The Orion Spacecraft: One Step Closer to a Mars Mission

INCREDIBLE STRUCTURE ON MARS PROVES THE RED PLANET WAS INHABITED IN THE DISTANT PAST

Does this incredible structure on Mars prove our neighbouring planet was inhabited in the distant past by intelligent beings? It is a possibility according to researchers and UFOlogists. What if Mars was inhabited and we are looking at the remains of a once great civilization?

Another image of NASA's Curiosity rover has been shared on social media and it's going viral, the image seems to show what appears to be the remains of some sort of cube-shaped structure on the surface of the red planet. According to UFO hunters and UFOlogists, the image shows an artificially made structure on the surface of the red planet.

Here is the link to the OFFICIAL RAW image by NASA: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00744/mcam/0744ML0032000030205753E01_DXXX.jpg

And the image:

This is the closeup of the image. Notice how the image appears to be perfectly shaped compared to the remaining scenery. Was it some sort of Cube-shaped structure?

People who have taken time to analyze the image suggest it is very different from the surrounding Martian geology and doesn't belong, in any way to the remaining scenery. But what are we looking at here? This structure is believed to be what remains of a once great Martian building, one that has been built by a civilization that could probably predate our very own.

Does this mean there was definitely life on Mars? WEll no, since many "experts" suggest that what er are seeing in these images beamed back by NASA's curiosity rover are the results of Pareidolia and that we tend to make stuff like this up in our minds. But what if it isn't just Pareidolia? What if this structure, like many other are evidence of an ancient Martian Civilization.

So if these are the remains of structures on Mars, what happened to its once "great Civilization"? According to Dr John Brandenburg , who has a PhD in Theoretical Plasma Physics from the University of California at Davis and he is currently working as a plasma physicist at Orbital Technologies in Madison Wisconsin, the Martian Civilization was wiped from the face of Mars by nuclear Bombs. According to Dr John Brandenburg, there is enough evidence to prove that at least two major nuclear blast went off on the surface of the red planet in the distant past. Dr. Brandenburgs theories are based on the traces of uranium and thorium that have been registered on the surface of Mars.

Pareidolia or life on mars? It's hard to pick out one out of these two. NASA's curiosity rover has certainly sent back some images that are extremely strange and that seem to point towards the existence of an ancient civilization on Mars? But if there was life on Mars, why hide it? Would NASA and other agencies try to hide such an important discovery if they were to make it? How much would our lives change if we were to find out that Mars was inhabited by intelligent beings in the distant past?

Let us know what you think about this image and life on Mars.

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Humans won’t survive next mass extinction – scientists

A team from the University of Leeds examining the effects of mass extinctions found that widespread species, like humans, are just as likely to become extinct as less populous ones.

This contrasts with regular circumstances, where a populous species is more likely to survive than a rare or endangered one.

The team of scientists examined the fossil records of vertebrates from the Triassic and Jurassic periods – 252 to 145 million years ago. During this period a mass extinction thought to have been caused by a volcanic eruption wiped out almost 80 percent of all living species and gave rise to the dinosaurs.

Scientists Alex Dunhill and Matthew Wills from the university looked at the distribution of species and the ways they changed during the time periods. They then compared their results with the changes in overall biodiversity and gathered information on the extinction risk of species.

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They found that the extinction of many groups of crocodile-like animals led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

“The fact that the insurance against extinction given by a wide geographic distribution disappears at a known mass extinction event is an important result. Many groups of crocodile-like animals become extinct after the mass extinction event at the end of the Triassic era, despite being really diverse and widespread beforehand. In contrast, the dinosaurs which were comparatively rare and not as widespread pass through the extinction event and go on to dominate terrestrial ecosystems for the next 150 million years,” Dunhill said.

Their results were published in the journal Nature Communications, and suggest that mass extinctions “shake up” the natural order, allowing less populous species to become dominant.

“These results shed light on the likely outcome of the current biodiversity crisis caused by human activity. It appears a human-driven sixth mass extinction will affect all organisms, not just currently endangered and geographically restricted species,”Dunhill added.

“Although we tend to think of mass extinctions as entirely destructive events, they often shake up the status quo, and allow groups that were previously sidelined to become dominant. Something similar happened much later with the extinction of the dinosaurs making way for mammals and ultimately ourselves. However, our study shows that the ‘rules’ of survival at times of mass extinctions are very different from those at ‘normal’ times: nothing is ever really safe,” Wills said.

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Leading scientists agree that the octopus is basically an alien

We've long suspected that octopuses / octopodes / whatever are so damn creepy and unsettling, they've GOT to be aliens.

After all, they're capable of slipping through the tiniest of openings to escape, they're able to figure out a jam jar works and they're essentially the evil genius of the deep sea.

Dr. Clifton Ragsdale, a leading researcher at the University of Chicago, conducted the first genome sequence of the octopus and found some pretty interesting results. For one, it is completely different from all animals - or humans, for that matter.

"The octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities," explained Dr. Ragsdale. He went on, quoting zoologist Martin Wells who first postulated that the octopus must be alien. "In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien."

Humans carry 25,000 protein-coding genes whereas the octopus has 33,000 - that's a total of 8,000 more coding genes than us. PAY ATTENTION IN THE BACK THERE, I'M NOT REPEATING THIS.

Anyway, the sequencing conducted at the University of Chicago also had a few other discoveries. For one, the researchers think they've cracked how the octopus is able to think so fast and how it registers taste through its suckers on its tentacles. Sorry if you were eating just there.

Moreover, the octopuses' ability for its tentacles to continue functioning - even after it's been dismembered - is being adopted and researched for use in robotics. So when the robot apocalypse eventually happens and we find out that dismembering them has little or no effect, we'll have the octopus to thank. Wonderful.

Look, it's all very exciting - but here's the takeaway. The octopus is an alien who is biding their time until they develop an evil formula to conquer the surface.

Be. WARNED.

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‘Extragalactic’ radio waves a mystery, scientists say alien life forms could be responsible

Stephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire in $100M Hunt for Aliens

Ten of the bizarre flashes have been picked up by radio telescope over the past 15 years, displaying a mathematical pattern that has bamboozled experts, in a real-life version of the 1997 sci-fi film Contact.

Lasting just a few milliseconds, the radio bursts erupt with about as much energy as the sun releases in a month, New Scientist reports.

It all started last year at the CSIRO’s Parkes Telescope in central-west New South Wales, which last year picked up a radio burst in real-time, a world first that sparked a hunt through data that unearthed nine similar events.

The Parkes radio telescope in NSW was the first to detect a fast bursts of radio waves (FRB) last year. 

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What makes them so unusual is that the delay between the arrival of the first and last waves of each burst is always close to a multiple of 187.5, a mathematical phenomenon for which no explanation has been found.

The brevity of the bursts, and the distance between their lower and higher frequency waves, means they are likely to come from a source that is both extremely small — hundreds of kilometres across at most — and very far away, possibly in another galaxy.

The analysis was undertaken by Michael Hippke of the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, and John Learned at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, who concluded that there was a 5 in 10,000 probability of the mathematical phenomenon being a coincidence.

The researchers explored several possible explanations for the fast bursts of radio waves

(FRBs).

Jodie Foster’s character in the sci-fi film Contact discovered a mathematical sequence of prime numbers while listening into radio signals in the hopes of proving the existence of extraterrestrial life. 

Source: News Limited

The first is simply the limitations of human knowledge; it could be that we simply haven’t come far enough in our understanding of physics.

Alternatively, human technology such as an unmapped spy satellite could be to blame.

Or the source of the bursts could be an extraterrestrial beacon, a signal from aliens attempting to get our attention — as explored in the film Contact.

However, it is possible the bursts came from a more ordinary, earthly source. Initially unexplained pulses picked up by the Parkes Telescope in 2010 turned out to come not from an intergalactic source, but from a microwave in the site’s kitchen.

UFO watchers, don’t get too excited; the FRBs could have an explanation we haven’t thought of. 

Source: News Corp Australia

While the scientists at the facility quickly clued onto the nature of the signals, which differ from FRBs, it’s a perfect illustration of how a perfectly ordinary phenomenon can confound even the most highly trained scientific mind — albeit only briefly.

The culprit? A worker who went to nuke their lunch and opened the microwave door prematurely, causing a pulse that mimics some of the characteristics of an astrophysical burst.

This did not detract from the scientists’ conclusion that the FRBs they have been studying were emitted from another galaxy.

However, it does seem pertinent to remember the philosophical principal of Occam’s razor.

Also known as the law of parsimony, it states: “The simplest explanation is usually the right one.”

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Les Tardigrades : des aliens parmi nous ?

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Ce sont des animaux qui invalident en partie la théorie de l'évolution de Darwin... mais sont-ils d'origine terrestre ? Ils sont en contradiction avec les idées de Darwin tout simplement parce que leurs capacités et systèmes de protections naturels ne leur servent à rien dans leur milieu naturel !

Ce sont les Tardigrades, un groupe complet d'animaux très répandu sous toutes les latitudes, mais peu connus du public, et qui posent bien des questions aux spécialistes. Ils sont ce qu'on appelle des extrêmophiles : ils peuvent résister à des conditions de températures extrêmes sans aucun problème, à certaines radiations et au vide spatial. Pire, ils peuvent "ressusciter" après avoir longuement séché, de nombreuses années plus tard...

Le 14 septembre 2007, une fusée russe satellisait une capsule sphérique dans laquelle s'entassaient 43 expériences scientifiques. L'une d'elles concrétisait un projet un peu fou : vérifier si quelques animaux, directement exposés au vide spatial pourraient survivre. On sait que des bactéries en sont capables mais il semblait impossible que des animaux puissent résister aux deux grands dangers de l'espace, le vide, qui fait bouillir l'eau interne, et les rayonnements ultraviolets, qui démolissent les chromosomes.

Pourtant des biologistes suspectaient un groupe d'animaux étonnants, les tardigrades, de pouvoir relever le défi. On savait déjà qu'ils peuvent supporter un vide semblable à celui de l'espace et des zoologistes russes ont affirmé que certains avaient survécu à une sortie dans l'espace (rapporté par Guillaume Lecointre et Hervé Le Guyader dans Classification phylogénétique du vivant, éditions Belin). Proches des arthropodes (donc des insectes et des crustacés), les tardigrades sont bien plus discrets, avec une taille variant entre 50 microns et 1,2 millimètre.

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Olivier Geoffroy est un spécialiste de ces animaux : " Le tardigrade peut survivre à une plongée dans l'hélium liquide à -272°C, tout près du zéro absolu. Il résiste à une température pouvant aller jusqu'à +151°C. On peut leur appliquer des pressions de 1.000 atmosphères, et ils supportent de fortes doses de rayonnements énergétiques, ultraviolets ou X. Mais les chercheurs ne parviennent pas à comprendre en quoi ces caractéristiques sont utiles à l'animal dans son milieu naturel terrestre." (c'est ici qu'ils contredisent la théorie de Darwin sur l'évolution des espèces... sur Terre).

Jean-Luc Goudet, pour Futura-Sciences, explique en quoi consistait l'expérience Tardis (Tardigrades in space) : "Le Suédois Ingemar Jönsson et ses collègues de l'université de Kristianstad, ont fait placer des boîtiers sur une plate-forme Biopan-6, réalisée par l'Esa, satellisée à 270 kms d'altitude pendant douze jours. Des Tardigrades de quatre espèces différentes, en état d'anhydrobiose, étaient disposés dans quatre séries de ces boîtiers ouverts sur l'espace. Un groupe était protégé de toutes les radiations, deux autres recevaient soit les UV-A soit les UV-B, et le dernier ne disposait d'aucune protection."

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"A cette altitude, le rayonnement ultraviolet atteint 7.000 kilojoules/mètre carré, soit mille fois plus qu'au niveau de la mer. Les Tardigrades sont, pour beaucoup du moins, revenus vivants. Dans le groupe soumis aux UV-B, le rayonnement ultraviolet a tout de même décimé plus de 80% des animaux et le taux de survie était nul chez les animaux exposés aux UV-A et B. En revanche, la plupart des Tardigrades qui n'ont reçu que les ultraviolets A - tout en ayant, rappelons-le, subi le vide spatial pendant une dizaine de jours - étaient bien vivants. Les animaux ont repris leurs activités habituelles, et les biologistes ont constaté qu'ils étaient toujours capables de se reproduire.

Cette résistance pose problème car elle implique probablement des mécanismes de réparation de l'ADN, que les puissants rayonnements UV ont certainement dégradé." http://www.futura-sciences.com/fr/news/t/zoologie/d/le-mystere-des-tardigrades-ces-animaux-qui-resistent-au-vide-spatial_16608/ Les travaux des chercheurs ont été publiés le 9 septembre dernier par Current Biology (sur abonnement). - http://www.current-biology.com/

Un correspondant de l'AFP à Washington précise : "Comme leur habitat naturel, les mousses et les lichens, subissent souvent des sécheresses prolongées, ces animaux sont capables, après s'être en grande partie desséchés eux-mêmes, de ressusciter même après plusieurs années."

Les Tardigrades se nourrissent d'animalcules plus infimes qu'eux, et se tiennent au milieu des Mousses et des Algues, notamment sur les toits mousseux et dans les gouttières; quelques-uns d'entre eux vivent dans l'eau. Ils jouissent d'une grande notoriété depuis que Spallanzani  a découvert qu'ils possédaient, comme les Rotifères, une singulière faculté : celle de la réviviscence; tant que l'humidité nécessaire à leur prospérité leur fait défaut, ils demeurent comme morts; aussitôt qu'on leur rend l'humidité dont ils ont besoin ils s'éveillent de nouveau à la vie et reprennent leur activité.

Olivier Geoffroy a formulé quelques hypothèses sur l'origine extra-terrestre du Tardigrade : " Capable de résister aux conditions les plus extrêmes, le Tardigrade possède toutes les aptitudes pour survivre à un voyage spatial même très long, agrippé à une météorite par exemple. Il possède également les caractéristiques qui lui permettraient de ne pas succomber lors de l'atterrissage quelque peu brutal de la météorite sur la surface accidentée d'une planète inhospitalière."  http://www.apophtegme.com/ANIMALIA/tardigrade.htm

Yves Herbo, Sciences, Fictions, Histoires, 16-08-2015

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Two Unknown Objects Photographed Above Pyramid

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http://spookscentral.com UFOs photographed Above a Mayan Pyramid

Report submitted to the MUFON database on June 25, 2015

On a trip to Teotihucan in Mexico, I took a photo of the pyramid of the sun. Later when I was reviewing my photo, I saw two objects above the pyramid. I didn’t see or hear them at the time. My friend took an almost identical photo approximately 10 seconds after I did and nothing is in her photo.

The first photo I’ve submitted is mine. The second is my friends photo taken approximately 10 seconds after. In her photo you can see my head in the lower left corner because I was wearing a red and white bandana on my head. Also you can see tourist moving up the steps of the pyramid to show how much time passed between photos.

Photo was taken on 2015-05-04

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Op zoek naar aliens buiten Berlijn: “We moeten het weten”

Sommigen geloven dat aliens de aarde al hebben bezocht en tekens achterlaten in de vorm van graancirkels in weilanden. Net buiten Berlijn zijn twee graancirkels verschenen die in de afgelopen dagen veel bekijks hebben getrokken. Dat meldt de omroep Deutsche Welle.

In de graanvelden bij de buitenwijk Schönefeld zijn geometrische patronen ontstaan, die volgens sommigen het gevolg zijn van buitenaards bezoek. Een groep van 15 enthousiastelingen en sceptici wil weten of de patronen echt kunnen zijn gevormd door een landende UFO.

Eén van hen is Sarika Sinha. Ze woont in Berlijn en bezoekt de plek voor de tweede keer. “Vier weken nadat ik aankwam in Berlijn begon ik te zoeken naar groepen mensen die informatie hebben over aliens en UFO’s. Een week later werd ik lid van een groep en verscheen deze cirkel. Ik dacht: laat ik eens een kijkje nemen,” zei ze.

Uitgevallen mobieltjes

Sarika en haar groep analyseren de graancirkels. Het patroon bestaat uit een aantal cirkels die zijn verbonden door middel van lijnen. Vanuit de lucht lijkt het op een grote bloem. De patronen kunnen gemakkelijk worden gespot vanuit vliegtuigen die opstijgen vanaf een nabijgelegen vliegveld.

Leo Ferronato besloot een bezoek te brengen aan de graancirkels bij Berlijn nadat hij ze zelf had ervaren in zijn woonplaats in Brazilië. “Ik kom uit een klein plaatsje in Brazilië. De eerste geregistreerde graancirkel in Brazilië verscheen in een nabijgelegen stadje. Een groot deel van de bevolking was erg onder de indruk omdat het nog nooit eerder was gebeurd,” zei hij.

Ferronato is niet erg onder de indruk van de cirkels buiten Berlijn. Hij had meer gebogen stengels verwacht. Hij had ook gehoord dat mobieltjes waren uitgevallen in andere graancirkels, maar dat is niet gebeurd in Schönefeld.

Afgezet door de politie

Sinha weet niet zeker of graancirkels door mensen of door buitenaardsen worden gemaakt. Tijdens haar vorige bezoek wilde ze van haar gids bewijs hebben dat ze niet worden gemaakt door grappenmakers. Volgens de gids had de politie het gebied afgezet nadat de graancirkels waren ontstaan en vlogen er helikopters rond. Dat lijkt me niet de normale gang van zaken, aldus Sinha.

Graancirkels werden in de jaren zeventig al gedocumenteerd en verschijnen vooral bij snelwegen of vliegvelden. De zoektocht naar buitenaards leven kreeg onlangs een flinke boost toen de Russische miljardair Joeri Milner 100 miljoen dollar doneerde voor de zoektocht naar aliens. Met het geld kunnen wetenschappers grote telescopen afhuren.

Natuurkundige Stephen Hawking zal optreden als adviseur voor het programma. Hij zei dat in een oneindig universum wel andere voorbeelden van leven te vinden moeten zijn. “We leven, we zijn intelligent, we moeten het weten,” zei hij. Het programma moet voor een doorbraak zorgen, vandaar de naam ‘Breakthrough Listen’. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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Alsof iemand een lichtknop omdtraait boven Columbus, USA ( Video)

Dat is het gevoel wat je krijgt wanneer je een formatie UFO’s boven de Amerikaanse stad Columbus ziet hangen. 

Het ene moment zijn ze “normaal” zichtbaar en het volgende moment lijkt het alsof iemand een lichtschakelaar heeft omgedraaid. 

De onderstaande video is een prachtig voorbeeld van wat er steeds meer om ons heen gebeurt. 

Witte ronde of soms oranje UFO’s die zich geluidloos in verschillende formaties statig door de lucht bewegen. 

Zoals je in onderstaande video kunt zien, gaat het leven op de grond gewoon door. Bijna niemand merkt op wat er boven hun hoofd gebeurt. 

Het is zo te zien een soort zwoele zomeravond in de plaats Columbus in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio. De mensen praten luidruchtig, er is een radio te horen en plots verschijnen er een aantal vreemde lichten in de lucht.

Je ziet de objecten door de lucht bewegen. Het zijn niet alleen vreemde lichten die in een bepaalde richting bewegen zoals ballonnen dat bijvoorbeeld zouden doen. Ze bewegen in allerlei patronen waardoor duidelijk blijkt dat ze onder intelligente besturing staan. 

Dan, op een gegeven moment rond 1 minuut 35 in de video, gebeurt er iets bijzonders. Je ziet pal na elkaar twee verschillende beelden van dezelfde objecten. 

De eerste is deze, waarbij de objecten zichtbaar zijn aan de avondhemel.

Dan hetzelfde beeld, maar alsof iemand een lichtknop omdraait. Zo lijkt het want alle UFO’s schijnen ineens vele malen helderder dan voorheen. 

Vijf gele UFO's hangen in de lucht en rechtsonder een rode. Het bijzondere is dat ze allemaal tegelijkertijd feller gaan stralen en later ook weer allen tegelijkertijd dimmen.

Even later dimmen de UFO’s weer en zien ze eruit als voorheen. Na verloop van tijd verdwijnen ze uit het zicht. 

De mensen op de grond? 

Zij hebben niets gezien en zijn nog heel lang doorgegaan met feestvieren. 

 

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Woman on Mars Seen By UFO Enthusiasts

While several findings are unidentified by the scientific community as a whole, it does raise the query of why these folks would risk their careers and reputations in the scientific world by becoming involved in paranormal investigations. Of course, unidentified things are always interesting. However, this is not applicable to every sighting because not all findings were being studied or observed by the investigators. As you can see, a lot of sightings were being reported by different people all over the world.

When you go over the photos on the internet, you have probably seen the grainy and black and white images that are made available on the internet for the people to see. The advancement of technology has helped the people to obtain clear images and analyze them for ourselves. However, people naturally see things others may have not. These people are called the Ufologists. The term means people who study extraterrestrial life by claiming that they’ve discovered something. The image was being posted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA a few days ago. Ufologists have examined the picture. Based on their findings, there is a woman in the image. If you click the image in full-size, you will see a wired little shadow that is apparently a woman of about eight to ten centimeters high. They further claimed to have heard and seen very tiny people camouflaged as aliens.

When the issue of aliens is being elevated, the assumption is that these beings are a lot more superior than we are and are coming right here to some goal mysterious to us. The idea of governments of the world getting secret deals with these beings in trade for technologies has been mentioned, but significantly like all extraterrestrial debates, they go nowhere, because there is no genuine evidence. While there are many suitably skilled and highly regarded individuals who have described sightings, the principal target appears to be on the factor of the UFO communities.

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NASA Tests Rocket to One Day Use for Deep Space Exploration

In preparation for the "Journey to Mars," NASA tested an engine that they hope will one day carry astronauts to the Red Planet.

According to CBS News, NASA powered up the engine for eight minutes and 55 seconds at the launch pad because that is typically the amount of time it would take to propel the spacecraft into orbit. NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) RS-52 rocket exerted an immense amount of pressure as well as higher temperatures and thrust levels.

"The RS-25 engine gives SLS a proven, high performance, affordable main propulsion system for deep space exploration," NASA said in a statement. "It is one of the most experienced large rocket engines in the world, with more than a million seconds of ground test and flight operations time. Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, is the prime contractor for the RS-25 engine work."

One NASA official indicated the results of the test were encouraging, or at least right what the space agency was hoping for.

"The initial results are great," Steve Swofford, NASA's SLS engines manager, told CBS News. "We ran full duration for 535 seconds, we met our test objectives, didn't note any anomalies at this time. So now we get the fun part of going through the data."

Those who witnessed the test were overwhelmed by the RS-52 engine's power.

"No exaggeration to say you feel it more than hear it," Stephen Clark, a reporter for Spaceflightnow.com, told CBS News. "And hearing protection is actually needed."

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Nasa waarschuwt voor Godzilla-El Niño

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Wetenschappers van Nasa zetten zich schrap voor wat de grootste El Niño allertijden kan worden. Het natuurverschijnsel, dat eens om de 4 tot 10 jaar voorkomt, zorgt ervoor dat het zeeoppervlak van de Stille Oceaan sterk opwarmt, wat leidt tot aardverschuivingen, minder vis, zware regenval en uitzonderlijke droogtes.

Eens om de 4 à 10 jaar laat De Kleine Jongen (de vertaling van El Niño, refererend naar het Kerstekind, aangezien het fenomeen vaak rond die periode voorkomt) van zich horen. Wanneer El Niño zich laat voelen, zijn de Peruviaanse vissers de eersten die het opmerken: door de opwarming van het zeeoppervlak aan de evenaar, is het visseizoen dan meteen voorbij.

Spoor van vernieling

Even later laat het sterk opgewarmde water nog meer sporen van vernieling achter. Doordat het water voor de westkust van Zuid-Amerika plots niet meer wordt aangevoerd door een koude stroming maar door tropisch oceaanwater, maken heel wat vissoorten dat ze wegkomen vooraleer ze sterven. De Zuid-Amerikaanse vissers raken in een economische ramp verzeild. Bovendien verdampt het warme water massaal, waarna het tegen de Andes botst en daar voor hevige regenval met modderlawines en aardverschuivingen zorgt.

Tegelijkertijd zorgt El Niño voor ongeziene droogtes aan de andere kant van de Stille Oceaan. Van Australië tot Indonesië is het knokken voor landbouwers en woeden hevige branden in bosrijke gebieden.

 

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‘Godzilla-El Niño op komst’

Wetenschappers van Nasa zijn dan ook zeer bezorgd wanneer ze naar de huidige metingen van de temperatuur van het zeeoppervlak kijken. De Kleine Jongen maakt zich opnieuw klaar om toe te slaan en het ziet ernaar uit dat hij een nieuw record wil vestigen.

‘De computermodellen tonen aan dat we afstevenen op een Godzilla-El Niño, die op zijn hoogtepunt zal zijn tegen het begin van de winter’, zegt klimatoloog Bill Patzert van Nasa. ‘Dit kan voor ongeziene overstromingen, modderstromen en droogtes zorgen.

Tijdens één van de zwaarste El Niño’s ooit in 1997-1998 werd de economische schade wereldwijd op zo’n 24 miljard dollar geschat. Het effect van De Kleine Jongen op West-Europa blijft voorlopig klein: een nat voorjaar in 2016 is wel verzekerd.

Solar Warden: The Secret Space Program Built with Alien Technology

“We now have the technology to take ET home.” –Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works, 1993

The story behind this quote is an interesting one. At a lecture held in 1993 at the UCLA Alumni center, Ben Rich, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works held a speech about the advancements in space engineering during the previous 40 years.

He concluded with the quote about taking ET home while the final image in his slide presentation showed a “black disk zipping out into outer space.”

Over the years, the Skunk Works division of Lockheed has designed and built a number of high-tech aircraft such as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117 Nighthawk.

Taking this into account, some have drawn the conclusion that Rich alluded to advanced technology being secretly developed and it might be responsible for some of the flying disks we see today.

Seems too far-fetched? We’re on the same page but wait, it gets better.

In 2001, British systems administrator Gary McKinnon hacked his way into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers. He intended to find top-secret files regarding free energy but stumbled upon something bigger.

McKinnon claimed to have uncovered a spreadsheet containing names and information about “non-terrestrial officers” and transfers between fleets.

He cross referenced these names with a database of all U.S. Navy and military personnel but was unable to find any of the officers. McKinnon therefore concluded they were not of this world and labeled them as “Space Marines”.

In an interview with the BBC, he said he had been motivated by The Disclosure Project because:

•  “They are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered them.”

McKinnon was discovered just as he was examining the image of a UFO stored in a NASA computer in Johnson Space Center’s Building 8. Caught in 2002, he was facing up to 70 years in prison and several million dollars in fines.

However, the U.K. never extradited him to the U.S. and McKinnon managed to avoid prison. Some say that he was able to do so because he had amassed sensitive information that he used as leverage.

He maintains his claim that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been captured and reverse-engineered and now the alien technology is being used by entities in our own figurative backyard.

Program Solar Warden

This brings us to Solar Warden. According to conspiracy theorists, Solar Warden is an ultra-secret project that maintains a fleet (or several fleets) of spaceships that are operating within our solar system. Some say they’re defending us against alien threats. Others say they’re involved in the covert colonization of space.

Such a fleet would require technology way ahead of what we’ve currently got. In order to send manned missions into the far reaches of our solar system we’d need exotic materials and propulsion systems. But there are some who claim we already do.

•         “I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the Moon.

Even so, who would have the coin required to fund such a venture?

The United States’ black budget for 2014 amounted to some $52.6 billion and they plan on spending around $58.7 B this year. But even this astronomical sum isn’t enough to fund or maintain a secret space fleet. And that’s when conspiracy voices start mentioning the deep black budgets.

As it turns out, there might be UFOs that were built on Earth, based on technology that originated elsewhere in the universe, and we might actually have a secret space fleet [capable of interplanetary travel].

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DON'T FREAK OUT, BUT SCIENTISTS THINK OCTOPUSES 'MIGHT BE ALIENS' AFTER DNA STUDY

Not to send you into a meltdown or anything but octopuses are basically ‘aliens’ – according to scientists.

Researchers have found a new map of the octopus genetic code that is so strange that it could be actually be an “alien”. 

The first whole cephalopod genome sequence shows a striking level of complexity with 33,000 protein-coding genes identified – more than in a human. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

Not only that, the octopus DNA is highly rearranged – like cards shuffled and reshuffled in a pack – containing numerous so-called “jumping genes” that can leap around the genome. 

“The octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities,” said US researcher Dr Clifton Ragsdale, from the University of Chicago. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

“The late British zoologist Martin Wells said the octopus is an alien. In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien.” 

The scientists sequenced the genome of the California two-spot octopus in a study published in the journal Nature. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

They discovered unique genetic traits that are likely to have played a key role in the evolution of characteristics such as the complex nervous system and adaptive camouflage. 

Analysis of 12 different tissues revealed hundreds of octopus-specific genes found in no other animal, many of them highly active in structures such as the brain, skin and suckers. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

The scientists estimate that the two-spot octopus genome contains 2.7 billion base pairs – the chemical units of DNA – with long stretches of repeated sequences. 

And although the genome is slightly smaller than a human’s, it is packed with more genes. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

Reshuffling was a key characteristic of the creature’s genetic make-up. In most species, cohorts of certain genes tend to be close together on the double-helix DNA molecule. 

A gene is a region of DNA that contains the coded instructions for making a protein. 



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In the octopus, however, there are no such groupings of genes with related functions. For instance, Hox genes – which control body plan development – cluster together in almost all animals but are scattered throughout the octopus genome. 

It was as if the octopus genome had been “put into a blender and mixed”, said co-author Caroline Albertin, also from the University of Chicago.

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Deep Sea USO: Underwater Alien Stations and Gates

Tiny grains of rock detected by the international Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn point to hydrothermal activity on the seafloor of its icy moon Enceladus.

Enceladus: possible hydrothermal activity. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The finding adds to the tantalising possibility that the moon could contain environments suitable for living organisms.

Understanding the interior structure of 500 km-diameter Enceladus has been a top priority of the Cassini mission since plumes of ice and water vapour were discovered jetting from fractures at the moon's south pole in 2005.

Ice particles in the plumes were found to be rich in sodium salt, implying that the water has been in contact with rock, and subsequent measurements of the moon's gravitational field revealed a 10 km deep subsurface ocean at the south pole, below a 30-40 km thick ice crust.

Now, following an extensive, four-year study of data from the spacecraft, combined with computer simulations and laboratory experiments, scientists have been able to gain deeper insights into the chemical reactions taking place on the floor at the base of Enceladus's ocean.

Using Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyser, scientists have discovered a population of tiny dust grains, just 2-8 nm in radius, in orbit around Saturn. They are rich in silicon, marking them out from the water-ice particles that dominate in the planet's environment, including in its famous ring system.

They believe that these silicon-rich grains originate on the seafloor of Enceladus, where hydrothermal processes are at work. On the seafloor, hot water at a temperature of at least 90 degrees Celsius dissolves minerals from the moon's rocky interior. The origin of this energy is not well understood, but likely includes a combination of tidal heating as Enceladus orbits Saturn, radioactive decay in the core and chemical reactions.

Enceladus plumes. Credit: NASA/JPL/ Space Science Institute

As the hot water travels upward, it comes into contact with cooler water, causing the minerals to condense out and form nano-grains of 'silica' floating in the water.

To avoid growing too large, these silica grains must spend a few months to several years at most rising from the seafloor to the surface of the ocean, before being incorporated into larger ice grains in the vents that connect the ocean to the surface of Enceladus. After being ejected into space via the moon's geysers, the ice grains erode, liberating the tiny rocky inclusions subsequently detected by Cassini.

"It's very exciting that we can use these tiny grains of rock, spewed into space by geysers, to tell us about conditions on – and beneath – the ocean floor of an icy moon," says Sean Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder and lead author on the paper published today in the journal Nature.

On Earth, grains of silica are found in sand and the mineral quartz. The most common way to form small silica grains is through hydrothermal activity involving a specific range of conditions. In particular, such grains form when slightly alkaline water with modest salt content and super-saturated with silica undergoes a big drop in temperature.

"We methodically searched for alternative explanations for the nanosilica grains, but every new result pointed to a single, most likely origin," says Frank Postberg, a Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and a co-author on the paper. 

Hsu and Postberg worked closely with colleagues at the University of Tokyo who performed the detailed laboratory experiments that validated the hydrothermal activity hypothesis.

Furthermore, Cassini's gravity measurements suggest that the rocky core of Enceladus is quite porous, which would allow water from the ocean to percolate into the interior. This would provide a huge surface area where rock and water could interact.

Trapping of methane In Enceladus' ocean.Credit: Southwest Research Institute

"In fact, it's possible much of this interesting hot-water chemistry occurs deep inside the moon's core, not just at the seafloor," says Hsu.

In another paper, published in Geophysical Research Letters last month, Cassini scientists also reported on the abundance of methane spewing into the atmosphere of Enceladus. The methane could also be produced by hydrothermal processes at the rock-water boundary at the bottom of Enceladus's ocean, and/or by the melting of a type of methane-rich ice, before subsequently percolating to the surface.

"This moon has all the ingredients – water, heat, and minerals – to support habitability in the outer Solar System, confirming the astrobiological potential of Enceladus," adds Nicolas Altobelli, ESA's Cassini project scientist.

"Enceladus may even represent a very common habitat in the Galaxy: icy moons around giant gas planets, located well beyond the 'habitable zone' of a star, but still able to maintain liquid water below their icy surface."

NOTES FOR EDITORS

"Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus" by H-W. Hsu et al., published in the 12 March issue of Nature.

"Possible evidence for a methane source in Enceladus' ocean," by A. Bouquet et al., published in the 26 February 2015 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency, and ASI, the Italian space agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington DC.

The Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser was provided by the German Aerospace Center; the instrument team is lead by Ralf Srama and is based at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

A. Bouquet worked with co-authors H. Waite, who leads the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) team at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, and O. Mousis at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille and S. Picaud, at the French UTINAM Institute.

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