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...
12-07-2018
Derbyshire’s most mysterious UFO sightings
Derbyshire’s most mysterious UFO sightings
Derbyshire has had its fair share of UFO sightings
SARA KOPECSNI
Today is World UFO Day, the day when people gather together to gaze at the sky for unidentified flying objects.
Derbyshire has a long history of mysterious sightings, with UFOs spotted in places like the village of Bonsall and Ladybower Dam in the Peak District.
A government file, released by the National Archives in 2014, revealed details of a 1994 sighting.
A member of the public reported a large orange light close to the Ladybower Dam.
Derbyshire Police Control’s record reads: “Incident occurred near the A47, Snake Road, north of Lady Bower Damm (sic). NAME BLANKED reported seeing a large orange light moving horizontally and dropping slowly until it went below a line of hills.
“A cloud of smoke was seen to billow out from the light and it then disappeared behind Kinder Scout. The light did not reappear.”
The police contacted Manchester Airport but they could not confirm any aircraft operating in the area - and the sighting remained unexplained.
The 1994 case is not an isolated incident, the Peak District has been described as a hotspot for UFO sightings for many years.
There have been reports of numerous sightings in the old village of Bonsall.
The most famous encounter occurred in October 2000 when Sharon Rowlands filmed a large mysterious flying object above her house.
She said she heard a strange noise from outside of her house one evening, and used a camcorder to film the huge circular object.
“It resembled a giant disc with a bite taken out of the bottom,” she told reporters.
“As it hovered over the woods, it seemed to expand and then get smaller again.
“We could see it pulsing as if it started up and then it just went it came really close at one stage and I thought it was going to land in the field. “You can hear me on the video say “Wow!”
The Derbyshire housewife reportedly sold the footage to a Hollywood producer for £20,000. Some UFO experts described the video as ‘one of the most important pieces of footage ever taken’ and the captured image was just one of the many sightings in the area.
Since 2000 there were 19 alleged UFOs spotted near Bonsall. A dog walker reported a ‘pink glow, vertically shaped like a shoe box’ and a woman witnessed a ‘ball of fire’ and ‘two big, bright lights’ on the sky.
On the night of 28 September, 2016, a number of people witnessed two flashing white lights in the Derbyshire sky. Fiona Jordan, of Houfton Road, Bolsover, said: “They were like little cloudy lights in the sky. They were dancing about.
“I had just let my dogs out before I went to bed. There was about four in total. There was one above my neighbour’s house and two or three over another neighbour’s house. “We stood outside for about 20 minutes watching them. It was about 10pm.
“My son who lives in Carr Vale also saw them about two or three nights ago.”
Similar lights were reported above Manchester, Liverpool and other parts of the UK.
With a clear and dry night ahead, today’s World UFO Day could give a good opportunity for stargazers to observe the Derbyshire sky and its many mysteries.
If you see anything unusual, let us know! To email us, click HERE
Declassified Files Reveal UK Feared Soviets, Chinese Would Acquire UFO Tech
Declassified Files Reveal UK Feared Soviets, Chinese Would Acquire UFO Tech
Once-classified documents being called “Britain’s X-Files” have revealed that the British Ministry of Defense spent half a century hunting UFOs, driven in some part out of concern that the Soviet Union or China had already gotten their hands on alien technology.
According to the cache of documents recently obtained by investigative researcher David Clarke, British intelligence services had two UFO desks between 1947 and 1997. One of the desks allowed people to phone in UFO sightings, while the other involved spies investigating UFO reports.
Earlier this month, Clarke, a research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, obtained copies of the Ministry of Defense's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) from the ministry following a freedom of information request.
According to the UAP report, which will be released to the public after being declassified, the Royal Air Force was "particularly interested in any novel technology… propulsion, stealth and any novel electromagnetic technologies," news.com.au reported July 2. The documents also reveal that the British government was interested in finding UFOs to use against their enemies during the Cold War, which took place between 1945 and 1990 between socialist countries allied to the Soviet Union and US-led Western powers.
"Even though they have been partly censored, they can't conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology — or what they coyly refer to as ‘novel weapon technology,'" Clark recently told the Sun.
"And the files reveal they were desperate to capture this technology — wherever it came from — before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first," he added.
In an email to Sputnik on July 2, Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the UK Ministry of Defense from 1985 to 2006, said that he has been working with his former employers to ensure that files from the British government's UFO project would be revealed to the public.
"I ran the British government's UFO project and I'm pleased that a number of 'UFOlogists' have acquired documents about my old job, using the UK's Freedom of Information Act. Actually, this is part of what's been a wider 10-year program to declassify and release these files, and I've been working with my former employers to try to ensure that the final files are made available to the public as soon as possible, as part of our wider commitment to open government and freedom of information," Pope told Sputnik Monday.
Pope also confirmed that the British government was aware of Russian and Chinese research into UFOs and was attempting to develop its own alien military technologies.
"I can confirm that we were aware of Russian and Chinese research into UFOs and into parapsychology more generally. We didn't take a definitive view on the true nature of the UFO phenomenon (we remained open-minded but noncommittal about the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation) and so we looked at the issue in terms of threats and opportunities. Even if UFOs were just exotic atmospheric plasma phenomena — as one of my colleagues in intelligence believed — we thought we might be able to derive some ‘novel military technologies' from this, and weaponization formed part of our speculation, particularly the idea of some sort of directed-energy weapon," Pope added.
"If such a thing was possible, self-evidently we didn't want the Russians or the Chinese getting there first. While I don't characterize any of this as being a race to acquire 'alien weapons', what we did was probably as strange as anything you can see in an episode of The X-Files," he noted.
According to UFO investigator John Tenney, national director of Mufon, the mutual UFO network, "one aspect, to which very little discussion has been made, with the UK's Ministry of Defence's the newly released documents concerning 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) exposes that while the major governments of the world, even to this day, continue to tell the general population that there is no reason to be affected by the UFO phenomena the governments themselves are indeed interested and actively engaged in a continuing process of research and discovery."
"For decades governments, officials and the media have tended to portray those interested in UFO phenomena as irrational, delusional and/or paranoid while at the same time spending millions of taxpayer dollars investigating the same phenomena and the implications which those phenomena may contain," Tenney told Sputnik via email Monday.
'Witnesses were very frightened:' Survey of 2017 Canadian UFO sightings released
'Witnesses were very frightened:' Survey of 2017 Canadian UFO sightings released
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Published:July 10, 2018
Updated:July 10, 2018 1:28 PM PDT
A group of attendees gather in a desert area for UFO sightings at the Annual International UFO Congress Convention Convention & Film Festival in Laughlin, Nev., on February 26, 2009.Jae C. Hong / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A survey released by Manitoba-based Ufology Research on Tuesday says there were 1,101 UFO sightings -- an average of three a day -- reported in Canada in 2017
Hovering lights in the sky. Pulsing lights. A humming noise.
Objects shaped like spheres, discs, triangles and boomerangs.
The witnesses include ordinary folk, airline crews, a particle physicist and an airport’s weather observer.
A survey released by Manitoba-based Ufology Research on Tuesday says there were 1,101 UFO sightings — an average of three a day — reported in Canada in 2017.
About eight per cent of those were deemed unexplainable.
“Many people continue to report unusual objects in the sky, and some of these objects do not have obvious explanations,” says the survey.
“Many witnesses are pilots, police and other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgment.”
Quebec had the most sightings at 518. Nunavut had the fewest at two.
Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton topped the cities with the most UFO reports.
Ufology Research takes data from all known sources, including UFO organizations, government files, direct witness reports, media and some internet posts. Its analysis takes into account location, types of encounters, reliability of witnesses and strangeness of sightings.
Some of the more bizarre unexplained reports from 2017 included:
Jan. 5, 6 p.m:
Two people in French River, Ont., observed multiple colours for about 10 minutes. Several coloured “orbs” approached the witnesses and hovered before moving away. “Witnesses were very frightened.”
March 15, 7:20 p.m:
Crews on two separate airliners 65 kilometres northeast of Enderby, B.C., reported a bright, white strobing light above them. Radar indicated no other known aircraft were in the vicinity.
July 11, 3:12 p.m:
One witness near Smithville, Ont., reported that a “shiny object with a raised dome moved slowly and silently over nearby trees … It seemed to hover, then ascended rapidly out of sight.”
Aug. 25, 9:50 a.m:
Two people in Stewiacke, N.S., watched a dark triangular object for about three minutes silhouetted against the sky. It had three white lights at the points, an orange-red light in the centre and two strobe lights. “The object flew over the witnesses, making a humming noise.”
Sept. 23, 8:30 p.m:
Ten people watched as a red, triangular object approached Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Que., from the northeast and came to a stop above them. It was stationary for several seconds before its red lights intensified, then flickered, before it moved away.
Ufology Research notes the number of reported UFO sightings remains high. The 2017 figure compares with 1,132 in 2016 and 1,265 in 2015.
The group suggests several explanations, among them more secret or classified military exercises, people unaware of natural objects in the sky and easier reporting of alleged sightings because of advancing online technology.
It also posits that perhaps “more UFOs are present and physically observable by witnesses.”
But the survey concludes that “there is no incontrovertible evidence that some UFO cases involved extraterrestrial contact.”
‘Closest ever to actual UFO’ Glowing orb races across sky in BIZARRE clip
‘Closest ever to actual UFO’ Glowing orb races across sky in BIZARRE clip
ASTONISHING footage of a glowing orb shooting across the sky in Bolivia has sent conspiracy theorists into meltdown, claiming it is the closest thing they’ve seen to an actual UFO.
Israeli unmanned spacecraft to land on Moon in 2019
Israeli unmanned spacecraft to land on Moon in 2019
Image copyrightEPAImage captionIsrael Aerospace Industries' Ofer Doron said the probe "showed the way for the rest of the world"
An Israeli non-profit organisation has announced plans to send the first privately-funded unmanned spacecraft to the Moon.
SpaceIL said the probe would be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in December on a Falcon 9 rocket built by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.
It is expected to land on the Moon in February 2019.
The spacecraft will plant an Israeli flag on the Moon's surface and carry out research into its magnetic field.
SpaceIL's project began as part of the Google Lunar XPrize, which offered $30m (£23m) in prizes to inspire people to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. However, the competition expired this March, with the $20m grand prize for landing on the Moon unclaimed.
Despite the setback, SpaceIL continued developing its spacecraft, which is being built in co-operation with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a state-owned firm.
So far it has spent about $88.5m, much of which it has received from the South African-born Israeli billionaire businessmen Morris Kahn.
Image copyrightSPACEI
Image captionThe probe will plant an Israeli flag, and then conduct research into the Moon's magnetic field
Ido Anteby, CEO of SpaceIL, told a news conference in the Israeli town of Yehud on Tuesday that its probe would be the smallest yet to land on the Moon.
It is about 2m (6.6ft) in diameter and 1.5m high, and will weigh only 585kg (1,300lb) at launch. More than 400kg of that weight is fuel that will be burnt off by the time it lands on the Moon.
The spacecraft is a "hopper", which will land and then take off again with the fuel left in its propulsion system, and then perform another landing 500m away, which was a condition of the XPrize.
If successful, SpaceIL's mission will make Israel the fourth country in the world to "soft land" a probe on the surface of the Moon - after the former Soviet Union, the United States and China.
Mr Kahn said he hoped the mission would create an "Apollo effect" for the next generation in Israel - a reference to the enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering and maths triggered by Neil Armstrong's Moon walk in 1969.
"This is a tremendous project," he added. "When the rocket is launched into space, we will all remember where we were when Israel landed on the Moon."
Ofer Doron, head of IAI's space division, said Israel was "going to show the way for the rest of the world" to send a spacecraft to the Moon at a reasonable cost.
Breaking News - Israeli spacecraft to land on Moon in 2019
Meteor Suddenly Changing Direction Filmed Over Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Meteor Suddenly Changing Direction Filmed Over Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
EXPLAINED?
As a group of people where enjoying some evening celebration an huge fireball made an appearance. This event took place on July the 7th 2018 around 10:35pm but what is strange is the fireball suddenly change direction before hitting the ocean
Fiery Object Filmed Moments Before Exploding Over An Californian Suburb. July 9, 2018
China Reaches The Moon Releasing Never-Before-Seen HD Photographs
China Reaches The Moon Releasing Never-Before-Seen HD Photographs
These HD images of the Moon's surface captured by China are incredible.
China has captured images of the Moon in HD that have never before been seen thanks to the Chang`e 3 lander.
China Has One of the Most Advanced Lunar Landers
The Chinese lander captured thousands of HD resolution images after finding a moon rock that has not been seen before. China developed one of the most advanced lunar landers to ever land on the surface of the Moon, giving Earth a look at the surface as never before.
In 2013, the Lunar Mission landed on a region of the Moon known as Mare Imbrium. This was a part of the Moon in which it was thought water might have existed. While this is a feat for China, they come in third in regards to making a soft landing on the Moon’s surface, with the United States and the Soviet Union being ahead.
The images had been captured during 2013 but were not released by the National SpaceAdministration in China until 2015. Western media did not get them, as China does not release them until around 18 months later.
Photos among 45 Gigabyte of Data
Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Society took many weeks looking through the 45 gigabytes of data, then going ahead and putting it all into a package that could easily be downloaded to ensure that everyone interested could see them. Lakdawalla said, “When it comes to data sharing from China, the situation is pretty good, ” says Lakdawalla, who notes that the images’ formats mirror those used by NASA and the European Space Agency. “It would probably be much easier if I could read the language.”
There is no doubt the images have stunned everyone. Meanwhile, scientists have used them to gain a better understanding of the geology of the Moon’s surface. China even revealed they discovered a moon rock that surprisingly neither the United States nor Soviet Union found during their previous missions to the Moon.
China Is a Major Player in Space Power Revealed Analyst
A Defense Group Inc. analyst from the University of California San Diego, Kevin Pollpeter, said, “China is trying to reach the top tier and show that they’re a major space power.” He went on to say, “They’re also contributing real knowledge about the moon that we haven’t been able to get before.”
China is forging ahead with space exploration; they have revealed they are planning manned missions to the Moon at some point in the future. If so, they would expand lunar exploration like never before. The US Planetary Society reposted images due to the fact the CNSA website is very difficult to navigate around along with it being in Chinese. Posting the photos ensures people from around the world are able to access them and view them.
Scientists have been working for years on plans to colonize Mars. But what is the point in constructing interesting Martian habitats, growing food or digging tunnels into Mars if our most basic and immediate need of survival is not taken care of?
Astronauts can’t breathe on Mars unless they wear a spacesuit. However, a new study published in the journal Science offers some hope of making Mars breathable for humans. Researchers believe that a species of sea-dwelling bacteria, known as cyanobacteria, may provide a steady supply of oxygen for humans on the red planet.
This family of bacteria is photosynthetic — it can take in carbon dioxide and energy from the sun and discharge oxygen. What makes cyanobacteria particularly well-suited for a job on Mars is the ability to conduct photosynthesis and generate oxygen even in low-light and other harsh environmental conditions.
Elmars Krausz, Australian National University emeritus professor, said, “Photosynthesis could theoretically be harnessed with these types of organisms to create air for humans to breathe on Mars. Low-light adapted organisms, such as the cyanobacteria we’ve been studying, can grow under rocks and potentially survive the harsh conditions on the red planet.”
Krausz continued, “This might sound like science fiction, but space agencies and private companies around the world are actively trying to turn this aspiration into reality in the not-too-distant future.
This Bacteria Could Help Humans Breathe on Mars
Cyanobacteria may just be humanity's key to breathing on Mars in the future. The bacteria can produce oxygen, but more importantly it can survive in extreme environments.
Bacteria that can grow in space could help humans breathe on Mars
It is a staple of space and spy movies: the handheld laser gun that can target from a long distance. This devastating science fiction weapon was just a fantasy — until now.
The Chinese military has built a terrifying high-tech weapon that is capable of setting fire to targets and clothing from 800 meters (about a half-mile) away. Dubbed the ZKZM-500, it fires a destructive laser beam that can cause “pain beyond endurance.”
The ZKZM-500 weighs about 3 kilograms (6.6 lbs.) with a caliber of 15 millimeters and is powered by rechargeable lithium batteries that can handle over 1,000 laser bursts that last around two seconds each.
It is completely silent and the beam it produces is invisible. When the gun is fired on a target, there is no way for the target to know where the attack is coming from.
The rifle can burn through a person’s clothes and skin. If the unfortunate target happens to be wearing flammable clothing, they could go up in flames. As this technology is very sensitive and could possibly be misused, it will be restricted to China’s military and police only.
ZKZM-500 is reportedly ready for mass production for China’s military. The production costs are set to be 100,000 yuan (US$15,000/ £11,000) per piece.
The UN Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, signs by over 100 nations, prohibits the use of weapons that can cause permanent blindness. Because of this, the ZKZM-500 is a “non-lethal” weapon. The laser can’t kill a person with a single shot, but if he or she is hit with it enough times, it would start to burn a hole in their body.
“The weapon is designed to do things such as setting fire to illegal banners at a protest or setting fire to the hair or clothing of a protester,” said the general manager of ZKZM Laser, the tech company that built the prototype. “It is not designed explicitly for killing like a gun that uses bullets and cannot cause the ‘instant carbonisation’ of human skin and tissues.”
Another researcher said the weapon would “burn through clothes in a split second … If the fabric is flammable, the whole person will be set on fire.”
A Chinese government document cited by the Post says protest leaders would lose “the rhythms of their speech and powers of persuasion” as a result of getting hit with the ZKZM-500.
In addition to non-lethal protest applications, the ZKZM-500 is also suited for covert military operations and hostage situations, the Post claims.
The ZKZM-500 is allegedly ready to be mass produced. The first unit to receive them will be anti-terror squads in the People’s Armed Police in China.
Skepticism
While this all sounds intriguing, some are skeptical of the story.
“There’s just no way that a laser powered by a lithium-ion battery that a person could carry would be capable of producing the kind of heat described at point blank range, let alone at 800 meters,” TechCrunch‘s Devin Coldewey said. “That’s because of attenuation. Lasers, unlike bullets, scatter as they progress, making them weaker and weaker. Attenuation is non-trivial at anything beyond, say, a few dozen meters. By the time you get out to 800, the air and water the beam has traveled through enough to reduce it a fraction of its original power.”
“I’m not saying there will never be laser weapons. But I do feel confident in saying that this prototype, ostensibly ready for mass production and deployment among China’s anti-terrorist forces, is bunk,” Coldewey added. “As much as I enjoy the idea of laser rifles, the idea of one that weighs a handful of pounds and fires hundreds of instantly skin-searing shots is just plain infeasible today.”
In response to the skepticism, the South China Morning Postput up a video from ZKZM Laser allegedly showing the ZKZM-500 hitting targets on a rooftop. Check it out above.
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Crop Circle de Martinsell Hill du 7 juillet 2018
Crop Circle de Martinsell Hill du 7 juillet 2018
Martinsell Hill, Nr Wooton Rivers, Wiltshire, Angleterre
Le pentagramme fractal récursif, accompagné d'un "champ infini d'étoiles" (Voir interprétations et Vidéo après).
Deux photos de culture récentes de Hackpen Hill le 23 juin 2018 ou de Martinsell Hill le 7 juillet 2018, s'emboîtent comme deux pièces d'un même "puzzle". Le 23 juin, à Hackpen Hill, nous avons pu voir une "étoile simple" tout en regardant à travers un "vortex spatio-temporel". Peut-être que cette nouvelle photo de culture à Martinsell Hill le 8 juillet décrit ce que c'est que de voyager à travers un vortex spatio-temporel, et ainsi voir une " infinité fractale d'étoiles " ?
Vidéo du Crop Circle de Martinsell Hill du 7 juillet 2018
La Porte des Étoiles du Pentagramme Fractal-Dimensionnel!
Une géométrie pentagonale complexe apparaît dans cet agroglyphe annoncé le 7 juillet, l'alignement Soleil-Sirius, et l'imagerie aérienne autour confirme les anciennes symbologies des Dogons pour cette étoile, ainsi que le symbole du pentagramme dans l'Égypte Ancienne. Le fond clair du cercle peut être considéré comme le Soleil, et ce pentagramme fractal, Sirius, est aligné avec le Soleil. C'est une géométrie fractale, et fractale signifie Dimensions, c'est-à-dire que chaque niveau fractal de la géométrie 5 est un niveau dimensionnel, c'est-à-dire une Porte des Étoiles, ou un voyage entre 2 Étoiles ou Systèmes à travers des niveaux ou des plans dimensionnels superposés représentés par la géométrie fractale. Si je ne me trompe pas dans les comptes, j'ai remarqué quatre tailles de pentagrammes : la Matrice (niveau le plus élevé) 1, le deuxième pentagramme (clair au centre) niveau 2, et 10 pentagrammes (5 + 5) niveau 3, et 16 pentagrammes (5 + 11) niveau 4 en taille.
En lisant le niveau 3 (5 + 5), je me souviens que d'autres agroglyphes représentaient deux pentagrammes opposés et unis, comme la formation d'un vortex Portail des Étoile pour d'autres dimensions (comme le Crop Circle à Jubilee Plantation, en 2011), représentant l'union dans l'espace-temps de deux étoiles lointaines. La somme de 5 + 11 = 16, des plus petits pentagrammes, niveau 4, nous mènent à l'Arcane 16, qui s'appelle la Maison de Dieu, et c'est la Tour, la Montagne, la Pyramide et l'Escalier d'accès au ciel. Une autre direction pour la Porte des Étoiles. Non seulement la géométrie, mais le message des nombres est également important dans cet agroglyphe. Et il illustre un voyage à l'intérieur d'un vortex, avec la fuite des étoiles dans le mouvement de l'hyperespace représenté par tous ces pentagrammes. Mais intégré dans le tissu de l'Espace-Temps qui semble se briser devant cette singularité. En cette saison 2018 nous avons eu d'autres modèles avec des douelles et des trous de ver indiqués. Ce serait un autre modèle, en utilisant l'analogie avec l'alignement Soleil-Sirius d'aujourd'hui, le 7 juillet 2018, comme annoncé précédemment !
Martinsell Hill CROP CIRCLE 7.7.2018 4k60p
Martinsell Hill CROP CIRCLE 7.7.2018 4k60p SUPERLONG EDIT
The Skylab Orbital Workshop experienced a failure that led to a replacement shield to protect against solar heating.
Credit: NASA.
Skylab was the first space station operated by the United States. It spent six years orbiting Earth until its decaying orbit caused it to re-enter the atmosphere. It scattered debris over the Indian Ocean and sparsely settled areas of Western Australia.
Three successive three-man crews lived on board the station for 28, 56 and 84 days in orbit — an American record that stood until the shuttle era. Astronauts aboard the station conducted 270 experiments in biomedical and life sciences, solar astronomy, Earth observations and materials processing. Among the most important were investigations on the astronauts' physiological responses to long-duration space flight.
Meet Skylab, America's First Space Station
Apollo's shadow
Various NASA centers had kicked around ideas for a space station for years before Skylab launched. However, the agency was very focused on the space race and moonshots that dominated public consciousness in the 1960s.
As Apollo began to wind down in the early 1970s, NASA began an Apollo Applications Program to fly unused hardware from the moon program. One idea, proposed by famous Apollo rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, would be to build a space station out of an unused rocket stage. The design evolved over the years as NASA struggled with reduced funding.
Components
Skylab consisted of four major components: the Orbital Workshop (OWS), the Airlock Module (AM), the Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) and the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM). The Apollo command and service module that transported crews to Skylab remained attached to the station throughout a crew's occupancy.
The OWS, which served as the main working, living and sleeping compartment for the crews, was converted from the upper stage of a Saturn rocket. It contained exercise equipment, a galley, and many of the scientific experiments, in particular for the life sciences studies. Two large solar arrays on the OWS provided 12.4 kilowatts of power to the station.
The AM enabled astronauts to conduct spacewalks, and the MDA included a prime and backup docking port for the Apollo spacecraft. The second docking port enabled a rescue capability. A second Apollo capsule carrying two astronauts could come to the aid of the resident crew if their spacecraft became disabled, and all five astronauts returning to Earth in the new spacecraft. The MDA also housed the Earth Resources Experiment Package.
The ATM contained telescopes for solar observations and four solar arrays for additional power. Once in orbit, the station weighed 170,000 lbs., by far the heaviest spacecraft to date. [Photos: Skylab, the 1st U.S. Space Station]
Rocky start
Skylab launched for space on May 14, 1973. However, a micrometeoroid shield, which was supposed to shelter Skylab from debris and also act as a thermal blanket, accidentally opened about 63 seconds into the launch. The shield and a solar array tore off, and another solar array was damaged. "When the meteoroid shield ripped loose, it disturbed the mounting of workshop solar array wing No. 2 and caused it to partially deploy," NASA wrote. "The exhaust plume of the second stage retro-rockets impacted the partially deployed solar array and literally blew it into space."
The space station experienced communications problems with the antenna as a result of the incident, but that was the least of NASA's worries. Without the protection from the micrometeoroid shield, temperatures inside the station rose to intolerable levels. Also, the remaining solar arrays were only generating 25 watts of power, according to NASA. Flight controllers faced a dilemma. If they oriented the station toward the sun to maximize power generation, temperatures rose too high for the crew and equipment. But an attitude that minimized the heat significantly reduced power generation.
Workers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center scrambled to stabilize the station. They eventually decided to put the station in an attitude that would minimize overheating.
Meanwhile, the launch of the first crew — Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, pilot Paul J. Weitz and science pilot Joseph P. Kerwin — was delayed as the astronauts began training for the new mission to make the station habitable. Launching 10 days later, on May 25, the crew's first challenge, just hours after launch, was to attempt to deploy the solar array during a spacewalk. However, initial attempts met with no luck as a metal strip holding it down refused to give way.
Crewmembers emerged from an expected communications blackout in a foul mood, according to an official NASA account of the mission. "The astronauts were venting their frustration with four-letter words, while Houston repeatedly tried to remind them that communication had resumed," NASA wrote.
Realizing the tools they had with them that day would not work, Conrad abandoned the exercise and focused on trying to dock his spacecraft with the station. Unfortunately, the docking mechanism failed and the crew had to depressurize the spacecraft and bypass electrical connections to achieve it.
In subsequent days, Conrad's crew erected a sun shade, successfully deployed the stuck array, and began operational work aboard the station. While the incident was frustrating for the teams involved, it also demonstrated that it was possible to fix a badly damaged space station while it is in orbit.
Cutaway view of Skylab
Credit: NASA
The psychology of astronauts
With the worst of the mechanical problems behind, NASA and the three Skylab crews focused on matters pertaining to long-duration spaceflight. Everything from the crew's exercise time to nutritional requirements to scheduling came under scrutiny and debate.
Skylab's second crew — led by Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean, with pilot Jack R. Lousma and scientist Owen K. Garriott — impressed NASA with its productivity. The crew finished its assigned tasks much faster than expected, and clamored for more. While the pace was impressive, it set within NASA some false expectations for how much a group of astronauts could accomplish.
Things weren't always that smooth between the ground and space. Skylab's third crew in particular complained repeatedly about being overloaded with tasks and superhuman expectations. Some have said the crew did a mutiny in orbit, although others characterize it more as a temporary refusal to do more work.
Whatever the situation, the unhappiness prompted a discussion between the ground and space where the two sides brought their mutual concerns to the table. Things never got that bad again between the crew and the ground controllers, but none of the astronauts — Commander Gerald P. Carr, pilot William R. Pogue and scientist Edward R. Gibson — flew in space again.
Carr later said he regretted having waited for several weeks before airing his concerns. "We swallowed a lot of problems for a lot of days because we were reluctant to admit publicly that we were not getting things done right," he said in a NASA account of Skylab. "That's ridiculous, [but] that's human behavior."
In between adapting to a longer mission, crews focused on the science. A solar telescope mounted on the station allowed the astronauts to observe solar flares in action, although an early crewmember joked that he was left wishing for "supernormal" flares. One crew also observed Comet Kohoutek as it swung closest to Earth.
Skylab's last crew left in February 1974, leaving the station in orbit. NASA had planned to bring more crews into orbit, but financial concerns and the run-up to the shuttle program turned attention elsewhere. An effort to send the shuttle there also fell through.
The space station's orbit decayed faster than expected due to intense solar activity heating up Earth's atmosphere. NASA, faced with the inevitable, adjusted the station as best as it could so it wouldn't hit populated areas upon re-entering on July 11, 1979. A math mistake led to pieces falling in Australia, but fortunately nobody was hurt.
Skylab's legacy
While Skylab's end marked a temporary stop to NASA's work on long-duration spaceflight, the agency resumed long flights during the shuttle-Mir program in the 1990s in partnership with Russia and its space station, Mir. That work laid part of the groundwork for the 16-nation cooperation on the International Space Station. In 2015-16, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikail Kornienko spent nearly a year on the orbiting complex. Most crews tend to remain there for five or six months, however.
Unlike during the days of Skylab, astronauts today have regular private sessions with an assigned doctor where they can air concerns about workload, family life or anything else that might be bothering them – without repercussions and without the fear that the public might be listening in. The doctor can then search for solutions among managers on the ground, freeing up time for crews to work in orbit.
Astronauts also follow a strict exercise regimen, receiving about two hours a day to run on a treadmill, use an exercise bike or lift using a machine that simulates weight-lifting. Medical studies have shown that this sort of exercise reduces bone loss, muscle atrophy and other problems in spaceflight.
NASA is planning on constructing a lunar space station in the 2020s, which is called the Deep Space Gateway. This would allow astronauts to do long-duration stays at a location further from Earth – valuable practice for colonizing Mars, while still being close enough to quickly turn around and go home if a problem arises. It is unclear who else will participate in this venture, but NASA is seeking international collaborators.
In 2018, a documentary film "Searching for Skylab" was fully funded on Kickstarter. The filmmakers argued that Skylab is not a well-remembered mission in the public eye. In the film, Skylab astronauts and ground workers explain the work that went into the missions and the first U.S. space station's legacy.
Scientists To Attempt To Make Matter Out Of Pure Light
Scientists have found out how to turn pure light into matter for the very first time – after 80 years of trying.
The idea was first dreamt up in 1934 by two physicists, but they never expected anybody to be able to physically demonstrate their prediction.
But researchers at Imperial College London say they have found a way to convert light into matter by using new equipment in the form of an extremely powerful high-intensity laser, capable of speeding up electrons to just below the speed of light.
Researchers say they have found a way to convert light into matter by using new equipment in the form of an extremely powerful laser capable of speeding up electrons to just below the speed of light
The 80-year-old theory involved smashing together two particles of light, or photons, to create an electron and a positron - subatomic particles found in all materials.
Although scientists at the university believe they can create matter, at this stage the end result would not be visible to the naked eye.
Professor Steve Rose, from imperial College, said: 'What was so surprising to us was the discovery of how we can create matter directly from light using the technology that we have today in the UK.
‘As we are theorists we are now talking to others who can use our ideas to undertake this landmark experiment.'
The experiment would involve blasting electrons, sped up by lasers to just below the speed of light, into a slab of gold to create a beam of photons a billion times more energetic than visible light.
The next stage would need a tiny gold can called a hohlraum, German for 'empty room'.
Scientists would fire a high-energy laser at the inner surface of this to create a thermal radiation field, generating light similar to that emitted by stars.
Although scientists at Imperial College London, pictured, believe they can create matter, it would only be in the form of tiny subatomic particles, not visible to the naked eye
They would then direct the photon beam from the first stage of the experiment through the centre of the can, causing the photons from the two sources to collide and form electrons and positrons.
It would then be possible to detect the formation of the electrons and positrons when they exited the can – in their microscopic state.
Oliver Pike, who is currently completing his PhD in plasma physics at Imperial College London, said: 'Although the theory is conceptually simple, it has been very difficult to verify experimentally. The experimental design we propose can be carried out with relative ease and with existing technology.
'Within a few hours of looking for applications of hohlraums outside their traditional role in fusion energy research, we were astonished to find they provided the perfect conditions for creating a photon collider.
'The race to carry out and complete the experiment is on.'
The research published in Nature Photonics shows how the original theory, put forward by US physicists, Gregory Breit and John Wheeler in the 1930s, could be proven in practice.
This 'photon-photon collider', which would convert light directly into matter using technology that is already available, would be a new type of high-energy physics experiment.
The experiment would recreate a process that was important in the first 100 seconds of the universe and that is also seen in gamma ray bursts, which are the biggest explosions in the universe and one of physics' greatest unsolved mysteries.
Scientists Discover a Way to Turn Light Into Matter
Une « soucoupe volante » s’est-elle abîmée près d’Aztec au Nouveau-Mexique en 1948, huit mois après Roswell ? C’est la thèse que défendent deux enquêteurs américains, qui ont épluché le dossier pendant plus de deux décennies… Un dossier troublant !
La scène se passe le 25 mars 1948, au Nouveau-Mexique, non loin de la zone des Four Corners (quatre coins), qui sépare quatre États du Sud-Ouest américain : Nouveau-Mexique, Arizona, Utah, Colorado. Un peu plus à l’est se trouve la ville d’Aztec ; la région est assez désertique et le décor se compose des fameuses mesas, le nom espagnol qui désigne les plateaux rocheux d’altitude où quelques arbres ont réussi à s’enraciner au fil du temps. Peu avant l’aube, le policier Manuel Sandoval roule sur l’autoroute après sa nuit de service passée à surveiller le pipeline de la Southern Union Gas. Soudain, il voit passer au-dessus de lui un objet en forme de disque, de grande taille, qui semble en difficulté et louvoie vers le nord-ouest, en direction d’Aztec et de la zone des Four Corners. Juste après, l’éleveur de chèvres Valentin Archuleta, qui s’affaire à ses tâches matinales, entend un grand bruit et lève la tête pour voir vraisemblablement le même objet, très bas, apparemment hors de contrôle, qui se dirige vers une mesa de l’autre côté de la route. L’objet érafle le bord de la mesa en provoquant une gerbe d’étincelles et poursuit sa route vers le nord. Ancien militaire, Archuleta n’hésite pas une seconde : il se rend à la supérette proche de son ranch, où se trouve un téléphone et finit par joindre la base aérienne de Kirtland à Albuquerque. Son interlocuteur montre un grand intérêt et demande où se dirigeait l’engin : « Vers Hart Canyon », répond le fermier.
Un disque de trente mètres de diamètre
Un troisième témoin direct est Doug Noland, un ouvrier de 19 ans qui travaille pour une compagnie pétrolière. La région compte, en effet, plusieurs zones d’exploitation. Alors qu’il passe prendre son collègue Bill Ferguson, celui-ci lui dit qu’un feu a été annoncé près d’une zone de réservoirs de pétrole et qu’ils doivent s’y rendre immédiatement. En arrivant, d’autres ouvriers se trouvent déjà sur place. Ils leur expliquent que le feu de broussailles semble confiné au sommet de la mesas et que quelque chose s’est passé là-haut. Les deux comparses montent la colline et tombent sur le vaisseau, un disque d’une trentaine de mètres de diamètre ! Il est légèrement couché sur le côté, en raison d’une protubérance sur la partie inférieure, et doté d’une espèce de capsule à son sommet. « Le vaisseau était lisse, sans joints, rivets, boulons ni marques de soudure, explique Doug Noland.Il était comme en aluminium brossé, semblait très lisse, mais ce n’était pas de l’aluminium hautement poli comme un avion. » En s’approchant, les ouvriers découvrent que cette surface brillante est transparente quand on regarde de très près, comme les lunettes qui deviendront populaires quelques années plus tard. Alors que le soleil se lève à peine, les témoins distinguent deux petits corps inanimés à l’intérieur de l’habitacle, « penchés au-dessus d’une espèce de tableau de bord ». Alors qu’un autre couple de ranchers arrive sur place, les personnes présentes entendent un hélicoptère qui survole la zone. Le policier Manuel Sandoval arrive au même moment. Quand Doug l’interroge sur l’attitude à tenir, Sandoval lui dit des choses très significatives. Il explique qu’il a suivi la route de l’objet après l’avoir vu passer au-dessus de lui, et que des résidents de la ville de Cuba ont signalé plusieurs observations d’ovnis dans les semaines précédentes. Lui-même et l’un de ses collègues, Andy Andrews, ont été témoins de plusieurs observations.
Les "leçons" de Roswell
Il faut préciser que tout ceci se passe huit mois après le crash supposé d’un autre objet à Roswell, à quelques centaines de kilomètres au sud-est, le 7 juillet 1947. L’affaire a fait grand bruit, puisque la presse avait parlé d’un crash d’ovni, avant que l’Air Force ne se rattrape aux branches en affirmant qu’il s’agissait finalement d’un ballon météo. Ainsi, avant de juger ridicule le fait qu’un second objet ait pu s’abîmer si peu de temps après le cas de Roswell, il faut envisager le contexte d’une région à l’époque surveillée de près par d’éventuels visiteurs.
Les témoins présents vont être débriefés et soumis à un serment du secret.
Cela expliquerait les nombreuses observations réalisées durant cette période, d’autant plus que ce secteur abritait la zone d’essais des nouveaux appareils et équipements de l’Air Force. Pour le physicien nucléaire Stanton Friedman, connu pour avoir remis en lumière le dossier Roswell dans les années 1980, « il est incontestable qu’un engin extra-terrestre fut récupéré par des agents du gouvernement à proximité d’Aztec, en mars 1948, et qu’il fut transporté en vue d’un examen classifié. »
En effet, à partir du moment où l’hélicoptère a été vu sur site, tout va aller très vite, comme si les militaires avaient justement tiré les leçons de « l’incident » Roswell et, cette fois, mis en œuvre une procédure extrêmement rigoureuse. Une fois sur place, ils vont trouver le moyen d’ouvrir l’habitacle en actionnant une commande à l’aide d’une perche introduite par un hublot brisé. Ils en extraient seize corps qui semblent brûlés, dont la plupart se trouvent sur un pont inférieur du vaisseau. Les témoins présents vont être débriefés et soumis à un serment du secret. L’objet, qui est très léger, va ensuite être démantelé et transporté en plusieurs pièces vraisemblablement jusqu’à la base de Los Alamos, située à 250 kilomètres.
L'enquête ultra-fouillée des Ramsey
Franck Scully, auteur de Behind the Flying Saucers.
L’affaire va cependant rapidement fuiter, par l’intermédiaire d’un des scientifiques impliqués dans le travail d’étude de l’objet, en vue d’en comprendre la technologie, un processus appelé rétro-ingénierie. Ce scientifique approche en 1949 un journaliste et auteur respecté d’Hollywood, Frank Scully (dont le nom a inspiré à Chris Carter le personnage féminin de la série The X-Files). Il faut ici donner la parole à l’un de ceux par qui l’histoire refait aujourd’hui surface. En effet, après avoir repris l’enquête menée à l’époque par Frank Scully, les ufologues Scott Ramsey et son épouse Suzanne ont publié récemment un ouvrage de synthèse sur l’affaire (voir encadré). Scott Ramsey explique que ce scientifique « voulait que Scully révèle l’histoire et lui a fait croire que le gouvernement allait le faire officiellement, ce qui était bien sûr faux. Je pense que les scientifiques impliqués voulaient s’assurer, au sortir de la guerre, que la technologie récupérée ne puisse servir qu’à des fins pacifiques. Le livre de Scully est sorti en septembre 1950 et a immédiatement été un succès de librairie ; il a vendu plus de 64000 exemplaires en plusieurs langues. Ce que nous avons fait, c’est reprendre la recherche de Scully en la joignant à la nôtre et en l’épluchant comme un oignon. Scully a notamment révélé des aspects du Manhattan Project développé par l’OSRD et qui étaient top secret à l’époque. Il parle d’un groupe de huit ou neuf scientifiques désignés sous la seule appellation de "Dr Gee", qui avaient travaillé au sein de l’OSRD sur le projet Manhattan. Nous avons pu avoir accès à certains documents déclassifiés qui confirment ce qui figure dans le livre de Scully. Il était impossible que Scully ait eu accès à ces documents à l’époque, même s’il était connu. »
Le pasteur fond en larmes
La suite de l’affaire consiste en une entreprise de décrédibilisation du travail de Scully par les autorités, en s’appuyant sur un autre journaliste, J.P. Cahn, qui s’est estimé spolié parce qu’il voulait acheter l’histoire pour son journal, le San Francisco Chronicle. Ainsi, tout va être fait pour que l’ensemble du dossier passe pour un canular.
Dernière photo connue de J.P. Cahn peu de temps avant sa mort.
Cependant, les Ramsey ont retrouvé plusieurs témoins directs et indirects qui lui donnent une véritable consistance, même si, compte tenu du caractère extraordinaire de l’enquête, le doute ne pourra être entièrement levé. Parmi les témoins, outre ceux déjà évoqués, on peut citer le cas du pasteur Solon Brown, qui s’est rendu sur le site du crash/atterrissage parce qu’il a remarqué l’agitation inhabituelle ce matin-là, alors qu’il rentrait à sa paroisse principale dans le Colorado, après une nuit passée à Aztec. Il a proposé son aide et un policier lui a confirmé que « des prières » ne seraient pas inutiles, car il y avait des corps... Après avoir fait son office, il était tellement choqué qu’il n’a pu s’empêcher de contacter un proche, diacre de sa paroisse, et lui a raconté ce qu’il avait vu en dépit de son serment du secret. Le fils du pasteur et celui du diacre, qui étaient présents, ont été retrouvés par les époux Ramsey et ont confirmé le récit du pasteur. Celui-ci avait notamment éclaté en sanglots et confié au diacre : « J’essaie de relever cette paroisse. Pourquoi inventerais-je une telle histoire ? Je vous jure que je dis la vérité.»
Les autres témoignages complètent le scénario possible de l’événement et évoquent les modalités de transport de l’objet démantelé, le « nettoyage » du site, ou encore la constitution de « fiches » de désinformation pour tous les témoins directs (c’est-à-dire la création d’un agenda alternatif prouvant qu’ils n’étaient pas là). Même si les faits relatés dans l’enquête des époux Ramsey, aidés par Frank Thayer, sont extraordinaires et semblent, à ce titre, incroyables, le caractère extrêmement minutieux de leur travail ne laisse pas d’interroger. D’ailleurs, ils ne prétendent pas avoir épuisé le dossier et affirment que leur recherche se poursuit. Toutefois, conclut Scott Ramsey : « J’espère que le lecteur comprend que les auteurs savent avec certitude que l’incident d’Aztec est un événement réel, et que la récupération qui a eu lieu à Hart Canyon aurait dû, depuis longtemps, être portée à la connaissance du public américain».Et pas seulement lui, bien sûr.
Une enquête fouillée, implacable
Pourquoi l’affaire Aztec refait-elle surface aujourd’hui ? Parce que deux enquêteurs tenaces, le couple Scott et Suzanne Ramsey, ont consacré plus de deux décennies à rassembler les pièces du puzzle et ont récemment publié un livre, aidés de Frank Thayer, ancien professeur d’université. Traduit en français à l’excellente initiative des éditions Atlantes, Aztec 1948 : un crash d’ovni au Nouveau-Mexique est le fruit de cette enquête minutieuse, qui fait dire à de bons connaisseurs de l’ufologie comme Thibaut Canuti que « Scott et Suzanne Ramsey sont des ufologues comme il ne s'en fait plus guère et qui ont finalement tout de parfaits enquêteurs criminels ». Et de saluer « un travail fouillé, implacable et pour le moins troublant des époux Ramsey.»
Le crash d'Aztec partie 1 avec Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey et Franck Thayer PhD
Le crash d'Aztec partie 2 avec Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey et Franck Thayer PhD
Le crash d'Aztec partie 3 avec Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey et Franck Thayer PhD
The European Southern Observatory just published a breathtaking image of a nearby star nursery.
Star cluster RCW 38. Image credits ESO / K. Muzic.
Earlier today, we’ve talked about the first colors complex-ish life created — it was a story of algae, fossils, and pink. Moving on from this daring display by early life, however, I thought we’d seize the occasion to look at what colors accompany birth in the other direction — up in space.
Our eyes can’t peer that far out, but, luckily for us, the European Southern Observatory(ESO) can. Using the HWAK-I (High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager) infrared imager mounted on the Very Large Telescope (VTL) in Chile, the ESO captured some spectacular shots of stars being born in the Vela constellation.
Ashes to ashes, dust to stars
RCW 38 in the constellation of Vela (The Sails). The map shows most of the stars visible to the unaided eye under good conditions. Image credits ESO / IAU / Sky & Telescope.
The image depicts the star cluster RCW 38 as seen in infrared. ESO chose this bit of the electromagnetic spectrum for their observations since infrared can see ‘through’ the clouds shrowding star nurseries such as RCW 38. The cluster itself contains hundreds of young, brightly hot, and quite massive stars. Even at the relatively short distance of 5500 light-years away, however, their (visible) light can’t peer through the vast bodies of dust surrounding the cluster.
The central area, seen as a bright blue region, houses numerous very young stars as well as a few protostars — ‘stars’ that are still forming. Observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed the presence of over 800 X-ray emitting young stellar objects in the cluster. You won’t be surprised to hear, then, that the area is drenched in radiation, making local gas clouds glow vividly. Cooler bodies of dust languishing in front of the cluster carry more subdued, darker hues of red and orange. The end result, a ‘colorful celestial landscape’ as ESO puts it, is quite the striking interplay of color and light.
This image was captured as part of a series of tests — a process known as science verification — for HAWK-I and GRAAL (the ground layer adaptive optics module of the VLT). These tests are performed to ensure newly-commisioned instruments work as intended and include a set of test observations that verify and demonstrate the capabilities of the new instrument.
Star cluster RCW 38 in the visible spectrum. Image credits ESO – Digitized Sky Survey 2 / Davide De Martin.
Previous images of this region — snapped in the visible spectrum — show a very different sight. Optical images appear almost devoid of stars in comparison with those taken in the infrared spectrum due to dust obscuring the view.
Peering through dense bodies such as dust clouds or nebulae is actually one of the HWAK-I’s main roles. The device also projects four laser beams out into the night sky to use as artificial reference stars — used to correct for any atmospheric turbulence, which can bend incoming light — to increase the quality of the final image.
The science of superstition – and why people believe in the unbelievable
The science of superstition – and why people believe in the unbelievable
Credit: Pixabay.
The number 13, black cats, breaking mirrors, or walking under ladders, may all be things you actively avoid – if you’re anything like the 25% of people in the US who consider themselves superstitious.
Even if you don’t consider yourself a particularly superstitious person, you probably say “bless you” when someone sneezes, just in case the devil should decide to steal their soul – as our ancestors thought possible during a sneeze.
The science of superstition and why people believe in the unbelievable - fox news
Superstition also explains why many buildings do not have a 13th floor – preferring to label it 14, 14A 12B or M (the 13th letter of the alphabet) on elevator button panels because of concerns about superstitious tenants. Indeed, 13% of people in one survey indicated that staying on the 13th floor of a hotel would bother them – and 9% said they would ask for a different room.
On top of this, some airlines such as Air France and Lufthansa, do not have a 13th row. Lufthansa also has no 17th row – because in some countries – such as Italy and Brazil – the typical unlucky number is 17 and not 13.
Although there is no single definition of superstition, it generally means a belief in supernatural forces – such as fate – the desire to influence unpredictable factors and a need to resolve uncertainty. In this way then, individual beliefs and experiences drive superstitions, which explains why they are generally irrational and often defy current scientific wisdom.
Psychologists who have investigated what role superstitions play, have found that they derive from the assumption that a connection exists between co-occurring, non-related events. For instance, the notion that charms promote good luck, or protect you from bad luck.
For many people, engaging with superstitious behaviours provides a sense of control and reduces anxiety – which is why levels of superstition increase at times of stress and angst. This is particularly the case during times of economic crisis and social uncertainty – notably wars and conflicts. Indeed, Researchers have observed how in Germany between 1918 and 1940 measures of economic threat correlated directly with measures of superstition.
2. Touch wood
Superstitious beliefs have been shown to help promote a positive mental attitude. Although they can lead to irrational decisions, such as trusting in the merits of good luck and destiny rather than sound decision making.
Carrying charms, wearing certain clothes, visiting places associated with good fortune, preferring specific colours and using particular numbers are all elements of superstition. And although these behaviours and actions can appear trivial, for some people, they can often affect choices made in the real world.
Superstitions can also give rise to the notion that objects and places are cursed. Such as the Annabelle the Doll – who featured in The Conjuring and two other movies – and is said to be inhabited by the spirit of a dead girl. A more traditional illustration is the Curse of the Pharaohs, which is said to be cast upon any person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person – especially a pharaoh.
Numbers themselves can also often be associated with curses. For example, the figure 666 in a licence plate is often featured in stories of misfortune. The most famous case was the numberplate “ARK 666Y”, which is believed to have caused mysterious vehicle fires and “bad vibes” for passengers.
3. Sporting superstitions
Superstition is also highly prevalent within sport – especially in highly competitive situations. Four out of five professional athletes report engaging with at least one superstitious behaviour prior to performance. Within sport, superstitions have been shown to reduce tension and provide a sense of control over unpredictable, chance factors.
Superstitions practices tend to vary across sports, but there are similarities. Within football, gymnastics and athletics, for example, competitors reported praying for success, checking appearance in mirror and dressing well to feel better prepared. Players and athletes also engage with personalised actions and behaviours – such as wearing lucky clothes, kit and charms.
Famous sportspeople often display superstitious behaviours. Notably, basketball legend Michael Jordan concealed his lucky North Carolina shorts under his Chicago Bulls team kit. Similarly, the tennis legend Björn Bork, reportedly wore the same brand of shirt when preparing for Wimbledon.
Rafael Nadal has an array of rituals that he performs each time he plays. These include the manner in which he places his water bottles and taking freezing cold showers. Nadal believes these rituals help him to find focus, flow and perform well.
4. Walking under ladders
What all this shows is that superstitions can provide reassurance and can help to reduce anxiety in some people. But while this may well be true, research has shown that actions associated with superstitions can also become self-reinforcing – in that the behaviour develops into a habit and failure to perform the ritual can actually result in anxiety.
This is even though the actual outcome of an event or situation is still dependent on known factors – rather than unknown supernatural forces. A notion consistent with the often quoted maxim, “the harder you work (practice) the luckier you get”.
So the next time you break a mirror, see a black cat or encounter the number 13 – don’t worry too much about “bad luck”, as it’s most likely just a trick of the mind.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETRuimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft bekendgemaakt dat haar ruimtetuig Cassini een vreemde waarneming heeft gedaan vlak voor het vorig jaar neerstortte op Saturnus. Cassini detecteerde plasmagolven die van de planeet naar haar maan Enceladus gingen. De NASA zette een opname van die plasmagolven nu om in een geluidsfragment en die klinkt griezelig buitenaards.
Cassini deed de waarneming op 2 september 2017, twee weken voor het ruimtetuig de atmosfeer van Saturnus in gestuurd werd en verdween. Nieuw onderzoek van de data van die laatste missie toonde een sterke uitstoot van plasmagolven van de planeet in de richting van zijn maan Enceladus. Een uitstoot die deed denken aan een elektrisch circuit, waarover energie heen en weer ging.
Onderzoekers slaagden er nu in om een registratie van die plasmagolven om te zetten in een audiobestand, een beetje zoals een radio elektromagnetische golven omzet in muziek. Vervolgens werd de tijd samengedrukt van 16 minuten tot 28,5 seconden en de frequentie van de golven verlaagd met een factor vijf. Het resultaat was buitenwerelds.
“Enceladus is een kleine generator die rond Saturnus draait en we weten dat die een constante energiebron is”, aldus Ali Sulaiman, een planetair wetenschapper van de universiteit van Iowa die bij het onderzoek betrokken was en er twee papers over schreef die gepubliceerd werden in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Geophysical Research Letters. “We hebben nu ontdekt dat Saturnus antwoordt door signalen te sturen in de vorm van plasmagolven, door een circuit van lijnen in een magnetisch veld die de planeet verbindt met zijn maan honderdduizenden kilometers verderop.”
De interactie tussen Saturnus en haar maan verschilt fundamenteel van die tussen onze Aarde en haar maan. Enceladus is ondergedompeld in het magnetisch veld van Saturnus en geologisch actief. De maan stoot pluimen van waterdamp uit die geïoniseerd worden en de omgeving rond Saturnus vullen. Eenzelfde interactie is te zien tussen Saturnus en haar ringen, die ook erg dynamisch zijn. Tussen onze planeet en haar maan is er geen dergelijke interactie.
The Angry Red Planet (10/10) Movie CLIP - Parting Martian Warning (1959) HD
For decades, Hollywood filmmakers have been romantically drawn to the mysteries of Mars, compelled to explore the majestic sweep of its rust-hued surface and to unearth its ancient subterranean secrets. Hollywood’s love for Mars, though, is unrequited. Indeed, it seems that the potential inhabitants of the planet (be they microbes or, as has been suggested by remote viewers, technologically advanced underground base-dwelling humanoids) are aggressively anti-Hollywood and have actively been working their malicious mojo against Tinseltown’s Mars movies.
Okay, you’re probably thinking now about Matt Damon… yes, his 2015 collaboration with Ridley Scott, The Martian, was a hit, critically and commercially. Or perhaps you’re thinking of Jake Gyllenhaal, who co-starred in the 2017 sci-fi thriller Life, which used the Red Planet as a narrative springboard to moderate financial success. But these are anomalies. Historically, Hollywood’s Mars movies have bombed at the box-office.
During the Cold War, the only Mars movie that could claim any measure of success was War of the Worlds (1953). Other productions of the era fell afoul of the curse. Movies such as Rocketship XM (1950), Flight to Mars (1951), Red Planet Mars(1952), Invaders from Mars (1953),The Angry Red Planet (1959) and The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963) received, at best, mixed reviews from critics and generated little or no profit. But the Mars movie-bomb conveyor belt was only just slipping into gear. Here’s a quick chronological glance at some of Hollywood’s most memorably disastrous visits to our planetary neighbor:
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964):
Despite its silly title, this movie is a surprisingly sober and dramatically engaging affair. It was also billed as being “scientifically accurate” based on technical advice that the production received from NASA (though actually it’s about as scientifically accurate as the Transformers franchise). There were high hopes for the movie, and a sequel—Robinson Crusoe in the Invisible Galaxy—was planned but quickly scrapped after the first movie took a nose dive at the box-office.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964):
The title says it all. It is currently ranked number 90 in the IMDB’s bottom 100 movies of all time.
Mars Attacks! (1996):
Inspired by the cult trading card series of the same name, Tim Burton’s manic B-movie parody—described by the director as “kind of a Mad magazine version of Independence Day”—had a production budget of $80 million, on top of which Warner Bros. forked out $220 million on marketing. The movie grossed just over 100 million worldwide and introduced Burton to the notion of box-office failure (something he has rarely experienced since).
My Favorite Martian (1999):
a big screen version of the popular 1960s sitcom of the same name in which a Martian crash-lands on Earth and disguises himself in human form. This Disney flick grossed just $37 million against a budget of $65 million and was slammed by critics. It has a great opening scene though (see video below).
Mission to Mars (2000):
When the first manned mission to Mars meets with disaster in the year 2020, the ensuing rescue mission learns that humans are descended from an ancient and long-since-departed race of Martians. Disney (again) and director Brian De Palma had high hopes for this $100 million epic, but the best it could do at the worldwide box-office was to recoup its productions costs plus a paltry $11 million.
Red Planet (2000):
Released in the same year as Mission to Mars, Warner Bros.’ bid to lift the Martian Curse fared no better than Disney’s. The story follows a team of astronauts who travel to Mars in search of solutions to Earth’s environmental degradation and eventually come up against some nasty Martian insect thingies. Other stuff happens too, but none of it good. It cost $80 million to produce and grossed just $33 million worldwide, making it one of the world’s biggest ever box-office bombs.
Ghosts of Mars (2001):
In which human colonists on the Red Planet become possessed by angry Martian spectres. Another big rusty nail in the coffin of John Carpenter’s career, the movie had a $28 million budget and grossed just $14 million worldwide. Scathing critics’ reviews didn’t help.
Mars Needs Moms (2011):
undeterred by the back-to-back failures of My Favorite Martian (1999) and Mission to Mars(2000), Disney chose to return to the Red Planet with this family-friendly offering about emotionally stunted Martians who abduct Earth moms in order to extract their maternal instincts for the benefit of their own babies. The moms’ natural know-how is then uploaded into thousands of automated robots which are tasked with nurturing the Martian young. It’s as weird as it sounds, but actually not half bad—the visuals, at least, are jaw-dropping. Disney poured a staggering $175 million into the movie, of which it lost $136 million (ouch!). It is one of the biggest box-office bomb of all time.
John Carter (2012):
A lavish, big-screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series of science fiction adventure novels. John Carter chronicles the exploits of the eponymous hero, a 19th Century American Civil War veteran who, upon being mysteriously transported to Mars, discovers it to be a thriving and diverse world populated by 9 ft tall, green, four-armed warriors called Tharks, as well as more human-looking red Martians. Disney (yet again) invested almost $300 million in the movie, placing great faith in its director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E), as well as its much-loved source material, and hopes were high for a franchise. Not to be. It tanked hard, failing even to recoup its production budget.
Last Days on Mars (2013):
On the first human mission to Mars, a crew member discovers fossil evidence of bacterial life. When contact is lost with him, the rest of the crew investigates and learns that there is still life on the planet. The movie was savaged by the critics and went on to become one of the biggest flops in cinematic history. Budget: $10,600,000. Worldwide Box Office: $261,364 (yes, you read that correctly).
The Space Between Us (2017):
Starring Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield and Carla Gugino, the movie follows the first human born on Mars as he travels to Earth for the first time, experiencing the wonders of the planet through fresh eyes. Yet another bomb, it failed to recoup even half of its $30 million production budget.
Considering the high failure rate of Hollywood’s Mars missions, it’s a wonder that filmmakers continue to gamble on the Red Planet at all, and yet, they do. According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Krasinski (A Quiet Place) is set to produce Life on Mars. The project will adapt a short story by Cecil Castellucci titled We Have Always Lived on Mars that centers on a woman who is among a handful of descendants of a Martian colony long-abandoned by Earth following a cataclysm. The woman one day finds she can breathe the air on Mars, upending her world and that of her fellow colonists.
Will John Krasinski succeed in lifting the Martian Curse, or, like so many other filmmakers before him, will he end up biting red dust? Watch this space… (pun intended).
Earth Awakens while using his telescope has recorded a fleet of UFOs leaving the Moon.
The footage shows the fleet of UFOs in the original color as well as in different colors and zoomed in.
It seems that the movements of the objects are not identical to birds, like flapping wings, suggesting that these objects are indeed unidentified flying objects that leave the moon.
Moscow Declares UFO Sighting As Rocket Test, Can We Trust Them? UFO Sighting News.
Moscow Declares UFO Sighting As Rocket Test, Can We Trust Them? UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 2018 Location of sighting: Sub Arctic, Arkhangelsk region Russia told the news media that this UFO sighting was a rocket launch, but honestly how much do you trust the Russians? They are not known for their honesty and trustworthiness...so I call bullshit on this being a rocket. No rocket is going to be aimed directly above the capital Moscow! This is their pride and joy, they live and die to protect this city and would never shoot a rocket over it. This is a UFO that the Russians had made contact with in order to create alien trade agreements similar to the ones the USAF has with a few alien species. Scott C. Waring
News states:
Stunning footage shows the galactic missile Soyuz-2.1.B bursting through the air after being fired from the country's sub-Arctic Arkhangelsk region. Social media users were convinced that they were being visited by extraterrestrials. The rocket, which was carrying a satellite, was fired just before 1am Moscow time today. Military officials confirmed the satellite was safely delivered to orbit as part of Russia’s own global satellite navigation system.
Must Watch! Earth Alien holographic simulation? UFO Sighting News.
Must Watch! Earth Alien holographic simulation? UFO Sighting News.
Are you living in a holographic simulation? Recently, the idea that we may be living in a giant video game, or as it’s sometimes called, the Simulation Hypothesis, has gotten a lot of attention because of prominent figures like Elon Musk who have openly discussed the idea. As Virtual Reality technology has gotten more sophisticated, we are starting to contemplate virtual worlds like that of the omni-present Oasis in Ready Player One, soon to be a blockbuster movie directed by Stephen Spielberg.
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