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The Billion-Year Technology Gap: Could One Exist?
The Billion-Year Technology Gap: Could One Exist?
Are we the lone sentient life in the universe? So far, we have no evidence to the contrary, and yet the odds that not one single other planet has evolved intelligent life would appear, from a statistical standpoint, to be quite small. There are an estimated 250 billion (2.5 x 10¹¹ ) stars in the Milky Way alone, and over 70 sextillion (7 x 10²² ) in the visible universe, and many of them are surrounded by multiple planets.
Meanwhile, our 4.5 billion-year old Solar System exits in a universe that is estimated to be between 13.5 and 14 billion years old. Experts believe that there could be advanced civilizations out there that have existed for 1.8 gigayears (one gigayear = one billion years).
Fermi reasoned, if there are other advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, then why is there no evidence of such, like spacecraft or probes floating around the Milky Way. His question became famously known as the Fermi Paradox. The paradox is the contradiction between the high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and yet the lack of evidence for, or contact with, any such civilizations.
Given the extreme age of the universe, and its vast number of stars, if planets like Earth are at all typical, then there should be many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations out there, and at least a few in our own Milky Way. Another closely related question is the Great Silence, which poses the question: Even if space travel is too difficult, if life is out there, why don’t we at least detect some sign of civilization like radio transmissions?
Milan Cirkovic of the Astronomical Observatory in Belgrade, points out that the median age of terrestrial planets in the Milky Way is about 1.8 gigayears greater than the age of the Earth and the Solar System, which means that the median age of technological civilizations should be greater than the age of human civilization by the same amount. The vastness of this interval indicates that one or more processes must suppress observability of extraterrestrial communities.
Mike Treder of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies suggests that since there is, at this point, no direct and/or widely apparent evidence that extraterrestrial life exists, it likely means one of the following:
We are (A) the first intelligent beings ever to become capable of making our presence known, and leaving our planet. At this point, there are no other life forms out there as advanced as us. Or perhaps extraterrestrial life does exists, but for some reason extraterrestrial life is so very rare and so very far away we’ll never make contact anyway—making extraterrestrial life nonexistent in a practical sense at least.
Or is it (B) that many advanced civilizations have existed before us, but without exception, they have for some unknown reason, existed and/or expanded in such a way that they are completely undetectable by our instruments.
Or is it (C) There have been others, but they have all run into some sort of “cosmic roadblock” that eventually destroys them, or at least prevents their expansion beyond a small area.
Then ancients once believed that Earth was the center of the universe. We now know that Earth isn’t even at the center of the Solar System. The Solar System is not at the center of our galaxy, and our galaxy is not in any special position in contrast to the rest of the known universe. From a scientific viewpoint, there is no apparent reason to believe that Earth enjoys some privileged status.
Since Earth’s placement in space and time appears to be unremarkably random, proposition “A” seems fairly unlikely. Assuming humans evolved like other forms of life into our present state due to natural selection, then there’s really nothing all that mystical, special or remarkable about our development as a species either. Due to the shear numbers, there are almost certainly other planets capable of supporting at least some form of life. If that is so, then for Earthlings to be the very first species ever to make a noticeable mark on the universe, from a statistical perspective, is incredibly unlikely.
For proposition “B” to be correct would defy all logic. If potentially thousands, or even millions of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exist in the known universe, then why would all of them, without exception, choose to expand or exist in such a way that they are completely undetectable? It’s conceivable that some might, or perhaps even the majority, but for all of them to be completely undetectable civilizations does not seem likely either.
> Proposition C, according to Treder, appears to be more likely than A or B. If “survival of the fittest” follows similar pathways on other worlds, then our own “civilized” nature could be somewhat typical of extraterrestrial civilizations that have, or do, exist. Somehow, we all get to the point where we end up killing ourselves in a natural course of technological development and thereby self-inflict our own “cosmic roadblock”.
- “Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Fermi Paradox is what it suggests for the future of our human civilization. Namely, that we have no future beyond earthly confinement and, quite possibly, extinction. Could advanced nanotechnology play a role in preventing that extinction? Or, more darkly, is it destined to be instrumental in carrying out humanity’s unavoidable death sentence?” wonders Mike Treder, executive director of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN).
Treder believes that some of the little understood new technologies now being developed such as nanotech, and others, could well be either our salvation or just as likely end up causing our ultimate destruction.
- “Whatever civilizations have come before us have been unable to surpass the cosmic roadblock. They are either destroyed or limited in such a way that absolutely precludes their expansion into the visible universe. If that is indeed the case—and it would seem to be the most logical explanation for Fermi’s Paradox—then there is some immutable law that we too must expect to encounter at some point. We are, effectively, sentenced to death or, at best, life in the prison of a near-space bubble,” suggests Treder. “Atomically-precise exponential manufacturing could enable such concentrations of unprecedented power as to result in either terminal warfare or permanent enslavement of the human race. Of course, that sounds terribly apocalyptic, but it is worth considering that the warnings we heard at the start of the nuclear arms race, and the very real risks we faced in the height of the Cold War, were but precursors to a much greater threat posed by an arms race involving nano-built weaponry and its accompanying tools of surveillance and control.”
When we consider the chronological history of life on Earth, humans have only existed for a small fragment of time and our existence has always been precarious. The entire time we’ve existed, we been banding into various groups and attempting to kill each other—or at least are constantly in the process of developing more effective ways of killing each other—just in case. The US government, for example, spends on “Defense” (including “preemptive” warfare) and Homeland Security, 8 times what it spends on educating the next generation. There is enough nuclear weaponry in storage around the world to kill every living creature on the planet several times over. Clearly, we’re a species with poor odds of surviving indefinitely.
Our self-destructive natures aside, curiosity may end up killing more than the cats. The faster technology is advancing, the more our “leap now, look later” nature appears to grow as well. If evolution on Earth serves as a somewhat typical template for evolution of other life forms, then becoming a truly advanced civilization must be a very daunting task indeed and a very rare, if not impossible, achievement.
In fact, Sir Martin Rees, Great Britain’s Astronomer Royal and respected professor of astrophysics at Cambridge University has estimated that humans have only a 50-50 shot of making it through the 21st century. If Rees is right, and our standing on the planet is as precarious as he and others believe it is, then we may be alone due to a built-in evolutionary self-destruct button. Others have come before and others will exist after, but the cosmic roadblock may be an innate, finite nature, which only allows sentient life forms to exist for a very small window of time—windows of life which may be too small for our civilization to match up with the small windows of other civilizations that have been before or will come after.
In a contrary point of view, Milan Cirkovic believes that highly efficient city-state type of advanced technological civilizations could easily pass unnoticed even by much more advanced SETI equipment, especially if located near the Milky Way rim or other remote locations.
Posted by Rebecca Sato with Casey Kazan.
Source: www.dailygalaxy.com
Independence Day alien visit? Lights over mountains can't be explained by UFO expert
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A still from the colour nigh vision cameraTwo men using night-vision cameras captured the bizarre sight at the base of the Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona, in the US this month.
Amid claims they reveal a UFO and an alien visitation, the duo's images are now being looked at by paranormal researchers.
Tom Sanger and Gene Coleman were using separate pieces of camera equipment when they took the unexplained footage.
They described their sighting to researcher Alejandro Rojas, editor of Open Minds magazine and former spokesman of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Mr Rojas explained how Mr Coleman's video showed "one giant light", because the strange illuminations were "too intense" for his camera to separate.
Nr Coleman had a Pulsar black and white night-vision camera while Mr Sanger was using Luna Optics colour night vision camera, which is capable of capturing footage at up to 20X magnification - but at that range focus can be lost.
Mr Rojas added of Mr Sanger's footage: "Due to 'tinkering' with his camera, sometimes the lights seemed to be one big light, but he says they were actually three lights, as can be seen in most of the video."
He said Mr Coleman's video showed "one giant light", because the illuminations were "too intense" for his camera to separate.
He added: "But the men say there were three lights.
Mr Sanger, who said they were filming at the Sabino Canyon car park at around 8.50pm when the lights appeared and hovered statically, also described a second event that involved "five white lights in a row with various flashes and lights showing up here and there".
He added that they heard no sound and that the lights appeared above radio towers.
The pair returned during daylight to investigate if any static lights could have been responsible, while they also looked at a map to estimate the probable direction of the lights.
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- Beyond the mountains is desert wilderness. I just looked at a map and there are absolutely no cities or towns anywhere in the direction the lights were seen for literally hundreds of miles. No airports or military bases at all
Mr Sanger said: "Sabino Canyon leads right up into the Catalinas.
"Beyond the mountains is desert wilderness. I just looked at a map and there are absolutely no cities or towns anywhere in the direction the lights were seen for literally hundreds of miles. No airports or military bases at all.”
Mr Rojas has not suggested the video is conclusive of an alien visitation, but he has been unable to explain the footage and has appealed for help from anyone who can.
He added: "Tucson does have an airport and an Air Force Base, but they are both to the south of Sabino Canyon, and the men were purportedly shooting the video to the northeast.
"As [Mr] Sanger reported, there is nothing but desert past the Catalina Mountains in that direction.
"[Mr] Sanger took a video of the area in the daytime for comparison. His video show that there is nothing behind the peak he believes can be seen in the video."
Mr Rojas has also released previous footage he took of jets flying in the dark for comparison.
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He explored if "cars driving on the mountains" could have caused the effect.
He said: "They can be mistaken for something more mysterious. They usually go on and off as the cars pass behind trees.
"If [Mr] Sanger got the wrong peak, that could be the case. However, the daytime images he provided seem to support his claims."
He also considered drones, or fireworks, as the recording was made on July 4, as the US celebrated Independence Day.
He said: "Nearby Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is the home of remote drone operations and training. However, these objects did not appear to be cruising around like a drone.
"Of course, it was July 4th, so there is always the possibility they are fireworks."
Mr Sanger added: “These lights were way out above wilderness areas so were miles and miles from any fireworks displays.”
Both videos have incorrect dates and times but the pair claim they never set their cameras correctly.
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Daytime Orb over Sao Paulo, Brazil 24-Jul-2015
Daytime Orb over Sao Paulo, Brazil 24-Jul-2015
Here’s one daytime sighting of a metallic sphere hovering in the sky above São Paulo in Brazil. This happened on Friday, 24th July 2015.
New Evidence Claimed by Retired Air Force: Why Does it Lid Off Rendlesham Sighting
New Evidence Claimed by Retired Air Force: Why Does it Lid Off Rendlesham Sighting
Do aliens genuinely exist? If so, why are there no bodily evidences? For decades, mankind has been asking questions about additional terrestrial beings. At first, sightings ended up attributed to deities or angels and far more not too long ago as strange objects. It is not until the advent of present day technology and flight that people have started to name them as unidentified flying objects.
According to retired Air Force colonel, he obtained new evidence to give light on the most notorious extraterrestrial reports in history – the 1980 sighting in the UK. Col. Charles Halt has gathered sworn statements from controllers of air traffic at Bentwaters in 1980. He claimed to see a UFO on radar performing implausible aerial maneuvers. Unfortunately, they were afraid to talk about their sightings until they retired. There are also a lot of people trying to support his statement with the purpose of strengthening his extraterrestrial sighting.
However, Halt is disappointed towards the inaccurate information that spread about the Bentwaters incident. Among his disappointments are the key government files about the case. In the year 2011, the UK revealed thousands of previously strange or extraterrestrial sighting documents, but the Rendlesham Forest sighting strangely vanished. He further added that the result does not surprise him at all maybe they were taken anywhere. He believed that it is how it works.
The following piece from a 2007 documentary includes a recreation of that eye-shaped glowing item moving through the Rendlesham Forest as it appears to ooze molten material. Halt is asked if a cover-up policy is a wise decision, he answered negatively. According to him, people should know the truth because cover up will not make a difference. For instance, alien lands in Washington whenever, what difference does it make? People still have to pay the mortgage, go to work, unless dramatic will happen.
16 bewijzen voor het bestaan van buitenaards leven
16 bewijzen voor het bestaan van buitenaards leven
De Russische miljardair Yuri Milner werkt samen met de Britse wetenschapper Stephen Hawking met als doel buitenaards leven te ontdekken en benaderen. Het bestaan van aliens wordt al eeuwen besproken, maar nog niemand kwam met compleet waterdicht bewijs. Toch zijn er genoeg aanwijzingen te vinden voor het bestaan van leven buiten de aarde.
Wetenschappers vonden een vreemd voorwerp in de schedel van de Franse heerser Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon zelf vertelde dat hij in 1794 door vreemde mannen was ontvoerd toen hij dagen verdween. Toeval? Misschien...
Egyptische hiërogliefen die Ufo's afbeelden zijn meerdere malen gevonden. De mogelijkheid bestaat dat de oude Egyptenaren bezoek hebben gehad van buitenaardse wezens.
Het kleine dorpje Bonnybridge staat bekend als de ufo hoofdstad van Schotland en dat is niet voor niets. Elk jaar worden er 300 ufo meldingen gemaakt. Foto: een ingevuld ufo rapport.
4. Alien oogst Toen Britse wetenschappers in 2013 een ballon in de uiterste punten van de stratosfeer lieten rondvliegen, ontdekten ze bij terugkomst dat er kleine levende organismen op zaten. Ze waren ervan overtuigd dat deze wezentjes in de ruimte leven.
6. Schorpioenen op Venus?Na het zien van de foto's van de Venera-13 probe van Venus in 1982, beweerde de Russische wetenschapper Leonid Ksanfomaliti dat er een schorpioen-achtige soort op Venus leeft.
Onderzoekers in Antarctica vonden stenen met fossielen van bacteriën. Dit leidde tot speculatie dat stenen die miljarden jaren geleden naar de aarde kwamen verantwoordelijk zijn voor het leven dat we vandaag de dag leiden.
In 1977 ontvingen wetenschappers in Ohio State University signalen op die wel 200 miljoen lichtjaren reisden om ons te bereiken. De bron van de signalen is nog altijd niet achterhaald.
Recentelijk ontdekten de Russen een micro-organisme met een zeldzame overlevingsmogelijkheid die niet bestaat op aarde. Ze zijn er dan ook van overtuigd dat het organisme van Mars afkomstig is en dit onderstreept de theorie dat er buitenaards leven bestaat.
Methaan wordt geproduceerd door levende organismen en er is veel van dit gas in de atmosfeer van mars gevonden, waardoor je zou kunnen denken dat er levende organismen op Mars zijn.
De Maleise wetenschapper Mazlan Othman is de directeur van de Verenigde Naties' office of outer space Affairs (UNOOSA) dat zich bezighoudt met de ruimte. Mazlan heeft de eer om buitenaardse bezoekers te begroeten en is de verantwoordelijke voor het contact tussen de aarde en andere planeten.
Piloten moeten tegenwoordig niet alleen alert zijn op andere toestellen met reizigers aan boord, maar ook met ufo's die langs kunnen komen. Een piloot zag recentelijk een object in de vorm van een delta op zijn vliegtuig afkomen en nog voordat hij kon reageren was het ook al weer verdwenen.
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The X-Files creator Chris Carter on government conspiracies and paranormal experiences
The X-Files creator Chris Carter on government conspiracies and paranormal experiences
It’s a broiling hot July morning in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, is patiently giving me an interview in the basement cafe at the Théâtre du Passage, the home of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival. By rights, he shouldn’t be here at all. The Californian is midway through shooting a new six-part season of the show that originally ran from 1993 to 2002. He has left Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) back in Vancouver, where the team has recently finished the second episode, to come to Switzerland. He promised that he would attend the festival and is not the type to break his promise.
Carter confides that he has had only four hours’ sleep and that he is continuing to tweak scripts and to respond to notes from his colleagues in Vancouver, even as he attends to his duties at the festival. “We’ve just got our sea legs as it were,” Carter says of the resumption of The X-Files after such a long lay-off. The series has been customised for the Obama era and will feature plenty of references to Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
The original series thrived on conspiracy theories and shadowy behaviour from the US security agencies. “You can imagine I was the least shocked person in the world,” Carter reflects on recent revelations about US government-sanctioned eavesdropping and cover-ups. “It is not surprising to me at all… those assertions and allegations are what I think The X-Files was built on.”
In the new series, Carter promises that he and his team will “monkey” with The X-Files mythology “and give you a spin and twist on that”. There will be a combination of what he calls mythology episodes and the stand-alone “so-called monster episodes”. Six episodes doesn’t seem that much of a stretch, given that the first season of The X-Files consisted of 25 episodes, shot over a year, and the second season was 24.
“When you shoot six, you think it is going to be a piece of cake. That isn’t the case,” Carter sighs. “It will take eight months of our lives, so it is an enormous undertaking, even though it seems like only a slice of what we had previously done.”
Back in the show’s prime, it was Carter’s job to keep The X-Files “oiled and running” and to ensure that the bosses at Fox, from owner Rupert Murdoch downwards, were happy. Murdoch attended the screening of the pilot episode (“I’ve had very little contact with him, but the first thing he ever said to me was ‘I like your TV shows’”).
The stress factor was enormous. He was responsible for keeping the series “fresh” and delivering the ratings that Fox craved. The gratification came from knowing that massive audiences (30 million for one episode broadcast after the Super Bowl) were watching and enjoying his work. It is also a huge source of pride that The X-Files was deemed worthy of spoofing on The Simpsons. He still has a signed photograph from the Simpsons creator Matt Groening on his wall. “To make The Simpsons is to make the big time,” he declares, with surprising solemnity.
Carter seems a glutton for punishment. As he acknowledges, the old X-Files would demand his full commitment for 11-and-a-half months of the year. “It was as much work as you could possibly do. You worked from the moment you woke up until the moment you went to sleep. There was very little time even to stop to get a sense of how you were doing, or what you were doing.”
Why put himself through the grinder all over again? “The central reason is the esprit de corps. That is the reason to come back and do it again,” Carter says. “When you have a group of people working together, who all contribute to make it better, that is something. If you have never experienced it, that is somewhat miraculous. It is stepping into new shoes. That is not to say that the new shoes fit on arrival.”
In the years when The X-Files was off-screen, Carter would regularly read newspapers and spot stories that he felt were perfect material for the series. In the intervening years, he has developed various other dramas.
There was a show called Millennium, which was attacked by Scientologists who felt it was lampooning them, and last year a pilot for Amazon Studios called The After. To his disappointment, no series of The After was commissioned, in spite of the enthusiasm with which the pilot was greeted. The last outing for Mulder and Scully was the feature film, The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008), which Carter directed. The critical response was muted and box-office receipts were disappointing, but Carter believes the new series can now once again capture the imaginations of a big, mainstream audience. If the new series is successful, there are likely to be further episodes.
The X-Files is celebrated as one of the first drama series of the internet age. Carter himself hasn’t embraced social media. “I do have an Instagram account, but that is for promotional reasons. I don’t communicate with anybody via social media otherwise,” he says. “It seems that people don’t value their privacy now, and I do value my privacy. I don’t know that anything I have to say [on social media] is all that interesting. I see its great value, but not for me personally.”
Carter is a tallish, good-looking, silver-haired Californian who used to edit a surfing magazine, but that doesn’t mean he is in the slightest bit relaxed. “I never thought of it as laid-back,” he says of the surfing subculture. “I was dealing with people who were the opposite of laid-back. These were, to use an Aussie expression, ‘aggro surfers’: people determined to change the surfing world.”
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in the cult TV series (Rex Features)
When he worked for Surfing Magazine, the production schedule was almost an intense as the one he encountered later in television production. “It was where I learned about doing something serially,” he recalls. No, Carter wasn’t an especially accomplished surfer himself but he has chased “some of the best surf in the world”, and still speaks in awe of a wave he rode at Sunset Beach in Hawaii. “I couldn’t believe that my feet had touched the beach again. It felt death-defying at the time.”
At the time that Carter devised The X-Files, he stumbled across startling research from a Harvard scientist called John E Mack that revealed three per cent of the US population actually believed in alien abduction.
One guesses the figure would be far higher today, partly because of the series. Mack allowed him to sit in on “a regression hypnosis session” with an alien abductee, an experience he describes as powerful and disturbing.
Does he believe in aliens himself? More than 20 years on from the creation of The X-Files, Carter gives a typically balanced and equivocal answer, one that combines the scepticism of Gillian Anderson’s Scully with the fervent credulity of Duchovny’s Mulder.
“That ‘I Want To Believe’ poster states it so perfectly for me,” the X-Files guru muses. “I am looking for a paranormal experience. I am looking for a miracle, I am waiting for the supernatural. I am waiting to be confronted with something I can’t explain.”
The new series of ‘The X-Files’ will be broadcast early next year
The Top 10 Strangest Canadian UFO Reports
SOURCE: CHRIS Rutkowski – Ufology Research
Canadian UFO researchers and investigators were polled for their personal picks of the most remarkable Canadian cases of the past century (or so). They are, in chronological order:
Ottawa, Ontario February 15, 1915
A “phantom invasion” of unusual aerial objects caused enough panic throughout the National Capital Region that the lights on Parliament Hill were extinguished in order to prevent targeting by the “enemy.”
Gander, Newfoundland February 10, 1951
A US Navy Transport plane was reported to have nearly collided with a giant circular orange object that almost literally flew circles around the American aircraft as it flew between Iceland and Newfoundland.
Shirley’s Bay, Ontario August 8, 1954
Wilbert Smith, a Defence Department engineer, set up a “flying saucer detection station” at a government facility. On this date, his instruments recorded a large magnetic disturbance overhead, which Smith believed to be from an alien craft.
Fort Macleod, Alberta August 23, 1956
RCAF Squadron Leader Robert Childerhose and his flight lieutenant were attempting to set a cross-Canada speed record in their Sabre jet when they observed and photographed a bright oval object near their plane at an altitude of 36,000 feet.
Falcon Lake, Manitoba May 20, 1967
Weekend prospector Stefan Michalak was burned by a saucer-shaped object which had landed near him. Later radioactivity at the site was considered high enough to consider closing the Provincial park entirely. Despite investigations by American and Canadian officials, the case was listed as “unexplained” by the United States Air Force.
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia October 4, 1967
Many witnesses, including RCMP constables, observed a bright object fall from the sky into the ocean. Later, a patch of luminous foam was found on the surface of the water where it was presumed to have sunk. Rumours that a US Navy recovery operation located and removed a mysterious object persist to this day.
Langenburg, Saskatchewan September 1, 1974
Farmer Edwin Fuhr was swathing when he came upon several metallic bowl-shaped objects spinning rapidly in a hayfield. The objects took off and left behind circular impressions which predated “crop circles” found years later in England.
Carman, Manitoba May 13, 1975
Hundreds of people observed a bobbing, bright reddish-orange light in the sky beginning about this date and continuing for several months. The object was seen so frequently, it was affectionately named “Charlie Redstar.”
Montreal, Quebec January 6, 1977
Ms Florida Malboeuf watched as a saucer-shaped object appeared to land on the roof of a building across from her home. Two spindly creatures in tight-fitting suits appeared on the edge of the roof and then disappeared before the object took off.
Duncan, British Columbia November, 1980
Granger Taylor was a teenager who was obsessed with aliens and UFOs to the point of building his own huge full-size model in his backyard. One day, following a series of UFO sightings in the area, he announced to his friends he was going to be taken away by aliens—and he was never seen again. Police eventually located his truck in a secluded area, along with evidence Granger committed suicide.
Although there are many, many more examples of Canadian UFO cases, these are among the most significantly unusual on record. Whether or not they are “real” is irrelevant. They each have helped fire the Canadian imagination and fascination with the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
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Harvard Scientists Say That There May Be An Ancient Earth Inside Earth
Harvard Scientists Say That There May Be An Ancient Earth Inside Earth
A team of Harvard scientists may have found an indication that a portion of an ancient Earth exists inside our planet’s mantle.
A study presented at the Goldschmidt conference in Sacramento, California, claims that the previously inexplicable isotope ratio from the depths of the Earth may be an “echo” of the ancient Earth that existed before the collision with another celestial body, which is estimated to have led to the formation of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.
According to the authors of the study, the ratio may represent a signal from a material that existed prior to the moment of the collision.
Scientists of the Harvard University led by Associate Professor Sujoy Mukhopadhyay believe that only a portion of the Earth melted as a result of the collision, and that in the depths of our planet’s mantle there still exists a part of the ancient Earth.
Scientists have studied the isotope ratio of noble gases from the depths of the Earth’s mantle and compared it to the isotope ratio of the gases found closer to the surface. They found that the ratio of 3He to 22Ne from the surface layers of the mantle is much higher than the one of its deeper layers.
The analysis of the 129-Xenon and 130-Xenon ratio also confirms the hypothesis suggested by the researchers. Material which has been rendered to the surface from the deep mantle has a lower ratio than the one which is typically located near the surface.
Since the 129-Xenon is produced by the radioactive decay of 129-Iodine, these isotopes indicate that the ancient part of mantle was formed during the first 100 million years of the Earth’s evolution.
Scientists believe that this theory explains the differences between the isotope ratios of noble gases in different parts of the Earth.
As Professor Mukhopadhyay said: “The geochemistry indicates that there are differences between the noble gas isotope ratios in different parts of the Earth, and these need to be explained. The idea that a very disruptive collision of the Earth with another planet-sized body, the biggest event in Earth’s geological history, did not completely melt and homogenize the Earth challenges some of our notions on planet formation and the energetics of giant impacts. If the theory is proven correct, then we may be seeing echoes of the ancient Earth, from a time before the collision“.
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Succès du survol rapproché de Pluton
Succès du survol rapproché de Pluton
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NASA (AFP)
La NASA a confirmé aujourd'hui le succès du survol rapproché de la mini planète Pluton et de sa collecte de données par sa sonde New Horizons, avant son grand saut vers l'inconnu que constitue la ceinture de Kuiper, un vaste amas de débris et de comètes au-delà de l’orbite de Neptune...
La sonde, qui a croisé à seulement 12 400 km la mystérieuse Pluton, après un voyage de neuf ans et de 5 milliards de kilomètres, a envoyé un message confirmant qu’elle avait réussi à frôler sans encombre la planète naine.
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Pluton et son principal compagnon Charon (NASA, , JHUAPL, SwRI, fausses couleurs, reconstitution) - on distingue plusieurs cratères et failles ou canyons sur les deux astres, plusieurs sortes de minéraux et roches d'après les couleurs.
Il y avait eu une petite panne à l'approche de la mini planète et de ses satellites, et les techniciens de l’Agence spatiale américaine redoutaient un éventuel autre problème lors de ce passage très rapide. Mais, comme on peut le voir sur ces images relayées par AFP, ils ont reçu avec soulagement cette transmission de confirmation hier soir.
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« Nous avons bien reçu la télémétrie envoyée par la sonde », a déclaré depuis le centre de commandes de Laurel (Maryland) Alice Bowman, la chef du projet, déclenchant une explosion de joie parmi ses collègues.
Il ne faut en effet pas oublier que la sonde New Horizons est l'engin le plus rapide envoyé par l’homme dans l’espace : elle a frôlé Pluton à plus de 49 000 km/h et à cette vitesse, une collision même avec un débris de la taille d’un grain de riz aurait pu s’avérer catastrophique et mettre un terme à la mission, sans même que l'on sache exactement pourquoi... on se rappellera que tant les américains que les russes ont ainsi perdu des sondes vers Mars ou d'autres planètes sans en connaître les réelles raisons.
Durant une fenêtre de survol de quelques heures, New Horizons a emmagasiné un maximum d’images et d’informations sur Pluton, dont on ne sait pour le moment pas grand chose, à part qu'un très grand cœur géologique se dessine sur son hémisphère nord. Un petit clin d'oeil de Dame Nature envers les humains qui le voient pour la première fois...
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NASA (AFP) - étonnante géologie de Pluton avec le dessin d'un cœur bien reconnaissable, dont une grande partie de l'intérieur semble très plat et uniforme, alors qu'au sud (qui est l'équateur de la mini-planète car la sonde est passée au-dessus du "pôle nord") il y a des masses très sombres et que la droite du cœur est plus "marbré" et en relief... Plusieurs cratères d'impacts sont reconnaissables mais il y a des possibilités d'ancien volcanisme vers le sud...
Dans son discours explicatif, la NASA rappelle que la sonde était entièrement configurée pour effectuer cette collecte de données ces dernières heures et qu'elle ne pouvait pas communiquer en même temps avec les techniciens sur la Terre. Elle s’est seulement interrompue quelques minutes vers 16H30 (20H30 GMT) pour envoyer juste 15 minutes de données télémétriques pour confirmer la réussite de sa principale mission.
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Plus de quatre heures ont été nécessaires pour que ces données envoyées par ondes depuis les confins de notre système solaire parviennent aux techniciens de la Nasa. Les premières données reçues ont montré que la sonde est encore en parfait état et qu’elle a donc normalement pu effectuer son abondante collecte de données ensuite.
Il va maintenant falloir à nouveau de la patience aux techniciens car la sonde va commencer à envoyer ces précieuses données qui permettront de répondre à de nombreuses questions sur Pluton à partir de mercredi. Il lui faudra au total 16 mois pour transmettre l’intégralité des données qu’elle a collectées durant son survol historique de la planète naine, en espérant qu'elle n'aura pas de problèmes durant ce temps et son voyages vers un nombre de débris de plus en plus importants, témoins de la création de notre système solaire, et qui orbitent dans les environs, car Pluton est considéré comme orbitant elle-même dans cette ceinture de Kuiper qui commence après l'orbite de la planète Neptune.
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Quelques photos de Charon prises le 08 juillet 2015 lors de l'approche :
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Charon et Pluton lors de l'approche (08-07-2015-NASA)
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Charon (NASA) - le compagnon de Pluton est plus gros que Cérès, l'autre mini-planète de la ceinture d'astéroïdes entre Mars et Jupiter et aussi actuellement visitée par une sonde de la NASA... on voit nettement un territoire très sombre, probable cratère ou effondrement de forme assez carrée (voir plus haut en couleurs).
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La NASA nous montre que Charon possède un Pôle nord très sombre et creusé, plusieurs cratères et canyons...
On se rappellera que Pluton est le plus gros astre d'un petit système de 6 astres tournant les uns autour des autres d'une façon compliquée : les deux plus gros (Pluton et Charon) tournent l'un autour de l'autre et autour d'un centre de gravité vide, à l'extérieur de Pluton (alors que la Lune par exemple tourne autour d'un centre de gravité situé à l'intérieur de la Terre) et que les quatre autres petits corps célestes dans les parages se nomment Hydre et Nix, découverts en 2005, Styx et Kerberos, découverts respectivement en 2011 et 2012, tournent de façon compliquée et changeante autour des deux plus gros... ce qui rend impossible de prédire les positions respectives des autres petites lunes. Ainsi la durée des jours et des nuits varie sans cesse sur ces petites planètes. De plus, ces quatre petites lunes ne sont pas des sphères comme les planètes ou mini-planètes, ou grosses lunes : ce sont des mini-ballons de rugby, les forces de cohésion interne de ces petits corps n'étant pas assez fortes pour résister à la déformation due à la rotation. En outre, sur les images transmises par le télescope spatial Hubble, Kerberos est surprenante : cette petite lune de quelques dizaines de kilomètres de diamètre a un "albedo" (pouvoir réfléchissant) très faible, entre 0,04 et 0,35, soit dix fois moins que ses compagnons. Autrement dit, l’astre a une surface très sombre. Kerberos serait donc couleur charbon, sans que les planétologues puissent en déterminer la raison... (possibilité de matière organique (masse de bactéries) ou de métal...)
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L'astre Nix fait parti des 6 astres du système Pluton-Charon (NASA)
Voici une reconstitution des mouvements de Nix (et des trois autres petits corps identiques) en orbite autour du couple Pluton-Charon... (NASA)
Yves Herbo : c'est assez amusant car dans mon roman d'anticipation paru cet été 2015, et écrit entre 1971 et 1974, alors que j'étais très très jeune, "Quatre éternités pour une Rose Immortelle", je parle de Pluton et de ses satellites (quelques aventures y surviennent... et il y a une base extra-terrestre (Du "Conseil Galactique de la Fédération" dont je parle dans mon roman) qui est présente sur la planète... C'est amusant car en 1974, lorsque j'ai terminé ce roman (et je peux le prouver), Pluton était encore considérée comme une petite planète à part entière... et était alors considérée comme trop petite pour posséder des satellites ou des compagnons ! Mais je les avais inventés à l'époque (ou cela m'a été inspiré par une muse, comme à beaucoup d'auteurs !) car ça m'arrangeait pour mon histoire ! Et l'Histoire me donnait raison quelques années plus tard avec la découverte de Charon en premier lieu...
MAJ du 26-07-2015 : Entre ce survol historique et aujourd'hui, le robot-sonde New Horizons a transmis à la Terre plusieurs données et images, tout en s'éloignant vers la mystérieuse ceinture de Kuiper... :
Ce survol simulé des Montagnes Norgay de Pluton et de la Plaine Spoutnik a été créé d'après les images de l'approche de New Horizons. Les images ont été acquises le 14 juillet 2015 par la caméra LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) à une distance de 77.000 kilomètres. Les plus petits pixels font 1 kilomètre et on ne peut parler de détails ici... d'ailleurs les images ont dû être largement retouchées car ce film ressemble tout à fait à une animation classique faite pour un jeu en 3D : difficile de faire la part des choses entre le virtuel et la réalité. Et la lumière solaire, la taille du Soleil lui-même, ne doit pas réellement optimiser la luminosité aussi loin : les images sont en effet composées de plusieurs filtres du spectre lumineux et reconstituées au mieux, avec des logiciels... - This simulated flyover of Pluto’s Norgay Montes (Norgay Mountains) and Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain) was created from New Horizons closest-approach images. Norgay Montes have been informally named for Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Sputnik Planum is informally named for Earth’s first artificial satellite. The images were acquired by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers). Features as small as a half-mile (1 kilometer) across are visible. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
Les nouvelles images reçues le vendredi 24 juillet, montrent des vapeurs dans l’atmosphère de Pluton et des signes de mouvements de glaces d’azote et de méthane à sa surface.
John Grunsfeld, le responsable des missions scientifiques de la NASA, est satisfait lors d’une conférence de presse : « Dix jours après le survol au plus près de Pluton nous pouvons dire que nos attentes ont été plus que surpassées. Avec des glaces mouvantes, une composition chimique originale de sa surface, ses chaînes montagneuses et ses brumes, Pluton révèle une diversité géologique vraiment excitante. »
Tout en s'éloignant, le robot a braqué l'un de ses instruments optiques sur la planète naine, ce qui a permis de saisir les rayons du Soleil passant à travers son atmosphère. Les images montrent des vapeurs atmosphériques s’élevant jusqu’à 130 kilomètres au-dessus de la surface. Une première analyse indique qu'il existe deux couches distinctes, une à environ 80 kilomètres d’altitude et l’autre à quelque 50 kilomètres.
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« Ces vapeurs sont un élément-clé pour créer les composants complexes d’hydrocarbone qui donnent à la surface de Pluton sa couleur rougeâtre », a indiqué Michael Summers, un astronome de la mission.
Les dernières images transmises par New Horizons révèlent aussi des signes de mouvements de glace à la surface de Pluton, qui montrent une activité géologique récente d'à peine quelques dizaines de millions d’années sur la planète, ce qui a étonné ces scientifiques. Pluton est loin d'être l'astre complètement mort encore supposé il y a peu.
Dans le nord de la vaste plaine baptisée « Sputnik Planum », que l'on voit dans le petit film au-dessus, et qui fait environ la taille du Texas d'après le scientifique, ils ont vu des indices très nets de mouvements d’une plaque de glace de méthane, d’azote ou de monoxyde de carbone dont regorge cette zone. Ces mouvements pourraient même se produire actuellement, selon ces chercheurs, la glace est encore fracturée sur des kilomètres...
« De tels phénomènes sont très similaires à ceux observés sur la Terre avec les glaciers », a relevé Bill McKinnon, un autre scientifique de New Horizons :
« Dans la partie la plus au sud de la région en forme de cœur, adjacente à la zone équatoriale qui est sombre et apparemment plus ancienne avec de nombreux cratères, il semblerait que les dépôts de glace soient beaucoup plus récents. Toutes les activités observées sur Pluton tendent à indiquer que cette planète a un noyau dense entouré d’une épaisse couche de glace, ce qui accroît la possibilité de l’existence d’un océan liquide sous cette glace. »
Cette couche de glace plus récente pourrait-elle aussi dénoncer quelques pluies d'hydrocarbures issues de ces vapeurs atmosphériques ? Une météorologie plutonienne est envisageable également, en liaison avec cette atmosphère et cet éventuel océan liquide sous les glaces. On se rappellera que Pluton possède une orbite très excentrique qui la fait se rapprocher régulièrement du Soleil, mais aussi de Neptune parfois. Des fluctuations d'orbites engendrant probablement de l'énergie, donc de la chaleur, des conditions physiques légèrement différentes en tous les cas...
New Horizons doit, sauf mauvaise rencontre, continuer à transmettre ses données collectées jusqu’à la fin de 2016. Elle se trouve actuellement à 12,2 millions de kilomètres au-delà de Pluton et s’enfonce dans la ceinture de Kuiper qui devrait être de plus en plus dense, moins "vide" qu'un espace balayé par l'orbite d'un petit système planétaire comme Pluton-Charon...
Après plus de 9 années de voyage, la sonde spatiale New Horizon a survolé Pluton le 14 juillet 2015. Depuis, elle a envoyé plusieurs clichés de la planète naine et de son satellite Charon. Que nous disent ces images à propos de ce que l'on peut trouver en surface de l'astre ? Réponse avec François Forget, directeur de recherche au CNRS et membre de la mission New Horizons. Images : Olivier Clairouin - Donald Walther / Le Monde.fr - Dailymotion (Sources)
Yves Herbo, Sciences, F, Histoires, 15-07, 26-07-
The Herkimer Black Triangle UFO
The Herkimer Black Triangle UFO
By Cheryl Costa
www.syracusenewtimes.com
Who knew that a simple winter’s night snowmobile ride would result in the sighting of a black triangle UFO?
Triangular-shaped UFOs have been in the media over the past 20 years or so. Numerous television shows have reported cases from different parts of the U.S. and western Europe. These craft are usually about the size of a football field, being about two stories thick. They typically are reported as having three major glowing orbs on the underside. They are usually a non-reflective black in color, but they’ve also been reported as glowing in orange or yellow. The strangest element is that most reports say that they are unnervingly silent.
The CNY region is not without its reports of these triangle-shaped crafts. Among the earliest known upstate reports of a black triangle UFO was in January of 1979 in Herkimer, NY. One winter’s night, a snowmobiler who lived in the country was going to visit a friend five miles away. He stated that suddenly it became quiet. He couldn’t hear his sled’s engine and the snowmobile’s light went out. He looked up and could make out the outline of a huge black triangle blocking out the stars. It had no lights and was silent. He said it took about two minutes for it to pass over head. It was perhaps 100 feet off the ground and when it passed under the high tension wires, arcs began jumping from the power lines to the top of the craft. He watched it move away over a hill and then out of sight. When he got home, nobody believed him.
There was also a sighting a few years later in October of 1982 in Owasco, NY near Owasco Lake. In October 2010, a black triangle UFO was reported in Skaneateles that was observed by a number of people at a football game. In December 2011, near Sylvan Beach, NY, a family observed two of these crafts. Not to be left out, residents in the city of Syracuse observed several of these triangular crafts. One was seen over Hiawatha Lake moving northwest in June of 2012 in the early hours of the day. Notably, two years ago a small cluster of sightings of black triangle UFOs happened in May 2013 in the regional New York City area.
The most recent report was logged in Earlville, NY on July 15, 2013. A young woman was called outside by her excited boyfriend. She reported that he pointed up in the sky and some distance from them was a huge orange triangle. They watched it for a few minutes as it slowly moved away and disappeared.
A curious aspect regarding these black triangles is the frequency of their sightings. When I examined the sighting data for the 20 years between 1979 through 2000, there were a total of 34 sighting reports for the entire state of New York. Yet from 2001 to 2015, the number of Black Triangle sightings has more than tripled.
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Nets Historic Cash Infusion
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Nets Historic Cash Infusion
With a $100-million donation, billionaire Yuri Milner plans to revolutionize the astronomical quest to find alien life
Pictured before their presentation at the Royal Society in London, venture capitalist Yuri Milner (left) and cosmologist Stephen Hawking (right) announced Milner's Breakthrough Listen initiative, a $100 million decadal program to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Is the cosmos filled with chatty alien civilizations or is Earth a lonely spark of life in a sterile universe? Russian billionaire Yuri Milner wants to know, and has committed to spending at least $100 million to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Efforts to listen for interstellar messages date back to the 1960s but funding has often proved as elusive as the aliens themselves. NASA’s SETI efforts, which ran from the 1970s to the 1990s, consumed about $110 million across 20 years, according to the agency’s former chief historian, the astronomer Steven Dick, who calls today’s announcement a “sea change” in SETI funding.
Announced today at a press conference in London, Milner’s Breakthrough Listen initiative provides 10 years of funding for what promises to be the most exhaustive and far-seeing SETI program in history when it begins observations in 2016. Breakthrough Listen will be directed by an advisory committee of prominent scientists chaired by Sir Martin Rees, the U.K.’s Astronomer Royal. The program is accompanied by another related effort, Breakthrough Message, devoted to crafting crowdsourced messages from humanity that might someday be transmitted out into the cosmos. Both programs will operate through the new Breakthrough Initiatives division of Milner’s Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which awards the world’s most lavish scientific prizes. “There are absolutely no strings attached” to the funding, Milner said in an interview with Scientific American. “I am fully committed to this project. If we don’t find anything in 10 years, then we’ll just have to extend it for another 10 years—and then for another 20, if necessary. We will just keep going until we know the answer.”
Supercharging the search
SETI efforts to detect radio messages from advanced cosmic civilizations have already been underway for more than a half century. In 1960 astronomer Frank Drake periodically pointed an 25-meter radio telescope at two nearby sunlike stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridanus, hoping to tune in to any transmissions.
That search, like all others since, turned up little more than the sound of lifeless cosmic static, but it did inspire a meeting that would profoundly influence SETI’s future. In 1961 Drake met with astronomer Carl Sagan and other researchers to devise what came to be known as the “Drake equation,” a linked series of variables meant to estimate the prevalence of talkative technological civilizations in the Milky Way. Although recent findings from NASA’s Kepler space telescope and other planet-hunting projects have revealed that billions of potentially habitable worlds populate our galaxy, the actual answer to the Drake equation remains unknown. Drake’s long-held best guess, however, is that perhaps 10,000 alien civilizations presently exist in the Milky Way.
The challenge, SETI’s proponents say, is finding them. Even if advanced civilizations are all blasting electromagnetic messages between the stars via some vast pangalactic internet, there are practically endless permutations of possible wavelengths to survey and signaling protocols to consider. And the Milky Way is a very big place, a few hundred billion stars packed into a spiral disk a hundred thousand light-years wide. A signal could come from essentially any part of the sky at any time on any number of possible wavelengths. SETI efforts to date have only garnered a small, scattered amount of time on large radio telescopes, and they typically “piggyback” on other scientific observations, passively listening to whatever target other astronomers are investigating. If learning we are not alone is a cosmic jackpot, Drake has said, then for all its existence SETI has been only playing with a few tickets. To date, the quest for talkative aliens has been a bit like searching for fish in the ocean by scooping up a single glass of seawater. “Breakthrough Listen will be much more than a glass in the sea,” Milner said at the press conference. “We are bringing a completely different scale of technology to the problem.” His $100 million is buying an unprecedented amount of observing time on two of the largest radio telescopes in the world—the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes Telescope in Australia. Perched on opposite sides of the planet both telescopes will work in tandem to provide a view of practically the whole sky.
The project is also contracting with the University of California, Berkeley, to develop state-of-the-art instruments and digital-signal processing methods, and is buying time on the Automated Planet Finder (APF) at Lick Observatory in California to perform an optical search for messages sent on pulses of laser light. According to Geoff Marcy, an exoplanet hunter at U.C. Berkeley, who has performed optical SETI work at Lick and other telescopes, the APF will be capable of detecting laser transmissions as low in power as 100 watts from up to 50 light-years away. For perspective, that’s the same power as a standard incandescent lightbulb in your living room.
Collectively, the three telescopes will monitor a million stars in the Milky Way, its star-packed galactic plane, along with a hundred nearby galaxies. The effort will cover 10 times more of the sky than previous programs, scanning at least five times more of the spectrum a hundred times faster and with 50 times greater sensitivity than past efforts. “This means we can now do in an hour or a day what we used to do in a year,” says Berkeley’s Dan Werthimer, a veteran SETI astronomer and co-founder of SETI@home, a distributed computing service that sifts SETI data for candidate signals using idle processing power on personal computers. “It’s going to make the searches we did even 10 years ago kind of laughable because the technology has progressed so fast.” SETI capabilities are doubling every year, Werthimer says, as computers, telescopes and receivers improve. “That gives you a factor of a thousand improvement every 10 years, a factor of a million every 20. So something that we did 30 years ago will be a billion times worse than what we’ll be doing next year.”
Breakthrough Listen has partnered with SETI@home to allow citizen scientists to analyze its most tantalizing data sets and intends to freely release its gathered information. That data torrent (and the instruments developed to handle it) could be a windfall not only for alien hunters but also for all of radio astronomy—which, for a change, will be piggybacking on SETI.
Changing of the guard
A decade after Drake’s first SETI search NASA began working on SETI programs of its own, but after 20 years of progress Congress killed those efforts in 1993. Today the agency has embraced the search for microbes on Mars and other planets but at least for now tends to avoid the far more controversial topic of looking for alien civilizations.
In the aftermath of NASA’s abandonment private organizations such as the nonprofit SETI Institute in California continued programs of their own, sustained by modest research grants and occasional philanthropic donations. In 2007, using some $25 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the SETI Institute debuted the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), an assemblage of 42 small telescopes meant for dedicated SETI work. Alas, the money ran out, and plans for expanding the ATA to hundreds of dishes faltered. In recent years the array has been occasionally shuttered for lack of funds, and presently limps along on a shoestring budget, often via performing work with a less SETI-centric focus.
Although searching for alien civilizations may be one of the most publicly appealing topics in all of astronomy, it does not pay well, if at all, and attracting new researchers to the fold had been challenging. “There are very few opportunities for promising young scientists to pursue SETI research in graduate school and beyond,” saysAndrew Siemion, director of Berkeley’s SETI Research Center. “This funding helps to communicate to young scientists that a career path in the field is possible.” Siemion is in his 30s—a rare outlier in a rarefied field filled with senior researchers in all senses of the word.
Milner’s initiative is allowing older scientists to forge new career paths, too. Last year astronomer Pete Worden left his position as director of NASA’s Ames Research Center to “to pursue some long-held dreams in the private sector.” Today those dreams were revealed, when Worden was announced as the new chairman of Milner’s Breakthrough Prize Foundation. “I do believe we are on the verge of a new era in public-private partnerships,” Worden says. “This is the reason I left NASA—to help bring this partnership to fruition.” It was his exposure to Milner and other risk-embracing high-tech entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, Worden says, that had motivated his departure as well as shifting priorities within the U.S. government. “The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world’s best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,” Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes—as well as many other observatories—scrambling for new sources of financial support. Today’s announcement of Breakthrough Listen is likely only the first of several projects that could soon fill the astronomical void left by governments. “There are other potential initiatives under discussion,” Worden acknowledges. “All are related to the question of life in the universe.”
An answer to life’s question
In addition to Milner, today’s conference also featured the project’s most prominent collaborators—Rees, Drake and Marcy, along with Sagan’s widow, Ann Druyan, who has been instrumental in popularizing SETI via her co-authorship of both Cosmos television series. But the most special guest of all was undoubtedly the wheelchair-bound cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who spoke to the audience through prepared statements broadcast by his personalized computer-generated voice.
The revolutions in physics that laid bare the beautiful structure of the universe “can explain the light of stars, but not the lights that shine from planet Earth,” Hawking said. If life arose spontaneously on Earth, it must have done so an infinitude of times elsewhere in our seemingly infinite universe. “Somewhere in the cosmos perhaps intelligent life may be watching these lights of ours, aware of what they mean,” he noted. “Or do our lights wander a lifeless cosmos—unseen beacons announcing that here, on one rock, the universe discovered its existence? Either way, there is no bigger question…. A universe full of technological civilizations is a very different place from one with only us. Perhaps even different at astronomical scales. That makes astronomy's job to find out.”
But even though, as Marcy put it, the universe is chock-full of planets and “bulging at the seams” with ingredients for cellular biology, the chances of finding E.T. might be very low. “Who among us could doubt that basic single-celled life is common in the universe?” Marcy asked. “I would bet my house that among the nearest hundred star systems, single-celled organisms can be found and are flourishing. Or at least I’d bet Yuri’s house.”
The question of finding intelligent life, however, is a thornier one. Although life seems to have only taken 500 million years to arise on Earth, the move from simple bacteria to complex multicellular creatures took another 2.5 billion years, and technological intelligence has appeared on this planet only once. “It may be very rare,” Hawking said. “And when it does evolve, we only need to look in the mirror to know that it can be fragile and prone to self-destruction.”
Such “bottlenecks” between the origin of life, the evolution of intelligence and the development and sustainment of a technological civilization could prove problematic not only for the search for E.T. but also for our own future. If life proves common in the cosmos, but intelligence and technology are vanishingly rare, it may be that our own civilization does not have much time left on the cosmic stage. Finding signs of other cosmic cultures, many SETI researchers believe, would be a way for us to know that it is possible for a global civilization to navigate its unstable technological adolescence. “The stakes are very high, and that’s why I think we should never stop listening,” Milner says. “We should support this for 10, 20, 50, 100 years—as long as it takes.”
Asked how likely it was that Breakthrough Listen would find evidence of alien civilizations within a decade, Drake conceded that “we don’t have sufficient knowledge to answer the question.” The key uncertainty circles back to his classic equation, particularly one variable, L, which represents the average longevity of a cosmic culture. If civilizations on average only exist in their loud, radio-transmitting, high-technology phase for a few thousand years, they will be like flickering sparks among the stars, burning out before they can establish long-lasting beacons that can be seen across the cosmos. If, instead, they endure for longer durations, potentially millions or even billions of years, they could have populated much of the galaxy, and could be practically everywhere, waiting to be discovered and communed with—provided we know how to look for them.
Our own civilization has only had radio for about a century, and Drake noted our global culture is becoming less cosmically noisy due to technological innovations such as fiber-optic networks and digital television. But we should not necessarily extrapolate our experience to the stars. “We are the beginners, the inexperienced ones,” Drake said. “We don’t know what we will become. And as a result, we cannot use ourselves as an example for how long civilizations remain detectable…. We have to explore in the dark and hope there are people like Yuri Milner to keep us going for however long it takes to succeed.”
Hugh Strange Alien Craft Spotted In Great Britian
Hugh Strange Alien Craft Spotted In Great Britian
HUGH STRANGE ALIEN CRAFT SPOTTED IN GREAT BRITIAN MAY 21, 2015
……. CARDIFF GREAT BRITIAN
I was driving down my road around 10.30 pm; I was about halfway down when suddenly this UFO-craft with a wing span/s of nearly the width of the street, and so low it was just above the rooftops of the houses and was coming towards me! And then even more incredibly I saw there was another identical one just behind that appeared to be following it.
There was barely any if any noise and both were moving very slowly but seemed to be able to hover. I was transfixed as they were SO BIG; then I was the only car driving down the street and ‘it/they’ must have seen me. Then they both ‘glided’ off to the left over the houses at the top of local park. I couldn’t see any cabin or even the shape or body of plane, just the huge big white round lights, four altogether, two on each side of the wings.
Also it has smaller red lights (see drawing) underneath. It was awesome! It was freaky, did anyone see anything like it? Do you know what it could be? Afterwards I felt very physically and mentally energized which could have been the shock excitement of seeing them. Had I not been so transfixed I may have had time to take a photograph on my phone, but by the time I had gathered my thoughts they just glided off. They were huge. My instincts were this was military rather than ET because of the red lights, it seemed to be too uniform. I put it on facebook and it was picked up by the magazine ‘Cardiff Life.’ Interestingly a friend in Sudbury on Thames posted on Facebook that he had seen the same crafts.
NOTE: The above image is the witness rendering.
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David Sereda the True Purpose of the Pyramids
David Sereda the True Purpose of the Pyramids. Michael Vara interviews David Sereda on the new technology he has extracted using mathematical formulas from the great pyramid of Egypt that the pyramid is actually a giant crystal oscillator to other star systems! Also, he talks about alternative energies, the mass appearance of UFOs all over the world and more!
David Sereda is accurate in terms of his premise and mathematical conclusions. Pyramids all over the world are being uncovered and rediscovered. There is a reason they are being rediscovered. The evidence shows that there was a civilization here before us that contained an enormous amount of incredible technology that we can’t come close to imagine the genius of its principles.
SOURCE: Nibiru is Planet X 2015
Did a highly advanced ancient society once exist globally?
Did a highly advanced ancient society once exist globally?
July 26, 2015 - One such place is Puma Punku, Bolivia. High in the Andes mountains close to the shores of Lake Titicaca, the ruins of this once beautiful structure lies strewn across the countryside, destroyed from some unknown cataclysmic event. No evidence of a written language can be found amongst the ruins, and archeologists cannot identify the original purpose for this structure. The stones found at this site are mainly andesite, which is very hard with a high concentration of quartz.oday, we would have to use diamond-tipped, high-speed tools in order to recreate these kind of cuts. The cost for us today would be prohibitive because of the amount of time for all these inside cuts. How could they have created such an elaborate and intricately detailed structure without a written language? Most people in the construction business understands that a structure does not come together by accident. The more detailed the building, the more complex and detailed the plans. So, where are the plans to create Puma Punku, much less the Great Pyramid of Giza?
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In spite of locations like Puma Punku, historians still insist that the cradle of humanity is in current day Iraq, once known as the land of Sumer. Ancient Sumerian texts tell a number of stories that appear very similar to passages in the Torah or Holy Bible. These Sumarian clay tablets are much older than the oldest known copies of the Torah, leading many agnostics to believe that mean the Hebrews and Christians incorporated these stories into their own scriptures. I don’t believe so. I believe that the original scriptures from the God of Israel simply have yet to be found. How many times in our past have the certainties that we understood be proven absolutely wrong? Is the Earth flat? No. Is the Earth the center of the universe and everything orbits around us? Again, no. So the search continues. Maybe the answers are all around us and we just don’t recognize it?
Historians have a general idea based on archeological finds on many of our ancestors back to about 4,000 years. However, they do not have a very complete picture of how they did things. Historians understanding of ancient technology has huge holes in it. The very thought that ancient Egyptians could have cut granite with copper chisels is laughable at best. I liken it to using a plastic knife to cut down a giant California redwood tree. What’s more, our understanding greatly diminishes as we go further back in time.
Moving from Sumer to the Giza plateau, we once again come across the Great Pyramid, aligned along the 31st Longitude line, and perfectly squared off with the four cardinal points of a compass that had not been created at the time the structure was built. Many people will immediately say “It was the aliens” without considering the fact that just maybe our HUMAN ancestors were far more advanced than we thought. The proof is all around us, but we must put our arrogance aside in order to accept that. But what’s more amazing is what else can be found on the 31st longitude line.
Deep in South Africa there are many sites made of stones with such a high quartz content that they are called bell stones. In the link below, Michael Tellinger demonstrates some that he has found:
One such site found on the 31st longitude line made of these bell stones is Adam’s Calendar. There are strange issues with GPS coordinates and cell phone connectivity inside the circle of stones. What energy forces are at work here? I have found no convincing proof just how old Adam’s calendar is, but some have said it is many thousands of years old… much older than historians believe that mankind has been on Earth. Some have said as far back as 75,000 years. 
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Here we must take caution. I like to think of timelines as practically useless whether for trying to predict the future based on prophetic writings, or to try and establish a timeline of the past. It always seems to make people look foolish when proven wrong, which happens frequently. For those who have faith and believe in God, why would you dare to try and place human constraints on an all powerful God who lives outside of time as we know it? I accept that things will happen in the time they are intended, and the past happened sometime prior to yesterday. I can accept that, and don’t care one way or another if it was 12,000 or 150,000 years ago.
But one thing is undeniable: the flood of Noah’s time is a widely accepted fact. So little is known about that time prior to the flood, both in the Bible and historically. But archeologically we can see evidence of a thriving society that once existed in the most surprising location: South Africa.
The picture below is accepted by main stream historians to be cattle “kraals” or pens used by the hunter gatherers that inhabited the area thousands of years ago in limited numbers. Most historians believe there were only 10,000 or so inhabitants, firmly discounting any thoughts that a thriving society once lived here. However, the ruins just don’t make sense with the narrative. First, there is no entrance to these pens. So how would you get the cattle in and out? Second, the walls range anywhere from 8 feet to 12 feet in height, though many appear now to be filled in with large amounts of sediment. Sounds like a massive flood to me. Lastly, there are thousands upon thousands of these ruins. There are also miles of terraces created on the mountainsides, assumably to plant crops. That’s lots of food capabilities for a few thousand people sparsely spread across the countryside. 
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Looking at the picture above, you can see the connecting lines of stones that branch out like a network. What is going on here? Why was it built and by who? It certainly does not make sense to be pens for livestock. There is nothing close to this today, but then again we have not really studied sound technology, have we? These kraals are also made of the bell stones that I talked about earlier. It is well known that quartz crystals has many properties. They can be used to store large amounts of data, and rocks with a high quartz content will also ring like a bell, and reverberate to outside sounds.
If you have a perfectly tuned guitar, when you strike the low E string, the high E string will reverberate on it’s own. So what effect would sound have on some of these ancient sites? This should be humanity’s next greatest endeavor is to discover how our ancestors harnessed sound, and its effect on these ancient locations. We have examples all over the internet of researchers using sound to levitate small items like ping pong balls. If you could harness massive amounts of sound energy could you levitate some of the massive stones used to build the pyramids? I believe if you controlled the frequency and provided enough amplitude you could indeed levitate stone. You have to wonder if Nikola Tesla and Edward Leedskalnin rediscovered ancient technologies.
The link below is to a presentation by Michael Tellinger on sound energy. The video is over an hour long, but if you forward to the last 15-20 minutes he shows a great many sites and shares the “Ah-Ha” moment how our ancestors built the public structures to channel sound to create energy, and today’s modern equivalent: computer circuit boards.
So what is the one thing that ties in all these locations? Stone structures built using massive stones with a high quartz content. They are found in Egypt, South Africa, South and Central America, China, India, Pakistan, Bosnia, France, Great Britain, Turkey, and even on remote Easter Island. Additionally, pyramid structures have been found on nearly every continent. How much more evidence do you need that a highly advanced society once existed on a global scale that would rival any of today’s? I’ve really only scratched the surface of this. Go do some digging for yourself … this will keep you up at night!
So where are the plans to build all these structures? How do we know they are not saved electronically in the very stone that was used to construct them? I wonder what other wonders we would find there? I would love to see the hackers all over the world spend their time on this, rather than the destructive things they do today. If you REALLY want to change the world, think how things would certainly change if you discovered free, limitless and wireless energy and GAVE it away. Wouldn’t this wreak havoc with the big energy corporations? How much easier would your life be if you didn’t have to pay for electricity for your home or fuel for your vehicles?
( via alien-ufo-sightings.com )
Kids In Illinois Witness Four UFOs During Lightning Storm On July 2015 (Video)
Kids In Illinois Witness Four UFOs During Lightning Storm On July 2015 (Video)
Date of sighting: July 1, 2015
Location of sighting: Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA
Source: http://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/ufo-over-oak-lawn-illinois/#
Here above we see an illuminated UFO (mothership made of energy only-light beings) caught by accident during the lightning storm. Its passengers may be energy beings, shooting off in all directions. The boys said they saw lights flying around the sky, like search lights but not. If I hadn’t seen something like this just a few months ago, I might be skeptical. But I did around midnight with my family here in Taiwan. I understand his description. These are energy beings, not usually interested in humans, but if you notice them, they may make a circle high up like they did for my family. The lights move fast, but sort of have a sense of…awareness about them. Cool sighting. SCW
Eyewitness states:
Oak Lawn, IL looking west, around 91st & Ridgeland Ave. My son, 12 and another boy, 9, were outside of a family party. They saw (4) objects moving around in the stormy sky. He ran inside, and grabbed his phone. He said (3) took off with flight patterns never seen before. The way he described the objects, I thought they were searchlights from a “Grand Opening” or an event of some kind. However, at around 12-14 seconds, lighting illuminates the sky with the illuminated object obscured by the clouds, not light shining on the cloud. That’s no searchlight. Take a look, let me know what you think. Regards, John Oak Lawn IL
Thanks http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/
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Teenager Spots UFO Shaped Black Circle Floating Over His House July 2015 (Video)
Teenager Spots UFO Shaped Black Circle Floating Over His House July 2015 (Video)
Date of sighting: July 23, 2015
Location of sighting: Nottingham, England
This ring UFO was spotted by a boy in England this week as it flew over his house. Although it could be a smoke ring, such ring UFOs have been recorded by the US military and they confirmed it was a UFO (Sept 1957 Ft. Belvoir). So, only a closed mind would say its 100% chance of being a smoke ring, however…there is a chance, just not that big. I believe this to be a ring UFO. A UFO that is a drone, but usually stays high up in the clouds and it can also form a cloud around in in under a minute. UFOs cause animals to act strangely…so did you notice the birds flying all around it? It clearly got their attention. This is a true sign of a UFO. Another is that it took place during sunset. Which is the #1 most common time to see UFOs. SCW
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UFOs and Airplanes Face to Face (Video)
UFOs and Airplanes Face to Face (Video)
An unknown object crashed against an airplane from Aeromexico while it was flying near Cancun.
A Cesna airplane did a flight near Toluco. During the flight 5 objects approached the airplane. They were flying in the other direction and passed beside the plane.
A sphere passed near a Boeing 747 and a bright object was moving right towards another airplane. Another recording shows a UFO that was static in the sky while an airplane passing by.
The cases as mentioned above are just a few of the many near mid-air collisions which happen every year.
Other well known cases are: (See Article)
UFO disrupts air traffic at Bremen airport Pilot reports near miss with ‘rugby ball-shaped
UFO’ near Heathrow Airport Passenger plane involved in near miss with UFO near Glasgow airport
UFO collided with Chinese Passenger Plane at 26,000 Ft.
In many cases the objects are Drones, flying through restricted airspace, such as airport control zones.
As a result of these dangerous situations, the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) launched a “Dronecode” of conduct on Wednesday that drone users must follow, or face “prosecution and a possible jail term or fine.”
The CAA’s press release also noted that Drone manufacturers had started to program drones with “geo-fencing,” which can be used to stop unmanned vehicles from flying above a certain height or into restricted areas, according to a cnbc news report.
Despite that often Drones are the cause of near mid-air collisions there are well known cases of near misses between objects and planes which cannot be explained.
Check out more contributions by Jeffery Pritchett ranging from UFO to Bigfoot to Paranormal.
UFOs and Airplanes Face to Face (Video)UFOs and Airplanes Face to Face (Video)
An unknown object crashed against an airplane from Aeromexico while it was flying near Cancun.
A Cesna airplane did a flight near Toluco. During the flight 5 objects approached the airplane. They were flying in the other direction and passed beside the plane.
A sphere passed near a Boeing 747 and a bright object was moving right towards another airplane. Another recording shows a UFO that was static in the sky while an airplane passing by.
The cases as mentioned above are just a few of the many near mid-air collisions which happen every year.
Other well known cases are: (See Article)
UFO disrupts air traffic at Bremen airport Pilot reports near miss with ‘rugby ball-shaped
UFO’ near Heathrow Airport Passenger plane involved in near miss with UFO near Glasgow airport
UFO collided with Chinese Passenger Plane at 26,000 Ft.
In many cases the objects are Drones, flying through restricted airspace, such as airport control zones.
As a result of these dangerous situations, the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) launched a “Dronecode” of conduct on Wednesday that drone users must follow, or face “prosecution and a possible jail term or fine.”
The CAA’s press release also noted that Drone manufacturers had started to program drones with “geo-fencing,” which can be used to stop unmanned vehicles from flying above a certain height or into restricted areas, according to a cnbc news report.
Despite that often Drones are the cause of near mid-air collisions there are well known cases of near misses between objects and planes which cannot be explained.
Check out more contributions by Jeffery Pritchett ranging from UFO to Bigfoot to Paranormal.
