UFO sighting caught on tape over Mesa, Arizona 16-Mar-2016
Here’s one new footage of a bright unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Mesa, Arizona.
Witness report: On Saturday night, 16 March 2013, starting at 2150 to 2209, I recorded the following lights crossing the Mesa, Arizona skyline. I was on the second floor of an apartment complex on Lindsey and US-60. I was going to close the blinds in my daughter’s room when the incident occurred. The reason I find this interesting is that there are 2-red vertical lights that slowly moved from the North-West to the East. Possibly coming from the Anthem, Cave Creek Area headed toward Superstition Mountains. An aircraft is supposed to have green lights on this side. Red was the only light visible throughout the whole recording and it was steady and never rotated or moved out of position. At about 11-minutes into filming the top light begin to fade than went out. At 15-minutes 20 seconds the second light began to fade than went out. Near the end of the filming I do show an aircraft landing at Falcon Field. I have 21-years in Naval Aviation as an Aviation Ordnanceman working on Fixed & Rotary Wing aircraft and there weapons; and 6-years in the Aerospace Industry. Three of those were manufacturing Military Helicopters and three were in Iraq & Afghanistan as a Contractor with numerous Army Medivac Units. I have been in combat situations both in the Navy and as a Contractor. With all this said, I know for a fact these are not Military Flares or other ordnance. As far as an Air Ship, Balloon or other type of aircraft, I am 99% sure it is not. I do not know of any aircraft like this or that has formation lights like this and/or then extinguishes itself. There were no clouds or haze this night. It was a comfortable cool air. As far as a shape, I could not tell. I did try to look for something that would identify its shape and transparency but did not find any evidence of it. It was too far away to determine if it had a sound. I can only guesstimate the object(s) were 8-10 miles from me.
Source: MUFON
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ALIEN SENSATION: More than 100 'saw UFOs in bizarre triangle formation after meditating'
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More than 100 people are said to have seen a UFO fleet make a triangle formation.Yesterday Express.co.uk exclusively revealed how a female pilot claimed she and her boyfriend were left with a "life-changing" experience after seeing "four UFOs" in the desert during the Contact in the Desert conference in the Joshua Tree National Park, California, which is one of the world's biggest ET conferences.
The woman, who is also a lawyer and has yet to be named, said the possible alien spacecraft appeared on Saturday evening during a special skywatch event in a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) which investigates UFO cases across the globe.
Now a second report about the incident has been filed with MUFON, claiming there were MORE UFOS, and that more than 100 people witnessed the strange triangle formation.
Kristie Cowans has filed a report to MUFON, claiming there was an attempt by the skywatchers known as CE-5 contact, to summon the presence of UFOs through meditation, before the phenomenon.
She said it took place at 10pm local time on Saturday and she had stargazing binoculars and a green laser.
She pointed out there was a small airport to the south and a Marine Base north-east of them, but all the "UFO" activity came from the west going due east.
She wrote: "As we began I was able to spot many stars, planets, planes and satellites as part of the process of really looking at what was above us-then the unexpected happened.
"There was a parade of seven orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes & helicopters from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east.
"The colours of the orbs were bright, but a diffused soft green, diffused soft red, and diffused soft lilac blue, with the blue one being larger than the others."
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She claimed the UFOs "flashed back" when the group used lasers to call out to the mystery crafts, which remained for up to 10 minutes.
She said: "This was the only time the orbs/UFOs flashed is when we flashed them first, otherwise they just glowed a solid color.
"The second, third and fourth ones formed a triangle configuration as they passed us.
"The crowd of around 100 people went wild with cheers, clapping, and jumping up and down.
"At this time I did feel a "heart" connection, thanking them and sending love to them.
"I was “gushing” with love and gratitude to them as this was such a great show they gave us.
"This was the most exciting thing ever! Not only are they here, it appears they are friendly."
She said the crafts were big enough to be seen with the naked eye and about 800 feet high.
"Quite large actually and through the binoculars looked like an orb of soft diffused light with no corona around them," she said.
Ms Cowans said she had ruled out the objects being drones.
She said: "They were quiet and they glowed with one single light, unlike recreational and military drones that glow with 2 or more.
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The "contact" took place at night in the Joshua Tree National Park (pictured).
There was a parade of seven orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes & helicopters from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east.
"The type of glow was unlike anything I have ever seen in my research on military drones as my skeptical mind considered this possibility.
"They did not look like drones - I saw no structures connected to the glowing lights, the glowing light floated independent of any structure."
The unnamed pilot previously independently reported seeing five of the coloured UFOs.
She described how the first UFO zipped overhead, followed by a third, fourth and fifth, the three of which then formed a triangle formation.
The woman and her boyfriend said they have been left profoundly affected by what they saw and estimated around 30 people in total would have witnessed the event.
Contact in the Desert is a four-day annual event held in the remote desert with several UFO and alien expert speakers and the opportunity for skywatching.
Their sighting and a short video showing the triangle formation is now being investigated by MUFON.
In her report to MUFON, the woman said: "We are both highly educated, professional people with an interest in UFOs.
"He is a Management Consultant and I am an attorney. I am also a private pilot."
She said the pair queued for about an hour for the "Night Vision Experience" which involved scouring space with military grade night vision goggles from around 10pm local time.
She said: "There was a yell from another participant.
"We swung our goggles to look in the northerly direction. I focused on a white, glowing object which looked like a ball of light with fuzzy edges coming over the horizon rather fast, traveling west to east and then slowly disappearing.
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The formation was said to be similar to this one previously snapped by UFO chasers.
"Process of elimination set in: Not a plane, helicopter because no blinking lights.
“Fuzzy edges, ball shaped.
“Not a satellite because too low on the horizon and moving too fast. These objects were large enough and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye."
She said as they watched, a second object, blue in colour, "came out of the west and traveled rapidly to the east”.
It was ball shaped, glowing, with fuzzy edges, and slowed down, she said.
She added: "The third object then came from the west, this time green in colour. Same shape, characteristics as above. This one slowed down also.
"The fourth, object, I'm uncertain about the colour as people were now very excited and many thoughts were racing through my mind.
"Now, the second, third and fourth object had slowed to a triangle formation. With the apex of the triangle facing up. They did not stop but kept moving to the east."
"Ever since that evening, my boyfriend and I have been processing this event.
"Since then, we have not stopped thinking about what we saw. We are both logical, sane people.
"Neither one of us has ever experienced anything like it in our lives.
"We cannot stop thinking about what we saw at Joshua Tree."
Sceptics suggest that at events where many people attend, particularly when they want to see something, mass hysteria can kick in, an the memory becomes distorted or embellished.
Others have said that drones could be the cause of the sighting, and with it being a UFO conference taking place, it could have been pranksters flying them overhead at the time of the skywatch.
Rare fireball seen by hundreds over eight US states sparks claims of aliens and UFOs
The meteor, which was filmed on phones and dashcams, prompted calls from shocked locals to police and even paranormal UFO investigators.
The fireball was seen streaming over Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan.
Videos of the meteor have been uploaded to social media after sightings across the USA mid-west, with claims it was "a flash that fell from the sky".
Even the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation for investigating alleged alien and UFO sightings, was contacted by open-jawed witnesses, claiming to have seen the fireball in Arizona, where one was reported just three days earlier.
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A brilliant fireball lights up the predawn skies over Arizona on June 2, 2016, as this still from a NASA meteor camera in the Santa Rita Mountains, southeast of Tucson, shows
I saw a streak of white light followed by a burst of yellow/orange before the object disappeared."
Tom Stolze, who runs the website O'Fallonweather.org, posted a video showing the bright light soaring over houses in O'Fallon, Missouri.
While a witness from Wendelin, Illinois, wrote on the American Meteor Society (AMS) website: "It looked like one of the more expensive fireworks shooting down instead of up. I could have sworn it landed in the field I was driving by."
Another user added: "I saw a streak of white light followed by a burst of yellow/orange before the object disappeared."
The sightings came just days after a fireball lit up the skies and was captured in fantastic footage over Arizona.
According to the AMS several thousands of meteors fall each day, but most cannot be seen in daylight, and many more fall over the ocean where no one can see them.
The website said: "Additionally, the brighter the fireball, the more rare is the event."
Une météorite dans le ciel carolo ?
Une étrange boule de feu et de fumée a traversé le ciel carolo mercredi.
Le phénomène a été immortalisé par plusieurs témoins ce mercredi. La question était sur toutes les lèvres: que se passe-t-il dans le ciel carolo? Une fusée? Une boule de feu? Une comète? Selon RTL, qui a interrogé des spécialistes de l’IRM, il pourrait s’agir d’une météorite ou pourquoi pas «de déchet de l’espace».
S vous avez vu aussi cette étrange boule, n’hésitez pas à envoyer vos photos à rfi@lavenir.net avec votre nom.
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Mysterieus voorwerp boven Charleroi heeft België een dag in de ban gehouden
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Is het Eddy Wally zaliger die uit een vliegmachine springt? Of toch een UFO? Het geheimzinnige voorwerp dat gisteren boven Charleroi werd gefilmd was een raadsel voor velen. Maar aan alle mensen die in buitenaards leven geloven: de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht liet zopas weten dat het niet om E.T. en zijn volgelingen gaat, maar om een vliegtuig.
Gisteren vloog er een vreemd voorwerp in de regio rond Charleroi. Was het een meteoor, een komeet of een UFO? Da's moeilijk in te schatten, zei Jan Cuypers van de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht deze morgen nog aan VRT Nieuws.
"Het is niet onmogelijk dat het gaat om een meteoor of restanten van een satelliet, maar het is wel erg onwaarschijnlijk", vertelt Jan Cuypers. "Eerst en vooral hebben we enkel weet van meldingen in dezelfde - kleine - regio, terwijl een meteoor op veel meer plaatsen zou moeten te zien zijn. Op de beelden zien we ook dat het verschijnsel zich boven de wolken heeft voorgedaan en dat je bovenaan een einde ziet aan het traject. De kans dat het iets uit de ruimte is, is dus klein."
Na een nieuwe tip deze namiddag is het bijna zo goed als zeker wat ons zo in de ban hield, vertelt Cuypers aan VRT Nieuws. Het zou gewoon om een vliegtuig gaan. "De zon zat op sommige plekken echter op een goede plaats waardoor de schaduw van het vliegtuig op de condensstreep viel, die zo op rook leek. Honderd procent zeker ben je in deze gevallen nooit, maar die verklaring lijkt mij zeer waarschijnlijk."
Mysterie onthuld: dit voorwerp was te zien boven BelgiëEnkele inwoners van Charleroi meldden het vreemde voorwerp woensdagavond aan RTL. Meteen deden geruchten de ronde dat het om een meteoor zou gaan of een stukje puin van een raket. Sommigen dachten zelfs aan een ufo.
De Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België ging op zoek naar de juiste verklaring. Daar werd al meteen duidelijk dat het zeker geen komeet was. "Daarna bekeken we of het misschien een meteoor was", zegt astronoom Jan Cuypers. "Ook die optie konden we uitsluiten. Een meteoor is meestal maar korte tijd zichtbaar en er is zelden tijd om foto's te nemen. Bovendien hing het voorwerp te laag in de lucht en bewoog het te trag om een meteoor te zijn."
Daardoor werd al snel gedacht dat het om een "aards voorwerp" ging. Een brandende wensballon, een raketje dat gelanceerd was vanop de aarde of een drone... Alle mogelijkheden werden bekeken.
"We hadden er echt het raden naar, tot we telefoon kregen van een man uit Oudenaarde", aldus Cuypers. "Hij vertelde ons dat hij het voorwerp ook gezien had, maar dat het er helemaal niet zo vreemd uitzag vanuit zijn standpunt. Een man uit Charleroi zei bovendien aan RTL dat hij het voorwerp vijf minuten gevolgd had."
Daardoor werd de echte aard van het voorwerp ontdekt. "Het "mysterieuze voorwerp" was gewoon een vliegtuig", klinkt het. "Een vliegtuig laat normaal witte condenssporen achter. Door de stand van de zon werd echter een uitzonderlijke schaduw op het vliegtuig en het spoor geworpen. Daardoor leek het even op een "oranje vuurbal"."
Unbelievable 'UFO sighting' behind massive cloud caught on camera - is it proof aliens exist?
BY KIRSTIE MCCRUM
A UFO enthusiast has shared footage which he believes shows a massive unidentified craft hidden in a cloud formation.
Scott Wareing has put this video online after he said he though the cloud rectangle, captured on May 12, was impossible.
He believes the cloud, recorded in Belgium, was hiding a "weird, giant saucer", and has even shared other instances of this on his website, UFO Sightings Daily.
Scott, who lives in Taiwan, wrote: "It is a well known fact that not only do UFOs hide in clouds, but they actually create the cloud around them.
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"...The 1957 Fort Belvoir, Virginia, incident is an example of this. Back then a soldier took photos of a black UFO ring that headed over the base, but change from a ring to a disk cloud in just under a minute."
Mr Wareing says that the "groundbreaking" images from that incident showed all that "UFOs do make clouds".
Commenters online are split over the accuracy of his claims. One wrote: "Bizarre not normal, true extraterrestrial hidden in cloud."
But another added: "Lame. it's called a cumulonimbus. They often have flat tops and often look like anvils."
Witness upset after watching low flying triangle UFO
A South Carolina witness at Indian Land reported watching a “huge, black triangle” UFO that moved quickly away and made him upset, according to testimony in Case 76605 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was lying in bed listening to headphone and looking out a bedroom window and noticed a light on May 26, 2016.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“I see a white light with red and blue lights blinking on it flying by,” the witness stated.“I thought it was just a plane, but what really caught my attention and made me get up and run to the window was how fast the object was moving. I have never seen a plane or anything for that matter move that fast before.”
The object also seemed very large.
“Also what I thought was odd was how big the light was. At the size of the light and the distance, usually if it was a plane, you should be able to see some detail at that point. Like oh okay, I see the blue and red strobes on the wings. But nope, it was just a ball of light.”
The witness watched as the object moved behind trees, still moving very fast, and then emerged again from the trees.
The witness realized the lights were attached to a large, black, triangle-shaped object. Pictured: Indian Land, South Carolina.
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“I noticed a smaller white light following it at the exact same speed. Then all of a sudden just before it flew out of sight, I noticed the two lights were connected and that what I was actually looking at was a huge, black triangle craft with lights at the points.”
The sighting upset the witness.
“This freaked me out pretty good and I think I almost had a panic attack. As soon as I lost sight of it I ran downstairs and outside to try and see it, but It was completely gone. Which is also weird because in the 20 seconds or so it took me to get downstairs, even if it was really far away it still should have been in sight. But it was gone. I was pretty freaked out after the more and more I thought about it, but also cool.”
Indian Land is about 20 miles directly south of Charlotte, South Carolina. (Credit: Google)
The witness provided one illustration with the MUFON report, which was filed on May 26, 2015. South Carolina Field Investigator Jeff Hughes and State Director Cheryl Ann Gilmore investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
Indian Land is an unincorporated community in the northernmost part (the “Panhandle”) of Lancaster County, South Carolina. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Michigan witness reports hovering triangle UFO
A Michigan witness at Ludington reported watching a low flying, triangle-shaped UFO, according to testimony in Case 76674 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was out on a bike ride on his Harley Davidson beginning at about 9:30 p.m. ending up in the town of Ludington at 10:55 p.m. at a bridge over the Sable River where he parked for a cigarette.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“I took a puff off my smoke and looked up to see it,” the witness stated.“It was large and broad, moving east down the lakeshore over the water. It was dull and darkand triangular in shape. The underside didn’t seem to be lit, but it had some reddish and bluish lights at its point and midway down the side. It seemed to be a half-mile out or so.”
The witness watched the object moving over the water and then it seemed to stop.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“The only other lights able to be seen in the direction of the object were the coastal lights that are Butterville and the Ludington light house beam. No other vehicles were around. I quickly shifted into gear and took off. I was twisting the throttle hard trying to bridge the distance between us fast. I was in top gear going about 80 to 90 mph as wind drifts the sand over the road and it can be hazardous. I wanted to go faster, but didn’t dare.”
The witness continued to watch the object.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“It’s like it just hung there, waiting. It then shot north over the road and hung there. I panicked, slowing to a stop. It looked to be a half-mile to a mile up above the ground. It hovered there for at least three minutes and then shot straight up over to the south and then disappeared. I recall the lights seemed to rotate while it waited.”
The witness included three illustrations with the MUFON report, which was filed on May 29, 2016. Michigan Chief Investigator Daniel Snow is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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Plan to Turn Asteroids Into Spaceships Could Spur Off-Earth Mining
A few decades from now, asteroids may be flying themselves to mining outposts in space, nobly sacrificing their abundant resources to help open the final frontier to humanity.
That's the vision of California-based company Made In Space, which was recently awarded NASA funding to investigate how to turn asteroids into giant, autonomous spacecraft.
The project, known as RAMA (Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata), is part of Made In Space's long-term plan to enable space colonization by helping make off-Earth manufacturing efficient and economically viable. [How Asteroid Mining Could Work (Infographic)]
"Today, we have the ability to bring resources from Earth," Made In Space co-founder and chief technology
officer Jason Dunn told Space.com. "But when we get to a tipping point where we need the resources in space, then the question becomes, 'Where do they come from and how do we get them, and how do we deliver them to the location that we need?' This is a way to do it."
Made In Space's idea involves sending an advanced, robotic "Seed Craft" out to rendezvous with a succession of near-Earth asteroids in space.
The Seed Craft would harvest material from the space rocks, then use this feedstock to construct propulsion, navigation, energy-storage and other key systems onsite with the aid of 3D printing and other technologies. (Made In Space has considerable 3D-printing expertise; the company built the two 3D printers that were installed aboard the International Space Station in the past year and a half.)
Thus transformed into autonomous spacecraft, the asteroids could be programmed to fly to a mining station in Earth-moon space, or anywhere else they were needed. This approach would be much more efficient than launching a new capture probe (or probes) to every single space rock targeted for resource exploitation, Made In Space representatives said.
The converted asteroids wouldn't resemble the traditional idea of spacecraft, with rocket engines and complex electronic circuitry. Rather, everything would be mechanical and relatively primitive.
For example, the computer would be analog, akin, perhaps, to the Antikythera mechanism invented by the ancient Greeks to chart the motion of heavenly bodies, Dunn said. And the propulsion system might be some sort of catapult that launches boulders or other material off the asteroid in a controlled way, thereby pushing the space rock in the opposite direction (as described by Newton's Third Law of Motion), he added.
"At the end of the day, the thing that we want the asteroid to be is technology that has existed for a long time. The question is, 'Can we convert an asteroid into that technology at some point in the future?'" Dunn said. "We think the answer is yes."
Project RAMA is not starting from scratch. Autonomous 3D printers that use mechanically driven systems already exist, Dunn noted, as do mechanical computers made of 3D-printed parts.
Still, making it happen will require significant advances in a number of areas, including in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) — the art of living off the land. Made In Space is counting on NASA to push ISRU technology forward, Dunn said. (Advanced ISRU tech will be vital for supporting astronauts on Mars and other off-Earth outposts, NASA officials have said.) [What Technology Will Humans Need to Explore Mars? (Video)]
Made In Space's larger vision won't be realized for a while, because RAMA is still in the very early stages.
In April, the project received a Phase 1 grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which aims to encourage the development of potentially revolutionary space-exploration technologies.
Phase 1 NIAC awardees get $100,000 for nine months' worth of initial feasibility studies. (Recipients can then apply for a Phase 2 NIAC award, which is worth about $500,000 and funds two years of further concept development.)
Any discussion of Project RAMA timelines is therefore incredibly speculative, Dunn stressed. Still, he estimated that the effort might require 20 years or so of technology development and other work. If that's the case, the first Seed Craft may get off the ground in the late 2030s — perhaps just as asteroid-mining and off-Earth manufacturing are coming into their own.
"The anticipation is that the RAMA architecture is a long time line, and when it becomes capable is about the same time that people really need the resources," Dunn said.
Project RAMA could also have applications here on Earth, he added, saying that machines similar to Seed Craft could do a variety of jobs around the planet.
"You could build infrastructure in remote locations somewhat autonomously, and convert resources into useful devices and mechanical machines," Dunn said. "This actually could solve some pretty big problems on Earth, from housing to construction of things that make people's lives better."
You can read more about Project RAMA at Made In Space's NIAC page and in a piece that Dunn wrote for Medium.com.
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Rosetta's Icy Comet Odyssey Rocks On
Rosetta's adventures are not over yet; recent events include taking pictures of a very dusty area, going into safe mode and zooming into a higher orbit above the comet. Here are some of the highlights of the past few weeks:
In this spooky image from Rosetta, you can see lots of dust flying off the comet. The dust is very apparent close up, but in March officials discovered that the dust trail expands away from the comet for an incredible 10 million kilometers (6 million miles).
"The long trail is made up of larger grains left behind in the orbit of the comet, probably from several previous passages of the comet around the sun," ESA wrote at the time. "When the Earth passes through similar dust trails from other comets it gives rise to meteor showers. Unfortunately this won't happen with 67P/C-G, as the orbit does not approach our planet."
Scientists have hoped that Rosetta will show us a few things about the solar system's formation, such as if comets of its type brought water to Earth (the short answer is no) and what kind of life-bearing molecules could be on its surface. In late May, scientists announced that they had found the amino acid glycine, which they said is common in proteins and phosphorous (part of DNA and cell membranes).
It's the first time that glycine has been definitively found on a comet; while the Stardust mission found the amino acid in Comet Wild-2, those samples were suspected of contamination upon return to Earth.
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"We see a strong link between glycine and dust, suggesting that it is probably released perhaps with other volatiles from the icy mantles of the dust grains once they have warmed up in the coma," said Kathrin Altwegg, principal investigator of the ROSINA instrument that detected the gylcine, in a statement.
Because Rosetta is experiencing such a dusty environment, from time to time unexpected things happen. Among them was when the spacecrafttripped into "safe mode" on May 28 because it confused the dust with stars, which it uses for navigation. The spacecraft lost contact with Earth for about 24 hours, but the team was able to recover it by sending commands.
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Controllers spent a few days making sure that the spacecraft was okay, which included waiting to turn the science instruments back on from their automatic shutdown. By June 2, Rosetta was well on its way to normal operations, with the science instruments on and an orbital maneuver set to go.
At roughly 670 days into its mission, Rosetta continues to produce amazing imagery of its comet -- such as this one focusing on the "neck" region (in shadow), when the spacecraft was roughly 8 kilometers away from the nucleus. As of this week, the spacecraft is now zooming to a 30 kilometer orbit from its previous orbit of five kilometers.
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Rosetta's other recent findings include uncovering clathrates (a crystalline type of ice). It is believed that if Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is covered with ices of this type, it could have formed from ice fragments closer to the sun.
Since Rosetta arrived at Comet 67P/Chruymov-Gerasimenko, more than 20,000 images have been posted for public consumption. In a request to use the wisdom of the crowd, officials are now asking that if the public sees anything changing on the comet's surface, they submit their ideas to this web page for possible future blog posts.
ANALYSIS: Sorry Rosetta, Your Comet Stinks
"Do remember to be cautious when comparing images of the same region that have been taken under varying illumination conditions, or from different distances and therefore have a different scale – this can sometimes lead to mistaken identification," ESA wrote.
Originally published on Discovery News.
System would destroy asteroids that threaten Earth -- Could a laser weapon save earth from killer asteroids?
As an asteroid roughly half as large as a football field—and with energy equal to a large hydrogen bomb—readies for a fly-by of Earth on Friday, two California scientists are unveiling their proposal for a system that could eliminate a threat of this size in an hour. The same system could destroy asteroids 10 times larger than the one known as 2012 DA14 in about a year, with evaporation starting at a distance as far away as the Sun.
UC Santa Barbara physicist and professor Philip M. Lubin, and Gary B. Hughes, a researcher and professor from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, conceived DE-STAR, or Directed Energy Solar Targeting of Asteroids an exploRation, as a realistic means of mitigating potential threats posed to the Earth by asteroids and comets.
"We have to come to grips with discussing these issues in a logical and rational way," said Lubin, who began work on DE-STAR a year ago. "We need to be proactive rather than reactive in dealing with threats. Duck and cover is not an option. We can actually do something about it and it's credible to do something. So let's begin along this path. Let's start small and work our way up. There is no need to break the bank to start."
Described as a "directed energy orbital defense system," DE-STAR is designed to harness some of the power of the sun and convert it into a massive phased array of laser beams that can destroy, or evaporate, asteroids posing a potential threat to Earth. It is equally capable of changing an asteroid's orbit –– deflecting it away from Earth, or into the Sun –– and may also prove to be a valuable tool for assessing an asteroid's composition, enabling lucrative, rare-element mining. And it's entirely based on current essential technology.
"This system is not some far-out idea from Star Trek," Hughes said. "All the components of this system pretty much exist today. Maybe not quite at the scale that we'd need—scaling up would be the challenge—but the basic elements are all there and ready to go. We just need to put them into a larger system to be effective, and once the system is there, it can do so many things."
The same system has a number of other uses, including aiding in planetary exploration.
In developing the proposal, Lubin and Hughes calculated the requirements and possibilities for DE-STAR systems of several sizes, ranging from a desktop device to one measuring 10 kilometers, or six miles, in diameter. Larger systems were also considered. The larger the system, the greater its capabilities.
For instance, DE-STAR 2—at 100 meters in diameter, about the size of the International Space Station—"could start nudging comets or asteroids out of their orbits," Hughes said. But DE-STAR 4—at 10 kilometers in diameter, about 100 times the size of the ISS –– could deliver 1.4 megatons of energy per day to its target, said Lubin, obliterating an asteroid 500 meters across in one year.
The speed of interplanetary travel—far beyond what is possible with chemical propellant rockets used today—could be increased with this sized system, according to Lubin. It could also power advanced ion drive systems for deep space travel, he said. Able to engage multiple targets and missions at once, DE-STAR 4 "could simultaneously evaporate an asteroid, determine the composition of another, and propel a spacecraft."
Larger still, DE-STAR 6 could enable interstellar travel by functioning as a massive, orbiting power source and propulsion system for spacecraft. It could propel a 10-ton spacecraft at near the speed of light, allowing interstellar exploration to become a reality without waiting for science fiction technology such as "warp drive" to come along, Lubin said.
"Our proposal assumes a combination of baseline technology—where we are today—and where we almost certainly will be in the future, without asking for any miracles," he explained. "We've really tried to temper this with a realistic view of what we can do, and we approached it from that point of view. It does require very careful attention to a number of details, and it does require a will to do so, but it does not require a miracle."
Recent and rapid developments in highly efficient conversion of electrical power to light allow such a scenario now, Lubin said, when just 20 years ago it would not have been realistic to consider.
"These are not just back-of-the-envelope numbers," Hughes concurred. "They are actually based on detailed analysis, through solid calculations, justifying what is possible. And it's all available under current theory and current technology.
"There are large asteroids and comets that cross the Earth's orbit, and some very dangerous ones going to hit the Earth eventually," he added. "Many have hit in the past and many will hit in the future. We should feel compelled to do something about the risk. Realistic solutions need to be considered, and this is definitely one of those."
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Potentially hazardous asteroids are still looming large in the minds of scientists engaged in planetary defense issues. Numerous strategies describing deflection of near-Earth objects (NEOs) have been proposed, including methods employing kinetic impactors, robotic mining, and gravity tractors. However, one of the concepts has recently received attention as one of the most serious proposals.
The project, named DE-STAR (Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation), envisions a large phased-array laser in Earth orbit to deflect asteroids, comets, and other NEOs endangering the planet. There is also a much smaller, though similar system being considered, called DE-STARLITE, that could travel alongside the target, slowly deflecting it from nearby over a long period.
According to the authors of these proposals, their goal was to create an orbital planetary defense system capable of heating the surface of potentially hazardous objects to the point of vaporization. They emphasize that vaporization on the surface of an object continually ejects vaporized material, creating a reactionary force that pushes the object into a new path. This can be accomplished by lasers deployed on spacecraft stationed near the asteroid.
The system should be capable of projecting a laser at a distant asteroid with sufficient flux to heat a spot on the surface and vaporize solid rock. Currently, high-powered lasers deliver sufficient energy density to melt and vaporize any known material.
"Generally speaking, the technology is available today. The main challenge with building a full DE-STAR is the necessary scale to be effective," Qicheng Zhang of the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the authors of the project, told Astrowatch.net.
Zhang and his colleagues claim that if DE-STAR had a 330-feet-wide phased laser array, it could divert volatile-laden asteroids 330 feet in diameter by initiating engagement at about two million miles. However, DE-STARLITE, being a much smaller and less expensive system, is the more practical option. For instance, a 20 kW version of DE-STARLITE operating for 15 years could deflect an Apophis-size (1,066 feet) asteroid at a distance equal to Earth's diameter. A 1 MW version could deflect all known threats up to 1,640 feet in diameter with five-year laser activity.
"The bigger the NEO, the longer the time needed. The bigger the laser, the shorter the time needed. With a very small 20 kW DE-STARLITE, a 300-meter-wide (1,000 foot) asteroid can be deflected in 15 years. Smaller asteroids can be deflected in under a year, after the spacecraft's arrival at the asteroid," Zhang said.
According to the scientists, DE-STARLITE would be ineffective at deflecting targets on short notice due to the time required for transit to the target asteroid. Thus the DE-STAR system seems to be a last line of defense on short notice.
A full stand-off system like DE-STAR is still considered as a possibility for the more distant future for its ability to rapidly respond to identified threats. It could also provide one of the few options for defense against long-period comets, which modern technology is often incapable of reaching by spacecraft.
An orbiting DE-STAR of adequate size would have the capability of reacting to small or moderately sized objects that are discovered with limited time to react. However, the researchers note that actual effectiveness of a deflection mission depends strongly on the target. A mission optimized for one target may be ineffective when applied to another, even one of the same size and composition.
"It depends on the exact circumstances. If, say, a 100-meter-wide asteroid were found today on a collision course with Earth next week, directed energy would not be a viable solution as that would require a very large laser array that would be far bigger than an equally effective single-use impactor or explosive. If, on the other hand, we find that same asteroid 30 years before impact, directed energy would be very effective, even with 10 kW lasers which are far below the power of many lasers in possession by the U.S. military today," Zhang explained.
The concepts of DE-STAR and DE-STARLITE show that the directed energy method could be a promising technology for planetary defense. It could save our planet from small- to mile-class hazardous objects. With the recent technology advancements it is now feasible to consider the methods based on laser ablation as one of the most relevant and effective techniques of asteroid deflection.
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A Solar Powered “Forever Drone” May Be Replacing Our Satellites
When Sputnik 1 reached low Earth orbit in 1957, it did more than kick-start America’s space program and send American schoolchildren scurrying for cover under their desks. It launched the satellite age. The orbiting platforms, which now number in the thousands, revolutionized communication, navigation, and watching football.
Satellites, though, are expensive to build, expensive to launch, and difficult to update once in orbit. Drones are another story. They’re relatively cheap, easily launched, and readily updated. Of course, they can’t stay aloft very long.
Or can they?
Airbus recently announced the successful maiden flight of its Zephyr T aircraft, a drone powered only by sunshine. Six decades after Sputnik launched the space race, the European firm joins the likes of NASA and Facebook in a race to build high-altitude drones that combine the advantages of a satellite and the flexibility of a plane. “You don’t have to go through the rigor that current space-based satellite systems use,” says John Del Frate, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.
This Startup Wants to Use Drones to Drop Blood, Not Bombs
These “high altitude pseudo satellites,” as Airbus calls them, won’t drop bombs or deliver packages. They’ll do many of the things satellites do and return periodically for new batteries or new tech. One day, swarms of solar-powered drones could monitor military or intelligence targets, track forest fires, or provide communications in an emergency. By flying far lower than satellites, drones could provide sharper photos of Earth. They could provide high-bandwidth links, using lasers to relay information to other drones or receivers on the ground, providing the sort of line-of-sight communication isn’t possible with satellites that orbit the planet and disappear over the horizon.
NASA’s 1999 Helios prototype was among the first forays into this technology. In one experiment, NASA used boomerang-like aircraft, made of carbon fiber and Styrofoam, as an airborne cell phone tower. It was funky but graceful, with a wingspan of 247 feet and 14 electric propellers, but crashed into the Pacific near Kauai in 2003. Helios topped out at more than 96,000 feet, and was designed to stay in the air for at least 24 hours.
Flying something at those extreme altitudes, for long stretches, and on solar power, poses new challenges. For Helios, the killer was power storage. The team experimented with fuel cells, but batteries are a better choice. “Endurance is huge,” says Del Frate, who managed the program. “Anything you put up there has to be ultra-reliable. It’s kind of like your refrigerator, you just want to plug it in and forget it.”
Airbus started working on pseudo satellites in 2008, aiming to fill the “capability gap” between satellites in orbit and the low-altitude, limited drones of the day. In 2010, Zephyr 7 smashed the world record for longest flight without refueling (14 days). After that, the company decided to move to commercialization with two new models, the Zephyr Sand Zephyr T. The British Ministry of Defense has dibs on the first two S models, and will likely use them for surveillance. Airbus just tested a one-quarter scale model of the T, which will stretch the Zephyr S’s 82-foot wingspan to 108 feet. It will quadruple its payload capacity to 44 pounds, enough to carry the radar and other gear military customers will want to keep airborne.
The solar-powered planes are designed to cruise at around 65,000 feet, nearly twice the altitude of commercial airliners. The Zephyr 7 prototype can fly for 14 days on end. Airbus plans to get that up to at least a month.
To achieve that, the team is taking cues from nature, says Steve Whitby, head of business development for the Zephyr program. Instead of the upturned winglets now common on commercial aircraft, his aircraft sport downturned tips, like a buzzard’s wings. “Because of the speed we’re flying at, which is quite slow, we want to gain the maximum lift,” he says. This aerodynamic trick effectively gathers wind beneath the wings, for a 15 percent efficiency gain. Weighing as little as possible helps, too: The S model—which resembles a wire hanger that’s figured out how to fly—is just 143 pounds. The twin-tailed T weighs just over 300, counting its payload.
The biggest issue impacting endurance is what happens in the dark, when photovoltaic cells can’t generate power. A solar plane currently circumnavigating the planet offers one idea: Solar Impulse 2 spends the day at about 30,000 feet, then slowly descends to 5,000 at night, trading altitude for distance. Zephyr can’t drift down quite so much, or it will enter commercial airspace and spend all day returning to its operational height. Airbus says the electric propulsion it uses is already efficient, but expects improves as battery tech advances.
There’s plenty of competition here. The Solar Impulse team says its next project will focus on a lightweight solar drone capable of remaining aloft for six months. Google isexperimenting with high-altitude drones and balloons to provide wireless service. Facebook is developing a solar drone called Aquila, which would fly for three months at a time to provide Internet access to remote areas.
Airbus hopes to combine the lessons from Zephyr program with its experience building conventional satellites to launch and maintain a fleet of forever drones. This isn’t a concept anymore—the Zephyr Sis already in production, and before long will be pinging above our heads, just like Sputnik 1.
Airbus is developing a solar-powered drone that could spend years roaming the stratosphere—and may replace expensive satellites.
European aviation firm Airbus recently announced the successful maiden flight of its high-flying, solar-powered drone—the Zephyr T.
The success of this initiative would mean that the company is flying in the right direction with their ambitious dream of replacing the current webwork of space-based satellites with what they are calling “high altitude pseudo satellites.” These are essentially autonomous drones that would execute all the functions of current satellites, but at a drastically lower cost; and they could potentially operate for much longer periods than satellites, only returning occasionally for power and tech upgrades.
Airbus started developing pseudo satellites in 2008—bridging the gap between satellites in space and the drones flying above people’s roofs. The company made a world record in 2010 with the Zephyr 7, which flew for 14 days without refueling.
The solar-powered drones could be used for military monitoring, emergency communications, and even for high-speed internet connection.
Airbus is working on the endurance issue, or simply what happens to the solar-powered drone when there is no Sun. The company said the Zephyr’s electric propulsion is already efficient, but can still improve with battery tech advances.
In the meantime, we eagerly await a world where high-flying armadas of drones eliminate the dangers of space junk and declutter Low Earth Orbit.
Where to Spot UFOs (Infographic)
Seeking answers to unexplained observations would seem a part of the human DNA, with our search for the "God particle" and other truths motivating many a scientist. And while unexplained flying objects have no real science going for them, that hasn't stemmed any interest and want to believe in them.
And while UFO sightings abound all year, apparently there was a spike this August 2011. In fact, for some states the number of UFO sightings doubled compared with normal. "It's pretty exciting," said Clifford Clift, the international director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), told Life's Little Mysteries about the spike. "When you average 500 a month [nationwide] and go to 1,013 in one month, that's an interesting spike in sighting reports." (MUFON tracks UFO reports.)
Spikes in UFO sightings have various explanations, including the fact that they tend to appear high in the sky, so whatever is really causing the sight is in view of thousands of people. That means reports could be of the same incident or several. Movies and other media also can pique people's interest in aliens and UFOs.
In addition, flying objects lend themselves to UFO interpretations. For instance, last year, a cluster of silvery, shiny lights floated above Manhattan's Chelsea district set off claims of UFO sightings. Later officials from a school in Mount Vernon identified these flying objects as helium balloons that had escaped from an engagement party.
The sightings were very similar to a famous UFO report from New Jersey's Morris County on the evening of Jan. 5, 2009, when an 11-year-old girl noticed bright lights in the sky. The glowing, slowly moving, red lights were later explained as a hoax; two pranksters had tied road flares to helium balloons and released them "as a social experiment."
Such sightings have quite a history. The first reported incident of an alleged alien abduction occurred in the 1960s when Barney and Betty Hill claimed they had been abducted by aliens. They reportedly said they were pursued by a glowing UFO through parts of New Hampshire. The couple came to believe that they had been abducted by the UFO's occupants, who then erased their memories. With psychiatric help and under hypnosis, the couple reported full-blown, detailed "repressed memories" of their abduction.
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Editor's Note: This article was updated to clarify that the UFO sighting in the 1960s was the first alleged and reported alien abduction, which also included a UFO sighting.
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Second layer of information in DNA confirmed
Leiden theoretical physicists have proven that DNA mechanics, in addition to genetic information in DNA, determines who we are. Helmut Schiessel and his group simulated many DNA sequences and found a correlation between mechanical cues and the way DNA is folded. They have published their results in PLoS One.
When James Watson and Francis Crick identified the structure of DNA molecules in 1953, they revealed that DNA information determines who we are. The sequence of the letters G, A, T and C in the famous double helix determines what proteins are made ny our cells. If you have brown eyes, for example, this is because a series of letters in your DNA encodes for proteins that build brown eyes. Each cell contains the exact same letter sequence, and yet every organ behaves differently. How is this possible?
Mechanical cues
Since the mid 1980s, it has been hypothesized that there is a second layer of information on top of the genetic code consisting of DNA mechanical properties. Each of our cells contains two meters of DNA molecules, and these molecules need to be wrapped up tightly to fit inside a single cell. The way in which DNA is folded determines how the letters are read out, and therefore which proteins are actually made. In each organ, only relevant parts of the genetic information are read. The theory suggests that mechanical cues within the DNA structures determine how preferentially DNA folds.
Simulation
For the first time, Leiden physicist Helmut Schiessel and his research group provide strong evidence that this second layer of information indeed exists. With their computer code, they have simulated the folding of DNA strands with randomly assigned mechanical cues. It turns out that these cues indeed determine how the DNA molecule is folded into so-called nucleosomes. Schiessel found correlations between the mechanics and the actual folding structure in the genome of two organisms—baker's yeast and fission yeast. This finding reveals evolutionary changes in DNA—mutations—that have two very different effects: The letter sequence encoding for a specific protein can change, or the mechanics of the DNA structure can change, resulting in different packaging and levels of DNA accessibility, and therefore differing frequency of production of that protein.
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More information: Behrouz Eslami-Mossallam et al. Multiplexing Genetic and Nucleosome Positioning Codes: A Computational Approach, PLOS ONE (2016). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156905
Journal reference: PLoS ONE
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That’s No Moon. It’s an Alien Observatory Created to Keep an Eye on Us! (Video)
Sure, claiming the Moon is artificial might sound crazy, but why does it ring like a bell when struck?
Previous expeditions to the Moon have brought back considerable amount of information, but our planet’s natural satellite still remains mostly a mistery for researchers. The first man ever invested by NASA to head the Commission of Lunar Exploration, Dr. Jastrow, referred to the Moon as “ the Rosetta stone of the planets.”
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Meet the Igigi –The Ancient Astronauts who rebelled against the Anunnaki
It is said that the Igigi –they who turn and see—were the Ancient Astronaut Gods of the younger generation, the servants to the mighty Anunnaki who came to Earth to mine gold.
The terminology used to describe the gods is extremely complicated and still needs much study.- Researchers believe the term Igigi is of Semitic origin and indicates the group of gods in the Mesopotamian pantheon. It is still unclear which ancient gods belonged to the Igigi, but many scholars suggest Mardik –the patron god of the city of Babylon—was one of the Igigi.
Mainstream scholars use the term Igigi to make reference to the Sumerian mythological deities. According to mainstream scholars, mythologically speaking, the Igigi were the younger servants of the Anunnaki who initiated a rebellion against their masters and dictatorship of Enlil. Eventually, the Anunnaki replaced the Igigi with humans.
In the myth of Atrahasis –the Babylonian story of the Flood and a precursor to the flood story in the Gilgameš Ep– the Sumerian paradise is described as a garden where lower gods (the Igigi) were put to work digging a watercourse by their masters, the Anunnaki:
“When the gods like men bore the work and suffered the toil, the toil of the gods was great, the work was heavy; the distress was much.” (Source)
“The Seven great Anunnaki were making the Igigi suffer the work.” (lines 5-6) (Source)
“When the gods, man-like, Bore the labor, carried the load, The gods’ load was great, The toil grievous, the trouble excessive. The great Anunnaku, the Seven, Were making the Igigi undertake the toil.”
Ancient Astronaut hypothesis suggests that the Igigi were similar to the Anunnaki, remaining in constant orbit around our planet. They were basically considered as intermediaries between our planet and Nibiru –home of the Anunnaki.
Many believe that the Igigi remained in constant orbit around our planet in giant platforms which processed ores which were delivered from Earth. After processing the minerals, the material was transferred to other ships and eventually transported to the home planet of the Anunnaki.
The Igigi were apparently ever encountered by mankind. It is said that several texts make reference to them, saying the Igigi were “too high up for Mankind,” and consequently “ were not concerned with the people.”
After years of tenuous and hard work for the Anunnaki, the Igigi rebelled against their masters. It is sad that they ‘set fire to their tools and surrounded Enlil’s great house by night’ forcing the ancient Anunnaki to find another source of labor.
This is why the ancient Anunnaki replaced the Igigi after genetically engineering ancient humans creating a greater workforce.
Many authors suggest that the human ‘slave race’ was created after the ancient Anunnaki genetically modified their genes and that of early humans nearly 500,000 years ago.
When Disclosure Serves Secrecy
When Disclosure Serves Secrecy
by Steven M. Greer M.D.
Born : June 28, 1955
Ending the secrecy surrounding the UFO/ET subject is a laudable goal. It is long overdue. It would transform the world in ways both simple and profound.
And yet it is fraught with danger.
The covert projects which have been running UFO related programs for nearly 60 years are not interested in a disclosure which upsets their apple cart. They want such a disclosure to transform their apple cart into a freight train. And they potentially have the power and connections to do it.
There are multiple scenarios attending the disclosure of the UFO subject- and not all of them have the best interests of humanity at heart. Elsewhere, in the new book Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications I write about the kind of disclosure the world needs. An honest one. An open one. One which replaces secrecy with democracy. A disclosure which is peaceful, scientific and hopeful.
But then there is the disclosure the powers that be would like to see: Manipulated. Calculated to consolidate power and engender fear. Configured in such a way that chaos and a deepening need for Big Brother is carefully inculcated into the masses.
We have seen the plans and it is not a pretty picture.
I write this as a warning. A warning that the wolves in sheep clothes are very cunning indeed. And have almost limitless resources. Most who work with them do not even know they are wolves. Indeed, it is likely that many of the wolves have been convinced that they are sheep.
The UFO matter is not so much a mystery as a matter deliberately obfuscated and mystified. Confusion and a lack of clarity serves the larger covert goal of keeping it off the long-range radar of society while power and plans are consolidated quietly. And the one thing more dangerous to society than all this secrecy is a planned, contrived disclosure run by the keepers of the secrets.
For years such plans have been made - to be unfurled at just the right time. During a time of great expectation. Of social confusion. Perhaps of millennial madness?
I have personally met with a number of people who are very involved with such plans. I do not speculate here. Be aware: The disclosure of UFO reality is being planned very carefully. It will assiduously follow a scheme to spin the subject in just the right way - the only way which will further redound to the glory and power of the secret-keepers. It will be a false disclosure - one born out of the age-old bane of human existence: selfishness and greed. Greed for power. Greed for control. Greed for domination.
In "Hidden Truth – Forbidden Knowledge" Dr. Greer provides his own personal disclosure based on years of high-level meetings with over 450 military and government-connected insiders and whistle-blowers and briefings with senior government officials, such as former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, members of the US Senate and senior UN officials.
In addition to these disclosures, "Hidden Truth – Forbidden Knowledge" unveils the actual contact experiences Dr. Greer has had with UFOs and Extraterrestrial Civilizations, beginning as a young child. In one of the most amazing and moving personal stories ever shared, he explains how after a prolonged near-death experience at age 17, he experienced cosmic consciousness and found the Rosetta Stone of ET contact: the power of the unbounded mind within each of us. Later this led to numerous Close Encounters of the 5th Kind: contact with ETs initiated by Dr. Greer and later by larger groups of people through the CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project.
We must be mature and informed on such matters. Only a vigilant and informed public can see through such deceit - and correct it should such a plan be unfurled. Every citizen needs to know that great good can come from the truth being known. But the mature citizen must also recognize that the 'truth' can be spun and spun again - until the goals of those who crave secret and overt power are met.
Consider: One scenario for disclosure is that the UFO and Extraterrestrial subject is acknowledged in a way which is scientific and hopeful. Excessive secrecy which lacks executive branch and congressional oversight is ended. Humanity begins to entertain open contact with other civilizations, with peaceful engagement as the goal. Technologies which are currently suppressed are allowed to be disseminated: Pollution ends. An economy of abundance and social justice is firmly established. Global environmental destruction and mind-numbing world poverty become a faint memory. Zero-point based energy devices transform the world. Electro-gravitic devices permit above ground travel without paving over the world's precious fertile farm land. As an ET once told Colonel Philip Corso, "Its a new world, if you can take it...". This is the disclosure which we are working for.
But the disclosure envisioned above could have happened in 1950. It did not - Why? For such a disclosure would lead to the total transformation of the status quo. Centralized energy systems would be obsolete. Oil would be useful only for lubricants and synthetics. The geo-political order of today would be a thing forgotten: Every country and people on Earth would have such a high degree of progress and advancement that all nations would have a seat at the global table. Power would need to be shared. Peaceful acknowledgment of life from elsewhere would make the Earth seem like the very small, organic homeland which it is. The vast trillion dollar global military - industrial sector would be reigned in. And a universal spirituality might dawn...
But remember, there are hugely powerful interests who dread this scenario. For them, it is the end of the world as they know it. The end of centralized, elite power. The end of a controlled geo-political order which today leaves nearly 90% of the people of Earth barely one step out of the stone age. And they do not wish to share the power they wield.
Now, let me describe the 'disclosure' which would make these covert control programs happy. This is the false or contrived 'disclosure' which has only one clear goal: The further consolidation of their power and their paradigm. It has to do with fear, not love. With war, not peace. With division and conflict, not unity. It is the dominant paradigm - but it is slipping away slowly. And a carefully orchestrated disclosure of the 'facts' of the UFO and ET subject could secure their power. This is the disclosure which is to be dreaded. This is the disclosure to watch out for. This is the disclosure which is already occurring.
My meetings over the past 9 years with covert operatives who have worked on UFO related programs have introduced me to some characters right out of a spy novel - and then some. Whether in private high tech industry, at the Pentagon or at a midnight meeting in a private mansion, a theme has emerged. It is one of immense, though currently hidden, power. It transcends government as we know it (at this point the government of 'We the people...' has been made irrelevant on this issue). And the theme has two main strands - the eventual covert militarization of the ET subject and a weird covert religious strain which can only be viewed as bizarre.
Here, we find some very strange bed-fellows indeed. War mongers and militarists in cahoots with industrialists who share a certain bizarre eschatological bent: A dark view of the future, featuring an extraterrestrial Armageddon - or at least the threat of it. Such a theme supports retrograde and fanatical religious causes as well as deeply covert military-industrial plans to expand the arms race into space.
In fact, the big players in the so-called 'civilian UFO community' are tied into such beliefs and agendas. It strains credulity, I admit, but here is what we have found by penetrating these operations.
From a military-industrial perspective, the disclosure of choice is one which frames the UFO/ET issue in a threatening manner. If a threat from space can be established (as President Reagan liked to say) then the entire world can be united around the need to fight such a threat. This would ensure trillion dollar plus military - industrial spending well into the next century, and beyond. If you think the cold war was costly, wait until you see the price tag for this 'protection' from the 'threats' in space: The trillions spent on the cold war will look like a blue light special.
Retrograde and fanatical religious groups, similarly, have great vested interests in fulfilling the promise of Armageddon. An eschatological paradigm, well enshrined in the belief systems of those running covert UFO projects, is supported by the portrayal of a cosmic conflict in the heavens. Voila! We have the necessity of spinning the UFO/ET issue in the evil invading aliens (translates in religious terms as demons) direction. Indeed, this has already been accomplished, courtesy of the 'civilian UFO community' and the tabloid media (swhich at this point is virtually all media...).
Additionally, there is a subtext which can only be viewed as thinly veiled racism. You will note that part of the 'new myth' regarding UFOs involves the 'good ETs', which invariably are described as 'Pleidians' who are 'handsome' white, blue-eyed Aryan appearing types. Naturally, those 'evil, bad ETs' are darker, shorter, look funny and smell funny. Please. Such clap-trap would have us trade age-old human racism for an extraterrestrial variety. This nonsense and propaganda could only make Hitler proud.
In one lengthy meeting with a multi-billionaire, I was told that he gave great support to UFO activities which propel the so-called 'alien abduction' subject into public awareness because he wanted humanity to unite around fighting this 'alien threat'. Later, this very influential figure informed me that he believed these demonic ETs were the cause of every setback in human history since Adam and Eve. Sound familiar?
Military interests, which are heavily involved in covert projects which hoax ET events, such as human military- related abductions, have a shared goal of demonizing the UFO/ET phenomenon. Doing so lays the foundations for the fear and dread necessary for an organized opposition to all things ET. And this subserves the longterm need to provide a rationale for an expanding global military even should world peace emerge. In fact, under this scenario, 'world peace', or strictly speaking peace on Earth, could be secured by the world uniting, eventually, against the 'threat from space' referred to by resident Reagan. (By the way, personally I believe Reagan was the victim of disinformation specialists who surrounded him and who manipulated him into the statements he made on this subject.)
Under this scenario, currently being gamed and 'disclosed' courtesy of the trial balloon UFO 'community', we would get peace on Earth - in exchange for interplanetary conflict. One step forward, ten steps back. Wonderful.
Such a false and contrived 'disclosure of the truth' regarding UFOs and ETs would, then, subserve agendas held by powerful covert interests in both the military-industrial sector and those of a strange collection of religious fanatics, who pine for Armageddon - and the sooner the better.
Lest the reader think such a strange amalgam of militarists and cult-like religious interests are unlikely, remember the weird views of the Third Reich. Or more recently, the views of one US Department of the Interior cabinet secretary during the Reagan years named James Watt. It was he who, not knowing a microphone was still on and recording his comments, stated in the 1980s that we did not need to worry about all these environmental problems since Armageddon was coming soon and the world would be destroyed anyway...This bizarre view, held by a man who shaped and applied policy for the Interior Department of the US Government, was later reported in the general media. At the time a comical footnote perhaps. But what does it say about the degree to which such beliefs may be shaping covert UFO policy - and specifically disclosure plans? We have found that such views - bizarre as they may seem to most - are heavily represented in covert policy development on the UFO subject.
And most disconcerting of all: This strange mixture of military cosmic saber-rattling and bizarre religious beliefs are the dominant forces shaping both the 'civilian UFO community' and the planned eventual 'spin' on UFO disclosure. Let the buyer beware.
To the rational and intellectual, such views seem ridiculous. Why, you might ask, would anyone want a cosmic war in space, an Armageddon and the destruction of the Earth? To comprehend this, you have to get inside the head of people who hold such beliefs - people like James Watt. In his case, why worry about a little bit of deforestation, air pollution and areas of dead oceans if the entire world is going to be destroyed in a couple of years anyway?
But the thinking goes further than this. Because such fanatical thinking has within it the concept that as a result of the Armageddon we will see the return of Christ- and with it the good people's salvation. Now, people are free to believe what they want. But what we have found is a deliberate influencing of covert policy on UFOs by such beliefs. Some of these people want Armageddon - and they want it ASAP.
Strictly speaking, the militarists and war-mongers, itching to 'kick some alien butt' as it was said in the movie Independence Day, may actually only want a pretext to justify their existence and get the world to eventually spend huge sums of money on a perceived (if contrived) threat from space.
But in some cases - high up on the food chain of the covert entity running UFO secrecy - the two views meet. A place where militarism and eschatology merge. Where Star Wars and Armageddon join.
In tracing the history of both the UFO civilian community and the covert policy-making group concerned with UFOs, we have found a growing penetration of the latter into the former. So much so that at this point there are projects which ostensibly are innocent civilian initiatives but which in reality are totally controlled and financed by 'cut-outs' from ultra-secret projects.
Moreover, our careful penetration of such projects yielded the disturbing finding that deep-cover black project operatives are working closely with alleged civilian researchers, journalists and UFO glitterati. CIA and military intelligence operatives are working with civilian 'think tank' heads, alongside very wealthy business people who are eschatologists, and being advised by 'civilian' technologists and scientists - who are themselves proponents of bizarre religious belief systems involving the end of the world and ETs...
Thus, the new 'chosen ones' have been assembled. They are planning your disclosure on the UFO/ET subject. They are owned by the money whores and power brokers doing the bidding of the secret entity which runs UFO projects to begin with. And it all looks like a civilian initiative. So innocent. So well-intended. So 'scientific'. And by the way, the sky is falling courtesy of ET and we need your money and your souls to defend against it.
Do not be deceived. You need to be awake to the darker scenarios which some would like to thrust upon the world. And you need to know that there are alternatives. If a 'disclosure' is unleashed on the world which is xenophobic, militaristic and terrifying, know that it comes from the spinmeisters of secrecy- regardless of how respectable the person or group may appear to be.
And remember: Part of this disclosure plan involves the use of UFO look-alike devices made by humans in an attack on Earth or military assets of Earth. This would be a well-orchestrated use of advanced human technologies to hoax an ET attack- all for the purpose of disclosing the truth with the desired military-oriented spin. In such a scenario, most of humanity will be deceived into believing the threat from space has arrived - and that we must fight it at all costs. This is nothing more than long-term social security for the military-industrial complex. There must be people who can expose this fraud.
But why should we wait for these darker scenarios to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world?
Here is another idea: Why don't 'we the people' unite and launch a disclosure which resembles the first one described above. An honest one. One which leads to peace, not war. To a sustainable and beautiful world, free of pollution and brimming with abundance, of all types. One which reaches out into the unknown, instead of firing particle beam weapons into the darkness of space.
Additionally, we welcome those who can come forward with first hand knowledge of the machinations referred to in this paper and who wish to expose such madness to contact us. The one thing the darkness of secrecy cannot tolerate is a spotlight shining right on it. And the more of us holding the light, the better.
Evil steps in when good people do nothing. This is a lesson taught through thousands of years of human history. We stand at the beginning of a new time, and a new world awaits us. But we must embrace it, and help create it. For if we are passive, others will have their way- at least in the short run.
Proof of Alien Life: Aliens Hidden on Distant Diamond and Graphite Planets?
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Life in the early universe might have formed on carbon planets made of carbides, graphite, and diamond, according to a study accepted for publication and is available online in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The study’s researchers from Harvard University claim this indicates that even planets that contain minute amounts of carbon can still support life.
“This work shows that even stars with a tiny fraction of the carbon in our solar system can host planets,” adds the study’s lead author Natalie Mashian, a graduate student from Harvard University. “We have good reason to believe that alien life will be carbon-based, like life on Earth, so this also bodes well for the possibility of life in the early universe.”
The research team suggests that ancient CEMP stars or carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars, formed before heavy metals crucial for life on Earth, were spread throughout the universe that influenced planet formation by clumping carbon dust grains together to form carbon planets. Although theseplanets would be considered as tar-black worlds with the same size and mass as other Earth-like worlds, these are still capable of sustaining life.
Artist’s concept of Earth vs 55 Cancri e, which mass could be in the form of diamond.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
“These stars are fossils from the young universe,” says Mashian’s Ph.D. thesis advisor Avi Loeb from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “By studying them, we can look at how planets, and possibly life in the universe, got started.”
If this theory turns out to be true, astronomers still need to assess the tar-black planets’ atmosphere to determine other details they do not know about. However, they think that the planets’ atmosphere contain huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide.
Finding these planets could be possible using the transit technique. This technique is the same method used by scientists to detect other exoplanets, which Loeb asserts is a practical method for analyzing how early planets could have formed during the universe’s infancy.
Latest UFO Sighting Spooks Experts: 1980 Diamond Alien Returns?
A UFO spotted near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, about ten miles from Dayton, Ohio, is building a lot of traction over the internet. The mysterious object was filmed by a Dayton couple while they were looking at the sunset from their home, according to Daily Mail.
The video footage shows the object having a pointed end downwards; hanging in the sky and moving slowly. It shows some strange markings on its surface.
“What the f*** is that? ” says the woman. “It looks like it’s moving with the clouds.”
After some time, the object disappears into the clouds. “Oh my god, it f****** disappeared,” says another onlooker.
The couple recorded the video last week on Wednesday, May 25. They sent it to different alien investigation websites, including Tyler Glockner of Secure Team 10.
Describing the object, Glockner called it mind-blowing. He said that the object had no sound and was solid. It seems to be the same object spotted two times a month ago near Dayton, Ohio. It is the third sighting by a different source.
While showing other older sightings, he said: ’It’s the same UFO. I am simply amazed, we have someone corroborating this sighting.”
However, he said that the object could be an engineered aircraft on trial by some black project over the military base.
‘There is no doubt in my mind this is either an alien craft or a very very strange drone – which I highly doubt.” he said at the end of the video.
The strange UFO sightings are not new at Airforce Base. Since 1947, the base has been witnessing several bizarre objects near the area. Between 1947 and 1969, the airbase recorded 12,618 sightings. Out of those, 701 were tagged as unidentified. All were recorded in Project Blue Book, a record book for UFO sightings and investigation, according to USA Today.
The base came into the highlight after John Greenewald, an amateur historian, shared 100,000 pages of documents at his website The Black Vault.
The First 3D Photos Reveal What Is Located In One Of The Oldest Pyramids
Using cosmic rays, thermal cameras and lasers, a team of experts made 3D maps which show the internal structure of one of the oldest Egyptian pyramids.
An international team of archaeologists discovered the first performance of the Bent Pyramid in Dashur, from which have developed 3D photos. So they approached the public to look at the inner chambers of the buildings old 4,600 years.
Bent Pyramid is one of the earliest built in the time of the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu, father of Khufu. This pyramid has two entrances that open to two lanes, leading to two burial chambers, placed one above the other.
Tajoubi Mehdi, head of Egypt’s “Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute”, said plates placed 40 days inside the pyramid collected data on the particles that make up the bulk of the cosmic radiation that reaches Earth’s surface. The particles fall through empty space, but also absorb and other surfaces. A study of the deposition of particles on the surface, scientists have concluded much about the construction of the pyramids.
“We analyzed more than 10 million tracks of particles. Based on the number and angle which they are deployed, we could reconstruct a picture. It is the first time in history in this way to be discovered the inside of the pyramid,” explained Tajoubi, adding that the idea the project is to find an answer to the mystery of the pyramids, or how they were built. It is thought that Sneferu was buried inside the hidden chamber in the pyramid, but it has denied so far.
3D scanning technology and lasers will be used to study the hidden chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun, which is believed to have belonged to Queen Nefertiti, says Daily mail.
They Found A New Earth: NASA Says There Is A Sensational Discovery!
Telescope “Kepler” discovered something very important, so the experts of the space agency announced that their findings will be publish on May 10.
Having launched in 2009, the telescope “Kepler” discovered more than 1,000 exoplanets, and several thousand await confirmation.
But this latest find is so large that it was announced that there will be press conference. Everything is still kept in secret and there are not any details, but we know that NASA organize such conferences for only major findings, as when it was discovered water on Mars.
Some speculate that the discovery is linked with the planet “Kepler 452B” which is considered to be the twin of our Earth, and that they found atmosphere on her or some form of life. Others say that “new Earth” has been found which could have life conditions.
4 Weird “Clues” That Parallel Universes Exist
Bricked Sky – Cameron Russell
The scientific possibility of parallel universes first arrived with Hugh Everett III’s Relative State Formulation in 1957. Not long after, Bryce Seligman DeWitt renamed Everett’s theory and introduced it to the masses, bringing us the popular term Many-worlds Interpretation.
But there are others, each attempting to solve the quantum measurement problem and, in this case, Everett’s formulation. These include the Many-minds interpretation and, my personal favorite, Many-histories.
Interpretations of interpretations, yeah. It’s very messy.
But for now, any thoughts of dimension-hopping adventures and interacting with parallel universes are relegated to science fiction. It’s just not possible.
Or is it?
Let’s take a quick look at some of the weirder “clues” that maybe, just maybe, we’re living in one of many worlds.
So here’s a snapshot of an alleged ghost that popped up at the 16th Century palace of King Henry VIII. It appeared on CCTV footage after security guards were notified of someone repeatedly opening the fire exit. (And I’m not saying this is an actual ghost…just using it as an example).
Beyond ghostly photographs, though, many of these sightings could have an even more exotic explanation: parallel worlds bleeding into one another. A ghost, a specter, the haunting visage of the deceased — perhaps this person is alive and well in another world, and you’ve simply caught a glimpse into their universe.
Or perhaps this particular “parallel universe” is the realm of the dead, itself!
A Déjà vu is one of several strange phenomena of the mind (including Déjà vecu and Déjà Visité, among others). Déjà vu, in particular, is the uncanny sensation that you’ve experienced something before, that an event is repeating itself. With Déjà vecu, you may even feel that you know what’s going to happen next.
An Alter vu, as well, is a term that popped up during the John Titor saga to describe when someone remembers their worldline differently. Conflicting memories, something changed about the world they live in. Think about Marty McFly at the end of Back to the Future; he’d remember the name of the mall as Twin Pines Mall, but due to his time travel, it’s changed to Lone Pine Mall.
He remembers both realities.
Both experiences have neurological and memory-based explanations, but is it possible that Déjà vus are “memories” from other versions of ourselves in other universes, or that Alter vus are truly memories from altered worldlines?
If sleep is a little slice of death, then what are dreams?
Some dreams we remember, most we don’t. While the mechanism for dreaming is fairly understood (they tend to occur during REM sleep), we still don’t know their true purpose, if there is one. A glimpse into the unconsious mind, a way for our brains to sort out information?
Or could they be windows into another world?
Believe it or not, there have been a few cases of individuals who claim to belong to another world, or whose origins otherwise could not be traced. True, false, I don’t know.
Consider these two stories:
1. Lerina García, who woke up one day in a world — our world — that did not belong to her.
According to the story, as her day progressed she continued to notice “small incongruities,” little things that were just off. But there were big things, too:
“So I went to work in my car, which was parked where I’d always parked, and it was the same office I’d worked in for the last 20 years. But when I got to my department, it wasn’t my department. It has names on the door and mine wasn’t on it. I thought I was on the wrong floor, but no, it was my own floor. I went over to the office’s wireless section and looked myself up. I still worked there, but in another department, reporting to a superior I didn’t even know.”
2. A strange man who arrived in Tokyo in 1954 with a passport from a country that didn’t exist, called Taured. Japanese customs officials detained the man, but his passport was not a fake: it had the proper stamps, was issued by the country of Taured, and even included Japanese stamps from a previous visit. The man swore that Taured was a European country that had existed for 1,000 years, and he also held other papers, such as bank statements, with the country’s name on them.
After several hours, customs officials eventually placed the man in a hotel, with security nearby to ensure that he did not leave his room, while they checked things out.
The next morning, he was gone. No trace. A manhunt ensued, but there was no point; he had simply vanished.
Obviously, the veracity of these two stories can’t be confirmed, at least to my knowledge. But you work with what you have, you know?
So, do parallel universes exist?
The above “clues” are just some possibilities that I find intriguing, not that I believe any of them. But the universe is a strange place. What do you believe?
New Algorithm Will Allow Humans to ‘See’ Black Holes
The algorithm is called Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction, or CHIRP. CHIRP will act as one large telescope, piecing together information collected from radio telescopes on the Earth’s surface. An image of a black hole will be created by filtering data and removing all atmospheric sound and interference.
“Ze hielden me in de gaten”: Bokslegende Muhammad Ali zag meerdere UFO’s, waaronder moederschip
Bokslegende Muhammad Ali, die afgelopen vrijdag op 74-jarige leeftijd overleed, was er heilig van overtuigd dat UFO’s bestaan. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
UFO-expert en schrijver Timothy Green Beckley had vanwege zijn fascinatie voor aliens meerdere ontmoetingen met het boksicoon. “Ali claimde zelfs een enorm UFO-moederschip te hebben gezien, dat hij in de gaten werd gehouden door aliens en dat buitenaardse bezoekers ‘van ongelooflijk groot belang zijn voor de wereld’,” zei hij.
In een ontroerend eerbetoon aan de bokser en mensenrechtenactivist haalt Green Beckley passages uit een boek aan dat hij schreef over beroemdheden die geïnteresseerd zijn in buitenaards leven.
“Van alle beroemde mensen met wie ik heb gesproken over UFO’s en theorieën over buitenaardse beschavingen en leven in de ruimte, wist de gepensioneerde wereldkampioen in het zwaargewicht Muhammad Ali het meeste over het onderwerp,” schreef hij. Green Beckley had vier ontmoetingen met Ali waarin werd gesproken over aliens.
Ali haalde het nieuws toen hij claimde samen met zijn trainer niet één, maar twee UFO’s boven New York City te hebben gezien. Hij zei dat meerdere mensen melding hadden gemaakt van de UFO’s, waaronder een piloot die op weg was naar Newark Airport. “Dit is geen grap. Al mijn vrienden hier hebben het gezien,” vertelde hij aan Green Beckley.
Ali claimde daarop dat UFO’s hem ‘al enige tijd in de gaten hielden’. Hij zei eens een sigaarvormig schip te hebben gezien boven een auto waar hij in zat. “Wat een prachtig gezicht was dat. We konden de schaduw die de UFO op de zijkant van de weg wierp duidelijk zien.”
UFO-verkenningsschip (Timothy Green Beckley)
De bokslegende maakte ook een tekening van wat volgens hem een UFO-verkenningsschip was. De drie bollen stellen het landingsgestel voor. “Deze verkenners zijn hier om hun voorraad zuurstof aan te vullen,” zei Ali. “Wijlen profeet Elijah Muhammad – mijn religieuze leider – zei dat Ezechiël’s wiel uit de Bijbel de eerste verwijzing ooit is naar UFO’s.”
Green Beckley ziet Ali als een geloofwaardige getuige. “Hij sprak eigenlijk alleen over zijn ervaringen als er iemand bij was die het verhaal kon bevestigen.”
“Ik zeg wat ik denk omdat ik heb ontdekt dat er zoveel andere mensen zijn die iets soortgelijks hebben gezien,” citeerde Green Beckley Ali. “De laatste jaren heb ik veel lezingen gegeven op universiteiten en ik merk dat studenten erg openstaan voor dit soort dingen. Ik hoop dat anderen in de toekomst gaan luisteren omdat ik ervan overtuigd ben dat UFO’s van ongelooflijk groot belang zijn voor de wereld.”
Ophefmakende publicatie: Ons DNA heeft mogelijk buitenaardse oorsprong
In een ophefmakende publicatie toonden Franse wetenschappers onlangs aan dat ribose, een suikerbouwsteen van genetisch materiaal in levende organismen, zich mogelijk in kometenijs heeft gevormd.
Het genetische materiaal van alle levende organismen op aarde is opgebouwd uit DNA en het meer primitieve RNA. Dat laatste wordt verondersteld één van de eerste moleculen te zijn die leven op aarde kenmerkt.
Ribose, een sleutelcomponent van RNA, was nog nooit in buitenaards materiaal gedetecteerd of in een laboratorium onder ‘astrofysische omstandigheden’ geproduceerd. Tot nu toe. Door het simuleren van kometenijs hebben de Franse onderzoekers aangetoond dat ribose succesvol kan worden verkregen.
“Dit overtreft onze stoutste verwachtingen,” zei Uwe Meierhenrich van de Universiteit van Nice.
Uit nieuw onderzoek van de Universiteit Parijs-Saclay blijkt nu dat ons DNA door een komeet naar de aarde zijn gebracht. Onderzoekers hebben namelijk bewezen dat ribose, een enkelvoudige suiker waar het grootste deel van ons DNA uit bestaat, zich kan vormen op een komeet.
Wetenschappers van het Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale en het Institut de Chimie de Nice hebben ontdekt dat de nucleïnezuren waar het DNA uit bestaat mogelijk geen aardse oorsprong hebben.
De jonge zon werd in eerste instantie omringd door een wolk van gas en stof. Kleine, bevroren hemellichamen klonterden samen en vormden planeten, waarbij veel chemische verbindingen ontstonden.
De onderzoekers simuleerden deze omstandigheden. Op het moment dat een komeet dichter bij de zon kwam en opwarmde, werden ribose en andere suikers gedetecteerd. Voorheen werd gedacht dat ribose de voorloper van DNA was, maar het nieuwe onderzoek laat zien dat er tenminste drie andere kandidaten zijn die daarvoor in aanmerking komen en die mogelijk nog ouder zijn.
Tijdens het experiment is bovendien suiker geproduceerd uit formaldehyde, iets wat door scheikundigen altijd onmogelijk werd geacht. Hoewel bekend was dat formaldehyde kan bestaan op kometen, dacht men niet dat het de drijfveer kon zijn achter de vorming van ribose.
Retired astronaut charged with murder in crash that killed 2 girls, June 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Triangle UFO under 500 feet over rural Ohio
An Ohio witness in Shelby County reported watching a low flying, black, triangle-shaped UFO that silently moved overhead, according to testimony in Case 76700 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Sidney, OH, pictured from the east, is the county seat of Shelby County. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was outside assembling a kid’s swimming pool at 8:40 p.m. on May 27, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I saw a black object coming towards my backyard that was flying close,” the witness stated. “I thought it was a motorized glider.”
As the object moved over the witnesses’ yard, he realized it was not a motorized glider.
“My son asked,‘Dad, what is that?’ I said,‘I have no idea of what it is.’ I said it’s an alien. The object made no noise. It was black.”
The witness first thought the low-flying object was a motorized glider. (Credit: Google)
The witness asked his kids to go inside and get his wife.
“I really have no idea of what it is. I told my parents the next day I saw a weird object in the sky. The object was just floating in the sky and going northwest.”
The witness report indicates the object was moving less than 500 feet overhead. Ohio Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky is investigating.
The object moved overhead under 500 feet. (Credit: Google)
Shelby County is in west-central Ohio, with a population of 49,423. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Arizona witness videotapes red lights UFO over Mesa
An Arizona witness at Mesa reported watching and videotaping two red lights in a vertical position moving northwest to east, according to testimony in Case 46492 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The Mesa, AZ, witness watched the two lights positioned vertically from each other for more than 15 minutes. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged photo from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness videotaped more than 15 minutes beginning at 9:50 p.m. on March 16, 2013, from a second floor apartment complex along Lindsey at U.S. Route 60.
“I was going to close the blinds in my daughter’s room when the incident occurred,” the witness stated.“The reason I find this interesting is that there are two red, vertical lights that slowly moved from the northwest to the east. Possibly coming from the Anthem, Cave Creek area headed toward Superstition Mountains.”
The witness was comparing light colors to known objects.
“An aircraft is supposed to have green lights on this side. Red was the only light visible throughout the whole recording and it was steady and never rotated or moved out of position. At about 11 minutes into filming the top light begin to fade and then went out. At 15 minutes, 20 seconds, the second light began to fade and then went out. Near the end of the filming I do show an aircraft landing at Falcon Field.”
The witness has an aviation background and could not identify the object. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged photo from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness has an aviation background.
“I have 21 years in naval aviation as an Aviation Ordnanceman working on fixed and rotary wing aircraft and their weapons; and six years in the aerospace industry. Three of those were manufacturing military helicopters and three were in Iraq and Afghanistan as a contractor with numerous Army Medivac Units. I have been in combat situations both in the Navy and as a contractor. With all this said, I know for a fact these are not military flares or other ordnance. As far as an air ship, balloon or other type of aircraft, I am 99 percent sure it is not. I do not know of any aircraft like this or that has formation lights like this and/or then extinguishes itself. There were no clouds or haze this night. It was a comfortable cool air. As far as a shape, I could not tell. I did try to look for something that would identify its shape and transparency but did not find any evidence of it. It was too far away to determine if it had a sound. I can only guesstimate the object(s) were 8-10 miles from me.”
Field Investigator Sandra Anthony investigated for Arizona MUFON and closed this case as an Unknown.
“Another sighting of most likely the same object from that evening was filed as Case #46242, which occurred at 9 p.m., Anthony wrote in her report.“The field investigator, Snow, concluded that it was an Unknown. This investigator also determined that there were three additional reports of this object that were not reported to MUFON.”
The Field Investigator stated that the wind direction at the time of the sighting indicates this is not a sky lantern. Pictured: Still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Anthony also noted weather information during the time of the sighting: 75 degrees, 3.5 mph winds out of the east-southeast, clear sky.
“Wind direction would not indicate sky lanterns, etc.,” Anthony stated.
UFO Sighting Over Mountains In Denizi, Turkey On June 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Here’s How SpaceX Plans to get to Mars in Two Years
SpaceX is outlining how it plans to deliver on CEO Elon Musk's declarations regarding sending a spacecraft to Mars in 2018, which would be a precedent to its succeeding plans of safely transporting people to the planet in 2025.
Reusable rockets are one of the world’s biggest breakthroughs the past years. Instead of being destroyed, discarded, and forgotten after their maiden voyage, rockets can be launched, refueled and reused for another trip.
SpaceX is one of the leading companies building these rockets. That is because CEO Elon Musk plans on not only flying people to Mars and back, but also colonizing the red planet. In this year’s Code Conference, Musk declared that SpaceX will be sending a test ship to Mars in 2018, followed by a spacecraft to transport people on the Red Planet on 2025.
Getting the spacecraft to Mars is far easier than landing it. This stems from the fact that Mars has an atmosphere that is 1000 times thinner than Earth’s. Therefore, if something goes wrong, and the people in the spacecraft are lucky enough to be within Mars’ atmosphere when it happens, parachutes will not be able to save them.
Watch the video with Musk’s plans to overcome the immense challenges of Martian terrain, and safely sending people to Mars…and back.
Meet THOR—a Lightweight Mini-Plane Fresh out of the 3D Printer
Airbus introduces the aviation world to a mini-plane called THOR (Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality). It is the first aircraft to be produced using 3D printing technology.
Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer, has just unleashed THOR—Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality—a miniature aircraft constructed from 3D printing technology. The windowless, pilotless, and propeller-driven THOR weighs in at 21 kg, and measures less than 4 m long.
Though it is much smaller than a regular jet, THOR is capable of stable flight and even promises to save on time, fuel and money.
The Airbus THOR 3D-printed aircraft was unveiled this month at the International Aerospace Exhibition in Germany.
Credit: Tobias Schwarz / AFP
The majority of THOR’s parts are extruded out of a 3D printer from a substance called polyamide. The only parts of the plane that aren’t printed are its electrical elements.
The use of 3D printing technology in the field of aviation presents many benefits. Jens Henzler of the Hofmann Innovation Group, a leading supplier of automotive plastic components, says, “The printed pieces have the advantage of requiring no tools and…they can be made very quickly.”
Aside from the speedy production of parts, the metal components created from 3D printing technology are lighter than traditionally-manufactured parts by 30-50%. 3D-printed components also eliminate manufacturing waste and cut manufacturing costs.
Credit: Tobias Schwarz / AFP
Engineers also have plans to apply this technology to spacecraft. In fact, the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to begin using the Airbus Ariane 6 rocket in 2020, which will feature many printed components and potentially halve the costs incurred by its predecessor, the Ariane 5.
The latest 3D printers are capable of printing longer and more complex designs. Airbus is exploring this by testing methods enabling them to print an injection assembly for an engine, reducing the number of individual pieces from 270 to just three.
And because 3D-printed aircraft are lighter, they require less fuel, reducing carbon emissions and other pollutants from being released into the environment. As air traffic is expected to double in the next 20 years, reducing the carbon footprint in aviation is a priority. Ralf Fuecks—head of the Heinrich Boell foundation think tank of the German Green Party—says, “the decisive issue is radical technical innovation in a relatively short time.”
He may have a point. A survey of air industry insiders reveals that many believe that, by 2030, most spare aircraft parts will be printed on site at the airport, and that even the aircraft themselves will be entirely 3D-printed.
FIVE GOOD REASONS TO BELIEVE IN UFOS
As most credible UFOlogists readily admit, proving that extraterrestrial spacecraft have visited our planet is a maddeningly difficult chore.
“The hassle over the word 'proof' boils down to one question: What constitutes proof?” Edward J. Ruppelt, who headed the U.S Air Force’s secret investigation of UFOs in the early 1950s, once wrote. “Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the Pentagon, near the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices? Or is it proof when a ground radar station detects a UFO, sends a jet to intercept it, the jet pilot sees it, and locks on with his radar, only to have the UFO streak away at a phenomenal speed? Is it proof when a jet pilot fires at a UFO and sticks to his story even under the threat of court-martial? Does this constitute proof?”
More recently, Investigative journalist Leslie Keen, author of the 2011 book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record,” has noted that in roughly 90 to 95 percent of UFO sightings, observers turn out actually to have seen weather balloons, ball lightning, flares, aircraft, and other mundane phenomena. But another five to 10 percent of sightings are not so easily explainable, but that’s not the same as demonstrating that they are extraterrestrial in origin. Nevertheless, she argues, the hypothesis that UFOs are visitors from other worlds “is a rational one, and must be taken into account, given the data that we have.”
Here is some of the most compelling reasons that UFOs may be more than simple misidentifications of natural phenomena or terrestrial aircraft:
• The long, documented history of sightings.
UFOs were around, in fact, long before humans themselves took to the air. The first account of a UFO sighting in America was back in 1639, when Massachusetts colony governor John Winthrop noted in his journal that one James Everell, “a sober, discreet man,” and two other witnesses watched a luminous object fly up and down the Muddy River near Charlestown for two to three hours. There are documented sightings of what were then called “airships” during the 1800s as well, such as the July 1884 sighting of a Saturn-shaped UFO (a ball surrounded by a ring) in Norwood, NY, and a fast-moving object that briefly hovered over the startled townspeople of Everest, KS in 1897.
• Numerous modern sightings by credible, well-trained professional observers.
In Ruppelt’s 1955 book , “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,” he documented numerous instances of military service members, military and civilian pilots, scientists and other credible professionals who had observed UFOs. In one instance, Ruppelt describes the experience of a pilot of an Air Force F-86 fighter jet, who was scrambled to track a UFO and got to within 1,000 yards of a saucer-shaped object that abruptly flew away from him in a burst of speed after he fired upon it. He also mentions a 1948 UFO encounter in which two airline pilots got to within 700 feet of a UFO and saw two rows of windows with bright lights.
• Consistencies in the descriptions of purported alien ships.
Over the decades, witnesses who’ve seen UFOs have shown remarkable consistency in the shapes and other characteristics of the objects they’ve described. In 1949, the authors of the report for Project Sign, one of the early military investigations of UFOs, identified four main groups of objects—flying disks or saucers, cigar or torpedo-shaped craft without wings or fins, spherical or balloon-shaped objects that were capable of hovering or flying at high speed, and balls of light with no apparent physical form that were similarly maneuverable. Nearly a quarter-century later, a French government investigation headed by Claude Poher of the National Center for Space Research found similar patterns in more than 1,000 reports from France and various countries. One caveat is that in recent years, reports of wedge-shaped UFOs—which bear a similarity to the latest terrestrial military aircraft—have begun to supplant some of the traditional shapes.
• Possible physical evidence of encounters with alien spacecraft.
The 1968 University of Colorado report, compiled by a team headed by James Condon, documented numerous instances of areas where soil, grass, and other vegetation had been claimed by witnesses to have been flattened, burned, broken off, or blown away by a UFO. A report by Stanford University astrophysicist Peter Sturrock, who led a scientific study of physical evidence of UFOs in the late 1990s, describes samples of plants taken from a purported UFO landing site in France in 1981. French researchers found that the leaves had undergone unusual chemical changes of the sort that could have been caused by powerful microwave radiation—which was even more difficult to explain, considering that they found no trace of radioactivity at the site.
• Physiological effects on UFO witnesses.
The Sturrock report describes in detail various symptoms reported by individuals who had encountered UFOS, ranging from burns and temporary deafness to persistent nausea and memory loss. Among the most vivid examples: Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Landrum’s young grandson Colby, who reportedly happened upon a “large, diamond-shaped object” hovering over a Texas road in December 1980. All three became ill afterward; Cash, for example, developed large water blisters on her face and swelling that closed her eyes, in addition to severe nausea and diarrhea. The effects persisted for years, and she was hospitalized more than two dozen times.
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STEPHEN WENGAll these UFO sightings throughout history and other compelling pieces of evidence are more than enough to justify an official investigation into this phenomenon. Skeptics say "provide real evidence", but "real evidence" as in like an alien spaceship is hard to come by. What do want MUFON and every other UFOlogist to do? Try to hijack a UFO? If these are actual alien spacecrafts, then even if you have every single plane, nuke, bullet, cannon, anti-aircraft batteries, etc at your side, it would probably be totally useless. UFOs can supposedly go at tremendous speeds that could completely leave our best fighter jets in the dust. Reports say they can accelerate instantaneously. There is also some sort of bias against anyone who claims he or she has seen a UFO. Mainstream news outlets and scientists very rarely mention UFOs at all. Of course I can also look at this from the skeptics' point of view. Good evidence is almost nowhere to be found. There are too many nutcases who only disrupt credible UFOlogists and other people who genuinely want to see if there's something to this phenomenon. Frankly, the only chance I see of there being a real concern about this in mainstream news is if the aliens decide to fly their ships in broad daylight over the White House or any other famous landmark. You may think that all we can do is just wait and see, but the government is almost surely aware of the fact that UFOs are a genuine concern. We can do something about all the questions we have about these objects. Whether you want to disprove or prove that these UFOs are alien crafts or not, an official investigation should be launched.
Scientific panel concludes some UFO evidence worthy of study
Scientific panel concludes some UFO evidence worthy of study
In the first independent review of UFO phenomena since 1970, a panel of scientists has concluded that some sightings are accompanied by physical evidence that deserves scientific study. But the panel was not convinced that any of this evidence points to a violation of known natural laws or the involvement of an extraterrestrial intelligence.
The review was organized and directed by Peter Sturrock, professor of applied physics at Stanford University, and supported administratively by the Society for Scientific Exploration, which provides a forum for research into unexplained phenomena. The international review panel of nine physical scientists responded to presentations by eight investigators of UFO reports, who were asked to present their strongest data. Von R. Eshleman, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford, co-chaired the panel.
Although UFO reports date back 50 years, the information gathered does not prove that either unknown physical processes or alien technologies are implicated. But it does include a sufficient number of intriguing and inexplicable observations, the panel concluded. "It may be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract information about unusual phenomena currently unknown to science." To be credible to the scientific community "such evaluations must take place with a spirit of objectivity and a willingness to evaluate rival hypotheses" that has so far been lacking, it added.
This conclusion differs from that reached by Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the Colorado Project, in his 1968 UFO report. He concluded that "further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby." It is very similar, however, to the conclusion reached by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Kuettner Report issued two years later, which advocated "a continuing, moderate-level [research] effort with emphasis on improved data collection by objective means and on high-quality scientific analysis."
In the current study, the scientific panel focused on incidents involving some form of physical evidence, including photographic evidence, radar evidence, vehicle interference, interference with aircraft equipment, apparent gravitational or inertial effects, ground traces, injuries to vegetation, physiological effects on witnesses, and debris. Of particular concern are reports that UFO encounters may be hazardous to people's health. Some witnesses have reportedly suffered radiation-type injuries. These reports led the panel to draw the attention of the medical community to the possible health risks involved.
The scientists found that some of the reported incidents may have been caused by rare natural phenomena, such as electrical activity high above thunderstorms or radar ducting (the trapping and conducting of radar waves by atmospheric channels). However, the panel found that some of the phenomena related to UFOs are not easy to explain in this fashion.
Further analysis of the evidence presented to the panel is unlikely to shed added light on the causes underlying the reports, the scientists said. Most current UFO investigations lack the level of rigor required by the scientific community, despite the initiative and dedication of the investigators involved. But new data, scientifically acquired and analyzed, could yield useful information and advance our understanding of the UFO problem, the panel said.
The reviewers also made the following observations:
• The UFO problem is not a simple one, and it is unlikely that there is any simple, universal answer.
• Whenever there are unexplained observations, there is the possibility that scientists will learn something new by studying them.
• Studies should concentrate on cases that include as much independent physical evidence as possible.
• Continuing contact between the UFO community and physical scientists could be productive.
• Institutional support for research in this area is desirable.
The review panel consisted of Von Eshleman; Thomas Holzer, High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colo.; Randy Jokipii, professor of planetary science, University of Arizona, Tucson; Francois Louange, managing director of Fleximage, Paris, France; H. J. Melosh, professor of planetary science, University of Arizona, Tucson; James J. Papike, professor of earth and planetary sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Guenther Reitz, German Aerospace Center, Institute for Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany; Charles Tolbert, professor of astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and Bernard Veyret, Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, France. Eshleman and Holzer served as co-chairs of the panel.
The UFO investigators who presented evidence were Richard Haines, Los Altos, Calif.; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Germany; Mark Rodeghier, Center for UFO Studies, Chicago; John Schuessler, Houston; Erling Strand, Ostfold College, Skjeberg, Norway; Michael Swords, professor of natural science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; Jacques Vallee, San Francisco; and Jean-Jacques Velasco, CNES, Toulouse, France.
The study was initiated by Laurance S. Rockefeller and supported financially by the LSR Fund.
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By David F. Salisbury
Related material:
Journal for Scientific Exploration website http://www.jse.com
Full text of UFO Report http://www.jse.com/ufo_reports/Sturrock/toc.html
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Stephen Hawking: Black holes are a PORTAL to another universe
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Stephen Hawking says black holes may be a portal to another universeIn a newly published paper, the eminent physicist has theorised that black holes, which scientists still know little about, could be a portal to another universe.
It had been thought that black holes have such a strong gravitational pull that even light cannot escape from them and that they are all consuming of everything within their reach.
However, the 74-year old has now said that they might not be as dangerous as previously thought and may just be a door to another universe.
Writing in a paper, alongside Andrew Strominger from Harvard and Malcolm Perry from Cambridge University, Hawking addressed the belief that black holes have “no hair”.
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What goes into a black hole might come back outThe study, Physical Review Letters, said that anything that went into a black hole was lost forever.
However, the basic laws of the universe state that anything that has ever been in the universe is preserved via its “information”.
This led to a paradox as it was assumed that anything that fell into a black hole was gone.
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Black holes have baffled scientistsBut since last year, Hawking has been stating that all is not lost inside a black hole.
He said last year: “Black holes are not the eternal prisons they were once thought.
“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.
“The existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might be possible.
“The hole would need to be large and if it was rotating it might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn’t come back to our universe.”
His latest paper states that black holes do indeed have “hair” which either stores the information on the boundary or the event horizon.
This would mean, according to the paper, that if you were looking at a black hole in the right way – in the distant future for example – you would be able to see the hairs of a black hole which store the information.
Live fast, die young: Alien life in the universe is COMMON but doesn’t last long
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Aliens do exist, but don't last long
A new report suggests that the emergence of life on the “billions” of habitable planets in the universe is bound to be fairly common.
However, due to the violence and instability of early planetary formation, it is extremely difficult to sustain and will go extinct in its infancy.
The report, published in Astrobiology, states that life on Earth was extremely fortunate that the planet remained habitable and points to our neighbours Venus and Mars for the “default” life cycle that they go through.
Mars and Venus once shared a similar climate to Earth, but the former underwent extreme cooling while the latter experienced extreme heating, which made it impossible to sustain life.
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Mars was once as habitable as Earth
It says that life needs to emerge and evolve quickly, as life breeds life, if the planet is to remain habitable.
The paper reads: “If life emerges on a planet, it only rarely evolves quickly enough to regulate greenhouse gases and albedo, thereby maintaining surface temperatures compatible with liquid water and habitability.”
It continues: “Due to large impacts and unstable abiotic volatile evolution with no tendency to maintain habitability, almost all life goes extinct early—with the rare exceptions of life that has undergone unusually rapid evolution.”
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Alien life is likely common
In a separate comment piece published on The Conversation, the researchers, Aditya Chopra And Charley Lineweaver, Australian National University, write that life in the universe has likely been and gone.
They said: "Our suggestion that the universe is filled with dead aliens might disappoint some, but the universe is under no obligation to prevent disappointment.
“We should not expect technological or spacefaring civilisations because there is no evidence that biological evolution converges to human-like intelligence.
“And subjective philosophical notions of life in the universe should not inform our estimates of the probability of life beyond Earth.”
'Best piece of UFO evidence in years' filmed by NASA as Tim Peake docked with ISS
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The footage has caused a storm after being uploaded on a video by YouTube channel Mister Enigma entitled "UFOs seeen everywhere during Soyuz docking on NASA USTREAM."
It shows a portion of the docking between the Russian Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft and International Space Station (ISS) on December 15, when Tim Peake became the first British astronaut to board the space station.
In the video, the narrator, who speaks with a creepy robotic voice, says: "This video, which was taken by the ISS on Tuesday during the docking between the Souyez spacecraft and the ISS is the best piece of UFO evidence captured in years.
"Dozens of UFOs can be seen in the background - some zipping off in the distance, others gently floating by, and even one gigantic doughnut-shaped UFO that seems to inspect the event.
"Once the camera zooms out the sun seems to light them up."
In the video, the narrator, who speaks with a creepy robotic voice, says: "This video, which was taken by the ISS on Tuesday during the docking between the Soyuz spacecraft and the ISS is the best piece of UFO evidence captured in years.
"Dozens of UFOs can be seen in the background - some zipping off in the distance, others gently floating by, and even one gigantic doughnut-shaped UFO that seems to inspect the event.
"Once the camera zooms out the sun seems to light them up."
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This video, which was taken by the ISS on Tuesday during the docking between the Souyez spacecraft and the ISS is the best piece of UFO evidence captured in years
The new footage has been likened to the "Tether UFO incident" of 1996, when a satellite which was tethered to a space shuttle broke off.
When it was later filmed by the astronauts on board, it appeared to be swarmed by hundreds of "UFOs" that appeared like organisms swimming in a sea.
The narrator continued: "How crazy is this?
"The footage is like the infamous UFO tether video that took place in the 90s, and it's very strange that it aired live and did not get cut off like most ufo’s that are seen on the NASA screen."
During the tether incident footage the objects are brushed off by the astronauts as being "some of the debris that follows us being caught by sunlight.
Others have said these weird anomalies in NASA space videos are ice particles or just lens flares.
New Plasma Engine Could Potentially Travel to Mars in 39 Days
They are SERIOUSLY discussing this..
In 39 days this type of engine could get us to Mars. That sounds pretty cool and expensive but some think it is definitely worth it besides satisfying intellectual curiosity. But of course the first challenge is thrust. Current rocket engines that burn solid fuels are super powerful but likely could not get us to the red planet or other parts of the solar system with people in a reasonable time frame. However, this technique which is barely at the prototype phase has yielded some promising results.
Is this insane or what?
Let’s find out more about how this could work in the video on page
Here is a bit more information on how this thruster works. The basic technology has been known for a few decades but they made some improvements:
Known as a Hall thruster, these engines have been operating in space since 1971, and are now routinely flown on communication satellites and space probes to adjust their orbits when needed. These things are awesome, and scientists want to use them to get humans to Mars, except there’s one – rather large – problem: the current lifespan of a Hall thruster is around 10,000 operation hours, and that’s way too short for most space exploration missions, which require upwards of 50,000 hours.
What do you think? Is this a reasonable way to get people to Mars? And if we did that, what would the purpose be and what would be the best things to do first? Feel free to comment with your ideas.
And they are actually discussing future fundings in congress right now for some of these types on engines which should pique the interest of space fans too.
thanks to aip.org for the great info
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The Extraterrestrial Message – Hidden In Us ALL
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A recent study has revealed how the human DNA was encoded using an extraterrestrial signal which was used by ancient aliens who once visited Earth in the distant past – and who are perhaps back again!
Two top researchers from the from the Department of Mathematics, respectively Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, have been working on something called “The Wow! Signal” of the terrestrial genetic code”. This could quite possibly be one of the greatest ever discoveries ever!
The two leading authors of this extremely important study, Vladimir I. shCherbak and Maxim A. Makukov, trust in the existence of something called the “Biological SETI” – which is a mathematical code residing inside the human races DNA structure – it is something that can definitely NOT be explained via the course of evolution, as traditional theories claim. This appears to be a potential game changer for all we know about our past and origins on planet Earth.
The missing link to our past ~ ET creation?
This important study could actually prove that science is now a massive step closer to proving the Ancient Astronaut theory, as well as the hypothesis of our species being engineered by advanced aliens through DNA manipulation. The two leading researchers stated in the Icarus Journal:
“Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales. In fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature. Once the genome is appropriately rewritten, the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through space and time”.
“In other words, the human DNA is designed with such a precision that it reveals an “ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language”.
Perhaps the ET’s are our Creators?
As a result of this intriguing study, many more researchers from around the world are now discussing about the probability of us humans being engineered somewhere ‘outside’ of our solar system by our alien creators several billion years ago – a hypothesis which has for a long time been strongly supported by the many ancient texts found on here on Planet Earth, that speak of the creation of mankind and the creator gods or deities. Perhaps it is the Aliens who are our Gods?
Another part of the study goes on to explain that life on Earth could have emerged as a direct result of ‘microbiological particles’ being carried throughout the darkness and mass of the cosmos on the back of asteroids and comets, which in affect act like huge transportation devices that go around planting life on different planets capable of sustaining it. This thought provoking theory differs a lot from the classic evolution theory, as many supporters believe that we were definitely not a random product of evolution, but quite possibly a certain creation of our makers, prepared and designed and then sent to Earth on purpose!
This theory was actually covered in the Hollywood Blockbuster film called ‘Prometheus’, please see below the opening scene of this ‘drip feeding’ of Disclosure film ~ Just like the evidence that has recently been discovered:
The two researchers Cherbak and Makukov went on to present a very detailed analysis (please see link below) of the human genome that shows a previously ignored precision-type method in the mapping between the DNA’s nucleotides and amino acids. The pair said that:
“Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing”.
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I guess this important find asks many important questions! Like, is it possible that we were possibly designed by advanced alien species who had a rather extended knowledge of creating life through DNA manipulation? And if this is true, does this mean that we are all Aliens on planet earth!? Is the human race possibly a product originating from another planet out there in the infinite Universe? Or could it be that we are a product which has been designed on Earth by an advanced race who anchored on this planet in the ancient past, as many age-old texts have even suggested??
Whilst it is impossible to deny the ‘panspermia hypothesis’ which claims that life on the earth could have originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present somewhere out there in outer space, that were able to initiate life upon reaching a suitable environment, us guys at U.I.P find it FAR more likely that life on Earth is actually a product of a far more intelligent species who have the unique ability to create life on other planets.
No matter what, the up-coming years will reveal to us all far more information regarding of research, which that were until now either forbidden/ignored or just covered up by the Elite.
Perhaps this is why many of us feel that we are from ‘another place’.
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Please see another of our previous posts on this on this matter –
Source idea: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1303/1303.6739.pdf
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NASA ‘whistleblower’ donates lunar photos, research materials to Roswell’s UFO Museum
A former National Aeronautics and Space Administration consultant pilot who says he witnessed NASA employees doctoring photos and films from Apollo missions has donated his archives to the International UFO Museum and Research Center.
Ralph Kennedy (Ken) Johnston Sr. of Belen provided digital copies of his three books, which contain NASA photos and images, to the UFO Museum’s library Friday morning. He also provided copies of interviews he has done. He said that he has not donated the material to other institutions at this time, although some copies of some photos are available online and have been shared with researchers.
Executive Director Jim Hill presented Johnston with a certificate recognizing his donation and support of the museum and research center, which has one of the world’s largest collections of materials related to extraterrestrials and UFOs. The museum attracts about 180,000 visitors a year and is a Smithsonian Institution depository site for UFO-related reference materials.
Johnston, the author of three books in the “Ken’s Moon” series and former trainer of astronauts on the use of the Lunar Module, has said that while he was working at the Lunar Receiving Lab of the NASA Johnson Center in 1971 he saw NASA staff painting details out of lunar photos from Apollo missions and was aware of other anomalies between original photos and films he observed firsthand and what was cataloged by NASA or made available to the public. He was ordered to destroy five full sets of photos from lunar missions, he said, even though he argued that they should be donated to universities or research institutions. He gave one set to a university, but said most of the photos disappeared. Holding a doctorate degree in metaphysics and former pilot, he frequently gives presentations and interviews about what he thinks is evidence of extraterrestrial activity on the moon that has been denied by NASA and other government officials. Some images can be seen on his website: kenjohnstonmedia.com.
Reference: What Are Cosmic Rays?
Cosmic rays are atom fragments that rain down on the Earth from outside of the solar system. They blaze at the speed of light and have been blamed for electronics problems in satellites and other machinery.
First discovered in 1912, many things about cosmic rays remain a mystery more than a century later. One prime example is exactly where they are coming from. Most scientists suspect their origins are related to supernovas (star explosions), but the challenge is that cosmic ray origins appear uniform when you look across the entire sky.
While cosmic rays were only discovered in the 1900s, scientists knew something mysterious was going on as early as the 1780s. That's when French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — best known for having a unit of electrical charge named after him — observed an electrically charged sphere suddenly and mysteriously not being charged any more.
At the time, air was thought to be an insulator and not an electric conductor. With more work, however, scientists discovered that air can conduct electricity if its molecules are charged or ionized. This would most commonly happen when the molecules interact with charged particles or X-rays.
But where these charged particles came from was a mystery; even attempts to block the charge with large amounts of lead were coming up empty. On Aug. 7, 1912, physicist Victor Hess flew a high-altitude balloon to 17,400 feet (5,300 meters). He discovered three times more ionizing radiation there than on the ground, which meant the radiation had to be coming from outer space.
But tracing cosmic ray "origin stories" took more than a century. In 2013, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope released results from observing two supernova remnants in the Milky Way: IC 433 and W44.
Among the products of these star explosions are gamma-ray photons, which (unlike cosmic rays) are not affected by magnetic fields. The gamma rays studied had the same energy signature as subatomic particles called neutral pions. Pions are produced when protons get stuck in a magnetic field inside the shockwave of the supernova and crash into each other.
In other words, the matching energy signatures showed that protons could move at fast enough speeds within supernovas to create cosmic rays.
We know today that galactic cosmic rays are atom fragments such as protons (positively charged particles), electrons (negatively charged particles) and atomic nuclei. While we know now they can be created in supernovas, there may be other sources available for cosmic ray creation. It also isn't clear exactly how supernovas are able to make these cosmic rays so fast.
Cosmic rays constantly rain down on Earth, and while the high-energy "primary" rays collide with atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere and rarely make it through to the ground, "secondary" particles are ejected from this collision and do reach us on the ground.
But by the time these cosmic rays get to Earth, it's impossible to trace where they came from. That's because their path has been changed as they travelled through multiple magnetic fields (the galaxy's, the solar system's and Earth's itself.)
According to NASA, cosmic rays therefore come equally from all directions of the sky. So scientists are trying to trace back cosmic ray origins by looking at what the cosmic rays are made of. Scientists can figure this out by looking at the spectroscopic "signature" each nucleus gives off in radiation, and also by weighing the different isotopes (types) of elements that hit cosmic ray detectors.
The result, NASA adds, shows very common elements in the universe. Roughly 90 percent of cosmic ray nuclei are hydrogen (protons) and 9 percent are helium (alpha particles). Hydrogen and helium are the most abundant elements in the universe and the origin point for stars, galaxies and other large structures. The remaining 1 percent are all elements, and it's from that 1 percent that scientists can best search for rare elements to make comparisons between different types of cosmic rays.
Scientists can also date the cosmic rays by looking at radioactive nuclei that decrease over time. Measuring the "half life" of each nuclei gives an estimate of how long the cosmic ray has been out there in space.
Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere shields the planet from 99.9 percent of the radiation from space. However, for people outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field, space radiation becomes a serious hazard. An instrument aboard the Curiosity Mars rover during its 253-day cruise to Mars revealed that the radiation dose received by an astronaut on even the shortest Earth-Mars round trip would be about 0.66 sievert. This amount is like receiving a whole-body CT scan every five or six days.
A dose of 1 sievert is associated with a 5.5 percent increase in the risk of fatal cancers. The normal daily radiation dose received by the average person living on Earth is 10 microsieverts (0.00001 sievert).
The moon has no atmosphere and a very weak magnetic field. Astronauts living there would have to provide their own protection, for example by burying their habitat underground.
The planet Mars has no global magnetic field. Particles from the sun have stripped away most of Mars’ atmosphere, resulting in very poor protection against radiation at the surface. The highest air pressure on Mars is equal to that at an altitude of 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. At low altitudes, Mars’ atmosphere provides slightly better protection from space radiation.
Harvard Scientists Announce Plans To Create Synthetic Human Genomes
As a kind of follow-up to the Human Genome Project, Harvard scientists are proposing to create a synthetic human genome from scratch, with the aim of developing resistance to cancer and disease.
Humanity’s pursuit of perfection seems to be well underway. This past weekend, a group of scientists led by DNA pioneer George Church, who is a Harvard biologist, announced that they’re working on synthesizing human genes from scratch.
With the goal of addressing a number of human health challenges, scientists said that the project, dubbed the HGP-Write project, will explore growing replacement organs, engineering cancer resistance, and building new vaccinations using human cells.
In short, they could forever alter how humans respond to diseases…and even what it means to be human.
Related: What is CRISPR
However, such dramatic shifts are a long ways off. Before any of that can happen, researchers will need to start defining what a “perfect” human would look like—and that means literally making a blueprint for what such a genetic sequence would look like. Church published a paper in 2014 about “de novo synthesis,” or the creation of perfect genes from scratch, so he is no newcomer to the field.
The project is pretty similar to the current gene editing CRISPR technique, which could very well prove to be life-saving for people with a variety of terminal illnesses. The main difference is that this new endeavor will also take into account the ethics and economics of how far humans should go with gene editing in order to develop their blueprint.
New “Iron Man” Special Forces Exoskeleton Stops Bullets With Liquid Armor
We may have a new combat exoskeleton prototype in 2018. It will have body armor that makes use of a liquid that solidifies in milliseconds, and a tiny, powerful engine for recharging the suit's systems.
We’ve all seen what Iron Man can do in the movies, and it’s rather impressive—what with all the flying and absorbing bullets.
Ultimately, all of his abilities come from the incredible technology behind his suit. And it’s to this inspiration that Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is turning for their future combat exoskeleton prototypes, which are to be ready in 2018.
An initial design of the TALOS exoskeleton. Credit: Army
In 2013, SOCOM expanded their development of such a suit, which they call the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS). Navy SEALs or Special Forces would use these suits for special operations.
However, unlike the metallic, clunky suit of Iron Man, these military operators need to move with great mobility; therefore, the suits will be made with a “liquid body armor” that transforms into solid within milliseconds when a magnetic field or an electric current is applied through the material.
The technology is being developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A Polish company, Moratex, is working on a similar kind of liquid body armor, using a non-Newtonian liquid called Shear-Thickening Fluid (STF).
Essentially, what’s being designed is a suit of armor that remains soft and malleable during normal operations, but hardens instantaneously at the point of contact—deflecting and dispersing the immense destructive energy produced by a hit from an enemy round or shrapnel.
TALOS is reportedly going to be a physiological subsystem that will use various sensors on the skin to monitor the wearer’s vital signs in great detail. More than that, it will provide vastly increased strength.
And all of this added capability needs a great deal of power.
General Atomics intends to provide the TALOS suits with a tiny combustion engine, that can nevertheless run at 10,000 RPM. This technology will rely on Liquid Piston’s ‘X’ engine, which employs the High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle. According to the company, this engine has a theoretical efficiency of 75%, and can be very quiet since it only consists of two moving parts: a shaft and a rotor.
The purpose of the engine in the exoskeletal suit would be to recharge batteries, which in turn supply energy to all of the power-thirsty components which will be integrated with the TALOS suit—including computer and sensor systems, as well as robotic strength augmentation.
It’s a fascinating glimpse into the future of warfighting technology—and it brings a whole new meaning to the Army’s old recruiting slogan “Be All You Can Be.”
Surprise! The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Scientists Thought
The universe is expanding 5 to 9 percent faster than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.
"This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter and dark radiation," study leader Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement.
Riess — who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating — and his colleagues used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study 2,400 Cepheid stars and 300 Type Ia supernovas. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
These are two different types of "cosmic yardsticks" that allow scientists to measure distances across the universe. Cepheids pulse at rates that are related to their true brightness, and Type Ia supernovas — powerful explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars — blaze up with consistent luminosity.
This work allowed the team to determine the distances to the 300 supernovas, which lie in a number of different galaxies. Then, the researchers compared these figures to the expansion of space, which was calculated by measuring how light from faraway galaxies stretches as it moves away from Earth, to determine how fast the universe is expanding — a value known as the Hubble constant, after famed American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
The new, unprecedentedly precise value for the Hubble constant comes out to 45.5 miles (73.2 kilometers) per second per megaparsec. (One megaparsec is equivalent to 3.26 million light-years.) Therefore, the distance between cosmic objects should double 9.8 billion years from now, the researchers said.
The new figure is 5 to 9 percent higher than previous estimates of the Hubble constant, which relied on measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation — the light left over from the Big Bang that created the universe 13.8 billion years ago.
There are a number of possible explanations for this discrepancy, study team members said.
For example, the mysterious force known as dark energy, which is thought to be behind the universe's accelerating expansion, may be stronger than astronomers had thought. It's also possible that "dark radiation" — an unknown, superspeedy subatomic particle or particles that existed shortly after the Big Bang — could be playing a role that hasn't been taken into account, the researchers said.
Enigmatic dark matter, which is thought to be four times more abundant than "normal" matter throughout the universe, could also have some weird and unappreciated characteristics. Or maybe there's something important missing from Einstein's theory of gravity, the researchers said.
In short, there's a lot of work left to do before astronomers can fully appreciate the meaning of the new results.
"We know so little about the dark parts of the universe; it's important to measure how they push and pull on space over cosmic history," study co-author Lucas Macri, of Texas A&M University, said in the same statement.
The new study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
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Scientist says he found definitive proof that God exists.One of the most respected scientists of today says he has found evidence of the action of a force "that governs everything."
The theoretical physicist Michio Kaku claims to have developed a theory that might point to the existence of God. The information has created a great stir in the scientific community because Kaku is considered one of the most important scientists of our times, one of the creators and developers of the revolutionary String Theory which is highly respected throughout the world.
To to come to his conclusions, the physicist made use of what he calls “primitive semi – radius tachyons “.
Tachyons are theoretical particles capable to “unstick ” the Universe matter or vacuum space between matter particles, leaving everything free from the influences of the surrounding universe.
After conducting the tests, Kaku came to the conclusion that we live in a “Matrix”.
“I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence”, he affirmed. “Believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore.”
“To me it is clear that we exists in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”
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