Mars Travel Could Get Easier Thanks to a New Air-Breathing Thruster

By Oscar Gonzalez

Traveling to Mars presents a lot of challenges. Money is by far the biggest, but right behind it is fuel. It takes a ton of propellant to get into space, let alone travel to the nearest planet. That issue, however, may finally be resolved thanks to new technology.

The European Space Agency (ESA) tested a thruster that uses molecules in space to fuel it. This air-breathing ion thruster could allow for a satellite to orbit the red planet without the need of additional propellant, such as xenon. It works by skimming molecules from space and then compressing them to form plasma. Then an electric field would accelerate the plasma thus propelling the satellite.

“This design of the collector was challenging because the air molecules tend to bounce out again, rather than be retained and compressed to a point where they turn into plasma, capable of being accelerated with an electric field,” Louis Walpot, leader of the project at ESA, told Space.com. “The collector-plus-thruster design is entirely passive in nature — the air enters the collector due to the spacecraft’s velocity as it orbits around Earth. All it needs is electric power to ionize the compressed air.”

Work on the project started in 2015 with the ESA funding the collaboration of Polish Firm QuinteScience and Italy’s Sitael. Testing for the thruster was done in a vacuum chamber located in Italy. The chamber simulated the surroundings at 120 miles above Earth. At that distance, the thruster would suck in nitrogen and oxygen molecules, but would work differently in Mars’ orbit, where it would gather carbon dioxide molecules at approximately 75-85 miles from the planet’s surface.

The next step for the project is to improve the technology and begin working on a more realistic flight configuration. Walpot said they will start looking at potential applications for the technology.

Earlier this month, Elon Musk said SpaceX planned to test their Mars spaceship in the first half of 2019. Now, he may have a tool to make the trip to Mars sooner than expected.

Suppose We Make it to Mars: Here is What to Know to Plan Your Day.

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Illustration via Guy Ottewell’s blog. Read his thoughts on the statistical chances a piece of Tiangong-1 will hit us.

The most recent calculation by Aerospace Corporation calls for China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on April 1 at 16:15 UTC ± 9 hours. Here’s how you can translate UTC to your time. The European Space Agency (ESA), in its March 30 update, nearly agrees. ESA gives the dates as the night of 31 March to the late evening of 1 April (in UTC time) and still calls these dates highly variable.

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By popular demand: the list of the almost 50 bigger-than-Tiangong objects that have fireballed their way through an uncontrolled reentry http://planet4589.org/space/misc/big_reentries.txt …

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Meanwhile, experienced sky observers caught video of Tiangong-1 last week, as it sped across our sky on its way to a fiery demise this weekend. We know of at least two who succeeded in this demanding observation. See their videos below. Brian Ottum posted his view of the space station – from early in the day on Wednesday – on Instagram:

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  astropicsdailyAs you may have heard, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will come crashing down to Earth this weekend. Here is my video of the bus-sized satellite from this morning. The camera was having trouble keeping up with Tiangong as it zoomed across the sky - you can see stars whip past. Taken March 28, 12.6UT. The space station is starting to dip into the atmosphere, 120 miles up. Friction could be starting to cause it to warm up and glow. Predictions have it burning up late Saturday night, but that could happen as early as Saturday morning or Sunday. We just don't know where or when. Chunks are likely to hit Earth, but probably the ocean.
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• algolwatchMy app has it in our hood Sunday 6:41... think it'll last that long?
• astropicsdaily@algolwatch 6UT on Sunday, which is 2am EDT, is currently the best forecast. But the uncertainty is about 24 hrs either side!!!!! We currently have no idea where or when. Hopefully better estimate on Friday evening.
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The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome and Tenagra Observatories in Arizona provided an exciting livestream of their successful attempt to view Tiangong-1, also earlier in the day on Wednesday. Check this out! It’s really fun to hear Gianluca Masi‘s commentary and he searches for – and finds – the space station.

As of now (early in the day on March 31, 2018) the spacecraft is at about 113 miles (182 km) in altitude. That’s down from about 134 miles (215 km) altitude on March 24. And it’s down from 155 miles (258 km) on March 7. Its orbit is clearly decaying as you can see if you follow the spacecraft’s descent here. The end will come more or less suddenly, due in part to changing conditions in Earth’s upper atmosphere, which is why it’s so inherently unpredictable.

Have you been hearing specific reentry locations for China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, aka Heavenly Palace 1? I heard Michigan at one point, then Wisconsin.

Don’t believe these specific predictions. Experts are still saying reentry will take place anywhere between 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south (see map below). As Guy Ottewell points out:

The satellite’s orbit is inclined 43 degrees to the equator, which means that it passes over latitudes between 43 north and 43 south. That includes all of the Americas between the Great Lakes and southern Argentina, all of southern Europe, Asia from Korea south, all of Africa and Australia and the East Indies. So there are a few tens of millions of square miles of land, and more of water, that a descending piece may choose to hit.

At no time will a precise time or location prediction for reentry be possible.

Tiangong-1 potential reentry area. Map showing the area between 42.8 degrees north and 42.8 degrees south latitude (in green), over which Tiangong-1 could reenter.

Image via ESA CC BY-SA IGO 3.0.

Tiangong-1 was launched in 2011, and, originally, a controlled reentry was planned. Firing the craft’s engines would have enabled controllers to allow the craft to burn up (mostly) over a large, unpopulated region of the South Pacific ocean. Any surviving pieces would have fallen into the ocean. But, in March 2016, the Tiangong-1 space station ceased functioning. Ground teams lost control of the craft, and it can no longer be commanded to fire its engines. It is, therefore, expected to make an uncontrolled reentry … soon.

The spacecraft’s main body is approximately 34 feet (10.4 meters) long.

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ESA has said that Tiangong-1 will “substantially burn up” in Earth’s atmosphere. Will pieces crash to Earth? Possibly. Will they crash in populated areas? It’s not possible to say, but the chances are small that any human being will be harmed, according to a statement from Aerospace, a research organization that advises government and private enterprise on space flight. Aerospace said:

There is a chance that a small amount of Tiangong-1 debris may survive reentry and impact the ground. Should this happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region that is a few hundred kilometers in size and centered along a point on the Earth that the station passes over.

Aerospace also warned that the space station might be carrying a highly toxic and corrosive fuel called hydrazine on board.

Tiangong-1 is not designed to withstand reentry, as some spacecraft are. But it will mostly burn up when it falls, due to the extreme heat and friction generated by its high-speed passage through Earth’s atmosphere.

Tiangong-1’s predicted reentry as of March 29, 2018, via ESA.

Tiangong-1’s major goal was to test and master technologies related to orbital rendezvous and docking. One uncrewed and two crewed missions – executed by the Shenzhou (Divine Craft) spacecraft – took place during its operational lifetime. ESA explained:

Following launch in 2011, the Tiangong-1 orbit began steadily decaying due to the faint, yet not-zero, atmospheric drag present even at 300 or 400 km altitude [~200 to 250 miles altitude]. This affects all satellites and spacecraft in low-Earth orbit, like the International Space Station, for example.

Bottom line: China’s first space station will soon undergo an uncontrolled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. As of early in the day on March 31, Aerospace Corporation was predicting April 1 at 16:15 UTC ± 9 hours. At no time will a precise time or location prediction for reentry be possible.

Live, real-time tracking of Tiangong-1 here

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“It’s really, really exciting but also very emotional. You hear the history and the stories, and now you’re standing and looking at something that’s real, that’s confirming the stories that have been handed down over the generations.”

(Duncan McLaren)

When did you ever hear someone speak so emotionally about footprints? William Housty, a member of the Heiltsuk Nation — a First Nations government in the Central Coast region of British Columbia – used those words in a Washington Post article to describe the discovery of 29 footprints on Calvert Island that date back 13,000 years, making them the oldest footprints ever discovered in North America. That alone would be enough to make the Heiltsuk people emotional, but there’s more that will make the “this changes everything” crowd shed a tear as well. The prints add credibility to the prevailing theory that ancient humans from Asia explored and populated North America by traversing the Pacific coastline rather than walking through the interior.

Location of tiny Calvert Island

In a study published in PLOS One, Duncan McLaren of the University of Victoria and the Hakai Research Institute describes how his team found the footprints (pictures here) and then spent three years studying them and the area where they were discovered. The prints were discovered on the shore of Calvert Island in 2014. It appears they were made in clay, then they filled with sand, gravel and more clay which preserved them. It took them two seasons to remove the prints while dealing with rising tides.

Once removed, over half of the footprints were of good enough quality to be identified as human — “based on the clear arch, toe, and offset heel attributes of the tracks found during excavations, we are certain that they were left by human feet” – and measured. Sounding like a shoe salesman, McClaren described what they found.

“The footprint measurements correspond to modern day US shoe sizes of a junior size 8, a junior size 1 or woman’s size 3, and a woman’s size 8-9 (or man’s size 7-8).”

The smallest print is from a child, a significant find since most remains and artifacts are generally from adults. There was no evidence they wore any form of foot coverings – also unusual. Wood fragments located in the foot path allowed the researchers to date the footprints to just over 13,000 years ago.

“This provides evidence that people were inhabiting the region at the end of the last ice age. It is possible that the coast was one of the means by which people entered the Americas at that time. As this island would only have been accessible by watercraft 13,000 years ago. it implies that the people who left the footprints were seafarers who used boats to get around, gather and hunt for food and live and explore the islands.”

Calvert Island shore

The age and location of the prints support an interesting theory called the Kelp Highway, which suggests that a high concentration of underwater kelp along the North Pacific coast which fed an ecosystem that allowed seafaring people to live and travel along the shore.

Based on all of this, the footprints of Calvert Island should at least be considered a discovery that changes many things.

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As you may have seen, I recently wrote an article on Truman Bethurum’s controversial, alleged encounters in the early 1950s with a hot babe from another world. Her name: Aura Rhanes. I suggested in the article that Bethurum’s encounters may have been caused by hypnagogia. Of this particular phenomenon, healthline.com state: “If you think you’re seeing — or smelling, hearing, tasting, or feeling — things when you’re asleep, you may not be dreaming. It’s possible you’re experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations. These can occur in the consciousness state between waking and sleeping.” It’s a fact that a lack of sleep – and disturbed sleep patterns, such as shift-work – can provoke vivid hypnagogic states. A good argument can be made that Truman Bethurum’s experiences occurred when he was in just such a state.

There are other cases which may be explainable by hypnagogia. One of them occurred back in 1947 and is recorded in now-declassified FBI files (which can be accessed at the UFO section of the FBI’s website, The Vault). It was in the second week of July 1949 that an intriguing story caught the attention of the FBI. The story was given to the Bureau by a broadcaster and journalist, Walter Winchell. He told the FBI that he had received a UFO-themed letter from a “Mr. Jones” of Los Angeles, California. According to Jones, the encounter had occurred two years earlier, in 1947. Why Jones waited so long to tell his story, we don’t know. But, let’s see what the FBI had to say about this particular case of the flying saucer kind.

The now-declassified documentation states: “In this letter, Jones stated that in August of 1947 he left Los Angeles for the mountains and started hiking through the mountains. About 10:00 a.m. he was laying on the ground when he observed about one-half block away from him a large, silver, metal object, greenish in color, shaped like a child’s top and about the size of the balloons used at Country Fairs.”

The FBI added: “[Jones] stated that there appeared to be two windows in the object and portions of metal appeared transparent and that he gained the impression that there was some life within this object although he saw no persons. The object appeared as though sealed as a pressure chamber. He stood up and waved toward this object and this so-called flying saucer was off the ground in a second, knocking Jones to the ground. In its flight he stated that its power was silent and he raised the question as to whether this was an inter-global landing on our planet. He thought that it might be a device to land on our planet because the occupants of another planet had become curious as to the reaction caused by the atomic bomb causing trouble in an expanding universe. He asked the question as to whether it was possible that the occupants of another planet might have solved the theory of negative energy.”

This is all very interesting, as much of what Jones had to say – about issues concerning “the reaction caused by the atomic bomb” – mirrored what many of the UFO “Contactees” began to talk about from the early 1950s onward. It should be noted, though, that by Jones’ admission, when he encountered the UFO he was “laying on the ground,” and specifically after taking a hike. In light of that, it’s highly possible that Jones, after a long trek, had fallen asleep and entered a graphic, hypnagogic state. Now, let’s move onto a famous case from the 1960s.

It was in the early hours of December 3, 1967 that a police-officer named Herbert Schirmer had an extraordinary encounter at Ashland, Nebraska. While on patrol, Schirmer came across what, at first, he thought was a broken-down truck at the edge of the road. It was not. What Schirmer saw – when his headlights lit up the object – was an egg-shaped craft floating a couple of meters above the ground and giving off a red glow.

The egg-le has landed

There followed a face-to-face encounter with a trio of human-like entities that were around five-feet in height, maybe slightly smaller. Schirmer was quickly taken on-board – although not by force. Indeed, he was invited to take a tour of the craft from another world. There was also the matter of what has become known in Ufology as “missing time.” According to Schirmer, although he believed he was only in the vehicle for around ten minutes, when he later checked he realized that around an hour of time couldn’t be accounted for.

It sounds like a classic UFO encounter. And, maybe, that’s exactly what it was. On the other hand, there is the not insignificant fact that by his own admission Schirmer often had sleep disturbances, as do many people who work shifts – as Schirmer did. In the early hours and just before dropping off to sleep Schirmer would hear strange noises – and on more than a few occasions. On other occasions he even found he had his hands around his wife’s throat. Thankfully, no harm was done. Sleep disturbances, strange sounds, working irregular hours, and even extreme and violent activity are all part of hypnagogia – which can affect people to significantly varying degrees.

Now, I should stress that I don’t think hypnagogia is the cause of all close encounters. To even try and claim such a thing would be ridiculous. And, it would be unwarranted, too. But, where there is a clear and specific connection to a sleep-related condition that can provoke vivid imagery, and even voices, I think we would do well to focus far more on the mysteries of the mind, and far less on the mysteries of outer space.

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Here in the U.S., we can’t get our politicians to engage in civil debates about anything, let alone mythical monsters – unless they’re trying to get approval to make that monster THEIR state’s monster (see Washington state’s fight to make Bigfoot its official state monster – you can’t make this stuff up!). However, this is not the case in the British Parliament, where this week two members of the House of Commons discussed the existence of the Loch Ness monster and one revealed his own great-uncle was involved in an early sighting. Really!

The debate started when Scottish MP Drew Hendry was bragging about the growth of tourism in the towns under his jurisdiction, which includes Inverness, home of the Loch Ness monster.

“Why wouldn’t you, Mr. Speaker, want to come to Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey? To enjoy the snow sports in the Cairngorms, perhaps, or golfing in Nairn, or go on a cruise along Loch Ness with Jacobite cruises.”

The House of Commons — crowded but peaceful

Hendry was addressing MP Bob Stewart, who represents Beckenham in South-East London. Being a politician and not having access at the time to Twitter, Stewart responded to Hendry’s question face-to-face on the floor of Parliament with a revelation that both chided Hendry and shocked the rest of the members, the general public and Nessie believers worldwide.

“I want to help him by saying my uncle, who was at school on the edges of Loch Ness as a boy, saw the Loch Ness monster. In consequence, tourism expanded hugely. It was in all the Scottish newspapers. And only at his funeral did he allow it that he was a fake.”

If this had occurred in the U.S., all eyes would have turned to the nearest television to see what the cable news networks had to say. This being the U.K., Stewart was allowed to continue.

“For the sake of clarity, my uncle … was at prep school alongside Loch Ness in 1931 when he was late back to school and he and another boy claimed they were watching the Loch Ness monster. This grew big: Scotsman, lots of pictures and he was stuck with this. And it was only at my great uncle’s funeral that he allowed his son to declare that actually he hadn’t seen the Loch Ness Monster all those years ago as a boy.”

If this had occurred in the U.S., the tweets and retweets and memes would be flying. Instead, Hendry gave this stern yet polite response.

“[That is] a scurrilous attack on what is quite clearly one of my constituents.”

The first half of that statement is true, the second is also true assuming Nessie exists. The real question is, was Stewart telling the truth? He claims the sighting was reported in The Scotsman. The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register – the go-to source for all things Nessie – lists one official sighting in 1931 by a J.J. Christie. However, the only record of that sighting it could find is an article in The Inverness, not The Scotsman, and it didn’t appear in the paper until 1948. That seems strange, considering the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register is pretty thorough and Stewart said there were “lots of pictures.” Also, Stewart doesn’t give his great-uncle’s name.

MP Bob Stewart — would he lie about the Loch Ness monster?

Then there’s the alleged funeral confession by his great-uncle’s son that the alleged sighting of the alleged monster was all a real hoax. Really?

It was at this point that Stewart seems to be feeling a little guilty and says:

“But I want to say I believe there is a Loch Ness monster.”

Now there’s something that would NEVER happen on the floor of the U.S. Congress.

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“There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.”

Of all people, you would think that Pope Francis would know not to upset the status quo right before Easter. And yet, he allegedly declared hell does not exist … and it has become of public relations nightmare for the Vatican and an even worse nightmare for his followers as, just a few hours after this shocking declaration, pieces of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome suddenly came crashing to the ground – narrowly missing worshipers and Michelangelo’s famous Pieta statue. Is this a coincidence or asign? Will churches be even MORE overflowing on Easter Sunday?

The problem started … as many religious problems do … with an atheist. Eugenio Scalfari — a 93-year-old Italian journalist, former member of the Italian parliament, co-founder of the newspaper La Repubblica and an avowed atheist – was interviewing Pope Francis for a piece that was scheduled to run on March 29th – Holy Thursday for Catholics. Why was Pope Francis being interviewed by an atheist? Because that’s the kind of open-to-all-ideas pope he is. And that’s probably what got him into the mess he’s in.

A loophole?

Scalfari, being an experienced journalist who’s done his share of big interviews, claims he never has and still does not take notes nor record his interviews with the pope, preferring to rely on his memory. Being 93, that may be why the Vatican’s PR team is blaming his memory for what it’s calling his “reconstruction” of what the pontiff actually said. The pope himself did not issue a retraction nor make any subsequent comments on the interview and the alleged quote.

Why? Perhaps he was a little worried. Just a few hours after the interview in La Repubblica was published, all hell (you knew it was coming) broke loose in St. Peter’s Basilica as pieces broke loose from the ceiling and crashed hundreds of feet to the floor. Officially known as the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, it’s considered to be the burial site of Saint Peter and the church where the pope conducts services on major Catholic occasions, including the upcoming Easter Sunday mass.

According to The Duran and other media outlets, a Vatican spokesperson said that no one was injured when plaster fell from the ceiling and broke into pieces on the marble floor near Michelangelo’s Pieta, one of the most famous statues in the world (photo here). The area was cordoned off until an inspection could be made. This is not what the Vatican wants to hear when thousands of people will be crammed into the basilica on Sunday.

Did Pope Francis really say that hell – the place where many believe the souls of the worst of the worst spend eternity in torture as punishment – doesn’t exist? Only he and Eugenio Scalfari know for sure. Is there a connection between the alleged quote and the ceiling pieces falling in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope’s church, two days before Easter? Who knows? Stranger things have happened. Is the declaration that there is no hell a big enough scandal to warrant such a sign? That’s one for the theologians and religious historians.

The answer to all of these questions will be revealed if Pope Francis conducts Easter services in a pointy white hardhat.

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JE KUNT NATUURLIJK BLIJVEN VOLHOUDEN DAT ER NIETS AAN DE HAND IS ( VIDEO )

Zoals we in een eerder artikel aangaven is het niet één bijzondere gebeurtenis, maar een optelsom van vreemde onverklaarbare zaken. 

En de meeste van die onverklaarbare zaken doen zich de laatste weken voor in de lucht, waar steeds meer mensen dingen opmerken die allesbehalve "normaal" zijn. 

De meeste mensen lopen letterlijk naar de grond te kijken of hun online verbinding en als iets niet in het scherm van hun smartphone verschijnt, dan bestaat het niet. Echter, voor hen die wel regelmatig naar de lucht kijken, begint het steeds meer op te vallen dat er iets niet klopt.

We hebben de laatste tijd regelmatig aandacht besteed aan vreemde kleuren in de lucht. Kleuren zoals bloedrood, oranje of paars die niet te verklaren zijn door atmosferische omstandigheden. Veelal nemen mensen dit soort kleuren waar in een noordwestelijke richting enkele uren nadat de zon is ondergegaan.

Waar in eerste instantie soms nog wordt gedacht aan het noorderlicht als mogelijke verklaring, gaat dit in de meeste gevallen niet op vanwege en de locatie waar dit fenomeen wordt waargenomen en omdat er geen omstandigheden waren die dag die het noorderlicht veroorzaakt zouden kunnen hebben.

Zoals bijvoorbeeld de volgende opnames die zijn gemaakt om 's avonds tien uur in de plaats Athens in de Amerikaanse staat Georgia. Je ziet op een gegeven moment de hemel lichter worden en dan veranderen in allerlei kleuren zoals rood-achtig en zelfs paars. De mensen die dit hebben waargenomen zijn stomverbaasd en vragen zich wat hier in 's hemelsnaam aan de hand is.

De volgende opname is gemaakt op 28 maart 2018 in de plaats Prosper in Texas rond negen uur 's avonds en wederom in westelijke richting. Je ziet duidelijk de hemel oplichten op een niet natuurlijke manier uren nadat de zon is ondergegaan.

De volgende opname is gemaakt om vier uur 's ochtends in westelijke richting in een plaats die Antlers heet in de Amerikaanse staat Oklahoma. Degene die deze opname heeft gemaakt, is vol verbazing over hoe het kan dat hij om die tijd in westelijke richting een oranje hemel ziet.

Dan verschijnen er opnieuw opnames uit Athens, dit keer gemaakt op 28 maart en dan om zes uur 's ochtends. Wederom die je in westelijke richting de hemel oplichten en een rood-achtige kleur krijgen.

En dan in een heel ander deel van de wereld nog iets merkwaardigs. We hebben onlangs kunnen zien hoe een aantal wintersportgebieden oranje sneeuw voor kwam en dit zou dan veroorzaakt zijn door zandstormen in de Sahara.

Rond dezelfde tijd was er ook in de plaats Quargla in Algerije een rode mist te zien. Echter door die mist zie je net nog de zon en daarnaast nog iets wat op een kleinere zon lijkt. Ook toen vorig jaar een storm over Engeland trok en ook een soort rode mist veroorzaakte, gebeurde hetzelfde. Heel veel mensen hebben toen een tweede zon in de lucht waargenomen.Waarschijnlijk fungeert deze mist in de lucht als een soort filter, waardoor je ineens wél dingen naast de zon kunt waarnemen.

Bovenstaande opname is afkomstig uit de volgende video, waar de commentator helaas een Skandinavische taal spreekt dus voor ons niet te verstaan, maar de beelden zijn duidelijk. 


Hier volgt nog een video van een onbekend iemand ergens ter wereld. Ook hier hoor je een verbaasde stem over de rood-achtige lucht middenin de nacht. 


In landen waar de zon normaal gesproken veelvuldig schijnt zoals Thailand, is er eveneens iets dat veel mensen opvalt en waar ze foto's van maken. De kleur van de zon is veranderd, er hangt een soort roodachtige gloed om de zon die er voorheen niet was. De volgende vier foto's zijn allemaal gemaakt op verschillende locaties in Azië door verschillende mensen.

Ook in ons land valt wel degelijk het nodige waar te nemen. Wij ontvingen het volgende van een lezer (dank!):

Ik ben weer een opmerkelijke foto tegen gekomen op Buienradar. 

De foto is gemaakt door A. K. (privacy) te Weidum op 29-03-2018. Zij spreekt over een heerlijke dag in het Noorden, dus in neem aan dat de foto genomen is in de avonduren. De foto toont een opmerkelijke uitstulping ten noordwesten van de Zon. De ene foto is een origineel en de andere heb ik veranderd door de belichting aan te passen. 

Kijk naar het resultaat. Het liegt er niet om. Nibiru is daar.

Waar het bovenstaande nog valt in de categorie: natuurlijk, dat wil zeggen, niet door mensen gemanipuleerd, kan dat absoluut niet gezegd worden van het volgende dat we eveneens via een lezer ontvingen (dank!):

Volkomen normaal... een vierkante wolk. 


Dat dit soort dingen werkelijk voorkomen blijkt uit video's die eerder zijn gepubliceerd: Ook daar voorbeelden van vierkante wolken. 
 
En zo hebben we boven onze hoofden een mix van manipulatie door de mens een een grote planeet die steeds dichterbij schijnt te komen.

Des te meer reden om te zorgen dat je de komende tijd gezond en dus bij deze nog eens de aanbieding van Orjana voor Niburulezers deze week.

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Als je CBD wilt, gebruik dan de rauwe versie(s) zoals die van Orjana, waar alle elementen van de plant in zitten behalve het hallucinerende THC en maak gebruik van de aanbieding van deze week voor Nibirulezers. Voer de code "cbdtien" in en ontvang 10% korting op 10ml CBD olie van Orjana. Deze actie loopt nog tm zondag 1 april.

Mensen die met vragen zitten over hun medische toestand en het gebruik van bijvoorbeeld CBD kunnen die stellen via de website van Orjana.

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UFO'S KOMEN LANGS TIJDENS REDDINGSOPERATIE

Het is februari 2014 als het ruim 100 meter lange vrachtschip Luno vanwege motorproblemen op de rosten terechtkomt in de golf van Biskaje. 

Gelukkig worden de 12 bemanningsleden tijdig van boord gehaald door helikopters, maar deze zijn niet alleen. 

Dankzij een onlangs uitgekomen boek zijn er nu ook beelden van een wel zeer bijzondere reddingsoperatie

Het vrachtschip Luno krijgt motorproblemen en strandt op de rotsen van de kust bij Anglet in Frankrijk.

Het schip heeft 12 bemanningsleden aan boord en het duurt niet al te lang voordat het schip in tweeën breekt.

Vlak voordat het schip breekt, verschijnt er een legerhelikopter die begint met het van boord halen van de bemanningsleden.

Echter, een plaatselijk televisiekanaal dat opnamen maakt, krijgt ook nog wat anders in beeld. Een formatie van twee UFO's die plotseling tevoorschijn komen en rakelings achter de helikopter langs schieten.

Een aantal experts heeft de beelden uitgebreid bestudeerd en men komt tot de conclusie dat de objecten geen drones of vogels zijn.

Ook na uitgebreide studie blijft over dat het niet geïdentificeerde objecten zijn, UFO's dus. Blijft over de vraag wat deze daar op dat moment deden.

Was het nieuwsgierigheid of was er misschien een andere reden dat ze daar waren op dat moment. 

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Diamond UFO Over Mountain Area Haleiwa, Hawaii In March 20, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: March 20, 2018

Location of sighting: Haleiwa, Hawaii, USA

Source: MUFON #91118

 

This diamond craft was captured in Hawaii last week. The object is sitting just over a cloud at the top of the mountain, which makes me think it may have come from the mountain area. The diamond object is tilted, telling me its trajectory was either going up or down. Not left or right like a bird or drone. The diamond shape is just incredible...and over Hawaii. 

 

Eyewitness states: 

Saturnesque object taken on my LGV20 phone on March 20, 2018 Halewia, Oahu.

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5 Unexplained UFO Incidents CAUGHT ON CAMERA

5 stunning photos and video evidence of UFO’s caught on camera.

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from peter2011:

5 UFO Sightings Caught On Camera Above Earth

Top 5 UFO Sightings : UFOs Caught on Tape?

5 UFO Sightings Caught On Camera 2018! NEW UFOs

UFOs Become Visible For A Few Minutes From ISS High Above The Earth

MrMBB333 of YouTube recently released strange UFOs that was claimed to be caught on live. These unidentified flying objects appear to float in a place and make little movement. The video, which was reportedly taken on March 17, 2018, seems to show something high above the earth and visible from the International Space Station (ISS).

MrMBB333 said that he was not expecting those unknown objects, who he just used his iPhone to record that mysterious activity.

MrMBB333 noted that the UFOs have some reflective properties and appear to be moving a little bit. He explained that he watched the ISS livestreams quite a bit, but never seen anything like these.

The unknown objects are so for away in the video, but it definitely shows that there is something there at the moment.

MrMBB333 stated that he was open to interpretation as he did not know what to tell to his viewers about the anomaly. He can only assume that those UFOs might be a structure or group of objects right up there.

The objects disappeared as the ISS moved closer in their direction.

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Sporen van 1 miljoen mensen ontdekt in 'onbewoonde Amazonegebieden'

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Wij dachten dat in deze gebieden vrijwel niemand woonde. Maar we zaten er goed naast.

Het Amazonegebied is enorm uitgestrekt en lang niet alle delen zijn even goed bereikbaar. Geen wonder dat archeologen het gebied nog steeds niet helemaal hebben uitgekamd. Ze moeten keuzes maken; ze kunnen onmogelijk het hele Amazonegebied aan een onderzoek onderwerpen. Tot op heden richtten archeologische studies zich daarom op gebieden in de omgeving van de grote rivieren. Aangenomen werd dat dat de plekken waren waar mensen zich in het verleden het liefst vestigden. Maar daar moeten we nu op terugkomen. Onderzoekers van de universiteit van Exeter hebben dieper in het regenwoud – dus op grote afstand van de grote rivieren – namelijk sporen gevonden van honderden dorpjes die samen mogelijk tot wel 1 miljoen mensen herbergden.

Mato Grosso
De onderzoekers bestudeerden een gebied in wat nu de Braziliaanse provincie Mato Grosso is. Ze vonden er niet alleen resten van versterkte dorpen, maar ook 81 mysterieuze geoglyfen (zie kader). De dorpjes bevinden zich in de meeste gevallen nabij of zelfs in de geoglyfen.

Afbeelding: University of Exeter.

Geoglyfen zijn door mensen gemaakte greppels in het landschap die vanuit de lucht gezien een vierkante, ronde of zelfs hexagonale vorm hebben. De functie van de greppels is nog altijd onbekend. Mogelijk werden ze voor ceremoniële doeleinden aangelegd.

Op basis van hun vondsten concluderen de onderzoekers dat dit zuidelijke deel van de Amazone tussen 1250 en 1500 continu bewoond was. In totaal zouden in het gebied tussen de 1000 en 1500 dorpjes hebben gelegen, waarvan tweederde nog ontdekt moet worden.

Misvatting
“Het is een veelvoorkomende misvatting dat de Amazone een ongerept landschap is, waarin her en der verspreid nomadische gemeenschappen te vinden zijn,” stelt onderzoeker Jonas Gregorio de Souza. “Dat klopt niet. Wij ontdekten dat sommige populaties die op afstand van de grote rivieren leefden, veel groter waren dan gedacht en dat deze mensen van invloed waren op hun omgeving en dat kunnen we ook nog steeds zien.”

Het onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van het Amazonewoud is niet alleen interessant voor archeologen. Ook biologen kunnen er hun voordeel mee doen, meent De Souza. “De Amazone speelt een cruciale rol in het reguleren van het aardse klimaat en als we meer over de geschiedenis ervan weten, helpt dat een ieder om betere beslissingen te nemen over hoe we in de toekomst voor het woud moeten zorgen.”

• Bronmateriaal:

"Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million people" - University of Exeter
Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: University of Exeter

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Compleet nieuw 'orgaan' ontdekt in het menselijk lichaam

Caroline Kraaijvanger

En het lijkt ook nog eens een heel belangrijke functie te hebben.

Het nieuwe ‘orgaan’ bevindt zich net onder het oppervlak van de huid, rond het spijsverteringskanaal, de longen, de urinewegen en omringende vaten, aderen en het bindweefsel tussen spieren. Lang werd gedacht dat het dichte, verbindende weefsels waren. Maar in werkelijkheid blijken het met vloeistof gevulde compartimenten te zijn die bovendien met elkaar in verbinding staan.

Functie
De compartimenten hebben waarschijnlijk een zeer belangrijke functie, zo stellen onderzoekers in het blad Scientific Reports. Mogelijk doen ze dienst als schokdempers die voorkomen dat weefsels die veel samenknijpen, pulseren of pompen – denk aan organen, maar ook spieren en bloedvaten – scheuren.

Hier zie je het interstitium onder de huid.

Afbeelding: Jill Gregory / Mount Sinai Health System, CC-BY-ND.

Interstitium
De ontdekking van dit nieuwe orgaan – dat de onderzoekers ‘interstitium’ hebben gedoopt – kan bovendien meer inzicht geven in verschillende ziekten. Zo kunnen de onderzoekers nu verklaren dat kankercellen die het weefsel rond onder meer het spijsverteringskanal, de longen en vaten binnendringen, hun weg weten te vinden naar de lymfeklieren. Je moet het interstitium als het ware zien als een verzameling snelwegen waar vloeistoffen gebruik van kunnen maken om zich door het lichaam te verplaatsen en dat wegennetwerk komt uit in de lymfeklieren.

Waarom nu pas?
Het lijkt misschien vreemd dat onderzoekers anno 2018 nog nieuwe organen ontdekken in het menselijk lichaam. Hoe kon het interstitium zo lang onopgemerkt blijven? Dat is goed te verklaren. Onderzoekers bestuderen weefsels eigenlijk altijd onder de microscoop. Voor ze het onder de microscoop leggen, bewerken ze deze echter altijd enigszins om de cellen en andere structuren goed in beeld te krijgen. Het betekent onder meer dat alle vloeistof uit het weefsel wordt gehaald. Hierdoor stort het interstitium als een pannenkoek ineen, waardoor het opeens een heel dicht weefsel lijkt.

De onderzoekers kwamen het nieuwe ‘orgaan’ op het spoor dankzij een vrij nieuwe technologie die gebruikt kan worden om weefsels in beeld te brengen. De technologie werd gebruikt om te verwijderen weefsels in het lichaam van kankerpatiënten te bestuderen en liet de met vloeistoffen gevulde weefsels zien. Vervolgonderzoek wees uit dat die met vloeistof gevulde compartimenten overal waar in het lichaam weefsels bewogen of samengedrukt werden, te vinden waren.

• Bronmateriaal:

  "Newfound 'organ' had been missed by standard method for visualizing anatomy" - NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine
  Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: www_slon_pics / Pixabay

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Aarde had mogelijk al oceanen vóórdat de maan ontstond

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Advanced Ancient Structures That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

The ancient world is full of wonders that the modern age cannot compete with. The beauty of modern buildings has its grace, but when we focus on the old structures, our mind gets bamboozled as they are so extraordinary and unique. A lot of methods and technologies which were used to create these ancient temples, palaces, and cities, remained rather obscure.

So, let us check out five fascinating ancient structures around the world which have been the subject of many movies, documentaries, and studies.

1  –  Derinkuyu- The old underground City

In the Cappadocia region of Turkey there is a town called Derinkuyu; and beneath Derinkuyu there is a city, vast and deep, of ancient design, preserved to this day. The mystery of who built it and why remains, although scholars have their theories.

It is 11 levels, according to National Geographic, descending about 280 feet, with an area of a little over 4 miles squared (10.4 kilometers squared).

It includes chambers for various daily activities, including temples, tombs, shops, living quarters, and even livestock pens. It has 15,000 air shafts, and enough room to comfortably hold approximately 20,000 people.

Despite numerous theories have been suggested by archeologists nobody nows who exactly built this city and why.

2  –  Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni

The Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni in Malta is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which is believed to be the oldest prehistoric underground temple in the world.  The subterranean structure is shrouded in mystery, from the discovery of elongated skulls to stories of paranormal phenomena. But the characteristic that has been attracting experts from around the globe is the unique acoustic properties found within the underground chambers of the Hypogeum.

Despite the plethora of research on the acoustic properties of the Oracle Room, there remain just as many questions as answers.

3  –  The ancient Marib Dam

The Great Dam of Ma’rib certainly dates back to about the 8th century BCE and is considered the oldest known dam in the world, being counted as one of the most wonderful feats of engineering in the ancient world. The date of the first construction of the Dam at Ma’rib goes back to somewhere between 1750 and 1700 BC. The Sabaens managed all this before the existence of concrete, and their dam stood for over 1,000 years. In comparison, modern dams built with our advanced technology last for around 50 years. The Great Dam of Marib was about 2,000 feet long, and while it stood, it converted ancient Yemen into a fertile oasis, what was then known as the kingdom of Sheba.

4  –  Puma Punku, the stone city

Puma Punku is the name of a large temple complex located near Tiwanaku, in Bolivia, and is part of a larger archaeological site known as Tiahuanacu. The temple’s origin is a mystery, but based on carbon dating of organic material found on site, archeologists believe the complex may have been built by the Tiwanaku empire – one of the most important civilization prior to the Inca Empire – that flourished between 300 and 1000 AD.

The most intriguing thing about Puma Punku is the stonework. The stones are of mammoth proportion. The largest of these blocks is 25.6 feet long, 17 feet wide and 3.5 feet thick, and is estimated to weigh 131 metric tons. Due to their size, the method by which they were transported to Puma Punku and perfectly cut has been main topic of interest since the temple’s discovery.

5  –  Gobekli Tepe

The recently (1995) discovered monolith at Gobekli Tepe is clearly the worlds biggest mystery. When found, it appeared to have been deliberately buried in sand, for reasons that still remain unknown.

What’s even stranger is that carbon dating estimates the site to be over 12,000 years old!

The precision carving used during the construction is completely unexplainable. So far just 5% of this incredible site has been excavated. Situated at the northwest edge of Mesopotamia in Southeastern Turkey, Gobekli Tepe is a tell; that is, an ancient manmade hill built from the accumulated layers of millennia of building atop the ruins of those who came before. At the lowest level, its most significant construction dates back to 10,000-11,000 BC, a period that predates the introduction of writing, metal tools and the wheel in the region by 6,000 years.

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