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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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SHAPESHIFTERS, BIO-BOTS AND OTHER SCI-FI NASA CONCEPTS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD

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SHAPESHIFTERS, BIO-BOTS AND OTHER SCI-FI NASA CONCEPTS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD

Elizabeth Rayne

NASA is really blurring the lines between science and fiction with this year’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) competition.

For Phase I, the space agency just chose 25 early-stage tech proposals that could make the stuff of sci-fi a reality with robotic swarms, spacecraft that change shape depending on what extraterrestrial cave or ocean they are heading to, and other visionary ideas that you may have trouble separating them from whatever sci-fi series you’ve been binge-watching on YouTube lately.

Here are some of the most mind-blowing things to emerge from the brains of contestants:

Shapeshifter

Shapeshifters
Shapeshifters exploring Kraken Mare by self-assembling/disassembling to different shapes.
Credits: Ali Agha, Jose Mendez, JPL

Shapeshifters (shown above) don’t just live in sci-fi and horror movies. These flying amphibious robots (FARs) meant to explore the methane lakes and subsurface oceans of Titan were brainstormed by NASA JPL scientist Aliakbar Aghamohammadi, who proposed a bot that can go from flying to rolling to floating, swimming and cave diving. Behind the shifting technology are cobots, mini robots which recombine to change the shape—something like autonomous Legos.

BioBot

Astronaut walking on planetary surface.
Graphic depiction of Biobot: Innovative Offloading of Astronauts for More Effective Exploration
Credits: D. Akin

How do you take weight off a spacesuit? You make a robot carry the portable life support system (PLSS) around. Wearing an extra 310 poundscan restrict how much of the mission astronauts can actually accomplish, even in low-gravity zones. BioBots can relieve their human companions of some of that weight by connecting to them with an umbilical cord and traveling with them. We’re going to need these if we have any intention of flying back to the moon.

Marsbee

Marsbee and Rover on Mars.

Graphic depiction of Marsbee - Swarm of Flapping Wing Flyers for Enhanced Mars Exploration
Credits: C. Kang

If Swarm of Flapping Wing Flyers for Enhanced Mars Exploration doesn’t sound like the most awesome thing ever, then a bumblebee-sized flyer that hovers over the surface of the Red Planet definitely does. These insectile bots that scientist Chang-kwon Kang calls “bioinspired flapping vehicles” would buzz through the Martian atmosphere with wings the size of of a cicada’s and collect samples from the regolith. Like flying insects, they also weigh next to nothing, meaning they would add minimal weight toa spacecraft’s payload.

Balloon Locomotion for Extreme Terrain (BALLET)

Balloon Locomotion for Extreme Terrain on planetary surface.
Graphic depiction of BALLET: BALloon Locomotion for Extreme Terrain
Credits: H. Nayar

Another genius acronym, BALLET is a balloon platform with six “feet” (which double as payloads) that crawl over terrain which would probably shred your average rover. The underside of the balloon is equipped with a camera to navigate. Five of these feet, which are each tethered to the balloon with three cables to keep it from drifting away, are supposed to stay grounded while one at a time “walks” over a planetary surface in a bizarre sort of space ballet.

PROCSIMA

Photon-particle couple, direction of acceleration.
Graphic depiction of PROCSIMA: Diffractionless Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions
Credits: C. Limbach

So maybe humans aren’t zooming over to Proxima Centauri (yet), but scientist Chris Limbach of Texas A&M University has dreamed up a spacecraft that would literally beam itself over. This “Diffractionless Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions” beats laser propulsion because of an innovative beam design that drastically amps the distance over which it accelerates while reducing the beam size. It would be unreal to see this thing in action, shooting through millions of miles of darkness to the next galaxy over, but it could also explore closer mysteries like the Oort cloud.

Concept art of Marsbees buzzing around a rover.

Credit: NASA

Also in NASA’s galaxy of possibilities (you can see all 25 here):

Lofted Environmental and Atmospheric Venus Sensors (LEAVES)

LEAVES

Graphic depiction of LEAVES: Lofted Environmental and Atmospheric Venus Sensors
Credits: J. Balcerski

Spacecraft that are impervious to the toxic swirl of Venus’ atmosphere? Yes please.

Meteoroid Impact Detection for Exploraiton of Asteroids (MIDEA)

Plasma measurement, Impact plasma, parent spacecreaft, surface map, meteroids and distributed sensors
Graphic depiction of MIDEA: Meteoroid Impact Detection for Exploration of Asteroids
Credits: S. Close

If asteroid mining is the future, then this is the future of that future.

On-Orbit, Collision-Free Mapping of Small Orbital Debris

Debris Detection Model in space
Graphic depiction of On-Orbit, Collision-Free Mapping of Small Orbital Debris
Credits: C. Hartzell

We keep getting better at figuring out how to keep our spacecraft from smashing into space junk.

Rotary Motion Extended Array Synthesis (R-MXAS)

2_D virtual array

Graphic depiction of Rotary Motion Extended Array Synthesis (R-MXAS)
Credits: J. Kendra

R-MXAS may sound like an undisclosed Star Wars droid, but it’s actually supposed to image Earth and watch out for coronal mass ejections.

Steam Propelled Autonomous Retrieval Robot for Ocean Worlds (SPARROW)

SPARROW on lunar surface

Graphic depiction of SPARROW: Steam Propelled Autonomous Retrieval Robot for Ocean Worlds
Credits: G. Meirion-Griffith

One of NASA’s current obsessions is ocean worlds like Europa, Titan and Enceladus, and this steampunk bot would be able to use propulsive hopping to get to the most interesting targets.

Myco-Architecture Off Planet: Growing Surface Structures at Destination

Growing surface structures at destination
Graphic depiction of Myco-architecture off planet: growing surface structures at destination
Credits: L. Rothschild

It’s a self-pitching habitat made of super-fungus. And it self-replicates. Enough said.

Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms

Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms

Graphic depiction of Modular Active Self-Assembling Space Telescope Swarms
Credits: D. Savransky

Because sometimes all you need to fuel a swarm of Transformer-like spacecraft is solar power.

Astrophysics and Technical Study of a Solar Neutrino Spacecraft

Neutrino detector for close sun orbit.

Graphic depiction of conceptual Idea for a first test detector for solar neutrinos.
Credits: N. Solomey

Forget about a journey to the center of the earth when you’ve got a concept for studying the inside of the sun.

Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft

Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft.

Graphic depiction of Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft.
Credits: G. Swartzlander

How to propel a spacecraft using a diffractive sail (light will bend as it passes around the edge) and solar photons.

Spectrally-Resolved Synthetic Imaging Interferometer

Spectrally-Resolved Synthetic Imaging Interferometer

Graphic depiction of Spectrally-Resolved Synthetic Imaging Interferometer.
Credits: J. Wachs

This concept sets itself apart from existing interferometers with an innovative shortcut to detecting radio waves

Radioisotope Positron Propulsion

Radioisotope Positron Propulsion concept.

Graphic depiction of Radioisotope Positron Propulsion concept.
Credits: R. Weed

When chemical and ion propellants fall short, just use antimatter.

Illustration of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Illustration of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Credits: NASA

Leveling up to Phase 2 are nine awesome works-in-progress, including a space telescope that will outdo even Hubble and the infamously delayed James Webb Space Telescope.

“The 2018 Phase I competition was especially fierce,” said NIAC program executive Jason Derleth. “I can’t wait to see what the new NIAC Fellows can do for NASA!”

(via NASA)

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X-ray radiation may strip away alien life from many Earth-like planets, says study

X-ray radiation may strip away alien life from many Earth-like planets, says study

Intense X-ray radiation could eliminate the possibility of alien life on many Earth-like planets, by stripping away the ozone layer and rendering them uninhabitable, a study has found.

By: PTI | Berlin 

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The astronomers are working to establish what the flare did to the known giant planet and any hypothetical planets further out.

Intense X-ray radiation could eliminate the possibility of alien life on many Earth-like planets, by stripping away the ozone layer and rendering them uninhabitable, a study has found. Astronomers now know of around 4,000 planets in orbit around other stars. A handful of these are both Earth-sized and in the habitable zones of the stars they orbit, where the temperature is right for liquid water. However, many candidate Earth-sized worlds are in orbit around red dwarf stars, much smaller and cooler than our own. To be in the habitable zone, the planets need to be much closer to their stars than we are to the Sun.

The problem, however, is that red dwarfs can produce significant X-ray emission, and often have large flares of radiation and eruptions of particles in so-called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). To try to assess the risk, researchers at the Thueringer Observatory in Germany are intensively monitoring low-mass stars where flares might take place. In February, they observed a giant flare from the star AD Leo, located 16 light years away in the constellation of Leo. AD Leo has a giant planet orbiting three million kilometres away (fifty times closer than the Earth to the Sun), and it may have Earth-sized worlds further out in its habitable zone.

The astronomers are working to establish what the flare did to the known giant planet and any hypothetical planets further out. Their initial results suggest the giant planet was unaffected, and that unlike similar events on the Sun, the radiation flare was not accompanied by a CME. This is potentially good news for life further out, as CMEs are thought to have a role in stripping away the atmosphere of smaller planets. From their monitoring, the team believe CMEs are generally less common in smaller stars. On the other hand, the X-ray radiation is dangerous. According to researchers, these would cut through the atmosphere and reach the surface of an Earth-like planet. Life on land would be badly affected by a stellar flare and might only survive in the oceans.

“Astronomers are mounting a global effort to find Earth-like worlds, and to answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe,” said Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory. “With sporadic outbursts of hard X-rays, our work suggests planets around the commonest low-mass stars are not great places for life, at least on dry land,” Guenther said. The next stage for the research group is to refine the details of their model. Some scientists suggest that giant radiation flares could deplete the ozone layer of a planet by 94 per cent for two years and could even be fatal for all life. If they are right, then talk of ‘Earth 2.0’ may be premature.

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NASA WANTS TO BUILD A FLYING, SWIMMING ROBOT TO EXPLORE SATURN'S MOON TITAN

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Is the Earth being watched by aliens? Conspiracy theorist claims ET could soon make contact after spotting 7 'UFOs' near the ISS

Is the Earth being watched by aliens? Conspiracy theorist claims ET could soon make contact after spotting 7 'UFOs' near the ISS

  • A conspiracy theorist claims there are seven UFOs over Earth 
  • He believes that the aliens on board are friendly don't intend to harm humans 
  • The unknown spacecrafts were spotted on the ISS live stream on the 31 March 
  • The close proximity to Earth could mean humans and aliens will come face-to-face in the next 15 years, claims the conspiracy theorist  

A conspiracy theorist has claimed that the Nasa live stream from the International Space Station has produced evidence of seven UFOs lingering above Earth.  

Not only is this thought to be proof of ET's existence, the theorist believes the aliens are probably friendly.

With so many 'sightings' from the ISS, the beings could come face-to-face with humans in 15 years, claims the unknown conspiracy theorist known only as 'Graham'.

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A conspiracy theorist has claimed that the Nasa live stream from the International Space Station has produced evidence of UFOs lingering above Earth

A conspiracy theorist has claimed that the Nasa live stream from the International Space Station has produced evidence of UFOs lingering above Earth

The UFO-tracking conspiracy theorist told the Daily Star that aliens are here and making their way to us.

He said: 'Sightings all over the world are increasing at a dramatic rate.

'We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.

'After all, with the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, I'm sure they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye.

'And the fact we are still breathing on this beautiful planet means either they are here to help or observe.'

The evidence presented by Graham was obtained during a live feed from the ISS on March 31.

He then uploaded the edited footage to his YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot.

It was revealed that the UFOs were observed between 11:20 pm BST and 11:50 pm BST. 

With so many 'sightings' from the ISS, these UFOs could house friendly beings that will come face-to-face with humans in 15 years, claims conspiracy theorist 
More worrying than the claims of nearby, unknown powerful beings of unknown origin is the belief that we will soon be directly interacting with the aliens.

More worrying than the claims of nearby, unknown powerful beings of unknown origin is the belief that we will soon be directly interacting with the aliens.

Graham revealed: 'Eventually, they will make themselves known.

'There is a theory that a timescale has been firmly set and agreed by world leaders and the ET's and I think the time for disclosure will be within the next 15 years.

The unknown conspiracy theorist known only as 'Graham' claims the unknown powerful beings of unknown origin is the belief that we will soon be directly interacting with the aliens

The unknown conspiracy theorist known only as 'Graham' claims the unknown powerful beings of unknown origin is the belief that we will soon be directly interacting with the aliens

Graham believes that the anomalies are proof of UFOs. Some people have suggested that it could have been the Tiangong-1 space station reentering Earth's atmosphere instead 

Graham believes that the anomalies are proof of UFOs. Some people have suggested that it could have been the Tiangong-1 space station reentering Earth's atmosphere instead 

'Imagine how this will impact the Earth, new technology, medicines and way of life, our whole civilisation could change to reflect one of unity and peace.

'Some people call them 'watchers' or 'observers' I think these quotes are correct.

'There may be other hostile races too which we are being protected from also which is very reassuring.' 

Many have attempted to discredit the claims, saying that the anomalies could be fragments of the Tiangong-1 Chinese space station in one of its last orbits around Earth.

Whilst UFO conspiracies are commonplace, and increasing in frequency, there's almost always a simple explanation.

There are a number of common phenomena that can cause strange objects to appear in ISS footage, including lightning storms high over Earth's surface and tricks of the light.

In the past, a Nasa spokesperson has explained to Dailymail.com: 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.'

In a previous statement to MailOnline Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: 'Nasa can't win when it comes to dealing with UFOs.'

He added: 'Even if it was debris, it doesn't turn it into a extraterrestrial scoutship filled with tentacled aliens.'

Multiple specks on the screen of the ISS live stream is 'proof' of extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth's orbit, claims Graham

Multiple specks on the screen of the ISS live stream is 'proof' of extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth's orbit, claims Graham

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION?

The International Space Station (ISS) is a $100 billion (£80 billion) science and engineering laboratory that orbits 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.

It has been permanently staffed by rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts since November 2000.

The space station is currently home to two Russians, three Americans and one Japanese. 

Research conducted aboard the ISS often requires one or more of the unusual conditions present in low Earth orbit, such as low-gravity or oxygen.

The International Space Station (file photo) is a $100 billion (£80 billion) science and engineering laboratory that orbits 250 miles (400 km) above Earth

The International Space Station (file photo) is a $100 billion (£80 billion) science and engineering laboratory that orbits 250 miles (400 km) above Earth

ISS studies have investigated human research, space medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, astronomy and meteorology.

The US space agency, Nasa, spends about $3 billion (£2.4 billion) a year on the space station program, a level of funding that is endorsed by the Trump administration and Congress.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee that oversees Nasa has begun looking at whether to extend the program beyond 2024.

Alternatively the money could be used to speed up planned human space initiatives to the moon and Mars.

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in March 2018

Most remarkable UFO sightings in March 2018

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in March 2018 by www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net.

2nd March 2018; UFOn – passing the Moon


3rd March 2018; triangle-shaped formation – Colorado Springs 


12th March 2018; lights in the sky – Las Vegas, Nevada


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New UFO Sighting Not Far from Roswell

New UFO Sighting Not Far from Roswell

Commercial pilots reported two separate UFO sightings over Arizona not far from Roswell, New Mexico.

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Unidentified Flying Objects have been reported by such reliable sources as Ezekiel, who saw the wheel, through George Washington, to John Lennon and ex-President Jimmy Carter.  Although, to be fair, a Man in Black on The X-Files pointed out that it was proven the former leader of our United States of America only saw the planet Venus. Two commercial aircraft pilots added to the growing dossier on possible alien craft when they issued two reports within minutes of each other on the afternoon of February 24.

The Federal Aviation Administration released radio traffic from pilots of an American Airlines flight and a Learjet skipper, who reported a UFO over southern Arizona last month, according to CNN. The mysterious encounter happened not far from Roswell, N.M., the site of the reported 1947 UFO crash that started flying saucer mania.

The FAA offered no explanation for the mysterious bright object the pilots saw.

"Was anybody, uh, above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?" the CNNreport quotes the Learjet pilot asking.

Controller: "Negative"

Pilot: "Okay. It's a UFO!"

Controller: (laughing) "Yeah."

The tapes capture the controller warning another pilot.

Controller: "American 1095, uh, let me know if, uh, you see anything pass over you here in the next, uh, 15 miles."

Pilot: "Let you know if anything passes over?"

Controller: "American 1095, affirmative. We had an aircraft in front of you that reported something pass over him and, uh, we didn't have any targets. So just, uh, let me know if you see anything pass over you."

Pilot: "Alright."

Not long after the warning the commercial pilot confirmed the controller’s calculated trajectory of the object.

Pilot: "Hey, it's American 1095. Yeah, something just passed over us. I don't know what it was, but at least 2,000-3,000 feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us."

Controller: "Okay American 1095, thank you."

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In an interview with Abilene, Texas TV station KTAB/KRBC-TV, the American Airlines pilot Blenus Green, a retired B-1 pilot who has been flying for 20 years, said the object was flying at about 40,000 feet. American Airlines Flight 1095, an Airbus A321, was flying from San Diego to Dallas. The object was seen over the Sonoran Desert between Picacho and Mammoth. Near the border with New Mexico, the area is home to three air force bases: Holloman, Davis-Monthan, and Luke, as well as Fort Huachuca, which berths unmanned aircraft units.

American Airlines referred all questions to the FAA.

"We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons," the FAA spokesperson said.

The veteran American Airlines flyer said he wasn't sure "whether it was a balloon or whatnot." He said it had "a big reflection" and was "traveling several thousand feet above us, going the opposite direction."

The sighting follows a recent video footage upload from the independent research group To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science that captured a high-speed chase and some very excited Naval pilots.

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Reward offered for return of stolen UFO alien grave marker in Texas

Legend has it that about 120 years ago, a spacecraft or airship of some sort crashed in the small town of Aurora northwest of Fort Worth and that the body of a little space man is buried in the cemetery there. 

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Reward offered for return of stolen UFO alien grave marker in Texas

A Dallas lawyer is offering $1,000 for the return of a grave marker stolen from a cemetery in the small Texas city of Aurora where, according to local legend, the remains of an alien killed in a UFO crash were buried.

Stratton Horres, a Dallas civil defense attorney, said he doesn't necessarily believe the reported April 17, 1897, crash in the tiny city about 27 miles north of downtown Fort Worth involved an aircraft from outer space — or that there was even a crash at all. But he enjoys reading about and researching stories of unidentified flying objects, and wants to see if his financial offer might turn up some evidence one way or the other.

"It's a legend that persists after 120 years. It's pretty remarkable," Horres said in a phone interview. "I'm skeptical but would love to find some evidence that something has happened that we could not explain."

Horres' offer comes a little more than two weeks before the 121st anniversary of the reported crash, and about four weeks before a planned April 28 tour of the cemetery that is free and open to the public.

The grave marker was stolen in 1972, around the time that the nonprofit Mutual UFO Network published an investigative piece about the Aurora incident. A replacement marker also was stolen in 2012, said Aurora city administrator Toni Wheeler, a longtime area resident.

The marker was an asymmetrical stone that featured a crude etching of the cigar-shaped aircraft with three holes.

Today, the gravesite is marked only by a boulder, although some visitors to the cemetery have used ink to inscribe the rock with messages such as "Rest in peace, my alien brother." A small wooden cross and flowers also were seen at the gravesite during a recent visit.

On April 17, 1897, a story attributed to Aurora cotton buyer S.E. Haydon appeared in The Dallas Morning News: “About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing through the country.”

The story went on to explain that an aircraft smacked into a windmill just a few hundred feet north of what is now Texas 114 and crashed into a field.

Supposedly, the pilot — who many people in the town have referred to by the nickname "Ned" for decades — was buried in the town cemetery.

The incident occurred six years before the Wright brothers’ historical first human flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and nearly 50 years before the much more famous unidentified flying object reportedly crashed in Roswell, N.M.

Horres said he got the idea for offering a reward after visiting the cemetery on a whim on a recent Saturday. He encountered a father and young son who also were visiting the site, and shared with them tidbits of information he had read about the Aurora UFO incident during his research.

"Another generation will remember that story because of that visit," he said..

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If someone comes forward with the grave marker, Horres said he will not pursue criminal charges.

"It will be no questions asked. I don't want anyone to feel like they were in trouble," he said.

Horres said he will hire an investigator he uses for legal cases to oversee an investigation of the grave marker, possibly including a study into who did the etchings of the grave marker and where the stone material came from.

Once that work is complete, Horres said he will consider donating the grave marker to either Aurora city officials or the local cemetery association, or otherwise taking steps to ensure it is kept safely for future generations.

"It would be for the return and examination to the original gravesite, for everyone to see it."

Anyone wishing to contact Horres to discuss the reward or other aspects of the case may email stratton.horres@wilsonelser.com.

Officials in Aurora were unaware of Horres' interest in the grave marker, but would be delighted if he turned up any evidence new or old, Wheeler said.

Two years ago, the city held an Aurora Alien Encounter to celebrate the anniversary of the reported crash. A subsequent encounter event was canceled after the 2017 death of UFO researcher and former Star-Telegram reporter Jim Marrs, who created a documentary about the Aurora incident and wrote and spoke extensively about President Kennedy's assassination and numerous conspiracies.

This year, the city will host a more toned-down event to celebrate the 121st anniversary of the reported UFO crash, with a memorial service for Marrs and a tour of the cemetery and area near the crash site, she said. This year's event is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. April 28, and more information can be found on the city's Facebook page. Later, additional information will be provided on the city's website.

Photo of stolen Aurora UFO alien grave marker

Photo of stolen Aurora UFO alien grave marker City of Aurora

Visitors to the cemetery in Aurora, Texas have inscribed messages on a boulder that some believe marks the grave site of a UFO alien.

Visitors to the cemetery in Aurora, Texas have inscribed messages on a boulder that some believe marks the grave site of a UFO alien. Stratton Horres

An historical marker provides a few details about the reported UFO crash in 1897 in Aurora, Texas.

An historical marker provides a few details about the reported UFO crash in 1897 in Aurora, Texas. Khampha Bouaphanh

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HERE’S THE MIND-BOGGLING REASON WE PROBABLY WON’T MEET ALIENS WHILE THEY’RE STILL ALIVE

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Space empires could rise and fall without us knowing.
The search for alien life goes on, but our chances of hearing from extraterrestrial beings that are still alive are very slim, according to new research.

The problem is that civilisations likely don’t last as long as signals travelling through space.

These latest calculations are an update of the legendary Drake equation, first proposed in 1961 by Frank Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, as a shorthand way of calculating how much alien life could be out there.

Using variables such as the number of stars born each year, the number of potentially habitable planets they have, and the chances of organic life developing, the equation gives us some idea of the likelihood of receiving signals from beyond Earth.

A model of signal spread.

(arXiv.org)

And according to the newly updated numbers, it’s not looking promising. 

“If the civilisation emitted from the other side of the galaxy, when the signal arrives here, the civilisation will already be gone,” one of the team, Claudio Grimaldi from the Federal Polytechnical School of Lausanne in Switzerland, told Lisa Grossman at Science News.

The research team also includes Frank Drake himself, now professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Each of the variables in the Drake equation are open to debate, but the scientists assumed a civilisation lifespan of 100,000 years as a marker, which is how long it takes light to cross the galaxy. Even an alien empire that lasted that long would only fill “a small fraction” of the galaxy with signals, the study determines.

For reference, we’ve been sending signals out into space for 80 years now, and those rippling signals will only have covered under 0.001 percent of the Milky Way.

What’s more, given the frequency of the signals we send out into space, an alien civilisation would need to be within 50 light-years for us to have heard back from them at this point, the researchers found.

While a hardy group of aliens who survived longer than 100,000 years could fill the galaxy with bouncing signals, there could again be gaps if new civilisations don’t spring up often enough to fill them, the data shows.

Another interesting finding was that the number of extraterrestrial signals crossing Earth at any one time should correspond to the number of civilisations currently broadcasting, whether or not the signals we’re hearing are from past or current civilisations. The researchers are still writing up their thoughts on that one.

The aim of all these calculations is to get a better perspective on our lack of contact with alien lifeforms so far. Is it because no one else is out there? Or is it because we just have a very low chance of hearing anything?

Eventually the researchers hope that the revised Drake equation can help us improve our chances of finding radio signals in space, perhaps through an improved understanding of where to point our telescopes.

This is still all preliminary though – the paper produced by the team has yet to be peer-reviewed by other scientists, though it is available online.

For now though, we shouldn’t expect to be hearing signals from alien lifeforms that are still around – at least not with an assumed civilisation lifespan of 100,000 years.

“The transmissions arriving at Earth may come from distant civilisations long extinct, while civilisations still alive are sending signals yet to arrive,” write the researchers.

You can read the research paper on the pre-print server arXiv.org.

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The Story Of The Great Flood According To Ancient Aztec Mythology

The Story Of The Great Flood According To Ancient Aztec Mythology

“Before the great flood which took place 4,800 years after the creation of the world, the country of Anahuac was inhabited by giants, all of whom either perished in the inundation or were transformed into fishes, save seven who fled into caverns. When the waters subsided, one of the giants, the great Xelhua, nicknamed the ‘Architect,’ traveled to Cholula, where, as a memorial of the Tlaloc which had served for an asylum to himself and his six brethren, he built an artificial hill in the form of a pyramid…”

No matter where you look, descriptions of a cataclysmic flood that destroyed the world can be found in nearly all ancient cultures.

The Great Flood was supposedly sent by God or the gods upon the earth in order to destroy civilization as an act of divine punishment. This story is a widespread theme among many cultural myths and is perhaps best known from the biblical story of Noah.

But despite the fact that Noah’s story of the great flood may be one of the most famous and well know flood stories, it isn’t the oldest one out there, and it certainly isn’t the only one.

There are several other—perhaps less famous—versions such as stories of Matsya in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greekmythology. The oldest and ‘original’ account of the great flood is, according to scholars, that of Utnapishtim in the Epic ofGilgamesh.

By Diego Duran (Madrid Biblioteca) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This historic fact is clear evidence how many of the world’s oldest cultures have stories describing a Great Flood that devastated earlier civilizations on Earth.

Curiously, a great deal of similarity exists between several of the flood myths, something that has led many authors and scholars to believe that these have evolved from or influenced each other.

And despite the fact, three stories of a great flood exist in nearly all ancient cultures on Earth; mainstream scholars are divided in opinion whether or not such an event took place on Earth. However, scientists do recognize that in the distant past, thousands of years ago, a catastrophic flood did take place on Earth, but most scientists deny that there was a massive Flood—the Great Flood—that occurred in the last 6,000 years that covered major parts of the planet.

The ancient Sumerian Nippur tablet is believed to describe the oldest account of the Great Flood and the creation of both humans and animals on Earth. It also records the names of Antediluvian cities on earth and their respective rulers.

The Eridu Genesis is believed to have been composed circa 2,300BCE is considered as the earliest known account of the great flood and predates more popular Great Flood described in the biblical book of Genesis.

Many authors and scholars believe that the Sumerian accounts of a great flood eventually gave birth to more popular Flood myths like the one described in the Bible.

However, if that is true, how did the story of a great deluge make its way all the way to Mesoamerica, thousands of years ago?

The Aztec Flood Stories

There are several accounts of Aztec Flood stories, but authors argue that the most famous of them all is that of Nota, the Aztec version of Noah.

When the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and drowned and turned to fishes. The water and the sky drew near each other. In a single day, all was lost. But before the Flood began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, ‘Make no more pulque, but hollow a great cypress, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The waters shall near the sky.’ They entered, and when Titlachahuan had shut them in he said to the man, ‘Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also.’ And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the water was tranquil. (source)

— Ancient Aztec document Codex Chimalpopoca, translated by Abbé Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg.

IF we take a look at the Five Suns, the doctrine of the Aztec and other Nahua peoples we will find the following eras, creations, and destructions:

  • Nahui-Ocelotl(Jaguar Sun) – Inhabitants were giants who were devoured by jaguars. The world was destroyed.
  • Nahui-Ehécatl(Wind Sun) – Inhabitants were transformed into monkeys. This world was destroyed by hurricanes.
  • Nahui-Quiahuitl(Rain Sun) – Inhabitants were destroyed by a rain of fire. Only birds survived (or inhabitants survived by becoming birds).
  • Nahui-Atl(Water Sun) – This world was flooded turning the inhabitants into fish. A couple escaped but were transformed into dogs.
  • Nahui-Ollin(Earthquake Sun) – We are the inhabitants of this world. This world will be destroyed by earthquakes (or one large earthquake).

The fourth one, Nahui-Atl describes what many believe is a great flood: This world was flooded turning the inhabitants into fish. A couple escaped but were transformed into dogs.

“The fourth sun, Nahui-Atl, “Four-Water,” ended in a gigantic flood that lasted for 52 years. Only one man and one woman are said to have survived, sheltered in a huge cypress. But they were turned into dogs by Tezcatlipoca, whose orders they had disobeyed,”—Britannica.

After the Nahui-Atl comes the Nahui-Ollin, the world we live in today, which, according to Aztec mythology, will be destroyed by one large earthquake.

Different versions of Mesoamerican floods, especially those by the Aztec people tell that after the great flood, there were no survivors, and creation had to start from the beginning, while other accounts describe how current humans are descended from a small number of survivors.

Before the great Flood which occurred around 4,800 years after the creation of our world, the country of Anahuac was inhabited by giants, all of whom either perished in the inundation or were transformed into fishes, save seven who fled into caverns.

When the waters receded, one of the giants, Xelhua, surnamed the ‘Architect,’ traveled to Cholula, where, as a memorial of the Tlaloc which had served for asylum to himself and his six brethren, he built an artificial hill in the form of a pyramid.

He ordered bricks to be made in the province of Tlalmanalco, at the foot of the Sierra of Cecotl, and in order to convey them to Cholula, he placed a file of men who passed them from hand to hand.

The gods beheld, with wrath, an edifice the top of which was to reach the clouds. Irritated at the daring attempt of Xelhua, they hurled fire on the pyramid.

Numbers of the workmen perished.

The work was discontinued, and the monument was afterward dedicated to Quetzalcoatl.

Giants lived on Earth before the flood, and Xelhua was one of the seven giants in Aztec mythology who escaped the flood by ascending the mountain of Tlaloc in the terrestrial paradise and afterwards built the Great Pyramid of Cholula.

A Dominican monk wrote this account:

Xelhua was a giant of the “time of the universal deluge.” He was one of the seven giants in the Aztec culture. Before the pyramid in Mesoamerica was complete, “fire fell upon it, causing the death of its builders and the abandonment of the work.”

 


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The Quinametzin Giants Of Aztec Mythology—Builders of The Pyramid Of Cholula And Teotihuacan

The Quinametzin Giants Of Aztec Mythology—Builders of The Pyramid Of Cholula And Teotihuacan

One of the most fascinating histories in Mesoamerica belongs without a doubt, to the ancient Aztec people.

The Aztecs (also called Mexica Culture) were a pre-Columbian civilization of the Mesoamerican region, which flourished between the 14th and 16th centuries AD, in the corresponding territory of Mexico.

The Aztec spoke Nahuatl, and their culture developed in the cultural region of Mesoamerica from 1325 to 1521 AD, date of the conquest of Mexico by Spanish Conquistadores, commanded by Hernán Cortés, who defeated the Aztecs and destroyed their civilization.

The Aztecs reached a high degree of technological and cultural sophistication and were governed by an elective monarchy, organized into different social classes, such as nobles, priests, warriors, merchants, farmers, and slaves.

In addition to their incredible agricultural, astronomical, and economic development, the ancient Aztecs are known for having a pictographic script and two calendars (astronomical and liturgical).

The center of the Aztec empire was the city of Tenochtitlan located Mexico City.

The functioning of the Aztec State was based on a wide bureaucratic network formed by professional officials, such as priests, trade inspectors, and tax collectors—the Tecuhtli.

Like many other ancient cultures during the time, the ancient Aztecs too were polytheists (they worshiped several gods) and believed that if human blood was not offered to the Sun God, it would stop shinning and would go out plunging the world into darkness.

Human sacrifices were offered to:

Huitzilopochtli or Tezcatlipoca: The sacrificed was placed on a stone by four priests and a fifth priest extracted, with a knife, the warrior’s heart alive to feed it to the gods.

Tlaloc: Children were sacrificed annually on the mountaintops. It was believed that when more creatures cried, more rain the God would provide.

In the Aztec pantheon, there were many gods.

The main ones were linked to the solar cycle and the agricultural activity.

The most revered god was Quetzalcoatl, represented as a feathered serpent.

According to the Spanish chroniclers, the bloodshed was offered from the hearts of animals and human beings in essential rites to satisfy their Gods.

In addition to having been extensively developed in a number of scientific and social fields, Aztec Mythology is one of the richest folklore of the American Continent.

Curiously, two of the most amazing structures built in Mesoamerica where the ancient City of Teotihuacan, and the Great Pyramid of Cholula.

Model of the city and Great Pyramid of Cholula. Cholula Museum, Puebla, Mexico.

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The Great Pyramid of Cholula for example, happens to be the largest pyramid of the world.

In size, this Pyramid is compared to NINE Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Researchers have no idea who built this massive structure, but legends say it was erected by Giants. Specifically, the Quinametzin Giants.

According to Aztec Mythology, the Quinametzin Giants not only built the Great Pyramid of Cholula, but they also erected one of the most amazing ancient cities in Central America, the Great City of Teotihuacan.

If we take a look at In Aztec mythology, we will find that the Quinametzin Giants are believed to have populated the world during the previous era of the Sun of Rain (Nahui-Quiahuitl).

As written in the book El Mundo Mágico de los Dioses del Anáhuac authored by Otilia Meza, a Quinametzin Giant stood more than 10 feet tall with a weight of around 600 pounds.

As many other mythologies around the globe that mention the existence of giants, the Quinametzin too were by the gods because they did not venerate them, and their peak-civilization came to an end as a result of great calamities and as a punishment from the heavens for grave sins they had committed.

The Quinametzin Giants:

Cuauhtemoc, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.

Izcoalt, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.

Izcaqlli, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.

Tenexuche, one of four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun.

Xelhua, a giant founder of Cuauquechollan, Itzocan, Epatlan, Teopantlan, Tehuacan, Cuzcatlan and Teotitlan, this giant built the Great Pyramid of Cholula.

Tenoch, a giant founder of Tenochtitlan.

Ulmecatl, a giant founder of Cuetlachcoapan, Tontonihuacan, Huitzilapan.

Mixtecatl, a giant founder of Mixteca.

Xicalancatl, a giant founder of Xicallancatl.

Otomitl, a giant founder of Xilotepec, Tollan, Otompan.

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6 Amazing ‘Pieces Of Evidence’ That Hint Giants Existed On Earth

6 Amazing ‘Pieces Of Evidence’ That Hint Giants Existed On Earth

Countless ancient texts—including the Bible—mention a time when Giants walked on Earth.

But we all know Giants aren’t real, right?

Countless ancient civilizations around the globe mention in their folklore and mythologies creatures of immense stature. Giants. Massive humanoids, that once walked the Earth.

They are spoken of both in the Bible and in the Mahabharata, and similar stories can be found in the sacred Thai texts of Ceylon, in Greek mythology, as well as in the Aztec, Egyptian, Irish or Basque traditions.

The Ancient Aztecs mention in their mythology the so-called Quinametzin.

In Aztec mythology, the Quinametzin Giants populated the world during the previous era of the Sun of Rain

(Nahui-Quiahuitl).

A Quinametzin stands more than 10 feet tall and weighs about 600 pounds. They were punished by the gods because they did not venerate them, and their peak-civilization came to an end as a result of great calamities and as a punishment from the heavens for grave sins they had committed.

The construction of the pyramid of Cholula and the City of Teotihuacan (The Place Where Men Become Gods) was attributed to the Quinametzin Giants.

In Odyssey, Homer mentions giants who were a race of large and wild beings ruled by Eurimedon, who lived in the far west, on the island of Thrinacia. These beings were exterminated by Eurimedon himself because of their insolence towards the gods.

Notice how both in Greek Mythology and in Aztec mythology, Giants were punished by the Gods?

1—The Book of Giants

A small piece of the Book Of Giants and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Discovered more than half a decade ago, the so-called Book of Giants is considered one of the most fascinating, yet controversial discoveries ever made on Earth.

Discovered together with thousands of ancient scrolls, the Book of Giants describes the demise of the ancient Nephilim.

The ancient manuscript speaks about the creatures that inhabited our planet in the distant past and how they were destroyed.

2—The Nephilim of the Bible

According to Genesis 6:1-4, The Nephilim were the offspring of the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men” before the Deluge.

When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.— Genesis 6:1–4, New Revised Standard Version.

“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also, after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” -Genesis 6:4

Numbers 13:33 ESV: “And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

3—Quinametzin Giants

According to Aztec Mythology, the so-called Quinametzin Giants, populated this world during the previous era of the Sun Rain. These mighty creatures are mentioned in the Codex Rios, also called the Vatican A codex. According to the Italian translation of the ancient manuscript written during the Spanish Conquest, Giants lived in Mesoamerica.

According to the depictions of the codex, Aztec warriors even fought against giant beings.

Dominican Fray Diego Duran tells us a lot about Aztec history and culture.  His writings offer some of the oldest texts about the ancient Aztecs, their life, religion, customs, and mythology.

“It cannot be denied that there have been giants in this country. I can affirm this as an eyewitness, for I have met men of monstrous stature here. I believe that there are many in Mexico who will remember, as I do, a giant Indian who appeared in a procession of the feast of Corpus Christi. He appeared dressed in yellow silk and a halberd at his shoulder and a helmet on his head. And he was all of three feet taller than the others.” ‑Fray Diego Duran, The Aztecs (New York: Orion Press, 1964), pp. 5-6.

4—Newspaper reports detailing the discovery of Giant humanoid fossils

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Countless newspaper reports dating back more than 100 years detail the discovery of massive bones of what many people believe to have belonged to real Giants.

In this article, we have compiled over 15 reports where newspapers write about giant skeletons that could alter the course of history. 

5—A Giant Finger, the ultimate evidence of Giants?

A finger of what is believed to have belonged to a creature of immense height was found in Egypt around 50 years ago. The finger—believed to be authentic—has 28 centimeters in length. Some reports suggest that the being it belonged to was at least 5 meters in height.

The images here displayed were taken in 1988 and were published by one of Europe’s leading newspaper, BILD.de

6—Kap-Dwa—a two-headed giant?

Said to have originally been captured by Spanish sailors in the 1600’s, a Giant being called Kap-Dwa was a two-headed, 3.5-meter tall massive humanoid that is believed to have lived on Earth hundreds of years ago.

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Here’s The UFO Footage NASA Doesn’t Want You To See

Here’s The UFO Footage NASA Doesn’t Want You To See

During a live stream event from the Progress spacecraft, two unidentified objects appear out of nowhere and are clearly visible in NASA’s Live Stream. The two ‘unidentified objects’ quickly disappear in a way that many conspiracy theorists say, makes the footage look edited, giving UFO hunters plenty to think about.

Most importantly, it isn’t the first live stream that NASA has tried editing, say UFO hunters.

We’ve come across plenty of videos on YouTube showing what many believe is the ultimate evidence our plant is beings monitored and constantly visited by beings, not from Earth.

And while some of these videos are easily explained as reflections or camera glitches, other videos make you wonder whether or not there really is something out there we are not being told about.

One extremely controversial video was filmed by NASA’s cameras on board the international space station on July 9.

What do you think this object is? It was photographed by the Gemini X mission.

As the Space Station was orbiting Earth, a mysterious whiteish object appears to move towards our planet’s atmosphere.

Just as the object approaches the planet’s atmosphere, it comes to an abrupt stop, and NASA’s live stream is cut off.

This isn’t the first time NASA has cut off the live stream warn UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists.

On numerous occasions has NASA abruptly cut off its live stream from space, every time a mysterious UFO appears near the space station.

This strange behavior has prompted conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters to call NASA out for trying to cover-up evidence of alien visitations on Earth.

But is NASA really trying to hide evidence of alien spaceships entering and leaving Earth’s atmosphere? Or are UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists just being paranoid about it, and what if the mysterious objects are only space junk and debris floating around?

But if the alleged UFOs filmed in space are nothing more than just space junk or satellites, how come these objects have the ability to change directions or stop and move abruptly?

And If they are only space debris and satellites, why does NASA turn off their cameras nearly every single time such an object enters the cameras field of view?

Coincidence?

These ae some of the questions UFO skeptics have been unwilling to answer when asked about NASA, the International Space Station, and the countless UFO’s seen leaving and entering Earth’s atmosphere.

Enjoy the video:

“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.”

– Major Gordon Cooper, astronaut, testifying under oath to the United Nations.

And one of our favorite quotes comes from Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA Astronaut, and Princeton Physics Professor:

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, which seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.”

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Is this a UFO? Bristol man films strange lights ‘bouncing off the moon’

Is this a UFO? Bristol man films strange lights ‘bouncing off the moon’

The man said he saw multiple ships in the sky from the roof of his flat in Easton

By Alex Wood

UFOs have reportedly been caught on camera by a man from Bristol who is convinced he saw ships “bouncing off the moon”.

Bright lights in the sky were captured by the man from his flat in Easton in the early hours of Good Friday.

The 35-year-old man, who asked not to be named, said he saw a “mothership” as well as several other smaller aircraft moving across the sky at speed.

“I witnessed it from my flat in Easton,” he said. “The main UFO was some distance away – it looked like it was bouncing off the moon.

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The man believes he captured a UFO on camera (note: the man is referring to the small dot of light below the moon)

The man believes he captured a UFO on camera (note: the man is referring to the small dot of light below the moon)

“I saw spheres and balls and I saw a mothership. I have seen UFOs before but this is the first time I have had the opportunity to record it.

“I reckon the mothership was the size of two to three football fields, at least. There were two or three altogether but the mothership was the focus – it was so big, even from a distance.”

His excited reaction to seeing he what he believes was a UFO can be heard in the video above.

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Although intriguing, the man’s footage is not the first time mysterious lights have been spotted in the skies over Bristol.

In August last year, a man from Kingdown captured what appeared to be three lights hovering over the BS15 area of the city.

Were UFOs really captured over Bristol? (Pictured: stock image of a UFO)

Were UFOs really captured over Bristol? (Pictured: stock image of a UFO)

While in May last year, video footage emerged of unidentified lights flying over Hanham while in June, a similarly strange light pattern was caught on film over Shortwood .

The sightings prompted some conspiracy theorists to suggest Bristol is a hotbed for extra-terrestrial activity – with one Bristol Post reader even suggesting Purdown BT Tower was a UFO refuelling station .

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Een academisch schandaal van de eerste orde. Reactie Steven Greer op onderzoek naar ‘buitenaardse’ mummie

Een academisch schandaal van de eerste orde. Reactie Steven Greer op onderzoek naar 'buitenaardse' mummie

Een academisch schandaal van de eerste orde. Reactie Steven Greer op onderzoek naar ‘buitenaardse’ mummie

In 2003 werd een kleine mummie gevonden in de Atacamawoestijn in Chili. Het lichaampje was slechts 15 centimeter lang en misvormd.

De schedel was uitgerekt, de oogkassen stonden schuin en het lijfje had maar 10 ribben. Mensen geloofden dat Ata, zoals het wezen werd genoemd, buitenaards was.

Een DNA-studie van de Stanford-universiteit zou nu uitgewezen hebben dat het om een foetus van een misvormd meisje gaat.

Schandaal

De wetenschappers vermoeden dat het misvormde lijkje na een miskraam of vroeggeboorte in de woestijn is achtergelaten.

De mummie was te zien in de film Sirius van dr. Steven Greer. In een nieuwe video reageert hij op het onderzoek, waar zo’n beetje alle grote media over berichtten.

Greer vertelt dat hij na de publicatie van de studie werd gebeld door een topgeneticus waar hij mee samenwerkt.

De geneticus, die anoniem wil blijven omdat hij zijn baan niet wil verliezen, zou gezegd hebben dat we hier te maken hebben met een academisch schandaal van de eerste orde.

Slecht uitgevoerd

Het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in het gerenommeerde blad Genome Research, maar volgens de topgeneticus is de collegiale toetsing ronduit slecht uitgevoerd.

Willekeurige mutaties zouden zeven genen van de mummie tegelijkertijd hebben beïnvloed. Als zulke mutaties echt willekeurig waren, zouden ook andere genen moeten zijn beïnvloed, merkte de geneticus op.

Epidemische vormen

Op basis van dit slecht uitgevoerde onderzoek wordt nu gesteld dat de zaak gesloten is, aldus Greer.

Hij voegde toe dat de corruptie binnen de wetenschap en de verspreiding van dit soort wetenschappelijke onzin epidemische vormen begint aan te nemen.

Bekijk de video hieronder:

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WAAROM SPLITST AFRIKA ZICH JUIST NU IN TWEE DELEN?

WAAROM SPLITST AFRIKA ZICH JUIST NU IN TWEE DELEN? 

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Enkele dagen geleden verscheen er een enorme scheur in Kenia die door wetenschappers wordt verklaard als het begin van een breuk die Afrika in twee delen zal splitsen. 

Iedereen slaapt rustig verder, want, zo zeggen ze, dit proces zal nog zeker enkele miljoenen jaren in beslag nemen. 



Het is eigenlijk best verbazingwekkend hoe gemakkelijk de bevolking weer in slaap wordt gesust nadat er weer eens iets heel heftigs met onze aarde is gebeurd. 

Enkele dagen geleden kwam het volgende bericht in het nieuws:

Wetenschappers denken dat Afrika weleens in tweeën kan gaan splitsen. Het oostelijke deel zal een nieuw continent gaan vormen. De verschuiving is al begonnen; de breuk ontstond begin vorige week in Kenia. 

De drukke Keniaanse weg Mai Mahiu-Narok stortte hierdoor deels in. De breuk is daar op sommige plekken twintig meter breed en vijftien meter diep. En de breuk zal sneller verbreden dan verwacht. 

 


Het proces dat zich daar nu voltrekt wordt als volgt omschreven:

Wetenschapper Lucia Perez Diaz, verbonden aan de Royal Holloway universiteit van London, ziet hierin het bewijs dat het oostelijk deel van Afrika een nieuw continent zal vormen. Kenia, Tanzania, Somalië en een deel van Ethiopië zullen uiteindelijk worden afgescheiden, schrijft The Mirror naar aanleiding van haar publicatie in het blad Conversation.

In het artikel beschrijft ze hoe dit geologisch proces zich voltrekt diep in de aarde. Afrika bestaat nu nog uit één tektonische plaat: de zogeheten Afrikaanse plaat. Alleen, die wordt in het oosten geleidelijk uit elkaar gespleten, ter hoogte van Somalië.

Daardoor zullen er op termijn twee platen ontstaan: de Somalische plaat (de oostelijke plaat) én de Nubische plaat (de westelijke plaat).

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Waar met geen woord over wordt gerept, is dat dit een verschijnsel is dat zich op veel meer plekken op aarde voor doet. Het is niet alleen in Kenia dat er scheuren in de aarde verschijnen. 

Enkele voorbeelden uit dit jaar. 

Eind februari wordt een enorme scheur ontdekt in de woestijn van Saoedi Arabië:


Begin maart verschijnen er scheuren in de aarde in Peru: 


In januari verschijnt er een enorme scheur in de Amerikaanse staat Washington: 


Begin maart een enorme scheur in de grond in Macedonië: 


Zoals we vaker schrijven; het is niet één bepaald voorval, het is een optelsom van alle vreemde en ongewone dingen die er wereldwijd plaatsvinden. En niemand schijnt zich af te vragen waarom dit alles juist nu gebeurt.

En met het tempo waarmee dit nu allemaal gebeurt, gaat het echt niet over miljoenen jaren, maar over een veel korter tijdsbestek.

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Massive Crack Shows Africa is Breaking Apart

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Massive Crack Shows Africa is Breaking Apart

Homeowners should know that even a small crack in the ceiling, wall or floor is a sign that something bad is happening and shouldn’t be ignored. Residents of Kenya and African countries in the same longitude should have felt the same way when a crack formed across the Mai Mahiu-Narok road near Nairobi, but they didn’t seem too concerned … until geologists pointed out that the crack formed in the aptly-named Rift Valley where two active tectonic plates meet and scrape against each other for 3,000 km (1864 miles). Talk about a bad sign! How much plaster do you need to fill a 3,000 km crack?

The Kenyan news source Standard Digital reported that the first crack appeared on March 14th as rain washed away a one kilometer stretch of the road and flash floods killed at least one person. While rain and floods are common in the area, this relatively little crack was not. It was a sign that something was happening underneath it in Suswa, a shield volcano made by lava that flows in a river out of a volcano rather than from an eruption. By March 20th, the crack was 50 feet (15.5 km) wide, 50 feet deep and a number of miles long … and getting longer and wider by the day.

Worried yet? This is obviously more than a road problem that can be fixed by the local pothole crews working overtime. Geologists are looking closely at the movements of the African plate, which covers most of the continent, and the Somali plate, a minor plate which covers about half of the East coast of Africa, from the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and Yemen, south to Durban, South Africa. Where the plates meet is called the East African Rift, and the Rift Valley where the crack opened is part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift known as the Gregory Rift (named for British geologist John Walter Gregory who explored the rift in 1892-93 and 1919).

Fossils of early hominins have been discovered in the Gregory Rift, but what concerns geologists at the moment is that the rift is on the Kenyan Dome, a geographic uprising formed by the interactions of the African, Somalian and Arabian plates – the Arabian covers the Arabian peninsula and has been moving northward to mash into the Eurasian Plate. That pulling-away is also impacting the East African Rift. The entire collection of rifts are considered to be active and moving because the magma plume beneath them is hotter than the average plume.

Now are you worried? The Kenyan media source Daily Nationinterviewed geologist David Ahede, who said the Somali plate is moving away from the African plate at a rate of 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) per year – a big gap in geological terms. He blames it all on the Suswa volcano, which is also active. All of that movement of plates away from each other causes earthquakes, which is what ultimately caused the Mai Mahiu-Narok road crack and its continual spreading north and south. This is the second time in five years that a crack has opened up at the same location in the Rift Valley.

Is the east coast of Africa going to break off into the Indian Ocean? Yes … eventually. Residents of Rift Valley have time to sell their homes before the property values – like their countries – plummet. The split is expected to be complete around 50 million years from now. However, the seismic and plate tectonic activity is expected to increase on a smaller scale, causing major cracks that can cause major accidents, landslides, flooding and other natural disasters.

For what it will look like when all of the plates break, think giant bull in continent-sized china cabinet.

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NASA Scientists Say Alien Life May Exist in the Acid Clouds of Venus

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NASA Scientists Say Alien Life May Exist in the Acid Clouds of Venus

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Earth’s closest neighbor is about as close to a planetary evil twin as you can get. While very similar to Earth in terms of size, weight, and gravity, Venus—ironically named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty—is a blasted hellscape of extreme temperatures, crushing atmospheric pressure, and swirling clouds of sulfuric acid. Temperatures at the Venusian surface can be as high as 860 degrees Fahrenheit and the weight of that acid choked atmosphere is 90 times heavier than Earth. That’s the equivalent pressure of being 2970 feet under the ocean. Despite these unfortunate characteristics, a paper published in the journal Astrobiology on March 30, 2018 by a team of NASA scientists says this deadly nightmare planet might be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life—and we may have found it already.

While the idea of life on Venus is not new by any means, the recently published paper lays out a new argument based on new discoveries both on Venus and here on Earth. Sanjay Limaye, the lead author of the paper and, noticed that bacteria on earth can form light-absorbing colonies that share properties with unexplained “dark patches” in the clouds of Venus. These dark patches have been shown, through spectroscopic observation, to be composed of sulfuric acid and some “unknown particles.”

Life on Venus may look like algae blooms

Life on Venus might resemble algae blooms like the one shown here.

Limaye and the other authors of the paper argue that these mysterious and unidentified particles could be bacterial life akin to an algae bloom that can survive the punishing atmosphere of the solar system’s hottest planet. Limaye explains:

Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30–40 percent in the ultraviolet, and muted in longer wavelengths. These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent.

Strangely, the changing dark patches in Venus’ atmosphere share the same dimensions as some bacteria on Earth. The problem is the instruments examining Venus aren’t capable of distinguishing between organic and inorganic materials.

As far as chances for finding extraterrestrial life go, this one isn’t bad. Some models of Venus’ history suggest that Venus could have held a large amount of liquid water for as long as one billion years, which would have been a superb jumping off point for life to evolve and adapt to the changing environment. Recently, scientists have discovered a whole slew of bacteria and viruses on Earth that can survive at extreme temperatures and pressures, including some that make their homes in sulfuric acid.

Is there life on Venus?

Venus and earth share many similarities, and Venus may have even had liquid water long ago.

To test this idea, however, we would need to actually send a craft to the Venus surface. Limaye hopes that NASA will send a VAMP (Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform), a plane-blimp hybrid that could study the middle atmosphere of Venus for up to a year to study the planet’s atmosphere and hopefully confirm his suspicions.

Currently, NASA is discussion possible collaboration in the Russian Venera-D mission, which will send an orbiter, lander, surface station and maneuverable aerial platform to Venus sometime next decade.

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Strange greenish UFO hovers in the sky over Lar Mirada, California

Strange greenish UFO hovers in the sky over Lar Mirada, California

A strange greenish disk-like object has been spotted while hovering in the sky over Mirada, California on March 30, 2018. 
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The footage shows a fascinating object that moves slowly from the right to the left. 
Since it clearly flies behind certain objects, like a street light; we may assume that it is not a reflection of the camera but is it a UFO or is it something that can be explained.
  

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Submerged pyramids off Yonaguni Island

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Submerged pyramids off Yonaguni Island

YONAGUMI PYRAMIDS ON TV

Story has been enhanced by History Channel (in the episode “Lost cities of the deep” of Ancient Discoveries series), by Bbc and by Discovery Channel, but the question remains: are they wildlife structures or were they created over the surface by a vanished civilization and then were flooded by ocean beacause of a volcanic eruption or an earthquake? 

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Yonaguni pyramids consist of a series of stone structures, comprising massive layers, as well as various pillars. They lie at a depth between 5 to 40 meters above the surface. The most remarkable structure was named “turtle” because of its similarity with such an animal.

THE CIRCULATION OF MARINE CURRENTS

Because of very strong marine currents, and a large population of hammerhead sharks, diving in these waters isn't fully safe, but this didn't prevent the area to become the most famous for diving in Japan. 

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Some scientists think that exactly the strong maring currents, jointly to the natural process of erosion, turned for millenia the ocean floor.

TOO MANY CORNERS AND STRAIGHT EDGES

Yonagumi pyramids would therefore be just part of a rock formation. Other experts continue to believe they were man-made, as would seem to indicate the huge number of corners and straight edges, as witness many photos taken over the years.

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Whether this view proved to be correct, would arise louder a second question: why, fromwho and for what purpose were built Yonaguni pyramids. Before even gets the the mythical Atlantis, were they and ancient fortified complex, temples, or a mausoleum? 

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This Tiny Robot Can Crawl, Swim, and Deliver Drugs Inside the Human Body

This Tiny Robot Can Crawl, Swim, and Deliver Drugs Inside the Human Body

Only four millimeters in length, Germany's millirobot can be swallowed or injected into the body, then controlled with magnetic waves.

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Newgrange: An 5,000-year-old Cosmic Monument That Predates the Pyramids by 500 years

Newgrange: An 5,000-year-old Cosmic Monument That Predates the Pyramids by 500 years

A thousand years older than Stonehenge, and 500 years older than the Pyramids of Giza, Newgrange is an ancient monument that consists of approximately 200,000 tons of rock and other materials. It is 85 meters (279 ft) wide at its widest point.

One of the most famous ancient sites in Ireland is Newgrange, a monument built between 3,300-2,900 BC according to carbon 14 tests (Grogan 1991).

This makes it 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza of Egypt, and 1,000 years older than Stonehenge (although the first stages of Stonehenge are approximately about the same time as Newgrange). This ancient monument also predates the Mycenaean culture of ancient Greece.

It remained lost during more than 4,000 years due to a decrease of the mound until it was discovered in the XVII century by people who looked construction stones and described it as a cave.

Newgrange was excavated and restored between 1962 and 1975 under the supervision of Professor Michael J O’Kelly, of the Department of Archeology at the University College Cork (O’Kelly 1986).

The intricately carved monument predates the Pyramids of Giza by around 500 years.

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Most of the stones (200,000 tons of rock) come from the vicinity of the construction, although the granite and quartz stones of the façade were transported from more distant places, probably from Wicklow and Dundalk Bay, respectively.

The true purpose of this ancient monument remains a mystery, although experts believe it was a religious center of some sort.

The Celtic triple spiral or triskele symbol is sometimes called the spiral of life and was found in the Newgrange site from the Bronze Age in Ireland. The triple spiral is an ancient symbol of Celtic beliefs, and was used consistently in Celtic art for 3 millennia.

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Interestingly, Newgrange appears to be astronomically oriented: every year, on the morning of the winter solstice, sunlight penetrates the passage and illuminates the floor of the chamber for 17 minutes.

Newgrange features numerous examples of abstract Neolithic rock art.

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Some have speculated that the Sun would have had great importance in the religious beliefs of the people who built it, and others have taken the finding as a reference for archaeoastronomic studies in other similar monuments although Newgrange’s alignment is the only one that has been reliably demonstrated and it could be the result of chance.

The entire monument was intricately carved.

The Megalithic stone at the entrance of Newgrange.

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Newgrange contains numerous examples of abstract Neolithic rock art carved onto it which provide decoration, although some authors have speculated that their design is more than just art, for researchers have demonstrate a close connection between the ancient site and the sun, specifically the Winter Solstice; the rising sun shines directly along the long passage, illuminating the inner chamber and revealing the carvings inside, notably the triple spiral on the front wall of the chamber.

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The carvings at Newgrange fit into ten categories, five of which are curvilinear (circles, spirals, arcs, serpentiform and dot-in-circles) and the other five of which are rectilinear (chevrons, lozenges, radials, parallel lines, and offsets).

They are also marked by wide differences in style, the skill-level that would have been needed to produce them, and on how deeply carved they are.

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As for the exact purpose of the monument, several authors believe Newgrange may have been centered on astronomy, engineering, geometry, and mythology associated with the Boyne monuments.

Prehistoric rock art on one of the kerb-stones surrounding the great Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange, Co. Meath

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Researchers speculate that the monument was an important astronomical center and that the sun formed a crucial part of the religious beliefs of the Neolithic people who built it.

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Pururauca—When Andean God Viracocha Turned Stones Into Soldiers

Pururauca—When Andean God Viracocha Turned Stones Into Soldiers

The legend of the Pururaucas soldiers or stone soldiers is an Inca legend that mystifies the victory of the Inca army over the Chanca army in 1438.

Mainstream scholars see the event an attempt to magnify the feat of the surprise Inca victory of the battle of Yahuarpampa.

The Andean legend speaks of a massive battle where the Incas saw themselves outnumbered against a terrifying enemy, but invoked their greatest deity, asking for help.

The god Viracocha responded to their call by turning rocks into soldiers, helping the Inca defend their city causing the enemy to retreat in fear.

But, is this a mere legend or is there more to this story than initially thought?

Let’s start from scratch.

The conflict of the Incas with the Chanca is perhaps the most known and decisive episode in Andean history.

It was in 1438 when Hanan Chanca Anccu Hualloc gathered more than 40,000 soldiers and undertook the conquest of Cusco, destroying everything in its path, eventually surrounding the city.

Legend has it that the Inca ruler Hatun Tópac (Huiracocha Inca) and his son, the Crown Prince Urco, cowardly fled the capital leaving the Cusco people to defend themselves upon the imminent arrival of the powerful Chanca army.

Anarchy reigned until the young Prince Cusi Yupanqui (Pachacutec Inca), who happens to be Urco’s younger brother and second in succession, courageously led a resistance. The young prince recruited a small army to defend the city from the enemy army, but nobody wanted to join them more than the ethnic group of the Canas.

Before this adversity, the prince turned to the gods. The young prince called for Viracocha, the mighty Andean god who eventually responded.

Was Viracocha an ancient alien God?

The Andean creator god Viracocha, appeared in a dream and told Prince Cusi Yupanqui that he will send soldiers to assist in the unequal fight, promising an overwhelming victory for the Inca.

After having dreamt what Prince Cusi Yupanqui saw as a powerful message from the Gods, the battle came.

The powerful Chanca army thought that an easy battle was upon them, waiting for an easy conquest. As the Chanca Army advanced, Prince Pachacutec’s dream comes true; the surrounding stones all of a sudden are transformed into warriors that attack the Chanca causing them retreat.

Just as the god Viracocha had promised the prince in the dream, the Incas—motivated by this “divine act”—win the battle and, once the Chanca Army retreated, the mysterious lithic soldiers returned to their original form.

But what really happened that day?

Mainstream scholars believe that the stone soldiers, called Pururaucas, were only part of a clever strategy put together by the young prince, and consisted of disguising mounds of rocks as soldiers and positioning them in such a way that the Chanca thought that the Incas had a much larger army.

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Other historical sources suggest that many of the local ethnic groups that initially refused to participate in the conflict, audaciously waited to see which side would gain an advantage on the battlefield and then join it, thus, say some historians, giving off the impression as having come out of nowhere, and perhaps even from the rocks themselves.

But, the Chanca were bloodthirsty and extremely violent. They were great fearless soldiers and for this reason, it is hard to believe that they would have retreated from the battlefield thanks to stones dressed up as soldiers.

Something much more powerful must have occurred for the powerful Chanca army to retreat.

Another version of this legend is that the Chanca army fled when they saw the large number of soldiers that the Inca army had, but it was not mounds of stone but llamas which Pachacutec had disguised after seeing the numerical disadvantage.

However, many say a much more incredible event occurred that day, pointing towards an otherworldly influence.

Is it possible that Viracocha, who is often referred to as an ancient alien god by numerous authors, did, in fact, create a ‘miraculous’ army thousands of years ago, that helped defend the Inca against the powerful Chanca army?

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Arctic Transformed into Alien Landscape in Surreal Climate Change Photo

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Gone are the days when we could count on the Arctic landscape to be painted in shades of white. The permafrost beneath the snow and ice is no longer permanently frosty, and as it melts, write researchers in a new study, it’s muddying up the once-pristine terrain — quite literally. In a startling photo accompanying the study, an array of Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes seem to spew filth from within, making the landscape look like the surface of an alien world.

The paper, published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters on Friday, describes the visible effects the thawing permafrost has on the surface of the neighboring terrain, many feet above it. As climate change warms the Earth and coaxes the permafrost out of its continually frozen state, a process called “browning” occurs, the researchers write. During this process, organic carbon once trapped deep in the permafrost seeps upward into the region’s lakes and ponds, suffusing them with a filthy brown hue. Meanwhile, the way the permafrost cracks the landscape above it creates fissures that divide the surface into eerie polygonal shapes.

In the image below, supplied in a release by Quebec, Canada’s INRS (*Institut national de la recherche scientifique), the muddiness of the browning lakes sharply contrasts with the clear blue of the larger body of water alongside them, though even it too shows sinister brown tendrils curling up along its edges.

Here’s an aerial photo of Bylot Island, which lies off the northern side of Baffin Island in the Nunavut territory of Canada, southwest of Greenland:

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Carbon seeping up from the thawing permafrost turns lakes and ponds brown.

Browning doesn’t just make the collection of lakes look like the sickly cells of an alien organism’s skin. The biggest downside of all that organic carbon seeping to the surface, INRS biologist Isabelle Laurion, Ph.D. and her co-authors write, is that this carbon is really good at absorbing sunlight, which drives up the temperature — and thus the rate of permafrost melt — even faster.

Laurion and colleagues determined this by analyzing the different types of dissolved organic matter in 253 ponds around the North Pole, which showed them that the waters affected by thawing permafrost contained much more terrestrial carbon and less algae (a key element to the food chain in these waters).

“Our results demonstrate a strong terrestrial imprint on freshwater ecosystems in degrading ice-rich permafrost catchments, and the likely shift toward increasing dominance of land-derived organic carbon in waters with ongoing permafrost thaw,” they write.

In a paper published in Scientific Reports in 2015, researchers outlined the ecological effects of browning. In the lake they studied, over the course of 27 years, surface water temperatures increased by 2–3 degrees Celcius, the lakes became five times more transparent to UV light, and levels of zooplankton (near the bottom of the food chain) decreased.

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Polygonal lakes created by melting permafrost on Alaska's North Slope.

But perhaps the worst effect of browning is that it creates conditions even more conducive to releasing even more carbon into the air — particularly in the form of the greenhouse gas methane — which will in turn speed up the climate change process by which the permafrost melts in the first place.

“Land-derived organic carbon is having a growing influence on Arctic and subarctic ponds, which carries over into the food web,” the authors said in a statement. “The browning of these systems leads to oxygen depletion and cooler water at the bottom of the ponds, which can have a major impact on the microbial activity responsible for the production and consumption of greenhouse gases, particularly the production of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.”

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Mint to unveil coin commemorating UFO encounter

Mint to unveil coin commemorating UFO encounter

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Stan Michalak describes the scene where he believes his father, Stefan, was eating lunch when he encountered a UFO in 1967.

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Hubble Spots the Farthest Star in the Universe by Coincidence

Gravitational lensing allowed astronomers to view a star, which they call Icarus, 9 billion light-years away.

Sometimes the best scientific discoveries happen by accident, and even though there aren’t any test tubes to spill in an astronomical observatory, the field of space science is no exception. Most recently, an incident of cosmic happenstance has led scientists to discover a star that’s farther away from Earth than any star that’s ever been observed by humans — 9 billion light-years away. The best part? They weren’t even looking for it. Here’s what happened.

While observing a galaxy cluster designated MACS J1149+2223 with the Hubble Telescope, a team led by Patrick Kelly, Ph.D. noticed a distant star. Through an effect called gravitational lensing, a result of the massive cluster’s gravity distorting space-time, objects beyond it appear magnified. This allowed astronomers to observe the otherwise very dim star they’ve named “Icarus,” a blue supergiant star that’s bigger and hotter than our sun. Kelly, an assistant professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Minnesota, and his colleagues published their findings in a paper Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, in which they give the star the much less exciting name: MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1.

Gravitational lensing allowed astronomers to view a star, which they call Icarus, 9 billion light-years away.

Galaxy cluster MACS J1149+2223 (left) distorted space-time, allowing astronomers to see Icarus 4 billion light-years beyond it. In 2011, (top right) Icarus wasn't visible, but in 2016 (bottom right) it was.

“This is the first time we’re seeing a magnified, individual star,” Kelly said in a statement. “You can see individual galaxies out there, but this star is at least 100 times farther away than the next individual star we can study, except for supernova explosions.” If not for the gravitational lensing, which the study’s authors write magnified Icarus more than 2,000 times, the star would have remained unnoticed.

Besides the fact that this star is much farther away than anything astronomers have ever directly observed, the discovery also has big implications for the study of dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the mass in the universe but which scientists have never directly observed. One of the major hypotheses explaining the source of dark matter is that it came from primordial black holes in the early universe. But the study’s authors’ observations provide evidence that counters this hypothesis. Observing the galaxy cluster and the background star over a number of years, researchers did not see the kind of light fluctuations that would come from these primordial black holes.

Astronomers hope to get more insight into the nature of dark matter when the James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2020. Until then, indirect observations like this one are the best we can hope for.

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CHILLING CLAIM: 'Aliens in UFOs filmed observing the ISS are about to make CONTACT'

CHILLING CLAIM: 'Aliens in UFOs filmed observing the ISS are about to make CONTACT'

ALIENS allegedly monitoring the International Space Station (ISS) are about to make contact with us in an historic move that could change the world forever, it has extraordinarily been claimed. One skywatcher claims to have witnessed alien craft heading into the Earth’s atmosphere and observing us from the skies in livestreams from ISS cameras observing the planet.

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The man behind YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot even believes the "extraterrestrial beings" he is convinced are inside them will soon reveal themselves to astronauts on the ISS and the wider world.

The conspiracy theorist who has only released his first name Graham, spoke as he revealed live stream footage that he claims shows seven UFOs.

He said: “Sightings all over the world are increasing at a dramatic rate.

“We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.

“After all, with the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, I’m sure they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye.

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We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.

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“And the fact we are still breathing on this beautiful planet means either they are here to help or observe.”

But, chillingly, Graham added that we could soon come face-to-face with aliens.

He revealed: “Eventually, they will make themselves known.

“There is a theory that a timescale has been firmly set and agreed by world leaders and the ET's and I think the time for disclosure will be within the next 15 years.

“Imagine how this will impact the Earth, new technology, medicines and way of life, our whole civilisation could change to reflect one of unity and peace.

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“Some people call them 'watchers' or 'observers' I think these quotes are correct.

"There may be other hostile races too which we are being protected from also which is very reassuring.”

Graham captured his "evidence" during a live feed from the ISS on March 31 and uploaded it to his YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot, Dailystar.co.uk reports.

He revealed that he spotted several UFOs between 11.20 and 11.50pm.

However, Graham has no evidence to back up his claims of advanced aliens visiting Earth and the "contact deadline."

Sceptics have pounced on and attempted to rubbish his claims.

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One viewer even pointed out that his footage was taken at the same tie that the Chinese satellite Tiangong-1 was plummeting towards the Earth.

Colin Hadley posted in response to the video: "Some if not all of those will be Tiangong-1 as it's falling to earth at the moment."

Scott Brando runs debunking website Ufoofinterest.org.

He regularly comments on similar videos uploaded by conspiracy theorists like Graham which show what appear like faint and glowing objects on camera.

Mr Brando has shown several times through his own videos how the objects are not actually there and are reflections from the ISS or lens flares inside the cameras that appear on the recorded footage.

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Alien abduction? Unsolved case of man ‘who disappeared after building UFO' re-opened

Alien abduction? Unsolved case of man ‘who disappeared after building UFO' re-opened

A SKILLED mechanic who built a replica UFO in his backyard was never seen again after disappearing following claims he was in constant contact with aliens. Granger Taylor vanished from his parents' home at Duncan, on Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada, without a trace at the age of 32 in 1980.

The case remains one of the most bizarre unsolved missing persons cases on record.

Now a filmmaker is keen to solve the perplexing case through a new documentary.

Stacey Jenkins pointed to his goodbye note, two wills, and his "spaceship" as proof there's more to this mystery.

She said: "He was a genius. But he started to imagine.

"He told his friends that aliens had spoken to him, and he started to fantasise about being taken by aliens."

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Granger Taylor and the UFO he created in his parents' back yard.

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The documentary, in research stages, is expected to be ready by the end of the year.

Ms Jenkins, from Alibi Entertainment, told the Columbia Valley Pioneer her team will treat the subject with respect.

She said: "We’re not trying to present him like a nut.

"We’re trying to portray an intriguing kind of a Canadian, a genius, that we think other Canadians would want to know about."

Granger was a talented mechanic, who dropped out of high school early but was able to build a one-cylinder automobile at just 14.

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His most memorable project was constructing a UFO-like shelter from two satellite dishes that he fitted with furniture, a TV and a stove.

But his fascination with the possibility of alien visitations became more serious when he alleged to experience constant contact from alien beings who promised to take him to their world.

The tale is often retold on alien conspiracy theory websites as alleged evidence of an alien abduction.

The reports all state that no trace of him was ever found.

But, the March 31 edition of the Montreal Gazette in 1986, five-and-a-half-years after the disappearance, said two pieces of bone that could have been Granger Taylor's, and parts of what was believed to be his truck, had been found in a dynamite blast site on Mount Prevost.

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The report said Granger had taken dynamite from his parents' home on the night and the blast site was just four miles from the property.

The report said: "Two pieces of bone were found at the blast site and a pathologist confirmed they are human.

"Until further evidence is found, the RCMP is assuming they are Taylor's."

It is not known if it was later confirmed they were his bones.

According to UFO folklore, Granger Taylor was never seen again.

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Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South Pacific

Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South Pacific

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Secret Diplomatic Meeting near Saturn Discussed Humanity’s Future ( Is this a SF-story, Peter2011)

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Secret Diplomatic Meeting near Saturn Discussed Humanity’s Future

In the three years that Corey Goode has been revealing his stunning information about secret space programs, extraterrestrial civilizations, and diplomatic meetings, there has been a steady build up to some major revelations about humanity’s future. It appears that a critical threshold was reached in a December 2017 meeting near the planet Saturn where multiple delegations met to discuss humanity’s future in light of the ending of 22 genetic experiments run by multiple human-looking extraterrestrial civilizations.

In a prior article, I discussed Goode’s report about an earlier December 16  “Super Federation” meeting he attended near the planet Jupiter involving over 60 human-looking extraterrestrial delegations, where he played the role of spokesperson for the Sphere Being Alliance. This is a group of higher density beings (6th to 9th density consciousness) who have been acting as a kind of Galactic umpire over the last few years to encourage diplomatic solutions to Earth’s multiple conflicts involving dozens of competing extraterrestrial groups, Inner Earth civilizations, global elites and secret space programs.

At the Super Federation meeting, Goode said he was told to relay to the assembled extraterrestrial delegations that their long term genetic experiments involving humanity needed to come to an end, and that humanity would be left alone to determine its own future. Despite some initial protests, Goode revealed that this decision was accepted by the Super Federation, making it possible for another diplomatic meeting a few days later (December 19-21, 2017) where the process for creating a new Super Federation governing human affairs would begin.

To some, what has been written so far may sound delusional and many will demand evidence to prove at least part of it before even considering it possible. At the moment, however, there is no hard evidence to substantiate Goode’s claims. On the other hand, there is no hard evidence to disprove any of them either, despite determined attempts by some critics to discredit his testimony and credibilty.

In the three years that I have been researching and writing about Goode’s incredible assertions, I have found no evidence of deception. Instead, I have found multiple sources corroborating his information from many different perspectives, e.g., whistleblowers/insiders, documents, and contemporary events.

My research has been documented in three books so far, which detail, compare, and analyze his amazing claims. Comprising over 1200 written pages and 1500 references, the clear conclusion reached in the Secret Space Program Series is that Goode is very credible, honest and truthful about the events he has witnessed, and taken part in.

In addition, I have met and communicated with senior military intelligence officials who have likewise accepted Goode’s information as accurate, and have quietly assisted him with some very high level national security information. If Goode was perpetuating a hoax, as some of his critics contend, I doubt such high level officials would be helping him.

For those drawn to the Corey Goode information, keeping an open and discerning mind is required to fully understand what he is telling us, and how it is relevant to our lives. Goode’s revelations not only inform us about key historical events and political processes that have not been publicly disclosed, but also what the future holds for us.

It’s quite clear that Goode has been chosen to play a unique and special role as a witness to extraordinary galactic events and meetings occurring today. He has no other formal role except occasionally acting as a spokesperson for the Sphere Being Alliance when they choose to appear at off-world diplomatic meetings. Where Goode is used to relay information to participants even when the Sphere Being Alliance members are physically present.

This was spectacularly demonstrated at a meeting in March 2015, where afterward Goode described how he appeared on stage along with two members of the Sphere Being Alliance before roughly 120 VIPs and delegates drawn from multiple secret space programs, global elites and private civilian groups at a secret facility on the Moon called Lunar Operations Command. It was this March 2015 meeting that launched Goode into a series of meetings, abductions, and encounters, which subsequently led to the December 2017 meetings that have become the most significant to have occurred so far.

Corey Goode on Stage at Lunar Operations Command with Blue Avian and Golden Triangle Headed Being.

Source: Gaia.com/Credit: Steve Cefalo

It is Goode’s role as delegate for the Sphere Being Alliance, and the status this accords him from the perspective of other groups and forces both on and off-planet, that requires us to keep an open and discerning mind to what he is telling us. Goode is giving us all vital information about events that lie ahead, and we should not be distracted by the noise of competing voices wanting to distract us, intentionally or not, from important galactic developments.

This takes me to the most recent galactic meeting that Goode attended, only a few days after the December 16 Super Federation meeting near Jupiter. He discussed both of these meetings in a January 13 article and his March 27 Cosmic Disclosure interview. 

Goode described being taken to a nearly identical temporal anomaly near Saturn by representatives of seven Inner Earth civilizations. The craft that transported him had a total of 40 Inner Earth participants comprising the seven groups.

Inner Earth Representatives boarding flying saucer taking them and Corey Goode to Saturn anomaly meeting.

Source: Gaia.com/Credit: Daniel Gish

Intriguingly, Goode says that these Inner Earth beings are descendants of humanity’s future selves, a small group of whom time traveled into the distant past to maintain an optimal timeline. They did this to ensure that Draconian Reptilians would not overtly take over the planet, thereby establishing a global tyranny.

Goode says that when he arrived at the Saturn facility, he was met with representatives of 52 civilized worlds from the local cluster of stars in our region of the Milky Way. In his March 27 interview, Goode described the physical appearance of these representatives:

They were all humans of different types, and most of them were not Caucasian. They were different types of olive skin, brown skin, and even a kind of a tan skin. But they were representatives of each of the local 52 stars. And they are all basically our cosmic cousins. They are human beings, just different types. 

He pointed out that one of these groups, the famed Olmecs who had mysteriously helped develop human civilization, were in fact extraterrestrial refugees relocated to Earth due to the Draconian control of their home world. 

Goode elaborated about this in his March 27 interview:

Many, many, many times on Earth in our history, refugees have been brought from other planetary systems to stay here and live here. And they’ve lived here for many generations at times. That was the Mayans. But the Olmecs, when there was a major issue going on in their star system, many of them were brought here as refugees to survive here and wait out the issues there. Then they were brought back. 

In past interviews, Goode has described his interactions with “Mica”, the representative of the Olmec group, who had previously played Goode’s role as the Sphere Being Alliance representative for his civilization.

According to Goode, neighboring star systems have experienced similar histories to our own in terms of corrupt global elites secretly allied with a group of extraterrestrials described as Draconian Reptilians. In these adjacent star systems, the Sphere Being Alliance appeared and choose a single individual to be their delegate/spokesperson in the subsequent negotiations and struggle to rid the planet of the corrupt elite control systems that plagued these worlds.

In this regard, Goode said:

Each of them have either been in contact with the Blue Avians or the Triangle-Head being and gone through a similar thing that I have in their planetary system. 

Apparently, in all these worlds, the function of the Sphere Being Alliance delegate/witness was to relay what was being observed to the rest of the population. This was a critical aspect in the awakening of each planetary population, and gaining freedom from their corrupt elites and Reptilian overlords.

Goode explained:

Well, we were told that we were witnesses, that we were the conduits for each of our collective consciousnesses, that each of our groups was a collective consciousness on our planetary systems that we were on, like here on Earth. The information I was receiving, what I was witnessing, was on behalf of the collective consciousness here in this Solar System. 

At this Saturn meeting, Goode says he was chosen once again to play the spokesperson for the Sphere Being Alliance members before the assembled delegates. The three Blue Avians and Golden Triangle beings that were present said they would be leaving our physical reality and would be replaced by another two members of the Sphere Being Alliance, as Goode had previously announced in 2017.

All present at the Saturn meeting were subsequently introduced by Goode to the new Sphere Being Alliance members who “began to give us some cosmic ground rules for going forward.”

They would be responsible for assisting humanity in an unprecedented era where it would not be dominated by competing extraterrestrial groups. Essentially, humanity would be fully informed about the truth of their global situation, and would then be able to determine its future free of corrupt elites and extraterrestrial interference.

Of particular interest was the appearance of a group of entities called the “Sentinels” at the Saturn meeting, who are custodians of still functional Ancient Builder Race technologies that are up to two billion years old. Up to approximately 500,000 years ago, according to Goode. Builder Race technologies were used to establish a very powerful protective grid around our local cluster of 53 solar systems (52 + Sol), to keep out aggressive extraterrestrial races until it was destroyed in an internal Solar System wide war.

The Sentinels communicated with the Sphere Being Alliance in a spectacular light show that all participants witnessed. This was very significant since it suggested that the Sentinels would continue their present role, thereby ensuring that Builder Race technologies that continue to operate would only be accessed by individuals whose ethical standards and behavior meet with the high expectations set by the Sphere Being Alliance.

Blue Avians, Golden Triangle Being, Sentinels, Inner Earth representatives and 52 local stellar representatives at Saturn meeting.

Source: Gaia.com/Credit: Daniel Gish

Goode has previously described how “Gonzales”, a U.S. Navy Lt Commander, had been turned away by the Sentinels when he approached one of the functional Builder Race installations. The Sentinel told Gonzales that he lacked humility, and a request was subsequently made for Goode to make the same trip later to learn about the installation.

Builder Race technology is particularly relevant to nations with military run secret space programs, such as the U.S. Navy’s  Solar Warden, wishing to extend contemporary military concepts such as “full spectrum dominance” into outer space battlefields. It is doubtful that the Sentinels would allow Builder Race technologies to be used in this way for the military benefit of a single nation or planet.

Goode was told that a new, and  more representative, Super Federation would be assembled. Then the newly liberated and now awakened humanity would interact on a more equal basis with the different extraterrestrial groups, and would be joined by representatives from the nearby 52 star systems.

Goode also said that at the December 16 Super Federation meeting had a representative from the “Council of 200” (a corrupt elite control group) seated as the head of the Earth delegation. Presumably, our newly awakened humanity will at some point choose a more representative individual as humanity’s spokesperson for Galactic affairs.

It will be very interesting to see what process is adopted by our planet’s seven billion inhabitants and/or their political representatives to choose one or more delegates to a newly reconstituted Super Federation. I highly doubt the global populace will accept major nations simply choosing a representative similar to how the United Nations Secretary General is appointed without any kind of grass roots participation.

In addition, the Inner Earth beings will be represented in this expanded Super Federation, presumably opening the door for them to further interact with surface humanity, and publicly reveal themselves in the near future.

As to when all these stunning changes are going to be publicly revealed, Goode has discussed an upcoming series of solar flash events that will act as the trigger for full disclosure and humanity’s awakening.

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NASA’s next mission to Mars will map the planet’s interior, scheduled for May 5th

NASA’s next mission to Mars will map the planet’s interior, scheduled for May 5th

NASA’s next mission will provide InSight into the workings of Mars’ interior — and find out whether there is such a thing as a Marsquake.

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Mars rendered in Autodesk Maya.

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No, that’s not a typo — NASA’s InSight mission, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport, leaves little room for doubt as to what it will entail — except that it will do it on Mars. There’s a lot of interest among planetary scientists about what secrets the red planet’s interior hides, and the mission aims to bring many of those to light. As part of this mission, the eponymous lander will blast off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as early as May 5, according to a news release.

Red to the core?

The InSight mission will be the first in many regards: it’s the first launch to another planet from the West Coast — usually, that’s a role reserved for Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s also the first mission dedicated to studying Mars’ deep interior, the product of 25 years of planning and effort, says the mission’s lead investigator Bruce Banerdt.

Although the launch is scheduled for the 5th of May, it will still take the lander about six months to make the 301-million-mile treck to Mars, according to NASA estimates. Another 2-3 months will be needed to get the instruments all nicely calibrated and humming at peak accuracy; all in all, the mission should last about two Earth years, which is a little over one Martian year.

According to Banerdt, InSight will collect seismic data and chart heat flows beneath the planet’s crust, all while keeping a highly-accurate eye on Mars’ north pole. He’s confident that by the mission’s end, researchers will have enough data on hand to map out the interior structure of Mars — a feat that could finally tell us what turned the planet so barren. The craft will be beaming data back since day one, however, so maybe we’ll piece things together a bit faster.

InSight’s observations extend farther than Mars alone, though. Data gleaned from the lander will help scientists better understand how rocky bodies or planets form and evolve; Banerdt described the mission as a “scientific time machine that will bring back information about the early stages of Mars’ formation four-and-a-half-billion years ago”.

Having access to this story will even help scientists better understand how Earth and our moon came to be. Down here, because our planet is still keeping active (isn’t it making us all so proud?), the same clues InSight will be looking for just aren’t available anymore; they’ve been destroyed by millions of years of erosion, mantle convection, plate tectonics, and other geological processes. Mars, luckily for us, hasn’t been active enough to cover up the traces left by its formation and early processes, according to Banerdt.

“What InSight is going to do is, it is going to sort of fill in the last big hole in our understanding of Mars. We’ve sent orbiters to Mars which have studied the entire surface, [but e]verything more than just a few feet below the surface is completely unknown territory,” he explains.

“And InSight is going to fill in the gap in our knowledge of Mars and sort of finish the reconnaissance of the exploration of Mars.”

InSight’s launch is scheduled for May 5; if anything should interfere with that date and the mission needs to be delayed, its launch window is open until June 8.

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Life may be hiding in Venus’ clouds, one team of researchers believes

Life may be hiding in Venus’ clouds, one team of researchers believes

BY ALEXANDRU MICU 

An international team of researchers thinks Venus might hide life — floating around merrily in its atmosphere. To find out, they plan to send a half blimp, half plane robot to the scorching planet.

Venus transit.

Venus transiting in front of the Sun.

Image credits NASA / JPL.

Here on good ole’ Earth, microorganisms — mostly in the shape of bacteria — can and often do get swept up into the atmosphere. They don’t even mind it that much; using specially-equipped ballons, researchers have detected these critters alive and well at altitudes as high as 41 kilometers (25 miles) above sea level. We also know of several different strains that can survive in ridiculously harsh environments, from the hot springs of Yellowstone and deep ocean hydrothermal vents to acid lakes or radioactive sludge.

These tidbits might seem unrelated at first, but a research team led by planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center believes that when you put the two together, they suggest life might exist on Earth’s closest neighbor — scorching Venus.

Lovely goddess, dreadful planet

So first thing first — does life have a realistic chance of sprouting up on Venus, given the planet’s notoriously hostile conditions? According to the team, yes. They note that some climate models of the planet’s history suggest that Venus had what we’d consider a habitable climate, with liquid water and stable surface temperatures, for about 2 billion years. That would be “plenty of time” for life to evolve on its own on Venus, according to Limaye — adding that it’s “much longer than is believed to have occurred on Mars”.

The second question is whether any indigenous life form could have survived the wanton climate change that turned Venus into the hellscape it currently is. According to paper co-author Rakesh Mogul, a professor of biological chemistry at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, life on Earth has already shown that biological systems can thrive in “very acidic conditions, can feed on carbon dioxide, and produce sulfuric acid”. That is actually a very important piece of the puzzle since Venus’ atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide, water droplets, and sulfuric acid.

Perhaps the most convincing argument in favor of life on Venus is the fact that a series of space probes launched to the planet between 1962 and 1978 showed that temperature and pressure levels in the lower and middle layers of its atmosphere (40 to 60 kilometers / 25 to 27 miles) could harbor microbial life as we know it. The surface, however, basking in a somewhat excessive average temperature of 450 degrees Celsius (860 degrees Fahrenheit), looks decidedly uninhabitable.

The idea to check for life in Venus’ atmosphere caught root by chance at a teachers’ workshop; it started with co-author Grzegorz Słowik from the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, who mentioned to Limaye that there are bacteria on Earth whose light-absorbing properties match those of unidentified particles that form dark patches in the iconic clouds of Venus.

“Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30-40 percent in the ultraviolet, and muted in longer wavelengths. These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent,” says Limaye.

Spectroscopic observations showed that the dark patches are composed of concentrated sulfuric acid and other unknown light-absorbing particles. The dimensions of the particles in these patches match some bacteria on Earth; however, none of the instruments we’ve so far sent to Venus could distinguish between organic and inorganic compounds, so beyond these observations, the particles remained a mystery.

Enter the VAMP

VAMP.

The VAMP.

Image credits Northrop Grumman Corp.

It would be quite easy to test for microorganisms in Venus’ atmosphere if we could get another robot to the planet. And, as luck would have it, one such craft is already in the works: Northrop Grumman’s Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform, VAMP for short. This part plane, part blimp vessel was designed to roam the Venusian atmosphere and gather data that would help scientists understand what went wrong in Venus’ past to send it down such a different path from Earth — Venus is often called our planet’s twin, due to striking similarities in mass, gravity, chemistry, and general evolution (with the key difference that Venus is a boiling acid bubble).

The VAMP is already designed to stay aloft in Venus’ cloud layer for up to a year at a time to gather data. It will carry instruments used for this task — Limaye says a Raman Lidar, meteorological and chemical sensors, and spectrometers are likely — but it could be easily adapted to also carry a microscope to let it test for living microorganisms.

“To really know, we need to go there and sample the clouds,” says Mogul. “Venus could be an exciting new chapter in astrobiology exploration.”

The team is also harboring hopes that NASA might secure some extra shuttle space in Russia’s upcoming Roscosmos Venera-D mission, now slated for the late 2020s, for the task. Current plans for Venera-D include an orbiter, a lander, and a NASA-contributed surface station and maneuverable aerial platform. We’ll have to wait and see if the current political climate and Russia’s unenviable position in the global diplomatic pecking order will get in the way of exciting science. It might.

Whether the team manages to pack and ship their microscope aboard the Venera-D or VAMP remains to be seen. No matter how it goes, however, the team has a chance of being the first to discover alien life — in one of the places we’d have considered most inhospitable.

Let’s hope that the goddess of love will surprise us where the god of war has shown himself stubbornly — if character-fittingly — devoid of life.

The paper “Venus’ Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds” has been published in the journal Astrobiology.

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UFO Beam appears in strange orange sky over Stockholm, Sweden

UFO Beam appears in strange orange sky over Stockholm, Sweden

Soheila Nickros was looking outside 3 am yesterday, Mach 31, 2018, when she saw a very strange sky that appears to be orange/reddish but even more strange was an object with a beam of light that seemly stands motionless in the sky.

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Soheila already surprised by the strange colored sky wonders whether the object is a UFO or not.

Besides the strange colored sky that is currently being observed around the world, especially in the US, is it possible that the UFO Beam is a reflection of a street light or a camera reflection?

But comparing the UFO Beam with the outlines of the street light it is not the same, maybe a lens flare but since the camera moves a slightly, the lens flare must follow the motion of the camera, in this case the UFO beam still stays at the same spot.

  

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Top 10 places in Russia to see a UFO

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A UFO researcher spots two mysterious unidentified objects on the lunar surface

A UFO researcher spots two mysterious unidentified objects on the lunar surface

An UFO researcher spotted two mysterious unidentified objects on the lunar surface

People around the world have been reporting sightings of UFOs and existence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, Moon and in the universe. In rather mysterious photographs scanned and analyzed by George Graham, a Scottish UFOlogist pointed out few photos calling them aliens on the moon. From among the plethora of videos posted on his YouTube channel StreetCap1, there are two distinct videos which show anomalies. According to George, the images were taken by Chinese lunar probe Chang’e 3 where a humanoid structure and a hidden alien spaceship can be seen.

In the first video, the UFOlogist explains a bizarre image that shows a humanoid creature. Although this can be a case of pareidolia where human brain creates an image between unrelated patterns to create a recognizable image. He states that the humanoid creature, probably an alien is wearing a helmet and a visor which can be clearly recognized. Also, the body parts are in the right proportion with the distance between shoulders to the head similar to any humans which are quite shocking.

In another video, he shows a UFO being hidden by a rock. The photo was captured by Chang’e 3 which shows a flying saucer-like creation hidden behind a rock which can be clearly seen. George’s channel on YouTube has plenty of videos referencing to aliens on the lunar surface with more than 70,000 subscribers and more than 44 million hits on his channel.

In another instance, people living in the SW part of Bristol, United Kingdom got to see an unidentified object with the moon as the background which has sparked speculations among people who believe in UFOs and aliens. According to a witness present at the moment, the incident took place on March 30 in Bristol street when suddenly, a strange glow hue was seen across the moon which took a flight at high-speed along with few other smaller objects accompanying it.

On January 31, 2018, when the first Super Blood Moon took place, it was live broadcasted by various news channels and websites for the viewers across the globe. During the feed, a bright flashing dot can be seen flying from the left side of the moon from flying at a high-speed from top to the bottom of the screen. What’s more bizarre was a seemingly beaming flash accompanying the bright dot and it flashed at regular interval. This spark debates and discussions between alien buffs and Ufologists regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life which NASA is trying to hide. A similar object was seen during the last moon on November 14 when a David McCarty, a YouTuber spotted the object flying at a great speed across the moon.

UFOlogists have spotted bizarre objects of the moon such as two missiles in the military formation on the moon or when a video of a circular UFO passing over the Moon was discovered. Conspiracy theorists believe that moon is not our satellite but a base created by aliens to keep a watch on humans and spy on us etc. A study conducted by NASA and published in 1962 states that the density of moon is lower in the inner surface as opposed to its outer surface which is dense. According to a theory, since the inside of the moon is hollow, aliens use it as a base keeping an eye on the activities done by people on Earth.

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Wetenschappers ontdekken verste ster ooit op 9 miljard lichtjaar afstand van de Aarde - HLN.be

Wetenschappers ontdekken verste ster ooit op 9 miljard lichtjaar afstand van de Aarde - HLN.be

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 Wetenschappers hebben de verste ster ooit ontdekt. Die staat op maar liefst 9 miljard lichtjaar afstand van de Aarde. Tot nu toe waren er wel complete sterrenstelsels en supernova’s (ontploffende sterren) gezien op zulke afstanden, maar geen individuele, normaal schijnende sterren.

Individuele sterren zijn vanaf een afstand van ongeveer 100 miljoen lichtjaar niet meer van elkaar te onderscheiden. Het licht is daarvoor niet fel genoeg. Dat het nu wel kan, komt door de hulp van sterrenstelsels die tussen de ster en de aarde staan. Zij werkten als een soort loep en ‘vergrootten’ de ster meer dan tweeduizend keer. Dat licht werd opgevangen door de Amerikaans-Europese ruimtetelescoop Hubble.

De ster heeft de wetenschappelijke naam MACS J1149 LS1 gekregen, maar de ontdekkers noemen hem liever Icarus. Het is een zogeheten blauwe superreus. Zulke sterren zijn veel groter, zwaarder en heter dan onze zon, en ze kunnen een miljoen keer zo fel schijnen. De ontdekking staat in het wetenschapsblad Nature Astronomy.

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The African Continent Is Splitting Into Two

The African Continent Is Splitting Into Two

According to experts, the African continent may have just started spitting apart.

A massive crack in Kenya, which caused the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse, is a dire warning of a worrying fact. Geologists claim that it is a manifestation of a phenomenon that is occurring slowly: Africa is splitting in two.

The massive rupture, stretching several kilometers found by experts in Kenya suggests that the African continent could soon split into two, changing Earth’s geology again.

Terrifying.

As noted by researchers, the massive crack which is still growing, caused parts of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and was accompanied by seismic activity.

This process began to become evident in the year 2005 when, after the eruption of the Dabbahu volcano, in Ethiopia, a colossal crack of sixty meters in length was opened in the area of the horn of Africa.

The Topography of the Rift Valley. James Wood and Alex Guth, Michigan Technological University.

Basemap: Space Shuttle radar topography image by NASA

And scientists even know who is responsible behind all of this: The Great Rift Valley, a large geological fracture whose total extension is 4830 kilometers in a north-south direction.

It began to form in southeastern Africa about 30 million years ago and continues to grow today, both in width and in length, the expansion that will eventually become an ocean basin.

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A crack that opened up in Kenya’s Rift Valley, damaging a section of the Narok-Nairobi highway, is still growing...

In an article for the Conversation, Lucia Perez Diaz, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Fault Dynamics Research Group, London‘s Royal Holloway, explains how this could happen.

Our planet’s lithosphere, formed by the Earth’s crust and upper parts of the mantle, is in fact composed of a number of tectonic plates. The tectonic plates aren’t static, and move relative to each other at different speeds, causing them to ‘glide’ over a viscous asthenosphere.

A number of different forces move the plates around but also causes them to break apart, forming a ‘rift’ and leading to the creation of new plate boundaries.

The constant tremors of earth and emersions of lava contribute to this growth and, to continue at this rate, the bottom of the valley will be flooded by the marine waters within 10 million years.

With this, Africa will have broken into two different continents that will proceed to separate further to form a new ocean.

The  continent will become smaller and on the other hand, there will be a large island in the Indian Ocean made up of parts of Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, including the Horn of Africa, and could look something like this:

Source: Large crack in East African Rift is evidence of continent splitting in two

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Tabby’s Star Mystery: ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Dims Again

Tabby’s Star Mystery: ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Dims Again

Just when we thought the mystery behind Tabby’s star was finally solved, the ‘alien megastructure star’ has given experts a run for their money.

A team of astrophysicists studying the star called KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby’s star, has reported that the star recently dimmed again, and did so quite dramatically. As noted by experts, the star’s brightness dropped abruptly, recording the biggest change in KIC 8462852 since 2013.

Just a few days later, the light returned to normal.

The light curve recorded for Tabby’s Star.

Credit: Where’s the Flux?

This star, better known as “the Tabby star” in honor of its discoverer Tabetha Boyajian, faded at least 5% last month, reported this week Boyajian, an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University (USA), who has been studying the star KIC 8462852 for years now.

As noted by Universe Today, on March 19th, Tabetha and her team started reporting how the brightness of Tabby’s star started fading again.

Using data obtained by the Las Cumbras Observatory‘s Teide, McDonald and Haleakala Observatories (in Spain, Texas, and Hawaii, respectively), Tabetha and her colleagues began posting regular updates on its light curve. As they wrote on their blog at the time:

“On Friday (2018 March 16) we noted the last data taken were significantly down compared to normal. Due to poor weather conditions at all 3 sites, we weren’t able to observe the star again until last night…  This is the deepest dip we have observed since the Kepler Mission in 2013!  WOW!!”

Six days later, astronomers provided an update saying how the star was returning rapidly to its normal brightness.

They wrote: “The profile of the new dip having a slow decline with a more rapid increase is again reminiscent of that of a backward-comet.”

Confirmations of the star returning rapidly to normality were obtained on March 23rd, after observations by the Catalonia Institute for Space Studies‘ (IEEC) Montsec Astronomical Observatory.

Then, on March 26th, an update indicated how the star’s flux had dropped by a total of 5%, a discovery later confirmed by John Hall – an astronomer with the American Association of Variable Star Observers.

As noted by experts, this constituted the greatest dip since the 22% reported in 2015.

Its mysterious dimming patterns are considered atypical since it is a star that slightly exceeds the size of the Sun and should have a more or less constant brightness.

In Kepler’s observations of 2011, it decreased by up to 22%.

Throughout 2017 there were also important changes in its attenuation.

Among the theories about this strange dimming pattern, one suggests the existence of an alien megastructure orbiting the star.

However, a recent investigation led by Tabetha points out that the luminosity changes in KIC 8462852, which is more than 1,000 light years from Earth, would be due to dust particles blocking some wavelengths of light, and not as a result of blocking a giant object.

However, not everyone is convinced by the ‘dust’ explanations, and UFO hunters will certainly see the new dimming pattern as a hope that a mighty alien structure may still exist orbiting Tabby’s star.

Source: Where’s The Flux

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Fiery death for Tiangong-1 and a plunge into the Pacific

Fiery death for Tiangong-1 and a plunge into the Pacific

Tiangong-1’s reentry has been confirmed as April 2 at 00:16 UTC (April 1 at 8:16 p.m. EDT). Reentry occurred in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Tahiti.

Reentry position plotted by Tony Dunn

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China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, reentered Earth’s atmosphere on April 2 at 00:16 UTC (April 1 at 8:16 p.m. EDT; translate UTC to your time). The reentry was over the Pacific Ocean. Did any pieces of the space station survive reentry, and did any strike land? Some pieces almost certainly survived the fall, and, at this time, we’ve heard no reports of pieces striking land.

What were the chances a piece of Tiangong-1 would strike someone or something? Vanishingly small, according to experts, but not zero. Read Guy Ottewell’s blog for his thoughts on the statistical chances a piece of Tiangong-1 would strike you.

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NW of Tahiti - it managed to miss the 'spacecraft graveyard' which is further south!

Dr Marco Langbroek@Marco_Langbroek

Well, waking up early to the notice that it is over: #tiangong1 met its fiery demise at 00:16 GMT. R.I.P.#reentry pic.twitter.com/sftZbVWEaD

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In this map the final orbit of #Tiangong1 before #reentry, and the reentry location near 14 S, 164 W in the Pacific Ocean, according to the JSpOC decay message:@drspacejunk @planet4589 @SSC_NL @cosmos4u @Itzalpean

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So, at present, it’s unknown if any pieces will be found on land, although it seems unlikely. Space experts warn that if you think you have found a chunk of Tiangong-1, you should not pick it up or breathe in any fumes emanating from it. The space junk may be contaminated with hydrazine, a toxic rocket fuel.

Several organizations tracked predicted reentry times, including the U.S.-based analysis group Aerospace Corporation, the U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC), the European Space Agency and scientists around the world with the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee. These experts tracked it carefully, quite accurately, until the end.

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The predictions were actually pretty good pic.twitter.com/QfSG3Z2RqI

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Tiangong-1 was school-bus-sized. Its main body was approximately 34 feet (10.4 meters) long.

China launched its space station in 2011, and, originally, it planned a controlled reentry. But, in March 2016, the Tiangong-1 space station ceased functioning. Ground teams lost control of the craft, and it could no longer be commanded to fire its engines. It was, therefore, expected to make an uncontrolled reentry.

Tiangong-1 was not designed to withstand reentry, as some spacecraft are. The extreme heat and friction generated by its high-speed passage through Earth’s atmosphere would have caused the spacecraft to burn up, at least mostly, over the Pacific.

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Not a whole lot of commercial planes in the vicinity of the #Tiangong1 reentry. Hopefully, someone got it on video...

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By popular demand: the list of the almost 50 bigger-than-Tiangong objects that have fireballed their way through an uncontrolled reentry http://planet4589.org/space/misc/big_reentries.txt …

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Reference: here is an illustration of Tiangong-1 by the manufacturer CAST

Experienced amateur sky observers also caught video of Tiangong-1 last week as it sped across our sky on its way to a fiery demise this weekend. We know of at least two who succeeded in this demanding observation. See their videos below. Brian Ottum posted his view of the space station – from early in the day on Wednesday – on Instagram:

The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome and Tenagra Observatories in Arizona provided an exciting livestream of their successful attempt to view Tiangong-1, also earlier in the day on Wednesday. Check this out! It’s really fun to hear Gianluca Masi‘s commentary as he searches for – and finds – the space station.

Tiangong-1’s major goal was to test and master technologies related to orbital rendezvous and docking. One uncrewed and two crewed missions – executed by the Shenzhou (Divine Craft) spacecraft – took place during its operational lifetime. ESA explained:

Following launch in 2011, the Tiangong-1 orbit began steadily decaying due to the faint, yet not-zero, atmospheric drag present even at 300 or 400 km altitude [about 200 to 250 miles altitude]. This affects all satellites and spacecraft in low-Earth orbit, like the International Space Station, for example.

Tiangong-1 potential reentry area. Map showing the area between 42.8 degrees north and 42.8 degrees south latitude (in green), over which Tiangong-1 was predicted to reenter.

Image via ESA CC BY-SA IGO 3.0.

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Lessons you should take away:
1) Science isn't about predicting things precisely. It's about knowing how big your uncertainty is.
2). The Pacific Ocean is big. Always bet on the Pacific.

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Scientists Warn—Our Universe Could Be Destroyed Abruptly

Scientists Warn—Our Universe Could Be Destroyed Abruptly

According to a new study, the universe we reside in could be abruptly destroyed in a cataclysmic collision with a bubble of ‘negative energy’ say, Harvard scientists, warning that this process may have even already begun without us even noticing.

Scientists explain how a fundamental particle that gives mass to all mater held within the universe could one day cause its destruction.

Astrophysicists warn that our universe may be abruptly destroyed, as it started in a bubble of negative energy, thought to have been created by the Higgins Boson, aka the God Particle. The famous Higgs boson particle, discovered in 2012 after more than fifty years of scientific persecution, has the power to end the existence of the Universe in which we live.

Not only that, but the process could have already started without us even noticing it.

In fact, there is a possibility that this particle has collapsed on itself in a far corner of the cosmos, producing an expanding vacuum energy bubble that would end up swallowing us all.

This authentic cosmic apocalypse is described in a recently published article in Physical Review.

The end of space and time is not a concept alien to Physics.

The observable universe.

The Standard Model, in effect, the theory that describes all known forces and particles, predicts that, just as the Universe had a beginning, it will also have an ending.

As the dark energy continues to accelerate the expansion of the Universe, the matter in it will become increasingly dispersed and move further and further away, until the last star is extinguished and the entire cosmos is nothing more than an unfathomable, cold and black abyss bigger and scarier than ever, where nothing shines anymore.

The most accurate calculated estimate for the cosmic doomsday, based on the logical development of the four fundamental interactions of Nature, tells us that the end of the Universe will occur in around 10×139 years.

The new model of the “killer Higgs” developed by a team of researchers at Harvard University is much more unpredictable and dramatic.

In it, the Universe would end with a bang, and it would do so in a much shorter period of time.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI), via http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0805c/.

“We wanted to correct all previous approaches and obtain a date as accurate as possible,” says Anders Andreassen, Harvard University and lead author of the study.

To achieve this, he and his colleagues used everything we know about the masses and interactions between particles, including the mass of the Higgs boson, the carrier of the force that confers its mass to all other particles, and which turned out to be 125 gigaelectronvolts.

And it is here, say researchers, in the mass of the Higgs boson, where the problem resides in.

The reason is that the mass recorded for the boson might not be the lowest possible for that particle, but simply a temporary value, which remains stable at present but could change one day.

The most careful calculations, in effect, suggest that our Universe could actually be a “false vacuum”, very different from the “true vacuum” that we would have in the lowest possible energy configuration.

To understand this concept, you can think of the Higgs as a ball that is trapped in the bottom of a shallow valley that represents its mass.

But on the other side of the hill, there is another much deeper valley that corresponds to a mass with less potential.

As the Higgs can not roll up the hill, it is “stuck” in its current configuration.

The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the Universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates the distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side. 

Image credit: Daniel Eisenstein and the SDSS-III collaboration.

However, all subatomic particles, the Higgs boson among them, have the possibility of behaving like waves, and therefore do not have well-defined positions.

And there is always the possibility that the Higgs creates a “tunnel” through the hill and reaches the lower valley, which would result in a mass lower than what scientists have observed.

It would be precisely here where things would start to get really ugly, say experts.

In fact, due to the fact that the Higgs field provides mass to all other particles, a change in their properties would wreak havoc on the “building blocks” of our universe.

Chemistry, and therefore life, depends on these values, so that our current way of being would be completely nullified by this reorganization.

Since the universe we can observe from Earth is only a small portion of the total, the likelihood of extremely improbable things happening in places we cannot see increases considerably. And in such a large and hidden Universe, there exists the possibility of this “Higgs collapse” having happened in a place beyond our visibility, producing a bubble of negative energy that expands rapidly and in whose interior is a universe of crazed properties, according to our point of view.

This bubble can travel across the universe.

And one day, that bubble could reach us and also swallow our region of the cosmos.

According to Einstein’s theory of Relativity, information can not move faster than light, so it would be impossible for us to realize its arrival.

In the words of Andreassen “we would not even see it coming”.

As the physicist writes in his article, “it is very worrying to imagine this bubble, with its wall of negative energy, throwing itself at us at the speed of light”. For the researcher, instead of a slow stretch towards nothingness, our Universe could be on its way to an abrupt collision with one of these destructive bubbles.

The full findings were published in the journal Physical Review D.

Reference: New Scientist

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Chinese Space Station RE-ENTRY confirmed -

Chinese Space Station RE-ENTRY confirmed - "Heavenly Palace" makes big splash!

China Space Station disintegrates when entering the Pacific Ocean as we can see in these incredible images that look like fireworks.

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TIANGONG-1 FIRST REENTRY VIDEO | china chinese Space Station falling April 1st || LIVE 2018 || Tiang

It's almost crash time for China's falling space station Tiangong-1. As school bus-sized space station began what should be its last day in orbit today (April 1), experts weighed in on the possibilities of space debris – and whether this situation should have happened in the first place

China says space station burns up over South Pacific

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.The “vast majority” of the craft burnt up on re-entry, at around 8:15 a.m.(0015 GMT), the authority said in a brief statement on its website, without saying exactly where the remnants might have landed.Earlier, it had said the craft was expected to re-enter the atmosphere off the Brazilian coast in the South Atlantic near the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.The United States Air Force 18th Space Control Squadron, which tracks and detects all artificial objects in Earth’s orbit, said it had also tracked the Tiangong-1 in its re-entry over the South Pacific.
It said in a statement it had confirmed re-entry in coordination with counterparts in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Britain.The remnants of Tiangong-1 appeared to have landed about 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Tahiti, said Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australian National University.“Small bits definitely will have made it to the surface,” he told Reuters, adding that while about 90 percent would have burnt up in the atmosphere and just 10 percent made it to the ground, that fraction still amounted to 700 kg (1,543 lb) to 800 kg (1,764 lb).“Most likely the debris is in the ocean, and even if people stumbled over it, it would just look like rubbish in the ocean and be spread over a huge area of thousands of square kilometers.”Beijing said on Friday it was unlikely any large pieces would reach the ground.
The 10.4-metre-long (34.1-foot) Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace 1”, was launched in 2011 to carry out docking and orbit experiments as part of China’s ambitious space program, which aims to place a permanent station in orbit by 2023.It was originally planned to be decommissioned in 2013 but its mission was repeatedly extended.China had said re-entry would happen in late 2017, but that process was delayed, leading some experts to suggest the space laboratory was out of control.Worldwide media hype about the re-entry reflected overseas “envy” of China’s space industry, the Chinese tabloid Global Times said on Monday.“It’s normal for spacecraft to re-enter the atmosphere, yet Tiangong-1 received so much attention, partly because some Western countries are trying to hype and sling mud at China’s fast-growing aerospace industry,” it said.

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NASA-Funded Study Says There Could Be Alien Life On Venus

NASA-Funded Study Says There Could Be Alien Life On Venus

As noted by a recent report, extraterrestrial could inhabit our solar system, and they could be living within the acid clouds of Venus, notes a NASA-funded study, recently published in the Journal Astrobiology.

The study backed by NASA indicates that Aliens (although not fully developed aliens, but bacteria) could call the hazardous clouds on Venus their home.

Scientists believe the sulfur dioxide-rich upper atmosphere of Venus may be where tiny Venusian aliens are hiding.

The surface of Venus.

Image Credit: NASA

Exerpts came to this conlcusion after using space probes to detect dark areas around the rust-colored body, which resemble the light-absorbing properties of bacteria here on Earth.

As noted by experts, these mysterious dark spots on Venus could be blooms of alien bacterial, similar to those found on Earth in lakes and ponds.

Because the clouds of Venus are composed of sulfuric acid, they reflect around 75 percent of the sunlight that hits them, causing them to appear nearly entirely opaque.

Venus has been dubbed as Earth’s Evil twin by a number of astrophysics and astronomers because of the hazardous, and inhospitable conditions reigning on its surface, where it rains Acid, and the temperature is around 462 degrees Celsius.

PLANET-C.

The research, suggesting tiny Venusian alien may inhabit the clouds of Venus, was recently published in the Journal Astrobiology, and it infers how alien microbes may survive by being blown around by extreme winds in the cooler cloud tops of Venus.

“On Earth, we know that life can thrive in very acidic conditions, can feed on carbon dioxide, and produce sulfuric acid,” says Rakesh Mogul, a professor of biological chemistry at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a co-author on the new paper.

The researcher explains that the cloudy, highly reflective and acidic atmosphere of Venus is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and water droplets containing sulfuric acid.

However, this isn’t the first time someone has suggested there may be life on Venus.

In fact, the habitability of Venus’ clouds was first raised in 1967 by noted biophysicist Harold Morowitz and famed astronomer Carl Sagan. Following this theory, the idea that Venus’ clouds may bear alien life was expanded by planetary scientists David Grinspoon, Mark Bullock and their colleagues.

“Venus shows some episodic dark, sulfuric rich patches, with contrasts up to 30–40 percent in the ultraviolet and muted in longer wavelengths. These patches persist for days, changing their shape and contrasts continuously and appear to be scale dependent,” says Limaye.

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Source: University Of Wisconsin-Madison

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Metallic UFO Near Space Station On Live Camera! April 2, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Metallic UFO Near Space Station On Live Camera! April 2, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 2, 2018
Location of sighting: Space Station, ISS
 
I was recording the glitch, which is a 10-30 second cycle that varies in time, but was made by NASA to deliberately cause frustration to the public so the viewers would give up watching the space station. However, as I was recording, I was surprised to see a UFO come from behind the station. I forgot to turn on my mic, so I had to remake the video again. This looks like a round disk. The disk flips at one point in the video, which was cool to see. This does look like an alien craft to me. 
Scott C. Waring
 
Also, please click here to check out my video I made today about HTMLcoin.  If you bought the coin two weeks ago at 5sat, then you  made a 20% profit this week. SCW
 

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Multiple UFOs seen from the ISS live stream March 31st 2018

Multiple UFOs seen from the ISS live stream March 31st 2018

The stills in this video were taken from a brief 30 minute recording from the ISS live stream. The objects show for a split second, appearing as a small flash of light but when zoomed in more details become visible.

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Countdown: Burning space station to hit Earth in ‘next 12 hours’

Countdown: Burning space station to hit Earth in ‘next 12 hours’

Countdown: Burning space station to hit Earth in ‘next 12 hours’

A Chinese space station that is spiraling out of control is predicted to hit Earth in only half a day. It is also understood that Scientists tracking the space station are unsure of the landing spot once it hits Earth. This is in contradiction to previous analysis that claimed to understand of the landing spot of the out of control space station.

Burning Space Station Predicted to Hit Earth in Twelve Hours

The space station is known as Tiangong-1 and was put into orbit in 2011. Tiangong-1 was the first space station to be put into space by the Chinese. Tiangong-1 was originally put into space as a guide mission in preparation for Tiangong-2, which was to be a laboratory space for the Chinese. Problems with Tiangong-1 had delayed those plans since 2016 when Tiangong-1 started losing altitude due to malfunctions within the space station in 2016.

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The deorbit of #Tiangong1 is expected to look something like this. First, the solar panels will rip off, then the body will break apart. Most will burn up in the atmosphere but some debris could make it to the ground. We'll know better about when and where tomorrow.

In November, European scientists believed that Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, and Greece were among countries that represented possible crash sites for Tiangong-1. This is assuming the space station does land indeed, as scientists have stated that it could burn up in the atmosphere before crashing into the Earth. However, updates on April first have confirmed less certainty concerning the site of the crash. The area of the crash is now predicted to encompass a much larger zone. Included in possible crash sites for Tiangong-1 are now the continents of Africa, Australia, South America, and the whole Indian subcontinent.

Space engineering entities for the Chinese seem certain that Tangong-1 will not cause severe damage. It is expected that the space station will disintegrate at an altitude of 80km. Aerospace Corporation has set up a tracking center for Tiangong-1. This tracking center currently reveals that Tiangong-1 has a current orbit above the South Atlantic Ocean. Authorities for the United States Air Force are making claims that a portion of Tiangong-1 will re-enter the Earth within the next twelve hours.


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CLOUDS OF VENUS COULD HOST EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE FORMS

CLOUDS OF VENUS COULD HOST EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE FORMS

BY MELISSA MATTHEWS 

In the quest to answer whether we’re alone, scientists have found that the clouds of venus may help solve the mystery of whether life outside of Earth exists.

Published March 30 in the journal Astrobiology, a new paper says the clouds of Venus may host extraterrestrial microbial life. As the authors state in the paper, whether Venus’ clouds could support life has been discussed for decades, spurred by research indicating that its chemical and physical properties, moderate temperatures and pressure could make it possible for life to exist.

The team was intrigued by dark patches found on the planet's clouds that are made of sulfuric acid and light-absorbing particles similar to those found on Earth. In fact, they theorized the patches could be similar to algae blooms found in our lakes, noting that particles in the patches have similar dimensions to bacteria here on Earth.

The team believes this could make Venus vital in the search for other life forms, however, the planets’ clouds would need to be sampled and tested first.

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Het Afrikaanse continent splitst zich stilaan in tweeën - HLN.be

Het Afrikaanse continent splitst zich stilaan in tweeën - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

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 Oost-Afrika zal zich afsplitsen van de rest van het continent, voorspellen geologen. Hoewel het een proces is van miljoenen jaren, zijn de eerste tekenen zichtbaar. Zoals een breuklijn in Kenia, en die wordt steeds dieper.

Vorige week stortte in het zuidwesten van Kenia een deel van de drukke Mai Mahiu Road deels in nadat er een vulkanische breuklijn ontstond. Door de scheur zijn delen van de weg verzakt en ontstond een groot gat dat het water opslokte. Dat leidde vervolgens tot nog meer barsten. Op sommige plaatsen is de breuk inmiddels meer dan 50 meter diep en 20 meter breed.

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Large crack in East African Rift is evidence of continent splitting in two http://ow.ly/RXUR30jfM4N 

Wetenschapper Lucia Perez Diaz, verbonden aan de Royal Holloway universiteit van London, ziet hierin het bewijs dat het oostelijk deel van Afrika een nieuw continent zal vormen. Kenia, Tanzania, Somalië en een deel van Ethiopië zullen uiteindelijk worden afgescheiden, schrijft The Mirror naar aanleiding van haar publicatie in het blad Conversation.

In het artikel beschrijft ze hoe dit geologisch proces zich voltrekt diep in de aarde. Afrika bestaat nu nog uit één tektonische plaat: de zogeheten Afrikaanse plaat. Alleen, die wordt in het oosten geleidelijk uit elkaar gespleten, ter hoogte van Somalië.

Riftvorming 

Daardoor zullen er op termijn twee platen ontstaan: de Somalische plaat (de oostelijke plaat) én de Nubische plaat (de westelijke plaat). Het uit elkaar schuiven van (nieuwe) tektonische platen wordt ook wel ‘riftvorming’ genoemd. Doordat breuken in ondergrondse platen in tegenovergestelde hellingsrichting bewegen, ontstaat een soort van vallei tussen twee hooglandgebieden of bergketens.

Die ‘vallei’, ook wel een slenk genoemd, wordt verder uitgediept door erosie én door hitte die gevormd wordt door vulkanische activiteit die uit de kern van de aarde naar de oppervlaktekorst komt. De breuk gaat heel langzaam: jaarlijks gaat het om een verschuiving van zo’n 45 millimeter.

De Somalische plaat omvat het oosten van Afrika.

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Geschiedenis 

Over zo’n 10 miljoen tot 50 miljoen jaar zal Oost-Afrika zich daardoor hebben afgescheiden van de rest van Afrika, zegt wetenschapper Diaz. In de geschiedenis van Afrika is zoiets overigens wel eerder gebeurd. Zo heeft Madagaskar zich zo’n 110 miljoen jaar geleden losgemaakt van Somalië door middel van een zeer brede slenk.

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This Week's Top Space Stories

This Week's Top Space Stories

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We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse

We May Have Uncovered the First Ever Evidence of the Multiverse

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For many years, scientists have been very much baffled by a weird anomaly far away in space: a mysterious “Cold Spot” about 1.8 billion light-years across. It is cooler than its surroundings by around 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit), a fact astronomers discovered by measuring background radiation throughout the universe.

Previously, astronomers believed that this space could be cooler simply because it had less matter in it than most sections of space. They dubbed it a massive supervoid and estimated that it had 10,000 galaxies fewer than other comparable sections of space.

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But now, in a recently published survey of galaxies, astronomers from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) say they have discovered that this supervoide could not exist. They now believe that the galaxies in the cold spot are just clustered around smaller voids that populate the cold spot like bubbles. These small voids, however, cannot explain the temperature difference observed.

To link the temperature differences to the smaller voids, the researchers say a non-standard cosmological model would be required. “But our data place powerful constraints on any attempt to do that,” explained researcher Ruari Mackenzie in an RAS press release.

While the study had a large margin of error, the simulations suggest there is only a two percent probability that the Cold Spot formed just randomly.

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 “This means we can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations,” said researcher Tom Shanks in the press release. “Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe.”

If more detailed studies support the findings of this research, the Cold Spot might turn out to be the first evidence for the multiverse, though far more evidence would be needed to confirm our universe is indeed one of many.

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Pilots Who Saw UFO Over Arizona Speak Out: 'It Didn't Look Anything Like an Airplane'

Pilots Who Saw UFO Over Arizona Speak Out: 'It Didn't Look Anything Like an Airplane'

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