Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
28-10-2015
FIRING ON HIGHEST LEVEL: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER 'COULD BE ABOUT TO FIND A PARALLEL UNIVERSE'
FIRING ON HIGHEST LEVEL: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER 'COULD BE ABOUT TO FIND A PARALLEL UNIVERSE'
The Large Hadron Collider is now firing at its highest-ever energy level - and scientists hope we could find a parallel universe.
It won’t be a parallel universe as seen in science fiction - but it could give our understanding of physics is about to take a very big jolt indeed.
One of the many mind-scrambling ideas on the table is that the Big Bang never happened, and the universe has always existed.
Scarily, scientists are combing through results from June in the hope of finding evidence of mini black holes produced inside the collider.
‘Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects (breadth and length) can exist in a third dimension (height), parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions’ Cern employee Mir Faizal from the University of Waterloo said.
‘We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.’
‘Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised ( via uk.news.yahoo.com ).
‘This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science. This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.’
An artist's impression shows innumerable Earth-like planets to come into existence over the next trillion years in the universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Our place in the universe is a conundrum — life on Earth evolved to create a technologically-savvy race that is now looking for other technologically-savvy intelligences populating our galaxy. But there's a problem; it looks like humanity is the only "intelligent" species in our little corner of the universe — what gives?
This question forms the basis of the Fermi Paradox: given the age of the universe and the apparent high probability of life evolving on other planets orbiting other stars, where are all the smart aliens?
According to a new study based on data collected by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, it might be that Earth (and all life on it) is an early bloomer. By extension, the logical progression from this new study is that we're not hearing from advanced alien civilizations because, in short, the universe hasn't had the time to spawn many more habitable worlds.
The study, which focuses purely on the likelihood of the evolution of habitable worlds (and not speculation of alien intelligence, the Fermi Paradox implication is my own), finds that when our planet was born from our young sun's protoplanetary disk some 4.6 billion years ago, it was born into an era when only "8 percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed." This means that the universe has 92 percent to go until it runs out of the necessary material to produce the stars that go on to produce planets, some of which will be small and rocky and orbit in just the right location for life (as we know it) to thrive.
"Our main motivation was understanding the Earth's place in the context of the rest of the universe," said Peter Behroozi of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., "Compared to all the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early."
Hubble has shown astronomers that young galaxies were churning out stars at a fast rate some 10 billion years ago. However, the quantity of hydrogen and helium involved in stellar production was low compared with the amount of these star-forming gases that exist today.
"There is enough remaining material (after the Big Bang) to produce even more planets in the future, in the Milky Way and beyond," said Molly Peeples, also of STScI.
By combining this knowledge from Hubble with exoplanetary data from Kepler, the researchers were able to form a picture of the habitable planet potential of our galaxy and use it as a model for the number of other habitable worlds existing throughout the cosmos.
Since Kepler started taking data in 2009, we've been introduced to a menagerie of small rocky worlds orbiting sun-like stars. Some of these thousands of worlds orbit their stars within the habitable zone — the region surrounding a star that's not too hot and not too cold to allow liquid water to persist on its surface. By extrapolating from Kepler's comparatively small dataset, astronomers have predicted that there should be around 1 billion Earth-sized worlds orbiting within their stars' habitable zones in the Milky Way. If we consider there are 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, there's a huge number of habitable, Earth-sized worlds throughout the cosmos.
And the universe, according to this new theoretical study, has only just started in the planetary production business. The last star isn't expected to fizzle out for another 100 trillion years (when the universe will continue toward its perpetual march to "heat death"), so there's lots of time left.
With the help of these observations, the researchers predict that Earth 2.0 (i.e. rocky planets of Earth-like dimensions orbiting within their stars' habitable zones) will most likely pop up inside giant galaxy clusters or dwarf galaxies where reservoirs of star-forming (and therefore planet-forming) gases are known to reside. Alas, the Milky Way's planet-forming days are numbered, as much of these gases have already been consumed during our galaxy's heady "starburst" days.
Noted by the researchers is that the advantage of being an "early" civilization evolving at this time of universal evolution is that we have the awesome opportunity to study the early stages of cosmic evolution, using space telescopes (such as Hubble) to see the early formation of galaxies and witness observable evidence for the Big Bang. For any future civilization in a trillion years time, the universe will look very different than it does now — fewer galaxies will be visible and the earliest evidence for the Big Bang (such as the cosmic microwave background radiation) will have further ebbed away.
It's interesting to ponder how an intelligent alien civilization will interpret a more mature, perpetually expanding universe lacking the cues to its origin that we take for granted today. Would they assume, lacking contradictory evidence, that the universe has always existed? And that just because the universe is expanding, it doesn't mean there had to be a Big Bang?
Of course, this is just a fun thought experiment; predicting the existence of a future alien intelligence, let alone how they may interpret their cosmic environment, is presumptuous at best. But it does pose an existential problem beyond the Fermi Paradox. If the Earth is an early bloomer, and humanity is one of the first intelligent civilizations to pop up in a universe of infinite possibilities, how might our civilization unfold?
Who knows, but it seems the universe has the boundless potential to form new worlds and new life (and new intelligences) that will potentially form long after humanity and life on Earth has come and gone, eventually succumbing to the inevitable death of our sun in about 5 billion years time. This study serves to remind us that our time as an intelligent life form in the universe is fleeting, and it seems many more intelligences will evolve long after we are gone.
Russia Announced They Have Found a Ship in the Ice
Russia Announced They Have Found a Ship in the Ice
The first class of Admiral Vladimir Prikhodko, who is currently the director of the secret organization of the Russian navy, said that powerhouses such as the U.S, China, Germany and even Russia, are investing million dollars in the outer space, to gain the ownership..
However, why we have to spend too much money and waste time to research it, if we could have a great investment in the underground to find out the true stories of our origins.
After the World War II ended, Russia has took many times to research and explore the subsistence of UFOs. Recently, they have found out some strange things like deep holes and caves which have ancient hieroglyphs and ship in the ice.
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Temple Professor Claims Aliens Have Abducted Millions of Humans
Temple Professor Claims Aliens Have Abducted Millions of Humans
David M. Jacobs, Ph.D. of Temple University.
No need to look to the stars in our search for extraterrestrial life; aliens might already be here among us on Earth...Or at least that's what retired Professor David M. Jacobs thinks.
According to Jacobs, extraterrestrial beings have been abducting and sexually molesting humans the world over for aeons, all to create a hybrid race of alien-humans who walk the earth unnoticed but will eventually take over the planet.
But Jacobs isn't your typical UFOlogist. Tenured for 36 years as a Professor of American History at Temple University, Jacobs is a 71 year old intellectual-type who, according to Philly.com makes his case with "well-reasoned, articulate explanations and applies scholarly approach to his research which he has shared in four books- printed by well-known and academic publishers."
Jacobs says he is well aware of the stigma that surrounds Ufology."I knew that it was embarrassing to the university," says Jacobs of his stance on UFOs. "I was not rewarded for my views [...] But you do not often find yourself in the middle of a phenomenon that allows you to make a contribution to something that could be of unsurpassing importance in human history," Jacob adds.
"What I'm doing will either be an interesting but nonessential footnote to popular culture or the most important thing that's ever happened to humankind. I see it as the latter," explains Jacob.
Jacobs claims his evidence is solid, collected primarily from the 150 abductees that he has interviewed over the years. He claims that these abductees independently report similar experiences, recalling common details of intense eye-contact, and neurological scanning. Based on researching this small sample, Jacobs has drawn the conclusion that the number of abductees across the world numbers in the millions.
Jacobs details some of his other conclusions to Philly.com's Dana Difilippo, stating, among other things, that the families of some abductees reported seeing their loved ones simply disappearing into thin air. Other findings included the discovery of mysterious scar tissue on the bodies of abductees and groups of people recalling the same mass-abduction events despite never having seen each other before.
Jacobs, who claims to never have actually witnessed a UFO or Alien abduction himself, began his journey into Ufology as a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s. After running into some interesting literature about Aliens and UFOs, he decided to change his dissertation from the portrayal of women in pre-1915 films to the UFO controversy in America.
But what began with what he used to think was "the most amazing, wowee, gee-whiz thing," quickly escalated into the realm of reality for him. "[T]he more I learn about it, the more I fear it, the more I don't want to have anything to do with it," Jacob now reflects.
"This is a clandestine phenomenon," Jacobs said. "There is one thing that I can say for sure: They don't want us to know what they're doing - because what they're doing benefits them and not us."
Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:
“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”
It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, ourshadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.
We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years old.
We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.
We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.
We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.
NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.
Malgré le fait que le ministère britannique de la Défense ait officiellement mis fin à ses enquêtes sur les OVNIS en 2009, il semble que les autorités de l’aviation civile britannique ait décidé – à l’insu du grand public – de poursuivre la collecte des rapports sur les OVNIS impliqués dans d’éventuels problèmes de sécurité des vols.
« Ils étaient seulement intéressés par les observations qui certainement ont eu une incidence sur la sécurité des vols des aéronefs mais n’étaient plus intéressés par les rapports du public, qui avait vu des choses dans le ciel et les a dénoncés à l’autorité de l’aviation civile », a déclaré David Clarke, le fonctionnaire britannique du National Archives, consultant et professeur de journalisme à l’Université de Sheffield Hallam.
Clarke a déclaré au Huffington Post que l’Autorité de l’aviation civile – un ministère différent du ministère de la Défense - a tenu des registres séparés des cas d’OVNIS « , non seulement ceux rapportés par les équipages, mais aussi toutes les choses inhabituelles vues par les contrôleurs aériens des aéroports. «
Par le dépôt de demandes d’accès à l’information, Clarke a révélé que la Royal Air Force qui avait spécifiquement demandé que les signalements d’ovnis soient soumis au ministère des Transports, ne seraient plus transmis au ministère de la Défense.
La RAF stipule expressément que «les membres du public qui font ces rapports ne sont pas encouragés à croire qu’une enquête aura lieu. »
On sait maintenant que les contrôleurs aériens britanniques ont reçu des signalements d’ovnis sur une base quasi régulière.
S’exprimant sur la radio BBC « Aujourd’hui » programme , le 17 août, Richard Deakin, le chef des Services de contrôle du trafic aérien britannique, a déclaré :
« Eh bien, de temps en temps, il y a des objets qui sont identifiés qui ne sont pas conformes aux modèles de trafic normal – et pas seulement du point de vue britannique, mais partout dans le monde», «Je dois dire que ce n’est pas quelque chose qui occupe une énorme quantité de mon temps. »
Deakin a ajouté que ces observations se produisent " typiquement de l’ordre d’une par mois."
Richard Deakin, responsable du contrôle du trafic aérien britannique, interrogé par le journaliste Simon Jack à la BBC.
Si c’est vrai, alors le calcul de Clarke évaluant combien d’observations réelles d’ovnis avaient été rédigées sous forme de Rapports obligatoires d’événements, ou MORS, était considérablement sous estimé.
« En ce qui concerne les rapports MORS que j’ai reçu grâce à la Liberté de l’Information, de Décembre 2004 à Octobre 2010, leur vraie base de données énumérait 10 cas d’ovnis ou d’aéronefs non identifiés », a déclaré M. Clarke.
« Maintenant [Deakin] dit qu’ils reçoivent un rapport tous les mois ». « Si c’est le cas, je m’attends à ce que le nombre de rapports soit de 80 durant cette période de six ans, et non de 10. Alors, ma question est la suivante:.? Où sont passés tous les autres ? »
Ceci survient alors que le ministère de la Défense a pris la décision de mettre fin à toutes les enquêtes sur les OVNIS au Royaume-Uni . Selon le site Internet du ministère de la Défense :
Le ministère de la Défense n’a pas d’opinion sur l’existence ou non d’une vie extraterrestre. Cependant, en plus de cinquante ans, aucun rapport d’OVNI a mis en évidence d’une menace potentielle pour le Royaume-Uni. Le ministère de la Défense n’a pas de capacité spécifique pour identifier la nature de telles observations. Il n’y a aucun avantage de la défense dans une telle enquête. Par ailleurs, en réponse à des observations d’OVNIS rapportés détourne les ressources du MoD de tâches qui sont pertinents à la défense. »
Pourquoi les responsables de l’aviation évitent de parler des ovnis ? Au Royaume-Uni, Clarke suggère qu’il y a là la crainte d’une mauvaise publicité.
« N’oubliez pas qu’il y a là un contexte commercial et que les équipages sont très réticents à déposer un rapport parce que les compagnies aériennes ne veulent pas répondre aux questions sur des choses sans rapport avec l’image de leur entreprise. »
MAJ 10-2015 : Voici une vidéo apparue plusieurs mois après cette interview (02/2013). Il s'agit d'un objet lumineux filmé à bord d'un avion (au début surtout) et le témoin met même sa main en paravent pour désigner l'objet et prouver ainsi qu'il se s'agit en aucun cas d'un reflet dans la vitre... " The light (ufo) is not an reflection as you can see when the plane tilts the wing blocks the light looks like the real deal ". Cet incident aurait été confirmé par les controleurs aériens britanniques et leurs radars au sol.
Cette vidéo parle d'une demande d'intervention faite le 12 janvier 2007 de la part d'un contrôleur aérien d'une base de l'armée à Londres (London Military Air Traffic Control), Grande-Bretagne sur un OVNI repéré par les radars à 3000 (920m) ou 4000 pieds (1200 mètres) d'altitude. Un avion F15 de l'US Air Force décolle de la base de la RAF de Lakenheath, Suffolk, UK. L'avion, qui répond avec le signal "Gator" réussi à verrouiller son puissant radar sur l'objet. Il peut faire deux passes vers l'objet qui bouge vite, la première à une distance de 17.000 pieds (5200 mètres) et l'autre à 17.700 pieds (5400 mètres). L'objet est décrit comme de couleur entièrement noire mais qu'il ne s'agit d'aucun avion connu ou d'un grand oiseau :
Yves Herbo, Sciences, Fictions, Histoires.com, 09-2012, MAJ 28-10-2015
Monkeys paved the way for us to reach the moon and now Russian scientists are hoping the animals will be key to getting a human colony to Mars.
Experts from the Russian Academy Of Science are training four rhesus macaques to travel into space and land on the red planet - although it is unclear if they will also bring them back.
This training, which includes using a joystick and solving puzzles, should make them capable to man a mission within the next two years.
Experts from the Russian Academy Of Science are training four rhesus macaques (one pictured) to travel into space and land on Mars. This training, which includes using a joystick and solving puzzles, should make them capable to man a mission to the red planet within the next two years
The program launched in the 1980s and is being carried out at the Institute of Biomedical Problems, based at the academy.
For scientific projects such as these, monkeys are hand-reared in special farms, where only the most intelligent are selected to take part in the research.
PRIMATES IN SPACE
Ham (pictured) was launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961
The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket. He suffocated and died during the flight.
A year later a second V-2 took Albert II to an altitude of 438,250ft (83 miles), the rocket returned but Albert II died on impact.
In December that year, Albert IV was sent into space wired up to machines that monitored his health. He suffered no ill effects while in space but, like Albert II, he died on impact.
It took another two years before another monkey, this time called Yorick, made the journey to 263,000ft (50 miles) and survived. .
Ham, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961.
His vital signs and tasks were monitored during his 16 minute and 39 second fight and he splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.
All four of the rhesus macaques in this latest study were chosen for their cognitive abilities and their quick-learning skills, explained the scientists.
Each day a team, led by Inessa Kozlovskaya, trains the monkeys to control a joystick and hit a target highlighted by a cursor.
When they complete the task successfully they are rewarded with a sip of juice.
Once they have mastered this task the macaques will be trained to solve simple mathematical tasks and puzzles.
At the end of their training the creatures should be capable of completing a daily schedule of tasks on their own.
The scientists are hoping this will be achieved by 2017.
Dr Kozlovskaya said the main goal is to teach monkeys to perform a particular range of tasks which they will be able to remember.
'What we are trying to do is to make them as intelligent as possible so we can use them to explore space beyond our orbit,' she said.
The team is also hoping that the space monkeys will be able to train others and integrate them into the team.
Macaques typically have a lifespan of around 25 years, so it is hoped there is enough time to train them properly and for them to survive the six-month trip to Mars, added the team.
The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket.
He suffocated and died during the flight.
A year later, almost to the day, a second V-2 took Albert II to an altitude of 438,250ft (83 miles), the rocket returned but Albert II died on impact.
In December that year, Albert IV was sent into space wired up to machines that monitored his health.
He suffered no ill effects while in space but, like Albert II, he died on impact.
It took another two years before another monkey, this time called Yorick, made the journey to 263,000ft (50 miles) with 11 mice. Yorick was the first primate to survive a space trip.
Ham, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was then launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961.
Russian mission to Mars to be conducted by space monkeys
Every day, a team trains the monkeys to control a joystick and hit a target highlighted by a cursor (pictured). Once they have mastered this task, the macaques will be trained to solve mathematical tasks and puzzles
When the monkeys complete the tasks successfully they are rewarded with a sip of juice (pictured). At the end of their training the creatures should be capable of completing a daily schedule of tasks on their own
His vital signs and tasks were monitored and he was able to pull levers during the flight, demonstrating that these tasks could be performed in space.
His total flight time was 16 minutes and 39 seconds and he splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.
Dogs have also been sent into space.
In the early 1950s, the Soviets sent two, called Dezik and Tsygan, into orbit and they survived.
Dezik died during a second flight, alongside a dog named Lisa. Another two died on a subsequent trip.
Dr Kozlovskaya said that the main goal is to teach monkeys to perform a particular range of tasks which they will be able to remember. Macaques typically have a lifespan of around 25 years, so it is hoped there is enough time to train them properly and for them to survive the six-month trip to Mars, added the team
Elsewhere, Nasa is hoping to get to Mars by the 2030s.
In addition to its rovers, the space agency is currently investigating the long-term effects of space travel on humans as part of its twins study.
Astronaut Scott Kelly is more than half-way through a year-long stay on board the ISS, while his brother Mark has remained on Earth.
Nasa plans to study how Scott responds to life in space by comparing his body to his brother's on his return next year.
The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket. He suffocated and died during the flight. In 1961, Ham (pictured) the Astrochimp was sent into space and his vital signs and tasks were monitored. He splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds later
Nasa is hoping to get to Mars (colony illustrated) by the 2030s. In addition to its rovers, the space agency is currently investigating the long-term effects of space travel on humans as part of its twins study
According to article published in May 2010 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal - Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works, had once let out information about Extraterrestrial UFO Visitors Are Real And U.S. Military Travel To Stars. What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic aliencraft.
The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
1 : “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.” 2 : “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.” 3 : “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.” 4 : When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!” Ben Rich Lockheed Former Director knew of extraterrestrial UFO visitors.
Lockheed "Skunk Works" former director knew the Roswell extraterrestrial UFO influenced designs of Testor model kits for Roswell UFO models, and U.S. top secret aircraft.
According to a CNI News report by Colorado resident Michael Lindemann, the design information was derived from forensic illustrations and numerous witness testimonies about the Roswell UFO, provided by William L. “Bill” McDonald. In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindemann, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program. McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spyplanes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles. Andrews was a close personal friend of "Skunk Works" director Ben Rich -- the hand-picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk "Stealth" fighter, its "half-pint" prototype the "HAVE BLUE", and the top-secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him. Dr. Ben R. Rich former Lockheed Skunk Works director confirmed: 1. "There are 2 types of UFOs - the ones we build and the ones 'they' build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual "hand-me-downs." The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon "purge", administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector… 2. Nearly all "biomorphic" aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft - from Kelly's SR-71 Blackbird onward to today's drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft… 3. It was Ben Rich's opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth - ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the "international corporate board of directors" dealing with the "Subject" could represent a bigger problem to citizens' personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.” Lindemann added that “Bill McDonald received the above information from Andrews from 1994 until their last phone call near Christmas in 1998.” Lindemann also noted “It should also be known that Dr. Ben R. Rich attended a public aerospace designers and engineers conference in 1993 before his illness overwhelmed him in which he stated - in the presence of MUFON Orange County Section Director Jan Harzan and many others that – ‘We’ (i.e., the U.S. aerospace community/military industrial complex) had in it's possession the technology to "take us to the stars". Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor Admitted : UFOs Are Real
Don Phillips, "These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action".
During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, "They're here. They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships., it is obvious they dont like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this. Anti-gravitational research was going on. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet. And if alien were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago .We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner. I can tell you personally that we've been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. pp. 375 ,383. Download this DISCLOSURE document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/30425722/Disclosure-Military-and-Government#open_download Another Lockheed Martin senior research scientist Boyd Bushman : "Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real". Read article here.
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Jacques Vallee, Terrence McKenna, John Mack, Budd Hopkins on the Alien, UFO, Abduction phenomenon
Jacques Vallee, Terrence McKenna, John Mack, Budd Hopkins on the Alien, UFO, Abduction phenomenon
Gepubliceerd op 15 jan. 2014
This video has been "unlisted" due to the reoccurring comments on trying to correlate demonic association of UFO phenomena to Christian liturgy, dogma and belief systems. Please save your opinions to your congregations and not that of this YouTube Channel. Thank you, Johnny Tortuga,
A star is dimming for reasons that astronomers can't explain.
Observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope revealed that the star KIC 8462852, which lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth, dimmed dramatically and strangely several times over the past few years. Researchers aren't sure what's going on, and they have posited that some sort of light-blocking "alien megastructure" is a possible — though unlikely — explanation.
"We are the most skeptical people on the planet," Robert J. Sawyer, a Canadian sci-fi writer who regularly discusses alien life in his novels, toldSpace.com. His 23rd novel, "Quantum Night," will be published in 2016. "It is hard to find a science-fiction writer who believes in UFOs or flying saucers," Sawyer said.
Sawyer added that journalists, by contrast, often pump up the news because they "smell front page." And while Sawyer supports the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) because it is so cheap to listen for radio signals, he said it's meaningful that, in five decades of searching, nothing has come up so far. Aliens, he said, may communicate by other means.
All that being said, what if KIC 8462852 does host an alien megastructure? What might it look like? Sawyer and fellow sci-fi novelist Larry Niven shared some ideas with Space.com.
Patterns in the sky
By surrounding their sta with swarms of energy-collecting satellites, advanced civilizations could create Dyson spheres. [Read the Full Dyson Sphere Infographic Here.] Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics Artist
One possible use of a megastructure could be a sort of calling card, which was covered in Sawyer's 1994 novel "End of an Era." In that book, a paleontologist travels back to the time of the dinosaurs, some 65 million years ago, and spots a rosette pattern of stars in the sky. Upon analysis, it's clear the structure is far away; there is no parallax, or shifting in position when you view it at different times of the year (and at different points in Earth's orbit).
"You have to conclude that some now-extinct alien civilization was announcing itself to the universe by doing a mega-engineering project, moving the stars in a geodesic sphere so that from any vantage point, you would see it," Sawyer said.
Another use for a megastructure could be to harvest energy from a star, which is famously discussed in Niven's "Ringworld" series. Niven was inspired by the idea of a Dyson sphere — a shell or system of objects that would surround the star and collect its light.
In some cases, a Dyson sphere could be constructed as an artificial world with a water cycle, atmosphere and so on. Niven's twist, first articulated in the 1970 novel "Ringworld," was to have an object only around the star's equator — a ringworld — in part because spinning a Dyson sphere would force the atmosphere and oceans to the equator anyway. [Dyson Spheres: How Advanced Alien Civilizations Would Conquer the Galaxy (Infographic)]
"The Dyson sphere looked wonderful, but I decided to make a cheaper version," Niven toldSpace.com. "[The public] loved it. I was surprised, and before that, I was a little worried. I wasn't sure they'd take it seriously. Once I opened the field, there were enough new problems to make a [book]shelf all based on ring structures."
One problem with the ringworld is that it would eventually break apart due to gravity from the star — an issue that both Sawyer and Niven pointed out. In Niven's next book on that concept, "The Ringworld Engineers" (1979), he stabilized the ringworld using attitude jets on the rim, which were powered by the solar wind (a stream of particles coming from the sun). He also made the ringworld's floor — the side facing the sun — magnetic so that it would interact with the sun's magnetic field and keep the ringworld aligned with the equator.
Glowing fires
Niven said he is also skeptical that the new find is an alien megastructure, but he said it could be suggestive of a Dyson cloud — a huge collection of solar panels to harvest the sun's energy. Stars could also be moved around to gather energy more efficiently — an idea that Gregory Benford and Niven cover in their jointly authored books "The Bowl of Heaven" (2012) and "Shipstar" (2014).
Aliens probably wouldn't use such a megastructure to act as a cosmic calling card, Niven added, as doing so would be very expensive.
However, Sawyer noted that there is historical precedent for making (or at least proposing to make) big structures that do little more than say hello. In the late 1800s, when some people believed there were canals and a dying civilization on Mars, Joseph Johann von Littrow (as the story goes) suggested digging huge canals in the Sahara, filling them with kerosene and setting them on fire.
"We would be signaling [the Martians] with glowing geometric shapes," Sawyer said. "It really has been this natural desire to say, 'Hey, we're here.'"
Researchers build world's first working sonic tractor beam
Researchers build world's first working sonic tractor beam
A sonic tractor beam built by the universities of Sussex and Bristol is shown on Oct. 23, 2015. (Youtube / University of Sussex)
Nick Wells, CTVNews.ca
It's long been the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, but a team of researchers say they have built the world's first working sonic tractor beam.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex along with Ultrahaptics, a company that was started out of a project from the University of Bristol, claim to have built a sonic tractor beam that can move objects using sound waves.
The researchers published a report on their technique in the science journal "Nature Communications" on Tuesday.
Using a combination of 64 miniature loudspeakers to create a high-pitched and high-intensity sound waves, the device was able to levitate beads up to 4-millimetres in diameter.
"In our device we manipulate objects in mid-air and seemingly defy gravity. We can individually control dozens of loudspeakers to tell us an optimal solution to generate an acoustic hologram that can manipulate multiple objects in real-time without contact," University of Sussex professor of informatics Sriram Subramian said in a statement.
Unlike in previous attempts to create “tractor beams,” the object doesn't need to be completely surrounded by loudspeakers in order to manipulate it.
The group found that, by altering the sound wave output, the high-intensity sound waves create a force field that can keep a bead in place, move it around, and even combine multiple beads.
"We all know that sound waves can have a physical effect. But here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved," said Bruce Drinkwater, a professor of ultrasonics with the University of Bristol.
Unlike the tractor beams audiences are accustomed to seeing dragging unsuspecting humans into orbiting UFOs, researchers envision this technology could one day have applications in medicine, for example, moving or manipulating everything from kidney stones to micro-surgical instruments without interfering with magnetic resonance imaging.
The next step is building a larger version that is capable of levitating a soccer ball from 10 metres away, and building a smaller version that can manipulate particles inside the human body.
Dramatic footage of a fake UFO hovering over the Nelson Mandela bridge in Johannesburg is sure to set twitter alight.
A photo of a UFO hovering over the N1 highway in Midrand has set social media alight, with people sharing the picture and commenting on what they saw. UFOs always get people excited – and afraid – and perhaps it has something to do with the excitement of not being alone in the ginormous universe.
Connect picked up the photo on facebook just before it went viral, before it launched like a flying saucer into the stratosphere overnight. The original story, which can be read here, shows a giant saucer-shaped, ominous-looking, creepy-villain dwelling space ship just above the clouds.
Austin Rossouw, a graphic artist and animator from Johannesburg, took up The Citizen’s challenge of producing a photo of a UFO above the skyline of Johannesburg. His brief was simple: check out the original photo and give us something that looks like it was taken with a cell phone inside a moving car and put it in a cool location, such as Braamfontein – and make it confusing: maybe it’s a thunder cloud and maybe it is a Zorkmobile from planet Zork (it’s always Zork). 30 minutes later, we had our very own UFO in Johannesburg.
Fake UFO in Johannesburg.
PICTURE: Austin Rossouw
The point of the exercise is to show two things – just how cool Adobe suite is, but also, how easy it is to go viral. One would have thought that in 2015 people would have moved on from believing everything they see and read, just because they see and read it – but that is not the case. Although some people took the picture as a joke, many others shared the photo believing it just might be true.
If the UFO is in fact real, and here I am making a mockery of graphic design 101 and all the believers of the great alien conspiracy, then the joke will be on me. Think about it, these super advanced, freaky (no doubt slightly prawny) beings are here to impress upon us their superiority and here is a little you-know-what called Devlin Brown posting a picture of a fake cloudy UFO in a cooler location – definitely a hipster time-traveler. What if they get cross with me?
Come to think of it – I have been hearing a low rumble behind the window since I started this experiment. My screen flashes and the cursor moves by itself. I’m feeling a bit dizzy, and… the lights are flashing. What is going on? Who’s there? I am just trying to pu ASDA ASD ASD….
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No, a UFO named WTF is not threatening to destroy Earth
No, a UFO named WTF is not threatening to destroy Earth
Let's start with the facts: Yes, there's something hurtling through space in our direction. Yes, it's going to enter the Earth's atmosphere and possibly land in the Indian Ocean next month. No, scientists don't know quite what it is. And, no, that doesn't make it a UFO.
The European Space Agency released information last week about an object spotted streaking through space and heading toward Earth. Headlines are zeroing in on the chance of impact and the unidentified object's comically apropos nickname. Officially named WT1190F, the object's catalog number has been popularly shortened to "WTF."
But ESA scientists have a pretty good idea of what it could be -- probably a remnant from a past mission, like the hollow shell of part of a spent rocket -- and they're confident that it's unlikely to be a threat.
"The expected 13 November reentry of what is likely to be a rocket body poses very little risk to anyone," they wrote on the ESA blog Thursday.
"The object is quite small, at most a couple of meters in diameter, and a significant fraction if not all of it can be expected to completely burn up in the atmosphere," said Tim Flohrer, from ESA's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.
Whatever remains of the space junk after the fiery reentry is expected to fall into the Indian Ocean, about 60 miles off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, on Nov. 13.
Space object WT1190F observed on 9 October 2015 with the University of Hawaii 2.2-metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
B. BOLIN, R. JEDICKE, M. MICHELI
"If anything makes it down to the surface...it would be very small, so the odds of anybody getting hurt are very remote," CBS News Space Correspondent Bill Harwood said. "The thing that this always brings to mind is, all satellites and rocket bodies (re)enter on a fairly regular basis so it's not at all unusual."
"The good news is that three-quarters of the world is ocean, so the odds are that it's going to land somewhere in the ocean and the ocean is a big place," he added. "Statistically I think there's no point in worrying about this one."
WT1190F was first discovered in 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey, which identifiesnear-Earth objects in space. It has been observed several times since then by the same team.
Scientists hope to use observations to better understand how objects -- "man-made or natural" -- behave upon entry into Earth's atmosphere.
Marco Micheli, an astronomer at ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre, said, "The first goal will be to better understand the reentry of satellites and debris from highly eccentric orbits."
"Second, it provides an ideal opportunity to test our readiness for any possible future atmospheric entry events involving an asteroid, since the components of this scenario, from discovery to impact, are all very similar."
Harwood explained that watching WT1190F could help scientists understand "what exactly happens when something comes into the atmosphere at extremely high speed and breaks apart: Where in the altitude does the break up start? How much debris reaches the surface?"
He also thinks it would be particularly interesting if scientists could identify the object, which could potentially be a piece of equipment left over from the Apollo missions.
The real-life UFO story behind this season of 'Fargo'
The real-life UFO story behind this season of 'Fargo'
Val Johnson sat inside a new Marshall County squad car two months after the incident.Regene Radniecki | Star Tribune 1979
"This is a true story."
Those words kick off every episode of "Fargo" — they were also at the start of the 1996 movie.
Of course the Coen brothers, and now show creator Noah Hawley, are playing fast-and-loose with "truth." But one of the most unbelievable, out-of-this-world parts of season two is, in fact, "a true story."
(Stop reading now if you're not caught up, Fargo watchers.)
We're talking about the aliens.
So far, unexplained lights and UFO-talk have been in all three episodes of "Fargo," which takes place in and around Luverne, Minn., in 1979.
For these supernatural allusions, Hawley may be pulling straight from the local history books.
Minnesota in the 1970s was something of a hotbed of UFO activity — for the people who believe in that kind of thing. "This was a big decade for UFOs in Minnesota," said Dave Kenney, co-author of "Minnesota in the 70s."
The end of the decade, 1979, brought one of the most notorious unexplained encounters in the whole UFO canon: Val Johnson's late-night crash.
A few weeks after the incident, Johnson stood where he says he was engulfed by a flash of light, and indicated how big the beam was as it approached.Stormi Greener | Star Tribune 1979
Johnson was a Marshall County sheriff's deputy on night patrol outside Warren, Minn., near the North Dakota-Minnesota border. In the early hours of Aug. 26, 1979, he was driving a rural stretch of State Highway 20 when, he says, a ball of light appeared in the road.
"I noticed a very bright, brilliant light, 8 to 12 inches in diameter, 3 to 4 feet off the ground," Johnson said in a taped police interview. "The edges were very defined."
The next thing Johnson knew, the light was in the car with him.
It hit him, Johnson said, "like a 200-pound pillow."
Johnson's car is preserved at the county museum.Courtesy of the Marshall County Museum
He woke up in a ditch a half-hour later with burns around his eyes. The windshield and one headlight of his 1977 Ford LTD were smashed. Both radio antennas were bent sharply back. The watch on his wrist and the clock on the dash both ticked 14 minutes slow.
Police investigated and never drew any conclusions. But the UFO researchers have plenty of their own.
Jerome Clark, the author of "The UFO Encyclopedia," says the "Val Johnson Incident" remains one of the top 10 most influential UFO encounters in history.
MPR News reporter John Enger recently caught up with Johnson, 36 years after the incident. He's retired, with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He lives in Eau Claire, Wis.
While believers tout the story as one of the strongest pieces of evidence of extraterrestrial life, Johnson won't speculate on what happened to him that night. He says he doesn't even think about it much.
Johnson's story has plenty of parallels to what "Fargo" fans are watching play out on TV: the small-town cop, the rural highways, the strange lights in the sky.
What remains to be seen is how far Hawley and "Fargo" will take their fictionalized version of the "Val Johnson incident."
When asked about the UFOs by "Vanity Fair," Hawley kept things mysterious: "Look, the Coens' universe is very much a place where you have to accept the mystery and figure out ... does it mean something? Does it not mean something?"
We'll have to watch and see.
Hear Val Johnson describe the encounter himself in the most recent episode of "Aw Jeez," a "Fargo" recap podcast.
This May Be the Best Alternative Explanation to That Extraterrestrial Dyson Sphere So Far
This May Be the Best Alternative Explanation to That Extraterrestrial Dyson Sphere So Far
by Janey Tracey
Within the next week, astronomers are expected to have an answer regarding the cause of the bizarre, irregular dips in brightness of star KIC 8462852, which have led many to speculate that we've found long-sought evidence of an alien civilization. Now, space blogger Jim Galasyn has an alternative explanation: the star itself is oblate, or lopsided, leading to the asymmetrical blockages of light.
While many stars experience dips in brightness as a result of the transit of other celestial objects, the dips of this particular star were unusual for being more extreme (up to 22%), asymmetrical, and non-periodic. The best explanation that involved a natural phenomenon was a string of comets circling the star, but this explanation is considered to be inadequate to fully explain the evidence. As a result, the astronomers who discovered the star began to look into the (admittedly remote)possibility of a Dyson sphere, or a megastructure built around the star by an advanced alien civilization.
The investigation is underway, and we're expected to receive answers by the end of this week. But in the meantime, Galasyn of Desdemona Despair has an alternative explanation from a 2013 paper by Barnes et al. called "Measurement of spin-orbit misalignment and nodal precession for the planet around pre-main-sequence star PTFO 8-8695 from gravity darkening." According to this paper, some stars don't have uniformly spinning discs, which causes the radius to be larger at the equator than at the poles. Since the poles have smaller surface area, they have higher surface gravity, which causes the poles to be "gravity brightened" and the equator to be "gravity darkened."
When a star is oblate, it has a larger radius at its equator than it does at its poles. As a result, the poles have a higher surface gravity, and thus higher temperature and brightness. Thus, the poles are "gravity brightened", and the equator "gravity darkened".
The star becomes oblate (and hence gravity darkening occurs) because the centrifugal force resulting from rotation creates additional outward pressure on the star.
Since there is variable brightness in different areas of the star, the irregular curves of light could be explained by planetarybodies moving across these brighter and darker areas. As planets of different sizes passed across different parts of the star, the brightness would change in asymmetrical and irregular ways.
"Did Kepler discover evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization?" Galasyn wrote on his blog. "Before we invoke aliens, we should consider the plausible natural explanation provided by Barnes:
'An oblique transit path across a gravity-darkened, oblate star leads to the long transit duration and asymmetric lightcurve evident in the photometric data.'"
An artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our sun.
NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Have you heard the big news? If not, you haven't been paying attention to your Facebook feed.
For the past week or two, the Internet has been lighting up about alien megastructures that might, or might not, be orbiting a star called KIC 8462852.
So what should we make of it? Is it just hype deserving a long, slow roll of the eyes? Or is there something in the story that deserves serious consideration?
The answer to this question is, I think, surprising — especially given the next sentence I'm about to hit you with.
It's probably not aliens. Sorry.
Now, that's what you should expect me — a sober, rational, boring scientist — to say. In fact, many of my sober, rational, boring scientist colleagues had the same reaction I did when I heard the news. It went something like this: "Aliens?" (snicker, snicker) "Yeah, right."
But beyond our quick dismissals and snickers there hides a much more interesting reality. Maybe it's time for all of us sober, rational, boring scientists to stop snickering when these kinds of possibilities pop up.
Before we go any further, though, let's quickly review a few facts.
Last week's news was about the star KIC 8462852. The focus was on changes in the star's light output (its light curve) that had never been seen before. The observations were taken by the Kepler space telescope, whose job is discovering exoplanets by looking for partial eclipses, or transits, that occur as the planet passes in front of its host star. Kepler scientists know exactly what the drop in starlight should look like when they've discovered a planet.
But the light curve of KIC 8462852 looks nothing like a planet — or any other known astronomical phenomena.
"We'd never seen anything like this," Tabetha Boyajian, one of the authors on the discovery paper, told Ross Andersen at The Atlantic (see Andersen's post for details on the whole story). "It was really weird," Boyajain continued. "We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."
Boyajian and her co-authors considered a wide range of possibilities to explain the strange dips in the light coming from KIC 8462852. Nothing they dreamed up provided a really, really good explanation. And in the absence of that really, really good explanation, at least a few others have been thinking: "Aliens!" As Andersen reports, Jason Wright of Penn State is already working on a paper suggesting we might be seeing a signature of extraterrestrial construction, a "swarm of mega-structures," on a planetary system scale.
That's because the point today is not what KIC 8462852, in particular, might be telling us. The odds are high that a natural explanation will be found for the star's flickering that has nothing to do with aliens.
Why take that stance? Well, aliens are always the last hypothesis you should consider. Occam's razor tells scientists to always go for the simplest explanation for a new phenomenon. But even as we keep Mr. Occam's razor in mind, there is something fundamentally new happening right now that all of us, including scientists, must begin considering.
Kepler and the many exoplanet-hunting missions coming next (JWST, PLATO, etc.) represent an entirely new way of watching the sky.
Telescope time has always been expensive — and there's a lot of sky. In the past, astronomers didn't have the technical capacity to continuously watch zillions of stars for long periods of time. The suns we astronomers did come back to again and again tended to be remarkable in one way or another (they flared or blew up periodically). But the exoplanet revolution means we're developing capacities to stare deep into the light produced by hundreds of thousands of boring, ordinary stars. And these are exactly the kind of stars where life might form on orbiting planets.
In fact, the express purpose of many of these missions is to find these planets and probe their light signatures so deeply we might "see" their atmospheres. In that way, we might also search for so-called bio-signatures. These are atmospheric molecules like oxygen and methane that will be present only if a biosphere has developed on the planet.
So we are already going to be looking at a lot of stars to hunt for planets. And when we find those planets, we are going to look at them for basic signs that life has formed. But all that effort means we will also be looking in exactly the right places to stumble on evidence of not just life but intelligent, technology-deploying life. It's as if your job was to look through lost-and-found wallets all day gathering dollar bills. Since you're already looking in the wallets, there is some chance you might stumble on a winning lottery ticket in one of them, too.
Of course, the odds of finding a winning lottery ticket are low. In the same way, seeing something unusual around a star is probably not evidence of an alien civilization. But given the large-scale exoplanet observations we are doing anyway, perhaps it's time to start thinking about how to think about the whole alien thing. David Grinspoon, the Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, put it succinctly when he told me:
"Lots of astronomers have been discussing all the possibilities for the light curve pretty responsibly. But some are really up in arms at even the mention of aliens. I think that's a mistake. Clearly, some things are more probable than others. But we have to learn how to handle these things [and] how to not to handle them."
I think Grinspoon is right. If we do lots of exoplanet observations, then we are bound to see new things. For most of them, we will find "natural" explanations. But for some of them we may also need to, at least, consider the possibility of something more than natural.
And that would mean going beyond snickering.
Adam Frank is a co-founder of the 13.7 blog, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, a book author and a self-described "evangelist of science." You can keep up with more of what Adam is thinking on Facebook and Twitter:@adamfrank4
Sciencefiction wordt realiteit: wetenschappers laten objecten zweven met trekstraal uit Star Trek
Sciencefiction wordt realiteit: wetenschappers laten objecten zweven met trekstraal uit Star Trek
De trekstraal bestond lange tijd alleen in de wereld van Star Wars en Star Trek, maar binnenkort kunnen wij er ook gebruik van maken. Op Wikipedia staat nog dat een trekstraal een fictief apparaat uit de sciencefictionwereld is, maar dát is nu achterhaald.
Britse wetenschappers zijn erin geslaagd om de technologie voor ’s werelds allereerste trekstraal te ontwikkelen. Daarmee kunnen ze objecten vastpakken, in de lucht omhoog trekken en laten zweven.
Het systeem werkt op dit moment op een afstand van zo’n 30 centimeter met kleine objecten ter grootte van een erwt. Door een object te omringen met zeer intense geluidsgolven blijft het als het ware op die golven staan.
De technologie doet wellicht denken aan de technologie uit sciencefictionfilms, waarmee een mens bijvoorbeeld aan boord van een UFO wordt gestraald. De wetenschappers speelden hier tijdens een demonstratie op in. Ze plaatsten het systeem in een kartonnen UFO, zodat het object als het ware aan boord van de UFO werd gestraald.
Het systeem heeft iets minder dan 10 watt nodig, dus met redelijk beperkte middelen kun je al een trekstraal bouwen. Tot voor kort lukte het maar niet om in de praktijk een trekstraal te ontwikkelen. Het bleek erg lastig om te bepalen welke vorm de geluidsgolven moeten hebben.
Hoofdonderzoeker Bruce Drinkwater hoopt met de uitvinding een methode te ontwikkelen voor het toedienen van medicijnen, precies op de plek waar dat nodig is. In ieder geval is er nu een werkend model van de trekstraal uit Star Trek.
Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature.
Zeldzaam fenomeen aan de hemel te zien: Planetentrio in uitzonderlijke driehoeksverhouding
Zeldzaam fenomeen aan de hemel te zien: Planetentrio in uitzonderlijke driehoeksverhouding
Venus, Jupiter en Mars zijn nog zo’n twee weken samen aan de hemel te zien. Wie de uitzonderlijke samenstand wil aanschouwen moet wel vroeg opstaan. Het planetentrio is namelijk het best zichtbaar rond 5 à 6 uur.
Dat de drie planeten samen te zien zijn is uitzonderlijk. De eerstvolgende keer dat we dit zeldzame fenomeen kunnen bewonderen, is pas in januari 2021. Nog zeldzamer is een conjunctie met vijf planeten. De laatste keer dateert van 2000 en de volgende is pas in 2040. Om acht planeten bij elkaar te zien moet je wachten tot het jaar 2854.
Op 26 oktober stonden de drie planeten het dichtst bij elkaar. De samenstand is ’s ochtends vroeg te zien in de zuidoostelijke hemel. Op dit moment staan Jupiter en Venus bovenaan en Mars onderaan de driehoek. Nog tot vrijdag kun je de zeldzame driehoek aanschouwen. Daarna zal Venus zakken.
Donderdag is wellicht het beste ogenblik om te kijken, dan vormen de planeten een mooi driehoekje en staan ze erg dicht bij elkaar. De samenstand van de planeten is al zichtbaar sinds de nacht van 23 oktober.
Rond 6 november komt ook de maan het planetentrio vergezellen. Om de drie planeten te kunnen zien heb je geen speciale apparatuur nodig. Je kunt gewoon de hemel afspeuren met het blote oog. Na de zon en de maan zijn Venus en Jupiter de helderste hemellichamen.
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