Brains, Minds, AI, God: Marvin Minsky Thought Like No One Else (Tribute)

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of "Closer to Truth," a public television series and online resource that features the world's leading thinkers exploring humanity's deepest questions (Peter Getzels, producer/director). Kuhn contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Artificial intelligence (AI) pervades people's lives today, from smartphones and search engines to transportation systems and medical diagnoses. One of AI's legendary pioneers, Marvin Minsky, co-founder of what is now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and considered to be the "father of AI," died on Jan. 24, 2016, at age 88. 

Polymathic in capacity, protean in vision, Minksy spent his life figuring out how to make machines that are intelligent, "whatever that means," as he liked to say. He developed AI's two principle schools of thought: the "symbolic school" of abstract manipulations and the "connectionist school" of unstructured self-organization. He built the first learning machine based on neural networks, simulating how the brain works through practice and trial and error, a progenitor of today's "deep learning."

Smart people said Marvin was the "smartest person I ever met." Those closest to Marvin said he was "childlike." This, they meant as a supreme compliment, because he was ever eager to explore new ideas and never too proud to jump into the middle of things. Minsky won the A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science. Moreover, he mentored a generation of leaders in AI and related fields, including inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who called Minsky "my only mentor."

Meeting Minsky

Minsky was voluminous in his production of ideas, covering great swaths of intellectual terrain. Part of his charm was his iconoclastic stream of consciousness, generating a gusher of provocative and sometimes outrageous ideas that, agree with them or not, always made you think.

I met Marvin in 1999 during the inaugural season of "Closer to Truth." He personified what we aspired to be on the show: inventive, insightful, irreverent, fearless, rigorous, tough-minded, iconoclastic, daring, whimsical. I wanted to do what Marvin did: challenge conventional belief, taking our topics seriously, but not ourselves.

Timorously, I invited Marvin to participate in our first taping session at KOCE, a small PBS station in Orange County, California. In retrospect, I realize I was asking an international superstar, whom I had never met and who certainly did not know me, to fly across the country to appear with an unknown host on a not-yet-broadcast television show — and be a co-equal on an opaque panel with four others whose identities I couldn't even suggest, much less confirm. I prepared myself for rejection, more likely for no response at all.

Marvin accepted immediately. Of course he'd do it — that was Martin — and do it he did. He provided incisive insights. Combative arguments. Effervescent style. No airs or pretensions. 

I asked him about his book, "The Society of Mind" (Simon & Schuster, 1988), which combined ideas from artificial intelligence and developmental psychology to develop his thesis that human minds are composed of hundreds of mini-mind modules (Marvin estimated about 400 of them), each of which evolved to execute highly specific tasks. And when integrated together, they generate a constructed sense of conscious unity. (All Minsky quotes in this essay are from his multiple appearances on "Closer to Truth.") [Scientists Closing in on Theory of Consciousness]

"It's trying to figure out how the mind works," Minsky told me, "without the commonsense belief that somewhere inside the mind there's a 'self' that's sort of in control and commanding everything. So the question is, how do you get mindlike behavior from a brain really made of roughly 400 different computers? They do different things. They don't agree on everything. How do you get reasonable, commonsense behavior out of such a system?" 

Minsky's concept of a "society" is that all these separate "mind computers" are working together in the brain. But "it's not like human society," he clarifies, "where each person works pretty well independently."

When producer/director Peter Getzels and I restructured "Closer to Truth," Minsky was again among our first, most-desired interviews — this time, one-on-one at MIT (2007). Marvin was penetrating and fiery; even on the edges of knowledge, he never hesitated, offering his scintillating, idiosyncratic and often radical takes on the nature of the cosmos, the inner workings of minds and consciousness, and how human beings might achieve immortality. It was a treat; we were swept up by his passion, engulfed by his intellect. 

An AI pioneer explores consciousness

In that interview, I focused on the mystery of consciousness, but to Marvin there was no mystery. "A whole society of scientists is trying to find the place in the brain where consciousness is," Minsky explained to me. "But if it's just a word for many different processes, they're wasting their time. … For everyday purposes, the idea of 'self' is important. But from a cognitive point of view, it's a very stupid idea and it's an obstacle to understanding how our minds work."

The common belief in a nonphysical (perhaps immortal) soul was a related topic that I figured, a bit mischievously, could "stimulate" Marvin's way of thinking — and I braced for fireworks. I had no doubt that Marvin would reject the idea of a soul, of course, but I was curious to find out just how he would dismiss it.

"The idea that there's a central 'I' who has the experience is taking a commonsense concept and not realizing that it has no good technical counterpart," Minsky said. "Rather, it [our 'I'] has 20 or 30 different meanings, and you keep switching from one to the other without knowing it. So it all seems like one thing [when it's not]. … I studied mathematics for many years and finally proved some theorems no one else had. It was wonderful, and it was hard work. Now, if somebody comes along and says some 'creator' gave you this ability [via a 'soul'], well, that's very demeaning. [History of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Infographic)]

"I don't want to be dissed by saying my virtues come from a 'soul'. The idea of a soul seems to me very demeaning. It's saying nothing we do has any consequence. There's someone else just dropping these little gifts on us. A soul is a terrible idea. … The people who talk about a soul are just people who are too ignorant or unambitious or lazy — I don't know what insults to hurl at them."

To Minsky, if you couldn't explain how something works, you haven't explained anything at all. Worse, to him, the assumption that some kind of ethereal soul explains the human mind undermines the hard work required to really explain it.

I asked Marvin about the claim made by many philosophers that the mind cannot be "reduced" to the brain, meaning that it is impossible to account fully for mental function in terms of fundamental physics.

"I don't think we need a separate mental world," Minsky countered, to no one's surprise. "Many philosophers say if some process takes more than three steps, it must be 'irreducible.' Nothing is irreducible. It's just that we're not [yet] smart enough [to know how] to reduce it. … Think of the hubris, the preposterousness of a person who says, 'I know this question can't be answered.' … To say no one can answer it is to say, 'I am so smart that I can predict that nobody else will ever develop a better theory.'"

I'm not that smart, but still I don't agree. I myself am not a reductionist. I do not expect that, even in the fullness of time, mind can ever be reduced completely to brain. Yet I would rather listen to Marvin argue against my view than to almost anyone else arguing for my view. From Marvin, I learn more.

Is feeling also thinking?

In that same interview, I also asked Minsky to describe the relationship between thinking and feeling, the topic of his next book, "The Emotion Machine" (Simon & Schuster, 2006).

"The ordinary words of popular psychology — like emotion and cognition, feeling and thinking, and so forth — are hundreds of years old," Minsky said, "and each of them is a clever way society has developed to not think about what's going on. … This distinction between thinking and emotion has wasted a century of psychologists' time, because they don't understand that each emotion is a particular way to think."

I then transitioned our conversation from one megacategory to another, from brain/mind to physics/universe, by asking about quantum mechanics and its strangeness. Minsky's concise explanation was as discerning as it was counterintuitive.

"Philosophers like to talk about the [Heisenberg] 'uncertainty principle' where quantum mechanics makes things unpredictable," he said. "It's exactly the opposite. … All these philosophers have missed the point that a deterministic universe is not good. It's chaotic. And the quantum universe is stable." 

Here's the deep idea that Minsky so breezily explained. In classical physics, which is deterministic, the naive "solar system" model of negatively charged electrons flying around a positively charged nucleus cannot be stable — if elections "orbited" in that way, they would emit electromagnetic radiation, lose energy, and the negative-positive attraction would cause the election to crash into the nucleus, destroying the atom. In quantum mechanics, which is probabilistic, the electron has wavelike features, cannot have both a definite position and a definite velocity (momentum), and therefore cannot be confined in an arbitrarily small space (without adding increasingly huge amounts of energy). This means that the atom cannot collapse, and the quantum universe, as Minsky said simply, is stable. [Why Can't Quantum Mechanics Explain Gravity? (Op-Ed)]

Delving into speculation, I asked whether this universe could be a fake. 

"We might be a program running on a computer," he responded seriously. "What we know about computational processes is that it's easy to make a simple process that produces infinite complexity [ultimately] — it doesn't take a 'God,' because we can make a little computer program that can successively write all possible computer programs just by enumerating them and making small changes."

Could human beings ever know whether this universe is really a simulation? 

"It could be that in some simulated worlds there are enough defects or slight irregularities that you could figure out what computer is simulating you," Marvin mused. "Ultimately, you might find something for which the best explanation was that we're not real, we're just a program on an 'IBM 68 billion' or an [Intel] 86 billion or whatever." [Is Our Universe a Fake?]

The trouble with religion

I was now ready to explore a Minsky favorite foil: religion.

"The trouble with religion is that it picks particular things, like 'why are we here?' or 'what created the world?' or 'what should we do in various conditions?'" he began. "But these can be studied and understood by thinking more. … If a lot of people believe something and it's complicated [like religion], then it's unlikely that they thought of it themselves. So it's probably an infectious mental disease, a little network of ideas like a virus that knows how to jump from brain to brain and spread."

Far-reaching for some, but not for Marvin. As many of his admirers know, he had strong opinions.

On a changing society

Reflecting on news of his death brought me back to 1999. It was not long after we had come to realize that the "WorldWideWeb" (as it was called) would be changing humanity, but how, we weren't quite sure. 

"We're under pressure to decide faster," he said in an episode entitled "How does Technology Transform Thinking?" He explained that because facts are more quickly at people's disposal, and everyone expects fast answers, people are forced to be less reflective. "One of the most dangerous things," he stressed, "is rapid communication in political affairs, where a TV network can ask, 'What does the public think?' and in minutes they say 70 percent of the people think this or that."

Reflecting on the Internet as an "amplifier of evil," Minsky said, "There's a serious problem, because people don't understand the difference between popular democracy and representative democracy. The idea of taking a poll 5 minutes after something happens and publicizing it is very dangerous."

How prescient! More than 15 years ago, while many pundits were predicting that the democratization of information would improve the quality of political discourse, Minsky foresaw the reverse. Instant, mass communication, he warned, could yield instant, mass manipulation.

Marvin also worried about today's role models. "With the power of media, who are the mentors being built into the minds of our citizens," he asked me rhetorically? "It's 98 percent sports idiots, actresses, actors." 

While many critics decry actors as role models, Minsky's insight focuses on the nature of the profession. 

"Why are actors 'heroes'?" Minsky continued. "Because they're good liars. That's what it takes to be an actor, getting you to trust him when he's playing a role. We have this strange celebrity thing, and instead of children getting values from the right people, they get it from people who have the gift of pretending. Celebrities are celebrities because they somehow make people trust them."

Instead, Marvin promoted critical thinking. "To understand things well," Marvin said, "is to think critically. Somebody tells you something, you say, 'What's the evidence for that?' In most religions, there are certain questions we can't decide that way, so it's important, [religions say], to have faith. And if you're very good at having faith, then it means you're not very good at critical thinking." 

And, "To stress believing a set of rules that comes from an authority figure," Marvin said, can lead to "terrible dangers." 

Minsky railed against overarching organizations, institutions and cultures that imposed their belief systems or parochial values without, in his opinion, evidence or logic. He encouraged individuals to take personal responsibility and stand their mental ground in resisting the imposition of absolute ideas.

Marvin asserted that "faith and critical thinking" are mutually exclusive. But a co-panelist on an original "Closer to Truth" round table (in 1999) challenged him, asking, "Can critical thinking help you with death and bad things?" The questioner was implying that restricting "truths" to only those concepts that are accessible via critical thinking may limit access to deeper truths, such as those that may be provided by religion or morality. 

"Well, I disagree," Marvin declared unapologetically. "Death has a rational explanation. If it weren't for 2,000 years of religion — when science [hadn't yet developed] — we might have already conquered death. Belief in the afterlife is why we don't live forever. The fundamental paradox is that we have been deprived of our immortality by religion."

As the discussion shifted to personal responsibility, Minsky said, "We're going to need a new theory, because current theories are clearly unsound. We see people committing a crime and people argue, 'Is the cause social?' Or religious people say, 'The devil got into him.' But when we understand the brain, we'll have real decisions to make, like what level of violence do we want in our children?"

Minsky, prescient again, was musing about how neuroscience alters the commonplace understanding of "free will" and the impact of that on moral responsibility, with huge implications for the judicial system and civil society. What happens, people now ask with concern, when advancing neuroscience, through genetic engineering and brain interventions, gains the capacity to change human behaviors? It is a real-world prospect, fraught with the tensions, risks and dangers of competing values.

I pressed Minsky about if he was advocating "social engineering," manipulating citizens through science to create, and enforce, a majority-determined society.

Society "already does it [manipulates people] by pumping beliefs into us," Minsky shot back at me. "We have to figure out some way to get enough variety so that even if there's a culture with a billion people who all think the same way, and if it turns out to be a bad way, there are other ways of thinking. We don't know how to solve this problem."

Reminding himself of humanity's perilous position on this one fragile planet, Minsky advised that we should do whatever it takes "to get three or four colonies off the Earth, on asteroids, some other places — as life insurance."

"I don't like cultures," was a Minsky theme, and I heard it several times. "Cultures are a waste of the human mind," he said. "A person becomes a kind of robot because he's this nationality or that race or he's a whatever-it-is. Everybody says we should respect these cultures, but why should we?" 

Lamenting that most people find learning painful, Minsky posited that most cultures exist "because they've taught their people to reject new ideas. It's not 'human nature.' It's 'culture nature.' I regard cultures as huge parasites. I think each person has a lot of potential, and I find it painful when I'm introduced to people who didn't choose their belief system. Their culture chose it. And to me, that culture is an evil, mindless force that first teaches its values and then instills fear of other values. So, of course, it looks like human nature, but it's 'meme nature' — ideas that get into the brain, and the ones that stick best are the ones that kill other ideas best.

"I have many cultures," Minsky continued. "Every week, I find a new culture. The other day, because a little girl asked me, I found on the Net a group of people who collect the whiskers of cats. They're all over the world — only about 50 people. And they spend a lot of time at it, sending little emails to each other about how they find the whiskers. So, on a long-haired cat, whiskers can float around … oh, well, forget it … the point is that I'm in many cultures."

That's Marvin personified! Ever curious, unpretentious to his core, Marvin had a preternatural capacity for extracting insights from the most mundane situations.

On the same "Closer to Truth" panel, political scientist Francis Fukuyama (then at George Mason University in Virginia, now at Stanford University in California) suggested that Marvin was "not really part of that [cat whisker] culture. You're just a visitor," he said. 

"What do you mean, 'part,'" Minsky responded? "You mean it doesn't eat up my whole brain? Thank God, if you'll pardon the expression, no! I don't want 90 percent of my mind eaten up by a bunch of rules that were written thousands of years ago and don't reflect anything good."

When we discussed "tolerance," Marvin became, well, militant. "What's so great about 'tolerance,' he asked? "Do you mean we should teach our kids that all ideas are equally good? I don't think that we should tolerate ideas in the sense that, 'It's OK to let that poor person have his brain eaten by that set of ideas.' It offends me. I'm not tolerant. … In a culture, people relate to each other to the extent that they think the same thoughts and don't think for themselves. I don't regard that as a virtue. Maybe lazy humans like it, but I would teach them not to be lazy."

Asked about "enhancing happiness" in the future, Marvin was his acerbic, contrarian self. "I want people to be very unhappy that they don't understand things, like cosmic string theory. I hate happiness because that means that you're not interested in anything more."

To Marvin, commonplace "happiness" was mindless contentment, and he eschewed it. He envisioned the ideal human experience as striving to understand and struggling to learn, a restless pursuit of knowledge in order to advance humanity's collective wisdom. Self-satisfaction, unambitious comfort, sluggish tranquility — these were the enemy.

The Internet as divider?

Marvin offered profound and predictive observations about the then freshly burgeoning Internet, including how circles of friends would be more likely to cluster and less likely to expand, and how rigidity could overpower tolerance because those of like minds would seek self-reinforcement.

"Keeping contact with people on the Net is going to be a very strange thing," Minsky forecasted in 1999. "We have a mobile society, and we learn to make new friends. What will happen in the future? When you're 7 years old, you make a dozen friends, and they move away, but with the Net you still have them. We may get people who don't bother to form new friendships, because you can spend your whole life with people that you already know. That might change society.

"I don't like civility," Marvin offered without apology. "The trouble with insulting somebody in their presence is that they'll hit you. And you can't express yourself very well. I have made many friends on Internet newsgroups whom I've never met, and in many cases I don't hope to meet. These 'flame wars' are wonderful: People tell you what they really think, or else they lie — it doesn't matter. But you learn more per hour this way, by getting right to the heart of the matter. The polite people are a waste of time. They write all these words, and I usually turn to another screen." 

Minsky was no troll. Trolls go for the "lulz" (the "joy" or "achievement" of causing emotional distress); Minsky went for the truth.

"Face-to-face contact is almost impossible to penetrate," Minsky said. "When you meet people, they have certain postures and you're dominated by stereotypes. When you talk to people on the Net, you're dominated by whatever ideas they have."

I asked Minsky for his grand prediction of the future of the Internet. He said, 

"One-hundred years from now, people will say, 'Well, the Internet was really important until the development of [true] artificial intelligence in 2073.' The second bump was the big one."

I wondered whether he had ever been intimidated. "Well, I don't care very much what other people think about me," Marvin said, staying in character. "So it's hard to intimidate me, unless it's [physicist] Richard Feynman."

When I suggested that Feynman couldn't intimidate anyone because he was, well, dead, Marvin said he didn't care. "It doesn't matter that he's dead," Marvin said with a straight face. "I have a very good [mental] copy of him, and if I say something too speculative, I can hear Feynman say, 'What would be the experiment for that?'"

The Minsky way of thinking

How to distinguish Minsky's way of thinking? I'd start with two organizing principles. First, "How does it work?" He applied this, for starters, to brains, minds, computers, natural intelligence, artificial intelligence, information, society, religion and God. Second, "Don't be sure!" As Minsky asserted, "The word 'sure' is when a cognitive process has turned off all other processes that can cast doubt on a particular statement. 'Being sure' is not 'being sure.' Being sure is a process saying, 'I'm not going to change my mind.'"

It's no secret that Marvin was a strong atheist, and irrespective of one's beliefs, one can appreciate — dare I say "enjoy" — his bluntness. "If you want real meaning, and you can't find one, it's all very well to make one up," he told me. "But I don't see how that [God] solves any problems. Unless you say how God works, saying that God exists doesn't explain anything." 

If there is a God, I'd be disappointed if Marvin isn't one of God's favorites. (Actually, I'd be shocked.) 

In the 17 years of "Closer to Truth," whether in discourse with atheists or with theists, I've tried to elicit best thinking and tease out clear arguments, which we question and challenge equally. We think critically with an ever-open mind. We reject only sloppy, specious arguments — and often, I ask myself, "What would Marvin think?"

The "Closer to Truth" video archives for Marvin Minsky contains nine TV episodes and 13 discussions. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of "Closer to Truth.” This article is based on "Closer to Truth" episodes and videos produced and directed by Peter Getzels and streamed at www.closertotruth.com. Kuhn is co-editor, with John Leslie, of "The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything at All?" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Read more of Kuhn's essays on his Space.com Expert Voices landing page.

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Amazing Disc-shaped UFO spotted over Highway Zürich-Bern, Switzerland

The next images show a disc-shaped UFO hovering in the sky above the Highway Zürich-Bern in Switzerland on Saturday night, March 5, 2016.

Witness states: My son went with his grandmother from Burgdorf to Bern. He saw a floating object on the highway. Because he always has his Iphone in his hands, he made the picture of the UFO. UFO left side up. Mufon case 74979.

If the photograph is genuine and not altered or manipulated then it is without doubt one of the best UFO evidence captured on camera.

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UFO VERTREKT UIT YELLOSTONE PARK, USA ( VIDEO )

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HET REGENT VREEMDE DINGEN UIT DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )

Niet alleen worden er wereldwijd vreemde geluiden gehoord, er vallen op sommige plaatsen ook vreemde dingen uit de lucht. 

Zo regende het teer in een Amerikaanse stad en werd een strand in Argentinië bedekt door miljoenen kevers waardoor het leek op een scene uit een horrorfilm. 

We leven in bijzondere tijden met dito gebeurtenissen. 

Dingen waarvoor geen verklaringen zijn, tenminste niet de standaard wetenschappelijke. Denk daarbij bijvoorbeeld aan het wereldwijde fenomeen van vreemde geluiden in de lucht. 

Onlangs viel er in het Amerikaanse plaatsje Harrison, vlakbij Detroit in de staat Michigan, een vreemde substantie uit de lucht. 

Het zag eruit als stukjes teer die als het ware uit de lucht naar beneden regenden. Niemand heeft enige verklaring voor wat dit zou kunnen zijn. 

In eerste instantie keek men naar de luchtmachtbasis in de buurt als mogelijke oorzaak, maar daar schijnt het ook niet vandaan te komen. 

 

Iemand die wel een verklaring heeft voor deze vreemde stof is Nancy Lieder van de website Zetatalk. Zij zegt dat het elementen zijn die afkomstig zijn uit de “staart” die achter de planeet X, of Nibiru zoals wij hem noemen, aan zweven. 

Het materiaal is volgens haar dan ook niet meer brandbaar omdat dit in feite al gebeurd is en we hier spreken over een soort as wat daar nog van over is. 

Volgens haar kunnen we dit soort dingen vaker verwachten omdat tijdens de nadering van Nibiru de staart als het ware richting aarde is gekeerd en dus zullen we vaker elementen uit die staart op aarde aantreffen. 

In Argentinië kwam er ook iets uit de lucht vallen, waarbij, als je een hekel hebt aan insecten, je ergste nachtmerrie waarheid werd. 

Mensen die voor een dagje zon en zand naar de stranden gingen van Mar de Ajo en San Bernardo in de buurt van de hoofdstad Buenos Aires kwamen van een koude kermis thuis. 

Van het ene moment op het andere waren de stranden volledig bedekt met een enorme hoeveelheid kevers.

Wat de mensen zagen waren scenes regelrecht afkomstig uit een Hollywood horrorfilm en velen moesten onwillekeurig denken aan de plagen uit de bijbel. 

Een soort variatie op de sprinkhanenplaag: 

Daarop richtte Mozes zijn staf in de lucht. Er ontstond een wind die talloze sprinkhanen meevoerde. De sprinkhanen aten alle bomen, struiken, planten, ... kaal en verwoestten de voedselvoorraden. 

Veel mensen in Argentinië zagen de plaag van de kevers dan ook als een slecht voorteken en bovendien een dat het einde der tijden nabij is. 

Volgens wetenschappers hebben we hier te maken met een natuurlijk fenomeen. Zij zeggen dat dit type kever twee jaar lang onder de grond leeft en dan enkele dagen boven de grond komt om zich voort te kunnen planten. 

Ufoloog Scott Waring echter heeft weer een andere verklaring voor dit fenomeen: Hij zegt dat deze miljoenen kevers wel eens door een UFO gedumpt kunnen zijn. 

Volgens hem is het heel goed mogelijk dat buitenaardsen deze kevers hebben gebruikt voor experimenten en dat toen ze klaar waren, ze deze gewoon ergens hebben gedumpt. 

Kortom, allerlei vreemde dingen en allerlei verklaringen.

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Meteorite Hunters In Florida Find Four Meteorites, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Jan 24, 2016
Location of discovery: Florida, USA
News source:  

http://www.wuft.org/news/2016/02/21/this-is-how-meteorite-searchers-found-those-that-landed-near-lake-city/


These meteorite hunters found several of a fallen meteorite a while back. A very cool discovery. Its really not as impossible as it sounds. Some of these meteorites predate the Earth, going back many billions of years. Its my belief that some meteorites might have alien nano technology in them...space junk of aliens if you will. To hold one in your hand feels amazing. Collecting meteorites is a hobby of mine. I recently purchased one from Russia that fell in 2013. Its in the mail and will be here in a few weeks. I will post photos of it when I get it. I bought it from Ebay last week. Its a lot easier than finding them, but the adventure to try, is exciting. 
Scott C. Waring
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News states:
The last time a meteorite was found in Florida was in 1983. While it is rare for meteorites to be found in the state, six of them were recently found near Lake City. The meteorites are believed to be a result of a daytime fireball — a space debris randomly meeting the Earth’s atmosphere and producing an intense light — that travelled across the skies of northern Florida on Jan. 24 around 10:25 a.m., according to Vincent Perlerin, community manager for the American Meteor Society. Perlerin said the Society received about 120 eyewitness reports of this one. “Thanks to the reports we received about this event, we calculated a rough trajectory of the fireball and an estimated impact point,” Perlerin said. “We were very lucky this time. The first meteorite had been found less than 500 yards from our estimated impact point.” Mike Hankey, AMS operational manager, along with Larry Atkins, Laura Atkins, Josh Adkins and Brendan Fallon went hunting for the space rocks for several days in the dense swampland just north of the Osceola National Forest, located between Lake City and Sanderson. After tracking down the first four meteorites, it took the meteorite hunters two weeks to find the two remaining pieces, Hankey said. “The hardest part of the search is probably fatigue that sets in after walking around for eight-plus hours a day, multiple days in a row,” Hankey said. “Your body starts to hurt after awhile.”

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UFO Flies Low Over Prat, France On March 1, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 1, 2016
Location of sighting: Prat-Peyrot, France
News source: 

http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/languedoc-roussillon/un-nuage-en-forme-

d-ovni-dans-le-ciel-du-gard-940928.html


UFOs often want to observe humans in their normal day to day behavior and to do this they must come close. To watch a monkey in the jungle using a drone camera is one thing. To see it with your own eyes...thats a whole new experience. Thats why sometimes they bring a ship closer to the ground and make clouds around them. To gain this experience and if they communicate thought telepathy, they might even link to the minds, thoughts and desires of the humans below. That is why they need to move slowly, to make this link. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News states: 
The weather phenomenon was seen and reported in the Gard, Lozère and the Bouches-du-Rhône. According to our colleagues Weather Languedoc , lenticular usually form above reliefs in stable airflow and especially during strong wind events, as was the case Monday and Tuesday. 

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Glowing Entities In Storm Cloud Over Castle, Scotland, March 5, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 5, 2016
Location of sighting: Linlithgow, Scotland
Source: MUFON #74981

I have seen this before, a few years ago. UFOs often appear in storm clouds, and when they do, their speed is incredibly fast. So fast, the human eye usually wont see it. The digital eye however will often catch it, depending on the shutter speed. It is thought that some energy entities feed off of the static electricity in these storm clouds and that is why they gather. When they feed, its alway in groups, so there has to be at least a dozen more around that the camera didn't see. 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
Visiting Blackness Castle near Linlithgow in Scotland on the 5th March 2016. Taking many photos with the sun setting behind me. The shutter rate on my camera was very high 2500th of a second on F9 stop. On one of my photos i noticed 2 glowing objects taken at 17:25 Greenwich Mean Time. These objects only showed in one of my photos. Blackness Castle is near Bonnybridge and the Falkirk Triangle a hot spot for UfO sightings.

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Proof Of Extraterrestrial Life In North Of England

Mutual UFO Network UK has logged 18 incidents of UFO sightings in North East since January 2015. They range from white glowing object to silent rocket and teleporting man. UFO Investigative Researcher in Hartlepool, Glen Richardson, is very much convinced these sightings prove we’re not alone.

Richardson claimed that he received approximately five messages and pictures about UFOs from the North East and UK weekly while investigating incidents for around 20 years already. While he admitted that nine out of ten reported sightings have a scientific explanation, he said that some things just can’t be explained.

Richardson firmly believes that there’s life out there and sightings such as these back that up. Many of the sightings are supported with videos and pictures. On June 27, a circle-shaped bright orange light was caught on the video above County Durham. The witness first spotted the mysterious object from their living room window. He ran through their backdoor to get a video footage before it vanished.

Another encounter happened on December 1 in Sunderland, and the witness documented it on video. The object apparently has defined lights within a square.

On May 14, snapped a picture of a plane from A1. When the witness reviewed the image and zoomed it, a strange object above the aircraft can be seen.

Mr Richardson said that some people fear to be ridiculed, but it is important for them to report incidents. He believed more investigations and more evidence would give people encouragement to report their UFO encounters.

MUFON.com listed 476 sightings across the UK between January 1, 2015, and the middle of February 2016.

Mr Richardson concluded there are substantial proofs for extraterrestrial life and predicted that there will be a known fact in the next 30 years.

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Ancient Monuments Made With Alien Technology?

Art by Raphael Terra @http://ufoartist.blogspot.co.uk/

All across the world, we can find many amazing monuments, some gigantic, some a bit smaller, but many of them have one thing in common: “They have been carved using cutting edge technology”! A technology which we cannot replicate today.

The Great Sphinx

It has no inscriptions and there are tunnels and passages leading into this ancient monument which according to many researchers predates the ancient Egyptian Civilization.

This extraordinary ancient structure which measures 20 meters in height and 57 meters in length stands as the proud ‘guardian’ of the Great Pyramid and its companions in the Giza Plateau.

The enigmas surrounding the Sphinx are many, researchers have no idea who built the Sphinx, what for, how long it took to complete, and one of the most mysterious characteristics regarding the Sphinx is its original face and the unusual size of the head compared to the body.

According to a study presented at the International Conference of Geoarchaeology and Archaeomineralogy held in Sofia, authors Manichev Vjacheslav I. (Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Alexander G.

Parkhomenko (Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) propose that the great sphinx is in fact around 800000 years old. Yes, 800000 years old!!!

Puma Punku

Situated 45 miles west of La Paz high in the Andes Mountains, lay the mysterious ancient ruins of Puma Punku. The megalithic stones found here are among the largest on the planet, measuring up to 26 feet long and weighing more than 100 tons each.

Puma Punku is a large temple complex or monument group that is part of the Tiwanaku Site in Bolivia.

The stones of Baalbek

This is one of the most amazing sights in the ancient world – the three 800-ton blocks of the mighty Trilithon, situated in a wall of the great acropolis of Baalbek in Lebanon.
Michel Alouf, the former curator of the ruins, once wrote of the Trilithon: “in spite of their immense size, they [the Trilithon stones] are so accurately placed in position and so carefully joined, that it is almost impossible to insert a needle between them. No description will give an exact idea of the bewildering and stupefying effect of these tremendous blocks on the spectator”

So just how does current archaeology explain the existence of such immense artefacts? Officially Baalbek was built by the Romans in 27 BC, but folklore, from the indigenous inhabitants; speak of ancient giants in the area. The giants, called Titans by some, not the Romans, it was said, were responsible for the original construction. After all, the largest weights that the Romans could effectively manage were nowhere near the size of the Baalbek monoliths. To put it in perspective, the relatively light, 323-ton Laterano obelisk caused a decades-long transportation project from Egypt to Rome. The largest stone at Stonehenge weighs around 45 tons. Baalbek stones are over 36 times as heavy…

Archaeologists typically overlook the fact that experiments with stones much lighter than 800 tons have crushed the wooden rollers. And even if such a method was feasible, it would, by one estimate, have required the combined pulling power of 40,000 men to move the Stone of the South. Incredible indeed!!

Easter Island

The world was shocked to discover the famous Easter Island heads actually had bodies attached.  Pictures have emerged showing their previously hidden torsos are also covered with intricate “tattoos”. These include crescents carved on the backs of the towering monoliths, which academics say represent the canoes of the Polynesians who made them..

Early European explorers received the impression that the Easter Island statues were idols, but no Moai is known to have borne the name of a divine personality, such as the creator god Makemake. All were known by the general name of aringa ora, the ‘living faces’ of the past. Captain Cook’s party heard the term ariki (chief) applied to some, while others had nicknames such as ‘Twisted Neck’, ‘Tattooed One’, and even ‘Bad Smell’ (due to the upturned nostrils).

The islanders have a legend that the statues were moved to the platforms and raised upright by the use of Mana, or mind power. Either the god Makemake, or priests or chiefs commanded them to walk or to float through the air, and according to one legend, use was made of a finely crafted stone sphere, 75 cm (2.5 ft) in diameter, called Te Pito Kura (‘the golden navel’ or ‘the navel of light’), to focus the Mana.

Legends about the use of levitation in the construction of megalithic monuments are found all over the world.

U.I.P SUMMARY –

We could go on for much longer showing you many evidence of ancient technology, there are so many all around us! The power of levitation using vibration does exist and has been used for centuries; obviously the elite will not share that secret with the people. Our science still can’t cut, move and fit huge rocks as well as the 12-foot ETs who came to Earth for gold 400,000 years ago from the planet Nibiru. The Nibirans cut stones as large as 10 tons with huge cutting tools run on power pulled from the earth. Yet you may ask who built the Sphinx 800000 years ago? My wildest guess would be a different race of aliens. There are very powerful ancient alien secrets hidden in 4 countries on this planet: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Iran…No wonder the powers that be (Controlled by another race of aliens) have used phony excuses to invade and destroy 3 of them, apart from in Afghanistan, they have been unsuccessful to find anything yet.

Yaz, Mwv

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Filer’s Files #10 -2016 Biggest Discovery in Science - PART II

Sightings in the United States

 California Disc

Santa Clarita — While watching TV I noticed a large object hovering over the top of the mounts in the LA National Forrest. The morning sky was just starting to light up behind the object so; I took a couple photos when 7 minutes later the object moved a bit. It had other objects hovering below. I realized it was a UFO when the object came together as one again and started to move east. After the UFO left, the sky filled with a dozen fighter jets. About 1 hour later around 07:30, the object reappeared as a large cloud. Two jets flew over our house and headed east toward the UFO. As the jets approached, the UFO flew east away. The first jet plummeted down as was shot down. The UFO mother ship was enormous and the jets in comparison were tiny. It was a floating city that dropped down behind the mountain ridge as they flew in that direction. Further, I saw a radar plane with the large circle dome on the top of it.
There was a lot of activity and I called the news and Ranger Station, but no one followed back up with me. Thanks to MUFON CMS

San Juan Capostrano — I was driving on 74 Ortega Highway to Lake Elsinore, at 9:30 PM on March 17, 2015, and saw a small man like creature. It was raining and I turned my bright lights on because I thought there was debris on the road. “It” was 1-2 feet tall, muscular, dark colored, shiny wet and not hairy. It was in the middle of the road and when I turned my headlights brighter.  “It” turned it’s body in my direction, but I couldn’t see any eyes. “It” then ran into the forest as I passed. There was nowhere for me to pull over and my phone had no reception so I couldn’t tell anyone until I got home. Since then I have purchased a dash cam. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Colorado Disc

 Englewood — I was driving on Arapahoe Road, both times, heading east towards Parker Road, taking pictures of clouds with my phone on April 2, 2015.  The clear day was in ’15, the other cloudy day 5 months earlier.
The clear shot has at least two, the big one in the center, and one visible at 8 o’clock by the pole, with maybe more in the clouds.

It was mid afternoon, 2:00 PM, on both pictures. The cloudy one has a detail, the clear needs none. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Orb

Silver Springs — I was at my house getting ready for my school field trip and decided to test my disposable camera out.

I took a few pictures of the sky and a week later I found the UFO unexpectedly in the picture. I thought it was project Aurora when I first saw it.  I did not see it when I was taking the picture, though I estimate the object was going at least faster than sound since I did not see or hear it.  I felt amazed that I caught a UFO in my picture. It only showed up on film. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Orb

Edinburg — The only visitor in the sky on February 27, 2016 at 6:21 PM was this light. There were no stars visible and he followed me to Taylorville, Illinois ten miles from my home. My husband and I went to the ATM Bank and he was there in the sky. We stopped and ate in a restaurant for about an hour came out to leave he was there. He followed us all the way back home so,. I guess he is my body guard. I really wish he was closer, so I can get a better look. Who knows maybe he’s the one that flew right over us and disappeared within a matter of seconds last year. Thanks to Pam from Edinburg

New Jersey Craft

Waretown — While looking out my sliding door window I saw a very bright UFO hovering strobe in the dark sky northeast over the ocean on February 3, 2016. It was stationary for ten minutes at 10:15 PM, with two moving objects darker in color nearby as if they were checking the object out. My son saw it also and said, “It didn’t look like a plane it was suspicious and flying near the Nuclear Plant nearby.”There was a white sparkling bright light coming from object. I have seen orbs glowing following planes going in and out of the chem trails in the same area vicinity. There is lots of activity in our area. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Statue of Liberty

Webcam of statue of Liberty showed an object on March 2, 2016, very long and thin, shining with unknown lighting, just hovering above the water and the buildings. It did not look like any aircraft I have ever seen. I was a flight attendant and my Dad was a pilot for a major airline.

This object had lights on top that appeared to be red/orange and blueish green. It was seen at 6:50 am, and reported by a You tuber who videoed the webcam capture live. I then went to the actual live webcam site and saw this exact footage with this object hovering near the Statue of Liberty. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Triangle

 Rockingham –I was with my Aunt and noticed a red lights on a craft shaped like a B-2 Bomber flying slowly in our direction. It flew very low and very slow on February26, 2016.

It flew towards Camp Mackall -US Army Special Forces School. It made a slow 180 degree turn and revealed one white light far off on each corner and one static red light in the center. It made only a very slight noise as it appeared to be flying away from us. An AC-130 came through the area 15 minutes later from Pope AFB. I’m a former Air Force  SSgt with a secret security clearance and have circled the globe seeing virtually all types of aircraft and it blew me away. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Light

Toledo — On February 27, 2016, my husband sat outside to watch the changes to the moon, until quite late.

I took several pictures with my iPhone, marveling at the beauty of the red, blood moon. We went in about midnight. About 2 AM, I woke abruptly and decided to see what the moon looked like. I took several more photos before the clouds quickly moved in. clearly apparent in the photos, I was amazed to see a small orb circling the moon. I woke my husband to show him the photos. He told me then I should contact you. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Pennsylvania Alien in Mirror

Bethel Park — I was sitting on the floor of my basement watching TV when I happened to glance into a mirror (beside the TV) opposite the large window behind me that looked out into my backyard on February 22, 2016. There, I saw a large head with two huge, angular black eyes. When I looked behind me, I could see a reflection of the face in the window when I looked at it through the mirror.

At first, I thought it was a trick of the light, but when it tilted its head slightly, I knew it was real. I was so terrified, all I could do was sit and stare at it. The eyes blinked several times as I watched for 30 seconds. I was having a fight or flight response and worked up the courage to run upstairs. I have never been that scared in my life, so I did not see it leave.
I am sitting in the same place where I saw it a couple nights ago, nothing has changed, and I see absolutely nothing in the corner of my window. I found the being was about 4 feet tall.
Oddly, our motion sensor light did not come on that night saw the entity. For the past several weeks, I would hear strange noises outside like tapping on the window. Until I saw this entity, I never really took notice of these sounds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Washington Orb

Renton — I was walking my dog. The sky looked strange. So I thought it would be cool to get some pictures on February 28, 2016.  I didn’t even see it when I was taking the pictures. But obviously it was able to be seen with my camera phone. I noticed them at dinner while looking at them.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Lights

Melbourne — I was standing in my backyard with my son looking at the night sky with my infrared on ocular on February 16, 2016, and was following the path of an object travelling west. It had a blinking pattern, but this object could not be seen with the naked eye.

A second sphere shaped solid object flew south crossing the path of the blinking object. It crossed the path, swerved in the direction of the blinking object, and changed direction southwest before disappearing. I have not seen any object that can change direction as quickly as this second object was able to do. The object also seems to have paused in flight as well.

I also saw a craft a few years ago, that was 300 feet high with a Bell like shape with a light purple colored ring around the bottom and a crystal like window at the top.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Melbourne — An aircraft engineer, a pilot and a scientist are together New Year’s Eve and the Scientist looks up and points out a very bright light that stands out from the stars in the North. We all look up, and as we do, the “satellite” begins moving faster and then stops dead in the sky above us but continued to move, stop and flash; which was a continued pattern for 1/3 of the sighting.

We kept watching it, somewhat flabbergasted. We followed it for 23 minutes as it continued to move at ridiculous breakneck speeds. The light it was emitting was blurred behind it as it flew. We did the math at the time, and estimated moves were made at least at Mach 3-4, but with not a single sound. It flew NE making impossible stops, right angle turns, and maneuvers! (Like playing a game of snake) The last time we saw the light, it literally faded away. We continued to look diligently for it but to no avail.

It seemed intelligent and almost playful.  We saw a plane that gave us a good reference point. I will never forget and what it was doing defies everything I know of physics. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Orb

British Columbia — My wife took this photo on October-5, 2015, coming down a large hill at 7 pm, she seen three glowing orbs.  She used her iPhone 6 but by this point only one orb was left. She reviewed the photo with the orb in it.

We noticed a disc like object floating above the orb. I don’t know what it could be. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Costa Rica Volcano UFO

 Cartago — I was with my girlfriend visiting Irazu Volcano National Park on February 24, 2016. This Volcano is 3400 meters above sea level and above the clouds.

The sky was clear so at 11:00 AM, so we were taking pictures of the volcano and the landscape. I noticed close to one of the mountains some clouds with different forms and took pictures. While I was checking the pictures, I noticed one black circle above the mountains that looked like a circular saucer with two little antennas. While taking the pictures, I did not see it. On one picture, you can see the object completely clear on the next one it vanished in seconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Japan Cylinder

Tokyo — I was coming home at 8:30 pm, when I got to my house and looked up I noticed these orbs east of Kodaira on February 9, 2016. I watched them for about 20 minutes before I went inside. My wife said they were stars and when I finally zoomed into the pictures I noticed the shapes were not round and seemed to have changed shape and direction.

The one on the lower left blinked on and off and moved down slightly. Another one to the left was lower and moving. The one on the top right has a strange shape. When I was looking at them they seemed round.  Note:

There  are two big streetlights on the lower left that may have caused lens glare. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Object

San Miguel de Allende — On August 15th, 2001 a good friend and I were staring up at the stars around midnight on a rooftop when suddenly a dark silent shape caught our eyes directly overhead. It was discernible because it had blotted out the stars behind it, revealing a clear cut parallelogram shape along with two glowing red stripes on either end.

The object appeared to coast over us at a slow constant speed, and evoked a strange motion as if locked onto a magnetic path. There was no wind and incident lasted under a minute, until the object coasted away.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Norway Light

 Bjoneroa — I was driving to pick up my friend and noticed something like a Meteor. I realized it wasn’t moving, then two seconds later it flew straight up with a U-turn towards the ground. When it was half way to ground it just disappeared in a milli-second. It was so big, the closest thing I can compare it with is a large road light with an orange light bulb  seen from 30 meters.

My ham radio was talking fast for 7 seconds after it went away, and really loud. I have never heard any radio make that sound. The picture is taken in day light at the exact location but at night. Ii was unique to anything I have ever seen in my whole life.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Light and Disc

Kirkcaldy — I went out to my car to go to work on February 23, 2016, a frosty morning and was defrosting my car windows.

I noticed the object out of the passenger window. I looked at it for a few minutes without the object moving position. I then got out my car and took a picture.

A minute or two later it gradually faded away. I felt excitement at the thought of capturing  a solid UFO sighting. Thanks to MUFON CMS

London — UFO and jet plane were sighted together on February 23, 2016. The UFO was not noticed at the bottom of the picture until it was examined later. The picture was sent to me from a very close friend.

She has concerns about geo-engineering and Chemtrails and decided to take a picture of the jet over Brockley, South East London.

She didn’t actually notice the object until she checked the picture later.

She took on her mobile phone handset. She is too frightened to report it to anybody. She is a very honest and genuine person and I have no reason to not believe her. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Uruguay Light

Paso De Los Toros – On February 10, 2016

The object was tiny and was far away, and was like a light going in one

direction without sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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'Hen's Wings' Glow Blue in Enchanting Hubble Telescope Image

Symmetrical blue jets of gas stream out from the core of Hen 2-437, a planetary nebula, in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

The glowing, symmetrical wings of the Hen 2-437 nebula shine in luminescent blue in a new image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hen 2-437 is in a faint northern constellation called Vulpecula (the fox), which is located near Cygnus and Pegasus. The object was first found in 1946 by Rudolph Minkowski, who later discovered the more famous M2-9 Twin Jet Nebula.

"As shown by its remarkably beautiful appearance, Hen 2-437 is a bipolar nebula — the material ejected by the dying star has streamed out into space to create the two icy-blue lobes pictured here," European Space Agency officials said in a statement.

Hen 2-437 is known as a planetary nebula, which is one of the late stages in the lifetime of low-mass stars similar in size to the sun. When a star is in that stage, it grows into a red giant star and then sheds its outer layers into space. As fusion in the core ceases, the star remnants slowly cool as a white dwarf. 

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Although "planetary" is in the term "planetary nebula," the nebula is a collection of gas and dust and does not have anything to do with planet formation. The name is a misnomer based on observations by astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Uranus in 1781. He thought the blue-green tint of planetary nebulas he observed resembled the planet's hue.

Roughly 3,000 planetary nebulas have been discovered so far. Some of the more famous examples of these nebulas include the Ring Nebula (NGC 6720) in the constellation Lyra, and the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) in the constellation Draco. Both of these nebulas were also imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope over the years.

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Alien Planet May Have Kicked Its Neighbor Into the Sticks

An artist's depiction of a young planet trapped in a distant orbit around its star.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A planet found at an extreme distance from its parent star may have been kicked out by a fellow planet.

Planet HD 106906b orbits 16 times as far from its parent star as Pluto lies from the sun. A new study of the far-flung alien planet reveals what appears to be a lopsided comet belt surrounding its parent star — a finding scientists say indicates a history of violence in the early planetary system.

"Since HD 106906b is very massive, the most likely culprit is another massive planet in the system that gravitationally jostled HD 106906b from its original orbit," Paul Kalas, an adjunct professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, told Space.com by email. [The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)]

Kalas and his team used the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) in Chile and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to identify the comet belt. He presented the results earlier this month at the American Astronomical Society's Extreme Solar Systems III conference in Hawaii.

Other possible explanations for HD 106906b's distant orbit include a disruptive interaction with a passing star, according to Kalas.

"If we find another planet, HD 106906c, then we could be more specific about the history of the system," Kalas said.

Kicked out

After a star collapses, planets form from the remaining disk of gas and dust around it. But the distant location of the enormous planet, which is about 11 times as massive as Jupiter, led to speculation that a different process could be responsible. When the planet was discovered last year, some scientists suggested that it might have formed like a star, from its own disk of debris.

Intrigued by the strange system, Kalas and his team decided to search for other large planets in the area, using GPI. Instead, they found a massive disk of dust and rocks roughly the width of the solar system's cometary reservoir, the Kuiper Belt, orbiting the star. According to Kalas, the clean-swept interior of the disk suggests that planets formed within it.

The team searched for another large planet near the parent star, but found nothing outside of a Uranus-size orbit.

Hubble telescope images of the star taken previously revealed that the disk of material is even wider than shown by GPI, the new study shows. Rather than being uniform, the belt is lopsided, suggesting that something stirred things up around the star.

Study co-author Ruth Murray-Clay, an assistant professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told Space.com that the planet itself is too small to produce such a pronounced flaring without disrupting the thin disk along the way.

"That sort of structure could have been produced by another star that passed by the system in the past," she said.

A passing star also could have played a role in stretching the planet's distant orbit, the study said.

When the planet was booted out of the system, it may have grabbed up material as it passed through the cometary belt, picking up its own disk of debris, the researchers said. Follow-up studies of the system should reveal the presence of such a ring around the planet, they said.

But whether the planet will continue to circle its sun is still uncertain.

"These results are so new, we do not know if the planet is on a bound orbit," Kalas said.

The original discovery of the objects showed that the planet is moving in the same direction, and at the same speed, as the parent star, proving that it is not a background object. If scientists can confirm that the planet still orbits its parent star, it would have the most distant orbit of any known exoplanet.

"Now that we've shown the system is quite interesting because of the disturbed dust disk, there will be a renewed motivation to measure the position of the planet and star over time, and thereby estimate the orbit," Kalas said.

The new results were published in The Astrophysical Journal.

A tight-knit pair

During the question-and-answer session at the conference, Anne-Marie Lagrange, Senior Astronomer of France's National Center for Scientific Research, revealed another surprise about the system: that the host star is not one but two stars orbiting each other at less than half of Earth's distance from the sun. The pair of stars may have influenced the planet's journey in a way that a single star could not, said Lagrange, who is not part of Kalas' team. Her research has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

"There is a slight possibility that the planet formed closer to the star, beyond the ice line, and then moved down to within the chaotic zone of the binary, and was then ejected by one of the two binary components, after one or several close encounters," Lagrange said.

Murray-Clay agreed that the binary system could have played a role in kicking out the planet.

"Massive planets like HD 106906b are more easily ejected from a binary star system than from single star systems," she said. "Though we don't have direct evidence that the binary star helped eject this particular planet, it's a reasonable guess."

At the same time, the binary system does not discount the potential for another planet orbiting the two stars. Murray-Clay pointed out that the tight binary stars are too close to generate the inner hole in the ring structure identified by GPI.

"An additional massive body like another planet is required to explain the system," she said.

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Dynamical upheaval in action

HD 106906b is a young planet, only about 13 million years old (compared to the Earth's 4.5-billion-year age). Because of its youth, astronomers were able to capture a near-infrared image of the planet by direct imaging.

"Direct imaging of exoplanets is accomplished in the near-infrared because young planets are still quite warm," Kalas said. "What we see in direct images is the heat emitted from such planets, not reflected light."

The more massive a planet is, the longer it takes to cool off. Kalas said the giant world may continue to radiate heat into space for billions of years.

The GPI Exoplanet Survey is targeting 600 young stars, all less than 100 million years old, to get a glimpse of how planetary systems evolve over time and to provide hints about how Earth's solar system evolved.

"The wonderful thing about direct imaging is that we can image exoplanets when they are young — we can find out where they were born and how they evolve," Kalas said.

With HD 106906b, the team can understand some of the dynamics that the early solar system may have gone through.

"I am excited about this system — we're seeing dynamic upheaval in action," Murray-Clay said.

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Mysterious UFO flying over London filmed by man after it repeatedly appeared above his house

By MARYSE FARAG

A COUPLE were left stunned after they spotted what they believe was a UFO while in bed.

Terence MacDonell, 31, was with his girlfriend Natasha Samuels, 27, when they sighted the mysterious flying object over their home in Enfield, North London.

“When we looked closer, we realised it was actually a UFO,” said Terence, who works as a chef.

Chef Terence MacDonell spent months trying to capture the UFO on camera above his house in Enfield, North London

At first Terence dismissed the UFO as a bright light

Terence claims he first saw the UFO around a year ago but dismissed it as a bright star.

But he noticed the bright light in the sky kept appearing at night and on closer inspection he has come to the conclusion that it's actually a UFO.

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After several attempts to capture his sighting on camera, he finally snapped it and uploaded it to YouTube.

Terence added: “I’ve mentioned the UFO to my friends in the area and some of them say they’ve seen it as well.

“I’ve got friends as far away as Tottenham who’ve also seen it. It’s definitely an alien, because you can see a figure in the craft.”

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SPACE ALIENS CONTROL AMERICA SAYS SNOWDEN

Scientists trace mystery ‘ alien signals ’ to distant galaxy

Dit sterrenstelsel is verste ooit gezien - HLN.be

Bron: VTM NIEUWS

VIDEO Drie sterrenkundigen uit Leiden hebben waarschijnlijk het oudste sterrenstelsel ooit gevonden. Ze zagen een licht van vlak na de oerknal, uit de beginjaren van het heelal. Het licht heeft er 13,4 miljard jaar over gedaan om de aarde te bereiken. Toen het licht werd uitgezonden, was het heelal pas 400 miljoen jaar oud, of drie procent van zijn huidige leeftijd.

Het nieuw gevonden sterrenstelsel kreeg de welluidde naam GN-z11, bevindt zich nog 200 miljoen lichtjaar verder dan de vorige recordhouder (EGSY8p7), en is opvallend helder. "Het is jonge sterren aan het vormen, veel meer dan we hadden verwacht. Een grote verrassing. We kenden het stelsel al wel, maar niemand had er ooit goed naar gekeken. Niemand dacht dat het zo ver weg kon staan. Juist omdat het zo helder was, werd het over het hoofd gezien", zegt onderzoeker Marijn Franx van de Sterrenwacht in Leiden (Nederland) die met twee collega's bij de waarneming was betrokken. 

Het heelal was nog piepjong toen het stelsel zijn licht uitzond. Franx: "Als het universum nu een mens van gemiddelde leeftijd is, een 45-jarige, was het bij dit stelsel anderhalf jaar oud. Een dreumes. Het loopt net en kan nog niet praten." 

GN-z11 is 25 keer kleiner dan onze Melkweg, en bezit maar één procent van de sterren in ons eigen stelsel. Maar het groeit snel aan met een sterrenproductie die twintig keer zo hoog is als in de Melkweg.

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• Melkweg bevat gigantische deeltjesversneller
• Theorie Einstein eindelijk bewezen: de ruimte rilt
• Hubble-foto toont hoe sterrenstelsels samensmelten

Dubbele verrassing

Franx is "nog steeds in verbazing" over de ontdekking. "Het is een dubbele verrassing. Dit is helderder dan verwacht en verder weg dan gedacht. Het is opmerkelijk dat zo'n helder stelsel in het vroege heelal blijkt te bestaan. We weten nog niet precies wat we hiermee moeten en hoe ver we nog terug kunnen. We moeten misschien de theorie aanpassen om te kijken hoe dit kan bestaan. Dat doet me bijzonder veel deugd, het maakt ons werk veel spannender." 

De ontdekking staat volgende week in het belangrijke wetenschapsblad Astrophysical Journal.

De nieuwe recordhouder werd ontdekt met de ruimtetelescoop Hubble. Die wordt over een paar jaar vervangen door de James Webb, die nog scherper kijkt. Met die telescoop is het misschien mogelijk nog oudere stelsels te zien, van nog korter na de oerknal.

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Alien-jager heeft naar eigen zeggen vermiste MH370 gevonden

De Amerikaanse alien-jager Scott Waring stuitte tijdens een zoektocht naar een oude UFO op iets vreemds. Hij heeft naar eigen zeggen het vermiste vliegtuig MH370 gevonden in de buurt van Kaap de Goede Hoop in Zuid-Afrika. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Mail.

De redacteur bij UFO Sightings Daily was oude satellietbeelden aan het bestuderen toen hij iets vreemds opmerkte. Voor de kust van Kaap de Goede Hoop dacht hij het silhouet van een Boeing 777 te zien.

Waring denkt dat het om de al bijna twee jaar vermiste vlucht MH370 van Malaysia Airlines moet gaan. “Het vliegtuig crashte, maar bleef intact,” zei hij. “Ik schat dat het zich vier tot negen meter onder water bevindt.”

Verplaatst

Hij onderzocht een drie jaar oude UFO-melding uit het gebied toen hij een schaduw ontdekte in het water. “Ik heb in de vliegtuigindustrie gewerkt dus ik weet wanneer ik een vliegtuig zie,” aldus Waring.

De satellietfoto dateert van 27 juni 2015, terwijl het toestel op 8 maart 2014 verdween. De omgeving van Kaap de Goede Hoop staat bekend om zijn sterke stromingen en om die reden is het volgens Waring goed mogelijk dat het vliegtuig inmiddels alweer verplaatst is.

Wrakstuk

Vlucht MH370 was op 8 maart 2014 op weg van Kuala Lumpur naar Peking en verdween halverwege van de radar. Er zaten 239 mensen aan boord. Als er geen nieuwe aanwijzingen opduiken, eindigt de zoektocht naar de verdwenen vlucht waarschijnlijk rond juni.

Een wrakstuk dat eerder deze week in Mozambique aanspoelde, is mogelijk afkomstig van het toestel. Momenteel wordt onderzocht of het wrakstuk inderdaad kan worden gelinkt aan MH370.

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Missing Flight MH370 Found? On Google Earth Map Near Cape Of Good Hope, March 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: March 2, 2016
Location of discovery: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Google Earth Coordinates:  34°21'21.82"S   18°28'56.02"E
Date of Google Earth Photo: 7/26/2015

I was looking around the Cape of Good Hope for an old UFO sighting I found there years ago, and was hoping to make an update when I came across a shadow in the water. The shadow resembled an airliner. I use to work on B-1 bombers back at Ellsworth SD, at a SAC during my USAF days. I know a plane when I see one. I certainly crawled onto them and in them enough. 

Some sources on the Internet put a Boeing 777-200 fuel at having a range of 12,779 km, which is 1,000 more than it needs to get to Cape of Good Hope, however other sources states that the aircraft has a range of only 10,000 km, so thats  a problem, because then it would crash about 300-500 km from Cape of Good Hope. 

The Google Earth photo is dated 7/26/2015, and it crashed on 3/8/2014. Its had 16 months of moving about. The Cape of Good Hope is going to have powerful currents moving around it with deep crevices, and since the photo on Google is 8 months old, it could have moved 30-60km away if its semi-floating only 4-9 feet under the water. 

I know there is less than 1% of 1% of a chance that this is MH370, but its better than we had 5 minutes ago right?
I will go to Twitter and tweet this to Malasian Airways @MAS to let them know. If you can retweet it, it will give it a better chance that they will see it, and consider it. My Twitter feed is@SCWbooks. I feel awful for those families who lost friends and family on this plane and I hope this might help get them closure. 
Scott C. Waring
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The CIA declassified hundreds of UFO documents, video, UFO Sighting News.

CIA URL To UFO Files: 

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2016/take-a-peek-into-our-x-files.html

Here is a great video by Open Minds that discusses the CIAs release of a few CIA documents last month. I have to admit I am surprised the CIA would release the documents, but when you look at it, you will see the files have two extremes, half are extremely negative on UFOs, the other have are extremely positive on UFOs existing. Kind of the same thing the TV show X-Files does to its viewers. 

Its very important read these files, since they also teach you little tidbits of facts that take place before, during and after a UFO or alien sighting. These hidden facts will help you in detecting if a sighting is true or not and if you yourself may be experiencing such an event. 
Scott C Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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Green UFO Flash Over Yellowstone Park Caught On Cam, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 2016
Location of sighting: Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, USA
Live Cam: http://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

This bright green flash was seen on live Internet cam this week. It is seen at the 32 second mark in the video and looks like a UFO that came out of the parks ground and suddenly powered up and shot away at high speed. The bright flash was moving from the ground upward. Let me explain. The bottom of the green flash has a totally flat surface, yet the top has a mushroom cloud like explosion. For there to be a flat line on the bottom, the object would have to have ended or begun on that point, but since this flat green line is not on the ground but in the sky, it changes the direction of the object to moving upward. 

I have long suspected that the US government has allocated park land and increased it every few years, not for conservation, but because the US allows aliens to build bases under that land. Since the area has few roads, and fewer people, combined with tall mountains and tall pine trees, the likelihood of a UFO seen leaving or coming is extremely small. 

Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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UFO Sighting Video – Mysterious Orb Flying Over Jersey

Belleville can now be added to the list of towns in New Jersey that might just get visited by space aliens. Rich T., who lives in the Essex County suburb of approximately 35,000 people, says he’s not the type of person who is on the hunt for UFOs in a regular basis.

Rich, who resides in the township with his wife and children, says he doesn’t always sit on his lawn with binoculars in hand.

However, on one Saturday night, he and his wife saw an orb-like light flying overhead while they put their daughter in her car seat. Rich said the light flew silently from Bloomfield in the northeast direction. A second light joined the first light briefly before they all disappeared, Rich stated.

Rich described the light as something he has not seen before. He said it did not resemble a blimp, helicopter, or a plane. Even after his research about drones, sky lanterns, and other aerial objects, he still could not find one that matched the description of the orb, which, according to Rich, was flying against the wind.

Rich joins among hundreds of skywatchers from New Jersey, who believe they may have witnessed a UFO above the state. Did extra-terrestrial activity happen over Belleville? Watch the video and judge for yourself.

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'Gagged' ex-MoD cop who 'saw UFO at Greenham Common' BREAKS nearly 30-year silence

A FORMER MoD policeman has broken a 27-year silence over a bizarre UFO sighting over a nuclear missile base he claims was covered up.

UFO spotted flying over Newmains as resident records a sighting

• BY MICHAEL TEMLETT

UNIDENTIFIED flying object apparently spotted over Newmains in December last year.

image: http://i2.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article7485990.ece

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CGI picture of a UFO

A NEWMAINS man recorded an apparent UFO sighting last year.

Eric Cunningham posted in December 2015 that an unidentified flying object which was black underneath,and reflected a grey/blueish colour on the top side of the surface.

There have been six reported sightings of UFO’s reported over Lanarkshire since January last year and all sighting were uploaded to the Mutual UFO website.

The website allows users to post online if they believe they have witnessed an unidentified flying object and log their sightings.

Reports are then recorded with many users posting pictures of the UFO’s.

Mr Cunningham posted on the website that after he went outside his friends house on the afternoon of Deceember 10, he spotted the strange object.

He posted: “My attention was drawn to what I first thought was a large binliner or large bird, moving through the sky just to the right of the house.

“As I watched this object, it tilted at a 90 degree angle and moved forwards. Each time it did this I could see that it was black in colour underneath and grey to blueish on the upper surface.

“Although I was still thinking this was some sort of large plastic bag, I could tell that the object wasn’t being blown about in an erratic manner and was travelling in a direct course and pattern.

“It seemed to me that whilst moving, it was flipping and trying to rebalance itself against the upper head winds that were present, although there wasn’t any ground winds.

“I watched this for two to four minutes until it faded in the clouds and out of view.

“I shouted for my friend to come and see what I could see but unfortunately by the time he had arrived – and because of the clouds – he was unable to observe this.”

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The KGB Discovers Mummified Body of Ancient Alien ‘God’

In 1961, the KGB launched Project ISIS, a top-secret program designed to obtain alien technology. It culminated with the discovery of a 13,000 year-old alien body inside a tomb in the Giza Plateau in Egypt.

 

In the early years of the Cold War, Russian military officials feared the United States had gained a tactical advantage through reverse-engineering alien technology, presumably by studying UFOs such as the one that crashed near Roswell. Determined to possess advanced technology themselves, the Russians used their intelligence services to locate several places where extraterrestrial artifacts might be found.

 

 

One of these places was an ancient tomb located in the Giza Plateau in Egypt. They based their search on an old legend about the Tomb of the Visitor God.

 

As the story goes, two Bedouins accidentally stumbled upon the ancient resting place of an alien visitor. Immediately after entering the tomb, the two men fell ill and were hospitalized. Before they succumbed to the mysterious illness, they were able to give details about the tomb’s whereabouts.

 

The Egyptian authorities traded this information with their Russian allies, who wanted to reach the Tomb of the Visitor God before the CIA found out about it. As a result, they quickly organized a Project ISIS expedition. A group of Soviet Egyptologists, scientists and military personnel were assisted by their Egyptian counterparts in locating the tomb. This information is verified by Russian scientist Viktor Ivanvich, who had access to classified KGB documents:

 

There is no doubt that a small group of Russian scientists with military experts have discovered a tomb in Egypt in 1961. But in the documents it has never been revealed exactly what was found inside the sarcophagus. Only sources of the highest ranks of the KGB know that we have found the remains of an alien creature that died in Egypt 10,000 before Christ.”

 

The Russian-Egyptian expedition managed to uncover the tomb and reportedly secured numerous artifacts. According to a report to a senior officer of the KGB, 15 boxes of artifacts were taken from the Tomb of the Visitor God.

 

 

Hieroglyphic inscriptions were copied and translated. Among the inscriptions was a prophecy foretelling about the return of a winged alien god. The report also mentions the presence of a protective barrier:

 

During the inspection of the walls we noticed a strange repulsive force coming out of the walls. We could not find any scientific explanation.”

 

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First Ever Repeated Detection Of A Fast Radio Burst

 by Alfredo Carpineti

photo credit: An aerial view of Arecibo where the FRB was observed. H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF

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We thought we were finally getting a basic understanding of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as rare and one-off events, and then Mother Nature decides to throw us a curve ball and hit us with the first repeating FRB.

The source, FRB 121102, was discovered first in 2012. Last year, an international team of researchers used the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope to look at the same region and they were surprised to find 10 additional bursts. As cataclysmic events don’t repeat themselves, the team believes that these bursts were produced by a highly magnetized, extragalactic neutron star.

FRBs were only discovered about a decade ago, and there are only a handful of known examples. These phenomena are isolated and rare, making it very difficult for scientists to understand their causes. The emission regions are estimated to be just a few hundred kilometers across, and it is thought that these signals are from another galaxy. These two qualities indicate that whatever is behind these events must be very bright.

Hypernovae and colliding binary neutron stars, or even black holes, have all been proposed as potential explanations. These events are all incredibly powerful but they would be a one-off occurrence, not a multiple-burst event like the one observed.

"Not only did these bursts repeat, but their brightness and spectra also differ from those of other FRBs," notes Laura Spitler, first author of the new paper, in a statement.

The research, published in Nature, comes in a big week for FRBs. Last week it was announced that scientists had pinpointed the location of an FRB for the first time, but now that claim is being questioned. Being able to pinpoint the exact location is paramount to understanding better these astrophysical events. To find the exact location of this unusual burst event, scientists will need to study the source in more detail.

"Once we have precisely localized the repeater's position on the sky, we will be able to compare observations from optical and X-ray telescopes and see if there is a galaxy there," says Jason Hessels, associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. "Finding the host galaxy of this source is critical to understanding its properties." 

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Blue Origin: Quiet Plans for Spaceships

This artist's illustration of the orbital crew-carrying spaceship planned by the private company Blue Origin was included in the firm's NASA Space Act agreement to continue its work on a commercial crew space vehicle.

Credit: NASA/Blue Origin

Blue Origin is a company best known for being the first in the world to successfully land a reusable rocket on a landing pad. As of early 2016, the company has flown and landed a reusable rocket twice in space; in fact, it was the same rocket making the journey.

Aboard each flight was a prototype of the New Shepard spacecraft, which will carry up to six people and will be used for suborbital flights into space. The firm has funding from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Previously, NASA provided Blue Origin with more than $25 million in contracts (payment was based upon milestones completed) for the Commercial Crew Development program, which is working to develop privately funded space vehicles to bring people to the International Space Station. Ultimately, however, NASA chose to support SpaceX's Dragon and Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft for the flights.

Quiet beginnings

Blue Origin is known in the space industry for not releasing much information about its flights and aspirations ahead of time, unlike companies such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. Blue Origin was registered as a company in 2000, and first made it into public attention in 2006 after Bezos made a series of land purchases in Texas.

According to the Wall Street Journal, these purchases were made under names such as "James Cook L.P.," "Jolliet Holdings," "Coronado Ventures," and "Cabot Enterprises," which all traced back to the same address. The corporate names, incidentally, all were based on famous explorers.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) image of Blue Origin's next-generation Space Vehicle.

Credit: Blue Origin/Griffin Communications Group

In January 2007, according to MSNBC, Blue Origin's website opened for business, featuring videos and photos from such milestones such as a November 2006 test flight.

Blue Origin received two rounds of funding from NASA: $3.7 million in 2010 for the first round of the Commercial Crew Program, and $22 million for the second round in 2011.

The company's most major disclosed setback came in 2011, when it lost a development vehicle around 45,000 feet during a flight test.

"A flight instability drove an angle of attack that triggered our range safety system to terminate thrust on the vehicle. Not the outcome any of us wanted, but we're signed up for this to be hard," wrote Bezos in a Sept. 2, 2011, update to the company's website.

He added that the company was already working on another development vehicle. The next "short hop" took place in November that year.

October 2012 saw tests of the crew capsule escape system; the company dubbed the event "a great day in Texas" on its website. The system soared to 2,307 feet (703 meters) before returning by parachute.

"The progress Blue Origin has made on its suborbital and orbital capabilities really is encouraging for the overall future of human spaceflight," NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Ed Mango said in a statement. "It was awesome to see a spacecraft NASA played a role in developing take flight."

However, as the Commercial Crew program continued, NASA chose rival systems SpaceX Dragon and Boeing CST-100 to provide crew flights to the International Space Station. This left Blue Origin reliant on finding other customers to eventually support its work.

Reusable rocket flights

Blue Origin’s pusher escape system rockets the Crew Capsule away from the launch pad, demonstrating a key safety system for both suborbital and orbital flights. Image released Oct. 22, 2012.

Credit: Blue Origin

One of the frontiers of space exploration right now is creating reusable rockets. SpaceX is another company that has been working on the concept for years, but Blue Origin beat them to the punch in landing on solid ground several weeks before SpaceX.

On Nov. 23, 2015, New Shepard flew just past the boundary of space (62.4 miles, or 100.5 kilometers). The rocket and vehicle separated as usual, but the rocket did not fall back to Earth. Instead, it moved toward a landing pad and softly touched down with the assistance of its engines.

"Rockets have always been expendable. Not anymore," stated a blog post on the company's website written by Bezos. "Now safely tucked away at our launch site in West Texas is the rarest of beasts, a used rocket. This flight validates our vehicle architecture and design."

SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 rocket successfully on land in December. Then Blue Origin followed up its world first on Jan. 22, sending the same New Shepard rocket and a vehicle up into space to 63.2 miles or 101.7 km. Following the flight, Bezos wrote that the company may soon have plans to share for a more powerful orbital system.

“We’re already more than three years into development of our first orbital vehicle," he wrote. "Though it will be the small vehicle in our orbital family, it’s still many times larger than New Shepard. I hope to share details about this first orbital vehicle this year." 

Additional resources

• Blue Origin website
• Blue Origin page at NASA.gov

EDITOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS

• Jeff Bezos: Biography of Blue Origin, Amazon Founder
• SpaceX: First Private Flights to Space Station
• Boeing CST-100: Next-Generation Spaceship

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Sci Fi Urges Gov't To Come Clean

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Strange activity over Richmond

Location: Richmond, nsw, Australia
Date: 2015
Submitted by Lyla

Witness report: i see things in the sky regularly in richmond nsw australia ,i was filming and taking pictures of the chem trails over my house,i was on facebook and looking for a cover pic to post, so i decided to post one of the chem trails as i was searching for one that did not have my house in the picture , i zoomed in to look at the planet next to the sun then i look over to the right and saw a object, so i took a closer look and saw it was a UFO, if you look above the sun on the right you will see it last year my youngest child and myself saw two ufos they looked like cheese burgers with windows i didn’t get a pic of that sorry but will next time i did film a cat in the sky well it is a face it looks like a cat or alien i put on YouTube last year will have to find the original file i have a few

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UFO photographed over Oman

Location: Muscat, Oman
Date: 01-March-2016
Submitted by Unni

Witness report: Was taking the photos of the Rainbow this evening from my home.
And noticed this particular object when zooming the picture at the rainbow to see if the picture I took was okay.
It had just stopped raining but noting was flying around I mean like jets.I just cut the original picture to locate the object to what I refereeing to.
This place 25-30 kms south of Muscat International Airport.
Just my curiosity

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Australian UFO Sightings Are On The Rise‏

Through the course of 2015 there has been an increase in ufo sightings in Australia.
The start of the year had a great photograph from a government storm watch time lapse camera outside Boonah in southeast Queensland. The disc is a high altitude and an excellent capture and impossible to debunk.

Here’s our sighting report from the start of the year – 

http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/sighting-reports/kalbar-queensland-australia-ufo-sighting-report-with-photo/

As the year progress there where a couple of excellent captures of orbs in quick succession from separate sources of what I believe is the same craft.
The interesting thing of these two sightings is they are similar to a sighting and capture made by MWV from England.

Here’s the sighting report of the first craft – http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/ufo-photos-and-videos/sphere-with-lights-caught-again-on-camera-u-i-p-report/

Sighting witnessed and reported by MWV U.I.P’s Creator

Then within a week UIP had a similar sighting report with a similar object. My thoughts are these are probably the same craft:

http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/ufo-photos-and-videos/yet-another-sphere-with-lights-reported-to-u-i-p-2-in-a-week/

Sphere like UFO witnessed in Australia

Then as the year progressed there was  amazing footage released of an orb moving across the sky. This sighting was capture by a quality camera and is some of the best footage to date.  Please check out our post on this sighting and the impressive video below – http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/ufo-photos-and-videos/perfect-pulsing-orb-caught-chasing-across-the-skies-above-australia/

Then the release in Australia of the DOJO film Australian skies.
I’m always interested in seeing new material and being a Aussie how could I not have a look at this home-grown documentary.

Firstly this film is about Damien Mott from the perspective of Don Meers. Damien is what is described as a photographic contactee who has 300 to 350 ufo events. He recalls from his early childhood being followed by red orbs and witnessed these orbs on dozens of occasions through his lifetime. He has also captured on video and photographed more frequently the bright white orbs we all know.

Daniel travels from his home town Duneedo in New South Wales to southeast Queensland glasshouse mountains and bribe island. A beautiful area. Don Myers director objective is to interview Damien and other witnesses and hopefully have an experience of his own. During the film they do a few night watches for craft  and show some excellent footage taken by Damien.

I made contact with Damien and he was kind enough to issue a statement exclusive to U.I.P

“My interest in the subject of UFOs and the paranormal began back in 1988 after an up close and personal sighting of a glowing red spherical object about 20 ft. above my head. This particular sighting, along with a sighting I had with my step-brothers when I was twelve, launched me into a world of fascination and intrigue with anything related to the phenomenon. Over the past 26 years I have been reading and researching everything and anything that is related to the subject, while sporadically witnessing anomalous lights and even ghost related phenomena at home”. He said.

“I moved to a property in a place called Dunedoo N.S.W. for ten months back in August of 2012. The anomalous action really started to pick up around this time. Soon enough I purchased a camera and began to film the objects that myself and other members of the community were witnessing. People were soon coming in from all over Australia to witness the ‘lights’ for themselves. Journalists from the Sun Herald newspaper also witnessed two lights travelling together across the sky on our property and wrote a story about it. The phenomenon was also witnessed by Presidents of UFO research groups, police officers and pilots. My story appeared on Channel 7 news, Today Tonight (Current Affairs Program), Channel 9’s Today Show live and Sunrise on Channel 7”. 

“After moving to Taree N.S.W. I continued to witness and document strange phenomena. It was during this time that I began to do the lecture and interview circuit in the UFO scene. In 2013 I started up A.A.P.I. (Australian Aerial Phenomena Investigations) to bring together other people who were seeing and filming objects on a semi regular basis. We presently have 8 in the field investigators on the team. Since moving down to Baulkham Hills N.S.W. in April 2014 and upgrading our equipment, we have been very lucky that the phenomena continues to be witnessed by my partner and myself, as well as family and friends. In late 2014, I was approached by the producer of a company called DOJO Media who expressed an interest in making a documentary about what I do and that is how Austr-alien Skies began. This documentary tends to give a bit of a voice to the ‘star chaser’ out there. We do not speculate on what the objects are, but instead share the story and show the evidence and let the viewers make up their own minds. The documentary has just had its Sydney release and it has earned some decent reviews”. 

For more information on Austr-ALIEN Skies, please visit https://www.facebook.com/australienskies?fref=ts

Damien John Nott 

Founder – A.A.P.I. – Australian Aerial Phenomena Investigations

U.I.P SUMMARY
What a great year it’s been in Australia for quality ufo sightings. In fact what a great year all round the world.
Australia is a beautiful country and I’ve had my share of sightings this year with my partner and friends on a recent holiday. Here’s my CE5 experiences
http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/sighting-reports/a-ce5-experience%e2%80%8f/

I’ll continue being the contact point and eyes for UIP in the land down looking forward to another year in the land down under.

Digger, Mwv

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The Ancient Egyptian Text That CONFIRMS Aliens Visited Earth In The Past

It has been believed for quite some time now that the ‘Tulli Papyrus’ is probably the best evidence ever of ancient flying saucers in the distant past, but leading historians have questioned its authenticity and meaning and constantly dismiss it as evidence that Earth has been visited by Extra-terrestrials – But this factual piece of historic evidence should NOT be ignored.

Like many other ancient texts around the world, this ancient piece of evidence appears to tell an amazing story, one that could potentially change the way that we look at ourselves (past, present and the future), our history and the entire Universe!

It’s believed that this ancient piece of documentation, which in fact isn’t a papyrus actually, offers the earliest proof ever of flying saucers on planet earth – The Tulli “papyrus” is a translation of a modern transcription of an ancient Egyptian document.

The Pharaoh that ruled over Egypt was Thutmose III and according to this intriguing ancient text, this mass UFO sightings happened back in 1480 BC. At this time this incredible event was recorded in history as a day of significant importance – the day that something unexplainable and shocking occurred.

Please see below an actual translation into the above text pictured:

“In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day […] among the scribes of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odour. Its body was one rod in length and one rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty’s house. Their heart became confused through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the king, to report it. His Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty meditated on all these events which were now going on.

After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of heaven […] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks.

The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles rained down from the sky: a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country. And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] for ever.”

This ancient old text was translated by many leading historians and scientists and is probably one of THE most important pieces of evidence of Ancient Aliens visiting earth – perhaps they have never actually left Earth?

They have been with us for a very long time – Art by Raphael Terra @http://ufoartist.blogspot.co.uk/

This simply amazing historical event was described as being silent, but with incredible views of mysterious flying disks highly reflective, shining like the sun. According to this ancient text, the departure of the otherworldly visitors was marked by a mysterious event, as fish rained down from the heaven, almost as if some kind of unknown force affected the surroundings!

This ancient text clearly does not mention whether the ancient Egyptians did actually establish contact with these otherworldly Beings, but it is nonetheless an extremely important day in planet earths history – that is for both humanity and the ancient Egyptian Civilization at the time of this incredible event.

One VERY important thing to remember is that the Ancient Egyptians were extremely experienced and rather gifted astronomers, and it was by the year 1500 B.C, that they were already experts in this field, which means that they would not have mistaken these “fiery disks” with some kind of strange astronomical or weather phenomena – they would have described an astronomical phenomena in a completely different way.  It is also rather important to remember that in these ancient documents, the “fiery disks” are described very clearly as they changed directions in the skies above the people who witnessed them, so it is very clear that we know that these objects didn’t fall, but remained in the Egyptian Sky ~this is not normal for an astronomical event (obviously).

In order to truly understand this ancient text this evidence would ideally need to be studies again in more detail.  But isn’t it interesting that the original papyrus is gone!? But guess what people, top Researcher Samuel Rosenberg has already requested from the Vatican Museum an official opportunity to examine this mysterious/unknown important document, but the reply he received pretty much confirmed that ‘somebody’ does not want ANY interest shown in this key area and he had a response of:

”The Papyrus Tulli not property of Vatican Museum. Now it is dispersed and no more traceable.” Said the VATICAN museum.

It’s time to dig up the TRUTH from our past.

U.I.P SUMMARY – It appears that the Vatican are trying to hide away and archive this extremely piece of evidence, hidden on purpose away from the people of planet earth, perhaps hidden away in a secret archive, but why?  Could it be that this piece of important evidence is that incredible and life changing that the elite and the heads of the Catholic church are SCARED about what this PROOF could cause  amongst the masses.

This could be one of the most important pieces of evidence ever, and this could actually prove that the ET’s influenced the ancient Egyptian civilization as many Ancient Astronaut theorists believe? It is literally criminal that our so-called leaders are trying to hide this from us, however it is also very clear that the world leaders out there are playing games and trying to make us believe what THEY want us to believe!

THIS is such an important story and one that we can never ignore.  SOME stupid world leaders LAUGH when the subject matter of ‘Aliens’ is raised – soon they will NOT be laughing, when the control starts slipping away from their hands and the TRUTH starts spilling out!

Lets not forget some of the incredible stories behind Egypt, including project ISIS and the 13,000 year old alien visitor discovered:

http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/ufo-photos-and-videos/project-isis-the-discovery-of-a-13000-ancient-alien-visitor/

The Pyramids are so important to all of our history, you can feel this just by looking at them and seeing the sheer amount of energy coming from them!

The pyramids are to this day still a mystery, but a mystery that is soon about to be dragged out kicking and screaming!

MWV

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Deux univers au lieu d'un ont-t-ils été créés lors du Big-Bang ?

Par Maxime Vaïl 

Et si deux univers, au lieu d'un seul, étaient nés à l'issue du Big Bang ? Deux univers dont l'un verrait le temps avancer, et l'autre le temps reculer ? C'est en tout cas ce qu'avance une nouvelle théorie, proposée par trois physiciens. Crédits : Stephen van Vuuren, de "Outside In" (http://www.outsideinthemovie.com)

Une nouvelle théorie suggère que le Big-Bang n'aurait pas créé un seul univers (le notre), mais deux univers, évoluant parallèlement : alors que notre univers avancerait dans le temps, ce deuxième univers... reculerait dans le temps.

Des physiciens ont réalisé une expérience qui suggère l'idée pour le moins fascinante que le Big Bang aurait créé deux univers parallèles, au lieu d'un seul : l'un de ces deux univers avancerait dans le temps (c'est notre univers), tandis que l'autre… reculerait dans le temps.

Or cette hypothèse, pour l'instant évidemment bien difficile à démontrer, intéresse au plus haut point les physiciens. En effet, elle les aiderait à résoudre une énigme majeure de la physique moderne : pourquoi le temps ne va-t-il que dans un seul sens ?

De fait, toutes les lois fondamentales de la physique, telles que la relativité restreinte et générale d'Einstein, fonctionnent tout aussi bien si le temps s'écoule avant... ou en arrière. Et d'ailleurs, les modèles physiques créés par les physiciens pour simuler de façon simplifiée le fonctionnement de notre univers ne nécessitent généralement pas qu'une direction préférentielle soit affectée à l'écoulement du temps (sauf si des conditions initiales spécifiques doivent être fixées).

Mais alors, pourquoi notre univers se déplace-t-il vers l'avant dans le temps ? Pourquoi les étoiles émettent de la lumière plutôt que d'attirer cette lumière à elles ? Pourquoi encore nous souvenons-nous du passé, plutôt que de l'avenir ?

A l'heure actuelle, pour expliquer l'aspect directionnel de la fléche du temps qui caractérise notre univers, les physiciens font principalement appel à l'idée que la direction de la flèche du temps est contrôlée par les lois de la thermodynamique, et plus particulièrement par l'entropie.

L'entropie ? Il s'agit d'une mesure du niveau de désordre dans un système : un système à faible entropie est sera un système extrêmement organisé et prévisible, alors qu'un système à haute entropie sera beaucoup moins prévisible.

Or, les lois de la thermodynamique stipulent que l'entropie d'un système isolé, comme notre Univers par exemple, ne peut que croître. En d'autres termes, notre univers ne peut pas passer d'un état de forte entropie à un état de plus faible entropie. Dit autrement, cela signifie que notre univers se dirige inéluctablement vers un état de désordre toujours plus important, et cela de façon totalement irréversible.

La plupart des physiciens acceptent généralement l'idée que l'entropie explique pourquoi la fléche du temps est dirigée dans un seul sens, et donc pourquoi le temps avance. En gros, la vision de la majorité des physiciens consiste à poser qu'à la naissance de notre Univers, tout était très ordonné : de ce fait, le sens du temps est le même que le sens d'une entropie croissante (c'est à dire d'un niveau de désordre croissant).

Mais pour que cette vision soit valide, encore faudrait-il prouver que des conditions de faible entropie étaient réellement présentes au début de l'Univers. Or, il s'agit précisément de quelque chose que les physiciens ne savent actuellement pas montrer...

Face à ce mur théorique, de nouvelles théories émergent, suggèrant que l'entropie n'est peut-être pas la seule façon d'expliquer pourquoi le temps ne s'écoule que dans un seul sens.

Parmi ces théories, on trouve les travaux de Julian Barbour (Université d'Oxford, Royaume-Uni) et de son équipe, récemment publiés dans la prestigieuse revue Physical Review Letters, et qui suggèrent que la direction de la flèche du temps ne serait en réalité par contrôlée par la thermodynamique, mais par la gravité.

Que dit le modèle de Julian Barbour et de ses collègues ? Il avance qu'il n'est pas besoin de postuler que l'Univers était à ses début un système à faible entropie pour expliquer le fait que le temps ne s'écoule que dans un seul sens : selon ces chercheurs, l'écoulement du temps ne serait que le résultat inévitable... de la gravité.

Pour parvenir à cette conclusion, Julian Barbour et ses collègues ont étudié un modèle physique très simple, simulant notre univers, et composé uniquement de 1000 particules. Via des simulations informatiques, ils ont analysé comment ces particules interagissent uniquement sous l'influence des lois de la gravité.

Résultat : Julian Barbour et ses collègues ont découvert que, quelque soit le niveau initial de désordre (faible ou élevé), les particules finissaient de toute façon toutes par se retrouver serrées les unes contre les autres, et cela donc sous le seul effet des lois de la gravité.

Sur la base de ce résultat, Julian Barbour et ses collègues ont émis l'hypothèse selon laquelle il n'est pas nécessaire de convoquer des conditions de faible entropie pour que la flèche du temps se dirige dans un seul sens : les lois de la gravité suffisent pour cela.

Mais ce n'est pas tout. Car lors de ces simulations, un phénomène étrange s'est produit : après cet état très condensé où les particules étaient serrées les unes contre les autres, le système s'est élargi vers l'extérieur... dans deux directions différentes, chacune des deux parties ayant sa propre flèche du temps, dont la direction était symétriquement opposée à celle de l'autre partie. En d'autres termes, un système où le temps pouvait aller dans les deux sens, du passé vers l'avenir, et de l'avenir vers le passé.

De ce constat, les auteurs de ces travaux en ont tiré cette deuxième hypothèse, selon laquelle deux univers auraient été créés lors du Big Bang, chacun dotés d'une flèche du temps pointant dans une direction opposée à l'autre. En d'autres termes, ce que nous pensons comme notre passé serait en réalité l'avenir de cet autre univers. Et de la même manière, en imaginant que des êtres intelligents habitent dans cet autre univers et qu'ils prennent conscience de l'existence de ces deux univers aux flèches du temps opposées, ils réaliseraient alors que ce qui se dessine comme notre avenir n'est en fait que leur lointain passé...

Evidemment, cette hypothèse est actuellement totalement indémontrable. Mais en attendant, elle ouvre le débat sur le rôle de la gravité dans la direction de la flèche du temps. Avec peut-être à la clé, d'ici quelques années, la possibilité de produire des prédictions issues de cette hypothèse, et testables expérimentalement.

Les travaux de Julian Barbour et ses collègues ont été publiés dans la revue Physical Review Letters, sous le titre "Identification of a Gravitational Arrow of Time".

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The Infamous Alien ‘Element 115’

This article first appeared in ancient-code.com and is written by Ivan Petricevic

With atomic numbers of 113, 115, 117, and 118, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced the addition of these four elements to the periodic table, but one of them, Element 115 was already announced in 1989 when Bob Lazar, famous area 51 whistleblower revealed to the public that the UFOs possessed by the government were powered by a mysterious ‘Element 115.’ Of course at that time, the claims made by Lazar were tagged as absurd as the scientific community had no knowledge of ‘Element 115’.

In 2003, his statements gained more credibility when a group of Russian scientists managed to create the elusive element, and now, twelve years after that achievement, the discovery of ‘Element 115’ was finally confirmed after numerous tests which verified its existence.

However, the scientific version of ‘Element 115’ drastically differs from what Lazar has described over the years, since according to reports, the element decays in less than a second and cannot be utilized for anything. Unununpentium, the temporary name for Element 115, is an extremely radioactive element; its most stable known isotope, ununpentium-289, has a half-life of only 220 milliseconds.

In 2014, Lazar was interviewed by Geroge Knapp where they discussed ‘Element 115’ or Ununpentium where Lazar dismissed early findings surrounding Element 115, statig that he was confident that further testing will produce an isotope from the element which will match his initial description.

“They made just a few atoms. We’ll see what other isotopes they come up with. One of them, or more, will be stable and it will have the exact properties that I said,” Lazar told Knapp.

Bob Lazar, who was ridiculed because of his sensationalistic claims, states that he worked in the past at Area 51, where top secrets projects are being developed. Interestingly, on several occasions he was subjected to a polygraph: The testing confirmed his statements regarding the secret researcher facilities and alien technology present inside some of the most infamous bases in the United States.

According to Lazar, the so-called “UFO’s” were not built by humans, the cabins inside of the craft were extremely small and only a child could fit into them. Lazar claims that these “Flying saucers” were built and piloted by extraterrestrial beings. Mysteriously, it seems as if the UFO’s were made out of one single piece, they did not have a welding point and were made from a material unknown on Earth.

In addition to ‘Element 115’, scientists introduced 113, 117, and 118. Interestingly, all of these four elements are super heavy, lab-made and VERY radioactive.

“The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row,” said Professor Jan Reedijk, president of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of IUPAC.

“IUPAC has now initiated the process of formalising names and symbols for these elements temporarily named as ununtrium, (Uut or element 113), ununpentium (Uup, element 115), ununseptium (Uus, element 117), and ununoctium (Uuo, element 118).”

Ivan is a freelance writer, editor-in-chief of ancient-code.com, he also writes for EWAO, Share Knowledge, Svemir Online and Ancient Origins.

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Advancing the Horizon of Human Understanding: MUFON Utah State Director Erica Lukes Interviews Jon Kelly

The strange mystery of North Sentinel Island

North Sentinel Island remains one of the most mysterious unexplored islands in the world.

 

North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. It lies to the west of the southern part of South Andaman Island. Most of the island is forested. It is small, located away from the main settlements on Great Andaman, surrounded by coral reefs, and lacks natural harbors.

 

A group of indigenous people, the Sentinelese, live on North Sentinel Island. Their population is estimated to be between 50 and 400 individuals. The Sentinelese reject any contact with other people, and are among the last people to remain virtually untouched by modern civilization.

 

Odd stories have now started to spread concerning mysterious and strange activities.

 

On 2 August 1981, the ship Primrose grounded on the North Sentinel Island reef. A few days later, crewmen on the immobile vessel observed that small black men were carrying spears and arrows and building boats on the beach to attack them with.

 

 

 

The captain of the Primrose radioed for an urgent drop of firearms so the crew could defend themselves, but did not receive them.

 

Heavy seas kept the islanders away from the ship. After a week, the crew were rescued by a helicopter working under contract to the Indian Oil And Natural Gas Commission (ONGC).

 

The Sentinelese apparently survived the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and its after-effects, including the tsunami and the uplifting of the island. Three days after the event, an Indian government helicopter observed several of them, who shot arrows and threw stones at the hovering aircraft with the apparent intent of repelling it

 

 

 

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Astronaut Scott Kelly is 5 cm groter na jaar in de ruimte - HLN.be

Bron: CNN

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ISS Na een verblijf van bijna een jaar aan boord van het International Space Station ISS, blijkt NASA-astronaut Scott Kelly vijf centimeter groter te zijn dan zijn identieke tweelingbroer Mark.

Echt gegroeid is Kelly echter niet. Onder invloed van de zwaartekracht wordt onze ruggengraat hier op aarde immers samengedrukt. In de ruimte bestaat die druk niet: daardoor zetten de tussenwervels uit en worden astronauten dus (tijdelijk) groter. 

Maar de bevinding is bijzonder belangrijk. Het doel van Kelly's missie was immers om te weten te komen wat een langdurige ruimtereis met een mens doet, zowel op lichamelijk als geestelijk vlak. 

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• Scott Kelly en Mikhail Kornienko weer op aarde na 340 dagen in ISS

Identieke tweelingbroer

De identieke tweelingbroers Mark Kelly (links) en Scott Kelly (rechts). © ap.

Na 340 dagen in het ISS landde Kelly woensdag weer op aarde. Kelly, die meer tijd in de ruimte doorbracht dan eender welke andere Amerikaanse astronaut, zegt dat hij zich algemeen genomen "behoorlijk goed" voelt. Zijn gezondheid zal nu een jaar lang opgevolgd worden. 

Een uniek voordeel voor de artsen van NASA is dat Kelly een identieke tweelingbroer heeft: Mark Kelly is eveneens een voormalige NASA-astronaut. Hij bracht het voorbije jaar door op aarde. De onderzoekers kunnen de tweelingbroers, die genetisch identiek zijn, met elkaar vergelijken om te ontdekken of Scott het voorbije jaar genetische veranderingen heeft ondergaan.

Missie naar Mars

Als de wetenschappers van NASA geen grote afwijkingen vinden in Scotts hersenen, lichaam of genen, dan zou dat een grote stap voorwaarts kunnen betekenen in het plannen van langdurige ruimtemissies, zoals een reis naar Mars. 

Een tripje naar Mars zal echter niet voor de eerstkomende tien jaar zijn, maar NASA is wel al volop bezig met de training van astronauten en wetenschappers voor missies naar de rode planeet. 

Scott Kelly, die keek na een jaar in de ruimte naar eigen zeggen vooral uit naar een frisse duik in zijn zwembad in Houston, Texas.

“Geheime kamer in tombe Toetanchamon zal dé ontdekking van de 21e eeuw zijn”

Mysterieuze radioflitsen uit het heelal zetten de wetenschap op zijn kop

Voor het eerst hebben astronomen radiosignalen ontdekt die afkomstig zijn van buiten onze Melkweg. Het gaat om korte, intense flitsen van radiostraling uit het heelal die maar een duizendste van een seconde duren. Niemand weet waar ze vandaan komen.

Mogelijke verklaringen variëren van exploderende zwarte gaten tot signalen van aliens. Alles wijst erop dat de flitsen afkomstig zijn van ver buiten ons Melkwegstelsel. Gedacht wordt aan een extreem krachtig object dat van tijd tot tijd een aantal flitsen produceert.

Sinds 2012 is de mysterieuze radioflits al 11 keer opgevangen met de grootste radioschotel ter wereld, meldt een internationaal team wetenschappers in het tijdschrift Nature.

Enorm spannend

(Danielle Futselaar)

Dit soort radioflitsen uit de ruimte zijn al lange tijd een mysterie voor sterrenkundigen. Het mysterieuze radiosignaal wordt gemiddeld eens in de paar maanden opgevangen met de Arecibo-telescoop in Puerto Rico.

Om de herkomst van het signaal te achterhalen willen wetenschappers de schotel gaan verbinden met andere grote telescopen. “Het is enorm spannend allemaal,” zei astrofysicus Chryssa Kouveliotou. “Het aantal geopperde verklaringen voor korte radioflitsen is veel groter dan het aantal flitsen dat tot nu toe is waargenomen. De ideeën blijven veranderen.”

Grote doorbraak

Astronoom Duncan Lorimer, die in 2007 de eerste snelle radioflits ontdekte, durft nog geen conclusies te trekken. “Ik hoop dat we de komende jaren met nieuwe instrumenten vele honderden flitsen zullen ontdekken, zodat we kunnen achterhalen waar ze vandaan komen en hoe ze ontstaan.”

Volgens Jason Hessels van astronomisch instituut Astron en de Universiteit van Amsterdam staat de wetenschap op zijn kop. “We hebben nu een veel beter beeld van de afkomst van deze mysterieuze radioflitsen,” zei hij. “Dat is wel een grote doorbraak in de astronomie en er worden nu wereldwijd veel vervolgstudies gedaan.”

[McGill]

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