DNA, Apes & the Demiurge: Did Something Interfere With Our Genetic Structure?

An amazing transformation has occurred in modern science. It has been slow in coming and is one that many scientists avoid discussing: there is a point where science and religion coincide. The frightening truth about this agreement is that it isn’t about new age physics, the nature of God or the transcendent union of science and religion – it concerns the nature of man, or rather, the problem of man.

For many years, under the influence of liberalism and humanism, science tended to favour the logic of the ‘Noble Savage’. Violence and evil were human problems, probably caused by the conflict between our intellect and natural instincts. Nature was great, instincts were marvellous and sex was fun. This logic was buttressed with romantic notions about the innocence of animals, the moral purity of instinct, and the marketable icon of the harmless, playful, innocent ape. However, as science progressed, these notions fell like a house of cards.

During the 1970s science began to refine its interpretation of Darwin’s theory of evolution. This refinement became known as sociobiology – the inclusive fitness theory – or in journalistic terms, ‘the selfish gene’. It was popularised by Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene. This discovery, which is now conventional scientific wisdom, holds that the ultimate driving force for evolution is the genes, the molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. The maximisation of genetic successes to assure the passing on of certain genes to subsequent generations. This principle, however terrifying in its ramifications, is the state of present evolutionary theory. 

When this is combined with our new understanding of the nature of animal behaviour, a darker and more reflective scientific paradigm arises, one that has more in common with Gnosticism, a stream of thought that extends from the early followers of Christ.

A Man & a Chimp

Our relationship to apes has always been a matter of conjecture. We need to abandon the theories and debates about origins and consider the state of humanity at present. There are many ways to consider evolution: Whether we accept Darwinian evolution or a modification thereof, or that evolution was manipulated by ETs, God(s), or even if we consider we are part of a stage of a larger evolutionary cycle (Theosophy, Anthroposophy etc.), the fact remains that our present genetic inheritance indicates something about our present condition. 

Science places modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens) in the centre of the ape kingdom. It says humans are part of the same lineage as orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. The standard view of this great-ape ‘family tree’ is that humans and chimps are more similar to each other than either is to the gorilla – because chimps and humans diverged more recently. But with the publication of the sequence of the full gorilla genome in 2012, this theory has been overthrown. Scientists realised that much of the human genome more closely resembles the gorilla than it does the chimpanzee genome.

While they may seem affectionate and lovable at first appearance, extensive study in the wild has shown a far darker side to ape behaviour. Apes murder, rape and torture. They will defend their territory and intrude on any surrounding territories using guerrilla warfare, literally! In various studies of ape behaviour, it is estimated that at least forty per cent of all cases of copulation involves elements of violence, which would be interpreted as rape. Apes have short-term memories when it comes to companions. If an ape leaves one pack to join another, he becomes an instant enemy. Raids on other packs are frequent, bloody and brutal and involve ambush, torture and death. Apes behave differently from many other animal species and their aggressiveness seems very similar to human behaviour. It’s frighteningly clear that our genetic heritage is directly related to the ape kingdom. This invokes some fascinating questions and quandaries.

Why Intellect?

Apes and related kin are excellent reproducers. They create many offspring and continually reinforce their genetic heritage by territorialism and brute force. Researchers in this field raise the question: why would the ‘genetic program’ create what we understand as the conscious mind?

Many argue that intelligence developed as the result of enhanced hand-eye coordination by using tools. However, many other species use tools, including apes. Apes are quick learners, and use whatever they can find to open that nut, get that fruit, or crush that skull. But apes did not develop a high level of intelligence – only the offshoot of Homo sapiens sapiens. This argument sheds light on a fascinating possibility – was human nature tweaked? Did genetic engineering take place that modified available genetic substances to create modern humans? Such writers as Zecharia Sitchin and Erich von Daniken use this sort of reasoning extensively.

The darker side of this theory is why would an alien life form modify genetic substance without adequately balancing the social effects of the inherent flaws within the original substance? If an alien species, a deity or whatever was capable of manipulating genetic materials, then surely it would be aware of the destructive power within the primate form it was transforming. If we consider there was some manipulation of our genetic structure, then was this accomplished by a somewhat primitive and ignorant entity (which is unlikely considering the required technology)? An entity or force that was malefic and unsympathetic to the resulting human condition?

This may seem too much to grasp at first, yet if we consider the myths and legends that abound within humanity’s history, they all seem to include such tales of genetic interference.

The Gnostics believed that a false creator (Demiurge) formed Matter (the physical world), and humans were moulded out of fallen substance in an effort to trap particles of Light (preexistent Souls). Sitchin argued that an alien race (the Anunnaki) genetically engineered humanity as a slave species, but the early humans rebelled and developed consciousness. Numerous myths, stories and legends suggest someone or something interfered with the ape to create man, and all tend to see this creation as negative. While most religions insist that Matter is good and ‘God’ is the creator, other more esoteric approaches from the Vedas to the Gnostic suggest that Matter is at best dangerous, at worst malefic, and our creation was the result of either a miscalculation or error – or a deliberate destructive act.

This view posits that apes were engineered as a mechanism to trap Souls which existed in the ‘first estate’ (the spiritual worlds). Many Gnostic sects believed that the fallen creator, in his attempt to wrest control of the universe, first created Matter to encapsulate and control the Light. He then evolved the physical form of mankind to capture the preexistent Light forms and turn them into automations under his control. While we may debate details, it is certainly true there is a dichotomy between our genetic programming and mind (which is the gate for one’s true spiritual self). Even if we have trouble accepting the more flamboyant aspects of this theory, the split within humanity and the violent traits of our innate genetic programming cannot be ignored.

The Role of the Mind

The role of the mind in human development has been ambivalent to say the least. From one perspective it is our saving grace, from another it keeps us enslaved. According to Sitchin, the mind was genetically engineered through modifications to the brain so that a slave race could be created. Apes were difficult to command, so a brain/mind complex (however originally limited) was created. Through the dichotomy between the brain/mind and the instincts, mind control was achieved. Continuing from this argument, early religions and social structures would have worked as ‘control mechanisms’ to keep the slaves in their preordained roles. As time went on, however, the mechanism of control became the tool of liberation. Even the most limited mind/brain complex began to develop thoughts outside the ‘control spectrum’, and one thought led to another and ultimately rebellion. Whether we accept this paradigm or not, we can see that intellect has a contradictory role: it exists as an affront to what science understands as the normal evolutionary process and can work to enslave or liberate.

In this extraterrestrial cosmology, we deduce there are diverse alien species – some wish to help humans, while many desire to keep us enslaved. Accordingly, some early cultures worked to liberate humanity’s intellect, while some cultures, if not the same ones over time, regressed their culture back into slavery by the same means.

It is interesting to note that many early Gnostic groups had a similar view of human nature. In one Mandean account, we read of demons copulating together and their progeny being man’s body and mind. Man’s physical and mental forms are in direct opposition to his spiritual essence. In other Gnostic traditions, our mind is a mixture of light and darkness which offers the opportunity to ascend beyond limitation through its redemption.

Sigmund Freud argues that civilisation exists only in as much as it suppresses instinct, and in many ways we are now returning to his understanding. While pleasure may be the veneer that we accept as justification for our behaviour, not far under the surface is a pit of uncontrolled violence. The major contradiction in our culture is the desire for individualism – the more we demand freedom, the more restraints removed, the more we return to the unfettered ape-like creature we once were. As moral codes are loosened and as we gain more supposed freedom, crime, rape, murder and social disorder arises. As culture fails, the apes return.

Light Emissaries

If we contemplate the adversarial view of prehistory with evil alien forms controlling humanity for their own purposes, we can perceive it in different ways. Gnostics and some Christians may interpret this on a more spiritual level, with dominions and principalities, demos and demi-gods replacing the ‘little green men’. For the scientifically-minded researcher, we could replace aliens and demons with complexes and unconscious social control mechanisms (memes).Ultimately the symbol system is irrelevant. This model could be extended to explain the role of such figures as Zoroaster, Krishna, Jesus, Gautama (Buddha) and so on.

As humanity’s consciousness began to expand, it rejected the ‘social control religions’ and tried to make it on its own. However, humanity was unaware that the forces which created these paradigms of control also started the human mind on a journey of development. An immense conflict evolved. When man rejects tyranny, his instincts take over and a new tyranny, one of ape violence, comes into effect. He is caught in a vicious cycle.

The forces of Light, which exist beyond the contamination of Matter, decided to intervene. Over many millions of years, they sent emissaries to explain to man his real constitution and the conflicting nature of his being. Each avatar taught that man is a hybrid, a mixture of fallen Matter and Light ‘stuff’. Man is a split being – Animal, Intellect and Spirit – each with its own agenda and programming. The physical organism is made of fallen Matter and its programming is that of an ape ruled by the ‘selfish gene’. It is innately violent and destructive. In some sense it has its own consciousness, we could perhaps call it the ‘GE’ (genetic entity).

The mind is another problem. It was created as a modification to the brain but evolved into something more. It has facets (such as the brain stem) which hark back to its original nature, and yet has advanced nodes that offer interface to the spirit. It is a collection of false I’s, sub-identities and personas. It craves domination and works best under control, whether by a cult or ism or by TV and computer games. Its liberation is painful, yet necessary. The emissaries of Light have been giving man ‘wake-up’ calls for thousands of years, yet man does not listen. As soon as the emissaries die, sometimes even before, their messages are distorted and become part of the ‘social control mechanism’.

Aliens, DNA & Beyond

Ultimately it does not matter how we perceive our masters, whether we believe the extraterrestrial theory of our origins or see them in more religious, psychological or scientific terms. The point of reference for all these paradigms is spiritual: if the aliens created slaves, it was under the influence and control of greater and more malefic spiritual powers and dominions. The Gnostics said that Matter is fallen, nature is a trap, and man’s real self is locked in an eternal game. 

As we move further and further into the Kali Yuga, the age of blood and iron, the game becomes more and more vicious. The ‘selfish gene’ is far more malleable than we care to realise, since it is an intrusion from a spiritual reality: it can transform and change according to new challenges. In the distant past the ‘selfish gene’ program realised man could not be controlled by the genetic entity alone, so it evolved new gene-like structures to control the mind like Memes. A Meme is a virus of the mind.

Meme: (pron. ‘meem’) A contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed on from mind to mind. Memes function the same way genes and viruses do, propagating through communication networks and face-to-face contact between people.
– David S. Bennahum

Memes mould consciousness to fulfil the directive of the original DNA program. Memes transform meaningful social movements into bureaucracies, and take ideals and turn them into commodities. They take transformational technologies and turn them into mechanisms of control. TV, computer games and sport are means to stop us using our mind to any spiritual end by keeping it absorbed and controlled. Our entire culture is based on this premise: all thought must be controlled, albeit covertly, so that freedom is impossible. Democracy is simply the choice between different paradigms of control. Isms, cults and ologies offer further mechanisms of control. Many appear to be outside of the structure, but are really part of it.

Where Science Meets Religion

We have arrived in the new millennium, and science meets religion at last, yet in a way neither would have expected. By understanding the ‘selfish gene’, and the split nature of humanity, we have uncovered the reasons behind the constant tension and violent behaviour of modern man. Illusions are washed away when we truly comprehend the hybrid composition of human nature. 

11-04-2020 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

The pictures were captured with a telescope that had been carried to the cusp of space on a sub-orbital rocket flight.

The high-resolution images reveal impressive detail.

Pic: UCLan

The highest-ever resolution images of the sun have been revealed by British scientists working alongside NASA researchers.

The images analysed by a team from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and NASA offer astronomers insights into the sun's atmosphere.

Before the images were released, aspects of the sun's atmosphere were a mystery - appearing dark or mostly empty.

But now scientists have discovered these spots actually contain strands of incredibly hot electrified gas - strands that are individually up to 500km (311 miles) thick.

The images were captured by NASA's high-resolution coronal imager (Hi-C), a telescope which was carried to the cusp of space on a sub-orbital rocket flight.

Being ultra-sharp, the telescope is able to identify structures in the sun's atmosphere as small as 70km (43 miles), or about 0.01% of its total size.

Despite knowing these strands exist, scientists are still puzzling over what exactly is creating them.

Why they are formed in the sun's atmosphere and how their presence helps us understand the eruption of solar flares and solar storms which could affect life on Earth are subjects of ongoing debate.

Professor Robert Walsh, professor of solar physics at UCLan, said the images provide an "ultra-high definition" glimpse of the our solar system's star for the first time.

"Until now, solar astronomers have effectively been viewing our closest star in 'standard definition', whereas the exceptional quality of the data provided by the Hi-C telescope allows us to survey a patch of the sun in 'ultra-high definition' for the first time," he said.

"Think of it like this: if you are watching a football match on television in standard definition, the football pitch looks green and uniform," Prof Walsh said.

"Watch the same game in ultra-HD and the individual blades of grass can jump out at you - and that's what we're able to see with the Hi-C images. We are catching sight of the constituent parts that make up the atmosphere of the star."

Dr Tom Williams, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLan who worked on the Hi-C data, said the images help provide a greater understanding of how the Earth and sun related to each other.

"This is a fascinating discovery that could better inform our understanding of the flow of energy through the layers of the sun and eventually down to Earth itself," he said.

"This is so important if we are to model and predict the behaviour of our life-giving star."

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10-04-2020 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

NASA RELEASES BREATHTAKING INFRARED IMAGE OF PILLARS OF CREATION

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10-04-2020 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

Biologen verbijsterd na ontdekking langste ‘kwalsliert’ ooit - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

De siphonophorae werd toevallig ontdekt toen een duikboot na onderzoek van een deel van de oceaan en de zeebodem weer op weg was naar boven. 

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Op het controleschip aan de oppervlakte kwamen de beelden uit de duikboot binnen, waarna het personeel enthousiast en vol verbazing op beeldschermen in de stuurhut het buitenaards lijkende fenomeen aanschouwde. 

“We werden volledig weggeblazen”, vertelden biologen Nerida Wilson en Lisa Kirkendale naderhand. Met name omdat  siphonophorae meestal ‘maar’ 25 meter lang zijn en min of meer recht. “De buitenste cirkel van deze langzaam en hypnotiserend bewegende vorm was ongeveer 47 meter, dus de totale lengte van het ding was gigantisch.”

Specifieke taken

Elk individu dat onderdeel is van een siphonophorae heeft een specifieke taak  en een op die taak aangepaste vorm. Zo zijn er eet-, vang-, tast- en geslachtsdieren. De prooi van het schepsel bestaat uit kreeftachtigen en vis die door netelcellen worden verlamd en vastgehouden. 

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10-04-2020 om 22:30 geschreven door peter  

What The Heck Is This Long, Hypnotic Stringy Thing Floating in The Ocean?

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New footage has revealed a trailing ribbon of conjoined tentacled clones sweeping the ocean off the coast of Australia. Known in some regions as the "long stringy stingy thingy", siphonophores blur the line between organ and organism. They somehow manage to be both at once.

"The whole thing looks like one animal, but it's many thousands of individuals which form an entity on a higher level," marine biologist Stefan Siebert of Brown University told Wired.

The Ningaloo Canyons Expedition, a team of international researchers from institutes including Western Australia Museum, Schmidt Ocean Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, recently came across one of these spectacular deep sea aliens.

They were exploring a little-studied but biologically rich part of the ocean off the coast of Western Australia, using ROVs and sonar. The creature was spied on the way back up:

"Everyone was blown away when it came into view," biologists Nerida Wilson and Lisa Kirkendale from the Western Australian Museum told ScienceAlert. "There was a lot of excitement. People came pouring into the control room from all over the ship. Siphonophores are commonly seen but this one was both large and unusual-looking.

"Although the ROV pilots made an estimate of its length, it has yet to be formally measured. However, it does appear to be longer than any other animal on the planet," they added.

The outer ring was estimated to be around 47 metres long (154 feet). The whole giant thing is composed of tiny individuals called zooids. They clone themselves thousands of times into one of several flavours - some with stinging tentacles and even red lures to attract food, others specialised for reproduction or movement. Each individual acts like an organ in the larger siphonophore body.

Biologist Rebecca Helm from the University of North Carolina Asheville describes the feeding clones on Twitter:

The siphonophore in the video "appears to have assumed a planar feeding posture, which makes it look a bit like a spiral UFO," Wilson and Kirkendale explain.

In a colony this massive, there would have to be at least millions of these conjoined organ-individuals working together, to sift the pelagial depths for food. They share their spoils with each other by passing nutrients along a stem they're all connected to - a vertical branch which also serves as a passageway for nerve signals.

Helm believes there are many millions of these siphonophores floating out there in the ocean, along with other strange creatures they interact with - such as this sea slug (Cephalopyge trematoides) that finds them tasty:

Another memeber of the entourage is this bizarre barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma). It has a fluid-filled head shield thought to allow them to sneak into stinging tentacled zooids and steal their food.

It's a soothing glimpse of the strange ocean depths that siphonophores call home. And you can check out even more amazing weirdos from the Ningaloo Canyons in the video below.

With so much incredible life hidden away in our planet's oceans, who even needs aliens?

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10-04-2020 om 22:17 geschreven door peter  

Strange Men In Black, Women in Black and Black Eyed Kid Encounters

COAST TO COAST AM –

Nick Redfern shared the latest information on the sinister Men in Black (MIB), the chilling Women in Black (WIB), the creepy Black-Eyed Children, and the ability of these seemingly multi-dimensional entities to invade our space in a hostile fashion.

The majority of the MIB reports describe encounters with very pale, almost emaciated men with very large eyes that they hide behind wraparound sunglasses. People typically get a knock on the door late at night and feel an odd compulsion to let them in, as though they were hypnotized or mind controlled, which has led to the idea that their visitors might not be entirely human, Redfern detailed.

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10-04-2020 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

Just a few days ago, the production company released the first trailer for the asteroid disaster movie "Greenland" but suddenly the trailer has been removed at the request of the studio and now it's gone everywhere.

Lucky, nwomaster just found one last playable trailer remaining on a German movie site and one illegal re-uploaded to YouTube which has been removed too already. The trailer still can be watched at disclosetv/nwomaster but for how long I don't know.

The story: "They got it all wrong. There's a ton of fragments! Planet killers…" Whoaaa! How about some apocalyptic disaster action to make things even scarier nowadays? The first trailer has debuted for an action movie titled Greenland, the latest from stuntman turned director Ric Roman Waugh (Shot Caller, Angel Has Fallen). The mega disaster in the film involves a comet breaking into pieces, and these pieces striking Earth causing complete devastation.

Talking about a comet breaking into pieces, according to the latest information from astronomers around the world, comet Atlas discovered on December 28, 2019 and it's close approach to Earth on May 23, 2020 might be breaking apart and is starting to fade.

I'm not saying there is a connection between the movie "Greenland" and the comet Atlas but it does make you think...

Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) captured over 2 hours on April 4, 2020.

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Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) captured over 2 hours yesterday night (04/04/2020). 150x45s subframes with a 6" Newtonian and @zwoasi 183MC Pro.#Astrophotography #Astronomy #CometATLAS #telescope

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10-04-2020 om 20:09 geschreven door peter  

Strange UFO filmed over Lima, Peru 5-Apr-2020

Some kind of disc-shaped UFO was filmed hovering in the night sky above Lima in Peru. This happened on 5th April 2020.

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10-04-2020 om 19:00 geschreven door peter  

What they discovered was completely unexpected. The dinosaurs are far more similar to modern reptiles than scientists had anticipated.

The reasons why rest on two key findings:

1. The seemingly full skeletons were actually only about 60 percent developed.

2. The dinosaur embryos have two different sets of teeth.

DECEPTIVE DINOSAURS — The embryos “look like the skeleton of an animal ready to hatch,” study co-author Vincent Fernandez, a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London, tells Inverse.

But the bones in the tiny dinos' skulls, which had remained obscured in the rock, suggest otherwise.

"They are a lot younger that we expected,” Fernandez says.

“With the scan we discovered that these bones were there, but poorly ossified," he says. "Comparing with modern reptiles, we estimated that the dinosaur embryos were about 60 percent of incubation."

In modern reptiles and birds, “the pattern in which bones start ossifying is quite similar.” In these creatures, the skull bones start to harden at the tip of the snout. The upper and back part of the skull, also known as the "braincase," is the last piece of the puzzle to ossify, along with some jaw bones.

The findings indicate that these prehistoric herbivores were already using an embryo-development strategy common to modern crocodiles, chickens, turtles, and lizards.

The dinosaur specimens also had two different types of teeth. They range in size from 0.4 to 0.7 millimeters — with one set of tiny, triangular, first-generation teeth.

Crocodiles and certain other modern reptiles have similar first-generation teeth, that they resorb or shed before they even hatch. Now, researchers know that ancient dinosaurs did, too.

The idea that both modern reptiles and ancient dinosaurs might develop similarly is not new, but this is some of the first concrete evidence that modern reptile development is actually prehistoric.

“This development strategy has been around for 190 million years, which is quite surprising," Fernandez says.

A paper detailing the new findings was published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.

"BEAUTIFUL" EMBRYOS HELD BIG MYSTERIES — Since their discovery some five decades ago, researchers believed these Massospondylus carinatus embryos had perished just before their eggs hatched.

“These embryos are beautiful, but information that could get obtained from the prepared surface was quite limited,” Fernandez said. To discover whether that was indeed the case, the researchers needed to look below the surface of the fossils' rock.

That’s where the synchrotron scanning came in.

They used high-powered X-ray beams to scan the bones down to the cellular level. That enabled them to recreate the embryos’ 2-centimeter-long skulls as a 3D model, or "virtually extract them from the rock," as Fernandez puts it.

“This is a very special moment, knowing you are the first one to see such a beautiful specimen,” he says. It is a slow process, however. “When you have access to a synchrotron, you have to use the machine day and night for days on.”

The team took turns to do the research, eat, and sleep, Fernandez says. The results are a just reward for their travails. Using the novel technology, the team got the first glimpse inside the eggs, and even identified a third embryo inside the samples.

“Virtual extraction of the bone is a painstaking process,” Fernandez says. Researchers had to extract each bone, one at a time.

The work is testament to how technology can reveal new, granular details of old fossils, Fernandez says. in the future, synchotron scanning could allow researchers to estimate the incubation time of dinosaur embryos, revealing yet more about their early development and how it stacks up to modern reptiles.

The results of such high-level scans are also just visually stunning, Fernandez says.

“I keep being impressed by the level of details we can achieve: We can see these tiny teeth, smaller than the tip of a toothpick,” he says.

“I particularly love when the bones are put back in 3D, and we see the big eye socket of the dinosaur, it really starts looking like a baby.”

Abstract: 

Dinosaur embryos are among the rarest of fossils, yet they provide a unique window into the palaeobiology of these animals. Estimating the developmental stage of dinosaur embryos is hindered by the lack of a quantitative method for age determination, by the scarcity of material, and by the difficulty in visualizing that material. Here we present the results of a broad inquiry, using 3D reconstructions from X-ray computed tomography data, into cranial ossification sequences in extant saurian taxa and in well-preserved embryos of the early branching sauropodomorph dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus. Our findings support deep-time conservation of cranial ossification sequences in saurians including dinosaurs, allowing us to develop a new method for estimating the relative developmental percentage of embryos from that clade. We also observe null-generation teeth in the Massospondylus carinatus embryos which get resorbed or shed before hatching, similar to those of geckos. These lines of evidence allow us to confidently estimate that the Massospondylus carinatus embryos are only approximately 60% through their incubation period, much younger than previously hypothesized. The overall consistency of our results with those of living saurians indicates that they can be generalized to other extinct members of that lineage, and therefore our method provides an independent means of assessing the developmental stage of extinct, in-ovo saurians.

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10-04-2020 om 00:58 geschreven door peter  

TO BUILD A MOON BASE, NASA FIRST HAS TO SOLVE A “BIG” COMPUTER PROBLEM

10-04-2020 om 00:22 geschreven door peter  

One of the consequences of what is fast becoming a worldwide shutdown of businesses and travel is that the noise level outdoors has been reduced drastically, to the point where many people are enjoying the quiet. The lack of clatter and shatter is also allowing people to hear more things that they may not have heard before and therefore may not have worried about before, like the mysterious sounds, horns and hums reported in many places around the world. That seems to be the case in Brazil, Slovakia, the U.S. and Argentina where concerned citizens are uploading recordings, sharing their experience, getting advice and often scaring the pants off of others. Are these sounds related? What are they?

“At 2:15 pm, I heard a crash similar to that of a jet crossing the sky or that of an airplane turbine. I heard it twice, and there was nothing in the sky, I didn’t see any planes, despite being cloudy. I commented to a friend who lives in another location, and he said he heard it too.”

The website Otempo in Brazil reports numerous accounts of people hearing a variety of unexplained sounds across the country, including the one above from Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. It noted that “Noise in the sky” was trending on Twitter but the Civil Defense website in Belo Horizonte had no mention of the sounds. Local astronomer Bernardo Riedel said there were no reports of meteorites in the area.

“On April 3, 2020, very scary news came from the city of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia: Usually, there are always a lot of questions with these “trumpet sounds”, since the videos are isolated incidents, but in this case the whole city heard it all.”

At about the same time, the website SoulAsk reported on “trumpet” sounds in Bratislava. In this case, there are multiple YouTube videos of the sounds, which are more like “respirators” than trumpets, according to one witness. (Listen to one here.) With respirators in the news so much lately, that could just be the power of suggestion, but they do sound more like Darth Vader breathing than Miles Davis blowing. One scientific explanation was the shifting of tectonic plates rubbing against the lost microcontinent of Greater Adria underneath Europe, although there were no reports of earthquakes or other seismic disturbances.

“This is something unheard of, I never heard anything like this, it is beyond my capabilities.”

Moving to Olavarría in the province of Buenos Aires, SoulAsk also reports of strange, unexplained sounds of various types, some of which disturbed local dogs. (Listen here.) “Researcher” Mauricio Gorili had no explanation, nor did astronomers or meteorologists. That left it open for sites like “Humanoids in Olavarría” to point to – what else – humanoids.

“We are witnessing “the great migration”, they (the humanoids) have infiltrated us for decades but now they are approaching en masse, the sounds registered in the city of Olavarria correspond to the opening of a portal in which it allows that these beings can invade us in a more crowded way.”

Meanwhile, in the U.S., strange sounds were recorded in Belton, Missouri (listen here), and South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (listen here), and probably heard in plenty of other places. Some blamed these on the latest villain-of-the-moment – 5G – but there’s no evidence that 5G towers are making any kind of noises at all.

Is it just the sound of construction carrying across the now-quiet landscape?

Those are just some of the latest sounds. The website Strange Sounds has more. Is there some sort of logical or scientific explanation for this wide variety of strange sounds around the world — airplanes, gunshots, plates scraping, construction, factories? Is it just because the noise level is down due to the coronavirus lockdowns, causing stir-crazy, locked-up humans who are going outside for a change to hear things they’ve never been able to before? There doesn’t seem to be a general cause and there are far too many to investigate each one individually, so they’re being ignored or dumped into when-we-get-around-to-it piles, never to be checked out. In the meantime, the general public wants answers or they’ll continue to turn to cover-ups, aliens, apocalyptic predictions and the like.

Will we ever find out? Go outside and listen for yourself. Maybe you will be the one to finally figure it out. If you do, will you tell anyone?

Do you dare?

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09-04-2020 om 23:30 geschreven door peter  

Waarom een (wazige) foto wetenschappelijke doorbraak van het jaar werd en wat we sindsdien leerden over zwarte gaten - HLN.be

Dit is wat we al wisten over zwarte gaten voordat het internationale onderzoeksteam achter het Event Horizon Telescope Project (EHT) de eerste foto op 10 april 2019 onthulde: een zwart gat is een gebied in de astronomische ruimte waar de zwaartekracht zo sterk is dat niets eruit ontsnapt, zelfs geen licht. Er zijn weinig fenomenen zo abstract als een zwart gat, want hoe kan je iets waarnemen dat geen licht uitzendt of terugkaatst?

Messier 87 (M87) is het zwart gat waarvoor uiteindelijk gekozen werd, een monster dat wel 6,5 miljard keer zo zwaar is als onze zon. Het is zo’n 50 tot 55 miljoen lichtjaar van ons verwijderd. Daar een foto van nemen komt neer op het fotograferen van een mosterdzaadje in Washington DC vanuit Brussel, zo zeiden de sterrenkundigen van het EHT-project. Een tweede vergelijking die tot de verbeelding spreekt: vanuit een café in Parijs een krant in New York lezen.

Geen enkele telescoop is geavanceerd genoeg om zo’n foto te maken. Daarom werd het Event Horizon Telescope Project (EHT) opgezet: een internationaal netwerk van acht radiotelescopen op vier continenten en meer dan 200 mensen afkomstig uit minstens 18 landen. Het netwerk van telescopen – die via atoomklokken op elkaar afgestemd waren – was groot genoeg om de radiostraling van M87, het uitverkoren zwart gat, op te pikken. Uiteindelijk werden de verschillende beelden verzameld en laag per laag samengevoegd.

Lees ook

Het hoe en waarom van zwarte gaten (Val er zeker niet in!)

Oranje gloed

Het resultaat? Een foto van een zwarte lege ruimte waar een heldere ring – bestaande uit fotonen (of lichtdeeltjes) die door de sterke zwaartekracht in een baan rondom het gat gedwongen worden – brandt. De foto werd op persconferenties in zes verschillende steden voorgesteld, waaronder ook Brussel. 

De oranje kleur van de ring moet overigens niet te letterlijk worden genomen. Het beeld komt immers voort uit radiosignalen: die hoor je wel, maar zie je niet. De frequenties van de radiosignalen werden door het internationale onderzoeksteam vertaald naar beeldmateriaal. Evengoed was het geen oranje, maar een blauwe gloed geweest. “We kozen voor een oranjeachtige gloed, gezien alles rondom het zwart gat ontzettend warm is”, legt de Amerikaanse astrofysicus Sera Markoff uit. Zij is hoogleraar astrofysica aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en lid van het Event Horizon Telescope-team.

Hoe dan ook is het onderste gedeelte van de ring een pak helderder dan het overige deel. Daarom besloten de astronomen dat de materie die de radiostraling uitzendt, met een snelheid naar ons toe beweegt. Dat zou betekenen dat het zwarte gat tolt. En Einsteins relativiteitstheorie die het bestaan van zwarte gaten voorspelde, werd andermaal bewezen.

Sterrenverslinders

Een zwart gat is eigenlijk wat overblijft na de explosie van een ster, een ster die zwaarder is dan de zon. Tijdens zo’n explosie produceert de ster eventjes zoveel licht als het hele sterrenstelsel waartoe het behoort. Om daarna voor eeuwig zwart te worden. Daarom werden zwarte gaten voor 1964 ‘bevroren sterren’ genoemd. Verder nog wordt de kern van de explosie zo compact dat een zwart gat ontstaat. Omdat er niets aan de zwarte gaten kan ontsnappen - er kan alleen maar wat invallen – groeien ze doorheen de tijd in massa. Zo werd er in september 2019 nog een ster geregistreerd die door zo’n superzwaar zwart gat aan flarden werd gescheurd.

Zwarte gaten kunnen ontwaken

Het gaat hierboven steeds over M87, een zwart gat in het sterrenbeeld Maagd, 50 miljoen lichtjaar bij ons vandaan. Oorspronkelijk waren er echter twee kandidaten: M87 en Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), het zwart gat dat zich in het midden van ons sterrenstelsel bevindt en ‘slechts’ 26.000 lichtjaar bij ons vandaan ligt. De astronomen toonden uiteindelijk enkel de foto van Messier 87, met de belofte dat de foto van het zwart gat van ons sterrenstelsel nog zal volgen.

Een tweede foto volgde voorlopig niet, maar wel werd recent bekendgemaakt dat Sgr A* wakker lijkt te worden. Hoewel Sgr A* zich normaal erg rustig gedraagt, zijn de heldere uitbarstingen sinds 2014 toegenomen. Dat stelde een onderzoeksteam van Franse en Belgische wetenschappers. Hoe dat komt, is voorlopig onbekend.

Kleinste zwart gat ooit

M87, het zwart gat dat gekiekt werd, is dan wel 6,5 miljard keer zo zwaar is als onze zon, maar dat is niet altijd geval. Zo werd in november 2019 het kleinste zwart gat ooit ontdekt, slechts 3,3 keer de massa van onze zon met een diameter van 20 kilometer. Dat is ongeveer de grootte van het New Yorkse eiland Manhattan, niets vergeleken met een zwaargewicht als M87.

De ontdekking bewees dat zwarte gaten kleiner kunnen zijn dan voorheen werd gedacht: groter dan neutronensterren en kleiner dan de kleinste zwarte gaten die we tot dan toe kenden. “We hebben mogelijk de eerste van een nieuwe klasse zwarte gaten ontdekt, met zulke lage massa waarvan wetenschappers voorheen het bestaan niet kenden”, aldus astronoom Todd Thompson van Ohio State University. “Die zouden ons veel kunnen leren over hoe zwarte gaten ontstaan: welke sterren imploderen en welke niet, bijvoorbeeld.”

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09-04-2020 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

Unexplained Mysteries: Why Are The Latest UFO Footage Videos Getting Popular?

Unexplained Mysteries: Why Are The Latest UFO Footage Videos Getting Popular?

As you may have noticed, there is a whole new wave of UFO research taking place on the Internet. In the past few years, the UFO community has enjoyed a rebirth as new groups of enthusiasts have formed and had fresh ideas for the way the UFO movement should progress. A lot of this rebirth has resulted from these new groups’ own research efforts and in the last few years more people have been discovering UFO video footage that they never knew existed.

What makes this trend even more fascinating is that many of the most interesting new sightings involve extraterrestrial spacecraft. This trend in UFO research has resulted in some very interesting new videos being released that are getting some very high praise from both the skeptics and the believers. In fact, a whole host of UFO videos that come out of Brazil is already getting attention from serious researchers who don’t think they are replayed from the late 1960s.

Not only are the new UFO footage videos interesting to watch, but they can be used as proof of what the scientists are saying about UFOs. When one considers all of the many theories about UFOs, it’s easy to see why people want to prove them wrong. The majority of UFO videos that have surfaced over the years actually started out with professionals in the field that had no doubt whatsoever that UFOs were real. It’s easy to see how these professional skeptics became interested in UFO footage and turned it into their own evidence that they could use against the UFO believers.

A lot of the new UFO video footage comes from places that have not yet been thoroughly studied, so it’s easy to see how some would argue that all of these clips are simply a bunch of fan fiction. However, since all of these UFO sightings happen in completely foreign places where the locals do not speak English, it’s not hard to see how some of these clips could have gotten out of hand. On the other hand, there are plenty of well-respected scientists that believe that it is possible to come up with fresh UFO footage that has been taken in countries that have been settled by outsiders for centuries. The same goes for the many YouTube clips that include weird alien voices.

All of this new UFO footage might be difficult to believe, but since it’s being taken from places that have never been penetrated by modern technology, it can be taken seriously. Most of the videos that have been made recently were likely filmed on digital cameras or on small handheld video cameras. This does not mean that any of these videos are fake, but that they are all probably closer to real UFO sightings than the majority of UFO enthusiasts think.

Many of the new UFO footage videos have also been accompanied by some very convincing audio sounds. In some cases, when sound is combined with a UFO sighting video, the visual footage often has more impact than the video itself. Many of the best UFO enthusiasts understand that these kinds of effects make the UFO footage appear more real and more believable.

All of the latest videos are being looked at closely by UFO researchers because a lot of the videos are from territories that have never been surveyed or penetrated. As a result, a lot of the new footage is probably old footage that was just sitting around collecting dust before being rediscovered. No one knows for sure if the new footage is legitimate or not, but it certainly seems to have attracted some attention from professional skeptics who have been trying to discredit UFO skeptics for years. It’s hard to tell, but the next few years could see a resurgence in the UFO movement as more people start viewing UFO video footage for the first time.

There is no doubt that there is a lot of hot UFO research happening online, but these videos might just be the tip of the iceberg. With hundreds of new UFO sightings every year, there’s sure to be a lot more UFO footage available for study.

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• http://footageofufos.com/2020/04/unexplained-mysteries-why-are-the-latest-ufo-footage-videos-getting-popular/

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09-04-2020 om 21:57 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Unknown Underwater Crafts and Disappearances of Submarines Reported by Ships Personnel!

Ships personnel have been reporting UFOs at sea for many years which are seemingly being seen in the same locations, such as San Diego. Submarines have also mysteriously disappeared.

Over a period of 100 years, these strange occurrences have been tied in with UFO sightings. Is there something strange going on in these locations?

Presented by Joe Foster Filmed by MUFON MAINLINE

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09-04-2020 om 21:31 geschreven door peter  

Alien Triangle Flies Over Two Military Bases In England

MARCH 30-31, 1993 …….DEVON/CORNWALL ENGLAND

There was a wave of sightings that occurred on the 30th and 31st of March, 1993. We had several hundred reports that came our way. Many of the witnesses were police. A lot of police in the southwest of the country, in Devon and Cornwall, saw something.

Now, as with all of these big waves of sightings, quite a lot of the reports were fairly mundane, lights in the sky.

But even so, it was quite late at night — most of these reports were between, say, 1:00 and 1:30 in the morning — and because there were police officers on night patrol, you’re dealing with more than average recognition training, and people used to being out and about, and used to seeing lights and other things in the sky.

Repeatedly, I heard the phrase, “This was like nothing I’d ever seen before in my life.” People were genuinely quite spooked by this.

What was generally reported was two lights, flying in a perfect formation, with a third, much fainter light — our old friend the flying triangle, really. The lights were described as being in a triangle formation. It’s difficult to say, of course.

It’s quite possible they could have been three separate things flying in formation, but the impression from talking to witnesses was that this was a triangular craft with lights mounted on the underside, at the edges. The most interesting reports, of course, were the ones which occurred at close distance.

There was a family in Staffordshire who apparently saw this thing so low — and they described it as either triangular or diamond shaped — that they leapt into their car and tried to chase it.

They didn’t succeed, although at one point they thought it was so low that it had actually come down in a field. It wasn’t there when they got to it. They described a low, humming sound, a very low-frequency sound. They said you didn’t just hear this sound, you felt it, like standing in front of a bass speaker.

The really intriguing thing was that this object, whatever it was, then proceeded to fly over two military bases. It was seen by the guard patrol at RAF Cosford, about three or four people, [who] made an instant report of this, obviously because it had flown over their base. They checked radar.

There was nothing on the screens, nothing at all, and there was nothing scheduled to fly. No military or civil aircraft should have been airborne in that area at all.

They phoned the nearby base at RAF Shawbury, about 12 miles away from Cosford. The meteorological officer there took the call. He was a man with about eight years experience of looking into the night sky and then doing the weather report for the next day.

So he knew his way around objects and phenomena. Now, to his absolute amazement, he saw a light in the distance, coming closer and closer. That light eventually resolved itself into a solid structured craft that he saw again flying directly over the base, but at much closer proximity than the guard patrol at Cosford had seen it.

He estimated that the height of the object was no more than 200 feet. Its size, he said, was midway between a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and a Boeing 747. He heard the low hum, too. He had not spoken to any other witnesses, except the Cosford people, who I don’t think had reported the sound. He reported this low-frequency hum.

Perhaps most disturbingly of all, he reported this thing throwing a beam of light down at the nearby countryside and fields just beyond the perimeter fence at the base. And this light was tracking backwards and forwards, he said to me, “as if it was looking for something.”

The beam of light then retracted, and the craft moved off. It was traveling very slowly, I should say, probably no more than 20 or 30 mph. Then it gained a little bit of height, and then it just shot off to the horizon in little more than a second. Needless to say, that was a description I had come across many times in other UFO reports, the virtual hover to the high-Mach accelerations in an instant.

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09-04-2020 om 21:07 geschreven door peter  

Triangle UFO Found In Antarctic Island, Proof Of Ancient Aliens, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: April 8, 2020
Location of discovery: Lavoisier Island, Antarctic region
Method used: Google Earth map

I was looking over an island in the Antarctic region when I came across a TR3B craft. The triangle craft has a hump in the middle and a thicker edge with three sides. It looks metallic and its sitting in an area which appears to be the location of an ancient alien base. This craft was revealed after warm years had melted the ice and snow revealing the secret craft below. This is 100% evidence that aliens have lived on Earth long before humanity ever made cites. 
Scott C. Waring 

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09-04-2020 om 20:01 geschreven door peter  

UFO Fleet Recorded Over Cincinnati, Ohio On 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Taken 2019, but posted 2020 this week.

Location of sighting: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

 

A woman recorded a fleet of glowing UFOs over the city of Cincinnati, Ohio last year. The glowing lights baffled the spectators and even the people in the comment section could not explain away these amazing lights. As you see at the center of the video the four lights become three, as the fourth jumps into a new higher position for a few seconds. Remarkable footage of a UFO fleet over Ohio. 

Scott C. Waring

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09-04-2020 om 19:46 geschreven door peter  

While sitting on the terrace of his house, the witness was filming a plane with a very powerful zoom camera. When he saw the video on the computer he noticed a strange object that rises on the left of the visual field.

It seems to rotate and is quite dark in color. The investigations of C.UFO.M. (centro ufologico mediterraneo in Italy) on this sighting recorded in Rome on April 2015 have made it possible to establish that it is probably not a balloon, nor a satellite and not even an atmospheric probe.

C.UFO.M states: For example, the UFO gives off lights sometimes on the right and other times on the left. The sun comes from the left. It also has a focus similar to that of the plane so they are at an approximately equal distance from the witness.

Rather then a real UFO, it is quite possible that the witness has filmed a secret military craft equipped with the newest technologies similar to the infamous tic tac UFOs.

  

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09-04-2020 om 18:20 geschreven door peter  

Triangle UFO over Akron, Ohio

This UFO video was filmed back in March 2017 but it was just published on MUFON’s website. It happened over Akron, Ohio.

Witness report: 

Triangle shaped craft spotted from porch. I stepped out to smoke March 16th 2017. It was a mildly cold night but completely clear. I noticed a large stationary craft due south west of my residence. The craft appeared completely black like a void. It had 4 constant lights and 2-4 seemingly random flashing orange/red/yellow lights. I watched it for nearly 3 minutes with no changes and it just vanished. The craft made a very low hum almost like current.

see video with this link

https://youtu.be/_-pz2t6oiio

Other triangles above Ohio, Peter2011

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09-04-2020 om 17:45 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers Observe Relativistic Jet from Two Merging Spiral Galaxies

Astronomers using the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope report the first unambiguous detection of a relativistic jet — a beam of charged particles that travels at nearly the speed of light — emerging from two colliding spiral-shaped galaxies.

This artist’s impression illustrates how high-speed jets from supermassive black holes would look.

Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / L. Calçada, ESO.

Jets are the most powerful astrophysical phenomena in the Universe. They can emit more energy into the Universe in one second than our Sun will produce in its entire lifetime. That energy is in the form of radiation, such as intense radio waves, X-rays, and gamma-rays.

Jets were thought to be born from older, elliptical-shaped galaxies with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is a super-massive black hole that resides at its center.

Astronomers theorize that the AGNs grow larger by gravitationally drawing in gas and dust through a process called accretion. But not all of this matter gets accreted into the black hole. Some of the particles become accelerated and are spewed outward in narrow beams in the form of jets.

“For the first time, we have found two spiral- or disk-shaped galaxies on path for a collision that have produced a nascent, baby jet that has just started its life at the center of one of the galaxies,” said lead author Dr. Vaidehi Paliya, a researcher with the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY).

Other teams of astronomers have already imaged galactic collisions many times. But Dr. Paliya and colleagues are the first to capture two galaxies merging where there is a fully formed jet pointing at us — albeit, a very young one, and thus not yet bright enough to blind us.

“Typically, a jet emits light that is so powerful we can’t see the galaxy behind it,” said senior author Professor Stefano Marchesi, an astronomer in the INAF — Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna.

“It’s like trying to look at an object and someone points a bright flashlight into your eyes. All you can see is the flashlight. This jet is less powerful, so we can actually see the galaxy where it is born.”

“Active galaxies which have jets are usually big, old elliptical galaxies which, according to the models, are formed by the merger of two or more smaller galaxies, so that we think that these mergers are the cause of the activation of the jets,” said co-author Dr. Rubén García-Benito, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC).

“A collision is a very efficient way to make large masses of gas fall to the centre of a galaxy, which feeds the supermassive black hole and can produce the emergence of the jet.”

TXS 2116-077 (seen on the right) collides with another spiral-shaped galaxy of similar mass, creating a relativistic jet in the center of TXS 2116-077.

Image credit: Paliya et al, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab754f.

The team used the Subaru Telescope to capture two galaxies: a Seyfert 1 galaxy called TXS 2116-077 and a Seyfert 2 galaxy of similar mass.

They performed subsequent observations with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and William Herschel Telescope, as well as with NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

They believe that the galaxies were colliding for the second time because of the amount of gas seen in the image.

“Eventually, all the gas will be expelled into space, and without gas, a galaxy cannot form stars anymore,” Dr. Ajello said.

“Without gas, the black hole will switch off and the galaxy will lay dormant.”

• The findings were published in the Astrophysical Journal.

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Vaidehi S. Paliya et al. 2020. TXS 2116-077: A Gamma-Ray Emitting Relativistic Jet Hosted in a Galaxy Merger. ApJ 892, 133; doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab754f

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09-04-2020 om 01:15 geschreven door peter