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See 10 Mysterious ‘UFO Sighting’ Photos From History

These images from the 1950s and 1960s captured the public imagination

The Mar. 25, 1950, issue of Dublin's TeenAge Times claimed that these mysterious objects were flying saucers.

A picture of a flying saucer photographed by farmer Paul Trent, over his farm in Minnville, Ore., on May 11, 1950.

Guy B. Marquand, Jr., who made this picture on Nov. 23, 951, in Riverside, Calif., said the object above the skyline was a "flying saucer." Marquand claimed that he and two friends saw the object fly past at a very high rate of speed, and when it came back, he had his camera ready to

This picture, taken through the window of a laboratory by a 21-year-old U.S. coastguard, shows four unidentified flying objects as bright lights in the sky on Aug. 3, 1952, in Salem, Mass.

This light was photographed on Oct. 16, 1957, when it hovered for 15 minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico.

This March 1966 photo was released on May 16 of that year by William Van Horn, the civil defense director of Hillsdale County, Mich., as part of a 24-page report challenging an Air Force conclusion that "swamp gas" caused supposed UFO sightings in the area. Van Horn said conditions at the time were too windy for swamp gas to form.

A New Mexico State University student took this photo of what he said was a UFO, while photographing land formations for a geology class on Mar. 12, 1967.

This is one of three photos of a supposed UFO taken by Rex Heflin, on Aug. 3, 1965, near Santa Ana, Calif.

Robert Rinker, a field technician at the mountain laboratory weather station on Chalk Mountain in Colorado, discovered this unidentified object on a March 22, 1966, negative after he processed it. "I haven't said it's a flying saucer yet," Rinker said when he released the image.

The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America, which headquarters in Los Angeles, released this photo taken by a member reportedly showing a flying saucer on June 16, 1963.

After confusion swept Los Angeles early on Feb. 25, 1942, the report from Western Defense Command was vague: “Unidentified aircraft were reported in the Los Angeles area.”

What was experienced on the ground on that day 74 years ago, however, was very specific. As TIME reported the following week, “Los Angelescitizens crawled out of beds and goggled at the moon. The city had been blacked out. Suddenly, from dozens of Army anti-aircraft posts, searchlights lanced the dark. Orange bursts blossomed in the sky. The city shook with the concussion of ack-ack guns. For almost two hours, except for one 15-minute interval of scary silence, batteries coughed steadily, spewed 1,430 rounds of ammunition into the night.”

For residents for whom the memory of Pearl Harbor was fresh, the possibility of an attack—later dubbed the “Battle of Los Angeles”—seemed very real. But the shot-down plane that the L.A. Times reported on was never found, and the Secretary of the Navy announced that the whole thing had been a false alarm, though Army officials maintained that enemy planes had in fact been sighted in the area.

Whatever did cause the air raid procedure to be launched, it’s no wonder that the Battle of Los Angeles is also a favorite event for UFO conspiracy theorists.

Read more: This Is Why People Think UFOs Look Like ‘Flying Saucers’

In fact, it wasn’t until years later, in 1947, that the common flying saucer image of a UFO would begin to sweep through American popular culture. But, in the years that followed, the reports poured in. Here are a few of the early images that captured the imaginations of those who wished—or feared—to discover that we Earthlings might not be alone.

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Find Planet Nine! NASA's Saturn Probe Helps with the Hunt

An artist's illustration of the Cassini spacecraft flying by Saturn's moon Enceladus. Data from Cassini has contributed to a new study that may narrow down the location of a ninth planet beyond Neptune.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The search for a possible ninth planet, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, is being assisted by NASA's Cassini probe, which has been exploring the Saturn system for more than a decade.

The news that a possible ninth planet with a mass 10 times that of Earth could be orbiting in the dark region beyond Neptune lit up the public's imagination in January. The prediction is still just that — a hypothesis, based on modeling, not observation. But the scientists behind the idea say telescope searches of the solar system could confirm (or deny) the prediction within five years.

Now, another group of scientists is showing how the existence of such a planet would affect the motions of the other eight planets. The work relies heavily on measurements taken by the Cassini probe, and aims to narrow down the hunting zone where scientists should point their telescopes as they search for this hidden monster. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]

Researchers say an anomaly in the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects points to the existence of an unknown planet orbiting the sun. Here's what we know of this potential "Planet Nine."

Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics artist

The search for Planet Nine

The Cassini probe is a space-based workhorse. It captures breathtaking images of Saturn, makes death-defying dives toward its moons and measures the precise location of Saturn at various times during its orbits around the sun. This latter information is plugged into a model of the solar system that tracks the movement of its largest bodies.

Since the early 1800s, astronomers have tried to use the positions and motions of the known planets to infer the existence of invisible planets, according to a blog post by Mike Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, and one of the scientists who recently predicted the existence of Planet Nine.

In some cases, the influence of one massive body on other massive bodies is obvious: that if the sun were invisible, the orbit of the planets around it would be a dead giveaway that something truly massive was living at the center of the solar system. This technique helped scientists discover Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.

Brown and his colleague Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary science at Caltech, predicted the existence of Planet Nine by observing the peculiar orbits of six relatively large bodies in what's known as the Kuiper Belt, a loop of icy, rocky bodies that includes Pluto.

Other scientists have proposed that the peculiar orbits of these Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) could be explained another way: Perhaps there are significantly more small rocky objects orbiting the sun beyond Pluto than scientists currently estimate. In the grand scientific fashion, this trading of alternative possibilities continues. Ultimately, observational evidence should settle the debate, and Brown said that if Planet Nine is out there, scientists could reasonably detect it within five years.

The new research could potentially expedite that search by pointing out regions where Planet Nine could not be orbiting and regions where it could.

Planet X May Be Real - Evidence Mounting For 9th Planet | Video

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Measuring Saturn's motion

Agnes Fienga, an astronomer at the Côte d'Azur Observatory and a lead researcher on the new work, along with her colleagues, decided to look not only at how Planet Nine might affect bodies in its immediate area, but how it might influence the motions of the other eight planets. They used a computer model of the solar system called the INPOP planetary ephemerides model, which pulls together more than 150,000 individual measurements of solar system bodies, including more than 200 measurements taken by Cassini over about 10 years, Fienga said. That long-term observation of Saturn's motion is very important in increasing the precision of the model and its ability to pick up on the subtle effect of a possible ninth planet, she said.

Brown and Batygin did not propose a specific path that Planet Nine would take through space but rather a possible range in which it could exist, about 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune is. The path of a planet around the sun includes how far it is from the sun, how oblong its orbit is (instead of a perfect circle) and how tilted its orbit is compared to the plane of the solar system.

Fienga and her colleagues selected an orbit for Planet Nine out of the range suggested by Brown and Batygin, and added it to the INPOP model of the solar system. From there, they determined that the planet could not be in certain regions, because it would have caused perturbations in the motions of the other planets that should have been detectable by observations, like those made by Cassini.

Fienga said she and her colleagues are working to perform the same analysis on more possible orbits of Planet Nine, to further narrow down regions where it could or could not be hiding.

The effect of Planet Nine on the inner planets will be subtle, which is why Fienga and her colleagues could draw conclusions about only roughly half of the planet's orbit — the portion where it would be closest to the sun and, hence, the other planets. If Planet Nine were currently somewhere on the far side of its orbit around the sun, its effect would be too small for the measurements used in the INPOP model to predict.

In the paper, the authors said their work disproves the conclusion of another paper using a similar approach, which suggests that Planet Nine could not lie within 1,000 AU of the sun. (1 AU, or astronomical unit, is the distance from the Earth to the sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune is, on average, about 30 AU from the sun.)

"It's a state-of-the-art calculation and a very clever idea," Batygin told Space.com via email. "It is wonderful to see that members of the community are presenting their own proposals on how to best optimize the observational search for Planet Nine. This is exactly what Mike [Brown] and I hoped for."

Starting this year, the Cassini probe will begin a total of 22 dives through Saturn's ring system, ending with the probe intentionally plummeting into the gas giant's atmosphere in September 2017. Meanwhile, the Juno probe will arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Measurements by Juno will continue to improve the precision of the INPOP model. Fienga said she and her colleagues "expect to increase the size of the forbidden area thanks to Juno."

The new work is available on the pre-print site arxiv.org, and will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Fienga and her colleagues are not part of the Cassini team or NASA.

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Nog meer ‘krankzinnige uitspraken’ van Einstein die wél klopten

Zijn vreemde voorspellingen over hoe materie, ruimte en tijd zich gedragen, blijken steeds weer te kloppen – en dat al een eeuw lang. 

Albert Einstein

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Michael Greshko

 

Wetenschappers hebben eindelijk het verschijnsel gemeten waarnaar ze al zo lang op zoek waren: zwaartekrachtsgolven, oftewel schokgolven die rimpels veroorzaken in het weefsel van ruimte en tijd. Het was Albert Einstein die deze golven honderd jaar geleden voorspelde, en de meting betekent de definitieve bevestiging van zijn meesterwerk, de algemene relativiteitstheorie.

Einstein werd niet altijd gezien als een groot genie. Toen hij zijn buitenissige theorieën over relativiteit voorstelde, reageerden sommige wetenschappers afwijzend. Anderen vielen hem openlijk aan op zijn ‘gevaarlijke’ ideeën en zijn joodse afkomst.

Einsteins baanbrekende studies deden de natuurkunde op haar grondvesten schudden. In zijn universum lijkt Einstein te jongleren met eenheden als positie en snelheid – maar niet met het licht, dat met de onverstoorbare snelheid van bijna 1,08 miljard kilometer per uur door de ruimte zoeft, althans in een vacuüm. Einstein zag ruimte en tijd als één dikke stroop die hij de ‘ruimtetijd’ noemde en die door massa kon worden uitgerekt en vervormd. En massa bewoog zich altijd langs de kromming van de ruimtetijd, in een verborgen structuur die wij als zwaartekracht ervaren. Het klonk destijds krankzinnig.

Maar in de afgelopen eeuw hebben experimenten telkens weer bewezen dat Einstein gelijk had. Het aantal keren dat zijn theorie is bevestigd, is te groot om op te sommen, maar de hoogtepunten zijn indrukwekkend genoeg.

Licht is een golf – én een deeltje

Einstein werd vooral beroemd vanwege de relativiteitstheorie, maar zijn (enige) Nobelprijs ontving hij voor baanbrekend werk op het gebied van het licht. In de klassieke natuurkunde werd licht als een golf beschouwd, maar die theorie kon niet verklaren hoe en waarom metalen licht uitzenden als ze aan straling (bijvoorbeeld licht) worden blootgesteld – een fenomeen dat het foto-elektrisch effect wordt genoemd.

Einstein verklaarde dit merkwaardige effect door te stellen dat licht in feite bestaat uit afzonderlijke golfpakketjes of fotonen, elk met een energie die berust op de frequentie van het licht. De ontdekking leidde tot het ontstaan van de moderne kwantummechanica, waaruit ook volgde dat alledaagse atomen zich heel vreemd en ‘golfachtig’ kunnen gedragen, een ontdekking waaraan Einstein eveneens een bijdrage leverde.

Ruimtetijd wordt vervormd

De eerste grote bevestiging van Einsteins relativiteitstheorie kwam toen hij een verklaring wist te geven voor een geheimzinnige wiebeling in de baan van de planeet Mercurius. Al in 1859 had de briljante Franse astronoom Urbain Le Verrier dat fenomeen toegeschreven aan de aantrekkingskracht die een nog onontdekte planeet – voorlopig Vulcanus genoemd – op Mercurius zou uitoefenen. Maar ondanks jarenlange pogingen werd er geen enkel geloofwaardig bewijs voor het bestaan van ‘Vulcanus’ gevonden.

Tot grote opwinding van Einstein zelf bleek dat zijn algemene relativiteitstheorie het idee van Vulcanus naar de schroothoop verwees. Zijn theorie toonde aan dat de grote massa van de zon de ruimtetijd kromt, zoals een bowlingbal het strak gespannen vel van een trampoline vervormt. En omdat Mercurius zo dicht bij de zon staat, neemt de planeet de kortste weg door die door de zon vervormde ruimtetijd. Geen verborgen planeet dus, wél een kosmische structuur die Newton zich niet had voorgesteld.

Experts van Caltech en MIT kondigden onlangs aan dat ze voor het eerst zwaartekrachtsgolven hadden gemeten, rimpels in het weefsel van ruimte en tijd die ontstaan door de beweging van enorme massa’s in de kosmos – in dit geval twee zwarte gaten die om elkaar heen draaien, zoals uitgebeeld in deze illustratie van supercomputer ‘Columbia’ in het Ames Research Center van de NASA. Illustratie: NASA

Ruimtetijd kan als lens fungeren

Tijdens een zonsverduistering in mei 1919 werd Einstein opnieuw in het gelijk gesteld. Volgens zijn relativiteitstheorie moest de kromming van de ruimtetijd als gevolg van de massa van de zon betekenen dat het op aarde waargenomen licht wordt afbogen, zoals door een lens.

De Britse astronoom Arthur Eddington nam grote foto’s van de zonsverduistering en ontdekte dat de zon inderdaad het licht van de sterren in de Hyaden-sterrenhoop uitsmeerde, met circa twee duizendste van een booggraad – in lijn met de voorspelling van Einstein, die had beweerd dat de buiging tweemaal zo groot zou zijn als werd voorspeld op basis van de wetten van Newton.

Zelfs Einstein had niet voorzien hoe bruikbaar dit fenomeen voor astronomen zou blijken te zijn: door hele sterrenstelsels als gigantische lenzen te gebruiken, kunnen ze nu verder terugkijken in de tijd, naar de vroegste periode van het universum. En wanneer astronomen dit lenseffect zónder zichtbare massa waarnemen, dan kunnen ze aan de hand van de vervorming van het licht enorme structuren van donkere materie in kaart brengen.

Roterende massa’s maken draaikolken in de ruimtetijd

Materie vervormt de ruimtetijd niet alleen als een bowlingbal op een trampoline. Ook een roterend hemellichaam (bijvoorbeeld de aarde) trekt de ruimtetijd een beetje met zich mee, als een rondgaande spaan in een vat met siroop. Hierdoor worden de ruimtecoördinaten en daarmee ook de banen van naburige satellieten vervormd, in een bizar effect dat frame dragging wordt genoemd.

Het effect werd in 1918 op basis van de relativiteitstheorie voorspeld maar pas in 2004 bevestigd toen onderzoekers ontdekten dat de banen van twee satellieten lichtjes waren verschoven door de rotatie van de aarde. In 2011 werd het fenomeen nauwkeuriger gemeten met behulp van de NASA-satelliet Gravity Probe B.

Zwaartekracht vertraagt de tijd

In Einsteins formules kan materie de tijd ook versnellen of vertragen – en de kleur van het licht veranderen.

We weten nu dat deze spookachtige voorspellingen juist waren, omdat het licht van een ster die zich ver van ons vandaan bevindt, een hogere frequentie heeft (en dus blauwer lijkt) dan wanneer we dezelfde ster van dichterbij zouden bekijken. Hoe verder een waarnemer zich van de ‘gravitatieput’ van de aarde verwijdert, des te lager is de frequentie van het licht dat van de aarde uitgaat, een verschijnsel dat ‘gravitationele roodverschuiving’ wordt genoemd.

Het gaat om extreem kleine invloeden, maar wie ze negeert, zal in de problemen komen met z’n mobieltje: zonder correcties op basis van de relativiteitstheorie zouden de klokken in onze gps-satellieten elke dag 38 microseconden voor lopen op de klokken hier op aarde. Daarmee zou het wereldwijde navigatiesysteem al na twee minuten in de war worden geschopt en zou er elke dag een afwijking van tien kilometer bijkomen.

Albert Einstein 14 maart 1879 - 18 april 1955
Albert Einstein voor het bord tijdens een voordracht te Wenen in 1921.
Geboorteland	Duitse Keizerrijk
Geboorteplaats	Ulm
Plaats van overlijden	Princeton (New Jersey)
Nobelprijs	Natuurkunde
Jaar	1921
Reden	"Voor zijn verdiensten voor de theoretische natuurkunde, en met name voor zijn ontdekking van de wet van het foto-elektrisch effect"
Voorganger(s)	Charles-Édouard Guillaume
Opvolger(s)	Niels Bohr
Portaal     Natuurkunde

Handtekening

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Stargazer Sees Milky Way and 5 Planets Dance in the Night Sky (Photo)

The Milky Way and five planets in one stunning image took some patience, but paid off handsomely for skywatcher Matt Smith. The image was taken from Carthage, Texas on February 10, 2016.

Credit: Matt Smith

The Milky Way and five planets in one stunning image took some patience, but paid off handsomely for skywatcher Matt Smith.

"I knew that I wanted to get the planetary alignment and try to get the Milky Way as well. I finally had my opportunity and found a location with a great view of the Southeast," Smith wrote in an email to Space.com. He took the amazing image from Carthage, Texas on Feb. 10.

On the far right in the trees you can see the bright dot of Jupiter. Further left you can make out rust colored Mars and above the core of the Milky Way you can see Saturn.

Below the core, Venus shines bright, with Mercury near the first rays of sunrise.

Milky Way Quiz: Test Your Galaxy Smarts

Dust off your spiral arms and fatten up your bulge — it's time to tap into your inner galaxy to test your smarts about the Milky Way. Our home in space is a strange and wondrous place that scientists are still trying to figure out. See what you know!

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy , meaning multiple "arms" sprout from a central region and then swirl around it, like streams of water spiraling down a drain. It stretches between 100, 000 and 120,000 light-years in diameter. It is estimated that the galaxy has approximately 400 billion stars.

To see more amazing night sky photos submitted by Space.com readers, visit our astrophotography archive.

Editor's note: If you have an amazing night sky photo you'd like to share with us and our news partners for a possible story or gallery, send images and comments in to spacephotos@space.com.

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Un flash d’ondes radio venu d’une galaxie lointaine capté en Australie

Un télescope australien situé à Parkes a réussi à capter un signal très rare venu d’une galaxie lointaine. L’origine de ces ondes spatiales, qui dégagent beaucoup d’énergie, reste encore inexpliquée.

Pour la première fois, des astronomes sont parvenus à identifier la provenance d’un « sursaut radio rapide », un phénomène cosmique très mystérieux. Ce flash très bref d’ondes radio a été repéré par un télescope. Il vient d’une galaxie située à six milliards d’années-lumière de la Terre, révèle une étude publiée ce mercredi. C’est un radiotélescope de Parkes qui a capté ce nouveau FRB (Fast Radio Burst) en avril dernier. Le signal capté en Australie est le 17^ème recensé depuis la découverte du phénomène.

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Des signaux extraterrestres ?

Si l’information excite autant la communauté scientifique, c’est parce que ces signaux sont très rares et très mystérieux, laissant place à de nombreuses hypothèses. Certains astronomes pensent que les FRB naissent de la fusion des étoiles à Neutron dont les ondes se propageraient dans l’espace. C’est à l’heure actuelle l’hypothèse la plus crédible et la plus privilégiée par les spécialistes. Si les FRB sont observés de près par les spécialistes de l’espace, c’est également à cause de la quantité d’énergie qu’ils émettent.

En 2007, Duncan Lorimer et ses équipes ont calculé qu’un FRB émet en une milliseconde la même quantité d’énergie que l’astre solaire en 10 000 ans.

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India's Roswell: First images of UFO shot down by air force revealed

THE Indian Air Force has released images of an unidentified flying object (UFO) shot down by a fighter jet.

Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man

A FORMER US Naval officer who claims his secrecy agreement with the American Government has expired is vowing to lift the lid on thousands of top-secret UFO files he claims to have seen.

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Retired Colonel Charles Halt, the most senior former US servicemen to go public about UFOs and Rendlesham

The man, who says he was a third-class petty officer at the Naval Telecommunications Center within NAS Moffett Field from February 1986 to October 1989, also claims he can shed light on the mysterious mass-UFO sighting involving military personal in 1980.

He has yet to be named, but a former British MoD UFO investigator confirmed to Express.co.uk the man is a genuine source, creatinga flurry of excitement within the UFO disclosure community.

Nick Pope, who was charged by the MoD with investigating baffling UK UFO cases, including the Rendlesham incident, said: "I've actually had some personal communication with this individual, and have no doubts about his background.

"It's clear from the language he uses and the information he has that he's a genuine insider."

But Mr Pope stopped short of encouraging the whistleblower to come outinto the open.

He added: "While my own secrecy oath means I can't encourage anyone to divulge classified information without proper authority, I'm obviously very interested in his story.

"As I conducted the MoD's cold case review of the Rendlesham Forest incident I'm particularly keen to hear about anything that would shed new light on this case."

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The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery UFO crash said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.

The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.

It has led to several reported sightings on the night by the public and several books and conspiracies.

The man, who has not been publicly named, is claiming the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government had a going project looking at UFO sightings, including Rendlesham in the 1980s.

He has filed a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - the world's biggest official alien investigation organisation based in the US, saying he wants to help reach "disclosure".

The disclosure movement among the UFO fraternity, is calling for all world Governments to make public all their top secret files on UFO and flying saucer visitations.

In the report filed on Saturday he said: "I'm not reporting a UFO sighting rather a UFO related experience. 

"I have copies of my security clearances.

"I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects. 

"My secrecy agreement with the US Government expired in October 2014. 

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I have copies of my security clearances. I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.

US Navy alleged whistleblower

"At this point in my life I would like to share my knowledge in hopes that someone will be able to use it effectively towards disclosure."

He said he was given TS SBI/ESI NATO/SIOP Compartmental Security Clearance, which is Top Secret clearance for working in Special Background Investigation, Single Integrated Operation Plan, Exceptionally Sensitive Information and with NATO. 

He added: "In addition we had a GS11 employee who was transferred from a Joint US/UK communication station north of London after working at that site for a dozen years. 

"He said it was an National Security Agency (NSA)/UK facility tasked with tracking UFO including Rendalsham Forest Incident. 

"He said that UFO/ET were real and that hopefully disclosure would happen in my lifetime since he was in his early 60s at the time." 

In the report he said: "I was required to deliver TS Code word designation COSMIC to SRI, ESL/SYLVANIA, LOCKHEED SKUNKWORKS, TRW, RATHEON, BERKELEY LABS, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABS, and other think tanks throughout Silicon valley."

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Research shows that at the time in question, Moffett Field was a naval air base, but is now a MFA as a restricted federal airfield, run by NASA.*

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The Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore laboratories and scientific labs which work closely with NASA in California. 

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Roger Marsh, MUFON spokesman, said: "This historical case has been assigned to a field investigator within the Californian MUFON group."

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Wetenschapper vindt manier om in halfuur naar Mars te reizen... en de technologie is nu al beschikbaar - HLN.be

Bron: CNET; iflscience

© NASA.

"Dit is géén science fiction", zegt Philip Lubin, kosmoloog aan de University of California. De wetenschapper meent een manier gevonden te hebben die ons toelaat om in amper 30 minuten naar Mars te reizen. Dankzij lasertechnologie zouden we ook ruimtevaartuigen naar nog verder afgelegen gebieden kunnen sturen. De reistijd naar bijvoorbeeld Alpha Centauri, het dichtstbijzijnde zonnestelsel, bedraagt met Lubins theorie 'slechts' 15 jaar. En in tegenstelling tot andere ambitieuze theorieën, is de technologie hiervoor nu al beschikbaar.

Gerichte energievoortdrijving

Een flinterdun ruimtetuig, voortgestuwd door een laser, zou met 26 procent van de lichtsnelheid kunnen reizen. © NASA.

Philip Lubin, die ook werkt voor het 'Innovative Advanced Concepts'-programma (IAC) van de NASA, dokterde een briljante manier uit om razendsnel door de ruimte te reizen. Dankzij 'gerichte energievoortdrijving' ligt Mars, in theorie, op slechts een halfuurtje van de aarde. Door een laser af te vuren op een klein ruimtetuig zou het met een fractie van de lichtsnelheid kunnen reizen. 

"We zouden een 100 kilogram zwaar ruimtetuig naar Mars kunnen sturen. Binnen 25 lichtjaren van de aarde kunnen we ook enkele exoplaneten en mogelijke bewoonbare gebieden bezoeken. We weten uiteraard niet of ze bewoonbaar zijn, maar er zijn veel doelwitten om uit te kiezen", aldus Lubin. Het dichtste en interessantste doelwit lijkt Alpha Centauri, het dichtstbijzijnde zonnestelsel, vier lichtjaren van hier.

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Het zonnestelsel Alpha Centauri ligt op ruim vier lichtjaren van ons zonnestelsel. © Wikipedia.

26 procent van de lichtsnelheid

In december 2014 bevond de Voyager 1 zich op 19,56 miljard kilometer van de Aarde. © Wikipedia.

In een document getiteld 'A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight' legt Lubin uit hoe we met een flinterdun ruimtetuig tot 26 procent van de lichtsnelheid zouden kunnen bereiken binnen ongeveer 10 minuten. Op die manier zouden we Mars in theorie al na 3 dagen of zelfs 30 minuten kunnen bereiken, ruimtesonde Voyager 1 (in 1977 gelanceerd) al na drie dagen voorbijsteken en aankomen in het Alpha Centauri-stelsel binnen 15 jaar. Die vliegtijden waren tot nu compleet ondenkbaar. 

Er zijn voorlopig geen projecten gepland om dit plan in de praktijk te brengen en het lijkt ook niet realistisch dat dat in de nabije toekomst gebeurt, laat staan een bemande vlucht. Maar het doet wetenschappers over de hele wereld wel dromen.

Dit filmpje legt Philip Lubin uit hoe we in theorie waanzinnige snelheden kunnen bereiken.

VIDEO: Mysterieuze UFO gespot bij Jupitermaan Europa

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Drone Over Area 51 Catches Great Rare View, Feb 2016, 3 Videos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of footage: February 22, 2016
Location of footage: Area 51, Nevada

This amazing footage was recorded using an RC drone with a HD camera on it. Hans Faulknerof Youtube wanted to learn more about the top secret USAFB, so he took a short flight over the edges of the base. Its very brave of him to share this footage on line since it does break a few laws and endanger his security. 

I imagine it wont be long before the public gets robotic drones that will pass over the base and return hours later with great footage. The military will have a hard time finding these tiny drones since the newest and smallest one I saw was an inch and a half in diameter with a live cam on it. Sadly todays batteries are the last of the ancient tech to be upgraded. Imagine what a drone with a telescope lens would see. 

Hats off to Hans Faulkner for beautiful and rare view of Area 51. Please stop at his video and give him a thumbs up for support. 
Scott C. Waring
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Glowing UFO Investigates Balloon As Sky Watcher Records it, Feb 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: February 14, 2016
Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA

Jump to the end of this video and you will see that this person caught an alien drone that decided to check out this balloon. Alien orbs are AI drones that record everything that passes their area. This one slowed down enough to get a fantastic capture of it. Its actually not round, but tear drop shaped with edges. A monumental catch by UFO researcher Maria Argote. 
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This is my luck. This perfectly round orb came around 3 times. The final time, I decided to shut things down and an small orb came into the picture. Here is the breakdown. Amazing capture at an amazing event. This is one of several crazy things that showed up.

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Orb Entity Caught On Security Cam At Russian Military Base, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 23, 2019

Location of sighting: Military base Davamti, Russia

Tercer Milenio TV has recently aired a new show showing a series of films that have documented movement of balls of light around the world. One of the most interesting of these recordings took place on July 23, 2009 by an infrared camera that was placed outside a Russian secret military base. That evening at 9:39 pm a military operator safety officer was monitoring the video surveillance cameras when he noticed the presence of a bright ball of light that slowly descended from the sky. It moved over the surface of the water of the dl Moskva River, which is right at the base davamti. The camera follows the bright orb as it moves downward and then follows it as it continues moving. The glowing object seems to be searching for something at the waters surface. You can even see the orbs reflection in the water below it. The reflection is 100% proof that it is close and over the water, and not far away. 

Infrared cameras can see a light spectrum that is invisible to the human eye. Thats why so many sky watchers are trying to get their hands of an IR camera.

Scott C. Waring
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CAN BILLIONAIRE ROBERT BIGELOW CREATE A LIFE FOR HUMANS IN SPACE?

Diego Patino

Turn down Skywalker Way, then make a left on Warp Drive. A hangarlike facility is there, huge, as a hangar should be. Inside, a tall mustachioed gentleman in a baggy gray pinstriped suit stands idly. He owns the facility and everything around it. He also owns the Budget Suites of America a few miles away, down near the Las Vegas Strip. That’s just part of his empire, that budget hotel, along with a whole chain of others scattered across the Southwest.

But we’re not here to talk budget hotels. We’re here to talk about the future, and a different kind of accommodations entirely: one that can be folded up, bundled onto a rocket, shot into space, expanded, and lived in. We’re here because Robert Bigelow—low-key billionaire, space entrepreneur, avowed believer in extraterrestrials—has invited us into this warehouse to show off his blow-up space home. There are doughnuts and coffee. Soon, lunch will be served. But right now Bigelow is ambling up to a podium, where he begins to scold us.

“You laughed at me,” he says to the crowd in his North Las Vegas headquarters. “When we said we would build an expandable system and place it on the International Space Station in two and a half years, you laughed,” he says. “It’s been two years and a quarter.” He pauses, letting it sink in—that he’s ahead of schedule—then lets loose a smile, wide as the West. “And here we are.”

Here we are: NASA officials, JAXA officials (that’s Japan’s space agency), media, and Bigelow Aerospace employees. Before Bigelow began his speech, I’d spoken with several of those workers. Dressed in thin white jumpsuits, they stood inside a roped-off area surrounding a pedestal, on top of which sat a refrigerator-size object, swaddled in a gray Kevlar-like material and shaped like an upside-down mixing bowl. This was the BEAM—the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module—the future of space habitats.

“You laughed at me. And now here we are.”

According to the jumpsuited workers, none of whom spoke louder than a reverent whisper, the BEAM would soon travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where eventually—within months or perhaps a year—it would find a berth on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station. At the ISS, a robotic arm would reach into the arriving SpaceX Dragon capsule, grab the BEAM, and attach it to the station’s Tranquility node. Astronauts would then send a command releasing compressed air into the BEAM. As the BEAM becomes pressurized, it expands until the module grows to 10.5 feet wide and 565 feet cubed. Not large but not small either. Imagine an eight-person tent or a studio apartment in Manhattan. All told, the expansion will take four and a half minutes. Then, the real work begins.

For two years, the astronauts aboard the ISS will try to determine if the BEAM, or some larger version of it, could be habitable over the long term. They will determine leak rate, measure radiation, and examine the thermal control inside the empty module. They’ll see how the module’s soft walls stand up to the bumps and bruises in space. And they’ll do their best to figure out just what an expandable structure orbiting Earth at about 5 miles per second feels like— an impossible thing to know until it is up there.

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Billionaire Robert Bigelow unveils his expandable modules.

Intuitively, expandables make sense. They pack down, weigh less, and in just about every way mitigate the very high costs associated with breaking free of gravity. The BEAM cost just $25 million to develop (in part through a $17.8 million NASA contract) and could cost about $150 million to launch. Compare that with the (admittedly much more complex) ISS, which cost an estimated $100 billion, and was assembled over the course of a decade and a few dozen launches. But until the results of this test run come in, no one can say for sure if crewed expandables are indeed as good in practice as they seem to be on paper.

For argument’s sake, say the BEAM works. Say everything checks out just as Bigelow thinks it will. What then? He will possibly send a few more pods up to expand the ISS; he’s already working on a stand-alone craft. But he also has a more ambitious plan.

Once Bigelow has finished scolding the crowd and detailing the BEAM’s upcoming mission, he opens the floor to questions. Someone up front asks how Bigelow Aerospace might fit into a manned Mars mission. He’s not sure, he says. Then adds, cryptically, “We are more focused on the moon.” There is no follow-up. He just lets it lie. And so does everyone else—again dismissing what seems too fantastic to be real, though there are no chuckles this time.

As the crowd disperses, I sidle up to Bigelow. Despite the suit, he has the faintly rugged look of an old cowboy. He’s sitting slumped in a small plastic folding chair on the small stage, surrounded by a few handlers, and looking worn out. He offers his hand indifferently, but when I ask about his moon plans, he straightens in his chair and leans forward. He drops his low voice even lower, as if letting me in on a secret. The BEAM, he says, is much more than a simple proof of concept. “It’s a first step…toward a permanent settlement on the lunar surface.” He sees many similarities between the ISS test run and an eventual lunar mission. “Both would do something unique, in a unique place that has international interests, and would require a lot of partners—governmental and nongovernmental.” The BEAM launch, he says, “is not just a stunt—and neither are our moon plans.”

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Back in the mid-1980s, Bigelow noticed a change happening in the desert Southwest. The area, deemed scarcely habitable, was growing quickly. Businesses were sprouting up, and visitors needed easy, affordable places to stay. To build his empire, Bigelow bought land cheap so he could pass along any savings to customers. He also made his hotels as convenient as possible—set right off the highway. He held onto nearly everything he bought, then sold a bunch of property when everyone else was buying like crazy, just before the market imploded in 2008. His fortune, already vast, grew vaster: His real estate investments alone are estimated at about $700 million today.

Bigelow now sees a similar change happening in another scarcely inhabited and inhospitable place: space. For a decade private business has been taking over access to low-Earth orbit (LEO), shuttling cargo and soon astronauts. See SpaceX and Orbital ATK as exhibits one and two. As those launches become more frequent—and as the ISS continues to rent out berths to space travelers and bench time to private businesses for zero-gravity experiments—the competition for floor space will only increase. Eventually businesses will set up their own labs and stations, and government-backed space agencies will push beyond LEO into cislunar space, the region between Earth and the moon. The next logical stop is the moon, then perhaps Mars. And then who knows? All Bigelow can be certain of is that such development requires people, and people need places to stay.

That’s where his expandables come in. NASA had pursued a similar idea in the 1990s in a program called TransHab, for Transit Habitat. The idea was to build an inflatable craft, cheaper than the ISS, to be used en route to Mars. NASA even designed one, complete with a multilayer shell of insulation and meteoroid-debris protection, but Congress cut funding in 2000, so the program was scrapped. Developing a new space station while still running and building the current one didn’t sit well, politically. Bigelow thought he saw something they didn’t, so he bought the rights to the TransHab technology for dimes on the dollar—the craft’s design, the patents for the layered inflatable walls, everything. He then set out creating what he calls “a turnkey solution to space habitation.” Cheap and convenient, same as ever.

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Billionaire Robert Bigelow

For a hotel tycoon, new real estate often yields new opportunities. Low-Earth orbit, and all the private space habitats it could someday support, appears promising, at least in the midterm. Even so, there is no piece of real estate more compelling to Bigelow than the moon. Unlike space, the moon has resources. There are deposits of helium-3 for nuclear fusion, which the Chinese are already reportedly planning to mine. There is water in the form of ice, which can be melted and purified for drinking or broken down into hydrogen fuel. The moon is also located outside of Earth’s gravity well. For space agencies looking to make runs to Mars or elsewhere, it is an ideal departure and refueling point.

Perhaps most compelling is that Bigelow doesn’t see any real competition in building a moon base. NASA isn’t all that interested in a permanent moon colony, and it has little in the way of future moon exploration plans. Jason Crusan, who leads NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division (basically a venture-capital fund for space-focused businesses, including Bigelow Aerospace) says he can imagine a future where flights travel between Earth and the moon on a regular basis. But rather than NASA taking the lead, he expects others to. “We want to get to Mars,” he says. The moon is just a means to an end.

For Bigelow, the challenges of building a functioning base on the moon, while massive, appear far from insurmountable. A recent study, partly commissioned by NASA (put out on the 46th anniversary of the first moon landing), found that the costs associated with returning humans to the moon could be much cheaper than previously imagined—90 percent cheaper, in fact, or closer to $10 billion versus the previous estimate of about $100 billion. And setting up a moon base might run about $40 billion. Much of the savings comes from using the moon’s resources in situ. “You take what the moon gives you, and move away from things that have to be brought up from Earth: water, fuel, protection from radiation,” says George Zamka, a former astronaut and current director at Bigelow Aerospace.

A moon colony is a far cry from the BEAM. But the success of BEAM is critical if a colony is to happen. And that’s why Bigelow invited a bunch of NASA officials to his warehouse. He would need NASA’s permission if he ever planned to send further expandables to the ISS and to access its astronauts. NASA, meanwhile, needs proof that expandables are viable habitats, and that Bigelow is the guy to make them.

This is all part of the process, as Bigelow sees it. He’s smart enough to know that space habitats need to move slowly for everyone to accept them. But he doesn’t have to sit on his hands for two years to learn of BEAM’s results. Far from it.

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As Bigelow talks, I stare at the massive structure hanging beyond the stage. The prototype space station, Olympus—formerly called the BA2100—is 41 feet wide and about 60 feet long. It nearly fills a wing of the hangar: three stories, a dozen rooms, with docking bays on each end, to string multiple crafts together. On its own, the Olympus offers more than two times the interior space of the ISS, about 2,250 cubic meters when expanded.

Were it already in space, the Olympus could be docked with a propulsion unit, providing a crewed station in LEO, in lunar orbit, or a point in between. It could also provide a habitat for a trip to Mars. All of which are part of its ultimate purpose. For now, that purpose will remain unfulfilled. It is so massive that, even deflated, no rocket exists that could haul such a large payload into orbit. Bigelow keeps the Olympus front and center for inspiration, a symbol of all that’s left to be done.

What’s not on display today is Bigelow’s follow-up to BEAM, the B330, a fully livable habitat that is well underway. According to Zamka, the craft is designed to fit a crew of six comfortably, has walls about 18 inches thick, layers of insulation, and protection from micrometeorites. It boasts solar and thermal radiator arrays, semiprivate berths, a zero-G toilet, four windows, two sets of control thrusters, and will be able to link up with other spacecraft for docking, towing, or tugging. Bigelow engineers are working on avionics systems for orbit, docking, maneuvering, and boosting beyond LEO into cislunar space. This past May, the company announced it was looking to fill upwards of 100 new positions to build those systems out for a (very optimistic) launch date in 2018.

Bigelow, more than anyone, is comfortable forging ahead in the face of disbelief.

B330 is much more complex than BEAM. It’s not a demonstration pod but a full-fledged expandable spacecraft, capable of sustaining human life on its own. Many of its life-support and comfort systems will be forerunners for a lunar base.

Zamka told me many of B330’s most daunting problems have been solved, not solely by Bigelow but with help from NASA. What might still hold up the launch, he said, would be finding a crew, and a rocket capable of carrying it. At about 43,000 pounds, B330 weighs roughly twice what the Russians or SpaceX can lift. That problem might be temporary, though. Two heavy-lift rockets are coming online shortly: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, due to launch later this year, and NASA’s SLS (for Space Launch System), which will debut within the decade.

That’s not to say those rockets ensure B330’s success, or even its liftoff. As with all things in space, nothing is certain. And there is plenty of dissent. Bigelow’s critics say he’s putting the cart (the craft) before the horse (the rockets), that he’s overstepping with his lunar property plans, and that he’s letting his belief in the future and value of the moon base get the better of him.

But Bigelow, more than practically anyone, is remarkably comfortable forging ahead in the face of disbelief. He’s seen the impossible happen more than once, after all. As a boy he heard an atomic bomb rumble across the desert beyond Las Vegas. He saw the flash of light. As a man, he built his long-stay empire out on the same barren desert, deemed nearly worthless at the time.

Perhaps because of that, because he’s confirmed that the world is surprising and sometimes not what it seems, he’s willing to chase ideas that no one else does. In the 1990s, he started the National Institute of Discovery Science for investigations into the paranormal. He bought a ranch in Utah known for UFO sightings and “skinwalkers”—werewolflike creatures that were said to have attacked cattle. The ranch house featured a hallway with a closet that locked from inside. His beliefs can seem silly. But explaining them he is frank and open, as if he’s too wise and successful to feel embarrassed about much of anything anymore.

At the end of our conversation, Bigelow’s handlers close in, telling him he has more hands to shake. As he steps from the stage, a man in a tie-dye T-shirt and flip-flops, holding a video camera, corners him. “So you believe in aliens,” the man says, then launches into a monologue about the mysticism of the desert and extraterrestrial visitations. Bigelow patiently waits him out. “You simply can’t know unless you’re out there,” Bigelow says, then he tells a story he’s repeated many times. His grandparents were driving through a desert north of Las Vegas when they saw something otherworldly: a glowing ball of fire in the sky, hurtling toward them, its light taking up their whole windshield.

They told their grandson this story, and ever since he’s believed. Intelligent life is out there, he says. He is certain of it. Sure, believing in aliens feeds the doubters, leads to more criticism, makes him the butt of jokes. But Bigelow doesn’t worry about that. For him, belief in the impossible—whether aliens or hotels in space—is part of life out here in the desert, or one day out there, on the lunar surface. It always has been. To succeed, you have to prove everyone wrong. You have to get there first.

This article was originally published in the March/April 2016 issue of Popular Science, under the title “The Baron Of Low-Earth Orbit.”

The (Blow-Up) Road To A Moon Base

Sometime within the next year or so, an expandable pod built by Bigelow Aerospace will travel to the International Space Station--one small step toward the company's goal of building a base on the moon. Here's how it aims to to get there:

Moon Base

Once expandables like Olympus can regularly reach the moon's orbit, the problems remaining have largely been solved. In renderings for a moon base, the structure looks like several B330s joined together. NASA had envisioned its own space habitat in the 1990s and early 2000s. Bigelow bought the rights and developed the technology.

Bigelow Aerospace

BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module)

The first step is to prove an expandable pod makes sense in space, that it works better than typical, rigid space habitats. BEAM is a 13-foot-long test pod that SpaceX will haul to the ISS. Once there, it will expand and remain attached to the ISS for two years as crews test it.

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B330

The next step is an expandable, full-scale habitat. The six-person, 31-foot-long B330 (it has 330 cubic meters of internal volume) is a bigger, better BEAM. But this one features thrusters, to maneuver in orbit, and stand-alone life support systems.

Bigelow Aerospace

Olympus

A colossal craft, the Olympus prototype offers 2,250 cubic meters of volume when pressurized, making it twice as roomy as the ISS. In renderings, it often holds lunar landers--to ferry crew to and from the moon. The problem: No rocket yet exists to carry Olympus into space.

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Physicist Brian Greene: Making sense of string theory

Brian Greene is possibly the best-known supporter of superstring theory. Physicist Brian Greene describes superstring theory, the notion that tiny components of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions generate every particle and force in the cosmos.

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Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA

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Do civilizations of advanced human beings exist scattered in the Galaxy?

by John Stokes

	Artistic representation from Eyewitness testimony of Asket, the extraterrestrial human woman, reference: www.gaiaguys.net

A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms.

The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from moulds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, originally known as “junk DNA”, were discovered years ago, and their function remained a mystery. The overwhelming majority of Human DNA is “Off-world” in origin. The apparent “extraterrestrial junk genes” merely “enjoy the ride” with hard working active genes, passed from generation to generation.

After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently “junk Human DNA” was created by some kind of “extraterrestrial programmer”. The alien chunks within Human DNA, Professor Chang further observes, “have its own veins, arteries, and its own immune system that vigorously resists all our anti-cancer drugs.”

Professor Chang further stipulates that “Our hypothesis is that a higher extraterrestrial life form was engaged in creating new life and planting it on various planets. Earth is just one of them. Perhaps, after programming, our creators grow us the same way we grow bacteria in Petri dishes. We can’t know their motives – whether it was a scientific experiment, or a way of preparing new planets for colonization, or is it long time ongoing business of seedling life in the universe.”

Professor Chang further indicates that “If we think about it in our human terms, the apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” were most probably working on “one big code” consisting of several projects, and the projects should have produced various life forms for various planets. They have been also trying various solutions. They wrote “the big code”, executed it, did not like some function, changed them or added new one, executed again, made more improvements, tried again and again.”

Professor Chang’s team of researchers furthermore concludes that, “The apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” may have been ordered to cut all their idealistic plans for the future when they concentrated on the “Earth project” to meet the pressing deadline. Very likely in an apparent rush, the “extraterrestrial programmers” may have cut down drastically on big code and delivered basic program intended for Earth.”

Professor Chang is only one of many scientists and other researchers who have discovered extraterrestrial origins to Humanity.

Human Genome Project Coordinators find absolute proof of Extraterrestrial contact with ‘Earth humans’ via DNA evidence.

Professor Chang and his research colleagues show that apparent “extraterrestrial programming” gaps in DNA sequencing precipitated by a hypothesized rush to create human life on Earth presented humankind with illogical growth of mass of cells we know as cancer.”

Professor Chang further indicates that “What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code and basic code.” Mr. Chang then affirms that the “First fact is, the complete ‘program’ was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in ‘the game’.”

“Soon or later”, Professor Chang says “we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is.”

Human Genome Project Discovery Implications associated with “Human-looking Extraterrestrials”

The implications of these scientific finds would reinforce claims by other scientists and observers of having contact with ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrials.

The ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrial have been claimed to have provided some of the genetic material for human evolution, and that many of these extraterrestrials have allowed some of their personnel to incarnate as ‘starseeds’ on Earth in human families. These “star seeds”, “star children” or “star people” are described by Brad and Francie Steiger as individuals whose ‘souls’ were formerly incarnated on the worlds of other star systems and then traveled to Earth and decided to incarnate here in order to “boost” the spiritual evolutionary development of humanity. Most of humanity would consider this group of extraterrestrials to be ‘benevolent’ as described by ‘contactees’ such as George Adamski, Orfeo Angelucci, George Van Tassell, Howard Menger, Paul Villa, Billy Meier and Alex Collier who each explain the nature of their voluntary interactions with these human looking extraterrestrials. These “contactees” often provide physical evidence in the form of photographs, film and/or witnesses of their contacts with extraterrestrial races. The most extensively documented and researched contactee is Eduard ‘Billy’ Meier who provided much physical evidence for investigators.

Representations concerning ‘Ancient astronauts’

Indeed, ‘ancient astronaut’ writers believe that a race of intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited and/or colonised Earth in the remote past, whereupon they upgraded the primitive hominid Homo erectus by means of genetic engineering to create the human race as we know it: Homo sapiens.

Evidence for this idea is found (a) in the improbability of Homo sapiens emerging so suddenly, according to the principles of orthodox Darwinism; and (b) in the myths of ancient civilisations which describe human-like gods coming down from the heavens and creating mankind ‘in their own image’.Homo sapiens is thus regarded as a hybrid being, incorporating a mix of terrestrial genes from Homo erectus and extraterrestrial genes from an ascribed “race of the gods”.

Prior to the modern age of space travel and genetics, this theory for the origins of humankind could not have been conceived. And even now, in the 21st century, there are many people who would regard it as science fiction. However, in the light of the problems with the orthodox theory of human evolution, the idea of a genetic intervention by an intelligent human-like species (who themselves evolved on another planet over a more credible time frame) does require to be taken seriously as a potential solution to the mystery.

The most famous exponents of the ancient astronaut intervention are the Swiss writer Erich von Daniken and the American writer Zecharia Sitchin. The latter, in particular, has argued the case in great detail.

Representation by academics from “Exopolitics” groups

Dr. Micheal E. Salla is one of the founders of an Exopolitics movement which seeks an open and informed dialogue on, and with, Extraterrestrials, toward the affirmation of “global democracy” and the quality-of-living of humankind as socially responsible beings in the Universe. Dr. Salla indicates that “There are an extensive number of extraterrestrial races known [by various research institutions and agencies] to be currently interacting with Earth and the human population.

Dr. Salla, is also the author of Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004). He has held full time academic appointments at the Australian National University, and American University, Washington DC. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia. During his professional academic career, he was best known for organizing a series of citizen diplomacy initiatives for the East Timor conflict funded by U.S. Institute of Peace and the Ford Foundation. He is also the Founder of the Exopolitics Institute ; and Chief Editor of the ‘Exopolitics Journal’ and Convener of the “Extraterrestrial Civilizations and World Peace Conference.”

In a 1998 interview, Clifford Stone, a retired U.S. army Sergeant who served in the U.S. Army for 22 years and allegedly participated in operations to retrieve crashed extraterrestrial ships and extraterrestrial biological entities (EBE’s), revealed there were a variety of extraterrestrial races known [by various institutions and agencies]”. Dr. Salla further elaborates that “The most compelling testimonies on the different extraterrestrial races comes from ‘whistleblowers’ such as Sergeant Stone; and also ‘contactees’ who have had direct physical contact with extraterrestrials and communicated with them.”

Dr. Salla further notes that Master Sergeant Bob Dean had a twenty seven year distinguished career in very senior areas of the military indicates that among the know extraterrestrials one group “looked so much like us they could sit next to you on a plane or in a restaurant and you’d never know the difference.”

Apparently “Human extraterrestrial races can easily integrate with human society in the manner described by Dean and others where they can be indistinguishable from the rest of humanity.” Dr. Salla corroborates.

According to Alex Collier who claims to be a “contactee”, “a variety of extraterrestrial races have provided genetic material for the ‘human experiment’. ” Alex Collier indicates that “Earth humans” are “a product of extraterrestrial genetic manipulation, and are possessors of a vast gene pool consisting of many different racial memory banks, also consisting of at least 22 different races.”

Alleged Human ET efforts to promote the unity of humanity through religious spirituality

Alex Collier further claims that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “ensure that global humanity evolves in a responsible way without endangering both itself and the greater galactic community of which it is part. ” Exopolitics groups and independent contactees also indicate that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “uplift human consciousness and to promote the unity of religion.”

Alex Colliers alleged contact with ETs suggest that fundamentalist messages in from Christianity to Judaism to Islam, and other institutionalized religions, as well as outright apparent ‘cult’ groups, have been specifically placed by “hostile elements” to manipulate and control humankind.

Jesus, who many groups allege was a “Human ET” sought to inspire the social consciousness of humankind toward unity, and not to create a “Christian religion”, with its sexually repressive as well as homophobic undertones, which also have been used for the execution of racism, and to legitimate atrocities like the ‘slave trade’.

ETs who allegedly contacted Alex Collier, also further allegedly stipulate that Jesus did in fact live; and lived out the rest of his life in Massada; and that Jesus was only crucified through the religious doctrine, and myth-making associated with ‘the palms’.

As far as the “saviour scenario” is concerned, for example, Alex Collier was allegedly told by ETs that it has been put into our belief systems to “disempower us.” The saviour scenario within the dogma of institutionalized religions legitimate the creation of an elite-driven oppressive power structure who appoint themselves as “judgers of morality”. These religious elites have historically used their self-appointed roles to execute a comprehensive system of social controls that complement their joint pursuit of greed-oriented self-aggrandizement with other elites from government to business enterprises.

The alleged efforts of socially progressive Human ETs to inspire the affirmation of the quality-of-living of ‘Earth Humans’ through spiritual and other “emissaries”, have been undermined by the efforts of “capitalists” to exploit such alleged initiatives in the pursuit of an oppressive agenda of greed and fascistic power.

Constituents of Human ETs allegedly seek to “help humanity find freedom from oppressive structures through education and consciousness raising.”

Allegations of “Human ET” encounters on Earth

In Dr. Salla’s article “Extraterrestrials Among Us” published in October 2006, he alleges that, “There is startling evidence from a number of independent sources that ‘human looking’ extraterrestrial visitors have integrated with and lived in major population centres up until recently, and this is known by a select number of institutions.

Aside from whistleblower testimonies, like Sergeant Major Robert Dean, a number of private individuals claim to have encountered extraterrestrials posing as ordinary citizens in major cities around the planet.

George Adamski was the first to write about extraterrestrials secretly living among the human population. In his second non-fiction book describing his extraterrestrial contact experiences, “Inside the Flying Saucers”, Adamski discussed how human looking extraterrestrials had established a presence among the human population. “They apparently looked so much like us”, Dr. Salla notes “that they could get jobs, lived in neighbourhoods, drove cars, and could blend in easily with the human population.”

Dr. Salla further notes that “Adamski wrote about how they contacted him to set up meetings that led to his famous flights aboard extraterrestrial vehicles.” But as Dr. Salla explains “While controversy over Adamski’s contact experiences and his credibility continues, Adamski’s UFO sightings and contacts with extraterrestrials were supported by an impressive collection of witnesses, photographs and films that a number of independent investigators concluded were not hoaxes.”

Dr. Salla additionally stipulates that “Adamski’s testimony offers important insights into how extraterrestrials may be living incognito among the human population. After discussing the Adamski case and the strongest evidence supporting it, Dr. Salla in that article further discusses other contactees similarly claiming to have encountered extraterrestrials acting like ordinary citizens. Finally, Dr. Salla in “Extraterrestrials Among Us” examines the official testimony of a number of whistleblowers concerning knowledge that extraterrestrials live among ordinary Earth-bound individuals.

Contact Testimonies of ‘Extraterrestrials Among Us’

Adamski’s famous “Desert Center” meeting with an extraterrestrial emerging from a ‘scout ship’ on November 20, 1952 was apparently seen by six witnesses who signed affidavits confirming Adamski’s version of events in his subsequent book, The Flying Saucers have Landed (1953). In fact, four of the witnesses immediately reported what had happened to a nearby newspaper, the Phoenix Gazette,that published a story on November 24 featuring photos and sketches. The Desert Center encounter was among those of Adamski’s claims regarding extraterrestrial contact that, according to UFO researcher Timothy Good, were “accurately reported,” and “sensible and verifiable”, as footnotes by Dr. Salla. Given the clear supporting evidence supporting Adamski’s first meeting with an extraterrestrial traveling in a scout craft, it is worth examining closely his alleged subsequent meetings with extraterrestrials living on Earth.

In the first chapter of Inside the Flying Saucers, Dr. Salla re-visits Adamski’s testimony of his meeting with two extraterrestrials while he was sitting in the lobby of a Los Angeles Hotel on February 18, 1953.

“I looked at my wrist watch and saw that it said ten-thirty. The lateness of the hour, with still nothing of extraordinary significance having taken place, sent a wave of disappointment through me. And just at this moment of depression, two men approached, one of whom addressed me by name. Both were complete strangers, but there was no hesitancy in their manner as they came forward, and nothing in their appearance to indicate that they were other than average young businessmen. I noted that both men were well proportioned. One was slightly over six feet and looked to be in his early thirties. His complexion was ruddy, his eyes dark brown, with the kind of sparkle that suggests great enjoyment of life. His gaze was extraordinarily penetrating. His black hair waved and was cut according to our style. He wore a dark brown business suit but no hat. The shorter man looked younger and I judged his height to be about five feet, nine inches. He had a round boyish face, a fair complexion and eyes of grayish blue. His hair, also wavy and worn in our style, was sandy in color. He was dressed in a gray suit and was also hatless. He smiled as he addressed me by name. As I acknowledged the greeting, the speaker extended his hand and when it touched mine a great joy filled me. The signal was the same as had been given by the man I had met on the desert on that memorable November 20, 1952. (Described in the bookFlying Saucers Have Landed).”

Significant in Adamski’s description is how the two extraterrestrials could pass off as businessmen. Aside from a penetrating stare, nothing struck him as unusual in their appearance. Adamski goes on to explain how he went with them in their car to travel to a remote desert location:

“Together we left the lobby, I walking between them. About a block north of the hotel, they turned into a parking lot where they had a car waiting. They had not spoken during this short time, yet inwardly I knew that these men were true friends. I felt no urge to ask where they proposed to take me, nor did it seem odd that they had volunteered no information. An attendant brought the car around, and the younger man slid into the driver’s seat, motioning me to get in beside him. Our other companion also sat with us on the front seat. The car was a four-door black Pontiac sedan. The man who had taken the wheel seemed to know exactly where he was going and drove skillfully. I am not familiar with all the new highways leading out of Los Angeles, so I had no idea in which direction we were headed. We rode in silence and I remained entirely content to wait for my companions to identify themselves and explain the reason for our meeting.”

“What’s significant here is that the two extraterrestrials possessed a car and knew how to navigate on the newly completed Los Angeles highway system. This is no mean feat and suggests that the extraterrestrials had taken the time to learn the road traffic rules and how to navigate through Los Angeles.”

Dr. Salla indicates in “Extraterrestrials Among Us”, that Adamski further reveals:

“Lights and dwellings thinned as we left the outskirts of the city. The taller man spoke for the first time. His voice was soft and pleasant and his English perfect. I had noticed that the younger man also spoke softly, although his voice was pitched higher. I found myself wondering how and where they had learned to speak our language so well.”

“.We are what you on Earth might call ‘Contact men.’ We live and work here, because, as you know, it is necessary on Earth to earn money with which to buy clothing, food, and the many things that people must have. We have lived on your planet now for several years. At first we did have a slight accent. But that has been overcome and, as you can see, we are unrecognized as other than Earth men. “At our work and in our leisure time we mingle with people here on Earth, never betraying the secret that we are inhabitants of other worlds. That would be dangerous, as you well know. We understand you people better than most of you know yourselves and can plainly see the reasons for many of the unhappy conditions that surround you.”

Dr. Salla indicates also that, “This passage [previous] is significant since it describes how the extraterrestrials have spent years living on Earth, learning the language, getting jobs and mixing with the human population. Furthermore, it appears as though extraterrestrials living among the human population may work in pairs, a kind of buddy system that would make sense in terms of ensuring safety and communications with the home world if an emergency ever occurred. If Adamski is accurate in his recollections and the extraterrestrials are telling the truth, then it would appear that there could be a significant number of extraterrestrials who are living incognito among the normal population in many if not most major cities on the planet. Upon examining other contactee cases and the testimonies of whistleblowers, it does appear as though this is indeed the case.”

Exopolitics groups furthermore provide additional representation that Adamski was not the only one of the contactees making representation that extraterrestrials were blending in with the human population. Howard Menger, for example. also claimed to have been contacted by extraterrestrials posing as ordinary human citizens. In one case, the extraterrestrial was posing as a real estate salesperson and asked Menger to accompany him in one of the extraterrestrial vehicle.

In addition to seeking to learn about human values and civilization, it appears that “Human ET” visitors were conducting a low key education effort to promote awareness of their presence to a limited number of individual ‘contactees’.

These “Human extraterrestrial visitors” have been represented has often having as very attractive physical characteristics, with “Human extraterrestrial females” being described as among the most beautiful women that male observers have witnessed.

The “Human extraterrestrials visitors” furthermore have been represented as going to great trouble in learning the indigenous language of the culture they are immersed in, learning how to drive and navigate on highways systems, and taking innocuous jobs over several years.

Extraterrestrials living among us appear to be operating in a manner similar to a “celestial peace corps” where they try to blend in. They presumably wish to learn about Earth culture and behaviour; and to, perhaps, assist in passing on information to selected individuals.

Representation on Earth Humans relative to “non-Earthbound” humans:

Advanced Human ETs as viewing Earth Humans as barbarians and savages which are a threat to themselves

Alex Collier alleges that ET’s revealed to his that there are over 135 other billion human beings in the 8 galaxies closest to ours.

Alex Collier alleges that “The first time I walked on to one of their ships [Human ETs] , a bunch of their children started to run away from me. They knew that I was from Earth.”

“We have a very bad reputation,” Alex Collier indicates, “because we are the only human race in the galaxy that kills itself, that turns on itself. We are the only race [human] that allows itself to live in poverty. We are the only ones who allow members of our race to starve. We are the only ones that allow members of the race to be homeless. We are the only race that would sell itself into slavery. I don’t like the reflection they give me of us. It’s not that they are judging. They just don’t understand why we do it. If anyone’s got an answer for it, I’m open. Yes, we’ve been manipulated by belief systems, but why do we believe these belief systems?”

According to testimony by Alex Collier in associated with alleged ET contacts, Earth Humans “are the only race of human beings which oppresses and kills itself.”

If Human ETs do exist, as scholarly and other representation suggests, the saving of Humanity from its current apparent course of self-destruction, including on-going catastrophic Global Warming, may very well vitally rely on human governance systems placing its greed-driven bigotries aside, toward a constructive dialogue.

Source: agoracosmopolitan.com

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Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age

DNA was taken from ancient human bones, like this skull, from the Dolni Vestonice burial site in the Czech Republic

L. Lang

Europe went through a major population upheaval about 14,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, according to DNA from the bones of hunter-gatherers.

Ancient DNA studies published in the last five years have transformed what we know about the early peopling of Europe. The picture they paint is one in which successive waves of immigration wash over the continent, bringing in new people, new genes and new technologies.

These studies helped confirm that Europe’s early hunter-gatherers – who arrived about 40,000 years ago – were largely replaced by farmers arriving from the Middle East about 8000 years ago. These farmers then saw an influx of pastoralists from the Eurasian steppe about 4500 years ago, meaning modern Europe was shaped by three major population turnover events.

Waves of immigration

The latest study suggests things were even more complicated. About 14,500 years ago, when Europe was emerging from the last ice age, the hunter-gatherers who had endured the chilly conditions were largely replaced by a different population of hunter-gatherers.

Exactly where this new population came from is still unclear, but it seems likely that they came from warmer areas further south. “The main hypothesis would be glacial refugia in south-eastern Europe,” says Johannes Krause at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who led the analysis.

As conditions improved, it was these southern hunter-gatherers who took advantage and migrated into central and northern Europe, he says – meaning there was a genetic discontinuity with the hunter-gatherer populations that had lived there earlier.

Martin Frouz

His team analysed mitochondrial DNA extracted from 55 ancient Europeans, the oldest of whom lived 35,000 years ago – during the Pleistocene – and the youngest just 7000 years ago, during the Holocene. Previous studies focused largely on the Holocene, looking at human remains from the last 10,000 years.

“This is the first glimpse at Pleistocene population dynamics in Europe,” says Krause. “Little has been done on this older material, mostly due to lower abundance of material and lesser preservation due to age.”

“The population turnover after 14,500 years ago was completely unexpected,” says Iosif Lazaridis at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. “It seems that the hunter-gatherers of Europe braved the worst of the ice age during the last glacial maximum but were then replaced when the ice age had begun to subside.”

Europe’s unusual history

The picture is not yet clear, however, as the study only looked at mitochondrial DNA sequences, rather than the longer nuclear DNA of other studies. “Mitochondrial DNA tells only part of the story of a population,” says Lazaridis. It is important to try to extract nuclear sequences from the Pleistocene-aged skeletons to find out more about this earlier population turnover, he says.

The work also may solve a long-standing mystery of why a certain genetic signature is missing in people of European ancestry. All people today are members of one of a relatively small number of distinct groups based on their mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down the maternal line. The distribution of people in each group gives us a sense of how humans spread across the world in prehistory.

It always seemed that Europe had a very unusual history of colonisation because one major haplogroup – the M clade – is almost entirely missing, despite being very common across Asia and even found in Native Americans. Instead, another major haplogroup – the N clade – is most common.

“Some authors had argued that the M and N haplogroups represented two different dispersal events from Africa,” says Toomas Kivisild at the University of Cambridge.

But Krause and his colleagues found that the M clade might actually have been common in Europe before the population turnover 14,500 years ago: three of the 18 most ancient humans they studied belonged to the M clade.

This suggests that the initial colonisation of Europe and Asia may have involved the same ancient population – and that the M group was actually lost in Europe much later, perhaps connected in some way to the mystery upheavals 14,500 years ago.

Journal reference: Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037

Read more: The three ancestral tribes that founded Western civilisation

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• DNA
• evolution
• genomes
• history
• human evolution
• human genetics

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USA: MYSTERIOUS NAZI SUBMARINE FROM WWII DISCOVERED IN GREAT LAKES

Niagara Falls| Divers from the U.S coast guard took part this morning, ina delicate wreck recovery operation to bring to the surface a Nazisubmarine discovered two weeks ago  at the bottom of Lake Ontario.

The U-boat was spotted for the first time by amateur scuba divers in late January and they had contacted the authorities. Archaeologists associated with Niagara University of  and master divers from the U.S Coast Guard were mobilized on site to determine what it was, and they soon realized that they were dealing with a German submarine that sank during World War II.

A wreck recovery vessel  of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society was mandated to refloat the ship and bring it back to Niagara Falls, where it must be restored before becoming a museum ship. The delicate recovery operation took nearly 30 hours to complete, but the submarine was finally brought down on the bank with relative ease.

The divers of the U.S. Coast guard braved the frigid water temperature to go attach cables to the wreck for the recovery operation.

The submarine was identified as the UX-791, a unique experimental German submarine, based on the U-1200 model, and known to have participated in the “Battle of the St. Lawrence”. It  was reported missing in 1943 and was believed to have been sunk near the Canadian coast.

Professor Mark Carpenter, who leads the team of archaeologists, believes that the U-boat could have traveled up the St-Lawrence River, all the way to the Great Lakes, where it intended to disturb the American economy.

A report from the dated from February 1943 suggests, that the ship could have attacked and destroyed three cargo ships and two fishing vessels, even damaging the USS Sable (IX-81), an aircraft carrier of the U.S. navy that was used for training in the Great Lakes, before finally being sunk by anti-sub grenades launched by a Canadian frigate.

“We have known for a long time that the Nazis had sent some of their U-boats in the St-Lawrence River, but this is the first proof that they actually reached the Great Lakes,” Professor Carpenter told reporters. “This could explain the mysterious ship disappearances that took place in the region in 1943, and the reported “Battle of Niagara Falls” which had always been dismissed as a collective hallucination caused by fear.”

The restoration of the submarine could take more than two years, but oncecompleted, the museum ship is expected to become one of the major touristattractions of the region.

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Coventry's UFO sightings: Glowing rockets, circular objects and bright lights all spotted last year

According to the Mutual UFO Network, 15 incidents have been logged in Coventry and West Midlands since January last year

Two bright lights seen in skies

Analysis of encounters logged with the Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) - described as ‘the world’s oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body’ - show 15 incidents logged in Coventry and the West Midlands since January last year.

They range from a sighting of a massive tin-can shaped object with gold round the middle, to a glowing rocket steering upwards into the sky.

Many of the sightings come with video and pictures taken at the time.

And while they may not provide CONCLUSIVE proof of extraterrestrial intelligence targeting, the descriptions are certainly intriguing.

The most recent ‘close encounter’ came on August 22 at the University of Warwick.

Coventry UFO spotted above University of Warwick

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The witness said: “I went for a short walk around 8.15pm behind my accommodation, i.e. Heronbank West, Heronbank, University of Warwick.

“While coming back, I happened to look at this glowing (because of the flame) cylindrical type object in the sky, steering upwards in a somewhat fast motion.

“I was able to take a picture of it. But when I started taking a video, my phones battery died. My first reaction to that was ‘clearly it’s not a shooting star’.

“It could be a rocket launch though. After gazing at it for about a minute, I walked inside my accommodation building.”

Story Link Warwickshire UFO video: What could mysterious object be?

On May 13, another spotter saw seven circular objects above the city through binoculars - they then drew them out for Mufon.

Another sighting - again in Coventry - on March 15 involved ‘two bright lights which were ellipses initially but became circles’.

The witness reported: “I was standing outside work having just finished a shift. A storm had just passed over and a beautiful rainbow was showing. I was taking photos of the rainbow and didn’t actually notice the lights in the frame.

“I took a series of photos to catch as much of the rainbow as I could but after transferring to a memory chip I put them away and forgot about them. I was sorting through old memory chips a few days ago when I found these photos.

Seven objects seen through binoculars

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“The first one showed a couple of ellipses with what appeared to be a solid centre. This was at 15.24 GMT. The next photo showed two large balls of light low to the ground and apparently in front of the lamp post.

“The time of the photo was also 15.24 so the lights had moved very quickly.”

Across the UK, there were 476 sightings listed on mufon.com between January 1, 2015, and the middle of February this year.

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Scientist Proves DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

We came across this article today and thought that it would be a great read for our viewers. It’s awesome information showing the true nature of our reality and how science is changing everyday, opening up to the possibilities of this reality.

“Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

By Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf

THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.

Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered “junk DNA.” The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore those 90% of “junk DNA.” Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary! According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.

The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA. [For the sake of brevity I will give only a summary here. For further exploration please refer to the appendix at the end of this article.] The bottom line was: “Living chromosomes function just like solitonic/holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation.” This means that they managed for example to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary.

One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies are being used.

This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. While western researchers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects.

Garjajev’s research group succeeded in proving that with this method chromosomes damaged by x-rays for example can be repaired. They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus reprogramming cells to another genome. ?So they successfully transformed, for example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA. This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation! All this by simply applying vibration and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure! This experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.

Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained. Of course the frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and maturity in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA. The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency.

But the higher developed an individual’s consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device! One can achieve these results by oneself, and science will finally stop to laugh at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results. And it doesn’t end there.?The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in the vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).? These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hyper communication is most effective in a state of relaxation. Stress, worries or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper communication or the information will be totally distorted and useless.

MOSI scientist publishes theory debunking famed ‘extraterrestrial’ signal

Antonio Paris, a scientist at the Museum of Science & Industry in Tampa, may have found what caused the famous "Wow! Signal" that has captivated astronomers for decades and is seen by some as the strongest clue ever that alien life exists. Provided by MOSI

By Keith Morelli | Tribune Staff 

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Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One Notices

This is the trail of Chelyabinsk asteroid which exploded about 14 miles above ground with a force nearly 30 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb in 2013.

Credit: Neuromainker via YouTube/Screenshot by Irene Klotz for Discovery News

If a space rock hits the atmosphere, and no one is around to hear it, does the tabloid press still report it as an Earth-shattering event? Of course!

This pretty much summarizes a large-ish meteor impact over the South Atlantic Ocean, which occurred on Feb. 6, and was recorded by the Fireball and Bolide Reports page of NASA's Near Earth Object Program.

PHOTOS: Russian Meteor Strike Aftermath

Dozens of videos of the Russian meteor were uploaded to Youtube soon after impact on the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, many of which originated from vehicle dashboard cameras (or "dash cams"). During the morning commute many drivers saw the bright orb grow and explode in the atmosphere. The resulting shock wave caused windows to blow out over a huge area injuring over 1,000 people -- mainly cuts and minor concussions.

The event itself is notable because it is the largest atmospheric impact recorded since the famous Chelyabinsk bolide that exploded over Russia in 2013, causing widespread structural damage and injuries to the city with a population of 1 million.

This recent Feb. 6 event unleashed an energy equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT exploding instantaneously (a.k.a. a "13 kiloton" explosion); the Chelyabinsk impact ripped through the Ural Mountain skies with a whopping energy of 440 kilotons.

Initially noticed by NASA's Ron Baalke and then investigated by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, it quickly became clear that the high-altitude impact was likely caused by a chunk of space rock approximately 5-7 meters (16-23 ft) wide. The Chelyabinsk impact was caused by a rock nearly 20 meters (65 ft) wide.

The Feb. 6 meteor most likely burned up the majority of its mass during atmospheric entry, any pieces falling as small meteorites safely into the ocean.

ANALYSIS: How Many Tiny Asteroids Buzz Earth?

This didn't happen over a populated region and, as far as I can tell, there have been no eyewitness reports from mariners or pilots who happened to be in the area at the time. Though this is certainly an important and scientifically interesting event, the impact on the lifeforms of Earth (barring a few unlucky fish 600 miles off the coast of Brazil) was minimal. But the fact that NASA "failed" to tell the world about the impact has gotten some news outlets excited.

"Space agency fails to warn the world about massive blast, even though it's the largest atmospheric explosion since the Chelyabinsk meteor," writes Mirror.co.uk.

But possibly the best headline comes from another UK news outlet, The Express: "FRONT-room-sized meteor came out of nowhere and exploded with force of Hiroshima bomb." Because your front room (British to US translation: living room) is now a universal standard of meteoroid measurement. Noted.

NEWS: Russian Meteor: Chelyabinsk Asteroid Had Violent Past

The Mirror also wandered down the conspiracy path, questioning how NASA even recorded the Feb. 6 impact, highlighting Plait's analysis that the atmospheric impact was likely detected by classified military technology.

Normally, atmospheric explosions are recorded by seismic monitors, microphones and/or satellite observations. As Plait pointed out, as the impact was in open ocean, it's not likely that seismic monitors would have been used to record the impact energy. As the military has pretty obvious reasons for monitoring atmospheric explosions, it seems likely the data came from a classified source, probably satellites.

Though an interesting energetic event, Feb. 6 isn't the only time the Earth has been hit by space rocks since Chelyabinsk. Every single day Earth is peppered with around 100 tons of space debris. The vast majority of this mass is no bigger than a grain of sand, and on a clear night you might be lucky to see these tiny specks burn up in the high atmosphere as meteors.

As they slam into the upper atmosphere, these tiny pieces of space rock create a shock wave which, through rapid heating of atmospheric gases, incinerates the debris, erupting in a fast blaze of light. These are called meteors (or "shooting stars"). Larger (and rarer) pieces of space rock will hit the atmosphere as a meteor and may explode as a bolide (as the Chelyabinsk event dramatically showcased), some pieces hitting the ground as meteorites.

ANALYSIS: Why I'm Sad Asteroid 2011 MD Missed Earth

Monitoring the regularity of these larger impacts is key for scientists to better understand our Earth's interplanetary environment and although the Feb. 6 event is now grabbing the headlines, remember that most large impacts will happen over water (as the Earth is 70 percent ocean) and impacts of space rocks of around Chelyabinsk meteoroid dimensions are (statistically-speaking) a once in a century thing. Oh, and as for NASA not reporting a bolide impact that no one saw, well, it looks like the tabloid press has that covered.

Originally published on Discovery News.

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The Southwest Gets a UFO-Shaped Saucer Cloud

The thing appeared ready to vaporize an entire neighborhood.

• • JOHN METCALFE  

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Residents of Las Vegas, New Mexico, might have wondered last evening if something had escaped from Roswell. Looming over the horizon was a cloud with the spitting image of a classic UFO, so massively structured it looked like it could atomize the building-blasting motherships of Independence Day.

The above photos were sent by viewers to Jorge Torres, chief meteorologist at KOB-TV, who identified the thing as a ”[l]enticular cloud or even a shelf cloud.” The latter are intimidating, horizon-eating rollers often attached to thunderstorms—and indeed, the region is under a winter-storm warning for a snowy front with possible whiteout conditions. The former clouds typically materialize above mountains or other land masses that draw wind upward, though on rare occasions they’ve developed in flat places like Texas.

The UFO cloud wasn’t the only weird thing to drop out of New Mexico’s storm-roiled skies. Torres also shared these shots of a lumpy funnel extending from a cloud in Roswell:

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The appearance of a flying saucer UFO-shaped cloud formation over Las Vegas in New Mexico on Monday sparked a brief, but snarky, exchange between UFO researchers and a local meteorologist who insisted it was only a lenticular cloud. But some UFO hunters argued that the cloud was actually an alien UFO manned by Tall White aliens linked to the U.S. military. Others argued it was a Project SERPO alien spaceship that missed the way to the city of Roswell.

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Lenticular cloud or even a shelf cloud. Amazing shot from viewers in Las Vegas, NM. #nmwx #clouds

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Lenticular cloud or even a shelf cloud. Amazing shot from viewers in Las Vegas, NM. #nmwx #cloudspic.twitter.com/KCqaqzJb5g

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Um, it's obviously a spaceship from Roswell! @JorgeTWeather

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Some residents of Las Vegas in New Mexico were thrown into panic on Monday after spotting a flying saucer-shaped cloud formation hanging low over the city. The appearance of the “flying saucer UFO” was so reminiscent of scenes from the 1996 Independence Day movie that rumors spread that a flying saucer mothership UFO was hovering over the city.

But Jorge Torres, chief meteorologist at KOB-TV, who obtained photos of the “UFO” and uploaded them to Twitter, tried to calm fears about an Independence Day-style alien invasion, saying that the formation was only a lenticular cloud and not a flying saucer.

“Lenticular cloud or even a shelf cloud. Amazing shot from viewers in Las Vegas,” he tweed airily.

UFO hovers over Las Vegas, New Mexico #lenticular #cloud https://t.co/jrtH8qTDn1 via@Strange_Sounds pic.twitter.com/Mnlmd7opDR

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Lenticular cloud or even a shelf cloud. Amazing shot from viewers in Las Vegas, NM. #nmwx#clouds pic.twitter.com/KCqaqzJb5g

— Jorge Torres (@JorgeTWeather) February 23, 2016

Um, it's obviously a spaceship from Roswell! @JorgeTWeather

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But UFO researchers pushed back, arguing that the massive cloud-like formation was evidently a “cloaked” flying saucer UFO. They argued that the “cloaking” was so poorly executed that any experienced UFO hunter would see through the disguise immediately.

According to UFO hunters, aliens often disguise their UFOs as clouds because they know that it fools naïve meteorologists like Torres. UFO researchers explained that with regard to the practice of “cloud cloaking,” there are two types of UFOs: the first hide in thick cloud formations while the second generate their own clouds.

“Despite Mr. Torrres’ explanation, there is strong evidence that UFOs do cloak themselves with clouds which they apparently generate,” UFO Sightings Hotspot lectured.

UFO hunters also noted that the appearance of a massive “cloaked” flying saucer UFO over Las Vegas was not surprising with the city of Roswell nearby.

“Um, it’s obviously a spaceship from Roswell!”

Some UFO hunters linked the “flying saucer” to the legendary Project SERPO, an alleged top-secret alien exchange program between the U.S. government and aliens called Ebens from the planet SERPO in the zeta reticuli star system.

But Scott Waring, a well-known UFO blogger, claimed that the UFO belonged to Tall Whites, another alleged extraterrestrial race believed to have worked with the U.S. military since the 1950s.

Alien conspiracy theorists believe that Tall Whites control the U.S. government, and that Obama is a Tall White in disguise. Other conspiracy theorists have linked the Tall Whites with the Israeli military and, oddly, the Nazis.

According to UFO researchers, after the Tall Whites began working with the U.S. government in the 1950s, they developed an addiction to gambling, and since then, they have regularly visited Las Vegas (Nevada) casinos disguised as humans. Maybe this time, a group of Tall White visitors on their way to Las Vegas, Nevada, missed the way and ended up in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

And when later in the day Torres uploaded to Twitter images showing unusual atmospheric phenomenon over Roswell, some UFO researchers declared the strange clouds proof that aliens were prowling over New Mexico in “cloaked” UFOs, and that they were likely on a mission linked to the 1947 Roswell crash.

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Apparent cold air funnel cloud in Roswell earlier today. Courtesy: Robert Newberry #nmwx

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When Torres argued that the strange Roswell clouds were not alien clouds but likely “cold air funnel clouds,” a UFO enthusiast responded sarcastically, “Roswell? Cold air funnel clouds? Sure…”

The sarcastic tweet prompted a response from Torres, “Aliens paid me to say that, Lily.”

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Aliens paid me to say that, Lily 😀 https://t.co/BLCjQAble5

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UFO blogger Scott Waring joined the debate on the side of UFO enthusiasts, who claimed that the “flying saucer UFO” was manned by the Tall Whites.

“There is only one species I heard of that acts this cocky, and that’s the Tall Whites. They look just like us when they are children, but will grow taller after 400 years.”

“Only their eyes, skin color and walk give them away,” he continued. “They are known to enter Vegas, Nevada to have some fun. They also like to play mind games with humans to show their superiority. It boosts their ego and trust me… let them win.”

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But some UFO hunters insisted that the “UFO” was not a Tall White alien spaceship by a Project SERPO spaceship.

Alien and UFO hunters who promote the Project SERPO conspiracy theory claim that a 3,000 page top-secret document dating back to the 1970s leaked in 2005 by anonymous whistleblowers from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveals that the Roswell UFO originated from planet SERPO in the zeta reticuli system, populated by a people called the Ebens.

According to conspiracy theorists, the U.S. government has been involved since the mid-1960s in a top-secret alien exchange project with the Ebens from the planet SERPO. The U.S. government sent 10 male and two female astronauts to planet SERPO in 1965.

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BBC News Catches Multiple UFO’s Live During ISS Soyuz Russian expedition

There was much hype about this recent space launch to the ISS from Kazakhstan, what with it being the first time a British Astronaut (Major Tim Peake) and then the drama that unfolded when the automated systems onboard failed close before the planned docking on December 15, 2015. Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko took manual control of the Soyuz before resuming for another attempt at docking which was successful at 12.33 p.m. EST.

Luckily thanks to Yuri all of the Astronauts arrived safely on-board the international space station, but it was only until live news footage of the dramatic docking process (which was recorded by NASA’s very own HD cameras) appears to show NUMEROUS UFO’s in the form of Orbs and a Doughnut shaped LARGE brightly lit object moves by the cameras!  Please check out the video (which was viewed live on all of the major news channels) below of this incredible piece of footage which people around the world witnessed LIVE:

U.I.P SUMMARY – Like us guys at U.I.P keep saying on here, perhaps the ET’s are INTENTIONALLY making their presence known in order to help create their very own form of disclosure (please click HERE for more on this).  What is incredible about this footage is the fact that you can clearly see that these objects are moving in a somewhat ‘controlled’ type of manner – The doughnut looking UFO looks incredible and almost seems to be ‘bubble like’ in appearance!

Perhaps the ET’s where watching the mission unfold at the space station with the Russian rocket!?  It’s important to remember that this very odd other-worldly looking Doughnut UFO has been witness on camera before – please see above.

No matter what NASA say it is clear that this is NOT ice particles ‘floating’ by – Floating Ice is definitely becoming the new ‘weather balloon’

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10 Reasons Why Humans May Not Have Come From Earth

Scuba Divers Find A Giant Orb In The Ocean. What Is It?!

While under water off the coast of Turkey, a group of divers encountered a translucent blob about the size of a car.

The blob felt “very soft,” divers said, and appeared “gelatinous.” From afar, the mass looked almost invisible, but up close, the group spotted countless little dots floating in the 13-foot sphere.

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Diver Lutfu Tanriover, who captured the blob (which he called “the thing”) on video, told the blog Deep Sea News that the group felt both “excitement and fear” as they approached the mysterious mass.

Even after close inspection, the divers say they couldn’t figure out what the blob was.

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As Tanriover’s mesmerizing video went viral earlier this month, the Internet leapt at the chance to solve the mystery.

Christopher Mah of The Echinoblog ended up being the first to the plate. Mah said in a tweet that Dr. Michael Vecchione, a squid expert and scientist at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, had come up with a possible answer.

The blob, Vecchione said, was likely an enormous squid egg mass — the “largest” he’s ever seen.

The scientist speculated that a squid called Ommastrephes bartramii (also known as the red flying squid or the neon flying squid) could be responsible for the mass. Red flying squid are a “common species” that can grow to around 5 feet in length,Smithonian.com says.

RED FLYING SQUID (BRITISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY/WIKI COMMONS)

As Deep Sea News notes, only one other squid egg mass of such enormity has ever been documented.

In 2008, a 10- to 13-foot egg mass, laid by the large Humboldt squid (which, like the red flying squid, is in the Ommastrephidae family), was found in the Gulf of California. That mass contained between 600,000 and 2 million eggs. At the time, scientists said it was “far larger than the egg masses of any squid species previously reported.”

As for why such squid egg masses are so rarely spotted, Deep Sea News says it might be because of the depth that they’re usually found, and the short duration of time that it takes for the squid babies to hatch.

“These egg masses are likely found much deeper in the ocean and only occasionally drift to shallow water,” the blog notes. “Another factor is time… [In the case of the 2008 mass] the developing squid.. took just three days to hatch. That’s a pretty small window to find such a well-hidden target.”

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Kan deze robot de mensheid irrelevant maken? - HLN.be

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VIDEO Aanschouw de nieuwste creatie van Boston Dynamics, een bedrijf dat een lange geschiedenis heeft met het bouwen van ultra-geavanceerde, haast beangstigende robots. Dit exemplaar zou de mensheid wel eens irrelevant kunnen maken. Dat schrijft techwebsite The Verge.

De robot - het nieuwste exemplaar in de Atlas-reeks van het bedrijf - lijkt zo weggelopen uit een of andere akelige sciencefictionfilm, die zich duizend jaar verder in de toekomst afspeelt. 

In een video, vrijgegeven door Boston Dynamics, zie je hoe een robot de deur opent en naar buiten loopt. Vervolgens wandelt hij door een bos, over een ongelijke ondergrond.

Verder zie je hem ook dozen oprapen en in rekken plaatsen. Wanneer een doos uit de handen van de robot wordt geslaan, kan de robot hem zelf opnieuw zoeken en oprapen. Duwt iemand de robot om, dan weet die zelf weer recht te staan. 

Een glimp van de toekomst? Wellicht. En het bedrijf, dat eigendom is van Google, zal het hier waarschijnlijk niet bij laten. Benieuwd wat de volgende robot allemaal zal kunnen.

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Glowing UFO Over Korea Shows Common Trend Worldwide, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 15, 2016 17:17 pm
Location of sighting: Gyeonggi Province, Korea

This UFO was reported this week from Korea and like most, its a glowing white ball. These Foo Fighters are common around the world and can move at incredible speed. The occupants of these craft are more daring than others, because they come closer to the public and in some instances, over thousands without caring about how it effects the humans that watch this event. 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states (roughly translated):
I tracked the UFO in Korea, one of the people that captured this UFO was mystery writer "UFO Hunters Huh," who attempted an intentional UFO atmospheric shot in Gyeonggi Province Uijeongbu nokyangdong Nogyang Station square on 15 February, night time, 2016 in the middle of the night, at northwest of the province Yangzhou City Area Chamber. The UFO was seen flying and glowing like a blue rugby ball to the naked eye. I tried to release this video as soon as I could from my camcorder to the public networks. This glowing object was seen for about one minute and flying very low altitude and soon disappeared into the northeast direction. The first visual observations were that it looked a little like a  blue rugby and has the speed of an aircraft or helicopter. 

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UFO Reported Crashing Over Mountains In France, Feb 25, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: February 17, 2016
Location of sighting: Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, South France
News source:  

http://www.sudouest.fr/2016/02/18/langonnais-un-ovni-nimbe-de-fumee-dans-le-ciel-de-sainte-croix-2277608-2932.php

A UFO was reported crashing to earth and the French Govt sent a helicopter to go investigate. The helicopter reported that only burt ground was seen. If this was a meteorite, then this should be investigated to find it for the local museum, but perhaps they are lying. They may have found more than they reported and may retrieve the craft at another time. 
Scott C. Waring
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News states:
A reported UFO in the sky Holy Cross The vineyards, one resident thought he saw on Wednesday afternoon, an unidentified flying object. The French Govt went on to note The Operations Centre and intelligence of the gendarmerie of the Gironde received a call to say that yesterday in late Wednesday afternoon a UFO was recorded. Thus, a resident of Sainte-Croix-du-Mont area claimed the police had seen on his commune, what he thought was an aircraft positioned at low altitude, which then disappeared through thick smoke. The authorities have taken very seriously the call to the point of having sent patrols on site with a helicopter. But no trace of plane was found nor were reported. The mystery remains. The gendarmerie has posted information on its Facebook page. Only plausible evidence to date, a burn-beating of a plot of vines was spotted by the helicopter, which may explain the fumes reported by the witness ... In any case, the French military asked: perhaps is it a meteor that had fallen, in the southeast of France? But the police also know how to use humor: would it not be a preview of the X-Files series returns to our screens on February 25 after 14 years of absence?

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Asteroid 2016 TX68 Comes 1/10th The Distance From Earth To Moon In Two Weeks! Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of Asteroid: Mon, March 7-8, 2016
Distance from Earth: 14,000 miles
Size of Asteroid: 25-55 meters
Name of Asteroid: 2016 TX68
Source URL: 

http://www.albanydailystar.com/science/nasa-earth-defence-office-works-asteroid-2016-tx68-will-pass-no-need-worry-16723.html

This baby is heading our way in just a few days. NASA says it will come about 14,000 miles from Earth. Now something that needs to be said is back in 2013 a meteor that was 20 square meters exploded over Chelyabinks, Russia. It...was  18 miles above the city, yet luckily it explode before it hit the city. Its explosion had the power of 25-30 atomic bombs and injured over 1,500 and damaged tens of thousands of buildings. Its total weight was more that the Eiffel tower. 

Now, NASA tells us that Asteroid 2016 TX68 will pass within 14 miles? Are you freaking kidding me? At about 50 meters across this could destroy a dozen cities if it hits the ground. But if it explodes over the city, thousands of people could get hurt. Also, every asteroid has smaller parts that tag along with it. Did NASA take this into account? No! What happens if this asteroid breaks up and does a shotgun effect on a country somewhere? We really needs more info on this one, but NASA...wont reveal much more. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states: 
Scientists have unveiled that an asteroid known as 2016 TX68, larger than an 18-wheel tractor trailer truck moving at more than 34,000 mph, will make a close pass by earth in two weeks. The asteroid, around 100 feet long, has no chance of hitting earth. Scientists said that the asteroid may help raise attention towards tracking the thousands of asteroids passing around space that could severely impact, if ever they hit our planet. The asteroid in question is expected to fly as close as 19,245 miles to Earth at 4:06 pm Pacific time on Monday, March 7. Astronomer Gerald McKeegan at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland said that he knows the pass by would be quite close, but there is no risk of any collision and henceforth, no need to worry. It has also been unveiled that the asteroid pass-by would end as far as 10.7 million miles away because researchers have not been able to identify its precise orbit. The asteroid pass by would not be visible to naked eye. Even if it would then it will be the first time that an asteroid of such a size has come close to earth in three years. The asteroid was discovered three years back and has been traveling as far out as an area between Mars and Jupiter every 780 days. (more at source).

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UFO Cloaked In Cloud Moves Low Over News Mexico On Feb 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 2016
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA
Source: 

https://twitter.com/JorgeTWeather/status/701921350110175232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

This is not Las Vegas, Nevada. Its actually the same name city, but in New Mexico. 

A weather reporter on Twitter shared some photos of a UFO cloaked in a cloud over New Mexico yesterday. 

There is only one species I heard of that acts this cocky, and thats the Tall Whites. They look just like us when they are children, but will grow taller after 400 years. Only their eyes, skin color and walk gives them away. They are known to enter Vegas, Nevada...a different city that his one above, to have some fun. They also like to play mind games with humans to show their superiority. It boosts their ego and trust me...let them win. 

I believe this UFO is run by the Tall Whites, because few alien species have the audacity to fly so low over the ground and with such a poor cloud cloak over their ship. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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Massive Flying Saucer Cloud Hovering Over Las Vegas, Mexico (Photos)

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It could be a scene from Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds.

Residents of Las Vegas, Mexico fled their homes to catch a glimpse of a weird massive structured UFO looming over the horizon.
 

Since Las Vegas is not too far away from Roswell, some people suggested the aliens must have escaped from Roswell.

Though, Jorge Torres, chief meteorologist at KOB-TV, who received photos from the UFO and posted it on hisTwitter account, identified the flying saucer as a typically lenticular cloud which normally materializes above mountains but sometimes a lenticular cloud appears in flat open places like Las Vegas.

Despite Mr. Torrres’ explanation, there is strong evidence that UFOs do cloak themselves with clouds which they apparently generate.

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Alien Craft Sightings Over Wales And Manchester

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ALIEN CRAFT SIGHTINGS OVER WALES AND MANCHESTER

Sightings Recorded in Wales And Manchester; Aliens Hovering Over the UK.  Though the existence of UFOs remain contested, it has been reported that multiple sightings have been recorded in the United Kingdom since last year, some of which may have been caught on video.  Mutual UFO Network or Mufon, which prides itself in being “the world’s oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body,” reported that 25 UFO sightings have been recorded in Wales while 23 incidents have been reported in Manchester since January 2015.  “According the the people who say they have spotted the UFOs, the sighting range from a craft as wide as a street, to a white dot travelling three times faster than a jet,” South Wales Evening Post wrote in a news article.  “

There was a total of 476 sightings logged with Mufon in the UK between January 1, 2015, and the middle of February this year.”  Aside from Wales, various UFO sighting videos were also purportedly recorded in Manchester.  “They range from a sighting of five metallic objects flying in triangle formation, to a ‘red-green ball flying diagonally at great speed’ – and a large square object which flew over the witness’ roof,” Manchester Evening News wrote in a news report.  “The figures were revealed after the M.E.N. published footage of a mysterious UFO spotted ‘hovering’ in the skies above Tameside,” the news article continued. “Footage shows an unusual flying craft streaming through the air above Ashton-under-Lyne.Another video showed another mysterious object spotted above Manchester Airport, with unusual white lines streaming through the air.” 

With multiple sightings recorded over the past year, does it mean that UFOs are hovering over UK?  Aside from the argument that the reports could never be verified especially due to lack of video or photos, it could also be noted that the UFO sightings have not only been recorded in the UK, but also in other parts of the world, including America.  In fact, ABC Newspreviously reported that 1,177 UFO sightings were reported to the National UFO Reporting Center or NUFORC from January to April 2015.  Despite numerous reports, many UFO hunters choose to discredit sightings that have are not backed up by videos or photos.

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Parallel Universes and the Altered Timelines within the Mandela Effect

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Parallel Universes and the Altered Timelines within the Mandela Effect

Parallels – A sci-fi adventure, Parallels follows the lives of estranged brother and sister, Ronan and Beatrix, who are reunited when their father mysteriously disappears. Their neurotic neighbor Harold tags along on their search for their missing father, which leads them to a building that they accidentally discover is a portal to parallel Earths. On their travels, they are joined by Polly, a seasoned traveler, who teaches them the ins and outs of jumping from one Earth to another. Ronan and Beatrix ultimately reconnect as they uncover the dark truths behind their family’s broken history.

These themes and narratives of parallel universes and concepts such as the Mandela Effect are being heavily pushed on the population and we can only surmise that as an agenda these are next on the list of things to come. Prepare.

To Make a Moon Village, Think Beyond Science and Engineering (Op-Ed)

The European Space Agency has been looking at what it takes to construct a moon outpost.

Credit: ESA/ Foster + Partners

Tomoya Mori is a senior at Brown University pursuing interdisciplinary studies in space exploration, multimedia and education. He is a co-founder at Metaplaneta, a creative think tank that investigates a multidisciplinary approach to space. He contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

"Been there, done that." President Barack Obama famously used that line to help shift the world's attention from the moon to Mars as a space destination in recent years, though the debate on where to go next continues. But whether humanity wants to colonize the moon or terraform Mars, establishing a settlement on other celestial bodies is a challenge of immense scale. 

So a more important question to ask is this: What does it take to establish a permanent human presence outside of Earth? 

Beyond the usual suspects

This question presents a great diversity of challenges that transcend disciplines. It goes beyond the realm of science and engineering, the two fields often considered the core of space exploration, and include politics, law, architecture, business and design. Extending a human presence beyond the planet will depend on diversifying the space community to include broader interests and perspectives. 

Already, a number of institutions collectively foster a multidisciplinary environment within the space industry. The Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) in the University of Houston offers the world's only master of science program in space architecture. Other institutions educate students about space law and policy, including the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C., and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston. 

These unique programs equip their students with specialized knowledge and skills for the field of space travel. The real value, however, is in bringing new perspectives to the ever-growing space industry. [Moon Base Visions: How to Build a Lunar Colony (Photos )]

Currently, most of those disciplines are functionally independent. Rarely do politicians talk about the architecture of space vehicles, or scientists talk about the potential of space business. But in reality, those fields are so intertwined that interdisciplinary fusion can be a real game-changer. 

The space industry should focus not merely on diversification, but also on the process by which diverse disciplines interact. It is time to take a more transparent, integrative and interdisciplinary approach to space exploration. 

Humans could set up robot-constructed mining outposts at the moon's poles. See how a moon colony could work here.

Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist

One method for integrating disciplines, called the integrated design approach (IDA), has proven effective in sustainable design and could provide the same benefits for space. 

Lessons from an HVAC

Traditionally, designers have used a linear process to construct sustainable buildings. Architects make sketches and pass them on to the engineers, who evaluate the designs and then assign subcontractors, and so on. However, with that approach, time and money are already running out by the time conflicts and problems arise. 

IDA is successful because it involves all project members from the beginning, allowing them to identify and resolve potential conflicts earlier in the process. And the multidisciplinary environment forces project members to think outside their immediate areas of expertise, inspiring innovative solutions to problems and generally producing more energy-efficient and cost-effective results. 

For example, in the book "Integrative Design Guide to Green Building" (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2009), the authors present real-life situations in which IDA led to a surprisingly efficient outcome. The book was written by 7group, a multidisciplinary team dedicated to sustainability and regeneration, and Bill Reed, a proponent and practitioner of sustainability and regeneration.

In the example, a team of architects, landscape designers and engineers was determining the placement of an HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system in an office building, and the architect asked the mechanical engineer to provide an answer. The engineer was stunned, at first. Even though he had more than 20 years of experience designing HVAC systems, never in his life had anyone asked him where to locate one. After a few minutes, he provided a solution that turned out to be extremely efficient and cost-effective. Instead of placing the necessary mechanical room on the roof, which the architects had done in the last project, the engineer proposed placing heat-pump units on the ground floor of the building. Not only did this solution reduce the piping work and save $40,000 in construction costs, it also led to simplified maintenance and significant operational savings.

From that experience, the team realized the importance of questioning assumptions. All components of a building are interdependent, and therefore everyone's input should be respected — not only individuals within one's own area of expertise, but also everyone else in a team.

Innovative solutions or strategies often come from unexpected sources, and in this example, the multidisciplinary environment was critical to promoting openness and stimulating everyone's creativity. 

In this artist's rendering, a 3D printing robot pours layer after layer of hardened lunar dirt and dust onto an inflatable dome shell, 3D printing a lunar base.

Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners

Finding transparency (literally)

The work of Danish architects in the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) provides another illustration. In 2009, the Urban Planning Department of Tallinn, Estonia, and the Union of Estonian Architects held an international competition for a new town hall in in Tallinn. Throughout the design process, the BIG architects received input from the jury about the citizens’ needs and take into account of the city’s governance system. The design had to be flexible and accommodate unexpected demands. 

The BIG group's solution was simple yet quite novel; it was to increase the transparency between the citizens and politicians, to improve governance and the town's participatory democracy. 

The BIG town hall design has myriad glass windows and an open structure, offering the politicians daylight and a view of the city marketplace, and offering the town's citizens a chance to see their elected officials at work. 

Although the mayor of Tallinn had expressed his hope to build a new city hall, the proposal still remains a mere design, albeit one that shows the effectiveness of integrated design. Here, the architects not only provided a great working space for politicians, but also unified the city as a whole. 

Space habitation is not just space travel

Space infrastructures are, in essence, organic systems. They need to be more self-sustaining than any regenerative and sustainable green buildings on Earth. And because of the constrained living conditions they present, such buildings must include input from the astronauts and travelers who might use them, and the input from a range of designers, engineers and others.

For example, the habitation modules of the International Space Station must address energy and thermal balance, waste management, mechanical structure, and architecture, in addition to comfort and privacy, among other factors. 

The Habitation Design Center in NASA's Johnson Space Center often invites astronauts as consultants to improve module designs and make them more human-centered. It may seem obvious, but it is crucial that space vehicles be designed with feedback from astronauts, instead of becoming function-based machines like fighter planes. Rarely does one see inhabitants involved in the design process of an Earth-bound structure.  

For missions, like space colonization, of a larger scale, the IDA approach is even more necessary. Settling on a celestial body is far different from simply going there. To establish a sustainable living space in such a hostile environment, one needs to not only think about science and engineering, but also consider psychological, architectural, societal, political and economic aspects.

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For most of human history, the moon was largely a mystery. It spawned awe and fear and to this day is the source of myth and legend. But today we know a lot about our favorite natural satellite. Do you?

Targeting the moon

Today, many of the world's space agencies have expressed interest in sending humans to the moon. Johann-Dietrich Woerner, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), has been pushing his vision to establish a moon village. Although the agency has yet to officially approve that plan, his message has gone global. 

Despite the hint of novelty it carries, the concept of lunar colonization existed long before the Apollo era. Numerous books and papers have presented promising plans for a lunar colony, but none have been realized, or even attempted. One of the fundamental obstacles is financial. Even if the moon village concept succeeded, most taxpayers would not understand why it was worth the cost. 

And yet, the moon has the potential to help humanity grow as a species. A lunar colony could be a model for a sustainable ecosystem, a testing ground to strengthen international collaboration, a giant laboratory for cutting-edge scientific experiments and technological innovation, a platform for new businesses, a stepping-stone for further exploration of the solar system, and a mental exercise for challenging norms.

But if humanity is to establish a lunar colony, the world must employ IDA, involving all key players at the start. 

Space horizons 2016: international city on the moon

Over the weekend of Feb. 19 to 21, Brown University in Rhode Island will host Space Horizons 2016, a student-focused, three-day integrative workshop that brings students and professionals from all disciplines to conceptualize an international lunar city. 

The event will consist of four workshops — Politics, Infrastructure, Science, and Business & Technology — that will ask several questions: What would politically motivate participating countries? What is the economic value of a lunar city, and what commercial opportunities can sustain the lunar economy? What new experiments would emerge on a lunar base, and how would they help humanity live on the moon and beyond? What infrastructure is required to sustain a lunar ecosystem? 

Through the integrated-design approach, participants will be encouraged to think beyond their immediate expertise, and to recognize the connections between their skills and the space industry, making space more tangible to everybody. Each workshop will have experienced mentors and professionals, including representatives from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Lunar and Planetary Institute, PoliSpace, Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, Masten Space Systems, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Yale University in New Jersey, the University of Central Florida and the Rhode Island School of Design. Ultimately, the findings may lead to a joint project or publication.

But Space Horizons 2016 is not the first to take on the moon village concept. At the end of last year, ESA European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) hosted "The Moon Village Workshop", which took place in conjunction with International Symposium on Moon 2020-2030. The workshop invited professionals and students from all over the world to discuss and propose ideas to consolidate visions for the moon village concept. The participants were split into three groups: Moon Habitat Design, Science and Technology Potential in the Moon Village, and Engaging Stakeholders.

The three working groups came up with several recommended actions to be taken by the director general of ESA, including the design and operations of a moon-base simulation at the European Astronaut Centre and the engagement of the most direct stakeholders, such as media, national governments and citizens, at the next ESA Ministerial Council Meeting. 

It takes time for educational strategies to prove their effectiveness. And as long as the moon village concept remains a vision, it will be challenging to involve people from nonspace industries, especially in an era in which the space industry is generally considered exclusive to rocket scientists. 

However, the future of space exploration is in widening the community. Most innovative ideas are the products of interdisciplinary fusions. Just as much as technological advancements will accelerate space exploration, broader interests and perspectives will also catalyze the process of establishing space colonies. The integrated-design approach has the potential to not only open up new perspectives, but also offer a younger generation an opportunity to design the future of space exploration and radically change humanity's perception of space. It is those people who will advance society into the universe.

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Mars 2030: Explore Your Own Virtual Red Planet

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Catching a flight to Mars won't be possible for most of us until human trips to the Red Planet become affordable, routine and heck, even possible. NASA is currently hoping to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s, although some experts recently warned Congress that the agency's budget may not be able to support that goal.

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In any case, NASA is sticking to the 2030s timeline for now, and one way it is promoting it is by letting you stroll on the Red Planet in virtual reality. Through a partnership with VR developer Fusion (whose parent companies are Disney-ABC and Univision) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a new game called "Mars 2030" will premiere at South By Southwest in March and be available to the public later this year.

"NASA has provided us information to achieve the highest level of regard for scientific accuracy through direct contact with various teams working on the many facets of such a complex mission," said Julian Reyes, Fusion virtual reality producer and designer, in an e-mail to Discovery News.

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"We've visited JSC (Johnson Space Center) and Langley Research Center on multiple occasions and had several interviews with scientists dedicated to studying the planet. Our goal is to stay within the bounds of scientific accuracy while still driven by a compelling story that engages the players."

Fusion first got interested in Mars 2030 after reading about a now-famous "Mars One" 2014 feasibility study written by MIT students. Mars One is a privately funded initiative to send humans on a one-way trip to the Red Planet, and is now selecting astronauts for preliminary training while simultaneously trying to raise funds for the journey. While Mars One says the hardware will be capable of keeping humans alive indefinitely, the study cited limitations with their version such as needing frequent resupplies, which will only grow as a colony naturally expands in size.

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Fusion contacted lead author Sydney Do (a Ph.D. student at MIT) after the study was publicized. To do the study, Do explained to Discovery News in an e-mail, the students created a simulation of a Mars outpost based on statements and claims by Mars One. Following the activities of four people on Mars, the students then created the systems needed for consumables (gases and water) to keep the crew alive, and the spare parts needed to support these systems. This information then gave them information on what a surface habitat system would need.

"The Mars 2030 experience essentially incorporates insights like these into a more realistic visual environment," said Do, who describes himself as an occasional gamer. "You could say that our research does the back-end work — it determines how much of what resource or technology is needed based on a crew activity profile designed to meet some mission objective, while the Mars 2030 experience visualizes this information and builds a story around it using the state of the art in game development."

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Do acted as a technical advisor for Fusion, providing information on aspects of Mars such as surface habitats, life support, food, crew activities in the habitat and outside, maintenance and in-situ resource utilization. He even took into account planetary protection protocols to, for example, suggest sterilized robots explore an area before a human went there and threatened any possible microbes.

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The result, Reyes, said, is an "open-world" environment where players can complete missions to explore Mars — making sure the missions address goals of NASA. The game still feels like a game, but Fusion is "staying true to the science of the experience and elaborating on it whenever possible (without making things boring)," he said.

Reyes said the game should be available for late summer if all goes well, first focusing on desktop systems before being expanded to consoles and mobile. "There are several moving parts that we still need to nail down for that to solidify," he added. According to MIT, platforms that will be included eventually include Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, Samsung VR Gear, iPhone, Android and Twitch.

Originally published on Discovery News.

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'Star Trek' Quadcopter Will Let You Fly the USS Enterprise

Spin Master's "Star Trek" Enterprise drone will be out July 1, just in time for the TV show's 50th anniversary.

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NEW YORK — "Just wait until you see the Enterprise." Those were the words we heard walking through Spin Master's booth at Toy Fair 2016. (When you tell people you work for a website called Space.com, they assume you and your co-workers are all a bunch of Trekkies — and they're right.) Seconds after hearing this, we turned the corner and came face to face with the toy we'd been seeking for two days: a Starship Enterprise drone.

It was, surprisingly, the only "Star Trek" drone we came across at Toy Fair this year, but it fulfilled every fantasy we had for the toy. The drone is modeled after starship Enterprise NCC-1701A, the second ship in the series to bear the name Enterprise. Called Enterprise-A for short, it replaced the original ship in 2286 after the first Enterprise was destroyed when Kirk flew to the Genesis Planet to rescue Spock. 

The Air Hogs USS Enterprise NCC-1701A quadcopter drone can be seen in action in this still from a Spin Master video.

Credit: Tariq Malik/Space.com

Spin Master's Air Hogs model replicates Enterprise perfectly, complete with blue lights and 10 authentic sound effects. The four rotors that lift and steer the drone are even hidden inside the ship's saucer, so they don't detract from the overall realistic look. Other than the see-through saucer, it's an almost exact replica of Kirk's ship.

So set phasers to fly: The Enterprise drone is expected to hit store shelves July 1, just in time for "Star Trek's" 50th anniversary and should retail for $129.99.

Follow Kasandra Brabaw on Twitter @KassieBrabaw. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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THIS LASER PROPULSION SYSTEM COULD GET US TO MARS IN JUST 3 DAYS

Despite how far we've come in space exploration, one thing still holding us back from interstellar travel is our slow spacecraft. While we're able to propel particles to close to the speed of light in the lab, we're struggling to even accelerate spacecraft to beyond 3 percent of that. With our current technology, it's estimated it'll take humans around five months to reach Mars.

But NASA scientist Philip Lubin is working on a system where lasers propel spacecraft with giant sails to the Red Planet in as little as three days. Much like Bill Nye's much-hyped solar sail, this 'photonic propulsion' system relies on the momentum of photons - particles of light - to move forward. But instead of photons from the Sun's rays, Lubin's design would be given a push by giant Earth-based lasers.

It sounds pretty far-fetched, but in a video for NASA 360, Lubin explains that the technology is very much readily available, and that the system could easily be scaled up.

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"There are recent advances that take this from science fiction to science reality," Lubin explains. "There is no known reason why we can not do this."

But let's step back for a second and investigate how the system works. Right now, when we launch spacecraft, the thrust comes from burning a chemical, such as rocket fuel. Not only does this fuel source weigh down spacecraft, it's also an incredibly inefficient system when compared to electromagnetic acceleration, which is the use of light or other electromagnetic radiation to accelerate objects.

"Electromagnetic acceleration is only limited by the speed of light while chemical systems are limited to the energy of chemical processes," writes Lubin in a paper on the technology.

But while electromagnetic acceleration in the lab is relatively straightforward, it requires a lot of complicated and expensive equipment - such as the ring of superconducting magnets that make up the Large Hadron Collider - and hasn't been easy to scale up to the size required for space travel.

One candidate propulsion system, known as the 'impossible' EM Drive, has received a whole lot of attention for allegedly achieving electromagnetic acceleration, but NASA scientists still haven't been able to figure out how it works, or prove that it wasn't an experimental anomaly.

Photonic propulsion, on the other hand, works in theory, regardless of the scale, making it a more viable candidate.

So how do photons work to propel something as big as a spacecraft? Despite not having any mass, particles of light have both energy and momentum, and when they reflect off an object, that momentum is transferred into a little push. With a large, reflective sail, it's possible to generate enough momentum to gradually accelerate a spacecraft.

While Lubin and his team haven't yet tried out their system, their calculations show that photonic propulsion could get a 100-kg robotic craft to Mars in just three days.

A larger craft, like the kind humans might travel in, would take around a month to get there - one-fifth of the time it would take the Space Launch System (SLS), the world's most powerful rocket currently being developed to take us to Mars.

Lubin also explains that in the 10 minutes it will take to get the SLS into orbit, photonic propulsion could propel a spacecraft to an unheard-of 30 percent the speed of light - and it would also use a similar amount of chemical energy (50 to 100 gigawatts) to do so.

But the real benefit of photonic propulsion comes over longer distances, where the spacecraft has more time to speed up, and could eventually take us outside our Solar System and to neighbouring stars.

To be clear, the system isn't designed to send humans across interstellar distances - first of all, robots are far better equipped for that mission, and secondly, we'd be far too heavy. Instead, Lubin proposes wafer-thin spacecraft that can get close to the speed of light.

But sending our own artificial intelligence to these distant solar systems - especially ones that potentially harbour habitable planets - would still be huge.

"The human factor of exploring the nearest stars and exoplanets would be a profound voyage for humanity, one whose non-scientific implications would be enormous," writes Lubin. "It is time to begin this inevitable journey beyond our home."

Lubin and his team last year received a proof-of-concept grant from NASA to show that photonic propulsion could be used for space travel, so we should start seeing some real-life results soon. Let's hope that the reality lives up to the hype, because we're pretty excited ( via sciencealert.com ).

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