Groot moederschip verschijnt boven INDIA

Een aantal studenten uit India kijkt vol verbazing naar de lucht want daar verschijnt een groot, doorzichtig en ovaalvormig object.

Dit keer zijn zelfs de experts het erover eens dat hier geen sprake is van een zogenaamde lenswolk.

Wij raken er steeds meer van overtuigd dat grote moederschepen heen en weer pendelen tussen verschillende dimensies.

Of deze dimensies misschien gebruiken als manieren om heel snel van A naar B te kunnen reizen. Zo zijn er regelmatig kleinere UFO’s die verdwijnen in grote wolkachtige UFO’s die naast als moederschip ook als een soort dimensieportaal schijnen te fungeren.

Misschien is dat wel wat door een aantal studenten in India is vastgelegd.

Enkele studenten die verbleven in een hostel in de stad Imphal in het disctrict Manipur zagen iets vreemd in de lucht.

Wat ze zagen is op de volgende foto zien.

Er is een soort ovaalvormig doorzichtig object te zien dat zich door de lucht beweegt te oordelen aan de hierna volgende foto’s.

Is het misschien doorzichtig omdat het net op het punt staat vanuit de ene dimensie zichtbaar te worden in de andere?

Zelfs de experts zijn dit keer van mening dat hier niet het standaard antwoord, een lenswolk, van toepassing is. Omdat het er toch niet echt uitziet als een lenswolk en die ook niet doorzichtig zijn.

Daarnaast worden ze normaal gesproken niet aangetroffen in vlakke gebieden zoals hier, maar meer in de buurt van heuvels of bergen. Ook UFO-specialist Scott Waring heeft er het nodige over te zeggen en dat is hier te lezen.

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14-10-2015 om 00:23 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Aliens: Alien Evolution S08E05

Ancient Aliens: Alien Evolution
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 5
21st August 2015

Ancient Astronaut theorists have suggested that many of the divine beings depicted in cultures throughout the world are not really divine–or mythological–but instead reflect extraterrestrial visitations that our ancestors did not understand. If true, what can account for all the different types of beings that are depicted, from anthropomorphic birds and reptiles, to gods with blue skin to multi-limbed humanoids? Might there have been numerous alien species inhabiting Earth? Could the accounts given by modern day alien abductees be evidence that these otherworldly entities continue to visit Earth to this day? And is it possible that they all have a common ancestor? In 1928, archaeologist Julio Tello discovered the Paracas skulls of Peru–elongated heads with cranial volumes at least 25% larger than the largest known human skulls. Some believe that these remains are of extraterrestrial origin.

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14-10-2015 om 00:05 geschreven door peter  

A Russian scientists injected himself with a 3.5 million year old ‘bacteria’ found in Siberia and the results are staggering

Controversial ‘Mad Scientists’ Anatoli Brouchkov has injected himself with a 3.5 million year old bacteria said to be the key to ‘eternal life’. Broushkov found the revolutionary cells in the Siberian permafrost and says that ever since he injected himself with the bacteria, he feels stronger and healthier than ever.

The cells discovered in the Siberian permafrost have an incredible level of vitality and high resistance to environmental factors. Tests on animals showed that these cells substantially increased physical activity and strengthened the immune system.

Prof Anatoli Broushkov is the head of the Geocryology Department at Moscow State University and according to Russian media, he has not gotten sick in two years, ever since he started experimenting on himself.

The 3.5 million year old Bacillus F is believed to be a key component in improving the longevity of humans. Researchers from Russia have managed to unlock the DNA of the bacteria and have been testing it on Mice and human cells. Broushkov however decided to test it out on himself, the results? A healthy and strong body resisting time better than ever.

What makes this bacteria so special? Well Bacillus F as it has been dubbed by scientists has managed to survive for millions of years in Siberia, one of the most extreme places on Earth.

'I started to work longer, I've never had a flu for the last two years,' he told The Siberian Times

'After successful experiments on mice and fruit flies, I thought it would be interesting to try the inactivated bacterial culture.'

Prof Broushkov believes that there are trace amounts of the bacteria in the water supplies of the region.

'The permafrost is thawing, and I guess these bacteria get into the environment, into the water, so the local population, the Yakut people, in fact, for a long time are getting these cells with water, and even seem to live longer than some other nations. So there was no danger for me.'

At first it was difficult to understand what the bacteria was doing with inside the body said Broushkov.

'But we do not know yet exactly how it works. In fact, we do not know exactly how aspirin works, for example, but it does.

'The same is true here: we cannot understand the mechanism, but we see the impact.'

'Perhaps there were some side-effects, but there should be some special medical equipment to spot them.’

'Of course, such experiments need to be conducted in clinic, with the special equipment and statistics.’

'Then we could say clearly about all the effects.'

'If we can find how the bacteria stays alive we probably would be able to find a tool to extend our own lives,' he told RT in an interview.

The 3.5 million year old bacteria could not only be the key to human longevity but it can be a key factor to fertility say scientists. Once injected into mice, Bacillus F allowed older female mice to reproduce after they stopped being able to. The bacteria has the ability to heal plants as well.

Dr Viktor Chernyavsky, an epidemiologist from Yakutsk described the discovery as a ‘scientific sensation’ and as an ‘elixir of life,’ saying 'The bacteria gives out biologically active substances throughout its life, which activates the immune status of experimental animals.'

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14-10-2015 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Strange orb flying over Montreal, Canada 14-Sep-2015

Here’s one night time footage of a bright object making maneuvers over Montreal in Canada. This was filmed on 14th September 2015.

Note: Watch in full screen!

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13-10-2015 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Aliens: Dark Forces S08E04

Ancient Aliens: Dark Forces
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 4
14th August 2015

Good and Evil. Light and Dark. God and Satan. In nearly every culture there are stories of opposing forces at work here on Earth–forces of a supernatural or otherworldly nature. Could these forces really exist? And if so, what is the true nature of the dark forces? Throughout history, there have been individuals accused of being in league with agents of darkness. The infamous mad monk Rasputin believed he served as a conduit for an otherworldly realm, the Nazi SS were said to have tapped into dark powers through ancient symbols, and famed occultist Aleister Crowley claimed to have summoned a non-human entity through the use of dark magic. Is it possible the entities these men claimed to be in touch with were, in fact, extraterrestrials? And might humans serve as the pawns in a cosmic battle between the forces of light and dark?

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13-10-2015 om 23:54 geschreven door peter  

Strange Lights Hovering Near A Mexican Volcano

Over the years, alien hunters love to observe the volcanoes, especially the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico. Now, conspiracy theorists get excited once again with sightings of mysterious series of lights above the Popocatepetl. They say the sightings suggest extraterrestrials are studying the geothermal activity of the Earth so that they’ll have a clear understanding of how it works.

Cameras of Webcams Mexico captured bizarre orbs and a long cigar-shaped aerial objects above the Popocatepetl volcano. The lights appeared during the four explosions of the 18,000 feet volcano, which released gas vapour.

Social media and UFO forums have discussed the video after Webcams Mexico uploaded it. Some scientists offered a more radical theory saying that these UFOs were the product of hallucinations. Author of UFOs of the First World War, Nigel Watson, said that the combination of geopsychological and geophysical factors may have at work and produced UFOs.

In this case, according to Watson, the plasma that glows at night and looks metallic or black at day may have caused the UFO illusions. Meanwhile, cognitive neuroscience researcher Michael Persinger said UFO EM fields can trigger hallucinations in people who are near to them. Watson added that this could be the reason many stories of extraterrestrial abductions were experienced after a witness has noticed a light from the sky.

Paul Seaburn, a UFO hunter, said it has become a common occurrence observing UFOs around volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. But the reason people see so many UFOs near volcanoes, nuclear power plants, and earthquakes has not been established. Are we being warned? Watched? Controlled? Cared?

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13-10-2015 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

UFO Video Sighting In the Northern Suburbs of Australia

An expert got baffled of a video that shows a bright ball of light flying across the sky. Taken in the northern suburbs, the video shows a bright object that drifts through the sunset. The UFO appears to have a thick and short tail. Its look makes an expert to rule out the possibility of a meteorite. Others thought the thing could have been space junk re-entering furiously.

Forty-year-old Quentin Theron said his two children Kylie (14), and Georgia (8) were in the pool at their home in Coconut Grove when they yelled out they could observe a shooting star around 6 pm on Monday.

Quentin wondered why there was a shooting star early in the night, and it was brighter than a shooting star. Quentin’s son said it was a meteorite, but it could also be a satellite. He, however, could not decide what the object was.

Astronomer Geoff Carr said he was also baffled by the photo of that aerial stuff. He can only think of a high altitude military jet with an afterburner. He cannot also rule out a piece of space junk re-entering the atmosphere of Earth.

Mr Carr also opened up the possibility of an Iridium Flare, a large communication satellite in a cube shape. But as an astronomer for 20 years and owner of Star Safaris business, Mr Carr doesn’t think it is of alien origin though it’s unidentified flying and an object. Other than that, Mr Carr has no idea of the interesting piece of footage.

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13-10-2015 om 23:32 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Aliens: NASA’s Secret Agenda S08E02

Ancient Aliens: NASA’s Secret Agenda
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 2
31st July 2015

When German aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun joined the U.S. military and space programs after World War II, he quickly became one of the foremost scientists credited with developing the ballistic missile, the first American satellite and the enormous Saturn V rocket that enabled man to reach the moon. Von Braun’s bold predictions that we would explore Mars and build a space station have become reality. But how is it that von Braun–whose contemporaries included such scientific geniuses as Nikola Tesla, Robert Oppenheimer, and Albert Einstein–was so far ahead of everyone when it came to rocketry? Did he have secret information collected by the Nazi party during WWII–or access to advanced technology recovered from the alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Or is it possible that the greatest rocket scientist the world has ever known found his inspiration not on our world, but another?

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13-10-2015 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

A Woman Gets A Video Of Bizarre Orange Light Flying Into The UK Sky

A woman took her camera out to get a video of a strange object. While making breakfast in the kitchen, Kirstie Hockley of St Neots in Cambridgeshire spotted a strange, glowing UFO. She first noticed the mysterious light through her window from downstairs at 7 am. Kirstie then got her phone to use the video and record her bizarre sighting.

Her video shows two strands of orange light hovering in the sky. Few seconds later, the light starts to look like a tiny dot on the dark blue background before it vanishes.

Kirstie doesn’t think it is an airplane because it doesn’t seem like one. However, she’s also uncertain what exactly she had seen. Furthermore, the way the light disappears is so weird for the witness.

Earlier this month, a mysterious light was spotted about Washington, US hovering and changing color as well as the size in the night sky high above the trees.

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13-10-2015 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

Strange UFO Spotted By Indian Villagers

Unidentified flying objects are the mystery of the sky. It is still a mystery if they exist or not. There are many reports on strange objects by competent observers which cannot be identified by the witness and remain unidentified after an investigation by competent investigators. These appearances and the flight behavior indicate that they were manufactured somewhere other than the Earth. Multiple witnesses confirmed many of these reports and corroborated by trace evidence such as photographs, radar, video and landing marks.

After claiming to have spotted a strange humanoid creature, Indian villagers were left stumped and feared. It was the agricultural workers in Kanagal village around 2 pm who saw the unknown figure. According to them, there was a red extraterrestrial craft that emerged from the clouds and came towards them. After landing, it allegedly took off in just one minute. During the occurrence, there were sparks and flashes around. According to Nigel Watson, the prominent UFO investigator, seeing a person flying in the sky was not a rare sighting as it occurred long before flying aliens and saucers. It is an expected fact that what these people saw is hard to imagine, but it made an impact on their existence. Indeed, it is something strange and usual. Since the sighting, people who are very much interested in aliens were among a trip to Kanagal to speak with these women, who happen to be a witness to said incident. They said the object came towards them from a red spacecraft that emerged from the clouds.

T A Manjunatha said that the women are claiming to have seen the spacecraft descended to 500 feet from them that they could spot humanoid creatures. When speaking about aliens, they did not hear about those things. This is why experts were assuming that these women were not lying. The alien enthusiast has the plan to bring the matter to the government for attention. While they seem to be under intelligent control, their source is a question of speculation. This indicates that there may be a technology involved that can manipulate time as we know it.

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13-10-2015 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Aliens: Aliens B.C.

Ancient Aliens – Aliens B.C.
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 1
24th July 2015

Enormous manmade caves… Unexplainable structures… And underwater discoveries that challenge everything we know about the past…Is it possible that an advanced civilization inhabited Earth thousands of years ago? And if so, were they human, or something out of this world? Modern archaeologists are continuously unearthing artifacts and sites that defy the conventional timeline of human history. Throughout the world we find megalithic stone monuments that are attributed to mysterious ancestors, strange humanoid figures that date to pre-historic times, and evidence of ancient underground shelters hewn out of solid rock. Could it be that a sophisticated culture existed on here Earth–thousands and even tens of thousands of years earlier than we believe? Could the stories of a time when gods and otherworldly beings inhabited the planet be more than just mythology?

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13-10-2015 om 23:07 geschreven door peter  

Mind Blowing proof of Alien Activity in new NASA images

The batch of images released to the public of the Apollo missions earlier this week is perhaps the most exciting and ultimate proof of extraterrestrial activity. UFO hunters are extremely excited as they discovered numerous anomalies in the images of the Apollo missions. One of the images in particular is believed to show a mysterious object with three glimmering lights: According to ufologist an extraterrestrial vehicle.

According to editor of ufosightingsdaily Scott C. Waring, there are numerous UFO’s in the images taken in 1972, and the Apollo missions traveled to the moon by a craft with “alien technology at its finest”.

Scott Waring identified numerous other anomalies objects in the Apollo images that according to him, are the ultimate proof of Alien activity not only on the moon, but on Earth as well.

He added: “The UFO looks metallic and even seems to have a window facing the Apollo team.

“Absolutely amazing find and I just don’t see why NASA doesn’t just cave in from the massive amount of evidence the public is posting.”

Not only are several Unidentified Flying Objects visible in the newest images released by NASA, but according to UFO hunters, several anomalous structures are visible on the moon. These structures prove that NASA went to the moon in search of Alien technology and Earth’s satellite isn’t a desolate place like we believed in the past.

The mysterious objects seen in the images below are not part of NASA’s spacecraft and the only logical explanation for them is that they are in fact Alien technology say ufologist. What else could they be?

What do you think? Do these images really show alien activity on the moon? And do you believe it is possible that NASA knew about UFO’s and Alien life during the Apollo missions? Let us know what you think.

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13-10-2015 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

The first photos of water on Pluto are puzzling scientists in 2 ways

Planetary scientists have suspected for months the presence of water on Pluto in the form of towering ice mountains (shown below) — some of which rival Earth's Rocky Mountains in height.

But it wasn't until recently that they had solid proof, and the discovery is raising intriguing questions about the color and location of the water ice.

pluto
(NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI)

The latest images of Pluto, released on Thursday, are the first to reveal patches of frozen water on its surface. And adding to the growing list of Pluto mysteries, neither the color nor location of water ice on Pluto is what the scientists were expecting.

The most recent photo, shown below, offers an especially intriguing view of both the oldest and newest surfaces on Pluto: To the left of the close-up shot is the most heavily cratered region on Pluto, which scientists suspect is extremely old.

To the far right, however, you can see the dividing outline of Pluto's iconic heart-shaped region, informally named Tombaugh Regio — the water ice is identified in falsely colored blue:

pluto water ice map
(NASA/New Horizons)

The false colors in the image above help scientists differentiate between the water ice on Pluto and the other ices, such as nitrogen, methane, and carbon-dioxide ice.

In reality, the water ice on Pluto is red, not blue like in the photo or clear like it is here on Earth. And scientists are dumbfounded as to why.

"I'm surprised that this water ice is so red," Silvia Protopapa, a New Horizons team member, said in a NASA press release. "We don't yet understand the relationship between water ice and the reddish tholin colorants on Pluto's surface."

The "tholin colorants" that Protopapa is referring to are a type of molecule that are generally red in color and form when organic compounds — which have nothing to do with life in this case — are blasted with ultraviolet light from the sun. Pluto's atmosphere is rich with tholins, but whether the red-tinted water ice on Pluto's surface contains any of them remains an unanswered question.

The tholins in Pluto's atmosphere eventually fall down to the surface, which scientists think contributes to the dwarf planet's red coloring:

global mosaic of pluto in true color
(NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Another mystery concerning water ice on Pluto is its location.

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto on July 14, it focused on this intriguing part of the dwarf planet that has since mystified scientists as to how geologically diverse it is — with four mountain ranges, a vast expanse of craters, and smooth plateaus, Pluto is one of the most geologically diverse places in the solar system.

When scientists first saw the mountains on Pluto, their immediate conclusion was that the mountains must be made of water ice because that's the only kind of ice strong enough to support mountains over 10,000 feet tall.

Now, they can give themselves a pat on the back because this latest image reveals a large amount of water ice in one of the mountain ranges, called Baré Montes and identified below:

plutomountains
(NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
But what about the other places? There appears to be a vast expanse of ice in the mysterious crack featured on the far left and in the heavily cratered patch, called Viking Terra, to the north.

"Large expanses of Pluto don't show exposed water ice, because it's apparently masked by other, more volatile ices across most of the planet" Jason Cook, a New Horizons team member, said in NASA's press release for the latest images.

"Understanding why water appears exactly where it does, and not in other places, is a challenge that we are digging into."

Since its closest approach to Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft has traveled an additional 500 million miles and is now 3.1 billion miles from Earth. NASA reports that its systems are "healthy and operating normally."

NOW WATCH: This animation shows the complex features of Pluto, which rival anything we've seen in the solar system

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13-10-2015 om 00:13 geschreven door peter  

AT LEAST 4 KNOWN ALIEN SPECIES HAVE BEEN VISITING EARTH FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS

I am well aware that just because somebody (no matter what their ‘position’) says something to be true, does not mean it’s true. Exceptions, however can be made if there is evidence that goes beyond their words and correlates with what they say. At the end of the day, you have to listen to what your heart tells you.

Paul Hellyer was the Canadian Minister of National Defense in the 1960’s during the cold war. He was responsible for combining the Canadian Air Force, Navy and Army into what is known today as the Canadian Forces. He was the highest ranking person (on paper) inside of the Department of Defence for Canada. The Honorable Paul Hellyer is the highest ranking person among all g8 countries to openly speak about UFOs and extraterrestrials.

He has been speaking about UFOs and extraterrestrials for quite some time now, and he recently made an appearance on RT news stating that there are at least 4 known alien species that have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.

Upon retirement, Hellyer began to blow the whistle on UFOs and extraterrestrials. His testimony is backed up by hundreds of other high ranking military and political personnel all over the world, including official documents released by dozens of governments worldwide that have officially acknowledged the presence of UFOs.

I think it’s also important to point out that the Canadian government recently acknowledged the fact that various federal agencies, including Transport Canada, the RCMP and the Department of National Defence used to track and investigate UFO sightings. (1) They claim to have stopped those programs, but that contradicts the defence minister’s (Hellyer) claims. There is good reason to believe, and a lot of evidence to suggest that some of these UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial space craft (not all military), and the activities of the agencies responsible for these programs goes far beyond just tracking of UFOs, but into contact with various extraterrestrial races, other classified technological developments and more.

Here is some of what Paul Hellyer has to say, for more you can watch the video clip below:

“In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb. They are very concerned about that and if we will use it again, because the whole cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos. They’re very much afraid that we might start using atomic weapons again and this would be very bad for us, and them also.”
– Paul Hellyer

“Many are benign and benevolent, and a few are not. They come from various places, for a long while I only knew about ones that came from different star systems, the Pleiades. There are extraterrestrials that come from Andromeda, and ones that live on one of Saturn’s moon’s. There is a federation of these people, and they have rules, one of them is that they don’t interfere with our affairs unless they are invited. They have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and we have the right to run it but they are very concerned, they don’t think that we are good stewards of our planet. We are ruining our planet, we’re doing all sorts of things that we shouldn’t be doing, and they don’t like that. They’ve made it clear, and they have given us a warning.”
– Paul Hellyer

“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.”
– Paul Hellyer

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12-10-2015 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

Is Stephen Hawking Right About Hostile Aliens?

E.T. was the perfect extraterrestrial: Cute, smart and — best of all — a perfect pacifist.

Unfortunately, scientists aren't so sure that an actual intelligent alien would be so benign. In a recent interview with El País, famed physicist Stephen Hawking posited that an alien visitation would put Earthlings in the same position as Native Americans when Columbus landed on their shores.

"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," Hawking speculated. [7 Huge Misconceptions About Aliens]

The likelihood that intelligent life is out there is up for debate; less discussed are the conditions necessary to evolve a life-form that's both smart and nice. But the lessons from Earth suggest that intelligence and aggression might evolve hand-in-hand.

No one really knows how humans got to be so clever. What's clear is that hominin brains began expanding wildly about 2 million years ago. (Hominins include those species after the human lineage — the genus Homo — split from the chimpanzee lineage.) By around 100,000 years ago, humans made the never-before-seen leap to inventing language. And by at least 40,000 years ago, our ancestors were making art.

"We have brains that are three times bigger than those of our closest relatives," said Mark Flinn, an anthropologist at the University of Missouri who has researched the emergence of human intelligence. Humans have unprecedented abilities to think about each other's thoughts and motivations, he said, to play out social scenarios in their brains and to think about the past and future.

"The general presumption is that this is just sort of a natural outcome of the evolutionary process, but that's really giving short shrift to the very special circumstances of human evolution," Flinn said.

Huge brains are expensive. They take an enormous number of calories to grow and function (up to 50 percent of intake in infancy and childhood, Flinn said) and make humans basically helpless for years after birth.

"Our babies are born as larvae, basically," said David Carrier, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Utah.

Many anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have tried to pinpoint the special circumstances that make these huge brains worth the expense. Charles Darwin suggested that perhaps males developed cleverness to attract females, much as a male peacock developed showy tail feathers to prove to potential mates that he could strut his stuff. But if brains were just for sexual display, scientists would expect to see big differences between male and female intelligence — females, not having to attract mates, shouldn't waste so much effort on their brains, much as peahens don't waste effort on growing shiny feathers (theirs are dull and brown). And female humans are just as smart as males.

Would smart aliens have energy-intensive brains? Hard to say — perhaps E.T. could evolve a more efficient, yet just as clever, organ. But if aliens were sending signals into space or building rockets, they'd have to have achieved an intelligence that far exceeds what is needed to survive. [13 Ways to Hunt for Intelligent Aliens]

Humans have done the same, and researchers can't quite figure out why. The brain could have evolved to allow humans to use tools, but chimpanzees use tools without developing complex languages, art and culture. One provocative theory holds that pathogens play a role: The brain is vulnerable to infection, wrote Hungarian researcher Lajos Rózsa in a 2008 article in the journal Medical Hypotheses. Showing off one's cleverness may be a way of showing off how resistant one is to infection. After all, if you're smart enough to invent language and art, you must be pretty good at battling brain parasites.

So perhaps intelligent aliens might be subject to alien parasites. Flinn and his colleagues favor another theory, though. They argue that humanity underwent a runaway cycle of brain evolution because of hominins' social nature.

The ecological dominance-social competition hypothesis works like this: Human ancestors reached a point in which their interactions with one another were the most important factor in whether they'd survive and pass on their genes. Finding food and shelter was still important, Flinn said, but it wasn't the main factor determining evolutionary success. The difference between clever humans and, say, caribou, is that intraspecies relationships drove evolution the fastest in humans, Flinn said. A herd of caribou has social interactions, to be sure: Males have to fight for mates, for example. But a more pressing concern would be avoiding predators and finding food. For hominins, these external issues became relatively less important, the theory goes, while their ability to form coalitions, to have empathy and to behave in such a way as to win friendships from others became key to their survival. [10 Things That Make Humans Special]

In this heavily social context, it became very important to be smarter than the competition. Each generation got a little smarter and a little better at building complex social relationships, which created a feedback loop in which even smarter brains were beneficial.

"The thing about social competition is it's a dynamic challenge and it's also creative," Flinn said. "You need to have the better mousetrap every time. The competition adjusts to the current winning model, so you need to be one better than the current winning strategy."

The model seems to work with other clever animals, too, he added. Dolphins, orcas and chimps all form social coalitions with each other and depend on their social groups to survive. It's possible that this social factor would hold for species on other planets, too.

A key part of this theory is competition. Chimps form coalitions that battle against other chimps. And humans are far from peaceful. So if an alien species were to evolve intelligence, would aggression be an inevitable part of the package?

Perhaps. The evolution of aggression is a question unto itself. Fights to the death occur only in species where the options are mate or die, Carrier said. [Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression]

"If you can walk away from a fight and reproduce another day, you do that," he said. "But if circumstances are such that your ability to reproduce is threatened by a competitor, in that situation it makes sense to fight."

Environmental factors may determine whether a mate-or-die system emerges. For example, chimpanzees are a particularly homicidal (chimpacidal?) species, Carrier said. Work by primatologist Richard Wrangham at Harvard University and colleagues finds that chimp "wars" arise from a chimpanzee's territorialism. Small groups of foraging chimps may come into contact with other chimpanzees; killing these competitors (particularly when the foragers have numbers on their side) can be beneficial by opening up access to more resources.

Deadly male-male competition is less of a way of life for bonobos, humankind's other closest primate ancestor. Male bonobos stick by their mothers and the species is less territorial than chimpanzees. Bonobo foraging groups are also larger, perhaps because their food sources are more abundant, studies have found. Would aliens act more like bonobos or chimps? Hard to say. Researchers are even split on whether humans are more inherently aggressive or inherently peaceful.

A controversial theory holds that aggression was a driving force in human evolution. The "Killer Ape" hypothesis argues that the human ancestors who thrived were those better adapted for fighting. For example, Carrier said, modern humans can form fists, which our closest primate relatives cannot. This particular hand configuration may have evolved primarily for better manual dexterity — but it also could have come in handy as a club. Likewise, when human ancestors started walking on two legs, their face bones also evolved to be stronger and less delicate. This could be due to diet, Carrier said, but male face bones are more robust than female face bones, a sign that male-male competition could be at play. In other words, thick facial bones could be a defense against the fist, a weapon that would have become available once human ancestors became bipedal.

If intelligence evolves in the context of social competition, and aggression is the natural outcome of competition, it's hard to imagine that clever aliens could also be kind. Is this the end for hopes of sweet little E.T.?

Maybe not. The social competition model doesn't work without cooperation, after all. Humans fight, wage war and sometimes murder each other. But humans also form coalitions, care for each other and even build coalitions of coalitions, such as nation-states.

"There are two sides to our nature," Carrier said. "It's not that one is any more real than the other. It's just who we are."

Humans are unique among Earth life in forming long-lasting alliances between groups, not just individuals, Flinn said. Chimpanzees can't pull that off, he said, so it's not clear that aliens could, either.

"On Planet X, it may not be inevitable that social competition results in a morality and a creativity of the sort that allows these intelligent life-forms to negotiate with us for a mutually beneficial outcome," Flinn said.

On the other hand, chimpanzees don't explore space. Perhaps a civilization that can band together to reach for the stars has to be cooperative by definition. If that's the case, humanity might be a greater threat to aliens than aliens are to humanity. Luckily, evolution has given humans the tools for peace ( via livescience.com ).

"We can, in effect, rise above the design, potentially," Flinn said. "If we understand what our are designed to do, we are going to be way more capable of rising above those tendencies that we have."

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12-10-2015 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

The Curiosity Mars rover could tap into the greatest mystery behind liquid water on Mars, but there's a big problem

When NASA recently announced the discovery of liquid water on Mars, the location of this water is what intrigued some scientists the most.

These water flows are related to unique features on Mars called recurring slope linae (RSL) — identified in the photo to the right — that pop up in a handful of locations near and along the Martian equator.

As it turns out, the Curiosity rover is within driving distance of a mountain called Mount Sharp, which might contain these RSLs — though their presence has not yet been confirmed at that spot. Even more exciting is that Curiosity could scoop up samples and analyze them in far greater detail than the satellites that scientists have been using so far.

"If we decide it's safe to go up and touch one, basically the whole rover is full of equipment that is designed to figure out composition and mineralogy of materials on Mars," Ashwin Vasavada, who is the project scientist for Curiosity, told Business Insider. "We could do a nice job of understanding the chemistry of what's going on."

There are still many questions about these RSLs that need answers. Perhaps the greatest one of them all is where this water is coming from. Is it groundwater, melting frost, or something else? The answer will shed light on how the water source's abundance and potential as a vital resource for future manned missions and colonies on Mars.

While Curiosity could help answer some of these questions, there is a big problem that needs solving first.

An unavoidable risk and a difficult challenge

As Vasavada says, NASA must first decide if it's safe for the rover to approach these features for scientific analyses. However, it's not the rover's safety NASA is worried about — it's the planet Mars. And right now NASA's planetary protection officer, Cassie Conley, is trying to figure out if Mars and its flowing water is safe from contamination.

Conley's role as NASA's planetary protection officer is to safeguard Mars — and any other alien surface NASA chooses to visit — from contamination by Earth-based microorganisms. There is so much life on Earth that it is impossible to sterilize any lander completely, and it's Conley's job to figure out just how much contamination is acceptable.

The problem is that Curiosity has been on the Martian surface for over 3 years, so no one knows if the small amount of bacteria that contaminated it on launch day are still alive. And because no one knows, that means Vasavada and the rest of the rover team can't go near these RSLs for risk of contaminating future searches for the potential for life— at least until the problem is solved.

And it's going to be a difficult one to tackle because NASA can't simply swab Curiosity's instruments because, well, it's on Mars, and unfortunately no swab stick is that long. So, scientists will have to take the same types and amounts of bacteria that were on Curiosity when it launched and expose them to conditions akin to what's on Mars.

"Curiosity has been on Mars now for more than 3 years and a lot of the rover has been exposed to ultraviolet light and the dryness of Mars," Vasavada told Business Insider. "It would be a pretty challenging study to work through how Curiosity may have been cleaned just by being in the harsh environment of Mars."

What Curiosity can contribute right now

Even if such an analysis proves that Curiosity is too dirty to approach these RSLs, the rover could still contribute to this area of research, Vasavada said, with its camera.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSA view from the "Kimberley" formation on Mars where scientists found evidence of ancient lakes. Photo was taken by Curiosity rover.

"One thing that Curiosity can do is to image these potential RSLs," he said. "Even without going up to them super close, we have a telephoto lens camera that once we get a little closer than we are now, it will actually get higher resolution images than what we can do from orbiters."

That's very important, because the features on Mount Sharp are too small for orbiters to see — which is why scientists haven't managed to confirm or disprove whether the features in question are RSLs or something else. Curiosity's camera could help solve that mystery.

As for the potential for life and Curiosity's ability to detect it within these features, Vasavada is skeptical.

"The water would be quite salty and perhaps too salty to offer a good environment for life," he said. Moreover, the instruments on board Curiosity can identify the chemistry of Martian soil but not necessarily the detection of living organisms, Vasavada said. NASA's Mars 2020 rover, however, will have instruments on board that can detect life.

When it comes to hunting for evidence for life on Mars, Vasavada is more interested in the ancient lakes on Mars than these RSLs. Vasavada and the Curiosity team recently confirmed the existence of these ancient lakes in the region where Curiosity is currently located.

"We can't forget that 3.5 billion years ago there were giant fresh water lakes that lasted millions of years," he said. "That is even a more fantastic environment to think of the possibility of life."
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12-10-2015 om 23:30 geschreven door peter  

Russia declassified secret images from Venus that show extraterrestrial life

The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, published a series of photographs, taken by the Venera probe which allegedly show evidence of living organisms on Venus, one of the most inhospitable places for humans in the solar system. Venus, the second planet from the sun is the most similar planet in our solar system in terms of size and structure to Earth. In terms of the surface it is anything but Earth-like.

It is the hottest planet in the solar system, mainly due to its atmosphere which is 97 percent carbon dioxide, a heat trapping greenhouse gas.

The constant temperature on Venus is 480 degrees Celsius, a temperature which is hot enough to melt lead and it even hotter than the nearest planet to the Sun, Mercury.

According to Russian scientist Leonid Ksanfomaliti, this image, taken from a Russian probe that landed on Venus in 1982, we can see a scorpion-shaped life form

According to an explanation by Leonid Ksanfomaliti, doctor of physical and mathematical science, at the Institute of Space Research, the images taken 30 years ago reveal the movement of extremely strange objects on the surface of Venus.

NASA quickly went on to debunk the discovery. As explained, the ‘disc’ that is seen moving on the surface is a lens cap, and the ‘scorpion-like-creature’ proposed by Ksanfomaliti is actually ‘noise’ in a second-hand picture which isn’t present in the original image.

Ksanfomaliti believes that in the images, a scorpion-shaped creature, a disk and a ‘black flap’ are visible moving in front of the onboard camera of the Venera 13.

According to reports from a Russian news agency Ksanfomaliti explained in an article of the Russian journal Solar System Research magazine: 'They all 'emerge, fluctuate and disappear,

'What if we forget about the current theories about the non-existence of life on Venus, let's boldly suggest that the objects' morphological features would allow us to say that they are living,' he added.

But American counterparts seem to firmly disagree with Ksanfomaliti. Ted Stryk who is a photo analyst at NASA says it is more likely that the disc Ksanfomaliti is talking about could have come from the spacecraft.

'Venera-13 had two cameras, one in front and one in back. The one image shows the front camera lens cap and the other shows the rear camera lens cap, not one lens cap that moved,' he says, in comments on Life's Little Mysteries.

NASA says there is no way that anything can survive on Venus today. However, scientists have not ruled out that once, in the distant past, Venus might have supported life, in a time when the planet might have had giant oceans and possibly life, before the ‘greenhouse effect’ created the temperatures that rule over the planet today.

'Current theories suggest that Venus and the Earth may have started out alike. There might have been a lot of water on Venus and there might have been a lot of carbon dioxide on Earth,' Professor Andrew Ingersoll of Caltech said in a paper published in Astrobiology in 2004.

Images of the surface of Venus taken by the Soviet Venera-13 descent module in 1982

The problem with science and scholars in search for extraterrestrial life is that mankind believes that for life to exist elsewhere in the solar system or universe, a planet should have a similar climate and conditions to those of Earth.

What if elsewhere, on Venus perhaps, there are living beings which need scorching temperatures in order to survive, beings that can breathe carbon dioxide and cannot survive with water or oxygen. In order to search more adequately for extraterrestrial life, we need to change the conditions and patterns for extraterrestrial life.

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12-10-2015 om 21:57 geschreven door peter  

Boyhood Encounter With UFO Inspired Art That Soared Around The World

Ionel Talpazan's "Fundamental UFO".
Courtesy of Henry Boxer Gallery

Ionel Talpazan thought he saw a UFO when he was a boy, and never stopped seeing them. Of course, he created them.

Ionel Talpazan was 60 years old when he died this week, of diabetes and stroke. He was a boy in a small village in Romania, given up by his parents and raised by a succession of foster parents. He told interviewers he escaped into the woods one night because he thought he would be beaten.

He saw a blue, beating light in the sky above, and was sure it was a spacecraft.

Ionel began to draw spacecraft; I'm not sure you can call them UFOs when an artist gives them such a vivid, colorful identify.

It is hard not to think that a lost, frightened little boy in the woods would dream and draw pictures of amazing machines to swoop down from the heavens and take him away.

But Ionel Talpazan had to make his own escape. As a young adult, he swam across the Danube River and into Yugoslavia, where he lived in a refugee camp before he could get to New York in the 1980s.

He had rough times in his new world, too. But Ionel continued to draw pictures of spacecraft he imagined, often thrown open to reveal innards as elaborate as schematics; but rarely people. He slept in a cardboard box near Columbus Circle and sold drawings, paintings, and small flying saucers that he made out of plaster and scavenged parts.

I don't know where life would have led Ionel Talpazan if he'd slept in a cardboard box on a corner of, say, Akron or Peoria. But in New York, a famous art figure named Henry Tobler saw an artist in his drawings, and wrote about him in scholarly journals. His pictures were included in Manhattan art galleries, and from the 1990s on, Ionel made his way in the world by his art.

By the time he died, his works had hung at the American Visionary Art Museum, and museums in San Franciso, London, Berlin, Madrid, and France. Talpazans were sold in fancy galleries from Soho to Chelsea. The man who had slept in a box moved to a New York apartment.

"My art shows spiritual technology, something beautiful and beyond human imagination, that comes from another galaxy," he once told the Western Folklore journal. "So, in relative way, this is like the God."

Ionel Talpazan imagined incredible things, and made them alive in the eyes of others. In a way, he did escape on his UFO.

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12-10-2015 om 21:37 geschreven door peter  

Hubble-telescoop spot mysterieuze objecten in de ruimte: “Ze lijken in niets op wat ooit is gezien of voorspeld”

In de protoplanetaire schijf rond de nabije ster AU Microscopii hebben sterrenkundigen nog nooit eerder waargenomen objecten ontdekt. De snel bewegende, golfachtige formaties lijken in niets op wat ooit is gezien of voorspeld.

AU Microscopii is een relatief jonge ster die op 32 lichtjaar van de aarde staat. Het gaat om een zogeheten rode dwerg. Astronomen wisten al langer dat de ster wordt omgeven door een schijf van materie. Ze denken dat deze schijf is ontstaan doordat planetoïden zo hard op elkaar zijn gebotst dat ze zijn vermalen tot stof.

Tijdens het analyseren van opnames die zijn gemaakt door de Very Large Telescope en de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop hebben wetenschappers onder leiding van Anthony Boccaletti iets bijzonder vreemds ontdekt. Er zijn golfachtige formaties te zien, die doen denken aan rimpelingen in water.

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Door oudere foto’s van de Hubble-telescoop te bestuderen, kwamen onderzoekers tot de conclusie dat de ongewone objecten zich met extreem hoge snelheden voortbewegen, tot wel 40.000 kilometer per uur. Er zijn vijf van deze golfachtige formaties ontdekt. Drie objecten bewegen zo snel dat ze aan de zwaartekracht van de ster kunnen ontsnappen.

“Alles aan deze vondst was verrassend!” zei coauteur Carol Grady. “Omdat er nog nooit zoiets is waargenomen of voorspeld, kunnen we alleen maar speculeren.”

De onderzoekers kunnen niet met zekerheid zeggen waardoor de mysterieuze rimpelingen zijn ontstaan. Ze vermoeden dat de golven zijn veroorzaakt door een grote zonnevlam. Het onderzoek is verschenen in vakblad Nature.

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12-10-2015 om 21:17 geschreven door peter  

Multiple Bright UFO lights over Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico on 3rd October 2015

New interesting video footage of Multiple Bright UFO lights recorded over Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico on 3rd October 2015.

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12-10-2015 om 20:43 geschreven door peter