Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Pre-Announcement Media Coverage
We are seeing so many remarkable pre-announcement pieces showing up, this is a place to post and discuss them. This one for example, is making discoveries sound 'ho hum' which a few months/years ago were heralded as amazing breakthroughs. Today for example:
"Nearly Every Star Hosts at Least One Alien Planet"
http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-every-star-hosts-least-one-alien-planet-120845221.html
When a month or so ago they were making a BIG deal about finding one planet in the sweet zone which could possibly support life, son they they say 25% of them could support life! Including mention of red dwarfs, etc. The Zeta predicted evidence continues to build up!
Here is another blog that relates, describing a wobble:
NASA Scientists "Discover" a Wobbly Planet!?
http://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/nasa-scientists-discover-a-wobbly-planet
Ryan X
Worldwide Surge in 'Great' Earthquakes Seen in Past 10 Years
Oct 26, 2014
John Smith
'Earth-size' UFO spotted orbiting the sun in NASA Images [Report] http://www.examiner.com/article/earth-size-ufo-spotted-orbiting-the...
Front and Center Yahoo News. More of preparing the mind's of the masses...
Oct 26, 2014
sourabh kale
A copy of the 2009 video about the Canadian Inuits observation of the sun moon and stars being out of place on main stream media
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMOKp2Mbofk
Oct 27, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11193003/Could-a-ts...
Could a tsunami strike Britain?
Twenty countries around the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, including the UK, are being tested for tsunami readiness. But how likely is it that disaster will strike?
In general, when we think of the devastation wreaked by tsunamis, we think of it being a long way away. Around the Indian Ocean, or the Pacific, where there are huge geological faults and therefore frequent earthquakes, the most common cause of tsunamis.
Anyone who has visited countries around the coasts of those oceans will have seen the warning systems and safety drills in place, ordering people to get to high ground if a tsunami warning is declared.
But there are few such systems in place in Europe, so Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Org...to determine how ready for a similar threat people are on countries around the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom are involved in the test over the next three days, and another 19 countries will be examined in the future.
How likely is it that Britain will be hit by a tsunami?
The short answer is "not very". Most tsunamis are caused either by earthquakes in the ocean, or by huge undersea landslides, which themselves are usually caused by earthquake activity. (They can also be caused by meteor impacts - the Chicxulub impact that killed the dinosaurs is believed to have .... But if we are hit by a 10-mile-wide meteor again, we will probably have bigger problems.) We are lucky enough to live in a very seismically stable part of the world, and while tsunamis can travel long distances through seawater, most of our coastline is protected - either by the European continent, or Ireland.
While to Britain's north there is the seismically active region around Iceland, it is unlikely that there will be a truly major earthquake there, because it is not a "subduction zone", a place where two tectonic plates meet and one is driven underneath the other into the Earth's mantle.
Most major earthquakes, including the ones that caused the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, the one that devastated Japan in 2011, and the Chilean earthquake of 2010, happen on subduction zones.
There is a possibility that a subduction zone is developing off the..., spreading there from the Mediterranean. However, since geological processes are usually measured in tens or hundreds of thousands of years, that is unlikely to be an urgent problem - and even when it happens, Britain will still be protected by the Iberian pensinsula.
(UPDATE: having said that, someone called @mushymelbowhead on Twitter has pointed me to this article which suggests that a tsunami may have killed 2,000 pe....)
How likely is it that other European countries will be hit by a tsunami?
Rather more likely. Portugal has already been hit by two very major earthquakes in (relatively) recent history, despite not lying on a subduction fault - it was these anomalous quakes in 1755 and 1969 that led researchers to consider the "developing subduction zone" hypothesis mentioned above. (The 1755 earthquake triggered a huge tsunami; it is estimated that 100,000 people died in Lisbon.) But the Mediterranean in general is steadily shrinking, as the African tectonic plate is subucted beneath the Eurasian plate; this is, of course, a subduction zone, and seismically active. In 1908, somewhere between 60,000 and 120,000 people died in Messina and Reggio, southern Italy, after a major (magnitude 7.1) earthquake shook the seabed on the narrow strait between the mainland and Sicily; thousands of the deaths were caused by 36-foot waves crashing into the coast around the epicentre. It is possible that the tsunami was caused by an undersea landslide triggered by the quake.
Other countries around the Mediterranean, including Turkey, have suffered devastating earthquakes. And in the Black Sea, in 1901, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake caused 15.... Major earthquakes are rare everywhere, but there are enough seismically active zones in Europe to make a tsunami early-warning system worthwhile.
What about "megatsunamis" caused by landslides?
We've really only talked about earthquake tsunamis so far, with the (possible) exception of the Messina-Reggio quake of 1908. But there has been a great deal of talk about the possibility of a megatsunami - one hundreds or thousands of feet tall - caused by a huge landslide; specifically, a landslide on the island of La Palma in the Canaries.
The hypothesis is that a huge shelf of rock, nearly the size of the Isle of Wight, could c..., perhaps triggered by an earthquake or volcano. The rock would hit the water faster than the water could get out of the way, goes the story, and would cause a wave 3,000 feet tall which would still be 150 feet tall by the time it hit the US Atlantic coast; the death toll would be enormous, perhaps millions.
It is dramatic and frightening, but almost certainly false; seismologists and geologists are near-universally agreed that it couldn't happen. The risk of landslide-triggered tsunamis is real in small bodies of water - in 1963, one major landslide fell into a lake behind a dam in Italy, causing a huge wave that overtopped the dam and roared down the val....
But there are no recorded episodes of this happening on an oceanic scale. And the La Palma rock is unlikely to collapse in one vast lump - research published in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems found that previous Canary Island landslides have happened in stages, not all at once. As this blog on the American Geophysical Union puts it, "this scare should be consigned to the garbage can once and for all".
Oct 28, 2014
casey a
This looks like the establishment is trying to gauge what the public reaction/disbelief will be during the 6 days of darkness during stopped rotation for the side of Earth facing away from the Sun.
A satirical news outlet (like the Onion) reported "NASA Confirms Earth Will Experience 6 Days of Total Darkness".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-confirms-six-days-of...
The story was being widely circulated on facebook & twitter
Oct 29, 2014
Kris H
Security being increased at govt buildings across the US. They are saying it is due to terror threats, but might be due to preparations in case of backlash after the announcement.
Oct 29, 2014
Chris
Lockheed Martin scientist on deathbed says aliens are real (VIDEO
http://rt.com/news/200903-aliens-lockheed-martin-pictures/
Aliens, some as old as 200 years, are real and have visited Earth, a former Lockheed Martin senior scientist has claimed. In his final moments, he provided “photo evidence” while sharing his personal experiences of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
The controversial 33-minute video was made shortly before Boyd Bushman died on August 7, 2014. However, the footage has only recently emerged and is starting to garner widespread attention.
“I do have a top secret clearance,” he affirms at the beginning of the video. He goes on to state that incidents such as Roswell in 1947 – when a military Air Force surveillance balloon crashed – happened at the hands of aliens.
Bushman shared details about aliens, UFOs, and anti-gravity technology – which he says is being developed by US, Russian, and Chinese scientists at Area 51 (the US military facility).
In the video, Bushman is seen holding up second-hand “photo evidence” of aliens while describing them to viewers.
“They were approximately four and a half to five feet tall,” the former top aerospace scientist said. “They have three back bones. They’re actually cartilage,” he added, stating that they had fewer ribs than human beings. These aliens have fingers and toes like human beings.
He went on to state that their eyes and noses are different from humans, and that they are telepathic mind readers.
"They're able to use their own voice by telepathy to talk to you," he said. “You walk in the room with one of them, and all of a sudden you find yourself giving the answer to your question in your own voice.”
According to Bushman, there are two different groups of aliens.
“It’s like a cattle ranch,” he stated, adding that some can be up to 230 years old.“One group is wranglers, and the others are rustlers - the stealers of cattle.”
“Wranglers” are “much more friendly and have a better relationship with us.”
Bushman seemed to have known the details of where and how those aliens live.
He claimed the creatures are inhabitants of a planet called Quintumnia. It is located 68 light-years away from Earth, yet it takes them only 45 minutes to travel to our planet. At home, they commute through telepathy, Bushman insisted.
The deceased scientist went on to say that he actually saw their homes because he gave the aliens a camera to take pictures with. It is, however, hard to say what those pictures contain because the images turned out blurry.
In another revelation, Bushman said there is a special flight path from space to Area 51, a mysterious base in central Nevada where it is believed that aliens and their spacecrafts were stored.
He added that there are Americans working on UFOs from outer space 24 hours a day, reported the Metro.
“With respect to the alien craft, we have American citizens who are working on UFOs 24 hours a day,” he stated.
However, the alien seen in Bushman's photographs is actually available to buy at Walmart, according to an investigation by Quebec station TVQC.
Oct 31, 2014
Ryan X
Aliens are 'divided into two groups' on earth, says Boyd Bushman
RELATED News:
Zetatalk Boyd Bushman
SOZT
Boyd Bushman
http://www.ovguide.com/boyd-bushman-9202a8c04000641f8000000006baeade
is sincere and telling the truth as he knows it. However, his contacts with aliens and their technology was limited to a single race, which was Service-to-Self. His description of the aliens being divided into two camps – the wranglers and the wrestlers – seems to be a division into Service-to-Other and Service-to-Self, as he describes the wranglers as more friendly, but as is known among humans who are highly Service-to-Self, the ability to posture and act kind and caring can disguise the true nature of the orientation. Thus, much of what Boyd was told was a lie.
Their mode of interstellar travel, the length of time it took to travel, the supposed photos they took of their home planets, and how their anti-gravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSUzC9xl6s
and energy producing technology worked were all fraudulently convened to Boyd. As is known, the Service-to-Self lie freely. The Council of Worlds allowed these Service-to-Self aliens to provide technology to man, but not the secrets of how it worked nor the ability to operate this technology. But the photos provided to Boyd of alien bodies are genuine, and were provided with the plan that he would have a role during disclosure, the deathbed revelation that has occurred.
Boyd also bought into the lies that his employers provided. Mankind was not able to reverse engineer alien technology. This lie has been promulgated in order to make man appear powerful in comparison to aliens. Arrogant members of MJ12 have, in the past, spread the rumor that they have alien technology,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNPBYtJyfZo
yet no proof of this has ever emerged. Space ships given to MJ12 by Service-to-Self aliens were stored at Area 51, with attempts by humans to fly them resulting only in wobbling about or crashed ships.
http://www.zetatalk.com/govmt/g33.htm
Nor did these dead alien bodies arrive because a human in an airplane was allowed by the aliens to shoot down one of their ships! How absurd is this story?
In that Boyd so willingly repeated the false stories that his MJ12 employers wanted the public to believe, he was considered an ideal vehicle for these false stories. His credentials check out. He holds patents and has worked for the Military Industrial Complex. Even aged and at death’s door, he is obviously not senile. His story has the ring of truth. As told by Boyd, it is the truth as he knows it. This last video is an attempt to counter the release of the Skinny Bob video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3ond0SzPQ
a video of another MJ12 guest who was of the Service-to-Other orientation and alive when filmed. What should the public believe? Stories told by Boyd Bushman, or their own eyes?
EOZT
Nov 9, 2014
Chris Harris
Hows this for introducing the concept of retrograde orbiting exoplanets:
Chaotic Wombs May Birth Wrong-way Planets
Nov 19, 2014
casey a
Obama Immigration Speech: CBS, Fox, NBC & ABC Not Airing
"Obama will be speaking live from the White House at 8 PM ET on Thursday".
The 4 networks that wont cover the speech: "ABC has...Grey’s Anatomy on at that time, while CBS...The Big Bang Theory,NBC has...The Biggest Loser and Fox has Bones."
However the news networks will cover the speech: Fox News, MSNBC & CNN. ABC said it will cover the speech online, and on Apple TV & radio.
Also for those outside the U.S., here is the link to the speech's live stream. The speech is supposed to be 15 minutes long.
Nov 20, 2014
casey a
Giant Humanoid Skull Found On Mars
(Debunking conspiracies, for better or worse, is the only way to give these things press attention unfortunately)
Here is another article from huffington post's mars section.
'Thigh Bone' On Mars Seen In New Curiosity Photo (21 Aug)
Nov 21, 2014
casey a
Incredibly, there could be organic matter on Mars (14 Nov)
Square Castle ruins on mars? (20 Nov) (the mission ended in 2006)
11 Mysterious Mars Objects ( 2 September)
Nov 21, 2014
Kris H
Discussion of a "theoretical Planet X", but with a more serious tone. Note that the IRAS survey is missing from their timeline...
Nov 24, 2014
Muzz
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/astronomers-believe-they-...
Nov 24, 2014
casey a
Some interesting things from Evelyn's link:
They say that the big bodies from "outerspace" that are orbiting the Sun, get the closest to the Sun when they pierce the ecliptic. Doesn't Planet X reach its closest point to the sun when it pierces the ecliptic, as well? (Please correct me if im wrong here).
Also there is a link, EARTH 2.0: The search for new worlds is gathering pace .
Both the article & the link above are hosted(?) by Murdoch's NewsCorp. What is also interesting is the info graph depicting how many planets were discovered each year. Look at the jump in discoveries in 2014.
Nov 24, 2014
casey a
NASA Thinks Life May Lurk Beneath Europa's (Jupiter's moon) Surface
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2014/11/23/nasa-thinks-life-ma...
Do aliens look like SHRIMP? Nasa researchers say tiny 'extreme shrimp' on sea bed could help hunt for extraterrestrial life
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2847878/Do-aliens-lo...
Its remarkable to see NASA open up to the possibility that extraterrestrial life may live in conditions "alien" to us. However, all of this could be a PR campaign in an attempt to gain funding. Or perhaps, given the interesting times ahead of us they still hope to look relevant?
Nov 25, 2014
Ryan X
Precursor explanation (cover up excuse) for satellite/power troubles ahead? Hard to say but interesting media release today:
Nov 27, 2014
casey a
Space agency attempted to steal evidence of extraterrestrial life, claims Sri Lankan politician (Oct. 29)
http://www.openminds.tv/space-agency-attempted-steal-evidence-extra...
(The politician could have been politically motivated in his claims (who knows). But the report published by the Journal of Cosmology is whats interesting. It's not recent. It was published on February, 2013)
From wiki, "[the] team discovered fossilized diatoms (microscopic plankton) inside the meteorite as well as cells similar to those found in the Red rain in Kerala that fell in 2001" (Here is zetatalk on life found in the red rain.)
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The Journal of Cosmology had previously also published a paper by Richard Hoover (a retired NASA scientist) Re: proof of life found in meteors. Nasa, however formally distanced themselves from him & his paper (Huffpo Link & archive)
Here is a quote from the criticisms against Hoover
However, here is the kicker. NASA's own website details Hoover's extensive accomplishments in astrobiology. (NASA Link & archive).
The NASA news release was published in 2009, only 2 years before NASA decides to distance themselves from Hoover's allegations that life has been found on meteorites. How does NASA's Astrobiology Institue director not know of a well-accomplished fellow scientist's accolades?
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So where does this take us?
Two days ago a research team in partnership with the european space agency has revealed that DNA can survive a flight through space and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. So, after going through the scorching heat that a meteor could go through, as well as traveling in space, the DNA samples placed on the outside of the rocket was still viable!!
Translation: Do no be surprised if you find living life in meteorites in the future. Are they anticipating what lies ahead?
Nov 28, 2014
casey a
Backstory to post below:
'Alien life found above Derbyshire proves we're descended from extraterrestrials', say scientists (08 October 2014) Link
"we think [the microscopic organisms] came from an aquatic environment, and the most obvious aquatic environment in space is a comet."
Microbial LIFE found living on the exterior of the International Space Station, say reports (21 August 2014) Link
Nov 29, 2014
casey a
New Mars head discovered. (Original picture was taken in 2005)
Dec 3, 2014
casey a
Traces Of Carbon In Mars Meteorite Stir Debate About Life On Red Planet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/mars-meteorite-life-carbon...
Dec 4, 2014
casey a
Maybe Humans Didn't Drive Mastodons To Extinction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/humans-mastodon-extinction...
Dec 4, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_t2JE-yYqg&feature=youtu.be
NASA knows something Big is Coming
Dec 8, 2014
casey a
Are We Close to Discovering Planet X? Link
Russian Scientist Discovers Huge New Asteroid That Could Crash to Earth Link
Dec 8, 2014
casey a
Just to add on to the recent methane (which is usually produced by life) findings on Mars, this isn't exactly new & perhaps goes all the way back to the Viking landers from the 1970's. http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2pk9yy/just_a_reminder_that_... .
Basically, martian soil was soaked with nutrients. And then they observed an increase in carbon dioxide, as possible evidence of metabolism from life.
This finding was however, dismissed because #1) although organic compounds (not necessarily life) was common in comets and such, none was found in Mars back then (coverup?). And #2) there was no water on Mars, which we now have known for a while is untrue. And even just recently NASA talked about an ancient lake, as well as finding water along with ancient organic compounds.
On top of this Miller (the scientist) found the gas emanations to follow a daily rhythm. So for instance, all living matter follow a daily cycle. We wake up, sleep following the pattern of the sun. Plants release & take in gases according to the sun's daily pattern. Just like that, Miller found gas emanations to follow a pattern that repeated every martian day. These were explained away as chemical reactions taking place. So they tried comparing it with organic & lifeless, chemical reactions that take place on earth, & the patterns followed that of living matter.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120413-nasa-viking-...
Now NASA has to do an about turn, which isn't exactly an easy thing to do.
Dec 17, 2014
casey a
Dalai Lama concedes he may be the last
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30510018Dec 17, 2014
SongStar101
Curiosity has discovered organic matter on Mars
http://www.cnet.com/news/curiosity-has-discovered-organic-matter-on...
Molecules found by Curiosity on Mars have been confirmed as organic matter -- the building blocks of all known forms of terrestrial life.
NASA
The Curiosity rover has found and analysed the first definitively identified piece of organic matter on the surface of Mars.
These organic molecules, consisting primarily of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms, are the building blocks of all life on Earth. However, it is important to note that these molecules may not have come from life forms on Mars -- organic molecules can be created from chemical processes that do not involve life, NASA said. At this stage, there is not enough evidence to determine the provenance of the molecules -- but either way, their presence has meaning.
The team responsible for Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite have several hypotheses. The first is, of course, a biological process. Others include chemical reactions in water at ancient hot springs on the Red Planet, or arrival from off-planet via dust, meteorites, asteroids or comets.
Recently, Curiosity found evidence of dry river and lake beds on Mars -- of surface water on the planet -- such as minerals that can only form in the presence of liquid water, and erosion patterns formed by sediment deposited by water flows. This indicates that, billions of years ago, conditions on Mars could have supported life.
The molecules -- which seem to confirm recent findings that a Martian meteorite contained extraterrestrial organic matter -- were found in a drilled sample in the Sheepbed mudstone of the Gale crater -- the location of Curiosity's exploration. The mudstone on the crater floor is consistent with the clay found on Earth from dried-up lakes, formed from sediment on the lake floor -- presenting optimum conditions for the preservation of organic matter.
"We think life began on Earth around 3.8 billion years ago, and our result shows that places on Mars had the same conditions at that time -- liquid water, a warm environment, and organic matter," said Caroline Freissinet of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "So if life emerged on Earth in these conditions, why not on Mars as well?"
Dec 18, 2014
sourabh kale
Search for the Lost Giants
A new history channel tv series
ABOUT THE SERIES
Stonemasons Jim and Bill Vieira are on a quest to investigate an incredible theory: that the myths and legends we’ve all been told about giants are actually rooted in fact. Jim has researched over 1,000 accounts of skeletons seven feet tall or over unearthed across America in the 19th and 20th centuries. SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS will follow the Vieira brothers on their quest to find evidence of these missing bones, which seem to have slipped through the hands of history. They’ll dig for secret chambers, explore underground tunnels and dive into the deepest museum storage vaults–all to find that one bone, that one hair, that single strand of giant DNA that will answer the question: did giants walk the Earth?
http://www.history.com/shows/search-for-the-lost-giants/episodes
Dec 25, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.thegic.org/nasa_releases_free_e_book_on_decoding_extrate...
NASA RELEASES FREE E-BOOK ON DECODING EXTRATERRESTRIAL
MESSAGES
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.
Dec 26, 2014
casey a
Russia to Build a Scientific 'Noah's Ark'
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russia-to-Build-a-Scientific-...Dec 28, 2014
casey a
'Coffin' Found On Mars
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/29/coffin-found-on-mars_n_6...
(Usually HuffPo speaks about these Mars findings derisively. This time there is no mocking--a change in tone, I guess)
Dec 29, 2014
G A Nicholas
Don't know about the coffin being real, but here's a link to another picture I found interesting. Is it an Azetc type head or just an oddity of nature/hoax making the carving? Any thoughts?
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00184/mcam/0184MR09251...
Dec 29, 2014
casey a
Hi GA. Is this what you're talking about? (Looks like an eye & a nose.)
Dec 29, 2014
casey a
Young Red Dwarf Stars could Host Habitable Worlds (Dec 15). http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/young-red-dwarfs-stars-host-...
"Increasing odds of extra-terrestrial life" (Dec 19) http://www.astrobio.net/topic/deep-space/cosmic-evolution/life-aqua...
Barren Deserts Can Host Complex Ecosystems in Their Soils (Dec 22). http://www.astrobio.net/topic/origins/extreme-life/barren-deserts-c...
Life Can Survive on Much Less Water Than You Might Think. (Nov 4) http://www.astrobio.net/topic/origins/extreme-life/life-can-survive...
If microbial life can survive in Earth’s Atacama Desert (right), one of the driest places on the planet, would it have
any chance on Mars (left)? From a perspective of the availability of water for biological activity, or “water activity,”
as reviewed in a new study, the answer is “yes.” Credit: NASA/JPL (left); Henry Bortman (right)
Dec 31, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/29/residents-below-aging-b-c-d...
Residents below aging B.C. dam warned: in case of major earthquake, get out in 10 minutes or die
VANCOUVER — After deciding it would be too expensive to rebuild a 103-year-old dam built in one of the most collapse-prone areas of Canada, British Columbia’s power utility has settled on a controversial plan: Bracing for a disastrous flood.
“[I]n a magnitude 9 earthquake, the people down below would have 10 or 15 minutes to get out of there, or I guess the bottom line is that they would all die,” said Mike Hicks, municipal director for the area.
Since early December, BC Hydro has been busily transforming the area surrounding its Jordan River dam into a flood-ready no-man’s-land.
The utility is pushing to stop development in the future “inundation zone” and has successfully obtained a ban on overnight camping at a popular nearby park. It is also looking to install a warning siren to alert day-trippers if they are about to be swamped by several million litres of reservoir water.
Most contentious of all, the provincial utility offered to buy up 11 houses and businesses in the tiny community of Jordan River, a once-thriving resource town that would largely be flattened by a dam collapse.
Locals are uniformly outraged at the offer, even as they see the value of their homes being wiped out by the news.
“For just about everybody around here it’s not a money thing; we don’t want to move, fix your dam,” said Doug Harvey, speaking to local television.
Mr. Hicks noted camping at Jordan River Regional Park was being shut down only four years after the municipal government spent $9.9-million to buy the land.
“If they’re going to ask us to have no overnight camping, they should buy our park, simple as that,” he said. “They sterilized Jordan River, and they’re the ones responsible for this.”
News of the looming dam collapse has also scuttled plans to turn the park over to the nearby Pacheedaht First Nation, who were to build a campground and interpretative centre.
Said Mr. Hicks, “That’s all gone, too, with BC Hydro’s announcement that they’ll all be dead.”
While the utility claims it cannot fix the dam, it has acknowledged there are ways the structure could be prevented from collapsing in an earthquake.
BC Hydro could simply lower the water in the reservoir, but it said this would cause an electricity shortfall that could cost as much as $200-million to fix.
The dam could also be decommissioned, but this would also be “highly costly” and would risk flooding homes with spillover from an unregulated Jordan River.
The utility’s dramatic plans for the area were fuelled by an alarming seismic study released this month showing the Jordan River dam, built in 1911, sits atop one of the most vulnerable parts of British Columbia and possibly the country.
When the Big One hits (an event that is statistically due for coastal B.C.), the dam will shake as much as three times harder than buildings in Downtown Vancouver.
The pressures are virtually guaranteed to rip apart the structure and kick off what has clinically been called an “uncontrolled release of upstream reservoir water.” As the utility said in a statement, it was “not aware of any dams in the world” strong enough to straddle the Jordan River without collapsing.
Jan 1, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2015/01/keplers-new-mission-dis...
Kepler’s New Mission Discovers First Alien Planet Called The Super Earth
Posted on January 2, 2015
Kepler lost its two reaction wheels, but this did not stop the NASA’s spacecraft to search foralien planets. Indeed, the space telescope discovers alien world again in its new mission. Since operating back again from a malfunction in May 2013, the spacecraft found its first new extraterrestrial planet named HIP 116454b, also called as the super Earth mainly because it is larger than approximately 2.5 times than planet Earth. Lies in the constellation Pisces, in 180 light-years from Earth, the newly discovered alien planet is near enough to be studied by other instruments, according to scientists.
The reborn of Kepler has been even better because the first discovered planet is ripe for follow-up studies, said scientist Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
Launched in March 2009, Kepler was on a 3.5-year mission to determine the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists have discovered close to a thousand confirmed planets through Kepler. More than 50% of these known alien worlds are believed to be the real deal, along with approximately 3,200 other candidates.
In May 2013, Kepler’s second of its four reaction wheels malfunctioned. These wheels are necessary for precise pointing. However, the letdown did not stop the team to find a way to increase the stability of Kepler. Members of the team used the subtle pressure of sunlight to provide a solution to the stability issue then proposed a new mission named K2. The new Kepler’s mission would continue the hunt of exoplanet and study other cosmic phenomena as well as space objects.
Twelve times more massive as compared to Earth, the HIP 116454b is approximately 20,000 miles wide and its density suggests that it’s either a small version of Neptune with large, thick atmosphere or primarily covered by water.
The distance between the newly discovered world to its host star is 8.4 million miles or 13.5 million kilometers. Its host star is an orange dwarf, slightly smaller as well as cooler than the sun in the solar system. HIP 116454b completes an orbit every 9.1 days.
The planet’s close distance to Earth means it will be a top target for telescopes in space and on the ground.
Jan 2, 2015
Howard
Never mind what might cause this,
What If Every Volcano on Earth Erupted at Once?
http://www.livescience.com/49305-what-if-all-volcanoes-erupted.html
WARNING: Contains disinformation.
Jan 2, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/577776/20150102/orange-dwarf-star-so...
Two Orange Dwarf Stars To Reach The Solar System Might Wipe Out Human Race
January 2, 2015 11:38 AM EST
Some would say that the given time frame is truly a long stretch from today. However, the big threat that the phenomena might cause makes the study worth considering as it will have direct effect to future humanity.
European astrophysicist Coryn Bailer-Jones who works at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg,Germany is predicting that around 14 stars might come within the next few million years. The astrophysicist came to this prediction after analysing the computer-simulated orbits of more than 50,000 stars that are nearby. The prediction also says that among the thousands of neighboring stars, there at least two that humanity should worry about, Forbes reports.
Bailer-Jones' study is set to appear in an upcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics journal. According to the study, the possibility of the dwarf stars entering the boundaries of the solar system might potentially disturb the trillions of comets orbiting in the Oort cloud beyond the primary planets. This might send many comets into the inner solar system and has the potential to hit Earth. Apparently, the comets are made of rocks, dust and organic materials.
According to New Scientist's report, the two stars that have 90 percent probability of reaching the solar system the closest are named as Hip 85605 and GL 710. The Hip 85605 might reach the solar system in 0.13 to 0.65 light years away, while the GL 710 might take around 0.32 to 1.44 light years in the next 1.3 million years.
The estimate on the current position of the Hip 85605 and GL 710 is not accurate and could still be wrong. However, the threat posed by the movements of these stars nearing the solar system is not a joke.
Report says that the Earth can be affected in three ways. First, the gravity can attract comets into the inner solar system and the passing comets might harshly affect Earth's atmosphere due to the powerful ultraviolet radiation that the comets might cause. Second, a small number of the alleged stars might explode like supernova while passing through the Oort Cloud. Finally, the study says that the effect of the supernova remnants could cause long-term global cooling. The global cooling was also suspected to have wiped out the dinosaurs in the past and it is possible that's such incident might wipe out the human race millions of years from now.
Jan 2, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2015/01/deep-earth-life-excites...
Deep Earth Life Excites Extraterrestrial Life Researchers
Posted on January 3, 2015 in Aliens, Latest posts, NASA
Earth is commonly associated with green forests, blue oceans and animals that live in both. However, there’s a possibility too that Earth hosts another biosphere. Tiny microbial organisms could be living below the surface. This could also be the same with extraterrestrial life.
In a recent study published in the journal Nature, geoscientist Barbara Sherwood Lollar says that deep-Earth life environment could be far vaster than previously thought.
The idea that alien life could also be the same has received a sudden impact with the NASA’s announcement that Mars Curiosity rover had discovered a plume of methane that spiked and then dissipated on the red planet, an indication of microbial life.
Geochemist Lisa Pratt says that the new study and the new NASA’s discovery of the red planet suggest that scientists should begin searching for something that is different than the conventional cellular life, which researchers used to seeing and studying on Earth.
In 2006, Sherwood Lollar and Pratt announced through a Science paper about the discovery of bacteria living deep in a gold mine in South Africa, completely isolated from sunlight. These microbes managed to live deep in Earth by deriving their energy from hydrogen gas produced by water and the surrounding rock reactions. These microbes are estimated to have lived between three million and twenty-five million years.
Just last year, Sherwood Lollar also part of a team that discovered similar environment. They analyzed water in a mine in Timmins, Ontario with similar chemistry to the mine in South Africa. The team estimated that the water found in the Timmins mine was billions of years old. The site is still subject for further study to know if there’s microbial life living in it.
So, scientists and ordinary people are now curious about how many similar places in the planet host life. Furthermore, the possibility of dark life in the red planet provides exciting stuff among scientists and researchers.
Jan 4, 2015
casey a
Ted Turner had a tape made for CNN in case the world ever ended. (Its apparently the Armed Forces band playing "Nearer My God, to Thee"--—the song the band on the Titanic supposedly played, when it went down). (The context to the tape was provided in case a nuclear war took place. But in 1988 would he not have known about Planet x?)
ABSTRACT (from the New Yorker, in 1988): Talk story about a signoff tape, made by Ted Turner, head of CNN, in the event of nuclear war… We wondered what was on the tape. What did Mr. Turner think America wanted to hear as it prepared for incineration?… “We need to totally disarm,” Mr. Turner told us, “Because, just as with guns, if you've got nuclear weapons you're eventually going to use them… Normally, when a TV station begins & ends the broacast day, it signs on & off by playing the National Anthem,” he said. “But with CNN–a 24-hour-a day channel– we would only sign off once & I knew what that would mean. So we got the combined Armed Forces marching bands together –the Army, Navy, Marine & Air Force bands–& took them out to the old CNN headquarters & we had them practice the National Anthem for a videotaping. Then, as things cranked uo, I asked if they'd play 'Nearer My God, to Thee' to put on videotape just in case the world ever came to an end. That would be the last thing CNN played before we–before we signed off. And, I'll tell you, those guys in the military bands knew what I was up to. He began to play the tape. “I can't watch this without getting tears in my eyes,” Mr. Turner said, and he left the room, tossing his hands in the air. We watched & listened as the band completed the hymn. When it was over, in about a minute, the band members snapped their instruments down to parade rest & the screen went dark. Mr. Turner came back into the office. “Pretty strong, huh?” he said. “I keep this tape around because when the world ends it'll be over before we can say what we wanted to say. Before we can leave any final messages.
This was supposedly leaked by a former CNN intern http://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-video-cnn-will-play-when-the-world-...
It was then picked up by BBC (& given a headline to reflect the truth on the announcement, perhaps). Does CNN really have a video ready for the apocalypse? - BBC
Jan 6, 2015
casey a
Kepler 438b: Most Earth-like planet ever discovered could be home for alien life. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/06/earth-like-planet-al...
Jan 7, 2015
casey a
NASA made posters for some known exoplanets. Here is one. http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/nasa-travel-posters-exoplanets/
Jan 9, 2015
Yvonne Lawson
Can you solve some of the world’s biggest UFO mysteries? Rare microfilms of alien sightings are now available online for free
Mr Arnold saw nine UFOs over Mount Rainier, on 24 June 1947 and the US government agencies took an interest in reports. A similar sighting (pictured) occurred over Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 12, 1947
The files relate to USAF investigations into UFO from 1947-1969
They were conducted under 'Project Blue Book' which ended in 1970
More than 700 cases remain unsolved, accounting for 5.5% of the files
In 1948, the US government launched several inquiries into UFO sightings, which many believed were sparked by Cold War paranoia.
In what became known as 'Project Blue Book,' more than 12,000 encounters with UFOs were looked into by the Air Force.
Now, decades after the files were closed, the microfilms have been made available online for free – allowing anyone to re-examine the evidence.
The USAF says that the Blue Book included 12,618 sightings reports, with 701 of which remained 'unidentified' – or around 5.5 per cent of the files.
The files, which can be accessed here, were previously only available by visiting the National Archives in Washington, according to a report in openminds.tv.
'There is plenty of work for amateur investigators to try to come up with explanations they never had time to consider or research,' Nigel Watson author of the UFO investigations Manual told MailOnline.
One case that Mr Watson is particularly intrigued in for historical reasons is a report filed by Kenneth Arnold which led to the popular term 'flying saucers'.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2908998/Can-solve-wo...
Jan 14, 2015
Mark
Are there hidden planets in our solar system?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2912323/Are-hidden-p...
Astronomers believe there are at least two unknown planets waiting to be discovered well beyond Pluto.
They claim these planets are changing the position of objects away from Neptune, causing them to behave in strange ways.
If their theory proves true, scientists say it could 'revolutionise' solar system models.
Jan 16, 2015
casey a
Has Science Just Admitted Planet X/Nibiru Exists? Believers Say Full ‘Nibiru Disclosure’ Is Coming
http://www.inquisitr.com/1769216/has-science-just-admitted-planet-x...
Jan 20, 2015
casey a
NASA Cuts ISS Live Feed As 'UFO' Appears (video) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/19/ufo-appears-iss-nasa-cut...
Jan 21, 2015
casey a
Al Gore's speech at the World Economic Forum that's taking place in Switzerland. (Its basically a place where the political elite meet the corporate elite). But Gore's speech on climate change is interesting (to say the least). Looks like he's doubling down on climate change. Its one way of getting ppl's attention on the earth changes & renewable energy, I guess.
Jan 21, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2015/01/ufo-disclosure-advocate...
UFO Disclosure Advocate to Play a Major Role in Hillary Clinton’s Election Campaign
Posted on January 21, 2015
An advocate for freedom of information, John Podesta has said that it’s time for a full disclosure of everything, including the existence of space aliens. The Wall Street Journal said John Podesta, who serves as a senior White House aide, may resign and join the election campaign of Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Podesta’s role in a Clinton campaign remains unclear, the Journal reported. People with inside access to the discussions said he likely would get the role of a campaign chairman should Hillary decide to run. Podesta would be an impressive Clinton’s asset given his political and social learning.
In 2013, Podesta called Republicans “Killer Cultists” when he referred congressional Republicans the Jonestown cultists who left more than nine hundred people dead and committed mass suicide in 1978. He said that they should focus on executive action because they would likely face a second term against a cult with similarity of Jonestown taking charge in one of the houses of Congress. Republicans got furious, and Podesta eventually issued an apology through Twitter.
UFO and extraterrestrial enthusiasts will be most interested in Podesta’s suggestion that authorities should impart their knowledge about extraterrestrials to the public if they have any proof. Speaking at a press conference in 2002, he asked the U.S. government to declassify any UFO information. He also composed the foreword to the book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record,” published in 2010.
He wrote that the time to disclose UFO subject is long overdue. If Podesta is faithful to his words and if he’s in a position of power, Steve Bassett’s petition requesting for disclosure might not be needed anymore as disclosure may just come naturally.
In the U.S. history, no female has become president, and if human rights and equality advocate Hillary Clinton make it to the Presidential Office with Podesta at her side, people could expect full disclosure.
Jan 21, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.ibtimes.com/pulse/doomsday-clock-ticks-closer-apocalypse...
Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer To Apocalypse Because Of Climate Change, Atomic Scientists Warn
Thu, 2015-01-22 14:17
Doomsday is creeping closer as Earth suffers from rising sea levels, melting glaciers, intensifying storms and devastating drought. Scientists have moved the symbolic Doomsday Clock ahead by two minutes, from five minutes to three minutes till midnight, amid growing concerns about climate change -- and the feeble response by countries to stop this existential threat.
“Despite some modestly positive developments in the climate change arena, current efforts are entirely insufficient to prevent a catastrophic warming of Earth,” the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a 70-year-old group, warned in a Thursday announcement. The organization also cited “global nuclear weapons modernization and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals” in the United States, Russia and other nations as additional reasons for moving the clock closer to Doomsday.
"It was inaction on climate change and nuclear weapon dismantling and reduction," Kennette Benedict, executive director, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said in an interview with International Business Times discussing the decision to advance the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock. "You’ve seen the reports on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and [the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's] report that the last decade was the warmest in many, many decades. Science is getting much clearer now. We’re really observing quite extraordinary changes, especially in the Antarctic, and the inevitability of the sea level rise."
The scientists cited a handful of factors that show the accelerating threat of climate change. Let’s take a look:
1. Climate change is already happening -- and it’s our fault
It’s not a distant or wishy-washy threat. Climate change is here and now, according to a United Nations-led panel of global climate scientists. “Human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a stark November report.
Over the past century, burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy use, converting forests into industrial farmland and razing pristine jungles has pumped massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. As a result, the atmosphere and oceans are warming, sea levels are rising and concentrations of carbon dioxide -- the most abundant greenhouse gas -- have increased to levels unseen in at least the last 800,000 years, according to the assessment.
Need proof the climate is changing? The panel pointed to the mass die-offs of forests in the U.S. West, where heat-loving beetles are thriving and killing trees. More frequent heat waves are destroying crops and causing tens of thousands of deaths worldwide. In New York City, sea levels are 1.1 feet higher today than in 1900. That change proved especially dangerous during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy; the added ocean height worsened the extent and magnitude of coastal flooding during the storm.
Here’s another unsettling tidbit:
2. 2014 was the hottest year on record
Last year, surface temperatures on the land and oceans reached a combined global average of 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit (0.69 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average -- the hottest level on record since 1880, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said earlier this month.
NASA scientists separately determined that the 10 warmest years in the past 135 are all since 2000, with the exception of 1998. Last year “is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades,” Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said recently.
He noted that while chaotic weather patterns in certain years can mess with global temperatures, “the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases.”
3. Temperatures will keep rising -- and probably past the 2-degree threshold
Global warming must be kept to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. But scientists generally agree that we’ll breeze past that threshold before the middle of the century, and we could see warming of up to 4.8 degrees Celsius by 2100.
To prevent extreme warming, the world needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions entirely before the end of the century. As in, to zero. That means keeping all of the world’s remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground, an action that will require aggressive government policies such as carbon pricing and trillions of dollars of investment in cleaner energy alternatives.
To limit warming to just 2 degrees, countries will have to keep 80 percent of coal, half of natural gas, and one-third of oil in the ground by 2050, according to a recent study by University College London researchers. Scientists say it’s technically possible to do this, given the recent advancements in solar and wind power and energy-saving technologies. But policy experts say it’s a “politically unachievable” feat right now.
4. Last year’s climate negotiations were kind of a dud
The Doomsday Clock scientists said the U.N. climate talks in Peru in December were “inadequate” given the scope of the threat.
At the meeting, 196 countries agreed to work over the next 12 months to develop an international treaty for reducing emissions and investing in low-carbon technologies. Many negotiators and outside observers hailed the conference as a success; it’s perhaps the closest countries have come to an inclusive global agreement in nearly two decades of talks. But critics, including the atomic scientists, pointed out that the “plan to make a plan” isn’t doing much right now to curb global emissions and halt investment in fossil fuels.
The U.N will have another climate summit in Paris later this year, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Benedict hopes to see serious developments regarding global warming. "I think it almost takes a change in consciousness and we hope that might happen in Paris, that there might be more money set aside for the people who will suffer the most from climate change. People in poor countries, especially low-lying countries along the coast, that would be a big step forward and would signal, to many, that the international community is taking this seriously," Benedict said. "Talk is talk, what we need is action at this point."
Jan 22, 2015
casey a
Big asteroid to fly by Earth Monday. http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/us/asteroid-fly-by/.
Also mentioned in the article is: Don Yeomans, director of the Near Earth Object Program @ NASA has retired. He used to be one of the company guys put forth to chirp the coverup lies.
Jan 24, 2015