UFO in broad daylight over New York makes comet tail to fool public, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.

UFO in broad daylight over New York makes comet tail to fool public, Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO filmed among the Clouds of India - OVNI Gigante filmado entre nubes - India

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Sunder Thongam filmó este video y dice que salía de su casa camino al hospital alrededor de las 5:30 pm cuando notó esta extraña nube como si estuviera en llamas, así que comencé a filmarla y fue solo cuando aplicó aumento a su teléfono y vio que un objeto negro se movía lentamente entre las nubes.
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Purple UFO Videotaped over Waterford, IrelandWaterford, Ireland - 12-09-18
A recent video has been uploaded to MUFON by submitter 96894. The man's wife Anita filmed two videos during the evening of December 9, 2018.
The object in question was seen over Waterford, Ireland and shows a very unusually colored and shaped object.
What we see is a purple-colored donut shape with several breaks in the circular shape. The object is adorned on top with no less than 18 brightly lit white lights.
The object fades in and out of focus from time to time, but is clearly seen most of the time. The question at hand is what this strange object is.
The UFO could be anything from an unusual drone to an inflated object of some kind, or something more sinister. Take a good look and see if you can identify it.
Karen Brard – Alien and UFO Gifts – December 11, 2018


Open Minds UFO Radio: The holidays are upon us and Karen Brard, the owner of the International UFO Congress, has filled the official International UFO Congress store full of super cool UFO and Alien merchandise that is perfect for holiday gift giving — even if you are giving the gift to yourself. Karen and Open Minds UFO radio host have been traveling around the country promoting the International UFO Congress and selling merchandise and Karen has been learning what people want and offering it at a great price.
In this episode, Karen shares some info and advise about the cool merchandise she is offering. Karen and Alejandro also share some observations and stories regarding some of the events they have attended.
For more information about the International UFO Congress visit: UFOCongress.com
To visit the store, go to: Store.UFOCongress.com
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BEAUTIFUL NEW IMAGES SHOW CLOUDS OF DUST FORMING INTO PLANETS

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A protoplanetary disk is the ring of dust and gas that surrounds a young star. As time passes, the material in the disk begins to coalesce into larger and larger objects, forming everything from asteroids to entire planets.
Now, thanks to a powerful system of radio antennas in the Chilean desert, we have 20 stunning, high-resolution images of such systems — and they are more than desktop-worthy.
These images are the work of the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP), a program of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a massive system of radio antenna positioned in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
According to the program’s website, its goal is to study the smaller objects in protoplanetary disks to determine how those objects related to planet formation.
These images are helping it achieve that goal. According to a news release, the team was able to theorize based on this ALMA data that large planets can form much more quickly than previously thought. They also determined that the planets typically form far from their host stars.
In addition to these gorgeous — and data-rich — images produced by DSHARP, just last week an international team of researchers published the preliminary results of a survey in which it used ALMA to image 32 stars surrounded by protoplanetary disks.
Clearly, ALMA has proven to be one of our most useful tools for studying protoplanetary disks, and it’s only been operational for five years. Who knows what sorts of beautiful and useful data the array might produce in the future?
Near Earth Object is Alien UFO

A recent discovery by Astronomers shows that a Near Earth Object could be an alien UFO.
A Near Earth Object (NEO) is a comet or asteroid that’s path is pulled by gravity causing it to pass close to the Earth. There are around 19,000 NEOs that NASA and other scientific communities keep track of. Theses astronomers try to track all of these objects so that they can warn us if there is an impending collision with the Earth. Unfortunately, there is no way that they can keep track of all of these objects. Many of them aren’t noticed until after they pass the Earth; if they get noticed at all.
The thought of a NEO is already scary enough on its own but now there is a developing theory that some of these objects may contain intelligent, alien life. It is really hard for us to comprehend how this is possible but you have to remember that these alien species are thousands of years (if not more) advanced than us humans.
When we think about a space ship or UFO we usually think about a metal vehicle with a propulsion system of some kind. A NEO traveling at fifty-thousand miles an hour through the galaxy is the perfect vessel to use for long space flights. Some of these asteroids are big enough to support colonies of aliens. If advanced aliens colonized one of these asteroids then they could easily harness its energy.

One of the reasons that we think that there might be alien manipulation involved on some of these NEOs is because some of their paths seem to change in ways that are not expected to Astronomers. Astronomy is a very complicated science, that I don’t claim to understand at all, so I will just have to assume that the scientists know what they are talking about.
There are many things that us humans still don’t understand about the Universe, but one of the theories to why these objects change courses unexpectedly is because they are being manipulated, intentionally, by an intelligent alien.
The process of turning an asteroid into a space ship is more plausiblethan you might think. Catching up to the asteroid would be the hardest part. Once a colony of aliens or alien androids are on the object, they could manipulate its trajectory pretty easily. Turning the object would only take a little nudge of a propulsion device. The aliens could also speed up the asteroid by using the gravity of larger objects. By using these techniques, an alien, asteroid space ship could travel indefinitely through the universe while using almost no power.

If you are like me then you are probably already poking holes in this theory. It is just a theory after all. So is Theoretical Physics but people act like string theory is a fact. Anyways. One of the problems with this theory is that even though these asteroids are traveling at really high speeds, it would still take them forever to get anywhere. When objects are thousands of light years away, thousands of miles an hour isn’t fast enough to get anywhere.
While time and distance do cause problems with this theory, it doesn’t completely destroy it. This mode of transportation would be useful for long-term missions. You always have to remember that this space ship isn’t full of humans. Aliens life spans could be tens of thousands of years. Or more! A really advanced species of aliens could have learned how to fight off death permanently. Eternal life is already in the works here on Earth, so I am sure that advanced aliens have already thought about it. If aliens could live this long then to them a few thousand years trip would be possible.
We can’t forget about the old Sci Fi classic idea of suspended animation either. While it is just a movie trick here on Earth, aliens could really be using this method to travel for long periods of space and time. Other ways to get around the slow travel speed of using a NEO as a space ship are wormholes, warp engines and androids. If a typical alien UFO can do it then one of these converted asteroids can too. We can’t comprehend what these advanced alien species are capable of. This is why they were so often confused with Gods in the past.
I hope that, by reading this, you now realize how possible it is that aliens could be using NEOs as space ships. It doesn’t have to be an object near Earth, of course, but that is probably the only way that we will ever find out about it. At least in our life times. Aliens could be using these asteroids like we use air craft carriers. Maybe one day, a fleet of UFOs will pop out of a passing comet or asteroid. Hopefully they will be friendly. Until then, we will keep speculating and watching the skies.
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The New Trailer for the Alien Occupation Thriller Captive State Just Might Blow You Away
The New Trailer for the Alien Occupation Thriller Captive State Just Might Blow You Away

No, it’s not a Shadow of the Colossus movie. It’s Captive State.
Photo: Focus Features
We hate to be presumptuous, but this new trailer blew us away, so there’s a chance it might do the same for you.
So far, trailers for Captive State have been good. No better, no worse, just good. The framing of the film, set in a world years after aliens have invaded and won, is excellent, but so far its trailers have focused on the film’s more personal aspects. This new trailer, though? Holy shit. It opens things up in a major, major way. Check it out.
Look at all those aliens! Those spaceships! That political intrigue! The father-and-son dynamics! All of those things and more (like that awesome cast: John Goodman! Vera Farmiga!) make this movie look pretty special. Then again, that’s the job of a trailer—to make anything look good—so there’s always an outside chance the movie won’t live up to all this promise.
But, we don’t think so. That footage and cast are too good, and director Rupert Wyatt is too talented to waste such an incredible premise. If the movie ended up being bad, it would be an awful disappointment.
Captive State opens March 29.
The Parker Solar Probe takes its first up-close look at the sun

FIRST LOOK One of the first images NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took during its close encounter with the sun shows a streamer of plasma in the outer solar atmosphere, or corona. The probe took this image November 8 at a distance of about 27 million kilometers from the sun’s surface. The bright dot below the streamer is Jupiter.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has met the sun and lived to tell the tale.
The sun-grazing spacecraft has already broken the records for the fastest space probe and the nearest brush any spacecraft has made with the sun. Now the probe is sending data back from its close solar encounter, scientists reported December 12 at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C.
“What we are looking at now is completely brand new,” solar physicist Nour Raouafi of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md., said at a news conference. “Nobody looked at this before.”
Parker launched August 12 (SN Online: 8/12/18) and will make 24 close passes by the sun over the next seven years, eventually going to within about 6 million kilometers of the sun’s surface (SN: 7/21/18, p. 12). The spacecraft made its first close flyby November 6, swooping to within roughly 24 million kilometers of the solar surface. That’s about twice as close to the sun as the previous closest spacecraft, the Helios spacecraft in the 1970s. At peak speed, Parker was racing at about 375,000 kilometers per hour, roughly twice Helios’ speed.
But because the probe was on the opposite side of the sun from Earth during the flyby, Parker didn’t start relaying its observations until December 7.
After the probe emerged from behind the sun, the Parker team got its first up-close look at the wispy outer solar atmosphere, called the corona. One of the first images from Parker’s camera shows unprecedented detail in a solar streamer, a filament of plasma in the corona. The team hopes that Parker’s data will help solve the mystery of why the corona is about 300 times as hot as the sun’s surface (SN Online: 8/20/17).
Only about one-fifth of the data recorded during Parker’s initial flyby will reach scientists before the sun gets between Earth and the spacecraft again. The rest of the data will be downlinked next year, between March and May. Scientists hope to start publishing results soon after.
“If you ask any scientist in the team or even outside what to expect, I think the answer would be, we don’t really know,” Raouafi said. “We are almost certain we’ll make new discoveries.”
Risk of impact! Dangerous asteroid

The asteroid "Bennu" is still racing towards our planet (TAG24 reported). It weighs 79 million tons and has a diameter of 500 meters. What can save us now?
Or better, who can save us now? Answer: NASA! They already have a "plan" to avert the impact and annihilation of mankind.
NASA has sent the "Osiris Rex" probe into space for this purpose. And now - after two years and over 650 million kilometres covered - it has finally reached "Bennu"!
"We have arrived", was the message from the US space agency Nasa on Monday. The arrival position of the probe, which was launched in September 2016 from the Cape Canaveral spaceport, is about 20 kilometres from "Bennu".
"Osiris Rex" will now spend about a year investigating Bennu and finding a suitable site for taking a sample.

"Osiris Rex" (short for: Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) is the first US missile to set off for an asteroid and send a sample back.
If everything goes according to plan, the probe, which is about six meters long and weighs 2100 kilograms, will approach Bennu in 2020 so far that it can absorb a sample of 60 to 2000 grams.
In 2023, a capsule with the sample is to return to Earth. The NASA scientists hope that the mission, which will cost around one billion dollars, will provide them with insights into the origin of our solar system. According to the scientists, the asteroid is to be destroyed.
For this even nuclear missiles could be used. But then there is also the danger that irradiated asteroid pieces will calculate the earth.
The deep black Bennu with a diameter of 500 meters should soon come very close to the earth. As date for a possible impact the 25th September 2135 was computed.
Thus already in 117 years. And the impact risk exists! Soothing: It is very low, according to NASA. Nevertheless, "Bennu" is one of the most dangerous asteroids currently known.
Triangular Shaped Object Spotted On Night Vision Over Melbourne, Dec. 8, 2018

On December 8, YouTube's "UFO Lou" caught a triangular shaped object, moving quickly with his P8079HP Night Vision Device. Kind of makes me want to build a night scope, to mount somehow on my Nikon Coolpix P900. Definitely, some weird stuff flying overhead in our darkened skies.
Complete head scratcher, what is this?

not really sure what’s going on here? Is it a ufo, a kite ...multiple kites?
not really sure how big either. Not that that maters very often orbs are very small, I think our alien overlords are borrowers ![]()
Huge lake of liquid water found on Mars
Although it seems like "water found on Mars" headlines have been doing the rounds for years, this discovery is really what it's all been building to. The majority of modern Mars is dry and barren, but plenty of evidence has been found that the Red Planet used to be a much wetter place. NASA studies suggest a vast ocean covered the planet's northern hemisphere some 4.3 billion years ago, and lakes may have filled and emptied repeatedly over tens of millions of years in places like Gale Crater, the landing site of the Curiosity rover.
Nowadays, water exists on the Red Planet in the form of trace amounts of vapor in the atmosphere, or locked away in underground ice sheets and mineral compounds. Any liquid water was believed to be transitional, pooling in short-lived microscopic puddles or flowing down hillsides in the Martian summer.
The discovery of a large, stable reserve of liquid water on Mars is massive, giving us new potential targets for future missions and places to search for signs of past or present microbial life – although the sheer saltiness of it might kill those hopes.
10-year study documents massive, mysterious ecosystem deep beneath our feet


Researchers have cataloged the extensive biosphere of life deep beneath the surface of the Earth
(Credit: sazori/Depositphotos)
Earth is teeming with life, but a new project shows most of it isn't where you'd expect. A decade-long study has now taken a census of one of the largest and least-understood ecosystems on the planet – the "deep biosphere" that extends several kilometers into the planet's crust. Among the finds are bizarre creatures that can survive at record depths, pressures and temperatures, and even "zombie" bacteria that may live (in a loose sense of the word) for millions of years at a time.
The project, known as the Deep Carbon Observatory, is the result of an international collaboration of scientists over almost 10 years. Data was collected from hundreds of sites across the world, with samples taken on land from mines and boreholes 5 km (3.1 mi) deep and up to 2.5 km (1.6 mi) under the seafloor.
Using that data, the researchers modeled these deep-Earth ecosystems, and estimated the amount of life down there. According to their calculations, up to 6 x10^29 cells (that's a 6 followed by 29 zeroes) live deep beneath the continental landmasses. When you include the life beneath the seafloors, there's approximately 15 to 23 billion tonnes of carbon biomass. The deep biosphere itself likely occupies up to 2.3 billion cubic km, which is almost twice the total volume of the planet's oceans.

"A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited," says Isabelle Daniel, of the University of Lyon 1 in France. "Experimental investigations told us that microbes could potentially survive to great depth; at that time, we had no evidence, and this has become real 10 years later. This is simply fascinating and will surely foster enthusiasm to look for the biotic-abiotic fringe on Earth and elsewhere."
So, what kind of creatures live down there? The team says that all three domains of life – the broadest groups on the tree of life – are represented, with a genetic diversity at least as extensive as there is here on the surface. Two of those domains, bacteria and archaea, dominate the deep biosphere, which might contain as much as 70 percent of Earth's total amount of those groups. The vast majority of them are still completely unknown to science.

The creatures found in this deep biosphere consistently break records for the known extremes that life can survive under. The deepest-dwelling lifeforms have been discovered down to 5 km (3.1 mi) below land and 10.5 km (6.5 mi) below the ocean's surface.
But perhaps the strangest of all are bacteria that the researchers describe as "zombies." These organisms have life cycles on almost geologic timescales, millions or even tens of millions of years. But it's not much of a life – they don't really grow or undergo cellular division, instead focusing the little energy on hand into just barely maintaining their existence.

The scientists say we've barely begun to scratch the (sub)surface of the deep biosphere. Not only do most species remain unknown, but it's a mystery how they live, reproduce, move around, affect surface life and are affected by natural events like earthquakes and unnatural ones like fracking.
Researchers on the Deep Carbon Observatory project are presenting their findings at the American Geophysical Union meeting this week, which was described in recent papers published in Geobiology and Nature Geoscience, among others.
Source: Deep Carbon Observatory
Mars InSight's 'Mole' Should Start Burrowing into the Red Planet Next MonthThat instrument is InSight's self-hammering heat probe, nicknamed the "mole," which is designed to measure heat production and flow within the interior of Mars. To do that, the instrument has to drill down about 16 feet (5 meters) into the Martian regolith — and that procedure is currently scheduled to begin in January, the mole's principal investigator said yesterday (Dec. 11) during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Of course, this is space exploration, and that means there's still a chance that something could go wrong. "They're speaking about the seven minutes of terror on landing, now I'm saying we have two months of terror in front of us when we penetrate into the surface," said Tilman Spohn, a planetary scientist at the German space agency, which is known by its German acronym, DLR. [NASA's Mars InSight Lander: 10 Surprising Facts]
The heat probe needs to wait its turn, with the lander's supersensitive seismometer and its protective shielding being deployed first. That process will take about a month and is scheduled to begin next week, Spohn said.
If that goes well, the heat probe will be the next to move, with deployment beginning in mid-January. The drilling process will take about two months, since the probe regularly stops to produce a burst of heat and measure how that heat moves through the rock at its current depth.
What worries Spohn is that a large rock — 3 feet (1 m) in diameter or so — would stymie the probe's drilling mechanism, which relies on pushing aside dirt. Smaller rocks it can either push aside or burrow around, and has demonstrated that ability during tests in rock chambers here on Earth.
If a blockage does occur, how far the probe has managed to travel will determine how helpful the results are to scientists. "The less we penetrate, the worse it will be," Spohn said. If it's just 3 feet (1 m) or so deep, the team will need to rely on more intensive modeling. But if it reaches 10 feet (3 m), which should occur around mid February, the team will be pleased — and if it can reach the full depth of 16 feet (5 m) around March 10 or so, all the better.
Spohn is pleased with InSight's landing site, which is just as flat and rock-free as scientists were hoping for. "We had a lot of luck, we have to say," he said, noting that the robot touched down near — but not inside — a crater. "Had we landed there we would have been in some trouble."
Auroras, Lightning and Rings of Jupiter Amaze in Surprising NASA Juno PhotosIts main job is to spot the stars, but an ultrasensitive navigation camera on NASA's Juno spacecraft is returning amazing images of Jupiter's rings, auroras, lightning, and even its moonlit dark side.
Scientists discussed the results from the camera alongside other Jupiter revelations during a briefing Dec. 12 at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Juno is approaching the halfway point on its primary mission, with its 16th science pass by the planet set for Dec. 21.
That camera is called the Stellar Reference Unit, or SRU for short. According to Heidi Becker, Juno's radiation monitoring investigation lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the camera's "day job" is to cut through interference from the intense radiation surrounding Jupiter to spot the stars, comparing them to a database to figure out Juno's precise location and orientation during its 53-day, elongated orbits of the gas giant. [In Photos: Juno's Amazing Views of Jupiter]
"It's really hard to do that engineering job on Juno because we're flying Juno through the most violent planetary radiation environment there is," Becker said during the briefing, which was webcast live online. "Even though we had to shield the SRU more than six times heavier than we've shielded the radiation vault [which protects Juno's main computer and other sensitive components], there still are very high-energy electrons in that environment that will penetrate the SRU shielding and create this static that you see in the star image."
But rather than seeing a disruption, the team at JPL uses that "snow" to make measurements of how intense the radiation is over different parts of Jupiter — they've already noticed that the high-latitude radiation belt is less powerful than models suggested.
"We use noise as data to figure out what the environment is on the outside of Juno, because we're flying where nobody flew before," Becker said.
During its first data-collecting dive past Jupiter in August 2016, SRU grabbed the first-ever view of Jupiter's faint rings from the inside. The image also reflects the navigation side of SRU — Orion's Belt can be seen dotting down the lower right of the image, and the blazing star Betelgeuse can be seen just above the ring.
And that view was only the beginning: "Once we started to get a sense of what else the SRU can do as a low-light camera, my team and I kind of got addicted and kept asking the question: What else can this camera bring back that's new, that's never been seen before, or that's never been seen in the way that only the SRU can see it?" Becker said.
The spacecraft's main visible-light camera, called JunoCam, has been returning spectacular images for the public to process, and has proved useful for science in its own right, researchers said at the briefing. And in the low-light conditions on Jupiter's dark side, Becker said, SRU has returned views that rival that camera's detailed view of the planet's swirls.
"When we first saw this image, we thought 'did our data get mixed up with JunoCam's?'" Becker said. But, no, it was indeed from the SRU, with the planet's cloud tops lit by sunlight reflected off the volcanic moon Io, taken just 66,000 miles from the cloud tops.
In addition, the researchers spotted two bright dots of lightning — visible to the right of the image — providing the closest view of Jupiter's lightning from any imager. Because the spacecraft's microwave radiometer, which has also proved a good lightning detector, faces the same way as the SRU, researchers can eventually combine their measurements to learn about the phenomenon in more depth.
Juno's other instruments have provided incredible views of the planet's auroras in ultraviolet and infrared light, but because of its dark-side views SRU has been able to contribute in the visible spectrum, too, showing the ghostly lights circling the planet's pole.
"This is another first: This is the closest view of Jupiter's aurora that has ever been made by a visible[-light] camera," Becker said. "It's an amazing complement to what Juno is already bringing back in the ultraviolet and in the infrared. And, again, we're seeing amazing structure because of the high resolution of the camera and Juno's close flight to the camera."
This image also reveals another dot of lighting, in the lower right, and the squiggles of high-energy electrons beaming off the planet's poles — "so SRU was doing three kinds of science when it took this picture."
"It's really exciting to see what we can see out of an engineering camera, and we're really erasing all the boundaries between who or what can make a contribution to engineering or science or art," Becker added.
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched toward Jupiter in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around the planet in July 2016. Since then, it's examined the planet during its long, looping orbits to learn about its interior, cloud patterns and weather, magnetic field, radiation and more.
"We have already rewritten the textbooks on how Jupiter's atmosphere works, and on the complexity and asymmetry of its magnetic field," Scott Bolton, principal investigator for Juno and a researcher at Southwest Research Institute in Texas, said in a statement. "The second half should provide the detail that we can use to refine our understanding of the depth of Jupiter's zonal winds, the generation of its magnetic field, and the structure and evolution of its interior."
Linda Moulton Howe Reveals What Extraterrestrials Really Want!
Meer dan 20 jaar maakte de CIA in het diepste geheim gebruik van paranormale vermogens. Deze documentaire doet alles uit de doeken

Meer dan 20 jaar maakte de CIA tijdens topgeheime missies gebruik van bovennatuurlijke vermogens. De belastingbetaler betaalde hieraan mee en dus heb jij als burger het recht hier alles over te weten te komen.
Tijdens één van de experimenten met paranormale vermogens op het Stanford Research Institute stuitte men per ongeluk op een topgeheime NSA-locatie.
De twee natuurkundigen achter het project werden ingelijfd door de CIA en zwoeren geheimhouding.
Toen één van de betrokkenen op mysterieuze wijze om het leven kwam, besloot medeoprichter van het programma Russell Targ alle beschikbare informatie naar buiten te brengen.
De nieuwe documentaire ‘Third Eye Spies’ gaat over het leven van Targ, zijn paranormale spionnen en zijn strijd om deze informatie beschikbaar te maken voor het publiek.
In de film spreken een Nobelprijswinnaar, een Apollo-astronaut en vele voormalige remote viewers en wetenschappers zich voor het eerst uit.
De documentaire onthult welke experimenten op het Stanford Research Institute werden gedaan voor inlichtingendiensten en welke informatie er via Wob-verzoeken daadwerkelijk naar buiten is gekomen.
Paranormale vermogens werden door de overheid onder meer gebruikt om buitenlandse ambassades te bespioneren en een ontvoerde generaal en een neergestorte bommenwerper terug te vinden.
Russell Targ: “Het bewijs voor buitenzintuiglijke waarneming is overweldigend. We zijn hier allemaal toe in staat en hebben het recht om hier meer over te weten te komen.”
Bekijk hieronder alvast een trailer:
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[Third Eye Spies]
Giant Hidden World of Intraterrestrials is Living Underneath Our Feet

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you’re around
Carole King was obviously referring to a guy in her iconic song, but today those same lyrics might apply to a newly-discovered world of “intraterrestrials” living deep under the feet of virtually every human in a pristine environment that excited researchers are calling a “subterranean Galapagos.” In fact, it’s making them “get hot and cold, all over, all over, all over, all over.” Let’s find out why.
Two types of microbes—bacteria and archaea—dominate Deep Earth. Among them are millions of distinct types, most yet to be discovered or characterized. This so-called microbial “dark matter” dramatically expands our perspective on the tree of life. Deep Life scientists say about 70% of Earth’s bacteria and archaea live in the subsurface.
Deep microbes are often very different from their surface cousins, with life cycles on near-geologic timescales, dining in some cases on nothing more than energy from rocks.
The genetic diversity of life below the surface is comparable to or exceeds that above the surface.
While subsurface microbial communities differ greatly between environments, certain genera and higher taxonomic groups are ubiquitous – they appear planet-wide.”
In a statement released prior to the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting, over 1,000 scientists from 52 countries with the Deep Carbon Observatory unveiled the results of their 10-year project which involved drilling hundreds of deep (up to 3 miles/4.8 km) holes on the surface and under the oceans. They found that 70% of Earth’s bacteria and archaea exist in the subsurface, with many of them being alive for thousands of years, moving only when there are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or plate shifts.
Not only are these organisms old and diverse, they’re strange. One found 1.5 miles/2.5 km down appears to live on methane instead of sunlight and doesn’t reproduce but instead has just been repairing itself for eons. Another lives in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor at 250 degrees Fahrenheit (121 degrees Celsius), above the boiling point of water at 212 degrees F (100 degrees C).
And there’s not just a few of them in holes … there’s TONS of them everywhere – an estimated 2 to 2.3 billion cubic km (almost twice the volume of all oceans) with a carbon mass of 15 to 23 billion tons, which is 245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the surface.
Is your heart trembling at the thought of being outnumbered and outlived by so many subsurface intraterrestrials? Robert Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, thinks this study is just scratching the subsurface.
“We must ask ourselves: if life on Earth can be this different from what experience has led us to expect, then what strangeness might await as we probe for life on other worlds?”
How would that make Carole King feel?
I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down,
A’tumbling down, a’tumbling down, a’tumbling down, a’tumbling down, tumbling down!