In 2017, Harvard University geneticist George Church predicted that gene-edited pig organs would be transplanted into humans within two years. Well, it’s 2019. Is it time to stop putting pork in baked beans and start putting it in human bein’s? (Sorry, but you knew it was coming.)

“I was wrong.”

When life gives you lemons, or pesky regulations that stop you from testing gene-edited pig organs on humans, you make lemonade by putting the pig organs in the next best thing to humans. No, not zombies … although that’s a great idea for a movie. George Church and his eGenesis company has convinced a major US hospital to allow them to transplant gene-edited pig organs into monkeys. You know the next question: What could possibly go wrong?

“What we’re doing is a necessary step. We’d be hard pressed to put a modified organ into a human until it’s been tested in a large animal.”

Dr. James Markmann, the chief of transplant surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is working with eGenesis to prove to skeptics that the shortage of human donor organs can be solved by using modified pig organs which are closer to human organs than those of any other animals. Close — but not close enough to light up a Cohiba Behike … yet. In fact, the only thing you may want to light up at the moment is a warning flare. In an interview in the MIT Technology Review, Markmann declines to identify which pig organs are being tested (heart, kidney and liver would be the most popular and useful) nor what kind of monkeys are receiving them. Baboons and chimps would be the obvious choices for their size but it’s difficult both physically and ethically to obtain them for medical experiments, which is why those plentiful, pesky and sometimes murderous Rhesus monkeys are probably the recipients.

On the other hand, there’s millions of pigs and the non-organ parts won’t go to waste, but animal rights groups are fighting for them as well – Markmann avoids conflicts by refering to both donors and recipients as merely “large animals.” Pigs are also becoming more controversial as other researchers believe it’s better to perform the gene edits (the purpose is to eliminate recipient rejection) in such a way that they remove the rejection gene from most of the pig’s organs – creating a veritable buffet of transplantable offal. Markmann prefers to edit one organ at a time and points out that pig hearts have survived in baboons for up to two years. Is it time to test them on humans? What could possibly go wrong?

Doctor, ever since I got that transplant I have this overwhelming urge to burn down a sausage plant.

“We’ve got a Chevy. We may even have a BMW now. Do we wait for a Ferrari? There’s a point where you just want to give it a test drive.”

By far, the best quote on the subject comes from Devin Eckhoff, director of the medical school transplantation division at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who seems to liken his own field to auto mechanics and organ transplants to putting a big new Ford engine in an old Model T. As with so many other experiments that end up being plots for horror movies, what could possibly go wrong is that the marketing and accounting departments overrule research and development and make decisions based on fame, money and beating the competition.

Would the zombie idea be a better approach?

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In 2010, in a disturbing and eye-opening article, the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper reported the following: “More and more police forces and government agencies are exploring the potential of unmanned drones for covert aerial surveillance, security, or emergency operations across the UK, the Guardian has learned.” According to the Guardian, one of the departments of the British Government that is at the forefront of keeping the population of the United Kingdom under surveillance is SOCA, the Serious Organized Crime Agency. SOCA has a close working relationship with MI5, which is the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ FBI. Government documentation secured by investigative journalists of the Guardian revealed that the growth of the use of drones in the U.K., by regional police forces, is growing at an extremely rapid rate.  And it’s not just the Guardian that has reported on such issues in the United Kingdom.

The BBC, in April 2015, told its readers that, “Police guarding London airports will start using drones for surveillance following a review by counter-terrorism officers. An 18-month analysis by the National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters, which helps develop police policy, found the technology could be ‘transformative.’ Privacy campaigners said they were concerned about the plans. Police are also to take over investigations into drone misuse.”

It’s decidedly disturbing that the very people who, in the U.K, are tasked with investigating the misuse of drones, are the same people who are using such drones, namely the police. The BBC had more to say on this issue. Revealing that, at the time of writing, more than 50,000 drones were in use in the U.K. – whether owned by the public and / or law-enforcement personnel and the intelligence world – the BBC noted how this growing increase in the employment of drones threatened the privacy of the people of the U.K. It quoted the words of Big Brother Watch’s Emma Carr, who said that, in regards to drones it’s vital that we have a fuller grasp of “how they’re used and who they’re being used by.” Amen to that.

Now let us move onto Australia. In 2014, Australia’s ABC News reported that, “The Australian Federal Police has told a federal parliamentary inquiry that drones are among the latest tools it is using in major crime investigations. A parliamentary committee has begun examining the growing use and popularity of drone technology, as well as the privacy concerns it raises for Australians.”

The extent to which the AFP was using drones, and the nature of the technology involved, became very clear in 2013. That was when the AFP used drone-based technology to search for the remains of an anti-drugs proponent in the New South Wales area of the nation. Mark Harrison, the Commander of the AFP, told the Australian press the following: “We assisted in the imagery and the recording of that search and excavation and the UAV provided a different and unique perspective to aid and assist in that process.” Notably, this was the very first occasion on which the AFP acknowledged it had a drone program. As is the case in the United States and the United Kingdom, the citizens of Australia have their deep concerns about how drones may be misused, all in the name of what passes for national security.

Certainly, the provisions of the Australian Freedom of Information Act have demonstrated that more and more people have lodged complaints with the world of law enforcement, chiefly to express their outrage at what they see as flagrant disregard for personal privacy. Much of this was revealed by Australia’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Timothy Pilgrim, the Commissioner himself, admitted that, “There are cases where people have woken up in the morning, pulled their curtains open and there’s been a drone hovering outside. It’s starting to suggest to us that there’s a point in time at which we need to sit back and say: ‘Do we have the right laws in place to make sure that we can regulate to the best extent possible how these devices can be used?’ That is the challenge now facing lawmakers in Federal Parliament and across Australia.”

In Australia, at least, there is some degree of oversight: the police, the military, and the intelligence community are now required to secure a warrant before any kind of drone-driven surveillance of citizens and residents can go ahead – which is very encouraging. We can only hope that such rules and regulations are being adhered to.

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It's not a bird, and it's certainly not a plane, so what is this object hovering over Lake Superior?

While traveling through Paradise, Michigan, Erik Rintamaki noticed two golden orbs flying above a boat for over an hour.

One of the lights mysteriously disappeared and reappeared shortly after he began filming, leaving him and his female companion wondering what exactly they were witnessing.

"This is the craziest thing I've ever seen," he exclaimed. Watch the eerie moment and decide for yourself what the puzzling sighting could possibly be.

  

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Alien Cross Shaped Base Or Ship Found On Earths Moon, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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I found this cross long ago back in 2015, but only now had time to make a video of it. The cross reminds me of a possible NASA base that on earths moon that I had once heard about. This could be that base. Is this a base, or is this a landed ship? You decide. Original NASA source has been deleted with all the Zond mission data. 
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Massive Metal "Anomaly" Detected Beneath the Surface of the Moon

Every single sci-fi fan and space buff across the world is hoping it's just one thing...

Researchers have just discovered that there’s something solid buried 180 miles beneath the moon’s surface … and, it’s huge. It’s estimated to weigh 4.8 quintillion pounds (that’s 17 zeroes), which is roughly 350 million times as heavy as the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Billions of years ago, something hit the moon and created one of the biggest impact craters in our solar system — a vast depression on the moon known as the South Pole-Aitken basin. It’s believed this could be a colossal mass of metal left over from the asteroid when it smashed into the lunar surface.

In this false-color graphic showing the topography of the far side of the moon, the warmer colors indicate high topography and the bluer colors indicate low topography. The large blue area is the South Pole-Aitken Basin, and the circle shows the location of the anomaly.

“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,” author Peter B. James said in a statement. The research was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The crater itself is oval-shaped, as wide as 2,000 kilometers — roughly the distance between Waco, Texas, and Washington, DC — and several miles deep. Despite its size, it cannot be seen from Earth because it is on the far side of the moon.

It’s the largest preserved crater in the solar system. While larger impacts may have occurred throughout the solar system, including on Earth, most traces of those have been lost. Another possibility is that the large mass might be a concentration of dense oxides associated with the last stage of lunar magma ocean solidification.

How Was It Discovered?

Researchers were reviewing data from a NASA spacecraft used during the GRAIL mission in 2011 that studied the interior of the moon.

“When we combined [that GRAIL mission data] with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South Pole-Aitken basin,” James said. “One of the explanations of this extra mass is that the metal from the asteroid that formed this crater is still embedded in the moon’s mantle.”

Is It the Iron-Nickel Core of an Asteroid?

The dense mass is weighing the basin floor downward by more than half a mile, James said. Computer simulations of large asteroid impacts suggest that, under the right conditions, an iron-nickel core of an asteroid may be dispersed into the upper mantle (the layer between the moon’s crust and core) during an impact.

It’s Sadly Not a Monolith

So, sadly, it doesn’t sound like it’s a mysterious, totally smooth, black monolith measuring 1:4:9. That’s a pity. These monoliths were machines built by an unseen extraterrestrial species and featured in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series.

They first appeared on screen in Stanley Kubrick’s epic movie adaptation of the first novel in the series, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and again in the underrated sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

One such monolith was discovered buried on the moon in a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highland called Tycho.

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An Asteroid Impact With the Earth in September Is Not Entirely Impossible 

It is extremely unlikely, but the probability is actually higher than zero.

Keep September free … because a massive, football field-sized asteroid has a one in 7,300 chance of smashing into the Earth on the morning of September 9, 2019, according to the European Space Agency.

But it most likely won’t hit us.

Known as asteroid 2006 QV89, it has a diameter of 164 feet — that’s double the width of the meteor that exploded in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk in Russiain 2013. That meteor came from behind the shadow of the sun and wasn’t seen by astronomers until it was already entering our atmosphere.

Current modeling of the asteroid’s orbit shows it more likely passing by Earth at a distance of over 4.2 million miles this September, but ESA says there’s roughly a one hundredth of a 1 percent chance the model is wrong and it hits our planet instead.

Only last month, US scientists took part in an exercise simulating an imminent asteroid impact with the Earth, and NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine warned that we need to take the real-world threat seriously during his keynote speech at the International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland.

But it most likely won’t hit us.

Bridenstine also said that detecting, tracking, and studying asteroids and other near-Earth objects (NEOs) should be taken more seriously following the Chelyabinsk event. The resulting shock wave from that 65-foot-wide asteroid damaged thousands of buildings, and debris and flying glass injured over 1,500 people.

Last June, NASA produced a 20-page plan that details the steps the US should take to be better prepared for NEOs that come within 30 million miles of Earth.

Lindley Johnson, the space agency’s planetary defense officer, said that the country “already has significant scientific, technical, and operational capabilities” to help with NEOs, but implementing the new plan would “greatly increase our nation’s readiness and work with international partners to effectively respond should a new potential asteroid impact be detected.”

According to a 2018 report put together by Planetary.org, there are more than 18,000 NEOs.

Hollywood enjoyed a brief spell of asteroid impact-themed disaster movies during the summer of 1998. In the movie Deep Impact, a comet 1½ miles long slammed into the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Cape Hatteras, creating, at first, a tsunami 100 feet high traveling at 1,100 mph (that’s faster than the speed of sound). Then, when it reached shallow water, it slowed but increased in height to 3,500 feet. The wave washed away farmland and cities and eventually reached as far inland as the Ohio and Tennessee valleys (over 600 miles).

But it most likely won’t hit us.

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In 1952, a joint operation by the NSA and the CIA was launched – Project Sigma. The purpose of the operation, which was carried out under the immediate supervision of President Eisenhower, was to establish a productive partnership between human beings and aliens.

Scientists attached to the project located a suspicious group of asteroids that appeared to be moving in a uniform fashion and, using telecommunications equipment salvaged from a UFOwreck on Earth, requested a meeting. There was a response from the alien race known as the Tall Greys who agreed to visit Earth and meet with representatives.

Project Sigma's dirty deal with alien species

The message was also intercepted by a separate alien species, referred to as the Blues, who advised humans not to enter into negotiations with the Tall Greys, claiming that they were a self-serving race of aliens. The Blues instead made an offer of their own, claiming that they would help humanity with its spiritual development in exchange for the destruction of Earth’s nuclear arsenal. The Blues said that humanity had not proved itself responsible to wield such mighty power and, for the same reason, indicated that they would not provide human beings with alien technology. The Blues also made various criticisms of humanity; pointing to wars, pollution and endemic squandering of natural resources.

The US government rejected the offer and criticism of the Blues, thinking that their request that the nuclear arsenal be dismantled may have been a ploy to leave Earth defenceless in the face of an alien attack. Instead, a decision was taken to meet with the Tall Greys.

Where and when this meeting took place is still unknown, but sources have indicated what was said. The Tall Greys informed representatives from the US government that they would be happy to bequeath them with sophisticated technology including weapons and mind-control instruments as long as certain conditions were met. The Tall Greys claimed that their DNA was suffering from degradation and that they wanted to use the human genome to stabilise their own genes and ensure the continuation of their species. They asked for permission to abduct human beings and perform genetic research, assuring the humans that their subjects would be returned unharmed and with no memory of what had happened to them. The aliens also demanded that the US government not reveal their presence on Earth or interfere with their activities. They also requested that the United States build several underground bases for the exclusive use of the aliens.

While the deal was accepted enthusiastically at the time, the US authorities quickly realised that they were in over their heads. There has been evidence since the 1960s that the aliens are exceeding their quota of abducted humans and that they not honouring their agreement to return their subjects unharmed and without memory. While there have been attempts by the US government to back out of the deal, their protestations have been ignored by the Tall Greys.

The greys are allegedly trying to save their species by creating human-grey hybrids

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Bam! Fresh Crater Spied on Mars — and It Looks Spectacular

By Elizabeth Howell 

The crater is about 50 feet wide.

Mars got whacked.

A small space rock crashed into the Red Planet's surface recently, producing a fresh crater that researchers estimate is 49 feet to 53 feet (15 to 16 meters) wide.

The dramatic feature is clearly visible in a newly released image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The spacecraft has been imaging the Red Planet up close for more than 13 years using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera and photographing larger swaths of terrain with its lower-resolution Context Camera (CTX).

• Related: Latest Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

A new crater on Mars, which appeared sometime between September 2016 and February 2019, shows up as a dark smudge on the landscape in this high-resolution photo. 

(Image: © NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

A color image from HiRISE, posted June 6 and taken in April, shows a large black-and-blue bruise on the landscape amid an otherwise flat area of red Martian dirt.

Because MRO cannot look everywhere at once, it's unclear exactly when the new crater formed; the best estimate is somewhere between September 2016 and February 2019, scientists said. 

While MRO captures hundreds of these new dark smudges a year, said HiRISE team member and University of Arizona staff scientist Veronica Bray, this new crater is on the larger side of the ones that she has ever seen. That means the impact that created it was a fairly rare event, at least as far as we know from 13 years of MRO's continuous observing. 

Bray estimated that the impactor responsible was about 5 feet (1.5 m) wide — so small that it would either have burst into pieces or eroded away completely had it come through Earth's much thicker atmosphere. The impactor might have been a more solid rock than usual, she added, because other rocks coming into Mars' atmosphere often shatter high in the air and create chains of craters as broken-up pieces smack into the terrain below.

"It is a reminder of what's out there," Bray, a HiRISE targeting specialist who imaged this new crater, told Space.com. She said that Mars is a dynamic place, complete with shifting sand dunes and whirling dust devils, but she finds craters the most interesting Red Planet surface features. 

"It's a gorgeous [crater]. I'm glad I got it in the color strip," she said.

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Bray added that the color of this particular crater fascinates her, because she can see the impact wave clearly — a dark zone where dust was shifted off the surface. Beneath is likely basaltic rock, based on what we know of Mars geology and the colors showing in the image. There also are zones with a bluish tint, which may or may not be exposed ice. While the crater was blasted in the Valles Marineris region, near the relatively warm Martian equator, it's possible there could be a little ice underneath the dust, Bray said.

She noted, however, that no recent spectroscopy of the area is available (as far as she knows) through another MRO instrument called CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars). 

Even if CRISM does image the area, there will be some barriers to learning more about what minerals are in the region, Bray said. The 13-year-old instrument, which is operating well past its design lifetime, ran out of coolant long ago and has poorer resolution than when it first began. In a best-case scenario, the crater might take up one pixel of the CRISM image. (CRISM has a resolution of about 52 feet, or 16 m, per pixel, while that of HiRISE is 0.8 feet, or 25 centimeters, per pixel.)

'This kind of blew me away'

Mars researcher Peter Grindrod, an ExoMars program researcher and planetary scientist at London's Natural History Museum, posted a GIF on Twitter Wednesday (June 12) showing lower-resolution "before" and "after" photos from CTX, as well as a height map showing the crater in relation to the flat terrain around it. (He generated the height map by running HiRISE photos through a commercial software program.)

Grindrod said he regularly posts Mars photos on his feed just out of interest, often when he is about to give a public or scientific talk on the Red Planet. In this case, the crater really got his attention: 

"This kind of blew me away," he told Space.com, referring to the size of the fresh crater. "I'd never seen anything like that."

Related: 7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars

He added that this work is only possible because HiRISE provides so much of its data openly, allowing for re-publication and modification of the imagery for scientists or interested members of the public who want to learn more about Mars. 

"Everything we do is open data, and we give away as many of these as we can," he said about space researchers, adding that participating mission scientists often have a brief period with exclusive access to the data so they can publish their own discoveries first.

While Grindrod is not a member of the HiRISE team, he regularly contributes to the Digital Terrain Model archive on the HiRISE website because he enjoys generating height maps, he said. These show Martian features in the context of the surrounding terrain, helping to give geological context to features such as dust devils or craters.

Preparing for more Mars work

Spacecraft continue to join the venerable MRO at and around the Red Planet. Grindrod has several affiliations with ExoMars, the two-phase British-Russian robotic exploration program. 

For example, he's is a guest investigator with ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter, which arrived at the Red Planet in 2016. Grindrod is studying "active processes" such as dust devils and dunes. Before-and-after pictures are great for investigating these temporary phenomena, he explained, which is why he was inspired to make the GIF for the new crater.

TGO is the core of ExoMars' first phase. The second phase centers on a rover named Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch in July 2020 and land in February 2021. Grindrod's team generated height maps for dozens of proposed ExoMars rover landing sites as scientists debated where to go. He then provided these maps to the HiRISE group to post on their website. 

"We gave them away to everyone who wanted them," he said. These height maps helped show researchers potential sites for water, an important item for looking for habitable environments, he explained.

Additionally, Grindrod participated in several ExoMars rover field trials between 2018 and 2019. A test rover was put through its paces in Utah, Spain and the Atacama Desert in Chile during three separate trials, with each attempt getting more complex and closer to what the real deal will be like on Mars. 

Grindrod is also a member of Rosalind Franklin's panoramic camera team, which will provide geological context as the rover hunts for signs of previous life on the Red Planet. Since life as we know it requires liquid water, researchers on the search for habitable environments generally tend to look for formations (like clay) or minerals (like hematite) that usually form in the presence of water. 

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Table salt found on Jupiter’s satellite Europa, sparks debate about potential life

Europa’s subsurface oceans might be a lot more like the ones on Earth, raising a tantalizing question: could life exist in the satellite’s depths?

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might have a salty ocean.

Image credits: NASA.

When you think about Earth-like places in our solar system, Europa is probably not on the list. A frigid, ice-covered satellite, hanging around in Jupiter’s orbit does not exactly resemble what we see around us every day. However, the similarities between the Earth and Europe might lie beneath the surface — literally.

Researchers have known for quite a while that beneath its surface ice, Europa hosts oceans of liquid water. However, the chemistry of this water has remained rather unclear. A new study suggests that this ocean might be salty, just like the ones on Earth.

Using a visible light spectral analysis, planetary scientists at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that the yellow color visible on portions of the surface of Europa is actually sodium chloride — a compound you might know as table salt.

This doesn’t really come as a surprise since it was hypothesized for a while that the ocean might be salty, but it’s a heavy piece of evidence, suggesting that Europa’s oceans might be quite similar to Earth’s oceans.

Confirming the findings wasn’t easy, though.

“We thought that we might be seeing sodium chlorides, but they are essentially featureless in an infrared spectrum,” says Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at Caltech and co-author of the Science Advances paper.

So what the team did was to irradiate ocean salts in a laboratory, mimicking the conditions on Europa. They found that several changes occur after irradiation — most importantly, the salts changed color to exactly what was seen on Europa in a region called the Tara Regio.

“Sodium chloride is a bit like invisible ink on Europa’s surface. Before irradiation, you can’t tell it’s there, but after irradiation, the color jumps right out at you,” says Hand, scientist at JPL and co-author of the Science Advances paper, adding that salt could also be a complicated chain of sub-surface processes and not come directly from the oceans.

“We’ve had the capacity to do this analysis with the Hubble Space Telescope for the past 20 years,” Brown says. “It’s just that nobody thought to look.”

The consequences of this discovery are not trivial. Life as we know it requires three things: water, energy, and suitable chemistry. Salt, specifically the sodium ions in table salt, is also crucial for a whole range of metabolic processes in plant and animal life. So the main ingredients for life may very well be on Europa. It’s still too early and speculative to say whether this is actually the case, but it certainly makes Europa one of the most interesting targets for future exploration.

• The study was published in Science Advances.

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Ariane-raket zal Europese missie naar Jupiter lanceren - HLN.be

Bron: belga

Een Ariane-5 of een nieuwe Ariane-64 moet - ten vroegste - in mei 2022 de JUICE naar Jupiter slingeren. JUICE moet ten minste drie jaar de gasreus exploreren en in het bijzonder ook zijn grootste manen bestuderen die mogelijk een oceaan onder hun ijslaag hebben.

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NASA trekt de stekker uit een van de meest succesvolle ruimtetelescopen

De onbemande sonde zal ongeveer zes ton wegen en zal er 7,5 jaar over doen om Jupiter te bereiken. Om snelheid te winnen, zullen er scheervluchten zijn langs onze planeet, Venus en Mars.

JUICE zal de krachtigste wetenschappelijke lading meevoeren ooit naar de buitenkant van ons zonnestelsel. Airbus Defence and Space ontwikkelt en bouwt de verkenner. Het bedrijf neemt daarbij meer dan tachtig onderaannemers onder de arm, goed voor meer dan 110 contracten. Hoeveel het lanceercontract waard is, is traditioneel niet meegedeeld.

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De Spitzertelescoop bracht onder ander onze Melkweg in kaart

Bron: Belga

De Spitzer ging in augustus 2003 de ruimte in en zou daar slechts 2,5 jaar blijven. In werkelijkheid werd de infrarode kijker één van de meest succesvolle ruimtetelescopen.
Zo vond de Spitzer een nieuwe ring rond Saturnus, loerde de kijker naar sommige van de verst verwijderde sterrenstelsels en sterren van alle mogelijke leeftijden. De telescoop bracht ook onze Melkweg in kaart en speurde naar planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel.

Maar aan alle mooie liedjes komt een eind, aldus NASA. De meeste instrumenten zijn niet meer bruikbaar en de kansen op een anomalie, die een ongecontroleerd einde kan bewerkstelligen, stijgen. Daarom gaat op 30 januari 2020 de stekker gecontroleerd uit de missie. 

• Lees ook: Nieuw NASA-beeld toont Jupiter ongezien gedetailleerd

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Prachtige ‘vurige regenboog’ schittert aan hemel - HLN.be

Bron: KameraOne 

In Maleisië is op 28 mei een wonderbaarlijk weerfenomeen gefilmd in Kuala Lumpur. Een regenboog kwam piepen van achter een wolk, waarna het zonlicht weerkaatste op de ijskristallen in de wolken. Zo ontstond een zogenaamde ‘crown flash’.

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Earth Is Moving Toward The Same Meteor Swarm That Scientists Believe Caused The Tunguska Explosion Of 1908

Over the next several weeks, our planet will have a close encounter with the Taurid meteor swarm.  It will be the closest that we have been to the center of the meteor swarm since 1975, and we won’t have an encounter this close again until 2032.  So for astronomers, this is a really big deal.  And hopefully there will be no danger to Earth during this pass, but some scientists are absolutely convinced that the Tunguska explosion of 1908 which flattened 80 million trees in Russia was caused by an object from the Taurid meteor swarm.  As you will see below, the last week of June will mark the point when we are the closest to the center of the meteor swarm, and so that will be when the risk is the greatest. 

According to CBS News, our planet “will approach within 30,000,000 km of the center of the Taurid swarm” by the end of this month…

This summer, Earth will approach within 30,000,000 km of the center of the Taurid swarm, the study says. That would be Earth’s closest encounter with the swarm since 1975 and the best viewing opportunity we’ll have until the early 2030s.

30 million kilometers may sound like a great distance, but in astronomical terms that is not very far at all, and it is important to remember that distance is measured from the exact center of the meteor swarm.

And there are some scientists that are convinced that giant rocks from this meteor swarm have been responsible for multiple “once-per-1,000-years catastrophic events on Earth” in the past.  The following comes from Forbes…

The remnants of a comet. As Earth orbits the Sun, its orbital path often goes through dust and debris left by comets, with matter no bigger than a grain of sand busting into Earth’s atmosphere and burning up as “shooting stars”. Mostly, they’re harmless, but the Taurid swam is an exceptionally large cloud of debris, probably from Comet 2P/Encke, that scientists think may be responsible for some once-per-1,000-years catastrophic events on Earth. The Taurid complex-giant comet hypothesis proposes that a giant comet fragmented in the inner solar system, producing dust and small Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), including 2P/Encke and other asteroids, still present today. Among the observational evidence is increased “fireball” shooting star activity when Earth gets close to the “Taurid Swarm”, and increased impacts on the Moon.

In particular, it is now widely believed that the enormous object that exploded over Russia on June 30th, 1908 was from the Taurid meteor swarm.

If you are not familiar with the Tunguska event, here is some excellent information about it from Wikipedia…

Early estimates of the energy of the air burst range from 10–15 megatons of TNT (42–63 petajoules) to 30 megatons of TNT (130 PJ),^[7] depending on the exact height of burst estimated when the scaling-laws from the effects of nuclear weapons are employed.^[7][8] However, modern supercomputer calculations that include the effect of the object’s momentum find that more of the energy was focused downward than would be the case from a nuclear explosion and estimate that the airburst had an energy range from 3 to 5 megatons of TNT (13 to 21 PJ).^[8]

The 15-megaton (Mt) estimate represents an energy about 1,000 times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan—roughly equal to that of the United States’ Castle Bravo (15.2 Mt) ground-based thermonuclear detonation on 1 March 1954, and about one-third that of the Soviet Union‘s Tsar Bomba explosion on 30 October 1961 (which, at 50 Mt, is the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated).^[9]

It is estimated that the Tunguska explosion knocked down some 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km² (830 sq mi), and that the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale.

It is interesting to note that the Tunguska event happened during the last week of June in 1908, and right now researchers are telling us that the last week of June this year “will be the next occasion with a high probability for Tunguska-like collisions or near-misses”…

Researchers from the Universities of New Mexico and Western Ontario warn we could be in for a similarly catastrophic event.

“If the Tunguska object was a member of a Beta Taurid stream, then the last week in June 2019 will be the next occasion with a high probability for Tunguska-like collisions or near-misses,” the researchers wrote in a recent paper.

Of course nobody is saying that something will happen during that time.

It is simply a time when there is a heightened risk, and we should all be hoping that absolutely nothing happens.

However, we should not completely dismiss this threat either.  A couple of years ago, scientists discovered a “new branch” of the meteor swarm that contains “asteroids up to 1,000 feet wide”…

Scientists have discovered a new branch of the Taurids meteor stream that could pose a major risk to Earth, with asteroids up to 1,000 feet wide flying past us every few years.

If a 1,000 foot asteroid hit our planet tomorrow, we would be talking about the sort of civilization-changing event that I have been warning about for a very long time.

But once again, it is probably not likely that something will happen over the next few weeks.

In fact, scientists tell us that it is far more likely that there will be some sort of impact in 2032…

In November 2032, Earth will pass through the Taurid Swarm, a cloud of debris from Comet 2P/Encke that makes brilliant fireballs when its gravelly particles occasionally hit Earth’s atmosphere. Previous encounters with the Swarm in 2005 and 2015 produced showers of bright meteors observed around the world; in 1975 the Swarm contacted the Moon, making Apollo seismic sensors ring with evidence of objects hitting the lunar surface. If forecasters are correct, we’re in for similar activity 13 years from now.

In the end, we simply do not know when the next catastrophic meteor impact will happen, but scientists assure us that they will keep on happening.

Giant rocks go whizzing by our planet on a continual basis, and much of the time we do not even see them until they have already passed us.

So we may get some advance warning before a civilization-killing rock hits us someday, but then again, we might not.

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The Start of Latest UFO Footage

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UFOs are frequently associated with aliens and conspiracy theories. Sometimes, however, they cannot be identified because of the low quality of evidence related to their sightings. Throughout that time period, there were two triangle UFOs sighted in the very same site.

My sighting only lasted a number of seconds. It’s simple to comprehend why there are lots of UFO sightings. Today, UFO sighting has been an issue of amusement as opposed to a concern, although there are ample evidences about their scary overall look. Many reported UFO sightings actually wind up being something as easy as a balloon.

UFOs are often related to aliens and conspiracy theories. At a while, you’re very likely to run into a UFO. Throughout that time frame, there were two triangle UFOs sighted in the same location.

What You Need to Know About Latest UFO Footage

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Basically, it is a way for the international science community to learn more about the topics which have been previously under-explored or unexploredincluding extraterrestrial life. Each year, this issue of UFOs grows in popularity, and that’s primarily because of the simple fact they’re actually real. Today you can get the related news immediately! Some reports state it is a ping, though some claim it is a beep. They state it’s a ping, but others claim it’s a beep.

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In fact, thousands of women and men visit the area annually. In reality, they go to the area annually. There are hundreds and hundreds of credible men and women who support the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

People don’t need to go challenged. Some individuals may suffer financially. What You should Know About Latest UFO Footage You might actually watch videos all day long for a long time about aliens. It is a bit shaky on account of the simple fact the witness had to use full-zoom to concentrate on the craft.

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• http://footageofufos.com/2019/06/the-start-of-latest-ufo-footage/

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New "Strange Sounds" Coming From The Sky! - Unusual Phenomena Returns!

People around the world have been reporting eerie, haunting and almost apocalyptic like sounds. According to witnesses of this unexplained phenomenon, they hear humming and loud booms, grinding metal, trumpet-like noises coming from the sky.
 

Now this unusual phenomena has returned again. Mrmb333 reports on the weird sounds coming from the sky over in South East England and Denmark. You can definitely hear the strange trumpet sounds from the sky.

Whether it comes to aliens, changes in the earth’s core, chemtrails, HAARP or other weather modification technology, with the latest strange sounds recorded in South East England and Denmark again people wonder what could be the meaning of these noises, but till now nobody has an explanation for the eerie sounds.
 

 

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Q: Trump On UFOs Finally... The Pentagon Connection

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The exchange is now a famous one, and also one of the most notable quotes attributed to Hillary Clinton leading up to the 2016 election… at least among those interested in UFOs.

“You know, there’s a new name,” Clinton told comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who asked her about UFOs during an appearance on his program. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon. U.A.P. That’s the latest nomenclature.”

While there was a lot of buzz at the time about the fact that Clinton openly discussed the UAP issue on the program, what many are unaware of is that the question Kimmel asked her had been partially intended as a joke: in fact, it was suggested beforehand to Clinton aides by Kimmel himself.

The story behind the story here takes us back to the infamous Podesta email leaks. In an email exchange dated November 4, 2015, that was published as part of the batch of emails hacked from Podesta’s email account and released by Wikileaks, Clinton staffer Sara Latham wrote that, “[Kimmel] thinks it would be awesome and funny, if she explained that you don’t use the term UFO anymore.”

She further outlined how the proposed exchange might go, outlining the following “rough draft” of Clinton’s response to the question:

‘Jimmy if you talk about UFOs, people think you’re nuts – you have to use the term, UAP – unexplained aerial phenomenon. this is an issue I think the govt should take this more seriously the govt has been too stingy on what information we should know and when I’m President, the american people will find out !!’

There appeared to be some concern (or at least confusion) about the idea early on; in a previous exchange, Latham had noted that “the question seems odd,” and asked if there was “any further context on why Jimmy is going down the alien road.” Reasons were said to have included a Mother Jonesstory that had gone to print around that time, titled “ETs for Hillary: Why UFO activists are excited about Clinton presidency,” along with the fact that Kimmel had previously asked a similar question of the candidate’s husband, former President William Jefferson Clinton.

Bill Clinton, when asked about the issue, told Kimmel that had he found any significant information about the subject, he would have released that to the public. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama were slightly less talkative on the matter when asked similar questions by Kimmel, but the exchanges do help establish a sort of track record the comedian has for asking high-ranking politicians questions about UFOs.

Which brings us back to Hillary Clinton, and Kimmel’s plans for the “UAP” gag. As the plan took shape before a live audience during Clinton’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, perhaps the delivery had been just a tad too dry; in any case, it didn’t end up coming across quite like the joke it had been anticipated to be. The result was that Clinton’s widely publicized statements on UAP were offered by UFO advocates as further evidence of her frankness in discussing the matter, rather than a playful joke she was told in advance that she would be participating in.

However, the fact that Kimmel had actually suggested the “UAP, not UFO” statement doesn’t mean that there wasn’t evidence of legitimate interest in the subject by the Clinton campaign. In fact, shortly after the appearance, Joseph G. Buchman, a UFO transparency advocate, was quoted in the New York Times saying that “Hillary has embraced this issue with an absolutely unprecedented level of interest in American politics.” Prior to that, she had also stated in a radio appearance prior to that she wanted “to open the [UFO] files as much as we can.”

This wasn’t a newly acquired interest, either. In fact, going all the way back to just prior to her husband’s inauguration, the Clintons were briefed on the UFO issue by Laurance Rockefeller, who supplied a book on space and extraterrestrial life to Mrs. Clinton (this was determined by researcher Grant Cameron, from a photograph where a portion of the book could be seen protruding from a bag as she and Rockefeller were walking along together). The Clinton’s long-held interest in the subject is further reflected in Bill Clinton’s response to Kimmel asking him about it prior to the comedian’s exchange with Hillary.

And of course, John Podesta (who has appeared on UFO-related television shows that include Ancient Aliens) has quite a reputation for his interests in UFOs, which also may have carried over from his time working in the Clinton Administration during the 1990s. Podesta even wrote the forward to Leslie Kean’s 2010 book UFOs: Governments, Pilots, and Military Officials Go on the Record. 

And, as Sara Latham noted in her emails (which were eventually forwarded to Podesta in 2015, and hence why we know about the exchanges today), she was seen noting at one point saying she was “familiar with [John Podesta’s] area51(sic) and X Files obsession.”

The entire email exchange can be read here.

On a final interesting note, at the time Kimmel was working with Hillary Clinton’s staff to plan for her appearance, news about the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) had not yet become public knowledge, nor had the Navy’s policies on reporting UFOs, or many of the other “revelations” about UFOs that have fed into a broader shift in attitudes, and thus, further public discourse on the subject, in recent months. However, one other thing we learned from the Podesta email leaks, as many will recall, is that former Blink 182 frontman Tom Delonge had made arrangements to meet Podesta, along with an individual believed to have been Major General William McCasland, Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

It seems very likely that the early workings of what became Delonge’s To the Stars Academy, as featured more recently on the History Channel’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation, were at play here… and that they were aspiring to get whatever involvement from a potential future Clinton administration that they could. Delonge would later state that the Wikileaks email release had been problematic, and caused setbacks for what eventually became the To the Stars Academy.

Why is all this significant? Because more than a year before the pair of New York Times articles that detailed the existence of the AATIP program (of which there now seem to be more questions than answers), and brought renewed interest to the U.S.S Nimitz Incident, Clinton’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel was generating buzz about her advocacy of UFO transparency, even to the extent the NYT carried the headline, “Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files.” Suddenly, everyone was using the term “UAP” and touting it as a better, more modern and refined way of labeling the subject.

And if nothing else, well damn it, at least it *sounds* scientific. 

So one day, when we look back and begin mapping out the modern history of what slowly led to broader, more open discussion on the UFO subject, let’s not forget to thank Jimmy Kimmel, whose idea for a joke (and Mrs. Clinton’s reliably deadpan delivery) helped set the tone for a new kind of public discussion on unidentified flying objects.

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Mysterious white UFO is filmed hovering over Area 51 by hikers who also capture a giant new aircraft hangar, as military helicopters patrol and jets land

• YouTuber Adventures with Christian filmed secret base Area 51 in Nevada, US
• He scaled to the top of Tikaboo Peak to see the mysterious US Air Base 
• At one point a mysterious floating white object can be seen above a hangar 

By EMER SCULLY FOR MAILONLINE

An unidentified flying object has been filmed from a mountain overlooking top secret US air base Area 51.

Hikers scaled Tikaboo Peak in Navada to overlook the secretive base which is thought to be where the latest aircraft technology is tested. 

Speculators claim the mysterious US Air Base has been closed down - but YouTuber Adventures with Christian captured helicopters, trucks and planes there.

And 11 minutes in to his 22-minute video a strange floating white UFO can be seen close to a plane entering a hangar - though it is unlikely to be alien activity.

A huge new hangar can also been seen. The largest change to the base in almost ten years, the hangar is 210 feet wide by 250 feet long and very high.

YouTuber Adventures with Christian captured the video of Area 51 from the summit of Pikaboo Peak in Nevada

One of the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters, that provides security for Area 51, is also captured flying along the edge of another mountain between Tikaboo Peak and the base itself. 

As Christian, who climbed the mountain with his son Sean, edits the video he points out a plane going in to an aircraft hangar.

Just seconds later he says 'just saying but that flipping thing is weird. Go back and check it out better' as he places a circle around an object to the left of the hangar. 

A white disc appears to hover above the space to the left of to the aircraft hangar as the plane makes its way through the structure before emerging out the other side. 

The image is blurry and it is difficult to tell what the white object is and whether it is actually hovering.

Another jet is then filmed travelling the opposite way along a runway as Christian says: 'This is very exciting for me.'

Christian even captures a Janet plane -- used to ferry workers between a special section of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and the base at Groom Lake

Located on the end of the main runway the new hangar, built in 2014, allows quick access to the skies

And, despite a few issues with a shaky camera, Christian captures trucks moving around and even pans the camera to show other buildings and runways

In another hour long video Christian documents his climb up the mountain and explains his use of rocks and tape to remember his route back.

Christian and his son Sean are forced to scale the peak as snow falls down on top of them. And by the time they reach the summit thick clouds block any view.

But fast moving winds drag the clouds away and the sky clears up enough for the father son duo to see the air base clearly.

Some 126 miles away from Las Vegas, Area 51 is just 26 miles away from where the footage was filmed at the Tikaboo Peak

A huge new hangar can also been seen to the far left of the image. The largest change to the base in almost ten years, the hangar is 210 feet wide by 250 feet long and very high

The base was created in April 1955 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop reconnaissance aircraft

One of the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters, that provides security for Area 51, is captured flying along the edge of the mountain between Tikaboo Peak and the base itself

And, despite a few issues with a shaky camera, Christian captures trucks moving around and even pans the camera to show other buildings and runways. 

During his time at the mountain peak Christian also captures a Janet plane -- used to ferry workers between a special section of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and the base at Groom Lake. 

The base was created in April 1955 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop reconnaissance aircraft. 

But the US government did not admit to its existence until June 2013 - in a response to a 2005 Freedom of Information request. 

The airfield on Groom Lake was first in operation during the Second World War when, in 1942, it was used as Indian Springs Air Force's Auxiliary Field.

It began as two unpaved 5000-foot runways.  

The development of aircraft within Area 51 led to an increased number of reports of UFO sightings as jets began to fly higher than they had in the 1950s

The airfield on Groom Lake was first in operation during the Second World War when, in 1942, it was used as Indian Springs Air Force's Auxiliary Field

Though clouded in secrecy the base is thought to still develop CIA high-altitude spy plane technology. 

Although conspiracy theorists have claimed it is where alien spaceships are taken if they crash land on earth. 

The development of aircraft within Area 51 led to an increased number of reports of UFO sightings as jets began to fly higher than they had in the 1950s. 

While commerical jets flew at 20,000 feet, and military jets at 40,000 feet, Lockheed U-2 aircraft flew at 60,000 feet.

And when their wings caught the reflection of the sun more people reported UFO sightings to the government. The sightings could be explained but the secrecy of the U-2 project meant those who reported seeing UFOs were never told. 

Speculation claims the mysterious US Air Base has been closed down - but YouTuber Adventures with Christian captures helicopters, trucks and planes there

Christian often explores the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) and also climbed Mount Tikaboo last year to see the site. 

His video shows a weather station installed near Tikaboo's summit that may also serve as remote surveillance.

It is thought cameras capture any observers on the peak who might see clandestine flight test operations.

And when they are seen it has been claimed operations may be postponed to avoid prying eyes getting a glimpse in to CIA projects.

Despite seeing runways and hangars many of Area 51's operations are thought to occur underground - although a hidden railway system has been denied

Christian said: 'Area 51 from Tikaboo Peak the base is very active. A great look into Area 51 just as the snow stopped. 

'I never wanted to go on Tikaboo Peak or the mountain I found myself on last year. To get the best video, and pictures of Area 51 out there it's about me laying my eyes on the base, and getting my own video, and pictures. 

'I do feel the weather had a lot to do with the great shots I was able to get. Between the snowstorms, and clouds the base would just illuminate long enough for me to film, and take pictures.'   

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“I never wanted to go on Tikaboo Peak or the mountain I found myself on last year. To get the best video, and pictures of Area 51 out there. It’s about me laying my eyes on the base, and getting my own video, and pictures. I do feel the weather had a lot to do with the great shots I was able to get. Between the snowstorms, and clouds the base would just illuminate long enough for me to film, and take pictures.”

The story actually begins two years ago in May 2017 when Christian – no last name given, claims to work in Nevada gold mines, has lived in the Las Vegas area since 1992 – posted his first Area 51 video of his first adventures attempting to explore the surrounding area and photograph what he could. He gives detailed summaries of dozens of videos he’s posted since then. To his credit, he’s had encounters with military “Camo Dudes” patrolling the grounds and is still here and still has his videos up.

“In the subsequent videos, Christian gets some great shots of the newer and quite massive hangar facility located on the south end of the base, as well as some sporadic activity happening around the installation. This includes the sudden appearance of one of the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters that provides security and other functions for Area 51 and one of the Janet 737s taking off towards the south.”

The latest video (watch it here) got some publicity from The Daily Mail (“Mysterious white UFO is filmed hovering over Area 51 by hikers who also capture a giant new aircraft hangar, as military helicopters patrol and jets land”) and an excellent and detailed review in The Drive. From their (Christian and his son, Sean) difficult-to-hike-to vantage point on Tikaboo Peak, they saw Janet jets (the official but mysterious Area 51 airline) taking off and landing, a security helicopter and strange-looking vehicles. The Drive’s Tyler Rogoway adds the insight that a shot of a hangar that had its roof torn off two years ago shows it not only hasn’t been repaired, it’s in worse shape. The video also shows the weather station on Tikaboo Peak that is suspected to use this excellent vantage point for surveillance as well.

Finally, there’s that UFO which appears at about the 11-minute mark in the 22-minute video. It’s obviously an anomaly but Christian has no comment about it. Is he purposely ignoring it as payback for being allowed to take and distribute the rest of his videos and photographs of one of the most secure places in the U.S. … if not the world?

Only Adventures with Christian knows the answer to that. Don’t wait for the answer – check out his latest video and some of the others … while you still can.

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