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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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    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...
    15-04-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.FACEBOOKER RECORDS A CRYSTAL CLEAR VIDEO OF MULTIPLE UFOS WHILE DRIVING THROUGH THE DESERT IN ARIZONA

    FACEBOOKER RECORDS A CRYSTAL CLEAR VIDEO OF MULTIPLE UFOS WHILE DRIVING THROUGH THE DESERT IN ARIZONA

    15-04-2017 om 12:51 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFO Over South Korea Caught By Professional Photographer On April 2017, UFO Sighting News.

    UFO Over South Korea Caught By Professional Photographer On April 2017, UFO Sighting News.



    Date of sighting: April 12, 2017
    Location of sighting: Seoul, South Korea
    Source: MUFON #83126

    This professional photographer was recording some actors for a TV show in South Korea. When he looked back at his photos two had UFOs in them. The UFO is far behind the people...at least as far as the building or more. How do I know? Easy, the focus of the camera cannot be fooled. The distant objects are blurred, the close objects are super HD clear. So this UFO was big, and far away. 



    However a concern I have is that this may be an advertising ploy to get more attention for their TV show, since they did mention its name. This remains a possibility.
    Scott C. Waring
     
    Eyewitness states: 
    It is really glad that I am writing a UFO report about my resent findings. Last Wednesday, 12th April, one of the our professional photographers took several series of continuous shooting, while taking a promotional poster of our newly launched drama of KBS in central Seoul, South Korea We are really surprised as well as thrilled that we captured a stunning moment that UFO was flying in front of our lens It was clear sky on that day and 7 out of 9 photos seem normal and only 3 of them captured black spots behind two actor and actress. They are attached files : CHA_2648, CHA_2688 and CHA_2689 The photographer has never acknowledged that he captured UFO-like object while shooting and there was no suspicious smell nor sound came out on the shooting site. With the photographer, there were other directors and crews making the drama and they have not acknowledged the fact he took photos of UFO either. We have tried our best what he has taken and what they are, but there was no specialist in South Korea, who is able to investigate the photographed UFO at this moment. We would love you to have a look at those photos and if you find something suspicious, please inform me whether it is really UFOs or not through this email. It is really thankful that your dedication to defining UFO in advance. 



    http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/ }

    15-04-2017 om 12:38 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.North Korea UFOs

    North Korea UFOs

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    Interesting mexican TV show from a Tercer Milenio TV about UFO activity over North Korea.

    http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

    15-04-2017 om 12:27 geschreven door peter  

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    15-04-2017 om 01:05 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Saturn's adorable UFO-shaped moon, Atlas, gets a close-up

    Saturn's adorable UFO-shaped moon, Atlas, gets a close-up

    Can a moon be cute? If you're a tiny Saturn moon that resembles a flying saucer, the answer is "Yes!"

    Sorry, folks, this isn't an actual UFO.

    NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    Saturn's minuscule moon Atlas is one of the smallest among the ringed planet's massive collection that includes dozens of satellites. NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped some new images of Atlas on Wednesday from a distance of just 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) away, giving us our closest look at the goofy little moon.

    Atlas is just 19 miles (30 kilometers) across. Compare that to Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which is 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) across. Atlas has a distinctive central bulge, leading NASA to give it the "flying-saucer" moon nickname.

    Atlas has made cameo appearances in Cassini pictures before, where it can be seen hiding in Saturn's rings, dwarfed by its much larger brethren. Atlas bears a passing resemblance to another itsy-bitsy moon named Pan. Pan, however, looks more like a ravioli than a UFO.

    Cassini isn't long for this solar system. The NASA craft, which originally launched in 1997, is scheduled to end its mission later this year when it plunges into Saturn's atmosphere.

    https://www.cnet.com/uk/ }

    15-04-2017 om 00:46 geschreven door peter  

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    NASA Scientist Says Her Money Is on Europa for Alien Life

    There is now solid evidence that Jupiter’s moon Europa has plumes much like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, meaning the probability of an ocean beneath its surface is very likely. But, it won’t be until NASA’s Europa Clipper arrives that we’ll know for sure.

    In a news briefing on Thursday, NASA officials explained that there were two repeat occurrences of a single plume on Europa. The first was identified by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014 and the second, also identified by Hubble, was in 2016. Both plumes were in the same location, which also happened to be the very spot where the Galileo spacecraft detected a thermal hotspot in a close flyby.

    “Repeated behavior like this gives us faith in the observation,” said William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “It’s not proof, but it’s right at the limit of what Hubble can do.”

    This information makes the mission to Europa all the more thrilling because if there really is an ocean in the interior, there’s a real possibility of finding alien microbial life swimming around in it. The discovery of plumes on Europa also has NASA discussing the possibility of a probe to Enceladus, which has been found to have a number of icy, geyser-like plumes.

    But, Mary Voytek, a NASA astrobiologist, said, “My money is still on Europa.”

    This is because Enceladus has such high volumes of hydrogen and carbon dioxide that it could be that there is no life to absorb it. This would also explain why Europa doesn’t have as harsh plume activity.

    Another hint of life is the smoothing of both moon’s surfaces. Enceladus has large portions of what was once believed to be cratered terrain that has been smoothed over by the vapor. However, most of Enceladus is still covered in craters, leading NASA to believe it is much younger than Europa, which is entirely smooth.

    To explore the mysterious territory on Europa, the Clipper will be able to tell how thick or thin ice shelves are on the moon, use thermal imaging to see how hot areas are, especially near the plume location, and use an ultraviolet spectrometer, to find more plumes. It will even fly close enough to go through the plumes and take measurements.

    “We’re using everything in our arsenal to probe these ocean worlds we’ve just discovered,” said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA. “They are one of the best locations, we believe, that may harbor life one day.”

    Photos via Flickr / Kevin M. Gill

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    15-04-2017 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen."Houston, we have a problem": hét foute citaat van vorige eeuw - HLN.be

    "Houston, we have a problem": hét foute citaat van vorige eeuw - HLN.be

     Bron: Washington Post

    © nasa.

    'Houston, we have a problem'. Heel Amerika gebruikt al decennialang deze quote voor om het even wat er enigszins verkeerd loopt. Ook in onze contreien tiert de iconische uitspraak welig. Maar... er is inderdaad een probleem: ze klopt historisch gezien niet.

    Op 13 april 1970 - gisteren 47 jaar geleden - kreeg de Apollo 13 op weg naar de maan af te rekenen met een explosie aan boord. Een ernstig probleem uiteraard voor astronauten Jim Lovell (commandant), Jack Swigert (piloot van de commando-module) en Fred Haise (piloot van de maanlander). Swigert rapporteerde als eerste aan de basis op aarde: "Okay, Houson, we've had a problem here" (Oké, Houston, we hebben hier een probleem gehad). De controlekamer antwoordde: "This is Houston. Say again, please." (Houston hier, herhaal eens alsjeblief). Waarop Lovell in de ruimte overnam en zei: "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem".

    Dat is woordelijk het gesprek zoals het toen in werkelijkheid plaatsvond. Niemand zei dus "Houston, we hebben een probleem", maar wél "We hebben een probleem gehad". Een taalkundig nuanceverschil: de astronauten gaven zo aan dat het probleem achter hen lag, wat dan ook weer niet klopte, want de missie moest afgebroken worden.

    Volgens de Houston Chronicle is de foutieve quote te wijten aan de film 'Apollo 13' uit 1995 van regisseur Ron Howard. Acteur Tom Hanks spreekt daarin wel degelijk de zin 'Houston, we have a problem' uit, wat cinematografisch veel spannender is omdat het euvel zich - ook taalkundig - op dat moment nog altijd aan het afspelen is. Een van de scenaristen, William Broyles Jr., gaf toe dat hij daarom de historische melding wijzigde.

    Taalkundeprofessor Naomi S Baron zegt dat het bovendien logisch is dat in de film het woordje 'okay' werd weggelaten. Dat was wel nuttig voor de controlepost in Houston om hun aandacht te trekken maar niet meteen voor de filmkijker. Baron dacht overigens zelf altijd dat de uitspraak correct geciteerd werd, tot ze deze week door de Washington Post om haar linguïstische interpretatie werd gevraagd.

    De film met Tom Hanks is dus de schuldige? Toch niet. In 1983 was 'Houston, we have a problem' de titel van een wekelijkse radio-uitzending van NASA zelf. Maar ook dáár zou niet de oorsprong van de aangepaste quote liggen. De zinsnede gaat nóg verder terug in de tijd. In 1974 al bracht Universal Television een tv-film uit over de missie van de Apollo 13. Aan de Washington Post zei de ontgoochelde astronaut Lovell daarover dat die "fictief" was en "van slechte smaak getuigde". De titel van de tv-film? Die luidde: "Houston, we have a problem".

    NOG 5 ANDERE BEROEMDE 'MISQUOTES'

    1. 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'.

    Iconische uitspraak van de eerste man op de maan (missie Apollo 11), Neil Armstrong, in 1969. Maar de astronaut beweerde achteraf zelf iets licht verschillends gezegd te hebben: "That's one small step for a man..." Semantisch belangrijk, want in de meest geciteerde versie zijn 'man' en 'mankind' synoniemen en dus betekenen die woorden eigenlijk niet zo veel.


    2. 'Het doel heiligt de middelen':

    toegeschreven aan de Italiaanse politicus en filosoof Niccolò Machiavelli. Maar het is nergens terug te vinden in zijn geschriften. Wél iets als: "Je moet het eindresultaat voor ogen houden".


    3. 'Beam me up, Scotty'.

    Uit Star Trek, maar in de originele reeks is die letterlijke zin nergens te vinden. Komen wél voor: 'Scotty, beam us up, fast', 'Beam us up', 'Beam me up' en 'Scotty, beam me up'.


    4. 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.

    Sherlock Holmes zegt dit in geen enkel verhaal of roman van Conan Doyle letterlijk zo. P.G. Wodehouse schreef het wel in zijn roman Psmith Journalist uit 1915.

    5. 'Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je me battrai jusqu'à la mort pour que vous ayez le droit de le dire'.

    Beroemd citaat van Voltaire, maar de Franse filosoof heeft dat nooit zo geschreven. Vertaling: "Ik ben het niet eens met wat je zegt, maar ik zal het recht om het te zeggen tot de dood toe verdedigen". Het komt uit een boek over Voltaire.

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    15-04-2017 om 00:10 geschreven door peter  

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    14-04-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Heetwaterbronnen op Saturnusmaan Enceladus maken leven mogelijk - HLN.be

    Heetwaterbronnen op Saturnusmaan Enceladus maken leven mogelijk - HLN.be

    Bron: Science

    © NASA.

    Op Enceladus, de zesde maan van Saturnus, zijn onderzeese heetwaterbronnen ontdekt die damppluimen met waterstofmoleculen het heelal inspuiten. Enceladus heeft zo "sommige van de ingrediënten die nodig zijn voor een leefbare omgeving", aldus NASA. Kortom: buitenaards leven is er in principe mogelijk. Enceladus en Jupiters maan Europa zijn de twee oceaanwerelden in ons zonnestelsel waar de kans op buitenaards leven het grootst is.

    De waterstofgassen moéten volgens wetenschappers wel een energiebronnen als oorsprong hebben in de kilometers diepe oceaan die zich onder het bevroren ijsoppervlak van Enceladus bevindt. 

    In 2004 ontdekte de planeetverkenner Cassini al een soort van geisers die dampen spoten vanuit de oceaan door scheuren in het ijs. Op 28 oktober 2015 vloog Cassini dwars door die geiserdampen en kon zo meten dat ze onder meer watersof bevatten. Wetenschappers gaan ervan uit dat de hydrothermale bronnen op de bodem van de oceaan de waterstofmoleculen doen ontstaan door reacties van het hete water met mineralen in de bodem. Ook chemische methaan kan zo ontstaan en zou micro-organismen kunnen ondersteunen.

    Op onze planeet staat dat soort van gelijkaardige bronnen alvast garant voor allerlei leven, dat geen zonlicht behoeft. Dat zou dus ook mogelijk kunnen zijn op de Saturnusmaan. Maar bewijs van buitenaards leven op de Enceladus is er nog niet gevonden.

    Lees ook

    Een beeld van Enceladus vanuit ruimtetuig Cassini.
     © reuters.
    © NASA.

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    14-04-2017 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO-jagers spotten 500 meter lang object voor kust Antarctica

    UFO-jagers spotten 500 meter lang object voor kust van Antarctica

    UFO-jagers hebben voor de kust van Antarctica een 500 meter lang object gespot, zo schrijft de Britse Daily Mail.

    Volgens sommigen gaat het om een buitenaardse basis die verborgen ligt onder het ijs.

    Het object, dat is gespot op Google Earth, lijkt op het eerste gezicht op een groot stuk ijs dat zich heeft losgemaakt van het continent.

    Perfecte plek

    “Ik ben geen ijsberg-expert, maar dit object ziet er heel vreemd uit,” aldus de website UFO Sightings Hotspot. “Het lijkt te gaan om een vaartuig dat vermomd is als ijsberg.”

    Voor de meeste mensen is Antarctica een kale woestenij, maar volgens UFO-jagers is het continent de perfecte plek voor buitenaardse bases.

    Vreemd pad

    De site vergeleek foto’s die in 1984, 1990 en 2013 van de plek zijngemaakt.

    In 1984 is nog geen ijsberg te zien, in 1990 is een vreemd pad onder het wateroppervlak te zien en in 2013 verschijnt de vreemde ijsberg.

    Zes vormen

    Volgens de website past deze ijsberg in geen van de bestaande categorieën. Er zijn grofweg zes vormen te herkennen:

    • Koepel, ijsberg met een koepelvorm.
    • Ananas, deze heeft een aantal uitsteeksels.
    • Wig, aan de ene kant een steile wand en aan de andere een glooiende helling.
    • Droogdok, twee delen die alleen onder water aan elkaar verbonden zijn.
    • Brug, een variant van het droogdok, waarbij de twee delen zowel boven als onder water met elkaar verbonden zijn.
    • Blok, naar verhouding plat met een steile helling langs alle zijden.

    De coördinaten zijn als volgt: 72°43’13.53″Z 78°40’21.56″W.

    [MailOnline]

    14-04-2017 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO-Like Strange Clouds Returning to Wyoming


    By now most people have had about enough of the winter the skies that blanket Wyoming each time a front moves through. But as we move into spring, and then summer, the types of cloud formations that we see begin to change. A few are unique to Wyoming.

    Some of the regional clouds might explain the occasional Wyoming UFO sighting. The website Astronomy Picture Of The Day posted a strange disc-like shape moving across the sky, with a tail that almost made it look like a comet. According to National UFO Reporting Center State Report Index For WY, people were actually reporting weather anomalies.

    The weather chasers called Base Hunters captured the massive hanging and ominous dark cloud in the video, above. It caused quite a stir, both locally and online when a thunderstorm developed into a supercell near Clareton, Wyoming.

    Massive thunderstorms, called supercells, are most common across the great planes and generally cause two reactions: 1. ‘WOW I have to stand here and watch this!” Which quickly becomes 2., “WOW – Why am I still standing here?”

    Some clouds are mostly not clouds. A weather event called virga happens when a smaller cloud starts dumping rain before it ever had a chance to build into a thunder storm. You know virga when you see long wisps of bending mist pouring out of the bottom of the cloud and reaching toward the ground, but never quite making it.

    There will be a lot of interesting things to see in the Wyoming sky this summer. As Jack Horkheimer used to say, “Just keep looking up.”

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    14-04-2017 om 23:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.How Would NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus?

    How Would NASA Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus?

    NASA hasn't planned any follow-on missions for Enceladus, but it could be selected for a current or future round of planetary missions.

    An image taken survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus.
    |NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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    14-04-2017 om 23:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA's Extraterrestrial Oceanography --"Hydrothermal Activity On Saturn's Enceladus Similar to That in Earth's Oceans"

    NASA's Extraterrestrial Oceanography --"Hydrothermal Activity On Saturn's Enceladus Similar to That in Earth's Oceans"

    Enceladus-3


    "The amount of molecular hydrogen we detected is high enough to support microbes similar to those that live near hydrothermal vents on Earth," said SwRI's Dr. Christopher Glein, a co-author on the paper and a pioneer of extraterrestrial chemical oceanography. "If similar organisms are present in Enceladus, they could 'burn' the hydrogen to obtain energy for chemosynthesis, which could conceivably serve as a foundation for a larger ecosystem."

    Scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered hydrogen gas in the plume of material erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicates that the hydrogen is best explained by chemical reactions between the moon's rocky core and warm water from its subsurface ocean. The SwRI-led team's discovery suggests that Enceladus' ocean floor could include features analogous to hydrothermal vents on Earth, which are known to support life on the seafloor.

    "Hydrogen is a source of chemical energy for microbes that live in the Earth's oceans near hydrothermal vents," said SwRI's Dr. Hunter Waite, principal investigator of Cassini's Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS). "Our results indicate the same chemical energy source is present in the ocean of Enceladus. We have not found evidence of the presence of microbial life in the ocean of Enceladus, but the discovery of hydrogen gas and the evidence for ongoing hydrothermal activity offer a tantalizing suggestion that habitable conditions could exist beneath the moon's icy crust."

    Waite is the lead author of "Cassini Finds Molecular Hydrogen in the Enceladus Plume: Evidence for Hydrothermal Processes," published in the April 14, 2017, issue of the journal Science.

    Enceladus1 (1)

    On the Earth's ocean floor, hydrothermal vents emit hot, mineral-laden fluid, allowing unique ecosystems teeming with unusual creatures to thrive. Microbes that convert mineral-laden fluid into metabolic energy make these ecosystems possible.

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    During Cassini's close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, 2015, INMS detected molecular hydrogen as the spacecraft flew through the plume of gas and ice grains spewing from cracks on the surface. Previous flybys provided evidence for a global subsurface ocean residing above a rocky core. Molecular hydrogen in the plumes could serve as a marker for hydrothermal processes, which could provide the chemical energy necessary to support life. To search for hydrogen specifically native to Enceladus, the spacecraft flew particularly close to the surface and operated INMS in a specific mode to minimize and quantify any spurious sources.

    "We developed new operations methods for INMS for Cassini's final flight through Enceladus' plume," said SwRI's Rebecca Perryman, the INMS operations technical lead. "We conducted extensive simulations, data analyses, and laboratory tests to identify background sources of hydrogen, allowing us to quantify just how much molecular hydrogen was truly originating from Enceladus itself."

    Scientists also considered other sources of hydrogen from the moon itself, such as a preexisting reservoir in the ice shell or global ocean. Analysis determined that it was unlikely that the observed hydrogen was acquired during the formation of Enceladus or from other processes on the moon's surface or in the interior.

    "Everything indicates that the hydrogen originates in the moon's rocky core," Waite said. "We considered various ways hydrogen could leach from the rock and found that the most plausible source is ongoing hydrothermal reactions of rock containing reduced minerals and organic materials."

    The Daily Galaxy via SWRI

    Image top of page: With thanks to space artist Joe Bergeron.

    Hydrothermal Vents:  cdn1.vox-cdn.com

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    14-04-2017 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

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    MUFON asked to investigate Orangeville UFO sighting

    by Chris Halliday

    UFO sighting

    According to a report of a UFO sighting received by MUFON, an unidentified person saw a “silent camouflage aircraft” above the skies of Orangeville at about 9 p.m. on March 28.

    (Giacomo Carena — Flickr photo) - Giacomo Carena — Flickr

    The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is being asked to investigate a strange sighting in Orangeville.

    According to a report of a UFO sighting received by MUFON, an unidentified person saw a “silent camouflage aircraft” above the skies of Orangeville at about 9 p.m. on March 28.

    “Every night around that time I take my dog for a walk. I take him to on the train tracks down the road and I usually stare at stars and satellites,” the witness reported.

    “About 15 minutes in, I noticed something that looked like a faint letter 8 horizontally with no sound or visible light,” the person added. “As it moved from northwest to east at a steady pace, it appeared to bend the light of the stars as it moved.”

    The witness claims the event lasted a duration of about two minutes. No other details about the Orangeville UFO sighting were made available in the MUFON report.

    As one of the oldest and largest civilian UFO-investigative organizations in the United States, MUFON has received five reports of UFO sightings in Orangeville from 2004 to 2017.

    About seven years ago, MUFON’s was asked to investigate after a person reportedly saw a UFO being chased by a military aircraft near Orangeville in October of 2010. In August of 2015, a witness claimed to have seen a large "glowing object" hovering in the air for about 10 minutes.

    According to the 2016 Canadian UFO Survey, an annual report compiled by the Canadian organization Ufology Research, there were 1,131 UFO sightings in 2016. That's a drop from the 1,267 reported the previous year.

    Across the country, 21 per cent of last year's reports were considered to have probable explanations while 74 per cent were insufficient, which was a big reversal from the previous year's report where 66 per cent were probable and 20 per cent considered insufficient. The report notes that's because of a "more rigorous evaluation process" this year.

    About four per cent were considered unexplained, which the report says is the lowest in its 28 years, but does note that classification doesn't imply alien visitation.

    "Each case may still have an explanation following further investigation. And, of those that remain unexplained, they may (stay) unexplained but still are not incontrovertible proof of extraterrestrial intervention or some mysterious natural phenomenon," reads the report.

    To learn more about the five UFO sightings reported to MUFON in Orangeville, visit mufon.com. To read the Canadian UFO Survey’s 2016 annual report, visit survey.canadianuforeport.com.

    — With files from the Mississauga News and Independent and Free Press

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    14-04-2017 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA Finds Food Source for Possible Extraterrestrial Life
    NASA Finds Food Source for Possible Extraterrestrial Life
    The vapor plumes emitted by a moon of Saturn contain molecular hydrogen
    By Michael Harthorne,  Newser Staff
    This photo provided by NASA shows water vapor jets emitted from the southern polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. 
      (AP Photo/NASA, JPL, Caltec, Space Science Institute)

    (NEWSER) Scientists have found a potential food source for microbes on one of Saturn's tiny moons—and that could dramatically increase the chance of finding life beyond Earth, CBC reports. In a research paper published Thursday in Science, NASA reveals its Cassini spacecraft discovered molecular hydrogen in the plumes of vapor that erupt into space from the huge ocean sitting below Enceladus' layer of ice. The plumes themselves are evidence of hydrothermal vents in Enceladus' ocean. On Earth, microbial life thrives near such vents and feeds on molecular hydrogen. On Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, that molecular hydrogen would be formed by reactions between hot water and rock, Space.com reports.

    Hunter Waite, lead author of the paper, says the discovery has them "very excited," and NASA's director of planetary science tells the New York Times there's a "tremendous opportunity" to "see if there's life" on Enceladus, which is now believed to have all the components need for life, including organics, water, and an energy source. Astronomers believe similar conditions also exist on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. This discovery is just the latest made by the spacecraft Cassini, which will end its two-decade mission in September when it destroys itself by plunging into Saturn. (NASA recently found seven Earth-sized planets.)

    14-04-2017 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO sightings amongst Freedom of Information requests sent to Kilkenny County Council in past year

    Councillors and council officials expenses were also included in the questions asked.

    Kilkenny County Council got some interesting requests presented to them under the freedom of information act since January 2016.

    Among those was any communication made to the department from members of the public with regard to UFO’s, UFO sightings or incidents of a similar nature.

    The request was made by a Journalist in January of this year, but was refused by the local authority.

    Another request that was refused was when a business asked for a list of common areas in the city for parking which do not require or need a parking disc or ticket.

    In 2016 the council were asked to release the total amount of money spent for paying celebrities to attend events from 2013 – 2016. This request was also refused.

    Among the requests granted under the freedom of information act was the total amount spent on public notices in newspapers and the breakdown of payments to companies for translating services.

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    14-04-2017 om 17:37 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Cloud Orb Over Istanbul, Turkey In Broad Day Light, Video, UFO Sighting News.

    Cloud Orb Over Istanbul, Turkey In Broad Day Light, Video, UFO Sighting News.


    Date of sighting: April 2017
    Location of sighting: Istanbul, Turkey

    This UFO was only noticed because of its white cloud like appearance and the deep blue, cloudless sky behind it. The conditions were perfect for cloud orb hunting. They are hard to catch, even for an expert and may take weeks of hunting to catch a great one, but once you catch your first, your confidence grows, you give up less easily and you soon find another  not long after. Istanbul is no stranger to UFOs, being one of the oldest cultural sites on Earth, aliens find it fascinating how an older culture could still exist in this modern age.

    Scott C. Waring
     

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    14-04-2017 om 17:17 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Forestry Worker Experienced Chilly Morning With Aliens In Scotland

    Forestry Worker Experienced Chilly Morning With Aliens In Scotland

    Auckland-ufo

    More than 30 years ago, forestry worker Robert Taylor claimed to have experienced a chilly November morning. What had happened on that morning has baffled all who have investigated the case, including the police, who consider it unexplained and keep the file open.

    He arrived with his company-owned pickup truck as usual with his Irish red setter Larah. He walked down into the forest then rounded the path into a clearing. Suddenly, he saw what he described as a large dome-shaped object that left him to astonish. The size of the unusual object was around 20 to 30 feet circumference floating just 15 feet over the grassy surface, as Robert described.

    Interestingly, the UFO seemed to disappear around the edges. The witness said that it somewhat dematerialized, which enabled him to see the trees behind the strange object, then solidified again. As he observed the event, two items that resembled WWII sea mines dropped from beneath the UFO and rolled towards him. However, before they reached him, he smelled like burning brake lines and heard a loud swishing noise.

    As the “mines” rolled across, rods came out of them and attached themselves to his hips. They then pulled him towards the object.

    After the pulling incident, Robert said that he lost consciousness and was not sure of the duration, but believed it could only have been for a minute or two.

    When he got back for being conscious, the objects were nowhere to be found but left marks and holes on the ground. According to the investigations, there were over 20 triangular or circular indentations in the grass. Robert had an incredible thirst moments later. He also had a nasty graze on his chin and forehead.

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    14-04-2017 om 17:05 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Scientist Measures Brightness of the Universe with New Horizons Spacecraft

    Scientist Measures Brightness of the Universe with New Horizons Spacecraft

    Artist's impression of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI)
    Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.
    In the study, “Measurement of the Cosmic Optical Background using the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on New Horizons,” lead author Michael Zemcov used archival data from the instrument onboard New Horizons—the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, or LORRI—to measure visible light from other galaxies. The light shining beyond the Milky Way is known as the cosmic optical background. Zemcov’s findings give an upper limit to the amount of light in the cosmic optical background.
    “Determining how much light comes from all the galaxies beyond our own Milky Way galaxy has been a stubborn challenge in observational astrophysics,” said Zemcov, assistant professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy and member of RIT’s Center for Detectors and Future Photon Initiative.
    Light from the cosmic optical background can reveal the number and location of stars, how galaxies work and give insights into the peculiar nature of exotic physical processes, such as light that may be produced when dark matter decays. Dark matter is the invisible substance thought to comprise 85 percent of matter in the universe.
    “This result shows some of the promise of doing astronomy from the outer solar system,” Zemcov said. “What we’re seeing is that the optical background is completely consistent with the light from galaxies and we don’t see a need for a lot of extra brightness; whereas previous measurements from near the Earth need a lot of extra brightness. The study is proof that this kind of measurement is possible from the outer solar system, and that LORRI is capable of doing it.”
    Spacecraft in the outer solar system give scientists virtual front-row seats for observing the cosmic optical background. The faint light from distant galaxies is hard to see from the inner solar system because it is polluted by the brightness of sunlight reflected off interplanetary dust in the inner solar system.
    Cosmic dust is sooty bits of rock and small debris that moved, over time, from the outer solar system toward the sun. Scientists launching experiments on sounding rockets and satellites must account for the dust that makes the Earth’s atmosphere many times brighter than the cosmic optical background.
    NASA’s New Horizons mission has been funded through 2021, and Zemcov is hopeful for the chance to use Long Range Reconnaissance Imager to re-measure the brightness of the cosmic optical background.
    “NASA sends missions to the outer solar system once a decade or so,” Zemcov said. “What they send is typically going to planets and the instruments onboard are designed to look at them, not to do astrophysics. Measurements could be designed to optimize this technique while LORRI is still functioning.”
    Zemcov’s method harkens back to NASA’s first long distance missions Pioneer 10 and 11 in 1972 and 1974. Light detectors on the instruments measured the brightness of objects outside the Milky Way and made the first direct benchmark of the cosmic optical background.
    “With a carefully designed survey, we should be able to produce a definitive measurement of the diffuse light in the local universe and a tight constraint on the light from galaxies in the optical wavebands,” Zemcov said.
    Archived data from New Horizon’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager show “the power of LORRI for precise low-foreground measurements of the cosmic optical background,” Zemcov wrote in the paper.
    Chi Nguyen, a Ph.D. student in RIT’s astrophysical sciences and technology program, mined data sets from New Horizons’ 2006 launch, Jupiter fly-by and cruise phase. She isolated four different spots on the sky between Jupiter and Uranus, captured in 20
    07, 2008 and 2010, that met their criteria: looking away from the solar system and looking out the galaxy.
    Poppy Immel, an undergraduate majoring in math and computer science, generated the data cuts and determined the photometric calibration of the instrument. Other co-authors include Asantha Cooray from University of California Irvine; Carey Lisee from Johns Hopkins University; and Andrew Poppe from UC Berkeley. Zemcov is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

    14-04-2017 om 00:52 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Hunt for Why We Exist Turns to Weird Atomic Decay

    Hunt for Why We Exist Turns to Weird Atomic Decay

    Hunt for Why We Exist Turns to Weird Atomic Decay
    The germanium detector array is being lowered into the liquid argon. The physicists wanted to see if this germanium-76 ever decays without releasing the neutrinos — neutrinoless double-beta decay.
    Credit: M. Heisel/GERDA collaboration

    A never-before-seen type of radioactivity could explain why matter, including humans, exists today. And now a team of physicists has launched an experiment to find the oddball phenomenon.

    When the universe first formed some 13.7 billion years ago, current theories say that equal amounts of matter and its bizarre cousin, antimatter, should have been produced during the Big Bang. Physicists know that when the two come into contact, they annihilate each other — poof. If that were the case, though, nothing should exist except photons and neutrinos. And yet, here we are. Calculations show there was a tiny bit more matter than antimatter — enough so that things exist — but why? 

    One way to explain this matter-antimatter asymmetry is to look for some difference between the two, besides charge, that could explain matter's advantage. It's a big question in contemporary physics, because otherwise matter and antimatter should, per contemporary theories, behave the same way. [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]

    In this new study, physicists are seeking so-called neutrinoless double-beta decay. Normally, some radioactive atoms' unstable nuclei will lose a neutron via beta decay — the neutron transforms into a proton by releasing an electron and a tiny particle called an electron antineutrino. A mirror image can also occur, in which a proton turns into a neutron, releasing a positron and an electron neutrino — the normal-matter counterpart to the antineutrino. Double-beta decay happens when two electrons and two antineutrinos (the antimatter counterparts of neutrinos) are released: basically, the beta decay happens twice. Scientists have long theorized a neutrinoless version of this process — something that would suggest that the two neutrinos annihilated each other before being released from the atom. Essentially, the neutrino behaves as its own antimatter sibling.

    (Particles of matter that are their own antiparticles are called Majorana fermions, after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, who hypothesized their existence in 1937.)

    If neutrinos and antineutrinos behave differently from each other, that could help to explain why all matter wasn't annihilated at the instant the universe formed. [5 Elusive Particles That May Lurk in the Universe]

    Finding this odd event though, is hard to do, because there's so much background "noise," said Bernhard Schwingenheuer, the spokesman for the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration. The background "noise" comes largely from cosmic rays.

    In the experiment, physicists had to account for background noise, mostly from cosmic rays. So they covered the inner walls of the water tank surrounding the liquid argon with a reflecting foil to improve light detection and allow for the identification of cosmic muons (formed when cosmic rays interact with Earth's atmosphere).
    In the experiment, physicists had to account for background noise, mostly from cosmic rays. So they covered the inner walls of the water tank surrounding the liquid argon with a reflecting foil to improve light detection and allow for the identification of cosmic muons (formed when cosmic rays interact with Earth's atmosphere).
    Credit: K. Freund/GERDA collaboration

    So the physicists turned to GERDA. Nestled in an underground lab in Italy, the GERDA experiment consists of detectors in a bath of liquid argon that is enriched with the isotope germanium-76, which is mildly radioactive. It has a half-life of 1.78 x 1021 years (or 1.78 billion trillion years) — meaning that it takes that amount of time for half of its atoms to turn into selenium, which is many orders of magnitude longer than the universe's 14-billion-year age.

    Usually, germanium will emit two electrons and two electron antineutrinos — the ordinary double-beta process — when it transforms via its slow decay. The physicists wanted to see if this ever happens without releasing the neutrinos: the long-sought neutrinoless double-beta decay.

    With such a long half-life, one might think it would take too long to see this happen, but a half-life is a probabilistic phenomenon. This is why the experimenters used some 84 lbs. of germanium mixed with the liquid argon: that yields about 4.5 x 1025 (or 45 trillion trillion) atoms, which means at least a few of them should undergo the decay while scientists are watching.

    The GERDA team gathered data for about seven months, from December 2015 until June 2016. They didn't find the decay, but they could put a lower limit on how often the decay happens: It has a half-life of 5.3 x 1025years, which means you'd have a 50-50 chance of seeing a single atom do it in that amount of time.

    If they find it, that would mean that neutrinos are their own antiparticle, like photons — the neutrinoless decay couldn't happen unless that were the case. It also means that this kind of radioactive decay is not symmetrical. Recall that beta decay has a mirror image — either electrons and antineutrinos or positrons and neutrinos are emitted. If the double-beta decay isn't symmetrical, that means that neutrinos and antineutrinos behave differently. This isn't true of other kinds of particle-antiparticle pairs, as far as anyone knows.

    This phenomenon would affect the Standard Model, which has been a wildly successful way to describe particle physics, but it's clearly incomplete. The model predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle. However, Schwingenheuer noted that there is evidence that neutrinos have a tiny mass (only discovered in 1998, which won the Nobel in 2015) and that dark matter exists — indicating that the Standard Model isn't the last word.

    "If neutrinoless double-beta decay is observed, it helps solve a couple of problems," said Philip Barbeau, an assistant professor of physics at Duke University in an email to Live Science. "For one, it helps to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. It also helps explain why neutrino masses are so surprisingly small. We would also get an idea of the neutrino masses as well, as the decay rate is related to the mass scale of the neutrinos."

    The question then becomes what kind of physics lies beyond it. The GERDA experiment has yet to reveal the decay that the researchers seek, but that doesn't mean it won't in the future, Schwingenheuer said. And it would be difficult to rule it out entirely, because it's possible that the timescale is just longer than they think. Right now, they've set a lower limit on the half-life for this decay, but further experimental runs could push that number up.

    As for what happens if they don't see the odd decay after many runs, Barbeau said it might not be a deal breaker for new models. "We don't go back to the drawing board from the point of view of the underlying theories. We just won't know whether neutrinos are Majorana or not."

    The research is detailed in the April 6 issue of the journal Nature.

    Original article on Live Science.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA Says Saturn’s Moon Has “The Ingredients Necessary For a Habitable Environment”

    NASA Says Saturn’s Moon Has “The Ingredients Necessary For a Habitable Environment”

    by Karla Lant

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    This set of images from NASA's Cassini mission shows how the gravitational pull of Saturn affects the amount of spray coming from jets at the active moon Enceladus.
    Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Cornell/SSI

    A New Discovery

    NASA just released evidence that a liquid water ocean that could support life lies beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The agency reports that the world has many of the “ingredients needed for a habitable environment.”

    Thanks to Cassini, organic chemicals—carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur—which are the basic building blocks of life, were seen spraying forth from the “tiger stripe” cracks on the cold surface of the moon.

    Additionally, in the paper published in Science, which comes from researchers on the Cassini mission, it was revealed that molecular hydrogen, which NASA notes, “could potentially provide a chemical energy source for life,” is pouring into the ocean on Enceladus via hydrothermal vents on the seafloor.

    It has almost all of the ingredients you would need to support life as we know it.

    In an interview with The Washington Post, Peter Girguis, a deep sea biologist at Harvard who is not associated with the research, noted the significance in relation to discovering microbial life: “For a microbiologist thinking about energy for microbes, hydrogen is like the gold coin of energy currency. If you had to have one thing, one chemical compound, coming out of a vent that would lead you to think there’s energy to support microbial life, hydrogen is at the top of that list.”

    “Confirmation that the chemical energy for life exists within the ocean of a small moon of Saturn is an important milestone in our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth,” added Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a NASA press release. “We now know that Enceladus has almost all of the ingredients you would need to support life as we know it on Earth,” she continued.

    Water Means Life

    To clarify, water, which supports and cradles life on Earth, is abundant in our solar system. As University of Michigan planetary scientist Sushil Atreya told Scientific American, water is necessary for life-as-we-know-it for a number of important reasons: “Liquid water acts as a solvent, as a medium and as a catalyst for certain types of proteins, and those are three main things that allow life to flourish.”

    Indeed, everywhere that we find water on Earth, we find life—and enough water appears to be on this world, and in the proper conditions, that it seems likely that we will find alien life there.

    “The way the jets react so responsively to changing stresses on Enceladus suggests they have their origins in a large body of liquid water,” Christophe Sotin co-author and Cassini team member said in the NASA release. “Liquid water was key to the development of life on Earth, so these discoveries whet the appetite to know whether life exists everywhere water is present” (pun, probably, intended).

    “Although we can’t detect life, we’ve found that there’s a food source there for it. It would be like a candy store for microbes,” said Hunter Waite, lead author of the Cassini study.

    In a statement, Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington, succinctly summarized the significance of the find: “This is the closest we’ve come, so far, to identifying a place with some of the ingredients needed for a habitable environment. These results demonstrate the interconnected nature of NASA’s science missions that are getting us closer to answering whether we are indeed alone or not.”

    References: 

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