The anomaly appears only in one frame. Could it be a cosmic ray or there is another explanation for this anomaly.
Anyway a unique observation.
Scientists Warn: Beware of Extraterrestrial Computer Viruses

Is your anti-virus software up-to-date on all of your electronic devices? Did you download the special patch to protect you against viruses sent by extraterrestrial hackers? Did you forget and click on the cute little green alien head? Too late … you’re infected and you’re probably going to bring down the world’s electronic grid as we know it. Thanks a lot.
“A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand.
Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk averse case.”
That’s the opening warning in a new paper entitled “INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION. IX. MESSAGE DECONTAMINATION IS IMPOSSIBLE” (it’s in all caps because they’re serious) by Michael Hippke of Sonneberg Observatory in Germany and John G. Learned of the High Energy Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Their main message is that a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence (ET) cannot be decontaminated with any degree of certainty and the
the technical risks are impossible to assess beforehand.
Let’s say you’ve got the latest anti-virus software, your patches are up-to-date and you never click on links in strange messages. However, what you receive is a simple text message … a text message warning that aliens are on their way and planning to destroy the planet. One message to one person might not be so bad, but a Cc: to an entire country would cause some serious panic … even if it’s a country that doesn’t believe a foreign government could send emails that could influence an election.
While a propaganda message is possible, the authors suggest that an alien civilization bent on bringing down a planet without sending a fleet of warships would probably use a virus or some form of electronic contamination. Most of us follow the warning not to open attachments from strange email addresses, but a message from extraterrestrials would probably drive curiosity over caution and the ETI virus would possibly act like those we’re used to – either bringing down systems and networks or infiltrating them with hidden software awaiting further instructions.
Assuming we’re smarter than the aliens think or than these researchers give us credit for, some super-tech could built an airtight electronic container or “prison” that would allow them to open the attachment or message without releasing the contamination … unless the message was one that convinced the person with the key that it was OK to open the box – a promise of riches, eternal life, cures for diseases, the answer to who killed JFK, etc. That ‘gift’ might look harmless and even work for a while, but then turn on us and destroy humanity. Doesn’t anyone read about the Trojan horse anymore?
So you would assume that the researchers would suggest avoiding any messages from ETI like the plague … and you would be wrong.
“The risk for humanity may be small, but not zero. The probability of encountering malicious ETI first might be very low. Perhaps it is much more likely to receive a message from positive ETI. Also, the potential benefits from joining a galactic network might be considerable It is always wise to understand the risks and chances beforehand, and make a conscious choice for, or against it, rather than blindly following a random path. Overall, we believe that the risk is very small (but not zero), and the potential benefit very large, so that we strongly encourage to read an incoming message.”
Should you receive a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, it sounds like the best plan is to forward it to Hippke and Learned.
Mysterious Ice Meteor Narrowly Misses London Man on Camera

Unexplained large chunks of ice keep falling from the skies around the world, narrowly missing people and property alike. Recent examples include Scotland, Canada, Florida, and California, but now a strange case of an anomalous ice fall in London which fell close to passersby has some wondering if some new type of atmospheric phenomenon is occurring all over the globe, potentially putting us in danger. Of course, the official explanation says these balls of ice likely fall from planes overhead and aviation officials will be looking into it. Are these merely related to air travel, and if so, why the recent uptick in occurrences?
The ice ball exploding at the moment of impact.
The video shows Serhiy Mysehkov, a London street cleaner as he was working near the Kew Gardens in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames. Speaking to the Richmond & Twickenham Times Mysehkov, recounted how he was minding his business sweeping the road when a certain icy death missed him by mere feet:
I was sweeping on the other side of the road, then heard a loud boom. A piece of ice, maybe 10 kilograms big, fell from either a plane or from the sky. It all happened very quickly. I wasn’t scared, but it could kill you. I feel lucky.
He should feel lucky. CCTV footage filmed at the scene by a taxi firm shows an oblivious Mysehkov going about his business as a child-sized (as in the size of a child) ball of ice plummets straight down, exploding on the road in a cloud of shards.
Yeah, that would have hurt.
A spokesperson for the UK Civil Aviation Authority told The Evening Standard that while these megacryometeors are occasionally caused by leaks from planes or ice forming on fuselages, it’s impossible to determine which might be aviation related and which might represent something more anomalous:
Although ice does very occasionally fall from aircraft, it can also be the result of meteorological phenomena. We receive around 30 reported ice falls every year, although we are not certain how many of these incidents are the result of ice falling from an aircraft.
Of course, reports of anomalous ice balls falling from the skies predate the invention of air travel. Scanning the news for certain keywords and types of stories each week really lets you see the big picture and start drawing connections between stories. Are these icy meteors related to the recent spate of unexplained booms heard in the skies around the world? What’s going on up there? Do we really want to know?
IN EEN VLIEGENDE BADKUIP NAAR DE BAKKER ( VIDEO )
IN EEN VLIEGENDE BADKUIP NAAR DE BAKKER ( VIDEO )

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Wij leven in een tijd waar steeds meer dingen mogelijk zijn die tot voor kort nog pure science fiction leken. Vooral bij jonge mensen zijn de Youtube-kanalen die allerlei vreemde dingen doen of uitdagingen aangaan heel populair. Niet alleen bij ons heb je die, maar ook in Duitsland waar Philipp en Johannes Mickenbecker bekendstaan onder de naam van hun Youtube-kanaal, The Real Life Guys. Hun specialiteit is het bouwen van bijzondere dingen die ze dan meestal zelf uitvinden. Ze hebben nu alle voorgaande records gebroken door een vliegende badkuip te maken. Het is een echte doorsnee badkuip die door de lucht wordt voortbewogen door rotorbladen van een drone. Na een tijdlang experimenteren was het onlangs zover en kon Philipp plaatsnemen in de badkuip voor een echte vlucht naar de bakker in Herzberg voor wat verse broodjes. De inwoners van het dorp waar ze wonen, keken natuurlijk vreemd op toen er op de parkeerplaats bij de plaatselijke bakker in een vliegende badkuip landde op de parkeerplaats. Johannes zegt: "Voordat de badkuip daadwerkelijk vloog, geloofde niemand dat hij ooit de lucht in zou gaan. Mensen geloofden hun ogen niet. Toen we er buiten mee vlogen, gaf dat ook echt het gevoel van vliegen en natuurlijk kunnen we nog veel hoger". Veel van hun Youtube abonnees geloofden ook niet dat het ze ging lukken en de meesten dachten dat de twee broers zouden eindigen met gebroken botten. Dat dat ook niet zo'n gekke gedachte is, bewijst de volgende video waar je de eerste pogingen kunt zien waarop ook iemand van de broers ondersteboven in een weiland eindigt. Dit bewijst nog maar eens dat gewone mensen heel veel dingen ook zelf kunnen maken en dat is hoopgevend. |
Huge Anomaly blazes trail past the Sun!
Purported Miniature UFO Wreckage Found In Museum After Went Missing For Decades

After went missing for decades, the wreckage of an alleged miniature UFO has been found at a museum in the UK. Alleged fragments of a UFO, which was discovered in 1957 in Northern England’s remote area, have turned up in the archives of the London Science Museum.
The apparent flying saucer was noticed on Silpho Moor, an open land area in North Yorkshire. The incident has been eventually called Britain’s Roswell.
David Clarke, a principal research fellow at the Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, said that he discovered the artefacts after making a presentation at the Science Museum late in 2017.
Clarke, a contemporary legends expert, said that he discovered the fragments in a plastic box along with a compilation of files. He said a large tin cigarette box with a label marked ‘Victoria and Albert Museum – alleged UFO bits’ was inside the files.
At first, Clarke thought it must be a joke, or he found worthless pieces of metal. They were stored off-site, so Clarke arranged for the files to be sent to London for examination.
Inside the box was a collection of five paper envelopes, labelled A-E, that contains pieces of metal, tiny bits of copper foil, and fused metal/plastic amalgam. When Clarke examined the associated correspondence, he noted references to pieces of ‘The Silpho Moor Object’ with a note saying these were forwarded to the museum for scientific examination in 1963.
Three men discovered the object on Silpho Moor. They later paid £10 ($13.89) to another party who had removed it from the Moor. A section of the upper part of the said UFO was later on removed, and the object was split in two. Then extracted from the object was the central section, resulting to the revelation of copper wire that held a copper book, which contained 17 small copper foil pages.
Clarke said that the little copper foil pages were marked with hieroglyphic-type lettering, which interestingly corresponds with letters engraved onto the copper base of the primary object.
Until now, the mystery about the UFO remains. Stories and conspiracy theories have grown up around it.
Man On Fishing Trip Snaps Strange Crystal-Clear UFO

A fisherman claimed to have snapped a UFO while on a relaxing trip. The picture was reportedly taken at Nelson ledges state park in Garrettsville, Nelson, Ohio, USA. It shows a strange torpedo-shaped object above a lake and trees in the top-left corner.
A son of the man, who was not named, sent the image to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for analysis.
In the report, the man was fishing and taking a couple of pictures for memories. Later, while looking at the pictures, he noticed this strange looking object.
He did not notice anything unusual while snapping the photos.
He thought the object in question must be moving very fast and was caught on the photo at the right moment.
According to the report, the picture was taken on 23 October 2011, but just only recently it was sent to MUFON for investigation.
However, MUFON has been aware that many people have submitted bogus reports. Investigator Peter Davenport said that deception would continue in ufology as it takes place regularly elsewhere until such time will come when the mystery of UFOs finally laid to rest.
Debunkers believe the picture is genuine, but the object is not evidence of aliens and only something launched in the water, such as a stone.
Professional Golfer Says ‘Call Me Crazy!’ As He Posts UFO Sighting On Twitter

Pro golfer Graham DeLaet took to Twitter sharing his UFO sighting, which had social media buzzing. The 36-year-old Canadian said that he saw the UFO over Ixtapa, Mexico and believed it was what it was as no other explanation he could think.
The PGA Tour veteran even shared a video recording of his sighting. The tweet went viral and many suggesting that DeLaet, whose career earnings reached US$11 million, had over-indulged in his brand of craft beer.
Others pointing out he had possibly saw the Musk’s SpaceX rocket, Falcon Heavy, in its final burn stage. Several others reported about the rocket in the southwest of the US.
DeLaet, who has more than 122,000 Twitter followers, answered back to his doubters saying that he has been looking at the sky every night and never seen anything like what he saw.
He said people can think he is crazy or whatever, but he believed that was weird.
However, minutes later DaLaet seemed to admit defeat saying that if this is what I saw (Elon Musk) then it was pretty cool he got to see it, adding that Elon Musk is smart.
USO – WHAT ARE UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERGED OBJECTS? UNDER-WATERS UFOS?

USO | If the vast majority of people think that are probably the flying machines with which our planet is visited by the beings of the Cosmos, few are the ones who have heard of the mysterious objects that cross the under-waters of the lakes and oceans, just like the similar devices that fly in the sky.
Does it prefer some UFOs to travel under the water? Or are we dealing with a new category of mysterious objects? Two questions that modern science does not get to find answers …
Incorporated in the oblivion of more well-known phenomena in the field, such as Area 51, the Voronezh episode, or 1-4 grade encounters, the case of Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO, in specific language) raises a series of new questions, sensitively different from those accompany the classic (already …) theme of UFOs.
According to the reputed UFO scientist, Dr. Timothy Good, strange objects that travel through the Earth’s waters bring into question one of the most disturbing theories about visitors from other worlds.
People, being self-proclaimed the most intelligent and powerful species on Earth, find it difficult to accept the possibility of being visited at a certain moment by far superior beings from other planets.
Jules Verne’s famous scientific romance “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” opens with an unidentified submerged object moving at great speed terrorizing the sea lanes and many speculating that the strange object was a sea monster attacking passenger and cargo ships.
What can we do in front of creatures from other worlds moving through water as easily as their fellow creatures roam the heavens in flying ships? What are they looking for on Terra? What do they want from us? Why is it moving through lakes and oceans? Some immense stretches of water have mysterious properties that allow them to be true interdimensional crossing gates? We do not know yet.
People’s knowledge of this captivating subchapter is (yet) summed up to simple assumptions along with a review of the most important cases recorded in the ever-increasing volume of UFO phenomenology.
We find it surprising that the accounts of USO are hundreds of years old, just like many more famous UFOs. It seems that people have mentioned in their writings and chronicles metallic objects, most often bright or provided with headlamp-like devices that cut off ocean waters at high speed.
They often sank into the depths, disappearing without a trace from the amazed eyes of the seafarers, sometimes they suddenly poured out of the waters to fly to the heavens.
Reciprocation was sometimes valid, some eyewitnesses from previous centuries retelling in documents preserved today about UFO-like devices that sink subtly, preferring as submarine transport, which hid them from the eyes of people’s astonishment.
According to some reports, the USOs that stood on the glaciers of the poles were melting ice as they moved to the surface, leaving behind them true free channels in the ice caps. Did they perform so well because of the heat emanating from the engines or the fogging layer of friction, as the crews of Soviet ships overlying the Arctic and Antarctica were saying?
Instead, the crews of fishing vessels that were witnesses to USOs in industrial fishing fleets declared that strange objects are responsible for the disappearance of fish in the area, and experts have depleted the variants of such a situation where visitors from other worlds ” they stole the fish, the creatures of the sea were frightened by running away from swimming underwater or fish and other animals were leaving the polluted waters after the object passed.
Some of the extraterrestrial enthusiasts go so far as to say that visitors from other planets have ecological inclinations, warning the fish banks not to come close to the Homo sapiens sapiens species …
Probably the most credible USO incident occurred on September 4, 1971, when four members of the National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica flew from a bimetal Cote Lake near the Arenal volcano.
The team of researchers wanted to map and photograph the entire area that at that time was still unexplored. For this purpose, the expedition has a special camera attached to the bottom of the plane.
The camera was large format and triggered automatically every 20 seconds to take a new photo of the lake and its surroundings. At the end of the research mission, when specialists developed the photo, they noticed a bizarre presence, which at first seemed to be a 36-meter diameter metal discarded when it was just entering the deep waters of the lake.
Artist Interpretation of a USO
The object whose details were accurately captured by the camera did not appear on any other instant of the movie. Subsequent studies at Kodak headquarters in the United States have shown, without stamping, that there is no flaw of refraction, chromatic aberration or another defect in photography, the specialists declaring the photo to be purely authentic …
Lake Cote is a very deep one, and there are many accounts of locals who frequently saw flying objects entering or coming out of their water at high speed. The day after the incident involving the 4 National Geographic members at 9 am, two fishermen on a lake boat heard a metallic noise nearby.
When they turned their heads in the direction of the sound, they saw a metallic submarine object equipped with 3 turrets. Shortly without noise, the giant machine came out of the water and headed for the mountains to the north of the lake.
On the night of November 6, 1973, there was another meeting with a USO, this time near the eastern coast of the United States. The fishermen of Pascagoula, Mississippi, were direct witnesses, as did the Coast Guard.
In total, 9 witnesses saw a circular-elliptical metal object, about 6 meters long and have a golden light at the top. The object moves without noise over the water at a height of 1-2 meters.
As soon as people spotted him and began shouting and shaking, the object sank into the water, as if hiding from people. The Coast Guard made a detailed report and contacted the closest US base Navy in the area.
To the surprise of everyone, the American Navy radars have identified a metallic object of 6 meters in the same area.
There is, however, a place on Earth that can easily be called the capital of USO phenomena, and in no other area of the world, there is a place where the frequency of strange objects in the depths is so great. It’s Puerto Rico, a tropical island in the Caribbean Sea.
Puerto Rico is located in the corner of the famous Bermuda Triangle, famous for the number of unexplained displacements of boats, ships, planes, and helicopters. A large number of USO incidents have been reported around the El Yunque Jungle Mountains and Jungles.
Bermuda Triangle
Here, the USO UFO phenomenon has become so commonplace that locals have become accustomed to them as daily incidents. So did the American Marines who were assigned to missions in the area.
“VERY MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN UFOS RIDING WITH WATER, ONCE I SAW A BEAUTIFUL ONE. AT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WAS A BOAT, IT LOOKED BLACK UNDERNEATH, AND IN THE UPPER PART, IT HAD MANY RED AND BLUE LIGHTS. “AS SOON AS HE NOTICED ME, HE SANK, DISAPPEARING INTO THE SEA,” SAYS JOSE ORLANDO GOLIS, AN OFFICIAL OF THE PUERTO RICAN GOVERNMENT STATIONED IN EL YUNQUE.
Felix Rivera is a professional diver who owns his own recreational or industrial diving company near the American Naval Air Station, one of the American bases on the island. Felix confirmed that many USO witnesses are soldiers and US military personnel at the base.
“NAVY SEALS, THE ELITE TROOPS OF THE AMERICAN NAVY ARE OFTEN TRAINED HERE, MANY OF THEM HAVE TOLD ME ABOUT ENCOUNTERS WITH SUCH STRANGE OBJECTS. SOME SAY MYSTERIOUS APPLIANCES ARE OFTEN APPROACHING THEIR TRAINING BOATS. BUT WHEN AMERICANS GET TOO CLOSE TO THEM OR PULL IN THEIR DIRECTION, OBJECTS SINK AND DISAPPEAR AT AN IMPOSSIBLE SPEED FOR ANY MAN-MADE MACHINE, “HE ADDS.
North of Puerto Rico is an area called the San Juan Strait, a place feared today by American authorities who are alarmed by a large number of military and private aircraft that have disappeared and continue to disappear regularly in this place.
A place that would rightly deserve the fame created around the Bermuda Triangle. Even more interesting is what happens in the depths of the San Juan Strait, where the researchers discovered a deep submarine fault over 9,000 meters.
Here is, in fact, the deepest point in the Atlantic, the underwater pressure is so great that life is normally impossible, and any man-made submarine would be crushed by the immense pressure of water.
The reports of the navy and US aviation report about a circular-shaped metallic ship that often appears above the water, stationing for an indefinite period of time before sinking without a trace into the blue of the Atlantic.
Russia (including the former Soviet space) hides a range of USO phenomena, highly documented and studied by a number of prestigious specialists.
Recently, the leaders of the Russian Center for Studies of the UFO Phenomenon have accepted to publish only a small part of the information considered by the Kremlin to be “capable of provoking panic among the population.”
The “safe” dossier was handed to researchers Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, the two researchers announcing that they will write a book on the basis of the data that will treat all USO case history in Russia’s history.
One of the most spectacular cases is that a Soviet warship spotted an unidentified object moving through the Pacific Ocean through its submarine detection equipment.
What Are Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO)?
The ship’s commanders thought they had discovered an American submarine on an espionage mission. The strange object stood deep, the Russian officers launching radio calls in which they were tending to surrender. The shock of everyone came when the object decided to leave the Soviet ship.
It disappeared astonishingly fast, radars calculating that the submarine ship was moving at a speed of about 450 km / h at a depth of 5,000 meters … while the maximum speed of the most efficient submarine built with the current technologies, does not exceed 65 km / h at a maximum depth of 50 meters …
The first case of USOs studied by the Soviets refers to the Odessa incident, when several officers and soldiers from the Sevastopol Naval Base have observed and identified a USO that left the Black Sea in August 1950 in the immediate the approach of a Soviet military cruiser.
Since then, according to data recently sent by Russian authorities, over 300 USO cases have been counted, which makes it right to ask ourselves what information is hidden in the Russian Navy databases?
Source www.matrixdisclosure.com
'Fleet of UFOs' filmed by a plane passenger in Taiwan creates a flutter online [Video]

A 'fleet of UFOs' flying below a jet has been captured in a video by a passenger in Taiwan. The footage, claimed to have captured a few years back, is creating a buzz on the internet now.
The video, reportedly shot by the passenger over Taiwan and it shows, eight strange luminous orbs moving below a plane at a slow pace. Later, the footage was sent to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates and maintains a global database of UFO sightings, for further clarification.
"I have witnessed eight to ten UFOs flying. I was on the airplane of Eva Airlines from Vancouver, Canada, to Taipei, Taiwan BR0009," the passenger, whose name has been kept secret, was quoted as saying by Express.
"Thirty minutes before, I saw a bright light flying underneath. The third video I have is 38 seconds. About eight UFOs are flying under the plane. I used slow motion to film the video until they asked me to shut down my camera due to landing policy," the witness added.
Many other people also claimed to have seen the fleet of the strange objects. The footage of the UFOs was shot in October 2014, but it went viral only recently on the newsbreakapp and various UFO and conspiracy theory-related websites shared it.
However, UFO enthusiasts and debunkers couldn't come up with a logical explanation regarding the sighting. The debunkers have claimed that the objects spotted were neither UFOs nor aliens.
"Nature and human activities provide a numerous variety of explanations, most of which these investigators (who posted the video) never even thought of," former space shuttle engineer and a UFO sighting debunker James Oberg was quoted as saying by Express.
Some viewers also agreed with Oberg's view on the MUFON YouTube channel.
"Those are reflections. MUFON please filter your sightings so we can keep the real sightings from the ones we can explain," one of the viewers commented.
"Looks like they fly over mountains and these bright spots are reflections of small lakes. I remember this by flying over the Alps in France and Switzerland," another netizen stated.
Watch the footage here:
Why Ancient Peruvians Had Elongated Skulls (No, It's Not Aliens)

Artificial skull elongation has been practiced by a strangely high number of cultures in practically every corner of the world, from Western Europe and the Americas to the Far East and Africa.
But why would people bind their baby’s heads to give themselves a pear-shaped skull? Well, for one 600-year-old civilization in South America, it was probably to show you were a VIP.
A new study, published in the journal Current Anthropology, has taken a look at elongated skulls of the Collagua people who lived in the Colca Valley in south-eastern Peru around 1100 to 1450 CE.
Through measuring carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of the bones, the researchers showed that the Collagua women with elongated distended heads ate a more varied diet, indicating that they were perhaps more privileged. These remains of these women also appeared to have fewer signs of physical violence against them, once against suggesting that they were from a higher echelon of society.
The Collagua were persistently under the threat from the Inca Empire around this time. For the women to be proudly displaying your privilege with strange skulls might have also have been particularly prominent during times of social strives and war, as it acted like a symbol of their collective identity, just like a nation proudly waving a flag.
The study also made clear that more and more skulls were being elongated, even among the lower classes, as the pressure from the Inca Empire grew. Perhaps they were looking for a sense of belonging during a time of strife?
“In times of crisis and social upheaval, the creation of new kinds of collective identity can strengthen or undermine political reintegration,” the study author, Matthew Velasco of Cornell University, notes.
“It may have promoted cohesion among local elites and facilitated cooperation at higher levels of inclusiveness to coordinate agropastoral exchange, manage irrigation, or mobilize against outside forces, including (but not limited to) the encroaching Inka state.”
Artificial cranial deformations usually involve tightly binding a baby’s squishy head with bandages or clamping it into between wooden planks in order to distort its growth. This is just one insight into one culture’s use of elongated skulls, so it doesn’t necessarily represent all instances of it. After all, it occurred in countless different groups throughout history.
Nevertheless, the majority of archaeologists believe that this practice often had something to do with social status and the sense of belonging to a group. Sorry, there's still no word on the alien connection yet!
[H/T Science News]
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IF WE RECEIVE A MESSAGE FROM ALIENS, SHOULD WE DELETE IT WITHOUT READING IT?

Roughly half a century ago, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake conducted Project Ozma, the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Since that time, scientists have conducted multiple surveys in the hopes of find indications of “technosignatures” – i.e. evidence of technologically-advanced life (such as radio communications).
To put it plainly, if humanity were to receive a message from an extra-terrestrial civilization right now, it would be the single-greatest event in the history of civilization. But according to a new study, such a message could also pose a serious risk to humanity. Drawing on multiple possibilities that have been explored in detail, they consider how humanity could shield itself from malicious spam and viruses.
The study, titled “Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible“, recently appeared online. The study was conducted by Michael Hippke, a independent scientist from the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany; and John G. Learned, a professor with the High Energy Physics Group at the University of Hawaii. Together, they examine some of the foregone conclusions about SETI and what is more likely to be the case.
To be fair, the notion that an extra-terrestrial civilization could pose a threat to humanity is not just a well-worn science fiction trope. For decades, scientists have treated it as a distinct possibility and considered whether or not the risks outweigh the possible benefits. As a result, some theorists have suggested that humans should not engage in SETI at all, or that we should take measures to hide our planet.
As Professor Learned told Universe Today via email, there has never been a consensus among SETI researchers about whether or not ETI would be benevolent:
“There is no compelling reason at all to assume benevolence (for example that ETI are wise and kind due to their ancient civilization’s experience). I find much more compelling the analogy to what we know from our history… Is there any society anywhere which has had a good experience after meeting up with a technologically advanced invader? Of course it would go either way, but I think often of the movie Alien… a credible notion it seems to me.”
In addition, assuming that an alien message could pose a threat to humanity makes practical sense. Given the sheer size of the Universe and the limitations imposed by Special Relativity (i.e. no known means of FTL), it would always be cheaper and easier to send a malicious message to eradicate a civilization compared to an invasion fleet. As a result, Hippke and Learned advise that SETI signals be vetted and/or “decontaminated” beforehand.
The Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico was the site of NASA’s High Resolution Microwave Survey, a search for extraterrestrial radio messages.
Credit: US NSF
In terms of how a SETI signal could constitute a threat, the researchers outline a number of possibilities. Beyond the likelihood that a message could convey misinformation designed to cause a panic or self-destructive behavior, there is also the possibility that it could contain viruses or other embedded technical issues (i.e. the format could cause our computers to crash).
They also note that, when it comes to SETI, a major complication arises from the fact that no message is likely to received in only one place (thus making containment possible). This is unlikely because of the “Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence”, which was adopted by the International Academy of Astronautics in 1989 (and revised in 2010).
Article 6 of this declaration states the following:
“The discovery should be confirmed and monitored and any data bearing on the evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence should be recorded and stored permanently to the greatest extent feasible and practicable, in a form that will make it available for further analysis and interpretation. These recordings should be made available to the international institutions listed above and to members of the scientific community for further objective analysis and interpretation.”
Voyager included a golden record with images and sounds of Earthly life recorded on it… just in case.
Credit: NASA
As such, a message that is confirmed to have originated from an ETI would most likely be made available to the entire scientific community before it could be deemed to be threatening in nature. Even if there was only one recipient, and they attempted to keep the message under strict lock and key, it’s a safe bet that other parties would find a way to access it before long.
The question naturally arises then, what can be done? One possibility that Hippke and Learned suggest is to take a analog approach to interpreting these messages, which they illustrate using the 2017 SETI Decrypt Challengeas an example. This challenge, which was issued by René Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, consisted of a sequence of about two million binary digits and related information being posted to social media.
In addition to being a fascinating exercise that gave the public a taste of what SETI research means, the challenge also sough to address some central questions when it came to communicating with an ETI. Foremost among these was whether or not humanity would be bale to understand a message from an alien civilization, and how we might be able to make a message comprehensible (if we sent one first). As they state:
“As an example, the message from the “SETI Decrypt Challenge” (Heller 2017) was a stream of 1,902,341 bits, which is the product of prime numbers. Like the Arecibo message (Staff At The National Astronomy Ionosphere Center 1975) and Evpatoria’s “Cosmic Calls” (Shuch 2011), the bits represent the X/Y black/white pixel map of an image. When this is understood, further analysis could be done off-line by printing on paper. Any harm would then come from the meaning of the message, and not from embedded viruses or other technical issues.”
However, where messages are made up of complex codes or even a self-contained AI, the need for sophisticated computers may be unavoidable. In this case, the authors explore another popular recommendation, which is the use on quarantined machines to conduct the analysis – i.e. a message prison. Unfortunately, they also acknowledge that no prison would be 100% effective and containment could eventually fail.
“This scenario resembles the Oracle-AI, or AI box, of an isolated computer system where a possibly dangerous AI is ‘imprisoned’ with only minimalist communication channels,” they write. “Current research indicates that even well-designed boxes are useless, and a sufficiently intelligent AI will be able to persuade or trick its human keepers into releasing it.”
In the end, it appears that the only real solution is to maintain a vigilant attitude and ensure that any messages we send are as benign as possible. As Hippke summarized: “I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that a message will be positive, but you can not be sure. Would you take a 1% chance of death for a 99% chance of a cure for all diseases? One learning from our paper is how to design own message, in case we decide to send any: Keep it simple, don’t send computer code.”
Basically, when it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, the rules of internet safety may apply. If we begin to receive messages, we shouldn’t trust those that come with big attachments and send any suspicious looking ones to our spam folder. Oh, and if a sender is promising the cure for all known diseases, or claims to be the deposed monarch of Andromeda in need of some cash, we should just hit delete!
Further Reading: arXiv
Eeuwenoude “verloren” stad in Mexico telt 40.000 gebouwen: “Ongelooflijk dat niemand hiervan wist”
Een eeuwenoude “verloren” Mexicaanse stad, gebouwd door rivalen van de Azteken, heeft even veel gebouwen als Manhattan. Er konden maar liefst 100.000 mensen wonen. Dat heeft nieuw onderzoek aangetoond.
Het bestaan van de stad Angamuco werd voor het eerst ontdekt in 2007. Toen waren archeologen van plan om het gebied op de traditionele manier te onderzoeken. Ze beseften echter al snel dat ze minstens tien jaar nodig zouden hebben om het gebied volledig in kaart te brengen.
Daarom beslisten ze gebruik te maken van het zogenaamde Lidar-systeem, een technologie die de afstand tot het oppervlak bepaalt aan de hand van laserpulsen. Vanuit een vliegtuig kon het hele gebied op die manier onderzocht worden.
Onderzoekers zijn er nu in geslaagd een 3D-kaart te maken van de “verloren” stad, die zich nabij de Mexicaanse stad Morelia bevindt.
“100.000 inwoners”
Voor het eerst is de enorme grootte van het uitgestrekte stedelijke centrum van Angamuco, dat zijn hoogtepunt bereikte in de zestiende eeuw, duidelijk geworden. Gebouwen, wegen en monumenten zoals piramides en tempels bedekten een gebied van ruim 25 km².
“Het is fantastisch om te denken dat deze gigantische stad in die tijd bestond in het hartje van Mexico zonder dat iemand er nu iets vanaf wist”, zegt archeoloog Chris Fisher.
Volgens Fisher, die deel uitmaakte van het onderzoek, konden er maar liefst 100.000 mensen wonen. “In het gigantische centrum leefden heel veel mensen”, klinkt het. “Er stonden meer dan 40.000 gebouwen. Dat is ongeveer zoveel als in Manhattan.”
PENTAGON UFO: Shock footage of USAF jets outfoxed by UFO that vanished from radar emerges
NASA gaat mysterieuze Indiase rotsschilderingen onderzoeken. Laten ze UFO’s en aliens zien?

Na de ontdekking van een aantal rotsschilderingen in India hebben lokale autoriteiten de hulp ingeroepen van de NASA. De tekeningen lijken namelijk buitenaards leven te tonen, meldt de Britse Daily Star.
In onderstaand filmpje vertelt de commentaarstem hoe de kunstwerken zijn ontdekt. De rotsschilderingen zijn gevonden in Charama en laten mogelijk UFO’s en aliens zien.
Volgens de lokale archeoloog JR Bhagat is het onduidelijk wat er precies te zien is.
“De ontdekking suggereert dat mensen in de prehistorie mogelijk wezens van andere planeten hebben gezien of zich andere wezens hebben ingebeeld,” zei hij.
Hij voegde toe dat verder onderzoek nodig is. “Charama beschikt momenteel niet over een expert die meer duidelijkheid kan geven,” zei hij.
Bhagat zei verder dat sommige figuren op de rotstekeningen wapens bij zich lijken te dragen.
“De schilderingen zijn gemaakt met behulp van natuurlijke verfstoffen die in de loop der tijd nauwelijks zijn vervaagd,” zei hij.
De vreemde figuren houden wapenachtige voorwerpen vast en lijken geen neus en mond te hebben, aldus Bhagat.
“Op sommige afbeeldingen dragen ze zelfs ruimtepakken,” zei hij.
De video is gepubliceerd door YouTube-kanaal The Lost History Channel en is in enkele dagen tijd al zo’n 100.000 keer bekeken.
“Het bewijs is overal, we moeten onze ogen openen,” reageerde iemand.
Iemand anders zei: “We hoeven geen aliens te vinden, ze bevinden zich al onder ons.”
Bekijk het filmpje hieronder:
Foto: Tillman Wikimedia Commons
[Daily Star]
Noah de ‘tijdreiziger’ onthult in deze Australische radioshow geheimen over het jaar 2030

‘Tijdreiziger’ Noah, die uit het jaar 2030 claimt te komen, heeft gezegd dat de kleindochter van Martin Luther King Jr. in de toekomst president van de VS zal worden.
De man haalde het nieuws nadat hij een leugendetectortest had doorstaan. Hij beweerde onder meer dat Donald Trump zal worden herkozen en dat kunstmatige intelligentie een belangrijke rol in de samenleving zal spelen.
Hij was deze week te gast in het Australische ontbijtprogramma The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Noah claimde tijdens de uitzending onder meer dat een vrouw genaamd Ilana Remikee familie is van Martin Luther King Jr. en op 21-jarige leeftijd president van de VS zal worden.
De man zei op zender KIIS 1065: “Ze is de kleindochter van Martin Luther King Jr.”
Hij beweerde ook verjongingsmiddelen te gebruiken zodat hij tijdens zijn tijdreizen niet veroudert. “Ik moest pillen nemen om ervoor te zorgen dat ik niet ouder zou worden terwijl ik door de tijd reisde,” zei hij.
De man zei verder dat het in de toekomst mogelijk is om designerbaby’s te maken, maar dat dat heel erg duur is.
Volgens Noah leven mensen in de toekomst op Mars om er wetenschappelijk onderzoek te doen en kunnen we contact maken met aliens.
Hij zei dat hij in een enorme koepel werd geplaatst voordat hij naar 2018 reisde. Vervolgens ging er een elektrische schok door hem heen en ‘voordat hij het wist had hij het jaar 2030 verlaten’.
Bekijk de fragmenten hieronder:
Foto: YouTube/Apex TV
[Daily Mail]
DRUK YELLOWSTONE SUPERVULKAAN BOUWT OP ( VIDEO )
DRUK YELLOWSTONE SUPERVULKAAN BOUWT OP ( VIDEO )

Het is al jaren onrustig rondom de Yellowstone supervulkaan in Amerika. Regelmatig duiken er berichten op dat een uitbarsting van deze gigant misschien niet zo ver weg is.
Ook nu is er weer een groep seismologen die waarschuwen dat de Yellowstone supervulkaan “onder druk” staat, waarmee uiteraard dan weer de vrees toeneemt dat er een uitbarsting zal volgen.
De experts werden gealarmeerd doordat er een subtiele vervorming waarneembaar was in de rotsachtige bodem onder het aardoppervlak. Volgens onderzoekers treedt dat op wanneer er een verandering plaatsvindt in de hoeveelheid druk in de magmakamer van de supervulkaan. De seismologen zullen verdere ontwikkelingen nauwkeurig in het oog houden.
De wetenschappers van UNAVCO, een consortium van diverse universiteiten, zeggen dat het druksignaal sterker is dan men zou verwachten als de aardkorst onder de vulkaan solide zou zijn.
Dit alles betekent dan weer dat er lava stroomt, waardoor deze druk wordt opgebouwd. Ongeveer op 5 kilometer onder de grond bevinden zich bepaalde zones waar een soort half gesmolten rots voor komt. Ze gebruiken de term half gesmolten rots omdat deze zich vormen in wat men noemt "pockets" tussen de gewone rots. Kleine ruimtes tussen de gewone rots die vloeibaar aan het worden zijn.
En dan komt natuurlijk weer het normale verhaal dat niemand zich zorgen hoeft te maken en zo meer. Dat schijnt de standaard uitdrukking te zijn voor alle vreemde en ongewone dingen die op aarde plaatsvinden. Geen zorgen, business as usual.
In de volgende video bespreekt Joe Joseph van de Daily Sheeple bovenstaand verhaal en ook hij zegt dat we in een periode leven waar opeens heel veel dingen samen schijnen te komen die erop wijzen dat we ons in een vreemde periode bevinden. En dus, hoe betrouwbaar zijn die inschattingen van die wetenschappers dat we ons geen zorgen hoeven maken?
Niet alleen zouden bij een uitbarsting van deze supervulkaan onmiddellijk bijna 100.000 mensen omkomen, maar zou ook twee derde van Noord Amerika onbewoonbaar worden door een soort nucleaire winter die zal optreden omdat de zon bijna volkomen verduisterd zal zijn.
Iets dat dan natuurlijk niet alleen beperkt zal blijven tot Noord Amerika, maar ook bij ons de nodige gevolgen zal hebben.
Wanneer je zou kijken naar het weer de afgelopen tijd op diverse plaatsen, dan ben je geneigd te denken dat die nucleaire winter al is begonnen. Record hoeveelheden sneeuw en dito lage temperaturen worden op diverse plaatsen gemeten en verstoren het dagelijks leven.
Datzelfde Noord Amerika heeft te maken met één van de strengste winters in haar geschiedenis en nu de temperaturen iets hoger worden, veroorzaakt het smeltende sneeuw en ijs rampzalige overstromingen in het midden en noordwesten van het land.
Een beetje hetzelfde verhaal voor China, Taiwan en Japan, waar men ook te maken het met record hoeveelheden sneeuw. We schreven al eerder over de typische kenmerken van een naderende mini ijstijd vanwege de sneeuw in gebieden als Marokko, Israël en Saoedi Arabië.
Daar bovenop hebben we ook bij ons te maken gehad met orkaan-achtige stormen, die niet alleen hier huis hielden, maar eigenlijk over de hele wereld.
En in het kader van het Yellowstone verhaal is het natuurlijk ook zorgwekkend dat de zogenaamde Ring of Fire steeds meer tot leven schijnt te komen en vulkaanuitbarstingen eigenlijk dagelijkse kost worden.
En niemand in mainstream-land legt enig verband tussen al de heftige aardveranderingen die overal optreden en dat dat voortekenen (kunnen) zijn. Men blijft gewoon kijken naar iedere gebeurtenis afzonderlijk en men blijft het volk in slaap sussen.
Bitcoindelvers hinderen zoektocht naar aliens: “Sterke computerchips niet meer te krijgen” - HLN.beBron: ANP
“We willen de allernieuwste GPU-processoren gebruiken. En we kunnen ze niet meer krijgen. Dat belemmert onze zoektocht naar buitenaards leven, om antwoord te krijgen op de vraag of we alleen zijn. Dit is een nieuw probleem, het speelt pas bij bestellingen van de afgelopen maanden”, zegt wetenschapper Dan Werthimer, grondlegger van het project SETI@home. SETI is een afkorting voor Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (zoektocht naar buitenaardse intelligentie).
Werthimer legt uit waar de processoren voor nodig zijn: “We willen zo veel mogelijk frequenties bekijken, omdat we niet weten hoe ‘aliens’ hun boodschap sturen. Daar is veel rekenkracht voor nodig.” Op sommige plekken draaien honderd aan elkaar gekoppelde GPU’s tegelijk. GPU’s zijn in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor gamers, maar als ze aan elkaar gekoppeld worden, kunnen ze veel gegevens achter elkaar verwerken. Dat gebeurt bij wetenschappelijk onderzoek, maar ook bij het verwerken van virtuele munten zoals de bitcoin. Daarvoor moeten complexe wiskundige formules worden opgelost. Dat oplossen wordt minen of delven genoemd. Wie de oplossing vindt, krijgt als beloning 12,5 bitcoins. Bij de huidige koers is de waarde meer dan 90.000 euro. Elke tien minuten wordt zo’n bedrag uitgekeerd.
New Shocking Evidence Points to a Pole Shift - Signs of Sharp Increase in Natural Disasters
Hubble Captures the Death of a Giant Fart Storm on Neptune
For centuries, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — a colossal, swirling storm in the planet’s atmosphere — has hogged the attention of astronomers. But it’s time for the latte-styled planet to step aside and let Neptune show off its massive and putrid gas storms.
A team of astronomers have been tracking a storm potentially made of hydrogen sulfide gas in Neptune’s atmosphere. This smelly tempest was, at one point, as big as the Atlantic Ocean and made up of a gas that we humans release after a meal at Chipotle. This would essentially make it an ocean-spanning fart.
The once-massive cyclone slowly fizzled out instead of creating a spectacular outburst of cloud activity as hypothesized in pervious observations.
The news of this slow storm death was published in The Astronomical Journal this week.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael H. Wong, the lead author of the study published on February 15, in a statement. “Their dynamical simulations said that anticyclones under Neptune’s wind shear would probably drift toward the equator. We thought that once the vortex got too close to the equator, it would break up and perhaps create a spectacular outburst of cloud activity.”
The team followed the death of this storm by using images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which first spotted it in 2015. The last time the spacecraft was able to capture storms on Neptune was in the mid-1990s, but they vanished without a trace. So the team intently watched this windstorm in order to finally try to understand the weather patterns found on the planet.

The team of researchers was able to gather all of this information from Hubble alone. The probe is the only source of data astronomers have to study Neptune’s weather patterns, making it an incredibly valuable asset.
The NASA spacecraft can take pictures of galaxies millions of light years away and spot gigantic flatulence storms in our solar system. Not bad for a telescope that was launched into space in 1990.
You've read that, now watch this:
"Panning across the galaxy cluster A1725N"