SPACEX SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES FIRST ALL-PRIVATE MISSION TO THE SPACE STATION

IT'S A HISTORIC MOMENT.

AXIOM SPACE

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08-04-2022 om 22:48 geschreven door peter  

THE PENTAGON has released 1,574 pages of real-life X-Files related to its secretive UFO programme after a four-year battle.

The Sun Online first requested a copy of all "files, reports or video files" related to the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP) on December 18, 2017.

Letter from the Defense Intelligence Agency confirming it is releasing 1,574 pages of files

Credit: DIA

Video taken by Navy pilots showing interactions with “unidentified aerial phenomena”.

Credit: AFP

Video of the infamous 'Tic Tac' encounter near the USS Nimitz in 2004

We filed an a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) just days after the existence of the shadowy programme had been made public.

Finally after more than four years, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released more than 1,500 documents.

It includes government commissioned scientific reports and letters to the Pentagon regarding the UFO programme.

The haul includes reports into research on the biological effects of UFO sightings on humans, sets out categorisations for paranormal experiences, and studies into sci-fi-style tech.

The DIA, the Department of Defense's spy arm, said "some portions" of the documents "must be withheld in part" due to privacy and confidentiality concerns.

But the agency added the "DIA has not withheld any reasonably segregable non-exempt portions of the records".

The bombshell Freedom of Information haul includes reports on the DIA's research into the biological effects of UFO sightings on humans.

And this includes burns, heart problems, sleep disturbances - and even bizarre occurrences such as "apparent abduction" and "unaccounted for pregnancy".

The report noted that often these injuries are related to electromagnetic radiation - and links them to "energy related propulsion systems".

And the report - prepared for the DIA - warns that such objects may be a "threat to United States interests".

Humans have been found to have been injured from "exposures to anomalous vehicles, especially airborne and when in close proximity", it reads.

The report added said it had 42 cases from medical files and 300 similar "unpublished" cases where humans had been injured after "anomalous" encounters.

AATIP was a secretive Pentagon programme that ran between 2007 and 2012 to study UFOs.

It was outed by former intelligence official turned whistleblower Luis Elizondo, who headed up the programme, back in 2017.

Bombshell videos of unexplained UFO sightings by US military personnel - investigated by AATIP - were also first published at the time.

The revelations on the programme marked a step change in the way the US talks about UFOs - now more commonly known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).

And the phenomena has stepped from the fringe into a serious national security concern discussed by lawmakers, defence officials and even former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

One fascinating document included in an Acquisition Threat Support report, sets out how to categorise "anomalous behaviour" - with encounters with "ghosts, yetis, spirits, elves and other mythical/ legendary entities" classed as "AN3".

Seeing a UFO with aliens on board would be "CE3".

Poltergeists, crop circles, spontaneous human combustion, alien abductions and other paranormal events are also categorised.

Studies into advanced technologies such as invisibility cloaks and mind controlled robots are also included in the document cahce.

Other documents obtained include studies into communicating with alien civilisations and plans for deep space exploration and colonization.

Luis Elizondo headed up AATIP for the Pentagon

Credit: Alamy

US Senator Harry Reid was key to setting up AATIP

Credit: AP

Letter from Senator Harry Reid stating that the findings of the programme demand "extraordinary protection"

Credit: DIA

The slew of newly released documents contains letters from Senator Harry Reid - who asks for the project to be classed as top secret - and documents about contractors.

It shows how a contract was awarded to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BLASS) for $12 million - notably the only contractor to bid for the work - to study "advanced aerospace weapon threats from the present out to 40 years in the future".

In one 2009 letter Senator Reid describes how the programme has already identified "several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace technologies" which required "extraordinary protection".

His request for "restricted special access program" for the BLASS work was rejected by DIA officials.

Last year, the Pentagon released its long awaited report into what it knows about a series of mysterious flying objects that have been observed in military airspaces over the last two decades.

The report, released on the website of the Office of the Director for National Intelligence, examined 144 reports of encounters with what the government deemed "unidentified aerial phenomenon."

It comes as the Pentagon is opening a new office to investigate UFOs, their origins and attempts to "capture or exploit" one of the mysterious craft after an amendment to a defence bill tabled in the US Senate.

The dedicated unit is called the Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office (ARSO).

It will probe whether or not the strange craft that have been reportedly buzzing the US military are unknown technology from Russia and China or potentially something more alien.

The files were released by the Defense Intelligence Agency - the spy arm of the Department of Defense

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08-04-2022 om 21:16 geschreven door peter  

Pentagon geeft ‘X-files’ over ufo's vrij: sprake van “stralingsbrandwonden” bij waarnemers en zelfs van een “onverklaarde zwangerschap”

De Amerikaanse overheid heeft 1.574 pagina’s ufo-onderzoek vrijgegeven op vraag van de Britse tabloid ‘The Sun’. Die spreekt van “X-files in het echte leven”. Blijkt dat ontmoetingen van burgers met ufo’s zouden hebben geleid tot stralingsbrandwonden, schade aan de hersenen en aan het zenuwstelsel, en zelfs een “onverklaarbare zwangerschap”. Ook wetenschapssite ‘Live Science’ bericht over de vrijgegeven documenten.

Bron: The Sun, Live Science

De documenten werden vrijgegeven in het kader van een Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Het gaat om meer dan 1.500 pagina’s aan verslagen over ufo’s, materiaal afkomstig van het Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), een geheimzinnig programma van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie dat liep van 2007 tot 2012. Het project werd nooit specifiek geklasseerd als ‘top secret’, maar kwam toch pas in 2017 in de openbaarheid. De voormalige directeur van AATIP, Luis Elizondo, stapte toen op bij het Pentagon en gaf beelden vrij van een ongeïdentificeerd vliegtuig, dat op schijnbaar onmogelijke wijze bewoog.

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De Britse tabloid ‘The Sun’ sprong op de zaak en diende al eind 2017 in het kader van een FOIA een verzoek in om alle documenten van AATIP te kunnen inkijken. Gisteren, ruim vier jaar later, honoreerde de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst van Defensie (DIA) het verzoek en gaf meer dan 1.574 pagina’s materiaal vrij aan ‘The Sun’. De tabloid schrijft dat de documenten verslagen bevatten over de biologische effecten van ufowaarnemingen op mensen, studies over geavanceerde technologieën zoals onzichtbaarheidsmantels, en plannen voor verkenning en kolonisatie in de ruimte. De AATIP zei aan ‘The Sun’ dat het sommige vertrouwelijke informatie “gedeeltelijk achterhield” om redenen van privacy.

Een van de meest in het oog springende passages dateert van maart 2010 en gaat over de vermeende verwondingen die menselijke waarnemers zouden hebben opgelopen en die een “bedreiging voor de belangen van de Verenigde Staten zouden kunnen zijn”, zo klinkt het. 42 medische gevallen zijn beschreven, naast 300 gelijkaardige “ongepubliceerde” gevallen van verwondingen na vermeende ontmoetingen met “abnormale voertuigen”, waaronder ufo’s. Sommige waarnemers vertoonden brandwonden of andere symptomen door elektromagnetische straling, die gelinkt wordt aan “energie-gerelateerde voortstuwingssystemen”. Er is ook sprake van schade aan de hersenen en aan het zenuwstelsel, van hartkloppingen, van slaapstoornissen en van hoofdpijn.

Het is niet duidelijk wat voor soort screening de AATIP gebruikte om de vermeende gevallen te onderzoeken, als er al een werd gehanteerd, schrijft ‘Live Science’. ‘The Sun’ heeft de volledige inhoud van de opgevraagde rapporten nog niet bekendgemaakt.

En dan is er nog de oplijsting van vermeende biologische effecten op menselijke ufowaarnemers, weergegeven in een rapport van de civiele non-profitorganisatie Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) over waarnemingen tussen 1873 en 1994. Het gaat dan onder meer over “onverklaarbare zwangerschappen”, “schijnbare ontvoering”, verlamming, en ervaringen van telepathie, teleportatie en levitatie. MUFON wordt vaak bestempeld als controversieel omdat de vrijwilligers “onwetenschappelijk” te werk zouden gaan en zouden focussen op “pseudowetenschap”.

In de conclusie van het verslag staat wel dat er voldoende bewijs is “om een hypothese te ondersteunen dat sommige geavanceerde systemen al in gebruik zijn en ondoorzichtig zijn voor de VS om ze volledig te begrijpen”.

Herbekijk ook: 

• UFO-onderzoekers kijken reikhalzend uit naar Area 51-rapport

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08-04-2022 om 18:52 geschreven door peter  

Bizarre CIA Files Released on Lost Ancient Human Civilizations - 'The Adam & Eve Story'

Bizarre CIA Files Released on Lost Ancient Human Civilizations – ‘The Adam & Eve Story’

A recently declassified document discusses the topic of lost ancient human civilizations, and cataclysms that occurred on earth thousands of years ago – causing them to vanish from the earth and without explanation. Thus answering the question of why there is so much mystery and unanswered questions involving our true ancient past.

The creator of this document also states that the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, Easter Island, Tiahuanaco, and Baalbek are ancient Enigmas. The lost city of Atlantis is also mentioned in the declassified files.

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08-04-2022 om 18:09 geschreven door peter  

Most Compelling Stories of UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind… ABDUCTED by ALIENS Full Documentary via Coast to Coast AM

COAST TO COAT AM 2022 – ABDUCTED by ALIENS Full Documentary, Courtesy of Reality Films Distribution: Are we being taken by beings from outer space or another dimension? Countless individuals have very real memories of being taken secretly against their will by Alien entities. We may never know the full agenda of the beings responsible for alien abductions, however, with each new case we gain more knowledge of the alien agenda, and we become better prepared for the day when we will have full disclosure that we are clearly not alone.

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08-04-2022 om 18:00 geschreven door peter  

08-04-2022 om 17:41 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

UFO "Orb" Spotted Flying Over Hong Kong. April 7, 2022

This UFO orb was spotted in the Wan Chai of Hong Kong and it is crazy how this object turns of it lights, not once but twice before disappearing. The witness stated the following " I was watching the sky when I finished my work at Wan Chai around 5:30(5:40am - 5:55am I see this moving object time ) I go direct to Admiralty Station. I look at the sky and see the star sometime. I am using star app to see what is this star. But when I see it, it move suddenly. So I take out my phone to film it."

Thanks to Morris Chan for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2TU...

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08-04-2022 om 15:34 geschreven door peter  

UFO OVNI sighting over Dajabon, Dominican republic 2022

Residents in the border municipality of Dajabon in Dominican Republic recently spotted a group of unidentified flying objects in the sky of that province, which created astonishment among the residents.

Local news report about this sighting:

Original UFO footage:

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08-04-2022 om 15:26 geschreven door peter  

László Németh, a designer at Lasky Design, has developed a solar-powered aircraft concept capable of solar flight with zero-emission thanks to its large wing area. Named Falcon Solar, the concept design breaks with conventional aircraft design and uses the advantage of flying wings.

Nature has long provided engineers and designers with good ideas. Inspired by the body of the birds of prey, the streamlined concept features two large wings that curve upwards in a very harmonious way, a low and elongated cockpit, and a pointed tail.

The shape is unique in that the fuselage also generates significant lift while providing a surface for the solar panels. It doesn’t seem to have rudders to stabilizers, and its cabin also seems very compact. So, it’s difficult to say how Falcon Solar would function in the real world.

The Falcon Solar is designed as a passenger aircraft with the goal of making air travel more efficient and less expensive. Referring to the difficulties of flying on a cloudy day or at night, which would prevent the solar panels from generating power, Németh stressed that climbing to higher altitudes could help overcome these problems.

Though just an idea, for now, the designer hopes his bold and innovative concept can inspire the aviation industry to develop new and more efficient aircraft.

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08-04-2022 om 01:28 geschreven door peter  

Dolmen de Soto: Unique Millennia-Old Underground Structure Remains A Puzzling Enigma

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Among the more than two hundred megalithic structures discovered in southwestern Spain’s province Huelva, there is one particularly impressive and, at the same time, mysterious and puzzling.

A giant millennia-old underground structure known as Dolmen de Soto, buried beneath a mound, 60 meters in diameter, is often referred to as Spain’s underground Stonehenge, and one of the largest circular megalithic arrangements in Spain.

Dolmen de Soto in Spain.

Credit: Diario de Huelva

Its ancient history is fascinating, and thanks to modern techniques, scientists have discovered ancient drawings on the stones, and many of them display figures armed with daggers, staffs, and axes. Interestingly,  based on the investigation of Dolmen de Soto, no other single megalithic structure in Europe contains so many well-armed figures.

So the question is: Were these ancient people frightened of someone or something?

Its ancient history is fascinating, and thanks to modern techniques, scientists have discovered ancient drawings on the stones, and many of them display figures armed with daggers, staffs, and axes. Interestingly,  based on the investigation of Dolmen de Soto, no other single megalithic structure in Europe contains so many well-armed figures.

So the question is: Were these ancient people frightened of someone or something?

What Was The Purpose Of Dolmen de Soto?

Recent archaeological excavations also revealed and documented the existence of a Neolithic stone circle with a diameter of 65 m that now dates to 5,000-4,000 BC. The circle’s building was made of stones varying in size and shape. An underground passage, measuring 21.5 meters, starts narrow then extends to three meters in width and height as it reaches the back of the monument. Inside, a gallery consists of 63 stone pillars, a frontal slab, and 30 other stones covering it.

Was this great megalith a sanctuary for the cult of death? Or perhaps was it a place of reverence of important gods and other divinities? What was the purpose of Dolmen de Soto?

Was it a graveyard? If so, why were only a few people buried in this big underground complex? How was it constructed? There are many questions, but not all of them have clear answers.

Inside Dolmen De Soto.

Credit: IAPH

Dated between 3000 and 2500 BC, 69 granite pillars line the walls, and the dolmen has an anthropomorphic stele with a human face, belt, and trident, similar to that of the dolmen located on the Channel Island of Guernsey.

Discovered and excavated by Armando de Soto in 1923, the Dolmen was investigated by Hugo Obermaier, who shed light on its architecture, an enormous quantity of engravings, and various stelae used more than once.

Dolmen de Soto is astronomically oriented towards the east and perfectly matches the sunrise at the spring and autumn equinoxes. The first rays of the sun at the equinox appear through the corridor and are projected on a particular chamber located in the eastern end of the Dolmen’s passage. It suggests that the ancient people had a symbolic rite by which the deceased was reborn experiencing sunlight.

The underground structure of the long corridor dolmens family is the most extensive megalithic facility in the Huelva province. It is almost 21m long (ca 69ft), though its width varies from 0,82m at the door up to 3.10m (10ft).

Inside the mound, experts found a metalworking workshop dating back to 3,000 BC, which indicates that the drawings of the weapons are most probably related to the discovery of metallurgy.

Additionally, only eight bodies have been discovered buried in seven different places inside the Dolmen. The bodies appear crouched near the wall and have orthostats (large rock boulders, known as uprights), decorated with a few engravings showing the image of the deceased, his protecting totemic sign, or some of his weapons.

As we see, we know much today about Dolmen de Soto (also known as Soto Dolmen), but still much is missing. Doubtful, the mystery of this significant Neolithic landmark will be ever definitely solved even with modern techniques.

The problem is that the eight bodies buried in seven different places inside the Dolmen are missing!

The bodies and their belongings were taken from Dolmen de Soto and transported to the United Kingdom. Their whereabouts are unknown.

Professor of prehistory Mimi Bueno-Ramírez, at Alcalá de Henares University in Madrid, was right, saying: “if we had access to the ancient bodies found at the site, we could learn more about this fascinating place. It’s a pity these human remains and artifacts were never analyzed.”

A part of Dolmen De Soto’s history was lost.

Paintings Engravings Drawings And Symbols

Dolmen de Soto contains a rich collection of painting with symbolic motifs and engravings created with the help of various engraving techniques like incision, low relief, abrasion, and picking.

Dolmen de Soto, Trigueros.

Image credit: Hostal Ciudad Trigueros - CC BY-SA 4.0

This rock art is our ancestors’ artistic manifestations of cosmology, visions of the world, and sky with stars, sun, and moon. Inside Dolmen de Soto, these observations and concepts are expressed through symbols.

Some symbols tell stories about rituals linked to death and the afterlife because they helped them connect the material world with the spirits. Other characters in the Dolmen are related to beliefs, myths, and legends.

As we do today, our ancestors also pondered the concept of possible life after death, or whether death ends their existence and represents the gateway to an afterlife.

Dolmen de Soto resembles Stonehenge, and to a certain degree, both the same ancient builders have constructed those structures.

Did Stonehenge look like the Dolmen de Soto? Maybe there is no connection between these two prehistoric sites, but certainly, these are questions worth pondering for a curious mind seeking answers.

Written by – A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com Senior Staff Writer

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08-04-2022 om 01:14 geschreven door peter  

The Largest Structures In The Universe May Not Actually Exist

Ethan Siegel

Which is good, because if they do, they violate the cosmological principle.

In theory, the Universe should be the same, on average, everywhere.

On the largest scales, it shouldn’t matter which direction you observe.

Nor should it matter which location you’re examining.

We expect isotropy and homogeneity, with physical consequences if they’re violated.

Initially, the Big Bang simultaneously occurred everywhere.

All locations possessed equivalent temperatures and densities.

Only tiny, 1-part-in-30,000 imperfections get superimposed atop them.

Those imperfections then evolved gravitationally, limited by our physical laws.

Tremendous cosmological structures formed: stars, galaxies, and the great cosmic web.

We expect a structural size limit: ~1.2 billion light-years.

Anything larger wouldn’t have sufficient time to form.

We’ve discovered many enormous galaxy “walls” in space.

Similarly, great cosmic voids exist between them.

These largest structures approach, but don’t significantly exceed, the expected cosmic limits.

But two classes of structures threaten this picture.

Three separate large quasar groupings are clustered across too-large cosmic scales.

Similarly galaxy groups from gamma-ray burst mapping surpass these limits.

If real, these structures defy our present cosmic understanding.

However, they may be purely phantasmal.

These signals may emerge from underlying random noise, with statistics incorrectly “discovering” non-existent patterns.

Only superior data, sufficiently mapping out our Universe, will decide.

• Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words. Talk less; smile more.
• Starts With A Bang is written by Ethan Siegel, Ph.D., author of Beyond The Galaxy, and Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive.

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08-04-2022 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

STARTUP CLAIMS FUSION POWER “BREAKTHROUGH” USING MASSIVE GUN

"WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A GENUINE ROUTE TO COMMERCIAL FUSION."

FIRST LIGHT

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07-04-2022 om 23:30 geschreven door peter  

Alpha Centauri. What Does the Closest Stellar System Conceal?

Distances between objects in space are often so staggering that the human mind is barely able to fully appreciate them. Sometimes even light takes thousands of years on end to travel from one object to another.

However, among myriads of stellar systems scattered across the vast expanses in the universe there is only one that may be truly called closest to us.

There are three stars mutually bound by invisible threads of gravitation that lie comparatively nearby by space standards and naturally attract our closest attention. So what is the Alpha Centauri system like?

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07-04-2022 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

An asteroid the size of a bus will safely fly by Earth today and you can watch it live online

07-04-2022 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

What If We’re Living in a Computer Simulation? Google Earth, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: April 6, 2022

Location of discovery: California, USA

Google coordinates: 37.2533919,-119.1773313

 

What if you realized that your reality is nothing more than a complex computer simulation? How would you know? And how could you escape from this matrix? Well, first you have to look for the glitches in the program. If this is all a simulation, then the glitches will reveal information to us little by little. Until we know who designed the simulation we live in. 

 

Hey, look what I found on Google Earth today. Its like a glitch but not. Google software is too expensive and not prone to create flaws, but this...may be something far bigger. What if this is proof that we are living in a computer simulation? The only way to prove we live in a simulation would be...to find the glitches. This may be that proof. 

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07-04-2022 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

The Kecksburg UFO Incident Was The BIGGEST UFO Incident Since Roswell

‘The Kecksburg UFO Incident’ is a prime example of a suspicious crash which occurred over the town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in 1965. Initially considered to be the result of meteor deterioration or satellite debris, the event quickly raised debate between locals and has been questioned ever since. A flash. A thunderous bang. Wreckage confiscated by the authorities. Seems simple enough- or does it? How did records from the time of the crash mysteriously disappear? How could the local townsfolk and witness testimonies differ from the official statements? And what has resulted in the years that have followed for the town and its legacy as a potential UFO crash site? Let us take a trip to the great state of Pennsylvania as we investigate ‘The Kecksburg UFO Incident’.

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07-04-2022 om 18:42 geschreven door peter  

Scientist Who Won the Nobel Prize Suggests Other Universes Existed Before Ours

What came before the Big Bang?

According to the no-boundary proposal, asking what name before the Big Bang is meaningless–like asking what is south of the South Pole–because there is no notion of time available to refer to. The concept of time only exits in our universe.

Although I couldn’t think of anyone who probably deserved it more than him, Hawking never won the Nobel prize.

Sir Penrose is a mathematician and physicist who has worked with Hawking on Black Holes. The man who just won the Nobel Prize for his work on Black Holes has revealed his belief about the universe in general, stating that our universe was likely not the first to exist, that there were many other universes before this one, and that this won’t be the last universe to exist.

Penrose believes that the Big Bang was not the “real” beginning and that even before it, something else existed.

“There was something before the Big Bang, and that something is what we will have in our future,” the researcher revealed.

The Oxford scientist believes that the universe we currently inhabit will continue expanding in the future up until the point when all of its matter decays. It is at this point, according to Penrose, when a new universe will come to exist in a kind of “cosmic cycle” that repeats over and over again.

Speaking to the Telegraph in an interview that followed his Nobel Prize award, the British scientists examined that we are living in a universe that is continuously expanding and that all mass decays away.

“In this crazy theory of mine, that remote future becomes the Big Bang of another eon,” Sir Penrose revealed to the Telegraph. Sir Penrose explains that since the Big Bang was not the beginning–since there was something before it–that something is what we will see in the distant future.

The idea that other universes existed before the Big Bang comes from what Penrose refers to as Hawking Points.

Hawking Points can be explained as “remnant signals from the Hawking evaporation of supermassive black holes in the eon before ours.”

In other words, Penrose says that Hawking points are signals of the corpses of Black Holes that existed long before the Big Bang in another universe. These have outlived their own universe and are at the end of their lifespans; as such, they are leaking radiation as they fade away into nothingness.

According to Penrose–and he explains this so that everyone can understand it–our universe, our Big Bang started as the distant future of a previous eon. In this previous universe, black holes that exist in our universe also existed in the previous one. The black holes that existed in the previous universe are “evaporating away” via the so-called “Hawking Radiation” and produce what Sir Penrose calls “Hawking Points.”

Had Stephen Hawking lived, he would have probably shared a Nobel Prize with Sir Penrose.

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07-04-2022 om 18:13 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Alien Signal Originating From Proxima Centauri Baffles Experts

Scientists haven't been this excited since the 1977 Wow Signal. Proxima Centauri is the closest star system to Earth, home to Proxima B, a planet that orbits its Sun in the so-called habitable zone; a region in space where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface.

Humankind has been searching for answers to the big questions in astronomy for centuries. The biggest one is definitely whether we are the only planet with life out there. To try and answer this particular question, scientists make use of many tools to explore the universe.

Although most of the search has turned out empty-handed, we find something that causes huge excitement from time to time. One such discovery was made way back in 1977 when scientists discovered the so-called Wow signal, interpreted by many as an actual “message” from intelligent alien species.

Since then, the Wow signal has been interpreted in more ways than one, and we still don’t know for sure what caused it.

Now, alien-hunting scientists are looking into a revolutionary new signal intercepted from the closest solar system to Earth; Proxima Centauri causing the biggest excitement since the Wow signal.

Let’s remember, the Wow signal was spotted on the night of August 15, 1977, when Ohio State’s Big Ear radio telescope spotted a strange signal coming from the constellation Sagittarius. This radio signal appeared to be io to thirty times stronger than the cosmic background noise, which made it stand out from anything previously found, explains the Planetary Society. The excitement was such that the astronomer who recorded the signal–Jill Tarter–wrote the word “Wow” next to the signal’s numerical code.

Proxima Centauri: A new Wow signal?

According to reports, researchers from the Breakthrough Listen Project, an initiative to search for–and hopefully find–alien life with the aid of radio telescopes, believe to have found one of the most exciting signals in recent decades, comparable in excitement to the 1977 signal.

The project, which has been analyzing and surveying the universe in hopes to spot signs of alien life in 2019, has turned its attention to Proxima Centauri, a star system located 4.2 light-years from Earth.

This particular solar system has–so far–two confirmed exoplanets, where exoplanet Proxima b orbits its host star in the so-called habitable zone, a region in space around the star where water could exist in a liquid state on the surface of the planet, increasing the chances of life having developed there.

The Proxima Centauri signal was found by scientists using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia in April 2020, as revealed by an exclusive report by the Guardian. Unlike many others in the past, this signal has not been attributed to any sources created here on Earth. This means that we can probably rule out it is a kind of miss-signal or false positive.

Nonetheless, saying the signal originated from an alien civilization is a long shot, the researchers revealed. It is likely that there is a natural explanation for its origin, but we cannot rule out that it may have originated from an artificial source.

The importance of the discovery resides in the fact that the team who made the find says it is the most exciting radio signal from outer space ever since the Wow signal from 1977.

As revealed by the Guardian, the narrow beam of the signal in the 980Mhz range comes with shifts in the detection frequency, which are consistent with the movement of the planet around its host star.

This is a telltale sign that could point towards one possible explanation; the existence of a third star orbiting the star, and not technology from an alien civilization, as the researchers have explained.

“We’ve been looking for alien life for so long now and the idea that it could turn out to be on our front doorstep, in the very next star system, is piling improbabilities upon improbabilities,”  Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist from the University of Westminster explained in an interview with the Guardian.

The exact origin of the signal remains a profound enigma. To find out, follow-up studies will be needed that will help astronomers closely inspect the signal.

The beam, which was spotted in 2019, has since not been repeated, leading experts to speculate it may be similar to the Wow signal.

A paper detailing the discovery is yet to be published, although the astronomers who participated in the discovery are already working on it.

Our Take

We live in exciting times. This new report is fascinating despite the fact that it does not definitely point toward an alien civilization’s existence.

It tells us that the Breakthrough Initiative is on the right path in its hunt for intelligent alien civilizations and the technosignatures that these may have left in the universe.

The signal spotted by Breakthrough Listen can have various explanations, among which the most prominent are; a third planet, unexplained interference, and the lesser-likely scenario, an alien civilization. But we can’t rule that out yet, which makes this find a really exciting one.

Given that the astronomers themselves have tagged the signal as unusual, they believe they are onto something. It is especially noteworthy that Proxima Centauri likely hosts at least one planet that could meet the necessary conditions for life as we know it exists on its surface.

We have been looking for aliens for decades. What are the odds that we find the first actual artificial alien signal at the closest solar system to Earth?

Source: 

• The Guardian 
• Big Ear 
  

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In het zuiden van Irak, vlak bij de ruïnes van de voormalige Soemerische stad Uruk, hebben archeologen een ca. 4.000 jaar oude boot opgegraven. De boot was al ontdekt tijdens een verkennend onderzoek in 2018 - een deel van het vaartuig was destijds namelijk boven de grond komen te liggen, als gevolg van bodemerosie. Dit jaar besloten archeologen om de boot in zijn geheel uit te graven, om beschadiging te voorkomen.

Uruk wordt door historici gezien als een van de oudste steden ter wereld. De stad ontstond aan het begin van het vierde millennium voor Christus, en is ongeveer 4.500 jaar lang ononderbroken bewoond geweest. Vanaf ongeveer 3.500 v.Chr. diende Uruk bovendien als hoofdstad van de Soemeriërs, een van de oudste beschavingen ter wereld.

Soemer rond het jaar 2350 v.Chr.

Via Wikimedia Commons.

EERDER ONDERZOEK

In 2018 hebben archeologen van het Duitse Archeologische Instituut een systematisch onderzoek verricht in de omgeving van Uruk, waarbij ze alle bekende archeologische vondsten in de regio documenteerden. Resten van de vele inmiddels verdroogde kanaaltjes, landbouwgronden en nederzettingen laten zien dat het gebied destijds relatief dichtbevolkt was. Tijdens dit onderzoek ontdekten de archeologen per toeval een duizenden jaren oude boot, die voor een deel uit de grond stak. In eerste instantie deden de archeologen weinig met hun ontdekking, maar dit jaar kwam daar verandering in. Door verdere bodemerosie en doordat de boot zich in de buurt van een weg met veel autoverkeer begeeft, besloot men om hem alsnog op te graven, om te voorkomen dat hij beschadigd zou raken.

Restanten van Uruk vandaag de dag.

Andy Holmes via Wikimedia Commons.

FRAGIEL VOORWERP

Het was een klus die zorgvuldig uitgevoerd moest worden, omdat de zeven meter lange boot erg fragiel was. Dat is niet zo vreemd, aangezien het vaartuig hier waarschijnlijk al zo’n 4.000 jaar begraven ligt. De boot bestond uit een binnenwerk van organisch materiaal (riet, bladen of hout) dat inmiddels is weggerot, met daaromheen een laag van bitumen. Dit is een vloeibaar mengsel dat waterdicht wordt als het opdroogt. Alleen deze laag bitumen is vandaag de dag nog over. De archeologen vermoeden dat de boot 4.000 jaar geleden in de rivier gezonken is, en daarna in de loop der jaren langzaam in de rivierbodem is weggezakt.

Een archeoloog graaft de boot zorgvuldig uit.

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

EN NU?

Tijdens de opgraving hebben de archeologen een laag klei en gips op de boot aangebracht, om de fragiele vondst te beschermen en in één stuk uit de bodem te kunnen halen. Hierna is de vondst overgebracht naar het Nationaal Museum van Irak in Bagdad, waar Irakese archeologen hem verder zullen onderzoeken. Na dit onderzoek zal de boot in het museum tentoongesteld worden.

Bronnen: 

• Deutches Archäologisches Institut.

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07-04-2022 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

MIT Scientists Plan to Use Massive Laser to Attract Aliens to Earth

Using extremely powerful lasers, scientists want to try and contact aliens located as far as 20,000 light years away.

E.T., we’re home.

According to MIT News, existing laser technology could be fashioned into Earth’s “porch light” to attract alien astronomers. a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposes to create a cosmic beacon, with available laser technology, strong enough to attract potential aliens located as far as 20,000 light-years away.

The research, called “feasibility study,” appears in the Astrophysical Journal. The findings suggest that if a 1 to 2-megawatt high-power laser were to be focused through a massive 30 to 45-meter telescope and into space. This combination would produce a beam of infrared radiation strong enough to stand out from the sun’s energy.

Furthermore, scientists explain that once a potential alien civilization picks up this signal, we could use the same system to transmit brief messages to communicate with aliens.

“If we were to close a handshake and start to communicate successfully, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years,” explained author James Clark, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The best part is that the technology needed to get this working is already available to use, and such an instrument could soon be developed.

“This would be a challenging project but not an impossible one,” Clark explains.

“The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum. I don’t know if intelligent creatures around the sun would be their first guess, but it would certainly attract further attention.”

Several possible configurations were considered by experts before the eventually picked two that would work best for their design.

Using a 2-megawatt laser and putting it through a 30 meter-telescope, we could produce a powerful signal that could be picked up clearly from Proxima Centauri B, one of the planets closest to our sun, possibly home to alien life.

Using a 1-megawatt laser and putting it through a 45-meter telescope, we could then produce a powerful enough signal to be intercepted by anyone inhabiting the Trappist-1 system, located 40 light-years away from Earth.

However, Clark explains that both options could be detectable as far as 20,000 light-years away.

But while this plan may sound attractive and help us find out whether we are alone in the cosmos, the plan has a few risks.

Although shinning the powerful laser through the telescope would not be something that you could see with the naked eye, the powerful beam could disrupt spacecraft instruments on its path. It could also harm a person’s eyesight if they were to stare directly at it.

Clark explains that “If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one’s living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it.”

“In general, this was a feasibility study. Whether or not this is a good idea, that’s a discussion for future work.”

It wouldn’t work the other way around

While this plan could work for us if we were to try and signal aliens, ‘ hey, we are here,’ the same thing wouldn’t work the other way around.

According to scientists, if the roles were reversed and instead looked for a similar laser beacon coming from space, it would not be easy to spot with currently available technology.

“It is vanishingly unlikely that a telescope survey would observe an extraterrestrial laser unless we restrict our survey to the very nearest stars,” Clark explains.

“With current survey methods and instruments, it is unlikely that we would be lucky enough to image a beacon flash, assuming that extraterrestrials exist and are making them,” Clark adds.

“However, as the infrared spectra of exoplanets are studied for traces of gases that indicate the viability of life, and as full-sky surveys attain greater coverage and become more rapid, we can be more certain that, if E.T. is phoning, we will detect it.”

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