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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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16-02-2018
Archaeologists From India Ask NASA For Help To Investigate Paintings Of UFOs And Aliens
Archaeologists From India Ask NASA For Help To Investigate Paintings Of UFOs And Aliens
Is NASA set out to help India archaeologists to investigate 10,000-year-old paintings of what appears to be UFOs and beings wearing space suits? According to the Daily Star, the answer is yes.
All around the world, prehistoric cultures tried conveying a message through ancient rock art.
No matter where we look, whether its Northern, central, and South America, to Europe, Asia, and Africa, people who lived on Earth thousands of years ago created art, depicting what they had witnessed during their lifetime.
Some of these ancient rock carvings depict ordinary scenes of daily life like hunting while other illustrations challenge our very understanding of human history.
Do these ancient cave paintings really depict UFOs?
If we travel to India, for example, we will find a number of curious cave paintings, where some of the images appear to depict ‘figures’ that carry some sort of weapons and are dressed in what many consider are ‘space suits’.
A group of Indian archaeologists has approached NASA and the Indian Space Research Agency to help them decipher some prehistoric paintings found in 2014 in the Charama caves in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Many of these 10,000-year-old petroglyphs represent figures similar to extraterrestrials and UFOs as seen in modern-day science fiction movies.
Archaeologist JR Bhagat was perplexed by the images, reports Daily Star.
“The findings suggest that prehistoric humans could have seen or imagined beings from other planets, something that continues to arouse the curiosity of people and researchers today,” said the archaeologists according to the Daily Star.
JR Bhagat explains that in the city of Charma, there aren’t experts in the field who could help solve the mystery behind the curious depictions, and what ancient mankind wanted to say.
The researcher explained that some parts of the drawings are difficult to interpret and that some of the characters are represented by objects that look like weapons.
“The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Especially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits. We can’t refute the possibility of imagination by prehistoric men but humans usually fancy such things,” said Bhagat.
The video was uploaded to YouTube channel The Lost History Channel in February of 2018 has already received more than 7,000 views.
One comment read: “Evidence is everywhere, we need opened eyes, that’s all.”
And another claimed: “We don’t need to find aliens, they are already here all around us.”
India isn’t the only place where such rock art is found.
If we take a look at other ancient sites around the globe, we will notice how thousands of years ago, ancient people around the globe created a number of petroglyphs and cave paintings. Why ancient man depicted strange beings with 5 or 6 fingers, helmets, sandals, and what appear to be space suits is a mystery no one has been able to answer.
In Australia for example, ancient mankind created hundreds of mysterious cave paintings which are known today as the Wandjina Cave Paintings. This set of curious rock art depicts could be well over 100,000 years old, and shows mysterious beings which massive eyes, large heads, and strange construction.
Some authors suggest that the Wandjina Cave Paintings are some of the earliest examples of alien contact.
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‘British Roswell’ UFO Wreckage Records Covered in Alien ‘Hieroglyphics Found In Museum Archives
‘British Roswell’ UFO Wreckage Records Covered in Alien ‘Hieroglyphics Found In Museum Archives
After more than half a decade, ‘British Roswell’ UFO Records covered in Alien ‘Hieroglyphics have been rediscovered at a Science Museum in England.
Groundbreaking pieces of evidence of Britain’s Infamous Silpho Moor UFO Crash have been rediscovered inside London’s Science Museum
Last year, the British government decided to declassify the secret files on UFO sightings following a new law on freedom of information.
Among the documents that were published was the “Rendlesham Forest UFO incident”, which dealt with one of the best-known sightings in the country.
In addition to this, official documents also revealed that the British Ministry of Defense established a secret UFO research group in the 1950s, in which the Directorate of Scientific Intelligence and the Joint Technical Intelligence Committee participated.
Image of the “Silpho Saucer” taken by Dr. John Dale in 1958.
Image Credit: John Dale
This ‘hot’ declassified information showed how the British Government had great in the UFO phenomenon.
However, the most important testimony today is that of Nick Pope, who worked for more than 20 years for the Ministry of Defense as the head of official research on unidentified flying objects.
His job was to evaluate UFO reports in the country.
What he learned was that at least some UFOs were undoubtedly technological objects of unknown origin, potentially of great importance for the defense of Britain.
Today, when the UFO phenomenon is one of the most-discussed subjects in the world, great progress is being made towards disclosure, or at least that’s what leading Ufologists say.
Apparently, Aliens crash-landed in Britain as well.
Image Credit: Dr. David Clarke/Sheffield Hallam
Thanks to countless classified documents being released by various governments around the world, dealing with UFO’s and alleged alien visitations, progress towards uncovering the truth is being made nearly on a daily basis.
Now, the missing ‘wreckage’ of “Britain’s Roswell” has been found stored in a cigarette tin and kept away hidden in a storage room in a London museum. The recently ‘rediscovered’ remains are believed to be part of a UFO that crashed in England nearly 60 years ago.
The objects in question were originally discovered in Silpho Moor, near Scarborough, England, in 1957.
The disk-shaped object that had allegedly crash-landed in England was approximately 45cm in diameter and weighed 15kg, and inscribed with mysterious hieroglyphics similar to those found in the remains of the Roswell incident in 1947, the best-known UFO incident in history. It is considered the British answer to the American Roswell crash.
Apparently, the unidentified object that had crashed in England contained a book made of 17 thin sheets of copper, each covered with various undecipherable hieroglyphics.
A Local café owner by the name of Phillip Longbottom claimed the hieroglyphs translated into a 2000-word message sent by an alien civilization, and contained a warning that read: “You will improve or disappear.”
The alleged fragments said to belong to the wreckage of the Silpho UFO found in 1957.
Image Credit: Dr. David Clarke
Interestingly, tests carried out at Manchester University revealed the object’s shell contained lead and the copper parts were of unusually high purity. Despite this fact, experts from the Museum of Natural History in London quickly decided that the “UFO Silpho” was a well-crafted hoax, since there was no evidence that the metal was from another part of the solar system, and that the UFO remains did not show signs of having passed through the Earth’s atmosphere at high temperatures.
However, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, who led the RAF Fighter Command in the Battle of England during World War II, personally examined the mysterious object in 1959 and concluded that it was a flying saucer of extraterrestrial origin.
For decades, conspiracy theorists claimed that the UFO was intentionally destroyed to cover up the incident.
But now it is known that the items were sent to the Science Museum in 1963, where the evidence was “lost” in the archives of the museum.
Dr. David Clarke, a professor at the University of Sheffield Hallam, discovered the remains of the strange unidentified object after giving a lecture at the museum about the publication of the UFO files of the Ministry of Defense.
An alleged fragment of the UFO.
Image Credit: Dr. David Clarke
Speaking about the recent discovery, Dr. David Clarke who has a Ph.D. in British folklore and cultural tradition said:
“One of the museum staff tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was aware that ‘bits of a flying saucer’ had been kept in a cigarette tin in the museum group store for decades.
“I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage. It was obvious these were the remains of the missing Silpho Saucer that some have claimed as Britain’s answer to the famous Roswell incident.
“It’s incredible to hear that pieces of this mystery object have been sitting in a museum archive for more than half a century.”
As noted by the Yorkshire Post, the artifacts sent to the museum included a section of the metal-plastic outer casing, a short length of copper tubing, and several shards of foil from the “booklet” found inside.
Featured image credit: Shutterstock / Dr. David Clarke
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Have We Discovered Another Earth? 95 New Planets Outside Our Solar System Found By NASA
Have We Discovered Another Earth? 95 New Planets Outside Our Solar System Found By NASA
It’s a huge discovery which places the current number of alien planets confirmed close to 3,600. The discovery is important for astronomers to map the solar systems of the Milky Way.
Astronomers exploring the cosmos have confirmed the existence of 95 new alien planets after combing through 275 possible candidates provided by NASA’s Kepler Telescope.
The space probe, which is currently on its K2 mission has found thousands of candidates since it was launched nearly ten years ago, when it launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th, 2009. As noted by mission specialists. In total, Kepler has found around 5,000 unconfirmed ‘candidate’ exoplanets.
One of the most significant discoveries made by Kepler took place in 2004 when it spotted exoplanet Kepler-452b, dubbed ‘Earth 2.0’, an alien world eerily similar to our planet, located 1,400 light years away.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble/ESO/M. Kornmesser
The new discovery is of great importance as it is a huge step towards finding a new Earth, capable of hosting life as we know it.
The study was done by an international group of scientists led by Dr. Andrew Mayo from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark.
Dr. Mayo said in a statement that the investigation began with the analysis of 275 exoplanet candidates. These candidates are luminous signals whose origin can be related to other stars or errors of the telescope and that, therefore, must be analyzed in depth before being confirmed as exoplanets.
“We found that some of the signals were caused by systems of several stars and/or by the noise of the telescope. But we also detect planets of all sizes: from worlds smaller than Earth to larger than Jupiter,” Mayo said in a statement.
“By increasing the number of planets discovered with K2 by almost 50 percent, this work will help astronomers dive much deeper into analyzing and learning about individual planets, particularly smaller exoplanets,” Dr. Mayo said in an interview with Gizmodo.
One of the recently spotted worlds orbits a very bright alien star.
‘We validated a planet on a 10-day orbit around a star called HD 212657, }which is now the brightest star found by either the Kepler or K2 missions to host a validated planet. Planets around bright stars are important because astronomers can learn a lot about them from ground-based observatories,’ said Dr. Mayo.
‘Exoplanets are a very exciting field of space science. As more planets are discovered, astronomers will develop a much better picture of the nature of exoplanets which in turn will allow us to place our own solar system into a galactic context’.
The 1st known interstellar asteroid – ‘Oumuamua – is tumbling chaotically. A new study suggests its tumble resulted from a violent collision.
The strange interstellar visitor to our solar system – dubbed ‘Oumuamua by astronomers – is tumbling as it moves through space. A new study suggests its chaotic tumble is likely to continue at least another billion years, and it suggests ‘Oumuamua’s tumble is the result of a violent collision with another asteroid in the past. This collision might have knocked ‘Oumuamua out of its original solar system and sent it toward our solar system.
Astronomer Wes Fraser of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, led this new research. Fraser and his team analyzed all the available data from optical photometry; that is, they looked at the data on how ‘Oumuamua’s brightness varied over time. Then they used computer modeling to understand why ‘Oumuamua varied in brightness, and to spin out reasonable possibilities for its past and future. Their study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy on February 9, 2018. Fraser said:
Our modeling of this body suggests the tumbling will last for many billions of years to hundreds of billions of years before internal stresses cause it to rotate normally again.
While we don’t know the cause of the tumbling, we predict that it was most likely sent tumbling by an impact with another planetesimal in its system, before it was ejected into interstellar space.
‘Oumuamua’s tumbling isn’t new. The object was reported last fall to have a 7 or 8-hour spin period; different measurements showed slightly different results. The most likely explanation was that ‘Oumuamua’s spin isn’t regular, as is the spin of most (but not all) asteroids in our solar system. Instead, ‘Oumuamua tumbles.
Its complex tumbling motion means we see different views of the asteroid’s body at different times, and so the tumbling of ‘Oumuamua can explain the curious color change observed by astronomers. The cigar-shaped asteroid’s surface might be variously colored. Fraser said:
Most of the surface reflects neutrally, but one of its long faces has a large red region. This argues for broad compositional variations, which is unusual for such a small body.
It also settles the question of whether ‘Oumuamua is solid. Answer: it is. As Matija Cuk explained in an article for the SETI Institute, asteroids are often just piles of rocks and sand loosely held together by gravity. When this is the case, she wrote:
… internal motions of material inside asteroids … damp this tumbling relatively quickly (astronomically speaking), leaving only asteroids that suffered recent collisions as tumblers. ‘Oumuamua spent many millions of years in the interstellar void, so it should have damped its tumbling, but it apparently did not. This made planetary scientists conclude that ‘Oumuamua is likely a solid chunk of rock or metal, without any internal structure or loose material.
View larger. | This animation shows the path of ‘Oumuamua as it passed through our inner solar system in September and October 2017. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
And so – despite its quick trip through our solar system – we continue to learn more about ‘Oumuamua. In case you weren’t following it last fall, some astronomers thought the object was a comet when the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai’i first picked it up on October 19 as a faint point of light moving across the sky. Others thought it looked like a typical fast-moving small asteroid. As astronomers tracked its motion through space, they began to be able to calculate its orbit, showing beyond any doubt that this body did not originate from inside our solar system, like all other asteroids or comets ever observed.
Instead, this object was doubtless from interstellar space. It was the first such object known.
The question of whether it was a comet or asteroid was put to rest after astronomers looked at ‘Oumuamua’s location in the sky prior to its discovery and found no signs of cometary activity after the object passed closest to the sun in September 2017.
That’s when it was reclassified as an interstellar asteroid – the first ever observed – and named 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua). A statement from the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii described the intricacies of naming this object:
Originally denoted A/2017 U1 (with the A for asteroid), the body is now the first to receive an I (for interstellar) designation from the International Astronomical Union, which created the new category after the discovery. In addition, it has been officially given the name ‘Oumuamua. The name, which was chosen in consultation with Hawaiian language experts Ka’iu Kimura and Larry Kimura, reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (‘ou means “reach out for,” and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means “first, in advance of”).
Astronomers had been expecting to find interstellar asteroids. Before ‘Oumuamua’s discovery, they had estimated that an interstellar asteroid similar to this one passes through the inner solar system about once per year. Such objects are faint and hard to spot, and so they haven’t been seen before this.
But recent survey telescopes, such as Pan-STARRS, are powerful enough to discover them. Thus – although it’s the first – ‘Oumuamua is likely not the last known interstellar asteroid.
Bottom line: A study of ‘Oumuamua’s chaotic tumbling motion suggests it’ll tumble at least another billion years. It also suggests a violent past for this object – a collision with another object – which likely sent it careening toward our solar system.
DNA Ancient Skull Concludes Its Alien, Peru, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
DNA Ancient Skull Concludes Its Alien, Peru, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.
DNA test results on the elongated skulls discovered in Peru have been released by a researcher investigating if the bones could belong to an alien race. The 3,000-year old Paracas skulls, with elongated craniums, have long been held up by UFO hunters as evidence of ancient alien visitations due to their extraordinarily huge foreheads.
The Zimbabwe Incident occurred a generation ago. The many kids who met a matched pair of extraterrestrials, have since grown into adults. What are they saying today, about their close encounters as the Zimbabwe UFO school children?
A very remarkable UFO visitation took place in 1994, in front of more than sixty witnesses… between the ages of five and twelve. On a playground outside their school, the children all stopped playing at the same time, to watch a large flying saucer, hovering over distant scrubland. That sight, however, was only the beginning of their nightmares.
Strange UFO lights filmed over Colorado 13-Jan-2018
Strange UFO lights filmed over Colorado 13-Jan-2018
Check out this amazing footage of a bright lights hovering in the sky above Colorado. This happened on 13th January 2018.
Witness report:
Glowing red/orange objects stayed in the same place for 30 min. Colors went from dark orange to light orange from side to side and changed sequence. It started out with two. Then three. Then around6-7, Then would go back to smaller, Then start over again
8:00 pm, Tuesday, February 13th. We were driving home from the grocery store, on a road through the mountains. We noticed a series of orbs moving horizontally across the sky in front of us. Each orb would light up, and then would start to fade. As one would start to darken, the light next to it would light up, before they would all disappear. The first sighting of the same phenomenon, the lights appeared to be stacked in two horizontal rows, but went to only one row afterward. We pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road, as this happened again, and continued to watch. At one point, the orbs lit up and branched out to the left and right, before turning back and going toward the middle again. We turned the vehicle around and drove back toward the store, turned back and watched again. The video was taken, during the last series of light orbs. After that, the sky went black and nothing else was witnessed.
Antarctica Reveals Ancient Secrets As Researchers Explore 120,000-year-old Hidden Underwater World
Antarctica Reveals Ancient Secrets As Researchers Explore 120,000-year-old Hidden Underwater World
A mysterious ancient seabed that has remained in total isolation for more than 120,000 years is set to be explored by researchers.
A team of scientists is heading towards Antarctica in order to explore a region that has remained covered in ice for more than 120,000 years. This rare opportunity came after an iceberg known as A68—four times the size of London—broke from the Larsen Ice Shelf in 2017, exposing an alien world that has never before been explored by scientists.
This is a never-before-seen rare opportunity that will allow experts to study an alien ecosystem that is about 6,000 square kilometers in size.
When the massive block of ice moved, it revealed a region that had not seen the light of day for a long time, and now experts will delve into its mysteries and begin searching for any life that may have remained trapped there.
It’s a rare opportunity to explore a hidden, alien ecosystem.
Image Credit: BAS
Speaking about this rare opportunity, BAS marine biologist Katrin Linse said to the Independent: “We don’t know anything about it, it has been covered by an ice shelf that is several hundred meters thick.”
“It’s important we get there quickly before the undersea environment changes as sunlight enters the water and new species begin to colonize.”
During the exploration which is planned to last for three weeks, seabed animals, microbes, plankton, sediments and water samples will be collected, in addition to documenting the evidence of new marine mammals or birds that may have migrated to the exposed waters.
While their plane is spot on, researchers acknowledge that they really do not know what to expect when they get there.
“We need to be bold on this one,” says BAS science director David Vaughan.
Antarctica as seen from Space.
Image Credit: NASA.
“Larsen C is a long way south and there’s lots of sea ice in the area, but this is important science, so we will try our best to get the team where they need to be.”
This trip represents a unique and unprecedented opportunity for scientists to look into an isolated region on Earth that has never before been explored.
“We’re going into an area where we don’t know what we’re going to find, and this is an exciting thing,” Linse told BBC News Radio.
“I expect to find animals similar to animals we find in the extreme deep sea, so animals that are not used to feeding on green food, because there was no phytoplankton in the water above… We don’t know until we’ve seen it.”
All of the researchers taking part in the new survey are aware of the importance of their mission since observational windows like this one sometimes take more than 100,000 years to open.
“I cannot imagine a more dramatic shift in environmental conditions in any ecosystem on Earth,” said in an interview with Nature, marine ecologist Julian Gutt from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany – one of the participating institutions on this voyage.
As noted by the Independent, besides studying any life that may be inhabiting the region, climate scientists will try and establish whether or not the breaking apart of the Larsen Ice Shelf was induced by climate change.
Scientists Say Aliens Could Try And Hack Us By Sending Malicious Messages To Earth
Scientists Say Aliens Could Try And Hack Us By Sending Malicious Messages To Earth
A recently published study looks into the potential threats of receiving an alien message from the stars. Scientists say how the contents of a potential alien message could be malicious in nature, resulting in many problems for our civilization.
The research suggests how humanity could protect itself against spam or malicious viruses from a hypothetical extraterrestrial message.
As explained by Michael Hippke from the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany, and John G. Learned from the High Energy Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii; “A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk-averse case.”
The recently published study has warned that if humans ever receive a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, apart from the fact that this would be the largest event in the history of mankind, we would be at great risk.
Hippke and Learned note in their study how there are “several possible threats from an ETI message. On the most basic level, a message might represent a statement like “We will make your sun go supernova tomorrow”. True or not, it could cause widespread panic.”
“More realistically, a longer text could have a demoralizing cultural influence. For example, it is debated whether the Roman Empire was destroyed by the bible. We now follow along with the (perhaps more likely) case that the hypothetical message is not very short, and non-trivial in content.”
In their paper, multiple possibilities of a hypothetical contact with an extraterrestrial civilization are analyzed in detail.
The research considers how humanity could protect against spam or malicious viruses that could contain a message from the stars, for example.
Speaking in an interview with Universe Today, Professor Learned said:
“There is no compelling reason at all to assume benevolence (for example that ETI is wise and kind due to their ancient civilization’s experience). I find much more compelling the analogy to what we know from our history… Is there any society anywhere which has had a good experience after meeting up with a technologically advanced invader? Of course, it would go either way, but I think often of the movie Alien… a credible notion it seems to me.”
Scientists suggest that any potential alien messages spotted by SETI are examined and “decontaminated” previously, to avoid potential damage, since, as researchers point out, to eradicate an entire civilization it would be much easier for aliens to send us a malicious message (virus) than an alien armada.
The study takes a look at the different dangers that an extraterrestrial message could contain. As noted by Universe Today, beyond the likelihood that a message could convey misinformation designed to cause a panic or self-destructive behavior, there is also the possibility that it could contain viruses or other embedded technical issues (i.e. the format could cause our computers to crash).
Hippke and Learned assure that neutralizing a possible computer threat that could arrive in the form of a message coming from an extraterrestrial civilization with more advanced technology would be very difficult, so they recommend being cautious and applying security measures to try to avoid greater risks.
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AI Expert Claims Artificial Intelligence Will Become ‘Billions Of Times’ Smarter Than Humans
AI Expert Claims Artificial Intelligence Will Become ‘Billions Of Times’ Smarter Than Humans
According to an expert in Artificial Intelligence, machines will become billions of times smarter than humans, and mankind needs to fuse with machines in order to survive.
Artificial intelligence could evolve to become “billions of times smarter” than humans according to Ian Pearson, a futurist at Futurizon who says people will need to merge with machines to survive.
The fact is that AI can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this point,” said Pearson during a panel hosted by CNBC at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
“So we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up.”
Will AI destroy the human race?
Image Credit: Shutterstock
Pearson continued, “The way to protect against that is to link that AI to your brain so you have the same IQ… as the computer. I don’t actually think it’s safe, just like Elon Musk… to develop these superhuman computers until we have a direct link to the human brain… and then don’t get way ahead.”
Pearson’s comments echo the ex-engineer of Uber and Google, Anthony Levandowski, who formed the first church that worships an artificially intelligent being.
The futuristic religion, known as the “Way of the Future,” states that our species can improve itself by following the instructions of a robot that is “a billion times smarter than humans.”
WOTF will eventually have a gospel called ‘The Manual’, as well as rituals and even a physical place of worship.
Levandowski named himself “WOTF” dean, giving him total control until his death or resignation.
Interestingly, Pearson’s comments echo those made by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk who spoke about Artificial Intelligence saying: “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.”
Musk continued, “It’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.” Musk has since founded a startup company called Neuralink which aims to explore linking human brains to computers.
Numerous experts have spoken out about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, as well as its benefits.
Should we be worried about AI?
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Professor Stephen Hawking, for example, says how we should be very careful when dealing and developing AI. The world-renowned scientist has said that Artificial Intelligence could become the worst event in the history of our civilization, urging experts to “employ best practice and effective management.”
In 2017, during a talk at the Web Summit technology conference, Hawking said that AI can in theory not only emulate human intelligence but greatly exceed it. Hawking also said that there is a danger that Artificial Intelligence could become so advanced that it may develop a will of its own.
Despite the fact that many people welcome AI into society, experts in the subject remain worried.
Elon Musk seems to agree with Hawking when it comes to AI. Mr. Musk warns we must tread carefully when it comes to AI, and called for companies developing AI systems to slow down in order to ensure they don’t unintentionally create something extremely dangerous for humans.
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15-02-2018
Out of this world: 17 UFO sightings on Staten Island since 2015
Out of this world:17 UFO sightings on Staten Island since 2015
Staten Islanders said they saw unidentified flying objects in various shapes, such as cigars, triangles, ovals, diamonds and eggs. Others reported seeing flashes of white or blue lights.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - It's a bird! It's a plane! Or is it a UFO?
Staten Islanders reported seeing 17 unidentified flying objects since 2015, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, which has been logging the sightings annually since 1930.
The center is a privately-run organization with no ties to the U.S. government. It categorizes the sightings by year and month, asks for the date, time, city and state of the sighting; shape, duration of the sighting and asks for a summary of your experience.
Two Islanders reported a mysterious object in the sky to be shaped like a cigar, three people saw triangles and four said they were large flashes of blue or white bright light.
Others said they saw circle, egg, diamond and oval figures in the night sky.
One Staten Islander said the sighting was unlike anything he'd ever seen before.
Giant Metallic Craft with Cone Shaped Lights / UFOs Over Staten Island NY
"Two spherical objects in the distance, probably silver in color flying in very strange patterns. There is no commercial flying object that can fly those sort of patterns, of this I am certain," the March, 23, 2015 post said.
The poster reported seeing the sphere for 5 to 10 seconds.
A month later, a triangular object was seen in the sky over West Brighton.
"The tall triangular brilliant white object with the red top beacon, outshined the visible stars in the sky, as well as looking much larger than them (same size as listed before)," the UFO spotter stated. "It remained in the same spot, as far as I could tell, for the duration of five minutes that I watched it. I went back inside and checked it from the window; no movement."
Most of the sightings reported lasted mere seconds, but a light sighting on Feb. 5, 2016 lasted for 10 minutes, according to the website.
The posted said the two to three lights were following each other in the sky, moving from east to west.
Initially, two lights were spotted just after dusk when the poster said they were leaving the gym with a friend. When they got home, the lights were still visible -- except now there were three.
"They flew in a wide circle in the sky. It appeared as if they were following each other and didn't stop. When I went in my house and come out about 10 minutes later there were three, two side-by-side and one that was following," the post said.
November 7, 2016 was the only UFO sighting during daylight. The poster said it was a "bright and clear sunny day with full visibility."
The most unusual of the 17 sightings occurred on Jan. 3, 2017.
"I came outside and noticed a black, silent UFO was hovering right above me at about 20 to 30 feet off the ground. I then heard a machine sound, and it turned on a bright, white light and shot upward. I initially looked away because of the of the intensity of the light and when I looked up again, it appeared that it was hovering totally still at about 15,000 feet," the report said.
"The shape appeared to be hexagonal or octagonal and the outline of it was all lit up with yellow light. Next to it was a blurry streak of white light, as if it had skidded to a stop or had blurred light somehow," it said.
UFO Sighting in Staten Island, New York (US). Date: May 8, 2015. Location:Staten Island, New York (US .
But the most unusual part was yet to come.
They went on to say: "I looked away for a couple of seconds and thought to myself 'I bet when I look back, it will be gone.' It was. My next thought was whatever it was, I bet it will be back. I was right, because at approximately 4:30 I began what seemed like lucid dreaming... I had a thought like 'had I been taken or given some kind of drug that's causing this?'"
The website reported sightings on the following dates:
Jan. 5 and Jan. 28, 2015
March 22, 2015
April 1 and April 18, 2015
July 2015
Aug. 18 and Aug. 29 2015
Sept. 7 and Sept. 12, 2015
Nov. 26, 2015
Feb. 5 and Feb. 13, 2016
Nov. 7, 2016
Jan. 3, 2017
Aug. 18, 2017
Oct. 17, 2017
You can contact the organization to report a sighting by calling 206-722-3000.
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UFO hunters struggle to explain mystery ‘alien object’ spotted on Google Maps near Area 51
UFO hunters struggle to explain mystery ‘alien object’ spotted on Google Maps near Area 51
Jasper Hamill
This is the strange ‘UFO’ seen near a military base
Yesterday, we revealed the location of a strange object resembling an alien craft that was spotted on Google Maps.
But we’re still no closer to knowing explaining the mysterious sighting of a structure which looks like it could be an alien ship – or just a boring old cesspit.
The object was first noticed by the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, which claimed it was in Area 51 – a top-secret military research base which has long been at the centre of wild alien conspiracy theories.
We discovered the coordinates of the ‘anomaly’ – which is actually 500 miles away from Area 51 – and have now been contacted by several readers keen to offer their own explanation about the object
‘While I do not have a definitive explanation, I would like to point out that the exact same shape of the ‘ship’ is mirrored and imprinted into the ground across from it,’ one man wrote.
The object was spotted about 500 miles from Area 51 (Photo: Google Maps)
‘That, plus the boat, leads me to believe this is a man-made body of water which caused a visual glitch.’
Another shared a picture of an object he claimed was a Mayan relic, showing an object in the sky which looks remarkably like the Google Maps sighting.
However, we have been unable to verify the authenticity of this image so have not published it.
Another reader pointed out what appears to be tanks nearby, which you can see in the images below.
He wrote: ‘There are a lot of what appear to be tanks covering every road to the south leading up to it. Some even look like they have embankments built around them. Weird!’
Are the objects in this Google Maps screenshot taken nearby actually tanks?
A close-up of one of the ‘tanks’
The ‘UFO’ was actually spotted near Naval Weapons Center China Lake, which is about 500 miles away from Area 51.
Some observers have suggested it’s a water reservoir or even a cesspit.
There is a boat nearby, which indicates that it could be used for sailing or perhaps testing boats.
However, this rather prosaic explanation was not enough for some Twitterers.
There are boats and other vehicles located near the ‘anomaly’
‘That, my friends, is one of the ships that’ll be used in a fake alien invasion,’ one nervous chap tremored.
‘Will be used to scare the masses. Remember this pic.’
Others questioned why you would test boats in a desert – and also whether the site was a military testing zone.
One person said: ‘It’s for boats. There is a boat nearby. That is a large pool of water with a launch ramp. Why is the question? WHY?’
It was later suggested that the object could be the result of some sort of glitch in Google Maps.
After the publication of this article, a reader wrote in and said: ‘While I do not have a definitive explanation I would like to point out that the exact same shape of the ‘ship’ is mirrored and imprinted into the ground across from it. That, plus the boat, leads me to believe this is a man-made body of water which caused a visual glitch.’
Can you explain the weird sighting? Do you know what the object is? Get in touch with jasper.hamill@metro.co.uk.
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Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System
Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System
Australian contactee George Kavassilas is interviewed about his lifelong experiences with different extraterrestrial civilizations and shadow government operatives. In this first installment of a two part Exonews TV interview conducted in Australia’s Gold Coast, George explains how his contacts began, how these evolved over the years involving several different groups, and the torture he received at the hands of shadow government authorities attempting to suppress his experiences and silence him. Finally, he describes a global control system comprising the planet Saturn, the Moon and extraterrestrials that has resulted in a Matrix-like illusory reality that manipulates humanity. He asserts that discovery of the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control system is the first step to human freedom.
Part 1 — Discovering the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System (S06E01)
In part two of this Exonews TV interview conducted in Australia’s Gold Coast, George Kavassilas explains the key components of a Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control matrix used to limit human potential and growth. In particular, he identifies the roles of the chakra system and the pineal gland in creating false synthetic light experiences that entrap many individuals. He asserts the creation of synthetic light experiences is the favored manipulation technique used by unscrupulous extraterrestrials and higher dimensionals. He outlines his Heart -Centric/Core-Self method of how to overcome the global control system that creates a Matrix-like illusory reality that continues to manipulate most of humanity. He insists that overcoming the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial control system is the necessary step we all have to take in attaining human freedom and achieving our highest potential as universal beings having a physical experience.
Part 2 — Overcoming the Saturn Moon Extraterrestrial Control System (S06E02)
BEWARE! Aliens could destroy life from Earth without even visiting it!
BEWARE! Aliens could destroy life from Earth without even visiting it!
According to the researchers, the aliens will not be sending any flying saucers to destroy the life. They will be simple sending messages through Artificial Intelligence to wipe out the human life.
Can aliens destroy Earth with AI messages? Studies warn!
(Source: NASA)
New Delhi:
A joint study by two researchers at the University of Hawaii and Sonneberg Observatory in Germany has revealed that aliens are able to wipe out the life from Earth with just AI messages, and do not even need to visit us.
According to the researchers, the aliens will not be sending any flying saucers to destroy the life. They will be simple sending messages through Artificial Intelligence to wipe out the human life.
If humans get message or mail which cannot be decoded, from the aliens, they should delete the communication without reading it as the mail may result in the destruction of the planet. Responding or replying to the messages could prove costly as it might alert the extra-terrestrial beings, said the researchers.
The Academic paper, which is titled “Interstellar Communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible’, discusses a possible alien invasion. The research was carried out by Michael Hippke of Sonneberg Observatory, and John G. Learned from the University of Hawaii.
According to the scientists, the messages will be impossible to decode, and thus, there is no reason to open any such mail or message. They also warn that these emails or messages might contain malware or virus which could be so strong that it can destroy the technologies which exist on the planet.
The researchers wrote in their academic paper, “A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk-averse case.”
With the paper going viral, several theorists claim that Artificial Intelligence can be a possible way in which the aliens can cause the end of our planet.
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WOLKEN DIE GEEN WOLKEN ZIJN EN VREEMDE PAARSE LUCHTEN ( VIDEO
WOLKEN DIE GEEN WOLKEN ZIJN EN VREEMDE PAARSE LUCHTEN ( VIDEO )
Wanneer je in een ruimteschip van bijvoorbeeld een verre beschaving naar de aarde komt en je wilt dat min of meer anoniem doen, hoe verberg je je dan het best voor nieuwsgierige blikken?
Je vermomt je als wolk en ook al ziet die wolk er dan soms een beetje vreemd uit, de meeste mensen merken dat toch niet op want ze kijken naar de grond of zien wat ze willen of verwachten te zien.
Al jaren schrijven wij over (grote) ruimteschepen die zich vermommen als wolken zodat ze niet opvallen voor het doorsnee publiek. Het Engelse woord voor dit soort vermomming is cloaking/cloaken en dat is wat deze grote schepen heel regelmatig doen.
Soms gaat er even iets mis en worden ze tijdelijk zichtbaar, zoals we onlangs aantoonden in een artikel. Dit heeft alles met lichtval te maken en dus het tijdstip. Het schijnt dat rond zonsopkomst en -ondergang dat cloaken het moeilijkst is en dat zijn ook de momenten dat deze schepen nogal eens zichtbaar zijn.
Nu is er wederom een vreemde opname opgedoken die is gemaakt door een dame genaamd Wendy Wagner, boven New Mexico in Amerika.
De foto ziet er als volgt uit en hoewel men ook dit formeel een wolk noemt, lijkt welhaast overduidelijk dat we hier niet te maken hebben met een natuurlijk gevormde wolk, maar met een moederschip dat even tijdelijk de cloak niet goed hanteert.
Wanneer je wat verder inzoomt, zie je heel duidelijk dat het hier om een constructie gaat in plaats van een door de natuur gevormd iets.
Het is een hele goede manier om dit soort schepen te verbergen, want in 99 procent van de gevallen worden ze niet opgemerkt, omdat men de vage omtrek van een wolk ziet en deze nooit in verband zal brengen met een ruimteschip.
Op onderstaande foto zie je een voorbeeld hoe soms wolken totaal niet thuis horen in het landschap. De volgende is genomen in Turkije en laat een kleinere UFO zien naast een wolk die overduidelijk niet thuis hoort in het landschap.
In de volgende video de bewegende beelden van diezelfde wolk met UFO:
Een ander vreemd verschijnsel doet zich de laatste tijd voor op de Filipijnen waar mensen soms een paarse lucht zien. Waar het vandaan komt weet niemand, maar duidelijk is wel dat de lichtbron niet van de grond afkomstig is.
De lucht ziet er dan uit zoals te zien op de volgende afbeeldingen.
De volgende opname is gemaakt op 11 februari en wanneer je naar de bewegende beelden kijkt, zie je dat de lichten plotsklaps verdwijnen, alsof iemand een schakelaar heeft omgedraaid.
Dit is niet de eerste keer dat deze vreemde lichten te zien waren, want ook op 26 januari dit jaar was er iets vergelijkbaars te zien.
Origins of Earth's Weird 'Pulsating Auroras' Nailed Down
Origins of Earth's Weird 'Pulsating Auroras' Nailed Down
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Japan's Arase spacecraft (formerly called ERG) observed chorus waves and scattered electrons in Earth's magnetosphere, the origin of pulsation auroras. The scattered electrons precipitated into the atmosphere, resulting in auroral illumination.
Credit: ERG Science Team
The origins of intense flickering displays of light high up in Earth's atmosphereare now revealed after a decades-long hunt, a new study finds.
Similar auroras may take place high above Jupiter and Saturn, according to the scientists behind the new research.
The dramatic light shows known as the northern and southern lights, also called auroras, are as varied in nature as the colors they display in the sky. The most familiar kind, known as discrete auroras, are renowned for shimmering ribbons and streamers of color. In contrast, pulsating auroras are giant blinking patches of light. [Aurora Guide: How the Northern Lights Work (Infographic)]
Auroras result when streams of high-speed particles from the sun — collectively known asthe solar wind— slam into Earth's magnetosphere, the shell of electrically charged particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field. Whereas discrete auroras originate a few thousand miles above Earth's surface, pulsating auroras arise about 10 times farther away.
Previous research suggested that pulsating auroras were triggered by electromagnetic fluctuations known as chorus waves that arise in the magnetosphere at the equator. The idea was that chorus waves send electrons in the magnetosphere hurtling along the planet's magnetic-field lines toward the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere, generating light when they collide with molecules of air.
However, for decades, scientists could not gather sensitive-enough ground-based and space-based observations to line up at the right time and place to prove this model. Now, researchers have finally collected direct evidence of the chain of events behind pulsating auroras.
The scientists analyzed data from the Arase spacecraft, which was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in late 2016. This satellite could both detect chorus waves and investigate their effects on magnetospheric electrons within a narrow window around a magnetic-field line.
The researchers also pinpointed where the magnetic-field line the Arase spacecraft examined made contact with Earth. They searched for any pulsating auroras matching electron activity triggered by chorus waves.
The scientists identified an aurora in 2017 in central Canada that was apparently generated by magnetospheric electrons scattered by chorus waves.
"Observational results are usually very complex, and tests of theoretical predictions often result in ambiguous results, which was not the case here," said study lead author Satoshi Kasahara, a space and planetary physicist at the University of Tokyo.
The researchers noted that similar activity may occur in the auroras of Jupiter and Saturn, where prior work detected chorus waves. "Application for other planets would be exciting," Kasahara told Space.com.
The researchers detailed their findings online today (Feb. 14) in the journal Nature.
Was there a highly advanced civilization prior to all other known civilizations?
Was there a highly advanced civilization prior to all other known civilizations?
I believe this is the biggest conspiracy of all, and one in which, you must dive deep down the rabbit hole to truly understand all other conspiracies, especially modern era ones.
I think in order for you to be able to see the full picture and fully grasp the complexity of TPTB, you need to go all the way back and research history (real history - not the propaganda they teach in schools), mythology, lost civilizations, symbolism, occult, mystery schools, etc etc, and then move forward. Once you have done this, the bigger picture will come into focus, imo.
i hate that word "mythology" ...mainstream loves it...they use it to reference shit they dont understand and shit that isnt in the governments version of history...
ancient peoples did not waste their time carving fairy tales in stone...they carved their versions of history...more people need to wrap their head around that fact and dig a little deeper then the bible..
'Time Traveler Who Visited The Year 8973' Shares Vision Of Future
Being able to travel in time is something that has often been discussed, and it has been the focus of many movies. So far it has been seen as nothing more than a theory but would anyone believe a person if they said that they had traveled to a different time and come back?
Time Travel proof: 'British intelligence worker' reveals truth behind Mandela effect
Time travel is something that has fascinated many people for decades, and now a man from England by the name of William Taylor has come forward to say that he has been to the future on many different occasions and come back to tell the tale.
"Time travel was first successfully accomplished in 1981," Taylor claims. "There is an infinite number of alternate universes, it's possible every one of these universes exist and it's possible to move between these universes. We developed a machine to not only time travel, but move between these parallel universes."
Here is what Taylor - the time traveler - has to say to the world:
Taylor has realized that not everyone believes his story about being able to travel into the future and this does not seem to bother him. What bothers him more is fear of reprisal for telling his story. This is because he claims to have worked for the government in Britain along with the British Intelligence agency.
Taylor said that there are many advanced technologies being kept secret. He went on to say that in time they will be released to the public but for the time being, they are highly classified. He claimed that “they” would be coming after him for releasing the video and telling the truth and that he was putting himself at risk for speaking up. According to Taylor time travel was first accomplished in 1981, and there is an infinite number of alternate universes out there. He went on to say that it is possible that the universes exist and they can be moved between. Taylor claims that a machine was developed for time traveling and to allow people to move between the parallel universes.
In The Year 3000 Humans Live Underwater
Taylor spoke out above visiting the year 3000 and said that not a great deal had changed, other than humans lived under the water and he talked in detail about the things that he had seen during his time in the future. Taylor described looking up and seeing flying transportation in the sky above but only being able to see lights through what he claimed was thick smog. He went on to talk about going to 8973 and said that this was when the British government thought that machines and men would fuse together as one.
The video goes on and the longer that Taylor speaks about his time in the future and time travel the stranger it seems to get. He starts by talking about going into the future and time traveling and then goes on to talk about parallel universes and to travel to them. He then goes on to talk about invisibility and more. Whether you believe what Taylor has to say or you are skeptical about it, the video is rather entertaining to watch, and it may have some people wondering.
Researchers found surprisingly large quantities of mercury in the permafrost of the northern hemisphere. As temperatures rise and ice continues to melt, the mercury can be released, with significant consequences for both wildlife and mankind.
Maps of mercury concentrations (micrograms of mercury per square meter) in Northern hemisphere permafrost zones for four soil layers: 0-30 centimeters, 0-100 centimeters, 0-300 centimeters, and permafrost. The permafrost map represents the mercury bound to frozen organic matter below the Active Layer Depth (ALD) and above 300 cm depth.
Credit: Schuster et al./GRL/AGU.
The tentacles of climate change are long and far-reaching. As temperatures rise, it brings along a number of unforeseen changes. Rising temperatures are threatening the oceans, causing more hurricanes, and even causing a coffee crisis. Now, we can add mercury to that long list of problems.
A new study reports that permafrost soils contain more mercury than the rest of the planet’s soils, atmosphere, and oceans combined.
In the new study, geologists assessed the concentrations in permafrost cores from Alaska. They found that permafrost soils contain two times more mercury than soils elsewhere in the world — an unexpected discovery with important consequences.
“This discovery is a game-changer,” said Paul Schuster, a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Boulder, Colorado and lead author of the new study. “We’ve quantified a pool of mercury that had not been done previously, and the results have profound implications for better understanding the global mercury cycle.”
This wouldn’t normally be a very high concern, but the problem is that temperatures are now rising.
Permafrost in Alaska is thawing, and a new study finds northern permafrost soils are the largest reservoir of mercury on the planet, storing nearly twice as much mercury as all other soils, the ocean, and the atmosphere combined. Credit: John A. Kelley, USDA Natural Resources Conservation, CC BY 2.0.
Mercury tends to bind with organic material in the soil and gets stuck with that soil. As it gets buried by sediment, it becomes frozen into permafrost, where it can remain for thousands of years. But if temperatures rise, all that can change. When temperatures rise and the permafrost melts, mercury isn’t fixed in place anymore. Instead of being frozen in the permafrost, it can also be transported by waters or microorganisms, or it can slowly seep on its own.
“There would be no environmental problem if everything remained frozen, but we know the Earth is getting warmer,” Schuster said. “Although measurement of the rate of permafrost thaw was not part of this study, the thawing permafrost provides a potential for mercury to be released—that’s just physics.”
Locally, the effects could be dramatic. From microorganisms, things can slowly move up the food chain, and like most toxins, they tend to gather higher up the food chain — and potentially end up on our plates.
The release of mercury could also have far-reaching global consequences. If released into the atmosphere, it could travel quickly at the mercy of air currents, possibly ending up as far as thousands of kilometers away.
But we don’t really know how much and how far the mercury can travel. Scientists are also unsure how much of the stored mercury would affect ecosystems if the permafrost were to thaw.
Schuster hopes to analyze that those issues in further studies, understanding how the mercury can affect humans and natural environments.
“24 percent of all the soil above the equator is permafrost, and it has this huge pool of locked-up mercury,” he said. “What happens if the permafrost thaws? How far will the mercury travel up the food chain? These are big-picture questions that we need to answer.”
Journal Reference: Paul F. Schuster et al. Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075571.
Last year, one of the largest icebergs in history broke off broke off from the Larsen C ice. The massive 2,200-square-mile iceberg called A-68 has exposed an ecosystem that has been hidden beneath the ice for thousands of years. Now, a diverse team made up of scientists from nine research institutes around the world is urgently traveling to the area where the iceberg calved to probe the seabed before it’s too late.
A daring expedition and lifeforms removed from time
The researchers are supposed to leave from the Falkland Islands to the calving site on 21 February, where they will spend three weeks until March 2018 on board the research ship RRS James Clark Ross.
The A-68 iceberg is one of the largest ever observed on Earth. It’s about as big as the state of Delaware and holds four times more ice than what gets melted from Greenland’s ice sheet in a year. Scientists had been preparing for A-68’s split from Larsen C for months before the calving, ever since they witnessed a crack in the ice shelf extending over 100 miles in length.
Ice shelves encircle the Antarctic continent, extending thick floating ice from the land glaciers. Due to warming temperatures, Antarctica’s ice shelves are starting to thin or collapse. An iceberg such as A-68 won’t raise sea levels because the detached ice was already afloat in the ocean. That’s very good news since A-68 holds enough mass to raise global sea levels by 3 millimeters had the ice been added anew to the ocean. However, events such as these can destabilize the ice shelf.
If an Antarctic ice shelf such as Larsen C collapses, it can free the ice it’s currently holding back on the Antarctic Peninsula. It’s this terrestrial ice flowing out that can raise sea levels, and by no negligible amount. On the upside, icebergs such as A-68 can make room for human explorers who can now witness what ecosystems which have been isolated for thousands of years look like. Perhaps, they will find totally new, strange life forms that have adapted to total darkness, completely isolated from other ecosystems.
The team of daring researchers led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will collect seafloor animals, microbes, plankton, and water samples from the now-exposed seafloor. They will record video footage and document whatever marine mammals and birds might have moved in the area.
The expedition is somewhat fortunate — it’s the first to benefit from an international agreement signed in 2016 by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). Under this agreement, exposed marine areas following the collapse or retreat of ice shelves in Antarctica, such as the one targeted by BAS, are designated Special Areas for Scientific Study.
“The calving of A-68 offers a new and unprecedented opportunity to establish an interdisciplinary scientific research programme in this climate-sensitive region. Now is the time to address fundamental questions about the sustainability of polar continental shelves under climate change,” said Professor David Vaughan, Science Director at BAS.
Vaughan and colleagues are in a hurry to get to the calving site and get to work as quickly as possible. They’re concerned that sunlight will alter the ecosystem too much, at least at the surface layer.
Large icebergs have broken off Antarctic ice shelves before, such as those that separated from the Larsen A and B ice shelves in 1995 and 2002, respectively. However, it took five to 12 years for expeditions to make it to those areas. When they got there, they reported sparse signs of life.
This time around, researchers hope to be there quick enough to possibly surprise some of the supposed alien-like life lurking in the depths.
“We need to be bold on this one. Larsen C is a long way south and there’s lots of sea ice in the area, but this is important science, so we will try our best to get the team where they need to be,” Vaughan said.
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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..
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