Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
26-04-2022
Ask Ethan: Could we save the Earth by migrating it away from the Sun?
Ask Ethan: Could we save the Earth by migrating it away from the Sun?
Ion drives, like the NEXIS thruster shown here, could propel astronomical bodies large distances over long periods of time. Could they be used to migrate the entire planet? Image credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Someday, the Sun will heat up enough to boil our planet’s oceans. Could moving the entire Earth away save us?
“I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn’t boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.” –Simon Conway Morris
Someday, in the distant future, the Earth’s oceans will boil, destroying all life on the planet’s surface and potentially rendering Earth completely inhospitable. It’s the type of global warming that no human can avert: the gradual warming that the Sun experiences by burning its core fuel over its lifetime. But there may be a way to keep the Earth inhabited if we plan a very long-term solution: migrating the entire Earth. Is this really plausible, though?
That’s what Mathieu Nisen wants to know:
I want to dream a bit: do you think it could be physically feasible to migrate the earth’s orbit with our current knowledge in science?
To find out, we need to figure out how hot it’s going to get, and how fast, in order to move the Earth quickly enough to save it.
This cutaway showcases the various regions of the surface and interior of the Sun, including the core, which is where nuclear fusion occurs. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user Kelvinsong.
The way any star gets its energy is by fusing lighter elements into heavier ones in its core. Our Sun, in particular, fuses hydrogen into helium in regions where the core temperature exceeds 4,000,000 K. The hotter things get, the faster the rate of fusion; the very center of the core may be as hot as 15,000,000 K. This rate is almost perfectly constant, but not quite. Over very long periods of time, the percentage of hydrogen-to-helium in the core changes, causing the interior to heat up a little bit more over billions of years. When it heats up, three things happen:
It gets more luminous, meaning it outputs more total energy over time,
It swells slightly in size, increasing appreciably in radius by a few percent every billion years,
And its temperature remains almost perfectly constant, changing by less than 1%-per-billion years.
The Sun has increased in size, brightness, and temperature according to the curves above, and those three quantities will continue to evolve as shown by their respective lines into the future.
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user RJHall, based on Ribas, Ignasi (2010).
All of this adds up to one uncomfortable fact: the amount of energy that reaches the Earth is very slowly increasing over time. For every 110 million years that pass, the solar luminosity increases by about 1%, which means that the energy reaching the Earth also rises by 1% over that exact same time. Back when the Earth was four billion years younger, our planet received barely 70% of the energy we do today. And after another one-to-two billion years, if we do nothing else to mitigate it, eventually this increase will cause a severe problem for Earth. At that point, we will hit a mean surface temperature of 373 kelvin (100 °C / 212 °F). In other words, at some point, the Sun will become so hot that the Earth’s oceans will boil.
If the surface temperature becomes too high, our planet will be unable to support the existence of liquid water on the surface. Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
So how can we mitigate it? There are a few potential solutions:
We can set up a series of large reflectors at the L1 Lagrange point, preventing some of the incident light from reaching the Earth.
We can geoengineer the atmosphere/albedo of our planet to reflect more light and absorb less.
We can de-greenhouse our planet, removing molecules like methane and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
We can abandon Earth and focus on terraforming outer worlds, such as Mars.
A possible pathway for the eventual terraforming of Mars to be more Earth-like.
Image credit: English Wikipedia user Ittiz.
Any of these would work, in theory, but would also require a tremendous amount of effort and ongoing maintenance.
However, the solution of migrating the Earth to a more distant orbit would be permanent! And although we’d have to push our orbit out quite considerably to keep temperatures constant, timescales of hundreds of millions of years give us plenty of time, if we need it. To cancel out an effect of a 1% increase in the luminosity of the Sun, we’d need to push Earth an additional 0.5% away from the Sun; to cancel out an increase of 20% (what we expect over the next 2 billion years, total), we need the Earth an extra 9.5% more distant than we are now. Instead of the Earth being a mean distance of 149,600,000 km from the Sun, we’d be looking at more like 164,000,000 km.
The Earth-Sun distance has not changed by much over the past 4.5 billion years. But if the Sun is going to heat up and we don’t want Earth to heat up commensurately, we should seriously consider migrating our planet outward. µImage credit: ISS Expedition 7 Crew, EOL, NASA.
This is going to take a lot of energy! To move the Earth — all six septillion (6 × 10²⁴) kilograms of it — that extra distance away from the Sun is going to change our orbital parameters by quite a bit. If we were to push Earth’s mean distance from the Sun out to 164,000,000 km (102 million miles), there would be some significant changes we’d notice:
It would take an extra 14.6% longer for the Earth to complete a single revolution around the Sun.
To maintain a stable orbit, our orbital speed would have to slow down, from 30 km/s to 28.5 km/s.
If the period of Earth’s rotation stayed the same (24 hours), we’d have 418 days in a year, instead of 365.
The Sun would appear slightly smaller in the sky — by about 10% — and the Sun’s effects on the tides would weaken by a few centimeters.
If the Sun swelled in size but Earth migrated outward, the two effects would not quite cancel; the Sun would appear slightly smaller from Earth overall. Image credit: public domain.
But in order to get the Earth out that far, we’d need to make a very big energetic change: we’d need to alter the gravitational potential energy of the Sun-Earth system. Even accounting for all the other factors, including the slower-moving Earth around the Sun, we’d have to change the Earth’s orbital energy by 4.7 × 10³⁵ Joules, which is the equivalent of 1.3 × 10²⁰ Terawatt-hours: about 10¹⁵ times humanity’s total annual energy supply. You might think that given two billion years would help, and it does, but only a little. We would need about 500,000 times the amount of energy that humanity presently generates today, globally, all pumped into migrating the planet outward in order to migrate the Earth to a safe, consistent distance.
The speed at which planets revolve around the Sun is dependent on their distance from the Sun. Migrating Earth outwards, slowly, by 9.5% ought not perturb the orbits of the other planets. Image credit: NASA / JPL.
The conversion technology is the least of our worries; the biggest concern is more fundamental: how do we get all that energy? Realistically, there’s only one place that has enough for those needs, and that is the Sun itself. At present, the Earth receives about 1,500 Watts of power per square meter from the Sun. In order to obtain enough power to migrate the Earth in the right amount of time, we’d need to build an array (in space) that collected that entire 4.7 × 10³⁵ Joules of energy, evenly, over a time period of two billion years. That means an array that’s 5 × 10¹⁵ square meters in size (and 100% efficient), or the equivalent of the entire surface area of ten Earths.
The concept of space-based solar power has been around for a long time, but no one has ever conceived of an array that’s 5 billion square kilometers in size. Image credit: NASA.
So to migrate the Earth to a higher, safe orbit, that’s what it takes: five billion square kilometers of a 100%-efficient solar array, whose energy goes entirely into pushing the Earth into a more distant orbit around the Sun for two billion years. Physically possible? Absolutely. With current technology? Not a chance. And is it practically possible? Almost definitely not, at least not with what we currently know. The reason that migrating the entire planet is so difficult is twofold: because of how strong the Sun’s gravitational pull is and how massive the Earth is. But this is the planet we have and the Sun we have, and the Sun is going to heat up, regardless of what we do. Until we find a way to gather and utilize that massive amount of energy, we’re going to need other strategies if we want to survive the ultimate global warming apocalypse!
The FBI vault contains thousands of declassified files about various mysteries of the past. The topic related to UFOs and aliens always remains the most discussed one, and the FBI has a lot of documents stored in its vault, speaking of this strange phenomenon. Memorandum 6751 is most important to the ufology, according to Former FBI Special Agent John DeSouza.
The FBI has always paid great attention to the UFO phenomenon. By the way, this confirms the old suspicions: many science fiction films are actually based on real events, whether it is leaked that the FBI purposely made to raise public awareness, or to recognize agents, existing or former, who consider it unfair to deprive the public knowledge opinion about these secrets.
Of course, one cannot believe that Edgar Hoover, a director of the FBI, during those events that we are talking about, was very worried about justice or respect for the right of society to know the facts.
Memo 6751: Credit FBI Vault
He was the ultra-conservative and reactionary who thought differently. But the fact is that in 2010, it became known from the FBI’s The Vault page that the agency included in the category of declassified a report prepared [specificlally Memo 6751] in July 1947 by a special agent of the FBI. He was a lieutenant colonel, whose identity was in the interests of “national security” and, at the direction of the almighty Hoover, erased a report based on an interview with a witness of the appearance of a UFO. The witness shared his own experience of contact with a non-human mind and could tell quite a lot.
Line 2: “Their mission is peaceful” and their agenda is to “settle” on Earth; Line 3: The beings are “human-like but much larger in size”; Lines 4 to 6: Describes multi-dimensional beings from “an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own”; Line 7: Weaponized with “radiant energy”; they enter the “etheric” (or cross dimensions) at will; Line 8 likens their world to Lokas_or_Talas; Conclusion: “Let the newcomers be treated with kindness” Addendum: “the front contains the controls; the middle portion is a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray…”
According to the report, among other species, we are visited by creatures not only from other planets but from other dimensions as well. In particular, they are from the etheric plane coexisting with our physical Universe, materialized entities appeared as translucent giants.
The first thing that comes to mind when reading the document is that we are dealing with a story of a dreamer, but it should be noted that this fact must have enough consecutive moments to initiate an investigation of the FBI, and this must be recognized when it comes to justifying financial injections and expenses of his resources.
The narrator further goes on to explain that these creatures use energy vectors to translate, which are interpreted as flying saucers. Their goal is peaceful, if one can consider peaceful the task that they transmitted (probably telepathically) to the witness: to stay living on this planet without disturbing us.
John DeSouza noted in his book that “Understanding Extra-Dimensionality is the way to unfold the truth of the paranormal, the spiritual and even the physical world. These Visitors have been with us since time immemorial and their messages to us are everywhere around us. The truth will eventually explode into our field of vision. If we refuse to listen then we are only delaying the inevitable to a time when an alarm will be sounded that is so loud that it will consume everything upon the Earth. Once the black swans arrive, once we awaken to numerous mile-long shadows cast by these ancient ships—hanging over our major cities, soundless, motionless, maddening; it will be too late.”
Memo 6751 remained classified for 63 years until Executive Order 13526 which allowed for its declassification and release. The memo may not be a “smoking gun”, but it is significant in that it remained untouched from the disinformation campaigns of Project Grudge, Blue Book.
Although much of the information contained in the memo is extremely detailed, there are some inconsistencies.
Firstly, the absence of the name of its author, although he claims to have several diplomas and that he was the head of a university department. Another fact is that the FBI prepared the document and it is not the original that is being investigated.
Unlike early Roswell stories, this file refers to “living beings much larger than humans.” In addition, they supposedly can live in another dimension, in another world.
However, the author of the article never mentioned how he collected all the information. From this point on, every detail in memorandum 6751 is confusing.
Two galaxies locked together in an intricate gravitational dance have created a beautiful illusion in the depths of space.
Captured in a new Hubble photo, their interaction has formed a near-symmetrical shape that has given the pair its nickname: the Angel Wing. If you look closely, the object bears an uncanny resemblance to the alarming six-winged seraphim of ancient Judaic lore.
The official name of the pair of galaxies is VV689, or MCG+03-26-016, and together they constitute an elegant example of one of the most colossal events in the Universe, a galactic merger.
Galactic mergers take place when galaxies are gravitationally drawn together across the gulfs of space-time, performing an increasingly tight orbital dance before coming together to form one big galaxy.
During these events, surprisingly few objects actually collide with each other; galaxies are mostly empty space by volume. However, the gravitational interactions can create shocks in surrounding star-forming gas that results in waves of star formation, rippling across each of the galaxies as the merger takes place.
These mergers are thought to be a vital aspect of galactic growth and evolution. Not only can the process revive star formation in otherwise relatively quiescent galaxies, it could play a role in the expansion of supermassive black holes to even more epic proportions.
Found at the heart of each galaxy, these black hole behemoths are somewhat baffling; merging with other supermassive black holes could be one pathway to their incredible size.
The Milky Way has undergone a number of collisions in its past. By identifying other galaxies undergoing the process of merging, astronomers can piece together how it occurs, which helps us understand the evolution of our own galaxy and the wider, wonderful cosmos around us.
A palaeontologist examines a dinosaur fossil from the Triassic period (around 250 million to 200 million years ago) in Brazil.
Credit: Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty
In December 2020, a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research sent shock waves through the palaeontology community1. It described a dinosaur species that the authors named Ubirajara jubatus — the first dinosaur found in the Southern Hemisphere to display what were probably precursors to modern feathers. The 110-million-year-old fossil had been collected in Brazil decades earlier — but no Brazilian palaeontologist had ever heard of it. The authors of the paper were from Germany, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
It was the latest instance of what some researchers now call palaeontological colonialism, in which scientists from wealthy nations obtain specimens from low- and middle-income countries without involving local researchers, and then store the fossils abroad. The practice can sometimes be illegal. For instance, according to Brazilian law, the country’s fossils belong to the state, although the authors of the Ubirajara paper say that they had a permit signed by a Brazilian mining official allowing them to export the specimen. “As far as the authors are aware, the specimen of Ubirajara was obtained legally,” says David Martill, a co-author and palaeontologist at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
The practice can also deprive nations of knowledge and heritage, say researchers. “Fossils are special to us,” says Allysson Pinheiro, director of the Plácido Cidade Nuvens Palaeontological Museum in Santana do Cariri, Brazil, near where U. jubatus was found. “We have literature, arts and crafts, and music based on them.”
Unlike previous incidents, however, the publication of Ubirajara sparked a revolution.
Through the Twitter campaign #UbirajaraBelongstoBR, Brazilian researchers protested against the paper, which was eventually withdrawn, and called for the fossil’s return. The Ubirajara specimen is currently located at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany, but officials say that the museum is involved in negotiations to send it back to Brazil.
The Ubirajara jubatus fossil sparked outrage among Brazilian palaeontologists and citizens.
Credit: Felipe L. Pinheiro
Even more significantly, the incident prompted paleontologists and paleontology associations across Latin America to join forces to end the practice. The growing movement is even attracting interest from scientists in Mongolia and other countries beyond Latin America that are affected by colonial palaeontology.
Juliana Sterli, president of the Argentinian Paleontological Association in Buenos Aires, describes the Ubirajara episode as the “last drop”. “In previous situations, we didn’t express ourselves,” she says.
Global awareness
One of the fruits of the movement has been the publication of journal articles surveying the extent of palaeontological colonialism in Latin America and elsewhere. In March, for instance, a report2 reviewed decades of papers describing fossils from Mexico and Brazil. The authors analysed almost 200 studies published between 1990 and 2021, and found that more than half did not include local researchers. Of the Brazilian fossils described, 88% were stored outside Brazil.
Some in the community, however, have disputed the paper’s findings. Martill says that the paper “is a pseudo-scientific study with a highly cherry-picked data set”, and adds that it ignores practices by US palaeontologists and focuses on European researchers. Martill was a co-author on papers highlighted by the survey.
Juan Carlos Cisneros, a palaeontologist at the Federal University of Piauí in Teresina, Brazil, and a co-author of the survey, says that it omitted some US collections of Brazilian fossils dating from before 1990. That is because the survey focused on vertebrate holotypes (specimens used as benchmarks for describing a species) studied after 1990, he explains. That is when Brazil passed a decree that requires international institutions studying fossils from the country to partner with Brazilian institutions. Cisneros adds: “It seems a clumsy attitude for researchers involved in such questionable practices to defend themselves by expressing that, in other countries, similarly questionable things are done.”
In the past, when issues of scientific colonialism were brought up with colleagues in wealthy countries, incidents were chalked up to anecdotal occurrences, he says. “Now that this is published in a scientific journal, there’s no way to ignore it anymore.”
Jeff Liston, president of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, who is based in Edinburgh, UK, and has studied the illegal fossil trade in China, says that the scientific community has been aware of issues related to colonial palaeontology for some time — but the debate in the past few years has brought the discussion to a broader audience.
There are plans for more publications on the issue in Latin America — including papers discussing how journals can help to solve the problem. The palaeontological associations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico plan to submit a letter describing how colonial practices are affecting palaeontology in the region to a scientific journal. “One of our goals is to raise global awareness about the responsibility of peer-reviewed journals in fighting colonial practices,” says Hermínio de Araújo Júnior, president of the Brazilian Paleontological Society, who is based in Rio de Janeiro.
In the March paper2, for example, the researchers found that none of the studies they reviewed reported having permits for taking the fossils abroad. “A big step would be to request the proper permits to study the material that they are putting into the journal,” says Karen Moreno Fuentealba, president of the Chilean Association of Paleontology, which is based in Santiago. “It would certainly be a way to enforce proper scientific behaviour.”
Some journals, such as Palaeontology, have already adopted policies that require authors to respect local laws when collecting and exporting samples. “PLoS ONE was one of the first journals to have a very tight set of ethical guidelines in terms of having to show collecting and export permits,” Liston says. (Naturealso has this type of policy; Nature’s news team is editorially independent of its journal team.)
A Latin American alliance
Latin American researchers have also raised global awareness of colonial palaeontology at international conferences. Last December, Cisneros presented research at the third annual Palaeontological Virtual Congress, in which he and his team analysed the impact of the #UbirajaraBelongstoBR campaign. The hashtag became a trending topic on Twitter in Brazil between December 2020 and January 2021, after the Cretaceous Research paper was published.
“Not only science communicators engaged in the conversation, but also influencers from the gaming world, artists and the news media gave it wide attention,” says Aline Ghilardi, a palaeontologist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil, who created the hashtag.
Liston notes these positive outcomes, but says that there were negative ones, too. Members of the public threatened the scientists and institutions involved in the Ubirajara research. The Karlsruhe museum’s Instagram account drew more than 10,000 comments — many of them negative — and was deleted in 2021.
In July, a panel will discuss scientific colonialism at the virtual Latin American Congress of Vertebrate Paleontology. The goal, according to Cisneros, is to promote true cooperation between palaeontologists. “We don’t want researchers from other countries to stop working here. What we hope for is that partnerships are more equitable and reciprocal. And that our laws are respected, as we respect the laws of other countries.”
Palaeontologists in Mexico work to preserve mammoth skeletons found during an excavation in 2020.
Credit: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP via Getty
Martill says he has no problem cooperating with local researchers, but he has questions about how far the movement will go to revise the field. “Should we be expected to [collaborate with local partners] when, say, a Brazilian fossil is in a German collection and has been for many years?” he asks, additionally wondering whether seeking out experts simply to add local collaborators could lead to tokenism. “I think this should be up to authors who do the science to decide who is an author.”
It’s important to acknowledge that ethical standards today are different from those of the past, even in Latin America, says Elizabeth Chacón Baca, president of the Mexican Society of Paleontology, headquartered in San Nicolás de los Garza. In Mexico, for example, fossils used to be offered as gifts by political leaders or academics to their international counterparts. “Scientific interest must prevail,” she says. “We must protect and defend [our heritage], but always with a tone of open dialogue.”
Ripple effects
Latin American palaeontologists hope that their efforts will have an impact beyond their countries. According to a study published last December by Ghilardi and others3, the countries most affected by ‘parachute science’ — publications that make no mention of local collaboration — are the Dominican Republic, Myanmar and Namibia. In the first two, in particular, foreign researchers have become interested in fossil inclusions in amber deposits.
Palaeontological colonialism “used to be a discussion among friends and peers in between two sessions at a conference”, says Devapriya Chattopadhyay, a palaeontologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Pune and a co-author of the study. Now, “it is getting quite a bit of deserved attention”.
“I’m really excited about this whole movement, especially in Brazil,” says Bolortsetseg Minjin, founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs in New York City. She has helped to repatriate dinosaur fossils taken illegally from Mongolia, and sees parallels between her efforts and the campaign to repatriate the Ubirajara dinosaur.
Minjin strongly advocates that fossils remain in their places of origin. “In Mongolia, fossils have been out of the country for the last 100 years,” she says. “Now we are facing an issue: how to find the next generation of scientists?” When children don’t grow up seeing fossils as part of their heritage and aren’t exposed to knowledge that excites them, she says, there is little motivation to become scientists.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01093-4
References
Smyth, R. S. H., Martill, D. M., Frey, E., Rivera-Sylva, H. E. & Lenz, N. Cretaceous Res. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104686 (2020).
Four Mysterious Objects On Google Sky, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Four Mysterious Objects On Google Sky, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Cube: -27.725280° -100.816575°
Fork: -12.777097° 48.448718°
Rogue Moon: -12.842369° -102.117233°
Green Orbs: 25.208859° -176.295993°
Now there are some interesting objects on Google Sky map. These four objects may or may not be explained away, however, I have never heard a reasonable explanation for any yet. These objects do exist in space, they are there, but are they alien and are they signs of intelligent life? I would have to say absolutely yes! The cube itself is huge and it confirms many sightings of the dark cube on NASA/SOHO sun images over the last ten years. The rogue moon is seen in great detail. Its understandable NASA wont talk about it...because to move an entire moon on a rogue trail through the solar system would require an alien propulsion system. Its a space station. As for the others anomalies, wormhole and green sphere, it seems all undeniable proof that aliens, intelligent or not, do exist out in space.
Military Whistle Blower reveals new top secret information on retrieval of Alien and Man Made UFOS!
Military Whistle Blower reveals new top secret information on retrieval of Alien and Man Made UFOS!
Dr. Greer discusses new explosive information from a member of a Nellis-based UFO retrieval team who was sent on missions to retrieve both man-made and ET craft.
He also describes his subsequent attempted abduction by covert human operatives using ARVs and fake "aliens grays".
Daytime UFO sighting over Bangkok, Thailand 22Apr-2022
Daytime UFO sighting over Bangkok, Thailand 22Apr-2022
A Facebook user called “Bradley BankDad” posted a video showing what looks like a glowing red/orange object flying at high altitude. He explained that the sighting took place in the Wong Sawang area in Bangkok, on April 22nd 2022 at 6:37PM.
While playing football on the lawn in front of his house, he looked up at the sky and saw an airplane passing by. But on the left hand side he saw a round red light. At first glance he thought it was a comet, But then he realized that it must have a light tail, so he called his girlfriend to record the the UFO.
Here’s the video:
Thairath News TV covered the event and interviewed the witness:
Glowing disk shaped UFO recorded over Bangkok Thailand on April 2022. Video Source UFO Sightings Daily
Video Source Bradley BankDad
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IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN 10,000 years since the last fur-covered woolly mammoth feet lumbered across the Arctic tundra.
Once a keystone species of these frozen ecosystems, the legacy of mammoths now has to be painstakingly recovered from layers of ice and permafrost by anorak-clad scientists. But not for much longer.
On September 13, entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Churchannounced the creation of Colossal, a new gene-editing company bent on “de-extincting” the woolly using CRISPR. The company claims that rewilding of this species in the Arctic tundra could revitalize the region's grasslands as a major source of carbon sequestration, which offers a crucial tool in the fight against climate change.
“IT ISN'T DE-EXTINCTION AT ALL.”
With starting capital of $15 million and four-to-six years of research, Lamm tells Inverse the company could produce a “herd” of woolly mammoths calves for the first time since the Ice Age. This means the first baby mammoths could roam the tundra by 2027 or earlier.
But other scientists aren’t so convinced, including Tori Herridge, an evolutionary biologist working as a fellow at the Natural History Museum in London and science communicator. Before the company’s announcement, Herridge was approached to join Colossal’s advisory board but declined.
Herridge tells Inverse that this project could easily blow past some crucial ethical barriers if Colossal isn't careful.
“If [this technology] genuinely does what they hope it's going to do, that will fundamentally alter the way that we as humans interact with the natural world,” says Herridge.
And there’s another issue: it may not be a true mammoth at all.
Ben Lamm (left) and George Church (right) say they can bring back the mammoth, but is that really a good thing?Courtesy of Colossal
WHAT IS COLOSSAL?
Using cutting-edge technology to bring a species back from extinction might sound like Jurassic Park-level science fiction, but Colossal’s new project is actually not the first to attempt — or achieve this.
“COLOSSAL IS READY TO CHART THIS NEW FRONTIER OF SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY.”
While the company’s use of CRISPR — a gene-editing tool that can snip and replace particular genes in an animal's DNA — is relatively novel, Herridge says that scientists accomplished small-level “de-extinction” years ago through cloning a recently extinct Pyrenean ibex.
What really sets Colossal apart from previous attempts, says Herridge, is their private funding.
Another secret weapon in their corner, according to Lamm, is geneticist and co-founder George Church. With a passionate interest in the woolly mammoth, a deep understanding of synthetic biology, and eight years of research on the topic under his belt, Church is a triple threat. Mix that expertise with $15 million, and Lamm is confident they’ve got a winning combination.
“De-extinction of the woolly mammoth will be the first time a species has been successfully brought back from extinction,” Lamm says. “Colossal is ready to chart this new frontier of science and biotechnology.”
ARE WE REALLY BRINGING BACK THE MAMMOTH?
While CRISPR technology can do miraculous things, Herridge warns that it is still by no means a time machine.
“It isn't de-extinction at all — you're never going to bring back an extinct creature,” says Herridge. “It is not the de-extinction of the mammoth; it is the genetic modification of an elephant you are creating an entirely new synthetic organism.”
When it comes to gene editing, just because it looks like a woolly mammoth and moves like a woolly mammoth doesn’t mean it actually is a woolly mammoth. These mammoth-like animals will instead be more of a hybrid of this ancient species and their modern cousin, the Asian elephant.Shutterstock
Instead of reintroducing so-called authentic woolly mammoths to the tundra, Herridge says that what Church and his team are really doing is tinkering with the DNA of modern-day elephants to create something very similar to a woolly mammoth.
To do this, Church’s team has isolated 60 genes that helped woolly mammoths adapt to cold environments, including developing a shaggy coat, growing smaller ears and tail, and producing extra body fat.
Lamm says that these precisely edited genes will be inserted into the genome of Asian elephants using CRISPR. These “mammoth-like cells” can then, in theory, be inserted into the egg cell of an Asian elephant in place of its full-elephant nucleus.
“Electrical pulses are applied to the egg cell, which will simulate fertilization, and the egg cell will start to divide and grow, becoming an embryo,” says Lamm. Such future embryos could then be implanted in a surrogate elephant or an artificial womb for their 18-22 months-long gestation.
The final result? The world’s first “woolly mammoth” calves in 10 millennia.
HOW IT COULD GO WRONG
But before we get there, Herridge says there’s still a lot that could go wrong along the way. For example, reintroducing species to their native environments without disrupting those ecosystems is tricky even with modern species, but rewilding a species that’s been gone as long as the woolly mammoth could be the most difficult yet — not to mention that the environment they’re being reintroduced to is rapidly changing as temperatures across the world rise.
But while these are points to consider carefully, Herridge says there’s an even more salient ethical issue that this project must keep in mind.
“The worst outcome for me in the short term would be a sort of gung ho approach to implantation and uses elephants as surrogates,” says Herridge.
Moving too quickly in this gene-editing process could have deadly consequences.Shutterstock
According to Herridge, the only way to find out if you’ve done the right tinkering to create a “mammoth,” instead of an animal that might have several abnormalities or deformities, would be to see what kind of calf it creates. In that case, jumping to surrogacy too quickly without significant lab-bench experimentation first would be “unethical,” she says.
One way to get this right is to increase transparency wherever possible, says Herridge. This means releasing data from the Church lab more readily than has been done so far, she says.
HOW IT COULD GO RIGHT
Despite her concerns, Herridge is still optimistic about what we might learn along the way to producing baby woolly mammoths — whether we ever get there or not.
“The best outcome would be amazing collateral advances in our knowledge about mammoths and the ice age ecosystem [and] the application of those biotechnology tools to really press conservation issues for species that are close to extinction today,” says Herridge. “That's what I think would be the most important stuff.”
The Far Side of Mars Rocked by Two of the Largest Marsquakes Ever Recorded
The Far Side of Mars Rocked by Two of the Largest Marsquakes Ever Recorded
BySEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
NASA’s InSight lander on Mars used its seismometer to record two of its strongest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake.
NASA’s InSight lander’s seismometer on Mars has recorded two of its strongest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. The pair are the first documented occurrences on the planet’s far side from the lander, and they are five times stronger than the previous greatest recorded event.
Seismic wave data from the events could help scientists learn more about the interior layers of Mars, particularly its core-mantle boundary, researchers from InSight’s Marsquake Service (MQS) reported on April 22, 2022, in The Seismic Record.
Anna Horleston of the University of Bristol and colleagues were able to identify reflected PP and SS waves from the magnitude 4.2 event, called S0976a, and locate its origin in the Valles Marineris, a massive canyon network that is one of Mars’ most distinguishing geological features and one of the largest graben systems in the Solar System. Earlier orbital images of cross-cutting faults and landslides suggested the area would be seismically active, but the new event is the first confirmed seismic activity there.
Mars surface relief map showing InSight’s location (orange triangle), other located marsquakes (purple dots) that cluster around 30° distance, close to Cerberus Fossae, and S0976a, located within Valles Marineris just north of Sollis Planum. S1000a’s location is predicted to be somewhere within the shaded region between 107° and 147° from InSight.
Credit: Horelston et al. (2022) TSR
S1000a, the magnitude 4.1 event recorded 24 days later, was characterized by reflected PP and SS waves as well as Pdiff waves, small amplitude waves that have traversed the core-mantle boundary. This is the first time Pdiff waves have been spotted by the InSight mission. The researchers could not definitively pinpoint S1000a’s location, but like S0976a it originated on Mars’ far side. The seismic energy from S1000a also holds the distinction of being the longest recorded on Mars, lasting 94 minutes.
Both marsquakes occurred in the core shadow zone, a region where P and S waves can’t travel directly to InSight’s seismometer because they are stopped or bent by the core. PP and SS waves don’t follow a direct path, but rather are reflected at least once at the surface before traveling to the seismometer.
“Recording events within the core shadow zone is a real steppingstone for our understanding of Mars. Prior to these two events the majority of the seismicity was within about 40 degrees distance of InSight,” said Savas Ceylan, a co-author from ETH Zürich. “Being within the core shadow, the energy traverses parts of Mars we have never been able to seismologically sample before.”
The two marsquakes differ in some important ways. S0976a is characterized by only low-frequency energy, like many of the quakes identified so far on the planet, while S1000a has a very broad frequency spectrum. “[S1000a] is a clear outlier in our catalog and will be key to our further understanding of Martian seismology,” Horleston said.
S0976a is likely to have a much deeper origin than S1000a, she noted. “The latter event has a frequency spectrum much more like a family of events that we observe that have been modeled as shallow, crustal quakes, so this event may have occurred near the surface. S0976a looks like many of the events we have located to Cerberus Fossae – an area of extensive faulting – that have depths modeled to be around 50 kilometers or more and it is likely that this event has a similar, deep, source mechanism.”
Compared to the rest of the seismic activity detected by InSight, the two new far-side quakes are true outliers, the researchers said.
“Not only are they the largest and most distant events by a considerable margin, S1000a has a spectrum and duration unlike any other event previously observed. They truly are remarkable events in the Martian seismic catalog,” Horleston said.
Reference: “The Far Side of Mars: Two Distant Marsquakes Detected by InSight” by Anna C. Horleston, John F. Clinton, Savas Ceylan, Domenico Giardini, Constantinos Charalambous, Jessica C. E. Irving, Philippe Lognonné, Simon C. Stähler, Géraldine Zenhäusern, Nikolaj L. Dahmen, Cecilia Duran, Taichi Kawamura, Amir Khan, Doyeon Kim, Matthieu Plasman, Fabian Euchner, Caroline Beghein, Éric Beucler, Quancheng Huang, Martin Knapmeyer, Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun, Vedran Lekic, Jiaqi Li, Clément Perrin, Martin Schimmel, Nicholas C. Schmerr, Alexander E. Stott, Eléonore Stutzmann, Nicholas A. Teanby, Zongbo Xu, Mark Panning and William B. Banerdt, 22 April 2022, The Seismic Record. DOI: 10.1785/0320220007
'I'm terrified to leave the house in case I get abducted by my alien visitor stalkers'
'I'm terrified to leave the house in case I get abducted by my alien visitor stalkers'
EXCLUSIVE Sacha Christie, 51, insists she has had so many close encounters of the third kind with extraterrestrials that she now has one simple message for Earth's alien visitors – please leave her alone!
By Jade Culver & Dil Dissanayake
Sacha claims to have had more than nine close encounters with alien visitors(Image: MERCURY PRESS)
A mum says she has had so many close encounters with UFOs that she is scared to leave the house.
Sacha Christie, 51, is so terrified of being abducted she has begged her alien visitors to leave her alone.
She first spotted what she believes to be a UFO aged just seven, after she saw what looked like an acorn floating in the sky.
The mum of five has had nine major sightings in her lifetime including, tiny zig-zagging lights that shocked North Yorkshire radio listeners in 1983, and her scariest experience on a family holiday to Wales in 1997.
Sacha, who lives in Liverpool, Merseyside, said: “It’s very hard to explain my encounters, as it’s hard for me to believe what I’ve seen.
“I’ve spent my whole life trying to think of other scenarios, of things that it could be, but the only conclusion is that it’s other life forms and UFOS.
ET needs to stop phoning Sacha...
(Image: Liverpool Echo)
“Looking at the sky, it scares me, as I don’t know what I’m going to see next. But I can’t help but check the sky when I go out as it is just a habit now.
“It’s like I have to make sure nothing is going to fall on my head.”
She added: “I’m not too sure where most UFOS frequent, but it does sometimes feel like they’re always somewhere near me.
“I would be a millionaire if I knew why only certain people see UFOs but I think it has happened to me as I look in the sky a lot.
“I wish they would stop.”
On a trip with her family in 1997 she says was terrified after seeing a craft in the sky and a barefoot “alien” ran past her.
Sacha, who lives in Liverpool, Merseyside, said: “Myself, my ex-partner Steve, my son Louie and two of three of Steve’s family members went on a short break to a small remote cottage..
She said: “At one point Steve was pointing at these fluorescent lights in the sky that seemed to be getting bigger the closer they moved towards us.
Sacha has drawn reconstructions of the traumatic events(Image: MERCURY PRESS)
“As the clouds were so low, the shadows and shape of UFO made it look like bright rippling jellyfish in the sky.
“Everyone had come out to look at this point, the kids were feeling a bit nervous and the sheep in the field next to us had all eerily laid down.
She added: “Louie had told me that something had touched his foot and I believed him, but I wanted to look at the lights more, to understand what was going on.
“I stood there for another minute or so, when I suddenly heard something running barefoot in the mud behind me.
“All of a sudden, it bumped into me as it ran past and my chest exploded.
“Before I even realised it was happening, I was running back to the house in a panic, in complete hysterical blindness, I couldn’t see where I was going.
“I just knew I needed to run.”
Sacha’s UFO sightings have left her shaken, she now suffers with post-traumatic stress disorder and sometimes worries when leaving her house.
The events have even led to her hating the month of February(Image: Getty Images)
She adds: “I used to feel safe before but seeing the UFOs so close up has removed the bubble I used to live in.
“I feel like there’s nothing in between the top of my head and space.
“My head feels like I am in space.
“The idea of us being contained in something has now completely gone.
“This leaves me with anxiety and I get worked up every time I need to leave the house.
“I am OK once I leave the house but it is getting out of the house that is a problem.
“I think the anxiety stems from the holiday in Wales in 1997.
“I now hate February, it’s a bad month for me.
“I try to stay in as much as I can during that month because I suffer with severe anxiety.”
She attends yearly UFO conventions where people can share and talk about their experiences, which she claims have helped her to come to terms with the idea of extra-terrestrial life forms.
Hundreds of prehistoric paintings have been found in subterranean chambers with barely enough oxygen to breathe.
Low oxygen causes hypoxia that can induce exalted mental states.
A new study says the artists chose these hard-to-reach caverns in search of an oxygen-starved high.
Artists of all types have been known to ingest a — shall we say — creative lubricant or two. One of the paradoxical things about art, even for people who love making it — maybe especially for those people — is that it’s sometimes hard to get started, despite the fact that it’s even harder to stop.
A new paper suggests this problem and solution go way back.
As archaeologist Yafit Kedar from Tel-Aviv University in Israel was in France enjoying some cave art deep within the ground, she started to wonder why their creators would choose to create images so far away from natural light sources. These places are also airless, where what little oxygen there could have been would have been consumed by the burning torches the painters needed in order to see what they were painting.
Maybe, she thought, the reason these long-ago artists chose to create in such remote chambers was because of their lack of fresh oxygen. Perhaps the painters would have been down there creating in a hypoxic, trancelike state. In that pre-agricultural, pre-chemistry time, cave painting might have been a way to get inspirationally baked.
There are some 400 known prehistoric cave paintings found in Western Europe dating back to the Upper Paleolithic period from 40,000 to 11,00 years ago.
This might not be the only historical example of people inducing an oxygen-starved state to achieve transcendence or something like it. A 2006 study from scientists at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome hypothesized that hypoxia might have been the source of the trances out of which Delphic oracles extracted their visions.
Plutarch had written that trances began when the oracle—really generations of female oracles, all of them ceremonially named “Pythia” — inhaled sweet noxious fumes from cracks in the ground beneath the temple. Lead author of the 2006 study Giuseppe Etiope suggested that these gasses may well have been nothing more miraculous than carbon dioxide and methane filling a poorly ventilated space, thus casting Pythia off into a netherworld of semi-consciousness.
On the surface, the air we breathe is 21 percent oxygen. Kedar and her colleagues created computer models that revealed the likely levels of oxygen in the painted caves. They found that in some such caverns, oxygen levels can drop to 18 percent in just 15 minutes. Some models fell to 11 percent. Hypoxia is likely at oxygen levels below 14.5% percent.
Fire torches exacerbate the problem. Up near the surface in a cave open to outside air, a burning fire’s exhaust flows up and out while fresh air comes in beneath it. In a narrow passageway, however, the carbon dioxide and oxygen mix, and the lighter oxygen floats upward and on out of the cavern toward the surface.
The deeper a painter went with their torch, the more extreme was the loss of oxygen. Some of Kedar’s models of deep caverns found just 9 percent oxygen, the lower limit of survivability.
Kedar hopes to validate the modeled outcomes by measuring oxygen levels in existing painted caves. For now though, the models point to the “transformative nature of an underground, oxygen-depleted space.”
The Lascaux Cave in south-western France, thought to have been painted around 20,000 years ago.
Hypoxia releases dopamine and can produce euphoria, visions, and out-of-body sensations. Modern visitors have reported experiencing some of these same sorts of mental phenomena when viewing the artwork.
The paper suggests that, “The cave environment was conceived as both a liminal space and an ontological arena, allowing early humans to maintain their connectedness with the cosmos.” The hypoxic mind may well have found it easy to imagine that they were seeing beyond the rock, and indeed, beyond their world.
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“The images envisioned in such a hallucinatory state appear to float on the cave surfaces (walls, floors, and ceilings) as if these constituted a membrane connecting the upper and lower worlds,” write the authors.
Considering the likelihood of hypoxic conditions inside caves, it may be that it was the promise of a transcendent experience that drove the painters deep into the ground rather than any inherent meaning attached to the caves. As the paper concludes:
“It was not the decoration that rendered the caves significant; rather, the significance of the chosen caves was the reason for their decoration.”
The United States Space Command (USSC) has confirmed a 2014 study from a team of astronomers, noting that government sensors did, in fact, detect a meteor on Earth that originated outside our Solar System.
The rock is only the third interstellar object ever detected in our system, and the first to enter our atmosphere.
After scientists publish their research on this meteoricdiscovery, they may be able to learn more about its contents.
Government sensors on the hunt for fireballs plunging toward Earth have so far logged about 1,000 meteors and asteroids. But only one of them can boast that it traveled through our atmosphere from outside our own Solar System.
This fireball, which shot through our atmosphere over Papua New Guinea in 2014, was no ordinary space rock—it was actually an interstellar meteor, the first ever known to originate outside our system and arrive on Earth. Rocketing at a speed of over 130,000 miles per hour, the rock broke up during its descent, probably scattering interstellar debris into the South Pacific Ocean.
Confirmation of its distant origins arrived only recently, when the United States Space Command (USSC) released a memo on April 6, confirming that the meteor was indeed an interstellar object.
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Before USSC confirmed this meteor was a distant stranger, all previous rocky bodies that fell to Earth were thought to have originated in our own Solar System. Many of them do come from a colony of millions of other rocks in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, some 111.5 million miles from Earth.
Two Harvard University researchers were the first to study the 2014 meteor’s distant origin, posting their research on the preprint server arXiv back in 2019 (meaning it was not peer-reviewed at the time). The meteor’s unusually high speed “implies a possible origin from the deep interior of a planetary system or a star in the thick disk of the Milky Way galaxy,” the researchers state in the study, which will be resubmitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in light of the recent confirmation. The researchers combed through records of all the fireballs that U.S. government sensors have detected since 1988.
One of the researchers, Amir Siraj, wants to find meteor debris scattered on the ocean floor. It may be impossible, given the speed of the disintegrating object—which was only a few feet wide—and the minute pieces that probably resulted from the impact. “We are currently investigating the possibility of embarking on an ocean expedition to recover the first interstellar meteorite. If found, extensive analysis will be conducted on the sample to understand its origin and the information it carries about its parent system,” he tells Popular Mechanics by email.
“At first, I could hardly believe the discovery, since astronomers had been searching for an interstellar meteor since 1950 or earlier,” says Siraj, who is director of Interstellar Object Studies at Harvard’s Galileo Project, which aims to look for extraterrestrial technological artifacts.
“THIS CONFIRMED IMPACT OF AN INTERSTELLAR OBJECT WITH THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE IMPLIES THAT SIMILAR OBJECTS ARE VERY COMMON THROUGHOUT SPACE.”
Siraj and his Harvard colleague Avi Loeb, who leads the Galileo Project, originally submitted the discovery to The Astrophysical Journal Letters. However, the review process dragged on for years due to missing information that the U.S. government withheld from the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) database, which identifies objects like meteors and asteroids and calculates their odds of hitting Earth. The U.S. Department of Defense operates some of the sensors that detect fireballs in order to monitor the skies for nuclear detonations, so Siraj and Loeb couldn’t directly confirm the margin of error on the fireball’s velocity.
After moving through NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and several bureaucratic departments, the sensor data finally ended up with Joel Mozer, chief scientist of Space Operations Command at the U.S. Space Force. Mozer released the memo confirming that “the velocity estimate reported to NASA is sufficiently accurate to indicate an interstellar trajectory.”
Siraj learned the good news through a NASA scientist’s April 6 tweet. Now, he is in the process of revising the paper, taking into account the government confirmation. “This confirmed impact of an interstellar object with the Earth’s atmosphere implies that similar objects are very common throughout space, which of course raises interesting questions about how they are ejected in such large quantities from their parent systems,” he says. Even if the remnants of the rock are never found, data from the meteor’s fiery descent could hold clues to its composition, and maybe origins.
The chances of a rock from another star system coming close to Earth are rare, but astronomers knew of two other interstellar objects before this recently-confirmed discovery. Quarter-mile-long asteroid Oumuamua was the first confirmed interstellar object identified in the Solar System; Pan-STARRS, a wide-field astronomical imaging system in Hawaii, detected the massive rock in 2017. Amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov spotted Comet Borisov with his telescope in 2019. It’s the first confirmed comet to enter our solar system from some unknown place beyond our sun’s influence, according to NASA. Neither of these distant visitors flew close to Earth, though.
Expanding our sensory capabilities with efforts like the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s planned ten-year survey is critical to “enhance our discovery rate of interstellar objects,” Siraj writes in an arXiv post in November 2021. Who knows? We may even find extra-galactic objects, like the 2007 discovery of a particle that originated outside the Milky Way.
MANASEE WAGH - Before joining Popular Mechanics, Manasee Wagh worked as a newspaper reporter, a science journalist, a tech writer, and a computer engineer.
Paleontologists Find Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Fossils From the Day of the Asteroid Impact
Paleontologists Find Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Fossils From the Day of the Asteroid Impact
Behind the scenes. Ian Kellett on location in Tanis filming the Triceratops skin whilst still in the ground.
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Scientists believe they have been given an extraordinary view of the last day of the dinosaurs after they discovered the fossil of an animal they believe died that day.
An upcoming BBC documentary looks at a slew of fossils found at the Tanis site in North Dakota. It includes the Thescelosaurus leg, seen in a video here, and the skin of a triceratops, pictured above.
The site is rich in well-preserved fossils, including fish, a turtle, and even the embryo of a flying pterosaur encased in an egg.
Scientists believe that tiny glass-like particles of molten rock lodged in the gills of fish fossils found at the site were kicked up by the asteroid's explosive impact, the BBC said.
"We've got so many details with this site that tells us what happened moment by moment. It's almost like watching it play out in the movies," Robert DePalma, a graduate student from the University of Manchester, UK, who leads the Tanis dig, told the BBC.
Prof Phil Manning, DePalma's PhD supervisor at Manchester, told BBC Radio 4's Today program that the discovery was "absolutely bonkers" and something he "never dreamt in all my career."
"The time resolution we can achieve at this site is beyond our wildest dreams. This really should not exist, and it's absolutely gobsmackingly beautiful," Manning said.
A discovery so 'fabulous' it has attracted skepticism
In the BBC documentary, Robert DePalma, a relative of film director Brian De Palma, can be seen sporting an Indiana Jones-style fedora and tan shirt.
He christened the paleontological site "Tanis," the last resting place of the Ark of the Covenant in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, per The New Yorker.
The findings from Tanis, and the work of DePalma, have attracted controversy over the years.
The New Yorker first wrote about the Tanis site in 2019 before presenting the findings in an academic journal.
While paleontologists usually cede their rights and curation of the fossils to institutions, DePalma, who had collected few academic laurels until the discovery of the site, insists on contractual clauses that give him oversight over the specimens. He has controlled how the fossils are presented, per The New Yorker.
In response to the article, Kate Wong, science editor of Scientific American, said in a 2019 tweet that the findings from the site "have met with a good deal of skepticism from the paleontology community."
A few peer-reviewed papers have since been published, and the BBC said that the dig team promises more.
The BBC also said that it has called outside consultants to verify the specimens.
Prof Paul Barrett from London's Natural History Museum looked at the leg and said it was a Thescelosaurus that likely died "more or less instantaneously."
"It's from a group that we didn't have any previous record of what its skin looked like, and it shows very conclusively that these animals were very scaly like lizards. They weren't feathered like their meat-eating contemporaries," Barrett told the BBC.
However, Prof Steve Brusatte, an outside consultant on the documentary from the University of Edinburgh, told the BBC he was skeptical about the dinosaurs' findings for now and would like to see the hypotheses being subjected to the scrutiny of peer review.
"Those fish with the spherules in their gills, they're an absolute calling card for the asteroid. But for some of the other claims – I'd say they have a lot of circumstantial evidence that hasn't yet been presented to the jury," he said.
Prof Brusatte said that it is possible that some of the animals died before the asteroid strike but could have been exhumed and then buried again by the impact.
But ultimately, Brussate said the quality of the fossils trumps the controversy about the event's timing.
"For some of these discoveries, though, does it even matter if they died on the day or years before? The pterosaur egg with a pterosaur baby inside is super-rare; there's nothing else like it from North America. It doesn't all have to be about the asteroid."
Heb jij al spookbeelden gezien tijdens een wandeling?
Al eeuwenlang maken wandelaars over de hele wereld melding van vreemde verschijningen in heuvelachtige gebieden en gebergtes. Maar waar komen die verhalen toch vandaan? Onze wetenschapsjournalist Martijn Peters legt het uit.
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Beeld je in. Je bent aan het genieten van een frisse ochtendwandeling door de bergen, kijkt even om je heen om al die natuurpracht in je op te nemen en plots zie je een drie meter hoge figuur terugstaren. Maar nog voor je verwonderd in je ogen kan wrijven is hij alweer verdwenen. Dat is wat wandelaars al eeuwenlang overkomt van de Verenigde Staten tot China, waar de onheilspellende verschijningen ‘Dark Watchers’ en ‘Buddha’s light’ worden genoemd.
Maar voor de verklaring van deze duistere toeschouwers moeten we niet verder kijken dan ons eigen Europa. Meer bepaald naar het noorden van Duitsland waar de ‘Brockenberg’ ligt. Daar beschreef Johann Silberschlag in 1780 voor het eerst het ‘Brockengespenst’, oftewel ‘Brockenspook’. Een optisch verschijnsel dat ontstaat wanneer een laagstaande zon jouw schaduw op mist of laaghangende wolken werpt. Dat creëert de illusie voor jouw hersenen dat jouw schaduw zich op dezelfde afstand als verafgelegen objecten bevindt waardoor deze er extra groot en dreigend uitziet. Meestal gaan deze enorme schimmen ook gepaard met een regenboogkleurige aureool rond hun hoofd doordat het zonlicht breekt in de waterdruppels.
Meer hebben onze hersenen niet nodig om een fenomeen genaamd pareidolie in werking te laten treden. Ons brein heeft namelijk behoefte aan het zoeken naar verbanden tussen verschillende elementen, ook als deze er eigenlijk niet zijn. Dit is hetzelfde fenomeen dat ervoor zorgt dat je bijvoorbeeld figuren in de wolken ziet of in dit geval lange in mantels en hoeden gehulde figuren in de schaduwen van heuvel- en bergtoppen.
Je kan deze spookachtige schimmen dus evengoed hier bij ons kan tegenkomen als de omstandigheden goed zijn. Schrik dus niet als je tijdens een zonnige ochtend op een heuveltop staat en je je plots begluurd voelt door een ‘Brockenspook’ in de mist van het dal. Het is (waarschijnlijk) je schaduw. Maar ligt er geen heuvel of berg in de buurt, dan kan je deze zeldzame optische illusie toch nog zelf veroorzaken. Hoe? Ga op een mistige nacht gewoon even voor de koplampen van je auto staan.
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Erich von Daniken: Hopi Star Lore, and the Origins of Human Civilization, Off-Worldly Technologies
Erich von Daniken: Hopi Star Lore, and the Origins of Human Civilization, Off-Worldly Technologies
Erich von Daniken, Gary A. David, and Michael Cremo present compelling evidence of a no-human influence of evolution of our civilization. From the Cargo Cult to Megalithic Structures, indigenous tribes and ancient texts, all pointing toward some unknown advanced form of intelligence which guided humanity’s evolutionary path .
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New Linda Moulton Howe: Are Hostile Reptilians Based Deep Below Earth's Oceans and Lands?
New Linda Moulton Howe: Are Hostile Reptilians Based Deep Below Earth's Oceans and Lands?
Topics: Are hostile E. T.s based deep below Earth oceans and lands? New Unclassified FOIA documents reported by Motherboard – “Newly-Released Documents Shed Light on Government-Funded Research Into Worm Holes, Anti-Gravity and Invisibility Cloaks” – warp drives, extra dimensions, anti-gravity Interview with experiencer Adam Burns after hypnotherapy session – HealingsAcrossTime.com – “humans are working off-world with advanced beings” – “the most malevolent towards us…the reptilians” – “massive underground bases” – “some of these ancient aliens want to help us” – “mantid being…loving and hyper intelligent” – “humanoid with the head of a snake” – “our future…we make it…we transcend!”
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New Linda Moulton Howe on Ancient Pyramid Power and Strange Discoveries in Alaska
New Linda Moulton Howe on Ancient Pyramid Power and Strange Discoveries in Alaska
Regina Meredith, featuring cutting-edge visionaries and tireless researchers who provide crucial information to awaken viewers to new perspectives that spark awareness, understanding and ultimately, transformation – Backdated Interview: Who built the ancient pyramid in Alaska and is it an energy source? Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe shared her findings in an interview with Regina Meredith. Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She reports her findings on earthfiles.com.
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New George Knapp - Invisible Tricksters of Cosmic Proportion - Coast to Coast AM 2022
New George Knapp - Invisible Tricksters of Cosmic Proportion - Coast to Coast AM 2022
COAST TO COAST AM – April 2022. With over 30 years of researching the paranormal, UFOs and mysteries, Barry Fitzgerald joined George Knapp to discuss the idea of beings we consider angels or devils, gods or demons, actually are two sides of the same coin. Further, he contends the afterlife could be an illusion created by the beings who exist within that realm. A lot of the mysterious phenomena associated with ETs and alien abduction are mirrored in the worlds of spirits, the jinn, old gods, and fairy lore, he pointed out, with the common ground being an air of deception. The grand deception is that there are a variety of supernatural beings and entities with agendas and intentions that range from good to evil, when in reality, there is really just one force, he explained.
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Glowing Disk Over Bangkok, Thailand, April 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Disk Over Bangkok, Thailand, April 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 24, 2022
Location of sighting: Bangkok, Thailand
Credit: Bradley BankDad of Thailand
Bradley BankDad who lives in Thailand recorded an orange disk-like craft moving across the sky this week. The object was huge, about the size of a commercial jet his girlfriend stated. The sky was mostly clear, but the UFO did move toward the few clouds in the sky as if it were trying to escape from being seen. Lucky for us Bradley was quick on his phone to record this fantastic raw footage. The UFO is a classic disk shape and is even tilted to one angle, just as Area 51 scientist Bob Lazar said they travel...tilted in order to move. Undeniable proof that UFOs are active in Asia!
Hello. I and my boyfriend were in front of my house yesterday evening. I saw this in the sky around Wongswang. I want you to help each other to see what it is. Normally, I have seen a star, it is not like this. In the clip, it is my boyfriend's voice. I didn't absorb the clip. ***I looked with my bare eyes, it was flying higher than the clouds, speed and size equal to a commercial plane.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
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