23-11-2018 om 20:45 geschreven door peter  

DISCLOSURE LIJKT NU TOCH DICHTERBIJ TE KOMEN ( VIDEO )

Het is een tijd waarin dingen razendsnel veranderen en waar steeds meer dingen "normaal" worden die we tot voor kort niet voor mogelijk hielden, zoals de fenomenaal snelle ontwikkeling van robots. 

Als robots onderdeel kunnen uitmaken van onze samenleving, dan is het ook niet zo'n grote stap meer om te geloven dat er andere wezens bestaan van buiten onze aarde. 

Wanneer je bij veel mensen diep in hun hart kijkt, dan zullen ze best geloven dat er buiten ons mensen om ook vast meer is in het enorme heelal en dat buitenaardse wezens helemaal niet zo'n gekke gedachte is.

Alleen hebben heel veel van die mensen er nog grote moeite mee om dat publiekelijk uit te spreken, want het is ongeveer de standaard geworden dat iemand flauwe grappen hoort te maken als ze het woord buitenaards horen.

En dat is best vreemd, want nergens wordt zo lacherig over gedaan als buitenaards leven. Mensen kunnen daar maar heel moeilijk mee omgaan en dus hoort het zo dat er grappig op moet worden gereageerd. Daarmee geven ze dan ook aan dat ze zelf natuurlijk niet in zoiets geloven.

Voor de "normale" wereld bestaat buitenaards leven dan ook nog steeds niet, maar voor de machthebbers achter de schermen is het een ander verhaal. Zij beschikken niet alleen over contacten met buitenaardsen, maar ook over hun techniek. Deze vorm van de buitenaardsen overgenomen techniek heet "reverse engineering" en vormt de basis voor wat wij noemen de geheime ruimtevloot van de Bilderbergers. 

Het bestaan van een dergelijke vloot is ook aangetoond door hacker Gary McKinnon die wist in te breken in systemen van de Amerikaanse overheid en daar lijsten met namen aantrof van buitenaardse officieren.

Al met al betekent dit dat het voor ons gewone mensen heel verwarrend is, omdat we nooit met zekerheid weten of waargenomen UFO's nu echt buitenaards zijn of onderdeel vormen van de geheime ruimtevloot. Beiden bestaan en dat maakt het zo moeilijk om ze precies te identificeren.

Om het nog een beetje gecompliceerder te maken weten we van de voormalig Nazi en later Amerikaanse raketwetenschapper Wernher von Braun, dat de machthebbers achter de schermen op een gegeven moment een nep buitenaardse invasie zullen uitvoeren, om er zo voor te zorgen dat de mensheid zich unaniem wil verenigen in een wereldverbond/-regering om zo de dreigingen van buiten de aarde het hoofd te kunnen bieden.

Voorzetten voor dit spektakel dat nog moet plaatsvinden werden destijds al gemaakt door de voormalige Amerikaanse president Ronald Reagan.

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23-11-2018 om 20:36 geschreven door peter  

AARDVERANDERINGEN IN OVERDRIVE ( VIDEO )

Dat de aarde een proces doormaakt van steeds heftiger wordende aardveranderingen, daarover bestaat geen enkele twijfel. 

Met een steeds kouder wordende atmosfeer begint het nu toch eindelijk bij meer mensen door te dringen dat er misschien sprake is van een enorme klimaatoplichtingszwendel die ze veel geld gaat kosten. 

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23-11-2018 om 20:29 geschreven door peter  

IS HET EEN GEEST, ORB OF TOCH IETS ANDERS ?

Met onze menselijke zintuigen kunnen we maar een beperkt aantal zaken waarnemen, maar dat er veel meer is dan dat wij zien, is een (wetenschappelijk) feit. 

Alleen is het niet altijd even duidelijk wat er zich dan in die voor ons onzichtbare dimensies bevindt, zoals bij de onverklaarbare verschijnselen die zich voor doen in een werkplaats in Texas.

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23-11-2018 om 20:21 geschreven door peter  

Two airplanes chasing a UFO near Zucchelli Station, Antarctica, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 23, 2018

Location of sighting: Near Zuccheli Station, Antarctica

 

Two planes chasing a UFO and being pursued by another larger UFO disk...all on Google map. The satellite that took the photo of these craft has no agenda, nothing to hide, its just a machine doing its job. Therefore the satellite cannot create fake UFOs or airplanes but can only report what it sees. 

 

This is an awesome find on Google map. The planes are flying low to the ground to escape radar and so is the UFO as if they were together watching out for on another. I think this smaller UFO ahead of the planes is alien tech in the hands of the USAF and is being used to train new pilots to handle the alien tech disks that the Air Force either made, or traded for. 

Scott C. Waring

23-11-2018 om 18:04 geschreven door peter  

Archaeologists at a site in what's now Jordan have found evidence of a cosmic calamity

BY BRUCE BOWER 

 

ANCIENT WIPEOUT  Preliminary evidence indicates that a low-altitude meteor explosion around 3,700 years ago destroyed cities, villages and farmland north of the Dead Sea (shown in the background above) rendering the region uninhabitable for 600 to 700 years.

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23-11-2018 om 01:41 geschreven door peter  

The nearly silent aircraft weighs about as much as a Chihuahua

BY LAUREL HAMERS 

ION POWER  A new aircraft (illustrated) is propelled forward by streams of charged molecules moving among wires.

H. XU ET AL/NATURE 2018

A newly designed airplane prototype does away with noisy propellers and turbines.

Instead, it’s powered by ionic wind: charged molecules, or ions, flowing in one direction and pushing the plane in the other. That setup makes the aircraft nearly silent. Such stealth planes could be useful for monitoring environmental conditions or capturing aerial imagery without disturbing natural habitats below.

The aircraft is the first of its kind to be propelled in this way, researchers report in the Nov. 22 Nature. In 10 indoor test flights the small plane, which weighs about as much as a Chihuahua, traveled 40 to 45 meters for almost 10 seconds at a steady height, even gaining about half a meter of altitude over the course of a flight.

Most planes rely on spinning parts to move forward. In some, an engine turns a propeller that pushes the plane forward. Or a turbine sucks in air with a spinning fan, and then shoots out jets of gas that propel the plane forward.

Ionic wind is instead generated by a high-voltage electric field around a positively charged wire, called an emitter. The electricity, often supplied by batteries, makes electrons in the air collide with atoms and molecules, which then release other electrons. That creates a swarm of positively charged air molecules around the emitter, which are drawn to a negatively charged wire. The movement of molecules between the two wires, the ionic wind, can push a plane forward. The current design uses four sets of these wires.

FLIGHT PATH Scientists tested a new aircraft, propelled by ionic wind, at MIT’s indoor track. This time-lapse photo shows that the plane can fly at a level height for tens of meters.

STEVEN BARRETT

Moving ions have helped other things to fly through the air, such as tiny airborne robots. But conventional wisdom said that using the approach to move something through the air as big as an airplane wasn’t possible, because adding enough battery power to propel a plane this way would make it too heavy to stay aloft. (The ion thrusters that propel spacecraft through the vacuum of space work in a very different way and aren’t functional in air.) Attempts to build ion-propelled aircraft in the 1960s weren’t very successful.

MIT aeronautics researcher Steven Barrett thought differently. With the right aircraft design and light enough batteries, flight might be possible, his initial calculations suggested. So he and his team used mathematical equations to optimize various features of the airplane — its shape, materials, power supply — and to predict how each version would fly. Then the researchers built prototypes of promising designs and tested the planes at the MIT indoor track, launching them via a bungee system.

“The models and the reality of construction don’t always match up perfectly,” Barrett says, so finding the right design took a lot of tries. But in the new study, he and his collaborators report success: 10 flights of the aircraft, which has a 5-meter wingspan and weighs just under 2.5 kilograms.

Barrett’s team isn’t the only one who thought the ionic wind method might take off. Based on calculations done in his lab, “we were confident that this could be done,” says Franck Plouraboue of the Toulouse Fluid Mechanics Institute in France, who wasn’t part of the research. “Here they've done it — which is fantastic!”

It’s an example of distributed electric propulsion, says Plouraboue — spreading out the thrust-generating parts of the plane, instead of having one centralized source. That’s a hot area for aircraft research right now. NASA’s X-57 Maxwell plane, for example, bears 14 battery-operated motors along its wings. Increasing the number of propellers makes the plane go farther on the same amount of energy, says Plouraboue, but also increases the drag. With ionic wind propulsion, increasing the number of wires doesn’t increase drag very much.

The plane still needs some upgrades before it’s ready for the real world: Its longest flight was only 12 seconds. And while the aircraft can maintain steady flight for a short time once launched, it can’t actually get off the ground using ionic wind.  

Even with improvements, ion-propelled aircraft won’t find their niche as passenger planes, predicts Daniel Drew, an aerodynamics researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the work. (Drew has designed miniature flying bots that fly using ionic propulsion.) It’s probably not feasible to scale up to something the size of a 747 — there are efficiency trade-offs as planes get bigger, he says. But down the road, the approach might be useful for small, uncrewed planes or drones.

Citations

• H. Xu et al. Flight of an aeroplane with solid-state propulsion. Nature. Vol. 563, November 22, 2018, p. 532. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0707-9.

Further Reading

• N. Akpan. Flying animals can teach drones a thing or two. Science News, Vol. 18, February 7, 2015, p. 18.
• M. Temming. A new palm-sized drone is mini, but mighty. Science News Online, October 24, 2018.

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23-11-2018 om 01:33 geschreven door peter  

World’s first ion-drive airplane can fly without any moving parts

 BY TIBI PUIU

Researchers at MIT have achieved the first sustained flight powered by ionic wind. Their small unmanned aircraft prototype has no moving parts and creates lift by ionizing the atmosphere around it in an electric field, instead of pushing the air with a propeller or turbine.

Illustration of the world’s first ionic-wind-powered aircraft.

Credit: MIT.

In order to move air around it, the world’s first solid-state aircraft generates an ionic wind. By applying a high voltage to a pair of electrodes, electrons are stripped off nearby air molecules, and the ionized oxygen and nitrogen molecules collide with neutral air molecules as they move from one electrode to the other. It’s this bulk movement of atmospheric molecules — the ionic wind, flowing in one direction and pushing the aircraft in the opposite direction — that enabled MIT’s drone-sized aircraft to stay airborne.

The ion-drive aircraft’s design is fairly simple: a thin wire acts as the leading edge, where nitrogen and oxygen get ionized by 20,000 volts of electricity. Behind the wire is a thin airfoil covered by the second electrode, which is charged with negative 20,000 volts, creating a difference of 40,000 volts. The winged body, a 40 kilovolts custom-built battery, and an electronic control system round off the rest of the setup.

Ion drives have been used in spacecraft for decades, but getting them to work in Earth’s gravity had not been possible until now. It’s thanks to advances in electronics and batteries that researchers were able to design an ion-drive aircraft capable of generating practical amounts of thrust.

There is a series of inherent trade-offs due to physical limitations that scientists had had to constantly joggle. For instance, an ion-drive generates the most thrust with a lower electric field strength. However, if the field’s strength drops below a threshold, air molecules won’t get ionized in the first place. Then, if the mass of the aircraft is too great, you need more power, which implies bigger and heavier batteries — at some point, the thrust is just not large enough to carry the airplane’s weight.

Timelapse image of the craft in flight in a gym.

Credit: MIT.

After tweaking various thruster designs, the researchers finally found a version that is capable of sustaining flight. Their a 5-meter wingspan,  2.5-kilogram aircraft made 10 flights, flying up to 9 seconds over a distance of 45 meters at a speed of 5 meters per second. It had to be launched from a mechanical bungee system in order to give it a brief time to power up. A computer algorithm optimizes the electric field constraints so that maximum thrust is achieved during flight.

According to the MIT researchers, the ion-wind thruster generated 5 newtons for each kilowatt of power, which is on par with the output of jet engines. However, the overall efficiency of the system is just 2.5%m which is well below a conventional aircraft that pushes the air mechanically.

This is just a proof of concept, and the researchers are confident that they can come up with a much more efficient system. Their current design was limited by the fact that they had to fly inside an indoor track. By fitting larger wings, the authors say that they could up the efficiency of the system to 5% without changing the setup. Different designs for the electrode and better power conversion electronics could further boost efficiency.

An ion-drive might never be capable of generating enough thrust to carry human passengers or large cargo like conventional aircraft can. To move that much mass, you’d need a huge power input, which is not feasible with current battery technology. However, there are various applications where its low thrust density would be well suited to. A silent aircraft with no moving parts may be advantageous as an urban monitoring vehicle or for transporting small packages, thus avoiding the annoying noise pollution generated by mechanically propelled drones.

• The ionic-wind-powered drone was described in the journal Nature.

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23-11-2018 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

ESO

Le message d'Arecibo a été envoyé il y a 44 ans (photo d'illustration : les lasers du Très Grand Télescope de l'ESO)

SCIENCE - Il y a 44 ans, le 16 novembre 1974, le plus puissant radiotélescope du monde, Arecibo, envoyait un message dans l'espace. Le but était surtout de démontrer les capacités époustouflantes de cet objet, resté le plus grand de sa catégorie jusqu'en 2016. Mais ce message d'Arecibo, auquel Google rend hommage ce vendredi, "constitue également une tentative de contacter une intelligence extraterrestre".

Et on ne parle pas d'une idée loufoque d'illuminés. Les créateurs de ce signal radio sont Carl Sagan et Frank Drake. Le premier, célèbre astronome américain, est l'un des fondateurs de l'exobiologie, l'étude scientifique du développement hypothétique de la vie dans l'Univers. Le second, astronome américain également, a cofondé le projet de recherche SETI, qui vise à détecter une civilisation extraterrestre grâce à nos connaissances scientifiques. Il a également mis au point une équation tentant d'estimer le nombre de ces civilisations dans notre galaxie.

Evidemment, le message d'Arecibo n'a pas eu de réponse. Il faut dire qu'il n'en attendait pas tellement: il était dirigé vers l'Amas d'Hercule, à 22.200 années-lumière de la Terre. Il n'a aujourd'hui parcouru que 0,20% de son chemin. Mais si quelqu'un le captait, après l'avoir déchiffré, il aurait découvert de nombreuses informations sur l'Homme, la Terre et notre connaissance de l'Univers. Une sorte de preuve, de bouteille spatiale jetée dans l'océan du vide intersidéral.

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Le paradoxe de Fermi

De manière générale, nous n'avons aucune preuve scientifique de l'existence d'une vie biologique ailleurs que sur la Terre. Et encore moins d'une vie intelligente. Pourtant, cette question de la vie extraterrestre obsède beaucoup de monde, y compris de très nombreux astronomes.

Pourquoi cette question nous obsède tant? Il y a bien sûr la quête de connaissances. Mais c'est surtout qu'elle nous interpelle. Pourquoi serions-nous uniques dans l'énormité de l'Univers, ou même plus simplement de notre galaxie?

Depuis quelques décennies, nous avons repéré des milliers d'exoplanètes, des planètes en dehors de notre système solaire. Mais c'est un grain de sable. Si on extrapole, on se rend compte de l'immensité qui nous entoure. Rien que dans notre galaxie, les chiffres donnent le tournis. Les estimations tablent sur au moins 100 milliards d'étoiles. Même avec l'estimation la plus basse, on peut imaginer la présence, au moins, de milliards de planètes dans la galaxie. Sans même parler des plus de 100 autres milliards de galaxies.

Alors bien sûr, les conditions pour que la vie émerge sont difficiles à comprendre et sont certainement rares. Pour autant, vu le nombre de planètes, l'âge de la galaxie et la vitesse à laquelle une espèce intelligente peut se développer technologiquement, on peut s'étonner que la galaxie n'ait pas été colonisée depuis bien longtemps.

Ce raisonnement, de nombreux scientifiques l'ont fait. Notamment l'un d'eux, Enrico Fermi, l'un des créateurs de la bombe atomique. Lors d'un déjeuner dans les années 50 avec des collègues physicien, la question de la vie extraterrestre arrive sur la table. Le chercheur fait alors remarquer ceci: vu l'immensité et l'âge de l'univers, si une civilisation extraterrestre existait, elle aurait certainement eu le temps de s'étendre sur des milliers de mondes et de nous rendre visite. Alors, où sont-ils?

C'est le "paradoxe de Fermi". Depuis des milliers de personnes ont essayé de trouver une réponse à ce problème.

Toujours plus d'hypothèses

Des théories, il en existe tellement qu'un physicien, Stephen Webb, a publié un ouvrage évoquant 75 solutions au paradoxe de Fermi, regroupées dans 3 catégories: ils sont là (mais nous ne le savons pas), ils existent mais n'ont pas communiqué avec nous ou encore ils n'existent pas.

C'est aussi pour réfléchir à ce paradoxe que Frank Drake a créé sa fameuse équation. Aujourd'hui encore, par pure expérience de pensée ou via des découvertes astronomiques récentes, de nombreux physiciens font régulièrement des hypothèses. La plus pessimiste étant que la vie a existé ailleurs, s'est développée, est devenue intelligente... mais a fini par s'auto-détruire, soit par la guerre, soit par l'exploitation des ressources. Un scénario qu'on peut effectivement imaginer si l'humanité n'arrive pas à endiguer le réchauffement climatique et sa course à la croissance.

Mais toutes les hypothèses ne sont pas pessimistes. Certains affirment avoir calculé que la vie est tout simplement très, très rare dans l'univers et que nous sommes peut-être les premiers êtres intelligents de la galaxie. D'autres se demandent si les extraterrestres ne seraient pas en hibernation, ne nous observeraient pas comme dans un zoo, s'ils n'ont pas existé puis se sont éteints... Ou encore s'ils n'ont pas tenté de nous contacter mais que le temps que le message arrive, il y en a pour des siècles.

Evidemment, ces hypothèses ne restent que des hypothèses. Mais ces expériences de pensées philosophiques ne sont pas dénuées d'intérêt, loin de là, car elles permettent d'imaginer des schémas, de dénicher des inconnues à tester dans la pratique.

Car justement, ce dont la science a besoin pour avancer, c'est de faits, de preuves tangibles. C'est le but du SETI, qui observe l'espace sur différentes longueurs d'ondes en espérant entendre un signal étranger, une sorte de bouteille à la mer similaire à notre message d'Arecibo.

Ecouter ou émettre, encore et encore

ESO

D'ailleurs, en septembre, un grand télescope français s'est lui aussi lancé dans la recherche de signaux extraterrestres. Pour autant, les chances de trouver un signal sont objectivement extrêmement basses, et ce pour plusieurs raisons. La principale, c'est que nous n'observons qu'une partie infime du ciel. A un moment donné bien défini, pendant lequel une hypothétique civilisation aurait émis un signal il y a très longtemps. Le temps que le message, qui voyage à la vitesse de la lumière, traverse l'immensité qui nous sépare des autres systèmes stellaires. Même pour les plus proches, cela se compte en années.

Il y a aussi la question de savoir ce que nous observons. Il y a tellement de moyens de communiquer, de fréquences radios... Et même si nous cherchons le bon type de signal, encore faut-il que nous écoutions dans la bonne direction et au bon moment. Au vu de la taille et de l'âge de la galaxie, c'est un peu comme rechercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin. Mais cela peut aussi donner de l'optimisme: si nous n'avons rien trouvé, c'est peut-être tout simplement car nous ne cherchons pas assez.

En parallèle, certains chercheurs veulent aller plus loin. Ne pas écouter, mais émettre. Comme le message d'Arecibo, mais en faisant tout pour être entendu. En 2016, un message a été envoyé vers l'étoile polaire Polaris, située à 450 années-lumière. Ce qui veut dire que même si des extraterrestres vivaient autour de cette étoile, l'onde électromagnétique qui contient le message ne les atteindrait qu'en 2466. Cette capsule temporelle était surtout une sorte de testament et de message d'alerte destinée à la Terre, selon l'auteur du projet, l'artiste écossais Paul Quast.

ESO

D'autres, comme les astronomes du METI (une organisation nommée en référence au SETI, mais qui veut émettre plutôt qu'écouter), veulent envoyer de nombreux messages et espèrent être écoutés. Un premier a été envoyé en novembre 2017, à destination de GJ 273b, une exoplanète située à 12,4 années-lumière de la Terre. La porte à côté, à l'échelle de la galaxie. Un message simple, répété pendant trois jours. Un tutorial mathématique et scientifique utilisant une "langue cosmique" imaginée par un mathématicien pour communiquer de la manière la plus abstraite possible, en faisant fi de nos références culturelles.

Une initiative qui a créé la polémique, même si les chances d'obtenir une réponse sont, au mieux, infinitésimales. Déjà, des chercheurs ont critiqué l'idée même des ces bouteilles à la mer, estimant que les chances de réponses sont trop faibles face aux coûts. Mais certains scientifiques vont plus loin dans la désapprobation.

Un débat qui peut se résumer ainsi: si nous envoyons des messages dans l'espace, nous signalons notre présence à de potentielles civilisations avancées, sans rien savoir d'elles. Et si des aliens à la technologie avancée envahissaient notre monde en remontant à l'origine du message? C'est un peu ce que redoutait Stephen Hawking.

L'astrobiologiste Dirk Schulze-Makuch affirme lui que les conséquences de ce genre de message sont si grandes que l'envoi d'un tel signal devrait faire l'objet d'un débat citoyen et ne pas être simplement décidé par "un petit groupe de scientifiques".

Tant de débats sans aucune preuve, cela peut sembler étrange de la part de scientifiques. Mais quand on pense à toutes les implications scientifiques et philosophiques qu'aurait la découverte d'une preuve de l'existence d'une vie intelligente extraterrestre, en fait-on finalement assez?

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23-11-2018 om 00:19 geschreven door peter  

The rover will cache rocks for a future mission to bring back to Earth

BY  LISA GROSSMAN 

A RIVER RAN THROUGH IT  The next NASA Mars rover will land at Jezero crater, a former lake bed that includes the remains of an ancient river delta (seen above in this composite image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).

The next NASA Mars rover will hunt for signs of ancient life in what used to be a river delta, the agency announced on November 19.

The rover is expected to launch in July 2020 and to land on Mars around February 18, 2021. It will seek out signs of past life in the sediments and sands of Jezero crater, which was once home to a 250-meter-deep lake and a river delta that flowed into the lake.

“This is a major attraction from our point of view for a habitable environment,” said Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley of Caltech in a news conference discussing the site. “A delta is extremely good at preserving biosignatures.” Any evidence of life that may once have existed in the lake water, or even evidence that came from the river’s headwaters and flowed downstream, could be preserved in the rocks that are there today.

The 2020 rover’s design is similar to that of the Curiosity rover, which has been exploring a different ancient crater lake, Gale crater, since 2012 (SN: 5/2/15, p. 24). But where Curiosity has an onboard chemistry lab for studying the rocks and minerals in its crater, Mars 2020 will have a specialized backpack for sample storage. A future mission will pick up the cached samples and return them to Earth for more detailed study, possibly sometime in the 2030s.

“The samples will come back to the best labs — not the best labs we have today, but the best er, which has been exploring a different ancient crater lake, Gale crater, since 2012 (SN: 5/2/15, p. 24). But where Curiosity has an onboard chemistry lab for studying the rocks and minerals in its crater, Mars 2020 will have a specialized backpack for sample storage. A future mission will pick up the cached samples and return them to Earth for more detailed study, possibly sometime in the 2030s.

“The samples will come back to the best labs — not the best labs we have today, but the best labs we will have then,” said science mission directorate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Mars 2020 will also use a souped-up version of Curiosity’s landing system called Sky Crane, in which a hovering platform lowers the rover onto the ground with a cable. Mars 2020’s version will include a navigation system that will help it avoid hazards on the ground, like cliff faces and boulders. labs we will have then,” said science mission directorate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Mars 2020 will also use a souped-up version of Curiosity’s landing system called Sky Crane, in which a hovering platform lowers the rover onto the ground with a cable. Mars 2020’s version will include a navigation system that will help it avoid hazards on the ground, like cliff faces and boulders.

Jezero crater is within striking distance of another site on scientists’ wish list. That region, called Midway, is just 28 kilometers away from Jezero and contains some of the most ancient rocks on Mars. At the final landing site selection workshop in October, scientists floated the idea of visiting both sites in one mission, a feat seen as ambitious but achievable. But a decision on that will have to wait until after the rover is safely on Mars, Farley said.

Citations

• NASA announces landing site for Mars 2020 rover. November 19, 2018

Further Reading

• L. Grossman. How to keep humans from ruining the search for life on Mars. Science News. Vol. 193, January 20, 2018, p. 22.
• A. Yeager. More hints of Martian hot springs may hold promise for Mars 2020 mission. Science News Online, July 26, 2017.
• A. Witze. The Martian diaries. Science News. Vol. 187, May 2, 2015, p. 24.

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22-11-2018 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

Ireland UFO: New theories emerge on what baffled pilots

Dan Lake

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22-11-2018 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

Unbelievable 'UFO' captured in stunning picture above South Lanarkshire

Fiona Pagett got the shock of her life when she spotted a strange flying saucer shape in the sky.

By Arthur Vundla

The personal trainer says she did not expect to capture "some sort of spaceship".

She said: "Well I had headed there to try and take some pictures of the beautiful sunset but I noticed some sort of spaceship cloud.

"It was a bit surreal especially considering we had the most beautiful weekend with beautiful blue skies.

"When I did some research regarding the type of cloud it was, I noticed they are unusual clouds and some people have got them mistaken for ufos.

"I put the picture on Facebook, it was pretty cool to get a positive response."

Fiona enjoys doing photography in her spare time.

She added: "I've always been doing it. It's a hobby of mine."

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22-11-2018 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting on LIVE TV is ‘100 percent’ PROOF of aliens

A SPECTACULAR UFO sighting was caught on live television in Argentina, sending the presenters into a frenzy, with hunters saying it is “100 percent” proof of aliens.

22-11-2018 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

Are aliens watching the ISS? 'UFOs' appear on live feed sparking NASA cover-up claims

THE ISS celebrated its 20th anniversary this week – and conspiracies continue to emerge over baffling footage taken from the space station.

By Emmet McGonagle 

Construction on the groundbreaking station started on November 19, 1998, and continued until 2011, floating through space as one of mankind’s proudest endeavours to date.

However, it has been the subject of all kinds of conspiracies and cover-ups as we step ever closer to answering the age-old question: Do aliens exist?

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22-11-2018 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

Irishwoman spooked after spotting 'UFO' hovering over Dublin Airport

She was in the airport when she saw a bright light in the sky

By Aengus O'Hanlon

UFO SPOTTED FLYING OVER CRUMLIN, DUBLIN

A northside woman who was at Dublin Airport at the weekend managed to get a photo of a strange unidentified light she spotted in the sky.

The Dubliner - who asked not to be named - was in the airport when she saw a bright light appear to hover in the sky above the busy plane hub.

She told her husband what she'd seen and he mentioned that very similar lights had been spotted over Crumlin last week , just days after pilots reported seeing UFOs off the coast of Kerry, Dublin Live reports.

He said that his wife had heard nothing about the alleged UFO sightings of the past week, but after they discussed it, they decided to get in touch with Dublin Live.

The man told us: "My wife was at the airport on Sunday morning when she saw this strange light appear in the morning sky. It was at around 7.20am, and it was there for a while in the one spot and then moved before disappearing.

"She knew nothing about the sightings last week over the airport - she also said a plane flew over past it at one stage."

Last week, Crumlin man Craig Keogh said he spotted an unidentified flying object as he was leaving for work.

He quipped: "I wasn't freaked - I was more puzzled to know what it was like.. someone needs to give answers or come up with some reason because me little bro is scared big time, and I'm not helping him either."

Dublin Live has contacted the Irish Aviation Authority for a comment.

{ https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/ }

22-11-2018 om 22:07 geschreven door peter  

Donal Brady's video of a UFO over Cork has racked up almost 155,000 views online.

22-11-2018 om 21:51 geschreven door peter  

FORMER WORKER OF AREA 51 SAYS: I FLEW IN A UFO AND TRAVELED IN TIME

The protagonist of the video is Robert Miller. He worked in Area 51, he is famous for his alleged UFO research, and that he was recruited by the US government.

He piloted an alien ship with only his mind and with the ship he also traveled in time.

It is hard to believe him. We know. But he also claims that he films the video because he somehow feels the responsibility to reveal the truth about how the evidence of extraterrestrial life systematically hides us at the Groom Lake facility. That’s why Miller decided to tell his story in the first person.

IN HIS HANDLING OF THE SHIP, HE DETAILS:
“I remember being taken inside a boat and in the pilot’s seat. There was only room for one person in the giant boat. I looked around the cabin and saw only one seat. No joystick, no steering wheel, no other controls.

However, there was a helmet. They told me that the ship controlled itself telepathically. They told me to imagine that the ship was beginning to float on the ground, but it did not work.

I had to imagine that I was the boat, as part of it, and I began to think of myself floating. ”

REALLY AMAZING
Especially because he explains that after the experience he fainted and could have traveled in time. In his own words: “(The ship) was falling to the ground and I was unconscious.

The next thing I knew, I was in the hospital. A man in a black suit came in and explained what happened. He said that just before.

The ship touched the ground, it simply disappeared, exploded, disappeared. Then, in the middle of the night, they heard a loud noise outside and the ship crashed in the same place.

The scientists hypothesized that the ship had traveled in time. Have you seen the video?

Is it possible that they are hiding what is happening outside our planet so blatantly? For us, it is about believing or revealing.

What do you think about these revelations and affirmations?

Watch the Video

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22-11-2018 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

UFO MYSTERY: Pilots break silence on incredible ‘ALIEN’ sighting in Ireland

A PILOT has broken their silence over a mysterious bright light travelling at “astronomical speeds” near Ireland which have sparked wild UFO theories.

22-11-2018 om 21:23 geschreven door peter  

Alien abduction HORROR: Aliens ‘cause human PARALYSIS while fully conscious’

ALIEN abductees share horrifying similarities of their abduction experience, according to a bizarre documentary.

22-11-2018 om 21:06 geschreven door peter  

By Gerard du Cann

Ancient flooded ruins off the Spanish coast are the lost city of Atlantis,  a UK team of satellite historians claim.

Antiquity specialists Merlin Burrows believe the ruins of the legendary civilization can be found below the wetland's of Doñana National Park.

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Atlantis was recorded in the writings of Greek philosopher Plato who lived around 400BC.

He described an advanced island civilization that ruled a vast maritime empire, some 9,000 years before his own era.

The city was described as having, among other features, an enormous harbour wall, huge entrance pillars, a temple to the god Poseidon and massive circular pieces of land carved out by the Atlanteans to live on.

The location, the researchers claim, is somewhere north of the city of Cadiz, Andalucía, centred around the Doñana National Park, in what they believe was once a vast inland sea.

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An aerial image some of the ancient structures which litter the western Andalucian coastline, which could be Roman, Greek, or from Atlantis.

Doñana National Park has long been suspected as a possible location, with the marshland that floods six months of every year believed to hide the once proud city.

It is thought a cataclysmic natural disaster, such as a tsunami or volcanic event, wiped out the Atlanteans.

Using satellites, aerial photography and ground observations, the team believe they have found all the features of Atlantis Plato described.

Research leader Tim Akers said not only had they discovered Atlantis but also found the people were incredibly advanced, perhaps having huge implications for how we view ancient history.

He said laboratory analysis of material recovered from Spain showed evidence of a new type of cement, as well as ancient advanced metallurgy.

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Satellite scans have found evidence of dozens of circular foundation structures which they believe are the circular islands described by Plato

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Ancient structures on a beach near Cadiz could be Roman or Greek, but the researchers claim they are far older

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The researchers believe these are remnants of the harbour wall of Atlantis just yards from the coast of Andaluci

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A scan showing one of the beach pillars and foundations they believe point to the structure being from Atlantis

Akers claimed to have even found a green patina on the ruins, which match Plato's description, and provided it to a lab in Italy for analysis.

The team also claim ruins on the beaches around the area are from the Atlantians, but ancient Greeks and Romans also lived in the area.

Aerial images of the site reveal what could have been a harbour wall – an incredible 75-metres thick.

The researchers say Plato wrote that this wall was ’50 stadia long’ which would make it around five-and-a-half miles in length.

“Investigations in Doñana lead to the conclusion that there have been two natural disasters (tsunamis) that caused the islands and dry areas to sink, one of which happened around 1500 BC and the other 200AD. There is also evidence of a tsunami event in the Bible.”

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The Dolmen of Menga, an incredible 5,500 year old burial tomb built into a mountain near the Atlantis site

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Merlin Burrows have now recorded a documentary film - ‘Atlantica’ - about the discovery.

In the film the team visit sites they believe still show clues of the legendary city.

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Akers said: “Plato describes the location exactly and all we did was follow in his footsteps the way ancient seafarers would have travelled to the cities.

“The site has both Tartessian, Greek, Phoenician, and Roman additions and our scans show multiple occupations over time till there final and ultimate destruction.

Documentary filmmaker Michael Donnellan, who has studied classical Greek and Minoan archeology, said tests at the Modena Materials Analysis Laboratory in Italy on material taken from the site had revealed amazing results.

“The harbour wall seems to have had a coating that prevented barnacle growth, like modern Teflon.

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Today huge sand dunes occupy the wall area to the left of the image and to the right it is still visible they claim in the mouth of an estuary

Giacomo Falanga, from the Modena Centro Prove, a chemical testing laboratory in Italy, said samples from the site included a variety of material.

He said: “These structures contain binders, like calcite. The presence of mica, potassium, and other trace minerals show proof of artificial mixing of materials, so the samples we have tested are made from an ancient, prehistoric concrete.”

Andrea Carpi, a material engineer, said: “We can confirm with certainty that the samples analysed were the creation of an ancient civilization with advanced construction methods, which makes me believe that we’re talking about a civilization with very advanced technology.”

{ https://www.thesun.co.uk/ }

22-11-2018 om 20:54 geschreven door peter