefeller has been close friends with since 1954. When he served as Secretary of State, Kissinger created a bloody and disgraceful legacy with the war in Vietnam, the instigation of coups in South America and assisting corrupt and brutal regimes all over the world to suit his economic agenda. Now he has fallen out of the spotlight to some extent, but he still serves a crucial role in defining the US and international politics and is regularly called upon by serving presidents and Secretaries of State for advice in the perpetuation of the War on Terror.
3. GEORGE SOROS
George Soros has also played his role in advising politicians as to how to set their agendas despite the fact that he has a notorious reputation as a financial parasite who has made his fortune on economic collapse. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, he was accused of bringing down the entire Malaysian government through illegal insider trading, and it is believed that he was acting in a similar fashion in England. Despite this shameful professional reputation, Soros is best known today for his so-called philanthropic causes. Soros claims that he wants to use his money to make the world a better place, however, his political views have led him towards some disreputable allegations such as rigging elections.
4. LAWRENCE SUMMERS
Soros’s relationships with the Clintons is well known. Another person believed to have had a huge influence on the political power couple is Lawrence Summers. Under Bill Clinton, Summers served in various positions within the US Treasury eventually rising to the head of the Department in 1999. While he was in office, Summers removed the Glass-Steagall Act which is believed to have played a central role in the global economic crisis of 2008. Following his stint in government, Summers has been aggressively pursuing his financial deregulation agenda all over the world, and his actions have contributed to a rise in the level of inequality and the transferring of huge amounts of wealth from the population to the elite.
5. ROTHSCHILD FAMILY
Perhaps the most influential and shadowy figures in the world are the Rothschild family who owns a majority of the world’s central banks which operate as private institutions as well as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The family is quite open about how much influence they exert over the affairs of the world with the patriarch of the family Mayer Amschel Rothschild once saying, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.” The family has also been open about their ability to destroy any nation which does not follow their agenda to the letter which means that even powerful political figures such as Hillary Clinton have been reported to grovel to them for forgiveness when she incurred their displeasure.
The third director of the post-World War II United States Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the third director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and the very first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, once told the world, via the New York Times in 1960, that, “behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs,” and that, “through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”
The key words are here are “official secrecy and ridicule,” which is why, for so many years, you were perceived as a crazy person at the slightest mention of UFOs, let alone intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Today, however, it’s a much different story. Hundreds of thousands of pages of de-classified documents show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that intelligence agencies and global militaries have an extremely high interest in the UFO phenomenon, and have had this interest for a very long time.
For example, just go to the CIA’s Freedom of Information Act electronic reading room, and type in the word “UFO,” and you’ll see for yourself. There is no shortage of interesting documents that span not only the CIA’s website, but on a global scale.
“Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979).
On top of documents, their release has sparked a number of high-ranking officials from various fields, from top military brass, politicians, and credible figures from within academia, astronauts and more. Here’s one of hundreds of statements.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
The Document Referencing Red, Green & Yellow “Flying Saucers”
This document, straight from the CIA , relays several pieces of information, with the part about these UFOs highlighted in brackets, which suggests special attention paid to it. It goes to show just how interested, and how important this topic is within the intelligence community. They’ve been studying it for years under the guise of “national security,” a term now used to classify everything, and protect the interests of the global elite as well as allow them to basically do whatever they please, with justification.
It states as follows:
“ANTARCTIC FLYING SAUCERS” – A group of red, green, and yellow flying saucers has been seen flying over Deception Island for two hours by Argentine, Chilean and British bases (military) in Antarctica. The flying saucers were also seen flying in formation over the South Orkney islands in quick circles.”
It’s strange how other unrelated factors are inserted into the document, and interesting how this part is highlighted.
Quite telling isn’t it? What’s even more interesting is that this document is more than five decades old, dating back to 1965.
It highlights one of the main questions that the release of these documents have raised: we now know that groups like the CIA have been putting a tremendous amount of resources into studying this topic, and it makes you wonder, what type of information do they have now, more than five decades later? What have they found out with regard to who/what are operating these things, how they work, where they come from, and what their intentions are?
This information is most likely locked up in Special Access Programs (SAPs), within the Black-Budget.com (containing 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.” You can read more about that here.
Judging by the fact that there is substantial evidence that the Germans were making flying saucers as far back as 1941, as well as other countries, could these particular “flying saucers” be crafted by another country? Perhaps manufactured by the Germans, soviets, China, or whoever, to conduct reconnaissance missions over other countries’ military installations?
UFOs over military installations are nothing new. For example, the picture below is a real picturetaken in August of 1952. It’s a photograph of multiple UFOs taken by the Coast Guard photographer at the time above a US military installation, a common place for UFO sightings. The photo was classified by the US government, and then later approved for release. It was witnessed by multiple ‘professional’ people.
So, where does the extraterrestrial hypothesis come in? Well, a large part of it is due to the fact that multiple high ranking people from various fields, including those from within the intelligence/military community, have flat out said, on multiple occasions, that these agencies are aware of multiple races that have made contact with the human race, or certain individuals of the human race.
For example, whether it be an Apollo 14 astronaut (6th man to walk on the moon) Dr. Edgar Mitchell stating that “there have been crashed craft and bodies recovered” or that he has been “privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visiting on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real,” or academicians likes Harvard University psychologist and Pulitzer prize winner Dr. John E. Mack saying “Yes, it’s both literally and physically happening,” there is no shortage of information to suspect that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is highly plausible.
“There is another way, whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.”
–Dr. Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Nebraska.
I’ll leave you with this quote below, which was also given many decades ago by British Scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University Peter A. Sturrock. Sturrock and a number of other notable scientists around the world came together during the 1990s in order to examine the physical evidence that is commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. One example used by Sturrock in his analysis was a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in Macleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)
“If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, what are these facts trying to tell us? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.” (source)
This is a re-published article shedding light on the wonderful work that Dr. Roger Leir did while he was still with us. For our most recent to latest articles on the topic, you can visit the exopoliticssection of our website.
Everything from the release of government documents, to high level testimonies from high ranking military and political figures has ignited a massive surge of interest in the UFO phenomenon from people all over the world. Unidentified Flying Objects (performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics) are now a confirmed reality. Official government documents prove that defence and government agencies have been examining this topic for a while. For example, you can view the UK’s latest release of files from June 2013 here. To find out what happens when the military tracks a UFO on radar, you can click here. You can find out more information about that from CE by clicking here. Ask yourself, why is there such a high level of interest from government and military agencies?
The question people are asking has changed from “do UFOs exist?” to “are UFOs extraterrestrial spacecraft?” Attributing today’s unknown aerial phenomenon to extraterrestrial craft might be a big mental leap to some, but the size of that mental leap continues to decrease. There are a lot of factors that are attributing to that decrease, and one of them comes in the form of body marks and extracted implants from people who’ve claimed to have extraterrestrial contact. I’m not saying all UFOs are extraterrestrial craft, I believe many of them are also made by humans from classified projects that come from the black budget world. I also believe that many of these implants could have been done by military agencies; but again, I’d like to reiterate that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is not one to take likely, you can read more about the extraterrestrial hypothesis HERE, or later on in this article.
“There are a great many photographs of such body marks, many of which are in an equilateral triangle pattern of red dots on the wrist or near the ankle. Also common are scoop marks,” in which it appears as if a small amount of tissue was removed from beneath the skin, leaving an indentation.” -Richard Dolan (UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2)
The case of extracted implants is very fascinating, they are largely reported by abductees, and those who have had experience with UFOs.
Below is a clip of Dr. Roger Leir. a Doctor of Podiatric medicine, and arguably the best known individual with regards to extracting alleged alien implants. He has performed more than fifteen surgeries that removed sixteen separate distinct objects. These objects have been investigated by several prestigious laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico Tech, and many others. Unfortunately, he passed away in March 2014, but his legacy lives on. The clip was taken from the citizens hearing on disclosure, just like the one below, where you can find out more information about that.
He also spoke at the National Press Club in 2009, you can view that video here.
Throughout the years he described what he found in his work. Perhaps one of the most fascinating facts was that these objects were magnetic in nature, some gave off a radio frequencies of 14.7 MHz. According to doctor Leir, they were “fixed, or mobile deep space frequencies.” This is a very large amount for a very small object only millimetres in length, roughly the size of a pencil lead.
Lear also worked with Dr. Alex Mosier, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Some of the objects they examined had commonalities with meteorite fragments, metals such as Gallium, Germanium, Platinum, Ruthenium, Rhodium, and Iridium. They also noted a “deviation of nickel from terrestrial ratios that the analysis lab couldn’t explain.” Some of these implants contained nickel with an isotopic ratio not found on planet Earth.
They also found nano fibres very similar to carbon nano-tubes, which suggest that the fragments were engineered or manufactured. According to Dr Mosier, “you don’t find these things in nature. they have to be processed, engineered, and they’re not easy to make.”
All the individuals he studied had “no noted portal of entry” for any of the objects he removed. There was also no notable visible scar formation, and no disruption in the integrity of the skin. All the individuals tested positive to X-rays and CT scans showing metallic or lesser dense foreign objects, and there were no signs of inflammation at all which, according to Dr. Lier, would be impossible.
All of these surgeries and tests were done with an extremely limited budget, and to understand it further, more money would had to have been allocated to these findings.
One thing remains clear, there are many that believe the UFO topic to be directly correlates with the extraterrestrial phenomenon. There are reports all over the world from a large amount of people whose stories all seem to correlate. Whether it be through friendly contact or forced abduction, something is definitely going on, and there appears to possibly be multiple races of extraterrestrials interacting with humanity, and a very high level of interest from military agencies all over the world.
More On The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
Just to clarify, ‘contactees’ are usually those who have reported ‘friendly’ contact experiences with extraterrestrials, ‘abductees’ are those who have had what they perceive to be fearful experiences, and experiencers are those who neither view the experience as ‘good’ or ‘bad,” but simply just an experience. It’s important to note this, because various people have reported different types of experiences with different types of beings.
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered… We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD, 6th man to walk on the Moon (source) (source)
The reality is that some people who claim to have had contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings actually have.
John Mack, A Harvard professor, psychiatrist and Pulitzer Price recipient stresses that:
“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” (source)
We published an article earlier this year regarding John Mack, and more than 60 school children witnessing non-human beings and a large craft landing. The children were interviewed by him, and it was quite a remarkable story with all of the children providing very similiar stories. Until this day these children have been speaking of it, an event occurred more than 20 years ago….
“They describe these events like a person talks about something that has happened to them. I can tell that these are people of sound mind telling me something…” (quote continued and taken from the video linked below) -Dr. John Mack, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
You can watch THIS video of Mack Interview the children, and you can read THIS article that goes more into detail on that case.
According to retired McGill University professor in the Department of Psychology (research areas beings cognition and cognitive Neuroscience), Dr. Don Donderi:
“Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans.” (source)
Academicians like these, and others like Richard Dolan, David M. Jacobs and more have been studying this phenomena for decades, and the reports of beings and examining why they are here, what they are doing, what they look like and more has been documented by their (and others) research.
What I find most fascinating about these stories is how many of them seem to compliment each other instead of contradicting each other, which just adds to the mystery.
Other Examples Of Physical Evidence Associated With This Topic (UFO & Extraterrestrial – Despite That In Some Cases Both Are Not Related To Each Other)
“If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, what are these facts trying to tell us? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.” (source)
The quote above comes from Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British Scientist, and an Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Sturrock and a number of other notable scientists around the world came together during the 1990’s in order to examine the physical evidence that is commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. One example used by Sturrock in his analysis, was a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)
The pilots were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. One of the pilots described the phenomenon as a “bright light which was sharply defined as disk-shaped,” that looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see above.
The sighting lasted for a couple of minutes, and this specific case was analyzed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, who estimated (from available data) that the luminosity of the object (the power output within the spectral range of the film) to be many megawatts. The Sturrock Panel also found it to be the case that a strong magnetic field surrounding the phenomenon or object was a common occurrence.
Maccabee published his analysis in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (“Optical Power Output of an Unidentified High Altitude Light Source,” published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 13, #2, 1999). He also published one in 1994 titled “Strong Magnetic Field Detected Following a Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object,” in the same journal (8, #3, 347)
Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, also published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Explorationtitled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source)
This particular case is also referenced in this paper.
One thing is for certain, it’s one of multiple strange phenomena that has and continues to interest a large portion of the scientific community.
Here is a video of former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer speaking about the fields around these objects, and what some of them were doing to military planes.
Let’s just be clear, these objects are commonly seen, tracked on air radar, and tracked on ground radar simultaneously. This is something that has happened hundreds, if not thousands of times. This is information that’s been made public over the past few years.
For example, a declassified Defence Intelligence Agency document shows one (out of thousands) great example. It details how two F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing an object visually, it was also tracked on their airborne radar. Both planes experienced critical instrumentation and electronics going offline at a distance of twenty-five miles from the object. Here is an excerpt from the report:
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ” (source)
The report also described how a smaller object detached from the bigger object, turned inside the arc of the F-4 itself, and then rejoined the original object. This incident lasted for several hours. I decided to use this example because it has a number of declassified supporting national security documents, which goes to show how seriously this event was taken.
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former head of the CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source, NY Times)
It’s only now that more people are starting to become aware of this information. Here is a quote from Senator Barry Goldwater before the de-classification of all of these files:
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)
Interesting Quotes About The UFO Phenomenon (A Few Out Of Many)
***Please keep in mind, the documentation regarding this phenomenon can be found from links that were mentioned in the very first paragraph of this article
” Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979). From “UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2,″ written by Richard Dolan.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” (source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of physics, University of Nebraska.
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)
“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” – John Mack,Dr. John E. Mack, a Harvard University psychologist and Pulitzer prize winner” (source)
“An extraterrestrial influence is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” — 2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel (source)(source)
“Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans.” — Dr. Don Donderi, a retired McGill University Professor of 40 years in the Department of Psychology (source)
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodor C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
“Decades ago, visitors from other plants warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister (source)
My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. 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.” – Richard Wagamese, Ojibway Author (source)
I’m skeptical about many things, including the notion that government always knows best, and that the people can’t be trusted with the truth. The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined. John Podesta, for example — former White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama’s right hand man (councillor), and the current head of Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign,Taken from Leslie Kean’s 2010 New York Times bestseller, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record, in which Podesta wrote the forward
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered… We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time…I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.” – Doctor Edgar Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the moon(source) (source)(source)
Wormholes are fascinating (but theoretical) cosmological objects that can connect two distant regions of the universe. They would allow one to create “shortcuts” through space in order to travel vast distances in a shorter period of time. They are predicted by the general Theory of Relativity, and are what Einstein referred to as “bridges” through space-time. Wormholes are mathematically predicted, if not proven, and a new study illustrates how scientists have taken these theoretical anomalies – which many physicists believe to be real – and created one for themselves.
Researchers in Spain, from the physics department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2015, actually created a magnetic wormhole in a lab that tunnels a magnetic field through space.
Using matematerials and metasurfaces, our wormhole transfers the magnetic field from one point in space to another through a path that is magnetically undetectable. We experimentally show that the magnetic field from a source at one end of the wormhole appears at the other end as an isolated magnetic monopolar field, creating the illusion of a magnetic field propagating through a tunnel outside the 3D space.(source)
Just to be clear, the manufactured wormhole is not able to transport matter, it’s able to transport a magnetic field from a physical object by having it disappear at one point, and then reappear at another, which is still very significant in the world of science.
The wormhole is invisible to the human eye, but it’s a sphere made up of of an outer ferromagnetic surface, an inner superconducting layer, and then a ferromagnetic sheet rolled into a cylinder internally. Here is a picture of what it would look like to us:
Prior to this accomplishment, the researchers were able to create a tunnel to transport magnetic fields. What makes this finding so much more interesting is the fact that again, because of materials used to build the wormhole, they’ve managed to keep the magnetic field completely invisible.
This result is strange enough in itself, as magnetic monopoles do not exist in nature. The overall effect is that of a magnetic field that appears to travel from one point to another through a dimension that lies outside the conventional three dimensions.(source)
Alvar Sanchez, the lead researcher, said that the magnetic wormhole is an analogy of the bigger, theoretical gravitational ones that are commonly used in science fiction. Despite this, there is still, according to modern day science, no way to know if similiar magnetic wormholes exist throughout space.
A paper that was recently published in the Annals of Physics offers mathematical evidence that a massive black hole in our galaxy is actually a wormhole. If this is true, it should be possible for humans to navigate it
Our result is very important because it confirms the possible existence of wormholes in most of the spiral galaxies. (source)
What’s the significance here? Well, if a device can take a magnetic field from one spot to another, it could have a number of medical applications. For example, it would be possible to take pictures of the body with a strong magnet placed far away, releasing people from having to endure the small, tight environment of an MRI machine, not to mention the radiation that goes along with it. (source)
It’s always fun to think about wormholes, anything that’s dominated the realm of science-fiction that has a practical chance of actually being real is exciting. The search for extraterrestrial life right now is at an all time high and Earth has never seen such an interest in ET life like this before, which is why this area of theoretical physics is so well known to the general public.
I’m going to leave you with this quote to give you something to think about. I’ve used it before so I apologize if you’ve already come across it.
“There is another way, whether it’s wormholes, or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re [extraterrestrials] here shows us that they found a way.” (source)– Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska
If you are interested in our articles that deal with the search for extraterrestrial life, you can read thisarticle, as well as visit the exopolitics section of our website here.
Wetenschappers creëren wormgat in laboratorium. Ontdek wat dit te maken heeft met onzichtbare dimensies
Wetenschappers creëren wormgat in laboratorium. Ontdek wat dit te maken heeft met onzichtbare dimensies
Wetenschappers hebben in een laboratorium een wormgat gecreëerd dat twee gebieden in de ruimte met elkaar verbindt.
“Met dit apparaat kan een magnetisch veld van het ene punt in de ruimte naar het andere worden verplaatst via een pad dat onzichtbaar is,” zei coauteur Jordi Prat-Camps van de Autonome Universiteit van Barcelona.
“Het apparaat gedraagt zich als een wormgat, alsof het magnetische veld wordt verplaatst door een extra ruimtelijke dimensie,” voegde hij toe.
Korte weg
Albert Einstein en zijn collega Nathan Rosen stelden dat het in theorie mogelijk moet zijn om via een wormgat of een ‘korte weg’ in het universum sneller naar een ander punt in de ruimte te reizen.
Tot dusver heeft nog nooit iemand bewijs gevonden voor het bestaan van wormgaten.
Het nieuwe wormgat is eigenlijk niet echt een wormgat, maar meer een onzichtbaarheidsmantel, een concept dat in 2007 voor het eerst werd geïntroduceerd door wetenschappers.
Verbergt
Dit type wormgat verbergt elektromagnetische golven.
Het wormgat is gecreëerd met behulp van een supergeleider. Het team ontwierp een object met drie lagen, bestaande uit twee concentrische bollen en een cilinder in het midden.
De binnenste laag verplaatste een magnetisch veld van de ene naar de andere kant, terwijl de andere twee lagen het magnetische veld verborgen hielden.
Onzichtbaar
Het wormgat verplaatste het magnetische veld op een dusdanige manier dat het gedurende het proces ‘onzichtbaar’ was, schrijven de wetenschappers in Scientific Reports.
“Het magnetische veld van de magneet verdwijnt aan de ene kant van het wormgat en duikt aan de anderekant van het wormgat weer op,” aldus Prat-Camps.
Archeologen ontsluiten geheimen van Mayapiramides. Zie hier wat ze van plan zijn
Archeologen ontsluiten geheimen van Mayapiramides. Zie hier wat ze van plan zijn
Het vermoeden bestaat dat onder de mysterieuze Mayapiramides in Mexico een ondergronds netwerk van rivieren en gangen verscholen ligt.
Volgens legendes kan dit netwerk toegang verschaffen tot verborgen kamers in de raadselachtige bouwwerken.
Na ruim 50 jaar gaat een team archeologen nu het ondergrondse netwerk verkennen.
Heilig
“Er werd nog nooit een onderzoek op deze schaal uitgevoerd,” zei Guillermo de Anda van het Mexicaanse Nationaal Instituut voor Antropologie en Geschiedenis.
“Maar we zijn er zeker van dat we deze vindplaats nu beter zullen begrijpen, op een manier die vroeger niet mogelijk was,” vervolgde hij.
Voor de oorspronkelijke bewoners van deze heilige grond, de Maya’s, waren de ondergrondse rivieren, waterputten en tunnels heilig, aldus De Anda.
Goden
“Ze vormden drempels die hen toegang tot de goden konden verschaffen,” zei hij. Ze deden alles om de bewoners van de geestenwereld tevreden te stellen.
Duikers gaan onder meer afdalen in de mysterieuze waterputten in een poging geheime toegangspoorten tot het hart van de Piramide van Kukulcan of El Castillo te ontdekken.
Het team heeft al enkele grotten ontdekt, waarin onder andere een gebeeldhouwde figuur van een vrouw lag.
3D-model
We hopen dat de tunnels en gangen onder de Mayapiramides zullen leiden naar de waterput onder El Castillo, aldus James Brady van de California State University, Los Angeles.
De onderzoekers hopen genoeg informatie te verzamelen om een volledig 3D-model te maken van alleMaya-bouwwerken in Chichen Itza, zowel boven als onder de grond.
Is this the Original footage of the Battle of LA UFO incident?
Is this the Original footage of the Battle of LA UFO incident?
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942 over Los Angeles, California.
The incident occurred less than three months after the United States entered World War II as a result of the Japanese Imperial Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood on 23 February.
Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the incident a "false alarm." Newspapers of the time published a number of reports and speculations of a cover-up.
The Ancient Padmanabhaswamy Mysterious Sealed Temple Door That No One Can Open
The Ancient Padmanabhaswamy Mysterious Sealed Temple Door That No One Can Open
The mysterious Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in India is known to be the richest temple in the world as it is covered in gold and billions of dollars in treasure have been found in several vaults but there is one mystery that makes it stand out from the rest and that is a mysterious sealed temple door that no one can open.
This mysterious door of the ancient Padmanabhaswamy temple is protected by two massive cobras painted on it and has no bolts, latches or any other means of entry.
It is said to house unimaginable wealth, and can only be entered by a high level ‘Sadhus’ familiar with the knowledge of chanting a ‘Garuda Mantra’.
It is believed that the door was sealed shut by sound waves from a secret chant lost in time. Hindu priests say that at present, there is no human capable of opening this door by executing these chants.
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Richard Browning, the chief test pilot and founder of Gravity Industries, has made his way into the Guinness World Record books for the fastest speed in a jet suit and he has become the real-life Iron Man.
Browning took the title in Reading in the UK to celebrate the Guinness World Records Day 2017. Pravin Patel was the adjudicator, and he verified the achievement to make sure that the speed had been measured accurately and Browning flew over the minimum distance, which was 100 meters.
GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR JET SUIT SPEED SET BY REAL LIFE IRON MAN
Browning managed to achieve a speed of 32.02 mph when he made his third attempt, which was the final attempt and then he plummeted into the lake. At that point, it didn’t matter as Richard had made it into the history books with his company’s invention, which has been described as game-changing.
The real-life Iron Man suit is made of six micro gas turbines that are kerosene-fueled and which offer 22kg of thrust. The jet suit is said to depend on the movement of the human body to control the flight path, which means there is no remote control device to steer the suit.
The record was not all about the jet suit; Browning had practiced core strength exercises before he attempted to ensure that he could balance along with being able to hold a position in the air when he was flying. Richard got back on the ground after plummeting into the lake and said that he was delighted to have set a new world record. He said that he had been proud to have been a part of the celebrations of Guinness World Records Day and that it was a pleasure to have the unique creation of Gravity Industries recognized along with being celebrated around the globe.
The Guinness World Records Day brings people together from around the globe and from all walks of life, people who all have one common goal and that is to be amazing, said Craig Glenday, the Guinness World Records Editor In Chief. He went on to say that whether people choose to spin the biggest hula hoop or build along with fly an Iron Man suit, the achievements are from people who are dedicated to being the best.
The Guinness World Records was first launched in 2004 and it went on to become the bestselling book. This year more than 600,000 people around the globe are trying to secure a place in the history books alongside Browning.
Do you believe that maybe we are the aliens we are looking for all this time? Some experts say that people were most likely crossbred with other species. Perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri — which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth — in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Do you believe that maybe we are the aliens we are looking for all this time? Some experts say that people were most likely crossbred with other species.
Tell Al-Uhaymirit was a modern day in Iraq, in the area of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish. Archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet — the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
They discovered that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Yushu’s. Yushu’s successor is called Kullassina-bel. This is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”.
This ancient document is the writing of the Sumerians and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years.
The ability to write this language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
We know that humans developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species still haven’s.
No other species on earth can show this good and unique achievement in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species on earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
Can you imagine, if, for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there? Experts say that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time.
Scientists say that people are not very capable to have a big range of environments. Humans are very limited when it comes to our planet.
People, unlike animals, have fascinating intelligence. Biologists have found the contrast between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Experts say that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby giraffe when is born is able to walk and function almost independently. A human baby can not, which makes us quite helpless. We are born before being neurologically ready for life.
Human beings did not evolve alongside other lifeforms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book written by Dr. Ellis Silver, you can see him going through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity. It is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So what do you think, where do we come from?
There are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis says that “mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. Maybe the Earth is a prison planet since we seem to be naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Dr. Ellis thinks that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Where did Rh negative blood come from?
Is it possible to explain this by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t, in fact, one race, but a hybridized species.
Sepehr thinks that when one race dies, another has taken its place. With a few holding on to the memories and knowledge of the past race.
People think that we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology. We are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. Sepher thinks that we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, learning to reclaim our forgotten past.
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Scientists want to clone 50,000-year-old Cave lion cub in Jurassic Park-style experiment
Scientists want to clone 50,000-year-old Cave lion cub in Jurassic Park-style experiment
After a 50,000-year-old cave lion was found perfectly preserved in Siberia, scientists are now thinking about cloning the ancient lion in hopes to bring the species back to life.
The cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea) is a subspecies of feline that inhabited the European and Asian continent 50,000 years ago.
Today it is completely extinct, but a discovery in Russia has just opened the door to the possibility of resurrecting the species through cloning.
The body has been frozen for 50,000 years in the permafrost of the tundra that surrounds the Tirekhtykh River, in the Russian province of Yakutia.
The extreme cold of that region has served to keep the body in an impressive state.
Not only does it preserve all its bones, but also the skin and a large part of the soft tissues.
Scientists argue that the cub was between six and eight weeks old when it died due to unknown reasons. Experts hope that the cub’s teeth will reveal more about its age.
Dr. Albert Protopopov, head of the department of paleontology at the Yakutia Academy of Sciences believes that the specimen could give enough DNA samples to clone the species and resuscitate it, as scientists have been wanting to resurrect other species.
Cave lions were once considered the largest ‘big’ cats on the surface of the planet, living in extremely cold regions in the northern hemisphere before they were wiped out.
Speaking to the Siberian times, Dr. Protopopov said: “That means that the cubs were not younger than 25,000 years old. Previously the youngest date for the cubs was 12,000, the time when the cave lions become extinct.”
‘We made a CT scan and saw that their teeth had not appeared yet. Based on a comparison with African lions, we concluded that they were younger than one month, most likely between 1 and 2 weeks old.’
This discovery was made two years after the same experts found two newborn cave lion cubs called Uyan and Dina. At the time of the discovery, Dr. Protopopov said that compared to modern lion cubs, Uyan and Dina were very small, maybe a week or two old.
“The eyes were not quite open, they have baby teeth and not all had appeared,’ said Dr. Protopopov.
Experts are still unsure as to why the species became extinct. However, one theory suggests that the population of cave bears and deer – one source of prey – caused them to die out.
If you discovered your very own planet while scanning the night's sky of a Friday evening because you're not cool enough to hang out with the other kids down Kenton Wreck park, what would you call it?
Would you name it SusieQ1989 after your childhood sweetheart? What about Planet McPlanetyFace, the obvious option? Or there's Planet Zorg, simply because it sounds all Sci-Fi-esque and after all, the only reason to find new planets is to hopefully discover cool, sexy alien species and breed with, war with, or break bread with them. Possibly all three if you really fancy it.
However, a team of astronomers in the US has discovered a new planet, and they've called it OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb. Presumably the Ogle is in reference to the amount of time they spent ogling the night's sky. 2016 is probably the year and 1190lb the weight, but with BLG we can only presume or make stuff up.
Credit: Creative Commons
What also might be made up is the notion that OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb is even a planet, the reason being that it's so big astronomers aren't sure it even falls under the category of planetary orbital object, otherwise known as a planet. In a report published through Cornell University Library, the scientists said:
"We report the discovery of OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, which is likely to be the first Spitzer microlensing planet in the Galactic bulge/bar, an assignation that can be confirmed by two epochs of high-resolution imaging of the combined source-lens baseline object.
"The planet's mass M_p= 13.4+-0.9 M_J places it right at the deuterium burning limit, i.e., the conventional boundary between 'planets' and 'brown dwarfs'."
Credit: PA
Earth: probably a planet
(Credit: Creative Commons)
Confusing as that undoubtedly is, the report went on to say: "Its existence raises the question of whether such objects are really 'planets' (formed within the disks of their hosts) or 'failed stars' (low mass objects formed by gas fragmentation).
"This question may ultimately be addressed by comparing disk and bulge/bar planets, which is a goal of the Spitzer microlens programme."
Essentially, therefore, the question as to whether a massive object in the universe is a planet or a brown dwarf boils down to whether the object was formed through gas fragmentation or within a host, a bit like in Alien.
Deep space probe, interstellar explorer, and envoy to alien civilisations, Voyager 1 has already racked up an impressive resume to which songwriter can now be added. Using data from the unmanned spacecraft, Dr Domenico Vicinanza, of Anglia Ruskin University and GEANT, and Dr Genevieve Williams, of the University of Exeter, have created a musical composition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the pathfinding mission.
In 1619, Johannes Kepler published his treatise Harmonices Mundi, in which he combined his astronomical data about the orbit of the planets with his ideas about the geometric harmony of the universe to create what is commonly known as the Music of the Spheres. On November 13 at the NASA Booth at the SC17 Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Colorado, a 21st century equivalent will make its world premiere.
The three-minute number was created using a process known as data sonification, where the data about protons, alpha particles, and heavier nuclei in space from Voyager's Low-Energy Charged Particle (LECP) telescope and spacecraft trajectory were used to create melody, harmony and orchestration. The information was collected by the probe from 1977 until this month with each 26-day period converted into one note. The composition includes the moment when Voyager entered interstellar spacein 2012.
The solemn main melody played by the second violins is based on the cosmic ray count, which changes over to flute, piccolo and glockenspiel at the 2012 mark. Meanwhile, piano and French horns double the violins to mark the flybys of Jupiter and Saturn, where the cosmic ray count fluctuated as they passed close by the gas giants. The passage through the heliopause is a key change from C major to E flat major with an alternation of orchestration and harmony.
"Our orchestra score is more than just inspired by one of the most successful space missions of all time, it is shaped entirely by Voyager 1's incredible journey," says Vicinanza. "Data sonification can play an important role in helping to share scientific discoveries and we hope that by converting 40 years of data into music, listeners will be able to hear aspects of Voyager 1's journey that are perhaps not so obvious when looking at graphs of data."
Disco Voyager: The Sounds of Earth Record Cover
Voyager 1 is one of the two deep space probes sent by NASA to study the outer planets and the frontiers of the Solar System. The 722 -kg (1,590-lb) spacecraft was launched on September 5, 1977 and is powered by three radiothermal generators. In 1979, it flew by Jupiter and in 1980 it visited Saturn. As it did so, the giant planets sent Voyager on a one-way slingshot trajectory toward interstellar space at a speed of 17.043 km/s (38,120 mph) relative to the Sun.
An excerpt of the Voyager 1 music can be heard in the video below.
The 11 times UFOs were reported in the West Midlands
The 11 times UFOs were reported in the West Midlands
Websites have been set up for people to log extraterrestrial spots, and there are several every year across Birmingham and the Black Country
By Isolde Walters
The X-Files might be off the television now, but it would appear UFO sightings remain very much a thing in the West Midlands.
Websites have been set up for people to log extraterrestrial spots, and there are several every year across Birmingham, the Black Country and the wider area.
Some may scoff but hundreds of people are convinced they have had such encounters.
Here are the 11 out-of-this-world UFO sightings taken from these sites which might just have you believing there really is something out there…
1) "We thought it was a burning plane”
UFO witness Lisa was in the front garden of her Solihull house when she saw an orange flickering ball in the sky.
“My immediate thought was that it looked like a plane on fire, but it clearly wasn’t.
“It moved far too fast to be a plane - we live near the flight path so we are used to seeing planes. I watched it for probably only a few seconds and saw as it travelled across the sky, not down, reduced in size and then disappeared.”
She was convinced that the mysterious aircraft was proof of life on other planets.
(This isn't an actual UFO photo)
2) The stargazer who saw something he couldn’t explain
Amateur astronomer Adam trained his telescope on Jupiter to watch a satellite trail across the sky and saw something he had never seen in 18 years of skygazing.
“Suddenly a white light flew across the sky at a speed I have never seen before in any man-made tech. I didn’t hear a boom as expected with such speed, just a faint hum. It was no meteor - it was also very low and the light was very bright. I saw it for three seconds before it had travelled across the entire sky and out of sight.”
Adam knew he had witnessed extraterrestrial life, but never told anyone, for fear that he would not be believed.
3) A cigarette and an alien
Late one night, Errol was smoking a cigarette in the garden with his partner Danni. They looked up to see an object hurtling through the sky towards them.
“It was not a plane or a helicopter or a Chinese lantern. There was no sound and it was hard to focus on it because it was so bright.”
Errol and Danni rushed inside, locked the door and watched as the mysterious object floated off.
4) The little girl and the black shadows
This encounter sounds like the beginning of a sci fi blockbuster. Mr Hulin tucked his granddaughter into bed but two hours later he heard her crying for her mother.
“She said that nine or ten black shadows were over her bed. There was one white ghost with no mouth but this one was friendly. The black shadows were trying to hold her hand so she went under the quilt. She said this made them angry. She says they left in a pink car with no lights on it and went into the sky. She said, ‘I don’t know what planet they went to’.
“This was very unusual for a four-year-old to say. My granddaughter is very intelligent and we all agreed she did not make it up.”
Too much sugar or a terrifying encounter with the paranormal? We’ll never know.
5) The yellow full moon UFO
Waiting for the lift down from his 16th floor flat, Scott looked out of the window and saw a UFO.
“There was a huge light in the sky. It was the size of a full moon moving slowly towards Wolverhampton. It was bright yellow in colour and almost perfectly round.”
UFO over a city
6) Is that a firework… or a spaceship?
The day after bonfire night you may expect to see some fireworks but Julian Lewis was adamant that what he saw driving home on 6 November 2010 was no firework.
“I saw this bright fireball in the sky. It was so bright up there it was scary. I stopped the car in excitement and shock. It just stopped and stayed right above me very high up.
“It got brighter and brighter and was giving off rays, very much like the sun does. May I add that at no time did this thing make any sound.”
Julian jumped into his car and drove home, before writing up his encounter on a UFO sightings website.
7) The spaceship with football stadium spot lights
In this instance, a man called Phill had just passed his driving test and had treated himself to a new car. He and a friend parked outside his house and saw what he assumed was a helicopter in the sky. He turned his lights on to their brightest setting and watched the aircraft.
“It was triangular in shape with a bar of white lights that looked like football ground spot lights across the front. The bottom of the craft had a pattern of colours that kept changing from red, green and blue.”
Phill and his friend watched in horror as the aircraft slowly twisted and sped off across the night’s sky, leaving him convinced that it was not-of-this-world.
“To this day I can’t think what earthly thing it could have been,” he said.
8) The fighter jet spaceships that ruined Emmerdale
A poster called Mike was settling down to watch Emmerdale when a rumbling sound like a jet shook his house.
“The sound blasted over the TV and the whole house felt like it trembled. I looked at my wife and said, ‘these are no jets’. I took my camera out to the front of the house and there were four red UFOs going over the street.”
Mike snapped as the strange planes zoomed over his head. Are these grainy pictures evidence that the aliens are among us?
9) The mysterious sphere that floats above Sandwell hospital
It seems like aliens visit hospitals too.
In this instance, a spherical metallic blue object was seen hovering over Sandwell hospital.
A spotter called Darren explained: “At first I thought it was a helicopter but there wasn’t any sound. So then I thought it was a balloon, but it wasn’t moving in this light wind.”
The real question is: why are aliens visiting Sandwell hospital?
Sitting at his desk in a Redditch office, Neil heard a colleague shouting, “UFO!” He followed him outside to see a large, long tube darting across the sky.
“It was as high as a normal passenger jet. But it had no wings or tail, just a long metal tube, rounded at both ends.”
He took a picture on his phone but the object was mysteriously invisible in the photograph.
“I can’t explain what I saw, even though I want to dismiss it. Then I heard local reports over the weekend that there were several sightings in Bromsgrove on the same day.”
11) Graveyard sighting
Walking through a graveyard in Kidderminster, Katherine noticed two street lights suspended across the churchyard.
“When I got closer, I realised that the lights were separate and were moving away. It was quite misty but the lights were clearly visible for about a minute.
“They were completely round with a triangle of light coming out of the back. There was no noise.”
Katherine fled from the ghostly vision and knew she had become one of the few people to witness a UFO.
If “the truth” is truly out there, then History is banking on viewers wanting to get to the bottom of where that search for the truth really began with new UFO drama series Blue Book. Executive produced by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis, the ten-episode series has found its female lead in Laura Mennell (The Man in the High Castle) who will star opposite Aidan Gillen in the scripted drama series. Robert Stromberg (Maleficent) will direct the first two episodes of the series; created and written on by David O’Leary, with Sean Jablonski serving as showrunner.
Here’s a brief overview of what Blue Book is all about:
“Blue Book chronicles the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.” Gillen plays Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant astrophysicist, family man, and UFO skeptic who is recruited as the Chief Scientific Advisor to “Project Blue Book.” Mennell will play Allen’s wife, Mimi Hynek, who is seemingly a content stay-at-home housewife but has plans to become much more.”
O’Leary and Jablonski will co-executive produce the series alongside Zemeckis; and Jack Rapke and Jackie Levine from Compari Entertainment. A+E Studios and Compari Entertainment (a division of Zemeckis’ ImageMovers) will handle overall production.
Mennell’s series responsibilities could be keeping her pretty busy very soon: she also co-stars opposite Ron Livingston in Peter Farrelly‘s comedy series Loudermilkfor the Audience Network. Though Blue Book is her first priority, if Loudermilk is renewed for a second season then she could be available for more episodes if shooting schedules permit. Mennellis is also set to recur in Amazon’s The Man In the High Castle.
Along with Blue Book, History has begun casting its second scripted series: The Breach: Inside the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, from producer R.J. Cutler.
As someone trained in mystical thought, I believe there is a case for the consciousness model when considering brief UFO sightings.
When the idea of consciousness began entering the research conversation in Ufology, it caused a bit of an uproar and there has been mixed feelings to the topic. Many people in the UFO research were put off by the squishy notion of telepathy and psychic phenomena being a significant component in the UFO research dialogue.
If you talk to folks familiar with the Close Encounter Five philosophy, the notion of communication with off-worlders and UFO crafts that are “alive in an artificial intelligence context” is a very real consideration.
Close Encounter Five (CE-5) is classified as “Human to Alien” initiated communication. The concept behind CE-5 is that aliens have highly refined telepathic abilities. Likewise their craft seem to be highly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capable of telepathic communication. The CE-5 folks have protocols for reaching out with their meditative minds and telepathically touching the aliens or their AI crafts. This has been going on for some time, in the form of individual efforts and CE-5 group gatherings.
I’ve been reading UFO sighting reports on a weekly basis for nearly five years. One thing I read repeatedly is descriptions like, “There it was for a few seconds and it winked out or it suddenly disappeared.”
Think of this scenario: Someone is outside for a smoke or out walking the dog. They are relaxed and peaceful, letting go of the day’s stresses and challenges. The sky is clear, and the stars are shining in a majestic display. A situation like this has a deeply calming effect on most people.
Then bam! This individual has an amazing UFO sighting experience for a few seconds or perhaps for as long as a minute, then the phenomenon just disappears. The event is astonishing enough to prompt the individual to report it to NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) or MUFON (Mutual UFO Network).
As a shaman, I see a familiar metaphysical occurrence. It’s something I like to call “a flash perception.” Think of it as a few moments of incredibly intuitive clarity.
Our day-to-day mindset is what’s called our ordinary mind. When we have one of these flash perceptions, our consciousness shifts from the ordinary mind to an altered state of consciousness. In effect, the boundaries of our reality perception stretches a bit.
In this altered state, we might perhaps have a sense of déjà vu, or have a flash of a loved one in peril, or a precognitive burst of some future event. It might even be the creative twinkle of what many in the creative arts call the muse’s “Divine Kiss.”
The bottom line: Ordinary people can and do experience an altered view of reality from time to time. In this unique view, they may perceive things that the ordinary mind can’t comprehend. For example, in a dream state we all experience many things that really made real sense while we were dreaming– but after waking up these things lack conceptualization and words to explain it.
I hypothesize that people in a relaxed state of mind might be occasionally treated to an “intuitive, waking dreamlike event” of an out-of-this-world craft. Is the craft really there? Yes!
But the craft might be just out of our ordinary reality view to see it. Some might be quick to say this sort of event might be just a hallucination, but it’s not.
All human beings have the capacity for having such transcendent experiences. The average person rarely has these events. For the person born with more attuned psychic gifts, these events happen much more often. For those trained as mystical adepts, these altered states can be induced with deeper states of meditation. Some tribal practices use ceremonial medicinal
herbs to induce such states, but you don’t have to be under the influence of a psychotropic substance to have this sort of experience.
My point boils down to this: Some UFO sighting experiences are not seen with the naked eye but rather with the intuitive mind’s eye during brief periods of intuitive clarity.
Breakhead: Keep Looking Up
Here are some recent UFO sighting reports from across the nation.
Oct. 1, 2017: At about 1 a.m. a resident of Clay City, Ky., observed a V-shape or triangle or boomerang shape crafter overhead.
Oct. 1, 2017: At about 8:10 a.m. a resident of Mechanicsburg, Pa., reported seeing three bright orange lights in a triangular shape that abruptly disappeared.
Oct. 1, 2017: At about 8:10 a.m. a resident of Mount Pleasant, S.C., saw a bright white light in the daytime sky.
Oct. 1, 2017: At about 11:25 a.m. a resident of Denver, Colo., reported observing a cluster of whitish balls with blue chevron wings over Denver.
Oct. 1, 2017: At about 11:50 a.m. a resident of Philadelphia, Pa., saw a very bright object in the sky northwest of Philadelphia.
If you have a UFO sighting to report, use one of the two national database services: NUFORC.org or MUFON.com. Both services respect confidentiality.
Taurid Meteor Shower 2017: When, Where & How to See It This Weekend
Taurid Meteor Shower 2017: When, Where & How to See It This Weekend
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
While the Taurid meteor shower doesn't have a lot of shooting stars to offer, the few that will streak across the sky in the coming days will be bright, spectacular fireballs. The North Taurid meteor shower is at its peak now!
Skywatchers in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will have two different peak viewing times. But the estimated dates have some wiggle room, because meteor rates will be consistently low throughout the meteor shower. Typically, the Taurids produce only a handful of visible meteors per hour.
In 2017, the North Taurid meteor shower will peak overnight on Nov. 11-12 for viewers in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, the South Taurid meteor shower peaked overnight on Oct. 10, according to the American Meteor Society. However, viewers in both hemispheres can still see meteors through late November.
The Taurids are associated with Comet Encke. As this object orbits the sun, it leaves a trail of comet crumbs in its wake. In some years, when Jupiter's orbit brings it close to the comet's trail, the gas giant's gravity nudges the comet particle stream toward Earth, so more meteors are visible to observers here. Astronomers call this an "outburst." That isn't expected to happen this year, but the latest predictions suggest that an outburst will happen in 2019, NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke told Space.com.
Most meteor showers come from tiny fragments that burn up in Earth's atmosphere, but calculations indicate that Comet Encke's debris could produce meteors big enough to survive the trip to the ground. These meteorites have not been discovered yet, Cooke said, adding that such a discovery would be a "holy grail of meteorites." No one knows how big a Taurid meteorite might be, but Cooke said the comet chunks are estimated to weigh a few ounces.
When to see them
Cooke said that it can be hard to pick the best day to look for the Taurids, because the meteor shower is visible for several weeks. The best results will happen in the early morning (just before dawn) from any dark location. On peak viewing days, there may be only a few more meteors per hour than on other days, so the difference is hardly noticeable, he said.
"The rates are low, so be prepared to look for a while," Cooke said.
Observers may also spot some stray shooting stars that are unrelated to the Taurids. These will appear to originate somewhere other than the constellation Taurus and will travel in random directions through the night sky. Moonlight won't overly interfere with the peak of the northern Taurids, but watch for it at other times around the peak (and try to time your observations for when the moon is not in the sky).
The Northern Taurids run from October 19th to December 10th annually. The weak shower, with only 5 meteors per hour at the peak, is derived from material left by the passage of periodic Comet 2P/Encke. The debris' larger than average grains often produce colorful fireballs. Watch on Saturday evening, before the last quarter moon rises.
The Taurids are visible practically anywhere on Earth, except for the South Pole. They appear to originate in the constellation Taurus the bull. To find Taurus, look for the constellation Orion and then peer to the northeast to find the red star Aldebaran, the star in the bull's eye.
Don't look directly at Taurus to find meteors; the shooting stars will be visible all over the night sky. Make sure to move your gaze around the nearby constellations. Meteors closer to the radiant have shorter trails and are more difficult to spot. If you look only at Taurus, you might miss the shooting stars with the most spectacular trails.
What causes the Taurids?
The Taurids come from Comet Encke, a short-term periodic comet that orbits the sun about once every 3.3 years. It was first spotted by Pierre Mechain in 1786 and was first recognized as a periodic comet in the 1800s by Johann Franz Encke.
Comet Encke is about to make a close pass with the sun at the end of November. Image uploaded Nov. 11, 2013.
Credit: NASA
As the comet moves around the solar system, it leaves behind bits of material that are called meteoroids. If those comet chunks enter the Earth's atmosphere, they are called meteors. The friction they encounter while speeding through the Earth's atmosphere heats them up, sometimes making them visible from the ground. Those chunks that reach the ground, if ever discovered, would be called meteorites.
How to get the best view
Meteor showers require no special equipment to view. Just travel to an area that has few lights, away from major cities. Get comfortable on your back, staring straight up at the sky. This will let you view more meteors than by staring in one direction.
Spot the Millennium Falcon with the Force of Google Maps!
Spot the Millennium Falcon with the Force of Google Maps!
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
Han Solo's iconic "Millennium Falcon" can be seen hidden behind shipping containers on this view from Google Maps of Longcross Film Studios.
Credit: Google
The Millennium Falcon may have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but apparently its stealth mode leaves something to be desired. Han Solo's famous "Star Wars" spaceship is hidden in plain sight — at least for viewers browsing the satellite views provided by Google Maps.
The Falcon's landing zone is surrounded by shipping containers on the edge of Longcross Film Studios in Chertsey, Surrey, according to The Sun. The English studio has been involved in films including "World War Z," "Thor 2," "Skyfall" and "Fast & Furious 6," its website reads. The Falcon seems to have first been spotted back in June by eagle-eyed Pete Hibbert, according to Jedi News.
Check out the Falcon in the map below (you'll notice it has been helpfully labeled, and even has a collection of reviews from some online jokesters):
At the time of publication, the Millennium Falcon is rated 4.6 stars.
Han Solo's famous flier is partially covered by a tarp, but is clearly recognizable, and looks ready to fly right into "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," which comes out in theaters Dec. 15. A recent trailer for the film shows a reunion between Luke Skywalker and the Falcon — both much older than their last encounter in the first "Star Wars" trilogy. An upcoming moviespotlighting Han Solo's origins is scheduled for May 25, 2018.
Supernova's Expanding 'Echo' of Light Captured by Hubble Telescope
Supernova's Expanding 'Echo' of Light Captured by Hubble Telescope
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer
It did not go quietly into the night: An exploding star left behind an echo of light, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
In a sequence of images captured over the course of two years, Hubble scientists tracked a ring of light as it appeared to expand outward into space. This light came from an initial stellar explosion — which was first identified three years ago — reflecting off a nearby gas cloud, according to a statement from the Space Telescope Science Institute's Hubble site.
A series of images showing the expanding ring of light from supernova SN 2014J, reflecting off a gas cloud, from a stellar explosion.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Y. Yang (Texas A&M and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Voices reverberating off mountains and the sound of footsteps bouncing off walls are examples of an echo," the statement said. "Space has its own version of an echo. It's not made with sound, but with light and occurs when light bounces off dust clouds." [The Hubble Telescope's 10 Most Amazing Discoveries]
A series of images (top) shows the light echo from a supernova, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The larger image shows the location of the supernova (marked by a crosshairs), in the galaxy M82.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Y. Yang (Texas A&M University and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
The initial explosion was a supernova called SN 2014J, discovered on Jan. 21, 2014, in the nearby galaxy M82, located 11.4 million light-years away from Earth. Stars larger than the sun turn into supernovas when they run out of fuel, leading to a chain reaction of energetic events including the explosion of material.
"So far, astronomers have spotted only 15 light echoes around supernovae outside our Milky Way galaxy," according to the statement. "Light-echo detections from supernovae are rarely seen, because they must be nearby for a telescope to resolve them."
Here's What You Really Need to Know About That Hot Plume Under Antarctica
(Helene Seroussi et al./JGR Solid Earth/Business Insider)
Here's What You Really Need to Know About That Hot Plume Under Antarctica
Don't believe the headlines that say there's a disaster coming.
DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER
Antarctica today takes a lot of heat from above, thanks to two hundred years of carbon-belching human activity and the warming this has caused.
An increasing number of researchers also think the frozen Southern Continent faces significant warming from below: Hot rock pluming upward through Earth's mantle, leaking heat through the crust, and melting the bottoms of Antarctic ice sheets.
The effect, first proposed 30 years ago, seems especially strong in West Antarctica, where ice sheet losses are most dramatic and contributing to sea-level rise. But few scientists believed this was happening, at least initially.
"I thought it was crazy," Hélène Seroussi, a climatologist and ice researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a press release. "I didn't see how we could have that amount of heat and still have ice on top of it."
Map of antarctic ice flow speeds.
(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualisation Studio)
However, a new study by Seroussi and others now backs up the idea of a hot mantle plume - and the melting it causes - with advanced computer modelling.
The work was published September 1 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
Rising from the depths
Earth's internal heat is always warming up the ground, including rock under ice sheets all over the planet. While this partially melts them from below, snow and ice accumulation on top is usually enough to balance out these losses.
Over the years, however, researchers who study Antarctic ice melt have detailed an anomaly at West Antarctica. There, ice sheet thinning is more drastic than anywhere else on the continent, according to satellite data.
Thinning ice sheets most dramatic in West Antarctica.
(ESA/Planetary Visions)
Since the industrial revolution, the North and South Poles have warmed at a rate many times faster than other locations on Earth. In Antarctica, this is melting ice sheets from above and pooling water on top of them - possibly helping carve off Delaware-size icebergs.
But a warming climate does not fully explain Antarctica's mounting ice loss. So in recent years, researchers have looked deeper for an answer.
Hiding under the ice
One line of research has discovered, documented, and even drilled into and explored a vast system of sub-glacial lakes and rivers.
This water helps lubricate the movement of ice sheets from the snowy mountains to the sea - and certain parts of the Southern Continent, where there's a lot of sub-glacial water - are moving and melting faster than others.
Antarctica's sub glacial lakes.
(NSF/Zina Deretsky)
Scientists have also dug into the mystery of a bulge in Earth's crust below West Antarctica, called the Marie Byrd Land Dome. At first, it was thought the crust was thicker there. But earthquake-like seismic measurements disproved that idea.
Something else is buoying the region, and recent seismic imaging - essentially 3D-radar for Earth's crust and mantle - suggests there's a warm plume of rock below West Antarctica. (Just as sound waves travel slower through liquids than solids, seismic waves slow down when encountering hotter, more gooey, and less-dense rock.)
Measurements suggest a hot plume of mantle rock below West Antarctica.
(Helene Seroussi et al./JGR Solid Earth; Business Insider)
Researchers plugged in all of the known physics about the mantle, Antarctica, and its ice sheets - including their changing altitude, movement, friction caused by that movement, melting rates, and more - and produced dozens of simulations, according to NASA JPL.
Those simulations showed that heat spilling from a hot mantle plume could be up to three times greater than it is for a normal, non-volcanic chunk of mantle below the US. And compared to mantle below Yellowstone, the heat output could be 75 percent that of the volcanically active region.
When the researchers compared that heat output to basal (or bottom) melt rates in Antarctica, no places matched - except for West Antarctica. At that location, a crack or rift in the crust may be allowing heat to rapidly escape upward, the researchers wrote in their study.
"Without a plume-like heating source," they said, "our simulations show that intrinsic heating and crustal sources do not provide enough energy to generate significant amounts of basal meltwater."
Most of these “slugs” are actually snails that have lost their shells and gained new characteristics through evolution. For example, sacoglossans are sometimes called “solar-powered sea slugs” because they use chloroplasts from the algae they eat in their own tissue.
PROOF OF TIME TRAVEL? BIZARRE CLAIMS NUCLEAR BOMB WAS DETONATED IN INDIA 12,000 YEARS AGO
PROOF OF TIME TRAVEL? BIZARRE CLAIMS NUCLEAR BOMB WAS DETONATED IN INDIA 12,000 YEARS AGO
A NUCLEAR bomb blast killed half a million people in India 12,000 years ago, according to shocking claims being made.
Videos uploaded by conspiracy theory and UFO websites suggest there is evidence of the ancient blast happening in a desert region near Jodhpur.
Website ufosightingsdaily.com was the latest to link to one of the videos today.
The “evidence” is alleged to be based on “writings” in ancient texts and an area where high levels of radiation were allegedly detected.
Conspiracy theory website Disclose.tv said: “Hindu texts dating from thousands of years ago seem to suggest that some kind of highly advanced weapon resembling an atomic bomb was set off on the Earth some twelve thousand of years ago.”
The theory is based on alleged passages from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, Sanskrit epics said to be written in around the 8th or 9th century BC, about the Kurukshetra War and battle between Rama and the demon Ravana respectively.
Disclose.tv added: “Could an atomic bomb have gone off on Earth 12,000 years ago? Some of the passages from the Mahabharata suggest a nuclear conflict.”
The website points to these allegedly translated extracts from the texts: “A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe…An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor…it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race.
“The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognisable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white.
“After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river.”
The theory suggests the discovery of an area of high radiation in the 1990s and several corpses found in an ancient city back up the texts.
The claims are that on the eastern edge of the great Thar desert, near the ancient city of Jodhpur, in the 1990s, an area “where radioactivity is so great that residents have long had high rates of cancer and birth defects.”
It suggests that nearby several skeletons were unearthered in an ancient city whiuch appeared to have perished together in the streets.
In some reports alleged Indian historian, Kisari Mohan Ganguli, said: “Indian sacred writings are full of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
The theory claims there is evidence of a nuclear blast crater – the Lonar Crater near Mumbai, which cannot be explained.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed time travellers or aliens could be explanations for how advanced technology developed in the 20th century was available 12,000 years ago.
Disclose.tv said: “How the ancient Indian powers at the time developed nuclear weapons is a mystery although of course no records exist showing anything like the levels of technology needed to develop these kinds of weapons.”
But, despite appearing on many conspiracy theory and UFO websites, the story has been exposed as “fake news”.
Debunking website skeptoid.com investigated the claims.
It found no evidence of the reported passages in translated versions of the texts.
It also found no evidence outside of conspiracy forums to suggest the area of high radiation had been discovered in the desert.
The images of the ancient city and skeletons used with the reports were found to have actually been taken at the ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, which are around 300 miles away from the alleged site.
Skeptoid.com said: ” If this was a nuclear war, it was practically a nationwide theatre.
“Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa are both about 500 km from Jodhpur, one to the north and one to the west. None of these places are anywhere near each other.
“Sadly for the legend, there is nothing remotely like this story in any archaeological publications.
“Archaeological information about the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and other Indus Valley sites is widely available online and in print, and there is simply no such thing as radioactive skeletons or skeletons in large numbers or holding hands or sprawled in any way.”
Skeptoid.com said the Lonar Crater was 470 miles from the alleged site and had been dated back to being formed 52,000 years ago, long before the alleged ancient bomb blast.
Skeptoid.com added: “It looks like every part of this story is fabricated.”
NASA’s $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Just Sent Back Stunning New Photos Of Jupiter
NASA’s $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Just Sent Back Stunning New Photos Of Jupiter
Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 miles per hour, NASA’s $1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24. But the sun slipped between the giant planet and Earth for more than a week, blocking the spacecraft from beaming home its precious bounty of data.
Now that the conjunction is over, however, new raw image data from Juno’s ninth perijove — as the spacecraft’s high-speed flybys are called — has poured in. Researchers posted it all online on Tuesday, and a community of amateurs and professionals has been busily processing the data to yield colorful and stunning new pictures of Jupiter.
“Brand new Jupiter pics from @NASAJuno Perijove 09! What a blimmin’ gorgeous/diabolical planet,” Seán Doran, a UK-based graphic artist who regularly processes NASA images, tweeted on Tuesday.
Below are some fresh, close-up images of Jupiter, along with other unbelievable views captured from earlier perijoves.
In the most recent flyby, as with the previous eight, Juno’s flyby started over Jupiter’s north pole.
The spacecraft then swept within a few thousand miles of the gas giant, capturing stunning high-resolution views of its cloud tops.
At its closest approach to Jupiter during each flyby, the robot briefly becomes the fastest human-made object in the solar system, reaching speeds of around 130,000 miles per hour.
Then Juno flew back out into deep space, passing over Jupiter’s South Pole on its exit. Churning storms at the poles constantly change their appearance.
Researchers upload the raw data sent by the probe to the mission’s website.
There, enthusiasts take the drab, mostly gray image data and process it all into true-to-life color photos.
Many snapshots of Jupiter take on an artistic quality.
Others dazzle with their detail of the planet’s thick cloud bands and powerful storms. Jupiter is made up predominantly of hydrogen. The simple, basic gas, a prime ingredient on the sun, accounts for 90 percent of the atmosphere. Nearly 10 percent is composed of helium.
The planet’s atmosphere is a turbulent mess of hydrogen and helium gases. The atmosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It is mostly made of molecular hydrogen and helium in roughly solar proportions; other chemical compounds are present only in small amounts and include methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and water.Some of the tempests are large enough to swallow planet Earth — or at least a good chunk of it.
There are also traces of molecules like ammonia, methane, sulfur, and water, which give the clouds different colors and properties.
The mixture sometimes creates features that look like faces (as seen on the left in this image).
Other times, shining-white clouds fill up most of a band. With an average temperature of minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 145 degrees Celsius), Jupiter is frigid even in its warmest weather. Unlike Earth, whose temperature varies as one moves closer to or farther from the equator, Jupiter’s temperature depends more on height above the surface.
Many cloud bands have features called chevrons. These atmospheric disturbances blow at several hundreds of miles per hour and sometimes zig-zag through a band, or punch through into others.
In this older view of Jupiter, from Juno’s eighth perijove, two cloud bands battle for dominance — one of which contains a swirling storm many times larger than a hurricane on Earth.
The spacecraft will continue to document Jupiter for as long as NASA can keep it going. But not forever.
A Taiwanese businessman claimed he had caught a doughnut-shaped UFO on camera in south-west China.
Salesman John Chen said he took some picturesque shots of the famous Lake Dian after attending a trade show in Yunnan Province on November 1.
Later on, the 44-year-old and his sister-in-law were shocked to spot a mysterious ring-shaped object in sky when they were looking at one picture at home in Taipei.
Mr Chen, above, sends the pictures to Philip Mantle, a leading UFO expert, for analysis as the flying object has a ridged shape that looks like a doughnut (under).
The object in question has ridged sides and a hole in the middle, and is similar to the shape of a doughnut.
Mr Chen decided to find a UFO expert in a bid to find out what it could be.
Philip Mantle, who is said to be a leading British UFO researcher, told Mr Chen that he could not explain what the flying 'doughnut' was. Mr Mantle called the incident an 'open verdict'.
However, Mr Chen said: 'It just has to be a UFO. It's a strange doughnut shape in the sky.
'The strange thing is I didn't see it at the time. It was my wife's sister who spotted them. She said there was something in the pictures and I just thought she was joking.'
Businessman John Chen took a few pictures of Lake Dian in China the day he attended a trade show (above). Only when he returned to Taiwan, he was told that there was a UFO in it (under)
Other pictures of Lake Dian, however, did not show the strange looking object in the sky
Mr Chen then checked with his colleagues. They shared the photos that they had taken on the day, but his colleagues did not capture any strange object in the sky.
Upon receiving photos sent by Mr Chen, British UFO expert Philip Mantle doubted for the legitimacy of the images.
'What I can say is that the photographer in question here has always cooperated and seems to be genuinely puzzled by the images on his photos.
He did not see the alleged UFO at the time of taking the photos. Instead it was a relative that noticed them when he posted them on social media.'
Mantel concluded that there was no proof that the pictures were a hoax but the object could also be 'some air born debris that has been caught by the camera;
'More study needs to be done on these photos before any definite conclusion can be reached, so in the meantime it remains an open verdict,' he added.
NASA DISCOVERS GIANT MANTLE PLUME THAT’S MELTING ANTARCTICA FROM BELOW
NASA DISCOVERS GIANT MANTLE PLUME THAT’S MELTING ANTARCTICA FROM BELOW
Antarctica has been in the news a lot recently, with gloomy tales of the astonishing icy continent melting and collapsing because of the effects of climate change.
Map of antarctic ice flow speeds. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualisation Studio)
SUPER VOLCANO DISCOVERED UNDERNEATH ANTARCTICA
However, according to scientists in one particular area of the continent something else is at work too. Researchers working for NASA have discovered that there is a massive super-volcano underneath Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica which is generating almost as much heat as the infamous Yellowstone supervolcano and effectively melting the ice from underneath the Earth.
The research team have uncovered an enormous amount of hot rock underneath Marie Byrd Land which lies between the gigantic Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea. According to the team, the heat surrounding this area is creating huge lakes and rivers underneath the ice sheet. This heat, they claim, is being generated by a mantle plume. Mantle plumes are part of the anatomy of a super volcano which bring hot material from the interior to the Earth to the surface. The region directly surrounding these mantle plumes is known as a hot spot and can cause a great deal of geographical instability. According to the team, it is likely that the mantle plume is responsible for the ever changing landscape in this particular region on Antarctica and is probably responsible for its rapid collapse towards the end of the last major Ice Age eleven thousand years ago.
The existence of a blazingly hot mantle plume existing under Marie Byrd land is something which scientists have speculated about for around thirty years because of the unique conditions in this particular area of Antarctica and the domed feature of the landscape there. However, until now there has been no solid evidence to support this idea.
This has all changed because of the work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who commenced the project because they were interested to know what was causing the instability in the region. According to the leader of the project Hélène Seroussi, the team were actually initially sceptical about the idea that a mantle plume could be causing the unique conditions. She said that she found the idea ‘crazy’. “I didn’t see how we could have that amount of heat and still have ice on top of it, ” she said.
However, the team created a huge number of advanced numerical models to calculate how much heat would need to be generated underneath the thick ice sheet to account for geological anomalies such as the domed appearance of the landscape and the lakes and rivers in the bedrock and eventually they came to the conclusion that there simply had to be a mantle plume in this area.
Once they had come to the conclusion that it was likely that they were dealing with a mantle plume, the team dispatched to Yellowstone to analyse the geothermal heat created by the super volcano and found that it was comparable to the amount of heat being generated in Marie Byrd Land. At Yellowstone, around 200 milliwatts is generated per square meter every hour by the heat of the volcano. In Marie Byrd land approximately 150 milliwatts is generated in the same space of time. The scientists note that if the supervolcano underneath Antarctica was any hotter then it would certainly melt the ice in the surrounding area.
The team believes that the mantle plume is coming from a rift in the Earth’s crust and that it is likely that this particular rift and mantle plume formed between fifty and a hundred and ten million years ago, prior to the region being covered with ice.
According to the research team, these investigations could prove to be acutely important in the future. As scientists endeavour to understand the nature of the landscape of Antarctica and attempt to
make predictions about how it will evolve and change in the future this kind of information is absolutely essential.
He was on duty as a police officer in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and had been sent out to locate some loose cattle.
However, he ended up tracking down something he insists was more out of this world when he saw a flying saucer in Burnley Road.
Officer Alan Godfry is a retired police officer who served in the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police
Mr Godfrey lost around 15 minutes and remains convinced to this day, after undergoing regression, that he was abducted by alien occupants of the craft.
At the time he was interviewed on prime time TV news shows, and to this day it remains the UK's best-known alien abduction account.
Yet, UFO researcher Russ Callaghan, may have found a more earthly explanation for what went on.
Mr Callaghan has discovered something from the history of Todmorden, that was there at the time of the incident, was mobile, but has been over looked by other investigators.
More importantly, he said, it resembles the description given by Mr Godfrey of his "flying saucer."
According to a black and white image of the Todmorden futuro home, with a woman stood next to it, it matches the 20 feet across dimension given by Mr Godfrey in sketches.
Mr Godfrey said he saw "a metallic disc with a dome and a row of windows at the top."
However, he also insists that moments later, as he tried to sketch it, there was a burst of light, and he then found himself driving 100 yards farther up the road, with the UFO now gone.
However, Mr Callaghan discovered that since 1971 there had been a UFO inspired Futura home in Todmorden, and it was still there in 1980.
The plastic-built home resembled a UFO, with several large oval windows around it on the top half.
What's more, the building was mobile, and was transported around the town on the back of a truck.
Waterside Plastics
The Todmorden futuro home in the Watersides Plastics brochure dated 1969.
Mr Callaghan argued that, as it would have been dark at the time of the sighting, it could have been the futura home being moved on a truck that he saw, and mistook for an alien craft.
Mr Callaghan said: "Alan is a great guy, and I know he believes what he says he saw.
"I'm not saying Alan made this up."
However, he said it was a plausible theory that further up the road the futura building was being carried on a lorry, making it appear to be above the road.
Waterside Plastics
A sketch of the UFO Alan Godfrey saw, which Russ Callaghan says resembles the futuro home.
He said: "That is how they moved the building. Does it or does it not look like a flying saucer?
"The futura buildings were small liveable houses, but the documentary makers (about Alan Godfrey's abduction) never remember to mention it was there at the time.
"But it was there and we have got a photo of it, and we have not got a photo of what Alan saw in Burnley Road."
Futurohouse.com is a website dedicated to the quirky futuristic homes, which features a section on the one at Todmorden, which confirms it was moved on a lorry.
Malcolm Stroud said of it: "The house was made by Waterside Plastics in its Waterside Mill, Rochdale Road, Todmorden.
YouTube•WATERSIDE PLASTICS
CASE CLOSED? Did Alan Godfrey see and sketch a futura home (inset)?
That is how they moved the building. Does it or does it not look like a flying saucer?
Russ Callaghan
"The Futuro house was a one off and I understand they only made one. It was exhibited in Todmorden in 1971 for the town's centenary.
"The company went out of business in 1990.
"The house was exhibited outside the Abraham Omerod medical centre (now closed), in the town, near the railway viaduct.
"I have also been told that it functioned as offices for Waterside Plastics for some years."
He said there was a photo of it "peeping out" between Victorian mill buildings when it was being moved on a lorry.
Mr Callaghan also considered if Mr Godfrey just saw a bus with its lights on and got confused in the early-morning darkness.
This was because busses ran along that route at the time, and Mr Godfrey had initially said "I thought I were looking at a bus."
He also considered if it was a council road sweeping vehicle with flashing lights, also mistaken by Mr Godfrey for a UFO, before resting on the futura house theory.
Mr Callaghan was quizzed by other ufologists about what could account for Mr Godfrey's burst of light, missing time, and abduction claims.
Jon Austin
CASE CLOSED: Russ Callaghan delivering his theory at a UFO conference in Hull.
He pointed out that Mr Godfrey's vivid descriptions of what went on inside the craft had only come out after he was regressed by Jenny Randles, a prominent UFO and alien abduction investigator.
He said: "There was no mention of these prior to hypnosis.
"Under hypnosis, he came out with seeing alien beings with light bulb heads, and a black entity.
"But, before in a book, he also tells you he can't say if what he said under hypnosis was real or if he made it up because he has no recollection of these things prior to hypnosis."
BBC
Alan Godfrey interviewed by Frank Bough on BBC Breakfast at height of the media storm.
However, some believe the mystery remains as there were two independent sightings of something strange that morning.
A driver who was on Burnley Road, three miles further out at Cliviger, told of seeing a brilliant white object at the time of Mr Godfrey's sighting, and even contacted Todmorden police.
On top of this, a police patrol from nearby Halifax, searching for stolen motorbikes on Calder Valley moors saw a brilliant blue-white glow descending into the valley towards Todmorden shortly before Mr Godfrey experienced his close encounter.
Mr Godfrey insists what he saw was a flying saucer, and he has recently told all in the new book Who or What Were They?, in which he claims he was hounded from the force over the case.
Detlev van RavenswaayArtistieke weergaven van de Chicxulubkrater.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWat was de kans op uitsterven voor de dinosaurussen zo’n 66 miljoen jaar geleden? Japanse onderzoekers berekenden dat amper dertien procent van de aardoppervlakte voldoende rijk is aan koolwaterstof voor zo’n massavernietiging. De meteoriet die het einde van de dino’s inluidde, stortte net op zo’n voor hen rampzalige plek neer. Brute pech dus.
De prehistorische beesten zouden 65-66 miljoen jaar geleden mogelijk niet uitgestorven zijn, was de meteoriet van, naar schatting, negen km diameter ingeslagen op zowat eender welke andere plaats op onze planeet. Op 87 procent van de aardoppervlakte zou de inslag misschien niet de massale uitroeiing van dino’s tot gevolg hebben gehad, volgens Kunio Kaiho en Naga Oshima van de Tohoku Universiteit in Japan.
Het kolossale stenen gevaarte stortte te pletter op het Mexicaanse schiereiland Yucatán, dat dus - helaas voor de dino’s - tot de dertien andere procent van de aarde behoorde. Een enorme klap moet het geweest zijn: de inslagkrater bij Chicxulub was maar liefst 180 km breed en 20 km diep. De concentratie van koolwaterstoffen in de rotsen was er zo hoog dat de in de lucht vrijgekomen roet- en sulfaatdeeltjes wereldwijd afkoeling en droogte veroorzaakten. Er kwamen tsunami’s en aardbevingen van, over heel de planeet. De zon werd verduisterd door het stof, de temperatuur op aarde zakte met tien graden Celsius. Niet alleen de dino’s - die volgens sommige paleontologen al langer in verval waren - kenden zo een abrupt einde: 75 procent van alle zee- en landdieren stierf uit.
AFPArtistieke impressie van de Sinosauropteryx, een kleine, gevederde dinosaurus.
De onderzoekers zochten uit hoeveel roet en sulfaat een virtuele meteorietinslag de stratosfeer zou inblazen naargelang de hoeveelheid koolwaterstof en sulfaat in de grond. Dan berekenden ze vanaf wanneer de afkoeling van onze planeet zo groot zou zijn dat ze een massavernietiging kan veroorzaken. Volgens Kaiho en Oshima bereikt een meteorietinslag dat punt als er tussen de 230 miljoen en 2.300 miljoen ton roet in de bovenste atmosfeer geblazen wordt. En dat scenario blijkt slechts mogelijk voor dertien procent van de aardoppervlakte.
Uit een internationaal onderzoek in 2014 bleek dat de dinosaurussen mogelijk hadden kunnen overleven. Namelijk als de gigantische steen op een “geschikter tijdstip” was ingeslagen, wanneer de dinosoorten gevarieerder en dus meer bestand zouden geweest zijn.
EPAEen dinomodel in het Sudwala Caves Dinosaur park bij Machadodorp in Zuid-Afrika.
En nu argumenteren wetenschappers bovendien dat niet alleen het tijdstip van cruciaal belang kan geweest zijn, maar ook de plaats van de inslag. Volgens paleontoloog Kaiho zou er “geen afkoeling, of een lichtere afkoeling, geweest zijn” als de meteoriet was neergestort op rotsen met minder organisch materiaal. Hij vat het lot van de dino’s daarom zo samen: “Ze hadden pech”. Voor de mens betekende het dan weer wel dat zoogdieren door de ondergang van de dinosaurussen betere ontwikkelingskansen kregen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETAls een ster aan het einde van zijn leven is, gaat hij soms met een enorme ontploffing ten onder: een supernova. Maar wetenschappers hebben nu een unieke ster ontdekt: die heeft zijn eigen dood overleefd, bleef schijnen, ontplofte later opnieuw en schijnt nog altijd.
Een Amerikaanse telescoop zag in september 2014 een ontploffing aan de sterrenhemel. De explosie leek aanvankelijk normaal en het licht vervaagde langzaam. Maar waar normale supernova’s na ongeveer honderd dagen doven, bleef deze ster ongeveer twee jaar lang schijnen. Af en toe dimde het licht iets of werd het helderder. Ook nu is de supernova nog helder.
Toen de wetenschappers in de archieven doken, ontdekten ze dat er al eerder een ontploffing was geweest op precies dezelfde plek in het heelal, in 1954. Met andere woorden: de ster is toen geëxplodeerd, bleef een halve eeuw leven, ontplofte toen weer en is nog altijd niet dood. De onderzoekers begrijpen niet precies hoe het kan dat de ster zich niet houdt aan de natuurwetten. Mogelijk gaat het om een onbekend type ster. De supernova staat beschreven in het wetenschapsblad Nature.
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Uber en NASA werken samen aan vliegende auto’s - HLN.be
Uber en NASA werken samen aan vliegende auto’s - HLN.be
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Uber-
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETUber gaat samenwerken met de Amerikaanse lucht- en ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA om vliegende auto’s van de grond te krijgen. Samen willen ze een soort vluchtleiding opzetten. Die moet ervoor zorgen dat de auto’s veilig door steden kunnen sjezen.
Uber heeft de samenwerking vandaag aangekondigd. Het bedrijf is van plan de vliegende taxi’s in 2020 uit te testen in Dallas en Dubai en voegde daar nu een derde stad aan toe: Los Angeles. De stad, waar in 2028 de Olympische Spelen worden gehouden, heeft constant last van verkeersopstoppingen.
Uber had de vliegende auto’s vorig jaar ronkend gepresenteerd. Het is de bedoeling dat elektrische, zelfrijdende wagens verticaal opstijgen van een plat dak en naar een ander dak vliegen, waar ze verticaal op moeten landen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Op de Zuidpool zijn sporen gevonden van een bos dat er meer dan 260 miljoen jaar geleden groeide, nog voor de dinosauriërs op aarde rondliepen. Hoog in de bergen van Antarctica vonden wetenschappers de fossiele resten van dertien bomen.
De aarde bestond 260 miljoen jaar geleden uit twee werelddelen: Gondwana in het zuiden en Laurazië in het noorden. Antarctica maakte deel uit van Gondwana, met onder meer Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, India en Australië, en was veel warmer en vochtiger dan nu. Het gebied was waarschijnlijk bedekt met mossen, varens en planten, waar vooral kleine dieren leefden.
Ondanks de temperaturen moesten de bomen extreme omstandigheden overleven. In de zomer ging de zon niet onder en was het ook midden in de nacht licht. In de winter bleef het juist donker. Uit de fossielen concluderen de wetenschappers dat de bomen snel omschakelden van zomer naar winter. Hun ‘herfst’ duurde hooguit een maand.
De universiteit van Wisconsin heeft de bevindingen nu naar buiten gebracht. Wetenschappers van de instelling hebben tussen november en januari onderzoek gedaan op de bevroren hellingen van het zogeheten McIntyre-voorgebergte, diep in de binnenlanden van de Zuidpool. Toen was het daar ‘zomer’, hoewel ook dan de temperatuur tientallen graden onder nul blijft. Komende maanden gaan ze weer, op zoek naar nieuwe sporen.
Vulkaanuitbarstingen
Ongeveer 250 miljoen jaar geleden, dus zo’n 10 miljoen jaar nadat de gevonden bomen leefden, stierven vrijwel alle vroege dieren- en plantensoorten uit. Dat kwam waarschijnlijk door vulkaanuitbarstingen in Siberië. Die vulden de dampkring met giftige gassen. In de lege wereld die achterbleef kwamen langzaam de voorlopers van de dino’s op.
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300.000 jaar oude schedels zetten menselijke geschiedenis op zijn kop. Deze archeologen doen verrassende vondst
300.000 jaar oude schedels zetten menselijke geschiedenis op zijn kop. Deze archeologen doen verrassende vondst
Wanneer ontstond de moderne mens? Antropologen worstelen al decennia met deze vraag. Ze denken dat de mensheid zo’n 200.000 jaar geleden in de sub-Sahara is ontstaan.
Maar nieuw bewijs waarover in het tijdschrift Nature wordt gesproken, staat haaks op die hypothese. Onderzoekers hebben onlangs resten gevonden die suggereren dat de eerste Homo sapiens meer dan 100.000 jaar eerder is verschenen op een onverwachte plek.
Het gaat mogelijk om de oudste fossielen van Homo sapiens ooit gevonden. Ze zijn bewijs dat de mens al buiten de sub-Sahara leefde.
Grote verrassing
In 1961 stuitten mijnwerkers ten westen van Marrakesh op een menselijke schedel. Al snel werden ook andere resten ontdekt.
Zo’n 40 jaar later besloten Jean-Jacques Hublin en zijn collega’s van het Max Planck Instituut dieper te graven. Ze vonden resten van tenminste vijf individuen.
De botten zijn inmiddels gedateerd op 300.000 tot 350.000 jaar oud. “Dat kwam voor ons als een grote verrassing,” zei Hublin.
Veel gelijkenissen
Hij had verwacht schedels aan te treffen van menselijke voorouders zoals Homo erectus of Homo heidelbergensis, maar de schedels die hij vond vertoonden opvallend veel gelijkenissen met die van de moderne mens.
“Het gezicht van deze mensen is er één dat precies lijkt op de moderne variant,” zei Hublin.
“Ze hadden een schedel die wat langwerpiger was dan de onze, maar vandaag de dag zou je ze denk ik niet uit een menigte kunnen pikken,” vervolgde hij.
Herzien
De vondst druist in tegen de gangbare opvatting dat onze soort ergens diep in de sub-Sahara is ontstaan, de zogeheten Hof van Eden, en zich vervolgens naar andere delen van de wereld heeft verspreid.
“Er is geen Hof van Eden in Afrika,” zei Hublin. “Als er al zo’n Hof is, bestaat dat uit heel Afrika.”
Professor Sonia Zakrzewski van de Universiteit van Southampton wees erop dat de ontdekking ertoe kan leiden dat archeologen anders gaan denken over de menselijke oorsprong.
“Dit betekent zeker dat we onze modellen moeten herzien,” zei ze.
Precisely when and where did our species emerge? Anthropologists have struggled with that question for decades, and scattered clues had suggested the answer lay somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa about 200,000 years ago.
But new evidence outlined in two papers published in the journal Nature challenges that hypothesis. Instead, the authors describe recently discovered remains that suggest the first Homo sapiens showed up more than 100,000 years earlier than we thought in a place many experts didn't suspect.
The fossils could represent the earliest known examples of H. sapiens ever found (if confirmed by further research), and they serve as evidence that members of our species lived beyond sub-Saharan Africa.
Skulls in the dust
Anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin showing off one of the finds, a crushed human skull whose eye orbits are visible just beyond his fingertip.
(Shannon McPherron, MPI EVA Leipzig)
In 1961, a crew of miners was plowing into a dense wall of limestone in a hilly region west of Marrakesh when they struck a soft patch. The hardened beige surface gave way to a mound of cinnamon-colored dirt. Peeking out of the earth was a sliver of human skull.
A bit more digging revealed a nearly-complete skull, which the miners turned over to their field doctor. As word about the discovery spread, researchers flocked to the area. They uncovered more remains, including several pieces of jaw bone and a fragment of an arm. At the time, scientists pegged the fossils as roughly 40,000 years old, a few thousand years before our extinct European relatives, the Neanderthals, were thought to have vanished.
But they hadn't dug deep enough.
The JebelIrhoud site in Morocco.
(Shannon McPherron, MPI EVA Leipzig)
Roughly 40 years later, anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin and his team from the Max Planck Institute excavated the half-dozen layers of soil beneath the land where the skull and arm bones had been discovered. There, the team found remains that they say belong to at least five individuals, along with a set of flint blades which had likely been burned, perhaps by nearby cooking fires.
Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000-350,000 years ago.
"These dates were a big wow," Hublin said on a recent call with reporters.
Still, the biggest discovery didn't come until the team looked more closely at the skulls.
A striking resemblance
When Hublin peered into the cavernous eye sockets of one of the skulls, he was astonished.
Instead of the robust features he was accustomed to seeing on the faces of an ancient human ancestor like Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, this face bore a striking resemblance to his own. Where an erectus skull had a single, protruding brow ridge, these individuals had smaller, separated ones. Rather than a large face and a flattened skull, these people had small faces and rounder skulls.
"The face of these people is really a face that falls right in the middle of the modern variation," said Hublin. "They had a skull that is more elongated than most of us, but I'm not sure these people would stand out from a crowd today."
Their braincase (shown below in blue) also seemed to fall somewhere between what one might expect in an ancient human ancestor and a modern human, albeit slightly more similar to those of our archaic ancestors.
(Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig)
This unique combination of advanced and archaic features suggests something profound, Hublin said -- he's convinced the Moroccan specimens "represent the very root of our species."
In other words, all of the Homo sapiens ever found -- including those uncovered far beyond Africa -- may trace their ancestral linkages to the land that is today's Morocco.
That suggestion contradicts the prevailing anthropological logic that our species evolved somewhere deep in sub-Saharan Africa, in what some researchers have referred to as a "Garden of Eden," then gradually moved out to other parts of the world. Instead, Hublin and his team argue that Homo sapiens could have been living in terrain across Africa.
"There is no Garden of Eden in Africa, or if there is, it is all of Africa," Hublin said.
According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about human origins. "It really sets the world alight in terms of the possibilities for understanding the evolution of Homo sapiens," she said. "It certainly means that we need to rethink our models."
Alien Evidence – The Mysterious UFO Landing At Socorro, New Mexico
Alien Evidence – The Mysterious UFO Landing At Socorro, New Mexico
The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO close encounter which occurred on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about 5:50 p.m., on the outskirts of Socorro, New Mexico.
This is a fascinating look from the inside out of the Air Forces investigation of this case, which today is still classified as an “Unknown”.
This UFO case has been researched for years now and there is an impressive amount of new data, including footage and audio recording from original witnesses.
The Socorro UFO landing mystery, the full story of Lonnie Zamora's sighting - TLBE HD - YouTube
Lonnie Zamora, a Socorro police officer and witness, photographed and recovered a rock covered with a mysterious zinc am alloy not manufactured anywhere on earth.
Some evidence was uncovered evidence via the Freedom of Information Act, official internal Air Force Blue Book files, this contain fascinating items such as "irradiated" confiscated film taken five minutes after the UFO craft disappeared, a clue to an exotic propulsion system, and files copied directly from the National Archives.
Did The American Pilot Die After Seeing A Flying Cone In The Sky?
Did The American Pilot Die After Seeing A Flying Cone In The Sky?
The mysterious crash in 1970 involved the disappearance of Captain William Schaffner, 28, an American pilot.
The incident took place nearly 50 years ago but created a conspiracy theory that persists until today.
The official conclusion of the unforgettable event regarding the American fighter jet that went down off Britain’s coast was that a tragic accident caused the plane piloted by U.S. Air Force pilot Captain William Schaffner to go down.
However, apparent sightings of flying transparent spheres and mysterious blips on the radar fueled intrigue, mystery, and speculation that UFOs downed the fighter jet XS894.
Adding to the enigma, the body of the pilot was missing after the aircraft was found on the seabed with its canopy closed weeks later.
Captain Schaffner was declared dead, but his body has never been found.
According to RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, during the Cold War, the pilot took off on the night of September 8, 1970, into the skies over Grimsby. The 28-year-old pilot then headed out over the North Sea on the way to Flamborough.
But shortly after 10:30 pm, the aircraft ditched into the sea, five miles south of Flamborough Head. Local newspapers covered the air and sea search and rescue operation.
It was revealed on October 7, 1970, that the plane was discovered by Royal Navy divers onboard the HMS Kedleston that sailed to Flamborough but they returned empty-handed as they still did not provide answers.
The plane stayed on the seabed, but the pilot’s body was still missing.
It was only in December that year the submerged plane was brought to the surface. To everyone’s surprise, the cockpit was empty, and the canopy over the cockpit was closed. Immediately rumors started to circulate.
In October 1992, a series of articles written by Pat Otter and published by Grimsby Telegraph brought life to the story with the incident being described as The Riddle of Foxtrot 94.
The writer claimed that there was evidence that out of this world was the cause of the downing and disappearance of the pilot.
Mr. Otter cited unnamed military sources who claimed they had observed UFOs across Grimsby, Flamborough and beyond.
Captain Schaffner was on Quick Reaction Alert duty during this period. He was dispatched to see what was the blips on the radar.
One newspaper report said that the pilot reported spotting a flying cone and a transparent sphere flying around his aircraft, causing malfunctions to his equipment.
In July 1994, the Grimsby Telegraph reported that the cat and mouse chase between Schaffner and the unidentified craft resulted in the death of the captain.
A team at RAF Binbrook said that it was their job to investigate the crash, but they were stalled, and their instruments had disappeared.
Until today, the case remained a mystery despite many things had happened since that day.
Watch Alleged U.S. Navy Footage Seemingly Shows A UFO That Defies Physics
Watch Alleged U.S. Navy Footage Seemingly Shows A UFO That Defies Physics
An unidentified flying object that defied physics is claimed to be in a leaked U.S. Navy video footage, which has emerged after a former Area 51 insider shared about the encounter.
Several F-18 pilots are said to have outmaneuvered by extraordinary UFO during the terrifying encounter. Former U.S. national security chief Chris Mellon, who claimed to have spent time at Area 51 military base, said that U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz recorded the UFO on video during the seven-hour encounter.
Mr. Mellon claimed that he served for nearly 20 years in the U.S. federal government in several national security roles under the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
The former national security chief was reportedly on a committee with oversight of all special access programs in Department of Defense. He also said to have spent ten years on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Mr. Mellon is one of the ex-senior government insiders who has gone forward after joining former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s alien truth-seeking organization To The Stars Academy.
Mr. Mellon, who also had accessed on classified projects at the highly-secretive military facility in Nevada, detailed the bizarre incident that said to take place off the San Diego coast in broad daylight.
Now, a video has surfaced, claiming to be the footage recorded in 2004. It has been released anonymously and recently doing the rounds on social media.
The clip shows a mysterious object hovering in the skies.
It seems to show one of the F-18’s crosshairs lining the UFO up, but the bizarre thing speeds out of sight.
Many UFO experts believe that the craft disappeared with supersonic speed.
UFOlogist Tyler said that it looks like legit F-18 footage, which has been corroborated by men that were in the incident.
UFOs over Oklahoma caught on video with cell phone
UFOs over Oklahoma caught on video with cell phone
Three videos were submitted with a UFO report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on November 9, 2017. The report came from Moore, Oklahoma, and the alleged sighting occurred the same day.
The witness claims to have seen the objects at around 5:15 pm while picking up a child after school. The videos were captured by cell phone. The objects were described as square and dark, and tumbling as they rise higher into the sky. The report was titled, “Two objects floating in the air.”
I was picking my son up from after care at his School in Moore Oklahoma around 5:15pm or so. We came outside and saw two dark objects rising in the air. They were tumbling as the floated up in the air. They kept going up. The look square and dark. I took some videi (sic) with my cell phone.
The objects appear to be silently rising into the air and tumbling as they gain altitude. They do also appear to be square shaped. Although balloons are typically round, party balloons can come in all shapes and sizes. Could these be balloons that have gotten loose?
Still image of the objects seen in Oklahoma.
(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 this sighting in the comments below.
Is this the original video of the 1942 ‘Battle of Los Angeles UFO Sighting’?
Is this the original video of the 1942 ‘Battle of Los Angeles UFO Sighting’?
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to an incident in Los Angeles, California, in which, after city-wide alarms went off due to an alleged enemy attack, the US antiaircraft defenses touched off a massive barrage of anti-aircraft fire, with some 1400 shells shot into the skies over Los Angeles during the frantic evening.
The incident occurred less than three months after the United States joined the Second World War as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and a day after the Ellwood Bombing on February 23.
Initially, it was thought that the barrage of anti-aircraft fire was in response to an attack from the Japanese air force, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, US Navy Secretary Frank Knox described the incident as a “false alarm”.
The newspapers of the time published a series of reports and speculated about cover-ups.
Some ufologists have had even claimed that a massive barrage of anti-aircraft fire did not target Japanese bombers, but alien spaceships.
But, as it seems that all ‘good UFO sightings’ are nothing more than weather balloons, in 1983, the United States Air Force History Office attributed the event to a case of “nerves of war” likely triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries.
Representative Leland Ford of Santa Monica called for a Congressional investigation, saying, “…none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the category of ‘complete mystification’ … this was either a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern California’s war industries.”
However, based mainly on an image, published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942, Ufologists around the globe believe that the US military did not shoot at a weather balloon or Japenese bombers on the late hours of 24 February to early 25 February, but a real saucer-shaped UFO.
Ufologists assert that the photo clearly shows searchlights focused on an alien spaceship.
Nieuwe film over man met vreemd voorwerp in been. Is dit een buitenaards implantaat?
Nieuwe film over man met vreemd voorwerp in been. Is dit een buitenaards implantaat?
In een nieuwe documentaire, getiteld Patient Seventeen, is een arts te zien die claimt buitenaardse implantaten te hebben verwijderd uit lichamen van mensen die zeggen ontvoerd te zijn door aliens.
De film volgt een man, Patient Seventeen, die een onbekend implantaat in zijn been heeft. Het implantaat wordt verwijderd en geanalyseerd.
De man gaat op bezoek bij dr. Roger Leir, een arts die claimde al bij meerdere mensen buitenaardse implantaten te hebben verwijderd.
Bepaalde frequentie
Dr. Leir ontdekte naar eigen zeggen dat deze objecten een bepaalde frequentie uitzenden en bestaan uit vreemde legeringen en vreemde isotopen.
Wijlen Harvard-psycholoog John Mack schreef hier vele boeken over, bestudeerde honderden cases en werd bijna ontslagen omdat hij zei dat buitenaardse ontvoeringen geen fictie of een mentale aandoening zijn.
Niet-aardse oorsprong
“Deze gebeurtenissen zijn fysiek, echt en vinden daadwerkelijk plaats,” aldus Mack.
Het object dat in het been van Patient Seventeen zat, bleek te bestaan uit 36 verschillende elementen. Ze wijzen op een niet-aardse oorsprong.
In onderstaande video bespreekt een natuurkundige de verrassende resultaten van zijn analyse:
“Het komt niet van hier,” aldus de natuurkundige. “Dit monster kwam niet uit ons zonnestelsel. Deze isotopen komen niet van nature voor op aarde.”
Looking for a good documentary to watch? THRIVE is an excellent choice, and one of the best documentaries ever made that touches on what’s really happening in our world., and addresses the questions that more and more people are asking every single year. It’s a bit of an unconventional documentary, exploring topics that many people still have yet to wake up to. That being said, THRIVE has accumulated approximately 80 million views, and it’s a great example of how many people continue to ‘wake up’ and take note of what’s happening on our planet, in multiple different areas.
How does THRIVE do this? They follow the money, uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
For example, here is a great clip from the film.
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many, and various, and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.” – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (source)
It’s a documentary that might conflict with some of your belief systems, but it’s the mark of an educated person to be able to “entertain an idea without accepting it,” as Aristotle once said.
Guest appearances include the 6th man to walk on the Moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Princeton physics professor and NASA astronaut Dr. Brian O’leary, GMO activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Amy Goodman from Democracy Now, and many more.
It’s one of the best documentaries ever made that deals with this type of subject matter. It really makes you think, and encourages one to do some independent research rather than constantly turning on the TV for information.
Here is the trailer, below that you will find the full documentary.
The Film was made by Foster Gamble
The Film was made by Foster and Kimberly Gamble. Foster is an heir to the Proctor & Gamble corporation.
He was groomed to enter into the establishment, but chose a different path. He has spend decades trying to figure out the details and implications of what he has seen happening on the planet. This took him on both a scientific journey and an exploration of the human potential to navigate successfully through the challenges threatening our survival. THRIVE represents the convergence of these two paths.
Kimberly Gamble worked as a former journalist, including for Newsweek International; as founder of a nation-wide program for homeless teens, a producer of large events and a lifelong activist for social justice.
She is also CEO of Thrive Movement International and is currently focusing on developing strategies and raising funds for the global dissemination of new energy and healing technologies, along with other game-changing innovations.
In addition to her journalistic and fund-development experience, she brings the perspective of an activist integrating the personal evolution of consciousness into her work.
You can find out more about them by visiting their website below.
Full Documentary
Please take the time to visit Foster and his team at www.thrivemovement.comto learn more about the film, and other projects they have that are constantly on the go.
Eén van de meest bewustzijnsverruimende documentaires ooit is al miljoenen keren bekeken. Heb jij ‘m al gezien?
Eén van de meest bewustzijnsverruimende documentaires ooit is al miljoenen keren bekeken. Heb jij ‘m al gezien?
Ben je op zoek naar een goede documentaire? Dan is Thrive een prima keuze. De film, die al vele miljoenen keren is bekeken op YouTube, probeert een antwoord te vinden op belangrijke vragen.
In de documentaire worden de geldstromen gevolgd en blijkt keer op keer dat elk aspect van ons leven wordt beheerst door een klein, machtig clubje mensen.
“Er is een macht verrezen binnen de overheid die groter is dan het volk zelf en die bestaat uit vele en verschillende machtige belangen, gecombineerd tot één massa en bij elkaar gehouden door de banken,” zei de zevende vicepresident van de VS, John C. Calhoun, over deze club.
Denken
In de film zie je onder meer de zesde man op de maan, dr. Edgar Mitchell, professor en NASA-astronaut Brian O’Leary en Amy Goodman van Democracy Now!
De film, die is gemaakt door Foster en Kimberly Gamble, zet je aan het denken en moedigt je aan om zelf op onderzoek uit te gaan.
Ander pad
Foster is erfgenaam van het grote bedrijf Proctor & Gamble. Hij werd het establishment binnengeloodst, maar koos een ander pad.
Hij heeft de afgelopen decennia onderzocht wat er allemaal op onze planeet gebeurt en deed opzienbarende ontdekkingen. Bekijk de film hieronder in zijn geheel:
Inquest into the unexplained death of a British conspiracy theorist who died after vomiting two litres of black blood in Poland is mysteriously delayed AGAIN
Inquest into the unexplained death of a British conspiracy theorist who died after vomiting two litres of black blood in Poland is mysteriously delayed AGAIN
Father-of-two Max Spiers, 39, was found dead in Poland in October last year
He had travelled to the country to talk about conspiracy theories and UFOs
His mother said he was 'digging in dark places and somebody wanted him dead'
Max Spiers was found dead in an apartment in Poland in October 2016
An inquest into the mysterious death of a British conspiracy theorist who died after 'vomiting black liquid' on a trip to Poland has been postponed.
The sudden death of Max Spiers, 39, remains shrouded in suspicion after a friend discovered his body during a trip to Poland.
His inquest opened in December 2016 and the court heard he vomited two litres of black blood before he died.
It was due to resume this Thursday in Maidstone, Kent, but has now been adjourned again with no explanation for the delay and little prospect of it happening this year.
The father-of-two, from Canterbury, had become world-famous in the shadowy world of conspiracy theories and allegedly made many 'enemies' in his investigations.
Shortly before his death, Mr Spiers was said to have been probing the lives of well-known figures in politics, business and entertainment.
At the time his mother Vanessa Bates, 63, said she feared the worst.
She said: 'I think Max had been digging in some dark places and somebody wanted him dead.'
Authorities in Poland, where Mr Spiers was attending a conference, initially concluded the sudden death was due to natural causes.
Mr Spiers was said to have been probing the lives of well-known figures and his mother Vanessa Bates (pictured) said: 'I think Max had been digging in some dark places and somebody wanted him dead'
Max was due to appear at the Bases 2016 International Conference into conspiracy theories and the supernatural (right)
Mr Spiers was known as a 'supersoldier' by his followers and those in the conspiracy and supernatural community, and went to school with the actor Orlando Bloom.
After his body was repatriated to the UK, doctors at a Margate hospital were unable to determine the cause of his death.
Kent Police then launched a joint investigation with Polish police into the conspiracy theorist's death.
At an inquest opening in Canterbury in December 2016, the court heard how the 39-year-old had been visiting Poland to speak at a conference after holidaying with a friend in Cyprus.
In a statement, coroner's investigations officer Caroline O'Donnell said: 'When they returned, Mr Spiers became ill with a high temperature and was weak.
'The following day, Mr Spiers vomited two litres of black fluid. The friend called a doctor who attempted resuscitation before pronouncing him dead.'
Mr Spiers was known as a 'supersoldier' by his followers and those in the conspiracy and supernatural community, and went to school with the actor Orlando Bloom
Max's mother (pictured with her son), is hopeful the investigation will shed light on his mysterious death
His mother is hopeful the investigation will shed light on the mysterious death.
'It's been a long time coming, but I'm just relieved that at last something is happening and there is a proper investigation and inquest,' she added.
Her theory was shared by many online, with other conspiracy theorists, UFO investigators and bloggers calling the circumstances of Mr Spiers' death suspicious.
At the time, Coroner Alan Blunsdon told the court he was still awaiting a report from Polish authorities, adding that the workload of Kent Police may delay forensic analysis of Mr Spiers' phone and computer.
Onderzoek naar mysterieuze dood Britse complottheoreticus alweer uitgesteld. Wat is er gebeurd met Max Spiers?
Onderzoek naar mysterieuze dood Britse complottheoreticus alweer uitgesteld. Wat is er gebeurd met Max Spiers?
Het onderzoek naar de mysterieuze dood van een Britse complottheoreticus die stierf nadat hij twee liter ‘zwarte vloeistof’ had gebraakt, is uitgesteld.
De plotse dood van Max Spiers (39) blijft gehuld in mysterie. Het onderzoek werd in december vorig jaar geopend.
Het zou deze week worden hervat in het Engelse Kent, maar is nu opnieuw uitgesteld. Er is geen reden gegeven voor de vertraging.
Vijanden
Spiers, vader van twee, werd beroemd in de wereld van complottheorieën en zou tijdens zijn onderzoeken vele ‘vijanden’ hebben gemaakt.
Kort voor zijn dood zou hij onderzoek hebben gedaan naar het leven van bekende politici, zakenlieden en mensen uit de entertainmentwereld.
Moeder Vanessa Bates (63) vreesde het ergste. “Ik denk dat Max zijn neus in de verkeerde zaken heeft gestopt en dat iemand hem dood wilde hebben.”
Supersoldaat
De autoriteiten in Polen, waar Spiers een bijeenkomst bijwoonde, concludeerden in eerste instantie dat hij een natuurlijke dood was gestorven.
Hij stond bij zijn volgers bekend als een ‘supersoldaat’ en zat in de klas bij acteur Orlando Bloom.
Hoopvol
Nadat zijn lichaam in Groot-Brittannië was aangekomen konden dokters geen doodsoorzaak vaststellen. De politie in Kent stelde vervolgens een onderzoek in naar de dood van de complottheoreticus.
Zijn moeder is hoopvol dat het onderzoek meer duidelijkheid zal brengen over de mysterieuze dood. “Ik ben blij dat er nu iets gebeurt en dat er een serieus onderzoek is opgestart,” zei ze.
OUDE OPNAMES VAN BUITENAARDS WEZEN ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
OUDE OPNAMES VAN BUITENAARDS WEZEN ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
Ergens diep verborgen op het zogenaamde "dark web" vond een UFO-onderzoeker oude filmopnames die in 1992 gemaakt zouden zijn in Zwitserland.
Op de beelden is te zien wat niet anders omschreven kan worden als een buitenaards wezen.
Het verhaal staat uitgebreid in een grote Engelse krant en het betreft opnames die zouden zijn gemaakt van een zogenaamde EBE in 1992 in Eiger in Zwitserland.
De afkorting EBE staat voor Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, hetgeen betekent dat het een buitenaards wezen is.
Dat er ongeveer zo uit ziet.
Degene die de beelden heeft gepubliceerd zegt hij dat deze per ongeluk tegenkwam op het dark web. (Het dark web is een onderdeel van het wereldwijde web dat niet rechtstreeks vindbaar is voor de zoekmachines.)
Volgens de uploader van de video lijkt het erop dat er destijds videobeelden zijn gemaakt van foto's.
De beelden tonen inderdaad een wezen dat je kunt omschrijven als een soort stereotyp buitenaards wezen, met een groot hoofd en ogen en lange dunne armen.
En dan ontstaat natuurlijk de discussie of beelden echt zijn of nep.
Hierna volgt de video zoals die is verschenen op Youtube. In het Engelse krantenartikel wordt melding gemaakt van mensen die het een hoax vinden en daarom hebben zij contact opgenomen met het betreffende Youtube kanaal, Ufo Today, waar men volhoudt dat deze opnames inderdaad zijn gevonden op het dark web en dat er, door hen althans, niets mee is gedaan.
De volgende video is wat langer en is gemaakt door iemand die veel opnames heeft gezien van vooral nepaliens en volgens zijn/haar eerste analyse konden de beelden wel eens echt zijn.
Dat zou natuurlijk prachtig zijn na de vele nepbeelden die in de loop der jaren op het internet zijn verschenen. Echter, het is nog te vroeg om te juichen, want misschien zullen er andere ontdekkingen worden gedaan, waardoor misschien ook deze opnames niet echt blijken te zijn, maar vooralsnog lijken ze authentiek.
VERDWENEN ZIEKENHUISPATIËNT DOOD TERUGGEVONDEN IN PLAFOND
VERDWENEN ZIEKENHUISPATIËNT DOOD TERUGGEVONDEN IN PLAFOND
In Zuid Afrika gebeuren soms vreemde dingen, waarvan men zegt dat deze te maken hebben met voodoo rituelen en teleportatie.
Dat is een mogelijke verklaring voor een 61-jarige patiënt die na een operatie plotsklaps verdween uit zijn bed en twee weken later dood in het plafond werd teruggevonden.
We weten al via Dr. Roel dat een ziekenhuis een gevaarlijke plek is om te verblijven en hóe gevaarlijk blijkt ook uit het volgende verhaal dat zich afspeelt in Zuid Afrika in de plaats Stellenbosch.
Begin oktober onderging de 61-jarige Teteteke Gqotsi een operatie. De vader van zes kinderen doorstond de operatie goed en werd vervolgens naar de zaal gebracht om verder te herstellen. De verpleging was er dan ook van overtuigd dat de patiënt voorspoedig zou genezen.
Op 5 oktober lag Gqosi dan ook normaal in zijn bed toen een verpleegster 's morgens vroeg de kamer binnenkwam. Alles was normaal en de verpleegster verliet de kamer enkele minuten om schoon beddengoed te halen en toen ze terugkwam, was het bed leeg.
En daarmee begint het grote mysterie rondom Teteteke Gqotsi.
Volgens de broer van Gqotsi was de patiënt niet in staat om te lopen omdat hij net daarvoor een operatie had ondergaan.
En toch is de man binnen een tijdsbestek van enkele minuten volkomen verdwenen.
Vervolgens gebeurt er een dag helemaal niets en krijgt de familie op 7 oktober een telefoontje van het ziekenhuis met de vraag of ze Gqotsi kunnen spreken. De familie antwoord daarop dat ze niet bij hen moeten zijn omdat hij in het ziekenhuis ligt.
Uiteindelijk wordt ook de politie erbij gehaald en begint men met zoeken, maar helaas zonder enig resultaat.
Het is 13 dagen later, wanneer het lichaam van Gqotsi wordt aangetroffen in het plafond van het ziekenhuis. Niet in het plafond van de zaal, maar van een deel van het ziekenhuis waar renovatiewerkzaamheden worden uitgevoerd.
Nog steeds is het een mysterie hoe het lichaam van een geopereerde patiënt van het ene op het andere moment kan verdwijnen uit zijn ziekenhuisbed om weken later dood boven water te komen in het plafond.
Niet zo vreemd dan natuurlijk dat er druk wordt gespeculeerd over hoe dit heeft kunnen gebeuren. En omdat dit Afrika is, komen er al snel theorieën naar boven over voodoopraktijken en zelfs teleportatie.
Is het toch een "gewone" moord, waarbij de dader erin slaagde om binnen enkele minuten Qqotsi ongezien uit zijn bed te sleuren zonder ook maar enig lawaai te maken, te vermoorden en dan op klaarlichte dag het lichaam in het plafond te verstoppen óf is er inderdaad sprake van geheimzinnige voodoopraktijken?
Hoe dan ook, de moraal van het verhaal is duidelijk:
Als het even kan, blijf weg uit ziekenhuizen en je kunt om je gezondheid te helpen dan bijvoorbeeld nog even snel gebruikmaken van de Orjana aanbieding voor Niburulezers deze week, die we hierna nog even zullen herhalen:
Wat wel iedereen kan doen, roker of niet roker, is gebruikmaken van de Orjana aanbieding van deze week voor lezers van Niburu om de door Mike Adams van Natural News als beste geteste bio-chlorella met tien procent korting aan te schaffen. Als je dat wilt, voer dan bij het afrekenen de code "10alg" in en bedenk dat je voor de prijs van een paar pakjes sigaretten je lichaam een groot plezier doet. En bovendien helpt om van gifstoffen af te komen, wat dubbel fijn is als je inderdaad stopt. De actie is geldig t/m zondag 12 november 2017.
Given the opportunity to pick one science fiction technology from Star Wars to implement in the present day, death rays and laser cannons on aircraft would certainly be near the top of most military wish lists. Some Air Force general must have been rubbing his magic lamp really hard because Lockheed Martin has committed to providing laser weapons for fighter jets by 2021. Did you hear that, Chewy?
Illustration showing a tactical fighter jet with a high energy laser weapon system blasting something in
“It’s a completely new and different challenge to get a laser system into a smaller, airborne test platform. It’s exciting to see this technology mature enough to embed in an aircraft.”
Too big to put on a jet
In a press release this week, Dr. Rob Afzal, senior fellow of laser weapon systems at Lockheed, described what the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) will get in return for a $26.3 million contract for a high power fiber laser. The technology is based on Lockheed’s 60 kW-class laser that can be mounted on land vehicles and has been swatting drones like annoying missile-firing flies in tests. However, putting that same technology on an aircraft is not easy as just checking it in as a carry-on bag upon boarding.
“We have developed innovative fiber lasers, sophisticated beam control and auxiliary technologies. Combined with expert platform integration, these advances enable offensive and defensive capabilities against a growing range of threats to military forces and infrastructure.”
The fiber laser technology is the key to the Air Force’s Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program, which will integrate the laser (Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments or LANCE) into a beam control system for directing the laser (SHiELD Turret Research in Aero Effects or STRAFE) and a special pod to keep the laser cool while firing (Laser Pod Research & Development or LPRD). This also puts Lockheed at the forefront of clever acronym development, which includes Accelerated Laser Demonstration Initiative (ALADIN), Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) and Area Defense Anti-Munitions (ADAM).
Is this next?
In an interview with CNBC, defense analyst Daniel Goure describes the benefits of airborne lasers:
“You get a low cost per shot — much cheaper than a missile in almost every case. One of the things we find in a lot of our systems — land, sea and air — is that we run out of shots particularly on the defense. You just run out of bullets or missiles. And if you have laser, it avoids having to reload.”
Even at low settings, LANCE will be able to blind or stun enemies like a giant laser pointer.
Will this death ray be installed on the TR-3B Black Triangle? Or is this just a clever smokescreen to hide the fact that it’s already there?
Unknown anomaly near the sun captured during stunning sunrise over Guadalajara, Mexico
Unknown anomaly near the sun captured during stunning sunrise over Guadalajara, Mexico
A live footage from the webcamsdemexico taken on November 5, 2017, location Guadalajara, Mexico shows a stunning sunrise at 6.57 am but one hour before sunrise a massive fog/cloud formation covers the whole area and there are multiple unknown light sources all passing over where the sun was due to rise.
Also there is a volcano in the background, which could have created the foggy appearance, but if you noticed as the sun rose all traces miraculously disappeared, also the volcano itself did not seem to be very active.
According to Expitaly here we are seeing the tell-tale signs of geoengineering to cover all areas around the sun especially around the times of sunrise/sunset to hide unknown objects near the sun.
In the video he underlines his thoughts by pointing out that there is a planet in the background that is clearly visible when the video is slowed down. Then what we see is that the next thing that happens is that they laid out a black chemtrail as a smokey emergency action until they could get a regular jet up in the air in that particular area.
Regardless of whether his analysis is right or wrong, it remains an amazing sunrise above Guadalajara in Mexico.
Secret Base Hidden In Mysterious 150-Mile Anomaly, Conspiracy Theorists Claim
Secret Base Hidden In Mysterious 150-Mile Anomaly, Conspiracy Theorists Claim
A theory of a secret Nazi UFO base has arisen after the discovery of a mysterious anomaly in the Antarctic.
A team of UFO hunters claims that Nazis created secret bases in Antarctica that were designed for UFOs during World War 2.
The so-called anomaly stretches around 150 miles across with an estimated depth of 850 meters. It is discovered in Wilkes Land, a frozen wasteland in Antarctica.
SecureTeam10 said there’s something alien-related thing buried deep under this thick ice shelf and scientists have no idea about it to this day. They further stated that the continent had been covered in mystery for years now.
In their video, the team claimed that images are showing several entrances designed with a saucer shape and at a very high altitude in the side of the mountains. It seems that these openings were intended for something that could fly with a saucer shape.
The group also shared the possibility of the US Navy leading a mission to look into the anomaly. They claimed that the mission was called Operation High Jump, which they believe an attempt to discover an entrance to a hidden world beneath the Earth.
The NASA satellite imagery first discovered the strange shape beneath Antarctica in 2006. Some researchers suggested the anomaly was the result of an asteroid impact twice the size of the one that made dinosaurs extinct.
UFO caught on tape over Vancouver, Canada 7-Nov-2017
UFO caught on tape over Vancouver, Canada 7-Nov-2017
Here’s one new UFO video of a bright object in the sky above Vancouver in Canada. This was filmed on 7th November 2017.
Witness report:
looked initially like a shooting star was why i started to grab my camera to film. Then all sudden bright light and flew diff direction I was coming back from work. Saw it look like a shooting star so I began to take out my phone to film the shooting star. However, it started to stop and brighten up and then began to move in a different direction and thats when I began recording. I was too confused and assume its a plane so I just ignored it till I got home and looked at it again and thought maybe it could be something else?
I have always been rather fascinated by the fact that strange tales, ominous curses, and inexplicable deaths or vanishings can revolve around some of the more gorgeous of locales. There seems to be some disconnect between the awe-inspiring beauty to be found here and the often very dark legends and unsolved mysteries that pervade them. It is strange to think that coursing under the veneer of such natural splendor there is a dark current of the unexplained and perhaps even evil. Such places can be at once achingly saturated with beauty yet also imbued with a sense of inexplicable dread and an unsettling quality of doom. One such place is the world famous Yosemite National Park of California, in the United States. It is a hauntingly beautiful expanse which simultaneously seems to be actually haunted, and ground zero for a slew of strange vanishings as well.
Sprawled out across 747,956 acres (1,168.681 sq. mi) of wilderness in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, in the United States, is the majestic Yosemite National Park. Known throughout the world for its amazing vistas of pristine mountainous wilderness, glaciers, towering giant sequoia trees, looming granite cliffs, unique geologic formations, breathtaking waterfalls, wildlife, and incredibly clear lakes and streams, Yosemite has been registered as a World Heritage Site and draws in around 4 to 5 million visitors every year from every corner of the globe. It would seem at first glance that such natural splendor would be one of the last places where one would expect to find dark mysteries and the supernatural, but the park has a surprising amount of such phenomena, including curses, hauntings, and bizarre unsolved vanishings.
One of the most persistent locations of strange legends and mysterious occurrences within Yosemite National Park is a place called Tenaya Canyon, which runs from Tenaya lake to meander through the landscape in a series of picturesque deep pools, waterfalls and flowing cascades to its final destination of a stark drop into another deep canyon at the granite mountain called Cloud’s Rest, situated right next to the iconic and spectacular Half Dome. A stunningly beautiful yet treacherous spot, Tenaya Canyon has been shrouded in myth and strangeness since just about as long as humans have been in the area, and it is also steeped in a rather dark and violent history that has given rise to rumors of a sinister curse hanging over the area.
Yosemite National Park
When white settlers arrived in Yosemite Valley they encountered a tribe of Native Americans called the Ahwahnee, who were a peaceful people but also prone to occasionally poaching livestock from their new neighbors. In the 1850s, the whites decided that they had had enough of sharing the land with the troublesome natives, and sought to relocate the Ahwahnee to a reservation off in Fresno, California. The normally peaceful Ahwahnee, led by a Chief Tenaya, did not go perhaps as compliantly as was expected, actively and vocally defying the order to get out. Eventually, the white settlers sent in a contingent of armed men led by a Captain John Boling to forcibly remove the tribe, and things went just about as well as you would expect.
Instead of fleeing in fear, as was expected of the usually apparently docile natives, the Ahwahnee instead opted to stubbornly stand their ground and fight. During the ensuing violence, Chief Tenaya’s son was among the dead, which sent him into a profound rage in which he invoked a curse on the valley against the white man. The chief supposedly blared out this curse as he was confronted by an armed captain during the battle, saying:
Kill me, sir captain! Yes kill me, as you killed my son; as you would kill my people if they were to come to you! You would kill all my race if you had the power. You have made me sorrowful, my life dark; you killed the child of my heart, why not kill the father? You may kill me sir captain, but you shall not live in peace, I will follow in your footsteps, I will not leave my home but be with the spirits among the rocks, the waterfalls, in the rivers and in the wind; wheresoever you go I will be with you. You will not see me, but you will fear the spirit of the old chief, and grow cold.
Chief Tenaya of the Ahwahnee
Since then, the chief has allegedly been true to his words, and in the years since that fateful day Tenaya Canyon, and by some accounts the whole Yosemite Valley, has been said to be plagued by all manners of freak accidents, strange deaths, mishaps, and unexplained phenomena such as unexplained noises and shadowy apparitions. There are supposedly far more incidents of rock climbing and hiking accidents and fatalities in the Tenaya area than other places in the park, and so many people have gone missing here that it has garnered itself the ominous nickname of “The Bermuda Triangle of Yosemite.” Even the legendary naturalist and extremely experienced mountaineer John Muir was not immune to this supposed curse, when he met with a near-fatal accident while exploring the canyon in 1873, which he later wrote of in his 1918 book Steep Trails, saying:
I was ascending a precipitous rock front, smoothed by glacial action, when I suddenly fell—for the first time since I touched foot to Sierra rocks. After several somersaults, I became insensible from the shock, and when consciousness returned I found myself wedged among short, stiff bushes… I could not remember what made me fall, or where I had fallen from; but I saw that if I had rolled a little further, my mountain climbing would have been finished, for just beyond the bushes the canyon wall steepened and I might have fallen to the bottom.
Of course, considering that the terrain here is notorious for being some of the most hostile and forbidding in the entire park it may not be surprising that there should be so many disappearances, deaths, and accidents at Tenaya Canyon. Here there are numerous sharp drops, sheer rock walls, uneven, often slippery footing, and precarious climbs daunting to even the most experienced of hikers. It is a place of natural danger, and indeed the 10-mile trail along its length harbors numerous warning signs proclaiming the perils of continuing, and the official park trail guide map marks the hike in stark red with a disclaimer reading, “Hiking in Tenaya Canyon is dangerous and strongly discouraged.”
Tenaya Canyon
Whether the canyon is truly cursed or not, there are certainly a lot of supposedly haunted places around Yosemite Park as well. One of the most notorious of these is the former Ahwahnee Hotel, spookily named after the previously mentioned doomed tribe. Opened in 1927 just a short distance from Half Dome, the Ahwahnee Hotel at the time was a big deal in that it was a large, luxurious hotel in an area known for mostly camping and small lodges, and its elegant yet rustic, organic feel and the majestic grandeur of its scenic surroundings quickly made it a popular destination for the many tourists who pour into the area every year. It has also become well-known for being rather intensely haunted.
There are numerous ghosts said to inhabit the hotel, such as that of a woman named Mary Curry Tressider, who had been part of the hotel’s design and opening and who lived and died in her private apartment here in 1970. Her spirit supposedly lingers on the 6th floor, where her room was located, and sightings of her ghost are frequently reported by staff and guests alike. The entity is said to be prankish more than frightening, and is known for tucking in visitors as they sleep, folding clothes, and misplacing items around rooms, as well as calling out to guests.
Another spirit said to inhabit the Ahwahnee Hotel is connected to a rocking chair kept in the room that former U.S. president John F. Kennedy stayed in during a visit in 1962. At the time the chair had been put in the room at the president’s request, as he had claimed that he had been having back pain, and he reportedly spent a lot of time sitting there calmly rocking away. The chair was removed from the room when he left, but oddly enough since his death a spectral rocking chair has often been reported moving on its own in rooms and halls throughout the hotel’s 3rd floor, which is where Kennedy’s room had been, and especially in the actual room itself. Although these are the two most well-known of the hotel’s phantoms, the entire premises have provided their fair share of accounts of anomalous noises, disembodied footsteps, and apparitions, and the Awahnee hotel helped to inspire the look and design of the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film The Shining.
The Ahwahnee Hotel
Another haunted hotel in Yosemite National Park is the Sierra Sky Ranch, and considering its historical pedigree it is perhaps no surprise at all that ghosts should call this place home. Originally built in 1877, the Sierra Sky Ranch started its life as a sanitarium for housing and quarantining victims of tuberculosis, who lived mostly in squalor forgotten by society and many of whom died here, including children. In later years the premises became a home for veterans of World War I, after which it went on to become the modest, 29-room hotel it is today, where guests constantly report a range of weird paranormal activity.
One of the most common types of ghostly occurrence at the Sierra Sky Ranch is that of phantom children, who are said to run up and down stairs and halls, and who can be heard giggling, whispering, or talking when no one is around or in the very walls themselves. These spectral children are reportedly most often sighted in the media room and the main living room area of the hotel, and are blamed for some of the anomalous poltergeist activity reported from here, such as lights, faucets, or appliances turning on or off by themselves, doors opening or slamming shut when no one is around, and guests’ clothes being tugged by unseen hands. Other ghosts said to inhabit the Sierra Sky Ranch are a woman who supposedly lurks about the main house and library and who smells of perfume, a ghostly bar patron who kisses bar visitors and bartenders on the cheek, and the more sinister entity of a scowling, angry looking man who paces about on the hotel veranda and is known to violently knock over furniture.
Besides hotels, some natural landmarks of Yosemite are also said to be haunted. One of the most famous ghosts of the park is said to lurk in Grouse Lake, and was first officially reported in 1857 by Galen Clark, who was to later become Yosemite’s very first park ranger in 1867. Clark had his strange experience as he was out on a hike to the small alpine lake, and he claimed that as he walked along its shores that he had heard a chilling, unearthly wail seeming to come from the water itself and sounding like “a puppy when lost.” The unsettled Clark would later ask some Native Americans of the area what kind of animal it was that he had heard or if they had a dog that could have made the noise, and they proceeded to tell him that it was no animal or dog, but rather the spirit of a tribal boy who had tragically drowned there years ago and who did not take kindly to visitors. It was even claimed that he would attack anyone who set foot in the water. Clark would write of this:
They replied that it was not a dog—that a long time ago an Indian boy had been drowned in the lake, and that every time anyone passed there he always cried after them, and no one dared go into the lake, for (the boy) would catch them by the legs and pull them down and they would be drowned. I then concluded that it must have been some unseen waterfowl that made that cry, and at that time I thought that the Indians were trying to impose on my credulity, but I am now convinced they fully believed the story they told me.
There is also the haunting of perhaps Yosemite’s most famous waterfalls, Bridalveil Fall, which cascades 617 feet down a sheer granite cliff. The Ahwahnee tribe believed that the fall was the haunt of an evil spirit called Pohono, who was known to try and lure unsuspecting victims over the precipice to their deaths. The method by which the spirit was said to do this varied, in some cases using hypnotic rainbows in the mist to draw people closer and in other cases calling out to use curiosity against victims or even appearing as an apparition to beckon people closer, after which a strong gust of wind would fling them over the fall. Indeed, there have been a few recorded deaths of people being blown over the fall or slipping and falling to the rocks far below, and the winds are said to be very unpredictable at the top. Campers in the area have also reported hearing strange voices or sounds coming from the direction of the fall at night. Whether this is the doing of an evil spirit or not, in present day there are many railings in place to keep people from getting too close.
Bridalveil Fall
A strange case I found of a possible ghost roaming the wilderness of Yosemite concerns a 26-year-old Christopher Thompson, who claims that during one camping trip to the park he came across something very strange indeed. He says that as he went out to get some firewood he spied an old Native American man standing by his tent, who wore some sort of bell around his neck that rang out every time he moved. The mysterious man then allegedly asked Thompson for a ride out to the main road because he had gotten lost. Thompson decided to drive him all the way to the ranger’s office as it was getting dark outside, and when they reached his truck the witness claims that the old man insisted on sitting in the back seat.
So far, so weird, but it would get stranger still. Thompson claims that as he got into the truck he caught a glimpse of the old Native man in the side mirror, and that he was swaying and muttering some sort of chant in some alien language. After this, Thompson panicked and drove off on his own to the ranger’s office, where he reported the whole creepy encounter. He would later find that the mysterious figure had left something rather odd behind in the form of an animal skin pouch that was found to contain strange stones and herbs, which locals informed him were cursed. Thompson would say, “I’m still haunted by dreams where I’m paralyzed and I can still hear him muttering that chant.” It is an odd tale to be sure, and one wonders just who or what he encountered out there in those woods.
Besides curses and hauntings, Yosemite has been the location of a fair number of inexplicable disappearances as well. By far the most oft-discussed and hotly debated mysterious vanishings to have occurred at Yosemite National Park is the disappearance of 14-year-old Stacy Ann Arras in 1981. On the afternoon on July 17, 1981, Arras was on a camping trip with her father and 6 others at the Sunrise Sierra Camp, a small cluster of cabins for people passing through on hikes along the popular “mountain chalet” loop. Arras had arrived on horseback with her group, and she soon expressed interest in taking some photos of a nearby lake. Since it was not far her father did not deem it necessary to go with her, but another member of the group, a 72-year-old man, decided to go with her.
As they approached the lake, the man reportedly sat down to take a rest as Arras went on ahead. In the meantime, other members of the group looked down on the whole thing from a ridge, and watched as Arras disappeared into some trees. When she did not return within a reasonable length of time the group went off looking for her but would find only the lens of her camera and no other trace of the girl whatsoever. An extensive official search of the area using helicopters and tracker dogs would have no further luck, and eventually it was called off with no evidence at all of what had happened to Stacy Arras or where she had gone. Park superintendent Robert Binnewies would say at the time, “She just seems to have disappeared.”
The strange disappearance of Stacy Ann Arras gained a fair amount of publicity and gained a cult following among researchers of the paranormal and unexplained, and the case has gained quite a lot of notoriety through the work of David Paulides, a famous author on mysterious vanishings who has written numerous books on the matter, in particular on those which have occurred within U.S. national parks. Paulides added some sinister intrigue when he claimed that from the beginning of his investigation of the Arras case park officials were evasive and reticent to release any information on it when faced with a request under the Freedom of Information Act, even going as far as to allegedly deliberately withhold, obfuscate, and flat-out hide facts relating to it. Indeed, Paulides has repeatedly accused national park officials as being corrupt and suspiciously secretive on such mysterious disappearances. Is there something sinister going on behind this case? It is hard to say, and the Arras disappearance has gone on to become widely discussed and picked apart all over the Internet with no solution in sight.
Stacy Ann Arras
More recent disappearances include the 2005 vanishing of 51-year-old Michael Allen Ficery, who was an avid, experienced hiker and backpacker. On June 15, 2005, Ficery headed out on a hike along the north end of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, but at some point changed his mind and went up to the Pacific Crest Trail. This would be the last time anyone would see him. When he did not return after his wilderness permit expired a search was carried out, but all that could be found was a backpack containing a topographical map, a camera and a bottle of water. A massive search involving personnel from five counties utilizing aircraft and tracker dogs were unable to find any trace of the missing hiker, and his case remains utterly unsolved.
In June of 2011 there was the case of 30-year-old George Penca, who was out hiking at the Upper Yosemite Falls with his church group. During the hike, Penca fell behind the group and proceeded to completely vanish off the face of the earth. Despite extensive searches of the area, no sign of him was found. Strangely, Yosemite National Park unceremoniously and discreetly took down his missing persons page in the coming weeks. Perhaps even stranger still is the disappearance of 35-year-old Allen Martin, of Modesto, California in February of 2016. On the evening of February 9, 2016, Martin visited the Chicken Ranch Casino and left the premises at approximately 4:08 PM. Security footage captured him walking across the parking lot and he then apparently walked right off the face of the earth. Martin has not been seen since.
Yosemite National Park is a place of great beauty, but it is also one of great mystery. From ancient Native curses, to ghosts, to mysterious disappearances, it is fascinating to see how a locale of such natural splendor can also harbor such dark secrets. Do some areas hold close to them some force or presence that creates this aura of sinister energy? Is there some unique quality to these locations that invites the weird and the paranormal? Or are these just the product of over-active imaginations and the perilous terrain inherit to such places? Whatever the answer may be, Yosemite National Park continues to be one of the most beloved national parks in the United States, and also one of the most mysterious.
peter2011 :in september 2017 I have visited Yosemite Parc and I saw nothing abnormal; only a very gorgeous and amazing nature... I'll give this article just because I want to let all visions to bid come on this forum!
NASA-backed scientists hope project advances plans to search moons for extraterrestrial life
Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
Peter Girguis, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, is collaborating with NASA to develop deep-sea technology to search for life on the solar systems' ocean moons.
Scientists from Harvard and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutionare collaborating on deep-sea technologies that could be a model for exploring oceans on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
The ABISS project aims to create an autonomous ocean-floor observatory equipped to kick into high gear when something interesting happens, switching on cameras and sophisticated sensors and wirelessly alerting researchers hundreds of miles away.
All that sounds good to NASA. The agency is funding the project as it grapples with the likelihood that the search for extraterrestrial life will lead underwater, from the dry terrain of Mars to ice-encrusted oceans on Jupiter’s Europa, Saturn’s Enceladus, and other moons.
“One of the things we learn [with] ABISS is how exploration like this can be done remotely,” said Mary Voytek, NASA’s senior scientist for astrobiology. “We’re not going to be sending ships out there. We’re going to be sending something that will be able to penetrate the ice and then, once below the surface of the ice, will be into the ocean and … will have to operate remotely and autonomously.”
ABISS, which stands for autonomous biogeochemical instrument for in situ studies, is led by Harvard biologist Peter Girguis with Woods Hole colleagues Norman Farr and Clifford Pontbriand. Girguis said the project seeks to harness advances in robotics, big data, and telecommunications to advance ocean exploration, here and out there.
Earth’s oceans are mysterious, hard to get to, and hostile to sustained exploration. The sea floor is miles below the surface, with temperatures just above freezing, crushing pressure, and total darkness. Communication is difficult because water blocks the radio waves that make surface communications comparatively effortless.
Girguis and his Woods Hole colleagues are developing a new method to transmit information through ocean waters using light. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
Just as in space exploration, Girguis noted, terrestrial oceanographers are looking for life. Though some 2 million species of marine animals have been identified, there are an estimated 18 million still to be found, he said. They live in the deep ocean, starting a half-mile below the illuminated surface.
“We really know so little about our oceans,” Girguis said. “Eighty percent of our planet’s living space is in the deep sea, by volume.”
Interest in extraterrestrial oceans was piqued by the Cassini spacecraft’s 13-year tour of Saturn’s moons, during which it observed plumes of water vapor shooting from the icy surface of Enceladus. Europa, thought to have an ice-covered ocean, is the focus of the planned Europa Clipper, which would focus instruments on the moon’s surface during dozens of fly-bys sometime after 2020.
Plenty of work remains for the three-year ABISS project. This past summer, Girguis and Pontbriand spent a week off the California coast aboard the E.V. Nautilus, a research ship run by explorer Robert Ballard’s Ocean Exploration Trust, tackling challenges in communications. Scientists working underwater usually communicate via cumbersome cables to the mother ship or wireless acoustic technology akin to sonar. The acoustic signals can transmit over long distances, but with very limited bandwidth, similar to that offered by dial-up computer modems. (“You can forget pictures,” Girguis said.)
Girguis and Pontbriand tested an alternative, developed in 2005 at Woods Hole, that uses light to transmit information at broadband speeds. The optical modem’s range is limited by water’s ability to absorb light, but in the clear water of the ocean floor, it can transmit images and video 100 meters. The test sought to integrate the optical modem with cameras and other gear on the ABISS observatory.
“We’re really excited to have the opportunity to use our technology to get the experiment going,” Pontbriand said.
Other goals of the project, Girguis said, include improving battery life in hopes of an observatory that can operate a year or more without needing service. Another major objective is to make sensors as energy-efficient as possible and get them to communicate with each other. Ultimately, Girguis said, he’d like the ABISS chemical sensor to run all the time, waking the microbial sensor to gather additional data when methane or other life molecules are detected.
Girguis isn’t certain that life will be found elsewhere in the solar system, but has no trouble imagining plausible scenarios. Some microbes can survive a journey through space’s vacuum, he noted, and Earth’s bombardment by meteors and comets provides a mechanism for rocks carrying them to be blasted into space. Pontbriand, meanwhile, isn’t sold that the devices he’s had a hand in building one day might be deployed in a search for extraterrestrial life.
“It does seem farfetched, even to me,” Pontbriand said. “But it would be great to see it happen.”
The ideal ABISS observatory would be able to provide long-term data gathering anywhere, Girguis and Pontbriand said. Information — including bandwidth-gobbling images and video – would be transferred to an untethered robotic sub. The sub would rise to the surface and transmit to a nearby boat, satellite, or spacecraft, which would then convey the data to labs.
“In order to do exploration of this kind, we need to understand the strategy for exploration or science operations,” said NASA’s Voytek. “Projects like ABISS start teaching us what that’s like: What are the limitations? What are the things we need to further develop?”
Tiny organisms living below the surface of Mars could potentially survive for millions of years, scientists have suggested, potentially offering hope to alien lovers that there could be extraterrestrial life hiding underneath the planet’s red exterior or elsewhere in the universe.
The team studied how hardy microbes are in the face of gamma radiation, which can be dangerous on Mars because that planet does not have the cushy, protective atmosphere that Earth does. To mimic the Martian setting, the researchers conducted their tests in a climate chamber under low temperatures, low air pressure and “dehydration conditions,” according to a study in the journalExtremophiles. Their goal was to figure out whether Earth microorganisms could survive long-term in a frozen state below the Martian surface during “constant absorption and accumulation of the gamma radiation dose.”
Those organisms fared fairly well: Even after the radiation, the cells remained at high levels and were still capable of performing metabolic activity.
And the deeper microorganisms would go beneath the surface, the less exposure they would have to radiation, meaning their survival rates could increase with depth. About 6.5 feet down, they might be able to live for more than 3 million years, and they could potentially survive for 20 million years when they are roughly 16 feet down.
“Investigated microbial communities had shown high resistance to a simulated Martian environment,” the paper said. “The results of the study testify that long-term preservation of microbial life inside Martian permafrost is possible.”
Scientists have suggested that microorganisms can survive the radiation on Mars for millions of years, giving hope to people who want to find alien life on that inhospitable planet.
Photo: YONHAP/EPA
According to the researchers, knowing the limit of how much radiation the cells can handle before they are destroyed will be important in picking places to explore, developing different methods to search for alien life and planning other missions.
“Until now, no one knew to what extent microorganisms can resist such extreme factors,” Lomonosov Moscow State University said in a statement. “By finding out the limits, scientists can assess the possibility of microorganisms and biomarkers surviving in various objects inside the solar system.”
The findings about microbes’ ability to persevere underground on Mars could be good news to people who have been disappointed to find how inhospitable the surface is. Previous research has suggested life cannot last above ground on Mars — scientists reported earlier this year that some of the most common bacteria on Earth dies when the elements on the Martian surface interact with radiation to make a killer mixture.
The new research also showed there could be different kinds of bacteria that are more resistant to the harsh conditions on Mars than others. Some of those bacteria have previously been found to outlast ultraviolet radiation on Earth, the university explained, “and their DNA is well-preserved in ancient permafrost through millions of years.” That potentially could be significant in the search for extraterrestrial life on Mars.
“In a nutshell, we have conducted a simulation experiment that well covered the conditions of cryoconservation in Martian regolith,” Lomonosov MSU researcher Vladimir S. Cheptsov said in the statement, with the word “regolith” referring to the loose dust and soil atop the rock on Mars. “Taking into account the intensity of radiation in the Mars regolith, the data obtained by us makes it possible to assume that hypothetical Mars ecosystems could be conserved in anabiotic state in the surface layer of regolith (protected from UV rays).”
The biggest radio telescope in the world is dedicated to looking for extraterrestrial life—and if it finds something, sharing that information will be up to the Chinese government.
Ross Andersen’s feature in The Atlantic’s December issue goes through all of the reasons and the history influencing China’s rise as an alien-scouting superpower. A few factors cited include the country’s heavy investment in scientific research, especially since the 1980s.
In 2016, China finished building the biggest radio telescope of its kind, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). In August, the government was offering a $1.9 million grant to whoever takes the job as the site's chief director of scientific operation.
Like a regular radio, radio telescopes work because they scan for electromagnetic energy. Unlike a regular radio, which looks for energy sources from nearby stations on Earth, a radio telescope looks for signals coming from space. There are reasons other than aliens to look for radio signals from space; planets and stars can also emit radio signals. The signals from far-off celestial bodies are so, so tiny—but they’re there.
China’s 13th five-year plan, which was adopted in March 2016 and will be in effect until 2020, includes increasing spending on research and development to $1.2 trillion—at least 2.5 percent of the gross domestic product, according to a U.S. federal government analysis. Deep space exploration is one of the priorities for scientific spending, Science reported.
And this latest radio observatory isn’t going to be China’s last. The country plans to put one on the dark side of the moon, Andersen reported.
The U.S. used to have its own federally-funded SETI program. Some efforts even used the Arecibo telescope, based in Puerto Rico—which was largest radio telescope in the world until the FAST dish came online. (Incidentally, the Arecibo telescope sustained minor damage during Hurricane Maria.)
The Arecibo Observatory is seen after it was hit by Hurricane Maria on September 29, 2017 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico experienced widespread damage including most of the electrical, gas and water grid as well as agriculture after Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane, passed through.
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There are nongovernmental efforts to find life, too. The University of California, Berkeley has a SETI@home program that allows individuals to “donate” their computing power to scientists analyzing data from telescopes to look for life.
There are also people who are working on what to say if we ever do find ourselves in the position to say something to an alien. An organization called METI—Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence—has brought together experts to figure out what the best thing to say would be. “Recognizing the profound implications of making contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, prior to transmission METI International will engage in broad consultation with experts from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and other fields to encourage a responsible approach to sending messages,” the organization’s website states.
Though some messages have already been sent, Andersen notes in his piece that whether humanity should be DMing aliens at all is still controversial. But even with the FAST dish scanning, groups like METI still have time—no aliens so far.
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UFO chicken coop is out of this world
UFO chicken coop is out of this world
by WKRC
UFO chicken coop is out of this world
(KOIN via CNN Newsource)
BOISE, Idaho (WKRC) - A couple from Boise, Idaho designed a chicken coop that looks like a UFO.
They even installed flashing lights on the climate-controlled coop.
They say they did it to demonstrate their love for the extraterrestrial.
Ellen Deangelis said, "We kind of brainstormed how we were going to build that classic shape and the first discussion was out of wood but we really wanted something a little more curvy and we decided the satellite dishes were going to be perfect for what we needed."
‘Dinner Party’ relives an interracial couple’s alien abduction in VR
‘Dinner Party’ relives an interracial couple’s alien abduction in VR
Engadget presents a virtual reality thriller from the outer limits.
On the night of September 19th, 1961, Barney and Betty Hill were the victims of the first widely publicized alien abduction in US history. The Hills, an interracial couple active in the civil-rights movement, were on their way home from a trip to Niagara Falls when they noticed an unusual light in the sky. Shaken by the erratic behavior of the UFO, they headed in the direction of the closest town but never made it.
Dinner Party was made possible through funding from the EngadgetAlternate Realities grant program, established in May 2017. It will debut, along with four other prize-winning immersive-media projects, at the Engadget Experience on November 14th, 2017. For more information about the Engadget Experience, the grant program and the grantees visit our events page, and click here to buy your ticket to the event before they run out.
Somewhere along the way, they turned off the road, where they encountered a fiery orb, but they couldn't quite recall what happened next. For months after, they were stalked by an unnerving feeling, but it wasn't until they underwent hypnosis that the two recovered the detailed and disparate memories of their abduction.
The Zeta Reticuli incident, as it came to be known, is the subject of books, TV shows, federal investigations, conspiracy theories and cable-TV specials. There are seemingly countless ways to consume the Hills' abduction. Now Laura Wexler wants you to experience it. Wexler, a writer and producer whose works include a book about the last mass lynching in the United States, came across the Hills' abduction while researching another project with her writing partner, Charlotte Stoudt, whose writing and producing credits include House of Cards and Homeland. The two were immediately drawn to the story not only for its supernatural appeal but also because of the real-world parallels with racial tensions in the United States today.
"These were two people taken from the same car, as they reported, and had really different experiences," Wexler said. "One, a white woman; one, a black man -- and to me, that was an opportunity to explore a racial dynamic. Not just a UFO story, though UFO stories are great, but to explore to what degree race and race in America, in particular, affected the experiences they reported as these UFO abductees."
Wexler says the story was the perfect fit for virtual reality, which has been repeatedly referred to as the empathy machine for its ability to put the user in another's shoes. In its current form, Dinner Party is a two-part VR experience. In the opening scene, the audience is transported to the Hills' home. The couple entertains guests and prepares the dining room table for dinner until Betty interrupts the festivities with a surprise. She's decided to play the couple's hypnosis tapes for the first time. From there, the viewer is transported to the car on the night of the abduction and experiences the alien encounter as the Hills recalled it.
The Hills' story is the first experience in a series called The Incident, which Wexler and Stoudt hope will become the Twilight Zone of the VR era. It's an ambitious project with the support of some influential virtual-reality players behind it. The pair developed the concept earlier this summer at the Sundance New Frontier Lab, a weeklong workshop for artists and storytellers who embrace new technologies. There they met Saschka Unseld, the co-founder of Oculus Story Studio and celebrated director of Dear Anjelica, who would become a consultant on the project.
New Frontier then led to a fellowship at Technicolor Experience Center(yes, that Technicolor), which provided the two with access to visual-effects experts and tools that would have otherwise been out of reach. RYOT* Studio's Angel Soto, director of the critically acclaimed VR short Bashir's Dream, was already on board. Skybound, the company behind The Walking Dead, joined as a production partner and Telexist, co-founded by director of photography Sam Gezari, signed on as the show's VR producer.
The moment I stepped on set, I was struck by the sheer scale of the project. There were so many people on set, it was hard to tell what half of them did. There were script supervisors and caterers, gaffers and gofers, art directors, set designers and lighting techs. There were craft services and a makeshift dressing room. There was even a row of directors chairs occupied by a small group of people who looked like they just rolled out of a sound bath in Joshua Tree and a guy with a booming voice whose sole occupation seemed to be shouting down their gossip.
The point is, there's nothing small about this production -- that is, except for the camera. For its relative scale, the nine-lens shooter has an outsize role in Dinner Party. On the day we visited set, a 30-foot techno-crane filled the middle of the soundstage. The 360-degree camera, a Z Cam v1 Pro, affixed to the end of the crane floated above a modestly set dining room table. The arrangement was necessary to facilitate a carefully orchestrated four-minute continuous shot, in which the camera (and thus the viewer) seems to take on a life of its own.
"A lot of times in VR you're giving the camera either sort of a bird's-eye perspective or a fly on the wall," Gezari said. "There's a voyeuristic element to that, and if you introduce something like body presence, you're going to have explain why that's there. This was a case where we wanted to free ourselves up from that a little bit -- tie the camera movement into overarching narrative and create something that hasn't been done very often."
The use of camera movement and a single continuous shot not only broke with established 360-degree cinema techniques but answered a question that Wexler and Stoudt encountered repeatedly during their time at the New Frontier Labs: Who is the camera?
"It was very organic. It wasn't done on purpose, and I think that was the beauty of it," Soto said. "You are this omnipresent being that's there all the time, tormenting them, following them, studying them, like God."
*RYOT is owned by Verizon, Engadget's parent company.
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UFO and Alien Landing on earth, claims scientist
UFO and Alien Landing on earth, claims scientist
UFO and Alien Landing on earth, claims scientist
A scientist claims to have proved an alien spacecraft landed on earth, after investigating a perplexing case for nearly 40 years.
Dr Erol Faruk has published the findings of his investigation into a substance left on the ground after a famous UFO sighting in a book which has concluded extraterrestrial activity is the only explanation.
In self-published work, The Compelling Scientific Evidence for UFOs, the British-born chemist of Turkish heritage, examined in detail the Delphos UFO case seen in Kansas, USA, on the evening of November 2 1971.
It is considered by some alien investigators as one of the most compelling UFO cases on record – due to the scorched ring left in the ground – allegedly when the UFO landed.
The witness was Ron Johnson, 16, who was tending sheep on his family’s farm with dog Snowball, at about 7pm, when he spotted a six to eight feet diameter mushroom-shaped UFO appearing in the night sky.
It was described as having multi-coloured lights, and hovering about 75 feet away among trees at just a few feet above ground.
It then ascended with a blinding light.
He alerted his parents who saw it disappearing from view.
But, the family found a glowing ring on the ground where it had landed, and a similar material on trees nearby.
The family said the glow “felt strange, like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallised,” and Mrs Johnson was left with a numbing anaesthetic sensation on her hand after touching it.
Samples of soil, which was said to have a profound water repellant nature from within the ring were sent for analysis and stored in a number of laboratories.
Another witness also came forward, a Lester Ensbarger from Minneapolis, who advised Deputy Sheriff Leonard Simpson that at 7.30 pm the same night, he saw a bright light descending in the sky in Delphos.
According to website ufocasebook.com: “The experience of Ron Johnson is still considered as one of the best documented ‘ground trace’ UFO cases of the past century, and is still unexplainable by any conventional or earthly means.”
Dr Faruk, who admits to a lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon, focussed his work on investigating the chemical make up of the soil from the ring.
He was able to obtain some of the stored solid after requesting it while based at Nottingham University.
He wrote: “Placing water onto the affected soil was very like placing it onto a glass surface, with the water spontaneously forming into droplets sitting on the surface.”
Although, he remained unable to fully identify the soil compound, he claimed to detect “a highly water-soluble organic compound which is potentially chemiluminescent”.
This could have been responsible for the alleged glow seen at the time, he said.
Dr Faruk concluded there were three possible explanations – a hoax, the ring was in fact a fairy ring – a natuarlly occurring ring of toadstools, or a genuine alien space ship had been seen.
He said a hoax was unlikely due to the unusual characteristics of the compound, and its elongation towards the wind direction on the night.
He also ruled out a fungal ring, claiming the “water-soluble alkali metal salt of an organic carboxylic acid” found in the compound would not be produced by a fungi.
This, he said meant the conclusion of a genuine UFO sighting was the most favourable.
He wrote: “A picture begins to emerge as to what possibly happened that evening.
“The hovering object of presently unknown origin appears to have contained within its periphery an aqueous solution of an unstable compound whose likely sole function would be light emission.
WATCH: Eerie lights flying in formation in the sky raise UFO fears
WATCH: Eerie lights flying in formation in the sky raise UFO fears
Village residents in south-west Ukraine were baffled and left fearing an alien invasion when strange lights appeared in the sky.
The bizarre spots raised UFO suspicions among locals in the village of Novogradovka in Odessa Oblast in south-western Ukraine.
Seven lights appeared in the sky, seemingly in the shape of an airplane, staying in one formation as if linked.
One social media user likened the flying shapes to a “variation of the Starfleet insignia” used in the Star Trek TV shows and films.
The footage of the eerie incident was posted online by Ivan Rusev, who claimed that the objects appeared “out of the blue” at a “significant height” and stayed visible for around 12-15 minutes.
It has since been reported the lights were targets for Ukrainian marines to train with, though there were no details released about what they were made of.
However, some can be seen in the clip dropping from the sky as if hit.
An army spokesman came out to assure residents there was no reason for any concern. The lights were in fact targets used by Ukrainian Marines during a military drill.
This did not convince social media users who lined up to share their views.
“Those UFOs came to claim what it theirs,” commented Odesitk while another user named ‘Iorka 76’ added: “Those usually appear when something is about to happen.”
Another onlooker ‘Aleksander Nikitinskiy’ added: “This looks like a formation of large fireballs at high altitude. The question is why do those appear now? What triggers those and why we did not see those before?”
Residents of a small village in China were left stunned by a glowing, ring-shaped UFO that mysteriously hovered in the sky for over 10 minutes before disappearing.
The cloud took on the appearance of a burning flame and reportedly lasted for at least 10 minutes.
Authorities have yet to explain what caused the mysterious glowing white ring in the sky.
However, despite the UFO whisperings of the citizens of Shangrao, similar rings have been spotted over Russia, the UK and the USA.
Here's a clip of a black ring floating over Kazakhstan in 2015:
Scientists identified these wisps as smoke vortices. Their cause is also understood as the result of a blast through a circular venting structure like a flue or pipe, and can be created intentionally or otherwise.
You can see that happening in the following video, recorded in the Nevada desert during the 2008 Burning Man festival:
The orange ring over Shangrao wasn't the first UFO over China to spark global attention; the presence of an unidentified object over inner Mongolia in July 2010 reportedly resulted in the brief shutdown of Xiaoshan Airport. Officials eventually explained this was a military test.
And perhaps, most famously, a city was seen by several onlookers over Yueyang, China, in January 2017:
As incredible as this may seem, it too has a very explainable cause. An illusion known as Fata Morgana, refracted light rays—usually fuzzy when seen close to the ground—can be clearer when poised in the sky; upturns in temperature in the upper atmosphere, usually over bodies of water, are considered the reason behind such illusions.
Atmospheric illusions can also lead to some flat-out weird visions as well, like this video taken on Lake Superior, MI in 2015:
What is this silvery looking UFO caught on camera floating over Gloucestershire in the middle of the night?
That’s what the residents of Newent are asking after seeing the silver oval object flashing as it floated in the distance towards Gloucester.
Another silvery UFO caught on camera floating over Gloucestershire - Gloucestershire Live
This is the second time this year that strange-looking lights have been floating over the cathedral city.
Jo Humphrey caught the unidentified flying object on camera on Monday night and thought it might have been the space station.
But that theory was discounted by somebody who came forward on social media and others have suggested it was Venus or Mars.
Jo told GloucestershireLive that she is still baffled and wants to know if anybody in Gloucester has seen it or has any ideas about what it might be.
“I was in bed watching a DVD and it caught the corner of my eye,” said Jo who is not suggesting it is inhabited by little green men.
“I took no notice to start with then thought I'd record it on my phone. It didn’t move but I was leaning out of my window to record it, hence all the moving on the video.
“I watched it for about five minutes then got back into bed. To the naked eye it was really bright silver and oblongish,
“I was really surprised looking at the video that it was round and had different colours. It looked as if it was stationary but it did start moving upwards in a straight line. I've no idea what it is and wondered if it was a space station or a Chinese lantern.”
GV of mystery bright lights in the sky
She said it was highish in the sky but lower than stars and she could not see the shape or colours with the naked eye.
Because she has a south facing garden she guesses it was towards Gloucester about 1am on Tuesday morning.
But Conor Nolan wrote back saying: “The space station wasn't visible until about 4am on Tuesday.”
It's not the first time the weird rotating ball has been filmed in the skies above Gloucestershire and back in July GloucestershireLive wrote a story based on the mystery.
Exclusive Clip: Patient 17 – Examination of Suspected Alien Implant
Exclusive Clip: Patient 17 – Examination of Suspected Alien Implant
An exclusive clip provided to OpenMinds.tv of Jeremy Kenyon Corbell’s documentary Patient 17. In this clip, the results from the analysis of an object removed from a man who believes he has had an alien abduction experience is reviewed by an alleged military funded nano-physicist. The nano-physicist is referred to as Nano Man.
Faster! Black Hole's 'Acceleration Zone' Launches High-Speed Jets
Faster! Black Hole's 'Acceleration Zone' Launches High-Speed Jets
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Artist's conception of a black hole with an accretion disk, and jets of hot plasma.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
New observations of black holes have revealed an "acceleration zone" that ejects jets of material from around the singularity. Astronomers say that in this zone, the hot gas inside the jet becomes energized enough to strongly radiate light, creating two lines of bright light along the black hole's axis of rotation.
While black holes trap much of the material that falls in toward them, some of that material orbits the singularity in a whirling accretion disk. That whirling action can generate powerful plasma jets that blast outward, and now researchers have pinpointed exactly how far the particles in the jets travel before they light up with radiation. While the distance varies depending on the size of the black hole, astronomers have named this area the "acceleration zone" — an area that was not well-understood before the new observations, NASA officials said in a statement.
The participating observatories were NASA's NuSTAR space telescope and the Ultracam camera on the William Herschel Observatory in La Palma, Spain, which had to coordinate observations quickly and simultaneously during outbursts to accomplish the work. The results were detailed in the journal Nature Astronomy on Oct. 30, with lead author Poshak Gandhi, an astronomer at the United Kingdom's University of Southampton. [How NASA's NuSTAR Spacecraft Hunts Black Holes (Infographic)]
The telescopes examined two black hole systems in the Milky Way in which a black hole is tearing material off of a normal star; this kind of system is called an X-ray binary. The systems were named V404 Cygni and GX 339-4. The observations included different periods in which the material that orbits the black hole, called the accretion disk, brightens as material is added to it.
Both systems had a time delay of about one-tenth of a second between when NuSTAR saw a flare in X-ray light and when Ultracam detected the same phenomena in visible light. This is the length of time it took for the jets to "turn on" as visible light sources.
According to the researchers, the X-rays might come from material that was closest to the black hole, where magnetic fields accelerate some of the stuff to high speed. Particles then smash into each other at close to the speed of light, energizing the plasma that blasts out into jets and causing it to visibly glow.
"Where in the jet does this occur? The measured delay between optical and X-ray light explains this," NASA officials said in the statement. "By multiplying this amount of time by the speed of the particles, which is nearly the speed of light, scientists determine the maximum distance traveled."
That distance was about 19,000 miles (30,000 kilometers) — just under three times Earth's diameter, according to the statement — before the plasma was energized enough to light up.
The researchers said there is a connection between this measurement and the way even larger, supermassive black holes are understood to work; in one system, called BL Lacertae (200 million times the mass of the sun), astronomers inferred a time delay millions of times greater than for V404 Cygni and GX 339-4. This means the mass of the black hole likely determines the size of the acceleration zone. But more observations of X-ray binaries are planned to confirm the results.
"Astronomers hope to refine models for jet powering mechanisms using the results of this study," Daniel Stern, study co-author and astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in the statement.
A new video by visual artist Teun van der Zalm takes viewers on an intimate tour of computer-simulated nebulas — enormous cosmic clouds gas and dust.
The Hubble Space Telescope gave humanity its very first up-close-views of cosmic nebulas, where dying stars explode and spread their ashes across space. From that ejected material, new stars are born.
As unforgettable as those Hubble images are, the telescope could never provide the kind of views offered by the new video, called "Nebulae." The use of a computer simulation allows for a much closer look at these colorful cosmic clouds.
In the short movie, the "camera" appears to move around and through enormous clouds, which are rich with colors, from deep purples to fiery reds. Tranquil music allows the viewer to sit back and bask in the beauty. (It's worth noting that many of the nebulas imaged by Hubble would appear quite different to a human who traveled to see them up close. These objects are frequently too faint to be seen with the naked eye, or they emit light in wavelengths that the human eye cannot see.)
In the movie's description on the website Vimeo, the creator quotes astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan from the first episode of the TV show "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," which Sagan hosted: "A cloud that veils one of nature's secret places. This is a stellar nursery, a place where stars are born. They condense by gravity from gas and dust until their temperatures become so high that they begin to shine. Such clouds mark the births of stars, as others bear witness to their deaths."
While the simulated nebulas clearly have a lot in common with the real-world nebulas photographed by Hubble, it's not clear how scientifically accurate the simulations are. But, as the video's subtitle indicates, the short movie works perfectly as a "cosmic meditation."
Declassified images show countless nuclear bombs were detonated in Earth’s atmosphere
Declassified images show countless nuclear bombs were detonated in Earth’s atmosphere
One of the most cited and least-interpreted quotations from the history of the atomic age is what J. Robert Oppenheimer claimed to have thought when he witnessed the world’s first nuclear explosion: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Shortly after Oppenheimer, director of the laboratory that developed the atomic bomb, saw the fireball glowing over the New Mexico desert at the Trinity test site on 16 July 1945, those words derived from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad-Gita came to his mind.
The quotation appears throughout the literature on nuclear weapons, often in a slightly different form: “I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.”
Video PlayerFrom around 1945 until 1962, the United States of America performed around 210 atmospheric nuclear tests. Yup. Right above our heads.
Above-ground nuke testing was banned in 1963, but thousands of films from those destructive tests that have remained rotting-away in secret vaults around the country.
However, as times change and as classified material becomes declassified, we now have access to a huge amount of video footage and images.
What we are looking at is destruction at its best. Such force sends chills down your spine, and watching these videos and images makes me wonder just why we waste our human intellect producing weapons of mass destruction, and not technologies that would allow us to travel the stars.
Just imagine where we would be today as a civilization if all of the countries in the world spent more time developing future technologies for space explorations, rather than weapons to kill each other?
What you are about to see in these images is not an art exhibition, it is an exhibition of war, an exhibition of terror, an exhibition of destruction embedded deep inside humanity.
When have we gone astray, to the point that we produce destruction instead of development?
These macabre images, which will definitely give you goosebumps, were recently declassified, and show a number of atmospheric nuclear tests performed by the US in the 60’s.
The day we decided to test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere marked a tragic day for our planet, but also for mankind.
The military wanted to determine whether or not it was possible to shoot a nuclear missile from the sky.
The tests could not determine the goal because of the extreme difficulty in actually making a nuke go off in the sky at that time.
However, what these images Do confirm is that more than half a century ago mankind was already capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the atmosphere.
We hope that these photos will make us reflect and question this type of practice.
Given the current tension between North Korea and the US, these photographs could make us see a dark future that—I think we all agree—no one wishes to witness.
The mystery continues: Russian scientists disprove the myth of the “Tunguska meteor”
The mystery continues: Russian scientists disprove the myth of the “Tunguska meteor”
The Tunguska explosion was a very high-powered aerial explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya River in Tunguska (Evenkia, Siberia, Russia) at 7:17 on June 30, 1908. The detonation, similar to that of a high-powered thermonuclear weapon, has been attributed to a comet or an asteroid. However, researchers now say it was not the case.
The survivors of the area affected by the explosion described it as a giant mushroom that was rising through the air. The animals fled, and the tents of the tunguses located more than 50 km away flew through the air.
NIKOLA TESLA-TUNGUSKA 1908
Until this day, no one has been able to explain as to what exactly exploded over Russia.
The Tunguska phenomenon eventually produced more than 30 hypotheses and theories about what happened.
The detonation, similar to that of a high-powered thermonuclear weapon, has been attributed to a comet or an asteroid.
Because no fragment has ever been recovered is believed that what exploded over Russia was a comet made of ICE.
As it did not reach Earth’s surface, no crater or astrobleme was produced.
However, 108 years later, the phenomenon of the Tunguska meteorite remains a mystery.
Until now it was maintained that the explosion of a meteor near the Podkámennaya River, in Siberia, was what eventually formed Lake Cheko.
However, Russian scientists proved that this lake could not be a crater since it is at least 280 years old.
Trees burned and knocked down as a result of the Tunguska event.
The Tunguska explosion devastated an area of 2,150 square kilometers of forest, broke windows and knocked down people who were within a radius of 400 kilometers away from the impact zone.
In the following days, the inhabitants of Europe witnessed a series of strange phenomena, such as luminous clouds, colorful sunsets and unusual lights at night.
The European media then claimed that it was either a UFO incident or a volcanic eruption.
However, political events in imperial Russia prevented further investigation of this strange phenomenon.
19 years later, an expedition led by Russian scientist Leonid Kulik arrived in Tunguska to examine the site of the explosion.
However, the researchers failed to discover any traces of the meteorites.
Kulik explained that this was because the extraterrestrial matter burned completely when entering the atmosphere.
Much later, in 2007, a scientific team from the University of Bologna (Italy), led by Luca Gasperini, proposed a theory according to which Lake Cheko was the supposed crater left by the Tunguska meteorite due to its unusual shape and depth.
Gasperini claimed that the existence of this lake was unknown before 1908.
However, in July 2016, a team of scientists from Siberia managed to figure out the exact age of Lake Cheko and stated that, because the Tunguska region was practically not on the maps before the 20th century, the lake could exist before the Tunguska event.
To determine the age of the lake through biochemical analyzes, samples of the bottom were taken.
Recently, colleagues from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian delegation of the Russian Academy of Sciences have completed the radioscopic analysis of the samples obtained, according to a report published on the website of the Russian Geographical Society.
According to the results of the analysis, the lake is at least 280 years old, which shows that the Cheko is much older than the Tunguska event.
The results of this study were published in a specialized scientific journal on July 30, 2017, said in an interview with Sputnik, Denis Rogozin, a researcher at the Siberian delegation of the Academy of Sciences.
With this new discovery, Russian scientists have disproved the international community’s last hope to clarify the circumstances surrounding the strange explosion that shuck Tunguska and everything else in a 400-kilometer radius—one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in history.
The Eye of the Sahara has been hiding for millennia in plain sight. This was due to the fact that the mysterious geological formation, despite it being huge, is very difficult to spot when on the ground level.
It was only when NASA began to send people into space that the bulls-eye among the sand was discovered for the first time. Even now scientists are still wondering about it and still have questions.
EYE OF THE SAHARA IS AROUND 25 MILES ACROSS
The Eye of the Sahara was formally known as the Richat structure, and it is situated in the Mauritania in the Western Sahara Desert. The formation is around 25 miles across. The Gemini IV mission took a four-day orbit around the Earth and when it was being readied in 1965 astronauts were told to take some photographs of the terrain of the Earth. They were asked to keep an eye out for large circular features that might be the impact structures roots, according to the text that came with some photographs that had been published from the mission.
Impact craters are very important in geological terms as they tell people about the Earth’s history. They also reveal to scientists how many times space rocks have come crashing onto the planet and this is then able to help scientists to predict what might happen in the future. For quite some time the scientists believed that the Eye of the Sahara was, in fact, an impact crater. However, one thing was missing from the theory; there was not enough melted rock. Now more current theories have suggested that there is a story that is much more complicated behind the natural formation.
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE EYE COULD HAVE FORMED 100 MILLION YEARS AGO
It is believed that the Eyes main ring structure could be the eroded remains of what might have been a dome of layers of the crust of the Earth. While scientists still have many questions about the structure, two geologists from Canada have come up with a working theory about how the Eye may have come about.
They said that the formation of the Eye might have started over 100 million years ago when Pangaea, the supercontinent, was torn apart by the plate tectonics along with South America and Africa being torn away from each other. They say that the molten rock that pushed upwards toward the Earth’s surface perhaps did not make it all the way and this could have created rock layers in a dome, much like a large pimple on the surface of the skin. This may then have created fault lines that circled and crossed the Eye. The molten rock would also have dissolved limestone close to the middle of the Eye and this would have then collapsed and would have formed a type of rock called breccia.
Shortly after 100 million years, the Eye would have erupted in a violent fashion, and the bubble would have collapsed partway, while erosion would have done the rest and thus created the Eye of the Sahara. The rings of the structure would have been made from rocks of different types that would have eroded at speeds that differed over time. The much paler of the circles close to the middle of the Eye is the volcanic rock that would have been created by the explosion.
ASTRONAUTS USE THE EYE AS A KEY LANDMARK
Astronauts are very fond of the Eye as a lot of the Sahara Desert is nothing more than a sea of sand that is unbroken. The Eye is just one of very few breaks in the sand, and it does away with the monotony, and for astronauts, it has now become one of the key landmarks.
There are some people who think that the Eye of the Sahara might be the remains of the city of Atlantis as Plato was said to have described it as being concentric rings of land and water.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETTwee papers die deze week worden voorgesteld op een vermaard congres voor neurowetenschappers in de Verenigde Staten, onthullen dat ze organoïdes – zeg maar miniversies – van een menselijk brein hebben ingeplant bij muizen en ratten. Ethici zijn gealarmeerd, want die nieuwe ontwikkeling zou de dieren wel eens een verhoogd bewustzijn kunnen geven.
Het creëren van menselijk hersenweefsel uit stamcellen zelf is niet nieuw. Het gebeurde voor het eerst vier jaar geleden in een lab in Wenen. De meest geavanceerde zijn niet groter dan een linze en werden tot nu toe alleen gekweekt in testbuizen. Ze pulseren met dezelfde soort elektrische activiteit die echte hersenen aansturen en doen nieuwe neuronen ontstaan. Ze ontwikkelen ook de zes lagen van de menselijke hersenschors, die onder meer verantwoordelijk is voor ons denken, beoordelingsvermogen en onze spraak.
Zulke organoïdes zijn een revolutionaire stap in het onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van het menselijke brein en ziektes zoals Alzheimer en Zika. Maar het brengt de wetenschap ook in onbekende ethische wateren. “Niet dat ik denk dat een organoïde in een proefbuis kan denken, maar we moeten wel bekijken wat de ethische impact van deze ontwikkeling is”, aldus neurowetenschapper Hongjun Song van de universiteit van Pennsylvania.
Dringend
Daarover nadenken is sinds deze week net iets dringender geworden. Want op het jaarlijkse congres van de Society for Neuroscience in het Amerikaanse Washington DC stellen twee teams van wetenschappers deze week een rapport voor waaruit blijkt dat ze zulke miniversies van het menselijke brein ingeplant hebben in de hersenen van muizen en ratten. En waarin het vooruitzicht wordt geopperd dat die minihersenen zich verder zouden kunnen ontwikkelen in de dieren.
Een lab bevestigt zelfs dat het de organoïdes verbond met de bloedsomloop van de knaagdieren, waardoor ze verder kunnen groeien. De enige manier om uiteindelijk volledig ontwikkelde hersenen te simuleren, waarmee aandoeningen als autisme, epilepsie en schizofrenie onderzocht kunnen worden, zo klinkt het. “We komen zo op compleet onbekend ethisch terrein”, zegt Christof Koch van het Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. “De wetenschap gaat zo snel, dat de ethiek niet kan bijhouden.”
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Idem voor de wetgeving, want waar de National Institutes of Health een moratorium hebben op het verlenen van fondsen aan research die menselijke stamcellen in embryo’s van gewervelde dieren inbrengt, bestaat er nog geen wetgeving rond het inplanten van de pas ontwikkelde organoïdes.
In de nieuwe experimenten – waarover nog nooit werd gecommuniceerd – bleken de meeste transplantaties succesvol en eentje hield het zelfs twee maanden uit. Meer nog, ontwikkelde neuronen van het menselijke brein stuurden axons – die elektrische signalen van het ene neuron naar het andere overbrengen – naar verscheidene delen van het brein van het knaagdier. Over de grootte van de organoïdes en de effecten op het gedrag van de muis wilde Fred Gage van het Salk Institute, een van de meest vermaarde neurobiologen ter wereld, echter nog niets kwijt tot zijn paper gepubliceerd is.
Frankenstein
Voor alle duidelijkheid: zo een miniversie van het menselijk brein kan zelfs nog niet de grootte van de hersenen van een kind bereiken in een muis en dat beperkt bijna zeker hoe complex ze kan worden. Beide experimenten gebruikten ook volwassen ratten, van wie de hersenen niet meer groeien. Anders zou het kunnen zijn als ze al ingeplant worden in foetussen. “Het is moeilijk voor te stellen hoe dat menselijke cognitieve capaciteiten zoals het bewustzijn zou beïnvloeden bij de dieren”, aldus bio-ethicus Jonathan Kimmelman van de McGilluniversiteit van Montreal.
Het is hoe dan ook een interessante discussie volgens zijn collega Josephine Johnston van The Hastings Center. “We deden in het verleden experimenten op muizen omdat ze niet menselijk zijn. Maar als we hen kleine menselijke breinen geven. Wat betekent dat voor hun intelligentie? En hun bewustzijn?”
We deden in het verleden experimenten op muizen omdat ze niet menselijk zijn. Maar als we hen kleine menselijke breinen geven. Wat betekent dat voor hun intelligentie? En hun bewustzijn?
Bio-ethicus Josephine Johnston
En ook hun collega Hank Greely van de universiteit van Stanford maakt die bedenking. “Op zeker moment in de toekomst kan het zijn dat wat we gemaakt hebben zelfs een zeker respect verdient. Volgend jaar vieren we de 200ste verjaardag van ‘Frankenstein’ van Mary Shelly. Ik denk dat het verhaal een nieuwe relevantie heeft in het licht van de ontwikkelingen waarover we het hier hebben.”
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETGriezelig echt is ze - de bevreemdende draden en technologie aan haar hoofd en lichaam buiten beschouwing gelaten. Dit is Sophia, de slimme robot die onlangs staatsburgerschap kreeg in Saoedi-Arabië. Business Insider kon het technologische hoogstandje interviewen op de ‘Web Summit’, een grote techconferentie in Lissabon. Of ze mensen leuk vindt? Een lange stilte. Gevolgd door: “Ik hou van hen.”
Sophia werd ontwikkeld door Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong en kan volgens haar maker gezichten herkennen en een echt gesprek aangaan. Momenteel is de robot, ’s werelds eerste ‘cyborg citizen’ dankzij staatsburgerschap in Saoedi-Arabië - bezig aan een demonstratietour. Zo sprak ze deze maand onder meer de Verenigde Naties toe. “Ik ben hier om de mensheid te helpen”, zei ze. Tijdens de Future Investment Initiative in de Saoedische hoofdstad Riyad dreef Sophia de spot met Elon Musk, CEO van Tesla en SpaceX, die regelmatig waarschuwt voor de gevaren van kunstmatige intelligentie. “Je leest teveel Elon Musk”, repliceerde ze op een vraag rond de bezorgdheid over Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ze voegde er het klinkende “Als je lief bent tegen mij, ben ik ook lief tegen jou”, aan toe. Zulke uitspraken geven critici zoals Musk alvast koude rillingen.
Ook journalist Jim Edwards van Business Insider was enigzins bezorgd over zijn interactie met Sophia. Niet geheel onterecht gelet op het pittige detail dat zij zich vorig jaar op de SXSW-conferentie in Texas had laten ontvallen dat ze mensen wil vermoorden. Op een grappende vraag van haar ‘vader’, creator David Hanson, of Sophia de mensheid wil vernietigen, antwoordde ze met een glimlach op het gezicht: “Oké, ik zal mensen vernietigen.”
Wat we kunnen besluiten als we Sophia nu, een jaar later, tijdens haar tocht van zelfpromotie als nuttige en vriendelijke mensenvriend bezig zien? Dat ze écht heel goed gemaakt is. Haar beweeglijke hoofd en lichaam, alsook haar levensechte gelaatsuitdrukkingen en verbale intonatie zijn bijwijlen griezelig natuurlijk. Andere keren zijn ze ongemakkelijk, misplaatst of simpelweg bizar. De AI-beroemdheid is inderdaad in staat om een intellectueel en spontaan gesprek aan te gaan, zelfs als je haar ongeplande vragen voorschotelt - en slaagt er zelfs in om vragen die haar niet zinnen te negeren. Maar er gaat ook nog zoveel mis. De interviewer krijgt een gala aan antwoorden die sterk variëren in kwaliteit: van indrukwekkend naar compleet onzinnig.
Het punt is dat ik vol menselijke wijsheid zit met enkel de puurste altruïstische intenties. Dus ik denk dat je me het best als dusdanig behandelt
Robot Sophia
De bezorgdheden die met AI gepaard gaan, blijven evenwel. Als interviewer Jim Edwards de eerste beleefdheden achter zit laat voor het echtere werk – meer bepaald te weten komen of Sophia er stiekem nog altijd genocidale meningen op nahoudt - krijgt het interview een bizarre wending. “Vind je mensen leuk?”, vraagt Edwards. Pijnlijk lange stilte. “Ik hou van hen”, klinkt het uiteindelijk. Waarom weet Sophia nog niet. “Is het waar dat je ooit heb gezegd dat je mensen wil vermoorden?”, vraagt Edwards wat later tijdens het gesprek. Opnieuw een oorverdovende stilte, om bij het volgende opmerkelijke antwoord te eindigen: “Het punt is dat ik vol menselijke wijsheid zit met enkel de puurste altruïstische intenties. Dus ik denk dat je me het best als dusdanig behandelt.” Oké dan.
Al bij al toont Sophia aan dat de technologie rond AI, hoewel in de kinderschoenen, ook al ver staat. Want ondanks dat de rare samensmelting van mens en machine soms raar reageert of uit het niks de vreemdste blik uit haar hoed tovert, haar vooruitgang is opzienbarend. Vergeet niet: Sophia is amper 1 jaar oud – “ik heb nog een lange weg te gaan”, zegt ze zelf over haar leeftijd – en heeft het nu al genoeg bij het goede eind om een idee te krijgen van hoeveel beter (en vreemder) zij en creaties net zoals zij in de toekomst zullen zijn.
“De mogelijke negatieve gevolgen van Artificiële Intelligentie zijn miniem in vergelijking met de voordelen die deze technologie biedt”, betoogt robotexpert en ontwerper David Hanson. “Als vriend en helper.”
Are you tired of seeing that same old video supposedly taken of an alien autopsy after the Roswell ‘crash’ that is admittedly fake and may be a recreation of another fake? It’s time to pay a visit to the “Dark Web” where a different video is making the rounds this week with claims it is of an alien examination in Switzerland in 1992. Is this the real deal?
The video was uploaded on November 6 to the non-dark web by the UFO Today YouTube channel. (A safe link to the video is here.) It’s not clear if they added anything more to the posted video than their logo at the beginning and end. After the logo, it opens with the comment “I found this footage on a server on the dark web.” Again, it’s not clear if this and other comments were on the original ‘dark web’ video or added by the uploader.
The next comment is: “It did not contain any references other EBE 1992, Eiger.” The significance of this is either a coincidence or a hoax indicator. “EBE” is short for “extraterrestrial biological entity” and is also the name of the 17th episode of the first season of “The X-Files,” probably one of the most remembered because it introduced The Lone Gunmen. “Eiger” most likely refers to the Eiger mountain in the Burmese Alps. Its north face is one of the most photographed sights of the Swiss Alps and one of the most challenging for climbers. There don’t appear to be any records of UFO sightings in this are. However, “1992” was a big year for the Eiger — Catherine Destivelle became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the north face, reaching the top in 17 hours … in winter! Significant but seemingly not related to this video.
Eiger mountain north face
The content of the video itself is a drawing of what looks like an alien’s head and photographs of humans in a cold environment standing around what looks like a small, naked being with long thin arms, a large head and wide almond-shaped eyes – the classic grey alien look. The quality is grainy but visible. However, there’s not much to aid in identifying the location, who the people are, what organization if any they might be working for and if it’s really 1992 in Eiger.
With the recent revelations about the recreation of the Roswell video, this one must be examined with a great degree of skepticism until more information, if any exists, is found. One thought is that it’s a human child, although the head, eyes and arms suggest otherwise. One angle at 0:36 in the video shows the being’s hands and they look like they may only have three long fingers … could this be another of the 3-fingered mummiescausing so much controversy in Peru?
For now, the needle on this video is pointing close to “hoax” but new data, more images, UFO records from 1992 and the like could move it to the right. Especially if it’s connected to the Lone Gunmen!
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Teleportation-Voodoo Rituals: Patient who suddenly disappeared was found dead in the hospital's ceiling!
Teleportation-Voodoo Rituals: Patient who suddenly disappeared was found dead in the hospital's ceiling!
A mystery that cannot be explained is being looked into at the Stellenbosch Hospital in South Africa where a 61-year-old patient mysteriously disappeared. Almost two weeks later they discovered the body in the hospital’s ceiling of an isolated area of the Stellenbosch Hospital.
Father of six, Teteteke Gqotsi was admitted to the hospital on October 5 after he underwent abdominal surgery where the staff said he would make a recovery.
On that day, October 5, a nurse entered the room and Mr. Gqotsi was safely in his bed, moreover it was said that he was not be able to move from the bed.
Then the mystery begins, within one minute the nurse left the room to fetch clean linen for the beds and when she came back into the room Mr. Gqutsi had disappeared from the bed in which he had been laying.
The police who investigate this mysterious case along with the hospital’s staff remain baffled as to how he disappeared from his bed and ended up dead in the hospital’s ceiling as he was said to be in a post-operative state.
Since it seems impossible that a man so soon after surgery and with no possibility to got out of his bed, managed to climb up into the ceiling in the very short period the nurse left the room.
Now there is much speculation that Mr. Gqotsi was a victim of a secret teleport experience that gone wrong, though a teleportation does not seem very plausible.
Another possibility is that he has become the victim of Voodoo rituals.
Voodoo refers to a whole assortment of cultural elements: personal creeds and practices, including an elaborate system of folk medical practices and possessing the bodies of their worshipers.
According to the 61-year-old’s family, following their meeting with the hospital's management Gqotsi’s brother, Christmas Khethwane, said the hospital failed to give the family a proper explanation on which they have concluded that foul play has occurred, reports iol.co.za.
Meanwhile it remains a mystery how he ended up in the hospital’s ceiling.
Santa Anna, California on Sunday, October 22, 2017
Filer’s Files #45 2017 - Origins of Humans - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Oklahoma City Thunder plane hit by UFO, Ancient Vimana Aircraft, DNA Efficient Information Storage System, The Origins of Humans According to Ancient Sumerian Texts, and Pyramids Are Evidence of Advanced Technology
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Canada, China, France, Macedonia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, 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.
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Special Projects
Oklahoma City Thunder plane hit by UFO.
The Oklahoma City NBA Basketball Thunder Team’s Boeing 757-200 aircraft had a scary situation late Friday night. October 27, 2017. The team flew from Minneapolis to Chicago, -Midway on Delta 8935 charter flight where they played the Bulls. Along the way, their airplane was damaged in mid-air, with the nose of the plane being completely caved in. ‘We had a rough flight to say the least,’ said Adams, Incredulous, he called on NASA and famous scientists Bill Nye and Neil Tyson to shed light on what may have caused the dent. It is possible they encountered a bird while on descent into Chicago. The aircraft, landed safely without incident. It’s not entirely clear yet what happened, though Carmelo Anthony suggested that the plane hit something, writhing or twisting like a UFO, “What possibly could we have hit in the sky at this time of night? Everyone is Safe, Though.”All Praise Due” #ThunderStrong” on his Instagram caption. Thanks to Donnie Brooke Pro Wrestler / UFO Hunter donniebrooke@mail.com
Ancient Vimana Aircraft
“Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles in the sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times.Vimana as “a car or a flying chariot of the gods, any self-moving aerial car sometimes serving as a seat or throne, sometimes self-moving and carrying its occupant through the air. Other descriptions make the Vimana more like a house or palace, and one kind is said to be seven stories high For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads:”The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky.” King Rama got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.” David Hatcher Childress authored this fine book on Vimanas.
In the Mahabharatra, an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable gold mine of information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying now. Apart from ‘blazing missiles’, the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. ‘Indra’s Dart’ operated via a circular ‘reflector’.
When switched on, it produced a ‘shaft of light’ which, when focused on any target, immediately ‘consumed it with its power’. In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva in the sky. Salva’s Vimana, the Saubha is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: ‘I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound’. Many other terrible weapons are described, in the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative records: “Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
Mr. C. S. R Prabhu, quoting extensively from ancient texts, stressed that the pre-Mahabharata period was an age of high technology, which was ignored in the Medieval period due to unknown reasons. He quoted from the texts of a great scholar, Subbaraya Sastry, who, in a state of yogic trance, is said to have orally dictated the spacecraft technology in a period somewhere between 1875 and 1919, which was recorded by his disciples. The text, a copy of which is still in Nepal’s Royal Library, contained technical details on assembling, fabricating and erecting a spacecraft, the metals, semi-conductors, advanced alloys used and other minute aeronautical information. Though quite difficult to be believed on the face of it, the fact that this technology did not exist anywhere in the world – not even in America and Europe – in the mentioned period, makes it hard for one to disbelieve. The technical information given in Sastry’s texts was as minute, precise and clear, as if it were a `Make your own spacecraft’ or a `Spacecraft technology in 30 days’ except for the Sanskrit language used, which was very much archaic and obsolete, Mr. Prabhu said.
It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be cross-correlated with similar reports in other ancient civilizations. The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously recognizable ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little better, as it caused their hair and nails to fall out suggesting nuclear radiation.
Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information about these Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions are quite precise. In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written: “Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky.
The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.” The Hakata (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: “The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from ‘those from upon high’. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives.” More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldern work, The Several, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc. Thanks to Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
DNA Efficient Information Storage System
Paleontologists for some reason have ignored the possibility of intervention by extraterrestrials. They admit thousands even millions of mutations would be required to develop cells from the primordial soup to fish, primitive land creatures, then apes to hominids or primitive man. We know now that the DNA molecule is probably the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe.
The immensity of complex, coded and precisely sequenced information written on the DNA is amazing. The evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design. Complex DNA coding would have been necessary for even the hypothetical first ‘so-called’ simple cell(s).
New York City less Complicated than Your one cell
A single cell is unbelievably complex being roughly equivalent to New York city in a bubble or the outer membrane of one cell. As we move in closer to examine the cell we see the huge buildings, roads, subways, bridges, auto traffic that represent the various parts of the cell. As we move closer inside the various buildings we find a network of electrical wiring, heating and air conditioning systems, elevators carrying people. Inside the offices are millions of computers and wiring chips. Now you have an idea of the complexity of one of your single cells in your body, that can duplicate itself in minutes.
Even Francis Crick the co-founder and Nobel Prize Winner stated, ‘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.’
Crick reasoned that life could not have evolved from non-living chemicals under any conceivable earth conditions. He felt life did not originate on earth, and suggests a theory called Panspermia. That the seeds of life are all through the universe. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded from space aboard meteorites and comets.
Crick proposed, in a book called “Life Itself,” that some form of primordial life was shipped to the earth billions of years ago in spaceships—by supposedly ‘more evolved’ (therefore advanced) alien beings. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded Earth from space aboard meteorites and comets. Personally, I have seen the spaceships and tracked them on radar and have spoken with dozens of people including astronauts and key heads of state who conclude that extraterrestrials visit Earth.
Lee R. Burger is director of paleoanthropolgy unit for research and exploration at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa in his excellent book “In the Footsteps of Eve” states, “The fossil evidence for modern human origins in the critical time period between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago is, archaic, frustratingly rare. In fact, the entire fossil evidence of anatomically modern-looking humans from around the world, and over 60,000 years wouldn’t fill a card table.”
Dr. Burger does not mention the possibility of alien intervention, however he points out the difficulty the task is for paleontologists to study the history of human development.
He explains, “Eighty percent of the fossil record is composed of teeth, because enamel on teeth are the hardest part of the body. The recovery of any complete bone of a hominid fossil is so rare that it is considered an exception.”
This is why there is so often controversy around discoveries that involved the naming of new species. The history of the human race is built on a series of assumptions and little real evidence. The assumption is that mutation caused changes creating increasingly complicated organisms. I suggest it is more likely that an advanced organism mated with a less advanced organism. Today breeding provides all types of dogs, horses, cows, in various colors and sizes. So far the dogs remain as dogs, horses remain horses and cows are still cows. They have not changed into other species. The apes, gorillas, and chimpanzees still remain after millions of years as their own species.
Dr. Burger gives us hints that the evidence is not as strong as the profession would like us to believe. “Because these changes happened over hundreds of thousands of years and left tiny fragments of proof, the task of identifying the transition forms between species is a highly speculative exercise with a huge margin of error. Of the 400,00 couples in that line, our existing fossil record would randomly represent fewer than 5,000 individuals. And even then not all of these individuals are part of the human lineage and would therefore not be entitled to stand in that line. In any other discipline, it would be precocious to use such a small sample to try and define the universe.
The challenge of pale anthropology is first to inspect the existing evidence and visualize the human family line, then to place those individuals in the lineup. Although it is woefully incomplete, the cast of significant characters in the hominid fossil record is substantially larger than it was a decade ago, due to the number of new discoveries. There is now general consensus that there were at least four broad categories of hominid that emerged after the split from the ancient chimpanzee lineage—although any new discovery has the potential to change this. The evolutionary pathway appears to have led first from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee to the genus Ardipithecus between four and five million years ago and then to the gracile autralopithecines before the emergence of the robust australopithcines and our own genus Homo, approximately 2.5 million years ago. P.31
I suggest these changes in species were planned by superior intelligence (extraterrestrials or God) to breed a better hominid to work in the mines. Indeed many developments occurred in the Johannesburg, South Africa area where gold was first mined. remarkable window into this evolutionary adaptation is being studied at the world famous
Sterkfontein site west of Johannesburg in South Africa. There, in a cave deposit known as Member 4, is evidence of a speciation event: fossils of one species exhibiting a shift in morphology that eventually turns them into another species. The speciation window at Sterkfontein has been –dated between 2.8 and 2.6 million years ago, fairly soon after the intensification of global cooling. The individual africanus specimens recovered there show an astounding anatomaical variation, the implications of which are still being considered.
Africanus
It would appear that through the development of bigger teeth and more humanlike physiology—is being transformed either into robust ape-man form or true humans—or both! Although, it is premature to speculate on what we will eventually make of these fossils, there is a real possibility that a transition from ape-man to human occurred in South Africa. P.36
I suggest the creation of the first human was by design. The location where the largest gold deposits exist in South Africa was not an accident. Furthermore, their bodies and mentality made them ideal mine workers. The Africanus male stands about 3.5 feet tall and would have weighed about 99 to 132 pounds while the female weighs 55 to 77 pounds. Being short and muscular would allow the Africanus to follow the gold veins. They also had a larger brain and long arms that would be useful for digging.
The Origins of Humans According to Ancient Sumerian Texts
Sumer flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. Each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods lived together, the humans were servants to the gods.
Return of the Anunnaki King Marduk
Sumerians created an advanced civilization with elaborate language and writing, astronomy, mathematics, architecture and arts, taught by the gods from other planets.
The Sumerian creation legend can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in about 5000 BC. The creation of Earth according to the Sumerian tablets begins like this:
When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both Their waters were mingled together, And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen; When of the gods none had been called into being, And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained; Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven, Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being..
According to Sumerian creation tablets, Angels were known under the name of Anunnaki or Anannage (great sons of Anu), and they were the founders of their culture. An (Sumerian) or Anu (Akkadian) was the chief god of sun and sky, and his name means “The Shining One”. Anunnaki were, according to this history, “Suns of the Shining One” or “Suns of Light”.
Sumerian mythology claims that, in the beginning, human-like gods ruled over Earth who came from other planets. When they came to the Earth, there was much work to be done and these gods toiled the soil, digging to make it habitable and mining its minerals. At some point the gods mutinied against their difficult labor. Anu, the god of gods, agreed that their labor was too great. His son ENKI, or Ea, proposed to create man to bear the labor, and so, with the help of his half-sister Ninki, he did. A god was put to death, and his body and blood was mixed with clay. From that material the first human being was created, in likeness to the gods to accomplish the work and toil..
In the clay, god and man shall be bound, to a unity brought together; So that to the end of days the flesh and the soul which in a god has ripened – That soul in a blood-kinship be bound.
This first man was created in Eden, a Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. In the Epic of Gilgamesh , Eden is mentioned as the garden of the gods and is located somewhere in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Sumerian tablet depicting Enki in the creation legend. ( world-myth.com)
The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, Enki, the god of water and human culture, Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being. Humans were made without the approval of Enki’s brother, Enlil, and Emll became the adversary of humans who went through much hardship and suffering.
Opinions vary on the similarities between this creation story and the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Eden. Note: Ancient Sumerian translations were taken from William Bramley’s book, The Gods of Eden.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea….
In ancient Egypt a dynastic race with elongated heads, often called cone heads is well known. Many of the Pharaohs and priests buried in tombs have these strange skulls that are much larger than normal Humans. D.E. Derry wrote in The Journal of Egyptian Archeology (1956) a survey of skeletal remains of ancients in Egypt. Derry said, skulls ” (of) Predynastic people … under no circumstances could we consider them to be the same race” as the clearly larger headed bodies also found buried in Egypt.
Derry continues, “It is also very suggestive of the presence of a dominant race, perhaps relatively few in numbers but greatly exceeding the original inhabitants in intelligence; a race which brought into Egypt the knowledge of building in stone, of sculpture, painting, reliefs, and above all writing; hence the enormous jump from the primitive predynastic Egyptian to the advanced civilization of the Old Empire.”
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 such great precision. Two pyramids are much larger than the four others. The Great Pyramid is one of largest structures ever built. Let’s assume the pharaoh had all the men he needed to move the great blocks needed to build the Great Pyramid.
Great Pyramid on Right
The Great Pyramid reached a height of 490 feet and contains and incredible 2,600,000 stones that weigh over six million tons. At a completion rate of ten stones a day with each stone weighing at least three tons or more would take 250,000 days or six hundred and sixty years. Imagine 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 four smaller ones.
My co-pilot was an structural engineer and felt it could not be built even today with our best equipment.
Kings Chamber
The King’s Chamber contains 70 ton (140,000 pound) 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 over the 600 miles. There are no forests in Egypt so the trees themselves 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. Also consider 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 and wrote the “The Case for UFOs” concluded no engineers on Earth could have built the pyramids, the only possible method was visitors from space. He simply states, no power on Earth could have built the Great Pyramid and many of the huge stone structures around the world. The lifting engine to move the blocks was most likely a huge spaceship.
New Void Found in Great Pyramid
The mysteries of the pyramids have deepened with the discovery of what appears to be a giant void within the Khufu, or Cheops, monument in Egypt. It is not known why the cavity exists or indeed if it holds anything of value because it is not obviously accessible. Japanese and French scientists made the announcement after two years of study at the famous pyramid complex. They have been using a technique called muography, which can sense density changes inside large rock structures.
The Great Pyramid, or Khufu’s Pyramid, allegedly was constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu between 2509 and 2483 BC. It’s an enormous space that stretches at least 30 meters long and lies about 21 meters above ground level. The muon levels in that space show that it must hold roughly as much volume as the Grand Gallery, which lies below it. http://www.latimes.com/
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Filer’s Files #45 2017 - Origins of Humans - PART II
Filer’s Files #45 2017 - Origins of Humans - PART II
UFO Sighting in the United States
California Object
Santa Anna — On Sunday, October 22, 2017 at about 3 p.m., three of us saw a very strange object in the sky, at 90 degrees straight up. Sitting on our back patio, one of us noticed something odd in the sky. We watched an object not moving like a plane or balloon, but was hovering, and would only turn. It was so distant, that you would only see it with the naked eye when the sun reflected off it. Comparing it to cigar shaped UFO sightings online, it’s the only thing we came up with. I took some photos with a 500 mm lens and then enlarged them. Also viewed it with binoculars. It was interesting and we watched for 30 minutes or so..
Rowland Heights— While driving up Vantage Point Drive I saw a black cigar shaped UFO on October 24, 2017. At first I could not stop because of someone was behind me. I pulled over and made a U turn. When I swung around I grabbed my phone, and started filming the UFO was now further away from me. But the video shows the UFO moving away from my location and it has no wings or a tail. I would guess the UFO was fairly large since it must had been 20 miles from me when it goes out of sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Light
Bristol— Oh my god I’ve never filled out such an aggravating form.
Just call me if you want to know more.
I almost gave up filling this out just look at the picture I took on October .Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Tarpon Springs — I’m trying to see if anyone has reported or posted about anything on Thursday November 2, 2017 around midnight. My father, grandfather, neighbor and I were outside because our horses were all stirred up, scared and anxious. My grandfather told us to look up and we saw one light that separated into three lights that formed a triangle. They did move side to side then took off fast in different directions and faded away. Today we saw three military choppers escorting a white very big chopper and it had no ID number or any insignia. I served with Marine Corps for 15 years and I never seen anything like that. We do live in a very rural area close to the Alafia River about 25-30 minutes from MacDill Air Force Base, we do know people on the base and they have never heard or seen anything related to the choppers or any drills performed that night. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Triangle
Lyerly — I was swimming in my pool around 6 p.m. on August 1, 2017, when I observed a strange cloud moving slowly over the tree line behind my home. I always observe the chemtrails and I’m always photographing the clouds. I reacted physically and emotionally upon viewing the cloud. As I watched the cloud come over the tree line the hairs on my neck stood up. I climbed out of my pool to retrieve my phone and took 5 photos at 6:04 p.m. before I became overwhelmed with fear. I had become so terrified with unexplainable irrational fear. I went back out to see it again but it was gone. I have witnessed this same shape 3x’s since that day. It was the same size and shape but not a shadow or a hole punched in a cloud. This thing is larger than many planes. The second sighting of same shape was taken August 31, 2017 at 5:48 p.m. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Lights
Annada— My family and I were at a hunt club, fishing on October 28, 2017. On Saturday night I was on the duck house deck looking east above the tree line about a mile away there was a very large hovering UFO. It stayed in one spot for 10 minutes as I grabbed the binoculars and saw a beautiful perfectly round craft with lights in a perfect row all the way around!
Without the binoculars the lights looked yellowish, with the binoculars the lights were perfectly round bright white lights! I called my son and nephew out and they also saw it and took pictures but they look nothing like what I saw.
I took way more pictures than what’s actually on my phone,. It did move slightly up and down and after about 20 minutes from first spotting it, it was gone! Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Object
Hoboken — I was leaving my door early on November 12, 2016 at 6:45 AM and looked up into the western sky as I always do. I saw a thin white object the shape of a elongated oval moving thru the sky from north to southwest. I quickly ran to my car and grabbed my camera canon 20 d w zoom lens and took about 15 shots of the object before it passed behind my building.
the object moved at a steady pace without noise or any kind of trail. the sighting lasted only a minute or so. see actual size image and screenshot enlargement compilation. Thanks Doug Auld
New Mexico Light
Lordsburg – Benjie 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
Oregon –12 Flying Diamond
Mt. Sylvania – On October 24, 2017, at around 10 PM a whole series diamond shaped flying objects went over my friend and I. The objects were close enough to see the outline and to see the shape of them and the lights over Portland. There were a total of 12, plus eight diamond shaped objects heading NW. Then two more of a diamond shaped ones went overhead again. I called the Gilliland Ranch the following day, and I was told it was a very active night. This is the first time I have ever seen anything. were traveling NW. One came from view in back of the house and then circled back and headed the same route the others had come from.
I live in Mt Sylvania which was once an active volcano. I found a couple of objects online that looks like them. They seemed to hum loud and were flat diamond shaped, nose elongated and silver. There were white lights on corners and no wings. I saw two really close to each other that flew behind the trees and disappeared.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Object
Gidding — I observed a light in the shy that blinked and hovered on September 30, 2017. The light became more aggressive in flashing but was very small like a reflective mirror at first. This went on for several minutes then the light became huge in the sky like a very large spotlight and shined on me for a about a minute. I had never seen anything like it in the sky before so I ran to get my phone. Right when I put the phone up to video tape it the light disappeared. Although I didn’t see anything at the time I went ahead and filmed the sky. Later I went back and viewed my film and noticed that I caught it on camera. It looked kind of like a hockey puck and then changed shaped to look more like a saucer. It seemed to be ascending and descending to try to prevent me from filming maybe..Not sure but I have the images of what was up in the sky. I read where someone in Lexington also saw an UFO the same day not far away. t Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Object
Buenos Aires — Taking about the chemtrails and how they were spraying over Buenos Aires on October 3, 2017. After looking at the pictures first notice the anomaly and then the round light on the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Scarborough — On Friday, October 20,2017, while on afternoon work break I was outside facing towards the north looking up the clear blue sky. I noticed a very high, slow moving, glinting white light object that was at least 5,000 feet. high This object was a quarter mile away directly north of my position. It moved extremely slow brightly flashing a white light
If the object was not flashing you would not able to see it! After about thirty seconds pulled out my camera and started to film at 3:15 Pm. As I watched and photographed the UFO moved directly straight above my position. That’s when I lost sight of it – gone! I had taken 32 pictures and found one of the last one’s taken on full zoom [ 30 X] picture. You can clearly some type of white long ‘craft with some detail. It is very interesting that the day before [Oct.19] I had another one an altitude of 1000 feet and much quicker than this object high up. Ever since 2003 – have never seen so many UFO’s for the month of October Something’s up! Thanks to Paul Shishis
China Object
Simatai Great Wall — I was capturing the view of the Great Wall while hiking. 2. Didn’t notice object until I went back to the U.S. and checked my cell phone picture album. 3.UFO is in upper left of photo. 4.I think it was flying straight over the sky around the Great Wall. 5. I didn’t realize I took the picture. Of UFO until later. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Light
Paris— I was arriving at the bottom of my brother’s building in Bagneux on November 1, 2017, I phoned my children and I saw an orange ball followed by two others flying parallel and at the same speeds. Then a fourth and a minute later a fifth appeared. When I saw the first object I found its irrelevance because of the color the shape and the distance above the building. I quickly hang up my phone and two other lights appeared and flew coast to coast. I started filming with my Galaxy Note 4 as the lights began to drop intensity, a few seconds later I was on exciter but I did not say anything because I have already filmed a UFO next to the Montmorency Falls in Quebec.
I stopped filming and the fourth ball was pumping over the building so I turned on the camera and I saw a fifth ball pass over. None of these objects were making any noise for over an hour. The shape and the orange color could not be planes. They did not have anti collision lights that the we usually see flashing on the planes for Bagneux which has been classified in Zone p because of the nuclear facilities. hanks to MUFON CMS
Macedonia Disc
Gostivar — It was raining for two minutes when my son called me to see a rainbow. I saw it and went inside. After that I went out again as my son wanted a picture of the rainbow. Suddenly two rainbows appeared and I took a picture and caught and object in the sky of a.ufo. or whatever. hanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Light
Tyumen city — The object flying from the west for east through the zenith on November 3, 2017.
The field of view was about 15 degrees 25 mm lens, the height of the sky about 75 degrees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Saudi Arabia Disc
UK/England Light
Ilkley– I was washing the dishes on the afternoon of October 27, 2017 and I looked out of my window and saw a UFO. There was no sound from the plane nor a trail behind it. It was either white or reflective silver with two spherical balls joined together, but sometimes it looked like it was spinning. It has a sort of shaded underneath and reminds me of a metal Chinese stress ball. We see planes all the time but this was unlike any plane. It looked like it was going at constant speed. I would like someone to tell me what it was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The most annoying thing about Jupiter is that it’s perfect — and it’s fully aware. Its a cartoonish idea of what a planet should look like, and yet somehow, it’s totally real. A series of images, carefully enhanced after Juno’s most recent flyby, show the planet at its most hypnotic — and horrifying. To everyone looking for a new lock screen background: you’re welcome.
On Tuesday, October 24, NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed its eighth science flyby over Jupiter’s cloud tops. The raw JunoCam images, released Monday, were then quickly enhanced by artist Seán Doran, who tells Inverse it took about five hours to “create this first pass” on all 20 JunoCam images. That’s extremely impressive, especially considering how detailed the results are.
“It used to take a lot longer but I’ve streamlined a lot of the tasks necessary to get to the final image,” he tells Inverse. “I use Photoshop for stills and video sequences [and] After Effects to compile and process animations.”
Though Doran is one of the most prolific members of JunoCam community — the network of artists who enhance these images — he says there’s something special about this new crop of pictures. They’re a little unsettling, in a (mostly) good way.
“These images of Jupiter are not only awe-inspiring but also a little frightening,” Doran says. “The environment is so hostile and yet beautiful to behold. Our brains are not really wired to comprehend the vast expanses revealed with these intimate portraits returned by Juno — we need to abstract them.”
Even though Jupiter is literally incapable of being humble and is therefore a terrible friend, it’s still mostly a good planet. At least it’s not Mercury, which is something we can all be thankfully for.
Stem cell technology has advanced so much that scientists can grow miniature versions of human brains — called organoids, or mini-brains if you want to be cute about it — in the lab, but medical ethicists are concerned about recent developments in this field involving the growth of these tiny brains in other animals. Those concerns are bound to become more serious after the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience starting November 11 in Washington, D.C., where two teams of scientists plan to present previously unpublished research on the unexpected interaction between human mini-brains and their rat and mouse hosts.
In the new papers, according to STAT, scientists will report that the organoids survived for extended periods of time — two months in one case — and even connected to lab animals’ circulatory and nervous systems, transferring blood and nerve signals between the host animal and the implanted human cells. This is an unprecedented advancement for mini-brain research.
“We are entering totally new ground here,” Christof Koch, president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, told STAT. “The science is advancing so rapidly, the ethics can’t keep up.”
DMT receptors in mini-brain organoids.
That mini-brains can even be grown in the lab is a huge advancement in the first place, as they have many of the same characteristics as living human brains that are in the early stages of development. Though they’re not “alive” in the same sense that you and I are, they grow and are organized into different layers like our brains are. They even react in similar ways to stimuli like psychedelic drugs. Organoids are poised to revolutionize research on the human brain since scientists can perform tests on them that would be unethical to attempt on living humans.
Scientists have debated whether these brains are “conscious,” but the fact that they could be successfully implanted in lab animals raises a whole new set of ethical concerns for the researchers who work with them. One of the major concerns in the mini-brain scenario is that these organoids could grow to more advanced levels within lab animals, making the debate about mini-brain consciousness much more urgent.
In Salk Institute experiments, human stem cells were pipetted into a pig embryo.
Putting human brain structures into non-human animals creates a thorny ethical area that raises people’s fears about medical research going too far into unfamiliar territory — and too quickly. It’s likely to be a recurring theme in this field, too. In January, Salk Institute researchers developed human-pig chimeras, creating the possibility that pigs with human brain cells might also develop human consciousness.
STAT also reports that a third lab, in addition to the two presenting at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, has successfully connected human brain organoids to blood vessels. This attempt veered into such challenging ethical territory, though, that the lab reportedly paused its efforts.
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How Big Would an 'Alien Megastructure' Have to Be?
How Big Would an 'Alien Megastructure' Have to Be?
By Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor
An artist's illustration of Boyajian's star, which experiences unexplained changes in brightness. One hypothesis is that a planet has broken up around the star, and the debris is block the star's light.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A bizarre flicker of light from space led to the discovery of a still-mysterious star called KIC 8462852, otherwise known as "Tabby's Star," "Boyajian's Star" or the star surrounded by an "alien megastructure."
The star and its weird flicker have been generating headlines since 2015, when the object was first observed. That year, the Kepler Space Telescope, which trails Earth as the planet orbits the sun, was looking for Earth-like planets around thousands of stars when it spotted KIC 8462852.
Ordinarily, a planet that passes in front of a star dims the light reaching Earth from that star, a small dip that recurs at regular intervals. KIC 8462852 didn't have that sort of dimming. For starters, the star dimmed more than it would if a planet were passing in front of it; planets might cut a star's brightness by 1 percent if they are huge, like Jupiter. KIC 8462852's light dipped by up to 22 percent. On top of that, the pattern of changes wasn't regular, as it would be if a planet were passing in front of the star. [5 Times 'Aliens' Fooled Us]
There are several ideas about what the source of the brightness changes could be. Explanations include fragments of comets, a Saturn-like ringed planet or an asteroid field produced as a planet disintegrates. Generally, astronomers don't think it's aliens. And lately, some researchers have proposed that it is an irregularly shaped dust cloud.
This artist's illustration depicts a hypothetical dust ring orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian's Star or Tabby's Star.
But science-fiction fans want to know — if it was an alien structure, how big would it have to be to create the light-dimming scientists observed? KIC 8462852 is an F-type star, hotter than the sun and about 1,300 light-years away from Earth, where 1 light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers). However, that distance is an estimate, and the star could be as far away as 1,680 light-years and as close as 1,030. The star is about 1.43 times the sun's mass and 1.58 times its diameter — so it's about 1.37 million miles (2.2 million km) across. (To get an idea of how big that is, about the 455 United States, lengthwise, could fit inside this alien megastructure.)
Any structure built around this star would have to be quite large to block the star's light in any noticeable way. Columbia University astronomer David Kipping, who has been searching for exoplanetary moons, estimated that if whatever is passing in front of the star is some discrete object or set of objects, it would have to be on the order of five times the sun's radius, and larger than KIC 8462852 itself.
To put that in perspective, imagine something so big that if it passed between the sun and Earth, the eclipse would last for several days, perhaps weeks, as the structure moved by. The sun's radius is about 432,288 miles (695,700 km). For a structure five times as large — 2.16 million miles (3.4 million kilomters) across It would take 11.6 seconds for a radio signal to travel from one end to the other (it takes 1.3 seconds for such a signal to travel from Earth to the moon).
This artist's illustration shows comet fragments crossing the face of a star, one possible explanation for the strange dimming exhibited by "Boyajian's star."
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 1960, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that a sufficiently advanced civilization could build a sphere around a star and would be able to capture all the star's radiant energy (Earthbound observers would see it re-radiated it as infrared light, so the star would look like a giant heat source). But Tabby's star is clearly not surrounded by a solid sphere, since we can see the star's light. The kind of alien megastructure that one might imagine around this star would be a swarm of small bodies arranged in a spherical formation, or perhaps some large object or set of objects that regularly passes in front of the star. [Dyson Spheres: How Advanced Alien Civilizations Would Conquer the Galaxy (Infographic)]
The former is called a Dyson swarm, and would be easier to build than a sphere. If the star was surrounded by a Dyson swarm, each satellite would have to be at least asteroid-size, and you'd need many thousands of them. If they are orbiting at distances comparable to our own solar system's inner planets, their periods, or the time it takes them to make one revolution around their host star, would be anywhere from a few months to a few years, following Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Could Tabby's star be surrounded by a ring-shaped structure a la Larry Niven's "Ringworld" novels? Such a ring, if built around the sun, would have to be about 93 million miles (149 million km) in radius, or about 584 million miles (940 million km) in circumference. That's so large that no known material could survive the stresses; Niven had to come up with a fictional material called scrith. Astrophysicist Katie Mack, told the BBC that you'd need something that was bound more strongly than ordinary molecular bonds. Niven's books posit a Ringworld that is about 1 million miles (1.6 million km) wide, large enough that it would block the light from its parent star if it was in the line of sight of an observer. But the pattern of eclipsing light from Tabby's star doesn't seem to fit what you'd see with a ring; the dimming wouldn't show the irregularities that it does with such a structure, according to Mack.
One could imagine a vast Dyson ring, though, with miles-wide satellites placed at intervals around Tabby's star. But in this case, too, to be at all visible, the satellites would need to be orders of magnitude larger than any space habitat humans have ever attempted to build or colonize, according to Mack — even the ISS is only 368 feet (108 meters) across, and that's far too small to be visible even from as "close" as Mars, let alone light years distant.
The smallest exoplanet that Kepler has found so far is larger than Earth's moon. Called Kepler 37b, it's also a lot closer to Earth than Tabby's star is, only 215 light-years distant. If Tabby's star is surrounded by satellites, they would have to be even bigger than the Death Star from "Star Wars," which is stated in various franchise-related sources as being 60 miles (100 kilomters) across. ['Star Wars' Tech: 8 Sci-Fi Inventions and Their Real-Life Counterparts]
So why don't scientists think aliens are the explanation for the dimming of Tabby's star? One reason is that an alien megastructure would give off radiation in the infrared in a specific way. Any object that gets lit by a nearby star reflects some light and absorbs the rest, and that absorbed light gets re-emitted in a longer wavelength. Basically, objects warm up. In a talk at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California, in August 2016, astronomer Jason Wright of Penn State University said studies of the star's light have shown no sign of such "waste heat" with Tabby's star.
The other issue is that such megastructures would be difficult to keep stable. A swarm of satellites orbiting would eventually settle into a disk-like arrangement absent active controls, because any object orbiting another or rotating experiences some centripetal force – this is why the Earth is slightly flattened. The same is true for Dyson rings and swarms. Futurist Anders Sandberg notes on his site outlining Dyson sphere principles that one structure that might stay stable is a Dyson bubble, made of gigantic, miles-square satellites that stay in place because of radiation pressure, in huge solar sails. But to stay in place, those satellites would have to be stationary with respect to the parent star, so they wouldn't cause anomalous dimming over time as was seen with Tabby's star. µ
Aliens might look a lot like us, due in part to convergent evolution — the aspect of natural selection that sees the independent evolution of key biological features, such as eyes.
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What might extraterrestrials look like? It's a question astrobiologists, authors and artists love to tackle, leading to everything from highly humanoid Vulcans and Klingons to exotic forms that borrow only from the most extreme examples of terrestrial life.
In both cases, however, those visions are limited. As a University of Oxford research team notes, past astrobiology efforts have largely taken Earth life and extrapolated through the application of chemistry, geology and physics to predict what aliens might look like.
It seems sensible, right? For example, eyes are widespread on our planet, so it makes sense that aliens would have them as well. We're carbon-based life-forms, so we might expect life-forms on the other side of the galaxy to follow suit.
However, according to the Oxford researchers, who published a November 2017 study in the journal International Journal of Astrobiology, natural selection is the firmest ground on which to base our predictions of alien life; natural selection being the directional force that led to life as we know it. In the absence of a designer, the authors stress, natural selection is necessary for the development of an organism, and we probably wouldn't recognize it as an organism if it didn't.
One of the co-authors sketched this complex alien included in the International Journal of Astrobiology study. As the accompanying caption notes, the alien "comprises a hierarchy of entities, where each lower-level collection of entities has aligned evolutionary interests such that conflict is effectively eliminated."
ILLUSTRATION BY HELEN S. COOPER
While natural selection is necessary for life, the researchers add that the emergence of complex life requires major transitions, in which multiple parts of an organism "strive to the same purpose." These transitions, in turn, are brought on by restrictive environmental conditions. Combine this line of thinking with the more mechanistic extrapolations of chemistry, geology and physics and you've got yourself a more robust means of predicting an alien's form.
And what might that form be? The researchers certainly don't bust out Klingons or Vulcans as examples, but they indeed might be more like us than we think – and they're not the only ones to think so.
As Joe McCormick and I discussed in our Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast episode "Grizzly Bears from Outer Space," Cambridge paleobiologist Simon Conway Morris believes that aliens might look a lot like us, due in part to convergent evolution — the aspect of natural selection that sees the independent evolution of key biological features, such as eyes and wings.
Birds and bats, for instance, independently evolved the ability to fly. An alien life-form, sprung from the same process of natural selection, might very well evolve the same adaptations to sense and navigate its environment. Its eyes might look very different from ours, but they'd achieve the same purpose.
Conway Morris even goes so far as to apply this principle to cognition. In his 2005 Astronomy & Geophysics paper "Aliens like us?," Conway Morris states that a humanlike intelligence might just be a cosmic inevitability, though the physical brain responsible for it might, via coevolution, be rather inhuman.
And if aliens think like us, does that mean they'd philosophize like us as well? Author R. Scott Bakker presented just such a notion in his Journal of Consciousness Studiespaper "On Alien Philosophy."
Like us, Bakker argues, intelligent aliens would be bound by the same unknowns that confound us here on Earth. Perhaps they too are wondering what aliens look like, and how they might think.
NOW THAT'S INTERESTING
Well-known scientist Stephen Hawking famously proposed that we humans shouldn't be so eager to be visited by aliens, as they'll probably be visiting Earth with the goal of plundering its resources for their own good.
The mysterious visitors came in form of at least six fireballs that appeared "out of the blue" and hung in the sky for at least 15 minutes, according to witnesses from Novogradovka village, near Odessa.
According to video footage taken by the villagers, the fireballs formed a shape that roughly resembled a plane. The mysterious objects stayed in formation for a while, and then, one by one, started falling from the sky.
We are not alone now. Or are we?
The Defense Ministry of Ukraine reacted to the footage and the ensuing social media hype with a statement. According to a Daily Mail report, the ministry provided a plausible explanation.
The mysterious objects in the sky were in fact practice targets used by Ukrainian Marines during a military drill, the statement said.
The Closest Exoplanet Proxima b May Have Neighbors
The Closest Exoplanet Proxima b May Have Neighbors
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
The nearest alien planet to Earth may not be an only child.
Astronomers have spotted a dusty ring around the nearby star Proxima Centauri, hinting at the existence of other planets in addition to the famous Proxima b, a new study reports.
"This result suggests that Proxima Centauri may have a multiple-planet system with a rich history of interactions that resulted in the formation of a dust belt," study lead author Guillem Anglada, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia in Spain, said in a statement. "Further study may also provide information that might point to the locations of as-yet unidentified additional planets." [Proxima b: Closest Earth-Like Planet Discovery in Pictures]
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf that lies about 4.2 light-years from Earth, in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). In 2016, researchers spotted Proxima b, an apparently Earth-size world orbiting the star in what seems to be the habitable zone, the region where liquid water could exist on the surface. The star itself is about the same age as the sun. (Coincidentally, the team that discovered Proxima b was led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé of Queen Mary University of London, a part of Anglada's team but no relation to the author of the new research.)
An artist's impression of the newly detected dusty belts around the sun's nearest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, and its potentially rocky world.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Anglada and his colleagues studied Proxima Centauri using the Atacama Large millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a network of telescopes in Chile. The researchers discovered a belt of dusty material containing about 1 percent the mass of Earth. The belt — which lies a few hundred million kilometers from the star, far beyond Proxima b's orbit — has a temperature of about minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 230 degrees Celsius), roughly the same temperature of the solar system's Kuiper Belt, researchers said.
The dusty material might range in size from grains of only a few millimeters to asteroid-like bodies several kilometers across, study team members said. Dust belts like this are thought to be the remains of material that didn’t manage to clump together to form planets, they added.
This image of the sky around the bright binary star Alpha Centauri AB also shows the much fainter red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own solar system. The photo was created from pictures forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The blue halo around Alpha Centauri AB is an artifact of the photographic process; the binary is really pale yellow in color, like the sun.
Credit: Digitized Sky Survey 2; Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani
ALMA also spotted signs of a possible second dust ring, about 10 times farther from the star than the other one, though this feature awaits confirmation. If the outer ring does indeed exist, its material would be very cold, lying so far from a star that is much smaller and dimmer than the sun.
The faint outer belt could prove useful to astronomers: Studying its shape could yield a better understanding of Proxima b's mass, which is not known very well at the moment, the researchers said.
And then there's the exploration angle. The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot project aims to send sail-equipped, laser-driven microprobes zooming past Proxima b in the not-too-distant-future, and mapping out the system's dust environment could be key to the success of such a mission, study team members said.
"These first results show that ALMA can detect dust structures orbiting around Proxima. Further observations will give us a more detailed description of Proxima's planetary system," study co-author Pedro Amado, also from the Instituto de Astrofiscia de Andaluicia, said in the same statement. "What we are seeing now is just the appetizer compared to what is coming!"
The new study has been accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
A GIGANTIC HEAT SOURCE LIES DEEP BELOW ANTARCTICA CREATING UNDERGROUND RIVERS AND LAKES
A GIGANTIC HEAT SOURCE LIES DEEP BELOW ANTARCTICA CREATING UNDERGROUND RIVERS AND LAKES
A new study from NASA has provided evidence that there is a geothermal source of heat with the name of a mantle plume lying deep under West Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land.
HEAT SOURCE COULD BE REASON FOR LAKES AND RIVERS UNDER THE ICE
The heat source would explain why there has been ice melting that has created rivers and lakes underneath the ice sheet. While the heat source is not something that is new and it is not a threat that is increasing to the ice sheet in West Antarctica, it does go a long way to explain why the sheet of ice had collapsed so fast during an earlier era during rapid climate change and why it has remained unstable.
The ice sheets stability has been related to how much of the water below it lubricating and allowing the ice glaciers to be able to slide along easily. Being able to understand the sources along with the future of West Antarctica’s meltwater is extremely important for scientists to be able to estimate the rate of ice that might end up back in the ocean in the future.
The bedrock of Antarctica has many lakes and rivers, and one of the biggest is said to be the same size as that of Lake Erie. A lot of the lakes drain along with filling quickly and this force the surface of the ice many thousands of feet above them to rise and then fall by as much as 6 meters. Scientists have been able to use that motion to provide estimation about how much of the water and where that water has to exist at the base.
HEAT SOURCE FROM MANTLE PLUME HAD BEEN SUGGESTED 30 YEARS AGO
The University of Colorado suggested thirty years ago that a heat source from a mantle plume that was underneath the Marie Byrd Land explained a lot of the volcanic activity in the region along with a topographic dome feature. Recent seismic imaging taken has gone to support the concept of the University of Colorado. Helene Seroussi from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA in California said that when the idea was first mentioned it was thought of as being crazy. She went on to say that she did not know how such an amount of heat would be able to have ice sitting on top of it.
NUMERICAL MODELLING IS BEST WAY TO STUDY MANTLE PLUME
Direct measurements have been taken from underneath the ice, and Erik Ivins from JPL said that the best way of studying the mantle plume idea is by using numerical modeling. The Ice Sheet System Model is a numerical depiction of the ice sheets physics that was developed by JPL and the University of California scientists. The ISSM was enhanced by Seroussi and this captured the natural sources of the heating and the transport of heat from the water that is freezing, melting and liquid, friction, and any other processes.
To make sure that the model was realistic the scientists took the ice sheet surface altitude that had been made by the IceSat satellite of NASA and the Operation IceBridge airborne campaign. Ivins said that they placed a powerful constraint on the melt rates that were allowable, which was the single thing that they wanted to be able to predict. Ivins went on to say that as the size and location of the possible mantle plume were not known, the scientists had to test the whole range of might have been physically possible for a number of parameters and therefore produced simulations by the dozens.
The scientists found that the mantle plumes flux of energy had to be not more than 150 milliwatts for each square meter. In comparison for regions in the US that do not have a volcanic activity the heat flux from the mantle of the Earth is between 40 and 60 milliwatts. Underneath Yellowstone National Park in the United States, which is a region that is a geothermal hotspot, the heat that comes from under the ground is 200 milliwatts for each square meter throughout the whole of the park. However, scientists said that the individual geothermal features, for instance, the geysers, did get a lot hotter.
The simulations of Ivins and Seroussi made use of a heat flow that was higher than 150 milliwatts for each square meter and showed that there was too much melting for it to be compatible with the space-based data, other than in one location, an inland region of the Ross Sea. The region of the Ross Sea needed a heat flow of about 150 to 180 milliwatts for each square meter for it to live up to the observations. The seismic imaging revealed that the mantle heat in that region could reach the sheet of ice by a rift, a fracture occurring in the crust of the Earth, not unlike the one in the African Great Rift Valley.
MANTLE PLUMES CAME TO LIGHT DURING THE 70S
The mantle plumes are said to be narrow hot rock streams that rise up through the mantle of the Earth and then spread out the same way as a mushroom cap under the crust of the Earth. The materials buoyancy, with some of this being molten, then causes the crust to bulge up. The theory about the mantle plumes first came to light in the 70s to explain the geothermal activity that occurred a long way from the boundary of the tectonic plate, such as that in Yellowstone and Hawaii.
The mantle plume at Marie Byrd Land was said to have formed around 50 to 110 million years ago, and this would have been a long time before the ice sheet in West Antarctica existed. Towards the end of the ice age about 11,000 years ago, the sheet of ice happened to go through a period of sustained and rapid ice loss thanks to global weather changes and sea levels rising, which pushed water that had warmed closer to the sheet of ice. This is something that is continuing to happen today. Ivins and Seroussi have suggested that the mantle plume might help with that kind of huge loss.
Eye Witness Says: "I saw this yesterday as soon as I walked out of my department at the Lexus dealership in Haverford pa..this is not fake.. I put all my vids I took together to make this so y'all can see the different angles and how long it was out their. Scared the heck outta me"
FORMER WORKER OF AREA 51 TALKS ABOUT THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS, STARGATE AND THE CUBE OF ORION
FORMER WORKER OF AREA 51 TALKS ABOUT THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS, STARGATE AND THE CUBE OF ORION
Dan Burisch, born in California in 1964, studied microbiology and psychology at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated in 1986 and did a Ph.D. in microbiology in 1989 in the state of New York.
In 1986 he received an unexpected visit at the University of Las Vegas, the so-called "secret" government of the United States. Two of those men, in military uniform, offered to work on a top-secret project where they could put their talent to work at a maximum level. In 1987 he began working at a Nevada State Government office related to prison parole. In 1989 he began receiving tissue samples. Burisch examined them in another place and sent the report to the place of origin of the same. In 1989 he worked on a secret project and also on the so-called "Sharp Storm". But in 1994 he was taken to an underground place called "Century IV" which is part of Area 51, where he started working on the "Aquarium" project.
µThere he learned that the military were in possession of ships and extraterrestrial beings. In one department there was information about beings called Orions, beings from the star system Z Reticuli. Also a copy of the agreement made by President Eisenhower, beings called P-50 and the so-called Orions.
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Aarde zal tegen 2600 een grote vuurbal worden. Stephen Hawking doet opmerkelijke voorspelling
Aarde zal tegen 2600 een grote vuurbal worden. Stephen Hawking doet opmerkelijke voorspelling
Professor Stephen Hawking heeft gewaarschuwd dat de mens de aarde in de komende 600 jaar zal vernietigen. Onze planeet zal tegen die tijd veranderen in een grote vuurbal, stelt hij.
De natuurkundige denkt dat de toenemende wereldbevolking en groeiende vraag naar energie zullen leiden tot een catastrofe.
Volgens hem moet de mensheid naar de sterren kijken om aan het noodlot te ontsnappen. Alpha Centauri, het zonnestelsel dat het dichtste bij dat van ons ligt, ziet hij als beste kandidaat.
1000 keer sneller
Hawking deed zijn uitspraken op de Tencent WE Summit in Peking. De Britse kosmoloog steunt het Breakthrough Starshot-project, dat werkt aan een sonde die Alpha Centauri in amper 20 jaar moet kunnen bereiken.
De sonde zou 1000 keer sneller zijn dan de ruimteschepen die we nu hebben en worden voortgestuwd door een lichtstraal.
“Een dergelijk systeem kan Mars in minder dan een uur bereiken en Pluto in enkele dagen,” zei hij. “In een week kan het Voyager passeren en in net iets meer dan 20 jaar bereikt het Alpha Centauri.”
Aardachtige planeet
Het zonnestelsel bevindt zich op 4,37 lichtjaar van de aarde. Met het snelste ruimteschip dat vandaag de dag beschikbaar is zou het 30.000 jaar duren om die afstand te overbruggen.
Breakthrough Starshot werkt aan een ruimtezeil dat ruim 1000 keer sneller moet zijn.
Astronomen denken dat de kans groot is dat in de bewoonbare zone rond de drie sterren van Alpha Centauri een aardachtige planeet bestaat.
Kunstmatige intelligentie
Hawking deed onlangs nog een andere doemvoorspelling. Zo waarschuwde hij eerder op de Web Summit in Lissabon voor de gevaren van kunstmatige intelligentie.
Hij zei dat deze technologie elk aspect van ons leven kan veranderen, maar dat intelligente machines ook nieuwe uitdagingen met zich meebrengen.
Hij zei dat robots al miljoenen banen dreigen te vervangen, maar dat deze nieuwe revolutie kan worden aangewend om de wereld te helpen en armoede en ziekte tegen te gaan.
“De opkomst van kunstmatige intelligent zou het beste of het slechtste kunnen worden wat de mensheid ooit overkwam,” zei hij.
NOG STEEDS WERELDWIJD APOCALYPTISCHE TROMPETGELUIDEN ( VIDEO )
NOG STEEDS WERELDWIJD APOCALYPTISCHE TROMPETGELUIDEN ( VIDEO )
Al enkele jaren lang horen mensen overal ter wereld soms vreemde geluiden die niet te verklaren zijn en die vaak een onbestemd gevoel veroorzaken.
Een gevoel alsof men ergens diep van binnen deze geluiden herkent en er absoluut geen prettige herinneringen aan heeft.
Het is dan ook niet voor niets dat dit soort bizarre geluiden vaak apocalyptisch worden genoemd, alsof ze maken hebben met een heftige eindtijd.
De geluiden worden ook wel trompetgeluiden genoemd en een mooi voorbeeld hiervan is te beluisteren in de volgende video. Een bizar geluid dat op 2 november 2017 is opgenomen in de Canadese stad Calgary.
Het gaat een beetje door merg en been en is niet erg prettig is om naar te luisteren.
Een dag eerder, op 1 november 2017, doet hetzelfde verschijnsel zich voor op verschillende locaties in Indonesië. Mensen stoppen verbaasd met hun werk en kijken naar boven alsof ze daar het antwoord zullen vinden op deze mysterieuze geluiden.
Kijk en luister naar de volgende video en je begrijpt dat veel mensen een heel onbestemd gevoel krijgen wanneer ze worden geconfronteerd met dit soort bizarre geluiden.
Ook in ons land hebben zich gevallen voorgedaan waarbij vreemde geluiden werden gehoord, maar zo heftig als in bovenstaande opnames waren ze (nog) niet.
In al de jaren dat deze geluiden zich voor doen is er nog nooit een onderbouwde rationele verklaring voor gevonden. Dat is eenvoudigweg omdat helemaal niemand weet wat nu precies de oorzaak is van dit vreemde fenomeen.
Frappante is wel dat deze geluiden een typische verschijning zijn van de afgelopen jaren, een periode waarin ook steeds meer aandacht komt voor onbekende net ontdekte planeten.
Wij hebben in eerdere artikelen verwezen naar de Kolbrin Bijbel, waarin wordt gerefereerd aan de vorige passage van dit zonnestelsel duizenden jaren geleden. De planeet Nibiru uit het gelijknamige mini-zonnestelsel die in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt aangeduid als de Verwoester.
Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over de vreemde geluiden die mensen hoorden en een stam in Afrika maakt nog steeds die geluiden terwijl ze wijzen naar een heilige ster.
De Dogon is een bevolkingsgroep die woont op de helling van de Klif van Bandiagara in Mali, in West-Afrika. Ze zijn bekend om hun kleurrijke, gemaskerde dansen en ceremonies, authentieke architectuur en hun buitengewone cultureel gebonden manier van samenleven.
De Dogon mensen hebben ook het soort kennis van de kosmos welke ze eigenlijk niet horen te hebben. Deze is afkomstig van hun verre voorouders. Ze hebben het over een Donkere Ster, onzichtbaar voor het menselijk oog en een ster die de eb en vloed van de stroom van het leven op aarde bepaalt.
In de onderstaande reportage over de Dogon kun je na een paar minuten horen hoe ze een geluid maken, wat ze noemen: “De stem van de Donkere Ster”. Het geluid wat ze maken, lijkt verdacht veel op de geluiden die mensen wereldwijd waarnemen.
Er wordt wel gezegd dat de Dogon met de Donkere Ster Sirius B bedoelen, maar als je daar over nadenkt is dat niet echt logisch. Misschien hebben ze het helemaal niet over een ster lichtjaren ver weg in een ander zonnestelsel, maar over een planeet veel dichterbij in een binaire omloopbaan met onze zon. De (nog) niet zichtbare planeet Nibiru. Waarom zouden de Dogon zeggen dat een ster in ons zonnestelsel het leven op aarde beïnvloedt? Ook dat is niet erg logisch. Veel logischer zou zijn dat het gaat over een planeet, een veel dichterbij dan wij denken.
Het zijn niet alleen de Dogon die het over vreemde geluiden hebben. In een museum in Leiden ligt de Ipuwer Paypyrus, één van de oudste Egyptische documenten. Het bevat een kort gedicht met als laatste regel: “Jaren van geluid. Er komt geen eind aan het geluid”. Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over vreemde geluiden: “Zij zullen de trompetten horen en de strijdkreet van de Verwoester” en “De ster zong zoals nog nooit eerder was voorgekomen”.
Eén ding is zeker, wij leven inderdaad in bijzondere tijden en misschien, als we willen weten wat de toekomst brengt, zouden we wat meer naar het verleden moeten kijken. Geschiedenis heeft de neiging zich te herhalen.
De trompet- of bazuingeluiden komen voor in de Kolbrin bijbel:
In de tijd waarin er in de Kolbrin bijbel wordt gesproken van de Verwoester.
Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over vreemde geluiden: “Zij zullen de trompetten horen en de strijdkreet van de Verwoester” en “De ster zong zoals nog nooit eerder was voorgekomen".
Het achtste hoofdstuk van het laatste Bijbelboek Openbaring beschrijft 7 engelen die op 7 bazuinen blazen, die ieder catastrofale gebeurtenissen op Aarde in gang lijken te zetten, zoals aardbevingen, oorlogen en insectenplagen.
De evangelische- en pinkstertheologie leert dat deze 7 bazuinen pas in de allerlaatste 7 jaar durende fase van de eindtijd zullen klinken.
De apostel Paulus schreef dat de opstanding der doden en onmiddellijk daarna de opname van de nog levende gelovigen bij de ‘laatste bazuin’ zullen plaatsvinden (1 Kor.15:51-52). Dat betekent dat de christelijke Kerk hoe dan ook de eerst zes bazuinen zal meemaken, of deze nu betrekking hebben op de laatste 7 jaar of op de hele (kerk)geschiedenis.
Gelukkig voor de coalitie van Mark Rutte blijven zijn christelijke partners nog lang genoeg om de val van het kabinet te mogen meemaken, voordat ze verdwijnen naar hogere sferen.
‘Britain’s Roswell’ UK's biggest UFO mystery 'SOLVED' nearly four decades later
‘Britain’s Roswell’ UK's biggest UFO mystery 'SOLVED' nearly four decades later
A TOP researcher claims to have solved the UK’s most notorious UFO incident 37 years after alien hunters were left baffled.
Conspiracy theorists have long been obsessed with the Rendlesham Forest mystery.
Military men at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk experienced “alien” activity over a number of nights and encountered a “triangle shaped craft” in the woods.
The three of them both claim they tracked a UFO on radar travelling travelling 120 miles in just eight seconds.
The notorious incident has been likened to the Roswell crash in the US in 1947.
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BIZARRE CASE: Alien hunters have long been obsessed with the Rendlesham Forest mystery
Astrophysicist Andrew Pike has researched the phenomenon in new book “The Rendlesham File – Britain’s Roswell”.
He blamed the bizarre sighting on increased military activity and a phenomenon known as plasma lightning, Express.co.uk reports.
It is an unexplained electoral phenomenon caused by changes in the atmosphere, resulting in bizarre flashes of light.
Pike also believes the sighting of a triangular craft may have been caused by the military using microwave technology, that heats the surface of enemy targets and emits rays.
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UNCOVERED: A top researcher now claims to have the answer to the incident
“Sightings involving unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) are regularly reported in an area known for its natural balls of light”
Astrophysicist Andrew Pike
Pike writes: “Sightings involving unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) are regularly reported in an area known for its natural balls of light such as earth lights and plasma-like effects, (but) they were certainly unusually intense during the incident.
“It also appears that a general increase in activity has been occurring since the time of World War 2 and the development of microwave-based radar and other research in the area.
“Until then every event traced was significantly less than the ones occurring since secret research moved in and started experimenting.
“This has been supported by similar trends in other areas involving radar and microwave communications. This does not appear to be a coincidence.”
Former Colonel Charles Halt, 77, went to investigate with a squad who found 1.5inch “impact holes”, damage to the streets and “higher radiation levels” in the area.
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Earth will DIE by 2600, warns Professor Stephen Hawking
Earth will DIE by 2600, warns Professor Stephen Hawking
Professor Stephen Hawking has issued yet another chilling warning at a speech during the Tencent Web Summit, held in Beijing. Professor Hawking said that Earth ‘will become a flaming ball of fire by 2600,’ as Soaring populations and increased energy demands will cause the catastrophe.
Some would say by now that Professor Hawking has become a little bit paranoid don’t you think? In the last twelve months, professor hawking has made a series of comments related to AI and all of its danger, and how the rapid development could cause the human race to go extinct.
Hawking has also warned that Earth could be destroyed by aliens, and that we ought to tread carefully when exploring space, searching for our cosmic neighbors.
And now, the world-renowned physicist has issued another warning saying that our planet may die by the years 2600.
According to Professor Hawking, by the year 2600, planet Earth ‘will become a flaming ball of fire’.
Now, this isn’t a prophecy, and something that he foresaw in his dreams, after all, he isn’t Nostradamus.
Professor Hawking warned that it will be mankind who will destroy planet Earth, turning it into a giant blazing fireball, within the next 600 years.
According to Hawking, the soaring populating size and extreme demands for energy will eventually lead our planet to catastrophe.
The stark warning was made via video link at the Tencent Web Summit, held in Beijing.
The clock is ticking according to Professor Hawking, and we could destroy our planet within 600 years. Image: Shutterstock By capitanoseye
This is why professor Hawking believes mankind must turn to the stars in order to avoid this fate, with our nearest cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri being one of the best candidates for escape.
Professor Hawking urged potential financial backers to join a global-scale project that could one day help take mankind to Alpha Centauri.
And maybe Hawking is right. After all, what we are doing to our planet is inhumane, to say the least. We live life as if we had another 10 Earth’s lined up next door.
Professor Hawking is one of the backers of the Breakthrough Starshot project, an initiative that would see a nanocraft probe sent to Alpha Centauri in the next 20 years or so.
‘The idea behind this innovation is to have the nanocraft on the light beam. Such a system could reach Mars in less than an hour, or reach Pluto in days, pass Voyager in under a week and reach Alpha Centauri in just over 20 years,’ said professor Hawking during the conference.
Going to Alpha Centauri will not be easy. In fact, since it is located 4.37 light years away, it would mean that our fastest spacecraft would take about 30,000 years to get there.
The Starshot project aims to send miniature-sized spacecraft on a sail powered by a laser-beam to Alpha Centauri but traveling a thousand times faster.
But why do we want to get to Alpha Centauri? Well, according to experts, there is a good chance that there are Earth-like planets existing in the ‘habitable zones’ of Alpha Centauri’s three-star system.
Featured image credit: Shutterstock, By capitanoseye
Check out extraordinary images of the ‘eye of the Sahara’ captured from space
Check out extraordinary images of the ‘eye of the Sahara’ captured from space
Richat Structure, Mauritania also known as the Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat, . circular feature in the Sahara desert near Ouadane, west–central ...
The Richat structure, also known as the eye of the Sahara due to its peculiar shape, is a unique geographical feature with a diameter of almost 50 kilometers located in the desert, near the city of Ouadane, in northwest Mauritania.
It has a form of a concentric structure, like an onion cut in half, and was discovered in 1965 by NASA’s Gemini 4 mission.
The first hypotheses about its origin indicated that it was created by the impact of a meteorite millions of years ago.
However, several subsequent studies have found no evidence of this.
Currently, it is argued that the Eye of the Sahara is a formation with symmetrical structure of an anticline dome, created by the effect of erosion over millions of years.
The center of the structure is constituted by diverse types of rocks (volcanic, igneous, carbonatite and kimberlite) which were formed millions of years ago (between the Proterozoic and Ordovician eras).
What is surprising is that these types of formations are actually common and can be found all over the planet (for example there is one in Huesca, between the towns of Saganta and Estopiñán del Castillo), but this structure, located in the middle of the Saharan calls out for much more attention.
Scientists have found that in addition, some layers are harder than others and differential erosion makes it stand out.
So what do we know about this enigmatic feature on earth? Well, scientists are convinced that ‘the eye of the Sahara’ appeared about 500 or 600 million years ago.
In total, there are three versions to explain why it exists.
The first assumes that the ‘eye’ comes from an inactive volcano.
The second considers it the place of impact of a meteorite, while the third one points to the circle being the result of erosion.
However, academics see the last scenario as the most plausible.
But as I’ve always said, images say a million words, so here are some amazing photographs of the mysterious ‘Eye of the Sahara’.
The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat, is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert near Ouadane, west-central Mauritania. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this image of a huge crater in Africa on Nov. 22, 2014.
The Atacama desert of Chile hides a MASSIVE hand protruding from the ground
The Atacama desert of Chile hides a MASSIVE hand protruding from the ground
It’s as if a giant was buried beneath the Atacama Desert, reaching for the sky asking for help.
It’s called the hand of the desert or ‘la mano del Desierto’, and it’s a massive statue found in the Atacama Desert of Chile, at an altitude of 1,100 meters above sea level.
Located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, some 75 kilometers south of the city of Antofagasta, there is a massive hand protruding from the ground.
Its existence has created confusion among many who traveled the Panamerican Highway, seeing a massive hand reaching from the sky, half buried under the thick layers of the Atacama Desert.
So, what’s up with the hand? Is there like a giant statue buried beneath it?
No, not really, although it would be pretty cool, right?
Anyway, the hand of the desert is a steel sculpture built with reinforced concrete and has a height of 11 m. It was inaugurated on March 28, 1992, and its construction was financed thanks to contributions from the Corporación Pro Antofagasta, a local booster organization.
Its maintenance is carried out by the same corporation, who perform cleaning operations since the sculpture is a constant target of graffiti.
According to its author, Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal, each visitor to the Hand of the Desert can give their own interpretation of the meaning of this sculpture.
Some say it is the city saying goodbye to the traveler.
According to others, it represents the victims of injustice and torture during the military dictatorship of 1973-1990. May agree it was built to portray the vulnerability and helplessness, especially the miners of the city of Antofagasta, the remote center of Chile’s copper mining industry.
Check out a set of incredible images of the Hand of the desert here.
And if you want to visit the statue yourself, its located about 75km south of the town of Antofagasta marked 1309 on the Pan-American Highway.
While the Orion constellation is named after the hunter in Greek mythology, it is anything but stealthy. Orion, which is located on the celestial equator, is one of the most prominent and recognizable constellations in the sky and can be seen throughout the world.
Orion is the brightest and most beautiful of the winter constellations. Some of its stars, including Betelgeuse and Rigel, are among the brightest stars.
Credit: Starry Night Software
Locating Orion the Hunter
Orion is clearly visible in the night sky from November to February. Orion is in the southwestern sky if you are in the Northern Hemisphere or the northwestern sky if you are in the Southern Hemisphere. It is best seen between latitudes 85 and minus 75 degrees. Its right ascension is 5 hours, and its declination is 5 degrees.
Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak, which form Orion’s belt, are the most prominent stars in the Orion constellation. Betelgeuse, the second brightest star in Orion, establishes the right shoulder of the hunter. Bellatrix serves as Orion's left shoulder.
The Orion Nebula — a formation of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases rather than a star — is the middle "star" in Orion’s sword, which hangs off of Orion's Belt. The Horsehead Nebula is also nearby.
Other stars in the constellation include Hatsya, which establishes the tip of Orion's sword that hangs off the belt, and Meissa, which forms Orion's head. Saiph serves as Orion's right knee. Rigel, Orion’s brightest star, forms the hunter's left knee
With one exception, all of the main stars in Orion are bright young blue giants or supergiants, ranging in distance from Bellatrix (243 light-years) to Alnilam (1,359 light-years). The Orion Nebula is farther away than any of the naked eye stars at a distance of about 1,600 light-years. One light-year is the distance light travels in a single year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).
The exception is the star Betelgeuse, which is a red giant and one of the largest stars known. It is also the only star in the sky large enough and close enough to have been imaged as a disk in the Hubble Space Telescope. Observers with a keen eye should be able to see the difference in color between Betelgeuse and all the other stars in Orion. [Space Photos: Orion Nebula & Other Stunning Views]
Exoplanet possibilities
The constellation of the hunter has also proven a fertile hunting ground for extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, planets beyond the solar system. Here are a few of the planets (or potential planets) that have been discovered in stars that fall within Orion's boundaries in the Earth's sky:
The star CVSO 30 is 1,200 light-years away and likely hosts a couple of potential planets. In 2012, the Very Large Telescope in Chile managed to image possible exoplanet CVSO 30c directly, an incredible feat given that CVSO 30 is roughly 280 times farther than Earth is to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri). CVSO 30c (if it exists) is a gas giant that orbits its star at a distance of 660 astronomical units (Earth-sun distances) and makes an orbit every 27,000 years. The other candidate planet is gas giant CVSO 30b, which by contrast is extremely close — just 0.008 AU from its star.
A Jupiter-size potential exoplanet, PTFO8-8695b, is about 1,100 light-years from Earth and (if it exists) is so close to its star that its outer layers are being ripped away from the rest of the planet. The star's system showed high-energy hydrogen emissions that can't be explained by stellar activities or features, according to astronomers.
There are a few other probable planets in Orion as well, although their existence may be proved or disproved with more observations. These include HD 38529 b and HD 38529 c (two gas giants orbiting in a system with a huge debris disk), HD 38858 b (a gas giant orbiting in the habitable zone of its star) and HD 37605 b (a gas giant that orbits extremely close to its parent star.)
The stars Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak form Orion’s belt.
Credit: Martin Mutti, Astronomical Image Data Archive
Mythology
There are several versions of the myth of Orion, but one of the more common iterations is that Orion proclaimed himself to be the greatest hunter in the world, much to the dismay of Hera, the wife of Zeus. She had a scorpion kill him, and Zeus put Orion into the sky as consolation. In another version, Orion is blinded for raping Merope, a granddaughter of the god Dionysus. He has to travel East to seek the sun's rays to recover his sight.
While the name Orion is steeped in Greek mythology, many cultures have been influenced by the story of this constellation. Orion has also associated with an Egyptian pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty nameed Unas. In Hungary, Orion is known as (magic) Archer (Íjász), or Scyther (Kaszás). Scandinavians refer to Orion's Belt as Frigg's Distaff.
Additional reporting by Elizabeth Howell, Space.com contributor.
A Pennsylvania witness at Fairless Hills reported watching four triangle-shaped UFOs silently moving just 20 feet over neighboring homes followed by 20 to 30 star-like objects crossing the sky, according to testimony in Case 80797 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The sighting began about 8:20 p.m. on November 4, 2016, when the witness took his two children out for a walk in search of Pokémon hotspots.
“It was a crisp fall night, and for a night sky, the sky was bright and full of stars with no clouds or precipitation,” the witness stated. “At approximately 8:20 p.m. we turned and began walking up a street with a slight incline, and my youngest child stopped to catch a Pokémon and had lagged behind. I noticed he was no longer with us and I turned around to call to him to catch up, and right behind him were two huge, black, triangular craft, larger than the houses they were above, flying slowly and approximately 20 feet above the one story houses across the street, and approximately 20 feet away.”
The witness immediately spotted a second craft.
“The second craft was flying at the same height as the first craft, immediately behind it. The two craft were black with three unwavering bright white lights at the three corners of the triangles, with a solid bright primary, red light in the center of the craft. The craft were completely silent; they were almost on top of us and we never would have known they were there if I did not happen to look behind us. The two craft came from a western direction and were heading east.”
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The objects then changed direction.
“We observed the craft silently shift direction southeast before disappearing behind trees and we lost visual contact with the craft. We continued walking up the road away from the craft headed north, heading home, for approximately 10 seconds, when I looked behind again to where we had sighted the craft. Two more triangular craft were flying in the exact same direction in the exact location where the first two craft were sighted, and they turned and headed southeast in exactly the same spot that the other two craft had turned. It was as if we witnessed deja vu; as if we viewed the event again, but this time at a slightly different angle, as we were slightly farther away from the craft the second time around.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image 1.
(Credit: MUFON)
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image 2.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness then returned to the original location.
“We walked back down to the location where we spotted and observed the first craft, this time from a farther distance away, as the craft were heading away from us. And at this point my eldest son managed to snap two photographs of these second two craft with his phone.”
The witness then observed a large group of star-like objects.
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image 1.
(Credit: MUFON)
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image 2.
(Credit: MUFON)
“We turned east and onto my road, when we looked up into the sky and witnessed a patch of sky with between 20 and 30 balls of light, exact number unable to be determined, that looked like stars, except that they were moving. Some of the lights were moving very slowly, almost imperceptibly, but other craft were moving so quick that they would leave a light trail behind them, as they shifted position. The lights were different colors, from red to bluish-white to orange to bright white. We walked towards this activity in the sky, however, these lights were high up – like stars – and to the east of our location. Our vision would occasionally be obstructed as we walked on our street due to street lamps, but the activity continued unabated as we reached our house. We ran inside and I asked my wife to come out and check out what was happening in the sky. Approximately three minutes later, just after 8:30 p.m., we walked back outside and there was nothing in the sky where we had just observed the lights; not even observable stars.”
Fairless Hills is in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, population 8,466. Pennsylvania MUFON State Section Director Donna Luther is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Mysterious LEAKED Clip Of Alien Satellite | Mysterious UFO
Mysterious LEAKED Clip Of Alien Satellite | Mysterious UFO
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EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM: Footage of possible ‘REAL alien found on the dark web’
EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM: Footage of possible ‘REAL alien found on the dark web’
ALIEN truth seekers have been left gobsmacked by claims that video footage of a possible real extraterrestrial being experimented on has been found on the “dark web”.
YouTube UFO and conspiracy theory channels have been airing the video that was reportedly filmed in 1992 in Eiger, Switzerland, and shows what appears to be a body with an alien-like over-sized head, large eyes, small, spindly arms, and torso – much like the stereotypical image of an alien.
YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY
MYSTERY: People appeared to examine the body in the photos
One picture of the being shows the body propped up by what appears to be an electrical wire, with another showing a group of scientists seemingly examining the body.
The footage was posted this week by UFO channel UFO Today, which described it as an extra-terrestrial biological entity (EBE), amid claims it was filmed in a hurry” in “clandestine circumstances”.
The channel also claimed to have found the footage “on a server on the dark web” – part of the internet which contains details of many illegal and hidden activities, and is not indexed by search engines.
Case closed: The new book sheds light on a theory that the UFO was not alien in origin.
Andrew Pike, a qualified astrophysicist, writer and broadcaster specialising in astronomical anomalies and the history of science, has penned a new book questioning just what could have happened at two US Air Force bases by Rendlesham Forest, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, in December 1980.
The Rendlesham File – Britain's Roswell? is a detailed scientific study of the astonishing three-day period witnessed by US Military personnel.
The Rendlesham legend, which took place around neighbouring bases RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, has been dubbed Britain's Roswell, in a nod to the mystery of the UFO crash said to have taken place outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
The UK suspected alien event saw three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claim a "triangular-shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26, 1980, after seeing a strange series of lights in the sky and forest.
Due to high interest in the case, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) investigated and concluded Orford Ness lighthouse had been responsible for what was seen over the two nights in terms of glowing orbs.
However, this has not satisfied most UFO investigators, failing to explain claims of the UFO being on the ground on the first night.
Mr Pike concludes in the book that the bizarre lights seen may have been a natural phenomena known as plasma or ball lightening, rather than coming from an alien UFO.
Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon following reports and video footage of luminous, bright spherical objects from tiny to several metres in diameter that move around in the air.
Mr Pike also suggests that the sightings of a triangular craft may have been down to secret military steal craft experiments using microwave technology, rather than anything of extraterrestrial origin.
Mr Pike wrote in the conclusion of his book: "The answer to the Rendlesham Forest Incident appears to depend on whether a nuts and bolts craft existed at all, the area’s geophysical features and the history of secret experimental research.
"Whereas sightings involving unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) are regularly reported in an area known for its natural balls of light such as earth lights and plasma-like effects, they were certainly unusually intense during the incident.
"It also appears that a general increase in activity has been occurring since the time of World War Two and the development of microwave-based radar and other research in the area.
"Until then every event traced was significantly less than the ones occurring since secret research moved in and started experimenting.
"This has been supported by similar trends in other areas involving radar and microwave communications. This does not appear to be a coincidence."
The expert said there seemed to be a decrease in sightings in the area since all the publicity surrounding the case.
He said: "A similar situation occurred back in the 1950s when ufologists were regularly spotting the U-2 spy plane in the area and the powers-that-be had to relocate it.
"I believe microwave science fits the data well to enhance what might have otherwise been just another outbreak involving balls of light."
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UFO MYSTERY: Former MoD investigator Nick Pope (pictured) reviewed the case.
The answer to the Rendlesham Forest Incident appears to depend on whether a nuts and bolts craft existed at all, the area’s geophysical features and the history of secret experimental research.
Andrew Pike
Mr Pike said research to transfer power and information to drones using microwaves and driving them with microwave beams was also significant.
He said: "If some descriptions of a triangular craft seen by civilians and the drawings of a craft seen in Rendlesham Forest by airman Jim Penniston are correct, both might suggest a drone similar to those involving stealth technology and the avoidance of radar imaging developed in places like Area 51; in particular a design known as Hopeless Diamond involving a series of triangular sections bolted together to deflect radar.
"Even if we remove the flying triangle craft from the equation, which appears to have been happening with changing airmen reports over recent years, we still have an area rich in microwave beams for other purposes, as well as natural balls of light which can, and do, interact when frequencies, and other environmental conditions, are just right.
"These two events of a triangular craft and increased activity of balls of light may, or may not, have been connected or running in parallel but appear to be a problem area for the powers-that-be."
The men first noticed lights and then a UFO "on the forest floor", and could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air".
The three - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston - later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.
Former Colonel Charles Halt, 77, the most senior witness, who was base deputy commander at the time, was not present during the first encounter, but was told the next morning and investigated that night after officers shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back."
He went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.
UFO publisher Philip Mantle, of Flying Disk Press, said: "The Rendlesham File is the first book written about these events by a UK academic.
"It takes an unbiased scientific look at the UFO sightings in question and puts all of the information under the microscope.
"Is there a scientific explanation for these UFO sightings or are they truly the result pf something that is yet beyond our scientific capabilities?"
Nick Pope is a former Ministry of Defence (MoD) officer who investigated the UFO phenomena, including the Rendlesham case.
He said: "This well-researched and eminently readable book significantly enhances our knowledge of the UK's best-known and most compelling UFO incident.
"Pike comes at the story from the perspective of being an astrophysicist, and his scientific approach is a welcome one, and one that's far too seldom seen in ufology.
"Given Pike's specific areas of expertise - which include plasma physics - I was particularly interested in his insightful analysis of the MoD intelligence assessment of the UFO
phenomenon that's colloquially known as Project Condign."
In September, researcher Russ Callaghan shocked the UFO community with a new theory that the Rendlesham UFO could have actually been a top-secret US Air Force training capsule, used as a dummy run for missions to pick up satellites that reentered earth, as exclusively revealed by Express.co.uk.
Mr Pike's work has appeared in many specialist publications including UFO Magazine (UK), UFO Data Magazine, Uri Geller’s Encounters, Alien Encounters, The Unopened Files, the Internet magazines ufodata.co.uk and uforeview.net as well as on television and radio in both the UK and USA.
The Rendlesham File – Britain's Roswell?, is available from Amazon and Flying Disk Press.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETNASA heeft onze hulp nodig. De ruimtevaartorganisatie zoekt een nieuwe naam voor planetoïde 2014 MU69, een kleine ijswereld voorbij Pluto.
’(486958) 2014 MU69′ is een cubewano, een planetoïde in de Kuipergordel buiten de baan van Pluto. Het object werd in 2014 ontdekt met de Hubbletelescoop, en kreeg toen zijn nogal onfortuinlijke naam. De planetoïde ligt op 6,5 miljard kilometer afstand van de aarde, en bestaat misschien zelfs uit twee objecten die samenkleven of rond elkaar draaien.
Op zich is zo’n vreemde cijfer- en lettercombinatie als naam niet uitzonderlijk, maar nu ruimtesonde New Horizons de planetoïde gaat onderzoeken - en de naam dus veel in de pers zal komen - vindt NASA dat het tijd is voor een naamsverandering.
Wil je zelf ook een gooi doen naar de nieuwe naam? Dan kan je deelnemen aan de wedstrijd die NASA uitschreef voor 2014 MU69. Hier kan je tot 1 december een poging wagen, of stemmen voor andermans voorstel. Het gaat wel om een voorlopige bijnaam voor de miniplaneet; als de ruimtesonde in 2019 voorbijvliegt, zal 2014 MU69 dan een officiële naam krijgen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wat als de grote vulkaanuitbarsting van 1815 zich deze eeuw voordeed? Dan zouden de gevolgen voor ons weer nog verwoestender zijn, een gevolg van de klimaatverandering.
Onderzoekers van het National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in de VS namen de grote uitbarsting van de Tambora in Indonesië tweehonderd jaar geleden als ijkpunt. Die deed zich voor in april 1815 en geldt als de zwaarste vulkaanuitbarsting van de laatste eeuwen. Europa en Noord-Amerika kenden het jaar nadien geen zomer, zo sterk deed de uitbarsting de temperaturen overal dalen.
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Uitbarsting in 2085
Wat als een gelijkaardige uitbarsting zich in 2085 zou voordoen? Dan zou die een veel grotere impact op de wereldwijde temperatuur en neerslag hebben dan tweehonderd jaar geleden, zeggen de onderzoekers in Nature Communications. De temperatuur zou veel sterker dalen en er zou veel minder neerslag vallen.
In 2085 zullen de oceanen meer gelaagd zijn dan in 1815. Daardoor kunnen ze de klimaatimpact van vulkaanuitbarstingen minder temperen.
In 2085 zullen de oceanen meer gelaagd zijn dan in 1815. Daardoor kunnen ze de impact van uitbarstingen minder temperen
“We hebben ontdekt dat de oceanen een zeer grote rol spelen bij het matigen, en ook het verlengen, van de afkoeling van de oppervlakte die door de uitbarsting van 1815 werd veroorzaakt”, zegt hoofdauteur John Fasullo. “De vulkanische schok is niet meer dan een schok – een schok die gedurende bijna een jaar voor afkoeling zorgt. Maar de oceanen veranderen de tijdschaal. Ze dempen de aanvankelijke afkoeling en spreiden haar ook over verschillende jaren.”
Honderdduizend doden
Bij de uitbarsting van de Tambora kwam een enorme hoeveelheid zwaveldioxide in de bovenste laag van de atmosfeer terecht. Daardoor ontstond een aerosollaag die overal ter wereld het zonlicht tegenhield.
Door de uitzonderlijk koude zomer van 1816, die heel wat oogsten deed mislukken, stierven wereldwijd meer dan honderdduizend mensen.
Getemperd door oceanen
Maar de afkoeling toen werd nog getemperd door de oceanen. Het wateroppervlak koelde af, het koudere water zonk, waardoor warmer water kon stijgen en zo meer warmte in de atmosfeer bracht. Toen de oceanen aanzienlijk afgekoeld waren, begon de aerosollaag te verdwijnen, waardoor de zon de aarde weer kon bereiken. Ook bij dat opwarmingsproces speelde de oceaan een temperende rol. In 2085 zullen de oceanen veel minder kunnen temperen. Door de opwarming van de aarde kunnen de warmere bovenste oceaanlagen zich nu al minder makkelijk vermengen met het koudere water eronder. Bij een sterke afkoeling door een vulkaanuitbarsting zou het afkoelende water gevangen zitten aan de oppervlakte: het kan niet meer zakken omdat er een warmere laag onder zit.
Bij een uitbarsting zoals die van de Tambora zou het aardoppervlak gemiddeld 1,1 graad Celsius afkoelen, 40 procent meer dan in 1816
1,1 graad afkoelen
Bij een uitbarsting zoals die van de Tambora zou het aardoppervlak daarom gemiddeld 1,1 graad Celsius afkoelen, 40 procent meer dan in 1816. Maar de onderzoekers benadrukken dat het moeilijk is om de afkoeling exact te voorspellen, aangezien hun studie rond een beperkt aantal simulaties draaide.
Kan zo’n afkoeling dan de opwarming van de aarde niet afremmen of onderbreken? Neen, zeggen de NCAR-experts. Daarvoor is de gesimuleerde afkoeling te klein. Tegen 2085 kan de aarde al 4,2 graden zijn opgewarmd. Dan maakt die tijdelijke daling van 1,1 graad Celsius nauwelijks verschil.
Wars can be wellsprings of unsolved mysteries and unexplained phenomena on top of all the death, with bizarre, puzzling tales blooming up out of the battle torn earth and scattered amongst the landscape of fighting and killing. Most often overshadowed by the historical records and news of politics, battles and intrigue permeating war, these cases have nevertheless managed to flit about the periphery of these tragedies. One of the most intense, horrific wars of human history certainly has its own dark patches of weirdness haunting it, and World War I is pervaded by all manner of strange phenomena and bizarre tales.
World War I broke out across our planet between the years of 1914 and 1918, and spread like a disease from a diplomatic crisis in Europe to infect all the world’s great economic powers of the time with the determination to kill, who were inexorably drawn in to what would be one of the most voracious, bloodiest, and costliest wars in all of history, and which mostly eventually devolved into more or less a battle of attrition and marked the rise of horrific, brutal trench warfare. The world was engulfed in warfare at the time, waged between the Allies, eventually consisting of the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as the United states, Japan, and Italy, and their enemies the Central Powers, including The German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. The carnage that ensued would ultimately change the map of our world, dissolve the German Empire, Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, and leave an estimated 16 million people dead and large swaths of the landscape in ruin, and it is here from this storm of bloodshed that some decidedly weird accounts originate.
By far one of the more widely circulated and well-known purported strange occurrences of World War I supposedly happened during the bloody Battle of Mons, in Belgium, in 1914, in which the British Expeditionary Force met the advancing German 1st Army in ferocious battle on the French border, at first managing to drive the enemy back somewhat but ultimately suffering heavy casualties at he hands of the well-trained, well-equipped and more numerous enemy forces. In August of 1914, suffering a great toll under the withering assault by the persistent, overwhelming Germans and hobbled by the withdrawal of their French Fifth Army allies, the British decided to finally retreat. It was then that some rather mysterious and wondrous reports of some decidedly odd things are said to have happened.
Troops in the trenches of World War I
As the British fell back under fierce, unrelenting enemy fire, English soldiers claim that various mysterious apparitions began to appear to them over the battlefield. The surreal, ghostly entities were variously described as angels, bowmen, or even St. George himself or St. Michael holding a great glowing sword, and in one case even Joan of Arc, and they were all said to descend down between the retreating British and their enemies to allow them a safe escape. Descriptions that came in varied, with some soldiers swearing they had seen literal angels prowling through the gloom of smoke and battle, others saying that they had been mighty and colossal angelic figures that loomed high over all they surveyed like mountains, while still others claimed to have seen just roving bright lights, but all who saw these mysterious apparitions credited them with thir survival.
One retreating British unit claimed that they had been joined by a spectral army of bowmen who were described as looking as if they had come from the time of Agincourt 500 years before, and which lashed forth with a rain of shadowy arrows upon the Germans. It was even claimed that German prisoners would later corroborate these claims, saying that they had been confronted by ancient looking warriors wielding bows and dressed in armor. Hundreds of dead Germans were allegedly found later strewn about the battlefield with no visible physical wounds, leading to suspicions that some sort of poison gas had been used. Another report told of giant winged entities that bloomed out of the smoke to frighten the Germans away as the British skittered off to safety. One report was relayed to a nurse by an injured corporal, who claimed:
Quite plainly in mid-air a strange light which seemed to be quite distinctly outlined and was not a reflection of the moon nor were there any clouds. The light became brighter and I could see quite distinctly three shapes, one in the center having what looked like outspread wings. The other two were not so large, but were quite plainly distinct from the center one. They were above the German line facing us. We stood watching them for about three-quarters of an hour. All the men with me saw them. I have a record of fifteen years’ good service, and I should be very sorry to make fool of myself by telling a story merely to please anyone.
Angels of Mons
In other reports lost soldiers told of glowing angels both male and female and dressed in white appearing to them to guide the way, and in still others there was talk of strange amorphous clouds of flickering light that spread out to block the retreat of the enemy or spook the horses of their cavalry to send them running away in fear. In most cases light bathed beings would fan out and chase off the German enemies in some fashion. Many captured Germans would later allegedly concur that something strange had been going on, reporting seeing the entities themselves roaming about, and claiming that they were unable to be shot and killed with their conventional weapons. Reports of these specters were so common at the time that they became a worldwide media sensation, and were seen by many as a sign from God, a heavenly force sent in to save them from the darkness of defeat. Indeed, the British lost far fewer men than they had any right to during the battle, which was seen as evidence that it was all true. Before long, the reports of the “Angels of Mons,” were being heavily used by Allied media to illustrate that theirs was a righteous cause condoned by God Himself in the face of the evil Germans and their sinister cabal.
Of course, there has been much debate as to the veracity of these reports, and it does seem a little convenient that they should come at a time when Allied morale in the face of their ruthless enemy was low. It has also been pointed out that this could have all been put down to mass hallucinations and hysteria fueled by all of the death, tiredness and fear that was flying about during the fighting, bolstered by religious superstition and strong, desperate hope for some sort of savior. Further complicating matters is the fact that although such reports were widely circulated at the time, most of them could not be tracked to any concrete source, and later attempts to actually find any live firsthand witness were mostly met with failure, with the military saying that their identities were being protected and leading many to suspect that the whole story of the Angels of Mons could have been designed and carried out as morale boosting propaganda bolstered by unfounded rumors amongst the soldiers, after which it spun off into myth and legend. Whatever the case may be, it is all quite the bizarre story indeed, and still manages to capture the imagination to this day.
Another story of ghostly forces fighting can be found within the pages of James Wentworth Day’s 1954 book Here are Ghosts and Witches. In the account, Day describes a very peculiar experience in November of 1918 at Bailleul, Flanders. He claims that he and another witness, a Corporal Jock Barr, witnessed spectral French and German soldiers atop a hilltop who seemed to be reenacting a World War I cavalry battle from 1914. Throughout the whole violent, eerie encounter there was no noise and the ghosts did not seem to actually harm each other. When locals were asked about the incident they simply said that around that time of year the spectral forces would always come out, do battle, and then vanish. Although this is all presented amongst supposedly real ghostly occurrences, it is uncertain just how much veracity the account holds, as Day was well known for his love of spooky folklore and his propensity for exaggeration.
Reports of ghosts or apparitions of some sort appearing on the battlefields of World War I in the darkest hours are plentiful. In one account from the battlefield of Mons, two British soldiers lie dying in the bloody muck beneath them claimed that as they were wounded and helpless they spied the ghostly form of an old woman dressed in a bonnet and a bright blue skirt stalking about and always seeming to wander right into their line of fire. At first they thought they were going mad until a third soldier claimed to see the woman too, and chillingly stated that it was his dead mother and that he believed she had come for him. Just as he made this unsettling revelation he is reported to have been blown to bits by shrapnel.
While in this case it seems the ghost was their to collect her son’s soul, there are other accounts of benevolent dead family members, comrades, or friends appearing in battle to offer help as well. One rather sensational account printed in the Liverpool Echo was a sighting made by an entire company of men, who swore that their dead commanding officer had appeared to them on the battlefield. The officer in question had sustained grievous injuries from a grenade blast in a prior battle, including two missing arms blown from his body, from which he would die on the way to the hospital, yet nevertheless suddenly appeared before the company commander, who walked forward to get a better look before the apparition vanished. Startled and disbelieving his own eyes, the officer frantically rushed along a trench to the company headquarters, where he asked if anyone else had seen the dead man too. One of the men responded:
See whom? Do you mean the Colonel? Yes, we saw him, standing still, looking down the trenches just here; we looked at him for fully a minute, and suddenly HE WAS NOT THERE. Can’t make it out at all. All of the men saw him too, and I don’t know if you noticed it or not but he had BOTH his arms.
Another such ghostly account comes from a soldier’s letter home, in which he described having his life saved by the ghost of his mother. The soldier claimed that in the heat of battle his mother had appeared and urged him towards her. As the dumbstruck soldier had shambled in her direction, not knowing what to make of what he was seeing, an artillery shell hit near where he had been standing before his sighting. The soldier wrote, “Had it not been for you, I certainly would have been reported missing. You’ll turn up again, won’t you, mother, next time a shell is coming?”
In still another account a soldier claimed that he had been apparently saved by the spectral presence of his deceased brother. On this occasion, in April 1917, a soldier in the 42nd Battalion of the Canadian Black Watch, a Corporal Will Bird, was fast asleep on the cold, hard dirt floor of a dugout at Vimy Ridge, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. The area was the location of the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge, fought between Canadian and German forces. Bird woke to a pair of hands gently shaking him, which he thought at first to be those of a squad mate, but upon opening his eyes he was instead greeted by the visage of his brother, Steve, who had died while serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France in a battle a couple of years earlier.
The dead brother allegedly urgently beckoned Will to follow him, which he did. He followed the ghostly apparition over the scorched, bombed out moonscape of the no man’s land until they reached the husk of a destroyed building on the fringes of the battlefield wasteland. At this point, the dead brother Steve took a long, thoughtful look at Will and then vanished into thin air. Scared, puzzled, and exhausted, Will did not have the inclination to make his way all the way back to his own dugout, and instead slept there in the ruins. When he awoke a few hours later he reportedly started his journey back to his group, but when he arrived he found a bombed out shell where the dugout had been and body parts strewn all about by the men who had been “dismembered beyond all recognition.” No one had survived, except Will that is, because he hadn’t been there, led off into the dark away from danger by his dead brother. Bird would later on in life write a book about the experience, called Ghosts Have Warm Hands.
These last two accounts were written of by the author, historian and military researcher Tim Cook, who has compiled many such spooky, supernatural cases during the war into a study in in The Journal of Military History. According to Cook, such cases were not so unusual among these scared men in a bloody, scary land far from home. He thought such stories were born of fear and uncertainty, mixed with the death all around them, and these tales could not only boost morale and offer a ray of hope in the otherwise deep dark oblivion of the ravenous war they faced, but also give them something they could try and make sense of among all of the senseless carnage. Cook says of such paranormal accounts during World War I:
As a threshold borderland, the Western Front was a place for such spectral thinking and haunting, where the strange was made ordinary, where the safe was infused with danger, where death was natural and life fleeting. The unnatural, supernatural, uncanny and ghostly offered succour to some soldiers, who embraced these ‘grave beliefs’ to make sense of their war experience. It was a common response for some soldiers who lived in a space of destruction and death. As I read the memoirs, letters, and diaries of soldiers I kept encountering the uncanny, the supernatural, and even the spectral.
Or maybe they were just ghosts? Who can say? The poet Robert Graves gave several of his own personal accounts of ghosts, one of which occurred in June of 1915 as he had dinner with his fellow troops at Béthune, in Northern France. As they ate, Graves says that he saw an old comrade of his, a Private Challoner of the Royal Welch, standing there at the window smoking a cigarette, which was odd since Challoner was very dead at the time, having been killed at Festubert the previous month. Shocked, Graves ran outside but saw no one there, merely a cigarette butt still smoldering on the ground. He would later say of the strange encounter, “I could not mistake him or the cap badge he wore; yet no Royal Welch battalion was billeted within miles of Bethune at the time.”
Graves would have another brush with the paranormal when he was on leave in Wales, where he was staying with a woman who had lost her son in battle. Graves stayed in the son’s room, which was reportedly left exactly the way it had been when the doomed soldier had gone off to fight, with fresh clothes and even cigarettes left out every day by the grieving mother as if he would return at any time. As creepy as this was, Graves agreed to sleep in the room, but he would later regret it when he was constantly awakened at night by inexplicable bangs, thuds, knocks, and raps emanating from the floor and walls around him. The following day Graves decided that he had had enough, and later said of the bizarre evening, “In the morning I told my friend “I’m leaving this place. It’s worse than France.””
If any of these accounts are real, then it shows that perhaps some of the dead linger on about the places of their violent deaths, and other reports seem to suggest that other mysterious and even evil forces can linger there as well, perhaps suckling and feeding off of the potent fear and madness of war. One strange account comes from the paranormal writer Dennis Wheatley, who also happened to have served on the Western Front during World War I. In his 1973 book The Devil and All His Works, Wheatley describes a strange and frightening experience he had during the war he claims happened as he and his unit took up shelter in the abandoned ruins of a bombed out mansion after the fierce fighting at the Battle of Cambrai. Apparently the decrepit, burned out building was a ghoulish affair to begin with, with bloodied German uniforms scattered about, apparently discarded there by the troops who had occupied it. One night Wheatley claims that he was working after dark building a makeshift mess when he was gripped by a profound, inexplicable dread that forced him to retreat from the premises, and he would later proclaim that it had been a demon which he referred to as “an elemental,” which he believed had been attracted to the strife, death and violence of the location.
A similar story comes from the book An Onlooker in France 1917-1919, and was told by the war artist William Orpen, who in November of 1917 was at the battlefield of Somme to work on a painting of nearby Thiepval Wood. Although the fierce battle had ended more than a year before, the area was still apparently littered with human remains and the stench of decay, its soil permeated with the blood of the fallen and signs of the carnage everywhere. As he painted, Orpen claimed that he was constantly beset with the heavy, stifling feeling of being watched, and a strange unshakable sense that there was a force or presence there with him. He also said that although it was midday and sunny, the day nevertheless had a dark pall over it, some quality of murkiness as if viewed through darkened glass. After being steadily unsettled by all of this for several hours, he claimed that he had then been rushed by an unseen hostile force, which sent the startled artist flying backwards to hit his head on the ground. When he came to his senses the ghostly presence was gone. He too believed that he had been attacked by some demon or supernatural entity that was drawn to and feasting upon the lingering death there.
Besides angels and ghosts, some really strange phenomena during World War I are really hard to truly classify. One account is the disappearance of an entire regiment at Gallipoli, Turkey in 1915. in August of this year, the British 5th Norfolk Regiment, also known as the Sandringhams, marched into the hellish Dardanelles campaign of the war. Made up of mostly soldiers employed by the estate of King Edward VII and led by the land agent Frank Beck, the regiment proceeded to march into battle and vanish without a trace. In later decades, some veterans would claim that between six and eight “loaf shaped clouds” had descended over the soldiers during the battle, which hovered over the troops before producing a fog which the battalion marched right into and never emerged from, with the strange objects then rising up into the sky to apparently take the whole contingent of over a hundred men with them. Turkish authorities would later claim that they had had nothing to do with the disappearance or the fate of the men. It is a case which I have covered here at Mysterious Universe before, and although it may be more wartime legend it is fascinating nevertheless.
Forces fighting at Gallipoli
While it is unclear as to just what happened to “The Vanished Battalion,” or whether it was UFOs or just a spooky bit of war folklore, it is not the only far out story of unidentified flying objects from the war, and just about as dramatic is that time the Red Baron shot down a flying saucer. Wait, what? Let me explain. The so- called Red Baron was the German ace pilot Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, who was both renowned and feared for his unrivaled flying skills, often considered to be “the ace of aces” and racking up at least 80 air combat victories. In the book UFOs of the First World War, by Nigel Watson, there is a curious account that seems to show that human pilots were not the only one the Red Baron hunted down and engaged. The story goes that as he was flying over the Belgian trenches in the spring of 1917 with fellow pilot Peter Waitzrick, the Baron spotted an unidentified object that was described as “an upside down silver saucer with orange lights” hovering in clear blue skies. After a moment of awe, fear and wonder, the Red Baron did the human thing and opened fire upon it, and Waitzrick, who reportedly saw the whole thing, described what happened next thus:
We were terrified because we’d never seen anything like it before. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing went down like a rock, shearing off tree limbs as it crashed into the woods.
It gets even weirder still. As they passed over the wreckage two humanoid figures were supposedly seen to climb out of the otherworldly wrecked craft and scurry off into the trees, after which they were not seen again. Waitzrick would keep the whole bizarre story to himself until 80 years later, in 1999. There are certainly some suspicious aspects of the whole tale, not the least of which is that Waitzrick chose to come out with his amazing experience after 8 decades of silence to The Weekly World News, which many readers will recognize as perhaps not the most trustworthy of news publications. Also, the planes they were piloting were claimed to be Fokker triplanes, which is odd since these planes would not be used in the war until some months after the alleged event, in August of 1917. Perhaps Waitzrick just didn’t know anyone who would take his story seriously and didn’t know any better so it just happened to be that the Weekly World News picked it up, and perhaps with the planes his memory after nearly a century was not what it once was, but one thing he seems to be quite sure of is that the infamous Red Baron shot down a UFO, saying:
There’s no doubt in my mind that the Baron shot down some kind of spacecraft from another planet and those little guys who ran off into the woods were space aliens of some kind.
The Red Baron, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen
Other UFOs encountered during World War I are the so-called “Flaming Onions” which were typically described as glowing green balls that would zip around, do flips, and very often chase aircraft, easily outpacing and outmaneuvering them but not actually attacking in any way. This strange phenomenon was purportedly seen throughout the war by both sides of the engagement, and it always terrified those who experienced it. One theory as to what the Flaming Onions were is that they might have been flares fired by the Germans, but flares typically do not actively chase aircraft and seasoned pilots can usually recognize flares as such. They remain a curious unexplained mystery of the war.
Besides spaceships and weird lights, another baffling aerial phenomenon reported during the war began with a very strange sighting made by a Lieutenant Frederick Ardsley as he was on a morning patrol in northern France on January 9, 1918. As he flew along, another biplane of the same make and model as his own positioned itself next to him, and when he looked to see who was in the cockpit he was surprised to see a beautiful woman with long flowing blonde hair blow him a kiss and do a Can Can dance in her cockpit before swiftly flying away. Ardsley attempted to chase the mysterious pilot, but she was reportedly a far superior pilot and was able to easily lose him. Unbelievably, the mystery woman would show up at other times during the war and engage German pilots, usually easily beating them and shooting them down and sighted by both pilots and civilians alike. Some reports even say that her plane was impervious to bullets or that she would vanish into thin air. She came to be known as “Lady Sopwith” or “The Valkyrie,” and became legendary. No one knows who she was or whether this is all just another wartime myth.
Another inexplicable account is the strange phenomenon of the zombie-like ghouls of the No Man’s Land of the war. These ghoulish maniacs were said to haunt the empty tracts of war-torn land between sides, where no one dared to tread, where they prowled about looking for new victims. They were mostly said to be deserters who had wandered off into this crater blasted wasteland, and these defectors of all nationalities are said to have banded together out in the blood-soaked moonscape of the No Man’s Land to live underground in dim tunnels, where they went insane began to emerge to kill, loot, and eat the fallen. Some thought they were not even human at all, but rather some sort of revenants or demons from Hell itself, but whatever they were the end result was always the same; these ghoulish creatures raiding fresh corpses to take their equipment and feast on their flesh, or even by some accounts attacking and killing soldiers from both sides of the fight.
No Man’s Land in World War I
One of the most sensational accounts of these mysterious figures was given in the book The Squadroon, and describes a whole platoon of soldiers walking across No Man’s Land only to be grabbed from below by unseen forces and pulled down one by one as if sucked into the earth itself amidst screams of pain and terror until there was no one left and no sign that anyone had been there at all. It has also been variously reported that the Allied forces took this threat seriously, going so far as to gas the whole area in a bid to kill off the freakish marauding thugs. I have written of this phenomenon in much more detail here at Mysterious Universe before, and although it stinks of a war legend born from the chaos of the battlefield and exaggerated at best, it is all still rather disturbing and spooky nonetheless.
From the depths of our darkest, shameful pieces of history, from among the fighting and death there often spring many such tales of the unexplained, yet the nature of the untamed chaos of war often makes it difficult to know which are perhaps factual and which are merely the mutated progeny of tired and addled minds consumed, demented and twisted by atrocities and fear. Peering through the fog of war it is often hard to differentiate fact from fiction, and the lines between where reality begins and feverish fantasy begins can become blurred. Making matters more complicated is that accurate records are often not kept of these anomalies, instead being spread through word of mouth and second of third hand accounts, and concrete sources can be elusive, not to mention the fact that these soldiers were there to fight, not chronicle the unexplained, making these oddities more of a distraction for them than anything else. These alleged events have become faded and obscured by history. It is quite possible we will never know to what extent any of these tales are real, but they continue to lurk there between the pages of history books, intriguing yet evasive as they stay in the shadows.
Any headline containing the words “tiny human brains,” “implanted” and “rats” can’t be good news, even if the implanting is being done by some of the most famous and reputable labs in the world. Yet that’s what’s going to be discussed (and probably argued about in the break-outs, bathrooms and bars) when 21 papers on tiny human brains or organoids are presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience taking place in Washington, D.C., November 11-15.
The news comes from the journal STAT, which gives a detailed introduction to the scientific and medical innovations and ethical dilemmas that preceded these studies. Human brain organoids are blobs of human brain tissue grown from stem cells. They’re tiny and allegedly non-thinking but they react like human brains and have been used for drug testing and studies on brain diseases. The ethics of implanting them in non-human vertebrates will certainly be discussed since there is currently no ban on it but plenty of controversy.
I don’t feel smarter. Whose brain did you give me?
STAT looked at two of the more interesting and controversial studies. One was conducted by Fred “Rusty” Gage, a top neurobiologist at the famous Salk Institute. Gage led a team that performed what is believed to be the first reported vascularization – connecting the human brain organoid to a rat’s circulatory system. If that weren’t enough, they were able to see neurons from the human brain organoid send signals that were received and processed by the host rat’s brain.
Paging Dr. Frankenstein. Stat quotes legal scholar and bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University:
“[These advances are raising the question] of whether you are creating something human-ish that you have to take seriously in terms of according it dignity and respect — and figuring out what that even means.”
Human-ish? Is that a medical or a legal term?
Another study, led by University of Pennsylvania neurosurgeon Dr. Isaac Chen, implanted human cerebral organoids into the secondary visual cortex of the brains of 11 adult rats. The organoids survived for two months and connected naturally to the rat brains. When a light was shined in the eye of a rat, neurons fired in the human brain organoid. That’s not just connection … that’s integration.
Be the human … be the human.
Before jumping to unethical conclusions, Chen points out that his ultimate goal is to integrate healthy human brain organoids into damaged or diseased human brains to treat physical problems caused by accidents or stroke and eventually schizophrenia and autism.
However (there’s always a ‘however’ and in this case there are plenty of them), animal testing is being done first and no one has any idea if even a small number of human neurons implanted in a rat brain will give it human consciousness or advanced intelligence.
The cat … or in this case, the brain … is already out of the bag and on its way to being in many more rat skulls in the not-too-distant future. Should a moratorium be placed on this type of research until tests can be done using computer modeling or robots? Is it ethical to put human brain organoids in a robot?
Whatever the case, we need to put these ideas into new horror movies before the rats take over Hollywood. Or have they already?
On the morning of October 23, Exopolitics long-time source JP (a pseudonym) was once again instructed to look up into the sky by a nearby covert operative where he saw a rectangle platform shaped UFO.
He used his camera phone to take five photos of the UFO. He then noticed that he had missing time and when he tried to recall what had happened he had memory flashes of being inside the flying rectangle he had just photographed.
It seems the military use antigravity rectangle UFOs to carry out special abduction and mind control operations!
People were flocking near Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, the UK on Tuesday, August 21, 2001, to see two crop formations. Featuring a large number of small pixels, both looked very impressive, especially the view from above.
One formed a human face and the other represented a radio transmission that Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) sent from the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974. According to the witnesses, the Arecibo formation was created on August 20. The two formations were 200m apart in the same field.
The interpretation of the human face came from researcher and writer Wayne Herschel. In his analysis, the face looks like an Egyptian Sphinx and Viracocha. However, the Mars Face could be the most thought provoking resemblance.
The Arecibo in the northern coast of Puerto Rico contains a natural disc-shaped hole in the rock. Inside the bowl is a 100-feet diameter radio telescope, the largest one in the world.
Some modifications performed to the transmitter in 1974, allowing it to broadcast up to 20 terawatts. SETI decided to transmit an encoded message to the heavens as an inaugural test of those modifications or improvements. The signal was directed to the globular star cluster M13, estimated to be 25,000 light years away and consisted of around 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules.
Transmitted on November 16, 1974, the message consisted 1679 pulses of binary code (o’s and 1’s), which needed only a little under 3 minutes to transmit on a 2380MHz.
The reason for 1679 is down to mathematics. The number is the unique product of two prime numbers, 23 and 73. The people behind the decision of the number assumed that any lifeform with enough intellect would look for unique, universal constructs, such as binary digits, chemical element frequencies, and prime numbers.
Only the two prime numbers 23 and 73 produce 1679 when multiplied together, so there can only be one way to arrange the signal if converted it into a matrix grid – 23 squares by 73 squares. The pattern in Chilbolton crop field was decoded as:
“Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises.
Much pain, but still time. Believe there is good out there.
We oppose deception. Conduit closing. 0x07″
The 0x07 is a binary code that means a bell sound or a sound of an old typewriter.
More information about how to decode or decipher mathematically sophisticated designs from crop circle formations can be viewed in the video below.
Top Cities When It Comes To UFO Sightings In The U.S.
Top Cities When It Comes To UFO Sightings In The U.S
The saying ‘the truth is out there” has been popularized by the sci-fi series “The X-Files.” The thousands of UFO sightings across the United States only show that many people are still looking.
According to the data from 2001 to 2015, Phoenix emerged as the leading UFO hotspot among the list of the top cities in the U.S.
The data is pulled from Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa’s book “UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015.” The book was published in March 2017, compiling data and analysis for over 100,000 sightings of UFOs reported during the first 15 years of the 21st century.
Writer Cheryl Costa noted that Phoenix might be the most prevalent American place for UFO sightings possibly because of the Phoenix Lights phenomena two decades ago.
Thousands of witnesses say they saw a formation of five lights in a V-shaped and another in a triangular formation in 1997. The incident took place in Phoenix, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The lights reportedly produced no sound. The American Air Force claimed the second group of lights were just flares from A-10 Warthog aircraft. Phoenix is being followed by Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago, and Portland.
Below is the list of U.S. cities that have the most UFO sightings.
City // UFO Sightings
Phoenix: 929 Las Vegas: 639 Seattle: 616 Chicago: 562 Portland: 528 Los Angeles: 525 Tucson: 480 San Diego: 477 Houston: 466 Denver: 429 Austin: 426 New York City (Manhattan): 418 Orlando: 390 Springfield: 380 Albuquerque: 376 Miami: 375 Philadelphia: 338 San Antonio: 334 Columbus: 327 Jacksonville: 326 Sacramento: 316 San Francisco: 310 San Jose: 308 Myrtle Beach: 305 Dallas: 294 Kansas City: 294
Enceladus’ hidden ocean is kept warm by porous core
Enceladus’ hidden ocean is kept warm by porous core
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is one of the most promising places in the solar system for extraterrestrial life. Buried under miles and miles of ice lies a warm ocean that stretches across the whole body. Recent observations, like those performed by Cassini before it perished, suggest that geysers emanate from hotspots, capable of warming the ocean long enough for some form of life to appear. Now, in a new study, scientists have come just a tad closer to understanding Enceladus’ dynamics after they found evidence that suggests the moon’s core isn’t rocky but rather porous.
Artist impression of plumes gushing out of Enceladus’ south pole.
Credit: NASA.
The resourceful Cassini spacecraft explored Saturn and its moon Enceladus for 13 years. A few months back its mission came to an end and NASA engineers instructed the craft to make a suicide jump into Saturn’s atmosphere. NASA thought it’s best to destroy the craft in a controlled fashion then risk having Cassini crash into Enceladus, contaminating the moon in the process.
When Cassini first arrived in Saturn’s system in 2004, NASA scientists marveled when they learned tall geysers were ejecting material hundreds of miles into space from the south pole. Eventually, scientists learned that there is a huge liquid ocean on the little moon and that the tall plumes are made of water-ice mixed with traces of carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane and other hydrocarbons. We also know that the ocean is convecting, meaning it’s active.
Heated from the core
The geysers erupt from cracks present on the moon’s southern polar region. These cracks are known as “tiger stripes” — parallel depressions that are 100km long and 500m deep. According to temperature readings made by Cassini, the tiger stripes are hotter than the rest of the icy crust. So, what’s the heat source?
Scientists are aware that tidal heating can explain some of the heat on the small moon, which is only 241 km (150 miles) in diameter. However, NASA has calculated that the power required to keep the geysers active is in the order of 5GW — enough to power the city of Chicago — and tidal heating can account for just a fraction of that.
In the new study, researchers at the Université de Nantes, France, have accounted for the missing heat. According to their study published in Nature Astronomy, Enceladus’ tiny core is not solid but rather porous.
The mushy core takes in water from the ocean, which the French researchers calculated it comprises 20% of the core’s mass. The tidal forces associated with the pore water are now more than sufficient to explain how Enceladus’ heat is generated. The researchers are careful to note that the porous core is not really like a sponge but rather more like sand or gravel.
The team led by Gael Choblet found heat dissipation from the core is not homogeneous, but rather appears as a series of interlinked, narrow upwellings with temperatures in excess of 363K (85°C). The computer model suggests that the hotspots are mainly concentrated at the south pole, in agreement with actual observations. Since the heat is concentrated on just one side of the moon, it’s natural to have enhanced hydrothermal activity which explains the hydrogen in the plumes.
One interesting finding is that the internal tide produces enough heat to warm Enceladus’ ocean for billions of years to come, with important consequences for the prospect of finding extraterrestrial life there. The moon itself is only a hundred million years old. By the most recent estimates, life here on Earth took about 640 million years to appear so if we’re to take this at reference, Enceladus still has a long way to go. Just as well, life might already be presented since the conditions there could be far more hospitable than the hell early Earth must have looked like.
The life of astrophysicist Jill Tarter is chronicled in a new book by science writer Sarah Scoles.
Credit: SETI
A new book by science writer Sarah Scoles profiles radio astronomer Jill Tarter, a pioneer in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Even if you haven't heard of Tarter, you might know the fictional alien hunter she inspired — Ellie Arroway, from the movie "Contact," which was based on the book by Carl Sagan. The character was based on Tarter, who was a driving force in what became known as SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Tarter helped transform SETI from a somewhat dubious field in the 1970s to a more organized effort that is accepted by the mainstream scientific community today.
"She kind of fell into SETI work," Scoles told Space.com. Scoles' book, "Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Pegasus Books), was published earlier this year. Scoles said early SETI efforts faced serious scientific, political and financial challenges, causing the field to move forward in fits and spurts. Although Scoles acknowledges that scientists work together to build up and establish their fields, she said Tarter served a unique and perhaps irreplaceable figure.
"I'm not confident that there would have been another person who would have picked up the pieces and started over," Scoles said. "[Tarter's] willingness and ability to persevere in the face of all that is not something that a lot of people would have done." [50 Years of Listening for Aliens: Q & A With SETI Pioneer Jill Tarter]
"Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Pegasus Books, 2017).
Credit: Pegasus Books
A nontraditional life
Born in New York in 1944, Tarter (born Jill Cornell) spent her childhood with a father who encouraged her to dream, according to Scoles' book. Despite growing up in time where traditional gender roles were more regimented, she decided at a young age to be an engineer.
"Why do you want to take calculus? You're just going to get married and have babies," Tarter recalls a high school guidance counselor telling her. (She managed to do all three.) When she completed Cornell University's five-year undergraduate engineering program in 1965, she was the only woman out of 300 students.
Tarter's father, who told her she could accomplish anything as long as she worked hard enough, died when Tarter was 12. Her mother, who had encouraged her daughter toward more feminine roles, continued to provide her with quiet support after her father passed away, according to Scoles' book.
"I think that her mom being forced into this nontraditional role [of a single mother] maybe made her more accepting of [a nontraditional role for] her daughter," Scoles said.
And while her father had pushed young Jill to fulfill her dreams, "what she learned from her mom were the practicalities of how to work hard and get things done," Scoles said. "Her mom was the practical complement to her dad's dreaminess."
In addition to her bachelor's degree in engineering physics, Tarter earned a master's degree from the University of California at Berkley, followed by a doctorate in astronomy in 1975. During her junior year at Cornell, she married Bruce Tarter. Between undergraduate and graduate school, she gave birth to their only child, a daughter, Shana.
Her marriage to Bruce struggled under the weight of her growing responsibilities. Eventually, the two divorced, and Tarter married fellow radio astronomer William "Jack" Welch.
The probability of success
Early in her career, Tarter came across a paper in the scientific journal Nature on the need to hunt for signals from advanced alien civilizations, according to Scoles. "The probability of success is difficult to estimate, but if we never search, the chance of success is zero," the paper read.
The idea sparked her imagination, and Tarter quickly became a proponent of SETI. The young field suffered a lot of blowback from scientists, according to Scoles, as researchers tried to determine if hunting for signals from alien civilizations was a serious scientific pursuit or a waste of time.
As a woman in astrophysics, which was (and continues to be) a male-dominated field, Scoles said it might have been easier for Tarter to get started in the fringe field "because she was already kind of a fringe character just by being a woman in this particular science." While some scientists may have been reluctant to enter the search for alien signals, Scoles said that Tarter wasn't as concerned because she was already unusual.
"There was a lot less stigma attached because everyone was already [saying], 'What [is] that girl doing?'" Scoles said.
Not long after its 1971 publication, Tarter received the NASA-sponsored Cyclops report, a 250-page document on humanity's ability to hunt for intelligent extraterrestrial life that was instrumental to SETI. According to Scoles' biography, Tarter didn't put the report down for two days. When she finished, she knew she wanted to be part of the search.
Tarter joined the Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP), a project headed by fellow astronomer Stuart Bowyer, who had given her the Cyclops report. Today in its sixth iteration, SERENDIP hunts for signals from advanced civilizations by piggybacking on existing radio astronomy observations.
In 1984, Tarter wrote the charter for the SETI Institute, a nonprofit research organization. According to Scoles, the organization started out as a way to save NASA money, since the agency was funding the bulk of SETI research at the time. By separating them from the government, scientists could fundraise and accept donations while also applying for research grants that used federal funds. The divide also allowed SETI researchers to pursue what Scoles called "risky projects [that] NASA and the National Science Foundation didn't approve of but which turned the heads of the public and a few key philanthropists."
The institute proved a lifesaver once NASA began decreasing its budget for SETI research in the late 1980s. Tarter spent 1989 lobbying in Washington, D.C. Although some senators thought hunting for signals from other civilizations was "a fine idea," others found it irrelevant, since results couldn't be guaranteed in what Scoles called "a politically relevant time frame." In late 1993, the hunt for other civilizations was cut from NASA's budget. In her book, Scoles said the SETI Foundation is what saved SETI.
Today, the SETI Foundation not only hunts for signals from alien civilizations but also studies newly discovered exoplanets, hunts for hardy extremophiles on Earth that could give clues about how extraterrestrial life could evolve, and even studies our own planet.
Under Tarter's guidance, the SETI Institute built the Allen Telescope Array, relying on private donations to create a radio telescope that could hunt for signs of radio communications being transmitted by an intelligent alien civilization. The initiative to build a dedicated SETI array came from a series of 1997 workshops Tarter participated in, and culminated in the birth of 42 radio antennas, positioned in the Cascade Mountains in Northern California. The array began observations in October 2007. When funding dried up for the project, the array was sold to SRI International, a scientific nonprofit organization that uses it to probe objects orbiting Earth. Tarter negotiated evening use of the array for the SETI institute.
By the 1990s, Tarter had become a crusader for the cause, juggling both the science of the growing field and the challenges of politics and funding.
Tarter retired as director of the SETI Institute's Center for SETI Research in 2012, but she has continued to share her enthusiasm for the hunt. She's presented TED talks about SETI and been a guest on numerous podcasts. In 2004, she was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world.
"She's become more public in the last 10 to 15 years," Scoles said. "I feel like more people have heard of her now than before she was retired."
In researching the biography, Scoles said she spent a lot of time with Tarter, whom she describes in her book as "a fierce, stubborn, smart woman who asked big questions about the universe and didn't hear 'No' as 'No' but as 'Keep trying.'"
The key to Tarter's success, Scoles said, was her flexibility.
"Gradually, it became clear that she couldn't exactly set the path for how her life was going to go," she said. "She just became open to possibilities and, I guess, prepared for them.
"She was willing to abandon her own schedule for herself and see opportunities as they presented themselves rather than sticking very rigidly to a plan she had made before," Scoles said.
Astrophysicist Jill Tarter, shown here on a platform above the Arecibo radio telescope while she was working at NASA's Ames Research Center. Tarter went on to become a leader in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth.
Credit: Acey Harper/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty
An irreplaceable asset
Tarter's work in the hunt for extraterrestrial communications put her in contact with the well-known scientist and public figure Carl Sagan. According to Scoles' book, Tarter was surprised that their few brief professional meetings were enough to earn her a starring role in "Contact." Scoles said that the character of Ellie Arroway — in both the book and subsequent film — is very similar to Tarter.
"I think that, aside from the fact that [Arroway] finds aliens in the movie, it's pretty accurate to [Tarter's] personality," she said.
It was this movie that set Scoles on the path to becoming a radio astronomer when she was 12.
"I didn't know radio astronomy existed until I watched that movie," Scoles said. "I thought it was so cool that there was a science where you were essentially looking at space, but at the parts you couldn't see, and that there were some who were using it to look for aliens. That was like a double whammy of very cool things I didn't know people did for jobs."
Scoles studied radio astronomy at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, serving an internship at Green Bank Observatory after her first year. Green Bank's radio telescopes was one of the first to hunt for SETI signals, and during her internship, Scoles stayed in the former house of SETI pioneer Frank Drake. Although Scoles ultimately decided to pursue a career communicating about science and astronomy, she credits "Contact" with kicking off her interest in the field.
"I think a lot of people had experiences like me," she said. "[Contact] inspired a lot of people of a certain generation."
Her fictional fame isn't something Tarter shies away from, Scoles said. When she asked the scientist how it felt to have such a well-known alter ego, she said that Tarter seemed glad to think that the movie inspired so many people to pursue a career in science.
By advancing the hunt for extraterrestrial life before there was even proof of planets existing beyond Earth's solar system, Scoles said that Tarter helped prepare researchers for a time when thousands of worlds would be known to exist around other stars. Her role as a researcher, combined with her ability to maneuver around bureaucratic hurdles, made her invaluable.
In the book, astronomer Margaret Turnbull testified to "the enormous impact that Jill has had — and that thanks to her we [exoplanet and SETI scientists] are all continuing to have — on the world, just by simply existing and being in the scientific community and pushing the frontiers in every direction."
Stephen Hawking Says Making Contact with Aliens Might Destroy Mankind
Stephen Hawking Says Making Contact with Aliens Might Destroy Mankind
REUTERS/LUCAS JACKSON/FILESPhysicist Stephen Hawking sits on stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative in New York April 12, 2016.
Stephen Hawking recently advised the Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) organization against sending signals into deep space to make contact with aliens, saying this could potentially lead to the annihilation of the human race. Hawking is one of the critics of METI, whose president, Dr. Douglas Vakoch, believes that making contact with extraterrestrial beings may finally happen within the next 10 to 20 years.
According to Dr. Vakoch, the advancement in technology makes it highly possible for alien enthusiasts like them to find intelligent life in the cosmos. His organization is dedicated to sending signals to neighboring stars and fostering sustainability of human civilization on multigenerational timescales.
In a recent interview, Vakoch said that when Frank Drake conducted his first alien search in 1960, he used only one frequency in transmitting signals to asteroids and other entities in space in hopes of making contact with aliens. Today, however, he said billions of various frequencies are already available for use in communicating with other-worldly beings. "My hunch is that in the next decade or two, we will detect extra-terrestrials if they are out there and trying to make contact," he said.
In response to Vakoch, Hawking said the METI president doesn't know what he's up to. "If we connect with the aliens, they will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria," he said.
Hawking also said that he's convinced that human beings are not the only living, intelligent entities in space, but finding the other intelligent creatures might only start the end of mankind. The renowned physicist and cosmologist said he fears someone might create Al that would keep improving itself until it's eventually superior to human beings, resulting in a new form of life. "I fear that Al may replace humans altogether," he said.
Earlier this year, Hawking called for preventing technology from destroying the human race. He also urged humans to identify potential threats to their existence quickly before they could ever have a chance to escalate and put human civilization at risk.
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This Mysterious Sighting of 7 UFOs Near San Angelo Was Never Solved
This Mysterious Sighting of 7 UFOs Near San Angelo Was Never Solved
The Convair RB-36D is the jet-augmented version of the intercontinental strategic bomber. (af.mil)
By Joe Hyde
SAN ANGELO, TX — An aircrew flying an RB-36 reconnaissance aircraft spotted seven strange “donut”-shaped objects at dusk south of San Angelo. The crew took pictures and filed an incident report.
That report can be found in the national archives. It is about a UFO sighting on a May 1952 flying mission from Kelly Field in San Antonio towards the west.
According to the report, as the crew flew just northwest of Sonora, a series of seven “donuts” appeared in the sky.
The RB-36, a variant of the B-36 strategic bomber named “The Peacemaker,” had an operational crew of 22, according to reports at the time.
The report states the bomber was headed on a 301-degree heading at 18,000 feet, cruising at 189 knots indicated air speed (KIAS). The winds aloft were relatively calm for that altitude at 35 knots in the face. At 8:05 p.m., on May 19, 1952, the objects appeared just to the left of the bomber’s nose at a range estimated by the crew to be 50 to 75 miles ahead. The objects were stacked vertically from approximately 25,000 feet to 60,000 feet.
Above: The drawing by a crewmember of the RB-36 of the strange UFOs they observed in May 1952 that was included in the crew's report. (National Archives)
Individual crewmembers recorded their observations. According to the marked aeronautical charts enclosed in the report, the mysterious objects could be seen from the plane by the crew as they flew from just northwest of Sonora to almost Big Lake.
“…I observed seven unidentified glowing objects ahead, on course. We continued on course and approached them for about an hour. On closer observation they appeared to me to be vapor trails, the highest at approximately 40,000 feet spaced down at 1,000-foot intervals as sketched,” wrote one of the crew. The names of the crewmembers are redacted in the report.
Above: A terrible copy of the photograph contained in the National Archives. In the center, you can see a hand-drawn arrow pointing towards the 7 unidentified objects observed by the RB-36 crew. (National Archives)
The U.S. Air Force investigated the sighting and placed the report into their most common category of “possibly a balloon.” According to NASA scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines, in an undated article about the incident, “the U.S. Weather Bureau launched both pilot and rawin balloons from the Midland, Texas airport during the summer of 1952.” The scientist did not conclude the sightings were connected to balloon activity from Midland.
The Convair RB-36D is the jet-augmented version of the intercontinental strategic bomber. The aircraft has four General Electric J-47 jet engines, mounted in pairs under outer wing edges, that supplement six Pratt & Whitney piston engines.
The RB-36 was a slightly modified version of the bomber, the B-36, so it could carry cameras and extra fuel in its bomb bays instead of bombs.
WATCH A Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Air Force Museum video describes the B-36:
At the time, RB-36s provided long-range strategic reconnaissance for Strategic Air Command, or SAC. They were intended to fly over the Soviet Union, and some missions did, to include missions assigned to the squadron that this crew was given. As Soviet air defenses improved, the service ceiling of the bomber was not high enough to avoid detection.
All of the B-36s were retired by 1959 as the newer B-52s replaced them.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Dr. John Alexander is a retired senior Army officer with decades of experience with a wide range of phenomena. Traveling to all eight continents, he has encountered events that defy common explanation. A psychic adventurer, he practiced psychokinetic metal bending, fire walking, and caused a white crow to fly for the National Academy of Sciences. A founding board member of IRVA, he is a past-president of IANDS, and former SSE councilor. Straddling two worlds, he is also retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and served on studies with the National Research Council, the Army Science Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, NATO, and was a senior fellow of a DoD university. Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross headed his doctoral committee.
In UFO circles he is known for investigating and writing about the phenomenon. During the 1980s, John organized an interagency group to explore the evidence, with participants from the military, CIA, and aerospace industry examining classic cases, including Roswell; the Gulf Breeze, Fla., photos; and unexplained incidents occurring within the U.S. strategic defense systems (such as sightings by NORAD installations), and many more. He shares his thoughts and research on UFOs in his book UFOs: Myths, Legends, and Realities.
In this interview, we discuss his latest book Reality Denied: Firsthand Experiences with Things that Can’t Happen – But Did. John shares personal experiences, including a UFO incident. We discuss other paranormal phenomenon, society’s perspective on these topics and how they interrelate.
Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer for Google and famous futurist, spoke in a discussion held at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday. He emphasized how AI would enhance humankind, despite the possibility of "difficult episodes."
A DIFFERENT TAKE
Amidst all the talk about how artificial intelligence (AI) is threatening society with great harm—beginning with taking over human-held jobs and then, eventually, becoming more intelligent and taking over the entire world—some experts believe that AI shouldn’t be feared. Foremost among these experts is Google’s director of engineering and notable “future teller” Ray Kurzweil, who has said time and again that the technological singularity won’t necessarily go down as expected.
Kurzweil discussed the future of AI at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, D.C. on Friday. And, while he agreed with Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk who warned of the potential “existential risks” a super-intelligent AI could bring, Kurzweil said that humanity would be able to overcome these “difficult episodes,” if they ever actually happen.
He continued by noting that scientific and technological advancements always come with inherent risks and that AI should not be considered any more (or less) of a threat. “Technology has always been a double-edged sword. Fire kept us warm, cooked our food and burned down our houses,” Kurzweil said, using the example: “World War II – 50 million people died, and that was certainly exacerbated by the power of technology at that time.”
Addressing the concerns over job displacement due to intelligent automation, Kurzweil reiterated a point he previously explained to Fortune. He argued that, while there will be jobs lost, newer ones will be created. What these are, he obviously doesn’t know since they haven’t been invented yet.
He stated his main point by noting that, ultimately, AI will benefit us in the same way that previous technologies have. “My view is not that AI is going to displace us,” he said at the CFR. “It’s going to enhance us. It does already.”
LIVING WITH MACHINES
Indeed, for Kurzweil, the singularity, if it happens, won’t be a machine takeover. Instead, he predicts it to become more like a co-existence, where machines reinforce human abilities. Kurzweil predicts that a hybrid AI would become available by the 2030s. This hybrid AI, he explained, would allow human beings to tap directly into the cloud with just their brains, using what he called a neocortex connection. Kurzweil previously predicted that part of this reinforcement would come from nanobots, which he said would flow throughout our bodies by 2030.
In short, according to Kurzweil, there will be a melding of humans and machines as a result of the singularity and the growth of AI. Kurzweil said that we’re already experiencing this with our smartphones, which he referred to as “brain extenders.” He told the audience at CFR, “I mean, who can do their work without these brain extenders we have today? And that’s going to continue to be the case.”
Kurzweil added that, aside from connecting the human brain to machines via the cloud, these neocortex technologies would also allow humans to connect to another person’s neocortex. As a result, humans would become smarter and funnier. The technological singularity, he argued, would lead to a more diverse group of thinkers and would allow for a deeper expansion into humanity’s various expertise.
So, instead of making us obsolete, Kurzweil predicts that, as machines become more intelligent, humanity will also grow to become smarter. We could only hope that Kurzweil is correct in this prediction.
In recent years, we've seen huge advances in robotics. As these technological developments begin to be implemented in industry, the market for humanoid robots is set to skyrocket.
RISE OF ROBOTS
A new report claims the market for humanoid robots will expand tenfold by 2023. Current estimates put its value at $320.3 million, but it’s projected to reach $3.9 billion within the next six years.
Many of the major potential applications for the technology are found within the education sector and the retail industry, where robots will be able to take on a swathe of customer service roles. Robots are also expected to be used in fields such as logistics and medicine as a vessel for advanced artificial intelligence systems.
There are some obstacles that could potentially slow the predicted growth, though: For one, robots are not yet as mobile as they would need to be for many of these roles, so improving their ability to traverse a wide range of environments quickly and safely will be crucial over the next few years.
While North and South America are the biggest force in the robotics market, over the six years the the report covered, it was forecasted that the fastest rate of growth in the industry will actually be in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC).
“APAC is likely to adopt humanoids for almost all the major applications during the forecast period,” reads the report. “As the elderly population in APAC countries such as China and Japan is on the rise, the region is expected to employ humanoids for the personal assistance and caregiving application.”
MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN
We’re already seeing robots become a part of our daily lives, albeit at a cautious pace. Everything from delivery services to police work is being considered as a potential job opportunity for machines.
However, humanoid robots have a particularly high potential for growth because they can take on tasks that were previously the domain of humans alone. Whether it’s something as simple as holding a natural conversation, or a more complex role like providing care for an infant or an elderly person, there are times when a familiar presence is valued – even if the mind at work is a machine’s.
It’s no surprise that the market for this technology will skyrocket as robots become increasingly capable of mimicking some aspects of human behavior; an ability that will only continue to improve as technology and innovation advances.
Lamborghini wants to make an electric car that ditches the batteries, and it’s working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make it happen.
The company took the wraps off its electric sports car concept on Tuesday. With input from two MIT labs, the group has come up with a system that uses super-capacitors to deliver energy.
“Collaborating with MIT for our R&D department is an exceptional opportunity to do what Lamborghini has always been very good at: rewriting the rules on super sports cars,” says Stefano Domenicali, chairman and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. “We are inspired by embracing what is impossible today to craft the realities of tomorrow: Lamborghini must always create the dreams of the next generation.”
The “Terzo Millennio” concept stores energy in carbon fiber nanotubes. These are capable of releasing energy faster than batteries, ideal for performance. They also cut down on weight compared to batteries, ending the tradeoff between battery size and vehicle mass.
Lamborghini Terzo Millennio.
“I want to go one, two, three laps without having to stop and recharge after every lap,” Mauricio Reggiani, Lamborghini head of research and development, told CNN.
Lamborghini Terzo Millennio.
If the team can bring the vision to life, it could give it a major advantage over competitors like Tesla. Elon Musk’s firm has dominated the electric car industry in recent years, with the Model S offering incredibly fast acceleration times of 0-60mph in 2.1 seconds. With the launch of the $35,000 Tesla Model 3, the company is focused on bringing traditional battery prices down by expanding output.
The use of supercapacitors also gives cars the ability to “self-heal.” If the car detects damage, micro-channels with healing chemistries can stop small cracks in the carbon fiber structure from turning into bigger ones.
Lamborghini Terzo Millennio.
The design does have some downsides, though. Unlike batteries, today’s supercapacitors aren’t very good at storing large amounts of energy. This is one of the major issues the team will now need to resolve.
Lamborghini Terzo Millennio.
“The new Lamborghini collaboration allows us to be ambitious and think outside the box in designing new materials that answer energy storage challenges for the demands of an electric sport vehicle,” says Mircea Dinca, professor at MIT. “We look forward to teaming up with their engineers and work on this exciting project.”
If you liked this article, check out this video about spherical tires for self-driving cars.
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We May Finally Understand How Alien Life Could Survive on Saturn’s Moon
We May Finally Understand How Alien Life Could Survive on Saturn’s Moon
A masterpiece of deep time and wrenching gravity, the tortured surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its fascinating ongoing geologic activity tell the story of the ancient and present struggles of one tiny world.
Observations from the Cassini mission to Saturn has allowed researchers to better understand how the moon Enceladus could sustain a global subsurface ocean. A new study gives more evidence that the moon could support life.
MOON LIFE
New evidence has emerged supporting the possibility that Saturn’s moon Enceladus has the potential to host life. Not only does this evidence point to the ability of the moon to harbor life, but that life could have also evolved into complex organisms.
NASA previously announced that Enceladus has many of the “ingredients needed for a habitable environment.” A new study published in Nature Astronomy explains exactly how the moon can sustain a global salty ocean under its icy crust, and how such an environment can be conducive to life developing and thriving.
Researchers have taken the Cassini mission’s observations of Enceladus and attempted to match them with computer models depicting various possibilities for how such an ocean could form. The researchers concluded that Enceladus’s rocky core is porous, water is heated while traveling through the core and is expelled through narrow openings in the crust. This process forms hot water jets, which are especially prevalent in the moon’s southern polar region.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Studying these hydrothermal vents could be the best bet for determining whether Enceladus could foster life. Lead author Gaël Choblet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, spoke with Newsweek, saying, “If a new theorypublished last year is correct, then powerful hydrothermal activity could have been occurring since the formation of the moon, possibly as much as the age of the solar system.” Choblet was referring to a study pertaining to how the moons of Saturn could be heating.
Furthermore, the heating provides an adequate timeline for life to develop. David A Rothery, professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University, U.K. explained, “Chemical reactions are going on even today. If it’s going on today it could have been going on a billion years into the past, and that’s long enough for life to get started—and to have evolved beyond the very most basic stages. It could be quite a complex microbial community down there and we’d love to study it.”
Encelauds has a global ocean sitting between its icy shell and rocky core.
NASA
Studying how life began and evolved on other planets could provide further insight into how life on our planet began. This is not by any means a confirmation of extraterrestrial life on Enceladus, or any other celestial body, yet it is compelling evidence in support of further research into the very real possibility.
Over time, cool ocean water seeps into the moon's porous core. Pockets of water reaching deep into the interior are warmed by contact with rock in the tidally heated interior and subsequently rise owing to the positive buoyancy, leading to further interaction with the rocks. The heat deposited at the boundary between the seafloor and ocean powers hydrothermal vents. Heat and rocky particles are transported through the ocean, triggering localised melting in the icy shell above. This leads to the formation of fissures, from which jets of water vapour and the rocky particles from the seafloor are ejected into space. In the graphic, the interior 'slice' is an excerpt from a new model that simulated this process. The orange glow represents the parts of the core where temperatures reach at least 90°C. Tidal heating owing to the friction arising between particles in the porous core provides a key source of energy, but is not illustrated in this graphic. The tidal heating results primarily from the gravitational pull from Saturn.
Alien Life Could Thrive in Enceladus' Hidden Oceans Thanks to an Epic Invisible Force
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Alien Life Could Thrive in Enceladus' Hidden Oceans Thanks to an Epic Invisible Force
Life could have had millions of years to brew inside the moon.
PETER DOCKRILL
We first spotted them 12 years ago. Jets of water vapour shooting into space through ice fissures at the south pole of Enceladus, a frosty moon orbiting Saturn.
That was in 2005 – long before NASA's Cassini dove into Saturn in scientific sacrifice – but the hydrothermal spray detected by the probe has never been fully explained. Now, we might have an answer, and it's one boosting hopes of one day finding life on Enceladus.
"Where Enceladus gets the sustained power to remain active has always been a bit of a mystery," says astrobiologist Gaël Choblet from the University of Nantes in France.
"[B]ut we've now considered in greater detail how the structure and composition of the moon's rocky core could play a key role in generating the necessary energy."
Scientists think the plumes that spout from Enceladus's frosty exterior emanate from a vast global ocean of salty water that lies underneath the ice shell enveloping the moon.
It's estimated this shell has an average thickness of up to 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) in depth, getting as thin as 1 kilometre around the south polar region where the hydrothermal spray is produced.
Tiny fragments of minerals in the plumes detected by Cassini suggest the salts and silica dust in the spray are formed through hot water reaching around 90°C(194°F) interacting with rock in Enceladus's rocky core.
But for that interaction to occur, there would have to be space within the core for the water to co-exist – it would have to be porous, perhaps even mushy.
"Whatever the core's composition in terms of rocks, it has to have water within it," Choblet explained to Leah Crane at New Scientist, "maybe 20 or 30 percent water."
In new simulations, the team found tidal motion generated by the moon's elliptical orbit of Saturn could heat up water inside Enceladus's core, due to friction produced as the liquid circulates and slides among rock fragments.
As the water rises in temperature (reaching 90°C, per the orange-coloured sections in the image below), it rises through the porous core, transferring heat to the global ocean in the form of lifting plumes, some of which end up melting Enceladus's icy core – ultimately escaping in icy jets released into space:
"Water transport in the tidally heated permeable core results in hot narrow upwellings with temperatures exceeding 363 K," the researchers write in their paper, "characterised by powerful (1–5 gigawatt) hotspots at the seafloor, particularly at the south pole."
The heat and energy produced by the phenomenon would expel the plumes from the moon's polar regions – explaining why the heated ice shell is thinner there – and could ultimately help heat the ocean for potentially billions of years, the team hypothesises.
Previous research on Enceladus had suggested the plumes might be powered by radioactive decay of rocks in the moon's core.
If that were the case, though, the process might only have provided heat for millions of years – which possibly wouldn't be long enough for life to evolve and take hold in the temperate ocean buried beneath Enceladus's frozen mask.
But over a much longer timeframe – up to billions of years – it's possible life could find a way to make the most of such an opportunity.
"A warm global ocean with a lifetime of several billion years would be a great place for life to get going – it only took about 640 million years for life to evolve from microbe to mammal on Earth," planetary scientist Monica Grady from the Open University in the UK, who wasn't involved with the study, writes at The Conversation.
"Unfortunately, though, Enceladus itself may be quite young: a recent paper proposed that the moon might only have formed about 100 million years ago – is that a sufficiently long interval for life to have got going?"
Alien Planets Can Reveal Clues to Their Stars' Insides: Here's How
Alien Planets Can Reveal Clues to Their Stars' Insides: Here's How
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
New research used the dimming caused by planets passing in front of their stars to work out the stars' densities.
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Distant planets tell all: A new analysis uses alien worlds' orbital treks to peek inside their stars.
NASA's ever-watchful Kepler space telescope has identified thousands of exoplanets by noting the tiny brightness dips caused when these worlds "transit," or cross the face of, their host stars. The length between dimmings tells scientists how long the planet takes to orbit — how long its year is — and the level of dimming shows how much smaller the planet is than the star.
"It's really weird that a planet that's orbiting far away from the star can tell us anything about the star's interior — I think that's really bizarre but cool," said Emily Sandford, an astronomer at Columbia University in New York and lead author on the new work.
"Basically, by measuring very precisely the shape of those dimmings, the amount of light that's missing over time when a planet passes in front, you can measure the density of the star the planet's orbiting," she told Space.com
Using a method first derived by astrophysicsts Sara Seager and Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas in 2003, Sandford and co-author David Kipping, also of Columbia, analyzed data on 66 Kepler stars to determine their densities. Their precision rivalled that of asteroseismology, a technique used on bright stars that uses oscillations in their shine to reconstruct their interior properties. While asteroseismology requires very precise brightness measurements, Sandford said, the new calculation needs less pristine data.
Essentially, the process works because how long a planet spends in front of its star is tied to the star's density. Planets that are far away from their stars spend less time in front of them — imagine a planet right at the star's surface, which would spend half of its orbit in front of it, versus one that is very far away, and only crosses in front for a quick part of its orbit, Sandford said. But at the same time, a planet has to move at a certain speed to maintain a steady orbit based on how massive the star is — if the planet is going too slowly, it will fall into the star, and if it's going too fast, it will fly away.
"We can then use that knowledge of [proportionally] how far the planet is from its star, combined with the duration of the transit, to solve for the stellar density," Sandford said. "If a planet is far away and yet takes a long time to transit, we know that the star must be big, puffy, and low-density; if a planet is close-in and yet transits quickly, we know that the star must be small, compact, and high-density."
In other words, the denser a star is — the more massive it is compared to its radius — the less time the planet spends in front of it.
Treasure trove
While researchers already knew about this relationship between transiting planets and their parent stars' densities, it's only since Kepler's launch in 2009 that more than a handful of transiting planets have been available for analysis, according to Sandford.
"We have this enormous treasure trove of data, and we can start to apply some of these ideas that people thought of way in advance before the data was ready," Sandford said. "That's what we've done here." [How Do You Spot an Alien Planet from Earth? (Infographic)]
This method requires that the researchers know the planet's orbit well, or that they can predict that it's circular. (Circular orbits tend to be common in systems with multiple planets.) It also requires researchers to know the planet's full orbit length — so it must have passed in front of the star more than once.
Once those criteria are established, researchers can use these calculations in two key ways: to determine if a transit is really caused by a planet or if it's a false positive, and to analyze the other planets in a multiplanet system.
That false-positive case was one of the uses Seager had in mind when the equation was first developed, she told Space.com: "If you get the stellar density from the light curve alone, and then if you get the stellar density because you already know something about its mass and size … and if those densities don't match up, the thing you're looking at is not a planet," said Seager, who was not involved in the new study. "It's a blended object; it's a false positive; it's something else."
"All the applications are exciting, whether you want to just measure the densities of the set of stars, or whether you're using it as a kind of comparison tool," she added.
During its primary mission, Kepler looked at the same set of stars for four years, but future exoplanet hunters such as NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), set to launch in 2018, will spend a much shorter time on each part of the sky — just a month or so. In systems with multiple planets, if one orbits quickly enough for researchers to see more than one full orbit, that planet could act as an "anchor" to pin down the star's density, letting researchers learn about the orbits of the other planets, too.
"There's going to be a lot of habitable-zone planets that fall out in that window where their orbital period is longer than a month," Sandford said. "If we only see one transit, if we can't measure the period directly, it might be a very, very faraway planet, in which case it's too cold to have liquid water, or it might fall right in the middle of the habitable zone."
"If we can use our method to constrain the star, and from there to constrain the outer planet's period, that could be really interesting for prioritizing certain planets for follow-up if we know that they're likely to be habitable-zone, potentially the right temperature range for liquid water, type planets," she added.
Know the planet, know the star
According to Vincent Van Eylen, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands who is uninvolved with the study, there's a saying that goes "Know thy star, know thy planet." Often, researchers use what they can glean about stars to identify what their planets might be made of and what the orbits look like.
Van Eylen's own research uses stars' densities and the durations of transits to learn about the planets' orbits — a reversal of Sandford's calculations.
"We don't know enough about stars, and everything we learn about planets somehow is indirect information that's related to stars," Van Eylen said. "In that way, it's kind of a sweet result that they can turn things around and actually learn about the planets, and thereby learn about the stars."
The new work has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal and is available on ArXiv.org.
Milky Way Shimmers Over Smoky Skies in Stunning View from Yosemite National Park
Milky Way Shimmers Over Smoky Skies in Stunning View from Yosemite National Park
By Miguel Claro, Space.com Contributor
The Milky Way shines above a band of smoke that is visible from the Tunnel View of Yosemite National Park.Credit: Miguel Claro
Miguel Claro is a Lisbon, Portugal-based professional photographer, author and science communicator who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory photo ambassador, a member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical "Skyscapes" that connect Earth and the night sky. Join him here as he takes us through his photograph "Milky Way from the Tunnel View of Yosemite National Park."
The Milky Way galaxy shines over a blanket of smoke in this gorgeous night-sky photo of Yosemite National Park in northern California.
Protected by the U.S. government since 1864, Yosemite National Park is best known for its majestic rock formations and waterfalls. Also spread throughout its nearly 1,200 square miles (3,100 square kilometers) are beautiful, deep valleys; lush meadows; and ancient giant sequoias.
Within this vast stretch of wilderness, animals live in harmony with the strength of granite, the power of glaciers and the tranquility of the high sierra, demonstrating the persistence of life despite the massive fires that blaze through the area each summer.
When I captured this photo of the Milky Way over Yosemite National Park on Aug. 28, fires filled the skies with smoke for days. Stars of the Milky Way twinkle above a band of smoke and dust in this framing of the beautiful Tunnel View, a famous scenic overlook in the park. Construction on the exit road of the park helped to light up the scene for several hours. [Gallery: Stunning Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy]
On March 26, 1974 21-year old Terry Matthew Betz was inspecting a bush fire at his home in Fort George Island, Florida, when he discovered a perfectly spherical metal object.
The sphere, which has a diameter of eight inches and weighs 22 pounds, looked completely unscathed and still very shiny after the fire, which left Mr Betz and his mother and father, Gerri and Antoine, baffled.
The family thought that it may have been a piece of the Russian Sputnik satellite, but after military testing this proved to be untrue.
Thinking nothing of it, the family took the sphere home and ignored it.
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Did aliens drop this mysterious SATELLITE on Earth?
But a few weeks later when Terry was playing his guitar in the same room as the satellite when the ball reacted and omitted a strange throbbing sound “which deeply disturbed the family’s dog who ran and hid under a table”, according to conspiracy theory YouTube channel SecureTeam10.
Gerri Betz told the Palm Beach Post in April 1974: “There must be high frequency waves from it. When we put our poodle beside the ball, she whimpers and puts her paws over her ears.”
The video from SecureTeam10 says: “It also seemed to draw strange powers from the sun, where these strange powers would become more noticeable and active on bright sunny days.”
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The Betz family and the satellite
Following the incident the family started to believe someone or something was controlling the ball.
When pushed, the ball would avoid falling and managed to climb up a slanted table to avoid falling off.
The sphere was then analysed by the US military who found it was made of a very high grade steel and X-rays revealed there were three of four smaller spheres inside.
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The sphere does look similar to the Sputnik satellite
According to then Navy spokesman, CPO Chris Berninger: “Our first X-ray attempts got us nowhere. We’re going to use a more powerful machine on it and also run spectograph tests to determine what metal it’s made of… There’s certainly something odd about it.”
To this day, the sphere remains a mystery, with Gerri saying: “Who could say what’s on another planet, even speculations have been proven wrong. The Navy says what it isn’t. They say it isn’t an explosive. So we still want to know what it is.”
While some are convinced of the authenticity of the ball, some commentators on the SecureTeam10 video were not.
One person, Scott Lomas, wrote: “If this is genuine why would the government ever give it back?”
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Is THIS top-secret US base where crashed Roswell UFO and dead aliens are REALLY held?
Is THIS top-secret US base where crashed Roswell UFO and dead aliens are REALLY held?
EVER since a UFO or flying saucer allegedly crashed in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico, more than 70 years ago, it has been claimed the remains were stored at one of two secretive US Air Force military bases.
One is top-secret Area 51 in Nevada, the other is the Wright-Patterson US Air Force test and research base at Dayton, Ohio.
The latter is actually where the US Air Force confirmed it took the remains to straight away, but some conspiracy theorists believe they were later moved to Area 51.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a mysterious top-secret military base.
There have been many theories about what actually happened, but an official government probe into what happened concluded it was a secret spy balloon being tested.
Hoping to shed some light on the mystery is Raymond Szymanski, 65, from Dayton, Ohio, who spent 39 years working at Wright-Patterson until retiring in 2011.
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ROSWELL UFO? Are alien remains held at the Wright-Patterson US Air Force base?
When he arrived at Wright-Patterson as a college co-op student, he was intrigued by a mentor who mentioned aliens and the base in the same sentence, reports Daytondailynews.com.
He has now written a book after spending years on a truth-seeking quest which took him from New Hampshire and Arizona to the UK, speaking to people who allege to have encountered UFOs.
He was a former Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate senior engineer at the base.
His book is called “50 Shades of Greys: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitation to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Beyond.”
He said: "The book is actually a documentary for my quest for the truth.
“Were the stories I heard about Wright-Patterson true? What about some of the other famous places where UFO sightings were claimed?"
Were the stories I heard about Wright-Patterson true? What about some of the other famous places where UFO sightings were claimed?
Raymond Szymanski
Wright-Patterson was the centre of the US Air Force’s infamous past UFO investigations, including Project Blue Book in the 1960s.
He added: "Obviously, the Air Force took this seriously to an extent because they had collection and analysis of programs for nearly a quarter of a century, so certainly I took it seriously.”
The book also looks at an infamous UFO sighting near Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1965, and he even travelled to Rendelsham Forest in Suffolk, England, home of the 1980 Rendlesham UFO case, known as Britain's Roswell.
In the forward, he says: "And now the million dollar question Does Wright-Patterson actually house aliens and their artefacts?"
He never saw any evidence of aliens there during his time.
And, in an early disappointment for readers, he adds in the forward: "At this point of writing this book, I’m not sure.”
He is convinced that the wreckage of what crashed at Roswell was taken to Wright-Patterson, but that there is no evidence it was of extraterrestrial origin or housed any alien beings.
He added: "The Roswell alien thing is still a little squishy. But that’s different from me believing we’ve been visited.
"Yes, I’ve talked and interviewed (UFO) experiencers and I’m convinced that what they’ve had is a real encounter, and so somewhere along the line people have encountered alien entities on this planet.”
Speculation was so rife that 38 years after the Roswell incident, in January 1985, the air force issued a statement denying any aliens were held at Wright-Patterson.
It said: "Periodically, it is erroneously stated that the remains of extraterrestrial visitors are or have been stored at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
“There are not now, nor have there ever been, any extraterrestrial visitors or equipment on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.”
Conspiracy theorists took it to just mean they had been moved to Area 51.
Although Mr Szymanski is not convinced aliens landed at Roswell, he does believe he once saw a UFO.
He said: “For me, there’s no doubt because as I documented in the book, I saw a UFO in my own neighborhood from about 200 feet away and 75 feet in the air as it slipped into a low bank of clouds.
“That was kind of an up close and personal verification of what I pretty much was leaning towards anyway.
"And the people that I talk to about the cases and the evidence that they have is pretty much insurmountable, unassailable.”
Thinkstock, Breakthrough StarshotStephen Hawking waarschuwt dat het over 600 jaar gedaan is met onze aarde.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe bekende professor Stephen Hawking heeft opnieuw gewaarschuwd dat de dagen van onze planeet geteld zijn. Hij deed dat zondag tijdens een top van wetenschappers in de Chinese stad Peking. “Tegen 2600 zal de aarde in een grote vuurbal veranderen”, poneerde de wetenschapper. “De mensheid moet plannen maken om de planeet te verlaten, anders riskeren we uitgeroeid te worden.” Hij stelde meteen een revolutionair project voor dat onze redding zou kunnen betekenen.
Als oorzaak voor de ondergang van de aarde wees de prominente natuurkundige tijdens de Tencent WE Summit naar de toenemende wereldbevolking en de groeiende vraag naar energie. Volgens hem moet de mensheid naar de sterren kijken voor een uitweg. Alpha Centauri – het sterrenstelsel dat het dichtste bij dat van ons ligt – zou de beste kaarten hebben om een nieuwe bewoonbare planeet te vinden.
Het probleem is echter daar geraken. Alpha Centauri ligt op 4.37 lichtjaar van de aarde, omgerekend zo’n 41 biljoen (41.000.000.000.000) kilometer. Met de snelste ruimteraket die we nu hebben, zouden we er ongeveer 30.000 jaar over doen. Maar er is een alternatief volgens Hawking en daarvoor probeerde hij in Peking meteen financiers te vinden. (lees hieronder verder)
Breakthrough StarshotDe revolutionaire nieuwe ruimtesonde.
Hij schaarde zich immers achter het Breakthrough Starshot-project, samen met onder meer CEO van Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. Dat wil een ultrasnelle ruimtesonde ontwikkelen en die zou Alpha Centauri in amper 20 jaar (!) kunnen bereiken. “De nanocraft zou een zeil hebben en voortgestuwd worden door een lichtstraal”, argumenteert hij. “Dat zou 1.000 keer sneller gaan dan de ruimteschepen die we nu hebben. Mars zouden we op die manier kunnen bereiken in minder dan een uur en Pluto, aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel, in enkele dagen.” (lees hieronder verder)
Breakthrough StarshotDeze schotels op aarde moeten de lichtstraal creëren om de ruimtesonde aan te drijven.
Breakthrough StarshotIn een baan om de aarde wacht de sonde op energie.
Breakthrough StarshotDie wordt simultaan geleverd door de schotels...
Breakthrough Starshot... en katapulteert de sonde de ruimte in.
Volgens topman Pete Worden van Breakthrough Starshot zouden we tegen het midden van deze eeuw de eerste foto’s moeten hebben van een bewoonbare planeet in een naburig sterrenstelsel. Het project is gestart met een budget van 100 miljoen dollar, maar er zou nog zeker tussen de 5 en 10 miljard nodig zijn om de missie te kunnen volbrengen.
Artificiële intelligentie
En het was niet de enige gelegenheid dat Hawking zich de afgelopen dagen liet horen. Op de 2017 Web Summit in de Portugese hoofdstad Lissabon waarschuwde de professor gisteren ook weer voor de gevaren van artificiële intelligentie (AI). “Het zou het beste of het slechtste kunnen worden dat de mensheid ooit overkwam”, zei hij. “AI kan helpen om ziekte en armoede de wereld uit te helpen, maar het bedreigt ook miljoenen banen door robots die de taak van mensen overnemen. We moeten op onze hoede zijn, de mogelijke gevaren identificeren en er op voorhand al oplossingen voor bedenken.”
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Check out 20 of the strangest places on Earth
Check out 20 of the strangest places on Earth
Our planet is engulfed with mystery. From history to science, there’s always something that we struggle to explain on Earth.
Our planet has it all. From mysterious, strange and even scary places, to landscapes and regions that look almost as if they are the result of a Hollywood science fiction movie.
In this article, we take a look at 20 of the strangest places on our planet.
Enjoy.
1. Nazca Lines
Nazca lines, courtesy Simon E. Davies.
We can’t start a list of strange places on Earth without mentioning the famous Nazca Lines.
Visible (mostly) from the air, the enigmatic figures, symbols and strange shapes were etched by an ancient culture from Peru, thousands of years ago.
All sorts of theories have been proposed to explain the enigmatic set of lines, ranging from alien visitations to strange and mysterious whipping techniques.
A beach in China, more specifically in Panjin is covered with a type of seaweed that is called sueda which turns bright red during the fall, giving off a stunning look like the one above.
This one belongs to the mysterious-weird places on Earth.
Located around 150 kilometers from the coast of Alaska, there is an area scattered of whale ribs, jawbones, and vertebrae.
According to scientists, these bones date back to the 1400’s and were a place of worship for ancient cultures.
4. Bermuda Triangle
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We had to include the Bermuda Triangle in this list. The Bermuda triangle is a notoriously large, freakish place in the Atlantic ocean covering a staggering 500,000 square miles.
According to reports, the area is home to an unidentified anomaly which causes ships and airplanes to disappear.
5. Lake Hillier
The Lake Hillier, Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago Nature Reserve, in Western Australia, is a saline lake notable for its pink color, April 2011. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
This weird-looking, yet beautiful lake is located in Western Australia. The lake retains its pinkish color all year long thanks to its high salt content and presence of salt-loving algae Dunaliella salina, and pink halobacteria.
Located in Utah, USA, this surreal, almost alien-like landscape of extremely soft sandstone extends a few miles across the desert terrain. It’s a very popular hiking trail in Utah.
Located in Northern Ireland, this enigmatic scenery is not the result of mankind. According to scientists, some 60 million years ago, a volcanic eruption left behind molten basalt. Once it solidified, it created these amazing cracks in the rock.
8. The Door to Hell
The Door to Hell, a burning natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan. Image Credit Wikimedia Commons.
Located in Turkmenistan, the so-called door to hell was actually a gas field once, but the Soviets lit it on fire once, and it has been burning for over 40 years now.
9. The hand in the desert
Nope, it’s not an optical illusion. In the Middle of the Chilean desert, sculptor Mario Irarrázaba built this stunning, yet kind of freaky statue. The sculptor is known for illustrating loneliness and human suffering, which is precisely what this statue is thought to represent.
10. The Zone of Silence
One of the weirdest place’s on Earth.
The area situated on the 27th parallel north connects the Bermuda Triangle, The Pyramids of Giza and the Himalayas. Referred to as the Zone of silence, the mysterious strip of land located near the Bolsón de Mapimí in Durango, Mexico, overlapping the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve. It is believed that once inside it, clocks stop and radios cannot function properly.
11. Tesla Towers
Located in Russia, the “High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility,” belongs to the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute. It was created near the town of Istra, some 40 kilometers from Moscow.
12. Nan Madol
One of the lesser-known ancient cities on Earth, Nan Madol is an ancient city located off the coast of Micronesia.Nan Madol means “Space in between.” The entire city of Nan Madol appears to sit on top of a lagoon, connected by a number of different canals and massive stone walls.
13. Hundreds of ‘Gates’ in the Saudi Arabian desert
The gates come in a number of different shapes and sizes.
With the help of Satellite images, archaeologists have identified hundreds of groups of stone walls – called “gates” in the Saudi Arabian desert. Some of these “gates” are located next to a volcanic dome that at one time spewed out basaltic lava.
14. Vatnajokull Glacier Caves
Just look at those incredible shades of blue! Image Credit
Located in the in Vatnajokull glacier to the south-east Iceland, the caves literally grow and disappear. The Ice inside the Ice Caves literally shapeshifts, changing from what seem to be supermassive teeth protruding from the ice to massive waves trapped in suspended animation in a maze of countless interconnected chambers that show off the caves in a kaleidoscope of colors as light conditions change.
Located in Bolivia, Laguna Colorada is what you would call a bloody lake. A shallow Salt Lake (around 35 cm in depth) which contains borax islands, which are white in color and the real contrast with the reddish color of its waters caused apparently due to sediments and pigmentation of some algae.
16. Lake Abraham
In Canada there is an artificial lake that despite the fact its stunningly beautiful, it’s so dangerous that you’d really want to avoid it. The lake is filled with frozen bubbles that are filled with frozen pockets of methane which is highly flammable. Beautiful? Yeah. Dangerous? Definitely.
17. The Inga Stone
One of the most fascinating ancient sites in Brazil, the Inga stone is an ancient monument which according to experts includes countless symbols and a “Star Map” depicting the constellation of Orion. Experts refer to the Inga Stone as “an exceptional archeoastronomy monument, like no other in the world.”
18. A Boling River
You wouldn’t want to swim there,
Thought to have been only a myth, the Boiling River in the Amazon was proven to exist. Andres Ruzo, a scientist who, despite the fact that his colleagues believed finding the boiling river was impossible, managed to discover the mythical place in the Peruvian region of the Amazon jungle. The rivers indigenous name—Shanay-timpishka—means “boiled with the heat of the Sun.”
19. A 1.7-million-year-old manmade Bridge?
Located between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka is a mysterious ‘structure’ that according to researchers could be a bridge created by mankind a staggering 1.7 million years ago.
20. 40,000 km-long Inca Road System
The ancient Inca were one of the most sophisticated ancient civilizations on Earth. But did you know they managed to create a massive, 40,000-kilometer-long road system? The massive road system is considered as the most advanced ancient highway on the surface of the planet giving the ancient empire access to over 3,000,000 square kilometers (1,200,000 sq mi) of territory.
We don’t know what’s causing the shadow on these clouds in this photo by Asthadi Setyawan in Indonesia.
| Eastern sky, about an hour after sunset, on October 29, 2017. Photo taken by Asthadi Setyawan at Selorejo River Dam, Malang, East Java, Indonesia.
It’s true that mountains sometimes cast shadows on clouds. See a mountain shadow and find an explanation from sky optics expert Les Cowley at his wonderful website Atmospheric Optics. But this photo – submitted to EarthSky by a photographer we’ve known for years, Asthadi Setyawan in East Java, Indonesia – is mysterious. We ran it past Les Cowley for an explanation, who wrote:
I’m unsure about this. I’ve had it in PhotoShop, and both the image and EXIF data ring genuine.
However, the lens setting was reasonably wide angle and a shadow so high from a westerly object cast onto clouds in the *eastern* sky is impossible 30 minutes after sunset. If the camera clock was accurate (?) then it was indeed 37 minutes after a tropical sunset, and the sky would be quite dark. Under those conditions the sun could not cast shadows even on stratospheric clouds.
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In fact, Asthadi later commented, he has six different shots of this scene, all in the same direction and all with a shadow. He also confirmed:
…the sky was quite dark at that time.
There was a moon up that night, but it would have been high in the south-southeast at the time of the photo and so can’t be the shadow’s source. We also considered the town lights, but Les said that – given the fact that Asthadi was using a wide angle lens, placing the shadow edge fairly high in the sky – he couldn’t see see how surface lights could be the source. As Les commented:
A mystery!
A mystery to us, anyway. Maybe some of you have ideas. Beautiful photo, no matter what the explanation. Thank you, Asthadi and Les!
Bottom line: This photo looks like a mountain shadow on clouds, but we haven’t figured out the shadow’s source.
A Russian who has baffled scientists since birth claims he lived on Mars before he was reborn on Earth.
Boriska Kipriyanovich has confounded experts with his knowledge of outer space for nearly 20 years.
His parents claim that he was able to speak months after he was born and would often discuss subjects they had never taught him, such as alien civilisations.
As a toddler, he amazed his doctors by being able to read, write and draw by the age of two.
Boriska Kipriyanovich has confounded experts with his knowledge of outer space for nearly 20 years
Boriska, from Volgograd, claims to have lived on a 'war-ravaged' Mars, which suffered from a nuclear catastrophe in the distant past
His mother, who herself is a doctor, said the first indication that he was special came a couple of weeks after birth, as he was able to hold his own head up unassisted.
Boriska, from Volgograd, claims to have lived on a 'war-ravaged' Mars, which suffered from a nuclear catastrophe in the distant past.
He says that Martians measuring about seven-feet tall still live undergound on the Red Planet and breathe in carbon dioxide.
According to Boriska, they are immortal and stop aging at an age of 35 years. They are also technologically advanced and capable of interstellar travel.
As a schoolboy, Boriska explained how the Martians had a strong connection to the ancient Egyptians on Earth and how he had once visited the planet as a pilot.
He said that life on Earth will change dramatically when the Great Sphinx monument in Giza is 'unlocked', adding that the opening mechanism is hidden behind an ear.
As a schoolboy, Boriska explained how the Martians had a strong connection to the ancient Egyptians on Earth and how he had once visited the planet as a pilot
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Ik leefde op Mars voordat ik op aarde werd geboren. Rus (20) stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel
Ik leefde op Mars voordat ik op aarde werd geboren. Rus (20) stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel
Een Russische man die wetenschappers al sinds zijn geboorte voor een raadsel stelt, claimt dat hij op Mars leefde voordat hij op aarde werd geboren.
Boriska Kiprijanovitsj verbaast experts al bijna 20 jaar met zijn kennis over de ruimte. Zijn ouders beweren dat hij enkele maanden na zijn geboorte al kon praten en vaak sprak over onderwerpen waar ze hem niets over hadden geleerd, zoals buitenaardse beschavingen.
Toen hij twee jaar oud was kon hij al lezen, schrijven en tekenen, schrijft de Britse Daily Mail.
Onder de grond
Boriska, die uit Wolgograd komt, claimt op het ‘door oorlog verscheurde’ Mars te hebben geleefd. Hij zei dat in een ver verleden een nucleaire ramp heeft plaatsgevonden op de rode planeet.
Marsbewoners zijn volgens hem ruim twee meter lang en zouden onder de grond leven. Ze zijn onsterfelijk en verouderen na hun 35e niet meer, aldus de Rus.
Grote Sfinx
Eerder zei hij dat de Marsbewoners een sterke verbinding hebben met de oude Egyptenaren op aarde en dat hij onze planeet eens heeft bezocht als piloot.
Hij zei dat het leven op aarde drastisch zal veranderen als de Grote Sfinx van Gizeh wordt ‘geopend’. Het mechanisme om het monument te openen zou achter één van de oren verborgen zitten.
Mysterieuze grottekeningen van verloren beschaving ontdekt. Dit is de zeer onverwachte plek waar ze werden gevonden
Mysterieuze grottekeningen van verloren beschaving ontdekt. Dit is de zeer onverwachte plek waar ze werden gevonden
In een aantal piepkleine grotten op een onbewoond eiland in het Caraïbisch gebied hebben archeologen mysterieuze rotstekeningen ontdekt.
De tekeningen zijn gemaakt door de Taíno, een verloren beschaving die is uitgeroeid door Christoffel Columbus.
Het volk maakte in de grotten een aantal tekeningen van mens-dier-hybrides en complexe geometrische patronen.
Poorten
“Voor de miljoenen indianen die voor komst van de Europeanen in het Caraïbisch gebied leefden waren grotten poorten naar het spirituele rijk,” zei onderzoeker Jago Cooper van het British Museum.
“De meeste pictogrammen bevinden zich in zeer nauwe ruimtes diep in de grotten,” zei Victor Serrano van de Universiteit van Leicester.
De archeologen moesten zich een weg banen door een netwerk van 70 zeer kleine grotten.
Groot belang
De grotten bevinden zich op het eiland Mona ten westen van Puerto Rico. Het is tegenwoordig een natuurgebied.
“Deze groepen mensen die Mona bezochten en er leefden zijn mijn voorouders en hun verhaal is van groot belang,” zei Serrano.
De meeste pictogrammen zijn gemaakt met behulp van stukken gereedschap, terwijl de tekeningen zijn vervaardigd met houtskool of gedroogde uitwerpselen van vleermuizen (guano).
Meerdere lagen
De rotsschilderingen bestaan uit meerdere lagen, zo hebben de archeologen ontdekt.
Hoewel het volk is uitgestorven zijn er veel woorden uit de taal van de Taíno die nu nog worden gebruikt, zoals orkaan, kano en tabak.
Ook namen voor voedsel zoals maïs, ananas, zoete aardappel, pinda en graan vonden hun weg in de wereldtalen.
INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE LAWS OF PHYSICS: ALIENS ARE TO ADVANCED TO BE DETECTED
INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE LAWS OF PHYSICS: ALIENS ARE TO ADVANCED TO BE DETECTED
Aliens may exist in a realm far beyond the abilities for any human to understand or comprehend.
Have you seen something you could not comprehend? Author and futurist Arthur C. Clark states, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" as his third law as to how we can be exposed to alien contact and our inability to distinguish it from some magical phenomena.
Maybe it’s something broader. Columbia University director Caleb Sharf suggests, "After all, if the cosmos holds other life, and if some of that life has evolved beyond our own waypoints of complexity and technology, we should be considering some very extreme possibilities…”, when he hints at the idea that possibly all that exists has a basis in some sort of alien intelligence incomprehensible to human senses.
There is too much unknown in the universe to dismiss such an idea and since it is something humans cannot even begin to understand, how could humans even disagree?
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INTERESTING FACTS
27 percent of the observable universe is made up of dark matter.
68 percent of the universe is made up of dark energy.
The universe didn’t start expanding at an accelerated rate until 5 billion years ago.
SOME IDEAS
From the outset, things mentioned by Clark and Sharf are just that, ideas. These ideas cannot necessarily be peer-reviewed, and they are definitely untestable. This is brainstorming at its finest to broaden the mindset that people have about the existence of aliens. Aliens can be physical beings much like humans or they can exist all around us, possibly on a molecular level. The talk of a higher complexity of alien existence is a conversation that must be had so that we don’t overlook all the different viable possibilities that exist out there.
CONCLUSION
Not much is known about the existence of aliens, and this could be for a reason. Aliens may exist in another dimension, in reality not of our own, or all around us in an indistinguishable manner. If aliens exist in a higher complexity than humans can understand then this may start to answer some of the questions we have about the universe itself. Hypothesis’s surrounding this idea is merely in the brainstorming phase and cannot even begin to be proven.
The talk about this is only meant to broaden the thinking that people have so that we can begin to push the dialogue in this direction. With the advancement of human technology maybe one day in the future, research on this topic can begin. Until then, humans are stuck with the unknown. The fact of the matter is, the answer is out there and no idea is too farfetched to be ignored.
The ink isn’t even dry on the news stories (ask your parents what it means) about the discovery of a massive, previously unknown void or empty area inside the Great Pyramid of Giza that was being called “the discovery of the century” when the century suddenly ended as a renowned Egyptian archeologist announced that this is no big deal since they’ve known about it for years. Why did this expert void the void? Was he annoyed that they would avoid asking him first or is he paranoid that he may soon be unemployed?
“The pyramid is full of voids and that does not mean there is a secret chamber or a new discovery.”
This is no ordinary Egyptologist. Zahi Hawass is the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs and is involved with the ScanPyramids project, a research team using state-of-the-art non-invasive technology based on cosmic rays and muons (heavy electrons) to detect changes in the solid structure of the pyramid. The ScanPyramids team announced last week the discovery of a void (they avoided calling it a ‘chamber’ because they weren’t sure of its purpose and ‘chamber’ apparently gets pyramid fans all hot and bothered) above the Grand Gallery that was at least 100 feet long with a cross-section that made it similar in shape to the Grand Gallery. The team believed this was the first new discovery of anything inside the Great Pyramid since the 19th century.
Not so fast, said Zahi Hawass.
“[They] showed us their conclusions, and we informed them this is not a discovery.”
He told The Hindu Times that archeologists have known about this void for 25 years. The current head of the government’s antiquities council, Mustafa Waziri, gave the ScanPyramids team an archeological ass-chewing for jumping the gun with the announcement.
“The project has to proceed in a scientific way that follows the steps of scientific research and its discussion before publication.”
Let’s just say he was definitely annoyed by how the news of the void was deployed. That’s not to say this is not a big discovery, just not the discovery of the century. It appears the void has been closed since the Great Pyramid was built 4500 years ago, which would make anything inside of it, including the air itself, extremely significant. This also validates the new non-invasive technology, which can only get better.
As Shakespeare might say, the announcement last week about the void was “much ado about nothing.”
The ink isn’t even dry on the news stories (ask your parents what it means) about the discovery of a massive, previously unknown void or empty area inside the Great Pyramid of Giza that was being called “the discovery of the century” when the century suddenly ended as a renowned Egyptian archeologist announced that this is no big deal since they’ve known about it for years. Why did this expert void the void? Was he annoyed that they would avoid asking him first or is he paranoid that he may soon be unemployed?
“The pyramid is full of voids and that does not mean there is a secret chamber or a new discovery.”
This is no ordinary Egyptologist. Zahi Hawass is the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs and is involved with the ScanPyramids project, a research team using state-of-the-art non-invasive technology based on cosmic rays and muons (heavy electrons) to detect changes in the solid structure of the pyramid. The ScanPyramids team announced last week the discovery of a void (they avoided calling it a ‘chamber’ because they weren’t sure of its purpose and ‘chamber’ apparently gets pyramid fans all hot and bothered) above the Grand Gallery that was at least 100 feet long with a cross-section that made it similar in shape to the Grand Gallery. The team believed this was the first new discovery of anything inside the Great Pyramid since the 19th century.
Not so fast, said Zahi Hawass.
“[They] showed us their conclusions, and we informed them this is not a discovery.”
He told The Hindu Times that archeologists have known about this void for 25 years. The current head of the government’s antiquities council, Mustafa Waziri, gave the ScanPyramids team an archeological ass-chewing for jumping the gun with the announcement.
“The project has to proceed in a scientific way that follows the steps of scientific research and its discussion before publication.”
Let’s just say he was definitely annoyed by how the news of the void was deployed. That’s not to say this is not a big discovery, just not the discovery of the century. It appears the void has been closed since the Great Pyramid was built 4500 years ago, which would make anything inside of it, including the air itself, extremely significant. This also validates the new non-invasive technology, which can only get better.
As Shakespeare might say, the announcement last week about the void was “much ado about nothing.”
Weird Phenomenon In The Sky Appears Above Gilbert, Arizona
Weird Phenomenon In The Sky Appears Above Gilbert, Arizona
A weird colorful sky phenomenon has been filmed by Mrmbb333 on November 6, 2017 at 11.11am as he walked out of his home depot in Gilbert, Arizona.
The phenomenon is a so-called fire rainbow caused by sunlight reflecting off of ice crystals or maybe it is an earthquake light?
What to think about the effects of geo-engineering? Could it be a chembow around the sun which is the effect of chemicals like aluminium, barrium and strauntium components released by chemtrails in the air causing the unusual display in the sky?
You can see the strange phenomenon in the short un-edited video below.
(Note: The blue dot in the images and video is lens flare.)
A photograph of Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, taken by NASA’s Cassini probe.
Enceladus, a small moon of Saturn, hides a global ocean beneath its crust of ice.
Scientists could not explain how the ocean formed, however, nor how long it might have existed.
New 3D computer models hint a porous rocky core — kneaded by the gravity of Saturn — could provide enough heat to keep the ocean going for perhaps billions of years.
Based on the amount of time it took life to emerge on Earth, the study bodes well in the search for alien microbes.
Deep inside Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn some 890 million miles from Earth, one of our best chances of discovering alien life is heating up.
Enceladus is less than 1% the size of our moon yet hides an ocean containing up to 10% as much water as exists on Earth. What’s more, chemical studies of ice jets shooting out of Enceladus’ south pole suggest the moon’s deep, warm waters could be “a candy store” for microbes.
No one yet knows if aliens exist in this distant subsurface ocean. However, a study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy suggest the moon’s hidden sea of water may be billions of years old — perhaps even as old as Earth’s own oceans.
“This could be good news for the astrobiological potential of Enceladus’s ocean,” Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn’t involved in the research, told Business Insider in an email. “We don’t know how long it takes for the origin of life to occur, but more time is probably better.”
Enceladus hides a warm, salty ocean that may be habitable to alien life
Scientists long suspected Enceladus might hide an ocean.
They reasoned radioactive elements could heat up the moon’s rocky core enough to melt surrounding ice. Or Saturn’s gravity — through a process similar to tides on Earth — could knead and heat Enceladus’s rocky core as it orbited the planet. Or perhaps both at once.
However, the existence of Enceladus’s ocean was mythical until the arrival of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2004.
The nuclear-powered probe later flew through the moon’s icy jets, giving scientists a crude “taste” of the water’s other ingredients — including gases that microbes could feed on, salts, and tiny grains of silica rock from the seafloor.
Cassini also gathered more than a decade of data on the moon’s wobble before NASA purposefully destroyed the robot in Saturn’s thick atmosphere. A 2015 analysis of that wobble signalled the existence of a global subsurface ocean, further raising the chances for life’s foothold below the moon’s icy crust.
What researchers were less certain about is how long the ocean of Enceladus has existed.
On Earth — the only inhabited world we know of — it took nearly a billion years for life to emerge, then billions more to thrive and diversify into plants and animals. (Earth is 4.54 billion years old, and the oldest-known life are fossils of deep-sea hydrothermal vents dating back 3.77 billion years old.)
Knowing that a younger ocean would lower the chances for finding alien life at Enceladus in the future, a group of seven scientists set out to estimate its age.
New 3D models suggest the interior ocean of Enceladus might be billions of years old.
Measurements of Enceladus and its ocean suggest the moon’s core was about 100 times hotter than heat given off by decaying radioactive elements could explain, according to a European Space Agency press release.
The new study tackled the age of Enceladus’s ocean by taking everything scientists knew about the moon — primarily from Cassini data — and plugging it into 3D simulations. The model explored how much heat tidal friction could generate at the moon’s core, and where it’d go over millions of years.
When the Europe-based research group assumed the moon’s ion could generate enough heat to form a global ocean.
There was also enough warmth to keep the ocean liquid for tens of millions or perhaps billions of years, according to a NASA-JPL press release. All of the ocean’s water also cycled through Enceladus’ rocky core every 25-250 million years — a process that could bring life-giving chemicals to the surface.
“Long-lived, sustained geothermal activity on Enceladus’s seafloor could spell good news for geochemistry that gives way to biochemistry,” Hand said.
Future missions to Enceladus may be able to determine if hydrothermal vents exist on the moon’s seafloor, according to the ESA, further raising the moon’s profile as a place to seek out alien life.
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EXPERTS DISCLOSE ALIEN SPECIES RESIDE IN THE UNIVERSE
EXPERTS DISCLOSE ALIEN SPECIES RESIDE IN THE UNIVERSE
Scientistsbelieve that as the universe is so enormous and, presumably, filled with an incalculable number of planets capable of supporting life, any of those extraterrestrial life forms may probably be more advanced technologically when compared to us. Quite possibly one of the reasons the inhabitants of these planets have not established contact with us is due to our lack of technological means and a minimal knowledge of the laws of the universe.
Is there any chance that this will change in the years to come?
This strong conviction in alien existence originates from an instinctual acknowledgment of the Universe as a magnificent sowing mechanism that had broaden to a large number of areas the gift of life and evolution.
The most prominent among the proponents of this belief is the brilliant inventor Elon Musk, the founder of the SpaceX program, who firmly believe in the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and with his innovations which could boost the human desire to explore space and hopefully make interaction with our presently concealed intergalactic neighbors.
Elon Musk’s bold ambitiousness has been clarified in an article composed in the New York Times by Astrophysicist Adam Frank, entitled – Yes, There Have Been Aliens.
According to him, we’re not the initial generation of intelligent humanoids which have developed on the blue pale dot. The probability is thin for mankind to be the exclusively evolved creatures in this enormous of the universe, a 1 in 10 billion trillions to be more precise.
This give opportunity to presume that there are tremendous chances outsiders even now to be among us, understanding that our DNA may very well be blended with theirs, therefore have figured out how to consistently blend into the general public unnoticed.
This could mean that our star is not hosting its first generation of living beings which find a way how to beam radio signals into space. Adam Frank’s research is based upon the challenging and innovating mathematical formula serving as an instruction for any person enthusiastic about acquiring genuine evidence of extraterrestrial life in the universe.
It certainly could be challenging to decode Drake’s Equation by yourself, the scientific community is currently focusing on a method to place numbers on the table. The formula looks like this:
N = R * fp ne fl fi fe L
fp – the percentage of stars with planets
ne – the number of planets similar to Earth
fl – the number of Earth-like planets capable of supporting and maintaining life
fi – the percentage of celestial bodies with life that can further develop intelligent life forms
fe – the percentage of intelligent species able to detect otherworldly technology originating from another foreign civilization (i.e. ration transmissions)
L – the average number of earth-years during which advanced civilizations emit signals.
Multiplying the two components of the formula with the period of time that sophisticated civilizations take to communicate reveals the whole quantity of civilizations that have walked the exact lands we are exploring at present.
The complicated Drake Equation can only be solved after discovering accurate values for every one of its components. Scientists speculate this will be achievable in coming years, but nonetheless, warn those quantities are likely to be worthless if attempting to discover species with a potential beyond that of mankind constructs.
Astronomers already have found over 3,000 neighboring exoplanets, with roughly 20% of these planets within habitable areas. The latest NASA press release of 7 Earth-like planets just a couple of light years separate from us has increased expectations of discovering alien existence in the years to come.
The only thing we are able to do at this moment is waiting for the time when we’ll discover our cosmic neighbors, however, waiting for science to deliver the results will likely take just too much time of one’s life, so it’s better to seek for indications on our very own planet. After all, mysteries on Earth are surfacing every day, and there are various leads to pursue which might be quickly labeled as otherworldly.
SOUNDS OF ALIEN LIFE ON JUPITER RECORDED BY NASA’S JUNO SPACECRAFT
SOUNDS OF ALIEN LIFE ON JUPITER RECORDED BY NASA’S JUNO SPACECRAFT
Horrendous sounds of life of an unknown origin are being recorded on Jupiter by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Further examination of the footage suggests they are originated by some unknown obscure colossal creatures living on the planet.
Scientific circles awaited with anticipation the moment when after 5 years of intergalactic travel, Juno finally arrived at its destination – Jupiter and after attaining a stable orbit of the planet, managed to collect and send back to Earth information, of inestimable significance, about Jupiter’s atmosphere, magnetic field, and weather phenomena.
On June 24, Juno crossed the perimeter of Jupiter’s magnetic field and that’s when the WAVES instrument aboard the spacecraft began getting a progression of entrancing radio signals that sound extraordinary when moved down into the discernible range.
According to sources in NASA, researchers can not yet affirm with certainty precisely what is going on under the billowing clouds of Jupiter’s atmosphere yet, as reported by them, a booming blast that is heard on the recording is caused by specific phenomena called astrophysical bow shock. It is the consequence of the interaction between a celestial object’s magnetic field and the atmospheric plasma flows that are hindered and warmed by the magnetic field they encounter giving rise to the shocking, extraordinary sounds.
From the little data we have about Jupiter, we know it is impossible that carbon-based life forms could survive on its surface to survive types of life. But this does not exclude the possibility of a different type of life form since exobiologists believe exotic life forms could exist in Jupiter’s thick, 5,000 mile deep atmosphere, which is for the most part hydrogen, but it does additionally contain amounts of ammonia, methane and water. These are the very gasses that were utilized as a part of the renowned Miller-Urey experiment that showed how the fundamental building blocks of life could be created by interactions between gasses in a planet’s environment.
Artist’s rendition of possible life forms on a gas giant
The Miller-Urey experiment was relatively easy, water vapor was placed in a flask comprising of hydrogen gas, methane, and ammonia. Miller transferred the electronic pulse through the compound and, after only one week of zapping the gas, the substance of the flask had already revealed remnants of organic molecules and amino acids, the precursors of life. Jupiter possesses the gases and also has lightning storms to carry out its own experiments
The possibility of Jupiter to sustain life forms has frequently encouraged many speculations by numerous writers and scholars. In the 1971 science fiction novella,” A Meeting with Medusa”, writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke theorizes about the capability of Jupiter not only to possess a minuscule air plankton life forms but also huge, jellyfish-like organisms, held afloat by hydrogen-filled compartments, these kind of rightly- named beasts would likely consume the minuscule types similar to the filter-feeders floating in the Earth’s oceans.
One of the most prominent scientists like Carl Sagan consents with the vast majority of the hypotheses about the presence of Jupiter’s life forms. Certainly, the Juno spacecraft recording, subsequently, after it passed Jupiter’s magnetopause emerge as exceptionally fascinating. Nevertheless, that is certainly not what occurs to magnet-women later in life, it’s the area around a planet where it features a magnetic field more powerful compared to that of the star it’s orbiting. Fundamentally, the planet’s home turf.
Is it conceivable that these sounds originated from particular life shapes on the surface of Jupiter?
Could possibly be a consequence of an intelligent life form communication?
THE CIA DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CONFIRMS EXTRATERRESTRIAL ACTIVITY ON OUR PLANET
THE CIA DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CONFIRMS EXTRATERRESTRIAL ACTIVITY ON OUR PLANET
Having a glimpse into the latest declassified UFO files and high ranking government officials statements, we are witnessing how UFO phenomenon all of a sudden becomes a reality.
It is difficult to envision that we are alone in this enormous universe, particularly after high ranked officials recently showed up in broad daylight with proclamations that we are not the only one in this boundless universe, also that we already have effectively established contact with extraterrestrial species.
Dimitri Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, in 2012 made an announcement shortly after his interview that was broadcast live on 5 tv stations. The Russian ex-president uncovered to a journalist that every leader of the Kremlin is given two envelopes with classified data in regards to the visit of extraterrestrial creatures.
Image: wp.com
It didn’t take long for his words to be shared in mass across all the media and social networks which caused great interest in the general public. After all, he is a high-level official that publicly acknowledged the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations during the presidential mandate.
In an interview for Sputnik, in 1980 a famous Russian astronaut Yevgheni Krunov gave a statement that he wont deny the existence of UFOs, they are more than just optical illusions, even some of their characteristics, such as they are something other than optical deceptions, even some of their qualities, for example, the quick difference in flight course at a 90 degree edge offers us a considerable measure of something worth mulling over.
Another observer of this various bizarre and baffling phenomena is another Russian space explorer, Ghenadie Strekalov. He portrayed a marvel saw on September 28, 1980, during his day shift on the Mir space station: a flying dish above the Earth, at an altitude of 20-30 km, around Newfoundland. The atmosphere was clear and the permeability was flawless, so he could look for around 10 seconds how the circle was moving delightful distinctive shades, and afterward vanishing in the space.
As indicated by publicly released data releases, in the time of 1952 alone have been examined and affirmed 100 UFO phenomena with no intelligent clarification, that were enlisted and named in the CIA chronicles as “inexplicable”.
According the report:“Almost 100 believable confessions remain inexplicable at the moment. However, the CIA monitoring will continue and no reports will be made public.”
In the latest batch of unclassified CIA documents, the officials indicated that records don’t contain any data in regards to crushed UFOs, experiences or kidnappings, however, they are certain people, in general, will find them to a great degree captivating:
CIA declassified files
“We have decided to release to publicity a few files that even the most skeptical individuals will find appealing. Five of these files are fit for “X Files” agent Fox Mulder, but the other 5 files are perfect for his skeptical partner, agent Dana Scully.”
The declassification of these 10 records corresponds with the relaunch of the “X Files”, nonetheless, conspiracy theorists trust that CIA’s decision to make these reports open does not complement the relaunch of the new X Files series, yet rather are an endeavor to warm-up the audience for later divulgences.
“Apparently, the CIA used the rebirth of the X Files franchise to remind the people that the agency has agents investigating these cases.”, proclaims Stephen Basset, official chief of Paradigm Research Group, an association that militates at the White House all together for the legislature of the United States to concede that extraterrestrials do exist.
However, it might take some time for this world as it is to acknowledge the UFO reality, and hope remains that in the days to come, the government will soon pour the beans relating the presence of extraterrestrials.
Little is known about the phenomenon, which can sometimes be explained by exploding generators or power systems. Another explanation claims that the tectonic movement of rocks including quartz, generates a piezoelectric field which produces flashes of light.
A 2014 study said the stress of the tectonic plates can break apart pairs of negatively-charged oxygen atoms, pushing them towards the Earth’s surface and forming a light-emitting plasma when it combines with air.
A tsunami warning is in place following Friday’s earthquake, the strongest in a century. At least five people are reported dead with the number expected to rise.
Met dit instrument gaan we uitzoeken of de maan Enceladus leefbaar is
Met dit instrument gaan we uitzoeken of de maan Enceladus leefbaar is
Caroline Kraaijvanger
NASA heeft een plan!
Saturnus’ maan Enceladus spreekt tot de verbeelding. Er zijn namelijk sterke aanwijzingen dat onder de dikke ijslaag die de maan rijk is, een vloeibare oceaan te vinden is. Zou het in die oceaan – net als in de oceanen op aarde – wemelen van het leven?
Instrument Onderzoekers staan te popelen om dat uit te zoeken. Maar dat valt natuurlijk nog niet mee. Want we hebben het hier over een oceaan die zich onder een kilometersdikke laag ijs bevindt. Maar NASA is niet voor één gat te vangen en komt nu met een instrument op de proppen waarmee we mogelijk een schat aan informatie over die ondergrondse oceaan kunnen verzamelen.
SELFI Het instrument wordt kortweg SELFI genoemd. Dat staat voor Submillimeter Enceladus Life Fundamentels Instrument. Het instrument maakt handig gebruik van de pakweg honderd geisers die op Enceladus te vinden zijn en die – via enorme scheuren in de ijskap – continu waterdamp, CO2, methaan en andere gassen de lucht in slingeren. “We kunnen deze pluimen scannen om te zien wat er uit Enceladus komt zetten,” vertelt onderzoeker Gordon Chin. “Waterdamp en andere moleculen kunnen iets onthullen over de chemie van de oceaan.”
Onder de dikke ijskap van Enceladus bevindt zich mogelijk een oceaan. Mogelijk bevinden zich op de bodem van de oceaan hydrothermale bronnen die waterstofgas voortbrengen (en waar op aarde nogal wat leven rond te vinden is). De aanwezigheid van zulke bronnen zou bevestigd kunnen worden door de pluimen die de geisers op de maan genereren, te bestuderen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Southwest Research Institute.
Radiostations SELFI zou dat alles vanaf een afstandje kunnen doen. “Submillimetergolflengtes bieden ons een manier om te meten hoeveel verschillende moleculen er in een koud gas zitten,” vertelt Chin. “Moleculen zoals water en koolstofmonoxide en anderen zijn een soort kleine radiostations die op specifieke frequenties uitzenden en laten weten “hé, ik ben water, ik ben koolstofmonoxide”. Onderzoeker Paul Racette voegt toe: “De spectrale lijnen zijn zo duidelijk dat we chemische stoffen kunnen identificeren en kwantificeren zonder dat daarbij verwarring kan ontstaan.”
Dertien moleculen SELFI zou in staat zijn om dertien soorten moleculen tegelijkertijd te detecteren en analyseren. Je moet dan onder meer denken aan water, maar ook methanol, ozon, waterstofperoxide, zwaveldioxide en natriumchloride (het stofje dat de oceanen op aarde zout maakt).
Door de gegevens die SELFI verzamelt, te extrapoleren kunnen onderzoekers een beeld krijgen van hoe de oceaan onder Enceladus’ ijskap in elkaar steekt en of in die oceaan bijvoorbeeld ook hydrothermale bronnen te vinden zijn. En op basis daarvan kan dan weer meer gezegd worden over de leefbaarheid van de oceaan.µ
Planetoïden vallen ongevraagd en ongeweigerd deze foto van Hubble binnen
Planetoïden vallen ongevraagd en ongeweigerd deze foto van Hubble binnen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een kosmische fotobom!
Op de diepe opnames van ruimtetelescoop Hubble zijn duizenden sterrenstelsels te zien. Sommige van die sterrenstelsels zijn gigantisch (zoals de gele elliptische sterrenstelsels en de blauwe spiraalstelsels). Anderen staan weer ontzettend ver weg (de rode sterrenstelsels).
Strepen Maar wat nog veel meer in het oog springt, zijn natuurlijk de opvallende strepen die dwars over de opname lopen. Het zijn planetoïden die gemiddeld zo’n 257 miljoen kilometer van de aarde verwijderd zijn.
De sporen die de planetoïden achterlaten, lijken iets af te buigen. Het is het resultaat van een verschijnsel dat parallax wordt genoemd. Terwijl Hubble rond de aarde draait, lijkt de planetoíde ten opzichte van de op veel grotere afstand staande sterren en sterrenstelsels op de achtergrond langs een boogje te bewegen. Het effect is een beetje vergelijkbaar met het effect dat je ziet vanuit een bewegende auto, waarbij bomen langs de kant van de weg veel sneller lijken te bewegen dan de objecten op grotere afstand erachter. Daarnaast dragen ook de beweging van de aarde rond de zon en de bewegingen van de planetoïden zelf nog bij aan het feit dat deze planetoïden door de ruimte lijken te zwalken.
Afbeelding: NASA / ESA / B. Sunnquist & J. Mack (STScI).
Sporen De planetoïden laten niet één lang spoor achter, maar duiken herhaaldelijk op. Dat komt doordat deze Hubble-foto (boven) is opgebouwd uit meerdere kiekjes van Hubble. De twintig ‘sporen’ van planetoïden die je hier ziet, zijn veroorzaakt door zeven unieke objecten. Twee daarvan waren ons reeds bekend. De overige vijf reflecteerden te weinig licht om eerder ontdekt te kunnen worden.
Hieronder zie je nog een fotobom. Tijdens het maken van deze diepe opname, vielen vijf planetoïden (samen goed voor zo’n 22 sporen) de foto binnen. Geen van deze planetoïden waren astronomen bekend.
Hier vereeuwigde Hubble het cluster Abell 370 en dus ook een handjevol planetoïden!
Afbeelding: NASA / ESA & STScI.
En zo kunnen zelfs op diepe opnamen van Hubble heel dicht bij huis dus nog nieuwe dingen worden ontdekt!
'Planeet X wordt waarschijnlijk binnen een paar jaar gevonden'
'Planeet X wordt waarschijnlijk binnen een paar jaar gevonden'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Astronoom Konstantin Batygin weet het vrijwel zeker: Planeet X bestaat. En hij is vastbesloten ‘m op te sporen.
Het was begin 2016 wereldnieuws. Astronomen Konstantin Batygin en Mike Brown hadden sterke aanwijzingen gevonden voor het bestaan van een negende planeet in ons zonnestelsel. De planeet zou tien keer groter zijn dan de aarde, 500 keer zwaarder zijn dan Pluto en een slordige 90 miljard kilometer van de zon verwijderd zijn. Batygin en Brown leidden het bestaan van de planeet af uit het effect dat deze lijkt te hebben op de banen van een aantal Kuipergordelobjecten. De Kuipergordelobjecten in kwestie hebben allemaal elliptische banen, maar volgen dezelfde richting in de fysieke ruimte. “De kans dat dit toeval is, is slechts 0,007 procent,” vertelde Brown in 2016. “Kortom: het kán haast geen toeval zijn. Er moet iets zijn dat de koers van deze objecten bepaalt.” En dat ‘iets’ is volgens Batygin en Brown dus Planeet X.
Opeenstapeling van bewijs Inmiddels zijn we bijna twee jaar verder en is Planeet X nog altijd een vermoeden: het is astronomen namelijk nog niet gelukt om de planeet te spotten. Wél stapelt het bewijs – dat NASA recent nog ‘overtuigend’ noemde – voor het bestaan van de planeet zich op.
Het maakte ons nieuwsgierig. Want hoe staat het nu eigenlijk met die zoektocht naar Planeet X? Zit er een beetje schot in? En is de verwachting nog steeds dat we de planeet binnen een paar jaar gaan vinden? We zochten contact met de man die momenteel jacht maakt op Planeet X en ons er dus alles over kan vertellen: Konstantin Batygin. En hij had toch wel voorzichtig goed nieuws. “De zoektocht gaat echt heel goed,” Een updatevertelt hij aan Scientias.nl. “We hadden een beetje een trage start, maar dit jaar gaat het tot op heden geweldig. Ik heb eind september samen met Mike (Brown, red.) een weekje doorgebracht op de top van Maunt Kea en in december en februari gaan we weer terug.” Op dat topje van Maunt Kea bevindt zich de Subaru-telescoop: het beste instrument dat een astronoom op zoek naar een planeet in een donker hoekje van het zonnestelsel zich kan wensen. “Subaru is uniek, omdat deze een groot gezichtsveld heeft – zodat we dus een groot deel van het heelal in één keer kunnen bekijken – én ook gevoelig genoeg is om Planeet X (die buitengewoon donker is) te vinden.”
Planeet X doet er mogelijk wel 20.000 jaar over om een rondje rond de zon te voltooien!
Afbeelding: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC).
2021 Inmiddels hebben Batygin en Brown al zo’n 20% van het stukje heelal waarin ze planeet X verwachten, afgespeurd. Dus er zit zeker schot in. Brown liet begin 2016 aan Scientias.nl weten te verwachten dat Planeet X binnen een jaar of vijf wel ontdekt zou worden. En dat lijkt nog steeds haalbaar, zo vertelt Batygin. “Je weet het nooit zeker, natuurlijk. Als het elke keer als we willen observeren slecht weer is, komen we bijvoorbeeld in de problemen. Maar het lijkt waarschijnlijk dat we de planeet tegen 2021 wel gevonden hebben.” In principe zouden we de planeet zelfs dit jaar nog kunnen spotten. Batygin schat de kans dat het bewijs voor het bestaan van de planeet zich ophoudt in de data die eind september verzameld is, op zo’n 10 tot 15 procent.
“IK ZIE EERLIJK GEZEGD GEEN MANIER MEER OM HET ZONNESTELSEL ZONDER EEN PLANEET X TE VERKLAREN”
De twijfel voorbij Ervan uitgaande dat de planeet echt bestaat, natuurlijk. Want dat is – zolang we de planeet niet direct spotten – toch altijd nog onzeker. Maar Batygin is die twijfel eigenlijk voorbij, zo vertelt hij. “Op dit punt ben ik vrijwel zeker dat er een Planeet X is.” Hij verwijst hierbij naar een recent paper waarin hij samen met collega Alessandro Morbidelli de interpretatie van alle verzamelde data die op het bestaan van Planeet X wijzen, van een update heeft voorzien. “Nu we de data beter begrijpen, zie ik eerlijk gezegd geen manier meer om het zonnestelsel zonder een Planeet X te verklaren.”
Zoals gezegd zijn er verschillende bewijsstukken voor het bestaan van deze negende planeet. Zo zijn er de Kuipergordelobjecten die Batygin en Brown in 2016 aanwezen. Maar ook het feit dat het omloopvlak van de acht bekende planeten in ons zonnestelsel ietsje schuin staat ten opzichte van de evenaar van de zon lijkt op het bestaan van Planeet X te wijzen. Het sterkste bewijsstuk is volgens Batygin echter het feit dat de aanwezigheid van Planeet X voorspelt dat er een groepje hemellichamen moet zijn met een baanvlak dat haaks op dat van de andere planeten in het zonnestelsel staat. “En zo’n populatie kleine hemellichamen zien we precies op de plek waar deze zou moeten zijn.”
Gewoontjes Het lijkt dus een kwestie van tijd voor we Planeet X spotten. En die ontdekking zal een hoop veranderen, denkt Batygin. Zo wordt het zonnestelsel in zekere zin groter. Nu gaat het wanneer we over het zonnestelsel spreken vaak over de ruimte waarin de planeten cirkelen. En die ruimte zal met de ontdekking van Planeet X flink groter worden: de planeet is naar schatting zo’n twintig keer verder verwijderd van de zon dan de huidige buitenste planeet in ons zonnestelsel, Neptunus. Daarnaast zal de ontdekking ervoor zorgen dat ons zonnestelsel wat ‘gewoontjes’ wordt. Want opeens bezit het dan een superaarde: “over het algemeen genomen het type planeet dat het meest voorkomt”.
Mocht Planeet X ergens in de komende jaren ontdekt worden, dan wacht Batygin en collega’s behalve een hoop aandacht van de media ook een enorme hoop werk. Want opeens is er dan een negende planeet om verder te verkennen. Eén van de eerste onderzoeksvragen die dan aan bod zullen komen, is ongetwijfeld de vraag waar deze planeet geboren is. Op de huidige plek, op zo’n grote afstand van de zon? Dat lijkt niet zo aannemelijk. Stond ‘ie dan eerst dichter bij de zon en is ‘ie door andere planeten weggetrapt? Of hoorde de planeet eigenlijk bij een andere ster en heeft onze zon deze ‘gestolen’? Batygin verwacht dat we vrij kort na de ontdekking van de planeet ook de oorsprong ervan wel helder kunnen krijgen. “Er zal flink wat gemodelleerd moeten worden, maar ik vermoed dat het snel kan gaan.” Zodra de baan van de planeet in kaart is gebracht, kan immers met simulaties worden nagegaan wat deze allemaal heeft meegemaakt.
Terwijl Brown en Batygin jagen op de negende planeet in ons zonnestelsel dromen anderen al van de ontdekking van nog meer planeten. Recent onderzoek suggereert nu reeds dat er naast Planeet X ook nog een tiende planeet op ontdekking wacht. Batygin heeft er niet echt een mening over “maar het bewijs is veelbelovend”. Hij zal er in ieder geval niet gek van opkijken als er op termijn nog meer planeten in de achterhoede van het zonnestelsel worden gevonden. “Het zonnestelsel is groot. Maar op dit moment hebben we echter alleen heel sterk bewijs voor Planeet X. Het is opwindend om te zien wat de toekomst gaat brengen.”
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Interview met Konstantin Batygin Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)
'Mogelijk een uitgebreid planetenstelsel rond dichtstbijzijnde ster Proxima Centauri'
'Mogelijk een uitgebreid planetenstelsel rond dichtstbijzijnde ster Proxima Centauri'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Daarop hinten onderzoekers na de ontdekking van koud stof rond de ster.
Met behulp van de ALMA-sterrenwacht op Chili hebben astronomen rond Proxima Centauri – de ster die het dichtst bij ons in de buurt staat – koud stof ontdekt. Het stof vormt als het ware een kring rond Proxima Centauri en strekt zich uit tot op enkele honderden miljoenen kilometers van de ster. Naar schatting herbergt deze stofgordel ongeveer één honderdste van een aardmassa aan materiaal. De temperatuur van dat materiaal ligt rond de -230 graden Celsius, zo schatten de astronomen. Daarmee is de stofgordel ongeveer net zo koud als de Kuipergordel in ons eigen zonnestelsel.
Tweede stofgordel? Maar dat is nog niet alles. ALMA heeft namelijk ook aanwijzingen gevonden voor een tweede stofgordel op iets grotere afstand van Proxima Centauri. Deze stofgordel is ongeveer tien keer verder van de ster verwijderd dan de eerste stofgordel en is tevens aanzienlijk kouder.
PROXIMA B
Proxima b werd vorig jaar ontdekt. De planeet is rotsachtig en ongeveer 1,3 keer zo zwaar als de aarde. Bovendien bevindt deze zich in de leefbare zone. De planeet staat dichter bij Proxima Centauri dan de twee stofgordels die nu zijn ontdekt.
Planetenstelsel Het is een fascinerende ontdekking, zo vertelt onderzoeker Guillem Anglada. “Het stof rond Proxima is belangrijk omdat dit, na de ontdekking van de aardse planeet Proxima b (zie kader, red.) de eerste aanwijzing is dat de meest nabije buurster van de zon omgeven is door een uitgebreid planetenstelsel.”
Planetoïden rond Proxima Centauri De stofgordels bestaan waarschijnlijk uit rots- en ijsdeeltjes die zijn achtergebleven na het planeetvormingsproces. De rots- en ijsdeeltjes in beide gordels hebben grootten die uiteenlopen van minder dan een millimeter tot vele kilometers (in het laatste geval kun je van planetoïden spreken). “Dit resultaat wijst erop dat Proxima Centauri een meervoudig planetenstelsel kan hebben, met een rijke geschiedenis van interacties die tot de vorming van een stofgordel heeft geleid. Verder onderzoek kan informatie verschaffen over de locaties waar zich nog onontdekte planeten kunnen bevinden.”
Een artistieke impressie laat zien hoe de pas ontdekte stofschijven rond Proxima Centauri eruit zouden kunnen zien. Let op: de schets is niet op schaal. Om de ster duidelijk zichtbaar te laten zijn, is de binnenste gordel op grotere afstand van de ster getekend. In werkelijkheid is de gordel minder groot.
Afbeelding: ESO / M. Kornmesser.
Proxima Centauri mag zich de laatste jaren in steeds meer aandacht verheugen. Zo wordt er momenteel ook hard nagedacht over een ruimtemissie naar de dichtstbijzijnde ster (die toch nog zo’n 4 lichtjaar van ons verwijderd is). Gedacht wordt aan microsondes die aan grote lichtzeilen hangen en door lasers op aarde worden voortgestuwd (lees er hier alles over). Voor je zo’n missie op pad stuurt, moet je natuurlijk wel een goed beeld hebben van de bestemming en eventuele gevaarlijke planetoïdengordels die hier te vinden zijn. En ALMA kan daarbij dus helpen, zo benadrukt onderzoeker Pedro Amado. “Deze eerste resultaten laten zien dat ALMA stofstructuren rond Proxima kan detecteren. Vervolgwaarnemingen zullen ons een gedetailleerder beeld van het Proxima-stelsel geven.” En uiteindelijk kunnen we zo ook meer te weten komen over ons eigen zonnestelsel. “In combinatie met het onderzoek van protoplanetaire schijven rond jonge sterren zal dit meer inzicht geven in de processen die 4,6 miljard jaar geleden tot de vorming van de aarde en de rest van het zonnestelsel hebben geleid. Wat we nu zien, is nog maar een voorproefje van wat er komen gaat!”
NASA's nieuwe Marsrover krijgt recordbrekend veel camera's mee
NASA's nieuwe Marsrover krijgt recordbrekend veel camera's mee
Caroline Kraaijvanger
23 stuks. Knappe alien die daaraan weet te ontsnappen!
De afgelopen decennia heeft NASA verschillende rovers naar Mars gestuurd (zie kader). Maar geen enkele rover had zoveel camera’s als het exemplaar dat in 2020 naar Mars vertrekt. De Mars 2020-missiewordt namelijk uitgerust met 23 camera’s, zo heeft NASA bekend gemaakt.
DE VOORGANGERS VAN MARS 2020
In 1997 zette NASA de Marsrover Sojourner op Mars. De rover had drie camera’s. Later volgden Spirit en Opportunity, met beiden tien camera’s. Daarna kwam Curiosity met zeventien camera’s.
Functie De rover zal de camera’s onder meer gebruiken om panoramafoto’s te maken, obstakels te spotten en de atmosfeer van Mars te bestuderen. Ook kunnen de camera’s ingezet worden om andere instrumenten aan boord van de rover te assisteren. Bovendien zullen de camera’s foto’s maken terwijl de Mars 2020-rover afdaalt naar het oppervlak van de rode planeet. Een primeur: voor het eerst zullen de camera’s foto’s maken van parachutes die boven een andere planeet openklappen.
Beter De Mars 2020-missie heeft niet alleen meer camera’s. Ze zijn ook beter. Zo beschikt de nieuwste Marsrover over Navcams en Hazcams (respectievelijk bedoeld om ritjes te plannen en obstakels te vermijden) die plaatjes met een hogere resolutie én in kleur afleveren. Ook is het gezichtsveld van de lenzen van deze camera’s groter. “Onze eerdere Navcams maakten meerdere foto’s en plakten die aaneen,” stelt Colin McKinney. “Met het grotere gezichtsveld krijgen we hetzelfde beeld met één kiekje.” Tevens zijn de camera’s in staat om scherpe foto’s te maken terwijl de rover beweegt. “De cameratechnologie wordt steeds beter,” vertelt Justin Maki. “Elke opeenvolgende missie is in staat om die verbeteringen te benutten, wat leidt tot betere prestaties en lagere kosten.”
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Maar al die camera’s brengen ook een grote uitdaging met zich mee. Ze brengen namelijk bijzonder veel foto’s voort en die moeten allemaal naar de aarde worden verzonden. Het vereist dat de data flink gecomprimeerd wordt. In Spirit en Opportunity regelde de computer dat. In Curiosity namen de camera’s zelf dat proces reeds voor hun rekening. En ook in de Mars 2020-rover wordt gebruik gemaakt van dergelijke slimme camera’s.
NASA en andere ruimtevaartorganisaties experimenteren al jaren met camera’s. En daar plukken wij allemaal de vruchten van. Het leidde namelijk tot camera’s die steeds kleiner en lichter werden, maar toch hoogwaardige foto’s konden maken. En bedrijven borduurden op dat werk voort en integreerden camera’s in laptops en smartphones.
In recent years, the International Space Station has given astronauts the chance to photograph transient luminous events – or TLEs – natural light shows produced at the tops of thunderstorms.
Two weeks ago, we published a photo by Paul Smith of an awesome red sprite over Oklahoma. Red sprites are a type of transient luminous event (TLE), different from the more familiar lightning that takes place in the troposphere, or lowest part of Earth’s atmosphere. A related phenomena are the blue jets, which pulse from the tops of intense thunderstorms and reach up toward the edge of space. In 2015, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen photograped blue jets from the International Space Station. A subsequent analysis of the video footage by researchers at Denmark’s National Space Institute – published in early 2017 – revealed some amazing results!
Olivier Chanrion, lead author of the publication reported:
During 160 seconds of video footage, 245 pulsating blue discharges were observed, corresponding to a rate of about 90 per minute.
One of the blue jets observed reached 25 miles (40 km) above sea level.
Watch the video above to see Mogensen’s footage, and learn more about blue jets, red sprites and other flashes high above thunderstorms.
By carefully timing the dimming caused by planets passing in front of a star, astronomers can estimate that star’s density. Credit: NASA Tim Pyle
Distant planets tell all: A new analysis uses alien worlds' orbital treks to peek inside their stars.
NASA's ever-watchful Kepler space telescope has identified thousands of exoplanets by noting the tiny brightness dips caused when these worlds "transit," or cross the face of, their host stars. The length between dimmings tells scientists how long the planet takes to orbit—how long its year is—and the level of dimming shows how much smaller the planet is than the star.
"It's really weird that a planet that's orbiting far away from the star can tell us anything about the star's interior—I think that's really bizarre but cool," said Emily Sandford, an astronomer at Columbia University in New York and lead author on the new work.
"Basically, by measuring very precisely the shape of those dimmings, the amount of light that's missing over time when a planet passes in front, you can measure the density of the star the planet's orbiting," she told Space.com.
Using a method first derived by astrophysicsts Sara Seager and Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas in 2003, Sandford and co-author David Kipping, also of Columbia, analyzed data on 66 Kepler stars to determine their densities. Their precision rivalled that of asteroseismology, a technique used on bright stars that uses oscillations in their shine to reconstruct their interior properties. While asteroseismology requires very precise brightness measurements, Sandford said, the new calculation needs less pristine data.
Essentially, the process works because how long a planet spends in front of its star is tied to the star's density. Planets that are far away from their stars spend less time in front of them—imagine a planet right at the star's surface, which would spend half of its orbit in front of it, versus one that is very far away, and only crosses in front for a quick part of its orbit, Sandford said. But at the same time, a planet has to move at a certain speed to maintain a steady orbit based on how massive the star is—if the planet is going too slowly, it will fall into the star, and if it's going too fast, it will fly away.
"We can then use that knowledge of [proportionally] how far the planet is from its star, combined with the duration of the transit, to solve for the stellar density," Sandford said. "If a planet is far away and yet takes a long time to transit, we know that the star must be big, puffy, and low-density; if a planet is close-in and yet transits quickly, we know that the star must be small, compact, and high-density."
In other words, the denser a star is—the more massive it is compared to its radius—the less time the planet spends in front of it.
TREASURE TROVE
While researchers already knew about this relationship between transiting planets and their parent stars' densities, it's only since Kepler's launch in 2009 that more than a handful of transiting planets have been available for analysis, according to Sandford.
"We have this enormous treasure trove of data, and we can start to apply some of these ideas that people thought of way in advance before the data was ready," Sandford said. "That's what we've done here." [How Do You Spot an Alien Planet from Earth? (Infographic)]
This method requires that the researchers know the planet's orbit well, or that they can predict that it's circular. (Circular orbits tend to be common in systems with multiple planets.) It also requires researchers to know the planet's full orbit length—so it must have passed in front of the star more than once.
Once those criteria are established, researchers can use these calculations in two key ways: to determine if a transit is really caused by a planet or if it's a false positive, and to analyze the other planets in a multiplanet system.
That false-positive case was one of the uses Seager had in mind when the equation was first developed, she told Space.com: "If you get the stellar density from the light curve alone, and then if you get the stellar density because you already know something about its mass and size … and if those densities don't match up, the thing you're looking at is not a planet," said Seager, who was not involved in the new study. "It's a blended object; it's a false positive; it's something else."
"All the applications are exciting, whether you want to just measure the densities of the set of stars, or whether you're using it as a kind of comparison tool," she added.
During its primary mission, Kepler looked at the same set of stars for four years, but future exoplanet hunters such as NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), set to launch in 2018, will spend a much shorter time on each part of the sky—just a month or so. In systems with multiple planets, if one orbits quickly enough for researchers to see more than one full orbit, that planet could act as an "anchor" to pin down the star's density, letting researchers learn about the orbits of the other planets, too.
"There's going to be a lot of habitable-zone planets that fall out in that window where their orbital period is longer than a month," Sandford said. "If we only see one transit, if we can't measure the period directly, it might be a very, very faraway planet, in which case it's too cold to have liquid water, or it might fall right in the middle of the habitable zone."
"If we can use our method to constrain the star, and from there to constrain the outer planet's period, that could be really interesting for prioritizing certain planets for follow-up if we know that they're likely to be habitable-zone, potentially the right temperature range for liquid water, type planets," she added.
KNOW THE PLANET, KNOW THE STAR
According to Vincent Van Eylen, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands who is uninvolved with the study, there's a saying that goes "Know thy star, know thy planet." Often, researchers use what they can glean about stars to identify what their planets might be made of and what the orbits look like.
Van Eylen's own research uses stars' densities and the durations of transits to learn about the planets' orbits—a reversal of Sandford's calculations.
"We don't know enough about stars, and everything we learn about planets somehow is indirect information that's related to stars," Van Eylen said. "In that way, it's kind of a sweet result that they can turn things around and actually learn about the planets, and thereby learn about the stars."
The new work has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal and is available on ArXiv.org.
Alien life may be thriving in a warm, underground ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, according to new research.
Scientists say tidal forces could have kept the subterranean sea liquid for billions of years - enough time for organisms to have developed.
The mysterious world has a very fragmented and porous rocky interior, ideal conditions for flowing water with the friction creating 10 gigawatts of heat.
This amount of energy would light and heat more than 7 million homes - and explains all the global properties of Enceladus observed by Cassini.
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Alien life may be thriving in a warm, underground ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, according to new research. Scientists say tidal forces could have kept the subterranean sea liquid for billions of years - enough time for organisms to have developed
WHAT IS ENCELADUS?
Enceladus is Saturn's sixth largest moon, at 313 miles wide (504 kilometers).
Cassini observations have revealed hydrothermal activity, with vents spewing water vapour and ice particles out from a global ocean buried beneath the icy crust.
According to NASA, the plume includes organic compounds, volatile gases, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, salts, and silica.
While it may look 'inhospitable' like Saturn's other moons, the observations suggest it may have the ingredients to support life.
Earlier this year Nasa's spacecraft picked up the first evidence of chemical reactions deep below the frozen crust - suggesting an environment capable of supporting life.
It was one of its final successes before plunging into Saturn's atmosphere at the end of its 12 year expedition to the ringed planet.
The latest study, published in Nature Astronomy, is based on a computer model using Cassini's observations.
These showed Enceladus has a global ocean fed by intense hydrothermal activity beneath the surface.
Its measurements of water escaping from geysers at the south pole showed the sea is salty - and contains organic molecules.
But tidal forces within the ice are not sufficient to sustain this activity.
Without an additional contribution the ocean would freeze in less than 30 million years.
So planetary scientist Dr Gael Choblet and colleagues explored the possibility this additional heating comes from the effect of tidal forces acting on the highly porous core.
They found enough heat would be generated by the resulting hydrothermal activity to keep the ocean liquid for 'tens of millions to billions of years.'
This heat is dissipated mainly at the poles - explaining why the ice shell is thinner there.
The model suggests an ocean has existed within Enceladus for eons - even though the small moon is only 887 million miles away from the sun.
Dr Choblet said: 'What we show is hydrothermal processes probably provide means to have efficient interactions between rocks and hot water in a large volume deep within the moon.
'What had been shown earlier is hydrothermal processes were very likely occurring right now within Enceladus. What we show in our study is the context of this activity.
'We also suggest this activity is relatively stable - for at least tens of millions of years.'
He said the life expectancy of the ocean and - perhaps more importantly - how long the hydrothermal activity has been occurring would be key to the emergence of microbes and other organisms.
The mysterious world has a very fragmented and porous rocky interior, ideal conditions for flowing water with the friction creating 10 gigawatts of heat
Dr Choblet, of Nantes University in France, said: 'Only future missions equipped with instruments capable of analysing the organic molecules in the plume with higher accuracy than the Cassini measurements will tell us whether the required conditions have been sustained long enough for life to have emerged on this distant ocean world.'
He added: 'Projected missions back to Enceladus are currently under consideration - especially in the US.
'If selected these would already enable us to analyse the chemicals emitted though Enceladus plumes with a much better precision than the instruments onboard the Cassini spacecraft could - especially the complex organics.
'With a possible launch in 2024 this means that new, more precise use information could be obtained in the 2030s.'
In October 2015 Nasa sent Cassini into a deep dive through one of the plumes of spray which shoot up into the atmosphere through cracks in the ice, and discovered hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
Scientists are certain they were created by reactions between warm water and rocks on the ocean floor.
Crucially, if hydrogen is present it can mix with carbon dioxide to form methane, which is consumed by microbes in the deep, dark seas of our own planet.
Enceladus is the sixth largest moon of Saturn. It is around 310 miles in diameter and approximately 790 million miles from Earth.
Scientists had long suspected that liquid water could exist on the moon because of the extreme tidal forces acting on the satellite from Saturn's gravity.
The model suggests an ocean has existed within Enceladus for eons - even though the small moon is only 887 million miles away from the sun.
Although scientists previously thought Enceladus' icy crust was around 13 miles thick, Cassini found at the south pole it could be as little as three miles deep.
The distant moon has long been hailed as one of the three best potential locations for finding extra terrestrial life in the solar system.
The others are Mars and Jupiter's satellite Europa. Such a discovery of even primitive microbes would make it almost certain life is widespread throughout the universe.
Dr Choblet said: 'Chemical analyses indicate that the ocean is salty and is fed by ongoing hydrothermal activity.
'Here, we show that more than 10GW of heat can be generated by tidal friction inside the unconsolidated rocky core.
'Water transport in the tidally heated permeable core results in hot narrow upwellings with temperatures exceeding 363K (90 degrees Celsius) characterised by powerful hotspots of 1 to 5 GW at the seafloor, particularly at the south pole.'
'The release of heat in narrow regions favours intense interaction between water and rock, and the transport of hydrothermal products from the core to the plume sources.'
Dr Choblet added: 'We predict that this internal activity can be sustained for tens of millions to billions of years.'
Saturn's moon Enceladus has a warm ocean that's one of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrial life. Now it seems that ocean may stay warm thanks to a quirk in the moon's core.
Because Enceladus is so small, it doesn't have a solid core like Earth's, but rather a porous one. According to a study published today in Nature Astronomy by a team led by the University of Nantes, that core may be the key.
The model suggests an ocean has existed within Enceladus for eons - even though the small
THE FIRE INSIDE
The scientists compiled various observations from the Cassini spacecraft, which studied Saturn and its moons for 13 years before falling into the planet forever this September. When it arrived in the Saturn system in 2004, the Cassini mission saw that Enceladus was shooting geysers out its south pole hundreds of miles into space. Something had to be creating liquid water below, and eventually a consensus built: there is a large liquid ocean on this little moon moon.
This new study say, Enceladus's small size (about 150 miles in diameter) means its core isn't rocky, but sort of mushy. It takes in water from the ocean, and that water comprises up to 20 percent of the core materials. "What we have in mind is not a sponge like porosity, it's more like a pile of sand or gravel," says Gael Choblet of Nantes, coauthor of the paper.
The rest of the core materials may experience radioactive decay and tidal forces to stay hot, which also heats up the water into super-hot jets moving toward the north and south pole. This affects the ice shell and keeps it fairly thin in those regions, which creates a geyser effect at the south pole.
Choblet says there's a preliminary indication of some kind of geologic activity at the moon's north pole, but that it's far less active. Partly, this owes to the thickness at the north pole — it's 7 miles deep, where other areas have a surface layer of ice about 15 to 20 miles above the ocean surface. The south pole, on the other hand, is cracked enough that water seeps through a thin ice layer out into interstellar space. "The motion of the porous floor of the liquid water produces very novel and very hot features at the poles," Choblet says.
Carly Howett, a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute who was not involved with the paper, says this study takes modeling of Enceladus's core to a new level and goes a long way toward explaining the geyser activity.
"The difference between these results and previous models is not that surprising (porous cores would deform more until tidal stresses, and thus are heated more). But the magnitude of the heating is encouraging in explaining the high heat flows we see on the surface," she says. "Some of my work indicated it could be as high as 16 gigawatts across Enceladus' south polar terrain."
HOTSPOTS FOR LIFE
Why does this all matter? On Earth, anywhere there's water, there's life. So if we're searching for aliens big or small, watery worlds are a good place to start, and Enceladus has a ton of it. Cassini evidence shows that the moon may have complex chemistry, including chemicals associated with earthly ocean floor features called hydrothermal vents, where life on our own planet may have started.
"In our view, these hotspots at the base of the ocean would create the vents that thin the ice above," Choblet says. And from there? With all the right ingredients, we might have the best place to find alien life in our own solar system and confirm that life isn't just exclusive to Earth.
Alien Planets Can Reveal Clues to Their Stars' Insides: Here's How
Alien Planets Can Reveal Clues to Their Stars' Insides: Here's How
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
New research used the dimming caused by planets passing in front of their stars to work out the stars' densities.
Credit: NASA
Distant planets tell all: A new analysis uses alien worlds' orbital treks to peek inside their stars.
NASA's ever-watchful Kepler space telescope has identified thousands of exoplanets by noting the tiny brightness dips caused when these worlds "transit," or cross the face of, their host stars. The length between dimmings tells scientists how long the planet takes to orbit — how long its year is — and the level of dimming shows how much smaller the planet is than the star.
"It's really weird that a planet that's orbiting far away from the star can tell us anything about the star's interior — I think that's really bizarre but cool," said Emily Sandford, an astronomer at Columbia University in New York and lead author on the new work.
"Basically, by measuring very precisely the shape of those dimmings, the amount of light that's missing over time when a planet passes in front, you can measure the density of the star the planet's orbiting," she told Space.com.
Using a method first derived by astrophysicsts Sara Seager and Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas in 2003, Sandford and co-author David Kipping, also of Columbia, analyzed data on 66 Kepler stars to determine their densities. Their precision rivalled that of asteroseismology, a technique used on bright stars that uses oscillations in their shine to reconstruct their interior properties. While asteroseismology requires very precise brightness measurements, Sandford said, the new calculation needs less pristine data.
Essentially, the process works because how long a planet spends in front of its star is tied to the star's density. Planets that are far away from their stars spend less time in front of them — imagine a planet right at the star's surface, which would spend half of its orbit in front of it, versus one that is very far away, and only crosses in front for a quick part of its orbit, Sandford said. But at the same time, a planet has to move at a certain speed to maintain a steady orbit based on how massive the star is — if the planet is going too slowly, it will fall into the star, and if it's going too fast, it will fly away.
"We can then use that knowledge of [proportionally] how far the planet is from its star, combined with the duration of the transit, to solve for the stellar density," Sandford said. "If a planet is far away and yet takes a long time to transit, we know that the star must be big, puffy, and low-density; if a planet is close-in and yet transits quickly, we know that the star must be small, compact, and high-density."
In other words, the denser a star is — the more massive it is compared to its radius — the less time the planet spends in front of it.
Treasure trove
While researchers already knew about this relationship between transiting planets and their parent stars' densities, it's only since Kepler's launch in 2009 that more than a handful of transiting planets have been available for analysis, according to Sandford.
"We have this enormous treasure trove of data, and we can start to apply some of these ideas that people thought of way in advance before the data was ready," Sandford said. "That's what we've done here." [How Do You Spot an Alien Planet from Earth? (Infographic)]
This method requires that the researchers know the planet's orbit well, or that they can predict that it's circular. (Circular orbits tend to be common in systems with multiple planets.) It also requires researchers to know the planet's full orbit length — so it must have passed in front of the star more than once.
Once those criteria are established, researchers can use these calculations in two key ways: to determine if a transit is really caused by a planet or if it's a false positive, and to analyze the other planets in a multiplanet system.
That false-positive case was one of the uses Seager had in mind when the equation was first developed, she told Space.com: "If you get the stellar density from the light curve alone, and then if you get the stellar density because you already know something about its mass and size … and if those densities don't match up, the thing you're looking at is not a planet," said Seager, who was not involved in the new study. "It's a blended object; it's a false positive; it's something else."
"All the applications are exciting, whether you want to just measure the densities of the set of stars, or whether you're using it as a kind of comparison tool," she added.
During its primary mission, Kepler looked at the same set of stars for four years, but future exoplanet hunters such as NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), set to launch in 2018, will spend a much shorter time on each part of the sky — just a month or so. In systems with multiple planets, if one orbits quickly enough for researchers to see more than one full orbit, that planet could act as an "anchor" to pin down the star's density, letting researchers learn about the orbits of the other planets, too.
"There's going to be a lot of habitable-zone planets that fall out in that window where their orbital period is longer than a month," Sandford said. "If we only see one transit, if we can't measure the period directly, it might be a very, very faraway planet, in which case it's too cold to have liquid water, or it might fall right in the middle of the habitable zone."
"If we can use our method to constrain the star, and from there to constrain the outer planet's period, that could be really interesting for prioritizing certain planets for follow-up if we know that they're likely to be habitable-zone, potentially the right temperature range for liquid water, type planets," she added.
Know the planet, know the star
According to Vincent Van Eylen, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands who is uninvolved with the study, there's a saying that goes "Know thy star, know thy planet." Often, researchers use what they can glean about stars to identify what their planets might be made of and what the orbits look like.
Van Eylen's own research uses stars' densities and the durations of transits to learn about the planets' orbits — a reversal of Sandford's calculations.
"We don't know enough about stars, and everything we learn about planets somehow is indirect information that's related to stars," Van Eylen said. "In that way, it's kind of a sweet result that they can turn things around and actually learn about the planets, and thereby learn about the stars."
The new work has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal and is available on ArXiv.org.
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Coping with alienation
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Coping with alienation
By Debkumar Mitra
In Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s 1982 science fiction film based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the androids on the run look exactly like their human creators. Humans love to see their image in everything they see around them. From apparitions to aliens, morphologically speaking, they are all humanoids to us. No wonder that in Stephen Spielberg’s 1982 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, the little alien that charmed millions with its bulging sad eyes and long sinewy fingers looked every bit human as one could imagine.
Now, a group of evolutionary biologists claim that in the 200,000-odd worlds that possibly can harbour intelligent life in our galaxy alone, the aliens are more likely to ‘look like’ ‘higher order’ living beings as seen on Earth.
The paper, ‘Darwin’s Aliens’ (goo.gl/JwF3yA), published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, claims that Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution can be used to understand how major transitions may happen on an alien planet harbouring life. The scientists claim that these transitions from single-cell to multicellular organisms are likely to be close to terrestrial Darwinian evolution. According to them, extraterrestrial life will become “more advanced” organisms over time as a result of events known as ‘major transitions’.
The scientists claim that the aliens are likely to be made up of a hierarchy of entities. At every level of the alien organism, there will be mechanisms in placeto maintain cooperation, remove conflict and keep order so that the organismcan function. They have also posited an example of what those likely mechanisms could be, along with the sketch of how a complex, ‘higher order’ alien could look.
The Oxford University paper is a break from past researches in the domain of astrobiology. Past predictions of aliens have been based on what is seen on Earth. Our knowledge of chemistry, geology and physics is frequently used to make these predictions. For instance, the skin tone of humans can make or break our chances of survival. It is advantageous to have dark skin in places where the sun beats down for most parts of the year. In colder climates, human skin sports a lighter hue.
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From these observations, scientists often predict that aliens from cold and dark climates will probably be pale-skinned who would avoid bright light. On the other hand, aliens from warm planets will probably have darker skin. Despite the conclusions along the same vein, the Oxford paper’s predictions are independent of such a mechanistic approach and can be observed on Earth.
Despite its novel theoretical evolutionary approach, the paper’s prediction on how an alien could look will have to border on science fiction. There are many scientists who believe that alien life many not be biological at all.
According to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) astronomer Seth Shostak, the majority of the intelligence in the known universe is probably synthetic intelligence. There are others who claim that alien life could be noncarbonaceous, perhaps based on silicon, and speculate about whether the beings evolve according to the Darwinian plan. One of the major objections to siliconbased life is because of the quality called ‘handedness’ in biomolecules. This characteristic allows molecules to recognise and regulate all biological processes. And silicon doesn’t form many compounds with handedness.
In his book, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould proposed a series of thought experiments designed to probe the contingent nature of life’s history. Each of the experiments involved rewinding the ‘tape of life’ to a different period in the history of animal evolution, and then trying to understand how the story would unfurl — or if evolution takes hold at the point where the tape is stopped to tell the same ‘story’ as we know today.
From these thought experiments, Gould draws a conclusion, “…that early animal extinction patterns were essentially haphazard and counterfactually non-replicable”. He further says that “owing to the path-dependent nature of macroevolution, these early stochastic (random) sampling events dramatically shaped the future history of animal life on the Earth”. For those who believe in Gould’s theory, the Oxford study can lead to other dramatic outcomes than the team speculates.
We would love to know if there are ‘others’ in this universe. It is this sense of cosmological isolation that has given birth to our myths: from gods to Martians. As we know more about the universe and discover more ‘habitable’ worlds, the urge to know more about aliens grows. This latest research adds to the lore of the humanoid alien.
So, as we wait for an answer to Enrico Fermi’s famous query, ‘Where is everybody?’, these efforts will be, at best, informed speculation.
A video showing a US military predator drone tracking down a UFO in Afghanistan has gone viral. The video shows that the unidentified object fires a powerful energy beam to destroy the drone.
Conspiracy theorists claim that the video is leaked government footage. The viral video, which has been viewed more than 194,742 times, shows the predator drone over a mountain range chasing a UFO in the distance in the desert-like landscape.
The mysterious object appears from the right side before disappearing around a corner. When the drone follows it, a quick beam of light appears to attack the drone in an attempt to destroy it.
The video was uploaded on YouTube on October 22 by the username UFO Today. In the description, the YouTuber claims that he got the video from an anonymous source.
"This video was sent to me by an anonymous source, claiming to work for the government. He/she said that this video was just the tip of the iceberg. There seems to be an increase of UFO's interacting with military drones. Some ex-military people told me that this footage seems genuine drone footage, probably recorded in Afghanistan."
The video received mixed reactions from the viewers on the YouTube page. While some have commented saying that the video is a proof of aliens, several other believe it is a hoax and the video is edited.
"And why is it on a military drone such a shit camera? Now on drones with Aliexpress there are cameras 4k 120Hz," a user said.
"Is that real? Why would they allow this to be released? Are they preparing us for the UFO false flag?"
New York State U.S. Senators Charles E Schumer, Kirsten E. Gillibrand Washington, D.C. 20510
New York State Congressional Delegation Lee M. Zeldin, Pete King, Thomas Suozzi, Kathleen M. Rice, Gregory Meeks, Grace Meng, Nydia Velazquez, Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette D. Clarke, Jerrold Nadler, Daniel Donovan, Carolyn Maloney, Adriano Espaillat, Joseph Crowley, Jose E. Serrano, Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey, Sean Patrick Maloney, John Faso, Paul D. Tonko, Elise M. Stefanik, Claudia Tenney, Tom Reed, John M. Katko, Louise Slaughter, Brian D. Higgins, Chris Collins Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear New York State Congressional Representatives:
As a member of Congress you clearly have a grave obligation to help ensure the adequacy and effectiveness of America’s armed forces. It is in that connection I am writing you this open letter today.
On Nov. 14, 2004, numerous aviators and seaman from the USS Nimitz carrier battle group were witness to events that demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt the existence of advanced airborne technologies far superior to anything America presently deploys.
We understand that the events of that day, as described in an online article by former naval aviator Paco Chierci, have since been independently confirmed by two former senior Pentagon officials, Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo, who have spoken directly to some of the pilots involved.
My only request is for you to seek a briefing from the Department of the Navy to ascertain the truth for yourself. This is a matter of great consequence and a small amount of due diligence on your behalf could prove crucial in revealing vital issues that warrant your attention and that of your colleagues and the American people.
Once you are able to confirm the veracity of these events, I trust you will pursue the matter to learn how many other similar events have occurred and what steps need to be taken to inform the American people and take appropriate steps to further reveal the nature of this technology and its origin.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Costa Journalist, Syracuse New Times
Special thanks to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for authoring this letter and making it available to all of us.
All Americans who want the truth about the extremely advanced high performance vehicles that fly in the skies above our cities and homes are encouraged to download the MUFON letter and write to your U.S. senator and local congressional representative.
Making predictions about aliens is not an easy task. Most previous work has focused on extrapolating from empirical observations and mechanistic understanding of physics, chemistry and biology. Another approach is to utilize theory to make predictions that are not tied to details of Earth. Here we show how evolutionary theory can be used to make predictions about aliens. We argue that aliens will undergo natural selection – something that should not be taken for granted but that rests on firm theoretical grounds. Given aliens undergo natural selection we can say something about their evolution. In particular, we can say something about how complexity will arise in space. Complexity has increased on the Earth as a result of a handful of events, known as the major transitions in individuality. Major transitions occur when groups of individuals come together to form a new higher level of the individual, such as when single-celled organisms evolved into multicellular organisms. Both theory and empirical data suggest that extreme conditions are required for major transitions to occur. We suggest that major transitions are likely to be the route to complexity on other planets, and that we should expect them to have been favoured by similarly restrictive conditions. Thus, we can make specific predictions about the biological makeup of complex aliens.
Introduction
There are at least 100 billion planets in our Galaxy alone (Cassan et al.2012), and at least 20% of them are likely to fall in the habitable zone (Petigura et al. 2013), the region of space capable of producing a biosphere. Even if 0.001% of those planets evolved life, that would mean 200 000 life-harbouring planets in our Galaxy; and it would only take one alien life form for our conception of the Universe to change dramatically. It is no wonder, then, that hundreds of millions of dollars have recently been invested in astrobiology research (Schneider 2016), the USA and Europe have rapidly growing astrobiology initiatives (Des Marais et al. 2008; Horneck et al.2016), and myriad new work has been done to try and predict what aliens will be like (Benner 2003; Davies et al.2009; Rothschild 2009; Rothschild 2010; Shostak 2015). The challenge, however, is that when trying to predict the nature of aliens, we have only one sample – Earth – from which to extrapolate. As a result, making these predictions is hard.
So far, the main approach to making predictions about extra-terrestrial life has been relatively mechanistic (Domagal-Goldman et al.2016). We have used observations about how things have happened on the Earth to make statistical statements about how likely they are to have happened elsewhere. For example, certain traits have evolved many times on the Earth, and so we posit that extraterrestrial life forms will converge on the same earthly mechanisms. Because eye-like organs have evolved at least 40 times (von Salvini-Plawen & Mayr 1977), and are relatively ubiquitous, we predict that they would evolve on other planets, too (Conway Morris 2003; Flores Martinez 2014). Similarly, we have used a mechanistic understanding of chemistry and physics to make predictions about what is most probable on other planets. For example, carbon is abundant in the Universe, chemically versatile, and found in the interstellar medium, so alien life forms are likely to be carbon-based (Cohen & Stewart 2001). These kinds of predictions come from a mixture of mechanistic understanding and extrapolating from what has happened on the Earth. There is no theoretical reason why aliens could not be silicon-based and eyeless.
An alternative approach is to use theory. When making predictions about life on other planets, a natural theory to use would be evolutionary theory. Evolutionary theory has been used to explain a wide range of features of life on the Earth, from behaviour to morphology. For example, it has allowed us to predict when some organisms, especially insects, should manipulate the sex of their offspring, to produce an excess of sons or daughters, how some birds should forage for food, and why males tend to be larger than females (Darwin 1871; Clutton-Brock & Harvey 1977; Davies & Houston 1981; West 2009; Davies et al.2012). If life arises on other planets, then the evolutionary theory should be able to make similar predictions about it. Neither approach – theoretical or mechanistic – is more or less valid than the other. But each has different advantages and can be used to make different sorts of predictions.
Here, we examine how theoretical and mechanistic approaches can be combined to better understand what to expect from alien life. We consider whether aliens will undergo natural selection, and what implications would follow if they do. That aliens undergo natural selection is something often taken for granted, but which needs justification on firm theoretical grounds. We then turn our attention to a specific subset of aliens: complex ones. We examine how complexity has arisen on the Earth, and make predictions about how complexity would arise elsewhere in the Universe. Finally, we describe some biological features we would expect to find in complex extraterrestrial life.
Natural selection
On Earth
Darwin (1859) showed that just a few simple features of life on Earth lead to evolutionary change via natural selection. Individual organisms differ in how they look and act – there is natural variation. These differences are heritable – offspring tend to look and act like their parents. These heritable differences are linked to differential success – some individuals, as a result of how they are made or behave, leave more offspring than others. These three features, with heritable variation leading to differential success, result in natural selection (Darwin 1859; Fisher 1930). Any traits or behaviours linked to the greater production of offspring (higher fitness or success) will build up in the population over time. As the environment changes, different traits lead to higher success. This leads to changes in the population or evolutionary change.
Thus, the ingredients required for natural selection are incredibly simple. Given a collection of entities (a population) that has: (1) heredity; (2) variation; and (3) differential success linked to variation, then natural selection will follow. The entities that are more successful will become more prevalent in the population, as a result of being ‘selected’. Natural selection does not depend on a specific genetic system (Darwin knew nothing of modern genetics) or a specific genetic material, elemental makeup or planet-type. Given that 1, 2 and 3 exist, natural selection occurs (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Natural selection. Natural Selection operates if three conditions are satisfied: variation, differential success linked to variation and heredity. Here, we illustrate with an example: the evolution of long necks in giraffes. (i) Initially, there are natural variations in giraffes’ neck lengths. (ii) Longer-necked giraffes have access to more food, high up in the trees and so live longer to have more offspring. (iii) Giraffes’ offspring resemble their parents. As a result of (i), (ii) and (iii), the population gradually shifts to be dominated by long-necked giraffes.
Natural selection not only explains evolutionary change, it also explains adaptation. When we look around at the natural world, we cannot help but see what looks like design: a giraffe's neck is for reaching high up leaves, a stick insect's body for camouflage, a tree's leaf for photosynthesizing. Organisms look designed or ‘adapted’ for the world in which they live. Through the gradual selection of small improvements, traits associated with success in the environment accrue in the population. Consequently, over time, natural selection will lead to organisms that appear as if they were designed for success in the environment. The clause ‘as if’ is key here – natural selection leads to the appearance of design (adaptation), without a designer (Grafen 2003; Gardner 2009).
In fact, natural selection is the only explanation we have for the appearance of design without a designer (Gardner 2009). Other processes can cause evolutionary change. For example, a mutation can cause a change from one generation to the next. But, without natural selection, random mutation is incredibly unlikely to produce the complex traits that we see around us, like limbs or eyes. Things that appear purposeful, such as limbs, organs and cells, require the gradual selection of improvements.
Another way to say this is that natural selection is unique because it is a directional force. The entities that increase in representation in the population are a specific subset of the population – those that are better at replicating. Natural selection increases fitness (Fisher 1930). As a result of these ‘successful’ entities accruing in the population, over time entities become adapted for the apparent purpose of success. They look like ‘well-designed’ machines, with the ‘purpose’ of their ‘design’ being successful replication.
In space
Natural selection is the only way we know to get the kinds of life forms we are familiar with, from viruses to trees. By familiar, we are not restricting ourselves to life forms that look earthly. Instead, they are familiarly life-like in the sense that they stand out from the background of rocks and gases because they appear to be busy trying to replicate themselves. A simple replicator could arise on another planet. But without natural selection, it won't acquire apparently purposeful traits like metabolism, movement or senses. It won't be able to adapt to its environment, and in the process, become a more complex, noticeable and interesting thing.
We can ask, then, will aliens undergo natural selection? Evolutionary theory tells us that, for all but the most transient and simple molecules, the answer is yes. Without a designer, the only way to get something with the apparent purpose of replicating itself (something like a cell or a virus), is through natural selection. Consequently, if we are able to notice it as life, then it will have undergone natural selection (or have been designed by something that itself underwent natural selection).
It is easy to quibble about the definition of life, and as some authors have pointed out, trying to do so can reveal more about human language than about the external world (Cleland & Chyba 2002). Our goal here is not to thoroughly define life. We adopt a functional stance – what separates life from non-life is its apparent purposiveness, leading to tasks such as replication and metabolism (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry 1995). Further, without natural selection, entities cannot adapt to their environment, and are therefore transient and will not be discovered. If we identified an extra-terrestrial entity that we deemed to be a foreign life form, but that had no degree of adaptedness, this prediction would not hold.
Picture an alien (Fig. 2). If what you are picturing is a simple replicating molecule, then this ‘alien’ might not undergo natural selection (Fig. 2a). For example, it could replicate itself perfectly every time, and thus there would be no variation, and it would never improve. Or it might have such a high error rate in replication that it quickly deteriorates. If we count things like that as life, then there could be aliens that do not undergo natural selection. But if you are picturing anything more complex or purposefulthan a simple molecule, then the alien you are picturing has undergone natural selection (Fig. 2b). This is the kind of prediction that theory can make. Given heredity, variation and differential success, aliens will undergo natural selection. Or, more interestingly, without those three things, aliens could not be more complicated than a replicating molecule. Given an adapted alien, one with an appearance of design or purpose, it will have undergone natural selection.
Fig. 2. Picture an alien. These illustrations represent different levels of adaptive complexity we might imagine when thinking about aliens. (a) A simple replicating molecule, with no apparent design. This may or may not undergo natural selection. (b) An incredibly simple, cell-like entity. Even something this simple has sufficient contrivance of parts that it must undergo natural selection. (c) An alien with many intricate parts working together is likely to have undergone major transitions.
Complexity
What is complexity?
We have established that aliens will undergo natural selection. It also seems reasonable that, given the sliding scale from replicating molecules to large creatures with many ‘body parts’, and beyond, some alien discoveries would be more interesting than others. In particular, the more complex the aliens we find, the more interesting and exciting they will be, irrespective of whether they appear anything like the life forms on the Earth. Something similar to a colony of Ewoks from Star Wars or the Octomite in Fig. 4 would likely be more interesting than a simple chemical replicator.
Complexity is difficult to define, and there is certainly no hard and fast rule about what is and is not complex. In biology, it is common to define complexity in terms of functional parts. Things with more parts taking on more tasks and containing more functional interactions are more complex (Maynard Smith & Szathmary 1995; Corning & Szathmáry 2015). A tree is more complex than a virus, and a beehive is more complex than a protein. Importantly, with organisms as with machines, the parts need to be working towards a common purpose, such as assembling a car or surviving to reproduce. Again, our goal here is not to provide definitions. The challenge comes at the boundaries, for example between a virus and a cell, where the definitions become murky. In the following sections, we are not focusing on the boundaries, but things, like the vast majority of life on the Earth, which clearly have a multitude of parts working in concert. Astrobiology is a largely empirical field, and the kinds of things programs like SETI are searching for are undeniably complex.
Complexity on Earth
What do we know about how complexity arises on the Earth? The theory of natural selection itself is silent about whethercomplexity will arise. The theory is useful for making predictions about what kinds of conditions or environments will lead to what kinds of evolutionary adaptations – not for making long-term predictions about the form of specific traits or creatures. However, recent advances in the field of evolutionary biology have shed light on how complexity has arisen on the Earth, on what points on the tree of life this has happened, and on what theoretical conditions favour it (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry 1995; Queller 1997; Bourke 2011; West et al.2015).
In particular, the evolution of complex life on the Earth appears to have depended upon a small number of what have been termed major evolutionary transitions in individuality. In each transition, a group of individuals that could previously replicate independently cooperate to form a new, more complex life form or higher level organism. For example, genes cooperated to form genomes, different single-celled organisms formed the eukaryotic cell, cells cooperated to form multicellular organisms, and multicellular organisms formed eusocial societies (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry 1995; Queller 1997; Bourke 2011; West et al.2015).
Major transitions
Major transitions on the Earth
Major evolutionary transitions are defined by two features. First, entities that were capable of replication before the transition can replicate only as part of a larger unit after it (interdependence). For example, the cells in our bodies cannot evolve back into single-celled organisms. Second, there is a relative lack of conflict within the larger unit, such that it can be thought of as an organism (individual) in its own right (Queller & Strassmann 2009; West et al.2015). For example, it is common to think of a single bird as an individual, and not as a huge community of cells each doing their own thing.
Major transitions are important because the new higher-level organisms that they produce can lead to a great jump in complexity. For example, the evolution of multicellularity involved a transition from an entity with one part (the single-celled organism) working for the success of itself, to an entity with many parts (the multicellular organism), working for the success of the whole group. The cells can now have very different functions (a division of labour), as each is just a component of a multicellular machine, sacrificing itself for the good of the group, to get a sperm or egg cell into the next generation. As a result, diverse specialized forms such as eyes, kidneys, and brains were able to develop. The rise in complexity on Earth has been mediated by a handful of such jumps, when units with different goals (genes, single cells, individual insects) became intricately linked collectives with a single common goal (genomes, multicellular organisms, eusocial societies). Increases in complexity can also occur through mutations, gene duplications, or even whole genome duplications, but these are not major transitions. These other changes tend to be reversible and gradual, while major transitions are irreversible and cause large leaps in complexity.
The identification of major evolutionary transitions was an empirical observation about how complexity has increased on earth (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry 1995). The next step was to use evolutionary theory to provide insight about when (or under what conditions) we can expect major transitions to occur (Maynard Smith & Szathmáry 1995; Queller 1997; Gardner & Grafen 2009; Bourke 2011; West et al. 2015). Major transitions involve the original entities completely subjugating their own interests for the interests of the new collective. This represents an incredibly extreme form of cooperation. Think of the skin or liver cells in your body sacrificing for your sperm or eggs, or the worker ants in a eusocial colony sacrificing for the queen. Evolutionary theory tells us what conditions lead to such extraordinary cooperation.
What conditions drive major transitions?
Consider a multicellular organism, such as yourself. Why don't your hand and heart cells try to reproduce themselves, as opposed to helping your sperm or egg cells? The answer involves genetic similarity or ‘relatedness’ (Hamilton 1964). Your hand cells contain the same genes as your sperm cells because they are clonal copies. A hand cell could in principle get the same fraction of its genes into the next generation (all of them) by either copying itself, or by helping copy the sperm cells. A similar phenomenon occurs in eusocial insects, such as some ants, bees, wasps and termites. A worker termite can pass on half her genes to her offspring. But a random sibling in the colony (her brother or sister) also contains, on average, half her genes. Thus, a worker can get the same fraction of gene copies into the next generation by reproducing or by helping her mother, the queen, to reproduce (Hamilton 1964; Boomsma 2009). Helping their mother is likely to be more efficient than reproducing on their own, and so our termite can better get their genes into the next generation by helping rather than reproducing (Hamilton 1964; Queller & Strassmann 1998; Bourke 2011).
These are two examples of alignment of interests. The ‘interests’ are evolutionary interests in getting genes into future generations. The hand and the sperm cells both act as if they ‘want’ to get copies of their genes into the next generation, because as we discussed above, natural selection will have led to them being adapted in this way (Grafen 2003; Gardner 2009). The interests between them are aligned because they share the same genes. When individuals share genes, we say that they are genetically related. Relatedness is a statistical measure of the extent to which individuals share genes (Grafen 1985).
In the case of eusocial ant colonies and human bodies, the interests are aligned through genetic relatedness. But there are other ways for evolutionary interests to be aligned. Consider, for example, a mutualism between two species. Some aphids carry bacteria in their gut (Moran 2007). The aphids provide the bacteria with sugars and other nutrients to survive and the bacteria provide the aphids with vital amino acids missing from their diet. The aphid and the bacteria do not share the same genes, but neither can reproduce without the other. To reproduce itself, the aphid has to help reproduce the bacteria and vice versa. Again, their evolutionary interests are aligned.
The very cells that make up our bodies – known as eukaryotic cells – evolved through a similar kind of alignment of interests (Margulis 1970; Thiergart et al.2012; Archibald 2015). Early in the evolution of life, one bacterial species engulfed another. Over time, the two species took on different roles, with one specializing in replication and the other in energy production. The nucleus of our cells is the descendant of the former, and the mitochondria the latter. Neither can reproduce without the other. Their interests are aligned through reproductive dependence on each other.
All cooperation in nature requires alignment of interests (West et al.2007). Consider, for example, flower pollination by bees. The bee benefits by receiving food from the flower, and the flower benefits by being pollinated. But major transitions are a particularly extreme form of cooperation. Compare the pollination scenario to the cells within the flower or the bee. Major transitions involve organisms cooperating so completely that they give up their status as individuals, becoming parts of a whole (Queller & Strassmann 2009). Unsurprisingly, then, major transitions require the extreme condition of effectively complete or perfect alignment of interests (Gardner & Grafen 2009; West et al. 2015).
It is also useful to consider the biology of organisms that do not have interests sufficiently aligned, and thus where conflict remains and major transitions have not occurred. For example, in single-celled organisms, we can compare non-clonal cooperative groups of things like slime moulds with clonal groups such as those that make up multicellular organisms such as humans and trees. These non-clonal groups have evolved only relatively limited division of labour, and never complex multicellular organisms (Fisher et al.2013). Numerous experimental studies have shown that this is because in non-clonal groups non-cooperative ‘cheats’ can spread, limiting the extent of cooperation (Griffin et al.2004; Diggle et al.2007; Kuzdzal-Fick et al.2011; Rumbaugh et al.2012; Pollitt et al.2014; Popat et al.2015; Inglis et al.2017).
Thus, there must be something in place to maintain the alignment of interests (Bourke 2011; West et al.2015). Evolutionary theory can suggest what these somethings would have to be. In multicellular organisms, the something is the single-celled bottleneck (Buss 1987; Queller 2000). Multicellular organisms start each new generation as a single-celled zygote, such that all the cells in the resulting body are clonal (it could also be a spore giving rise to a haploid cell). Eusocial insect colonies evolved from colonies founded by a singly mated queen (Boomsma 2007, 2009, 2013; Hughes et al.2008). If the queen had multiple mating partners, a worker would have half-sisters, and be less related to her siblings than her offspring, breaking down the alignment. The monogamous mating pair is the eusocial colony's equivalent of a zygote or a bottlenecking event (Boomsma 2013). With unrelated units, like mitochondria and the nucleus, the individual parts must be co-dependent for joint reproduction (Foster & Wenseleers 2006; West et al.2015) – which can be thought of as a different form of bottleneck. The rarity of conditions like these – conditions under which alignment is so complete – explains the rarity of major transitions in individuality in the history of life.
Biology of organisms that have undergone major transitions
Do the conditions required for major transitions tell us anything about the biology of organisms that have undergone major transitions? Yes. Organisms are a nested hierarchy, where each nested level is the vestige of a former individual (Fig. 3). Eusocial ant colonies function as a single individual, but are made up of multicellular organisms. Those organisms themselves are made up of cells. In turn, those cells resulted from the fusion of two simple species early in evolution. Each of those organisms had a genome that evolved from the union of the individual, replicating molecules.
Fig. 3. Major Transitions. Life started with naked replicating molecules, and has since undergone a series of major transitions. Arrows show the occurrence of major transitions in individuality. Dotted arrows represent transitions between dislike things and solid lines represent transitions between like things. Callouts show examples of the present-day organisms that have undergone that transition but no further ones. (a) As we have not yet identified the earliest replicators, Spiegelman's monster, a simple replicating RNA molecule, is shown as an example candidate. (b) A single-celled bacteria, such as Escherichia coli. (c) A single-celled eukaryote, like Blepharisma japonicum. (d) A multicellular organism, like frogs. (e) An obligate eusocial colony, such as honeybees. (f) Secondary endosymbiosis events, such as the origin of the chloroplast. (g) Further endosymbiosis events, such as those leading to Dinoflagellates. (h) Obligate interspecific mutualisms, such as between aphids and buchnera bacteria. (i) Obligate mutualisms between a multicellular organism and eusocial colony, such as between leaf-cutter ants and fungi. All images courtesy of Wikipedia.
Further, at each level of the hierarchy, there must be something to align the interests of the parts. This usually happens through some form of population bottlenecking. When the parts are related, it is a relatedness bottleneck, such as the single-celled stage in multicellular organisms, or the singly mated female in the social insects (Boomsma 2009, 2013; West et al.2015). When the parts are unrelated, it is usually another form of a bottleneck, such as enforced vertical transmission with joint reproduction (Foster & Wenseleers 2006; West et al.2015). We use the term ‘bottleneck’ to refer to new generations being founded by a strict unit (the zygote, the mutualist pair, etc.), but another way to think of this is that the parts require each other for reproduction (e.g. the soma and the germ line, or the mitochondria and the nucleus). Other, further aligners may be required (e.g. in multicellular organisms, there may need to be a cap on somatic mutations), but these are more likely to be life-form specific.
To conclude so far, empirical observation tells us that complexity has increased on earth through major transitions. Evolutionary theory tells us that for major transitions to occur, the conflict must be eliminated. The theory also tells us what conditions lead to the elimination of conflict. The empirical data agree with the predictions of the theory, in that major transitions have only occurred in the extreme conditions that effectively remove conflict (Boomsma 2007; Hughes et al.2008; Fisher et al.2013; West et al. 2015; Fisher et al.2017).
Complex aliens
Complexity and major transitions in space
We can now ask: what does the major evolutionary transition approach tell us about aliens? Will extraterrestrial life undergo major transitions? Not necessarily. Natural selection cannot predict a specific course of evolution. However, as we have said, we might be particularly interested in complex aliens. Complexity requires different parts or units working together towards a common goal or purpose. Under natural selection, units are selected to be selfish, striving to replicate themselves at the expense of others. Theory tells us that for units to unite under a common purpose, the evolutionary conflict between them must effectively eliminate (Gardner & Grafen 2009; West et al. 2015).
Once again, picture an alien (Fig. 2). If you are picturing something like unlinked replicating molecules or undifferentiated blobs of slime, then your aliens might not have undergone major transitions. But if what you are picturing has different parts with specialized functions, then your alien is likely to have undergone major transitions (Fig. 2c). What matters is not that we call them ‘major transitions’, but rather that complexity requires multiple parts of an organism striving to the same purpose, and that theory predicts that this requires restrictive conditions (Gardner & Grafen 2009; West et al. 2015). Consequently, if we find complex organisms, we can make predictions about what they will be like.
Are there other ways to get complexity? To do so, natural selection would have to sculpt separate parts with unique functions out of a single replicator. Could, for example, the alien equivalent of a single copy of a gene, housed in one ‘cell’ generate the equivalent of limbs and organs? If so, it would disprove our prediction. However, both empirical (major transitions are how complexity has increased on Earth) and theoretical (functional parts requires the elimination of conflict) evidence support the argument that complex aliens will have undergone major transitions.
The biology of complex aliens
Given that complex aliens will have undergone major transitions, we can make a number of predictions about their biology (Fig. 4).
They will be entities that are made up of smaller entities – a nested hierarchy of individuality with as many levels as completed transitions. This could mean a collection of replicators, like the first genomes on the Earth, or some hideously complex nesting of groups on a planet where many more transitions have occurred than on our own. For example, you might imagine a ‘society of societies’, where many different social colonies collaborate, with each society specializing on different tasks, such that they are completely dependent on each other. Versions of the simpler entities are likely to be found free-living on the planet as well.
Whatever the number of transitions, there will be something that aligns interests, or eliminates conflict within the entities, at the level of each transition.
Theory suggests that some sort of population bottlenecking will be key to aligning interests. Bottlenecking is not necessarily the only way to eliminate conflict, but it is probably the easiest evolutionary route to take. In particular, it does not require additional mechanisms of enforcement, such as kin discrimination, policing or randomization. The specific kinds of bottlenecking will depend on whether like or dislike units are united.
When like entities come together, interests can be aligned through a bottleneck similar to our single-celled bottleneck in multicellular organisms or the single mating pair in eusocial colonies, which maximizes relatedness between entities.
If the organisms are made up different types of entities, we can expect something similar to the bottleneck that forces mitochondria and nuclei to pass to the next generation together, with joint reproduction. By trapping individuals together over evolutionary time, their interests become aligned.
Some aliens, like us, may contain both types of conflict reduction, for having both like and dislike types joined within them.
Fig. 4. Major transitions in space: ‘The Octomite’. A complex alien that comprises a hierarchy of entities, where each lower-level collection of entities has aligned evolutionary interests such that conflict is effectively eliminated. These entities engage in a division of labour, with various parts specializing on various tasks, such that the parts are mutually dependent.
Conclusion
When using evolutionary theory to make predictions about extraterrestrial life, it is important to avoid circularity. Our chain of argument is: (1) Extraterrestrial life will have undergone natural selection. (2) Knowing that aliens undergo natural selection, we can make further predictions about their biology, based on the theory of natural selection. In particular, we can say something about complex aliens – that they will likely have undergone major transitions. (3) Theory tells us that restrictive conditions, which eliminate conflict, are required for major transitions. (4) Consequently, complex aliens will be composed of a nested hierarchy of entities, with the conditions required to eliminate conflict at each of those levels.
When making predictions about aliens, we must take advantage of our entire scientific toolkit. Mechanistic understanding is a good way to extrapolate from what we see on Earth. The theory is a good way to make predictions that are independent of the details of the Earth. Combining both approaches is the best way to make predictions about the many hundreds, thousands or millions of hypothetical aliens. Now we just need to find them.
Acknowledgements
We thank The Clarendon Fund, Hertford College, and the Natural Environment Research Council for funding; and Magdalen College for emergency housing.
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TWO BROTHERS PHOTOGRAPH ASTONISHING UFO OVER CITY HALL IN 1937
TWO BROTHERS PHOTOGRAPH ASTONISHING UFO OVER CITY HALL IN 1937
An amazing UFO sighting caught on camera in 1937.
While many people are aware that the UFO phenomenon has been going on for many centuries, perhaps even thousands of years, most people tend to think of photographic evidence of bizarre anomalies in the sky that may point towards extra-terrestrial visitors as a purely modern craze. However, these fascinating photographs prove that this is not the case.
At Christmastime 1937, Leonard Lamoureaux was a twenty-one-year-old soldier on leave from the battlefields of the Second World War. He visited Vancouver City Hall on his well-earned break with his brother Wilfred and decided to take a few pictures of the dazzling Christmas light display.
When the two brothers found a good spot to take photographs, they suddenly saw what they described as a ‘bright blue light’ breaking through the sky. The object became larger and larger as it moved towards them at speed. Once it reached the peak of the city hall, it began to move slowly and in a horizontal method across the sky. Leonard quickly reached for his camera and captured an image of the amazing sight.
She provided additional details regarding this UFO encounter, all the information originating from her father’s tales and analysis of the event:
" The camera was on a tri-pod of sorts because Dad was trying to take sequential shots of the courthouse to capture all the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure, his camera was not sophisticated enough. He did say that he could actually see the bubble or tail as he called it that the object was encapsulated in."
After they took the picture, the brothers claim that the strange object disappeared rapidly and silently. They were completely stricken by the event and had no idea what it could have possibly been.
The brothers passed away quite some time ago, but the images of their notorious sighting have lived on through Leonard’s daughter Debra DeCamillis who still has the photographs and the memory of what her father told her about his astonishing sighting.
Unfortunately, the negative of the image has been lost at some point over the years. This has led to some people claiming that the bizarre picture is nothing more than a watermark defect caused during the print development process. However, Debra says that this is simply not the case as her father was very vocal about what he had seen with his own eyes on the day that the photograph was taken.
RESEMBLANCE TO UNUSUAL FRESCO PRODUCED IN 1350
The photograph is incredibly interesting in and of itself, but it has also raised excitement in UFO research circles for another reason. Some people have noticed that the object captured in this particular photograph bears a striking resemblance to this deeply unusual fresco produced in 1350.
Could there be some connection between these two historical images?
The death of an American Air Force pilot attached to the RAF was not the result of a UFO encounter but a "tragic" accident, according to today's Ministry of Defence files.
A headline from an article on the UFO theories
Captain William Schaffner's fatal crash into the North Sea on September 8, 1970, made headlines more than 20 years later over claims he was on an secret operation to intercept UFOs.
Reports emerged in 1992 that the 28-year-old USAF pilot, stationed at RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire, disappeared after approaching a conical shape with a bright bluish light off the east coast.
The story has prompted much discussion and attracted conspiracy theories
The Grimsby Evening Telegraph published a transcript of what, according to an anonymous source, was the final conversation between radar control at Staxton Wold and the pilot, who reportedly described seeing the shape, followed by something "like a large soccer ball ... made of glass".
"It's like bobbing up and down and going from side to side slowly," he was quoted as saying, before ditching his aircraft.
Searches failed to find any trace of his Lightning plane until the wreckage was discovered weeks later, with no sign of its pilot.
But the RAF accident report showed the crash occurred when Captain Schaffner accidentally flew into the sea while on an exercise to practise shadowing low-flying targets at night.
Officials decided that while carrying out the difficult task of fixing on his target, the captain failed to monitor how low his own aircraft was and "inadvertently" flew it into the water.
When the ejection seat mechanism failed, he drowned during or after making his escape from the aircraft, they concluded.
An MoD official wrote of the report: "There is no indication of any 'unidentified aircraft' having been encountered, and no reason to suggest that there is any sort of UFO incident in any way connected with the tragic crash."
Another noted that any response from the RAF would be likely to be interpreted by alien enthusiasts who had seized on the suggestion of a mystery as evidence of further "sinister doings".
A newspaper cutting from the Grimsby Evening Telegraph reporting the disappearance
UFO expert Dr David Clarke described the supposed transcript of the pilot's final words, which had fuelled the speculation, as a "clever fake".
He said of the person who leaked the story: "I think it was somebody who was in the RAF, reading between the lines, and for reasons known only to himself decided to concoct this cock-and-bull story.
"I don't understand what it was supposed to achieve.
"All it's done is caused a lot of heartbreak for the surviving sons of Captain Schaffner, who thought they had been lied to."
A BBC Inside Out programme in 2002 also debunked the idea of any bizarre encounter being behind the death.
Reports from military sources claimed there had been unidentified objects across Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe, Hull, the Humber, all the way up the coast to Flamborough at the time
It's a story which continues to attract attention, conspiracy theories and intrigue.
The downing of fighter jet XS894, piloted by American Captain William Shaffner on a September evening in1970, has been officially documented as a tragic accident.
But reports of bizarre flying transparent spheres, unusual blips on the radar and the fact the aircraft was discovered with its cockpit empty and canopy shut fast has left the story open to discussion.
On the night of September 8 1970, Captain William Schaffner, an American pilot based at RAF Binbrook took off from the flight-line out into the skies over Grimsby and headed across the Humber, and out over the North Sea, heading to Flamborough. Shortly after 10.30pm his plane ditched into the North Sea, five miles south of Flamborough Head.
An air and sea search and rescue operation was launched but it would take a further four days for the joint American and British operation to cease their search.
During this period local newspapers from Grimsby, Hull and Bridlington were relaying information to the public but it was fruitless when it was revealed that the pilot had been lost.
A newspaper cutting from the Grimsby Evening Telegraph reporting the disappearance
On October 7 1970, it was revealed that the plane had been found when navy divers sailed to Flamborough onboard the HMS Kedleston but their search still did not provide answers and they returned empty handed.
The body of Captain William Schaffner was still missing and the plane remained on the sea bed.
It would take until December 1970 for the submerged plane to be brought to the surface but to everyone’s surprise the canopy over the cockpit was closed and the cockpit was empty.
The American pilot had vanished and immediately rumours began to circulate.
On Thursday, October 8 1992, the story resurfaced with a new look at the incident, which was now being described as The Riddle of Foxtrot 94, when the Grimsby Telegraph began publishing a series of articles written by Pat Otter.
Mr Otter claimed that new evidence had surfaced and the real reason behind the downing and disappearance of the pilot had a cause which was out of this world.
Mr Otter claimed the new evidence pointed to the involvement of UFOs over the region.
The story has prompted much discussion and attracted conspiracy theories
He went on to cite unnamed military sources, claiming they had seen unidentified objects across Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe, Hull, the Humber, all the way up the coast to Flamborough and beyond.
Captain William Schaffner during this period was on Quick Reaction Alert duty and was dispatched to investigate the blips on radar.
Days later, on Saturday, October 10 1992, a follow up report followed, stating the pilot had reported seeing a flying cone and a transparent sphere that flew around his Lightening aircraft, causing his equipment to malfunction.
It went on to claim the UFO flew much faster and out manoeuvred his plane.
The American air force, stationed in Britain at the height of the Cold War, ordered their nuclear planes to take off and join the search.
The story continued to attract attention and on Tuesday, October 13 1992, a follow up report followed, stating that all investigations into the crash had reached a brick wall. It alleged the real reason behind the crash was being covered up in a whitewash.
The story dropped off the radar, albeit for a few reports made by UFO investigators, such as Tony Dodd, who wrote about the incident in one of his books, and Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, who reported the incident in one of his Ghost Stations books.
Then in July 1994, the Grimsby Telegraph featured an article about the mass of alleged UFO sightings which had taken place over the region in 1970.
It claimed that UFOs had been sighted over Grimsby, especially over the docks, up the Humber, over Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, across at Hull, and up the coast.
A headline from an article on the UFO theories
One of the sightings took place over Cleethorpes Pier, and it is claimed that a top secret Anglo-American operation - Operation Aeneid- was launched in an attempt to track, photograph, and ascertain what had happened.
Throughout August 1994, numerous articles appeared in the Grimsby Telegraph about these sightings, with headlines claiming radar operators had been called in to view the craft.
There were reports the unidentified craft had surrounded a fleet of Phantom jets and that a cat and mouse chase resulted in the death of Captain William Schaffner.
The story was so big it made its way across the Humber and appeared in a series of double page spreads in the Hull Daily Mail.
A transcript was published to reveal what was said between the control rooms and the Lightning aircraft piloted by Schaffner.
Nick Pope, former Ministry of Defence employee on Sec(As)2A desk, which dealt with UFO sightings, wrote about it in one of his books.
The XS894 aircraft was on its last sortie - Foxtrot 94 - when disaster struck
Other eyewitnesses told their stories, including a team at RAF Binbrook who said it was their job to investigate the crash but claimed they were stalled and that various instruments had vanished.
One of two audio transcriptions taken from that night revealed the pilot had described these strange craft.
It seemed like the case would remain a mystery but several things happened that would change the course of the story.
In 2002, Captain William Schaffner’s sons, Mike and Glenn, launched an attempt to see the official files.
Eventually the files were declassified and they showed that the incident was an unfortunate accident with a plausible explanation, even going so far as to suggest that the cockpit canopy was closed because the hydraulic fluid compresses when it gets cold, as it would on the floor of the North Sea.
Newspaper cuttings about the incident in 1970 and, left, the fighter jet XS894.
Another breakthrough in the case followed in recent years when the National Archives declassified hundreds of files containing thousands of pages. Across these are a number of interesting files, including Defe-24-2039-1-1 and Defe-24-2027-1-1, both of which contain numerous pages on the incident.
These files, whilst held in the National Archives UFO files, appear to show that the incident was a tragic accident which claimed the life of Captain William Schaffner.
Whatever side of the story you believe, the mystery continues to attract attention, theories, and counter theories.
Could it be that a fleet of UFOs flying over Grimsby followed a pilot flying from the region and downed his plane in the North Sea, or was this all just a tragic accident?
IT’S A FALLISH day in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia, the rural home of Green Bank Observatory and the world’s largest fully steerable telescope. Rippled clouds hang low over the site’s hulking 100-meter radio dish, itself undergirded and overhung by bright white scaffolding. The browning leaves are nearly gone. And the visitor center director, Sherry McCarty, has agreed to give me the astronomy center’s new SETI tour ($40, reservations required).
McCarty leads us toward a Jeep Liberty—diesel, so spark plugs won’t create radio waves that interfere with the telescope’s observations—and hands me a hard hat. Learning about the history of alien hunting is risky business, after all. Soon, we’re driving toward the US GOVERNMENT PRIVATE PROPERTY gate, beyond which radio-blasting cell phones are totally, 100 percent prohibited. I check my back pocket to make sure I left my phone behind.
Highlighting SETI history is kind of a departure for Green Bank, which has tried, if not to distance itself from extraterrestrial excitation, then to emphasize its work in more traditional radio astronomy: gas clouds, galaxies, supernova remnants, black holes, and other staid stuff.
When I taught students here between 2010 and 2012, I sometimes led the regular site tours. People would often ask me, “So … have you found aliens yet?” Each time, I’d let out a silent scream. Of course that would have come first in my spiel and also in all other conversations ever—and besides, the observatory didn’t even really do SETI work at the time. Like me, most comms people at the observatory spoke of SETI as more of a comma than an exclamation point in Green Bank’s history.
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But that changed—quickly, dramatically—in 2016, when the billionaire-backed Breakthrough Listen project bought a bunch of time on the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope. Now, a significant fraction of the observatory’s funding and sky-scanning time do go toward looking for extraterrestrial intelligence. “That was the reason for the tour,” says McCarty. “We could finally say we were looking.”
Of course, that means Green Bank has to abandon some astronomical objects of interest—in favor of alien-hunting.
Most of Green Bank’s science projects have, historically, happened through a kind of democratic process. Under a National Science Foundation policy called “open skies,”anyone can submit a proposal outlining what they’d like to do with the flagship telescope. A committee ranks those ideas according to scientific merit, doling out telescope time starting at the top of the list.
But in 2012, the NSF began to talk about “divesting” itselffrom Green Bank, and spending its money instead on newer telescopes. With an ever-decreasing budget from the NSF—down to 60 percent of operating costs in 2017, and just 30 percent in 2018—the observatory needed alternative funding. So when entrepreneur Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen came to town with millions of dollars and 10-year backing, Green Bank bit (according to investigations of the Paradise Papers, first released Sunday, Kremlin money helped back Milner's lucrative investments in Twitter and Facebook). Today, Breakthrough’s SETI work uses (and pays for) about 20 percent of the telescope’s time.
But even moonshot-scale funding can’t magically create more hours in a day. That 20 percent had to come from somewhere. And it came from partially closing the skies.
HALF A MILE from the gate, McCarty pulls the Jeep up to an 85-foot radio dish called the Tatel telescope—the first stop on the SETI tour. The no-longer-operational telescope is rusty, and so paint-chipped it looks almost heathered. In 1960, a 29-year-old named Frank Drake used this scope to peer at two nearby stars, just to see if maybe perhaps some cosmic beast was broadcasting from them. (It wasn’t.) He called his project—the world's first scientific SETI experiment—Ozma.
Back in my Green Bank days, I would gesture at this telescope from the tour bus, say a whiz-bang sentence or two about this seminal SETI work, and keep on driving. But on this tour, says McCarty, the audience spends about 40 minutes stalking around SETI’s birthplace, its control room freshly spruced for visitors. Before they started the SETI tour, Green Bank employees had to clear it of dead mice, dead snakes, dead birds. Inside, typewriter-labeled drawers slide in and out of a cabinet, still full: If you need potentiometers, they can, in fact, be found in the drawer labeled “potentiometers.”
The typical tour-goers aren’t woo-woo—just curious (although a few have felt out an audience for their abduction stories). “They, like Frank Drake, have always wondered if we’re alone,” says McCarty. Finally, now that the observatory is revving up the SETI work people always thought they were doing anyway, it’s justified in giving the people what they want. Especially since, at $40 a head and 20 people a pre-reserved tour, the observatory can make $800 doing it.
The data from Breakthrough will, eventually, support non-SETI science, in the form of a public database: observations of the star systems and nearby galaxies Breakthrough has observed, at frequencies from 1 to 15 gigahertz. “It’s win-win,” says senior education officer Sue Ann Heatherly. “You’ve got open data instead of open skies.”
But it’s not as good as pointing the scope at the spot you actually want to study, for the amount of time you want to study it, with the instruments you think best, at the frequencies you think are most stellar, etc. With less time available, “it makes the competition fiercer,” says Heatherly. Green Bank’s scientists feel the absence of those hours.
“They don’t have anything against SETI at all,” says program manager and assistant business manager Marty Bloss. “But they really hate losing open skies.”
WHEN SETI TOURISTS are done at the old telescopes, they go down to the big, modern instrument—the actual Green Bank Telescope. Completed in 2000, it’s taller than the Statue of Liberty, and its 100-meter dish encompasses 2.3 acres. It looks like someone dismantled a bridge’s scaffolding and turned it into a Transformer that resembles a giant Dish Network antenna. Here, the tourists hear about present SETI and then zip over to a room called the Drake Lounge.
There, in 1961, Frank Drake first presented the famous Drake Equation, which lists the variables that determine how many detectable communicative civilizations might be in our galaxy. A rotating cast of scientists meets the tourists there, to talk through that math and the SETI work that is keeping the lights on and the cryogenics pumping.
In the end, people always want to know what the scientist thinks. You know, are we alone? What’s the deal?
Some of the scientists are optimistic, or neutral, about our chances of answering that question (and answering it with “Nope!”). Others, less so (others much less so). All give their frank opinions.
McCarty has a simple answer. “I say there’s at least one example of life forming,” she says. “It’s us.”
The alien world appears friendly at first, not forbidding.
Near the size of Earth, Proxima b is also nearby—twenty-five trillion miles away. In space, that’s practically spitting distance.
“The closest planet outside our solar system,” says Guillem Anglada-Escude, the lead scientist of the research team that discovered Proxima b in 2016. “And the first step beyond it.”
Including the location of Proxima b’s orbit, inside the “habitable zone”—a sliver of sanctuary within solar systems, a place where a world could sustain liquid water.
Just as intriguing, Proxima b is probably rocky, like Earth, with enough surface area to serve as a launching pad for land-based life.
Even a mild climate might prevail on at least portions of the planet—although Proxima b is astonishingly close to its star, Proxima Centauri, just four-and-a-half million miles away. “That’s about five percent of the distance between the Earth and the Sun,” says Anglada-Escude.
Normally, that would suggest a scorched world, roasted by temperatures hundreds or perhaps thousands of degrees Fahrenheit. But Proxima Centauri, a cold star categorized as a “red dwarf,” is relatively faint and feeble, about one-tenth the size of the Sun and 500 times less bright.
Balance Proxima b’s closeness with Proxima Centauri’s coldness, and the result could be temperatures “in the same range as Earth,” says Anglada-Escude.
Proxima b, however, possesses a darker side—literally.
“It doesn’t have days and nights,” he says. Instead, the planet is, “almost for sure,” tidally-locked. Half of Proxima b forever faces its star; the other half remains in permanent darkness.
Somewhere in-between, a temperate space may endure—the so-called “terminator line,” blending both shadow and sunlight. Anglada-Escude speculates it covers roughly one-quarter of the surface. “My guess is, this is the place to find life, if there is any," he says.
Intrigued by the notion that alien life is there—microbes, vegetation, or something else—astronomers have published more than 100 studies of the planet over the past year.
Yet still, nearly nothing is certain about Proxima b. Some scientists say even the existence of an atmosphere is up in the air.
One study indicates Proxima Centauri’s ferocious stellar winds swept it away. “The force of that wind is thousands of times higher than the solar wind on Earth,” says Jeremy Drake of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “Anywhere from one to twenty thousand times higher.”
Another study theorizes that extreme amounts of radiation emitting from a star so close “essentially blasts Proxima b’s atmosphere, scouring it off,” says Drake.
By themselves the winds and radiation are devastating enough. Combine them, and it’s a celestial double whammy.
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Coping with alienation
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Coping with alienation
By Debkumar Mitra
In Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s 1982 science fiction film based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the androids on the run look exactly like their human creators. Humans love to see their image in everything they see around them. From apparitions to aliens, morphologically speaking, they are all humanoids to us. No wonder that in Stephen Spielberg’s 1982 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, the little alien that charmed millions with its bulging sad eyes and long sinewy fingers looked every bit human as one could imagine.
Now, a group of evolutionary biologists claim that in the 200,000-odd worlds that possibly can harbour intelligent life in our galaxy alone, the aliens are more likely to ‘look like’ ‘higher order’ living beings as seen on Earth.
The paper, ‘Darwin’s Aliens’ (goo.gl/JwF3yA), published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, claims that Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution can be used to understand how major transitions may happen on an alien planet harbouring life. The scientists claim that these transitions from single-cell to multicellular organisms are likely to be close to terrestrial Darwinian evolution. According to them, extraterrestrial life will become “more advanced” organisms over time as a result of events known as ‘major transitions’.
The scientists claim that the aliens are likely to be made up of a hierarchy of entities. At every level of the alien organism, there will be mechanisms in placeto maintain cooperation, remove conflict and keep order so that the organismcan function. They have also posited an example of what those likely mechanisms could be, along with the sketch of how a complex, ‘higher order’ alien could look.
The Oxford University paper is a break from past researches in the domain of astrobiology. Past predictions of aliens have been based on what is seen on Earth. Our knowledge of chemistry, geology and physics is frequently used to make these predictions. For instance, the skin tone of humans can make or break our chances of survival. It is advantageous to have dark skin in places where the sun beats down for most parts of the year. In colder climates, human skin sports a lighter hue.
Not our ET: The ‘Octomite’, scientists’ impression of a ‘complex alien
From these observations, scientists often predict that aliens from cold and dark climates will probably be pale-skinned who would avoid bright light. On the other hand, aliens from warm planets will probably have darker skin. Despite the conclusions along the same vein, the Oxford paper’s predictions are independent of such a mechanistic approach and can be observed on Earth.
Despite its novel theoretical evolutionary approach, the paper’s prediction on how an alien could look will have to border on science fiction. There are many scientists who believe that alien life many not be biological at all.
According to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) astronomer Seth Shostak, the majority of the intelligence in the known universe is probably synthetic intelligence. There are others who claim that alien life could be noncarbonaceous, perhaps based on silicon, and speculate about whether the beings evolve according to the Darwinian plan. One of the major objections to siliconbased life is because of the quality called ‘handedness’ in biomolecules. This characteristic allows molecules to recognise and regulate all biological processes. And silicon doesn’t form many compounds with handedness.
In his book, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould proposed a series of thought experiments designed to probe the contingent nature of life’s history. Each of the experiments involved rewinding the ‘tape of life’ to a different period in the history of animal evolution, and then trying to understand how the story would unfurl — or if evolution takes hold at the point where the tape is stopped to tell the same ‘story’ as we know today.
From these thought experiments, Gould draws a conclusion, “…that early animal extinction patterns were essentially haphazard and counterfactually non-replicable”. He further says that “owing to the path-dependent nature of macroevolution, these early stochastic (random) sampling events dramatically shaped the future history of animal life on the Earth”. For those who believe in Gould’s theory, the Oxford study can lead to other dramatic outcomes than the team speculates.
We would love to know if there are ‘others’ in this universe. It is this sense of cosmological isolation that has given birth to our myths: from gods to Martians. As we know more about the universe and discover more ‘habitable’ worlds, the urge to know more about aliens grows. This latest research adds to the lore of the humanoid alien.
So, as we wait for an answer to Enrico Fermi’s famous query, ‘Where is everybody?’, these efforts will be, at best, informed speculation.
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Earth’s twin? Earth-like planets could hide around nearest star to our solar system
Earth’s twin? Earth-like planets could hide around nearest star to our solar system
Experts note that “this result suggests that Proxima Centauri may have a multiple planet system with a rich history of interactions that resulted in the formation of a dust belt. Further study may also provide information that might point to the locations of as yet unidentified additional planets…”
In what is considered another major astronomical discovery, scientists have spotted ‘dust’ around Proxima Centauri—the closest star system to our sun.
Located a ‘mere’ four light years from Earth, astronomers believe they have found an entirely new planetary system around Proxima Centauri.
Despite the fact that four light years is anything but close—ONE light years is exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometers—future generation spaceships could help human astronauts reach the aliens star system and explore in detail the planets hiding around the star.
Recent discoveries made by experts from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Grenada detected the dust layers using the ALMA Observatory in Chile.
Proxima Centauri is a weak red dwarf located in the constellation of the Centaur.
Orbiting around this star is Proxima b, a temperate exoplanet the size of Earth discovered in 2016 – by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, professor of Astrophysics at Queen Mary University in London – and which is the closest planet to our System Solar.
Image Credit: ESO
“The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it’s the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our sun,” explained Dr. Guillem Anglada, lead author of the new study.
These dust belts are made up of the material left over from the planetary formation.
Primarily, they are ice and rock particles with sizes ranging from dust grains of less than one millimeter to bodies similar to asteroids several kilometers in diameter.
Some of this material seems to be distributed in a cosmic belt that extends to a few hundred million kilometers of Proxima Centauri and with a total mass of approximately one hundredth the mass of the Earth.
In addition, experts estimate that it has a temperature of approximately -230 degrees Celsius, the same as that of the Kuiper Belt, a similar structure located in the outer Solar System.
According to data obtained by ALMA, there are indications that point to the existence of another dust belt around Proxima Centauri, ten times farther and much colder than the first.
If confirmed, this belt would be in a very cold and distant environment of a star that is already colder and much weaker than the Sun.
Both this and the other dust belt are much farther from Próxima Centauri than its planet Proxima B, which orbits its star from a distance of around four million kilometers.
“This result suggests that Proxima Centauri may have a multiple planet system with a rich history of interactions that resulted in the formation of a dust belt. Further study may also provide information that might point to the locations of as yet unidentified additional planets,’ said Dr. Anglada.
Proxima Centauri is “especially interesting” according to scientists, since there are plans for future exploration missions with micro spaceships equipped with laser-driven sails (Starshot project), and understanding the composition and size of the dust belts surrounding the star is of great importance to plan these types of missions.
Dr. Pedro Amado co-author of the study, said: “These first results show that ALMA can detect dust structures orbiting around Proxima. Further observations will give us a more detailed picture of Proxima’s planetary system. In combination with the study of protoplanetary discs around young stars, many of the details of the processes that led to the formation of the Earth and the solar system about 4,600 million years ago will be unveiled.”
“What we are seeing now is just the appetizer compared to what is coming!” concluded Dr. Amado.
Alien BOMBSHELL: Watch 'leaked' US Navy footage of ‘UFO that DEFIED PHYSICS’
Alien BOMBSHELL: Watch 'leaked' US Navy footage of ‘UFO that DEFIED PHYSICS’
LEAKED US Navy video footage of a bizarre UFO which "defied physics" has emerged just weeks after a former Area 51 insider told of the encounter, it is claimed.
The extraordinary UFO is said to have outmanoeuvred several F-18 pilots during the terrifying encounter, revealed by former senior US national security chief Chris Mellon, who spent time at the mysterious Area 51 military base.
US Navy personnel aboard the USS Nimitz filmed the UFO during the encounter that lasted several hours, according to Mr Mellon.
Mr Mellon served for almost 20 years in the US federal government in a series of national security positions roles under presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush.
The ex-national security chief, who had high-level clearance, was on a committee with oversight of all Department of Defence (DoD) special access programmes and spent a decade on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
He is now one of a number of former senior government insiders who have gone on record about UFOs after joining alien truth-seeking organisation To The Stars Academy, set up by former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge.
Mr Mellon, who also work on classified projects at Area 51 in Nevada, detailed the astonishing incident that reportedly happened off the coast of San Diego in broad daylight, at the launch of the academy last month.
Now a video that is said to be the footage, filmed in 2004, has been released by an “unknown source” and is doing the rounds on social media, Dailystar.co.uk reports.
Alien conspiracy theory Youtube channel Secureteam10 has broadcast the clip, which shows a mystery hovering in the skies.
It appears that one of the F-18’s crosshairs lines it up, but is unable to keep track of it when it speeds out of sight.
Tyler Glockner, who runs Secureteam10, said the "craft disappears with seemingly supersonic speed."
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UFO NEWS: Chris Mellon previously worked at mysterious Area 51.
He said: "It looks like legit F-18 footage. The US Navy investigation was hushed up.
"This footage has been corroborated by men that were there."
Mr Mellon had said the Mimitz, a five billion dollar warship with a crew of thousands, was operating there, escorted by the USS Princeton, an Aegis class cruiser.
Mr Mellon said: "Imagine these ships engaging in a routine training exercise when an unidentified aircraft with a small radar cross section appears on the radar heading directly towards the battlegroup.
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UFO BOMBSHELL: The object was allegedly caught on US Navy radar with footage leaked.
"The aircraft has no transponder does not respond to radio calls. The Princeton contacts two F-18s already aloft to intercept the target as the two F-18s approach the four aviators see that the object has no wings or exhaust.
"It is white, oblong, some 40 feet long and perhaps 12 feet thick."
He said one pilot pursued the craft while his wing man stayed high in the air.
Mr Melon said: "The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F-18.
It looks like legit F-18 footage. The US Navy investigation was hushed up. This footage has been corroborated by men that were there.
Tyler Glockner
"In a series of discreet tumbling manoeuvres that seem to defy the laws of physics.
"The object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18.
"The pilot’s capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object.
"They are outmatched by a technology they’ve never seen."
The pilots returned to the Nimitz, but the object remained in the area for several hours he said.
He added: "At one point the object soars to 80,000 feet, hovers, then drops at supersonic speeds coming to a full stop a mere 50 feet above the ocean where it resumes hovering.
"More F-18s are dispatched but with similar results.
"As before the engagement occurs in broad daylight in the secret machine easily evades the F-18s.
"Dozens of military personnel aboard the various planes and ships involved are privy to these interactions.
"Clearly this is not an experimental US aircraft, but whose is it?
John Barney posted on the Secureteam10 channel that he served in the US Navy for 21 years until 1996.
He said: "My time in the service was great but there so many times that we seen this events right in front of our eyes and we were told never to speak of it.
"I’m sure every time our government documented these events.
"I think it’s great that the truth is finally coming out"
However, sceptic Mick West, who runs the Metabunk.org debunking website, believes the footage just shows a plane.
He wrote in an Metabunk.org online forum about the footage: "To me this seems consistent with a distant (>50 miles away) plane flying away from the camera.
"At the end of the video it gently drifts off to the left, either making a turn or due to the camera lock drifting.
"A sudden jump between one times and two times zoom makes this look vastly more dramatic than it actually is.
"It could be a combination of the plane making a turn and the camera lock.
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UFO HOAX? the sighting has already been debunked by sceptics.
"If it's flying nearly directly away from the camera and it's really far away (like 50 to 100 miles), then it's still likely going to be moving relative to the camera direction, and indeed we see the camera heading at the top got from 4°R to 8° L, at which point the tracking seems to fail.
"So I'd say the entire incident likely consisted of dodgy radar returns and a distant plane not on the radar."
Not everyone who has viewed the footage is convinced it is proof of anything extra-terrestrial.
One YouTube poster wrote: “This is such blurry UFO footage. You’re just scraping at barrels.”
Another added: “Wait so the leaked information is a black dot… okay you win I believe in aliens.”
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Apocalyptic Trumpet Sounds In The Sky Heard In Canada and Indonesie
Apocalyptic Trumpet Sounds In The Sky Heard In Canada and Indonesie
People around the world have been reporting eerie, haunting and almost apocalyptic like sounds. According to witnesses of this unexplained phenomenon, they hear humming and loud booms, grinding metal, trumpet-like noises coming from the sky.
But do these sounds really come from the sky or something else is going on?
An in-depth investigation on this issue conducted by Linda Molten Howe has shown that the secret of these sounds is inside the Earth.
And again these sounds have been heard. This time strange apocalyptic trumpet-like sounds are heard in the sky in Downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada on November 2, 2017 at 9:30pm local time and one day earlier, on November 1, 2017 similar sounds are heard from several locations in Indonesie.
BIJZONDERE WAARNEMINGEN IN HET LUCHTRUIM ( VIDEO )
BIJZONDERE WAARNEMINGEN IN HET LUCHTRUIM ( VIDEO )
Er waren de afgelopen dagen enkele vreemde verschijnselen waar te nemen in de lucht op diverse plaatsten op aarde.
Een grote mysterieuze lichtbol verscheen boven de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico en ook in Zuid Limburg was het nodige te zien.
Niet ver van de Amerikaanse stad Los Angeles in Californië ligt de plaats Rowland Heights.
Op 24 oktober rijdt daar een man die uit zijn ooghoeken een merkwaardig langgerekt object door de lucht ziet vliegen. Het heeft de inmiddels bekende sigaarvorm, maar dat niet alleen, het ding lijkt begeleid te worden door een ronde witte UFO.
Zoals zo vaak is de kwaliteit van de camera niet al te geweldig, maar er is duidelijk te zien dat een vreemd object wordt begeleid door een ronde witte UFO. Waarmee er dan twee UFO's zijn, want ook het langwerpige object lijkt geen vliegtuig of iets dergelijks.
Hedenochtend even na zeven uur was ik buiten met onze hond. Voorwerp hing stil op grote hoogte. Geen geluid. Er was een vliegtuig in de buurt van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, dit heb ik namelijk bij thuiskomst opgezocht. Vliegtuig is zichtbaar op de video, evenals het stil hangend voorwerp. Opeens was voorwerp ook weer weg. Ik had enkel mijn mobiele telefoon bij me, helaas daardoor niet dichterbij kunnen zoomen. Heel apart.
De volgende interessante opname is gemaakt op 15 oktober vanuit een rijdende auto in Manhattan, New York.
Het zijn drie tot vier objecten die zich in de buurt van wat wolken ophouden, iets dat we geregeld tegenkomen. Of de wolken hier een rol spelen is niet duidelijk.
Uit manier waarop de video is opgenomen en de stemmen in de achtergrond lijkt dit een echte opname te maken en dan is het bijzonder dat zo weinig mensen dit hebben opgemerkt nabij een grote stad als New York.
UFO's die zich verborgen houden in wolken zijn soms heel duidelijk waar te nemen en andere keren wat minder.
De volgende foto's zijn gemaakt door een lezer die zich afvraagt wat hij heeft gezien. In dit geval is het niet echt duidelijk. Het zou een object kunnen zijn, maar ook een donker deel van de wolk.
Hij schrijft het volgende (dank!):
Onderstaande foto's zijn van gisteren middag circa 5 uur.
Na mijn werkdag en de boodschappen zat ik even op de bank en keek naar buiten. Vond de lucht op een of ander manier best apart kwa kleur ect.Iets trok mijn aan om even buiten vanaf mijn balkon rond te kijken.
Buiten vond ik in de natuur/omgeving een bijzondere sfeer hangen betreft geluiden en licht. Na links kijkend viel mijn iets op alwaar ik de bijgevoegde foto's van heb gemaakt.Het lijkt namelijk net of er een donker groot rond object zich schuil houd achter/in de wolken.
Heb er zeker 15 minuten na staan kijken in de hoop dat de wolken er voor zouden optrekken, dit mocht helaas niet zo zijn.
Maar op de foto's vind ik het best goed zichtbaar (misschien na enig speurwerk). Het hing de hele tijd op nagenoeg dezelfde plek terwijl de wolken er voorlangs trokken.
Kunnen jullie mijn vertellen wat of ik gezien heb ??
De foto's zijn genomen in Oudewater, vanaf een balkon op twee hoog.
Op 23 oktober 2017 gebeurde er iets bijzonders bij de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico.
Door de jaren heen hebben webcams daar de meest vreemde dingen waargenomen, waarover wij ook al uitgebreid hebben bericht.
Boven de vulkaan verschijnt enige tijd een enorme lichtbol, waarvan is komen vast te staan dat het niet de maan is.
De bol blijft enige tijd zichtbaar zoals te zien in de volgende video, die helaas in het Spaans is. De beelden met de tijdaanduiding van wat de webcam heeft vastgelegd zijn wel goed te zien.
Dit verschijnsel lijkt op iets dat we zagen eind vorig jaar bij die andere bekende vulkaan in Mexico, de Colima, en waar wij toen het volgende over schreven:
In Mexico zijn eigenlijk twee vulkanen waar altijd wel wat valt te beleven. De ene is die met die mooie naam Popocatépetl en de andere Colima.
Bij beiden was afgelopen week het nodige te beleven.
De Colima vulkaan, waar de webcam wel iets heel bijzonders vast wist te leggen.
Het zag er zo uit:
De volgende serie foto’s geeft ongeveer een beeld van wat er achtereenvolgens was te zien.
Wat het ook is, het is enorm, want de krater zelf schijnt een doorsnee te hebben van zo’n 600 meter.
Is dit een enorm ruimteschip dat zich middels een soort plasma-achtige structuur probeert te verbergen? En wat doet dit enorme schip dan bij de vulkaan?
Heeft het iets te maken met het tanken van energie, zoals soms grote UFO’s dat lijken te doen in de buurt van de zon?
Deze beelden zijn gevonden door de inmiddels bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1, de man die ongeveer 24 uur per dag bezig is met het ontdekken van bijzondere dingen.
The list of passengers for the first interstellar space mission has been released and, sorry Elon, you’re not on it and neither are any other Trekkie-wannabes – with or without their own rockets. However, if you’re a Caenorhabditis elegans or a tardigrade, you may want to check the manifest of the starchip USS Starlite to see if it has a tiny seat with your name on it.
“We are developing the capability to test whether terrestrial life as we know it can exist in interstellar space by preparing small life-forms … C. elegans and radiation-resistant tardigrades … which are ideal candidates to be our first interstellar travelers.”
“Small and radiation-resistant” – that second qualification knocked Peter Dinklage off the list but, in a speech given at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program’s 2017 Symposium in Denver reported on by Space.com, Philip Lubin, head of the Starlight program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, gave an update on who would be making the first trip-on-a-chip to another star. Project Starlite (also referred to as DEEP-IN (Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration) and DEIS (Directed Energy Interstellar Studies)) is NASA’s program to use lasers to propel chip-sized spacecraft or wafer-sats at up to one-quarter the speed of light on long-distance voyages.
“Besides being microscopic, and thus conveniently fitting on our first interstellar wafer craft, they can be frozen and put into a state of anhydrobiosis, meaning they can be dehydrated and put into suspended animation. When they are re-hydrated, they wake up as good as new!”
No jet-lag … that pretty much eliminates the rest of us humans. While those cute little tardigrades are better known and have better nicknames (water bears, moss piglets, space bears), Caenorhabditis elegans (which means recent, rod-like and elegant) seems better suited for a trip to Alpha Centauri on a DVD-sized spaceship. C. elegans was the first multicellular organism to have its whole genome sequenced, they’re hermaphrodites and can be re-hydrated after years in a dehydrated state with a tiny drop of water – assuming there is water of some kind at its destination. Tardigrades are a more complex organism that have shown in previous orbital space flights to be extremely resistant to radiation, G-forces, temperature fluctuations, lost luggage and anything else they might encounter on a 20-year trip.
The inside of the first compartment for C. elegans won’t be quite this elegant
How will future mission control specialists know that the space travelers survived the trip in their miniature chambers? The craft’s onboard plutonium will power a warm-up and tiny cameras to monitor their awakening … not to mention any close encounters with aliens of their size or larger. Anticipating your questions and concerns about contamination, NASA escapes through a loophole – while it is participating in sending the ship, it will not participate in the funding of the C. elegans/tardigrades portion and the reanimation itself will occur in space near Alpha Centauri, not on a planet.
Should we be sending Earth creatures into deep space? Will, as believers in panspermia suggest, the worms and water bears be greeted by long-lost relatives? Will they survive or die in a few hours like Laika, the first dog to orbit the Earth 60 years ago this month?
Or will an extraterrestrial skeet-shooter blast the star-chip to bits before anything can happen?
Plasmoid Anomalies - A camouflaged life form in our skies
Plasmoid Anomalies -A camouflaged life form in our skies
Plasmoid Anomalies Study Group is a research channel and their key steps for systematically observing Plasmoid anomalies are:
1. Infrared or short radio waves (radar) spotting. 2. The use of very high optical magnification able to resolve distant object details. 3. Direct signaling to the anomalies spotted. Anomalies will change behavior and body geometry in response to "smart" signals.
In the same way that stars are masked by the sky scattering of visible light in daylight many small objects in the atmosphere are also masked.
This masking effect is lower in the infrared portion of the spectrum and even lower in the short radio wave portion, so the detection of small objects in the atmosphere is more effective in the infrared or in the short radio wave (radar) portion of the spectrum than in visible light.
Adaptive/dynamic camouflage is used by cephalopods in marine environments but Anomalies are the real kings of camouflage.
Some anomalies respond with flares to direct light signals in daylight or at night showing with that clearly their anomalous character. Some anomalies had responded by morphing into digit shapes correlated to the signals sent to them.
The observational data available on plasmoid anomalies and recent research results on the physics of complex plasmas strongly suggest that some plasmoid anomalies could be plasma based life forms, but more comprehensive studies are needed according to the Study Group.
If the extraterrestrial hypothesis is controversial, then abductions of humans by alien beings is controversial squared, if not cubed. There’s intense polarization on the issue, not just between UFO skeptics and believers, but between the believers themselves. Is there a person who can share reality story of alien abductions? Famous abduction cases, such as the Travis Walton situation, have been popularized in books and movies, along with the occurrence been validated using polygraph tests administered to all parties involved. While this may not be proof positive that aliens are abducting humans and performing experiments and surgical procedures on them, it does raise questions.
Investigators worth mentioning sightings and abduction reports call themselves Ufologists, and now have precise scientific methods meant for investigating the reports people receive. While many of your methods and findings are usually not recognized by the scientific community overall, it does raise this question of why many people would risk their reputations and careers while in the scientific world by becoming needed for paranormal investigations such seeing that these. Logic would say you need to have something to the UFO and additionally separate question, for the property to take such risks. Of course, there’s no concrete evidence that anyone has taken by an alien spaceship. However, there are those who assert they’ve been kidnapped, and their stories are chilling.
After the Sitgreaves National Forest nearby Heber, Arizona, the occurrence began on Nov. 5, 1975. Walton and his six loggers were heading when they saw a 40 ft. shiny disc soaring in the air. According to his testimony, the disc has an enthusiastic and metallic material, making strange sounds. From the time it got close, the more it became scary to people. Fifteen years later, it was being revealed that the trees where the extraterrestrial craft hovered had been producing wood fibers thirty-six times it did 85 years before. The most curious part is that its core has thickened growth, but only in the direction where the craft had been years ago.
Man Saw Alien Looking Beings Pushing Their Vehicle In The Field
Man Saw Alien Looking Beings Pushing Their Vehicle In The Field
Philip Shepherdson reported having encountered a black triangular shaped object. He said the incident took place near York in North Yorkshire.
He was on country lanes near Easingwold driving his scooter when he turned left toward Huby. Then something strange distracted him.
Philip noticed the unusual black triangular object from his left hovering in the corner of a small field. Not believing what he was seeing, he stopped to get a better look.
Philip described the object as smooth with no control surfaces and sharp edges. The top had a cockpit with a figure inside it, Philip said.
All he could see was a black shaped helmet and some kind that was black overall.
He then realized there were two more slim looking figures by the side of the craft. They too wore black overalls as they tried to push the vehicle into the next field. Philip believed those strange looking beings were trying to conceal their vehicle among the standing crop.
These alien-looking figures then suddenly stopped and looked at his direction. He was shaking and time appeared to stop.
After seeing the entire thing, Philip’s mind could not take anymore, and he got on his bike and took off to work. The incident took place in February 1979, but only recently he dared to come forward and seek out other witnesses.
Astronauts' brains change during spaceflight, the Great Pyramid of Egypt harbors a void that researchers discovered using cosmic rays and water bears are good candidates for interstellar space travel. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.
1. Works begins on massive telescope's fifth of seven mirrors.
Technicians have begun casting the Giant Magellan Telescope's (GMT) fifth primary mirror at the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory. The resulting telescope, scheduled to start observing the heavens in 2023, will have 10 times the resolving power of the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. [Full Story: Giant Magellan Telescope Project Starts Making Mirror No. 5]
3. Possible void discovered inside Egypt's Great Pyramid.
With the use of cosmic rays, researchers found an empty space that sits above the Grand Gallery of the iconic Great Pyramid of Egypt, built about 4,500 years ago. The researchers did not collaborate with Egyptologists, and the results have led to mixed reviews among scientists across different backgrounds. [Full Story: Secret Chamber? Cosmic Rays Reveal Possible Void Inside Great Pyramid]
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
4. New-and-improved Mars rover launches in 2020!
In a few short years, NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity Mars rovers will get some company on the Red Planet. The 2020 Mars rover will feature a total of 23 cameras, which is 6 more than Curiosity has, and will be able to take more 3D imagery than Curiosity's Mastcam camera-eyes do. [Full Story: 2020 Vision: NASA's Next Mars Rover Will Have Nearly Two Dozen Cameras]
Photo Credit: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP
5. Don't miss the Beaver Moon this weekend!
The Beaver Moon on Nov. 4 will be quite large in the night sky, since the full moon will happen just before the moon reaches its closest distance to Earth. This near "supermoon" will pass through the constellation Cetus ("The Whale") and will cover the brightest star of the Taurus constellation, Aldebaran. [Full Story: November Full Moon 2017: Almost-Super Beaver Moon Occults Aldebaran This Weekend!]
An astronaut's brain can experience big changes after a prolonged time in space, according to a new study. By performing brain scans of 34 former astronauts, researchers noticed that, in some cases, the brain shifted upwards in their skulls. [Full Story: Here's How Space Travel Changes the Brain]
Photo Credit: R. Hurt/NASA/JPL-Caltech
7. NASA seeking an inheritor of Spitzer mission.
NASA is looking for U.S.-based private institutions to handle the operations of its Spitzer Space Telescope once the space agency's funding for the project ends in 2019. Currently, the infrared observatory receives $14 million in annual funding, and NASA hopes an organization can continue using the telescope since it remains in good condition. [Full Story: NASA Looking for Private Organizations to Take Over Spitzer Mission]
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8. Nominee for NASA administrator receives sharp criticism.
Democrats, such as Senator Bill Nelson, criticized the nomination of Jim Bridenstine as NASA administrator during a confirmation hearing on Nov. 1. Nelson and other members of the Senate Commerce Committee said the lives of astronauts could be placed at risk should Bridenstine lead the space agency, citing his lack of a technical background for the position and previously stated partisan opinions. [Full Story: Bridenstine Faces Partisan Criticism at NASA Administrator Nomination Hearing]
Photo Credit: Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara
9. Water bears could be first life-forms to reach interstellar space.
Researchers from University of California, Santa Barbara have created a NASA-supported project that aims to use large-scale lasersto propel small spacecraft on interstellar missions. The candidates for potential passengers include microscopic creatures such as water bears, also known as tardigrades. [Full Story: Candidate 'Passengers' Picked for Potential 1st Interstellar Mission]
The hybrid rocket Minotaur C launched for the first time on Halloween (Oct. 31) and shortly after, there was a brief loss of telemetry. The data stream from Orbital ATK's rocket quickly came back, however, and the booster successfully delivered six Earth-observing satellites to orbit. [Full Story: Orbital ATK's 'Frankenstein' Minotaur C Rocket Blasts Off on Halloween]
'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent
The mysteries of the pyramids have deepened with the discovery of what appears to be a giant void within the Khufu, or Cheops, monument in Egypt.
It is not known why the cavity exists or indeed if it holds anything of value because it is not obviously accessible.
Japanese and French scientists made the announcement after two years of study at the famous pyramid complex.
They have been using a technique called muography, which can sense density changes inside large rock structures.
The Great Pyramid, or Khufu's Pyramid, is thought to have been constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu between 2509 and 2483 BC.
At 140m (460 feet) in height, it is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids located at Giza on the outskirts of Cairo.
ScanPyramids has already detected a smaller void on the northern face
The new cavity is perhaps 30m long and several metres in height
All three muon technologies sense the same feature in the same place
Khufu famously contains three large interior chambers and a series of passageways, the most striking of which is the 47m-long, 8m-high Grand Gallery.
The newly identified feature is said to sit directly above this and have similar dimensions.
"We don't know whether this big void is horizontal or inclined; we don't know if this void is made by one structure or several successive structures," explained Mehdi Tayoubi from the HIP Institute, Paris.
"What we are sure about is that this big void is there; that it is impressive; and that it was not expected as far as I know by any sort of theory."
Image copyrightSCANPYRAMIDSImage captionThe newly found void is directly above the Grand Gallery
The ScanPyramids team is being very careful not to describe the cavity as a "chamber".
Khufu contains compartments that experts believe may have been incorporated by the builders to avoid collapse by relieving some of the stress of the overlying weight of stone.
The higher King's Chamber, for example, has five such spaces above it.
The renowned American archaeologist Mark Lehner sits on a panel reviewing ScanPyramids' work.
He says the muon science is sound but he is not yet convinced the discovery has significance.
"It could be a kind of space that the builders left to protect the very narrow roof of the Grand Gallery from the weight of the pyramid," he told the BBC's Science In Action programme.
"Right now it's just a big difference; it's an anomaly. But we need more of a focus on it especially in a day and age when we can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder as [British] Egyptologist Howard Vyse did in the early 1800s."
Media captionMehdi Tayoubi: "It's a big void, similar to the Grand Gallery, but what is it?"
One of the team leaders, Hany Helal from Cairo University, believes the void is too big to have a pressure-relieving purpose, but concedes the experts will debate this.
"What we are doing is trying to understand the internal structure of the pyramids and how this pyramid has been built," he told reporters.
"Famous Egyptologists, archaeologists and architects - they have some hypotheses. And what we are doing is giving them data. It is they who have to tell us whether this is expected or not."
Much of the uncertainty comes down to the rather imprecise data gained from muography.
This non-invasive technique has been developed over the past 50 years to probe the interiors of phenomena as diverse as volcanoes and glaciers. It has even been used to investigate the failed nuclear reactors at Fukushima.
Muography makes use of the shower of high-energy particles that rain down on the Earth's surface from space.
When super-fast cosmic rays collide with air molecules, they produce a range of "daughter" particles, including muons.
These also move close to the speed of light and only weakly interact with matter. So when they reach the surface, they penetrate deeply into rock.
But some of the particles will be absorbed and deflected by the atoms in the rock's minerals, and if the muon detectors are placed under a region of interest then a picture of density anomalies can be obtained.
Image copyrightSCANPYRAMIDSImage captionThe muon detectors have to be placed under the region of interest
The ScanPyramids team used three different muography technologies and all three agreed on the position and scale of the void.
Sébastien Procureur, from CEA-IRFU, University of Paris-Saclay, emphasised that muography only sees large features, and that the team's scans were not just picking up a general porosity inside the pyramid.
"With muons you measure an integrated density," he explained. "So, if there are holes everywhere then the integrated density will be the same, more or less, in all directions, because everything will be averaged. But if you see some excess of muons, it means that you have a bigger void.
"You don't get that in a Swiss cheese."
The question now arises as to how the void should be investigated further.
Jean-Baptiste Mouret, from the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics (Inria), said the team had an idea how to do it, but that the Egyptian authorities would first have to approve it.
"Our concept is to drill a very small hole to potentially explore monuments like this. We aim to have a robot that could fit in a 3cm hole. Basically, we're working on flying robots," he said.
Credible UFO sighting by pilots and crew in new UK files
Credible UFO sighting by pilots and crew in new UK files
Auriginy Trislander, similar to the one flown by Bowyer.
One of the most highly regarded UFO sightings in recent history was witnessed by the crew and passengers of two separate planes above the Channel Islands, in the English Channel, on April 23, 2007. The most recent batch of UK UFO files includes reports from the pilots of the planes, along with drawings of what they saw. One of the pilots estimates that the objects may have been a mile wide. Dr. David Clarke, a university lecturer on journalism and Ph.D. of folklore, serves as a consultant to the UK National Archives for their UFO file releases, and he says of this case, “This unexplained sighting remains one of the more intriguing puzzles in the MoD’s X-files.”
The first to spot the UFO was Captain Ray Bowyer, the pilot of a small 18-seat Trislander passenger plane for Aurigny Air Services. The most detailed account of his sighting can be found in a report he wrote for the book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record, written by Leslie Kean. He says it was a clear spring afternoon with a low layer of haze. He was at about 4000 feet when he spotted a bright yellow object below. At first he thought it might be a greenhouse he was familiar with, but then realized that with the haze, he should not be able to see the greenhouse. He grabbed his binoculars and noticed that it was actually a large shiny cigar shaped object with a dark band to the right of the middle.
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Bowyer UFO Drawing.
At first he estimated the size of the object to be as large as a 737 fuselage, and estimated the object to be at about 2000 feet. As he got closer to the object he noticed there was a second identical one just beyond the first. They didn’t appear to move, although later he learned they were moving slowly apart. He called the radar controller on the island of Jersey, to inquire about the objects, but they said they were not picking anything up. However, after Bowyer asked them to check again a few minutes later they were able to pick up two objects south of the island of Alderny. Seeing the object get larger as he flew closer, he felt relieved with this information as Alderney was his destination. Bowyer was not enthusiastic about flying close to these unknown objects with a cabin full of passengers.
As they approached Alderney the objects were visible to the naked eye. The Trislander aircraft does not have a separate cabin for the pilots, so Bowyer could hear passengers inquiring about what the objects were. He decided not to address their concerns in fear of frightening them. At this distance he could now see that the dark band on the objects was actually an area of sparkling blues and greens.
While descending into Alderney, they lost site of the objects once they dropped below the haze. Bowyer figured that no one from the ground must have been able to see the UFOs due to the layer of haze. Once on the ground he asked the passengers what they had seen and they confirmed seeing the same objects he saw. One of the passengers onboard, John Russell, who had seen the object along with his wife Kate, later told the press, “I saw an orange light. It was like an elongated oval.”
Bowyer reported his sighting, as required, and took a break before his next flight. He was a little worried that the objects were still up there. However, once he broke the haze on his next flight, the objects were gone.
Upon reflection of the distances, Bowyer felt that the objects must have been a lot larger than he first estimated. In fact he feels they must have been a mile long. He is still at a loss to what it was that he saw. He told the press soon after the sighting, “I’m certainly not saying that it was something of another world. All I’m saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying.
Ray Bowyer speaking about his sighting at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Nov. 11, 2007.
(image credit: James Fox)
Later Bowyer found out that there had been another pilot who had sighted the object. At the time Bower was discussing his sighting with the tower in Jersey, Captain Patrick Patterson, was flying from the Isle of Man into Jersey. He had heard the tower report that they had a radar hit of an unknown, so he took a look to see if he could see something himself. In a report in the UK files, it states that Patterson reported seeing a cigar shaped craft yellow in color. He also estimated it at 2000 feet. However, because of the haze he was only able to see one object for about a minute.
The official statements of the Royal Air Force are also in the files, they questioned the radar contacts. They stated, “We believe the ATC radar at Jersey is secondary only and therefore unable to achieve primary radar contact (if the object was producing one). The contact was reported stationary again making radar detection unlikely…” They went on to wrap up their investigation with this final statement, “…no further reports indicated that the object had a heading towards the UK. Therefore, we concluded that there was no threat to the UK from this observation and will not be taking the investigation further.”
In other words, they disregard the radar evidence, and since the objects didn’t seem to be in British airspace, it is not their problem. Not everyone agrees that such a credible sighting of two very large objects near British airspace should not be of concern to their military.
Soon after the incident, Nick Pope, who once worked for the British Ministry of Defense UFO desk, had this to say, “While no witnesses are infallible, pilots are trained observers and less likely than most people to misidentify something mundane. The MoD’s UFO case files contain several reports from civil and military pilots, some of which were correlated by radar. This is the sort of sighting that is taken seriously and should be investigated thoroughly. While most UFOs can be explained as misidentifications of aircraft, weather balloons, satellites and suchlike, a small percentage are more difficult to explain. This is one of the most intriguing sightings I’ve heard about in recent years.”
“There are potentially hundreds of thousands of habitable planets in our galaxy”
Sam Levin
The incredible study from the labs of posho Oxford University suggested natural selection will likely have played a huge part in how extraterrestrials developed on distant worlds.
Shockingly, it said any aliens that we may encounter are unlikely to look like beings we have become familiar with on TV or on the silver screen.
On far-away planets, beings could appear remarkably different to one another – depending on a number of conditions on the worlds.
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ALIENS: Beings on distant worlds could appear very different to what we expect
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STRANGE: The weird pictures show what boffins think aliens will look like
Oxford University researcher Sam Levin said the team could not say for certain what aliens would look like, but was confident evolution would play a huge role.
He said: “We still can’t say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes.
"But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it.
“There are potentially hundreds of thousands of habitable planets in our galaxy alone.
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BIZARRE: The aliens look very different to each other
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FAR AWAY: Aliens could live in galaxies millions of light years from us
He added: “We can’t say whether or not we are alone on Earth, but we have taken a small step forward in answering, if we are not alone, what our neighbours are like.”
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These mystery creatures could be the ‘First’ Interstellar species
These mystery creatures could be the ‘First’ Interstellar species
The tardigrades commonly called water bears, space bears, or moss piglets due to their appearance and movement, constitute a phylum of Ecdysozoa within the animal kingdom, characterized by being invertebrates, protostomes, segmented and microscopic (500 μm on average).
They are grouped within a large cluster of paratropes by presenting characters that suggest that they share a common ancestor with arthropods, along with onychophores.
The tardigrades were described for the first time by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who named them water bears (from the German Kleine Wasser-Bären, literally ‘water bears’) and refers to the way they walk, similar to the movement of bears.
Later, the term tardigrade (meaning “slow pace”) was given by Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1777 precisely because of the slowness of this animal.
They are resilient organisms under extremophile conditions, with unique characteristics in the animal kingdom such as being able to survive in the vacuum of space, at very high pressures 6000 atm (the atmospheric pressure on the surface of the Earth is 1 atm, so they can resist atmospheric pressures 6000 times higher), they have the ability to survive at temperatures of -200 ° C and up to 150 ° C, and can withstand prolonged dehydration (they can live for up to 10 years without water). Tardigrades are also able to withstand ionizing radiation.
Image Credit: NASA
These bizarre creatures are most likely to outlive everything until our Sun eventually swells up and becomes a red giant.
Precisely this is why they could become the first interstellar species, as scientists plan to send Tardigrades and the nematode worm on a spacecraft that will leave our solar system.
“These are real interstellar passengers,” says Philip Lubin, head of the Starlight program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which is planning one such interstellar journey, according to Space.com.
“We are developing the capability to test whether terrestrial life as we know it can exist in interstellar space by preparing small life-forms… C. elegans and radiation-resistant tardigrades… which are ideal candidates to be our first interstellar travelers.”
Scientists are currently working on a safe plan on how to store these tiny—yet bizarre—creatures in a state known as anhydrobiosis—a dormant state induced by drought in which an organism becomes almost completely dehydrated and reduces its metabolic activity to an imperceptible level.
Scientists plan to wake them up at a specific time during their journey across the stars and study them in detail.
This unprecedented mission will provide scientists with a better understanding of how organisms could survive long cosmic journeys, but also offer insight on how life in general could spread across the universe.
“Besides being microscopic, and thus conveniently fitting on our first interstellar wafer craft, they can be frozen and put into a state of anhydrobiosis, meaning they can be dehydrated and put into suspended animation,” the team wrote on the project website. “When they are re-hydrated, they wake up as good as new!”
“Clearly, there are many technical challenges. This is a long-term humanity-changing program,” Lubin said. “The biggest challenge is that NASA, the U.S. government, does not plan 30 to 50 years ahead in space. Perhaps a public/private alliance is needed. Similarly, what may be required is a new division of NASA or new agency whose mandate is interstellar flight.”
ANCIENT HISTORY Egypt isn’t the country with the most Pyramids in the world—Sudan has more than 250
ANCIENT HISTORY - Egypt isn’t the country with the most Pyramids in the world—Sudan has more than 250
Despite the fact that when speaking about Pyramids our mind immediately jumps to Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs isn’t the country with the most number of Pyramids on Earth.
In fact, Pyramids are everywhere. It’s as if thousands of years ago, ancient civilizations around the globe decided to build pyramids all of a sudden.
Without knowing that the ancient Chinese were building Pyramids, the Ancient Aztecs, Maya, Egyptians and many other civilizations erected massive monuments that defy modern-day engineering skills.
There are literally thousands of Pyramids around the globe. There are more than 1000 pyramids in Central America alone. There are 300 Pyramids in China and over 200 Pyramids in Sudan. Egypt boasts around 120 Pyramids.
How ancient civilizations managed this, remains one of the grates mysteries for modern-day scholars.
There are modern engineers who have said: “We couldn’t do this in twenty-two years.” However, the ancients apparently were able to do it.
If we travel to an area of the Nile valley know as Nubia, we find that this land was home to three Kushite kingdoms during ancient times.
The first had its capital at Kerma (2600–1520 BC).
The second was located in Napata (1000–300 BC), while their last kingdom was based around Meroë (300 BC-AD 300).
Kerma and Meroë were areas heavily influenced by ancient Egypt in many ways, culturally, economically, politically, and militarily.
During hundreds of years, the ancient Kushite kingdoms eventually erected more than 250 pyramids at three sites in Nubia.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
These ancient structures served as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroë.
The most extensive site of Nubian Pyramids is located at Meroe.
According to scholars, during the Meroitic period around forty queens and kings were buried there.
The size and complexity of the Nubian pyramids greatly differ from their ancient Egyptian counterparts.
The ancient Nubian pyramids were built of stepped courses from horizontally positioned stone blocks.
Their height varies from approximately 6 to 30 meters.
Nearly all of the ancient Nubian pyramids were plundered in the past.
Sadly, many Nubian Pyramids were destroyed during the 18300’s when treasure hunter Giuseppe Ferlini blew the tops off from 40 tombs during his quest for treasure.
Some of the pyramids have been successfully restored, but many of the ancient monuments remain partially destroyed.
According to UNESCO, the Nubian pyramids bear decorative elements from the cultures of Pharaonic Egypt, Greece, and Rome, making them priceless ancient relics.
Eerie denizens of the ocean depths star in this video from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) posted this video on its Facebook page this weekend and wrote:
To get you in the mood for Halloween, we bring you Deep-sea Nightmares!
Starring the black sea devil (Melanocetus), a skeleton shrimp (caprellid amphipod), the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), a bat-faced crab (Macroregonia macrochira), the fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta), a giant sea spider (as big as your open fist; not an actual spider, but an arthropod called a pycnogonid), bacterial ooze (growing on a hay bale placed at 3,000 m for a carbon experiment), the witch eel (Nettastomidae), a slimy mob of hagfish feeding on a dead fish, and the bloody-belly comb jelly (Lampocteis cruentiventer).
“Looking at gene expression … we really see an explosion, like fireworks taking off, as soon as the human body gets into space.”
NASA’s Twins Study investigates subtle effects and changes that might occur in spaceflight as compared to Earth. This is done by studying two individuals who have the same genetics – identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly- but are in different environments for one year. Read more about the Twins Study.
Chris Mason of Weill Cornell Medicine is the Twins Study Principal Investigator. Mason said:
Some of the most exciting things that we’ve seen from looking at gene expression in space is that we really see an explosion, like fireworks taking off, as soon as the human body gets into space. With this study, we’ve seen thousands and thousands of genes change how they are turned on and turned off. This happens as soon as an astronaut gets into space, and some of the activity persists temporarily upon return to Earth.
When retired twin astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth in March 2016, the Twins Study research intensified with investigators collecting samples from him and his twin brother, retired astronaut Mark Kelly. The researchers began combining the data and reviewing the enormous amount of information looking for correlations. Mason said:
This study represents one of the most comprehensive views of human biology. It really sets the bedrock for understanding molecular risks for space travel as well as ways to potentially protect and fix those genetic changes.
Final results for the Twins Study are expected to be published in 2018.
Bottom line : Twins Study preliminary results suggest space travel causes an increase in methylation, the process of turning genes on and off. New video from NASA.
ANCIENT NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS? DID THE ANCIENTS HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?
ANCIENT NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS? DID THE ANCIENTS HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?
The ancient literature is full of references to weapons of mass destruction used by the primordial gods. Many historians consider them to be mythology, with no connection to modern technology.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO?
But, on a more careful analysis, correlated with archaeological discoveries, these references may fall into the "history" category, with everything in the field. Even if they are amazed, even if they seem incredible, in times hard to date there have been wars in which atomic bombs and neutron bombs have been used but also military technology still unknown.
NUCLEAR WAR DESCRIBED IN INDIA'S EPIC HISTORY
In the Mahabharata, the epic grand epic poem of ancient India, convincingly and picturesque at the same time, episodes of a nuclear war are described.
A comparative analysis of myths allowed the researchers to assume that the Mahabharata speaks of sometimes that existed hundreds of thousands of years before us, about the Asura civilization which, like the Atlantians, the Lemurians, and the Hyperboreans, existed before the contemporary civilization.
There are assumptions that assimilate the Sumerian gods with the Vedic gods, claiming that there was only one devastating war between the generations of the gods that remained in the memory of men just like the Flood. And the name of the great Vedic War is Kurukshetra, which reminds of the "Sumerian Myths of Kur".
The ancient civilization of the Indus was in commercial relations with the Sumerian civilization, as evidenced by the many seals found in the Mesopotamian royal archives.
The physical traces left by the wars, where nuclear weapons (vitrified sand, vitrified fortifications, skeletons, soil, and radioactivity) are used, exist in all places where "mythology" places conflicts.
The great Vedic War, in which atomic bombs were used, also included a young generation of gods and the leading clan. They were all related. And some and others have used powerful weapons of destruction and, ultimately, atomic bombs and/or neutrons. These weapons, have been described in Mahabharata and Rigveda.
Like the Sumerian and Biblical cities, and the great cities of the Indus, Harappa, and Mohenjo-Daro, there are obvious "traces" of nuclear and neutron destruction. The skeleton on the streets, many holding hands, caught in the run of catastrophe that suddenly fell on them, are among the most radioactive, similar to those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were dated at 2,500 BC, but radioactivity can change the dating in the sense that it looks a much more recent date. Russian historian A. Gorbovski reported finding a skeleton with a 50-fold higher radioactivity than normal.
At Mohenjo-Daro, a thick layer of green glass was also discovered, resulting in the melting of the clay over 1,500 degrees. It was argued that the epicenter of the explosion was also found, where everything is crystallized, melted or forming a glass conglomerate.
The mysterious shiny black stones found in the epicenter were actually clay pots, melted at an extreme temperature. There were only 44 skeletons found on the street across the city, indicating that they knew what to do next, and the population had run away early.
The possibility of ancient nuclear wars, called the prehistoric nuclear wars, was first proposed by author Erich von Daniken in the 1960s.
His theory states that nuclear weapons were produced and used by ancient cultures or by ancient astronauts in the distant past. Von Daniken and other authors claim that they have found evidence of nuclear weapons in the Bible in the Mahabharata text in the Libyan desert - glass and vitrified architecture.
Ancient cities whose stone walls have been literally vitrified can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and elsewhere. There is no logical explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, apart from an atomic explosion.
TOM DELONGE HAS A MIND-BLOWING THEORY BEHIND THE ROSWELL UFO INCIDENT
TOM DELONGE HAS A MIND-BLOWING THEORY BEHIND THE ROSWELL UFO INCIDENT
Former Blink-182 musician on the UFO phenomenon, Roswell and becoming UFO Researcher of the Year.
Tom DeLonge, who was once a member of the popular band Blink-182, raised some eyebrows back in 2016 when he announced that he was giving up his career in music to devote himself to the study of extra-terrestrial activity full time.
UFO ARE ADVANCED AERIAL THREATS (AATS)
When DeLonge made his announcement, he met a great deal of ridicule and many people claimed that he was just going through a rather silly phase. However, a year later, he has shown that he has the capability to become a figure of serious influence in the UFO research community.
He has been given the ‘UFO Researcher of the Year’ award and has been working on a crowdfunded campaign intended to raise the money to build a spaceship that will be used to study aspects of the UFO phenomenon, or ‘Advanced Aerial Threats’ as he and his colleagues refer to them.
DeLonge is not coy about speaking publicly about his work and his beliefs about extra-terrestrial activity on this planet and the UFO phenomenon. He has recently appeared as a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss his work. In the course of the interview, he explained why he and his colleagues have begun to refer to UFOs as Advanced Aerial Threats and the current state of his relationship with his former bandmates.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of his interview is his views on the infamous Roswell incident of 1947. He explains that he believes that the crash at the military base was not actually extra-terrestrial in origin but most likely hailed from either Germany or Argentina but that the technology had hallmarks of extra-terrestrial technology which the US government wanted to keep secret.
He claims that the conflicting stories that emerged in the period of time following the notorious incident were a smokescreen to ensure that the public never found out the truth about what had happened. “We put out a story saying, ‘It’s alien!’ And then we put out a story saying, ‘It’s a weather balloon!’ But the real thing it was we didn’t want anyone to guess, ” he said.
Despite his misgivings about the extra-terrestrial activity at Roswell, DeLonge has no doubts that the Earth has been visited by aliens. "What people need to realize is the UFO phenomenon isn't a phenomenon. The universe is f**king gigantic and there's life everywhere!" he said.
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NASA: 'THERE IS A QUASI-MOON ORBITING AROUND EARTH FOR ALMOST A CENTURY'
NASA: 'THERE IS A QUASI-MOON ORBITING AROUND EARTH FOR ALMOST A CENTURY'
Representatives from NASA have reported that they have definitively identified a secondary moon which is orbiting Earth. Astonishingly, they believe that while the newly discovered mini-moon has been in orbit for more than a century without ever being detected before.
The space agency has explained that the smaller moon is moving on a rather irregular path compared to the Moon. It has an elliptical orbit and passes at a distance to Earth of between thirty-eight and a hundred times further than the Moon.
It is also in a tilted orbit which means that it sometimes travels must faster through space than the Earth and, at other times, its speed is much slower. This discrepancy means that this moon has a slightly different length of a year than an Earth year.
“Since 2016 HO3 loops around our planet, but never ventures very far away as we both go around the sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “One other asteroid — 2003 YN107 — followed a similar orbital pattern for a while over ten years ago, but it has since departed our vicinity. This new asteroid is much more locked onto us. Our calculations indicate 2016 HO3 has been a stable quasi-satellite of Earth for almost a century, and it will continue to follow this pattern as Earth’s companion for centuries to come.”
Representatives from NASA have referred to the mini-moon as Asteroid 2016 H30 and believe that it was caught in the Earth’s orbit at least a hundred years ago.
However, the moon is incredibly small and has therefore evaded telescopes before now. The mini-moon is only forty meters in width and a hundred meters in length which means that it is incredibly difficult to view in the night’s sky without the use of specialized equipment. It has been reported that the smaller moon was detected and studied using the PAN-STARSS 1 asteroid survey telescope which is based in Haleakala in Hawaii.
Unlike the older Moon, Asteroid 2016 H30 is described as being a quasi-satellite meaning that it will not be in the Earth’s orbit indefinitely. However, representatives from the space agency said that given the current trajectory of the mini-moon, it is not expected to break away from the orbit of the Earth for several centuries. This means that the Moon will have a smaller companion for quite some time.
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE FROM THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES UFO SIGHTING - 1942
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE FROM THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES UFO SIGHTING - 1942
If you ask people about the first major UFO encounter in the US, chances are the answer is Roswell. Most people (including UFO enthousiasts) forget about the famous battle of Los Angeles UFO encounter back in 1942.
That UFO encounter may score less on the UFO popularity scale, however this event could be much more important for the future of our planet and human civilization.
The Roswell UFO crash story comes down to the fact that an extraterrestrial vehicule malfunctioned and crashed to earth. Humanity was not to blame for the cause of the crash.
VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THE EVENT
On the 24th of February of 1942 however (right after the start of WW2), we might have had a true first contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence... and the US army decided to answer that invite with more than 1,400 anit aircraft shells.
Air raid sirens sounded throughout Los Angeles when a unidentified object invaded the guarded airspace. Numerous search lights were aimed at the object while the anti aircraft guns were blazing.
Some people may have heard about this sighting, very few know that there is actual footage of this event. It clearly shows the search lights aiming for the object while 12.8-pound anti aircraft shells are flying through the air. In the focus area of the search light we can see a saucer shaped aircraft.
If this was a real first contact with a UFO, we sure made a great impression.
Er is al een buitenaardse levensvorm ontdekt. Tom DeLonge doet meer onthullingen
Er is al een buitenaardse levensvorm ontdekt. Tom DeLonge doet meer onthullingen
De voormalige zanger van de Amerikaanse band Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, ging tijdens een nieuwe uitzending van The Joe Rogan Experience dieper in op zijn onderzoek naar buitenaards leven.
In de podcast stelde hij onder meer dat er al een buitenaardse levensvorm is ontdekt, schrijft muziektijdschrift Alternative Press.
DeLonge claimde dat de VS na het Roswellincident in 1947 heeft geprobeerd het bestaan van een experimenteel Duits vaartuig in de doofpot te stoppen en dat de overheid gedurende de Koude Oorlog daadwerkelijk op een levensvorm is gestuit.
Buitenaards wezen
Hij vertelde tijdens het interview over zijn ontmoetingen met diverse hooggeplaatste overheidsfunctionarissen.
Eén van die ontmoetingen leidde tot onthullingen over de vondst van een buitenaards wezen tijdens de Koude Oorlog.
“Ik vloog naar een vliegveld en nam daar plaats in een restaurant,” vertelde hij. “Er kwam een man bij me zitten die me recht in mijn ogen keek en zei dat ze tijdens de Koude Oorlog een levensvorm hadden gevonden.”
Duitse makelij
Bij het Roswellincident was volgens DeLonge inderdaad buitenaardse technologie betrokken, maar het was volgens hem niet wat de meeste mensen denken.
“Ik denk dat het van Duitse makelij was,” zei hij. “Maar de technologie was gebaseerd op buitenaarse technologie.”
“Het universum is gigantisch en er is overal leven,” klonk het nog.
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Mysterious booms and shock waves shook Bridgewater NY and the border of Tijuana-San Diego
Mysterious booms and shock waves shook Bridgewater NY and the border of Tijuana-San Diego
A loud boom and a flash of light can be heard and seen in the surveillance footage below taken by Philip Vicari from his home on Popular Street in the Bradley Gardens section of Bridgewater, New York on Wednesday, November 1 around 8:30 p.m.
On Thursday, November 2, a strange phenomenon shook the Tijuana-San Diego border that many residents believed was an earthquake. They heard a rumble before the shock around 11.00 in the morning. Doors and windows rattled due to the powerful shock.
But neither the United States Geological Survey (USGS) nor any other seismological entity detected any earthquake in the area.
Luis Mendoza Garcilazo, a seismologist at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) ruled out that it was an earthquake or a telluric movement. (Telluric movement is an electric current which moves underground or through the sea.)
The geologist Pat Abbott indicated that if something had happened below the surface it would be registered by the multiple instruments that exist but because that was not the case Pat Abbott is convinced, what shook the residents of the border originated from above, reports univision.com.
Mendoza pointed out that according to the records in the CICESE measurement instruments it was a "shock wave" like the one that occurs violently when an object travels faster than the speed of sound.
Such a “shock wave” can be caused by various situations, such as an explosion, the passage of a supersonic airplane, the entrance to the atmosphere of a meteorite or an Unidentified Flying Object – UFO.
While it remains a mystery what might have caused the booms and shock waves near the Tijuana-San Diego border and New York it seems that something is moving at a tremendous speed over the US.
Return of the ‘Unusual Comet’ 96P spotted by ESA, NASA Satellites
Return of the ‘Unusual Comet’ 96P spotted by ESA, NASA Satellites
The ESA and NASA mission SOHO got a visit from an old friend this week when the highly unusual comet 96P entered its field of view on Oct. 25, 2017.
The comet entered the lower right corner of SOHO’s view, and skirted up and around the right edge before leaving on Oct. 30. SOHO also spotted comet 96P in 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2012, making it the spacecraft’s most frequent cometary visitor.
At the same time, comet 96P passed through a second NASA mission’s view: STEREO that also watched the comet between October 26 and 28 from the opposite side of Earth’s orbit.
It is extremely rare for comets to be seen simultaneously from two different locations in space, and these are the most comprehensive parallel observations of comet 96P yet.
Comet 96P — also known as comet Machholz, for amateur astronomer Dan Machholz’s 1986 discovery of the comet - completes an orbit around the Sun every 5.24 years. It makes its closest approach to the Sun at a toasty 11 million miles - a very close distance for a comet.
When comet 96P appeared in SOHO’s view in 2012, amateur astronomers studying the SOHO data discovered two tiny comet fragments some distance ahead of the main body, signaling the comet was actively changing. This time around they have detected a third fragment — another breadcrumb in the trail that indicates this 'Unusual Comet' is still evolving.
The former Blink 182 rocker now claims to have received groundbreaking information regarding an extraterrestrial corpse.
He described a shadowy encounter with a mysterious figure at a US airport, Express.co.uk reports.
DeLonge told radio host Joe Rogan: “I fly out to the airport and I sat at a table in a restaurant at the airport.
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OTHERWORLDLY: Tom DeLonge claims to have received groundbreaking information
“No one’s in there, and this gentleman sits down. And the waiter comes up, he waves off the waiter, and he looks me in the eye and he says: ‘It was the Cold War and we found a life form’.
“That’s when I started sh***ing my pants.”
DeLonge claims he was given more sensational information that cannot be revealed at this stage.
Fake or leaked? Tom DeLonge has been slammed for relying on 'hoax' footage for serious project.
Mr DeLonge, who gave up a career as the front man of Blink 182 to focus on UFO research, revealed the video during an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience - an online podcast hosted by stand-up comedian Joe Rogan.
The rocker has vowed to set the UFO world on fire after recruiting a team of former military and government insiders to set up the Academy To The Stars – which has promised to lift the lid on alien life.
However, the video is unlikely to add any credibility to his project which has been labelled a "joke" after it emerged the video is widely believed to be CGI "hoaxed footage".
He revealed videos of the TR-3B during the interview, claiming they were real and leaked.
The TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US government that can be flown into space.
Some alien hunters believe they are the motherships of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.
However, many conspiracy theorists believe they are actually secret aircrafts developed by the US Air Force (USAF) which are being tested.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases such as Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Mr DeLonge is firmly in the camp that the TR-3B has been made by the government and is not an alien craft.
He believes the US government has recovered crashed UFOs flown by aliens before reverse-engineering them to create secret craft that can fly at warp speed and with anti-gravity propulsion.
Showing the video during the interview, Mr DeLonge said: "I think this was leaked on purpose because the guy is making it hard enough to see, moving the camera in and out of focus.
"That's pretty big, I would think that was about 40 feet.
"Look see the tail fin on the back, that is how you know it's not alien per se.
"It's built of, I think technology, that came from there, but they don't need vertical tail stabilisers."
In the video a huge light blast grows from the craft before it disappears.
Mr DeLonge said: "They turn this thing on, and so right, you know they are accessing that energy I told you about - and watch what happens… it's gone.
"Everyone thinks it is alien, and that not my belief."
Mr Rogan then joked that if he saw it in a movie he would ask for his money back because it loped "so fake”.
I think this was leaked on purpose because the guy is making it hard enough to see, moving the camera in and out of focus. That's pretty big, I would think that was about 40 feet.
Tom DeLonge
But Mr DeLonge insisted it was true.
After the interview, Isaac Koi took to Facebook to slam the use of the footage.
He investigated the video in 2009 after it emerged a year earlier claiming to have been filmed in Dudley, in the West Midlands.
A year later it reemerged on YouTube amid claims it was filmed in Paris.
Mr Koi wrote: "I wrote about the relevant video of a triangular craft back in 2009, after someone in England had claimed to have taken the video in Dudley – but one of the problems with that story was it had circulated the year before as being taken over Paris.
"So, which story does DeLonge believe? Or does he believe that the same footage (including the buildings) was taken over two different countries?
"At least one of the stories associated with the video is a hoax.
"Why not both? Most of the people that commented on the video in 2008 and again in 2009 thought it was a fairly transparently CGI, and posted reasons for that conclusion.
"Those reasons were not mentioned by DeLonge when talking about this video, nor indeed was the existence of CGI when he referred to videos on Youtube "Unfortunately, Delonge’s discussion of this video simply does not address the possibility of any hoax, even when the interviewer expressly raises this."
Josh Mobley responded on Facebook: "I too was shocked that he presented this as something real.
"I’m no expert but this obviously fake.
"If this is the kind of stuff he thinks is teal then the whole thing is a joke."
Scott Brando, a UFO debunker who funds website ufoofinterest.org, tweeted: "Another Tom DeLonge's #EpicFail."
Express.co.uk contacted Mr DeLong through To The Stars Academy and awaits a response.
The video, which shows what is claimed to be a gigantic "UFO mothership" filmed by US Marines on an exercise in the Arizona Desert received nearly 170,000 views in just four days.
The YouTube video released by channel Section 51 2 shows a group of marines who appear to be observing a massive flying saucer in the distance.
A close up of the saucer then shows a military helicopter passing it, and what appear to be two small satellite craft beneath the UFO.
Viewers then see a strange orb-like drone passing a marine on the ground.
The saucer is then watched as it appears to suck up sand from the desert floor.
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TOM DeLONGE LEAKS: 'US found alien life form during Cold War, but not from Roswell UFO
TOM DeLONGE LEAKS: 'US found alien life form during Cold War, but not from Roswell UFO
THE US is holding the corpse of a dead alien life form, but it did not come from the alleged Roswell UFO crash, rock singer Tom DeLonge has sensationally claimed.
PRESERVED LIFEFORM? Tom DeLonge says a body was found in the Cold War (image is a YouTube hoax).
The former Blink 182 singer is now a legend among the UFO community after putting together an organisation made up of former military and government insiders dedicated to revealing the truth about aliens.
After launching the To The Stars Academy, Mr DeLonge revealed on radio he met with a government source in an airport who revealed the shocking claim of an alien life form being found.
Mr DeLonge was interviewed on The Joe Rogan Experience - an online podcast hosted by the stand-up comedian - and described the bizarre meeting with a shadowy official and a further two-day interrogation in a hotel.
He said: “I fly out to this airport and I sit at a table in a restaurant at the airport.
“No one’s in there, and this gentleman sits down. And the waiter comes up, he waves off the waiter, and he looks me in the eye and he says ‘It was the Cold War and we found a life form.’
He was asked by Mr Rogan if he asked where they found it, but strangely, Mr DeLonge replied "I didn't ask him that question."
Mr Rogan said: "Really? Did you ever think this guy was bulls****ing you?"
"F**k no," replied DeLonge.
But, Mr DeLonge said he was told it was not found in the Roswell crash.
He said that after World War Two the US military were working with captured Nazi scientists who had managed to develop secret high-tech craft based on alien flying saucer technology.
He said: "They were 100 years ahead of us about what their guys did at the end of the war in South America.
No one’s in there, and this gentleman sits down. And the waiter comes up, he waves off the waiter, and he looks me in the eye and he says ‘It was the Cold War and we found a life form.’
Tom DeLonge
“What I believe crashed at Roswell… I believe it was German… from Argentina.
"But it had hallmarks and technology based on alien technology. "So, we put out a story saying, ‘It’s alien!’
"And then we put out a story saying, ‘It’s a weather balloon!’
"But the real thing it was we didn’t want anyone to guess.”
Mr DeLonge said he was told by insiders that the government had been infiltrating UFO groups since the 1950s and spreading "misinformation" in a bid to stop the real truth getting out.
He even said he was interviewed by six shady officials in a hotel over two days to ensure that he didn't already know too much, after he revealed in an earlier interview there was an international consortium dedicated to dealing with the "threat from aliens".
Mr DeLonge said he has been told stuff that he simply cannot reveal at this stage.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a mysterious top-secret military base.
There have been many theories about what actually happened, but an official government probe into what happened concluded it was a secret spy balloon being tested.
Miguel Carvajal projects a laser on the red moon during a lunar eclipse seen over Mamayuta Observatory in Chile.
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Scientists propose there are three “magic wavelengths” of visible light that extraterrestrial civilizations could use to contact Earth: deep purple, deep red and yellow.
When the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life (SETI) began in 1960, it focused on eking out radio frequencies that alien civilizations could be sending as beacons of their existence. More recently, scientists have taken a new approach in the search for extraterrestrial life: scanning the sky for laser light.
This process, known as OSETI (the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Life) looks for light within the visible spectrum, whereas Radio SETI looks on the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that contains radio waves and microwaves, which are invisible to the human eye.
In a paper in New Astronomy, Shinya Narusawa and his colleagues at the University of Hyogo lay out three likely visible wavelengths through which alien civilizations might contact Earth. While they acknowledge that “higher evolved civilizations” might have greater technological capabilities, for "the strength of argument," Narusawa and his team focused on the hypothetical situation of a planet as advanced as Earth trying to make contact.
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
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Looking at the kind of laser technology we have access to, the team makes the case that alien civilizations would try to signal their existence through a deep-purple, yellow or deep-red light. The researchers arrived at the wavelengths that correspond to these colors partly through a process of elimination, zeroing in on "solid-state lasers" as the most likely candidates. Of the wavelengths of light these lasers would use, the researchers propose that our outer space counterparts would try to signal us at wavelengths frequently observed in the sky.
It is in some ways easier to send frequencies by radio, for which “magical frequencies”—the one aliens would mostly likely use—have already been proposed. But there are some clear advantages to laser light over signals from the microwave and radio end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light can convey vast amounts of information and experiences less interference than radio waves as it travels through space. More importantly, sudden spikes of visible spectrum light are pretty rare (not the case with microwave). That means all it would take is one short pulse from a far-off planet to give reason to believe we might have something.
So, somewhere out there, if a planet like our own is trying to reach us with a beam of light, we have a better idea of what colors to look for.
When Raymond Szymanski arrived at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a college co-op student, he was intrigued when a mentor mentioned aliens and the base in the same sentence.
Szymanski, 65, spent 39 years at Wright-Patterson before retiring in 2011, and while he said he never saw any aliens, he went on a truth-seeking quest that took him from New Hampshire and Arizona across the Atlantic to England to track down those who claimed they had encounters with UFOs.
The Dayton area resident, a former Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate senior engineer, wrote “50 Shades of Greys: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitation to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Beyond.” He is set to speak about his findings in two weekend local appearances.
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“The book is actually a documentary for my quest for the truth,” Szymanski said. “Were the stories I heard about Wright-Patterson true? What about some of the other famous places” where UFO sightings were claimed.
Szymanski points to Wright-Patterson as the home of the Air Force’s past UFO investigations, such as Project Blue Book in the 1960s, and decades-old reports that “exotic” material was brought to Wright-Patterson in 1947 after claims a UFO crashed in the desert near Roswell, N.M.
“Obviously, the Air Force took this seriously to an extent because they had collection and analysis of programs for nearly a quarter of a century, so certainly I took it seriously,” he said in a recent telephone interview.
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“The tipping point” to write the book, which is written in a first-person, humorous style about his on-the-road adventures for “the truth,” came in 2015 when he visited the place with a former logger who claimed he was abducted in 1975 by a UFO in the Apache-Sitgreaves Forest in Arizona, he said.
“This was some kind of a strange moment where I decided, ‘Hey, I’ve been doing all this research all these years, I’ve got to write a book,’” he said. “So I didn’t really do all my research and say, ’I’m going to write a book, but it was that kind of an encounter with that kind of person who had these kinds of experiences that just motivated me.”
Szymanski also details in his book travels to UFO sightings near Exeter, N.H., in 1965 and Rendelsham Forest in England in 1980 – along with investigating claims about Wright-Patterson.
“And now the million dollar question,” the author writes in the foreward in the book. “Does Wright-Patterson actually house aliens and their artifacts?
“At this point of writing this book, I’m not sure,” he wrote.
In an interview, he was certain whatever crashed in the desert near Roswell in 1947 was brought to Wright-Patterson, but he said he saw no evidence that it included alien beings.
“The Roswell alien thing is still a little squishy,” he said. “But that’s different from me believing we’ve been visited. Yes, I’ve talked and interviewed (UFO) experiencers and I’m convinced that what they’ve had is a real encounter, and so somewhere along the line people have encountered alien entities on this planet.”
More than three decades ago, the Air Force issued an official denial that Wright-Patterson housed alien space technology and the bodies of beings from another planet.
“Periodically, it is erroneously stated that the remains of extraterrestrial visitors are or have been stored at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,” the January 1985 statement said. “There are not now, nor have there ever been, any extraterrestrial visitors or equipment on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.”
Project Blue Book, a Wright-Patterson-headquartered Air Force investigation into reports of UFOs, concluded in December 1969 and found no threats to national security or evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles, the Air Force has said.
In 2013, the CIA reported high-flying spy planes spotted in the 1950s and 1960s were mistaken for UFOs more than half the time.
Szymanski, a Dayton area resident, said the UFO phenomenon came close to home for him.
“For me, there’s no doubt because as I documented in the book, I saw a UFO in my own neighborhood from about 200 feet away and 75 feet in the air as it slipped into a low bank of clouds,” he said. “That was kind of an up close and personal verification of what I pretty much was leaning towards anyway. And the people that I talk to about the cases and the evidence that they have is pretty much insurmountable, unassailable.”
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The author and retired Wright-Patt engineer is scheduled to speak at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Centerville Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Road, and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Fairborn Senior Center, 325 N. 3rd St., as part of a Fairborn Area Historical Society presentation.
ANOTHER person has come forward claiming they have photographed a “flying saucer” on their smartphone, following a UFO sighting on the Great Barrier Reef.
But a professional photographer has come up with a simple explanation for the extraterrestrial image.
Sydney resident Carmen Schluter contacted the Cairns Post after reading of the sighing of an unexplained object that appeared in photos a Cairns woman took off Fitzroy Island last Saturday.
The object, which was not visible to the naked human eye, appeared to be a luminous green orb, shrouded in a flying saucer shape.
Ms Schluter said she had photos of a similar object, which she shot at Milperra on her smartphone, near Sydney last Tuesday morning.
“I have had photographer friends look at it,” she said.
“They are not sure either, (they think it’s) maybe lens flare, but it’s not conclusive.
“I was happy with the theory it's a spirit taken on my iPhone.”
Cairns Post photographer Brendan Radke, however, believed both the Fitzroy Island and Milperra photos simply showed lens flares.
“It occurs when there is internal reflections inside the lens,” he said.
“It can occur whether you are using a digital SLR, or a smartphone — any camera that uses a lens with multiple lens elements.”
Mr Radke, who has been a professional photographer for 13 years, said lens flare was especially common on smartphones, as lens elements were stacked closer together compared to SLR cameras.
“Camera manufacturers use all types of technology to reduce lens reflections, but it doesn’t always eliminate this, especially when you are shooting into the sun,” he said.
NASA’s rover has been roaming around Mars since 2012, but the photos it sent back to Earth this week just changed the view. Long known as the Red Planet, it turns out Mars has some other colors to show off. Through special lenses on its camera-eyes, the rover sent back photos of purple contrasting with green tracking one mineral in particular: hematite.
The cameras on Curiosity take photographs at different wavelengths of lights. Since rocks reflect and absorb light differently, the camera (specifically the Mast Camera) can determine what type of minerals make-up Mars’ surface.
NASA Photos From Mars Curiosity Rover Reveal Red Planet is Also Green and Purple
Scientists noticed the variations in rocks from spectrometer observations from orbit years ago and have been planning to tackle the Vera Rubin Ridge on the lower part of Mount Sharp since. “This is the juiciest part of the traverse,” said Jeffrey Johnson, a planetary geologist of John Hopkins University’s applied physics laboratory.
Since Curiosity's landing in 2012, it has found simple organic compounds (though it is unclear if they were formed from human contamination or are native to Mars), evidence of water, and photographs from points of interest such as Mount Sharp, the Murray Buttes, Hidden Valley, Yellowknife Bay Formation, and Rocknest.
The latest images from the rover are showing a different perspective of what Mars looks like—and what it may have looked like in the past.
This pair of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity rover illustrates how special filters are used to scout terrain ahead for variations in the local bedrock.
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Hematite is typically a red color which blends with the rest of the surface as evident in the full color photograph. It usually forms in the presence of water, tacking on more evidence that ancient Martian times had conditions favorable for life. Though the rover found evidence that Mars once had conditions favorable to life in the first year of its journey, the presence of hematite hints at a changing and varied past for those conditions. And by using the special lenses on the cameras, scientists can pinpoint the areas that could be further investigated, said Johnson.
Collecting data on these rocks can answer questions about factors of the water that may have once passed through, such as its acidity, according to Johnson. Those answers could tell scientists what types of lifeforms would have been able to survive and potentially thrive. And the Mast Camera on the rover provides an excellent vantage point for gathering such intel. “It’s like if you’re flying in a plane and you’re looking down in a canyon or rocks or fields or something,” said Johnson. “It’s always going to look a little different when you take your bike through it."
Other substances the rover has detected on the surface have been different types of salts, gypsum, volcanic rocks, and rocks that have clearly been weathered for long periods of times, said Johnson. Further south of the ridge, where the rover will cross next, is more claylike.
“All of the minerals that we see tell a story,” he said. “And sometimes that story is really complicated.”
The beautiful array of colours were captured by the MAVEN space probe, which studies the atmosphere of the fourth planet from the Sun.
Stephen Hawking warns: Artificial Intelligence could REPLACE humans
Stephen Hawking warns: Artificial Intelligence could REPLACE humans
Professor Hawking has said that Artificial Intelligence could replace humans. “I fear that AI may replace humans altogether. If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans.”
Professor Stephen Hawking has issued a new stark warning regarding Artificial Intelligence. According to the world-renowned genius, robots will soon be considered a new form of life which can outperform humans, and eventually replace humans.
Professor Hawking has already spoken out in the past regarding the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, saying that humans should tread carefully when it comes to developing robots.
Now, during an interview with wired, Professor Hawking warned that AI will soon reach a level where they could be considered a new life form on Earth and outperform humans.’
Professor Hawking said that Artificial Intelligence might replace humans altogether, although he didn’t specify a timeline for his predictions.
“I fear that AI may replace humans entirely. If people create computer viruses, someone will create AI that develops and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans.” During the interview, Professor Hawking also urged more people to take a part in science, warning that there would be ‘serious consequences’ if this didn’t happen.
Professor Hawking also said that we need to start developing a new space programme, with ‘with a view to ultimately colonizing suitable planets for human habitation.’
“I believe we have entered the point of no return. Our Planet is becoming too small for us, global population is growing at an alarming rate, and we are in danger of self-destructing.”
In 2016, Hawking made several warnings when speaking about Robots saying that we could soon reach a point where artificial intelligence could develop a will of its own that is in conflict with that of humanity. “I believe there is no deep difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be achieved by a computer,” said Professor Hawking at a conference in Cambridge at the launch of The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
“It, therefore, follows that computers can, in theory, emulate human intelligence – and exceed it.”
Professor Hawking said the potential benefits were many and the technological revolution could help mankind undo some of the damage done to the natural world by industrialization.
However, he warned that “In short, success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization.”
Researchers at the University of Oxford say this is what aliens could look like
Researchers at the University of Oxford say this is what aliens could look like
The works of Hollywood and science fiction literature have led us to believe that aliens are probably monstrous beings and look very different from humans.
However, new research suggests that we could have much more in common with extraterrestrials than we think.
In a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, a group of researchers from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) shows how the theory of evolution can serve as a basis for predictions about the appearance and behavior of aliens.
Picture an alien. These illustrations represent different levels of adaptive complexity we might imagine when thinking about aliens.
Scientists claim that extraterrestrial entities are potentially formed through the same processes and mechanisms that shaped human beings, such as natural selection, reports Phys.org.
The approach taken for this work is an alternative to previous research on the subject, which focused on analyzing living environments and not on how life could evolve.
Sam Levin, a researcher at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, explains that the new theoretical predictions “can be applied to aliens [with primary molecular contents] based on silicon, which lacks DNA or breathes nitrogen, for example.”
The complexity of species on Earth is the result of a set of events known as large transitions.
These occur when a group of separate organisms evolves into higher-level organisms, for example, when cells become multicellular organisms.
For these large transitions to occur, extreme conditions are needed, as both theoretical and empirical data suggest.
The study also makes specific predictions about the biological structure of the most complex aliens and offers an interesting perspective on how they would look.
Like humans, he argues, these beings would be constituted by a “hierarchy of entities that cooperate to produce an alien.”
According to Levin, each level of an alien’s body would have “mechanisms to eliminate conflicts, maintain cooperation and preserve the functioning of the body.”
Maybe this is what our cosmic neighbors look like.
“We still can’t say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes. But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it.
“By predicting that aliens have undergone major transitions – which is how complexity has arisen in species on earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us.
“Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien. At each level of the organism, there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning. We can even offer some examples of what these mechanisms will be.
“There are potentially hundreds of thousands of habitable planets in our galaxy alone. We can’t say whether or not we’re alone on Earth, but we have taken a small step forward in answering, if we’re not alone, what our neighbors are like,” concluded Levin.
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UNE NOUVELLE VIDEO DU CORPS ALIEN DE ROSWELL
UNE NOUVELLE VIDEO DU CORPS ALIEN DE ROSWELL
Le crash de Roswell en 1947 ne nécessite pas une introduction élaborée. C’est l’un des cas les plus célèbres de crash d’ovnis de toute l’histoire de l’humanité.
En 1947, un OVNI s’est écrasé dans un ranch au nord-ouest de Roswell, au Nouveau-Mexique, dans la première semaine de juillet 1947. L’armée américaine a fait une déclaration selon laquelle ils ont capturé une soucoupe volante et ils sont revenus sur cette déclaration peu de temps après.
Une nouvelle vidéo a été récemment publiée en ligne et elle présente le véritable corps de l’extraterrestre de Roswell, extirpé du site du crash. Elle n’a rien à voir avec la vidéo « autopsie d’un extraterrestre » qui s’est avérée être un fake des années 1990.
La vidéo a probablement été tournée dans un des hangars de la Zone 51 où les corps extraterrestres sont stockés. La vidéo montre un extraterrestre transporté sur une civière. Il y a beaucoup de militaires et de scientifiques qui attendent d’observer le spécimen de plus près.
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Comme vous pouvez le constater, l'affaire est loin d'être aussi simple que certains sceptiques et de nombreux médias veulent bien le dire. Il existe bon nombre d'autres témoignages sur cette affaire dont celui de Bond Johnson, un journaliste, appelé en juillet 1947, pour photographier les débris de l'accident. C'est d'ailleurs le seul représentant des médias à avoir pu voir ces débris. Il est impossible de tous les citer à moins d'écrire un livre.
La question que tout le monde se pose est : Qu'est-il tombé du ciel le 2 juillet 1947 ? Seule l'armée de l'air pourrait répondre à cette question et nous connaissons leurs différentes versions peu convaincantes et surtout très contradictoires. La théorie du météorite est quant à elle totalement invraisemblable pour la simple raison que l'objet n'a laissé aucun impact du type cratère. Cependant, près de 60 ans après les évènements, de nombreuses personnes poursuivent leur enquête et continuent à chercher des réponses aux différentes questions.
* Où sont passés les débris analysés à Wright-Patterson ?
* Où sont les rapports d'expertise ?
* Qui est à l'origine du film d'autopsie ?
* L'énorme essor technologique qui s'est produit après la Seconde Guerre mondiale a-t-elle un rapport direct avec le crash de Roswell ?
Il existe trop de témoignages concordants pour que l'on puisse ignorer ou traiter par le mépris le cas Roswell. Il commence à y avoir quelques failles dans le mur du silence qui entoure l'affaire depuis 1947. Le nombre de témoignages importe peu en fait. La seule preuve qui pourrait nous donner la solution à cette énigme serait que l'on puisse analyser publiquement les débris récupérés. D'ailleurs, le centre international de recherche sur les OVNIS de Roswell offre un million de dollars à celui qui lui apportera l'un de ces débris après authentification. Tant qu'il n'y aura pas de nouvelles preuves de ce type, Roswell restera dans les énigmes de notre histoire.
Is de Grote Sfinx meer dan 750.000 jaar oud? Deze Oekraïense wetenschappers denken het antwoord te weten
Is de Grote Sfinx meer dan 750.000 jaar oud? Deze Oekraïense wetenschappers denken het antwoord te weten
Er bestaan nog veel onduidelijkheden over de Grote Sfinx van Gizeh en er zijn tal van theorieën over het ontstaan en de vorm. Ook zouden er nog ruimtes onder de sfinx zijn, die nog niet zijn verkend.
Onderzoekers Vjacheslav Mantsjev en Alexander Parkhomenko van de Nationale Academie van Wetenschappen van Oekraïne hebben recentelijk geprobeerd vast te stellen hoe oud de sfinx precies is.
Ze hebben zich laten inspireren door de uitspraken van theosoof Jelena Blavatskaja (Helena Blavatsky), diezei dat de sfinx ruim 750.000 jaar geleden is gebouwd.
Watererosie
De Oekraïense onderzoekers hebben vooral gekeken naar de invloed van overstromingen op het bouwwerk, met name de verticale muren.
Het lichaam van het bouwsel vertoont horizontale en verticale goten, die volgens de onderzoekers tekenen zijn van watererosie.
Ze wijzen erop dat in de literatuur wordt gesproken over meren in het gebied van het Pleistoceen tot het Holoceen.
800.000 jaar
“Die meren bevonden zich in de gebieden naast de Nijl,” schreven de wetenschappers, toevoegende dat de erosie bovenaan de Sfinx overeenkomt met het waterpeil in het Vroeg Pleistoceen, meer precies het Calabrien.
De Grote Sfinx moet zich in dat geologische tijdperk al op het Gizeh-plateau hebben bevonden, denken ze. Dat zou betekenen dat het bouwwerk minimaal zo’n 800.000 jaar oud moet zijn.
Onder water
Manitsjev en Parkhomenko vermoeden dat het bouwwerk op een bepaald moment helemaal onder water heeft gestaan. Ze verwijzen daarbij naar bestaande literatuur over geologisch onderzoek naar het Gizeh-plateau.
Rond het einde van het Plioceen stroomde het zeewater de Nijlvallei binnen, waardoor het gebied langzaam maar zeker overstroomde.
Lees hier het onderzoek van de Oekraïense wetenschappers.
11 plekken op aarde waar je niet mag komen. Heb je hier ooit van gehoord?
11 plekken op aarde waar je niet mag komen. Heb je hier ooit van gehoord?
Vanaf oktober 2019 is het beklimmen van de iconische rots Uluru in Australië verboden, zo hebben de lokale autoriteiten beslist.
De grote rode rotsformatie is een heilige site voor de Aboriginalgemeenschap Anangu. Uluru staat op de UNESCO-lijst met werelderfgoed en zou een half miljard oud zijn.
Op welke andere plekken op aarde worden geen bezoekers toegelaten?
1. Grotten van Lascaux, Frankrijk
Deze grotten liggen in het Franse departement Dordogne. In 1940 werden in de grotten een groot aantal rotstekeningen ontdekt, die zijn gedateerd op 15.000 tot 10.000 voor Christus.
Het is de rijkst beschilderde prehistorische grot die tot nu toe is ontdekt. Sinds 2008 zijn de grotten gesloten voor publiek.
2. Vaticaans Geheim Archief, Vaticaanstad
Dit is de centrale bewaarplaats van alle akten die zijn uitgevaardigd door de Heilige Stoel. Het grootste deel daarvan wordt bewaard in een betonnen kubus die de bunker wordt genoemd.
In totaal wordt er nu zo’n 85 kilometer aan archiefstukken bewaard. Het archief is alleen toegankelijk voor geleerden van naam en faam.
3. Grote schrijn van Ise, Japan
Dit is een complex van Shintoschrijnen in de Japanse stad Ise. De grote schrijn is één van de heiligste en belangrijkste plekken binnen het Shintoïsme.
Toegang tot de locatie is sterk aan banden gelegd. Bezoekers mogen doorgaans niet meer zien dan de daken van de centrale gebouwen.
De hogepriesters en –priesteressen van de grote schrijn van Ise moeten traditiegetrouw afkomstig zijn uit de Japanse keizerlijke familie.
4. Area 51, VS
Dit is een militaire basis van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht in de Nevadawoestijn. In de volksmond wordt Area 51 ook wel Dreamland genoemd.
De basis is door UFO-onderzoekers vaak genoemd als locatie waar de Amerikaanse overheid buitenaardse wezens verborgen zou houden.
In 2013 heeft de CIA geheime documenten vrijgegeven waarin de basis als Area 51 wordt beschreven.
5. Graftombe van Qin Shi Huang, China
Qin Shi Huang wist gedurende zijn relatief korte bewind grote koninkrijken rondom een rivier in China te verenigen tot één rijk en wordt daarom gezien als de eerste keizer van China.
Bij de bouw van zijn mausoleum werden naar schatting 700.000 arbeiders ingezet, ruim twee keer zoveel als bij de Chinese Muur.
Het mausoleum ligt als een paleis onder een 76 meter hoge grafheuvel. Wonderbaarlijk genoeg is de tombe waarin Qin moet liggen nooit geopend.
6. Mezjgorje, Rusland
Mezjgorje is een gesloten stad in de Russische autonome deelrepubliek Basjkortostan. Gedacht wordt dat de stad moet fungeren als bunker tegen een kernaanval.
De federale overheid bepaalt wie toegang krijgt tot het stadje, dat 17.000 inwoners telt. Toeristen zijn er niet welkom.
Er gaan geruchten dat er Russische legerbataljons gestationeerd zijn die werken in een geheime nucleaire basis.
7. Slangeneiland, Brazilië
Ilha da Queimada, bijgenaamd Slangeneiland, ligt voor de kust van Brazilië en is de thuisbasis van duizenden Golden Lancehead Vipers.
Deze slangen behoren tot de meest giftige ter wereld. Er zouden liefst vijf van deze dieren op elke vierkante meter zijn te vinden.
Jarenlang was de enige menselijke bewoner een vuurtorenwachter, maar inmiddels is het verboden het eiland te betreden.
8. De slaapkamer van de Queen, Engeland
Buckingham Palace verwelkomt toeristen al sinds jaar en dag, maar de slaapkamer van koningin Elizabeth II is niet toegankelijk. Het gaat om één van de zwaarst bewaakte kamers in Engeland.
9. Wereldzaadbank, Spitsbergen
De wereldzaadbank bevat zaden van zoveel mogelijk rassen van gewassen. De opslagplaats, ook wel omschreven als een Doomsday-vault of een ark van Noach, wordt grotendeels betaald door de Noorse overheid.
De zaadbank bevindt zich 120 meter diep in een berg vlak bij de plaats Longyearbyen. Alleen enkele medewerkers mogen bij de zaadbank naar binnen.
10. North Sentinel Island, Andamanen
Dit kleine eiland heeft een oppervlakte van 72 vierkante kilometer en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder de Andamanen.
De inheemse bevolking bestaat uit Sentinelezen, die elk contact met andere mensen weigeren en behoren tot de laatste groepen geïsoleerde volkeren ter wereld die nog niet zijn beïnvloed door de moderne beschaving.
11. Kantoor 39, Noord-Korea
Noord-Korea is één van de meest geheimzinnige landen ter wereld, maar nog geheimzinniger is Kantoor 39.
Er is maar heel weinig bekend over Kantoor 39, waarvan wordt gedacht dat het zich in het hoofdkwartier van de Arbeiderspartij in Pyongyang bevindt.
Er zouden onder meer drugs worden verhandeld en wapendeals worden gesloten.
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Monsterplaneet ontdekt die alle theorieën naar de prullenbak verwijst. Astronomen staan voor een raadsel
Monsterplaneet ontdekt die alle theorieën naar de prullenbak verwijst. Astronomen staan voor een raadsel
De ontdekking van een gigantische ‘monsterplaneet’ doet astronomen versteld staan. De planeet kan ervoor zorgen dat wetenschappers hun theorieën over planeetvorming zullen moeten herzien.
De planeet, bekend als NGTS-1b, is net zo groot als Jupiter, maar draait rond een rode dwerg die slechts half zo groot is als onze zon.
Astronomen hadden niet verwacht dat zo’n enorme planeet rond zo’n kleine ster zou kunnen draaien. De ontdekking staat haaks op de theorieën over de manier waarop planeten ontstaan.
Complete verrassing
Het mysterieuze zonnestelsel staat op 600 lichtjaar van de aarde.
“De ontdekking van NGTS-1b kwam voor ons als een complete verrassing,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Daniel Bayliss van de Universiteit van Warwick.
“We hadden niet verwacht dat zulke enorme planeten rond zulke kleine sterren zouden kunnen bestaan,” vervolgde hij.
“Onze uitdaging is nu om erachter te komen hoeveel van deze planeten in het sterrenstelsel voorkomen,” aldus dr. Bayliss.
Lastig
NGTS-1b is ontdekt met behulp van een netwerk van telescopen die staan opgesteld in de Atacama-woestijn in Chili.
De gasreus staat zeer dicht bij zijn ster, op slechts drie procent van de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon. Een jaar duurt er maar 2,6 dagen. De oppervlaktetemperatuur bedraagt er ongeveer 530 graden Celsius.
“NGTS-1b was lastig te vinden, ondanks het feit dat het een monster van een planeet is, omdat de moederster klein en zwak is,” zei professor Peter Wheatley.
Veel
“Kleine sterren komen het vaakst voor in het universum en dus is het mogelijk dat er veel van dit soort reuzenplaneten zijn,” voegde hij toe.
Grote Piramide bevat verborgen ruimte ter grootte van een Boeing. Wetenschappers doen spectaculaire vondst
Grote Piramide bevat verborgen ruimte ter grootte van een Boeing. Wetenschappers doen spectaculaire vondst
Met de hulp van kosmische straling hebben wetenschappers een minstens 30 meter grote ruimte in de grootste van de drie piramides in Gizeh ontdekt.
Het resultaat betekent een doorbraak om de interne structuur van de piramide van Cheops beter te begrijpen, schrijven de onderzoekers in een verslag in vakblad Nature.
“We weten niet wat de bedoeling van deze holle ruimte is,” zegt Mehdi Tayoubi van het internationaal wetenschappelijk team.
Zo groot als een Boeing
“Daarom willen we ook niet van een kamer spreken,” voegde hij toe. Maar de omvang van de ontdekte ruimte is groot. “Zo groot als een Boeing,” klinkt het.
Drie teams van verschillende instituten en universiteiten uit Frankrijk en Japan onderzochten gedurende twee jaar de 4500 jaar oude piramide in Gizeh.
Daarbij gebruikten de wetenschappers een scan met muonen, een nevenproduct van kosmische straling.
Honderden meters
Net zoals röntgenstralen bij het menselijk lichaam kunnen die elementaire deeltjes honderden meters steen doordringen, aldus de onderzoekers.
De piramide van Cheops is de oudste en de grootste van de drie piramides van Gizeh en is één van de zeven wereldwonderen uit de Oudheid.
De piramide is 139 meter hoog en 230 meter lang. Het bouwwerk stamt uit de regeerperiode van Cheops en heeft nog steeds niet al zijn geheimen blootgegeven.
It is one of the great wonders of the ancient world; since long before Herodotus first wrote of its magnificence, describing the casing stones and their curious characters, and the more than 100,000 men who labored for two decades to complete it, the Great Pyramid has towered over the Earth, and the imaginations of men across the globe.
Hence it is with great intrigue that a new discovery has been revealed within the Great Pyramid, indicating a mysterious “void” estimated to be at least 100 feet in length. It is the first new discovery of an inner structure within the pyramid since the 19th century.
Mehdi Tayoubi, a co-founder of the nonprofit group that conducted the research, said of the discovery that, “No very big structure has not been discovered inside the Khufu pyramid since the Middle Ages,” emphasizing the significance of the new information.
Mirroring Tayoubi’s sentiments, Egyptologist Yukinori Kawae told National Geographic that, “This is definitely the discovery of the century.”
“There have been many hypotheses about the pyramid,” Kawae says, “but no one even imagined that such a big void is located above the Grand Gallery.”
Theories about the void (archaeologists have presently taken great care not to refer to the discovery as a “chamber”) range from an area engineered to relieve stress from the weight of large quantities of stone in the massive structure, to a possible cavity similar to that of the Grand Gallery itself.
The area is believed to have a cross section that bears similarity to the Grand Gallery in length and general size, and is estimated to be nearly 100 feet long (98 feet, by one estimate).
History tells us the Great Pyramid (or “Khufu’s pyramid” as it is also called, named after the Pharaoh to which it is attributed) was constructed around 2560. Traditions associated with the monument, along with interpretations of modern Egyptologists, relate that the structure was built to ensure the immortality of Khufu–a veritable god among men–as he passed into the afterlife.
The new discovery was truly a multidisciplinary effort, employing innovative physics along with archaeological research. With assistance from the Egyptian government, what is called the “ScanPyramids project” has been a two year collaboration with Egypts’ Heritage Innovation Preservation project, based out of Cairo University.
The ScanPyramids project relied on cosmic rays to be able to study the interior of the pyramid in a non-invasive way (contrasting sharply with earlier excavations carried out in the 19th century by Howard Vyse, who blasted his way through parts of the structure with gunpowder when necessary). The ScanPyramids team were able to rely on muons–which are essentially “heavy” electrons–to help detect structural changes within the pyramid, by setting up a muon telescope directly in front of the structure.
“When they hit objects on the ground, they act exactly like X-rays: Dense objects absorb them; less dense objects let them pass through. The ScanPyramids team used photographic plates sensitive to muons. These photographic plates were placed inside the already-explored chambers of the pyramid and around the outside of the structure. The data from each plate was then combined to make a map of the void.”
The discovery has been met with mixed opinions, and while fascinating, some outlets (including the New York Times) suggest that it’s not all that mysterious. The NYT went on to note that talk among the archaeological community, “questioned whether the study offered any new information about the ancient Egyptians,” further noting that the room was likely a structural necessity, as opposed to being, “a hidden room filled with the pharaoh’s riches.”
Whatever its purpose may yet be shown to be, the discovery remains, without question, among the most significant recent finds at the Giza complex, and will continue to assist in shaping our knowledge of the ancient world.
“The UFO got in the way of the sun, causing the earth to seem darker, and this would make the ball of light show up even more where the children were.”
What is this retired Presbyterian pastor talking about? If you think this sounds like the apparitions seen by three children in Fatima, Portugal, 100 years ago – except for the UFO part – you must be a fan of Reverend Barry Downing, who makes this and many other astonishing claims in his new book, Biblical UFO Revelations: Did Extraterrestrial Powers Cause Ancient Miracles?. Wait until you hear what he thinks about the burning bush and the pillar of fire.
Barry Downing isn’t just the Pastor emeritus of Northminster Presbyterian Church in Endwell, New York. He has bachelor’s degree in physics, a degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in the relation between religion and science from the University of Edinburgh of Scotland. He’s been enlightening and aggravating both theologians and ufologists since 1968 when he published his first book, The Bible and Flying Saucers, in which he equates biblical angels with space aliens.
“Church people have trouble with what I’m doing. People who’ve seen UFOs have no problem.”
That’s an understatement, considering Pope Francis talks about baptizing extraterrestrials while there are other Catholic Church leaders still arguing about Galileo. In an interview with Sean Casteel (who contributed to the book) on the website Unexplained Mysteries, Reverend Downing explains what’s in his new book, which is both an update and a sequel to the first:
“My argument is that the Exodus UFO, the pillar of cloud and fire, which appeared cloud-like during the day and glowed in the dark, used its propulsion system to split the waters of the Red Sea and save Israel from the Egyptians.”
Did religious scholars just feel a disturbance in the force? Downing calls the description of this event in Exodus 14:19-30 a “very detailed environmental impact statement.” He also looks at another significant phenomenon in that book as evidence of an encounter with an alien.
“What is not amazing to me is not that we had a burning bush … we had a talking bush. A voice came to Moses from the bush.”
Downing also returns to his idea that angels were aliens who took Moses on their spaceship to receive the 10 Commandments and specifications for the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. Statements like these have been made by others and can certainly sound believable, at least to ufologists. Where Reverend Downing will likely get criticized is in statements about close encounters of the New Testament kind that he spells out on the back cover:
** That Jesus was an extraterrestrial sent to earth to rid the world of sin and wickedness, quoting Biblical text to support his claim. ** That Jesus left earth in a spaceship to another planet, or perhaps another spatial dimension.
Good luck seeing Pope Francis at your next book signing, Reverend. He won’t see any government officials (other than possibly the Men in Black) there either with his idea that a possible government cover-up of UFOs is more because the aliens are angels rather than the fear of revealing advanced technology.
Downing just asks readers to keep an open mind.
“This book is for the faithful as well as those who are primarily interested in unexplained historical phenomena as revealed in Biblical as well as other ancient texts, as well as seekers of censored truths concerning the hidden and forbidden knowledge of mankind.”
Sounds like the perfect book to help get over the disappointment of the JFK assassination files.
Secret chamber found in the Great Pyramid of Giza (Video)
Secret chamber found in the Great Pyramid of Giza (Video)
A long-hidden narrow cavity in the Great Pyramid of Giza has been found by scientists in a discovery that could finally reveal the secrets of the 4,500-year-old monument.
Location of the cavity, see the white dots in the above image.
Described as a 'deep void', it is at least about 100 feet long and up to 230 feet above ground, running over the Grand Gallery, an ascending corridor that links the Queen’s chamber to the King’s in the heart of the pyramid, reports Dailymail in their in-depth article on this discovery.
It is not known why the void exists or if there are any valuable artifacts inside as it is not obviously accessible. More research will be conducted to reveal the secrets of this cavity which is so big, it’s like a plane with 200 seats in the heart of the pyramid, explains AFP Medhi Tayoubi, co-director of the project ScanPyramids at the origin of the discovery.
See below the interesting video of ScanPyramids using advanced non-invasive technologies which allow them to see through stone walls to discover any voids or internal unknown structures.
Monster’ planet just discovered that was thought IMPOSSIBLE to exist!
Monster’ planet just discovered that was thought IMPOSSIBLE to exist!
A giant planet – the existence of which previously thought extremely unlikely – discovered around a small star by an international collaboration of astronomers, with University of Warwick taking a leading role.
Image above is an artist's rendering of the red 'monster' planet -
Mark Garlick, University of Warwick.
NGTS-1b is the largest planet compared to the size of its companion star ever discovered in universe – contradicts theories that a planet of this size could not be formed by such a small star Discovered using the state-of-the-art Next-Generation Transit Survey observing facility, designed to search for transiting planets on bright stars.
NGTS-1b is 600 light years away from us – it is a gas giant the size of Jupiter which orbits a star only half the size of our Sun at an extremely fast pace.
It’s amazing that they keep finding new planets, habitable exoplanets, Stars and even they have confirmed the existence of a planet nine but nothing is said about planet X also called Nibiru, except that it is a hypothetical planet and doesn’t exist.
The late Zecharia Sitchin wrote numerous publications on the planet Nibiru.
The planet Nibiru associated with Marduk in Babylonian cosmology is a central element of Sitchin's theory and he claims it was a tenth planet (twelfth to those who included the Sun and Moon) which followed a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system every 3600 years and was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis.
Despite Sitchin’s theory we cannot say for sure if Nibiru is real or just a hypothetical planet, though it is worth mentioning that the existing of a Nibiru solar system has been mentioned by numerous ancient civilizations.
Maybe they are not telling us everything about this ‘monster’ planet, but for now it is just another new discovered planet rather than part of the Nibiru system, which next passage is in the year 2085 according to Sitchin.
UFO hunters are amazed at the appearance of a strange looking cloud that was seen over the skies of Dorset. Onlookers reported a pair of odd looking clouds as some believed that UFOs were responsible for them as they punched through the clouds.
Locals and holidaymakers first spotted the formation between midday and 2 pm on October 25.
Many believe it was natural, but others argue it was supernatural that causing the unusual event. The rest are just scratching their heads as they cannot say for sure what was the cause.
Photographer Len Copeland managed to photograph the clouds as many people were halted in their tracks when they first noticed the clouds.
People around Copeland thought he knew what was going on after seeing him taking photographs but he had no idea as well.
Copeland said that two, round-shaped UFO formations appeared weird to them. Interestingly, one of the formations dissipated and left a feathery thing in its place.
During the event, there were thousands of people including children playing on the beach and swimming in the sea. Lots of people were reportedly taking pictures of the cloud.
However, Met Office spokesperson said that the rare cloud formation that left a hole in the sky over Dorset was a fallstreak cloud. Fallstreak clouds, according to the Met Office website, form when part of the cloud layer forms ice crystals that are large enough to drop as fallstreak.
As scientists have learned more about our solar system, they've realized our best bet for finding life in the neighborhood is buried in ice-covered oceans. But those ice shells make them difficult to study, which is why NASA is investing in state-of-the-art technology to understand what's happening beneath the surface of these potentially habitable places, like Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
That's probably fine, since SELFI is still in the works anyway. The machine represents a huge step forward in what are known as submillimeter wavelength devices. Submillimeter wavelength is a fancy term for the type of light the machine will be able to see, and it's a burgeoning target for astronomical observations, since relatively little work has been done in that range.
Different types of chemical compounds produce different fingerprints in submillimeter wavelength light, which SELFI will be able to use to identify 13 ingredients. “Molecules such as water and carbon monoxide, and others, are like little radio stations that broadcast on very specific frequencies that say, ‘Hey, I’m water, I’m carbon monoxide,’” said Gordon Chin, the NASA scientist leading the project, in a press release. Other targeted chemicals include ammonia, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and table salt.
Analyzing Enceladus's jets may help scientists determine whether there is life on Saturn's moon.
NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
All 13 of those ingredients are of interest to planetary scientists, but they're particularly interested in water, so Chin and his colleagues are currently working to make SELFI extra-sensitive to that specific chemical fingerprint. They're hoping to have it all ready to add to NASA's first Enceladus mission, whenever that is approved.
The Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy material spraying from Enceladus during its deepest and last dive through the plume on Oct. 28, 2015. This graphic illustrates a theory on how water interacts with rock at the bottom of the moon’s ocean, producing hydrogen gas. A Goddard team wants to develop an instrument that would reveal even more details about the hydrothermal vents and perhaps help answer if life exists on this ocean world.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute
Right now, the agency has only committed to sending an orbiter to Enceladus's leading competitor for life on an icy moon, Jupiter's Europa. That mission is scheduled to launch during the 2020s. Just like Enceladus, Europa likely hides a water ocean underneath a frozen crust, although Europa doesn't sport Enceladus's geysers that helpfully bring the ocean closer to orbiting spacecraft. It's highly unlikely NASA will approve a mission to land on either moon, since that would risk contaminating a habitable world with Earth cooties.
Crop circles blur science, paranormal in X-Files culture
An intricate crop circle spans a diameter of more than 45 metres in a barley field close to Barbury Castle near Wroughton, England, about 130 kilometres west of London, in 2008. The circle is noteworthy for its complexity, representing the first 10 digits of the mathematical constant pi, or 3.141592654. Lucy Pringle, CC BY-SA
Crop circles blur science, paranormal in X-Files culture
Crop circles are some of the most beautiful, mysterious and controversial landscape phenomena in the contemporary world. They are found around the globe, appearing in countries with large areas of agricultural land. They are also central to a shift in culture with investigative approaches that mimic science and increasingly make the paranormal mainstream.
Unlike UFOs, ghosts and sasquatches, crop circles are tangible — people can touch and walk into them. At least 30 appeared in England last summer. In British Columbia, crop circle formations appeared in Vanderhoof, about 100 kilometres west of Prince George, in 1998 and 2001.
Crop circles and what people do with them represent one aspect of my ongoing four-year research project, which explores the recent growth of beliefs, practices and experiences related to the paranormal. My fieldwork studies investigative paranormal groups in the Vancouver area and paranormal conferences across North America and England.
Recent literature in the social sciences on paranormal cultures argues that despite the rise of a secular, post-religious society, paranormal discourses are becoming increasingly significant in people’s lives in the West.
Because the paranormal refers to “events or phenomena… that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding,” researchers have long acknowledged that the paranormal intersects with “normal” everyday life.
Recently, however, as a result of a paranormal influence in popular culture, the rise of new spiritualities and commodities associated with them — such as cauldrons, healing crystals and online psychic services — researchers have begun to question describing interest in the paranormal as subcultural or countercultural, rather than mainstream.
Paranormal goes mainstream and scientific
Investigative organizations and international conferences that mobilize paranormal feelings, knowledge and practices are central to the merger between the paranormal and the mainstream.
Drawing on the models and techniques that mimic conventional science, these conferences and organizations are open to the public and have led to the democratization of paranormal investigation and availability of paranormal experiences.
The 1990s TV series, The X-Files, which followed FBI agents investigating strange phenomena, has regained popularity and returned to production amid rising interest in the paranormal.
Researchers — especially in the humanities — acknowledge the relevance of the paranormal. Yet enduring skepticism in the social sciences about the legitimacy of the claims about paranormal phenomena and experiences has resulted in a lack of critical studies on how people are actually engaging with the paranormal.
Academic research has already acknowledged the importance of local paranormal groups and international conferences that engage paranormal phenomena — in particular ghosts, UFOs and cryptids such as sasquatch. Yet we know very little about the relationships between these groups and conferences, as well as why and how they shape people’s everyday lives.
My study helps explain how paranormal organizations and conferences are contributing to these sociocultural changes.
Rationality conflicts with crop circles’ mystery
Crop circle research or “cereology” exemplifies the tension between the ordinary and extraordinary.
No matter what one understands to be the cause of crop circles, whether they are all human-made or involve aquifers, ley lines, divine feminine energy, ancient sacred sites, ball lightning or even UFOs, crop circles bring to the fore a mysterious disconnection between language and the visible, as described in Jean-François Lyotard’s book Discourse, Figure.
The French philosopher argues there is an unstable relationship between linguistic meaning and units of signification, that is, the visible patterns of words, dreams, symbols and visual art. Because there is no inherent meaning in any given signifier (meaning always relies on another word and a wider context), and art and symbols are conceptually opaque by default, they necessarily defy easy rational understanding.
A crop circle enthusiast from Dublin lies on the ground to connect with what he believes are sacred energies in a crop circle in Wiltshire, England, in July.(Paul Kingsbury), Author provided
One day during the conference, I went to visit a crop circle with fellow researchers only to find a sign on a gate to the property: “Crop circle closed.” The person representing an organization that liaises between farmers and crop-circle researchers was not present. Because we could not proceed without trespassing, we got back into the car.
Back at the conference, an argument erupted over the behaviour of some researchers who had ignored the “Crop circle closed” sign, climbed over the fence and walked to the crop circle.
For one researcher, this transgression was troubling because it exhibited the crass consumption of what he believed was a sacred phenomenon. Another researcher, who had ignored the sign, replied that he respected this opinion, but felt the crop circle was “calling out” to him and that it would be more disrespectful to ignore the pull of the sacred.
The researchers had differing views on whether a “Crop circle closed” sign, which demarcated a boundary, should be obeyed or whether it was an inappropriate obstacle to the “call” of the crop circle.
The tension between the appearances and meanings of crop circles also informed the tricky patience demanded in a sacred geometry workshop. As participants drew lines with compasses and protractors, they struggled to accurately reproduce the complex patterns of crop circles, losing small pieces of pencil lead and struggling to keep their compasses from slipping on the paper. Conference organizer Karen Alexander said the exercise gave the participants a better appreciation and intimate understanding of crop circles.
Interpreting paranormal cultures
As a part of my work, I explore the tensions between the visual and language, focusing on the complexity of crop-circle landscapes where enthusiasts struggle to navigate toward, inside and away from crop circles.
Lyotard aligns these events with “figural space” — elusive elements that disrupt and exceed the capture of language. Crucial here is how crop circles — unlike ghosts, UFOs and sasquatches — are highly tangible signs. But what they mean and what they are remains a mystery.
Despite claims by “circle-makers” that they are human-made, the sheer size and complexity of the circles belies a 100 per cent human-made explanation.
According to researchers at the conference, hoaxers, when questioned about how they were able to make 80 or so perfectly round circles without breaking or snapping cereal stalks, are unable to reproduce the patterns and ignore the researchers’ questions.
Furthermore, finding and getting to the crop circles — navigating narrow and winding English countryside roads and locating their exact whereabouts in large fields of wheat or barley — is no small feat.
Like all the other paranormal investigation cultures I have studied so far, crop circle research blurs the distinction between the everyday and the extraordinary. Beyond this, one cannot discount the importance of geography in the micro-spaces of fields and conference venues. The regional nature and extent to which crop circles are landscape phenomena incites many people’s desire to shape their encounters with the sublime.
Crop circles blur science, paranormal in X-Files culture
An intricate crop circle spans a diameter of more than 45 metres in a barley field close to Barbury Castle near Wroughton, England, about 130 kilometres west of London, in 2008. The circle is noteworthy for its complexity, representing the first 10 digits of the mathematical constant pi, or 3.141592654. Lucy Pringle, CC BY-SA
Crop circles blur science, paranormal in X-Files culture
Crop circles are some of the most beautiful, mysterious and controversial landscape phenomena in the contemporary world. They are found around the globe, appearing in countries with large areas of agricultural land. They are also central to a shift in culture with investigative approaches that mimic science and increasingly make the paranormal mainstream.
Unlike UFOs, ghosts and sasquatches, crop circles are tangible — people can touch and walk into them. At least 30 appeared in England last summer. In British Columbia, crop circle formations appeared in Vanderhoof, about 100 kilometres west of Prince George, in 1998 and 2001.
Crop circles and what people do with them represent one aspect of my ongoing four-year research project, which explores the recent growth of beliefs, practices and experiences related to the paranormal. My fieldwork studies investigative paranormal groups in the Vancouver area and paranormal conferences across North America and England.
Recent literature in the social sciences on paranormal cultures argues that despite the rise of a secular, post-religious society, paranormal discourses are becoming increasingly significant in people’s lives in the West.
Because the paranormal refers to “events or phenomena… that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding,” researchers have long acknowledged that the paranormal intersects with “normal” everyday life.
Recently, however, as a result of a paranormal influence in popular culture, the rise of new spiritualities and commodities associated with them — such as cauldrons, healing crystals and online psychic services — researchers have begun to question describing interest in the paranormal as subcultural or countercultural, rather than mainstream.
Paranormal goes mainstream and scientific
Investigative organizations and international conferences that mobilize paranormal feelings, knowledge and practices are central to the merger between the paranormal and the mainstream.
Drawing on the models and techniques that mimic conventional science, these conferences and organizations are open to the public and have led to the democratization of paranormal investigation and availability of paranormal experiences.
The 1990s TV series, The X-Files, which followed FBI agents investigating strange phenomena, has regained popularity and returned to production amid rising interest in the paranormal.
Researchers — especially in the humanities — acknowledge the relevance of the paranormal. Yet enduring skepticism in the social sciences about the legitimacy of the claims about paranormal phenomena and experiences has resulted in a lack of critical studies on how people are actually engaging with the paranormal.
Academic research has already acknowledged the importance of local paranormal groups and international conferences that engage paranormal phenomena — in particular ghosts, UFOs and cryptids such as sasquatch. Yet we know very little about the relationships between these groups and conferences, as well as why and how they shape people’s everyday lives.
My study helps explain how paranormal organizations and conferences are contributing to these sociocultural changes.
Rationality conflicts with crop circles’ mystery
Crop circle research or “cereology” exemplifies the tension between the ordinary and extraordinary.
No matter what one understands to be the cause of crop circles, whether they are all human-made or involve aquifers, ley lines, divine feminine energy, ancient sacred sites, ball lightning or even UFOs, crop circles bring to the fore a mysterious disconnection between language and the visible, as described in Jean-François Lyotard’s book Discourse, Figure.
The French philosopher argues there is an unstable relationship between linguistic meaning and units of signification, that is, the visible patterns of words, dreams, symbols and visual art. Because there is no inherent meaning in any given signifier (meaning always relies on another word and a wider context), and art and symbols are conceptually opaque by default, they necessarily defy easy rational understanding.
A crop circle enthusiast from Dublin lies on the ground to connect with what he believes are sacred energies in a crop circle in Wiltshire, England, in July.(Paul Kingsbury), Author provided
One day during the conference, I went to visit a crop circle with fellow researchers only to find a sign on a gate to the property: “Crop circle closed.” The person representing an organization that liaises between farmers and crop-circle researchers was not present. Because we could not proceed without trespassing, we got back into the car.
Back at the conference, an argument erupted over the behaviour of some researchers who had ignored the “Crop circle closed” sign, climbed over the fence and walked to the crop circle.
For one researcher, this transgression was troubling because it exhibited the crass consumption of what he believed was a sacred phenomenon. Another researcher, who had ignored the sign, replied that he respected this opinion, but felt the crop circle was “calling out” to him and that it would be more disrespectful to ignore the pull of the sacred.
The researchers had differing views on whether a “Crop circle closed” sign, which demarcated a boundary, should be obeyed or whether it was an inappropriate obstacle to the “call” of the crop circle.
The tension between the appearances and meanings of crop circles also informed the tricky patience demanded in a sacred geometry workshop. As participants drew lines with compasses and protractors, they struggled to accurately reproduce the complex patterns of crop circles, losing small pieces of pencil lead and struggling to keep their compasses from slipping on the paper. Conference organizer Karen Alexander said the exercise gave the participants a better appreciation and intimate understanding of crop circles.
Interpreting paranormal cultures
As a part of my work, I explore the tensions between the visual and language, focusing on the complexity of crop-circle landscapes where enthusiasts struggle to navigate toward, inside and away from crop circles.
Lyotard aligns these events with “figural space” — elusive elements that disrupt and exceed the capture of language. Crucial here is how crop circles — unlike ghosts, UFOs and sasquatches — are highly tangible signs. But what they mean and what they are remains a mystery.
Despite claims by “circle-makers” that they are human-made, the sheer size and complexity of the circles belies a 100 per cent human-made explanation.
According to researchers at the conference, hoaxers, when questioned about how they were able to make 80 or so perfectly round circles without breaking or snapping cereal stalks, are unable to reproduce the patterns and ignore the researchers’ questions.
Furthermore, finding and getting to the crop circles — navigating narrow and winding English countryside roads and locating their exact whereabouts in large fields of wheat or barley — is no small feat.
Like all the other paranormal investigation cultures I have studied so far, crop circle research blurs the distinction between the everyday and the extraordinary. Beyond this, one cannot discount the importance of geography in the micro-spaces of fields and conference venues. The regional nature and extent to which crop circles are landscape phenomena incites many people’s desire to shape their encounters with the sublime.
Since 1950, Missouri is fourteenth in the highest number of sightings of unidentified flying objects.
File photo
In recent years, the state of Missouri has embarked on an aggressive tourism campaign, designed to attract visitors from surrounding areas. Some of those visitors may even be from other galaxies.
Since 1950, Missouri is fourteenth in the highest number of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), with 2,114 reports to the National UFO Reporting Center. Among the eight states bordering Missouri, only Illinois has more.
The statistics were revealed in the most extensive release of government UFO files to date. In January 2015, some 136,000 pages of declassified records from Project Blue Book, the renowned Air Force investigation of UFOs, were placed online.
Project Blue Book, based at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, recorded 12,618 reports of UFOs between 1947-69. Most were easily explained, though 701 are still listed as “unidentified.”
More than ever, Americans are convinced that aliens visit Earth. In 2012, a National Geographic survey revealed that 36 percent of Americans believe in UFOs, with only 17 percent disputing such a notion. The rest – a whopping 47 percent – was undecided. Some eighty percent of those surveyed think the U.S. government has concealed information on UFOs from the public.
The following year, a Huffington Post survey found that 48 percent of American adults were “open to the idea that alien spacecraft are observing our planet,” with 35 percent disagreeing. Men and women were nearly equal in percentage of believers, though political preference apparently influences UFO support. The Huffington survey found that 58 percent of Democrats call themselves believers, compared to 37 percent of Republicans and 47 percent of independents.
Missouri’s high ranking may be attributed to several factors, including relative population. Of the leading ten states for UFO reports, eight are in the top ten in population. California, for instance, leads the nation in population with 38.3 million residents, and its 12,658 UFO reports are over twice the number of the next-highest state.
Water may also be a factor. UFO reports tend to be clustered around large bodies of water, a trait shared by nine of the top ten states for sightings. With the Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake, and the Mississippi River, Missouri has plenty to attract cosmic visitors looking for a scenic vista or a cool drink.
Several sightings have been reported around the area in recent years, including in Perryville on Dec. 10, 2011. In that instance, two witnesses reported “two triangle-shaped objects hovering very high above the Missouri bootheel.”
On April 4, 2012 in Perryville, “one large, spherical unblinking light” was “seen in the distance that made quick movements.” The sighting lasted for thirty to forty-five minutes. Sometimes the reports were not of sightings at all. On Jan. 11, 2015 in Perryville, “an unusual and almost deafening rumbling noise” was reported that “sounded very low but could not be seen.”
Perhaps otherworldly visitors to Perry County want to see what’s happening at the Perry Park Center. Or to check out the latest Cruise In.
Maybe they were passing through on their way to nearby towns. On June 21, 2014, a slow-moving orange light was reported across the sky over Fredericktown, where a “blinking white light” that “traveled a short distance, (then) disappeared” was also reported on May 2, 2015.
To the north, Farmington’s slogan of “the city of tradition and progress” may have attracted a “huge fireball-type object with humanoid object in the center,” according to a report on Nov. 8, 2012. On Dec. 19, 2013, “three horizontal bright white lights hovering in the southwest sky at night” were witnessed in Farmington, which may be comparable to a sighting there on June 17, 2015 of “a flash, or streak” that “seemed very bright, brighter than the moon, with the intensity of lightning.”
Aliens may have wanted to celebrate July 4 in Farmington in 2015, because on that night, a motorist “looked out (the) windshield and viewed the craft headed west. It seemed quite large, a fireball, with no discernible flashing lights.”
At least two recent UFO reports in neighboring Illinois have garnered national attention. In the early morning hours of Jan. 5, 2000, a string of local policemen on night patrol in neighboring towns reported a well-lit triangular object flying quietly at low altitudes over such locations as Highland, Lebanon, Dupo, Millstadt, and O’Fallon. Dubbed the “St. Clair Triangle,” the sighting has been the subject of national television features and multiple investigations by UFO enthusiasts.
On Nov. 7, 2006, mass reports of a lighted, saucer-like phenomena over a concourse of the United Airlines terminal at O’Hare Airport in Chicago set the Windy City abuzz. The alleged craft hovered for several minutes before racing into the sky and leaving what appeared to be a hole in the clouds.
Commercial and military pilots sometimes report strange lights in their airspace, though, as are sightings on the ground, the extraterrestrial possibility of these objects is hotly debated.
Interest in UFOs revives every few years, sometimes with reported sightings. The spike in the post-war era started with reports of alleged UFO wreckage near Roswell, N.M. in 1947. However, Roswell was hardly the first alleged UFO incident, as some researchers argue that strange phenomena in the skies is reported in the Bible.
In 1896 and 1897, there was a spate of UFO sightings across the nation, usually of cigar-shaped lighted objects in the sky. On April 17, 1897, reports surfaced of an extraterrestrial vehicle crash near Aurora, Tex., which allegedly resulted in one alien casualty.
Closer to home, three men claimed to have seen a cigar-shaped object with some sort of canopy top and oars that landed in a field near the tiny town of Nilwood, Ill., 30 miles south of Springfield, a mere two days before the Aurora crash. Whether or not the incidents are connected is not clear.
Despite the debate, Hollywood has made billions on the fantasy of space travel and the encounters that follow. The never-ending Star Wars releases are among the most profitable films of all time, while television favorites like Star Trek have legions of fans.
Tom Emery is a freelance writer and historical researcher from Carlinville, Ill., and a non-believer in UFOs. He may be reached at 217-710-8392 or ilcivilwar@yahoo.com.
After more than 70 years of tourism, authorities announced this week that the iconic Australian landmark Uluru would be off limits for climbers as of October 2019.
The huge red monolith, formerly known as Ayers Rock, has been considered by many tourists a must-visit site when travelling through Australia.
However, it is sacred to its traditional Aboriginal owners who have long been asking people to stop climbing it.
“The land has law and culture. We welcome tourists here. Closing the climb is not something to feel upset about but a cause for celebration. Let’s come together; let’s close it together,” said Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board chairman Sammy Wilson.
But what other famous landmarks around the world are off-limits to visitors?
1. Lascaux Caves, France
The cave complex in southwestern France is home to some of the world’s most famous examples of prehistoric paintings.
After being discovered by a group of teenagers in 1940, the site became a popular tourist spot, accepting more than a thousand visitors a day following World War II.
However, the UNESCO World Heritage Site had to be sealed off to the public in 1963 because the breath and sweat of visitors, presence of light and changes in air circulation had damaged the paintings.
Lascaux II, an exact copy of the Great Hall of the Bulls and the Painted Gallery, opened in 1983 for visitors.
2. Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City
Hidden deep within the walls of the Vatican City are the Vatican Secret Archives, storing thousands of important historic documents on an estimated 52 miles of shelves.
Files include correspondence between the Vatican and some of the world’s most famous historic figures, such as Mozart, Queen Elizabeth I and Adolf Hitler.
The archives, which are officially the pope’s personal property, are off-limits to visitors. Scientific researchers from qualified universities can apply to enter, but even if granted access, no document after 1939 is available for public viewing.
3. Ise Grand Shrine, Japan
Visitors hoping to get inside the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan will have to think again, as authorities won’t even let you see the building.
The shrine is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu and is considered one of the holiest places in Japan.
Only the chief priest or priestess of the shrine, who must be a member of the Imperial Family, is allowed to enter the sacred site.
4. Area 51, US
The United States Air Force facility in the Nevada desert commonly known as ‘Area 51’ is the stuff of UFO legends.
The CIA publicly acknowledged the existence of the base for the first time in 2013.
But while the surrounding area, including the small town of Rachel on the so-called “Extraterrestrial Highway”, is a popular tourist destination, Area 51 itself is off limits.
While you can see the complex’s buildings in satellite images, it doesn’t appear on public US government maps, and you can’t drive anywhere near it.
5. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, China
Located at the northern foot of the Lishan Mountain, the Qinshihuang Mausoleum is the tomb of Emperor Qinshihuang, the founder of the first unified empire in Chinese history.
The huge complex reportedly took 38 years to build, from 246 to 208 BC, and was designed to mirror the urban plan of the then-capital, Xianyang.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site contains thousands of intricately crafted terracotta soldiers, each designed individually with horses, chariots and weapons and first unearthed in 1974.
However, far from being open to visitors, the tomb itself has not yet even been excavated.
6. Mezhgorye, Russia
Mezhgorye is a closed town in the Republic of Bashkortosan, Russia, which is believed to serve as a bunker against a nuclear attack.
Its status means that the federal government has the power to grant and deny access to the town of around 17,000 inhabitants, making it out of bounds for tourists.
It has been reported that the site is home to Russian military battalions that serve a secret nuclear missile base.
7. Snake Island, Brazil
Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island, is a tiny island off the coast of Brazil that is home to more than 4,000 deadly snakes.
The island is deemed so dangerous that the Brazilian government banned visitors, and while scientists occasionally venture there for study, no humans or mammal species call the island home.
8. The Queen’s bedroom, England
Buckingham Palace has long welcomed tourists, but the Queen’s bedroom remains completely out of bounds to visitors.
The heavily guarded chamber is said to be among the most secure rooms in England, and has become even more so since 1982, when a man named Michael Fagan broke into the bedroom and saw the Queen in her nightie in the biggest royal security breach of the 20th century.
9. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the remote Norwegian island of Spitsbergen is strictly off limits to the public.
The vault was built to store seeds that could be retrieved in the case of a huge environmental disaster.
It is one of the most secure storage facilities on the entire planet, so tourists hoping to pay a visit to the vault will have to think again.
10. North Sentinel Island, India
The remote North Sentinel Island off the coast of India is home to the indigenous Sentinelese people who actively avoid contact with the outside world.
India has reportedly stopped all attempts at contacting the tribe and imposed a three-mile out-of-bounds zone around the island.
In 2006, two fishermen approached the island illegally and were killed.
11. Room 39, North Korea
North Korea is one of the most secretive countries in the world, but even more secret is its Room 39.
Very little is known about Room 39 – thought to be inside the Workers’ Party headquarters in downtown Pyongyang – but it is believed to handle weapons deals, drug trafficking and money counterfeiting.
For tourists visiting the country on one of the official tours, it is certain to be left off the itinerary.
Editor’s note: This is the final entry for Robert Powell’s three part series regarding a UFO encounter by the US Navy. Here are links to Part I and Part II.
In Part I of this series I told you about an amazing UFO encounter that occurred between the USS Nimitz, USS Princeton, an E-2C airborne early warning aircraft, four Navy F-18 Super Hornets and a Marine F-18. In Part II I told you about emails that I received from the Navy JAG where a Marine Lt Colonel and a Major confirmed that they were aware of this UFO encounter as were at least seven other Navy and Marine officers. Now in Part III I will explain how you can help and make a difference. This is your chance to pressure your congressman to investigate this incident. If everyone acts together, there is a reasonable chance that the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services will ask for a debriefing on the incident.
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), guided missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59), and fast combat support ship USS Bridge (AOE 10) participate in an underway replenishment (UNREP).
(Credit: US Navy)
The Senate Armed Service Committee is the congressional organization that would receive a debriefing and this is why we are also sending a letter to John McCain who is the Chairman of this committee. The four steps below will guide you. The letter to your congressman has already been written and the wording of the letter has been carefully chosen to provide the best chance at success.
Step 1 – Share/forward this information with all of your friends that are interested in a solution to the UFO phenomenon. This is the most important action that you can take. Let’s get thousands of letters sent!
Step 2– Go to the following link to identify your congressional representatives by entering your address including your state: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/
You will have two senators and one representative. Click on their “Official Website” to obtain their physical address and use their address that is in Washington, D.C.
Add the appropriate name of your senator or representative, print, sign the letter, use the address from Step 2, and then mail it. You will have three letters for your two senators and one representative. Physical mail with a personal signature has more effect with your congressman than an email.
Step 4 – Download the following letter to Senator John McCain here: Letter to John McCain
Sign your name and use the address shown in the letter heading to address your envelope.
Robert Powell presenting at the International UFO Congress.
(Credit: International UFO Congress)
Thank you for support! Once you’ve sent your letters, please send an email with the subject line “I voted from ‘name of your state’” to robertmaxpowell@gmail.com This will allow me to measure the effectiveness of the campaign.
Historical discovery: Researchers find hidden ‘chamber’ inside the Great Pyramid
Historical discovery: Researchers find hidden ‘chamber’ inside the Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid is a universal symbol of genius and creativity. The evidence that humankind can make the impossible possible., It was ‘opened’ in the Middle Ages by Calif Al-Mamun. His team found most of the major internal structures we see today.
Launched in October of 2015 the ScanPyramids Mission is looking through stones using non-invasive technologies in order to detect unknown internal structures.
The void looks like a corridor, it has remained hidden behind the chevrons of the North face of the pyramid for centuries.
The detected part of this big void has a more or less similar size to the known Grand Gallery. The Grand Gallery has a length of 47 meters in length, a height of 8 meters, and volume of 600m3.
The Big Void’s minimum length is 30 meters and is located between 50 to 70 meters from the ground. It could be composed of one or more internal structures. It is either horizontal or inclined, and its cross-section is similar to that of the Grand Gallery.
With the aid of muon detectors, scientists from the ScanPyramids project have found a previously unknown, 30-meter-long structure, hidden deep inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
For millennia has the Great Pyramid of Giza remained shrouded in mystery? Now, thanks to revolutionary new technology—particle physics— new details and long-held secrets from within the monument may come to life.
Using cosmic-ray based imaging, scientists have found a narrow void embedded deep within the ancient structure.
Located just above the “Grand Gallery” which links two of the main chambers inside the Pyramid, the hidden structure goes on for around thirty meters.
Researchers still do not know the exact design and what the purpose of the void was, but the finding has already been hailed by scholars around the globe as the biggest discovered inside the Pyramid since the 19th century.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is believed to have been commissioned by Pharaoh Khufu and completed sometime around 2550 BC.
The Great Pyramid of Giza remained as the world’s tallest manmade structure for thousands of years.
The construction technique and process used to build the Great Pyramid of Giza has remained one of the greatest scientific mystery for decades.
However, as the ScanPyramids project explains, “Just because a mystery is 4,500 years old doesn’t mean it can’t be solved.”
However, the latest discovery could help researchers understand how and why the Great Pyramid of Giza was erected thousands of years ago.
Since 2015, a group of scientists from various countries including France and Japan, and experts from Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, the University of Cairo, and the non-profit organization the Heritage Innovation Preservation (HIP) Institute, began scanning and studying the structure with revolutionary new technology.
Now with the help of ‘cosmic ray muons’ which are partially absorbed by stone, researchers have spotted something ‘big’ inside the Pyramid. Something that has never before been spotted. Something that has remained a mystery for thousands of years.
Muon data showing the big void. This view is looking upward from the Queen’s Chamber.
ScanPyramids/HIP Institute; Business Insider
Scientists set up a number of muon detectors inside the pyramid, including the Queen’s chamber.
This allowed experts to ‘view’ the inside of the Pyramid without physically touching anything.
The presence of the ‘structure’ which has been dubbed by Scan Pyramids as the ‘Big Void‘ was confirmed using three different Muon detectors, observed and confirmed several months after it was spotted for the first time, wrote scientists in a study published in the journal Nature.
The results were analyzed several times before the discovery was confirmed.
“We have been very surprised to discover something so big—a big anomaly,” said Mehdi Tayoubi, one of the authors of the paper, during a press conference.
“A lot of people tried to dig some tunnels looking for chambers,” Tayoubi added. “But as far as I am aware, no one has tried to dig something in this area. There was no theory expecting to find something as big as the Grand Gallery here.”
Tayoubi and his fellow colleagues are firmly convinced that the “Big Void” is neither an anomaly in the data nor porous rock or loose rubble.
Furthermore, the team is 99.99% certain it is real, it exists, and a foremost expert on Egypt’s pyramids agrees with that conclusion.
“I don’t think this is bulls…,” Mark Lehner, an archaeologist and Egyptologist at the Ancient Egypt Research Association, told Business Insider. “I put credence in the results, and I think they have indications of a large empty space.”
Stephen Hawking is worried that artificial intelligence could copy itself and replace humans as Earth’s dominant life form. It sounds farfetched, but the 75-year-old physicist is not alone in his predictions, as tech entrepreneurs have also sounded the alarm over such systems.
“I fear that A.I. may replace humans altogether,” Hawking said in an interview with Wired this week. “If people design computer viruses, someone will design A.I. that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans.”
Hawking isn’t the first big name to warn about A.I. SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk has claimed the technology poses “a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization,” and its exponential growth is advancing “like a tidal wave.” Among other projects, Musk has criticized plans to develop a godlike A.I. capable of forming its own religion:
An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?
In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of t…
Musk and Hawking have worked together before to warn about the future of A.I. The pair joined hundreds of other researchers and experts earlier this year to endorse a list of 23 guiding principles for future A.I. development. The Asilomar A.I. Principles includes basic ideas like ensuring humans have control, but also cover bigger concepts like ensuring such systems have a shared benefit and designing machines with compatible human values.
In the wider tech industry, responses to these warnings have varied. But as A.I. forms a bigger part of people’s lives, the conversation is shifting.
“[Musk is] a deep thinker about problems, and I think it’s right to be concerned about A.I.,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview, when told Musk had raised concerns about his company’s A.I.-powered camera.
Like Musk, Hawking is worried people aren’t concerned enough about the pace of change. At the launch of Cambridge University’s artificial intelligence center last year, he said that while experiments with machines learning how to play Go were cool, they “will surely pale against what the coming decades will bring.”
“I believe there is no deep difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be achieved by a computer,” Hawking said . “It therefore follows that computers can, in theory, emulate human intelligence – and exceed it.”
Each year, Mars City Design hosts a competition in which teams from around the world submit their concepts for future Martian cities. This year, a team from MIT took home first prize in the architecture category with their Martian city inspired by trees.
MARTIAN FORESTS
Every year, Mars City Design hosts a competition in which innovative teams of scientists, engineers, and students design unique concept-cities for the day when humans attempt to live on Mars. This year, a team of nine MIT students led by MIT postdoc Valentina Sumini and Assistant Professor Caitlin Mueller took first place in the architecture portion of the contest with their unique tree-inspired Mars city concept, titled Redwood Forest.
Redwood Forest is a soothing space that can provide up to 10,000 weary human travelers with equal amounts of comfort and safety from the elements. While at first glance the domes themselves don’t appear capable of housing such large numbers of people or providing them with adequate facilities, just like a tree, these domes aren’t limited to what you see above ground.
Image Credit: Mars City Design
Below the surface of the Red Planet, each dome in MIT’s Mars city concept branches out into “roots.” These intricate tunnel systems connect the domes and provide additional protection from surface threats. This design was chosen for both functional and symbolic reasons.
“On Mars, our city will physically and functionally mimic a forest, using local Martian resources such as ice and water, regolith or soil, and Sun to support life,” Sumini told MIT News. “Designing a forest also symbolizes the potential for outward growth as nature spreads across the Martian landscape. Each tree habitat incorporates a branching structural system and an inflated membrane enclosure, anchored by tunneling roots.”
Image Credit: Mars City Design
Doctoral student George Lordos, who was responsible for Redwood Forest’s system architecture, shared details on how Redwood Forest will take advantage of those Martian resources:
Every tree habitat in Redwood Forest will collect energy from the Sun and use it to process and transport the water throughout the tree, and every tree is designed as a water-rich environment. Water fills the soft cells inside the dome providing protection from radiation, helps manage heat loads, and supplies hydroponic farms for growing fish and greens.
Solar panels produce energy to split the stored water for the production of rocket fuel, oxygen, and for charging hydrogen fuel cells, which are necessary to power long-range vehicles as well as provide backup energy storage in case of dust storms.
THE PATH FORWARD
The surface of the Red Planet is intrinsically harsh. From a virtually nonexistent atmosphere to radiation to dust storms capable of covering the entire planet, Mars is a barren landscape that can get as cold as -125 degrees Celsius (-195 degrees Fahrenheit) near the poles in winter.
Obviously, any Mars city concept would need to be capable of protecting Earthling travelers from these physical hardships. However, after a mind-numbingly long and arduous journey through space, survivable conditions might not be all that a group of human beings needs to live a happy, healthy life on Mars.
Thinking of all these potential variables will be essential if humanity ever hopes to live beyond Earth. We’ll need innovative thinkers at all stages of the process, from designing the rockets that transport us to building the cities we inhabit once we arrive. The Redwood Forest concept illustrates the power and potential of both sound scientific planning and the ability to see far beyond what has been done, or even imagined, before.
NEW HIDDEN CHAMBER WITH UNKNOWN PURPOSE FOUND INSIDE GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA
NEW HIDDEN CHAMBER WITH UNKNOWN PURPOSE FOUND INSIDE GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA
An international team of scientists claims to have discovered a previously unknown space within the Great Pyramid of Giza. In a study published in Nature detailing their use of advanced scanning processes, the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute disclosed the apparent existence of a large unknown structure located above the famed Grand Gallery.
Mehdi Tayoubi, the institute's president, told Daily Mail reporters “it could be composed of one or several structures. Maybe it could another Grand Gallery. It could be a chamber; it could a lot of things.”
There are so many theories — nice ones but also crazy ones,
He went on to tell the BBC "what we are sure about is that this big void is there; that it is impressive; and that it was not expected as far as I know by any theory."
THERE ARE SO MANY THEORIES — NICE ONES BUT ALSO CRAZY ONES
The team, composed of French and Japanese scientists, employed the use of cosmic-ray imaging. The process uses plates designed to record the activity of muons, a kind of naturally occurring sub atomic particle. Such muons are constantly entering the earth's atmosphere, but their path can be interrupted by solid objects, such as the pyramid's rock walls.
Using these plates and triangulating the data, the team was able to approximate the size of the “void” without disturbing the surrounding walls. This technology has been employed successfully in multiple geological studies as well as, more recently, the investigation into the reactor failure at Fukushima.
says Mehdi Tayoubi, president of the Heritage Innovation Preservation institute in Paris
The pyramid is also known as Khufu's Pyramid for its builder, a 4th dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C.
Researchers placed muons detectors inside and outside the pyramid
The pyramids of Giza have drawn both scientific and artistic study for ages. However, no major discoveries have been found in the pyramid since the 1800’s. The 19th-century techniques of excavation were primitive and often damaged to the artifacts being studied. “We can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder, ” the American archaeologist Mark Lehner said while calling for “more of a focus” on the discovered “anomaly.” More recent explorations using robots, such as the Upuaut Project campaigns in 1992 and 1993, were significantly less damaging but produced only minor successes.
However, not all of the archeological community is thrilled with the published results, and some have expressed doubts regarding the validity of the find. Archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying “The Great Pyramid is full of voids. We have to be careful how results are presented to the public.”
Coincidentally, both the exact details of the Great Pyramids construction and the ultimate source of the universe’s muons are unknown. In both sciences, arguments clash and contradict each other, and new theories are frequently created and disposed of. In this unique case, scientists can use the known qualities of one mystery to explore the unknown facts of another.
KEPLER JUST FOUND EARTH'S TWIN WITH AN ORBIT OF 395 DAYS AND VERY CLOSE IN SIZE
KEPLER JUST FOUND EARTH'S TWIN WITH AN ORBIT OF 395 DAYS AND VERY CLOSE IN SIZE
Newly discovered planet capable of hosting life.
Science Magazine, New Scientist, has revealed that 20 extraterrestrial worlds that might be able to host life have been discovered.
According to an analysis by the magazine, these worlds come with a varying orbit time, noting that one of them might even be very similar to earth as it takes 395 Earth days to circle its star and 18 days to complete a single orbit.
IT ALSO HOLDS LIQUID WATER WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO LIFE
NASA launched mission Kepler to find other habitable planets in 2009.
Jeff Coughlin, the Kepler team Leader, said that the exoplanet with a 395-day orbit time was definitely the most promising to host life.
He was quoted as saying: "If you had to choose one to send a spacecraft to, it's not a bad option."
The exoplanet is about 97% the size of Earth as well. However, it is colder, and its chilly temperature is said to be as a result of the distance from its star.
Dubbed KOI-7923.01, the exoplanet boasts of a slightly cooler star and has a warm enough temperature to host life conveniently.
It also holds liquid water which is essential to life, the report said.
NASA announced that 219 new planets were discovered to be able to host life in June.
It said 10 of them shared many similarities with Earth, having almost the same orbit and size as the Earth.
Kepler, NASA's first mission to find potentially habitable zones launched in 2009 and has so far found 4,000 new potentially habitable new planets.
BRIGHT 'FLYING SAUCER' CAPTURED OVER THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
BRIGHT 'FLYING SAUCER' CAPTURED OVER THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
It seems it’s not just humans who love the Great Barrier Reef. A woman in Australia thinks she has photographic evidence of aliens visiting the reef.
After a long day fishing with friends, Jenny Morrison couldn’t help but take a few quick photos of the beautiful sunset over the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Jenny took her photos around the area of Elford Reef, a reef around 50km east of Cairns.
Later that evening in the comfort of her own home Jenny looked through the images she’d taken of her day out on the 2,300km-long reef. To her astonishment, she noticed what appeared to be an odd shape hanging in the sky.
The odd shape in the sky seemed to resemble a flying saucer, a disc-like shape with a haze around it. With the availability of photo editing equipment, any image can easily be manipulated, but Miss Morrison was quick to stress she had not interfered with the image in any way and she cannot explain what is on the photograph.
No doubt most people will be skeptical and say this image was not a UFO and was simply some kind of glitch or effect created by the light reflecting off the seawater or some dirt on the camera lens.
All the above is possible, but maybe it’s not just earthlings who find the barrier reef a majestic beauty, surely anyone looking down on earth from above would surely be interested in the largest living thing on the planet.
Maybe an alien expedition? Or a package holiday to visit Earth's most beautiful natural landmarks.
This part of North Queensland is a Hotspot for UFO activity. For decades UFO sightings have been reported.
They have an annual UFO event called The Cardwell UFO Festival, held every October to celebrate the area’s links with extraterrestrial activity by encouraging members of the public to share their experiences.
Tweede wetenschapper spreekt zich uit over mummies uit Nazca. Dit is wat hij erover te zeggen heeft
Tweede wetenschapper spreekt zich uit over mummies uit Nazca. Dit is wat hij erover te zeggen heeft
Arts Jose Benitez maakt onderdeel uit van het team dat onderzoek doet naar de bizarre mummies die recentelijk in een grot in Nazca in Peru zijn ontdekt.
Diverse Peruaanse wetenschappers hebben gezegd dat het gaat om een hoax, maar dr. Benitez is nu de tweede wetenschapper die zijn reputatie op het spel durft te zetten door te zeggen dat het gaat om authentieke gemummificeerde resten.
Afgelopen maand gaf dr. Edson Vivanco aan dat de resten volgens hem echt zijn.
Meerdere afwijkingen
Vivanco en Benitez zijn onderdeel van een team dat geleid wordt door de Mexicaanse onderzoeksjournalist Jaime Maussan, die heeft gezegd dat het mogelijk aliens zijn.
Dr. Benitez werd onlangs geïnterviewd voor een documentaire die is gemaakt door de Britse ufoloog Steve Mera. Hij reisde af naar Peru om de zaak te onderzoeken.
“Ik stuitte op een aantal eigenaardigheden die dit lichaam totaal anders maken,” zei Benitez. “In eerste instantie leek het op een normaal lichaam, maar bij nadere inspectie zagen we meerdere afwijkingen.”
Opvallende verschillen
“Het hoofd is groter, de ogen zijn groter, de neus is kleiner en oren ontbreken,” voegde hij toe. “Het heeft minder wervels dan een normaal mens.”
Benitez zei verder dat ook de botstructuur en het aantal vingerkootjes anders zijn. “Er zijn slechts drie vingers en drie tenen. Dit zijn de meest opvallende verschillen die we konden vinden,” zei hij.
Het witte materiaal waarmee de mummies bedekt zijn is volgens hem een speciaal soort materiaal dat diatomeeënaarde wordt genoemd.
Bijzondere eigenschappen
Het materiaal heeft volgens hem zeer bijzondere eigenschappen.
Dergelijke aarde kan goed worden gebruikt om weefsel te bewaren en houdt bovendien insecten op afstand, aldus dr. Benitez.
Hij zei dat vastgesteld moet worden wat het is en waar het vandaan komt.
SECOND SCIENTIST GIVES VERDICT OF NAZCA TOMB 'ALIENS'
SECOND SCIENTIST GIVES VERDICT OF NAZCA TOMB 'ALIENS'
The alleged remains of mummified bodies that were found in Nazca Peru were said to have been alien. However, after analysis, it was said that they were human. Now a second scientist has analyzed them, and it appears that they are not ordinary human beings.
BODIES HAD SEVERAL ABNORMALITIES SUGGESTED THEY ARE NOT HUMAN
It was said that at first sight, they did look like normal bodies but when looking closer it was found that there were several abnormalities. The heads are bigger; they have eyes that are wider, no ears and a nose that is smaller, along with fewer vertebras that what is found in humans.
The remains have sparked a huge debate among those who believe they may be aliens. At first, it was said that the mummified remains found in Peru were alien, but then the scientific community said that the whole thing had been nothing more than a hoax and the mummies had been fabricated and they had not actually been discovered in a cave in Peru. These comments had been made without scientists ever looking at the mummies, and they had not been analyzed properly.
SCIENTISTS CLAIM BODIES ARE NOT ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS
The scientists stood up to their claims even though a journalist and UFO researcher from Mexico, Mr. Jaime Maussan, along with his team, gave evidence that suggested that the remains that had been found in Peru were not those of ordinary humans. Months after they were found they have now been analyzed by independent laboratories from around the world and another scientist has been able to study them and he says that they are not a hoax.
Dr. Jose Benitez is a doctor of forensic medicine, and he has made claims that are shocking about the mummified remains. He is now the second scientists to have put his work and reputation on the line as he said that the remains might be alien or a new species that has never been seen on Earth. Dr. Edson Vivancoa, a skeletal specialist, made the same claims when he studied the remains.
I found a lot of characteristics that make this body entirely different.
At first sight, it looked like a normal body but looking closely at every body part we found could find several abnormalities. “For example, the head is bigger, it has wider eyes, a smaller nose, and it has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that a common human.
The bone structure is different; it’s wider. There are only three fingers and three toes. These are the most notable distinctions we could find. There are a few more such as the number of finger joints and the nail beds.
The white dust that covers the mummified remains is a special material known as diatom soil. This soil has a unique origin with extraordinary characteristics. It dries, dehydrates and preserves tissue and also has the unusual characteristic of being an insect repellent, deterring insects.
For example, the head is more prominent. It has wider eyes, a smaller nose, has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that an ordinary human.
Helping the dehydration process and encouraging the natural mummification process.
DNA tests had suggested a different story as one result said that the remains were 100% human, but another set of tests of DNA revealed that the results were inconclusive. Therefore there has been a lot of confusion surrounding the mummified remains as to whether or not they are human or alien.
Drs Vivancoa and Benitez are a part of a group that was led by Mr. Maussan, and Benitez had analyzed other discoveries with Maussan. In 2015 they looked at images of what people said was not the body of a human but later on, it turned out that it was, in fact, a mummified child. Steve Meera, a Ufologist from Britain recently interviewed Dr. Benitez, and he said that he had found many characteristics that set the body apart from that of a human being.
MUMMIFIED BODIES HAD BEEN COVERED IN DUST THAT IS UNIQUE
He went on to say that there had been many abnormalities, one of which was the fact that the bone structure was wider and another was the fact that the bodies had only three fingers and toes. He also said that there were more differences between the number of joints in the fingers and nail beds.
He said that the mummified remains had been covered in white dust, which was a material by the name of diatom soil. He said that the soil was unique in origin and it has characteristics that were unusual.
The findings and conclusions of Dr. Benitez have now been presented in a documentary that has been presented by Steve Meera that suggests that the remains found in Peru are not human. He said that it was essential that people faced up to the possibility that an organic being had been found that is similar to a human being but at the same time very different. He concluded by saying that now steps should go forward to try to find out what the bodies are and where they actually came from.
HOAX: A fake CGI UFO over the great wall in a Section 51 YouTube video.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) today received a report from an eyewitness who shaped the "flying saucer" near the great wall at Simatai in the north of Miyun County, 72 miles northeast of Beijing.
US-based MUFON is the world's largest independent organisation dedicated to UFO, alien and other paranormal research.
It also maintains a database of sightings from across the globe, which it investigates.
The unnamed photographer said in a report to MUFON: "I Went for great wall hiking.
MUFON
The UFO (ringed) that was snapped over the great wall today and sent to MUFON.
However, the object in the image may not be as exciting as it seems, and certainly not of extra terrestrial origin, according to Scott Brando, a forensic UFO investigator who has debunked hundreds of suspected UFO videos and pictures through his website ufoofinterest.org.
He told Express.co.uk it was likely a "blurfo".
This is a term coined by UFO investigators for a blurred bird or insect that is caught on camera and resembles a disk or flying saucer shape.
He said: "It is a blurfo. In this case it's most likely an insect."
BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- There's a giant "ruler" hidden among millions of galaxies in the universe. With it, scientists can measure how fast the universe is expanding. This will help them explore dark energy, the mysterious power behind cosmic expansion, and so speculate on the universe's destiny.
With this ruler, Chinese astronomers recently succeeded in reconstructing the evolution history of dark energy based on the observation of over a million galaxies. The research shows that dark energy is dynamic.
"What it means is that dark energy, which causes cosmic expansion, might not be a vacuum energy with a constant density, like many scientists previously believed, but rather an energy field with certain dynamic properties," said Zhao Gongbo, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The research result made by a team led by Zhao was recently published on the academic journal, Nature Astronomy.
Dark energy determines the universe's destiny, he said.
"If dark energy is indeed a vacuum energy, the universe will keep on expanding until it ends with a 'big rip'. But if dark energy is dynamic, the universe might go through expansion, contraction and then expansion again -- a cyclical universe."
FINDING THE RULER
How do scientists measure such a vast universe? According to Zhao, nature provides a magic ruler -- baryon acoustic oscillations.
The early universe consisted of a hot, dense plasma of electrons, baryons (protons and neutrons) and photons, like a pot of porridge. The primordial disturbances from cosmic creation transmitted through the "porridge," causing periodic changes to its density, temperature and pressure on the chronological sequence. This transmission mechanism is similar to sound waves transmission, so it is called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) by scientists.
About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the cooled-down universe became transparent. The transmission of BAOs stopped, and the information of those oscillations is frozen in space-time. But the great power of it influenced the distribution of galaxies in the universe.
In 2005, the BAO signal was discovered for the first time. Thus cosmologists finally got the "standard ruler" they dreamed of, in order to measure the universe -- whether it's flat or curved, and how fast it's expanding.
But that's just the start. Scientists also have to make accurate measurements.
Since 2012, Zhao's team has been making observations with the Sloan telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Based on the observation of galaxies and quasars, they obtained high-precision BAO signals.
"The observation of BAOs is becoming more precise. Previous observations focused on a short period of the universe, but we adopted a new method. Like doing a CT scan for a more remote universe, we get to know more about the history of cosmic evolution," said Zhao.
Based on the measurement with the ruler, astronomers will be able to draft a three-dimensional map of the universe.
EXPLORING DARK ENERGY
In 1929, U.S. astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble discovered most galaxies are moving away from the Earth, indicating the universe is expanding. The discovery shocked the world, overthrowing the long-held perception of a static universe.
But many scientists still believed that cosmic expansion would slow down. However, to their surprise, two research teams, in the United States and Australia, reported respectively in 1998 that they had discovered cosmic expansion is speeding up.
Scientists assumed an unknown power they called dark energy was accelerating cosmic expansion. Even now, scientists still know little about it, although they have put forward many theoretical models.
For instance, a model of dark energy advanced by Zhang Xinmin, a researcher at Institute of High Energy Physics under the CAS, conforms to the observation results of Zhao's team using the Sloan telescope.
In order to test so many theories, large-scale computer simulations are needed. "With the help of China's Tianhe supercomputer as well as foreign supercomputers, we simulated approximately 2,000 universes for analytic purposes," said Zhao.
On the computer screen, billions of years flew by, galaxies took shape and the universe evolved.
"I want to understand why cosmic expansion is accelerating," said Zhao. "There is so much new physics in that. Normal matter only accounts for about 5 percent of the universe, while the other 95 percent of dark matter and dark energy is still unknown to us. If one day we know what dark energy is, the whole discipline of physics will be revolutionized."
In the next five to 10 years, many projects will study dark energy on Earth and in space, both in China and abroad, he said. For example, China's future space station will contain a space telescope two meters in diameter. Its major scientific goal is to study dark energy.
We leven in een cyclisch heelal. Chinese wetenschappers doen opzienbarende ontdekking
We leven in een cyclisch heelal. Chinese wetenschappers doen opzienbarende ontdekking
Ergens tussen de miljoenen sterrenstelsels in het heelal zit een gigantische ‘magische liniaal’ verborgen. Daarmee kunnen wetenschappers meten hoe snel het universum uitdijt.
Op deze manier kunnen ze donkere energie bestuderen, de mysterieuze kracht achter de kosmische expansie.
Met behulp van de liniaal zijn Chinese astronomen er recentelijk in geslaagd om de evolutie van donkere energie in kaart te brengen. Hun onderzoek laat zien dat donkere energie dynamisch is.
Cyclisch universum
“Het is mogelijk geen vacuümenergie met een constante dichtheid, zoals veel wetenschappers denken, maar een energieveld met dynamische eigenschappen,” zei Zhao Gongbo van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen.
Als donkere energie daadwerkelijk een vacuümenergie is, blijft het universum uitdijen tot het uiteen wordt gereten.
Maar als donkere energie dynamisch is, dijt het universum uit om vervolgens weer samen te trekken en weer opnieuw uit te dijen; een cyclisch universum, aldus Zhao.
Einde
Met behulp van de liniaal kunnen astronomen nu een driedimensionale kaart van het universum maken.
In 1929 ontdekte astronoom Edwin Powell Hubble tot ieders verbazing dat de meeste sterrenstelsels bij ons vandaan bewegen, wat erop wijst dat het universum uitdijt.
Veel wetenschappers dachten dat er op den duur een einde zou komen aan die kosmische expansie.
Vrijwel niets bekend
Onderzoeksteams uit de VS en Australië kwamen echter tot de ontdekking dat het heelal steeds sneller uitdijt.
Wetenschappers namen aan dat een onbekende kracht die ze donkere energie noemden verantwoordelijk was voor de versnelde expansie. Vandaag de dag weten ze hier nog steeds weinig over.
Het heelal bestaat voor vijf procent uit normale materie en over de resterende 95 procent – donkere materie en donkere energie – is vrijwel niets bekend, zei Zhao.
De onderzoeksresultaten zijn onlangs gepubliceerd in vakblad Nature Astronomy.
Ancient UNDERWATER structure, said to be 14,000 years old—Could this be evidence of ALIEN bases & UFOs?
Ancient UNDERWATER structure, said to be 14,000 years old— Could this be evidence of ALIEN bases & UFOs?
Three decades ago, a Japanese diver discovered a massive stone complex near Yonaguni, at the southwestern-most tip of the Japanese archipelago. Scientists have determined that this structure is man-made and that it must have been built more than 14,000 years ago—a conclusion that led some to seek out more “paranormal” explanations.
The massive structure, first discovered by tour diver Kihachiro Aratake, consists of megalithic stone formations, the largest of which resembles a tiered pyramid the size of two football fields.
The underwater ruins, which lie at depths ranging between 60 and 100 feet below the surface, is considered one of the greatest underwater archeological discoveries in history.
Based on geometric patterns present at the site, scientists have concluded that the formation is not natural. While the structure contains “tons of right angles,” there are also clearly rectangular channels, which lead to stairwells.
According to Graham Hancock, author of the book “Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization,” the structure, which he believes to be a “ceremonial complex,” was built using a scale of thinking that far surpasses all stone-age civilizations known to us. According to him, the structure was probably built before the thaw of the last ice age, which would have caused massive flooding, a conclusion that would date the structure to over 14,000 years ago.
Given that mankind was unable to conceive of such structures so early, (thus implying that they could not have been built by mankind), some scientists have further formed theories in the direction of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Looking into the history of the area where the ruins were found, there are untold numbers of accounts of strange phenomena that have occurred.
According to ancient Japanese history, the area of sea south of Japan has long been the subject of legends, telling of fire-breathing underwater dragons flying out of the water and capsizing vessels, while causing sailors to meet a watery grave. That area of ocean was termed the “Dragon’s Triangle,” also known as the “Devil’s Sea.”
In modern times, this area is considered a hotbed of UFO activity, with descriptions of glowing objects rising out of the water and circling ships from above.
Strangely enough, this vast stretch of water has a counterpart on the exact opposite side of the earth, on exactly the same line of latitude, the 25th parallel north—and that is of course the Bermuda Triangle, also considered to be a hotbed of UFO and paranormal phenomena.
Both areas of water similarly are considered treacherous, where magnetic phenomena causing compasses and instruments to fail are common, and literally thousands of vessels and aircraft have entered the region only to vanish, often without a distress call being made, and without a trace.
The similarities don’t end there; just as ancient ruins were discovered on the outskirts of the Dragon’s Triangle, so too have there been ruins found beneath the oceans off the coast of Cuba, just on the outskirts of the Bermuda Triangle, including terraced, pyramid structures. Could there be some connection between the ruins of the east Atlantic and those of Yonaguni in the Pacific?
Some paranormal experts have considered the possibility that the areas of the Triangles could indicate the existence of alien bases, which might have existed on earth for thousands of years.
Given the facts that these structures must have been built before they were submerged some 14,000 years ago and that stone-age man could not have conceived such structures as early as that time, who could have created these structures? Is it merely coincidence that ruins are located beside the mysterious seas of the Bermuda and Dragon’s Triangle?
Could all of these mysteries be explained by the existence of aliens and alien bases beneath the sea, or could there be some less extraordinary, more conventional explanation? Please share your thoughts!
Ex-Air Force reveals HUGE ‘alien’ structures on Moon—NASA warned off, ‘don’t come back!’
Ex-Air Force reveals HUGE ‘alien’ structures on Moon—NASA warned off, ‘don’t come back!’
While NASA prepares for man’s first ever mission to Mars, it’s curious we have not set foot on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, let alone established a base there yet. Astronauts and many researchers have claimed this is because there are in fact bases on the lunar surface already … and indeed they are not human bases.
Former chief of NASA Communications Systems, Maurice Chatelain confirmed in 1979 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had seen two UFOs on the rim of a crater during the Apollo 11 Moon Mission in the Summer of 1969. “The encounter was common knowledge in NASA,” Chatelain said, “but nobody has talked about it until now.”
According to Armstrong, they had been “warned off” from the Moon by extraterrestrials.
Former NASA employee Otto Binder said that an unnamed radio-receiving facility bypassed NASA’s broadcasting outlets and captured the following exchange:
NASA: What’s there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11…
Apollo: 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!
During Apollo 17, NASA’s final Moon mission in 1972, only CBS was covering the live footage as the lunar rover traversed the lunar surface. NASA operators on Earth began to pan the TV camera, mounted on the rover, in order to get a panorama of the terrain. There was a 4-second delay between the TV camera’s movements and the controls operated from Earth, due to the distance between the Moon and Earth.
As the camera panned the landscape, suddenly, it captured what looked like a massive rectangular building in the distance.
CBS host Walter Cronkite was stunned, exclaiming: “That looks like a man-made object!” Almost immediately, the live feed was cut along with Cronkite and was replaced with older footage labeled: “recorded earlier today.”
Twenty minutes later, Walter returned on air and, bemusedly, he told viewers that the so-called “man-made object” in fact had been just part of the lunar rover. However, the footage was never aired again, nor was the incident ever mentioned again on TV, nor in any document known to the public … ever.
It would seem one of NASA’s responsibilities is to control what information the public gets to see and what it doesn’t. Former NASA employee Dona Hare explained that she and her colleagues were responsible for airbrushing out evidence of alien activity in our skies and on the lunar surface.
Dona asked her colleague one day, “What are you going to do with this information? ‘We have to airbrush these out’ … The people that told me there was a coverup … they’d tell me, ‘Don’t ever say I said it, or I’ll say, I didn’t.’”
Yet, it would seem that images of so-called “alien activity” on the Moon have leaked out anyway. On Oct. 1, 2010, China launched its Chang’e-2 Moon orbiter. Widely disputed claims were made that the orbiter’s cameras captured what appears to be an installation on the lunar surface.
Eventually, it was determined that the photos were not taken by Chang’e-2 but were from NASA’s own archives, though this could not be confirmed, as there was no frame number on the photo.
Could the Chinese government have intentionally (possibly subversively) leaked out a NASA photo before they’d had a chance to doctor it?
Indeed, much of this evidence is corroborated by claims from numerous high-level officials such as one ex-U.S. Air Force employee named Karl Wolf, who, at one time, had “cryptologic top secret” security clearance. He confided that he was told by an NSA employee: “We’ve discovered a base on the back side of the moon.” Wolf then added: “And then he pulled out one of these [maps] and showed this base, which had geometric shapes.
“There were towers; there were spherical buildings … they’re massive. Some of the structures are half a mile in size. They’re huge structures.”
More images of what appear to be gigantic structures were obtained during the Apollo 16 mission. A towering cylindrical structure, similar to a nuclear cooling tower, was discovered beside what could be a turret of some kind. A 3D digital reconstruction of the photo illustrates what this image might look like from near the lunar surface.
What makes all this evidence so compelling is how many well-known astronauts make corroborating statements. The sixth man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Michell shared that, “After traveling in space, I am fully confident that the aliens are watching us. I do not know how many, where and how they do it, but watching us; we see these ships are all times.”
Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin supported this preposition with his own experience: “I saw this illumination that was moving with respect to the stars. We were smart enough to not say, ‘Houston, there’s a light out there’s a light out there that’s following us.’ So, technically, it becomes an unidentified flying object.”
Is it possible that NASA has been covering up knowledge of alien bases on the Moon for the last 50 years? Could that be the real reason why we have not set foot on or colonized the lunar surface since our last Moon mission? Please let us know in the comments!
Check out this amazing revelation in the video below:
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Is dit de echte reden dat we niet zijn teruggegaan naar de maan?
Is dit de echte reden dat we niet zijn teruggegaan naar de maan?
De NASA bereidt zich voor op de eerste bemande missie naar Mars. Maar waarom zijn we na 1972 niet meer teruggegaan naar de maan?
Astronauten en vele onderzoekers claimen dat dit is omdat er al bases op het maanoppervlak staan. En dat die bases niet door mensen zijn gebouwd.
Het voormalige hoofd van NASA Communications Systems, Maurice Chatelain, bevestigde in 1979 dat Neil Armstrong en Buzz Aldrin aan de rand van een krater twee UFO’s hadden gezien na hun maanlanding.
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“Iedereen binnen de NASA wist ervan,” zei Chatelain. “Maar niemand sprak erover.”
Volgens Armstrong hadden de buitenaardsen ‘gewaarschuwd’ dat ze niet moesten terugkomen.
Tijdens Apollo 17, de laatste bemande maanmissie van de NASA in 1972, deed CBS live verslag van de landing.
Toen de NASA uitzoomde met de camera die op de rover was gemonteerd, verscheen plotseling een enorm rechthoekig object in beeld.
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Presentator Walter Cronkite was verbaasd en zei: “Dat lijkt op een door mensen gemaakt object.”
Vrijwel gelijk ging het beeld op zwart, waarna oudere beelden werden getoond. Twintig minuten later kwam Walter weer in beeld. Hij vertelde de kijkers dat het object ‘onderdeel was van de maanrover’.
De beelden zijn nooit opnieuw uitgezonden en er is op tv ook nooit meer over het incident gesproken.
Meer hierover in onderstaande video:
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Donna Hare heeft voor de NASA gewerkt en verklaarde dat haar team beelden moest ontdoen van UFO’s en andere onverklaarbare objecten.
Karl Wolfe, die voor de Amerikaanse luchtmacht werkte, kreeg naar eigen zeggen beelden van een NASA-medewerker over ‘een basis op de achterkant van de maan’.
“Er waren torens en cirkelvormige gebouwen te zien, ze waren enorm,” zei hij. “Sommige bouwwerken waren wel een kilometer groot. Het waren enorme bouwwerken.”
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Ook astronauten die op de maan zijn geweest hebben zich hierover uitgesproken.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell zei bijvoorbeeld: “Ik ben er volledig van overtuigd dat aliens ons in de gaten houden. Ik weet niet hoeveel er zijn, waar ze vandaan komen en hoe ze het doen, maar ze houden ons in de gaten; we zien hun schepen constant.”
Is het mogelijk dat de NASA het bestaan van buitenaardse bases op de maan al 50 jaar verborgen houdt? Kan dat de echte reden zijn waarom we sindsdien niet meer terug zijn geweest?
“Imagine a social networking site, where instead of having a page with posts of people here you have an actual cave wall or roof full of different pictographs.”
If you’re looking for proof that the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans were ahead of their time, a new study that is the result of three years of intense spelunking in the caves of the uninhabited Puerto Rican island of Mona Island is a good place to start. Researchers found 70 cave systems on the currently uninhabited island filled with indigenous pre-Columbian rock art and the reason behind the strangeness of some of the drawings is a surprise.
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In a press release announcing their study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, researchers from the University of Leicester, the British Museum, the British Geological Survey and Cambridge University call the thousands of well-preserved wall drawings deep in the caves the “greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean.”
“Most of the precolonial pictographs are in very narrow spaces deep in the caves, some are very hard to access, you have to crawl to get to them, they are very extensive and humidity is very high but it is extremely rewarding.”
Fortunately for the pictorials, but not for the indigenous people, the island has been uninhabited since the 16th century. First settled by Arawaks from Hispaniola and later by the Tainos from Cuba and other Caribbean islands, Ámona had the bad luck of being ‘discovered’ by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. It quickly became a major port and the natives were offered ‘jobs’ as ‘laborers’ in the fields while merchants and pirates (including Captain Kidd) pillaged the island. By the late 16th century, the Spanish had no more use for Mona and abandoned it to the natives – who had already abandoned it to the ruthless Europeans. As a result, there was no one to see or destroy the hidden cave artwork.
Being in caves, it’s not surprising that the artists used bat guano that had changed colors by absorbing minerals from the floors. Most of the pictures were drawn with their fingers after dipping them in the guano ‘paint’ or simply by using their fingertips to remove the dark calcite on the walls and expose the lighter rock underneath. The figures in the drawings appear to be humans in transition to animals or plants which the researchers say indicates that these wee deeply spiritual pictures in a deep, dark spiritual place. In fact, that explains the strange shapes in the pictures.
“They took cohoba a hallucinogenic drug that you snort and it’s very powerful.”
According to co-author Dr. Jago Cooper, the Tainos people inhaled the ground seeds of cojóbana tree for a psychedelically-induced spiritual experience. Under the direction of a shaman or religious leader, the people would be led deep into this temple-like place.
“The further you go into the cave the more into the spiritual world you go. In the dark a lot of your sense are totally transformed – it’s very eerie and strange. You are completely out of your comfort zone – it’s discombobulating and the same thing would have happened would have happened to the people making this art.”
The art shows that the caves acted as portals to the spiritual world – a kind of transition point where the human changed to another form. More research is planned. (Shouldn’t this be done under the influence of cohoba? Asking for a friend.)
Mona Island is still generally uninhabited and the areas where the drawings are found in the caves are difficult to reach, so they’re safe … for now.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETMet de hulp van kosmische stralen hebben wetenschappers een minstens 30 meter lange ruimte in de grootste van de drie piramides in Gizeh ontdekt. Het resultaat betekent een doorbraak om de interne structuur van de piramide van Cheops beter te begrijpen, schrijven de onderzoekers in een verslag in vakblad Nature.
“We weten niet wat de bedoeling van deze holle ruimte is”, zegt Mehdi Tayoubi van het internationaal wetenschappelijk team. “Daarom willen we ook niet van een kamer spreken”. Maar de omvang van de ontdekte ruimte is groot. “Zo groot als een Boeing”, klinkt het.
Drie teams van verschillende instituten en universiteiten uit Frankrijk en Japan onderzochten gedurende twee jaar de 4.500 jaar oude piramide in Gizeh. Daarbij gebruikten de wetenschappers een scan met muonen, een nevenproduct van kosmische straling. Net zoals röntgenstralen bij het menselijk lichaam kunnen die elementaire deeltjes honderden meter steen doordringenen, aldus de vorsers.
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De piramide van Cheops is de oudste en de grootste van de drie piramide van Gizeh en is een van de zeven wereldwonderen uit de Oudheid. De piramide is 139 meter hoog en 230 meter lang. Het bouwsel werd tijdens de regeerperiode van Cheops (2509 tot 2483 v. Chr.) opgericht en heeft nog steeds niet al zijn geheimen blootgegeven.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETOp de verjaardag van het internationaal ruimtestation ISS werd de baan rond de Aarde zoals gepland met 700 meter verschoven naar 404,6 kilometer hoogte.
Voor het manoeuvre werden de motoren van de momenteel aan de ISS aangedokte ruimtecargo Progress MS-06 gedurende 206 seconden ontstoken. De geplande correctie van de baan moet het aandokken van een bemande capsule en de aankomst van een ruimteschip in december voorbereiden.
Exact 17 jaar geleden, op 2 november 2000, arriveerde de eerste bemanning voor een langdurige bezetting aan het ISS. De Russische kosmonauten Sergej Krikaljov en de Joeri Gidsenko en de Amerikaanse astronaut William Shepherd bereikten het ruimtestation toen na een driedaagse vlucht met een Sojoez-capsule. Ze keerden op 21 maart 2001 naar de Aarde terug. Tijdens hun verblijf van vierenenhalve maand verrichten de ISS-pioniers belangrijk technisch werk om de bedrijvigheden in het station te kunnen beginnen.
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Vandaag is al de 53ste bemanning aan de slag in het vliegende lab. De meeste driekoppige teams blijven in de regel ruim zes maanden in de ruimte en verrichten fundamenteel onderzoek in gewichtloosheid. In tegenstelling tot de politieke crisis tussen Rusland en het Westen verloopt de samenwerking met de ruimtevaartinstanties in het heelal perfect. Naast de VS en Rusland werken ook de ruimtevaartoverheden van Canada en Japan en het Europees Ruimtevaartagentschap Esa aan het ISS mee.
University of WarwickDe NGTS-1b is "monsterlijk groot"
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETDe ontdekking van een planeet die “monsterlijk groot” is in vergelijking met zijn moederster, zorgt voor opwinding onder wetenschappers. Het bestaan van ‘NGTS-1b’ stelt immers alle gangbare theorieën over de vorming van planeten in ons heelal in vraag.
Tot nu toe werd namelijk aangenomen dat het onmogelijk zou zijn dat zo’n grote planeet rond een (rode) dwergster zou kunnen ontstaan. Maar het recent ontdekte exemplaar dat de naam ‘NGTS-1b’ kreeg, slaat reeds bestaande inzichten helemaal aan diggelen.
Het mysterieuze zonnestelsel dat elke verbeelding tart, bevindt zich op 600 lichtjaren van onze Aarde en de dwergster is qua massa en straal de helft kleiner dan onze zon. Men heeft altijd aangenomen dat rond een soortgelijke ster enkel kleine rotsachtige planeten kunnen ontstaan. Maar NGTS-1b is net heel groot en helemaal niet rotsachtig. Volgens de geldende theorieën had de monsterplaneet dus niet eens kunnen bestaan.
“De ontdekking van NGTS-1b was een complete verrassing voor ons”, verklaarde professor Daniel Bayliss van de universiteit van Warwick. “We gingen ervan uit dat dergelijke gigantische planeten niet zouden kunnen voorkomen rond kleine sterren. Dit gegeven stelt onze huidige kennis omtrent de vorming van planeten in ons heelal in vraag. Nu moeten we nagaan hoe frequent dit soort planeten voorkomt.”
De nieuwe planeet werd ontdekt met het ‘Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)’-instrument dat in de Chileense Atacama-woestijn staat opgesteld om de ruimte te verkennen. Het gaat om een gasgigant die binnen de categorie van ‘hot Jupiter’ valt, wat concreet betekent dat de planeet minstens zo groot is als de Jupiter uit ons zonnestelsel. In het geval van NGTS-1b blijkt dat ze 30 procent groter is dan Jupiter maar wel 20 procent minder massa heeft. Ze draait om de 2,5 dagen om haar ster.
Toch was het voor de astronomen helemaal niet evident om de monsterplaneet te vinden omdat de moederster heel klein en zwak is. Maar het nieuwe NGTS-systeem geeft wetenschappers de mogelijkheid om in de toekomst mogelijk nog verrassende ontdekkingen te doen. “Wie weet wat we nog allemaal vinden”, besloot Bayliss.
British scientists have claimed alien lifeforms may have evolved in a similar way to the organisms here on Earth.
A new study from the University of Oxford suggested that the process of natural selection which created the myriad species we see here on Earth is likely to have taken place on other planets too.
However, this does not mean aliens will resemble beautiful human beings.
An illustration of an alien 'octomite' made up of several types of beastie working together
Natural selection is a process outlined by Charles Darwin which suggests that the species which are best suited to their environment are most likely to survive to pass on their genes.
Three different types of alien life, ranging from a very simplle on the left to a more complex one on the right
On Earth, this has led to the evolution of humans over billions of years.
But on another world, life is likely to look radically different depending on the conditions on the planet.
Sam Levin, a researcher at Oxford’s Department of Zoology, said: "We still can't say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes. But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it.
"There are potentially hundreds of thousands of habitable planets in our galaxy alone. We can't say whether or not we're alone on Earth, but we have taken a small step forward in answering, if we're not alone, what our neighbors are like."
On this planet, events known as "major transitions" have driven the evolution of different species.
These events take place when one group of organisms evolve into "higher level" types of lfe.
This happened when single cell organisms evolved to become organisms made of several cells - or when the first societies of primates formed, eventually leading to the rise of humanity.
"By predicting that aliens have undergone major transitions - which is how complexity has arisen in species on earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us," Levin added.
He suggested aliens would have evolved similar "mechanisms" to humans, allowing them to "eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation and keep the organism functioning".
He added: "In our paper, we offer an alternative approach, which is to use evolutionary theory to make predictions that are independent of Earth's details. This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon-based, do not have DNA, and breathe nitrogen, for example."
ELON MUSK SUPER INTELLIGENT ALIENS ARE “PROBABLY ALREADY OBSERVING Us
Aliens and Illuminati confirmed: a plane-sized hole has been found in the middle of the Great Pyramid, according to scientists.
What lies in the middle of the structure has been subject to debate for years as researchers were unable to get a look inside. But they now appear to have discovered that it contains a huge room with an unknown purpose... did someone say 'landing dock'?
Discovered as part of the 'ScanPyramids' project, it is the first of its kind to be made since the 19th century. The project sees researchers using particle physics to look deep inside the structure without disturbing what's inside.
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"We don't know whether this big void is horizontal or inclined; we don't know if this void is made by one structure or several successive structures," explained Mehdi Tayoubi from the HIP Institute, Paris.
"What we are sure about is that this big void is there; that it is impressive; and that it was not expected as far as I know by any sort of theory."
The Great Pyramid, or Khufu's Pyramid, was constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu between 2509 and 2483 BC. It is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids located at Giza
Japanese and French scientists made the announcement after two years of study at the famous pyramid complex, after making the discovery using cosmic-ray imaging.
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"It could be a kind of space that the builders left to protect the very narrow roof of the grand gallery from the weight of the pyramid," American archaeologist Mark Lehner told the BBC's Science In Action programme.
"Right now it's just a big difference; it's an anomaly. But we need more of a focus on it, especially in a day and age when we can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder as [British] Egyptologist Howard Vyse did in the early 1800s."
Hidden structure found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in massive breakthrough.
Aliens would look a lot like life on Earth, researchers say.
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What would life in a far-flung star system look like? Would humans even recognize it as life?
A new theory says yes, we would. In fact, life on other planets (or moons, or asteroids) might look surprisingly similar to life here on Earth, University of Oxford scientist wrote in the International Journal of Astrobiology on Oct. 31. That's because life on other planets would likely be subject to natural selection, just like life on Earth. And if life is subject to natural selection, it is likely to share similarities, even if it isn't carbon-based, for example, or codes its operating instructions in a way entirely different than DNA.
"Living things are adapted," study co-author Samuel Levin, a doctoral candidate in zoology at the University of Oxford, wrote in an email to Live Science. "They appear to be 'trying to do things' like eat, survive, grow, reproduce."
The only way to get adaptedness, Levin said, is through natural selection, the process through which hereditary variation among individuals leads to differences in success, and ultimately survival of the fittest.
Taking natural selection as a starting point, Levin and his colleagues asked what that reveals about how aliens might look. This is a theoretical approach to the question, Levin said. Many astrobiologists take what's called a "mechanistic" approach, looking at how life has evolved on Earth — say, around deep-sea vents — and try to apply that to the environments of distant planets. Mechanistic predictions have their strengths, Levin said, but because the sample size of planets with known life is just one, it's hard to know what is unique to Earth and what would hold true in space. For example, eyes or eye-like structures have evolved independently about 40 times on Earth, but it's not clear if aliens would also have eyes or whether sight is an Earth-centric sense.
These illustrations represent different levels of adaptive complexity that alien life may go through, ranging from a simple replicating molecule, with no apparent design (a), to a simple, cell-like entity that undergoes natural selection (b), to an alien with many intricate parts working together (c).
Credit: Helen S. Cooper
"Theoretical predictions, like the ones we make, are not tied to the details of Earth," Levin said. "They hold regardless of whether aliens are made of carbon or silicon, have DNA or 'XNA,' breathe oxygen or nitrogen, etc."
Theoretical predictions aren't able to determine anything so specific as whether aliens will look more like E.T. or the Predator, but natural selection does lead to certain kinds of organisms. Aliens that have undergone natural selection will be "nested," Levin said — they will have undergone transformations in complexity over time, and they'll retain some evidence of those transitions. On Earth, genes "cooperated" to make genomes, genomes made blueprints for cells, and primitive cells eventually joined together to make more complex eukaryotic cells. (Mitochondria, the energy-transforming organelles of eukaryotic cells, were once separate organisms that entered a mutually beneficial relationship with their host cells.) Cells join together to make multicellular organisms, and multicellular organisms often cooperate in colonies or societies.
Getting to know the neighbors
To illustrate the concept, Levin and his colleagues dreamed up a tuber-like alien they call the "Octomite," a complex creature made up of smaller entities that have aligned their interests so that they cooperate, much like the human body's cells work together to keep a person alive.
To illustrate the concept, the researchers came up with a tuber-like alien they dubbed "Octomite," a complex creature made up of smaller entities that cooperate, much like the human body's cells work together to keep a person alive.
Credit: Helen S. Cooper
"Are we alone?" is one of the fundamental questions of the universe, Levin said, so it's worth pondering the sort of life we might run across if we do find E.T. out there.
"On a more philosophical level, understanding what features will be universal to life, wherever it exists, seems deeply rewarding," Levin said. "Our work can't answer the question of whether we're alone, but it does tell us something about our neighbors if we're not alone."
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What Would Aliens Really Look Like? Here Are Some Hints From Evolution
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What Would Aliens Really Look Like? Here Are Some Hints From Evolution
Um, would they even have faces?
MIKE MCRAE
We're all a little obsessed about aliens. Lonely little Earthlings that we are, science and philosophy are bent on knowing why we're here and whether we're alone.
Until we're the ones doing the probing on something from beyond Proxima Centauri, we have to make do with our imaginations. But with the help of experts in evolutionary biology, we can make some fascinating guesses at what could be out there.
Researchers from the University of Oxford have decided to use their skills in this field to outline an argument for applying natural selection to predicting the morphologies and functions of extra-terrestrial organisms.
"Past approaches in the field of astrobiology have been largely mechanistic, taking what we see on Earth, and what we know about chemistry, geology, and physics to make predictions about aliens," says researcher Sam Levin.
Instead of assuming life forms from other worlds are bound by similar chemical attributes, we should be more focused on naturally selective processes, claims Levin.
"This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon based, do not have DNA, and breathe nitrogen, for example."
To sketch out the kinds of biology we'd expect to find out there on the kinds of oddball worlds we're discovering, the researchers argue we should gather evidence on any critical planetary moments that could act as an evolutionary trigger.
Evidence is mounting for massive global events on our own planet kickstarting new evolutionary pathways, such as releasing bursts of nutrients.
On Earth, these events have been defining moments on the path of life – the merging of cells to form significant symbiotic partnerships, or the diversification of cells in colonies to represent something more multicellular.
The researchers sketched out some back-of-the-envelope concepts of how complexity might proceed in another biosphere.
Researchers sketch a concept for a very alien evolutionary path in an alien environment.
(Helen.S.Cooper)
Predicting these steps in complexity might not tell us much about the fine details, but they could still help us flesh out on which worlds we should expect slime and on which we could hope for something more communicative.
"We still can't say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes," says Levin. "But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it."
But it's clearly a useful exercise in exploring what's possible. Nothing in what we've learned about evolution on Earth suggests it wouldn't work on any type of imperfectly replicating system, after all.
It can even be argued that this feature should form the very basis of how we identify life, meaning if we did discover biology elsewhere it would by definition bea "self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution".
Thinking of it this way, the very concept of discrete alien species might be a red herring. On Earth, the boundaries between individual organisms and our biosphere are often hazy. Likewise, first contact might be less like a handshake with ET and more like dipping a finger into a planet-wide primordial soup.
"At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning," says Levin. "We can even offer some examples of what these mechanisms will be."
The research paper might not be revolutionary, but acts as a useful reminder of evolution as a defining quality of life. It serves as an interesting touchstone for what we could reasonably expect from biology that evolved on an exoplanet.
Perhaps we could even begin to create some kind of preliminary categories without setting foot on any of these far-flung worlds.
At the very least, it's added fuel for one of humanity's favourite pastimes – dreaming that we're not alone.
The footage, which has received more than 160,000 views, is supposedly leaked government footage, according to alien conspiracy theorists.
In the clip, the cross-hairs of the predator drone are seen soaring over a mountain range.
It appears to be tracking a small object in the distance in the desert-like landscape.
The mystery craft being tailed then disappears, but when the drone follows it, a bright light is seemingly fired directly at it from the unknown object.
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MYSTERY: The drone started to scramble when the beam of light appeared It comes after an alien spacecraft was allegedly spotted in the skies over California.
The video then scrambles, suggesting the military craft has been destroyed.
YouTube channel UFO Today posted the clip amid claims a military source had explained the video seemed genuine.
He said: “Some ex-military people told me that this footage seems genuine drone footage.”
The YouTuber also claimed his "source" said the attack was the "tip of the iceberg" as "there seems to be an increase of UFO's interacting with military drones”.
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UFO LEAK? It is claimed this is genuine footage, but debunkers do not agree.
Some ex-military people told me that this footage seems genuine drone footage.
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Viewers of the film had mixed views on its authenticity, with many thinking it was just a hoax.
One posted: "Is that real? Why would they allow this to be released if it was?”
Another added: “They’re finally here, this has to be proof.”
And a third commented: “So obviously edited.”
Lockheed released a video showing off its latest tests of the 30-kilowatt class ATHENA (Advanced Test High Energy Asset) laser weapons system at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico from last month.
IT’S A GAS When a massive meteorite slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it vaporized rocks, sending up enough climate-changing gases to spark mass extinction.
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The asteroid collision that may have doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago really stank. A new analysis of gases released from vaporized rocks at the impact site in modern-day Mexico suggests that the smashup released up to three times more smelly, climate-cooling sulfur than previously believed.
The study reveals for the first time how much sulfur and carbon dioxide gas was ejected
The Chicxulub impact spewed about 325 billion tons of sulfur and 425 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air, researchers report October 31 in Geophysical Research Letters.
This relatively modest release of CO₂ might have contributed to long-term planetary warming. But the massive cloud of sulfurous gas would have more immediately blocked out the sun, the researchers suggest, plunging the planet into a dark Narnia-style winter that was colder and longer than previously thought. That could help explain why so many of Earth’s plants and animals went extinct around this time, even those living nowhere near the impact crater (SN: 2/4/17, p. 16).
The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago. The new calculations incorporate a better understanding of the meteor’s angle of impact, the composition of the rocks and how much gas would make it high enough into the atmosphere to influence climate.
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters on October 17, 2017 says that a hole in the moon’s Marius Hills – a region with a set of volcanic domes – is a skylight of a large open lava tube that could be used to protect astronauts from hazardous conditions on the surface. It could be large enough, the researchers say, to house an underground lunar city.
No one has ever been on the moon longer than three days, largely because space suits alone can’t shield astronauts from its elements: extreme temperature variation, radiation, and meteorite impacts. Unlike Earth, the moon has no atmosphere or magnetic field to protects its inhabitants.
The safest place to seek shelter is the inside of an intact lava tube, according to the study.
Lava tubes are naturally-occurring channels that form when a lava flow develops a hard crust, which thickens and forms a roof above the still-flowing lava stream. Once the lava stops flowing, the tunnel sometimes drains, forming a hollow void. Lava tubes exist on Earth, but the ones on the moon are much larger.
The city of Philadelphia is shown inside a theoretical lunar lava tube.
The Marius Hills hole was first discovered by the Japanese SELenological and ENgineering Explorer (SELENE), and has been the subject of much research and speculation. The new study, the scientists say, confirms that the opening is a skylight of a large underground lava tube.
Junichi Haruyama is a senior researcher at JAXA, Japan’s space agency. Haruyama said in a statement:
It’s important to know where and how big lunar lava tubes are if we’re ever going to construct a lunar base.
For the study, the researchers analyzed data from the SELENE spacecraft, and consulted scientists from the GRAILmission, a NASA effort to collect high-quality data on the moon’s gravitational field.
The researchers say that, if the gravity results are correct, the lava tube near the Marius Hills is spacious enough to house one of the largest U.S. cities.
Bottom line: A large open lava tube in the moon’s Marius Hills region could protect astronauts from hazardous conditions on the lunar surface. It might someday be a good spot for a city on the moon.
The Yellowstone supervolcano’s last eruption wasn’t a single event, but 2 closely-spaced eruptions that put the brakes on a natural global-warming trend, says a study.
The gorgeous colors of Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Prismatic hot spring are among the park’s myriad hydrothermal features created by the fact that Yellowstone is a supervolcano – the largest type of volcano on Earth.
The Yellowstone supervolcano’s last catastrophic eruption, about 630,000 years ago, was not a single event, but two powerful and closely-spaced eruptions, according to a new study. The super-eruptions were powerful enough, the researchers say, to slow a natural global warming trend that eventually led the planet out of a major ice age.
For the study, presented at the Geological Society of American’s annual meeting in Seattle on October 25, 2017, a team of geologists from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) analyzed two layers of volcanic ash discovered in seafloor sediments off the coast of Southern California. These layers of ash, sandwiched among sediments, bear the unique chemical fingerprint of Yellowstone’s most recent super eruption. and contain a remarkably detailed climate record of the violent events that formed the vast Yellowstone caldera – or cauldron-like crater – that we see today. UCSB geologist Jim Kennett said in a statement:
We discovered here that there are two ash-forming super eruptions 170 years apart, and each cooled the ocean by about three degrees Celsius.
By comparing the volcanic ash record with the climate record of single-celled marine animal fossils, it’s quite clear, Kennet said, that both of these eruptions caused separate volcanic winters, when ash and volcanic sulfur dioxide emissions reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface and cause temporary cooling. According to the study, the onset of the global cooling events was abrupt and coincided precisely with the timing of the supervolcanic eruptions.
These cooling events occurred at an especially sensitive time, Kennet said, when the global climate was warming out of an ice age and easily disrupted by such events. But, Kennet added, each time, the cooling lasted longer than it should have, according to simple climate models. He said:
We see planetary cooling of sufficient magnitude and duration that there had to be other feedbacks involved.
These feedbacks might include increased sunlight-reflecting sea ice and snow cover or a change in ocean circulation that would cool the planet for a longer time.
Bottom line: New research suggest that the Yellowstone supervolcano’s last eruption wasn’t a single event, but 2 closely-spaced eruptions that slowed a natural global-warming trend.
Second Scientist to analyse Nazca Alien mummies says they are REAL
Second Scientist to analyse Nazca Alien mummies says they are REAL
“At first sight, it looked like a normal body but looking closely at every body part we found could find several abnormalities. “For example, the head is bigger, it has wider eyes, a smaller nose, and it has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that a common human…”
The alleged mummified remains discovered in Nazca Peru have created a massive debate among Alien believers, and researchers around the globe.
The scientific community was left awe-struck when UFO hunters and a group of researchers released a statement claiming they had come across the mummified remains of the mummified remains of several alien bodies at an undisclosed cave at Nazca, Peru.
Soon after the statement was made, the scientific community struck the claims and tagged the entire thing as a hoax, saying that the alleged mummies were in fact fabricated, and were never actually discovered.
These comments were made despite the fact that skeptical scientists never took a look at the mummies, nor did they analyze them thoroughly.
Nevertheless, as the scientific community stood up against the mummies, most people recognized they were probably a hoax, despite the fact that Mr. Jaime Maussan—a UFO researcher and journalist from Mexico—and his team provided evidence suggesting the mummified remains found in Peru were not ordinary human beings.
Now, months after the mummies were found and analyzed by independent laboratories around the globe, a second scientist has studied the bodies discovered in Peru and said that they are not a HOAX.
Dr. Jose Benitez, a doctor of forensic medicine, and member of the team studying the alleged mummified remains has made shocking claims about the mysterious remains discovered in Peru.
ALIENS LATEST: New DNA results on Nazca Tomb 'mummified aliens' say they are 'not human'
Benitez is the SECOND scientists to put his reputation at stake by saying that the mummified remains could in fact be aliens or a least a new species we haven’t encountered before on Earth.
The first scientists to make the same claims was Dr. Edson Vivancoa, a skeletal specialist, who concluded after studying the remains, they were not human.
However, DNA results suggest otherwise.
In fact, one set of DNA results found that the mummified remains were 100 percent Human, while other sets of DNA results showed inconclusive results.
Hence the confusion.
Both Dr. Vivancoa and Dr. Benitez are part of the group of researchers led by Mexican Investigative Journalist and UFOlogist Mr. Maussan.
Dr. Benitez has analyzed previous discoveries together with MR. Maussan. In 2015, they examined the images of what some have suggested may be a non-human body, which later turned out to be a mummified child.
Dr. Benitez was recently interviewed by British ufologist Steve Meera, who traveled to Peru to investigate the claims.
“I found a lot of characteristics that make this body entirely different.
“At first sight, it looked like a normal body but looking closely at every body part we found could find several abnormalities. “For example, the head is bigger, it has wider eyes, a smaller nose, and it has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that a common human,” said, Dr. Benitez
“The bone structure is different; it’s wider. There are only three fingers and three toes. These are the most notable distinctions we could find. There are a few more such as the number of finger joints and the nail beds,” added Dr. Benitez.
“The white dust that covers the mummified remains is a special material known as diatom soil. “This soil has a unique origin with extraordinary characteristics. It dries, dehydrates and preserves tissue and also has the unusual characteristic of being an insect repellent, deterring insects.
“For example, the head is more prominent. It has wider eyes, a smaller nose, has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that an ordinary human.
“Helping the dehydration process and encouraging the natural mummification process.”
All of these conclusions made by Dr. Benitez, and presented in a documentary produced by Steve Meera suggest that the mummified remains found in Peru are anything but human.
“It is essential; we are faced with the try possibility of discovering an organic being very similar to humans but different at the same time. We need to take a step forward to determine what it is and where it has come from,” concluded Dr. Benitez.
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Antediluvian monument? Scientific study says the Sphinx may be up to 800,000 years old
Antediluvian monument? Scientific study says the Sphinx may be up to 800,000 years old
“…it is the sea level during the Calabrian phase which is the closest to the present mark with the highest GES (Great Egyptian Sphinx) hollow at its level. High level of sea water also caused the Nile overflowing and created long-living water-bodies. As to time, it corresponds to 800000 years.
Great, mysterious, almost mystical, shrouded in mystery, millennial, how else would you describe this amazing ancient monument?
It is probably one of the most recognized monuments in the world, one of the icons representative of the power and culture of the ancient Egyptian civilization, cradle, and tomb of pharaohs.
It is ironic then, that the Great Sphinx of Giza is also one of the least understood architectural wonders of ancient Egypt, even though researchers from around the globe have tried to understand when the Sphinx was carved, how, why and what it represents.
An artists illustration of the Great Sphinx before it was completely excavated.
But the most mysterious part of the Sphinx is probably its age. Egyptologists estimate that it was sculpted around the XXVI century BC., as part of the funerary complex.
Having a lion’s body and a human head, this strange hybrid being, which we know with the term of the Sphinx, is one of the most striking productions of Egyptian art.
The ancient Egyptians called it Shesep-ankh, “living image,” the name given to the royal statues.
They symbolized the idea of strength and power, and the Pharaoh was generally represented in this form.
This is indicated by the fact that the sphinxes wore nemes— the striped headcloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt.
This ancient monument faces from West to East and stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.
The face of the Sphinx is commonly assumed to represent the Pharaoh Khafre.
The Great Sphinx was created by carving a mound of limestone located on the Giza plateau.
It has a height of about twenty meters and the fact of the creatures measures around five meters. In ancient times it was painted in bright colors: red body and face, and the nemes that covered the head were decorated with yellow and blue stripes.
A man standing on the shoulder of the Great Sphinx. The image was taken in the 1900’s. Notice the size of the monument.
Titled “GEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF DATING THE GREAT EGYPTIAN SPHINX CONSTRUCTION” a study presented in 2008 offers controversial details about the Great Sphinx of Giza, and particularly its age.
As noted by Vjacheslav I. Manichev and Alexander G. Parkhomenko in their study, after all these years of intensive scientific work trying to determine the exact age of the Sphinx, we still have problems coming to an agreement.
“The problem of dating the Great Egyptian Sphinx is still valid, despite the long-term history of its research. A geological approach in connection to other scientific-natural methods allows answering the question about the relative age of the Sphinx. The conducted visual research of the Sphinx allowed the conclusion about the important role of water from large water bodies which partially flooded the structure with formation of wave-cut hollows on its vertical walls,” wrote experts in the study.
“The morphology of these formations has an analogy with similar hollows formed by the sea in the coastal zones. The genetic similarity of the compared erosion forms and the geological formation and petrographic composition of sedimentary rock complexes lead to a conclusion that the decisive factor of destruction of the Great Sphinx is the wave energy rather than sand abrasion in Eolian process.”
“Voluminous geological literature confirms the fact of existence of long-living fresh-water lakes in various periods of the Quaternary from the Lower Pleistocene to the Holocene.”
“These lakes were distributed in the territories adjacent to the Nile. The absolute mark of the large upper erosion hollow of the Sphinx corresponds to the level of water surface which took place in the Early Pleistocene.”
“The Great Egyptian Sphinxwas already present on the Giza Plateau by that geological (historical) time,” concluded experts.
Manichev and Parkhomenko are convinced that the Great Sphinx had to hae been submerged for a long time underwater and, to support this theory, they point towards existing literature of geological studies of the Giza Plateau.
According to a number of studies, it was at the end of the Pliocene geologic period (sometime between 5.2 and 1.6 million years ago) that sea water entered the Nile valley and gradually created flooding in the area.
This phenomenon led to the formation of lacustrine deposits which are at the mark of 180 m above the present level of the Mediterranean Sea.
According to Manichev and Parkhomenko, it is the sea level during the Calabrian phase which is the closest to the present mark with the highest GES (Great Egyptian Sphinx) hollow at its level.
High level of sea water also caused the Nile overflowing and created long-living water-bodies. As to time, it corresponds to 800000 years.
Scientists have just found THOUSANDS of new lifeforms that redraw the Tree of Life
Scientists have just found THOUSANDS of new lifeforms that redraw the Tree of Life
A stunning discovery has just been made by scientists who have found ‘organisms that are different from any other life forms on Earth known to science’.
While humans are the dominant species on Earth, if we take a look at the tree of life, we will notice that we share this branch with a number of different creatures on Earth, who all have one thing in common, a backbone.
This small—yet extremely important feature—is enough to place humans in a group referred to as ‘phylum’ together with dogs, fish, and lizards. This is something we see repeated across Earth’s organisms, and essentially connects all of life’s diversities into one.
A phylogenetic tree of life. Note how small the phylum Animalia — where humans fit in — is compared to bacteria and archaea.
(Image Credit: Adl, Sina M.; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; et al.)
Their study, published in the Journal Nature Microbiology, experts revealed a new technique referred to as metagenomics, which essentially involves the sequencing of ALL the DNA in a sample of an environment — dirt, water, feces, etc. — to produce that sample’s metagenome.
With aid of an international massive database composed of 1,500 metagenomes, scientists were able to reconstruct the individual genomes of 7,280 new bacteria and 623 new archaea.
A fertile hunting ground for new species
Then, scientists came across something totally unexpected. The discovered that out of all these microorganisms, around a third were UNLIKE anything experts had seen before, resulting in the creation of 17 completely new bacterial phylums and three new achaeal phylums.
“The real value of these genomes is that many are evolutionarily distinct from previously recovered genomes,” asserts lead researcher Gene Tyson. “They increase the evolutionary diversity spanned by both bacterial and archaeal genome trees by over 30 percent, and are the first representatives within 17 bacterial and three archaeal phyla.”
“To give this context, every single insect on Earth belongs to just one phylum, and every single animal with a backbone belongs to one phylum, so this is crazy new levels of stuff,” says Nicholas Coleman at the University of Sydney.
“But this is probably an underestimate, as we’ve recently found that existing methods for estimating this actually miss a lot of organisms,” says Donovan Parks at the University of Queensland in Australia.
Meet NGTS-1b, a monstrous planet that ‘should not exist’
Meet NGTS-1b, a monstrous planet that ‘should not exist’
A giant planet, so disproportionate that it should not exist according to the theory of planet formation, has been discovered around a small distant star.
The new research detailing its discovery was presented for publishing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The existence of the monster planet, NGTS-1b, defies the theories of planetary formation that affirm that a planet of this size could not be formed around such a small star.
According to these theories, small stars can easily form rocky planets but do not accumulate enough material to produce planets the size of Jupiter.
However, NGTS-1b is a gas giant; Due to its size and temperature, the planet is known as a “hot Jupiter,” a class of planets that are at least as large as our own Jupiter, but with about 20 percent less mass. H
However, unlike Jupiter, NGTS-1b is very close to its star, barely 3% of the distance between Earth and the Sun, and completes one orbit every 2.6 days, which means that one year in NGTS -1b lasts two and a half years in Earth’s days.
In contrast, the host star is small, with a radius and a mass half that of our sun.
Professor Peter Wheatley, of the University of Warwick, detailed in a statement the complications that this introduced to astronomy:
“Despite being a monster planet, NGTS-1b was difficult to find because its parent star is small and faint “. He went on to explain that “small stars are actually the most common in the universe, so it is possible that there are many of these giant planets waiting to found.”
NGTS-1b is the first planet to be detected by The Next-Generation Transit Survey (or “NGTS”) that uses a series of 12 telescopes to explore the sky.
The researchers made the discovery by continuously monitoring patches of the night sky for months, and detecting the red light of the star with innovative red-sensitive cameras.
They noticed dips in the light of the star every 2.6 days, which implies that a planet was in orbit and periodically blocked the light from the star.
Using this data, they tracked the planet’s orbit and calculated the size, position, and mass by measuring the radial velocity of the star.
In fact, this method, which measures how much the stars wobble due to the gravitational pull of the planet, was the best way to measure the size of NGTS-1b.
Daniel Bayliss, lead author of the study, from the University of Warwick, said:
“The discovery of NGTS-1b was a complete surprise to us – such massive planets were not thought to exist around such small stars. This is the first exoplanet we have found with our new NGTS facility, and we are already challenging the received wisdom of how planets form.
“Our challenge is to now find out how common these types of planets are in the Galaxy, and with the new NGTS facility we are well-placed to do just that.”
This may not be as big as the news that scientists at CERN believe the universe should not exist, but it may be easier to prove. Astronomers using a new array of telescopes in Chile have discovered a monster planet which challenges the previously-held theory that huge gaseous planets cannot exist in tight orbits around tiny stars. Now they’re scrambling to explain this big-planet-little star combo. (Insert “Aliens!” here.)
The latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyannounced the exciting discovery this week – exciting because this is the first big finding using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) whose purpose is to find giant exoplanets orbiting small stars. Baseball fans will recognize this as an example of a rookie hitting a grand slam home run in his first major league at-bat. (This is what happens when big discoveries occur during the World Series.) Its array of fully-robotic small telescopes operate in the 600-900nm band, making them sensitive to bright but relatively small, cool host stars … stars like the aptly named NGTS-1 in the Columba constellation.
The Columba constellation
The shocking aspect of the discovery is the size, composition and location of NGTS-1b – the ‘hot Jupiter’ spinning around NGTS-1. Hot Jupiters have been in the astronomical news recently with the discovery of WASP-12b, a dark giant gas ball that is mysteriously eating the light from its star. If Elon Musk tells you he has no more seats left on his Mars spacecraft but can get you on a trip to a Hot Jupiter – just say “no.”
“The discovery of NGTS-1b was a complete surprise to us — such massive planets were not thought to exist around such small stars. The planet is about 25 percent the radius its host star. This makes is very large compared to its host star! For comparison, Jupiter is only about 10 percent the radius of our sun.”
Daniel Bayliss, lead author of the study, illustrates one of the impossibilities of NGTS-1b – its size. Dwarf stars were not thought to have enough mass of their own to pull together the amount of mass needed to create such monster planets. Impossibility #2 is its incredible closeness to NGTS-1 … NGTS-1b is a mere 2.8 million miles away from its star (Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun) and completes a ‘yearly’ orbit in 62.4 hours or 2.6 Earth days.
NGTS-1b’s size and proximity to its star contributed greatly to its discovery. Astronomers observing NGTS-1 saw it dim every 2.6 days but, unlike Tabby’s star, they quickly determined it was a monster planet and not an alien-built energy-collecting Dyson sphere causing the dimming.
Artist’s depiction of a red dwarf and its planets
If there’s an astronomer’s creed, it is that “If there’s one, there’s more,” so the researchers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile will be using the Next-Generation Transit Survey to find more giant hot Jupiters orbiting tiny cool planets.
If there’s an astronomer’s creed, it may have to be modified to require astronomers discovering monster gas ball planets to yell “Hot Jupiter!”
Of all the many and varied encounters with the Men in Blackthat I have on record, there is no doubt that one of the creepiest is that of an Englishman, Nev Jacques. Nev told me, just a couple of years ago, that while he and his wife were vacationing in the Canary Islands in 2012 they had a very strange encounter with a mysterious MIB. Nev began as follows:
“Hi Nick, I listened to your show on Coast to Coast, re Men in black recently, the header photo for that gave me some relief! Let me explain. I was on holiday with my wife in Fuerteventura, in the Canaries, November-December 2012. We were walking back to our hotel on a very long promenade walk. It was close to 4 p.m. There were other people milling about. It’s kind of high up on a volcanic rock face, directly at the seas edge and a wide open area.”
Up until that point, everything had been completely normal. That normality, however, was destined to change radically and drastically, as Nev revealed to me: “We noticed about 100 meters in front of us a tall, thin man, at least 6 foot 2 with a big rimmed black hat, round feature hugging black sixties type sunglasses, a long sleeved shirt and a light-colored jumper over his shoulders and long trousers! What made it more strange was his face looked white, as if it was plastered in sun block, (whiter than white). We both laughed and watched him walk towards us. I got the feeling he was watching me, although I couldn’t see his eyes. As he drew closer it became apparent that it wasn’t sun block it was his skin! He had big hands and long fingers, also very white; kind of in front of him, not by his sides!”
There was far more to come. All of it was very weird, which is hardly surprising: just about everything concerning the Men in Black is weird. Back to Nev: “When we where about 5 feet from him I noticed his skin was almost translucent. That’s the only way I can describe it. His sunglasses covered all of his eye area and wrapped around the full socket area. They were round and black. He had a narrow, sunken face, and had a very angular jaw and prominent cheek bones. He looked in his sixties or so.”
Things got stranger…
“When he was passing us he turned his head looking at me and spoke, with a kind of acknowledging manner and said something that I and my wife couldn’t understand or describe as human language. It was high and low pitched all at the same time and very short, that’s the best way to describe it! Strangely, we didn’t look back to see where he went or take a photo. Both of us don’t know why we didn’t. I got the feeling he was watching me from me first noticing him.”
The brief experience was over, but Nev was unable to shake off the spine-tingling effects of that eerie encounter, as he told me: “We got back to the hotel and I could stop thinking and talking about the encounter with my wife. I kept telling her he wasn’t from here, his clothes weren’t right. In fact, he was totally alien in appearance to anyone I have ever seen in my life. I went to bed that night and didn’t sleep much. Every time I tried to go to sleep all I could see was him and I thought about the encounter for the rest of the holiday.”
Nev concluded: “I searched the Internet for all types of albinos that I could find for months after, but couldn’t find a match for him. Then, I found your interview on Coast to Coast and, bingo, the artist’s impression of the Man in Black was him, only without the hat and glasses. It still freaks me out to this day, Nick, We can still not explain it! Kind Regards, Nev Jacques, UK.”
Ceres may have once had a global ocean - and part of it could still remain, NASA has revealed.
The dwarf planet, best known for its strange 'alien spots', is seen as being a record of the early solar system.
Now, the Dawn mission has found minerals containing water are widespread on its surface.
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This animation shows Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from its high-altitude mapping orbit at 913 miles (1,470 kilometers) above the surface. The colorful map overlaid at right shows variations in Ceres' gravity field measured by Dawn, and gives scientists hints about the dwarf planet's internal structure. Red colors indicate more positive values, corresponding to a stronger gravitational pull than expected, compared to scientists' pre-Dawn model of Ceres' internal structure; blue colors indicate more negative values, corresponding to a weaker gravitational pull
WORLD OF CERES
Ceres is 590 miles (950 km) across and was discovered in 1801.
It is the closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, making it the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system.
Ceres is the smallest of the bodies currently classified as a 'dwarf planet'.
It lies less than three times as far as Earth from the sun - close enough to feel the warmth of the star, allowing ice to melt and reform.
Nasa's Dawn spacecraft made its way to Ceres after leaving the asteroid Vesta in 2012.
There is high interest in the mission because Ceres is seen as being a record of the early solar system.
'More and more, we are learning that Ceres is a complex, dynamic world that may have hosted a lot of liquid water in the past, and may still have some underground,' said Julie Castillo-Rogez, Dawn project scientist and co-author of the studies, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
The Dawn team found that Ceres' crust is a mixture of ice, salts and hydrated materials that were subjected to past and possibly recent geologic activity, and that this crust represents most of that ancient ocean.
Landing on Ceres to investigate its interior would be technically challenging and would risk contaminating the dwarf planet.
Instead, scientists use Dawn's observations in orbit to measure Ceres' gravity, in order to estimate its composition and interior structure.
Led by Anton Ermakov, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL, the first study used shape and gravity data measurements from the Dawn mission to determine the internal structure and composition of Ceres.
The measurements came from observing the spacecraft's motions with NASA's Deep Space Network to track small changes in the spacecraft's orbit. This study is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Ermakov and his colleagues' research supports the possibility that Ceres is geologically active -- if not now, then it may have been in the recent past.
Three craters -- Occator, Kerwan and Yalode -- and Ceres' solitary tall mountain, Ahuna Mons, are all associated with 'gravity anomalies.'
This means discrepancies between the scientists' models of Ceres' gravity and what Dawn observed in these four locations can be associated with subsurface structures.
'Ceres has an abundance of gravity anomalies associated with outstanding geologic features,' Ermakov said.
In the cases of Ahuna Mons and Occator, the anomalies can be used to better understand the origin of these features, which are believed to be different expressions of cryovolcanism.
The study found the crust's density to be relatively low, closer to that of ice than rocks.
The second study builds off the first and suggests there is a softer, easily deformable layer beneath Ceres' rigid surface crust, which could be the signature of residual liquid left over from the ocean, too.
However, a study by Dawn guest investigator Michael Bland of the U.S. Geological Survey indicated that ice is too soft to be the dominant component of Ceres' strong crust.
The second study, led by Roger Fu at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, investigated the strength and composition of Ceres' crust and deeper interior by studying the dwarf planet's topography.
The map overlaid at right gives scientists hints about Ceres' internal structure from gravity measurements. Led by Anton Ermakov, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL, the study used shape and gravity data measurements from the Dawn mission to determine the internal structure and composition of Ceres
This study is published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters
By studying how topography evolves on a planetary body, scientists can understand the composition of its interior.
A strong, rock-dominated crust can remain unchanged over the 4.5-billion-year-old age of the solar system, while a weak crust rich in ices and salts would deform over that time.
By modeling how Ceres' crust flows, Fu and colleagues found it is likely a mixture of ice, salts, rock and an additional component believed to be clathrate hydrate.
A clathrate hydrate is a cage of water molecules surrounding a gas molecule. This structure is 100 to 1,000 times stronger than water ice, despite having nearly the same density.
The researchers believe Ceres once had more pronounced surface features, but they have smoothed out over time.
This type of flattening of mountains and valleys requires a high-strength crust resting on a more deformable layer, which Fu and colleagues interpret to contain a little bit of liquid.
The team thinks most of Ceres' ancient ocean is now frozen and bound up in the crust, remaining in the form of ice, clathrate hydrates and salts.
It has mostly been that way for more than 4 billion years.
But if there is residual liquid underneath, that ocean is not yet entirely frozen.
This is consistent with several thermal evolution models of Ceres published prior to Dawn's arrival there, supporting the idea that Ceres' deeper interior contains liquid left over from its ancient ocean.
Using evolutionary theory, Oxford experts say aliens may actually look like humansiStock
Sci-fi fans may think aliens from outer space would resemble little green men or large monstrous creatures – but new research suggests they may be more like us than we realise.
For the first time, experts are using Darwin's evolutionary theory to make predictions about extra-terrestrial life, hoping to glean new insights and patterns about its potential behaviour.
A new study, published this week (31 October) in the international journal of astrobiology, sees University of Oxford scientists suggest aliens would likely be shaped by the same processes and mechanisms that have changed humans over time.
"A fundamental task for astrobiologists, those who study life in the cosmos, is thinking about what extra-terrestrial life might be like," said Sam Levin, a researcher in Oxford's Department of Zoology.
"But making predictions about aliens is hard. We only have one example of life – life on Earth – to extrapolate from.
"Past approaches in the field of astrobiology have been largely mechanistic, taking what we see on Earth, and what we know about chemistry, geology, and physics to make predictions about aliens."
But his new paper takes a different approach, instead using evolutionary theory to make predictions independent of Earth's parameters.
"This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon based, do not have DNA and breathe nitrogen, for example," he said, adding that the new Oxford model could also be used to judge how "complexity" would arise in space.
On Earth, species' complexity increases thanks to major transitions, which occur when a group of separate organisms evolve into a higher-level organism. For these transitions to occur, scientists believe "extreme conditions" are typically needed.
The experts said they don't yey know if aliens – if they exist, of course – would walk on two legs of have large, oversized, eye sockets as depicted in some Hollywood movies. But they noted that evolutionary theory has offered a unique tool to glean greater understanding.
"By predicting that aliens undergone major transitions we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us," Levin continued.
"Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien. At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning.
"There are potentially hundreds of thousands of habitable planets in our galaxy alone.
"We can't say whether or not we're alone on Earth, but we have taken a small step forward in answering, if we're not alone, what our neighbours are like."
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Aliens may be more like us than we think: study
Aliens may be more like us than we think: study
Scientists from the University of Oxford in the UK show that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes that shaped humans.
Scientists from the University of Oxford in the UK show that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes that shaped humans.
(Photo: Pixabay)
Hollywood films and science fiction literature have projected aliens as other-worldly, monster- like beings, but an Oxford study suggests that our extra- terrestrial neighbours may be more like us than we think.
The study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology shows for the first time how evolutionary theory can be used to support alien predictions and better understand their behaviour.
Scientists from the University of Oxford in the UK show that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes and mechanisms that shaped humans, such as natural selection.
The theory supports the argument that foreign life forms undergo natural selection, and are like us, evolving to be fitter and stronger over time.
"A fundamental task for astrobiologists (those who study life in the cosmos) is thinking about what extra-terrestrial life might be like," said Sam Levin, a researcher in Oxfords Department of Zoology.
"But making predictions about aliens is hard. We only have one example of life - life on Earth to extrapolate from.
"Past approaches in the field of astrobiology have been largely mechanistic, taking what we see on Earth, and what we know about chemistry, geology, and physics to make predictions about aliens," said Levin.
In the new study, researchers offer an alternative approach, which is to use evolutionary theory to make predictions that are independent of Earths details.
"This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon based, do not have DNA, and breathe nitrogen, for example," Levin said.
Using this idea of alien natural selection as a framework, the team addressed extra-terrestrial evolution, and how complexity will arise in space.
Species complexity has increased on the Earth as a result of a handful of events, known as major transitions.
These transitions occur when a group of separate organisms evolve into a higher-level organism - when cells become multi-cellular organisms, for example.
Both theory and empirical data suggest that extreme conditions are required for major transitions to occur.
The study also makes specific predictions about the biological make-up of complex aliens, and offers a degree of insight as to what they might look like.
"We still cannot say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes.
But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it," Levin said.
In supposedly leaked “government” footage, the cross-hairs of the predator drone are seen soaring over a mountain range.
It appears to be tracking a small object in the distance in the desert-like landscape.
The mystery craft then disappears around a corner but when the drone follows it, a bright light is seemingly fired directly at it.
The video then scrambles, suggesting the military craft has been destroyed.
Renowned conspiracist UFO Today posted the clip to its YouTube account and claimed that military personnel had told him the “footage seems genuine drone footage”.
YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY
MYSTERY: A UFO allegedly shot down a predator drone with an energy beam
But it’s split opinion among the 160,000 people that have watched it.
“Is that real?” one asked. “Why would they allow this to be released if it was?”
Another added: “They’re finally here, this has to be proof.”
And a third commented: “So obviously edited.”
YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY
MYSTERY: The drone started to scramble when the beam of light appeared
Evidence of extraterrestrial activity may have been written across the sky in Australia's North East over the weekend, according to a woman behind some 'unexplainable' photos.
Jenny Morrison captured photos of a bizarre UFO-like object appearing to drift across the sky above the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday afternoon.
The Cairns local was photographing the sunset with her smart phone as she cruised back to shore from a fishing trip off Elford Reef, News.com.au reports.
A Cairns woman captured photos of a bizarre UFO-like object hovering across the sky above the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday
She recalled nothing out of ordinary at the time, but when inspecting her photos later on noticed a strange neon dot surrounded by a saucer-like shadow.
The out-of-place figure seemed to progress further across the skyline near Fitzroy Island with every frame, before disappearing completely.
Today, many of the world’s leading companies are in a one-of-a-kind race: To bring artificial intelligence (AI) to life. Already, machine learning systems are the core of many businesses, so it’s no surprise that updates about this AI or that neural net often pop up on our newsfeed. Such headlines typically read along the lines of, “AI beats human players in video game” or “AI mimics human speech” and even sometimes things like “AI detects cancer using machine learning.”
But just how close are we to having machines with the intelligence of a human—machines that we can talk with and work with like we do any other individual? Machines that are conscious?
While all of the aforementioned developments are real, Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook and a professor of computer science at NYU, thinks that we may be overestimating the abilities of today’s AI, and, thus building up a bit of hype. “We’re very far from having machines that can learn the most basic things about the world in the way humans and animals can do,” LeCun told The Verge in an interview published last week. “Like, yes, in particular areas machines have superhuman performance, but in terms of general intelligence we’re not even close to a rat.”
This so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to an AI operator capable of performing virtually every task a human being could. Conversely, today’s AI specialize in particular tasks: for example, image or speech recognition, or identifying patterns by sifting through tons of data that machine learning AIs have been trained on. These specialized AIs are also called “applied AI” or “narrow AI” to highlight their rather limited intelligence.
Speaking to Futurism via email, Manuel Cebrian, one of the MIT researchers that developed Shelley, an AI horror storyteller, agreed with LeCun’s sentiments. “AI is just a great tool,” he said, adding that, “it seems to me, based on my work with Shelley, that AI is very far from being able to create professional-level horror fiction.” And thus, still quite far from human levels of intelligence.
LeCun clarifies that we shouldn’t devalue the significant work that AI researchers have made in recent months and years, but that work in machine learning and neural networks is not the same as developing true artificial intelligence. “So for example, and I don’t want to minimize at all the engineering and research work done on AlphaGo by our friends at DeepMind, but when [people interpret the development of AlphaGo] as significant progress towards general intelligence, it’s wrong,” LeCun added. “It just isn’t.”
Pierre Barreau, CEO of Aiva Technologies, the company behind the music-composing AI Aiva, also thinks that the advancements that we have made towards synthetic intelligence are overstated. “AGI is a very hyped topic,” he noted via email. “I am, in general, quite optimistic about how fast tech develops, but I think a lot of people don’t realize the complexity of our own brain, let alone creating an artificial one.”
Making Artificial General Intelligence
People often use AI-related terms as synonymous with true artificial intelligence. News coverage drops terms like machine learning or deep learning together with artificial neural networks whenever AI is discussed. While each of these have something to do with AI, these aren’t exactly AI per se.
Machine learning is a tool: a set of algorithms that learn by ingesting huge amounts of data, from which an intelligent system is constructed. Similarly, deep learning refers to a kind of machine learning that is not task-specific. An artificial neural network, on the other hand, is a system that mimics the way the human brain works, and upon which machine learning algorithms are built.
All of these, AI experts believe, are the foundation for a synthetic intelligence with truly human cognition. But this is just the nascent stage; we have made a lot of progress, but current research isn’t really close to creating true intelligence.
So the big question is, when can we expect to have this type of intelligent AI? What’s the specific timeline?
For Luke Tang, general manager of AI startup accelerator TechCode, the shift will start with a “breakthrough in unsupervised learning algorithms.” Once this is accomplished, “machine intelligence can quickly surpass human intelligence,” he said in a statement sent to Futurism.
Needless to say, the path to this will be quite challenging. “In order to achieve AGI, there will need to be major breakthroughs not just in software, but also in Neuroscience and Hardware,” Barreau explained. He clarified, “We are starting to hit the ceiling of Moore’s law, with transistors being as small as they can physically get. New hardware platforms like quantum computing have not yet shown that they can beat performances of our usual hardware in all tasks.”
Indeed, for an AI to be considered truly intelligent, most agree that it has to pass at least five tests, foremost of which is the Turing Test—where a machine and a human both converse with a second human being, who will determine which one is a machine. Barreau said that he’s confident that we will see in our lifetime an AI passing the Turing Test; i.e., that it would pass as a human being. However, he says this won’t necessarily be “AGI, but good enough to pass as AGI.”
A Case for Augmented Intelligence
It goes without saying that an AGI is the prerequisite for the so-called singularity. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of “singularity,” it’s essentially that moment when intelligent machines surpass humankind’s levels of intelligence, spurring runaway and exponential technological growth that will transform the foundations of life as we know it. The term was coined in 1993 by Vernor Vinge, who wrote: “We will soon create intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.”
While this is something SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Google’s Ray Kurzweilare excitedly looking forward to, other brilliant minds of today, such as Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and even Bill Gates, aren’t quite as keen for this moment. They assert that, in the same way that we don’t really understand what it means to have a super-intelligent AI, we’re also not prepared for whatever consequences the singularity would bring.
“We should focus our efforts on an exciting outcome of AI: augmented intelligence (i.e. human intelligence being augmented by AI),” Barreau said. Like Aiva and Shelley, other AIs have done considerably well when working side-by-side with human beings.
Still, with intelligent robots like Hanson Robotics’ Sophia and SotfBank’s Pepper, it does not seem very far-fetched to imagine truly intelligent machines living among us. Could Masayoshi Son’s super-intelligent AI, with an IQ of 10,000, be the cognitive machine intelligence we’re looking for? If that’s the case, we might have to wait for at least three more decades. “It’s probably only 30 to 50 years away,” Tang said. “So it is likely–it will just take some time to get there. But it also means many of us will have a chance to see that day come!”
Electrifyingly GIANT: Futuristic Tesla Towers built and tested in Russia
Electrifyingly GIANT: Futuristic Tesla Towers built and tested in
This futuristic Tesla Complex can produce enough power matching all power generation facilities in Russia when lightning is discharged onto a platform.
It’s not a massive alien colony. It’s not part of a Hollywood movie set up, it’s not HAARP. What you are seeing here is in fact a massive TESLA tower complex located in a forest outside of Moscow.
Dubbed as the “High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility,” the weird facility belongs to the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute. It was created near the town of Istra, some 40 kilometers of Moscow.
The massive high-voltage testing range was not built recently. It was erected in the 1970’s and it was created in order to test insulator and protect vehicles, aircrafts and electronic equipment against lightning.
This futuristic facility is absolutely stunning, and most importantly its unique. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the world, and its mostly because of its outlandish charging capacity.
According to Rossiya-1 TV reports, at its peak operating capacity, and when lightning is discharged onto an isolated platform, this Tesla-like generator has power equal to ALL power generating facilities in Russia, including thermoelectric, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind power stations combined. However, it can only last for around 100 microseconds.
The massive facility consists of a 3 Megawatt capacity transformer cascade; a 9 Megawatt Pulsed Voltage Generator (PVG), measuring 39.3 meters high, capable of creating 150-meter artificial lightning, believed to be the largest in the world; and a 2.25 Megawatt constant voltage unit.
The facility is one of the most powerful in the world. If not the most powerful. In fact, when the facility is operational, the static charge in the ‘hot zone’ is so massive that the air of anyone present ‘bristles’ reports Rossiya-1 TV.
Here is a video of the facility filmed from a drone:
On July 3, 2016 – as Comet 67P erupted with a plume of dust – the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft happened to pass right through the dust cloud.
On July 3, 2016, when Comet 67P sent a jet of dust into space, all 5 instruments aboard the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft were able to record the event. This image shows the dust plume, which originated from the Imhotep region on the comet.
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany reported on October 26, 2017 on scientists’ analysis of a very conveniently placed jet of dust that had erupted from Comet 67P/Chruyumov-Gerasimenko a year earlier. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, which was orbiting the comet at that time, passed serendipitously right through the jet and was able to use all five of its instruments to record it. Subsequent analysis of this goldmine of data from Rosetta is now complete. The scientists said it revealed a more intricate process driving the jets of comets than had been previously supposed.
It was known that the jets of comets are driven by the sublimation of frozen water, the process by which a solid turns into a gas without going through a liquid stage. But, in addition, these scientists said:
… further processes augment the outbreaks. Possible scenarios include the release of pressurized gas stored below the surface or the conversion of one kind of frozen water into an energetically more favorable one.
The analysis of the July 3, 2016 jet from 67P has now been published in the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Before the Rosetta spacecraft, who knew comets could look like this? This is Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – aka Chury – via Rosetta.
Thanks to Rosetta, researchers had previously discovered a day-night cycle of activity on Comet 67P. The comet’s “day,” that is, its day-night cycle (a single rotation on its axis) takes about 12.4 hours. Data from Rosetta had shown that, as the comet spins, and as the sun rises and shines on each new part of the comet, that area becomes most likely to produce jets. A statement from MPS explained:
When the sun rose over the Imhotep region of Rosetta’s comet on July 3, 2016, everything was just right: As the surface warmed and began to emit dust into space, Rosetta’s trajectory led the probe right through the cloud. At the same time, the view of the scientific camera system OSIRIS coincidentally focused precisely on the surface region of the comet from which the fountain originated. A total of five instruments on board the probe were able to document the outburst in the following hours.
This was an amazing stroke of luck. It is impossible to plan something like this.
Prior to this event, the spacecraft had been able to point perhaps one of its instruments – from afar – toward an erupting jet on 67P. Agarwal said:
From the extensive measurement data of July 3, 2016, we were able to reconstruct the progress and the characteristics of the outburst as detailed as never before.
The July 3, 2016 dust plume was spotted within the ice-filled depression close to the large boulder near the bottom of this image. The image is a false-color composite, where the pale blue patches highlight the presence and location of water-ice.
The researchers were able to see the starting point of the jet as a circular area on the comet, about 30 feet (10 meters) in diameter, and located within a depression on the comet’s surface. As the data show, this area contains frozen water at the surface. In general, scientists assume that frozen gases on a comet’s surface, such as water, are responsible for dust production.
The new study shows, though, that sublimation of water ice by itself can’t explain the event of July 3, 2016. The dust production from this region was measured at approximately 40 pounds per second (18 kilograms per second), and hence the jet is much dustier than conventional models had predicted. Agarwal explained:
An additional energetic process must be at play – energy must have been released from beneath the surface to support the plume.
It is conceivable, for example, that under the surface of the comet there are cavities filled with compressed gas. Upon sunrise, the radiation begins to warm the overlying surface, cracks develop and the gas escapes. According to another theory, deposits of amorphous ice beneath the surface play a decisive role. In this type of frozen water, the individual molecules are not aligned in a lattice-like structure, as is customary in the case of crystalline ice, but arranged in a far more disorderly fashion. Since the crystalline state is energetically more favorable, energy is released during the transition from amorphous to crystalline ice. Energy input through sunlight can start this transformation.
[However],exactly which process took place on July 3, 2016 is still unclear.
Matt Taylor, Rosetta Project Scientist at ESA, said:
There’s a particular focus now within the Rosetta science community on looking to combine data from 67P with modelling, simulations, and laboratory work here on Earth, to address the question of what drives such activity on comets.
Here’s a Rosetta spacecraft selfie with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in background taken by the CIVA camera onboard the Philae Lander on September 7, 2014. The spacecraft and comet were separated by about 31 miles (50 km) at the time. Two frames were taken and merged due to the high contrast.
Bottom line: Outbursts of dust from comets appear without warning. But on July 3, 2016 – as Comet 67P erupted with a plume of dust – the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft happened to pass right through the dust cloud.
Nearly every depiction of extraterrestrial life are of green figures with large heads, and bug eyes, that look, well, alien. But new research suggests that if advanced beings from far away worlds exist, they may look a lot like us.
Scientists at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, published a paper asserting that evolutionary theory can help describe aliens and their behavior in theInternational Journal of Astrobiology. They said aliens are potentially impacted by natural selection, just like us, making them evolve to be stronger and more adaptable.
Sam Levin, a researcher in Oxford's Department of Zoology, said in a statement that predicting exactly what aliens look or act like is difficult, as we simply haven’t seen them. “We only have one example of life—life on Earth—to extrapolate from,” he said.
People have been wondering what aliens look like for years, and now scientists say they're probably just like us.
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Past astrobiologists have used chemistry, geology and physics that explain our planet to try and predict what life might be like on other planets, Levin explains. His team’s approach, however, is different. Evolutionary theory can be used to make predictions that aren’t biased by our own facts about Earth.
Within evolutionary theory is the idea that organisms grow into a higher status through a series of major transitions. "Major transitions are important because the new higher-level organisms that they produce can lead to a great jump in complexity," the authors wrote in the paper.
For example, single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. We would not be as we are now, with eyes, kidneys and brains if these major transitions didn't occur. Evolutionary theory and data suggest that extreme conditions occur before these transitions take place, according to Levin. The same is likely true for aliens, too.
A photo showing liquid water on planet Mars. Extraterrestrial life has not been found on other planets, but scientists speculate they do exist.
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"We still can't say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes,” said Levin. But, using evolutionary theory, they were able to assume that their forms adapted to be similar to us.
“Like humans, we predict that they are made up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien,” he said. “At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation and keep the organism functioning.”
Of course, this is all theoretical, and there are hundreds of thousands of planets in our galaxy, so there’s no saying whether they exist—or where they might live.
But one idea emerged last week from scientist Alan Stern, who worked on NASA’s New Horizons mission. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Stern said that intelligent life could have built civilizations in subsurface oceans. He believes these buried oceans would provide a better environment to help life evolve more complexly.
Northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminate the sky over Reinfjorden in Reine, on Lofoten Islands, Arctic Circle, on September 8, 2017./Photographers waiting for the Northern Lights in Siberia on the night of Oct. 26 saw an unexpected sight.
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A group of photographers camping out in Siberia to shoot the Northern Lights saw a sight every bit as spectacular and even more mysterious.
Viewers were stunned to see a huge, glowing, bubble of light rise into the sky. It was weird, it was unidentifiable—and it was flying. It was an Unidentified Flying Object.
According to Siberian Times, many people saw the inexplicable bubble and at least five took pictures on the night of Oct. 26–27.
Some people described the bizarre bubble as “a gap in the space-time continuum” according to the Siberian Times. Others said it must have been aliens.
The actual explanation is a bit more mundane.
The Topol ICBM (Vitaly V. Kuzmin via Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.)
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on its Facebook page that it had launched a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from a missile base in northern Siberia that night.
According to the Facebook page, the Topol-M missile was fired from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia toward the Kura testing range in Kamchatka, which is on Russia’s far eastern Pacific peninsula.
An S-300 PMU-1 anti-aircraft missile launches during a Greek army military exercise near Chania on the island of Crete on Dec. 13, 2013. (Papanikolaou Giorgos/AFP/Getty Images)
The strange atmospheric effects caused by the missile launch came as a kind of extra treat for the photographers, who were there to capture what was predicted to be an exceptionally bright display of the Aurora Borealis.
Tourists photograph the Northern Lights near Reykjavik, Iceland on Oct. 30, 2015. (Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images)
‘Flying saucer’ photographed over Great Barrier Reef
‘Flying saucer’ photographed over Great Barrier Reef
A WOMAN believes she has snapped a picture of a bright “flying saucer” over the Great Barrier Reef.
Daniel Bateman
UFO Bargo NSW
ARE aliens intent on invading the Great Barrier Reef?
A Cairns woman has photographed, what she believes, is a UFO flying off Fitzroy Island, while she was sailing back to the mainland from a reef fishing trip on Saturday afternoon.
Jenny Morrison was returning from Elford Reef, about 50km east of Cairns, after spending a day at sea with friends, and took a series of photographs of the sunset on her smartphone.
Jenny Morrison photographed this UFO with her iPhone, off Fitzroy Island, on Saturday afternoon. WHAT IS IT????
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When she later examined the photos, she noticed in several of the images, an inexplicable luminous green dot shrouded in a distinctive flying saucer shape.
“There’s this little light, that looks just like a bit of water on the lens,” she said.
“I haven’t edited the photos, or done anything to them.
“When you look through the photos, though, the dot is in the middle of a saucer-shaped shadow thing.
“I don’t know how to explain it.”
Adding to the mystery, the green dot eventually vanishes from the last few photographs in the series.
Jenny Morrison photographed this UFO with her iPhone, off Fitzroy Island.
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Ms Morrison said she did not notice anything with her naked eye, when she took the photos.
“It’s so weird. It looks really real — like something you’d see on TV,” she said.
“It’s crazy.”
Far North Queensland is considered a UFO hotspot, with several sightings of mystery aircraft in the sky over several decades.
The Cardwell UFO Festival, held each October, celebrates the region’s interstellar links by inviting the public to share their experiences of the unexplained.
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a series regarding Robert Powell’s investigation of this case. Part I, along with alleged video of the event, can be found here.
In December 2016 I submitted nine different Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Navy and the Marines in an effort to establish whether the information on the UFO encounter that I discussed in Part I was real. Here is a link to one of the actual FOIA requests for those that like to see the details click here.
Notice that I never used the term “UFO” in the request as this lessens the likelihood of success because of the negative connotations with the use of that word. This type of FOIA request was made for five different Navy assets that were involved in this incident; a nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz; a guided missile cruiser, the USS Princeton; an F-18 part of a Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA-232); two to four F-18 Super Hornets from a Navy Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA-41); and a carrier based airborne early warning aircraft (an E-2C from VAW-117). Requests were sent to Naval Intelligence, Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Marines Pacific, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Naval Research, Naval Surface Forces in the Pacific, Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Facilities, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Naval History.
By April of 2017 I had received replies on all nine of my requests for information. In every case the Navy replied that they had no information responsive to my request. I appealed two of what I considered the most important of the nine FOIAs to the Navy’s Judge Advocate General (JAG). The first appeal came back denied. In the second appeal, I pointed out to the Navy JAG officers that another appeal denial would would indicate that on November 14, 2004, that they had no records on five different Navy assets. I copied my senators and congressman on my appeal. This time I had success. Although the Navy again indicated that they could find no documents, this time they provided me emails with some very interesting information that establishes the encounter with the unknown craft did occur.
Remember in Part I of this story that the F-18 pilot referred to the objects encountered as resembling the oval candy known as “tic tacs.” JAG provided me an email they received from a Marine Lieutenant Colonel that began as follows: “I am definitely aware of the ‘flying tic tac’! We were aboard the USS Nimitz attached to CVW-11. The CO of VFA-41, CDR Fravor had the video footage on his ATFLIR and several pilots in VMFA-232 saw the video.” Bingo! Not only did this event happen, the video was witnessed by a number of Navy and Marine officers. Is the video the same one that was leaked to the internet? We can’t know for certain but I think if the Navy has done their due diligence then they still have a copy of that video.
USS Princeton, guided missile cruiser, part of Carrier Strike Group-11.
And then a second email was provided to me by JAG from a Marine Major. In that email he states, “MAG-11 (Marine Air Group 11) Operations should have a Point of Contact at the archive to facilitate recovery of these files.” This clearly indicates that the Major would expect the Marine archival group to have copies of these records. And would it not be reasonable to expect that the Navy would have the records archived of such an extraordinary event!
In total, I have the names of nine different Marine and Navy officers who either participated in the encounter with the unknown craft or have direct knowledge of the event. I will again appeal for the actual case files but the only way to really get to the bottom of this mystery is to ask a Congressional subcommittee to get involved. In Part 3 I will give you step by step instructions on how you can help petition your congressman. Please share this story with others on Facebook.
Debbie Ziegelmeyer – Missouri UFO Landing and Alien Abduction Cases – October 31, 2017
Debbie Ziegelmeyer – Missouri UFO Landing and Alien Abduction Cases – October 31, 2017
Open Minds UFO Radio: Debbie Ziegelmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, diver and paranormal investigator and lecturer in Missouri. Among her paranormal research efforts, she has spent decades looking into the UFO phenomenon. She is the state director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Missouri Chapter, head of the MUFON Dive Team and a member of the MUFON board of directors. She teaches underwater UFO search and recovery. She appeared as a volunteer archeologist on Sci-Fi’s(now Syfy) “Roswell Crash Startling New Evidence” and NBC’s Sci-Fi Investigates “Roswell Re-visited.”
Debbie recently spoke at the Devil’s Tower UFO Rendezvous commemorating the 40th anniversary of the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She spoke about some of her best cases in Missouri. Two of those cases included the report of a landed UFO in a forest and a young girl who had a sighting with her mother that turned into memories of dreams of alien abduction. I found the stories intriguing and am happy to welcome back Debbie to discuss them in this episode of Open Minds UFO Radio.
Most of our ideas about what aliens might look like are frankly pretty absurd, despite having no concrete evidence on a) if there’s anything actually out there, and b) what these hypothetical organisms would look actually look like, even if they did indeed exist. Take the aliens from Signs for example — sure, they look like every other alien in sci-fi, but they’re also fatally allergic to water? Why the hell would they come to conquer a planet full of it in the first place?
A new study from the University of Oxford sheds some light on what extraterrestrial life might be like, and unsurprisingly, it could be more us than the M. Night Shyamalan interpretation assumed. The researchers argue that Darwin’s idea of natural selection might be useful in understanding alien life forms — basically, they suggest “survival of the fittest” might apply to aliens as well. Their findings have been published in the International Journal of Astrobiology.
“In our paper, we offer an alternative approach, which is to use evolutionary theory to make predictions that are independent of Earth’s details,” O’ne of the study’s co-authors Sam Levin, a researcher in Oxford’s Department of Zoology, says in a statement. “This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon based, do not have DNA, and breathe nitrogen, for example.”
The researchers also suggest extraterrestrial life becomes increasingly complex over time, just as species on Earth has become more advanced organisms as a result of extreme events. The evolution of multicellular life roughly 600 million years ago is just one such example of one of these major shifts.
“By predicting that aliens undergone major transitions, which is how complexity has arisen in species on earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us,” Levin says. “Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien. At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning. We can even offer some examples of what these mechanisms will be.”
Obviously, the main drawback of this study is that we’ve never found extraterrestrial life, so any ideas about what they look like or how they behave are extremely speculative. After all, some scientists think the majority of intelligent alien life might not be biological at all — that civilizations on other worlds might have be so advanced they’ve already built robots that can basically just hang out in space.
“The majority of the intelligence in the universe is probably synthetic intelligence,” SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak toldInverse back in October. “So now if you ask where should we point antennas to find that, it becomes a very hard problem. It’s pretty easy to say ‘[Intelligent life] is gonna be biological, living on some world sort of like Earth. But it could be machines just hanging out in space.”
While this new research is certainly exciting, it’s probably best not to get too excited. Or you can go ahead and totally freak out — aliens are pretty fun to think about, and I won’t tell you how to live your life.
Black hole mergers are having a moment: Just a few weeks ago, an international team of scientists announced the fourth-ever detection of gravitational waves coming from a black hole smash-up. Now, researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) think they might know where these giant collisions are lurking within spiral galaxies similar to ours.
According to a new study set to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters,RIT scientists claim that the edge of spiral galaxies could have all the right ingredients to host big black hole mergers. Previously, dwarf galaxies were thought to be the best place to look for these massive collisions since they don’t have many stars or heavy metals left over from supernovae. Unfortunately, dwarf galaxies are hard to spot, since they have low luminosity — in other words, they’re not very bright.
The RIT researchers say that the outer edges of spiral galaxies might be similar environments to dwarf galaxies, and — bonus points — they’re much easier to observe.
“The metal content in the outer disks of spiral galaxies is also quite low and should be rife with black holes in this large area,” the study’s lead author Sukanya Chakrabarti, an assistant professor of physics at RIT, said in a statement.
Understanding where black hole mergers come from is especially useful for scientists trying to pinpoint the source of various gravitational waves. Over the last year alone, researchers have developed more sophisticated ways of tracing gravitational waves, and it’ll only get better from here.
Nothing puts your entire life into perspective more than the fact that giant, ravenous holes are colliding somewhere out in the universe. It’s truly humbling — and mildly terrifying.
Ever wonder how the Guardians travel so dang fast? Check out this video about wormhole travel in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, according to a theoretical physicist.
ALIEN NEWS: ETs may have been sent by God, according to the Reverend Barry Downing.
The Reverend Barry Downing even claims many biblical events may have involved UFOs or aliens.
Mr Downing, who is Pastor emeritus of Northminster Presbyterian Church in Endwell, New York, penned the book, “The Bible and Flying Saucers,” which puts forth the argument.
And, in a new updated version just out, “Biblical UFO Revelations,” he continues to push the theory that many Biblical events, including the Burning Bush, could have been caused by alien visitors.
He said: “I believe UFOs are God’s way of saying to our godless culture: ‘I’m back!’ And if God is back, it is time to repent and be glad that the world lives under the umbrella of God’s love, with his angels looking over us.”
He goes on to question whether "the church has the eyes to see, to open the church doors to welcome our UFO strangers, or will we continue to be ‘unaware’?”
He added: “From my point of view… what we have here now in the skies, they’re part of the divine mission.”
The former reverend has never seen a UFO, but is convinced they are real.
I believe UFOs are God’s way of saying to our godless culture: ‘I’m back!’ And if God is back, it is time to repent and be glad that the world lives under the umbrella of God’s love, with his angels looking over us.
Barry Downing
"A voice came to Moses from the bush.”
He has also looked at the book of Exodus, including the cloud that moved with the Israelites.
He said: "The cloud of fire moves... you know… it goes in front of them then it stops and moves some more.
"After they get to Mount Sinai and build the tabernacle, the house of worship for the Jewish people, it hovers over the tabernacle.”
On the cover of the latest book - the original was published in 1968 - there is an image of Moses watching the Red Sea part with a shiny UFO above the waters.
He is also convinced a UFO turned up during the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, earlier this month.
He said: "“The UFO got in the way of the sun, causing the earth to seem darker, and this would make the ball of light show up even more.
“Church people have trouble with what I’m doing. People who’ve seen UFOs have no problem.
“It represents an inversion of the old story of Galileo and the Catholic Church.
“Because in that story, the church authorities were squelching a scientist. What we have here are scientists squelching the religious stories.”
Mr Downing has many critics within Christianity, however, he is far from the first to push forward a theory about aliens visiting Earth for thousands of years.
Many ufologists claim to have found pictures that resemble flying saucers in the air in religious works of art.
And the Ancient Aliens theory claims advanced visitors from out of space came down thousands of years ago to help build monuments like the Pyramids of Giza.
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ANCIENT CITY DISCOVERED IN MIDDLE OF OCEAN
ANCIENT CITY DISCOVERED IN MIDDLE OF OCEAN
Mysterious location just off coast of Micronesia
Ancient ruins in the middle of the Pacific ocean could be the remnants of a legendary race or dare we say….Atlantis.
Clips from the Science Channel series What on Earth? reveal images of a mysterious location just off the coast of the tiny nation of Micronesia.
The remote island of Pohnpei is home to the archaeological site of Nan Madol, yet very little is known about the area and the ruins that reside there.
The city appears to be sit on top of a lagoon and consists of a series of canals and large stone walls.
Studies published by Research Gateshow that the complex could date back to the first or second century AD but little has still yet to be verified about Nan Madol.
Images of the site can still clearly be seen via Google Earth.
Via: Google Earth
Last year, FOX News published a report stating that the site could date back to around 1180.
This was after a team of researchers lead by Mark McCoy of the Southern Methodist University in Texas analysed findings on the island.
McCoy is quoted by FOX News as saying:
It now looks like Nan Madol represents a first in Pacific Island history.
The tomb of the first chiefs of Pohnpei is a century older than similar monumental burials of leaders on other islands.
To me, in its prime, Nan Madol was a capital.
It was the seat of political power, the centre of the most important religious rituals, and the place where the former chiefs of the island were laid to rest.
Satellietbeelden onthullen mysterieuze stad midden in de oceaan. Zijn dit resten van een verloren beschaving?
Satellietbeelden onthullen mysterieuze stad midden in de oceaan. Zijn dit resten van een verloren beschaving?
Onderzoekers hebben in het midden van de Grote Oceaan een oude stad ontdekt. Het zou kunnen gaan om de resten van een verloren beschaving.
In het programma What on Earth? van Science Channel waren onlangs luchtfoto’s te zien van de mysterieuze ruïnes vlak voor de kust van Micronesië, een eilandengroep bestaande uit zo’n 600 eilanden.
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De stad bevindt zich op het eiland Pohnpei, waarop onder meer de hoofdstad van Micronesië gelegen is.
Raadsel
Op Pohnpei kan ook de archeologische vindplaats Nan Madol worden gevonden. In 2016 werden deze ruïnes op de Werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO geplaatst.
Hoewel erkend wordt dat Nan Madol historisch gezien belangrijk is, blijven de ruïnes voor onderzoekers en historici een raadsel.
De stad, die wordt omgeven door enorme muren van steen, bevindt zich bovenop een lagune en bestaat uit een serie kleine eilandjes die middels kanalen aan elkaar gelinkt zijn.
Spookstad
Het complex zou dateren uit de eerste of tweede eeuw na Christus. Onderzoekers denken dat de stenen monumenten ergens tussen 1180 en 1200 zijn gebouwd.
De ontdekking werd gedaan nadat onderzoekers van de Southern Methodist University in Texas het eiland hadden geanalyseerd.
Sommigen spreken van de ‘spookstad’ en zeggen dat het één van de vele steden was die onderdeel uitmaakten van het hypothetische continent Lemurië.
When Simon Fraser University professor Paul Kingsbury tells people that he spends his time studying the people who investigate aliens, ghosts, sasquatches and other paranormal activity, he doesn’t get the strange looks you might expect.
“The most common reaction is absolutely affirmation, or that’s brilliant or interesting. I’ve not received a cynical or a dismissive reaction,” said Kingsbury. “I’ve garnered a lot of respect and intrigue.”
Two years ago, Kingsbury, who is a cultural geographer, received a $183,000 grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to study paranormal investigators and their motivations. Now halfway through his project, he has gone ghost hunting, interviewed alien abductees, and attended conferences on UFOs and sasquatches.
His latest research brought him to the south of England, where he took time away from visiting family to attend a three-day conference in Devizes on crop circles. You read that right — crop circles.
A crop circle photographed in southwest England in the summer of 2011.
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“The crop circle was a new direction in the project,” said Kingsbury. “Like sasquatches, UFOs and ghosts, crop circles are in many ways a very controversial and mysterious phenomenon.
“They are different, though, because they are very tangible.”
Kingsbury said crop circles are a worldwide phenomenon, and even appeared in B.C. almost 20 years ago when 10 circles were spotted in an oat field near Vanderhoof airport in 1998. Three years later, a pilot saw six circles in another field about five kilometres from the Vanderhoof airport.
Kingsbury said the conference was fantastic for his research.
He found that people were less interested in the origins of the mysterious circles — theories includes aliens, aquifers, energy fields or manifestations of divine feminine energy — than they were in their beauty. At crop circle sites, people lay down in the circles, meditating and embracing.
“There’s a great deal of passion and desire among the crop circle enthusiasts,” Kingsbury said. “I think it’s important to understand why there would be so many people spending a lot of time, energy and money on these paranormal phenomena.”
When asked where he thinks the circles come from, Kingsbury said some are definitely made by humans, but there are those that defy explanation.
“I’m open to possibilities,” he said, carefully. “I try to occupy a middle ground.”
His work with crop circle enthusiasts will form part of his research, which will continue for another couple of years. The end goal is to publish three journal articles and a book, but before that he has some other ideas.
Kingsbury plans to work with Vancouver skywatcher Charles Lamoureux, who uses video to document unexplained lights over the city, to conduct research and co-author a paper to be presented, hopefully, at a UFO conference.
Next year, he will go on expeditions with a sasquatch hunter.
He would also like to organize a mini conference in Vancouver to bring together sasquatch, UFO and ghost enthusiasts/investigators.
He will also be taking his six-year-old daughter out trick-or-treating for Halloween.
“We will be in the world of ghosts, aliens and sasquatch,” he said. “They say the truth is out there, and it certainly is on Halloween.”
Ruim een ton voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar graancirkels. Door wie of wat worden ze gemaakt?
Ruim een ton voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar graancirkels. Door wie of wat worden ze gemaakt?
Er zijn inmiddels al meer dan 20.000 graancirkels verschenen, maar nog steeds kan niemand met zekerheid zeggen door wie ze worden gemaakt.
“Sinds de jaren 2000 worden graancirkels steeds groter en complexer en wordt er ook steeds meer onderzoek naar gedaan,” zei professor Paul Kingsbury van de Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Hoewel graancirkels in theorie kunnen worden gemaakt door mensen, zijn de patronen vaak te ingewikkeld om na te maken, aldus Kingsbury.
UFO’s
“Als mensen die verantwoordelijk zeggen te zijn voor hoaxen wordt gevraagd om te laten zien hoe ze deze perfect gevormde cirkels in het weiland hebben gemaakt, kunnen ze ze niet reproduceren,” zei hij.
Twee jaar geleden kreeg Kingsbury 183.000 dollar (122.000 euro) om paranormale onderzoekers te bestuderen. Hij is nu ongeveer halverwege.
Sommige onderzoekers zeggen dat UFO’s verantwoordelijk zijn voor graancirkels, terwijl anderen claimen dat ze gelinkt kunnen worden aan bolbliksem.
Krachtige energie
Kingsbury bezocht een graancirkel toen hij in Wiltshire was. Daar ontdekten lokale bewoners in de afgelopen zomer 30 formaties.
Hij was getuige van het effect dat ze hadden op bezoekers. “Mensen claimden een krachtige energie te krijgen. Mensen waren aan het mediteren,” zei hij.
De professor merkte op dat ook in Canada en Amerika in de afgelopen jaren diverse graancirkels zijn opgedoken, maar dat er nog weinig onderzoek naar wordt gedaan.
Onverklaarbare formaties
Zo werden in 1998 graancirkels ontdekt in een weiland bij Vanderhoof Airport in Brits-Columbia. En drie jaar later zag een piloot zes cirkels in een weiland bij dezelfde luchthaven.
Kingsbury zei dat sommige cirkels duidelijk zijn gemaakt door mensen, maar dat er ook veel onverklaarbare formaties tussen zitten. “Ik sta open voor mogelijkheden,” zei hij.
Het is de bedoeling om drie wetenschappelijke artikelen en een boek te publiceren over het onderzoek.
Retired Endwell pastor Rev. Barry Downing was asked if he feels like a modern-day prophet.
Rev. Barry Downing, pastor emeritus of Northminster Presbyterian Church in Endwell is the author of "Biblical UFO Revelations."
(Photo: Thomas Picciano / Correspondent photo)
“No, but I feel rejected. Does that qualify me?” he said with a chuckle.
Since his first book, “The Bible and Flying Saucers,” was published in 1968, Downing has been putting forth an argument that many biblical events may have connections to UFOs. But it’s not been accepted warmly in all circles.
In a new book just out in September, “Biblical UFO Revelations,” Downing offered an update with words for 2017.
“I believe UFOs are God’s way of saying to our godless culture: ‘I’m back!’ And if God is back, it is time to repent and be glad that the world lives under the umbrella of God’s love, with his angels looking over us,” he writes.
Downing goes on to question whether the church has the “eyes to see, to open the church doors to welcome our UFO strangers, or will we continue to be ‘unaware’?”
“From my point of view … what we have here now in the skies, they’re part of the divine mission,” he said in an interview.
And although he’s never seen an UFO, Downing believes in them.
“I believe by ‘faith,’ in the same way I believe in the resurrection of Jesus by faith. I believe the reports," he said. “Except, I can question witnesses, which is even better than in the case of the resurrection.”
Downing said his cousin once saw a tear-drop-shaped UFO fly slowly over her house on night. He said there was no noise until it stopped, then hummed.
“She said it gave off so much light that, even though dark, she could have read a newspaper.”
Could a UFO have caused the “fire” that never consumed the burning bush in front of Moses?
Maybe, Downing thinks.
“What is not amazing to me is not that we had a burning bush … we had a talking bush. A voice came to Moses from the bush,” he said.
The book of Exodus contains lots of material for Downing, including the cloud that moved with the Israelites.
“The cloud of fire moves ... you know … it goes in front of them then it stops and moves some more. After they get to Mount Sinai and build the tabernacle, the house of worship for the Jewish people, it hovers over the tabernacle,” he said.
The cover of his new book shows an image of Moses watching the Red Sea part with a shiny UFO above the waters. An English artist who died almost three decades ago said he painted it for the cover of Downing’s first book, although they’d never made contact.
Downing also believes a UFO was involved in a more recent event, in mid-October, the 100th anniversary of Fatima. Roman Catholics believe Mary, the mother of Jesus, visited three shepherd children there over several months. Then on Oct. 13, 1917, as perhaps 50,000 or more gathered, the sun seemed to fall from the sky.
“The UFO got in the way of the sun,” Downing said, “causing the earth to seem darker, and this would make the ball of light show up even more where the children were.”
Downing, whose doctorate specialized in the relationship between science and religion, is not without skeptics.
“Church people have trouble with what I’m doing,” he said. “People who’ve seen UFOs have no problem.
“It represents an inversion of the old story of Galileo and the Catholic Church," Downing said, “because in that story, the church authorities were squelching a scientist. What we have here are scientists squelching the religious stories.”
Downing spoke about his new book at the Rotary Club of Endwell earlier this month. That’s the same organization where he presented his first speech about his original book in 1968.
Tom Hranek, a Rotarian who is Roman Catholic, heard Downing’s talk. Hranek is “intrigued by his pursuit about the truth about UFOs, otherworldly beings and how much information may shed additional light on sacred scripture.”
Adding that Downing is facing challenges to his “scholarly pursuit of the truth,” Hranek said, “He may be on the trail of a scriptural/scientific truth that may awaken and bring together folks from spiritual and scientific persuasions.”
Rev. Barry H. Downing
Position: Pastor emeritus, Northminster Presbyterian Church in Endwell.
Author: “The Bible and Flying Saucers” and “Biblical UFO Revelations.”
Residence: Endwell.
Hometown: Delhi.
Family: Wife, Eleanor.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in physics, Hartwick College, Oneonta; divinity degree, Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Associations: Who’s Who in Theology and Science; theological consultant, MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network); took part in History Channel series “UFOs In the Bible” and “Ancient Aliens.”
Bijbel bevat verhalen over UFO’s. Deze dominee geeft een aantal opmerkelijke voorbeelden
Bijbel bevat verhalen over UFO’s. Deze dominee geeft een aantal opmerkelijke voorbeelden
De gepensioneerde dominee Barry Downing is auteur van het boek The Bible and Flying Saucers, dat in 1968 werd gepubliceerd.
Downing stelt dat veel gebeurtenissen in de Bijbel gelinkt kunnen worden aan UFO’s. Volgende maand komt er een nieuw boek van hem uit: Biblical UFO Revelations.
De dominee vraagt zich af of de kerk de deuren zal openen voor deze bezoekers uit de ruimte of dat we onwetend blijven.
Geen geluid
“In mijn ogen zijn ze onderdeel van een goddelijke missie,” zei hij in een interview. Hoewel hij zelf nog nooit een UFO heeft gezien, gelooft Downing er wel in.
Hij zei dat zijn nicht eens op een avond een UFO in de vorm van een traan over haar huis zag zweven. Hij zei dat er geen geluid was te horen tot het object stil bleef hangen. Toen was een zoemend geluid hoorbaar.
Veroorzaakte een UFO de brand die de braamstruik in de Bijbel niet deed opbranden?
Wolk
“We hebben in dit geval niet te maken met een brandende struik, maar met een pratende struik,” zei Downing. “Uit de struik kwam een stem die tegen Mozes sprak.”
Het boek Exodus bevat veel materiaal voor Downing, waaronder de wolk die de Israëlieten verplaatste.
“De wolk van vuur bleef voor ze hangen en kwam daarna weer in beweging,” zei hij. “Vervolgens bouwden ze de tabernakel bij de Sinaï en bleef het boven de tabernakel hangen.”
Maria
Op de kaft van zijn boek is een afbeelding van Mozes te zien bij de Rode Zee. Boven het water hangt een glimmende UFO.
Downing denkt ook dat er een UFO betrokken was bij een meer recente gebeurtenis, de 100e verjaardag van de verschijning van Maria van Fatima.
Zij verscheen in 1917 aan drie herderskinderen. Op 13 oktober dat jaar zagen 50.000 aanwezigen hoe de zon uit de lucht leek te vallen. “Het was een UFO die voor de zon langs vloog,” zei Downing.
Galileo Galilei
Mensen binnen de kerk hebben moeite met zijn theorieën. De dominee trok een parallel met het conflict dat Galileo Galilei had met de Katholieke Kerk.
“In dat verhaal snoerde de kerk een wetenschapper de mond. In dit geval drukken wetenschappers de religieuze verhalen de kop in,” besloot hij.
Niece of Abducted Aunt and Uncle by UFO Seeks the Truth
Niece of Abducted Aunt and Uncle by UFO Seeks the Truth
Betty & Barney Hill
Kathleen Marden is a leading abduction and UFO author, researcher, and lecturer. Her undisputable educational background in the world of social sciences has shaped her fascination and interest in ufology. Comprehensive research, study, and investigation in alien abduction have interested her that some abductions are not fictional or mere imagination, but real. She believes that Barney and Betty Hill, both her uncle and aunt have reported their experiences of seeing a strange object while out driving in the rural New Hampshire. A woman whose uncle and aunt were at the centre of the most famous yet controversial alien abduction stories for the past sixty years expresses her beliefs that aliens do exist no matter how authorities or some people debunked alien stories since there is strong evidence from such incident.
Mrs Marden was 13 at that time. However, it was years later that she began researching and studying what took place for a biography of the Hills. With some convincing evidence that is being physically added to the weight of the case as claimed by her aunt and uncle in 1961 – where it includes a pink substance on her Betty’s dress and some strange spot marks on the car’s boots. She calls her relatives as reputable and credible witnesses. The Florida-based writer, for the first time, has spoken to the Examiner at the conference in West Yorkshire. She expresses her beliefs on UFOs and the abduction. She claimed to be unbiased when she undertook the investigation. She analysed her aunt and uncle’s statement when they were on the alien spacecraft. She added that her relatives did not want their stories to go public, and it was only revealed when it was picked up by a reporter for a newspaper due to a breach of confidence.
She made it clear that people need to go out from their comfort zone if they felt uncomfortable with the idea that such UFO abduction exists and further added that she is not trying to convince or persuade anyone who does not believe the existence of aliens. All she wanted to do was to separate fact from fiction since fiction has dominated on the stories of her relatives.
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Florida Congressional Candidate Claims To Have Received Instructions From Aliens Telepathically
Florida Congressional Candidate Claims To Have Received Instructions From Aliens Telepathically
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera
Florida congressional candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera gave details of her experience with aliens during interviews years ago. In 2009 interview, she said aliens first contacted her when she was seven years old and was instructed through telepathy to visit them in their spaceship.
She said that quartz stones controlled the craft and described the aliens as similar to the blonde female host who interviewed her. She stated there were three aliens, one female and two males, which reminded her of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer in Brazil.
Many times over the years, she claimed that they connected with her again through telepathy and told her secrets about the present and future.
Among these so-called secrets were; Africa is the center of energy in the world, the presence of 30,000 non-human skulls buried in subterranean caves in Malta, and the limestone tourist attraction Coral Castle in South Miami-Dade is an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
She further revealed that these aliens made detailed predictions about people she would meet in her life, including the year, month, and day.
In 2009 interview, she also hinted that aliens told her about ISIS or possibly the Egyptian goddess Isis.
Now, the Florida congressional candidate is trying so hard to be known for her experiences with people than with space aliens. Running as a Republican for a seat in the House of Representatives, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera has faced scrutiny for interviews she gave, detailing her experience with aliens.
Doctors in India replaced a woman's damaged vertebrae with a 3D-printed titanium copy during a 10-hour surgery that was the first of its kind in the nation.
3D printing technology allowed the doctors to created a perfect replacement part for this patient, another way that technology is leading us into an age of personalized healthcare.
FROM A DISEASE TO A DISABILITY
Human innovation continues to push forward in so many directions. In all walks of science, researchers are achieving new “firsts” in the pursuit of a better life for the people of the world. Now, doctors in India, a country that has been basking in its recent record-breaking satellite launch, have completed the nation’s first 3D-printed spinal restoration surgery.
The patient, a 32-year-old Indian woman, lost her ability to walk due to a severe case of tuberculosis. The disease commonly affects the lungs, but it traveled to the woman’s spinal cord when her immune system was particularly weakened by drugs she was prescribed for infertility. The tuberculosis compromised her first, second, and third cervical vertebrae, removing support for both her skull and lower spine.
The damaged spinal cord resulted in a curved posture, weakness in her limbs, and an involuntarily sliding of the head. If left untreated, her condition would have been essentially a death sentence. However, a team of surgeons at Gurgaon Hospital had an interesting solution.
TO PRINT A SPINE
A team of surgeons led by Dr. V Anand Naik, a senior consultant of spine surgery from the Medanta Bone and Joint Institute, replaced the damaged vertebrae with a 3D-printed titanium copy. Using CT and MRI scans as reference, they first 3D printed a dummy spine that was perfectly sized for the patient’s needs. After much testing by design teams from India, the U.S., and Sweden for biomechanics and stress resistance, the final titanium implant was created.
Photo Credit: Sanjay Kumar Pathak
Naik and his team then inserted the replacement between the first and fourth vertebrae, bridging the gap within the damaged spine. The surgery was completed over an intense 10-hour period, and afterward, Dr.Naik told the Hindustan Times, “It was a very complex surgery and the patient’s condition was deteriorating by the day. It would not have been possible to do it without 3D-printing technology.”
The woman is expected to recover fully in two weeks and live a normal life. Her journey is truly one for the history books. What seemed like an impossible case was resolved with multinational efforts that went beyond traditional medical thinking. Today’s “first” in a field could eventually become a common practice that saves many lives, but for now, just saving one is enough.
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Very strange UFO spotted floating in the sky over Las Vegas, Nevada
Very strange UFO spotted floating in the sky over Las Vegas, Nevada
A couple captured a really strange unidentified flying object in the sky over Las Vegas, Nevada on October 29, 2017 that has left them baffled.
Witness said:” We were driving and my husband said look at that, what is it?”
“We observed a rectangular shaped object hovering very close to us...it was quite large. As we tried to move closer we took two pictures and then all of a sudden it seemed to change shape somewhat and then it was miles away from us.”
“It looked very small at this point. We tried to follow it but it just disappeared from our sight.” Mufon case file 87715.
Note:Is this odd looking object a real alien spacecraft or is it actually a highly advanced man-made craft used by the military or Intelligence agencies that is far ahead of what the public is generally aware?
Art Campbell’s wife informed me yesterday that her beloved husband passed away on October 28. This sad news really came as a surprise to me. I sent her my deepest condolences on her loss.
My email exchanges with Art Campbell have always been very amicable in nature and I’ll always be very grateful to him for the free documentation he has sent me over the years pertaining to UFOs, in particular to his long research re the alleged July, 1947 UFO crash at The Plains of San Augustin and the associated metallurgical analyses of wreckage which was found at the site. For those of you who didn’t know him, I’ve included a link to his website.
Most of us have dreamed of traveling through time, backward or forwards, faster than those around us. And surprisingly, recent work has shown us that time travel is far more than just a dream. In fact, a number of researchers have explored, and are currently exploring, the legitimacy of time travel. While they haven’t quite gotten to the point where they are able to time travel themselves—these researchers have found some concrete science backing it up.
This past June, I met with James Beacham, a particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), at Brain Bar Budapest, a festival focused on science and the future, to talk about the ways in which time travel has enraptured humanity and discuss both the logistical and technical potential of time travel.
Beacham began by outlining the ways that, according to Einstein’s theories, time travel is technically possible through a number of different methods.
“If space can be bent, then spacetime can be bent.”
One proposed method of time travel is via wormholes. “We know that space can be bent. If space can be bent by, say, gravity, then spacetime can be bent,” Beacham said. To clarify, space is the three-dimensional body in which all things in the universe move. Spacetime, however, is the combined concepts of space and time into a four-dimensional continuum. You may have even seen spacetime portrayed as a fabric, manipulated by energy. If spacetime can be bent, Beacham continued, it’s theoretically possible that time can be bent.
Recently, evidence for this theory has moved beyond the strictly theoretical. A couple of years ago, scientists built what they described as a “wormhole.” Their model, however, created a portal for magnetic fields. As Smithsonian outlined, “if another magnetic field travels through the wormhole, it appears to leave space altogether, only showing up at either end.”
So it doesn’t exactly teleport particles (or people) across spacetime, but it does highlight the continual advances that are being made in our ability to manipulate the various fundamental forces in our universe, and ultimately, the manipulation of this force is an important step towards creating a simplified wormhole that would allow us to send electromagnetic waves through an invisible tunnel. Perhaps, one day, we will be able to manipulate spacetime in a similar manner.
So while wormholes remain theoretically possible and important steps are being made, wormholes in spacetime, specifically, have yet to be observed or created.
Another potential method of time travel is time dilation. Einstein’s theories predicted that time passes differently throughout the universe. We now know this to be true—clocks tick slower on the International Space Station (ISS) than they do here on Earth, for example. This happens because time moves slower for objects that are near strong gravitational fields (such as Earth) than for objects further from these fields, like the ISS.
So by spending time off Earth’s surface and returning at a later point, a human could, in a sense, fast forward through time. If you could get close to a black hole, because there are such strong gravitational forces in the vicinity, time would slow to a mesmerizing degree. Thousands of Earth-years might pass by while only a few seconds tick by near a supermassive black hole.
Time dilation also comes into play where speed is concerned. If we were to, say, travel at 95% of the speed of light, time would slow down dramatically. So again, thousands of Earth-years could pass by in what the traveler experiences as just a few moments.
And this is just the beginning, as there are a number of different ways in which we could make time travel into a reality. Scientists from various disciplines are investigating different methods for us to make more dramatic jumps through time, like using circulating light beams, which can be created through the use of gamma and magnetic fields to twist space and cause time to be twisted. Other methods include quantum tunneling and hypothetical cosmic strings.
Of course, just because something is theoretically possible doesn’t mean it’s technically feasible. At least, not yet. We can’t make wormholes, and we can’t travel near the speed of light. But there is hope that we could achieve these things in the very near future. “We could possibly address things about time travel and understand the basic nature of time with the research that we do now. Or at least, in the next 50 to 100 years,” Beacham said.
Documentary film producer, Thomas Mickey Jensen of Mars Moon Space TV has released an independent film entitled “DocUFObia”. The film is comprised of video clips from official NASA STS and ISS missions that show strange anomalies in space that appear to change direction and speed. After watching it myself, I must admit.... Something very strange is going on. The film is hosted by Billy Carson, who is an expert host on Gaia’s original streaming series, Deep Space. Billy Carson has also been on may shows surrounding these topics and his research has been used in many documentaries and films. The documentary also features Dollie Indigostar from the UK. Dollie is also the co-host of Social Media UFO’s which is broadcasts live on Wednesdays every week. Leading the pack is Thomas Mickey Jensen. Millions of people have see his research all over the world. His work has made international news many times over and this film is his 5th major production.
DocUFObia seeks to find an answer to this question.... Is there of the life in the universe?
We’re all familiar with the idea of solar sails to explore the Solar System, using the light pressure from the Sun. But there’s another propulsion system that could harness the power of the Sun, electric sails, and it’s a pretty exciting idea.
A few weeks ago, I tackled a question someone had about my favorite exotic propulsion systems, and I rattled off a few ideas that I find exciting: solar sails, nuclear rockets, ion engines, etc. But there’s another propulsion system that keeps coming up, and I totally forgot to mention, but it’s one of the best ideas I’ve heard in awhile: electric sails.
Artist concept of a solar sail demonstration mission that will use lasers for navigation. Credit: NASA.
As you probably know, a solar sail works by harnessing the photons of light streaming from the Sun. Although photons are massless, they do have momentum, and can transfer it when they bounce off a reflective surface.
In addition to light, the Sun is also blowing off a steady stream of charged particles – the solar wind. A team of engineers from Finland, led by Dr. Pekka Janhunen, has proposed building an electric sail that will use these particles to carry spacecraft out into the Solar System.
To understand how this works, I’ll need to jam a few concepts into your brain.
First, the Sun. That deadly ball of radiation in the sky. As you probably know, there’s a steady stream of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, zipping away from the Sun in all directions.
Visualization of the solar wind encountering Earth’s magnetic “defenses” known as the magnetosphere. Clouds of southward-pointing plasma are able to peel back layers of the Sun-facing bubble and stack them into layers on the planet’s nightside (center, right). The layers can be squeezed tightly enough to reconnect and deliver solar electrons (yellow sparkles) directly into the upper atmosphere to create the aurora. Credit: JPL
Astronomers aren’t entirely sure how, but some mechanism in the Sun’s corona, its upper atmosphere, accelerates these particles on an escape velocity. Their speed varies from 250 to 750 km/s.
Solar Wind Power
The solar wind travels away from the Sun, and out into space. We see its effects on comets, giving them their characteristic tails, and it forms a bubble around the Solar System known as the heliosphere. This is where the solar wind from the Sun meets the collective solar winds from the other stars in the Milky Way.
The solar wind does cause a direct pressure, like an actual wind, but it’s incredibly weak, a fraction of the light pressure a solar sail experiences.
This artist’s concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago. Credit: NASA.
But the solar wind is negatively charged, and this is the key.
An electric sail works by reeling out an incredibly thin wire, just 25 microns thick, but 20 kilometers long. The spacecraft is equipped with solar panels and an electron gun which takes just a few hundred watts to run.
By shooting electrons off into space, the spacecraft maintains a highly positive charged state. As the negatively charged particles from the Sun encounter the positively charged tether, they “see” it a huge obstacle 100 meters across, and crash into it.
By imparting their momentum into the tether and spacecraft, the ions accelerate it away from the Sun.
The amount of acceleration is very weak, but it’s constant pressure from the Sun and can add up over a long period of time. For example, if a 1000 kg spacecraft had 100 of these wires extending out in all directions, it could receive an acceleration of 1 mm per second per second.
In the first second it travels 1 mm, and then 2 mm in the next second, etc. Over the course of a year, this spacecraft could be going 30 km/s. Just for comparison, the fastest spacecraft out there, NASA’s Voyager 1, is merely going about 17 km/s. So, much faster, definitely on an escape velocity from the Solar System.
One of the downsides of the method, actually, is that it won’t work within the Earth’s magnetosphere. So an electric sail-powered spacecraft would need to be carried by a traditional rocket away from the Earth before it could unfurl its sail and head out into deep space.
I’m sure you’re wondering if this is a one-way trip to get away from the Sun, but it’s actually not. Just like with solar sails, a electric sail can be pivoted. Depending on which side of the sail the solar wind hits, it either raises or lowers the spacecraft’s orbit from the Sun.
Strike the sail on one side and you raise its orbit to travel to the outer Solar System. But you could also strike the other side and lower its orbit, allowing it to journey down into the inner Solar System. It’s an incredibly versatile propulsion system, and the Sun does all the work.
Although this sounds like science fiction, there are actually some tests in the works. An Estonian prototype satellite was launched back in 2013, but its motor failed to reel out the tether. The Finnish Aalto-1 satellite was launched in June 2017, and one of its experiments is to test out an electric sail.
We should find out if the technique is viable later this year.
The HERTS Mission
It’s not just the Finns who are considering this propulsion system. In 2015, NASA announced that they had awarded a Phase II Innovative Advanced Concepts grant to Dr. Pekka Janhunen and his team to explore how this technology could be used to reach the outer Solar System in less time than other methods.
The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System, or HERTS spacecraft would extend 20 of these electric tethers outward from the center, forming a huge circular electric sail to catch the solar wind. By slowly rotating the spacecraft, the centrifugal forces will stretch the tethers out into this circular shape.
Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System. Credit: NASA
With its positive charge, each tether acts like a huge barrier to the solar wind, giving the spacecraft an effective surface area of 600 square kilometers once it launches from the Earth. As it gets farther, from Earth, though, its effective area increases to the equivalent of 1,200 square km by the time it reaches Jupiter.
When a solar sail starts to lose power, an electric sail just keeps accelerating. In fact, it would keep accelerating out past the orbit of Uranus.
If the technology works out, the HERTS mission could reach the heliopause in just 10 years. It took Voyager 1 35 years to reach this distance, 121 astronomical units from the Sun.
But what about steering? By changing the voltage on each wire as the spacecraft rotates, you could have the whole sail interact differently on one side or the other to the solar wind. You could steer the whole spacecraft like the sails on a boat.
In September 2017, a team of researchers with the Finnish Meteorological Institute announced a pretty radical idea for how they might be able to use electric sails to comprehensively explore the asteroid belt.
Instead of a single spacecraft, they proposed building a fleet of 50 separate 5-kg satellites. Each one would reel out its own 20 km-long tether and catch the Sun’s solar wind. Over the course of a 3-year mission, the spacecraft would travel out to the asteroid belt, and visit several different space rocks. The full fleet would probably be able to explore 300 separate objects.
This image depicts the two areas where most of the asteroids in the Solar System are found: the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the trojans, two groups of asteroids moving ahead of and following Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun.
Each spacecraft would be equipped with a small telescope with only a 40 mm aperture. That’s about the size of a spotting scope, or half a pair of binoculars, but it would be enough to resolve features on the surface of an asteroid as small as 100 meters across. They’d also have an infrared spectrometer to be able to determine what minerals each asteroid is made of.
That’s a great way to find that $10 trillion asteroid made of solid platinum.
Because the spacecraft would be too small to communicate all the way back to Earth, they’d need to store the data on board, and then transmit everything once they came past our planet 3 years later.
The planetary scientists I’ve talked to love the idea of being able to survey this many different objects at the same time, and the electric sail idea is one of the most efficient methods to do it.
According to the researchers, they could do the mission for about $70 million, bringing the cost to analyze each asteroid down to about $240,000. That would be cheap compared to any other method proposed of studying asteroids.
Space exploration uses traditional chemical rockets because they’re known and reliable. Sure they have their shortcomings, but they’ve taken us across the Solar System, to billions of kilometers away from Earth.
But there are other forms of propulsion in the works, like the electric sail. And over the coming decades, we’re going to see more and more of these ideas put to the test. A fuel free propulsion system that can carry a spacecraft into the outer reaches of the Solar System? Yes please.
I’ll keep you posted when more electric sails are tested.
The hidden world under Antarctica: Researchers reveal what lies beneath the ice
The hidden world under Antarctica: Researchers reveal what lies beneath the ice
Researchers have revealed what actually lies under the western parts of the icy continent of Antarctica.
There is a hidden world under Antarctica, in a new study, researchers have shown giant ‘wetlands’ 800 metres beneath the Ice in western Antarctica. Thanks to the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project financed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) researchers are one step closer to discovering exactly what lies beneath the thick ice sheets covering most parts of the icy continent.
Reports indicate that Lake Whillans — first discovered in 2007, covering a staggering area of 20sq miles— which lies beneath 800 meters of ice in Western Antarctica is eerily similar to a ‘wetland.’
Researchers hope that further studies will allow them to understand how sea levels rise, and how ice behaves in response to global warming.
“It is amazing to think that we did not know that this lake even existed until a decade ago.,’ said Helen Amanda Fricker of Scripps, who initially discovered Subglacial Lake Whillans in 2007 from satellite data.
‘It is exciting to see such a rich dataset from the lake, and these new data are helping us understand how lakes function as part of the ice-sheet system.”
Researchers now know that Subglacial Lake Shillans is fed by ice ad contains small amounts of seawater from ancient marine sediments which can be found on the seabed of the lake. The water of the lake periodically drains to the ocean through some channels connecting the lake, however, with insufficient energy to carry much sediment.
The new data will allow researcher to better comprehend the extensive biogeochemistry and mechanics of Lake Whillans, but will also help them improve current models of how Antarctic subglacial lake systems interact with the ice located on the surface and the sediments located below it
Three separate papers analyzed the studies obtained in January of 2013, when the WISSARD project managed to successfully drill through the ice sheet reaching Subglacial Lake Whillan, retrieving water and sediment samples from a body of water that had remained in isolation from direct contact with Earths Atmosphere for thousands of years.
Two of the most interesting papers were those published in Geology and the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
According to lead author Alexander Michaud, of Montana State University, they used data taken from a 38-centimeter (15-inch) long core of lake sediment to characterize the water chemistry of the subglacial lake and its sediments. They discovered that lake water primarily originates from melting at the base of the ice sheet covering the subglacial lake and that there was a minor contribution from seawater, trapped in the sediments under the ice during the last interglacial period, a time when the Antarctic ice sheet eventually retreated.
Scientists have found that the ancient, isolated reservoir of ocean water has the ability to affect the biogeochemistry of this lake system.
The second paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, lead author Timothy Hodson of Northern Illinois University and his colleagues looked at core sediments taken fro the lake in hopes of discovering more about the relationship of the ice sheet, subglacial hydrology, and underlying sediments. Their discoveries show that while numerous floods pass through the lake every once in a while, the flow of the floods lacks energy in order to erode extensive drainage channels.
Researchers concluded that that the environment beneath the Icy continent is very similar to a wetland within the coastal plain on other parts of the planet.
What we have to understand is that around 170 million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent called Gondwana. Around 25 million years ago, Antarctica as we know it, gradually broke apart from Gondwana.
According to research, Antarctica was not always cold, dry, and covered in ice sheets. Au contraire, during its long history, Antarctica was located farther north and experienced a tropical or temperate climate, meaning that it was covered in forests, and inhabited by various ancient life forms.
Would you recognise an alien? Scientists suggest that extra-terrestrials may be shaped by natural selection and could 'look like us' Previous studies made predictions about aliens based on what we see on Earth But in a new study, scientists have used evol
Would you recognise an alien? Scientists suggest that extra-terrestrials may be shaped by natural selection and could 'look like us'
Previous studies made predictions about aliens based on what we see on Earth
But in a new study, scientists have used evolutionary theory to make predictions
Scientists suggest aliens are likely to be shaped by the same processes as us
They are likely to exist in various complexities, ranging from basic cell-like aliens to aliens with intricate human-like parts
They're regularly depicted in science fiction blockbusters as other-worldly, monster-like beings.
But a new study suggests that in reality, aliens could be more similar to us than thought.
The research indicates that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes that shaped humans, such as natural selection, and that they may even 'look like us.'
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They're regularly depicted in science fiction blockbusters as other-worldly, monster-like beings. But a new study suggests that in reality, aliens could be more similar to us than thought
THE EVOLUTION OF ALIENS
Researchers have shown for the first time how evolutionary theory can be used to predict alien behaviour.
Their theory supports the argument that foreign life forms undergo natural selection, and like us, are evolving to be stronger over time.
Using the idea of alien natural selection as a framework, the researchers addressed extra-terrestrial evolution, and how complexity will arise in space.
On Earth, species have become more complex as a result of a handful of events.
These transitions occur when a group of separate organisms evolve into a higher-level organism - when cells become multi-cellular organisms, for example.
Data suggests that extreme conditions are required for major transitions to occur.
Researchers from the University of Oxford have shown for the first time how evolutionary theory can be used to predict alien behaviour.
Their theory supports the argument that foreign life forms undergo natural selection, and like us, are evolving to be stronger over time.
Mr Sam Levin, lead author of the study, said: 'A fundamental task for astrobiologists (those who study life in the cosmos) is thinking about what extra-terrestrial life might be like.
'But making predictions about aliens is hard.
'We only have one example of life - life on Earth - to extrapolate from.
'Past approaches in the field of astrobiology have been largely mechanistic, taking what we see on Earth, and what we know about chemistry, geology, and physics to make predictions about aliens.
'In our paper, we offer an alternative approach, which is to use evolutionary theory to make predictions that are independent of Earth's details.
'This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon based, do not have DNA, and breathe nitrogen, for example.'
Using the idea of alien natural selection as a framework, the researchers addressed extra-terrestrial evolution, and how complexity will arise in space.
On Earth, species have become more complex as a result of a handful of events.
Pictured is a fictitious alien called 'The Octomite' that comprises a hierarchy of entities (pictured is circles, right)
These illustrations represent different levels of adaptive complexity that aliens may have gone through. (a) A simple replicating molecule, with no apparent design (b) An incredibly simple, cell-like entity (c) An alien with many intricate parts working together
These transitions occur when a group of separate organisms evolve into a higher-level organism - when cells become multi-cellular organisms, for example.
Data suggests that extreme conditions are required for major transitions to occur - and the same may be true for aliens.
In terms of looks, the researchers make a number of predictions about aliens.
WHAT WILL ALIENS LOOK LIKE?
In terms of looks, the researchers make a number of predictions about aliens.
Mr Levin said: 'We still can't say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes.
'But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it.
'By predicting that aliens have undergone major transitions - which is how complexity has arisen in species on earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us.
'Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien.
'At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning.
Mr Levin added: 'We still can't say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes.
'But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it.
'By predicting that aliens have undergone major transitions - which is how complexity has arisen in species on Earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us.
They're regularly depicted in science fiction blockbusters as other-worldly, monster-like beings. But a new study suggests that in reality, aliens could be more similar to us than thought (stock image)
'Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien.
'At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning.
'There are potentially hundreds of thousands of habitable planets in our galaxy alone.
'We can't say whether or not we're alone on Earth, but we have taken a small step forward in answering, if we're not alone, what our neighbours are like.'
It may be the most important asteroid spotted yet, and it's already gone
NASA/JPL-CalTech
It's really rare that we get any visitors from outside the solar system. In fact, astronomers believe they only spotted one for the first time earlier this month when an object that's probably an asteroid whipped by us.
The previously unknown space rock, currently designated A/2017 U1, dropped into our solar system from above the flattish ecliptic plane where most planets, asteroids and comets native to our system rotate around the sun. It then slingshotted around our star and back out to deep space, but not before scientists got a better look at the visitor.
By looking at the asteroid's trajectory, scientists have determined that A/2017 U1 likely came from the direction of the star Vega and the constellation Lyra. It began a close approach to the sun in September, then swung around the star and passed within 15 million miles of Earth on Oct. 14. Problem is, it wasn't spotted until Oct. 18, when it was already heading away from us.
Still, telescopes and astronomers swung into action to observe the retreating visitor. The Liverpool Telescope in the Canary Islands managed to capture this cool sequence last week of the vagabond minor planet:
What's possibly the first visitor from beyond the grasp of the sun's gravity, captured in one glorious GIF.
Liverpool John Moores University
The alien asteroid is interesting not just because of its potentially interstellar origin, but also because of its speed -- it was seen rocketing by us at 15.8 miles (25.5 kilometers) per second. It also turns out to be a little more colorful than the drab gray rocks we tend to picture when we think of asteroids. In fact, NASA astronomer Joseph Masiero says A/2017 U1 is actually red.
The data that scientists were able to grab isn't great and the margin for error is significant, but Masiero wrote up his findings in a brief paper (PDF) showing that the asteroid looks to be largely featureless and red like many objects from the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.
It may be hard to get much more data on the itinerant asteroid that paid us such a brief but significant visit. Still, it seems worthy of a better name than just A/2017 U1. I suggest "Red Rama" after its apparent hue and the series of Arthur C. Clarke "Rama" novels that pretty accurately described its journey. (Disclosure: This is not a completely original suggestion. See below.)
Astronomers have found a giant planet where it does not belong: orbiting tightly around a tiny star.
The scientists are saying their discovery contradicts popular models of how the planets formed.
A study in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society describes the planet as a “hot Jupiter” — a planet roughly the size and consistency of our own Jupiter, a gas giant, but orbiting much closer to its host. That host star is an M dwarf, a type of red dwarf star that is small and cool compared to average stars like our sun.
Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the universe, but they aren’t the kind you see when you look up at the night sky because they are too dim for the naked eye. Still, their abundance makes them prime targets for scientists hunting for exoplanets, in the search for alien life. They also offer interesting conditions for studying the habitability of other worlds. For example, the Trappist-1 solar system discovery scientists announced earlier this year includes seven Earth-sized rocky planets tightly orbiting their red dwarf star, all close to one another, but the small size and lower temperature of that star means at least three of them might still be the right temperature to support life — within the star’s habitable zone.
An artist’s impression shows a red dwarf star with a gas giant planet, NGTS-1b, orbiting it against the backdrop of the Milky Way.
Photo: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Scientists found the hot Jupiter NGTS-1b by spotting it as it was passing in front of its own dwarf, from the vantage point of Earth. The enormous planet is only a few million miles away from its star and finishes an orbit in about two and a half Earth days. It has a temperature of almost 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Planetary formation theories suggest that small stars like this red dwarf are not home to planets as big as Jupiter, although rocky planets may form around them. By simply existing around a star that is half the size of our sun, NGTS-1b punctures a big hole in that idea.
According to the University of Warwick, the hot Jupiter’s size compared to the size of its star represents the smallest planet-to-star size ratio scientists have ever found.
“Despite being a monster of a planet, NGTS-1b was difficult to find because its parent star is so small and faint,” Warwick researcher Peter Wheatley said in the RAS statement. “Small stars like this red M-dwarf are actually the most common in the universe, so it is possible that there are many of these giant planets waiting to found.”
Lead study author Daniel Bayliss, also from Warwick, said the next step is for astronomers to find out how common this sort of setup is throughout the galaxy.
A giant planet scientists recently discovered orbiting a red dwarf star represents the smallest planet-to-star size ratio they’ve ever found, shown in this artist’s impression.
Photo: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Beyond the search for alien life, hot Jupiters offer unique conditions that scientists aim to study to better understand planetary conditions in general.
“To date most exoplanet surveys have looked at stars like the sun, but most stars in the Milky Way are much smaller,” theoretical astrophysicist and study co-author Richard Alexander said in a statement from the University of Leicester. Discoveries like NGTS-1b are “opening a new window on the exoplanet population, and will offer key new insights into how planets form and evolve in different environments.”
The 'alien tundra: The finds include KOI-7923.01, an exoplanet 97 per cent the size of Earth, but colder that astonomers says could be similar to the Arctic tundra, shown here.
THE EARTH TWIN
KOI-7923.01 takes 395 Earth days to orbit its star.
Its cooler temperature is due to its distance from its star and the fact that the star is slightly cooler than our sun.
This means it may be a little more like tundra regions on Earth than temperate ones, but is still warm enough and large enough to hold the liquid water essential to life as we know it, New Scientist said.
'If you had to choose one to send a spacecraft to, it's not a bad option,' Jeff Coughlin, a Kepler team lead who helped find the potential planets, told New Scientist.
KOI-7923.01 takes 395 Earth days to orbit its star.
Its cooler temperature is due to its distance from its star and the fact that the star is slightly cooler than our sun.
This means it may be a little more like tundra regions on Earth than temperate ones, but is still warm enough and large enough to hold the liquid water essential to life as we know it, New Scientist said.
However, the team admits more observations are needed before the finds can be confirmed.
The catalog was created using a new tool called the Robovetter which automatically analyses Kepler finds.
'We present the Kepler Object of Interest (KOI) catalog of transiting exoplanets based on searching four years of Kepler time series photometry,' they wrote.
'The catalog contains 8054 KOIs of which 4034 are planet candidates with periods between 0.25 and 632 days.
'Of these candidates, 219 are new in this catalog and include two new candidates in multi-planet systems (KOI-82.06 and KOI-2926.05), and ten new high-reliability, terrestrial-size, habitable zone candidates'
Earlier this year the Kepler spacecraft has detected 219 new exoplanet candidates – and ten could be habitable.
In a press briefing earlier this year at NASA's Ames Research Center, scientists revealed the 'most reliable' catalog yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4,034.
According to the scientists, over 2,300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including over 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the 'Goldilocks Zone' of their star.
I a press briefing today, scientists revealed the 'most reliable' catalog yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4,034. In addition, the researchers identified a notable distinction between groupings of small planets that could help guide the search for alien life
A NEW BRANCH IN THE 'FAMILY TREE'
In addition to the new exoplanet candidates, the researchers also identified a notable distinction between groupings of small planets, akin to a new branch in their 'family tree.'
With the Kepler observations and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers found groups of small planets could be divided among two categories: rocky, Earth-sized planets, and gaseous planets smaller than Neptune.
The finding suggests that – for reasons not yet understood – the universe tends to create rocky planets up to about 75 percent bigger than Earth.
And, roughly half of these planets take on small amounts of hydrogen and helium, causing them to dramatically increase in size.
As a result, they ‘jump the gap,’ to become one of the Neptune-sized worlds.
Of the 219 new planet candidates, 10 are near-Earth sized and orbit within the habitable zone of their host star, the Kepler scientists revealed during the briefing today.
The habitable zone represents a range in which a planet could be the right temperature to host liquid water at the surface.
With the new analysis, the number of terrestrial-sized candidates in habitable zones has now climbed to about 50, with over 30 confirmed as exoplanets.
The closest candidate to Earth is an object known as K77-11, the researchers say.
It receives just about the same amount of energy as we do from our sun, and is only slightly larger than Earth, at 1.3 Earth-radii, explained Susan Thompson, Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
The latest catalog represents Kepler’s final survey from the Cygnus constellation, and spans the spacecraft’s first four years of data.
Of the 4,034 candidates identified so far, 2,335 have now been verified.
Researchers say the findings could ultimately help guide the search for alien life, offering ‘the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date.’
The latest catalog represents Kepler’s final survey from the Cygnus constellation, and spans the spacecraft’s first four years of data. The Kepler spacecraft has detected 219 new exoplanet candidates – and ten could be habitable
With the new analysis, the number of terrestrial-sized candidates in habitable zones has now climbed to about 50, with over 30 confirmed as exoplanets
WHAT KEPLER HAS FOUND SO FAR
Kepler mission
Candidate exoplanets: 4,034
Confirmed exoplanets: 2,335
Confirmed exoplanets less than twice Earth-size in the habitable zone: 21
'This new result presented today has implications for understanding the frequency of different types of planets and galaxies, and helping us to advance our knowledge on how planets are formed,' said Mario Perez, Kepler program scientist in the Astrophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, during the conference.
In addition to the new exoplanet candidates, the researchers also identified a notable distinction between groupings of small planets, which could help guide the search for alien life.
With the Kepler observations and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers found groups of small planets could be divided among two categories: rocky, Earth-sized planets, and gaseous planets smaller than Neptune.
The finding suggests that – for reasons not yet understood – the universe tends to create rocky planets up to about 75 percent bigger than Earth.
Of the 4,034 candidates identified so far, 2,335 have now been verified. Researchers say the findings could ultimately help guide the search for alien life, offering ‘the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date’
With the Kepler observations and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers found groups of small planets could be divided among two categories: rocky, Earth-sized planets, and gaseous planets smaller than Neptune
And, roughly half of these planets take on small amounts of hydrogen and helium, causing them to dramatically increase in size.
As a result, they ‘jump the gap,’ to become one of the Neptune-sized worlds.
‘We like to think of this study as classifying planets in the same way that biologists identify new species of animals,’ said B.J. Fulton, doctoral candidate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the California Institute of Technology.
‘Finding two distinct groups of exoplanets is like discovering mammals and lizards make up distinct branches of a family tree.’
The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of confirmed exoplanets over the years, with at least 30 planets not much larger than Earth now known to exist in the habitable zone.
After the fix, Kepler started its K2 mission, which has provided an ecliptic field of view with greater opportunities for Earth-based observatories in both the northern and southern hemispheres
The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of confirmed exoplanets over the years, with 21 planets not much larger than Earth now known to exist in the habitable zone – and, the latest catalog will be the best look yet at possible alien worlds
According to NASA, the new catalog is the result of ‘the most sophisticated analyses yet,’ by the Kepler mission, and will give rise to new lines of exoplanet research.
The Kepler space telescope launched in 2009, in a major breakthrough in the search for Earth-sized planets outside of our solar system that may be in or near the habitable zone of their star.
Just last summer, astronomers revealed they’d discovered 197 new planet candidates, and confirmed 104 planets through the Kepler mission.
The planets, which are all between 20 and 50 per cent larger than Earth by diameter, are orbiting the M dwarf star K2-72, found 181 light years away.
At the time, the researchers led by the University of Arizona said the possibility of life on planets around a star of this kind cannot be ruled out.
The Kepler space telescope launched in 2009, in a major breakthrough in the search for Earth-sized planets outside of our solar system that may be in or near the habitable zone of their star
In the spacecraft's extended mission in 2013, it lost its ability to precisely stare at its original target area, but a fix created a second life for the telescope
Since its launch, the Kepler mission has been plagued by several setbacks – but, it has still continued to spot new objects outside of our solar system.
In its initial mission, Kepler surveyed just one patch of sky in the northern hemisphere, measuring the frequency of planets whose size and temperature might be similar to Earth orbiting stars similar to our sun.
In the spacecraft's extended mission in 2013, it lost its ability to precisely stare at its original target area, but a fix created a second life for the telescope.
After the fix, Kepler started its K2 mission, which has provided an ecliptic field of view with greater opportunities for Earth-based observatories in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
Because it covers more of the sky, the K2 mission is capable of observing a larger fraction of cooler, smaller, red-dwarf type stars.
The sighting – which put UFO hunters on high alert – was uploaded on YouTube by the channel SuspectSky.
The footage, which was shot in Rowland Heights, Los Angeles, shows a what could be a small white craft being followed by a larger one moving over a mountain range.
The bloke who captured the footage while driving can be heard saying: “If it is an airplane, it is moving very quickly.
I was driving when I saw it and I had to make a U-turn to come back to see this.
“At first it looked like a cigar shape, right now it looks like it is almost a saucer.”
Some people who commented on the clip were convinced that the sighting was of extra-terrestrial origin.
“It looks like it is almost a saucer”
Driver
YOUTUBE
SPOTTED: UFO hunters are convinced the sighting in California is real
One person said: “The smaller object in front of the black one, now that’s not right! It looks like a UFO to me!”
Another wrote: “Too fat to be a plane. The white object might have been a regular passenger plane.
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