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!
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Woensdag 1 december 2021
The world's first 'living robots' that can now replicate themselves
The world's first 'living robots' that can now replicate themselves
Scientists have created astonishing new “living programmable organism” a super-sophisticated robot capable of self-replication.
The Xenobots, computer-designed bio-robots, were adapted from frog stem cells and have now been programed to self replicate, spawning ‘babies’ from their Pac-Man-like mouths. Then these new Xenobots can go out, find cells, and build copies of themselves. Again and again.
They hope that the self-generating Xenobots could advance personalized drug treatment for cancers, traumatic injuries, birth defects, and other major health issues.
But is it the future of modern medicine? Technology futurist Ian Khan cautions against excessive optimism or excitement blinding us to the risks involved in the dawning technology. Robots that reproduce themselves 'aren't giant monsters — yet'
By creating these self-replicating "living robots," the scientists are essentially answering the idea that self-replicating alien probes, known as von Neumann probes, do exist.
These alien robotic probes could explore our galaxy and self-replicate themselves from interstellar dust and gas, after which the parent and child probes would each set off for a different star, where they would look for signs of life and then self-replicate themselves again.
Mathematicians in Scotland calculate that "self-replicating" alien spacecraft could already have explored our solar system and may still be here but undetectable to our current technologies.
According to some recent calculations, the massive new observational platform, The new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) might be able to detect swarms of von Neumann probes relatively far away from the sun.
Currently, human civilization is thought to be around a .75 on the Kardashev scale which perhaps explains that we as humans are only just beginning to understand how to make new forms of self-replication products, and certainly don't have the technology yet how to make self-replicating 'Neumann probes' in space which according to Michio Kaku could be Nano Ships.
Video: the first living, AI-designed "Xenobots" that can self-replicate.
This bright unidentified flying object was filmed over Farmington, Utah on 27th November 2021.
Witness report:
My wife and I were headed home from a family dinner on Saturday, November 27th. On our way to get onto Interstate 15, we both noticed a VERY bright light above the mountain, in the sky. My wife asked that I stop the car so she could look at it. I did. We watched it for maybe 5 minutes total. It was large. It was not a star nor a radio tower as it was clearly OFF/Above the wasatch mountain range. I took videos and pictures. When we got onto the interstate to go home, it was gone.
GEZICHT OP MARS: OPTISCHE ILLUSIE OP DE RODE PLANEET INTRIGEERT AL 45 JAAR
Tim Kraaijvanger
In 1976 fotografeerde de Viking 1-orbiter een bijzondere berg op Mars. Deze berg had de vorm van een gezicht. Was dit een buitenaards kunstwerk of een optische illusie?
De planeet Mars spreekt al eeuwen tot de verbeelding. Zou er leven zijn op de rode planeet? Of zijn we helemaal alleen in het zonnestelsel? Het is nu lastig voor te stellen, maar voor de jaren zestig wisten wetenschappers erg weinig over het zusje van de aarde. Er werden diverse pogingen gedaan om een ruimtevaartuig naar Mars te sturen, maar verschillende missies mislukten. Pas in 1965 slaagde de Amerikaanse Mariner 4 er in om langs de rode planeet te vliegen en leerden we meer over de vierde planeet van het zonnestelsel. Tien jaar later zette de Viking 1-lander als eerste ruimtevaartuig voet op Mars en kregen we voor het eerst unieke beelden te zien vanaf het Martiaanse oppervlak.
In de zoektocht naar een geschikte landingsplaats fotografeerde de Viking 1-orbiter verschillende gebieden op Mars, waaronder Cydonia. Op één van de foto’s was een tafelberg te zien met een menselijk gezicht. De foto verscheen in alle kranten en werd gezien door veel mensen als hét bewijs van het bestaan van leven op Mars. Natuurlijk wisten NASA-wetenschappers wel beter en dachten zij al vanaf het begin dat het gezicht een illusie was, veroorzaakt door licht en schaduw. Dit wordt ook wel pareidolie genoemd.
De beroemde berg Cydonia Mensa op Mars, beter bekend als het ‘Gezicht op Mars’.
Wat is pareidolie? Pareidolie is een psychisch verschijnsel waarbij men in alledaagse voorwerpen gezichten herkent. Dat komt omdat het menselijk brein nu eenmaal sterk geneigd is overal iets herkenbaars van te maken. Dit komt goed van pas bij het herkennen van vormen die op eventueel gevaar kunnen wijzen, zoals bijvoorbeeld het silhouet van een roofdier. Maar soms loopt ons brein een beetje te hard van stapel en ziet het verbanden of patronen die er niet zijn. Zo zien sommige mensen allerlei dieren in wolken of bijvoorbeeld een gezichtje in de maan. Overigens is er ook een verschijnsel dat auditieve pareidolie heet. In dat geval hoor je een mondegreen (een zogenoemde ‘mama appelsap’), zoals “waar is toch dat zebrahondje voor” in Lambada van Kaoma.
De afgelopen decennia hebben diverse NASA-ruimtemissies prachtige foto’s gemaakt van nevels, sterrenstelsels, stellaire kraamkamers en planeten. Ieder weekend halen we een indrukwekkende ruimtefoto uit het archief. Dit is het tweede artikel in de reeks, maar binnenkort kun je alle foto’s terugvinden op deze pagina.
Optische illusie Uiteindelijk zijn er betere foto’s gemaakt van het Gezicht op Mars, o.a. door de Mars Odyssey in 2001. Deze foto zie je hieronder. En wat blijkt: het gaat inderdaad om een optische illusie. Cydonia Mensa is een doodgewone twee kilometer lange geërodeerde tafelberg. Geen creatie door Marsmannetjes, maar na 45 jaar spreekt de allereerste foto nog steeds tot de verbeelding.
Gezicht van Ghandi, een geheime basis en meer vondsten op Mars De afgelopen tientallen jaren zijn er meer optische illusies gespot op Mars, zoals het gezicht van Ghandi en een geheime basis. In 2010 fotografeerde de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter zelfs bomen op de rode planeet.
Een ruimtevaart-enthousiasteling uit Italië heeft via Google Mars het gezicht van de Indiase leider Mahatma Gandhi ontdekt op de rode planeet. Met behulp van satellietfoto's heeft Google Mars onze buurplaneet in kaart gebracht. Ruimtevaartliefhebbers speuren de kaarten af in de hoop opvallende zaken te vinden. Zo heeft de Italiaan naar eigen zeggen ook al ingangen tot ondergrondse tunnels en ru�nes van steden op Mars gevonden. Een universiteit in Arizona onderzocht de ontdekking en kwam dankzij foto's in hoge resolutie erachter dat het gezicht eigenlijk een diepe krater is.
In diepe, donkere maankraters ligt mogelijk CO2-ijs opgeslagen
Beeld: De mogelijke vindplaatsen van rijpafzettingen op de donkere bodems van kraters nabij de zuidpool van de maan.
(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
In de donkere kraters rond de zuidpool van de maan kan niet alleen bevroren water, maar ook bevroren koolstofdioxide te vinden zijn. Dat blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek gebaseerd op gegevens van NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Dat is goed nieuws voor toekomstige bemande maanmissies. Na water is koolstof waarschijnlijk de belangrijkste hulpbron op de maan. Het kan worden gebruikt voor de productie van raketbrandstof, biomaterialen en staal.
In kraters rond de ijskoude polen van de maan kunnen zich allerlei vluchtige stoffen ophopen. De maan heeft weliswaar geen atmosfeer, en dus ook niet veel water, maar er wordt wel geregeld water en koolstof aangevoerd door kometen en koolstofhoudende (micro)meteorieten.
Veel van de aldus gevormde moleculen verdwijnen uiteindelijk de ruimte in, maar moleculen die bij toeval in diepe kraters rond de polen van de maan verzeild raken, kunnen ter plaatse neerslaan als ijs. De temperaturen aldaar zijn, bij gebrek aan invallend zonlicht, dermate laag dat de kraters als ‘koudevallen’ fungeren.
Waterijs
Meetgegevens van het Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment van de LRO laten zien dat de temperaturen rond de polen van de maan laag genoeg zijn om CO2-moleculen ‘in de val’ te laten lopen. Theoretisch zouden zich hier dan ook grote hoeveelheden CO2 kunnen hebben opgehoopt, maar of dat ook werkelijk zo is, zal nog moeten blijken. Vast staat wel dat een andere NASA-maansonde in 2009 CO2 heeft gedetecteerd in de pluim van materiaal die opstoof nadat een rakettrap (doelbewust) was ingeslagen bij de zuidpool van de maan.
De totale oppervlakte aan CO2-koudevallen rond de zuidpool van de maan bedraagt ongeveer 200 vierkante kilometer. Ter vergelijking: de koudevallen van waterijs beslaan bijna 14.000 vierkante kilometer. De eventuele concentraties van CO2 zijn dus heel schaars, maar de meeste koudevallen zijn te vinden op de bodem van de relatief gemakkelijk toegankelijke krater Amundsen. De temperatuur aldaar komt nooit boven de –212 °C uit, dus zal het wel een uitdaging worden om dit gebied te verkennen.
The new TOLIMAN space telescope could launch in the mid-2020s.
A new space telescope mission unveiled today (Nov. 16) will look for habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system, our sun's closest stellar neighbors.
The new mission, called TOLIMAN after an ancient Arabic-derived name for Alpha Centauri, will carry a novel telescope fitted with a so-called diffractive pupil lens that spreads starlight into a flowerlike pattern. This unique lens will make it easier for astronomers using the scope to detect tiny irregularities in a stars' movements that are usually caused by the gravitational influence of orbiting planets, according to a statement by Breakthrough Initiatives, which is backing the mission.
"Even for the very nearest bright stars in the night sky, finding planets is a huge technological challenge," Eduardo Bendek, an optical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a collaborator on the mission, said in the statement.
"Our TOLIMAN mission will launch a custom-designed space telescope that makes extremely fine measurements of the position of the star in the sky. If there is a planet orbiting the star, it will tug on the star betraying a tiny, but measurable, wobble," Bendek said.
This image simulates a view of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, as it could be seen by the new planet-hunting space telescope TOLIMAN. (Image credit: Breakthrough Initiatives)
Alpha Centauri is the closest solar system to Earth and it has three stars, two of which are like our sun. The third star is a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri, a cool but long-lived type of a star that is the most common in the universe.
This red dwarf is known to have at least two exoplanets, one of which appears to be fairly similar to Earth.
But so far, this intriguing star system, just four light-years away from us, has avoided detailed scientific scrutiny, despite the fact that the planets around these stars could present the most convenient destination for humankind outside of our own solar system.
While, for now, a human mission to Alpha Centauri remains in the realm of science fiction, the TOLIMAN telescope will at least attempt to answer some of the most fundamental and pressing questions about its planets. Most importantly, scientists hope to use the new scope to investigate whether these far-off worlds might indeed harbor life, or perhaps provide the right conditions for its survival.
"Our nearest stellar neighbors — the Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri systems — are turning out to be extraordinarily interesting," Pete Worden, executive director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, said in the statement. "The TOLIMAN mission will be a huge step toward finding out if planets capable of supporting life exist there."
The proposed Toliman space telescope to seek out habitable planets around Alpha Centauri. (Image credit: Breakthrough Initiatives)
The mission will focus on the habitable zone around the system's three stars, a region of space in the star's vicinity where liquid water could exist.
"These nearby planets are where humanity will take our first steps into interstellar space using high-speed, futuristic, robotic probes," Pete Klupar, chief engineer of Breakthrough Watch, a branch of Breakthrough Initiatives, said in the statement. "If we consider the nearest few dozen stars, we expect a handful of rocky planets like Earth orbiting at the right distance for liquid surface water to be possible."
Professor Peter Tuthill of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, who leads the development of the mission, added that TOLIMAN will begin answering the questions about the nature of these intriguing worlds.
"Getting to know our planetary neighbors is hugely important," Professor Tuthill said. "These next-door planets are the ones where we have the best prospects for finding and analyzing atmospheres, surface chemistry and possibly even the fingerprints of a biosphere — the tentative signals of life."
This wide-field view of the sky Alpha Centauri star system and its surroundings was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Image released Oct. 17, 2012. (Image credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2)
The team, which also includes experts from Australian space-tech firm Saber Astronautics, began working on the mission in April this year, according to the statement.
The mission received $788,000 ($576,000) from the Australian government and is expected to be ready for science in the mid-2020s.
"Our plan is for an agile low-cost mission that delivers results by about the middle of the decade," Tuthill said.
Dulce is a pleasant and inviting town that is situated in New Mexico’s Rio Arriba County. It’s a small town of less than 3,000 people and which is around thirteen square miles in size. It was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and, today, is the home of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. There is nothing particularly unusual or out of the ordinary about Dulce – at least, not at first glance. Look a little bit closer, though, and you’ll find yourself in a world filled with dark secrets and terrifying tales of the cosmic and conspiratorial kind. And, “by closer,” I mean below your feet. Way below your feet; maybe even miles down. Since the late 1970s, rumors have swirled to the effect that deep within the massive Archuleta Mesa, which dominates the town, there is a secret and futuristic facility that has been out of bounds to the U.S. Government since 1979. Today, it’s said that the installation is under the complete control of hostile and deadly extraterrestrials – the so-called “Greys” of UFO lore, those dwarfish, black-eyed, large-headed entities that are practically part of popular culture. So the story goes, it was in seventy-nine that a violent confrontation between military personnel and the aliens broke out – and we were the losers. The base, which was once a hub of human / alien interaction, is now theirs – and theirs alone. Witnesses talk of people going missing, and of vast, cavern-like rooms in which people are devoured by voraciously hungry aliens. Are the tales true? How did the rumors begin? Let’s take a trip back in time to the mid-to-late1970s. Paul Bennewitz was a scientist who, at the time, ran a company in Albuquerque called Thunder Scientific – a company that quite literally backed onto the well-guarded fences of Kirtland Air Force Base. It was around 1978 that Bennewitz – who had a preexisting interest in UFOs – began to hear of more and more so-called alien abduction events in and around Albuquerque and further up into northern New Mexico.
Greg Bishop at the grave of Paul Bennewitz
(photo courtesy of Nick Redfern)
On top of that, strange signals were picked up by Bennewitz on his radio equipment. He saw weird-looking aircraft soaring silently across the skies over Kirtland late at night and in the early hours of the morning. He was given accounts of abductees being secretly taken to Kirtland and grilled by U.S. intelligence agents, who were deeply concerned about the growing number of people seemingly being kidnapped from their homes and subjected to terrifying and bizarre experiments of a genetic nature. As the weeks and months progressed Bennewitz came to believe something incredible: that deadly ETs were secretly getting ready to take over the planet. They were planning on doing so from their command post deep below the town of Dulce. Worldwide invasion and the enslavement of the human race were lurking just around the corner – as Bennewitz saw it, at least. Suspecting that the end really was possibly getting nearer and nearer, Bennewitz prepared a dossier on his findings and theories. He called it Project Beta. Bennewitz mailed copies of the controversial report to the FBI, to the CIA, to the NSA, to every branch of the military, and even to the White House. People had to be warned – and warned now, Bennewitz wrote.
Notably, Bennewitz was not written off as a crank, as many might expect him to have been. In fact, quite the opposite was the case: intelligence agents at Kirtland Air Force Base quickly established a secret liaison with Bennewitz. They warned him about digging any further into things that could be dangerous – even to Bennewitz’s life, no less. But, those same agents also confided in Bennewitz something incredible: that he was on the right track. They did all they could to keep Bennewitz quiet, almost to the point of begging him to keep his mouth shut on what he knew. For Bennewitz, though, this was like a red rag to a bull: the somewhat veiled threats to keep his nose out of things only served Bennewitz to push further for answers. As a result, U.S. intelligence fed Bennewitz more and more horror stories of what was supposedly going on several miles below Dulce, including tales of the aliens using captured people – in their thousands – as food. It’s no wonder – given the nature of the stories and that they were coming directly from the military – that Bennewitz became more and more paranoid. Eventually, he became completely unhinged, and to the point where he ended up spending time in a local medical facility, where he was treated for stress, anxiety, and, finally, what practically amounted to a complete mental collapse. Thankfully, he recovered, but was careful kept his distance from Ufology.
(Nick Redfern)
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, black helicopters were often seen at Dulce
Today, some UFO researchers dismiss Bennewitz’s theories and conclusions – preferring, instead, to suspect that Bennewitz had stumbled on not alien activity but top secret programs of the U.S. military and intelligence community. By steering Bennewitz down a path filled with fictitious tales of dangerous aliens, the government would be able to divert him away from the far more down to earth truth, so the theory goes. On the other hand, Bennewitz, who died in 2003, still has a huge following of UFO sleuths who are absolutely certain that below Dulce something abominable is going on – and has been for years. Maybe even for centuries. While Bennewitz’s Project Beta report does read like something straight out of the early years of The X-Files, there is absolutely no doubt that Dulce itself is a very weird place, one where strange activity has been reported for years. For example, in the 1960s the area around Dulce became the site of a classified U.S. Atomic Energy Commission program called Gasbuggy. It was part of a larger operation code-named Plowshare. The plan was to explode a significantly-sized atomic device, underground, deep below the Carson National Forest, which just happens to be only a few miles from Dulce. The reason was to try and access massive and precious supplies of natural gas. The bomb was detonated on December 10, 1967 – more than four thousand feet below the surface. Although the Plowshare program continued in the area until the late 1970s, even today digging underground in the area is strictly forbidden.
In light of all of Bennewitz’s findings, it’s not at all surprising that there are those in the UFO community who believe that the Plowshare program was actually a cover story – one created to mask the fact that the U.S. Government had tried to destroy the alien base under Dulce with a nuclear weapon. That just such a weapon really was exploded, underground, and only a few minutes’ drive from Dulce, only ensures that the rumors of an alien presence in the area continue to thrive. And, that people are warned not to dig underground in the area only adds to the suspicions that there is something very sinister going on below Dulce. Not only that, in 1989, and thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI declassified into the public domain its extensive files on so-called “cattle mutilations” in the Dulce area, all of which occurred in the 1970s. Such mutilations have been reported all across the county and since 1967, but Dulce is renowned for the huge number of cases in its midst, as the FBI learned. Cattle are found lacking major organs. Blood is removed from the bodies in astonishingly quick time. And, black and unmarked helicopters are seen in the areas of mutilation – as are strange lights in the sky, and UFOs too.
Incredibly, all of these issues are discussed at length in the FBI’s official files on the mutilations in and around Dulce, all of which can be read online at the FBI’s website, The Vault. So, yes, there is definitely something strange going on at Dulce – and something which has been going on for an extraordinarily long time. Of course, the big question is this: is all the above true or is it simply a cover to hide top secret experiments of a very home-grown type?
An incredible discovery was made off the coast of California when an ancient mammoth tusk was found in 10,000 feet of water. The tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth that was alive more than 100,000 years ago.
Columbian mammoths (also known as Mammuthus columbi) were huge, measuring 4 meters (13 feet) at the shoulders and weighing as much as 10 tonnes (22,000 pounds or 10,000 kilograms). They lived as far as the northern part of the United States all the way down to Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). They had very long curved tusks with four molars that were replaced six times throughout their lifetime. Incredibly, the largest known tusk that belonged to a Columbian mammoth measured 4.9 meters (16 feet). These creatures may have lived as long as 80 years.
Image by Charles R. Knight in 1909.
(Via Wikipedia)
As for the most recent discovery, the tusk was spotted in 2019 by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) who was exploring the ocean when they found what appeared to be an elephant tusk. Researchers then returned to the site this summer and recovered the tusk and realized that what they had in their possession belonged to a Columbian mammoth.
The tusk, which measured one meter in length (3.3 feet), was well-preserved due to the cold, high-pressure environment of the ocean. Thanks to computed tomography (CT) scans, the experts were able to determine that the creature lived over 100,000 years ago. This means that it is one of the oldest and best preserved mammoth tusks that have ever been found in the area.
Scientist Terrence Blackburn explained how they determined how old it was, “Our age estimate on the tusk is largely based on the natural radioactive decay of certain uranium and thorium isotopes imparted to the tusk from the ocean.”
As a matter of fact, it is quite rare to find any mammoth remains more than “tens of meters” underneath the water (the tusk mentioned in this article was found 3,048 meters underwater). “This specimen’s deep-sea preservation environment is different to anything we have seen elsewhere,” said palaeontologist Daniel Fisher.
Researchers are hoping that the tusk will reveal even more information regarding the life of the Columbian mammoth as explained by Mr. Blackburn, “Mammoth remains from continental North America are particularly rare, and so we expect that DNA from this tusk will go far to refine what we know about mammoths in this part of the world.”
NASA Simulation Shows What Happens When Stars Get Too Close to Black Holes
What happens to a star when it strays too close to a monster black hole? Astronomers have wondered why some stars are ripped apart, while others manage to survive a close encounter with a lurking black hole, only a little worse for wear.
To figure out the dynamics of such an event, scientists built a supercomputer simulation and tested it out on eight different types of stars. The stars were sent towards a virtual black hole, 1 million times the mass of the Sun.
What they found was surprising.
The stars they modeled ranged in size from about one-tenth to 10 times the Sun’s mass, all with varying densities. All the stars were sent to about 24 million miles away from the black hole at their closest.
The good news is that the Sun-like star survived its close approach (good news for us, anyway). The other stars that survived had 0.15, 0.3, and 0.7 solar masses. But the stars that were 0.4, 0.5, and 3, and 10 times the Sun’s mass were completely torn apart.
Why the disparity?
The researchers realized it wasn’t the star’s size that made the difference for its survival. Instead, the difference between survival and destruction was dependent on the star’s internal density. You can see the details in this video from NASA:
Watch eight model stars stretch and deform as they approach a virtual black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun. The black hole’s gravity rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Others manage to withstand their close encounters. These simulations show that destruction and survival depend on the stars’ initial densities. Yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)
Music: "Lava Flow Instrumental" from Universal Production Music
In the simulation above, yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense.
These simulations were led by Taeho Ryu, from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. NASA says these simulations are the first to combine the physical effects of Einstein’s general theory of relativity with realistic stellar density models.
The results will help astronomers estimate how often full tidal disruptions occur in the universe and will aid them in building more accurate pictures of these catastrophic events.
Lead image caption: From left to right, this illustration shows four snapshots of a virtual Sun-like star as it approaches a black hole with 1 million times the Sun’s mass. The star stretches, looses some mass, and then begins to regain its shape as it moves away from the black hole. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)
Luis Elizondo on unidentified aerial phenomena, extraterrestrials and the Pentagon’s UFO programme
Luis Elizondo ran the Pentagon’s secretive UFO/UAP programme for a decade… We had some questions. Early last year, the US government officially acknowledged videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” filmed by its Navy pilots. Was it evidence of extraterrestrials? Here the former Pentagon intelligence officer in charge of investigating these incidents, reveals (almost) all he knows at GQ Heroes…
A Huge Comet Visible With Naked Eyes Is Coming & You Shouldn't Miss It | Comet Leonard 2021
Comet Leonard is the comet of the year. It will be visible to naked eyes in December 2021. Comet A1 Leonard was discovered on 3rd January 2021 and at that time, it was about 5 astronomical units away. But now, the comet has come closer to the Earth and will be easily visible to naked eyes in December from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
It will reach an apparent magnitude of +4 and hence can be seen through unaided eyes and even binoculars or a small telescope. Comet Leonard might reach an apparent magnitude of +1, which means it might become way brighter than predicted. The best day to see comet Leonard with naked eyes is 6 December with it will be just 5 degrees away from Bootes' brightest star, Arcturus. This video explains in detail how to see comet Leonard with naked eyes.
US Submarines Detect “Very High Speed Ships” Underwater
US Navy submarines have detected mysterious objects moving hundreds of knots underwater as the P̳e̳n̳t̳a̳g̳o̳n̳ prepares to release its report on U̳F̳O̳ sightings.
The Navy has collected sonar data showing mysterious fast-moving underwater objects that experts or current technology cannot explain.
Tom Rogan of the Washington Examiner said the US Navy “has the data” to prove the strange encounters.
Some of these encounters could be included in the US government working group that is preparing to report back to Congress on its U̳F̳O̳ findings next month.
Speaking with Tucker Carlson of Fox News about the new footage, Rogan said: “One area that we will learn more about in relation to this video is the interaction between Navy submarines that pick up sonar contact from things moving hundreds knots under water ”.
“There is an underwater dimension to this, in addition to what the pilots are seeing above the water.”
Mr. Carlson replied, “Hundreds of knots under water? I don’t think people can even digest that. “
Mr. Rogan added: “That is what I have heard from very good sources and that the United States Navy has the data.”
Last month, Corbell shared a video of another mysterious triangular craft flying near another US Navy ship.
He said, “Whether this being is worldly or otherworldly, we don’t know. It is just part of a much larger series of events that we are going to learn from. “
Last week, video showed a dark spherical object moving across the sky near a Navy ship , before suddenly veering into the water and disappearing.
Elizondo, former director of the P̳e̳n̳t̳a̳g̳o̳n̳’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said that some of the UAPs that have been seen defy physics as we know it.
“They have no signs of propulsion, no wings, and yet they can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. That is precisely what we are seeing ”.
Scientists Create Synthetic Organisms That Can Reproduce
It's a striking leap forward for synthetic biology.
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Scientists have created synthetic organisms that can self-replicate. Known as “Xenobots,” these tiny millimeter-wide biological machines now have the ability to reproduce — a striking leap forward in synthetic biology.
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a joint team from the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and Harvard University used Xenopus laevis frog embryonic cells to construct the Xenobots.
Their original work began in 2020 when the Xenobots were first “built.” The team designed an algorithm that assembled countless cells together to construct various biological machines, eventually settling on embryonic skin cells from frogs.
The machine bodies were assembled using biological cellular material and artificial electrodes. When they were activated, the cells began to work together. Forming a sort of architecture, the skin cells began to form into “bodies” that could perform specific tasks, such as pushing microscopic objects around or organizing themselves and moving in formation.
Moving beyond the ability to perform simple robotic tasks, the team has now upped the ante.
“With the right design — they will spontaneously self-replicate,” research co-leader Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont said in a press statement.
Much like any good dystopian “Kill all Humans” movie scenario, the little robots swim around and begin gathering hundreds of single cells in their Pac-Man-like “mouths.” A few days later, out pops a brand new Xenobot.
“It’s very non-intuitive. It looks very simple,” researcher Sam Kriegman said in the release, adding that “those parents built children, who built grandchildren, who built great-grandchildren, who built great-great-grandchildren.”
It’s natural to think that these little Xenobots will one day be responsible for a robotic uprising and the future hellscape of the “Terminator” franchise, but the biological machines are pretty harmless. Unlike current technology, like a laptop, Xenobots can simply be turned off, and in about seven days, biodegrade as any skin cell would. Moreover, the team isn’t looking to release Xenobots into the world to be robotic helpers. Rather, the idea is to study how their creation can lead to better and faster algorithms that can manipulate already living and functioning cells.
“If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that’s regenerative medicine — that’s the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging,” said Tuft’s Michael Levin, a co-author on the study. “All of these different problems are here because we don’t know how to predict and control what groups of cells are going to build. Xenobots are a new platform for teaching us.”
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Military Personnel Transport the Roswell Alien – Leaked Video
If there is one place on Earth that reminds us that we are not alone in the Universe, definitely that place is Roswell, New Mexico.
The reason for that is because in July 1947 there were countless reports in the area about the sightings of a UFO.
Many are those who believe that the object, or whatever it was, crashed somewhere around the U.S. Air Force Base, also known as Area 51.
What is undeniable is that many witnesses stumbled upon unexplained debris and the remains of a possible spaceship. All these speculations suggested that Roswell has indeed been visited by creatures from other planets.
Nevertheless, soldiers stated publicly that the debris was from a weather balloon. However, this didn’t put an end to speculations and many were those who suggested that the government was covering up all the events that took place in July 1947.
Now there is a new video that has gone viral and that points out that those who believed the military was involved in a cover-up at Roswell could be true.
What we can see in the video is a group of military personnel carrying something with a gurney. Watch the below video carefully and tell me what is your personal opinion.
EXPERTS SAY FUSION POWER IS FINALLY STARTING TO LOOK IMMINENT
IT'S SO CLOSE WE CAN ALMOST TASTE IT.
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Bet On It?
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, right? Normally we’d say yes, but experts around the globe say nuclear fusion power, which holds the promise of clean and virtually limitless electricity, could be just around the corner. After nearly six decades with many promises but few results, new advancements may finally tip the scale,according to the Financial Times.
“Fusion is coming, faster than you expect,” Fusion Industry Association exec Andrew Holland told the publication.
Green and Clean
There could be many benefits to nuclear fusion. Unlike nuclear fission it would create little waste and, as far as we know, could never result in an accident like Chernobyl. Insert a side-eye here for plans to dump radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay and the Pacific.
Besides being cleaner, fusion would just be way more effective. The FT reports that one glass of the fuel it would use has the energy potential of one million gallons of oil, and could power a home for 800 years. Can you imagine holding 800 years of electricity in one hand?
The problem, of course, is that the tech is notoriously difficult to stabilize. No venture, public or private, has yet managed to build a fusion reactor that produces more power than it consumes.
One of Many
Investment money is flowing into the tech. The FT reports that Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman recently poured $375 million into Helion, a US-based fusion startup.
We’re a little too seasoned to get our hopes up just yet, but if nuclear fusion becomes a reality, it could play a substantial role in saving the planet. Climate change, green and renewable energy, less waste — it’s all in the nuclear fusion promise.
Let’s hope investors like Altman stick it out until we see it through.
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The Scottish UFO Capital And Accidental Time Travellers
‘Bonnybridge the UFO Capital’ of the UK – Bonnybridge is a village in Scotland with an unusual claim, thousands of strange objects have been spotted in the sky above the village. ‘Time Slip’ – a bizarre phenomenon. Some people find themselves in places miles and miles away from where they just were minutes ago others don’t remember where the past few hours or even days went. ‘Paranormal Files’ is a series that examines extraordinary stories that have happened to ordinary people. These events include some of the most controversial cases recorded in the UK.
Nikola Tesla, the brilliant inventor, electrical and mechanical engineer, also had a strong interest in time travel. According to some theories, he also designed his own machine to achieve this.
A series of declassified documents assure that Tesla managed to travel through time. He even commented that he saw “the past, the present and the future. All at the same time”.
Is it possible to take a trip back in time?
When analyzing the history of humanity, there is a series of texts that, when studied, could be considered as evidence of time travel .
An example of this is Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity , from 1905. This hypothesis generated a great uproar within the scientific community, generating many questions, such as the possibility of traveling through time.
Erich Von Däniken , theorist and writer, also stated that there is proof of temporal travel in the bible :
“In the Bible, the prophet Jeremiah was sitting with some of his friends, and there was a boy. His name was Abimelech, and Jeremiah said to Abimelech: “Get out of Jerusalem, there is a mountain and gather some figs for us.”
The boy went out and picked the fresh figs. Suddenly, Abimelech heard some noise and wind in the air, and he was unconscious, he had a blackout. After a while, he woke up again, and saw that it was almost night.
So when he ran back the city was full of strange soldiers. And he says, “What’s going on here? Where are Jeremiah and everyone else? “And an old man said,” That was 62 years ago. »
At present, a team of scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia carried out a simulation of the behavior of photons that travel in time.
Which could show us that the ancient paradox of the impossibility of time travel could be solved.
The researchers used photons and did a simulation of quantum particles traveling into the past . After analyzing their behavior, the scientists discovered that there were strange aspects to modern physics.
Nikola Tesla may have managed to take a trip back in time.
Nikola Tesla and his “time machine”
Before modern science found a small possibility for time travel, Nikola Tesla may have already worked on it.
According to the declassified reports found, Tesla for the year 1985, would have made an incredible discovery . His hypothesis was that magnetic fields could exert an influence on time and space.
Based on this theory, he conducted a series of experiments where it is presumed, the infamous Philadelphia Project originated .
It is believed that Tesla also discovered that the space-time barrier could be altered with the use of magnetic fields by means of a “Trojan horse.” A different time could be accessed, however there is still no certainty if the inventor was actually able to travel back in time.
To date, the only sure thing in the reports is the account of a witness who found Tesla in 1895. Inside a small cafeteria, the inventor seemed disturbed and agitated .
His assistant said that Tesla was almost electrocuted by a machine, when he returned from a trip in time.
The inventor claimed to have found a totally different window in space-time , where he could see the past, present and future at the same time, being within the magnetic field that he artificially designed.
There are many skeptics who claim that it is impossible that Tesla has managed to travel through time. However, the advance of science shows, little by little, this possibility.
Build a home close to an active volcano and you should expect to see lava, smoke and evacuation warnings. Build it next to one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico and expect these to happen often – which explains why the Popocatepetl volcano is surrounded by video cameras to catch the slightest hint that the legendary ‘Smoking Mountain’ is about to blow again. Those cameras are also a great aid for UFO spotters – making Popocatepetl one of the most active UFO hotspots in the world. Is it an alien base as some have speculated? Are these the signs that inspired the Aztec legends of the warrior Popocatépetl and the princess Iztaccíhuatl – also the name of a nearby volcano? Are these the ghost of those who have died tragically on Popocatépetl in the plane crash of 1949? All those questions are being asked as a new video of a UFO over Popocatépetl appears on the Internet.
“The video of the UFO prowling the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano was captured by a family in Puebla. A new sighting UFO surprised the inhabitants of Mexico. On this occasion, a group of young people captured the exact moment in which one of these unidentified objects “prowled” the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano. The images shared on social networks by journalist Arturo Luna have generated an intense debate. Those who recorded the alleged UFO assure that it is not the first time this phenomenon has occurred.”
The story appeared on the UK Media site The Saxon which credits “Mexico Minute” as its source. It appears the sighting occurred on November 24, 2021, and was recorded on a cell phone, not one of the surveillance cameras monitoring Popocatépetl for eruptions. While the headline includes “UFO” and “beings from other worlds,” the story notes that another ‘UFO’ video on November 9, 2021, turned out to be the SpaceX Dragon capsule returning to Earth from the ISS, and a commenter points out that the light looks similar to a plane coming towards the camera. A non-alien explanation – plane, erupting rock, bird, etc. — is generally the case for most Popocatepetl UFO sightings.
However, there’s no question that there are many unusual sightings, like the one in January 2020 or this video which shows a number of them, or these in 2017 (here and here).
While the ‘alien base’ is a popular theory, another is that alien UFOs are refueling on ‘liquid gold’ from the volcano. There have also been sightings of giants and Bigfoot on the mountain, leading some to believe there’s a connection to the UFOs.
Is this a case of ‘If you stare at something long enough, you’ll see what you want to see’ or is Popocatépetl really a UFO hotspot whose unidentified objects have an unconventional explanation?
In 1963 an, Italian sci-fi comedy called “Omnicron” hit the silver screen to a collective yawn. The plot revolved around the dead body of a blue collar worker, who was resurrected by an alien creature known as an Omicron. In essence, the corpse became possessed by a demon and was walking the earth as the living dead…a zombie. When the hybrid creature decides to return to the former job of the deceased laborer, he is able to function at a much higher level given his superior intellect. After getting involved in a labor disruption and a romantic relationship, the alient leaves the corpse and returns to Venus, the Morning Star, planet of The Light Bearer.
Back in the summer of 1947 – 64 years ago this week – Seattle had flying disc fever. It was sparked that June 26 when the P-I ran an Associated Press story from Pendleton, Ore., telling the story of pilot Kenneth Arnold seeing “nine bright, saucer-like objects flying at ‘incredible’ speed at 10,000 feet altitude.”
Arnold, a U.S. Forest Service employee, reported seeing the discs weaving in and out of formation between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams. If one dipped, Arnold said, the others did, too.
“It seems impossible,” he told a reporter, “but there it is.”
His account generated worldwide publicity and launched the flying-saucer frenzy. Rewards were offered for evidence. A pastor said “flying saucers” signaled the end of the world. A man found bleeding from the head claimed he was hit by a flying disk.
That summer, a group of “witnesses” in Seattle met with P-I editors to argue that they could not all be crazy. The paper’s files filled with the names of hundreds of citizens reporting saucer incidents. Within two months, the P-I ran at least 50 separate stories on flying disks.
On July 4, 1947, a Lake City man claimed to have caught a photo of one.
Yeoman Frank Ryman, off duty from his job with Coast Guard public relations, said he saw a shiny disc flying across the Seattle skies. Ryman rushed into his home in Lake City, then outside the Seattle city limits in King County.
“I grabbed my Speed Graphic (press camera) and field glasses and ran back outside,” the 26-year-old told the P-I. “The disc came over about 9,000 or 10,000 feet. It was flashing brilliant silver in the sun.
The picture, he said, was taken while the disc was directly overhead. He used Super-XX film, a 1/50 shutter speed with a f 22 lens opening.
“There was no noise,” he said, adding he watched it with binoculars. “No sound of engines. And I am positive there were no wings or fins in sight. It definitely was not a plane.”
After spotting the object and talking with neighbors, Ryman called the Post-Intelligencer and rushed to the newspaper’s darkroom.
“Enlarged many times the disc showed up clearly as a slightly blurred whitish object,” the newspaper’s account read.
That day, the P-I ran several reports of flying objects. In Twin Falls, Idaho, 35 flying discs were reported in a 20-minute period. A United Airlines pilot, Capt. E. Smith, also reported seeing three to five discs at 7,500 feet over Ontario, Ore., the night of July 4. A deputy sheriff also told the P-I he saw a flying disc that day on his trip north from the Clark County Courthouse.
“Yesterday alone, hundreds of people between San Diego and Seattle reported seeing the plate-like gleaming objects winging northward high in the sky at near supersonic speeds,” the P-I’s front page story read.
On June 21, 1947 – about two weeks before the Lake City incident – Harold Dahl was salvaging logs near the shore of Maury Island. Dahl said that at 2 p.m. he saw six doughnut-shaped aircraft, about 100 feet in diameter.
He said five of the metallic aircraft, which didn’t appear to have signs of propulsion, circled above one, which dropped to about 500 feet and spewed what he thought was 20 tons of metal and molten rock. Dahl reported to co-worker Fred Crisman that the falling debris injured his 15-year-old son, killed their dog and damaged the boat’s wheelhouse.
It was three days later that Arnold reported seeing the flying saucers.
The day after Dahl’s sighting, a man in a black suit arrived at his Tacoma home in a black 1947 Buick, Dahl said later. Books by UFO historians say the man in black threatened Dahl, saying that if he cared about his family, he’d never speak of the incident again.
He spoke of it at least one more time in July 1947, when he met with Arnold in a secret meeting in Room 502 of Tacoma’s Winthrop Hotel. Arnold wrote about the meeting in his 1952 book, and said they were also joined by the Smith, the United Airlines pilot, as well as Air Force Lt. Frank M. Brown and Capt. William L. Davidson.
Smith told The Idaho Statesman that Brown and Davidson were given six pieces of “metal or lava.” The chunks were loaded onto a B-25 bomber at McChord Field to be shipped to a California military base, according to the now-defunct Tacoma Times.
It was still dark in the early morning of Aug. 1, 1947, when a fire erupted in the left engine of the B-25. Longview police officers reported watching the B-25 circle over Longview and Kelso, leaving a streak of smoke behind the burning motor.
When attempts to extinguish the fire failed, two other crewmembers – Sgt. Elmer L. Taft and Tech. Sgt. Woodrow D. Matthews – parachuted to safety. Brown and Davidson, who some believe knew there were UFO parts on the plane, stayed with the bomber.
The B-25 crashed into the base of three alder trees. One initial newspaper report said Brown and Davidson’s mangled bodies were thrown clear.
On Aug. 3, 1947, an Associated Press report said the men died investigating flying saucers.
Some people who believe in UFOs are sure there was something suspicious about the crash. Many others say it was a simple tragedy, and newspapers at the time were caught up in the flying disc rumors.
Nearly 60 years later, in April 2007, a Kelso resident went to the crash site. In the north fork of Globe Creek a friend of the Kelso man found a black chunk slightly larger than a softball.
Later that month, University of Washington research engineer Bill Beaty analyzed the black fragment and said it was probably a meteor chunk or old lava “because it’s all full of little gas pockets, and gas pockets have crystals coating the inner walls.”
Beaty said he thought Dahl’s Maury Island UFO incident was just an exploding stony meteor, which would have explained what Dahl saw.
In 2007, Dahl’s daughter Louise Bakotich of Aberdeen told the P-I she didn’t know anything about her father’s UFO claim until 2003 when a man from Sacramento sent her research about it. Her brother, Charles Dahl, who was supposedly injured by the falling debris, didn’t confirm the injuries before his death.
The Army and Air Force have repeatedly denied that UFO fragments were on the B-25 flight, and the multiple flying saucer claims have been dismissed. But some still believe, and the legend remains.
WORLD’S FAIR UFO SIGHTINGS IN SEATTLE WASHINGTON
Date of Sighting:Summer, 1962 Time of Sighting:Mid-Day Date Reported:April 17, 2005 Location of Sighting: Seattle World’s Fair Complex Number of Witnesses:(At Least Two)
Description (In Witness’s Own Words):
I was 10 years old and at the Seattle World’s Fair with my dad. We were walking in the area by the base of the Space Needle and we approached a crowd of people, who were looking up. Both my dad and I looked up and saw approximately 8, maybe 12 round, gray in color objects, hovering in a straight row. I recall seeing heat waves coming off of them. And in super fast speed, the objects started “reshuffling” but staying at the same height, then stopping in a line again. Then, again in super fast speed, they all took off straight up to a point where they were just dots in the blue sky, then came back down to the same level they were, again in a straight line. They then did another “reshuffle, went back into a straight line, hovered, and then straight up again and gone. About 2 years ago, I brought this up to my dad to see if he recalled this, or was I just imagining it. He said with great certainty, that the events as I described them, did in fact happen. I have scoured the internet, trying to find any report from the time and nothing. This was a sighting in the middle of a clear, sunny summer day. There was absolutely no question that what we saw was real. I’m sorry that I don’t remember the exact date. I am curious to hear if you have any reports on this sighting though.
Investigator’s Notes:
This sighting is most interesting considering that it happened during the daytime at an event attended by thousands of people (Seattle World’s Fair). The witness was 10 years old at the time and vividly recalls the 8 to 12 hovering objects. His father also corroborates his experience. I will be checking other UFO databases and the Air Force Project Bluebook files to see if this sighting was reported. New information will be posted.
NOTE:The above image is CGI.
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US Pentagon Makes UFO Study Task Force, But...Expect Nothing From Them, UFO Sighting News.
Yeah we all heard about it for weeks. The US Pentagon has created group to head studying objects that are seen or recorded in US restricted airspace. To quote Greta Thunberg....blah, blah, blah! Again and again the US tries to stall the public by saying they are looking into something or revealing something to the public, and yet everything they reveal is missing bits and parts that they hide from us. The US has been in contact with some species of aliens for decades, successfully creating trade agreements in exchange for things the public would highly protest too, so the US gov does it all in secret. You can't protest something you don't even know about, now can you? If you want an answer go to an expert, but if you want to waste your time...go to a politician.
I guess I have had this on my mind for a while now and just wanted my readers to know exactly how I feel about it. I could literally go to the zoo and give a chimpanzee a camera and have a higher chance of learning about UFOs than I could from a Pentagon full of old files and black markers. I think Secureteam10 said it best in a Tweet the other day.
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The world's first 'living robots' that can now replicate themselves
