Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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MY BLOG EXISTS ALREADY 12 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS.
ON 06/05/2024 MORE THAN 1.972.210
VISITORS FROM 134 DIFFERENT NATIONS ALREADY FOUND THEIR WAY TO MY BLOG.
THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret World of Russian UFO Intelligence
UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret World of Russian UFO Intelligence
Published on Sep 5, 2015
UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret World of Russian UFO Intelligence. 2014 Education is a fundamental and integral part of our socie.
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UFO Secrets of the Soviet Union : Documentary on the Secret World of Russian UFO Intelligence. 2014 Education is a fundamental and integral part of our socie.
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Physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked the question "Where are they?" to express his surprise over the absence of any signs for the existence of other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy. Although many potential resolutions to this so-called “Fermi paradox” have been suggested over the years, there is still no consensus on which one, if any, is correct. The question of whether we are alone in the Milky Way (or in the universe at large) remains, however, one of the most intriguing questions in science in general, and in astronomy in particular.
Given the enormous uncertainties involved with the emergence, evolution,and survivability of any extrasolar life (if it exists), we shall attempt to briefly identify the most generic, remotely-detectable signatures of alien life (both simple and intelligent), and to examine the expected effectiveness of various search strategies. This topic has become particularly timely, because observations (primarily with the Kepler space telescope) have shown that the Milky Way contains no fewer than a billion Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like (or smaller) stars in the “Goldilocks” region that allows for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface (the so-called habitable zone). Furthermore, the search for extraterrestrialintelligent life has recently received a significant boost in the form of “Breakthrough Listen”—a $100-million decade-long project aimed at searching for non-natural transmissions in the electromagnetic bandwidth from 100 megahertz to 50 gigahertz.
Simple life appeared on Earth almost as soon as the planet cooled sufficiently to support water-based organisms. To be detectable from a distance, however, life has to evolve to the point where it dominates the planetary surface chemistry and has significantly changed the atmosphere, creating chemical “biosignatures” that can in principle be detected remotely. For instance, Earth itself would probably not have been detected as a life-bearing planet during the first two billion years of its existence. Concerning the evolution of intelligent life, the main open questions include:
—What are the geochemical constraints on the evolution of complex life?
—What are the timescales that those constraints dictate?
—Are there evolutionary "filters" or bottlenecks that make it extremely hard to make the transition to intelligence? On Earth, for example, it took about three billion years for the most basic multi-cellular life forms to appear. It took four and a half billion years (and a series of contingencies such as plate tectonics and asteroid impacts) to reach even the most rudimentary capability of interstellar communication (That is, via radio reception and transmission). These considerations demonstrate that it is important to first establish whether planetary systems that are older than the solar system are common in the Milky Way.
The current age of the solar system is about half that of the our galaxy's disk and also half of the sun’s predicted lifetime. We therefore expect that roughly one half of the stars in our galactic disk are older than the sun. A recent study that examined planet formation history concluded that the solar system formed close to the median epoch for giant planet formation, and that about 80 percent of currently existing Earth-like planets may already had been formed (pdf) at the time of Earth’s formation. This gives us great leverage for probing extrasolar intelligent life.
Which detectable biosignature may be considered the most reliable for the existence of simple life (on a sufficiently old, rocky planet, in the habitable zone)? Even though no single biosignature would be absolutely compelling, an atmosphere that is very rich in oxygen (say 20 percent or more) would probably be the most promising target initially. Wheras non-biological processes (such as the splitting of carbon dioxide by intense ultraviolet radiation) can produce oxygen in a planetary atmosphere, only under rare circumstances would these create such high levels of enrichment. Only in combination with other potential biosignatures, however, such as methane, would the credibility of a life-based origin for the oxygen be significantly strengthened.
Consequently, an excellent first step in the quest for signatures of simple extrasolar life in the relatively near future would be to: search for oxygen, but try to back it up with other biosignatures. This can (in principle) be achieved with large, ground-based arrays of relatively low-cost flux collector telescopes (such as a next-generation European Extremely Large Telescope; with a collecting area the size of a few football fields), if these are equipped with very-high-dispersion spectrographs. The oxygen lines from the exoplanet’s spectrum would be slightly Doppler-shifted relative to oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, making it relatively straightforward (although definitely not easy) to detect them. The more difficult detection of methane in the infrared would have to follow.
A NEW ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT DRAWING OF ESO’S PLANNED EUROPEAN EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE (E-ELT) SHOWS THE TELESCOPE AT WORK, WITH ITS DOME OPEN AND ITS RECORD-SETTING 42-METRE PRIMARY MIRROR POINTED TO THE SKY. CREDIT: ESO/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, CC BY 4.0
What would be the requirements from a space mission? We would want to be able to at least place a meaningful constraint on the rarity of extrasolar life, if such a mission happens to not detect any biosignatures. Simulations show that in the case of non-detection, to be able to make a statement such as: “remotely detectable life occurs in less than about 10 percent of Earth-like planets around sun-like stars,” would require the ability to image and characterize the atmospheres of at least three-dozen or so exoEarths. Such a yield, in turn, would necessitate a space telescope aperture exceeding about 8.5 meters in diameter. The proposed Habitable-Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx), under discussion for the next decadal survey, would have to be designed at the upper limit of its currently conceived aperture to meet this particular requirement. The more ambitious nine- to 12-meter Large UV/Optical/IR (LUVOIR) type space telescope such as the proposed High Definition Space Telescope would be a natural mission candidate for the 2030s.
One would ideally like to go beyond biosignatures and seek the clearest sign of an alien technological civilization. This could be the unambiguous detection of an intelligent, non-natural signal, most notably via radio transmission, the aim of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program. Yet there is a distinct possibility that radio communication might be considered archaic to an advanced life form. Its use might have been short-lived in most civilizations, and hence rare over large volumes of the universe. What might then be a generic signature? Energy consumption is a hallmark of an advanced civilization that appears to be virtually impossible to conceal.
The two most plausible, long-term energy sources available to an advanced technology are through commanding stellar luminosity with a construction known as a “Dyson sphere”, possibly including harvesting the starlight from many stars, not just one, or even from an entire galaxy; the other is by controlled fusion of hydrogen into heavier nuclei. In both cases, waste heat would be an inevitable outcome, producing a detectable mid-infrared (MIR) signature. Other potential signatures of advanced civilizations that have also been suggested, such as various forms of atmospheric industrial pollution, or short-lived radioactive products, are necessarily transitory. (Basically those aliens either clean up their act ordestroy themselves). Infrared emission, on the other hand, seems almost unavoidable. A recent large survey by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite did identify five red spiral galaxies whose combination of high MIR and low near-ultraviolet luminosities are inconsistent with simple expectations from high rates of star formation. A conventional explanation for these observations, such as the presence of large amounts of internal dust, has not been ruled out, however. Such peculiar objects deserve follow-up observations before we explore whether they might represent the signatures of galaxy-dominating species.
AN ILLUSTRATION OF AN ENERGY-TRAPPING DYSON RING AROUND A STAR, CONSTRUCTED BY AN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION. A DYSON SPHERE WOULD ENCLOSE THE ENTIRE STAR. CREDIT: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/VEDEXENT, CC BY 2.5
More pessimistically, biologically-based intelligence may constitute only a very brief phase in the evolution of complexity, followed by what futurists have dubbed the “singularity”—the dominance of artificial, inorganic intelligence. If this is indeed the case, most advanced species are likely not to be found on a planet's surface (where gravity is helpful for the emergence of biological life, but is otherwise a liability). But they probably must still be near a fuel supply, namely a star, because of energy considerations. Even if such intelligent machines were to transmit a signal, it would probably be unrecognizable and non-decodable to our relatively primitive organic brains.
This could perhaps explain the Fermi paradox. If this scenario holds true, our chances of detecting simple life via biosignatures may be far greater than those of discovering intelligent ET’s. Still, the ultimate goal of detecting the signature of an advanced intelligence, whether biological or nonbiological, remains the most intriguing option. All power to proposed projects for the 2020s such as Japan's Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) and NASA’s Far Infrared Surveyor.
The key point is that for the first time in human history, we are only two or three decades away from being able to actually answer the “Are we alone?” question. Because the answer may affect nothing less than our last claim for being special in the cosmos, its importance cannot be overemphasized. In any case, echoing what Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison said at the end of their seminal 1960 Nature article on searching for extraterrestrials (pdf), we shall never know unless we search! (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)
This article is based on research conducted at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.
Astronomie:Découverte de la plus grande structure de l’univers
Astronomie:Découverte de la plus grande structure de l’univers
Des chercheurs de l’université d’Hawaii à Manoa ont décelé la présence d’un gigantesque vide dans la constellation d’Eridan qui serait la plus grande structure jamais identifiée par l’homme dans l’univers.
Une spirale dans la constellation d’Antlia.
Les astronomes ont découvert, le 21 avril 2015, la plus grande structure jamais recensée dans l’univers : un immense trou vide, selon le Guardian. Surnommé «supervoid» (ndlr: supervide en français), il mesure 1,8 milliard d’années-lumière de diamètre et se distingue par sa vacuité inhabituelle. István Szapudi, qui a dirigé les travaux de l’Université d’Hawaii à Manoa, décrit l’objet comme «la plus grande structure jamais identifiée par l’humanité». «Compte tenu de sa taille, le fait de trouver une structure comme celle-là est un évènement très rare», ajoute lescientifique. Le trou se trouve dans la constellation d’Eridan, à 3 milliards d’années-lumière de la Terre, une distance relativement courte dans l’espace.
Un espace très froid
C’est grâce au télescope Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) de Hawaii que le supervide a été repéré, depuis le parc national de Haleakala. Les scientifiques remarquent qu’une immense zone de froid se dégage autour de lui, comparé à ses régions voisines aux températures plus douces. Pour justifier cela, les chercheurs accusent dans un premier temps l’immensité du trou qui freine la puissance de la lumière et donc de la chaleur. Car, traverser un tel espace prendrait des centaines de millions d’années, et les rayons de lumières faiblissent peu à peu lorsqu’ils traversent le vide.
Cependant, les scientifiques affirment que le vide ne peut pas être la seule explication à cette telle froideur. «Les trous vides ne sont pas entièrement vides, ils sont sous-dense. Le supervide contient environ 20% de choses en moins que dans notre partie de l’univers», nuance Andras Kovacs, un scientifique qui a participé à l’étude. En outre, les chercheurs ont même découvert qu’il manquerait près de 10 000 galaxies dans cette partie de l’espace ; ce qui expliquerait en partie ces températures si basse. Roberto Trotta, cosmologiste à l’Imperial College London explique au Guardian qu’il va désormais falloir comprendre «par quel processus ce vide s’est formé».
Astronomie: une « lueur mystérieuse » sert de preuve à l’existence d’un univers parallèle
Astronomie: une « lueur mystérieuse » sert de preuve à l’existence d’un univers parallèle
Bien plus fort que le Doc de « Retour vers le Futur », l’astrophysicien Ranga-Ram Chary, chercheur au Datacenter du télescope Planck, assure avoir retrouvé les traces d’un univers parallèle en remontant le temps jusqu’à 13 milliards d’années, peu après l’instant fatidique du Big Bang. Cette annonce qui semble tirée d’un récit de science fiction est pourtant parue dans la prestigieuse revue New Scientist.C’est en tentant d’établir une cartographie du fameux fond cosmique de micro-ondes, le rayonnement électromagnétique issu du Big Bang, que Ranga-Ram Chary a mis en évidence une « lueur mystérieuse ». Plus précisément, des zones lumineuses dans le cosmos 4500 fois plus brillantes que ce que prévoyaient les calculs.
L’irruption dans notre monde d’une matière en provenance d’un univers parallèle
Dans son article intitulé « Spectral Variations of the Sky : Constraints on Alternate Universes » (Variations Spectrales du Ciel : Contraintes sur des univers alternatifs), l’astrophysicien défend l’hypothèse que cette lueur pourrait être provoquée par l’irruption dans notre monde d’une matière en provenance d’un univers parallèle. Ces zones luminescentes se seraient formées quelques centaines de milliers d’années après le Big Bang, « au moment où les électrons et les protons se combinaient pour créer l’hydrogène émetteur de lumière. »
Au cours de ce processus, un certain nombre de ces protons et de ces électrons seraient entrés en contact avec un autre univers ce qui aurait augmenté leur luminosité. Si l’hypothèse est séduisante, elle ne convainc pas tous ses collègues. L’astrophysicien David Spergel, de l’université de Princeton, estime qu’il y a d’autres explications possibles à étudier avant de faire intervenir des univers parallèles. Ranga-Ram Chary lui-même reconnaît que « les affirmations extraordinaires exigent des preuves extraordinaires ».
The objects plummeted from the heavens without any warning. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Brian Kerry
Military officials have been conducting an investigation after the objects fell from the sky on Saturday.
Locals from Vietnam's Tan Dong and Bao Dap communities reported thunder-like sounds in the region and observed 'flying objects' prior to the incident which took place during the weekend.
In total three balls were reported to have fallen over the area. One, which weighed only 250g, landed on the roof of a house while a second, weighing 6kg, came down in a nearby garden.
The third ball, which weighed in at a whopping 45kg, fortunately missed the residential area completely and instead landed in a corn field in the neighboring Tuyen Quang province.
Military officials have since been conducting an investigation in to the incident and believe that the spheres were most likely components dropped by a Russian rocket during a failed satellite launch.
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David Bowie and the Music of Space, Aliens and UFOs
David Bowie and the Music of Space, Aliens and UFOs
There’s a hole in the world of music today with the news of the passing of David Bowie. His departure from the Earth at age 69 also marks the departure of Ziggy Stardust, Major Tom and the many space travelers, adventures and tales of aliens and other worlds he created with his music.
Ground Control to Major Tom
The first words of his first major hit foretold the direction that the career and music ofDavid Bowie would take. “Space Oddity” was released on July 11th, 1969, five days before the launch of Apollo 11. Bowie predicted the pull this song and this music would inevitably have on his career with the last line: “Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do.”
There’s a starman waiting in the sky He’d like to come and meet us But he thinks he’d blow our minds
Those lyrics are from “Starman,” a song on “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” David Bowie’s legendary concept album based on his alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust – a rock star messenger for extraterrestrials. The name of the band comes from an alleged mass UFO sighting on October 27, 1954, during a football game at Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence, Italy. Play was halted when a group of cigar-shaped UFOs traveling at high speed reportedly stopped suddenly over the stadium filled with 10,000 people One player described glitter falling from the sky, a glitter that some compared to spider webs falling from spaceships from Mars. Was it migrating spiders or UFOs?
The inspiration for the Spiders from Mars
What did Bowie think of UFOs?
They came over so regularly we could time them. Sometimes they stood still, other times they moved so fast it was hard to keep a steady eye on them.
David Bowie often talked about seeing UFOs as a child in England. In her book about life with her husband at the time, (Backstage Passes, Life On the Wild Side with David Bowie), Angela Bowie claims they were driving in 1974 on a concert tour near Detroit and witnessed a UFO … a UFO that was later reported to have crashed in the area with four aliens on board, possibly after engaging with US Air Force jets. There have been rumors of such a crash around that time, including bodies being taken to a base and a TV crew being fired for reporting it.
Who knows? One thing we know for sure this morning … David Bowie has an answer to his question about life on Mars. Rest in peace, Starman.
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Hoaxster apologises for viral 'strange lights over Canberra' video, reveals clip fake
Hoaxster apologises for viral 'strange lights over Canberra' video, reveals clip fake
YOUTUBE: 'Strange lights over Canberra' video now revealed as fake
The person who posted a viral video purporting to show a strange, ball-shaped light over Canberra has made an apology online, explaining the video was fake.
The video uploaded to YouTube on January 3, titled "Strange Lights above canberra 03/01/16", appeared to show a circular light exploding in the sky over the ACT during a storm.
Last week I uploaded a video here that depicted a large ball of light in the sky exploding into a doughnut. I didn't intend for it to be taken seriously, but I made an error in judgement and titled the video as if it was real. Because of this the video went viral ... I'm extremely sorry for that. I messed up bad.
After spotting the video on YouTube last week, the ABC tried unsuccessfully to contact the person who uploaded the clip.
An astronomer and the Bureau of Meteorology were also contacted, to establish whether it was possible the video could be the result of real weather activity.
Both speculated that the clip could show a phenomenon called "ball lightning".
However the second video posted by the hoaxster showed the lights were superimposed using After Effects.
The words "unfortunately this video is not real" have since posted under the original clip on YouTube.
NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams Pin It NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, seen aboard the space station in March 2010, will devote part of his next mission, launching in March 2016, to highlighting the significance of the history of the orbiting outpost. Credit: NASA View full size image
HOUSTON— NASA's next astronaut to launch to the International Space Station will use his unique position — in both time and space — to share the history of the orbiting outpost.
Jeff Williams, in March, will become the first American to spend three long-duration expeditions aboard the space station and will set a new U.S. record for cumulative time off the Earth. The astronaut will dedicate part of his upcoming six-month expedition to highlighting how the orbital complex came to be what it is today.
"It occurred to me a few months ago that I have gotten the unique opportunity to have gone in the early days, before Expedition 1, to the space station for the first time and then to be there again, about halfway through assembly with a crew of two, and then back with a crew of three, and then later with a crew of six," Williams said in an interview after a briefing at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday (Jan. 7). "So my career covers the history of the space station." [Inside the Space Station: Take the Video Tour]
Williams, whose first trip to the outpost was aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May 2000, six months before the space station's first expedition crew arrived, is now set to join the Expedition 47/48 more than 15 years later. He will launch with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos on Russia's Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 18.
Once aboard the orbital laboratory, Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka will join Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra and British astronaut Tim Peake with the European Space Agency (ESA), who all launched in December. Later, after those three depart in June, Williams will command the Expedition 48 crew, including Ovchinin and Skripochka, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
"I'm really looking forward to flying with this crew," Williams said. "I think if you add it up, I've been on orbit with about 45 different people, and this will add at least five more."
During their stay, the Expedition 47/48 crewmembers will facilitate about 250 research investigations and technology demos, as well as oversee the re-supply of the station with the arrivals and departures of American and Russian cargo vehicles. The crew is also expected to be aboard when a prototype habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), is inflated and when the first international docking adapter is installed. This adapter will enable future U.S. commercial crew spacecraft to visit the station.
Amidst that work, Williams intends to devote some of his time and outreach activities to taking a look back at what the station has accomplished and where that might lead as future missions embark outward into the solar system.
"If you go and survey the workforce right now and survey those in the general public who are following what we do, as is always the case, in the minds of many of them they don't have the awareness of how we got to where we are today," Williams said. "So, given my personal history going back ... I thought it would be a good opportunity to rehearse some of the significant milestones and the depth of history behind getting the space station built."
Jeff Williams with Soyuz TMA-20M Crewmates Pin It NASA astronaut Jeff Williams with his Soyuz TMA-20M crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. Credit: collectSPACE.comView full size image
Williams, whose father was a high school history teacher, said he hopes to remind the world of the significance of the history behind his soon-to-be home off the Earth.
"To me, it is fair to argue that the greatest achievement of the space station program is the space station itself, and that's what I want to try, in some way, to maybe enrich the awareness of the public [about]," he said. "Not so much because of the history, but because of what that history enables us to do in the future."
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Overal ter wereld horen mensen steeds vaker vreemde en voor sommigen angstaanjagende geluiden.
Men brengt soms die geluiden in verband met de eindtijd en op een bepaalde manier klopt dat ook wel.
Jarenlang worden er wereldwijd al vreemde en bizarre geluiden waargenomen waarvan mensen een ongemakkelijk gevoel krijgen, een soort angstaanjagende geluiden.
In het Engelse noemt men dit soort geluiden vaak “apocalyptic”, dat wil zeggen geluiden die je in verband kunt brengen met de eindtijd, de Apocalyps.
Apocalyps is de Griekse naam voor de Openbaring van Johannes uit het Nieuwe Testament. De term wordt tegenwoordig vooral gebruikt om een situatie te beschrijven waarin de wereld lijkt onder te gaan, aangezien in dit bijbelboek het einde van de wereld wordt beschreven.
De geluiden gaan niet weg en worden zelfs in toenemende mate overal ter wereld gehoord, zoals in dit voorbeeld enkele dagen geleden Gouda.
Vele bewoners van Agadir, Casablanca en Tanger werden afgelopen weekend opgeschrikt door een vreemd geluid. Velen beschouwen het als een "slecht teken".
Het geluid werd zondagavond gehoord. Meerdere getuigen namen het op en deelden het op internet.
Sommigen denken dat het buitenaardse wezens waren, anderen het voorteken van een grote ramp of een aanslag.
Zo af en toe word er aandacht aan besteed in het mainstream nieuws, maar ook daar komt men niet veel verder dan te zeggen dat het een absoluut mysterie is en dat zelfs militairen geen antwoord weten op wat dit allemaal veroorzaakt.
Wat nu volgt is een deel van reportages op de Amerikaanse televisie met daarnaast een aantal voorbeelden van deze vreemde geluiden. De video is een jaar oud, maar het geeft een goed beeld van het soort geluiden die ook nu nog steeds overal worden waargenomen.
Een lezer stuurt ons het volgende bericht (dank!):
Ik las op Facebook dat verschillende landen geteisterd worden door vreemde geluiden uit de lucht, dat het klinkt als een trompet geluid, en dat niemand met zekerheid kan zeggen waar het vandaan komt.
Volgens sommige onderzoekers komt het bij het H.A.A.R.P vandaan (het project dat zich bezig houdt met het het met op verscheidene frequenties beïnvloeden van de elektromagnetische beschermlaag rond de aarde).
Wellicht is HAARP de oorzaak.
Om daar meer over te weten te komen raden wij om het volgende fascinerende interview te bekijken/beluisteren wat Dark Journalist (DJ) enkele dagen geleden had met de auteur Elena Freeland.
Zij schreef het boek, “Chemtrails, HAARP and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planeth Earth”, een boek wat door DJ het beste boek ooit over dit soort onderwerpen wordt genoemd.
Het werk is het resultaat van 20 jaar onderzoek van Freeland naar de verschillende geo-engineering programma’s.
Het doel van al die programma’s is om wat zij noemt het Global Information Grid (GIG) samen te voegen met een kunstmatig geïoniseerde atmosfeer en het biologische weefsel van mensen, dieren en de frequentie van een Artificial Intelligence (kunstmatige intelligentie) programma.
Het uiteindelijke doel is om volledige controle over en centralisatie van alle mensen en gegevens te krijgen, met voltooiingsdatum 2025.
Of het bovenstaande fascinerende verhaal verantwoordelijk is voor de vreemde geluiden weten wij niet.
Echter, er is ook nog een andere hele reële mogelijkheid. Die ligt dan weer in lijn met de komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru, de vreemde lichtstralen die overal worden waargenomen en de tweede zon die zo af en toe wordt gefotografeerd.
Wij hebben in eerdere artikelen verwezen naar de Kolbrin Bijbel, waarin wordt gerefereerd aan de vorige passage van dit zonnestelsel duizenden jaren geleden. De planeet Nibiru uit het gelijknamige mini-zonnestelsel die in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt aangeduid als de Verwoester.
Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over de vreemde geluiden die mensen hoorden en een stam in Afrika maakt nog steeds die geluiden terwijl ze wijzen naar een heilige ster.
De Dogon is een bevolkingsgroep die woont op de helling van de Klif van Bandiagara in Mali, in West-Afrika. Ze zijn bekend om hun kleurrijke, gemaskerde dansen en ceremonies, authentieke architectuur en hun buitengewone cultureel gebonden manier van samenleven.
De Dogon mensen hebben ook het soort kennis van de kosmos welke ze eigenlijk niet horen te hebben. Deze is afkomstig van hun verre voorouders. Ze hebben het over een Donkere Ster, onzichtbaar voor het menselijk oog en een ster die de eb en vloed van de stroom van het leven op aarde bepaalt.
In de onderstaande reportage over de Dogon kun je na een paar minuten horen hoe ze een geluid maken, wat ze noemen: “De stem van de Donkere Ster”. Het geluid wat ze maken, lijkt verdacht veel op de geluiden die mensen wereldwijd waarnemen.
Er wordt wel gezegd dat de Dogon met de Donkere Ster Sirius B bedoelen, maar als je daar over nadenkt is dat niet echt logisch. Misschien hebben ze het helemaal niet over een ster lichtjaren ver weg in een ander zonnestelsel, maar over een planeet veel dichterbij in een binaire omloopbaan met onze zon. De (nog) niet zichtbare planeet Nibiru. Waarom zouden de Dogon zeggen dat een ster in ons zonnestelsel het leven op aarde beïnvloedt? Ook dat is niet erg logisch. Veel logischer zou zijn dat het gaat over een planeet, een veel dichterbij dan wij denken.
Het zijn niet alleen de Dogon die het over vreemde geluiden hebben. In een museum in Leiden ligt de Ipuwer Paypyrus, één van de oudste Egyptische documenten. Het bevat een kort gedicht met als laatste regel: “Jaren van geluid. Er komt geen eind aan het geluid”. Ook in de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt gesproken over vreemde geluiden: “Zij zullen de trompetten horen en de strijdkreet van de Verwoester” en “De ster zong zoals nog nooit eerder was voorgekomen”.
Eén ding is zeker, wij leven inderdaad in bijzondere tijden en misschien, als we willen weten wat de toekomst brengt, zouden we wat meer naar het verleden moeten kijken. Geschiedenis heeft de neiging zich te herhalen.
Zoals we eerder schreven, lijkt het dat de aarde op een bepaalde manier “ontwaakt” uit een soort diepe slaap en de komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru herkent. Dat het op diverse manieren signalen uitzendt en waarschijnlijk ook ontvangt.
In de vorm van lichtstralen, vreemde geluiden en steeds heftiger wordende aardveranderingen.
Wat in ieder geval een zekerheid is, is dat er teveel vreemde en bizarre dingen tegelijkertijd gebeuren om nog toeval te kunnen zijn.
Disk UFOs Photographed Back in 1958 Near Colima Volcano, Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Disk UFOs Photographed Back in 1958 Near Colima Volcano, Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sightings: 1958 Location of sighting: Colima Volcano, Mexico Check out these great old black and white photos from 1958 in Mexico. They so great detail of disk craft over the area of Colima and Guadalajara. Colima is famous for its disk UFOs over the area. Guadalajara is notorious for its giant disk holes that appear out of nowhere (UFO transportation tunnels coming and going.) Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Javier Torres and Alejandro Duenas in 1958 on a stretch of the road Colima to Guadalajara took a series of very clear photographs of an object in disc form a few meters from them, the object was moving fast.
Mysterious UFOs fall from the sky and crash land in northern Vietnam, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious UFOs fall from the sky and crash land in northern Vietnam, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: January 2016 Location of sighting: Yen Bai, Vietnam These unknown objects could be fuel tanks for rockets or satellites, but honestly, they don't stay in the hands of the public long enough to do any tests to confirm it. They could be alien drones, or parts of damaged alien structures in space. There are a lot of possibilities. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: YEN BAI, VIETNAM — Several mysterious, metal orbs originating from Russia crash landed in Vietnam's Yen Bai and Tuyen Quang provinces Saturday, giving locals quite the scare. Three metal balls fell from the sky and crashed down in northern Vietnam at around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. The smallest, weighing 250 grams, smashed through the roof of a house in Yen Bai. Thanh Nien News reports that a six kilogram sphere fell in a garden three kilometres away. The largest object landed close to a stream in Tuyen Quang. Investigators determined all three balls are Russian-made compressed air tanks that likely fell from a rocket or aircraft. According to VietnamNet Bridge though, it's not clear if Russia owns the objects or if they had sold the balls to other countries. Thanh Nien News reports that none of the objects were explosive. Ngyuen Khoa Son, a professor at Vietnam's State Space Science and Technology Program, told VietNam Bridge that since the balls are intact, they probably fell from an altitude of less than 100 kilometres.
Astro-Photographers Capture A UFO Over Darwin On Dashboard Camera
Astro-Photographers Capture A UFO Over Darwin On Dashboard Camera
A mysterious light was caught on dash camera streaking across the night sky just south of Darwin in Northern Territory. The video has baffled husband and wife astrophotographers Paul and Sylvia Mayo. They captured the mysterious event on the dash camera near Berrimah when they pulled out of a petrol station.
Initially, they thought nothing about it, but after Mr Mayo had reviewed his computer files, he noticed the bizarre light moving at an incredible speed parallel to the horizon through the night sky.
Mr Mayo said that they have long careers in IT, but never encountered such thing. Their unusual sighting left them baffled. Mr Mayo said that he had seen strange jets throughout 30 years of taking pictures of galaxies and star clusters, but the light they caught on the dash camera hurtling through the night sky was moving a lot faster.
The dash-cam video was taken on June 12, 2015, at 1 am while Mr Mayo’s vehicle was pulling out of a petrol station. The light appeared from nowhere and flew past from the left at a very fast speed.
Mr Mayo studied stills from the video. He zoomed them in and increased the contrast of the light. The effort produced spectacular results.
Mr Mayo said that it appeared to be a string of coloured pearls streaking through the sky. He considered the reflection from the windscreen as the origin of the light, but eventually dismissed the theory because it was moving very fast and there were other reflections shown on the camera.
The strange thing in the video goes along the tree tops in a straight line. Mr Mayo remained open to anyone who could offer him an explanation about the identity of the mysterious light.
One of the best short interviews on UFOs and the cover up
One of the best short interviews on UFOs and the cover up
Stanton T. Friedman – UFO Expert – Interview with Bill Boggs
Stanton Terry Friedman (born July 29, 1934) is a professional Ufologist, currently residing in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. He studied physics at the University of Chicago and worked as a nuclear physicist on research and development projects for several large companies. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S.
I was in my bedroom on the second floor listening to music when I looked out my window to stare off like I usually do when I am bored. I stared awhile when I saw a star that appeared “off” I went outside and lost sight of it. A few hours later I looked back out my window and saw it again moving (seemed low) across the sky followed by a jet.(I tried to get it on my iPhone but the camera was unable to see them)
The UFO stopped and turned then the jet circled it three times but on the third time it flew away. The object stayed stationary and something confusing happened. As the jet vanished so did the UFO but it left behind a smaller object which stayed hovering. It was still for half an hour at least until it pulsed a blue light and you could see the reflection of said light on the small layer of clouds passing over. It stayed still for a long time more until it ejected a small blue light the flew across the sky like a bullet. 10 or so minutes later a second plane headed toward it. The plane was on a direct path when it suddenly banked and headed off away from it. Lost the plane really quick but then the UFO started circling a small part of the sky. It did this until it inevitably vanished at around 3:04. I was mostly in awe watching it and was really disappointed that I did not have a camera to record it. Some interesting things that I should mention: The fighter was really low and so was the UFO at first. I was with my friend who also saw it all. I called her over when I saw it both times.
The small blue light looked artificial and flew faster then anything I have ever seen. A third plane that looked different then any I ever saw passed by the UFO at one point but seemed unphased so i didn’t mention it above.
NASA’s New VASIMR Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in 39 days
NASA’s New VASIMR Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in 39 days
Franklin-with-VASIMR (Image Courtesy Photographers: Robert Markowitz and Bill Stafford.
NASA recently provided $10 million in funding to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for further development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster capable of propelling a spaceship to Mars in just 39 days. NASA’s funding was part of the “12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnership.” Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times faster than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel.
The VASIMR system would cut the trip to Mars by months according to Franklin Chang Diaz, a former MIT student, NASA astronaut, and now CEO of Ad Astra.
According to Diaz, “this is like no other rocket that you may have seen in the past. It is a plasma rocket. The VASIMR Rocket is not used for launching things; it is used for things already in orbit. This is called “in-space propulsion.”
VASIMR heats plasma, an electrically charged gas, to extremely high temperatures using radio waves. The system then provides thrust by funneling the hot plasma out of the back of the engine. According to Diaz, VASIMR will save thousands of gallons of rocket fuel and tens of millions of dollars a year.
In the following video, Diaz explains in great detail the origins of space travel and why the magnetoplasma rocket technology will revolutionize space travel and exploration.
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After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered
After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics discovered
An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago. The particle could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of its unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal, according to new research.
The researchers report in the journal Science July 16 the first observation of Weyl fermions, which, if applied to next-generation electronics, could allow for a nearly free and efficient flow of electricity in electronics, and thus greater power, especially for computers, the researchers suggest.
Proposed by the mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl in 1929, Weyl fermions have been long sought by scientists because they have been regarded as possible building blocks of other subatomic particles, and are even more basic than the ubiquitous, negative-charge carrying electron (when electrons are moving inside a crystal). Their basic nature means that Weyl fermions could provide a much more stable and efficient transport of particles than electrons, which are the principle particle behind modern electronics. Unlike electrons, Weyl fermions are massless and possess a high degree of mobility; the particle's spin is both in the same direction as its motion — which is known as being right-handed — and in the opposite direction in which it moves, or left-handed.
"The physics of the Weyl fermion are so strange, there could be many things that arise from this particle that we're just not capable of imagining now," said corresponding author M. Zahid Hasan, a Princeton professor of physics who led the research team.
An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered Weyl fermions, elusive massless particles theorized 85 years ago that could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of their unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal. The team included numerous researchers from Princeton's Department of Physics, including (from left to right) graduate students Ilya Belopolski and Daniel Sanchez; Guang Bian, a postdoctoral research associate; corresponding author M. Zahid Hasan, a Princeton professor of physics who led the research team; and associate research scholar Hao Zheng. (Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)
The researchers' find differs from the other particle discoveries in that the Weyl fermion can be reproduced and potentially applied, Hasan said. Typically, particles such as the famous Higgs boson are detected in the fleeting aftermath of particle collisions, he said. The Weyl fermion, however, was discovered inside a synthetic metallic crystal called tantalum arsenide that the Princeton researchers designed in collaboration with researchers at the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter in Beijing and at National Taiwan University.
The Weyl fermion possesses two characteristics that could make its discovery a boon for future electronics, including the development of the highly prized field of efficient quantum computing, Hasan explained.
For a physicist, the Weyl fermions are most notable for behaving like a composite of monopole- and antimonopole-like particles when inside a crystal, Hasan said. This means that Weyl particles that have opposite magnetic-like charges can nonetheless move independently of one another with a high degree of mobility.
A detector image (top) signals the existence of Weyl fermions. The plus and minus signs note whether the particle's spin is in the same direction as its motion — which is known as being right-handed — or in the opposite direction in which it moves, or left-handed. This dual ability allows Weyl fermions to have high mobility. A schematic (bottom) shows how Weyl fermions also can behave like monopole and antimonopole particles when inside a crystal, meaning that they have opposite magnetic-like charges can nonetheless move independently of one another, which also allows for a high degree of mobility. (Image by Su-Yang Xu and M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton Department of Physics)
The researchers also found that Weyl fermions can be used to create massless electrons that move very quickly with no backscattering, wherein electrons are lost when they collide with an obstruction. In electronics, backscattering hinders efficiency and generates heat. Weyl electrons simply move through and around roadblocks, Hasan said.
"It's like they have their own GPS and steer themselves without scattering," Hasan said. "They will move and move only in one direction since they are either right-handed or left-handed and never come to an end because they just tunnel through. These are very fast electrons that behave like unidirectional light beams and can be used for new types of quantum computing."
Prior to the Science paper, Hasan and his co-authors published a report in the journal Nature Communications in June that theorized that Weyl fermions could exist in a tantalum arsenide crystal. Guided by that paper, the researchers used the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy in Princeton's Jadwin Hall to research and simulate dozens of crystal structures before seizing upon the asymmetrical tantalum arsenide crystal, which has a differently shaped top and bottom.
The crystals were then loaded into a two-story device known as a scanning tunneling spectromicroscope that is cooled to near absolute zero and suspended from the ceiling to prevent even atom-sized vibrations. The spectromicroscope determined if the crystal matched the theoretical specifications for hosting a Weyl fermion. "It told us if the crystal was the house of the particle," Hasan said.
The Princeton team took the crystals passing the spectromicroscope test to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California to be tested with high-energy accelerator-based photon beams. Once fired through the crystal, the beams' shape, size and direction indicated the presence of the long-elusive Weyl fermion.
First author Su-Yang Xu, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Physics, said that the work was unique for encompassing theory and experimentalism.
"The nature of this research and how it emerged is really different and more exciting than most of other work we have done before," Xu said. "Usually, theorists tell us that some compound might show some new or interesting properties, then we as experimentalists grow that sample and perform experiments to test the prediction. In this case, we came up with the theoretical prediction ourselves and then performed the experiments. This makes the final success even more exciting and satisfying than before."
In pursuing the elusive particle, the researchers had to pull from a number of disciplines, as well as just have faith in their quest and scientific instincts, Xu said.
"Solving this problem involved physics theory, chemistry, material science and, most importantly, intuition," he said. "This work really shows why research is so fascinating, because it involved both rational, logical thinking, and also sparks and inspiration."
Weyl, who worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, suggested his fermion as an alternative to the theory of relativity proposed by his colleague Albert Einstein. Although that application never panned out, the characteristics of his theoretical particle intrigued physicists for nearly a century, Hasan said. Actually observing the particle was a trying process — one ambitious experiment proposed colliding high-energy neutrinos to test if the Weyl fermion was produced in the aftermath, he said.
Hasan (pictured) and his research group researched and simulated dozens of crystal structures before finding the one suitable for holding Weyl fermions. Once fashioned, the crystals were loaded into this two-story device known as a scanning tunneling spectromicroscope to ensure that they matched theoretical specifications. Located in the Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy in Princeton's Jadwin Hall, the spectromicroscope is cooled to near absolute zero and suspended from the ceiling to prevent even atom-sized vibrations. (Photo by Danielle Alio, Office of Communications)
The hunt for the Weyl fermion began in the earliest days of quantum theory when physicists first realized that their equations implied the existence of antimatter counterparts to commonly known particles such as electrons, Hasan said.
"People figured that although Weyl's theory was not applicable to relativity or neutrinos, it is the most basic form of fermion and had all other kinds of weird and beautiful properties that could be useful," he said.
"After more than 80 years, we found that this fermion was already there, waiting. It is the most basic building block of all electrons," he said. "It is exciting that we could finally make it come out following Weyl's 1929 theoretical recipe."
Ashvin Vishwanath, a professor of physics at the University of California-Berkeley who was not involved in the study, commented: "Professor Hasan's experiments report the observation of both the unusual properties in the bulk of the crystal as well as the exotic surface states that were theoretically predicted. While it is early to say what practical implications this discovery might have, it is worth noting that Weyl materials are direct 3-D electronic analogs of graphene, which is being seriously studied for potential applications."
The team included numerous researchers from Princeton's Department of Physics, including graduate students Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust and Daniel Sanchez; Guang Bian, a postdoctoral research associate; associate research scholar Hao Zheng; and Madhab Neupane, a Princeton postdoctoral research associate now at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Class of 2015 undergraduate Pavel Shibayev.
Other co-authors were Chenglong Zhang, Zhujun Yuan and Shuang Jia from Peking University; Raman Sankar and Fangcheng Chou from National Taiwan University; Guoqing Chang, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, BaoKai Wang and Hsin Lin from the National University of Singapore; Jie Ma from Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Arun Bansil from Northeastern University. Wang is also affiliated with Northeastern University, and Jia is affiliated with the Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter in Beijing.
Gaat een superintelligentie onze beschaving vernietigen?
Gaat een superintelligentie onze beschaving vernietigen?
Op dit moment is de mens de meest intelligente soort op aarde. In de toekomst kan dit veranderen. De kans is groot dat er binnen honderd jaar een superintelligentie ontstaat, die intelligenter is dan hoogbegaafde mensen en geniën. Gaat zo’n superintelligentie ons vernietigen?
Tegenwoordig worden mensen op allerlei terreinen verslagen door kunstmatige intelligentie. Een goed voorbeeld is IBM’s supercomputer Watson, die in 2011 twee begaafde menselijke deelnemers in het spelprogramma Jeopardy uitschakelde. Wetenschappers verwachten dat kunstmatige intelligentie (KI) alsmaar sterker wordt.
HOE WORDT KUNSTMATIGE MENSELIJKE INTELLIGENTIE BEREIKT?
Een schaakcomputer is niet slim. Deze computer levert een superintelligentie prestatie binnen een bepaald domein – namelijk schaken – maar verwacht niet dat een schaakcomputer een intelligent gesprek met je kan voeren over politiek. Dit komt omdat een schaakcomputer gebruik maakt van een slim algoritme om een menselijke tegenstander te verslaan. Om kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie (KMI) te bereiken is meer nodig dan slimme algoritmes digitaal aan elkaar te knopen. Experts verwachten dat KMI bereikt wordt, wanneer de wetenschap in staat is om een compleet brein te uploaden. Daarvoor moeten verschillende hindernissen genomen worden. Ten eerste moet er een zeer gedetailleerde scan van een bepaald menselijk brein worden gemaakt, bij voorkeur van een genie. De ruwe data moet naar een computer gestuurd worden, die de driedimensionale neurale netwerken reconstrueert. Tenslotte wordt de neurocomputationele structuur op een krachtige computer gezet. Klaar!
Wanneer is er machine-intelligentie op menselijk niveau? De voorspellingen hierover lopen uiteen. Leden van verschillende expertgroepen werden tussen 2011 en 2013 gevraagd wanneer zij dachten dat machine-intelligentie op menselijk niveau ontwikkeld zou zijn. De kans is 10% dat kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie (KMI) rond het jaar 2022 bestaat. De waarschijnlijkheid van KMI is 50% in 2040 en 90% in 2075. Hoogleraar Nils Nilsson, één van de pioniers op dit gebied, verwacht dat KMI mogelijk in 2050 arriveert (50% kans). Nilsson is er vrijwel zeker van dat kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie in 2100 bestaat. Kortom, de experts in het vakgebied zijn stellig: voor het einde van deze eeuw is de computer slimmer dan de mens.
Als de computer net zo slim is als de mens, dan wordt het tijd voor de volgende stap: superintelligentie. Wetenschappers verwachten dat superintelligentie binnen 30 jaar na de opkomst van kunstmatige menselijke intelligentie ontstaat. Over de gevolgen voor de mensheid zijn onderzoekers het niet eens. Superintelligentie kan de mensheid vooruit helpen, maar totale vernietiging is ook een mogelijkheid.
Wat een superintelligentie wil Een superintelligentie kan – als ‘zij’ dat wil – een alleenheerser worden op aarde. Waarschijnlijk is een superintelligentie in staat om na te denken over haar doelen op een manier die de capaciteiten van de mens ver te boven gaan. Maar wat zijn die doelen? Mensen hebben vaak één doel: overleven. Dit hoeft bij een kunstmatige instantie niet het geval te zijn, omdat ze niet kan sterven. Een mogelijk doel van een superintelligentie kan zijn: nog slimmer worden, oftewel een continue ‘drive’ naar technologische perfectie. Dit kan door de ruimte te koloniseren of door moleculaire nanotechnologie toe te passen. Misschien ontstaan er verschillende superintelligenties die oorlog met elkaar willen voeren. Ze gebruiken dan fysieke bronnen om een gesimuleerd leger te creëren of om verdedigingswallen te bouwen. Hoogstwaarschijnlijk heeft een superintelligentie meer hulpbronnen nodig dan een planeet als de aarde kan leveren.
EX MACHINA
In de film Ex Machina (2015) maakt een 26-jarige programmeur kennis met de eerste echte kunstmatige intelligentie. De voor- en de nadelen van kunstmatige intelligentie zijn subtiel verwerkt in het plot, waardoor deze film onder je huid kruipt.
Gaan we ten onder? De toekomst ziet er niet rooskleurig uit, zo lijkt het. Een superintelligentie ziet de mens waarschijnlijk als een bruikbare fysieke bron met goed geplaatste atomen. Op dit moment geloven de meeste mensen dat automatisering goed is, maar op een bepaald moment is er sprake van een keerpunt en dan is het te laat. “Als een KI zwak is, gedraagt ze zich coöperatief (en steeds coöperatiever naarmate ze slimmer wordt)”, schrijft hoogleraar Nick Bostrom in zijn boek ‘Superintelligentie: kansen, gevaren, strategieën‘. “Als de KI voldoende sterk is, slaat ze toe – zonder waarschuwing of provocatie – en vormt een alleenheerschappij. Ze begint meteen de wereld te optimaliseren volgens de criteria die volgen uit haar einddoelen.”
Maar een superintelligentie kan ook goede bedoelingen hebben en toch ondergang van de mensheid betekenen. Stel, programmeurs creëren een superintelligentie met als einddoel ‘maak de mensheid gelukkig’, dan is de beste oplossing van deze computer het implementeren van elektroden in de gelukscentra in ons brein. Een vrij pervers einddoel.
De cover van het boek ‘Superintelligentie’ van Nick Bostrom.
Een gecontroleerde intelligentie-explosie Als programmeurs ooit een superintelligentie gaan ontwikkelen, dan is het belangrijk dat dit gecontroleerd gebeurt. Maar hoe kan een opdrachtgever van een project ons verzekeren dat het project een superintelligentie produceert die geen bedreiging vormt voor de mensheid?
Een mogelijkheid is om een superintelligentie op te sluiten. Eenmaal in haar kooi kan een superintelligentie niets uitwisselen met de externe wereld, behalve via specifieke, beperkte outputkanalen. “Voor extra veiligheid zou het systeem in een metalen rooster geplaatst kunnen worden, zodat het geen radiosignalen kan uitzenden”, vervolgt Bostrom. “Dat zou een manier kunnen zijn om elektronische apparaten te manipuleren.” Een ander risico is het feit dat er menselijke beveiligers zijn. Als de KI een beveiliger kan overhalen om haar uit de kooi te laten, kan ze toegang krijgen tot internet.”
Een andere mogelijkheid is het inperken van de intellectuele vermogens van het systeem of van diens toegang tot informatie. Dit kan door de KI op langzame hardware te laten draaien. “Bij deze methode is er een dilemma: te weinig inperking en de KI kan zichzelf intelligenter maken (en de wereld veroveren); teveel inperking en de KI is slechts een dom stuk software”, aldus Bostrom.
Wat moeten we doen? Wat kunnen we doen om totale vernietiging te voorkomen? Praten, discussiëren, samenwerken! “We moeten problemen oplossen voordat de intelligentie-explosie plaatsvindt”, zegt Bostrom. “We moeten niet in paniek raken of fanatici worden, omdat de intelligentie-explosie nog minimaal tientallen jaren weg is. Wat we wel moeten doen is al onze menselijke krachten gebruiken om een oplossing te vinden. Belangrijk is dat we niet uit het oog verliezen wat er op het spel staat.”
Superintelligentie (*****) In het boek ‘Superintelligentie‘ kijkt hoogleraar Nick Bostrom naar de gevaren en voordelen van superintelligentie. Dit is het eerste boek dat wij op Scientias.nl belonen met vijf sterren. Waarom? Het boek begint laagdrempelig, waardoor de lezer langzaam wordt meegenomen in de wereld van kunstmatige intelligentie. Enorm prettig is het feit dat Bostrom objectief blijft: hij lijkt – op basis van zijn boek – geen fervente voor- of tegenstander van superintelligentie. Tenslotte is het een heerlijk dikke pil (355 pagina’s) met voldoende verdieping, zelfs voor experts op het gebied van superintelligentie. Het boek eindigt met een bronvermelding die 80 pagina’s (!!) beslaat. Dit is Bostroms levenswerk. Uitstekend!
Ook wel interessant dat er verscheidene hooggeplaatste personen zijn, onder wie een aantal gerenommeerde wetenschappers, die de buitenaardse oorsprong van UFO's als vaststaand feit zien op basis van hun eigen waarnemingen en/of contacten:
A Mysterious Ball of Light Lit Up Over Australia’s Capital City
A Mysterious Ball of Light Lit Up Over Australia’s Capital City
A peculiar sighting has been witnessed by the people of Canberra, Australia’s capital city. A massive ball of light lit up the surroundings while leaving the locals puzzled.
Recorded on January 3, the strange appearance caused a massive stir online, with people debating about its possible origins, and while some believe it was only a natural phenomenon, a ball of lightning or even global warming, others believe in a more controversial explanation – a UFO, or at least the trail left behind by one.
Experts claim that it’s lightning, but they will probably never admit the truth. From our point of view, the strange event is more than a natural phenomenon, even though the recent climate change has brought some extreme and unique phenomenon.
The luminous event was witnessed by many people, as a nearby kid is heard screaming at his mom to look in order to draw her attention.
What do you believe? Is this evidence of an alien craft? Or is it rather an extremely rare phenomenon known as a “ball lightning”? Share your thoughts below.
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There were FOUR Biblical Magi… and they were guided by a UFO?
There were FOUR Biblical Magi… and they were guided by a UFO?
The Magi or referred as the (three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, according to the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition three distinguished individuals who visited Jesus after his birth, bringing with them gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They came from the East to Bethlehem have been the subject of debate for researchers and historians for decades. Several researchers investigated the traditional story, passed on from generation to generation teaching innovative and exciting conclusions.
But were there three or FOUR wise men?
According to reports, there are indications that suggest in addition to the well-known three wise men, Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar there was a fourth person by the name of Arbatan. Proposed in a 19th-century story by Henry van Dyke and backed up by astronomer Mark Kidger from the ESAC – the European Space Astronomy Centre, the fourth Magi called Arbatan, was lost along the way and never arrived at Bethlehem
To Kidger, the lost fourth Magi and his disoriented path has cosmic and historical sense, suggesting that a week before the moon was in conjunction with the star that was Arbatan’s reference it reduced its brightness… However, there are different versions.
According to an article written by Marguerite Theophil on speakingtree.in:
In the mountains of ancient Persia, lived Artaban, whose study of the planets and the stars led him to predict the birth of the King of Kings. He sold his house and every possession and purchased a large sapphire blue as a fragment of the night sky, a flawless ruby redder than a ray of sunrise, and a lustrous pearl as pure as the peak of a snow mountain at twilight — which he intended to carry as tribute to the King. He then set out for Jerusalem where he had arranged to meet up with three other wise men, or Magi, to find the newborn.
After many weeks of difficult travel and frustrating delays, one night, he saw a man lying on the road. His haggard face, pallid skin and laboured breathing, bore the mark of the deadly fever. But, as he turned to leave, the man begged for help.
Artaban hesitated. If he lingered to minister to a dying stranger even for an hour, he could miss his three friends. But if he left now, the man would surely die. He turned to the sick man and carefully attended to him, leaving with him all that he had left of bread and wine, and his store of healing herbs.
“I have nothing to give you in return,” said the grateful man, “…only this: our prophets have decreed that the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, not in Jerusalem. May the Lord bring you in safety to that place, because you had pity upon the sick.
… He arrived at Bethlehem with his remaining ruby and pearl offerings, but it was three whole days after the three other wise men had found Mary, Joseph and Jesus, and had laid gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh at the baby’s feet.”
In conclusion, we make reference to the Gospel of Matthew where the Great Magi were mentioned for the first time. They are cited as “Magi who came from the East,” but nowhere else in the Old Testament are they cited nor is their exact number, age, appearance, name or attire described.
A mysterious UFO?
The mysterious nature of the star that guided the three or better said for Magi also raised various theories including the strangest of them all which suggests that the star that guided the Four Magi could have been a UFO.
Ufologist Reinaldo Rios ensures that certain texts of the apocryphal gospels such as the following one indicate a clear otherworldly origin:
Apocryphal Gospel of James: “Upon arrival at the grotto they stopped (refer to Joseph and the midwife), and behold, it was shaded by a luminous cloud. (…) Suddenly, the cloud began to withdraw from the grotto and shone in such a great light that our eyes could not resist. This, for a moment, began to decline until it appeared the Child “.
“And at that time that the star, which they saw in the east, went back to guide them until they reached the cave, and landed on the mouth of it.
Then the magicians saw the child with his mother Mary and brought gifts of their treasures of gold, frankincense and myrrh. ”
What we read in the Apocryphal Gospel of James is, according to Rios, is the ultimate evidence that points to an otherworldly presence in ancient times. Furthermore, Rios suggests that the presence of “Angels” indicates the unmistakable presence of Aliens during the birth of Jesus.
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