Man records rare dark straight line blocking a rainbow
It looks like a dark straight line blocking a rainbow but could it be a cloud shadow or there is something between the cloud and the rainbow that blocks the rainbow.
Man records rare dark straight line blocking a rainbow
UFO Search: US Congress Proposes Millions Of Funds To Find ETs with AI

The US House of Representatives has proposed to aid NASA’s search for signs of life in the cold depths of space, amounting around £7.3million ($10million).
The search of “technosignitures” from potentially developed and intelligent species will likely get two years of funding.
It would include the search for radio waves, which an intelligent alien civilisation could be intentionally blasting into space as what humans have been doing in modern times.
In 25 years of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), it is the first time the Congress is planning to give it proper funds.
However, the bill is far from a done deal, warned the renowned astronomer and former director of SETI Institute Dr Jill Tarter.
She said that it is not an appropriation bill but an authorisation bill. She explained that if ever it passes, it is up to the appropriators whether they provide any SETI funding in their bill or not. However, she added that if they do provide, that would be something big.
Detection of artificially created radio waves has generally been the focus of the search for advanced life outside our solar system.
However, a brand new approach in the search for extraterrestrials could be born with a revision of mission statement of SETI.
SETI could use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to scan the noise to avoid misleading and false positive signals.
Dr Tarter pointed out that UFO hunters usually look for signs of technology and intelligence in space that are the same with humanity.
But she argued the technosignatures search is a limited approach because ET language, technology and intelligence appear in all forms and shapes.
NASA started the SETI programme to build the instruments needed to scan the space for signs of ET life.
However, Nevada Senator Richard Bryan shut down the SETI initiative a year later.
Now, the Congress bill promises a new chapter for SETI, according to Dr Tarter.
She stated that the bill would be a sea-change in Congressional attitude it if passes since Senator Bryan terminated the SETI program of NASA in 1993, which was the High-Resolution Microwave Survey.
SETI would be able to build new instrumentation and collect data globally with the sizeable budget.
Dr Tarter added that proper funding would attract the best in the field from different parts of the world and commit to the long-term search that might be necessary for success.
The Longest Lunar Eclipse Of The Century Is About To Happen
The Longest Lunar Eclipse Of The Century Is About To Happen
Prepare yourselves sky gazers.
The longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century will take place on July 27, 2018, when the shadow of Earth will completely cover the moon for 1 hour and 43 minutes.
In addition to being eclipsed, the Moon will also turn red reflecting the sun’s rays, creating a truly spectacular view.
In the last century, only four total lunar eclipses had a period totality—the time where the moon is completely eclipsed—that rivaled this summer’s event.
This included a lunar eclipse on June 15, 2011, that lasted 100 minutes, one on July 16, 2000, which lasted 107 minutes, an eclipse in July 1982 that lasted 107 minutes and one in July 1935 that lasted 101 minutes, Space.com writes.
Because these events took place in the 20th century, the eclipse of July will be the longest lunar eclipse of the present century.
However, not everyone will be able to witness the phenomenon, and those who won’t be able to witness this magical phenomenon at its best are the residents of North and South America, IFLScience reported.
The eclipse will be more visible to people living in Africa, the Middle East, India, Australia and some areas of Europe.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes through the shadow of the Earth, known as the umbra.

The Moon will go almost right through Earth’s umbra.
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This happens when the Sun, the Earth and th Moon are aligned.
It is like a total solar eclipse, but this time it is our planet that eclipses the Sun, and since the Earth is much bigger than the Moon, it becomes completely engulfed in its shadow.
During the total lunar eclipse, the Moon not only darkens.
In July, we will witness it turning red because of the refracted sunlight on the surface of the Earth. It is similar to when red sunsets appear in our sky.
The lunar eclipse of July 27, 2018, will be particularly long because the Moon will pass through the center of the umbra, which means that it will remain in the shadow for a longer period of time.
When the Moon passes only on the side of the umbra, the eclipse lasts shorter.
However, there are a number of other factors that have to be taken into consideration.
For example, the position of the Earth in its orbit also plays an important role.
According to Earthsky, this July 27 the Earth will be at its furthest point from the Sun, known as the apogee, which means that it casts a larger shadow. And on the same date, the Moon will be at the most distant point in its monthly orbit around Earth, known as the lunar apogee.
The combination of these rare space events will allow us to observe this unusual phenomenon in a stunning way.
Astronaut Screams At The Sight Of A UFO When Approaching The ISS

It is very intriguing to note the automatic, conditioned reaction of the fellow astronaut who immediately calmed her with an apparent sense of urgency before she could even fully let out a scream.
Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti can be heard shouting over the comms from her Soyuz spacecraft during docking maneuvers with the International Space Station. What was the cause of her alarm?
Would or even could NASA tell us if they think E.T.'s may be monitoring our world?
Wouldn't they have to withhold such information, if it were true as a matter of national and international security in fact?
Water Geysers Likely Found on This 'Alien' Ice Moon

Jupiter's moon Europa is covered with a thick icy crust thought to cover a vast water ocean that may be able to support life.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA
Long considered to be one of the most promising places to search for alien life in the solar system, Europa is known to have a global ocean containing vastly more water than all of Earth’s combined. Finding plumes raises the possibility that the ocean tucked beneath its icy shell might erupt into outer space, which means that tasting that alien sea and searching it for signs of life could be as simple as sending a spacecraft zooming through a plume of ejected water vapor.
That’s still not exactly easy, but it is less complicated than asking a probe to fly all the way to Europa, safely land, burrow through a miles-thick crust of rock-hard ice, and then get to work being an extraterrestrial ocean explorer
“It’s unlikely that one of these plumes is going to throw a fish into space that’s going to whack into Europa Clipper,” says Cynthia Phillips of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “It’s more likely to come from pockets of liquid that are closer to the surface – so, not free ocean samples, but free subsurface samples.”
For years, planetary scientists have argued over whether Europa might be spitting water into space, as Saturn’s moon Enceladus does.

An image of the icy plumes spouting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
In late 2013, tantalizing images from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed possible 125-mile-high plumes of water vapor erupting from a region in the moon’s southern hemisphere. At the time, though, scientists were skeptical, as the plumes were at the very limit of Hubble’s ability to see. Follow-up observations revealed nothing.
But in 2016, and again in 2017, scientists reported that more Hubble images pointed to the presence of a plume, though something less dramatically exuberant than the geysers of Enceladus, which fly so high that they create a ring around Saturn. Even so, Europa’s eruptions could be equally as dense as its cousin’s, and easily visible by an orbiting spacecraft.
In May 2017, the SETI Institute’s Melissa McGrath gave a presentation at one of the Europa Clipper science team meetings. In it, she reviewed all the evidence for potential plumes coming from the moon, including the intriguing possibility that the Galileo spacecraft had spotted a plume two decades earlier.
That’s when the University of Michigan’s Xianzhe Jia and colleagues decided to revisit those archival data and see what kinds of nuggets they could find.
“I was asking myself, Why didn’t we start looking at this earlier? Why wait so long? The data is there, publicly available for almost 20 years,” Jia says.
Europa’s gravity is strong enough that any erupted water vapor would hug the moon quite closely, and Galileo only swung low enough to detect such an eruption twice, most notably in December 1997. During that pass, the spacecraft took about five minutes to traverse Europa’s face.
Jia and his colleagues pulled observations from the spacecraft’s magnetometer, which measures magnetic fields, and from a second instrument that measures the density of charged particles. In the sequence of numbers produced by those two instruments, they immediately spotted something unusual: Anomalous blips, lasting about three minutes, centered around Galileo’s closest approach to the moon.
If a plume were erupting, Jia says, the erupted water vapor and dust particles would be affected by magnetic fields, which is what the spacecraft detected. And the density of charged particles surrounding the spacecraft would change as the spacecraft entered, flew through, and then exited the plume.
“We saw very peculiar changes in the magnetic signal, something I don’t think has been explained in the past,” Jia says. “We also pulled out the plasma wave data from Galileo, and surprisingly, around the same time, the plasma wave showed anomalous emissions. So when you put those two together, that indicated that something very special had happened during that interval.”
In other words, the spacecraft had flown through a localized plume maybe 620 miles wide somewhere near the moon’s equator. But Jia and his team wanted to make sure. So they simulated the observations such a spacecraft would make if it flew through a plume of the size and density spotted by Hubble. The Galileo observations matched the simulation almost perfectly.
Now, with two spacecraft and several independent instruments reporting similar findings, it’s harder to deny that Europa is venting water vapor into space.
“If you look at any one piece of evidence by itself, it’s not very convincing,” McGrath says. “But when you start bringing in completely independent sets of observations and they all seem to be telling us the same thing, it’s sort of like, yeah. That’s what is starting to convince people.“
As exciting as the Galileo data are, they don’t necessarily prove the existence of continual plumes. Instead, Phillips says, the observation is another clue that can be added to a body of evidence suggesting that Europa does—at least occasionally—vent water into space.
“I think it tells you there’s probably more plumes than we can see right now, because the odds that we’d happen to fly through the only one that exists are pretty low,” McGrath says.
What does this mean for the Clipper spacecraft? Turns out, the team designing the probe has already planned to include a suite of instruments capable of tasting a plume, should the spacecraft fly through. What it finds will be anyone’s guess.
“Even with our wildest imagination, we always see stuff that we totally did not expect,” McGrath says. “We’ll surely see something we totally don’t expect at Europa.”
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The History Of The Ancient Roman Empire Written Down In The Arctic
The History Of The Ancient Roman Empire Written Down In The Arctic
Without a reason of doubt, the ancient Roman empire left its mark in history.
“We found that lead pollution in Greenland very closely tracked known plagues, wars, social unrest and imperial expansions during European antiquity.”

From majestic roads, sanitation, to education systems, the ancient Roman Empire made sure it would remain forever in the history books.
Now, researchers exploring Arctic Ice sheets have found traces of the rise and fall of the Roman empire embedded in ice.
Experts have managed to track the Roman Empire’s economic ups and downs, due to the empire’s increased coin-making production, which experts found preserved for centuries after their collapse, in Greenland’s Ice Sheet.
Scientists say that most of the lead emissions of the period are linked to the massive production of silver.
As experts explain, pollution from the lead mines of the ancient Roman empire that boomed during the expansion of the empire drifted all the way to the ice sheets of Greenland. It is believed that lead emissions were preserved thanks to falling snow, which computed in layers and layers of ice.
Speaking about the discovery Joe McConnell, a hydrologist at the Desert Research Institute said:
“Our record of sub-annually resolved, accurately dated measurements in the ice core starts in 1100 BC during the late Iron Age and extends through antiquity and late antiquity to the early Middle Ages in Europe – a period that included the rise and fall of the Greek and Roman civilizations.”
“We found that lead pollution in Greenland very closely tracked known plagues, wars, social unrest and imperial expansions during European antiquity.”
These ancient traces have now been identified by experts, surviving thousands of years after the fall of the Roman empire.
Ice Cores extracted by scientists in Greenland have offered an unprecedented and unique vision of the past, allowing experts to go back in time, and understand how pollution left behind by the empire through thousands of years influenced not only Europe but the Arctic ice Sheet as well.
“We found that lead pollution in Greenland very closely tracked known plagues, wars, social unrest and imperial expansions during European antiquity,” said Professor McConnell.
Researchers from different fields participated in the study. From experts in hydrology, ice-core specialists, to economic historians, experts gathered to find never-before-seen details about the Roman Empire.
The new study offers a historical record that includes more than 21,000 lead and other chemical measurements.
Experts found that lead pollution emissions began rising around 900 BC, as the ancient Phoenicians began expanding their prosperous trading routes into the Mediterranean. Furthermore, lead emissions are believed to have increased due to mining activity by the ancient Carthaginians and Romans, mostly in the Iberian Peninsula, reaching its zenith during the Roman Empire.
Experts have linked lead emissions to significant historical events.
Researchers found that lead emissions reached an all-time low during the last 80 years of the Roman Republic, known historically as the Crisis of the Roman Republic.
“The nearly four-fold higher lead emissions during the first two centuries of the Roman Empire compared to the last decades of the Roman Republic indicate substantial economic growth under Imperial rule,” said coauthor Andrew Wilson, Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford.
As noted by the Independent, “the new study carried out by Dr. McConnell and his team used state-of-the-art simulations of lead pollution’s transport in the atmosphere to work out the scale on which mining and smelting operations in Europe were taking place.”
Furthermore, scientists also discovered how lead emissions varied during wars and political unrest, particularly during the Roman Republic. Experts also found how lead emissions took sharp dives when two notable plagues struck the Roman Empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
You can read more about the study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
New, powerful laser system proposed for the International Space Station’s defense
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Space is a dirty place, so the ISS needs some lasers to blast it clean, researchers propose.
If you’re a fan of Sci-Fi, we’re in luck — an international group of scientists wants to see our most burning desire made real. They propose to install a laser defense system aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to blast at litter in the near-Earth orbit.
The idea of ‘arming’ the ISS with laser batteries isn’t new but we’re just now getting to a place where we can develop systems compact and reliable enough to be practical aboard the station. To jump-start development, an international team of researchers from France, Italy, Japan, and Russia is pooling their efforts, according to Boris Shustov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
The system they’re considering would consist of orbital lasers aboard the ISS. It should be effective against the most common type of space debris around Earth — pieces that only measure a few centimeters.
The idea was first proposed by Japanese researchers back in 2015. The original project draft envisioned lasers using 10,000 optical fiber channels and would draw all of the ISS’s electrical output to work at full capacity, according to the team. That, understandably, isn’t a particularly attractive defensive system. The new project aims to provide the same power output by using 100 “thin rods” in lieu of the optical fibers. This would reduce the overall energy drain to only 5% of the ISS’s output — a twenty-fold decrease.
This version of the laser system would allow the ISS to fire laser bursts for 10 seconds, up to a range of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), with a recharge time of 200 seconds, according to Russian media. The whole system would weigh about 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds).
It’s a small price to pay, considering the benefits such a system would provide. The ISS still has to make routine adjustments to its orbit to avoid collisions with pieces of man-made junk. These bits are parts of former rockets or spacecraft that have been broken up into small pieces through mutual collisions over the years, or from the effects of space radiation.
They’re quite small, going very fast, and can have disastrous consequences to the ISS’s structural integrity should they hit. There’s also a lot of them. NASA is currently tracking about 17,000 pieces about the size of your fist and half a million pieces roughly the size of a marble. According to their estimates, there are over 200 million pieces over one millimeter in size still floating in Earth’s orbit at speeds in excess of 17,500 mph (over 28.100 km/h).
An impact with any single one of those fragments could jeopardize the ISS and its crew.
Scientists claim common sea creature 'arrived on our planet from space'There’s no doubt octopuses are strange creatures, unlike anything else on this planet, but could they actually come from another world?
A controversial science paper has argued just that, suggesting that octopuses may have arrived on our planet as frozen eggs carried here in comets.
The paper, by 33 scientists (some with reputations as mavericks) is published in the peer-reviewed journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
It suggests “life was seeded here on Earth by life-bearing comets” as soon as it became possible for life forms to survive – and that octopuses arrived in a similar way about 270 million years ago.
The idea of alien life spreading like “seeds” through space isn’t new – the theory is known as Panspermia.
But the authors point to new DNA evidence about octopuses.
The first full genome sequence of octopus DNA in 2015 showed that octopuses are totally different from all other animals – and their genome shows a striking level of complexity with 33,000 protein-coding genes identified, more than in a human.
The paper says, “The genome of the Octopus shows a staggering level of complexity with 33,000 protein-coding genes more than is present in Homo sapiens.
“It is plausible then to suggest they seem to be borrowed from a far distant ‘future’ in terms of terrestrial evolution, or more realistically from the cosmos at large.
“One plausible explanation, in our view, is that the new genes are likely new } extraterrestrial imports to Earth – most plausibly as an already coherent group of functioning genes within [say] cryopreserved and matrix protected fertilized Octopus eggs.”
33 wetenschappers suggereren dat octopussen uit de ruimte komen. Zijn we allemaal aliens?

Octopussen zijn mogelijk via kometen naar de aarde gekomen, zo stellen 33 wetenschappers in een nieuw onderzoek dat is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
Het onderzoek suggereert dat kometen verantwoordelijk zijn voor het ontstaan van leven op aarde en dat octopussen zo’n 270 miljoen jaar geleden naar onze planeet zijn gekomen.
Deze theorie staat bekend als panspermie, dat het leven verspreid in het heelal voorkomt en niet op de aarde zelf is ontstaan.
Volgens de wetenschappers bewijst het DNA van octopussen dat ze niet op aarde zijn geëvolueerd.
In 2015 bleek dat het DNA van octopussen totaal anders is dan dat van andere dieren. Er werden maar liefst 33.000 verschillende eiwitten geïdentificeerd in het DNA van de octopus, veel meer dan mensen hebben.
De octopus is zelfs niet te vergelijken met andere weekdieren in de zee door zijn acht poten, het grote brein en het hoge IQ waardoor hij zelf problemen kan oplossen.
“Het is aannemelijk dat die eiwitten zijn ontleend aan een verre ‘toekomst’ in termen van aardse evolutie, of realistischer: aan de kosmos,” klinkt het.
“Een aannemelijke verklaring is dat de nieuwe genen zijn geïmporteerd naar de aarde in de vorm van bevroren octopus-eitjes,” aldus de wetenschappers.
[Yahoo]
Pentagon deed onderzoek naar warp drive, manipulatie van extra dimensies en antizwaartekracht. Deze documenten bewijzen het

Het Pentagon blijkt erg geïnteresseerd te zijn in zaken die grenzen aan sciencefiction en zelfs het paranormale. Denk daarbij aan de warp drive, het manipuleren van extra dimensies, donkere energie en exotische vormen van ruimtereizen.
De documenten zijn boven water gehaald door het I-Team van journalist George Knapp van Channel 8 News, dat al tientallen jaren onderzoek doet naar de link tussen de overheid en UFO’s.
De Amerikaanse militaire inlichtingendienst DIA liet onder meer onderzoek doen naar een manier van aandrijving die sneller reizen dan het licht mogelijk moest maken.
Daarnaast werd onderzoek gedaan naar antizwaartekracht en ‘gebieden waar de ruimtetijd was veranderd’. Het gaat daarbij om het manipuleren van de ruimtetijd van het vacuüm van de ruimte.
Tijdens een tweede studie werd gekeken naar donkere energie en extra dimensies.
“Het idee dat met behulp van een voldoende geavanceerde technologie de controle kan worden verkregen over de hogere dimensies is aanlokkelijk, en moet zeker nader worden onderzocht,” klonk het.
“Deze studies zitten bomvol informatie,” citeerde Channel 8 senator Harry Reid, die de financiering van de onderzoeken regelde.
“We hebben in de afgelopen decennia geleerd dat er veel dingen gebeuren waar geen verklaring voor is,” zei hij. “Nu wel.”
De documenten laten zien dat de Amerikaanse overheid veel verder ging dan het interpreteren en documenteren van UFO-waarnemingen.
Je kunt je nu afvragen wat ze nog meer hebben onderzocht (en wat nog niet naar buiten is gebracht).
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NIEUWE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK ZEGT: OCTOPUS BUITENAARDS ( VIDEO )
NIEUWE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK ZEGT: OCTOPUS BUITENAARDS ( VIDEO )
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Misschien herinneren mensen zich nog wel Paul, de octopus die in 2010 grote bekendheid kreeg vanwege zijn gave om voetbalwedstrijden te kunnen voorspellen. Wanneer je naar een octopus kijkt dan zie je een wezen dat er vreemd uitziet en in niets lijkt op welk ander dier op deze planeet.
Een nieuw wetenschappelijk onderzoek stelt dat de octopus miljoenen jaren geleden als een bevroren ei naar de aarde is gekomen door middel van kometen. (Redactie: Dat lijkt de standaard verklaring voor fenomenen die niet te verklaren zijn voor wetenschappers.) Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd door 33 wetenschappers die de resultaten hebben gepubliceerd in het zogenaamde peer-reviewed journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Zij komen tot de conclusie dat leven hier op aarde is ontstaan door wat zij noemen “levendragende” kometen. Dit gebeurde op een moment dat de atmosfeer op aarde geschikt was om leven te kunnen herbergen en dat was zo’n 270 miljoen jaar geleden, volgens hen. Een van de levensvormen die zo van buiten de aarde op onze planeet terecht is gekomen, zou de octopus zijn, een dier met 3 harten, 9 stel hersenen en blauw bloed.
Ook het DNA van een octopus is heel bijzonder omdat onderzoek dat in 2015 werd uitgevoerd, aantoont dat dit compleet verschillend is van andere dieren. De genen van een octopus zijn zeer gecompliceerd en het DNA van de octopus bevat 33.000 proteïne gecodeerde genen, meer dan in het DNA van een mens. De wetenschappers gaan dan verder met te stellen dat het heel goed mogelijk is dat de octopus afkomstig is uit de toekomst, van een sterrenstelsel waar men qua ontwikkeling al veel verder is dan op aarde. Het dier beschikt in ieder geval over een buitenaardse intelligentie zo te zien: Misschien toch iets om over na te denken de eerstvolgende keer dat je naar een sushi restaurant gaat.
Scot Waring heeft een beter idee: In plaats van deze dieren te eten, moeten we een manier zien te vinden om met hen te communiceren. De navolgende video is werkelijk fascinerend en een aanrader om te bekijken.
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Wetenschappers ontdekken dat 250 miljoen jaar na de Oerknal al sterren werden gevormd - HLN.beBron: Belga
Astronomen loerden met de ALMA-telescoop naar het verre sterrenstelsel MACS1149-JD1. Daarbij ontdekten ze een zeer zwakke gloed, afkomstig van geïoniseerd zuurstof in het stelsel.
Tegen de tijd dat ALMA het infrarode licht had gedetecteerd, was de golflengte ervan door de uitdijing van het heelal met meer dan een factor tien uitgerekt. Daaruit leidden de wetenschappers af dat de gloed 13,3 miljard jaar geleden, oftewel 500 miljoen jaar na de Oerknal, werd uitgezonden. En daarmee is het de verste zuurstof die ooit met een telescoop werd gedetecteerd.
De afstand tot het sterrenstelsel zoals die uit deze waarneming afgeleid werd, komt overeen met de afstand op basis van de zuurstofdetectie. Dat maakt MACS1149-JD1 tot het verste sterrenstelsel waarvan de afstand nauwkeurig bekend is, zegt de ESO.
Tot een hele tijd na de Big Bang was er geen zuurstof in het heelal. Dat element is pas gevormd bij de fusieprocessen zoals die in de eerste sterren plaatsvonden. Het kwam vrij toen de sterren op explosieve wijze stierven. De detectie van zuurstof in MACS1149-JD1 geeft aan dat deze eerdere generaties van sterren slechts 500 miljoen jaar na de Oerknal al gevormd waren en hun zuurstof hadden uitgestoten. (lees hieronder verder)
Om het precieze tijdstip van de stervorming te achterhalen reconstrueerde het team wetenschappers de vroege geschiedenis van MACS1149-JD1 met behulp van infraroodgegevens die met de Amerikaans-Europese Hubble Ruimtetelescoop en de Spitzer-ruimtetelescoop van de NASA zijn verzameld. Daarbij ontdekten de astronomen dat de waargenomen helderheid van het sterrenstelsel goed wordt verklaard door een model waarbij de stervorming slechts 250 miljoen jaar na het ontstaan van het heelal is begonnen.
“Met deze nieuwe waarnemingen van MACS1149-JD1 is de directe waarneming van de geboorte van het sterlicht een stapje dichterbij gekomen. Omdat wij allemaal uit bewerkte stermaterie bestaan, zijn we daarmee ook dichter bij onze eigen oorsprong gekomen”, zo citeert de ESO Richard Ellis van het University College Londen (UCL).
Stephen Hawking’s Memorial Service Welcomes Time Travelers

When former The Simpsons guest star Stephen Hawking passed in March, he left behind a lifetime worth of invaluable contributions to the world of theoretical astrophysics. Aside from his distinguished life’s work, Hawking left behind his last unpublished paper which simplifies the mind-bending concept of the multiverse by reaching the conclusion that there exists a finite number of universes and they all share the same laws of physics. How did Hawking reach this conclusion? For one, he performed decades of careful mathematical calculations, of course. Yet an odd detail from his memorial service set to be held in June could suggest Hawking had help from the future.
When the first details about Hawking’s memorial service were made public, tens of thousands of people from over 50 countries applied for admission. At the service, Hawking’s ashes will be interred between the remains of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. While filling out the ballot for the service, one applicant noticed that the birth date field on the application allows any date can be chosen up to December 31, 2038. Are the service’s organizers expecting visitors from the future?
Wormholes have long been suggested as a possible means of traveling through time.
When asked about the odd date choices, a spokesman for the Stephen Hawking Foundation said they are leaving the possibility of time travelers open just in case:
We cannot exclude the possibility of time travel as it has not been disproven to our satisfaction. All things are possible until proven otherwise. But so far we have had applications from all round the world, and we do mean round – there are no flat-Earthers here.
This isn’t the first time a Hawking-related event invited time travelers from a future time. Hawking hosted a “time traveler party” complete with champagne and hors d’ouvres in 2009, hoping someone from the future might show up. Unfortunately, no one did, causing Hawking to remark that this was evidence time travel was not possible. But why would a true time traveler want to put herself under public scrutiny like that? If they’re here, they’re certainly blending in the best they can. Except Elon Musk – that guy’s way too obvious.
First Successful Memory Transplant Performed

Another staple plot device of science fiction may soon be crossing the line into science. Researchers at UCLA have successfully transferred memory from one creature’s brain to another. Is this the solution to finding out where a criminal hid the money?
This revolutionary discovery appears in the current edition of the journal eNeuro. UCLA neurobiologist David Glanzman did not accept the commonly held belief that memories are stored in brain synapses and decided to look for an alternative memory storage locker. He speculated that one existed in RNA (ribonucleic acid), the messenger service for DNA inside cells. To test this theory, Glanzman used electrical shocks to train Aplysia californica to respond defensively when jolted in a certain area.
Aplysia what? OK, the test subjects in this experiment were California sea hares, the giant foot-long hermaphrodite marine snails found along the US Pacific coast. What do giant snails have to remember besides where they parked their shells? Actually, Aplysia californica are favorite lab subjects of neuroscientists because, while their bodies are slow, their brains are quite fast. And with only about 20,000 neurons in them (humans have 100 billion), sea hare brains are easy to study and map.
Aplysia californica sea hare
After training one set of snails to respond when shocked in their siphon (the water intake tube snails use for locomotion, feeding, respiration, and reproduction) and setting up a control group with their siphons wired but not receiving shocks, Glanzman’s team extracted RNA from their brains and injected them into other snails. When tested, the snails receiving RNA from the trained donors had the same reflexive responses while those getting control group RNA did not.
“If memories were stored at synapses, there is no way our experiment would have worked.”
Snail anatomy
That’s important because synapses are not permanent while some memories are. Or at least they are until a person has Alzheimer’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder or other brain problems. While he doesn’t explain how in the study nor the press release from UCLA, Glanzman believes that this RNA transfer can revive lost memories or those that have been shut down by disease.
Of course, it’s a long way from snails to humans (in most cases) and there are still many neuroscientists who are sticking with the ‘memory resides in synapses’ side. But Glanzman’s research is a start. His next step is to identify which specific types of RNA can be used to perform successful memory transfers.
Until then, remember this – Shocked In The Siphon would be a great name for a band.
First UFO Report Over Erupting Hawaiian Volcano
UFOs seem to be attracted to volcanoes like flies to potato salad that’s been sitting in the hot sun all afternoon, so it was only a matter of time before one was spotted over Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island as it grows and spreads its lava outward. The wait is over as an individual has posted a photo of what he claims is a UFO over the volcano. Is it a spacecraft emerging, a drone observing or a bug bugging out before things get worse?
Pedro Ramirez is a self-described ufologist (per his Facebook page) from Mexico City. He posted his image of the alleged UFO over Kilauea on that page and in a video (of the still photo) on YouTube and it has since been picked up by various news and UFO sites like C. UFO M (Centro Ufologico Mediterraneo). He identifies the location where the photo was taken as the Punalu’u beach Black Sand Beach and the photographer was facing towards Kilauea, which is seen in the background with an “oval UFO” above it. In this case, the “photographer” was not Ramirez but a Google vehicle taking pictures for Google Maps.
Without even looking at the UFO under magnification, that’s where the story begins to fall apart. The Google Maps photo had to have been taken long before Kilauea’s latest eruption last week. This could have been months or even years ago. That means there’s no photographer to question about the date, time, speed, was it witnessed or found later, and other pertinent information. All that can be ascertained from the first glance at the photo is that it doesn’t seem to be a rock expelled from the volcano.
So, what is it? Ramirez says in the video post that the object stays solid under magnification (magnified photos are in the video) so he believes it’s solid. That’s quite a leap. That fact that it appears to be an oval with nothing sticking out of it moves speculation away from a drone or a bird, but doesn’t rule out the infamous speck of dirt on the lens. It’s also unclear from the photo if the UFO was moving or stationary.
Ramirez’s claim of “a wave of reports of unidentified objects have arrived from the Island” may be true, but the Google photo doesn’t appear to be one of them. Unfortunately, other photos or videos haven’t seemed to surface yet so his is getting all of the attention and scrutiny. The theory that UFOs seen at volcanoes are aliens in spacecraft observing, possibly protecting or potentially refueling might apply at Kilauea, but the idea that volcanoes are doorways for ships to enter underground bases may not hold up here since Kilauea is a flattened ‘shield’ volcano and the openings are more like fissures than wide lava mouths.
With just a Google Maps photo to go on, the needle on this one is leaning towards drone, dirt or camera anomaly. Let’s hope this doesn’t make fire goddess Pele angry.
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Daytime UFO over Medford, Oregon 15-May-2018

This strange craft was seen and recorded in the sky above Medford, Oregon.
Witness report:
At the Medford airport. Looked up it was hovering and then flew a straight path hovered and 90 degree change in flight path. Me and 4 other guys were sitting outside at work watching a thunderstorm pass by. One guy said what is that. We looked up and saw a black cylinder hovering above us to the NW about 1000 to 2000 feet. It hovered there for a minute or so. I ran and grab my phone and started to video record it. It flew in a level path to the NNE, I am guessing about 1/2 mile and came to a hover while maintaining the same altitude. Hovered for a second ( when I zoomed in on the video recording I noticed a flash of red on top. Very faint.). Then did a 90 degree turn and flew to the NW. Once on the NW path you could see it accelerate while maintaining the same altitude, and it flew out of my sight. I recorded it for 3 minuets. It was black and did not make any sound that I could hear. There was an airplane running on the ground so I could not hear much. It was a great siting and I am glad I was able to record it. I was very excited to witness this amazing sight. I am a firm believer and believe we are not alone. I am a helicopter pilot and know about flight. I was very excited to share this experience with my friends and colleagues. I even shared it with my wife (who is not a believer) and she couldn’t explain it. Always keep your eyes up!
Author (source: MUFON)