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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Admission To Aliens

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Admission To Aliens

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ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHEL’S ADMISSION TO ALIENS

Mitchell has gone on record about his controversial belief in extraterrestrial UFOs, and of a possible government cover-up.  Dr. Herman Oberth, the father of astronautics and rocketry stated, “The Earth is being visited by aliens.”  Edgar stated, “Recently, I appeared on television in New York with the Astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary who feels as I do that we must research the subject of UFOs with greater emphasis.” Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and Buzz Aldrin have talked privately to friends, but all agree there is somebody out there.  Gordon Cooper’s article entitled “Aliens Are Here” tells about his letter to the United Nations that stated in part, “I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.”  .

Edgar told me, “He signed a contract with NASA not to reveal anything he saw regarding aliens and UFOs. However, all of his friends had seen them.” Edgar stated, “After my space flight, I was contacted by descendants of the original Roswell observers where he grew up, including the person who delivered the child-sized coffins to the Air Force to contain alien bodies. Another was one of the children of the deputy sheriff who was patrolling traffic around the site. They all seemed credible with their stories that the bodies found were alien.” 

. Edgar felt, “White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extraterrestrials were interested in. “They wanted to know about our military capabilities of the nuclear bomb wing at Roswell. My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to nuclear war and help create peace on Earth.” He said, “I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during the Cold War,” he continued. “They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles.  ”Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft. “There was a lot of activity in those days.”  .  Ben Rich, Former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works stated, “Everything you can imagine we already know how to do, but these technologies are so locked up in black projects it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. We can even take ET home.” 

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Arrival: 6 Scenarios That Could Happen if Aliens Arrived on Earth

Arrival: 6 Scenarios That Could Happen if Aliens Arrived on Earth

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It is conceivable that humans could someday discover aliens. We scour the cosmos looking for their radio signals, and though we’re not capable of interstellar space travel, it is remotely possible that we could find what we’re looking for at any moment.

Hey guys, what exactly would we do if Aliens arrived either on Earth or parked in our Orbit. 

You may be aware that many people believe that we have actually had these sort of visitations in the distant past and those type of encounters sparked religion and the idea to worship gods who descend from the Heavens. 

Most of you think it is a wild idea but the evidence for this theory is absolutely everywhere around the Earth, in fact, it appears this was on an epic scale thousands of years ago.

Anyway guys, with the release of the new film ‘arrival’, this is sure to spark the imagination of many, are we in fact being slowly prepped for disclosure? We wonder if Mr Trump would answer that question if asked, he tells it like it is after all, RIGHT? 

These are our 6 Scenarios of how Humanity would react if Aliens made contact or landed on Earth. 
Just wait until you hear this.

At 6) – Panic! Retaliate first.

How exactly would we strike at an Alien race that has spanned the cosmos to get to Earth? 

Maybe this would be our undoing, if China or Russia or worst still, North Korea, decided to fire a Nuclear weapon at the interstellar travellers mothership, would the Aliens already be prepared for that scenario?  

Of course they would, but the question is, Would they then show us how powerful they are in turn? How would they interpret our actions? Would they be understanding or feel in danger? Do they even have emotions the same as we do? 

Panic-ing is just about the worst thing we could do in this scenario. 

There would surely be anarchy in most countries anyway and it would possibly be our own people who would need to be brought under control before we could establish anything else.

In at 5) – Communication

Attempting to communicate with the ETs is of course the natural thing to do, but would there be a global effort to do this? Would each region try to set up their own methods of communication? How confusing could that get?

Just think of how many languages there are on this Planet, How exactly would we do it? You would think that the Aliens would have a universal way of communicating with each other, so we earthlings would have to establish if we use imagery, sign, speech and what one of our languages to use the communication in.

It could get very confusing very quickly.

And at 4 on our list) – Alien Invasion

OK so they arrive and it is the War of the Worlds scenario. Are we ready? 

Do we use biological weapons on the aliens, do we release a Plague on Earth to kill an Alien invasion force that is far superior than all the Army’s combined and risk killing ourselves anyway? 

Surely Guerrilla tactics would not work? Would they? What other option would we have? 

We would have to let most humans on Earth die in order for the Human race to survive as a whole. 
The Human race would have to go underground and pick of an invading force one by one. 

Only the strongest would survive.

Number 3) – Technological advancement of the Human race in exchange for Earths resources

We often wonder how ancient Humans on Earth managed to transport and build megastructures on Earth thousands of years ago? Could it be that the Aliens are actually regular visitors to our World at 10 thousand year intervals?

They could be stopping of to stock up on valuable resources in exchange for technology, but just like in the distant past, the technology gets broken and we eventually lose the knowledge or abandon it.

And who gets the trading agreement? All Human kind? How would that work?

So in short, we would need to establish long term goals for technological advancement with the visiting beings.

At 2) – We are the Aliens

Imagine that for a second, What if Noah’s ark was in fact some sort of massive Space ship to cradle all life in, until the Earth was safe enough to inhabit again after the great Cataclysm of 12 thousand years ago, we all know there was a great flood that spanned the Earth, surely a huge Ocean going vessel could not have withstood such an event. 

If the Ark was indeed a Space Ship with life from our Planet locked in hibernation in Space for thousands of years, what would we make of that when it arrived home? Imagine what we could learn? 

What great secrets we could uncover about all the massive Ancient Structures still here on Earth from a forgotten Civilization that apparently abandoned their dwellings thousands of years ago.

We have got you thinking now, Right.

We know that is a crazy theory guys but it just might be crazy enough to be true.

And number 1 our list) – We do nothing because we don’t recognize Alien Life

In a 1967 episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk and crew investigated the mysterious murders of miners on the planet Janus VI. The killer, it turned out, was a rock monster called the Horta. But the Enterprise’s sensors hadn’t registered any signs of life in the creature. The Horta was a silicon-based life-form, rather than carbon-based like living things on Earth.

Recognizing life from different worlds isn’t likely to be simple, especially if the recipe for life elsewhere doesn’t use familiar ingredients. There may even be things alive on Earth that have been overlooked because they don’t fit standard definitions of life.

Does that not blow your mind or what,

And of course we already may have already had Alien contact, Remember the WOW signal? 

What do you guys think would happen in the event of Alien life forms making their presence known publicly on Earth? 

Will they Protect us or Destroy us? Would they want to collaborate or just trade briefly for our resources? Would we even recognize them?

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Military Fighter Fires on an Alien Craft

Military Fighter Fires on an Alien Craft

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MILITARY FIGHTER FIRES ON AN ALIEN CRAFT
 
APRIL 11- 1980  ………… LA JOYA AIRFORCE BASE PERU
 
New information has been released by Oscar Santa Maria Huertas, a commander of the Peruvian Air Force, regarding the incident that took place at 07:15 hours on 11 April, 1980, when he was orderd to fly his aircraft – a Sukhoi SU-22, the most technologically advanced fighter at the time – to knock a UFO out of the sky.  
 
It was “a completely spherical object, it’s upper section resembled a cream-colored porcelain, with a round, broad, metallic-grey base, like that of an ashtray.” The anomalous flying object flew at “great speed and was 10 meters in diameter, making it a very easy target to bring down.” This was recorded due to the fact that the flying object was passing over the La Joya military base in Arequipa, in the southern reaches of the Andean country, and the shooting it down was essential to keep it from gathering intelligence.  
 
Within the geopolitical context, Peru had acquired the most advanced military technology from the Soviet Union, and keeping secret the nature of what they had acquired, and where it was kept, was essential. It is important to remember that the military governments of the time armed themselves to such a degree that it was said they were about to go to war against Chile at any moment to recover lost territory.  
 
That morning, Santa María boarded a Sukhoi SU-22 loaded with 140 rounds to fire against the strange flying object. He pursued it and only fired 64 rounds, creating a huge wall of fire. He was startled to see that the object had not suffered any damage whatsoever.
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Oscar Santa María said that the effect produced by this weaponry was devastating, and there was no chance of the object emerging unscathed, but the situation was completely different. Not only he had not damaged the intruder, but the object appeared to have acquired an intelligence that allowed it to move freely and escape.  
 
At some point during the pursuit, which lasted around 25 minutes, he felt the UFO somehow “knew” the maneuvers the warplane would engage in.   “It was an odd sensation. When I reached a certain altitude to get it in my sights and fire, the object disrupted the operation and settled at the same altitude and right beside my pane.” Upon being asked why he had been chosen, he said “he was the best among the combat pilots” and his superior, of course, wanted the object blown out of the sky as soon as possible and efficiently.  
 
Oscar says he came within 100 meters of the object. “I didn’t notice that it was spinning. It didn’t have windows or rivets, either. What startled me most is that it had no means of propulsion like any other aircraft.”   While this went on, Santa María says the military radar units could pick up his jet, but not the UFO. However, ground personnel could see it from the ground, looking like a large luminous object in the sky.  
 
Nearly 460 crewmen were ordered to their stations to repel the mysterious object. Nearly thirteen hundred people were on hand, all of them watching the maneuvers between the interceptor and the UFO. In other words, a total of 1800 people at the base witnessed the incident.   At the end of the incident, and lacking fuel to continue pursuit, Oscar returned to base. To date, it is known that the department in charge of investigating the subject of UFOs in Peru, a division of the Aerospace Interest Office, classified it as case 0007 in its new stage of investigation. 
 
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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
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Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles around, here are 10 of the coolest stories in Science this week.

Mysterious Unidentified Object Crashes in Myanmar: A strange metal object that looks like it may have come from an aircraft or rocket launcher has landed in Myanmar. [Full Story]

It's Just a Phase: The Supermoon Won't Drive You Mad: The moon holds a mystical place in the history of human culture, so it's no wonder that many myths exist. [Full Story]

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New Record! Robot Solves Rubik's Cube in Less Than a Second: It achieved the best time in the approximately 30 years that have passed since the cube was invented. [Full Story]

What Will a Trump Presidency Mean for Science? President-elect Donald Trump is likely to affect science when he comes into office next year, with the potential to change everything from climate change action and the Keystone pipeline to sex education and fetal tissue research. [Full Story]

Diver Finds Long-Lost Nuke While Hunting Sea Cucumbers: A diver hunting for sea cucumbers in British Columbia, Canada, came across what may be the United States' first lost nuclear weapon, or 'broken arrow.' [Full Story]

Oldest Beer Brewed from Shipwreck's 220-Year-Old Yeast Microbes: Yeast microbes from the world's oldest bottle of beer — a 220-year-old bottle found in one of Australia's earliest shipwrecks — are being used to create a new, modern beer with the characteristic taste of the 18th-century brew. [Full Story]

3 More States Legalize Recreational Use of Marijuana: How the Map Looks Now: Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada decided yesterday (Nov. 8) to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in their states. [Full Report]

Newfound Ancient 'Sea Monster' Is Largest Yet from Antarctica:About 66 million years ago, an ancient sea monster the height of a five-story office building once gnashed its sharp teeth as it swam around the dark waters of Antarctica, a new study finds. [Full Story]

Breast Cancer: The First Sign Isn't Always a Lump: Women with breast cancer that shows up with symptoms other than a breast lump delay seeing a doctor. [Full Story]

Stranger Pings: Weird Noise Coming from Arctic Seafloor: The Canadian Department of National Defence was informed of the strange noises and investigated the ping's origin, to no avail. [Full Story]

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NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres
The strange bright spots of Occator Crater on the dwarf planet Ceres are unmistakable in this spectacular photo by NASA's Dawn spacecraft taken on Oct. 17, 2016 and released on Nov. 18 as Dawn moves into a higher orbit.
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NASA's Dawn probe is snapping stunning new views of the dwarf planet Ceres as the spacecraft pushes ever higher above the small world.

In one image, Ceres' huge Occator Crater shows its central bright region, the brightest on Ceres. The crater itself is 57 miles wide (92 kilometers), and 2.5 miles deep (4 km). That makes it 77 times larger than the Barringer Crater in Arizona. Dawn took the picture when it was about 920 miles (1,480 km) above the surface, in early October. [Check out more amazing Ceres photos by Dawn]

Planetary scientists think the bright spots might be from briny material bubbling up during geologic activity; the liquid would sublimate away leaving the salts behind. Another asteroid slamming into Ceres could also cause upwelling, which is what some think happened at Occator Crater.

Scientists also released an image that gives an idea of what Ceres would look like if humans could see it with their own eyes, close up.

This image of Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows how the dwarf planet would appear to human eyes. This image, released Nov. 18, 2016, was created using images from Dawn captured in 2015 that were then color adjusted by scientists at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin.
This image of Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows how the dwarf planet would appear to human eyes. This image, released Nov. 18, 2016, was created using images from Dawn captured in 2015 that were then color adjusted by scientists at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin.
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Dawn's new orbit will be 4,500 miles (7,242 km) from Ceres. NASA is sending the probe to higher altitudes where it can make additional measurements. For example, the spacecraft will use its gamma ray and neutron spectrometer to look at the cosmic rays that suffuse the space around the asteroid, to compare them with readings closer in. The background "noise" can then be separated from the signal, allowing more scrutiny of Ceres' composition.

Ceres started working its way to the new orbit on Nov. 4. While the primary mission was completed in July, NASA extended the mission as the probe was still functioning.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft launched in 2007 and first journeyed to Vesta, entering orbit in July 2011. In September 2012 it left orbit to go to Ceres, where it arrived in March 2015.

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Supermoon and Pluto's Secretive Heart: Week's Top Space Stories

Supermoon and Pluto's Secretive Heart: Week's Top Space Stories

Supermoon and Pluto's Secretive Heart: Week's Top Space Stories
Saturn's strange hexagon-shaped vortex and bands of swirling clouds are captured in this stunning new photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Skywatchers captured stunning images of the supermoon, Pluto may have a hidden ocean, and crowdfunding aids the search for life in Earth's stellar neighborhood. Here are our favorite space stories of the week.

Spectacular supermoon photos

Skywatchers around the world snapped amazing photographs of Monday's supermoon (a full moon that takes place at the natural satellite's closest point to Earth in the lunar orbit). This is the closest full moon until 2034. [Full Story: 'Supermoon' Photos: The Closest Full Moon Until 2034 in Pictures]

Saturn's strange storm

A stunning new photograph from NASA's Cassini probe fully displays the strange, hexagonal-shaped vortex that swirls around Saturn's northern hemisphere. [Full Story: Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn Shines in Spectacular NASA Photo]

Is E.T. a robot?

In the new movie "Arrival," an alien species makes first contact with humans, and like many science fiction stories, the movie features aliens that are biological creatures. But experts we talked to said it's more likely that aliens advanced enough to accomplish interstellar travel will have shed their biological bodies in favor of robotic ones. (We also asked some scientists whether humans are ready for contact with an intelligent alien civilization.) [Full Story: Electronic E.T.: Intelligent Aliens Are Likely Machines]

Rocket engine burns blue

The RL10 rocket engine that will power NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is undergoing testing, and a photo released by NASA captures the brilliant blue flame erupting out of the engine during a test. [Full Story: Awesome NASA Megarocket Engine Test Burns Blue (Photo)]

Avoiding asteroid Armageddon

A group of planetary scientists and space experts is pushing for the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to pursue a program that could save Earth from a major asteroid impact. ESA is set to decide in the near future whether to invest in a program to build a spacecraft that could nudge a threatening asteroid off course. [Full Story: Space Scientists Rally Support for 2020 Asteroid-Deflection Mission]

Looking for life nearby

Project Blue is an initiative that aims to look for habitable planets around the star system nearest to Earth's sun. Leaders of the initiative launched a crowdfunding campaign this week to lay the groundwork for the space-based telescope they hope to launch in 2019. [Full Story: 'Project Blue' Space Telescope Launches Crowdfunding Campaign]

Pluto's underground ocean

Pluto's "heart" — a large, smooth section of the dwarf planet's surface — may have moved relative to Pluto's axis. That shift indicates there may be an ocean sloshing around beneath the dwarf planet's icy surface. [Full Story: Pluto's Wandering Heart Hints at Subsurface Ocean]

A space-waste challenge

NASA has put out a call for innovators to submit designs for a spacesuit with built-in waste-disposal systems that would allow astronauts to remain in their suits for hours at a time. Right now, astronauts wear diapers during spacewalks or while traveling to and from space. [Full Story: Space Poop Challenge: NASA Calls for Better Spacesuit Potty Systems]

Chinese astronauts back on Earth

Two Chinese astronauts returned safety to Earth on Friday (Nov. 18) after spending a month in space. Their trip into orbit set a new record for the Chinese human spaceflight program, and set the stage for the country's plans to build its own large space station. [Full Story: China's Shenzhou 11 Crew Lands on Earth After Month-Long Space Lab Mission]

New map of the Milky Way

The European Gaia space observatory released a brand-new virtual map of the Milky Way galaxy. The spacecraft was launched in 2010 to map the location of the stars in the Milky Way at unprecedented precision. [Full Story: See a Virtual Milky Way Map from Europe's Gaia Spacecraft]

Documenting a death-defying dive

A new documentary "14 Minutes from Earth" tells the story of Alan Eustace's record-breaking, death-defying sky dive from an altitude of more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth. [Full Story: '14 Minutes from Earth' Highlights Perils of Death-Defying Skydive]

NASA brings Mars to the Super Bowl

Houston will host the 2017 Super Bowl, and NASA is getting in on the action. The space agency, along with various spaceflight companies, will host a Mars-themed exhibit in Houston leading up to the game. The attraction will feature, among other things, a drop tower that takes riders on a virtual trip to Mars. [Full Story: NASA-Inspired 'Future Flight' Ride to 'Drop' Super Bowl Fans on Trip to Mars]

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The Physics Defying EmDrive Just Passed Peer Review. Here’s What You Need to Know

The Physics Defying EmDrive Just Passed Peer Review. Here’s What You Need to Know

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IN BRIEF
  • The controversial NASA study of the EmDrive (which was previously leaked) has finally been released, and it shows that EmDrive may work.
  • There are various ways that the study could prove to be erroneous, but the peer-review process will allow other scientists to seek to confirm or debunk the findings.

A CONTENTIOUS TECHNOLOGY

Documents were leaked earlier this month about NASA’s study of a proposed EmDrive. It generated the usual host of reactions, ranging from “it totally works” hype to outright dismissal. It’s rare for a piece of technology to inspire such polarizing reactions; however, these reactions are rather understandable.

The EmDrive, otherwise known as a radio frequency resonant cavity thruster, makes use of microwaves that are bounced around inside an asymmetrical-shaped cavity. To break this down a bit more, the claim is, you bounce microwaves back and forth inside a truncated cone, and the result will be a thrust toward the narrow end of the cone.

That seems simple enough, yes? After all, you are just converting kinetic energy into another form of energy. Well, here is the kicker: The total momentum increases as the device begins to move. That is like placing yourself inside a box, pushing on the side, and generating thrust.

In short, it provides thrust without the need for a propellant, which at face value, violates Newton’s Third Law of Motion. This means that, based on the current laws of physics, it’s not supposed to work. Yet, that leaked paper from NASA was just peer-reviewed and published; its results suggest that it does work, barring other possible explanations.

The relation of thrust to power for the EM Drive. Credit: Smith, et al.

The relation of thrust to power for the EM Drive.

Credit: Smith, et al.

Commenting on the work, astrophysicist Brian Koberlein states, “I’ve been pretty critical of this experiment from the get go, and I remain highly skeptical. However, even as a skeptic I have to admit the work is valid research. This is how science is done if you want to get it right. Do experiments, submit them to peer review, get feedback, and reevaluate.”

In a paper published in the Journal of Propulsion and Power, Scientists from NASA Johnson Space Center constructed their own EmDrive and tested it in near-vacuum. Their results show that the system was able to produce a thrust-to-power ratio of 1.2 ± 0.1 millinewtons per kilowatt (mN/kW).

figure15.jpeg Experimental setup of the EmDrive. Credit: White, et al.

A CHANCE TO EXPLORE THE TECH FURTHER

It should be noted, though, that a peer-reviewed paper means that the methodology is sound, but the results (the conclusions) could still be invalid. Indeed, the authors of the paper do list some error sources for their results, error sources which could potentially invalidate their findings—like a thermal expansion of the device that could lead to a false positive.

Still, having a peer-reviewed paper on EmDrives is a significant development, as it is now open for more scientists to test the device and explain how it can (or could) produce thrust. As Koberlein states, “It doesn’t guarantee that the results are valid, as we’ve seen with other peer-reviewed research such as BICEP2. But this milestone shouldn’t be downplayed either. With this new paper we now have a clear overview of the experimental setup and its results. This is a big step toward determining whether the effect is real or an odd set of secondary effects.”

So it seems that it may be a little early to assert that we have figured out how EmDrive really works. As Koberlein concludes, “The biggest challenge they still have is that these results are so extraordinarily small that lots of things can explain them. They aren’t there yet, though.”

Will the EmDrive be just a glorified microwave oven or the next step in interstellar travel? For now, we just have to wait and see. But, we should take the next few developments on this technology with both an open mind and a healthy bit of skepticism.

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This Is the World’s First 3D-Printed “Supercar”

This Is the World’s First 3D-Printed “Supercar”

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  • Divergent 3D has shown off the Blade Supercar, the first-ever 3D-printed sports car capable of reaching 97 km (60 mph) in 2.2 seconds.
  • The car is made from a more sustainable approach to materials that, if widely adopted, could help alleviate the carbon footprint of automakers.

LEGO BLOCK “SUPERCAR”

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, automaker Divergent 3D showed off their 3D-printed Blade Supercar. The 635 kilogram (1,400 pound) car is made of a combination of aluminum and carbon fiber; accelerates to 97 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour) in 2.2 seconds with its 700 hp engine; and can use either gasoline or compressed natural gas as fuel.

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The Blade Supercar debuted last year in June, heralding the company’s radical, environmentally-sustainable approach to manufacturing. Divergent calls the manufacturing approach NODE, where they 3D print aluminum nodes joined together by carbon fiber tubing.

The process, which is similar to using Lego blocks, requires less capital and uses up fewer materials. The ease of assembly means that even semi-skilled workers can run the process.

As an added bonus, Divergent 3D’s cars are 90 percent lighter and more durable than cars built with traditional techniques.

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Divergent 3D's printed supercar greets visitors in the atrium of the LA Convention Center at the LA Auto Show.

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The rear of the Blade 3D printed supercar Wednesday Nov. 16, 2016 at the LA Auto Show.

MANUFACTURING THE FUTURE CAR

Divergent 3D aims to manufacture competitive automobiles while radicalizing the usual car manufacturing process that can be taxing on the environment.

Making a car can be just as polluting as driving one. Metals, rubbers, plastics, paints, and more are extracted from nature and synthesized through a long process where resources are shipped from all across the world. As The Guardian reported in 2010, producing a medium-sized car like a Ford Mondeo could generate more than 17,000 kilograms (17 tonnes) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

But more industries today are taking a global shift into sustainability. Divergent, together with its partner companies, are helping take the lead in changing auto manufacturing for the better.

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A Self-Piloting Human Transport Drone Flew Untethered for the First Time

A Self-Piloting Human Transport Drone Flew Untethered for the First Time  
Urban Aeronautics Cormorant

Urban Aeronautics

Urban Aeronautics Cormorant

Formerly known as the "Air Mule," this is a flying taxi, or maybe a future unmanned ambulance.

Tactical Robotics
IN BRIEF
  • The autonomous aerial vehicle (UAV) prototype AirMule has completed its first completely untethered flight, but its control system made a handful of incorrect decisions.
  • Tactical Robotics, the makers of the AirMule, envisions UAVs landing and taking off from rugged terrain that human pilots can't handle.

Cormorant UAV completes first fully autonomous flight

Below is some additional technical information related to the recent flight and also in general--the challenge of NOE (Nap of the Earth) flight:

As tech companies, car manufacturers, and governments like France usher in a self-driving transit ecosystem, handing the keys over to computers seems to make more sense.

Israeli firm Tactical Robotics wants to take self-piloting tech to the air. AirMule, an autonomous vertical take off and landing (VTOL) prototype capable of carrying people and supplies, has just demonstrated its first fully untethered autonomous flight along a preplanned route.

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — now known as Comorant — uses internal rotor blades and rear horizontal thrust ducted fans to take off. It also has two laser altimeters, a radar altimeter, inertial sensors, and an electro-optic payload camera as sensors to guide its flight decisions.

That doesn’t mean the whole flight was smooth sailing. On three occasions, the robot’s flight management system (FMS) had to take over the autonomous flight control system (FCS) because the tech made incorrect decisions. And two times the FCS misjudged altitude due to inaccurate laser altimeter readings, causing the transport to land early.

“While the FCS was ‘learning’ to fly the aircraft through the various pattern maneuvers, the FMS was continuously monitoring the level of safety, and making judgements regarding if and when to intervene,” Tactical Robotics said in a press release.

More R&D is clearly in order. But the manufacturers say the UAV will one day be able to land and take off vertically from rough terrain human pilots can’t handle. They envision the drones carrying supplies and soldiers to battlefields and war zones.

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The psychic powers of Nina Kulagina are just too crazy (video)

The psychic powers of Nina Kulagina are just too crazy (video)

Born Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina on July 30, 1926 in Leningrad, Nina was very much an average, tough Russian woman. She was loyal to her country, joining the tank regiment of the Red Army during World War II when she was only 14. After the war, she married and became a housewife, living what anyone would describe as an average life until she began to test if the psychic abilities of her mother might have rubbed off on her.
 
It was during Nina’s private attempts at developing these psychic abilities that she seemingly unlocked something within her. The most well-known of these alleged abilities was psychokinesis (PK), or the moving of objects with the mind. Nina could move a wide variety of items including clock pendulums, crystal bowls, matches, cigarettes, compass needles, bread loaves, salt shakers, and many other small objects (often placed in Plexiglass boxes to show there were no strings attached). She first became aware of this ability when things would move whenever she would get angry. And aside from her famous stopping of a frog’s heart, Nina performed another fascinating feat: she separated an egg. That might not sound so amazing until you know that the egg was floating in a salt water tank two meters away from her. And she brought the yolk and white back together again when instructed to do so.
 
At the First Moscow International Conference of Parapsychology in 1968, footage of Nina seemingly moving objects with her mind was finally shown to the public. But with the scientific community catching wind of Nina’s astounding feats came the heavy hand of scrutiny. Skeptics including James Randi have long maintained that none of Nina’s apparent psychic abilities were anything more than common trickery and sleight of hand illusions. Just like Uri Gellar, Nina’s publicized experiments were never under ideal laboratory conditions. She was seen at home or in hotel rooms, without experts in trickery on hand. It’s been claimed that Nina had magnets implanted into her body to manipulate objects; other telekinetic claims could have employed the use of thin wires or mirrors. Yet in the USSR, laboratory experiments were performed on Nina (under the pseudonym Nelya Mikhailova) by several researchers, including Czech psychical researcher Dr. Zdenek Rejdak, psychologist B. Blazek, physicist V. F. Shvetz, Dr. J.S. Zvierev, physiologist L.L. Vasiliev, and the aforementioned Dr. Sergeyev. Dr. Rejdak published a report of his experiments (titled ‘Nina Kulagina’s Mind over Matter’) in the June 1971 issue of Psychic Magazine.
 
 
 
It has been argued that Nina was shown off by the USSR in an effort to make it seem like they were making huge leaps in telekinesis when in fact it was all fakery. But even though the Cold War has long since ended, Russia has continued to keep many of its secrets under lock and key. If Nina was such a glowing success, where are the scientific reports? Might they still be housed somewhere in a storage room never to see the light of day? As is the case with so many things, just because we haven’t seen something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
 
Near the end of her life, Nina seems to have lost the abilities she became so famous for. Her exertion in manifesting these powers was blamed for a near-fatal heart attack in the late 1970s. Sharp pain in her spine, dizziness, blood sugar irregularities, failing eyesight, and many other health concerns plagued her. With deteriorating health, Nina stepped away from the endless scientific testing, conducting very limited experiments in labs up until her death in 1990. And so, the full truth died with her. Whether or not she ever possessed remarkable abilities, perhaps faking it when her powers disappeared later in life, is a matter of speculation.
 
What do you think? Was Nina Kulagina a deliberate fraud, a Cold War pawn, or genuine enigma?
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RIGHT NOW YOU ARE BEING PREPARED FOR WORLD WIDE UFO DISCLOSURE 2016

RIGHT NOW YOU ARE BEING PREPARED FOR WORLD WIDE UFO DISCLOSURE 2016

Everyone knows something about aliens, some believe in their existence, others do not. It seems, however, that their existence is confirmed, and the more they communicate and have contracts with different organizations and countries. 
 
Pope or Vladimir Putin confirmed the existence of these unearthly beings, but have not even told all about it.
 
 "There's still time to provide widespread public is not an information consumer. That information is like a supermarket somewhere in a shop window and someone comes and organizes. For the general public that's just drops. Says Pope something, then someone else says. slowly desesensibilizează man and prepares to receive the higher dose of information. the Americans already have desecritizat documents relating to aliens, contracts with them. 
 
Russian special services presented overwhelming evidence not only of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, but also about the fact that America is ruled by a race of aliens since the middle of last century. 
 
UK MAKES SHOCKING DISCLOSURE ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF UFOS 
 
"The aliens really exist," said Alan Turner, aged 64, retired service commander RAF (Royal Air Force) in the UK. The Englishman says that in 1971 witnessed the emergence of a whole fleet UFO but that, so far, the British Ministry of Defense forbade them to talk about this, announcing several British publications. 
 
Former commander led radar system of the RAF for 29 years and decided to break the silence after several years in which I was forbidden to talk about "so-called" state secrets.
 
  •  "Aliens exist. All radars military vessels have been observed since more than three decades ago. Time since 1971, though, the most terrible of all. 35 unidentified flying objects appeared on radar army, objects of identical size flying at altitudes between 1,000 meters and 12,000 meters. We did not have explained what they were, nor why disappeared from the screen for a few seconds to appear in the same place. All present knew that it's not a convoy of military aircraft and there are more than 30 witnesses who could support my statements, "mentions Alan Turner. 
The phenomenon recorded in 1971 that mysterious evening has not been made public so far and is part of the UK UFO files to be declassified. Alan Turner was awarded several times, the last time in 1984, and was retired from the army in 1995. His statements were deemed "outstanding" by most British journalists.
 
  •  "It would be the greatest proof of arrogance to imagine that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe", he wanted to conclude the same Alan Turner.
 
 CIA DISCLOSED THE TRUTH ABOUT UFOs that flew over the sky in the 50s and 60s US US 
 
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced on Twitter that is responsible for at least half of the appearances of "UFOs" in the 50s and 60s."Reports of unusual activity in the sky '50s? We were "the company said. The document is attached to a message CIA declassified a report about testing a U-2 spy plane at altitudes of 18,000 meters. 
 
Half of the cases of UFO apparitions were actually times when the aircraft was tested at high altitude. Specifically, people at that time would have thought that such an experiment is possible, and put everything on account of unidentified flying objects. 
 
FBI remaining unnamed sources had stated recently, according to US media, that since the '40s, thousands of UFO had landed on American soil, and there are documents to that effect. Because the American public does not find out by visiting extraterrestrials after reporting, the President acquainted, and then immediately paperwork and evidence were burned. 
 
Soviet Ministry of Defense has been working on a secret project to create a being with superhuman powers, paranormal, with the help of aliens.
 
 Alexei Savin, a lieutenant general in the reserves, was the "chosen" to bring this history to light. Savin worked in the Soviet Ministry of Defense, is a graduate of the Academy of Natural Sciences. He said some journalists from Pravda that paranormal activities had entered straight in the Soviet army and KGB in 1983, when Secretary of Defense then allowed the training of soldiers for missions paranormal, such as identifying military targets by means extrasensory prediction accidents, rapid healing of wounded soldiers etc. In December 1989 (exactly when Gorbachev bothered to replace communist regimes totalitarian some with a human face), was founded Special Unit 10003, by order of the Chief of Staff, General Mikhail Moiseev, having only ten officers paranormal, the best of those trained . They managed to contact an extraterrestrial civilization after there were several UFO sightings in the area of training of Vladimirovka.
 
 Vasili Ieremenko Major General and Professor Emeritus of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement, was the first who addressed the press on the subject. In Soviet times, it was a KGB officer and oversee aerospace technology. "I learned how to call these UFOs in Vladimirovka. It was enough to make massive movements of troops and transport equipment. In such cases, appeared 100%. After six months of testing were drawn three conclusions: that modern science can not identify this phenomenon, as might have been sophisticated equipment reconnaissance belonging to the US or Japan and, three, that could be an impact of a civilization alien, "said Ieremenko. General Alexei Savin comes Ieremenko completes his testimony. Namely that "encouraging" UFO experiment was part of the special unit 10003. The first experiments were aimed at finding ways to improve brain activity in certain circumstances. The Scientific Council concerning this program was headed by academician Natalia Bektereva who, until her death, was the scientific director of the Research Institute of the human brain. "In the research we concluded that the man is an energy-information system that captures information from outside cognoscibility" says General Savin. To identify these "external sources", were created three groups, one of the researchers, soldiers second and third ... women! This third group made the most discoveries in the field, developing special psychics. Bosses urged to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. "And I did it. We have developed a method based on brain activity. Rather, we managed to bring the brain to a certain frequency, which allowed him to be on the same wavelength with an extraterrestrial civilization, "said Savin. 
 
You can watch the video to see more discoveries and statements about the fact that we are not alone in the universe. 
 
 
 

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GOVERNMENTS ANNOUNCE: WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE. GET READY!

GOVERNMENTS ANNOUNCE: WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE. GET READY!

We are not alone in the universe, there are others than us!
 
Many questions are rising after a shock statements of what the Apollo 14 astronaut claims that aliens have contacted humankind several times, but Governments have to hide this for over 60 years. 
 
A few US Presidents have made statements about the subject of UFO's and aliens, most notably the comments by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. During its electoral campaign in 1976, Carter admitted that he had seen a UFO in 1969 when he was Governor of the weather in Georgia. 
 
  • "If I am President, I will end up doing so every information, relating to the UFO phenomenon, to become accessible to the public and scientists." 
 
Carter, a Bachelor's degree in nuclear physics, has encountered opposition in his attempts to reopen investigations and it is likely that he may have changed his mind after reading the informative report on the subject. If aliens visit Earth, many are asking, why not landing on the lawn in front of the White House and not get in touch directly with the President? Of course, not have landed on the lawn of the White House, but there are signs that some Presidents have done this contact. 
 
Famous people from all over the world believe that we are not alone in the universe. They believe in the existence of aliens and UFOs. Among them stood Stephen Hawking, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev or Richard Nixon even Bill Clinton or Obama, Dmitry Mendevev made certain statements.
 
 Those who believe in the phenomenon UFOs come from diverse backgrounds, from former Presidents of the United States up to scientists, singers or actors, according to the International Business Times. 
 
You can watch the video to see more discoveries and statements about the fact that we are not alone in the universe. 
 
 
 
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VIDEO: NASA-sondes leggen mysterieuze bol vast bij de zon

VIDEO: NASA-sondes leggen mysterieuze bol vast bij de zon

VIDEO: NASA-sondes leggen mysterieuze bol vast bij de zon

Zonnesondes van de NASA lijken een gigantisch ongeïdentificeerd object te hebben vastgelegd dat langs onze ster scheert. Dat schrijft onder meer de Daily Mirror.

YouTube-kanaal UFOMania plaatste beelden die zijn gemaakt door de STEREO-sondes op internet. De beelden tonen een grote bol die de zon lijkt te passeren.

UFOMania bekeek ook andere beelden die in oktober en november zijn gemaakt door de ruimtesondes, maar daarop is de vreemde bol niet te zien.

Groot succes

De STEREO-toestellen werden in 2006 gelanceerd en begonnen rond de zon te cirkelen. Op die manier konden wetenschappen onze zon en de zonneuitbarstingen vanuit alle hoeken bestuderen.

Dankzij STEREO-A en STEREO-B kreeg de NASA indrukwekkende 3D-beelden binnen van de zon en alle zonneactiviteit.

De missie ter waarde van 550 miljoen dollar moest in 2008 worden afgerond, maar werd verlengd wegens groot succes.

Niets te vrezen

UFO-jager Pamela Johnson uit Mexico deelde de beelden op Facebook en claimde dat de zon op het object reageerde.

Ze zei verder dat het gaat om een ruimtetuig dat deel uitmaakt van de ‘Blue Spheres’ (blauwe bollen) en dat er ‘niets te vrezen is’.

Pamela Johnson
op donderdag

This huge object is captured on NASA'S SECCHI STEREO HI1 satellite today. Our Sun is casting the Light that is coming in from the left side of the frame. This satellite's archives showed the Sun began reacting to this object on November 15th and there are several frames missing on the 15th and 16th. Wow! Front and Center. I have added an image from November 11th showing only solar wind and passing planets so you can see what a normal view looks like. One of the lastest GaiaPortal posts comes to mind, "Astro-glances compel the masses to action". I have just consulted my Divining Rods and they indicate this is one of the Blue Spheres and not to fear. <3
https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images

'This huge object is captured on NASA'S SECCHI STEREO HI1 satellite today. Our Sun is casting the Light that is coming in from the left side of the frame. This satellite's archives showed the Sun began reacting to this object on November 15th and there are several frames missing on the 15th and 16th. Wow! Front and Center. I have added an image from November 11th showing only solar wind and passing planets so you can see what a normal view looks like. One of the lastest GaiaPortal posts comes to mind, "Astro-glances compel the masses to action". I have just consulted my Divine Rods and they indicate this is one of the Blue Spheres and not to fear. <3 https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images'
foto van Pamela Johnson.
foto van Pamela Johnson.
foto van Pamela Johnson.
foto van Pamela Johnson.

Wetenschappelijke experts hebben nog niet op de beelden gereageerd.

[Mirror]
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UFO Escorts General Akar Of Turkey And Turkish News Records It! Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Escorts General Akar Of Turkey And Turkish News Records It! Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting

News.

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Date of sighting: Nov 19, 2016
Location of sighting: Turkey

This week a UFO was recorded following a military helicopter carrying a four star Turkish general named Hulusi Akar. Akar is the highest rinking military officer in the Turkish military. 


The UFO was noticed by the news agencies and they got into a discussion about what the UFO could be and why aliens would want to follow the most powerful military officer in the country. 


If aliens are following Akars helicopter transport, then it stands to reason that general Akar is about to make a monumental decision in Turkish history. A decision that will impact all of history, and alien wanted to see his behavior and thoughts (yes they record your thoughts) for the days before he makes this massive decision, good or bad. This way, aliens can mathematically determine the odds of us being able to change our own fate, or be forced down a path that fate has set out for us. 

Scott C. Waring



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Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Oct 28, 2016
Location of sighting: Canada

I watched this in full screen and slowed down the motion to 25% and wow, it just blew my mind. I really didn't think I was going to see real orb entities, but these are real. There is no mistaking them. There is an entire swarm of these beings moving about the house and in orb form. Extraordinary catch. 

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:
Please watch in 720p More orb activity, it never stops . Thanks for watching! The time & date stamp is wrong, this was filmed October 28th, 2016.

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Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Oct 28, 2016
Location of sighting: Canada

I watched this in full screen and slowed down the motion to 25% and wow, it just blew my mind. I really didn't think I was going to see real orb entities, but these are real. There is no mistaking them. There is an entire swarm of these beings moving about the house and in orb form. Extraordinary catch. 

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:
Please watch in 720p More orb activity, it never stops . Thanks for watching! The time & date stamp is wrong, this was filmed October 28th, 2016.

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Green Orb Caught While Recording the Moon, Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Green Orb Caught While Recording the Moon, Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Nov 19, 2016
Location of sighting: unknown observing moon

This orb is an interesting color, but oddly is the equal size of the moon, so no wonder the woman was surprised. As you see here looking at the moon and then moving downward, the size is the same. This is proof this is not a star, because there is no star as big as the Super moon right now. This object is obviously a UFO observing her, and possibly has woken her telepathically to come out side. 


This has happened to many UFO eyewitnesses. One such similar experience was the famous actor Dan Aykroyd. It was in the late 80s when Aykroyd woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly telling his wife, “they’re calling me, I want to go outside”. Of course, his wife asked who’s calling him but Aykroyd’s only response was to insist on going outside. He was told to go back to sleep and he did. The next day, the media was swamped with reports of people all over upstate new York, Quebec and Vermont, of people having the intense urge to go outside at three in the morning. When they did go outside, a massive pink spiral was seen above the great lakes.

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 
At 1am I went outside to have a smoke and while recording the moon. When i tilted the camera down in front of me this Green glowing Ghost orb was in front of me. Freaked the heck out of me.

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Question; Could NASA Successfully Fake The Rover On Mars? Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Question; Could NASA Successfully Fake The Rover On Mars? Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

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NASA photo drilled rocks: 
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Many readers have suggested that the Mars Curiosity rover is not on Mars, but actually on Devon Island in Southern Canada. I have to admit that we have seen a lot of evidence that intelligent life was in those Mars photos, but in truth, I see that there is so much in most of those photos that it couldn't possibly be a place on Earth. How could such unusual artefacts exist on Earth and were never discovered by anyone? 


It seems that the evidence that the Mars rover is not on Mars at all is growing. Here is some of the reasons it may not be on Mars.

1. In the color photos, 90% of time NASA puts it into FALSE COLOR, a red filter to make the photo look like a red planet. This may be a psychological trick to convince the public it really is Mars.

2. Every time other countries send a rover or satellite to Mars, it is either destroyed in Earths orbit, on landing, and a few minutes after landing. Did America sabotage those Russian missions to keep a secret?

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3. We found animals, a hairy monkey, squirrel, lizard, rat, rabbit, bison and two gorillas. Its a freaking zoo on Mars if its really there.

4. The real color of the sky is blue in original color NASA photos and there were white clouds! That should not be possible on Mars...and yet, its in NASA photos. 


5. If you look at Devon Island on Google Earth, you see two HD photos of NASA scientists in suits and driving the Mars rover. Evidence that they are using Devon to record Mars raw footage.  75°26'0.98"N   89°51'14.99"W


So, tell me your thoughts about the NASA rover in the comments below. Where is it and why would or would not NASA fake such a mission?
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

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NASA Image Shows Brick Wall On Martian Surface

NASA Image Shows Brick Wall On Martian Surface

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News from Mars continues to amaze a lot of people. There have been many findings on Mars that bring interest to humanity. The latest discovery is no different as NASA Curiosity Rover image seems to show a brick wall on the Martian surface.

One part of the picture shows the remains of a wall or building. When zooms in, it appears to look a strange structure with some precision.

UFOlogists show excitement with the find. Many are convinced it is a brick wall on Mars with perfect details, which is too perfect for it to be considered a natural object. They are especially amazed at its simplicity, yet perfect as if designed like the wall around someone’s backyard.

The image has received mix reactions.

One observer said that it is stupid and no way it’s legit as it looks so fake.

One believer, meanwhile, stated that he is very impressed, but worried of the kind of devastation that resulted to just a few artifacts or few bricks left.

The comments are interesting, but no one provides explanations why they come up with the conclusion. The alleged brick wall is just one of many things discovered on Mars that appear to indicate something beyond human understanding.

There have been so many hints of life on the Red Planet but remained just hints until today, such as a crab, a skull, and a ruined fort found on the Martian surface.

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UFOs During Volcanic Eruptions and Before Earthquakes

UFOs During Volcanic Eruptions and Before Earthquakes

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There is a rise in sightings of UFOs during volcanic eruptions and approaching earthquakes. Online conspiracy forums are filled with claims of UFO bases inside volcanoes and UFO sightings before an earthquake.

Photos and videos of UFOs emerged showing UFOs all over exploding volcanoes and around the area that would experience tremor.

Wild claims related to this subject include UFOs monitoring seismic activity or triggering volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

Just last month, an alleged UFO sighting video surfaced online showing a UFO over an erupting Colima volcano in Mexico. Most viewers described the strange object as a cigar-shaped UFO, much like the same to the ones seen around Mexican volcanoes on live cams.

Nigel Watson, UFO Investigations Manual author, offers a more scientific explanation. UFO expert Watson noted the linking of Earth energies with UFO activity in the 1960s. In the late 1970s, scrutiny of more rigorous investigation took place, explained Watson.

Watson referred the book “Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events,” by Michael Persinger and Gyslaine Lafreniere. He said that it puts forward the evidence suggesting that tectonic strains in the crust of the Earth give sufficient energy to create columns of electrical energy and bright balls of light in the atmosphere.

The Tectonic Strain Theory (TST) offers an explanation of UFOs appearing at window areas or particular hot spots, according to Watson.

Watson added that Michael Persinger suggested the EM fields of these UFOs could trigger trance states or hallucinations in people who are close to them. Watson further explained that this might be the reason for many stories on strange encounters, such as alien abductions, that are experienced after a witness has seen the light in the sky.

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UFOs filmed with Night Vision over Las Vegas, Nevada

UFOs filmed with Night Vision over Las Vegas, Nevada

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Here’s a new video of an unknown object filmed with night vision camera in the sky above Las Vegas, Nevada. This happened on 15th November 2016.

Witness report: 

I wanted to get the video I shot last night out the same night. To do that I had to increase the speed up on the night vision portion by five times because it takes so long to render, upload and process the video. Jaime Maussan told me they are always best at actual speed so I am remaking that portion of last nights video. I am not enhancing it in any way so this is exactly as it was as it came from the night vision camera.

Author (Steven Barone @ youtube)

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‘De ideeën van Erik Verlinde zijn te mooi om toevallig te zijn’

‘De ideeën van Erik Verlinde zijn te mooi om toevallig te zijn’

De bekende astronoom Vincent Icke heeft de publicatie van Erik Verlinde inmiddels driemaal gelezen. Wij vroegen hem naar zijn reactie op het werk van de theoretisch fysicus.

Vincent Icke heeft de publicatie van Verlinde inmiddels driemaal gelezen. Foto: Astrid Koppers Vincent Icke heeft de publicatie van Verlinde inmiddels driemaal gelezen. Foto: Astrid Koppers

U heeft de publicatie inmiddels driemaal gelezen. Is het zo leuk?
‘Nou, het is vooral heel pittige kost. Dat moet je echt even tot je nemen. Gelukkig liggen zijn ideeën wel in het verlengde van dingen waar natuur- en sterrenkundigen al sinds de jaren zeventig aan werken. En de aankondiging van dit idee deed Verlinde al jaren geleden. Dat zorgt ervoor dat je het wat gemakkelijker kunt doorgronden.’

Zijn publicatie telt zo’n 50 pagina’s. Hoe beoordeel je zoveel complexe natuurkunde?
‘Als iemand in de theoretische natuurkunde met een nieuwe theorie komt, moet je naar drie dingen kijken. Allereerst: zitten voorgaande theorieën in de nieuwe theorie besloten? Dan: kan deze theorie bestaande feiten, en waarnemingen die al gedaan zijn, verklaren? En tot slot: doet deze theorie ook een voorspelling die je kunt toetsen?’

Wat kunt u op basis van die principes concluderen?
‘Het opmerkelijke verhaal van Verlinde doet het tweede, waarnemingen verklaren, heel aardig. Het eerste – het bevatten van de oude theorieën – doet het maar ten dele. En de voorspellingen heb ik nog niet gevonden, maar het kan zijn dat ik nog wat over het hoofd zie. Het is een moeilijk artikel.’

'Elastisch Universum', het boek dat New Scientist-redacteur George van Hal schreef over de ideeën van Erik Verlinde. Bestel nu in onze webshop (€ 7,95) LEESTIP Naar aanleiding van de publicatie van Verlinde schreef New Scientist-redacteur George van Hal het boek Elastisch Universum, waarin de baanbrekende ideeën van Erik Verlinde toegankelijk worden uitgelicht. Bestel nu in onze webshop (€ 7,95).

De publicatie bevat de oude theorieën dus maar ten dele. Wat bedoelt u daarmee?
‘Toen Einstein zijn relativiteitstheorie publiceerde, kwam je in de limiet van lage snelheden en massa’s vanzelf weer uit bij de wetten van Newton en Leibniz. Maar in Verlindes publicatie is het niet zo dat wanneer je de limiet neemt voor lage massa-dichtheid of snelheden, je vervolgens de formules van de algemene relativiteitstheorie terugkrijgt.

‘Toch is het wel aannemelijk dat het allemaal klopt. De uitkomst die Verlinde krijgt, is dat hij de Newtonse zwaartekracht terugvindt met iets extra’s erbij. Dat ‘iets extra’s’ moet het donkere spul in de kosmos verklaren.
‘Dat idee an sich is niet nieuw. Modified Newtonian Dynamics – MOND – deed dat al langer. Alleen was MOND heel ad hoc. Daarin verklaarden aanhangers het donkere spul met een nieuwe formule, net als Verlinde nu. Alleen werd die formule min of meer uit de duim gezogen. Daar is niets mis mee, dat mag, maar het berustte niet op onderliggende natuurkundige argumenten.
‘Bij Verlinde is dat wel het geval. Hij baseert zich heel duidelijk op de inzichten van Jacob Bekenstein, die de entropie van zwarte gaten beschreef. Die formules past Verlinde nu toe op het hele heelal.’

Maar daar volgen dus geen echte voorspellingen uit?
‘Niet echt. Het middenstuk van het artikel is in dat opzicht wel heel aardig. Daar komt Verlinde echt met een schatting van de hoeveelheid donker spul in het heelal en dat ziet er getalsmatig goed uit. Onze sterrenkundige collega’s moeten dat nog wel controleren. Daar wordt aan gewerkt, maar hun artikelen zijn nog niet beschikbaar.’

Wat is uw oordeel over de publicatie zoals deze er nu ligt?
‘Ik vind het heel loffelijk dat Verlinde hier nu al mee gekomen is. Hij heeft zijn ideeën heel helder onder woorden gebracht. In de geschiedenis van de natuurkunde is het ook geen uitzondering dat je een hypothese publiceert zonder dat je de onderliggende dynamica al kent.

‘Zo publiceerden Planck en De Broglie bijvoorbeeld al over het idee dat straling en materie gekwantiseerd zijn, en pakte Niels Bohr dat op om de quantumtoestanden van het waterstofatoom te beschrijven. Maar pas 26 jaar later publiceerde Schrödinger zijn vergelijking en volgde de achterliggende dynamica en bewegingsvergelijkingen.
‘Verlinde staat net als Planck aan het begin. Er is nog geen dynamica, nog geen bewegingsvergelijking. Maar dit is te mooi om toevallig te zijn.’

Als Verlinde gelijk heeft, hoe groot is dit dan?
‘Als hij gelijk heeft, dan is dit zeer groot. Als onze sterrenkundige collega’s bewijzen dat zijn getallen kloppen met onze waarnemingen, dan weten we dat hij in de juiste richting zit. Dan is dit een heel belangrijke publicatie.

‘Toch lost Verlinde niet letterlijk elk openstaand probleem op. Er zijn nog wel wat dingen over waar ik me zorgen over maak.’

Waar maakt u zich dan nog zorgen over?
‘Afgelopen april publiceerde ik in Nature over de kosmologische constante. Die is ongeveer 10118-maal groter dan de sterrenkunde toelaat, een nare joker in ons kosmische kaartspel. Dat probleem lost Verlinde nog niet op.’

Is dat erg?
‘Misschien. Kijk, we weten dat het heelal niet in een flits opblaast. Blijkbaar is er dus een manier waarop het heelal dit heeft opgelost, alleen kennen we die manier nog niet. Verlinde impliceert dat hij het vertrouwen heeft dat zijn theorie dit punt uiteindelijk ook oplost, dat het wel goed komt.’

Verlinde lost volgens hem het probleem van donkere materie op. Werkt zijn verklaring voor elk verschijnsel waarbij astronomen nu donkere materie nodig menen te hebben?
‘Nee, niet allemaal. Zwaartekrachtslenzen en het ‘Bullet Cluster’ van sterrenstelsels, zijn bijvoorbeeld nog niet door astronomen gecontroleerd. Maar ik heb het vermoeden dat dat getalsmatig wel zal blijken te kloppen.

‘Dat komt hierdoor. In de beschrijving die Verlinde kiest, kun je slechts 1 parameter helemaal vrij kiezen en dat is de tijdschaal. Voor die tijd kiest hij een uitdrukking die grofweg overeenkomt met de leeftijd van het heelal. Dat betekent dat alle getallen in die theorie van kosmologische grootte zullen zijn. Daarom vermoed ik dat niet alleen het gedrag van losse sterrenstelsels, maar ook van clusters van sterrenstelsels samen goed door zijn theorie zullen worden beschreven.’

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French Astronaut Cried ‘Earth Must Be Warned!’ Before Attempting Suicide

French Astronaut Cried ‘Earth Must Be Warned!’ Before Attempting Suicide

Astronauts went out there and saw strange things that took a toll on their lives. Claudie Haigneré is one of them.


The incident took place in 2008 but was once again brought into attention by the controversial death of Max Spiers. Spiers was a British UFO investigator who was found dead on a friend’s couch after texting his mother that she should start an investigation if anything happened to him. It seems that those who encounter or pursue extraterrestrials are destined to get in trouble.

Claudie Haigneré is a French doctor and politician but prior to that, she was an astronaut. In 1996, Claudie and her husband, Jean-Pierre Haigneré spent more than two weeks aboard the Russian MIR space station.

Having studied rheumatology and neuroscience, Claudie’s outer space research aimed to provide insights about how astronauts adapted their motor and cognitive skills in zero gravity.

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In 2001, she became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station. She saw things that regular Joes never get to see. And it probably left a mark on her.

Claudie retired from space work and between 2002 and 2005 she became involved with politics, acting as a minister delegate for research and new technologies. Following budget cuts, she started working in a biology lab at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Obscure media reports claim that while there, Claudie was at the forefront of human/alien DNA research. And then things started going south for her.

In 2008, a fire ravaged the laboratory she worked in:

Fire broke out Wednesday in a biology laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, famed for research on fighting infectious diseases, officials said.

No victims were reported, and no sensitive materials or viruses were affected by the fire, which was extinguished by firefighters, an official at the institute said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to company policy.

The cause of the blaze was unclear.

In December of 2008, news outlets reported that Claudie Haigneré had to be rushed to a local hospital after an attempted suicide. She had taken a fistful of sleeping pills and was screaming “Earth must be warned!”

Before falling in a coma, Claudie had to be restrained. Such a strong reaction from a renowned and respected astronaut scientist could not have come without a cause. While Claudie herself blamed the whole incident on burnout syndrome, conspiracy theorists are convinced there was something darker that determined her to try and take her own life.

Sources claim that the former astronaut’s stay in Earth’s orbit opened her eyes regarding our planet’s hidden history:

FSB internal reports on Dr. Haigneré state that since her return from space she had become convinced that our Earth had been visited in our historical past by ‘ancient astronauts’ who had not only had colonized our Planet but had genetically engineered the then existing semi-human life forms into our present day human race.

Claudie is alive and well today but she chooses not to speak publicly about her ordeal. We can only speculate about her reasons to remain silent, but sometimes, actions speak for themselves.

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Did This Astronaut Warn Of Aliens Before Attempting Suicide? (Video)

Did This Astronaut Warn Of Aliens Before Attempting Suicide? (Video)

Outstanding Women: Claudie Haigneré, first female European in space

France's first female astronaut Claudie Haigneré screamed "Earth must be warned!" before she attempted suicide. 
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A 6-minute YouTube conspiracy film by UFOmania has resurfaced this week that claims France's first female astronaut screamed "Earth must be warned!" before she attempted suicide. According to the video's content, Claudie Haigneré, who is now 59, had to be restrained after shouting the shocking warning -- before becoming comatose from a sleeping pill overdose.

An esteemed scientist, Haigneré was a backup crew member for the Mir Altaïr mission in 1993, and later in 1996 she made it to the Mir space station. The French astronaut also went on to become the first European woman to reach the International Space Station (ISS). In fact, the asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named after Claudie and her husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré.

The acclaimed astronaut entered French politics after retiring from her space career and became the minister delegate for research and new technologies from 2002 to 2004, and subsequently the European affairs minister delegate from 2004 to 2005. After her stint in politics, Haigneré started to work in a biology lab at France's Pasteur Institute.

At this point in Haigneré's life, things reportedly started to get a bit strange. In December 2008, claims surfaced that the former French astronaut had to be hospitalized after overdosing on sleeping pills. Furthermore, before lapsing into coma, the ex-politician was found allegedly screaming "Earth must be warned!" Later on, Haigneré, who is now the director of Europe's largest science museum -- Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie -- blamed the bizarre episode on burnout syndrome.

However, conspiracy theorists and alien enthusiasts did not reportedly buy the explanation and believe that Haigneré was trying to warn humans about extraterrestrial life and aliens. Subsequently a video was released, which has resurfaced on YouTube channel UFOmania, and reportedly seems to be a blend of fact and fiction.

According to a report in the New York Post, the video has used quotes from real reports by news agency AFP; however, they have been taken way out of context. Additionally, "human/alien DNA research" does not exist because there have never been any alien encounters, as per the report. At most, Haigneré's story resurfaces whenever credence is needed for associated conspiracy theory stories by self-proclaimed ufologists and alien experts.

Furthermore, this time the video resurface can be pointed to the mysterious death of conspiracy theorists Max Spiers last month, who was found dead after warning his mother to investigate if anything happened to him. It was also claimed that Spiers vomited black liquid before his death, fueling speculations further.

So, what is fact and what is fiction? For now, it seems the truth is out there. Meanwhile you can watch the video!

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[WATCH] Aliens exist, says former Chinese diplomat

[WATCH] Aliens exist, says former Chinese diplomat

UFOs seen flying across supermoon in TWO locations considered 'PROOF of aliens'
A YouTube channel recently uploaded a footage of what seems to be a UFO flying across the supermoon. The small dot seen on the picture was the alleged alien seemingly mesmerized by the moon as well.

A former member of the Chinese government confirmed the existence of aliens and extraterrestrial beings during a recent UFO disclosure community meeting.

The quest for hunting extra-terrestrial beings continue to baffle space enthusiasts. Despite that, there is an obvious question mark on the particular topic.

The former Chinese diplomat left his colleagues in utter shock as he disclosed a jaw-dropping fact. He maintained that otherworldly life and intelligence very much exists and the Chinese government even has evidence that proves alien visiting Earth in the form of UFOs.

Shi-Li Sun pulled off a shock when the topic of discussion at the recent UFO disclosure summit was the existence of alien life.

The well-known former senior Chinese diplomat and now the president of the World Chinese UFO Federation established that years of research have allowed them to gather creditable indication that proves that alien life is surrounding us and that they have been visiting Earth.

"After years of research, a large number of Chinese UFO scholars, including myself, are convinced of the authenticity of UFOs and the existence of UFOs and aliens," he announced before a panel consisting of six former members of the U.S. Congress at a recent Citizen Hearing on Disclosure organized by Stephen Bassett's Paradigm Research Group (PRG).

"I have also written articles that appeared in China's encyclopedia, which is a very prestigious encyclopedia that was edited by Shen Shituan, a famous scientist in my country," he added as quoted by Express.

Shituan, who is a luminary in the field of science and also served as the president of Beijing Aerospace University, maintained that the sighting reports of UFO and other findings of alien life should be taken seriously.

"Some of these sightings are real, some are fake and with others it's unclear," Shituan reportedly said.

"All these phenomena are worth researching."

According to the website Alien UFO Sightings, Shi-Li Sun previously highlighted that extraterrestrial beings dwell among us.

According to the UFO researcher, aliens exist among humans and they are present at different levels of human strata. Some are blue collar workers and others are either corporate executive or government officials.

Sometimes humans are unable to identify them because they are masked as humans.

Shi-Li Sun is only one of few Chinese officials who took it to the media in order to testify that the government has gleaned heavy evidence from scientific experiments and research. The collected insight then points towards the existence of alien life and UFO carriers as a whole.

Similarly, a former Canadian Minister of National Defense is also among those who maintained that alien visitors have tried to contact US and Russian governments.

But eventually, these governments were covering up the truth and were not exposing it to the media.

There have been infinite cases regarding UFO and alien sightings, although the truth is yet to be unfolded.

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BRIGHTEST BURST OF RADIO WAVES FROM SPACE COULD BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS

BRIGHTEST BURST OF RADIO WAVES FROM SPACE COULD BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS

Nobody knows the reason for recent bursts of radio waves from outer space.

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This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

The search for mysterious “fast radio bursts”—very brief but intense pulses of radio waves from outer space—is heating up. Nobody knows what causes these powerful bursts, but some have even speculated that the signals could be transmitted by distant alien civilizations. In fact, astronomers are so perplexed by the phenomenon that it is driving a renaissance in radio astronomy.

Now an international team of astronomers has detected the brightest ever fast radio burst. Dubbed FRB 150807 after its discovery date, the burst of intense radio waves lasted less than half a millisecond—that is 0.1 percent of the time it takes a human to blink. And the study, published in Science, has come closer than any before it to pinning down where the blip came from. The research comes just days after another study reported having seen a fast radio burst together with an outburst of gamma rays, extremely energetic electromagnetic radiation.

Despite their intensity, the nature and origin of fast radio bursts is still hotly debated. Some astronomers have suggested these brief, intense flashes are flares produced in the atmospheres of certain stars in our own Milky Way galaxy—a process similar to solar flares. Others argue they are caused by cosmic collisions such as a neutron star (a collapsed core of a large star) colliding with a black hole in a distant galaxy, or speculated that they could be alien signals.

The first fast radio burst—the Lorimer burst—was discovered serendipitously by radio astronomers using Australia’s Parkes telescope to search for pulsed radio emissions from spinning neutron stars called pulsars. The Lorimer burst remained a curiosity until other fast radio bursts at different positions in the sky were discovered by other telescopes such as the giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and the 100-meter Greenbank dish in the U.S.

But progress in understanding this enigmatic phenomenon has been slow. This is partly down to the short duration of the bursts, the limited resolution provided by the telescopes and the uncertainty of the sky positions of the bursts. Trying to discover a burst and, at exactly the same time, pinpoint accurately where in the sky it comes from is difficult. If a radio signal could be backed up by telescopes that are searching for other kinds of electromagnetic radiation (such as X-rays or the kind of “optical light” that we can see), we could measure the distance and understand the physics processes driving these events. If the processes driving these bursts are similar to those responsible for other cosmic explosions, such as gamma ray bursts, astronomers suspect that radiation at other wavelengths is likely to be emitted in the same event that caused the fast radio bursts. But it’s proven difficult to catch.

Indirect estimates of distances have been made by measuring how the radio signal is smeared out. This can help infer the amount of material the light has travelled through. From this, the distance of the fast radio burst from Earth can be estimated, using a variety of assumptions such as the amount of matter between us. Such measurements have indicated that the origins of fast radio bursts lie far beyond our galaxy.

Tracing the blip

FRB 150807 is remarkable for its short duration, radio brightness and high degree of linear “polarization”—a property describing the plane of the vibrations that make up the waves. Combining these properties, the new study suggests that the burst occurred in a galaxy over a billion light years away, identified by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Hemisphere Survey. This is the closest we’ve ever got to pinpointing where a fast radio burst came from.

The polarization of light is affected by magnetic fields surrounding it. So knowing that helped the researchers estimate the magnetic properties of the plasma through which the radio waves travelled. Their analysis suggests that there’s only negligible magnetization of plasma close to the burst site. Interestingly, if this is correct, it would rule out strongly magnetized objects such as young neutron stars, magnetars or other objects causing it—favored models so far.

This study shows that as the small number of recorded fast radio bursts grows and their properties become better known, the exciting prospect of understanding what produces them becomes increasingly feasible. They could also be used to map out the magnetic fields in the universe—something we know little about. The next breakthrough may come with the first detection of a visible counterpart or optical afterglow, from which we can measure an accurate distance.

It may happen sooner than you think, given the other recent study’s tantalising report of possibly the first detection of a gamma-rays burst coinciding with a fast radio burst with NASA’s Swift satellite. If the two bursts do indeed come from the same source that would be very exciting—it could mean this source is lot more energetic than we had anticipated.

Analysis of FRB 150807 predicts that these events should not be rare—with 190 occurring across the sky per day. Future facilities such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope—that will survey the entire night sky every few days at optical wavelengths and the radio equivalent—and the Square Kilometre Array will revolutionize our view and understanding of these mysterious blips and the violent, ever-changing universe in which they live.

Carole Mundell is Head of Physics at the University of Bath.

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Mercury Is Shrinking

Mercury Is Shrinking

Poor little Mercury is getting even smaller.

Astronomers have discovered a large valley on Mercury that provides further evidence for the planet's shrinkage — an odd phenomenon that has been the topic of debate for decades. NASA created a video overview of Mercury's 'Great Valley' here.

This newfound feature is about 620 miles long, 250 miles wide and 2 miles deep (1,000 by 400 by 3.2 kilometers), making it larger than Arizona's famous Grand Canyon and deeper than the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, scientists said. [10 Strange Facts About Mercury (A Photo Tour)]

"Unlike Earth's Great Rift Valley, Mercury's great valley is not caused by the pulling apart of lithospheric plates due to plate tectonics; it is the result of the global contraction of a shrinking one-plate planet," Tom Watters, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.

Using colorized topography, Mercury’s “great valley” (dark blue) and Rembrandt impact basin (purple, upper right) are revealed in this high-resolution digital elevation model merged with an image mosaic obtained by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.
Using colorized topography, Mercury’s “great valley” (dark blue) and Rembrandt impact basin (purple, upper right) are revealed in this high-resolution digital elevation model merged with an image mosaic obtained by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/DLR/Smithsonian Institution

Watters is lead author of a study published in Geophysical Research Letters that describes Mercury's great valley. He and his colleagues spotted the feature in images captured by NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft, which orbited the planet from March 2011 through April 2015. 

Mercury is 3,032 miles (4,880 km) wide, and the vast majority of the planet's volume is taken up by its metallic core, which is estimated to be about 2,500 (4,000 km) wide. That core has been cooling slowly since Mercury (and the other planets) formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago, and the little world has been shrinking as a result.

The aforementioned debate involves the extent of that shrinkage. Observations by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, which flew by Mercury three times in the mid-1970s, suggested that the planet has contracted by 1.2 to 2.5 miles (2 to 4 km) since its formation — significantly less than researchers' models had predicted.

But MESSENGER got a better look at Mercury, and its meticulous work allowed scientists to up the shrinkage estimate to 8.7 miles (14 km) or so. This higher number reconciled theory with observation.

As Watters noted, Mercury's crust is composed of a single plate (unlike Earth's, which consists primarily of seven large, interlocking plates). As Mercury has cooled, the rocks in this plate have been pushed together, thrusting some of them upward in cliff-like formations called scarps. 

Two large, parallel scarps bound Mercury's great valley. But the valley's floor lies below the surrounding terrain, suggesting that the valley also formed via another process called "long-wavelength buckling," NASA officials said. Basically, the valley floor sagged downward as nearby rocks were pushed up.

"There are similar examples of this on Earth involving both oceanic and continental plates, but this may be the first evidence of this geological process on Mercury," Watters said.

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Mysterieuze piramide ontdekt in oude Mayatempel in Mexico

Mysterieuze piramide ontdekt in oude Mayatempel in Mexico

Mysterieuze piramide ontdekt in oude Mayatempel in Mexico

El Castillo, de piramide van Kukulcan, bestaat eigenlijk uit drie piramides. Archeologen stuitten recentelijk op een derde bouwwerk, dat diep in de Mayatempel verborgen lag.

“Het is net een Russische matroesjkapop,” vertelde hoofdonderzoeker Rene Chavez Seguro aan journalisten tijdens een persconferentie.

Kukulcan bevindt zich in Chichen Itza, een Mayastad op het schiereiland Yucatan in Mexico.

Reusachtige stad

Toen de Mayabeschaving zijn hoogtepunt bereikte, was Chichen Itza een reusachtige stad. Het ging om één van de meest diverse steden in het Mayarijk.

Onderzoekers ontdekten het tweede bouwwerk in de piramide in de jaren dertig. Archeologen stelden vast dat het tussen 800 en 1000 na Christus is gebouwd.

De binnenste piramide is gevonden met behulp van elektrische weerstandstomografie, een 3D-scanmethode.

Nog meer

“Als we dit bouwwerk in de toekomst kunnen bestuderen, komen we mogelijk meer te weten over de eerste inwoners van de stad en kunnen we leren begrijpen hoe deze nederzetting zich heeft ontwikkeld,” vertelde archeoloog Denisse Lorenia aan Terra.

Het is mogelijk dat er nog meer, nog kleinere piramides verscholen liggen in El Castillo.

Professor Geoffrey Braswell van de Universiteit van Californië zei tegenover Sputnik International dat het bouwwerk misschien nog kleinere, oudere piramides herbergt.

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Great Account Of A UFO That Made A Cloud Back In 1966 Over New York, UFO Sighting News.

Great Account Of A UFO That Made A Cloud Back In 1966 Over New York, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: summer of 1966
Location of sighting: Syracrus, New York, USA
News source: http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/the-cloud-ufo/

This is a great account of seeing a UFO that had created a cloud. I too have seen such things twice, once over Rapid City, SD when four large glowing balls created perfect cloud tunnels that never broke apart or drifted away...all starting above my parking lot and disappearing over the horizon...then glowing balls the size of a B-1 bomber began going down each tunnel one by one every 20-30 seconds, each time starting on a different tunnel. That was the summer of 1989-1990. Saw about 25 of these before I was late and had to race to EAFB where I worked on B-1s & KC135s. Its a SAC base.

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

Photo above is from UFO Sighting Over China on 2014


News states: 
It was the summer of 1966. Julia and her daughter Anne decided to go to the mall, as both were anxious to do some back-to-school shopping. Little did they know they would have a cloud UFO experience.

The two were driving on the highway from Corning to the Arnot Mall in Horseheads, and were headed to a Southern Tier area known as Big Flats.


Julia glanced up and noticed an odd-looking cloud in the clear, blue summer sky and alerted her daughter about the strange cloud. Julia said that the reason the cloud was so unusual was because it was a sort of “puff.” Anne described it further by saying it looked like a huge cotton ball.


“That cloud began to dissipate and as it did a large saucer shaped object became visible.” Julia said after she pulled the car off the road onto the shoulder.


The two women marveled at what they were witnessing. “If you were to hold a soda bottle cap out at arm’s length you’ll have a good idea how big it was as it hovered there in the sky,” Anne explained.


After watching it for a moment, it suddenly got bright and just vanished in the clear blue sky.


“I’ve never seen anything like it before that day and I haven’t seen anything like it since,” Julia said.


Both mother and daughter assured me they remember the UFO incident like it was yesterday. (more at source)

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Astronaut Attempts Suicide While Working In Secret Alien/Human Hybrid Lab, Screams "Earth Must Be Warned." Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Astronaut Attempts Suicide While Working In Secret Alien/Human Hybrid Lab, Screams "Earth Must Be Warned." Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of event: 1993, died in Nov 2016
Location of event: Earths orbit
News source:
Claudia may have used her own DNA to make alien hybrids. Thus, all failed experiments would be her own children, and often, even the successes would have to be killed when the experiment is over if its only a study, and research would be done later to simulate her work.

Claudia Haignere an astronaut from France TRIED to kill herself because of her job...working at a top secret human/alien DNA hybrid facility dedicated to creating more powerful humans...a super human of sorts that can blend in with normals and tip the balance of power for any country that controls them. For such a birth to succeed, thousands of births will fail. Seeing such hybrid babies die every day for the advancement of science must have pushed her over the edge. This kind of advancement needs to be done if humanity is going to evolve and grow. Human technology is going, but its leaving humans behind in the dust. We need this to survive the future. Imagine a human with instead of one DNA we have three intertwined DNA strands, increasing reaction speed, strength and running, memory, overall IQ. This is needed if we want to raise our level ethics and morality...because right now...humanity is free falling backwards. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan


News states: 
A shocking video claims France’s first female astronaut screamed “Earth must be warned!” before she attempted suicide.
Claudie Haigneré, 59, reportedly had to “be restrained” after yelling the eerie caution prior to falling into a coma from an overdose of sleeping pills.
A six-minute YouTube conspiracy film by UFOmania has resurfaced this week examining her story. It has been viewed nearly a million times.

In 1993, esteemed scientist Claudie was a backup crew member for the 1993 Mir Altaïr mission, which included her future husband, Jean-Pierre Haigneré.

She made it to the Mir space station in 1996 as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission, and in 2001 became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station.

The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named after Claudie and her husband.


After retiring from space work, Claudie entered French politics and worked as minister delegate for research and new technologies from 2002 to 2004 and minister delegate for European affairs from 2004 to 2005.

But, despite her efforts, budgets for scientific research were cut.
After leaving politics, she worked in a biology lab at the Pasteur Institute.

Haignere poses on Oct. 27, 1992, after being chosen by the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies) to take part in the Franco-Soviet mission aboard the Mir space station.Photo: Getty Images
That’s where the story gets strange.

Haignere trains on the Soyuz spacecraft in Star City, near Moscow.Photo: Getty Images
In December 2008, it was widely reported that Claudie had to be rushed to a hospital after allegedly taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
It was reported that she was found conscious but had to be restrained while screaming, “Earth must be warned!” before lapsing into a coma.
Claudie blamed the incident on “burnout syndrome” and is now the director of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie — the largest science museum in Europe.


However, alien enthusiasts believe she was trying to warn the Earth about life in outer space.

The YouTube video, which is narrated by a robot voice, is a conspiracy that blends fact and fiction.


Claudie did attempt suicide in 2008, but the rest appears to be made up and continuously reappears on conspiracy forums, such as David Icke’s website.

The video says: “She had to be forcefully restrained after screaming ‘Earth must be warned!’

“More ominously, her laboratory where she worked at the forefront of human/alien DNA research was destroyed by fire.”


The video uses quotes from real reports by news agency AFP, but they’re taken out of context, with additional information.

There is no such thing as “human/alien DNA research” because we have never encountered any aliens. 


Claudie’s story often pops up when something happens to a prominent UFO expert.

The mysterious death of conspiracy theorist Max Spiers in October may have triggered the latest interest.


Spiers was found dead on a sofa at a friend’s house in Poland days after warning his mother to “investigate” if anything happened to him. Friends also claim he had vomited a black liquid before his death.
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Twin UFOs Caught During Super Moon Event Changing Speed, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Twin UFOs Caught During Super Moon Event Changing Speed, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Nov 18, 2016
Location of sighting: Seen over moon, viewed from Vietnam
 
This is amazing! A UFO sighting from Vietnam...and a great catch at that. Two UFOs flying together like Navy pilots who always have a wingman watching out for each other. These UFOs change positions and speeds, even slowing down to wait for the other briefly. Its a great catch for a guy with no tripod. That must have been difficult to hold it that steady when he saw the UFOs, but we can hear his excitement in his voice. 
Scott C. Waring
 
Eyewitness states: 
UFO hovering above the surface, pour down the super moon Again there was a clip sharing recorded images UFO hovering above the moon's surface on the evening of the last 13/11, the day of the super moon appears.


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China's Shenzhou 11 Crew Lands on Earth After Month-Long Space Lab Mission

China's Shenzhou 11 Crew Lands on Earth After Month-Long Space Lab Mission

By Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor 

China's Shenzhou 11 Crew Lands on Earth After Month-Long Space Lab Mission
Recovery team members work in and around China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft after it landed with Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong from a 32-day mission to the Tiangong-2 space lab on Nov. 18.
Credit: CCTV

Two Chinese astronauts returned to Earth early Friday morning (Nov. 18) after a month-long space lab mission that set a new record for their country's human spaceflight program and advanced preparations for China's first space station.

Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, who launched on board China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft on Oct. 16, landed at 12:59 a.m. EST (0559 GMT or 1:59 p.m. Beijing time) in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Their 32 days in space more than doubled China's previous longest crewed mission.

Jing, who is now China's first veteran of three spaceflights, and Chen, who was on his first mission, spent 30 days on board the Tiangong-2 space lab, working on maintenance techniques, conducting science experiments and speaking with students and government leaders on the ground.  [China's Tiangong-2 Space Lab Explained (Infographic)]

On Wednesday (Nov. 16), the two taikonauts boarded their Shenzhou 11 spacecraft and undocked from the Tiangong-2, beginning a two-day journey back to Earth. Descending under a parachute on Friday, the Shenzhou capsule fired retro-thrusters just before safely touching down and tipping onto its side.

Taikonauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong are seen after landing on board China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft on Nov. 18.
Taikonauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong are seen after landing on board China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft on Nov. 18.
Credit: CCTV
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On Sept. 15, 2016, China launched its uncrewed Tiangong-2 space lab to Earth orbit. Learn all about the spacecraft, which China views as a key step toward building a bona fide space station, in our full infographic here.

Live television views from recovery helicopters and ground rescue vehicles showed the capsule's descent, though the coverage was brief due to poor visibility in the area. Once on the ground, the capsule was met by recovery teams to assist the crew out of the spacecraft.

Both taikonauts were reported to be in good health. After a brief period at their landing site, Jing and Chen were to be flown to Beijing Space City to rehabilitate from their time in space and to brief officials on their mission.

The Shenzhou 11 flight was the first and, as planned, only crewed mission to the Tiangong-2, which was launched in September. The space lab will remain in orbit as a platform for remotely-operated experiments and to receive China's first automated resupply and refueling vehicle, Tianzhou-1, which is slated for launch in the first half of 2017.

During their month on board the space lab, Jing and Chen served as correspondents for Xinhua news service, filing a "Space Journal" describing their life aboard the Tiangong-2. The taikonauts wrote about their daily routine, the space suits they wore, how they exercised and the food they ate.

In their last entry before leaving for Earth, they described the silkworm educational experiment they conducted as "a space lesson for Earth's children."

"Five out of the six silkworms taken aboard our Tiangong-2 space lab have cocooned," Jing and Chen wrote. "We've put them in cold containers. The sixth [silkworm] wasn't as strong as the others and it didn't move much."

The two were also the first Chinese astronauts to cultivate edible crops (lettuce) in space.

"The seeds germinated on the [flight's] fifth day. We were so excited we took some selfies with them," Jing and Chen described. "Our lettuce looked especially fresh and even greener than those on Earth, though we only tend to them for 10 minutes each day."

Jing has now logged 47 days in space, including 3 days on the Shenzhou 7 flight in 2008 and 13 days on Shenzhou 9 in 2012. Chen was the eleventh Chinese astronaut to fly in space since Yang Liwei became the nation's first taikonaut aboard Shenzhou 5 in 2003. Shenzhou 11 markedChina's sixth human spaceflight.

China's next crewed mission is scheduled for 2018, after the launch of the core module for the country's first space station.

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Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Punctured Earth's Crust

Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Punctured Earth's Crust

Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Punctured Earth's Crust
Recovered core from the Chicxulub impact crater.
Credit: @ECORD_IODP

After analyzing the crater from the cosmic impact that ended the age of dinosaurs, scientists now say the object that smacked into the planet may have punched nearly all the way through Earth's crust, according to a new study.

The finding could shed light on how impacts can reshape the faces of planets and how such collisions can generate new habitats for life, the researchers said.

Asteroids and comets occasionally pelt Earth's surface. Still, for the most part, changes to the planet's surface result largely from erosion due to rain and wind, "as well as plate tectonics, which generates mountains and ocean trenches," said study co-author Sean Gulick, a marine geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin. [Crash! 10 Biggest Impact Craters on Earth]

In contrast, on the solar system's other rocky planets, erosion and plate tectonics typically have little, if any, influence on the planetary surfaces. "The key driver of surface changes on those planets is constantly getting hit by stuff from space," Gulick told Live Science.

The researchers in the new study looked at Earth features to learn more about impact effects found on other solar system objects. Major craters sometimes possess rings of rocky hills in their centers. Most of these "peak rings" exist on extraterrestrial rocky bodies such as the moon or Venus, making it difficult to analyze these structures in detail and pin down their origins.

Researchers recovered cores from the Chicxulub impact crater, located in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Researchers recovered cores from the Chicxulub impact crater, located in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Credit: AWuelbers@ECORD_IODP

So to learn more about peak rings, scientists investigated a gargantuan crater on Earth that measures more than 110 miles (180 kilometers) across, located near the town of Chicxulub (CHEEK-sheh-loob) in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. This crater likely resulted from the epic crash of an object about 6 miles (10 km) wide, and the resulting impact is thought to have ended theage of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.

The researchers focused on the Chicxulub craterbecause it has the only intact peak ring on Earth. In contrast, larger craters on Earth, such as Sudbury in Canada or Vredefort in South Africa, "have [been] heavily eroded — neither one has peak rings anymore," Gulick said. "On the other hand, Chicxulub's peak ring is completely preserved."

The structures that the researchers wanted to examine were under about 60 feet (18 meters) of water in the Gulf of Mexico. To collect samples from these structures, the scientists traveled to the site in the spring of 2016 in a "liftboat" that could lower three pillars into the seafloor and lift the boat off the water by about 50 feet (15 m). The liftboat then lowered drills into the seafloor and "drilled into the crater for two months, to as low as 1,335 meters [4,380 feet] below the seafloor," Gulick said. (Lifting the boat from the water helps it avoid waves that can rock the vessel and snap the drill pipe.)

In the peak ring samples, the scientists discovered granite that likely once was deeply buried for about 500 million years, Gulick said. "These deeply buried rocks rose up to the surface of the Earth within the first few minutes of the impact," Gulick said. "They showed evidence they experienced a high degree of shock from the impact."

After the impact, "the earth there would have temporarily behaved like a slow-moving fluid," Gulick said. "The stony asteroid would have opened up a hole probably almost the thickness of Earth's crust, almost 30 km [18 miles] deep, and on the order of 80 to 100 km [50 to 62 miles] wide."

And similar to how fluids behave, the earth would immediately flow to fill in the hole, meaning the sides of the crater would collapse inward, he added. [When Space Attacks: The 6 Craziest Impact Craters]

"At the same time, the center of this hole starts reaching upwards, like when you throw a rock in a pond and you get a water droplet rising in the middle," Gulick said. "The center would have risen up from the surface of the Earth as much as 15 km [9 miles], and then become gravitationally unstable, collapsing downwards and outwards."

The end result of this dynamic process is a ring of mountains, or the peak ring, the researchers said.

The study's findings support one of the two main hypotheses that describe peak ring formation, the researchers said. One explanation suggested that peak rings originate closer to the surface: As an impact causes a peak to form in the middle of the crater, the uppermost part of this peak melts, causing the material to disperse into a ring of peaks. The other hypothesis suggested that peak rings formed because impacts dug deep into their targets.

"It turns out the models based on the deeper origins seemed to have gotten it right," Gulick said. "The model these findings support is based on what are known as hydrocode models, which are used for simulating nuclear bomb blasts. Those models simulate an asteroid impacting a target at close to about 20 km per second [44,740 mph], which can get the crust to flow."

Unexpectedly, the researchers noted that rocks from peak rings "got fundamentally altered by their journey upward during the impact," Gulick said. "They end up lower in density by a lot, with their porosity increasing from 1 to 2 percent to 10 percent."

These changes may have proven critical for the evolution of life on Earth, and perhaps on other planets, Gulick said. "When you get rocks with 10 percent more pore space, microbial life living below the surface may find new habitats on the surface," he said. "Our next area of research involves looking at whether ecosystems can get started by craters."

The scientists detailed their findings online today (Nov. 17) in the journal Science.

Original article on Live Science.

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How to Avoid Stephen Hawking's Dark Prediction for Humanity

How to Avoid Stephen Hawking's Dark Prediction for Humanity

How to Avoid Stephen Hawking's Dark Prediction for Humanity
Stephen Hawking, of the University of Cambridge, delivers a speech about why humanity should go into space on April 21, 2008, at George Washington University.
Credit: Paul. E. Alers/NASA via Getty Images

Stephen Hawking thinks humanity has only 1,000 years left of survival on Earth and that our species needs to colonize other planets.

The famed physicist made the statement in a speech at Oxford University Union, in which he promoted the goal of searching for and colonizing Earth-like exoplanets. Developing the technology to allow humans to travel to and live on faraway alien worlds is a challenge, to say the least. But is Hawking right that humanity has only 1,000 years to figure it out?

The dangers Hawking cited — from climate change, to nuclear weapons, to genetically engineered viruses — could indeed pose existential threats to our species, experts say, but predicting a millennium into the future is a murky business.

"While I respect Stephen Hawking enormously, speculating on how long Homo sapiens will survive before extinction is foolish," said John Sterman, director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative. "Whether we survive and thrive or descend into chaos is not something to predict or lay odds on, but a choice to be made." [Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth

Sustainable living?

If climate change continues apace, it will likely lead to a great deal of friction for the human species.

"There may be incredible amounts of food and water stress in some regions; combined with sea-level rise, this will lead to massive numbers of environmental refugees — enough to make the Syrian diaspora seem simple to absorb," said Shawn Marshall, a professor of geography and a climate change researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada.

Humanity is surviving now only by depleting the planet's natural resources and poisoning its environment, Sterman told Live Science. The nonprofit Global Footprint Network estimates that humanity uses up the resources of 1.5 Earths each year, essentially overdrawing from the planet's natural bank account. The problems of sustainability can't wait 1,000 years, Sterman said.

"Whether we can prevent damaging climate change, and the broader issue of whether we can learn to live within the limits of our finite world, will likely be determined this century," he said.

Emmanuel Vincent, a research scientist at the University of California, Merced and founder of the outreach organization Climate Feedback, echoed the call to make sustainable decisions now.

"It is important to remind [people] that one cannot predict whether a catastrophic event will wipe out humans within the next thousand years," Vincent told Live Science. "What Hawking is doing here is speculating on the risk that this will happen, and he estimates that the probability of extinction is high. While I agree that this is possible, I would like to emphasize that this primarily depends on how we manage to prevent such catastrophic outcome as a society." [7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction]

This doesn't mean humans will necessarily go extinct if we make poor choices. Climate-wise, the planet is currently about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than preindustrial averages, Marshall said. (The past year has set multiple modern heat records.)

In comparison, temperatures during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were about 10 degrees C (18 F) warmer than preindustrial averages, or about 25 degrees C (45 F) compared with today's 16 degrees C (29 F), Marshall said. Yet life was quite abundant at that time, he told Live Science.

"It would be a habitable but rather different world," he said. "We'll run out of fossil fuels before we evaporate the oceans away."

So humans probably won't manage to actually bake themselves in an oven made of greenhouse gases, though tropical areas may become too hot for habitation, Vincent said. The real question is whether humans would be able to handle the upheaval that climate change would bring as coastlines vanish, diseases spread and weather patterns change.

"On its own, I don't see how climate change would lead to human extinction," Marshall said. "It would have to be through the social unrest triggering nuclear warfare, or some other societal implosion as a result of the environmental degradation."

Already, there are warning signs beyond warming temperatures. About half of global wildlife has been wiped out over the past 50 years, Vincent said. The situation is serious enough that many scientists believe the planet is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction.

"Anyone who thinks we can solve these problems by colonizing other worlds has been watching too much 'Star Trek,'" Sterman said. "We must learn to live sustainably here, on the one planet we have, and there is no time to lose."

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Leven we in een hologram? Dit is het onvoorstelbare idee waarop Erik Verlinde zijn nieuwe theorie baseerde

Leven we in een hologram? Dit is het onvoorstelbare idee waarop Erik Verlinde zijn nieuwe theorie baseerde

Nieuwe theorie suggereert dat we in een hologram leven

De nieuwe theorie van Erik Verlinde bevat een update van het bizarre holografisch principe. In deze voorpublicatie van het boek Elastisch Universum – ABC van de baanbrekende ideeën van Erik Verlinde duiken we dieper deze lastige, maar fascinerende theorie in.

Dit bericht is een voorpublicatie uit 'Elastisch Universum', het boek dat New Scientist-redacteur George van Hal schreef over de ideeën van Erik Verlinde. Bestel nu in onze webshop (€ 7,95) Dit bericht is een voorpublicatie uit Elastisch Universum, het boek dat New Scientist-redacteur George van Hal schreef over de ideeën van Erik Verlinde. Bestel nu in onze webshop (€ 7,95).

Het klinkt als een idee dat rechtstreeks is weggewandeld uit sciencefictionfilm The Matrix: de wereld zoals wij die zien bestaat misschien niet echt. In plaats daarvan leven wij volgens sommige natuurkundigen in een hologram, een illusie.

De eerste die dit bizarre principe voorstelde was de Nederlandse Nobelprijswinnaar Gerard ’t Hooft. Hij haalde zijn inspiratie uit het natuurkundig gesteggel over de ware aard van zwarte gaten en de herschikking van de werkelijkheid in termen van informatie.

Informatie gaat onherroepelijk verloren

Voordat het holografisch principe ten tonele verscheen, hadden fysici al afgeleid dat twee dingen gebeuren wanneer een voorwerp in een zwart gat valt. Allereerst peuzelt het zwarte gat het voorwerp op, een proces waarbij alle gedetailleerde informatie over dat voorwerp onherroepelijk verloren zou gaan. Tegelijk wordt de horizon rond dat zwarte gat een heel klein beetje groter. De horizon van een zwart gat is de afstand vanaf waar het onmogelijk is nog aan zijn sterke aantrekkingskracht te ontsnappen.

Dat informatie in een zwart gat verloren lijkt te gaan, is in tegenspraak met de tweede hoofdwet van de thermodynamica.  Die wet stelt dat de entropie, een maat voor de informatie van een systeem, altijd moet toenemen. Dat is echter onmogelijk wanneer het zwarte gat informatie genadeloos opslurpt en vernietigt. De oplossing schuilt in de groeiende horizon. Want als de entropie altijd toeneemt, en het oppervlak van de horizon van een zwart gat neemt ook altijd toe, dan zijn beiden voor een zwart gat misschien wel een en hetzelfde ding.

Fysici leidden zelfs heel nauwkeurig af hoeveel het oppervlak groeit. Voor elke bit aan informatie die in een zwart gat verdwijnt, blijkt het oppervlak  van zo’n zwart gat met een zogeheten planckoppervlak te groeien. Zo’n planckoppervlak is gedefinieerd aan de hand van een van de onwrikbare natuurconstanten die ten grondslag liggen aan de werkelijkheid. Het is vermoedelijk het kleinst mogelijke oppervlak dat kan bestaan.

Binnenin een zwart gat

Dat het oppervlak van een zwart gat groter wordt wanneer je er een bit ingooit, betekent dat wanneer je weet hoe groot dat oppervlak is, je ook weet hoeveel informatie het zwarte gat bevat. Dat het oppervlak een maat is voor het aantal bits, wil natuurlijk niet direct zeggen dat die informatie ook daadwerkelijk op het oppervlak te vinden is. Toch is juist dat wat fysici met het holografisch principe aantoonden. Elke bit die in een zwart gat verdwijnt, blijkt na afloop terug te vinden aan het oppervlak. Dat betekent dat zelfs de meest complexe informatie die in een zwart gat valt nooit helemaal verdwijnt. Hoewel het daarna voor ons in praktische zin ‘onleesbaar’ is, gaat het niet verloren. Iemand die de machinerie van zwarte gaten nauwkeurig doorgrond heeft, kan de verloren informatie in theorie reconstrueren.

De realisatie dat de informatie van een zwart gat alleen aan het oppervlak zit en niet in zijn binnenste, is van doorslaggevend belang voor het holografisch principe. Om dat aannemelijk te maken, maak ik eerst een zijstapje en richt me op de vraag: hoeveel informatie kun je maximaal in een stukje ruimte kwijt? Het antwoord volgt uit het volgende gedachtenexperiment.

Boeken in een bol proppen

Stel je eens een bol om je heen voor met een diameter van, pak ‘m beet, 2 meter. Stel vervolgens dat we willen weten hoeveel informatie er in die bol past. Het boek waarin deze tekst staat, is minder dik dan de Dikke Van Dale, maar bevat toch best wel wat bits aan informatie. Dat boek kun je vasthouden en past in die bol. In onze bol van twee meter passen zelfs nog heel veel meer boeken.

Stel nu eens dat je die bol helemaal volpropt met boeken. Heb je dan de maximale hoeveelheid informatie in die bol gestopt? Het antwoord is: nee. Want het kan nog wel wat efficiënter. Je kunt in plaats van boeken immers ook allemaal USB-sticks of externe harde schijven in de bol proppen. Die bevatten veel meer informatie en nemen veel minder ruimte in. En als we straks een quantumcomputer ontwikkelen, past er misschien wel nog meer in.

Toch bestaat er wel een fundamentele limiet aan de hoeveelheid informatie die je in onze bol kunt proppen. Stel je eens voor dat we alsmaar meer USB-sticks in onze bol stoppen. We gaan door totdat ze allemaal vermorzeld worden. Totdat we zelf al lang en breed zijn stukgedrukt door een absurde stapel sticks, boeken en schijven. En zelfs dan houden we nog niet op. Op een gegeven moment zit die bol zo propvol dat de massa onder zijn eigen gewicht begint in te storten en ineens ontstaat een zwart gat. Pas dan, en niet eerder, past er met geen mogelijkheid meer informatie bij. Voeg je dan toch nog wat extra’s toe, dan groeit immers de horizon van het zwarte gat, zoals we net gezien hebben. En dan past dat zwarte gat dus niet meer in onze bol. Een zwart gat bevat, met andere woorden, de meest efficiënte opstapeling van informatie in de kosmos.

Dansen wij allen op de grillen van nullen en enen aan de rand van de kosmos? Dansen wij allen op de grillen van nullen en enen aan de rand van de kosmos?

Meest efficiënte opstapeling van informatie

Nu we weten dat zwarte gaten de efficiëntste archiefkasten van de kosmos zijn, kunnen we het holografisch principe afleiden. We weten namelijk ook al dat voor elk zwart gat geldt dat al zijn informatie op de horizon rond dat zwarte gat zit. Maar, en hierin schuilt de crux: letterlijk elk stukje lege ruimte kan een zwart gat worden, zolang je er maar genoeg informatie inpropt. En als in de meest efficiënte opstapeling van informatie in een bepaald stuk ruimte alle informatie in een schil rond die ruimte zit, waarom zou de natuur dan in andere gevallen niet ook de informatie op die schil bewaren?

Dat was het schokkende inzicht dat Gerard ‘t Hooft met het holografisch principe lanceerde. Alle informatie in de kosmos zit volgens dat principe gevangen in een schil om de kosmos heen. Die schil zit op de grootst mogelijke afstand die denkbaar is, de denkbeeldige rand om het universum. Met andere woorden: de wereld om ons heen is niet echt, maar is het gevolg van een bizar spel van enen en nullen op een oppervlak dat miljarden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd is.

Dat betekent dat het heelal sterk lijkt op een hologram. Bij zo’n hologram zit alle informatie namelijk ook gevangen op een tweedimensionaal oppervlak. Het is – net als bij een zwart gat – wel een beetje verstrooid. Door naar dat oppervlak te kijken zie je niets dat duidt op hoe het hologram eruit gaat zien. Maar als je weet hoe het hologram werkt, en je schijnt er op de juiste manier met een licht op, dan ontstaat vanzelf een prachtig driedimensionaal beeld.

Holografisch principe

Dat is de reden dat de bekende Amerikaanse fysicus Leonard Susskind het idee van ’t Hooft de naam ‘holografisch principe’ meegaf. Susskind vertaalde het op zijn beurt naar de taal van de snaartheorie,  een van de belangrijkste kandidaattheorieën in de poging tot unificatie van alle natuurkrachten. Later liet de Argentijnse fysicus Juan Maldecena zien hoe je het holografisch principe praktisch kon toepassen in een beschrijving van de kosmos. Daarna ontwikkelde het principe zich, hoe tegendraads en onvoorstelbaar het ook is, tot een in de moderne natuurkunde breed gedragen idee.

Daarbij bleef echter wel één probleem over. De snaartheorie beschrijft in de meeste varianten van die theorie namelijk helemaal niet de kosmos zoals wij die kennen. Het beschrijft een universum waarmee fysici ietsje makkelijker kunnen rekenen. Eentje waarbij de mysterieuze, onbegrepen donkere energie (zie ook het hoofdstukje kosmologische constante) zich niet gedraagt als een soort antizwaartekracht, zoals in onze kosmos, maar als een min of meer ‘gewone’ variant van de zwaartekracht.

Andere fysici proberen het holografisch principe daarom te vertalen naar de echte kosmos. Een van hen is Erik Verlinde. In tegenstelling tot de meesten, komt hij daarbij echter tot een compleet nieuwe conclusie. Waar de meesten het holografisch principe stevig in het zadel houden, concludeert Verlinde dat informatie helemaal niet uitsluitend gevangen zit op een tweedimensionale schil op de kosmologische horizon. Volgens hem klopt het holografisch principe inderdaad keurig voor de theoretische universa die de snaartheorie beschrijft, maar zit de informatie in ons ware heelal zowel op een tweedimensionale schil als in het driedimensionale binnenste van de kosmos.

Einstein afleiden

Dat idee kun je volgens Verlinde zelfs testen. Wie strikt het traditionele holografisch principe toepast op de beschrijving van de kosmos vindt, na flink wat rekenwerk, vanzelf de wetten van Einstein terug, exact zoals Einstein ze aan het begin van de vorige eeuw noteerde. Ga je echter uit van een universum waarin informatie wél deels driedimensionaal is, dan vind je wetten die er net ietsjes anders uit zien.

Voor kleine stukjes ruimte blijkt volgens Verlinde de invloed van de informatie op de tweedimensionale schil om dat stukje ruimte dominant. Je krijgt dan uitkomsten die overeenkomen met die van het holografisch principe en de wetten van Einstein. Maar wanneer je naar grotere gebieden gaat kijken, met steeds grotere volumes, gaat de bijdrage van de informatie in het driedimensionale binnenste een steeds belangrijkere rol spelen. Dat zorgt voor subtiele aanpassingen op de wetten van Einstein.

Dat inzicht verklaart, net als bijvoorbeeld MOND, waarom de draaisnelheid van de buitenste sterren in sterrenstelsels volgens een regelmatig patroon afwijkt van de voorspellingen van Einstein. Het verklaart zelfs waarom in het waarneembare universum, met zijn enorme volume, zoveel donker spul nodig is om tot een sluitend verhaal te komen. De aanpassing van Verlinde op het kosmologisch principe geeft daarom op natuurlijke wijze een antwoord op het raadsel waar 95 procent van het heelal verstopt zit.

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Nieuwe theorie suggereert dat we in een hologram leven

Nieuwe theorie suggereert dat we in een hologram leven

Nieuwe theorie suggereert dat we in een hologram leven

Sommige natuurkundigen stellen dat de wereld zoals we die zien niet echt bestaat en dat we in een hologram leven.

De eerste de dit voorstelde was de Nederlandse Nobelprijswinnaar Gerard ’t Hooft. Volgens zijn holografisch principe zit alle informatie in de kosmos gevangen in een schil om de kosmos heen.

Die schil zit op de grootst mogelijk denkbare afstand, de denkbeeldige rand om het universum.

Met andere woorden: de wereld om ons heen is niet echt, maar het gevolg van een bizar spel van enen en nullen op een oppervlak dat miljarden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd is.

Alternatief

Dat betekent dat het heelal sterk lijkt op een hologram. Bij zo’n hologram zit alle informatie namelijk ook gevangen op een tweedimensionaal oppervlak.

Andere fysici proberen het holografisch principe te vertalen naar de echte kosmos. Eén van hen is Erik Verlinde.

Hij presenteerde onlangs een nieuwe theorie van de zwaartekracht, die mogelijk een alternatief biedt voor donkere materie.

In 2010 stelde Verlinde dat zwaartekracht geen fundamentele kracht is, maar een verschijnsel dat tevoorschijn komt uit een onderliggende theorie.

Uitbreiding

Vergelijk het met het begrip temperatuur, dat geen op zichzelf staand verschijnsel is, maar voortkomt uit de bewegingen van grote hoeveelheden microscopische deeltjes.

Verlinde geeft met zijn theorie een uitbreiding aan het holografisch principe. Hij laat zien dat niet álle informatie op de denkbeeldige schil rond het universum is af te beelden.

Een deel van de informatie, het deel dat de zogeheten donkere energie in ons heelal beschrijft, blijft daadwerkelijk over de hele ruimte verspreid.

Meetbaar effect

Verlinde toont aan dat deze extra informatie een meetbaar effect heeft op de materie in het heelal – het effect dat tot nu toe werd toegeschreven aan de donkere materie.

“Onze gangbare ideeën over ruimte, tijd en de zwaartekracht moeten hoognodig op de schop,” zegt Verlinde.

“We weten al heel lang dat Einsteins theorie van de zwaartekracht niet door één deur kan met de kwantummechanica. Ik denk dat we ons aan de vooravond van een wetenschappelijke revolutie bevinden.”

Leven we dan toch in een hologram?

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Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART I

Aircraft being refueled on November 3, 2016 over Wichita, Kansas.
Aircraft being refueled on November 3, 2016 over Wichita, Kansas.

Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART I

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In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO, We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying to Intercept UFOs, Time Travelers Allegedly Knew Trump Would be Elected, New President Elect will be Briefed on UFOs, The Ufologist, Vatican and UFOs, and Would You Baptize an Alien?

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and Washington D.C.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon a sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cypress, Greece, France, Italy, Norway, and England in the United Kingdom.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when I chased one over England while flying for the US Air Force. I’ve been investigating them ever since. The US Air Force under Project Blue Book investigated UFOs for more than twenty years, we continue this research. It is my belief that God has spread his kingdom of intelligent civilizations throughout the universe. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.

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 George A. Filer III

New Jersey State Director

MUFON Eastern Region Director

Www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 million hits a month

Special Projects

President Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO


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 “It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors, and it was about the size of the moon. A red and green glowing orb radiated as it hurtled across the southwestern Georgia skies. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure: I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects in the sky.” It was just another fun night, on January 22, 1969,when suddenly from the sky a UFO at the Leary Lion’s Club for Jimmy Carter when he and friends spotted a UFO.

President Carter filed two formal reports when he was governor of Georgia describing his observation of an unidentified flying object to organizations that collect and promote UFO sightings as unexplained phenomena. (ABCNEWS.com)    

We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying To Intercept UFOs

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George Wolkind writes concerning the statements of General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of Air (later Aerospace) Defense Command told Robert C. Gardener (ex USAF) in 1953: “We have stack of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” George Wolkind writes, “The last time we checked the US lost 214 pilots and Soviets had 38 to possibly 48 dead pilots.” We lost nearly 200 Navy personnel in 1992, and destroyer ordered into the beam of a UFO establishing contact with cetaceans, only four survivors. Other countries such as Cuba and China have also lost aircraft and men.

Time Travelers Allegedly Knew Trump Would be Elected

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Evidence DARPA-CIA time travel pre-identified Trump as future U.S. President
U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama were also pre-identified by secret Presidential time travel preidentification program, according to Andrew D. Basiago, former chrononaut and 2016 Presidential candidate. Asked whether his statements are hearsay, Andrew D. Basiago responded, “My statement is not hearsay offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted that Trump will win the election.   By Alfred Lambremont Webre
https://newsinsideout.com/2016/11/evidence-darpa-cia-time-travel-pre-identified-trump-future-u-s-president/

Wikileaks is Releasing UFO Information

 The Wikileaks correspondence confirms military and aerospace authorities are involved in communications between John Podesta and

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“Sekret Machines” author Tom Delonge about efforts to open up the US government files on UFOs and ETs, which have been suppressed since World War II.

Tom DeLonge is a musician and co-founder of Blink-182 band. He is also a “UFO researcher.” These days, he’s focused on Sekret Machines, his new UFO-centered “multimedia franchise,” which just put out a book where military and intelligence sources tell classified stories about paranormal contact.

DeLonge has always viewed his work on UFOs has extremely important. He feels the mysteries of life in space involve “religion and cosmology, and it has to do with politics and secrecy. As the Wikileaks e-mail dump earlier this month clarified. DeLonge interfaced with John Podesta, chairman of the Clinton campaign. The e-mails indicate that DeLonge interviewed Podesta last year about a potential documentary, and that he wanted to organize another meeting with “A-Level officials” from the government’s “most fragile divisions, as it relates to Classified Science and DOD topics.”

In a recent Instagram post, he writes that “Wikileaks really messed some important stuff up,” implying that he was upset that his private emails about “Classified Science and DOD topics” were released to the public. Also, however, he seems excited about the higher profile his research has gotten because of the release of the e-mails, stating “Project is still on… things just got bigger.”

John Podesta emails show he also wants disclosure. There are hints Obama and Hillary would release disclosure if she was elected. There is also another group, composed of NASA, CIA, possibly White House people who view the ET presence in a positive light, and seem to have a plan related to disclosure.

Grant Cameron, who produces the www.presidentialufo.com/ website is analyzing the ongoing hacked WikiLeaks email dump and expects more revelations based on insider information this week. Allegedly, “John Podesta still has a green light to open up UFO and ET files beginning in January 2017 after the Presidential Inauguration.”

The Wikileaks correspondence confirms military and aerospace authorities are involved in communications between John Podesta and “Sekret Machines”author Tom Delonge about efforts to open up the US government files on UFOs and ETs, which have been suppressed since World War II.

The leaked emails reveal that three of Delonge’s highly placed advisors are Major General William N. McCasland, Robert F. Weiss, Executive VP and General Manager of Skunk Works at Lockheed Martin Corporation, and USAF Major General Michael Carey, retired after serving as Special Assistant to the Commander of the USAF Space Command.

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From:t.delonge@me.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com  Date: 2016-01-25 16:04 Subject: General McCasland

exa He mentioned he’s a “skeptic”, he’s not. I’ve been working with him for four months. I just got done giving him a four hour presentation on the entire project a few weeks ago. Trust me, the advice is already been happening on how to do all this. He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware- as he was in charge of all of the stuff. When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago. He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man. Best, Tom DeLonge.

TOM DELONGE | FOUNDER TOM@TOTHESTARSINC.COM | (760) 518-7801 | TO THE STARS MEDIA SAN DIEGO | 1053 S Coast Hwy 101 Encinitas, CA 92024

Download entire raw dataset for all published Podesta Emails here

New President Elect will be Briefed on UFOs and Space

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Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City.

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The country has a new President elect, some are weeping and others are cheering. Hopefully, Trump can carry out his promises. Most of the conversations between President-elect Trump and Congress will probably involve immigration, health care, the economy, and other similarly high-profile issues. But the nation’s future in space will be perhaps the most important. There may be war in space between the technologically advanced nations or perhaps we will join together to fight an alien enemy. President Putin of Russia has indicated he wanted Trump to be President and implies the US and Russia can continue to work together in space.

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In his first term, President Barack Obama canceled the space shuttle program and George W. Bush’s Mars moon-oriented Constellation program and instructed NASA to get astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025. Then head for Mars by the mid-2030s. To meet the first part of that directive, NASA devised the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which will pluck a boulder off a near-Earth asteroid using a robotic probe. This spacecraft will then haul the boulder to lunar orbit, where it will be visited by astronauts. But ARM has its share of detractors, and some of them occupy positions of power on Capitol Hill. For example, earlier this year, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee proposed denying funding to the mission. “The Committee believes that neither a robotic nor a crewed mission to an asteroid appreciably contributes to the overarching mission to Mars,” committee members wrote in a report. “Instead, NASA is encouraged to develop plans to return to the moon to test capabilities that will be needed for Mars, including habitation modules, lunar prospecting and landing and ascent vehicles.”

And that brings up another issue, he added: Just how much international cooperation will there be on NASA’s journey to Mars. Who will the partners be? Could Russia and China be involved, even though U.S. law currently prohibits NASA from working with China to any significant degree? “That’s a very big civil-space public policy question that the next administration will most definitely be tackling,”

The George W. Bush and Obama administrations set NASA on a path that hands over many activities in low-Earth orbit (LEO) to private companies, theoretically freeing up the space agency to focus on more ambitious efforts, like getting people to Mars. For example, SpaceX and Orbital ATK currently fly robotic cargo missions to the International Space Station for NASA, and SpaceX and Boeing should start flying American astronauts to and from the orbiting lab in a year or two.

“That raises a bigger question about, Are there activities NASA has historically done that are perhaps better suited for the private sector to do?” There are other important space-policy questions that must be dealt with at some point, Weeden said. For example, which federal agency should regulate the moon and asteroid-mining industry?

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Artist’s illustration of base on the surface of Mars.

Then there’s the national-security realm. Much of the United States’ military might is based on the nation’s dominance in space; for example, sharp-eyed spy satellites often give American war fighters a clearer view of the battlefield than their adversaries can get.

But other countries are increasingly contesting this dominance by developing their own advanced spacecraft and, in some cases, anti-satellite capabilities, experts have said. “There’s much more of a case that in future conflicts, there’s probably going to be a space element of the conflict,” Consultant Brian Weeden said. “How might the U.S. deter potential adversaries such as Russia and China from kinetic attacks on space [assets] in a future conflict? And then, how best to leverage commercial industries and allies in that mix of resilience and assurance?”

President-elect Trump and Congress will therefore have a lot to talk about when it comes to space. And they may have fewer arguments than we’re used to seeing, now that the presidency, House and Senate are all in Republican hands. Thanks to Space.com.

Note: Can anyone seriously suggest that the press didn’t go all out in investigating every aspect of Trump’s life and career? The six major companies that control the news will continue to blame Trump for every conceivable problem. He has successfully built 500 companies, so hopefully he has the ability to rebuild American jobs. The Republican nominee pulled off the incredibly difficult feat of capturing Michigan and Pennsylvania. People are angry and frustrated at a political system that does little for them. The real unemployment figures are around 20%, since anyone who does not collect unemployment insurance is not counted. Most journalists who work for national news organizations are simply out of touch with those folks and failed them in many ways. They news never mentions the killing of thousands of Christians in the Middle East or even UFOs

UFOs Over Canada 1913

“These strange lights, in procession, reappeared on the night of February 9, 1913, over Canada when Professor Chant, of Toronto, made many observations of them. Here is a summary of his report in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (November 1913, page 141-142 of the Wilkins hardback:  A strange spectacle was seen in Canada (Saskatchewan and Ontario), the U.S.A. (New York), at sea, and in Bermuda. A luminous body was seen, with a long tail attached to it.  The body grew rapidly larger. Observers differ whether this body was single, or in three or four parts, with a tail to each. The group, or complex structure, moved with a peculiar, majestic deliberation. It disappeared in the distance, and another group emerged from its place of origin.  Onward they moved, at the same deliberate pace, in twos, threes, or fours. As third group, or structure followed.”   Some people, who observed these weird bodies, compared the singular spectacle to a fleet of airships – shall we say space ships?

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 others to naval battleships, attended by cruisers and destroyers.

One observer, cited in the scientific journal said”   “There were probably 30 or 32 objects, and the peculiar was their moving in threes or fours,  abreast of each other, and so perfect was their lining up that you would have thought it was an  aerial naval fleet maneuvering after rigid drilling.”  On that night, in 1913, a procession of unknown objects carrying lights passed in sky over Toronto, and was seen in Bermuda, and also in New York State. They took from five minutes to pass, and W. F. Denning, who said he had observed the skies since 1865, and had never seen anything like this phenomenon, “It looked like an express train lighted at night…. lights at the tail, one in front, one in the rear, then a succession of lights at the tail.” Sounds were heard from them, and they followed the curvature of the earth, at a relatively low velocity, as no meteorite would do.  Chant said that unknown dark objects were seen over Toronto the next day.

“People even said they were airships cruising over the city.  They passed from west to east in three groups, and then returned west in more scattered formation.”  Thanks to Jim Klotz

“The Ufologist: The Haunting of John Ventre”

Book Review by Brian J. Allan

John Ventre is one of the very few Ufologists who successfully maintain an open mind on the nature of the UFO phenomenon and its possible causes. In this new book John presents a very plausible case based on personal experience that UFOs and their occupants are not necessarily from other worlds or galaxies, but could also have a distinctly occult and magical connection. He bases this on a series of all too close encounters with a number of entities that could sit comfortable in either camp. These are views shared by such noted luminaries as the late John Keel and Jacques Vallee and, as it happens, also with this reviewer.

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The author also quotes other paranormal/UFO investigators such as Nick Redfern and mentions the shadowy, quasi-governmental CIA attached group called ‘The Collins Elite’, who came to a very similar conclusion, i.e. that ET’s were almost certainly demonic in nature. John elaborates on this by listing signs of demonic infestation and also lists the hierarchy of demons (and angels). Helpfully he also includes the rite of exorcism as well. The author also shares his timeline of personal haunting by a ghostly ‘something’ that may have had UFO connections and what he describes is truly alarming. This book may not appeal to the rigid mindset of the die-hard ETH Ufologist. This is a pity because in this field of study we need all the support we can get. However to anyone else with a genuinely enquiring outlook the book is truly enlightening and above all entertaining and well worth the purchase price. Brian J Allan is a Scottish paranormal expert, editor of Phenomena magazine and the author of numerous books.

Vatican and UFOs

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Cristoforo Barbato an Italian independent UFO researcher and friend of Paola Harris as sent some interesting information that indicates serious Vatican interest in alien life. Barbato spoke at the Palazzo della Provincia of Pescara about the truth behind UFOs organized by the “Ufobserver” Cultural Association. During the conference he spoke about underground bases in the USA.

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Barbato writes, “In the year 2000, I was working in Rome as an editor in the “Stargate” magazine and I wrote many articles about the Fatima Apparitions, their famous Third Secret and other Vatican State-related mysteries. After the publication of these articles I started to receive many e-mails from a person who qualified himself as a Vatican insider longing to know me for my researches about Fatima. From those e-mails rose up the story of a presumed Vatican Intelligence Agency named “S.I.V.” code from “Servizio Informazioni del Vaticano”. After one year of such kind of epistolary contacts (in the meantime that person had revealed to me he was a S.I.V. member from the Jesuit order working in structures of the Holy See and I could verify that these informations were true), we finally met in a public place in Rome and I could realize that he knew much more of what he had said in his letters.

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 Moreover, he sent to me some stuff including a video (shown during the Pescara Conference) regarding observations of something like a tenth planet approaching the Solar System. Such video had been presumably taped in 1995 from a space probe named Siloe and its images had been later sent to a secret radio-telescope hidden in a dismissed oil-refining plant in Alaska, totally managed by Jesuits.”

According to this person the reason to establish the S.I.V. was the meeting with an Alien delegation at Muroc Air Field Base in February 1954 in presence of President Dwight Eisenhower and James Francis McIntyre, bishop of Los Angeles. After the incredible event McIntyre flew to Rome to refer everything to Pope Pius XII who decided to found the S.I.V with the aim to get every possible information about Aliens and how they did interact with the American Government. From then bishop McIntyre and Detroit Archbishop Edward Mooney became the main information coordinators between USA and the Vatican State.

Incredibly, later on there should have been some direct personal meetings between S.I.V. members and a Nordic-looking race of Aliens. These Aliens presumably warned humans against another alien race met by the Americans in the California Desert. These meetings between S.I.V and Aliens took place mainly in the USA territory but also (two times) in the Vatican State, precisely in Vatican Gardens at the Papal Academy of Sciences in presence of Pope Pius XII the same.

He also called “Secretum Omega” the highest secrecy level in S.I.V, equivalent to the NATO “Cosmic Top Secret”. The Vatican has also worked closely with various countries such as Canada and South American countries where sightings are rampant.

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In the 18th century, the Papacy actively supported astronomy, establishing the Observatory of the Roman College in 1774. The Vatican built an  Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy and operates a telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona in the United States. (above) Thanks to Cristoforo Barbato

Would You Baptize an Alien?

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 Brother Guy Consolmagno Director

Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the places where religion and science meet.

“Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?”µ

 – Pope Francis, May, 2014

Pope Francis posed that question – without insisting on an answer! – To provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But it’s not the first time that question has been asked.

Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller hear questions like that all the time.

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Did you know that the Vatican owned an observatory run by Jesuit scientists? Consolmagno, is an astronomer who studied at MIT, and Mueller, with a doctorate in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago, are brilliant scientists and theologians, and they both possess a slightly irreverent and refreshing sense of humor. The authors attempt to highlight how the perceived conflict between religion and science is severely overblown. The discrepancies between the book of Genesis and the big bang theory is heady stuff for sure, but the casual writing style makes for an enjoyable learning experience. This is an excellent primer for anyone remotely interested in building a bridge between religious faith and scientific investigation. They’re scientists at the Vatican Observatory, the official astronomical research institute of the Catholic Church.

In Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? They explore a variety of questions at the crossroads of faith and reason: How do you reconcile the Big Bang with Genesis? Was the Star of Bethlehem just a pious religious story or an actual description of astronomical events? What really went down between Galileo and the Catholic Church – and why do the effects of that confrontation still reverberate to this day? Will the Universe come to an end? And… could you really baptize an extraterrestrial?

With disarming humor, Brother Guy Consolmagno, and Father Paul explore these questions and more over the course of six days of dialogue. Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial will make you laugh, make you think, and make you reflect more deeply on science, faith, and the nature of the universe.

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Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART II

Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART II

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 UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Object

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Tucson — I was in my front yard and am always looking at the sky on November 4, 2016, and I saw a bright silver moving object. At first I didn’t know what it was but was thinking it was a missile, as it got closer than I know.
The object was moving North West from Mexico towards some strange clouds. When I seen it my first thought was a missile but then I could make out a rounder image. I lost it in the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Object

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Edwards — We were driving east, passing Edwards Air Force Base and I noticed an object traveling very fast across the highway on November 4, 2016. It had a wobble to it because the suns reflection wasn’t constant and it couldn’t be seen unless it tilted. I happened to take two pictures of it while it was reflecting the sun with my Canon digital camera. I have raw images that can be examined further, but will only submit a jpeg at this time due to the size of the raw image. It was moving too fast to get a good focus. Raw image can be sent if you would like. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Connecticut Lights

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 Higganum — My 18 year old son went out on my porch early before work at 5:40 am on October 31, 2016, and took a picture for his girlfriend. After taking the picture my son realized there was some type of craft in the picture that was invisible to his naked eyes. The lights were directly over the church steeple across the street from our house. He looked up at the sky and still saw nothing then came inside to show me the picture. He was pretty surprised at what was in the picture. He felt it was alien and this needed to be shared with others. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Orb

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Lakeland — About 2:45 pm, I had just existed off the ramp onto Kathleen Road from Interstate 4 when I noticed, an object while waiting for the light to change on September 10, 2014. As I began, to focus in on the object, it became evident that it wasn’t an aircraft rather, something entirely different. I then, used my camera phone to capture this beautiful object that was in the distance. It was there one second and gone the next.  Fortunately, I was able to get at least one picture of this tiny object, before it disappeared entirely. It was a green object the first of many to be shared. The heavens are full of life. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Georgia Object

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Johns Creek — About five weeks ago while walking our dog, we were noticing a bright flashing light in the sky on October 1, 2016. It was brighter than any star and flashing, but not moving. After three nights of seeing this in the same place, we decided to observe with our telescope. The object is round, and surrounded by bright lights. The lights seem to be in rows, lining the outer edges changing color – white, red, yellow, blue and green. The object moves slowly in a diagonal track for 30 minutes at the same time each night and disappears. We have attached a 35mm digital camera to our telescope and have been able to take pictures and video. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Orb

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Romeoville — I was standing outside smoking a cigarette with my friend when I looked up on October 17, 2016, and to the west I saw a green line with two pulsing red lights on each side standing still in the sky. After 20 minutes or so it slowly moved to the west and then back to the east very slowly and silently. The object was moving from side to side three times across the sky from east to west. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kansas Disc

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Wichita — I was taking a photo of an awac aircraft being refueled a couple miles down range at about 9,000 feet in November 3, 2016.

When I got home and loaded film onto my computer I noticed the two objects. They were flying too high for birds. Five minutes before this an F-18 Super Hornet took off from the airport which was very weird. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Light

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Brick — On Drump Point Road myself and two others were leaving work on October 24, 2016, the lady with me said, “OMG what’s that?” When I looked up I saw a fire ball, coming from roughly the NW area. First thought was a ufo. As I have seen many videos and documentaries about sightings. I immediately remembered seeing other videos about the same thing I’m witnessing. As it comes closer I grab my camera as is just above us. Watching on my phone while recording it looked more like a fiery plasma ball rotating and pulsating. The other guy came out and also saw the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Objects

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 Long Beach — This is a resubmission of my past posting with editing notes for clarification on November 5, 2016. I was informed by a Mufon investigator that he was unable to see the objects I described in my photos. Driving on the Meadowbrook Parkway I saw a white orb so I took a picture. I took other pictures in different locations at various times. My pictures include sightings form the Meadowbrook Parkway, Loop Parkway and Lido Blvd. My pictures however showed a lot more detail such as multiple orbs blue and white, a white triangle, and a white curved line and a purple rectangle. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Dakota Object

Fargo – I saw these objects on November 6, 2016 of six small orange points of light passing slowly overhead in triangular formation, crossing the night sky in about 60 seconds. Then few minutes later, two strings of 8 each travelling parallel flew back across sky at much higher rate of speed, passing over in the space of few seconds. Last night, I saw 16 flying objects in a close v formation at high altitude and at high rate of speed, crossing sky in four seconds, till they were out of sight. These craft did not hold tightly to their v formation as some on the outer edges of the formation spread apart. These craft emitted steady pale orange glow, and were about the size and brightness of an average star in the night sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Pill

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Fairborn — I was at Maplewood Park with my girl friend on the swings. I looked up and saw a shiny, pill shaped UFO flying overhead. It was completely silent and really high floating across the sky. So I pulled out my cell and started recording. My girl friend and I just watched it and may have been a satellite or a blimp.  I was only a couple miles away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I lost sight of the object when it flew away. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Chemtrails

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All I am saying is that I felt their presence and it’s possible. I did see the continuation of the chemtrails today (DSC00672A). A lot seemed to be flying into and around (unknowingly to them) what I am calling a cloaked mother ship (DSC05145A). Here’s what I wrote yesterday. “On Friday, I was at the Monroe Institute by the big crystal and I saw something similar to the photos you forwarded re: the Crystal Ship. I saw wispy clouds forming and within 5 minutes they dissipated. They would grow from nothing, and then grow a bit and eventually dissipated all within about 5 minutes. Before they did, 10 maybe more round white spheres would be left and then they dissipate like the clouds.” These white spheres looked very similar to the ones in the picture minus the huge alien spacecraft that suddenly appeared in the sky. This round anomaly showed up right next to the airplane.”I have a theory. Maybe the chemtrails are serving a purpose other than what the powers that were intended them to be. Maybe the chemtrails are a cloaking device that ETs use when there are no clouds. Maybe I did witness a huge mother ship today, and maybe the smaller ships were in the chemtrails where they can vacuum the chemtrails more readily.” Thanks to Dan Johnson

Washington Lights

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Ellensburg — Taken by a friend I was video chatting with on Saturday night June 17, 2016, at 11:00 PM. My light was out and his was also on his side. My bathroom light was on, so I could see the computer. Whatever it is had to be right behind me. I have experienced some odd things, waking up to an old table with a 50 pound marble top moved, loud bangs, seeing shadows, and my daughter said, “She saw a tall man once in front of the fire place.”
They investigated this and concluded that it was a grey. A roommate saw a couple of UFO’s three days ago sighted towards Mt. Rainer.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington DC Object

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Fort Lincoln –I was aboard Amtrak from New York to Florida when I was taking pictures but I didn’t notice the object until after I got home months later while reviewing the pictures. The picture was taken in Fort Lincoln, Washington, DC on August 2nd, 2016 at 8:51 am. I had experienced some interference with my cell phone reception but at the time I ignored it. The images before and after do not show the object. I’m just curious as to what it is above the busy bridge?

Wisconsin Orb

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Burlington — I was waiting in a store parking lot, leaning against my car and looking at the cirrus cloud whips on November 6, 2016. I noticed a bright pinpoint. It went behind the high cloud but was still faintly visible. When the cloud passed, it was still there and I spotted eight other stationary lights/reflections nearby, so I grabbed my phone to take a picture so I could zoom in. I goggled iridium flare, just to try to explain. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Objects

My partner and I were lying on the hood of the vehicle looking up at the stars in the middle of nowhere on November 6, 2016, I spotted a moving object. Showing my partner I told him it was moving way to quick to be a satellite. Then we spotted two more that changed direction. They moved in near the same area like it was a road for UFOs. After they disappeared with a flash we spotted flashes around one star forming a circle. They kept flashing randomly making a circle. It looked like a big flying object that I tried to film, but it was too dark to film. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Disc

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Haroldo Westendorff 20 years ago spotted a UFO from his aircraft. One of the most extraordinary sightings of a pilot in Brazil took place in Rio Grande do Sul, on the Lagoa dos Patos.

Haroldo circled the giant UFO three times with his small plane

Wednesday is a special day for the Brazilian Ufology, celebrating twenty years of one of its most impressive cases. On 5 September 1996 the pilot gaucho Haroldo Westendorff, Brazilian bi-champion of acrobatics, flying a plane near the city of São José do Norte. At 10.30 AM on a sunny day 1,800 meters above sea level, Haroldo suddenly faced with a huge object slowly flying over the region.

The UFO had a pyramid shape and base was 100 meters and its height was 50 to 60 meters. Westendorff noted that the object had eight sides and each of these there were three protruding wedges. Noting that detail, he realized that the UFO slowly rotating around its axis. In addition, the top had an oval dome and immediately contacted Harold pellets Airport. An operator of the tower was also able to observe the UFO, but the military radar did not detect any traffic.

The pilot approached the UFO cautiously and began circling it while describing everything via the radio. Suddenly, the upper dome of the object opened and a smaller UFO in the shape of two superposed plates, emerged from there upright, leaned over and fired at extremely high speed, heading for the sea. Haroldo estimated his speed at Mach 10, or ten times the sound and described what came to consider: “I thought I’d take a dip with the plane of the opening of the ship to see what was inside, but gave up when that opening came a column of reddish and undulating rays that scared me so I moved 200 meters from the ship.”

A few moments later, the giant UFO shot vertically enormous speed, causing fear in the pilot, He did not notice any wind or noise. The operator of the Pelotas tower, Airton Mendes da Silva, stated, “I saw an object in the form of a gray triangle with rounded edges.” The Case Haroldo Westendorff is one of the most impressive and emblematic Brazilian ufology, The UFO shot away at high speed after releasing a column of red rays.  Thanks to Google Translate and Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Objects

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Don Mills — I was walking home from work on November 1, 2016, and noticed there were more stars than normal. At first, I thought it was the moon or a star changing into various colors but was not moving. I instantly froze and my body became cold. Then I ran pulled out my phone and began trying to get the clearest recording of it that I possibly could. The night before on my way home from work I also observed north of me that there was a huge black triangle with five lights shaped like an upside down Y. I also got really scared and ran inside. The flashing orb I saw the second time did not move but only kept changing colors. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Cypress Light

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Pafos — While on holiday with my fiancée we spotted this in the sky on September25, 2016, l decided to capture a few shots to see if l could capture their emitting frequency and lights. l have zoomed into some of the pictures but have left the originals for your own experiment or perception. Although l am convinced as UFOs have followed me all my life as mufon stated in my last sighting. I look forward to your views. Hope this helps prove one more piece existence of life is not just earth and us. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Greece Sightings

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Nea Moudani — My friends were going to drink coffee and having fun on October 20, 2016. It was 23:30 hours and my friends started taking selfies with their phones. I took a picture with my smart phone that look like two objects with orange lights that look like dots or missiles, also one object with three white lights that looks like a triangle shape.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Lights

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Crumlin — I was on the phone in my backyard on October 13, 2016. I looked up to see a large black diamond/cone shaped object. It was about 5.30 PM, when I saw a wobbling object a few miles away. It suddenly changed direction and flew NW away from me into cloud cover which is when I managed to take a picture! It all happened so fast, suddenly it was gone. I live in the country near an airport so I’m use to seeing lights/objects in the sky. You see them all out here, 99.9% I can explain. This one I can’t. It seemed too big for a balloon and was oddly shaped for one. I saw a UFO instead of something that can be explained. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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L’ufologie aujourd’hui, professionnalisme et respect

L’ufologie aujourd’hui, professionnalisme et respect

Un article de Richard Hoffman, Directeur des Projets Stratégiques du Mufon, publié le 14 juin 2016 sur son site « openminds.tv« , par Alejandro Rojas, membre de l’Académie d’Ufologie.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/ufology-today-professionalism-and-respect/37650


Après avoir passé la majeure partie de ma vie en tant qu’ufologue, j’ai eu le plaisir de travailler avec beaucoup d’autres ufologues incroyables pendant cinq décennies. Mon admiration pour ces personnes, qui ont consacré une quantité extraordinaire de leur temps personnel, de finances et davantage pour le sujet OVNI, est sans fin. Plus encore, il y a beaucoup de gens qui font un travail difficile et pas reconnu. A ceux-là et aux autres, je dis un grand merci.

L’ufologie est une aventure très enrichissante. Non seulement elle peut vous propulser dans plusieurs directions que vous n’auriez pas décidé de choisir, mais ces aventures sont bouleversantes et créent une nouvelle réalité du monde autour de vous, que vous adoptez personnellement. Comme nous le savons tous, il y a beaucoup d’ufologues qui ne partagent pas les mêmes croyances et notions ni sur les ovnis ni sur leurs occupants, que beaucoup affirment avoir vus personnellement. Pour certains, un OVNI ou un événement connexe, les ont peut-être amenés dans ce type d’étude en priorité, alors que pour d’autres qui n’en ont jamais vu, soit ils y croient, soit ils n’y croient pas ou encore ils sont très sceptiques à propos des affirmations autour de ce sujet.

Personnellement, je suis attristé par les récentes tendances croissantes sur les médias sociaux d’y voir les parties intéressées créer des groupes dissidents qui ont des points de vues similaires mais qui contribuent à perpétuer les divisions au sein de l’ufologie. Je continue aussi de voir entrer en jeu plus de comportements agressifs tels que l’intimidation. Il semble que la colère actuelle mentionnée dans les affaires politiques surgit elle-même dans notre monde. Je vois aussi un manque de tolérance envers ceux qui expriment une réalité différente de la nôtre. Bien que, par exemple, je ne puisse pas croire facilement que des contactés communiquent avec des extraterrestres, je ne vois pas la nécessité de frapper ou intimider ceux qui affirment cela. Je peux exprimer ma conviction civilement, laquelle peut être différente de la leur.

Une grande tendance est d’étiqueter les gens. Récemment, j’ai constaté l’augmentation du besoin de déclarer les gens « debunkers » simplement parce qu’ils expriment soit une position différente de la vôtre soit des faits actuels qui remettent en question la vôtre. Tout simplement parce que vous pouvez avoir une formation ou une expérience sur le sujet, vous êtes un « debunker ». J’ai vu un objet en 2012, qui plus tard s’est avéré être un ballon secret Google et qui a été identifié comme tel (aka Project Loon), après avoir franchi plusieurs Etats et qu’il ait été vu et photographié par quelques dizaines de personnes. J’étais alors devenu un « debunker ».

Il y a besoin d’un mouvement ufologique plus unifiée. Un mouvement qui reconnaisse que le comportement courtois est important, que la diversité des opinions est une bonne chose. L’expérience de ce que l’un peut être différent de l’autre et que cela n’en fait pas une « mauvaise personne » ni un ennemi du groupe de réflexion que nous avons adopté sur Facebook ou d’autres forums de médias sociaux.

Récemment, j’ai fait une présentation à l’Université d’Alabama à Tuscaloosa. Le professeur m’a demandé de l’aider à enseigner la pensée critique aux étudiants. J’étais, à ce point de ma carrière, un directeur régional adjoint pour « l’American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) ». Nous avions réalisé une étude et avions constaté que la compétence diminue à un rythme alarmant dans nos jeunes générations et que si nous ne réagissions pas à cela, des problèmes pourraient bientôt survenir. Aujourd’hui, c’est toujours valable. Nous voyons beaucoup de gens qui prennent au pied de la lettre tout ce qui est publié sur Internet, à la télévision ou dans des actualités ici ou là. Il n’y a absolument pas de vérification de faite ni de renseignements demandés. C’est un fait. Nous constatons l’acceptation rapide qu’une vidéo YouTube montrant un vaisseau-mère au-dessus de la Maison Blanche est encore un événement que le gouvernement camoufle.

Si l’ufologie s’efforce de résoudre les nombreuses questions qui restent sans réponses à propos du phénomène ovni, elle doit se consolider grâce au comportement exemplaire approprié de ses dirigeants, c’est-à-dire que la discipline est nécessaire aux points que j’ai mentionnés ci-dessus. Combien d’entre nous voient les comportements inappropriés de nos propres sites? Combien d’entre nous divisent les gens? Combien d’entre nous sont sceptiques à l’excès et mènent les conversations dans un débat qui se termine par des divisions supplémentaires? et aussi combien d’entre nous sont inflexibles sur « c’est soit mon chemin, soit la porte » ?

C’est mon espoir avant de mourir, que l’ufologie devienne un mouvement respectable assis sur une base professionnelle. Je crois que davantage peut être réalisé et accompli lorsque les gens et les organisations travaillent ensemble. Il est temps d’enterrer les haches de guerre et certainement pas le moment de construire des murs. Je préfère les ponts, ce sont les gens qui les construisent et ils apprécient de passer dessus. Merci à tous de votre dévouement à l’ufologie, indépendamment de vos étiquettes, de vos croyances et de la réalité.

Richard Hoffman est un professionnel de l'informatique qui aétudié le
phénomène OVNI depuis 1964, quand il avait huit ans.
Il est actuellement Directeur du Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) pour les 
États d'Alabama et du Mississippi
,
ainsi que Directeur des Projets
Stratégiques.

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Multiple Alien Craft Encountered In Australia

Multiple Alien Craft Encountered In Australia

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MULTIPLE ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTERED IN AUSTRALIA
FEBURARY 1981…… 1 AM……. MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

Observer reported six blue coloured discs “about the size of a shirt button held at arm’s length” passing overhead giving him a feeling of static or magnetic feeling. When he first saw them overhead, they were circular, but as they sped away, they looked flattened like a disc. While in sight they were darting around each other though never crossing over each other’s path. There was always a gap between each disc. The point of reference in the sky was the Saucepan.

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On this particular night, Craig was out in his front yard endeavouring to cool off after a 35 degrees plus hot day in the suburb of Fawkner in Melbourne. He noticed six disc shaped objects approaching from the northeast. These objects were travelling at first, in a tight circular pattern with an object of the same size in the centre. 

As they passed overhead, Craig now saw clearly that each of the objects emitted an electric blue in colour though no sound could be heard. Given the clear viewing condition of that night, he could distinctly see that each of the objects was in fact darting in around, behind, and in front of each other. All were darting without actually breading the larger boundary of the group or formation. Craig, living in the flight path of Essendon and Melbourne Airports, is also quite familiar with virtually all types of low flying aircraft that fly over regularly each day at approximate heights of 2000 feet. Each of these objects to be the size of a small single engine plane. 

The duration of the sighting lasted approximately seven seconds with the objects soon disappearing heading in a southwesterly direction. There were no particularly noticeable effects involved with this sighting except to say, and I quote, “It is without a doubt the most exciting thing I have ever witnessed or been apart of!” 

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Floating UFO expected to make sea landing in 2018

Jet Capsule sees the UFO 2.0 also being used as a restaurant or gym, as well...

Jet Capsule sees the UFO 2.0 also being used as a restaurant or gym, as well as a luxury home(Credit: Jet Capsule)

Floating UFO expected to make sea landing in 2018

Jet Capsule hopes to start delivering the UFO 2.0 in early 2018(Credit: Jet Capsule)

UFO sightings could soon become a lot more common if Italian mini-yacht company Jet Capsule gets its way – Unidentified Floating Objects, that is. Having unveiled its floating off-grid home concept earlier this year, the firm is back with an updated and improved version, and plans to turn to the crowd to get it built.

Like its predecessor, the UFO 2.0 is essentially a flying saucer-shaped houseboat that would be built from carbon fiber and fiberglass, and would allow you to sleep with the fishes, literally, with a bedroom that's submerged.

This version is a little bigger and more refined, though. Where the first model was 12.5 m (41 ft) in diameter, the UFO 2.0 would measure 20 m (65 ft) in diameter.

It also now has three levels. The first floor includes the kitchen and bathroom, while upstairs lies a hot tub, a desk and seating, and the controls to maneuver it. The submerged level would have one large bedroom and bathroom as standard, but different configurations would allow for up to four bedrooms. Impressive glazing would let you check out the local sea life.

The UFO 2.0 would let you sleep with the fishes – literally

Jet Capsule envisions the UFO 2.0 as having twin engines, producing a maximum speed of up to 9 knots ( 16 km/h or 10 mph), which is up from 3.5 knots. The home would get its electricity from a combination of solar panels, wind power, and the firm said that a water turbine could also be used. These energy sources would be connected to a 16 battery array.

Besides luxury homes and hotels, the firm also says UFO 2.0 could be used as a gym or floating restaurant.

Jet Capsule told us that to help move this ambitious idea from the drawing board into the sea, it plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds. Possible rewards include a night in the UFO 2.0.

All being well, the firm hopes to start delivering the first models in early 2018. We're awaiting word back on the expected cost, but would guess it's somewhere in the region of the first UFO concept, which was estimated at US$200,000.

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We Talked to a Controversial Quebec Professor About His Search for Aliens

We Talked to a Controversial Quebec Professor About His Search for Aliens

Patrick Lejtenyi

By Patrick Lejtenyi


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Ermanno Borra thinks that aliens just may be winking at us from across the void—that they're trying to make contact using a method that even we primitive earthlings might grasp, and that they come (or perhaps will come, eventually) in peace.

The Université Laval astronomer realizes it's a bold claim, and will be rigorously challenged by his peers. But he's adamant that it's not a preposterous one.

"The search for extraterrestrial life is a very legitimate scientific endeavour," he says. "It's not something crazy."

In a peer-reviewed paper published in this month's Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Borra and grad student Eric Trottier wrote that an analysis of the spectra—the intensity of the light as a function of many wavelengths—of 2.5 million stars found minuscule but highly peculiar modulations from 234 of them. Like, really tiny: the separations detected were 10-9 to 10-15 seconds apart.

The pair examined the stars catalogued in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a 3D map of the universe that over the past 16 years catalogued over three million astronomical objects. They found that the 234 stars were also in the same spectral range as our Sun's (for the record, the F2 to K1 spectra range). With instrumental or calculation error and other possibilities accounted for and eliminated as possible sources of the readings, Borra and Trottier suggest that the signals may possibly have come from extraterrestrial intelligence trying to alert humans to their existence.

He speculates that it would be possible for an alien life form to shine a laser into outer space, superposing its light over that of its host star. The signal could be detected in the spectrum of the star, containing as it does the light of both the star and the laser.

The paper, excitingly titled "Discovery of Peculiar Periodic Spectral Modulations in a Small Fraction of Solar-type Stars," has already generated a lot of media coverage and controversy. It hasn't helped that overzealous and click-hungry headline writers use phrases like "probably from aliens" when discussing the work. An investigation bySnopes.com debunked the "probably" part, making it clear neither scientist was willing to use the word in a formal academic paper—something that likely would have resulted in the pair being pilloried by their colleagues.

Several scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) have been either cautious or dismissive of their claims. Snopes notes that Breakthrough Listen, a search venture funded by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and backed by Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, isn't popping champagne corks yet; neither is theSETI Research Center at UC Berkeley.

But Borra, a professor of physics at Laval who received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario, certainly doesn't come across as a charlatan or a fool. And he knows that he needs a whole lot more evidence to back up his hypothesis. The scientific method is built on testing hypotheses and poking holes in them, so he never makes the claim that the signals are definitively from aliens. He merely carefully suggested that it's possible that they are. He suspects that those who dismiss his paper outright probably didn't read it in detail. The same would apply to those who jump to conclusions that aliens are definitely reaching out to us, based on his curious finding.

"The ETI hypothesis is a strange one, so it's normal to be skeptical," he says. "But it's not something crazy. Again, it's a field of very legitimate scientific research."

One that doesn't come cheap: for instance, the SETI Institute-operated Allen Telescope Array in northern California has burned through $50 million in about a decade, half of which came from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Breakthrough Listen project's 10-year, $100 million funding is courtesy of Russian tycoon Yuri Milner. Even the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was mostly funded via the philanthropic Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. No government is seriously investing in the search for ETI (although President-elect Trump has said he will make space exploration great again, without offering any details). Still, there seems to be enough curiosity about our new frontiers and new life forms--whether they be in deep space or in the deep ocean—to spur individuals to generously fund scientific research alongside governments.

Borra says that if—and he admits it's a big if—his hypothesis is supported by enough solid evidence that it can be assumed that the source of these infinitesimal changes in the light pulses' intensity is indeed the result of extraterrestrial communication, he says it would be "one of the most important things ever done on Earth."

The method of communication is also flexible enough that the source—a hypothetical alien civilization—could also include vital information about themselves, including pictures.

This isn't the first time Borra has speculated that a specific kind of light pulse might have originated with ETI. A 2012 paper he authored predicted that the signals grad student Trottier found in the reams of data were consistent with what he believed an ETI signal would look like. Basically, light pulses are an easy way to send signals and have them seen by a distant recipient. The paper's abstract reads: "Theory, confirmed by published experiments, shows that periodic signals in spectra can be easily generated by sending light pulses separated by constant time intervals.... [T]echnology now available on Earth could be used to send signals having the required energy to be detected at a target located 1000 lt-yr away. Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) could use these signals to make us aware of their existence."

Borra is the first to admit that more work—a lot more work—is needed before we can be sure that something out there is reaching out to us. But any civilization trying to make contact likely wouldn't be interested in Earth as a target for conquest, enslavement or nourishment. He believes any such species would "certainly have technology far more advanced than we do," and that they would very likely be peaceful.

The theory is, if aliens can get it together enough to be able to create technology that looks to life beyond their solar system, they have advanced enough as a species to put their primitive, warlike impulses behind them. They don't need to slaughter or enslave us. It's a nice thought, but unfortunately, wholly speculative.

He further suspects that spectral modulations may be just one method aliens are using to reach out across the galaxy. There may be others that are beyond our comprehension, using technologies we haven't yet grasped.

The pace at which our technology has advanced in just the last 50 or 60 years gives Borra some perspective on what is feasible in terms of communications. From postage-stamped letters to Skype, the leap has been immense. Borra doesn't know where or how it will ever stop advancing, and that, he says, is encouraging in the long run.

"Intuitively, I suspect that civilizations that are more advanced are peaceful," he says. "So anyone trying to contact us would be very nice people, for obvious reasons."

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Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?

Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?

Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.

Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is going to be indistinguishable from magic. If you dropped in on a bunch of Paleolithic farmers with your iPhone and a pair of sneakers, you’d undoubtedly seem pretty magical. But the contrast is only middling: The farmers would still recognize you as basically like them, and before long they’d be taking selfies. But what if life has moved so far on that it doesn’t just appear magical, but appears like physics?

After all, if the cosmos holds other life, and if some of that life has evolved beyond our own waypoints of complexity and technology, we should be considering some very extreme possibilities. Today’s futurists and believers in a machine “singularity” predict that life and its technological baggage might end up so beyond our ken that we wouldn’t even realize we were staring at it. That’s quite a claim, yet it would neatly explain why we have yet to see advanced intelligence in the cosmos around us, despite the sheer number of planets it could have arisen on—the so-called Fermi Paradox.

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For example, if machines continue to grow exponentially in speed and sophistication, they will one day be able to decode the staggering complexity of the living world, from its atoms and molecules all the way up to entire planetary biomes. Presumably life doesn’t have to be made of atoms and molecules, but could be assembled from any set of building blocks with the requisite complexity. If so, a civilization could then transcribe itself and its entire physical realm into new forms. Indeed, perhaps our universe is one of the new forms into which some other civilization transcribed its world.

These possibilities might seem wholly untestable, because part of the conceit is that sufficiently advanced life will not just be unrecognizable as such, but will blend completely into the fabric of what we’ve thought of as nature. But viewed through the warped bottom of a beer glass, we can pick out a few cosmic phenomena that—at crazy as it sounds—might fit the requirements.

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For example, only about 5 percent of the mass-energy of the universe consists of ordinary matter: the protons, neutrons, and electrons that we’re composed of. A much larger 27 percent is thought to be unseen, still mysterious stuff. Astronomical evidence for this dark, gravitating matter is convincing, albeit still not without question. Vast halos of dark matter seem to lurk around galaxies, providing mass that helps hold things together via gravity. On even larger scales, the web-like topography traced by luminous gas and stars also hints at unseen mass.

Cosmologists usually assume that dark matter has no microstructure. They think it consists of subatomic particles that interact only via gravity and the weak nuclear force and therefore slump into tenuous, featureless swathes. They have arguments to support this point of view, but of course we don’t really know for sure. Some astronomers, noting subtle mismatches between observations and models, have suggested that dark matter has a richer inner life. At least some component may comprise particles that interact with one another via long-range forces. It may seem dark to us, but have its own version of light that our eyes cannot see.

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In that case, dark matter could contain real complexity, and perhaps it is where all technologically advanced life ends up or where most life has always been. What better way to escape the nasty vagaries of supernova and gamma-ray bursts than to adopt a form that is immune to electromagnetic radiation? Upload your world to the huge amount of real estate on the dark side and be done with it.

If you’re a civilization that has learned how to encode living systems in different substrates, all you need to do is build a normal-matter-to-dark-matter data-transfer system: a dark-matter 3D printer. Perhaps the mismatch of astronomical models and observations is evidence not just of self-interacting dark matter, but of dark matter that is being artificially manipulated.

Or to take this a step further, perhaps the behavior of normal cosmic matter that we attribute to dark matter is brought on by something else altogether: a living state that manipulates luminous matter for its own purposes. Consider that at present we have neither identified the dark-matter particles nor come up with a compelling alternative to our laws of physics that would account for the behavior of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Would an explanation in terms of life be any less plausible than a failure of established laws?

Part of the fabric of the universe is a product of intelligence.

The universe does other funky and unexpected stuff. Notably, it began to expand at an accelerated rate about 5 billion years ago. This acceleration is conventionally chalked up to dark energy. But cosmologists don’t know why the cosmic acceleration began when it did. In fact, one explanation with a modicum of traction is that the timing has to do with life—an anthropic argument. The dark energy didn’t become significant until enough time had gone by for life to take hold on Earth. For many cosmologists, that means our universe must be part of a vast multiverse where the strength of dark energy varies from place to place. We live in one of the places suitable for life like us. Elsewhere, dark energy is stronger and blows the universe apart too quickly for cosmic structures to form and life to take root.

But perhaps there is another reason for the timing coincidence: that dark energy is related to the activities of living things. After all, any very early life in the universe would have already experienced 8 billion years of evolutionary time by the time expansion began to accelerate. It’s a stretch, but maybe there’s something about life itself that affects the cosmos, or maybe those well-evolved denizens decided to tinker with the expansion.

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There are even possible motivations for that action. Life absorbs low-entropy energy (such as visible light from the sun), does useful work with that energy, and dumps higher-entropy energy back into the universe as waste heat. But if the surrounding universe ever got too warm—too filled with thermal refuse—things would stagnate. Luckily we live in an expanding and constantly cooling cosmos. What better long-term investment by some hypothetical life 5 billion years ago than to get the universe to cool even faster? To be sure, it may come to rue its decision: Hundreds of billions of years later the accelerating expansion would dilute matter so quickly that civilizations would run out of fresh sources of energy. Also, an accelerating universe does not cool forever, but eventually approaches a floor in temperature.

One idea for the mechanism of an accelerating cosmic expansion is called quintessence, a relative of the Higgs field that permeates the cosmos. Perhaps some clever life 5 billion years ago figured out how to activate that field. How? Beats me, but it’s a thought-provoking idea, and it echoes some of the thinking of cosmologist Freeman Dyson’s famous 1979 paper “Time Without End,” where he looked at life’s ability in the far, far future to act on an astrophysical scale.

Once we start proposing that life could be part of the solution to cosmic mysteries, there’s no end to the fun possibilities. Although dark-matter life is a pretty exotic idea, it’s still conceivable that we might recognize what it is, even capturing it in our labs one day (or being captured by it). We can take a tumble down a different rabbit hole by considering that we don’t recognize advanced life because it forms an integral and unsuspicious part of what we’ve considered to be the natural world.

Life’s desire to avoid trouble points to some options. If it has a choice, life always looks for ways to lower its existential risk. You don’t build your nest on the weakest branch or produce trillions of single-celled clones unless you build in some variation and backup.

Maybe there’s something about life itself that affects the cosmos.

A species can mitigate risk by spreading, decentralizing, and seeding as much real estate as possible. In this context, hyper-advanced life is going to look for ways to get rid of physical locality and to maximize redundancy and flexibility. The quantum realm offers good options. The cosmos is already packed with electromagnetic energy. Today, at any instant, about 400 photons of cosmic microwave radiation are streaming through any cubic centimeter of free space. They collectively have less energy than ordinary particles such as protons and electrons, but vastly outnumber them. That’s a lot of potential data carriers. Furthermore, we could imagine that these photons are cleverly quantum-mechanically entangled to help with error control.

By storing its essential data in photons, life could give itself a distributed backup system. And it could go further, manipulating new photons emitted by stars to dictate how they interact with matter. Fronts of electromagnetic radiation could be reaching across the cosmos to set in motion chains of interstellar or planetary chemistry with exquisite timing, exploiting wave interference and excitation energies in atoms and molecules. The science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem put forward a similar idea, involving neutrinos rather than photons, in the novel His Master’s Voice.

That’s one way that life could disappear into ordinary physics. But even these ideas skirt the most disquieting extrapolations.

Toward the end of Carl Sagan’s 1985 science-fiction novel Contact, the protagonist follows the suggestion of an extraterrestrial to study transcendental numbers. After computing to 1020 places, she finds a clearly artificial message embedded in the digits of this fundamental number. In other words, part of the fabric of the universe is a product of intelligence or is perhaps even life itself.

It’s a great mind-bending twist for a book. Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external. Perhaps it’s already all around. It is embedded in what we perceive to be physics itself, from the root behavior of particles and fields to the phenomena of complexity and emergence.

In other words, life might not just be in the equations. It might be the equations.

Caleb Scharf is an astrophysicist, the Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University in New York, and a founder of yhousenyc.org, an institute that studies human and machine consciousness. His latest book is The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities.

This article was originally published on Nautilus Cosmos, in November 2016. 

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Wordt het heelal aangestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving?

Wordt het heelal aangestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving?

Wordt het heelal aangestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving?

De mensheid zoekt in het heelal al eeuwenlang naar nieuwe sterrenstelsels en kijkt hierbij zo diep mogelijk in de ruimte.

We hebben een hoop ontdekt, maar alles wat we tot nog toe hebben gezien, beslaat slechts vijf procent van het heelal. Naar de rest zoekt men nog.

Een astrofysicus van de Columbia-universiteit heeft nu gezegd dat het universum mogelijk wordt aangestuurd door de intelligentie van een buitenaardse beschaving.

Overal om ons heen

Deze beschaving is zo hoogontwikkeld dat hij bestaat in het kwantumrijk en voor ons niet zichtbaar is, schrijft Caleb Scharf voor Nautilus.

Een intelligentie die niet te onderscheiden is van de structuur van het universum zou veel mysteries in één klap oplossen.

Het zou verklaren waarom er nog geen intelligente beschavingen buiten de aarde zijn ontdekt. “Misschien is hypergeavanceerd leven niet extern,” schrijft Scharf.

“Misschien bestaat het overal om ons heen,” vervolgt hij. “Verankerd in de natuurkunde zelf.”

Gemanipuleerd

Het is volgens Scharf ook mogelijk dat buitenaardse intelligentie zich verschuilt in donkere materie.

Dat onze astronomische modellen niet altijd overeenkomen met waarnemingen, komt misschien doordat donkere materie kunstmatig wordt gemanipuleerd, aldus Scharf.

Deze intelligentie kan ook het gedrag van normale kosmische materie beïnvloeden, legt hij uit.

Niet herkennen

De versnelde uitdijing van het heelal vijf miljard jaar geleden wordt in verband gebracht met donkere energie, maar volgens Scharf kan intelligent leven hier ook een rol bij hebben gespeeld.

“Voordat de uitdijing begon te versnellen had leven acht miljard jaar de tijd om zich te ontwikkelen,” schrijft hij.

“Misschien wordt de kosmos beïnvloedt door het leven zelf of besloten hoogontwikkelde aliens invloed uit te oefenen op de expansie,” vervolgt hij.

Het is zelfs mogelijk dat we geavanceerd leven niet herkennen omdat het een integraal onderdeel is van wat wij zien als de natuurlijke wereld, besluit de astrofysicus.

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VIDEO: NASA schakelt livestream uit nadat ‘mysterieus ruimteschip’ verschijnt

VIDEO: NASA schakelt livestream uit nadat 'mysterieus ruimteschip' verschijnt

VIDEO: NASA schakelt livestream uit nadat ‘mysterieus ruimteschip’ verschijnt

Bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS is een onbekend vliegend object vastgelegd op video. Vlak na de waarneming ging het beeld op zwart, meldt de Daily Mail.

Volgens complottheoretici houdt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bewust bewijzen van buitenaards leven achter.

Livebeelden van het ISS tonen een object dat razendsnel voorbij vliegt. Het ‘ruimteschip’ werd opgemerkt door YouTube-gebruiker ColdPyro.

Onder het tapijt

Vlak voordat het mysterieuze object uit beeld verdwijnt, schakelt NASA de livebeelden uit en verschijnt een mededeling dat er technische problemen zijn opgetreden.

Complottheoretici zien er bewijs in dat de NASA bewijs van buitenaards leven onder het tapijt veegt.

UFO-jagers zijn ervan overtuigd dat camera’s van het ISS voor het eerst een mysterieus ruimteschip hebben vastgelegd.

Blauw licht

In september en oktober werden ook al vreemde objecten bij het ruimtestation gespot. Afgelopen maand verscheen er een blauw licht bij het ISS.

In september werden in de buurt van een Progress-bevoorradingscapsule twee UFO’s vastgelegd op camera.

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Chinese taikonauten terug op aarde na lange ruimtereis

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Leven in aardse bodem is ouder dan we denken

Wetenschappers hebben veel microfossielen aangetroffen in drie miljard jaar oude Australische stenen. De vondst van deze microfossielen laat zien dat leven in de bodem ouder is dan we denken.

“Je hebt een microscoop nodig om deze piepkleine fossielen te zien”, zegt paleontoloog Gregory Retallack van de universiteit van Oregon. 4,6 miljard jaar geleden is de aarde ontstaan in stofschijf rondom de zon. “Als we tweederde terug gaan in de geschiedenis van de aarde was er al volop leven aanwezig in de aardse bodem.”

microben

Rijk microbioom
De onderzoekers hebben een microbioom ontdekt met minimaal vijf verschillende microfossielen. Deze microfossielen verschillen onderling van elkaar als het gaat om grootte, vorm en isotopische samenstelling.

De grootste microfossielen zijn spindelvormige, holle structuren gevormd door schimmelachtige straalzwammen (Actinobacteria). Deze symbiotische bacteriën leven vandaag de dag bijvoorbeeld in de knolletjes aan de wortels van elzen. Zij zorgen ervoor dat deze loofboom voldoende stikstof krijgt. De karakteristieke aardse geur van tuingrond wordt ook veroorzaakt door deze straalzwam.

Daarnaast zijn er bolvormige fossielen aangetroffen die lijken op paarse zwavelbacteriën.

Geen verdwaalde cellen
“Met een dichtheid van meer dan duizend cellen per kubieke millimeter vormden de microfossielen toentertijd al een goed functionerend ecosysteem”, vervolgt Retallack. “Het zijn dus niet een paar verdwaalde cellen.” Volgens de onderzoeker is er bewijs dat leven in de grond een belangrijke rol speelde in de cyclus van koolstof, fosfor, zwavel en stikstof.

Ging leven eerder van zee naar land?
De vondst is belangrijk, omdat veel onderzoekers denken dat het leven 3,7 miljard jaar geleden ontstond in de vorm van cyanobacteriën. Zij zijn verantwoordelijk voor de vorming van stromatolieten. Eerder dit jaar werden op Groenland fossiele stromatolieten gevonden met een recordouderdom van 3,7 miljard jaar, waardoor de datum waarop het leven op aarde verscheen 200 miljoen jaar opschoof.

Onderzoekers denken dat het leven vanuit de zee naar het land verspreidde, maar dat dit wel lang duurde. “Oceanen waren broedplaatsen van leven, terwijl het op land nog een droge bedoening was”, schreef geobioloog Hope Jahren eerder dit jaar. “Er is namelijk geen duidelijk bewijs dat leven op het vasteland voorkwam.” Dit bewijs is er nu dan eindelijk, schrijven de onderzoekers van de universiteit van Oregon.

Buitenaards leven
Opvallend genoeg lijken de zoutafzettingen en de microfossielen op structuren die Marsrover Curiosity op Mars heeft gevonden. Retallack: “Misschien kunnen we deze fossielen gebruiken om microscopisch leven op andere planeten te identificeren.”

Bronmateriaal:

"Archean coastal-plain paleosols and life on land" - Gondwana Research

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Leven in aardse bodem is ouder dan we denken

Wetenschappers hebben veel microfossielen aangetroffen in drie miljard jaar oude Australische stenen. De vondst van deze microfossielen laat zien dat leven in de bodem ouder is dan we denken.

“Je hebt een microscoop nodig om deze piepkleine fossielen te zien”, zegt paleontoloog Gregory Retallack van de universiteit van Oregon. 4,6 miljard jaar geleden is de aarde ontstaan in stofschijf rondom de zon. “Als we tweederde terug gaan in de geschiedenis van de aarde was er al volop leven aanwezig in de aardse bodem.”

microben

Rijk microbioom
De onderzoekers hebben een microbioom ontdekt met minimaal vijf verschillende microfossielen. Deze microfossielen verschillen onderling van elkaar als het gaat om grootte, vorm en isotopische samenstelling.

De grootste microfossielen zijn spindelvormige, holle structuren gevormd door schimmelachtige straalzwammen (Actinobacteria). Deze symbiotische bacteriën leven vandaag de dag bijvoorbeeld in de knolletjes aan de wortels van elzen. Zij zorgen ervoor dat deze loofboom voldoende stikstof krijgt. De karakteristieke aardse geur van tuingrond wordt ook veroorzaakt door deze straalzwam.

Daarnaast zijn er bolvormige fossielen aangetroffen die lijken op paarse zwavelbacteriën.

Geen verdwaalde cellen
“Met een dichtheid van meer dan duizend cellen per kubieke millimeter vormden de microfossielen toentertijd al een goed functionerend ecosysteem”, vervolgt Retallack. “Het zijn dus niet een paar verdwaalde cellen.” Volgens de onderzoeker is er bewijs dat leven in de grond een belangrijke rol speelde in de cyclus van koolstof, fosfor, zwavel en stikstof.

Ging leven eerder van zee naar land?
De vondst is belangrijk, omdat veel onderzoekers denken dat het leven 3,7 miljard jaar geleden ontstond in de vorm van cyanobacteriën. Zij zijn verantwoordelijk voor de vorming van stromatolieten. Eerder dit jaar werden op Groenland fossiele stromatolieten gevonden met een recordouderdom van 3,7 miljard jaar, waardoor de datum waarop het leven op aarde verscheen 200 miljoen jaar opschoof.

Onderzoekers denken dat het leven vanuit de zee naar het land verspreidde, maar dat dit wel lang duurde. “Oceanen waren broedplaatsen van leven, terwijl het op land nog een droge bedoening was”, schreef geobioloog Hope Jahren eerder dit jaar. “Er is namelijk geen duidelijk bewijs dat leven op het vasteland voorkwam.” Dit bewijs is er nu dan eindelijk, schrijven de onderzoekers van de universiteit van Oregon.

Buitenaards leven
Opvallend genoeg lijken de zoutafzettingen en de microfossielen op structuren die Marsrover Curiosity op Mars heeft gevonden. Retallack: “Misschien kunnen we deze fossielen gebruiken om microscopisch leven op andere planeten te identificeren.”

Bronmateriaal:

"Archean coastal-plain paleosols and life on land" - Gondwana Research

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Why Martian Settlers Will Eat Potatoes, Insects, Algae and Mushrooms

Why Martian Settlers Will Eat Potatoes, Insects, Algae and Mushrooms

Written by ANDREW RADER

From the bottom of our gravity well on the Earth’s surface, getting anything into space is difficult and expensive, and that's even more true for travel to Mars. 

On the International Space Station, for example, although some air and water is recycled, astronauts are ultimately reliant on Earth for everything. Given the challenges of distance, time, and energy required for the transit, this will have to change for Mars. 3D printing will provide some degree of self-sustenance (especially if we use local building materials where possible), but bulk consumables would have to be transported or generated in situ.

Luckily, Mars has both water in the form of ice, and a thin but useful atmosphere of carbon dioxide that can be processed into oxygen, and methane to power vehicles or rockets.

Being able to produce our own water and oxygen on Mars will be essential to sustaining human life there, but that's only about half the solution (and half the mass). We'd need to send around 2,000 pounds of food per Martian settler per year—and that assumes entirely freeze-dried food, which may not be the healthiest or most palatable option. A Martian settlement of six people would depend on a grocery run of more than fifteen Curiosity Rovers’ worth of dry food every 26-month Earth-to-Mars launch window.

Cooking on Mars.

Video: Andrew Rader/YouTube

Any food we can grow on Mars is food we don’t have to ship from Earth. Since we can get water there, we want to focus any Martian agricultural ventures on high-density bulk calories, high nutrition, or fresh morale-boosting foods that are easy to grow in a small space, while we continue to ship freeze-dried foods and vitamins from Earth.

Livestock is mostly out of the question, except perhaps if the animals are very small. Crickets are one of the best options. They eat discarded plant matter, are easy to raise in small spaces in a matter of weeks, and use hardly any water. They’re healthier than beef, with more protein, and include omega-3s, vitamins like iron and magnesium, and less fat.

Other small animals like snails could be on the menu. They may have been one of the first animals cultivated by humans for food. Aquaculture of mussels, crustaceans, and spirulina blue-green algae might round out a Martian diet.

Read More: It's Safe to Eat These 4 Crops Grown in 'Martian Soil'

What about plants and fungi? Mushrooms are packed with vitamins and grow without the need for light. As featured in The Martian, potatoes are also a good choice, and they’ve even been grown in simulated Martian soil in experiments in a greenhouse on Earth. They’re packed with vitamins, and contain some protein. You could live on them exclusively for a year or more, although you’d eventually suffer from a lack of fats, vitamins A and D, and B-12.

Cooking on Mars - Potatoes.

Video: Andrew Rader/YouTube

Even so, potatoes could contribute the bulk calories to a diet, as they have in many cultures on Earth throughout history. Sprinkle a few crickets on top of your potato pancakes and pop a vitamin pill and you’ve got a pretty balanced diet.

Or take a page from the 19th century Irish and combine potatoes with milk: in this case, dried milk shipped from Earth, preferably the full fat variety. By a strange quirk, potatoes and milk balance each other remarkably well, each providing the nutrients that the other lacks and forming about the best two-food diet a Martian settler could ask for.

Of course, ideally you’re rounding it out with at least a few other foods, if for nothing else than to avoid the monotony of endless cream of potato soup.

A Mars settlement will be dependent on Earth for the foreseeable future, but anything we can do to reduce the supplies we’d have to send brings it that much closer to reality. Changing the way we eat and learning how to grow our own food is going to be a big part of the solution.

Aerospace engineer Andrew Rader is a competitor in the Mars Generation’s annual Potato Challenge, held Thursday Nov. 17, to raise awareness and scholarship funding for the future of Science and Space Education. His latest kid’s science book, Mars Rover Rescue, is on Kickstarter at www.rover-rescue.com.

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