Perhaps few lands, ancient or modern, are as attractive as Italy — for its people, rolling landscapes, Mediterranean coast, and rich historical allure. We can add to this list an emerging archaeological phenomenon in Sardinia. On this island off the coast of Italy, lies an ancient site where skeletal remains of giants have been uncovered, defying academic conclusions about the land’s earliest inhabitants.

If you take a ferry, Sardinia is situated five hours west of mainland Italy and is home to a persistent theory that giants may have roamed the land. Travel guides suggest that much of the island’s prehistoric past has been preserved mainly because Sardinia features a relatively unpopulated countryside, and many areas where people once lived have long been abandoned. Human occupation is traceable steadily throughout the Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Calcolithic, Bronze, and Iron ages. 

While early Sardinians left behind significant contributions of ancient pottery and megalithic statues crafted out of large, heavy, and enduring stone, perhaps the most startling finds are those said to be of Sardinian giants and include bone and teeth fragments. The site in question is in Coddu Vecchiu, in a place that locals and archaeologists alike refer to as Tomba dei Giganti — the tomb of the giants. It was constructed during the Bronze Age (3300-700 BC) by the Nuragic civilization as a public tomb, in an area where many were buried.

Located on a hillside peppered with vineyards, the giants’ tombs of Coddu Vecchiu are introduced through the doorway of a central stele (an upright stone slab or column serving as a gravestone), which was believed to serve as a barrier between the physical world and the afterlife. In the stone forecourt of the compound are eleven granite stones, arranged in a semicircle measuring about 40 feet across. 

It has been hypothesized that the semicircular arrangement of the stones may have been an attempt to harness telluric currents of the granite for rejuvenating purposes. Author of Mysterious Places in Italy, Isabella Dalla Vecchia, wrote that telluric energy and magnetic forces flowing under the earth’s crust and is part of what makes planet earth a living organism. Dalla Vecchia wrote, “Man, a creature of Mother Earth, is able to interact with and become very sensitive to these movements. Men absorb them unconsciously in particular situations.” Additionally, she explained, a large stone slab with a small doorway is believed to connect the gravesite with the outside world. The opening symbolizes the union between this world and the afterworld. Offerings were deposited on a large bench at the base of the tomb.

Legends vs. Modern Science

According to legend, Sardinia was once home to a race of giants. Those who support this theory point to the massive size of some of the stones used on the burial grounds. On the other hand, archaeologists argue that only the tombs are giant, but those buried at the site were normal-sized humans. Perhaps equally mysterious aspects of the archaeological site are traces of rituals, the existence of powerful sources of natural energy, and how the megaliths are related to the heavens. Many tombs of giants are oriented toward the Taurus’ constellation and point to the brightest star, Aldebaran. And on the days of the equinoxes, the light of the rising sun enters directly into the tomb corridor through a small opening on the stele.

The Story Unfolds in The New Season of Open Minds

Researchers for Ancient Origins noted that the giants’ graves “may provide us with more questions than answers. While they give an interesting insight into the burial rituals of ancient civilizations, they do not provide much information beyond the physical structure of the tombs and the fact that they were used for burial purposes. With religious and spiritual beliefs far different during ancient times than today, it’s likely ancient burial rituals were very different from what we currently know today. There was likely much focus on safely making it to the afterlife, and ensuring a smooth transition from a physical presence on Earth, to a spiritual presence beyond Earth, and possibly a reincarnation into a new life.” However, Gaia’s preeminent documentary host, Regina Meredith, may have more to offer on this subject.

As part of Evidence of Giants in Sardinia, authors Paola Harris (“UFOs: All The Above…and Beyond”) and Freddy Silva (“The Missing Lands”) look into legendary stories passed along through generations. The show notes, “All across the island we find thousands of stone structures, constructed hundreds of thousands of years ago, by a civilization lost to history…” In the video exposé, Meredith and her team explore ancient ruins that seem obviously too large for average-size human beings, while examining bone remnants of gigantic proportions. Additionally, they explore the forbidden history of the lost giants of Atlantis who may have settled in Sardinia after the great deluge.

Meredith’s interview with lifelong Sardinian resident Luigi Mucas, author of The Giants of Sardinia, has revealed that the people of the island have known about the presence of giants for generations. It is nearly impossible not to be aware of this history simply because bones have been found all over the island by locals going about their lives. As a little boy, Mucas said at family gatherings, there were stories of how his “ancestors came from a line of giants.” Mucas believes, based on the testimonies of generations of family members, that his people came from Atlantis and his people are the remnants of that civilization.

With strong reticence by modern archaeologists to entertain the existence of giants as part of human history on earth, the Tombs of the Giants sites in Sardinia will continue to be a mystery that challenges the mainstream narrative. However, as Paola Harris explains, if you talk to the townspeople who act as firsthand witnesses, regardless of the official story coming from archaeology, “you’ll get the real truth.” And this truth, supported by evidence of bone fragments scattered all over Sardinia, discovered by modern-day inhabitants, is that a race of giants had once roamed this island in the Mediterranean. 

{ https://www.gaia.com/ }

22-11-2019 om 18:22 geschreven door peter  

22-11-2019 om 18:00 geschreven door peter  

Black Triangle On Sun Does The Impossible, Reversing Its Direction! Nov 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 10 until Nov 21, 2019
Location of sighting: Earths sun
Source: 

• https://helioviewer.org
  

I was looking over Helioviewer and noticed that the black triangle that I reported two months ago is back. This time it has reversed its orbit of the sun. The object was moving from left to right of the screen, but now its moving from right to left! That should be impossible. Its skimming the surface of the sun, actually touching the sun. Its about the size of earths moon. The shape is a black triangle. I am very surprised that NASA has never mentioned this huge object on earths southern region. This is 100% proof that aliens exist and NASA isn't doing its job. Watch the video to see this object as it moves. 
Scott C. Waring

{ https://www.etdatabase.com/ }

22-11-2019 om 17:39 geschreven door peter  

Black Triangle On Sun Does The Impossible, Reversing Its Direction! Nov 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 10 until Nov 21, 2019
Location of sighting: Earths sun
Source: 

• https://helioviewer.org
  

I was looking over Helioviewer and noticed that the black triangle that I reported two months ago is back. This time it has reversed its orbit of the sun. The object was moving from left to right of the screen, but now its moving from right to left! That should be impossible. Its skimming the surface of the sun, actually touching the sun. Its about the size of earths moon. The shape is a black triangle. I am very surprised that NASA has never mentioned this huge object on earths southern region. This is 100% proof that aliens exist and NASA isn't doing its job. Watch the video to see this object as it moves. 
Scott C. Waring

{ https://www.etdatabase.com/ }

22-11-2019 om 17:33 geschreven door peter  

Among the constructed objects; a rectangular building, a huge tower, oval walls and a hexagon structure.

Besides the lunar base he also shows another UFO sighting under the thick atmosphere and gases on the lunar surface. UFOs landing on the moon seem to be descending under what BruceSeesAll calls an unknown veil...that lies over the surface the moon.

{ http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

22-11-2019 om 17:14 geschreven door peter  

It's Still Not Aliens: 'Mars Bug' Claim Could Damage the Search for Life

22-11-2019 om 17:03 geschreven door peter  

Images of strange solar system visitor peel away some of ...

Space is both the final frontier and the ultimate mystery. Although from here on Earth, and from our limited ventures off-planet, we have gleaned a large amount of data about the happenings of space even well beyond our solar system, there is much that remains enigmatic and unanswered.

The cosmos still keep a few secrets from us, and every once in awhile, something unusual does turn up which causes us to have to rethink our old conceptions of celestial mechanics. Among the many eccentricities of the night sky observed by astronomers over the centuries have been strange, often hazy illuminations that appear in places where they shouldn’t. Sometimes resembling stars or comets, these objects are set apart from most conventional astronomical observations on account of their peculiar motion and other atypical behaviors.

There is a long history of such observations, despite a modest number of accounts that might be considered genuinely anomalous. As far back as 1612, German astronomer Christopher Scheiner had made numerous observations of Jupiter and its moons. In the sketches of his observations, there is an object in addition to the known moons of Jupiter as recognized today; this object, while included in Scheiner’s drawings, seems to have vanished over the course of the astronomer’s ongoing observations.

According to Scheiner, the object had first appeared bright and star-like, just like the other Jovian satellites, but between March 30 and the first weeks of April, the object began to darken, and eventually faded from view. The object is absent in Scheiner’s later drawings, seemingly indicating that the mysterious Jovian “moon” had vanished.

A similar phenomenon was logged in the first years of the nineteenth century by astronomer Hofrath Huth, who in 1802 described seeing a round star that produced “faint reddish light” in the area of theta and delta Leonis. The object was not stationary either, and although Huth deemed it a “moving star,” its path indicated a retrograde motion as opposed to that of other stars and celestial objects. The object was observed between the first six days of January, the outset of which saw the “star” as slightly smaller than the moons of Jupiter. However, by January 6th the strange backward-moving object had vanished and was not seen again, apart from a single observation the following year by Russian astronomer Cornelius Reissig.

A similar observation of an unusual, nebulous object occurred more than three decades later in May 1835, when Italian astronomer Niccolò Cacciatore observed an unidentified eighth-magnitude star from his observation station in Palermo. He had been observing star 503 of Mayer’s catalog with a Ramsden circle (an early astronomical instrument designed by mathematician Jesse Ramsden to measure the positions of astronomical objects). The first night of observation, the new star had appeared behind star 503, but the following evening it appeared to precede it. After this, the mysterious “star” was never detected again.

The majority of sightings of such objects in the scientific record occurred during or prior to the nineteenth century, after which most similar objects were classified as either likely comets or in a few cases unusual classes of asteroids, such as the Reinmuth object, first observed in April 1932. There have been a few notable instances where star-like objects were seen moving through space more recently; a notable circumstance of this sort involved astronomer Frank Clark who, in September 1956, noticed a star-like object passing near the planet Mars. He was briefly able to track the object, which had a yellowish color. This sighting is noteworthy because it occurred a little more than one year before the USSR launched the first artificial satellite into orbit on October 4, 1957, seemingly ruling out any space objects of manmade origin.

Fleeting though such observations are, their presence in the night skies remains mysterious. “Moving stars” such as these serve as reminders that occasionally there are unusual things seen by astronomers, which, innocuous though they are, defy simple classification or explanation.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

21-11-2019 om 21:57 geschreven door peter  

Romoser claims that the pictures show evidence of insect-like forms on the Red Planet. “There has been and still is life on Mars,” he stated, adding that the photographs show evidence of living creatures as well as fossilized ones. In fact, he went a step further in claiming that one of the insects appears to be looking directly at the camera.

And apparently they look quite similar to insects found right here on Earth. “There is apparent diversity among the Martian insect-like fauna which display many features similar to Terran insects that are interpreted as advanced groups – for example, the presence of wings, wing flexion, agile gliding/flight, and variously structured leg elements,” he explained.

Did NASA capture photo evidence of life on Mars?

He studied the photographs – most of them were taken by the Curiosity Rover – on the database from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Romoser said that he studied the “dramatic departure from the surroundings, clarity of form, body symmetry, segmentation of body parts, repeating form, skeletal remains, and observation of forms in close proximity to one another.”

He even claimed that the posture, flight, motion, position, and shiny eyes strongly suggested that they were living forms. “Once a clear image of a given form was identified and described, it was useful in facilitating recognition of other less clear, but none-the-less valid, images of the same basic form,” he noted.

He said that Earth insects are identified by having “three body regions, a single pair of antennae, and six legs,” therefore, “On these bases, arthropodan, insect-like forms can be seen in the Mars rover photos.” He added that the Mars images look similar to bumble bees or carpenter bees that live on Earth, and some of the photographs even show the insects in their nests.

Romoser claims that several of the fossilized insects look similar to Earth bees.

In addition to insects, Romoser said that other photos appear to show a fossilized snake-like creature with two front nostrils and beady eyes, as well as an insect in its mouth. You can see here several of the photographs that Romoser analyzed.

A specimen whose head appears to have turned in the direction of the camera, according to William S. Romoser, Ph.D, who has 45 years of experience studying insects and has spent years analysing NASA photographs . Based on the scale provided in the photo from which this was extracted, this individual is estimated to be approximately 20 inches long

In a study put together by Romoser, he discussed 'a putative reptile-like fossil compared to a Terran snake'. The fossil shows the snakes beady eyes, two front nostrils and even an insect in its mouth

Dr. Emeritus William Romoser has spent years studying NASA photographs of the Martian world and claims there are numerous examples of insect-like forms. He claims the images highlight exoskeletons and jointed appendages of these 'living creatures', which are enough evidence to identify these organism as insect-like

He used the database from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of raw images and compiled panoramic mosaics, which had been gathered over many years from different missions to the Red Planet

NASA is getting ready to send a rover to Mars in search of life, but a professor from Ohio University believes we have already have evidence of beings crawling on the red planet

Other images, Romoser claimed, showed 'bees' in their nests and others highlighted fossilized creatures that resembles a snake

As for life on Mars, Romoser said that the evidence is compelling. “The presence of higher metazoan organisms on Mars implies the presence of nutrient/energy sources and processes, food chains and webs, and water as elements functioning in a viable, if extreme, ecological setting sufficient to sustain life,” he noted, adding, “Water on Mars has been reported a number of times, including surface water detected by instrumentation on Viking, Pathfinder, Phoenix, and Curiosity.”

Perhaps NASA will find even more evidence of potential life on Mars when they send a rover back to the Red Planet next year. The mission will be focused on finding evidence of past microbial life on Mars as the rover will collect rock core samples that will be sent back to Earth for analysis. Maybe they’ll bring back one of the alien-insects that Romoser claims they have already captured photo evidence of.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT NASA'S MARS 2020 ROVER?

Nasa's Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of ancient life on Mars in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on our own planet.

The machine will explore an ancient river delta within the Jezero Crater, which was once filled with a 1,600-foot (500-meter) deep lake.

It is believed that the region hosted microbial life some 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago.

Nasa's Mars 2020 rover (artist's impression) will search for signs of ancient life on Mars in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on our own planet

The $2.5 billion (£1.95 billion) Mars 2020 is planned to launch in July 2020, and land in February 2021.

Mars 2020 is designed to land inside the crater and collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth for further analysis.

Nasa says a second mission will need to fly to the planet and return the samples, perhaps by the later 2020s.

This concept art shows the Mars 2020 rover landing on the red planet via NASA's 'sky-crane' system

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

21-11-2019 om 21:36 geschreven door peter  

How do extraterrestrials like their coffee? Espresso? Macchito? Con Panna? Quad? With Legs? Double double? If you guessed the last one (a large coffee with two creamer packets and two sugar packets mixed in), you may be closest to the answer. Researchers analyzing two different meteorites have discovered alien sugar on both. Does this mean coffee with cream and sugar came from another planet? You’re not thinking grande enough.

“The extraterrestrial sugar might have contributed to the formation of RNA on the prebiotic Earth which possibly led to the origin of life.”

In a NASA press release, Yoshihiro Furukawa, an associate professor of Earth astrochemistry at Japan’s Tohoku University, explains what he and a team of NASA researchers found when analyzing powdered samples of two different meteorites – NWA 801, found in Morocco, and Murchison, discovered near Murchison, Victoria, Australia. Both are carbon-rich meteorites, but the carbon-based molecules they found using gas chromatography mass spectrometry were still surprising – ribose, arabinose, xylose and other sugars in concentrations ranging from 2.3 to 11 parts per billion in NWA 801 and from 6.7 to 180 parts per billion in Murchison.

Ribose is the most significant of the sugars discovered on the meteorites. Why? Think back to high school biology class where you learned about DNA. The messenger molecule which copies genetic instructions from the DNA molecule and pass them on to the macromolecular machines in every living cell that synthesize proteins is RNA — ribonucleic acid. RNA’s “ribo” is the same as the one in ‘ribose’ and ‘ribosomes’ – the macromolecular protein-creating machines which are the food of life. Is this big news, Yoshihiro?

“Other important building blocks of life have been found in meteorites previously, including amino acids (components of proteins) and nucleobases (components of DNA and RNA), but sugars have been a missing piece among the major building blocks of life. The research provides the first direct evidence of ribose in space and the delivery of the sugar to Earth. The extraterrestrial sugar might have contributed to the formation of RNA on the prebiotic Earth which possibly led to the origin of life.”

So, the ribose isn’t a life form but instead the missing ingredient in the soup churning on Earth that sparks its creation via RNA, which then starts replicating, eventually forming DNA and … well, you can figure out the rest of the plot of this movie. The researchers know what you’re thinking and, yes, they checked to determine if the ribose was actually from Earth and had accidentally contaminated the meteorites. An isotope analysis showed that this ribose was enriched with a heavy version of carbon (13C) at levels far beyond those seen on Earth.

Jason Dworkin, a space biologist and co-author with Furukawa and others of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, highlights the significance of this find and how this ancient molecule impacts modern science.

“It is remarkable that a molecule as fragile as ribose could be detected in such ancient material. These results will help guide our analyses of pristine samples from primitive asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, to be returned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.”

Sugar on an asteroid. Who would have thought life on Earth could have begun that way?

Sugar on an asteroid. It’s also a great title for a song and a cool name for a donut.

I’ll have an Espresso Con Panna and a sugar on an asteroid. With legs.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

21-11-2019 om 21:12 geschreven door peter  

Is Homo Sapiens being assisted by NHI’s to evolve through a series of complex programs into a new ‘upgraded’ species? What is the evidence?

How is Contact with NHI’s linked to human labels: Star Children, Indigo, Crystal, ‘letter people'
Are the labels indicating a genetic dysfunction or possibly an orchestrated phenomenon to upgrade humans?
Why do some individuals feel more connected to ‘non-human intelligences than their human family?
If so, what does this mean for our species?
The late Command Sergeant Robert Dean mentioned his time with NHI’s was shown by them ”Humanity is a work in progress, an unfinished masterpiece.”
Are we indeed an evolving species being assisted to discover who we really are?
If so, what does this mean for humanity?

  

{ http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

21-11-2019 om 19:01 geschreven door peter  

Crew Members Reveal of Seeing Flying Elongated Egg

Symbolic image

New details have been out about the mysterious episode of a crazy encounter with UFOs in 2004. Crew members who were on board a Navy warship during the encounter have come forward, offering new captivating first-hand accounts.

In November 2004, technicians on a training mission with the Nimitz carrier group about a hundred miles off the coast of Southern California started to notice unusual ghost tracks and clutter on the radars of the ship.

Concerned on the brand new AN/SPY-1B radar system on the Princeton was acting up, the crew recalibrated the advanced device to clear the errors, but the seemingly “false” radar tracks only became stronger, the first sign something rather unusual was taking place.

Princeton radar technician Gary Voorhis said that the tracks were sharper and clearer after they finished all the recalibration and brought their radar system back up. Voorhis said that the UFOs were sometimes at an altitude of 80,000 or 60,000 feet, and other times they were around 30,000 feet going around 100 knots.

Senior Chief Operations Specialist Kevin Day, who was tasked with airspace monitoring around the Princeton, also observed strange radar artifacts from the Combat Information Center of the ship. These bizarre artifacts continued for several days, according to Mr Day.

Voorhis became convinced it was not a radar error as the crew kept tabs on the bizarre signals. He finally caught a glimpse of the UFOs using the ship’s technology to pinpoint the signal and then peering through heavily-magnified binoculars. He is sure he saw something zipping around in the distance.

Day persuaded his superiors to allow an intercept attempt after nearly a week of hide-and-seek with the strange objects. Two F/A-18s were dispatched to investigate. The fighter pilots said they made a visual contact from about a mile away and noticed an elongated egg-liked object that was solid white, smooth, and no edges. However, the objects proved too elusive for the fighter jets, forcing them to withdraw the effort.

A second attempt would make the now-infamous infrared footage, leaked to the public in 2017. It features a pill-shaped object flying in the sky and audio of confused fighter pilots, struggling to identify the craft. The Pentagon only confirmed its authenticity in September 2019 and maintained it was never cleared for release to the general public.

Voorhis said that two men arrived on the Princeton soon after the F/A-18 intercept and asked for data recordings captured during the run-in, which he was ordered to turn over immediately. He revealed that other ship’s recording devices had also been wiped clean.

Another sailor aboard the Princeton, who chose to be unnamed, said that a Blackhawk helicopter landed on their ship and took all their information from the secret rooms. He noted that it was an unspoken rule not to talk about it due to their secret clearances and did not want to jeopardize their careers.

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

21-11-2019 om 18:55 geschreven door peter  

The Destruction of Sodom and GomorrahThe Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

‘Fire and Brimstone’ that Destroyed Biblical Sodom Matches Findings of Cosmic Catastrophe 3,700 Years Ago

Analysis of archaeological sites north of the Dead Sea demonstrate that a meteor explosion in the skies 3,700 years ago instantly obliterated a civilization and destroyed once fertile farmland in several settlements in the area of what is now Jordan. This discovery provides another explanation for the sudden desertion of what researchers believe to be the biblical city of Sodom .

The Middle Ghor Event

ScienceNews reports archaeologists have blamed the low-altitude explosion of a meteor for the abandonment of at least five archaeological sites in a 25-kilometer-wide (15.53 mile) circular plain called Middle Ghor in modern day Jordan. Ground surveys suggest 120 smaller settlements may have also been affected by the Bronze Age catastrophe and once fertile farmlands in the area were made barren. Despite the 2,500 years of occupation at the sites before the tragic event, the catastrophe was such that the lands were abandoned for centuries.

A less threatening meteor in the sky. ‘The Meteor of 1860’ by Frederic Edwin Church .

( Public Domain )

Archaeologist Phillip Silvia of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque and his colleagues presented their findings last week at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). The ASOR Abstract states their analysis suggests “[…] a Tunguska like, cosmic airburst event that obliterated civilization including the Middle Bronze Age city state anchored by Tall el Hammam in the Middle Ghor (the 25 km diameter circular plain immediately north of the Dead Sea) ca. 1700 B.C.E., or 3700 years before present (3.7kaBP).”

• Archaeologists Claim to have Discovered the Location of the Biblical City of Sodom
• Ancient Signs in the Sky: Did a Meteorite Change the Course of Christianity 2,000 Years Ago?
• Space Rock Mystery: Where Did the Fukang Meteorite Come From?

Evidence for the Meteor Over the Dead Sea

Their evidence comes primarily from analysis of samples taken over 12 years of excavations by Silvia and others during the Tall el Hammam Excavation Project and at nearby sites. One way researchers found indications of Tall el Hammam’s desertion comes in the form of radiocarbon dating of the stone foundations, which were all that was left when mudbrick buildings unexpectedly disappeared about 3,700 years ago.

Tell el-Hammam; Kafrein Trenches 2.

(APAAME/ CC BY NC ND 2.0 )

The extreme heat of the meteor’s explosion explains the vitrification of the outer layers of pottery from the same time period. Strong winds also sent “tiny, spherical mineral grains that apparently rained down on Tall el-Hammam” according to Silvia . This is the dark ash that was discovered burying the scorched foundations.

Tall el Hammam – The Biblical Sodom?

Tall el Hammam is a fascinating site. In 2015, researchers declared that the archaeological site “matches the description of the area where Sodom was located according to the Bible.” Steven Collins of Trinity Southwest University of New Mexico, who has been excavating the site for at least 10 years, explained how they made the link, “It [Sodom] was said to be the largest city east of Kikkar. So, I came to the conclusion that if one wanted to find Sodom, one should seek the largest city that existed in this area during the Bronze Age, in the time of  Abraham. When we explored the region, Tall el-Hammam was an obvious choice, as it was five to ten times larger than the other Bronze Age cities throughout the region, even those found beyond Jordan.”

A comparison of the site’s size and the artifacts unearthed there alongside those discovered at nearby cities led the researchers to assert they have “no doubt that Tall el-Hammam was the ancient city of Sodom.”

And now there’s a strong scientific explanation to accompany the religious one for why the city was suddenly abandoned so long ago.

• The Wold Newton Meteorite: An Extraordinary Stone and the Birth of a Superhero
• Epic Cosmic Battles and the Forces of Creation and Destruction in Belief Systems around the World
• The Real Reason Ancient Indo-Europeans Carried Out Human Sacrifice

Catastrophic Results

In the abstract for their presentation at the ASOR meeting, the researchers call the meteor explosion the “Middle Ghor Event” and explain that it not only wiped out “100% of the Middle Bronze Age cities and towns” in the area, but also sent “a super-heated brine of Dead Sea anhydride salts” over the farm land, making it barren.

Dead Sea salt.

( CC0)

They suspect that the event was so devastating that people did not return to inhabit the region for 600 or 700 years. The discovery of huge iron gates at Tall el Hammam announced the repossession of that key city after centuries of abandonment.

• Top Image: The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah , John Martin , 1852. Source: Public Domain

By Alicia McDermott

{ https://www.ancient-origins.net/ }

21-11-2019 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

SpaceX wants to launch 42,000 satellites

To provide the last corner of the earth with Internet - plans, among others, the US company SpaceX. The company of Elon Musk wants to massively increase the number of satellites planned for this purpose. Astronomers are annoyed.

{ https://newsrnd.com/ }

20-11-2019 om 23:18 geschreven door peter  

‘Overtuigend’ bewijs: emeritus professor ontdekt insect- en reptielachtige wezens op Mars. Bekijk de foto’s

Een gerespecteerd wetenschapper heeft gezegd dat er leven is op Mars in de vorm van insectachtige organismen die op bijen lijken.

Emeritus professor William Romoser van de Ohio University claimt dat op foto’s die door Marsrovers van de NASA zijn gemaakt duidelijk ‘gefossiliseerde en levende wezens’ zijn te zien op het oppervlak van de rode planeet.

“Er was en is nog steeds leven op Mars,” zei Romoser.

Levend insect

Hij wees erop dat er veel overeenkomsten zijn tussen insecten op Mars en aardse insecten. Zo lijken onder meer de poten en vleugels erg op elkaar.

Hij zei dat Marsrovers foto’s hebben gemaakt die ‘duidelijk insect- en reptielachtige levensvormen laten zien’.

De wetenschapper beweerde zelfs dat op één van de afbeeldingen een levend insect is te zien.

Foto: Dr. William Romoser/Ohio University

Images above and below - Credit Dr. Romoser via Phys.org.

Slang

De foto die bij het persbericht van de universiteit is geplaatst, toont onder meer poten, ogen, de kop en borstkas van een insect.

Romoser zei dat de wezens doen denken aan hommels of houtbijen op aarde.

Hij suggereerde dat de ‘bijen’ op Mars nesten maken in grotten en claimde dat op andere afbeeldingen een gefossiliseerd wezen is te zien dat op een slang lijkt.

Overtuigend

Romoser was 45 jaar lang professor entomologie, de tak van de dierkunde die zich bezighoudt met de studie van insecten.

Hij zei dat het bewijs voor insect- en reptielachtige wezens op Mars ‘overtuigend’ is.

Bekijk hier de overige foto’s van de wezens.

[Ohio]

© Copyright (c) NineForNews.nl

20-11-2019 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

US Boarder Patrol Drone Mistaken For UFO, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 16, 2019
Location of sighting: Yuma, Arizona, USA
News source: 

• https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/mysterious-object-seen-floating-skies-20913523

This UFO was seen way over near Yuma not far from the US boarder which makes me wonder if its a inflatable drone used by US boarder agents. When I searched...I found that such a border drone does exist. Here are the screenshots below. I see the three white fins in the back, the hump in lower middle area and its color all match this Boarder patrol drone photos I found. Sadly I have to say nope, not a UFO this time. But still...very cool video. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

News states: 

In the video, the truck driver can be seen standing in the desert next to the road after pulling in his vehicle. Explaining the clip, taken on November 16, he says: “I’m a truck driver, I’m driving back from Yuma, Arizona, and I look up in the sky and I see this thing. “I have no idea what that thing is. “I’ll try to zoom in on it for you here, it’s kind of hard to tell, with the sun, what I’m looking at.” The object appears to be bright white and have three arms set at a 120 degree angle to each other. “What is that?” he asks. The object also looks as if it is longer than it is wide, with an area appearing as if it in shadow. “It’s just floating there,” the truck driver adds.

{ https://www.etdatabase.com/ }

20-11-2019 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

NASA what are you going to say about the entomologist's proof that there is life on Mars.

As scientists scramble to determine whether there is life on Mars, Ohio University Professor Emeritus William Romoser's research shows that we already have the evidence, courtesy of photographs from various Mars rovers.

Images above and below 

Credit Dr. Romoser via Phys.org.

According to Phys.org,news Dr. Romoser, who specializes in arbovirology and general/medical entomology, has spent several years studying photographs from the red planet that are available on the Internet. He found numerous examples of insect-like forms, structured similarly to bees, as well as reptile-like forms, both as fossils and living creatures. He presented his findings Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the national meeting of the Entomological Society of America in St. Louis, Missouri.

"There is apparent diversity among the Martian insect-like fauna which display many features similar to Terran insects that are interpreted as advanced groups—for example, the presence of wings, wing flexion, agile gliding/flight, and variously structured leg elements."

Romoser said that there are a number of photos which clearly depict the insect- and reptile-like forms.

Numerous photos show images where arthropod body segments, along with legs, antennae and wings, can be picked out from the surrounding area, and one even appears to show one of the insects in a steep dive before pulling up just before hitting the ground.

Romoser noted that interpretations of insect- and reptile-like creatures he described may change in the future as knowledge of life on Mars evolves, but that the sheer volume of evidence is compelling.

{ http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

20-11-2019 om 14:34 geschreven door peter  

Boomerang UFO Over Cuba May Be Top Secret Drone From US Navy Base, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 8, 2019
Location of sighting: Cuba

This boomerang UFO was seen over the Caribbean island of Cuba last summer. Although I have reported other boomerang UFOs before, this one has a rotating white object on its bottom. It seems this rotating object moves similar to that of a radar tower, focusing a 360 degree direction around it. Its very possible that this is not an alien craft, but an America secret military radar drone that the US Navy is experimenting with. You see, US Guantanamo Bay Navel Base is in Cuba and this leads me to think the US Navy are probably responsible for this craft. I am confident this craft returned to the US base soon after this sighting. 

Awesome video brought to my attention by Youtube Terrys Theories. 
Scott C. Waring

{ http://www.etdatabase.com/ }

20-11-2019 om 01:03 geschreven door peter  

In movies and books, fictional astronauts enter ‘suspended animation’ to cross the vastness of space. Recently ESA investigated how real-life crew hibernation would impact a space mission to Mars.

Fictional image of hibernating astronauts, via ESA.

The European Space Agency (ESA) said on November 18, 2019, that its scientists have recently been investigating the process of placing astronauts into hibernation to cross the vastness of space. These scientists met at ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility to assess the advantages of human hibernation for a trip to a neighboring planet, such as Mars. They took as their reference an existing study that described sending six humans to Mars and back on a five-year timescale. They studied how crew hibernation would impact space mission design, and put some numbers to known advantages to human hibernation for space travel, for example, that a smaller space capsule could be used if the crew were hibernating, rather than awake, for the months-long journey to Mars.

Jennifer Ngo-Anh, a team leader in ESA’s Science in Space Environment (SciSpacE) program, commented:

For a while now hibernation has been proposed as a game-changing tool for human space travel.

If we were able to reduce an astronaut’s basic metabolic rate by 75% – similar to what we can observe in nature with large hibernating animals such as certain bears – we could end up with substantial mass and cost savings, making long-duration exploration missions more feasible.

• EarthSky 2020 lunar calendars are available! They make great gifts. Order now. Going fast!

Here is ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility, which hosts representatives of all space mission disciplines in order to design future space missions.

Image via ESA.

Why do we need to put astronauts into hibernation at all? The reason is that space is vast. Even our own neighborhood of space – our solar system – is subject to a space-is-vast issue that factors heavily into our missions to explore the other planets near us in space. Consider that the New Horizons mission to Pluto, for example – launched in 2006 – needed nine years to get to its flyby.

To get an idea of the distance scale of our solar system, visit “If the moon were only 1 pixel” showing the relative distances of the planets to scale on a single extra-wide page. Then try – if you can – to extend what you’ve learned to the billions of other likely solar systems in our galaxy alone.

As Joe Hansen – host of the PBS series “It’s Okay to be Smart” – says in the video below:

The human brain just can’t fathom how big things like the solar system are.

Robin Biesbroek of ESA – who has worked in the past on the removal of space debris from low-Earth orbit – was part of the recent ESA study on human hibernation. He commented:

We worked on adjusting the architecture of the spacecraft, its logistics, protection against radiation, power consumption and overall mission design.

We looked at how an astronaut team could be best put into hibernation, what to do in case of emergencies, how to handle human safety and even what impact hibernation would have on the psychology of the team.

Finally we created an initial sketch of the habitat architecture and created a roadmap to achieve a validated approach to hibernate humans to Mars within 20 years.

The scientists found that the mass of a spacecraft for human hibernation could be reduced by a third.

The ESA scientists quantified what might seem fairly obvious … that a spacecraft for hibernating astronauts could be on the small side. This comparison shows the size of a module for a crewed Mars mission with its hibernation-based equivalent.

Image via ESA.

If the crew were hibernating, you wouldn’t need extensive crew quarters, or as much storage room for consumables (like food and water).

Hibernation module design via ESA.

ESA said hibernation would take place in small individual pods that would double as cabins while the crew are awake.

Hibernation pod design via ESA.

What would it be like for the astronauts? ESA explained:

The assumption was that a drug would be administered to induce ‘torpor’ – the term for the hibernating state. Like hibernating animals, the astronauts would be expected to acquire extra body fat in advance of torpor. Their soft-shell pods would be darkened and their temperature greatly reduced to cool their occupants during their projected 180-day Earth-Mars cruise.

ESA said the hibernating cruise phase would end with a 21-day recuperation period. It said that – based on the experience of animal hibernation – the crew would likely not experience bone or muscle wastage. ESA also explained:

Radiation exposure from high-energy particles is a key hazard of deep space travel, but because the hibernating crew will be spending so much time in their hibernation pods, then shielding – such as water containers – could be concentrated around them.

And ESA also spoke of the “largely autonomous operations, with optimum use of artificial intelligence” and “fault detection, isolation and recovery” needed on a spaceship where most humans are hibernating.

Sound a bit creepy or lonely? Maybe. But Ngo-Anh commented:

… the basic idea of putting astronauts into long-duration hibernation is actually not so crazy: a broadly comparable method has been tested and applied as therapy in critical care trauma patients and those due to undergo major surgeries for more than two decades. Most major medical centres have protocols for inducing hypothermia in patients to reduce their metabolism to basically gain time, keeping patients in a better shape than they otherwise would be.

We aim to build on this in future, by researching the brain pathways that are activated or blocked during initiation of hibernation, starting with animals and proceeding to people.

NASA has contracted studies on human hibernation in space, too. This image is a “settlement-class Mars Transfer Habitat” designed by NASA contractor SpaceWorks in 2017. 

Read more: Sleeping their way to Mars.

By the way, if you’re interested in reading a wonderful recent science fiction series depicting deep-space travel via human hibernation – two of the best sci-fi books I’ve ever read (and I’ve read a bunch) – try “Children of Time” and “Children of Ruin” by Adrian Tchaikovksy. Both have all the things I love in science fiction: travel over millenia among the stars, how the hibernating travelers perceive time passing, strange planets, weird aliens, a human love story. Human hibernation plays a big role in these awesome books!

The cover of “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovksy.

Bottom line: The European Space Agency has been studying how real-life human hibernation would impact space mission design.

Via ESA

{ https://earthsky.org/ }

20-11-2019 om 00:44 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Want NASA to Send a Flagship Mission to Venus

By Meghan Bartels - Spaceflight 

An image of craters on the surface of Venus produced by NASA's Magellan mission, which ended in 1994.

(Image: © NASA/JPL-Catech)

NASA has asked a team of scientists to figure out what they could learn from sending a major mission to Venus and how such a mission might work.

Last month, the team became one of 11 groups that NASA announced it would fund to study potential mission designs. Dubbed Venus Flagship, the mission would aim to answer questions about how habitable our evil-twin planet once was. Mission principal investigator Martha Gilmore, a geologist at Wesleyan University in Conn., offered an introduction to the project at a meeting on Nov. 8 of the Venus Exploration Analysis Group, which advises NASA.

Gilmore explained that the project was guided by looking for signs of past habitability on Venus. "It's always been important for Venus science; it is getting increasingly important and perhaps accessible and a little bit better understood," Gilmore said. "If we're going to tackle a problem like this, a flagship could do that."

• Related: The Strange Case of Missing Lightning at Venus

The term flagship mission refers to a specific class of NASA project, the most expensive class in the planetary science division of the agency. (Flagship missions that are currently being built include the Europa Clipper mission, which aims to better understand the potential for life on Jupiter's icy moon.)

Recently, Venus scientists have typically focused their mission concept proposals on smaller classes, but Gilmore and her colleagues on the project think that's no longer the right approach. Instead, the researchers want to convince NASA to dedicate the most expensive class of mission to Venus, which last saw a long-term U.S. spacecraft visitor in 1994. To better their odds, the team is still aiming to be a cheaper option for the agency's tight budget.

"We want to try to do this for $2 billion," Gilmore said. "Four billion dollars is a lot of money, and we are entering a decade where there are other things that are going to be competing for the money, most notably Europa."

If the Venus Flagship mission becomes a reality, it would be particularly complex. Spacecraft would include a main orbiter, two or more smaller orbiters, two short-lived landers that would study the atmosphere on the way down, a balloon-based aerial platform and a long-lived lander. (Venus is such a harsh environment that every spacecraft to land on its surface has ceased operations within hours.)

All of those components of the project would target three different aspects of habitability on Venus that the team has identified as both scientifically valuable and feasible. The first is understanding the history of volatile compounds like water, and how their presence or absence might affect the planet's potential for life. Instruments trying to address that question might include mineral and chemical identifiers on the surface and radar instruments in orbit.

The second question targets the climate history at the surface of Venus, and the modern relationship between the surface and the atmosphere. Key instruments used might include near-infrared imagers in orbit and chemical analysis on the surface.

Finally, the mission would seek to understand geologic activity on Venus and what might be driving it, which has long stumped scientists. That would include understanding the planet's interior structure, which could rely on a would-be seismometer that measures very deep rumblings called infrasound from a balloon.

Gilmore and her colleagues will submit a report to NASA, which will in turn provide it to the National Academies of Sciences decadal planetary science review process, which will govern NASA's goals beginning in 2023.

That timeline means that any major Venus mission is many years away. But without a process like this, such a spacecraft may never launch.

"Habitability, $2 billion; those are our challenges," Gilmore said.

• Should We Land on Venus Again? Scientists Are Trying to Decide
• Life on Venus? Why It's Not an Absurd Thought
• Can Venus Teach Us to Take Climate Change Seriously?

Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels@space.com or follow her @meghanbartels. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.

{ https://www.space.com/ }

20-11-2019 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

{ https://futurism.com/ }

19-11-2019 om 23:59 geschreven door peter