IBM braces itself for ‘deluge’ of data from telescope which outputs an ‘exabyte’ of data a day – more traffic than the whole internet

• Telescope is 10,000 times faster than any radio telescope today
• Huge array of dishes connected by optical fibres
• £1.3 billion machine will come to life in 2016

 

The £1.3 billion Square Kilometer Array is one of the most ambitious science projects ever undertaken – and the biggest telescope every built.

It will consist of dishes spread over a square kilometer of land in either South Africa or New Zealand – and will scan the sky 10,000 times faster than any existing telescope.

Signals received by the SKA will be transferred to a central high performance supercomputer by optical fibres. The rate at which the vast quantities of data will be transferred will far exceed the data rates of current internet traffic – but IBM is already designing machines to digest it.

 

The Square Kilometer Array will generate so much data that no supercomputer on Earth could deal with it – every day, it will generate an ‘exabyte’ of data, more than the world’s daily internet traffic.

 

 

Astronomers and engineers from more than 70 institutes in 20 countries are designing the SKA – it will be 50 times more sensitive, and will survey the sky 10,000 times faster, than any other telescope.

 

 

The Square Kilometer Array will create three-dimensional maps of ‘cosmic magnets’ to understand how they stabilise galaxies, influence the formation of stars and planets, and regulate solar and stellar activity.

The amount of data captured by the dishes is near-impossible to even imagine – enough to fill 15 million of the largest-capacity iPods every day.

Currently, most astronomy projects are managed ‘manually’ – ie by astronomers using comptuers, but ‘picking’ which data to home in on. The SKA will generate so much data this will be impossible.

But IBM has already prototyped software that can ‘digest’ it — and says that the technology could allow companies to oversee telecommunications systems and transport networks more effectively than they do today.

 

Concept imagery of the Square Kilometer Array – the dishes will be connected by a network of fibre optic cables built to move more information than the entire internet does today.

 

 

The SKA will scan the sky 10,000 times faster than any other telescope – and will help scientists unravel mysteries such as ‘dark energy’ by mapping the cosmic distribution of hydrogen, and tracking ‘young’ galaxies.

Working with Dr Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, a radio astronomer from Victoria University in Wellington, IBM constructed the Information Intensive Framework (IIF) prototype to automate key elements of the work currently undertaken manually by scientists.

‘The Information Intensive Framework prototype tested several new concepts and is IBM’s first attempt to tackle the data intensive challenge faced by astronomy,’ said Dougal Watt, Chief Technology Officer, IBM New Zealand, and Chair of NZ SKA Industry Consortium’.

‘While developed with SKA in mind, the results are also applicable to other organisations faced with a ‘data deluge’. These range from individual manufacturing plants and telecommunications companies to whole transport networks and healthcare systems.’

 

Radio telescopes detect radio-frequency signals from space. They can reveal areas of space that may be obscured with cosmic dust. The SKA will the biggest and fastest ever built.

Dr Johnston-Hollitt said: ‘Undertaking research on exa-scale datasets will force radio astronomers into a new, as yet, unexplored habit of automated processing, imaging and analysis.

‘We will need new solutions to fully realize the vast scientific potential.’

Source Article Link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2070211/IBM-braced-deluge-data-Square-Kilometer-Array-telescope.html#ixzz1ffmxqA9n

(AUTHOR’S NOTE: They must be worried about something ‘out there’ to even attempt this sort of thing.  But remember, it’s for ‘science’ and the good of the public?  As long as the ‘elite’s have their underground city shelters, who’s worried?  Not me!!)

“Keep your nose to the ground and your eyes to the sky.”

JP

The first ‘index’ of habitable worlds finds 47 likely candidates – but half are MOONS

• Two candidate planets match all criteria ‘exactly’
• 47 others – including 15 expoplanets and 20 exomoons might be habitable
• First attempt to combine scientific scales for judging habitability

 

Nasa’s Kepler mission has been finding new worlds at an incredible rate over the past year – but scientists have been identifying ‘exoplanets’ for nearly two decades.

Now scientists have started a systematic ‘index’ to categorise which planets might be ‘habitable’ – and so far, we’ve found 47 planets and moons that might fit the bill.

The  Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR Arecibo) judges candidates by where they sit in their solar system, and what type they are. Most of the 700 planets so far detected are no-go zones – but 47 look promising.

 

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalogue is the first attempt to categorise which ‘exoplanets’ and ‘exomoons’ might be habitable – categorising them by how close they are to their stars, how large they are and what type of planet they are

Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler.

Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Neptune, but orbiting very dangerously close to their stars.

Only a few have the right size and orbit to be considered suitable for any life.

‘One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life,’ says Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL and principal investigator of the project.

 

Pandora, in James Cameron’s Avatar, isn’t a planet, it’s a moon – and many of the likelies candidates for habitability are also moons

The catalog uses new habitability assessments like the Earth Similarity Index (ESI), the Habitable Zones Distance (HZD), the Global Primary Habitability (GPH), classification systems, and comparisons with Earth past and present. 

According to Méndez, ‘New observations with ground and orbital observatories will discover thousands of exoplanets in the coming years. We expect that the analyses contained in our catalog will help to identify, organize, and compare the life potential of these discoveries.’

The catalog lists and categorizes exoplanets discoveries using various classification systems, including tables of planetary and stellar properties.

One of the classifications divides them into eighteen mass and thermal categories, creating a table similar to a periodic table for exoplanets. Additional resources of the catalog will include scientific visualizations and stellar maps of exoplanets.

 

Proposed telescopes such as the Terrestrial Planet Finder (a project under discussion by Nasa) would help identify potentially habitable worlds.

Only two confirmed exoplanets so far match the criteria for habitability in the catalog, Gliese 581d and HD 85512b – both of which are Earthlike. However, the catalog identifies over 15 exoplanets and 30 exomoons as potentialkthabitable candidates.

Future observations with new instruments, such as the proposed NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder, will be necessary to confirm the suitability for life of any of these candidates.

‘I hope this database will help increase interest in building a big space-based telescope to observe exoplanets directly and look for possible signatures of life,’ says Jim Kasting, an expert on planetary habitability science from Penn State.

Source Article Link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2070176/Nasas-Kepler-missions-index-habitable-worlds-finds-47-likely-candidates.html#ixzz1ffiND6Ca

(AUTHOR’S NOTE: As each day passes, it seems that we continuously get inundated with news and info regarding ‘new planets’, ‘new worlds’, ancient aliens, etc al, and all it’s doing is front-loading us with the notion of the return of the ancient Sumerian gods, as referenced in Genesis 6, otherwise known as fallen angels.

Please be wise to this, as “mens hearts shall fail them for what is to come UPON the earth”, Luke 21;26.

They WON’T come in PEACE.)

“Keep your nose to the ground and your eyes to the sky and don’t fall for the greatest lie.”

JP

Vatican astronomer ready to baptize consenting extraterrestrials

By Iria0000

The Vatican is not a technophobe, as evidenced by its installation of solar panels way back in 2008. It’s also not an xenophobe, either, as evidenced by statements this week by its official astronomer.

Shades of The X-Files.

Father Guy Consolmagno, the official Vatican astronomer, said he will be happy to give his blessing to any potential extraterrestrials, and will also baptize them. Only, however, if they ask for it.

Lest some humans do a double-take, Consolmagno issued assurances that “Every entity, regardless of how many tentacles it has, can have a soul.” We are not sure if he is including octopi and squid, or even sea anemones, in that list of entities.

If some are surprised by these words, it may be because they have had their noses stuck too long in the unreal faith-versus-science debate. Perhaps American Evangelicals espousing creationism have skewed the notion of what a sane, faith-infused attitude can look like.

Father Consolmagno –– and official Catholic teaching –– does not, in fact, scoff at cosmic possibilities suggested by science. The Vatican long ago stated that the theory of evolution is not incompatible with Catholic doctrine, and it no longer has issues with the Earth being a tiny speck in the vast cosmic void whose boundaries are unknown. That was way back in 2008.

Sentient aliens –– even ones with tentacles –– might very well be one of a myriad of God’s soul-infused creations. As a matter of fact, the Vatican has no issue with animals of any sort having souls –– albeit probably not spiritual souls, as in the case of humans.

So the Vatican, perhaps, may be more “with it” than we give it credit for.

Source Article Link:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11011968-vatican-astronomer-ready-to-baptize-consenting-extraterrestrials

(AUTHOR’S NOTE: Yet more evidence that the vatican is in league with the NWO and will be used as part of the ‘Whore of Babylon’ Beast system, to herald in the ‘New Age’ Deception; that the “ancient aliens” created us, therefore, ‘they’ are our gods and MUST be worshipped, OR ELSE!!!)

“Keep your nose to the ground and your eyes to the sky, and don’t fall for the greatest lie.”

JP

Ridley Scott’s New Alien Movie Influenced by Ancient Astronaut Theory (Great Deception Lie)

Excitement for Ridley Scott’s latest alien movie, Prometheus, has been heating up. Fascinating new images were recently released and there has been news this week of a trailer being leaked. However, an exciting fact for those who believe extraterrestrials have already visited our humble planet is that Scott says his new movie is influenced by the theory that aliens have “helped” humanity advance to its current level of civilization. Dubbed the “ancient astronaut theory,” this idea was made popular in the late 60s by Swiss author Erich von Daniken, and is currently the focus of the popular History channel television series Ancient Aliens.

Scott’s new movie, Prometheus, started off as a prequel to the Alien series. However, as the project took shape it turned into something new and different. Scott told the Hollywood Reporter that it had changed from being an Alien prequel to exploring the “space jockey” aliens that were featured in the first Alien movie. They were the giant beings whose ship the humans explored, finding the giant pilot long dead. It was on this ship that the protagonists found the eggs of the aliens which would terrorize the humans in one of the most popular movie franchises in science fiction.

Scott also told the Hollywood Reporter that:

“NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way… That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Eric von Daniken’s ideas of how did we humans come about.”

Von Daniken’s ideas were an instant hit when he introduced them in his best-selling book Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Von Daniken suggests that some of the world’s ancient structures were too complicated to be created by mankind. Instead he believes they were created by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that interacted with primitive human beings. One of the most popular examples is the pyramids of Giza; others are the monuments on Easter Island, and Stonehenge in England.

Scott’s comment that NASA and the Vatican agree with these ideas is a bit dubious. Although, in 1974, NASA’s chief of systems layout at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Josef Blumrich, published a book titled, The Spaceships of Ezekiel. In the book, Blumrich suggests that the famous biblical story of the prophet Ezekiel’s vision of a wheel within a wheel, could have been describing advanced technology. Blumrich posits that because of the lack of technology in Ezekiel’s time, Ezekiel was describing the technology of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization using the terminology of that era.

Several astronauts and retired NASA employees have gone on to investigate UFOs, or have been outspoken about their UFO sightings, but NASA has never given credence to the idea that extraterrestrials are currently, or ever have, visited the earth. The Vatican has also never made such a claim, although they have been showing interest in astrobiology, recently hosting a scientific conference on the subject. There have also been Roman Catholic priests who have shown an interest in UFOs, including Monsignor Corrado Balducci, who before his death in 2008, was the Vatican’s expert in demonology.

The debate on whether ET helped build the pyramid continues, and the popularity of the Ancient Aliens television series demonstrates that there is interest in at least entertaining these ideas. The addition of the topic in Scott’s Prometheus will likely help drive box office numbers for a movie that is already garnering a lot of interest.

Source Article Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alejandro-rojas/ridley-scotts-new-alien-m_b_1124808.html

“Keep your nose to the ground and your eyes to the sky.”

JP