Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
Maandag 27 november 2017
The Week's Most Amazing Stories from Space!
The Week's Most Amazing Stories from Space!
By Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com Contributor
Photo Credit: NASA
The Week's Top Space Stories
A NASA lander passes an important test 6 months before its scheduled launch to Mars, light pollution is on the rise in both developed and underdeveloped regions across the Earth, two astronauts will resume teaching as NASA creates a new education program, and a new miniseries will honor the contribution of 13 women during NASA's space age program in this week's top stories from Space.com.
Photo Credit: NASA
1. Thanksgiving feast in space!
Three of the six crewmembers aboard the International Space Station are from the United States, but on Thanksgiving, all were welcome to enjoy the feast. On Thursday (Nov. 23), the Expedition 53 crew planned on serving turkey, mashed potatoes, and candied yams!
The InSight spacecraft recently completed an important "thermal vac" test at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Littleton, Colorado. InSight is NASA's next Mars lander, and the testing, which was done in preparation of its scheduled May 2018 launch, was intended to simulate the harsh environment of space.
3. Earthly message travels towards life-friendly planet GJ 273b
An announcement on Thursday (Nov. 16) revealed that scientists and artists beamed up a message to a nearby red dwarf star known as Luyten's star. The message sent a month ago was intended for the star's two known planets, one of which might have conditions friendly to life.
A new study revealed that more and more artificial light is filling Earth's night skies. Researchers came to their findings by using data from Earth-observing weather satellite, Suomi NPP. One of the many consequences of light pollution is the disruption of biological cycles that are triggered by variation of light, such as gene expression and ecosystem functions.
NASA has released a free online tool that allows the public to view how sea level rise could adversely affect 293 different port cities. The tool offers regional predictions of how melting glacier ice may impact coastal communities in the near future.
6. Ultra-powerful new space telescope's science targets chosen
The Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the new James Webb Space Telescope project, announced on Monday (Nov.13) the thirteen selected proposals for its first round of scientific observations. The programs, which include observations of Jupiter and extremely distant galaxies, will kick off when the telescope begins operations in 2019.
Solar winds rushed out into space when a large opening developed recently in the sun's atmosphere. On Monday (Nov. 20), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory released an image of the coronal hole, which is produced by the sun's active magnetic field.
Traveling at high speed from interstellar space, the strange object 'Oumuamua was originally thought to be an ancient comet, but observations revealed it was, in fact, an asteroid from another star system. And now, we know what 'Oumuamua looks like and the story got stranger: the interstellar interloper looks like a strange, elongated cigar and scientists are floored.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
9. Titan's polar vortex explained
A new study may have uncovered the mystery behind the cold polar vortex of Saturn's moon, Titan. The largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, Titan is the only one with a known atmosphere, and it's the atmosphere's unique chemistry that seems to be causing the cold whirling air above Titan's south pole.
10. Major earthquakes may erupt as Earth slows down
Earth experiences periodic changes in its rotation speed, and according to new research presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, the small slowdown in Earth's rotation may lead to more earthquakes in 2018. As many as 20 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or higher may occur along already stressed faultlines over the next four years, according to a geologist.
A new miniseries is in the works to dramatize the true story of 13 women who underwent the same medical testing as the space age NASA astronauts. Amazon is basing the series on Martha Ackmann's 2003 book, "The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight" (Random House) and will center on the female pilots that made up the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs).
Liquid water may not be under the Martian surface after all, according to a new study. Researchers studied the dark streaks on Mars' hillsides, and now argue that sandy material is lumping together to produce the darker color, rather than the hypothesized underground supply of liquid water.
thinkstockLichtjes verlichten de hemel in Hong Kong.
WETENSCHAPVerlichting wordt steeds efficiënter, maar dat betekent niet dat we minder stroom verbruiken. Integendeel, lichtvervuiling neemt net toe en maakt de nachtelijke hemel steeds helderder. Zicht op beterschap is er niet.
Een internationale groep wetenschappers bestuurde satellietbeelden van de aarde voor een periode van vijf jaar. Ze zagen dat de hoeveelheid licht elk jaar met twee procent toeneemt. Ook het gebied dat kunstmatig verlicht wordt, groeit jaarlijks met twee procent.
De toename is wereldwijd, maar vooral in gebieden die tot nu toe vrij donker waren. “Licht groeit het snelst in plaatsen waar niet veel licht was”, zegt de Duitse onderzoeksleider Christopher Kyba.
Ledlampen
Volgens de onderzoekers heeft de omschakeling naar ledlampen minder effect dan verwacht. Zulke lampen besparen weliswaar elektriciteit, dus geld, maar dat geld wordt vervolgens gebruikt om meer lampen te plaatsen, concluderen ze.De bevindingen staan in het wetenschapsblad Science Advances.
thinkstockDe nachtelijke hemel bij de Australische Great Ocean Road.
Green bright anomaly appears below disk shaped cloud over Liverpool, UK
About a year ago, on December 12, 2017, the witness took an image of an unusual disk shaped cloud formation, but even stranger is the greenish diamond shaped anomaly which can been seen below the cloud formation.
While it is not inconceivable that the greenish object is just lens flare, the object has all the characteristics of a fixed structure, described by the photographer as a line of green orbs.
Witness: “On my days off work I walk the dog at the back of Speke Hall right next to Liverpool John Lennon Airport and sometimes I take photographs of the sky and the sun setting down but this picture I took was because of the clouds.”
“After a couple of weeks of taking it I noticed a line of green light under the clouds and when I zoomed in on the photograph I spotted green orbs that appear to be next to each other which seem to be attached to something.” Mufon case 88323.
Watch Astonishing Moment – UFO Films Scattering Clouds
An online video showing a mysterious object that is apparently manipulating clouds sent UFO enthusiasts into a frenzy. Conspiracy theory channel Suspect Sky uploaded the video to YouTube, which shows a strange white thing moving upwards in the sky.
The video was apparently shot sometime in October but only uploaded on November 17. The bright, white UFO then hover in the clouds.
After a few seconds sitting in the long thin cloud, the craft then seems to disperse the cloud.
Many viewers commented that they are convinced the footage is a genuine UFO sighting.
One commenter wrote that this is some incredible video because not only it shows a UFO but also features how the mysterious object affects change of the area around it.
Another commenter claimed to have also seen a UFO literally erasing a chem cloud.
However, not all are as convinced as the others with some expressing skepticism.
Others said that it is fake or fakery at its best.
A similar looking object was also spotted just recently above the Great Barrier Reef.
An Australian woman named Jenny Morrison snapped some pictures of the sunset above the Great Barrier Reef, and she noticed a bright orb-like object when she later reviewed the photographs.
Mysterious UFO In Skies Near Area 51 Prompts Air Force To Scramble Their Jets
A strange UFO noticed in the skies close to a military base prompted US Air Force to scramble their jets to investigate the peculiar aerial thing before it mysteriously disappeared.
A UFO was detected flying through closely monitored airspace over Oregon state. Witnesses were left wondering where it may have come from and what it was doing there.
Military officials have not been able to identify the origin or even the destination of the UFO. The military was not able to trace it after it just disappeared all of a sudden.
Oregon borders Nevada, which is the subject of many conspiracy theories on aliens and UFOs due to the presence of the secretive Area 51 military base.
Conspiracy theorists believe the mysterious and top secret facility holds the remains of crashed UFOs and even dead aliens.
According to local news reports, Air Force F-15c interceptor fighters were launched in response to the sightings.
North American Aerospace Defence Command confirmed that the Federal Aviation Administration asked them to help track the UFO at heights usually used by commercial aircraft on October 25.
Fighter jets were sent from Portland to investigate the unusual flying thing but failed to find anything.
The craft transmitted no collision avoidance signals.
Air traffic control reportedly encountered difficulty following the UFO on the radar.
It is vital to note that the F-15C Eagle interceptors have some of the most advanced combat searches and tracking radars in the world.
Sergio Canavero claims he’s carried out the world’s first human head transplant; a surgery he’s been hyping up for over two years. Canavero claims to have successfully completed the head transplant using corpses. While that would technically demonstrate the attachment (or reattachment) of nerves and blood vessels, there are many other factors that would prohibit the procedure from having any real practical application.
“I work with our group here that does face transplants at NYU, and we can barely make those work,” Arthur Caplan, founding head of the division of medical ethics at NYU School of Medicine, told Futurism “A head transplant, to people here, is ludicrous. We can barely keep the face from being rejected, much less all the tissues of the head.”
“The way he talks about head transplants, it’s like unscrewing a bulb from a socket and putting in a new one,” explained Caplan. “But obviously the chemistry where the new brain will be exposed, and the neural inputs, will be very different. Even if you could keep somebody alive – which I doubt, because of immune rejection – but even if you could, I think they’d be insane, because the brain wouldn’t be able to process the new environment. I think that’s a limit on head transplants, generally.”
Caplan doesn’t expect to see a successful head transplant any time soon, if ever. He does see regenerative medicine and research into artificial intelligence as being more likely to bear fruit in this area. Head transplants, meanwhile, may one day be compared to archaic procedures like purging and leeching.
Spinal Cords
“It’s despicable and dangerous for real science,” said Caplan. “I say that because it’s basically been announcements by press release. He’s set up shop in China because no one else in the world has any credence in what he’s doing. He hasn’t demonstrated in animals that he can do what he says he can do, and there’s no reason not to.”
Caplan refers to the fact that while Canavero has performed surgeries on monkeys and rats, there are doubts about his claims to have reconnected the spinal cord, and he has not successfully kept the animals alive or conscious for any significant amount of time.
Canavero’s purported monkey head transplant did not include any attempt to reconnect the spinal cord, meaning that even if the surgery went off without a hitch, the patient would be paralyzed. In terms of real-world benefit, though, if someone was to successfully demonstrate the ability to repair a spinal cord, that would have more utility to medicine than a head transplant procedure.
“If he did know how to make the spinal cord regenerate, there are literally millions of people worldwide with damaged and severed spinal cords,” Caplan explained. “Instead of yammering on incessantly about head transplants, if he had something to help them, he should be using it with them – that’s the natural place to go.”
Collateral Damage
Claims like those being made by Canavero muddy the waters of what’s actually possible with modern technology. That doesn’t just affect people working to advance the field of transplantation; it also impacts the wider scientific community.
“People believe that scientists who are using powerful technologies will just screw around with them, and it gives a bad reputation to mainstream scientists,” said Caplan. “It looks like they’ll try cloning, or they’ll try this, or they’ll try to make superbabies. You keep saying , ‘well, the technology isn’t close for any of those things in humans.’ But then this guy comes along and gets a lot of press attention, and so he casts doubt on the trustworthiness of mainstream scientists and doctors.”
“He also does one other thing, which is that he offers false hope,” Caplan added. “There are people out there with paralyzed bodies, and people dying of terrible diseases, who think, ‘maybe I could transplant my head.’ It’s cruel to them, and then they kind of get angry with disappointment when the technology doesn’t deliver.”
Scientists and doctors who aim to push the limits of modern medicine have ethical responsibilities. If they attempt to misrepresent the scope of their work, they can harm not just their peers but the very people their research is purported to benefit.
Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country's medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports. Xiaoyi is just one example of how much China is keen on using AI to make a number of industries more efficient.
A ROBOT MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Experts generally agree that, before we might consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be truly intelligent —that is, on a level on par with human cognition— AI agents have to pass a number of tests. And while this is still a work in progress, AIs have been busy passing other kinds of tests.
Xiaoyi, an AI-powered robot in China, for example, has recently taken the national medical licensing examination and passed, making it the first robot to have done so. Not only did the robot pass the exam, it actually got a score of 456 points, which is 96 points above the required marks.
This robot, developed by leading Chinese AI company iFlytek Co., Ltd., has been designed to capture and analyze patient information. Now, they’ve proven that Xiaoyi could also have enough medical know-how to be a licensed practitioner.
With both governments and private companies intent on putting AI to good use, one of the first fields in which AI technologies are being applied has been medical research and healthcare. Most are familiar with IBM’s Watson, which has made significant headway in AI-assisted cancer diagnosis and in improving patient care in hospitals.
In the same manner, iFlytek plans to have Xiaoyi assist human doctors in order to improve their efficiency in future treatments. “We will officially launch the robot in March 2018. It is not meant to replace doctors. Instead, it is to promote better people-machine cooperation so as to boost efficiency,” iFlytek chairman Liu Qingfeng told China Daily.
Concretely, iFlytek’s vision is to use AI to improve cancer treatment and help to train general practitioners, which China is sorely in need of. “General practitioners are in severe shortage in China’s rural areas. We hope AI can help more people access quality medical resource,” Qingfeng added.
In short, there’s no need to fear an AI takeover in the medical field, even though many worry that such advances will eliminate human jobs. In this case, it is quite the opposite, because this AI will work to augment the capabilities of its human counterparts instead of replace them. So, at least for now, you don’t have to worry about being referred to a robot doctor.
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE FOOTAGE TAKEN DURING THE APOLLO 17 MISSION TO THE MOON
New footage surfaced of the black knight satellite. The footage was taken during the Apollo 17 mission to the moon.
Apparently, the real mission of the Apollo 17 mission was to create some communication with the Black Knight Knight Satellite. This object has been orbiting the earth for more than 13.000 of years, so it seems logical NASA wanted to contact this object.
A mysterious source released a controversial video that shows the black knight satellite object orbiting earth. A signal was sent to this mysterious object and after a while earth received a signal back. It's clear that the signal that was sent out to the object was based on the SETI's message that is being sent out on a daily basis. According to the source, the crew was amazed by the signal they received back from the alien spacecraft. But the message that was sent back to the Apollo 17 crew was too weird to share with humanity... What should we answer?
SCIENTIST DECLARES: "THE ANTIGRAVITY SPACE VEHICLES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE MADE WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY"
Dr. Richard Boylan, Ph.D. Behavioral Scientist, anthropologist, associate professor, clinical hypnotherapist, consultant, and researcher, claims to have worked for over 15 years with people reporting having found intelligent extraterrestrial life forms.
He also says the government is aware of these extraterrestrial visitors. Boylan claims to know about exotic artifacts (military aircraft with extraterrestrial technology) built on reverse engineering (retro-engineering) that have antigravity technology. The scientist also claims that he knows 12 of these aircraft built with alien technology, then giving names and details. It also provides key data about the contact between humans and stellar visitors, all silenced by the global protection system.µ
"Scientifically and clinically, I have been working for over 15 years with people who report having found an intelligent extraterrestrial life form, a visiting star," said Boylan. "During this work, I felt that it was necessary to learn as much as possible about the real UFO reality and what the government already knew about those visitors. Because of the abundant information about the visitors of the stars and their meetings with humans, I began publishing my results, making presentations at national and international congresses, magazines and special media interviews, which in turn has attracted the attention of some figures, now or before, to highly ranked government sectors, military institutions and intelligence agencies."
SEASONS GREETINGS: THREE-MILE-WIDE ASTEROID 3200 PHAETHON TO SKIM EARTH JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS
The planet Earth is set to have a very close encounter with a three-mile-wide asteroid in the week before Christmas, scientists have warned.
According to Russian astronomers, a giant space rock which is referred to as 3200 Phaethon is due to make a close encounter with the planet on December 17th. NASA has verified that this is the case and warned that the close brush with the asteroid could be potentially dangerous as the rock will only miss the orbit of Earth by two million miles – a very short distance in galactic terms.
EARTH DUE FOR A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A BIZARRE ASTEROID JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS
This is considered to be a cause for concern as the asteroid is approximately half the size of Chicxulub, the asteroid which caused the extinction event that eradicated the dinosaurs. Therefore, space agencies will be monitoring the progress of the asteroid closely over the next month to ensure that it cannot cause any damage to the planet.
Phaethon is considered to be one of the most bizarre asteroids in this solar system, and scientists from all over the world have investigated it over the years. According to astronomers from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, it seems that the asteroid was once much larger than it currently is. However, its orbital pattern which takes it far closer to the sun than any other asteroid has caused it to crumble into smaller pieces over the generations. It has even been suggested that the asteroid could have once been a comet nucleus, a theory which is substantiated by its elongated orbit which sees it coming closer to the Sun than Mercury at some times and moving further away from the Sun than Mars at others.
The astronomers from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University have suggested that the meteor shower engendered by this unusual asteroid is likely due to its crumbling state after so many close calls with the Sun. The asteroid is known for being the only asteroid to produce a regular meteor shower, a phenomenon which is associated with comets and has been a source of massive puzzlement to NASA scientists investigating it. 'What it comes down to is that the Geminid parent object is a mystery, ' said a spokesperson for the space agency.
The Geminids meteor shower will take place shortly before the asteroid by-passes the Earth on December 17th and is expected to light up the sky between December 13th and the 14th.
Ever since scientists have begun to study the orbits of the planets in this solar system, they have discovered the incredible variety in the length of years the planets experience.
While Earth takes a mere 365.25 days to complete a single orbit of the Sun, Mars takes nearly twice as long while the gas giants take between 11.86 and 164.8 years to make a single orbit. But despite knowing about this incredible variety in this solar system, scientists were still stunned to discover perhaps the most extremely diverse orbital patterns yet uncovered in a solar system rooted around a star known as CVSO 30.
CVSO 30 is located approximately 1200 light years from the planet Earth and has been a particular source of interest for astronomers because it has two candidate exoplanets. The planets orbiting CVSO 30 are enormous compared to the planets in this solar system and are described as being many times the mass of Jupiter, making them super-Jupiters.
According to Tobias Schmidt of the University of Hamburg, the Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory Jena, and the lead author of the paper on the discovery of the exoplanets, it is extremely unusual to find two exoplanet candidates with several times the mass of Jupiter orbiting a star as small as CVSO 30 which is believed to be fairly young. But even more surprisingly, the scientists discovered that despite the fact that the two exoplanets are fairly similar in size that one of the planets has an orbital period of less than eleven days whereas the other takes a phenomenal 27,000 years to orbit CVSO 30.
The bizarre differences in the orbital pattern of the two planets have led the scientists to attempt to investigate how this massive disparity could have come about. Professor Schmidt suggests that the two planets may have formed in a typical way around the star but because of the interaction of the gravitational forces and the two giant planets, they were forced into their current distanced orbits. However, he stresses that this merely conjecture at this point and the scientists working on the project intend to conduct further investigations to find out if this is the case.
The discovery of the planets is also notable for a different reason. The planets were discovered using a new technique in planet imaging.Until now, the vast majority of the 2000 exoplanets which have been discovered have been found using indirect methods including the Transit Method which uncovers planets by measuring the dimming effects they have on their parent star and the Radial Velocity Method which measures the gravitational force the planets exert on their star. However, these two planets were discovered using a technique called Direct Imagining.
In the past, Direct Imaging has not been considered an effective way of spotting exoplanets because planets are usually swamped by the light of the parent star and therefore are almost impossible to detect. However, it is preferred when exploring the remote regions of a star as it is considered to be more effective and new advances in technology have allowed scientists to probe far deeper than they ever have before using the Direct Imagining method.
Since various projects have begun to identify exoplanets throughout the universe, scientists have constantly been amazed at how diverse solar systems are. Many of the discoveries concerning exoplanets have completely revolutionized assumptions about how planets form around their parent stars, and it is believed that these discoveries will help to inform a new, comprehensive model of planet formation as time goes on.
ASTRONOMERS SAY ALIEN BUGS IN INTERPLANETARY DUST STARTED LIVE ON EARTH
Life might have been transported between worlds in space dust. Astronomers have suggested that microscopic organisms, including tardigrades, might have been transported between worlds by space dust in streams that were fast moving.
INTERPLANETARY DUST STREAMS COULD TAKE LIFE TO AND FROM EART
Scientists have been of the belief that impacts by asteroids or comets might have been the natural way for transportation of life between planets. Now a new study seems to suggest that this was not the case. Professor Arjun Berera authored the study from the School of Physics and Astronomy in Edinburgh and has come up with the suggestion that life on Earth might have started when streams of space dust that were traveling fast carried microscopic organisms to Earth. The professor found that interplanetary dust streams are not just capable of taking particles to Earth but also taking them away from Earth.
ROUGHLY 220,000 POUNDS OF SPACE DUST FALL ONTO EARTH EVERY DAY
220,000 POUNDS OF SPACE DUST LANDS ON EARTH EVERY DAY
Interplanetary dust is made up of debris from asteroid collisions that occurred a long time ago, and it is pervasive in the solar system. Around 220,000 pounds of space dust is said to fall down onto Earth each day. The cosmic stream of dust travels together at around 44 miles per second.
The researchers came to the conclusion that the streams of dust are grazing Earth and colliding with particles of an organic nature that are found in the upper atmosphere. The small particles get trapped 93 miles or perhaps even higher in the atmosphere of the Earth and get knocked out with force that allows them to get out of the gravity of Earth. When the particles break free out of the Earths bounds the dust flows pick up and then carry hitchhikers that are microscopic and take them off through interplanetary space.
TARDIGRADES COULD HITCHHIKE TO ANOTHER PLANET
There are some plants, bacteria, and animals, which are known by the name of tardigrades, that are able to survive out in space and they could get caught up in the dust and then hitchhike over to another planet. The mechanism that was outlined in the study allowed for planets in the distance in the same solar system as Earth to exchange atmospheric particles with one another.
Berera said that the proposition that space dust might take organisms over long distances between planets in space brings about some exciting prospects about how life and atmospheres of planets originated. He went on to say that the streaming of fast space dust is typically found in the planetary systems and that it could be a common factor in proliferating life.
Dramatic footage shows the flaming UFO breaking up as it soared above the skies between Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada.
Some worried people thought it may have been an extraterrestrial object heading to Earth on Friday night.
The footage was posted on the AMS American Meteor Society YouTube – which was viewed over 12,000 times.
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WHAT IS IT? A mysterious fireball tore through the sky in Canada
One user, with the name gearjammerj, wrote: “Definitely aliens.”
TheIllustriousFox commented: “UFO baby. Things don’t take that long to get out of our frame of vision from the atmosphere.”
Meanwhile, Billyray Wapass said on one person’s post: “It looked like an asteroid broke up into two pieces.”
It later emerged the blazing scenes was likely to be a rocket booster reentering our planet’s atmosphere.
The Antaras rocket helped propel a Cygnus spacecraft on its way to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
California’s Aerospace Corporation said it was launched on November 12.
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MYSTERY: The blazing scenes was likely to be a rocket booster
Eric Briggs, a volunteer for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, said the footage matched what he would expect a rocket re-entry to look like.
He said: “I’d expect to see something flying from west to east, faster than an aircraft at high altitude with a trail following behind it and it appearing to break up into pieces.”
Weird Dark Streaks on Mars May Not Be Flowing Water After All
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer
This inner slope of a crater on southern Mars has several of the seasonal dark streaks called "recurrent slope lineae," or RSL.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS
Bad news for microbes that want to make a home on Mars: A new study argues that dark streaks on the Martian surface are not caused by underground supplies of liquid water.
In 2015, observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed trace amounts of water (mixed with heavy doses of salts) on the Red Planet's surface. These "hydrated salts" corresponded with dark streaks on Martian hillsides called recurring slope lineae (RSL), which researchers had already identified as possible sites of liquid water rising to the surface.
Studies of RSL, and in particular the findings by the MRO, introduced the tantalizing possibility that there could be enough liquid water on the surface of Mars today to support microbial life. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]
This processed, false-color image of Mars' Hale Crater was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image highlights dark streaks on the Martian surface known as recurring slope lineae or RSL's.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
But the new study shows that those dark RSL could simply be flows of sand and other granular material, according to a statement from NASA. In addition, the authors provide more reasons why the liquid water explanation does not fit with certain features of RSL.
"We've thought of RSL as possible liquid water flows, but the slopes are more like what we expect for dry sand," Colin Dundas, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Science Center and a lead author on the new study, said in the statement. "This new understanding of RSL supports other evidence that shows that Mars today is very dry."
However, neither study can fully explain all the features of the Martian RSL, and the authors of the new paper admit the mystery may not be solved until a rover or a human expedition can explore those regions directly.
Granular flows
Thousands of RSL sites have been identified on Martian slopes surface, in about 50 hilly regions spread out between the north and south midlatitudes, according to the statement from NASA. The streaks appear during warm seasons and shrink or disappear during winter. Similar features on Earth are only caused by "seeping water," officials said in the statement, but "how they form in the dry Martian environment remains unclear."
The new study offers an alternative explanation to flowing water.
When sand and other granular materials are lumped into piles, the material locks into place until the pile reaches a certain height. At that point, some of the grains begin to slip and flow smoothly down the sides, forming rivulets. Those rivers of material could appear darker than the material around them, according to the statement, and thus could explain the RSL.
This view of recurring slope lineae on the surface of Mars was constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The dark streaks here are up to few hundred yards, or meters, long. The image was produced by first creating a 3-D computer model (a digital terrain map) of the area based on stereo information from two HiRISE observations, and then draping an image over the land-shape model.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
And there's another key piece of evidence that the authors point to in support of this hypothesis: For a given type of granular material (such as sand), there is a specific angle at which those rivulets can form, and it's known as the "angle of repose." The authors show that the RSL that have been observed so far only appear on hillsides that reach the angle of repose for sand dunes. If the RSL sites were created by water, the authors postulate that these features should also appear on gentler slopes.
"The RSL don't flow onto shallower slopes, and the lengths of these are so closely correlated with the dynamic angle of repose, it can't be a coincidence," Alfred McEwen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, said in the statement. McEwen is the HiRISE Principal Investigator and a co-author of the new report.
The research also relies on models of slope steepness using data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on MRO. The paper includes examinations of 151 RSL features at 10 sites. Another study, published in March, suggested thatthe RSL were caused by "dry avalanches."
A home for life
The findings do not negate the detection of hydrated salts by MRO, and liquid water may still play a role in the formation and seasonal evolution of RSL streaks, according to the paper. But, similar to a 2016 study, they contend the hypothesis that the water comes from beneath the surface.
The authors propose that the water detected in the RSL is sucked from the thin Martian atmosphere, rather than supplied by underground reserves. The increase in hydration could cause changes in the granular material on these slopes that triggers some of the flow that creates the dark streaks. The dark regions could also be the result of "changes in hydration," according to the statement.
"Full understanding of RSL is likely to depend upon on-site investigation of these features," said MRO Project Scientist Rich Zurek. He noted, however, that if scientists could visit these RSL sites, they would still take precautions to prevent accidental contamination of the sites with Earth-based microbes. In other words, scientists will not completely rule out the possibility that microbes could be living in these RSL just yet.
Zurek added that "a full explanation of how these enigmatic features darken and fade still eludes us. Remote sensing at different times of day could provide important clues."
The study was published today (Nov. 20) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a network of bubble universes in space. Credit: Sandy MacKenzie | Shutterstock
Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a proposal out there that suggests that there could be other universes besides our own, where all the choices you made in this life played out in alternate realities. So, instead of turning down that job offer that took you from the United States to China, the alternate universe would show the outcome if you decided to venture to Asia instead.
The idea is pervasive in comic books and movies. For example, in the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, the premise is that the Kirk and Spock portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are in an alternate timeline apart from the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy versions of the characters.
The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse. There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse. First, it is useful to understand how our universe is believed to have come to be.
Arguing for a multiverse
Around 13.7 billion years ago, simply speaking, everything we know of in the cosmos was an infinitesimal singularity. Then, according to theBig Bang theory, some unknown trigger caused it to expand and inflate in three-dimensional space. As the immense energy of this initial expansion cooled, light began to shine through. Eventually, the small particles began to form into the larger pieces of matter we know today, such as galaxies, stars and planets.
One big question with this theory is: are we the only universe out there. With our current technology, we are limited to observations within this universe because the universe is curved and we are inside the fishbowl, unable to see the outside of it (if there is an outside.)
1. We don't know what the shape of space-time is exactly. One prominent theory is that it is flat and goes on forever. This would present the possibility of many universes being out there. But with that topic in mind, it's possible that universes can start repeating themselves. That's because particles can only be put together in so many ways. More about that in a moment.
2. Another theory for multiple universes comes from "eternal inflation." Based on research from Tufts University cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin, when looking at space-time as a whole, some areas of space stop inflating like the Big Bang inflated our own universe. Others, however, will keep getting larger. So if we picture our own universe as a bubble, it is sitting in a network of bubble universes of space. What's interesting about this theory is the other universes could have very different laws of physics than our own, since they are not linked.
3. Or perhaps multiple universes can follow the theory of quantum mechanics (how subatomic particles behave), as part of the "daughter universe" theory. If you follow the laws of probability, it suggests that for every outcome that could come from one of your decisions, there would be a range of universes — each of which saw one outcome come to be. So in one universe, you took that job to China. In another, perhaps you were on your way and your plane landed somewhere different, and you decided to stay. And so on.
4. Another possible avenue is exploring mathematical universes, which, simply put, explain tht the structure of mathematics may change depending in which universe you reside. "Aa mathematical structure is something that you can describe in a way that's completely independent of human baggage," said theory-proposer Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as quoted in the 2012 article. "I really believe that there is this universe out there that can exist independently of me that would continue to exist even if there were no humans."
5. And last but not least as the idea of parallel universes. To go back to the idea that space-time is flat, the number of possible particle configurations in multiple universes would be limited to 10^10^122 distinct possibilities, to be exact. So, with an infinite number of cosmic patches, the particle arrangements within them must repeat — infinitely many times over. This means there are infinitely many "parallel universes": cosmic patches exactly the same as ours (containing someone exactly like you), as well as patches that differ by just one particle's position, patches that differ by two particles' positions, and so on down to patches that are totally different from ours.
Arguing against a parallel universe
Not everyone agrees with the parallel universe theory, however. A 2015 article on Medium by astrophysicist Ethan Siegal agreed that space-time could go on forever in theory, but said that there are some limitations with that idea.
The key problem is the universe is just under 14 billion years old. So our universe's age itself is obviously not infinite, but a finite amount. This would (simply put) limit the number of possibilities for particles to rearrange themselves, and sadly make it less possible that your alternate self did get on that plane after all to see China.
Also, the expansion at the beginning of the universe took place exponentially because there was so much "energy inherent to space itself," he said. But over time, that inflation obviously slowed — those particles of matter created at the Big Bang are not continuing to expand, he pointed out. Among his conclusions: that means that multiverses would have different rates of inflation and different times (longer or shorter) for inflation. This decreases the possibilities of universes similar to our own.
"Even setting aside issues that there may be an infinite number of possible values for fundamental constants, particles and interactions, and even setting aside interpretation issues such as whether the many-worlds-interpretation actually describes our physical reality," Siegal said, "the fact of the matter is that the number of possible outcomes rises so quickly — so much faster than merely exponentially — that unless inflation has been occurring for a truly infinite amount of time, there are no parallel universes identical to this one."
But rather than seeing this lack of other universes as a limitation, Siegal instead takes the philosophy that it shows how important it is to celebrate being unique. He advises to make the choices that work for you, which "leave you with no regrets." That's because there are no other realities where the choices of your dream self play out; you, therefore, are the only person that can make those choices happen.µ
With 'Mission 1' Complete, Planet Turns Focus to Data Analysis
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
A pair of Dove cubesats being deployed from the International Space Station. With the company's constellation now able to image the Earth's entire landmass onca day, Planet is shifting its attention to developing machine learning tools to analyze images and extract insights from them.
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Updated Nov. 19 to clarify Planet's work with data analysis partners.
Speaking at the NewSpace Europe conference here Nov. 17, Kam Shahid, director of space operations for Planet, said the company had achieved "Mission 1" for the company, dating back to its founding seven years ago, of taking images of the Earth's entire landmass once per day.
That constellation, Shahid said, produces large volumes of data. "This is what imaging the Earth every day really means: 1.4 million images every day at 29 megapixels," he said. Planet downlinks six terabytes of data per day, he said, with a total coverage area of 300 million square kilometers.
With the satellite constellation in place, the challenge for Planet now is to turn the volume of images it produces into data products. "This is what we see for the future for our company, turning data into insights," he said. "We have focused extensively on building a pipeline which can take all of this data, process it and get valuable information out."
That approach, he said, involves the use of machine learning technologies for automated analyses of images. An example he gave was using images to count the number of cars in a lot. The high-resolution images from SkySat images allow the algorithms to count individual cars. In medium-resolution, but more frequent, Dove images, the algorithms can instead measure the area of lots filled by cars, and from that estimate the number of cars.
That can be used for a wide range of applications. "The idea is that you can use our imagery and ask questions and get answers," he said. "This is what the future is and this is where Planet is moving. We are moving into analytics."
Planet is not alone in emphasizing analytics. Several other companies are developing systems to transform the rapidly expanding volume of satellite images into data products. Ursa Space Systems raised $7 million in a Series A round last month to expand its products, which are based on synthetic aperture radar imagery it purchases. Other companies in the sector include Descartes Labs, Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow.
Shahid said later that Planet will develop its machine learning capabilities in-house, a philosophy it has followed for its Dove satellites and other key technologies. Customers, he said, would be able to bring in their own data sets to combine with the analysis of Planet imagery. Planet will continue to partner with other companies for analytics, company spokesman Trevor Hammond said Nov. 18, noting it has "numerous paying customers" in such arrangements currently.
"The goal is to provide users ways to get the information they need to make smarter decisions," Will Marshall, the co-founder and chief executive of Planet, said in a company blog post this month about the Mission 1 milestone. "In short, Planet will index physical change on Earth the same way Google indexed the internet. Imagine the possibilities."
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
MIT Team Wins Mars City Design Contest for 'Redwood Forest' Idea
By Kasandra Brabaw, Space.com Contributor
An MIT team won first place for urban design with the Redwood Forest, a series of woodsy habitats enclosed in open, public domes that would reside on the Martian surface.
Credit: Image courtesy of Valentina Sumini
A team of engineers and architects from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won the top prize for architecture in 2017’s international Mars City Design competition, which asks participants to design habitats that could one day be built on the Red Planet.
The competition, sponsored by both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), is one of many that asks participants to come up with creative solutions to the problems these agencies anticipate in the journey to Mars.
MIT’s winning design, which the team calls Redwood Forest, is a collection of "tree habitats" connected through a system of tunnels called "roots." The roots would provide safe access to other tree habitats, private spaces and "shirt-sleeve transportation," according to a statement from MIT. The tunnels would also provide protection from cosmic radiation, micrometeorite impacts and extreme changes in temperature.
Each dome-shaped tree habitat would house up to 50 people, and the team's vision calls for building about 200 of them, to support a settlement of 10,000 pioneers. The structures would include private and public spaces as well as plants and water harvested from the northern plains of Mars, according to the statement.
"On Mars, our city will physically and functionally mimic a forest, using local Martian resources such as ice and water, regolith (or soil), and sun to support life," MIT postdoctoral researcher Valentina Sumini said in the statement. Sumini and MIT assistant professor Caitlin Mueller led the team, which also included nine students.
“Every tree habitat in Redwood Forest will collect energy from the sun and use it to process and transport the water throughout the tree, and every tree is designed as a water-rich environment,” says winning team member Geroge Lordos MBA '00.
Credit: Image courtesy of Valentina Sumini
"Designing a forest also symbolizes the potential for outward growth as nature spreads across the Martian landscape," Sumini added.
Also like a forest, the "trees" in this collective would be vital in transporting water throughout the system.
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"Every tree habitat in Redwood Forest will collect energy from the sun and use it to process and transport the water throughout the tree, and every tree is designed as a water-rich environment," George Lordos, a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics doctoral student who worked on the project, said in the same statement.
Each dome would have soft cells that would fill with water to help protect inhabitants from radiation, manage heat loads and supply water to both fish and produce farms. The domes would also have solar panels to generate clean energy for charging hydrogen fuel cells and splitting water to create rocket fuel, Lordos said.
Left to right: Team members George Lordos, Alpha Arsano, Caitlin Mueller, and Valentina Sumini.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Valentina Sumini.
The Redwood Forest design could also have uses here on Earth, team members said. A similar architecture could make harsh environments like those at high altitudes and even the seafloor livable, they said in the statement, and the habitat’s proposed gardening system could cut down on land and transportation costs.
Still, the goal of Mars City Design is ultimately to help agencies like NASA and ESA come up with viable ways for humans to settle the Red Planet.
"It is not enough to just travel to Mars and survive; now we must develop a way in which we can sustainably live and love on Mars," the competition’s website reads. "It is essential that we call on a new generation of thinkers and innovators to make this a reality."
The crackpot theory claims UFOs came and took some dinosaurs away before the rest were wiped out
Well, that is if you believe a madcap theory from a US "non-profit" organisation, which claims they evolved into intelligent beings that have returned to our planet and can speak English.
Supporters of the US-based Earth defence headquarters believe that several velociraptors, made famous by the Jurassic Park movie series, were rescued from Earth by aliens in space ships before the impact 66 million years ago.
Jo Ann Richards tours UFO conferences trying to convince the audience her husband, who is serving life for murder, was once a special forces agent who attended as a child with his father, a 1961 intergalactic conference about the future of the Earth, and met juvenile raptor aliens, who could speak English, and a string of other ET species.
Amazingly, conference goers pay money to hear the tall-sounding tale at conferences in the UK and Europe.
At a UFO conference in Watford she told of a story about how Richards and his father, Ellis Lloyd Richards Jnr, were both involved in secret research involving aliens.
She added as a young boy in June 1961 her husband had attended a covert conference in a castle in England, involving the “leaders of Earth and hundreds of species of aliens from all over the galaxy”.
Her story, which would defy belief to even the most ardent of alien believers, claimed among the alien species were the raptors, that looked exactly like those seen in the Jurassic Park movies, but who could speak English.
She said: "These originated from the dinosaurs on Earth. Some of them left Earth before the comet came and had occupied another planet."
Mrs Richards also uses the platform to gain support for a campaign that her husband is innocent of the shocking murder he was convicted of planning 1n 1982, and, instead was farmed by the CIA, because he was about to expose the fact that aliens are real.
She claims he was previously covertly involved in secret space programmes involving several alien species, but he was framed by the so-called men in black when he was about to blow the whistle on everything.
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Aliens would have had to communicate with dinosaurs for it to happen
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Jo Ann and Mark Richards married in jail
She opens her talks outlining why the man she married while he was in prison is "innocent" of the shocking crime of planning the murder of his friend before disposing of the body and spending his cash.
She claims Mr Richards is not the manipulative fantasist he was said to be when he was convicted of first degree murder and describes her husband as a "political prisoner”.
She said: "My husband was framed for murder he had nothing to do with in 1982 so he would get out of the hair of the New World Order as he would be fighting their efforts at this time.
“My husband has been in prison for almost 30 years for something he had nothing to do with."
She said in 1979, Richards led a squadron in a legendary alleged underground battle between humans and sinister aliens who had been experimenting on people in a secret base in Dulce, New Mexico, and rescued hundreds of people there.
The battle of Dulce is a myth within some UFO and conspiracy theory circles.
The truth about this battle was one of the key things Richards was about to expose to the world when he was arrested over the murder, she claims.
But records of the trial showed Richards used none of the fantastical story during his defence and never once claimed to have been framed in court.
In fact, the court heard about a very different fantastical story.
On July 13, 1982, the body of Richards' friend, vintage car restorer Richard Baldwin, 36, was found weighted down by an outboard motor in water near the Sisters Island in San Pablo Bay, San Francisco, Marin County, California.
He was wrapped in plastic tarpaulin and a bamboo screen and bound around the neck and ankles by TV cable, rope and duct-tape.
Mr Baldwin had a fractured skull and was stabbed in the heart.
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Jo Ann Richards explains to UFO conference goers about her husband being in prison
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Types of aliens at the "secret conference" and its agenda, according to Jo Ann Richards
The raptors originated from the dinosaurs on Earth. Some of them left Earth before the comet came and had occupied another planet."
Jo Ann Richards
Her story, which would defy belief to even the most ardent of alien believers, claimed among the alien species were the raptors, that looked exactly like those seen in the Jurassic Park movies, but who could speak English.
She said: "These originated from the dinosaurs on Earth. Some of them left Earth before the comet came and had occupied another planet."
But the crazy tale about the madcap interplanetary conference was not the only extraordinary allegation Mrs Richards regularly makes.
She runs the Earth Defence Headquarters, what she calls a not-for profit organisation, in the US, which sells reports on alien encounters written by her husband in prison and raises awareness about the "injustice" he has faced.
Richards, then a 29-year-old home renovator, and two 17-year-old employees of his, were arrested on suspicion of the murder.
They had been upgrading the victim's property in San Rafael, California, at the time.
When Richards' home was searched police found several documents and photographs that suggested he was planning a coup to take over Marin County and establish a separate kingdom known as Pendragon.
The case became known as the Camelot murder as a result.
Investigators found evidence of the existence of a secret organisation, with other members, called Pendragon led by Richards that was planning the takeover.
Detectives found maps, aerial pictures of Marin County and plans to make a laser-gun and machine-guns.
Richards claimed he had no intention of staging an armed coup and that it was all research for a sci-fi book he was planning, but the bizarre discovery made its way into the trial.
One of the teens, Crossan David Hoover, later confessed that he battered Mr Baldwin with a baseball bat, then stabbed him with a knife and screwdriver.
He said that Richards had planned the murder, saying Mr Baldwin owed him $3,000, and told if they also burgled the victim's home, Hoover could have a $5,000 share, but that he would also be given a prominent role in he new kingdom.
In interview, Richards admitted burgling the home and spending cash on Mr Baldwin's credit cards, because of the debt, but he claimed the two teenagers had confessed the killing to him and he played no part in it.
But it emerged that after the killing Richards had bought a boat, video equipment and jewellery and even tried to obtain credit in his former friend's name.
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Jo Ann Richards introduces her husband and his father-in-law to the UFO Academy in Watford
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Mark Richards made no mention of aliens during the murder trial
He was charged after the other 17-year-old, referred to only as Andrew, agreed to testify in return for immunity against prosecution.
Another former employee of Richards also came forward to state his boss had earlier tried to get him to kill Mr Baldwin.
Prosecutors said they did not seek to prove he was planning a takeover, but that he had used the possibility of one as another way of manipulating the easily influenced youngsters into murder.
Richards has failed to appeal his conviction.
He did not begin discussing his "history with aliens" until 1997 when he met Jo Ann, his second wife, who visited him in prison.
He now writes reports on his alleged involvement in secret military and space operations, which are then sold at UFO conferences by Mrs Richards, as part of her campaigning for justice for him.
Debunkers have pointed out how there is no record of his military service and that if he was being framed, this would have come up in his trial, and that he would have brought it up earlier than 1997.
They also point to the fact being in prison for life allows him, through his wife, to release much information about alleged alien activity - so the CIA plot to frame him, if true, would have been a drastic failure.
But Mrs Richards insists she is convinced by her husband’s fantastical stories.
She even claims to be psychic and that her late father-in-law accompanies her at conferences.
She said: "He has the air of captain about him. I think I have known him long enough to know he is not lying to me.
"I know there are people who don't believe me, and that's fine, and we say well try and disprove it, and no one has."
When asked by Express.co.uk if she feared for her safety or being framed by the CIA, now she has taken over her husband's work to expose the truth about aliens, she said: "No, I have a lot of good aliens that are around me, protecting me."
Not only have scientists explored the possibilities to travel in time, for centuries has the human race wrapped their head around this concept which, according to world famous scientist Albert Einstein is in fact achievable.
Tales of time travel have existed for centuries. No matter where we decide to look, eventually we will find written or oral legends that suggest traveling in time had been achieved.
There are numerous ancient legends that detail how some people got lost in time, thousands of years ago.
One example of time travel can be found in the ancient text of the Mahabharata, believed to have been written sometime during the eighth century BC. In this ancient text, the ancient King Raivata is described as going to heaven in order to meet with the creator God Brahma, only to come back to Earth hundreds of years in the future.
Similar accounts can be found if we take a look at the Quran. There we find details of a group of people, who in 250 AD sought to the persecution, and withdrew, under the guidance of God, to a cave where God made them sleep. They woke up 309 years later.
Countless accounts of time travel can be found in ancient records kept by ancient civilizations, but tales of time travel have apparently become extremely popular in today’s society, and scientists say there is a way we could really move in time.
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However, the two examples mentioned above are considered as legends or myths.
In today’s modern society, similar accounts of time travel can be found all over the internet.
Not long ago, a man posted a video online saying that he was a time traveler who came from the year 2028.
The video broadcasted by the channel paranormal Elite introduces us to Noah, who claims that he had risked his life to come back in time, in order to warn the people that such technology does exist.
In the controversial video, the alleged time traveler says:
“I am not attempting to deceive anyone, my sole objective is to prove to you that time travel exists and that I, myself, am a time traveler.
“First of all, time travel became possible in the year 2003, it is only used by top-secret organizations. The ability to time travel will not be released to the public until 2028.”
The man is only known as Noah, and supposedly suffers from anorexia and depression because of time travel says that: “In 2028, the organizations will admit that time travel is real and then it will be open to the public.
“In 2021, there will be a really popular device, almost like a Google Glass, that will look like a normal pair of glasses, but will have the processing power of today’s desktop computers.
“The problem is that the President of the United States of America after the 2020 election will be Donald Trump.
“I can say this with 100 percent certainty. I know many of you will not believe me, but what I say is the truth.”
But, time travel only exists in ancient legends and in Hollywood, right?
Not according to a physics and math professor Brian Greene, from the Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival who says:
“Albert Einstein showed that if you go out into space and travel near the speed of light, and you turn around, and you come back, your clock will be ticking off time more slowly. So, when you step off it’s going to be the future on planet Earth. You will have time traveled into the future.”
“He also showed that if you hang out near a nice strong source of gravity — a neutron star, a black hole — and you kind of get right near the edge of that object, time also for you would slow down real slow relative to everybody else.
We could travel in time through wormholes, argue scientists.
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“And therefore, when you come back to Earth, for instance, it’ll again be far into the future.”
Professor Greene suggests that wormholes are another option for time travel. Inside wormholes, space and time are wrapped, producing portals that tact as ‘shortcuts’ through space.
“It’s a bridge, if you will, from one location space to another. It’s kind of a tunnel that gives you a shortcut to go from here to here.
“Now Einstein discovered this in 1935 but it was subsequently realised that if you manipulate the openings of a wormhole — put one near a black hole or take one on a high-speed journey — then time of the two openings of this wormhole tunnel will not take off at the same rate, so that you will no longer just go from one location in space to another, if you go through this tunnel — through this wormhole — you’ll go from one moment in time to a different moment in time.
“Go one way, you’ll travel to the past, the other way, travel to the future.”
Elon Musk warns: Artificial Intelligence is highly likely to destroy humans
Despite the fact that there are many who welcome artificial intelligence saying that its the next step for our civilization, there are many experts in the subject who have issued a stark warning when it comes to AI.
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX argues that Artificial Intelligence is highly likely to be a threat to people.
The man behind SpaceX and Tesla wanted that a handful of major companies will end up controlling AI systems with ‘extreme’ level of power.
This, according to Musk, is not a good idea and can result extremely dangerous for our civilization.
Will AI destroy the human race?
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“Maybe there’s a five to 10 percent chance of success [of making AI safe],” he told Neuralink staff after showing them a documentary on AI, reports Rolling Stone.
Mr. Musk warns we must tread carefully when it comes to AI, and called for companies developing AI systems to slow down in order to ensure they don’t unintentionally create something extremely dangerous for humans.
“Between Facebook, Google and Amazon – and arguably Apple, but they seem to care about privacy – they have more information about you than you can remember,” he told Rolling Stone.
“There’s a lot of risk in concentration of power. So, if AGI [artificial general intelligence] represents an extreme level of power, should that be controlled by a few people at Google with no oversight?”
And Musk is probably right you know, we can’t leave a potentially civilization-threatening technology in the hands of a few companies, right? This is why Mr. Musk believes we should proactively regulate the development of AI.
“I have exposure to the most cutting-edge AI and I think people should be really concerned about it. I keep sounding the alarm bell but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react because it seems so ethereal,” said Mr. Musk, the last time he spoke about the threats that Artificial Intelligence represents.
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin shares, in part, his opinion, but at the same time sees in as a”colossal opportunity.”
In a statement to students, the Russian leader said that any country that leads research in artificial intelligence will dominate the planet.
A lot of potentials both for good and for bad
Putin can not make it clearer, and ensures that “artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humanity.”
He also wanted to warn about its possible dangers that, as we know, are difficult to predict:
Artificial intelligence offers colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict.
This technology will help to advance in medical research and in all kinds of industries, but the real fear is that it can also be key in terms of a possible war, warned Putin.
Right after the statements made by Putin, Elon Musk used his Twitter account to make clear that he is very concerned, assuring that all this will take us to towards World War III.
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