World First: Nanobot Micromotors Deliver Medical Payload Inside Living Creature

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Researchers working at the University of California, San Diego have claimed a world first in proving that artificial, microscopic machines can travel inside a living creature and deliver their medicinal load without any detrimental effects. Using micro-motor powered nanobots propelled by gas bubbles made from a reaction with the contents of the stomach in which they were deposited, these miniature machines have been successfully deployed in the body of a live mouse.

The picayune robots used in the research were tubular, about 20 micrometers long, 5 micrometers in diameter, and coated in zinc. Once the mouse ingested these tiny tubes and they reached the stomach, the zinc reacted with the hydrochloric acid in the digestive juices to produce bubbles of hydrogen which then propelled the nanobots along like miniature rockets.

Reaching speeds of up to 60 micrometers per second, the nanobots headed outwards toward the stomach lining where they then embedded themselves, dissolved, and delivered a nanoparticle compound directly into the gut tissue.

According to the researchers, of all the nanobots deployed in the stomach of the mouse, those that reached the stomach walls remained attached to the lining for a full 12 hours after ingestion, thereby proving their effectiveness and robust nature.

Read more here: Nanobot micromotors deliver medical payload in living creature for the first time

IN BRIEF

In a world first, researchers from the University of California have reportedly delivered medicine directly to the stomach of a living organism using nanobots.

NANOBOTS

Scientists from the University of California are claiming that they have managed to deliver a medical payload directly into the gut tissue of a live organism using micro-motored nanobots.

Notably, the team behind the work notes that these little, microscopic machines can travel inside of the living creature and deliver the medical treatment without causing any harmful side effects related to the small bots.

Using micro-motor powered nanobots propelled by gas bubbles made from a reaction with the contents of the stomach in which they were deposited, these miniature machines have been successfully deployed in the body of a live mouse.

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The tubular nanobots, which are about 20 micrometers long, 5 micrometers in diameter, and coated in zinc, are propelled by gas bubbles that are produced once the zinc reacts with the hydrochloric acid in the digestive system.

The nanobots travel at speeds of up to 60 micrometers per second and embed themselves in the stomach walls…where they remain after a full 12 hours.

MICROMACHINES

These nanobots have been previously used on organic tissue, but this marks the first time that it was tested on a living organism. The success of this test leads researchers behind the study to further explore the technology as a way to deliver targeted drugs in humans.

However, as is always the case with medical breakthroughs, treatments must undergo rigorous testing and get approval from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) before they can be used. possible application and testing on humans will need to be studied carefully before regulatory organizations give the go-ahead.

So there is no guarantee that this will be implemented, but it is exciting research.

The study, published in the journal ACS Nano, has yet to make announcements regarding the possibility of human-based trials or when such trials may begin.

Extensive System of Caves Discovered Under the Pyramids

Something extremely strange is happening in Giza, both under the pyramids and in the office of Dr. Hawass. Even skeptics of the "Hall of Records" from Atlantis are now forced to admit that something big is being hidden.

In August of 2008 a system of caves was discovered under the pyramids. Certainly this is very big news. But look at the reaction of Dr. Hawass on his website:

Surely Hawass is intimately aware of such a discovery. 

So Why deny it? What is he trying to hide? Dies this have anything to do with the wall that is being built to surround the Giza complex? What secrets don't they want us to know?

Inside Giza's cave underworld

In December 2009, after denying that they existed, Egypt's leading Egyptologist, Dr Zahi Hawass, has had to admit that an excavation team under his charge is investigating an ancient tomb at the centre of claims regarding the alleged discovery of a cave underworld beneath the Pyramids of Giza.

This is a surprising announcement for several reasons, not the least being that the "alleged" cave system has already been explored and photographed by British writer and explorer Andrew Collins. In August 2008, Collins announced that he had rediscovered the entrance to a previously unexplored cave system, entered via a mysterious tomb several hundred meters west of the Great Pyramid.

Collins also found clues left in the 200-year-old memoirs of British diplomat and explorer Henry Salt. Salt wrote how, in 1817, he and Italian explorer Giovanni Caviglia had investigated cave "catacombs" at Giza for a distance of "several hundred yards" before coming across a "spacious" chamber. This chamber linked to three others of equal size, from which went various labyrinthine passages, one of which the Italian later explored for a distance of "300 feet further".

Collins decided to look for these caves in the area where the unmarked star of Cygnus would align in relation to the three pyramids. He discovered a series of catacombs, as Henry Salt had described, but no sign of any caves. Then, as he was about to leave the site he noticed a break in the catacomb wall which eventually revealed the entrance to this huge complex network of caves.

Excited by this monumental discovery, Collins immediately went to inform the Egyptian authorities and expected them to be as excited as he was. Wrong!

Egyptian Authorities Try to Hide the Cave's Discovery

According to Collins,

    "Dr Hawass [Secretary General for Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities] actually denied the existence of the caves. He has done this publicly. Why he has done this is a matter of debate.The most easiest explanation is that the preliminary investigations that he did following our visit to inform him of the discovery of this cave, in April 2008, meant that his people went in the tomb overlooked the entrance, as we did initially."

Fifteen months later, bowing to the inquiries made by the press and Egyptian scholars, Dr Hawass confirmed that he has ordered an all-Egyptian team to explore the tomb at the center of the "controversy". Controversy? How could a discovery on such a scale be controversial?

   "We are clearing this system now, and it is a Late Period catacomb, like many others around Egypt," he stated this week. "There is no mystery about it, and there is no connection with esoteric topics. We will publish our results as part of our normal process."

While applauding Dr Hawass's new interest in the site, Collins remains sceptical of his motives. 
   "We knew in August that he had started clearing the tomb," he said. "The excavations began almost immediately after knowledge of the cave discovery hit the internet."

Collins is also unconvinced by Hawass's explanation of what he calls the "catacomb". "Does his use of the term 'system' now suggest that he has found and entered the caves, which he previously denied even existed? he asks.
"My colleagues and I have examined photographic evidence of dynastic catacombs throughout Egypt, and these all appear to be carved by human hands." -Hawass

But photographs don't lie.

Collins says, "Those at Giza are natural, and penetrate the bedrock for many hundreds of metres, perhaps following the course of local geological faulting."
Although Dr Hawass suggests there is no mystery surrounding the "catacomb", Collins suspects that the caves extend beneath the Second Pyramid, where ancient tradition puts the legendary Tomb of Hermes, Egypt's legendary founder. This is significant because Hermes is known as the Great Wisdom Bringer and Collins suspects that the chambers could possibly reveal something left behind by Hermes - something like the legendary Hall of Records.

The Hall of Records - as Prophesied by Edgar Cayce

According to the legendary psychic, Edgar Cayce, the pyramids were constructed by an ancient civilization that had its origins in Atlantis. This great civilization existed somewhere around 10,000 to 11,000 BC and was responsible for building the Great Pyramid, and for burying the lost history of mankind in a chamber called "The Hall of Records."
"The records are one... (contain)... a record of Atlantis from the beginnings of those periods when the spirit took form or began the encasements in that land." - Cayce

The records extend through the first destructions of that ancient civilization, the exodus of Atlanteans to other lands, and the final destruction of Atlantis. 

They contain a description of the building of the Great Pyramid, as well as a prophecy of "who, what, where, would come [to make] the opening of the records."
Collins says,

"This has never been found. So perhaps it is still there, awaiting discovery, somewhere close to where Salt and Caviglia reached nearly 200 years ago.

"I do believe that the caves that we have entered are part of a much larger complex that stretches right beneath the entire Giza plateau."

Collins explains that the network of caves are natural and resemble Swiss Cheese. He believes they were formed long before the pyramids were built and suggests that they could be the reason the pyramids were built on this site. The early civilizations believed that part of the dying process involved traversing the so-called "underworld" and these caves might have been viewed as the entrance to this underworld. There is evidence of human activity in the deepest parts of the caves.

Satellite images help verify the caves

According to Collins, "Satellite images would tend to suggest that the caves... go all the way to the Second Pyramid." A little west of here archaeologists have found a collection of bird mummies. Since the constellation of Cygnus is historically depicted as a bird, specifically a swan, it is theorized that worshippers left mummified birds as an offering associated with this star configuration or perhaps to Socar, the bird-like figure that was the ruler of the underworld.

From the entrance of the caves it appears that you can travel towards the Second Pyramid and directly under the spot where the Cygnus star, Deneb, would be aligned with the three pyramids and the wings of Cygnus. Is this where we will find the famed "Hall of Records"? Will the Egyptian government allow the world to know about what's really there? Why are they being so secretive?

What's in the caves

As of February 2010, Dr Zahi Hawass revealed that the system of caves was being probed by a host of experts.

"We have experts in all fields working with us," he revealed this week. "Archaeologists, geologists, engineers, and architects, to name a few... I will be posting information about our excavation at Giza on my web site and will be publishing the results of our work in due course."
Work at the cave-tomb, designated "NC2" by American Egyptologist George A. Reisner, has discovered two new rock-cut shafts and stairways leading into a maze of underground chambers and galleries never seen before in recorded history. Dr Hawass has suggested that they may date to the Old kingdom period. It appears that the caves were originally used as catacombs but leter were used for a bird necropolis, where mummified birds and other small animals were offered as sacrifices.

A British man named Richard Gabriel and his partner Judith was able to gain access to the tomb and cave system and take a sequence of breathtaking pictures. The top 5 photos are from the actual tomb.

Notice the many electrical cables (above, left) indicating the level of activity currently being undertaken in the caves (Are they taking out anything of interest? Are they covering up the signs of past civilizations? Are they hiding the entrances to the underground tunnels?). 

Do you remember the YouTube videos about the night time excavations from under the Sphinx? They took out from the tunnels massive covered boxes and sent them to Cairo's airport. The boxes had been loaded into C-17's cargo airplanes belonging to the US Air Force. 

The boxes had been transported ONLY during the night time! The officials denied it, of course!

One photo displays rock simulacrum in the form of a snake's head, making sense of local folk stories which claim that the caves are haunted by a giant snake called el-Nahash (Not again! Every time we dig deep enough, there is always a reptilian figure lurking in the underground!). 

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What if the cave system leads somewhere deeper? Maybe to an underground city. The history of Atlantis is filled with stories of underground cities. A huge underground city has been discovered in Romania (it has 200 square kilometers).

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Inner-Earth Civilizations May Soon Reveal Themselves!

Author and researcher David Wilcock told C2C that an alliance of ancient civilizations currently residing inside the Earth may be soon reveal themselves to the world.

 

During the formation of all watery planets in the universe, he explained, hollow cavities form below the surface of the crust and have their own biome that features bacteria which gives off natural light.

 

"What this means is that you can actually live inside caverns in the Earth that have visible light," he marveled.

Based on his research, Wilcock said, "it appears that these cavities are used so that more advanced civilizations have a place they can live while they're managing what takes place on the surface."

 

Over the span of the planet's history, he said, various advanced societies, such as the Atlanteans, took refuge underground in order to survive tumultuous times and ultimately settled in their new subterranean location.

 

While the presence of these civilizations has been a part of UFO lore for decades, he contended that the government has direct knowledge of their presence due to accidentally discovering them via clandestine projects aimed at building secret underground bases.

 

 

"They'll have these tunnel boring machines and sometimes they break through into someplace they're not supposed to go," Wilcock claimed, "and there's already people there."

 

Citing the testimony of contactee Corey Goode, Wilcock revealed that the tenuous relationship between the Inner Earth people and those with knowledge of their existence has recently become fractured.

"This military industrial complex had formerly worked with these people and had treaties with them and is now trying to kill them."

 

As such, these Inner Earth societies have come together in response to the emerging threat and have turned to interstellar entities in the hopes of gaining help in the fight against the forces trying to destroy them.

 

According to Wilcock, a long sought after meeting between the two groups was finally held and Goode was allowed to observe the exchange. The strange summit resulted in a stunning request from the interstellar entities.

 

"The Inner Earth people came out of it quite shell-shocked," Wilcock said, "they have been asked to reveal themselves to us as part of disclosure."

 Should the subterranean societies comply with the request, he mused, "I think we are going to find out that underground bases are much more extensive than we thought and much more ancient."

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La planète rouge est-elle bleue ?

Publié par Le Nouveau Paradigme

Depuis près de 40 ans, une polémique fait rage concernant les véritables couleurs de la planète Mars. Notre voisine est-elle vraiment rouge, comme l'assurent la tradition et la NASA ? Ou son aspect est-il bien plus proche des paysages terriens ainsi que le laissent supposer certaines photos ?

La NASA s’efforce-t-elle de nous cacher que la planète rouge est en réalité aussi bleue que la terre ? Cette nouvelle polémique aux relents complotistes est partie de photos prises par le Rover Mars Spirit où l’on découvre un ciel d’azur et un sol rocailleux à la teinte bleu pâle.

© NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS La planète rouge est-elle bleue ?

Le site Ufosighting Daily, qui a recensé d’innombrables « anomalies » martiennes, souvent délirantes mais quelquefois troublantes, a ouvert les hostilités :

   « 99 fois sur cent, la NASA publie des photos avec des fausses couleurs ou en noir et blanc. Mais, cette fois, voici une vue non modifiée du paysage martien. La couleur des rochers varie du blanc au bleu et le ciel sans nuage ressemble au ciel terrien. Je voulais juste vous révéler ce petit secret que la NASA ne veut pas que vous connaissiez. »

Comme d’habitude, Ufosighting Daily n’y va pas avec le dos de la petite cuillère quand il s’agit d’accuser la NASA de cachotteries. Il n’en soulève pas moins un véritable problème : quelles sont les vraies couleurs de la planète Mars, sachant que les photos diffusées par l’agence spatiale américaine sont effectivement retouchées.

En août 1976, Paris Match faisait sa Une sur la première photo du paysage martien envoyée par la sonde Viking. © DR

La controverse ne date pas d’hier. Sur Futura Sciences, Olivier de Goursac, responsable de Mars Society France, rappelle qu’une image prise par la sonde Viking en 1976 avait suscité bien des commentaires : les scientifiques ont fourni à la presse une photo retouchée pour compenser les défauts des capteurs de la sonde. Beaucoup trop retouchée : sur le clichés parus dans les journaux et magazines, le ciel apparaît pratiquement bleu… La NASA a voulu rectifier le tir en publiant un second tirage censé présenter les véritables couleurs martiennes, plus conformes à la tradition. Mais le mal était fait : beaucoup de personnes restent convaincues que c’est la première photo qui est authentique.

       "Pourquoi le ciel de Mars serait-il rouge alors que l’atmosphère est beaucoup moins dense ?"

Pour clore le débat, Olivier de Goursac présente « la preuve des vraies couleurs de Mars ! »sous la forme d’un comparatif entre la mire de couleurs avant l’embarquement sur Mars et la même mire visible sur la planète rouge au début de la mission : « le carré bleu vire au violet sur Mars car la caméra n'a pas de réponse spectrale régulière et laisse passer du rouge et de l'infrarouge: bleu + rouge = violet Il faut donc que le carré bleu tire vers le violet pour que les couleurs de Mars soient bonnes ! »

Ce à quoi le conspirationniste aguerri aura beau jeu de rétorquer : « Qu’est-ce qui empêcherait la NASA de truquer après coup les couleurs de la mire ? » 

Car la question fondamentale demeure : pourquoi le ciel de Mars serait-il rouge alors que l’atmosphère est beaucoup moins dense ?

Pour le spécialiste de l’optique et astronome amateur, Serge Bertorello, « le ciel devrait apparaître sur Mars avec des teintes appartenant à une palette de bleus plus ou moins pâles et peut-être avec une teinte rose aux moments du lever et du coucher du Soleil » explique-t-il dans un article très détaillé publié sur son site.

La raison généralement avancée pour expliquer sur la teinte ocre du ciel martien est la présence d'une grande quantité de poussière rouge en suspension dans l’atmosphère. Mais, poursuit Serge Bertorello, « pour que des poussières colorent sensiblement le ciel, il faudrait qu'elles soient constituées avec des grains de grosse taille (au moins une centaine de micromètres). Or l'atmosphère de Mars est si peu dense qu'il est invraisemblable qu'elle transporte des poussières aussi grosses en grande quantité. »

A l’origine, les photos de Mars présentant un ciel bleu étaient accompagnées de la mention « false colors » (fausses couleurs) signifiant que les images n’avaient pas été rectifiées pour mieux correspondre à la réalité martienne. Un peu comme si un magazine prévenait ses lecteurs de ne pas faire confiance à la photo d’une star trop belle pour être honnête et que les seuls clichés dignes de foi sont ceux où des rides et un peu d’embonpoint ont été rajoutés sur Photoshop…

Pourtant, comme le souligne  Serge Bertorello, de nombreuses images envoyées par le prolifique Rover Curiosity depuis 2012, montrent des paysages à l’apparence très terrestre sous un ciel bleu pâle… Sans la mention « false colors ». Alors ? Mars est-elle « bleue comme une orange ? » 

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The Stars Within Us: Why Everything in You is Stellar

Interstellar dust interacts with the structure of our Galaxy's magnetic field.

Credit: ESA/Planck Collaboration. Acknowledgment: M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, CNRS – Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-XI, Orsay, France

Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts "Ask a Spaceman" and "RealSpace," and the YouTube series "Space in Your Face." Sutter contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Take a deep breath. 

That air filling up your lungs, that oxygen pulled into your bloodstream, stoking your metabolic fire, making you possible, is old. Older than you, older than the Earth itself. That oxygen once lived in the heart of a star that is now long dead. That calcium in your bones? That iron in your blood? The same.

Billions of years ago, there was no Earth, no sun, nor even a solar system. There was just a relatively featureless cloud of gas and dust, hundreds of light-years across. Pretty much in stable equilibrium, that cloud could persist for hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years. But given just a little nudge — perhaps by a nearby supernova going off, sending its blast wave echoing through the nascent cloud — it quickly fragmented, folding in on itself in a complicated tangle of knots and streams. 

Pockets of gas pinch off and catastrophically collapse, in some cases reaching such incredible densities and pressures that nuclear fusion begins deep in the heart of a young system: This is the birth of a star . 

The shattered remains of the cloud organize themselves into a disk. The disk spawns planets that cannibalize more material as they grow and compete for space around the new sun. In fits and starts and collisions, and in migrations and bursts of intense radiation, the leftover debris is cleared from the system, leaving a family: a star (maybe two), a few rocky planets, gas giants, asteroids and frozen leftovers in the outskirts. 

A solar system is born.

It's elemental

A few new elements breeze into the solar system over the millennia, but by and large, what the solar system was born with is all it has. 

The elemental mixture of that primordial gas cloud determines the fate of the system. Not enough silicon? No rocky planets. Just a hint of oxygen? No liquid water on those planets. A bare handful of carbon? Nothing to use to build little critters to swim around in that water. 

But how did this solar system's particular mixture of elements get in that gas cloud oh so many billions of years ago in the first place? To tell the truth, I already gave the answer: fusion. 

In that newborn sun, and in its heart today, a nuclear fire rages. The crushing weight of the sun's own gravity — layer after endless layer of gas trying to squeeze itself into the center — encourages atomic nuclei to overcome their natural repulsion for each other and fuse, like every bad rom-com you've ever seen.

The fusion process leaves a little bit of energy left over , and the countless fusion reactions are enough to power the sun's radiation for billions of years — and give Earth the warmth and light needed to make life possible. 

The process just needs to start with hydrogen, a simple proton. And there is plenty of that in the earliest moments of the universe. All else follows. Every star in the sky, including Earth's own sun, is a massive, sleepless factory for creating new elements. Hydrogen to helium. Onward to carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. In more massive stars, the chain pushes even further, to include calcium, magnesium, neon and argon. All the way to iron and nickel.

Getting heavy

But there, the party stops. After iron and nickel, fusion doesn't produce energy anymore — it takes it. Fusion still happens, but there's nothing to stop the relentless gravitational collapse, no energy production to re-flate the star and balance the contraction. The infalling material tries to jam onto the core, is stopped by the solid iron ball at the center, and quickly retreats. In other words: boom!

A supernova is one of the most fantastic displays of reckless energy seen across the universe . Billions of stars' worth of energy, wasted in a single flash lasting a few weeks. In that energetic inferno, anything is possible. Want to waste energy fusing some new heavy elements? Who cares — there's plenty to spare! Have some more! It's party time!

It's in that furious explosion that the rest of the periodic table is filled out. What wasn't fused in the heart of a star is birthed in the star's death throes, in complicated dances of nuclei and stray neutrons. 

This isn't just a cute bedtime story — this is science, after all, and it requires some evidence. The theory was sweated out in a landmark paper led by physicist William Fowler, who went on to receive a Nobel Prize for his efforts. 

Today, scientists can identify what elements stars are made of, as each element leaves a distinct thumbprint in the starlight. Physicists can observe the fusion happening in the core of Earth's sun by capturing stray neutrinos, a byproduct of the fusion reaction, in detectors here on Earth. Researchers can examine supernova remnants to identify trace elements drifting through the broken clouds. Scientists can explain why some elements are more abundant in the universe than are others: If a particular chain reaction is more common in stars, then the element produced by that reaction will make its mark on the cosmos.

And human beings can see how they really are made of stars — the ashes of long-dead stars, but stars nonetheless. 

Those points of light in the night sky are connected to people in a deep and meaningful way. Human blood and bones are a part of the natural cycle of formation, birth, life and death of humanity's heavenly cousins. People come from stars and will return to the stars; every star dies, and in some fashion spreads its material back from where it came. And when the light from Earth's sun finally snuffs out, it will carry humanity's ashes back into the darkness, to be reshaped again into new worlds, and possibly new life.

Learn more by listening to the episode "Are We Really Made of Stars?" on the "Ask a Spaceman" podcast, available on iTunes, and on the Web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. Thanks to the City of Lima, Ohio, for the question that led to this piece! Ask your own question on Twitter using #AskASpaceman or by following Paul @PaulMattSutter and facebook.com/PaulMattSutter.

Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. This version of the article was originally published on Space.com .

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Daredevil Paraglider Sails with the Northern Lights in Awesome Video

Horacio Llorens is one of the world's top acro paragliders. He has always wanted to fly during an aurora display, but hadn't managed to time his flight correctly. This month he finally managed it, and you can watch Llorens soar with the aurora in this amazing video released by Red Bull.

It was a difficult photo shoot because the aurora borealis, or northern lights, is most visible in winter. (It is hard to see during the summer at high latitudes because the nights are so short.) And that means cold weather, especially in Norway. The photos were taken near Tromsø, a city of 50,000 that is the northernmost of its size in the world.

Temperatures were about 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius) and the weather was damp. On top of that, Llorens had to fly over 28-degree water (2 degrees C). He wore a wet suit to help protect against the possibility of hypothermia.

In this stunning long-exposure view, paraglider Horacio Llorens creates light streaks with green auroras in the background during a flight in Tromsø, Norway, on Jan. 13, 2016.

Credit: Frode Sandbech/Red Bull Content Pool

Snow storms and poor visibility didn't make it easy. To capture these images, Llorens waited on standby for hours in minus-15-degree-C weather, ready for takeoff in very cold, windy and damp conditions. And because he flew above the water, he also wore a wet suit under his flying outfit, in case he had to land on the 2-degree-C water.

"I've found out that flying at night is difficult, especially this far north and during the winter," he said in a statement released by Red Bull. "Tromsø was different from everything I'm used to. It was cold and dark, the wind was strong, and I was surrounded by water. So every decision was important."

Paraglider Horacio Llorens stands beneath the shimmering northern lights after a flight in Tromsø, Norway, on Jan. 6, 2016.

Credit: Frode Sandbech/Red Bull Content Pool

To get his images, Llorens had to use the latest video technology, which allowed him to capture the lights themselves. Auroral displays are visible to the eye, but difficult for cameras to pick up; usually, videos of them are time-lapse images. Using newer cameras, Llorens was able to make his videos in real time.

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"X-Files" sur la Fox : cette série fait parfois écho aux fantasmes des ultra-conservateur

Par Kevin Alleno
Doctorant en science politique

LE PLUS. 14 ans après la fin de la série, "X-Files" revient sur la Fox. Et le retour de Mulder et Scully était visiblement attendu : le premier épisode a réuni 16 millions de téléspectateurs. Pour Kevin Alleno, doctorant en science politique, la reprise de cette série en pleine la campagne électorale américaine a un sens : "X-Files" lui rappelle les fantasmes de certains conservateurs.

Édité par Anaïs Chabalier 

David Duchovny et Gillian Anderson dans "X-Files" (Fox Broadcasting Co.).

"X-Files", série culte des années 90, revient à la télévision après 14 années d'absence. Ce programme diffusé par la Fox, réputée pour être conservatrice, apparaît politiquement quelque peu orienté.

À bien y regarder, la série semble effectivement correspondre au "style paranoïaque" caractérisant la manière de faire de la politique des ultra-conservateurs.

"Style paranoïaque" et ultra-conservatisme

Avec le complot extra-terrestre placé au cœur de la série transparaît l'idée, chère aux ultra-conservateurs, que l’État est le problème. L'idée du complot, si elle est universelle, a toujours eu un grand succès dans l'histoire des États-Unis, surtout dans les franges extrêmes du conservatisme.

Ainsi, la conjuration visant à anéantir les humains et à les remplacer par des extra-terrestres n'est pas sans rappeler le fantasme de certains mouvements conservateurs concernant une extermination programmée des protestants par les catholiques vers la fin du XIXe et le début du XXe siècle.

Richard Hofstadter, historien du XXe siècle, assimila la droite radicale américaine à un "pseudo conservatisme" s'exprimant essentiellement par "le style paranoïaque". "X-Files", notamment à travers son personnage principal, l'illustre parfaitement. Le trait fondamental du "style paranoïaque" est ainsi de supposer :

"L'existence d'un complot organisé autour d'un vaste réseau international, procédant de façon insidieuse, doté d'une efficacité surnaturelle et visant à perpétrer les actes les plus diaboliques qui soient." [1]

Remplacer "communistes" par "extra-terrestres"

L'efficacité surnaturelle est claire dans la série puisque la cabale est menée par des extra-terrestres bénéficiant de surcroît du concours du gouvernement américain. Hofstadter décrit également dans son ouvrage les postulats de base de l'ultra droite américaine :

"D'abord, l'idée d'une conspiration permanente à l'œuvre depuis plus d'une génération […]. Deuxième affirmation : les hautes sphères de la bureaucratie gouvernementale ont été infiltrées par les communistes […]. Troisième et dernière assertion : un réseau d'agents communistes s'est introduit dans le pays [...], si bien que l'ensemble de l'appareil éducatif et religieux, la presse et les médias de masse s'emploient de concert à étouffer toute forme de résistance de la part des bons et loyaux américains" [2].

Remplacez "communistes" par "extra-terrestres" et vous obtenez l'intrigue de '"X-Files".

Mulder, Washington parano

Toute la série est imprégnée de cette méfiance pour ne pas dire hostilité envers l’État, caractéristique de l'ultra-droite américaine.

Autre élément amplifiant l'appartenance au "style paranoïaque" : l'appréhension de ce complot "en termes apocalyptiques" car "il en va de la naissance et de l'extinction de mondes, d'ordres politiques et de systèmes de valeurs tout entiers", en l'occurrence rien de moins que l'existence de l'humanité.

Et Mulder est ce "membre de l'avant-garde […] capable en tant que tel de percevoir l'existence de la conspiration avant qu'elle ne s'impose comme une totale évidence auprès d'un public encore ignorant". "Le paranoïaque est un leader prêt au combat" nous dit Hofstadter [3].

L'affaire se résume ainsi pour Mulder "à un affrontement entre le bien et le mal appréhendés comme deux absolus", interdisant de ce fait tout compromis. Le méchant de la série correspond aussi parfaitement à ce modèle. L'homme à la cigarette incarnant la conspiration est le "parfait modèle de méchanceté", "sorte de surhomme amoral : maléfique, omniprésent, puissant, cruel [...]" [4].

Un autre détail symptomatique du "style paranoïaque" est "l'importance particulière attachée à la figure du renégat" illustrée dans la série par les informateurs de Mulder [5].

Des clins d'œil qui font relativiser

Enfin, le dernier élément rapprochant le personnage principal du "style paranoïaque" est sa "pédanterie", à savoir le "soin minutieux apporté" à sa démonstration.

"Par leur nature même, ces conclusions invraisemblables exigent une quête héroïque de 'preuves' attestant que l'incroyable est la seule chose à laquelle on puisse croire" [6]. Dit autrement par Mulder : 

"La vérité est ailleurs."

Heureusement, certaines répliques ironiques et de nombreux clins d'œil historiques viennent relativiser cette matrice conservatrice. Ce qui nous évite, au passage, d'imaginer Mulder en électeur potentiel du Tea Party !

[1] Hofstadter Richard, "Le style paranoïaque. Théories du complot et droite radicale en Amérique", Paris, François Bourin éditeur, 2012.

[2] Ibid

[3] Ibid

[4] Ibid

[5] Ibid

[6] Ibid

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Strange Cloud Formation Appears Over Portugal, People Call it “ The Hand of God ”

Earth's Aurora Erupts With Powerful X-Ray Display

Although its job is to search for powerful energies emanated by distant cosmic objects, ESA's INTEGRAL space observatory recently turned its eye toward Earth and saw our home planet's aurora glowing brightly with powerful X-rays.

PHOTOS: Epic Auroras Throughout the Solar System

The animation below is made from data acquired by INTEGRAL's IBIS/ISGRI instrument on Nov. 10, 2015. Although Earth isn't itself visible its position and northern rotational pole is noted by the light blue lines as the data were captured across 8-minute intervals. The X-ray emissions from auroras dancing above Russia, Canada, and Greenland are visible as bright red, yellow, and white flashes.

Coincidentally these same auroral displays were also captured from low-Earth orbit by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly. The photo below was shared on Twitter by Kelly to mark one of the 15 sunrises ISS astronauts experience every day, as well as the completion of day 228 of his year-long mission aboard Station.

Auroras are the result of charged particles streaming out from the sun getting caught up in Earth's magnetic field and "funneled" back down toward the poles, from where the magnetic field lines originate. When these particles collide with atoms in the atmosphere radiation is emitted across a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light.

ANALYSIS: Getting Intimate with a Black Hole Behemoth

Launched Oct. 17, 2002, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is a 4-ton, 16-foot (5-meter) -tall spacecraft designed to observe the universe in high-energy wavelengths, specifically gamma rays from supermassive black holes but also in X-ray and select optical wavelengths. It orbits Earth at distances ranging from 6,200 miles (10,000 km) to 87,000 (140,000 km), outside the most harmful and interfering energy of the radiation belts.

On rare occasions INTEGRAL is aimed toward Earth to block out the background field and allow scientists to calibrate the instruments. It just so happened that this time Earth put on an X-ray performance of its own.

ANALYSIS: Black Hole Wakes Up, Torments and Eats a Planet

"Auroras are transient, and cannot be predicted on the timeframe that satellite observations are planned, so it was certainly an unexpected observation," said INTEGRAL Project Scientist Erik Kuulkers. "Although the original background X-ray measurements didn't go quite to plan this time, it was exciting to capture such intense auroral activity by chance."

INTEGRAL is the result of an international collaboration between ESA and the U.S., Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland, and includes instruments from research teams in Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, and Spain. Learn more about the INTEGRAL mission here.

Source: ESA

Originally published on Discovery News.

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CERN dangers revealed – Paperclip Nazi’s and the Cosmology Cartel

Dark Journalist and Dr. Joseph P. Farrell explores the deep political roots and global dangers of the controversial particle physics experiment by CERN called The Hadron Collider, which was set up in Geneva, Switzerland with a massive military style budget of over six billion dollars!

Dr. Farrell's research exposes CERN's official story of the so-called "Atom Smasher" Hadron Collider Project, as being ostensibly created for peaceful scientific experiments in particle physics, and reveals that it is actually a dangerous advanced technology project set up for secret military purposes and is seeking the ability to manipulate matter on a galactic scale and possibly even open dimensional doorways.

Strangelets Danger 

He cites the massive disturbances in the magnetosphere of the earth when the Hadron Collider is turned on and outlines that it may have serious consequences for physical life on earth and a major impact on the rotation of the planet itself.

We also will discover that voices in the scientific community have raised objections that CERN is unsafe due to the potential development of "Strangelets" a distorted potential byproduct of the matter smashing experiments that have been compared to mini black holes that suck in all dense matter and energy.

He also shows the undeniable similarity between the CERN Hadron Collider and a Nazi Physics project called The Bell" that was an underground Torsion Physics project built by slave labor and overseen by the top Nazi Scientists to give them a master weapon to rule the world!

Deep State Nazi Connections 

Dark Journalist and Dr. Farrell investigate the history of CERN and demonstrate clear links of a post-war Nazi International through the figure of John J. McCloy , lawyer for notorious German corporate conglomerate IG Farben. McCloy was also the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and became the American High Commissioner for post World War II Germany.

In a controversial action, McCloy helped clear and vet over 70,000 Nazis (yes, 70,000!) helping to utilize their intelligence networks to set up the CIA.

One of the major figures that he cleared was top Nazi legal theorist and prisoner of war Dr. Walter Hallstein who was eventually responsible for helping to set up CERN and who was also a key architect for developing the the Nazi plan for a European Federation that was eventually adopted as the blueprint for the European Union. McCloy, in a strange twist, also served on the Warren Commission to whitewash any Deep State connections to the JFK Assassination.

JFK was famously committed to "Smashing the CIA into a thousand pieces" as a way to root out the Nazi infiltration of the agency and regain control over the government from suspected Nazi collaborators like CIA director Allen Dulles.

Revealing, groundbreaking, shocking, unnerving, and rife with controversial, staggering implications of a massive covert military project hiding in plain sight.

  

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Monsterlijke gaswolk met kracht van twee miljoen zonnen ligt op ramkoers met aarde

Nu ook Amerika in ban van vreemde geluiden ( VIDEO )

Een paar weken geleden werd in Nederland over bijna niets anders gesproken dan de vreemde geluiden in de lucht. 

Nu is het vooral de beurt aan de Amerikaanse oostkust waar vreemde geluiden worden gehoord en “sonic booms” waarbij alles schudt en trilt als bij een aardbeving. 

Enkele dagen geleden ontvingen wij het volgende bericht van iemand die zich aan de oostkust van Amerika bevindt. 

“Just wanted to let you know there are a series of loud sonic booms that are going on all across the east coast of the US, they are shaking the earth and everything”. 

Een combinatie van vreemde geluiden en het gevoel alsof je midden in een aardbeving terecht bent gekomen, terwijl dat niet het geval is. 

Enige weken geleden hoorde je ook in Nederland niets anders dan mensen die vreemde geluiden in de lucht hadden gehoord. Nu is het hier weer wat afgezwakt, maar in andere delen van de wereld duikt het nu dus weer op, zoals in Amerika. 

Er lopen eigenlijk een aantal fenomenen door elkaar heen. We hebben de vreemde geluiden zoals we die in Nederland hoorden, maar wat men in Amerika ook hoorde waren zogenaamde “sonic booms” en het gevoel alsof men in een aardbeving terecht was gekomen omdat alles trilde. 

Het standaard antwoord van de autoriteiten is altijd dat er ergens een vliegtuig door de geluidsbarrière is gebroken. 

Wanneer er ergens een vliegtuig door de geluidsbarrière gaat dan zal dat echt niet langs de gehele Amerikaanse oostkust te horen zijn. 

Een voorbeeld van wat er in Amerika waar te nemen was, is te zien in de volgende video: 

Een paar mensen die in een auto zitten, een heel merkwaardig geluid horen in de lucht en een auto die heen en weer gaat waardoor zij ervan overtuigd zijn dat ze in een aardbeving terecht zijn gekomen. 

Deze video is gemaakt in New Jersey en het bericht dat wij ontvingen is afkomstig uit South Carolina. 

 

Enkele dagen daarvoor werden bewoners van El Salvador opgeschrikt door dezelfde “sonic booms” en vreemde geluiden. 

Al met al duurde dit ongeveer drie uur en een voorbeeld van hoe het daar klonk, is te horen in de volgende video. 

 

Het verschijnsel van “sonic booms” zoals zich dat enkele dagen geleden in Amerika voordeed, hadden we ook in 2013 in ons land en wel in Friesland. 

Ook toen stond overal de telefoon roodgloeiend van mensen die meldingen maakten van aardbevingen terwijl er geen aardbeving was. 

"Daar zat ik dan vanmiddag. Thuis in Friesland, rustig een beetje aan het werk achter mijn laptop. Totdat gerommel aan de tussendeur mij liet schrikken. De honden sloegen direct aan. Het gegrom en geblaf, maakte mij nog angstiger. Het leek net of er iemand aan de andere kant aan de deur aan het schudden was. Er flitste van alles door mijn hoofd.“Staat de achterdeur nog open? Is er iemand via de achterkant bij ons naar binnen gedrongen? Hellup!!” 

Verschrikt bel ik mijn partner om te vragen wat het kon zijn. Ik, angsthaas als ik ben, durfde niet zomaar te gaan kijken. Hij zei dat het misschien tocht zou kunnen zijn die door de brievenbus kwam. Nee dus, want die zit potdicht. Nou ja, het zal wel niks zijn, want als er daadwerkelijk iemand in huis bleek te zijn, dan had hij of zij de tussendeur wel opengedaan, lijkt me. 

Ineens werd alles duidelijk toen dit bericht mij onder ogen kwam. Een soort aardbeving in Friesland. Trillingen van lucht, maar niemand weet waarvan of waardoor het komt. Bizar, maar waar. Het moet niet gekker worden. Ik was niet de enige die zich lam is geschrokken, want ook op Twitter brak de hel los, zo het schijnt. Wel bijzonder om nu te kunnen zeggen dat ik een “aardbeving” heb overleefd. Hallelujah!" 

Wat we toen in Friesland zagen, was klaarblijkelijk een voorproefje voor wat er verder nog ging komen. Datzelfde fenomeen, gekoppeld aan de steeds verder toenemende vreemde zoem- of bromgeluiden, doet zich nu overal ter wereld voor. 

In de volgende video wat voorbeelden van vreemde geluiden zoals die overal ter wereld in de maand januari te horen waren. Voorbeelden uit Amerika, Canada, Engeland, Schotland, Dubai, Singapore, Noorwegen en Polen.



Misschien ook weer niet zo vreemd allemaal als je bedenkt dat er een mini zonnestelsel onze kant op komt.

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CIA Releases Some Of The Best UFO Sightings In The World

George Stock of Passaic, New Jersey has apparently snapped a series of pictures of a mysterious disc on July 29, 1952.

With the CIA highlighting the top secret investigations it implemented in the 1940s and 1950s, a series of historical UFO sightings has been released, including one of Mr Stock’s pictures.

For some reason, the US intelligence agency uploaded some of its formerly secret UFO case files to its website. UFO conspiracy theorists have been accused the CIA has been accused of a major cover up involvement to hide the evidence of ET life from the public.

Mr Stock stayed in his yard with a friend when they reportedly noticed the object in the sky at around 4:30 pm. He ran inside to his house to get his camera, before shooting five photos of the strange flying object.

Flying at approximately 200 feet before it flew away at a very high speed, the witnesses described the object as solid and metallic with a transparent domed top.

The two friends said it had a blue to grey color and around 10 meters across. It made no noise, the pair further claimed.

No substantial evidence to give absolute conclusion over the pictures. One of the speculations was that the apparent UFO could have been an elaborate hoax with the help of a saucer and an upturned teacup.

The CIA may not be just interested in UFO sightings above the American sky. The CIA also posted another image online involving a fleet of dark-looking flying saucers taken over Sheffield, in northern England, in 1962. Investigators and the media remained baffled of the saucers’ identity for ten years until the perpetrator of the hoax confessed everything.

Then 24-year-old salesperson, Alex Birch, admitted in October 1972 that he and two friends were responsible for the deception. Birch was a 14-year-old schoolboy then. He revealed that they painted five flying saucers on the  glass and photographed them to give an impression of UFOs in the air.

The CIA also published an image of a massive, bright, strange-looking object that allegedly snapped on October 20, 1960, over Minneapolis in Minnesota. It is difficult to determine the object in the image, but it is believed to show a cloaked UFO – a term that applies to a flying saucer when it hides through the clouds to conceal itself.

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2016 Del Rio UFO Festival: David Bowles

As featured on the national cable TV series Monsters & Mysteries in America, author Dr. David Bowles tells of paranormal happenings along the Texas-Mexico Border, including UFOs, strange creatures, and other bizarre occurrences. Dr. Bowles is the author of several award-winning books, including “Mexican Bestiary” and “Border Lore.” He has also conducted research on the UFO stories told in Ancient Mexico.

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UFO sightings are common in tiny Colorado town, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of news article: Feb 1, 2016
Location of sightings: Hooper, Colorado, USA
Source of news article:  

http://kdvr.com/2016/01/24/ufo-sightings-are-common-in-this-tiny-colorado-town/

Colorado is known for its glowing orbs that come and go above the mountain ranges. Colorado Police have recorded them, mayors have reported seeing them and thousands of eyewitnesses have seen them at the same time, and yet, the US government has continued to deny that they exist. Aliens are real. Don't believe it...know it. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
HOOPER, Colo. -- As part of the new series "Colorado’s Unexplained Stories," we’re taking a trip four hours south of Denver to the San Luis Valley. The area is nicknamed "The UFO Hot Spot of America." Apparently, there are more UFO sightings there than anywhere else in America. Locals refer to Highway 17, which cuts through the valley, as "The Cosmic Highway." If you take the highway into Hooper, you’ll eventually pass by an oddly shaped dome-like structure known as "The UFO Watch Tower." It was created by Judy Messoline 15 years ago. “What I find is we get people here because they need a place to talk about it and especially ones that have had experiences. Especially abductees,” Messoline said. Ask anyone who lives in the Hooper area if they’ve ever seen anything weird in the sky and chances are each one of them will tell you "Yes." Their experiences inspired Messoline to create the tower. It features plenty of things, including a log book where people can write their run-ins with the unknown. “I had an air traffic controller from DIA come in who said they get six to eight UFO reports from pilots every month. Now figure that one out,” Messoline said with a chuckle.

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Alien abductee Sue Sill of Outlane, Huddersfield, England wants to prove the truth is out there, Feb 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 2016
Location of sighting: Outlane, Huddersfield, England
News source: 

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/alien-abductee-sue-sill-outlane-10701145

There are 3 videos of her sightings on the article, but they don't allow embedding, so you will have to click the source above to see the videos. And for others, 3 new videos that are not on Youtube yet...5 min after I post this they will be.

I admire this woman. She knows that aliens exist and she is not hiding in the shadows. She steps forward and takes a stand, announcing it to the world and trying to catch more evidence on video. She is a warrior. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
Are we alone in the universe? Everyone has a theory - but for Sue Sill, there’s only one answer. Sue, 57, of Outlane, claims she’s had many encounters with UFOS - and believes she was abducted in 2010. She says Huddersfield is a hotbed of activity and has filmed UFOs in the sky all around the town. Her latest experience was just last month, when she filmed a light in the sky above her home. She said: “I was in my kitchen with my sister-in-law Colleen, who has seen quite a lot of things with me. She said, ‘there’s something over the top of your house again - a bright light in the sky.’” Sue has been an avid UFO spotter for most of her life and in 2010 had an experience she describes as an abduction, around the same time crop circles were found at Castle Hill.She said: “I was sorting my things out for the morning and running a bath. I walked back into the bedroom and it was like I had gone into a trance.

 “I sat down on the bed and the next thing, some figures appeared. They were really small and they had black skin or were wearing black suits. “They had long, thin arms and their faces were obscured, like a liquid. I was thinking, ‘oh God, what’s happening here?’ “They came to the side of the bed and something like a veil came over me. The next thing I knew I was in a space on a craft looking at Earth.“The craft was iridescent like a bubble, I could see everything around me. I was thinking, ‘how can I be looking at the Earth?’ “The creatures spoke with telepathy and were showing me the Earth. At once there was a massive explosion on Earth, like a mushroom, and my heart sunk. “When the creature put its hand on my shoulder it was like ET with a long middle finger. It was like it was feeding off my emotions. I remember the creature saying, ‘don’t worry, you will be all right’. “I didn’t feel they wanted to harm me or the people on Earth, I think they were concerned about what’s happening on Earth. We are destroying the planet.” Sue said all of a sudden she woke up fully dressed lying on the bed. Hours had passed since her last memories from her bedroom. She said: “I tried to get up and I couldn’t stand up. I felt sick. I tried to do my normal routine, getting ready for work, but it was like I was jetlagged. “I saw my neighbour and he asked me what was wrong. I said, ‘I think I’ve been abducted’. He just laughed. “I thought I was going crazy so I went to the doctor. He just looked at me and sent me straight to a psychiatrist, who said I was okay. I knew I was fine. More at source.

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2016 Del Rio UFO Festival: Marta Kristen

Marta Kristen was born in Oslo, Norway, and moved to Los Angeles, California, with her family in 1959. After being discovered by Hollywood, she appeared in a memorable 1961 episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” Her first success in acting was the role of Lorelei in the 1965 movie “Beach Blanket Bingo.” She would later star in “Lost in Space” and make numerous guest appearances on television shows.

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MUFON’s Conclusion of a UFO Sighting in P.E.I. Disputed

Many theories have emerged to explain the UFO sighting, but national UFO group not rocked. The subject matter is a UFO sighting in June 2014 off P.E.I.’s North Shore.

John Sheppard recorded an eight-minute video that showed bright lights in the sky over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. He was camping in the late spring of that year at Twin Shores campground when he shot the video.

He submitted the footage to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) of Canada, which investigated the sighting and concluded it was an unknown aerial vehicle.

But many people are looking to debunk that conclusion. Canada’s Halifax president of the Royal Astronomical Society, Paul Gray, who has been taking photographs for 27 years, believes the thing in the Sheppard’s video is likely the 11:42 p.m. Air Canada flight approaching the Îles-de-la-Madeleine Airport. He explains the main runway of the airport is directly in line with the area of the North Shore where the filming is done.

He further says that the aircraft’s landing lights are turned on ten to fifteen minutes prior arrival and visible up to 160 km away, making it possible for anybody on the P.E.I shore to see them.

As for the light’s erratic behaviour, Gray says that if someone 10 to 20 miles from an airport uses a cell phone and holds it for 5 minutes or more while taking a video of the plane on approach, will also give a result that looks almost the same, which is a bright light bouncing around the screen.

However, assistant director of MUFON Canada, Stu Bundy isn’t convinced with Gray’s explanation. He says that the director of MUFON B.C. is an astronomer and ex-pilot, and he doesn’t think it is an aircraft on approach.

Bundy states their investigator looks into flight schedules out of the Charlottetown and Halifax airports that time of the night.

Bundy also says that they can be wrong, but he stands by MUFON’s conclusion.

A former worker at the P.E.I. National Park, Hugh McCormack, believes the video shows two parachute flares dropped from Canadian military aircraft, which he has witnessed during search-and-rescue training or regular exercises.

Bundy says MUFON is glad to sift through all theories but adds “this is a very polarizing subject with many on both sides who believe they know the truth.”

Ross Thompson, a Thunder Cove cottage owner, offers a third theory. He reveals that he once thought he saw a UFO in the summer of 2014 between his cottage and the water late one evening. But after some investigations, he found out that it was a large drone with multi-coloured lights operated by a cottage renter in the area.

Thompson says he sees red, blue and white lights, plus another one bright light. It flies very similar to the man’s video- moves up and down fast and at approximately the same altitude to the one in the video, says Thompson.

Bundy says they consider the possibility of a drone, but one of MUFON’s field investigator, who owns a drone company, states that it doesn’t have any characteristics or not many of a drone.

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Ring-shaped UFO over Mexico City

This ring-shaped UFO was seen and recorded in the daytime sky above Iztapalapa, Mexico City. This happened on 29th December 2015.

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2016 Del Rio UFO Festival: Noe Torres & Ruben Uriarte

The strange relationship between America’s most secret military base, Area 51, and UFOs will be explored in a special lecture by researchers Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, titled “Exploring Dreamland: A History of Area 51.” The authors recently gave this same presentation at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Alien War

Here’s one interesting TV report from The Third Millennium about a possibility of an interplanetary war.

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Air Force Jet Shoots Down A UFO?

A UFO was shot down after it was picked up on the radar; Air Force officials have announced. A Su-30 MKI fighter jet of an Indian Air Force in Barmer, Rajistan has reportedly intercepted an unidentified flying object on January 26, 2016.

The object on radar was a balloon-shaped object and triggered an alert. According to the IAF, the Indian Air Force (IAF) radar picked up an unidentified balloon-shaped object between 10:30 and 11 am. Then an IAF fighter was ordered to intercept the object and bring it down. Debris from the object has been recovered and subjected to further investigation.

Some locals speculated that the object was a meteorological weather balloon from Pakistan or India. But the IAF has yet to confirm the object’s identity.

Located less than 300 miles from Jaipur, the Bamer village was first in the headline this month when locals reported seeing mysterious balls falling from the sky.

The police investigators who checked the area for debris reportedly retrieved five triangle-shaped pieces of a metal object, which were turnover to the IAF.

Many villagers had claimed that they heard a loud blast over a three-mile radius when the incident took place. Eyewitness Manoj Singh said he heard the explosion sound five times, and something went down after an aircraft flew by.

Last year, nearby Sinleejageer villagers heard similar blasts also in January, and the incident was still under investigation.

Some believe that the mysterious object was a spy equipment because it was above the border with Pakistan.

Hubble Spies on a Beautifully Messed-Up Galaxy

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, but can generally be grouped into easily identifiable regular shapes, such as the elegant spirals or run-of-the-mill ellipticals. And then there are the irregular galaxies, which account for roughly a quarter of known galaxies, that are just kinda messy.

ANALYSIS: Galaxy Grows Monstrous X-Ray Tail

In this recent Hubble Space Telescope observation, one such irregular galaxy, located around 16 million light-years from Earth, has been observed. It looks like a loose collection of stars that have been thrown together and shuffled, like my end-of-semester university dorm room. But this galaxy, called NGC 5408, isn't just a scattering of stars, it's a whole galaxy and it's a galaxy with some interesting astronomical history.

Originally discovered by British astronomer and mathematician John Herschel in June 1834, NGC 5408 was presumed to be a planetary nebula -- a gaseous cloud of gas generated by a dying star. But as astronomical optics improved, its true nature was revealed; NGC 5408 is an entire galaxy living by its own rules, refusing to conform to a regular shape.

ANALYSIS: Requiem for a Weeping, Doomed Galaxy

According to a NASA news release, NGC 5408 is notable for its ultraluminous X-ray source, known as NGC 5408 X-1. This class of object could be the signature of an intermediate-mass black hole, one of the most sought-after astrophysical objects in the cosmos.

Intermediate-mass black holes (or IMBHs) are the "middleweight" black holes that are thought to be the missing evolutionary link between puny stellar mass black holes and the gargantuan supermassive black holes. They are, however, very hard to find and astronomers are currently keeping tabs on ultraluminous X-ray sources in the hope that they may signal the presence of these mid-sized black holes.

Source: NASA

Originally published on Discovery News.

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THIS BIZARRE IMAGE OF A 'HUMANOID' WAS TAKEN DURING AN ALIEN ABDUCTION, CLAIMS WOMEN

An unnamed woman claims 40 mysterious pictures, including one which appears to show a humanoid being, appeared on her mobile phone after she "lost time" to what she thinks was an alien abduction in her home. 

 

Her claims have been reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a recognised global alien and paranormal investigation organisation, which also keeps a database of sightings and incidents.

 

 In a report to MUFON she said asked the organisation to look at pictures she says were taken by beings and appeared on her phone. 

 

 

She said she woke in the bathroom in foetal position

 

 

The woman claims to have no idea how thee images got on her phone.

 

 She said: "I believe I was abducted that night."

 

 The woman said she was at home in a condominium in Plymouth, Hancock County, Illinois, USA, when she had a row with her boyfriend who chose to sleep in his van on the driveway. 

 

She said: "I was lighting a cigarette on the stove and had a scratch off ticket in my hand. 

 

"The next thing I know I'm waking up on the floor of my bathroom in foetal position. 

 

"The cigarette I had and ticket were on the floor in the kitchen apparently I'd dropped them." 

 

 

Sceptics say that people who claim to be abducted have no evidence but missing time.

 

 

MUFON•IG 

 

She says they could only have come from "another world"

 

When you truly look at the detail you see they are other worldly and cannot be faked. 

 

Woman who claims she was abducted 

 

She said a few days later she looked at her phone and found the 40 pictures "that neither she nor her boyfriend had taken." 

 

She said: "When you truly look at the detail you see they are other worldly and cannot be faked." 

 

The woman posted just ten of the pictures with her report to Mufon. 

 

Nine of them appear to be blurred lights or colour, but one includes a humanoid which appears to be laying down with an alien-like face, although the picture is of poor quality. 

 

The rest of the images could be simply blurred images of a light source taken in the dark. 

 

 

 

She did not comment on who or what she thought the human like figure was or if it could have been her boyfriend snapped by someone unknown. 

 

It has already been picked up by some uFO websites which have described the images as extremely creepy. 

 

Sceptics argue that most claims of alien abduction include no real evidence of anything actually happening, other than the "abductee" losing time and then deducing they must have been taken by something 

 

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De aarde bestaat eigenlijk uit twee planeten

Pluto's Surface Has a Surprising Amount of Water Ice (Photo)

These maps of water ice on Pluto's surface were created using data captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. The map at left is an early effort; the one at right used modeling techniques to achieve greater sensitivity.

Credit: NASA/JHUIAPL/SwRI

Water ice is surprisingly abundant on Pluto's surface, a new map of the dwarf planet reveals.

Scientists created the map using data collected by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its epic flyby of Pluto last July.

The new map is more sensitive than an earlier version also produced using flyby observations, and thus shows more water ice — the dwarf planet's bedrock material — cropping up across Pluto's surface than had been seen previously, NASA officials said.

"But despite its much greater sensitivity, the map still shows little or no water ice in the informally named places called Sputnik Planum (the left or western region of Pluto’s 'heart') and Lowell Regio (far north on the encounter hemisphere)," NASA officials wrote in a statement Thursday (Jan. 28). "This indicates that at least in these regions, Pluto's icy bedrock is well hidden beneath a thick blanket of other ices such as methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide."

New Horizons zoomed within just 7,800 miles (12,550 kilometers) of Pluto on July 14, 2015, returning history's first up-close looks at the dwarf planet and its five moons.

The new and old water-ice maps were both made using infrared-light observations captured by New Horizons' Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument, at a distance of about 67,000 miles (108,000 km) from Pluto, NASA officials said.

New Horizons is currently zooming toward a small object about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto called 2014 MU69. If NASA approves and funds a proposed extended mission, the spacecraft will study 2014 MU69 up close on Jan. 1, 2019. 

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Alien Species to replace humans by 2100 says SETI Researcher

UFO Barely Misses US Army Helicopter [Video]

In 1973, the crew of an Army Helicopter encountered a UFO and subsequently won $5,000 for “the most scientifically valuable report of the year.”

 

Such a large number of sightings took place in October 1973 that the period is often referred to as the Great UFO Wave. It’s fortunate that one of them was witnessed by a crew of credible witnesses.

 

On October 18, at approximately 10:30 p.m., an Army Reserve Bell UH-1 (Huey) helicopter took off from Port Columbus, Ohio. It was headed for Cleveland Hopkins Airport, about 100 miles to the north. Its crew consisted of four men: Captain Lawrence J. Coyne, First Lieutenant Arrigo Jezzi, Sergeant John Healey and Sergeant Robert Yanacsek.

 

 

The helicopter climbed to an altitude of 2,500 feet and was cruising at a speed of 90 knots. Atmospheric conditions were ideal and a clear sky allowed for optimum visibility.

 

As they got closer to their destination, Sgt. Healey noticed a red light to their west, flying the opposite way. Two minutes later, he saw a similar light, this time far in the south-east horizon. He got the chance to observe it for a while but, like the other crew members, Healey thought it was nothing more than distant air traffic.

 

About half a minute later, Yanacsek spotted the mysterious light had changed course and was now heading towards the helicopter. Captain Coyne took over the Huey’s controls and began a rapid descent. He also contacted the nearby Mansfield control tower, as he was unable to establish radio communications with the unknown aircraft. Unfortunately, radio contact with the tower soon failed and could not be established again.

 

In the meantime, the red light had increased in intensity and was still heading on a collision course. Coyne therefore increased the helicopter’s rate of descent and airspeed.

 

At 1,700 feet I braced myself for the impact with the other craft, Coyne told United Press International reporters. It was coming from our right side. I was scared. There had been so little time to respond.

The thing was terrifically fast.

 

The crash seemed imminent when the object simply stopped and assumed a hovering position above and in front of the Huey. It was close enough for the airmen to distinguish some of its features.

  

The object was a metallic gray cigar-shaped craft, with “a suggestion of windows ” on the top and red light emanating from its bow. Another white light appeared on its rear side and a green “pyramid shaped” followed it. The airmen said the green beam behaved like a directional spotlight.

 

We looked up and saw it stopped right over us, Coyne said. It had a big, gray metallic-looking hull about 60 feet long. It was shaped like an airfoil or a streamlined fat cigar. There was a red light on the front. The leading edge glowed red a short distance back from the nose. There was a center dome. A green light at the rear reflected on the hull.

 

The green beam of light passed over the helicopter canopy, bathing the cockpit in an eerie green light. The airmen were bewildered as their helicopter began climbing by itself. The tractor beam was in control.

 

I had made no attempt to pull up. All controls were set for a 20-degree dive. Yet we had climbed from 1,700 to 3,500 feet with no power in a couple of seconds with no g-forces or other noticeable strains.

 

After about ten seconds, the UFO suddenly switched off the green beam and began accelerating to the west. In a few minutes, it had disappeared over the horizon. Lieutenant Jezzi approximated its speed at more than 500 knots (570 mph).

 

Despite traveling that fast, it made no sound at all, and produced no air turbulence. These aspects suggest it was equipped with something other than conventional propulsion systems. Its ability to pull the Huey into a rapid ascension demonstrates the effective use of antigravity.

 

 

After the unidentified object lost interest, Captain Coyne and his crew became aware of their altitude and managed to safely descend to 2,500 feet. Radio contact with Akron-Canton Airport and the rest of their flight was uneventful.

 

Their UFO encounter would become one of the most well-documented cases and one of the most reliable sightings. When questioned, the four men gave similar descriptions of the event and provided similar sketches. As further confirmation of the incident, ground witnesses reported seeing a mysterious light in the sky.

 

More than forty years later, this UFO encounter is still fascinating and still unexplained.

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Mac's UFO News - January 2016 (Season 4 Episode 1)

'The Astronaut's Tale': New Opera Celebrates Space with Awesome Visual Displays

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This weekend, a new opera about space exploration, the universe's creation and one astronaut's journey will play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) — and audience members will be able to talk to performers and astronomers after several of the shows.

The 75-minute opera, "The Astronaut's Tale," opens tonight (Jan. 28) at 8 p.m. EST, followed by a special reception honoring retired NASA astronaut Michael Massimino, who launched on two space shuttle missions to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the opera's first full production; Encompass New Opera Theatre put on a partially staged reading in 2012 and is producing this premiere at BAM Fisher's 250-seat theater, complete with a set built around vivid projections of space and the universe's mysteries.

The opera was composed and written by Charles Fussell and Jack Larson, and is directed by Nancy Rhodes. The production's website sells tickets and includes a schedule of the postshow talks.

Over the course of the narrative, a young man grapples with religious and scientific views of the universe, and is inspired to become an astronaut and blast into space. To tell the story, the opera uses song — four singers accompanied by a chamber orchestra — as well as spoken narration. The show is a multimedia experience: Three projectors display images onto the floor, a wall, and a round, hanging set piece, so the actors are surrounded by views of the cosmos.

Encompass New Opera Theatre focuses on bringing 20th- and 21st-century American operas to the theater, and has tackled scientific topics before: Its opera "The Theory of Everything" explored scientific and spiritual ideas about alternate dimensions.

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Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
by Staff Writers
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 29, 2016

Section of rock coloniszed by cryptoendolithic microorganisms and the Cryomyces fungi in quartz crystals under an electron microscope. Image courtesy S. Onofri et al. For a larger version of this image please go here.

Earth is actually two planets, scientists conclude

The early Earth was mixed with a baby planet called Theia following a head on collision 4.5 billion years ago, scientists have 

Today's Earth is made up of early Earth and the embryonic planet Theia Photo: ALAMY

By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor

Earth is actually made up from two planets which came together in a head-on collision that was so violent it formed the Moon, scientists have concluded.

Initially it was believed that the Moon was created when a smaller planet called Theia grazed the Earth and broke up, sending a smaller chunk into space where it was caught in Earth’s gravity.

But if that was the case the Moon would have a different chemical composition to the Earth, because it would be made up, predominantly, of Theia.

"Theia probably would have become a planet if the crash had not occurred"

Prof Edward Young, University of California

However, after studying Moon rocks brought back by astronauts on the Apollo missions, scientists at theUniversity of California have found that their oxygen isotopes are the same as on Earth.

It means that the collision between Their and the early Earth was so violent that the two planets effectively melded together to form a new planet, a chunk of which was knocked off to form the Moon.

“We don’t see any difference between the Earth’s and the Moon’s oxygen isotopes; they’re indistinguishable,” said Edward Young, lead author of thenew study and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry.

“Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the Moon, and evenly dispersed between them.

“This explains why we don’t see a different signature of Theia in the Moon versus the Earth.”

Professor Edward Young

The crash with Theia happened approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, almost 4.5 billion years ago.

It was thought Theia had collided with Earth at an angle of 45 degrees or more, described by the report authors as a ‘powerful side-swipe’

The researchers analysed seven rocks brought to the Earth from the Moonby the Apollo 12, 15 and 17 missions, as well as six volcanic rocks from the Earth’s mantle -- five from Hawaii and one from Arizona.

The key to reconstructing the giant impact was a chemical signature revealed in the rocks’ oxygen atoms. More than 99.9 percent of Earth’s oxygen is O-16, so called because each atom contains eight protons and eight neutrons.

But there also are small quantities of heavier oxygen isotopes: O-17, which have one extra neutron, and O-18, which have two extra neutrons.

In 2014, a team of German scientists reported in Science that the Moon also has its own unique ratio of oxygen isotopes, different from Earth’s. The new research finds that is not the case.

Lunar rock from Apollo 17, credit, Paul Warren

Prof Young’s research team used state-of-the-art technology and techniques to make extraordinarily precise and careful measurements, and verified them with UCLA’s new mass spectrometer.

Theia, which did not survive the collision - except that it now makes up large parts of Earth and the Moon - was growing and probably would have become a planet if the crash had not occurred, added Prof Young.

Prof Young and some other scientists believe the planet was approximately the same size as the Earth; although believe it was smaller, perhaps more similar in size to Mars.

A head-on collision was initially proposed in 2012 by Matija Cuk, now a research scientist with the SETI Institute, and Sarah Stewart, now a professor at UC Davis; and, separately during the same year by Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute.

The new research was published in the journal Science.

William K. Hartmann painted this rendering of the first moments of impact

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Details

Written by Karel Rasin

Category: Encounters

 Published: 30 January 2016

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Editor's note: this is another case submitted by Karel Rasin, and described in his book.

This is a story of a possible UFO abduction released by Project Alfa UFO files. Project Alfa is a Prague-based, non-profit group of researchers in the Czech Republic. Most of project Alfa members are also members of Exopolitics Czech Republic.

Case facts: witness: a woman, named Petra Lachova, age 29, living in Prague, married, not addicted to drugs or alcohol, one child (5 year old daughter). 
Case explorers: Karel Rasin, Dana Rasinova. Date: 2012

Petra with TV staff

It happened about 2 years ago (2010) in her Prague flat. During the night, she woke up and saw something strange coming from the wall just next to the door. It had a grey cloud-like shape and was crawling along the bedroom towards her bed. Then it appeared over her body and was making the same crawling movements. These events repeated several times during the year. With every new visit, the entity became more and more like a figure, like a being. There was a paradox though, physically it wasn't possible to see the door whilst lying in the bed because the furniture blocks the view. Yet she saw the door while lying in the bed! When the being appeared, she would be paralyzed and she found herself in very strange "altered" state of mind and all her senses had been very sharp. The being had the power to move her body, and wherever the being looked, she moved. The man from the wall turned her in the bed to the right, to the left, on her back, on her stomach just by his eyes, and she couldn't do anything about it. When the being appeared, it just stared at her eyes for a long time without doing anything. When the being came next to her bed, it started to talk in a very fast way. His mouth moved rapidly and his mouth looked like it was made from plastic because the rapid talking sort of deformed his mouth. She never understood what he had been talking about, but it reminded her of some codes. This happened many times.

Situation sketch, bedroom visitor

Daughter shocked

Once, her daughter woke up during the night in a stark terror and burst out crying. She was lying in bed next to her mother, and it was a hysterical crying. The mother switched on the light and went over to her. "What´s happening to you?" And little girl answered: "Mum, mum, there was something watching me just right by the door". Mother: "Who was watching you?" And the girl said: "Next to the door, something was standing there! It looked like a gray cloud or gray big beetle, I am scared to death!!"
She took her daughter to her bed, hugged and comforted her until she fell asleep again.

Detailed "Man from the wall"

Sexual harassment

Sometimes, when the man from the wall appeared again, there were changes to the events. After the normal long staring sessions, the being may suddenly appear face to face. She described his facial details, his weird suit (like fur with silver sparks coming out of it and the three big button-like things on his clothes). Face: very narrow mouth (rapid talking like an animation), two big, absolutely dark eyes like black holes, something that resembled a short haircut, an undistinguished nose, humanoid appearance, tall (2-2,5 meters), and very broad shoulders (like soccer defender). She didn't see his feet. She noticed his thumbs being very long (protruding).

 

Silver "dots" coming from his mouth

She found herself again in an altered state of mind. Suddenly she became aware of being on her knees, kneeling on the bed, facing against the wall. She started to feel sexual satisfaction by an oral method from behind. (Her husband wasn't home at that time). When it finished, she talked to herself, asking for him to leave, which he did, then she fell asleep.

Operation theatre

Operation room scene with a detailed sketch

One of the last encounters happened around the end of April 2012. She woke up during the night with a strong feeling that the man from the wall was there again. When she saw him, she become paralyzed and found herself in a changed state of mind again. The man from the wall stood very close to her – face to face. She was lying on the bed with her daughter, and her husband wasn't there. (As far as her husband was concerned, he’s never felt anything strange even if he had been present on many occasions during her encounters).

Suddenly, she felt the man from the wall is on her bed and interested in her daughter. She was very afraid and started to say to herself for him to leave her daughter alone. She described his face in detail and added that his neck had been very strange as if it had been assembled with small circles. The being was kneeling on her bed and all of a sudden, a strange (30cm) long silver stick appeared in his hand. It reminded her of a "railroad dispatcher with a signal disk allowing the train to move". Being afraid of the silver stick, she realized it may have been a sort of scalpel. She held onto her daughter very tightly.

Then the whole scene began to change. Behind the being, the wall changed into some sort of big hologram, like a film screen. She saw a room and she began to see some details. There was a very strange yellow-white light shining from the ceiling in an unusual way which she couldn't describe easily. It wasn't the kind of light you switch on when entering a room, like a normal light, this light was "directed" and only lit up the space below. She saw something like a bed in the scene and the back wall of the room was made with a type of strange material, like some kind of tiles. It was a glass like, bluish material, glowing with a cold colour. From the ceiling, there was something resembling a heavy stove pipe with folds in a brick like colour. The man from the wall was standing inside this scene.

Suddenly she was horrified, because she realized that she’d been there before! It was an operation theatre, definitely the surgery room, and then everything just stopped.

bedroom scene

Sexual harassment number two

Then, she noticed the man from the wall coming again, but this time he wasn't alone! A younger being appeared by his side, smaller, but exactly the same as the man from the wall. Both figures stared at her for a long time without any motion. She couldn't move and stayed in her changed state of mind again. Suddenly she began to turn on her bed with her bottom facing them, in a position ready for sex. She was feeling sexually aroused as if someone was satisfying her by hand. After a while everything stopped and she fell asleep.

Picture of two men an experience with intercourse This is a scene from on-board their ship. She had been brought into a strange room with many beings, all looking the same as the man from the wall. On a table she saw a being which resembled with other beings standing around. This one was ill or without a soul or perhaps somehow dried. The tubes shown in the picture were in both of her arms with a black liquid being taken from her. She felt the being was going to die and she didn't know why they brought her there. The beings just watched to see what she would do.

This is a summary of Petra’s story, and the case investigation is still ongoing.

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Wikileaks Cable Reveals Flying “Machines” That “Obscure” Their Shape Spotted Near Military Installations

Dead for 48 minutes, Catholic Priest claims God is female

Alex Jones: “It Is Planet X, Folks” (Video)

(Before It's News)

Long-time Planet X / Nibiru skeptic and critic Alex Jones has just stated that the newly-discovered ninth planet (Planet IX) is Planet X.

Nearly Illegal Tactical Flashlight Saves Many Families During Power Outtages During East Cost Winter Storms

What do you think about Alex Jones and his statement that it is Planet X. What do you think about Jones as a news source? What is this Ninth Planet really? Is it really the infamous Planet X? Let us know in the comments section and keep on moshing to the apocalypse! 

People Are Saying The New ‘ Planet 9 ’ Is Going To Kill Us All - Here’s Why

A chill swept over the internet last week when scientists announced that there was a huge, unseen planet at the far edge of our solar system - Planet 9.

 

For decades, conspiracy theorists have predicted that an unseen planet beyond Neptune -  called Nibiru or Planet X - is going to destroy Earth.

 

The announcement from Caltech scientists seemed to confirm there WAS a planet there - and the wilder reaches of the internet have already begun predicting apocalypse.

 

A message appeared on the website of Zecharia Sitchin - a writer who claimed aliens from Nibiru created the human race - despite the fact Sitchin has been dead since 2010

 

 

Pastor Paul Begley - an American preacher fond of predicting apocalypse, thundered, ‘Something is causing the heavens to shake - and it’s in your Bible! If you go into the gospel of Saint Luke, Luke 21, verse 10, “Nation shall rise against nation.Kingdom against kingdom. Great earthquakes shall be in diverse places - and famines and pestilences, and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”’

 

Begley admits he’s not certain Planet 9 IS Nibiru - but cheerfully predicts an asteroid strike wiping out a third of Earth’s population, followed by an impact with the planet itself.

 

But in case you’re worried, you should note that Nibiru (or Planet X) was widely predicted to hit our planet in December last year, and before that in September.

 

 

Prior to that, it was predicted to smash into our planet to coincide with the Mayan apocalypse in 2012 - and before that, Nancy Lieder, an American website writer who claimed to have an alien implant in her brain, predicted it would destroy the world in 2003.

 

NASA has thoroughly debunked the Nibiru myth via its Beyond 2012 page, saying, ‘Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.’

 

Soviet-born American writer Zecharia Sitchin first wrote about Nibiru in his hit 1976 book ‘The 12th Planet’ where he claimed it was inhabited by a race of ‘ancient aliens’ - the Annunaki - who had created the human race.

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NASA's New Planetary Defense Office Gets to Work Protecting Earth

NASA's newly created Planetary Defense Coordination Office aims to deal with Earth-menacing space rocks.

Credit: ESA/P.Carril

A new NASA organization dedicated to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids has hit the ground running.

In early January, NASA announced the establishment of a Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), which will synchronize U.S. efforts to deal with threatening near-Earth objects (NEOs) and will supervise all NASA-funded projects to find and characterize asteroids and comets that visit Earth's neighborhood.

"There is no identified threat that we know of right now," said Lindley Johnson, NASA's new planetary defense officer. [Photos: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids in Space]

"Our job is to look for that and identify a NEO as far in advance as we can," Johnson told Space.com in an exclusive interview. "Doing so means we have the maximum amount of time to appropriately deal with the object, be it a small impactor or something that's larger, calling for a kinetic impactor mission, or whatever needs to be done."

NASA's Lindley Johnson is head of the space agency's new Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

Credit: Leonard David

Busy agenda

The PDCO is getting right to work. Next month, for example, the organization will conduct an open forum in Vienna, Austria, during a meeting of the United Nation's Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).

That UN subcommittee has formalized the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and a Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) of U.N. member states that have space agencies.

"Our intent is to work within the international forums," Johnson said, "and encourage more involvement by other countries."

Johnson said that he'll also be working closely with his European Space Agency (ESA) counterparts on NEOs.

"We congratulate NASA for the establishment of their planetary defense office," said Detlef Koschny, head of the NEO Segment within the Space Situational Awareness Program Office at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

ESA is active in the field of NEOs, Koschny said, citing the NEO Coordination Centre at ESA's European Space Research Institute in Italy.

"We are fully supporting the work on defending our planet from potential asteroid impacts," Koschny told Space.com. [Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space]

NASA's European colleagues are eager to coordinate on the planetary-defense effort, Koschny's NEO Segment colleague Gerhard Drolshagen told Space.com.

"We look forward to working with the new Planetary Defense Coordination Office, building on long-standing international and inter-agency cooperation in the domain of NEO detection, risk assessment and mitigation," Drolshagen said.

NASA also recently signed a charter with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency to create a Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group, Johnson said.

The working group will meet regularly — initially, twice a year, Johnson said — with the goal of bringing more people up to speed on the NEO hazard, and discussing how best to handle a potential impact.

The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) 1 telescope on Mount Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii, made the greatest number of near-Earth object discoveries in the NASA-funded NEO surveys from 2015.

Credit: University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy/Rob Ratkowski

Upcoming decisions

By the end of 2016, Johnson said, it should be clear whether ESA will go ahead with the proposed Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission (AIDA), and whether NASA will be a part of the project.

As it's currently envisioned, AIDA would launch two different spacecraft to the binary asteroid system Didymos: Europe's AIM probe and the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) craft, which would be built by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. DART would slam into the smaller of the two asteroids in the Didymos system, and AIM would observe the results, as a way of gauging the effectiveness of this asteroid-deflection strategy.

Another decision expected this year is a go/no-go call on the Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam) mission, which NASA selected in September 2015 as a finalist for its next Discovery-class mission.

NEOCam would survey the regions of space closest to Earth's orbit, where potentially hazardous asteroids are most likely to be found. Among other duties, the space telescope would assess the present-day risk of NEO impacts.

NEOCam is competing with four other mission concepts for a Discovery slot (though it's also possible NASA could pick two of these ideas, officials have said). A decision will likely be announced in September 2016.

The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission concept study is an international collaboration among ESA, NASA, the German Aerospace Center, France's Observatoire de la Côte d´Azur and the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.

Credit: ESA

Last-chance warning system

Also this year, the second Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope is expected to be up and operating. The ATLAS project — developed by the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii — is designed to spot dangerous asteroids shortly before their final plunge to Earth. 

The first ATLAS instrument is at work on the Haleakala volcano, on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The second telescope should be operational on the Big Island's Mauna Loa this year, Johnson said.

"ATLAS is funded by NASA's NEO Observations Program, which is now integral to the Planetary Defense Coordination Office," he said. "It makes sure nothing on the small end gets through without us knowing about it … at least days to weeks before the impact."

Johnson said that he is looking forward to a good year, "finding another 1,500 to 2,000 of these objects with the current capability … and getting a higher percentage of the NEO population in our catalog."

Currently, astronomers have identified and tracked nearly 14,000 NEOs, out of a population thought to number in the millions.

Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is former director of research for the National Commission on Space and is co-author of Buzz Aldrin's 2013 book "Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration" published by National Geographic with a new updated paperback version released in May 2015. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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Violent Impact That Created Moon Mixed Lunar and Earth Rocks

Earth's moon was born from a violent collision between the early Earth and a Mars-size object that scientists call Theia. New research suggests that the lunar rock debris from that crash mixed in with Earth's rocks.

Credit: NASA

The colossal impact that created the moon may have spawned the cosmic mashup between the rocks that ultimately became Earth and its lunar neighbor, researchers say.

Previous research suggested that about 100 million years after the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the newborn Earth was hit by a Mars-size rock named Theia, named after the mother of the moon in Greek myth. Debris from the collision later coalesced into the moon.

Much remains uncertain about the precise nature of this giant impact. For instance, scientists have long debated how much debris, including water, was exchanged between the nascent Earth and moon, and whether the collision was a glancing blow or a high-energy impact. [Watch: How the Moon Was Made, and What It Did for Life]

Now scientists find evidence that the rocks that went on to become Earth and the moon were thoroughly mixed together before they separated. This suggests that "the collision that formed the moon was a high-energy impact," said study lead author Edward Young, a cosmochemist and geochemist at the University of California, Los Angeles

Moon rocks tell the tale

The moon is Earth's nearest neighbor, but its origins date back to a violent birth billions of years ago. See how the moon was made in this Space.com infographic.

Credit: By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist

The researchers analyzed seven moon rock samples collected during the Apollo 12, 15 and 17 lunar missions. They also examined one lunar meteorite — a rock that a cosmic impact knocked off the moon, which later crashed on Earth.

The researchers focused on ratios between different isotopes of oxygen in the rocks. Isotopes of an element have differing numbers of neutrons from one another — for instance, oxygen-16 has eight neutrons in its nucleus, while oxygen-17 has nine. [Violent Birth of the Moon Explained (Infographic)]

The ratio of oxygen-17 to other oxygen isotopes typically gets smaller the bigger planets and moons get. This means that different planets and moons usually have distinct isotope signatures.

However, the researchers found that Earth and the moon have indistinguishable oxygen isotope ratios, within 5 parts per million when it comes to oxygen-17.

"As we continue to improve our ability to make measurements, the moon and Earth continue to be more and more alike isotopically," Young told Space.com.

Previous research from another group in Germany found subtle differences in oxygen isotope ratios between Earth and the moon, differing by about 12 parts per million when it came to oxygen-17. This prior work suggested that less mixing occurred between Earth and the moon than now proposed.

Moon-Earth mix-up

This piece of the moon collected by astronauts on the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission shows a sample of lunar highland rock as viewed in cross-polarized transmitted light.

Credit: Paul Warren, UCLA

Young and his colleagues said their analysis was more precise than previous studies because they were able to identify and overcome potentially major causes of error, such as contamination by water.

"It should be remembered that the new level of precision that we are working with is challenging, and so it is not surprising that there will be some disagreement in the beginning," Young said.

Isotope geochemist Andreas Pack at the University of Göttingen in Germany, whose group previously found oxygen-isotope ratio differences between Earth and the moon, said this new research presents "high-quality data along with a sound explanation for the surprising similarity of Earth and the moon. There is nothing for me to criticize."

These findings suggest that the newborn Earth and Theia contained substantial amounts of water bearing oxygen-17, the researchers said. This water may have come in the form of ice- or water-laden minerals, they added.

In the future, "we will be measuring many more lunar samples to get a feel for what sort of variability there might be from terrain to terrain on the moon," Young said. "For example, we see evidence for oxygen isotope differences between basalts on the moon and the highlands of the moon. These differences mimic similar variability seen here on Earth."

The scientists detailed their findings in the Jan. 29 issue of the journal Science.

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Alien Drone Takes Low Flyby Over UFO Researcher In Arizona On Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 27, 2016

Location of sighting: Queen Creek, Arizona, USA

This video was recently posted by jmhz71 of Youtube. These are done UFOs. They record anything and everything around them for scientific purposes. They have a high curiosity that changes as fast as their speed. Here a person and this drone both notice the white floating object in the sky, but the drone UFO decides to take a close flyby of the person looking at the white object. Thats happened a few times to me before. These drones...they can read thoughts (telepathy from as far as 1/2km away! They record everything from thoughts of the people below to their tastes, touches, feelings. I got all that from a sighting long ago in South America when a guy had one on one contact. Alien tech guys. 
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Sirius, the Dog Star, Reigns Supreme in Dazzling Photo

The brightest star in Earth's night sky, Sirius, hovers over a burial mound, called the Leeburg tumulus, in a new image by project nightflight.

Credit: project nightflight

The bright star Sirius presides over an ancient burial mound in a dazzling new photo by project nightflight, taken at the Grossmugl Star Walk in Austria.

Project nightflight is an initiative that promotes interest in and conservation of the night sky, led by astrophotographers Karoline Mrazek and Erwin Matys. The group captured this view of Sirius, the brightest star in Earth's night sky, about a half hour's drive from Vienna. The project's work is online at www.project-nightflight.net.

"This image, shot on January 22, 2016, shows Sirius rising above the Leeberg tumulus, a 2500 years old ancient burial mound at the endpoint of the Grossmugl Star Walk," project nightflight wrote in an email to Space.com. [Gallery: Amazing Skywatcher Photos from Around the World]

The Grossmugl Star Walk, set up by project nightflight, is self-guided tour that's nearly 1 mile long (1.5 kilometers). Visitors learn how to spot different astronomical features over the course of a 90-minute walk. The burial mound acts as the tour's finale, and is featured in this new image, called "Frozen Farmland."

"The image was shot one day before full moon on a very cold and crisp winter's night," the photographers wrote. "The near full moon illuminated the frozen farmland surrounding the tumulus and gave the sky a distinct bluish hue."

Editor's note: If you capture an amazing photo of the night sky and you'd like to share it with us and our partners for a story or image gallery, send images and comments in to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.

Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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The secret shugborough inscription, the key to finding the Holy Grail?

According to legend throughout history, the Holy Grail has special powers, including the secret to immortality

 

The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters [O U O S V A V V] between the letters D M – carved on the 18th century Shepherd’s Monument in Staffordshire, England. The monument itself is estimated to of been built sometime between 1748 and 1763, which was commissioned by Thomas Anson, and his brother Admiral George Anson, from the powerful Anson family and fashioned by the Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers. It has never been explained with clarity, only in theory, and is largely considered to be one of the world’s greatest cipher codes and secrets.

 

 

One of the most popular theories is that the strange sequence of letters – OUOSVAVV, framed at either end by DM – was left as a clue to the whereabouts of the legendary Holy Grail which allegedly hold the secret to esoteric knowledge including immortality. According to the legend, the code was created by the Knights Templars, the fanatical military unit that led the slaughter of the crusades.

 

Countless individuals have tried to crack the code, including famous historical giants, Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, but every single one has failed to provide a tangible and agreeable interpretation.

 

The Anson brothers are reputedly associated with Freemasonry and the Priory of Sion. The priory also claimed links to the Knights Templar and they believed that Jesus was not a divine figure but rather just an enlightened one. Researchers believe that Jesus had esoteric knowledge that could be discovered if this code is cracked.

 

Other theories, according to historicmysteries.com can be summed up as follows;

 

-Admiral George Anson, famous for his circumnavigation of the globe, possibly encrypted an acrostic of a brief poem in Latin to the memory of his late wife. This verse translates into English as: “Best of wives, best of sisters, a most devoted widower dedicates to your virtues.”

 

-Another attempt to solve the riddle posits that the letters are acrostics in Latin for particular biblical verses.

 

-Others have suggested that the letters represent initials of noteworthy residents of Shugborough Hall and its environs.

 

-A standard of many mysteries, it has been suggested that the letters, once decoded, will tell the location of the Holy Grail.

 

-Someone has speculated that the code is actually in the Norwegian language, and that attempts to use Latin or English to crack the code are futile.

 

-And there have been many that believe that the inscription does not represent letters at all, but is actually a string of numbers.

 

-Below you can view one of the newest and credible theories to date, by a former NSA code breaker, Dr. Keith Massey;

 

 

And here you can watch a documentary on the mysterious and legendary Holy Grail;

 

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3D Printing DNA Broadly Impacting Biological & Medical Sciences

By: David Russell Schilling

Cambrian-Genomics 3D Printing DNA (Image Courtesy www.sdpb.org)

Building DNA Computers

Humans are now being described as DNA computers. Although humans still don’t know exactly how DNA works, they are moving forward with research and gaining fresh insights on a daily basis. Call it DNA artwork, genetic 3D printing, DNA printing and graphics, or DNA Canvas art; by whatever name, it is a cutting-edge tool already making waves in science, clinical research, and society. It is also redefining what it means to be human.

IndustryTap has written about human attempts to alter nature’s DNA computers, like the glowing plants in which the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) of plants is modified using a genetic compiler so they glow, acting as bedside nightlights. This technique presages the day, not too far off, when anyone, anywhere, will be able to design and create new living organisms. No wonder Stephen Hawking is worried about our future.

3D Printing a Person’s Face Using a DNA Swab

One new technique 3D prints the face of a person using information derived from DNA sequencing. This week, for example, scientists released two life-sized models of Chelsea Manning’s face using a 3D printer and her DNA information. If Manning hasn’t attained immortality yet, she has now.

Chelsea Manning 3D Printed Face from DNA

In a related development, police departments are now using this technique to create composites of suspects from microscopic DNA left at crime scenes. It’s expected this new technology will put a significant dent in the huge backlog of “cold cases,” get violent criminals off the street, and bring closure to families who’ve lost loved ones.

3D Printed DNA as Scaffolds for Nanoparticles

Researchers are also using 3D printed synthetic DNA to create scaffolding structures for assembling nanoparticles and nanodevices. This involves new techniques of DNA nanotechnology that enable the design and fabrication of static and dynamic DNA nanostructures.

Cambrian Genomics, headed by Austin Heinz and part of Singularity University’s growing Startup Lab portfolio, is leading the development of DNA technology that will allow DNA mapping and the custom-design of living creatures.

The following YouTube playlist includes 3 videos about Cambrian Genomics and 3D Printing DNA.

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David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.

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Mysterious Sonic Boom Reported Over New Jersey

At least 10 sonic booms have been reported this afternoon (Jan. 28) from southern New Jersey along the East Coast to Long Island, New York, say scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The first sonic boom was recorded at 1:24 p.m. EST (18:24:05 UTC), about 2 miles (3 kilometers) north-northeast of Hammonton, New Jersey, and 37 miles (60 km) south of Trenton, New Jersey. In the following hour and a half, seismometers picked up at least nine other sonic booms along the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Long Island, according to the USGS.

A spokesperson for the USGS said agency scientists there have no other information except that these were sonic booms and not earthquakes that were detected today.  

A sonic boom occurs when an object (or an explosion) travels faster than the speed of sound (761.2 mph, or 1,225 km/h, at sea-level), sending out a shockwave that also travels faster than sound, according to John Bellini, a geophysicist with the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado. [Photos: See Aircraft Breaking the Sound Barrier]

The cause of today's sonic booms remains mysterious. Bellini noted, however, that if an explosion had caused these booms, someone likely would have seen it.

Officials have also ruled out NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia, which routinely launches small rockets and jet test flights from its Eastern Shore site. But today, no rocket launches or jet flights occurred at the NASA center, spokesman Keith Kohler said in an email.

Scientists knew these were seismic waves from sonic booms and not earthquakes because of their speed. "An earthquake moves through the ground and it moves 10,000 feet per second [3,048 meters per second]," Bellini told Live Science. In today's instance, the waves were moving away from the seismometers in New Jersey at speeds that would suggest they were moving faster than sound in the air. A seismometer that tracks waves moving through the ground can pick up a sonic boom, whose waves move through the air, Bellini said. But the seismometers usually have to be pretty close to where the boom occurs, because sound doesn't transfer well into the ground.

ABC News reported that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Aerospace Defense Command had both confirmed they didn't have any planes operating nearby that could have generated the sonic booms.

No aircraft capable of sonic booms were operating at nearby naval air bases either, according to officials.

"We have reports of ground shaking in S. Jersey — currently our training ranges are clear and no MDL aircraft are capable of sonic booms," officials at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey, wrote on Twitter. "We're working with local authorities to determine the cause and will have an update ASAP."

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