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...
Nederlandse tourgids doet bijzondere ontdekking tijdens Noorderlicht-reis: “Wat is die witte schim?”
Reisgids Ramon Lucas uit het Nederlandse Wierden wist niet wat hij zag vorige week, tijdens een speurtocht naar het Noorderlicht in Noorwegen. Een witte schim vloog op een bepaald moment dwars door het magische groene licht heen. Wat was dit? “Dit is een hele bijzonder situatie”, kirt de Nederlander.
Noem de fotoserie die hij maakte gerust uniek. Ramon Lucas, reisgids bij Cape Tracks uit Wierden, heeft in zijn leven veel meegemaakt, maar hier keek zelfs hij van op. Op een heldere avond in de Lofoten - een eilandengroep in Noorwegen - was hij samen met reisgenoten bezig met een fotoshoot.
Ze hadden sowieso al geluk die avond, omdat het magische groene en mysterieuze Noorderlicht - een van 's werelds meest bijzondere natuurverschijnselen - fraai zichtbaar was vanaf de punt van het dorp. “Rond elf uur verscheen er opeens iets vreemds wits in de lucht, dat spontaan voorbij flitste”, beschrijft Lucas wat er toen gebeurde.
Dwars door de horizon
Een witte schim trok diagonaal door de horizon, dwars door het Noorderlicht. Lucas drukte snel af en legde het tafereel tot in detail vast. Zijn beelden zijn zo bijzonder, dat het onder UFO-gelovers vast voer voor discussie is.
Het echte antwoord ligt iets anders, zo ontdekte de reisgids de volgende ochtend. En is iets minder spannend, maar nog steeds heel bijzonder. Het witte schijnsel betrof namelijk een raketlancering vanuit Californië, ruim 7.000 kilometer (!) verderop. Daar vertrok op dat tijdstip de Landsat 9, een aardobservatiesatelliet vanaf de Vandenberg Space Force Base in Californië. Voor de liefhebbers: dat gebeurde op een Atlas V 401-draagraket.
Het gaat om een van de meest geavanceerde aardobservatiesatellieten, die elke zestien dagen onze aarde gedetailleerd in beeld zal moeten brengen.
Voor de Nederlandse reisgids blijft het helemaal speciaal. Tja, hij had er dan ook nog eens het magische Noorderlicht bovenop.
“Dit is een hele bijzondere situatie. Het vereist namelijk nogal wat geluk”, benadrukt hij. “Ten eerste is het Noorderlicht lang niet altijd zichtbaar. Raketlanceringen zijn er ook maar sporadisch en dan moet het ook nog eens helder zijn in de lucht.” En dan vergeet Lucas het belangrijkste nog: je moet er maar net staan om het ook op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen.
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Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space
Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space
The Mars Perseverance rover is on the move! The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the rover from above, the first view since shortly after the rover landed in February 2021. Perseverance appears as the white speck in the center of the image above, in the the “South Séítah” area of Mars’ Jezero Crater.
The HiRISE team said the rover is about 700 meters (2,300 feet) from its original landing site.
“The rover doesn’t drive in a straight line,” wrote team member Shane Byrne, “and has covered much more ground than that, and faint wheel tracks on the nearby ground are visible.”
You can see the various arrays of sand dunes in the image, and HiRISE shots like this one allow the rover team to choose the best route to get to their primary target. These images also help put the rover’s observations in context within Jezero Crater.
HiRISE also took dramatic images of the rover’s landing, nabbing a shot of Perseverance rover as it descended through the Martian atmosphere, hanging under its parachute, as well as photos of the “debris” from landing: the discarded backshell and parachute.
The Mars 2020 descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, its parachute trailing behind, in this image taken on February 18, 2021 by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona
The Mars perseverance rover looks as wee and lonely as ever in this satellite image from above the Red Planet.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)
Perseverance will spend its mission (two years primary mission, which will likely be extended) searching for signs of past microbial life. Jezero Crater appears to have a preserved river delta and clay-rich sedimentary deposits, leading planetary geologists to deduce this crater could have hosted a standing body of water billions of years ago. For this reason, it was selected as the landing site for the mission, since it is believed to be a good place to find evidence of past life.
Rest assured, MRO and the other orbiters at Mars will continue sending back images of the various rovers and landers on Mars, and we’ll keep posting ‘em!
Bright Lights Hanging Over Aurora Colorado.(UFO SIGHTING)
Starting with two lights then a third bright light suddenly appears in the night sky over Aurora Colorado.
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Cube Shaped UFO Filmed During Silent Lightning Storm Over Vineland, New Jersey. September 28, 2021
This was captured around 8:00pm on September 28th with the witness stating the following: "I pulled out my phone to film a strange silent lightning storm. After reviewing the footage, I noticed what appears to be a cube like shape in the clouds."
Dark Cube In Storm Clouds, New Jersey, 9-28-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Cube In Storm Clouds, New Jersey, 9-28-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Location of sighting: Vineland, New Jersey, USA
Date of sighting: September 28, 2021
Source: MUFON
Its a well known fact among UFO researchers that UFOs cause natural disasters. UFO also cause lightning...to what end in unknown, but when they are in the area...the UFOs speed increases and the movement often becomes erratic and unpredictable. So from that I would assume that the UFOs are creating the lightning in order to harvest some of its energy or special particles of energy that we have not yet discovered, but may be used to power up the alien craft. This is 100% real and absolute proof that UFOs do cause lightning.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I pulled out my phone to film a strange silent lightning storm. After reviewing the footage, I noticed what appears to be a cube like shape in the clouds.
Black Cube UFO Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Oct 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Black Cube UFO Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Oct 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 4, 2021
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Source: MUFON 118436
Take a look at this! The guy caught a dark UFO moving across Nevada yesterday. The object was seen crossing over Las Vegas...which is famous for its top secret USAF base...Nellis Air Force Base. This base is notorious for giving the "Tall White," aliens some land behind the old firing range back in the mountain range. This doesn't look like Tall White technology. Their ships usually glow white, but what they look like in the day...nobody knows. This dark cube UFO is something isn't it? Just so ominous sitting up there looking down on everyone and everything. Also Area 51 is not far away, so aliens have a high interest in what these secret bases are up too. This is 100% proof that aliens are watching us. If thats not a warning to the US military then I don't know what is.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Not sure what it was, but I know it ain't a plane or helicopter. It didn't look like any drone I have seen.
Oval UFO Caught Moving Over Washington DC Area, Oct 2, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Oval UFO Caught Moving Over Washington DC Area, Oct 2, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 2, 2021
Location of sighting: 13th St Bridge, Washington DC, USA
Source: MUFON #118437
Now this UFO is great. What I mean is the UFO was recorded over the worlds most powerful city in the world...Washington DC. There is even a monument in the background not far away from the UFO. Clearly the UFO is in this location scanning the political activity of the US government buildings such as the Pentagon, White House, US Supreme Court, and more. Russia and China are causing political turmoil being a royal pain in the ass to all other countries in the world and I believe that aliens want to watch, record and possibly decide if they should intervene into an situation that could become an apocalyptic event. Yes aliens to interview and yes, they don't want humanity destroying the planet in a nuclear winter that could last for ten thousand years. Yeah, they like the planet more than they like us, can you blame them?
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was crossing the bridge from Arlington into downtown Washington DC I noticed one black helicopter and one desert camo colored helicopter as well circling around the Jefferson Memorial and that’s when I noticed egg shaped or TicTac shaped beautiful just hovering there was stuck in traffic With my Uber passenger in the car I managed to take five pictures of the objects meanwhile it was just stationary for about 5 to 7 minutes then traffic started moving and had to start driving!
Cube Shaped Anomaly appears during lightning storm over Vineland, NY
Cube Shaped Anomaly appears during lightning storm over Vineland, NY
During a silent lightning storm over Vineland, New York a strange cube shaped anomaly appears in the clouds.
The strange apparition raises many questions and some suggest it is an atmospheric refraction or an optical phenomenon like a mirage but others say that is a Blue Beam test, using a holographic technology or it is a temporarily vortex of a possible parallel universe.
A Mirage or Fata Morgana distorts objects in the distance like the mysterious city floating In the clouds over Foshan Guangdong, China or the ghostly Hogwarts-style castle above Jinan, Shandong Province, China - But that does not apply to this anomaly since it appears at night during a lightning storm and there are no objects or tall buildings in the distance visible.
So, what could it be, a rare atmospheric refraction or it has something to do with a holographic display or a parallel universe?
These bright lights were filmed in the sky above Denver, Colorado on 4th October 2021.
Witness report:
On Monday the 4th of October at 7:35 pm I had taken my sick dog outside to use the restroom. I have to carry him out so after I set him down in the grass a bright light above me caught my eye. It was a very bright white light slowly moving from the north to the north east. It appeared to be moving strangely at times unnaturally almost scooting from one point to another while still on the path towards the north east. It didn’t have any blinking lights like a plane would and definitely was strange looking and acting, so I quickly ran in to get my phone so I could film it. I ran back out and begin to film. At that point I noticed it would periodically blink. As it flew over a plane flys by and you can clearly see the difference. Then as it got further away the light slowly dimmed until it was gone. It never came back. I stopped filming right before it disappeared then tried to start filming again as it disappeared but couldn’t catch it and I am kicking myself for it. I’d also like to mention I have a couple videos because I’d stop filming to move to the other side of my yard as it flew over because a tree was beginning to block my view. I also included the last 4 second video I took where I was trying to catch the last second of it disappearing, if anything you can see that it is gone and no longer there.
Northernmost Palaeolithic Settlement Reveals Mass Butchering of Woolly Mammoths
Northernmost Palaeolithic Settlement Reveals Mass Butchering of Woolly Mammoths
Scientists and archaeologists have discovered the world’s northernmost Palaeolithic settlement on Kotelny Island, 990 kilometers (615 miles) north of the Arctic Circle! Ancient hunters resided on this island off the coast of Yakutia, and their tools as well as several woolly mammoth bones provide evidence that they butchered the now extinct animal at the site.
“This is a unique event for the Arctic and world archaeology. We are talking about the northernmost human site in the Palaeolithic era ,” said Alexander Kandyba, senior researcher at the Stone Age Archaeology Department of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientists say that Kotelny Island has the northernmost Palaeolithic settlement.
The woolly mammoth faced its extinction after the waning of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago, but their numbers dwindled throughout the preceding period due to widespread hunting - although isolated numbers remained until as recently as 4,000 years ago on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean .
At the site on Kotelny Island called Taba-Yuryakh the team of scientists reconstructed up to 70% of the skeleton of one Palaeolithic mammoth that lived 26,000 years ago. It had been hunted and was feasted upon by early man, reports The Siberian Times . Alexander Kandyba said:
“The mammoth was butchered by people. A large number of processed bones and tusk fragments were found. There are linear cuts, traces of chopping blows on the vertebra. People used a wide range of tools for cutting. There is not a single bone that would be without traces of human impact. In particular, we now know how they butchered a mammoth.”
Experts say there is not a single bone that would be without traces of human impact.
Woolly mammoths are the third most commonly depicted animal in cave paintings – this suggests that people hunted them not just for their meat, but for other uses too. Long, furry coats protected the animals from the harsh and frigid temperatures of the Ice Age , and large sebaceous glands secreted oil to waterproof their coats. Additionally, they had camel-like humps filled with fat to store extra nutrients for long winters, according to History of Yesterday .
The Palaeolithic Age and Mammoths
The Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory which was marked by the beginning and usage of rudimentary stone tools between the first recorded tools made by hominins 3.3 million years ago, to 11,500 years ago, when the Ice Age began to wane. This period was marked by nomadic hunting-gathering and the presence of small clans known as ‘bands’, who subsisted by gathering roots, berries, and plants or by scavenging and hunting animals.
After the waning of the Ice Age, Palaeolithic people found weather conditions ideal for settling down and practicing agriculture. While hunting and gathering continued at a reduced scale, the first societies began developing and social differentiation occurred – storage surpluses meant that jobs were created within the fold of a clan, while populations boomed as babies no longer had to be carried on people’s backs while moving. Plants and animals began to be domesticated, particularly Einkorn wheat, and animals like chickens, goats, sheep, and cattle were used for their resources.
Palaeolithic humans were living in Siberia above the Arctic Circle by 25,000 BC. This area, once a forest, became grasslands and savannas during this time period – the change in vegetation caused long-necked grazers to enter the region. Although the Taba-Yuryakh Palaeolithic settlement is now on an island, when the ancient humans inhabited the area it was connected to the mainland.
Within mainland Siberia, scattered patches of grasslands appeared, but with the slowly rising temperature, more and more ice melted, allowing human beings to enter previously inaccessible areas where they could hunt mammoths , which had formerly been out of their reach. Thus, a combination of global warming and hunting caused the population of mammoths to rapidly dwindle.
A combination of global warming and hunting caused the population of mammoths to rapidly dwindle.
‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously?
‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously?
‘I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me’: Whitley Strieber.Illustration: Ana Yael
The Pentagon has been quietly investigating unidentified flying objects since 2007. The fact that they think they might exist is good news to those who claim to have seen them
In June, the US government published a long-awaited report into UFOs. Although the report did not, as many had hoped, admit to the existence of little green men, it did reveal that not only were objects appearing in our skies that the Pentagon – which controls the US military – could not explain, but some clearly pose “a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security”.
The Pentagon also revealed that it has been taking UFOs so seriously that in 2007 it discreetly set up the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which has been gathering data on Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) ever since.
The unclassified version of the report (there was also a classified version seen only by US lawmakers) found “no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation” for the sightings. But neither did it rule it out. The report offered five typically mundane possible explanations for the UFOs and, crucially, one catch-all “other” bin.
It’s that “other” bin that has arrested the attention of stargazers and conspiracy theorists. If the US military has been quietly and seriously investigating UFOs (or, as the Pentagon would have it, UAPs) since 2007, and if the Pentagon’s official report cannot rule out the existence of extraterrestrials, is it time we looked again at claims of close encounters and the people who have made them?
Enthusiasm for UFOs and ETs has permeated popular culture ever since a US air force balloon crashed near Roswell in 1947. Conspiracy theorists confused the balloon for a UFO; the US government did a lousy job debunking those claims, and they quickly captured the public’s imagination. Fast forward to 1961, when Barney and Betty Hill told the world’s first alien abduction story.
Andrew Abeyta, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, co-authored We Are Not Alone, a study into why some of us want to believe in aliens. Abeyta explains that belief in aliens is akin to religiosity: unfounded beliefs in unfalsifiable ideas, which require a leap of faith. “People have a need to feel like their lives are meaningful, and these beliefs might suggest that there’s something bigger out there; there’s something more important going on,” Abeyta says
I tell Abeyta about an interview I carried out with a young man in Florida. The man, who did not want to be named, described an ambiguous close encounter that took place during his sleep. When I asked him what he preferred the truth to be – a real encounter or merely a vivid dream – the young man said he would prefer it to be true because that would mean he was “special”.
“I can imagine being a protagonist in an alien-abduction story seems pretty meaningful, like a meaningful achievement, an accomplishment,” Abeyta says. That feeling of specialness plays an important role in these stories. “Feeling like your unexplained experience is a result of an alien abduction just seems more exciting and more important than a natural explanation.”
Still, the topic of alien encounters remains sensitive. I discovered just how sensitive when author Whitley Strieber, who some claim was abducted by non-humans in 1985, terminated our call after learning that I had not read his books. In a subsequent email, he wrote: “I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me and attempt to understand what it was. I was turned into ‘alien abductee Whitley Strieber’ by the media. That is not my position.” He added: “You are lost in space when it comes to this subject, my friend – all of you.”
After I got off on the wrong foot with Strieber, though, he did come back and introduce me to highly decorated former US navy cryptologist Matthew Roberts. He was stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt when fighter jets recorded the infamous “Gimbal” and “Go Fast” videos of unexplained objects off the Florida coast during 2015, which went a long way to prompting the Pentagon’s UFO report.
Now retired from the military, Roberts is unmoved by the debunkers. “These things are picked up by multiple sensors that are sometimes from different manufacturers, so to think that they would all be glitching in the same way at the same time would just be impossible – it just doesn’t happen that way.”
Mick West, a science writer and video game programmer turned conspiracy-theory debunker, offers his own, more down-to-earth explanations for the objects: arguing that mundane things – tech glitches, camera glare, balloons and birds – are more likely than aliens.
However, now even the Pentagon has conceded there’s more to UFOs than that. In its nine-page report it states: “Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers and visual observation.” In other words, there was something out there and the images were not technical glitches. I ask Roberts about a theory put forward by West that the Gimbal object was glare caused by a nearby aircraft. “All aircraft – nationally, internationally – have to broadcast who they are. If they’re not broadcasting that, that’s very unusual. Mick West, bless his soul, he has never been in the military,” he says.
Roberts explains that, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, unidentified air tracks escalate very quickly. “It will go to the captain, it will go to the admiral, and they’ll want to know what that is because the thought would immediately be: ‘Is this a commercial airliner? Has it been hijacked?’ We’re not as incompetent as Mick West would have you believe. If something is unidentified, it absolutely has to be identified immediately.”
Despite the debunkers and proliferation of more mundane explanations for UFOs, reports of close encounters have persisted for decades. Terry Lovelace, a retired assistant attorney general in Vermont, USA, and author of Incident at Devil’s Den, kept his abduction to himself for 40 years due to fear of losing his job. He had a close encounter in 1977 while serving in the US air force.
Lovelace, now 67, was on a camping trip in Devil’s Den state park in northern Arkansas with a friend and colleague named Toby when things got strange. They were sitting around a fire, struggling to chat over the din of buzzing crickets and croaking tree frogs before everything went quiet. “That sounds kind of clichéd – out of a movie – but that is exactly what happened to us,” he says.
Three bright lights appeared on the horizon and moved in their direction. When the lights were overhead, they could see that they were emanating from a black triangular prism as wide as two city blocks.
A blue laser beam darted over them, which Lovelace thought was scanning them. When it shut off, they became sleepy. Next thing, he woke and saw Toby peering out of the tent. The triangle was hovering above what appeared to be a dozen children standing in a meadow below them. “What are these kids doing out here in the middle of the night?” said Lovelace.
“They aren’t little kids. Don’t you remember they took us and they hurt us?” Toby answered.
Lovelace says the moment Toby said that, fragmented memories of being inside the UFO flashed in his mind. Years later, hypnosis helped him fill in more blanks and he recalled actually encountering creatures while inside the UFO.
‘People who were previously disbelieved and ridiculed should be listened to and given a hearing’, says Nick Pope.
Illustration: Ana Yael
For some, thefact that the Pentagon has finally admitted it cannot explain the behaviour of the objects may have been a surprise but, for PC Alan Godfrey, 73, it merely proves what he already knows.
On a windswept and wet West Yorkshire evening in November 1980, Godfrey was in hot pursuit of a herd of escaped cows in Todmorden’s housing estate. Instead of cows, he stumbled across a giant levitating diamond that would change the course of his life. Godfrey’s close encounter with this UFO went viral worldwide and transformed Todmorden into Britain’s Roswell.
Godfrey, a no-nonsense Yorkshireman born and raised in Oldham, is long retired from the force but still recalls the events of that night when he came face to face with the peculiar object – a diamond-shaped aircraft hovering 5ft off the ground while spinning on its axis.
He just had time to sketch the UFO on his notepad before he was blinded. In his next moment of conscious awareness, he was sitting in his patrol car. The UFO was gone. “I got out of the car, looked at the road surface, and it was like a whirlpool,” he says. The UFO’s rapid revolutions had arranged the dead leaves, twigs and other debris into an autumn-themed spiral.
In the aftermath of his encounter, he had visits from the Ministry of Defence, correspondence from a Russian scientist and interest from the world’s press. He even underwent hypnosis to uncover memories of his abduction.
Godfrey was ridiculed for years – many who claim to have had encounters with UFOs are reluctant to go on the record for fear of the same treatment – but things are changing. High-ranking government officials such as Christopher Mellon, a former US secretary for defence in intelligence, and Luis Elizondo, former director of AATIP, insist that there are aircraft in our skies that don’t obey the known laws of physics. Even Barack Obama has gone on record on the subject, talking to CBS this year: “There’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”
When it comes to abduction stories, sceptics will say these encounters are either hoaxes or accounts of vivid dreams or hallucinations. Christopher French, emeritus professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has spent years studying the paranormal and argues that sleep paralysis is a better explanation for many of these stories. “In some cases, you get associated symptoms, and they include a sense of presence; a very strong feeling that there’s something in the room with you,” French says. He adds that sufferers might hallucinate and “see strange lights moving around the room or strange figures or shadow people”.
That doesn’t fit for Godfrey’s story – he was driving and on duty at the time. “I think in Alan Godfrey’s case, he was sleep-deprived; he had been on duty for a long time. The most likely explanation is some kind of hallucinatory experience due to tiredness,” says French. What about the story he told under hypnosis? “The thing with hypnotic regression is that it is one of the best ways known of generating false memories. If you go for hypnotic regression expecting to recover memories of alien abduction, there’s a very good chance that’s what you’ll get.”
But Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the Ministry of Defence, is not convinced and thinks that Godfrey is genuine. “He had a lot to potentially lose by coming out with this and yet stuck to his guns.”
Doesn’t a hallucination explain what he saw? “I get that people do have hallucinations, but they tend to be the result of either mental illness or some sort of hallucinogenic substance, and this guy was on duty and was, by all accounts, rational. And so those explanations don’t seem to apply – I’m stumped when it comes to that particular case. Ask yourself: how many times have you been tired and come to the end of a long day? We’ve all been in that situation, and we don’t suddenly construct bizarre narratives about spacecraft and aliens.”
Is it time to start taking these stories more seriously? “I’m not saying that I believe it’s literally true that these are alien spaceships,” says Pope. “But at the very least, these people who were previously disbelieved and ridiculed should be listened to and given a hearing.
“For everyone who tells you these people are attention seekers after fame and fortune, I would say, ‘What fame? What fortune?’ Who outside the UFO community has heard of Alan Godfrey or Terry Lovelace?”
Does Pope think ETs are among us? “I don’t know. I am certain that they are out there, but whether they’re down here or not? I don’t know. I think it’s much more likely that we’re dealing with unmanned probes.”
If not hallucinations, equipment glitches or mistakes, many will say black ops, conducted by the US, China, Russia, or other militaries, are a more plausible explanation than aliens. “I accept that most military personnel won’t have sight of every single black project and, therefore, won’t necessarily know about every secret prototype, aircraft or drone that’s flying,” says Pope. “But the military and government, and the intelligence community have a pretty good idea of roughly where the ceiling is in terms of technology. So, when these expert military witnesses describe the sorts of speeds, accelerations, manoeuvres that are reported with these sorts of incidents, I sit up and take note.”
Whatever one thinks about the veracity of these stories, many of the people who tell them believe they are real, and some suffer from severe mental illness in the aftermath. Chris French says the levels of psychological arousal in people living with PTSD go “through the roof” when they’re asked to retell their stories. “If you do the same thing with the alien abductees, you get the same thing.”
Lovelace’s night in Devil’s Den changed his life and the life of his friend Toby. The US air force got wind of their ordeal and, per military protocol, separated and reassigned them. Lovelace ignored his orders and visited Toby to say goodbye. “Toby was falling apart,” Lovelace says. The two embraced. Toby said: “It happened, didn’t it?” “Yes, my brother, it really happened. You’re not losing your mind,” Lovelace replied.
Lovelace has suffered enormously since that night. “I’ve had 40 years’ of nightmares. I still have a phobia of crossing open ground. I still sleep with a light on and a gun beside my bed.” But he feels vindicated by acknowledgments made by the US government, military personnel and Obama. “I’ve got a long list of people that I’m going to email and say, ‘I told you so.’”
For Godfrey, it’s 40 years too late. He is adamant about what he saw that morning in Todmorden. “I’ve had all sorts: you fell into some sort of trance when you were driving – all that shit. No, it was real. It left debris on the road – my headlights were reflecting off it, as were the blue lights. This was a real incident. I didn’t need the Pentagon to tell me there are things out there. I know what I saw that night was real, nuts and bolts. If I’d got out and thrown a brick at it, it would have gone, ‘Clang!’ It doesn’t change what happened to me and how I was treated back then.”
Tussen 2 en 16 oktober zullen er geen commando’s worden gestuurd naar de diverse ruimtemissies op en rond Mars. Dat hangt samen met het feit dat de rode planeet vanaf de aarde gezien momenteel dicht bij de zon staat. Zo’n conjunctie van Mars en zon treedt eens in de twee jaar op.
De zon stoot heet, geïoniseerd gas uit dat zich tot ver in de ruimte verspreidt. Tijdens perioden dat de aarde en Mars elkaar niet kunnen ‘zien’, kan dit gas de radiosignalen die met de diverse Marsmissies worden uitgewisseld verstoren. En dat kan ertoe leiden dat de commando’s worden verhaspeld, met alle mogelijke gevolgen van dien. De Marsvoertuigen blijven overigens wel hun statusrapporten naar de aarde zenden.
Een deel van het Marsonderzoek gaat overigens gewoon door. NASA heeft de diverse Marsmissies voor enkele weken ’huiswerk’ gegeven, dat ze tijdens de communicatiepauze moeten afwerken. Zo zullen de Marsrovers Perseverance en Curiosity weerkundige metingen blijven doen en uitkijken naar stofhozen in hun omgeving. En de stationaire Marsrover InSight blijft ‘aardbevingen’ registreren.
Ook de diverse ruimtesondes die als satellieten om de rode planeet cirkelen zetten hun onderzoeksprogramma’s voort. De gegevens die zij verzamelen zullen echter pas na half oktober naar de aarde worden overgeseind.
Scientists have developed a tiny 3D-printed microneedle vaccine patch that could offer a pain-free alternative to needles.
In trials on mice, it offered a 10-fold greater immune response and a 50-fold greater T-cell and antigen-specific antibody response compared with a needle in the arm.
The polymer patch, which is smaller than a 5p coin, needs lower doses and could be mailed to people's homes and self-administered, eliminating the need for trained medical personnel.
It also offers an 'anxiety-free' vaccination option for people who have a 'needle phobia', also known as trypanophobia, which is putting some off getting their Covid jabs.
The researchers are yet to conduct clinical trials of the patch on humans, which could pave the way for a new way of administering vaccines in the future.
Researchers from Carolina and Stanford University have developed a microneedle vaccine patch that outperforms a needle jab to boost immunity. It also doesn't need to reach as deep as a needle, researchers claim
HOW DOES THE VACCINE PATCH WORK?
The polymer microneedle vaccine patches are printed using a CLIP prototype 3D printer.
The microneedles are coated with the vaccine fluid, such as the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.
Upon entry to the dermis layer of the skin, the vaccine fluid dissolves.
A vaccine needle goes as deep as the muscle, past the skin layers.
The microneedles don't go as deep - only to the dermis layer of the skin - but this layer is rich in immune cells.
The new vaccine patch has been developed by researchers at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
'In developing this technology, we hope to set the foundation for even more rapid global development of vaccines, at lower doses, in a pain- and anxiety-free manner,' said lead study author Joseph M. DeSimone, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University.
The microneedle patches were 3D printed using a CLIP prototype 3D printer that DeSimone invented and is produced by CARBON, a Silicon Valley company co-founded by Professor DeSimone.
3D-printing uses software to create a three dimensional design before being printed by robotic equipment.
Automated robotic arms have a nozzle at the end that emit the printing substance – in this case polymer – layer by layer.
Thanks to the flexibility of 3D printing, the microneedles can be easily customised to develop various vaccine patches for flu, measles, hepatitis or Covid-19 vaccines.
While vaccines are typically administered as injections under the skin, there is increasing interest in what's known as intradermal injections - more shallow injections that only reach the dermis of the skin, which is located between the epidermis and the hypodermis.
Beyond the hypodermis is the fat and muscle that a traditional vaccine needle usually penetrates.
Intradermal injections are suitable for vaccinations as human skin is rich in immune cells (Langerhans cells and dermal dendritic cells), the researchers point out.
In trials conducted with animals, the patch gave an immune response that was 10 times greater than a vaccine delivered into an arm muscle with a needle jab
NEEDLE PHOBIA COULD BE THE CAUSE OF 10% OF UK COVID VACCINE HESITANCY
Needle phobia could be the cause of 10 per cent of Covid vaccine hesitancy in the UK, recent research suggests.
University of Oxford researchers asked 15,014 UK adults to rate their anxieties about needles and blood, and their willingness to receive a Covid vaccine.
In total, 3,927 (26.2 per cent) screened positive for blood-injection-injury phobia.
Individuals screening positive (22.0 per cent) were more likely to report Covid vaccine hesitancy than those screening negative (11.5 per cent).
Blood-injection-injury fears may explain approximately 10 per cent of cases of Covid vaccine hesitancy, the researchers said.
'If we could wave a magic wand and rid people of their injection anxiety, just over 10 per cent of instances of vaccine hesitancy might disappear,' said study author Daniel Freeman for the Conversation.
Other reasons for not getting jabbed include safety of the vaccines and scepticism about Covid's seriousness.
The current coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder of the difference made with timely vaccination, according to the researchers – but getting a vaccine typically requires a visit to a clinic, hospital or vaccine centre.
There, a healthcare provider obtains a vaccine from a refrigerator, fills a syringe with the liquid vaccine formulation and injects it into the arm.
Although this process seems simple, there are issues that can hinder mass vaccination – from cold storage of vaccines to needing trained professionals who can give the shots.
The vaccine patch, on the other hand, could be shipped anywhere in the world without special handling, letting people apply the patch themselves, a bit like at-home Covid testing.
The patch's microneedles would be coated in the vaccine fluid, which would be painlessly applied to the skin.
The microneedles could be fabricated using 3D-printing from a range of materials – solid metal and silicon, for example, as well as polymers.
It's generally a challenge to adapt microneedles to different vaccine types, said lead study author Shaomin Tian, a researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the UNC School of Medicine.
'These issues, coupled with manufacturing challenges, have arguably held back the field of microneedles for vaccine delivery,' she said.
Most microneedle vaccines are fabricated with master templates to make molds.
However, the molding of microneedles is not very versatile, and drawbacks include reduced needle sharpness during replication.
The 3D-printed microneedle vaccine patch offers an 'anxiety-free' vaccination option for people who have a 'needle phobia'
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3D-printing offers microneedles of controlled geometries, which is difficult to achieve using traditional methods.
The ease of using the vaccine patch may lead to higher vaccination rates and avoid vaccine hesitancy during future pandemics.
The team of microbiologists and chemical engineers are continuing to innovate by formulating RNA vaccines, like the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, into microneedle patches for future testing.
3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY MAKES OBJECTS BY DEPOSITING MATERIALS ONE LAYER AT A TIME
First invented in the 1980s by Chuck Hull, an engineer and physicist, 3D printing technology – also called additive manufacturing – is the process of making an object by depositing material, one layer at a time.
Similarly to how an inkjet printer adds individual dots of ink to form an image, a 3D printer adds material where it is needed, based on a digital file.
Many conventional manufacturing processes involved cutting away excess materials to make a part, and this can lead to wastage of up to 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) for every one pound of useful material, according to the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
By contrast, with some 3D printing processes about 98 per cent of the raw material is used in the finished part, and the method can be used to make small components using plastics and metal powders, with some experimenting with chocolate and other food, as well as biomaterials similar to human cells.
3D printers have been used to manufacture everything from prosthetic limbs to robots, and the process follows these basic steps:
* Creating a 3D blueprint using computer-aided design (CAD) software
* Preparing the printer, including refilling the raw materials such as plastics, metal powders and binding solutions.
* Initiating the printing process via the machine, which builds the object.
* 3D printing processes can vary, but material extrusion is the most common, and it works like a glue gun: the printing material is heated until it liquefies and is extruded through the print nozzle
* Using information from the digital file, the design is split into two-dimensional cross-sections so the printers knows where to put the material
* The nozzle deposits the polymer in thin layers, often 0.1 millimetre (0.004 inches) thick.
* The polymer rapidly solidifies, bonding to the layer below before the build platform lowers and the print head adds another layer (depending on the object, the entire process can take anywhere from minutes to days.)
* After the printing is finished, every object requires some post-processing, ranging from unsticking the object from the build platform to removing support, to removing excess powders.
Image courtesy: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The timely development of Covid-19 vaccines brought hope to the fight against the global pandemic. But getting a vaccine requires a visit to a clinic or hospital. The vaccine needs cold storage and a health care provider to inject it into the arm. This is slowing down the mass vaccination rate.
Scientists from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill have developed a new way to deliver vaccines quickly and painlessly.
Greater protection than a traditional immunization shot
The 3D printed vaccine patch is more effective than a traditional immunization shot. The vaccine patch has been tested on the animal skin. The resulting immune response was found to be 10 times greater than a needle jab delivered into an arm muscle.
The patch can be self-administered easily
This patch has 3D-printed microneedles lined up on a polymer strip, these needles are just long enough to reach the skin to deliver the vaccine. The idea is to apply the vaccine patch directly to the skin which is full of immune cells.
Apart from COVID-19 vaccines, these microneedles can be easily customized to develop vaccine patches for other diseases like flu, measles, or hepatitis.
Rolls-Royce has proudly announced that its all-electric airplane, named the ‘Spirit of Innovation’, has completed its maiden voyage with success, proving its worthiness. The plane flew for approximately 15 minutes, taking off from and landing at the Boscombe Down site in the UK. This first flight is an amazing achievement that has been planned for over a year now and which follows six months of taxying trials.
The ‘Spirit of Innovation’ features the most power-dense battery pack ever built for an aircraft, so this is a record holder of many figures. Here are the most important ones:
It can reach speeds of 300 MPH (483 KPH), which is a record for an electric plane.
It features 6,000 cells that constitute its battery pack, delivering 750 Volts.
The three-motor powertrain delivers 750 kW (1006 hp) of power.
This is an extremely powerful machine, but don’t think that its battery juice is depleted in just 15 minutes, as this was only a tentative demonstration. Rolls-Royce says the range should reach about 200 miles (322 km), but obviously, one would have to travel at lower, cruising speeds to achieve that. On a single charge, and by not being pushed too hard, it should be able to fly from London to Paris.
Rolls-Royce Spirit of Innovation electric aircraft
The marvel of engineering that is the ‘Spirit of Innovation’ extends to all its systems and subcomponents. For example, the energy efficiency of the electric powertrain is 90%, reaching unprecedented levels. The battery cells contain a cooling system that regulates its performance automatically, ensuring that the pack remains safe and stable.
Rolls-Royce believes in this projectsso much that they are planning to actually deliver a “toned-down” all-electric passenger aircraft based on the ‘Spirit of Innovation’ to Widerøe, the largest regional airline in Scandinavia, as soon as by 2026.
A supernova likely carved it out millions of years ago.
Astronomers have discovered a giant, spherical cavity within the Milky Way galaxy; its location is depicted on the right. A zoomed-in view of the cavity (left) shows the Perseus and Taurus molecular clouds in blue and red, respectively. Though they appear to sit within the cavity and touch, new 3D images of the clouds show they border the cavity and are quite a distance apart.
(Image credit: Alyssa Goodman/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Astronomers have discovered an enormous cavity in theMilky Way galaxy that is believed to have formed after a stellar explosion millions of years ago.
The bubble-shaped void is 500 light-years wide and is located between star-forming regions in the Perseus and Taurus constellations, a new study reports.
The star-forming clusters of gas and dust, known as molecular clouds, are believed to have formed in tandem from the samesupernova, or explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life, about 10 million years ago. The new finding may shed light on how supernovas generate star formation, study team members said.
"Hundreds of stars are forming or exist already at the surface of this giant bubble," study lead author Shmuel Bialy, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics (CfA), said in a statement.
"We have two theories — either one supernova went off at the core of this bubble and pushed gas outward, forming what we now call the 'Perseus-Taurus Supershell,' or a series of supernovae occurring over millions of years created it over time," Bialy said.
Using data from the European Space Agency’s star-mapping Gaia spacecraft, the researchers were able to map the Perseus and Taurus molecular clouds in 3D for the first time, revealing the massive void that remained elusive in previous 2D maps of the region.
"We've been able to see these clouds for decades, but we never knew their true shape, depth or thickness. We also were unsure how far away the clouds were," co-author Catherine Zucker, a postdoctoral researcher at the CfA, said in the statement. "Now we know where they lie with only 1% uncertainty, allowing us to discern this void between them."
The team created the 3D molecular cloud maps using a data visualization software called Glue, which was founded by Alyssa Goodman, who is a CfA astronomer and co-author of the study. The team mapped the star-forming regions to better understand how gas and dust released during a stellar explosion rearranges itself in molecular clouds to form new stars. Their findings suggest that the Perseus and Taurus molecular clouds formed as a result of the same supernova shockwave, demonstrating the powerful effects of such stellar explosions.
"This demonstrates that when a star dies, its supernova generates a chain of events that may ultimately lead to the birth of new stars," Bialy said.
The new study was published Sept. 22 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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They Found It!… ‘Human DNA Was Designed by Ancient Aliens’ – Scientists Report
They Found It!… ‘Human DNA Was Designed by Ancient Aliens’ – Scientists Report
They Found It!… ‘Human DNA Was Designed by Ancient Aliens’ – Scientists Report
Rumble—"97% of human DNA is genetic code from ancient alien life forms." scientists who spent 13 years working on the human genome have sensationally claimed...
The universe is a big place, and it's full of big things. Planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies extend upward on ever-more-massive scales. Here we marvel at some of the record holders in different cosmic categories, perhaps feeling humbled by the universe's ability to produce entities of incredible size and grandeur.
1. Largest exoplanet: GQ Lupi b
(Image credit: ESO)
Astronomers weren't sure what to make of the mysterious GQ Lupi b when it was first discovered in 2005. Orbiting a young star around two and a half times farther than Pluto is from the sun, the companion object seemed to be either a planet or a brown dwarf, which is actually a type of small star. Subsequent observations have yet to clear up the confusion, but the best estimates suggest GQ Lupi b has a radius around 3.5 times that of Jupiter, meaning that if it is an exoplanet, it's the largest ever found.
UY Scuti is a hypergiant star with a radius that's around 1,700 times larger than the sun, making it the biggest known star in the universe. If someone were to place UY Scuti at the center of the solar system, its edge would extend just beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Gas and dust streaming from the star would extend even farther out, beyond the orbit of Pluto, or around 400 times the Earth-sun distance.
3. Largest Nebula: The Tarantula Nebula
(Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.)
Both the largest known nebula and most active star-forming region in our local galactic neighborhood, the Tarantula Nebula stretches for more than 1,800 light-years at its longest span. Also known as 30 Doradus, the object is located 170,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy that orbits our Milky Way. Rather than a killer arachnid, this Tarantula is a stellar nursery — within its beautiful folds of gas and dust young stars are being born.
4. Largest empty spot: Supervoid in Eridanus
(Image credit: Bill Saxton/NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA)
In 2004, astronomers noticed a gigantic region of empty space in maps created by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite, which scanned in exquisite detail the cosmic microwave background, or the leftover radiation from the Big Bang. The spot, which spans 1.8 billion light-years across, according to Vice, is strangely devoid of stars, gas, dust and even dark matter. While they have seen previous voids, researchers remain baffled as to how exactly one of this size and scale formed.
5. Largest galaxy: IC 1101
(Image credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Space Telescope)
Our Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 light-years across, but that's fairly average for a spiral galaxy. In comparison, the largest known galaxy, called IC 1101, is 50 times larger and about 2,000 times more massive than our galactic home. Stretching for an impressive 5.5 million light-years, IC 1101 is so big that, if placed where the Milky Way is now, its edge would reach past our nearest galactic neighbor, Andromeda.
6. Largest black hole: TON 618
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk in the center of every galaxy and can clock in at many millions of times the mass of the sun. But the biggest known black hole can be found powering a distant quasar — gigantic objects in the early universe spewing out insane amounts of radiation. This one, known as TON 618, has an estimated mass of 66 billion suns, according to a statement.
7. Largest galactic farts: Fermi Bubbles
(Image credit: SARAO/Oxford)
In 2010, astronomers using the Fermi space telescope discovered colossal structures emerging from the Milky Way. These massive blobs, which can only be seen in certain wavelengths of light, are a towering 25,000 light-years tall (a quarter of the Milky Way's width). Researchers believe the bubbles are the result of an ancient feeding frenzy that our galaxy's central black hole experienced, resulting in enormous belches of energy.
8. Largest single object: Protocluster SPT2349-56
(Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
Back when the universe was only a tenth of its current age, 14 galaxies began crashing together and forming the most massive known gravitationally bound cosmic object, protocluster SPT2349-56. Squeezed together in a space that's only about three times as big as our Milky Way galaxy, this megamerger will eventually combine into a single galaxy weighing 10 trillion times the mass of the sun. Additional observations have revealed that around 50 additional galaxies surround the structure, which will settle into a gigantic object known as a galactic cluster, in which many galaxies orbit one another.
9. Largest galactic collection: Shapley Supercluster
Astronomer Harlow Shapley discovered a colossal collection of galaxies in the 1930s that now bears his name. Containing more than 8,000 galaxies and with a mass of more than 10 million billion times that of the sun, the Shapley Supercluster is the largest structure in the local universe, according to the European Space Agency.
10. Largest supercluster: Laniakea Supercluster
(Image credit: Andrew Z. Colvin/CC by SA 4.0)
Our Milky Way is just a tiny member of a gargantuan collection of collections of galaxies known as the Laniakea Supercluster. Though it has no formal boundaries, astronomers estimate that it contains around 100,000 galaxies with a total mass about 100 million billion times that of the sun, and stretches for more than 520 million light-years across.
11. Largest quasar collection: Huge-LQG
(Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)
The distant black-hole-powered superbright objects known as quasars are already mighty large. But sometimes, quasars can come together into clusters, with the largest one imaginatively named the Huge-LQG (for Huge Large Quasar Group). Containing 73 quasars and an estimated mass of 6.1 quintillion (that's a 1 followed by 18 zeros) suns, the colossal cosmic collection is thought to be 4 billion light-years across at its biggest span, according to The Atlantic.
12. Largest thing in the universe: Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall
(Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada)
By mapping the locations of gamma-ray bursts — fleeting but powerful explosions that occur when a massive star dies — astronomers uncovered what is often considered to be the largest known entity in the cosmos: the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. The object is 10 billion light-years across and could contain billions of galaxies. The Great Wall was first discovered in 2013 when surveys showed gamma-rays particularly concentrated about 10 billion light-years away in the direction of the Hercules and Corona Borealis constellations.
They discover 2 galaxies that could host very advanced extraterrestrial life
They discover 2 galaxies that could host very advanced extraterrestrial life
The Kardashov Scale is a method to measure the degree of technological evolution of a civilization, proposed in 1964 by the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashov.
Now, two specialists from the Netherlands, Hongin Chen and Michael Garrett, used a special modern radio interferometer LOFAR during their space exploration.
Because of this, they managed to find two galaxies in which civilizations of the third type on the Kardashov scale may be present.
We have reached a key point in human civilization. According to renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, the next 100 years in science will determine whether we survive as a species, or become extinct.
In other words, we can reach the stars, or we will remain a Type 0 civilization.
Experts say that as a civilization grows and becomes more advanced, its energy needs grow as well. This is because the population grows and with it the machinery necessary to keep it standing.
With this as a principle, the Kardashov Scale was developed as a way to measure the technological progress of a civilization, based on the amount of energy it has at its disposal.
The third type means that this civilization is the most developed and can use the energy of the entire galaxy for its own purposes.
It is worth noting that today humanity has not yet been able to obtain the status of even the first kind. Such a civilization uses all the energy that is available on the planet of residence.
The reason for this is that people do not know how to use all the solar energy that reaches the Earth. It may take humanity about 200 years to become a Type 1 civilization.
Scientists believe that they will be able to find a superintelligent civilization because in the future they will investigate radiation in the mid-infrared range.
They can indicate the presence of Dyson spheres in outer space. A total of 21 galaxies have been studied. Four objects attracted attention, two of which were of natural origin.
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Some believe it could be a Dyson Sphere
In two other galaxies, where the source of radiation is unknown, there may be superintelligent civilizations of the third type.
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NASA Releases Interactive Graphic Novel “First Woman”
NASA Releases Interactive Graphic Novel “First Woman
Credits: NASA
NASA released its first digital, interactive graphic novel on Saturday in celebration of National Comic Book Day. “First Woman: NASA’s Promise for Humanity” imagines the story of Callie Rodriguez, the first woman to explore the Moon.
Issue 1, “Dream to Reality,” imagines Callie's trailblazing path as the first woman on the Moon. Callie and her robot sidekick, RT, overcome setbacks, disappointment, and tragedy along the way.
Credits: NASA
While Callie’s story is fictional, the first woman and the first person of color will walk on the Moon, achieving these historic milestones as part of NASA’s Artemis missions. Through this graphic novel, NASA aims to inspire the next generation of explorers – the Artemis Generation.
Download, read, and interact with “First Woman” or listen to the audio version exclusively on NASA’s SoundCloud.
“The story of Callie captures how passion, dedication, and perseverance allow us to turn our dreams into reality,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy. “Callie, much like myself, grew her skills, seized learning opportunities, and overcame challenges to become a NASA astronaut. Her diversity is reflected in our own astronaut corps today – it's important we can see ourselves as the explorers among the stars.”
The 40-page comic book highlights NASA technologies for traveling to, landing on, and exploring the Moon. The digital format comes to life, letting readers engage and interact through augmented reality elements using the First Woman website or their mobile devices.
Readers can download the First Woman application for Android or iOS to explore life-sized environments and 3D objects, including NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the lunar surface. Additional content includes videos, games, challenges to earn collector badges, and ways to virtually participate in NASA missions.
“We crafted this graphic novel and digital ecosystem to share NASA’s work in a different and exciting way,” said Derek Wang, director of communications for the Space Technology Mission Directorate at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington. “We set out to make the content both engaging and accessible. From space fans of all ages to hardworking educators looking for new ways to get students excited about STEM, we hope that there is something for everyone to enjoy.”
NASA plans to release a Spanish version of the first issue of the comic book, “From Dream to Reality,” on the website in the future.
To learn more about the graphic novel and interactive experiences, visit:
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