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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
12-11-2018
TR3B Aircraft: The USA’s Most Secret Plane or Alien Spacecraft? Or Both?
TR3B Aircraft: The USA’s Most Secret Plane or Alien Spacecraft? Or Both?
With the exception of the flying disc, the triangular-shaped craft is one of the most common UFO shapes seen in the sky. Some believe it’s an alien spacecraft or a super-secret US Military plane known as the TR3B Astra, TR-3 Black Manta, or just TR3B for short.
The triangle UFO gained mainstream headlines in 1989. That year, a wave of sightings over Belgium began that lasted until 1992. The sightings included dozens of credible witnesses including law enforcement personnel.
Actual photograph of the triangular UFO during the “Belgian UFO Wave” Image Credit: Outer Places (unable to find an official source).
Mainstream news outlets covered the story, which is odd even today. Even primetime documentary shows such as Unsolved Mysteries got in on the action.
The Belgian UFO Wave wasn’t the end of the triangle UFO. It seemed that the triangle TR3B was showing up everywhere.
It appeared during the Phoenix Lights incident in 1997 and in various other sightings on record from 2000 through 2018.
Is the Triangle UFO TR3B an Alien Spaceship?
If you’ve read any of my articles before, you already kinda know my answer to this one. We simply don’t know.
What we do know is these sightings have ranged all over Europe and the USA for over 30 years.
The range and timelines of these sightings provide some important distinctions. It’s fair to say these sightings may be of different objects and the entire thing is unlikely to be some massive hoax.
While a sighting here and there might be able to be proven fake, there are some that can’t be simply dismissed.
That being said, conclusive evidence the triangle UFOs are manufactured and controlled by aliens isn’t available either.
Image from the patent application for the TR-3B Image Credit: Google Patent Search
TR-3B: A US Military Plane that Officially Doesn’t Exist
The link between UFO sightings and top-secret military aircraft goes hand in hand. The triangle UFOs may actually be a surveillance aircraft built by the US military called the TR-3 Black Manta, or TR-3B for short (also knows as the TR3B Astra).
Officially, the TR-3B doesn’t exist. What’s interesting though, is there’s actually a 2004 patent for a triangular spacecraft. The image from the patent application looks almost exactly like photos taken of the TR3B spacecraft by sighting witnesses.
Sources claim the TR-3 Blank Manta is a nuclear-powered plane developed under the Aurora program. The name is pretty darn cool too.
The plane makes use of stealth and propulsion technology that can be traced back to the 1980’s. These technologies, however, weren’t made public knowledge.
Allegedly, the craft employs a propulsion system based on a fast-spinning mercury-based plasma. While some call it anti-gravity, it sounds more like the way modern gyroscopes can offset weight by maintaining a large angular momentum.
Final Thoughts on the TR3B Astra
In the world of UFOlogy, experimental aircraft are UFOs to the typical observer. The TR3B Astra may be a perfect example of this phenomena.
It’s impossible, however, to claim that all sightings of triangular UFOs going back to the 1980’s can be attributed to a single secret aircraft. Is it possible that counterparts in Europe may have been working on the same technology as the US? That would certainly explain the Belgian Wave of sightings that started it all.
But the scariest possibility isn’t aliens. It’s that our enemies may have leapfrogged us in technology and now fly over our skies uninhibited.
We must also consider that, perhaps, there may also be an extraterrestrial component. Even if the TR-3B is man-made, there are allegations that it contains reverse-engineered alien technology.
Such is the case with top-secret black budget projects. The secrecy surrounding the TR3B creates a flash pan for conspiracy theorists. It also happens to be the military’s best weapon for keeping them secret.
Sightings of the TR3B continue to this very day, and there’s no sign of it going away anytime in the near future.
The buried secrets of the deadliest location on Earth
The buried secrets of the deadliest location on Earth
Chicxulub Puerto, Mexico, is the centre of the impact crater that scientists believe was made when the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs smashed into the Earth’s surface.
By Matthew Ponsford
In the mid-1980s, as a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images showing Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, they did not know what to make of one unexpected pattern: a near-perfect ring, about 200km across.
Cenotes, the blue water sinkholes that are a staple of Yucatan tourist brochures, dot this arid landscape, opening up seemingly at random as you trek across the vast flatlands of the Yucatan, a dogleg of low, dry forest on Mexico’s eastern edge. But seen from space, they cluster together to form a pattern: an arc, articulating nearly half a circle, as if a drawing compass had been stuck into the map on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and spun around until running out of land.
Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is famous for its cenotes, blue water sinkholes that dot the arid landscape
The archaeologists had discovered the pattern, which encircles the Yucatecan capital, Merida, and port towns of Sisal and Progreso, while trying to understand what had become of the Mayan civilisation that had once ruled over the peninsula. The indigenous Maya had depended on the cenotes for drinking water, but the uncanny circular arrangement of the holes perplexed the researchers as they presented their findings to fellow satellite specialists at a scientific conference Selper in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1988.
For one scientist in the audience, Adriana Ocampo, then a young planetary geologist at Nasa, the circular formation sounded a klaxon she had been trained to anticipate.
Ocampo, now 63, explains that she saw not just a ring, but a bullseye.
This is something amazing
“As soon as I saw the slides that was my ‘Aha!’ moment. I thought ‘This is something amazing’. ‘This could be it’,” said Ocampo, now director of Nasa’s Lucy programme, which will send a spacecraft into Jupiter’s orbit in 2021. “I was really excited inside but I kept cool because obviously you don’t know until you have more evidence.”
Approaching the scientists, heart pounding, Ocampo asked if they had considered an asteroid impact – one giant and violent enough to have scarred the planet in ways still being revealed 66 million years on.
“They didn’t even know what I was talking about!” she laughed, three decades later.
In the mid-1980s, a group of archaeologists discovered that Yucatan’s cenotes formed a near-perfect ring, about 200km across
(Credit: NASA Image Collection/Alamy)
Ocampo's chance encounter was the beginning of a scientific correspondence that would establish the foundations for what most scientists believe today: that this ring corresponds to the edge of the crater caused by an asteroid 12km wide, which struck the Yucatan and exploded with unimaginable force that turned rock to liquid.
Since the early ‘90s, teams of scientists from the Americas, Europe and Asia have worked to fill in the remaining blanks. They now believe the impact instantly created a crater 30km deep, causing the Earth to act like a pond after a pebble is dropped, rebounding up in the centre to create a mountain – just for a moment – reaching twice the height of Mt Everest, before crashing down. In the years that followed the cataclysmic impact, the world would have changed beyond recognition, with the plume of ash blocking the sky and creating perpetual night-time for more than a year, plunging temperatures below freezing, and killing off about 75% of all life on Earth – including almost all the dinosaurs.
Today, that centre point, the place where that imaginary compass stuck and the mountain once rose, is a buried a kilometre below a tiny town called Chicxulub Puerto.
Scientists believe that the ring corresponds with the edge of a crater formed by an asteroid impact that occurred 66 million years ago
(Credit: Science History Images/Alamy)
When I visited that settlement of a few thousand people, low-rise houses painted yellow, white, orange and ochre surrounded a type of modest town square that makes up the area’s many photogenic but unremarkable Yucatecan villages. The town has had so little publicity that the few dinosaur-lovers who do try to make their way in pilgrimage along the Yucatan's long, twisty roads between prickly scrubland forest often end up lost in another nearby town called Chicxulub Pueblo, half an hour’s drive inland.
Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed
Even if they reach the correct town, located 7km east along white-sand coastline from the popular holiday resort of Progreso, there are few indications that this was the scene of one of the most consequential and disastrous acts of the last 100 million years of Earth's history. Stroll around the main square and you'll catch sight of paintings of dinosaurs by local children. There is a playground nearby where climbing frames and slides are topped with hard plastic sauropods in primary colours. The only monument, in front of the church on the main square, takes the form of a cartoonish bone, made from concrete, laid in front of an altar like plinth depicting dinosaur species.
Until Ocampo's findings were published in 1991, this area of the Yucatan had been the subject of little international interest. Today, there is a museum, opened in September 2018 between Chicxulub Puerto and the Yucatan capital Merida, 45km to the south). The Museum of Science of the Chicxulub Crater, a joint project by the Mexican Government and the country's biggest university, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), aims to take people back to the moment, 66 million years ago, when the 12km asteroid changed world history, ending the reign of the giant beasts that had lasted hundreds of thousands of years. And by boosting local awareness of the cataclysmic events that took place here, the museum hopes to begin the process of bringing tourists to explore the Yucatan’s prehistoric past, which overlaps with popular Mayan historical destinations like Chichen Itza and the party city of Cancun.
It is believed that the asteroid impact would have wiped out 75% of all life on Earth, including almost all of the dinosaurs
(Credit: Science Photo Library/Alamy)
Chicxulub Puerto and its surrounds deserve to be better known worldwide, says Ocampo, who was born in Colombia but moved as a child to Argentina, arriving in the US at age 15. The asteroid, although bringing unimaginable violence to this area, benefitted one species above all others: humans, who, millions of years later, would evolve into the ecological gap created by the destruction of the world's biggest predators.
Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed.
“It gave us a leg up to be able to compete, to be able to flourish, as we eventually did,” she said.
Ocampo's discovery came at the end of a decade-long quest for the location of the asteroid impact. The key to her ‘Aha! moment’ had been an intuition she’d picked up after working with a legendary figure in space science, Eugene Shoemaker. Shoemaker – the pioneering American geologist who is credited as one of the founders of the field of planetary science and remains, 21 years after his death, the only person whose ashes are buried on the Moon – had instructed her that near perfect circles were unlikely to have been caused by other terrestrial forces, and could provide clues to Earth’s geological development.
The small, coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto is believed to be the centre of the impact crater
(Credit: Adamcastforth/Wikimedia Commons)
The idea that a giant asteroid had wiped out the dinosaurs was proposed by Californian father-son duo Luis and Walter Alvarez in the early 1980s. “But, then, it was extremely controversial,” Ocampo said. What she did was to place one of the final connecting jigsaw pieces that began linking scattered ideas between scientists who were working independently with fragments of information, often on overlapping investigations.
Without that impact, humanity might well have never existed
For example, as early as 1978, geophysicist Glen Penfield, working alongside Antonio Camargo-Zanoguera for Mexico’s national oil company Pemex, had flown out over the Caribbean waters that lap the shore at Chicxulub Puerto. Using a magnetometer, he scanned the waters looking for signs of oil, instead finding the underwater half of the huge crater. But that evidence belonged to Pemex, so was not made available to the scientific community.
In fact, the first person to connect the Yucatan ring with the Alvarez asteroid theory was a Texan journalist named Carlos Byars who wrote an article for the Houston Chronicle in 1981 asking if the two were linked. Byars later shared his theorywith a grad student named Alan Hildebrand, who then approached Penfield after examining a rock layer in Haiti, and it was the two of them who determined that the crater wasn’t a volcano, but an asteroid impact. “[Byars] gets the credit for being the first to put the pieces together – a newspaperman!” Ocampo said. “It’s an amazing story when you put all the pieces together.”
Texan journalist Carlos Byars was the first person to connect the Chicxulub Crater with the theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
(Credit: Graham Prentice/Alamy)
But the story is not simply one of history, it could also give us insight into life beyond Earth. Lessons learned in the asteroid crater have informed research by Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which touched down on Mars in 2012 and has spent the last six years investigating the Martian environment and geology.
Debris discovered from asteroid impacts on Mars compared with ejecta from the Chicxulub Crater shows similarities that indicate that Mars must once have had much thicker an atmosphere than it does now – one closer to the atmosphere that supports life on Earth. “It’s important for us to know what happened in the past to be prepared for the future,” Ocampo said. “It provides a really good insight into what has happened in the geological evolution of Mars.”
The Chicxulub Crater has been nominated for recognition as a Unesco World Heritage site
(Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy)
But, in the Chicxulub Crater, much of the incredible knowledge remains buried below ground, rarely recognised by visitors or locals despite the opening of the museum and Mexico’s application to have the crater recognised by Unesco. There is precious little for visitors to see as the impact was so long ago. Tourists who do visit one of the few remnants – the stunning cenotes, where you can swim among fish and dangling tree roots – may be unaware that these geological features exist only because the soft limestone they are made of was forced to the surface from deep underground by the impact. Over thousands of years, dripping water has carved out the sinkholes.
It is a unique place in our planet – It truly is
Ocampo has visited the peninsula numerous times since her discoveries there in the late 1980s, but when asked if people are aware of the importance of this place, she responds unhappily.
“The short answer is no,” she replied. “We need to do better. We need to educate, we need to make them aware of the extraordinary ground that they are living on.”
“They [local people and authorities] are trying to raise the knowledge base and it would be wonderful to help,” said Ocampo, who is also a proponent of planetary science education in Latin America. “It is a unique place in our planet. It truly is.”
“It should be preserved as a World Heritage site.”
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Stunned dad spots ‘submerged plane’ on Google Earth in the sea off Scotland – but is all as it seems?
Stunned dad spots ‘submerged plane’ on Google Earth in the sea off Scotland – but is all as it seems?
Robert Morton, 55, found the incredible image under the sea near Edinburgh
By James Cox
A SHOCKED dad couldn't believe his eyes after spotting a submerged plane on Google Earth.
Robert Morton, 55, found the incredible image under the sea near Edinburgh.
GOOGLE EARTH
A dad from Doncaster was shocked to find a submerged plane under the sea on Google Earth, near Scotland
The father-of-three, from Doncaster, said the image appears to show an airliner underneath the waves.
He told Mirror Online that the discovery was "incredible and very strange".
Robert, a mechanical fitter, said: "I was just looking on Google Earth on Monday and, by chance, I came across the picture of the aircraft.
"It looks like it is the sea, just off the coast of Edinburgh. It looks like it is underwater.
GOOGLE EARTH
But is there another explanation of why the plane is 'in the sea'?
"Its very, very strange. It's incredible.
"I have never actually seen an aircraft on Google Earth so it is very strange. It appears to be underwater."
The bizarre image can be found around nine miles from Edinburgh airport, off the Scottish coast near Portobello.
So what is the story behind the picture?
Robert says he has never heard of a plane crash in that region - and suggests there is an Earthly solution to the mystery.
The plane can be found 9 miles from Edinburgh airport, off the coast near Portobello
GOOGLE EARTH
How did the plane get down there...or is it down there at all?
He described his find as a "Google anomaly".
Robert added added: "I know the picture of the plane isn't really in the water, its probably the satellite looking down on it through thin cloud giving it that appearance."
How did life begin? The biggest question mankind has asked itself. Where did we come from? The idea that gods from the heavens had provided the seed of life has been supported by many researchers. End of the day we may have been looking into the correct direction: a breakthrough study claims that the so-called building blocks of life, the elements that are the backbone of organic molecules which form living matter, came to Earth from outer space.
Evidence of seeding
According to a team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and their colleagues from France and Taiwan, phosphates and diphosphoric acid, two major chemicals that form chromosomes carrying our genetic information, were generated billions of kilometers away from our planet and were delivered to Earth by space wanderers such as asteroids or comets.
The scientists used a vacuum chamber cooled down to near absolute zero to simulate interstellar icy grains coated with carbon dioxide, water, and phosphine.
When exposed to radiation, these grains created both phosphates and diphosphoric acid. “On Earth, phosphine is lethal to living beings,” said Andrew Turner of the University of Hawaii.
“But in the interstellar medium, an exotic phosphine chemistry can promote rare chemical reaction pathways to initiate the formation of biorelevant molecules such as oxoacids of phosphorus, which eventually might spark the molecular evolution of life as we know it.”
Scientists suggested that these phosphorus oxoacids could be traced back to an interstellar medium, the materials that fill the space between stars, which are delivered to Earth by comets or meteorites.
Humans are not from Earth?
Panspermia is a mechanism that allows biology to spread through space without needing a spaceship. Living matter “hitches a ride on sunlight or inside rocks.” Some scientists believe that Mars was indeed inhabited at one time. Some space rocks were “kicked” off the planet and landed in a “suitably welcoming patch” on Earth. Biological material from Mars that was in the rocks may spur exploration into the search for the solution to the age-old question: Where do we come from and why are we here? There are several theories that relate to extraterrestrials.
There are suggestions that aliens escape from an unknown planet and come here due to dire circumstances on their home planets and most likely we are descendants of this race. Environmentalist and ecologist turned author Dr. Ellis Silver believes we may have come from Alpha Centauri. The planet may have suffered some type of cataclysmic event from which a few residents were able to escape and come to Earth.
Other scientists believe that, eons ago, Humanoids inhabited Mars but a war destroyed the livability of the planet. This could have been due to the equivalent of two hydrogen bombs exploding on Mars 300,000 to 1 million years ago. Is it possible some living beings were able to escape to Earth before the destruction?
There are many mysteries and controversial theories for which there seems to be more questions than answers.
VANISHING ACT A relative of the Komodo dragon, this goanna, shown attacking a wallaby, lived in Australia 50,000 years ago. What happened to this and other extinct giant animals is the subject of a new book.
Today’s land animals are a bunch of runts compared with creatures from the not-too-distant past. Beasts as big as elephants, gorillas and bears were once much more common around the world. Then, seemingly suddenly, hundreds of big species, including the woolly mammoth, the giant ground sloth and a lizard weighing as much as half a ton, disappeared. In End of the Megafauna, paleomammalogist Ross MacPhee makes one thing clear: The science on what caused the extinctions of these megafauna — animals larger than 44 kilograms, or about 100 pounds — is far from settled.
MacPhee dissects the evidence behind two main ideas: that as humans moved into new parts of the world over the last 50,000 years, people hunted the critters into oblivion, or that changes in climate left the animals too vulnerable to survive. As MacPhee shows, neither scenario matches all of the available data.
Throughout, Peter Schouten’s illustrations, reminiscent of paintings that enliven natural history museums, bring the behemoths back to life. At times, MacPhee slips in too many technical terms. But overall, he offers readers an informative, up-to-date overview of a fascinating period in Earth’s history.
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Climate Change: 5 Things to Know About Rapid Ocean Warming
Climate Change: 5 Things to Know About Rapid Ocean Warming
Emissions will need to be cut faster and deeper.
ByScott Denning, The Conversation
Editor’s note: A new study by scientists in the United States, China, France, and Germany estimates that the world’s oceans have absorbed much more excess heat from human-induced climate change than researchers had estimated up to now. This finding suggests that global warming may be even more advanced than previously thought. Atmospheric scientist Scott Denning explains how the new report arrived at this result and what it implies about the pace of climate change.
How do scientists measure ocean temperature and estimate how climate change is affecting it?
They use thermometers attached to thousands of bobbing robots floating at controlled depths throughout the oceans. This system of “Argo floats” was launched in the year 2000, and there are now about 4,000 of the floating instruments.
About once every 10 days, they cycle from the surface to a depth of 6,500 feet, then bob back up to the surface to transmit their data by satellite. Each year this network collects about 100,000 measurements of the three-dimensional temperature distribution of the oceans.
The Argo measurements show that about 93 percent of the global warming caused by burning carbon for fuel is felt as changes in ocean temperature, while only a very small amount of this warming occurs in the air.
Normal cycle of an Argo float collecting ocean temperature and salinity data.
The new study finds that since 1991, the oceans have warmed about 60 percent faster than the average rate of warming estimated by studies summarized by the IPCC, which are based on data from Argo floats. This is a big deal.
Most of the difference comes from the earliest part of this period, before there were enough Argo floats in the oceans to properly represent the three-dimensional distribution of global water temperatures. The new data are complete all the way back to 1991, but the Argo data were really sparse until the mid-2000s.
The implication of faster ocean warming is that the effect of carbon dioxide on global warming is greater than we’d thought. We already knew that adding CO2 to the air was warming the world very rapidly. And the IPCC just warned in a special report that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels — a target that would avert many extreme impacts on humans and ecosystems — would require quickly reducing and eventually eliminating coal, oil, and gas from the world energy supply. This study doesn’t change any of that, but it means we will need to eliminate fossil fuels even faster.
To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the IPCC warns that greenhouse gas emissions would need to be drastically reduced over approximately the next decade.
What did these researchers do differently to arrive at a higher number?
They have measured tiny changes since 1991 in the concentrations of a few gases in the air — oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide — with incredibly high precision. This is really hard to do, because the changes are extremely small compared to the large amounts already in the air.
Some of these gases from the air dissolve into the oceans. The water’s temperature dictates how much it can absorb. As water warms, the amount of a gas that can dissolve in it decreases — that’s why a soda or beer left open on the kitchen table goes flat. That same temperature dependence allowed the scientists to calculate total changes in global ocean heat content from 1991 to now, just using very precise measurements of the air itself.
If this study is accurate, what does it suggest we should expect in the way of major climate change impacts in the coming decades?
This study did not address climate impacts, but they are already well known. As the world warms, more water vapor evaporates from both oceans and land. This means that when big storms develop, there’s more water vapor in the air for them to “work with,” which will produce more extreme rain and snow and resulting winds.
What this study suggests is that the climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we previously thought. This means that in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, emissions will need to be cut faster and deeper.
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains the consequences of two degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels.
How will we know whether these findings hold up?
There are other groups making precise gas measurements, and many of them have data going back to the 1990s. Others will repeat the analyses made by these authors and check their results. There will also be careful work to reconcile the increased warming rate of the oceans with the Argo temperature data, the surface air temperature record, atmospheric data from balloons, and measurements made from satellites. The real world must be consistent with all of the observations taken together, not just a subset.
This study very cleverly used data from the composition of the air itself going back nearly 30 years. We didn’t have Argo floats back then, but air samples are still available that can be analyzed decades later. Using a longer record of warming is much better for estimating the rate, because it’s less sensitive to year-to-year variations than a shorter record.
These scientists have given us a new and independent way to assess the sensitivity of long-term global warming to changes in atmospheric CO2 levels. I expect the findings will indeed hold up, and that we will be hearing a lot more about this new method in the future.
HUNDREDS OF BIRDS FALL FROM THE SKY DURING 5G TEST IN THE NETHERLANDS
HUNDREDS OF BIRDS FALL FROM THE SKY DURING 5G TEST IN THE NETHERLANDS
Hundreds of birds have fallen from the sky in The Hague, the Netherlands, during a 5G experiment to see how large the range was and whether the new wireless technology would cause any harm in the local area.
News of the adverse effects suffered by the starlings was slow to break, as initially the birds died in small numbers during the first wave of the experiment. However when a further 150 birds suddenly died at the same time, falling into a public park, people began to take notice and investigate.
What caused the death of 297 birds in a park in The Hague?
If you look around that park you might have seen what is on the corner of the roof across the street from where they died: a new 5G mast, where they had done a test at almost the exact same time as the birds fell from the sky.
According to reports, nearby ducks seemed to react oddly as well. They simultaneously put their heads underwater to escape the radiation, while others flew away, landing on the street or in the canal.
All the information that follows comes from John Kuhles’ public Facebook page:
In the meantime (30-10-2018) received some more information. The birds that fell massively dead would be the victims of an experiment, performed on those days in The Hague, where RF radiation was tested with a peak frequency of 7.40 GHz. This information comes from one source and should still be confirmed, if possible.
It is not clear at this moment whether tests with 5G transmission masts have been carried out again, but so far everything points in the direction of 5G as the most probable cause. Earlier, crazy things happened, such as with cows in Groningen’s Loppersum last year, where it was also tested with 5G. But also how in Switzerland a complete herd of cows collapsed in a ravine when there was tested with 5G.
In the Huijgenspark in The Hague, more than a hundred starlings have fallen dead from the trees in recent days. It is a mystery what happened to the animals.
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) is having a number of birds examined in the laboratory of Wageningen Bioveterinary Research. Parts of the park are blocked and dogs are no longer allowed to be let out. The dead birds are always cleaned up as quickly as possible. Yet it is a lugubrious scene. Council member Robert Barker of the Party for the Animals had the feeling of being on a ‘crime scene’. “The fact that so many birds fall from the sky at this location must have a cause and must be investigated. If there is talk of poisoning, then we have to take a hard time. ”
It is also possible that the birds have a disease. “In any case, it’s going fast. The animals are not emaciated, do not seem ill. They just fall dead from the tree, “says employee Sharon Lexmond of bird shelter De Wulp.
A possible link was established between 5G trials in Groningen and the ‘crazy cows there, as they were called, see here.
Further info from Facebook:
Trondheim (3rd city of Norway) also attacked the birds. After 6 months there was no toxicological report yet. It has also happened in Sweden, Australia, United States.
In the meantime (30-10-2018) I received some more information. The birds that fell massively dead would be the victims of an experiment, performed on those days in The Hague, where RF radiation was tested with a peak frequency of 7.40 GHz, which corresponds to a wavelength of 4.05 cm. This wavelength is of the same order of magnitude as the size of the starlings. This may be important because of possible resonance effects. The mast in question is about 400 meters from where the starlings have fallen dead. This information comes from one source and should still be confirmed, if possible.
Mysterious bird deaths in The Hague: dead starlings fall massively from the sky
Oct. 26, 2018
For several days in a row, dead starlings fall from the sky in the Huijgenspark in The Hague. It is estimated that around 150 birds have already lost their lives. What is the cause of this is being investigated?
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, the Dutch Wildlife Health Center and a Wageningen University laboratory are investigating the cause of death of the starlings. A veterinarian of bird care De Wulp performed a number of birds last week. She only found internal bleeding and no trace of poison.
Contaminated water
“Last year we had the same situation at the Haagse Hogeschool, where it was renovated at the time ”, says an employee of the Animal Ambulance.” Then dozens of dead jackdaws were found, which were probably poisoned because they had been drinking polluted water. What is going on right now is really speculating. Hopefully, we know more next week, because this is not normal. ”
No trace of poison.
Source 3: Dierenhospitaal and Dierenambulance The Hague
Again, dead starlings have been found in the Huijgenspark in The Hague. More than ninety dead birds were spread across the park in the Stationsbuurt.
We took the birds. Last time, five of the deceased starlings were examined by a local specialist. It did not show signs of poison, but only internal bleeding in two copies. The newly found starlings are examined by the specialized Wageningen Bioveterinary Research laboratory in Lelystad and the Dutch Wildlife Health Center in Utrecht.
The municipality has promulgated a ban on dogs in the area because the cause of the mortality is unclear. Poisoning is taken into account. The area has been blocked by the police.
Source 4: Birdcare the curlew
Oct. 26, 2018
How is the current state of affairs with regard to the dead starlings?
Last Friday, Wednesday and Thursday, a total of +/- 150 deceased starlings were found in the Huijgenspark in The Hague. On Sunday, Thursday and Friday our veterinarian visited and carried out a total of 15 animals and collected material for further research. On Wednesday, the NVWA collected a cargo of birds that were examined in Lelystad on West Nile Virus. The negative result has now arrived.
On Thursday, the Dutch Wildlife Health Center also picked up a load of birds and we got a result today. Both veterinarians (ours and those from the DWHC) discussed their findings with each other. (Birds in good condition, some small bleeding in some animals, good for the upcoming winter, empty stomachs.) It is a very strange story!
Components of the deceased birds now go to various institutes for further research into rat poison and various viruses. On Monday the preparations are ready and the microscopic examination is started. In the meantime, the municipality has instituted an outlet ban in the park until further notice.
We will keep you informed and hope that we will get a quick answer regarding the bizarre deaths.
Source 5: New contribution from Facebook:
Nov. 2, 2018
There is, of course, no certainty about the cause. There are stronger 4G and IoT channels in the vicinity near the park. In July there was also 5G tested, but then the birds did not swarm and they did not arrive in the park. IoT has also been active since 30 October 2017, so it is only briefly active with a safe distance (for humans) of 7.4 meters and with a 2000 Watt transmitter at less than 200 meters from the park main beam direction exactly across the park. Also at the same distance LTE channels and at another location also LTE stations etc. Here again exactly about the park.
The truth about the safety of 5G is that it’s not safe and corporations are being allowed to roll out the new technology before they are sure about it’s effects.( Or because they already know it’s very harmfull to humans and animals and thats why they want to roll it out as fast as possible before any “public testings” that would be mae this technology banned from being rolled out.)
The roll out of 5G technology is a “massive bio-experiment” that will have “disastrous consequences” for the human race, according to the first major university study into the controversial wireless service — and a coalition of 200 leading scientists and doctors are calling for an urgent stop to the roll out.
“5G technology is a very real danger,” warns Dr. Moskowitz, a public health professor at the University of California. “The deployment of 5G, or fifth generation cellular technology, constitutes a massive experiment on the health of all species,” he said.
With the death of the birds in the Netherlands, we are already starting to see the results of 5G technology.
Antarctica continues to dominate the news, with the discovery of lost continents, scientists stabbing each other and that amazing perfectly-rectangular iceberg. Speaking of that berg, its popularity has inspired NASA to forget about the dead Martian rover for a while and try and figure exactly how it formed. It did, and the answer is …
Not so fast! We might as well join NASA and milk this frozen squareberg for all it’s worth. After the tabular iceberg was discovered in October 2018 by NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck while riding in a plane when he was supposed to be studying changes in the thickness of the glaciers and ice sheets, speculation on its pointed to A-68, the massive iceberg that broke off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017. This sounded plausible since A-68 was travelling into slightly warmer waters and banging into the coast and other icebergs. Ice on the thinner edges could easily break off along a straight line.
A-68 breaking away
(NASA)
However, when it comes to tracking the lineage of icebergs, the proof is in the pictures. NASA went far above Jeremy Harbeck’s Operation IceBridge plane to images from its Landsat 8 and the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites taken over the past few years. Scanning the Larsen C ice shelf, they found that the squareberg actually broke of from it rather than A-68 just weeks after the monster berg’s violent exit, which probably left the edges of Larsen C in a weakened state.
A-68 breaking away from another angle
(NASA)
The image of the birth of the squareberg (seen here) shows just how tiny the 4 km long iceberg is in relation to A-68, which is often compared to states or small countries. What surprised NASA researchers more than its shape was that it stayed relatively intact for a year as it floated very close to both the ice-bull-in-a-china-shop A-68, which is constantly colliding with the Bawden Ice Rise, an elevated ice shelf on Larsen C, and other smaller icebergs. While still rectangular, it’s down to 1500 meters by 900 meters and tending towards a trapezoid with just two parallel sides.
Still, it’s pretty impressive … as is NASA’s quick work in using its satellites to accurately pinpoint its place of origin. Now, if they could just use the same satellites to find keys and remote controls …
Time travel. It is a staple of science fiction and has long captured the imagination. It seems as if that is the realm in which it should stay, within movies and books, and entertaining yarn but far from reality. Yet in this day and age of the Internet there have been people given a voice that they never had before, and cases have come out of the woodwork of people who actually claim to be time travelers. Not only that, but some of them actually say that they have the evidence to prove it. Outlandish, surreal, and always bizarre, here are some cases of self-professed time travelers who say they can prove it.
A very strange individual came forward in November of 2017 with quite a bizarre and colorful tale to tell, and would go on to become quite the media and viral video sensation at the time. The man calls himself Noah, and claims that he is in fact from the future, the year 2030 to be exact, becoming stranded here in the present due to a “failed mission” in which he got “fired” and stuck in our present and decided to tell the world of the realities of time travel and of his experiences in a series of videos on YouTube. Of the machine that he used to jump through time, he has explained to news.com.au:
I have many body implications and things all over myself, and I step in this giant dome and these things fire up and basically a large electronic weight basically pushes you through time. It feels like if you got electrocuted.
The range of stories he has to tell of these adventures is as outlandish as it is entertaining. Noah claims that he was recruited into the government’s top secret time travel program at a very young age, and that he regularly took anti-aging pills to fight the aging effects that time travel had on his body, saying “When you time travel you gain time. When I was in junior high and I was a time traveler, I had to take these pills to make sure I don’t grow old while time travelling.” He also has made numerous predictions about the future, including that Trump will win a second term of presidency, that the granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda Renee King, will become president at some point, and many others. According to Noah there will be a cure for cancer, that scientists will live on Mars in 2028, incidentally the same year we figure out time travel, and that we get into contact with extraterrestrials.
It all sounds pretty vague, rather unimaginative and not really that hard to guess, but what really made his story take off in the news is that he supposedly passed a lie detector test on all of this. He has also shown footage that he claims is from the future. At one point during his interview on YouTube he produces a smartphone and shows a futuristic looking city with red clouds ominously hanging over it, which he claims to be Las Vegas in the year 2120. It looks pretty questionable, as the video is stationary and doesn’t show much that couldn’t be altered through digital manipulation, but Noah has other “evidence” as well, such as an X-ray image showing a device within his hand that he says is integral for the time travel process, and he has claimed that he has even better evidence that he sadly cannot share for fear of triggering a paradox.
Still from “Noah’s” video
Throughout his whole video interview his face is obscured as he says he is in danger of being assassinated for what he is telling the rather skeptical interviewers, and many confessed time travelers do so. He also explains that he is alone, and that although he has family in the present he cannot meet them out of danger of meeting his younger self and causing a massive paradox. It is all a completely off the wall tale that has understandably drawn a lot of criticism, not only for its sheer bizarreness, but also from the fact that the video appears on the Apex TV YouTube channel, a paranormal research organization which is popular for its numerous time traveler stories and which many accuse of being full of hoaxes.
YouTube in general, and Apex TV in particular, are fertile grounds for such wild tales, and it is in this unchecked medium that alleged time travelers have come out of the woodwork. One is an anonymous man who says he worked out of London, where there was a secret laboratory called Globus, involved with testing and experimenting with all manner of bizarre technology, such as teleportation devices and of course time travel. He claims that the mysterious machine used to travel through time is called “The Time Queen,” and that a main component to its inner workings is powerful stone that emits some sort of alien, misunderstood energy. He has explained of this Time Queen:
The most important part in that machine was the piece of asteroid which has a radiation maker. The radiation of uranium is even weaker. The power of the stone has such energy it can destroy the whole planet. Fortunately, that energy only can be used in laboratory. Otherwise, the planet could be already destroyed. That energy can create time borders. We can outsmart computers to that energy and get an algorithm which transforms time to the mathematics, and this let us to travel through the time.
The machine was used to travel to the past in the United States, Russia and Britain, and frequently to 17th century China, but that certain limitations of the technology meant he could only travel a maximum of 4,000 years back in time. It all sounds completely off the rails, but this time traveler claims to have evidence in the form of a photo of a Swiss made watch that was allegedly found in the tomb of a 17th century Chinese soldier and which he says was a watch he lost on one of his many jaunts through time, of which he would say:
It is just that watch that I had lost in China in 16th to 17th centuries. I was running at the time from Chinese soldiers. A few months ago this watch was found in soldier’s tomb. I think, while I was running, he found and took it. Scientists were shocked.
It is actually striking how many of these self-professed time travelers bring forth what they say is evidence of their time bending adventures, such as photographs, videos, and others. Another man called simply Edward claimed in a video to have been part of a top secret time travel experiment in 2004, and that his travels had taken him far into the future to the year 5000, when much of the planet had been submerged due to global warming and vast wooden cities floated upon the seas of what once was. One of these cities doomed to a watery grave was apparently Los Angeles, California, a fact which Edward “proves” with a photo he produces from his pocket that he claims shows the submerged city but is actually pretty hard to make out. Edward explains of this photo to The Sun, “I was standing on a huge wooden platform. Not only me, houses, building of course all made from wood. And after, I realized it was the same city, Los Angeles, but under water.”
Edward’s photo
There is also the claim from a time traveler calling himself John, from the year 4,000. John says that he has been living in this present for the past 6 years, and that in his home time he is the president of a company that produces flying cars, and that their use of AI had resulted in a potential threat to humanity. According to John, in the year 4000 all birds have been wiped out in order to reduce the danger to the widely used flying cars, and that animals in general, even dogs and cats, are rare. It is due to concerns over the spread of AI that he says he has traveled back to the past, and as evidence of all of this he has shown a picture of what appear to be spider-like robots putting together a future vehicle called the “DR-18.”
Similarly, to John is a man identified as Alexander Smith, who says he is one of the first time travelers and appears in his video looking decidedly disheveled and harried. Smith then goes on to say that the world is in dire danger from AI running amok, and that global warming and floods are also a prominent threat. As proof of his claims he produces a photo from his crumpled suit and holds it up, saying that it is a picture of a city center form the year 2118. The photo looks very blurry and indistinct, and he assures us that this is merely an artifact from the time traveling process, not in any way because it could be a hoax. There is also the photo presented by an unidentified Greek man who in 2017 claimed that he had been recruited by a professor for time travel experiments. One of these experiments saw him launched to the year 10000, where there was a war raging between humans and robots. This man also shows a picture of this future landscape, but it is not clear what it is supposed to be of, and of course the low quality is blamed on the effects of time travel.
The picture from the year 10000
It’s not only photographs or video clips that have been offered up as evidence by time travelers either. One man calling himself W.D. Davis says he is from the year 2200, which he paints a colorful picture of indeed. According to him, in this future not only have all diseases been cured, but humans live on Mars and in great underwater cities, and that we peacefully coexist with aliens that can change shape at will. Davis, who claims to be 103 years old, said that in the future there are “miracle food pellets,” one of which can sustain an adult for a week, and he presented one of these pellets as proof. He says that in the future these pellets will be available to people all over the planet and have solved world hunger. Unfortunately, he would not allow it to be analyzed due to the paradoxical ramifications it could have, so I suppose we will just have to take his word for it.
Another anonymous time traveler is a woman who says she is from the year 3780, and that the use of the time technology is based on chips that these travelers have implanted into their arms. These devices supposedly do something to warp the space-time continuum, and she even produces one of the chips as evidence, which she calls a “skin.” It looks sort of like a big computer chip, and it is hard to tell if that is exactly what it is. The woman rambles for some time on the technology, but it is very hard to understand, and in the end it is hard to tell if any of it makes sense or not.
In the end it is hard to know how much truth any of these bizarre and quite frankly outlandish claims have. It is unfortunate that many such cases come to light on these YouTube videos, a place that is a magnet for those looking to get attention and pull hoaxes, yet there are plenty of people who give these claims serious thought, and they have become a hotbed for discussion and conspiracy theories. It is equally regrettable that the “evidence” that these supposed time travelers present in these cases is circumstantial at best, and clearly faked at worst. Yet is still gets a lot of play in discussions and debates on time travelers. Ultimately, if time travel really does exist, then these cases certainly don’t prove it in any way. It is up to the reader to make up their own mind.
Beroemde rechthoekige ijsberg is al veel ouder dan gedacht
Beroemde rechthoekige ijsberg is al veel ouder dan gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De ijsberg zou in november 2017 al van de Larsen C-ijsplaat zijn losgekomen.
Eind vorige maand trok een ijsberg nabij Antarctica de aandacht van heel wat mensen naar zich toe. En terecht, want deze ijsberg leek wel met een schaartje geknipt te zijn. De randen waren keurig recht en de hoeken behoorlijk haaks, waardoor de ijsberg bijna onnatuurlijk aandeed. In eerste instantie werd aangenomen dat de ijsberg vrij recent van de Larsen C-ijsplaat was losgekomen. Want, zo stelden onderzoekers, anders waren die strakke randen al lang ten prooi gevallen aan eroderende golven en wind.
Ouder Maar wetenschappers hebben zich nog eens in het leven van de rechthoekige ijsberg vastgebeten en ontdekt dat deze al veel ouder is dan gedacht. Satellietbeelden onthullen dat de ijsberg al in november 2017 – kort nadat de Larsen C-ijsplaat die enorme ijsberg kwijtraakte – afkalfde. Op dat moment was de ijsberg ongeveer vier kilometer lang.
In beweging De ijsberg begon richting het noorden te bewegen en werd daarbij continu bedreigd door botsingen met A-68 (de enorme ijsberg die Larsen C in juli van dat jaar was kwijtgeraakt) en andere, kleinere ijsbergen. Maar de ijsberg bleef ondanks al die dreigingen noordwaarts bewegen en moest uiteindelijk via een smalle passage – gelegen tussen het noordelijke tipje van A-68 en de zogenoemde Bawden Ice Rise – door zien te bewegen om open water te kunnen bereiken. En dat is het moment waarop de ijsberg zijn opmerkelijke rechthoekige vorm krijgt, aldus onderzoekers. Bawden Ice Rice is een verhoging in de rotsachtige zeebodem en A-68 is daar bijvoorbeeld al regelmatig tegenaan gebotst, waardoor stukken van de ijsberg zijn afgebroken. Het is op die plek dan ook een rommeltje (zie afbeelding hieronder, gemaakt op 14 oktober 2018). Er drijven allemaal kleinere ijsbergen rond die continu met elkaar in botsing komen. Ook de ijsberg die in november 2017 loskwam van Larsen C kwam duidelijk niet ongeschonden uit de strijd. Op de foto hieronder zie je dat deze oorspronkelijk qua vorm veel wegheeft van een trapezium. Maar een paar dagen later blijkt deze door de botsingen omgetoverd te zijn tot een rechthoekige ijsberg met steile randen en keurige hoeken.
De rechthoekige ijsberg heeft op deze foto nog een iets andere vorm. De ijsberg is hier ongeveer 900 meter breed en 1500 meter lang.
Inmiddels zijn we weer een paar weken verder en heeft de ijsberg het open water weten te bereiken. Onderzoekers verwachten dat de ijsberg spoedig geschiedenis zal zijn.
Scientists analyzed the ancient DNA of individuals who lived in Central and South America up to 10,000 years ago and found that these regions were settled by at least three waves of migration. The studies paint a rich and diverse history of the Americas, suggesting that the people who formed these migratory waves branched out of a single population that crossed the Bering Strait into North America about 15,000 years ago.
“Our work multiplied the number of ancient genomes available from these areas by about 20, giving us a much more comprehensive picture of indigenous history in the Americas,” co-senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, said in a statement. “This broader dataset reveals a common origin of North, Central, and South Americans as well as two previously unknown genetic exchanges between North and South America.”
The DNA collected from 49 individuals who lived in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and southern South America shows that they all originate from the same ancestral population that colonized North America. In and of itself, this fact is not particularly remarkable because scientists have always known that Central and South America were peopled by a migration that moved southward. However, what was truly surprising about the findings of three new ancient DNA studies, all published this week (Cell, Science, Science Advances), was that there were multiple distinct migratory movements — some that mixed, others that formed new lineages.
Archaeologists believe that the Clovis people were the first to pass through the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, which is now underwater, settling in the lower 48 states some 13,000 years ago. The Clovis culture was named after flint spearheads found in the 1930s at a site in Clovis, New Mexico. These mammoth-hunting people are considered to be the ancestors of most of the indigenous cultures of the Americas. Now, the new genomic analysis has yielded fresh insights into how Clovis people may have spread across the Americas.
Researchers compared the genome of a Clovis toddler who lived in Montana about 12,700 years ago to the earliest genome analyzed from South and Central America dating to between 9,000 and 11,000 years ago. The analysis revealed a common ancestry between the remains found in Montana and Lagoa Santa in Brazil, which suggests that the Clovis made a major impact much further south. Previously, anthropologists believed that the people at Lagoa Santa originated from a separate migration from Asia.
“We weren’t expecting to find a relation to people associated with the Clovis culture in South America,” says co-first author Nathan Nakatsuka from Harvard. “But it seems the expansion of the Clovis-associated lineage extended to parts of Central and South America.”
From around 9,000 years ago, however, the Clovis culture-associated ancestry completely disappeared in Peru. We don’t know what was the cause of such a dramatic large-scale population replacement but what seems certain is that the region was populated by a separate wave of migration, which showed remarkable continuity compared to Eurasia and Africa.
“There is remarkable continuity between earlier and later skeletons with South Americans today,” said Cosimo Posth, an archaeogeneticist from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. “For example, modern-day Quechua and Aymara from the Central Andes can trace their ancestry back to the ancient people of the Cuncaicha site from 9,000 years ago onwards. This is a longer-standing continuity than you see in other continents.”
The big question right now is why the branching occurred so fast. What seems certain is that the narrative of humanity’s distribution across the Americas is far more complex than meets the eye.
“We’re very enthusiastic about the prospects for a much richer understanding of American population history, but this is still a vast region full of geographic and chronological holes,” says Reich. “We’d like to collect more genetic material from earlier and later sites and from more countries, such as Colombia, Venezuela, and other parts of Brazil. We also want to examine the evolution of genetic traits over time.”
‘I’d say theorists are excited and experimentalists are very sceptical,’ said Alexandre Nikitenko, a theorist on the CMS team who worked on the data. Photograph: CERN
Scientists at the Cern nuclear physics lab near Geneva are investigating whether a bizarre and unexpected new particle popped into existence during experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
Researchers on the machine’s multipurpose Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector have spotted curious bumps in their data that may be the calling card of an unknown particle that has more than twice the mass of a carbon atom.
The prospect of such a mysterious particle has baffled physicists as much as it has excited them. At the moment, none of their favoured theories of realityinclude the particle, though many theorists are now hard at work on models that do.
“I’d say theorists are excited and experimentalists are very sceptical,” said Alexandre Nikitenko, a theorist on the CMS team who worked on the data. “As a physicist I must be very critical, but as the author of this analysis I must have some optimism too.”
Senior scientists at the lab have scheduled a talk this Thursday at which Nikitenko and his colleague Yotam Soreq will discuss the work. They will describe how they spotted the bumps in CMS data while searching for evidence of a lighter cousin of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that was discovered at the LHC in 2012.
The Large Hadron Collider creates particles by smashing subatomic protons into one another at close to the speed of light. When the protons meet, the energy in the collision is converted into mass, and so particles, in line with Einstein’s equation, E=mc2.
Many particles created in the LHC are highly unstable and immediately decay into lighter, more stable particles such as photons and electrons. It is by looking for an excess of these particles, apparent as a bump in the data, that physicists tend to find new particles. For example, one way the Higgs boson betrayed its existence was through the unusually high number of photons recorded in collisions in which the particle was made.
But particle physics is no easy pursuit. To the endless frustration of its practitioners, bumps in data produced by nothing more than statistical fluctuations pop up all the time. The best way to distinguish between these and Nobel prize-winning discoveries is to analyse more and more data: statistical flukes always vanish with time.
In two separate analyses, the CMS team found data that pointed to a build-up of muons, or heavy electrons, in their detector. If real, the data indicates a new particle with a mass of 28GeV or 1 billion electron volts, slightly less than a quarter of the mass of a Higgs boson. Whatever it is, it is not the particle Nikitenko and his colleagues were looking for.
To complicate matters further, the bumps were more pronounced in the LHC’s low energy collisions than in more energetic collisions the machine performed after an upgrade. That could be explained, said Nikitenko, if more “background” particles are produced at higher energies that then obscure the signal.
Because the analysis is so time-consuming, it could take the CMS team another year to confirm or rule out the existence of a new particle. But Karl Jakobs, spokesperson for the Cern team that works on Atlas, the LHC’s other multipurpose detector, said it was checking its own data for signs of the proposed particle. “We are working on a similar analysis of the Atlas data, however I cannot yet give you a timeline when the results will become public,” he said.
For Atlas to cross-check the result was “crucial”, Nikitenko said. “If it is confirmed by Atlas it will be the real thing. It will be really something terribly new.”
One independent study has already reported potential evidence for the particle. Arno Heister, a former member of the CMS team who knew about the bumps in the data, analysed older results collected by Aleph, a detector on Cern’s previous particle accelerator known as the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). He found a similar bump at 30GeV. “This excess, if real, is something very unexpected,” he told the Guardian.
Georg Weiglein, a theorist on the German Electron-Synchrotron machine (DESY) said it will be hard to come up with a model that has a particle like the one the CMS bump calls for. “This does not exclude the possibility that such a signal could actually exist. On the contrary, it would be even more exciting if a signal were observed that does not seem to fit into our present models,” he said. “Further experimental information is eagerly awaited.”
Michelangelo Mangano, a researcher at Cern, said: “Of course theorists are always happy when some anomaly shows up in the data. And I am confident many colleagues have started looking into this. However it is a bit early to get excited.” “Given that Atlas has yet to release their analysis, and given that much more data is on tape even for CMS, it is clear that the effect will soon be confirmed or diluted away,” he said.
Mysterieus ‘spookdeeltje’ ontdekt in deeltjesversneller LHC. Zijn wetenschappers iets revolutionairs op het spoor?
Mysterieus ‘spookdeeltje’ ontdekt in deeltjesversneller LHC. Zijn wetenschappers iets revolutionairs op het spoor?
Een mysterieus deeltje zorgt voor opwinding bij wetenschappers van het Europees Centrum voor Kernonderzoek (CERN) in Zwitserland. Zij doen momenteel onderzoek naar een onverwacht ‘spookdeeltje’.
De wetenschappers zeggen dat het onbekende deeltje mogelijk is verschenen tijdens experimenten met de Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Tijdens het bestuderen van de gegevens stuitten ze op onregelmatigheden. Zo vonden ze aanwijzingen voor een deeltje dat meer dan twee keer zo zwaar is als een koolstofatoom.
Geen enkele theorie
Er zou op dit moment geen enkele theorie zijn die dit mysterieuze deeltje kan verklaren.
“We sluiten niet uit dat een dergelijke signaal echt kan bestaan,” zei Georg Weiglein van het Duitse nationale laboratorium voor deeltjesfysica DESY.
“Sterker nog: het zou nog spannender zijn als we een signaal zouden waarnemen dat niet lijkt te passen in onze huidige modellen,” voegde hij toe.
Iets revolutionairs
Het is dus goed mogelijk dat het hier gaat om een nieuwe ontdekking. We kunnen hier te maken hebben met iets revolutionairs, denken wetenschappers.
Karl Jakobs, woordvoerder van het onderzoeksteam van CERN, zei dat de gegevens van verschillende experimenten nu met elkaar worden vergeleken om te speuren naar tekenen van het deeltje.
“Ik kan alleen niet zeggen wanneer de resultaten naar buiten worden gebracht,” zei hij.
The news keeps getting stranger from Antarctica. First there was the iceberg (and maybe two) shaped like a perfect rectangle or parallelogram. Then there was a scientist-on-scientist stabbing at a remote Russian station that was blamed on the stabbee spoiling book endings for the stabber. Now comes word that NASA data from a satellite which died five years ago shows multiple lost continents underneath the frozen one. Dead men may tell no tales but it looks like dead satellites can.
“In East Antarctica we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.”
Commenting in a statement *with map) about a new study in Scientific Reports titled “Earth tectonics as seen by GOCE – Enhanced satellite gravity gradient imaging,” co-author Fausto Ferraccioli reveals what he and a team of researchers from Kiel University and the British Antarctic Survey found after five years of studying data from the European Space Agency’s GOCE (Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission – a gravity-mapping satellite in operation from March 17, 2009, until October 21, 2013, when the very thing it was mapping pulled it to its atmospheric demise. Nicknamed “‘the Ferrari of space” — possibly because of its sleek silver design or its supply of xenon propellant which allowed it to resist drag while it dipped down to a 225 km altitude for highly accurate gravity measurements – the GOCE measured Earth’s gravity more precisely than any satellite ever.
The Ferrari of space
(ESA image)
“These gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth, Antarctica.”
Specifically, those high-resolution images showed gravity gradients – measurements of how rapidly the acceleration of gravity changes – allowed them to search the lithosphere – the solid crust and molten mantle hidden underneath Antarctica’s thick ice – for remnants of ancient ocean beds and cratons, which are highly folded orogen (belt of the earth’s crust involved in the formation of mountains) regions left from previous lost continents that Antarctica was once connected to.
The team released a short video (see it here) showing how these long-lost continents may have looked as they moved around Antarctica – bumping into it, breaking off and floating away.
Antarctica from space
(NASA image)
Is this a big deal?
“Overall, we emphasise that satellite data such as from the GOCE mission, provide novel datasets with a global homogenous coverage that can significantly advance our understanding of the Earth structure and tectonic setting.”
That’s a ‘yes’. Understanding the early history of Earth’s tectonic plates helps predict future earthquakes … and it’s just plain interesting. Perhaps someday, another “Formula One” satellite will tell us once and for all if Antarctica was once occupied by humans … or aliens.
And studying Antarctica from space seems to be safer than a surface look with colleagues who are book spoilers.
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.
The warping of spacetime, in the General Relativistic picture, by gravitational masses is what causes the gravitational force. It is assumed, but not experimentally verified, that antimatter masses will behave the same as matter masses in a gravitational field.
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One of the most astonishing facts about science is how universally applicable the laws of nature are. Every particle obeys the same rules, experiences the same forces, and sees the same fundamental constants, no matter where or when they exist. Gravitationally, every single entity in the Universe experiences, depending on how you look at it, either the same gravitational acceleration or the same curvature of spacetime, no matter what properties it possesses.
At least, that's what things are like in theory. In practice, some things are notoriously difficult to measure. Photons and normal, stable particles both fall as expected in a gravitational field, with Earth causing any massive particle to accelerate towards its center at 9.8 m/s2. Despite our best efforts, though, we have never measured the gravitational acceleration of antimatter. It ought to accelerate the exact same way, but until we measure it, we can't know. One experiment is attempting to decide the matter, once-and-for-all. Depending on what it finds, it just might be the key to a scientific and technological revolution.
Trajectories of antihydrogen atoms from the ALPHA experiment. We can hold them stable for up to 20 minutes at a time now, and measuring how they behave in a gravitational field is the next logical step.
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You might not realize it, but there are two entirely different ways of thinking about mass. On the one hand, there's the mass that accelerates when you apply a force to it: the m in Newton's famous equation, F = ma. This is the same as the m in Einstein's E = mc2, which tells you how much energy you need to create a particle (or antiparticle) and how much energy you get when you annihilate it away.
But there's another mass out there: gravitational mass. This is the mass, m, that appears in the equation for weight at Earth's surface (W = mg), or in Newton's gravitational law, F = GmM/r2. For normal matter, we know that these two masses — inertial mass and gravitational mass — must be equal to something like 1 part in 100 billion, thanks to experimental constraints from a setup designed over 100 years ago by Loránd Eötvös.
Newton's law of universal gravitation (L) and Coulomb's law for electrostatics (R) have almost identical forms. If the 'm' in the gravitational force obtains a negative sign for antimatter, upcoming experiments ought to reveal it.
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For antimatter, though, we've never been able to measure this at all. We've applied non-gravitational forces to antimatter and seen it accelerate, and we've created and annihilated antimatter as well; we're certain how its inertial mass behaves, and it's exactly the same as normal matter's inertial mass. Both F = ma and E = mc2 work just the same for antimatter as they do for normal matter.
The ALPHA collaboration has come the closest of any experiment to measuring the behavior of neutral antimatter in a gravitational field. With the upcoming ALPHA-g detector, we might finally know the answer.
MAXIMILIEN BRICE/CERN
One of the great strides that's been taken recently is the creation of not just particles of antimatter, but neutral, stable bound states of it. Anti-protons and positrons (anti-electrons) can be created, slowed down, and forced to interact with each other, where they form neutral anti-hydrogen. By using a combination of electric and magnetic fields, we can confine these anti-atoms and keep them stable, away from the matter that would cause them to annihilate.
We've successfully held them stable for around 20 minutes at a time, far exceeding the microsecond timescales that unstable, fundamental particles survive. We've struck them with photons, discovering that they have the same emission and absorption spectra as atoms. In every way that matters, we've determined that antimatter's properties are exactly as standard physics predicts them to be.
The ALPHA-g detector, built at Canada’s particle accelerator facility, TRIUMF, is the first of its kind designed to measure the effect of gravity on antimatter. When oriented vertically, it should be able to measure which direction antimatter falls, and at what magnitude.
STU SHEPHERD/TRIUMF
Except, of course, gravitationally. The new ALPHA-g detector, built at Canada's TRIUMF facility and shipped to CERN earlier this year, should improve the limits on the gravitational acceleration of antimatter down to the critical threshold. Does antimatter accelerate, in the presence of the gravitational field on the surface of Earth, at +9.8 m/s2 (down), at -9.8 m/s2(up), at 0 m/s2 (no gravitational acceleration at all), or some other value?
From both a theoretical and an applications perspective, any result other than the expected +9.8 m/s2 would be absolutely revolutionary.
If there were some type of matter that had negative gravitational charge, it would be repelled by the matter and energy that we are aware of.
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The antimatter counterpart of every matter particle should have:
the same mass,
the same acceleration in a gravitational field,
the opposite electric charge,
the opposite spin,
the same magnetic properties,
should bind together the same way into atoms, molecules and larger structures,
and should have the same spectrum of positron transitions in those varied configurations.
Some of these have been measured for a long time: antimatter's inertial mass, electric charge, spin and magnetic properties are well-known. Its binding and transitional properties have been measured by other detectors at the ALPHA experiment, and line up with what particle physics predicts.
But if the gravitational acceleration comes back negative instead of positive, it would literally turn the world upside down.
The possibility of having artificial gravity is tantalizing, but it is predicated on the existence of negative gravitational mass. Antimatter may be that mass, but we don't yet know, experimentally.
ROLF LANDUA / CERN
Currently, there is no such thing as a gravitational conductor. On an electrical conductor, free charges live on the surface and can move around, redistributing themselves in response to whatever other charges are around. If you have an electric charge outside an electrical conductor, the inside of the conductor will be shielded from that electric source.
But there's no way to shield yourself from the gravitational force. There's no way to set up a uniform gravitational field in a region of space, either, like you can between the parallel plates of an electrical capacitor. The reason? Because unlike the electric force, which is generated by positive and negative charges, there's only one type of gravitational "charge," and that's mass-and-energy. The gravitational force is always attractive, and there's simply no way around that.
Schematic diagram of a capacitor, where two parallel conducting plates have equal and opposite charges, creating a uniform electric field between them. This configuration is impossible for gravity, unless there's some form of negative gravitational mass.
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But if you have negative gravitational mass, all of that changes. If antimatter actually anti-gravitates, falling up instead of down, then gravity sees it as though it were made of anti-mass or anti-energy. Under the laws of physics that we currently understand, quantities like anti-mass or anti-energy don't exist. We can imagine them and talk about how they would behave, but we expect antimatter to have normal mass and normal energy when it comes to gravity.
If anti-mass does exist, though, then a slew of great technological advances, imagined by science-fiction writers for generations, would suddenly become physically possible.
The Virtual IronBird tool for the CAM (Centrifuge Accommodation Module) is one way to create artificial gravity, but requires a lot of energy and only allows a very specific, center-seeking type of force. True artificial gravity would require something to behave with negative mass.
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We can build a gravitational conductor, and shield ourselves from the gravitational force.
We can set up a gravitational capacitor in space, creating a uniform artificial gravity field.
We could even create warp drive, since we'd gain the ability to deform spacetime in exactly the way that a mathematical solution to General Relativity, discovered by Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, requires.
The Alcubierre solution to General Relativity, enabling motion similar to warp drive. This solution requires negative gravitational mass, which could be exactly what antimatter might provide.
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It's an incredible possibility, one that's considered wildly unlikely by practically all theoretical physicists. But no matter how wild or tame your theories are, you must absolutely confront them with experimental data; only through measuring the Universe and putting it to the test can you ever accurately determine how the laws of nature work.
Until we measure the gravitational acceleration of antimatter to the precision necessary to determine whether it falls up or down, we must keep ourselves open to the possibility that nature might not behave as we expect. The equivalence principle may not be true for antimatter; it may, in fact, be 100% anti-true. But if that's the case, a whole new world of possibilities will be unlocked. We could change the currently-known limits of what humans can create in the Universe. And we'll learn the answer in just a few years through the simplest of all experiments: putting an anti-atom in a gravitational field, and watching which way it falls.
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As you've probably noticed, we live in a world defined by three spatial dimensions and one dimension of time. In other words, it only takes three numbers to pinpoint your physical location at any given moment. On Earth, these coordinates break down to longitude, latitude and altitude representing the dimensions of length, width and height (or depth). Slap a time stamp on those coordinates, and you're pinpointed in time as well.
To strip that down even more, a one-dimensional world would be like a single bead on a measured thread. You can slide the bead forward and you can slide the bead backward, but you only need one number to figure out its exact location on the string: length. Where's the bead? It's at the 6-inch (15-centimeter) mark.
Now let's upgrade to a two-dimensional world. This is essentially a flat map, like the playing field in games such as Battleship or chess. You just need length and width to determine location. In Battleship, all you have to do is say "E5," and you know the location is a convergence of the horizontal "E" line and the vertical "5" line.
Now let's add one more dimension. Our world factors height (depth) into the equation .While locating a submarine's exact location in Battleship only requires two numbers, a real-life submarine would demand a third coordinate of depth. Sure, it might be charging along on the surface, but it might also be hiding 800 feet (244 meters) beneath the waves. Which will it be?
Could there be a fourth spatial dimension? Well, that's a tricky question because we currently can't perceive or measure anything beyond the dimensions of length, width and height. Just as three numbers are required to pinpoint a location in a three-dimensional world, a four-dimensional world would require four.
At this very moment, you're likely positioned at a particular longitude, latitude and altitude. Walk a little to your left, and you'll alter your longitude or latitude or both. Stand on a chair in the exact same spot, and you'll alter your altitude. Here's where it gets hard: Can you move from your current location without altering your longitude, latitude or altitude? You can't, because there's not a fourth spatial dimension for us to move through.
But the fact that we can't move through a fourth spatial dimension or perceive one doesn't necessarily rule out its existence. In 1919, mathematician Theodor Kaluza theorized that a fourth spatial dimension might link general relativity and electromagnetic theory [source: Groleau]. But where would it go? Theoretical physicist Oskar Klein later revised the theory, proposing that the fourth dimension was merely curled up, while the other three spatial dimensions are extended. In other words, the fourth dimension is there, only it's rolled up and unseen, a little like a fully retracted tape measure. Furthermore, it would mean that every point in our three-dimensional world would have an additional fourth spatial dimension rolled away inside it.
String theorists, however, need a slightly more complicated vision to empower their superstring theories about the cosmos. In fact, it's quite easy to assume they're showing off a bit in proposing 10 or 11 dimensions including time.
Wait, don't let that blow your mind just yet. One way of envisioning this is to imagine that each point of our 3-D world contains not a retracted tape measure, but a curled-up, six-dimensional geometric shape. One such example is a Calabi-Yau shape, which looks a bit like a cross between a mollusk, an M.C. Escher drawing and a "Star Trek" holiday ornament [source: Bryant].
Think of it this way: A concrete wall looks solid and firm from a distance. Move in closer, however, and you'll see the dimples and holes that mark its surface. Move in even closer, and you'd see that it's made up of molecules and atoms. Or consider a cable: From a distance it appears to be a single, thick strand. Get right next to it, and you'll find that it's woven from countless strands. There's always greater complexity than meets the eye, and this hidden complexity may well conceal all those tiny, rolled-up dimensions.
Yet, we can only remain certain of our three spatial dimensions and one of time. If other dimensions await us, they're beyond our limited perception -- for now.
Explore the links below to learn even more about the universe.
Groleau, Rick. "Imagining Other Dimensions." The Elegant Universe. July 2003. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/dimensions.html
Kornreich, Dave. "What is a dimension?" Ask a Scientist. January 1999. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=4
Vogt, Nicole. "Astronomy 110G: Introduction to Astronomy: The Expansion of the Universe." New Mexico State University. 2010. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/nicole/teaching/ASTR110/lectures/lecture28/slide01.html
The 1950s, 60s, and 70s were perhaps the golden age of UFO sightings in the United States. Futuristic advances in technology, thought-provoking science fiction, deep government distrust, and copious psychedelic drugs all combined to produce widespread visions of otherworldly airborne objects.
But this wasn't the first time that thousands of Americans were astonished by strange events in the sky. Between the 1880s and early 1900s, Americans from California to Boston were convinced they saw "airships" and flying "machines" buzzing the skies. Mind you, many of these accounts came out well before the Wright brothers flew the world's first powered aircraft over a distance of just 120 feet. Some airship sightings described great dirigibles with passengers onboard. Others simply reported moving lights in the night sky. One even told of an alien craft more than 150-feet long, completely featureless apart from its rudder.
Some journalists and newspapers were skeptical, but many more published the accounts uncritically to captivated readers. In the winter of 1909, during what can only be described as an "outbreak" of airship sightings in New England, tens of thousands of people claimed to see all manner of flying objects performing feats no aircraft of the day came close to accomplishing.
"It all began on 12 December, when prominent Worcester businessman Wallace Tillinghast told a Boston Herald reporter he had invented the world's first reliable heavier-than-air flying machine," Stephen Whalen and Robert E. Bartholomew recounted in the New England Quarterly.
Over the ensuing weeks, airship sightings flooded in, which newspapers gleefully reported with little skepticism. The reports in turn prompted even more sightings. It was a chain reaction of delusions.
"The great airship episode peaked in a frenzy on Christmas Eve," Whalen and Bartholomew described. "On that night there were thirty-three separate reports, spreading from Massachusetts southward to Rhode Island and Connecticut, northward to Vermont and Maine, and as far west as New York. In Boston, 'thousands upon thousands of people... stood on sidewalks, street corners and squares... hoping for a glimpse of the flying machine.'"
But just days later, sanity returned. Astronomers debunked a number of reports, explaining that the airship lights people thought they saw were really stars, meteors, or planets. Journalists also uncovered that many accounts were simply lies.
"Newspaper editors, drawing on the popular theories of French psychologist Gustave Le Bon, began to attribute the sightings to individual primitive impulses activated in emotional, group situations and producing a form of temporary irrationality or madness," Whalen and Bartholomew wrote.
Le Bon was absolutely right.
"We now know that all these incidents were hoaxes and mass delusions," Yale neurologist Steven Novella wrote in his recent book The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. "There were no airships. Drawings of the alleged 'aeroplanes' by eyewitnesses resemble quaint notions of contraptions with flapping wings, not the planes that were eventually developed."
Notice also how all of the sightings were affected by culture and the technologies of the day. In the late 1800s, Americans were hearing of inventors feverishly working to create flying machines. Thus, they saw airships. One of the few reported alien spacecraft supposedly had a rudder, which would have been useless for space travel! Years later, influenced by science fiction and the nuclear age, Americans saw flying saucers, instead.
"What these and many other similar incidents reflect is the constructed and unreliable nature of perception, memory, and belief. They are the products of expectation, cultural influence, and psychology," Novella wrote.
This post was inspired by the recently-released book The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, by Steven Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, Bob Novella, and Evan Bernstein. Those uninitiated to scientific and skeptical thinking will find Skeptics' Guide to be an engaging and in-depth introduction, while current practitioners will get their BS detectors honed and feel their love for rationality reinvigorated. Both groups will undoubtedly return to the Guide again and again to help navigate a world increasingly ignorant to fact.
Former NASA Employee Discovers Some Very Strange Buildings on the Moon, UFO Sighting News.
Former NASA Employee Discovers Some Very Strange Buildings on the Moon, UFO Sighting News.
This is Ken Johnson who worked for NASA long ago and is trying to tell people about the photos and film he saw before they were edited. He saw bases and UFO on the moon in photos...no news to me since Streetcap1 and I have been doing this same research for over 9 years. Still...he has some interesting things to hear and describe to us. One being a particular crater on the moon...Tsiolkovsky crater. I'm on it now and will get back to you soon.
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A former NASA employee found something he shouldn't have when he discovered photos showing a module of the mission “Apollo” on the lunar surface and base of aliens on its surface. The picture was taken by astronauts during the separation of the module and classified as many other photographs taken during the program “Apollo”, which were recorded mysterious structures and UFO. These photos were later ordered destroyed, however, the employee retained some of them and published them online. Among the released images are photos originating from NASA that depicts various different artificial structures on the moon.
THE private Israeli jet that is supposed to have flown to Islamabad last week caused as much excitement as a flying saucer with flashing red and blue lights.
This is the tweet from Avi Scharf, editor of the English version of Haaretz, the leading liberal daily in Israel, that set the cat among the Pakistani pigeons: “Israeli bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad #Pakistan, on the ground for 10 hours, and back to TLV.”
A Bombardier Global Express jet -
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More interesting than the account of the flight is the reaction it triggered in Pakistan: political parties across the spectrum condemned the event while the government denied the possibility of an Israeli plane entering Pakistani airspace. However, if an Israeli representative did pay our capital a covert visit, it would be part of the country’s policy of reaching out to Muslim states.
Recently, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, visited Oman where he was given the full red carpet treatment by Sultan Qaboos. A couple of days later, Miri Regev, the Israeli culture minister, was in Abu Dhabi for the award of medals for a judo championship. As the Israeli team had won the contest, the country’s national anthem was played in the UAE for the first time.µ
Israeli bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad, #Pakistan, on the ground 10 hours, and back to TLV. Cleared flight-plan with usual 5min groundtime trick in Amman M-ULTI glex
2:14 AM - 25 Oct 2018
Govt denies Israeli journalist’s assertion but opposition seeks ‘convincing’ explanation
And Israel’s growing convergence of interests with Saudi Arabia, and the developing alliance between the two anti-Iran states, is no secret. Could the mystery Israeli visitor have been part of a deal for the $6 billion dollar bailout recently extended to Pakistan by the Saudis? Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch…
Many Arab states have recognised Israel.
But while this is speculative, it is a fact that many Arab states have either recognised Israel and have embassies in Tel Aviv, or deal with it fairly openly without formal ties. They realise that with the US and Israel in total harmony over Palestine, there is no chance of an independent state. As it is, younger Arabs have little time or sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
In a recent issue of Haaretz, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid writes: “Should Islamabad choose to overcome its rampant anti-Semitism and its related and abundant conspiracy theories, it might be able to realise that in addition to an array of geopolitical interests, Pakistan and Israel share a key characteristic: They are the only post-colonial states founded on religious nationalism.”
So why are we allergic to Israel? Recognition is not accorded as a reward for good behaviour, but as acknowledgment that a state fulfils the norms of statehood as defined by the UN. Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian land, and its abhorrent treatment of subjugated people, has been the subject of much international condemnation. I have lost count of the columns I have written against Israel’s arrogant and brutal attitude towards Palestinians.
But I have also argued that in order to engage Israel over its policies, we first have to have a diplomatic presence in Tel Aviv. And if recognition is regarded as an award for decency, why do we not withdraw our embassy from Myanmar over its ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims?
If our refusal to acknowledge Israel is supposed to show solidarity with Arab states, let me remind readers that Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with the Zionist state long ago. Others have followed suit, directly or indirectly. Only Iran has stuck to its pro-Palestinian policy. So the question remains: if neighbouring Arab states have come to terms with the existence of Israel, why can’t we? We have no territorial disputes with it, nor have we the means or the intent to militarily help the Palestinians. Or do we consider ourselves better Muslims than Turks and Arabs?
So why this hysteria over a corporate Israeli jet that may have landed in Islamabad recently? It is certainly true that most Pakistanis are anti-Semitic, even though few have actually met a Jew. And Palestine is a cause that resonates deeply, even among Pakistanis who are not otherwise very religious.
In fact, I suspect that the creation of Israel was yet another reminder of how enfeebled the ummah had become when several Arab armies were defeated by a ragtag Israeli militia in 1948. Now the Israeli Defence Force is a formidable regional superpower that has repeatedly exposed the weakness of the Arabs.
I have little doubt that any Pakistani government that recognises Israel would face violent demonstrations by religious parties. In fact, this is probably what has kept previous rulers, both military and civilian, from extending recognition to Israel.
But policy should not be subject to blackmail, especially when national interests are involved. Currently, Israel manufactures some of the most advanced weapons systems in the world, with China and India as its biggest customers. And it is a world leader in the optimal use of water. So clearly, we have much to learn from a state we consider our foe.
NASA kiekt bejaarde ijsberg met een wel heel bijzondere vorm
NASA kiekt bejaarde ijsberg met een wel heel bijzondere vorm
Vivian Lammerse
De ijsberg is na achttien jaar aangekomen op een plek waar ijsbergen ‘sterven’. En de vorm? Puur toeval, aldus NASA.
Astronauten op het Internationaal ruimtestation ISS hebben wel een heel bijzondere ijsberg gespot. Zo zagen ze een groot brok ijs in de vorm van een doodskist over de oceaan dobberen. De ijsberg drijft op dit moment steeds warmer wordend water in en is – na bijna twee decennia verdwaald te zijn op zee – onderweg naar zijn laatste rustplaats.
IJsberg B-15T die in de vorm van een doodskist over de oceaan drijft.
Afbeelding: NASA
B-15T De stervende ijsberg heeft de naam B-15T en drijft op dit moment op de Zuid-Atlantische Oceaan, tussen Zuid-Georgia en de Zuidelijke Sandwich eilanden. De winter op het zuidelijke halfrond loopt op dit moment ten einde. Hierdoor bereikt meer zonlicht het oppervlak, waardoor de zon het omliggende water verder opwarmt. Ook is er rondom de ijsberg geen zee-ijs te zien, wat inhoudt dat de watertemperatuur al boven het vriespunt is uitgekomen.
De plek waar ijsberg B-15T ronddobbert.
Afbeelding: NASA
Reis De reis van B-15T naar het ijsbergkerkhof is lang geweest. Zo begon het allemaal in maart 2000, toen de Ross-ijsplaat op Antarctica een record brekend groot stuk ijs kwijtraakte. Nog nooit hadden satellieten zo’n groot stuk ijs van Antarctica los zien komen. Het ging om de ijsberg B-15 die een oppervlak van ongeveer 11.000 km2 besloeg. In de jaren die volgden, brak B-15 in meerdere stukken, waaronder B-15T. De ijsberg doolde vervolgens voor achttien jaar rond op zee.
Botsingen De eigenaardige vorm heeft B-15T te danken aan de talloze botsingen die hij in zijn leven onderging. Zo smashte hij terug tegen de Ross-ijsplaat en klapte vervolgens tegen andere ronddobberende ijsbergen aan. Hierdoor zijn er telkens stukken van het ijs afgebroken, waardoor er lineaire randen en lijnen ontstaan. Dit zagen we onlangs ook nog gebeuren bij een ijsberg die voor de Larsen C-ijsplaat ronddreefen wel hele scherpe en rechte hoeken had.
Dat ijsberg B-15T de vorm van een doodskist heeft aangenomen, is “een ongeluk van tijd en ruimte,” stelt onderzoeker Chris Shuman. “We kunnen alleen maar gissen naar alle processen waaraan dit overblijfsel van B-15 is blootgesteld tijdens zijn lange tocht rond Antarctica.”
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bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad, 
, on the ground 10 hours, and back to TLV. Cleared flight-plan with usual 5min groundtime trick in Amman M-ULTI glex
