Could Earth Defend Against an Alien invasion?

by Paul Schroeder

12-08-2015 om 01:20 geschreven door peter  

NASA Releases Ultra High Definition Videos From Space

Is NASA getting into the movie business? While the moon landing in July of 1969 held the world at the edge of their seats, watching it on tiny black and white televisions with grainy images and a wobbly video feed, today’s video being beamed back from space is literally light years ahead of those vintage images. 

A view of the Earth taken by a 4K video camera now onboard the ISS and operational

Image Credit: NASA

Most people are familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope and the amazing images it has captured in its 25-year history. Stars being born and dying, galaxies expanding and entire nebulas were brought to life with that instrument. But video is so much more exciting, right? Especially as it concerns the International Space Station. A lot goes on up there, astronauts come and go on a regular basis, they host live chats with school children, and there’s a ton of science work being done on board. 

NASA wants to share all those events, as well as the spectacular view outside the station. On the outside of the IShttps://youtu.be/ouv1Un1F36AS, there are cameras mounted that focus in all directions and stream video as part of the High Definition Earth Viewing System, or HDEV. It’s a live feed that can be viewed on NASA’s UStream page, live as it happens. The resolution of those images is the standard for live stream, 1080p. At that size, the ISS has enough online bandwidth to make that video available live. 

The mission of space though, is to go further and to do that NASA has just released the first video from a new system of cameras on board the ISS. The main difference is the picture quality. The video just posted online on NASAs ReelNASA YouTube channel is a whopping 3840×2160 pixels, a standard known as 4K or Ultra High Definition, UHD-1. It’s close to four times the pixel size of the 1080p streams and it makes images literally pop on screen. Because of this ginormous size, the film is edited down and then beamed to Earth and posted online, as opposed to streaming live. Even the ISS doesn’t have the bandwidth to stream video of that size.

Another difference is the focus of each camera. The HDEV cameras are set to a fixed wide-angle focus, which while they capture a larger area than the new 4K cameras, the HDEV process cannot bring in the details the UHD-1 cameras can. The high definition cameras are set to focus much like a telephoto lens does, providing enough detail to tell the make and model of cars in traffic. 

There are two of the High-Def cameras on board the ISS, one taking video at the 4K rate and another taking stills at 25MP. The video posted by NASA on June 15, 2015 shows video taken from the exterior of the ISS, including some stunning video of the polar ice caps, storm clouds of the ocean and even footage of the Space-X cargo ship docking at the station as well as the ISS astronauts going about their activities in a “day in the life” style of what it’s like on board. There is even footage showing how a cheeseburger is made in zero gravity 

Check out Reel 1 below to catch a Hi-Def glimpse of life onboard and outside the ISS. 

12-08-2015 om 00:55 geschreven door peter  

Salt flat indicates some of the last vestiges of surface water on Mars

A perspective rendering of the martian chloride deposit and surrounding terrain.

LASP/Brian Hynek

Mars turned cold and dry long ago, but researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered evidence of an ancient lake that likely represents some of the last potentially habitable surface water ever to exist on the Red Planet.

The study examined an 18-square-mile (47 square kilometers) chloride salt deposit in the planet’s Meridiani region near the Mars Opportunity rover’s landing site. As seen on Earth in locations such as Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats, large-scale salt deposits are considered to be evidence of evaporated bodies of water.

Digital terrain mapping and mineralogical analysis of the features surrounding the deposit indicate that this one-time lakebed is no older than 3.6 billion years old, well after the time period when Mars is thought to have been warm enough to sustain large amounts of surface water planet-wide. Planetary scientists believe that the solar system formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago.

“This was a long-lived lake, and we were able to put a very good time boundary on its maximum age,” said Brian Hynek, a research associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at CU-Boulder and lead author of the study. “We can be pretty certain that this is one of the last instances of a sizable lake on Mars.”   

Based on the extent and thickness of the salt, the researchers estimate that the lake was only about 8 percent as salty as the Earth’s oceans and therefore may have been hospitable to microbial life.

“By salinity alone, it certainly seems as though this lake would have been habitable throughout much of its existence,” said Hynek, who is also an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at CU-Boulder and director of the CU Center for Astrobiology. He noted, however, that other factors such as acidity levels were not included in the scope of the study.

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12-08-2015 om 00:48 geschreven door peter  

Are we alone in the universe? Paul Davies on the search for extraterrestrial life

A huge investment into the search for intelligent alien life has renewed public interest in the question of whether we're alone in the universe. Paul Davies tells Late Night Live why he's sceptical of the current search, and why he thinks we should look for 'life as we don't know it' on our own planet.

Since the 1960s, radio telescopes have been sweeping the skies on a shoestring budget, hoping to stumble across a message from ET. That search is now set to be transformed by a high-profile, multi-million dollar initiative called Breakthrough Listen, which will use some of the biggest telescopes on Earth to probe far deeper into the universe.

At the initiative's launch, British cosmologist Stephen Hawking expressed the optimism of many in the scientific community, telling the media: 'In an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life. Somewhere in the cosmos, perhaps, intelligent life may be watching.'

Does that mean we're bound to find something if we just keep looking long enough? Not necessarily, says astrophysicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies.

Professor Davies is a supporter of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)—in fact, he's chair of the SETI Post-Detection Science and Technology Task Group, the body charged with responding if Earth is contacted by aliens. However, he thinks we may need some radically new thinking to have a chance of finding anything other than 'eerie silence'.

'It's always possible to believe that if you spend more and look harder you're going to come across something,' he says of the $135 million investment announced in July.

'Suddenly, overnight, this hand-to-mouth project has been transformed into a serious scientific program, so that is of course very welcome.

'At this stage it's very unclear as to how the money will be spent. If it's just spent on doing more of the same, it's welcome, but I can't get very excited. I think we need some radically new thinking about what to look for and how to go about it.'

Read more: Australian scientist leads search for alien life forms

The major problem, Professor Davies says, is that the current strategy only picks up messages deliberately being sent to Earth—and that doesn't make sense.

'The strategy so far is to point a radio telescope at a hopeful star for maybe half an hour, and then hop from star to star in the hope of picking up a message,' he says.

'The question is, is ET on a planet, around a star, beaming a message at us? That's not credible. It's not credible that a civilisation 1,000 light years away would be beaming messages at Earth. Why should they?

'If they can see Earth, if they have super-duper advanced technology, they have the ability to see our planet and to figure that there is intelligent life on it—moderately intelligent life on it—but they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. There were no radio telescopes; there was no radio.

'In another 1,000 years they will hear the words I'm speaking now [and say], "Aha! There is intelligent life on Earth! We'll send them a message!" But it's too soon, and so we shouldn't be looking for deliberately directed messages, but looking for beacons instead.'

While some, including Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, are worried about the risks of contacting and potentially antagonising alien civilisations, Professor Davies thinks that's an unlikely scenario.

'I think this is a completely daft argument—the idea that by broadcasting into space we'd somehow bring an alien invasion on ourselves,' he says.

'If ET wants Planet Earth, it's been around 4.5 billion years. The aliens could have come here at any time. They don't need us to tell them about the planet.

'If they've got instruments capable of picking up our messages, and understanding them, then they know a lot about our planet already. We don't have to invite them in, they'd just come. And they haven't come for 4.5 billion years so why should they come just now?'

Read more: NASA discovers planet orbiting 'cousin' of sun

For Professor Davies, the big question is whether Earth-like planets are likely to have life on them. And that can only be answered, he says, if we understand how life began in the first place.

'Is it the case that a planet that is like Earth is likely to have life on it? We can only answer that question if we know the mechanism that turns non-life into life,' he says.

'If we knew what did it, we could estimate the odds. We don't know what did it and so we've got these two points of view: [either] it's a bizarre fluke, it won't happen twice, [or] somehow it's built into the nature of the universe, and life will pop up all over the place.'

He says the idea that needs to be tested is whether life is, in fact, 'a cosmic imperative', as Nobel prize-winning biologist Christian de Duve believed.

'If life does pop up obligingly in Earth-like conditions, no planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so shouldn't life have started many times over right here on our home planet? How do we know it didn't? Has anybody actually looked?' asks Davies.

'When I worked on these ideas with my friend Charley Lineweaver at the ANU some years ago ... [it] turned out that really nobody had even thought of this possibility.'

IMAGE: 'NO PLANET IS MORE EARTH-LIKE THAN EARTH ITSELF' ... EARTH SEEN FROM THE DEEP SPACE CLIMATE OBSERVATORY SPACECRAFT. (NASA)

He argues that the focus should be on examining microbes, since most life on earth is microbial. The right kind of investigation could unearth what scientists describe as a 'shadow biosphere'.

'You can't tell by looking what are microbes made of. You don't know how it ticks, you've got to delve into its biochemical innards to work that out, and if you go looking for life as we know it, you're not going to discover life as we don't know it,' he says.

'Those teeming microbes—of which probably only about less than 1 per cent have actually been characterised, let alone cultured and sequenced—we don't know what they are. There's plenty of room at the bottom for microbial life that would be radically alternative to known life.'

Listen: The Science Show on the possibility of life beyond Earth

If these microbes were found, it would be obvious from their biochemistry that they could not possibly have had a common origin with the rest of life on Earth, Professor Davies says.

'Then you could say, well, life has happened at least twice, and if it's happened twice, it surely will have happened all the way around the universe,' he says.

'Then there would be justification for the belief that we live in a universe that is teeming with life. But we have to find one microbe.'

Such a discovery would energise Professor Davies' enthusiasm for SETI. Even before that, though, he believes the search is worthwhile, despite his scepticism about the process.

'I've always been a supporter of SETI. You can tell that I'm sceptical of the strategy, but I think it's worth doing, and it's worth doing because it leads people ... to have conversations like this,' he says.

'It gets young people excited by science, it makes us think about big questions like what is life, what is intelligence, what are the laws of nature, what is our place in the universe. Even if we don't get the answers from SETI, it's really good that we think about those things.'

{ http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/ }

12-08-2015 om 00:36 geschreven door peter  

Here's The Truth About NASA's 'Woman On Mars'

We're not saying it's aliens.

 It's a god-awful small affair, to the girl who's not even there.  

A photo from the Mars Curiosity rover posted to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory website has the Internet buzzing about the so-called "woman" on the Red Planet.

But if there is life on Mars, this image isn't evidence of it, one expert tells The Huffington Post. Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of the Center for SETI Research, thinks that it's all in the eyes -- or, brain, rather -- of the beholder.

"The fact that so many people are adept at playing 'Where’s Waldo?' with rover photos is a testament to our brain’s ability to pick out creatures in the visual landscape," he told HuffPost. "It’s a talent that helped our ancestors avoid predators or catch prey, but it’s a poor strategy in the hunt for extraterrestrial life."

Yes, the human brain is hard-wired to look for patterns, meaning and even faces in images. It's a phenomenon called pareidolia.

Although it's hard to tell exactly what the first (second?) lady of Mars is made of without examining it, Shostak says that it's probably a rock. (Hey, it could have been dust or dirt.)

"I know that this may disappoint those who are convinced otherwise, but just because it looks like a duck is hardly proof of ducky-ness -- or in this case, evidence that a miniature version of the Statue of Liberty is welcoming NASA hardware to Mars," Shostak said. 

Here's a bunch of other cool-looking Mars rocks: 

When the Mars rover Spirit captured this image of a human-like figure in 2007, alien enthusiasts hoped it might finally be a sign of alien life on the red planet. Scientists' verdict? Rock.

"Mars Rat"

The "Mars rat" was found in a March 2013 image from the Curiosity rover. The rat took the Internet by storm -- and even got its own Twitter account. So, rock or tech-savvy rat?... It's just. A rock.

Thigh Bone

Last month, alien enthusiasts claimed to have found a "thigh bone" in an image taken on Mars. Again. We're going with rock.

Skull

Spooky! This skull-like object was spotted in an image taken by the rover Spirit in 2006. Similar "skulls" have been spotted in subsequent rover images -- including a bird and a T. rex. Even an "alien's skull" was spotted. The verdict? ALL ROCKS.

Mysteriously Appearing Donut

When a rock shaped like a jelly doughnutmysteriously appeared in front of the Opportunity rover in January 2014, everyone wondered how it got there. Was it dropped there by an alien cop on his coffee break? Nope. According to NASA, the rover flicked it into its own path.

Helmet

Bloggers spotted this "helmet" or "bowler hat" in a 2013 Curiosity photo. It's definitely a rock.

Door Handle

This mysterious metallic-looking object that showed up in a Curiosity photo in 2013 may look like it flew off an alien's door. But according to NASA, it's just a hard, fine-grained rock that was "polished" by the wind.

Flower

This "flower" was spotted in a 2012 Curiosity photo. It's definitely not biological, but planetary scientist Aileen Yingst did tell Space.com that she would "hesitate to say what it is."

MORE: Woman On Mars, Mars Woman, Life On Mars, Mars Photos, Woman Mars Photos, Woman Mars Nasa

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12-08-2015 om 00:25 geschreven door peter  

(Before It's News)

openminds.tv

• Is Banbury becoming an alien hotspot? Police deal with multiple extraterrestrial reports – Branbury Guardian
• ‘The ISS is being monitored by aliens’: Conspiracy theorists spot yet another UFO hovering above the space station – Daily Mail
• Google app lets UFO lover detect ‘politician’s face’ on Mars – RT
• Here’s The Truth About NASA’s ‘Woman On Mars’ – Huffington Post
• Are we alone in the universe? Paul Davies on the search for extraterrestrial life – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

11-08-2015 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

2.8-Billion-Year-Old Spheres Found In South Africa: How Were They Made?

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2.8-Billion-Year-Old Spheres Found In South Africa: How Were They Made?

Spheres found in the mines of South Africa have piqued the curiosity of researchers for decades.

According to Michael Cremo and other researchers of prehistoric culture, these spheres add to a body of evidence suggesting intelligent life existed on Earth long before a conventional view of history places it here.

Cremo has traveled the world gathering information on out-of-place artefacts (ooparts); he compiled his findings in the popular book, “Forbidden Archaeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race.”

In 1984, while investigating the spheres, he contacted Roelf Marx, curator of the museum of Klerksdorp, South Africa, where some of the spheres are kept. Marx described the spheres as being about 2.8 billion years old, with a very hard surface and a fibrous structure inside. He found them quite strange and puzzling.

Marx wrote, according to Cremo: “’There is nothing scientific published about the globes, but the facts are: They are found in pyrophyllite, which is mined near the little town of Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal. This pyrophyllite … is a quite soft secondary mineral with a count of only 3 on the Mohs scale [a scale of 1 to 10 to rank the hardness of minerals] and was formed by sedimentation about 2.8 billion years ago.”

“On the other hand, the globes, which have a fibrous structure on the inside with a shell around it, are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel. The Mohs scale of hardness is named after Friedrich Mohs, who chose ten minerals as references points for comparative hardness, with talc the softest and diamond the hardest.”

Steel ranks about a 6.5 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale, so the spheres would be harder than that, according to Marx.

WERE THEY NATURALLY FORMED?

Some say the spheres were formed by a natural process of concretion. Concretions are masses of hardened mineral matter.

Some of the so-called Klerksdorp spheres are elliptical in shape with rough ridges around the center. But some are so balanced in shape and proportion, and the grooves around them look so straight and hand-carved, it seems unlikely they were naturally formed, say proponents of the theory that these spheres were made by intelligent beings.

In 2002, the Klerksdorp Museum posted a letter from John Hund of Pietersburg, South Africa, on its website. The claims made in this letter were not verified, according to geologist Paul V. Heinrich, and the letter was later removed. Hund stated that one of the spheres was tested at the California Space Institute, and scientists concluded that its balance “is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology.” It was “within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection.”

Heinrich did not find the South African spheres he studied perfectly balanced and shaped…

Moqui Marbles of Utah

In Utah, similar spheres were found. They are about 2 million years old, and they are known as Moqui marbles or Moqui balls. Legend holds that the departed ancestors of the Hopi Native Americans would play games with the marbles and leave them as messages to their relatives that they are happy and well.

Moqui marbles have a sandy interior and a hard, round exterior made of iron oxide. Heinrich’s tests on one of the Klerksdorp spheres showed it to be made of hematite, a mineral form of iron oxide. He found another Klerksdorp sphere consisted of the mineral wollastonite along with hematite and geothite, a hydrated iron oxide.

Various theories for exactly how these spheres may have been made are presented by those who say they are natural phenomena. Dr. Karrie Weber at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is researching microbes that she has said may have helped form the spheres out of the by-products of its life processes. 

Geologist Dave Crosby, who has done research in Utah where the Moqui marbles are found, originally hypothesized that a meteor impact scattered molten spheres that then condensed on sand grains. Upon closer examination, as explained on RocksandMinerals.com, he found no evidence of a meteor impact. He then developed a theory that involves rainwater dissolving iron and other minerals and carrying them to the groundwater. As they flow through the groundwater, the ions are deposited around sand grains forming spheres.

Cremo, and others who hold that ooparts are evidence of advanced prehistoric civilizations, say mainstream scientists need to be more bold and more willing to acknowledge evidence that could contradict dominant views. 

The article ‘2.8-Billion-Year-Old Spheres Found in South Africa: How Were They Made?’ originally appeared on The Epoch Times and has been republished with permission.

Featured image: Top left, bottom right: Spheres, known as Klerksdorp spheres, found in the pyrophyllite (wonderstone) deposits near Ottosdal, South Africa. (Robert Huggett) Top right, bottom left: Objects known as Moqui marbles from the Navajo Sandstone of southeast Utah. (Paul Heinrich)

Source: http://ufothetruthisoutthere.blogspot.com/2014/10/28-billion-year-old-spheres-found-in.html

11-08-2015 om 23:52 geschreven door peter  

Train Collides With Alien Craft In Kentucky

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TRAIN COLLIDES WITH ALIEN CRAFT IN KENTUCKY

JANUARY 14, 2002   ………BIG SANDY RIVER KENTUCKY

While many UFO sightings take place high in the sky or at a distance, occasionally one will be seen close up to the witnesses. There have even been the occasional reports of UFO’s being too close at times. One such report comes from the Appalachian Mountains of Southeastern Kentucky. It was a cold night on January 14th, 2002 as a CSX train with two engines was pulling a 16,000-ton line of coal and freight cars from Russell to Shelbiana, Kentucky. Near milepost 42 the double track was running beside the Big Sandy River and a cliff face carved out of the mountainside to provide room for the tracks. The terrain is rugged and concealing along the river valley. At 2:47 a.m., as the train was approaching a bend, the conductor saw lights ahead. Figuring it was just another train coming toward them on the other track he doused his own headlights as a courtesy.  

Then the encounter went haywire for the train. As it came around the bend the electrical system began to cut in and out and the diesel engines of both locomotives died. The proximity alarm began to scream a warning at the driver. Looking out the window the train crew saw a very strange sight. Hovering over the river and the tracks were a group of unidentifiable objects. They were described as being of a metallic silver color with multiple colored lights on both the bottom and middle section of the craft. At least three of the objects were directing what looked like search lights onto the surface of the river.  The train crew could see no windows on the craft which they estimated as being maybe 20 feet long and about half that much tall. What was of the most imminent concern was one of the objects hovering about 10 feet above the tracks they were on. Despite the emergency braking system activating as soon as the power died, one does not stop 16,000 tons instantly. Inevitably the UFO was struck by the train’s locomotive. It clipped the front engine and then bounced around to cut a piece from the second engine and damage the first two coal cars. The unidentified objects immediately took off from the area and vanished into the sky.

It took nearly two miles for the train to finally come to a halt. After it stopped the power returned and the crew contacted their dispatcher in Jacksonville, Florida to appraise him of the situation. After a quick inspection of the damage they were ordered to try and make it to the Paintsville rail yard where, even though it was barely operational anymore, they would be able to drop off the damaged equipment. Their new destination was about 20 miles further down the tracks and they made it to Paintsville by around 5:15 a.m.  The crew was immediately taken off the train and questioned by a group of men they did not know. The only thing they were sure of was that they were not railroad personnel. After two hours of this, the men were taken out and placed on a smaller railroad carrier headed for Martin, Kentucky. They noticed as they left that the two engines and two damaged rail cars had been removed from the train but they didn’t see where they had been taken to.  After arriving at Martin, the train crew spent more time being interviewed by railroad  Inspectors. They were finally sent to Shelbiana for an eight-hour layover before their next shift began, working another train back towards Russell, Kentucky. As they passed through Paintsville they saw absolutely no evidence of the train they had been in when they ran into the UFO or of the huge number of people that had mysteriously appeared to work on the damaged train.  

Official records of the repair of the engine state the crumpled roof and smashed window were caused by a rock slide in one of the train way tunnels that dot the tracks through this mountainous region. Still, no report of the rockslide or its cleaning up has been found. The CXS Railroad has routinely kept their business to themselves and rarely are incidents along the line made public unless a train has hit someone. That nothing of this incident, or even a rockslide, made it into any of the local newspapers is not unusual.  UFO’s have often been spotted hovering over water. What they are looking for as well as what these particular objects were after is unknown. Whether the UFO the train hit managed to continue flying or crashed into the Big Sandy River is also unknown. 

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11-08-2015 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

Is de legendarische koningin Nefertiti gevonden? “Geheime deur ontdekt in tombe Toetanchamon”

Wetenschappers denken dat ze een geheime deur hebben ontdekt in de grafkamer van de Egyptische farao Toetanchamon. Achter de deur zou het graf van Nefertiti, de schoonmoeder van Toetanchamon, verborgen liggen.

“De deur leidt naar het ongeopende graf van de oorspronkelijke eigenaar van het graf, Nefertiti,” zegt archeoloog Nicholas Reeves van de Universiteit van Arizona. Op scans ontdekte hij silhouetten van wat twee dichtgemetselde deuren lijken te zijn. Hij denkt dat de ene deur naar een opslagplaats leidt en de andere naar de tombe van Nefertiti.

Zijn vermoeden wordt versterkt doordat de grafkamer van Toetanchamon rechts van de toegangstunnel ligt. Dat is eerder gebruikelijk bij koninginnen dan bij farao’s. Het zou ook verklaren waarom de grafkamer van Toetanchamon zo klein is.

De deur zou verborgen zitten achter de man met de luipaardvacht, rechts op de foto:

De noordelijke muur van de graftombe van Toetanchamon (Factum Arte)

Nefertiti was de vrouw van farao Achnaton en leefde tijdens de 18e Dynastie (14e eeuw voor Christus). Ze is één van de beroemdste Egyptische vrouwen uit de klassieke oudheid. Ze stond bekend om haar grote schoonheid. Haar naam betekent letterlijk ‘de mooie is gekomen’.

Eén van de grootste raadsels

Als de theorie van Reeves klopt, is daarmee één van de grootste raadsels in de egyptologie opgelost. De laatste rustplaats van Nefertiti is namelijk altijd onbekend gebleven. Nu is het de vraag of de Egyptische autoriteiten willen meewerken en onderzoek zullen toestaan.

“De implicaties zijn buitengewoon,” schrijft de archeoloog. “We hebben niet alleen het vooruitzicht een geweldige voorraadkamer aan te treffen uit het tijdperk van Toetanchamon, maar ook de grafkamer van de legendarische koningin Nefertiti.”

Lees hier alles over de ontdekking. Vind je dit een interessante ontdekking? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

[Nieuwsblad, The Times, Economist]

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11-08-2015 om 23:31 geschreven door peter  

Gigantische verborgen oceaan gevonden onder Chinese woestijn: “Dit is een schrikbarende hoeveelheid water”

Chinese wetenschappers hebben onder één van de droogste plekken op aarde een reusachtige verborgen oceaan ontdekt. Dat meldt de South China Morning Post.

Het Tarimbekken in het noordwesten van de autonome regio Xinjiang is één van de droogste gebieden op aarde, maar de enorme hoeveelheid zout water die onder het oppervlak verborgen ligt, past 10 keer in alle vijf Grote Meren in de Verenigde Staten.

Definitie aanpassen

“Dit is een schrikbarende hoeveelheid water,” zei professor Li Yan van de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen. “Je kunt je haast niet voorstellen dat er zoveel water onder het zand zit. We moeten mogelijk onze definitie van woestijn aanpassen.”

Wetenschappers vermoedden dat smeltwater van nabijgelegen bergen onder het bekken was gesijpeld, maar om hoeveel water het precies ging was niet bekend.

Per toeval ontdekt

Het team van Li stuitte per toeval op het water. De wetenschappers waren op zoek naar koolstofdioxide, dat wordt opgeslagen in onder meer bossen en oceanen. Zo’n 10 jaar geleden ontdekte het team dat CO2 al 10 jaar lang in het bekken verdween. De onderzoekers hadden er alleen geen verklaring voor.

Nadat ze op 200 locaties in de woestijn monsters hadden genomen konden ze berekenen hoeveel water er in het bekken is gestroomd. “Dit is nog maar een voorzichtige schatting,” zei Li. “De werkelijke hoeveelheid kan vele malen groter zijn.”

Het team gaat nu samenwerken met andere onderzoekers om te kijken of elders op aarde ook ondergrondse ‘oceanen’ onder woestijnen liggen. Li verwacht onder de woestijnen grote hoeveelheden water aan te treffen. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

[IBTimes]

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11-08-2015 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

Ruimteschip lanceert kleinere UFO's boven Chicago, USA ( Video )

Vorig jaar januari was er een moederschip boven Brazilië waaruit een aantal kleinere UFO’s tevoorschijn kwamen. 

Dit keer is het in het Amerikaanse Chicago dat er iets vergelijkbaars gebeurt. 

Het  is bekend dat UFO’s en dan met name de grotere moederschepen, zich veelal vermommen in wolken waardoor ze niet vaak echt goed zichtbaar. Naast moederschip vervullen deze wolken een soort dubbelrol als dimensieportaal. 

Soms echter zijn de moederschepen zichtbaar en dan zie je hoe ze de kleinere UFO’s als het ware lanceren. 

Een prachtig voorbeeld hiervan was vorig jaar januari te zien in Brazilië.

In de volgende video zie je hoe het moederschip de kleinere UFO’s dropt die vervolgens in een bepaalde formatie wegvliegen. 

 

Iets dergelijk gebeurde ook boven de Amerikaanse stad Chicago. In eerste instantie lijkt het alsof er een meteoriet naar beneden komt:

Even later komen vanuit het grote licht/object een aantal kleinere UFO’s tevoorschijn:

Nog wat later zijn er talloze UFO’s te zien die in formatie door de lucht dansen.

In de volgende video zie je het vreemde licht verschijnen aan de hemel, even later de kleinere exemplaren die stuk voor stuk verschijnen en als het ware door de lucht dartelen en “aan en uit” knipperen. 

 

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11-08-2015 om 23:10 geschreven door peter  

Nadering planeet Niburu veroorzaakt rode luchten ( Video )

De enorme bedragen die in Amerika zijn verdwenen en waarvan niemand weet waar ze zijn gebleven, zijn gebruikt voor ondergrondse schuilplaatsen. 

Om de planeet Nibiru nu in snel tempo dichterbij komt, zijn er steeds vaker rode luchten te zien als gevolg van de ijzeroxide die in een grote wolk rondom onze planeet zweeft. 

In een eerder artikel van november vorig jaar hebben wij geschreven over Bob Fletcher: 

Iemand die tot vergelijkbare conclusies komt voor wat betreft de cover up van de planeet Nibiru is de Amerikaanse onderzoeker Bob Fletcher. 

Hij houdt zich al jaren lang bezig met onderzoeken naar vooral corruptie en dergelijke binnen de Amerikaanse overheid en andere praktijken die niet door de beugel kunnen. 

Eén van de meest uitgebreide onderzoeken die Bob Fletcher ooit heeft uitgevoerd is die naar Nibiru en dan vooral ook de manier waarop men dit voor het grote publiek verborgen probeert te houden. 

Bob Fletcher weet uit zijn onderzoeken dat de onbekende Planet X of Nibiru wel degelijk bestaat en dichterbij is dan wij denken. 

Volgens wat Fletcher vertelt, moet deze planeet aan het einde van dit jaar duidelijk zichtbaar worden voor iedereen: 

Verder zegt hij dat het vroegst mogelijke moment dat we deze planeet kunnen waarnemen over ongeveer een jaar zal zijn. Tegen Kerst volgend jaar. Het zou ook wat later kunnen zijn, maar niet eerder. 

Wanneer dit het geval is, zal de planeet zichtbaar worden als een heldere ster aan de hemel en de passage en de gevolgen voor de aarde zullen daarna niet lang op zich laten wachten. 

Als de planeet verschijnt op het door Fletcher genoemde moment dan zal de werkelijke passage plaatsvinden ergens in het voorjaar daarna. 

Naast alle andere, inmiddels bekende, verschijnselen zoals sterk toenemende vulkanische uitbarstingen, aardbevingen en meteoren, spreekt hij ook van torenhoge vloedgolven die de aarde zullen teisteren. 

Voor diegenen die niet zo goed op de hoogte zijn van wat Planet X of Nibiru precies inhoudt volgt hier een ruim zes minuten durende video die een heldere uitleg geeft. 

Ook voor mensen die twijfelen aan het bestaan van Nibiru is deze video een aanrader. 

 

In het jaar 2012 werd contact opgenomen met Bob Fletcher door het Amerikaanse Congres. Met de vraag of hij wilde helpen met het onderzoek om uit te vinden waar biljoenen Amerikaanse belasting Dollars waren gebleven. 

Bob besefte al snel dat al het goud dat Amerika zogenaamd voor veel andere landen bewaart, allang verdwenen is samen met nog veel meer Amerikaans bezit. Zonder enige uitleg of tastbare voordelen die daarvoor in de plaats zijn gekomen. Het ene leidde tenslotte tot het andere en dankzij zijn eerdere werk voor de CIA aangaande witwassen van geld, slaagde Fletcher erin vast te stellen dat er in het begin van de jaren tachtig enorme bedragen achterover werden gedrukt voor de aanleg van ondergrondse faciliteiten en wegen. 

Verder onderzoek wees uit dat Amerika ook andere landen helpt met het financieren van dergelijke ondergrondse faciliteiten in ruil voor steun tegen terrorisme en dergelijken. Naar nu blijkt heeft sinds 1983 ieder land ter wereld zich beziggehouden met ondergrondse activiteiten. 

Hetzelfde jaar waarin Nibiru werd ontdekt door de infrarode telescoop IRAS. Nibiru is eveneens waargenomen door bekende Vaticaantelescoop Lucifer: 

Duitsland en Italie maakten op 21 april 2010 bekend dat op Mount Graham, Tucson, Arizona USA, het observatorium uitgebreid is met de Lucifer telescoop. De VORG, Vatican Observatory Research Group werkt daar met de grootste optische telescoop om de verste objecten in de ruimte te kunnen waarnemen. 

Lucifer, genaamd naar de duivel, is onderdeel van een LBT, Large Binocular Telescope, naast het Vaticaans observatorium dat bemand wordt door Jezuïtische astronomen. De naam komt van: Large binocular telescope near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field unit for Extragalactic Research De keuze van deze naam laat volgens critici zien waar het Vaticaan werkelijk voor staat. 

Jezuïetenastronomen en Lucifer zijn een natuurlijke combinatie. 

Om terug te keren naar Bob Fletcher en een lang verhaal niet al te lang te maken: 

Fletcher’s onderzoek heeft uitgewezen dat er alleen al in Amerika 100 tot 103 ondergrondse faciliteiten zijn, inclusief die waar nu nog aan wordt gebouwd. Wat dit onderzoek eigenlijk niet zo heel moeilijk maakte, was dat er biljoenen Dollars aan zijn gespendeerd. Wanneer dat soort bedragen zouden zijn gespendeerd aan bovengrondse infrastructuurprojecten dan was dit door iedereen opgemerkt. 

Naarmate Nibiru dichterbij komt, zullen wij meer gaan merken van het roodachtige ijzeroxidestof dat zich als een soort staart achter Nibiru aan beweegt. Soms wordt dit rode stof enigszins zichtbaar, maar de donkere luchten die dit veroorzaakt zullen wij volgens Nancy Lieder over niet al te lange tijd steeds meer meemaken. 

Dan komen we vrij automatisch weer terug op de oude profetieën en voorspellingen. Zelfs in de bijbel wordt de komst van Niburu aangekondigd, inclusief de rode luchten en de elite die zich probeert veilig te stellen in ondergrondse schuilplaatsen: 

Openbaringen 6: 

12 En ik zag, toen Het het zesde zegel geopend had, en ziet, er werd een grote aardbeving; en de zon werd zwart als een haren zak, en de maan werd als bloed. 

13 En de sterren des hemels vielen op de aarde, gelijk een vijgenboom zijn onrijpe vijgen afwerpt, als hij van een groten wind geschud wordt. 

14 En de hemel is weggeweken, als een boek, dat toegerold wordt; en alle bergen en eilanden zijn bewogen uit hun plaatsen. 

15 En de koningen der aarde, en de groten, en de rijken, en de oversten over duizend, en de machtigen, en alle dienstknechten, en alle vrijen, verborgen zichzelven in de spelonken, en in de steenrotsen der bergen. 

Volgens Nancy zijn de donkere luchten gearriveerd en volgens Bob Fletcher is aangetoond waar de Amerikaanse belasting Dollars aan zijn uitgegeven. 

Spannende tijden! 

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11-08-2015 om 23:04 geschreven door peter  

UFO Footage: Something Strange At Space Station Leading To Conspiracist Claims

From nearly day one of the modern UFO eras, the subject has been associated and clouded with all sorts of conspiracy theories – official censorship and deliberate cover-ups of information and releases of disinformation. Of course, there are things that need to be kept secret. But not all, especially when the images were taken from credible people.

Alien Chasers think that astronauts on board are being monitored by extraterrestrials daily. As it spans across space, there is the latest video being taken from NASA footage in one of the ISS cameras. The object is in only momentarily, but also appears to be a light in color with a pinkish tail. The footage was being filmed by a watcher of NASA camera who posted the videos to the YouTube channel under Streetcap1. While some viewed it as a hoax material, he insisted that his material comes from NASA footage. The agency seems like a fuel conspiracy theorist on anomalies that is being caught on camera.

Despite enabling public access, the Ufologists claim NASA is withholding information about strange objects from the public. One UFO enthusiast at Youtube, claimed that he loved how the camera pans to the right, focusing on the object and then continues its way as if nothing happened. Since the recording appears to be dramatic, a lot of speculations have been circulating. Another commenter asked regarding the occurrence us one of a secret program trying to disclose the information by appearing it something incidental.

Well, the government would never or is not willing to share any information or knowledge with any other nation. The reason is for military advantage and national security. Hence, people were not informed if the strange sightings were your enemies or allies. As time goes by, it becomes even harder to admit to having done this.

11-08-2015 om 22:49 geschreven door peter  

Illinois UFO Sighting: Orb Capture on Video

Despite well-liked belief, the word UFO is an abbreviation of an Unidentified Flying Object. Apparently, the word does not signify a flying saucer or a spaceship. In fact, it applies to an object captured in the sky. Since it is unidentified, it is not readily identified by the observer. This may apply to unusual weather conditions or military plane that are not commonly noticed in the human eyes. Because they are rare, people connect them with aliens and spacecraft.

Yes, it is rare but the occurrences are increasingly becoming a standard sighting. Day by day, several witness report sightings on their vicinities. These witnesses range from professional pilots, celebrities, and the random public. In Oak Park, IL, one witness claimed to have captured an unidentified object when he tried to capture a video of a storm cloud currently emitting the heat lightning. The said occurrence happened on the back porch of the house. But later on, the witness discovered that it caught something else other than the indeed shooting. He reported seeing a streak of light that cannot be explained or rationalized. Since he could not identify, he filed the sighting as a Case 68838 from the MUFON witness reporting database.

As he slowed down the video and showed it to friends, the latter could not identify what the objects were.  The so-called orb appears eleven seconds in. The sighting seems to be a glowing orb that is moving in a downward motion. The movement moves toward the ground level. Sam Maranto, the Illinois MUFON State Director and Roger Laurella, the Assistant State Director are both investigating. The report was being filed on July 31, 2015, by the witness, as advised by the latter’s friends.

Regardless of what individuals say about their sightings in the past, extraterrestrial sightings are still practically regular occurrences. Admit it! Lots if different sighting is being reported day by day.

11-08-2015 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

12bn suns, 13bn light years away: Ancient black hole blows scientists’ minds

11-08-2015 om 01:02 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 8/10/2015

(Before It's News)

openminds.tv

• WATCH: Did glowing ‘UFO’ cause THUNDERSTORM after appearing in skies above Russia? – Daily Express
• After Claiming There Is A Crab On Mars, UFO Nerds Are Now Convinced They’ve Found A Woman There –India Times
• 2012 UFO: Purple Mothership – Syracuse New Times
• Object Falls from the Sky in Chhattisgarh. Speculations of UFO, Parts from Alien Spaceship, Satellite Debris or Plane Part – Liverpool VS
• UFO sightings that have been reported from all over the world – India Today

11-08-2015 om 00:26 geschreven door peter  

The Amazing History of the Dogon Tribe: Aryan Aliens in Ancient Africa

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Located in Mali West Africa, the Dogon have a rich culture dating to around 3200 BCE, and are believed to be a hybrid ethnic group descended from a mixing of the ancient Egyptians of North Africa with various other sub-Saharan tribal populations.

Deeply rooted traditions of the Dogon people speak of the Nommos who visited from a companion star to Sirius. The Nommos are known as advanced beings who have also appeared in numerous related myths found in the Sumerian and other Mesopotamian cultures.

Sirius’ companion star has a 50 year elliptical orbit and is not visible to the naked eye. According to some research, modern astronomers did not know the companion star existed until the Dogon myth was discovered.

They tell us how the Nommos shared the knowledge of Sirius with them and left behind several artifacts. 

One artifact depicting the Sirius constellation carbon dates to 400 years ago, a little over 230 years before astronomers suspected the existence of the companion star.

The Dogon people were first documented over a several year study performed by anthropologist Marcel Griaule. 

In his research notes we find conversations between Griaule and a Dogon elder named Ogotemmeli, who speaks of multiple companion stars in the Sirius system.

There are entries suggesting the Nommos visited on a very large star ship on several occasions, and the notes also indicate Dogon people knew of Saturn’s rings, and the many moons of Jupiter.

Every 60 years, the Dogon people celebrate the cycle of Sirius A and B which rises further questions considering Sirius B’s 50 year cycle.

Dogon mysteries mention another star in the system, which would be called Sirius C if confirmed by modern telescopes. Nommos are believed to inhabit a planet orbiting Sirius C though mainstream science does not consider the Sirius constellation to be a prime candidate for life.

Credo Mutwa, the 94-year-old Zulu shaman or “sanusi” in South Africa, claims that this picture he had painted of tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed beings had been seen by black African tribes people throughout that continent long before the white Europeans arrived.

Credo, the official historian of the Zulu nation, said that when the Europeans first came, the black Africans thought they were the return of these same white “gods”, which they called the Mzungu (see his paintings below). As a result they called the European settlers by the same name, which is still used today.

This was very much the same reaction as the Central American peoples when Cortes and his Spanish invasion party arrived in 1519 and they thought that he was the returning god, Quetzalcoatl, another god described as tall, bearded, and with piercing blue eyes.

The Feathered Serpent God appears in many ancient cultures and Mesoamerican legends. He was called Viracocha by the Incas, Kukulkan by the Mayas, Quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs, Gucumatz in Central America, Votan in Palenque and Zamna in Izamal. He and his ‘men’ were usually described as being bearded, with white skin, and deep blue eyes. 

 

Source: Humans Are Free

11-08-2015 om 00:15 geschreven door peter  

Vaticaanse hoofdastronoom gelooft in UFO’s en aliens

De Argentijnse jezuïet José Gabriel Funes, de hoofdastronoom van het Vaticaan, heeft bevestigd dat de Vaticaanse Sterrenwacht in Rome gelooft in intelligent leven op andere planeten.

Hoewel het ooit vasthield aan het idee dat de aarde het middelpunt van het universum was en dat de zon om onze planeet draaide, lijkt het erop dat de denkbeelden van het Vaticaan over de rol van de mensheid in het heelal erg zijn veranderd.

De Vaticaanse Sterrenwacht, die al sinds 1582 namens de Rooms-katholieke Kerk de hemel bestudeert, heeft gezegd dat het door de ontdekking van de vele exoplaneten in de laatste jaren goed mogelijk is dat er elders intelligente levensvormen bestaan.

In de Vaticaanse krant L’Osservatore Romano zegt broeder Funes: “Ons sterrenstelsel bevat meer dan 100 miljard sterren. Gezien het aantal ontdekte exoplaneten lijkt het erop dat rond de meerderheid van alle sterren in ons sterrenstelsel planeten draaien waarop leven mogelijk is.”

The Pope’s chief astronomer does not believe that Jesus Christ visited other alien lifeforms as he has Earth.

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Spock

Ondanks de erkenning dat elders in het heelal leven kan bestaan, denkt Funes niet dat we binnenkort oog in oog zullen staan met aliens. “Door de ontdekking van de nieuwe planeet Kepler 452b herleeft het idee dat contact met intelligente wezens van een buitenaardse beschaving in de nabije toekomst kan plaatsvinden. De mogelijkheid bestaat dat er leven is en zelfs een vorm van intelligent leven, maar ik denk niet dat we ooit een Mr. Spock zullen ontmoeten.”

De ontdekking van intelligent leven betekent volgens Funes echter niet dat er ook een andere Jezus is. “De incarn

atie van de zoon van God is een unieke gebeurtenis in de geschiedenis van de mensheid en van het universum, en als er intelligent leven is op een andere planeet, is dat niet in tegenspraak met het christelijke geloof.”

Broers en zussen

Funes deed zijn uitspraken na de recente aankondiging van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA over een aardachtige planeet die volgens wetenschappers leven zou kunnen herbergen. Kepler 452b staat op 1400 lichtjaar van de aarde en er kan water stromen, wat één van de basisvoorwaarden voor leven is. Kepler 452b is echter 1,5 miljard jaar ouder dan onze planeet.

De astronoom beweert al jaren dat er geen conflict hoeft te zijn tussen de mogelijkheid van intelligent buitenaards leven en de leer van de Rooms-katholieke Kerk. “Net zoals er op aarde veel verschillende levensvormen bestaan, kan dat elders ook. Dit is niet in strijd met ons geloof omdat we Gods creatieve vrijheid niet kunnen beperken tot één planeet. Zoals Franciscus van Assisi al zei: als we op aarde broers en zussen van elkaar zijn, dan zouden buitenaardse families net zo goed tot onze schepping kunnen behoren.”

Galilei

“De Bijbel is geen wetenschappelijke publicatie,” zei hij. “We mogen in dat boek dus geen antwoorden zoeken op wetenschappelijke vragen.”

Slechts 380 jaar geleden kwam Galileo Galilei in conflict met de Kerk omdat hij zei dat de aarde niet het middelpunt van het universum was. In 1992 sprak paus Johannes Paulus II een excuus uit, waarmee de naam van Galilei werd gezuiverd. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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10-08-2015 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

Ligt voor de kust van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten een tweede Atlantis begraven?

De Perzische Golf bevat zeer waarschijnlijk archeologische schatten die duizenden jaren geleden als gevolg van een overstroming zijn begraven. Het blootleggen van de resten van oude beschavingen is lastig en bovendien is er veel geld voor nodig, zo zegt aardwetenschapper David Millar.

Millar, een Brit die in Canada woont, leefde 10 jaar lang in de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten toen hij in de olie-industrie werkzaam was. Hij ontwikkelde een voorliefde voor de geschiedenis van het land. Zijn boek ‘Beyond Dubai: Seeking Lost Cities in the Emirates’ is in augustus 2014 gepubliceerd.

Voordat hij naar de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten ging dacht hij dat het niet meer was dan een stuk woestijn. Al snel kwam hij in aanraking met de verrassend rijke geschiedenis van het land. Wetenschappers en historici menen dat er heel veel archeologische schatten verborgen liggen voor de kust van het land, dat ooit een vruchtbare landmassa was voordat het omstreeks 8000 jaar geleden werd overstroomd.

Dikke laag modder

Tijdens de laatste IJstijd viel de hele Perzische Golf droog. Door de enorme hoeveelheid ijs daalde de zeespiegel ongeveer 120 meter. De Perzische Golf is gemiddeld 24 tot 30 meter diep.

Millar merkte op dat het zoeken naar de overblijfselen van oude beschavingen extreem moeilijk zal zijn. Artefacten liggen mogelijk onder een dikke laag modder verscholen. Als je in het gebied duikt is het zicht bovendien beperkt.

Geen relatie

Sommige onderzoekers denken dat de bevolkingsgroepen zich na de overstroming hebben gevestigd in de kustgebieden van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten en andere landen in de regio. Scherven aardewerk laten echter zien dat de bevolkingsgroepen die aan de kust leefden geen relatie hadden met eerdere kolonisten.

Met uitzondering van de Universiteit van Oslo, zijn er op dit moment maar heel weinig universiteiten die voor de kust van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten onderzoek doen. Millar denkt dat ze interessante voorwerpen zullen tegenkomen als ze in de Perzische Golf opgravingen zullen doen. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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10-08-2015 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

Green UFO Seen Over New York City On Aug 8, 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 8, 2015
Location of sighting: New York City, New York, USA
News Source: MUFON

This UFO was seen in New York City this week and looks a lot like the UFO seen in the Netherlands back in May 16, 2015 (click here to view). The human eye is less perfect than the digital eye so its understandable that the person didn't see it till they got home to upload it. If has seen this UFO in NY, please tell us in comments. 

Scott C. Waring

www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
I was walking north on 10th Ave taking pictures. I didn't notice that I had photographed anything until i downloaded my images several hours later at home. When I first saw them I thought they might have been lights from a helicopter but it wasn't dark enough for the whole body of an aircraft to be obscured. Whatever it is, looks segmented with gaps between the lights.In one picture you can see a light seemingly ascending in the distance. I really don't have feelings either way as I've always been a believer in UFO's. Always thought that i would see something sooner or later. As i mentioned, i didn't see these images until i downloaded them.

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10-08-2015 om 23:11 geschreven door peter