NASA Tests Rocket to One Day Use for Deep Space Exploration

In preparation for the "Journey to Mars," NASA tested an engine that they hope will one day carry astronauts to the Red Planet.

According to CBS News, NASA powered up the engine for eight minutes and 55 seconds at the launch pad because that is typically the amount of time it would take to propel the spacecraft into orbit. NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) RS-52 rocket exerted an immense amount of pressure as well as higher temperatures and thrust levels.

"The RS-25 engine gives SLS a proven, high performance, affordable main propulsion system for deep space exploration," NASA said in a statement. "It is one of the most experienced large rocket engines in the world, with more than a million seconds of ground test and flight operations time. Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, is the prime contractor for the RS-25 engine work."

One NASA official indicated the results of the test were encouraging, or at least right what the space agency was hoping for.

"The initial results are great," Steve Swofford, NASA's SLS engines manager, told CBS News. "We ran full duration for 535 seconds, we met our test objectives, didn't note any anomalies at this time. So now we get the fun part of going through the data."

Those who witnessed the test were overwhelmed by the RS-52 engine's power.

"No exaggeration to say you feel it more than hear it," Stephen Clark, a reporter for Spaceflightnow.com, told CBS News. "And hearing protection is actually needed."

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16-08-2015 om 00:58 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers van Nasa zetten zich schrap voor wat de grootste El Niño allertijden kan worden. Het natuurverschijnsel, dat eens om de 4 tot 10 jaar voorkomt, zorgt ervoor dat het zeeoppervlak van de Stille Oceaan sterk opwarmt, wat leidt tot aardverschuivingen, minder vis, zware regenval en uitzonderlijke droogtes.

Eens om de 4 à 10 jaar laat De Kleine Jongen (de vertaling van El Niño, refererend naar het Kerstekind, aangezien het fenomeen vaak rond die periode voorkomt) van zich horen. Wanneer El Niño zich laat voelen, zijn de Peruviaanse vissers de eersten die het opmerken: door de opwarming van het zeeoppervlak aan de evenaar, is het visseizoen dan meteen voorbij.

Spoor van vernieling

Even later laat het sterk opgewarmde water nog meer sporen van vernieling achter. Doordat het water voor de westkust van Zuid-Amerika plots niet meer wordt aangevoerd door een koude stroming maar door tropisch oceaanwater, maken heel wat vissoorten dat ze wegkomen vooraleer ze sterven. De Zuid-Amerikaanse vissers raken in een economische ramp verzeild. Bovendien verdampt het warme water massaal, waarna het tegen de Andes botst en daar voor hevige regenval met modderlawines en aardverschuivingen zorgt.

Tegelijkertijd zorgt El Niño voor ongeziene droogtes aan de andere kant van de Stille Oceaan. Van Australië tot Indonesië is het knokken voor landbouwers en woeden hevige branden in bosrijke gebieden.

 

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Forecasters warn 'Godzilla El Nino' could shatter weather records http://cbsloc.al/1UFkzND 

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‘Godzilla-El Niño op komst’

Wetenschappers van Nasa zijn dan ook zeer bezorgd wanneer ze naar de huidige metingen van de temperatuur van het zeeoppervlak kijken. De Kleine Jongen maakt zich opnieuw klaar om toe te slaan en het ziet ernaar uit dat hij een nieuw record wil vestigen.

‘De computermodellen tonen aan dat we afstevenen op een Godzilla-El Niño, die op zijn hoogtepunt zal zijn tegen het begin van de winter’, zegt klimatoloog Bill Patzert van Nasa. ‘Dit kan voor ongeziene overstromingen, modderstromen en droogtes zorgen.

Tijdens één van de zwaarste El Niño’s ooit in 1997-1998 werd de economische schade wereldwijd op zo’n 24 miljard dollar geschat. Het effect van De Kleine Jongen op West-Europa blijft voorlopig klein: een nat voorjaar in 2016 is wel verzekerd.

15-08-2015 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

Solar Warden: The Secret Space Program Built with Alien Technology

“We now have the technology to take ET home.” –Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works, 1993

The story behind this quote is an interesting one. At a lecture held in 1993 at the UCLA Alumni center, Ben Rich, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works held a speech about the advancements in space engineering during the previous 40 years.

He concluded with the quote about taking ET home while the final image in his slide presentation showed a “black disk zipping out into outer space.”

Over the years, the Skunk Works division of Lockheed has designed and built a number of high-tech aircraft such as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117 Nighthawk.

Taking this into account, some have drawn the conclusion that Rich alluded to advanced technology being secretly developed and it might be responsible for some of the flying disks we see today.

Seems too far-fetched? We’re on the same page but wait, it gets better.

In 2001, British systems administrator Gary McKinnon hacked his way into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers. He intended to find top-secret files regarding free energy but stumbled upon something bigger.

McKinnon claimed to have uncovered a spreadsheet containing names and information about “non-terrestrial officers” and transfers between fleets.

He cross referenced these names with a database of all U.S. Navy and military personnel but was unable to find any of the officers. McKinnon therefore concluded they were not of this world and labeled them as “Space Marines”.

In an interview with the BBC, he said he had been motivated by The Disclosure Project because:

•  “They are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered them.”

McKinnon was discovered just as he was examining the image of a UFO stored in a NASA computer in Johnson Space Center’s Building 8. Caught in 2002, he was facing up to 70 years in prison and several million dollars in fines.

However, the U.K. never extradited him to the U.S. and McKinnon managed to avoid prison. Some say that he was able to do so because he had amassed sensitive information that he used as leverage.

He maintains his claim that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been captured and reverse-engineered and now the alien technology is being used by entities in our own figurative backyard.

Program Solar Warden

This brings us to Solar Warden. According to conspiracy theorists, Solar Warden is an ultra-secret project that maintains a fleet (or several fleets) of spaceships that are operating within our solar system. Some say they’re defending us against alien threats. Others say they’re involved in the covert colonization of space.

Such a fleet would require technology way ahead of what we’ve currently got. In order to send manned missions into the far reaches of our solar system we’d need exotic materials and propulsion systems. But there are some who claim we already do.

•         “I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the Moon.

Even so, who would have the coin required to fund such a venture?

The United States’ black budget for 2014 amounted to some $52.6 billion and they plan on spending around $58.7 B this year. But even this astronomical sum isn’t enough to fund or maintain a secret space fleet. And that’s when conspiracy voices start mentioning the deep black budgets.

As it turns out, there might be UFOs that were built on Earth, based on technology that originated elsewhere in the universe, and we might actually have a secret space fleet [capable of interplanetary travel].

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15-08-2015 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

DON'T FREAK OUT, BUT SCIENTISTS THINK OCTOPUSES 'MIGHT BE ALIENS' AFTER DNA STUDY

Not to send you into a meltdown or anything but octopuses are basically ‘aliens’ – according to scientists.

Researchers have found a new map of the octopus genetic code that is so strange that it could be actually be an “alien”. 

The first whole cephalopod genome sequence shows a striking level of complexity with 33,000 protein-coding genes identified – more than in a human. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

Not only that, the octopus DNA is highly rearranged – like cards shuffled and reshuffled in a pack – containing numerous so-called “jumping genes” that can leap around the genome. 

“The octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities,” said US researcher Dr Clifton Ragsdale, from the University of Chicago. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

“The late British zoologist Martin Wells said the octopus is an alien. In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien.” 

The scientists sequenced the genome of the California two-spot octopus in a study published in the journal Nature. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

They discovered unique genetic traits that are likely to have played a key role in the evolution of characteristics such as the complex nervous system and adaptive camouflage. 

Analysis of 12 different tissues revealed hundreds of octopus-specific genes found in no other animal, many of them highly active in structures such as the brain, skin and suckers. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

The scientists estimate that the two-spot octopus genome contains 2.7 billion base pairs – the chemical units of DNA – with long stretches of repeated sequences. 

And although the genome is slightly smaller than a human’s, it is packed with more genes. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

Reshuffling was a key characteristic of the creature’s genetic make-up. In most species, cohorts of certain genes tend to be close together on the double-helix DNA molecule. 

A gene is a region of DNA that contains the coded instructions for making a protein. 



(Yen-Chui Liu)

In the octopus, however, there are no such groupings of genes with related functions. For instance, Hox genes – which control body plan development – cluster together in almost all animals but are scattered throughout the octopus genome. 

It was as if the octopus genome had been “put into a blender and mixed”, said co-author Caroline Albertin, also from the University of Chicago.

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15-08-2015 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

Deep Sea USO: Underwater Alien Stations and Gates

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Tiny grains of rock detected by the international Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn point to hydrothermal activity on the seafloor of its icy moon Enceladus.

Enceladus: possible hydrothermal activity. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The finding adds to the tantalising possibility that the moon could contain environments suitable for living organisms.

Understanding the interior structure of 500 km-diameter Enceladus has been a top priority of the Cassini mission since plumes of ice and water vapour were discovered jetting from fractures at the moon's south pole in 2005.

Ice particles in the plumes were found to be rich in sodium salt, implying that the water has been in contact with rock, and subsequent measurements of the moon's gravitational field revealed a 10 km deep subsurface ocean at the south pole, below a 30-40 km thick ice crust.

Now, following an extensive, four-year study of data from the spacecraft, combined with computer simulations and laboratory experiments, scientists have been able to gain deeper insights into the chemical reactions taking place on the floor at the base of Enceladus's ocean.

Using Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyser, scientists have discovered a population of tiny dust grains, just 2-8 nm in radius, in orbit around Saturn. They are rich in silicon, marking them out from the water-ice particles that dominate in the planet's environment, including in its famous ring system.

They believe that these silicon-rich grains originate on the seafloor of Enceladus, where hydrothermal processes are at work. On the seafloor, hot water at a temperature of at least 90 degrees Celsius dissolves minerals from the moon's rocky interior. The origin of this energy is not well understood, but likely includes a combination of tidal heating as Enceladus orbits Saturn, radioactive decay in the core and chemical reactions.

Enceladus plumes. Credit: NASA/JPL/ Space Science Institute

As the hot water travels upward, it comes into contact with cooler water, causing the minerals to condense out and form nano-grains of 'silica' floating in the water.

To avoid growing too large, these silica grains must spend a few months to several years at most rising from the seafloor to the surface of the ocean, before being incorporated into larger ice grains in the vents that connect the ocean to the surface of Enceladus. After being ejected into space via the moon's geysers, the ice grains erode, liberating the tiny rocky inclusions subsequently detected by Cassini.

"It's very exciting that we can use these tiny grains of rock, spewed into space by geysers, to tell us about conditions on – and beneath – the ocean floor of an icy moon," says Sean Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder and lead author on the paper published today in the journal Nature.

On Earth, grains of silica are found in sand and the mineral quartz. The most common way to form small silica grains is through hydrothermal activity involving a specific range of conditions. In particular, such grains form when slightly alkaline water with modest salt content and super-saturated with silica undergoes a big drop in temperature.

"We methodically searched for alternative explanations for the nanosilica grains, but every new result pointed to a single, most likely origin," says Frank Postberg, a Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and a co-author on the paper. 

Hsu and Postberg worked closely with colleagues at the University of Tokyo who performed the detailed laboratory experiments that validated the hydrothermal activity hypothesis.

Furthermore, Cassini's gravity measurements suggest that the rocky core of Enceladus is quite porous, which would allow water from the ocean to percolate into the interior. This would provide a huge surface area where rock and water could interact.

Trapping of methane In Enceladus' ocean.Credit: Southwest Research Institute

"In fact, it's possible much of this interesting hot-water chemistry occurs deep inside the moon's core, not just at the seafloor," says Hsu.

In another paper, published in Geophysical Research Letters last month, Cassini scientists also reported on the abundance of methane spewing into the atmosphere of Enceladus. The methane could also be produced by hydrothermal processes at the rock-water boundary at the bottom of Enceladus's ocean, and/or by the melting of a type of methane-rich ice, before subsequently percolating to the surface.

"This moon has all the ingredients – water, heat, and minerals – to support habitability in the outer Solar System, confirming the astrobiological potential of Enceladus," adds Nicolas Altobelli, ESA's Cassini project scientist.

"Enceladus may even represent a very common habitat in the Galaxy: icy moons around giant gas planets, located well beyond the 'habitable zone' of a star, but still able to maintain liquid water below their icy surface."

NOTES FOR EDITORS

"Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus" by H-W. Hsu et al., published in the 12 March issue of Nature.

"Possible evidence for a methane source in Enceladus' ocean," by A. Bouquet et al., published in the 26 February 2015 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency, and ASI, the Italian space agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington DC.

The Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser was provided by the German Aerospace Center; the instrument team is lead by Ralf Srama and is based at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

A. Bouquet worked with co-authors H. Waite, who leads the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) team at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, and O. Mousis at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille and S. Picaud, at the French UTINAM Institute.

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15-08-2015 om 22:21 geschreven door peter  

NASA Discovers Hidden Portals In Earth’s Magnetic Field

Our planet has come a long way in scientific breakthroughs and discoveries. Mainstream science is beginning to discover new concepts of reality that have the potential to change our perception about our planet and the extraterrestrial environment that surrounds it forever. Star gates, wormholes, and portals have been the subject of conspiracy theories and theoretical physics for decades, but that is all coming to an end as we continue to grow in our understanding about the true nature of our reality In physics, a wormhole was a hypothetical feature of space time that would be a shortcut through space-time. We often wonder how extraterrestrials could travel so far and this could be one of many explanations. Although scientists still don’t really understand what they have found, it does open the mind to many possibilities.

Turning science fiction into science fact seems to happen quite often these days and NASA did it by announcing the discovery of hidden portals in Earth’s magnetic field.  NASA calls them X-points or electron diffusion regions. They are places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, which in turn creates an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere which is 93 million miles away.

NASA used its THEMIS spacecraft, as well as a European Cluster probe, to examine this phenomenon. They found that these portals open and close dozens of times each day. It’s funny, because there is a lot of evidence that points toward the sun being a giant star gate for the ‘gods’ to pass back and forth from other dimensions and universes. The portals that NASA has discovered are usually located tens of thousands of kilometres from Earth and most of them are short-lived; others are giant, vast and sustained.

As far as scientists can determine, these portals aid in the transfer of tons of magnetically charged particles that flow from the Sun causing the northern and southerns lights and geomagnetic storms. They aid in the transfer of the magnetic field from the Sun to the Earth. In 2014, the U.S. space agency will launch a new mission called Magnetospheric Multi scale Mission (MMS) which will include four spacecraft that will circle the Earth to locate and then study these portals. They are located where the Earth and the Sun’s magnetic fields connect and where the unexplained portals are formed.

NASA funded the University of Iowa for this study, and they are still unclear as to what these portals are. All they have done is observed charged particles flowing through them that cause electro-magnetic phenomenon in Earth’s atmosphere.

Magnetic portals are invisible, unstable and elusive. they open and close without warming and there are no signposts to guide is in – Dr Scudder, University of Iowa.

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15-08-2015 om 22:02 geschreven door peter  

Air Force General Witnessed Alien Disc In Flight

(Before It's News)

MILITARY GENERAL WITNESSED ALIEN DISC IN FLIGHT  

 U.S. Air Force General Gerald W. “Jerry” Johnson reports witnessing a UFO east of Los Angeles while flying an F-84G aircraft in August, 1952.  In the video posted to YouTube on July 8, 2015 by Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), Johnson, who had a distinguished career in the Air Force that spanned 33 years with active service in the Second World War and the Vietnam War, reported observing two silver-colored UFOs about six feet in diameter that approached his aircraft.

According to Johnson, the two UFO discs approached his plane flying very close in formation.  As the discs flew past his aircraft, they separated, one flying above and the other below.  The astonished pilot looked in the other direction to see the discs flying away, but did see them. He looked around in all directions but the discs had vanished into thin air. He got in touch with ground control and asked if there was any other airplane flying in the area. He was told there was no other traffic on that Sunday morning.

Johnson’s testimony is remarkable and there is a buzz in the UFO community about it. Testimonies by professional pilots, especially highly experienced military pilots, are valued highly because they are considered the testimony of reliable witnesses.

15-08-2015 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

Meteor or UFO Exploding Over New York. (a Breakdown)

(Before It's News)

Is this a real meteor or UFO exploding over New York? Phil Poling of Parabreakdown takes a look at and breaks down the footage. Check out the video here http://theforteanslip.blogspot.com/2015/08/meteor-or-ufo-exploding-over-new-york.html

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15-08-2015 om 21:40 geschreven door peter  

Stenen werktuigen gevonden die ouder zijn dan de mens

De oudste bekende stenen werktuigen tot nu toe werden gevonden in Gona in Ethiopië en gedateerd op 2,6 miljoen jaar oud. Ze behoren tot een techniek voor het maken van vuurstenen werktuigen die Oldowan genoemd wordt, omdat de eerste exemplaren in de Olduvaikloof in Tanzania gevonden werden, meer dan 80 jaar geleden door de beroemde paleoantropologen George en Mary Leaky.

Oldowan werktuigen (Didier Descouens via Creativecommons).

Aangenomen wordt dat de Oldowanwerktuigen gemaakt en gebruikt werden door Homo rudolfensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus en Homo ergaster, voorlopers van de moderne mens Homo sapiens.

In 2010 ontdekten onderzoekers die in Dikika in Ethiopië werkten, bovendien snijsporen op dierenbeenderen die 3,4 miljoen jaar oud waren, en ze stelden dat voorouders van de mens die werktuigen gebruikten, de rechte insnijdingen gemaakt hadden. Op de Dikika-site werden ook resten gevonden van een kind dat tot de australopithecinen behoorde, nog oudere voorlopers van de mens.

Hun stelling riep evenwel onmiddellijk controverse op, en andere geleerden beweerden dat wat er uitzag als snijsporen, in werkelijkheid het gevolg kon zijn van het feit dat mensen of dieren de beenderen vertrappeld hadden. Zolang de werktuigen die gebruikt zouden zijn om de snijsporen te maken, niet ontdekt werden, zag het naar uit dat de discussie eindeloos kon doorgaan zonder dat men tot een oplossing kwam.

Kenyanthropus platyops

Nu zijn die ontbrekende werktuigen mogelijk gevonden. In een lezing op de jaarvergadering van de Paleoanthropological Society in San Francisco, heeft archeoloog Sonia Harmand van de Stony Brook University in New York de vondst beschreven van talrijke zeer oude stenen werktuigen op de site Lomekwi 3. Lomekwi 3 ligt op zo'n 1.000 kilometer van de Olduvaikloof, iets ten westen van het Turkanameer in Kenia. In de buurt van het Turkanameer zijn talrijke fossielen gevonden van voorlopers van de mens, onder meer van Homo rudolfensis, Homo ergaster en ook van de oudere australopithecinen. 

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Kenyanthropus was een mensachtige met een tamelijk plat gelaat.

Het team van Harmand was in de onherbergzame streek op zoek naar de site waar in 1998 een omstreden verwant van de mens was gevonden, Kenyanthropus platyops. Kenyanthropus is omstreden omdat er slechts een gebarsten en vervormde schedel van gevonden is, en er bestaat discussie over of het echt een nieuwe soort is, of een "vroege Keniaanse variant" van Australopithecus afarensis.

De onderzoekers reden echter verkeerd en kwamen terecht in een ander deel van het gebied, dat Lomekwi genoemd wordt en dat niet ver ligt van de plaats waar Kenyanthropus gevonden was. De wetenschappers merkten dat er op het oppervlak van het zanderige landschap "onmiskenbare stenen werktuigen" lagen, zoals Harmand ze noemde, en begonnen onmiddellijk met een kleine opgraving.

Onder de grond ontdekten ze nog meer werktuigen, waaronder ook zogenoemde kernen waar onze voorouders scherpe scherven afsloegen. Het team was zelfs in staat een van de scherven terug te passen op de oorspronkelijke kern, wat toonde dat een mensachtige ter plaatse de scherf had afgeslagen van de kern en dan beide had laten liggen.

Het volgende jaar kwamen de onderzoekers terug om nog meer opgravingen te verrichten, en intussen hebben ze bijna 20 goed bewaarde scherven en kernen opgegraven, en ook aambeelden, die gebruikt werden om de kern op te plaatsen terwijl men er scherven afsloeg. Al die voorwerpen zaten in sedimenten die een betrouwbare datering toelieten. Aan het oppervlak in de buurt vonden ze daarnaast nog 130 andere werktuigen.

3,3 miljoen jaar

"De artefacten waren duidelijk afgeslagen, en niet het resultaat van het per ongeluk breken van de steen", zei Harmand in haar lezing, waarvan een verslag staat in het tijdschrift "Science". Analyse van de werktuigen toonde aan dat ze rondgedraaid werden, terwijl de scherven er afgeslagen werden, wat ook bij de Oldowan-werktuigen de werkwijze was. De Lomekwi-werktuigen waren echter wat groter dan de gemiddelde Oldowan-werktuigen.

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Een reconstructie van de Australopithecus afarensis Lucy.

De datering van de sedimenten waarin de werktuigen gevonden werden, geeft hen een ouderdom van 3,3 miljoen jaar. De sedimenten werden gedateerd aan de hand van paleomagnetisme, waarbij men de omkeringen van het magnetisch veld van de aarde gebruikt. Die methode wordt vaak toegepast op de vondsten van mensachtigen uit het gebied rond het Turkanameer. 

Hoewel recent onderzoek de oorsprong van het genus of geslacht Homo nu teruggedrongen heeft tot wel 2,8 miljoen jaar geleden, zijn de werktuigen te oud om gemaakt te kunnen zijn door de eerste volledig ontwikkelde mensen, zei Harmand. De meest voor de hand liggende verklaring, zo besloot ze, is dat de voorwerpen ofwel gemaakt zijn door een Australopithecus zoals "Lucy", of door Kenyanthropus. Hoe dan ook begon het maken van werktuigen blijkbaar voor het ontstaan van ons genus, Homo.

Harmand en haar collega's stellen voor om de nieuw ontdekte werktuigen "Lomekwian" te noemen, omdat ze te oud zijn en te veel verschillen van de Oldowan-werktuigen om tot dezelfde technologie gerekend te kunnen worden.

Enthousiast

Onderzoekers die persoonlijk de werktuigen gezien hebben, zijn enthousiast over de vondst.

Een satelliet-foto van het Turkanameer.

De ontdekkingen zijn "zeer opwindend", zei Alison Brooks, een antropoloog aan de George Washington University in Washington D.C. "Ze kunnen niet ontstaan zijn door natuurlijke krachten, en de gegevens voor de datering zijn behoorlijk solide", zo zei ze.

Brooks is het er mee eens dat de werktuigen te oud zijn om gemaakt te kunnen zijn door Homo, wat erop wijst "dat technologie een uiterst belangrijke rol gespeeld heeft in het ontstaan van ons genus".

Ook paleoantropoloog Zeresenay Alemseged van de California Academy of Sciences vindt dat de bevindingen van Harmand er zeer goed uitzien. Alemseged was de leider van het team dat de snijsporen gevonden heeft op de beenderen uit de Dikika-site. "Met de snijsporen van Dikika hadden we het 'slachtoffer' van de stenen werktuigen", zo zei hij. "De ontdekking van Harmand geeft ons nu het wapen."

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15-08-2015 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

Gereedschappen gevonden die ouder zijn dan de mens zelf

In Kenia zijn 3,3 miljoen jaar oude stenen gereedschappen gevonden. Dat is 700.000 jaar ouder dan de oudste gereedschappen die we tot nu toe kenden, en honderdduizenden jaren voor het verschijnen van ons geslacht op aarde.

De oudst bekende stenen gereedschappen tot nu toe werden gevonden in Ethiopië en gedateerd op 2,6 miljoen jaar oud. Het gaat om vuurstenen scherven. In 2010 ontdekten onderzoekers snijsporen op dierenbeenderen die 3,4 miljoen jaar ouder waren. Andere geleerden beweerden echter dat de snijsporen het gevolg konden zijn van het feit dat de beenderen vertrappeld waren.

Omstreden verwant

Sonia Harmand van de Stony Brook University in New York heeft vele zeer oude stenen gereedschappen ontdekt bij het Turkanameer in Kenia. Haar team was in de onherbergzame streek op zoek naar een plek waar in 1998 een omstreden verwant van de mens was gevonden. De soort is omstreden omdat er slechts een gebarsten en vervormde schedel is gevonden.

De onderzoekers hebben inmiddels bijna 20 goed bewaarde scherven opgegraven. Ze zaten allemaal in sedimenten die goed konden worden gedateerd. Aan het oppervlak werden nog eens 130 gereedschappen gevonden. Op basis van de sedimenten stelde het team vast dat ze 3,3 miljoen jaar oud zijn.

Niet ontstaan door natuurlijke krachten

“Ik wist onmiddellijk dat het om een heel speciale ontdekking ging,” zei Harmand. Wie de makers van de werktuigen zijn is nog onduidelijk. De onderzoekers denken zelf dat het om de Australoptihecus gaat. “Eén ding is zeker: deze vondst weerlegt de veronderstelling dat de Homo habilis de eerste soort was die gereedschappen maakte.”

Harmand zei dat het maken van gereedschappen hoe dan ook begon voor het ontstaan van ons geslacht. “De ontdekkingen zijn zeer opwindend,” zei Alison Brooks van de George Washington University in Washington DC. “Ze kunnen niet zijn ontstaan door natuurlijke krachten, en de gegevens voor de datering zijn behoorlijk solide.” Vind je dit een interessante ontdekking? Denk er dan aan het artikel tedelen op Facebook.

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15-08-2015 om 21:21 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: Amerikaanse overheid filmt UFO boven Puerto Rico ‘die van vorm verandert en zich in tweeën splitst’

In een video die zou zijn gelekt door het Amerikaanse ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid is een ‘UFO te zien die wordt gevolgd met een warmtecamera’. Het filmpje van vier minuten is op internet geplaatst door de groep Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU).

Volgens hun website vertoont de UFO eigenschappen die niet kunnen worden verklaard als vliegtuig of natuurlijk fenomeen. De beelden zouden zijn gemaakt door een toestel van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid.

De SCU claimt dat de video is gelekt door een klokkenluider. De groep heeft de beelden twee jaar lang bestudeerd en daarnaast werd gewerkt aan een 161 pagina’s tellend rapport, dat deze week is gepubliceerd. Het onderzoek is gedaan door zes wetenschappers.

Het incident deed zich op 25 april 2013 rond 21.20 uur lokale tijd voor in Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Het object werd gevolgd door de bemanning van een DHC-8 Turboprop van US Customs and Border Protection, een onderdeel van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid.

Het object lijkt zich met hoge snelheid voort te bewegen en lijkt daarnaast te vallen of van vorm te veranderen. Het object vliegt over gebouwen en door bomen, om vervolgens in en uit het water te schieten zonder daarbij vaart te verminderen. Tegen het eind van het filmpje breekt het object in tweeën en verschijnt een tweede object.

Tenminste één vlucht liep als gevolg van het object vertraging op. Ook volgde de luchtverkeerstoren van de luchthaven Rafael Hernandez een ‘onbekend object’ voordat de DHC-8 opsteeg.

De onderzoekers sloten uit dat het een ballon of een vogel was. Ook werd gekeken of het mogelijk ging om een geheime test met een drone die onder water kan duiken. Maar het team vroeg zich af waarom een dergelijke test vlak bij een vliegveld zou worden gedaan.

Ze concludeerden: “Er is geen verklaring voor een object dat met meer dan 140 kilometer per uur door het water gaat, met 200 kilometer per uur laag bij de grond over een woongebied vliegt zonder navigatielichten en in staat is om zich te splitsen in twee afzonderlijke objecten. Geen vogel, ballon, vliegtuig of drone is daartoe in staat.” Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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15-08-2015 om 21:16 geschreven door peter  

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15-08-2015 om 21:08 geschreven door peter  

UFO Hovers over Chile’s Farm: Cows Fear Mutilation by Aliens

UFO occurrence, space aliens, and filmmaking technology are an exciting experience. People have been looking at documentaries on extraterrestrial sensation and space aliens lately. It is an interesting topic when you’re a believer or nonbeliever that extraterrestrial life exists and features visited this planet. Perhaps the government is too paranoid for their good, and it fears that aliens are hostile, and so our trusted leaders are making the effort to protect us. But it will be possible these extraterrestrials aren’t seriously hostile, but they’re just overly interested in learning human beings and life in general. The alien abductions, unusual implants and cattle mutilations made people perceive them as intruders. But is the strange object hovering over Chile an exception to this rule?

A video from Chile shows a panicking and rushing cow to the barn when the strange object hovered over the farm. The cow’s sight has spooked by the strange object, making the enthusiasts believe that the cow had seen them even before. When talking about animals, there is no denying of the fear of cattle mutilations because, in the past, there were occurrences where people believe the existence of cattle mutilation. Some extraterrestrial hunters believe that such mutilations are the result of alien scientists attempting to gather blood samples and genetic material from farm animals.

The video was being recorded on August 4 in the Valparaiso Region of Chile. A mounted surveillance camera caught the footage of the building at a farm in Chile. Unfortunately, some people believe that the video is fake since technology has advanced, and many people buy this to create extremely hoaxes. Video editing and picture shop has developed into the issue where most typical consumers cannot discern fact from fiction. The bad news in the skeptics is that the particular creation of fake videos or pictures would not make something cease to exist if it already should. It only serves to be able to confuse and distract people from the real extraterrestrial questions at hand.

15-08-2015 om 20:51 geschreven door peter  

Strange Object Spotted Farm in Chile – The Fear of Cattle Mutilation by Aliens

If you are one of the persons that believe in aliens, then you have probably met a lot of people who have treated you with scepticism. The idea of extraterrestrials has been discussed for many years now by a lot of different individuals. There are a lot of researchers who explore the existence of ancient aliens. They also find out if whether these aliens have already visited our planet or not. Some scientists say they have and that their presence can be explained by taking a look at old works of art describing figures of aliens or the ancient architectural wonders such as Stonehenge or the pyramids. They claim that the humans could not have built such majestic masterpieces because they did not have the possibility.

But what is the reality? A video from a farm in Chile shows a cow rushing and panicking to the after a strange object hovered over the farm. The cow’s sight made the UFO enthusiasts to conclude that the cow had already seen the mysterious object before. While some others, some also speculated that it panicked because the strange object is being engaged in experiments of cattle mutilation or is being carried out in livestock abductions in the past.

According to the extraterrestrial hunters, the cattle mutilations are the works of alien scientists who want to collect blood samples and genetic material from farm animals. It was on August 4 when the video was being shot by a surveillance camera being mounted on a building in the Marga Province of Chile, which is a very famous hot spot of extraterrestrial sightings. But most cases are connected with volcanoes.

Despite the incredible video and images, there are viewers who believe that the materials are hoaxes. One YouTube viewer even suggested that the strange object hovering over the Chilean farm is a drone or remote-controlled quadcopter. Whether one believes this or not, extraterrestrial things have become part of human life.

15-08-2015 om 20:49 geschreven door peter  

Leaked Video Recorded By Homeland Security

In any investigation, you will need to critically and thoroughly examine the actual evidence. The more evidence that is confirmed to become unreliable, the greater the doubt on the validity towards extraterrestrial function. A rule-of-thumb to take into account any time investigating virtually just about almost every strange case is if one thing appears as well good to be true, it most likely is simply too good being true. UFO researchers are credible people who spent their life studying the entire unidentified object hovering in the sky. As a general rule, it does not necessarily link to the aliens and extraterrestrial beings right away, but it is a part of their study. Of course, they do have a solid background in Science.

Recently, the team of researchers has come together to analyze one strange video confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security. It was the thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft that captured the objection over Puerto Rico back in 2013. According to them, it demonstrates unexplained characteristics by any known natural or aircraft phenomenon. The single object is moving quickly over the land, and later on, it is running into the ocean. It seems to be changing or tumbling shape. After the sighting, things get weird. Without slowing down, the object appears to go in and out of the ocean. At the end of the video, it either breaks in two or joined by another object.

All of the main witnesses have demanded anonymity. But, several communications from alleged employees of DHS point out that the video has caused a stir on the base. The researchers also noted the appearance of a single unknown object tracked on radar minutes ago prior to the take off of DHC-8.  However, it is unknown that the object is the same caught on video. The unidentified radar struck off the shore and lasted from 8:58 pm to 9:14 pm.

15-08-2015 om 20:47 geschreven door peter  

Massive ‘Angel-Like’ UFO Seen in NASA’s SOHO Image

Examining objects and phenomena in space such as nebulae, galaxies and comets is Astronomy. It can be a serious science, but also a fun hobby. There are plenty of such pictures to choose from, and plenty of interesting objects out there to keep people looking. But there could be more on National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Myunhauzen74, a YouTube UFO hunter, has reported seeing a NASA image of the Sun that depicts a gigantic “angel-like” UFO with extensive wings. The strange object leaves a trail suggesting a blast out of the atmosphere.

The image was being shattered on July 31 by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph C2 camera of SOHO satellite. This particular strange sighting is well-known to hunters who have reported sighting within the Sun’s vicinity multiple times, as confirmed by Editor Scott Waring. YouTube Myunhauzen74 have caught the strange object over and over again over the last few years. Repeated sightings of the angel-like face in NASA’s SOHO images along with its trail has reinforced the belief that its appearance is never an incidental pixel-related flaw. It has come to a conclusion that the object is a structured alien interstellar shuttle making stopovers at the Sun to refuel throughout interstellar commutes.

Waring echoes the view of hunters who think that this frequent Sun visitor is a gigantic mothership from technologically advanced alien species. However, according to paranormal enthusiasts, the sighting is an angelic ET, or “a light being.”  According to him, it could be an alien in the shape of an angel directing into the sun. The direction points out harvesting energy. Second, the angel like structure whose size is twice Earths size may live in or a part of the sun itself. In the latest sighting, the now-familiar angel like object is seen leaving the atmosphere, but in an earlier sighting, it was snapped diving into the solar atmosphere. Even though, most UFOlogists believe that alien visit the Sun to refuel, a minority speculation that the Sun could be the home of an extraterrestrial species or a giant planet has been brought up.

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15-08-2015 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

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