Italiaanse monnik uit 14de eeuw wist al van Amerika

Middeleeuwen In Italië is een document gevonden van een Milanese monnik uit 1340, waarin gebieden in Noord-Amerika beschreven staan die toen alleen in Scandinavië bekend waren.

Hendrik Spiering

Al in de veertiende eeuw bestond er in Noord-Italië kennis over de gebieden die door Vikingen waren ontdekt in Noord-Amerika. In een onlangs opgedoken wereldkroniek van de Milanese monnik Galvaneus Flamma uit ca. 1340, wordt beschreven dat ten westen van IJsland het eiland Grolandia ligt (Groenland) en ten westen daarvan het land Marckalada, waar volgens Galvaneus reuzen leven en groene bomen met dieren en veel vogels.

Dat Marckalada uit deze Cronica universalis verwijst zonder twijfel naar het Markland uit middeleeuwse IJslandse geschriften: het rijke kustgebied waar leden van Vikingnederzettingen in Groenland regelmatig hout en mogelijk ook slaven gingen halen. Mogelijk lagen de teruggevonden Vikingwoningen in het Canadese L’Anse aux Meadows (Newfoundland) in dat Markland (‘bosland’), al worden die traditioneel toegewezen aan Vinland, een ander moeilijk precies te lokaliseren Atlantisch kustgebied uit de IJslandse sagen over de verkenning van Noord-Amerika. Deze onverwacht vroege Italiaanse verwijzing naar Markland wordt beschreven door Paolo Chiesa, hoogleraar middeleeuwse letterkunde aan de Universiteit van Milaan, in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Terrae Incognitae.

Lees ook:Groenlandse Vikingen bouwden vooral met drijfhout

Kleine kring

Voor zover bekend is deze vroeg veertiende-eeuwse Italiaanse kennis van Amerika beperkt gebleven tot een kleine kring. De bewoning van IJsland door Noormannen, vanaf de negende eeuw, was wel redelijk bekend geraakt in Europa. Maar de kennis van de daaropvolgende ontdekking van Groenland en de stichting van twee Groenlandse nederzettingen rond het jaar 1000 bestond vrijwel alleen in de Scandinavische gebieden, laat staan dat er daarbuiten iets bekend was over de toch al nooit langdurig door Vikingen bewoonde Noord-Amerikaanse fourageergebieden als Vinland, Helluland en Markland.

Hoewel Galvaneus, zoals zoveel middeleeuwse kroniekschrijvers, zijn informatie nergens kritisch beoordeelt, is de Milanese dominicaan in al zijn geschriften wel zorgvuldig in de bekendmaking van zijn bronnen. Zijn geografische kennis over Noord-Amerika noemt hij in een lange beschouwing over exotische gebieden zoals China, de poolgebieden en Afrika, waarin hij onder meer de in zijn tijd al beroemde geschriften van Marco Polo aanhaalt. De kennis over Marckalanda heeft Galvaneus naar eigen zeggen opgedaan bij „zeelieden die de zeeën bij Denemarken en Noorwegen bevaren”. Het lijkt er niet op dat die zeelui ooit zelf in Noord-Amerika waren geweest, want zoals Galvaneus schrijft: „Niemand van de zeelui kon overigens iets met zekerheid zeggen over het land en zijn eigenschappen”.

Of Galvaneus zélf met zeelieden heeft gesproken in Genua, de belangrijkste zeehaven bij Milaan, of de informatie weer van anderen heeft, is onduidelijk. Chiesa merkt wel op dat de woordspelling met ck, zoals in Marckalada, extreem zeldzaam is in Italiaanse manuscripten van die tijd. „Dat wijst op de weergave van een vreemde keelklank, die vermoedelijk moet zijn overgenomen uit een oudere bron.”

Zeelieden uit Genua

Hoogleraar Chiesa denkt dat de informatie afkomstig moet zijn geweest van zeelieden uit Genua die handel dreven met Scandinavië, precies zoals Galvaneus ook zelf zegt. Noorse zeelui kwamen toen vrijwel nooit in Italië. De kennis van deze Noord-Amerikaanse gebieden, die hoe vaag verder ook rond 1340 Milaan bereikte, heeft zich verder niet verspreid. De kroniek van Galvaneus is zelfs nooit afgemaakt, waarschijnlijk door zijn dood, en is slechts over in één afschrift, uit het einde van de veertiende eeuw.

Correctie (8 oktober 2021). Aanvanklijk werd in dit stuk Markland vertaald als ‘grensland'. Het betekent echter ‘bosland’.

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09-10-2021 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

Two Pill Shaped UFOs Sighted Over Louisville, Kentucky. October 7, 2021

The witness stated the following "My father first mentioned the objects while we were watching my kids (his grandchildren) play on my back porch and asked “what the hell is that”. This caught my attention as well as my 2 children. We observed the 2 pill capsule-like objects start very close together which is what prompted my father’s concern and for me to grab my phone to record. They gradually spread apart and continued on a straight path until they were no longer visible. They appeared as white/silver in color but was difficult to pinpoint because the surface appeared somewhat reflective. we didn’t observe any windows. We are used to seeing planes daily coming from the SW direction as well, but the shape and color of the objects are totally off. We also observed an airplane flying SW to W on the opposite side of my back porch where we were located immediately after the incident occurred and we could no longer see the 2 objects, which further attests the color and shape of the objects were nothing like an airplane. I included the video of the airplane also as comparison to show the difference. I also did not notice while I was filming but my video has a few glitches in the beginning."

Source: MUFON/UFO Stalker

Case Number 118485

• https://ufostalker.com/sighting/11848

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09-10-2021 om 00:19 geschreven door peter  

The discovery of a 16-million-year-old tardigrade preserved in amber was an extremely rare find. In fact, it is only the third ever tardigrade that was found in amber to be completely described and named. The seemingly indestructible creature is incredibly tiny but exceptionally mighty and obviously couldn’t escape the amber that trapped it so many millions of years ago during the Miocene Epoch.

The new tardigrade species, which has been named Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus, belongs to a modern tardigrade superfamily called Isohypsibioidea. The new species found in amber was discovered in the Dominican Republic. The other two prehistoric tardigrades that were previous found in amber were the Milnesium swolenskyi that dated back 90 million years (it was described in 2000); and the Beorn leggi that lived 72 million years ago and was described back in 1964.

Tardigrades seem to be indestructible as they can survive freezing temperatures, high pressures, no oxygen, cosmic radiation, space vacuum, being boiled, and being fired out of a gun. Furthermore, they can dry themselves out and reconfigure once their surrounding conditions improve.

Drawing of Echiniscus testudo (species of tardigrade) on a grain of sand.

(Via Wikipedia)

Phil Barden, who is a biologist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, noted, “The discovery of a fossil tardigrade is truly a once-in-a-generation event.” “What is so remarkable is that tardigrades are a ubiquitous ancient lineage that has seen it all on Earth, from the fall of the dinosaurs to the rise of terrestrial colonization of plants.” “Yet, they are like a ghost lineage for paleontologists with almost no fossil record. Finding any tardigrade fossil remains is an exciting moment where we can empirically see their progression through Earth history.”

As for the fossil found in the Dominican amber, it is very tiny, measuring a little more than half a millimeter in length. It was so small that the researchers had to use confocal microscopy to analyze it and it was a success as they said that it was the best-imaged fossil of a tardigrade so far.

In the image, they were able to spot the creature’s tiny claws and its foregut (mouth apparatus). “Even though externally it looked like a modern tardigrade, with confocal laser microscopy we could see it had this unique foregut organization that warranted for us to erect a new genus within this extant group of tardigrade superfamilies,” explained tardigradologist Marc Mapalo from Harvard University, adding, “Paradoryphoribius is the only genus that has this specific unique character arrangement in the superfamily Isohypsibioidea.”

A lot of things get trapped in amber.

The researchers went on to say that since the tardigrade that they found in the Dominican amber was exceptionally tiny, there could more examples in other amber deposits that have yet to be discovered. Pictures of the Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus inside the amber can be seen here.

Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus.

(Mapalo et al., Proc. R. Soc. B, 2021)

So smol! The tiny, preserved tardigrade found in Dominican amber is microscopic, measuring just over half a millimeter in length. This was too small for the researchers to see with a normal dissecting microscope, so they turned to confocal microscopy.

(Phillip Barden/Harvard/NJIT)

(Mapalo et al., Proc. R. Soc. B, 2021)

Above: Autofluorescence of Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus under confocal microscopy.

The study was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences where it can be read in full.

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09-10-2021 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

An Exoplanet Reaches 2400 C in One Hemisphere. Does it Really Rain Iron?

WASP-76b is an ultra-hot Jupiter about 640 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. A few years ago it gained notoriety for being so hot that iron falls as rain. It’s tidally locked to its star, and the planet’s star-facing hemisphere can reach temperatures as high as 2400 Celsius, well above iron’s 1538 C melting point.

Scientists have been studying the planet since its discovery in 2013, and new evidence suggests that it’s even hotter than thought. But, almost disappointingly, there might be no iron rain after all.

The discovery that WASP-76b might be even hotter than thought is based on multi-year observations of the exoplanet. A new paper based on some of those observations is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Its title is “Detection of Ionized Calcium in the Atmosphere of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b.” Emily Deibert, a University of Toronto doctoral student, is the paper’s first author.

The study of exoplanets is in an interesting place. Astronomers are developing new ways to find more exoplanets and to begin to study their atmospheres. The new research is based on a project called ExoGemS—Exoplanets with Gemini Spectroscopy. It uses the Gemini North Telescope on Mauna Kea and a high-resolution spectrograph to explore the diversity of exoplanet atmospheres. The ExoGemS survey is intended to study at least 30 exoplanets of interest to astronomers, with WASP-76b serving as a benchmark for the survey.

“As we do remote sensing of dozens of exoplanets, spanning a range of masses and temperatures,” said co-author Ray Jayawardhana, “we will develop a more complete picture of the true diversity of alien worlds – from those hot enough to harbour iron rain to others with more moderate climates, from those heftier than Jupiter to others not much bigger than the Earth.”

“It’s remarkable that with today’s telescopes and instruments, we can already learn so much about the atmospheres – their constituents, physical properties, presence of clouds and even large-scale wind patterns – of planets that are orbiting stars hundreds of light-years away,” Jayawardhana said in a press release.

WASP-76b gained some attention because of a previous study that found it may rain iron. The dayside temperature is hot enough to vaporize iron, while the nightside temperature is low enough for the iron to condense into rain. The idea was that somewhere near the terminator of the tidally-locked planet, iron would condense into liquid and fall to the surface.

That may not be true, but we’ll get to that. This new research shows that WASP-76b might actually be hotter than thought. It stems from the discovery of a rare trio of spectroscopic lines of ionized calcium in the atmosphere.

The exoplanet has a complex atmosphere, and astronomers are studying it from hundreds of light-years away, so any conclusions are likely not final. In their paper, the authors say that WASP-76b likely has an escaping atmosphere and that the hydrodynamics of the atmosphere are affecting the ionized calcium lines in the spectrometry. “The higher temperature would then lead to enhanced production of ionized calcium and thus to strong absorption features,” they write.

“We’re seeing so much calcium; it’s a really strong feature,” said first author Emily Deibert, a University of Toronto doctoral student, whose adviser is Jayawardhana. “This spectral signature of ionized calcium could indicate that the exoplanet has very strong upper atmosphere winds,” Deibert said. “Or the atmospheric temperature on the exoplanet is much higher than we thought.”

The iron that’s attracted so much attention could be partly responsible for the extreme heat, in one of its forms. Another form of iron, along with Mg, could also make it difficult for the atmosphere to cool. “Identified mechanisms leading to increases in temperature in the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters are metal photoionization and NLTE non-local thermodynamic equilibrium> effects in the form of overpopulation of species responsible for heating (e.g., Fe ii) together with underpopulation of species responsible for cooling (e.g., Fe i and Mg).”

WASP-76b is likely the only planet in the system, and it has about 92% of Jupiter’s mass. It has an orbital period of fewer than two days. Its frequent transits make it a good target for study. The authors of this research intend on studying the exoplanet more extensively. “In a forthcoming paper, we will analyze the full spectral range covered by these observations and search for absorption due to a suite of atomic, ionic, and molecular species modelled at high resolution…” they write.

What About the Iron Rain?

It’s being widely reported that WASP-76b rains molten iron. But according to a separate study, that may not be the case.

In a paper titled “No umbrella needed: Confronting the hypothesis of iron rain on WASP-76b with post-processed general circulation models,” a team of researchers say that iron rain is unlikely and that something else can explain the observations.

That team, with first author Arjun Savel, points out that WASP-76b is the first time that any kind of iron rain has been postulated in an exoplanet atmosphere. “The aforementioned iron chemistry gradient interpretation would be the first of its kind among exoplanet atmospheres,” they write. According to them, there’s another explanation, and it may be more likely.

They say that the data showing iron rain could be explained by temperature. “However, the necessity of a chemical gradient to explain the extant observations has been questioned by the forward models of Wardenier et al. (2021), who self-consistently calculate transmission spectra from a 3-D model of this planet and find that either iron condensation or a significant temperature asymmetry could match the Ehrenreich et al. (2020) data.”

The temperature asymmetry they mention is between the leading and trailing edges of the atmosphere. Unfortunately, existing data can’t differentiate between actual iron rain and temperature asymmetry. There’s another problem with the data. It turns out that the star WASP-76 may have a stellar companion about 85 AU away. The light from that star may have been present in some of the original Hubble spectroscopy of WASP-76b, fouling the data.

They also point out that ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres aren’t conducive to clouds of Fe. “Furthermore, Fe clouds are not necessarily favoured in hot Jupiter atmospheres; microphysics models indicate that the nucleation rate of Fe is low, causing Fe clouds to be sequestered deep in the atmosphere.”

Another paper, from 2021, titled “Decomposing the Iron Cross-Correlation Signal of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-76b in Transmission using 3D Monte-Carlo Radiative Transfer,” also argues against the iron rain conclusion. In that paper, the authors write “We also show that the previously published iron signal of WASP-76b can be reproduced by a model featuring iron condensation on the leading limb. Alternatively, the signal may be explained by a substantial temperature asymmetry between the trailing and leading limb, where iron condensation is not strictly required to match the data.”

To be fair to the researchers who initially suggested the presence of iron rain on WASP-76b, they only said it was a possibility because of the data they had. Headlines suggested it was a done deal, but that’s how headlines work. David Ehrenreich, a professor in the Department of Astronomy in the Faculty of Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, was the lead author of that paper.

In their paper, they said that their results can be explained two ways, and only one of them involves iron rain. The results “… can be explained by a combination of planetary rotation and wind blowing from the hot dayside,” on the one hand. On the other hand, “… no signal arises from the nightside close to the morning terminator, showing that atomic iron is not absorbing starlight there.” But as we’ve seen, the lack of an iron signal could be due to temperature asymmetry.

So for now, nobody’s sure that there’s a planet so hot it rains iron. But it sure would be interesting. More powerful instruments, like the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, should help us find out for sure.

More:

• Press Release: 

Spectrum reveals extreme exoplanet is even more exotic

• Research Paper: 

Detection of Ionized Calcium in the Atmosphere of the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b

• Research Paper: 

No umbrella needed: Confronting the hypothesis of iron rain on WASP-76b with post-processed general circulation models

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08-10-2021 om 23:40 geschreven door peter  

Three Silver Spheres Recorded In Double Rainbow, Illinois, Oct 7, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 7, 2021

Location of sighting: Shiloh, Illinois, USA

Source: MUFON

 

Wow! Check out this photo of three white UFOs near a rainbow in Illinois yesterday after a rain. The eyewitness was watching a double rainbow when several silver objects were seen moving past the rainbow. Being aliens, they may have been intrigued by the rainbows colors and shot toward it, only to have it continually move from them . Have you ever tried to catch one by driving too it? I have and its unique how it continually moves away from you, always the same distance, never gets closer. So fun. The aliens must have thought so too. 100% proof that that aliens have a unique curiosity like we do.

Scott C. Waring, Taiwan.

 

Eyewitness states: Myself and 3 young children were observing beautiful almost complete double rainbows at a stop light. While sitting there I noticed three silver objects moving through the sky. These objects were in the shape of squished ball and super reflective they were just below the clouds moving from the east heading north. We pulled into the target parking lot and observed them some more. One of the objects headed up into the clouds but as it was it looked like it was pulsing but that could have been because it was heading into the clouds. Then all of the objects headed up into the clouds. We stopped watching because I didn’t want to freak my kids out my oldest said she thought they were ET’s. This all happened near Scott Air-force base. I know what airplanes look like because I see them constantly over my house and my husbands farm land and I have never seen anything like this. One of the objects is in the rainbow the other two are just below. In the photo they look like bright glowing objects.

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08-10-2021 om 22:29 geschreven door peter  

Did A Chinese Sub or Alien Craft Hit The US Nuclear Sub in South China Sea? UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of incident: October 2, 2021

Location of incident: South China Sea

News source: 

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/us-submarine-collision-south-china-sea/index.html

A US Navy Nuclear submarine which carries over 24 × Trident II D5 SLBM with up to 12 MIRVed W76 or W88 (475 ktTNT) nuclear warheads each, range 6,100 nmi (11,300 km; 7,000 mi). This submarine is reported by the US Navy having hit an UNKNOWN object in the South China Sea. Now if this object were an underwater mountain, radar would have said it and the US Navy would easily admitted too. However they did not. Its reported as an UNKNOWN object. 

 

This has only a few possible solutions that could be big enough and hard enough to hit a nuclear submarine. A whale is too soft and too small. Another submarine however...say Chinese might also have hit them...nudging them...to warn them away, rather than shooting a torpedo which at that close range. would destroy both subs with all those nukes on board. Also the Chinese sub could have fired a dummy (not dangerous) torpedo to hit the US sub as a waring. 

 

I however believe it was an underwater alien craft that hit the submarine. Yes, an alien species that has taken it upon itself to stop a potential war from happening and may have also done the same to another Chinese submarine not far away. Aliens like to show off the the military that aliens have the technology to do...literally anything they want...even to be able to fly over US nuclear ballistic missile silos and disarm them so much...they cannot be repaired, as past military reports have admitted too. This is 100% proof that aliens are under the ocean in South China Sea...protecting not only Taiwan, but the world from disaster. 

Scott C. Waring, Taiwan

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08-10-2021 om 22:10 geschreven door peter  

2 Tic Tac UFOs over Fairdale, Kentucky 7-Oct-2021

These two bright Tic-Tac UFOs were filmed flying over daytime sky over Fairdale, a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky. This happened yesterday (on 7th October 2021).

Witness report: 

My father first mentioned the objects while we were watching my kids (his grandchildren) play on my back porch and asked “what the hell is that”. This caught my attention as well as my 2 children. We observed the 2 pill capsule-like objects start very close together which is what prompted my father’s concern and for me to grab my phone to record. They gradually spread apart and continued on a straight path until they were no longer visible. They appreared as white/silver in color but was difficult to pinpoint because the surface appeared somewhat reflective. we didn’t observe any windows. We are used to seeing planes daily coming from the SW direction as well, but the shape and color of the objects are totally off. We also observed an airplane flying SW to W on the opposite side of my back porch where we were located immediately after the incident occurred and we could no longer see the 2 objects, which further attests the color and shape of the objects were nothing like an airplane. I included the video of the airplane also as comparison to show the difference. I also did not notice while I was filming but my video has a few glitches in the beginning.

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08-10-2021 om 18:46 geschreven door peter  

Archaeological El Dorado: Stunning Golden Sun Bowl Found in Austria

“A discovery of a lifetime” is what archaeologist Dr. Michal Sip termed the find: a golden sun bowl dated to 3,000 years ago, unearthed during ongoing excavations in a prehistoric settlement in Ebreichsdorf, Austria

Work at this ancient settlement dated to 1300-1000 BC, has been in full flow since September 2019. Researchers at the site are focused on the “urn field culture” found here, a reference to their funeral rites and ceremonial cremation, reports Heritage Daily . 

The Golden Bowl with the Sun Motif

This latest find is that of a golden bowl, decorated with a beautiful motif that depicts the rays of the sun. The bowl is 20cm (7.8”) in diameter and 5cm (2”) high, and made of a very thin sheet metal consisting of 90% gold, 5% silver, and 5% copper.

Inside there is coiled golden wire wrapped around organic material clumps, originally fabric sewn with gold thread. This is possibly the remnants of decorative scarves attached to the bowl, used during the sun worship ceremonies and rituals.

The sun rays on the bowl interior, and the wire found in the bowl

(Copyright Andreas Rausche )

Archaeologist Dr. Michal Sip, from Novetus, termed it a kind of “archaeological Eldorado” and considered it one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made in Austria. A first of its kind discovery in this region, only 30 such bowls have been scattered across the entirety of the vast European continent. "This is the first find of this type in Austria, and the second to the east of the Alpine line," said the archaeologist. 

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He added that single vessels of this kind have been found in France, Switzerland and Spain, but the production probably occurred in northern Germany, Scandinavia, and Denmark, reports PAP. The “golden” finds, particularly the golden bowl, indicate extensive trade relations between western and northern Europe.

A Routine Excavation

The excavation was routine, and the discoveries purely accidental. At this site, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) south of Vienna, the Austrian Federal Railways (the OBB) plans to build a railway station. These plans required an archaeological survey before they could be approved, prompting archaeologists to check what was underground.

Franz Bauer, CEO of ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG, stated that archaeological excavation work as part of "such a major project" is also required as part of the environmental impact assessment. "Building new things and preserving the old is one of our premises when implementing construction projects."

Apart from the golden bowl, in the 70 hectares (173 acres) excavated, 5,000 finds have been listed in total, including hundreds of items made of bronze items, and many dozens made of gold. This includes the remains of residential, work, and storage buildings.

These finds have sparked debate amongst historians, who are now asking probing questions into the living conditions and life of the late Bronze Age . “We now have a very clear picture of this prehistoric settlement from 3,000 years ago. We were able to reconstruct where the economic area was and where the residential area was,” Dr. Sip told noe.ORF.at.

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The southern boundary had a dry riverbed, 25 meters (82 feet) wide, which was either a swamp or a seasonal, flowing waterbody. This entire stretch has revealed pins, daggers, knives, all of which were in great condition. This indicates that it was definitely not a refuse pit.

Weapon blades found at the site

(Copyright Andreas Rausche / Novetus )

Hundreds of kilos of animal bones, clay vessels, and ceramic shells have also been found in this area of the site. This has led Dr. Sip and his colleagues to speculate that this swamp was likely part of the larger religious ceremony involving the sun.

The Bronze Age “Urn Field Culture”

The “urn field culture” community led a sedentary lifestyle, and were proficient in animal domestication and breeding, particularly that of sheep. Echoes of this culture survive in contemporary Poland with the Lusatian culture, centered around their famous settlement at Biskupin, in northern Poland. 

The bowl will be placed on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, with excavations to continue for the next six months.

• Top image: The Golden Sun Bowl.
• Source: Copyright Andreas Rausche .

By Sahir Pandey

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08-10-2021 om 01:47 geschreven door peter  

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

The famous “Duck test” is accepted in many different fields, even though this kind of abductive reasoning does not positively prove its conclusion. The same could be said of another well-accepted practice – computer modeling and simulations. In other words, if the model says it’s a duck or a majority of the simulations say it’s a duck, then it’s probably a duck. This is a good place to start with a new simulation which shows that there’s probably an Earth- or Mars-sized planet orbiting beyond Neptune that was possibly pushed to the nether regions of the solar system by its giant gassy planets. Should we believe them … or duck when we question them?

Is it a duck?

Wait a minute! Are these simulations saying Planet Nine is not a giant but merely the size of Earth or Mars?

No, they’re not calling this duck Planet Nine … yet. Nor are they calling it Pluto’s Replacement Which Fits the Standard Planetary Size Criteria. Brett Gladman from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia, and Kathryn Volk of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona co-authored “Transneptunian Space” for the Annual Review of Astronomy and Physics in which they explain why the outer reaches of the Solar System need another planet.

“It seems unlikely that nature created four giant planet cores, but then nothing else larger than dwarf planets in the outer solar system.”

Many astronomers who don’t believe there’s a giant Planet Nine are nonetheless puzzled at there being only four small rocky planets and four gas giants in our solar system. Systems that can create those eight should have created more rocky planets beyond the gassy four, or even between two of them. It seems more likely that #9 was a Mars clone rather than a giant Planet Nine. But … if we can find little rocks like Pluto, Sedna, Eris and others, why haven’t astronomers located this bigger one?

Is it a duck?

“Our simulations found that in about half of the cases, all of the Mars-scale planets in the outer Solar System were ejected into interstellar space. But in the remaining half, one ‘rogue’ planet was left in an orbit similar to that of the detached population of Kuiper Belt objects.”

In another simulation reported in Inverse, astrophysicist Scott Tremaine found a case for a rogue rock planet that might have been moved from between the gassy giants to the area beyond them by the gassy giants themselves. It’s not so farfetched – astronomers agree that the planets, especially the gas giants, have moved around. However, it is farfetched that it hasn’t been discovered yet. All we have to go on so far is gut feelings, models and simulations, and the hope that stronger telescopes can get enough data from those sources to located the medium-sized remote planet – or prove the models wrong.

For now, it’s not yet a duck. Or a mini-Planet Nine either.

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08-10-2021 om 01:05 geschreven door peter  

If, as my Body Snatchers in the Desert book on the Roswell affair suggests, certain key events in the summer of 1947 – of a perceived flying saucer nature – had far less to do with the actions of aliens and far more to do with matters of a classified, military nature, then it would be most reasonable to assume that (a) discussions of such a possibility would have been flying around Washington, D.C., and (b) the government, and people in the military, would have been secretly digging deep to try and determine if this was indeed the case. Guess what? That is exactly what happened. Although many UFO investigators have said that the government’s worries and concerns about UFOs in ’47 were provoked by fear of them having definitive alien or Soviet origins, we have prime evidence in our hands that demonstrates the domestic “secret weapon” angle was one most definitely discussed – and even accepted – at an official level, as we shall now see. It is a crucial part of the argument that at least some UFOs are not from faraway worlds, but from right here.

(Nick Redfern)

In early July 1947, Brigadier General George F. Schulgen, who was the Chief of the Requirements Intelligence Branch of Army Air Corps Intelligence, met with Special Agent S.W. Reynolds of the FBI. The purpose: to determine if the Army Air Force could solicit the assistance of the Bureau on a regular basis in its investigation of the growing flying saucer controversy. General Schulgen advised Reynolds that, “every effort must be undertaken in order to run down and ascertain whether or not the flying discs are a fact and, if so, to learn all about them.” The foremost thought on General Schulgen’s mind, at the time, was that the saucers were probably man-made in origin. He had another theory, too, and confided in Special Agent Reynolds that, “the first reported sightings might have been by individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret weapon.” It was for this reason that the Army Air Force sought the FBI’s assistance.

General Schulgen pledged to the FBI “all the facilities of [my] office as to results obtained.” He outlined a plan that would involve the FBI in both locating and questioning witnesses to UFO sightings to ascertain whether they were sincere in their statements that they had seen flying saucers, or whether their statements were prompted by personal desire for publicity or subversive reasons. According to declassified FBI files, Schulgen was careful to advise Reynolds too that: “It has been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or Navy experiment.” But, was that statement the literal truth? Was someone keeping the FBI in the dark? Following the meeting between Schulgen and Reynolds, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover instructed his agents to begin investigations into flying saucer sightings, specifically in the manner suggested by General Schulgen. As a result of these investigations, on August 15, 1947 the FBI learned of the distinct possibility that the military’s involvement in the flying saucer subject extended beyond that of mere observer. In a memorandum to Edward A. Tamm, the FBI Assistant Director, D.M. Ladd of the Bureau’s Domestic Intelligence Division wrote the following:

(Nick Redfern) The Legendary Crash Site Outside of Roswell, New Mexico

“The Director advised on August 14, 1947, that the Los Angeles papers were carrying headlines indicating that Soviet espionage agents had been instructed to determine the facts relative to the flying discs. The article carried a Washington date line and indicated that Red espionage agents had been ordered to solve the question of the flying discs, the Russians being of the opinion that this might be some new form of defense perfected by the American military [italics mine]. The article further recalled that during the recent war pieces of tin foil had been dropped in the air for the purpose of off-setting the value of radar being used by the enemy forces and that these aluminum discs might be a new development along this line. The Director inquired as to whether the Bureau had any such information.”

(Nick Redfern) Hanging Out at Roswell a Couple of Years Ago

Suspecting that, if the Russians were snooping around, the saucers just had to be American in origin, Special Agent Reynolds of the FBI’s Liaison Section was directed by J. Edgar Hoover to make further inquiries with the Air Force. Answers were sorely needed. Answers came, too. But, they weren’t the ones you might expect them to have been. On August 19, 1947, Reynolds met with a Lieutenant Colonel George D. Garrett and the entire secret weapon issue was discussed frankly and openly, as were the potential consequences should the Bureau uncover details of a top-secret, domestic research-and-development program. Following their very candid exchange, a remarkable memorandum captioned “Flying Discs” was prepared by Reynolds for the attention of Hoover. It is this document, perhaps, more than any other, which indicates that the American military was testing flying saucer-type aircraft in the summer of 1947. Or, craft that were not circular-shaped but which still came under the UFO banner, such as massive balloon arrays. Somewhere in all of this are the strands that place the Roswell affair  into the “human experimentation” category.

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08-10-2021 om 00:51 geschreven door peter  

Planet X Nibiru Is Heading Towards Earth And Will End All Life ( NASA Warning: After 7 Days, North America will Shake Strongly When Pole Shift Takes Place )

A NASA paper suggests that Planet Nibiru exist and it could have deadly consequences for the planet.

A NASA paper which was originally published in 1988 is said to reveal that there is a mysterious unnamed planet beyond the tiny ice planet of Pluto. It is believed by many that the Planet X referred to by NASA could be the fabled Planet Nibiru which many thinks could be the initiator of a major, imminent apocalyptic event for the people of Earth.

The cataclysmic event will be caused by the sheer force of gravitational strength
The study in question concerned observations on gravitational influences on a group of celestial objects which were referred to as “extreme trans-Neptunian objects” (ETNOs). Planet X or Planet Nibiru was said to be much larger than Earth and has a considerably longer orbital period. Best estimates by NASA suggested that the orbital period of the planet spanned a remarkable three thousand six hundred years.

Planet “X” Nibiru also was known as Planet Nine

This previously concealed study has suggested to many people that NASA and the United States government have been aware of the presence of Planet Nibiru for many years and that they are also away from the catastrophic effects its gravitational power could have for life on planet Earth. The secret NASA files apparently reveal that Planet Nine has disrupted the orbits of other planets in its orbital period and that it is imminently about to enter a disruptive passage into the inner solar system.

Currently, it is thought that the planet is emitting waves of ‘plasmatic energy particles’ which will eventually come to disrupt the core flows of Earth. This disruption is likely to trigger huge and catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate. It is thought that the effects of the Planet Nibiru can already be felt on Earth in the form of increased seismic and volcanic activity, bizarre weather patterns and an uptick in natural disasters. Disturbingly, it is believed that this freak meteorological activity will become much worse before coming to a head at the end of the year.

Planet Niribu which will cause a pole shift

It is thought that this cataclysmic event will be caused by the sheer force of gravitational strength by Planet Niribu which will cause a pole shift on the planet Earth. This will lead to approximately two-thirds of the human population being wiped out. It is also estimated that a further two-thirds of those who survive will perish over the next six months due to starvation and exposure to the elements. It is said that this has been common knowledge among NASA personnel and officers within the Pentagon and the CIA for quite some time. However, these government agencies have elected to keep this information concealed from the public in a bid to subdue the panic that this event will undoubtedly cause.

Confused birds changing direction in the sky, asteroids falling to the earth, compasses flipping direction. It all sounds like doomsday –or at the very least random chaos, which may all be caused by the imminent shifting of the North and South Pole – so scientists say.According to research and data sets collated by European Space Agency satellites called Swarm, the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening. This has meant big weak spots over the Western Hemisphere while the field has been strengthened over the Indian Ocean. One explanation given for this was that the poles were getting ready to flip. Hence compasses that once pointed north, would now point south.

Scientists understand that Earth’s magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in your hand, the needle would point to ‘south.’ This is because a magnetic compass is calibrated based on Earth’s poles. The N-S markings of a compass would be 180 degrees wrong if the polarity of today’s magnetic field were reversed. Many doomsday theorists have tried to take this natural geological occurrence and suggest it could lead to Earth’s destruction. But would there be any dramatic effects? The answer, from the geologic and fossil records we have from hundreds of past magnetic polarity reversals, seems to be ‘no.’

Reversals are the rule, not the exception. Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, although it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal. A reversal happens over hundreds or thousands of years, and it is not exactly a clean back flip. Magnetic fields morph and push and pull at one another, with multiple poles emerging at odd latitudes throughout the process. Scientists estimate reversals have happened at least hundreds of times over the past three billion years. And while reversals have happened more frequently in “recent” years, when dinosaurs walked Earth a reversal was more likely to happen only about every one million years.

Sediment cores taken from deep ocean floors can tell scientists about magnetic polarity shifts, providing a direct link between magnetic field activity and the fossil record. The Earth’s magnetic field determines the magnetization of lava as it is laid down on the ocean floor on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Rift where the North American and European continental plates are spreading apart. As the lava solidifies, it creates a record of the orientation of past magnetic fields much like a tape recorder records sound. The last time that Earth’s poles flipped in a major reversal was about 780,000 years ago, in what scientists call the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. The fossil record shows no drastic changes in plant or animal life. Deep ocean sediment cores from this period also indicate no changes in glacial activity, based on the amount of oxygen isotopes in the cores. This is also proof that a polarity reversal would not affect the rotation axis of Earth, as the planet’s rotation axis tilt has a significant effect on climate and glaciation and any change would be evident in the glacial record.

Earth’s polarity is not a constant. Unlike a classic bar magnet, or the decorative magnets on your refrigerator, the matter governing Earth’s magnetic field moves around. Geophysicists are pretty sure that the reason Earth has a magnetic field is because its solid iron core is surrounded by a fluid ocean of hot, liquid metal. This process can also be modeled with supercomputers. Ours is, without hyperbole, a dynamic planet. The flow of liquid iron in Earth’s core creates electric currents, which in turn create the magnetic field. So while parts of Earth’s outer core are too deep for scientists to measure directly, we can infer movement in the core by observing changes in the magnetic field. The magnetic north pole has been creeping northward – by more than 600 miles (1,100 km) – since the early 19th century, when explorers first located it precisely. It is moving faster now, actually, as scientists estimate the pole is migrating northward about 40 miles per year, as opposed to about 10 miles per year in the early 20th century.

Another doomsday hypothesis about a geomagnetic flip plays up fears about incoming solar activity. This suggestion mistakenly assumes that a pole reversal would momentarily leave Earth without the magnetic field that protects us from solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun. But, while Earth’s magnetic field can indeed weaken and strengthen over time, there is no indication that it has ever disappeared completely. A weaker field would certainly lead to a small increase in solar radiation on Earth – as well as a beautiful display of aurora at lower latitudes – but nothing deadly. Moreover, even with a weakened magnetic field, Earth’s thick atmosphere also offers protection against the sun’s incoming particles.

The science shows that magnetic pole reversal is – in terms of geologic time scales – a common occurrence that happens gradually over millennia. While the conditions that cause polarity reversals are not entirely predictable – the north pole’s movement could subtly change direction, for instance – there is nothing in the millions of years of geologic record to suggest that any of the 2021 doomsday scenarios connected to a pole reversal should be taken seriously.

An alternative computer model, a Hyderabad computer model, predicted the polar shifts and also that it may cause serious problems making the earth unsustainable or unsuitable to live in with the increased tectonic activity, the weakening of immune systems of animals and increased cosmic radiation. Because when the polar shift happens, there is a point at which the Earth’s magnetic field reaches zero Gauss i.e. zero magnetism. Coinciding with the sun’s polar reversal, which happens on an eleven-year cycle, is likely to cause huge problems.
Beyond all the doomsday talk, there is a serious consequence that every time polar shift does happen, the magnetic field depletes, the only thing protecting us from harmful solar rays. It has been depleting at an alarming rate over the last couple of centuries, every time there is a move in the current of the iron core. This may lead to massive ozone holes, which apparently was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.What can we do to prepare apart from increased sun block?

The rule has also been that with every pole reversal, catastrophe hits the earth – whole species go into extinction, earthquakes and other natural disasters ensue – what’s to say that another major shift in the poles will not trigger cataclysm or is not in fact already happening. The pole shift will cause major shifts in the tectonic plates and in the current climate and onslaught of incidents – all signs point north . . or south now.

So whether we face a future of increasing blackouts or declining consumption, the climbing costs of keeping the lights on means more of us might be switching off. But clearly that doesn’t need to be the final verdict: increasing investments in installing smart grids now could prepare us for increased electricity demand in the future.

Hopefully before another major solar event happens, we might at least have the ability to anticipate it. To, at least, mitigate damages, people could be informed of the exact time and nature of the event, lessening panic and chaos. They could also be instructed to stay off the roads, airlines could be entirely shut down, and protective structures could be created/used (or there might be ways for people to maximize safety at home). While these actions wouldn’t ensure safety, being informed would be the key to recovering from the event. NASA is also aware of the potential problems, and is actively researching solutions. The agency says:

[Space weather] is a problem the same way hurricanes are a problem. One can protect oneself with advance information and proper precautions. During a hurricane watch, a homeowner can stay put … or he can seal up the house, turn off the electronics and get out of the way. Similarly, scientists at NASA and NOAA give warnings to electric companies, spacecraft operators and airline pilots before a CME comes to Earth so that these groups can take proper precautions.

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07-10-2021 om 23:51 geschreven door peter  

Marsrobot Perseverance bevestigt de vermoedens rond zijn landingsplaats: krater was ooit een meer

De Amerikaanse Marsrobot Perseverance heeft aangetoond dat de redenen voor zijn landingsplaats de juiste waren. Dat staat in een eerste studie die sinds de landing in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science is gepubliceerd.

  Bron: BELGA

In februari streek de verkenner neer in de Jezerokrater. Die was uitgekozen vanwege het vermoeden, aan de hand van observaties van rond de Rode Planeet draaiende sondes, dat daar drie miljard jaar geleden een uitgestrekt meer was, gevoed door een rivier.

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  Marsrover InSight detecteert 3 grote bevingen op rode planeet, inclusief klepper die bijna 1,5 uur duurde

Nog voor de jeep begon te rijden stuurde hij opnames door waaruit bleek dat die veronderstelling klopte.
"Zonder maar gelijk waar naartoe te rijden, was de jeep in staat één van de grote onbekenden te ontrafelen, met name of de krater ooit een meer was", zei co-auteur van de studie Benjamin Weiss van het Massachusetts Institute of Technology, en geciteerd door Space.com. "Tot we er effectief landden en bevestigden dat het (ooit) een meer was, was het altijd een vraagteken."

Het meer werd trouwens via een delta door een rivier gevoed, bevestigde de Perseverance.

Lees ook: 

• Perseverance 100 dagen op Mars: dit zijn de strafste foto’s tot nu toe

Perseverance's beelden bevestigen dat de Jezero-krater een oud Marsmeer is

(Nasa/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS)

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07-10-2021 om 23:02 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFOs Over Denver, Colorado, Oct 4, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 4, 2021

Location of sighting: Denver, Colorado, USA
Source: MUFON

 

Watch as several glowing white UFOs were seen passing over Denver a few nights ago. By the way, Denver is famous for its Rocky Mountain glowing white spheres seen...most often during the day and have been reported by police, mayors and thousands of public citizens...yet to this day, no explanation has been found. The UFOs are often seen near the Rocky Mountains and move along its top ridges only to disappear suddenly. Probably entering an alien base under the Rockies. The entrance to the base has to be inaccessible to humans, so we don't stumble upon it by accident. This UFO video from Denver...is 100% proof that aliens exist and thrive at the Denver, Colorado alien base under the Rockies. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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07-10-2021 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

Unexplainable Object Moves Over Chicago, Illinois, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 2021

Location of sighting: Chicago, Illinois, USA

This has to be the most unusual shaped UFO I have ever seen. The object looks like a bent tube. It was seen hovering over Chicago area a few days ago and the eyewitness Aiyana said she has no idea what it is. The UFO looks to be standing upright, and possibly sending messages back to where it came from, using its body as an antenna of sorts. Very strange, never seen this one before. It does seem to rotate some, but without more video of it moving to or from that location...its hard to tell for sure. Mind-blowing video. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

Pen News states: 

Aiyana, who asked that her second name be withheld, recorded the clip from the roof of her home in Chicago, Illinois, and is at a loss to explain it. In her video, a long black wishbone shape can be seen hanging in the air, with both its wings ending in some sort of sphere. Aiyana said: “I literally have no idea what it was. There is nothing comparable. “It was a ball of some sort with two long strings or belts hanging from it. The strings had knobs in the middle and bottom. “I felt total confusion and a bit creeped out. “In the video, you can hear my son and I talking about it and trying to figure out what it was. “Neither of us had any idea what we were seeing.” Searching for answers, a friend of Aiyana’s shared the video with UFO watchers online. A few viewers suggested it was some kind of balloon, but nobody could explain how such a thing could float so calmly above the famously “windy city”. One person wrote: “I've never seen a balloon just hang still in the open air like that. It should bob, even if just a little. “There must be absolutely zero wind there.” Another called it “bizarre”. 

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07-10-2021 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

It’s remarkable that NASA and other space agencies are using the Vector 7 /Chevron symbol, which is a symbol or sign that refers to the living materials of the very multiverse itself, the power to control time space, the ability to wind back and alter events. 

What do they know? 

On September 15, 2021 the SOHO EIT 284 satellite captured a black Vector/Chevron shaped object leaving the sun and it doesn't look like a solar flare.

Could this object refer to what we see on the logos of the space agencies? 'Living Material'?

  

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07-10-2021 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

UFO lights in formation over Austin County, Texas YESTERDAY

Strange lights in formation were flying in the sky and were filmed from 3 different angles!

Location: Austin County, Texas

Date: 6th October 2021

Witness report: 

This happened in our small community a lot of people saw it. There are multiple pictures and videos. It was loud! (So no drones) it flew low and was slow. Edit to say: if they were drones they would be doing a lot of traveling as they were seen 30 miles away from my location as well. Sightings: sealy, bellville, cat spring, needville, new ulm

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07-10-2021 om 21:00 geschreven door peter  

Flashing UFO over Columbia, Missouri 5-Oct-2021

New footage of a flashing unidentified flying object in the sky above Columbia, MO on 5th October 2021.

Witness report: 

Glowing light spotted on security cam which initially appeared to be over our cul-de-sac. Rapidly shot south, began climbing and pulsating.

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07-10-2021 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

40,000-Year-Old Chamber Of Secrets Discovered At Gorham’s Cave Complex

A Neanderthal child’s tooth was discovered in Gibraltar’s Gorham’s Cave Complex four years ago, declaring their presence. Now, a lost chamber has been discovered in Vanguard Cave, one of the four caves that make up the Gorham Cave Complex. The chamber seemingly has not been entered for at least 40,000 years. Experts are excited to find out just what lies in the sand below their feet. Could this be the last habitation of Neanderthals in Europe?

An initial inspection on the surface of the chamber found animal bones, proving that there had been access and activity there in the past. In other caves at the complex, Neanderthal tools and hearths were discovered, which determined this was a site of Neanderthal occupation. But so far no further remains have been located, which is why the finding of a previously unknown chamber is so exciting. “They [the Neanderthals] have to be buried somewhere,” reason the excavators.

• Young Neanderthal Footprint Found in Gibraltar is Only the Second Example in the World
• Neanderthals returned to a comfy Gibraltar cave after a hard day’s work

Entrance to Vanguard Cave, Rock of Gibraltar

( © Gibmetal 77 / CC BY-SA 3.0 )

A Chamber Locked In History For 40,000 Years

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory on Spain's south coast that was settled by the Moors in the Middle Ages. The territory is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, a 26m (85 ft) high limestone ridge. It was within a cave on the Rock of Gibraltar that archaeologists recently discovered the sealed off chamber that hadn’t seen light for 40,000 years.

Vanguard Cave is a natural sea cave in Gibraltar’s Gorham's Cave complex that was nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2016. This 35-metre (115 ft) high cave contains 1.7 meters (5.6 ft) of deposits and Live Science explains that in 2012 archaeologists began surveying the site. They set out specifically to search for passages and chambers that had maybe been blocked by sand and it is for this reason their project was a resounding success, not a just stroke of luck.

Prof Clive Finlayson is an evolutionary biologist who serves as director of the  Gibraltar National Museum . He and his team first discovered a tiny gap in the sediment allowing them to crawl through a small hole. A passage led them into an unexplored 13-meter (43-ft) space in the roof of the Vanguard Cave. Large lime stalactites protrude from the ceiling and shattered rocks represent violent historic earthquake damage.

• New Evidence Questions the Time and Place of Neanderthal Extinction
• 48,000-Year-Old Tooth Belonged to One of the Last European Neanderthals

View of the Gorham Cave Complex from the sea with Gorham’s Cave in the foreground and Vanguard and Hyaena Caves behind.

(© Clive Finlayson, Gibraltar Museum / UNESCO)

There Really Is No Need For Egyptian Hype

Finlayson said his team found “the leg bone of a lynx, vertebrae from a spotted hyena, and the large wing bone of a griffon vulture.” The researchers also found six or seven scratched claw marks on the walls of the cave. When analyzed, none of the bones showed evidence of having been cut with tools and Finlayson concluded that “Something dragged things into there a long time ago.”

Finlayson perhaps got a bit ahead of himself when he told The Guardian that his discovery “is almost like discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun.” The walls of the chamber in which Tutankhamun was discovered were covered in gold, and his three-piece sarcophagus alone contained 110 kilograms (240 pounds) of solid gold. We see what he was saying, but when you discover a chamber that has not been entered for 40,000 years, you don’t really need to bring in Tutankhamun, for this discovery is a standalone archaeological marvel.

Unearthing Signs Of Neanderthal Life, But What About Death?

Among the key discoveries in the chamber so far was a large dog whelk shell. This single find, according to Finlayson, “raises tantalizing possibilities.” Today, the part of the cave in which the shell was discovered is located about 20 meters (66 ft) above sea level. This suggests somebody “took it up there some time before 40,000 years ago,” said the professor. Neanderthal hearths and stone tools surrounded by the butchered bones of red deer, ibex, seals and dolphins were also found in nearby chambers of Vanguard Cave.

Four years ago, the same team of researchers came across the milk tooth of a four-year-old Neanderthal child in an area of the cave frequented by hyenas. Finlayson said there was no occupation by Neanderthals on that particular level so it is suspected that “hyenas got the kid and killed him or her and dragged her into the back of the cave.”

The milk tooth, a canine, was found in a level from the upper section of Vanguard Cave in 2017.

( © The Gibraltar Museum )

Finlayson says that one aspect of the discovery that perplexes his team of archaeologists is that even though evidence of occupation has been found, no remains from bodies have ever been recovered at the site. Speculating, Finlayson says “you ’re not going to bury people in your kitchen or in your living room.” Working on this logic the researchers are hopeful that their dig might uncover further side chambers “and perhaps even the odd burial site,” said the professor.

The discovery of Neanderthal remains at this site would reveal endless data about how the communities of coastal, Mediterranean Neanderthals , lived and died in the caves of what is today The Rock of Gibraltar. Now that would be a discovery worth its weight in gold. Perhaps even as valuable as the discovery of King Tut’s chamber .

• Top image: The Vanguard Cave, part of the Gorham ’s Cave Complex. Source: Gibraltar Government

By Ashley Cowie

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07-10-2021 om 01:53 geschreven door peter  

MUFON Newsletter

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07-10-2021 om 01:24 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

Black UFO Spotted Flying Our The Lunar Surface Recorded From Aranđelovac In Serbia.

This footage was filmed by Драгана М. Реџић - Нови on August 23, 2021 around 1:20am. While this Skywatcher was filming the moon this object flew into view and not only can we see the UFO but we can see its shadow on the moon's surface.

Thanks to Драгана М. Реџић - Нови for allowing me the use of her footage & to view the original footage: https://youtu.be/enb0oWxib9c

Slowed Footage https://youtu.be/S0JvNxj24RU

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07-10-2021 om 01:17 geschreven door peter