Mayan mystery solved: ‘Largest pyramid in world’ discovered hiding below Guatemala jungle

A GROUP of explorers set on solving the mystery of a long lost pyramid hidden deep in the Guatemala jungle, rumoured to be larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, received the treat of their lives.

Mayan discovery: 2,000-year-old carving uncovered

El Mirador is a pre-Columbian Mayan settlement, located to the north of El Peten in Guatemala, first photographed from the air in 1930, but its remote location meant further exploration was limited. In 2003, Richard D. Hansen, an archaeologist from Idaho State University, initiated a major investigation and, although his team discovered that the area contained striking examples of the Preclassic Maya civilisation, its location prevented extensive documentation. However, 16 years on, digital media company Yes Theory have changed that, uncovering two large pyramids in the complex.

Thomas Brag, Ammar Kandil and Matt Dajer trekked for four days on foot through the Guatemala jungle, alongside seven other creators to fulfil Mr Kandil’s dream to climb a pyramid.

Documenting every step of their experience, they released “Finding the Lost Largest Pyramid in the World” on their website and later on YouTube on September 15, 2019.

First uncovering the colossal structure, Mr Dajer exclaimed: “We’ve just arrived at the very, very bottom base of a pyramid.

“You would never guess just walking through here, but this entire thing is limestone underneath and this is part of the pyramid.

The pyramid was hiding in the Guatemala jungle 

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The Yes Theory crew

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Mayan discovery ‘reveals story of creation’

The Mayans were a civilisation known for their architecture, mathematics and astronomical beliefs, who date back as far as 2000BC. However, thanks to a discovery made at the El Mirador site in northern Guatemala, historians are able to know more about their theories over how human beings ended up on Earth.

Archaeologist Richard Hansen said: “We like to think of Los Angeles and New York as being modern cities, but these guys had the same perspective of their own city.

“They had water delivery systems. they had freeways – the very first in the world.

“This is one of the most interesting excavations we have ever had.” CONTINUE READING 

“You can’t even grasp fully in your mind how huge this must have looked when it was for real.”

The group then begun making the monumental 50-minute-long journey up thousands of steps.

Mr Brag told the camera: “So these are the steps to the second platform and this entire thing that we are on is man built.

“So once they started digging up the soil from what’s been layered up on top of this over thousands of years, they’re actually discovering the giant construction and the insane labour that it was to build this.

“This is just the steps up, I can’t even see the top from here.

“This is way bigger than I expected, it is insane.”

Eventually they made it to the top, and the whole crew were left taken back.

The pyramid can be seen pocking out the jungle 

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You can’t even grasp fully in your mind how huge this must have looked when it was for real

Matt Dajer

Drone footage shows the pyramid like never seen before.

An emotional Mr Kandil reflected during the film: “This is all to do with a dream I had.

“Everything about Yes Theory is saying ‘yes’ to those dreams that you think are so far-fetched.

The team trekked for four days 

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It was Ammar’s dream to climb a pyramid 

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“It’s being constantly in the pursuit to go after those dreams, to go after the things that matter the most to you in life.

“As you’re in the pursuit to do something you love and to do something that you dream of, you never who that inspires or what that ends up contributing to your life.

“Sometimes we end up achieving the dreams we never even knew we had.”

There are roughly 35 “triadic” structures in El Mirador, consisting of large artificial platforms topped with a set of three summit pyramids. 

The most notable of such structures are the two huge complexes explored in the documentary, one is nicknamed “El Tigre”, with height 55 metres, while the other is called “La Danta”.

The group climbed the pyramid for 50 minutes 

(Image: YES THEORY)

The team were cut-off from the rest of the world 

(Image: YES THEORY)

The La Danta temple measures approximately 72 metres (236 ft) tall from the forest floor, and considering its total volume (2,800,000 cubic meters) is considered the largest in the world by many archaeologists.

For comparison the Great Pyramid of Giza is 139 metres tall, but 2,583,283 cubic metres in volume.

That has not stopped one of the Seven Wonder of the Ancient World from making headlines too, though.

Recently, archaeologists opened a mystery box from Tutankhamen’s tomb on camera for the first time during Bethany Hughes’ Channel 5 show “Egypt’s Greatest Treasures”.

However, the pair did not quite get the find they were hoping for inside.

Mayan mystery: Archaeologists piece together cave remains

Dr Hughes added: “Sadly, the box is empty.

“But, you can smell it though, can’t you?

“You can smell the wood and the resin, it’s empty, but you can smell the history coming out of it.

“It still is the most remarkable thing and it’s tantalising us with its secrets.

“It is not letting us know why it was put in the tomb, but I like that.”

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28-09-2019 om 23:16 geschreven door peter  

The 12 Biggest Unanswered Questions About Dark Matter

1. Dark Matter Web

In the 1930s, a Swiss astronomer named Fritz Zwicky noticed that galaxies in a distant cluster were orbiting one another much faster than they should have been given the amount of visible mass they had. He proposed than an unseen substance, which he called dark matter, might be tugging gravitationally on these galaxies.

Since then, researchers have confirmed that this mysterious material can be found throughout the cosmos, and that it is six times more abundant than the normal matter that makes up ordinary things like stars and people. Yet despite seeing dark matter throughout the universe, scientists are mostly still scratching their heads over it. Here are the 11 biggest unanswered questions about dark matter.

2. What is dark matter?

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First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists conjectured that the missing mass in the universe was made up of small faint stars and black holes, though detailed observations have not turned up nearly enough such objects to account for dark matter's influence, as physicist Don Lincoln of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab previously wrote for Live Science. The current leading contender for dark matter's mantle is a hypothetical particle called a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, or WIMP, which would behave sort of like a neutron except would be between 10 and 100 times heavier than a proton, as Lincoln wrote. Yet, this conjecture has only led to more questions ­ — for instance…

3. Can we detect dark matter?

If dark matter is made from WIMPs, they should be all around us, invisible and barely detectable. So why haven't we found any yet? While they wouldn't interact with ordinary matter very much, there is always some slight chance that a dark-matter particle could hit a normal particle like a proton or electron as it travels through space. So, researchers have built experiment after experiment to study huge numbers of ordinary particles deep underground, where they are shielded from interfering radiation that could mimic a dark-matter-particle collision. The problem? After decades of searching, not one of these detectors has made a credible discovery. Earlier this year, the Chinese PandaX experiment reported the latest WIMP nondetection. It seems likely that dark-matter particles are much smaller than WIMPs, or lack the properties that would make them easy to study, physicist Hai-Bo Yu of the University of California, Riverside, told Live Science at the time.

4. Does dark matter consist of more than one particle?

Ordinary matter is made up of everyday particles like protons and electrons, as well as a whole zoo of more exotic particles like neutrinos, muons and pions. So, some researchers have wondered if dark matter, which makes up 85 percent of the matter in the universe, might also be just as complicated. "There is no good reason to assume that all the dark matter in the universe is built out of one type of particle," physicist Andrey Katz of Harvard University said to Space.com, Live Science's sister site. Dark protons could combine with dark electrons to form dark atoms, producing configurations as diverse and interesting as those found in the visible world, Katz said. While such proposals have increasingly been imagined in physics labs, figuring out a way to confirm or deny them has so far eluded scientists. [Strange Quarks and Muons, Oh My! Nature's Tiniest Particles Dissected]

5. Do dark forces exist?

Along with additional particles of dark matter, there is the possibility that dark matter experiences forces analogous to those felt by regular matter. Some researchers have searched for "dark photons," which would be like the photons exchanged between normal particles that give rise to the electromagnetic force, except they would be felt only by dark matter particles. Physicists in Italy are gearing up to smash a beam of electrons and their antiparticles, known as positrons, into a diamond, as Live Science previously reported. If dark photons do exist, the electron-positron pairs could annihilate and produce one of the strange force-carrying particles, potentially opening a brand-new sector of the universe.

6. Could dark matter be made of axions?

As physicists increasingly fall out of love with WIMPs, other dark-matter particles are starting to gain favor. One of the leading replacements is a hypothetical particle known as an axion, which would be extremely light, perhaps as little as 10 raised to the 31st power less massive than a proton. Axions are now being searched for in a few experiments. Recent computer simulations have raised the possibility that these axions could form star-like objects, which might produce detectable radiation that would be quite similar to mysterious phenomena known as fast-radio bursts, as Live Science previously reported.

7. What are the properties of dark matter?

Astronomers discovered dark matter through its gravitational interactions with ordinary matter, suggesting that this is its main way of making its presence known in the universe. But when trying to understand the true nature of dark matter, researchers have remarkably little to go on. According to some theories, dark-matter particles should be their own antiparticles, meaning that two dark-matter particles would annihilate with one another when they meet. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment on the International Space Station has been searching for the telltale signs of this annihilation since 2011and has already detected hundreds of thousands of events. Scientists still aren't sure if these are coming from dark matter, and the signal has yet to help them pin down exactly what dark matter is.

8. Does dark matter exist in every galaxy?

Because it so massively outweighs ordinary matter, dark matter is often said to be the controlling force that organizes large structures such as galaxies and galactic clusters. So, it was strange when, earlier this year, astronomers announced that they had found a galaxy named NGC 1052-DF2 that seemed to contain hardly any dark matter at all. "Dark matter is apparently not a requirement for forming a galaxy," Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University told Space.com at the time. However, over the summer, a separate team posted an analysis suggesting that van Dokkum's team had mismeasured the distance to the galaxy, meaning its visible matter was much dimmer and lighter than the first findings and that more of its mass was in dark matter than was previously suggested.

9. What's up with the DAMA/LIBRA results?

A long-standing mystery in particle physics are the puzzling results of a European experiment known as DAMA/LIBRA. This detector — located in an underground mine below the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy — has been searching for a periodic oscillation in dark matter particles. This oscillation should arise as the Earth moves in its orbit around the sun while flying through the galactic stream of dark matter surrounding our solar system, sometimes called the dark matter wind. Since 1997, DAMA/LIBRA has claimed to see exactly this signal, though no other experiment has seen anything like this.  

10. Could dark matter have an electrical charge?

A signal from the beginning of time has led some physicists to suggest that dark matter might have an electrical charge. Radiation with a wavelength of 21 centimeters was emitted by stars in the universe's infancy, just 180 million years after the Big Bang. It was then absorbed by cold hydrogen that was around at the same time. When this radiation was detected in February of this year, its signature suggested that the hydrogen was much colder than scientists had predicted. Astrophysicist Julian Muñoz of Harvard University hypothesized that dark matter with an electrical charge could have drawn heat away from the all-pervasive hydrogen, sort of like ice cubes floating in lemonade, as he told Live Science at the time. But the conjecture has yet to be confirmed.

11. Can ordinary particles decay into dark matter?

Neutrons are regular matter particles with a limited lifetime. After around 14.5 minutes, a lone neutron unmoored from an atom will decay into a proton, an electron and a neutrino. But two different experimental setups give slightly different lifetimes for this decay, with the discrepancy between them about 9 seconds, according to experiments cited in a July study in the journal Physical Review Letters. Earlier this year, physicists suggested that if 1 percent of the time, some neutrons were decaying into dark-matter particles, it could account for this anomaly. Christopher Morris from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico, and his team monitored neutrons for a signal that could be dark matter but were unable to detect anything. They suggested that other decay scenarios might still be possible, according to the study.

12. Does dark matter actually exist?

Given the difficulties that scientists have faced trying to detect and explain dark matter, a reasonable questioner might wonder if they're going about it all wrong. For many years, a vocal minority of physicists have pushed the idea that perhaps our theories of gravity are simply incorrect, and that the fundamental force works differently on large scales than we expect. Often known as "modified Newtonian dynamics," or MOND models, these suggestions posit that there is no dark matter and the ultrafast speeds at which stars and galaxies are seen to rotate around one another is a consequence of gravity behaving in surprising ways. "Dark matter is still an unconfirmed model," wrote physicist Don Lincoln in an explainer for Live Science. Yet the detractors have yet to convince the larger field of their ideas. And the latest evidence? It also suggests that dark matter is real

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28-09-2019 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

Nobody Knows What Made the Gargantuan Crater on the Dark Side of the Moon

By Brandon Specktor - Senior Writer 

Scientists just debunked the most popular explanation for one of the solar system's largest craters.

The South Pole-Aitken basin (represented by the shades of blue at the center) stretches 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) across and is one of the solar system’s largest craters. The dashed circle indicates the spot where researchers found a weird material beneath the basin that contains metal.

(Image: © NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona)

Billions of years ago, something slammed into the dark side of the moon and carved out a very, very large hole. Stretching 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) wide and 8 miles (13 km) deep, the South Pole-Aitken basin, as the tremendous hole is known to Earthlings, is the oldest and deepest crater on the moon, and one of the largest craters in the entire solar system. 

For decades, researchers have suspected that the gargantuan basin was created by a head-on collision with a very large, very fast meteor. Such an impact would have ripped the moon's crust apart and scattered chunks of lunar mantle across the crater's surface, providing a rare glimpse at what the moon is really made of. (Spoiler: It's not cheese.) That theory gained some credence earlier this year, when China's Yutu-2 rover, which settled into the bottom of the crater aboard the Chang'e 4 lander in January, discovered traces of minerals that seemed to originate from the moon's mantle.

Now, however, a study published Aug. 19 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters throws those results — and the crater's origin story — into question. After analyzing the minerals in six plots of soil at the bottom of the South Pole-Aitken basin, a team of researchers argues that the crater's composition is all crust and no mantle, suggesting that whatever impact opened the crater billions of years ago did not hit hard enough to spray the moon's innards onto the surface. 

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"We are not seeing the mantle materials at the landing site as expected," study co-author Hao Zhang, a planetary scientist at the China University of Geosciences, said in a statement. These findings all but rule out a direct collision with a high-velocity meteor and raise the question: What, if not a head-on meteor strike, created the largest crater on the moon?

Lighting up the dark side

In their new study, the researchers used a technique called reflection spectroscopy to identify specific minerals in the lunar soil based on how individual grains reflected visible and near-infrared light. 

Using equipment aboard the Yutu 2 rover, the team conducted reflectance tests on six patches of soil in the first two days following Chang'e 4's landing, venturing about 175 feet (54 meters) away from the lander. With the help of a database that identifies lunar minerals based on a variety of factors — including size, reflectance and degradation due to solar wind — the team estimated the mineral concentration in each of the plots.

A crystalline rock called plagioclase was by far the most abundant mineral in each sample, accounting for 56% to 72% of the crater's composition, the researchers wrote. Formed as primordial oceans of lava cool, plagioclase is extremely common in the crusts of Earth and the moon alike, but it's less abundant in their mantles. Though the team detected other minerals in the crust that are more common in the moon's mantle, such as olivine, these rocks made up too small a fraction of the soil samples to suggest that part of the mantle had broken through the crust.

This mineral makeup complicates the theory that a giant, high-velocity meteor created the South Pole‐Aitken basin billions of years ago, as such an impact almost certainly would have scattered chunks of mantle over the lunar surface. 

So, what, then, created the crater? The researchers did not speculate in the new study. However, prior research has suggested that a renegade space rock is still the culprit, but the hit may not have been so direct. A study published in 2012 in the journal Science argued that a slightly slower-moving meteor could have struck the back of the moon at an angle of about 30 degrees and resulted in an appropriately large crater that never disturbed the moon's mantle. However, those researchers had only simulations to go on. 

If nothing else, the new research suggests that there's a lot more exploring to do in the South Pole‐Aitken basin before an answer becomes apparent. See you on the dark side of the moon.

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• Originally published on Live Science.

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28-09-2019 om 21:18 geschreven door peter  

COULD A SATELLITE FALL ON OUR HEAD?

By Richard Hollingham

“This is not the crazy stuff,” says Sebastian Willems, as the researcher leads me past a glass case full of futuristic models of sleek silver spaceplanes at the German space agency’s (DLR) wind tunnel facility in Cologne. Nor is the crazy stuff to be found in the magnificently retro control gallery with its giant console of gauges, switches and knobs.

We enter a windowless room through a giant blast door, where the walls are charred and the air is rich with the disconcerting smell of explosives. This is where they test the aerodynamics of rocket engines.

But this isn’t the crazy stuff either.

No, Willems’ “crazy” experiment involves using one of the centre’s wind tunnels to simulate what happens when satellites re-enter the atmosphere.

Could sections of dead satellites survive re-entry to hit something or, worse, someone?

“There are a lot of satellites in orbit and they will come down sooner or later,” he says. “They’ll probably break up and the question for us is: what is the chance of an impact?”

In other words, could sections of dead satellites survive re-entry to hit something or, worse, someone?

The wind tunnel being deployed for Willems’ experiment resembles a giant deconstructed vacuum cleaner attached to a pressure cooker, arranged across a concrete floor. The gleaming machine is covered in a mass of pipes and wires. Capable of producing air currents of up to 11 times the speed of sound, the wind tunnel is used for testing the aerodynamics of supersonic and hypersonic aircraft designs.

At its heart is a two-metre-high spherical metal chamber where the test objects are held in special clamps. Instead of using these restraints, however, Willem is releasing objects through the airflow – set at around 3,000km/h (1,860 mph) (more than twice the speed of sound) to simulate atmospheric re-entry.

Most satellites break up into smaller pieces when they re-enter the atmosphere

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“The idea is to let objects fall through the flow of air,” says Willems. “We want to look at them in free flight as they drop through the flow.

“We only have a test time of 0.2 seconds,” he says, “but in this time we can take a lot of pictures and measurements.” Data from the experiments will be fed into computer models to improve predictions of how satellites descend to Earth.

Watch how DLR predicted how its Rosat satellite would break up

The 500,000 or so lumps of space debris surrounding our planet range from tiny fragments of metal to entire bus-sized satellites, such as the European Space Agency’s Envisat spacecraft that fell unexpectedly silent in April 2012.

“As a general trend it’s fair to say the number of objects we’re tracking in orbit is going up,” says Hugh Lewis, senior lecturer in aerospace engineering at the University of Southampton in southern England.

It’s going to be a persistent problem for a long time to come – Hugh Lewis, University of Southampton

As the amount of debris in orbit grows, the chances of a piece of space junk hitting other satellites or a crewed spacecraft increases. In fact the International Space Station has to be regularly moved to new orbits to avoid possible collisions.

“We’ve seen objects re-enter the atmosphere since the beginning of the space age,” says Lewis. “Typically one big object re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere every three-to-four days – it’s going to be a persistent problem for a long time to come.”

Although entire satellites cannot survive the fiery return to Earth, many of their larger components do. “You can see things such as propellant tanks,” says Lewis. “These lozenge-shaped objects can be around the size of a small car.”

Most failing satellites are controlled to crash over empty oceans

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Willems is not dropping any small cars through the DLR wind tunnel but he does want to examine how larger objects behave as they come apart, to determine which bits survive to reach the ground.

“The airflow around one component will interact with the air flow around other parts,” he says, “which means they might survive differently than if they re-entered on their own.”

So with all this material falling from the skies on a regular basis, why aren’t chunks of space junk littering our landscape, falling through our roofs or hitting us on the head?

The odds of being struck by a chunk of old satellite are tiny

In most cases, the answer is because mission controllers plan how their dying satellites return to Earth – using remaining fuel to push them out of orbit on controlled trajectories to burn up over remote areas of ocean. However, it is the unplanned re-entries of dead spacecraft that are of greater concern.

One of the most recent unplanned re-entries was Nasa’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in 2011. Even taking into account that 70% of the Earth is covered in ocean and large areas of the world are still sparsely populated, Lewis says there was still a 1 in 2,500 chance that UARS could have caused a casualty somewhere on the planet.

“We start to get concerned when the risk to population is 1 in 10,000,” he says. “That’s not the chance of you being hit – which is obviously extremely remote – but the chance of someone being hit.”

With more satellites, there will be more re-entries

– Hugh Lewis

Given that more than a million people die in road crashes each year, the odds of being struck by a chunk of old satellite are tiny. It still matters, however, as the nation that launches the spacecraft is legally and financially responsible under UN agreements for any damage. Space agencies are therefore keen to keep the risks of objects falling from the sky to a minimum. The experiments at DLR will be used to help better understand and track space debris, so even unplanned re-entries can be more accurately monitored.

With launches getting cheaper and satellites smaller, in the coming decades more and more spacecraft will be launched. “The benefits we can get from utilising space are increasing but the space debris situation is getting worse,” says Lewis. “With more satellites, there will be more re-entries.”

So although you are extremely unlikely to be hit by a plummeting spacecraft, the number of objects falling from the sky will rise. Nothing launched into orbit is gone forever.

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28-09-2019 om 20:17 geschreven door peter  

What if the aliens we are looking for are AI?

The search for extraterrestrial life has so far assumed our cosmic neighbours are organic. What if we’re dealing with artificial intelligence?

For more than a century we have been broadcasting our presence to the cosmos. This year, the faintest signals from the world’s first major televised event – the Nazi-hosted 1936 Olympics – will have passed several potentially habitable planets. The first season of Game of Thrones has already reached the nearest star beyond our Solar System.

So why hasn’t ET called us back?

There are plenty of obvious answers. Maybe there are no intelligent space aliens in our immediate cosmic vicinity. Perhaps they have never evolved beyond unthinking microbial slime or – based on our transmissions – aliens have concluded it is safer to stay away. There is, however, another explanation: ET is nothing like us.

“If we do find a signal, we shouldn’t expect it’s going to be some sort of soft squishy protoplasmic alien behind the microphone at the other end,” says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for alien-hunting organisation Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti).

Seti has been actively searching for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life for more than half a century. Despite tantalising signals (such as this recent one), it has so far drawn a blank. But Shostak believes we should consider looking to our own future to imagine what aliens will be like.

“Perhaps the most significant thing we’re doing is to develop our own successors,” says Shostak. “If we can develop artificial intelligence within a couple of hundred years of inventing radio, any aliens we are likely to hear from have very likely gone past that point.”

The big question is whether the AI goes on to become conscious and define its own goals and decide it doesn’t need the biological creatures that developed it – Stuart Clark

“In other words,” he says, “most of the intelligence in the cosmos, I would venture, is synthetic intelligence and that may disappoint movie goers who expect little grey guys with big eyeballs, no clothes, no hair or sense of humour.”

The argument assumes that the creatures who built the first AIs – grey guys, hyper- intelligent pan-dimensional beings, sentient trees or whatever – are no longer around.

“Well they might be,” Shostak concedes, “but once you develop artificial intelligence you can use that to develop the next generation of thinking thing and so on – within 50 years you not only have a machine that’s far smarter than all the previous machines but certainly smarter than all humans put together.”

Anyone expecting the grey-skinned aliens from sci-fi films may be disappointed

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“The big question,” says astronomer and author of the Search for Earth’s Twin, Stuart Clark, “is whether the AI goes on to become conscious and define its own goals and decide it doesn’t need the biological creatures that developed it.”

From the self-aware death machines of the Berserker books to the cyborgs of Battlestar Galactica or The Terminator, science fiction certainly has a rich seam of AIs taking over and wiping out their inferior biological creators. It is not, however, necessarily the inevitable path of any technological civilisation. Artificial Intelligence – truly thinking machines with synthetic super-brains – may not even be possible.

“It’s very unclear to me that this is inevitably going to happen,” says Clark. “But the key point is we are looking for something we imagine to be a bit like us and we’re limiting the search as a result.”

Seti could be looking for ET in the wrong place

Seti uses an array of radio telescope dishes in California to search for signals. The receivers are aimed at star systems where planets have been discovered by Earth or space telescopes such as Nasa’s Kepler observatory. These are planets which might have liquid oceans and life-supporting atmospheres – habitats that have made human evolution possible. But machine intelligences could live anywhere.

“That’s the whole problem,” says Shostak. “Not only could they be anywhere, it would make sense for them to go to places in the Universe where there were big sources of energy – if you’re going to do a lot of thinking, a lot of energy helps so maybe that’s the place to look.”

If this is the case, then Seti could be looking for ET in the wrong place. “Instead of having their own fields of radio telescopes,” says Clark, “maybe that money would be better spent equipping every observatory with piggyback equipment that looks at every signal that’s been received and look for repeating patterns.”

Should we be sending signals as well as listening for them?

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Whether every observatory would agree to host a Seti sensor is a matter for debate. The technology might, however, reveal some other surprising astronomical discovery. We now know that pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars. When Jocelyn Bell discovered the first of these oscillating signals in 1967, only half-jokingly did the University of Cambridge team label it LGM1 for Little Green Men.

In the short term, Seti is likely to continue its search for life on Earth-like planets. “But,” says Shostak, “over the course of time if we can come up with some ideas of where you might find synthetic intelligence, I think they’ll be more and more experiments aimed at doing that.”

Another approach would be to broadcast messages from Earth to target regions of the cosmos. It is a controversial strategy that Stephen Hawking has warned could leave the Earth vulnerable to attack and exploitation. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” he warned in 2010.

So are we any closer to discovering whether we are the lone intelligence – AI or not – in the Universe?

“I don’t agree,” Shostak says. “But Seti has no broadcasting capability and the other thing about broadcasting is that even if you do it, it might be a very long time before you get a response – depending how close the aliens are.”

So are we any closer to discovering whether we are the lone intelligence – AI or not – in the Universe? “I don’t think you can ever say there’s nothing there, you can’t prove that negative,” Shostak says. “What you can say is that there’s something wrong with our approach so, for me, it’s very, very early days to think about giving up.”

Clark agrees. “I think Seti should generalise its search as much as possible,” he says. “An answer to ‘yes there’s intelligent life in the Universe’ has profound implications for us and that alone qualifies Seti to carry on.”

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28-09-2019 om 19:26 geschreven door peter  

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28-09-2019 om 17:50 geschreven door peter  

PUBLIC INVITED TO VIEW A 100-DRONE AERIAL LIGHT SHOW

A musically choreographed flock of 100 drones will take to

the sky on Friday, September 20, at approximately 9 p.m. just east of the iHotel and Conference Center in Champaign. The special aerial performance is in celebration of the 75^th anniversary of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois.

Photo provided by Firefly Drone Shows

“When the department was founded in 1944, unmanned aerial vehicles—drones, were the stuff of science fiction. Today, they’re used in all sorts of applications and represent one of the cutting-edge technologies our researchers and students are working on in the department,” said Professor and Interim Head of the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Greg Elliott. “As we kick off a year-long celebration of aerospace at Illinois, we are particularly excited to be able to share this professional drone show with the community.”

The show is produced by Firefly Drone Shows and will be customized with a nod to the department's 75^th anniversary.

Much like the Champaign-Urbana fireworks display, the 15-minute light show can be viewed from areas nearby. Special permission has been granted for the public to park in designated lots south of the iHotel – specifically, the Caterpillar, Yahoo, and TekMill parking lots. The map showing the parking lots is available online and on the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering’s Facebook page.

The show soundtrack will be simulcast on WPGU radio at 107.1 FM. Audio can also be heard through WPGU app or TuneIn Radio, both of which are available on the App Store or Google Play.

If it rains on the evening of Sept. 20, the drone show will be reschedule

Elliott mentioned another public event scheduled for April 11 as part of the 75^th anniversary year. The department will co-host a showing of the movie Apollo 13 at the Virginia Theatre with a panel of aerospace experts following the film.

Riverbanks Center Marikina successfully pulled a first in the metro to do a fully automated light drones show in public. Enjoy the show! Kaway-Kaway fellow Marikenos! Kakaiba din eh..

A fleet of 1,180 unmanned drones put on a show like no others in south China's Guangzhou. The drones altogether weigh over one tonne. But they are controlled by just one engineer with one computer.

Intel dazzled its Folsom audience on July 15, 2018 with a spectacular light show designed to feature 1,500 drones, in an effort to outdo its previous world record of 1,218 Intel Shooting Star drones. The performance displayed multicolored choreography including bright, fireworks-like orbs.

Avengers Endgame Malaysia drone show with 300 drone by marvel studio and drone programmed by Intel. Avengers drone show location was 300M around Kuala Lumpur tower.

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28-09-2019 om 17:24 geschreven door peter  

UFO Tunnel Cloud Seen Over Huntington Pier, California Sept 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 3, 2019
Location of sighting: Huntington Beach Pier, California, USA
Source: 

• https://www.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/comments/czt3u8/

taken_from_the_hb_pier_this_strange_cloud_came/

Its a well known fact among UFO researchers that these long clouds with perfect dimensions are tunnels for UFOs to travel through safely and unseen by human eyes. The 1989 Rapid City, South Dakata event of four such clouds all starting over the city documented over 25 727 size glowing foreseen balls of light appearing at the beginning of each of the four tunnels, as if taking turns...as one began moving down the cloud tunnel...another would appear in a cloud tunnel two tunnels over and begin to pulse and then move slowly thought the tunnel, easily seen due to its powerful light hitting the edges of the tunnel from within. Each sat still for about 10 seconds, then began its journey slowly...increasing speed as it moved until it was moving at the speed of a jet as it disappeared over the horizon within the tunnels. 

This UFO tunnel cloud over Huntington, California is the same. It allows UFOs to rise up our of under ground and under water bases and to move across the sky unseen so that they can reach another alien base in a different location on Earth. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 

Taken from the HB pier. This strange cloud came from Newport, and was gone as quickly as it arrived. It brought a lot of wind with it. Was very pretty though! Never seen anything like it in my life. Rare occurrence?

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28-09-2019 om 16:17 geschreven door peter  

Face On Mars Looks Like Beast Of Battle, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Sept 27, 2019
Location of discovery: Mars
Source photo: 

• http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/155261
  
  

This photo was in false color...to make the red planet red..so thoughtful of NASA. So I put it back into normal color. This is what Mars really looks like. 

I found a face unlike any I have ever found before...understand I've found thousands. This face is part buffalo and part baboon. Its very big, about 2 meters across. Its sitting upright and looking to the distant hills.  The nostrils of the face are big and flat like a baboon nose. The ridges over the eyes are muscular and powerful...showing its aggression and strength. It almost seems like the head of an ancient greek godlike creature. Its open mouth as if it were about to say something...its ears seem to curl like small horns on the side of its head. Not a creature you would like to come face to face with in a dark alley. 

Faces are important to search for. They tell us more about the species that once lived on Mars than any other artifact ever could. Never in history has a more precious and more significant discovery been made than that of the face of an ancient person.
Scott C. Waring

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28-09-2019 om 16:15 geschreven door peter  

It seems unlikely that the phenomenon is a camera lens flare since underneath the blue beam of light you can see some sort of energy field that lights up the trees.

Original image of the strange blue beam in Tasmania, Australia submitted to Mufon.

Could it be that this beam of light, whether man-made or extraterrestrial, is a directional projection of energy coming from an unknown source in our atmosphere?

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Those Mysterious Blue Lights Are From NASA. 

NASA assures that the chemicals – called vapor tracers – are as harmless as fireworks. In fact, in the mix of barium, lithium and trimethylaluminum in the vapor tracers are the same ingredients found in fireworks.

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28-09-2019 om 09:52 geschreven door peter  

Stastistiek van Land van herkomst van de bezoekers van mijn blog

Stastistiek Country of origin of visitors to my blog

Stastistiek Herkunftsland der Besucher auf meinem Blog

Stastistiek Pays d'origine des visiteurs sur mon blog

LAND VAN HERKOMST

Land Percentage   Verenigde Staten 53,8 % (71625)   België 13,9 % (18531)   Nederland 10,9 % (14500)   Canada 4,0 % (5364)   Frankrijk 2,8 % (3788)   Verenigd Koninkrijk (Groot-Brittannië) 2,6 % (3476)   Duitsland 1,7 % (2276)   Australië 1,4 % (1799)   Spanje 0,9 % (1159)   Italië 0,6 % (856)   Zweden (Sverige) 0,5 % (599)   Zwitserland 0,4 % (541)   Polen (Polska) 0,4 % (481)   Japan (Nippon) 0,3 % (428)   Brazilië 0,3 % (413)   Rusland 0,3 % (373)   India 0,3 % (369)   Oostenrijk 0,3 % (366)   Finland (Suomi Finland) 0,2 % (321)   Hongarije (Magyar) 0,2 % (300)   Turkije 0,2 % (280)   Noorwegen (Norge) 0,2 % (276)   Tsjechië 0,2 % (270)   Zuid Korea 0,2 % (262)   Portugal 0,2 % (254)   Roemenië (Rumania, Roumania) 0,2 % (250)   Denemarken 0,2 % (242)   Mexico 0,2 % (239)   China (Zhongguo) 0,1 % (197)   Griekenland (Ellas, Hellas) 0,1 % (163)   Taiwan 0,1 % (153)   Ierland (Eire) 0,1 % (152)   Nieuw-Zeeland 0,1 % (146)   Israël 0,1 % (142)   Maleisië 0,1 % (131)   Slowakije 0,1 % (130)   Argentinië 0,1 % (128)   Hongkong (Xianggang) 0,1 % (122)   Bulgarije 0,1 % (115)   Chili 0,1 % (108)   Estland (Eesti) 0,1 % (102)   Indonesië 0,1 % (101)   Koeweit 0,1 % (92)   Slovenië 0,1 % (82)   Singapore 0,1 % (71)   Servië & Montenegro 0,1 % (69)   Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (Abu Dhabi, Dubai) 0,0 % (66)   Filipijnen 0,0 % (64)   Oekraïne 0,0 % (64)   Thailand 0,0 % (62)   Kroatië 0,0 % (56)   Peru 0,0 % (55)   Letland 0,0 % (53)   Luxemburg (Lëtzebuerg) 0,0 % (53)   Litouwen (Lietuva) 0,0 % (50)   Costa Rica 0,0 % (40)   Saoedi-Arabië 0,0 % (39)   Colombia 0,0 % (24)   Venezuela 0,0 % (24)   IJsland 0,0 % (20)   Pakistan 0,0 % (19)   Cyprus 0,0 % (18)   Bosnië-Herzegovina 0,0 % (17)   Oman 0,0 % (17)   Jordanië 0,0 % (16)   Malta 0,0 % (15)   Sri Lanka 0,0 % (15)   Georgië 0,0 % (13)   Vietnam 0,0 % (12)   Ecuador 0,0 % (11)   El Salvador 0,0 % (11)   Libanon 0,0 % (11)   Uruguay 0,0 % (11)   Azerbeidzjan 0,0 % (10)   Bangladesh 0,0 % (9)   Macedonië 0,0 % (9)   Puerto Rico 0,0 % (9)   Aruba 0,0 % (8)   Wit-Rusland 0,0 % (8)   Groenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) 0,0 % (7)   Kazachstan 0,0 % (7)   Bolivia 0,0 % (6)   Jemen 0,0 % (6)   Brunei 0,0 % (5)   Iran 0,0 % (5)   Mongolië 0,0 % (5)   Myanmar 0,0 % (5)   Nepal 0,0 % (5)   Palestijnse bezette gebieden 0,0 % (5)   Panama 0,0 % (5)   Armenië 0,0 % (4)   Caymaneilanden 0,0 % (4)   Egypte 0,0 % (4)   Frans Polynesië (Tahiti) 0,0 % (4)   Kirgizië 0,0 % (4)   Moldavië 0,0 % (4)   Monaco 0,0 % (4)   Albanië 0,0 % (3)   Algerije 0,0 % (3)   Amerikaanse Maagdeneilanden 0,0 % (3)   Bermuda 0,0 % (3)   Cuba 0,0 % (3)   Gibraltar 0,0 % (3)   Guam 0,0 % (3)   Nieuw-Caledonië 0,0 % (3)   Suriname 0,0 % (3)   Trinidad en Tobago 0,0 % (3)   Bahrein 0,0 % (2)   Cambodja 0,0 % (2)   Dominicaanse Republiek 0,0 % (2)   Fiji 0,0 % (2)   Guatemala 0,0 % (2)   Irak 0,0 % (2)   Jamaica 0,0 % (2)   Oezbekistan 0,0 % (2)   Qatar 0,0 % (2)   Vanuatu 0,0 % (2)   Afghanistan 0,0 % (1)   Bahama's 0,0 % (1)   Barbados 0,0 % (1)   Faeröer 0,0 % (1)   Guadeloupe 0,0 % (1)   Haïti 0,0 % (1)   Honduras 0,0 % (1)   Laos 0,0 % (1)   Liechtenstein 0,0 % (1)   Nicaragua 0,0 % (1)   Noordelijke Marianen-eilanden 0,0 % (1)   Palau (Belau) 0,0 % (1)   Salomonseilanden 0,0 % (1)   San Marino 0,0 % (1)   Zambia 0,0 % (1)        Onbekend 0,2 % (203) +  100 % (133108)     Totaal aantal getelde landen: 132

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28-09-2019 om 02:10 geschreven door peter  

NASA: geen spoor van ‘gecrashte’ maanlander - HLN.be

Bron: ANP

Tijdens de landing werd het contact verbroken met het onbemande tuig, en tot nog toe is het onduidelijk wat er met het apparaat is gebeurd. Ook de foto’s die het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartinstituut NASA nu heeft vrijgegeven, verschaffen niet echt meer duidelijkheid. 

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India verliest vlak voor maanlanding contact met ruimtetuig

Volgens NASA heeft het betrokken team de lander tot nu toe niet kunnen lokaliseren of fotograferen. “Het was schemer toen het landingsgebied werd gefotografeerd en daarom bedekten grote schaduwen een groot deel van het terrein; het is mogelijk dat de Vikram-lander verborgen ligt in een schaduw”, klinkt het nog. De satelliet van NASA zal in oktober nogmaals langsvliegen, als er meer licht is, en opnieuw foto’s nemen.

De lander, met aan boord een rover (Pragyan), steeg op 22 juli op vanaf aarde en op 7 september verloor het controlecentrum het contact. Volgens NASA is de lander gecrasht. Het was de bedoeling dat Vikram en Pragyan samen de bodem bij de zuidpool van de maan zouden gaan onderzoeken. Daar is misschien waterijs te vinden.

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28-09-2019 om 00:28 geschreven door peter  

The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life

Its surface could, in principle, preserve the remains of organisms or even technology from beyond our solar system

28-09-2019 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

28-09-2019 om 00:05 geschreven door peter  

Is it possible that aliens are not just visiting us, abducting us and learning about us, but also eating us (albeit in a very weird way)? As disturbing and as nightmarish as it might sound, that may well be exactly what is going down. Over the years I have come across cases involving people who have crossed paths with the dreaded Men in Black – only to find themselves falling sick, ill and weak in incredibly short periods of time. It’s as if the MIB are predatory, vampire-like entities. The main difference: one is a fictional entity that feeds on blood and the other is an all too real figure in black. It’s very much the same with the creepy Black-Eyed Children: if you dare to let them in your home, they will drain you dry of your energy. The Shadow People, the Hat-Man, and the Grinning Man fall into this particular category, too. In the world of sci-fi, however, such a thing has occurred in a fashion that mirrors some of the claims concerning what may be afoot in the real world. A 1985 movie, Lifeforce was directed by horror legend, Tobe Hooper – who also directed the groundbreaking 1974 movie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the acclaimed 1979 TV mini-series version of Stephen King’s novel, Salem’s Lot.

That the movie featured many well-known actors, including Patrick Stewart (who, in 1987, took on the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation) should have made Lifeforce a big hit. Unfortunately, it was not a hit. At all. Cinema-based earnings didn’t even reach half of the $25 Million budget that had been allocated for the production of the movie. That said, for zombie fanatics, Lifeforce – based on Colin Wilson’s novel, The Space Vampires – should not be missed.

The movie begins in outer space, in 1986, the year that Halley’s Comet made its most recent appearance. A team of astronauts embark on a mission, in a NASA Space Shuttle called the Churchill (named after British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill), to rendezvous with the gigantic comet. On doing so, the crew is shocked to find that deep within Halley’s Comet there is a huge spacecraft of alien origins. Not only that, the ship is filled with numerous, dead, winged monsters and three very human-looking beings: two men and one woman. Unbeknownst to the astronauts, the three entities are not, as is first suspected, fellow Homo sapiens that have been abducted by the gargoyle-like creatures. They are one and the same. In other words, the aliens have the ability to morph into human form and back again. It isn’t long before all three are secretly brought to London, England for study at the fictional European Space Research Center.  Despite being heavily guarded by British Army personnel, that’s when the trouble begins.

Clearly not dead, the trio of non-humans appears to be in a collective state of deep, suspended animation. Until, that is, they wake up. The woman, using what might be termed a form of extraterrestrial hypnotism, entrances one of the troops and – utterly naked – moves towards the man, seemingly to kiss him on the lips. This is no normal kiss, however. As the alien female embraces the soldier, she drains his body of its vital energy – the life-force, in other words, of the movie’s title. His body falls to the ground, as a withered, shrunken husk, and the alien escapes from the facility. A couple of hours later, a shocking development occurs. While the military team overseeing the project – and acting to keep everything under wraps and away from the public and the media – tries to figure out what is afoot, word comes in that the body of a woman has been found in nearby woods. She, too, is as withered as an old, leathery Egyptian mummy. When her body is brought to the space center for study, it reanimates – as does the body of the dead soldier. They, too, are now crazed undead entities needing to feed on vital life-energy. A doctor is then violently attacked and bitten. He also dies and returns as a savage monster. And with the morphed alien on the loose, it’s not long before London is engulfed in an epidemic, one in which the living first become the dead, but who then mutate into something far worse.

In a neat twist, the team comes to believe that these energy-sucking aliens – and the people they infect – are responsible for our centuries-old legends and folklore of bloodsucking vampires. But, in reality, it’s energy, and not blood, that the reanimated so badly need. And they don’t dress like cloaked Count Dracula, either. One hundred percent zombie-like in appearance, the ragged dead rise up in violent style, rampaging around the streets of London in huge throngs, attacking the living, sucking them dry, and ensuring their victims soon become marauding killers, just like them. The fate of the entire human race is now precariously hanging in the balance. It’s accurate and fair to say that Lifeforce is an unusual and highly alternative production that blends together three, distinct genres that are generally kept poles apart from each other: zombies, vampires, and science-fiction. Notably, however, all three are successfully fused into what is an entertaining – but unfortunately much under-appreciated – production. A movie that parallels reality? Maybe…

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27-09-2019 om 23:52 geschreven door peter  

While the great unwashed Facebook hordes were storming Area 51 in Nevada, something equally strange transpired over Minnesota in an area known locally as “Spot 51”. Friday, September 20th, Todd Mitchell, owner of Country Campground in Detroit Lakes, MN, ran his 24-hour security video camera just like any other evening. But this night he wondered if it might document something more exciting than camper arrivals, perhaps some dramatic lightning strikes from an incoming thunderstorm. What he didn’t know was he had recorded something even more extraordinary.

Later when Mitchell reviewed his footage, he forgot all about the lightning when he noticed what appeared to be a fuzzy, black object flitting erratically among the storm clouds, trailing what could be easily mistaken for dark fumes behind it. To the viewer’s eye, it sure looks like a skybound smoke monster, repeatedly performing feats of aerial acrobatics before it vanishes into thin air. Or perhaps it’s an alien spaceship suffering the effects of a faulty exhaust system. Or maybe someone just let the air out of one prime specimen of Charles Fort’s normally invisible sky jellyfish. Any of those options qualify the strange object as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

Mitchell provided the footage to his TV news station, noting that on a local map, the Detroit Lakes Chamber of Commerce identifies Country Campground as “Spot 51”. The video combined with that revelation resulted in yucks and ample banter at the end of WDAY’s Sept. 25th evening news broadcast. But at least they didn’t play the X-Files theme music.

Looks like I spoke to soon! They saved the X-Files theme music for the second report. To their credit, the TV crew visited the scene, interviewed Mitchell, and even delved into the county’s UFO-related history.

Some may propose that the object Mitchell captured is merely a bug on the lens or some other equally pedestrian explanation. I contacted witness Todd Mitchell and he provided a link to three video clips, which he has uploaded to YouTube for your examination.

Mitchell acknowledges that some of the office to the back of the camera is reflected by the double pane window he shoots the video through. He identifies the small lights to the left and the center of the screen as the reflection of his “Dish Network rack system”. To the far right side, there is additional room reflection.

In Part 1, the video seemed perfectly normal until Mitchell drew my attention, about 10 seconds in, to a tiny, barely perceivable black dot off to the right of the screen, in the part of the sky just above a small tree. The dot moves slowly upward in a more-or-less straight line. Of all three of the objects appearing in these video clips, this one most clearly seems to demonstrate the crawling movement of a bug. It traverses the screen smoothly, seemingly unaffected by wind shear or changes in sky composition, as if creeping across a  perfectly flat surface.

In Part 2, we see much more erratic moment, that is also consistent with bugs flying close to the lens. However, the smokey trailing effect following the movement is interesting, but may just indicate video blurring caused by extreme speed.

Part 3, is the most curious because at the last moment some commenters point out that the object seems to weave through a cloud.

When I asked Mitchell if he had ever experienced anything strange or paranormal before his response was, “Oh, heck, no!” “There’s a lot of things that you can generally explain or guess at. But for this I have no guesses,” he says.

When Mitchell’s footage went public, a Native American man stopped by the campground for a visit. He came to share with Mitchell the possibility that perhaps the mysterious sky dweller Mitchell captured on video was a sacred Thunder Being — a bringer of life, a protector of humanity, and an important part of the man’s native heritage. Mitchell intends to review past footage to see if there is any correlation between thunderstorms and the appearance of the strange objects. If there is some relationship to thunderstorms, perhaps that will help explain the similarities between Mitchell’s footage and another strange object spotted in Nebraska during a thunderstorm in 2015.

So what’s your take, is this simply the work of displaced insects attracted to the lights of the campground or could it be something far stranger?

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27-09-2019 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

New Evidence of the Sahara’s Age

The Sahara Desert is vast, generously dusty, and surprisingly shy about its age. New research looking into what appears to be dust that the Sahara blew over to the Canary Islands is providing the first direct evidence from dry land that the age of the Sahara matches that found in deep-sea sediments: at least 4.6 million years old.

“People have been trying to figure it out for several decades,” said Daniel Muhs, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado. “More recent studies said it was the beginning of the Pleistocene (about 2.6 million years ago). Then others say a few thousand years ago.” Added to this is a model suggesting the Sahara Desert first appeared as far back as seven million years ago.

Desert dust from Africa is transported west to the Canary Islands and

the CapeVerde Islands every year. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image of “Calima” (dust storm) event on 8 March 2006, taken from the Terra satellite. 

Source: 

• http://www.ineffableisland.com/2019/09/new-evidence-of-saharas-age.html

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27-09-2019 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

Police Officers Witness Alien Craft Over Ohio

APRIL 25, 2001 ……..WAYNESVILLE OHIO

On Tuesday, April 25, 2001, a very strange object is reported by civilians and law enforcement officers in the evening skies near Waynesville, Ohio in Warren County.

From their residence near the 4600 Block of Wilkerson Road, a husband and wife are the first to report a circular lighted object hovering silently in the sky to the south of their location.

The big light of the UFO, pulsating or changing in both color and brightness, was said to be encased within a structure that resembled gridwork or cabling.

The couple advised the Lebanon City Police Department of the object around 10:15 p.m. and the Warren County Communications Center dispatched a Waynesville police officer to the location.

Upon arrival at the scene, the Waynesville officer confirmed the unidentifiable nature of the object and also reported that a second UFO was also in the area.

LOCAL: WHAT IS IT!

Unit #2W30: I have NO IDEA, and you wouldn’t believe it if you came out and saw it! There’s two of them, just sitting stationary and blinking, I mean about five different colors, right here on Wilkerson, just off of South Main Street…

FEMALE OFFICER: This is 480-16

Unit #2W30: I’m not kidding! Go ahead.

FEMALE OFFICER: Okay, we’re on the backside of that, here in the lot because I couldn’t stand it no more. Where is it at, is it in the air?

They’re high up, they look like uh, they’re up there but with our binoculars though, the ones he’s got here, you can see them pretty clearly. There’s probably five different colors, there’s two of them and they’ve stayed in the exact same spot the whole time.

They’re not stars, I can tell you that.

As other officers respond to the location and continue to view the abnormalities, dispatchers at the Warren County Communications Center telephone a base operator at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton/Fairborne, Ohio and also places a call to Airborne Express at the Wilmington Airport in Clinton County, Ohio.

Both flight control facilities deny any knowledge of or responsibility for air traffic in the Waynesville, Ohio vicinity during the incident.

While the Waynesville police officers view the object from Wilkerson Road looking south, a police dispatcher also observes the same object from her position at the Warren County Communications Center in Lebanon, Ohio, looking north toward Waynesville. From review of the police tapes, it can be estimated that the primary object may have been in a general location between Waynesville and Lebanon near the intersections of Pekin Road and Route 42.

An officer with the Caesar’s Creek State Police also notes the UFO from his location to the east of Waynesville. A third UFO is sighted in the area during the event, and the police witnesses repeatedly affirm a cogent distinction between the suspected UFOs and routine stars and airplanes. The objects move off by receding further into the distance as other officers from the Ohio State Patrol arrive on the scene.

Dispatchers at the Ohio State Patrol and the Warren County Communications Center express frustration at having to handle this situation and their inability to address the reports and eyewitness confirmation from their officers.

The next evening, Wednesday, April 25, UFOs are again reported in the same area at 9:48 p.m., viewed from Wilkerson Road and also by officers observing from a location near the Waynesville Airport. Disturbingly, another unusual object is seen in the area seven hours later and reportedly pursues a motorist near Genntown, Ohio (about 5-miles from Waynesville).

A female complainant advises the Ohio State Patrol of her ‘extreme concern’ regarding a triangular object with “super bright lights” that pursued her automobile while traveling on Route 122 at 5:00 a.m., April 26.

These and other details were acquired from eyewitness interviews, analysis of various police reports and evaluation of police tapes acquired through the Warren County Director of Emergency Services. Additional data was gathered through field investigation conducted on April 27th and April 28th.

Consideration has been given to the possibility that this situation was engendered by a misperception of routine stars and planets by both civilians and police officers on both evenings. This theory was first advanced by Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who was advised of the incident by the Ohio State Patrol while the sighting was in progress.

The star ‘Sirius’ was identified by Davenport as a likely candidate for misperception, but after sober review of the police tapes acquired from the Warren County Department of Emergency Services, this attempt at explanation is not looked upon favorably.

NOTE: The above image is CGI.

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27-09-2019 om 22:56 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sightings Not Less, But Reporting Them Is...But The Time Of Change Is Nearing, UFO Sighting News.

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27-09-2019 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Scotland Creates Rainbow, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Scotland
News source: 

• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-39254354
  
  

Here is an older sighting that I had never seen before, so I will post it here. A UFO cloud was seen back in March of 2017 over Scotland and as it passed over a hill...a colorful thick rainbow appeared linking the ground to the UFO. I believe that the UFO was of course beaming people and supplies down to an underground base about 4-6km below the ground. An incredible once in a lifetime sighting. In my 15 years of reporting UFOs, I have never seen a UFO that created a rainbow. I have seen them in the rainbow or near it, but this is a first. 
Scott C. Waring

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27-09-2019 om 22:20 geschreven door peter