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 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.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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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...
01-09-2019
The EIGHT ways the world could END! How asteroids, supervolcanoes, killer robots and even ALIENS could trigger the apocalypse
The EIGHT ways the world could END! How asteroids, supervolcanoes, killer robots and even ALIENS could trigger the apocalypse
Bryan Walsh, 41, is a former foreign correspondent and author from Brooklyn
Spent two years researching End Times: A Brief Guide To The End Of The World
He has assessed the severity of each disaster, and the likelihood of it happening
He said: 'I don't want people to feel we're doomed with the world set to end now'
A science journalist has identified eight ways the world could end, with lethal biotechnology, Terminator-style robots and nuclear war being the biggest threats to life on Earth.
Bryan Walsh, 41, a former foreign correspondent and author from Brooklyn, also addressed climate change, supervolcanoes, asteroids, disease and even aliens in his new book.
End Times: A Brief Guide To The End Of The World came after Mr Walsh spent two years looking into the horrific ways the world could face Armageddon.
He has assessed both the severity of each disaster, as well as the likelihood of it actually happening.
Mr Walsh says: 'I don't want people to feel we're doomed and the world's going to end tomorrow and stuff.
'I want them to see that in each one of these risks, there are things being done, or that we could be doing.
'We need to make sure these catastrophes don't happen because you can't just hide in a hole for years to avoid this.'
1. Biotechnology
Likelihood: High
Severity: 10/10
The most credible and worrying threat to planet Earth is biotechnology, according to Mr Walsh.
He fears extremist scientists experimenting with diseases may produce a supervirus that could resist vaccines and antivirals, with the intention of culling a large quantity of the human race.
The use of genetic engineering in diseases, he notes, can change humans' lives for the better, but the catastrophe that could occur if done incorrectly, or in the wrong hands, could end the world.
The most credible and worrying threat to planet Earth is biotechnology (file photo), according to Mr Walsh
He makes the eerie point that in recent years ISIS and earlier al-Qaeda have sought to weaponize smallpox, a disease contained since 1977.
The deadliness of a disease such as this, or the more recent threat of ebola, combined with the infection rate of a cold, could cause mayhem, creating the 'perfect bioweapon'.
Mr Walsh says: 'This is the one I think is the most concerning. It's the ability to use new technology such as gene editing to engineer viruses that would be worse than, more contagious than, and more deadly than anything in nature.'
In one example he uses, John Hopkins Center for Health Security in Washington DC found 150million people would be wiped out by a biotech disease - 2 per cent of the world's population.
The knock-on effect of this also proves costly in the experiment, as economies collapse and unemployment skyrockets.
The terror caused by the realisation among the public that the killer disease was not a freak act of nature, as it usually is, but caused by the 'malice' of radicals or 'one alienated scientist' would only add to the pandemonium.
And if it was manufactured, the strain could be reintroduced to the public repeatedly, leaving doctors and scientists fighting a losing battle to treat those affected.
'It's worrying because just a normal disease can kill a lot of people,' Mr Walsh says, 'but if you create something in the lab on purpose or accidentally, that would be even more powerful than anything in nature, then that's truly dangerous.'
Criminals may not be that far away from accessing the deadly bio-weapons too.
Mr Walsh warns that unlike in the past, it takes just a small number of twisted virologists to make the terrorists' dream come true.
And, as he adds, there are around 1million scientists with the ability to undertake such a task.
But there is hope.
Mr Walsh also buries into the linked world of gene sequencing, where researchers now have the means to quickly diagnose diseases, to stop them spreading undetected.
He says it could be an option to rival the slower process of vaccinations.
This, Mr Walsh says, could be the way to counter a supervirus outbreak - with an equally potent engineered antidote that can quell the bug in those affected before it kills millions.
2. Artificial intelligence
Likelihood: Medium
Severity: 7/10
Another product of human's huge advances in technology is the fear that the Terminator film could now be realised.
Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has blown up over the past decade, as creators look to satisfy a growing demand for robots to make home life easier.
But could it threaten the world in the same way Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg assassin did in 1985?
Another product of human's huge advances in technology is the fear that the Terminator film (pictured) could now be realised
Mr Walsh thinks so: 'If we can actually develop AI that is genuinely intelligent, that can think like a human being, that's really worrying.'
He warns: 'It could mean it could take us over, literally.'
In a shocking demonstration of the transfer of power, he adds: 'We'll be junked.'
The threat stems from the fact that computers are now 'learning to learn', taking away the control humans have.
Luckily, Mr Walsh says, the machines are currently capped by humans in what they are allowed to learn.
But their ability to store huge amounts of data and process it far faster than the human brain means they could become far superior intellects - 'superintelligent', as Mr Walsh puts it.
And our widespread presence on this planet, could, according to the author, get in the way of the robots' plans and lead to our extinction, in the same way humans have with lesser intelligent animals such as the dodo and western black rhino.
Yet, as with bioengineering, there is a flip side - as the creation of superintelligence could lead to super opportunities.
The potential to live forever through 'consciousness in a virtual heaven' could make AI our ally and saviour, rather than slayer.
At this stage, however, Mr Walsh says: 'It's really hard to tell [which way it will go] because it depends what you're going to do with AI.
'We're essentially top of the food chain on this planet because we're the smartest species created.'
Yet he adds: 'But if we create a smarter species than us, that would be potentially worrying.'
3. Nuclear war
Likelihood: High
Severity: 9/10
Nuclear war is possibly the most talked about and anticipated way the world will end.
The huge stockpile of arms that came after the Second World War as well as increased tension between superpowers such as the US, Russia and China in recent years has the potential to cause disaster.
The biggest and most powerful thermo nuclear bomb ever detonated was the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, known as the 'Tsar Bomba'.
The nuke was tested by the Soviet Union on October 30, 1961, making it more than 50 years old.
Nuclear war is possibly the most talked about and anticipated way the world will end (file photo)
But the devastating bomb had the explosive power of 3,800 Hiroshima bombs and sent up a mushroom cloud 130,000ft, or four and a half Mount Everests.
It is estimated up to 166,000 deaths came as a result of the attack on Hiroshima, meaning a 'Tsar Bomba' has the potential to obliterate 630,800,000.
This is around two of the United States.
Mr Walsh dubs the nuclear threat 'the final curtain on mankind'.
'[Nuclear war] is still a major concern and has actually gotten worse in recent years as you have seen with the US under Trump, Russia under Vladimir Putin, they're both kind of withdrawn from global treaties around arms control,' Mr Walsh says.
Referring to the huge Nyonoksa blast in Russia on August 8, he adds: 'You know we saw just a few weeks ago the accident around one of its nuclear weapons programmes in Russia.
'That's pretty worrying, and you see a lot of aggression there as well as in China.'
In his book, Mr Walsh delves into the history of the nuclear bomb and traces it from its inception during the Second World War through the Cold War to his own experiences of the nuclear threat.
He notes how US scientists and military chiefs at the time it was developed were not worried about 'what would happen if they went wrong... but what happened when they went right'.
The biggest and most powerful thermo nuclear bomb ever detonated was the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, known as the 'Tsar Bomba' (pictured)
He feels that for politicians then and now the short-term success of having a more powerful nuclear arsenal overshadows any attempt to look at the long-term threat.
He says: 'I think we have to elect leaders who are smart enough to pull back from the brink, realise we're doing what we're doing towards the end of the Cold War, where leaders were coming together and creating treaties that reduced war heads.
'We need people, the public, to kind of push them on that. Once upon a time there was public opinion for that but they're not as attached in the same way these days.'
In the lives of the day-to-day person the prospect of a nuclear war remains an unlikely and unthinkable scenario, Mr Walsh says.
It 'still does defy reality,' he adds.
Mr Walsh feels despite the threats from the other seven factors discussed in his book, that nuclear is the 'most significant existential risk we face right now, today'.
He tells how there is no defence against them, and that they have the potential to 'ruin the entire planet and even end our species'.
On a person notes, he adds: 'It enrages me to know that my son has been born into a world where that fear is very real again.'
Yet Mr Walsh discusses the things people can do to survive a nuclear war.
Perhaps surprisingly, he says 'ducking and covering is actually good advice'.
Yet this is only for small-scale nuclear weapons, such as a kiloton-range bomb.
In the event of a full nuclear war, he quotes historian Alex Wellerstein as saying: 'There isn't much you can do.'
4. Supervolcanoes
Likelihood: Medium
Severity: 5/10
Supervolcanoes are the most dangerous natural existential threat, according to Mr Walsh.
Hazardous asteroids can be tracked decades before they could affect Earth, whereas humans know far less about the much closer to home threat of volcanoes.
And supereruptions could be scheduled to happen at any time, with Mr Walsh quoting Bristol University scientist Jonathan Rougier's findings that an explosion could be once every 17,000 years.
Supervolcanoes (stock photo) are the most dangerous natural existential threat, according to Mr Walsh
The last one was more than 26,000 years ago, making us overdue.
Mr Walsh cites the Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, as a sobering example.
Home to the world's most famous supervolcano, it has seen three supereruptions in the last 2.1million years, Mr Walsh writes, with it still being highly active.
If it were to explode, it would devastate life as magna spews out of its 28-mile wide caldera, which was caused by the last blast 640,000 years ago.
Mr Walsh outlines how the supervolcano could potentially end the world.
There would be powerful earthquakes as magma races to the Earth's surface, followed by a 'titanic eruption' as the huge toxic discharge bursts through.
Lava would engulf 40 miles around the national park as well as continue to spit out ash and gases for days.
It is these gases which pose the wider threat to life on Earth, as they would hurtle up 15 miles into the atmosphere and plunge much of the US into darkness, as well as tear at people's tissue and eat away at their lungs.
Mr Walsh cites the Yellowstone Park (pictured) in Wyoming, as a sobering example. Home to the world's most famous supervolcano, it has seen three supereruptions in the last 2.1million years, Mr Walsh writes, with it still being highly active
The eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano could cost the US $3trillion, according to a Federal Emergency Management Agency study, cited by Mr Walsh, but the amount is a ballpark figure.
Mr Walsh says: 'It's definitely concerning, if it was to erupt it would have continental, even global effects, spreading volcanic ash around the United States, result in temperatures dropping, it'd be hard to farm and you would end up with global starvation.'
Yet he added: 'It's worrying but again it's very unlikely to happen.'
Massive super volcano discovered underneath California
5. Aliens
Likelihood: Low
Severity: 3/10
After covering the very real threats posed by nuclear bombs, biotechnology and volcanoes, the unknown threat of aliens may seem like a strange chapter to have in the book.
But Mr Walsh is adamant that with the vast number of planets in the universe, there remains the potential for other intelligent life, one which could cause our extinction.
'This is two sided,' he says, adding: 'If there is an alien species out there that could actually reach Earth, it would be technologically so much more advanced than us that we would be essentially helpless against it.'
Mr Walsh is adamant that with the vast number of planets in the universe, there remains the potential for other intelligent life, one which could cause our extinction (file photo)
'It wouldn't look like Independence Day or any of these movies, it would be like the US military taking on a primitive tribe.'
Despite this, Mr Walsh admits that the question is not over how we could repel their attacks - as he says we could do little - but the age-old question of whether or not they exist.
He says: 'And then there's the other risk that if aliens don't exist, that's kind of concerning because it might mean that in developing technology as a civilisation you're likely to destroy yourself.'
It would be like the US military taking on a primitive tribe
He continues: 'The more we learn about space, the more we see there are planets out there that should support life, there are quite a few, so if there's nothing out there, then that's just strange and makes you think there was something out there but they've been destroyed or destroyed themselves.'
Mr Walsh adds: 'And that could mean it could happen to us too.'
He feels that we should be more worried about this, especially that after decades of research, no concrete evidence of aliens has ever been found.
Mr Walsh says: 'You look at this planet and you see two cultures with very different technology levels which meet each other - it's usually bad for one of them. And that's how I look at it.
'When the Europeans came to the Americas, we saw what happened there.
'I think aliens coming to our Earth would be similar. You would have a similar kind of destruction actually.'
6. Asteroids
Likelihood: Low
Severity: 3/10
Films such as the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon and of fate of the dinosaurs have captured the public's imagination of a huge asteroid ending our planet.
But Mr Walsh feels the chances of this are not only low, but also would not be devastating if it did happen.
He notes that there is a 0.000005 per cent chance of an 'extinction-level asteroid' hitting Earth in a year.
Mr Walsh feels the chances of an asteroid ending life on Earth are not only low, but also would not be devastating if it did happen
He explains that with the dinosaurs, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed through the seabed in Mexico, releasing unusually large deposits of sulfur.
These reflect the sun, so when it shot up into the atmosphere it bound with clouds to stop heat and daylight reaching Earth.
The darkness lasted two years, and it was this and the effect it had on foods resources that led to the great extinction, not the asteroid itself.
Mr Walsh told Space.com: 'Something like asteroids: There's a reason why we make movies about that. There's something cinematic about the idea that something's coming from space and locking in on you, and it's going to destroy the world.'
But the journalist reassures that an asteroid-led extinction is one that can be potentially ruled out now.
The large rocks can be tracked for years before they are due to hit Earth, giving astronomers the chance to develop a defence plan.
The US Government last year stepped up plans to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continents.
The National Science and Technology Council released a 20-page report on June 21 calling for improved asteroid detection, tracking and deflection.
The initiative backed by NASA, federal emergency officials, and the White House aimed to coordinate efforts over the next decade to detect and respond to possible threats in Earth's vicinity, should they arise.
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) include all asteroids and comets that orbit within 30 million miles of Earth, NASA said.
For now, scientists know of no asteroids or comets heading our way. But one could sneak up on us - and that's why the government introduced a better plan.
7. Climate change
Likelihood: Medium
Severity: 4/10
The threat of climate change has gripped the world in recent months, whether it be Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg, or the widespread wildfires engulfing the Amazon over the past month.
But Mr Walsh does not feel it is as likely to cause our extinction as biotechnology and other man-made issues.
'I don't think in my judgement it's likely to be an existential threat,' he says, 'it'll make the world a very difficult place, a very hard place but probably not kill us all in that way.'
The threat of climate change has gripped the world in recent months, whether it be Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg, or the widespread wildfires engulfing the Amazon (pictured) over the past month. But Mr Walsh does not feel it is as likely to cause our extinction as biotechnology and other man-made issues
Mr Walsh's background is in reporting on climate change, and he feels that the attention the subject has received in recent months has been framed in the wrong way.
Having now researched it, he feels the argument that climate change could end our planet in just a matter of years may be flawed.
From his time attending climate conferences, he also noticed that world leaders, as well as ordinary people, were unwilling to act and limit their energy use.
He says in the book: 'We are not a species that plans deeply into the future. We are not a species that is eager to put limits on ourselves. We are a species that prefers to stay one step ahead of the disasters of our own making, that is willing to do just enough to keep going.'
He added to Vox: 'I think we have more time, but it’s something where we need to think about larger-scale techno fixes, because I don’t really have a lot of confidence in humanity’s ability to grapple with something that is a risk that will always be for the further future.'
8. Infectious disease
Likelihood: Low
Severity: 1/10
Infectious diseases on their own would be highly unlikely to threaten our species, with the severity of it also judged as low by Mr Walsh.
'It's probably low because we often see the threat from nature. You take something like Ebola which is deadly, but doesn't spread very fast,' he says.
'Or something like the cold or measles, which spreads very quickly but doesn't kill you.'
He adds: 'So from this it takes biotechnology to put something together that could do both and that would be what you needed to threaten the entire species.'
Infectious diseases on their own would be highly unlikely to threaten our species, with the severity of it also judged as low by Mr Walsh. 'It's probably low because we often see the threat from nature. You take something like Ebola (pictured) which is deadly, but doesn't spread very fast,' he says
It is the only existential threat written about in End Times that the journalist said he had actually witnessed.
Facing down the deadly SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) while working in Hong Kong in 2003, he saw how a disease could appear from nowhere and devastate a community.
But he said he learned there was always a timer on infectious diseases, with them disappearing into obscurity as quickly as they arrived.
This is due to higher hygiene in the twenty-first century tending to favour milder diseases that can spread fast.
In an example, Mr Walsh says: 'Unless it happens to emerge in an environment as extreme and rare as a World War I trench, a flu virus that kills in a day is limited in its ability to spread, and so loses out to the milder version that only makes you wish you were dead.'
End Times: A Brief Guide To The End Of The World by Bryan Walsh is available from Hachette Books
Earlier today, I was send some interesting information regarding a potential archeological discovery on Antarctica. After looking at the information, my initial thoughts were “this must be a fake”, but i was soon to discover that the images i was looking at were real.
Originally discovered by an Instagram account called ufo_scandinavia, the images were of a remote, mountainous region of Antarctica & appears to show what appears to be a face emerging from the ice.
To say i was shocked when i zoomed into this location would be an understatement. With so many lies & an abundance of misinformation/disinformation on the internet, i honestly thought this would just be the latest hoax being used to drive traffic to the “usual suspects” desperate for our clicks.
However, as you can see in the video, this image does appear on Google Earth. You can check it for yourself & i urge you to do so. Just open up Google Earth & go to the following coordinates… -72.010000, 168.577778
The main stream are already swinging into full debunk mode by claiming anyone looking at this is a “conspiracy nut”, which in itself adds to the mystery surrounding this discovery.
I cannot tell you that this is definitive proof of ancient alien type activity on the planet, nor can i immediately dismiss this as some kind of natural structure.
The “face” which looks very similar to that of what is known as a Gray alien is massive in size. It measures over 500 meters in length & over 400 meters in width. It is situated in the Admiralty Mountain region of Antarctica, south of Australia & New Zealand.
Speculation time….
Could this be the reason for people such as John Kerry, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church & even Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin taking trips to Antarctica in recent years?
Antarctica may be one of the most remote & uninhabitable places on the planet, but that hasn’t stopped nations from taking a very keen interest in this real estate over the years.
We can look back to the Nazi’s in WW2 & their journeys to the bottom of the world. A previous guest on The Kev Baker Show, Dr Richard Alan Miller, spoke about his trip there & the 17 berth submarine base that the Nazi’s had built below the surface of the icy continent.
Then there is the infamous Project High Jump, with Admiral Byrd leading a naval fleet to the South Pole only to report back that it was already occupied & that there were flying machines capable of going pole-to-pole in a matter of hours.
In more recent times, journalist & researcher Linda Moulten Howe has been speaking with anonymous sources about just what is going on in Antarctica.
Just recently i had author/researcher Brad Olsen on the show to discuss his recent trip to Antarctica & we got into some of the history surrounding it. It would seem there is something that has attracted the attention of various nations over the years & one must wonder just what the fascination is with icy wasteland.
Finally, let me just say that i find this very interesting indeed, but without further investigation, all we have is an image of something that may or may not be something significant. Trying to get further information on this is going to be hard at best, and realistically, without being able to go there to investigate this ourselves, it will be near impossible for us to definitively know just what, or what isn’t, emerging from the ice around Antarctica.
Have you ever sat in bad rush hour traffic (isn’t that redundant?) and said to yourself, “I could get out of this if I had a wormhole”? Me neither, but apparently some astrophysicists have and they’ve developed and published a set of step-by-step do-it-yourself instructions for building one – along with the prerequisite admonishments that these are for informational purposes only and you shouldn’t try this at home. HA! Let’s get started with our wormhole.
“We construct traversable wormholes by starting with simple four-dimensional classical solutions respecting the null energy condition and containing a pair of oppositely charged black holes connected by a non-traversable wormhole. We then consider the perturbative back-reaction of bulk quantum fields in Hartle-Hawking states. Our geometries have zero cosmological constant and are asymptotically flat except for a cosmic string stretching to infinity that is used to hold the black holes apart. Another cosmic string wraps the non-contractible cycle through the wormhole, and its quantum fluctuations provide the negative energy needed for traversability.”
OK, so all we need are a couple of oppositely charged black holes and two cosmic strings. For where to order those online, you might want to check with Zicao Fu, Brianna Grado-White, and Donald Marolf, authors of “Traversable Asymptotically Flat Wormholes with Short Transit Times,” a preprint paper published recently in arXiv.org. Fu is a PhD candidate, Grado-White a graduate student and Marolf a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Their paper does indeed give step-by-step instructions, including the supporting documents and mathematical formulas, for building a wormhole that doesn’t have the instability problem most wormholes have.
“But this wormhole-via-charged-black-holes has two issues. One, it’s still unstable, and if something or someone actually tries to use it, it falls apart. The other is that the two oppositely charged black holes will be attracted to each other — both through gravitational and electric forces — and if they fall together you just get a single, big, neutrally charged and altogether useless black hole.”
Fortunately for those of us who are not astrophysicists, astrophysicist, Paul Sutter at The (trademark pending) Ohio State University has a simple explanation in Live Science. His good news is that charged black holes are real. His bad news is that using a pair with opposite charges means they want to come together right now over me. (John Lennon would have LOVED the idea of wormholes.) The good news is, a cosmic string – extremely thin 1-dimensional topological defects which may have formed during the early days of the universe – could be used to keep them separated … not perfectly, but better than the referee between contestants in a professional wrestling match. The paper suggests getting two cosmic strings and forming a closed loop between the black holes. The loop would then vibrate and churn the space around them until the energy goes negative, creating a negative mass that would stabilize the wormhole, allowing matter (cars?) or even just messages (Anybody home? Marco!) to pass through.
The bad news is (you knew there was more), cosmic strings are hypothetical. However, Sutter gives one more tantalizing bit of good news:
“Still, there’s no reason they can’t exist, so they’re fair game.”
Fair game? Game on! Stop wasting your time honking your horn in that traffic jam and start figuring out a way to get some black holes and a couple of cosmic strings.
Throughout history there have been those great figures whose names everyone seems to know, regardless of whether they actually know anything about them. These are the big hitters of history, seemingly larger than life, almost transcending the bounds of physical entities to become legends. Yet for as well known as they are and for as much as historians might know about their deaths, some of these legendary figures have managed to pose great mysteries in their passing, leading mighty lives only to vanish without a trace after death, only their memories remaining.
Going back into the mists of time we have the great Egyptian ruler Cleopatra, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and her Roman General lover Mark Anthony. When Antony and Cleopatra were defeated in a massive naval battle against Octavian’s forces the during at the 31 BC Battle of Actium, Octavian moved to invade Egypt in 30 BC. Antony’s forces were crushed, and in defeat he committed suicide, likely by stabbing himself, although no one is quite certain. When Cleopatra learned of this death and was faced with being brought in before to a Roman triumphal in celebration of the loathed Octavian’s victory, she too killed herself in a fit of depression and defiance.
Mysteries have long swirled ever since around Cleopatra’s death, and despite the fact that she is one of the most recognizable, iconic, and well-known rulers in history, even all the way up into modern times, there is much we still don’t know about her last days and moments. One persistent mystery is how she died in the first place. The most common theory is that she killed herself by enticing an asp or other venomous snake to bite her arm, but there are all sorts of other ideas, including that she used a poison loaded hairpin she is said to have carried at all times, that she applied some sort of poisonous ointment to her skin, or that she simply overdosed on opium. No one really knows. We also don’t know where her final resting place is, as it was never recorded, although it was written that she was buried together with Mark Antony.
It has been theorized that Cleopatra would have had a tomb prepared for herself in some form, probably near Alexandria, but where it could be is anyone’s guess. There have been many digs trying to find the lost tomb of Cleopatra, and in 2009 archeologists investigated a promising site at the Taposiris Magna temple in Abusir, Egypt. Here there were found mummies, busts featuring her visage, a mask believed to have belonged to Mark Anthony, and coins with their likenesses, all of which seemed to suggest that Cleopatra and Antony were not far away, but the dig was ultimately unsuccessful. In more recent years it has been suggested that her tomb in fact might now lie under the sea, and in the end the lost tomb of Cleopatra is one of the holy grails of archeology.
Just as famous as Cleopatra was the iconic Alexander III of Macedon, more popularly known as Alexander the Great, who ruled from 356 BC to 323 BC and is well-known for his reign of stunning conquests spanning an empire from Greece to India and covering large swaths of Asia and northeast Africa. His inexorable, unstoppable path of victory came to an end in 323 BC, when he was killed in Babylon. His body was then supposedly placed within an opulent sarcophagus fashioned of solid gold and filled with honey, all of which was then placed within a golden casket and put on display in a tomb in Alexandria, where the sarcophagus was visited by such notable historical figures as Julius Caesar, Augustus, Cleopatra, Octavian, Caligula, Hadrian, Severus, Caracalla, and many others. The tomb was finally sealed after it was plundered for gold and Alexander’s breast plate was stolen, and it remained that way until Christianity came to the region in the 4th century and paganism was outlawed. After this, Alexander the Great’s tomb and casket just sort of vanished off the face of the earth. To this day no one has any idea where Alexander the Great’s tomb and sarcophagus are, with it being theorized to rest at a variety of places including Alexandria, Greece, or even all the way over in Venice, but despite countless expeditions it remains one of the great historical mysteries.
Speaking of empire building warlords, here we have the founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan. During his reign and ruthless expansion across vast areas he would conquer regions sprawled out from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific and encompassing large portions of Eurasia and most of Central Asia and China. It would become one of the largest empires the world has ever known, all fashioned through a brutal and bloody campaign, and all darkly shadowed by a cloud of violent genocide and punctuated by the merciless massacres of countless innocent people. Genghis Khan is one of the most notorious, vicious, and feared tyrants in history, and upon his death on August 18, 1227 during a military campaign in China it is probably safe to say that there was no love lost among the cowering populace of the lands he had held in an iron, ravenous grip. However, for as much as we know about his specacular life, his death and final resting place remain complete mysteries.
Genghis Khan
One mystery is his exact cause of death, which has been variously theorized to have been dying in action, falling from a horse, or succumbing to some illness or infection of a wound, or even being murdered by his own men, but no one really knows. What we do know is that Genghis Khan had stipulated to his men that upon his death he was to be buried in an unmarked grave and its location kept a total secret. To this end, his closest men really went overboard. It is said that the location where he was buried was intentionally trampled over by nearly a thousand horsemen in order to mask its location, after which every single one of the horsemen was killed. Even as the body was being moved to its final resting place it is believed that his personal funeral escort had everyone who witnessed their movements executed, as well as the ones who dug the grave, to keep it all secret, with the final result being that no one has a clue as to where one of the most fearsome warlords in history is buried.
Of course with such a veil of secrecy there are other legends surrounding the grave of Genghis Khan as well, such as the legend that a whole river was diverted over the burial site to hide it. Although there is a mausoleum with some of Genghis Khan’s possessions located in the town of Ejin Horo Banner, Inner Mongolia, this is not his actual resting place, and archeologists have scoured the world trying to locate it, utilizing ground penetrating radar, satellite imagery, and all manner of cutting edge technology, but it has evaded all attempts to find it and remains lost to history.
Quite similar is the lost grave of another great ruler, Attila the Hun, who ruled the Huns from 434 to 453, and was the head of a great empire of tribes that stretched across large swaths of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Central and Eastern Europe. He was known as a fearsome conqueror and plunderer who sought to spread out across Europe and Persia seeking to invade and dominate new lands, constantly battling the Romans and establishing himself as one of the Roman Empire’s greatest foes. In 453 Attila the Hun would according to records die a rather unusual death when he purportedly choked on a nosebleed at his own wedding feast, an odd end to such a ferocious and feared conqueror. Upon his death, it is said that Attila the Hun was buried within a coffin lavishly covered with gold and silver and filled with gems and other treasure, and that just as with Genghis Khan a river was diverted to hide the grave, and everyone who dug it was mercilessly killed to preserve its secret. Attila the Hun’s grave has never been found, and both he and even the Hunnic people themselves largely remain mysteries.
Attila the Hun
In later eras we have other tyrants and rulers who are known for their mysterious graves. Between 1448 to 1476, the area of modern day Romania known as Wallachia was ruled by Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, and perhaps even more known as the inspiration behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula, as well as for his infamous cruelty and his gruesome habit of impaling enemies on spikes. Vlad the Impaler was killed in battle against Ottoman forces and his body supposedly decapitated and chopped into pieces, but where his final grave is has remained a mystery. It was long thought that he was interred in the Monastery of Snagov outside of Bucharest, with an unmarked tombstone long thought to be his. However, in the 1930s this grave was dug up only to find the bones and jaws of horses. Since then there have been many proposed sites for Vlad the Impaler’s final resting place, but so far it has not been found, and the grave of the real life Dracula remains steeped in mystery.
It is not only rulers and warlords who are well known for their elusive final resting places, and some of the more famous mysterious lost graves belong to well-known artists. Perhaps the most famous of all of these is that of the great artist, inventor, overall polymath and master of the Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci. After dying in 1519 at the age of 67, which was quite old for the era, Da Vinci was supposedly interred beneath a church that was destroyed during the French Revolution in 1789. When workers rebuilding the site went through the rubble, they are said to have found some human remains and a part of a demolished headstone that were believed to have belonged to Da Vinci, and that these were brought to another chapel. Although his official resting place is France’s Chateau d’Amboise, it is still unknown if these remains and the piece of headstone kept there are really his at all, and even the description displayed at the grave explains it as merely the “presumed remains” of Da Vinci.
Leonardo Da Vinci
There is also the story of the grave of one of history’s great composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who died in 1791 at the age of 35 from an unidentified illness. Considering how incredibly famous Mozart has become over the centuries, one would think that his grave would be known as well, but this does not seem to be the case. One of the problems is that in life he was not nearly as well-known as he would go on to be, after his death, and so his burial was not all that big of an event. In fact, it seems what has gone on to be considered one of the greatest composers of all time was rather unceremoniously put in a cheap wooden coffin and buried in a cemetery in a common, unmarked grave, possibly even buried in a sort of mass grave with others. Making things even more difficult is that in that era it was common to remove all of the graves to make way for new ones every 10 years, so Mozart’s remains could have gone anywhere, possibly even crushed or cremated and otherwise destroyed. In 1801, a gravedigger came forward to claim that he had in his possession the skull of Mozart, but DNA tests in later years have cast doubt on this. Where are Mozart’s remains? Ideas range from that they have vanished forever to that fans of the composer had them moved to a safe location, but in the end no one really knows.
Here we have looked at only a few of the lost graves and tombs of some of history’s most important people. Where did they go? How could such prominent, larger than life figures in life figures just disa ppear in death? Some of these lost graves have gone on to become some of the most highly sought after treasures in archeology, yet they remain hidden and evasive, keeping their secrets close. One day we may find the answers we seek, but for now these spectacular historical figures remain enigmas in death, seemingly eveporating into the mists of time.
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Weather Radar Map: High Speed Object Appears To Enter A "Vortex/Portal" In The Sky Over Long Valley
Weather Radar Map: High Speed Object Appears To Enter A "Vortex/Portal" In The Sky Over Long Valley
There was an incredible amount of lightning in the Long Valley on August 28, 2019, 9.45 pm, when a strange vortex/portal appeared on the weather radar map just above Long Valley.
Next, an anomaly came out of nowhere, entered and flew through the vortex/portal at a very high rate of speed on which then the vortex/portal disappeared.
According to MrMB333 the anomaly covered a distance of 60 miles in 20 minutes which is about 180 mph.
So, it looks like a portal opened up and something went through it, but what could it have been?
I was looking over a live volcano cam when I found an unknown object flying through the plume of smoke over the volcano. The object has no wings, tail or contrail. When I focus the object using a photo program, it appears to be a white disk with a dark hump at its lower center. There are no identifying marks on the craft. Also the second cam in the upper left corner caught nothing at all. It was invisible to that cam! That sound like the cloaking technology of aliens to me. So I'm calling this a real UFO. Scott C. Waring
UFO Surround Hot Air Balloon Over Netherlands On Video, UFO Sghting News.
UFO Surround Hot Air Balloon Over Netherlands On Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 29, 2019
Location of sighting: Hoeven, Netherlands
An eyewitness was watching a hot air balloon when they noticed four UFOs, two on either side above the ballon. The UFOs seem to take this opportunity to both observe a human in a balloon and to reveal themselves to others. UFOs like to investigate literally anything that flies because its closest to them and because its human technology that needs to be scanned and recorded by them.
Notice how the all four UFOs are tilted to one side? Although inside the pilots will not notice that tilt. These are real UFO guys.
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Eyewitness states:
On August 29 around 19:00 2019 in village Hoeven in the Netherlands I got the feeling that I had to look outside and saw a hot air balloon with 4 orbs, saturn-like orbs next to it. I grabbed my phone to film it. In this video you can see the orbs, at the end of the video the video is 400% zoomed in to better see the moving orbs.
Five UFOs with Incandescent Lights Spotted Moving Above Fukushima, Japan
Five UFOs with Incandescent Lights Spotted Moving Above Fukushima, Japan
Conspiracy theories state that aliens from far away planets of the universe have visited earth for hundreds of thousands of years to monitor humankind’s activities.
According to many conspiracy theorists, paintings on Earth showing UFOs and extraterrestrial-like creatures indicate that space aliens had come to the earth in the past.
In a recent UFO sighting report, a YouTube video shows five UFOs moving over the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The video reveals that the mysterious event was recorded on August 20, 2019.
The UFOs on the video appear to have spherical shapes and incandescent lights while moving mysteriously in the skies. It cannot be determined in the footage whether the five lights come from different flying objects or multiple lights from a giant UFO.
Several viewers of the video commented that the existence of alien life on Earth is real and the latest UFO sighting video is undeniable evidence of their presence.
Similar lights were spotted over the Fukushima nuclear power plant a few hours before the earthquake that struck in 2011. During the earthquake that caused enormous damage to infrastructure and deaths, spheres of light had been observed coming out of the water at the edge of the power plant.
Today (July 31), The Planetary Society announced mission success as LightSail 2 — the bread-loaf-sized, crowdfunded, solar-powered spacecraft orbiting Earth — officially raised its orbit with the power of sunlight alone.
"Today, we declare mission success — we're going to a higher orbital altitude without rocket fuel, just with the push of sunlight,"
Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye said in a press conference.
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We are officially declaring MISSION SUCCESS for our crowdfunded @exploreplanets#LightSail2 spacecraft! We did it people(s)!
"This is a very exciting day for us and for me personally," Nye said in the conference. "This idea that you could fly a spacecraft and could get propulsion in space form nothing but photons, it's surprising, and for me, it's very romantic that you'd be sailing on sunbeams."
After LightSail 2 successfully deployed its solar sail last week, mission managers remotely optimized the craft's orientation. With these small changes, the craft began raising its orbit above our planet, raising its apogee, or orbital high point. Within the past four days, the craft has raised its apogee about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers). The mission team behind the craft confirmed that this orbital raising could be due to nothing other than successful solar sailing, or propulsion from photons, particles that transmit light, from the sun.
With this accomplishment, LightSail 2 becomes the first spacecraft to be propelled by solar sailing in Earth orbit; the first small spacecraft to be propelled by solar sailing; and the second-ever spacecraft, after Japan's IKAROS mission, to successfully use solar sailing, The Planetary Society said.
On June 25, LightSail 2 launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. On July 2, the 11-lb. (5 kilograms) cubesat signaled to Earth, marking the spacecraft's successful arrival in low Earth orbit. On July 23, the craft successfully deployed its solar sail and early data showed that its small motor was rotating and it had begun to turn the sail to the sun. That maneuver facilitates an extra "push" from the sun once per orbit. So far, the craft has captured and sent home images of its stellar view and solar sail deployment.
LightSail 2 aims to prove the effectiveness of solar sails, which propel spacecraft using photons. While photons have no mass, they can still transfer a tiny bit of momentum. So, when photons hit a spacecraft, for example, the craft is pushed very slightly away from the sun. Photons hit us here on Earth as well, but we aren't affected by their force.
Solar sails, like the one deployed by LightSail 2, are flat, ultrathin, mirror-like sheets that push a spacecraft forward when hit with photons. The main benefit of using this technology is that a craft with a solar sail wouldn't need to carry fuel and so could theoretically travel for longer periods of time, as it wouldn't need to refuel.
With the success of this mission, The Planetary Society has demonstrated the capabilities of solar sailing with the LightSail 2 craft. The organization hopes that this success will support future solar sailing efforts. Because spacecraft using solar sails don't require fuel, these missions could theoretically help scientists to reach farther out into the cosmos.
With solar sailing technology, "we'd ferry cargo to Mars, look for signs of life and change the course of human history!" Nye said to Space.com in the conference. "This technology enables us to take things to extraordinary destinations in the solar system and maybe even beyond in a way that's never been possible before, because you don't need fuel and you don't need all the systems to control fuel and manage fuel and handle fuel and buy fuel," he said.
Those curious about the spacecraft's continued journey around Earth should check in at LightSail 2 Mission Control, a dashboard displaying up-to-date information about the craft. The site is updated every time LightSail 2 beams down to Earth, and those visiting the site can check out the craft's location, mission time, battery charge and the status of any new developments like solar sail deployment.
This photograph shows the Laser Ranging Facility at the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The observatory helps NASA keep track of orbiting satellites.
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If there are advanced civilizations out there in the cosmos, the chances are they will have tried to contact us. Might they be using laser-based communications to do that?
Breakthrough Listen, an initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, has announced that it will begin a search for a new kind of “technosignatures” beyond the Earth. “When it comes to intelligent life beyond Earth, we don’t know where it exists or how it communicates,” says Yuri Milner, founder of the Breakthrough Initiatives. “So our philosophy is to look in as many places, and in as many ways, as we can.”
What are technosignatures?
Technosignatures, also known as a “technomarker,” are signs of technology developed by intelligent life. We have not idea what form they would take, and whether we would be able to detect them. Perhaps they can only ever be recognizable to us 21st-century humans if they already exist on our own planet. For example, the mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star/Boyajian’s Star (actually called KIC 8462852) in the constellation of Cygnus, detected by Tabetha S. Boyajian in 2015, could be explained by the existence of an alien megastructure around the star periodically blocking light. To find those, telescopes need to look for optical pulses. Another avenue is to look for much faster optical pulses, which could be evidence of optical communications. That’s what Breakthrough Listen is now looking for.
The Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD) demonstration consisted of a space terminal on the LADEE spacecraft and three ground terminals on Earth. Together, they demonstrated that it was possible to transfer up to 622 Mbps of data from the Moon with a space terminal that weighs less, uses less power, and occupies less space than a comparable RF system.
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Why are we looking for fast optical pulse
Today In: InnovationOptical communication is about transmitting information via lasers. Essentially it’s an advance from radio frequency, which is limited in terms of bandwidth and spectrum. “Optical communication has already been used by NASA to transmit high definition images to Earth from the Moon, so there’s reason to believe that an advanced civilization might use a scaled-up version of this technology for interstellar communication,” says Dr. Andrew Siemion, leader of the Listen team at the University of California, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center (BSRC). In 2013-2014, NASA tested optical communication technology using lasers between its LADEE spacecraft in orbit of the Moon and three ground terminals on Earth. If we’re already sending "optical pulses" out into the cosmos, might advanced civilizations also be doing so?
VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a major ground-based gamma-ray observatory located at the basecamp of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona. VERITAS comprises an array of four 12m optical reflectors for gamma-ray astronomy in the very high energy range.
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How Breakthrough Listen will search for technosignatures
Breakthrough Listen is after "pulsed optical beacons," which might reveal themselves as blue flashes high in the Earth’s atmosphere. If that’s the case, a bank of four 12-meter telescopes called VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) will find them.
Situated at the Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona, VERITAS telescopes–the world’s most powerful telescope array for studying high energy astrophysics with gamma rays–already conduct a radio frequency survey and a spectroscopic optical laser survey. This time, they’re looking for pulsed optical beacons as brief flashes of blue “Cherenkov” light (gamma rays coming from space) created when they hit the top of the Earth’s atmosphere.
“Using the huge mirror area of the four VERITAS telescopes will allow us to search for these extremely faint optical flashes in the night sky, which could correspond to signals from an extraterrestrial civilization,” remarked Prof. Holder.
How bright might these fast optical pulses be?
An artists illustration of the possible structures surrounding the star KIC 8462852. The Kepler observatory has discovered massive objects in orbit around the star. It is a possible sign of an advanced civilization.
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Will they be easy to detect?
Although the flashes of light–the pulsed optical beacons–will only last several nanoseconds, they will easily outshine any stars that lie in the same direction on the sky. Here’s the logic: the most powerful lasers on Earth deliver about 500 terawatts in a pulse lasting a few nanoseconds. If that kind of laser comes our way from a star system at the same distance as Tabby’s Star (1,468 light-years), the VERITAS telescopes will detect it.
However, most of the stars on the target list are at least 10 times closers, and some of them 100 times closer, than that. All four telescopes will monitor the sky simultaneously to avoid mistakes.
What is Breakthrough Listen?
A search for evidence of life in the Universe, Breakthrough Listen aims to survey one million nearby stars, the entire galactic plane and 100 nearby galaxies at a wide range of radio and optical bands.
A sister initiative, Breakthrough Watch, is conducting an optical search for Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars, as is Breakthrough Starshot, an attempt to design and develop a space probe capable of reaching another star.
“Breakthrough Listen is already the most powerful, comprehensive, and intensive search yet undertaken for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth,” says Siemion. “Now, with the addition of VERITAS, we’re sensitive to an important new class of signals.”
India’s 2nd moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, successfully carried out its 3rd orbit-raising maneuver on Monday. It will soon enter trans-lunar orbit, with the goal of landing on the moon on September 7.
Mission sequence showing Chandrayaan-2’s trajectory. Image via ISRO.
India’s second spacecraft to the moon – an unprecedented attempt to soft-land on the lunar south pole – is steadily breaking free of Earth’s gravity. Chandrayaan-2, consisting of an orbiter, lander and rover, launched on July 22, 2019, from India’s spaceport in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
Once launched, the spacecraft entered a highly elliptical orbit around Earth. Multiple orbit-raising maneuvers have been now steadily increasing its altitude until Earth’s gravitational force becomes weaker and the moon’s influence can begin to take over. The third such maneuver was carried out successfully today, according to ISRO:
Third earthbound orbit raising maneuver for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully today (July 29, 2019) at 1512 hrs (IST) as planned, using the onboard propulsion system for a firing duration of 989 seconds. The orbit achieved is 276 x 71792 km. All spacecraft parameters are normal. The fourth orbit raising maneuver is scheduled on August 2, 2019, between 1400 – 1500 hrs (IST).
If everything goes well, Chandrayaan-2 will soon enter trans-lunar orbit and land on the moon on September 7, 2019.
The instruments onboard the spacecraft will study the moon’s topography and chemical composition, and map the abundance of lunar water, especially at the polar regions. Chandrayaan-2’s predecessor, Chandrayaan-1, launched in 2008, confirmed the presence of lunar water.
The moon is positioned in such a way that some parts of the polar regions are permanently shadowed. Chandrayaan-1 also provided evidence of ice being present in craters of the south pole. Places like these allow water to freeze and to remain frozen. Building upon its precursor’s findings, Chandrayaan-2 will land on a high plain between two such craters in the southern hemisphere – Manzinus C and Simpelius N. While the evidence of lunar water is not new knowledge, the south pole is still unfamiliar terrain.
If Chandrayaan-2 is successful, India will be the fourth country after the U.S., China, and the Soviet Union to complete a soft landing on the moon. A recent attempt by an Israeli group was unsuccessful.
Chandrayaan-2 sits atop the GSLV MkIII-M1 rocket at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India.
Chandrayaan-2’s orbiter, rover, and lander are housed inside the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII-M1 – India’s most powerful rocket.
Soon, the spacecraft will enter a Lunar Bound Phase where its propulsion systems will be fired to slow it down and insert it into an orbit around the moon. On day 43, the lander, called Vikram, will separate from the orbiter from a distance of 62 miles (100 km).
The lander will then attempt to soft-land – a first of its kind for India – using complex braking mechanisms. A few meters above the ground, all thrusters will shut off to allow a free fall. The quiet landing will ensure that the moon’s surface remains undisturbed and its dust unmoved, dust which could otherwise spurt all around the spacecraft due to the thrusters’ force and spoil its circuitry systems.
Once firmly on the ground, the lander will deploy its rover, called Pragyaan, which will perform on-site chemical analysis for one lunar day (14 earth days). Onboard Pragyaan, a suite of spectroscopic instruments will fire lasers at different locations on the lunar surface to analyze its chemical composition. The rover will primarily hunt for major rock-forming minerals such as sodium, magnesium, and iron. The orbiter carries the highest number of instruments and is also responsible for a large chunk of information. Studies such as 3-D mapping of the lunar surface, solar radiation monitoring and analyzing the moon’s ionosphere are crucial to understanding the moon’s evolution.
All in all, Chandrayaan-2 will not only help us understand our natural satellite better, but will also inform future manned missions to the moon, such as NASA’s Artemis in 2024.
Bottom line: India’s second spacecraft to the moon – Chandrayaan-2 – is steadily breaking free of Earth’s gravity. If everything goes well, it will soon enter trans-lunar orbit and land on the moon on September 7, 2019.
The U.S. Navy is working on new guidelines for its personnel to report sightings and other encounters with “unidentified aircraft,”Politico reports.
It sounds like a major step toward taking UFO encounters more seriously: the Navy’s new process would create formalized guidelines for sailors and pilots alike to report and analyze each one of the encounters.
The Truth Is Out There
No, this is definitely not the Navy confirming the existence of extraterrestrials, as Politico points out. It’s just giving the rank and file a chance to have their encounters examined by military authorities.
“There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,” the Navy said in a statement to Politico. “For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.”
A Second Look
Rather than ignoring and dumping the data collected during sightings of UFOs and other “unexplained aerial phenomena,” as Pentagon officials put it, the sightings would be investigated and studied by personnel — though exactly who gets to review the data is unclear.
In 2017, the New York Times reported on a $22 million program by the Pentagon called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that allegedly was devoted to the investigation of UFOs. Perhaps the Navy’s upcoming guidelines could simply be an outcome of that.
The iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has received new NASA funding to serve as one of Earth's asteroid guardians.
NASA awarded the University of Central Florida (UCF) — which oversees the Arecibo Observatory — a $19 million grant to observe and characterize near Earth objects that could pose a potential threat to the planet, or may be viable candidates for future space missions.
Asteroids that come within 5 million miles (8 million km) of Earth's orbit are deemed potentially hazardous by NASA, with the agency keeping track of them just in case one asteroid does pose a threat to Earth in the future. That's where the new grant comes in.
"Arecibo plays an important role in discovery and advancing our knowledge of our solar system and our universe," Francisco Cordova, observatory director, said in the statement. "We also play a critical role in helping to protect our planet through providing knowledge and unique expertise. It’s part of our mission and one of the reasons we are so passionate about our work."
UCF manages the Arecibo Observatory facility on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
Since the mid-1990's, the Arecibo radio telescope has been observing up to 120 objects a year. NASA uses that data in order to identify which asteroids or comets could pose a threat to Earth, and how to mitigate the potential risk. The data also helps NASA determine which asteroids could be fit for a space mission, how to land on an asteroid and potentially mine its raw material.
"We can use our system to constrain the size, shape, mass, spin state, composition, binarity, trajectory, and gravitational and surface environments of NEOs and this will help NASA to determine potential targets for future missions," Anne Virkki, the Arecibo planetary radar program’s principal investigator, said in the statement.
The grant will also go towards supporting STEM education for high school students in Puerto Rico, providing classes for 30 students per semester on the science and research that goes on at the observatory.
Any theory of quantum gravity is going to have to grapple with some weird time stuff.
You've probably heard ofSchrödinger's cat, the unfortunate feline in a box that is simultaneously alive and dead until the box is opened to reveal its actual state. Well, now wrap your mind around Schrödinger's time, a situation in which one event can simultaneously be the cause and effect of another event.
Such a scenario may be inevitable in any theory of quantum gravity, a still-murky area of physics that seeks to combine Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity with the workings of quantum mechanics. In a new paper, scientists create a mashup of the two by imagining starships near an enormous planet whose mass slows time. They conclude that the starships could find themselves in a state where causation is reversed: One event could end up causing another event that happened before it.
"One can devise this kind of scenario where temporal order or cause and effect are in superposition of being reversed or not reversed," said study co-author Igor Pikovski, a physicist at the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. "This is something we expect should take place once we have a full theory of quantum gravity."
The famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment asks a viewer to imagine a box holding a cat and a radioactive particle, which, once decayed, will kill the unfortunate feline. By the principle of quantum superposition, the cat's survival or death is equally likely until measured — so until the box is opened, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. In quantum mechanics, superposition means that a particle can exist in multiple states at the same time, just like Schrödinger's cat.
The new thought experiment, published Aug. 21 in the journal Nature Communications, combines the principle of quantum superposition with Einstein's theory of general relativity. General relativity says that the mass of a giant object can slow down time. This is well established as true and measurable, Pikovski said; an astronaut orbiting Earth will experience time just a smidge faster than his or her twin back on the planet. (This is also why falling into a black hole would be a very gradual experience.)
Thus, if a futuristic spacecraft were near a massive planet, its crew would experience time as a little bit slower than would people in a fellow spacecraft stationed farther away. Now, throw in a little quantum mechanics, and you can imagine a situation in which that planet is superpositioned simultaneously near to and far away from the two spacecraft.
Time gets weird
In this superpositioned scenario of two ships experiencing time on different timelines, cause and effect could get wonky. For example, say the ships are asked to conduct a training mission in which they fire at each other and dodge each other's fire, knowing full well the time the missiles will launch and intercept their positions. If there's no massive planet nearby messing with time's flow, this is a simple exercise. On the other hand, if that massive planet were present and the ship's captain didn't take the slowing of time into account, the crew might dodge too late and be destroyed.
With the planet in superposition, simultaneously near and far, it would be impossible to know whether the ships would dodge too late and destroy each other or whether they would move aside and survive. What's more, cause and effect could be reversed, Pikovski said. Imagine two events, A and B, that are causally related.
"A and B can influence each other, but in one case A is before B, while in the other case B is before A" in a superposition state, Pikovski said. That means that both A and B are simultaneously the cause and effect of each other. Fortunately for the likely-confused crews of these imaginary spacecraft, Pikovski said, they would have a mathematical way to analyze each other's transmissions to confirm that they were in a superpositioned state.
Obviously, in real life, planets don't move around the galaxy willy-nilly. But the thought experiment could have practical implications for quantum computing, even without working out an entire theory of quantum gravity, Pikovski said. By using superpositions in computations, a quantum-computing system could simultaneously evaluate a process as a cause and as an effect.
"Quantum computers may be able to use this for more efficient computation," he said.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Finally 100% Assembled
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Finally 100% Assembled
The milestone was a long time coming.
The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and “unitized pallet structures” (which fold up around the telescope for launch) are seen partially deployed to an open configuration to enable telescope installation.
NASA's next big space observatory has finally come together.
Engineers have joined both halves of the $9.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in March 2021, NASA officials announced today (Aug. 28).
"The assembly of the telescope and its scientific instruments, sunshield and the spacecraft into one observatory represents an incredible achievement by the entire Webb team," Webb project manager Bill Ochs, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement.
"This milestone symbolizes the efforts of thousands of dedicated individuals for over more than 20 years across NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, Northrop Grumman and the rest of our industrial and academic partners," Ochs added.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the agency's next giant space telescope, is seen completely assembled for the first time at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California in this image released Aug. 28, 2019.
(Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)
A side view of the James Webb Space Telescope after its spacecraft and telescope sections were assembled. (Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)
The James Webb Space Telescope's optical section (top) is carefully lowered into place on its Spacecraft Element in this view taken just before integration.
(Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)
The recent work took place at the Redondo Beach, California, facilities of Northrop Grumman, the prime contractor for Webb, which NASA bills as the successor to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope.
Using a crane, engineers gently lowered the telescope element, which consists of the optical and scientific gear, onto the spacecraft body. Webb's complex, foldable sunshield, which will keep the telescope's instruments cool during operation, was already connected to the spacecraft segment.
The team then connected the two halves mechanically. Technicians still need to make, and then test, the electrical connections between the pieces, NASA officials said.
The assembly milestone was a long time coming; the Webb Space Telescope mission has endured a series of delays and cost overruns. Since 2009, for example, the project's price tag has almost doubled, and its target launch date has been pushed back by nearly seven years.
But the telescope's great scientific potential makes all that hard work and struggle worthwhile, NASA officials have said. The powerful Webb, which is optimized to view the universe in infrared light, will allow astronomers to address some of the biggest cosmic questions once it's up and running at the sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, a gravitationally stable point in space about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.
Researchers will use the observatory to hunt for signs of life in the atmospheres of nearby alien planets, for example, and to study the formation of the universe's first stars and galaxies about 13.5 billion years ago.
"This is an exciting time to now see all Webb's parts finally joined together into a single observatory for the very first time," Gregory Robinson, the Webb program director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in the same statement. "The engineering team has accomplished a huge step forward, and soon we will be able to see incredible new views of our amazing universe."
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IS DIT HERT DOOR EEN UFO OP HOOGSPANNINGSKABELS GEDROPT? ( VIDEO )
IS DIT HERT DOOR EEN UFO OP HOOGSPANNINGSKABELS GEDROPT? ( VIDEO )
Al tientallen jaren zijn er talloze voorvallen waarbij dieren op bijna chirurgische wijze verminkt worden aangetroffen.
De ingrepen lijken uitgevoerd met een soort lasers en tal van mensen hebben deze verminkingen willen verklaren, maar geen enkele theorie heeft volledig inzicht over het fenomeen kunnen bieden.
Je vindt er zelden of nooit verhalen over in de mainstream media. De vreemde onverklaarbare verminkingen van dieren, waarvoor tot op de dag van vandaag nog geen verklaringen zijn gevonden.
Deze ingrepen zouden met de grootste (chirurgische) precisie uitgevoerd zijn en zelfs vermoedelijk met gebruik van lasers zijn gedaan. Tal van mensen hebben deze verminkingen willen verklaren, maar geen enkele theorie heeft volledig inzicht over het fenomeen kunnen bieden. Volgens sommigen zijn het UFO's die dit veroorzaken en anderen spreken dan weer van een grootscheepse samenzwering binnen de overheid die tests doen op deze dieren.
Een website die uitgebreid aandacht besteedt aan dit fenomeen is Ufowijzer. Paul Harmans vertelt het volgende over dierverminkingen:
"Het dierverminkingsfenomeen is er één waarbij veel mensen niet eens de moeite nemen er iets over te lezen, ze menen het zo wel te weten, hun ‘gezonde verstand’ spreekt hen in dat het gewoon menselijke dierenbeulen zijn die zo slim zijn dat ze nog nooit gepakt zijn, die zelfs nog nooit van afstand zijn waargenomen tijdens hun gruwelijke daden en die beschikken over technieken waar onze medische specialisten jaloers op zijn.
En ervaren spoorzoekers zouden van hen ook wel eens willen weten hoe ze hun voetsporen en dergelijke zo perfect kunnen uitwissen, veefokkers zouden ze willen vragen hoe ze zo snel en deskundig vee kunnen slachten dat een kwartier daarvoor nog springlevend was en politieagenten en zelfs de FBI ligt de brandende vraag op de lippen hoe zij al 40 jaar de perfecte misdaad hebben kunnen plegen. Maar we horen liever, van alweer de gedreven sceptici (ik kan er ook niets aan doen), dat het allemaal verklaarbaar is als zijnde een, weliswaar onbegrijpelijke, menselijke daad, dat slaapt toch veel rustiger?
Er doen zich ook andere onverklaarbare zaken voor met dode dieren zoals de dode elanden nabij een graancirkel waarover we het volgende schreven:
Zoals wevorige maand schreven in een artikel, lijkt het erop dat het aantal vreemde dierverminkingen weer aan het toenemen is.
"Harten, uiers, tepels, oren, tongen en reproductieorganen zijn lichaamsdelen die worden verwijderd en in de meeste gevallen is dat met chirurgische precisie gebeurd. Er is ook geen enkel spoor van bloed. Soms worden de verminkte dieren achtergelaten in de modder of diepe sneeuw, maar ondanks dat zijn er geen voetsporen of andere aanwijzingen dat er iemand is geweest".
Dat zien we in het onderstaande geval niet. Wel meer dan 100 dode elanden waar niemand een verklaring voor heeft. Echter, vlak in de buurt van deze dode dieren verschijnt er wel ineens een graancirkel.
Er zijn een aantal redenen om aan te nemen dat deze dieren misschien niet zijn overleden aan een plotseling optredende infectiezite zoals de autoriteiten zeiden te vermoeden.
Met het bovenstaande in het achterhoofd is de volgende foto zeer verbazingwekkend.
Het is een groot hert dat wordt gevonden bovenop hoogspanningsmasten en het ziet er als volgt uit:
Echter, er zijn talloze andere mensen die zeggen dat hoewel de foto wel degelijk echt is deze is genomen in de buurt van de Canadese stad Headingly en dat ze dit met eigen ogen hebben gezien.
Natuurlijk wordt er volop gespeculeerd over hoe dat hert daar in 's hemelsnaam terecht is gekomen. De enige “verklaring” die men kan bedenken is dat omdat er niet ver van die plek een spoorlijn loopt het dier wel door een trein geraakt zal zijn en omhoog geslingerd.
Door wetenschappers wordt dit echter tegengesproken vanwege het simpele feit dat als een dier door een rijdende trein gegrepen zou zijn het heel anderssoortige verwondingen zou hebben dan de op een merkwaardige wijze verminkte achterpoten.
Het zijn juist deze verminkingen aan de achterpoten die de theorie voeden dat het dier wellicht door een ufo is “onderzocht” en vervolgens gedropt waarbij het op de hoogspanningskabels terechtkwam.
Er is trouwens nog een vreemd mysterie met een hert en dat betreft de vondst van een jager in Delaware County in de Amerikaanse staat New York.
Een meter of vijf boven de grond hangt een groot hert in de bomen en niemand heeft enig idee hoe het daar terecht is gekomen.
Er kunnen natuurlijk andere verklaringen mogelijk zijn zoals een stelletje grappenmakers die dit hebben gedaan, maar dat lijkt niet echt waarschijnlijk. Zeker niet in afgelegen gebieden zoals waar bovenstaande voorvallen plaatsvonden.
Wel zijn er voorbeelden van bijvoorbeeld grote adelaars die proberen een jong hert mee te nemen en dit vervolgens laten vallen. Maar, de herten hierboven zijn te groot daarvoor en bovendien heeft de ene vreemde verminkingen aan de achterpoten.
An Anomalous Sudden Stratospheric Warming Is Forming Over Antarctica Right Now
An Anomalous Sudden Stratospheric Warming Is Forming Over Antarctica Right Now
A Sudden Stratospheric Warming is currently sweeping across parts of Antarctica right now. This is only the third such anomalous event in the southern hemisphere after 2002, and twice in 2010.
Find out now what they are and what are their possible impacts below. A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is an event where the polar vortex of westerly winds in the winter hemisphere slows down or even reverses direction over the course of a few days.
The change is accompanied by a rise of stratospheric temperature by several tens of kelvins.
The Earth is changing in so many ways. Hurricane headed to FL as we speak. Thanks for stopping by.
In an online chat with Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, one Twitter user asked him, “Do you believe in life outside Earth?” and he simply replied, “Yes”. So, does that mean that he believes that microorganisms may live deep within layers of ice on far away planets, or does he believe that actual aliens really do exist? It’s a pretty vague answer that raises even more questions on what he believes in and what the astronauts may have witnessed while they were on the moon.
Back in 1969 when Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin conducted the first ever manned moon landing, there was a very odd exchange between the Apollo 11 crew and Mission Control. On the third day, Armstrong witnessed an unexplained object moving parallel to them, but it was brushed off as just the third stage of the Saturn-V rocket that had brought them into space. When Armstrong asked Mission Control, “Do you have any idea where the S-IVB is with respect to us?” they responded with, “The S-IVB is about 6,000 nautical miles from you now. Over.” Many people believe that what the crew witnessed was actually a UFO.
Michael Collins
And while Collins’ response on whether he believes life exists outside of Earth was a simple one-worded answer, he isn’t the first Apollo 11 astronaut to give his opinion on other worldly topics.
Buzz Aldrin and three other astronauts (Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper) took part in a study where they all passed lie detector tests when asked about their experiences with UFOs. Aldrin has stated many times that he witnessed a UFO following them while he, Collins, and Armstrong were on their way to the moon. He stated, “There was something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped.”
Buzz Aldrin
And while Neil Armstrong never publicly discussed any interest in aliens, a letter that had been discovered suggests that he was in fact fascinated by UFOs and that he even invited a UFO expert to join him for dinner – where they more than likely discussed the topic of extraterrestrials.
Neil Armstrong
Another interesting fact about Armstrong is that he may have possibly been contacted by the “Men in Black”. In one portion of the 18-page FBI file on Armstrong, it stated that two “well-dressed” men walked into an Ohio Town Hall and asked several very personal questions about the astronaut, such as his address, how many children he had, and which restaurants he ate at. Seems a little suspicious if you ask me…
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