Check out 100 facts about the Universe that will make your jaw drop

As most of you probably know, our Solar system is composed of the sun and everything else that orbits our star; planets, dwarf planets, moons, and space rocks.

Astronomers believe that the ‘edge’ of our solar system is located around 15 billion kilometers from our Sun.

The planets of our solar system have been of extreme interest for ancient civilizations throughout thousands of years and followed them across the sky and recorded their positions and even based every-day life in accordance to them and the stars.

There are countless things that few people know about the solar system, in this article we will introduce you furthermore to the solar system with a few facts, so let’s start.

According to astronomical research, our solar system formed 4.6 billion of years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud.

Our Sun needs 240 million years to complete one single orbit around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

According to astronomers, ever since our Sun was formed, it completed nineteen orbits around the galactic center.

Did you know that our star, the Sun, rotates counterclockwise?

The Earth compared to the Sun.

The surface temperature of our Sun is about 5505 degrees Celsius.

Since its formation, our Sun has used up about half of the hydrogen in its core. This means it has still a lot of fuel to burn, so don’t worry.

The vast majority of the solar system’s mass is within the Sun over 99 percent, while the remaining mass is contained on Jupiter.

According to astronomical calculations, Jupiter’s magnetic field is approximately fourteen times stronger than that of Earth.

Remeber that massive Storm on Jupiter? Well, this gigantic storm is one of the biggest mysteries of astronomy. Experts have almost no information about it. Everything about is a mystery. What powers it, what caused it and why it’s…red?

Did you know that the great red spot on the surface of Jupiter is in fact an anti-cyclonic storm? It is believed to have started some 300-400 years ago.

The solid objects of the solar system; planets, moons, etc., comprise 0.0001% of the Solar System’s total mass.

A comparison between our sun and Canis Majoris.

Even though our Sun is gigantic, it is small if we compare it to VY Canis Majoris; a red hypergiant located in the constellation Canis Major. This star is so big that If it would be placed in our Solar System, the surface of VY Canis Majoris would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter. VY Canis Majoris is so big that astronomers estimate it to be 1,000,000,000 bigger than our Sun.

Did you know that Jupiter saved the Earth? Lexells Comet was traveling towards Earth following a trajectory that would make it impact our planet. However, thanks to the intense gravitational pull that Jupiter has, the comet was pulled towards the planet.

Our Sun is composed of roughly 98% hydrogen and helium.

We practically live WITHIN our Sun. This is because the Sun’s outer atmosphere extends far beyond it is visible surface; it is enormous. Earth orbits within this delicate atmosphere.

Practically a million of Earths’ could fit into the Sun.

This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The star appears so big just because of the scattering of light by the telescope’s optics as well as in the photographic emulsion. Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the Solar System. Image released Oct. 17, 2012. 

CREDIT: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

As most of us have probably learned in school, the distance from the Sun to Earth is one Astronomical Unit or AU.

The Heliosphere which is the Sun’s outer atmosphere is considered to extend to around 100 Astronomical Units; One Astronomical Unit equals 149 597 871 kilometers.

Scientists suggest that the limit of the Heliosphere, referred to as Heliopause is located fifteen billion kilometers from our Sun.

Experts believe that the Sun’s atmosphere extends billions of kilometers downwind, as they believe Sun’s atmosphere has in fact a “teardrop” shape.

Compared to the rest of our solar system, the Sun’s mass is only one trillionth of a percent of the entire volume of our Solar system.

Astronomers believe that within our solar system alone are more than ten thousand objects that may be large enough to have been rounded by their own gravity.

If we were to look at the universe from an outside perspective, we would see that our solar system is located in the Orion arm, which in turn is located around 26,000 light years away from the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

As most of you already know, there are eight planets in our solar system, but hundreds of unidentified objects that lurk in the outermost region of our cosmic neighborhood.

The moon is considered the closest astronomical object to Earth. Why haven’t we visited it more often?

A comparison between Earth and Jupiter.

Out of the eight planets in our solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are composed mostly out of rock and metal. Oh and there’s a planet missing between Mars and Jupiter.

Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn are mostly made out of hydrogen and helium. They are Gas Giants.

According to astronomers, Neptune has the fastest winds in the Solar System; The winds on the surface of Neptune can reach up to 2100 kilometers per hour, scientists have yet to determine the reason.

Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system with temperatures that can drop to a freezing -224 degrees Celsius.

Jupiter is the fastest planet in our Solar System. It takes Jupiter little under ten hours to complete a full rotation around its axis.

Comets are usually referred to as “Dirty Snowballs” because of their composition, ice, and rock.

According to astronomical observations, there are 176 known natural satellites that orbit planets in our solar system out of which 168 moons orbit full-size planets. 8 moons orbit dwarf planets.

Jupiter is the planet that has the most amount of moons; a total of 63 confirmed satellites have been discovered, and some astronomers argue they may be even more moons hiding around the gas giant.

Jupiter, being the largest planet in our solar system is considered to have the largest ocean in the solar system; astronomers believe that it is about 40,000 km deep.

Astronomers have discovered several objects that orbit the sun that are located considerably further than Pluto. One such object is believed to be Planet X, a theoretical planet that should be there, but astronomers have still not found.

The Kuiper Belt is one of the two main reservoirs of cometary material and is believed to extend to over fifty astronomical units. Astronomers also considered it as one of the most distant regions in our solar system.

The Oort comet cloud is believed to extend to 50,000 Astronomical Units from the Sun.

Astronomers estimate that the Oort cloud contains TRILLIONS of icy bodies.

According to experts, at the outer edge of the Oort cloud, distant cosmic bodies are believed to have more gravitational influence from nearby stars than from the Sun.

Saturn could actually “float”, well at least partially, since the overall density of Saturn is 0.69 – seventy percent the density of water.

Saturn isn’t the only planet that has rings, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also possess beautiful rings.

Jupiter’s dark rings are mostly made out of dust particles and are thus very hard to detect. Astronomers believe that within these rings are particles ejected by Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io.

Astronomers have found that the ring system of Uranus is similar to Jupiter’s, although the content of Uranus ring system is mostly composed of a material that resulted from collisions of relatively small “satellites”.

Saturn is cool. In fact, the planet has another gigantic ring, discovered in 2009; it can only be seen via infrared.

Did you now that the Solar System’s favorite planet Pluto was actually discovered by accident in 1930 after astronomers noted small and unexpected variation from the predicted orbit of Uranus and decided to look into this; thus Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.

Pluto was considered the ninth planet of our solar system for seventy-six years, it was demoted to a dwarf planet and has been our favorite dwarf planet since 2006.

Pluto is extremely small. Mainstream scholars estimate that Pluto is just over 2,253 kilometers across, smaller than the United States of America.

Despite the fact that Mercury is the closest planet to orbit the Sun, it isn’t the hottest. Because of the fact that Mercury does not have an atmosphere, there is nothing that would keep the Sun’s heat on the planet.

According to astronomers, the hottest Planet in our solar system is Venus. The second closest planet to the Sun has a very thick atmosphere; astronomers estimate it to be a hundred times thicker than Earth’s atmosphere. Due to this, massive amounts of heat from the Sun is retained on the planet, and astronomers calculate that the average temperature on Venus is over 468 degrees Celsius. This makes the exploration of Venus really difficult.

Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, researchers believe that near Mercury’s poles Ice can be found

Did you know that Venus is the only planet in our Solar System that spins in the opposite direction of every other planet? Venus is a true rebel. Now I say why they say women are from Venus. Here’s a fun fact: A single day on Venus is, in fact, longer than its year; It takes Venus much more time to rotate on its own axis than to orbit our Sun.

Saturn’s moon Titan has a remarkably similar atmosphere to Earth’s atmosphere. Titan’s atmosphere is twenty percent more extensive than Earth’s atmosphere.

Scientists suggest that given the similarities to Earth, may have biologic activity; making it an ideal place to search for life outside Earth.

Ganymede, Jupiter’s natural satellite is considered the largest natural satellite in our Solar system and has a diameter of  5,268 km which is 8 percent larger than that of the planet Mercury.

The diameter of Ganymede is 2% larger than that of Saturn’s Titan which is the second largest moon.

Did you know that Ganymede, the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter, has the highest mass of all planetary satellites? It has 2.02 times the mass of the Earth’s moon.

Ganymede is the only moon in the Solar System known to possess a magnetosphere which is an area of space near an astronomical object in which charged particles are controlled by that object’s magnetic field.

Saturn’s moon Mimas is one of the most heavily cratered objects in our Solar System, it also eerily resembles the “Death Star” (the fictional space station known from the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) due to the gigantic impact crater on its surface, a 130 kilometers across.

Mimas is the smallest astronomical body that is known to be rounded in shape because of self-gravitation.

Asteroid 243 Ida has a satellite orbiting it called Dactyl. 243 Ida is also one of the most cratered objects in the solar system.

The largest dwarf planet that orbits our Sun is called Eris, orbiting the Sun at three times the distance of Pluto.

Eris was discovered recently (2005), and is the ninth most massive body known to directly orbit the Sun.

Eris is estimated to be 27 percent more massive than Pluto but there are uncertainties about its size; to properly calculate it, more research is needed.

Dysnomia is so far the only known natural moon of Eris, its diameter is estimated to be between 350 and 490 km.

Saturn’s moon Hyperion is the largest non-spherical moon in our Solar System.

In its composition, Hyperion is half as dense as water meaning that it would actually float if placed in water (hypothetically).

Astronomers believe that Hyperion is a fragment of a much larger object that was broken up in the distant past thus obtaining its irregular shape.

Hyperions surface contains a large amount of deep, sharp craters that together with its irregular shape, give the moon the appearance of a giant sponge.

Ceres is so far the only known dwarf planet located in the inner part of the solar system and is closer to the Sun than Neptune.

It is considered the largest asteroid in the inner part of our solar system.

Researchers estimate that Ceres contains an internal ocean of liquid water under its surface.

This dwarf planet contains more fresh water under its surface than all of the freshwater on Earth combined.

Sedna, a large planetoid is the first dwarf planet discovered in the Oort cloud.

In visible light, Sedna is one of the reddest objects in the solar system.

Sedna is one of the most distant objects known in the Solar System.

Sedna has the longest known orbital period in the Solar System, its orbit takes around 11,400 years to complete.

2012 VP113 is a planetoid that has the largest known perihelion – (closest approach to the Sun). Researchers suggest that 2012 VP113 is about half the size of Sedna.

There are four objects in our solar system that have perihelia larger than 47 Astronomical Units; Sedna, 2010 GB174, 2004 XR190 and 2004 VN112.

Olympus Mons, located on Mars is actually the largest Volcanic mountain to have been discovered in our Solar System.

Mars has water; Scientists have discovered the traces of water on Mars but not in liquid form.

Comet Hyakutake is believed to have had the longest ever discovered tail, over 570 million km in length.

Did you know that Uranus is the only known planet in our Solar System that actually rotates on its side? Guess what, if you were to scream in space, no one would actually hear you scream. This is because there is no air in space, which means that nothing could carry your voice, so, even if you would actually scream or talk, no one would actually be able to hear you.

Researchers have a hard time explaining the Moons of Mars; Deimos and Phobos, some even theorize that these moons were trapped in Mars’ orbit.

Phobos will probably one day impact into Mars. Because of its extremely low orbit, tidal forces are slowly lowering the orbit of Phobos. Astronomers have estimated that in about 50 million years, this moon will crash into the red planet.

Curiously, Mercury and Venus are two planets in our solar system that do not have moons orbiting them.

Did you know that Earth’s moon has water; and it is called Lunar water more accurately. Astronomers suggest that water in the form of ice can be present in craters on the Moon.

We’ve explored our solar system significantly in recent years. But despite this fact, Mercury is the least explored of the planets in our solar system.

Did you know that there are more than 500,000 minor planets that have been discovered and cataloged by the Minor Planet Center?

Venus apart from being the hottest planet is also the most dangerous planet since in its atmosphere is filled with sulfuric acid.

Despite the fact that there is a great possibility that hundreds of dwarf planets exist in the Kuiper belt, the International Astronomical Union has only accepted four:  Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake.

Astronomers believe that more than 50 tons of space rock and dust fall on Earth each day.

One day on Mercury equals to 58 days on Earth.

The gravity on our planet is six times stronger than on the surface of the Moon; this means that you would weigh less on the Moon than on Earth.

The magnetosphere is one of the central reasons why life can exist on our planet. The magnetosphere helps divert harmful radiation from the Sun away from Earth.

Experts do not understand Saturn’s rings completely, Some astronomers believe they could be extremely old and may have existed since the beginning of the solar system. However, there are others who believe they could be relatively new… compared to the age of the planet.

Astronomers believe that there is a very high chance that there is life on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus.

Mars, the planet that is very similar to Earth has the largest dust storms in the Solar system, they can ever last for months and cover the entire planet.

I have no more facts to write about… just kidding, here is one more:

There are relatively few stars within ten light years of the Sun, as the closest is the triple star system Alpha Centauri located around 4.4 light years away.

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30-12-2017 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens

NASA has set their sights on Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our Solar System, and wants the mission to take place in 2069 and look for signs of alien life.

After reaching the moon (again) and actually getting to Mars, the American Space agency wants to turn mankind into an interstellar species.

Despite the fact that the ‘mission’ does not have a name yet and most of the technology necessary to take us there does not even exist, the projected launch date would coincide with the centenary of the arrival of mankind to the Moon.

NASA is yet to develop the necessary technology to travel to Alpha Centauri in a reasonable time.

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Initially, scientists say that a spaceship which would need to travel at a minimum of 10 percent of the speed of light would be required to get us there.

The Alpha Centauri constellation is located 4.4 light-years away, and even if one-tenth of the speed of light were achieved, we would be able to visit the star system after a 44-year journey, reaching our nearest neighbor in 2113.

This means we need to ramp up our tech game. In order for mankind to really become an interstellar species, colonize other planets and moons, first in our solar system, we need to develop a technology that’s affordable, reusable, and fast. Really fast.

According to the New Scientist, NASA is considering sending tiny laser-powered probes that, in theory, can travel at a quarter of the speed of light. Other techniques under consideration include the use of nuclear reactions, or through collisions between antimatter and matter.

However, there are other options experts will consider. But, time is ticking so NASA will need all the help it can get to make a trip to Alpha Centauri a reality.

Perhaps the best way to start their journey to our closest cosmic neighbor is by developing a technology that would get us to Mars in a matter of weeks, then days.

Getting to Mars, and creating a transportation system between the two planets could serve as a starting point for further technology in development, and it would make traveling to Mars something routine.

As reported by Newsweek, NASA’s revolutionary mission in 2069 will visit Proxima B, a planet that was discovered not long ago and may be a world very similar to Earth. Interestingly, the manager of the Innovation Foundry at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Anthony Freeman called the entire project “very nebulous.”

Proxima Centauri B is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the closest star to the Sun—the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is in a triple star system. The planet—which has been hailed as Earth’s twin in the past—is located around 4.2 light-years from Earth, which makes it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System.

In comparison, the only man-made spacecraft that has reached interstellar space is Voyager-1, which is currently traveling at LESS than 1 percent of 1 percent of the speed of life, reports Newsweek.

IF Voyager-1 had the ability to travel at 10 percent the speed of light, it would make it to Alpha Centauri in about 44 years.

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30-12-2017 om 21:34 geschreven door peter  

If Humanity Discovered That Earth Would Be Destroyed In 400 years, What Would Be Humanity’s Response?

Oh, Snap…

A rogue planet ejected from its home solar system billions of years ago has wandered through interstellar space until it crossed our solar system’s gravity well. This slight trajectory deflection has put it on a direct path for impact with Earth. Scientists detected havoc in the Oort cloud out past Pluto. The Oort cloud is in chaos. Using our best minds and observatories we determined that the object is in the magnitude in size of Jupiter. Since it is travelling at a relativistic speed we have 400 years until Earth is no more.

Would the world band together and try to figure out a way to save humanity or would it be too far away and we would just let future generations figure out the solution?

The first astronomers to detect the upcoming event might not even recognize the danger. Anything that will take 400 years to hit us will be passing through a variety of gravitational fields and will be aiming at a location that might seemingly have nothing to do with Earth.

But at some point, someone would run the numbers and discover that yes indeed, we were facing the possibility of a celestial collision. At this point, they would only be thinking in terms of probabilities and not certainties. But after they shared their findings with other astronomers, gradually a general consensus would form, that the celestial body did not represent a mere possibility of colliding with Earth, but that it almost certainly would.

By this time, the astronomers had made no attempt to hide their work so far, the news would have already hit the Internet. But very few lay people would be able to follow the math, so there might be a series of confused news articles talking about something hitting something else someday.

But gradually the articles would gain coherence, the Wikipedia entry would become clearer and more persuasive. Counter-arguments and competing mathematics would be discredited, and a general sense of disturbance would begin to spread through the planet.

The governments of the world, while saying nothing publicly, would have long-since been in communication with the astronomers, and done their own verification of the science. In addition, they would have analyzed the possible effects of an impact, the probable number of deaths, the time it might take for human civilization and economies to recover. They would have considered the options of attempting somehow to divert the oncoming celestial body, the size of the required explosion, the mass and trajectory of debris, and other details. Finally, they would reach the inescapable conclusion that the impact could not be prevented and that the destruction would be too great for any kind of recovery. In 400 years the planet would be totally destroyed, with no hope that any life would survive.

During these considerations, NASA would for several months already have been calculating the possibility of resettling a portion of humanity onto another planetary body in the solar system. They would estimate the likelihood that the destruction of Earth would affect the orbits of other planets, or that debris from the impact might fly into any prospective resettlement area.

Official government spokespeople would have no comment yet. If asked, they would simply reply that they didn’t want to “get ahead of the science,” and that “so far, nothing is known for certain.” But they’d affirm that they’d have more to say when the scientific questions had been better understood.

At this point, only a very small minority of people would be expressing any sort of outrage at their government’s silence, or at the existence of the threat itself. Those people would be quite vocal, but the Internet buzz and radio talk-show hosts would always say something along the lines of, “even if it’s real, it’s 400 years in the future. Relax.” And that would echo the sentiments of many Americans, if not people throughout the world.

Eventually, the United States, China, Russia, and the European Union would make a joint announcement. The leaders of those nations, speaking together at the United Nations building in New York City, would announce a plan to create a series of large-scale, self-sufficient settlements on several planets and moons throughout the solar system. The impending threat against the Earth would not be mentioned. When asked if there was a connection between the colonial project and the threat of destruction, the reply would be that this project was a normal outgrowth of the space programs of all developed nations, and should be welcomed as a sign of ongoing human progress.

Gradually, budgeting for the various components of the colonial enterprise would be established. Research would proceed on a number of fronts, including the construction of space elevators along the equator, habitats capable of transporting large numbers of people across interplanetary distances, and larger habitats capable of maintaining those people indefinitely at specific locations throughout the solar system. There would also be a new focus on asteroid mining and bulk transportation of non-living cargo between planets. As reported in the news, each colony would need a permanent source of raw materials, ongoing protection of necessary atmospheric conditions, and a long-term effort to transform each colonial planet and moon into an Earth-like body with appropriate atmospheric and ecological conditions. Those terraforming efforts, however, would be acknowledged to require thousands of years, and would not be a major part of the requirements for the initial set of colonial outposts.

The first colonies would be established on Mars. Many lives would be lost in those initial efforts. But the governments of the world would praise those who sacrificed their lives and would redouble the effort to address the remaining technical problems. The colonial projects would go forward, government spokespeople would say, in spite of any obstacles.

After Mars, Jupiter would also be home to many colonies, in the form of orbiting stations. These stations would have a modular construction so that they could be continually expanded. Over the next hundred years, a ring of such constructions would gradually form around the planet, syphoning its material needs largely from Jupiter’s gaseous atmosphere. The water of Ganymede and the Earth itself would begin to be harvested for use by all colonial projects.

The first wave of colonists would be highly trained specialists, capable of building the colonial infrastructure and then setting up the requirements of actual habitation.

The next wave, however, would be taken from the impoverished countries of the world. In exchange for risking their lives, they would be given commercial opportunities in the new colonies. Like the early Martian colonies, many participants in this second wave would perish as well, until each colony was securely established and tested under proper load.

The third wave would consist of the populations of wealthy nations. Tens of millions of people would migrate to thriving economies ready to receive them. The occasional atmospheric accident would be hushed up as quietly as possible. But the governments of the world would provide whatever incentives were necessary in order to keep up migration rates.

Eventually, after half the world’s population had been resettled, the governments would acknowledge publicly for the first time that within another 200 years the planet would be destroyed by a celestial collision. They would put forward the colonies as a perfectly reasonable option and offer further economic incentives for people to migrate. They would also impose new laws restricting childbirth on Earth. Later, the restrictions would be tightened until all new Earth-based pregnancies were outlawed. An underclass of undocumented natives would spring up, living largely off the grid, and difficult to gather into the migratory waves.

By now the government officials would all have migrated to the colonies themselves, remotely overseeing a set of small, isolated, local governments on Earth. Among the off-world governments, there would be ongoing negotiations, attempting to unite them all into one; but these would be slow and unpromising, given religious, tribal, and political histories on Earth. But the United Nations would be quite strong and would play a large role in ongoing decision-making for the colonies as well as for the remaining local governments on Earth.

By the time of the destruction, only a few hundred million people would remain on Earth. The impact would be streamed live to viewers in every colony. Everyone, everywhere, would feel the loss as a tragic event; and would feel the uncertainty of their own future. How could these little colonies, these little bubbles of air, with no history, ever hope to have a future? And this uncertainty would become an inspiration to young people that would rally an inventiveness and resourcefulness throughout the colonies, and would lead them to make great leaps of technological advancement and to overcome the remaining obstacles to humanity’s continued survival.

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30-12-2017 om 18:44 geschreven door peter  

10 Reasons That We Still Haven’t Found Aliens

The Fermi Paradox, first introduced by physicist Enrico Fermi, asks the question, “Where is everybody?” Or, more specifically, “Where are all the aliens?”

When we factor in the size of the universe, the number of Earth-like planets, and a range of other variables (as outlined in the Drake equation), there should be tens of thousands or more extraterrestrial civilizations in the galaxy. And with the galaxy being around 10 billion years old, scientists say that intelligent worlds have had plenty of time to contact one another. So if aliens should statistically exist, why haven’t we encountered any yet?

10. Earth Is Special

The Rare Earth Hypothesis suggests that the chain of events that created life on this planet was so complex that only a biological perfect storm could recreate it elsewhere. While there may be Earth-like planets, none of them have exactly what it takes for intelligent life to develop. In other words, we haven’t met any aliens, because none are out there, or they are so few and far between that contact is highly improbable.

The major factor that makes Earth so hospitable to life is its long period of relatively stable climatic conditions, which is due to the planet’s unique orbit and position. Without our precise distance from the Sun and Moon, the planet would likely be too hot or cold, have too little oxygen, and be too unstable to support any life beyond bacteria.

Paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee were the first to introduce the Rare Earth Hypothesis. Even though nearly 15 years have passed since they publicized the theory, and Earth-like planets have since been detected, they are still confident that the odds of those worlds having life are extraordinarily low.

9. All Intelligent Life Hits A Stumbling Block

According to the Great Filter theory, alien life does exist, but intelligent life is incapable of technologically advancing enough for long-distance space communication or travel. Although our modern spaceships, satellites, and radios may make it seem like we’re getting closer, we’ll inevitably reach a barrier or catastrophe that will either wipe us out or cause technology to devolve.

We know cataclysmic natural disasters periodically strike Earth, so it’s possible that these types of events hit worlds everywhere, sending intelligent life back to the Stone Age before technology can adequately develop. Or, maybe we annihilate ourselves, such as through nuclear war. Whatever the filter is, it seems to mean nothing but bad news for humans. Not only will we never communicate with space beings—we’ll probably die trying.

However, there is one possible bright side. Some think that we are the first individuals to make it past the filter, so we’ll eventually be the first super-intelligent beings to roam space.

8. They’ve Moved Out Of The Universe

According to futurist John Smart’s Transcension Hypothesis, intelligent alien life once existed in our universe, yet it became so advanced that it moved on to greener pastures. More specifically, aliens became so evolved that they stopped looking at outer space and instead focused on inner space.

The concept can be compared to the miniaturization we’ve experienced in computers. What initially began as an enormous, room-filling technology progressively became smaller (even pocket-sized) while simultaneously growing in complexity and power. To Transcension supporters, intelligent life evolves in much the same way, constantly working toward a denser, more efficient use of space, time, energy, and matter (“STEM compression“). Eventually, we’ll be living and operating at the nano-scale until we become so small that we create and exist in a black hole outside this space-time continuum.

To Smart and others, black holes are the ultimate destination. They allow for ideal computing and learning, time travel, energy harvesting, and more. Civilizations that don’t achieve this destiny are failures.

Other cosmic beings may be working toward their own transcendence. Like humans, they might emit space broadcasts, but these types of signals are supposedly the work of immature civilizations and are unlikely to be successful. Also, based on Moore’s Law (that computing power doubles every two years), these beings would likely reach transcendence before exploring the cosmos.

7. Earth Isn’t As Great As We Think

Perhaps it’s hubris to think that aliens would even have an interest in us or our planet. Worlds far more interesting and life-supporting may exist, and intelligent beings would much rather spend their time focusing on super-habitable places rather than Earth. This theory is the complete opposite of the Rare Earth theory—Earth isn’t special at all.

An alien race capable of traveling or communicating across light years would no more care about chitchatting with us than a human would converse with a fly. Likewise, they’d undoubtedly have their own superior technologies and would not require any of our measly resources. If, however, they did need to harvest minerals or elements, they wouldn’t have to visit Earth. Those things are found floating all over space.

Furthermore, no matter how intelligent the beings, traveling across light years is no easy feat. What are the odds they’d invest all that energy coming here when there are 8.8 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way? For followers of this theory, to think Earth is everyone’s destination is to suffer from the same geocentrism that led to Galileo’s erroneous persecution.

6. We’re Living In A Virtual Reality

Arguably one of the most difficult to accept explanations to the Fermi Paradox is the Planetarium Hypothesis. Our world is a “form of virtual reality ‘planetarium,’ designed to give us the illusion the universe is empty.” We haven’t discovered any extraterrestrial life because those extraterrestrials haven’t designed that into the program.

The fundamentals of this theory date back to Descartes, who asked, “How can we know that the world around us is real—are we just a brain in a vat, which thinks it’s living in the real world?”

Instead of being brains in a vat, however, most modern supporters of this notion think we’re in a computer simulation designed by advanced aliens. These aliens are capable of harnessing enough energy to manipulate matter and energy on galactic scales. Why would the aliens want to watch us like ants in a farm? Maybe just for fun, or maybe they just made us to see if they could.

As unlikely as the Planetarium Hypothesis may sound, professional philosophers and physicists are serious about this idea. They say that we’re more likely to be artificial intelligences in a fabricated world than to have our own minds. Furthermore, we will likely discover the simulation, since we’ll inevitably notice a glitch in the system or devise an adequate test to prove the theory.

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30-12-2017 om 18:23 geschreven door peter  

L’incident OVNI de 2004 impliquait-il des extraterrestres ou un engin spatial antigravité russe?

 PAR MANUELRODRIGUEZ

Le 11 octobre, la star du Rock Tom DeLonge a animé une retransmission en direct du lancement officiel de son émission « To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science« . Au cours du lancement, il a présenté Luis Elizondo, un ancien agent des renseignements de carrière, qui a dirigé un programme d’enquête sur les menaces aériennes non identifiées au Pentagone, un programme qui a duré près de dix ans.

Les images filmées d’un incident d’OVNI du 14 novembre 2004 impliquant plusieurs jets F-18 de l’USS Nimitz ont été présentées et il a été annoncé que le Pentagone mettait à la disposition du public des dossiers officiels.

Les pilotes de la marine ont décrit l’OVNI comme défiant les lois de la physique et ne faisant pas partie d’un programme aérospatial conventionnel américain, comme l’a décrit Dave Fravor (Commander, US Navy ret.), l’un des pilotes qui ont été témoins de l’incident et qui a été mentionné dans un article de mars 2015:

À plusieurs reprises, à compter du 10 novembre [2004], l’agent de lutte contre les incendies et le chef principal du service de lutte contre les incendies, extrêmement expérimenté, avaient détecté de multiples retours descendant de loin au-dessus du volume de balayage du radar, soit quelque part à plus de 80 000 pieds. Les cibles, appelées Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAV), tomberaient de plus de 80 km pour planer à environ 50 pieds au-dessus de l’eau en quelques secondes.

Toujours au même endroit, un Lat/Long à environ 30NM au large de la côte de Baja, à environ 70nm au sud-ouest de Tijuana. À l’époque, le SPY-1 était le radar tactique le plus sophistiqué et le plus puissant de la planète. Grâce à lui, ils ont été en mesure de suivre ces avions pendant qu’ils descendaient, planaient en stationnaire et s’éloignaient ensuite à toute vitesse, vitesse de virage et accélération plus rapidement que n’importe quel avion ami ou menaçant connu. Impossible vitesse.

Un rapport sommaire officiel de l’incident de la Marine américaine avait déjà été publié en ligne. Néanmoins, la plupart des médias grand public ont simplement ignoré le lancement de DeLonge et la documentation abondante liée à l’incident des ovnis.

Tout cela a changé le 16 décembre 2017, lorsque le New York Times et Politico ont publié un article sur Elizondo et l’incident de 2004. Nous avons appris que le programme du Pentagone d’Elizondo a été officiellement financé de 2007 à 2012 grâce à une subvention de 22 millions de dollars créée par un groupe de membres du Congrès dirigé par l’ancien sénateur Harry Reid.

Les fonds ont été acheminés par l’intermédiaire de Robert Bigelow, l’ami milliardaire de Reid, qui dirige une société civile de l’aérospatiale, afin de construire des habitats humains extensibles pour les missions en orbite terrestre et dans l’espace lointain.

Il y a eu par la suite un tsunami de reportages dans les médias grand public sur le programme du Pentagone dirigé par Elizondo, le financement de 22 millions de dollars qu’il a reçu et l’incident de 2004. DeLonge et sa To The Stars Academy ont soudainement été des nouvelles majeures dans le monde entier.

Le ton de la couverture médiatique était respectueux et sérieux, comme l’illustre une entrevue de Tucker Carlson avec le pilote de la Marine lors de l’incident de 2004.

Les médias grand public disaient au public qu’il était temps de se débarrasser de l’association qui a longtemps empêché un examen sérieux du phénomène des ovnis.

Pourquoi deux mois de retard dans la couverture du témoignage d’Elizondo et de l’incident de 2004? Les histoires du New York Timeset de Politico ont-elles été conçues pour lancer un processus de divulgation officielle des informations officielles sur les ovnis, que DeLonge suggère depuis plus d’un an et demi avec le lancement de son projet multimédia « Sekret Machines » en avril 2016?

Il ne fait guère de doute que DeLonge a été aidé par un groupe d’initiés de haut niveau qui l’ont choisi comme véhicule pour révéler la vérité derrière le phénomène des OVNI. En mars 2016, DeLonge a donné un certain nombre d’entrevues au cours desquelles il a dit qu’on lui avait donné accès à dix initiés de haut niveau, y compris des généraux, qui avaient accepté de faire partie de son équipe consultative.

Au milieu de l’année 2016, Wikileaks a publié des courriels montrant un lien clair entre la campagne présidentielle de Hillary Clinton et DeLonge par l’intermédiaire de son président de campagne, John Podesta. Cela corroborait la prétention de DeLonge d’être soutenue par des initiés de haut niveau, et confirmait le lien de l’US Air Force avec DeLonge via le major-général à la retraite McCasland, ancien chef d’un laboratoire de recherche très secret à la BFA Wright Paterson. Un autre major général retraité de l’USAF, Michael Carey, avait écrit un endossement de 4ème de couverture de Sekret Machines.

En effet, des références ultérieures d’OVNI par Clinton et Podesta, au cours de la campagne, semblaient jeter les bases de futures révélations d’une présidence Clinton qui iraient dans le sens de l’initiative de DeLonge. Le succès de la campagne présidentielle Trump a été un revers majeur dans ce qui semblait être une initiative de divulgation hautement orchestrée et qui pouvait être attribuée à l’USAF.

Cela suggère que DeLonge fait partie d’une initiative de divulgation sanctionnée par l’USAF et que tous les cas d’ovnis officiellement libérés sont conçus pour appuyer ses efforts. Cela nous donne un indice quant à l’origine probable des ovnis observés et enregistrés lors de l’incident de Nimitz en 2004, qui a été soigneusement choisi pour le lancement de l’Académie To The Stars par DeLonge en octobre 2017, ainsi que pour les articles subséquents du New York Times et de Politico.

Dans sa fiction de 2016, fondée sur le livre d’information Sekret Machines, DeLonge faisait référence à un programme spatial secret exploité dans la zone 51, au Nevada, qui mettait en vedette des embarcations en forme de triangle et de soucoupe capables de défier les lois de la physique grâce à leurs technologies antigravité. Il est important de souligner que les faits allégués dans le livre ont été présentés à DeLonge par son équipe consultative de 10 hommes, qui, selon lui, lui ont fourni la révélation la plus documentée qui n’ a pas encore émergé sur les sujets des OVNI, de la vie extraterrestre et des programmes spatiaux secrets.

Le lien avec l’incident de 2004 impliquant l’USS Nimitz devient maintenant pertinent. En publiant des informations officielles du Pentagone sur l’incident de 2004, l’intention était-elle de révéler l’existence d’OVNIs extraterrestres pilotés ou d’un programme spatial secret dirigé par un État rival?

La réponse trouvée dans Sekret Machines de DeLonge est que l’USAF et la Russie possèdent leur propre flotte d’engins spatiaux antigravité capables de défier les lois de la physique. Le programme spatial secret de la Russie est décrit tout au long du livre comme une menace claire en termes de survols du territoire américain et d’installations nucléaires, d’enlèvements de citoyens américains et d’actions militaires hostiles contre les moyens spatiaux américains.

Il y a peu de mention dans le livre de DeLonge de la vie extraterrestre autre qu’une référence vague aux anciens dieux qui ont trompé l’humanité par leurs technologies avancées, qui sont aujourd’hui semées aux grandes nations comme des pommes modernes de la discorde.

Le premier livre de Sekret Machines de DeLonge est un effort pour dépeindre le phénomène d’OVNI comme impliquant principalement des véhicules aérospatiaux avancés d’abord développés par l’Allemagne nazie pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, puis rétro-ingénierie par les Etats-Unis et la Russie avec l’aide de scientifiques allemands précédemment impliqués dans les programmes nazis.

Il convient de souligner que le niveau élevé de soutien de l’initié à DeLonge suggère que ses livres et initiatives font partie d’un processus de divulgation officiellement approuvé, qui est soutenu par l’USAF en particulier, et le Pentagone en général.

Tout cela suggère que l’incident de 2004 mettant en cause l’USS Nimitiz correspondra à un récit qui émerge lentement dans la série de livres Sekret Machines de DeLonge et à l’Académie To The Stars. Cela indique clairement que l’incident a été dépeint comme un engin antigravité russe qui a adopté une posture menaçante pour le groupement tactique de la Marine.

Il y a des avantages politiques évidents à représenter la Russie possédant un programme spatial secret qui menace les navires de guerre américains dans les eaux internationales. Cela permettrait au Pentagone de bénéficier d’augmentations substantielles du financement de son propre programme spatial secret géré par l’USAF, qui est tout aussi avancé que le programme russe, selon DeLonge.

Le fait de présenter les OVNI comme des menaces à la sécurité nationale posées par les Russes, avec leur alliance de plus en plus grande avec la Chine, permettrait de garder hautement confidentiels les programmes créés pour faire face à cette menace. En effet, le nom du projet du Pentagone d’Elizondo, le « Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program », fait allusion à un tel processus déjà en cours.

Enfin, révéler un lien russe avec l’incident de Nimitz en 2004, qu’il soit artificiel ou non, alimenterait l’hystérie antirusse générée par la communauté américaine du renseignement à l’occasion de l’élection de Donald Trump. Alimentés par cette hystérie de l’ingérence inconnue de la Russie dans le plus sacro-saint des processus politiques américains, de nombreux citoyens américains seraient vraisemblablement d’accord avec un nouveau discours médiatique selon lequel la Russie, avec le soutien croissant de la Chine, est devenue une menace mondiale majeure par le biais d’un programme spatial secret.

J’espère que je me trompe, mais il y a des signes évidents que les initiatives de divulgation Sekret Machines et To The Stars Academy de DeLonge se transforment en un « lieu de rencontre limité ». Une partie de la vérité sur les programmes spatiaux secrets et les technologies de pointe sera publiée, ce qui est une évolution bienvenue. Cependant, des informations importantes sur d’autres aspects clés du phénomène des OVNI, tels que la visite extraterrestre, un programme spatial secret allemand qui a survécu à la Seconde Guerre mondiale et un programme spatial de la Marine appelé Solar Warden, qui opère dans l’espace lointain, continueront d’être supprimées.

Het incident van het UFO 2004 is intrigerend, en het zou wel eens een ander onderdeel in de wereld, maar het is waarschijnlijk dat dit specifieke incident is zo gekozen dat Rusland uiteindelijk zou geïdentificeerd als de boosdoener voor politieke redenen. Ik ben er zeker van dat de grote Amerikaanse defensie-aannemers kwijlen bij het vooruitzicht van de bouw vloten van ruimtevaartuigen gewapend antigravity om een ​​Russische dreiging (en Chinese) kunstmatige nationale veiligheid van de Verenigde Staten door te voldoen een geheim ruimteprogramma.

Michael E. Salla, Ph. D.

Bron: 

http://exopolitics.org/did-2004-ufo-incident-involve-aliens-or-russian-antigravity-spacecraft/

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30-12-2017 om 17:54 geschreven door peter  

UFO' sighting over Tasmania sparks intelligent alien life theories on Facebook

The mystery of a fireball crossing the Tasmanian skyline has been solved, but not before Facebook users declared alien life had finally made it to Tasmania.

The federal government's air navigation services provider Airservices Australia confirmed the object captured on hundreds of mobile phones and cameras across southern Tasmania early on Tuesday morning was nothing more than an aircraft "as it passed over Australian airspace". But that assertion did not stop members of the public drawing their own conclusions and disparaging naysayers for their lack of faith.

Striking footage of the object filmed by Sorell resident Lee-Anne Peters caused a frenzy as Facebook users speculated on what it could be, with the International Space Station, meteorites, plane contrails, fairies and, of course, spacecraft from another galaxy among the mix of possibilities.

"It was very slow moving, not like the high jets I've seen before. I got out the binoculars and thought it must be a meteorite" Ms Peters said.

"I was sure it was something burning up from space … but now, I am sure it was just a plane with the sunrise highlighting its contrails" she said.

Despite Ms Peter's verdict, many Facebook users were quick to disagree — with some rejoicing in what the close encounter might mean.

"No longer will the population outcast you for believing in aliens," one Facebook user posted.
Professor Dickey posited another theory that the object in the video could be "high cloud, backlit by the rising sun", which might explain the brightly-lit trail.
Facebookers checking aircraft flight trackers narrowed it down to an Emirates Airbus A380 flight bound for Auckland which was scheduled to be in the airspace about the time the phenomenon occurred.
Another person suggested the "fireball" was caused by the dawn sunlight reflecting the "wind drag over the wings" of a plane.

The case of the Knowles family

Believers like Mary Rodwell say the 1988 experience of Faye Knowles and her three sons (and their two dogs) is one of the most significant "close encounter" testimonies ever.

"UFO ATTACK KNOWLES FAMILY NULLARBOR 20/1/1988"

Also reportedly involving several witnesses, the story goes involves the witnessing an egg-like, bright structure. They then went on a high-speed car chase against the object, climaxing with the family's car being lifted from the road as weird black dust, high-pitched sound and a horrible smell overwhelmed the car.
"I felt like my brain was being sucked out" said eldest son Patrick at the time. *dun dun DUN*

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30-12-2017 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

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30-12-2017 om 17:30 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Coins Depicting Aliens And UFOs Are The Proof Alien Lived Among Us

There has long been the belief that aliens have continued to be monitoring the Earth for quite some time now, and such proof has been shown through videos and an assortment of pictures taken by unsuspecting citizens.

The reasons for why aliens have decided to roam the Earth varies. Some reasons are because aliens may intend to create a war against humans and wipe out all of the society in order to open up their own personal world on the planet to create a much more civilized and intelligent society with technology and advances like no other.

Aliens Have Visited Earth Centuries Ago

The sightings of UFOs continue to take place throughout the world and seem to appear every year, which leads to the wondering whether aliens have touched down on Earth at one time or another.

One finding potentially answers this question and indicates that yes aliens have already been to Earth at least one time. In Egypt, eerie coins were located while excavating through some forested area.

Upon looking at the coins, they appeared to show an individual who seems to have an extremely large head with bulging black eyes. These characteristics are commonly associated with aliens.

Many conspiracy theorists have indicated that the coins are a proof that aliens once inhabited the Earth or at least may have visited previously.

The unanswered question is if these coins turn out to be a true alien currency, then why does it truly exist? Did the aliens participate in foreign trades or trades in general? It would be assumed that the coins are most likely some form of currency, so the coins must contain some sort of monetary value or be of use somehow.

The coins are also believed to have some writing on them which translates to "it's here in due time, "which hints at the belief that aliens may be setting up for another visit to the Earth, so the citizens of the world should be preparing thoroughly, because no one truly knows what the intentions of aliens are. Information is still coming out regarding this finding, but nothing is truly set in stone as of right now.

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30-12-2017 om 14:48 geschreven door peter  

How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life

BY ALAN BOYLE

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30-12-2017 om 14:32 geschreven door peter  

Well, that didn’t take long. The Sun Online tried to obtain additional information from the Defense Intelligence Agency which ran the so-called UFO investigation agency and was told there’s been some “confusion” about the program, the Department of Defense did not release the two videos and it won’t honor requests for the release of any others … if they even exist. Let the backtracking begin.

The fingers in this case are pointing long and hard at Luis Elizondo, who allegedly ran the $22 million Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) from 2007 to 2012 when it was allegedly dissolved due to running out of money. However, he implied that some form of AATIP existed beyond that time and he was involved with it until he resigned in October to join Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy.

It was apparently in his capacity as a TTSA founder, not as the former AATIP director, that Elizondo released the videos, thus giving the Pentagon an opening to back away from responsibility. The Defense Intelligence Agency to Sun Online:

“There is some confusion about this program and claims about its purpose in press reporting… the Defense Intelligence Agency has not released any information, files or videos.”

A spokesperson for its parent, the Defense Department, disputed only the part about it the AATIP’s purpose:

“The AATIP’s mandate, when it existed, was to assess far-term foreign advanced aerospace threats to the United States.”

That also puts into question Elizondo’s claim that the program somehow continued to live on without funding and that its purpose was to look for extraterrestrial UFOs, noth just “foreign” aerospace threats. Star Online points out that Elizondo changed his story about the videos substantially once they became public, citing a Washington Post report that Elizondo said in an internal government memo that he merely wanted the videos to “help educate pilots and improve aviation safety.” That doesn’t sound like UFO disclosure and AATIP exposure.

Of course, any questioning of the videos or insinuation of backtracking brings out the cries of “government cover-up” and that is always a possibility. The only way that will change now is if Luis Elizondo releases more videos or other forms of evidence. And this time, the video better be a blockbuster. No more trickle-down UFOnomics … the public wants a big flood of evidence or it’s going to go back to watching The Orville.

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30-12-2017 om 12:53 geschreven door peter  

What Ancient Human Civilizations Said About The Moon – The Moon Is Not What You Think It Is!

Ancient Human Civilizations across multiple continents around the world speak of the time BEFORE the Moon arrived - and with it so did our ocean tides, seasons and conditions prime for an abundance of life.

However, there is an abundance of evidence that significant information regarding our Moon and the Apollo landings have been withheld from the masses as well as the Moon Express mining operation raises questions of this as well.

  

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30-12-2017 om 12:40 geschreven door peter  

My UFO Sighting (and Chase), Perrysburg, Ohio, 1977

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30-12-2017 om 01:20 geschreven door peter  

Mystery over top secret UFO program deepens

30-12-2017 om 00:51 geschreven door peter  

U.F.O.s: Is This All There Is?

Dennis Overbye

A U.F.O. in New Mexico in 1957. For astronomers, the biggest problem with alien visitation is not the occasional claim of mysterious light in the sky, but the fact that we’re not constantly overwhelmed with them.

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Hey, Mr. Spaceman,

Won’t you please take me along?

I won’t do anything wrong.

Hey, Mr. Spaceman,

Won’t you please take me along for a ride?

So sang the Byrds in 1966, after strange radio bursts from distant galaxies called quasars had excited people about the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.

I recalled those words recently when reading the account of a pair of Navy pilots who were outmaneuvered and outrun by a U.F.O. off the coast of San Diego back in 2004. Cmdr. David Fravor said later that he had no idea what he had seen.

“But,” he added, “I want to fly one.”

His story was part of a bundle of material released recently about a supersecret $22 million Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, aimed at investigating U.F.O.s. The project was officially killed in 2012, but now it’s being resurrected as a nonprofit organization.

Disgruntled that the government wasn’t taking the possibility of alien visitors seriously, a group of former defense officials, aerospace engineers and other space fans have set up their own group, To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. One of its founders is Tom DeLonge, a former punk musician, record producer and entrepreneur, who is also the head of the group’s entertainment division.

For a minimum of $200, you can join and help finance their research into how U.F.O.s do whatever it is they do, as well as telepathy and “a point-to-point transportation craft that will erase the current travel limits of distance and time” by using a drive that “alters the space-time metric” — that is, a warp drive going faster than the speed of light, Einstein’s old cosmic speed limit.

“We believe there are transformative discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience, but they can only be accomplished through the unrestricted support of breakthrough research, discovery and innovation,” says the group’s website.

I’m not holding my breath waiting for progress on telepathy or warp drive, but I agree with at least one thing that one official with the group said. That was Steve Justice, a former engineer at Lockheed Martin’s famous Skunk Works, where advanced aircraft like the SR-71 high-altitude super-fast spy plane were designed.

“How dare we think that the physics we have today is all that there is,” he said in an interview published recently in HuffPost.

I could hardly agree more, having spent my professional life in the company of physicists and astronomers trying to poke out of the cocoon of present knowledge into the unknown, to overturn Einstein and what passes for contemporary science. Lately, they haven’t gotten anywhere.

The last time physicists had to deal with faster-than-light travel was six years ago, when a group of Italy-based physicists announced that they had seen the subatomic particles known as neutrinos going faster than light. It turned out they had wired up their equipment wrong.

So far Einstein is still the champ. But surely there is so much more to learn. A lot of surprises lie ahead, but many of the most popular ideas on how to transcend Einstein and his peers are on the verge of being ruled out. Transforming science is harder than it looks.

While there is a lot we don’t know, there is also a lot we do know. We know how to turn on our computers and let gadgets in our pocket navigate the world. We know that when physical objects zig and zag through a medium like air, as U.F.O.s are said to do, they produce turbulence and shock waves. NASA engineers predicted to the minute when the Cassini spacecraft would dwindle to a wisp of smoke in Saturn’s atmosphere last fall.

In moments like this, I take comfort in what the great Russian physicist and cosmologist Yakov Zeldovich, one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, once told me. “What science has already taken, it will not give back,” he said.

Scientists are not the killjoys in all this.

In the astronomical world, the border between science fact and science fiction can be very permeable, perhaps because many scientists grew up reading science fiction. And astronomers forever have their noses pressed up against the window of the unknown. They want to believe more than anybody, and I count myself among them.

But they are also trained to look at nature with ruthless rigor and skepticism. For astronomers, the biggest problem with E.T. is not the occasional claim of a mysterious light in the sky, but the fact that we are not constantly overwhelmed with them.

Half a century ago, the legendary physicist Enrico Fermi concluded from a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation that even without warp drive, a single civilization could visit and colonize all the planets in the galaxy in a fraction of the 10-billion-year age of the Milky Way.

“Where are they?” he asked.

Proponents of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, have been debating ever since. One answer I like is the “zoo hypothesis,” according to which we have been placed off-limits, a cosmic wildlife refuge.

Another answer came from Jill Tarter, formerly the director of research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. “We haven’t looked hard enough,” she said when I asked her recently.

If there was an iPhone sitting under a rock on the Moon or Mars, for example, we would not have found it yet. Our own latest ideas for interstellar exploration involve launching probes the size of postage stamps to Alpha Centauri.

In the next generation, they might be the size of mosquitoes. By contrast, the dreams of some U.F.O. enthusiasts are stuck in 1950s technology.

Still, we keep trying.

Last fall when a strange object — an interstellar asteroid now named Oumuamua — was found cruising through the solar system, astronomers’ thoughts raced to the Arthur C. Clarke novel “Rendezvous With Rama,” in which the object was an alien spaceship. Two groups have been monitoring Oumuamua for alien radio signals, so far to no avail.

Meanwhile, some astronomers have speculated that the erratic dimming of a star known as “Boyajian’s star” or “Tabby’s star,” after the astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, could be caused by some gigantic construction project orbiting the star. So far that has not worked out, but none of the other explanations — dust or a fleet of comets — have, either.

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30-12-2017 om 00:31 geschreven door peter  

EXCLUSIVE

By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent

THE mystery of a top-secret UFO programme has deepened after government officials claimed there was confusion about its purpose - while experts accused them of backtracking.

The Pentagon last week confirmed the existence of a $22million programme - called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) - which investigated sightings of UFOs between 2007 to 2012.

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The revelation excited UFO fans around the world as it was the first time the US government had admitted investigating UFOs since 1969.

The organisation's work was outed by Luis Elizondo when he told the New York Times he ran the shadowy Department of Defense programme from 2007 to 2012 and says he continued to look into the issue until he resigned in October this year.

Two bombshell videos of unexplained UFO sightings by US military personnel - investigated by the AATIP - were also published.

However, when contacted by Sun Online, the Defense Intelligence Agency - the Department of Defense's spy arm, which first started the programme - claimed there had been some misunderstandings.

They said there was "confusion" over the AATIP's purpose, and denied releasing any videos or files related to it.

A spokesman for the US Defense Intelligence Agency said: "There is some confusion about this program and claims about its purpose in press reporting... the Defense Intelligence Agency has not released any information, files or videos."

But Department of Defense officials disputed this response, claiming they did not know what "confusion" the Defense Intelligence Agency was referring to - and stated they had been "clear" about the programme's aims.

A spokesman for the Department of Defense added: "The AATIP’s mandate, when it existed, was to assess far-term foreign advanced aerospace threats to the United States."

The Department of Defense said they did not know what 'confusion' the Defense Intelligence Agency was

The Department of Defense claim the programme ended in 2012 - however, Elizondo, chief of the Pentagon's secret UFO research initiative, said that he had continued to work with officials from the Navy and the CIA on the programme until he resigned from office in October.

UFO experts have claimed that this disagreement could be the government trying to back-pedal away from the issue of UFOs - because they aren't "ready or willing" to disclose the information.

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Ufologist Alejandro Rojas, from Open Minds TV, which is dedicated to the study of UFOs, said: "It does seem to me like they might be backtracking.

"They haven't clarified exactly what the confusion is, but I'm not surprised that they are scrambling over this now.

"According to The Washington Post, Luis Elizondo essentially got the videos under somewhat false pretences.

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"He claimed he wanted to use the videos for training pilots - he didn't say he wanted to use the videos to demonstrate that UFOs are real, which is what's happening.

"I think that's why the clips are so short and - especially with the second one - there is so little information attached to it.

"I think perhaps they thought just in case somebody gets a hold of this and tries to turn it into a big UFO thing, we just won't give them much information.

"It puts them in a spot because perhaps they're not ready or even willing to come out and talk about this.

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29-12-2017 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

HOW TALL CAN WE BUILD AND CAN WE CREATE A TOWER THAT GOES INTO SPACE?

Did you know that you can see the sun set twice during a single day in Dubai? You watch it dip below the horizon from the base of Burj Khalifa, before taking the elevator to the observation deck to see it set again.

At 828 metres tall, the Burj Khalifa is so high that in 2011 the Dubai Islamic Affairs Department passed a ruling to state that people living above the 80th floor must delay breaking their fast during Ramadan by two to three minutes to factor in the timing of the sunset.

It’s as mind-boggling a concept as the original plans for the Burj Khalifa were when it was first announced. The idea of a building more than twice as tall as New York’s iconic Empire State Building (a building so lofty that, should you jump off the top, you would reach terminal velocity before hitting the ground) seemed unfathomable at the time. And not only was it proved possible, but surpassable.

“The  proposed Sky Mile Tower in Tokyo is a staggering 1,700m tall — twice the height of Burj Khalifa”

This month, Emaar Properties will start work on another Dubai-based building that will be taller than its own Burj Khalifa. According to the developers, the slim, needlepoint-like tower will be a notch taller than the existing record holder, and will be completed before Expo 2020.

Taller still is the 1,001m Jeddah Tower project (formerly Kingdom Tower), currently being built in Saudi Arabia, that will claim the World’s Tallest Building title when it opens in 2020. Further afield, there are proposals to construct an even bigger skyscraper in Tokyo Bay, known as the Sky Mile Tower, that would be a staggering 1,700m tall, twice the height of Burj Khalifa. So the obvious question arises: just how high can we build?

The truth is, other than the restrictions imposed by financing and land usage, there are no physical limitations to just how high we can go. Twice the Burj Khalifa? We’ll figure it out. Three times? We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. It’s the very essence of an engineering problem — if it doesn’t exist yet, you can bet that someone, somewhere, is looking at new methods and designs to turn it into a reality.

To test this theory, in 1995 the Japanese company Taisei Corporation designed the X-Seed 4000, a speculative Eiffel Tower-esque structure with a base covering 6sqkm, and able to house 500,000 people. The hypothetical structure would reach a height of 4,000m — nearly a half-Everest.
But surely, there has to be an upper limit. We couldn’t build a structure that goes into space, could we? Well, potentially, yes.

Although this may all sound like science fiction, serious research has gone into exploring the possibilities, one of which was a book published in 2003 called Space Elevators.

The work explored the idea of a 100,000km-tall tower that would clear Earth’s atmosphere and be anchored at the top by a satellite.

Further research by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) claimed that the colossal structure would be a cost-effective way to send materials and resources directly into Earth’s lower orbit — essentially operating as a vertical railway line.

Naturally, there are several issues with this idea. The most pressing of these is the weight of a structure of this size, as no material exists that would be able to support it against gravitational pull… yet. But with development of a new diamond-like nanothread material (supposedly 13 times stronger than steel) progressing in the US, a major Japanese construction company has not given up hope, and has even gone as far as announcing plans to build a space elevator by 2050.

Choruses of scientists claim that while it currently isn’t possible, it is by no means unthinkable. The creation of stronger material that can be used to tether the structure would make it possible, but would require significant funding and collective common interest, much like other great human engineering feats that have happened throughout history.

If built, the elevators would significantly reduce the cost and risk elements currently faced by using rocket ships and, as the IAA report states, “would open up our Solar System to humankind”. Just imagine what the sunsets would be like from up there.

Source www.esquireme.com

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29-12-2017 om 23:38 geschreven door peter  

ARE ALIENS OUT THERE? WHY 2017 WAS THE YEAR TO BELIEVE IN UFOS AND LIFE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

29-12-2017 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

ALIEN SHOCK: Top-secret metal ‘recovered from UFOs must be made public’

DEMANDS are growing for proof that unknown metals allegedly recovered from UFOs are being held on behalf of the US Government.

29-12-2017 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

Experts claim there is ‘new evidence’ that Noah’s Ark really is on Mount Ararat

If we are to believe the latest claims from a group of explorers, we could soon find the real Noah’s Ark. According to what is written in the Bible, the Ark came to rest on ‘mountains of Ararat’ in Turkey after 150 days.

The ark was said to have been found many times in the past, but no one has managed to bring definite evidence in order to back up their claims.

One of the most famous groups who said to have allegedly fount the Ark were a group of evangelical Christian explorers who said in 2010 that they discovered traces of the Ark on the mountain.

However, this was quickly dismissed as scientists called them out for not providing any evidence whatsoever to back up their claims.

This hasn’t stopped many other explorers to continue searching for the Ark.

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Now an Ark Hunter from California claims he has found fresh evidence that Mount Ararat is the resting place of the Ark, and where the ark originally came aground.

Unsurprisingly, these claims are also widely dismissed by experts.

Everyone wants to find the Ark.

And if anyone does come up with it, it would be one of the most important archeological discoveries ever.

Many ark hunters know that, and its wy more than 100 explorers recently met in a three-day international symposium on Mount Ararat and Noah’s Ark in Ağrı in Turkey, in order to se whether they could come up with new clues that may help them find the Ark.

Speaking about the Ark, Professor Raul Esperante from the Geosciences Research Institute said: “My plan is to visit the sites around the mountain in order to find clues about catastrophic events in the past.”

Sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Geosciences Research Institute’s mission is to ‘’discover and share an understanding of nature and its relationship with the Biblical revelation of the Creator God,’ according to their website.

Noah’s Ark appears in chapters six to nine of the Book of Genesis.

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The ark was said to have been found in 2010 when a team of Chinese and Turkish explorers embarked on an expedition that explored the region where the alleged Ark’s remains were located.

A few weeks into the search, they said to have discovered wooden remains from ‘an ark-like structure’ at an elevation of around 4,000 meters.

Mount Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey at 5,100 meters.

According to the team of Chinese and Turkish Ark explorers, carbon dating was carried out on the pieces of wood that allegedly belonged to the Ark which showed that they date back 4,800 years.

Now, Professor Esperante believes that the Ark really is located on Mount Ararat and in order to find it, more ‘rigorous, serious scientific work’ in the area is required, writes the Express, urging for international investment into a full investigation.

“The result of my discoveries will be published in books, publications, and journals, but at this point it is too early to know what we are going to find’, said Professor Esperante. Once the scientific community knows about the existence of Noah’s Ark in Mount Ararat, we can make it available to the general public.”

View of the Ishak Palace and the Mount Ararat.

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In the Bible, the legend of Noah’s Ark appears in chapters six to nine of the Book of Genesis.

The chapters details how God, driven by the immorality and corruption of man, vows to send a vast cleansing flood.

Considering Noah to be the only honest man worth saving, God instructs him to create a vast ship, the ark – capable of saving himself, his family and two of each of the world’s animals.

When Noah completes his massive ship, God instructs ‘two of every sort’ of animals to the Ark Noah had built, before flood waters rise until all mountains on Earth are covered.

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Source: Express

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29-12-2017 om 22:27 geschreven door peter  

60-Million-Year-Old Meteor Strike Uncovered on Remote Isle of Skye

29-12-2017 om 21:56 geschreven door peter