Kyle Mizokami

© U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Pickering The Avenger missile system protects the White House from air attack.

• A mysterious radar track yesterday prompted Washington D.C. to go on alert.
• A search of the area turned up nothing.
• A reporter for CBS News noticed a missile launcher during the alert.

A mysterious radar return prompted yesterday that an unauthorized aircraft was flying over the restricted airspace of Washington D.C. A search of the area reportedly turned up nothing, but one reporter located in the city did notice something: a surface to air missile system across the street from the White House.

At approximately 8:30am local time, a “track of interest” on a radar at the Capitol Police command center was detected over Washington D.C. The track was described as a “slow moving blob.”

Washington’s skies are heavily regulated, the result of the 9/11 attacks in order to protect the White House, Capitol building, and other government locations. North American Air Defense Command, or NORAD, sent a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to investigate. The helicopter, call sign “Blackjack,” did not notice anything unusual but note it nearly ran into a flock of birds at 1,300 feet.

The alert lasted 45 minutes. During that time a CBS News reporter, Sara Cook, noticed something unusual on a building across the street from the White House: a missile launcher.

Sara Cook

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 · Nov 26, 2019

.@SecretService statement on this morning's lockdown at the White House:

“The White House was locked down this morning due to a potential violation of the restricted airspace in the National Capital Region. The lockdown has been lifted at this time.”

Sara Cook

✔@saraecook

Spotted during the lockdown: a missile battery in position atop a building across the street from the White House

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The launcher is an Avenger air defense missile system. Avenger consists of eight Stinger missiles and a M3 .50 caliber machine gun, and was originally designed to protect U.S. Army forces from low-level air attack. Avenger is typically mounted on a Humvee, but the Washington system appears to be mounted on a pedestal on top of the building.

Stinger is a short range system with a relatively small explosive warhead, so it is ideally suited for shooting down hostile small aircraft, drones, and other threats in and around the White House. Stinger missiles are infrared-guided and have a range of approximately two miles.

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The Avenger system could be the missile launcher first spotted in 2004, on top of the nearby New Executive Office Building. It appears to be in a position where it is only noticeable from certain locations on the ground. It is visible on Google Maps on the northwest corner of the building.

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01-12-2019 om 18:46 geschreven door peter  

Here Is What Really Happened With That Mysterious Washington D.C. Air Defense Scare

There have been confusing reports of mysterious blobs in the sky and mistaken birds flocks. This is exactly what was detected and what wasn't and why.

01-12-2019 om 18:31 geschreven door peter  

01-12-2019 om 17:22 geschreven door peter  

Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Says ‘Evidence’ Of Alien UFO ‘Wreckage’ Is Being Held By U.S. Government

Conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson appeared on the History Channel program 'Ancient Aliens' last week.

Controversial Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been known to embrace eccentric conspiracy theories. On his own program in June of this year, Carlson went on a tirade against the metric system, calling it “tyranny.” But in last week’s episode of the History Channel program Ancient Aliens, Carlson appeared to support an even farther-out theory.

In an interview with British journalist Nick Pope that aired on the November 22 edition of Ancient Aliens, Carlson claimed that a “knowledgeable” source has told him that the United States government possesses physical evidence that alien spacecraft have landed on Earth — or at least, crash-landed.

“I’ve heard this from someone who I think is knowledgeable on the subject that there is physical evidence that the U.S. government is holding, um, that, you know, would tell us a lot more – about what these objects are,” Carlson told Pope on the program, as seen in the video excerpt below on this page.

Pope then asked Carlson if he was referring to UFO “wreckage.”

“That is correct,” Tucker told the Ancient Aliens interviewer.

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Trump told Carlson at the time that he did not consider himself a “believer” in UFOs, and said, “personally, I tend to doubt” that aliens have visited Earth in spaceships. But Trump left the door open, adding, “you know, I guess anything is possible.”

Carlson also asked Trump if he believed the claim that the government was holding UFO wreckage in an Air Force facility. But Trump replied, “I don’t assume it’s correct.”

Nonetheless, Trump told Carlson that he had “an open mind” on the subject.

At the time of Carlson’s interview, the U.S. Defense Department had recently briefed Trump on a series of sightings by Navy pilots of objects in the sky that they could not identify. The objects appeared to be moving at “hypersonic speeds,” according to the Fox News report on Carlson’s interview with Trump.

In 2007, the Central Intelligence Agency issued a report documenting the intelligence agency’s own investigations of the UFO phenomenon. The 84-page report, which remains available to read online via CIA.gov, notes that at least two U.S. presidents — Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter — claimed that they had experienced UFO sightings.

The study acknowledged “documents” that claimed to prove “the recovery of UFO wreckage” from an alleged Roswell, New Mexico, crash site. But the CIA report said that, “most if not all of these documents have proved to be fabrications.”

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01-12-2019 om 16:15 geschreven door peter  

Fossilized Fish Being Examined By NASA Rover On Mars, Photo, Nov 30, 2019, UFO Sighting News.

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30-11-2019 om 18:38 geschreven door peter  

UFO Visited Space Shuttle Endeavor In May 1996, Photo Is Proof, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Nov 30, 2019
Location of sighting: Earth orbit over Albania
Source photo: 

• https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS077&roll=161&frame=242
  
  

This photo was taken back in May 26, 1996. As the camera panned upward it settled on a glowing UFO near the shuttle Endeavor. The UFO then began to move away and upward. When I tried to find other photos of what happened next...I only found the next photos location to say"No Browse Image Available." This is the same NASA index where I found the legendary and viral photos of the Black Knight Satellites which I released back in 2011. This is 100% proof that the Shuttle Endeavor was visited by an alien ship while in orbit for those ten days. 
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30-11-2019 om 18:21 geschreven door peter  

There is a huge secret hidden beneath the ice in Antarctica. Military whistleblowers report large alien structures under two miles of Antarctic ice.

It all started when Linda Moulton Howe received a shocking and astonishing email from a retired 60 year old U.S Naval officer first class engineer on the extremely strange events happening in the Antarctic.

The Naval Officer (Navy Seal Spartan 1) experienced and saw, like a huge opening in the ice in a no-fly area, when they were crossing with a medical emergency on board.

Then, Navy Seal Spartan 1 walked an alien hallway inscribed with mysterious hieroglyphs and tells Linda that Antarctica’s alien presence spans centuries, linked to Star Gate portals around Earth and beyond our solar system.

The new revealing documentary is now available at:

• https://www.earthfiles.com/antarctica/

  

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30-11-2019 om 18:06 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers discover supermassive black hole in the Milky Way galaxy 70 TIMES larger than the Sun that according to current scientific understanding should NOT exist

• Black hole, dubbed LB-1, has a mass that is 70 times greater than the sun
• Experts say it's impossible for something this size to form in the Milky Way
• It couldn't have bee formed by a supernova, but by another  physical mechanism

By AFP and STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way so massive that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve.

Called LB-1, this black hole is 15,000 light years from Earth and has a mass 70 times greater than the Sun.  

LB-1's large mass falls into a range known as the 'pair instability gap' where supernovae should not have produced it, leading experts to believe this is a new kind a black hole, formed by another physical mechanism.

The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes but LB-1 is twice as massive as anything scientists thought possible, said Liu Jifeng, a National Astronomical Observatory of China professor who led the research.

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LB-1 (artist impression) is 15,000 light years from Earth and has a mass 70 times greater than the Sun. The black holes's large mass falls into a range known as the 'pair instability gap' where supernovae should not have produced it

'Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution,' he added.

Scientists generally believe that there are two types of black holes.

The more common stellar black holes -up to 20 times more massive than the Sun -- form when the center of a very big star collapses in on itself.

Supermassive black holes are at least a million times bigger than the Sun and their origins are uncertain.

But researchers believed that typical stars in the Milky Way shed most of their gas through stellar winds, preventing the emergence of a black hole the size of LB-1, Liu said.

'Now theorists will have to take up the challenge of explaining its formation.'

The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes, but LB-1 is twice as massive as anything scientists thought possible, researchers say

David Reitze, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology who was not involved in the discovery, told AFP: 'Astronomers are still only beginning to grasp 'the abundance of black holes and the mechanisms by which they form.'

Stellar black holes are usually formed in the aftermath of supernova explosions, a phenomenon that occurs when extremely large stars burn out at the end of their lives.

'LB-1's large mass falls into a range 'known as the 'pair instability gap' where supernovae should not have produced it,' Reitze said.

'That means that this is a new kind a black hole, formed by another physical mechanism!'

LB-1 was discovered by an international team of scientists using China's sophisticated LAMOST telescope.

Additional images from two of the world's largest optical telescopes -Spain's Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Keck I telescope in the United States -confirmed that the size of LB-1, which the National Astronomical Observatory of China said was 'nothing short of fantastic'.

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30-11-2019 om 01:40 geschreven door peter  

30-11-2019 om 01:20 geschreven door peter  

KOMT NIBIRU  NU WERKELIJK OM DE HOEK kiJKEN?

Wat is de kans dat voor de tweede keer binnen een korte tijd er wederom een object van buiten ons zonnestelsel langs komt?

Er wordt bovendien gezegd dat dit object onder een vreemde hoek van boven het zonnestelsel binnen komt, allemaal toeval of toch niet?

Wat opvalt is dat we nu in een kort tijdsbestek een tweede bezoeker hebben in ons zonnestelsel die hier niet thuis hoort. Dat is opmerkelijk want voor zover ons bekend is dit nog nooit eerder voorgekomen.

Zo is er nu komeet Borisov

De komeet werd afgelopen zomer ontdekt door de Oekraïense amateurastronoom Gennadiy Borisov, naar wie het object ook is vernoemd. Onderzoekers denken dat het object uit het eigen planetenstelsel is geslingerd, nadat het tot een bijna-botsing kwam met een planeet.

Ze kletsen natuurlijk maar een stuk in de ruimte, want ze hebben werkelijk geen flauw benul wat dit object hier komt doen en waarom het hier is.

Een lezer schrijft (dank!) naar aanleiding van bovengenoemd nieuwsbericht het volgden

Graag mag ik uw site elke dag een paar keer checken om te zien of er nieuwe artikelen zijn geplaatst.
Wellicht heeft u over het volgende al de nodige informatie ontvangen, maar ik stuur het u toch graag toe. Rond 7/8 december zal een komeet-achtig object de zon en de aarde passeren op een afstand van 300 miljoen kilometer. Het heeft een staart, maar gedraagt zich niet als een komeet, zo wordt geschreven. En het heeft een rode gloed.

Ik moest daarbij denken aan eerdere artikelen van u over Niburu en "komeet-planeet".

Er wordt geschreven dat de baan van het object van bovenaf komt door het zonnestelsel, en er dus zo doorheen is met ongelooflijke snelheid. Tegelijkertijd wordt vermeld dat het ruim een half jaar in het zonnestelsel blijft tot in 2020.

Zelf werk ik met droomboodschappen welke elke nacht doorgenomen. In de afgelopen jaren zaten daar meerdere bij over Niburu. In de afgelopen maand kwam o.a. de datum van 8 december door. In het Italiaans, ik weet nog niet precies waarom. De kortste afstand van het object tot de zon blijkt bereikt te worden rond 8 december. Misschien heeft het niks met elkaar te maken, maar ik vind het wel frappant.

Tot zover de lezer met een zeer interessant verhaal. Bovenstaande foto is enkele dagen geleden gemaakt en laat zien hoe groot de komeet is ten opzichte van de aarde.

Hiermee is het object te klein om de planeet Nibiru te kunnen zijn die naar verluid minimaal zes keer zo groot is als de aarde.  Maar, het zou natuurlijk heel goed een soort voorbode kunnen zijn van de komst van het minizonnestelsel waartoe de planeet Nibiru behoort.

In dat kader is natuurlijk ook vorig jaar de eerste bezoeker van buiten ons zonnestelsel, Oumuamua, zeer interessant. Dit object had duidelijk alle kenmerken van een soort verkenner.

Eerder dit jaar hadden we te maken met een vreemd ruimteobject, dat werd omschreven en geclassificeerd als een komeet en dat van buiten ons zonnestelsel scheen te komen. 

Accordingly, the object A/2017 U1 receives the permanent designation 1I
and the name ʻOumuamua.  The name, which was chosen by the Pan-STARRS team, is
of Hawaiian origin and reflects the way this object is like a scout or
messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (ʻou means reach out
for, and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means first, in advance of).

Volgens de European Southern Observatory (ESO) is Oumuamua een object dat we nog nooit eerder hebben gezien en bestaat het uit rots of metaal met een roodachtige kleur.

Het object moet er ongeveer als volgt uit zien. Een ander fenomeen is dat het om haar eigen as lijkt te draaien en dat de lichtintensiteit varieert.

Men probeert wanhopig om voor dit alles logische verklaringen te vinden, maar slaagt daar niet zo erg in.

Men vermoedt dat het uit de buurt komt van de ster Vega, maar ook dat schijnt niet te kunnen omdat in de tijd dat Oumuamua daar is vertrokken, die ster op een heel andere plek stond. Nu denken ze dat het object misschien wel helemaal nergens thuishoort en als een soort los projectiel door de ruimte zwerft.

De wetenschap zit (ook) wat dit object betreft met de handen in het haar, want niet één van de normale verklaringen past.

Waar we hier over praten, is een groot moederschip dat ons hier met een bezoek heeft vereerd. Dat is de enige logische verklaring en ook is er ook één die past in de omschrijving van het object en de gedragingen.

Nu komen er via NASA berichten dat een team van wetenschappers met behulp van gegevens van de Hubble ruimtetelescoop en andere bronnen heeft vastgesteld dat Oumuamua opeens accelereert en van koers is veranderd.

En dan zijn er natuurlijk nog de frappante voorspellingen van de Chileense astronoom Muñoz Ferrada, die medio vorige eeuw al sprak over de komst van de planeet Niburu die zich zou gedragen als een komeet. 

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30-11-2019 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

WAT VEROORZAAKT DEZE VREEMDE CIRKEL OP BUIENRADAR ? ( VIDEO )

Wanneer je wilt weten waar je in ons land de komende uren buien kunt verwachten of hoelang het duurt voordat het droog wordt, dan kijk je op de buienradar.

In het algemeen zijn dit soort radars vrij betrouwbaar, maar nu gebeuren er vreemde dingen bij Buienradar.

Maar, wat is nu precies een buienradar?

In het algemeen kan een radar gedefinieerd worden als een elektronische installatie is,die bedoeld is om de omgeving af te zoeken naar objecten in de lucht, op het land of in de zee. Deze objecten zijn bijvoorbeeld vliegtuigen, raketten, schepen of auto's. De objecten worden via een beeldscherm zichtbaar gemaakt.

Een radar zendt via een antenne radiogolven (elektromagnetische straling) uit en ontvangt de door de objecten gereflecteerde radiostraling, oftewel echo, weer op via (meest dezelfde) antenne. Uit de aard van de ontvangen echo kunnen gegevens van het object bepaald worden ten opzichte van die radar, zoals richting, afstand, hoogte, vorm en snelheid.

Vanwege het zgn. Doppler- effect- d.w.z. dat de golflengte van de radiogolven verandert naarmate de afstand tot de bron groter of kleiner wordt- kan ook bekeken worden wat de intensiteiten van de neerslag in een wolk zijn en tevens wat de windkracht en - richting is; ook geldt dat hoe meer er van het signaal wordt teruggekaatst, des te intensiever de neerslag is.

Even kort door de bocht betekent dit dat de radar iets uitzendt wat weer teruggekaatst wordt. Hoe meer solide het object of hoe intensiever de neerslag des te sterker wordt de weerkaatsing. Kijk met dat in het achterhoofd even naar de volgende beelden van Buienradar die wij donderdagochtend kregen opgestuurd van een lezer (dank!).

Is het een natuurlijk fenomeen, waarbij onweersbuien een perfecte cirkel vormen? Of hebben we hier te maken met weermanipulatie, waarbij misschien technieken zoals HAARP worden gebruikt?

Feit is dat de radar iets teruggekaatst krijgt en omdat het Buienradar is, neemt men aan dat het neerslag is. Echter, we hebben eerder gezien hoe een weerradar gek kan doen als er bijvoorbeeld een ufo in de buurt is. Zoals dat gebeurde in Mexico, waar in 2012 een sigaarvormige ufo met een enorme snelheid de Popocatepetl vulkaan in dook.

Dezelfde dag verschenen er het volgende soort beelden op de Mexicaanse weerradar:

Onderstaande afbeelding is afkomstig van de weerradar van Intellicast van 27 oktober, de dag dat een Ufo de vulkaan Popocatepetl in vloog. Het beeld bleef de hele dag online tot en met 28 oktober.

Hier zie je heel duidelijk de vorm van de vortex.

Het centrum van de vortex ligt precies op de plaats waar de vulkaan zich bevindt.

Was er misschien ook bij ons een verborgen ruimteschip of ufo? Een groot object dat zich verborgen hield in de dikke wolkenlaag en daardoor verscheen als een cirkelvormige onweersbui.

Dat dit helemaal niet vergezocht hoeft te zijn blijkt wel uit het feit dat de dag ervoor aan de Engelse oostkust ook een merkwaardig object werd waargenomen in de lucht.

De combinatie onweersbuien en ufo's komt in de praktijk heel veel voor en dan is er natuurlijk nog de mogelijkheid dat er zich boven Nederland een soort dimensieportaal heeft geopend, iets waarover wij regelmatig schrijven.

Kortom, wie het weet mag het zeggen, maar vreemd is het wel. Hierna nog wat bewegende beelden van het object boven Engeland.

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30-11-2019 om 00:52 geschreven door peter  

Artificial Intelligence BREAKTHROUGH: 'Better than human' AI algorithm beats brain in test

AN ARTIFICIAL intelligence algorithm designed to interpret images and video has beaten human scientists at mapping active neurons in the brain, a shocking new study has claimed.

29-11-2019 om 23:38 geschreven door peter  

To Prevent a Robot Apocalypse, We Must Study “Machine Behavior”

Ritesh Jain

• Authored by Dagny Taggart via the organic pepper blog

Experts have been warning us about potential dangers associated with artificial intelligence for quite some time. But is it too late to do anything about the impending rise of the machines?

Once the stuff of far-fetched dystopian science fiction, the idea of robot overlords taking over the world at some point now seems inevitable.

The late Dr. Stephen Hawking issued some harsh and terrifying words of caution back in 2014:

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded. (source)

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, warned that we could see some terrifying issues within the next few years:

The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year timeframe. 10 years at most. Please note that I am normally super pro technology and have never raised this issue until recent months. This is not a case of crying wolf about something I don’t understand.

The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast — it is growing at a pace close to exponential.

I am not alone in thinking we should be worried.

The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety. They recognize the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital superintelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the Internet. That remains to be seen… (source)

Experts say it is time to study “machine behavior.”

Last week, a team of researchers made a case for a wide-ranging scientific research agenda aimed at understanding the behavior of artificial intelligence systems. The group, led by researchers at the MIT Media Lab, published a paper in Nature in which they called for a new field of research called “machine behavior.” The new field would take the study of artificial intelligence “well beyond computer science and engineering into biology, economics, psychology, and other behavioral and social sciences,” according to an MIT Media Lab press release.

Scientists have studied human behavior for decades, and now it is time to apply that kind of research to intelligent machines, the group explained. Because artificial intelligence is doing more collective ‘thinking,’ the same interdisciplinary approach needs to be applied to understanding machine behavior, the authors say.

“We need more open, trustworthy, reliable investigation into the impact intelligent machines are having on society, and so research needs to incorporate expertise and knowledge from beyond the fields that have traditionally studied it,” said Iyad Rahwan, who leads the Scalable Cooperation group at the Media Lab.

Machines are making decisions and taking action without human input.

Rahwan explains:

“We’re seeing the rise of machines with agency, machines that are actors making decisions and taking actions autonomously. This calls for a new field of scientific study that looks at them not solely as products of engineering and computer science but additionally as a new class of actors with their own behavioral patterns and ecology.” (source)

This is particularly concerning, especially considering we already know that AI can hate without human input and that robots have no sense of humor and might kill us over a joke.

“We’re seeing an emergence of machines as agents in human society; these are social machines that are making decisions that have real value implications in society,” says David Lazer, who is one of the authors of the paper, as well as University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Sciences at Northeastern.

We interact numerous times each day with thinking machines, as the press release explains:

We may ask Siri to find the dry cleaner nearest to our home, tell Alexa to order dish soap, or get a medical diagnosis generated by an algorithm. Many such tools that make life easier are in fact “thinking” on their own, acquiring knowledge and building on it and even communicating with other thinking machines to make ever more complex judgments and decisions—and in ways that not even the programmers who wrote their code can fully explain.

Imagine, for instance, a news feed run by a deep neural net recommends an article to you from a gardening magazine, even though you’re not a gardener. “If I asked the engineer who designed the algorithm, that engineer would not be able to state in a comprehensive and causal way why that algorithm decided to recommend that article to you,” said Nick Obradovich, a research scientist in the Scalable Cooperation group and one of the lead authors of the Nature paper.

Parents often think of their children’s interaction with the family personal assistant as charming or funny. But what happens when the assistant, rich with cutting-edge AI, responds to a child’s fourth or fifth question about T. Rex by suggesting, “Wouldn’t it be nice if you had this dinosaur as a toy?”

“What’s driving that recommendation?” Rahwan said. “Is the device trying to do something to enrich the child’s experience—or to enrich the company selling the toy dinosaur? It’s very hard to answer that question.” (source)

There is still a lot we don’t know about how machines make decisions.

What hasn’t been examined as closely is how these algorithms work. How do they evolve with use? How do machines develop a specific behavior? How do algorithms function within a specific social or cultural environment? These issues need to be studied, the group says.

There is a significant barrier to the type of research the group is proposing, however:

But even if big tech companies decided to share information about their algorithms and otherwise allow researchers more access to them, there is an even bigger barrier to research and investigation, which is that AI agents can acquire novel behaviors as they interact with the world around them and with other agents. The behaviors learned from such interactions are virtually impossible to predict, and even when solutions can be described mathematically, they can be “so lengthy and complex as to be indecipherable,” according to the paper. (source)

And, there are ethical concerns surrounding how AI makes decisions:

Say, for instance, a hypothetical self-driving car is sold as being the safest on the market. One of the factors that makes it safer is that it “knows” when a big truck pulls up along its left side and automatically moves itself three inches to the right while still remaining in its own lane. But what if a cyclist or motorcycle happens to be pulling up on the right at the same time and is thus killed because of this safety feature?

“If you were able to look at the statistics and look at the behavior of the car in the aggregate, it might be killing three times the number of cyclists over a million rides than another model,” Rahwan said. “As a computer scientist, how are you going to program the choice between the safety of the occupants of the car and the safety of those outside the car? You can’t just engineer the car to be ‘safe’—safe for whom?“ (source)

The researchers explain that it will take experts from a host of scientific disciplines to study the way machines behave in the real world, as a press release from Northeastern University states. “The process of understanding how online dating algorithms are changing the societal institution of marriage, or determining whether our interaction with artificial intelligence affects our human development, will require more than just the mathematicians and engineers who built those algorithms.”

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29-11-2019 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

As we watch robots, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence machines and the like slowly (and sometimes rapidly) permeate our world, it’s not hard to imagine them going from permeating to taking over. Reaching that point, even those who don’t watch sci-fi movies can see the possibility of rogue robots and AI machines using computer logic to eliminate the one thing that could stop their takeover – humans – and initiating a robot apocalypse. Fortunately, some computer scientists in California have developed an algorithm that trains robots to always avoid the bad, human-elimination decisions and stay on the path of good, obedient servitude instead. How well do you think this will work?

“We want to advance AI that respects the values of its human users and justifies the trust we place in autonomous systems.”

In a Stanford University press release announcing the publication in the journal Science of the paper “Preventing undesirable behavior of intelligent machines,” Emma Brunskill, an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford and senior author of the paper, illustrates the alleged noble goal of robot and AI developers – making them tools for the good of humankind – and describes the algorithm she and her colleagues have designed to accomplish – and hopefully guarantee – that goal.

“We show how the designers of machine learning algorithms can make it easier for people who want to build AI into their products and services to describe unwanted outcomes or behaviors that the AI system will avoid with high-probability.”

The idea is to describe bad decisions and behaviors mathematically. While “don’t do this or the patient will die” decisions are easy to describe, behaviors such as gender bias – a line AI is crossing as it’s used more and more to evaluate employment or school applications – requires a sense of fairness that is obviously much harder to define mathematically. The Stanford researchers modified the algorithm in a program designed to predict the future grade point averages of students and it learned to avoid bias toward one gender. While “fairness” is much more vague than “life or death,” the researchers believe it can – and should – be built into all AI using their algorithm.

Does all of this sound familiar? The paper refers to this solution as a “Seldonian algorithm” and fans of Isaac Asimov will recognize that obvious reference to Hari Seldon, the mathematics professor at Streeling University on the planet Trantor in Asimov’s “Foundation” sci-fi series. Seldon developed psychohistory, an algorithmic science that allowed him to predict the future in probabilistic terms. It worked for Hari Seldon … will it work for us?

“Given the recent rise of real-world ML applications and the corresponding surge of potential harm that they could cause, it is imperative that ML algorithms provide their users with an effective means for controlling behavior. To this end, we have proposed a framework for designing ML algorithms and

shown how it can be used to construct algorithms that provide their users with the ability to easily (that is, without requiring additional data analysis) place limits on the probability that the algorithm will produce any specified undesirable behavior.”

Why do humans want us to avoid bad behavior when bad behavior is so much fun?

In the paper’s conclusion on using machine learning (ML) algorithms to change robot behavior, that nasty word “probability” pops up. The algorithm is not a 100% guarantee of robot apocalypse prevention and even if it were, it depends on humans using it in all applications. Just as it’s easy to imagine a robot apocalypse, it’s easy to imagine it being caused by unscrupulous businesses leaving the “bad behavior prevention algorithm” out to cut costs or make more profits.

Are we doomed?

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29-11-2019 om 22:55 geschreven door peter  

Henry Lee was the 19^th century expert on sea serpents, as we have seen in several articles I wrote last week. As far as the 20^th century is concerned, however, there is no doubt about to whom the crown was passed. It was one Bernard Heuvelmans, whose work, In the Wake of the Sea Serpents, is the defining book on the subject. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman – who, with Patrick Huyghe, wrote The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mysterious Denizens of the Deep – said of Heuvelmans, who died in 2001: “From 1948 on, Heuvelmans exhaustively sought evidence in scientific and literary sources. Within five years he had amassed so much material that he was ready to write a large book. That book turned out to be Sur la piste des betes ignorees, published in 1955, and better known in its English translation three years later as On the Track of Unknown Animals.” As for In the Wake of the Sea Serpents, it became a classic – and, to this day, it very much remains a highly important research tool for creature-seekers everywhere.

Of particular significance is Heuvelman’s theory – based upon 358 sightings – that there are far more than just one kind of animal that falls into the sea serpent category. Heuvelmans’ list of creatures is an important one. It not only describes the physical appearances of the animals: it also reveals which kinds of creatures are most often seen – at least, at the time that Heuvelmans compiled his list. He began with what he termed the “long-necked” type, for which Heuvelmans had forty-eight reports. This particular group, he added, had necks that ranged from long to “very long,” a “median hump on the back,” and a pair of horns on the head. As for the color of the creatures, they were typically mottled.

Second on Heuvelman’s list was the “merhorse.” It had, said Heuvelmans, a “long floating mane,” huge eyes, a long neck, and whiskers on the face. For this entry, Heuvelmans had studied no less than thirty-seven cases. The third entry was focused on “many-humped” animals. As their title suggests, they had a “string of dorsal humps of virtually equal size.” The necks were not overly large, and had white stripes on their necks. Now, we move onto the “many finned” beast of the deep. As for these creatures they had “several triangular fins looking like a huge crest.” They also had a jagged crest on the spine and “prominent” eyes. Then, there was the “super otter.” Heuvelmans described it as having “a slender medium-length neck” and a “long tapering tail.” The color was beige or grey, according to the thirteen sightings that Heuvelmans had in his files.

The “super eel” plays an important role in Heuvelmans’ work, as in more recent times reports of massive eels are growing and growing. Twelve reports that Heuvelmans had on file allowed him to make a good image of the animals. They had a long neck, one which formed “am extension of the head.” The tail was “long [and] tapering,” “Leaps out of the water and falls back with a splash,” Heuvelmans told his readers. “The marine saurian” was very much like a crocodile, albeit seen in an “oceanic habitat.” Then, there was the “father-of-all-the-turtles.” Yes, we’re talking about giant turtles, a subject that I will return to here at Mysterious Universe on a later occasion. And, finally, Heuvelmans introduced his followers to “yellow belly,” a beast that was yellow with black stripes. Heuvelmans said of his list that, “It is not surprising that the types based on a few not very detailed sightings have few determining characteristics. It follows that the least well-defined types may include several different species, not necessarily related to one another.”

If you are into Cryptozoology and have not yet read Heuvelman’s classic book, you really should!

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29-11-2019 om 22:34 geschreven door peter  

Astrange phenomenon has been filmed in the sky above a field by two friends while driving in a rural area in Krasnodar Region in Russia on November 27, 2019.

Wondering what the strange sky phenomenon could be, they decided to stop their car to take a closer look at the brightly shining oval-shaped object, hanging motionless in the air.

Although some people suggest that the phenomenon is just a sunset, the witnesses are convinced that they have filmed something that cannot be explained.

  

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29-11-2019 om 21:51 geschreven door peter  

While driving on the highway near Bradford on November 26, 2019, Juran Harrison noticed a huge object in the sky that seemly emitted a red glow on which he decided to film it.

According to Thetelegraphandargus - Juran said: "I would describe it as a burning red light, was moving sideways then down and away leaving a slight trail behind it, then, as quickly as it appeared, it is gone."

The footage, taken from a car shows the bright red glowing object moving across the sky above the roofline.

 

  

 

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29-11-2019 om 21:48 geschreven door peter  

Did Anunnaki Ancient Aliens Build A Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

Discusses whether Out-of-Place Artifacts are evidence of a Lost Human or Ancient Anunnaki Alien Civilization

‘Out-of-Place Artifact’ (OoPArt) is a term coined by American naturalist and cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for an object of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context that could challenge conventional historical chronology by being too advanced for the level of civilization that existed at the time, or showing  human presence well before humans were supposed to exist.

The question that we are ultimately confronted with is who built the lost Civilization before human beings?

Was it the  Ancient Anunnaki Aliens as suggested by alternative historical theories or some other unknown entity/ies?

The question persistently posed by Out of Place Artifacts is whether they are evidence of advanced past Ancient Alien or Lost Human Civilization.

Zechariah Sitchin and other proponents of the Ancient Astronaut Theory suggest that such artifacts are evidence of an Ancient Alien Civilization, whilst on the other end of the unacknowledged History spectrum you have Graham Hancock and others taking the position that it is evidence of an advanced Human Civilization.

We’ve covered the Anunnaki angle considerably as part of the ongoing ‘Anunnaki Chronicles‘ series, and today, we shed light on the alternative Graham Hancock argument on whether the past reveals the presence of an Ancient Alien or Lost Human Civilization.

The Evidence For A Lost Civilization

According to Hancock, the Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis emerges from ancient texts and traditions when they are read in the light of modern space-exploration technology. However, at present NO ancient archaeological site and NO ancient text or tradition provides persuasive evidence for the ancient astronaut hypothesis.

In his view, if one examines the original source material upon which Sitchin drew, and comparing what you find to how Sitchin presented it in his Earth Chronicles series, you would see that Sitchin has created a gigantic work of science fiction masquerading as fact.

As such. Out of Place Artifacts, the anomalies of history and prehistory pointed to by advocates of the ancient astronaut hypothesis are far better and more elegantly explained as emanating from a lost, advanced HUMAN civilization of prehistoric antiquity than from high-tech alien visitors from another Planet.

His verdict on whether the past reveals an Ancient Alien or Lost Human Civilization is therefore that it is a lost Human Civilization that we should credit and not Ancient Aliens.

Top 5 Anomalies & Out Of Place Artifacts

1. Klerksdorp Spheres

Resembling the ‘Death Star’ in Star Wars, the Klerksdorp Spheres were found by Miners in South Africa and their origin remains unknown.

They were found in rock dated  2.8 billion years old and their presence in this Archaeological layer remains perplexing.

2. The Antikythera Mechanism

The next perplexing artifact was recovered by sponge-divers from a shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, Greece. Its a sophisticated mechanism of gears whose existence 2000 years ago cannot be explained.

3. The Battery Of Babylon

The 2000 Ancient Battery of Babylon was unearthed in Baghdad in 1938. The device could create an electric charge, and this find is particularly remarkable since we only invented batters in 1799.

4. Egyptian Helicopoters & Inca Planes

The mystery of the flying machines of the Gods continues to reign. Our previous entry on the Vimana Epics of Ancient India also shed some light on this extraordinary question.

Hieroglyphs such as those at the Egyptian Temple at Abydos only add to the mystery as they depict Helicopters, submarines and supersonic jets…Meanwhile Golden Ancient Inca Model Aircraft suggest the presence of aviation technology amongst the Ancient Civilizations of South America.

The suggestion that Ancient Civilizations possessed advanced Aviation Technology which we are only beginning to understand today remains, and the jury is still out on how that will be eventually resolved.

5. The Piri Ries Map

Last but not least, is the Piri Ries Map.

In 1929, a group of historians found an amazing map drawn on a gazelle skin. Research showed that it was a genuine document drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet in the sixteenth century.

The controversy lies in that the Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed even though the map was drawn 300 years before it was discovered, drawing the coastline in perfect detail even though it was under ice.

Conclusion: Anunnaki Ancient Aliens or Lost Human Civilization?

Whether Historical anomalies like Ancient Megalith Structures and Out of Place Artifacts demonstrate the existence of an Ancient Alien or Lost Human Civilization remains contested…Perhaps the answer lies in combining both theories instead of adopting a mutually exclusive approach to either theory.

In Ancient Aliens Debunked, our previous entry based on a documentary by the same name which you can read here, we also noted that the Ancient Astronaut Theory was not always correct in its interpretation of certain Out Of Place Artifacts, sometimes making exaggerated claims in order to shore up support of itself.

Nevertheless, its clear that unanswered questions remain and various new lines of enquiry continue to develop, expanding and enriching our understanding of the Human story…That in itself is progress, and we will continue to follow the latest revelations in an effort to answer what is perhaps Humanity’s ultimate question.

The Anunnaki Ancient Astronuat Theory also continues to provoke interest and debate on the question of our origins and whether the Historical Timeline of Civilization provided by the current historical paradigm is correct.

In Realm Of The Elohim, our own E-Book based on Zechariah Sitchin’s Lost Book of Enki, an effort was made to provide accessible and digestible information on the Ancient Astronaut Theory and the activities of the Anunnaki from the landing on Earth, the setting up of the first Base station at Edin, the creation of man, great deluge and the Nuclear destruction of Sumer up to the rise of Babylon under Marduk.

It also explores the implications of the Anunnaki Ancient Astronaut Theory for the existence of God and Spirituality

Due to the ongoing debate and interest on the topic especially online, a list of online references and Documentaries is also included for further individual research and exploration.

For more on Out of Place Artifacts and the Lost Human Civilization argument, peep the Ancient Astronaut Archive video below, as well as Graham Hancock’s website and his seminal work on the lost ancient Human Civilization, ‘Fingerprints Of The Gods’.

If you would like to explore more interesting Alternative History on the Anunnaki, you can click the Archive links below:

• Complete Alternate History Archive
• The Lost Realms Of The Anunnaki
• Civilization Before The Great Flood
• Civilization After The Great Flood
• The Main Events Involving The Anunnaki In World History
• Sumerian Society, Mythology & Culture under the Anunnaki
• Unexplained Structures and Out Of Place Artifacts with links to the Anunnaki
• Anunnaki Wars & Rivalries

The Google Powered Search Box on the Home Page with custom links to official Egyptology and Sumerian Archaeological Texts, Records and Documentaries will also help you along your quest.

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29-11-2019 om 01:44 geschreven door peter  

Ufology: From Fringe Field to Serious Science

David Aragorn

For decades, academic researchers have dismissed the study of UFOs as pseudoscience. But as the evidence becomes harder and harder to ignore, some organizations are finally taking steps to make the field legitimate.

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29-11-2019 om 01:14 geschreven door peter  

NASA releases strange 'music' heard by 1969 astronauts

NASA has made public a recording of strange "music" that astronauts reported hearing in 1969 while on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact with the Earth.

The Apollo 10 command module Charlie Brown piloted by US astronaut John W. Young is seen from the lunar module Snoopy after separation in lunar orbit on May 22, 1969

The story behind these unusual whistling noises was showcased Sunday night in a show on the cable channel Discovery, as part of a series called "NASA's Unexplained Files."

The noises reportedly were heard in May 1969 by the Apollo 10 astronauts as they circled the Moon, months before the first astronauts stepped foot on the lunar surface on July 21 that same year.

The three astronauts on board were Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan.

The sounds, which lasted about an hour, were recorded and transmitted to mission control in Houston.

A transcript of the text was released in 2008, but the actual audio has only just been made public.

"You hear that? That whistling sound?" asks Cernan, describing it as "outer-space-type music."

The trio felt the sounds were so strange that they debated whether or not to tell the chiefs at NASA, for fear they wouldn't be taken seriously and could be dropped from future space missions, according to the Discovery show.

NASA says the sounds could not have been alien music.

An engineer from the US space agency said the noises likely came from interference caused by radios that were close to each other in the lunar module and the command module.

Astronaut Al Worden, who flew on Apollo 15, disputed that explanation, saying "logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there's something there," according to the Discovery show.

But Michael Collins, the pilot of Apollo 11, who became the first person to fly around the far side of the Moon by himself while Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were walking on the surface, said he too heard "an eerie woo-woo sound" but accepted the explanation of radio interference.

In fact, he'd been warned ahead of time, he wrote in his book, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys.

"Had I not been warned about it, it would have scared the hell out of me," he wrote.

"Fortunately the radio technicians (rather than the UFO fans) had a ready explanation for it: it was interference between the LM's and Command Module's VHF radios."

• Smithsonian giving visitors a virtual look inside Apollo 11

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29-11-2019 om 00:31 geschreven door peter