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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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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These 2017 discoveries could be big news, if they turn out to be true
. These 2017 discoveries could be big news, if they turn out to be true
Potentially key findings cover a wide range of topics, from a female Viking warrior to far-flung exomoons
RUMOR HAS IT Researchers stirred up controversy this year by claiming that a skeleton discovered in a Swedish grave (excavation illustrated above) belonged to a Viking woman warrior. Other potentially big scientific discoveries also generated buzz — and disagreement — in 2017.
EVALD HANSEN, C. HEDENSTIERNA-JONSONETAL/AMER. J. OF PHYS. ANTHRO. 2017
Some reports from 2017 hint at potentially big discoveries — if the research holds up to additional scientific scrutiny.
1. Under pressure
Putting the squeeze on hydrogen gas turned it into a long-elusive metal that may superconduct, Harvard University physicists claimed (SN: 2/18/17, p. 14). A diamond vise, supercold temperatures and intense pressure made the element reflective — a key property of metals. But other researchers in the field don’t buy it; one experiment with a slew of caveats isn’t enough to confirm the claim, those scientists say.
2. Woman warrior?
The skeleton of a 10th century Viking woman buried in full warrior regalia has scientists sparring over women’s roles in Viking society (SN: 10/14/17, p. 6). Researchers who confirmed the skeleton’s sex through DNA analysis contend that the woman was a high-ranking Viking warrior, the first Viking woman warrior known. But other archaeologists argue that the bones — with no obvious signs of injury or strenuous physical activity — are too pristine to have seen battle.
3. Blink and you’ll miss it
A far-flung star’s extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star. If it exists, the Neptune-sized candidate moon (dubbed Kepler 1625b i) is roughly 4,000 light-years away and orbits a planet a tad larger than Jupiter (SN: 8/19/17, p. 15).
4. Rooting out hominid origins
The first members of the human evolutionary family may have originated in Europe, not Africa. New analyses of a fossilized jaw (shown) and teeth from Graecopithecus, a chimpanzee-sized primate that lived in southeastern Europe roughly 7 million years ago, suggest that it may be the earliest known hominid(SN: 6/24/17, p. 9). But more complete fossils are needed to determine whether Graecopithecus was truly a hominid.
UFO Expert warns: Attempting to scan ‘Oumuamua may ‘wake’ alien intelligence inside
UFO Expert warns: Attempting to scan ‘Oumuamua may ‘wake’ alien intelligence inside
Despite the fact that there are no direct indications that the mysterious interstellar object known as ‘Oumuamua is anything more than a weirdly shaped asteroid, there are many UFO experts who do not rule out the possibility that it may be an alien space probe.
The enigmatic asteroid—first thought to be a comet—zipped past our planet earlier this year.
Due to a number of characteristics, astronomers eventually decided it would be a good idea to take a closer look at ‘Oumuamua, in order to rule out the possibility that it is more than just a space rock.
Recently, the Breakthrough Listen project used the world’s largest radio telescope to scan the mystery objects for any radio singles it may be emitting. Even though initial scans did NOT reveal anything being emitted from the space rock, a leading Ufologist believes we shouldn’t rule out ‘Oumuamua as an alien probe just yet.
According to Nick Pope, the former head of the Ministry of Defense’s UFO project, even though we haven’t picked up any signals from ‘Oumuamua yet, our scans may have ‘woken the alien intelligence’ inside it. Mr. Pope warns that this move may have turned Aliens toward us, and they may be now watching us.
Speaking in an interview with Sun Online, Mr. Pope said that even though scans haven’t revealed anything yet, we can’t rule out ‘Oumuamua is an alien probe.
“While nothing has been found yet, there’s another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it’s possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside.”
Some argue that ‘Oumuamua may be an alien probe sent out by an advanced alien civilization to keep an eye on our world.
Whether or not we are looking at an alien space probe is still a mystery.
Mr. Pope added:
“Simply put, any alien ship searching for life may go into a dormant mode until it gets close to an inhabited planet.
“But what’s fascinating about this theory is just how many astronomers and other scientists are taking the idea seriously.
“It’s a sign of how accepting we are these days about the likelihood of finding alien life”
Many consider ‘Aliens’ and ‘UFOs’ a conspiracy theory, even though here is sufficient evidence that shows how worldwide governments have taken the idea more seriously in recent decades. Evidence of that is the recently revealed detail about the Pentagon’s secretive UFO research program that had staggering $22 million dollars budget to research UFO’s and whether or not they pose a threat to National Security.
Speaking about the Pentagon’s secretive UFO research program, Mr. Pope said:
“It’s an amazing revelation, not least because it directly opposes the many specific denials that the US government has issued previously when asked about this subject and their involvement in it.”
“The take-home message here is that there’s probably something out there, but we don’t know what it is.”
Returning to the ‘Oumuamua subject, Mr. Pope argues that it may very well be an alien probe disguised on purpose as an asteroid saying that: “Since there’s no air in space, an alien spaceship would not need to be designed in the same way that our aircraft have to be.”
“Rather than building an interstellar spacecraft from scratch, it makes perfect sense to take an asteroid and then build your ship around it, or hollow it out and build inside it, for the protection you’d derive from being surrounded by so much rock.”
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Cosmic Crash That Knocked Uranus Sideways Also Made Its Moons
Cosmic Crash That Knocked Uranus Sideways Also Made Its Moons
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Uranus is a strange, giant planet tilted on its side. A new study finds that the same impact that knocked Uranus sideways may have also created the planet's moons. This image shows Uranus in false color as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona)/NASA
NEW ORLEANS — The giant impact from an Earth-size rock that knocked Uranus sideways may have also helped create the tilted planet's moons, a new study finds.
The poles along which Earth spins are mostly pointed the same way as the poles of the sun and nearly all the other planets of the solar system. However, Uranus is an oddball in that its axis of spin is tilted by a whopping 98 degrees (relative to the plane of the solar system), meaning it essentially spins on its side. No other planet in the solar system is tilted as much — Jupiter is tilted by about 3 degrees, for example, and Earth by about 23 degrees.
Now, researchers in Japan suggest a giant cosmic impact may not only have knocked Uranus on its side, but also created most of the planet's moons. [Photos of Uranus, a Tilted Planet]
Uranus possesses 27 known moons. Eighteen of these moons orbit around the planet's equator, and these "regular" moons make up 98 percent of the total mass of Uranus' moons, said study lead author Yuya Ishizawa at Kyoto University in Japan. The other nine moons are "irregular" in that their orbits are skewed away from Uranus' equator, and prior work suggested these moons were captured after Uranus formed.
In computer simulations, the researchers found that an Earth-size rock striking a newborn Uranus could have helped give the planet its current tilt. At the same time, the simulations found that the rubble from the impact could go on to collapse and form moons with orbits and masses similar to those of Uranus' actual moons.
"Material from the two bodies is ejected in a debris disk, and finally satellites are formed from the debris disk," Ishizawa told Space.com. "It is possible to explain the axial tilt and the formation of the regular satellites of Uranus simultaneously." [The 5 Weirdest Facts About Uranus]
Ishizawa noted that the researchers' initial simulations did predict the formation of a number of moons that would orbit Uranus at distances closer than planet's actual moons do today. He suggested that further research should investigate how the orbit of such moons might decay over time and potentially end up destroying these moons, explaining their current absence around Uranus.
Ishizawa and his colleagues detailed their findings Dec. 13 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans.
Weird World: Evaporating Exoplanet's Orbit Is Misaligned
Weird World: Evaporating Exoplanet's Orbit Is Misaligned
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of the Neptune-size exoplanet GJ 436b, which is surrounded by a massive gas cloud that streams behind the planet like a comet's tail for millions of miles.
Credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick
GJ 436b keeps getting weirder.
Astronomers already knew that the Neptune-mass exoplanet is evaporating; a few years back, a research team spotted the huge, comet-like tail of gas that streams behind GJ 436b as it orbits its small, dim host star.
Now, a new study reveals there's something very off about that orbit: It's highly elliptical and takes the alien world over the star's poles. (The "normal" case, exhibited by all eight officially recognized planets in Earth's solar system, is a relatively circular path in line with the star's equatorial plane.) [The Strangest Alien Planets]
"This planet is under enormous tidal forces because it is incredibly close to its star, barely 3 percent of the Earth-sun distance," study lead author Vincent Bourrier, an astronomer at the University of Geneva in Switzerland,said in a statement.
"The star is a red dwarf whose lifespan is very long," Bourrier added. "The tidal forces it induces should have since circularized the orbit of the planet, but this is not the case!"
Bourrier and his colleagues figured this out after analyzing spectrographic observations of GJ 436b, which lies 33 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo. These observations were made by the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile, and HARPS-N (for Northern Hemisphere), which is installed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands.
The team's calculations also suggest that GJ 436b did not always sport its peculiar tail. The alien world probably once orbited much farther away from its parent star but was pushed inward at some point, likely by an as-yet-undiscovered sibling planet, study team members said.
"Our next goal is to identify the mysterious planet that has upset this planetary system," Bourrier said.
The new study was published online Monday (Dec. 18) in the journal Nature.
A lot of unexplained metal artifacts found all over the world, without being able to explain their origin the modern scientists feel thoroughly baffled.
Are these unknown metal objects proof that we have been visited by otherworldly beings? Or may be extraterrestrials teach our ancestors secrets of metallurgy that we are just now beginning to develop and reproduce? Perhaps by examining these strange metal objects, we may begin to understand our past, let’s have a look at 5 of the most bizarre metal artifacts ever discovered.
1 – 250,000-Year-Old Piece of Aluminum
A chunk of aluminum is on display at the National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Lab tests concluded it is an old UFO fragment given that the substances it comprises cannot be combined with technology available on Earth.
The piece measures 20 cm (7.8 in) by 12.5 cm (4.9 in) by 7 cm (2.8 in) and looks like something one might dig up while excavating to put in a foundation for a building. The details of the discovery were never made public at the time because it was pulled out of the earth in communist Romania in 1973.
According to tests, the object is made of 12 metals, 90% aluminium, and it was dated by Romanian officials as being 250,000 years old. The initial results were later confirmed by a lab in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Conspiracy theorists suggest object is actually part of a UFO and proof of visitation by an alien civilisation in the past.
2 – Ulfberht Sword
Dozens of these swords—made with metal so strong and pure it’s baffling how any sword maker of that time could have accomplished it—have been found in Europe, along with some knock-offs. They are all marked with the Ulfberht name and two crosses, though some of the imitations are missing a letter here or there.
One of three Ulfberht swords found in the territory of the Volga Bulgars. Its hilt (classified as Petersen type T-2) is decorated with three lines of round holes inlaid with twisted silver wire
The Ulfberht sword was made of steel which has a carbon content of up to 3 times more than the average medieval steel. Today, it is the same material used years ago, that is called crucible steel. According the age of the sword the making of crucible steel has started in the medieval era. It is indeed surprising that how this happened. Crucible steel was not around in Europe until the Industrial revolution which took place in the 18th century.
3 – The Mythical Lost Metal of Atlantis
In 2015, 39 roughly-cast lumps of an unusual red-gold metal were recovered from the sea floor 300m off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily. The metal was identified as orichalcum, which was said by Ancient Greeks to be found in Atlantis.
A stack of orichalcum ingots as they were found on the sea floor amid the wreck of a ship off Sicily.
Picture: Sebastiano Tusa, Superintendent of the Sea-Sicily Region
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Divers uncovered another 47 ingots from the mud which present unique finding. Scientists claim nothing similar has ever been found yet, orichalcum was mentioned only in some ancient texts and ornamental objects. Indeed orichalcum has long been considered a mysterious metal, its composition and origin widely debated.
Today most scholars agree orichalcum is a brass-like alloy, which was made in antiquity by cementation. This process was achieved with the reaction of zinc ore, charcoal and copper metal in a crucible, which requires modern technology and advance knowledge.
4 – The Betz Mystery Sphere
This bizarre, allegedly self propelled, seamless metallic orb was discovered by members of the Betz family in 1974, and rapidly became the object of fascination, controversy and alarm for scientists, military officials, ufologists and the general public as the story of this mystery sphere spread like wildfire through the international media.
Decades after its discovery, the Betz Sphere remains a scientific mystery
During inspecting the damage caused by a brush fire that had raged across an 88-acre swathe of woodland Betz family stumbled across a peculiar highly polished, metal orb that was just under 8-inches in diameter. The only delineating mark that the three could find on the eerily unblemished object was an elongated triangular shape stamped into its surface. Terry Betz decided to heft the 22 lbs., bowling ball sized sphere into their car and take it back home.
And that’s when the Betzes’ lives changed.
It began when Terry was playing guitar. The family reported that the ball strangely resonated the music. And then it began to move around, all on its own. The Betzes experimented with it, placed it on their table, and watched it navigate its own way around the perimeter without falling off. Doors began slamming themselves around the house. Mysterious organ music filled the residence, even though there was no organ. This seemingly impossible defiance of the laws of Newtonian gravity left the Betz tribe thoroughly baffled.
Puzzled by the bizarre sphere, the US military examined it and found it was made of high-grade steel and X-rays revealed there were three smaller balls inside, the object’s origin remains a mystery.
5 – Kera UFO
During the summer of 1972, a similar to Betz metal sphere (though not spherical) anomalous object plagued a group of teens who repeatedly managed to capture and lose a small, self propelled, evidently intelligently guided device over a vexing 4-weeks period in the Kera area of Kōchi City, Japan.
The airborne object resembled a dull, silver hat with a flat bottom and a narrow lip.
The silver, hat-shaped object weighed 1.3 kilograms (3 lbs) and measured roughly 7 centimeters (3 in) tall and 15 centimeters (6 in) in diameter. The bottom surface was perforated with an array of tiny holes and imprinted with designs depicting what appeared to be a bird, some waves, and another flying object. Something rattled around inside the object when shaken.
The strange device came to be known as the Kera UFO. This object’s movements also defied logic and appeared to be motivated by self preservation “instincts.”
"What people sometimes don't get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained," said an astrophysicist at MIT http://nyti.ms/2oDSel5
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
The shadowy program began in 2007 and was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, who has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.
Crashes in Roswell, New Mexico, and flashing lights over New Jersey — for decades, people around the world have looked up at the skies and reported mysterious unidentified objects (UFOs).
But are these sightings signs of alien visitation? And are they truly unexplained?
A recent New York Times investigation found that the Pentagon had, for years, funded a program to answer just that question. The program found several reports of aircraft that seemed to travel at high speeds and have no signs of propulsion, the Times reported.
While the vast majority of UFO sightings, when investigated, have turned out to be the result of ordinary Earthly phenomena, such as weather balloons, flares or rockets, some still leave experts scratching their heads — and looking to the skies for little green men. From white Tic Tacs to flashing lights, here are some of the most mysterious UFO sightings out there. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
Fighter pilot encounter
The Times investigation highlighted one of the most intriguing UFO sightings, which was captured on video. In 2004, two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets (also called Super Hornet or Hornet) encountered a mysterious flying object near San Diego, The New York Times reported. The object seemed to be traveling at high speeds, was surrounded by a glowing halo and was rotating as it moved. According to audio from the event, one of the fighter pilots exclaimed, "There's a whole fleet of them," the Times reported.
One of the Navy pilots who witnessed the bizarre event, Cmdr. David Fravor, recalled that the object looked like "a white Tic Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet [12 meters] long with no wings," Fravor told The Washington Post. As his plane approached the UFO, the mysterious object accelerated "faster than I'd ever seen anything in my life," Fravor said.
Fravor, for his part, is convinced that the source of the object was extraterrestrial, he told The Washington Post.
French encounter
In 1981, a 55-year-old farmer in Trans-en-Provence, France, reported hearing a strange, high-pitched sound before seeing a flying saucer nearby. The lead-colored UFO took off almost immediately, he said.
What makes this sighting unique is that the farmer immediately contacted local police, who took soil and plant samples, according to a report of the incident. Experts from France's UFO-investigating body, formerly called Groupe d'Études et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN), said the chemical evidence was consistent with heating of the soil and pressure from a heavy object. They also found traces of zinc and phosphate and evidence of abnormalities in the plants nearby.
However, skeptics said the smooshed plants could have been caused by tires, and cars had been heard traveling in the area around the same time as the farmer's sighting. Because there was a military base nearby, another explanation is that the French military was testing an experimental craft.
Sighting by retired astronaut
In general, some of the most reputable or credible sightings come from those who are in the skies all day long: pilots and members of the military. The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) logged one such sighting in 2013, Vice reported. Late in the evening in 2013, the man, a former commercial pilot, fighter pilot and astronaut, was looking at the sky with his family in Athens, Texas, when he noticed what looked like an orange, glowing fireball.
"When I looked up into the sky, I saw a fairly large, orange, glowing orb moving rapidly overhead [at] right about 90 degrees of elevation," the man reported to the NUFORC.
After a few minutes, a group of three similar objects followed the same flight path. Three minutes later, two more objects flew along that same route. The objects gave off no sound and seemed to glow from atmospheric heating, the man reported. He and his family attempted to record the objects using their iPhones, though the grainy, dark video was difficult to decipher, he said.
"They moved much faster than orbital satellites (International Space Station, for example) or airplanes, but much slower than meteors and did not change brightness as a meteor would upon entering the atmosphere," the man said in his call. "I have no explanation for what we saw."
Lights over Mount Shasta
Another report from the NUFORC came from an airline captain who was flying between Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, when he noticed glowing blue lights over Mount Shasta in California that appeared much brighter than the stars typically do in the area.
"The two lights were approximately an inch apart in the windscreen and the size of normal stars," the captain noted in a report. Then, "one of the 'stars' just dimmed out over about a 10-second time span followed by the other one dimming out completely in about 10 seconds also."
"We were flying in crystal-clear skies and were not flying though any clouds whatsoever. These two lights were not following the typical west-to-east orbital path as most satellites do and were just sitting there kind of like ships hiding in plain sight," the captain reported to the NUFORC.
The lights also appeared to be far above the level of the plane, which was flying at 38,000 feet (11,580 m).
Not so U-FOs
For every unexplained sighting, there are dozens that turn out to be military flares, weird cloud formations, weather phenomena or elaborate hoaxes. For instance, GEPAN's database suggests that only 7 percent of all supposed UFO sightings are truly unexplained.
In the 1940s, the U.S. Air Force began investigating UFO sightings, and that program, called Project Blue Book, logged more than 12,000 reported sightings before it was shuttered in 1969. Most of those Project Blue Book sightings were ultimately explained. While a few remained unexplained, the people involved in the program were skeptical that these cases were true alien sightings or completely unknown physical phenomena.
"If more immediate, detailed, objective data on the unknowns had been available, probably these, too, could have been explained," a report in the Project Blue Book archive noted. However, the fact that human factors are involved — in particular, personal impressions and interpretations, rather than accurate scientific data — it's likely impossible to eliminate all unidentified sightings, the report noted.
WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE? REAL PHYSICS HAS SOME MIND-BENDING ANSWERS
WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE? REAL PHYSICS HAS SOME MIND-BENDING ANSWERS
The questions are as big as the universe and (almost) as old as time: Where did I come from, and why am I here? That may sound like a query for a philosopher, but if you crave a more scientific response, try asking a cosmologist.
This branch of physics is hard at work trying to decode the nature of reality by matching mathematical theories with a bevy of evidence. Today most cosmologists think that the universe was created during the big bang about 13.8 billion years ago, and it is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The cosmos is woven into a fabric we call space-time, which is embroidered with a cosmic web of brilliant galaxies and invisible dark matter.
It sounds a little strange, but piles of pictures, experimental data and models compiled over decades can back up this description. And as new information gets added to the picture, cosmologists are considering even wilder ways to describe the universe—including some outlandish proposals that are nevertheless rooted in solid science:
Will this collection of lasers and mirrors prove the universe is a 2D hologram? (Fermilab)
The universe is a hologram
Look at a standard hologram, printed on a 2D surface, and you’ll see a 3D projection of the image. Decrease the size of the individual dots that make up the image, and the hologram gets sharper. In the 1990s, physicists realized that something like this could be happening with our universe.
Classical physics describes the fabric of space-time as a four-dimensional structure, with three dimensions of space and one of time. Einstein’s theory of general relativity says that, at its most basic level, this fabric should be smooth and continuous. But that was before quantum mechanics leapt onto the scene. While relativity is great at describing the universe on visible scales, quantum physics tells us all about the way things work on the level of atoms and subatomic particles. According to quantum theories, if you examine the fabric of space-time close enough, it should be made of teeny-tiny grains of information, each a hundred billion billion times smaller than a proton.
Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind and Nobel prize winner Gerard ’t Hooft have each presented calculations showing what happens when you try to combine quantum and relativistic descriptions of space-time. They found that, mathematically speaking, the fabric should be a 2D surface, and the grains should act like the dots in a vast cosmic image, defining the “resolution” of our 3D universe. Quantum mechanics also tells us that these grains should experience random jitters that might occasionally blur the projection and thus be detectable. Last month, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory started collecting data with a highly sensitive arrangement of lasers and mirrors called the Holometer. This instrument is finely tuned to pick up miniscule motion in space-time and reveal whether it is in fact grainy at the smallest scale. The experiment should gather data for at least a year, so we may know soon enough if we’re living in a hologram.
The universe is a computer simulation
Just like the plot of the Matrix, you may be living in a highly advanced computer program and not even know it. Some version of this thinking has been debated since long before Keanu uttered his first “whoa”. Plato wondered if the world as we perceive it is an illusion, and modern mathematicians grapple with the reason math is universal—why is it that no matter when or where you look, 2 + 2 must always equal 4? Maybe because that is a fundamental part of the way the universe was coded.
In 2012, physicists at the University of Washington in Seattle said that if we do live in a digital simulation, there might be a way to find out. Standard computer models are based on a 3D grid, and sometimes the grid itself generates specific anomalies in the data. If the universe is a vast grid, the motions and distributions of high-energy particles called cosmic rays may reveal similar anomalies—a glitch in the Matrix—and give us a peek at the grid’s structure. A 2013 paper by MIT engineer Seth Lloyd builds the case for an intriguing spin on the concept: If space-time is made of quantum bits, the universe must be one giant quantum computer. Of course, both notions raise a troubling quandary: If the universe is a computer program, who or what wrote the code?
The universe is a black hole
Any “Astronomy 101” book will tell you that the universe burst into being during the big bang. But what existed before that point, and what triggered the explosion? A 2010 paper by Nikodem Poplawski, then at Indiana University, made the case that our universe was forged inside a really big black hole.
While Stephen Hawking keeps changing his mind, the popular definition of a black hole is a region of space-time so dense that, past a certain point, nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Black holes are born when dense packets of matter collapse in on themselves, such as during the deaths of especially hefty stars. Some versions of the equations that describe black holes go on to say that the compressed matter does not fully collapse into a point—or singularity—but instead bounces back, spewing out hot, scrambled matter.
Poplawski crunched the numbers and found that observations of the shape and composition of the universe match the mathematical picture of a black hole being born. The initial collapse would equal the big bang, and everything in and around us would be made from the cooled, rearranged components of that scrambled matter. Even better, the theory suggests that all the black holes in our universe may themselves be the gateways to alternate realities. So how do we test it? This model is based on black holes that spin, because that rotation is part of what prevents the original matter from fully collapsing. Poplawski says we should be able to see an echo of the spin inherited from our “parent” black hole in surveys of galaxies, with vast clusters moving in a slight, but potentially detectable, preferred direction.
The universe is a bubble in an ocean of universes
Another cosmic puzzle comes up when you consider what happened in the first slivers of a second after the big bang. Maps of relic light emitted shortly after the universe was born tell us that baby space-time grew exponentially in the blink of an eye before settling into a more sedate rate of expansion. This process, called inflation, is pretty popular among cosmologists, and it got a further boost this year with the potential (but still unconfirmed) discovery of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, which would have been products of the rapid growth spurt.
If inflation is confirmed, some theorists would argue that we must live in a frothy sea of multiple universes. Some of the earliest models of inflation say that before the big bang, space-time contained what’s known as a false vacuum, a high-energy field devoid of matter and radiation that is inherently unstable. To reach a stable state, the vacuum began to bubble like a pot of boiling water. With each bubble, a new universe was born, giving rise to an endless multiverse.
The trouble with testing this idea is that the cosmos is ridiculously huge—the observable universe stretches for about 46 billion light years in all directions—and even our best telescopes can’t hope to peer at the surface of a bubble this big. One option, then, is to look for any evidence of our bubble universe colliding with another. Today our best maps of the big bang’s relic light do show an unusual cold spot in the sky that could be a “bruise” from bumping into a cosmic neighbor. Or it could be a statistical fluke. So a team of researchers led by Carroll Wainwright at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been running computer models to figure out what other sorts of traces a bubbly collision would leave in the big bang’s echo.
Tech: An alien hunter explains why extraterrestrial visitors are unlikely — despite the US government’s UFO evidence
Tech: An alien hunter explains why extraterrestrial visitors are unlikely — despite the US government’s UFO evidence
BY ROTHSCHILD JOBI
Astronomer Seth Shostak is skeptical about alien visitation: "It is a little odd that aliens would come hundreds and hundreds of light-years to do nothing."
The Department of Defense reportedly funded a program to investigate unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to The New York Times and Politico.
One of the program's contractors said he is "absolutely convinced" that aliens frequently visit Earth.
However, scientists who look for extraterrestrial life say the published videos and other materials don't prove aliens were here.
Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, gives several basic arguments for his skepticism about extraterrestrial visitation.
On Saturday, The New York Times and Politico independently published stories confirming that the US government had quietly funded a program to study UFOs for years.
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program "collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents," including one of an undated encounter with "an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves," the Times wrote.
AATIP reportedly started in 2007 to study potential unknown military threats, and was funded by nearly $22 million of Department of Defense "black money".
DoD officials told The Times and Politico that it shut down the program in 2012. But Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the research effort, allegedly continued its efforts after that.
Elizondo reportedly resigned in protest of the secrecy surrounding the program in October, and he now helps run a startup to research UFOs called the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
"These aircraft … are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory, nor in any foreign inventory that we're aware of," Elizondo told CNN on Monday. "My personal belief is that there's very compelling evidence that we may nto be alone. Whatever that means."
But Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, is not convinced — despite making a bet that we'll detect aliens within 20 years.
"If you see something in the air that you don't understand, and you're the guy in charge of the Air Force, you want to know what that is. It doesn't have much to do with aliens, necessarily," Shostak told Business Insider of AATIP's purpose. "But despite more than a half-century of this, the really good evidence that we're being visited still has failed to surface."
Traveling hundreds of light-years 'to do nothing'?
But that isn't the only reason Shostak is skeptical of alien visitation claims.
For one, the distances in space are mind-bogglingly vast. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, for example, is leaving the solar system at a clip of 38,000 miles per hour. If the probe was aimed at Proxima Centauri — the closest star to Earth besides the sun — it'd take nearly 75,000 years to reach that system, since it's roughly 4.24 light-years away from us.
Shostak said that alien civilizations would know about our existence if they're within about 35 light-years of Earth, since we haven't been sending signals into space for very long.
"The only way they could know that is to pick up, for example, signals from our transmitters — television, radio, radar, all that stuff. But those signals have been going out only since the second World War," Shostak said. "So if they're more than 35 light-years away, there hasn't been enough time for our signals to get to them, and for them to decide, 'Well this is worth the money to go down there and fly around.' Because they can't go faster than the speed of light, and they probably can't go the speed of light."
Within a generous 50 light-years, there are only about 1,400 star systems.
"That sounds like a big number, but it's a very small number if you're looking for intelligent beings," Shostak said. "Unless they're the next star system over, which is statistically rather unlikely."
Assuming that aliens regularly visit Earth defies logic in other ways, too. In nearly all credible reports of UFO sightings, there's no interaction with the witness (aside from claims of alien abductions, which evidence suggests are hallucinations caused by episodes of sleep paralysis).
"They're the best house guests ever. Because if they're here, they're not doing anything, except for occasionally puzzling pilots. … They don't help us. They don't hurt us. They don't do anything, just sail around." Shostak said. "It is a little odd that aliens would come hundreds and hundreds of light-years to do nothing."
Shostak compared this to Europeans discovering America, but not troubling any Native Americans: "They don't try and take any of their land, they don't bring any disease, they don't do anything; they just sort of walk around at the fringes of their settlements, leading to puzzling sightings, but that's it."
On top of this, Shostak thinks the reasons to visit Earth aren't very convincing.
"I always ask, 'Why are they here now?' They weren't visiting the founding fathers in the late 1700s, they're visiting us," he said. "The Romans weren't troubled by the aliens visiting. It doesn't make very much sense why they're here now."
Rooting out the nature of UFOs
Shostak rejects the notion that the news about AATIP and the Pentagon's footage constitute any proof of aliens.
About 90% of UFO sightings have explanations, he said, and that still doesn't mean the other 10% are aliens.
"It just means they're unexplained," he said. "It isn't that one shouldn't look into these — of course, if there really is something here, it'd be extraordinarily interesting to find out. But the fact that there are cases that are hard to explain and that sound rather convincing would be true no matter what the premise."
Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT who hunts for signs of habitable planets, echoed this idea in the Times' story, telling the newspaper "what people sometimes don't get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained."
Another area of skepticism for Shostak is that AATIP contracted out much of its work to Bigelow Aerospace in Nevada. The real-estate billionaire Robert Bigelow runs that startup and is friend of former Nevada senator Harry Reid, who started AATIP — in part, according to the Times, due to persuasion from Bigelow. Shostak said he's met Bigelow, and describes him as a "very likable guy" who is a passionate believer in alien visitations, but "not a scientist."
"If you were investigating some phenomenon that you're not sure whether it's for real or not, but it would be extraordinarily important if were real … you would want somebody sort of impartial, I would think," Shostak said. "Giving this case to somebody who already knows what the answer is is maybe not terribly objective."
And then there are the sightings themselves, which likely have far simpler explanations than alien visitations. For example, sightings tend to spike in the summer for a variety of reasons.
Issues with camera hardware, unfamiliar optical effects, atmospheric phenomena, bright stars and planets, and the presence of unmanned aerial vehicles are all common explanations.
Though AATIP's unmasking has vindicated many claims by the UFO community that the government is covering up its research, it "may be a situation where they should have been careful what they wished for," Shostak said. "The government said, 'Well, yeah — we did have a program, and we did cover it up, but we didn't find anything.'"
Indeed, an anonymous senior intelligence official told Politico that AATIP began mostly to root out the existence of unknown Chinese and Russian military technologies. But after a couple of years, "the consensus was we really couldn't find anything of substance," the official said. "They produced reams of paperwork. After all of that there was really nothing there that we could find."
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Have Attempts to Scan Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua Awoken Aliens Inside?
Have Attempts to Scan Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua Awoken Aliens Inside?
Matthew Loffhagen
Image credit: YouTube
The recent arrival and subesequent departure of our solar system's first known visitorfrom outside the sun's own creative sphere has given scientists a lot to talk about.
Nick Pope, former specialist with the UK Military of Defense, warns that in scanning the visiting rock, we may have awoken some kind of ancient life forms that dwell within what some are already speculating is a spaceship in disguise.
"While nothing has been found yet, there's another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it's possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside.... "Simply put, any alien ship searching for life may go into a dormant mode until it gets close to an inhabited planet."
Speaking with UK supermarket tabloid The Sun, Pope goes on to explain how he believes that an alien race might design a probe by strapping sensors to an existing asteroid and then hurling it out into space. According to Pope, this is a genuine possibility that experts are taking very seriously, although he fails to elaborate on which actual experts he's spoken to.
It's worth pointing out that in the grand scheme of things, The Sun newspaper does not exactly have a high reputation within the UK press. The tabloid is known primarily for featuring photos of topless women on its inside page, and it's safe to say that the paper isn't exactly The Guardian when it comes to original research.
Pope himself isn't exactly an expert in extra-terrestrial research, being best known as a television personality—albeit not a particularly famous one. Pope is generally good for a quote that can feed a scary quote about an ancient alien race, but not exactly a reliable source of accurate predictions about a floating cigar-shaped rock in space.
As unlikely as it is that 'Oumuamua is any kind of alien transport, what is interesting is that the rock does potentially contain biological matter that could one day prove to be influential in creating the spark of life.
A new theory about the formation of life on our planet suggests that fertile material which allowed our very first ancestors to thrive was created as an asteroid was exposed to cosmic rays in space, essentially creating the building blocks for organic life that then crashed down onto our planet. It could be that 'Oumuamua contains similar cosmic flotsam, and that if, one day, it crashes onto a suitable planet, it could help to create single-celled organisms to begin populating that distant world.
While we're probably not looking at an artifact from an ancient alien race when we observe 'Oumuamua, there's a possibility, however slim, that we're glimpsing the beginning of a new alien race that could form in thousands of years from now when the asteroid finds a home on the surface of a distant world.
VIDEOS. Le Père Noël ? Un ovni ? Un missile ? Le lancement d'une fusée de SpaceX offre un spectacle troublant dans le ciel californien
VIDEOS. Le Père Noël ? Un ovni ? Un missile ? Le lancement d'une fusée de SpaceX offre un spectacle troublant dans le ciel californien
La société américaine SpaceX a lancé vendredi dix nouveaux satellites de communication de la société Iridium avec sa fusée Falcon 9, le quatrième lancement sur huit prévus par SpaceX pour le compte de cette entreprise.
Une fusée Falcon 9 lancée par la société américaine SpaceX dans le ciel de Californie (Etats-Unis), vendredi 22 décembre 2017. (SOCIAL MEDIA / REUTERS)
"Ca va faire flipper tellement de gens à Los Angeles." "Regarde comme ça brille ! Oh mon dieu !" "Waouh !" Smartphones et caméras à la main, les témoins n'en croient pas leurs yeux : lancée par la société américaine Space X vendredi 22 décembre, une fusée Falcon 9 a illuminé le ciel du sud de la Californie, aux Etats-Unis.
Une trainée blanche dans la nuit, qui s'étire et s'allonge pour prendre la forme d'une méduse fumeuse parmi les étoiles... Le spectacle, visible jusque dans l'état voisin de l'Arizona, a intrigué de nombreux internautes, comme le rapporte le magazine Time. En effet, ceux qui n'étaient pas au courant du lancement prévu par SpaceX ont pu s'imaginer une invasion extraterrestre.
"Les extraterrestres existent et s'en est fini de l'espèce humaine", a tweeté un témoins, tandis que d'autres s'interrogeaient sur la possibilité qu'il s'agisse tout simplement du Père Noël.
Heureusement, une simple passage sur les réseau sociaux a pu rassurer les internautes. Et nombreux étaient ceux à savoir qu'il s'agissait simplement d'une fusée.
Si certains ont eu un peu peur, d'autres ont préféré en rire, mettant en doute la version officielle - le lancement prévu de SpaceX - afin de propager une théorie du complot. "SpaceX est une couverture pour les extraterrestres", a ainsi lancé un internautes, sur Twitter. "Il s'agissait bien d'extraterrestres", a même confirmé Elon Musk, le patron de SpaceX.
Et ce dernier d'ajouter, ironique : "Un extraterrestre nucléaire en provenance de Corée du Nord."
In its last launch of the year, on Friday, December 22, SpaceX successfully sent a communications satellite into orbit and created a stir on social media.
(Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post)
The people of Los Angeles can be forgiven if they were a little quick to jump to extraterrestrial conclusions.
So, it’s perfectly logical that Angelenos gazing into a darkening sky around 5:30 p.m. Friday would assume their city was in the midst of an alien invasion as they saw this:
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who ultimately wants to put people on a space-bound Megabus, fanned the flames by saying on Twitter that the jellyfish-like shape in the sky was a “nuclear alien UFO from North Korea.”
Southern Californians and other people out West, well, freaked out.
Jan Brewer, whose Twitter profile succinctly identifies her as “Arizona’s 22nd Governor” tweeted that she was wondering what the lights over Phoenix were. For some reason, she tagged President Donald Trump.
And many, many others pointed their smartphone cameras skyward, capturing what they assumed was the first sign of the alien apocalypse — or something — and musing about the vapory lights in the sky.
There was, of course, a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Musk’s SpaceX had launched an Irdium-4 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — about 150 miles from the City of Angels.
According to the Los Angeles Times, officials had warned that people would be able to see the launch across Southern California and elsewhere on the western half of the country. There was even a live webcast for those with more than a passing interest in rockets.
The moment a SpaceX rocket launch produced a shining, billowing streak in the sky over California
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 satellites into orbit, left behind a trail of mystery and wonder as it soared into space after lifting off in the setting sun from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
If you liked tonight’s launch, you will really like Falcon Heavy next month: 3 rocket cores & 3X thrust. 2 cores return to base doing synchronized aerobatics. 3rd lands on droneship.
What we know — and don't know — about aliens and UFOs
The Post's Cleve Wootson explains why a recent admission from the government is like pouring kerosene on UFO conspiracy theories.(Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
'UFO invasion' in California was a nuclear alien sent by North Korea, claims Elon Musk
'UFO invasion' in California was a nuclear alien sent by North Korea, claims Elon Musk
DRAMATIC footage that illuminated the night sky with a luminous blue trail could be a “nuclear alien UFO” sent by “North Korea” according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole
Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole
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The center of our Galaxy has been intensely studied for many years, but it still harbors surprises for scientists. A snake-like structure lurking near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is the latest discovery to tantalize astronomers.
In 2016, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University reported the discovery of an unusual filament near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy using the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The filament is about 2.3 light years long and curves around to point at the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), located in the Galactic center.
Now, another team of astronomers has employed a pioneering technique to produce the highest-quality image yet obtained of this curved object.
“With our improved image, we can now follow this filament much closer to the Galaxy’s central black hole, and it is now close enough to indicate to us that it must originate there,” said Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the study. “However, we still have more work to do to find out what the true nature of this filament is.”
The researchers have considered three main explanations for the filament. The first is that it is caused by high-speed particles kicked away from the supermassive black hole. A spinning black hole coupled with gas spiraling inwards can produce a rotating, vertical tower of magnetic field that approaches or even threads the event horizon, the point of no return for infalling matter. Within this tower, particles would be sped up and produce radio emission as they spiral around magnetic field lines and stream away from the black hole.
The second, more fantastic, possibility is that the filament is a cosmic string, theoretical, as-yet undetected objects that are long, extremely thin objects that carry mass and electric currents. Previously, theorists had predicted that cosmic strings, if they exist, would migrate to the centers of galaxies. If the string moves close enough to the central black hole it might be captured once a portion of the string crosses the event horizon.
The final option is that the position and the direction of the filament aligning with the black hole are merely coincidental superpositions, and there is no real association between the two. This would imply it is like dozens of other known filaments found farther away from the center of the Galaxy. However, such a coincidence is quite unlikely to happen by chance.
“Part of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to solve,” said co-author Jun-Hui Zhao of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “While we don’t have the answer yet, the path to finding it is fascinating. This result is motivating astronomers to build next generation radio telescopes with cutting edge technology.”
Each of the scenarios being investigated would provide intriguing insight if proven true. For example, if the filament is caused by particles being ejected by Sgr A*, this would reveal important information about the magnetic field in this special environment, showing that it is smooth and orderly rather than chaotic.
The second option, the cosmic string, would provide the first evidence for a highly speculative idea with profound implications for understanding gravity, space-time and the Universe itself.
Evidence for the idea that particles are being magnetically kicked away from the black hole would come from observing that particles further away from Sgr A* are less energetic than those close in. A test for the cosmic string idea will capitalize on the prediction by theorists that the string should move at a high fraction of the speed of light. Follow-up observations with the VLA should be able to detect the corresponding shift in position of the filament.
Even if the filament is not physically tied to Sgr A*, the bend in the shape of this filament is still unusual. The bend coincides with, and could be caused by, a shock wave, akin to a sonic boom, where the blast wave from an exploded star is colliding with the powerful winds blowing away from massive stars surrounding the central black hole.
“We will keep hunting until we have a solid explanation for this object,” said co-author Miller Goss, from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico. “And we are aiming to next produce even better, more revealing images.”
A paper describing these results appeared in the December 1st, 2017 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.
For more information, contact:
Megan Watzke Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu
Peter Edmonds Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-571-7279 pedmonds@cfa.harvard.edu
Deze reusachtige 2,3 lichtjaar lange structuur in het centrum van de Melkweg stelt astronomen voor een raadsel
Deze reusachtige 2,3 lichtjaar lange structuur in het centrum van de Melkweg stelt astronomen voor een raadsel
Sterrenkundigen hebben een nieuwe opname gemaakt van een vreemde slangvormige structuur die afgelopen jaar in het hart van de Melkweg is ontdekt.
Het reusachtige filament is 2,3 lichtjaar lang en wijst in de richting van het superzware zwarte gat Sagittarius A*, dat zo’n vier miljoen keer zwaarder is dan de zon.
In 2016 werd de ongewone structuur ontdekt door Farhad Yusef-Zadeh van de Northwestern University.
Snelle deeltjes
De astronomen hebben nog altijd geen idee hoe de mysterieuze structuur precies is ontstaan. Ze beschrijven drie mogelijke scenario’s.
De eerste mogelijkheid is dat het filament bestaat uit snelle deeltjes die uit het superzware zwarte gat ontsnappen.
Nog niet waargenomen objecten
Daarnaast kan de structuur een zogeheten kosmische snaar zijn, een keten van nog niet waargenomen objecten die lang en extreem dun zijn en die massa en elektrische stromen kunnen vervoeren.
Wetenschappers hebben eerder voorspeld dat kosmische snaren, als ze bestaan, naar het centrum van sterrenstelsels zouden migreren.
Mysterie
Tot slot is het ook mogelijk dat er geen relatie is tussen het filament en het superzware zwart gat. Maar astronomen achten de kans klein dat er geen verband is.
“Wat wetenschap spannend maakt is dat je op een mysterie kunt stuiten dat niet gemakkelijk kan worden verklaard,” zei coauteur Jun-Hui Zhao van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
For just about as long as the UFO phenomena has been around there has been the complimentary anomaly known as the notorious Men in Black. These phantom figures have long been reported to threaten and stalk certain eyewitnesses or those with insider knowledge of UFOs, usually warning them away from sharing what they have seen or know and always freaking them out. Reported from around the world, the Men in Black are typically almost universally described as being individuals, usually male, dressed in black suits or trench coats, often with sunglasses on even at night, mostly at least a bit odd-looking, and always displaying extremely bizarre behavior and mannerisms, and this is a phenomenon which my fellow Mysterious Contributor Nick Redfern has covered in far more detail than I intend to go into here. However, what has always intrigued me are the times when these frightening and creepy specters have actually been allegedly photographed or even filmed, and there are actually a few cases where this has allegedly happened. This is what I plan to delve into here, so let’s take a look.
Perhaps the earliest and best known purported image of a Man in Black comes from 1968, in Jersey City, in the United States, where a UFO researcher named Jack Robinson lived with his wife, Mary. The couple began to notice something strange going on when they would come home to find that their house seemed to have been searched or rummaged through, ransacked even, especially their files of the UFO phenomena, although there was never any sign of forced entry or burglary. Shortly after this, Mary claimed that she began to notice a peculiar stranger dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses lurking and loitering about the area of their apartment, who could sometimes be seen staring up at their window. This was all spooky to be sure, and the creeped out couple told a friend of theirs, Tim Green Beckley, about what was happening. My esteemed colleague Nick Redfern, an expert on the MIB phenomenon and author of numerous books on the matter including The Real Men in Black, talked about this stranger and what happened next in an interview with New Dawn Magazine, saying:
Mary said he had an unsettling look on his face, kind of unemotional and zombie-like. Mary happened to mention this to Tim and Jim, and because the guy appeared three days in a row, they decided to drive over early one morning and see if they could see the Man in Black for themselves. Sure enough, he was there, staring ahead, with the black sunglasses, long black coat, and enigmatic stare.
Beckley allegedly came by one day when the enigmatic man was prowling about and managed to capture a photograph of him before he sauntered off and was gone. Although it is inconclusive to say the least, the resulting photograph is believed to be one of the first and clearest photos of one of the alleged Men in Black. What does this picture show? Is this really one of the Men in Black or just a guy in black clothes hanging out on the street? It is hard to say, and the authenticity of the photograph has been much discussed in UFO circles.
The alleged photo of the Man in Black
Perhaps even more impressive than this is a purported piece of video footage that is said to show two of the Men in Black, which surfaced in April of 2012 from the Aerial Phenomena Investigations Team. The incident allegedly began at a hotel in Canada, when the hotel manager was approached by one of his bellboys, who seemed to be rather unsettled about something and wanted to talk in private. He then claimed that two mysterious men dressed in black suits and trench coats had approached him, and he told the manager:
Something really weird happened here yesterday, and you weren’t here. There were a couple of guys looking for you. Well, this is really hard for me to say, but there were a couple of really strange looking men that were here, and they kind of freaked everybody out, and they were asking questions about you. And I said, “I’m sorry, he’s actually not working today.”
The bizarre strangers were described as being very tall, and of exactly the same height, with very pale skin and generally looking “odd.” It was also noted that they appeared to have the same face, as if they were twins. The bellman claimed that the two strangers had not seemed to really believe that the manager wasn’t in at the time, and proceeded to look around the premises and question other employees, with one other hotel staff member who was approached saying of them:
They asked some questions about you, and they said strange things that I didn’t understand, and they were talking about governments and conspiracies, and none of it made any sense to me, but they were very, very scary. They had no facial hair, none. They had no eyebrows, no eyelashes, nothing. Their hair looked like they had a wig on, like it was attached to their hat, like it wasn’t even real. And the scariest thing, their eyes were so big, and so blue, that they almost hypnotized me a little bit. These men, they didn’t blink. Not once did I see them blink.
The hotel manager was a bit disturbed to hear all of this, but was still skeptical about the whole thing. He claims that he then went through the security footage to check it out and found exactly what had been described, with two strange men dressed in black entering the hotel through the front doors. Is footage this the real deal? If it is not a hoax, then who were these mysterious gentlemen and what did they want? Were these really the legendary Men in Black? We will probably never know.
A still from the footage at the hotel allegedly showing the Men in Black
Even more recent is a case of supposed photographic evidence of the Men in Black that came out in 2014, according to a UFOGrid report. In the report, two witnesses came forward to tell their tale of being harassed by the Men in Black in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the witnesses was identified by the alias Jack Smith, now in his 50s, who claims that he had been relentlessly stalked by a pair of the mysterious entities wearing identical black suits his whole life, which he surmised was due to encounters he had had with the “grey” aliens back in his youth. He says that ever since, he had been menaced by the Men in Black for decades, saying:
They have let me know that I could be found where ever I was. What was said to me was threatening and they have caused me to live in fear a lot of the time. I know the truth. My good, close friends know the truth, as well.
On April 13, 2014, he claims that he and a friend were followed by the mysterious strangers, and that this time he managed to capture them on video staring directly at them. The day had started with Jack and his friend, Jane, going out for some sightseeing and lunch, and they found themselves waiting for a streetcar at the French Quarter’s Bienville Street station near Jackson Square. It was here where they would notice two weird looking men dressed in stuffy black suits despite the hot weather at the time, standing there milling about at the station, and Jane would say of them and their behavior:
I knew something was wrong immediately. They looked like identical twins. They were slim, and much taller than the average person. They were dressed in identical black suits, white shirts, skinny black ties, fedoras, and black sun glasses. They just looked so odd. They were pale, they were stiff, and they moved eerily in unison. They had oblong faces with a thin line for a mouth. Their whole vibe was cold and creepy. (They were) calm, but like how a reptile can appear calm. Twin lizards in suits. They leaned in simultaneously to communicate with each other. Their mouths opened slightly, but they were not talking. They were communicating something to each other, but not talking!
A still from the footage supposedly showing the Men in Black at Bienville Street station, New Orleans
The two strange men apparently waited there and repeatedly stared at Jack and Jane the entire time, but when the streetcar finally arrived after a 20-minute wait, the two men reportedly turned away and walked over to a shiny black car with a foreign license plate. The two then simply got into the vehicle and drove away. Jack had captured some of the encounter on his cell phone, and he would later relate to Jane what he thought they were, and although she was taken aback she had indeed seen it all herself so there was no denying that these were not ordinary people. Eerily, Jack later sent her the video footage he had taken, but Jane’s phone inexplicably deleted it, as well as all of the data on her SD card, which the cell phone company was unable to explain. The mysterious video also supposedly deleted itself off of another friend’s phone when Jack attempted to send it. Jack would finally send it to UFOGrid, telling them:
The thought of giving (the video) to anybody scares the hell out of me because when I tried to share it before bad things happened. The thought of what could possibly happen to me if I did release this…I honestly do fear for my life. This experience is awful. I can’t even begin to explain to you how awful it is. The very thought of stirring things up scares the heck out of me. I hope it can help someone that is struggling in silence because of MIB harassment. Whatever or whoever uses these [MIBs] to keep us in fear to control us, is despicable.
Again, what does this strange footage show? There are certainly men dressed in black visible, but it is impossible to tell if they had anything off about them or if they are really the Men in Black or not. And therein lies the trouble with capturing photographic or video evidence of these mysterious individuals. They appear as more or less human, albeit creepy looking, and any alleged photograph is difficult to assess, as it could very well just be some weirdo in a black suit. There is absolutely no way we can really know what we are really seeing in such images, nothing to mark it as truly outside of the explainable and so banishing such evidence to the limbo of mere speculation and rumor.
Indeed, it has not even really been ascertained just what the Men in Black are actually supposed to be in the first place. They are surrounded by so much lore and bizarreness that it is hard to say if they are agents from some secretive government organization, a freelance cabal with their own inscrutable agenda, aliens themselves, something more paranormal in nature, or simply an elaborate and persistent urban legend. Reports of the Men in Black help matters little, as they are so varied and absolutely riddled with myriad high strangeness. Just what are we even supposed to be dealing with here? To again quote my colleague Nick Redfern, when asked what he thought they were he has said in the past:
My personal conclusion is that there are at least two things going on. There are the government-originated MIB, and there are the weirder MIB. As for the former, I prove in the book (The Real Men in Black) that some can be traced back to official agencies of at least several governments. As for those stranger MIB, my personal view is that they are paranormal. Of course, much of this depends on how we define the paranormal! My personal view is that the MIB may be the inhabitants of multi-dimensions or extra-dimensions that co-exist with ours, and whose role it is to keep us away from the truth about not just UFOs, but a whole range of strange phenomena too. But as for why, that is the big question still eluding us!
Whatever the Men in Black are, they appear to be here to stay, and they invariably go hand in hand with the UFO phenomenon, whatever that all entails. Who they are, how they are linked to such oddities, and what their capacity is may likely be debated forever, but for those who have encountered them they are at the very least very real. While these figures have mostly been confined to the realm of witness accounts, with very little physical evidence, we are still left with these intriguing images. Are we really seeing the legendary Men in Black here? Is there any clue to be gleaned from these images and videos? It is all at the very least a baffling piece of the Men in Black puzzle.
First they came for our jobs, and we did nothing. Then they came for our board games, and we did nothing.
“They” are AI robots and the board game is chess. An AI robot programmed by engineers at Google was able to learn chess in four hours just by playing against itself. Then it proceeded to demolish the reigning AI chess bot in a 100 game tournament with 28 wins, 72 draws and no losses. If that’s not scary enough, it used moves and tactics never seen in the 1,500-year history of the game. But the most terrifying thing about this AI chess-monster is this … it was developed by Google.
“The ability of a machine to surpass centuries of human knowledge . . . is a world-changing tool.”
No less than Garry Kasparov, regarded by many as the greatest chess player of all time and the grandmaster lost to IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997, says he was more impressed with the victory, learning speed and strategic creativity of AlphaZero.
AlphaZero began (or should we start saying ‘was born’?) at DeepMind, a UK company that was bought in 2014 by Google for $500 million. It was originally AlphaGo, which in 2015 became the first computer Go program to beat a human professional Go player without handicaps on a full-sized 19×19 board. In October 2017, AlphaGo begat AlphaGo Zero, which had the ability to learn the game on its own from the rules rather than from inputting human games. In December 2017, AlphaGo Zero begat AlphaZero, a generalized version of the AI with the same ability to learn games by playing itself.
Hours after it was given the rules of chess, AlphaZero threw down the rook and challenged Stockfish 8, the greatest chess program ever developed. One hundred games later, there was a new champion.
In a paper published in arXiv, the team of developers explain AlphaZero’s secret ability and it is … intuition! Instead of grinding through ever larger numbers of possibilities like most other chess-playing programs, AlphaZero taught itself to test random lines of play and identify and focus on the most relevant ones. This allowed it to examine about 0.1 percent of the possible moves that Stockfish analyzed. As the chess geeks at chess.com point out, there was nothing chess-specific about how AlphaZero learned, allowing it to try moves that chess players (and programs based on their moves and games) would never consider, like using a King as an attacking piece.
The irony in all of this is apparent in the AI robot’s name … AlphaZero plays more like a human than any other chess-playing AI yet learned this with zero human input – just a set of rules and four hours of playing against itself. What other ‘games’ can it master beyond the ability of humans with just a set of rules and a few hours of computing time? Government? Business? War?
Do we really want this kind of power in the hands of Google? Sure, it’s better than Facebook, but Google?
« Au coeur de l’étrange, OVNI, les nouveaux dossiers secrets »
« Au coeur de l’étrange, OVNI, les nouveaux dossiers secrets »
Depuis quelques temps, le nombre d’observations d’ovnis est en net augmentation et beaucoup se demandent si nous ne sommes pas à l’aube d’une invasion. De plus, nombre de personnes issues des gouvernements commencent à parler de l’existence de dossiers secrets concernant les extraterrestres. Dans ce reportage, vous allez entendre des témoignages plus que troublants sur ce sujet.
Nous commençons ce reportage à Washington, le 29 avril 2013 où plus de 40 personnes de haut rang ont affirmé qu’une civilisation intelligente extraterrestre existait. Stanton Friedman, ancien physicien nucléaire a affirmé que ces preuves existaient réellement. Par ailleurs, John Callahan, ancien responsable de l’agence américaine de l’aviation civile a affirmé que la CIA avait récupéré tous les documents et avait obligé les témoins à garder le silence. Ces différents témoignages sont troublants. Toutes ces personnes veulent que la vérité éclate au grand jour et que les gouvernements arrêtent de nous mentir.
Pour connaitre la vérité, notre enquête commence à Kumburgaz, en Turquie où plusieurs ovnis auraient été aperçus entre 2007 et 2009. Le témoin de ces observations est un gardien de nuit et il a réussi à filmer un étrange engin. Egon Kragel explique qu’on peut y voir un appareil immense. Ces images sont surprenantes. De plus, d’autres témoins ont vu cet ovni et tous accréditent le témoignage et la vidéo du gardien de nuit. Cette affaire a fait la Une des journaux turcs. De ce fait, une enquête a été ouverte pour savoir si cette fameuse vidéo était réelle ou non. Après des analyses très poussées sur les images, tous les scientifiques s’accordent à dire qu’il s’agit d’un engin inconnu et ils le placent dans la catégorie ovnis. Pendant plusieurs jours, le même objet a été vu dans le ciel de Kumburgaz. Par la suite, un ufologue chilien a analysé le film et a mis à jour la présence d’extraterrestres dans ce vaisseau. Encore aujourd’hui, l’ovni turc reste un mystère.
Aujourd’hui et grâce à internet, on trouve ce genre d’image un peu partout dans le monde. Si certaines sont des montages, d’autres sont vraiment troublantes. Pour connaitre la vérité sur certaines vidéos, celles-ci sont montrées à des experts. La première est celle de l’ovni qui est entré dans le volcan Popocatépetl, prise le 25 octobre 2012 et les experts affirment que ces images sont réelles. C’est avec une photo de la Nasa montrant une forme noire sur la lune que les analyses continuent et les experts expliquent que cette forme provient d’un défaut de la lentille de l’appareil. D’autres vidéos leur sont montrées et aucune explication rationnelle ne peut être apportée.
En France, c’est le GEIPAN qui s’occupe de ces observations. Pour la plupart, les scientifiques trouvent une explication, mais une petite quantité résiste pourtant à leur expertise. Celle de l’affaire de la centrale nucléaire de Golfech où une observation a été faite en 2010 fait partie de ces affaires qui restent inexplicables. Le témoin a fait part de ce qu’il avait vu aux gendarmes en illustrant son témoignage par des dessins. Cet homme nous explique que le 6 octobre 2010, au environ de 20h00, il a vu un immense triangle noir entouré de lumières passer tout près de la centrale et à très basse altitude sans aucun bruit. Par ailleurs, il n’est pas seul à avoir vu cet engin et ils ont réussi à le filmer l’engin. Le lendemain, il a fait une déposition à la gendarmerie et son témoignage a été transmis au GEIPAN. Rapidement, ce dernier a conclu que cet ovni était un avion. Pourtant, le témoin est sûr que ce n’en était pas un.
Trois ans plus tard, l’homme a reçu un courrier l’informant que l’enquête était ré-ouverte. De plus, la centrale nucléaire était étroitement surveillée et personne ne comprend pourquoi les vidéos des caméras de surveillance n’ont pas été visionnées au début de l’enquête. Quelques mois après la réouverture de cet enquête, les journaux annonçaient que d’autres centrales nucléaires avaient été survolées par des drones. Pourtant, beaucoup affirment que ces engins n’avaient rien de drones et que leur technologie était beaucoup plus avancée que la nôtre.
Avec ces témoignages, on pourrait penser que les extraterrestres s’intéressent au nucléaire. C’est à partir de 1945, après l’explosion de la première bombe atomique que les apparitions d’ovnis ont considérablement augmenté. Les observations au-dessus de centrale nucléaire militaire ou civile se sont multipliées, comme pour le cas de la base militaire de Malmstrom où en 1967, des ovnis auraient désactivé des lancements de missiles avant de disparaitre. Ce phénomène s’était déjà produit sur d’autres bases.
Si pour certains, les extraterrestres veulent nous exterminer, d’autres pensent qu’au contraire, ils veulent nous protéger de nous-mêmes et de ce que nous pourrions faire avec le nucléaire. Certains témoins affirment même avoir été enlevés par des extraterrestres, comme l’histoire de François Kleindienst. En effet, l’homme explique que le matin du 10 janvier 1998, à Haravilliers, alors qu’il allait rejoindre des amis, il a vu un objet immense et rond passer au-dessus de sa voiture. Par la suite, il a perdu connaissance et ne se souvient de rien. De plus, ses amis qui étaient dans deux voitures différentes ont vécu la même chose. Dans le même temps, plusieurs habitants du village se sont réveillés vers midi alors qu’ils avaient l’habitude de se lever de bonne heure. Quelques temps plus tard, l’un des témoins prénommé Bruno a retrouvé la mémoire et il a affirmé avoir été enlevé par des extraterrestres. Son témoignage est époustouflant et il est difficile de remettre en question son récit, car l’homme a fait partie de l’armée.
Après tous ces témoignages, il est difficile de croire que les extraterrestres n’existent pas. Malgré tout, aucun rapport ne parle de vaisseaux extraterrestres et pour beaucoup, les autorités nous cacheraient la vérité. En effet, beaucoup pensent que les gouvernements en savent beaucoup plus que ce qu’ils veulent bien nous dire. De plus, en 1987 Ronald Reggan a fait une allusion sur une possible menace. D’autres gouvernements ont fait aussi allusions aux ovnis et vont même jusqu’à dire que certains seraient déjà présents sur terre.
Se pourrait-il que l’on nous cache la vérité ? Il semblerait que oui. Je vous laisse profiter de ce reportage édifiant.
NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens
NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens
NASA has set their sights on Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our Solar System, and wants the mission to take place in 2069 and look for signs of alien life.
After reaching the moon (again) and actually getting to Mars, the American Space agency wants to turn mankind into an interstellar species.
Despite the fact that the ‘mission’ does not have a name yet and most of the technology necessary to take us there does not even exist, the projected launch date would coincide with the centenary of the arrival of mankind to the Moon.
NASA is yet to develop the necessary technology to travel to Alpha Centauri in a reasonable time.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
Initially, scientists say that a spaceship which would need to travel at a minimum of 10 percent of the speed of light would be required to get us there.
The Alpha Centauri constellation is located 4.4 light-years away, and even if one-tenth of the speed of light were achieved, we would be able to visit the star system after a 44-year journey, reaching our nearest neighbor in 2113.
This means we need to ramp up our tech game. In order for mankind to really become an interstellar species, colonize other planets and moons, first in our solar system, we need to develop a technology that’s affordable, reusable, and fast. Really fast.
According to the New Scientist, NASA is considering sending tiny laser-powered probes that, in theory, can travel at a quarter of the speed of light. Other techniques under consideration include the use of nuclear reactions, or through collisions between antimatter and matter.
However, there are other options experts will consider. But, time is ticking so NASA will need all the help it can get to make a trip to Alpha Centauri a reality.
Perhaps the best way to start their journey to our closest cosmic neighbor is by developing a technology that would get us to Mars in a matter of weeks, then days.
Getting to Mars, and creating a transportation system between the two planets could serve as a starting point for further technology in development, and it would make traveling to Mars something routine.
As reported by Newsweek, NASA’s revolutionary mission in 2069 will visit Proxima B, a planet that was discovered not long ago and may be a world very similar to Earth. Interestingly, the manager of the Innovation Foundry at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Anthony Freeman called the entire project “very nebulous.”
Proxima Centauri B is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the closest star to the Sun—the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is in a triple star system. The planet—which has been hailed as Earth’s twin in the past—is located around 4.2 light-years from Earth, which makes it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System.
In comparison, the only man-made spacecraft that has reached interstellar space is Voyager-1, which is currently traveling at LESS than 1 percent of 1 percent of the speed of life, reports Newsweek.
IF Voyager-1 had the ability to travel at 10 percent the speed of light, it would make it to Alpha Centauri in about 44 years.
The Return of the skull-shaped asteroid: Astronomers say it’s coming back in 2018
The Return of the skull-shaped asteroid: Astronomers say it’s coming back in 2018
The return of the “skull-shaped” asteroid: astronomers calculate when the weirdly shaped space rock will approach Earth.
There are strange things out there in space.
Astrophysicists have warned that our planet will have a new encounter with a strange asteroid that strangely resembles a skull.
The object in question is known as 2015 TB145 and possibly formed from the remains of an extinct comet say, experts.
But don’t worry, astronomers are confident it won’t collide with Earth anytime soon.
Image Credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NS
The asteroid measures between 625 and 700 meters in diameter and has a rotation period of 2.94 hours.
Astronomer Pablo Santos-Sanz, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain), characterized it as „a “dark” asteroid, whose reflectance index is «scarcely superior to that of coal.“
“It is currently 3.7 astronomical units away from Earth; that is, 3.7 times the average distance from the Earth to the sun.”
The skull-shaped asteroid “has a magnitude of 26.5, which means it is only visible from Earth using very large telescopes or space telescopes.”
This celestial body caught the attention of scientists and amateur astronomers during its first approach to Earth, which coincided with Halloween on October of 2015.
Animation showing the rotation of the weirdly shaped space rock.
In 2015, the skull-shaped asteroid passed between a distance of 499,000 kilometers of our planet, traveling at a speed of 125,500 kilometers per hour.
During this ‘close’ encounter, astronomers observed the curious celestial body in order to try and gather as much information as possible.
Thanks to numerous measurements, which included observations with the Pan-STARRS telescope located in Hawaii (USA), scientists modeled the course of the asteroid and predicted it will travel passed Earth in November of 2018.
Thankfully, the mystery shaped asteroid will travel noticeably farther from our planet, with an equivalent distance of about 105 Earth-Moon distances, compared to an approximate 1.3 distances when it zipped passed Earth in 2015.
Despite accurate measurements, NASA scientists have warned the asteroid has an erratic orbit, which means that astronomers aren’t sure where it will end up traveling, but they are confident it will miss Earth in the near future.
Users on social networks discussed what would happen if such an asteroid impacted Earth. Some argue that if an asteroid of about 700 meters in diameter impacted our planet it could wipe out entire cities.
Furthermore, if it were to hit Earth, there is a 71 percent chance that it would hit water, and not landmass. Then, a tsunami is our biggest concern. A fireball product of the impact would have an approximate radius of more than eight kilometers. Such a collision would create numerous earthquakes measuring high 7’s on the Richter scale.
A massive structure, stretching 2.3 light-years at the center of our galaxy puzzles astronomers
A massive structure, stretching 2.3 light-years at the center of our galaxy puzzles astronomers
The gigantic structure of 2.3 light-years in length near a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A * baffles astronomers.
It turns out that at the center of our galaxy, at around 26,000 light years from Earth, lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *, four million times more massive than the Sun.
This cosmic monster is not the only one lurking in that region of space.
Astronomers have discovered another gigantic structure located in close proximity, which measures a stunning 2.3 light-years across.
While astronomers have absolutely no clue what it is, they’ve managed to snap a pretty good picture of the ‘structure.’
In 2016, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University reported the discovery of an unusual ‘filament’ near the center of the Milky Way.
Now, a year later, another team of astronomers has used a state-of-the-art technique to produce the highest quality image of this mysterious structure.
A radio image from the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array showing the center of our galaxy. The mysterious radio filament is the curved line located near the center of the image, & the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is shown by the bright source near the bottom of the image.
Image Credit: NSF/VLA/UCLA/M. Morris et al.
“However, we still have more work to do to find out what the true nature of this filament is.”
Despite the fact that astronomers aren’t sure what it is, there are three main theories.
The first is that the massive structure is the product caused by high-velocity particles ejected from the supermassive black hole.
A black hole can produce a vertical rotating magnetic field tower that approaches or even coils in the event horizon, the point of no return for approaching matter.
Within this structure, particles would accelerate and produce radio emissions as they spiral around the lines of the magnetic field and away from the black hole.
Another possibility is that the strange filament is a cosmic chain of theoretically not yet detected objects, that are long and extremely thin and transport mass and electrical currents. Pretty awesome, right?
Previously, scientists had predicted that the cosmic strings, if they existed, would migrate to the centers of galaxies.
If the string moves close enough to the black hole, it can be captured when a part of the string crosses the event horizon.
The third theory is that the position and direction of the filament that lines up with the black hole are just coincidental overlaps, and there is no real association between the two. Basically, there’s nothing there.
This would imply that this structure is similar to dozens of other known filaments that are farther from the center of the galaxy.
However, such a coincidence is quite unlikely to happen by chance say astronomers.
“Part of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to explain,” said co-author Jun-Hui Zhao of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “While we don’t have the answer yet, the path to finding it is fascinating. This result is motivating astronomers to build next-generation radio telescopes with cutting-edge technology.”
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
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