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
SongStar101
Inhabitants of PX, radio communications? Wonder if this will be on the increase as PX approaches? Interesting.
Mysterious radio signal from space caught live for first time
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/01/26/mysterious-radio-signal-f...
Astronomers in Australia have picked up an “alien” radio signal from space for the first time as it occurred. The signal, or radio “burst”, was discovered on May 15, 2014, though it’s just being reported by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “The burst was identified within 10 seconds of its occurrence,” said Emily Petroff, a doctoral student from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology. “The importance of the discovery was recognized very quickly and we were all working very excitedly to contact other astronomers and telescopes around the world to look at the location of the burst.”
Emerging from an unknown source, these bursts are bright flashes of radio waves that emit as much energy in a few milliseconds as the sun does in 24 hours. “The first fast radio burst was discovered in 2007,” Petroff tells FoxNews.com, “and up until our discovery there were 8 more found in old or archival data.” While researchers use telescopes in Hawaii, India, Germany, Chile, California, and the California Islands to search for bursts, it is the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Eastern Australia that is the first to catch one as its happening.
The cause of these mysterious signals remains unknown, with possible theories ranging from black holes to alien communication. However, UFO hunters shouldn’t get too excited. According to Petroff, “We're confident that they're coming from natural sources, that is to say it's probably not aliens, but we haven't solved the case completely. The two most promising theories at the moment are that these bursts could be produced either by a star producing a highly energetic flare, or from a neutron star collapsing to make a black hole. Both of these things would be from sources in far-away galaxies just reaching us from billions of light years away.”
Catching the bursts as they happen is key to finding the source, and though Petroff’s team scrambled upon making their discovery, they didn’t move fast enough to find the afterglow and pin down the cause. “Finding one in real-time has been the goal for a while because we would then be able to act on it and mobilize other telescopes to look that way,” Petroff says. “We did this in the case of this real-time discovery, but we didn't get on the target until about eight hours later with other telescopes, at which time nothing was found.” However, they were able to eliminate a few possible causes, such as gamma-ray bursts from exploding stars and supernovae. Also, the team was able to determine that the source had been near an object with a sizeable magnetic field from the way the wavelengths were polarized.
While the source of the fast radio burst remains a mystery, the team remains hopeful that they can learn from their mistakes and one day solve the case. “All we can do is learn from our experience with this discovery and create a more efficient system for next time,” Petroff says. “We still spend a large amount of time looking for fast radio bursts with the Parkes telescope and the next time we are in the right place at just the right time, we'll be able to act faster than ever before and hopefully solve the mystery once and for all!”
Jan 27, 2015
KM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2929775/Aboriginal-f...
Aboriginal folklore could be oldest accurate oral history in the world: Stories of ancient sea level rise have survived for 10,000 years
Traditional stories passed down through generations by Australian Aborigines may be among the oldest accurate oral histories in the world, scientists have claimed.
The findings have allowed them to map how the continent may have looked around 10,000 years ago.
Oral folklore tells how the Great Barrier Reef once formed part of the coastline of north east Queensland, while Port Phillip Bay in Victoria was once a rich place for hunting kangaroo and opossum.
Researchers have found other stories from all over the continent that mirror how the landscape towards the end of the last ice age.
The Great Barrier Reef, off the Queensland coast, was once part of the mainland according to Aboriginal tales
They say at this time sea levels rose as a result of the melting of the huge ice caps that covered much of the around 10,500 years ago.
The researchers now believe that these stories could constitute some of the oldest accurate oral histories in the world, passing through some 300 generations.
THE GREAT BARRIER COASTLINE
Several stories tell how the Great Barrier Reef was once the original coastline of north east Queensland.
Stories told by the Googanji people describe how a river entered the sea near to what is now called Fitzroy Island.
The Yidindji people who lived in the Cairn's area of Queensland also tell how Fiztroy Island was once called 'gabar', or lower arm.
They told how it had once been part of a promontory sticking out from the mainland while nearby Green Island was four times larger and the Island is now all that is left sticking out the ocean.
They also describe a place called 'mudaga', or pencil cedar, between Fitzroy Island and King Beach after the trees that once grew there.
The finding is remarkable as many anthropologists believe that exaggeration and Chinese whispers often distort oral history so severely that they can no longer be reliable if they are older than 1,000 years old.
However, Dr Nick Reid, a linguist at the University of New England, has found that the stories of Australian Aborigines are astoundingly accurate.
Hidden within of seagull gods and ancestral heroes causing seas to rise and great floods are details of how the landscapes looked before the time.
Dr Reid studied 18 traditional Aboriginal stories and found that they seemed to coincide with true geological events.
Writing for the Conversation, he said: 'How do we know that these stories are authentic? We suggest that because they all say essentially the same thing, it is more likely that they are based on observation.
'All tell of the ocean rising over areas that had previously been dry. None tell stories running the other way – of seas falling to expose land.
'The huge distances separating the places from which the stories were collected – as well as their unique, local contexts – makes it unlikely that they derived from a common source that was invented.'
This graphic shows how Aboriginal stories from all over Australia describe the sea level rise that occurred at the end of the last ice age around 10,000 years ago, causing much of the coastline to be flooded by water
Jan 28, 2015
casey a
This is a year old. But what this scientist explains re: mars & meteorite samples is priceless. I hope he gets exposure after disclosure & that he is safe in the meantime.
Former NASA Scientist claims conspiracy about Mars photo
Feb 4, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/196569/Mysterious_Planet_X_...
Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar System
Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar X" might actually exist and so might "Planet Y."At least two planets larger than Earth likely lurk in the dark depths of space far beyond Pluto, just waiting to be discovered, a new analysis of the orbits of "extreme trans-Neptunian objects" .Researchers studied 13 ETNOs frigid bodies such as the dwarf planet Sedna that cruise around the sun at great distances in elliptical paths. [Meet Our Solar System's Dwarf Planets. Theory predicts a certain set of details for ETNO orbits, study team members said. For example, they should have a semi-major axis, or average distance from the sun, of about 150 astronomical units the distance from Earth to the sun roughly 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.) These orbits should also have an inclination, relative to the plane of the solar system, of almost 0 degrees, among other the actual orbits of the 13 ETNOs are quite different, with semi-major axes ranging from 150 to 525 AU and average inclinations of about 20 degrees."This excess of objects with unexpected orbital parameters makes us believe that some invisible forces are altering the distribution of the orbital elements of the ETNOs, and we consider that the most probable explanation is that other unknown planets exist beyond Neptune and Pluto," lead author Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, of the Complutense University of Madrid, said in a statement."The exact number is uncertain, given that the data that we have is limited, but our calculations suggest that there are at least two planets, and probably more, within the confines of our solar system," he potential undiscovered worlds would be more massive than Earth, researchers said, and would lie about 200 AU or more from the sun so far away that they'd be very difficult, if not impossible, to spot with current of the cold objects that orbit far from the are discovering trans-Neptunian objects belonging to the Oort Cloud, the most distant region of Earth's solar system. See how the dwarf planets of Sedna and 2012 VP113 stack up in this : By Karl Tate, Infographics ArtistView full size imageThe new results detailed in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters aren't the first to lend credence to the possible existence of a so-called Planet March 2014, Chadwick Trujillo and Scott Sheppard announced the discovery of 2012 VP113, an ETNO that never gets closer to the sun than 80 AU. 2012 VP113 thus joined Sedna as the two known denizens of the "inner Oort Cloud," a far-flung and largely unexplored region of space beyond the Kuiper Belt (where Pluto lies).Trujillo and Sheppard suggested that the orbits of 2012 VP113 and Sedna are consistent with the continued presence of a big "perturber" perhaps a planet 10 times more massive than Earth that lies 250 AU from the , the pair also stressed that other explanations are possible as well. For example, Sedna and 2012 VP113 may have been pushed out to their present positions by long-ago interactions with other stars in the sun's birth cluster. The objects may also have been nabbed from another solar system during a stellar close encounter.
Feb 5, 2015
casey a
For anyone who didnt see it, there was an apocalyptic commercial run during the Super Bowl.
Here are some of the things shown:
- Snow in summer
- Unexpected severe storms excused as a hurricane in nebraska(???)
-"Tsunamis in paris"
- Birds migrating away en mass.
- The homeless apocalyptic bearded man with a "this is the end" sign (that you see in every apocalypse movie).
-Bar tender in denial & still showing up for his job to an empty restaurant.
- Some ppl are just walking about in shock & dont know what to do.
- Guy loots a T.V. in the middle of the mayhem & right in front of a cop. The cop isn't concerned about keeping the rule of law & is more fixed on the coming storm.
- Ppl driving away in panic & running over a pedestrian. Abandoned cars left by the road.
- Fireballs & an asteroid swarm heading to earth.
Feb 9, 2015
casey a
Obama aide John Podesta says ‘biggest failure’ was not securing the disclosure of UFO files
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/02/13/obama...
Feb 14, 2015
casey a
Mystery Mars haze baffles scientists http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31491805
Feb 17, 2015
Dee Nguyen
This scene of 2 suns was shown for 1 to 2 seconds in The Walking Dead, Season 5 Episode 10. About 5-10 min in the show. I took this photo with my phone while watching it on demand.
Feb 18, 2015
KM
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150217114121.htm
Closest known flyby of star to our solar system: Dim star passed through Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago
Feb 18, 2015
Nancy Lieder
Scholz's Star on the BBC also. Note when describing the "companion" of Scholtz they are essentially describing Nibiru! An unlit brown dwarf traveling with the star. They are also introducing the concept of such a pair interacting with OUR solar system, as the mythical Oort Cloud (which the Zetas say in fact does not exist http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s51.htm) is purported to surround OUR solar system. Next they will say "oh, and we have one right next to our Sol! Just noticed it.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31519875
The object, a red dwarf known as Scholz's star, cruised through the outer reaches of the Solar System - a region known as the Oort Cloud. Scholz's star was not alone; it was accompanied on its travels by an object known as a brown dwarf. These are essentially failed stars that lacked the necessary mass to get fusion going in their cores. Observations of the dim star's trajectory suggest that 70,000 years ago this cosmic infiltrator passed within 0.8 light years of the Sun.
Feb 18, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://dcraig.blogs.redding.com/2015/02/the-real-controversy-is-tha...
The real controversy is that there is no controversy
“I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I am currently reading The Collapse of Western Civilization, A View from the the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway and it got me thinking. The “book” is in fact a mere booklet, a 52-page essay the size of a postcard but it packs a lot in its tiny package. The authors imagine a future historian in the year 2393 looking back on our present time to discern and explain “how we — the children of the Enlightenment — failed to act on robust information about climate change and knowledge of the damaging events that were about to unfold.”
They write:
I have thought about this issue on a daily basis for the last nine years and continue to seek new words to express my perplexity. Oreskes and Conway write, “While analysts differ on the exact circumstances, virtually all agree that the people of Western civilization knew what was happening to them but were unable to stop it. Indeed, the most startling aspect of this story is just how much these people knew and how unable to act upon what they knew. Knowledge did not translate into power.”
Or to put it differently, knowledge did not lead to wisdom and without wisdom, the people were lost. How did this happen? As the title of this blog suggests, it was not an accident. The science was and is completely uncontroversial. The accumulated science from the 1950s to the late 1980s led to the uncomplicated understanding that what was long predicted — human-caused global warming — had leaped from the science journals and the climate models and was now present in the world.
Still, what was extremely controversial was the implications of our folly. We had begun to alter the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere and the biosphere. And all blame pointed to human civilization’s addiction to fossil fuels. Oreskes and Conway correctly identify industrialists, bankers and politicians as the culprits in the creation of a cult of denial that soon developed to confuse the consensus and muddy the minds of a conservative portion of the public who were remarkably easy to sway.
As the chart below shows, even as late as 1998, there was very litt... A mere seven points (46-53%) divided Democrats, Independents and Republicans when asked if global warming was already happening. Only fifteen years later, however, the gap quadrupled to 28 percentage points as Republicans reacted to the denial soup they were fed on a constant basis by conservative lies and propaganda disguised as journalism.
From 1998 to 2013, the fix was clear. If you were a Republican, you were taught to distrust science and deny the truth. No evidence was ever given for the denial and happily for the Kochs and ExxonMobil, they discovered their gullible followers were easy to fool. They did not require any proof. They still don’t.
Regarding the cause of temperature increases, the gap between D’s and R’s went from 16 points in 1998 to 39 points in 2013. Twice as many Democrats understood the science than did Republicans. What could account for this except for the successful selling of a lie by a motivated campaign to manipulate perceptions of conservatives?
When asked if global warming would pose a serious threat to you in your lifetime, the gap between D’s and R’s again doubled from 1998 to 2013 from 16 to 32 percent.
Finally, we find that when Republicans were asked in 1998 if the seriousness of global warming was exaggerated by the news about one-third agreed. As they were sauteed in denial sauce for a decade and a half, however, we find the number of GOP deniers nearly doubled to close to two-thirds. The science did not change. If anything, it became more certain. But the message of denial and deception became more bold, more strident and more shameless until the hope of effective action to prevent the Great Collapse became all but lost.
I don’t know how this story ends but I know where it is going and I know who is driving the bus. There is no controversy here except for the one carefully crafted by conservatives who are terrified by what might happen if the public truly understood what is coming.
Oreskes and Conway write, “But as it was, by the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes and heat waves began to intensify. Still these effects were discounted. Those in what we might call active denial insisted that the extreme weather events reflected natural variability, despite a lack of evidence to support their claim. Those in passive denial continued life as they had been living it, unconvinced that a compelling justification existed for broad changes in industry and infrastructure.”
Looking back from the future, it will be easy to blame the Kochs, the Republicans, the coal, oil and gas companies, Fox News and the conservative think tanks. Their crimes will be damning and clear. What is less clear are the millions of us in passive denial, those of us standing by and watching this disaster unfold as if we had no part in it, as if our children’s horror is not just as much our fault.
The truth cannot be accepted and acted upon when it has been so hopelessly distorted in false controversy. That is how our future historian may come to understand our cowardly impotence. We were afraid to speak out for fear of what others would think. So we went along and watched it all collapse and acted surprised when we realized it was too late.
Feb 19, 2015
casey a
Same story about Scholz's star, with better headline; relates it to within span of human history. There was another star in the solar system when humans first spread from Africa Link
Feb 19, 2015
casey a
In a Curious Case for Astronomers, a Brown Dwarf Goes Missing
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150218-starstruck-b...
Talks about:
-a brown dwarf that orbits a binary system.
-The brown dwarf isn't easy to capture/image (Might be hinting at the excuses establishment might throw for coverup. idk)
-The brown dwarf's movement/path didn't follow man's scientific expectations.........
(This so-called brown dwarf, as I understand it, is completely made up. The orbit of the twin stars had periodic irregularities. So they simply hypothesized that it must be a brown dwarf tugging the stars.)
====But according to our current understanding, if an orbiting object were to slow down from its established orbit, it would be heading for a collision to its sun. So are they indirectly confessing that our current understanding of gravity fails to explain why planets orbit?)
(What Would Happen if the Earth Stopped In Its Orbit?) graphic = http://www.wired.com/2014/12/empzeal-earthfall/
Feb 20, 2015
casey a
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-kean/john-podesta-pulling-back...
(One of many witness drawings of the Kecksburg object). Notice the markings on the UFO, which the zetas say is synonymous with STS aliens.
A 2012 poll showed that nearly 80% of Americans believe the government has concealed information about UFOs.
[According to zetatalk, the crash at Kekcksburg was spaceships provided by the STS aliens, that the military was trying to control & crashed. Zetatalk on Kecksburg]
[A judge ordered NASA to open up their files on the case & yet nothing was found...
The judge had some less than ideal things to say about NASA, as well. But I guess they're trying to turn over a new leaf. They have one chance. Let's hope they do it right; And that old habits & friends dont come back knocking]
Feb 20, 2015
SongStar101
Former Obama aide Podesta regrets not disclosing UFO files
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/02/16/former-obama-aide-podesta...
It looks like we won’t be seeing the real-life Mulder and Scully anytime soon, as least according to recently departed White House adviser John Podesta.
“Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere,”he tweeted on Friday, his last day in the White House.
Podesta’s love of the “X-Files” TV show, along with his fascination with all things extraterrestrial, is well documented. Back in 2002 Podesta even discussed the importance of disclosing government UFO records at a conference organized by the Coalition for Freedom of Information. “I think it’s time to open the book on questions that have remained in the dark, on the question of government investigations of UFOs,” he said. “We ought to do it, really, because it’s right, we ought to do it because the American people, quite frankly, can handle the truth, and we ought to do it because it’s a law.”
More recently, Podesta wrote the foreword to Leslie Kean’s 2010 book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.”
The public’s appetite for information on UFOs remains strong. Earlier this year, for example, a slew of UFO files hit the Web when UFO enthusiast John Greenewald posted declassified records from Project Blue Book -- the U.S. Air Force’s records on alleged UFO and extraterrestrial sightings -- on an online database. Greenwald had spent decades filing Freedom of Information Act requests on the topic.
However, scant reference is made to Roswell, New Mexico, in the database. The alleged 1947 Roswell incident continues to be a source of controversy, with conspiracy theorists claiming the U.S. military found and covered up evidence of an alien spaceship crash.
Feb 25, 2015
casey a
NASA posturing begins.
NASA Briefing to Discuss First Spacecraft Arrival at a Dwarf Planet. http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/feb...
(Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet. It is situated between Mars & Jupiter, in the asteroid belt.)
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will host a briefing at noon EST (9 a.m. PST) Monday, March 2, to discuss the March 6 arrival of the agency’s Dawn spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres... Dawn will not only be the first spacecraft to reach a dwarf planet, it will be the first spacecraft ever to orbit two different worlds in deep space.
Feb 25, 2015
casey a
More plans from NASA to posture itself when announcement happens...
NASA Spacecraft Prepares for March 12 Launch to Study Earth’s Dynamic Magnetic Space Environment.
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/february/nasa-spacecraft-prepares-fo...
Feb 26, 2015
Moderating Staff
the interesting this about this is that this weeks programme is about "Jupiter sized planets that are affecting the solar system" - as was repeated on flag ship channels over the weekend.
Mar 2, 2015
casey a
Notice the bright spot on Ceres. It remains bright with the same hue & no greying off, even when its turned to the dark side.
http://i.imgur.com/MVIahGH.png
The bright spot only disappears, when its outside the camera's view behind the asteroid.
Mar 3, 2015
Sandor Daranyi
Hello everyone,
Last Sunday was an interesting episode on Top Gear U.K, but I think they show it in many countries.
A bit of surviver staff in the Rockies in Canada, of course 4x4 to rescue, and an interesting guest Gillian Anderson from
X Files. So it is might be just me who think is surviving, x files, and the Rockies what could be a safe place ,could be part of announcement for the car enthusiast.
Could be watch on the link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05517q7/top-gear-series-22-ep...
Mar 4, 2015
Kris H
All major US banks pass economic "stress test." Hmm, I wonder could cause such a situation...
Mar 6, 2015
casey a
Elite who want to escape poleshift are running their "Mars" campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH8kHncLZwM
Nasa finds evidence of a vast ancient ocean on Mars LINK
(Doesn't everybody gain, if we get more from this campaign by the elite?)
Mar 6, 2015
casey a
1966: Michigan children discover landed UFO in local field
http://www.openminds.tv/1966-michigan-children-discover-landed-ufo-...
Mar 18, 2015
casey a
Planets in the habitable zone around most stars, calculate researchers
The calculations show that billions of the stars in the Milky Way will have one to three planets in the habitable zone, where there is the potential for liquid water and where life could exist
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-planets-habitable-zone-stars.html
Mar 18, 2015
casey a
Obama jokes about "plausible deniability" re: Aliens with Jimmy Kimmel
Mar 20, 2015
Poli
Mysterious "white spots" on the dwarf planet Ceres extend over the crater wall.
http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.de/2015/03/mysteriose-wei...
As the team reported to Andreas Nathues from the Max Planck Institute Solar System Research to date on the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, the angle of reflection of this highly reflective structures changed with the rotation of the dwarf planet and the white spots remain visible, even If They already crater rim from shoulderstand be covered and the crater interior is already in the shade (s. fig.). This circumstance Suggesting did whatever the sunlight reflecting here, must rise Relatively high above the another of the surface of Ceres.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Mar 20, 2015
KM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3007939/Are-orphan-p...
Are orphan planets more common than we thought? Drifting worlds may be common thanks to 'mother' clouds of dust and gas
Planets wandering through space, unattached to any star or solar system, may be much more common that previously thought, according to an expert.
The planets are hard to find because, without orbiting a star, they reflect very little light.
But 50 have now been found in the past 15 years, leading some to suggest they may be abundant in the universe.
Ashley Yeager for Science News has explained that solo planets (artist's impression shown) could be common. This is thanks to more regions of dust and gas than we thought. Planets become 'rogue' when they are ejected or form on their own and about 50 have been found in the last 15 years
Rogue planets, or interstellar planets, are planetary objects that were either formed by themselves or were ejected from a system.
WHAT IS A BROWN DWARF?
A brown dwarf is commonly regarded as the ‘missing link’ between stars and planets.
They are too large to be classed as true planets, but too small to have ignited nuclear fusion at their cores and be classed as stars.
When a celestial body first forms, its size will determine what sort of object it becomes.
As a star forms from a cloud of gas, its core becomes so large that hydrogen fuses into helium. Conversely, a planet forms into a smaller sphere that is not large enough to have nuclear fusion at its core.
Brown dwarfs fall somewhere in between. They are the size between a gas giant like Jupiter and a small star.
Their mass, meanwhile, can be anything from 15 to 75 times the mass of Jupiter.
This is not enough to sustain fusion but, owing to their size, this has led astronomers to coin brown dwarfs ‘failed stars’.
As they don't emit much light it’s thought there may be many rogue brown dwarfs drifting through the galaxy waiting to be discovered.
How abundant they are in the universe, though, has been the cause of some debate.
But Ms Yeager explained so-called globulettes - regions of dust and gas that can form planets - could make them more common than thought.
The number of possible planets in one such region is not known, and this depends on what the boundary between cloud density and planet formation is.
‘Globulettes are very numerous,’ Dr Thomas Haworth from the University of Cambridge told Science News.
‘Even if only a small fraction can be made to collapse, they could make a significant contribution to the population of free-floating planets.’
Rogue planets are of particular interest to astronomers because they represent objects that have likely failed to form into a star.
Brown dwarfs, for example, are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain fusion, but are still more than 13 times the mass of Jupiter.
The exact boundary between a giant planet and a low-mass brown dwarf is still being debated, but finding more rogue planets could shed light on this mystery.
And this could indicate that there are more rogue planets than we know of in the cosmos.
Mar 24, 2015
casey a
Has the orientation of the Moon shifted in the past? According to the d
istribution of ice on the lunar poles, that seems to be the case.
https://briankoberlein.com/2015/03/31/shifting-moon/
When the team created the map [of trace amounts of ice on the moon], they found that the ice on both poles was lopsided....
If that’s the case, there would need to be some mechanism for the shift, which is too big to be due to some kind of impact event.
Mar 31, 2015
casey a
The moon's got two tails – and its friends might too http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27275-the-moons-got-two-tails...
(The moon has always had a small tail blowing away from the sun. But now, it turns out the moon has 2 tails. Is this second tail there because of Planet X?)
Apr 1, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/top-nasa-scientist-well-find-s...
Top NASA Scientist: We'll Find Signs of Alien Life 'Within a Decade'
Humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life, high-ranking NASA scientists say.
"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said Tuesday (April 7) during a panel discussion that focused on the space agency's efforts to search for habitable worlds and alien life.
"We know where to look. We know how to look," Stofan added during the event, which was webcast live. "In most cases we have the technology, and we're on a path to implementing it. And so I think we're definitely on the road." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Former astronaut John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, shared Stofan's optimism, predicting that signs of life will be found relatively soon both in our own solar system and beyond.
"I think we're one generation away in our solar system, whether it's on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star," Grunsfeld said during Tuesday's event.
Recent discoveries suggest that the solar system and broader Milky Way galaxy teem with environments that could support life as we know it, Grunsfeld said.
For example, oceans of liquid water slosh beneath the icy shells of the Jupiter moons Europa and Ganymede, as well as that of the Saturn satellite Enceladus. Oceans covered much of Mars in the ancient past, and seasonal dark streaks observed on the Red Planet's surface today may be caused by salty flowing water.
Further, NASA's Curiosity rover has found carbon-containing organic molecules and "fixed" nitrogen, basic ingredients necessary for Earth-like life, on the Martian surface.
Farther afield, observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope suggest that nearly every star in the sky hosts planets — and many of these worlds may be habitable. Indeed, Kepler's work has shown that rocky worlds like Earth and Mars are probably more common throughout the galaxy than gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter.
Apr 8, 2015
KM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3032842/Can-life-exi...
Can life exist on rogue planets with no sun? Cold worlds that wander the stars may still harbour alien beings, claims scientist
The warmth of a sun has long been thought to be a key ingredient to life.
But astronomers say 'rogue', sun-less planets that wander the stars could still harbour extra-terrestrials.
While it sounds like science fiction, these planets may offer scientists a new avenue in their search for alien life.
The warmth of a sun has long been thought to be a key ingredient to life. But astronomers say 'rogue', sun-less planets that wander the stars could still harbour extra-terrestrials
This is according to Sean Raymond, an astrophysicist with the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux in France, who has taken a look at how life can form on rogue planets.
Writing in Aeon, he says: 'To have any chance of life – at least life like our own – a free-floating Earth would need liquid water.'
Apr 10, 2015
casey a
Nasa's Curiosity rover finds water below surface of Mars
New measurements from the Gale crater contradict theories that the planet is too cold for liquid water to exist, but Mars still considered hostile to life
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/13/nasas-curiosity-rove...
Apr 15, 2015
casey a
Kids from around the country who participate in Let's Move programs joined first lady Michelle Obama to help plant the White House Kitchen Garden on Wednesday
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/15/michelle-obama-garden-plan...
Apr 16, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-could-survive-west-coast-tsunami-wa...
Thousands could survive West Coast tsunami by walking to safety: study
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Thousands of people living along the U.S. Pacific coastline from Northern California to Washington state could survive a powerful tsunami, as long as they are prepared to walk briskly to higher ground, a researcher said on Tuesday.
About 95,000 people live on a 620-mile stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast which is considered vulnerable to a tsunami triggered by an earthquake offshore, scientists said.
A research team assessing the risk to that population found that in many areas, people can be ready to move out of danger in the minutes between the earthquake and the tsunami by simply walking, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"We've identified several towns where moving faster can mean the difference between life and death," said the lead author of the study, Nathan Wood, a geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey.
The study said 49 cities, seven tribal reservations and 17 counties in Northern California, Oregon and Washington are "directly threatened by tsunami waves" associated with a quake in the Cascadia subduction zone, an offshore undersea fault.
The study said the regional impact could be on par with Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated a wide swath of Honshu's Pacific coastline and killed nearly 20,000 people.
Because a quake would make car travel mostly impossible, the study focuses on walking people to safety, or higher ground.
In the coastal Washington cities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam, about 90 percent of the 20,000 residents could have enough time to evacuate if they walked to safety at a minimum of 2.2 mph, Wood said. That percentage rises to 99 percent if they move faster, and know where to go, he said.
The study found the most people in coastal communities should have sufficient time to evacuate, and that high ground is reachable if people are aware of the threat and practice their routes.
A small percentage of people who live too far from high ground would need tall, specially constructed structures to withstand the quake and tsunami, it said.
Apr 17, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3039652/Will-volcani...
Will a volcanic eruption destroy humanity? Scientists warn that world must begin preparing for explosive global catastrophe
21:28 EST, 15 April 2015
The world is woefully unprepared for a massive volcanic eruption that could kill millions of people and destroy much of modern society, a leading group of scientists have warned.
In a new report on the risks posed by natural disasters, experts at the European Science Foundation concluded that large volcanic eruptions posed the greatest risk human survival.
They calculated that there is between a five to 10 per cent probability of an explosive eruption large enough to cause huge numbers of deaths, alter the climate and poison the atmosphere occurring by the end of the century.
The devastation wrought by Mount Vesuvius on Pompeii (above) could pale into insignificance, scientists warn
Such an eruption would be of a similar size to the explosion of Tambora on Sumbawa, Indonesia in 1815, which killed around 100,000 people at the time.
The ash cloud thrown out from this eruption reached more than 26 miles (43km) into the atmosphere and triggered temperature changes that led to widespread famine and epidemics.
VOLCANO'S GLOBAL DEVASTATION
A volcanic eruption of a similar size to Laki eruption that hit Iceland in 1783 could have global impacts according to the new report.
Although the volcano was only rated at VEI 5 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, it had a profound reach.
The eruption itself caused 9,350 deaths in Iceland and only caused moderate damage.
However, during the eight months that it erupted, it emitted huge amounts of sulfuric aerosols, ash and other gases.
This caused 'one of the most important climatic and socially repercussive events of the last millennium', according to the scientists at the European Science Foundation.
In Iceland an estimated 20–25% of the population died in the famine and from fluorine poisoning after the fissure eruptions ceased.
Around 80% of sheep, 50% of cattle, and 50% of horses died because of dental and skeletal fluorosis from the 8 million tons of hydrogen fluoride that were released.
There is evidence that the Laki eruption also weakened African and Indian monsoon circulations, reducing precipitation over areas in Africa.
The resulting famine that afflicted Egypt in 1784 caused nearly one sixth of the country's population to die out.
In Britain the summer of 1783 was known as the 'sand summer' because of the ash fallout and an estimated 25,000 people died due to breathing problems.
Extreme weather hit much of Europe, North America and the Gulf of Mexico for several years in the aftermath of the eruption, says the report.
The summer following the Tambora eruption is known as 'the year without summer'.
The scientists warn, however, that rising population levels and increasing reliance on global travel could mean the impacts of a similar eruption could be far more severe.
Writing in their report Extreme Geohazards: Reducing the Disaster Risk and Increasing Resilience, the experts warn that there needs to be an international response to prepare for such a disaster and to monitor for similar events.
They estimate that it could cost between £340 million ($500 million) and £2.3 billion ($3.5 billion) a year to increase the level of monitoring for catastrophic volcanic eruptions, but the benefits that an early warning could give would ten to hundreds of times greater.
The report states: 'Although in the last few decades earthquakes have been the main cause of fatalities and damage, the main global risk is large volcanic eruptions that are less frequent but far more impactful than the largest earthquakes.
'Due to their far-reaching effects on climate, food security, transportation, and supply chains, these events have the potential to trigger global disaster and catastrophe.
'The cost of response and the ability to respond to these events is beyond the financial and political capabilities of any individual country.
'An international geopolitical response will be required, where science has a unique and key role in preparation, response and mitigation.'
The report, which was presented at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna on Tuesday, examines the main geohazards facing the world including earthquakes, drought, asteroid strikes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, avalanches and wildfires.
It said that large to extreme earthquakes and tsunamis had been more common in the past 2000 years and this had focused the world's disaster response resources onto this threat.
But it concluded that the risk posed by volcanic eruptions is potentially far more serious.
Pointing to recent eruptions like the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, which caused widespread disruption when it threw clouds of ash into the atmosphere.
The 1783 explosion of the Laki volcano (above) poisoned much of the surrounding land in Iceland but its impact stretched far further, creating ash that caused the death of 25,000 people in the UK and a famine in Egypt
The 1783 explosion of the Laki volcano (above) poisoned much of the surrounding land in Iceland but its impact stretched far further, creating ash that caused the death of 25,000 people in the UK and a famine in Egypt
It created the highest level of air travel disruption in Europe since the second world war and cost the European economy around $5 billion.
However, the researchers said that this eruption was relatively minor - rating between three and four on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI).
By comparison, the volcanic eruption in 79AD of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in Italy was around VEI5. Mount St Helen's explosion in 1980 was also VEI5.
The report states that there has been around 20 eruptions greater than VEI5 since 1500 with only the Tambora eruption reaching VEI7.
However around 75,000 years ago the explosion of a supervolcano at the site of Lake Toba on Sumatra in Indonesia was one of the world's largest known eruptions - rated VEI8.
It caused a global volcanic winter that lasted around 10 years and has been linked to 1,000 years of cooling.
The remains of the Tambora volcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia (above) triggered global changes in climate
The graphic above shows the magnitude of volcanic eruptions on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. On the left it shows the volume of tephra (volcanic material) thrown out while on the right it shows the size of the ash plume
There is also some evidence that suggests around this time human populations fell to some of their lowest levels ever, clinging on in just a few isolated groups.
The report says that eruptions on this scale occur between once every 45,000 years to once every 714,000 years, but such an eruption could kill up to a tenth of the world's population.
'Events on the scale of the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago could return humanity to a pre-civilisation state,' warned the scientists.
'Volcanic eruptions can have more severe impacts through atmospheric and climate effects and can lead to drastic problems in food and water security, as emphasised by the widespread famine and diseases that were rampant after the Laki 1783 and Tambora 1815 eruptions.
'Hence extreme volcanic eruptions pose a higher associated risk than all other natural hazards with similar recurrence periods, including asteroid impacts.'
The experts also warned that even smaller eruptions, similar to the Laki eruption in Iceland in 1783, could have global impacts.
While the eruption caused 9,350 deaths in Iceland, the eight month emission of sulfuric aerosols, ash and other gases caused 'one of the most important climatic and socially repercussive events of the last millennium'.
In Iceland an estimated 20–25% of the population died in the famine and from fluorine poisoning after the fissure eruptions ceased.
The resulting famine that afflicted Egypt in 1784 caused nearly one sixth of the country's population to die out.
In Britain the summer of 1783 was known as the 'sand summer' because of the ash fallout and an estimated 25,000 people died due to breathing problems.
The scientists wrote: 'Why are we not prepared for extreme events? Reasons for this include the low perceived likelihood of such an event, low political sensitivity, and a disconnect between scientific communities and decision-makers.
'Reasons for the lack of socially acceptable strategies include the cost of preparing
for an extreme hazard, and, in some cases, the belief that consequences are so extreme that preparedness is futile.'
They added that world leaders now need to spend up to £2 billion a year on a global network to monitor volcanic activity as even a few weeks of early warning could be crucial.
'Threats from low-frequency, high impact events are grossly underestimated in disaster risk reduction. This is particularly true for volcanic eruptions.
'During the Holocene, at least seven VEI 7 eruptions took place. All but one occurred at a time when the global population was far below 1 billion.
'With a population above 7 billion and heading for 12 billion, a recurrence of a VEI 7 eruption could have extreme consequences.'
Apr 17, 2015
Mark
Have we found alien life? Astronomers discover 50 galaxies that may be home to advanced civilisations
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/found-alien-life-astronomer...
A team of scientists have detected around 50 galaxies emitting radiation that could indicate an advanced energy-wielding civilisation.
A team from Penn State University in the US searched 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory.
"Whether an advanced space-faring civilisation uses the large amounts of energy from its galaxy's stars to power computers, space flight, communication, or something we can't yet imagine, fundamental thermodynamics tells us that this energy must be radiated away as heat in the mid-infrared wavelengths," said Jason T. Wright, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds at Penn State University.
Apr 17, 2015
casey a
Do pilots believe in UFOs? Many of them do and here is my close encounter story - Obama's campaign pilot
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/guest-column-pilots-ufos-arti...
Apr 17, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://humansarefree.com/2015/04/aliens-created-our-species-scienti...
Aliens Created Our Species, Scientist Says
A group of researchers worked for 13 years at the Human Genome Project (Project completed in 2003) indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery:
They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms.
Non-coding sequences, originally known as "junk DNA", were discovered years ago, and their function remained a mystery. The overwhelming majority of Human DNA is "Off-world" in origin.
After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently "junk Human DNA" was created by some kind of "extraterrestrial programmer".
Human Genome Project Discovery Implications associated with "Human-looking Extraterrestrials"
The implications of these scientific finds would reinforce claims by other scientists and observers of having contact with 'off-world' human looking extraterrestrials.
The 'off-world' human looking extraterrestrial have been claimed to have provided some of the genetic material for human evolution, and that many of these extraterrestrials have allowed some of their personnel to incarnate as 'star seeds' on Earth in human families. These "star seeds", "star children" or "star people"
Human DNA encoded with extraterrestrial signals
Now in 2013, scientists from Kazakhstan believe that human DNA was encoded with an extraterrestrial signal by an ancient alien civilisation.
They call it "biological SETI" and the researchers claim that the mathematical code in human DNA cannot be explained by evolution.
In a nutshell, we're living, breathing vessels for some kind of alien message which is more easily used to detect extra terrestrial life than via radio transmission.
The scientists also claim that human DNA is ordered so precisely that it reveals an "ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language".
Their research has led the scientists to conclude that we were invented "outside the solar system, already several billion years ago".
One mystery remains: If we were the creation of aliens, who created them?
Apr 22, 2015
Mark
Governments are HIDING aliens, claims former defence minister: Paul Hellyer urges world leaders to reveal 'secret files'
Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, is now urging world powers to release what he believes to be hidden data on UFOs.
'Much of the media won't touch [the documents]', he said during a keynote speech at the Disclosure Canada Tour at the University of Calgary.
'You just have to keep working away and hope that someday you get a critical mass,' he said, according to a report by CTV.
'[The public] will say, in one way or another, "Mr President or Mr Prime Minister we want the truth and we want it now because it affects our lives."'
Hellyer, 91, first went public with his belief in aliens on Earth in 2005, becoming the first high ranking politician to do so.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3051151/Governments-...
Apr 23, 2015
Shaun Kazuck
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/secretive-x-37b-military-space...
Seems the Air Force is sending up its classified Planet X viewing craft for its fourth mission in late May.
Apr 25, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3057897/The-Big-One-...
Is California next? US Geological Survey warns risk of magnitude 8 or larger 'Big One' earthquake has increased dramatically
PUBLISHED: 13:09 EST, 27 April 2015 | UPDATED: 14:20 EST, 27 April 2015
A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey has warned the risk of 'the big one' hitting California has increased dramatically.
Researchers analysed the latest data from the state's complex system of active geological faults, as well as new methods for translating these data into earthquake likelihoods.
The estimate for the likelihood that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7% to about 7.0%, they say.
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In the new study, the estimate for the likelihood that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7% for UCERF2 to about 7.0% for UCERF3.
THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT
The San Andreas system in Northern California consists of five major branches with an overall length of about 1,25O miles.
Experts say there is a 99 percent chance of a magnitude-6.7 earthquake or larger in the next 30 years in California because of the number of fault lines in the region.
The San Andreas Fault that forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate is the biggest.
'We are fortunate that seismic activity in California has been relatively low over the past century,' said Tom Jordan, Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center and a co-author of the study.
'But we know that tectonic forces are continually tightening the springs of the San Andreas fault system, making big quakes inevitable.
'The UCERF3 model provides our leaders and the public with improved information about what to expect, so that we can better prepare.'
The Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, or UCERF3, improves upon previous models by incorporating the latest data on the state's complex system of active geological faults, as well as new methods for translating these data into earthquake likelihoods.
The study confirms many previous findings, sheds new light on how the future earthquakes will likely be distributed across the state and estimates how big those earthquakes might be.
Compared to the previous assessment issued in 2008, UCERF2, the estimated rate of earthquakes around magnitude 6.7, the size of the destructive 1994 Northridge earthquake, has gone down by about 30 percent.
Apr 28, 2015
Derrick Johnson
Researchers discover mysterious new planet hundreds of light years away
A huge “puffed up” planet “too big for its star” some 500 light years from Earth has been discovered by Australian researchers — with the help of a backyard astronomer.
The planet’s size in relation to the star it orbits challenges theories about how planets are formed, researchers from the Australian National University said.
“We have found a small star with a giant planet the size of Jupiter orbiting very closely,” said George Zhou from the Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy.
“It must have formed further out and migrated in, but our theories can’t explain how this happened.”
Astronomers believe that planets are created from a “disc” of dust and gas around stars, Zhou said.
“We think that planets are the leftovers of star formations,” he said.
But he said the star — HATS-6 — was almost too small for it to have any leftovers and the discovery of a planet — named HATS-6b — raised questions about how large a disk could form around a star relative to its size.
“HATS-6 is one of the lowest mass stars known to host a close-in gas giant planet,” the team of researchers said in a study published in “The Astronomical Journal.”
HATS-6b orbits its star every 3.3 days, researchers said.
Astronomers first got an indication of the planet’s existence when they noticed that light from HATS-6 dimmed, — suggesting that a planet was passing between the star and Earth.
To confirm the transit signal, they went to of the world’s biggest telescopes — Chile’s Magellan Telescope — and a backyard astronomer in the northern city of Perth, T.G Tan.
Zhou said that the amateur astronomer had been really helpful. “He was able to catch the transit of the planet from Perth, after it had set over our horizon,” Zhou said.
He said the university — part of the HATSouth Exoplanet Survey — used telescopes to monitor hundreds of thousands of stars. With about a thousand planetary candidates they needed to enlist amateurs to monitor their transits.
“Amateurs have been getting ever more sophisticated,” Zhou said, with Tan a “near professional.”
‘He was able to help us actually confirm that this transit signal was not a blip. That was a massive contribution from him.”
Continuous observation
The HatSouth project is an international collaboration between the Australian National University, Princeton University, the Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
“We have a series of small telescopes spread around the world — in Namibia, New South Wales and Chile — we’re able to gather continuous observations of objects in the night sky. That’s how we’re discovering these planets.”
Zhou said the planet’s atmosphere would make an interesting study.
“The planet has a similar mass to Saturn, but its radius is similar to Jupiter, so it’s quite a puffed up planet. Because its host star is so cool it’s not heating the planet up so much, it’s very different from the planets we have observed so far,” he said.
“By having an atmosphere that’s puffed up it actually allows us to look through the atmosphere,” Zhou told CNN.
When starlight passed through the top atmosphere, astronomers would be able to look for absorption signals that revealed details of its composition, he said.
“Every element has its barcode — or spectrum. We want to break the light of HATS-6b into its rainbow of color, within that, there’s a barcode for absorption.”
Source: http://myfox8.com/2015/05/08/researchers-discover-new-planet/
May 9, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-nyc-coffee-hiking-san...
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New York City is one of the world's 10 cities most vulnerable to climate change. As sea levels rise, many things that make New York a great place to live will start to disappear. In this video, Nexus Media explores five iconic New York sights and activities that we'll lose as climate change continues to affect the environment.
May 10, 2015
Howard
Newly Discovered Roswell Alien Photos Unveiled (May 5)
The alleged photo evidence was unveiled by Adam Dew. The Kodachrome slides were supposedly found by his friend's sister roughly 17 years ago when she was cleaning out a property for real estate somewhere in Sedona, Arizona.
The box contained wo images of the Roswell “alien” along with photos of Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, and Dwight Eisenhower from before his term as president. The fact that the images were lying with other undeniably authentic photos suggests they are authentic.
Dew, who has a background in video production and journalism, investigated and worked on the slides as they were not in focus when he received them. He then dated the slides back to the late 1940s.
When Dew showed the images to Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist did not say the images were fake, just suggested the evidence is inconclusive (per the above Kodachrome Trailer video). Dew defended his findings by saying that the first popular images of aliens did not become widespread until the 1960s, but he dated the image back to the 1940s.
Dew also came in contact with a man who claims that he had personally seen the alleged alien bodies when the Roswell incident happened. The man wished to remain anonymous. When shown the Kodachrome slides, he said that the alleged alien body is very similar to what he saw years ago.
Jaime Maussan, a prominent Mexican UFO researcher, notes that the images are of something “undeniably” non-human.
Maussan points out that the photos, which show a typical extraterrestrial body-type by today’s standards, were taken before an archetype of an alien existed. Maussan notes that the image was taken prior to any sketches of the Roswell aliens being released.
On May 5, the images were unveiled at an event in Mexico where around 10,000 people attended. What is intriguing is that the people who wanted to see the alleged alien photos paid $350. Dew's slides did manage to impress people even Edgar Mitchell, who was an American astronaut that landed on the moon. Mitchell said that the images felt very authentic.
The researchers say they spent five years studying the images to determine their authenticity before deciding to release them.
However, not everyone is in agreement. Many feel the photos are “authentic,” just not authentically extraterrestrial. It was pointed out that the images strongly resemble those of child mummies.
Sources
http://www.inquisitr.com/2074020/images-that-one-ufo-specialist-say...
http://www.biztekmojo.com/00604/roswell-alleged-alien-photos-are-fa...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3072510/Is-evidence-...
May 10, 2015
J Ph
http://news.yahoo.com/sea-rise-threatens-florida-coast-no-statewide...
St. Augustine's centuries-old Spanish fortress and other national landmarks sit feet from the encroaching Atlantic, whose waters already flood the city's narrow, brick-paved streets about 10 times a year — a problem worsening as sea levels rise. The city has long relied on tourism, but visitors to the fortress and Ponce de Leon's mythical Fountain of Youth might someday have to wear waders at high tide.
May 11, 2015
Ryan X
Rare direct image of a super-Jupiter exoplanet A giant planet 11 times the mass of Jupiter has been directly photographed, the closest such planet to Earth we've seen with our own eyes.
The big, wide universe has a lot of stars. The exact figure is unknown, although estimates put the number somewhere in the region of 70 sextillion. Some of those stars, just like our own sun, have their own planetary satellites. Yet, according to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers have only confirmed the existence of 1,832 planets outside of the solar system.
And most of these confirmed planets we haven't even seen. They are too far away, and don't emit any light of their own, making them very difficult to spot. Their existence is proven by the behaviour of the star's light. A disappearing, reappearing star might mean, for instance, that a planet is passing between it and our telescopes, eclipsing it briefly.
So a directly imaged planet is a rare and wonderful thing.
Say hello, then, to VHS 1256b, a giant planet just 40 light-years from Earth, the closest for which a direct image and spectrum have been obtained to date. A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Centre for Astrobiology collaborated on the project.
May 12, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
@Ryan. I've deleted it as I found a utube video of Charles Bolden which merely suggests that people have a family preparedness plan which NASA refers to as Eagle Horizon which also happens to include some facts about WH Continuation of Government.. Here is that video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RmiXXCojw
May 22, 2015
casey a
hey ryan & starr.
There were similar antics around the Oct. 20 date. It might be part of the coverup crowd's dirty tricks
May 22, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
The big omission is "when" Miami will be thrust under the waves.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/dutch-sea-level-rise-expert-miami...
DUTCH SEA LEVEL RISE EXPERT: MIAMI WILL BE "THE NEW ATLANTIS," A CITY IN THE SEA
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015
A few months after Hurricane Sandy bared down on New York, killing over 150 people and wreaking $65 billion in damage, federal leaders cried for help to make the Northeast more flood-proof. Dutch expert Henk Ovink answered. Ovink had helped make his homeland, where 55 percent of the country is extremely flood-prone, a world pioneer in preparing for sea level rise. With Ovink at the helm, the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force put together a groundbreaking plan to make the region more sea-level rise resistant and started a contest to sponsor innovative design plans.
Which is all to say that there aren't many people alive who know more about helping threatened cities cope with sea level rise.
So there's good cause to be worried when the Dutch expert says there’s no place in worse shape today than Miami. He’s begun calling the city “the new Atlantis,” after the legendary and beautiful island subcontinent that was submerged by the sea in one night.
“If we look around the world and take into account sea level rise and the increase of water related disasters, among the places in the world that have the most assets and investments at risk, Miami is leading that list,” Ovink tellsNew Times. “Miami will no longer be a land city, but a city in the sea.”
In recent years, scientists have repeatedly warned that South Florida’s coastal communities and barrier islands could be completely underwater in 100 years. Earlier this year, National Geographic published research on the projected cost of an extreme weather event in 2050. With so many buildings, roads and other infrastructure so close to sea level, Miami was number one on the list, with a projected loss of $278 billion dollars, followed by Guangzhou, China ($268 billion), and New York-Newark ($209 billion).
A first step is for leaders to recognize and talk about climate change.
“It’s scary that the state of Florida briefed staff not to talk about climate change,” Ovink says. “When you think about future risks and how to deal with them, that is not right approach. You have to address those issues and come up with a strategy. It's an opportunity.”
The problem, Ovink says, is that dozens of individual cities, like Miami Beach, are pursuing their own balkanized strategies rather than making a unified effort to find creative solutions.
Government, businesses, NGOs and residents should plan together, Ovink says, and do more than just stop-gap efforts. In the very short term, ideas might include raising buildings, preventing ocean water from flooding freshwater aquifers, and installing pumps to stop city flooding. But long term efforts need to be more comprehensive.
Last year, a New York Times Magazine article about Ovink and Dutch water management efforts showed just how behind the U.S. is in its thinking around water. Beyond just keeping water out, Rotterdam, in Southern Netherlands, is “building floating houses and office buildings and digging craters in downtown plazas that will be basketball courts most of the year but will fill up with runoff during high-water periods, taking the strain off the surrounding streets.”
In another region, a “wide trench” is being cut through the city where the river bottlenecks and an island is being built. Higher areas of the island may contain housing, but low-lying sections will be developed into parks and beaches. During flood periods, the lower sections of the island will simply be engulfed by water.
“In the Netherlands, we’re in a great place,” Ovink says, because “we have institutional, programmatic funding until 2050 and a collaborative, innovative approach.”
Ovink says Scott should propose a process now to deal with uncertainties and safeguard the state. The strategy should involve policy reform, investment and innovative projects that actually change the risk Florida is now facing. Inaction only means our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to suffer more, he says.
“And perhaps [the governor] could announce it himself,” he says, “to make sure he’s taking it seriously.”
May 23, 2015
casey a
San Andreas trailer
May 24, 2015