Monday 23 January 2017

Dr. Steven Greer reveals different types of Aliens known to to the Government .

Given the fact that the universe is SOO big, it’s hard to even imagine that life only came into existence –miraculously— on Earth.

To put the possibility of alien life existing elsewhere into perspective, there are approximately 10 billion galaxies in the observable universe. The number of stars in each galaxy may differ, but assuming there is an average of around 100 billion stars per galaxy, it would mean that there are around 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – lots of zeroes yup, and that’s 1 billion trillion— stars in the observable universe.

This of course, isn’t the entire number but just one segment of the entire picture since we can only observe parts of the universe that are within 13.7 billion light-years of earth.

As noted on SCSB, this is due to the fact that the big bang occurred about 13.7 billion years ago. Thus, w make observations about distant stars by measuring the light that reaches earth and satellites that we have in space.

Light from stars farther than 13.7 billion light-years away has not had time to reach us yet. The universe must be much bigger than the universe that we can observe at this time, therefore there may be many more stars out there.

After realizing how big the universe really is, we turn to the Alien question.

In the past, numerous scientists, military officials, and whistleblowers have come forward speaking about UFOs and alien visitations to Earth.

The debate about Alien life isn’t something new to modern times, as a matter of a fact, since recorded history, people have asked what if somewhere out there is life similar to that on Earth. “To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.” – Metrodorus, Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C.

One of the most interesting comments regarding extraterrestrial life comes from former Canadian defense minister, Paul Hellyer.

Mr. Hellyer has said that here are more than 82 known alien species who have visited Earth. It is claimed that a wealth of information about these extraterrestrial species is contained in highly-classified documents used as training manuals or guides for military and intelligence personnel. The documents reveal that many of the known species, such as the Alpha-Draconians or Reptilians, have been living on Earth long before the human race.

Comments made by Mr. Heller are backed up by many other scientists, military officials, and whistleblowers.

Franklin Story Musgrave, an American Physician, retired NASA astronaut who worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program and the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles had very interesting things to say about life elsewhere in the cosmos:

“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”

One of our favorite quotes comes from Dr Brian O’Leary, a former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor:

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, which seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.”

In addition to the above, a very interesting video about alien life and alien visitations is the one posted below, where Steven Macon Greer –a retired medical doctor and ufologist, founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project— speaks of the various types of aliens. The interview was made in 2010.

3 Common Space Myths that will make your RETHINK everything you’ve been taught in School.

The Earth isn’t round, and the sun isn’t yellow. Regrettably, most of our knowledge about the universe, space, and even planet Earth is today made up of numerous random segments produced in Hollywood movies and science fiction books. Most of the time, these segments are far more reality.

When looking at our solar system and our planet, it would seem undeniable that the Earth is a round sphere, Mercury –the closest planet to the sun— is the hottest planet, and the sun is yellow. However, while these may sound as fool-proof, undeniable facts, they are far away from reality.

Nope, the Earth is not round, technically
One of the most hated, controversial and provocative questions is: whether the Earth is round.
The truth is that it’s true and not at the same time.
How? Well, as it turns out, the shape of our planet is CONSTANTLY changing because of the movement of Earth’s continental plates. This movement is small, and averages around 5 cm in a year.- However, this relatively small movement has a great impact on the appearance of our planet, which is, in fact, one of the most important details when it comes to the questions; is the Earth round. The answer is that our planet is FAR from being perfectly round.
The shape of our planet is anything but similar to the shape of a football, basketball or baseball, and it is more like a irregular potato or oddly shaped pear.
So, instead of calling Earth a globe, a more accurate name that best describes our planet’s shape would be GEOID.Not flat, phew.

The Sun is NOT yellow

Even though every time we look at the sun we see it as a yellow, orange or red sphere depending on the time of the day and the sun’s position in the sky, as it turns out, the sun is in fact WHITE.
As science put it, the color of any light depends mostly on the temperature. For example, surface temperatures of 4,500 degrees celsius, like our sun emit a white color.
So why do we keep painting the sun as a yellow circle? As it turns out, the longer light waves from the yellow/red part of the spectrum pass the atmosphere of the Earth nearly without any loss.However, if one day you find yourself in space, orbiting Earth, take a look at the sun and you will notice that the star we all painted as children as being yellow is in fact WHITE.

The Moon’s Dark side is… a lie

While there are numerous mysteries associated with our moon, the dark side of the moon isn’t a mystery at all. In fact, the idea that the Sun only shines on one side of the moon, leaving the other side of it in complete darkness is a very widespread mistake.

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The idea of a ‘dark side of the moon’ comes from the fact that the moon faces our planet only with one side, leaving the other side of the moon –the dark side— impossible to observe from the ground.
This is a big mistake though. In fact, the Sun shines over the visible and invisible parts (seen from Earth) of the moon. We only see one side of the moon because the period the moon needs to revolve on its own axis is coincidentally the same with the time it takes to orbit Earth.

Sunday 22 January 2017

Mind-Blowing: There is a 2 BILLION-Year-Old natural Nuclear Reactor in Africa.

Mind-Blowing: There is a 2 BILLION-Year-Old natural Nuclear Reactor in Africa

Ancient Code The unexplaine

A worker stands next to a deposit of, among other things, naturally depleted uranium.

Two billion years ago, parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. Scientists estimate that this nuclear reactor –whch consists of 16 sites—has been operational for at least 500,000 years in the distant past. Incredibly, compared with this massive nuclear reactor, our modern-day nuclear reactors are not comparable both in design and functionality.

The nuclear reactor consists of 16 sites. As it is noted in Scientific American, “It is truly amazing that more than a dozen natural reactors spontaneously sprang into existence and that they managed to maintain a modest power output for perhaps a few hundred millennia.”

The discovery is so fascinating that researchers said that “the discovery of the Oklo natural nuclear reactor in Gabon (West Africa) in 1972 was possibly one of the most momentous events in reactor physics since 1942 when Enrico Fermi and his team achieved an artificial self-sustained fission chain reaction.

Whenever we hear the term ‘nuclear reactor’ we think of a structure created artificially. However, that’s not the case here. This nuclear reactor is in fact located in a region of natural uranium within our planet’s crust, located in Okla, Gabon.

As it turns out, Uranium is naturally radioactive, and the conditions that occurred in Okla happened to be PERFECT allowing nuclear reactions to take place.

In fact, Oklo is the ONLY known location for this on the planet and consists of 16 sites at which scientists say ‘self-sustaining’ nuclear fissions occurred around 1.7 billion years ago, averaging around 100 kW of thermal power during that time. The Oklo uranium ore deposits are the only known sites in which natural nuclear reactors existed, but how? Why is it that no other place on Earth has a natural nuclear reactor?

According to reports, the natural nuclear reactor formed when a uranium-rich mineral deposit became inundated with groundwater that acted as a neutron moderator, and a nuclear chain reaction took place. The heat generated from the nuclear fission caused the groundwater to boil away, which slowed or stopped the reaction. After cooling of the mineral deposit, the water returned and the reaction restarted, completing a full cycle every 3-hours. The fission reaction cycles continued for hundreds of thousands of years and ended when the ever decreasing fissile materials no longer could sustain a chain reaction.

This mind-bending discovery was made in 1972 when French scientists took uranium ore from the mine in Gabon to test its uranium content. Uranium ore is composed of three isotopes of uranium, and each one of them contains a different number of neutrons. There is Uranium 238, uranium 234, and uranium 235.

Uranium 235 is the one which scientists are most interested in because it can sustain nuclear chain reactions.

What is surprising is that a nuclear reaction had occurred in a way that the plutonium, the by-product, was created, and the nuclear reaction itself had been moderated. This is something considered as a “holy grail” of atomic science. The ability to moderate the reaction means that once the reaction was initiated, it was possible to leverage the output power in a controlled way, with the capacity to prevent catastrophic explosions or the release of the energy at a single time.

They also found that water had been used to moderate the reaction in the same way that modern nuclear reactors cool down using graphite-cadium shafts preventing the reactor from going into critical state and exploding. All of this, “in nature” of course. After all, nature is incredible in every single way.

But, Why is it that these parts of the deposit did not explode and destroy themselves right after nuclear chain reactions began? What mechanism provided the necessary self-regulation? Did these reactors run steadily or in fits and starts?

Researchers in China find a 2,000-year-old sword as sharp as when it was just crafted.

Researchers in China find a 2,000-year-old sword as sharp as when it was just crafted

The 2,300-year-old sword has taken experts by surprise since despite its antiquity, the sword, and its sheath are in perfect state of conservation. Experts indicate that the sword did not oxidize because the tomb chamber had been sealed.

Chinese archaeologists have discovered in the Henan Province (central-eastern China) a steel sword forged more than 2,300 years ago.

According to the news agency TASS, the sword was discovered during the excavation of a tomb in Xinyang city.

Despite its antiquity, the sword, and its sheath are in perfect state of conservation. In a video published on social networks, it can be observed that the blade of the weapon maintains practically the original sharpening.

After carefully removing the mud-covered sword from the coffin, archaeologists cleaned the sheath before separating the blade from its cover at around 12 pm on December 30.

Liu Yong, the deputy supervisor of the Chengyang Protected District, who witnessed the sword-drawing ceremony said he was extremely impressed by the ancient weapon.

The ancient city of Chengyang is the best preserved and largest city of the ancient kingdom of Chu (770-223 BC). It is located 25km north of Xinyang city in Henan Province. The city is believed to have been established around 2,700 years ago as the barracks of the Chu Kingdom.

Through a poem, he said that even though the loyal general had died, his treasured sword was still glittering.

However, experts are yet to confirm the identity of the owner of the ancient sword.

Furthermore, laboratory results of the tests showed that the ancient sword was forged during the period of the Warring States, which lasted from 475 BC to 221 AD.

This period is considered by scholars as the golden age of Chinese culture and, according to historians, had a significant influence on the development of the Han dynasty.

This led to the development of science and the application of scientific advances in production, which prompted an increase in trade.

However, according to reports, such discoveries certainly aren’t new for the Henan Province.

In April 2016, archaeologists unearthed a number of 3,000-year-old coffins after discovering 22 tombs dating from the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1046 BC).

Historians believe the site was a “family burial place,” belonging to “affluent people, possibly aristocrats.”

ASTRONOMY PROF, STUDENT PREDICT EXPLOSION THAT WILL CHANGE THE NIGHT SKY.

Daniel Van Noord '14 and Larry Molnar predict explosion that will change the night sky.

Calvin College professor Larry Molnar and his students along with colleagues from Apache Point Observatory (Karen Kinemuchi) and the University of Wyoming (Henry Kobulnicky) are predicting a change to the night sky that will be visible to the naked eye. At 10:15 a.m. CST on Friday, January 6, a press briefing was held at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center (Austin 5) where Molnar shared how a prediction he made in 2015 of a binary star merging in the near future is progressing from theory to reality.

“It’s a one-in-a-million chance that you can predict an explosion,” Molnar said of his bold prognostication. “It’s never been done before.”

Molnar’s prediction is that a binary star (two stars orbiting each other) he is monitoring will merge and explode in 2022, give or take a year; at which time the star will increase its brightness ten thousand fold, becoming one of the brighter stars in the heavens for a time. The star will be visible as part of the constellation Cygnus, and will add a star to the recognizable Northern Cross star pattern.

Calvin communication arts and sciences professor Sam Smartt is producing a documentary on the nature of the scientific discovery, the development of undergraduate researchers and the power of "small science." Watch the trailer.

A question leads to exploration

Molnar’s exploration into the star known as KIC 9832227 began back in 2013. He was attending an astronomy conference when fellow astronomer Karen Kinemuchi presented her study of the brightness changes of the star, which concluded with a question: Is it pulsing or is it a binary?

Also present at the conference was then Calvin College student Daniel Van Noord ’14, Molnar’s research assistant. He took the question as a personal challenge and made some observations of the star with the Calvin observatory.

“He looked at how the color of the star correlated with brightness and determined it was definitely a binary,” said Molnar. “In fact, he discovered it was actually a contact binary, in which the two stars share a common atmosphere, like two peanuts sharing a single shell.

“From there Dan determined a precise orbital period from Kinemuchi’s Kepler satellite data (just under 11 hours) and was surprised to discover that the period was slightly less than that shown by earlier data” Molnar continued.

This result brought to mind work published by astronomer Romuald Tylenda, who had studied the observational archives to see how another star (V1309 Scorpii) had behaved before it exploded unexpectedly in 2008 and produced a red nova (a type of stellar explosion only recently recognized as distinct from other types). The pre-explosion record showed a contact binary with an orbital period decreasing at an accelerating rate. For Molnar, this pattern of orbital change was a “Rosetta stone” for interpreting the new data.

Making a bold prediction

Upon observing the period change to continue through 2013 and 2014, Molnar presented orbital timing spanning 15 years at the January 2015 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, making the prediction that KIC 9832227 may be following in the footsteps of V1309 Scorpii. Before taking the hypothesis too seriously, though, one needed to rule out other, more mundane, interpretations of the period change.

In the two years since that meeting, Molnar and his team have performed two strong observational tests of the alternative interpretations. First, spectroscopic observations ruled out the presence of a companion star with an orbital period greater than 15 years. Second, the rate of orbital period decrease of the past two years followed the prediction made in 2015 and now exceeds that shown by other contact binaries.

Moving from theory to reality

“Bottom line is we really think our merging star hypothesis should be taken seriously right now and we should be using the next few years to study this intensely so that if it does blow up we will know what led to that explosion,” said Molnar.

To that end, Molnar and colleagues will be observing KIC 9832227 in the next year over the full range of wavelengths: using the Very Large Array, the Infrared Telescope Facility, and the XMM-Newton spacecraft to study the star’s radio, infrared and X-ray emission, respectively.

“If Larry’s prediction is correct, his project will demonstrate for the first time that astronomers can catch certain binary stars in the act of dying, and that they can track the last few years of a stellar death spiral up to the point of final, dramatic explosion,” said Matt Walhout, dean for research and scholarship at Calvin College.

Watching in wonder

“The project is significant not only because of the scientific results, but also because it is likely to capture the imagination of people on the street,” said Walhout. “If the prediction is correct, then for the first time in history, parents will be able to point to a dark spot in the sky and say, ‘Watch, kids, there’s a star hiding in there, but soon it’s going to light up.’”

Molnar says that this is the beginning of a story that will unfold over the next several years, and people of all levels can participate.

“The orbital timing can be checked by amateur astronomers,” said Molnar. “It’s amazing the equipment amateur astronomers have these days. They can measure the brightness variations with time of this 12^th magnitude star as it eclipses and see for themselves if it is continuing on the schedule we are predicting or not.”

See an earlier iteration of this story, which includes video and photos.

Saturday 21 January 2017

Russia jams USA satellites!!!

Russia Jammed Your Satellites? US Military Develops Undersea Network as Backup — Credit: DARPA

In the heat of battle, the United States military coordinates air and ground movements using a global communications network of satellite links, encrypted wireless networks and old-fashioned radios. But what happens if over-the-air transmissions are jammed or hacked by enemy operatives? Take it underwater, of course.

DARPA, the research and development arm of the Department of Defense, is in the testing phase of a deep ocean, fiber-optic network that would restore tactical communications if conventional satellites and radio frequencies are knocked offline.

Code-named TUNA (Tactical Undersea Network Architectures), the backup communications system would consist of a network of radio buoys strung together by hair-thin fiber-optic cables floating hundreds of feet below the ocean surface.

Building a "plan B" for mission-critical communication underseas presents some serious engineering challenges. DARPA works with U.S. universities and private industry to dream up the novel technologies that power future military operations such as this. For TUNA to work, engineers needed to develop super-thin fiber-optic cables that were tough enough to last 30 days in rough seas, and also self-powered buoys to keep the ad-hoc radio network online.

Stepping up to the buoy challenge was a team of engineers from the Applied Physics Lab (APL) at the University of Washington, one of DARPA's official University Affiliated Research Centers. In less than a year, they sketched up and built out a bat-winged prototype that generates its own energy from passing waves.

Called WEBS (Wave Energy Buoy that Self-deploys), the system can be dropped into the ocean by airplane or boat. It works by capturing the kinetic energy of ocean swells and converting them to electricity using onboard generators. A "heave plate" floating 60 meters below stabilizes the central tube of the buoy while two floating wings move up and down with the waves.

"As opposed to typical wave energy conversion devices, which are anchored to the seafloor and generate large amounts of power for sustaining onshore needs, this is all about having energy available in an offshore environment," said Andrew Stewart, principal engineer at APL, in a promotional video. Given the system's tactical military applications, Stewart couldn't comment further.

For the second phase of the TUNA project, DARPA has set aside $20 million in funding to build and test a working prototype of the seaborne communications network. The end-to-end system would not only need dozens of self-powered radio buoys, but thousands of meters of next-generation fiber-optic cable still in development.

The floating TUNA network is designed to be temporary, filling the gap until normal tactical communication links are restored. Still, DARPA haschallenged the research community to come up with fast fixes in case a hair-thin strand of underwater cable is severed.

The Last Man to Walk on the Moon is dead!!

We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." -- Cernan's closing words on leaving the moon at the end of Apollo 17

Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died Monday, Jan. 16, surrounded by his family.

Photo gallery of Eugene Cernan

Cernan, a Captain in the U.S. Navy, left his mark on the history of exploration by flying three times in space, twice to the moon. He also holds the distinction of being the second American to walk in space and the last human to leave his footprints on the lunar surface.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement after Cernan's death, "Truly, America has lost a patriot and pioneer who helped shape our country's bold ambitions to do things that humankind had never before achieved."

A statement from Cernan's family said in part, "Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation's leaders and young people to not let him remain the last man to walk on the Moon,"

Cernan was one of 14 astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. He piloted the Gemini 9 mission with Commander Thomas P. Stafford on a three-day flight in June 1966. Cernan logged more than two hours outside the orbiting capsule.

In May 1969, he was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification test of the lunar lander. The mission confirmed the performance, stability, and reliability of the Apollo command, service and lunar modules. The mission included a descent to within eight nautical miles of the moon's surface.

In a 2007 interview for NASA's oral histories, Cernan said, "I keep telling Neil Armstrong that we painted that white line in the sky all the way to the Moon down to 47,000 feet so he wouldn't get lost, and all he had to do was land. Made it sort of easy for him."

Full oral history interview with Eugene Cernan.

Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan and the U.S. flag on the lunar surface.

Credits: NASA

Cernan and Evans in Apollo 17

Credits: NASA

Cernan concluded his historic space exploration career as commander of the last human mission to the moon in December 1972. En route to the moon, the crew captured an iconic photo of the home planet, with an entire hemisphere fully illumnitated -- a "whole Earth" view showing Africa, the Arabian peninsula and the south polar ice cap. The hugely popular photo was referred to by some as the "Blue Marble," a title in use for an ongoing series of NASA Earth imagery.

Apollo 17 established several new records for human space flight, including the longest lunar landing flight (301 hours, 51 minutes); longest lunar surface extravehicular activities (22 hours, 6 minutes); largest lunar sample return (nearly 249 pounds); and longest time in lunar orbit (147 hours, 48 minutes).

Cernan and crewmate Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt completed three highly successful excursions to the nearby craters and the Taurus-Littrow mountains, making the moon their home for more than three days. As he left the lunar surface, Cernan said, "America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. As we leave the moon and Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind."

"Apollo 17 built upon all of the other missions scientifically," said Cernan in 2008, recalling the mission as the agency celebrated its 50th Anniversary. "We had a lunar rover, we were able to cover more ground than most of the other missions. We stayed there a little bit longer. We went to a more challenging unique area in the mountains, to learn something about the history and the origin of the moon itself."

On their way to the moon, the Apollo 17 crew took one of the most iconic photographs in space-program history, the full view of the Earth dubbed "The Blue Marble." Despite its fame, the photograph hasn't really been appreciated, Cernan said in 2007.

This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on December 7, 1972.

Credits: NASA

"What is the real meaning of seeing this picture? I've always said, I've said for a long time, I still believe it, it's going to be -- well it's almost fifty now, but fifty or a hundred years in the history of mankind before we look back and really understand the meaning of Apollo. Really understand what humankind had done when we left, when we truly left this planet, we're able to call another body in this universe our home. We did it way too early considering what we're doing now in space. It's almost as if JFK reached out into the twenty-first century where we are today, grabbed hold of a decade of time, slipped it neatly into the (nineteen) sixties and seventies (and) called it Apollo."

On July 1, 1976, Cernan retired from the Navy after 20 years and ended his NASA career. He went into private business and served as television commentator for early flights of the space shuttle.

Cernan was born in Chicago on March 14, 1934. He graduated from Proviso Township High School in Maywood, Ill., and received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1956. He earned a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

Cernan is survived by his wife, Jan Nanna Cernan, his daughter and son-in-law, Tracy Cernan Woolie and Marion Woolie, step-daughters Kelly Nanna Taff and husband, Michael, and Danielle Nanna Ellis and nine grandchildren.