Nieuwe fragmenten uit mysterieuze Dode Zee-rollen ontdekt in grotten in woestijn van Judea

Israël heeft in grotten in de woestijn van Judea fragmenten van een boekrol met oude Bijbelteksten ontdekt. Het zou gaan om onderdelen van de zogenaamde Dode Zee-rollen, die eind jaren veertig opgegraven werden in hetzelfde gebied en die de oudste gekende versie van het Oude Testament bevatten. De Israël Antiquities Authority (IAA) maakte het nieuws dinsdag bekend. De nationale oudheidkundige autoriteit spreekt van “een historische vondst”.

  Bron: Belga

“Voor het eerst in ongeveer zestig jaar hebben archeologische opgravingen stukken van Bijbelse geschriften aan het licht gebracht”, aldus de IAA. 

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  Dode Zeerollen staan online

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  Grot ontdekt met belangrijke info over duizenden jaren oude manuscripten

De geschriften dateren uit de periode rond de Joodse opstand van Bar Kokhba tegen de Romeinen, van 132 tot 136 na Christus. Ze zijn opgesteld in het Oud-Grieks. Stukken van de manuscripten hebben onderzoekers geholpen om passages uit het boek van Zacharia en het boek van Nahum te reconstrueren. Die boeken maken deel uit van het Twaalfprofetenboek, dat geschriften van twaalf kleinere profeten verzamelt.

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De geschriften zijn gevonden in een rotsgrot in het natuurreservaat rond de stroom Nahal Hever, die loopt van de Dode Zee tot in de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Dat gebied bezet Israël al sinds 1967.

Naast de geschriften brachten de archeologische opgravingen ook zeldzame voorwerpen zoals munten, pijlpunten, kleding, sandalen en luizenkammen aan het licht. De archeologen ontdekten zelfs een gemummificeerd kinderskelet van wel 6.000 jaar oud, dat in doeken was gewikkeld, en een mand van meer dan 10.000 jaar oud. Met zijn gezegende leeftijd van 10.500 jaar zou het de oudste mand ter wereld zijn, aldus de IAA.

“De vondsten zijn niet alleen belangrijk voor ons cultureel erfgoed, maar ook voor de hele wereld,” zei Avi Cohen, het hoofd van het ministerie van Jeruzalem en Cultureel Erfgoed.

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Israel Hasson, directeur van IAA, stelt de voorwerpen tentoon in zijn laboratorium in het Israëlmuseum in Jeruzalem. Volgens hem heeft de nationale operatie, waarvan de archeologische opgravingen in de woestijn van Judea deel uitmaken, als doel de “zeldzame en belangrijke erfgoedstukken uit de klauwen van dieven te redden”. Sinds de ontdekking van de Dode Zee-rollen in de grotten van Qumrân eind jaren veertig, zijn de rotsachtige grotten in de woestijn van Judea immers het doelwit van plunderaars.

Het negenhonderdtal manuscripten van de Dode Zee-rollen wordt beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste archeologische ontdekkingen ooit, omdat de geschriften religieuze teksten in het Hebreeuws, Aramees en Grieks bevatten, evenals de oudste gekende versie van het Oude Testament. Het eerste geschrift werd gevonden door een herder, daarna werden meer fragmenten ontdekt.

LEES OOK: 

• Voorlaatste deel van mysterieuze Dode Zeerollen ontcijferd

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16-03-2021 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

The sensational, and also rightly questioned and criticized, story told of Corso’s alleged personal knowledge of the Roswell affair while serving with the military, and of the way in which he allegedly helped to advance the United States – both scientifically and militarily – by secretly feeding certain fantastic technologies found in the craft recovered at Roswell to U.S.-based private industries and defense contractors. Despite the fact that many have championed Corso as a solid proponent of the idea that extraterrestrials plunged to earth in New Mexico in 1947, in reality, Corso was willing to consider something very different. The unusual bodies found within the wreckage of the craft, Corso maintained, were genetically created beings designed to withstand the rigors of space flight, but they were not the actual creators of the UFO itself. Right up to the time of his death in 1998, Corso speculated on the distinct possibility that the U.S. Government might still have no real idea of who constructed the craft, or who genetically engineered the bodies found aboard or in the vicinity of the wreckage.

Corso gave much consideration to the idea that the Roswell UFO was a form of time machine, possibly even one designed and built by the denizens of an Earth of the distant future, rather than by the people of a faraway solar-system. Of course, it’s vital that I make it clear Corso’s story has been the subject of a great deal of intense debate – I don’t believe it. Bit, I do think it’s worth sharing the story for, if nothing else, a debate. Corso’s account relative to Roswell has been both vocally championed and loudly denounced. Others seem unsure what to make of it all. But, unfortunately for those trying to make some sense of the situation, Ufology has always been like that when it comes to matters of a highly volatile nature. We never get a definitive answer. It always ends up, to use a terrible but appropriate pun, in a “grey” area.

If history shows there’s nothing to the story of Philip Corso, then so be it. But, if there is even a small nugget of truth to the story, then here is something we should muse upon: Maybe, by studying the Roswell materials, officialdom has learned something deeply troubling and terrible about our future, something it dares not share with us, the populace at large. Ever. Is this, perhaps, the reason why the Roswell affair is one still shrouded in overwhelming secrecy, more than 60 years after it occurred? To paraphrase The X-Files, when it comes to UFOs and Roswell, “the truth” may not be “out there” after all. Instead, it might be countless millennia ahead of us.

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16-03-2021 om 18:47 geschreven door peter  

The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy... New Evidence Proves Authenticity

The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy… New Evidence Proves Authenticity

The Alien Autopsy ignited controversy as one of the first pieces of evidence for alien contact. 25 years later, Paola Harris and Italian researcher Maurizio Baiata bring forth the evidence gathered to prove this leaked film is indeed authentic. In this conversation, Regina Meredith speaks with researcher Paola Harris and Maurizio Baiata, an Italian journalist and UFO researcher who was one of the first to see the autopsy footage.

They compare what was known then, with what has been discovered since. This initial discovery has been followed by many others, adding to the evidence that we are not alone.

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16-03-2021 om 18:24 geschreven door peter  

Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power

Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power 

Who built the ancient pyramid in Alaska and is it an energy source? Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe shared her findings in an interview with Regina Meredith. Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She reports her findings on earthfiles.com.

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16-03-2021 om 18:10 geschreven door peter  

The Secret Vatican Vaults... E.T. Visitations That Remain Concealed!

Rumor has long held that deep within the vaults of the Vatican library lie the answers we seek concerning extraterrestrial visitation upon our world. Through legal maneuvering, one man has chanced an encounter with these enigmatic documents, Daniel Sheehan. In this interview with Regina Meredith, he discusses the many trials and tribulations he endured as navigated the complex legal system which seems bent upon keeping this important information forever concealed.

Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School-trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. Dan’s work as a Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Educator has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world. In 1977, he served as a “Special Counsel” to the United States Library of Congress’ investigation into the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence that had been expressly requested by then President Jimmy Carter.

In 2001, Dan was invited to serve as General Counsel to The Disclosure Project.

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16-03-2021 om 18:00 geschreven door peter  

Three Buildings On Moon, Seen Through Telescope, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: March 15, 2021
Location of discovery: Earths moon
Source: 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev4xGc2Zz-E

I was looking at a video by Youtuber 2018 Flatearth and noticed his 4k telescope was showing incredible detail. Even better than NASA shows in their maps and photos online. So I began to go through one of them. At 13:43 into a video I easily spotted three alien structures. The structures are each hidden inside of craters. Aliens do this to fool long distance astronomer into thinking "oh its shadows," or worse, "its rocks." But the detail here throws those two theories out the window. This 4k telescope is showing a whole new story to the moon. One that we haven't been told of before. 

 

The tools at our disposal are all around us. Just because others don't use those tools, doesn't mean they aren't useful for task. What I'm saying is...we no longer need NASA, when we can produce better quality video and photos than they can. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

 

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16-03-2021 om 17:40 geschreven door peter  

Crew member Shomuddro Bilas who witnessed the strange appearance in the sky states: 

On March 12, 2021, while our ship was in Indian ocean sailing towards Bangladesh, we saw a mysterious light show on the night sky for 20 minutes around 08.00 pm.

Our 3rd mate called me and told me about it and to bring my camera to photograph the moment. I went to bridge a minute later. There were also other people on the bridge including our Captain and Chief Engineer. 

We all saw the same thing. The Captain was the first one who noticed the light. I saw it 2-3 minutes later as the 1st picture on the video. Our captain said, initially when he saw it, it was more smaller and much brighter. 

I started to capture a time-lapse with 1s exposure and 1 second interval and record 400 photos as you can see it was glowing and expanding in the time-lapse, easily visible in naked eye at night. 

After the light disappeared, I took a photo of our ship's position (Latitude, Longitude, UTC time). We discussed about it, but nobody was sure about what it was or never saw this kind of light before. 

Can anyone explain it?

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16-03-2021 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

Daytime UFO filmed over Maine 15-Mar-2021

This unidentified flying object was filmed in the daytime sky above Maine in United States on 15th March 2021.

Witness report: 

Saw a ufo while riding a chairlift today in Maine. this object was hovering stationary, then slowly started moving one direction before disappearing.

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16-03-2021 om 16:47 geschreven door peter  

Beginner's Guide To Ufology & UFO Studies

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16-03-2021 om 16:38 geschreven door peter  

A huge and luminous Submarine-UFO was photographed over a crowded city in China

 I just received this UFO report at my email.

Chapter 1 More Confusion
The sightings were compiled by witnesses in February 2021, in which three aspects were particularly strange:

1. The UFO disappeared about 10 seconds after coming into view.
2. The UFO was enormous and appeared over the city where people were gathered. The photographer, Mr. W, saw it, but his companion, Ms. B did not see it, nor did any other passersby.
3. The sky was some light when Mr. W witnessed the UFO. The captured UFO pictures were incredibly distorted in their overall color and had brightness values about twice as high as other photos. The iPhone X had difficulty taking the pictures (when the iPhone X was taking pictures, it was seriously disturbed).

Chapter 2 Witnesses and Photos
The story goes like this. Mr. W is a Chinese lawyer, on the afternoon of June 2, 2018, Mr. W and his companion Ms. B drove to County Miyi, City Panzhihua, Province Sichuan to handle some affairs, and to enjoy the scenery on both sides of River Anning and the night scene along the way.
See below the “Aerial view of County Miyi, City Panzhihua”. After driving away from the highway and entering the county, Mr. W parked his car in a parking spot, then together with his companion, Ms. B walked through the Bridge Renminlu below, and then along the viewing road by the river on the left, then they advanced to Bridge Dragon above.

See below “Original Picture 1 (Mobile No. IMG_1631, 20:12 photographed)”. Mr. W, located near the restroom, suddenly saw a UFO-like object, Its shape and size resembled a large submarine, over the buildings across the river. It was silent and motionless and glowed with slight light like the afterglow of the sun penetrating through thin clouds. It was obviously incompatible with the surrounding clouds and was very dazzling and eye-catching. Its magnificence dumbfounded Mr. W. However, the sun should not appear near in the position of Submarine-UFO in the sky at this time, after all, it was already past 8 p.m.
Mr. W immediately took a picture of the Submarine-UFO with the iPhone X in hand at the approximate position shown in Figure 1, and then couldn’t wait to see the details of the UFO through the zoom function of the mobile phone. But it was quite inconceivable that the photo had a serious color cast (or/and the brightness was high) and was very unusual, far from what Mr. W had witnessed with his eyes. The reason might be that, to go to the bathroom, Mr. W walked in front of his companion Ms. B. When Ms. B approached Mr. W, Mr. W originally intended to watch the strange object together with her. But Mr. W was surprised to find that perhaps within 10-30 seconds when he looked down at the photos, the Submarine-UFO had disappeared without a trace.
At that time, many people walking along the viewing road of the riverside after enjoying their dinner. People would look at the river and the scenery on the opposite bank. The two banks of the river were very wide, and the huge Submarine-UFO should have been seen or photographed by more people. But what is unbelievable is that Mr. W felt that people were not aware of this UFO, and even his companion Ms. B also said that she saw nothing.
The iPhone X photo has a resolution of 4032 x 3024, 5.88 times the video resolution 1920 x 1080, so Mr. W chose to take pictures and then to shoot a video. However the Submarine-UFO disappeared too fast, and unfortunately, there was no chance to shoot the video.
The 576 million pixels of the human eye is 48 times the 12 million pixels of the iPhone X photo, so Mr. W felt amazed at what he witnessed at the time and how it was completely different from the situation as shown by the photo. It’s a magnificence that can never be copied and imagined unless you are personally on the scene!

Chapter 3 Details of Photos
Description of photo details:

1. See below the “enlarged view of drew outline”. The Submarine-UFO has obvious geometric lines, the front resembles a streamlined structure of a revolving body, especially the front end looks like a cone or ellipse, and a small part of the middle area below the axis is protruding and similar to the pod parts (This feature may also be an illusion caused by part of the UFO being blocked by clouds). The back is similar to the stern structure, which is flat and inclined downward.
2. See below the “enlarged view of increased saturation”. The surrounding light clouds are floating around the dark Submarine-UFO and are incompatible with each other, and the latter shows no signs of being squeezed by the former.
3. See below the “iPhone X gallery thumbnails”. Except that the photo of the Submarine-UFO Figure 1 taken by the mobile phone shows the color cast or/and shiny effect as a whole, the color or/and luminance of other photos appear to be more normal thus an exception exists.

Chapter 4 Follow-up Observations
See below “Original Picture 2 (mobile phone number IMG_1632, 20:16 photographed)”. Mr. W saw a group of birds flying in the sky over the area, then using a mobile phone took pictures of the flying birds at the approximate position shown in Figure 2, but the traces of the Submarine-UFO were already gone. The local weather recorded on the Internet was “breeze, without continuous wind direction”. There was no surging wind and clouds were in a calm sky, and the UFO never re-appeared.

See below “Original Picture 3 (mobile phone number IMG_1633, 20:19 photographed)”. Mr. W and Ms. B walked to the highest point of the Dragon Bridge, using their mobile phones, they took pictures at the location shown in Figure 3 facing the direction they had just come from. At this time, the colorful lights on the building were brilliant and colorful, and the night was very charming, end.

Chapter 5 Photo Data
Attached photo data description:
The luminance of Figure 1 is 2.77, approximately 2 times the luminance of Figure 2, at 1.36. When consulted what condition could increase the luminance of a picture taken by iPhone X, the Chinese Apple customer service technician answered that the luminance of the subject itself increased. Relevant experts also believe that the flash of mobile phones will not affect the brightness of the distant view (especially buildings, the sky, and the Submarine-UFO on the other side of the river).

Figures 4 and 5 are photos taken at 21:51 after Mr. W and Ms. B arrived on the other side of the river. In close-up photography of people at night, Figure 5 has a flare brightness of about -2.16, an increase of 0.5 as compared with the -2.66 of Figure 4, taken without a flash.

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16-03-2021 om 16:26 geschreven door peter  

Carl Sagan once said that Earth is but a “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” He would probably be thrilled to know that, around the time of a new moon, Earth is a speck of dust suspended in a moon tail.

The moon, lacking an atmosphere to shield it, is constantly under attack. When meteorites bombard its volcanic surface, sodium atoms fly high into orbit. The sun’s photons collide with the sodium atoms, effectively pushing them away from the sun and creating a tail-like structure flowing downstream from the moon.

“It makes the moon sort of look like a comet,” said Jeffrey Baumgardner, a senior research scientist at Boston University’s Center for Space Physics. “It has a stream of stuff coming off it.”

For a few days each month, when the new moon moves between Earth and the sun, this comet-like tail dusts the side of our world that is facing the sun. Our planet’s gravity pinches that sodium stream, narrowing it into a beam, invisible to the naked eye, that wraps around Earth’s atmosphere and shoots out into space from the opposite side of the planet.

This moonbeam can be seen by special cameras as a spot in twilight skies. Sometimes it appears brighter, sometimes dimmer. Ever since the tail and its beam were first seen back in the late 1990s, scientists have been wondering what controls the beam’s brightness. As reported Wednesday in a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 14 years of observations suggests meteors — particularly larger, faster ones that bombard the moon at random — may explain what controls its flicker.

“Does this have a practical application? Probably not,” Mr. Baumgardner, the study’s lead author, said. This research was driven by nothing more than curiosity, he said, a desire to simply learn more about that beautiful volcanic pearl in the sky and its mystifying moonbeam.

“I think it’s very cool,” said Sarah Luettgen, an undergraduate at Boston University and a co-author of the study. “It almost seems like a magical thing.”

Boston University has placed several all-sky-imaging cameras — essentially fish-eye lenses that see the entire visible sky — around the world. Originally designed to spot auroras, they can see sodium in Earth’s atmosphere with a filter. They commonly observe it when meteors burn up before reaching our planet’s surface.

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15-03-2021 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

A fireball, a driveway and a priceless meteorite

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15-03-2021 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

Who was the Basilosaurus, the ‘king lizard’ that was neither king nor lizard?

The king of the lizards turned out to be the first fully ocean-dwelling whale.

 by Alexandru Micu

 

Today, we know that the Basilosaurus is the first ancient whale humanity has ever found. But back when it was first described, the animal’s huge proportions earned it the name of ‘king lizard’. And although technically incorrect, the name isn’t undeserved; during its day, the Basilosaurus ruled the waters of Tethys with an iron flipper and a really impressive set of teeth.

This creature lived 40 to 35 million years ago, during a part of geologic time known as the late Eocene. The dinosaurs were quite well gone by this time, and mammals were well on the way to dominating the planet. The Basilosaurus was also a mammal — a whale, no less — and could grow up to 60 feet (a bit over 18m) in length. Needless to say, you can’t skip meals and grow so large. But this species likely had no issues getting full, as the Basilosaurus was, by all indications, a formidable apex predator.

It was first described in 1834 from fragments of a skeleton found in the US. Due to the sheer scale of the fossils, their striking similarity in shape and function to marine predatory dinosaurs, poor availability, and the limits of paleontological understanding of the day, the species was initially assumed to have been a dinosaur — and christened the ‘king of the lizards’, Basilosaurus

How come?

The academic story of this genus starts with B. cetoides, the first ancient whale species ever discovered, which was unearthed in Louisiana around 1830 by Richard Harlan and still serves as the type species of Basilosaurus.

Details from the dig and the wider goings-on around the fossils aren’t very good from the time, but we do know that bones from this dig were sent to the American Philosophical Society by Judge Henry Bry of Ouachita County, Louisiana and Judge John Creagh of Clarke County, Alabama, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Here, they were examined by Richard Harlan, one of the US’s earliest paleontologists and naturalists, who would end up christening the new species.

Upon first examination, Harlan was very excited. Comparing the bones he received to those of Plesiosaurus and Mosasaurus, two species of marine dinosaurs that were already described at the time, he concluded that the new species grew no less than 80–100 ft (24–30 m) long. Still, there were enough structural similarities between its vertebrae and those of Plesiosaurus, as well as between its skull and that of Mosasaurus, for Harlan to assume that the species were related. At the very least, he assumed, they lived around the same time.

The first signs that this name wasn’t really spot-on came when Harlan took his specimens to the UK for consultation with his peers there. Richard Owen, a controversial figure but a superb paleontologist, observed that the animal’s molars were two-rooted. No known fish or reptile at the time showed the same structure, and Owen suggested the animal might have been a whale instead. The two even agreed to rename it Zeuglodon cetoides (“whale-like yoke teeth”).

A few years later the other known species, B. isis, would be described based on fragments of bone recovered from Egypt. Although the first full skeleton of B. isis wouldn’t be unearthed until 2016, the discovery of this species and its fossil association with species that were known to have been whales at the time further suggested that all Basilodons were, in fact, mammals. This was helped by the fact that Basilosaurus fossils actually became quite common over time, so much so that in the 19th century they were even used as andirons, furniture, or decoration.

Over the years, paleontologists have wisened up to the fact and tried to change the genus’ name. However, zoological naming conventions meant that the original name stuck. Today, the Basilosaurus is the state fossil for Alabama and Mississippi.

How did it used to live?

One thing that Harlan got right about the Basilosaurus was that it was large. This whale was bigger even than some predatory dinosaurs that came before it, and it undoubtedly threw its weight around the ancient, lost sea of Tethys.

Another thing it definitely threw around were bites. Unlike most whales today, Basilosaurus didn’t filter feed, it hunted. Its jaws were lined with several types of teeth, including molars and canines, which are specialized for chewing and ripping, respectively. Such teeth are characteristic of meat-eating species.

Two other important characteristics of the species are a skull asymmetry and a relatively low intracranial volume. The first is a trait it shares with modern toothed whales such as orcas. Today, this asymmetry is associated with whales’ ability to produce high-frequency sounds for echolocation; Basilosaurus likely didn’t have this ability, however, and its skull was asymmetrical in order to house a fatty sensory organ meant to help it hear underwater. The lack of room for a big brain inside its skull likely means that Basilosaurus was not a social species, like whales are today, and that it also wasn’t as capable from a cognitive standpoint.

Such traits can be indicative of an evolutionary ‘work-in-progress’. The Basilosaurus seems to have been the first whale species to live entirely underwater, marking the point where the lineage of walking whales finally took the plunge.

It most likely spent its day as a solitary hunter, or at most, one that lived in small groups. Social interactions are extremely demanding, from a cognitive point of view, and Basilosaurus’ brain just seems to have been too small to adequately navigate living in a group.

Still, who needs big brains when you have big brawns? Analysis of fossilized, scarred Dorudon skull bones — this is another genus of prehistoric whale that was the preferred prey of Basilosaurus — suggests that the king of lizards could bite down with 3,600 pounds per square inch (PSI).

To put things into perspective, that’s 233 times more pressure than a fully-loaded M1A2 main battle tank exerts on the ground under its tracks. Most industrial hydraulic presses in use today exert between 1,000 to 3,000 PSI, which is still under the estimated high ofr Basilosaurus. You do not want to get bitten by one of these.

With big bites, however, also comes good manners. Wear patterns on Basilosaurus teeth suggest that the animal bit and then chewed its food, unlike most predators today, whose teeth are specialized in ripping chunks of meat off the bone, that are then gulped up whole. In regards to what they ate, stomach contents seem to indicate that B. cetoides hunted fish and large sharks exclusively, while we know from Dorudon skulls that B. isis would also hunt these. Dorudon was a larger animal, related to today’s dolphins, and B. isis likely focused on delivering a killing blow to its head before tearing it apart while feeding (many Dorudon skeletons, especially those showing signs of predation from Basilosaurus, are found disarticulated).

King no more

The Basilosaur genus went extinct, with our last fossil evidence of them hailing from around 40 million years ago. They didn’t leave behind any direct descendants which, judging from their teeth, isn’t the worst thing to have ever happened.

We’re not entirely sure why they disappeared. Sometime around 40 million years ago, something happened to bring these toothy kings low. However, the fact that other toothed and baleen whales are around today suggests these smaller relatives of the Basilosaurus out-competed them in the end. It might have been their big brains, it might have been their social nature, it could even have been their more modest appetites; for now, it remains a mystery.

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15-03-2021 om 22:39 geschreven door peter  

Curious Kids: We have been trying to contact aliens – but do they want to contact us?

15-03-2021 om 22:15 geschreven door peter  

San Diego often tops the lists of people looking to move to a place with great temperatures, great beaches, and great amenities. It rarely appears on the lists of places with great booms – until recently when the beautiful California city was suddenly hit by mysterious booms that no one seems to know the source of or wants to take credit for. Residents, tourists bureaus, animals at the San Diego Zoo – they all want to cool it with the boom booms. Will that happen or will San Diego end up like so many other locales around the world with no answers to the mysterious sounds they’re being plagued by?

“People from Del Mar to Chula Vista took to social media Wednesday afternoon to report a “boom” that shook doors and startled pets, leading many to speculate that the region had experienced a short, mild earthquake. Posts on Twitter and Facebook described a loud boom, accompanied by shaking doors and cabinets.”

That afternoon boom was reported by the San Diego Tribune on January 15, 2020. A U.S. Geological Survey spokesman quickly said it wasn’t an earthquake, an ongoing exercise at Camp Pendleton with artillery fire had been canceled for the day, the San Diego-based Naval Air Forces said none of the Navy’s aircraft were the source of the boom, and Marine Corps officials from the MCAS Miramar-based 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing also denied responsibility. That boom remained unsolved.

“Some sort of weird shaking thing happened in San Diego a few minutes ago. Didn’t feel like an earthquake. More like a bizarre wind gust. Not sure what it was, but I’m not in favor of more bad things happening.”

One year later, on the afternoon of February 16, 2021, San Diego got hit by another boom which the USGA quickly reported was not an earthquake. Reports on this one came from Rancho Bernardo on the north side, 30 miles south from Chula Vista and 30 miles east from El Cajon. This time, no reported comments from the military.

“For the second time in about three weeks, residents from across San Diego County reported feeling a mysterious shaking — or in some cases hearing a loud boom — late in the afternoon Wednesday.”

That was around 5 pm on March 10, 2021, and the USGA reported that it was not an earthquake. (Do you detect a pattern here?) Again, no reported comments from the military, but local officials seem to be ruling out sonic booms or artillery fire anyway. A new theory came from Humberto Mendoza Garcilazo, a researcher at the Center of Scientific Research and Higher Education, who suspected stormy weather and atmospheric pressure changes, but National Weather Service meteorologist Brandt Maxwell told the San Diego Union Tribune there were no thunderstorms in the area and “even with a strong cold front, you won’t get that kind of rumbling.”

So, no answers … only denials and silence. The booms occurred in the same area at about the same time of day. Earthquakes and weather are easy to rule out – records of both are in the public domain. The military is supposed to notify the public of unusual noise occurrence due to exercises or testing – but no one would be surprised if secret operations were not reported until possibly later with an “Oops, we’re sorry.” However, that hasn’t happened in San Diego. These booms bracket the coronavirus pandemic – could they be from secret military operations related to it? If the military is ruled out, what else could they be?

That’s the question being asked around the world as these mysterious sounds are heard more and more frequently. The media seems concerned in the moment, but quickly moves on to the next big news. Is it time for an independent organization to investigate these booms? Are there secret files or a secret internal group for mysterious booms like there is for UFOs? Both are possible security threats.

We’ll continue to report these mysterious sounds until someone gives an answer. Until then, report, record and repeat.

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15-03-2021 om 20:37 geschreven door peter  

San Diego residents left baffled by mystery BOOM which shook the city for three seconds - and no one can explain what happened

• Mysterious boom was heard across San Diego at 4.52pm on Wednesday

• Residents reported feeling shaking for about three seconds, echoing similar incidents last month and last year

• People reported feeling the windows and doors of their homes rattle as the United States Geological Survey said it did not record even a slight earthquake

• The thunderous noise caused social media users to contemplate what may have caused the sound

• The top theories, fighter jets from the nearby Camp Pendleton military base and stormy weather, may have been ruled out

By ADAM SCHRADER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A mysterious boom was heard across San Diego at 4.52pm on Wednesday and residents reported feeling shaking for about three seconds, echoing similar incidents last month and last year.

People reported feeling the windows and doors of their homes rattle as the United States Geological Survey said it did not record even a slight earthquake, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.

However, one Twitter user noted that the Southern California Seismic Network, a co-operative project of Caltech and the USGS, recorded what appears to be the boom on a live feed on YouTube of its seismograph. 

A mysterious boom was heard across San Diego at 4.52pm on Wednesday afternoon

Residents reported feeling windows and doors shake across the San Diego area on Wednesday

One Twitter user noted that the Southern California Seismic Network, a co-operative project of Caltech and the USGS, recorded what appears to be the boom on a seismograph

The thunderous noise caused other social media users to contemplate what may have caused the sound, with top theories being: fighter jets from the nearby Camp Pendleton military base and stormy weather.

However, the military theory may have been ruled out, the Union Tribune reported.

'That wasn't one of ours,' Cmdr. Zachary Harrell, a Navy spokesman, told the outlet.

Harrell noted that military jets are required to break the sound barrier far off the coast where they would not be heard.

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One Twitter user speculated the sound came from artillery rounds at Camp Pendleton.

'Live in Valley Center, North County and assumed it was just a much louder round of artillery at Camp Pendleton. Website says they are doing Mortar Fire all day and I thought I heard some earlier and again this evening,' @scarrcats tweeted.

Officials with Camp Pendleton confirmed to KGTV that soldiers were conducting artillery training on Wednesday but could not confirm if that was responsible for the boom.

“Some sort of weird shaking thing happened in San Diego a few minutes ago. Didn’t feel like an earthquake. More like a bizarre wind gust. Not sure what it was, but I’m not in favor of more bad things happening.”

The Marines and local defense contractors that operate at Pendleton and other nearby bases did not respond to requests for comment from the outlet. 

Some Twitter users speculated that the boom was caused by the nearby Camp Pendleton

One resident tweeted that she thought that the boom was a noisy neighbor moving furniture

Another Twitter user simply surmised 'aliens' after the boom was felt in San Diego on Wednesday

San Diego County Sheriff's Department received calls about the boom but KSWB-TV that they did not know what caused it.

A researcher at the Center of Scientific Research and Higher Education told the Union Tribune that supersonic airplanes could have caused the 'rumble.' 

But Humberto Mendoza Garcilazo also suggested it could may have been caused by stormy weather and atmospheric pressure changes, the Union Tribune reported.

National Weather Service meteorologist Brandt Maxwell told the outlet he was skeptical that it was caused by weather. 

There were no thunderstorms in the area at the time of the boom and 'even with a strong cold front, you won't get that kind of rumbling,' he told the outlet.

Another Twitter user simply explained: 'Aliens.'

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15-03-2021 om 20:31 geschreven door peter  

Not Science Fiction: German Physicists Say Traversable Wormholes Possible

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15-03-2021 om 18:46 geschreven door peter  

Wormholes Could Allow Travel Across the Universe, as Long as Your Spacecraft is Microscopic

In my last post, I talked about the idea of warp drive and whether it might one day be possible. Today I’ll talk about another faster-than-light trick: wormholes.

Wormholes are an old idea in general relativity. It’s based on work by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, who tried to figure out how elementary particles might behave in curved spacetime. Their idea treated particle-antiparticle pairs as two ends of a spacetime tube. This Einstein-Rosen Bridge would look like a black hole on one end, and an anti-black hole, or white hole, on the other end.

The particle physics idea never panned out, but work inspired other researchers to study ER-bridges as a possible shortcut through space. If wormholes were traversable, you could burrow through spacetime like a worm burrowing a hole through an apple. It didn’t take long for theorists to discover this wouldn’t work. Although wormholes are valid solutions to Einstein’s equations, they collapse so quickly you’d never have time to go through them. In general relativity, wormholes aren’t traversable.

Of course, impossibility never stops a persistent theoretician, and soon they figured out you could make a wormhole traversable by lining it with some kind of negative energy. The same kind of negative energy that could be used for warp drive. But as I mentioned last time, matter with negative mass/energy doesn’t seem to exist.

But all is not lost. We know that Einstein’s theory must break down at quantum scales because it is a classical theory. Presumably, there is some quantum theory of gravity that supplants general relativity. We don’t yet have a complete quantum gravity model, but we do have several approximate models that will point us in the right direction.

One of these models is known as the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory. It is so named because it includes aspects of Einstein’s theory of gravity, Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism, and Dirac’s theory of quantum particles. Recently a team found a wormhole solution to the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell equations.

The team found that their wormhole solution was fully traversable. What’s more, the solution doesn’t require any negative-energy states. In principle, that would allow you to travel through the wormhole without needing negative mass. The only catch is that you would need to be in a quantum state. So microscopic clumps of atoms could travel through this wormhole, but not people.

While this is interesting work, it is just a toy model. There are lots of solutions to Einstein’s equations that can’t exist for reasons beyond gravity. The team plans to explore their idea further to see if their solution is yet another impossible idea, or whether there might be a way to create this kind of quantum wormhole. And if this idea does work, it will still be easier to pass through the eye of a needle than it will be to enter the distant heavens.

Reference: 

• Blázquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis, Christian Knoll, and Eugen Radu. “Traversable wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory.” Physical Review Letters 126.10 (2021): 101102.

The post Wormholes Could Allow Travel Across the Universe, as Long as Your Spacecraft is Microscopic appeared first on Universe Today.

Source: 

• https://www.universetoday.com/150536/wormholes-could-allow-travel-across-the-universe-as-long-as-your-spacecraft-is-microscopic/

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15-03-2021 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sighting News, Dogs Bark At Lights Over Ponce, Puerto Rico, 3-12-2021. MUFON.

Date of sighting: 3-12-2021

Location of sighting: Ponce, Puerto Rico

Source: MUFON 114177 

 

An eyewitness in Puerto Rico yesterday noticed some strange lights moving around the sky. Then dogs began barking for no reason. Just like in many past UFO reports...animals often sense the alien presence nearby and began to panic. Here we hear the dogs barking crazily. This is a sign...that the sighting is real. Some people will mistakenly call these search lights, but they are not. They are alien entities that are made of pure energy. 

Scott C. Waring 

Eyewitness states: 

Me and my family saw it on the sky and some friends saw it a few miles away from another city.

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15-03-2021 om 17:27 geschreven door peter