Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
16-09-2021
Strange Orange Orbs Seen Flying In Formation In Baltimore Believed To Be UFOs
Strange Orange Orbs Seen Flying In Formation In Baltimore Believed To Be UFOs
Video footage of glowing orange orbs “flying in formation” across Baltimore night skies was captured by a man heading home from shopping likened to UFOs. Baltimore local Symkai Scott, 42, spotted about six or seven distinctive round orange lights hovering in the air in uniform formation.
A series of bright lights were spotted floating in Baltimore, sparking a deluge of alleged sightings
Credit: Pen News/Symkai Scott
Social media users suggested the lights may have been UFOs or lanterns
Credit: Pen News/Symkai Scott
According to The Sun, Scott posted the footage online to seek out some answers as to what he had caught on video. A wave of comments surprised him as her came to know that other social media users claimed to have witnessed identical sightings recently in Washington DC, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Detroit and other cities across the United States. Symkai even heard from someone in Scotland saying they had seen the same lights.
One person from northern California stated that he had seen about 30 of these orbs traveling slowly in a single file line and then vanished in just seconds. Skeptical netizens suggested the lights Scott saw could have been drones, police helicopters or even Chinese floating lanterns. However, he argued that if these were lanterns, they were “awfully coordinated to keep steady in that type of formation.”
Scott also disputed the possibility that they were police helicopters because these usually make a noticeable noise, citing that the floating orange UFOs were silent. As he recalled his experience, the stunned man said the lights had a very distinctive orange glow to them, counting around six or seven big bright orbs. “I also thought they were awfully bright to be seen under the street lights in the city. You can see the glare from the street lights in the video,” Scott said.
The lights suddenly vanished quickly after he stopped filming and rushed inside his building to share what he witnessed to a friend. Openly admitting that he is a believer in the existence of extraterrestrial beings, Scott is not the only witness to these phenomena happening across America.
UFO sightings are not uncommon around the globe and the US is home to many such instances. Alleged sightings of strange lights, spaceships and even a plethora of alien abduction tales have been gaining much publicity and attention in recent years.
Just last month, a series of bright flickering lights were reportedly seen across Tennessee flying in random patterns. A video clip of the sighting was uploaded to Reddit leaving users baffled and locked in debate as to what these lights could be. At the same time, a UFO was spotted near the International Space Station during a live feed. The object was described to be a white, cylinder-shaped device that was seen on the same day that "high-speed" objects were caught hovering near NASA's International Space Station.
The question of “Are we alone?” has long been the big UFO debate, privy only to American politics and top tier government officials. However, since the Pentagon published reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, this marked a turning point after US military and intelligence officials examined more than 140 alleged sightings bringing lawmakers much concern on issues of security risks to the US.
Black Triangle UFO getting struck by lightning in Itaquaquecetuba, Brazil
Black Triangle UFO getting struck by lightning in Itaquaquecetuba, Brazil
During a thunderstorm in Itaquaquecetuba, State of São Paulo, Brazil, a black triangle UFO getting struck by lightning and becomes visible in the center of the lightning bolt before disappearing again.
At the same time, a second black object can be seen above the lightning bolt.
It is said that UFOs are using lightning strikes to recharge their batteries
Triangle-shaped UFO during a storm over Brazil TODAY!
Triangle-shaped UFO during a storm over Brazil TODAY!
This huge triangle-shaped UFO was caught on a tape, filmed from a car in Itaquaquecetuba, also simply called Itaquá, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This happened today (16th September 2021).
RENNENDE BEERDIERTJES WETEN ONDERZOEKERS BEHOORLIJK TE VERRASSEN
RENNENDE BEERDIERTJES WETEN ONDERZOEKERS BEHOORLIJK TE VERRASSEN
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Dat beerdiertjes kunnen lopen, is al heel verrassend. Maar nu blijken ze ook nog op een heel opmerkelijke manier te rennen!
Beerdiertjes mogen zich regelmatig in de aandacht van wetenschappers verheugen. En dat is ook niet zo gek. De amper 0,5 millimeter lange diertjes spreken namelijk nogal tot de verbeelding, omdat ze zoveel kunnen hebben. Zo kun je ze 30 jaar invriezen en er vervolgens getuige van zijn dat ze – na ontdooiing – hun leven gewoon weer oppakken. Ook zijn ze tijdens ruimtereizen bestand gebleken tegen vacuüm en kosmische straling. En toen onderzoekers ze recent in een speciaal geweer stopten om ze af te vuren, konden de beerdiertjes dat ook gewoon navertellen.
Aan de wandel Maar ook buiten extreme experimenten om weten de beerdiertjes ons te verrassen. En wel wanneer ze aan de wandel gaan. Wetenschappers van de Rockefeller University legden enkele beerdiertjes onder de microscoop om eens in detail vast te kunnen leggen hoe de diertjes zich nu precies voortbewegen. En wat blijkt? Ze verplaatsen zich op dezelfde manier als insecten, die vele malen groter zijn. “De overeenkomsten tussen de wijze waarop zij zich voortbewegen en de wijze waarop veel grotere insecten en gewervelden dat doen, roept enkele heel interessante vragen op,” aldus onderzoeker Jasmine Nirody.
Een beerdiertje aan de wandel.
Afbeelding: Lisset Duran.
Pootjes Dankzij eerder onderzoek wisten we al dat beerdiertjes uitgerust zijn met piepkleine pootjes. En dat is op zichzelf al heel opmerkelijk. “Als we kijken naar dieren die over pootjes beschikken, zijn beerdiertjes om twee redenen heel uniek,” zo vertelt Nirody aan Scientias.nl. “Allereerst vanwege hun omvang.” Beerdiertjes zijn met een lengte van 0,5 millimeter heel klein. “Normaal gesproken kiezen dieren die zo klein zijn een andere, efficiëntere manier om zich voort te bewegen.” Wat daarnaast opvalt, is dat de beerdiertjes – in tegenstelling tot veel andere dieren met pootjes – tot de ongewervelden behoren en dus een zacht lichaam hebben. “Dieren die een zacht lichaam hebben (zoals bijvoorbeeld ook wormen of slakken) kruipen vaak over de grond en moeten het zonder pootjes doen.” Maar beerdiertjes hebben dus wel pootjes. Acht stuks, om precies te zijn. En daarmee kunnen ze zich prima voortbewegen door water, op het land en onder de grond. Een analyse van de wijze waarop een beerdiertje zijn pootjes gebruikt, levert nu echter nóg een verrassing op.
Rennen als insecten Nirody en collega’s legden de beerdiertjes onder de microscoop en keken toe. “Als je ze lang genoeg onder een microscoop legt, kun je een breed scala aan gedragingen observeren. We dwongen ze niet om iets te doen. Soms waren ze heel ontspannen en wandelden ze wat rond. En soms zagen ze iets en renden er naartoe.” En zodra de onderzoekers dat zagen gebeuren, werd het interessant. “Wanneer gewervelden in plaats van lopen, gaan rennen, is er sprake van discontinuïteit,” vertelt Nirody. Een bekend voorbeeld daarvan is bijvoorbeeld het paard, dat in draf of galop een heel ander stappenpatroon kent dan wanneer het rustig loopt. Insecten doen dat anders. Wanneer zij sneller gaan lopen, houden ze hetzelfde stappenpatroon aan. Ze versnellen alleen. En de onderzoekers zagen hetzelfde gebeuren bij het beerdiertje. Wanneer het haast kreeg, bleef het de pootjes op dezelfde manier, maar dan wat versneld, neerzetten.
Groter en harder Het is opmerkelijk, omdat insecten zo heel anders zijn dan deze beerdiertjes. Zo zijn ze allereerst veel groter (wel 500.000 groter!). En ten tweede is het beerdiertje zacht, terwijl alle insecten gekenmerkt worden door een hard exoskelet.
Vervolgonderzoek Een verklaring voor deze overeenkomst tussen beerdiertjes en insecten is er nog niet. Mogelijk delen beerdiertjes en insecten zoals fruitvliegjes en mieren een voorouder en zijn ze uitgerust met een vergelijkbaar neuraal netwerk. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat beerdiertjes en insecten hun tred onafhankelijk van elkaar verkregen hebben. Beide hypothesen zijn intrigerend, vindt Nirody. “Als er een voorouderlijk neuraal systeem is dat de tred van alle Panarthropoda (een niet onomstreden clade die geleedpotigen, mosbeertjes en fluweelwormen omvat, red.) controleert, dan valt er nog veel te leren. Maar aan de andere kant: als geleedpotigen en waterdiertjes onafhankelijk van elkaar op deze strategie zijn uitgekomen, dan valt er weer veel meer te zeggen over wat deze aanpak zo aantrekkelijk maakt voor soorten die in uiteenlopende omgevingen leven.”
Over de tred van rennende beerdiertjes is het laatste dan ook nog niet gezegd. “Ik wil er graag verder over nadenken en deze theorieën testen.” Dat laatste is echter nog niet zo gemakkelijk. “De beste manier om dit te doen, is door studies zoals die van ons te combineren met moleculair onderzoek, waarbij we kijken naar de onderliggende neurale structuren. Dat moet je vervolgens onder een breed scala aan geleedpotigen doen en combineren met fylogenetische studies die helpen om de evolutie van het onderliggende systeem beter te begrijpen.” Een hele klus. “Maar ik denk dat het de moeite waard is.”
Het geeft namelijk niet alleen meer inzicht in waarom beerdiertjes lopen zoals ze lopen, maar kan ook van pas komen bij de ontwikkeling van zachte micro-robots. “De biomechanische strategie (van beerdiertjes, red.) kan ons veel leren over hoe kleine objecten met een zacht lichaam zich het beste kunnen voortbewegen,” aldus Nirody.
SEM image of Milnesium tardigradum in active state.
Credit: PLoS ONE 7(9): e45682. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045682
UFO expert claims aliens 'levitated into bedroom and talked to him telepathically'
UFO expert claims aliens 'levitated into bedroom and talked to him telepathically'
Alien abductions investigator James Bartley says he has been fascinated by the subject of abductions since the age of four when aliens levitated into his bedroom and communicated telepathically
A UFO investigator claims he was first abducted by aliens who levitated and floated into his bedroom when he was just four years old and talked to him "telepathically".
James Bartley has been researching alien abductions ever since and he said on a different occasion he was taken by thre extraterrestrial beings who had claws for hands.
He went on to suggest the "alien invasion has already begun" and the Earth is under control by "more than one alien race, with the reptilians being one of them".
James told Chris Thrall's Bought the T-Shirt podcast: "I had an encounter in my bedroom. It was a small being, I'd say about three-and-a-half feet high.
"It levitated, it floated into my bedroom. I turn around and there's this little critter who's just floating there.
"It wasn't a case of me being frightened, it was a case of me being very territorial. The implication being this is my stuff, this is my room, these are my toys.
"It telepathically talked to me and told me a few things. That was my first experience that I'm aware of.
James said this experience sparked his lifelong interest in aliens and UFOs.
But the American researcher claims to have had an even more terrifying experience when he was an adult, when "three reptilians with claws instead of hands" turned up in his bedroom and took him onboard their craft.
He said: "In the 1990s I had a string of experiences which culminated in a full-blown, full-waking consciousness experience when I woke up and I found three reptilians in my bedroom, but instead of normal hands they had clawed hands.
"I woke up to find three of those in my bedroom.
"They took me up into their big craft and things unravelled from there. The next morning I was a basket case as you can imagine."
James claims the Earth is already under attack from an "alien invasion by probably more than one alien race".
He said: "The (alien invasion) has already occurred. These non-human beings have covertly and not so covertly guided the development of our civilisation.
"I already feel that humans are under control by probably more than one alien race, the reptilians being one of the usual suspects.
"One time on Earth the dominant religion was serpent worship. The existence of these reptilians is coded in numerous languages."
James said that people who claim to have been subjected to alien abductions such as himself are "skittish and afraid of certain parts of the house".
He also said he was once knocked out by an alien who ambushed him and burst out from a wardrobe.
James added: "Some of the investigations I did in Southern California there were literally reptilian beings coming out of these wardrobes into a children's bedroom.
"We had encounters with alien beings. On one occasion I woke up and there was a very large dark being standing above me.
"It was a reptilian for lack of a better term. I was immobilised, I couldn't speak, I couldn't move.
"On another occasion I woke up with a start because I heard some rustling. Next thing I know I was struck on both sides of my face and knocked out. For two weeks after that I had a really sore face.
"This group of reptilians was coming up from this underground base that they lived at. The one that punched me out was only three or four feet high. We call them baby Godzillas."
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A supposed secret map with the coordinates to reach the “Hollow Earth”
A supposed secret map with the coordinates to reach the “Hollow Earth”
Antarctica and the mysteries that surround it, from secret bases to the supposed entrance to the “Hollow Earth” has always fascinated mankind.
Russian journalist Nikolai Subbotin analyzes the KGB documents in the “Orion” folder on the activities of the Nazis in Antarctica before and during the Second World War.
The following is a compiled translated excerpt from various reports on this topic:
This map shows us the main continent in this hemisphere, called Asgard.
On the continent of Asgard , in the center, is the city of Aces.
At the bottom left, we can clearly see Neu Schwabenland with the capital Neu Berlin.
The map below shows us the main continent of this hemisphere called Liberia.
In the center, on the right, are the Fera Islands.
Below is the city of Shambala (city of the gods).
Tibetan monks still say that the city of Shambhala really exists, but not on the surface of our planet, but within the planet.
So here it is confirmed by the map that Shambhala is a real city on earth, inside the crust.
This part of the Reichsdeutschen map describes an underwater trajectory including a detailed chart with instructions on how to dive and how to get to the inner world of Agharta using an underwater ship.
Supposed evidence of the “Hollow Earth”
The following “evidence” for the existence of an inner land is a letter from Karl Unger, a member of the crew of U-209.
Dear old comrade, This message will be a surprise to you. Submarine 209 did. The earth is Hollow. Dr. Haushofer and Hess, they were right. The whole team is fine, but they can’t go back. We are not prisoners. I am sure this message will reach you, it is the last connection with U-209. We will meet again, comrade. I am concerned for those who have spent their lives on the surface of the earth since the Fuhrer left. God always bless our Germany.
Sincerely, Charles Unger
So far, it seems that they have found the entrance to the inner land. Furthermore, a secret Nazi expeditionary force was headed by Captain Ritscher and took a seat in 1937 to 1938.
The force landed near Queen Maud’s land and established secret bases there.
It also explains why German scientists, selected individuals, and UFO test pilots, including their UFO machines and prototypes, such as the Haunebu 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the Andromeda Device, possibly built with the help of aliens, were missing. while they escaped to bases in Antarctica .
After an in-depth analysis, the researchers have published the coordinates where the hallway to Agharta’s inner world can be found.
Location: 68 ° 00’00.0 ″ S 1 ° 00’00.0 ″ E
As you can see, the Inner Earth corridor is located in the Lazarev Sea, which is the same place where the ocean research vessel of the Russian Baltic Fleet, Admiral Vladimirsky, carried out the hydrographic investigation of the aquatic zones. from Antarctica last year.
According to researchers, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union have known about Agharta’s secret entrance to the inner Earth and its inhabitants, as well as the Nazi underground underground bases for more than 40 years, but do not know how to deal with it and therefore they have suppressed the truth.
Now it seems that these Nazi underground bases still exist and are still in operation.
They further believe that Hitler’s last battalion works together with the beings of the inner earth and will spring into action when the world is deeply in an economic crisis.
On the basis of all this information, if it is true, step by step it becomes clear why so many well-known people, as well as the US and the Russian Navy, visit Antarctica .. don’t you think?
Several prisoners reported seeing a UFO hovering over the jail where they are currently incarcerated and then a mysterious red rash appeared on their skin. In fact, one of the inmates stated that he never believed in UFOs or aliens until this incident and that he was left “speechless” after the encounter. The sighting occurred at HMP The Verne in Dorset, England.
The inmate wrote a letter to a prison magazine called Inside Times that read in part, “I do not believe in the supernatural or aliens from Mars, but what we recently saw here in this prison was really very strange and still leaves me speechless.”
He went on to explain the encounter, “My landing was out on exercise, all doing our own thing, some were working out and others, like me, were walking around, you get the picture.” “I spotted a hawk up on the battlements, just hovering like it had spotted a mouse or something.” At that point, he claimed, a “very bright light” appeared in the sky. “This object started to come closer and closer until it was actually hovering over our exercise area at about 100 or so foot above us.”
And he wasn’t the only one who witnessed the strange object as he wrote, “We were, by this time, all, including officers, standing with our heads tilted back and looking up at this strange thing.” “Then the object started to shrink and collapse in on itself until it sort of just dissolved into a cloud of mist.”
Incredibly, liquid began coming down from the sky which had very disturbing after-effects, “Then it started raining on us and, the next day, we all came out in a red rash.”
It’s still unclear as to what the mysterious object was but the inmate who wrote the letter stated that it could have possibly been a secret military craft from a base that’s located not too far away. But others have different theories as he noted, “I have heard many different explanations from different men.” “Some say there is a military base on Portland and that this could have been some sort of military ‘Black Project’.” “Others say it was ball lightning. I don’t know what it was except it was very strange.” And of course, the idea of it being extraterrestrial in nature has also been hypothesized.
It would be bad enough spending time behind bars without having to deal with a mysterious rash from an alleged UFO encounter.
PERSEVERANCE: WATCH THE ROVER LOOK FOR “BUBBLES” OF LIFE
PERSEVERANCE: WATCH THE ROVER LOOK FOR “BUBBLES” OF LIFE
The rover is drilling its way through Mars, one rock at a time.
AFTER SPENDING more than 200 sols on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover finally made a friend.
The car-sized robot collected its first two samples from the Red Planet after drilling through a rock nicknamed Rochette. These chalk-sized samples may hold clues to the universe’s most burning question: Is there life beyond Earth?
That’s one of the overarching goals of the Perseverance mission, which will spend at least one Martian year (around 687 Earth days) roaming Jezero Crater in search of intriguing clues to Mars’ watery past. Around 3 billion years ago, Mars was likely covered in rivers and shallow seas. During that time, it could potentially have had the right conditions for life to arise.
NASA released a series of images showing Rochette the rock before Perseverance drilled into it and after, revealing the two holes where the rover’s drill left a mark.
Using its Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering instrument, or WATSON, the robot photographed this special moment on August 27 as it first got to know Rochette the rock.
Perseverance had just scraped away a circular piece of the rock that the team nicknamed Bellegarde. The patch is about 0.39 inches deep and about 2 inches wide.
But the rover was just getting started.
After a few days by Rochette’s side, Perseverance drilled its first hole in the Martian rock on September 1. The hole itself was nicknamed Montdenier, and it produced Perseverance’s first-ever Martian sample.
This marked the rover’s second attempt at collecting a piece of the Red Planet and the first successful one. Earlier in August, Perseverance attempted to collect a sample of Martian rock but ended up pulverizing the sample into tiny bits.
Perseverance collects the samples using a drill attached to the robot's arm.
The samples move through the robot's belly and into the Adaptive Caching Assembly System, where they are sealed in an airtight titanium sample tube.
On September 7, Perseverance drilled its second hole in Rochette. This time, the hole was nicknamed Montagnac to go along with the theme of places in France.
In this close-up image of Rochette, small shavings from the Montdenier hole can be seen after it slid over Bellegarde (the first circular patch).
Rochette the rock is basaltic, which means that it may have formed from lava flows. Crystalline minerals in volcanic rock can help scientists accurately date when the rock formed and could provide a timeline of Mars’ history and how its climate changed billions of years ago.
The rock samples also revealed salts, which may have resulted from groundwater flowing through the rocks and altering their composition or liquid water evaporating and leaving its salts behind.
The salt in the rocks could have also trapped tiny bubbles of ancient Martian water that scientists can analyze once the samples make it back to Earth.
“It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” Ken Farley, project scientist for the Perseverance mission, said in a statement. “It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”
Perseverance carries 43 titanium sample tubes and is supposed to collect at least 20 samples from Mars during its 687 Earth day mission on Mars.
Once it has collected its samples, Perseverance will leave them behind on Mars for that pickup mission planned for sometime in the 2030s. The mission's goal is to bring the Martian samples to Earth, where they can be analyzed in a lab, revealing clues to ancient microbial life that may have lived on Mars during its early history.
Penguins ‘may be aliens’ after scientists discover chemical from Venus in their poo
Penguins ‘may be aliens’ after scientists discover chemical from Venus in their poo
The beloved flightless birds may in fact be extra-terrestrials, scientists said, after traces of chemicals only found on the other side of the Solar System were found in their poo
Our favourite fuzzy friends could be even more special than we think
(Image: Getty Images/Mint Images RF)
Penguins may bealiens, say scientists, after traces of a chemical from Venus were found in the birds’ poop.
Scientists cannot explain how phosphine exists on Earth – 38 million miles away from Venus.
They plan to study the lifestyle of gentoo penguins – common in the Falkland Islands – to find out how they produce the chemical.
Dr Dave Clements, of Imperial College, London, said: “We’re convinced the phosphine finding is real. But we don’t know what’s making it.
“There are some anaerobic bacteria that produce phosphine.
“It’s found in pond slime and the guts of badgers and penguin guano.”
He added: “It may be to do with defence or signalling against competing bacteria.”
Last year traces of the chemical were found in layers of gas surrounding Venus which has a similar atmosphere to Earth.
The new research is being conducted ahead of the launch of the James Webb space telescope from French Guiana on December 18 that could detect life on other planets, according to Nasa.
UK scientists believe alien lifeforms may have already been detected, and studying penguins could help them identify the types of organisms that exist in other worlds.
The James Webb telescope will study deep space for Nasa as its main observatory over the coming years.
The project is a collaboration between Nasa, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Nasa's programme director Gregory L. Robinson said the ambitious telescope launch could change how we see deep space forever.
He said: “Webb is an exemplary mission that signifies the epitome of perseverance.
“I am inspired by our dedicated team and our global partnerships that have made this incredible endeavour possible.
"Together, we’ve overcome technical obstacles along the way as well as challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Now that we have an observatory and a rocket ready for launch, I am looking forward to the big day and the amazing science to come.”
There is no doubt that octopuses are one of the strangest creatures on Earth – so strange and intelligent for deep-sea cephalopod that some serious scientists have suggested they might be aliens. There is no doubt that flightless yet aquatic penguins are one of the strangest birds on the planet … you see where this is going. Scientists studying gentoo penguins have discovered that they produce a chemical recently detected on Venus and they’re wondering … could penguins have migrated to Earth from its cloudy neighbor or another planet?
“We’re convinced the phosphine finding is real. But we don’t know what’s making it.”
Do I look like an alien to you?
Dr. David Clements, a Natural Science and Physics professor at Imperial College London, says in The Daily Star that phosphine, an extremely flammable and toxic gas compound with the chemical formula PH3 that was recently detected on Venus, has been found in the feces of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua), a species found primarily in the Falkland Islands and most known for their loud trumpeting sounds which they make with their heads thrown back like a marching band horn player. You may recall that astronomers in Hawaii and Chile detected the chemical signature of phosphine high in the atmosphere of Venus in September 2020 – a potential “this changes everything” find because phosphine on Earth is only associated with life forms.
Dr. David Clements was also involved with that research and cautioned at the time:
“It’s not a smoking gun. It’s not even gunshot residue on the hands of your prime suspect, but there is a distinct whiff of cordite in the air which may be suggesting something.”
It may not have been a smoking gun – and other scientists agreed that the phosphine on Venus could have been generated by a chemical process – but that hasn’t stopped Clements and others from continuing to study gentoo guano for hints into how gentoos create the unusual chemical … not to mention how they survive making and excreting it other than staying away from matches and open flames. The Daily Star is not considered to be a scientific journal but it appears to be the primary source reporting on this research, which it notes is connected to the upcoming December launch of the James Webb telescope which will expand by magnitudes our ability to search for life in the galaxy. Does this mean astronomers will be looking for extraterrestrial gentoo penguins?
A sign of extraterrestrial gentoo penguins?
“There are some anaerobic bacteria that produce phosphine. It’s found in pond slime and the guts of badgers and penguin guano.”
That’s right – the first extraterrestrial life future space explorers may encounter on planets or moons showing phosphine are gentoo penguins, badgers and pond slime … or their alien counterparts.
Is it too soon to start training astronauts how to play the trumpet?
One place where UFOs seem to be frequently encountered is on the lonely roads and highways of our world. These objects seem to be drawn to such desolate places, and there are numerous stories of UFOs stopping cars or even abducting people from such places. One subspecies of such encounters is that of vehicles that have been involved with chasing or being chased by these mysterious objects, and here we will look at some strange cases of this.
On the evening of August 4, 1963, 18-year old Ronnie Austin and his girlfriend, Phyllis Bruce were driving along Route 15 heading towards Wayne City, Illinois, after a trip to Mt. Vernon. At some point, at around 11:30 p.m., they noticed a large, glowing white object moving along nearby at treetop level, which they soon noticed seemed to be following them. When they slowed down, so did it, and when they sped up it gave pursuit, eerily keeping pace with them much to their astonishment. On several occasions, the UFO came very close to the vehicle, only to speed off and follow once again, and it pursued the terrified couple all the way to Phyllis’ house, where her family saw it as well. Once there, it went off to hover over a nearby electronic relay tower, where it remained motionless for a time. At this point, Ronnie decided to make a run for it, and things would get even stranger from there. Francis Ridge, who was at the time a field investigator and the subcommittee chairman of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) would later investigate the case, and said of what happened next:
As soon as he pulled away from the Bruce home, the object began to follow. In our interview with the boy’s father (Orville) on August 12, he told us that this is what scared Ronnie, the thought that the UFO was waiting for him to be alone before it took off after him. He had to head south and the object was on his left now. When he turned east onto another gravel road, the object suddenly shot diagonally ahead of him over a barn about a mile away, just beyond the T-road. The object now changed from a brilliant white to a duller or dimmer light with an orange tinge.
Ronnie said he “really poured the coal” to the car and must have been doing 120 mph when he topped the hill on the gravel road. Then, he reported, the object flared bright orange and came straight toward him at high speed. It hovered over the car, within 100′. Just before it hovered it had swerved upward and Ronnie judged its size as that of an automobile. At the point right over the car his radio (tuned to WLS) went crazy with static, which was described as a loud whining sound. At that time, he noticed a “cooling effect”. The object made another pass at the car, this time west to east, and at this point where the object was again overhead, the engine of the car started missing. The object proceeded back to its position over the barn, hovered, changed to a duller orange. This small road running east to west is only about a mile long and the events that took place according to the witness indicates an increase in activity by the object, which really had the boy scared by now.
Ronnie now turned north at the intersection (extension of road not shown) and headed for home which was over 3 miles away. The object followed him again. As he headed west down the lane leading to his home, the object cut across the road behind him to the left. He spun his car around in the driveway in front of the house, got out of the car and ran inside. The object was now above another farmhouse in the east about 300 yards away.
He would then tell his father, Orville Austin, of what was happening, who grabbed a shotgun and ran to the door to see it for himself. The object then moved towards the house to loom nearby, and realizing that the weapon wouldn’t do too much good, Orville put it down, closed the door, and turned off the lights. They then called the police, who arrived to see the object too, and several neighbors also saw it. It would lurk about the vicinity for nearly an hour, its intentions unknown, before speeding off into the night. According to subsequent news reports and Ridge’s report, Ronnie’s car would be found to have higher radiation levels than normal, and he would also claim that the Air Force had done an investigation into it, after which they had swept it under the carpet. Ridge would say of this:
Evidence gathered by the Air Force indicates that the car was slightly radioactive or magnetized. This was determined by the type of readings called off by members of the AF team as the family watched and listened. An interesting historical note for the record, the Air Force team consisted of three men. These were Lt. Col. Robert J. Friend, then the Director of Project Blue Book; Capt. Hector Quintanilla, and Sgt. Charles R. Sharp. Later in the year or early in 1964, Quintanilla became the Project Director. The AF, and especially Quintanilla, were ridiculing many witnesses who claimed sightings of UFOs. The “explanation” issued after the investigation was “a refueling operation” or the “planet Venus. The AF must have considered this case important. They had flown in the special team of physicists from Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Normally, when investigating a case, they would send the local “UFO officer” from the nearest airbase. In this case it would have been Scott AFB at Belleville, Illinois (near St. Louis). Something strange was going on in the midwest, and AF Intelligence was interested in something that “didn’t exist.” A quick check would have eliminated a refueling operation and the need for an onsite.
The following year, on June 29, 1964, a man named Beauford E. Parham was driving home near Lavonia, Georgia, in the United States, when he was startled to see a very bright light approaching him from directly ahead. As it drew nearer, he could see that it was “a top-shaped object,” about 6 feet high and 8 feet wide, spinning and “emitting a hissing sound like a million snakes,” and there were flames spewing from several portholes around it. The mysterious object then stopped right in front of him, matching his speed, seeming to toy with him, and at this point, Parham would say that he was in some sort of daze that had washed over him. It then made several passes at him, emitting a mist or vapor of some sort, before passing right over the car to disappear. Parham would later develop a burning sensation in his arms, and noticed that the paint on his car in some spots had bubbled up as if subjected to high heat. What was going on here? We’ll probably never know.
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Another very spectacular encounter allegedly happened on April 17, 1966, and involved police officers. In the early morning hours of that day, at around 5 a.m., deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur ‘Barney’ Neff, with the Portage County, Ohio, Sheriff’s Department were on patrol near the town of Ravena, Ohio, when they noticed a strange lighted object coming up over some trees from a nearby wood and experienced a deep hum like “an overloaded transformer.” Spaur would explain of what they saw:
When I looked in this wooded area behind us, I saw this thing. At this time, it was coming up… to about tree top level. I’d say about one hundred feet. It started moving toward us. As it came over the trees, I looked at Barney and he was still watching the car, and he didn’t say nothing and the thing kept getting brighter and the area started to get light. It was very bright; it’d make your eyes water. I told him to look over his shoulder, and he did. He just stood there with his mouth open for a minute, as bright as it was, and he looked down. And I started looking down and I looked at my hands and my clothes weren’t burning or anything, when it stopped right over on top of us. I was petrified, and, uh, so I moved my right foot, and everything seemed to work all right. And evidently, he made the same decision I did, to get something between me and it, or us and it, or whatever you would say. So we both went for the car, we got in the car and we sat there.
Image by Steve Baxter
When they reported it, their sergeant then told them to pursue the object, and they proceeded to chase it through the countryside as it headed over the road, illuminating the ground beneath it as it did. It was moving at a brisk pace, travelling at around 100 mph and still pulling ahead as the two officers tried to keep up with it, with other police officers joining in the pursuit as they did. Police Officer Wayne Huston of East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, saw the UFO pass with the police chasing it sirens blaring, and he joined in as well, tearing off after it along with the others. They chased it for nearly 85 miles, with numerous patrol cars from different jurisdictions chasing it, and then it suddenly stopped to hover there over the road as they all screeched to a halt. There was allegedly chatter that the Air Force was scrambling fighter jets, and then the object just shot straight up into the sky at breathtaking speed. The Air Force would quickly step in to brush it all off in typical clumsy fashion, and UFO researcher Richard Hall would say of this:
The Air Force “identified” the UFO as a satellite, seen part of the time, and confused with the planet Venus. Under pressure from Ohio officials, Major Hector Quintanilla, chief of PROJECT BLUE BOOK, had an acrimonious confrontation with witnesses and refused to change the identification, although it was pointed out to him that they had seen the UFO in addition to Venus, and the moon at the conclusion of the observation. Major Quintanilla also denied that any jets had been scrambled. William B. Weitzel conducted an exhaustive investigation on behalf of the NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP), obtaining taped interviews, signed statements, sketches, and all pertinent data which was assembled into a massive report that was made available to congressional investigators. When the UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO UFO PROJECT was initiated in 1966, a copy of Weitzel’s report was hand-delivered to the director, Dr. Edward U. CONDON, for his consideration. The CONDON REPORT, published two years later, does not mention the case.
From 1967, we have a case from the UK, which supposedly played out October 24, 1967 somewhere between Okehampton and Holsworthy, in Devon, England, and involved two police constables by the names of Clifford Waycott and Roger Willey. While they were driving along on patrol, they saw a “pulsating flying cross” that was “star-spangled – just like looking through wet glass,” and was moving about just over the tree line beside the road. They decided to pursue the object, which immediately started accelerating away from them as they sped along, reaching speeds of up to 90 mph before they gave up for fear of getting in an accident and the object sped off into the night to join a second object that appeared. The report was corroborated by a farmer in the area who also saw the spectacle, and others in the immediate area began calling in with reports of seeing the same “fiery cross,” suggesting that the bizarre flying object was lurking about for some time. The case, which would be mentioned in UFO Flying Saucers over Britain, by Robert Chapman, has never been explained.
Perhaps one of the strangest UFO chases of all comes from 1988, in Australia. On January 20, 1988, Faye Knowles, her adult sons Patrick (24), Sean (21) and Wayne (18), and their two dogs were making their way towards Melbourne, Australia across a vast expanse of limestone bedrock called the Nullarbor Plain. The area is a remote desert moonscape of a place, with no one around for miles and other cars a rarity, so it was considered odd when in the very early morning hours a light was spotted some distance ahead, just outside of the tiny town of Mundrabilla. The light seemed to get steadily brighter as they watched it, and as they got closer they could see that it was semi-spherical or egg shaped and was most certainly not another vehicle as it was just a single bright light and seemed to be hovering in the air over that desolate expanse.
As the family struggled to comprehend what they were seeing, the strange object allegedly emitted a beam of light that swept towards their vehicle and caused the driver, Sean, to take evasive maneuvers. The beam missed the car, but this is when Sean would claim the object had begun to follow them down that lonely roadway, easily keeping pace with them no matter how fast they went. They apparently passed another car going the other direction, after which the mysterious object stopped pursuing them and followed the other vehicle. Sean the reportedly turned the car around to follow the other car and its UFO pursuer to figure out what was going on, but thought better of it and turned around yet again. The object then must have decided to go after them again, because it was soon ominously closing in on them once again.
It purportedly got brighter and closer, passing them a few times to circle around to approach again before positioning itself right above their car as the terrified family within screamed out in fright. There was then a thump on the roof, and the car slowed down as if something very heavy were sitting atop it, leading them to the horrible realization that it had actually lowered itself to make contact with the vehicle. According to the witnesses, it then issued a shrill, ear piercing sound, and Faye would say that they were overcome with the sense of something invading their minds, later saying, “It felt like something was going into our heads,” and Patrick would say “I felt like my brain was being sucked out.” They also claimed that their voices became distorted and that they moved sluggishly, as if underwater or experiencing a slowing of time itself. Things would intensify when they then felt the car physically lift off of the road, after which they were shaken violently from side to side as a grey mist filled the car and dropped back down with such force that it blew one of their tires and disabled the vehicle to leave to leave it lying in that unforgiving place like a wounded beast. Fay Knowles would say of the otherworldly encounter:
I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof… all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff. It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball. We thought we were dying, then we got out the car and we hid behind a little tree and the bushes and it couldn’t find us.
When the cowering family were sure the object was gone, they warily went back to their car, changed the tire, and got out of there as fast as they could, eventually making their way to Mundrabilla, where they excitedly told of what had happened to them. Interestingly, a trucker at the gas station there would tell them that he had also seen the strange, eerie light out over the desert as well. When their car was examined, it was found to be banged up, and both the exterior and interior covered with a fine film of black material like soot or ash that had an unusual odor like “a blown fuse.” The Knowles were able to get some truckers to go with them out to where the incident had supposedly occurred, where they allegedly found odd skid marks on the road that seemed to show that the vehicle has been dragged sideways by some powerful force, making it all even stranger.
The police would subsequently examine the vehicle to find a grey powder that was found to have a similar chemical composition to the coating used on NASA space shuttles. Oddly, the South Australia police were apparently very eager to distance themselves from it all, finish the investigation, and sweep it under the carpet, and the whole case was just sort of filed away even as it was hitting the news in a big way. And that was that. The rather harrowing case has been picked apart by Ufologists and skeptics ever since, but no clear answer has ever been agreed upon. What happened to this family out on that bleak stretch of road? What forces came calling for them to follow them around and terrorize them? No one really knows.
What does NASA think about the existence of extraterrestrials? NASA is a huge government organization with a lot of different opinions that are tempered by public relations people who work hard to keep any secrets from leaking out … but sometimes they do. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence falls under the department of astrobiology, so it seems appropriate that NASA astrobiologist Dr. Lindsay Hays answered the question, “Do Aliens Exist?” on an official NASA Instagram page. Does that make it NASA’s official stance? Let’s find out.
“Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered. However, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”
In 90 seconds (that’s not a good sign that this will be a profound, in-depth and potentially this-changes-everything kind of answer), Dr. Hays takes a quick trip to Mars, where humans have done the most on-site exploring for life, and to other planets and their moons where life probably has a better chance due to an abundance of water. She then expands the definition of life on Earth to expand all of the way down to microbes, pointing out that this means every square inch of the planet is covered in life, while arguing that our definition of life on Earth is changing so our definition of extraterrestrial life must change too. And if we expand the definition of life, that leads to new ideas on the definition of ‘habitable’.
“Not just in our solar system, the more exo-planets we find around other stars, the more we learn about how many environments could exist for life.”
If you haven’t figured it out by now, this is pretty much just 90 seconds of fluff (watch it on YouTube) with nothing concrete that we could hold NASA to, and nothing anywhere near an everything-changing leak.
If you haven’t been convinced up until that point, Dr. Hays closes, not with the comments of an astronaut or a current fellow astrobiologist studying the Mars rocks – she quotes Carl Sagan instead.
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us it seems like an awful waste of space.”
That’s true. Unfortunately, the same could be said of this 90 second commentary on the NASA Instagram page. Nothing personal, Dr. Hays. You probably had much more you wanted to say, but your bosses were dangling your paycheck in front of you. One of these days, a NASA scientist will break out of the shackles and expose the truth. In the meantime, we would be wise to look at some of the other things Carl Sagan said about our lack of knowledge about space and science.
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
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We Knew Black Holes Have a Temperature. It Turns out They Also Have a Pressure
We Knew Black Holes Have a Temperature. It Turns out They Also Have a Pressure
In the classical theory of general relativity, black holes are relatively simple objects. They can be described by just three properties: mass, charge, and rotation. But we know that general relativity is an incomplete theory. Quantum mechanics is most apparent in the behavior of tiny objects, but it also plays a role in large objects such as black holes. To describe black holes at a quantum level, we need a theory of quantum gravity. We don’t have a complete theory yet, but what know so far is that quantum mechanics makes black holes more complex, giving them properties such as temperature and perhaps even pressure.
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Temperature is perhaps the best known quantum property of a black hole. Because of the fuzziness of quantum particles, energy cannot be completely bound by a black hole’s event horizon. Sometimes energy can escape its gravitational prison through a process known as Hawking radiation. The amount of energy that escapes is tiny, but it means that black holes have a (very cold) temperature. And that means black holes can be described in terms of the laws of thermodynamics. For regular matter, thermodynamics describes not just the temperature of an object, but also properties such as pressure. That’s where this new study comes in.
The team was looking at a thermodynamical property known as entropy. Entropy is a subtle concept, often described as a measure of the disorder of a system or the amount of information needed to describe a system. It relates to the temperature of an object through the second law of thermodynamics. In black holes, entropy is related to the surface area of an event horizon. Physicists study black hole entropy because it could help us answer fundamental questions in quantum gravity, such as whether a black hole can destroy information.
So the team was applying entropy equations to a simple black hole, trying to figure out what happens when you extend Einstein’s equations into quantum theory, which is a common trick known as the semi-classical approach. When they did this, they kept getting strange extra terms in their equations that they didn’t expect. These terms didn’t make sense until the team looked at them in terms of pressure. It turns out the extra terms act like pressure for a black hole in the same way that gas atoms in a container create pressure. In other words, when you apply quantum theory to a black hole, you get both temperature and pressure.
As with Hawking temperature, this quantum pressure for a black hole is extremely tiny. It’s far too small to affect the kinds of black holes we see in the universe. But the fact that it exists could have real consequences for the most extreme regions of the cosmos, such as the big bang. This particular model is too simple to apply to real systems, but it is an interesting clue toward a more complete theory of quantum gravity.
Day-to-day life in the 21st century is a pretty pleasantly predictable affair; chief among the most predictable things is that the Internet will exist, and work, and be readily accessible all day long.
Imagine if one day the internet was down not just in your neighbourhood, but across the globe, knocked out by a threat from space: an enormous solar superstorm.
It sounds like science fiction, but a new study says it could become our reality earlier than we think if we don't prepare properly for the next time the sun spits a wave of magnetized plasma at us.
Astrophysicists estimate the likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient strength to cause catastrophic disruption occurring within the next decade to be 1.6 — 12 per cent," the study states.
Just in case you weren't alarmed at this threat, here's what a solar flare looks like—basically a big, angry scream by the giant searing ball of plasma that is the Sun:
The lesson here—aside from the fact that we are utterly powerless before the terrible might of Sol—is that you need to start buffering all of those YouTube videos pronto to make sure you have enough stuff to watch during the inevitable blackout.
P.S. Now check out our latest video about how Jeff Bezos wants to live forever and actually can 👇
How would life change if the Internet was knocked out worldwide? According to scientists, that scenario could become reality if an enormous solar superstorm should occur. According to a report by CTV News, if adequate preparation is not made for future instances when “the sun spits a wave of magnetized plasma at us,” astrophysicists estimate there is a 1.6—12% “likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient strength to cause catastrophic disruption occurring within the next decade,” according to a new study.
ELON MUSK: TESLA SELF-DRIVING WILL BE ABLE TO DODGE UFOS THAT CRASH INTO ROADWAY
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ELON MUSK: TESLA SELF-DRIVING WILL BE ABLE TO DODGE UFOS THAT CRASH INTO ROADWAY
"I’M NOT SAYING THERE ARE UFOS… BUT THERE ARE UFOS."
Swerve!
Tesla recently released the 10th version of itsFull Self-Driving (FSD) software feature, an optional $10,000 add-on that allows its vehicles to take care of a good deal of driving — but not all of it, as the name deceptively suggests.
And the feature may have yet another quirky ability hidden up its sleeve, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested on Twitter this week.
“FSD 10 predicts height from video pixels directly, without needing to classify groups of pixels into objects,” Musk explained in the tweet. “In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris. ”
Tinfoil Party
Musk also couldn’t help himself, donning a tinfoil hat for some tongue-in-cheek humor.
“I’m not saying there are UFOs… but there are UFOs,” he wrote in a followup tweet, drawing a hailstorm of sarcastic comments, and theories from the Twittersphere.
Tesla may have made some big advances in its self-driving tech, but the software hasn’t always been able to spot the occasional — and obvious — roadway obstruction. Last month, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a formal investigation into the carmaker over its self-driving feature causing collisions with with emergency response vehicles.
Whether the new FSD beta will solve those issues remains to be seen. The beta is still limited to a restricted number of early testers.
In a tweet last month, Musk claimed that Tesla is “aiming for 1000 percent safer than the average human driver.” But the proof is in the pudding — the same goes for the existence of alien UFOs.
Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter's lips in the wake of a post by SpaceXCEO Elon Musk about the existence of alien spacecraft.
'I'm not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,' the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday, provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers.
'Elon, phone home — Mars!' one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins.
Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release 'the secrets'.
Mr Musk's comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military.
Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' between 2004 and 2021.
While investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins.
Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter's lips in the wake of a post by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (pictured) about the existence of alien spacecraft
'I’m not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,' the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday — as pictured — provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers
Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release 'the secrets'
'Elon, phone home — Mars!' one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins
For decades, scientists have mused whether alien civilisations exist.
Here are three leading theories:
The Drake Equation
Written in 1961 by Frank Drake, this attempts to estimate the number of living and communicative alien civilisations in the Milky Way galaxy.
It takes into account factors including rate of star creation, number of these with planets, and fraction of planets that develop life — but was intended to provoke thought rather than provide a definitive answer.
The Statistical Drake Equation
This update, developed in 2010 by Italian astronomer Claudio Maccone, is considered mathematically more complex and robust — and predicted that there are 4,590 alien civilisations.
The Fermi Paradox
The paradox asks why scientists are predicting so many extraterrestrial civilisations, yet humans are yet to find evidence for any of them.
Mr Musk's comment came in response to a thread about the recently-released version ten of Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) system and its capacity to handle an existing problem — recognising the concrete struts of the Seattle monorail line.
'FSD 10 predicts height from video pixels directly, without needing to classify groups of pixels into objects,' Mr Musk wrote, explaining the software upgrade's success.
'In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris,' he continued — going on to quip that they did exist.
'I know you are an alien Elon!!' responded thread creator 'Gali' (@Gfilche), who had posted a video of himself driving through the monorail pylons while testing the latest version of the FSD system.
'Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,' posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk's comment.
'Don't take this lightly, humans,' they added.
'Yet another person involved in the highest levels of military confirming UFOs,' tweeted Ethan Orlander.
He added: 'Why can't Pentagon confirm @elonmusk? Genuinely asking.'
'I have amassed quite a few photos of ETs and UFOs over the past few years, if anyone's interested,' proffered @michelecoralynx.
'At first, everyone was like: iT's JuSt ThE cLoUdS, but they're coming in clearer lately!' she added.
Pictured: Twitter users asked the SpaceX CEO if he had seen evidence of UFOs
Mr Musk's comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military. Pictured: a meme posted in response to Mr Musk's tweet
Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' between 2004 and 2021. Pictured: Twitter user @michelecoralynx offered her own pictures of UFOs and aliens
While US government investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins. Pictured: one of the meme's posted to Twitter in response to Mr Musk's comments
Yesterday's tweet was not Mr Musk's first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Pictured: Twitter users posted weird pictures of clouds
Yesterday's tweet was not Mr Musk's first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
In March this year, he posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the 'strongest argument against aliens'.
These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever.
And earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be 'dead civilisations' out in space.
In March this year, Mr Musk posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the 'strongest argument against aliens'. These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever
Earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be 'dead civilisations' out in space
'Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,' posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk's comment. 'Don't take this lightly, humans,' they added
The US Congress' plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize Department of Defense appropriations for the 2022 fiscal year. Pictured: a meme posted after Mr Musk's tweet
The US Congress' plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 2022 fiscal year.
The duties of the new office — which will take over from the Unidentified Aerial — Phenomenon Task Force will include developing standardised procedures to collect and analyse reported of UFOs across the Department of Defense.
Staff will also evaluate 'links between unidentified aerial phenomena and adversarial foreign governments, other foreign governments, or nonstate actors.' along with 'evaluating the threat that such incidents present to the United States.'
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and certain psychological traits.
Narcissism and self-esteem levels have a large impact on a persons belief in conspiracy theories.
The results showed that people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
There are widely believed to be three main reasons as to why people believe in conspiracy theories.
* The desire for understanding and certainty - Seeking explanations for events is a natural human desire.
* The desire for control and security - Conspiracy theories can give their believers a sense of control and security.
* The desire to maintain a positive self-image - People who feel socially marginalised are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and it gives them a sense of worth in the UFO community.
These three things tie in with the previously stated qualities and combine to create an avid conspiracy theorist.
SpaceX boss Elon Musk claims 'there are UFOs' in latest Twitter outburst
SpaceX boss Elon Musk claims 'there are UFOs' in latest Twitter outburst
The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX has sparked a frenzy on Twitter after making claims about the existence of UFOs ahead of SpaceX's first all-civilian spaceflight on Wednesday
The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk has claimed that "there are UFOs" in his latest Twitter outburst.
Responding to a Tesla owner's video test of the car's 'full self-driving' functionality, Elon Musk explained that his cars can avoid any obstacles from up above - even UFOs.
"In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris," Musk wrote.
He continued: "I'm not saying there are UFOs... but there are UFOs."
Musk's comments sparked a frenzy on Twitter, with many people using it as an opportunity to share UFO memes and quiz Musk on his previous claims about being an alien extraterrestrial.
Elon Musk has previously claimed he is an alien
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One user, Feni_Sam, said "Does anyone else feel like they could just talk to Elon about some of his tweets. Sometimes I feel like his tweets just create way more questions than I have answers for."
Other users saw Musk's comments as confirmation of what they already suspected: that the truth is out there.
One said: "Yes, there are [UFOs]. Saw some in 1993. About 15 to 20 of them. We aren't alone.
"No one can convince me other wise because I've known since I was 4 and you don't forget things like I've experienced. You do get shunned but whatever."
Earlier this year, Musk sent fans into a meltdown by claiming he is an alien. In a video, Musk said that the existence of aliens "is one of the great questions in physics and philosophy".
When asked on Twitter if he himself is an alien, Musk then wrote: "Of course". However, he later said that there are "no signs" of other life.
Musk's self-described greatest ambition is to "make life multiplanetary", and has previously vowed to sell off all of his possessions and houses in order to found a Mars colony with his company SpaceX by 2050.
He could get humans there sooner than that, however. Later today, the first all-civilian spaceflight will be taking place on a SpaceX rocket - you can watch it live at 20:45PM on SpaceX's YouTube.
This daytime UFO video was filmed in the sky above Santa Fe in New Mexico on 14th October 2021.
Witness report:
First observed object from passenger seat directly behind drivers seat. Pulled over into a bus terminal and exited vehicle to observe object. Recorded object in sky until it moved behind cloud cover
New spacesuits, familiar test: NASA back in C.O. to prep for Mars exploration, return to moon
New spacesuits, familiar test: NASA back in C.O. to prep for Mars exploration, return to moon
Much as the earlier, original 'moon suits' were tested here in the 1960s
(Update: adding video, comments from NASA director)
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- NASA recently tested new spacesuits designed for a return to the moon and future Mars exploration at a number of natural sites in special spots around Central Oregon and nearby.
Dr. Pascal Lee, director of NASA's Haughton-Mars project, led the testing effort in Oregon late last month.
"We thought this was really fitting, because we do have a spacesuit to test, and we are going back to the moon, so we came to Oregon,” Lee said Monday.
Came back, that is.
Apollo astronauts trained and tested their spacesuits in Oregon during the 1960s because the natural volcanic landscape closely resembles the moon.
He said they haven't been back to Oregon to see how helpful it really was, until now.
"We were blown away by the quality of all of them,” Lee said.
A crew of about 10 people came to Oregon to test the new suits at some of those same sites, which includes Lava Butte, the Big Obsidian Lava Flow, Fort Rock, Hole in the Ground and the Yapoah Lava Flow at McKenzie Pass.
NASA unveils new spacesuits for 2024 moon mission
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They also visited a number of new sites to prepare for NASA’'s next mission to the moon's south polar highlands -- and eventually Mars.
The new sites included Pumice Slope at Crater Lake National Park, the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Skylight Cave and Little Nash Crater.
"In case you didn't know, Oregon has really beautiful analog sites for the moon, and also for Mars,” Lee said.
The reason they're testing new sites like Starlight Cave is because for the first time ever, they're testing spacesuits designed specifically for caves.
Left: Apollo astronaut Walter Cunningham in a spacesuit for analog studies at the Big Obsidian Lava Flow, Oregon in September 1964. Right: Spacesuit engineer Ashley Himmelmann in a Collins Aerospace spacesuit for analog studies with integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at the same location in August 2021.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / P. Lee)
Spacesuit engineer Ashley Himmelmann in the Collins Aerospace spacesuit examines a rock sample via integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at the test site in Lava Butte, Oregon.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee)
Spacesuit engineer Jake Rohrig in the Collins Aerospace spacesuit with its integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at Little Nash Crater, Oregon.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee)
The Collins Aerospace spacesuit with integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) is field tested during training for cave exploration on the moon and Mars.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project, Pascal Lee)
Lee said they are defining requirements for what future spacesuits may need for cave exploration.
"We want -- there's a few other things I can't really talk about, but it was good,” Lee said with a big grin.
Another change being tested in the new suits is the addition of electronics.
The suits are being designed to display GPS maps, show heart rates, respond to voice commands and assist with detailed image sampling. Just what you'd expect from a 21st century spacesuit.
"Things that will make doing spacewalks on the moon and on Mars safer down the road,” Lee said. “This type of tech has to be tested in an actual realistic field environment, so that's why we came to Oregon."
Lee hopes the suits will be used on the moon within the next decade, and said this was a promising first step.
"The details are going to be written up in technical papers and journals, but the upshot is that it works really well, it works beautifully.” Lee said.
Lee said he could see astronauts exploring Mars by the mid 2030s, and hopes to do some more testing in Oregon before then.
"If you could only take astronauts to train them in five places on earth, Oregon, in my view, would be in the top five,” Lee said.
NASA's Hubble Telescope spots rare object that looks like a space lightsaber
NASA's Hubble Telescope spots rare object that looks like a space lightsaber
That's no lightsaber. It's a Herbig–Haro object.
Paging Luke Skywalker. A newly released Hubble Space Telescope view of a slash of glowing gas against the star-studded darkness of space has me in a very Star Wars mood. The European Space Agency described the object as a "relatively rare celestial phenomenon" in a statement Monday.
What we're seeing in the image is a Herbig–Haro object (named for astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro) called HH111. The setting is a star-forming region in the constellation of Orion. The jet of gas looks like it's cosplaying as a blue lightsaber.
Herbig-Haro objects have dramatic origin stories. "Newly formed stars are often very active, and in some cases they expel very narrow jets of rapidly moving ionized gas — gas that is so hot that its molecules and atoms have lost their electrons, making the gas highly charged," said ESA. "The streams of ionized gas then collide with the clouds of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second."
NASA is the agency that first clued me into how Herbig–Haro objects can look like lightsabers in space. In 2015, NASA shared a Hubble view of Herbig-Haro Jet HH24 just ahead of the opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, calling it a "double-bladed lightsaber" with a "Jedi-like cloak of dust."
Herbig–Haro object named HH111, captured by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini
The spectacular view of HH111 comes from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which sees in both optical (close to what our human eyes see) and infrared. The ability to make observations in infrared gives Hubble the clarity to peer through the gas and dust to get a good look at objects like this one.
Hubble is a joint project from NASA and ESA. It has now spent over 31 years looking out into the universe. It has weathered many technical difficulties, including a serious computer glitch earlier this year.
Hubble won't live forever, but it could still last for years, giving us more images that tempt me to whisper "may the Force be with you" at my computer screen.
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