Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
Maandag 5 augustus 2019
Changing Faces: Why Some Scientists Worried About Interest in Aliens and the “Face” on Mars
Changing Faces: Why Some Scientists Worried About Interest in Aliens and the “Face” on Mars
1976 was a historic year for Americans. A contentious U.S. election was underway between incumbent Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, his Democratic challenger. It was also the year of the bicentennial, as the United States celebrated two centuries since its founding. And like NASA had done less than a decade before by putting men on the moon, in September of that year the space agency would seek to make history again, as the Viking 2 mission went speeding toward the Red Planet in an attempt to place an unmanned lander on Martian soil.
In the humid summer months preceding the successful Viking 2 mission, its predecessor, Viking 1, had already been in orbit around Mars, sending back a constant stream of photographs which NASA scientists planned to use to help them locate a suitable landing site for Viking 2. On July 25th, the usual batch of images were being received and processed, when a peculiar geological feature of the planet began to reveal itself.
One of the photos depicted a sloping prominence, befitted with a number of depressions and rock formations that, casting hard shadows and observed under the sharp contrast of Viking 1’s photography, bore an obvious likeness to a human face.
Some thought little of it, chalking the ghostly visage staring back at the orbiting Viking 1’s cameras as being merely an instance of pareidolia—the natural tendency of the human eye to assemble familiar shapes and images from random features in nature.
Most who observed the area depicted in the photograph probably thought this, in fact. Although it is hard to imagine that there weren’t some, at least—or perhaps even several—who hadn’t cautiously entertained the other possibility: what if there had been a civilization on Mars at one time? And if so, what if this gloomy face befitted upon an odd, polygonal mountain in the Cydonia region, might actually be some remnant of that civilization?
It wasn’t long before NASA determined that the “face” on Mars was, in fact, a natural formation. In their own words, upon releasing the image publicly just days later, the space agency described a “huge rock formation in the center… which resembled a human head.”
The famous photograph from Viking 2 in 1976, which spurred debate over a “Face on Mars”
(Credit: NASA).
The image was, of course, enough to get people talking, whether or not they believed NASA’s determination about the photograph. Many found it impossible to believe that the likeness of the curious features in the photograph to a human face could be pure coincidence. The hope for discovery of life on Mars had already been a source of great anticipation: now an eager public was nearly sold on the idea, but instead of microbes, hoped that within the coming months there would be irrefutable evidence of life on the planet in the form of archaeological traces of a civilization that once lived there.
Interestingly, some scientists were concerned about the emphasis being placed on the search for life on Mars. “There is also a fear that if too much emphasis is placed on the possibility of life and none is then found, as still seems likely, the public will consider the mission a futile failure,” a New York Times article reported on July 22, 1976, just three days before the photos of Cydonia returned to Earth depicting what many believed to be a face.
However, if the famous “face on Mars” had indeed been such, it would raise a number of hard questions. Chief among them is: how could a feature like this—if artificial, as many claimed—have lasted for the untold amounts of time that passed before Viking 1 arrived… especially considering how much it appears to have weathered in the few decades since that time?
While the 1976 photographs remain the most famous ones of the region depicting an alleged face, NASA has released numerous additional photos of the location over the years, captured during ensuing missions (which is interesting in itself, since it shows that there was at least a modicum of interest in the unusual collection of features). However, as we can see in the photos below, NASA’s infamous face didn’t appear to age very well:
By 1996, the “face” looked a lot more like a pile of rocks
(Credit: NASA).
Arguably, the more perplexing element to the region where the Martian “face” appears is not the rocky places that form what many liken to eyes, a nose, and a mouth, but the odd, almost geometric shape of the outcrop itself. According to Space.com, “The rocky outcropping that creates the illusion is approximately a mile across and bears a resemblance to buttes or mesas from the American West. It likely formed from a combination of landslides and collected debris.”
Additionally, the differences between the 1976 and 1998 photos are actually greater than those between the first photos, and some of the most recent, in which the face-like details appear to have returned, although only slightly:
Perhaps what is most fascinating about all of this is people’s desire to look for unusual things on barren, alien worlds. Rather than aliens, or simply a desire to believe in them, people’s interpretations of Martian “anomalies” seems to say an awful lot about us.
I’m reminded of a story my grandmother told me once as a child. Often at night, she and her siblings would become very frightened by the sound of loud crashes that came from the back of their family home. Occurring only at night, they would emanate from the back of the home, the portion facing the forest at the edge of their property. Naturally, they began to believe that an animal—or perhaps something else—had been appearing and pounding on the house at night. Several years later, she laughed about how she finally learned that the thick slabs of pine in the walls would creak and pop as they cooled at night, no monsters necessary.
In much the same way that some people interpret random, natural events as evidence of “supernatural” happenings, people seem to both enjoy, and at times even display a need to look for structured things in environments where none should exist. In years since, similar “anomalies” have continued to appear on Mars, which range from odd structures and other alleged “manmade” features, to sightings of Bigfoot.
So let’s face it: that famous “face on Mars” was never really a face at all. Of course, that’s not to say that there aren’t other “faces” that have been spotted on the Red Planet…
Thirteen years ago, mysteriously looking glass beads were discovered inside of ancient clam shells and now new evidence has revealed their origin. Researchers believe that the glass pearls are microtektites which are byproducts of a meteor impact. This is, however, the first time that they’ve been found inside of old clam shells.
A pair of microtektites found inside ancient clam shells.
Image: Kristen Grace, Florida Museum
While more research needs to be conducted on these celestial pearls, it is believed that they were created when a meteorite smashed into the Florida coast approximately 2 or 3 million years ago. “This is the first report of microtektites in Florida and one of only a few findings of space debris found in the state,” Mike Meyer, who is a researcher at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, explained to Gizmodo. He is also the lead author of the study that was published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
So how exactly were they formed? The glass beads were created during the impact of when a meteor struck the planet. “When a large enough impact occurs, the impactor – a meteorite or comet or what not – mostly vaporizes, but so does the rock and soil it hits,” Meyer explained, adding, “Most rocks are composed of minerals that contain silica, so there is a lot of it to melt. That melted debris flies away from the impact site and cools as it travels through the air, usually giving it an aerodynamic shape of some sort.”
Microtektites look like pearls but are clear
After the materials cool off in the atmosphere, they drop back to the ground. While the larger pieces (tektites) are mostly in the shape of teardrops, the smaller pieces (microtektites) are round. The pieces eventually end up in the water and they get collected inside of clam shells where they remain preserved.
Interestingly enough, it was Meyer and his classmates that originally found the glass beads at a Sarasota County quarry thirteen years ago. They found a total of 83 of the tiny glass pearls that measured just 200 micrometers in diameter.
Now, over a decade later, he and his colleagues decided to analyze the glass pearls. They studied them using scanning electron microscopy, back-scatter imaging, and x-ray spectroscopy in order to find out what they were made from. They even compared them to other microtektites, cosmic spherules (micrometerorites), and volcanic rocks.
(Not microtektites)
They ruled out volcanic rock because the shape and composition wasn’t right and they concluded that there was no way that a human could have contaminated the beads as they were closed off inside of fossilized clams for millions of years. The only possible explanation is that they were microtektites that were formed from “the debris created by an impact event,” Meyer stated.
What’s even more interesting is that the microtektites were discovered at four different sedimentary depths which could suggest that several impacts occurred there. The researchers plan on conducting more studies on these incredible otherworldly glass beads as well as searching for more of them along the coast of Florida. Pictures of the microtektites can be seen here.
Scientists Just Built a Mini Sun - See What Happened!
The sun’s solar wind affects nearly everything in the solar system. It can disrupt the function of Earth’s satellites and creates the lights of the auroras.
A new study by University of Wisconsin–Madison physicists mimicked solar winds in the lab, confirming how they develop and providing an Earth-bound model for the future study of solar physics.
Scientists constructed a 3-meter-wide (10 feet) aluminum vacuum chamber, which they dubbed "the Big Red Ball," to re-create some of the solar physics that take place in and around the sun.
I found some ancient walls and a fallen monolith today in a gigs-an photo. The walls have a lot of perfect right angles and layered stones which sometimes are seen in nature, but most often seen in ancient structures here on earth. There was also giant arrow head like fallen statue with half of it covered in years of mars dirt. Finding one object suggests we have evidence, but finding three geometrically perfect shapes tells me this is 100% real...the site of an ancient civilisation. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Mars and Oklahoma might share a surprising seismic bond.
The fracking boomhas spurred a surge of tremors across the Sooner State and neighboring Texas, scientists say. These quakes are caused by the injection of wastewater underground, which increases pressure and leads to the slippage of tectonic faults.
Michael Manga, a planetary scientist at the University of California Berkeley, and his colleagues propose that compressed aquifers can trigger marsquakes. The compression comes courtesy of the Red Planet's frigid temperatures, which freeze the aquifers' upper layers. (Water expands as it freezes, you may recall.)
But the compression alone probably isn't enough to get the red ground shaking, according to the researchers. Their computer simulations identified two likely triggers — tidal tugs from Phobos, the larger and closer-orbiting of Mars' two moons, and changes in barometric pressure caused by the warming and cooling of the planet's thin atmosphere.
Further observations by InSight may reveal whether this interpretation is correct, the researchers said. If it is, future Mars explorers could use quakes to find groundwater, then access the stuff simply by drilling down. No pumping would be required; the pressurized water would come bubbling to the surface on its own.
And this general process may not be restricted to Earth and Mars. The compression of subsurface water may give rise to ice volcanoes, ridges and other features on the icy moons of the outer solar system, according to Manga.
He and his colleagues detailed the research earlier this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
NASA's $800 million InSight mission touched down on the Red Planet in November 2018. The lander is using a suite of supersensitive seismometers and other gear to map the Martian interior in unprecedented detail.
Not everything is going smoothly, however. InSight's burrowing heat probe has not dug as deeply as desired, and mission team members are still trying to figure out what halted its progress.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
The space agency announced today (June 27) that the next mission in its New Frontiers line of medium-cost missions will be Dragonfly, a rotorcraft designed to ply the skies of the huge, hazy and potentially life-hosting Saturn moon.
If all goes according to plan, Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and land on Titan eight years later, NASA officials said. The probe will then spend at least 2.5 years cruising around the 3,200-mile-wide (5,150 kilometers) moon, making two dozen flights that cover a total of about 110 miles (180 km).
The 10-foot-long (3 meters) Dragonfly will gather a variety of data at each of its stops. Such work will help scientists learn more about Titan, the only solar system body other than Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface.
Titan's surface lakes, rivers and seas aren't composed of water, however: The frigid moon's climate system is based on hydrocarbons, in particular methane and ethane.
The mission is geared toward characterizing Titan's chemistry in detail. Complex organic molecules are known to swirl in the moon's thick, nitrogen-dominated atmosphere, and some scientists think its hydrocarbon seas could host exotic forms of life.
Titan also hosts another potentially habitable environment — a buried ocean of liquid water, which sloshes beneath the moon's icy crust.
Dragonfly could conceivably find evidence of Titan life, if the moon is indeed inhabited. And, because Titan is very similar to the early Earth, the mission's observations may shed light on the chemical processes that helped life get going on our planet, NASA officials said.
"Titan is unlike any other place in the solar system, and Dragonfly is like no other mission," Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
"It's remarkable to think of this rotorcraft flying miles and miles across the organic sand dunes of Saturn's largest moon, exploring the processes that shape this extraordinary environment," he added. "Dragonfly will visit a world filled with a wide variety of organic compounds, which are the building blocks of life and could teach us about the origin of life itself."
Dragonfly will land among Titan's dunes, then make its way toward its final destination, the 50-mile-wide (80 km) Selk Crater. Selk is a particularly good place to study prebiotic chemistry and look for signs of life, NASA officials said. That's because the three ingredients necessary for life as we know it — liquid water, organic molecules and energy — mixed during the impact that created the crater. (Titan's bedrock is water ice.)
Dragonfly will be nuclear powered, like NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, the New Horizons Pluto probe and many other deep-space explorers.
Dragonfly will be the fourth mission in the New Frontiers program, following New Horizons, the Juno probe to Jupiter and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission. Dragonfly's development costs are capped at $850 million, though the mission's total price tag, including launch, will probably top $1 billion.
The other finalist for the mid-2020s New Frontiers launch slot was the Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission, which proposed snagging bits of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — the same icy wanderer studied up close by Europe's Rosetta mission.
Dragonfly won't be the first craft to land on Titan. That honor belongs to Europe's Huygens probe, which touched down on the moon in January 2005. Huygens traveled to the Saturn system with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited the ringed planet from mid-2004 through September 2017.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
A fisherman from Murmansk, Russia, is sharing snaps of his grotesque and fascinating fishy finds online, much to the horror of the internet.
Roman Fedortsov, 39, spends a lot of his time on fishing trawlers, coming into contact with a wide variety of sealife.
The trawlers he works on are tasked with catching commercial fish such as cod, haddock and mackerel, but the bizarre critters pictured below make an appearance too.
This pale toadfish, a foot-long (30cm) fish which lives on the continental shelf around New Zealand between 140 and 550 fathoms (250m-1,000m) depth, is one of Russian fisherman Roman Fedortsov's bizarre catches
The stoplight loosejaw fish, related to the viperfish, is so-named for the red and green photophores or luminescent organs under its eyes, which it uses like headlights to find prey in the darkness of the deep ocean. Its oversized lower jaw hinges out from its head to a quarter of its body length, and can snap shut like a trap
Bright orange blobs, slug-like lumps, fish with teeth and bulging eyes; His discoveries may look more like aliens than fish to the untrained eye, but Roman is apparently interested and impressed by what he encounters.
These aquatic curiosities were mainly found in the Norwegian and Barents seas while some of them came ashore from the Atlantic Ocean.
Roman went to Marine University in Murmansk and is an expert on processing and preparing fish.
He has set up his social media accounts to share these pictures with people who otherwise might not get to see them.
Screamadelica! This orange sea anemone, which dwells on the bottom in shallow waters, gives the illusion of having two huge eyes. Although they resemble flowers, sea anemones are predatory animals
This deep-sea horror, apparently a viperfish, is among the collection of marine freaks. Viperfish, whose serpent-like body measures one to two feet in length (30-60cm), use a luminescent lure to attract prey up to their own size, which they spear with their needle-like teeth before swallowing whole
Roman previously told the Press Association: 'All kinds of fish are beautiful in their own way.
'I can not say that they are 'scary' or 'ugly'.'
'People are very interested in unusual sea creatures,' he added
'I think the reason for such popularity was the fact that an ordinary sailor can face life with unusual 'fantastic creatures'.'
This anglerfish is one of the deep-sea monsters caught by the Russian trawler. The anglerfish uses a glowing lure, seen here protruding from its snout, to attract prey in the darkness of its deepwater habitat. Its jaws and stomach can extend to swallow prey twice its own size
Frilling! This frilled shark shows its unusual teeth. The species has been called a 'living fossil' since it shows features of primitive fossil sharks. Its mouth is positioned at the front of its head, rather than underneath like most sharks. Its slender, eel-like body can grow to six feet (2m) long
'Readers have the impression that with each trawl we bring aboard unusual fish specimens,' the fisherman added.
'In fact, this is far from the case. It is a rarity.
'On the other hand, even a famous fish can be photographed so that it will seem to be a 'monster'.'
'Most of the raised fish do not survive due to the difference in pressure,' he added.
'Commercial fish is processed, non-food bycatch is used for the production of fish meal.'
This red snapper's stomach has burst out of its trumpet-like mouth as a result of the rapid pressure change caused by being brought up too quickly from the depths
A wolffish, a species that lives on the continental shelf to depths of 2,000 feet (600m), where they eat shellfish that they crush with their strong canine and molar teeth
Another wolffish, also known as the sea wolf. Some species grow to over six feet (2m) in length
This Sunfish, or Mola, may be the largest sea creature landed by the Russian trawler. These huge fish, found far out to sea near the surface, can grow to up to 15 feet (4.5m) and weigh up to 5,000lb (2,300kg)
Googly eyes: This cusk (left) and another, unidentified fish (right) have huge, bulging eyes like many deep-sea species. The cusk is a cod-like fish found in the north atlantic
A sea spider, part of a group of marine species related to land-dwelling insects and spiders. Like a spider, it sucks nutrients from soft-bodied invertebrates through a proboscis. Its stomach extends into its legs
Swashbuckling: A black scabbardfish, a species of the piratical-sounding cutlassfish family, shows off its needle-like teeth. The species is named for its dark steely blue colour and long, slender body. This fast-swimming predator can grow more than 3 feet (1m) in length, and lives in very deep water from 600 to 5,600 feet (180m to 170m)
This weird, unidentified fish bears a disturbing likeness to the monster from the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien
Alien species? This sea creature looks like the 'facehugger' from Ridley Scott's Science Fiction film Alien
Another big-mouthed predator caught in the nets of the trawler
This toad-like fish is among the odd-looking sea creatures trawled up in the boat's nets
The bug-eyed beauty is one of the weird fish caught by a fisherman from Murmansk
Russian fisherman Roman Fedortsov shows off a jade-coloured fish caught in the nets of his trawler
A remora, which attaches itself to the undersides of sharks and rays to scavenge scraps that fall from their mouths
Lifting the snout of this blob-like fish reveals a crustacean it was devouring at the moment it was caught
A king crab, a north Pacific species which can grow up to six feet (2m) across, and is heavily fished for its meat.
A sea anemone (left) and another unidentified sea creature (right). Sea anemones look like flowers but are in fact predatory animals. They are related to both jellyfish and coral polyps
A close-up view of the unidentified bug-eyed fish caught in the trawler's nets
An unidentified fish, possibly a blobfish. Blobfish, realated to toadfish, live in very deep water, where they hunt by ambush. Their metabolism is very slow, which gives them a lifespan of up to 130 years
This toothy specimen of a puffer fish is one of many unusual sea creatures caught by the russian trawler. They puff themselves up, exposimg the sines on their skin, when threatened. The four large teeth are used to crush their mollusc prey
This horrifying unidentified cyclops may be a species of flatfish
A squid, one of many sea creatures caught in the nets of the Murmansk-based Russian trawler
Brown psolus, a U-shaped relative of the sea cucumber, which attaches itself to rocks with the rectangular sole seen on the left, and extends its tentacles to feed
The brown psolus in the centre, a relative of the sea cucumber, shows its feeding tentacles
Russian trawlerman Roman Fedortsov displays an unidentified life-form from his collection
An unidentified bottom-dwelling sea animal caught in the nets of the russian trawler from Murmansk
Russian fisherman Roman Fedortsov holds a Brown Psolus, a sedentary species of sea cucumber
Four bottom-dwelling invertebrates, likely some species of sea cucumber. The sea cucumber lives on the bottom, where it eats detritus and keeps the marine environment clean. Its leathery skin covers a protective endoskeleton
Scientists often kill animals — that’s just a grisly fact of biological research.
But it’s a bit more complicated in the theoretical future where we’ve made first contact with extraterrestrial life. At that point, science author Guy Harrison argues in a Psychology Today op-ed that biologists may have to come to terms with killing alien life in the name of scientific progress — which raises a difficult question: at what point does scientific inquiry outweigh the value of life?
Litmus Test
Harrison suggests guidelines that future biologists may find helpful. For instance, any extraterrestrial life that shows signs of intelligence ought to be spared. In that case, we may be able to learn about the alien lifeform by using our words instead of our scalpels.
Otherwise, scientists might consider collecting individual aliens to store in a museum’s archive, or to cut open and study. But Harrison argues in Psychology Today that the issue is too complex and ambiguous to draw up any binding rules in advance.
Superior Life
This all assumes that we would even be able to kill an extraterrestrial. It’s possible that any life out there is vastly superior to humanity, making the whole debate moot.
“If we do find life out there somewhere,” Harrison writes, “maybe it will be contemplating the moral implications of killing us for further study.”
The popular picture of the Milky Way as a flat disc is based on the observation of 2.5 million stars out of a possible 2.5 billion. The artists' impressions are therefore rough approximations of the truer shape of our galaxy, according to Dr Dorota Skowron of Warsaw University.
"The internal structure and history of the Milky Way is still far from being understood, in part because it is extremely difficult to measure distances to stars at the outer regions of our galaxy," she said.
To gain a more accurate picture, Dr Skowron and her colleagues measured the distances of some of the brightest stars in the Milky Way, called Cepheid variable stars. These are massive young stars that burn hundreds, if not thousands, of times brighter than our own Sun. They can be so bright that they can be observed at the very edge of the galaxy.
Not only that, they also pulsate at regular intervals at a rate that is directly related to their brightness.
Image copyrightMARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage captionArtists' impressions which depict the Milky Way as a flat disk will have to be revised
This enables astronomers to calculate their distance with great precision.
Most of the stars were identified by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) in Chile's southern Atacama Desert. Przemek Mroz, a member of the OGLE team, said that the results were surprising.
Image copyrightK. ULACZYK/J. SKOWRON / OGLE/WARSAW UNIVERSITYImage captionWarsaw Telescope and Milky Way Cepheids discovered by the OGLE survey
"Our results show that the Milky Way Galaxy is not flat. It is warped and twisted far away from the galactic centre. Warping may have happened through past interactions with satellite galaxies, intergalactic gas or dark matter (invisible material present in galaxies about which little in known)."
Vooral het oosten van ons land steunt en kreunt onder de droogte en de reden daarvan heeft te maken met de komende mini ijstijd.
Natuurlijke cycli worden door klimaat zakkenvullers gebruikt om burgers nog meer geld afhandig te maken.
Zelden is de mensheid zo bedonderd en belazerd als in onze tegenwoordige tijd met de klimaatonzin. Een tijd waar natuurlijk voor komende cycli worden aangegrepen om de niet bestaande klimaatopwarming te verkopen.
Zo zijn we letterlijk dood gegooid met alarmerende verhalen over het noordpoolgebied en hoe daar alles in record tempo smelt en hoe we daar binnenkort helemaal geen ijs meer zullen hebben.
In 2007 voorspelde Al Gore dat tegen 2013 de gehele Noordelijke IJszee volkomen ijsvrij zou zijn. In de zomer van 2012 bereikte het ijsniveau in dat gebied een dieptepunt. Gesterkt door dit gegeven besloot de Australische professor Chris Turney een expeditie te organiseren naar dat gebied om te bewijzen dat er een rampzalig smelten van ijs plaatsvond. Echter, hij kwam helaas met zijn schip totaal vast te zitten in het ijs dat zo dik was dat hij niet eens gered kon worden door moderne ijsbrekers.
De volgende grafiek laat de huidige temperatuur zien in het Noordelijk Poolgebied ten opzichte van de gemiddelde temperaturen van een ruim veertig jaar durende periode.
En dan zie je dat het dit jaar kouder is dan het langjarig gemiddelde, in plaats van warmer. De groene lijn is het gemiddelde over de periode 1958-2002, de rode lijn de temperatuur van dit jaar en de blauwe lijn de grens van 0 graden.
We hebben onlangs in een artikel aangetoond dat het KNMI een frauduleus instituut is dat knoeit met temperaturen om zo aan te tonen dat er tegenwoordig meer hittegolven zijn dan vroeger, terwijl het in werkelijkheid precies andersom is.
In Frankrijk doet Meteo France precies hetzelfde. Onlangs kondigden zij het volgende aan:
NEW HEAT RECORD for France! Gallargues-le-Monteux (30) has officially reached 45.8 °C, shattering the previous national maximum temperature record of 44.1 °C set in 2003!
Dit is ook niet waar, want in 1930 werd in Parijs al een temperatuur van 50 graden Celsius gemeten.
Van dezelfde Dr. Waheed Uddin is de volgende grafiek afkomstig die bevestigt wat wij al eerder hadden geschreven en dat is dat de komende zonnecyclus die duurt tot 2030, nauwelijks enige activiteit van de zon laat zien.
Dat betekent dat wij nu heel snel richting een langdurige koude periode op aarde gaan, iets dat door de mainstream media in alle toonaarden zal worden ontkend.
Je ziet daar bijvoorbeeld ook geen berichten zoals de volgende: 11 juni dit jaar was de koudste dag op die datum in Groot-Brittannië in 141 jaar.
Enkele dagen geleden waren de midzomerse temperaturen in sommige delen van Amerika zo laag dat er 131 jaar oude kouderecords werden gebroken.
Ook in de buurt van Moskou is het abnormaal koud voor de tijd van het jaar. In de vroege ochtend van 30 juli werd net buiten Moskou een temperatuur gemeten van 3,1 graad Celsius. De laagste temperatuur ooit gemeten op die dag in dat betreffende gebied.
Een kenmerk van een komende mini ijstijd is zoals we vaak schreven een verandering van de jetstream. Hierdoor komen andere luchtstromen op gang en kan in ons gebied ineens hete lucht uit de Sahara worden aangevoerd, of ijskoude lucht vanaf de noordpool.
In zowel het ene als het andere geval betekent dat voor ons iets dat we niet gewend zijn en dat is droogte. Omdat een groot deel van het jaar de aangevoerde lucht niet meer uit het westen komt, maar uit of het noorden of het zuiden, betekent dit dat we steeds minder neerslag krijgen.
Beken en vennen die droog te staan, verkruimelde heide en kwetsbare diersoorten als de kamsalamander die dreigen te verdwijnen. Natuur en landbouw in het oosten van Nederland zuchten en steunen onder de droogte en gebrek aan regen. Beregenen uit oppervlaktewater mag al niet meer. In de buurt van kwetsbare natuurgebieden grondwater onttrekken voor de landbouw is inmiddels ook taboe om de natuur te beschermen. De regenbuien van nu - eind juli - is een druppel op de gloeiende plaat.
Op zich hebben we te maken met een volkomen natuurlijk verschijnsel dat zich eens in de zoveel jaar voor doet en dat schaamteloos wordt gekaapt door de zakkenvullende Samsommen en kornuiten, geloofd door naïeve burgers die denken dat de aarde nu echt opwarmt en dat dit door de mens wordt veroorzaakt.
Voor hen hebben we één advies: koop een paar wanten, want je zult ze nodig hebben.
Alien Hunter 'Discovers' China's Own Area 51 on Google Maps
While the whole world’s attention has been focused on arguably America's most mysterious military facility, Area 51, which a bunch of alien hunters are preparing to "raid" next month, a YouTube video, whose authenticity cannot be verified, has emerged claiming that there's a similar, "top secret", base in China.
As everyone appears to be hyped up about the legendary US Air Force base in Nevada, known as Area 51, a YouTuber and conspiracy theory enthusiast claims to have discovered a similar mysterious facility in China.
Scott C Waring has uploaded a video to YouTube, in which he found something that he alleges looks like a top secret base in a desert near the Mongolian border, in Gansu Province.
In the clip, Scott says that the base is “like something out of the movies” and shows some sort of a cutting edge aircraft stored there. According to him, the 10-metre-wide jet “screams out top secret project”.
“I found a military base in China that seems to be the equivalent and copy of Area 51. There is even smaller area, one of which has a black stealth aircraft that could be made from alien technology and be space travel capable. This is amazing and may have been created as the Chinese solution to the American Area 51”, he elaborates.
While many users sided with Scott, leaving such comments as, “They are hiding something”, others were sceptical, suggesting that it was simply a “drone launch pad”.
The mysterious Area 51 in Nevada has been a real magnet for conspiracy lovers with many speculating that the secretive base might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. Last month, the alien hunting craze spiralled out of control as millions of people backed a Facebook event, dubbed “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us”. The gathering is set for 20 September and has already given birth to a bunch of hilarious ET-related memes.
Alienjager ontdekt ‘Chinese versie van Area 51’ op Google Maps. Bekijk de beelden
Terwijl alle ogen momenteel gericht zijn op Area 51, een mysterieuze legerbasis in Amerika die in september mogelijk gaat worden bestormd door een menigte UFO-jagers, zijn er beelden opgedoken van een soortgelijke ‘topgeheime’ basis in China.
Een YouTuber en complotonderzoeker heeft een mysterieuze militaire installatie ontdekt in China, schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
Scott C. Waring heeft een video op YouTube geplaatst waarin hij zegt op een topgeheime basis in de woestijn bij de grens met Mongolië te zijn gestuit.
Kopie
De basis ‘lijkt uit een film te komen’ en geavanceerde vliegtuigen te herbergen.
“Ik heb een legerbasis in China gevonden die een kopie lijkt te zijn van Area 51,” lichtte hij toe.
“Er is ook een kleiner gebied, waar een zwart stealthvliegtuig staat dat gemaakt kan zijn met behulp van buitenaardse technologie en dat mogelijk door de ruimte kan reizen,” zei hij.
Verbergen
Veel internetgebruikers reageerden lyrisch op de vondst. “Ze verbergen iets,” zei iemand.
Anderen waren sceptisch en suggereerden dat het een lanceerplatform voor drones is.
Most cattle mutilations are found after the fact and after the animal is dead, when its organs have already been removed and blood drained. That wasn’t the case recently in Argentina, where multiple local news sources reported a rancher finding a newborn calf, which had wandered off and was missing for days, mutilated but still alive, with parts missing but mysteriously … no bleeding. Did they call in a pet psychic? Mr. Spock to do a Vulcan mind-meld? What could have caused this strange mutilation? Is this a new and gruesome trend?
“He showed no signs of bleeding, both in the wounds of the snout, as in the superficial lacerations, in the tongue, dry wounds are observed, as burned.”
“He” is a calf born recently at the El Boyero tambo or ranch in a small farm town between Realicó and Adolfo Van Praet in the La Pampa Province of central Argentina. According to Notife.com, a member of the Sánchez family which owned the tambo said the calf was completely normal at birth and therefore left to its own devices in the field. A day later, the calf was reported missing and a search began. How hard is it to the find a day-old calf? More difficult than one might imagine, as it was days later when the newborn was finally located – in a state that left the owners in shock.
“One of the owners of the field where the beef appeared reported that he was surprised on Monday afternoon when he found the calf with a violent mutilation in the upper maxillofacial region, presenting the missing part of the entire upper part of the snout.”
(Pictures can be seen here – warning: they’re gruesome). The calf was missing a large part of the upper front of its face. Whatever mutilated it was apparently going after the tongue – a body part that is normally removed in other mysterious mutilations – because it had lacerations. Like other mysterious mutilations, the wounds were not bleeding. Unlike them, this particular one was not done with the surgical precision usually reported. Despite the attack which removed the calf’s upper jaw and teeth, it was miraculously eating. However, local veterinarian Carlos Arese was not hopeful. As he tells Infopico.com:
“In this case there is a predisposition on the part of the owners to feed them with a bottle, but there is no possibility of living in the state that it is because those parts do not regenerate. It would have to be sacrificed.”
As of this writing, that has not been reported, allowing the other ranchers in the area to contemplate what they may be dealing with.
“The people of the field rule out that the injuries that the animal presents are from some other wild animal in the area.”
Well, a ‘normal’ wild animal. No one has ruled out a Chupacabra … or humans performing some sort of bizarre ritual. Or aliens. All they have to go on is a poor struggling calf with grotesque mutilations that are mysteriously not bleeding. What next? Perhaps the report in Infotecrealico.com puts it best:
“At the moment there is no logical explanation for the event, also considering the possibility of having been attacked by a wild animal, but the doubt of being so, being the veal alone, is why he did not kill her to feed …? , for now everything is uncertainty, in the case of this little earth.”
“For now everything is uncertainty” on this little earth. A reflection on a cattle mutilation … or our times?
It has been almost 40 years since Britain had its most famous UFO sighting which many people have nicknamed “Britain’s Roswell” (Rendlesham Forest Incident). And now, a new witness has come forward with some pretty incredible information. For the first time since it happened, retired US serviceman, Sergeant Michael Smith, has come forward with his experience on the frightening encounter in 1980 in the Suffolk countryside.
The Rendlesham Forest UFO sightings took place over several nights in late December of 1980 when several military personnel claimed to have seen a strange light appearing between the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England. Jim Penniston and John Burroughs were sent to investigate the strange light. As they got closer, Penniston said that Burroughs seemed to have vanished into thin air for a few moments before returning. What’s even stranger is that Burroughs has no memory of what happened right after he seen the unexplained light until the following morning and he developed serious health issues after his encounter.
Rendlesham Forest
The UFO was also witnessed by Deputy Base Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt as well as his team. He claimed that a beam of light shot towards the ground from the unknown craft. He eventually talked about the incident by stating, “Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I’m involved in the middle of something I can’t explain.”
Steve Longero, who was a US Air Force police officer that was working at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, came forward in 2016 to report that he witnessed strange lights while he was on duty.
Now, three years later, Michael Smith has come forward with what he witnessed when he was a member of the 81st Airborne Police Squadron at RAF Bentwaters when he was just 19 years of age. According to Smith, he was outside when he witnessed a glowing light in the woods (he explained it as looking like a reddish colored ball). “It stopped right in front of me – it just stayed there and hovered two feet off the ground and I called for reinforcements. I was scared to death,” he said. Here you can see Smith’s interview on what he witnessed the night of “Britain’s Roswell”.
So, did they witness an actual flying saucer? There have numerous theories as to what they actually saw, from a fireball, to nocturnal lights, beams from a lighthouse, and bright stars. There was even a story that was published claiming that it was all just a prank played on the US Air Force by the SAS. Even the Ministry of Defense announced at the time that there was no threat to national security; therefore, an investigation was never conducted.
But for those who allegedly witnessed the event, they know what they saw and no amount of conspiracy theories or other potential explanations can change their minds. To this day, the Rendlesham Forest Incident remains unexplained. A sketch of the unexplained craft, as well as other pictures from the incident can be seen here.
A drawing of the craft seen during the unexplained incident
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An information board in Rendlesham Forest
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A UFO trail sign at Rendlesham Forest, which has become a tourist hotspot
UFO emerges from a portal over ancient Machu Picchu in Peru
The popular tourist attraction Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains in Peru, is not only known for its sophisticated dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without the use of mortar, intriguing buildings that play on astronomical alignments, but also known for the many mysterious UFO sightings above the Incan citadel often photographed by tourists.
Now, on July 20, 2019 a tourist made some images at the 'sun Gate' of Machu Picchu when he noticed in one of the images a strange UFO.
It seems as if the UFO emerged from a portal or wormhole. The shadow under the UFO indicates that it is moving above the surface.
The photographer who submitted the images to Mufon said: Mid afternoon while visiting Machu Picchu we were at the "sun gate "overlooking the archaeological site. It was broad daylight and clear sky.
I decided to take a couple selfies. I took the two photos only 1 or 2 seconds apart. There were about 10 people all looking out over the city and no one heard or seen a thing.
UFO emerges from a portal?
Later that evening while reviewing the photos I saw something what appeared to be a condor which amazed me because we had not seen anything that day even though great visibility but when I blew up the photo it was very evident this was no bird. As yet no persons from Peru or other have been able to give certain identification to the object.
UFO Sighting Was Caught In Paris, France Video. 2009, UFO Sighting Daily News.
Date of sighting: 2009
Location of sighting: Paris, France
This UFO Sighting apparently happened in 2009, before all the fakes were being made. It was sent to me back in 2009 by a military guy in France who wishes to remain anonymous. I held onto it for a year because frankly I was scared to post it on my site. Now imagine this craft and how all the bugs got ironed out of it today in 2019, ten years later. The USAF probably has a whole fleet of these, but in my opinion they have to be stationed on off world, because I don't believe it would be so easy to hide these things flying around. The USAF probably took over an abandoned city on the moon and use it as the newest top secret military base the USA has ever had. This UFO sighting was caught in Paris, France and some people believe this is part of the US gov Aurora Project. You decide. The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B's (code-named Astra) first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. The Aurora class craft is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s gathered from Apollo 18, 19 and 20 covert missions to the moon to salvage alien technology that NASA found. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
When I was looking at the recent rover photo, I noticed something that at first looks like a foot and lower leg of a statue, but now I am confident it is actually the lower leg of an ancient robot. You can see the foot area with a lower tread and thick heal on it, the upper part of the boot like foot. The thing that convinces me about it being robot is that if you look at the leg attached to the shoe, you will see hing areas that a robot might have. Robot leg on Mars, NASA really needs to address these discoveries.
Mars City Found!!! NASA Source Photo!!! Absolute100% Proof Of Life!!! UFO Sighting News.
Here is a Mars photo with a lot of structures in its lower left area. The structures have a lot of right angles and odd shapes. One structure has a huge circular black dome over it, another has a orb like pear on a tower. Its really something that just needs to be talked about, not with me so much, but with NASA. Why isn't NASA talking about these structures? Whats NASA working so hard on that they cant take five minutes to tell the public about the structures on Mars?
Photographer Olivier Grunewald first learned about the Kawah Ijen volcano in 2008. A sulfur mine by day, this infernal Indonesian mountain turns into a surreal alien landscape when the night comes. His pictures—taken in very dangerous conditions—are stunning:
He and his friend Régis Etienne have gone back repeatedly to photograph and film this incredible unearthly patch of glowing blue lava. A recent 52-minute documentary film is the result of 30 nights in hazardous conditions.
But it's the sulfur mine workers who are constant toiling among the flames. Here is the description Olivier sent to us:
For over 40 years, miners have been extracting sulphur from the crater of Kawah Ijen in Indonesia. To double their meagre income, the hardiest of these men work nights, by the electric blue light of the sulphuric acid exhaled by the volcano.
As the light of day recedes, an eerie incandescence appears to rise from the depths of the Kawah Ijen crater. The high-temperature liquid sulphur that flows from an active vent at the edge of the world's largest hydrochloric acid lake flares in blue flames that can reach up to 5 metres.
At the foot of the glow, miners bustle amidst the toxic fumes. They are monitoring the flow of molten sulphur as it pours out of pipes at 115 °C, and its subsequent crystallisation. Breaking up, gathering up, loading up and transporting the coagulated blood of the earth earns them a living. By the blue light of the flare, they extract hunks of sulphur, then carry them up the flank of the crater to sell for 680 roupees per kilo (about €0.04). But the loads they carry, weighing between 80 and 100 kilos, cost them their health—and sometimes their life. By working nights, they manage to haul out two loads every 24 hours, doubling their salary, avoiding the daytime heat of the Kawah Ijen cauldron, and despite the condition remaining independant
The sulphur, among the purest in Indonesia, is destined for the food and chemical industry. Whitening sugar, at the price of their health and youth, such is the destiny of these serfs to sulphur.
Olivier is a four-time World Press Photo winner. After studying commercial photography in Paris, he first began shooting natural landscapes after a shoot with rock climbers. He's been photographing volcanos since 1997. You can see more of Oliver's work at his website.
THE PENTAGON IS LAUNCHING MASS SURVEILLANCE BALLOONS OVER AMERICA
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The Pentagon is launching spy balloons over the Midwest to monitor and track individual people and vehicles.
The point of the balloons is “to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats,” according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission. But, as The Guardian reports, that also means everyday people will be subjected to sweeping government surveillance — without their knowledge or consent.
99 Red Balloons
The surveillance experiment began in mid-July, according to The Guardian, and will run at least through September. The balloons will carry sensors that track every vehicle within a 25-mile radius.
While the Pentagon touts the balloons as a way to quickly spot threats, civil liberties groups have a different view on the matter.
“We do not think that American cities should be subject to wide-area surveillance in which every vehicle could be tracked wherever they go,” Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, told The Guardian. “We should not go down the road of allowing this to be used in the United States and it’s disturbing to hear that these tests are being carried out, by the military no less.
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