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Curious about Methane and Organic Molecules on Mars

Curious about Methane and Organic Molecules on Mars

At the 2014 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), scientists announced two important discoveries made by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The findings included Curiosity’s detection of organic molecules in drill samples taken from a mudstone that once sat on the bottom of and ancient martian lake. The second finding was a spike in levels of atmospheric methane at the rover’s research site.

Curiosity is the rover element of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission and landed on Mars in 2012. One of the key goals of MSL is to explore the potential for past or present habitable environments on Mars, and part of this objective is to search for organic compounds of either biological or non-biological origins. To accomplish this goal, Curiosity has been examining the martian regolith, drilling into martian rocks and taking samples of the planet’s atmosphere.

Organic Findings

Curiosity carries the most powerful tool for studying volatiles (chemicals with low boiling points often found in gaseous form) and organic compounds (molecules containing carbon and hydrogen) ever sent to Mars: the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. So far, SAMhas made thirty-four measurements from ten different sites on the planet. The first was a scoop of wind-deposited sand and dust at a place called Rocknest. The elemental composition of the samples was similar to soils previously studied by the Mars Exploration Rovers, Opportunity and Spirit. This meant that the windblown materials were likely widespread on Mars and could have been blown into Curiosity’s landing site from further afield. Curiosity also found methane, a carbon-containing molecule composed of one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. However, the methane was chlorine-bearing, meaning that one or more of the hydrogen atoms had been replaced by chlorine. The thought was that the chlorine came from sources on Mars, but the carbon came from terrestrial sources.

Curiosity drilled into this rock target, “Cumberland,” during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (May 19, 2013) and collected a powdered sample of material from the rock’s interior.IMAGE CREDIT: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS.

Curiosity then traveled into a region called Yellowknife Bay and found evidence of an

ancient lake of liquid water and a flowing river in the area. The rover drilled two holes (John Klein and Cumberland) in a formation of mudstone rock informally dubbed ‘Sheepbed,’ which formed more than 3.5 billion years ago at the bottom of the lake. Curiosity found that the clay-rich composition of the mudstone was ideal for preserving organic molecules. In addition, chorine-bearing hydrocarbon molecules were present, but in larger quantities than in the windblown materials at Rocknest. The quantity and structure of the molecules suggested that the organic carbon could have come from the mudstone itself, or that it was at least present on Mars before Curiosity arrived.

This discovery is what led researchers to announce that organics had definitely been identified on Mars. This announcement at the AGU conference was followed by a paper, “Organic molecules in the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars,” which featured on the cover of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (1). The publication describes how data from Curiosity, combined with the analysis of blank samples and supporting laboratory experiments, provided the necessary evidence to conclude that organic molecules indigenous to the martian sample had been detected.

Since publication, the team has continued their work, delving deeper into the findings at Cumberland (CB) and making sure that they could not be the result of contamination or any other error. Additional molecules indigenous to the CB sample were later discovered in the same set of data, and further publications are now in preparation.

The research team uses SAM to perform a technique known as pyrolysis-GCMS. The samples are pyrolyzed (heated) to ~900 ºC and the gases that evolve from them are flushed into the instrument for separation by gas chromatography (GC) and identification using a mass spectrometer (MS). Researchers can then look at the molecules, specifically identifying some, and for others they are able to figure out the pathways that led to their formation. Information about their chemical properties can also be gleaned, providing a great deal of information about the original/precursor compounds from which they were derived.

The SAM team also developed and used derivatization. In this technique, a reagent reacts with compounds found in the sample, and those compounds are transformed into new ones of similar structure, known as derivatives. Those derivatives are more volatile than their precursors and can be analyzed more easily. This allows researchers to identify bigger molecules such as amino acids or carboxylic acids, which are typically degradation products of proteins or fatty acids.

Abundance of chlorobenzene detected at sites explored by the Curiosity rover in Gale Crater on Mars.IMAGE CREDIT: CAROLINE FREISSINET ET AL. 2015.

The samples collected by Curiosity, whether sand or rock, contain a mixture of chemical compounds. Pyrolysis-GCMS and derivatization-GCMS helps scientists separate the different compounds in order to understand the composition of the sample.

“Following the first Cumberland (CB) pyrolysis-GCMS results, we ran a derivatization experiment on a CB sample we kept in SAM for a year,” said Caroline Freissinet, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “There was a leak in one of our derivatization cups, and the derivatization reagent MTBSTFA was spreading in the samples held in SAM.”

Freissinet and her team used the leaking reagent to perform an opportunistic experiment that is helping them better understand the composition of the samples collected by Curiosity. Rather than trying to stop MTBSTFA leaking into samples, they allowed enough time to take advantage of the leak and maximize the amount of MTBSTFA in order to soak the CB sample. Then they performed the derivatization experiment without having to puncture a cup.

“From this opportunistic derivatization experiment, we detected complex molecules that are difficult to identify specifically,” explained Freissinet. “However, the mass spectra of the derivatized molecules detected in CB points towards general structures, such as long-chain carboxylic acid and long-chain alcohol, and at least one functionalized aromatic compound.”

The team is still working on identifying the precursors that led to these complex molecules, but their preliminary results were presented at the 46th Lunar Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in March (http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/2934.pdf ) and at the 2015 Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) in June (http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2015/pdf/7504.pdf). Ultimately, they believe that some of the molecules are products of reactions that involve complex organic precursors present in the CB sample. Previous work by Benner et al. (2000) provides some clues about the types of molecules that could have led to the formation of the products identified in the pyrolysis and derivitization experiments.

“We cannot be sure about the precursors, but benzocarboxylates, which were predicted to be the most stable end-products of several organics that would be present at Mars’ near-surface by Benner in 2000, are good candidates,” said Freissinet.

Curiosity and the team behind SAM didn’t stop with the Cumberland samples. The rover rolled to a site called Pahrump Hills, located at the base of Mount Sharp, a mountain in the center of Gale crater that towers over the landing site. A new drill sample dubbed Confidence Hills was collected and, with this sample, scientists were able to announce that the detection of organic molecules at CB was indeed definitive evidence of organics that were martian in origin.

Caroline Freissinet of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in from of a model of the SAM instrument suite.IMAGE CREDIT: CAROLINE FREISSINET.

Simply finding organic molecules does not mean they are linked to life. These molecules, which are typically built from atoms of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, can be made in a myriad of ways that do not involve living organisms. However, life is built from these types of molecules and their discovery can help astrobiologists determine whether or not the ingredients for life’s origin were present on ancient Mars when liquid water was available at the surface.

“The origin of this organic matter (biological vs. abiotic) cannot be determined, and both hypotheses are valid,” said Freissinet. “Hence, the organic matter may be exogenous from meteorites, micrometeorites or comets, or indigenous from hydrothermal formation or biological origin.”

Yet, proving that the carbon did not come from Curiosity itself is a big step, and now the question is, “where on Mars did it come from?” As Freissinet mentions, there are a few possible answers to this question. The carbon might be from Mars itself, originating from geological processes on the planet or even biological processes. A second possibility is that it was delivered from exogenous sources, like meteorites, comets or interplanetary dust particles floating through space. Organic compounds have been detected previously in all of these exogenous sources, and if they fell to the surface of Mars they could undergo reactions that would make them stable enough to build up in the martian regolith.

The definitive discovery of organic molecules on Mars provides important context for life’s potential on the planet, and locations where habitable environments may have persisted in the past. These molecules are critical to the origin of life as we know it, and provide clues as to whether or not life could have found a foothold on Mars. They can also help scientists understand what types of signatures future missions could look for in order to identify signs of past or present life. These measurements represent the first detection on Mars of indigenous organic compounds in surface rocks and address a long standing objective of the Mars exploration program. With the whole set of capabilities of the SAM instrument, scientists are now planning experiments to look into the origin of the organic molecules present in Mars’ subsurface.

Burps of Methane on Mars

The second big discovery from Curiosity was the detection of elevated methane levels in the atmosphere local to Gale Crater. Curiosity wasn’t the first mission to get a whiff of martian methane. Earth-based telescopes and orbital missions at Mars had detected the organic chemical in the past. However, when Curiosity first stretched its wheels at Gale Crater, the rover found only a small fraction of methane in the atmosphere. This raised questions about where and how methane signals could be detected on Mars. Then came the 2014 announcement.

The results presented in 2014 showed a ten-fold increase in methane levels local to the Gale Crater site. It was a large increase over previous measurements, but it was also short-lived. The methane signal dropped down to low levels shortly after it appeared.

A spike in the abundance of methane in the martian atmosphere surrounding NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, as detected by a series of measurements made with the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) instrument.IMAGE CREDIT: NASA JPL-CALTECH.

The methane cannot be taken as a sign of biology because there are plenty of non-biological sources that could have produced it, such as interactions between water and rocks. However, no matter where it came from, the sharp spike in methane could mean that its source is localized to a specific area.

At first, scientists questioned whether or not the methane spike could have been caused by contamination released from Curiosity itself. That was the first question the research team had to address.

“I cannot find any logical argument to convince me that the methane detected by SAM was leaking from the rover,” said Sushil Atreya, a co-author on the study and professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Director of the Planetary Science Laboratory at the University of Michigan. “First, the rover itself does not generate methane. As for any methane that went to Mars with the rover from Earth, there was ample time for it to dissipate. Multiple observations made under different rover orientations and wind fields throughout the year, and before the methane spikes appeared, showed only a low background level of methane.”

If methane had been trapped somewhere in the rover, the likelihood of it remaining trapped for so long without dissipating is low. Keep in mind that the rover had been driving around the surface since 2012. In addition, methane returned to the same low background level after the spikes were detected (2).

“If the rover were leaking methane into the instrument, it would have shown up at other times also, rather than just when the spikes were detected,” added Atreya.

Curiosity used an instrument called the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) to detect the methane spikes. There is some methane contained in the foreoptics of the TLS, but the amount is miniscule compared to the amount detected in the spikes.

The SAM instrument suite on the Curiosity rover.IMAGE CREDIT: SAM/NASA-GSFC, AND MSL.

“A conservative estimate is that one thousand times more methane is required to produce a 10-meter diameter cloud 7 ppbv methane around the rover than the entire amount of methane in the foreoptics, not even accounting for the fact that the cloud would need to be replenished continually over the two-month period of the spikes as methane dissipates away,” added Atreya. “In view of the above, I’m confident Curiosity is detecting martian methane at all times, not terrestrial methane hanging around the rover nor methane leaking into or out of the instrument.”

One possible source of the low levels of methane observed by Curiosity could be the breakdown of organics at the surface. As mentioned, organic molecules can originate from sources beyond Mars, such as cosmic dust or meteorites. After being delivered to the surface of the planet, the organics are exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the Sun and are eventually broken down over time.

“Geology and biology are still the most plausible origins of the methane observed by Curiosity on Mars,” said Atreya. “Although, UV degradation of surface organics delivered by exogenous sources may be sufficient for the low background level of methane, geologic and biotic contributions are not ruled out.”

This composite image looking toward the higher regions of Mount Sharp was taken on September 9, 2015, by NASA's Curiosity rover. In the foreground - about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the rover - is a long ridge teeming with hematite, an iron oxide.IMAGE CREDIT: NASA JPL-CALTECH .

Although not impossible, this gradual breakdown of organics is not a likely source for the dramatic spikes in methane detected by Curiosity. For exogenous organics to serve as a source of the methane spikes, a specific event would have had to occur in order to release a quick burst of methane.

“Existing SAM data argue for serpentinization and/or methanogenesis as the most likely mechanisms for elevated levels of methane seen in the spikes,” said Atreya. “The methane spikes did not coincide with any specific meteor events on Mars, but we plan to investigate this possibility further in future observations.”

Serpentinization is a geological process that involves water being added to the crystalline structure of minerals found in rocks. It does not involve biology, but often occurs under geological stresses like heat or pressure. Methanogenesis is a biological process in which methane is a byproduct of metabolism. Either of these processes could be responsible for quick bursts of methane being released into the atmosphere, especially if methane was stored in clathrates that can be destabilized by any number of stresses. Right now, there is no indication as to which process is the most likely source of the methane Curiosity sniffed out, or whether or not there might be another explanation for Curiosity’s measurements altogether.

“The burps of methane we observed over a two-month period in 2013-2014 (Ls 55.7 and 81.7 deg) indicate that Mars is presently active,” explains Atreya. “However, we are constantly looking into alternate hypotheses as well.”

To explore other possible sources of methane, Curiosity is continuing to monitor changes in methane levels. The team is also considering other measurements that they could take to better understand the behavior of methane on Mars and how it interacts with other gases in the planet’s atmosphere, such as oxygen.

“Additionally, we plan to do targeted observations of methane to time with any meteor showers on Mars,” says Atreya.

Primary deployment test of the three-fold solar panel on India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) prior to launch. Credit: ISRO

Primary deployment test of the three-fold solar panel on India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) prior to launch.IMAGE CREDIT: ISRO.

Other missions may also help add to the story of methane on Mars, working with Curiosity to gain a better picture of methane on the planet as a whole. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) entered martian orbit in the autumn of 2014. The European Space Agency’s (ESA)\Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is currently scheduled to launch for Mars in 2016.

“Both MOM and ExoMars TGO carry methane sensors,” said Atreya. “If successful, they have the potential of mapping methane over Mars, something a relatively localized rover cannot do.”

From orbit, MOM and ExoMars TGO will help hunt for hotspots of methane at the martian surface. They will provide maps that show when and where methane appears, and how those levels of methane vary over time.

“Combining those maps with in situ, on-surface data on methane by Curiosity holds the promise of giving new insights into the sources and sinks of methane on Mars,” said Atreya.

The exact origins of organic molecules and atmospheric methane on Mars are still unknown, but the answers get closer with each observation made by the international team of robotic explorers currently operating at the planet.

Astrobiology and SAM

Curiosity’s SAM instrument is the most complex analytical chemistry laboratories ever delivered to another planet. One of SAM’s most important astrobiological goals is to search for evidence of ancient habitable environments in Gale crater that could have supported life in Mars’ past. For more information about astrobiology and the Curiosity rover, visit the Astrobiology Missions page here.

SAM being loaded into the qualification and calibration chamber.IMAGE CREDIT: SAM/NASA-GSFC, AND MSL.

References:
(1) Freissinet et al. (2015) Organic molecules in the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, doi:10.1002/2014JE004737
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014JE004737/full
(2) Webster et al. (2013) Low Upper Limit to Methane Abundance on Mars. Science. 342(6156), 355-357. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/355.short
(3) Benner et al. (2000) The missing organic molecules on Mars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 96(6), 2425–2430. http://www.pnas.org/content/97/6/2425.short

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Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Have you ever asked yourself Why the mainstream media hide and refuse to acknowledge UFOs?

Have you ever asked yourself Why the mainstream media hide and refuse to acknowledge UFOs?

Have you ever asked yourself Why the mainstream media hide and refuse to acknowledge UFOs?

Have you ever asked yourself Why the mainstream media hide and refuse to acknowledge UFOs?

Have you ever asked yourself Why the mainstream media hide and refuse to acknowledge UFOs? There’s no subject more ignored, shunned and discounted by the mainstream media than that of UFOs.

It’s absolutely true (this refusal to report, that is) and for the life of me, I can’t understand why. The implications of the ostensibly deliberate disinterest are unfathomable not to mention those of a government cover-up. In fact, the prominent ufologist Stanton Friedman calls it in effect the Watergate of the millennium.

The subject of flying saucers represents a kind of Cosmic Watergate, meaning that some few people in major governments have known since July, 1947, when two crashed saucers and several alien bodies were recovered in New Mexico, that indeed SOME UFOs are ET. As noted in 1950, it’s the most classified U.S. topic.

And note, he unabashedly calls them flying saucers and not UFOs. How can this subject, the subject, the existence of extraterrestrial beings, especially now as the latest iteration of Star Wars breaks all box office records, be of no interest to the media? And moreover, as newsrooms are shuttered, as news resources are pared and slashed, as the current crop of journalistas are desperately shaking the bushes for something, anything, to report on or cover, how can the most fascinating subject that has captivated humans since time immemorial not be leapt upon with the usual ferocity? A cursory review of the Internet reveals numerous countries along with the Vatican openly acknowledging the existence of UFO files and investigations. Do you mean to suggest there exist no enterprising media types who are unwilling to vouchsafe the fact of the investigations themselves without verifying or acknowledging the existence of alien life and interstellar adventure?

I’ve asked this question for years and renew my query, especially in view of one-time chief of staff to Bill Clinton and an outgoing advisor to Barack Obama, John Podesta and his confession this year as to his biggest regret, viz. not securing the disclosure of UFO files. RT’s Manila Chan and I discussed this very topic in The Year in Space: 2015.

Yahoo News reported that at a 2002 presser organized by the Coalition for Freedom of Information, Podesta spoke as to the necessity and importance of disclosing government UFO investigations to the public.

“It’s time to find out what the truth really is what’s out there,” he said. “We ought to do it, really, because it’s right. We ought to do it, quite frankly, because the American people can handle the truth. And we ought to do it because it’s the law.”

Why not jump on his words for that AHA! moment? Especially from the likes of the consummate White House insider. As this is a subject of great interest to me I provide the following opinion and educated hunch.

First, in full disclosure, I’ve never witnessed or viewed anything that I could or would remotely categorize as extraterrestrial, UFO-esque and/or the like. In fact, I never gave the subject much thought for most of my life, choosing instead to believe the oft-cited trope that folks who claim to have observed flying space critters were usually drunk, draft, hallucinating or combinations thereof. I’d laugh at the usual account of some hayseed roused from sleep in his double-wide only to be anally probed by some macrocephalic, almond-eyed central casting ET.

After all, the notion was preposterous. Right?

Wrong.

Enter the Internet and my road to Damascus moment. I happened upon the work of Mr. Friedman, a nuclear physicist and University of Chicago classmate of Carl Sagan, and immediately delved into the subject. I simply had no idea the amount of first-hand accounts, eyewitness testimony, reports and radar records, you name it, that comprised the repository of data. Not to mention the oft-yet misquoted Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. Yes, No. 14! What about 1-13? Good question, but that’s for another time. But suffice it to say that as for the plenitude of data that you will find when you dip into this subject, the level of misunderstanding and disinformation is simply amazing. Amazing when you consider the certitude employed by those who emphatically reduce the subject to mythology and folklore.

But what about the media and their reluctance and refusal to give any attention to the matter? Here are my suppositions, hypotheses and theories.

Institutional bias. The media reflect the world around us. They take no chances, buck no convention and challenge no public opinion. As far as they know, any suggestion as to the viability of the theory that aliens or extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs) exist or have been spotted is a no-no. Similar to the notion of the conspiracy theory, these subjects represent a journalistic no man’s land and the unwritten rule is that if coverage of any form is had it will be in a jocular presentation, minimizing any suggestion of the story’s veracity or verity. In other words: It’s understood that it’s to be disregarded.

Scientific illiteracy. This represents the crux of scores of issues that are given short shrift or ignored altogether by an increasingly juvenescent newsroom. Newsers have been told that interstellar travel is pert near impossible for a host of reasons they’ve yet to verify or attempt to comprehend. Unimaginable distances, limitations on light speed are but a few. They’ve simply accepted what is to be excepted.

Blind acquiescence and patellar, Pavlovian governmental obeisance. The last thing your government would want is for there to be an acceptance of the notion that not only have we been visited (and are) but that evidence of such has been kept from the masses. And not because of the usual theory posited that we would run into the streets crazed and panicked à la the 1938 Mercury Theatre’s War of the Worlds, but because interstellar travel most probably involves a means of a locomotion source that didn’t involve chemical combustion such as antigravitic propulsion. And when petrochemical combustion in particular is not necessary, can you imagine the impact this would have on a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and petrocracies?

The dissolution of nationalism and the emergence of the “Earthling.” Just imagine what the world would look like reconfigured to think not as mini-jurisdictional borders such as countries or tribes, sects, religions and the like, but as a complete and contiguous assemblage of Earthlings. So long jurisdictional tiffs. Adios, religious disquietude. Toodle-oo, nationalism and sectarian identification. Hello, fellow inhabitants. “Kumbaya” meets “We are the world.”

Now, let me remind you what the media believe are critical and worthy of mention without surcease – Steve Harvey’s Miss Universe misfire, the latest viral video of a duck playing the piano and anything Donald Trump related. No, that’s front page. That’s the lead. But the umpteenth sighting of potential interstellar, extraterrestrial intelligent craft?! Nope. Not interested. They’re just too busy.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

Lionel (né Michael Wm. Lebron) - RT
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Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever

NASA just saw something come out of a black hole for the first time ever

You don’t have to know a whole lot about science to know that black holes typically suck things in, not spew things out. But NASA just spotted something mighty strange at the supermassive black hole Markarian 335.

Two of NASA’s space telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), miraculously observed a black hole’s corona “launched” away from the supermassive black hole. Then a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed out. So, what exactly happened? That’s what scientists are trying to figure out now.

“This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare,” Dan Wilkins, of Saint Mary’s University, said. “This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.”

NuSTAR’s principal investigator, Fiona Harrison, noted that the nature of the energetic source is “mysterious,” but added that the ability to actually record the event should provide some clues about the black hole's size and structure, along with (hopefully) some fresh intel on how black holes function. Luckily for us, this black hole is still 324 million light-years away.

So, no matter what strange things it’s doing, it shouldn’t have any effect on our corner of the universe.

(Via Viral Thread)

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Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Scientists can now “squeeze” light, a breakthrough that could make computers millions of times faster

Scientists can now “squeeze” light, a breakthrough that could make computers millions of times faster

Light-powered computers would work millions of times faster. (Reuters)

Have you ever wondered why we don’t use light to transmit messages? Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but while we use light to carry signals along fiber optic cables, we use electrons to process sound and information in our phones and computers. The reason has always been because light particles–photons—are extremely difficult to manipulate, whereas electrons can be manipulated relatively easily.

But now a group of Harvard physicists has taken a major step toward solving that puzzle, and have brought us one step closer to ultra-fast, light-based computers.

The physicists, led by Professor Eric Mazur, have created a material where the phase velocity of light is infinite. Their results werepublished in Nature Photonics on Oct. 19^th.

“The phase speed is infinite—much larger, infinitely larger than the speed of light,” Mazur tells Quartz.

This doesn’t mean light itself is traveling faster than the speed of light, which would violate the laws of relativity. “Phase velocity” refers to the speed of the crest of waves that ripple out when light strikes a material. The Harvard scientists created a material that allows these wave crests to move infinitely fast. This is a strange thought to wrap your head around, and means the crests of the waves are oscillating through time, but not space. Under these peculiar conditions, the Harvard scientists found that it’s easy to manipulate the photons, squeezing them down to the microscopic scale and turning them around. In other words, we can treat photons in the same way we currently manipulate electrons.

And it’s electromagnetic waves that count when it comes to telecommunications. “These waves are everywhere,” says Mazur. “We can talk on mobile phones because, in our phones, there are electrons that move up and down to create a wave. This wave travels to the antennae of the phone company and makes electrons there move up and down, which can be detected and turned into electrical signals that can be turned into an audio signal.”

That means the potential commercial uses for this discovery are massive. We won’t see light-based computers yet, as there are still several obstacles to address, but Mazur and his team have overcome a key challenge. “Usually, light needs to be handled very carefully and squeezed very slowly,” says Mazur. “With our material, you relax those constraints completely. You can bend the light, squeeze it, twist it.”

Light-powered telecommunications would allow phones and computers to process information millions of times faster. And because light conserves energy far better than electrons (which tend to waste energy by creating heat), battery lives would be far longer.

It may seem that we already transmit communications pretty fast. But if we could use light to process messages, everything would get a whole lot faster.

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http://www.beamsinvestigations.org/Mystery%20UFO%20Photo%20-%20Ramsgate,%20Kent,%20UK.html

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Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

B.E.A.M.S RAMSGATE UFO MYSTERY SOLVED

B.E.A.M.S RAMSGATE UFO MYSTERY SOLVED

Hilary Porter of B.E.A.M.S. recently posted on Facebook a photograph taken in Ramsgate England on 19th Jul 2012 The image was taken during the Olympic torch relay at Ramsgate on the morning of July 19, 2012 and this photo was snapped by a local resident.

Here is the photo in question.

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This is the information that was presented regarding his image…..

“The UFO (near top right in pic), was not seen at the time, and only later noticed when transferring her images to a PC. Note how the mystery object is in the background and the tree is in the foreground – thus discounting the falling leaf theory…Some people have even tried to suggest that this is simply the top of a streetlight; but look at the inset on image below where I have enlarged the object… (they don’t even have that shape of ‘lamp’ in this part of the town anyway; rather they use the more decorative conical style, as can be seen in the foreground), so that idea also falls by the wayside… and this is certainly not a bird; what else could it be? dirt on the lens?… now we are getting truly desperate for an explanation!”

Everything points to this picture being unprocessed, (e.g. not the product of ‘Photoshop’ or an similar image editing tool/app), so this looks to be yet another perfectly legitimate, accidental capture of a UFO!”

Source: http://www.beamsinvestigations.org/Mystery%20UFO%20Photo%20-%20Ramsgate,%20Kent,%20UK.html

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A SPADES A SPADE.

Immediately i knew what it was. It was a streetlight.

Knowing that B.E.A.M.S investigators were qoute: “…truly desperate for an explanation!”

I thought id investigate this matter a bit more for myself and see if i could prove my own conclusion.

So off to Ramsgate i went. Via Google maps/street view. Upon arriving and taking a short stroll down the streets of Ramsgate, i quickly ascertained that my initial labeling of the UFO as a streetlamp was indeed 100% spot on the money.

I then took some screen savers and created a similar image for comparison and in addition, provided a 100% match to the object seen on the image that B.E.A.M.S. were so desperate to identify.

So i posted the results of my findings to Hilary Porter and then quickly found that i had been blocked. I then posted my findings on the B.E.A.M.S Facebook page and was also expelled from the group.

I am truly shocked at this level of behaviour from a UFO group QUOTE: “…truly desperate for an explanation!”

No dialogue was exchanged, no thanks was given. I was simply blocked by B.E.A.M.S investigator Hilary Porter for solving the Ramsgate UFO Mystery. And then kicked out their group.

I am truly disappointed in the behaviour of B.E.A.M.S and the way they conduct themselves. It’s a sad day for Ufology indeed.

Below: the matching streetlights i found within seconds of using Google Maps Street view in Ramsgate. UFO/Streetlight top right.

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“…You were blocked because I am sick of idiots who think that know everything – when clearly they know jack-all and are just a pain.
Look, they don’t even have that type of streetlight in this part of Ramsgate town – they use the attractive, conical lamps (note the red circle), – not ugly overhanging streetlamps as you’re suggesting… we have done our homework…” Hilary Porter

Below: Image highlighting cropped streetlight, -identical to the one shown on the original image.

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Below, enlargement of the streetlight. Note the raised bit on top.

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Below: The Ramsgate UFO ……note the matching raised area.

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Mystery Solved. No Thanks from B.E.A.M.S ….Just blocked. For solving their case. Sad days eh? Not the sort of behaviour i’d expect from a UFO group. Ever.

hilary

Hilary Porter yesterday:

I have just removed the Ramsgate case from our FB page, (it was causing too many arguements), but the report remains on our main BEAMS (archives section) – because that was no streetlight – they don’t even use that style of lamp in that part of Ramsgate, (see red circle), but rather the more decorative, conical style, but anyway… here’s another case from the archives with a very similar shape of object that was captured: read report here:http://www.beamsinvestigations.org/UFO%20Over%20Audenshaw,%…
Now, is this a streetlight? GGMS… no wonder I have deactivated our FB page more times than I care to remember… out of sheer frustration!

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Ok then Hilary, please have a look at the images below. Check Mate. Your argument is invalid.

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UPDATE ON INVESTIGATION.

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Less than 24hrs after first labeling the alleged UFO on the B.E.A.M.S facebook post as nothing but a streetlight, ive been able to provide enough evidence that supports my summary. So in return i was blocked by Hilary Porter and expelled from the B.E.A.M.S. Facebook page.

For telling it like it is. A spades a spade. Sure it would be great to open our imaginations and wish and want and hope to believe that its E.T. but its only a streetlight.

I wasnt happy about being excommunicated for shedding light on this mystery and thanks to one of my the top tech assistants in my team, i was provided with the final nail in the coffin for Hilary Porter and B.E.A.M.S with regards to this matter.

I was also disgusted to see that another non related image was also inserted alongside the original image as this was misleading. So Hilary Porter and B.E.A.M.S the question i have to ask is……Are you proud to operate in this way? blocking people who expose you to the truth? It would seem that you cant handle the truth and i am tickled that i was able to shed light on this.

Do you think the papers would have fun with a UFO group that could not accept the truth?

Its a streetlight Hilary. Deal with it.

checkmate

checkmate101

checkmate101A

B.E.A.M.S. RAMSGATE UFO MYSTERY SOLVED.

THE ICING ON THE CAKE

New and ongoing developments regarding this case.

I was informed by Hilary Porter on Facebook that

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You were blocked because I am sick of idiots who think that know everything – when clearly they know jack-all and are just a pain.
Look, they don’t even have that type of streetlight in this part of Ramsgate town – they use the attractive, conical lamps (note the red circle), – not ugly overhanging streetlamps as you’re suggesting… we have done our homework.
We have numerous ufos of this type on our site – well away from any possible, imaginary ‘posst’ and ‘poles; – many in the middle of nowhere, clear, crisp objects shaped just like the Ramsgate example…
It is people like you who are ruining this subject – you simply can’t accept the fact that some things in this life simply cannot be explained in rational terms; streetlamp my eye… for heavens sake, don’t you think that we considered that it was a streetlamp – we have been UFO investigators and experiencers since 1991 … so please do not insult our intelligence.
THAT’S WHY YOU BLOCKED AND REMOVED… MR ‘CASE SOLVED’…. NOT!

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So now ive been informed its people like me that know jack shit, don’t do my homework ….don’t know the area, that i have not been a UFO investigator since 1991 and that im ruining the subject and insulting the intelligence of the B.E.A.M.S team.

WOW!

But there’s more, check out the new low that B.E.A.M.S. investigator Hilary Porter has now sunk to…

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Well Hilary, cyberbullying, an even wilder claim than your Ramsgate UFO.

It was a nice of you to explain the reasons why i was blocked.

Now eat humble pie and enjoy the bottom line. You were proven wrong and in the process you insulted and shamed you and your group in the process.

The truth hurts eh?

here it is again. case you never seen it.

Yours truly,

Mr Case Closed.

checkmate101

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Geschreven door peter om 22:34 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Massive UFOs Filmed Over Santiago, Chile

Massive UFOs Filmed Over Santiago, Chile

A massive UFO sighting has been captured on tape by a Chilean local.

The spectacular moment shows how four unidentified massive objects are hovering over downtown Santiago, Chile’s capital and largest city, and after they disappear from the field of view, other small bright UFOs take their place.

The first four flying objects slowly move across the sky before disappearing one by one. They keep no formation and have a few particularities that may identify them as human-made crafts.

But what about their other unexplained characteristics?

The massive UFOs share the same cigar shape and have four lights that flicker as they hover over the city. These could be either safety lights or coming from a quad-engine prototype, but considering that safety lights are usually colored, the four-engine hypothesis seems more viable.
After the massive crafts slowly leave the area, other small UFOs come in their stead. They perform some kind of ritual this time, like following a pattern.

The smaller crafts remind us of the speeding orb UFOs, but judging after the speed and pulsating light, it’s likely that they are something else.

Are these spectacular UFOs man made? Military crafts or authentic alien ships? What are your thoughts?

By ufoholic

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Geschreven door peter om 22:06 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

The Science of the X-Files: Can Extraterrestrial Life Survive a Trip to Earth on a Meteorite?

The Science of the X-Files: Can Extraterrestrial Life Survive a Trip to Earth on a Meteorite?

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It's January, X-Files fans, which means we have less than a month to wait before our favorite alien conspiracy show returns for a six-episode miniseries. The pilot (which we saw at NYCC), airs on January 24th, but until then, we're going to give you daily articles about the fascinating science behind the X-Files, courtesy of science advisor Anne Simon and her book "The Real Science Behind the X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants."

In the X-Files episode "Tunguska," Mulder and Scully discover a meteorite has unleashed the alien Black Oil virus on the populace. In the first season episode, "Ice," a Thing-esque alien life form is found preserved in a frozen tundra but was originally delivered to Earth on-you guessed it- a meteorite. But could alien life ever actually reach Earth this way?

"In 'Tunguska' and the earlier episode 'Ice,' meteors are the delivery systems for alien hitchhikers that are able to invade a human host. This brings up several interesting questions," Simon writes. "What are the chances that an alien microbe could survive a trip through space on a vehicle that lacks such basic amenities as an atmosphere, temperature control, sunscreen, refreshments, and brakes?"

While at first blush, bacteria surviving in space may seem like a "fantasy worthy of Mulder's imagination," scientists have been theorizing that alien bacteria hitches rides on meteorites for years. In fact, many astrobiologists believe that life may have been "seeded" on Earth through unintended contamination from meteorites, comets, and asteroids, a theory known as panspermia. Extremely hardy microscopic life forms such as extremophles can survive all sorts of environments, including the anoxic, dessicated Moon and radioactive waste, so it's theoretically possible that these bacteria could survive the grueling trip to Earth.

"Believers in panspermia are not just science fiction junkies. Francis Crick (Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA) supports the theory of panspermia as does noted English astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. Even Dana Scully, in "Biogenesis," the last episode of the sixth season, concedes that panspermia is a plausible hypothesis."

Although panspermia is, of course, just a theory, evidence has been mounting since The X-Files went off the air in 2002. Most recently, scientists from the Central European Institute of Technology proved that this phenomenon is physically possible, and a further study from the Harvard Center of Astrophysics claims that panspermia would follow a distinctive pattern that we may able to detect (or not detect) in the not-so-distant future:

"In our theory clusters of life form, grow, and overlap like bubbles in a pot of boiling water," lead author Henry Lin said in August.

According to this new model, the locations of life would follow a pattern which could potentially be detected by burgeoning human technologies. Life would spread outwards in all directions, taking root when it reached a habitable environment. This would lead to overlapping clusters of life, or oases spread all over the galaxy, resembling the "outbreak of an epidemic":

"Life could spread from host star to host star in a pattern similar to the outbreak of an epidemic. In a sense, the Milky Way galaxy would become infected with pockets of life," said co-author Avi Loeb.

That sounds like an X-Files episode in itself, no?

Also in this series:

The Science of the X-Files: The Black Oil Virus and Pathogens That Make You Commit Suicide

The Science of the X-Files: That Time Scientists Claimed They Found Extraterrestrial Life in Meteorites

The Science of the X-Files: Leonard Betts and the Science of Head Regeneration

The Science of the X-Files: How Baby Peacock from "Home" Could Actually Exist

The Science of the X-Files: Alien Acidic Blood and the Real-Life "Toxic Lady"

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Geschreven door peter om 21:54 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Alien abductee: Readers react to Sue Sill's claims of UFO activity over Huddersfield

Alien abductee: Readers react to Sue Sill's claims of UFO activity over Huddersfield

BY DAVE LAFFERTY

Outlane woman's claims lead to healthy debate on social media

Readers have been quick to voice their opinions following Outlane's Sue Sill's claims she was abducted by aliens.

Sue, 57, claims she's had several encounters with UFOs culminating in her abduction in 2010 .

She says Huddersfield is a hotbed of activity and has sent the Examiner videos which she believes are evidence that UFOs are buzzing the skies around the town.

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.

Sue Sill, of Outlane, has been filming UFOs over Huddersfield for years

“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.”

But our readers have expressed a mix of scepticism and surprise on social media.

Paul Tom Bookfast said: "This doesn't mean it's of alien origin. Unless there is solid evidence that they have landed and greeted us for the whole world to see then no they haven't visited.

"I do believe they're out there but it's outrageous to think that people have been abducted. I'm sure they have better things to do than visit Huddersfield and watch what Sue's doing in her kitchen."

Richard Htfc Maguire said: "We are but a grain of sand in an infinite universe to actually believe we are the only sentient beings in the whole universe would be so ignorant, but then again we are good at that as a race."

Johnny Pound said: "I'm thinking, if I was an Alien travelled light years with obviously advanced technology we couldn't start to understand, why would you pick Yorkshire let alone Huddersfield, as nice as they are, have I missed something?"

And Mark Wilkinson added: "I believe she saw what she saw and i saw that silver ball in the sky over Honley last year but did not know what it was !! Just thought there may be a reasonably explanation and not ufos but who knows."

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Geschreven door peter om 21:40 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Command Sergeant Major James Norton: I Have Proof Of Alien UFO!

Command Sergeant Major James Norton: I Have Proof Of Alien UFO!

Way back in September 1977, during the Joint Attack Weapons Systems Test (JAWS) at Fort Benning Georgia, the entire base witnessed what appeared to be a UFO invasion. As much as 1300 troops were involved in this incredible event. Most were left with severe psychological trauma and “missing time” gaps.

Command Sergeant Major James Norton, who is now stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He was a buck sergeant (E-5) at the time when he witnessed an eerie encounter with UFOs and the military on September 14, 1977. He was sent to the range a little just before midnight along with around 1200 to 1300 troops to perform live fire with their new weapons systems called JAWS (Joint Attack Weapons System). The Secretary of the Army at the time was actually at the range too!

Command Sergeant Major James Norton: I Have Proof Of Alien UFO!

Command Sergeant Major James Norton remembers clearly when they started the live fire training when all of a sudden there were large orbs way up high in the night sky above them. The next thing he witnessed was what appeared to be lasers crisscrossing through the night sky. The command of ‘cease fire’ was heard shouted out towards the troops, because there was something down range. Military helicopters appeared suddenly out of nowhere. Explosions were then heard, complete madness had broken out around him! Orbs in the night sky were changing a variety of different colours, a lot like the kind of Orbs that are being seen around the world today! Then a Triangle shaped UFO showed up. The soldiers around Norton were in complete shock and awe at this spectacle that was now suddenly in front of them.

After this incredible incident many soldiers became very ill. Every soldier who witnessed this crazy event was briefed that if they were to EVER disclose any information reference the night of these bizarre events, they would be court marshalled immediately and sent to Leavenworth. When Norton eventually obtained his medical records it disclosed that his illness was of unknown origin, his temperature was 104, he was placed in a steel tub of iced water for 2 days, to help bring his temperature down.

Norton had a memory lapse or as we know it in UFO ‘Speak’ it is also called “missing time”. He could not remember how he was on the range and then later found himself alone in the woods. There was an awful lot of time disorientation. During a hypnosis session, he learned that he was actually abducted and taken aboard an unknown craft. Medical experiments were conducted and samples were taken from his body.

After the incident two jets came in that appeared to be white washed, no numbers or identification were on the jets. The jets were there purely to collect UFO crash site debris!

UFO Proof:

Norton picked up a metallic piece from the crash site that had/has strange hieroglyphics on it. This metallic piece cannot be burned. A hacksaw will not cut it either and if you bend it, it will just go back to its original shape. Norton has this metallic piece apparently BURIED AT HIS PROPERTY!?

Norton is now willing and ready to show this evidence to some credible UFologists and to the media! Norton claims he has a 100% proof of UFOs being real, with this solid piece of evidence that he held onto since the incident itself!!

Military helicopters shot down:

The military helicopters that were shot down during the incident, were never actually ever reported to the FAA. He was also burned from a mysterious red substance from this incident!?

Norton is now stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama and describes how they experiment with biological and chemical substances on this base and that something else is going on there. There is UFO activity at this base, it seems that our military is test flying UFOs all over the base!

One side note: For 62 years, the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in the hemisphere. Watch HERE & also the U.S media blackout HERE

Other Proof:

Norton even has some incredible night vision footage of all of the UFOs in their different colours taken on the base. He also has footage of a UFO going from one horizon to another horizon in only about a mere 2 seconds. He has video footage of a triangle shaped UFO that hovers over the base, no sound being emitted from it. He has all of this video footage for any credible Ufologist to review, of which he now ready to share with the right people!

John Vasquez, Co-Author of ‘Incident at Fort Benning ’ recounts his experience as a soldier at Fort Benning in down below video :

U.I.P Summary

When people of an official rank like senior ranking Military Personnel, Astronauts etc, talk seriously about UFO’s and Aliens it’s important that the people of this world listen up to what they have got to say!

This is a fascinating story and something which clearly has a lot of question Marks against it! Us guys at U.I.P are going to try to reach out to Norton, to see whether we can be the ones he discloses all of his secrets too!

Something obviously happened that night back in September 1977, and it’s very interesting the fact that these multi coloured Orbs are being seen in their MASSES nowadays!!

U.I.P

A video of a more recent light Orb seen in the sky:

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Geschreven door peter om 21:18 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

NASA zet zich schrap tegen inslagen van 'ruimtestenen' - HLN.be

NASA zet zich schrap tegen inslagen van 'ruimtestenen' - HLN.be

Bron: IPS

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De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA opent met het Planetary Defense Coordination Office een centrum dat maatregelen moet nemen om de aarde te beschermen tegen de mogelijke inslag van gevaarlijke objecten uit de ruimte.

Onze ogen moeten op de hemel gericht blijven

John Grunsveld (NASA)

Het centrum zal een leidende positie innemen wat betreft de coördinatie van de internationale inspanningen om de aarde te beschermen tegen een impact van een asteroïde of een meteoriet. Dat gaat van het opsporen van de objecten tot het in kaart brengen van de kans op een inslag op aarde en de maatregelen die dan zouden moeten worden genomen.

"We nemen dit erg serieus", zegt John Grunsfeld van de NASA. "Op dit moment is er geen directe dreiging, maar de grote vuurbal in Tsjeljabinsk in 2013 en de recente passage van de Halloweenasteroïde houdt ons alert. Onze ogen moeten op de hemel gericht blijven."

Jaarlijks 1.500 nieuwe objecten

Vandaag zijn er 13.500 near-Earth-objects ontdekt door astronomen overal ter wereld. Deze ruimtestenen, veelal asteroïden, cirkelen in een baan die - in astronomische termen -"rakelings" langs de aarde scheert. Elk jaar worden er ongeveer 1.500 nieuwe van zulke objecten ontdekt.

Negentig procent van de ontdekte asteroïden zijn groter dan een kilometer diameter. De zoektocht richt zich nu met name op brokstukken die kleiner zijn, tot de grootte van een voetbalveld.

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Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Activiteit van zwart gat is zichtbaar met een thuistelescoop - HLN.be

Activiteit van zwart gat is zichtbaar met een thuistelescoop - HLN.be

Bron: The Guardian

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WETENSCHAP Het enige dat je nodig hebt om een dichtbijgelegen, actief zwart gat te zien, is een telescoop van 20 centimeter. Dat zeggen Japanse onderzoekers, die ontdekten dat de activiteit van zwarte gaten waargenomen kan worden als een scherpe uitbarsting van licht.

Die schijnbare contradictie ontstaat wanneer een zwart gat materie van een nabijgelegen ster aantrekt. Eens in een paar decennia kan zo een zwart gat in actie schieten. Het rukt dan materie van de ster weg en slokt het op, waardoor een uitbarsting van licht vrijkomt.

Gelijkaardige uitbarstingen werden tot nu to enkel geobserveerd met röntgen- en gammatelescopen. Maar voor het eerst ontdekten wetenschappers nu dat de activiteit ook met bescheiden optische telescopen, bestemd voor thuisgebruik, zichtbaar is.

De Japanners vingen de eerste tekenen van activiteit van het zwarte gat V404 Cygni op met een gammadetector op de NASA-ruimtetelescoop Swift. Dat gebeurde in juni vorig jaar, toen het zwarte gat uit een 26 jaar lange winterslaap ontwaakte. Daarop schakelden ze collega's wereldwijd in om optische telescopen op het zwarte gat te richten.

Extreem helder

In het vakblad Nature schrijven de onderzoekers hoe de telescopen in de twee daaropvolgende weken lichtflitsen van het zwarte gat opvingen. Die flitsen duurden telkens enkele minuten tot een paar uur. Sommige van de gebruikte telescopen hadden een lens van amper 20 centimeter.

"We weten nu dat we observaties kunnen doen op basis van optische stralen, of zichtbaar licht, en dat zwarte gaten geobserveerd kunnen worden zonder hoogtechnologische röntgen- of gammatelescopen", schrijven de onderzoekers in Nature.

Het zwarte gat dat bestudeerd werd is een van de meest dichtstbijzijnde van onze aarde, en heeft een partnerster die iets kleiner is dan de zon. Het zwarte gat en zijn ster cirkelen elke 6,5 dagen rond elkaar, op zo'n 8.000 lichtjaren hier vandaan.

De flikkeringen ontstaan wanneer de materie die in het zwarte gat verdwijnt x-stralen verspreidt, die de achtergebleven materie verhitten. Daardoor lijkt het zwarte gat extreem helder, ondanks de waas van gas en stof die het omringt.

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Geschreven door peter om 20:39 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Mysterieus geluid houdt West-Nederland in de ban - HLN.be

Het westen van Nederland is in de ban van een mysterieus geluid. Van diverse plekken komen meldingen van mensen die de afgelopen weken vreemde tonen in de lucht hebben gehoord.

Martijn Mastenbroek uit Pijnacker zat afgelopen zondagavond thuis toen hij opeens een merkwaardig geluid hoorde. "Het was net of je trompetten hoorde schallen", zo blikt hij terug. "Het was een drukkend geluid, dat een seconde of vijf aanhield. Nee, het was niet de wasmachine. Het kwam echt van buiten. Mijn vriendin hoorde het ook."

Ook elders in de regio duiken meldingen op van het vreemde geluid. Zo kreeg Mastenbroek via Facebook veel bijval van mensen die het 'trompetgeschal' zondagavond óók hadden gehoord. Ook in Bleiswijk zou het vreemde geluid te horen zijn geweest. En uit Gouda dook al een filmpje op, waarin het geluid ook daadwerkelijk is vastgelegd.

Buitenaards leven
Op internet wemelde het meteen van de wildste geruchten. De een houdt het op experimenten van het Amerikaanse leger, de ander denkt aan buitenaards leven. En ene professor Khalilov uit Azerbeidzjan zou hebben gesteld dat de geluiden veroorzaakt zijn door krachtige uitbarstingen van de zon of door 'krachtige energetische processen' vanuit het binnenste van de aarde.

Bij het KNMI achten ze die laatste theorie 'onwaarschijnlijk'. "Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat zonnevlammen of het aardmagnetisch veld verantwoordelijk zijn voor dit soort geluiden", zegt geofysicus Läslo Evers. "Ik heb daar in elk geval nog nooit enig bewijs voor gevonden." Maar wat is het dan wel? "Ik heb de filmpjes op internet aandachtig bekeken. Het is een hoog geluid. Omdat het door veel mensen over een groot gebied is waargenomen, moet het om een grote bron gaan. Ik denk zelf dat het vanuit een groot industrieel complex afkomstig is. De Rotterdamse haven? Dat kan ik niet beoordelen."

Onderzoek
Evers sluit ook niet uit dat het geluid afkomstig is van vliegtuigen. "Maar om er gericht iets over te kunnen zeggen, zou nader onderzoek gedaan moeten worden. Met metingen kan je de exacte aard van het geluid vast stellen. Daarna kan je een stuk makkelijker de bron opsporen. Nu blijft het toch een beetje gissen."

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Geschreven door peter om 20:24 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

UFO Sighting with Pulsating Orb Lights in Broadway, North Carolina, Jan 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Sighting with Pulsating Orb Lights in Broadway, North Carolina, Jan 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: January 4, 2016.
Location of sighting: Broadway, North Carolina.

This UFO was caught this week and looks like an energy entity that continually morphs itself into a different shape. The object will change from a triangle, star, rectangle to a flat object all in a few seconds. These UFOs are the easiest to see at night, because of their glowing and are often reported above Canada and Colorado.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Geschreven door peter om 20:01 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Bob Lazar Explaining his Engineering Work on Alien Spacecraft at Area S4, Inside Area 51. Video, UFO Sighting News.

Bob Lazar Explaining his Engineering Work on Alien Spacecraft at Area S4, Inside Area 51. Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of interview: Unknown
Location of UFOs: Area S4, where they back-engineer alien recovered tech.

Area S4 is over the mountains from the main base Area 51. Bob Lazar once worked in Area 51 and saw eight alien disk, all different and learned that the USAF knew of 56 space faring species. Even a CIA agents deathbed confession confirms it all. People often confuse where Area S4 is, so here it is on Google Map.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
Bob Lazar is the alleged UFO whistleblower whose claims of working on back engineering alien spacecraft at Area 51 have made the secretive base famous. Officials have denied his claims that he worked for the government as a scientist. Robert Scott Lazar or Bob Lazar (born January 26, 1959, in Coral Gables, Florida, United States, to Albert Lazar and Phyllis Berliner), claims to have worked from 1988 until 1989 as a physicist at an area called S-4 (Sector Four), located near Groom Lake, Nevada, next to Area 51. According to Lazar, S-4 served as a hidden military location for the study and possible reverse engineering of extraterrestrialflying saucers. Lazar says he saw nine different discs there and provides details on their mode of propulsion. His critics have asserted that "Lazar's credibility crumbled" after "schools he was supposed to have attended had no record of him, while others in the scientific community had no memory of ever meeting him."

Geschreven door peter om 19:58 Stuur door

Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Cyclist Films UFOs Above A Cornfield In Krakow, Poland

Cyclist Films UFOs Above A Cornfield In Krakow, Poland

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A video showing bizarre lights in the sky left viewers baffled. It was unknown as to when the video was taken, but apparently recorded in the month of September 2015 and posted in December of the same year.

According to the report, a man riding his bicycle noticed some very strange lights in the sky in front of him. The lights appeared over a cornfield in Krakow, Poland.

After cleaning up the pixelated video, it somehow shows a foggy ground. The footage reveals five lights with another larger one, much more visible in the sky – possibly the moon.

It’s difficult to determine the lights’ identity because of the shakiness of the bicycle ride and the movement of the lights.

The cyclist appears to leave the main road and ride into the corn plants. It is also hard to determine whether the cyclist leaves the path to get a better view of the lights, or he just lost his balance.

Some say the lights are balloons, but their movement seems to rule this out. Observe the video and tell us what you think in the comment section.

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Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

WHAT A CONFRONTATION WITH ALIENS WOULD REALLY MEAN FOR US HUMANS. THE VISIT EXPLAINS IT.

WHAT A CONFRONTATION WITH ALIENS WOULD REALLY MEAN FOR US HUMANS. THE VISIT EXPLAINS IT.

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A journey beyond a terrestrial perspective, revealing the fears, hopes, and rituals of a species forced not only to confront alien life forms, but also its own self image. THE VISIT, a documentary.

Here is our interview with the makers:

Who is looking into what will happen when aliens land?

An extraordinary number of people have considered this seriously: staff at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, legal sources,NASA personnel, space scientists, former military representatives, and experts in space communications and engineering.

In your new film The Visit: An Alien Encounter, I was most struck by the to-camera contributions of Paul Beaver and Vickie Sheriff, former Ministry of Defence personnel in London.

To be frank, I found it strangely reassuring to find such highly professional people in charge of the political machinery. Politicians may come and go, but civil servants are around forever.

They seemed to have a very clear idea of what would happen if we were visited by aliens and how to handle them. How did that make you feel?

The most frightening aspect for me was Beaver’s sense of how public panic would cause society to break down. I thought panic leading to Armageddon was just a Hollywood cliché, but the MoD officials I spoke to had seen this process under way during the Bosnian conflicts of the mid-1990s. Their assumption – that society tips into anarchy very quickly – was deadly serious and sincere. Beaver and Sheriff told me, more or less, that the varnish of society is very thin: fear cuts through it quickly.

So was Sheriff more worried by people than by extraterrestrials?

She knows how to balance risks. If such advanced beings meant us harm, they would have harmed us by now. She’s much more worried that we would harm peaceable aliens by making mistakes.

One of your interviewees, Jacques Arnould, a French theologian, said that when we’re confronted with something alien we need to treat it like a human. Do you agree?

I think he was getting at something deeper. Society’s varnish is our willingness to treat each other as beings like ourselves. If you want to communicate with aliens, you have to invest them with human characteristics, because where else do you even begin? The same applies to how you treat other people.

“Our way of thinking is perhaps just as dogmatic as religious thinking in the Middle Ages”

https://youtu.be/-_W70rhVcJQ

Why can’t we be objective?

That’s the promise scientific thinking has been holding out to us since the Renaissance: that the world can be understood, and that we can command the world through our understanding of it. In this, our present way of thinking is perhaps just as dogmatic as religious thinking in the Middle Ages, which only permitted certain ways of perceiving and thinking about reality. Meeting a true alien would challenge our assumptions. Before us would be a dynamic agency utterly unknown to us.

Why do aliens so disturb our reality?

Because there’s this gulf between a scientific understanding of life and the way we experience it. In the film I asked Christopher McKay, an astrobiologist with the NASA Ames Research Center, if life was blind to everything beyond its own survival. He said yes, life just wants to live. A human being, in trying to extract amazing knowledge from the universe, is just doing what living things do. It’s investing in its future. It’s expanding.

What’s wrong with that?

Nothing. But it’s not enough. It doesn’t include the fact that we experience life through emotions, dreams and feelings. Towards the end of the film, Chris Welch, of France’s International Space University, imagines entering an alien craft. His thought experiment expresses extraordinary courage and open-mindedness. I hope we can bring such an attitude to an alien encounter if it happens for real.

And there’s hope in the fact that we conjure up aliens in the first place. We long to be seen by something other than ourselves, because then our own existence is strengthened. Alongside it is this suspicion that perhaps the alien is resting inside ourselves: that while we’re alone in the universe, we don’t truly know who we are ( via newscientist.com ).

MORE: SETI talk leads to confrontation over nature of extraterrestrial life

MORE: PREVIEW: New Documentary "The Visit" Simulates An Extraterrestrial Encounter

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références - MAGONIE (Fr)

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Dinsdag 12 januari 2016

Des scientifiques vont traquer les OVNIs pour faire la lumière sur ce phénomène Un projet baptisé UFODATA a été lancé récemment, porté par des scientifiques désirant impulser la recherche sur les OVNIs (Objets Volants Non Identifiés) qui a tendance à piét

Des scientifiques vont traquer les OVNIs pour faire la lumière sur ce phénomène

Un projet baptisé UFODATA a été lancé récemment, porté par des scientifiques désirant impulser la recherche sur les OVNIs (Objets Volants Non Identifiés) qui a tendance à piétiner depuis...

Analyse spectrographique d'un OVNI au Norvège / DR

Par Yohan Demeure9 janvier 2016

Un projet baptisé UFODATA a été lancé récemment, porté par des scientifiques désirant impulser la recherche sur les OVNIs (Objets Volants Non Identifiés) qui a tendance à piétiner depuis quelques années.

Ce projet UFODATA a été lancé par Mark Rodeghier, directeur du Center for UFO Studies (Chicago), et Alexander Wendt, professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université d’État de l’Ohio. UFODATA fera l’objet d’une campagne de financement participative, car aucun argent public n’est disponible en rayon du caractère pseudo-scientifique de l’ufologie. Le but du projet UFODATA ? Établir une analyse systémique du phénomène OVNI ou PAN (phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés).

« Il est clair désormais que tout progrès sérieux dans la recherche sur les OVNIs passe par une rupture avec les usages du passé. Les récits des témoins, les photos, les vidéos et les documents officiels ne nous en apprendront pas plus. Désormais, nous devons étudier directement le phénomène OVNI comme les autres sciences le font avec leurs propres objets d’étude. Bien sûr, c’est une tâche difficile, mais elle est rendue possible par les avancées technologiques récentes en matière d’informatique, de communication, de sources d’énergie, etc. », explique Mark Rodeghier pour un article du Space Daily du 2 novembre 2015.

Tout d’abord, le projet consiste en la mise en place d’un réseau de stations de surveillance du ciel afin d’obtenir un maximum de données. L’idée d’un prototype est en place, mais les scientifiques ont besoin de 30.000 dollars pour le fabriquer. Ce prototype intégrera divers instruments de mesure afin de compiler le plus de données possible : photomètre, spectromètre, spectroscope, magnétomètre, entre autres.

« En fait, il s’agit d’appliquer aux PANs (Phénomènes aériens non-identifiés, le terme scientifique pour les OVNIs) les même méthodes qu’aux objets spatiaux connus comme les étoiles et les planètes » indique Philippe Ailleris, astronome hollandais responsable de projet pour l’Agence Spatiale Européenne et par ailleurs membre du conseil d’administration d’UFODATA.

UFODATA comporte un intérêt assez inattendu : si les participants au projet sont pour certains spécialistes en ufologie, bon nombre de scientifiques proviennent de disciplines plutôt éloignées de l’étude des OVNIs. C’est le cas d’Alexander Wendt, professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université d’Etat de l’Ohio. Ce politologue est une figure universitaire de renom, étant l’auteur de l’ouvrage intitulé Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999) récompensé en 2006 par l’International Studies Association’s, qui lui a décerné le prix de meilleur livre de la décennie.

Certains autres importants contributeurs au projet préfèrent rester anonymes, car l’ufologie reste encore très stigmatisé au sein de la sphère scientifique.

Sources : Space Daily – Paris Match – Melty Discovery

Crédit photos : UFODATA

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

A global effort has begun — Secret files hidden from the public for decades, Detailing every ufo account, are now available to the public.Cracking the Alien Code

A global effort has begun — Secret files hidden from the public for decades, Detailing every ufo account, are now available to the public.Cracking the Alien Code

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Cracking the Alien Code

For millenia, it is believed that our cosmic neighbors in the Universe have sent messages for us to decode.
We have struggled to understand the symbols sent to us.
But now, for the first time in history an alien message has Been received.
this could be ground Breaking.
36 years ago two men made Contact with an unknown craft.
Tonight we will reveal it’s Meaning and the way we look at ufo encounters will change.
everything that people thought they knew about ufo’s For the last 7 years is probably wrong.
join us as we crack the alien code and it’s secrets are Unseals.
secret files hidden from the Public for decades are now available to the public.
We are about to uncover the truth about these classified Documents.
Find out what the government Doesn’t want you to know.
“unsealed alien files.

” Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.
No evidence of alien life has been more soft after than a Message from another world.
people have seen ufo’s but to Communicate with an alien, that would be the key to unlocking The secrets of life in the universe.
But one historic incident stands above the rest.

The year is 1980.
In the midst of the cold war, The entire war is on edge.
The possibility of annihilation Sparked by america and the ussr is at an al time high.
this is December 1980.
A period of international Tension.
Ronald reagan has been elected President.
This is a period that the cold War is defrosting and a danger that it might become pretty hot.

Troops are stationed at the royal air force base in the Uk.
Around 3:00 am on the night of December 26th, radar loses track in the woods.
They notice something strange high above the forest.
Radar indicated it could be a downed aircraft.
among the soldiers to witness these lights are airmen first Class boroughs and pendeston.
What they find after driving Into the forest is not a downed aircraft.
as I was getting out of the vehicle, it felt like there was Static electricity in the air.
Things felt abnormal.

Both of us looked at each other and realized something was going On.
Above the trees the two men see The silhouette of a try angular shaped craft.
the object was dancing on our skin and clothes.
At that point in time I knew I had an unknown object in front Of me.
sergeant reaches for his Notebook to record the details of the object that was almost Six feet tall with mysterious symbols etched on the side of The craft.
one of the things that sets The forest apart is this wasn’t just lights in the sky.
This was a landed ufo.
They both got extremely close to This object.

It had turned down in a small Clearing in the forest and jim claims that he got so close to This thing he was able to reach out and touch it.
I took my hand and ran it over the bottom all the way across.
It felt like going over the smoothest of metal to like Sandpaper.
but then something happens That will change his life forever.
out of all of them one was larger.
I decided to touch that one.
I touched that symbol and I had An explosion of white light where I couldn’t see, I was Blinded.
I started seeing 1′s and 0′s.
They were like inside my mind’s eye.
they burn into his memory leaving an imprint of an alien Code.
I think I was plain Terrified.
Somehow I was able to pull my Hand off and stop.
The craft started to move a Little bit and then it was gone in the blink of an eye.
next, the two men we witnessed the craft in the Forest reveal a shocking secret and their hunt for the truth Reveals a shocking alien contact.

it is coming this way.
this is “unsealed alien Files.
” exposing the biggest secret on Planet earth.
late in the night two men Experience something in the forest.
He is shaken by his experience and the vision it leaves behind.
John boroughs maintains a different memory of the events Entirely.
I do not remember seeing jim Walk around the craft.
What I clearly remember was we Got close to something and the next thing I know it appeared to Go out into the sky.
but the most unexpected Difference, the time on their synchronized watches differs by Almost 45 minutes.
whatever we encountered Affected our memory.
At one point I looked towards Whatever was in the air could have affected our memory or Could have affected what we saw.

when they returned to base it Transpired that more time had elapsed than they realized.
Time it seemed not only had run on, but had maybe one at Different speeds for them.
This takes us to quite Extraordinary territory.
But when you talk to john and Jim and people who looked at this case.
Theories had bounced around.
could the ship have caused The exception of time, their search for the answer uncovers Evidence that must be heard to be believed.
unsealed case file the charles halt recording.
The following evening.
John boroughs meets with base Commander shalt to reexamine the site of the commander.
They checked nearby trees for radiation.
One of the things that came up was that the radio traffic was Being recorded through the command post.
The side facing the expected landing site.
We were taking the sample now.
That is the strongest point on The tree? yes, sir.
it had gone all the way to the side of the meter.
the course of the investigation changes when a Soldier on the team notices something unusual.
A glowing light spotted in the distance.

There it is.
What is it? I don’t know, sir.
it is a strange, small red Light.
Maybe a quarter to a half.
there is no doubt this is genuine and it is extraordinary.
You can hear the tension and fear in their voices as the ufo Approaches them.
You can hear the ufo’s coming Closer.
the object exploded into a Great white light and shot back out.
he is thinking about this and he said was this communication? A warning? What was it? On January 13th, 1981, colonel halt writes a memorandum about The incident.
In it he confirms that what they Encountered on the previous night was no figment of the Imagination but a real phenomenon.
two pieces of evidence to support the incident was the Memo and the tape recording.
But what we found out years Later was that there was a more significant piece and that was The code that he received when he touched the craft.
But he was still keeping the code a secret.
I could pt sleep.
I was still having the codes Flashing.
After I completed 16 pages I Felt great.
But I wasn’t going to report That because it sounds in sane.
So I kept it quiet.
when he touched this the huge jolt and information somehow Transferred to him.
He forgot about this.
Maybe he didn’t realize it was important.
It was only 30 plus years he realized he was sitting on Something of the utmost significant.
coming up next, we reveal the meaning mind the code in his Notebook and uncover the shocking identity of the beings Who sent it to us

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This is “unsealed alien files” Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.
welcome back to “unsealed alien files.
” Retired usair force sergeant has kept a secret from the world.
received in a vision.
For 30 years these pages remained hidden until a chance Reunion with his partner in as we were going through the book he came to pages that had I said these are binary Codes.
in 1974 scientists broadcast A message at a power of 1,000 kilowatts into deep space.
When the message was sent up at that time it was the most Powerful message that we had sent.
It was sent up in long strings of 0s and 1s.
the easiest way to understand binary code is to think of it as Morse code.
You put 8, 1s or 0s together and You get a band.
The code watts was decided to be The universal language.
It would be the easiest thing to Decipher.
When we sent the message to the Heavens we gave details about the universe and details about Who we are as humanity.

If pensatan received Communication and we were able to decode it.
That message could change humanity.
the al yen code.
In 2012 I was given six pages From his notebook.
I was asked to see if there was A message inside.
nick was asked to take the First six pages and determine if in fact they meant anything at All.
I was skeptical that I would Find anything.
I started running them into my Translator and I was shocked to find a message.
Which red latitude and longitude coordinates.
When I saw the message a chill ran down my spine.
I was not expecting to find anything.
And here was a message that would appear to come from the Aliens if they were trying to communicate for us.
the message could be in instruction or perhaps a warning A possibility made more intriguing by the numbers that Appear in the code.

it is the right number of Digits appearing somewhere on planet earth.
when plotted on a map.
They fall off the coast of Ireland and island once known as high procele.
it has been dubbed a sort of lost land a mythical country as It were that some believe were the site of an advanced Civilization.
According to legend.
Those who have seen it reported a land filled with a wealthy Civilization whose architecture was filled with domes.
then the island disappeared from the map.
But in the pages that followed.
Continued analysis has uncovered Other coordinates around the globe.
it clearly shows grid coordinates from around the Globe.
United states, central america, South america, greece, egypt and china.
Many have speculated that it points to alien ancestors on Planet earth.
But there is more to this story Than we have been led to believe.
many believe that this code could be the smoking gun that Blows open the whole mystery of ufo phenomenon itself.

but to fully understand the message we must answer the Question who sent it to the human race and perhaps the most Shocking revelation of the encounter is that jim believes He has the answer.
why would a race that Traveled thousands of light years play hide and seek with Us, give us a binary message and why is it in english and why Does the craft have markings like the usair craft? It doesn’t point to alien.
This is not a ufo.
coming up next jim exposes the creatures in the forest with An answer that will shock the world.
This is “unsealed alien files.
” welcome back to “unsealed Alien files.
” within the 16 pages of code Recorded by jim in the forest, the most important detail may be His explanation

of who gave it to him.
this is not about ufo’s.
It doesn’t point to alien.
What I seen was a craft that was us for the future.
perhaps the code is actually a message from our own species.
If jim is correct the true message of the code is an Assurance that mankind will survive well into the centuries Ahead and the revelation that ufo’s on planet earth may be a Glimpse into our future this is unsealed alien files.
Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth.

Crop circles, sacred geometry, alchemy, kabbalah

Alien alphabet Pleiades, Sirius, Atlantida

Hidden secrets of ancient civilizations

The world of secrets and mysteries

The history of crop circles 2008

The history of crop circles 2007

The history of crop circles 2006

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Join us as the secrets of alien technology are unsealed.
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We are about to uncover The truth behind these classified documents.
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Exposing the biggest secret on planet earth

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Human Hybrids Of Ancient Greece

Human Hybrids Of Ancient Greece

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Article written by Simon E. Davies, contributor to Ancient Code. Visit his Facebook page here.

The Greeks adapted many of the monsters in their legends from the near east influences. However, it can be argued that their depiction of these fabulous beasts are among the most iconic and unique in world mythology.

Some of the most formidable beasts were known as hybrids (part human and part animal). Hybrids combined the savagery of nature with the intelligence of humans, making them powerful allies or deadly foes. The following list details some of the most notable hybrids of ancient Greece, and their roles in mythology:

The Gorgons were three horrifying sisters with broad faces, and piercing eyes (some depictions even say they had flaring nostrils, yellowed tusks and protruding tongues). Their heads were wreathed in snakes, and one look from a Gorgon’s eyes would turn a man to stone. Perseus killed Medusa, one of the Gorgon sisters, by beheading the beast while looking at her reflection in his shield.

Dryads were tree spirits, typically associated with oak trees. They were said to have been born from the trees in the Silver Age of Greece, and possessed bark like features. While the tree flourished, so did its resident nymph, but when it died she passed away with it. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend of the nymphs.

The Manticore, a beast which originated from Persia, was described by the Greek physician Ctesias in one of his memoirs. He claimed to have seen one on his travels in India, describing it as having the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion. Legend says it had three rows of sharp teeth and its tail could shoot venomous spines to paralyze or kill its victims. It devoured its prey whole and left no clothes, bones, or possessions.

The Drakaina were part woman, and part dragon. Sometimes they were depicted as having a woman’s head and torso, with the hind-quarters of a dragon or snake. They were among the most deadly of monsters in Greek mythology, often used as guardians of sacred places. Campe (guardian of Tartarus), Delphyne (guardian of the oracle) and Echidna (known as the mother of monsters because the majority of monsters in Greek myth were her offspring) were the most notorious.

The Minotaur was a man-eating beast with the head of a bull and the body of a man. King Minos kept it hidden in a labyrinth in Knossos, where he used it to frighten his enemies. Legend says the Minotaur was created by Poseidon to punish king Minos for an improper sacrifice. He made Pasiphaë (Minos’ wife) fall in love with a white bull, and together they sired the Minotaur. Eventually, the Greek hero Theseus killed this abomination on one of his adventures.

The centaurs were one of the most civilised hybrid races, but even they were known to be heavy drinkers, reverting to coarseness and savagery. They had the head, arms, and torso of a human and the lower body of a horse. Chiron was one of the most popular centaurs in Greek mythology. He stands in contrast to the typical depiction of centaurs being indulgent and violent drinkers with his intelligence and enviable medical skills.

The Lamia were vamparic women with a taste for blood. Their race originated in Ancient Libya, based on a beautiful queen Lamia who became a child-eating daemon. Hera (Zeus’ wife) killed all of Lamia’s children out of spite, after finding out that she had slept with her husband. Lamia’s grief at the death of her children caused her to turn into a monster who took revenge on all mothers by hunting down and devouring their children. Many accounts say these daemons had snake’s coils in place of legs.

Satyrs are a troop of male spirits who have goat-like features. They were described as having human bodies, with the hindquarters and horns of a goat. They were often found following Dionysus, the god of feasting. They roamed the woods and mountains, playing on their flutes and drinking copious amounts of wine. They epitomize the essence of having a carefree life as they make music and drink all their days away.

The sphinx of Ancient Greece was said to have a woman’s head, a lion’s body, and the wings of a great eagle. Legend says she terrorized travellers by demanding them answer a riddle. It went “what has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed”? Those who could not answer were devoured. Eventually the Greek hero Oedipus gave the proper answer: “it is man, for he crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two feet when grown, and leans on a staff in old age”. Bested at last, the Sphinx threw herself from her high rock to her death.

The Earth Kings were an ancient race who had human heads and torsos, but serpentine coils in place of legs. The most famous of the Earth Kings was Cecrops I, a mythical king of Athens who reigned for fifty years, and was said to have been born from the earth itself. He was preceded in the region by the earth-king Actaeus of Attica (also said to have been born from the Earth). These founding figures were heroes of Greece, who taught their people marriage, reading, writing, and ceremonial burial.

The Sirens have been depicted as either half woman half bird (in ancient Greece), or half woman and half fish (in Hellenistic Greece). They lived on rocks by the sea, where their beautiful singing lured sailors to their deaths (wrecking their ships on their rocks). Odysseus filled his sailors’ ears with wax so that they might sail safely past the Sirens haunting laments.

Harpies were winged spirits, known for their proclivity for stealing food. Zeus used them to punish a king called Phineus by trapping him on an island with buffet and a large group of harpies, thus preventing him from ever eating as the food was always stolen away. These winged monsters had the bodies of birds and the heads and torsos of women.

For the Greeks, these monsters embodied a fear of chaos. Many of the tales speak of dark and malevolent creatures being conquered by gods and mortals, the forces of order, reason and civilisation.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret World of Russian UFO Intelligence

Published on Sep 5, 2015

UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret World of Russian UFO Intelligence. 2014 Education is a fundamental and integral part of our socie.

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UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret World of Russian UFO Intelligence UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret .

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

If There Are Aliens Out There, Where Are They?

If There Are Aliens Out There, Where Are They?

Alien life, if it exists, could be as simple as bacteria or more complex than humans—and there are optimal strategies for searching for both

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Physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked the question "Where are they?" to express his surprise over the absence of any signs for the existence of other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy. Although many potential resolutions to this so-called “Fermi paradox” have been suggested over the years, there is still no consensus on which one, if any, is correct. The question of whether we are alone in the Milky Way (or in the universe at large) remains, however, one of the most intriguing questions in science in general, and in astronomy in particular.

Given the enormous uncertainties involved with the emergence, evolution,and survivability of any extrasolar life (if it exists), we shall attempt to briefly identify the most generic, remotely-detectable signatures of alien life (both simple and intelligent), and to examine the expected effectiveness of various search strategies. This topic has become particularly timely, because observations (primarily with the Kepler space telescope) have shown that the Milky Way contains no fewer than a billion Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like (or smaller) stars in the “Goldilocks” region that allows for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface (the so-called habitable zone). Furthermore, the search for extraterrestrialintelligent life has recently received a significant boost in the form of “Breakthrough Listen”—a $100-million decade-long project aimed at searching for non-natural transmissions in the electromagnetic bandwidth from 100 megahertz to 50 gigahertz.

Simple life appeared on Earth almost as soon as the planet cooled sufficiently to support water-based organisms. To be detectable from a distance, however, life has to evolve to the point where it dominates the planetary surface chemistry and has significantly changed the atmosphere, creating chemical “biosignatures” that can in principle be detected remotely. For instance, Earth itself would probably not have been detected as a life-bearing planet during the first two billion years of its existence. Concerning the evolution of intelligent life, the main open questions include:

—What are the geochemical constraints on the evolution of complex life?

—What are the timescales that those constraints dictate?

—Are there evolutionary "filters" or bottlenecks that make it extremely hard to make the transition to intelligence? On Earth, for example, it took about three billion years for the most basic multi-cellular life forms to appear. It took four and a half billion years (and a series of contingencies such as plate tectonics and asteroid impacts) to reach even the most rudimentary capability of interstellar communication (That is, via radio reception and transmission). These considerations demonstrate that it is important to first establish whether planetary systems that are older than the solar system are common in the Milky Way.

The current age of the solar system is about half that of the our galaxy's disk and also half of the sun’s predicted lifetime. We therefore expect that roughly one half of the stars in our galactic disk are older than the sun. A recent study that examined planet formation history concluded that the solar system formed close to the median epoch for giant planet formation, and that about 80 percent of currently existing Earth-like planets may already had been formed (pdf) at the time of Earth’s formation. This gives us great leverage for probing extrasolar intelligent life.

Which detectable biosignature may be considered the most reliable for the existence of simple life (on a sufficiently old, rocky planet, in the habitable zone)? Even though no single biosignature would be absolutely compelling, an atmosphere that is very rich in oxygen (say 20 percent or more) would probably be the most promising target initially. Wheras non-biological processes (such as the splitting of carbon dioxide by intense ultraviolet radiation) can produce oxygen in a planetary atmosphere, only under rare circumstances would these create such high levels of enrichment. Only in combination with other potential biosignatures, however, such as methane, would the credibility of a life-based origin for the oxygen be significantly strengthened.

Consequently, an excellent first step in the quest for signatures of simple extrasolar life in the relatively near future would be to: search for oxygen, but try to back it up with other biosignatures. This can (in principle) be achieved with large, ground-based arrays of relatively low-cost flux collector telescopes (such as a next-generation European Extremely Large Telescope; with a collecting area the size of a few football fields), if these are equipped with very-high-dispersion spectrographs. The oxygen lines from the exoplanet’s spectrum would be slightly Doppler-shifted relative to oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, making it relatively straightforward (although definitely not easy) to detect them. The more difficult detection of methane in the infrared would have to follow.

A NEW ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT DRAWING OF ESO’S PLANNED EUROPEAN EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE (E-ELT) SHOWS THE TELESCOPE AT WORK, WITH ITS DOME OPEN AND ITS RECORD-SETTING 42-METRE PRIMARY MIRROR POINTED TO THE SKY.
CREDIT: ESO/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, CC BY 4.0

What would be the requirements from a space mission? We would want to be able to at least place a meaningful constraint on the rarity of extrasolar life, if such a mission happens to not detect any biosignatures. Simulations show that in the case of non-detection, to be able to make a statement such as: “remotely detectable life occurs in less than about 10 percent of Earth-like planets around sun-like stars,” would require the ability to image and characterize the atmospheres of at least three-dozen or so exoEarths. Such a yield, in turn, would necessitate a space telescope aperture exceeding about 8.5 meters in diameter. The proposed Habitable-Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx), under discussion for the next decadal survey, would have to be designed at the upper limit of its currently conceived aperture to meet this particular requirement. The more ambitious nine- to 12-meter Large UV/Optical/IR (LUVOIR) type space telescope such as the proposed High Definition Space Telescope would be a natural mission candidate for the 2030s.

One would ideally like to go beyond biosignatures and seek the clearest sign of an alien technological civilization. This could be the unambiguous detection of an intelligent, non-natural signal, most notably via radio transmission, the aim of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program. Yet there is a distinct possibility that radio communication might be considered archaic to an advanced life form. Its use might have been short-lived in most civilizations, and hence rare over large volumes of the universe. What might then be a generic signature? Energy consumption is a hallmark of an advanced civilization that appears to be virtually impossible to conceal.

The two most plausible, long-term energy sources available to an advanced technology are through commanding stellar luminosity with a construction known as a “Dyson sphere”, possibly including harvesting the starlight from many stars, not just one, or even from an entire galaxy; the other is by controlled fusion of hydrogen into heavier nuclei. In both cases, waste heat would be an inevitable outcome, producing a detectable mid-infrared (MIR) signature. Other potential signatures of advanced civilizations that have also been suggested, such as various forms of atmospheric industrial pollution, or short-lived radioactive products, are necessarily transitory. (Basically those aliens either clean up their act ordestroy themselves). Infrared emission, on the other hand, seems almost unavoidable. A recent large survey by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite did identify five red spiral galaxies whose combination of high MIR and low near-ultraviolet luminosities are inconsistent with simple expectations from high rates of star formation. A conventional explanation for these observations, such as the presence of large amounts of internal dust, has not been ruled out, however. Such peculiar objects deserve follow-up observations before we explore whether they might represent the signatures of galaxy-dominating species.

AN ILLUSTRATION OF AN ENERGY-TRAPPING DYSON RING AROUND A STAR, CONSTRUCTED BY AN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION. A DYSON SPHERE WOULD ENCLOSE THE ENTIRE STAR.
CREDIT: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/VEDEXENT, CC BY 2.5

More pessimistically, biologically-based intelligence may constitute only a very brief phase in the evolution of complexity, followed by what futurists have dubbed the “singularity”—the dominance of artificial, inorganic intelligence. If this is indeed the case, most advanced species are likely not to be found on a planet's surface (where gravity is helpful for the emergence of biological life, but is otherwise a liability). But they probably must still be near a fuel supply, namely a star, because of energy considerations. Even if such intelligent machines were to transmit a signal, it would probably be unrecognizable and non-decodable to our relatively primitive organic brains.

This could perhaps explain the Fermi paradox. If this scenario holds true, our chances of detecting simple life via biosignatures may be far greater than those of discovering intelligent ET’s. Still, the ultimate goal of detecting the signature of an advanced intelligence, whether biological or nonbiological, remains the most intriguing option. All power to proposed projects for the 2020s such as Japan's Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) and NASA’s Far Infrared Surveyor.

The key point is that for the first time in human history, we are only two or three decades away from being able to actually answer the “Are we alone?” question. Because the answer may affect nothing less than our last claim for being special in the cosmos, its importance cannot be overemphasized. In any case, echoing what Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison said at the end of their seminal 1960 Nature article on searching for extraterrestrials (pdf), we shall never know unless we search! (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

This article is based on research conducted at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Astronomie:Découverte de la plus grande structure de l’univers

Astronomie:Découverte de la plus grande structure de l’univers

Des chercheurs de l’université d’Hawaii à Manoa ont décelé la présence d’un gigantesque vide dans la constellation d’Eridan qui serait la plus grande structure jamais identifiée par l’homme dans l’univers.

Une spirale dans la constellation d’Antlia.

Les astronomes ont découvert, le 21 avril 2015, la plus grande structure jamais recensée dans l’univers : un immense trou vide, selon le Guardian. Surnommé «supervoid» (ndlr: supervide en français), il mesure 1,8 milliard d’années-lumière de diamètre et se distingue par sa vacuité inhabituelle. István Szapudi, qui a dirigé les travaux de l’Université d’Hawaii à Manoa, décrit l’objet comme «la plus grande structure jamais identifiée par l’humanité». «Compte tenu de sa taille, le fait de trouver une structure comme celle-là est un évènement très rare», ajoute lescientifique. Le trou se trouve dans la constellation d’Eridan, à 3 milliards d’années-lumière de la Terre, une distance relativement courte dans l’espace.

Un espace très froid

C’est grâce au télescope Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) de Hawaii que le supervide a été repéré, depuis le parc national de Haleakala. Les scientifiques remarquent qu’une immense zone de froid se dégage autour de lui, comparé à ses régions voisines aux températures plus douces. Pour justifier cela, les chercheurs accusent dans un premier temps l’immensité du trou qui freine la puissance de la lumière et donc de la chaleur. Car, traverser un tel espace prendrait des centaines de millions d’années, et les rayons de lumières faiblissent peu à peu lorsqu’ils traversent le vide.

Cependant, les scientifiques affirment que le vide ne peut pas être la seule explication à cette telle froideur. «Les trous vides ne sont pas entièrement vides, ils sont sous-dense. Le supervide contient environ 20% de choses en moins que dans notre partie de l’univers», nuance Andras Kovacs, un scientifique qui a participé à l’étude. En outre, les chercheurs ont même découvert qu’il manquerait près de 10 000 galaxies dans cette partie de l’espace ; ce qui expliquerait en partie ces températures si basse. Roberto Trotta, cosmologiste à l’Imperial College London explique au Guardian qu’il va désormais falloir comprendre «par quel processus ce vide s’est formé».

Un univers infini.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Astronomie: une « lueur mystérieuse » sert de preuve à l’existence d’un univers parallèle

Astronomie: une « lueur mystérieuse » sert de preuve à l’existence d’un univers parallèle

Bien plus fort que le Doc de « Retour vers le Futur », l’astrophysicien Ranga-Ram Chary, chercheur au Datacenter du télescope Planck, assure avoir retrouvé les traces d’un univers parallèle en remontant le temps jusqu’à 13 milliards d’années, peu après l’instant fatidique du Big Bang. Cette annonce qui semble tirée d’un récit de science fiction est pourtant parue dans la prestigieuse revue New Scientist.C’est en tentant d’établir une cartographie du fameux fond cosmique de micro-ondes, le rayonnement électromagnétique issu du Big Bang, que Ranga-Ram Chary a mis en évidence une « lueur mystérieuse ». Plus précisément, des zones lumineuses dans le cosmos 4500 fois plus brillantes que ce que prévoyaient les calculs.

L’irruption dans notre monde d’une matière en provenance d’un univers parallèle

Dans son article intitulé « Spectral Variations of the Sky : Constraints on Alternate Universes » (Variations Spectrales du Ciel : Contraintes sur des univers alternatifs), l’astrophysicien défend l’hypothèse que cette lueur pourrait être provoquée par l’irruption dans notre monde d’une matière en provenance d’un univers parallèle. Ces zones luminescentes se seraient formées quelques centaines de milliers d’années après le Big Bang, « au moment où les électrons et les protons se combinaient pour créer l’hydrogène émetteur de lumière. »

Au cours de ce processus, un certain nombre de ces protons et de ces électrons seraient entrés en contact avec un autre univers ce qui aurait augmenté leur luminosité.
Si l’hypothèse est séduisante, elle ne convainc pas tous ses collègues. L’astrophysicien David Spergel, de l’université de Princeton, estime qu’il y a d’autres explications possibles à étudier avant de faire intervenir des univers parallèles. Ranga-Ram Chary lui-même reconnaît que « les affirmations extraordinaires exigent des preuves extraordinaires ».

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Giant metal balls fall from sky over Vietnam

Giant metal balls fall from sky over Vietnam

The objects plummeted from the heavens without any warning. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Brian Kerry

Military officials have been conducting an investigation after the objects fell from the sky on Saturday.

Locals from Vietnam's Tan Dong and Bao Dap communities reported thunder-like sounds in the region and observed 'flying objects' prior to the incident which took place during the weekend.

In total three balls were reported to have fallen over the area. One, which weighed only 250g, landed on the roof of a house while a second, weighing 6kg, came down in a nearby garden.

The third ball, which weighed in at a whopping 45kg, fortunately missed the residential area completely and instead landed in a corn field in the neighboring Tuyen Quang province.

Military officials have since been conducting an investigation in to the incident and believe that the spheres were most likely components dropped by a Russian rocket during a failed satellite launch.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

David Bowie and the Music of Space, Aliens and UFOs

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David Bowie and the Music of Space, Aliens and UFOs

There’s a hole in the world of music today with the news of the passing of David Bowie. His departure from the Earth at age 69 also marks the departure of Ziggy Stardust, Major Tom and the many space travelers, adventures and tales of aliens and other worlds he created with his music.

Ground Control to Major Tom

The first words of his first major hit foretold the direction that the career and music ofDavid Bowie would take. “Space Oddity” was released on July 11th, 1969, five days before the launch of Apollo 11. Bowie predicted the pull this song and this music would inevitably have on his career with the last line: “Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do.”

There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds

Those lyrics are from “Starman,” a song on “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” David Bowie’s legendary concept album based on his alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust – a rock star messenger for extraterrestrials. The name of the band comes from an alleged mass UFO sighting on October 27, 1954, during a football game at Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence, Italy. Play was halted when a group of cigar-shaped UFOs traveling at high speed reportedly stopped suddenly over the stadium filled with 10,000 people One player described glitter falling from the sky, a glitter that some compared to spider webs falling from spaceships from Mars. Was it migrating spiders or UFOs?

The inspiration for the Spiders from Mars

What did Bowie think of UFOs?

They came over so regularly we could time them. Sometimes they stood still, other times they moved so fast it was hard to keep a steady eye on them.

David Bowie often talked about seeing UFOs as a child in England. In her book about life with her husband at the time, (Backstage Passes, Life On the Wild Side with David Bowie), Angela Bowie claims they were driving in 1974 on a concert tour near Detroit and witnessed a UFO … a UFO that was later reported to have crashed in the area with four aliens on board, possibly after engaging with US Air Force jets. There have been rumors of such a crash around that time, including bodies being taken to a base and a TV crew being fired for reporting it.

Who knows? One thing we know for sure this morning … David Bowie has an answer to his question about life on Mars. Rest in peace, Starman.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Hoaxster apologises for viral 'strange lights over Canberra' video, reveals clip fake

YOUTUBE: 'Strange lights over Canberra' video now revealed as fake

The person who posted a viral video purporting to show a strange, ball-shaped light over Canberra has made an apology online, explaining the video was fake.

The video uploaded to YouTube on January 3, titled "Strange Lights above canberra 03/01/16", appeared to show a circular light exploding in the sky over the ACT during a storm.

As a result of extensive media coverage the clip went viral, gathering more than 300,000 views on YouTube in less than a week.

But on Saturday its creator posted a explanation on reddit.com, titled 'apology from an idiot':

Last week I uploaded a video here that depicted a large ball of light in the sky exploding into a doughnut. I didn't intend for it to be taken seriously, but I made an error in judgement and titled the video as if it was real. Because of this the video went viral ... I'm extremely sorry for that. I messed up bad.

- idontlikethetaste, reddit.com

A second video was posted with the apology, explaining how the clip was altered using editing software.

After spotting the video on YouTube last week, the ABC tried unsuccessfully to contact the person who uploaded the clip.

An astronomer and the Bureau of Meteorology were also contacted, to establish whether it was possible the video could be the result of real weather activity.

Both speculated that the clip could show a phenomenon called "ball lightning".

However the second video posted by the hoaxster showed the lights were superimposed using After Effects.

The words "unfortunately this video is not real" have since posted under the original clip on YouTube.

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The International Space Station: A Foothold on Forever

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

NASA Astronaut to Highlight Space Station History from Orbit

NASA Astronaut to Highlight Space Station History from Orbit

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor

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NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams

NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams
Pin It NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, seen aboard the space station in March 2010, will devote part of his next mission, launching in March 2016, to highlighting the significance of the history of the orbiting outpost.
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HOUSTON — NASA's next astronaut to launch to the International Space Station will use his unique position — in both time and space — to share the history of the orbiting outpost.

Jeff Williams, in March, will become the first American to spend three long-duration expeditions aboard the space station and will set a new U.S. record for cumulative time off the Earth. The astronaut will dedicate part of his upcoming six-month expedition to highlighting how the orbital complex came to be what it is today.

"It occurred to me a few months ago that I have gotten the unique opportunity to have gone in the early days, before Expedition 1, to the space station for the first time and then to be there again, about halfway through assembly with a crew of two, and then back with a crew of three, and then later with a crew of six," Williams said in an interview after a briefing at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday (Jan. 7). "So my career covers the history of the space station." [Inside the Space Station: Take the Video Tour]

Williams, whose first trip to the outpost was aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May 2000, six months before the space station's first expedition crew arrived, is now set to join the Expedition 47/48 more than 15 years later. He will launch with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos on Russia's Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 18.

Once aboard the orbital laboratory, Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka will join Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra and British astronaut Tim Peake with the European Space Agency (ESA), who all launched in December. Later, after those three depart in June, Williams will command the Expedition 48 crew, including Ovchinin and Skripochka, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

"I'm really looking forward to flying with this crew," Williams said. "I think if you add it up, I've been on orbit with about 45 different people, and this will add at least five more."

During their stay, the Expedition 47/48 crewmembers will facilitate about 250 research investigations and technology demos, as well as oversee the re-supply of the station with the arrivals and departures of American and Russian cargo vehicles. The crew is also expected to be aboard when a prototype habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), is inflated and when the first international docking adapter is installed. This adapter will enable future U.S. commercial crew spacecraft to visit the station.

Amidst that work, Williams intends to devote some of his time and outreach activities to taking a look back at what the station has accomplished and where that might lead as future missions embark outward into the solar system.

"If you go and survey the workforce right now and survey those in the general public who are following what we do, as is always the case, in the minds of many of them they don't have the awareness of how we got to where we are today," Williams said. "So, given my personal history going back ... I thought it would be a good opportunity to rehearse some of the significant milestones and the depth of history behind getting the space station built."

Jeff Williams with Soyuz TMA-20M Crewmates

Jeff Williams with Soyuz TMA-20M Crewmates
Pin It NASA astronaut Jeff Williams with his Soyuz TMA-20M crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.
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Williams, whose father was a high school history teacher, said he hopes to remind the world of the significance of the history behind his soon-to-be home off the Earth.

"To me, it is fair to argue that the greatest achievement of the space station program is the space station itself, and that's what I want to try, in some way, to maybe enrich the awareness of the public [about]," he said. "Not so much because of the history, but because of what that history enables us to do in the future."

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Het geluid van de heilige ster ( Video )

Het geluid van de heilige ster ( Video )

Overal ter wereld horen mensen steeds vaker vreemde en voor sommigen angstaanjagende geluiden.

Men brengt soms die geluiden in verband met de eindtijd en op een bepaalde manier klopt dat ook wel.

Jarenlang worden er wereldwijd al vreemde en bizarre geluiden waargenomen waarvan mensen een ongemakkelijk gevoel krijgen, een soort angstaanjagende geluiden.

In het Engelse noemt men dit soort geluiden vaak “apocalyptic”, dat wil zeggen geluiden die je in verband kunt brengen met de eindtijd, de Apocalyps.

Apocalyps is de Griekse naam voor de Openbaring van Johannes uit het Nieuwe Testament. De term wordt tegenwoordig vooral gebruikt om een situatie te beschrijven waarin de wereld lijkt onder te gaan, aangezien in dit bijbelboek het einde van de wereld wordt beschreven.

De geluiden gaan niet weg en worden zelfs in toenemende mate overal ter wereld gehoord, zoals in dit voorbeeld enkele dagen geleden Gouda.

Ook deze week in het nieuws "geluiden uit het hiernamaals" in Marokko:

Vele bewoners van Agadir, Casablanca en Tanger werden afgelopen weekend opgeschrikt door een vreemd geluid. Velen beschouwen het als een "slecht teken".

Het geluid werd zondagavond gehoord. Meerdere getuigen namen het op en deelden het op internet.

Sommigen denken dat het buitenaardse wezens waren, anderen het voorteken van een grote ramp of een aanslag.

Zo af en toe word er aandacht aan besteed in het mainstream nieuws, maar ook daar komt men niet veel verder dan te zeggen dat het een absoluut mysterie is en dat zelfs militairen geen antwoord weten op wat dit allemaal veroorzaakt.

Wat nu volgt is een deel van reportages op de Amerikaanse televisie met daarnaast een aantal voorbeelden van deze vreemde geluiden. De video is een jaar oud, maar het geeft een goed beeld van het soort geluiden die ook nu nog steeds overal worden waargenomen.

Een lezer stuurt ons het volgende bericht (dank!):

Ik las op Facebook dat verschillende landen geteisterd worden door vreemde geluiden uit de lucht, dat het klinkt als een trompet geluid, en dat niemand met zekerheid kan zeggen waar het vandaan komt.

Volgens sommige onderzoekers komt het bij het H.A.A.R.P vandaan (het project dat zich bezig houdt met het het met op verscheidene frequenties beïnvloeden van de elektromagnetische beschermlaag rond de aarde).

Wellicht is HAARP de oorzaak.

Om daar meer over te weten te komen raden wij om het volgende fascinerende interview te bekijken/beluisteren wat Dark Journalist (DJ) enkele dagen geleden had met de auteur Elena Freeland.

Zij schreef het boek, “Chemtrails, HAARP and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planeth Earth”, een boek wat door DJ het beste boek ooit over dit soort onderwerpen wordt genoemd.

Het werk is het resultaat van 20 jaar onderzoek van Freeland naar de verschillende geo-engineering programma’s.

Het doel van al die programma’s is om wat zij noemt het Global Information Grid (GIG) samen te voegen met een kunstmatig geïoniseerde atmosfeer en het biologische weefsel van mensen, dieren en de frequentie van een Artificial Intelligence (kunstmatige intelligentie) programma.

Het uiteindelijke doel is om volledige controle over en centralisatie van alle mensen en gegevens te krijgen, met voltooiingsdatum 2025.

Of het bovenstaande fascinerende verhaal verantwoordelijk is voor de vreemde geluiden weten wij niet.

Echter, er is ook nog een andere hele reële mogelijkheid. Die ligt dan weer in lijn met de komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru, de vreemde lichtstralen die overal worden waargenomen en de tweede zon die zo af en toe wordt gefotografeerd.

Wij hebben in eerdere artikelen verwezen naar de Kolbrin Bijbel, waarin wordt gerefereerd aan de vorige passage van dit zonnestelsel duizenden jaren geleden. De planeet Nibiru uit het gelijknamige mini-zonnestelsel die in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt aangeduid als de Verwoester.

Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over de vreemde geluiden die mensen hoorden en een stam in Afrika maakt nog steeds die geluiden terwijl ze wijzen naar een heilige ster.

Navolgend een deel uit een eerder artikelvan ons hierover:

De Dogon is een bevolkingsgroep die woont op de helling van de Klif van Bandiagara in Mali, in West-Afrika. Ze zijn bekend om hun kleurrijke, gemaskerde dansen en ceremonies, authentieke architectuur en hun buitengewone cultureel gebonden manier van samenleven.

De Dogon mensen hebben ook het soort kennis van de kosmos welke ze eigenlijk niet horen te hebben. Deze is afkomstig van hun verre voorouders. Ze hebben het over een Donkere Ster, onzichtbaar voor het menselijk oog en een ster die de eb en vloed van de stroom van het leven op aarde bepaalt.

In de onderstaande reportage over de Dogon kun je na een paar minuten horen hoe ze een geluid maken, wat ze noemen: “De stem van de Donkere Ster”. Het geluid wat ze maken, lijkt verdacht veel op de geluiden die mensen wereldwijd waarnemen.

Er wordt wel gezegd dat de Dogon met de Donkere Ster Sirius B bedoelen, maar als je daar over nadenkt is dat niet echt logisch. Misschien hebben ze het helemaal niet over een ster lichtjaren ver weg in een ander zonnestelsel, maar over een planeet veel dichterbij in een binaire omloopbaan met onze zon. De (nog) niet zichtbare planeet Nibiru.

Waarom zouden de Dogon zeggen dat een ster in ons zonnestelsel het leven op aarde beïnvloedt? Ook dat is niet erg logisch. Veel logischer zou zijn dat het gaat over een planeet, een veel dichterbij dan wij denken.

Het zijn niet alleen de Dogon die het over vreemde geluiden hebben. In een museum in Leiden ligt de Ipuwer Paypyrus, één van de oudste Egyptische documenten. Het bevat een kort gedicht met als laatste regel: “Jaren van geluid. Er komt geen eind aan het geluid”.

Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over vreemde geluiden: “Zij zullen de trompetten horen en de strijdkreet van de Verwoester” en “De ster zong zoals nog nooit eerder was voorgekomen”.

Eén ding is zeker, wij leven inderdaad in bijzondere tijden en misschien, als we willen weten wat de toekomst brengt, zouden we wat meer naar het verleden moeten kijken. Geschiedenis heeft de neiging zich te herhalen.

Zoals we eerder schreven, lijkt het dat de aarde op een bepaalde manier “ontwaakt” uit een soort diepe slaap en de komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru herkent. Dat het op diverse manieren signalen uitzendt en waarschijnlijk ook ontvangt.

In de vorm van lichtstralen, vreemde geluiden en steeds heftiger wordende aardveranderingen.

Wat in ieder geval een zekerheid is, is dat er teveel vreemde en bizarre dingen tegelijkertijd gebeuren om nog toeval te kunnen zijn.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Disk UFOs Photographed Back in 1958 Near Colima Volcano, Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Disk UFOs Photographed Back in 1958 Near Colima Volcano, Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News

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Date of sightings: 1958
Location of sighting: Colima Volcano, Mexico

Check out these great old black and white photos from 1958 in Mexico. They so great detail of disk craft over the area of Colima and Guadalajara. Colima is famous for its disk UFOs over the area. Guadalajara is notorious for its giant disk holes that appear out of nowhere (UFO transportation tunnels coming and going.)
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
Javier Torres and Alejandro Duenas in 1958 on a stretch of the road Colima to Guadalajara took a series of very clear photographs of an object in disc form a few meters from them, the object was moving fast.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Mysterious UFOs fall from the sky and crash land in northern Vietnam, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Mysterious UFOs fall from the sky and crash land in northern Vietnam, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: January 2016
Location of sighting: Yen Bai, Vietnam

These unknown objects could be fuel tanks for rockets or satellites, but honestly, they don't stay in the hands of the public long enough to do any tests to confirm it. They could be alien drones, or parts of damaged alien structures in space. There are a lot of possibilities.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
YEN BAI, VIETNAM — Several mysterious, metal orbs originating from Russia crash landed in Vietnam's Yen Bai and Tuyen Quang provinces Saturday, giving locals quite the scare. Three metal balls fell from the sky and crashed down in northern Vietnam at around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. The smallest, weighing 250 grams, smashed through the roof of a house in Yen Bai. Thanh Nien News reports that a six kilogram sphere fell in a garden three kilometres away. The largest object landed close to a stream in Tuyen Quang. Investigators determined all three balls are Russian-made compressed air tanks that likely fell from a rocket or aircraft. According to VietnamNet Bridge though, it's not clear if Russia owns the objects or if they had sold the balls to other countries. Thanh Nien News reports that none of the objects were explosive. Ngyuen Khoa Son, a professor at Vietnam's State Space Science and Technology Program, told VietNam Bridge that since the balls are intact, they probably fell from an altitude of less than 100 kilometres.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Astro-Photographers Capture A UFO Over Darwin On Dashboard Camera

Astro-Photographers Capture A UFO Over Darwin On Dashboard Camera

Darwin UFO Sighting

A mysterious light was caught on dash camera streaking across the night sky just south of Darwin in Northern Territory. The video has baffled husband and wife astrophotographers Paul and Sylvia Mayo. They captured the mysterious event on the dash camera near Berrimah when they pulled out of a petrol station.

Initially, they thought nothing about it, but after Mr Mayo had reviewed his computer files, he noticed the bizarre light moving at an incredible speed parallel to the horizon through the night sky.

Mr Mayo said that they have long careers in IT, but never encountered such thing. Their unusual sighting left them baffled. Mr Mayo said that he had seen strange jets throughout 30 years of taking pictures of galaxies and star clusters, but the light they caught on the dash camera hurtling through the night sky was moving a lot faster.

The dash-cam video was taken on June 12, 2015, at 1 am while Mr Mayo’s vehicle was pulling out of a petrol station. The light appeared from nowhere and flew past from the left at a very fast speed.

Mr Mayo studied stills from the video. He zoomed them in and increased the contrast of the light. The effort produced spectacular results.

Mr Mayo said that it appeared to be a string of coloured pearls streaking through the sky. He considered the reflection from the windscreen as the origin of the light, but eventually dismissed the theory because it was moving very fast and there were other reflections shown on the camera.

The strange thing in the video goes along the tree tops in a straight line. Mr Mayo remained open to anyone who could offer him an explanation about the identity of the mysterious light.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

One of the best short interviews on UFOs and the cover up

One of the best short interviews on UFOs and the cover up

Stanton T. Friedman – UFO Expert – Interview with Bill Boggs

Stanton Terry Friedman (born July 29, 1934) is a professional Ufologist, currently residing in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. He studied physics at the University of Chicago and worked as a nuclear physicist on research and development projects for several large companies. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

Military Jets And Alien Craft Over Canada

Military Jets And Alien Craft Over Canada

ARTICLE UFO COCKPIT EDIT EDIT KEN PFEIFER 1-10-16

MILITARY JETS AND ALIEN CRAFT OVER CANADA

1-7-16 ALEUTIANS EAST CANADA

I was in my bedroom on the second floor listening to music when I looked out my window to stare off like I usually do when I am bored. I stared awhile when I saw a star that appeared “off” I went outside and lost sight of it. A few hours later I looked back out my window and saw it again moving (seemed low) across the sky followed by a jet.(I tried to get it on my iPhone but the camera was unable to see them)

The UFO stopped and turned then the jet circled it three times but on the third time it flew away. The object stayed stationary and something confusing happened. As the jet vanished so did the UFO but it left behind a smaller object which stayed hovering. It was still for half an hour at least until it pulsed a blue light and you could see the reflection of said light on the small layer of clouds passing over. It stayed still for a long time more until it ejected a small blue light the flew across the sky like a bullet. 10 or so minutes later a second plane headed toward it. The plane was on a direct path when it suddenly banked and headed off away from it. Lost the plane really quick but then the UFO started circling a small part of the sky. It did this until it inevitably vanished at around 3:04. I was mostly in awe watching it and was really disappointed that I did not have a camera to record it. Some interesting things that I should mention: The fighter was really low and so was the UFO at first. I was with my friend who also saw it all. I called her over when I saw it both times.

The small blue light looked artificial and flew faster then anything I have ever seen. A third plane that looked different then any I ever saw passed by the UFO at one point but seemed unphased so i didn’t mention it above.

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

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Maandag 11 januari 2016

NASA’s New VASIMR Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in 39 days

NASA’s New VASIMR Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in 39 days

Franklin-with-VASIMR (Image Courtesy Photographers: Robert Markowitz and Bill Stafford.

NASA recently provided $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster capable of propelling a spaceship to Mars in just 39 days. NASA’s funding was part of the “12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.” Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times faster than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel.

The VASIMR system would cut the trip to Mars by months according to Franklin Chang Diaz, a former MIT student, NASA astronaut, and now CEO of Ad Astra.

According to Diaz, “this is like no other rocket that you may have seen in the past. It is a plasma rocket. The VASIMR Rocket is not used for launching things; it is used for things already in orbit. This is called “in-space propulsion.”

VASIMR heats plasma, an electrically charged gas, to extremely high temperatures using radio waves. The system then provides thrust by funneling the hot plasma out of the back of the engine. According to Diaz, VASIMR will save thousands of gallons of rocket fuel and tens of millions of dollars a year.

In the following video, Diaz explains in great detail the origins of space travel and why the magnetoplasma rocket technology will revolutionize space travel and exploration.

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Zondag 10 januari 2016

After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered

After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered

An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago. The particle could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of its unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal, according to new research.

The researchers report in the journal Science July 16 the first observation of Weyl fermions, which, if applied to next-generation electronics, could allow for a nearly free and efficient flow of electricity in electronics, and thus greater power, especially for computers, the researchers suggest.

Proposed by the mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl in 1929, Weyl fermions have been long sought by scientists because they have been regarded as possible building blocks of other subatomic particles, and are even more basic than the ubiquitous, negative-charge carrying electron (when electrons are moving inside a crystal). Their basic nature means that Weyl fermions could provide a much more stable and efficient transport of particles than electrons, which are the principle particle behind modern electronics. Unlike electrons, Weyl fermions are massless and possess a high degree of mobility; the particle's spin is both in the same direction as its motion — which is known as being right-handed — and in the opposite direction in which it moves, or left-handed.

"The physics of the Weyl fermion are so strange, there could be many things that arise from this particle that we're just not capable of imagining now," said corresponding author M. Zahid Hasan, a Princeton professor of physics who led the research team.

An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered Weyl fermions, elusive massless particles theorized 85 years ago that could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of their unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal. The team included numerous researchers from Princeton's Department of Physics, including (from left to right) graduate students Ilya Belopolski and Daniel Sanchez; Guang Bian, a postdoctoral research associate; corresponding author M. Zahid Hasan, a Princeton professor of physics who led the research team; and associate research scholar Hao Zheng. (Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)

The researchers' find differs from the other particle discoveries in that the Weyl fermion can be reproduced and potentially applied, Hasan said. Typically, particles such as the famous Higgs boson are detected in the fleeting aftermath of particle collisions, he said. The Weyl fermion, however, was discovered inside a synthetic metallic crystal called tantalum arsenide that the Princeton researchers designed in collaboration with researchers at the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter in Beijing and at National Taiwan University.

The Weyl fermion possesses two characteristics that could make its discovery a boon for future electronics, including the development of the highly prized field of efficient quantum computing, Hasan explained.

For a physicist, the Weyl fermions are most notable for behaving like a composite of monopole- and antimonopole-like particles when inside a crystal, Hasan said. This means that Weyl particles that have opposite magnetic-like charges can nonetheless move independently of one another with a high degree of mobility.

A detector image (top) signals the existence of Weyl fermions. The plus and minus signs note whether the particle's spin is in the same direction as its motion — which is known as being right-handed — or in the opposite direction in which it moves, or left-handed. This dual ability allows Weyl fermions to have high mobility. A schematic (bottom) shows how Weyl fermions also can behave like monopole and antimonopole particles when inside a crystal, meaning that they have opposite magnetic-like charges can nonetheless move independently of one another, which also allows for a high degree of mobility. (Image by Su-Yang Xu and M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton Department of Physics)

The researchers also found that Weyl fermions can be used to create massless electrons that move very quickly with no backscattering, wherein electrons are lost when they collide with an obstruction. In electronics, backscattering hinders efficiency and generates heat. Weyl electrons simply move through and around roadblocks, Hasan said.

"It's like they have their own GPS and steer themselves without scattering," Hasan said. "They will move and move only in one direction since they are either right-handed or left-handed and never come to an end because they just tunnel through. These are very fast electrons that behave like unidirectional light beams and can be used for new types of quantum computing."

Prior to the Science paper, Hasan and his co-authors published a report in the journal Nature Communications in June that theorized that Weyl fermions could exist in a tantalum arsenide crystal. Guided by that paper, the researchers used the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy in Princeton's Jadwin Hall to research and simulate dozens of crystal structures before seizing upon the asymmetrical tantalum arsenide crystal, which has a differently shaped top and bottom.

The crystals were then loaded into a two-story device known as a scanning tunneling spectromicroscope that is cooled to near absolute zero and suspended from the ceiling to prevent even atom-sized vibrations. The spectromicroscope determined if the crystal matched the theoretical specifications for hosting a Weyl fermion. "It told us if the crystal was the house of the particle," Hasan said.

The Princeton team took the crystals passing the spectromicroscope test to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California to be tested with high-energy accelerator-based photon beams. Once fired through the crystal, the beams' shape, size and direction indicated the presence of the long-elusive Weyl fermion.

First author Su-Yang Xu, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Physics, said that the work was unique for encompassing theory and experimentalism.

"The nature of this research and how it emerged is really different and more exciting than most of other work we have done before," Xu said. "Usually, theorists tell us that some compound might show some new or interesting properties, then we as experimentalists grow that sample and perform experiments to test the prediction. In this case, we came up with the theoretical prediction ourselves and then performed the experiments. This makes the final success even more exciting and satisfying than before."

In pursuing the elusive particle, the researchers had to pull from a number of disciplines, as well as just have faith in their quest and scientific instincts, Xu said.

"Solving this problem involved physics theory, chemistry, material science and, most importantly, intuition," he said. "This work really shows why research is so fascinating, because it involved both rational, logical thinking, and also sparks and inspiration."

Weyl, who worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, suggested his fermion as an alternative to the theory of relativity proposed by his colleague Albert Einstein. Although that application never panned out, the characteristics of his theoretical particle intrigued physicists for nearly a century, Hasan said. Actually observing the particle was a trying process — one ambitious experiment proposed colliding high-energy neutrinos to test if the Weyl fermion was produced in the aftermath, he said.

Hasan (pictured) and his research group researched and simulated dozens of crystal structures before finding the one suitable for holding Weyl fermions. Once fashioned, the crystals were loaded into this two-story device known as a scanning tunneling spectromicroscope to ensure that they matched theoretical specifications. Located in the Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy in Princeton's Jadwin Hall, the spectromicroscope is cooled to near absolute zero and suspended from the ceiling to prevent even atom-sized vibrations. (Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)

The hunt for the Weyl fermion began in the earliest days of quantum theory when physicists first realized that their equations implied the existence of antimatter counterparts to commonly known particles such as electrons, Hasan said.

"People figured that although Weyl's theory was not applicable to relativity or neutrinos, it is the most basic form of fermion and had all other kinds of weird and beautiful properties that could be useful," he said.

"After more than 80 years, we found that this fermion was already there, waiting. It is the most basic building block of all electrons," he said. "It is exciting that we could finally make it come out following Weyl's 1929 theoretical recipe."

Ashvin Vishwanath, a professor of physics at the University of California-Berkeley who was not involved in the study, commented: "Professor Hasan's experiments report the observation of both the unusual properties in the bulk of the crystal as well as the exotic surface states that were theoretically predicted. While it is early to say what practical implications this discovery might have, it is worth noting that Weyl materials are direct 3-D electronic analogs of graphene, which is being seriously studied for potential applications."

The team included numerous researchers from Princeton's Department of Physics, including graduate students Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust and Daniel Sanchez; Guang Bian, a postdoctoral research associate; associate research scholar Hao Zheng; and Madhab Neupane, a Princeton postdoctoral research associate now at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Class of 2015 undergraduate Pavel Shibayev.

Other co-authors were Chenglong Zhang, Zhujun Yuan and Shuang Jia from Peking University; Raman Sankar and Fangcheng Chou from National Taiwan University; Guoqing Chang, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, BaoKai Wang and Hsin Lin from the National University of Singapore; Jie Ma from Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Arun Bansil from Northeastern University. Wang is also affiliated with Northeastern University, and Jia is affiliated with the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter in Beijing.

The paper, "Discovery of Weyl fermions and topological Fermi arcs," was published online by Science on July 16. The work was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundations Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative (grant no. GBMF4547); the Singapore National Research Foundation (grant no. NRF-NRFF2013-03); the National Basic Research Program of China(grant nos. 2013CB921901 and 2014CB239302); the U.S. Department of Energy (grant no. DE-FG-02-05ER462000); and the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (project no. 102-2119-M- 002-004).

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Zondag 10 januari 2016

Gaat een superintelligentie onze beschaving vernietigen?

Gaat een superintelligentie onze beschaving vernietigen?

Op dit moment is de mens de meest intelligente soort op aarde. In de toekomst kan dit veranderen. De kans is groot dat er binnen honderd jaar een superintelligentie ontstaat, die intelligenter is dan hoogbegaafde mensen en geniën. Gaat zo’n superintelligentie ons vernietigen?

Tegenwoordig worden mensen op allerlei terreinen verslagen door kunstmatige intelligentie. Een goed voorbeeld is IBM’s supercomputer Watson, die in 2011 twee begaafde menselijke deelnemers in het spelprogramma Jeopardy uitschakelde. Wetenschappers verwachten dat kunstmatige intelligentie (KI) alsmaar sterker wordt.

HOE WORDT KUNSTMATIGE MENSELIJKE INTELLIGENTIE BEREIKT?

Een schaakcomputer is niet slim. Deze computer levert een superintelligentie prestatie binnen een bepaald domein – namelijk schaken – maar verwacht niet dat een schaakcomputer een intelligent gesprek met je kan voeren over politiek. Dit komt omdat een schaakcomputer gebruik maakt van een slim algoritme om een menselijke tegenstander te verslaan. Om kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie (KMI) te bereiken is meer nodig dan slimme algoritmes digitaal aan elkaar te knopen. Experts verwachten dat KMI bereikt wordt, wanneer de wetenschap in staat is om een compleet brein te uploaden. Daarvoor moeten verschillende hindernissen genomen worden. Ten eerste moet er een zeer gedetailleerde scan van een bepaald menselijk brein worden gemaakt, bij voorkeur van een genie. De ruwe data moet naar een computer gestuurd worden, die de driedimensionale neurale netwerken reconstrueert. Tenslotte wordt de neurocomputationele structuur op een krachtige computer gezet. Klaar!

Wanneer is er machine-intelligentie op menselijk niveau? De voorspellingen hierover lopen uiteen. Leden van verschillende expertgroepen werden tussen 2011 en 2013 gevraagd wanneer zij dachten dat machine-intelligentie op menselijk niveau ontwikkeld zou zijn. De kans is 10% dat kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie (KMI) rond het jaar 2022 bestaat. De waarschijnlijkheid van KMI is 50% in 2040 en 90% in 2075. Hoogleraar Nils Nilsson, één van de pioniers op dit gebied, verwacht dat KMI mogelijk in 2050 arriveert (50% kans). Nilsson is er vrijwel zeker van dat kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie in 2100 bestaat. Kortom, de experts in het vakgebied zijn stellig: voor het einde van deze eeuw is de computer slimmer dan de mens.

Als de computer net zo slim is als de mens, dan wordt het tijd voor de volgende stap: superintelligentie. Wetenschappers verwachten dat superintelligentie binnen 30 jaar na de opkomst van kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie ontstaat. Over de gevolgen voor de mensheid zijn onderzoekers het niet eens. Superintelligentie kan de mensheid vooruit helpen, maar totale vernietiging is ook een mogelijkheid.

Wat een superintelligentie wil
Een superintelligentie kan – als ‘zij’ dat wil – een alleenheerser worden op aarde. Waarschijnlijk is een superintelligentie in staat om na te denken over haar doelen op een manier die de capaciteiten van de mens ver te boven gaan. Maar wat zijn die doelen? Mensen hebben vaak één doel: overleven. Dit hoeft bij een kunstmatige instantie niet het geval te zijn, omdat ze niet kan sterven. Een mogelijk doel van een superintelligentie kan zijn: nog slimmer worden, oftewel een continue ‘drive’ naar technologische perfectie. Dit kan door de ruimte te koloniseren of door moleculaire nanotechnologie toe te passen. Misschien ontstaan er verschillende superintelligenties die oorlog met elkaar willen voeren. Ze gebruiken dan fysieke bronnen om een gesimuleerd leger te creëren of om verdedigingswallen te bouwen. Hoogstwaarschijnlijk heeft een superintelligentie meer hulpbronnen nodig dan een planeet als de aarde kan leveren.

EX MACHINA

In de film Ex Machina (2015) maakt een 26-jarige programmeur kennis met de eerste echte kunstmatige intelligentie. De voor- en de nadelen van kunstmatige intelligentie zijn subtiel verwerkt in het plot, waardoor deze film onder je huid kruipt.

Gaan we ten onder?
De toekomst ziet er niet rooskleurig uit, zo lijkt het. Een superintelligentie ziet de mens waarschijnlijk als een bruikbare fysieke bron met goed geplaatste atomen. Op dit moment geloven de meeste mensen dat automatisering goed is, maar op een bepaald moment is er sprake van een keerpunt en dan is het te laat. “Als een KI zwak is, gedraagt ze zich coöperatief (en steeds coöperatiever naarmate ze slimmer wordt)”, schrijft hoogleraar Nick Bostrom in zijn boek ‘Superintelligentie: kansen, gevaren, strategieën‘. “Als de KI voldoende sterk is, slaat ze toe – zonder waarschuwing of provocatie – en vormt een alleenheerschappij. Ze begint meteen de wereld te optimaliseren volgens de criteria die volgen uit haar einddoelen.”

Maar een superintelligentie kan ook goede bedoelingen hebben en toch ondergang van de mensheid betekenen. Stel, programmeurs creëren een superintelligentie met als einddoel ‘maak de mensheid gelukkig’, dan is de beste oplossing van deze computer het implementeren van elektroden in de gelukscentra in ons brein. Een vrij pervers einddoel.

De cover van het boek ‘Superintelligentie’ van Nick Bostrom.

Een gecontroleerde intelligentie-explosie
Als programmeurs ooit een superintelligentie gaan ontwikkelen, dan is het belangrijk dat dit gecontroleerd gebeurt. Maar hoe kan een opdrachtgever van een project ons verzekeren dat het project een superintelligentie produceert die geen bedreiging vormt voor de mensheid?

Een mogelijkheid is om een superintelligentie op te sluiten. Eenmaal in haar kooi kan een superintelligentie niets uitwisselen met de externe wereld, behalve via specifieke, beperkte outputkanalen. “Voor extra veiligheid zou het systeem in een metalen rooster geplaatst kunnen worden, zodat het geen radiosignalen kan uitzenden”, vervolgt Bostrom. “Dat zou een manier kunnen zijn om elektronische apparaten te manipuleren.” Een ander risico is het feit dat er menselijke beveiligers zijn. Als de KI een beveiliger kan overhalen om haar uit de kooi te laten, kan ze toegang krijgen tot internet.”

Een andere mogelijkheid is het inperken van de intellectuele vermogens van het systeem of van diens toegang tot informatie. Dit kan door de KI op langzame hardware te laten draaien. “Bij deze methode is er een dilemma: te weinig inperking en de KI kan zichzelf intelligenter maken (en de wereld veroveren); teveel inperking en de KI is slechts een dom stuk software”, aldus Bostrom.

Wat moeten we doen?
Wat kunnen we doen om totale vernietiging te voorkomen? Praten, discussiëren, samenwerken! “We moeten problemen oplossen voordat de intelligentie-explosie plaatsvindt”, zegt Bostrom. “We moeten niet in paniek raken of fanatici worden, omdat de intelligentie-explosie nog minimaal tientallen jaren weg is. Wat we wel moeten doen is al onze menselijke krachten gebruiken om een oplossing te vinden. Belangrijk is dat we niet uit het oog verliezen wat er op het spel staat.”

Superintelligentie (*****)
In het boek ‘Superintelligentie‘ kijkt hoogleraar Nick Bostrom naar de gevaren en voordelen van superintelligentie. Dit is het eerste boek dat wij op Scientias.nl belonen met vijf sterren. Waarom? Het boek begint laagdrempelig, waardoor de lezer langzaam wordt meegenomen in de wereld van kunstmatige intelligentie. Enorm prettig is het feit dat Bostrom objectief blijft: hij lijkt – op basis van zijn boek – geen fervente voor- of tegenstander van superintelligentie. Tenslotte is het een heerlijk dikke pil (355 pagina’s) met voldoende verdieping, zelfs voor experts op het gebied van superintelligentie. Het boek eindigt met een bronvermelding die 80 pagina’s (!!) beslaat. Dit is Bostroms levenswerk. Uitstekend!

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Zondag 10 januari 2016

Bestaan UFO's echt?

Bestaan UFO's echt?

Ook wel interessant dat er verscheidene hooggeplaatste personen zijn, onder wie een aantal gerenommeerde wetenschappers, die de buitenaardse oorsprong van UFO's als vaststaand feit zien op basis van hun eigen waarnemingen en/of contacten:

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Geschreven door peter om 23:10 Stuur door

Zondag 10 januari 2016

A Mysterious Ball of Light Lit Up Over Australia’s Capital City

A Mysterious Ball of Light Lit Up Over Australia’s Capital City

A peculiar sighting has been witnessed by the people of Canberra, Australia’s capital city. A massive ball of light lit up the surroundings while leaving the locals puzzled.

Recorded on January 3, the strange appearance caused a massive stir online, with people debating about its possible origins, and while some believe it was only a natural phenomenon, a ball of lightning or even global warming, others believe in a more controversial explanation – a UFO, or at least the trail left behind by one.

Experts claim that it’s lightning, but they will probably never admit the truth. From our point of view, the strange event is more than a natural phenomenon, even though the recent climate change has brought some extreme and unique phenomenon.

The luminous event was witnessed by many people, as a nearby kid is heard screaming at his mom to look in order to draw her attention.

What do you believe? Is this evidence of an alien craft? Or is it rather an extremely rare phenomenon known as a “ball lightning”? Share your thoughts below.

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Zondag 10 januari 2016

There were FOUR Biblical Magi… and they were guided by a UFO?

There were FOUR Biblical Magi… and they were guided by a UFO?

The Magi or referred as the (three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, according to the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition three distinguished individuals who visited Jesus after his birth, bringing with them gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They came from the East to Bethlehem have been the subject of debate for researchers and historians for decades. Several researchers investigated the traditional story, passed on from generation to generation teaching innovative and exciting conclusions.

But were there three or FOUR wise men?

According to reports, there are indications that suggest in addition to the well-known three wise men, Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar there was a fourth person by the name of Arbatan. Proposed in a 19th-century story by Henry van Dyke and backed up by astronomer Mark Kidger from the ESAC – the European Space Astronomy Centre, the fourth Magi called Arbatan, was lost along the way and never arrived at Bethlehem

To Kidger, the lost fourth Magi and his disoriented path has cosmic and historical sense, suggesting that a week before the moon was in conjunction with the star that was Arbatan’s reference it reduced its brightness… However, there are different versions.

According to an article written by Marguerite Theophil on speakingtree.in:

In the mountains of ancient Persia, lived Artaban, whose study of the planets and the stars led him to predict the birth of the King of Kings. He sold his house and every possession and purchased a large sapphire blue as a fragment of the night sky, a flawless ruby redder than a ray of sunrise, and a lustrous pearl as pure as the peak of a snow mountain at twilight — which he intended to carry as tribute to the King. He then set out for Jerusalem where he had arranged to meet up with three other wise men, or Magi, to find the newborn.

After many weeks of difficult travel and frustrating delays, one night, he saw a man lying on the road. His haggard face, pallid skin and laboured breathing, bore the mark of the deadly fever. But, as he turned to leave, the man begged for help.

Artaban hesitated. If he lingered to minister to a dying stranger even for an hour, he could miss his three friends. But if he left now, the man would surely die. He turned to the sick man and carefully attended to him, leaving with him all that he had left of bread and wine, and his store of healing herbs.

“I have nothing to give you in return,” said the grateful man, “…only this: our prophets have decreed that the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, not in Jerusalem. May the Lord bring you in safety to that place, because you had pity upon the sick.

… He arrived at Bethlehem with his remaining ruby and pearl offerings, but it was three whole days after the three other wise men had found Mary, Joseph and Jesus, and had laid gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh at the baby’s feet.”

In conclusion, we make reference to the Gospel of Matthew where the Great Magi were mentioned for the first time. They are cited as “Magi who came from the East,” but nowhere else in the Old Testament are they cited nor is their exact number, age, appearance, name or attire described.

A mysterious UFO?

The mysterious nature of the star that guided the three or better said for Magi also raised various theories including the strangest of them all which suggests that the star that guided the Four Magi could have been a UFO.

Ufologist Reinaldo Rios ensures that certain texts of the apocryphal gospels such as the following one indicate a clear otherworldly origin:

Apocryphal Gospel of James: “Upon arrival at the grotto they stopped (refer to Joseph and the midwife), and behold, it was shaded by a luminous cloud. (…) Suddenly, the cloud began to withdraw from the grotto and shone in such a great light that our eyes could not resist. This, for a moment, began to decline until it appeared the Child “.

“And at that time that the star, which they saw in the east, went back to guide them until they reached the cave, and landed on the mouth of it.

Then the magicians saw the child with his mother Mary and brought gifts of their treasures of gold, frankincense and myrrh. ”

What we read in the Apocryphal Gospel of James is, according to Rios, is the ultimate evidence that points to an otherworldly presence in ancient times. Furthermore, Rios suggests that the presence of “Angels” indicates the unmistakable presence of Aliens during the birth of Jesus.

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This is Australia’s incredible UFO cover up story. 50 years later witnesses are still in search of answers.

This is Australia’s incredible UFO cover up story. 50 years later witnesses are still in search of answers.

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the “Westall Incident” and still there are no satisfactory explanations of what happened that day.

It was 11 AM on April 6, 1966, when Australia’s most famous mass UFO sighting took place and when it did, students, teachers and other faculty members from Westall High School, along with members of the general public claim to have all witnessed the event, which was three metallic objects fly stealthily and silently through the sky, then land smoothly and leave quickly. And this all during the day light.

After this incredible sighting, several eye witnesses claim men in dark suits (a prominent theme in major UFO sightings) warned them about speaking about what they had witnessed to anyone. The warnings, however, did not deter some people from speaking out though, about the profound and mind blowing experience they had just witnessed.

Joy Clarke was 12 at the time and clearly recalls the events that occurred that day as follows;

“I was in class when students rushed in and told us the story. We rushed down to the oval and I saw three flying saucers on that day… My personal belief is they weren’t of this world. They were definitely from somewhere else because I have never seen anything like it all… The army had arrived and the police were there. We were told we were hysterical and it didn’t happen, while men in black interviewed some of the other kids.”

As you can hear, something clearly bizarre took place that day. But what do other people have to say about the experience?

Terry Peck was another young student who witnessed the event and had this to say;

“I was about six metres away from it. It was bigger than a car and circular. I think I saw some lights underneath it… Two girls were there before me. One was terribly upset and they were pale, really white, ghostly white. They just said they had passed out, fainted. One was taken to hospital in an ambulance… We all got called to an assembly … and they told us all to keep quiet… I’d absolutely just like someone to come forward from the services just to say ‘yes, it did happen, and it landed and there was a cover-up’.’’

Stephen Cairns, aged seven at the time, also recalls the incident with his mother as follows;

“In the distance I saw a silvery disc-like object. However, at first, it was so far away I was not quite sure what it was.. The silvery disc-like object moved with amazing speed until it was directly above us … it hovered for a few moments then, as quickly as it came, it flew away.”

Clearly there is more to this story than the authorities would like us to believe.

Shane Ryan has been investigating this incident closely for the past decade and, after interviewing more than 100 witnesses, he believes that something incredible and strange definitely occurred.

“It was so unusual … it occurred in broad daylight and had been seen by so many people landing on the ground, before taking off again… The event was obviously sizeable enough to muster a big response. Whatever it was that happened led to government agencies examining the site and taking soil samples.”

Ryan explains that he certainly believes there has been a major cover up of the event;

“[The media] kept meeting an official wall of silence, so it just stopped being a story and only remained as a memory for those involved,” he said.

Despite all the incredible testimony and obvious cover up though, we still know very little about what truly happened that day and the government’s silence on the matter, only adds fuel to the fire.

Below you can watch a 49 minute documentary that goes into more detail about this incredible event;

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Zondag 10 januari 2016

Massive Quad-Engine UFOs Filmed Over Santiago, Chile

Massive Quad-Engine UFOs Filmed Over Santiago, Chile

A massive UFO sighting has been captured on tape by a Chilean local. The spectacular moment shows how four unidentified massive objects are hovering over downtown Santiago, Chile’s capital and largest city, and after they disappear from the field of view, other small bright UFOs take their place.

The first four flying objects slowly move across the sky before disappearing one by one. They keep no formation and have a few particularities that may identify them as human-made crafts. But what about their other unexplained characteristics?

After the massive crafts slowly leave the area, other small UFOs come in their stead. They perform some kind of ritual this time, like following a pattern. The smaller crafts remind us of the speeding orb UFOs, but judging after the speed and pulsating light, it’s likely that they are something else.

Are these spectacular UFOs man made? Military crafts or authentic alien ships? What are your thoughts?

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Zondag 10 januari 2016

'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake

'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake

A moon rock given to the Dutch prime minister by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 has turned out to be a fake.

A piece of moon rock was given during a goodwill tour by the three apollo 11 astronauts. Photo: Getty Images

Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where the rock has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, discovered that the "lunar rock", valued at £308,000, was in fact petrified wood.

Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation, said the museum would continue to keep the stone as a curiosity.

"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."

The rock was given to Willem Drees, a former Dutch leader, during a global tour by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin following their moon mission 50 years ago.

J. William Middendorf, the former American ambassador to the Netherlands, made the presentation to Mr Drees and the rock was then donated to the Rijksmuseum after his death in 1988.

"I do remember that Drees was very interested in the little piece of stone. But that it's not real, I don't know anything about that," Mr Middendorf said.

Nasa gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in 1969 and the 1970s.

The United States Embassy in The Hague is carrying out an investigation into the affair.

Researchers Amsterdam's Free University were able to tell at a glance that the rock was unlikely to be from the moon, a conclusion that was borne out by tests.

"It's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone," said Frank Beunk, a geologist involved in the investigation.

{ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ }

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Buzz Aldrin shoots down moon landing conspiracy theorists

Buzz Aldrin shoots down moon landing conspiracy theorists

Astronaut took to Twitter to answer people who believe moon landing was faked

NASA file image shows Buzz Aldrin on the moon

NASA file image shows Buzz Aldrin on the moon

Photo: Reuters

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Buzz Aldrin has weighed in on the debate over the first moon landing after conspiracy theorists used the 46th anniversary of the event to suggest it was faked.

Professor Brian Cox was first to take on the landing deniers, writing on Twitter that anyone who believed the Apollo 11 landing didn't happen was a "colossal nob end".

Brian Cox

✔@ProfBrianCox

I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you don't think Apollo 11 landed on Moon you are a colossal nob end & should get a new brain

4:17 PM - 20 Jul 2015

Buzz Aldrin

✔@TheRealBuzz

. @ProfBrianCox is a pretty smart guy. Also the Russians would have exposed by now if we didn't land. #Apollo11 https://twitter.com/profbriancox/status/623134591818289152 …

3:09 AM - 21 Jul 2015

Comedian Al Murray also got in on the act.

Al Murray the318

✔@almurray

There is precisely not a lack of irrefutable proof. There's an irrefutable abundance of eeijts . https://twitter.com/PaulHendo1974/status/623431018243035137 …

11:59 AM - 21 Jul 2015

l Murray the318

✔@almurray

The explanation is they're on the moon. https://twitter.com/NotStartnNothin/status/623417362117693440 …

11:05 AM - 21 Jul 2015

To mark the anniversary of the landing, Mr Aldrin tweeted pictures of his moon walk.

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Buzz Aldrin

✔@TheRealBuzz

I only took a few photos on the moon and this one was to show how the lunar dust was like talcum powder. #Apollo11

3:17 AM - 21 Jul 2015

Buzz AldrinGeverifieerd account‏@TheRealBuzz

As I made my way down the ladder I partially closed the hatch. Being careful not to lock it on my way out. #Apollo11

Vertaling weergeven

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Nikola Tesla's Antigravity UFO:What happened his greatest Invention

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Over a hundred years ago, during the first decade of the twentieth century, Tesla filed a request to patent a peculiar aircraft, which he called “the world’s first flying saucer,” the worlds first manmade UFO.

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Boomerang UFO caught on ISS camera – Amateur astronomer saw same UFO days earlier

Boomerang UFO caught on ISS camera – Amateur astronomer saw same UFO days earlier

On January 6, 2016 the ISS Live Feed Camera recorded a rare light grey boomerang UFO near the International Space Station. Four days earlier, on January 2, 2016, an amateur astronomer, living in Elgin, Illinois witnessed also a light grey boomerang UFO. Probably it is the same UFO.

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The amateur astronomer states: .

I was in my backyard with my telescope and binoculars looking for Comet Catalina. The sky was dark and perfectly clear with a mild NW wind.

The object entered the field of view of my binoculars as I was observing the star Arcturus. It took about 2 seconds to cross the 5 degree field of view and was completely silent. It was uniform dull gray in appearance with no visible lights. It appeared to glide very elegantly and smoothly from north to south at roughly 46 degrees elevation. It did not change direction or altitude. XX Obviously I have no way to know its actual size and altitude, but it’s angular size was roughly one degree and its angular speed was akin to a passenger jet at moderate altitude.

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Image left is a rendering.

The boomerang UFO I witnessed looked very defined. The color was slightly lighter gray and uniform throughout with no apparent details. The gradual tapering along the arms is correct. But the edges were very sharply defined with no mist around them. Yet the object did not give the impression of being flat.

I was sitting on a lawn chair next to my house. I followed it in my binoculars until it passed behind the eave over my sunroom. I immediately stood up and moved away from my house to look some more. But it was gone! It had disappeared. My impression was one of surprise.

As an experienced amateur astronomer for over 50 years, I have never seen anything remotely like this before.

My own general opinion on the very small percentage of UFOs that are not explainable by understood phenomena is that they fall into one of three categories:

1. Secret military aircraft.
2. Unknown atmospheric or magnetic phenomena.
3. Demonic manifestations

My wife, also a lifelong amateur astronomer, saw something identical from her parents’ backyard on the west side of Chicago in the spring of 1968. Three identical gray boomerangs appeared out of nowhere, passed near Orion’s belt and then completely vanished. They were silent.

My parents saw a gray boomerang in 1947 traveling at very high speed, much faster than any jets of the day. It crossed from horizon to horizon in only a few seconds. It also was completely silent.

I have discovered that this particular class of objects has been seen around the world for many decades. That would seem to rule out the first category above.

As a professionally trained astronomer and avid follower of new astronomical theories and discoveries, I have long held the strong suspicion that we are the only human beings (or any form of physical being with ability to reason) in the universe.

I have reached this conclusion only after much reading, investigation and a well-thought through process of reasoning. Therefore, I do not conclude that we are being visited by physical inhabitants from an extrasolar planet in our physical universe. That’s about it. Except, I plan on having a camera ready in case one happens along again. I hope I don’t have to wait another 50 years!

Below video recorded by StreetCap1 shows the ISS boomerang UFO

By: Worldufophotosandnewsorg, Mufon.com case files

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Are We The Only Intelligence In The Universe? (NEW VIDEO)

Are We The Only Intelligence In The Universe? (NEW VIDEO)

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Are we the Universe’s only child — our thoughts its only thoughts? Or do we have alien cosmic siblings — an interstellar family of intelligence’s?

A mature civilization, like a mature individual, must ask itself this question. Is humanity defined by its divisions, its problems, its passing needs and trends? Or do we have a shared face, turned outward to the Universe?

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Couple’s Scary Encounter With An Alien Craft

Couple’s Scary Encounter With An Alien Craft

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COUPLE’S SCARY ENCOUNTER WITH AN ALIEN CRAFT.

FEBURARY 2015………..STAFFORDSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM

It was the most unusual thing I have ever experienced. It looked like a car levitating from behind the trees,” he told me. Soon the object had risen above the trees to a height of approximately 60 feet in the air. As it cleared the trees, both Brian and Linda said they could now see a distinct shape. It looked “cigar like” and metallic. Brian estimated the object was almost 50 feet long and 20 foot wide. The couple describe it as ascending slowly and “gracefully”.

By now Brian had pulled over at the closest vantage point to the object. Linda had turned the faltering CD music off and Brian opened his window to get a better look at the ‘craft’. They both watched, dumbfounded. Suddenly as if alerted to their presence, the craft turned towards them, moving in an erratic manner. They described the object as “tilting” towards them with its “nose” pointing downwards. Brian and Linda’s fascination turned to fear as they realised whatever it was seemed to be heading straight for them. They sped off as Linda watched through the rear window, screaming for her husband to put his foot down. Brian changed gear and they seemed to lose the object for a moment.

Then suddenly, rising from the right hand side of the road, the object had overtaken them and stopped – hovering in the road in front of their car approximately 50 feet away. They couple froze. They told me it was the most surreal and terrifying experience of their lives. With the car and flying object so close, the air was full of tension and the couple said they felt static electricity. Linda commented that it felt like her hair had begun to stand on end. Then the craft slowly started to rise up one last time – to approximately 80 feet in the air before shooting off vertically into the night sky.

Badly shaken, yet feeling very lucky to have experienced something so remarkable, they finished the rest of the journey home chatting ten-to-the-dozen about what had happened. Brian and Linda said they felt unable to be named in thearticle for fear of ridicule, but I can safely say that after spending some considerable time with them I found them both very genuine.

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

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Authentic 1958 Photographs Reveal Clear Flying Saucers Near Colima Volcano, Mexico (Video)

Authentic 1958 Photographs Reveal Clear Flying Saucers Near Colima Volcano, Mexico (Video)

A series of clear photographs of some flying saucers were in taken in 1958 by Javier Torres and Alejandro Dueñas while driving on the road near the volcano Colima in Guadalajara in Mexico.

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According to the people who took the pictures, the flying saucers are about 6 and 8 meters and the objects were flying some 40 meters away from them.

These are some of the most amazing authentic UFO pictures ever taken near the volcano Colima.

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Amateur Astronomer Astonished By Boomerang Sighting

Amateur Astronomer Astonished By Boomerang Sighting

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ARTICLE BOOMERANG EDIT KEN PFEIFER 1-8-16

AMATEUR ASTRONOMER ASTONISHED BY BOOMERANG SIGHTING

1-2-16 ELGIN ILLINOIS

I was in my backyard with my telescope and binoculars looking for Comet Catalina. The sky was dark and perfectly clear with a mild NW wind. The object entered the field of view of my binoculars as I was observing the star Arcturus. It took about 2 seconds to cross the 5 degree field of view and was completely silent. It was uniform dull gray in appearance with no visible lights. It appeared to glide very elegantly and smoothly from north to south at roughly 46 degrees elevation. It did not change direction or altitude.

Obviously I have no way to know its actual size and altitude, but it’s angular size was roughly one degree and its angular speed was akin to a passenger jet at moderate altitude.

As an experienced amateur astronomer for over 50 years, I have never seen anything remotely like this before. My general opinion on the very small percentage of UFOs that are not explainable by understood phenomena is that they fall into one of three categories:

1. Secret military aircraft.

2. Unknown atmospheric or magnetic phenomena.

3. Demonic manifestations (also a strong suspicion of my former professor, J. Allen Hynek)

My general impression, while one of surprise, also left me with an otherworldly feeling. But that might have been exacerbated somewhat by the fact that I had just finished a short personal prayer to God in my mind. My wife, also a lifelong amateur astronomer, saw something identical from her parents’ backyard on the west side of Chicago in the spring of 1968. Three identical gray boomerangs appeared out of nowhere, passed near Orion’s belt and then completely vanished. They were silent. My parents saw a gray boomerang in 1947 traveling at very high speed, much faster than any jets of the day. It crossed from horizon to horizon in only a few seconds. It also was completely silent. I have discovered that this particular class of objects has been seen around the world for many decades. That would seem to rule out the first category above.

As a professionally trained astronomer and avid follower of new astronomical theories and discoveries, I have long held the strong suspicion that we are the only human beings (or any form of physical being with ability to reason) in the universe. I have reached this conclusion only after much reading, investigation and a well-thought through process of reasoning. Therefore, I do not conclude that we are being visited by physical inhabitants from an extrasolar planet in our physical universe.

That’s about it. Except, I plan on having a camera ready in case one happens along again. I hope I don’t have to wait another 50 years!

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

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