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Astronomer Claims New Interstellar Object Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

“We can’t rule out that this is an interstellar probe. If we get a closeup look, we may well see it has a metal exterior with portholes and little green faces looking out at us.”

Well, that didn’t take long. Just a week after astronomers announced the discovery of the second known space object from outside our solar system, one of them put his telescope on the line and speculated that it could actually be an alien spacecraft. The astronomer is Dr. Seth Shostak, whom you may know better as the host of the long-running weekly science radio show and podcast Big Picture Science, which comes from the SETI Institute where Shostak is a Senior Astronomer. He’s also a frequent guest on many talk shows. Speaking to The Sun about C/2019 Q4, he proposed that we don’t know much about the space object yet and a closer look – by telescope or a possible probe – could reveal that it’s a ship from another planet, although he warned those worried about an invasion that “I would bet next month’s pay cheque this is a comet.”

“Avi Loeb, the head of the Harvard Astronomy Department, wrote an ingenious research paper in which he argued that it was possible that – just as in Arthur C. Clarke’s 1973 story “Rendezvous with Rama” – ‘Oumuamua was man-made. Or rather, alien-made. One of the arguments Loeb offered to bolster this idea was that the chances of a randomly expelled comet accurately targeting the center regions of our Solar System were about the same as you winning next month’s Powerball jackpot. So either there were gazillions of interstellar comets peppering space, or this one was deliberately aimed our way – possibly by a crew within, keen on paying us a visit.”

In his post about C/2019 Q4 on the SETI website, Shostak defended fellow astronomer Avi Loeb, who weathered a lot of criticism for his own speculations that ‘Oumuamua – the cigar-shaped interstellar object which was only detected on its way out two years ago and still hasn’t been convincingly identified – was a spacecraft that might be manned by robots and AI so it couldn’t show conventional life signs or was long-ago abandoned and built up a crust of space debris that covered its metallic exterior. He then compared the two objects.

“Well, C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) also seems to be an interstellar traveler. Like ‘Oumuamua, it too apparently has a hyperbolic trajectory. So that would make two such visitors in two years – suggesting that, well, there really are gazillions of these things sailing silently through space. That’s obviously a less appealing conclusion than learning that some of these comets are not hunks of rock and ice but someone’s interstellar rockets. That’s still possible, although the chances seem smaller now.”

Shostak again doesn’t rule out the possibility that C/2019 Q4, discovered by astronomer Gennady Borisov, is a ship filled with life forms from another planet. Fortunately C/2019 Q4 was detected on its way into our solar system and it will be observable for at least a year. That’s plenty of time to train many telescopes on it, but is there enough time and technological know-how (and money) to send a probe to inspect it close up?

Or is it too late?

“It starts with NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). A half-ton chunk of metal will launch in July 2021 and make its way toward 65803 Didymos, a binary asteroid (made up of one big asteroid orbited by a smaller “moonlet”). After 16 months, DART will arrive at Didymos and crash into the moonlet at more than 14,700 miles per hour.”

It was just announced this week that NASA and the ESA will begin joint efforts to crash a probe into an asteroid to determine of it’s possible to deflect or destroy a space object on a potential collision course with Earth. The timetable announced for the first one seems to answer the C/2019 Q4 question – there’s not enough time to send a probe to inspect it.

Would the answer be different – and the money, equipment and manpower be suddenly available – if astronomers could confirm that C/2019 Q4 has a good chance of being an interstellar spaceship?

You probably shouldn’t bet your paycheck on that one either.

Source: Mysterious Universe

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Are Aliens to blame for the extinction of dinosaurs?

Official science says that the huge lizards that once inhabited our planet became extinct about 65-66 million years ago. There are many versions of the death of these large reptiles, but the most probable theory is considered to be the fall of a huge asteroid, which changed the axis of the Earth’s inclination, provoked volcanic activity with the release of millions of tons of ash into the atmosphere and, as a result, a decrease in temperature on our planet. According to this classic version, cold-blooded dinosaurs simply could not adapt to climate change, unlike warm-blooded mammals, and eventually died out, leaving only petrified skeletons in their memory.

For hundreds of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the Earth, capturing and subjugating new territories. Centuries were replaced by millennia, and these huge animals knew no equal in strength and development. But one day the world changed. Aliens came to Earth who destroyed the dinosaurs and thus prepared the planet for the life of more intelligent creatures.

Dinosaurs – the inhabitants of a different star system

According to scientists, the last dinosaur of the Earth died 66 million years ago. Destruction began with the fall of several large asteroids of large mass, which launched the mechanism of mass extinction. A recent study claims that the fall of the asteroid group was the “final blow” in the totality of previous events.

Before the fall of a huge asteroid in the province of Yucatan, Mexico, our planet was already exhausted by various natural disasters. The destruction was carried out by intense seismic and volcanic activity, huge fluctuations in sea level, as well as extreme temperature changes. A whole group of climatic factors caused the destruction of the food chain of dinosaurs, which began to suffer from hunger.

On the other hand, the large asteroid caused powerful tsunamis, tectonic movements and a high level of radiation. The continental-sized fires that swept the surface of the entire planet significantly worsened the difficult situation. This killed any animal that could not find shelter underground or by water.

According to experts, if an asteroid had been exposed several million years before the climate deteriorated, everything could have turned out differently. In this case, there would be a huge food base, favorable for the life of dinosaurs. However, a number of unfortunate events occurred in the life of animals, where the asteroid crash occurred at a critical moment of their extreme weakness.

At the same time, some questions arose regarding the extinction of this species of huge inhabitants of the Earth. According to researchers, some descendants of dinosaurs managed to survive, such as crocodiles and birds. But the death of the dinosaurs took an interesting version.

Aliens destroyed the dinosaurs

There are more exotic versions of the end of giant dinosaurs. According to one of them, the dinosaurs were destroyed by aliens. Genetic experiments have been conducted on some with the goal of breeding a new intelligent race, similar to humans.

Supporters of the “conspiracy theory” believe that an experiment has turned out and the so-called “reptilians” still live in parallel with our civilization in underground tunnels and cities, occasionally catching the eye of frightened eyewitnesses. Others claim that the aliens exterminated the ancient reptiles in order to make way for the new”homo sapiens” project, that is, a rational person.

Back in the 50-60s of the twentieth century, the famous writer and archaeologist Alexander Kazantsev, excavating the cemetery of dinosaurs in the Gobi desert found the skulls of these huge animals with neat bullet holes. And on the well-known stones of Iki from South America, scenes of taming and hunting for dinosaurs are depicted, while people (or maybe anthropomorphic inhabitants of other planets) are not inferior to these giants in size.

What if the genocide of dinosaurs was carried out by aliens?

It is possible that gigantic lizards ran on the ground several thousand, or maybe hundreds of years ago. The American paleontologist Marie Schweizer opened several mass graves of ancient reptiles and felt a cadaverous smell and even found the remains of ligaments, blood vessels and soft tissues in the bones. After attempting to publish his research, Schweizer was expelled from the scientific community, banning further research.

Scientist Luis Alvarez during excavations discovered a very thin layer of precipitation over 54 million years old. Among the investigated material, a substance was discovered that is not a common component for the Earth. There have also been suggestions about the origin of this element, in which it is assumed that the material could have appeared due to consequences of nuclear bombing.

Other scientists have investigated substances found in dinosaur bones. The factor that attracted their attention is the high level of radioactivity that exists in the bones of dinosaurs.

All these factors led to the assumption that the true cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs is some advanced race from outer space. Moreover, this may not be the first “purge” that aliens conduct on Earth. And judging by the cycles of extinction, it can even be the fifth!

The reason aliens could be guided by destroying dinosaurs on the planet is because the animals posed a threat to their new human project. Aliens could prepare territories for the evolution and development of mankind in order to subsequently be able to provide a safe and reliable world for life.

It is reasonable to assume that the idea of a human farm created by aliens is visible in this. However, in order to dominate the planet and subsequently give us the opportunity to live, it was necessary to replace the dinosaurs with another species.

Giants who may have had to fight or even “tame” dinosaurs were the kind in front of people. These giants were mentioned in the genesis, and there is some evidence for this, such as huge petrified footprints in the rocks.

Giant footprints

There are also some artifacts from our ancestors where you can see people fighting dinosaurs. That is why it is entirely possible that the gigantic humans created by the aliens had to fight the surviving dinosaurs who were able to survive the alien attack.

Stones with drawings where people fight dinosaurs

Some species of dinosaurs, such as Rex, were the ones that posed the greatest threat. For this reason, the giants had to make a choice of species that could survive. This allowed the survival of animals such as crocodiles and birds.

In addition, some researchers claim that there is a species of reptile, a descendant of these dinosaur races that were brought from outside the planet. This was done with the goal of performing hybridization experiments between dinosaurs and aliens.

This time was the beginning of the spread of those inhabitants of the planet who subsequently found refuge in underground bases created by them themselves. Today, some of them are called gnomes, others are trolls – and they looks fabulous. At the same time, there are many underground tunnels that cross our entire Earth.

There is no doubt that there was a race of reptilian-humanoid creatures on our planet before us. They had a lot of time to create tunnels under the sea and create huge underground cities. There are evidence and photographs of these underground tunnels that encircle the entire planet

Some believe that these projects have not lost their relevance, and strange experiments are still being conducted on Earth.

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PlayStation 5’s new alleged design appears on the web

PlayStation 5 may look like this / © Twitter - Alcoholicaust

Drawings of the future Sony console leaked again on the Internet. But this is not similar to previous times.

In anticipation of the release of the Sony Playstation 5 game console, the official release of which is scheduled for the end of the year, leaks appear one after another on the network regarding the design of the device. A Twitter user with the nickname Alcoholikaust, who several months ago circulated the alleged PS5 images online, posted in his account a new version of the design of the console.

It looks even stranger than the previous options. The device consists of two beveled quadrangular plates separated by a kind of layer. At the same time, the bottom plate has two additional triangular “ears”, and the power button is located on it. The interfaces for connecting the controller and the fan grill are likely to be located in the middle of the device.

Alcoholikaust notes that he cannot be one hundred percent sure that these are indeed the final drawings of the device. Commentators, in turn, noted that a similar design would be more suitable for the Xbox: if you look closely, the shape of the console in the pictures is a bit like the letter X.

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— The Drunk Cat™ (@Alcoholikaust) 16 January 2020

The characteristics of the future PlayStation 5 were unveiled in April 2019, and in December the alleged photos of the brutal design (below) of the console appeared on the network .

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Eyewitnesses say they saw the extinct huge Moa

According to official science, the huge New Zealand Moa birds disappeared in the late 15th century. But, they have been observed in the centuries to come and continue to be found in our time.

Hundreds of years ago, there were non-flying birds in New Zealand with powerful legs, similar to huge ostriches. Moa had no wings, even rudimentary ones. They ate fruits and plants. They lived carelessly until the first Maori arrived in New Zealand.

For the Maori, the cumbersome heavy giants reaching 3.5 meters in height, which posed no danger to humans, were an extremely easy prey. Over the course of several hundred years, humans have significantly reduced Moa’s population so that they remain very few, and about 500 years ago, the last Moa was officially killed.

However, hunters reported that they sometimes saw separate instances of Moa. In all likelihood, a small population of Moa has managed to survive in sparsely populated forests.

There are many accounts of eyewitnesses who met Moa in New Zealand in the early 19th century.

Later, the number of these eyewitnesses dropped sharply. By the 20th century, Moa in New Zealand seems to have disappeared completely. Sometimes scientists come across remains of an animal that looked surprisingly fresh, such as a perfectly preserved leg. But, the laboratory study shows that these are very old remains.

Now, in New Zealand, native forests are becoming more crowded with numerous research enthusiasts, but the maximum they have found is some new species of lizards or insects.

However, Moa has sometimes been observed in modern times. Researcher Bruce Spightle has published Moa Sightings, describing more than a hundred modern eyewitness stories that have encountered huge, wingless birds with powerful legs in the woods.

One of the most famous sightings took place on January 20, 1993, when three friends – Paddy Frini, Sam Webby and Rochelle Rafferty, went on a hike in the Craigieburn Range, South Island.

At one point, the group stopped to rest. Then Frini noticed a huge bird about the height of a man, covered in red-brown and gray feathers, standing among the prickly bushes. Frini pointed to his friends’ bird and the three looked at her in amazement.

After a short while, the bird noticed the people and began to move nervously behind the bushes. At that moment, Frini managed to get the camera out of his backpack and take a picture before the bird disappeared.

This photo, which is of rather poor quality, has caused a lot of commotion among biologists and ordinary people. It was hard not to believe Frini and his friends. They have long been hiking and are serious people, with no inclination for such jokes. But it was even harder to believe in the disappearance of Moa.

The scientists discussed this picture for a long time and finally decided that whatever it was, the creature was not Moa. They concluded that the neck was too thick, the legs not so long, and that from a certain angle the creature of the picture looked more like a deer.

For years, until the very end of his life, Frini visited the area, constantly trying to find Moa and take at least one more photo, but to no avail. He found several people in the same area and also saw something that looked like a large bird.

Another enthusiast is crypto-scientist Rex Gilroy, who has been searching for Moa in New Zealand for the past 30 years.

**Gilroy and his castings with suspected traces of Moa**

According to him, in 1980 he discovered a “completely fresh” footprint of Moa’s foot in the northern part of the country, and in 2001 and 2008, he even found a trail of very large bird tracks from which he made castings.

In 2007, he claimed to have found Moa’s large nest in an old stump, but did not show photos or say where it was, thus provoking criticism and allegations of lies. In his defense, Gilroy states that he hides the nesting area so that humans do not disturb the birds.

Many skeptics are convinced that Moa has indeed disappeared and all modern evidence is simply a hoax and a thirst for fame On the other hand, the testimony of eyewitnesses who saw Moa or their footprints always comes from those parts of the country that are still poorly populated and poorly studied.

That is, theoretically a group of large birds could really survive there. Moreover, Moa are not predators. The fruits and plants will be sufficient to feed them, even in a small forest.