The Ancient Book Of Enoch Hidden Story of Jesus? Dr Michael Heiser Lays Out Amazing Finding!

Is A Hidden Story Of Jesus In The Ancient Book Of Enoch? Dr Michael Heiser Lays Out Amazing Finding!

Did you know that the disciples of Jesus and the writers of the New Testament honored the Book of Enoch and even expected Jesus to fulfill what was written in this ancient work? AND THEN HE DID!

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02-05-2021 om 22:51 geschreven door peter  

Transhumanists Aim To Replace God With Machines Through Digital Immortality 

 Transhumanists Aim To Replace God With Machines Through Digital Immortality 

By Joe Allen

 Tech companies are selling the idea of ‘digital resurrection.’ That’s only a problem if we’re dumb enough to buy it.

Transhumanists have hyped the new religion of high technology for decades now. The basic idea, fairly prevalent in Silicon Valley, is that rapid advances in scientific knowledge and tech innovation will culminate in our de facto omniscience and omnipotence. Even though humanity is lost in a godless cosmos, digital devices will allow us to transcend our ape-like forms.

As Google’s Ray Kurzweil famously quipped, “Does God exist? I would say, ‘Not yet.’”

One day soon, they promise, we’ll use artificial intelligence to overcome the limits of our meat-based cognition. According to Yuval Noah Harari’s 2015 best-seller “Homo Deus,” computer programmers will realize the age-old fantasies of shamans and prophets by creating a virtual version of the spiritual realm. These Davos darlings are certain “God is dead,” but Google still wants to patent His best ideas.

Ultimately, they hope to replicate the fabric of ourselves in cyberspace, where we can all live happily ever after — that is, until the electricity goes out. A recent paper by Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin argues this “digital resurrection” is not only possible but necessary to reach our full potential. We just need enough power — both computational and electric — to create a virtual afterlife and then keep it running.

For Turchin, the solution is to construct a Dyson Sphere around the sun — a megastructure 186 million miles in diameter that’s covered in solar panels to capture the dying star’s rays. That way, we can run the gargantuan super-computers required to house our digital selves. Sounds easy enough, I suppose. Maybe we can fill the potholes in the road while we’re at it.

Joining the race to boost fashionable ideas, the once sober Popular Mechanics covered Turchin’s work enthusiastically:

Think about the end of your life and what might happen next. … If your soul exists, you continue on after death and everything is wonderful. And if it doesn’t and your fate is utter demise, well, some part of you could still continue infinitely as a digital copy. ‘It’s a win-win situation in both scenarios,’ Turchin says.

If these lunatics convince enough people their scheme is truly working, they’ll expect the rest of us to treat these gibbering clones like real people. Even worse, given the shrill demands for “religious tolerance,” we’ll have to pretend we enjoy their company.

Into The Machine

The concept behind digital resurrection goes back to the “Ship of Theseus” paradox, articulated by the ancient Greeks. Imagine you have a huge wooden ship. You gradually replace the rotten boards with new wood, plank by plank. Eventually, every old part has been replaced by something new. Is it not the same ship as before, only better?

Transhumanists seek to do the same with the human personality. Every neuron will be replaced by networked processors — and then some. For example, to preserve himself for future immortality, Alexey Turchin submits the details of his life to “ubiquitous surveillance.” In addition to keeping a trivia-packed diary, he records every conversation, videotapes his behaviors, and wears an EEG headset while making art or listening to music. He has faith that one day some godlike AI will use this tedious information to “resurrect” him.

You could call this self-obsessed behavior a personal quirk, but Turchin is hardly alone in this endeavor. For many, it’s been part of the new normal since before the New Normal.

The Scan Truck is a good illustration, both literally and allegorically. Based in Los Angeles, the company developed a “mobile photogrammetry studio” decked out with more than 200 digital cameras “to capture the uppermost, photorealistic models.” The experience is like stepping into an inside-out insect eye.

Subjects who enter The Scan Truck’s portable Panopticon — preferably in the buff — have a million pics snapped from every possible angle. The resulting composite image is then used to create a “digital double.” This second self includes every scar, pore, and birthmark. The service has become enormously popular among special effects specialists in the movie industry. It’s also used to create hyper-realistic avatars to inhabit a virtual environment.

Clever enough, but what about one’s inner self?

‘Alexa, Upload My Soul’

In line with Turchin’s methodology, a “digital immortality industry” has emerged to monitor every aspect of your life. Their services, as advertised, will create a lasting imprint of your earthly persona for friends and family to enjoy when you’re gone.

Start-ups with names like Eterni.me, Replika, DeadSocial, and Deep Nostalgia are working hard to re-create deceased loved ones from photographs, home videos, personal diaries, intimate letters, second-hand anecdotes, and of course, online tracking technology. Replika offers an AI talk therapy app that probes living subjects to get at the core of their personality. The constant refrain is that we need to “break down privacy barriers” and “become vulnerable” to digital invasion.

For a modest price, this data is correlated with the subject’s physical attributes. The resulting electro-wraith can then speak to the bereaved from beyond the grave. Just open your laptop, and there’s your late grandma, insisting you have another plate of chicken casserole.

What about grandma’s subjective soul, though — that mysterious entity who watched you grow up from behind her smiling eyes?

When transhumanists tackle this issue — which is less often than you’d think — they typically deny the existence of a stable, spiritual self that’s distinct from brain activity. When the body dies, that “soul” will disappear. That’s why creating an electronic backup is so important.

For one thing, AI augmentation will make Grandma 2.0 smarter and less whimsical. For another, some rude guest is bound to sit in her empty chair if you don’t replace her with a digital super-being.

Throughout that process, the still-embodied subject is scanned, probed, and reconstructed as a digital double. Making multiple copies is even better, but anything beats total oblivion. As years pass, the biological version will wither like a butterfly cocoon. The digital double will soar into the future on a cloud of 1’s and 0’s.

For those guided by materialist philosophies — where transcendence is only available via physical means — there’s no better way to overcome the finality of death. Naturally, transhumanists tend to see people who believe in a spiritual existence beyond this mortal coil as quaint at best. As a quaint heathen myself, I suspect their well-heeled megalomania is far more irrational than any traditional religion.

Transhuman Heaven Sounds Like Hell

These technocratic delusions are only a problem to the extent we’re forced to participate. I’m content to live my life as a caveman and let others become cyborgs, so long as they keep their crossed wires to themselves. That’s not the world they’re creating, though. The insidious elements of their techno-cult — from materialist self-obsession to ubiquitous surveillance — have crept into our daily lives for decades now.

Consider the widespread adoption of monitored electronic communication. In olden times, the idea that our most intimate letters could be intercepted, analyzed, and added to detailed personal dossiers kept by tech executives and government agents — to be used at their pleasure — would be laughable. Today, it’s as routine as driving a few blocks to the grocery store.

In the blink of an eye, we saw the rapid migration of personal interaction to social media. It’s now normal to document a child’s life for public consumption by total strangers. For many, the privacy barriers have already been broken down. We’ve made ourselves vulnerable. The craziest part is that most have enjoyed it.

The next steps in this supposedly inevitable process are just over the horizon. After years of stops and starts, virtual reality will soon be as commonplace as a television set. Many youngsters already idolize “virtual influencers“ who dance across their touchscreens. These bubblegum apparitions are elaborate, entirely fictitious pop stars made from scratch by devious programmers. Some kids have no clue they’re not real people.

For years now, men of fighting age have retreated into video games. Would-be mothers are using dating apps to run out the biological clock. Having been conditioned by porn for generations, wealthy incels are sleeping with eerily convincing silicone dolls. Super-real sexbots are just around the corner. When the snozzberries taste like snozzberries, you’ll know the end is nigh.

Virtualized Detachment From Reality

In all of this, we see an increasing detachment from the real world of visceral struggle, heartbreak, and redemption. Without these challenges, people don’t develop character or deep social bonds. Anime-obsessed man-babies are a symptom of this tendency. The insane desire for “digital immortality” is another.

Technocracy is being normalized at an alarming pace. If a population can be convinced that kids need state-supplied hormone blockers to become self-realized, it’s only a matter of time before they’re ready to upload their souls to corporate data banks. In fact, just hack into their smartphone and you’ll see they’re already doing it.

One of the darker tenets of the techno-cult is that their innovations are necessary for survival. Anyone who chooses to reject body modification, cognitive enhancement, or mind-uploading will be like job applicants who come to an interview with no smartphone or social media account. They’ll get left in the dust.

In a competitive technocracy, organic humans are doomed to extinction. Trendy cyborgs will transition to digital immortality, while the rest of us become fossils. To the extent that Big Tech holds sway over our lives, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Yet the transhumanists have it backward — at least in the long run. The Egyptians were convinced they would reign forever, as were the Romans. Ultimately, however, their arrogance proved futile. The same will be said of Silicon Valley oligarchs and their consumerist disciples. One day, “immortal digital souls” will be displayed in museums like crumbling marble statues.

Until then, we’d be wise to build high fences as nature takes its course. We’re still free to choose our own paths. This is a spiritual conflict on their terms, but I’m keeping faith that anything is possible.

• Joe Allen is a fellow primate who wonders why we ever came down from the trees. For years, he worked as a rigger on various concert tours. Between gigs, he studied religion and science at UTK and Boston University. Find him at www.joebot.xyz or @EvoPsychosis. 

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02-05-2021 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

Strange Phenomenon Sighted Over Thailand ( April 28, 2021 )

Multiple witnesses sight a Strange Phenomenon over Thailand, on April 28, 2021

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UFO Sighted Over Hunters Creek, Florida ( April 28, 2021 )

STATEMENT: Fireball UFO in the Sky in Hunters Creek Kissimmee Florida 4/28/2021 11:49PM : Me and my wife were chilling outside when we seen this fireball coming towards us , then it stoped and started going Up, then it turns off and acts like a star then flys away. Have you guys ever seen something like this?

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MUFON CASE : 115007 McKinney, Texas ( May 1, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Oval object floating sky
Long Description of Sighting Report
Stepped out into my backyard with my cat and saw this on a cloudy day in Texas
Date Submitted : 2021-05-01
Date of Event : 2021-05-01 - 6:15PM
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UFOs Sighted Over Las Vegas, Nevada ( May 1, 2021 )

Multiple UFOs were sighted over Las Vegas, Nevada on May 1, 2021 :

STATEMENT : Las Vegas sky ufo OVNI strange Any idea what’s is this ??

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Video Clip Rosary-Like UFO

A man took a video of an object or objects that resembled a Rosary.

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TicTac UFO Over Deming, New Mexico 4-3-2021, UFO Sighting News.

MUFON Eyewitness states:

I was driving back from Roswell for the holiday yesterday, April 3, 2021. At about 4:30 I had just passed Deming when I noticed something hovering over the mountains to the south of the 10. I pulled over and stared for a while. It never moved, and from that angle it looked dark. I drove further up the 10 and passed 3 RV's which were pulled over, all staring out their windows to the same direction I had been looking. I passed the mountain and from this angle the object appeared to be white and reflect the sun. It was too high to be a helicopter and, being from L.A. I see helicopters all the time, I know what they look like and how they maneuver. It couldn't have been a blimp or an airplane. It was a crystal clear sky, with no clouds and the sun was bright. The thing just hung there. I checked my map to see if there was an exit close enough that I could get to while keeping it in sight, and saw there was, with a road that got closer.

I ended up at this spot: [exact location details have been moved to Investigators report section/ CMS/fgc] but the dirt road led back to what looked like private property, and to be honest I was a little too freaked out to want to drive towards this thing. When I'd tried to take pictures on my phone the camera failed multiple times before I got a picture. I couldn't see the object on my screen while I was trying to get a picture, so it's sheer luck that I managed to get it at all. I went back to the gas station at the exit to see if anyone was looking towards the object, but there were only truckers in their trucks and some people inside the station. I was too timid to approach people to ask them to look. The object never left, and I assumed, given where I was, the possibilities could be numerous and I wasn't going to get an explanation, so I continued home.

Strange Formation of Lights ( 4-3 -2021)

A strange formation of orange lights were videotaped in Dana Point, CA on Apr 3, 2021.

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02-05-2021 om 21:38 geschreven door peter  

Upcoming UFO Report and its Implications for Human Origins Theory

Last year, the United States signed into law 5,500 pages of legislation, most of which dealt with economic stimulus. But it dealt with something else too – UFOs!  The revelations have explosive implications that will cause us to reexamine our scientific paradigms of human origins. Where do we come from? This is probably the most fundamental question within the human condition, and to even attempt answering it, we must explore the origin of all life on Earth.

The legislation contained the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. In the committee comment section is a heading entitled “Advanced Aerial Threats.” The provision mandates that the Director of National Intelligence collaborate with the Secretary of Defense to forge a detailed report, the so-called UFO report, which discloses everything the government knows about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), a moniker they have now discarded in favor of others such as “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) or “anomalous aerial vehicles” (AAV).

In 2020, the U.S. Navy confirmed that three videos circulating the internet were indeed authentic and were captured by Navy jet pilots. Pentagon spokeswoman, Sue Gough, admitted that the images of the rapid-moving, glowing vehicles, one sphere-shaped, another acorn-shaped, a “metallic blimp,” and many others, were being studied by the newly formed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).

Abiogenesis and the Origin of Life of Earth

Abiogenesis is the prevailing, although highly speculative and controversial, narrative about how life originated on Earth. Essentially, this theory holds that over millions of years of primordial, evolutionary processes, non-living matter transitioned into living cells. Then, simple, cellular life forms gradually began to develop, via natural selection, and after epochs of competition-driven genetic mutation/adaptation, a myriad of biodiverse species were born.

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This theory has been propped up since the 1950s as scientific fact, and proponents of it point to a series of experiments from the 50s in which some amino acids were successfully synthesized from inorganic compounds. The problem is, some amino acids are not remotely equivalent to the proteins required to constitute even the most basic cellular life, and then, even these proteins fall far short of the wondrous complexity that is a living cell. In fact, the more molecular biotechnology advances, so to does our understanding of how incredibly complex cells are.

Directed panspermia is the theory that an intelligent species intentionally inoculated our planet to stimulate the development of life.

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Panspermia and Directed Panspermia: Alternative Origin of Life Theories

Alternatively, the theory of panspermia holds that life arose elsewhere in the universe, through unspecified processes, and was then spread to planet Earth by a medium like an asteroid, comet, meteorite, or space dust. Modern, definitive studies have concluded that complex, organic molecules exist within this solar system and in interstellar space. It is then, quite probable that these fundamental building blocks of life arrived here by way of these mechanisms.

Directed panspermia, on the other hand, can be defined as the deliberate transportation of complex, organic life through space with the goal of introducing species onto lifeless, but habitable astronomical objects. In other words, an intelligent species, utilizing high technology, intentionally inoculating planets or moons in order to stimulate the development of life.

This is not science fiction . Highly acclaimed, world renowned scientists like Francis Crick, Leslie Orgel, Sydney Brenner, and many others, endorse this theory and published extensive studies on the subject. It’s worth mentioning that Brenner shared a Nobel Prize for his work on deciphering the genetic code, and that Francis Crick (along with James Watson) discovered the DNA helix, won the Nobel Prize, and gave birth to genetic science as we know it.

Darwinian and Definition of Life Disclaimers

It’s important to point out that life itself is not easily defined. There are hundreds of definitions, and in some cases, entire chapters have been exclusively devoted to defining this fundamental word/concept. According to modern biologists Jane Reece and Neil Campbell, “the phenomenon we call life defies a simple, one-sentence definition.” The definition preferred by NASA is that life is a “self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.” In other words, life is, “matter that can reproduce itself and evolve as survival dictates.”

This brings us to Charles Darwin . The favoring of directed or undirected panspermia should not be misinterpreted of a revolt against the concept of Darwinian evolution. Unfortunately, Darwinian evolution has accumulated a great deal of connotations and assumptions which intertwine the origins of life, alongside the process by which life adapts to its environment.

It is commonly believed that Darwin’s Origin of Species , is well-established, scientific fact. The process of evolution, meaning the natural selection driven, genetic mutations/adaptations, is well established science. However, this process as the origin of all life, is not, at all, scientific fact. Additionally, there’s strong evidence in modern studies of molecular biology that the competitive nature of this process has been overestimated, and that the process may be much more symbiotic.

While Darwin’s Origin of Species is held as well-established, scientific fact, the process of evolution as the origin of all life is not.

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The Dawn of Man: Evolutionary Theory of Man

Genetic studies literature indicates that primates diverged from mammals about 85 million years ago. Then the various, great ape subfamilies diverged around 15 to 20 million years ago. From there, it is speculated that a locomotion transition to bipedalism occurred about six to seven million years ago. This theoretical transition enabled the earliest human ancestors to migrate throughout the globe. However, some anthropologists studying the development of bipedalism, have stated that this evolution in gait alone could not have sufficiently empowered these primates to fan out around the world.

These professionals have found that bipedalism, tool construction, and the manipulation of fire would have be necessary to achieve spread of human ancestors. It is further believed by the leading authorities that these advancements then triggered rapid encephalization (perpetual brain growth), beginning around two million years ago. Finally, we have archaic and modern humans emerging from a complicated tree of interbreeding hominin species around 400,000 – 200,000 years ago.

The So-Called Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis

Ancient Greek thinkers like Plato, Pythagoras, and many others, wrote in great detail about how the deities of mythology were real, had initiated the natural processes, as well as inoculated the planet with life. Of course, these ideas came after thousands of years of paradigmatic belief in pantheons of deities as the creators of humanity and the world. These religious paradigms were largely relegated to mere tradition with the rise of Darwinism and the industrial revolution.

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There exists a centuries old, ideological death match between religious and scientific worldviews which took hold during the Renaissance when Roman Church authorities responded to scientific explorations by condemning them and their ideas under the threat of death and excommunication. In the mid twentieth century, authors of alternative history began publishing books about out of place artifacts and thereby popularized a fusion of science and mythology that has become known as the ancient astronaut hypothesis.

This concept asserts that the deities of ancient mythology were actually intelligent, non-human species, who utilized advanced technology to establish life on Earth and bequeathed the arts and sciences of civilization to humanity in the distant past. This mainstream popularization was fueled, in part, by an ever-growing collection of sightings by people across the world of anomalous aerial phenomena, and by the progress made in aerospace related fields.

The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis posits that the deities of ancient mythology were intelligent, non-human species who came to humanity in the distant past.

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The “Heresy” of Believing in Otherworldly Deities

A deity can be defined as a supernatural being that has the capability of influencing the forces of nature, observes humanity, and periodically intervenes in the affairs of human beings. It’s interesting that by this definition, an elder species that observes, and occasionally interacts with, human civilization, is well within the parameters of scientific probability. Even with countless sightings, physical evidence of high-tech in ancient times, and the postulations of great thinkers like Crick, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Pythagoras, Plato, the notion that such “deities” or elder life forms are, at least, intermittently present, and observing mankind’s civilization, is often met by vitriolic ridicule and skepticism.

Most of the opponents of this concept, whether they’re aware of it or not, are incited by flawed reasoning intravenously fed into their consciousness by Darwinian evolutionist zealots who themselves are guilty of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance, if not outright scientific misconduct. These authorities were much chagrined by the work of Dr. Francis Crick and his colleagues, as his intellectual prowess was, and is, beyond reproach due to his and Watson’s discovery of the DNA helix. They (the oligarchic authorities) regard these theories as heresy (tragically ironic), and this is why even to this day, the mainstream public is mostly unaware of them.

AAVs and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

In a televised interview with CBS correspondents, the Republican US Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who at the time was the vice chair of the intelligence committee, explained that “the bottom line is these things are flying over your military bases and you don’t know what they are because they aren’t yours and they are exhibiting – potentially - technologies that you don’t have at your disposal, that to me is a national security risk and one that we should be looking into.” In public statements such as this, state officials are approaching the subject as if these could potentially be foreign adversaries who have made secret technological leaps.

They’re also acting as if the U.S. military hasn’t been studying these phenomena for years. They have. Created in 2007 and dissolved in 2012, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was uncovered in 2017. It was run by intelligence official Louis Elizondo who publicly called for disclosure of the project’s findings. The program was then succeeded by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) in 2020, under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Defense. While existence of the project has been made public, its findings, and those of previous programs, are still classified. Hopefully some of the information, which has been financed by taxpayers, will come to light with the report due to come out 1 June 2021.

In 2017, Hawaiian astronomers discovered the first ever interstellar object as it passed through our solar system and they named it Oumuamua, which means messenger from the distant past.

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Harvard’s Top Astronomer and Oumuamua

In late 2017, Hawaiian astronomers discovered the first ever interstellar object as it passed through our solar system. They named it Oumuamua. At first, it was designated a comet, but then, it turned out not to fit the criteria for a comet, so they changed it to an asteroid. But then, they realized it had come from outside our solar system and therefore needed its own, new designation as an interstellar object.

The name itself is Hawaiian and roughly translates to “messenger from the distant past.” Avi Loeb is the chairman of Harvard’s astronomy department who has boldly pointed out that the object is moving too fast to be an inert rock and is not emitting jets of steam like a comet. His position is that it cannot be a lump of rock as has been suggested and, in his expert opinion, the only scenario that fits with the data is an object that originated from another intelligent civilization. Loeb has also pointed out that it’s arrogant believe that we are alone in the universe, or even an especially unique species.

Expert Opinions on Extraterrestrial Intelligence from the Moonwalkers

Apollo astronaut Al Worden made an appearance on Good Morning Britain some years ago. Before the show wrapped up, the host asked him if he believed in extraterrestrials. Worden responded that he did, and that he knew they existed because he saw them everyday. The hosts laughed, misinterpreting his statement as a joke. But he wasn’t joking and told them so. He went on to explain that in his expert opinion, in the distant, prehistoric past, an intelligent species seeded life on Earth. He then suggested reading Sumerian mythology before the host flew into a panic, ending the program.

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Another moonwalking astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, has stated publicly that an anomalous, 200-meter-tall object on Mars is, in his expert opinion, evidence of a non-human civilization. But perhaps the most intriguing of the moonwalkers is Edgar Mitchell and his email that was uncovered by the Wikileaks revelations. In an email sent from Mitchell to the Clinton camp while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and running for president, Mitchell wrote: “Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero-point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.” ETI is short for extraterrestrial intelligence and zero-point energy is a clean, inexhaustible energy source.

What Does UFO Report Mean for Human Origin Paradigms?

What conclusions can be drawn from this 180-degree reversal by the US government, and what impact does it have on human origin paradigms? First and foremost, the US government’s long held position that these UFOs are simply misconstrued aerial/optical illusions has all the while been a complete farce. No surprised there for the discerning researcher. Also, it seems that quite a few of the previously mentioned, vitriolic skeptics are due up for a long, humiliating, force-fed, cornucopia feast of cold crow meat.

But what these disclosures really mean is that theories like those of Francis Crick, James Watson, Sydney Brenner, Leslie Orgel, and others are being tremendously reinforced. It’s one thing to speculate that somewhere out there, in the distant reaches of the universe (or multiverse), there are other intelligent life forms. But, if such life forms are present right here, then the likelihood of their influence regarding the origination of life on this planet goes up ten-thousand-fold.

In this realm of theoretical science there’s a concept known as the Fermi paradox. This controversial paradox posits that based on the age of the universe (approximately 15 billion years old), its vast size (so large its boundaries are unknown), and given what we know about our own development, the universe should be teaming with intelligent life or at least littered with remnants of it. If this is the case, why haven’t we found it? Unless, perhaps, we have. We’ll have to wait for the UAPTF UFO report to come out on 1 June 2021 to find out more!

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02-05-2021 om 18:56 geschreven door peter  

Michio Kaku Says the Universe Is Simpler Than We Think

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02-05-2021 om 18:41 geschreven door peter  

Lue Elizondo is a former intelligence officer with the Department of Defense. He claims he was the director of AATIP, the Pentagon's "UFO program", from 2010-2017. 

Elizondo reveals shocking truths about the UFOs the Navy and other military branches have encountered on almost "a daily basis", why some "very senior" officials at the Pentagon tried to suppress UFO evidence, and the jaw-dropping things these UFOs can do.

  

 

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02-05-2021 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: Cigar-shaped UFO over Thunder bay, Canada 29-Apr-2021

This huge cigar-shaped UFO was filmed in the night sky above Thunder bay in Ontario, Canada on 29th April 2021.

Witness report: 

04/29/2021 430am.the mountain behind my grandparents is a hot spot. They haven’t mentioned anything about it ever till I showed them this video. My thing is, when I walked out of the cabin it wasn’t moving at all. By the time I got to the corner of the house it took off real quick. I am walking with it and trying my best to film and watch where I walking at the same time, sorry for being a noob as I’m not constantly on my phone taking videos for those tic tock things or the snap chats everybody’s going crazy about.

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02-05-2021 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

The Government Has Acknowledged the Reality of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

According to a former Pentagon official, the government could disclose evidence and reports on unidentified aerial phenomena this June.

Luis Elizondo, the former director of Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said that the government is planning to disclose “reality” documentation about UFOs. The upcoming report, which has caught much media attention, is expected to expose the military knowledge about unexplained aircraft observed around its installations. And could help clear up several mysterious UFO sightings that have been reported, or it could be an underwhelming cache of things that turned out to be optical illusions and balloons.

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It’s worth noting that Elizondo has promised updates on UFOs several times in recent years. Just last July, he argued that the UAP task force of the Pentagon “no longer has to hide in the shadows” and “will have a new transparency.”

However, there’s enough reason to believe this report will be revealed in some form. Even if it’s not a groundbreaking disclosure of alien life, former President Donald Trump manded that the US intelligence agencies had to disclose what they know about UFOs and UAPs by the summer.

Elizondo believes that the government has acknowledged the reality of UAP – they all want answers and willing to ask the hard questions.

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02-05-2021 om 17:44 geschreven door peter  

UFOs are real, feds’ cover-up fueled by fear: ex-Pentagon whistleblower

UFOs exist — but the government doesn’t want you to know it, according to the ex-Pentagon official who says he ran the program investigating “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAP.

Recalling the revelatory instant when he recognized that UFOs were bona fide, controversial whistleblower Luis “Lue” Elizondo exclusively told The Post, “It was a holy-s–t moment: ‘Oh, my gosh, it’s real. Well, crap, now we have to do something about it.’ ”

However, Elizondo has not been able to get the feds to act on what he describes as a serious national security risk due to a litany of roadblocks — including a cover-up of the existence of UFOs because of religious objections, concerns over tarnishing its own reputation and fears of inciting public panic.

With a bombshell government report on UFOs set to be released before the end of June, Elizondo — who says he came into the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program in 2008, and headed it from 2010 until 2017 — has revealed the shocking things he alleges to have learned, and the chilling reason why some in the Pentagon don’t want this information made public.

As part of his job, Elizondo said, he had access to the Pentagon’s UFO data and interviewed military eyewitnesses who encountered UAP on an almost “daily basis.” Meanwhile, Navy pilots have testified about engaging 50-foot Tic Tac-shaped vessels only to see them disappear in the blink of an eye.

Other pilots said their fighter jets had a “near collision” with a strange “sphere encasing a cube.” Elizondo scrutinized all this evidence, including radar and electro-optical data, that showed unknown aircraft zipping 60 miles in five seconds and descending at speeds of 14 miles per second.

“Do the math,” Elizondo, also a former intelligence officer for the US Department of Defense, told The Post. “You’ll see that it’s very fast.” (BTW: We did the math — and 60 miles in five seconds is 43,200 mph.)

Despite those mind-blowing discoveries, Elizondo was always swimming upstream. He tried to share frightening evidence with closed-minded non-believers who shunned his research, which he has compared to an “intelligence failure on the level of 9/11.”

Elizondo allegedly pushed his superiors — who included Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis — to take his findings seriously.

He also claims “very senior” officials blocked him from informing Mattis, and he resigned from the Pentagon in frustration. (Reps for Mattis declined to comment when The Post reached out for comment.)

But Elizondo never stopped investigating UFOs and publicizing what he found. Now he is no longer alone. Washington, DC, power players are due to share details about the “reality” of such UFOs via their much-hyped tell-all report. It’s vindication for Elizondo and others in his camp.

As the report’s publication looms, Elizondo is coming out swinging. During a series of exclusive interviews, he clued in The Post on the reality of UFOs, the amazing things that they can do, the religious beliefs that led federal officials to dismiss their veracity, what the government knows but doesn’t want to tell, and the ways in which UFO technologies can benefit humanity.

But institutional silence may soon be broken amid what Elizondo sees as a tipping point for the unexplained. “The level of interest is reaching a critical mass,” he said. “I think [government officials realize that] it would be like putting the cat back in the bag or like putting toothpaste back in the tube. Now that the government has acknowledged the reality of Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon [or UAP, which is synonymous with UFO] … it’s going to be real hard to backtrack.”

Looking back on his years in the Pentagon, Elizondo remembers that his biggest concern involving UFOs was not based on a fear of extraterrestrials. It centered on America’s Earth-bound enemies: “We [were] behind the power curve” — as a result of military bosses turning blind eyes to unexplained phenomena. “We knew that foreign adversaries in other countries are interested in this topic. So there comes a real problem from a national security perspective.”

Here are some of Elizondo’s most compelling revelations and insights:

Face it: UFOs are ‘real’ and not ‘silly’

Elizondo said he’s seen enough to be confident that UFOs are very real and that our government — thanks in part to a mandate former President Donald Trump put into his $2.3 trillion appropriations bill for 2021 — is not a moment too soon in taking these incursions in the sky seriously.

Having spoken to US military sources who’ve witnessed UFOs, watched videos of them and seen photographs, Elizondo is a true believer in the presence of unexplained phenomena. He thinks the rest of us should be as well. “This isn’t a silly conversation,” said Elizondo. “This is a conversation about someone, from somewhere, displaying beyond next-generation technology” — which allows craft to fly without wings or obvious airworthy construction — “in our controlled airspace. And there’s not a whole lot we can do about it.”

In encouraging exploration of UFOs, Elizondo raised topics that many of his Defense Department superiors found off-putting. As a result, there appears to be a long-running campaign to discredit him and to keep his findings out of the limelight. Pentagon spokesman Christopher Sherwood released a statement saying, “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP [Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program] program.” Sherwood’s statement was soon followed by a slightly modified one from spokesperson Susan Gough: “Mr. Elizondo had no assigned responsibilities for AATIP.”

It’s a diss that former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who once took credit for arranging $22 million in annual funding for the AATIP, has consistently challenged. Reid spent the last few years publicly defending Elizondo’s leadership role with AATIP and, just this week, released a new statement re-emphasizing this. “Mr. Elizondo has spent his career working tirelessly in the shadows on sensitive national-security matters, including investigating UAPs as the head of AATIP,” Reid wrote on his letterhead. “He performed these duties admirably.”

Elizondo also stuck up for himself, bluntly telling The Post, “There are some people in the Pentagon that still don’t like me very much. I think they’re pissed at me for the way I left. They’re now trying to thread the needle, saying, ‘He had no assigned  responsibilities with AATIP.’ I had no assigned responsibilities because I was working Gitmo for [the Department of Defense]. These assigned duties [exploring the reality of UFOs] were coming from the legislative branch.”

Insisting that he had plenty of assigned responsibilities in this area, Elizondo added, “There are enough people now in the Pentagon and on the Hill who know exactly who I was and what I did. And, you know, it’s going to hurt [my detractors’] credibility.”

UFOs can do jaw-dropping things

We tend to be impressed by high-tech roller coasters at glossy theme parks. Observers of UFOs have seen mechanical and technological performances that bring new parameters to the notion of a thrill ride.

Elizondo describes vessels flying at 11,000 miles per hour, “making crazy right-angle turns” and being able to reverse “instantly.” Providing a comparison, he explained of the Air Force’s SR-71 Blackbird — which maxes out around 2,100 mph — “if you wanted to make a right-hand turn, it would take you about half the state of Ohio to do it.”

He also detailed Spielberg-worthy operational capabilities that fall into the realm of “transmedium travel.” Elizondo explained that the eye-popping vessels can fly 50 feet above the Earth’s surface or 80,000 feet in the sky and even submerge underwater without a compromise in performance at any level: “When you see that, you recognize you are dealing with a technology more advanced than ours.”

Even the way in which these inexplicable flying machines manage to lift off blows away rational engineering. “[These] things have no wings, no cockpits, no control surfaces, no rivets in the skin, no obvious signs of propulsion — and somehow they are able to defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity,” Elizondo marveled. “How is that possible?”

Then there is the sheer ability to handle the stress of it all: “Humans can withstand 9 Gs for just a short period of time before negative physical consequences. The F-16 fighter jet will begin to experience structural failure around 17 Gs. The objects we’re seeing are doing 600 Gs. Obviously well beyond the healthy limitations of anything” — including whoever or whatever is inside the vessel.

Nick Pope, former head of the UFO office in the UK’s Ministry of Defence, told The Post that it all adds up to “an advanced technology that we don’t currently possess. It may be why the Pentagon’s AATIP program was studying advanced theoretical physics concepts such as anti-gravity and warp drive. It’s as if someone said, ‘This is real — and can we figure it out ourselves?’”

As Elizondo reveals later in this story, we can and we did.

The ‘Satanic’ reason unexplained phenomena were suppressed

The presence of highly intelligent life — possibly more advanced than humans — would be huge news. Elizondo – who expresses relief at the impending release of the upcoming UFO document, even though he is not privy to its contents – knows all about federal reticence on this matter.

Elizondo quit his Pentagon job in frustration over authorities being unwilling to even entertain the possibility of UFOs. Referencing why his superiors refused to brief his boss at the time, General Mattis, Elizondo said, “They were probably worried about tarnishing [Mattis] if it came out that he was briefed on UFOs.”

For senior Pentagon officials, Elizondo discovered, acknowledging the very existence of UFOs was “too much of a pill to swallow.” He recalled one superior who clumsily changed the subject by asking Elizondo how the Miami Dolphins football team was doing. “Some individuals have a problem with this topic because it interferes with their philosophical or maybe theological belief system.”

In fact, Elizondo claimed one senior official “told him to ‘Stop'” investigating UFOs — and asked Elizondo if he had “read your Bible lately?”

Elizondo asked where his boss was going with the non sequitur before acknowledging familiarity with the Good Book. As per Elizondo, he was then told, “‘Well, then you would know that these things are demonic and we should not be pursuing them.’ He wasn’t kidding. That’s exactly how he felt.”

Dr. Eric Davis, Ph.D., a former rocket scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory and currently a scientist at government contractor the Aerospace Corporation, confirmed: “They objected to UFOs as being Satanic!”

The line of thinking is not restricted to America. Nick Pope saw similar incidents of religion trumping science in the UK. “Some objections come from people in government who think the phenomenon is real — but demonic,” Pope said. “Their belief seems to be that studying UFOs would thus give energy to attention-seeking demons, which should be avoided. This view comes, in part, from the biblical description of Satan as ‘the prince of the power of the air.’”

But then, even secular government officials who accept the reality of UFOs get cornered by exactly what kind of action should be taken and who should take it. “They can’t deal with it on a legislative basis or on a military operational basis; they can’t deal with it on the basis of a presidential policy,” said Davis. “So they let a finite group of engineers and scientists and investigators work [on it] together.” And their findings “just collect cobwebs in the classified storage warehouses.”

Some of this may have also stemmed from a fear of panicking the public. As Elizondo told Politico, many of the UFO sightings were near vulnerable nuclear facilities, ships in the water and power plants. He added, “We had never seen anything like it.”

What the government might not want you to know

If anyone wonders whether the US government is fully aware that UFOs exist, Elizondo removes all doubt. Questioned about American authorities having physical remnants of crashed vessels, he provided an answer that no current official would likely voice: “I was asked if I believe the US government is in possession of [UFOs] and I said, ‘Yes. I believe so.’ And that’s all I’m prepared to say.” (Elizondo, who is tied to a lifelong NDA with the government, rides a fine line between what he can reveal and what he can’t.)

UFOs coming from other planets and being operated by aliens who may have hostile intentions for our nation and planet would be bad enough. But the even bigger concern, Elizondo maintained, would be a more Earthly possibility. “Let’s assume this is some sort of adversarial or foreign technology that for several decades now has managed to leapfrog us and evade all 18 members of the intelligence community,” Elizondo said, painting a nightmare scenario of the United States being vulnerable to a human enemy with the highest of high-tech capabilities. “That would be an intelligence failure that eclipses just about anything else this country has ever faced.”

Though Elizondo, Pope and Davis are all pleased to see the report coming out, none of them expect the government to reveal all. Elizondo figures it will be “an interim report … [with] all the unknowns” laid out. And if there is not a lot of talk about anything as concrete as, say, flying saucers in our midst, Davis sets that matter straight. UFOs, he said, “never went away. They’re still coming up and causing aviation havoc. They’re getting in the middle of aviation operations, and that’s dangerous.”

As for the force behind those craft and how deep the report’s authors will go, Pope added, “If they know or suspect that UFOs are extraterrestrial, I hope they’ll say so.”

The ‘sea monsters’ in the sky

When confronted with the question of whether UFOs are simply Earth-bound vehicles or from another galaxy, Elizondo offered a third unsettling option. He started by emphasizing, “This is important,” then explained how humans can only perceive “a narrow band” of reality. A lot of stuff (infrared, radio waves, cosmic radiation) is invisible to the human eye. There are “things that are right in front of your eyes, but you can’t see them.”

Elizondo then briought up “sea monsters.”

“Imagine the first person who decided to get on a boat and sail over the horizon,” he mused, recalling days before Christopher Columbus. “Back then there was talk of sea monsters and krakens that will destroy your boat. But [those intrepid souls] did it anyway.”

As it turned out, of course, fearful sailors were not entirely wrong: “There really are sea monsters — but now, 500 years later, we call them great squids of the Pacific, great white sharks and whales. They’re part of nature and we learned to understand them.”

Elizondo said humanity could once again be faced with the same scenario. “Maybe,” he proposed, “this is just another expedition over the horizon. Maybe we’re going to realize that what we thought were monsters are really just our neighbors.”

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Lonnie Zamora Incident: A High-Speed Car Chase Turned Into UFO Encounter With Two Aliens

In the history of Ufology, the case of Lonnie Zamora was registered as the most authentic and well-documented UFO sightings in the United States. It is hard not to believe a police officer when he/she claims to have seen something not from this world. A police officer from Socorro named Lonnie Zamora witnessed a white egg-shaped craft in New Mexico when he was chasing a high-speed vehicle in 1964.

On April 24, 1964, at around 5:45 p.m., Zamora was chasing an overspeed vehicle in his cruiser on the outskirts of his town. Suddenly, he was diverted by a loud roaring sound and noticed a flame in the sky.

Zamora said that the flame had been orange and bluish in color. He described it as “funnel-like.” He explained that he drove for half a mile and saw a white object on the ground.

“Thought that it might be a car that had turned over. Crossed to go out there to investigate, thought maybe somebody might be hurt. At that time, I saw this white, like an egg-shaped looking object.”

Initially, he thought that the object was an overturned car. He could also notice two humans near the object, examining it. As the police officer began approaching them, he understood that they were either large kids or small people. Besides, the object was of white aluminum color.

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He contacted his station and told them about the situation. As soon as he tried to get out of the car, a roar was heard again and the craft started emitting blue flame. This noise scared him, and he thought there might be an explosion. So, he took a cover and made his way back to his cruiser while keeping his eyes on the scene.

The craft was moving upward with an increasing sound, and Zamora could once again see an orange-bluish flame coming out from under the craft. He also said that the object had an oval shape without any door or windows.

During his radio interview with Walter Shrode, Zamora said that the two people he had seen near the craft were not humans. The following is the conversation held between Zamora and Shrode.

SHRODE: Did they have helmets on like spacemen or anything?

ZAMORA: No sir, I wouldn’t say they were people, I just… I saw something white, white coveralls, that’s all I can say.

SHRODE: But you couldn’t identify them as actually being an actual human being, like you or I are?

ZAMORA: No sir, I couldn’t.

ZAMORA: It was very low to the ground, at the time I was seeing it, it was very low to the ground up to the perlite mill there, and then it started gaining in altitude.

There is no doubt about what Zamora had seen. Even the FBI investigated the case and discovered burned marks on the site where he had seen the craft landed. The Air Force also recorded his case in detail for the Project Blue Book and concluded that they were definitely humans in white suits. What’s more, when the craft disappeared, another police officer Sergeant Sam Chavez arrived at the scene. He found his colleague totally lost and pale.

According to the investigation conducted by NICAP officer Ray Stanford, there were more witnesses who heard the loud roar around the same time as claimed by Zamora. From the police records, he found out that three people had reported seeing a bright object in the sky.

On April 26, 1964, two days after Zamora’s case, a local farmer went to check on his horses as something was bothering them. He said to have seen an object in the shape of a butane tank. He also noticed a bluish-orange flame, emitting from the bottom of the craft.

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• https://www.ufoinsight.com/ufos/close-encounters/zamora-incident-ufo-socorro

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Laos' mysterious Plain of Jars which features thousands of stone jars littered across the burial ground may be more than 3,000 years old, new analysis reveals

• New analysis suggests the limestone vessels may be up to 3,300 years old 

• But remains found nearby date to just between 700 and 1,200 years ago

• That suggests they were used for centuries, possibly by different societies

• A body may have only been in a jar until it decomposed and the bones buried

• Scientists aren't sure how the urns, which can weigh two tons, were moved miles from where they were quarried  

By DAN AVERY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Laos' eerie 'Plain of Jars' may be thousands of years older than previously suspected, and in use for a much longer period of time.

Limestone vessels dotting the landscape in northern Laos were place there up to 3,300 years ago, according to analysis of quartz crystals in the sediment underneath them. 

But most of the remains found in the area were only interred between 700 and 1,200 years ago.

That suggests the jars had 'enduring ritual significance,' researchers say. 'They were important for a very long time.'

They believe the containers were used to expose dead bodies to the elements until only the bones remained, which were then buried nearby. 

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Mysterious stone jars spread across northern Laos' Xiangkhouang plateau have given the region the nickname 'Plain of Jars.' New analysis of the jars suggest they are centuries older than previously believed

Mysterious stone jars are spread across thousands of square miles of northern Laos' Xiangkhouang plateau, commonly known as the 'Plain of Jars.'

The massive vessels are made of sandstone and limestone and vary in size, reaching up to 10 feet tall and weighing two tons.

While local legends claim they were goblets used by a horde of drunken giants, the scientific consensus is that the region was a sprawling cemetery and the containers were 'burial urns' used for storing human remains.

In the 1930s, French geologists excavated a cave near one cluster, determining it had served as a crematorium.

An example of a full skeleton buried at Site 1 in the Plain of Jars. Most remains found near the stone jars date from between 700 and 1,200 years ago

In 2019, archaeologist Louise Shewan uncovered 1,000-year-old remains of nearly a dozen dead babies near jars in a location near Ban Nahoung, dubbed Site 1.

While some places only have a handful of jars, Site 1 contains around 400 vessels, scattered across more than 60 acres.

For the past five years, Shewan, a researcher at the University of Melbourne, has studied Site 1 and other jar locations with Dougald O'Reilly of the Australian National University and Thonglith Luangkoth of the Laos Department of Heritage.

They've uncovered three basic types of burials: One where a full skeleton was laid out; another where just bundles of bones were buried, and a third variety where remains were placed inside smaller ceramic jars.

Using optically stimulated luminescence, a technique that dates the last time quartz sediment was exposed to sunlight, researchers determined some of the limestone vessels were placed on the site up to 3,300 years ago, far earlier than the skeletons interred nearby. This suggests the jars were used over long periods by various groups

Previous radiocarbon dating of the remains suggest most they've found were buried between 700 and 1,200 years ago.

Now Shewan and her colleagues have examined the sediment under the jars to estimate their age.

They used optically stimulated luminescence, a technique that dates the last time quartz sediment was exposed to sunlight.

A map of Laos, with Xiangkhouang province, home to thousands of limestone jars scientists believed were involved in prehistoric funereal rites

While some burials involved full skeletons, others just held bundles of bones

'Directly under one jar, we had a date range of 1350 to 730 B.C., and under another we had 860 to 350 B.C.,' Shewan told Live Science. 'I think we're going to find a range of dates as we continue the analysis.'

That means the larger stone vessels are centuries older than many of the bodies buried nearby.

'What we surmise from that is the enduring ritual significance of these sites,' Shewan said. 'They were important for a very long time.'

Earlier research had dated the jars more recently, between 500 BC to 500 AD. 

The team believes bodies were placed in the large jars until they decomposed, then the bones were buried nearby. 

It's not clear if different societies used the jar sites at various times or if descendants of the people who made them continued the tradition.

'Whether they were culturally related to the people who made the jars is a question that we can't define yet,' O'Reilly told Live Science.

Some jars were found with decorated stone discs and smaller clay jars and a variety of other artifacts, including beads and jewelry.

Images on the discs, which were buried with their decorated sides face-down, include animals, human figures and patterns of concentric circles.

Each has a cylindrical shape with the bottom wider than the top and most have lip rims, leading to speculation they all had lids.

Little is known about how they were made but some archaeologists speculate they were carved with iron chisels.

The jars appear to have been quarried from several areas in the Xiangkhouang foothills before being spread over more than 90 sites, some housing just a handful and others hundreds.

In their new report, published in the journal PLOS One, the researchers also analyzed lead and uranium isotopes in a jar at Site 1 and found it had been mined at a sandstone quarry some five miles away.

How it was brought to the site is still unknown, they said.

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• 'Plain of Jars', one of the most mysterious archaeological sites, reveals its true age | Live Science

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Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet Grows

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.

“We just don’t know very much about how giant planets grow,” said Brendan Bowler of the University of Texas at Austin. “This planetary system gives us the first opportunity to witness material falling onto a planet. Our results open up a new area for this research.”

Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

Though over 4,000 exoplanets have been cataloged so far, only about 15 have been directly imaged to date by telescopes. And the planets are so far away and small, they are simply dots in the best photos. The team’s fresh technique for using Hubble to directly image this planet paves a new route for further exoplanet research, especially during a planet’s formative years.

This huge exoplanet, designated PDS 70b, orbits the orange dwarf star PDS 70, which is already known to have two actively forming planets inside a huge disk of dust and gas encircling the star. The system is located 370 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

“This system is so exciting because we can witness the formation of a planet,” said Yifan Zhou, also of the University of Texas at Austin. “This is the youngest bona fide planet Hubble has ever directly imaged.” At a youthful five million years, the planet is still gathering material and building up mass.

Credits: ESO, VLT, André B. Müller (ESO)

The UV observations, which add to the body of research about this planet, allowed the team to directly measure the planet’s mass growth rate for the first time. The remote world has already bulked up to five times the mass of Jupiter over a period of about five million years. The present measured accretion rate has dwindled to the point where, if the rate remained steady for another million years, the planet would only increase by approximately an additional 1/100th of a Jupiter-mass.

Zhou and Bowler emphasize that these observations are a single snapshot in time – more data are required to determine if the rate at which the planet is adding mass is increasing or decreasing. “Our measurements suggest that the planet is in the tail end of its formation process.”

The youthful PDS 70 system is filled with a primordial gas-and-dust disk that provides fuel to feed the growth of planets throughout the entire system. The planet PDS 70b is encircled by its own gas-and-dust disk that’s siphoning material from the vastly larger circumstellar disk. The researchers hypothesize that magnetic field lines extend from its circumplanetary disk down to the exoplanet’s atmosphere and are funneling material onto the planet’s surface.

“If this material follows columns from the disk onto the planet, it would cause local hot spots,” Zhou explained. “These hot spots could be at least 10 times hotter than the temperature of the planet.” These hot patches were found to glow fiercely in UV light.

Hubble observations pinpoint planet PDS 70b. A coronagraph on Hubble’s camera blocks out the glare of the central star for the planet to be directly observed. Though over 4,000 exoplanets have been cataloged so far, only about 15 have been directly imaged to date by telescopes. The team’s fresh technique for using Hubble to directly image this planet paves a new route for further exoplanet research, especially during a planet’s formative years. 

Credits: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

These observations offer insights into how gas giant planets formed around our Sun 4.6 billion years ago. Jupiter may have bulked up on a surrounding disk of infalling material. Its major moons would have also formed from leftovers in that disk.

A challenge to the team was overcoming the glare of the parent star. PDS 70b orbits at approximately the same distance as Uranus does from the Sun, but its star is more than 3,000 times brighter than the planet at UV wavelengths. As Zhou processed the images, he very carefully removed the star’s glare to leave behind only light emitted by the planet. In doing so, he improved the limit of how close a planet can be to its star in Hubble observations by a factor of five.

“Thirty-one years after launch, we’re still finding new ways to use Hubble,” Bowler added. “Yifan’s observing strategy and post-processing technique will open new windows into studying similar systems, or even the same system, repeatedly with Hubble. With future observations, we could potentially discover when the majority of the gas and dust falls onto their planets and if it does so at a constant rate.”

The researchers’ results were published in April 2021 in The Astronomical Journal.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.

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• NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center,

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UFOs Sighted Over Guatemala Coast ( April 29, 2021 )

STATEMENT : En la Costa de Guatemala, escuchen como todos los perros ladran, y vean esas luces en formas de círculos.
TRANSLATE : On the Guatemala Coast, hear all the dogs bark, and see those lights in circles.

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UFO Sighterd Over Ocoyoacac, Mexico ( April 29, 2021 )

STATEMENT : Regresando de trabajar!!
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Three UFO Sightings Reported 18 Miles Apart

Three separate UFO sightings took place within 18 miles of one another in the space of a month. The latest sightings of mysterious objects have all been reported with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a database of reported UFO sightings worldwide.

In Tullibody, a triangular-shaped aircraft was observed on Friday evening, March 26. A witness was walking their dog when they spotted an orange coloured light from a south-westerly direction coming towards them.

Their first immediate thought was a Chinese lantern, but they changed their mind when they observed it moving too fast. So, they then thought of a meteorite, but it was bright orange composed of three small triangles close together.

They watched it until it vanished into a bank of clouds. They moved on to think about it further when another UFO appeared from a similar direction with the same colour, speed, and form.

The mysterious object moved smoothly with no sound, vapour trail, and blinking lights. The second one looked like it caught up the previous, putting a spurt and giving off a little exhaust of similar colour. The puff of exhaust stayed in the same place and left a tiny orange dot in the sky before it again vanished into the cloud bank.

The eagle-eyed witness believes this can be explained away logically.

The phone of the spotter was broken; therefore, they have no evidence except their description. They have been thinking more about what they saw that night.  The incident took place at 8.30 pm and was reported to MUFON on March 29.

Coincidentally, another UFO sighting was reported three days later, 18 miles away in Cumbernauld.

Someone witnessed this sighting in the Lanarkshire town on Tuesday, March 23, shortly after 9pm, and reported that same day to MUFON.

On this occasion, the witness managed to take video footage. The video shows a white, flickering light that, according to the witness, remained in the skies for more than two hours, but the video only lasts for more than three minutes.

The third sighting happened on Wednesday, April 21. A witness claimed to have observed a UFO moving from north to east and then changed direction back north before vanishing. Two small objects flashed above it.

The incident was reported to MUFON that same day. Video footage shows a white light flashing in the sky and seems to be coming from a type of craft but is not clearly identifiable from the clip.

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01-05-2021 om 15:55 geschreven door peter  

Antarctica pyramids claim: ‘Oldest pyramid on Earth' is hidden on icy continent

THE oldest pyramids on Earth are hidden away under the deep cold snow of Antarctica, conspiracy theorists have shockingly claimed on the History Channel.

01-05-2021 om 01:49 geschreven door peter  

“Something or someone” is observing the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars (Video)

Mars is getting more interesting every day: The anomalies continue on the neighboring planet and in addition, today we have “a visitor watching” the Perseverance and the Ingenuity helicopter.

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01-05-2021 om 01:17 geschreven door peter  

SETI Director: “We have no reason to believe that technological advancement and altruism or morality are in any way linked.”

SETI Director: “We have no reason to believe that technological advancement and altruism or morality are in any way linked.”

While many scientists are doing their best to make first contact, or at least find evidence of an alien civilization, others are asking a crucial question:

• Are we sure we really want the aliens to find us?

“We have no reason to believe that technological advancement and altruism or morality are linked in any way,” said SETI researcher Andrew Siemion, when interviewed by Inverse.

“There are probably malevolent civilizations elsewhere in the universe, so it’s certainly something we should consider as we continue to explore it.”

Siemion, who is the director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center and director of the Breakthrough Listen project , is invoking a certain tension at the heart of any project seeking extraterrestrial life.

Finding her successfully would change the world, but there is no guarantee that humanity will survive the encounter.

Tendency to make a “bad name”

Noted physicist and SETI expert Michio Kaku shared a similar warning recently, though neither he nor Siemion seem to think the potential risks are reason enough to stop looking for aliens.

“Now personally, I think the aliens would be friendly, but we can’t bet on that,” Kaku told The Guardian earlier this month.

“So I think we will get in touch, but we have to do it very carefully.”

“Too late”

The debate over whether or not humanity should reveal itself to the universe and convey messages to any alien civilizations that may exist overlooks the inconvenient fact that we have not been sneaky so far.

We have been sending radio signals into the cosmos for a century, so any alien within a hundred light years and capable of intercepting a specific “hello universe” message is already more than aware of our existence.

“The point that people miss is that it is too late to hide,” said astrobiologist and president of the METI Institute (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Douglas Vakoch.

“If they are on the way, it is to our advantage to involve them and show them that we are better conversation partners than lunch.”

In the past, many ufologists have interpreted this defensive attitude of scientists as something merely philosophical and / or psychological, which departs from any serious study that considers extraterrestrial visitation to our world.

They argue that characterizing the aliens as a threat is a subtle way to mitigate the heavy blow to the collective ego of the human species.

Since for so long it was located in the “center of the universe” and now it is faced with the possibility of not being the only intelligent one.

In addition to being many steps below those more advanced technological civilizations.

The logic is simple, if something is evil, it cannot be superior to something that is benign (although technologically and cognitively it is the other way around).

On the other hand, detractors of scientists frightened by contact also argue that any highly advanced civilization must necessarily have a certain level of morality and ethics.

For otherwise they would have long ago destroyed themselves under the weight of their own technology.

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01-05-2021 om 01:02 geschreven door peter